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Israeli settler assaults news crew and members of an organization... - alcaray - 7/7/2009 4:46:57 AM

BIDEN " We Might Have MIS-Read the Economy" - carl - 7/6/2009 5:17:08 PM
- re: Biden reminds me of Borat - Fred - 7/7/2009 2:20:38 AM

What's going on in Afghanistan - Buck Galaxy - 7/5/2009 7:05:36 PM
- And Obama just got Medvedev to agree to flyover permission - z - 7/6/2009 10:17:48 PM

"Sarah Palin Federal Indictment: Palin Embezzlement Charges?" - Bowser - 7/6/2009 1:57:32 AM
- "FBI spokesman: "There is just no truth to those rumors out there in the blogosphere". - Bowser - 7/6/2009 2:04:17 PM
  - Then why is that MOOSE Trailing an Antenna? - carl - 7/6/2009 5:18:48 PM

"Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda." We all have them! - Bowser - 7/3/2009 8:24:43 PM
- Precedents - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2009 9:07:40 PM
  - remember all the talk of the worst economy since the great depression. - Baroke America - 7/5/2009 1:18:57 AM
    - Can you show me something he's done that is detrimental to the economy? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/5/2009 2:09:18 AM
      - Unbelievable. (n/t) - TB - 7/6/2009 4:16:06 AM
        
        Something that lowers gdp or employment? - alcaray - 7/6/2009 4:34:30 AM
  - Well, not really. - Bowser - 7/4/2009 9:18:51 PM
    - Yes, really - Buck Galaxy - 7/5/2009 3:03:17 AM
      - Crash in '29, lowest point '32, WWII for US in '41. - Bowser - 7/5/2009 3:11:44 AM
    - Unemployment headed to 11%+! - Baroke America - 7/5/2009 1:25:07 AM
      - Your solution? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/5/2009 2:13:30 AM
- That's OK. Republicans no longer believe anything Powell says. - ER - 7/3/2009 8:32:38 PM
  - "High risk" - TB - 7/4/2009 4:29:53 AM
    - Indignant irrelevance. - ER - 7/4/2009 10:42:13 AM
    - This is coming from a man who endorsed Sarah Palin. - Bowser - 7/4/2009 5:40:03 AM
    - "knows nothing about economics"?? - Lindy - 7/4/2009 5:28:25 AM
    - That's pretty far from the truth. - alcaray - 7/4/2009 5:12:27 AM
      - spot on. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2009 9:12:24 PM
    - You're just full of it today, TB! - Eri - 7/4/2009 4:46:45 AM
      - Q,E.D. All of the above. (n/t) - TB - 7/6/2009 4:14:02 AM
  - But alas, Democrats do. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/4/2009 12:10:07 AM

Obama might want to remember who elected him. And why. - Bowser - 7/3/2009 9:07:11 PM
- Do you think they may have threatened him and his family? - Lindy - 7/4/2009 12:19:51 AM
  - Now that he's there, Pres. Obama's first mission is to keep the government funcitoning. - Eri - 7/4/2009 4:44:11 AM
    - re: Now that he's there, Pres. Obama's first mission is to keep the government funcitoning. - ER - 7/4/2009 9:56:31 PM
      - deep retrograde collective lurches - JEKing - 7/5/2009 6:36:45 AM
        
        Droopy? - ER - 7/5/2009 12:07:57 PM
        
        Interesting thread and viewpoints - Lindy - 7/5/2009 6:21:31 PM

Palin resigning as Alaska governor - Lindy - 7/3/2009 7:57:08 PM
- My god, this woman could have ended up president - Buck Galaxy - 7/5/2009 3:05:15 AM
- This Clears the deck for Newt Gingrich!!! - Baroke America - 7/5/2009 1:55:50 AM
- Curiouser and curiouser... (n/t) - ER - 7/3/2009 8:43:21 PM
  - The emails, boss, the emails. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/3/2009 10:13:48 PM
- See alcaray's "Wait and See Party". - Bowser - 7/3/2009 8:04:11 PM
  - I bet she's baroke and needs to go out and earn some cash - Baroke America - 7/5/2009 2:00:03 AM
  - One thing we do know: She's a quitter! - Eri - 7/4/2009 4:48:41 AM
    - And there's one thing she knows. - Bowser - 7/4/2009 5:45:18 AM
      - re: Very true. McCain was a good candiate too for the same reasons. - Baroke America - 7/5/2009 2:03:52 AM

