The Altera Centauri collection has been brought up to date by Darsnan. It comprises every decent scenario he's been able to find anywhere on the web, going back over 20 years.
25 themes/skins/styles are now available to members. Check the select drop-down at the bottom-left of each page.
Call To Power 2 Cradle 3+ mod in progress: https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/call-to-power-2/ctp2-creation/9437883-making-cradle-3-fully-compatible-with-the-apolyton-edition
Originally posted by Drogue
Actually, I've never planted a tree in my life
That's because you're not French:
"Why do the French have trees on the Champs Elysées?
So that the Germans can march in the shade" [/yanqui joke]
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Has anyone considered that it was Karl Rove and the Republicans who gave Iowa to Kerry?
They've spent the last few months talking about how they would love to run against Howard Dean, blah blah blah, please nominate this man. And Iowa turns around and says, "Eat ****, Karl," and chooses an allegedly stronger candidate.
Did the constant yammering and chest-thumping of the right hurt their chances in November?
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
"They've spent the last few months talking about how they would love to run against Howard Dean, blah blah blah, please nominate this man. "
Actually, the Republican Party Leadcership never said anything like that. Their line has always been that they expect a very close race like in 2000 no matter who the nominee is. It has been individual pundits on both sides predicting an anti-Dean landslide.
"I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand
Well yes Lancer - you don't have any left wing parties of any consequence. You have a centre right progressive party called the democrats and a rightwing conservative party called the Republicans.
You have nothing like our Labor Party, or the Greens or Liberals.
Alexander's Horse, I think you mean far-right, extremist-religious party of facist demogogues known as the Republican party. Anyone who is not on the far fringe right, or who is not a complete dimwit, is a Democrat.
Originally posted by Mordoch
Democrats are pretty much deciding they want to nominate a candidate that has a good chance of winning, and are starting to thing that Kerry could be that guy.
Kerry isn't THAT much to the center though. He established himself politically originally by being a military war hero and vetran who came home to be an anti-war activist regarding Vietnam. His opening in politics came when he testified before Congress in April of 1971 and asked "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
In other news, Kerry now has a 10 percent point lead in New Hampshire and his campaign raised half a million dollars in the 39 hours after the end of the Iowa Caucuses. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/..._raising_push/
Kerry's views on Vietnam are now held by most Americans. He is no longer far left on this issue.
And spending. Kerry spent a lot in Iowa, but the looks of things. He's spent a pittance in the Feb 3rd primaries, so it seems, and concentrated a lot on Iowa and New Hampshire, hoping the money would roll in after that.
Hoping it does
Smile For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something "Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker
Re: Re: Re: I really don't understand about Kerry...
Originally posted by Ned
Alexander's Horse, I think you mean far-right, extremist-religious party of facist demogogues known as the Republican party. Anyone who is not on the far fringe right, or who is not a complete dimwit, is a Democrat.
Right?
Great, let's just misrepresent everyone elses posts
You seem to be stuck in purely US ideas of left and right. In the rest of the world, the Democrats would be a Centre or Centre-Right party, with the Repugs being a bit further Right. As AH said, the US does not have a major leftwing or centre-left party. The US is right wing, certainly compared to Europe and Asia, and probably Australia and bits of America too. What you would consider centrist we would consider centre-right. I'm not sure in the US whether the Dems are considered Leftists, as you seemed to suggest, or centre/centre-right as they would seem over here. But I'm pretty sure, because of who the thread starter is, and the examples he has cited, that he was talking about the rest of the worlds general left-right axis. On that kind of axis, AH is exactly right, the Repugs are a rightwing conservative party and the Democrats are a centre-right progressive party.
Smile For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something "Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker
Originally posted by Guynemer
Has anyone considered that it was Karl Rove and the Republicans who gave Iowa to Kerry?
They've spent the last few months talking about how they would love to run against Howard Dean, blah blah blah, please nominate this man. And Iowa turns around and says, "Eat ****, Karl," and chooses an allegedly stronger candidate.
I disagree. It seemed to me more of the nature of the ad campaigns and focus on specific issues that were running just before the caucus.
Dean was really laying it on thick with attack ads and anti-Iraq rhetoric, which lost its lustre after Saddam's capture. Kerry and Edwards were more focused on the economy and health care, and seemed to have a better take on Iowan's sense of important issues.
There was also an incident which Dean lost his temper against a Bush supporter who told him to tone down the rhetoric. This happened during a widely televised "town hall" meeting and took away a lot of Dean's thunder. That bizarre "concession" speech of his seems to support the notion that he is less than presidential in the clutch.
The guys a flake, anyway. How he got as far as he did was beyond me.
"Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.
Drogue, Perhaps your characterization of Austro-Candian-European politics is accurate. But I think you say to much when you characterize this axis as the "rest of the world." By any standard, the Muslim world is far more conservative than any Republican. Ditto the Hindus of India. Even the Communist Party in China is more conservative than the Republican Party.
It would be better to define your frame of reference before you start calling the Republicans far-right.
The Republicans gave me $800 back in taxes, and $7500 more in debt. I don't think I came out ahead in that deal. I'll give back the tax cut if I can get rid of the debt, too.
Dean lost for a number of reasons. #1, media image. The media is lazy. They don't like to look at issues, they like to look at style. It's easier. Once an image has been decided upon, they stick with it. Gore was labeled a liar, and that's what stuck, even though he wasn't. Bush was labeled as bumbling but basically honest, even though he wasn't honest (and still isn't).
Dean is labeled as angry and unelectable. Dean tapped into, not just the anti-war feeling of many Democrats, but the anger many Democratic supporters feel at their own party. He adopted Wellstone's mantra of "I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party." He was giving voice to the desire to take back the DP from the DLC types who have bassiclly turned the Dem's into a bunch of Republican-lites who offer little resistence to the Republican Party. Hence, the DLC saw him as a threat, and began saying, he's angry, he's unelectabvle, etc. The media picked up on this, and now it's his image.
Iowa caucuses are strange things. It's not like people show up and vote. There's wheeling and dealing and promises and backstabning and all kinds of politics going on to slect delegates. If you don't have enough to get a ful delegate, you make deals with others. The Dean people didn't do this. The Edwards people did, so the Edwards people picked up the extra Gephart support when they couldn't get their guy more delegates.
Dean is still leading in New Hampshire, but we'll see how long that holds.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
Che it really has become a police state. This is the first I've heard that Repubs are going house to house and forcing people to sign for loans.
Hope they cut you a sweet deal on the interest rate.
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Che it really has become a police state. This is the first I've heard that Repubs are going house to house and forcing people to sign for loans.
It's my share, as a citizen, of the Fed's new debt, smart-ass.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
I'm honored you called me smart. I'll ignore the rest.
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
Tweet
Comment