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Country Cowfreaks in Tulia, TX - ER - 8/10/2014 2:32:23 PM
- Re: Country Cowfreaks in Tulia, TX - bowser - 8/11/2014 2:08:21 PM

Uniformed Afghan kills US two-star general, and others. - bowser - 8/5/2014 3:45:00 PM
- The ridiculousness of it all. - bowser - 8/6/2014 4:57:38 PM
  - It is learned, but a learning chiefly ignorred by our DC Leaders . . . - DanS - 8/6/2014 6:19:05 PM
    - That's a good point, maybe not the issue. - bowser - 8/7/2014 7:00:49 AM
      - Can't be done without the history . . . - DanS - 8/7/2014 10:27:11 AM
        
        Did you ever wonder where those flags came from? - bowser - 8/9/2014 6:30:33 AM
- The primary target was authority . . . - DanS - 8/6/2014 4:31:02 PM

Bridge of sighs - ER - 7/26/2014 5:42:18 PM
- Ya gotta unnerstan'. - bowser - 7/29/2014 5:15:14 AM
  - The Fed Gov does condone . . . - DanS - 7/30/2014 2:43:39 PM
    - Prosecutors disgression. - bowser - 8/1/2014 3:47:56 AM
      - On Federal property, not public and/or private . . . - DanS - 8/1/2014 3:37:09 PM
        
        I can't find anything which distinguishes between Federal property and other. - bowser - 8/2/2014 2:10:13 PM
        
        But then -- Ain't That America . . . ? - DanS - 8/4/2014 11:41:24 AM
        
        Flag Fetishism - ER - 8/1/2014 4:26:53 PM
      - The first refuge, too. - ER - 8/1/2014 12:20:41 PM
  - Sell them U-235? Heavens no!!! - mcfly - 7/29/2014 1:11:41 PM
    - Get a fleet of VW Bugs for parts. (n/t) - DanS - 7/30/2014 2:44:47 PM
    - Yabut the operating manuals are cheap. - bowser - 7/29/2014 5:20:38 PM

Finally! Some proper gun violence! - mcfly - 7/25/2014 2:20:25 PM

Ukraine airliner shootdown video - ER - 7/17/2014 6:55:34 PM
- It's all becoming very Russian - mcfly - 7/21/2014 5:19:32 PM
  - I seem to remember the US shooting down a scheduled Iranian airliner in Iranian airspace. - bowser - 7/22/2014 4:41:56 AM
    - Maybe Americans are just better at it - mcfly - 7/23/2014 1:16:05 PM
    - Moot . . . - DanS - 7/22/2014 12:17:29 PM
    - No one shoots down a civilian plane deliberately. - ER - 7/22/2014 12:12:44 PM
      - God knows how much is spent on equipment and training. - bowser - 7/22/2014 3:39:04 PM
        
        You forget, Bowz. - ER - 7/22/2014 4:36:05 PM
        
        I can agree with what you say. - bowser - 7/22/2014 8:44:50 PM
  - Le Carre described Putin's type perfectly in his espionage novels. - ER - 7/21/2014 7:25:54 PM
- Reuters - Robert - 7/17/2014 7:46:26 PM
  - I wasn't implying they were rockets, just that they looked like them. - ER - 7/17/2014 7:59:44 PM

HIV Setback . . . - DanS - 7/11/2014 6:31:27 PM
- That's too bad. AIDS doesn't seem to have become the scourge predicted, though. - bowser - 7/13/2014 3:56:28 AM

Dow breaks 17K, unemployment at 6.1% - ER - 7/4/2014 1:41:33 AM
- Yabbut!! "Dick Cheney Says Obama Cuts Defense to Spend on Food Stamps" or whatever else he wants to spend it on. - bowser - 7/4/2014 2:56:44 AM
  - Mr Cheney has his priorities all wrong. - ER - 7/4/2014 4:29:32 PM