Te goosey gucci galpa - ER - 7/3/2009 2:21:44 PM
- Find out what side the CIA is on and take the other side. - Baroke America - 7/5/2009 1:29:57 AM
- Ouster - ordered by Supreme Court, approved by Congress. - Bowser - 7/4/2009 2:45:37 AM
- Excellent analysis - Lindy - 7/3/2009 7:36:41 PM
- Yep. We should start a new party. - alcaray - 7/3/2009 6:25:27 PM
  - Just recently. - Bowser - 7/3/2009 7:56:31 PM

What's going on in Honduras? - ER - 7/4/2009 8:36:11 PM
- Seems that the ROW and MSM don't want to eat crow - Lee - 7/4/2009 9:18:58 PM
  - Hee's the best summary I could find (7/01/09) - ER - 7/4/2009 9:42:47 PM
- From below. Ouster ordered by Supreme Court of Honduras, approved by Congress. - Bowser - 7/4/2009 9:16:03 PM

Flight 447 Hoax - FrankC - 6/26/2009 8:53:55 PM
- Re: Flight 447 Hoax - Raoul - 7/4/2009 8:04:00 AM
- Re: Flight 447 Hoax - Jody - 6/29/2009 4:12:27 PM
  - Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax - FrankC - 6/29/2009 4:47:25 PM
  - Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax - Eri - 6/29/2009 4:36:11 PM
    - Re: Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax - FrankC - 6/29/2009 4:42:38 PM
      - Re: Re: Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax - FrankC - 6/29/2009 4:45:08 PM
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax - FrankC - 6/29/2009 4:53:32 PM
        
        Flight 447 Hoax post is gone again - podrock - 6/29/2009 5:18:42 PM
        
        Re: Flight 447 Hoax post is gone again - FrankC - 6/29/2009 5:21:23 PM
        
        Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax post is gone again - FrankC - 6/29/2009 5:25:13 PM
        
        Re: Re: Re: Flight 447 Hoax post is gone again - Eri - 6/29/2009 6:02:46 PM

I've never heard of this. An anesthesiologist who would "take him down" and "bring him back up - - - " - Bowser - 7/4/2009 4:19:45 AM
- OMG - Eri - 7/4/2009 4:37:49 AM

A trillion is too much to spend? - Buck Galaxy - 7/2/2009 11:55:44 PM
- Keep trying - TB - 7/3/2009 5:58:38 PM
  - The goal is not "better health care" as you stated. - alcaray - 7/4/2009 12:26:03 AM
- Medical inflation is completely out of control and must be reined in - z - 7/3/2009 4:43:45 AM
- We owe the Chinese 700G$. - ER - 7/3/2009 1:38:42 AM

Seems that Obama's court is going all out for Honduras' would be strongman. - Lee - 7/2/2009 12:52:04 PM
- You mean the democratically elected President of Honduras? - z - 7/2/2009 2:26:17 PM
  - Nixon and Clinton got due process. - ER - 7/2/2009 6:57:15 PM
    - Here's exactly what Zelaya wanted to ask the Honduran people - z - 7/2/2009 8:44:48 PM
      - So he goes around the legal frame work and had ballots imported in from Chavez's very own printing press. - Lee - 7/3/2009 2:49:20 AM
        
        Commies don't have rights. - ER - 7/3/2009 11:51:37 AM
        
        They're used to it. Don't expect rights. Goes with the territory. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/3/2009 7:57:41 PM
        
        Well I guess they could've handled it better. - Lee - 7/3/2009 3:08:09 PM
        
        Lee, you are the perfect stereotype. Don't ever leave us. (n/t) - ER - 7/3/2009 3:59:38 PM
        
        Yeah, right. And I heard too that his followers were spotted munching on Chavez-style pizza for lunch... - z - 7/3/2009 5:07:53 AM
        
        Those are either kids in costumes... - Lee - 7/3/2009 3:12:32 PM
      - I had a feeling the WSJ was lying - ER - 7/2/2009 9:34:31 PM
  - He made a power grab and got called on it. - Lee - 7/2/2009 3:18:55 PM
  - I suppose that Latin America needs another radical leftist government, right? (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/2/2009 2:40:56 PM
    - Latin Americans should be free to decide for themselves, leftist government or not! (n/t) - z - 7/2/2009 8:18:55 PM
      - Not when they become dictatorships. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/2/2009 10:26:49 PM
        
