What characteristic does the Bush administration and the Borg have in common?
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The  bush administration  was acting like  a "my way  or the highway"  was a good  attitude.\n We have offered him the highway. It is our home   he is just a head of the servants.\nAll  public servants would do well to remember this.
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We may be headed there. Or that is what it looks like anyway. I previously asked a similar question based on something I was reading about characteristics of a facist government.\n\nI am not saying the current administration meets all the criteria but quite a few of them resemble much of what goes on today in the U.S.\n\n\n1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism\n2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.\n3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.\n4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.\n5. Rampant sexism.\n6. A controlled mass media\n7. Obsession with national security\n8. Religion and ruling elite tied together\n9. Power of corporations protected.\n10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated\n11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts\n12. Obsession with crime and punishment\n13. Rampant cronyism and corruption\n14. Fraudulent elections.\n\n\nhttp://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2&back=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.secularhumanism.org%2Flib%2Flist.php%3Fpublication%3Dfi%26vol%3D23
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Not I, however the Bush Administration IS.
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In the present time they would be referring to the Bush Administration.
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Picard and Kirk seem at least nominally Christian, but frequently make atheistic and agnostic remarks.\n\nVulcan religion is similar to Stoicism.\n\nBetazed religion is ill-defined but seems vaguely New Age.\n\nKlingon religion is similar in many respects to Asatru.\n\nI don't think Data has a religion, but were he to adopt one it would probably be that of his human wife's, if she had one, in order to live a more human lifestyle.\n\nQuark, as a Forengi, "worships" money which makes him a materialist.\n\nAn interesting article on religious themes with the Trek Universe:\nhttp://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/religion.htm
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I don't really think so, although I'm not really speaking from a completely educated point of view here.  Asimov's Laws of Robotics, I'm not familiar with, but being a former Trekkie, I'd love to take a phaser blast at this one.  If you think about it, the prime directive was both a really really good idea and also kinda silly.  It prevented them from interfering in otherworldly affairs unless they had developed Warp capability.  In a way, it seems almost arrogant, like they're not good enough for us to get involved.  It's actually almost alleghorical.  Isn't it a widely accepted idea that the only prayer God will hear from a sinner is the sinner's prayer?  So basically God's "prime directive" prevents him from interfering with worldly affairs unless they've developed "warp drive" (a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.)  Not to mention Sci-Fi stands for Science Fiction, and Fiction is exactly what it is.
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I do not approve of much the Bush Administration has perpetrated in its five years of existence, but I think it's entirely appropriate to compare present administrations to recent past ones.  Anyway, the Clinton Administration did far more good than bad, so the Bush Administration comes up short anyway.
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Like Carter, Bush is a poor administrator.  Unlike Carter, Bush isn't very bright.\n\nCarter chose incompetent advisors.  Bush chose competent advisors that agree with him and who are loyal to him.  Both demonstrated the flawed (southern) value of depending on the good-ole-boy network to come through for them.  \n\nNeither of these men really wanted to hear the truth.  Both preferred to listen to advice that sounded good to them without checking it out with others before acting.  With Bush, it was taken to the extreme in that one who disagreed was questioned with regard to their patriotism.\n\nIn spite of their wide differing ideological positions, I think you are probably correct.   Both of these men were poor presidents, although they might make fine next door neighbors.
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The destruction Bush has accomplished is no so much in the physical but in the philosophical aspect of this country.  Religious beliefs can be very influencing which is why they were separated from the government by The Framers of The Constitution.  Bush has repeatedly brought his Protestant beliefs into The White House and is proud to admit it.  Even worse than this is the use of "spin" and even Bush made news that T.V. station were paid to air.  The Bush administration has truly started America on a path away from US key values, away from The Constitution.
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yes the Bush administration.
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Neo-conservatives tend to be very religious. Their church tells them what to think and how to think it. They tend to be incapable of independent though. \n\nFor these people, Bush can fool them all of the time. The Bush fools are like the jihadists; they have no independent thought. They have to have their enemy and beliefs defined for them. They're idiots.
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yes borg pet  "IMagine there is no hell below us, above us only sky. People can only imagine, because everyone needs a scapegoat it would seem. I wish you well.
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Of course they did.\n\nBushco is the most hostile administration to science and the truth in general (wherever it conflicts with their policy goals anyway).  A couple of years ago a group of our country's most distinguished scientists (including many Nobel prize winners) wrote an open letter detailing the Bush admins. distortion of facts for politicasl purposes.  Read below;\n\n\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0219-02.htm
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The funny thing about the whole obnoxious Neocon manure spreader is that all of them are in the BORG collective and they think the same. I think the Neocon machine has chip implants in their heads someplace. You know especially when they all chant about how much they love to be spied on, and Gasoline isn't George Bush's fault...... Flying over New Orleans for a week in the air-force one jet, and never noticing a problem. Wanting to sell the ports to Arab OPEC, Holding hands in the flower garden with the Arab prince, wearing Jeff Gannon's favorite flight suit, and saying "I'm the Decider, and Mission Accomplished"........ (M)ann Coulter is another of my favorites with Rush the Lush Limbaugh, Kenny Ley is going to set up the next Presidential candidate from prison...........Bush belongs in Gitmo with his Arab friends till he is done............
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Of course.  These are the same gators that Bush let roam in New Orleans immediately after he blew up the levees in order to kill as many black people as he could.  He has also trained some gators to only attack black women.\n\nThe proof is in the space ship carry Elijah Muhammad.  Don't believe me?  Ask Calipso Louie.
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I have hope for the first time since apeboy sullied the oval office, actually.\n\n______\n\nFor scooter girl:\nClinton had an affair - Bush fraudulently started a war on fake intelligence reports and sent more American people to their deaths than died 9/11.\n\nWHO sullied WHAT and WHOM!? Perspective and priorities, my dear, perspective and priorities.
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strategic bases, and oil.  \n\nBush is a puppet for the wolfowitz doctrine and other high profile secret societies. He is not for the people, he is for corporations, and making money for him and his cronies. Not helping any of use americans. Bush is a good puppet.