VA Update. - ER - 7/2/2014 1:52:33 AM

Did anyone notice? - ER - 6/22/2014 1:11:49 AM
- We have some money in there - Jody - 6/23/2014 2:51:17 AM
  - Time for another money-shower. (n/t) - DanS - 6/23/2014 5:31:52 PM
- Yes. - bowser - 6/22/2014 3:45:13 AM

Brian Schweitzer is an excellent politician... - mcfly - 6/19/2014 6:04:13 PM
- Maybe he's getting ready to switch parties. - ER - 6/19/2014 7:10:06 PM

"Who Lost Iraq?" - mcfly - 6/14/2014 10:39:51 AM
- Oddly, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney lost Iraq. All of them, - bowser - 6/19/2014 6:03:52 AM
- I pray to God that Obama will lead us to peace on earth, good will towards men. - Jody - 6/14/2014 4:17:47 PM
  - If history has anything to say about it... - ER - 6/14/2014 4:21:16 PM
    - God, like Cheney, has other priorities - mcfly - 6/15/2014 11:08:38 PM
      - Very judgmental there mcfly. - Jody - 6/16/2014 3:25:47 AM
        
        Not really sure I'm being judgemental - mcfly - 6/17/2014 5:52:37 PM
        
        That's beautiful. - bowser - 6/18/2014 12:38:53 AM
        
        Truly, verily, beautiful. I think it should be a higher number than that even. - Jody - 6/18/2014 2:21:13 AM
        
        4.0 - bowser - 6/18/2014 4:33:39 AM
        
        Well there ya go! - Jody - 6/18/2014 11:47:06 AM
        
        I did not realize that. - Jody - 6/17/2014 9:15:33 PM
      - One man's god is another man's demon. - Jody - 6/16/2014 3:12:07 AM
    - Well, now that is true. - Jody - 6/15/2014 3:49:07 PM
- Quite interesting. - bowser - 6/14/2014 3:22:44 PM
- Excellent analysis. - ER - 6/14/2014 12:42:53 PM

So Susan Rice got it right the first time. - ER - 6/18/2014 12:41:48 AM
- Two defining traits of the Right. - bowser - 6/18/2014 3:38:10 AM
- or.... - Jody - 6/18/2014 2:53:04 AM
  - You may have a point... - ER - 6/18/2014 3:18:49 AM

US deploys a few troops to Iraq. - bowser - 6/17/2014 3:58:15 AM
- Its a statistically, and empirically, verifiable fact. - ER - 6/17/2014 12:46:03 PM

"Get those palefaces out of there!" - ER - 6/13/2014 2:00:38 AM
- The more pragmatic Kurds... - FrankC - 6/13/2014 3:31:48 PM
  - Its hard not to like the Kurds. They're a lot like the Israelis. - ER - 6/13/2014 4:34:03 PM
    - totally agree - FrankC - 6/13/2014 4:48:20 PM
      - Another thing to like about the Kurds. - ER - 6/14/2014 4:09:02 AM
- The ignored obvious. - bowser - 6/13/2014 4:16:16 AM
  - The situation is much more complex than that. - ER - 6/13/2014 12:47:32 PM
    - A terrorist state in the Middle East. - bowser - 6/13/2014 10:11:01 PM
    - One reason for the chaos . . . - DanS - 6/13/2014 2:35:22 PM
      - It used to be politicians oppose others because they thought they could do a better job. - ER - 6/13/2014 2:50:39 PM

Night of the long knife. - ER - 6/11/2014 3:12:56 AM
- Love it - mcfly - 6/11/2014 1:16:00 PM
  - That's what German moderate conservatives said about the Nazis. They miscalculated. - ER - 6/11/2014 4:26:02 PM
    - Bush made a sincere attempt much like Hitlers' to install a dictatorship. - bowser - 6/12/2014 3:29:25 AM
- 1964 - bowser - 6/11/2014 3:53:24 AM

Clippers -- Not For Sale - mcfly - 6/10/2014 1:01:39 PM
- Well, - - - - bowser - 6/11/2014 4:19:37 PM
  - This is true... - mcfly - 6/11/2014 6:16:07 PM
  - This isn't about racism. - ER - 6/11/2014 5:37:42 PM
    - Clearly, Stirling isn't popular. - bowser - 6/12/2014 3:20:11 AM