        It's okay if it's the right kind of dictatorship - TB - 7/3/2009 6:10:51 PM

"Minnesota court rules Democrat Al Franken won Senate seat." - Bowser - 6/30/2009 6:54:16 PM
- 60 - Buck Galaxy - 7/1/2009 3:57:09 AM
  - "Permanent majority" has a different ring to it now, doesn't it? (n/t) - TB - 7/1/2009 5:49:45 PM
    - Ordinarily a bad thing. Right now, necessary. - Bowser - 7/2/2009 4:18:34 AM
      - Incidentally... - TB - 7/3/2009 6:17:35 PM
      - Every tyranny in history was advertised by the tyrants as "necessary." (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2009 6:13:12 PM
    - No. (n/t) - Robert - 7/2/2009 4:02:43 AM
    - Seriously. Does anyone know where the phrase "Permanent majority" came from? Has someone other than TB used it lately? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/2/2009 12:45:45 AM
      - I believe it was Karl Rove. - ER - 7/2/2009 12:55:52 AM
        
        That being the "different ring" point, of course. - TB - 7/2/2009 4:02:52 AM
        
        If the Republicans want to win back the majority, what they have to do is become electable. - Mary Anne - 7/3/2009 12:33:59 AM
        
        Your bitterness is showing - ER - 7/2/2009 10:36:32 AM
        
        "A few years?" - TB - 7/3/2009 6:21:34 PM
        
        "many years" is not the same as "permanent" - Robert - 7/2/2009 6:59:34 AM
    - Nope. It sounds just as destructive to democracy now as at any other time. - alcaray - 7/1/2009 8:24:24 PM
- Well, well, well! "GOP's Coleman concedes, sending Franken to Senate." - Bowser - 6/30/2009 8:35:01 PM

Seven Days in July - ER - 7/3/2009 12:14:26 PM
- re: Seven Days in July - Bowser - 7/3/2009 6:10:37 PM

A Conversation with Robert D. Kaplan - gbaikie - 7/2/2009 10:31:44 PM

"Sovereignty Day in Iraq." - Anyone know where the US troops are going? - Bowser - 7/1/2009 4:25:35 AM
- Look for half of them to be redeployed to Afghanistan in the next few months. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/2/2009 10:28:18 PM
- We're going to have to leave, sooner or later. - ER - 7/1/2009 5:16:16 PM
  - do the Iraqis want us to leave? - FrankC - 7/2/2009 10:12:03 PM
  - When do we leave Europe? (n/t) - TB - 7/1/2009 5:48:11 PM
    - Exactly why are US troops in Europe? Japan? Okinawa - Bowser - 7/1/2009 8:22:10 PM
      - Good looking german girls, of course! :-)) (n/t) - Raoul - 7/1/2009 8:44:51 PM
        
        The Emperor does love women, doesn't he? (n/t) - Bowser - 7/1/2009 11:49:26 PM
    - As soon as the threat of Soviet Invasion is over. (n/t) - ER - 7/1/2009 6:06:39 PM
      - Now, think about that a while. (n/t) - TB - 7/1/2009 6:10:12 PM
        
        You are impervious to irony, aren't you? (n/t) - ER - 7/1/2009 6:37:08 PM
- re: "Sovereignty Day in Iraq." - Anyone know where the US troops are going? - REB - 7/1/2009 1:13:13 PM

Differences Between Conservatives and Liberals - David F Mayer - 6/28/2009 6:05:25 PM
- That was damning to both sides. - Eri - 6/28/2009 8:16:14 PM
- There's two things they both have in common. - ER - 6/28/2009 6:40:33 PM
  - re: There's two things they both have in common. - Doug Ellison - 6/30/2009 8:10:22 AM
    - Not only are they utterly wrong, - ER - 6/30/2009 10:48:03 AM
      - "UK politics occupy about a 1 inch span slightly left of centre of the US 5 mile wide stretch " - ER - 6/30/2009 11:18:00 AM
        
        re: "UK politics occupy about a 1 inch span slightly left of centre of the US 5 mile wide stretch " - Doug Ellison - 7/1/2009 6:56:44 AM
        
        You miss the whole point, Doug. - ER - 7/1/2009 11:41:34 AM
        
        That is a true statement. (n/t) - ER - 7/1/2009 12:57:55 PM
        
        Which is itself "agitprop". - Lee - 7/1/2009 11:47:51 AM
        
        That is a true statement. - ER - 7/1/2009 1:02:16 PM
  - Politics - TB - 6/29/2009 3:01:19 AM
    - re: Politics - ER - 6/29/2009 11:05:10 AM
      - re: Politics - TB - 7/1/2009 6:00:21 PM
        
        And the most important point... - TB - 7/1/2009 6:04:10 PM
        
        You respond with an impassioned defense of free markets - ER - 7/1/2009 6:17:19 PM
      - re: Politics - gbaikie - 6/29/2009 8:20:04 PM
  - Republicans get rich off of Democratic proposals. - Bowser - 6/29/2009 1:48:01 AM
    - Plenty of Democrats get rich off government contracts as well. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 6/29/2009 1:53:40 PM

Just another day at the checkpoint. - alcaray - 6/30/2009 7:53:27 PM

Why he's talking now - "Cheney fears Iraq withdrawal will 'waste' U.S. sacrifices." - Bowser - 6/29/2009 6:25:26 PM
- Cheney is evil - Eric - 6/29/2009 11:04:05 PM
  - Cheney LOSING Money because of NO WAR - carl - 6/30/2009 4:38:52 PM

Jackson REVIVAL Tour - carl - 6/30/2009 4:37:30 PM

Billy Mays dead at 50 - FrankC - 6/28/2009 7:56:15 PM
- KABOOM!!! (n/t) - Jody - 6/29/2009 1:27:41 PM
  - Go towards the Orange Glo Billy! (n/t) - Jody - 6/29/2009 1:28:22 PM
    - Man! I am *so* going to Hell! - Jody - 6/29/2009 3:42:52 PM
- Venus conjunct Mars - Lindy - 6/29/2009 4:12:03 AM
  - Not up on my astrology. - Eri - 6/29/2009 2:44:50 PM
    - Not much. - alcaray - 6/29/2009 5:44:55 PM
      - Holy cripes!!!! I said "astronomical" where I meant to say "astrological". - alcaray - 6/29/2009 9:51:40 PM
      - When you got Venus hitting Mars, and Jupiter heading backward, - Bowser - 6/29/2009 8:54:18 PM
        
        Here's a book on observing Mercury and Venus - Socrates II - 6/30/2009 1:53:16 PM
- Sorry he's passed. - Eri - 6/28/2009 8:13:09 PM
  - Of all the celebrities who show up on TV, - - - - Bowser - 6/28/2009 9:33:44 PM
    - The Shamwow guy was way more annoying and creepy - Socrates II - 6/30/2009 1:54:20 PM
    - You and me both. But I'm sorry for his family. (n/t) - Eri - 6/28/2009 10:43:52 PM

The Honduran military did the right thing. - Lee - 6/29/2009 11:11:33 PM
- "Obama needs to drop this" - ER - 6/30/2009 1:07:57 AM
  - He's barking up the wrong tree. - Lee - 6/30/2009 2:01:45 AM
- Why isn't the link working? - Lee - 6/29/2009 11:26:34 PM

Perspective on Iran? - Bowser - 6/27/2009 10:59:06 PM
- Peaceful protests? - mip - 6/28/2009 2:52:33 PM
  - It is very easy, and quite common for someone to pick up a rock... - alcaray - 6/29/2009 12:07:54 AM
    - Excellent case in point in the news today: - alcaray - 6/29/2009 9:49:24 PM
- It would probably look like the WTO protest in Seattle. - RobVG - 6/28/2009 2:59:45 AM
  - Not at all like WTO. - Bowser - 6/28/2009 4:16:19 AM

"Russia makes subtle entrance to Africa while Washington busy with wars." - Bowser - 6/28/2009 7:58:09 PM
- So what's the problem? - ER - 6/29/2009 5:19:30 PM
  - I think you are absolutely correct, with a slight modification. - Bowser - 6/29/2009 5:43:23 PM
    - I've seen US foreign aid in action. Close up. - ER - 6/29/2009 7:43:06 PM

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