Charles Manson paroled. - Jody - 6/7/2014 6:34:02 PM
- It must be true, its on the internet. - ER - 6/8/2014 12:42:51 PM
  - Well shit. - Jody - 6/8/2014 2:28:30 PM
    - A lot of people WANTED to believe the Manson parole. - ER - 6/8/2014 3:04:45 PM
      - And we can see, indignation often survives the death of "proof" - mcfly - 6/9/2014 4:44:24 PM
      - I just soon he got the death penalty in the way back. - Jody - 6/8/2014 6:35:52 PM
- Probably the hardest thing for him. - bowser - 6/8/2014 2:42:09 AM
  - I suspect he is going to be taken care of by a follower. - Jody - 6/8/2014 4:31:31 AM
    - He should go to work as the spokesperson for Windows 8. - bowser - 6/8/2014 4:56:42 AM
- It's about time... - FrankC - 6/8/2014 12:41:35 AM
  - They should give him a medal. - ER - 6/8/2014 12:52:30 AM

Prisoner swap - ER - 6/2/2014 12:12:50 PM
- By reading this thread it is official... - Jody - 6/7/2014 3:54:03 AM
  - Bingo. - ER - 6/7/2014 4:55:54 AM
- Sure gets us off the VA scandal....eh? - Jody - 6/5/2014 3:45:14 PM
  - Yeah, and it gets us off the positive job numbers and Dow Jones. - ER - 6/6/2014 10:29:17 PM
    - Clever! - Jody - 6/7/2014 3:54:47 AM
  - Obama should have sold weapons to the Taliban. - ER - 6/5/2014 6:39:56 PM
    - Research the cocaine Ollie North imported to Southern California. - bowser - 6/8/2014 2:49:36 AM
    - Yes, but he didn't. He is an idiot. - Jody - 6/6/2014 6:09:09 PM
    - Only conservatives... - mcfly - 6/6/2014 10:45:57 AM
  - Boweghazi - mcfly - 6/5/2014 5:13:38 PM
    - It amazes me... - FrankC - 6/6/2014 3:52:14 PM
      - You're better than that, Frank - mcfly - 6/6/2014 5:12:22 PM
        
        No one that matters gives a shit about Obama's color... - FrankC - 6/7/2014 1:30:03 AM
        
        C'mon, Frank. - ER - 6/7/2014 2:33:11 AM
        
        A little less vitriol and a bit more reason... - FrankC - 6/7/2014 3:56:57 AM
        
        The difference between lib and con snake oil salesmen... - ER - 6/7/2014 4:30:23 AM
        
        For some people, ER, it's simply not true unless it's on Faux Spews - mcfly - 6/7/2014 6:49:25 AM
        
        Barbarians at the gate. - ER - 6/7/2014 12:47:18 PM
        
        Read it again, Frank. - mcfly - 6/7/2014 1:50:54 AM
        
        What scares the Right about Obama isn't that he's black. - ER - 6/6/2014 6:55:17 PM
        
        I now know why you must go "Up the Line" - FrankC - 6/7/2014 1:39:17 AM
        
        Are personal attacks all you have left? - mcfly - 6/7/2014 1:53:14 AM
    - mcfly, - Jody - 6/5/2014 6:04:36 PM
- Doesn't seem smart, but... - FrankC - 6/2/2014 5:08:08 PM
  - A thoughtful idea, Frank, but the subject would be under a lot of 24/7 pressure to maintain a working cover. (n/t) - DanS - 6/5/2014 3:30:30 PM
- A time-honored tradition. - bowser - 6/2/2014 4:33:44 PM
- "five top-level terrorists" - Robert - 6/2/2014 4:25:18 PM
  - Sorry, I don't buy it. - ER - 6/2/2014 6:59:53 PM
    - Sorry, it's not for sale - Robert - 6/2/2014 11:15:41 PM

Obama pledges $1 billion to bolster NATO defenses. - bowser - 6/4/2014 5:38:44 AM
- I hear ya, Bowser - mcfly - 6/4/2014 5:30:05 PM

Russian surveillance planes overfly the US. - bowser - 5/31/2014 6:46:17 PM

This time its for real. - ER - 5/22/2014 2:03:20 PM
- Saw something the other day I had never seen before . . . - DanS - 5/22/2014 8:19:55 PM
  - Strictly PR. - bowser - 5/22/2014 11:00:34 PM
- Easy, steady there big guy. - bowser - 5/22/2014 6:20:23 PM
  - Whether or not Shinseki and Obama are at fault is irrelevant. - ER - 5/22/2014 6:55:32 PM
    - Exception - bowser - 5/22/2014 10:53:54 PM

"Corporations are people, my friend" - ER - 5/19/2014 6:30:58 PM
- These are the people who head offshore to avoid taxes. - bowser - 5/22/2014 6:38:47 PM
- Adjust your sails mate! - Jody - 5/21/2014 3:40:36 PM
  - Ward was no sailor, just another inspirational speaker. - ER - 5/21/2014 3:50:05 PM
    - and you? - Jody - 5/21/2014 5:03:47 PM
      - If I were, would I tell you? - ER - 5/21/2014 5:10:04 PM
- It's called spying... - FrankC - 5/21/2014 1:27:37 PM
  - I don't expect my spies to be virtuous, but I do expect them to be competent. - ER - 5/21/2014 3:51:06 PM
    - And you certainly have a right to expect that... - FrankC - 5/22/2014 2:56:45 AM
      - Yeah, it stands to reason inherently evil people make better spies. - ER - 5/22/2014 4:33:17 PM
- The United States has the right, duty and obligation! - bowser - 5/20/2014 2:28:07 AM
  - Oh brother. - RobVG - 5/20/2014 2:45:50 AM
    - You two? - ER - 5/20/2014 3:33:44 AM
      - Enjoy your remaining time in the echo chamber. n/t - RobVG - 5/20/2014 3:40:25 AM

Heads are gonna roll, I fear. - Jody - 5/21/2014 8:28:17 PM
- I hope so. And they should. - ER - 5/21/2014 8:37:14 PM

So what's with the VA? - ER - 5/8/2014 1:14:35 PM
- At first blush. - bowser - 5/14/2014 5:22:46 PM
  - In defense of the VA... - ER - 5/15/2014 4:31:24 AM
- Think of a conspiracy theory or two... - Jody - 5/8/2014 10:58:10 PM
  - I'm not quite sure what you're getting at, Jody. - ER - 5/8/2014 11:18:08 PM
    - Just playing Devil's advocate - Jody - 5/8/2014 11:49:00 PM
      - What exactly were the symptoms? - ER - 5/9/2014 12:15:28 AM
        
        Wow - Jody - 5/9/2014 4:45:52 PM
        
        Do others suffering from the same condition exhibit similar symptoms? - ER - 5/9/2014 6:35:26 PM
        
        In a nutshell - Jody - 5/9/2014 6:53:43 PM
    - Agent Orange Footnote. - ER - 5/8/2014 11:30:16 PM

Sterling Silvered - ER - 4/29/2014 7:53:15 PM
- I think the powers that be can go too far - mcfly - 5/1/2014 5:59:15 PM
  - your remarks on "organized political correctness" are right on. - ER - 5/1/2014 7:54:00 PM
    - Good points, and in your follow-up about Eich as well - mcfly - 5/2/2014 5:20:18 PM
    - I didn't know who Brendan Eich was, so I looked him up. - ER - 5/1/2014 8:09:40 PM
- It is hard to believe - FrankC - 4/30/2014 8:35:43 AM
  - It was a foregone conclusion. - ER - 4/30/2014 7:50:15 PM
- Re: Sterling Silvered - JEKing - 4/29/2014 9:07:05 PM
  - I LOVE IT! - ER - 4/29/2014 10:32:39 PM
    - Re: I LOVE IT! - JEKing - 4/29/2014 11:51:05 PM
      - My apologies. - ER - 4/30/2014 12:25:48 AM

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