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Alaska volcano Redoubt watch - SteveS - 1/29/2009 7:17:21 PM
- No one's gonna lose any sleep over this volcano. - Jacob - 1/30/2009 4:35:23 PM
- The Web message from the AVO site - Socrates II - 1/30/2009 4:00:59 PM
  - Thereâ€™s the always reliable USGS - SteveS - 1/30/2009 4:30:33 PM

Homelessness surges as funding falters - Back to back - 1/30/2009 2:54:09 PM

President Bush was continuing to assert executive privilege over any testimony by Roveâ€”even after he leaves office - Lindy - 1/30/2009 2:38:02 AM

Bam intros new Dress code and there goes ENERGY SAVINGS - carl - 1/29/2009 5:34:03 PM
- Please don't get all sappy on us - Lindy - 1/30/2009 2:00:07 AM

Comming to grips with the real Bush legacy. PTSD. - et - 1/27/2009 10:51:14 PM
- nothing new there - FrankC - 1/28/2009 1:06:04 AM
  - Wow. That's telling... (n/t) - et - 1/28/2009 5:44:40 PM
    - Wear a lapel pin and stand during the Star Spangled Banner. - Bowser - 1/29/2009 3:53:50 AM

Invitation to "Ideas for America" Bulletin Board - David F Mayer - 1/25/2009 3:19:58 AM
- Trolling for members on another's website is generally regarded as rude - Tony - 1/26/2009 5:49:58 PM
  - My apologies. I just made a single announcement on each of several sites. (n/t) - DFM - 1/27/2009 1:33:14 AM
    - I had no problem with it. - TB - 1/27/2009 2:26:00 AM
      - I don't harp on it, or post about it every day. Perhaps twice a year. You are welcome there, Tom. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/29/2009 1:34:14 AM
- re: Invitation to "Ideas for America" Bulletin Board - Lee - 1/25/2009 3:25:48 AM
  - Thanks. We need more posts from people with creative ideas. Try it. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/25/2009 3:36:58 PM

Hamas admits to provoking a fight. - Lee - 1/26/2009 4:21:33 PM
- The tragedy is that many right-wing Israelis are actually happy that the crazy Hamas rule Gaza - z - 1/26/2009 7:02:52 PM
  - Hamas don't want to negotiate. They want to eradicate. - The Silent Majority - 1/27/2009 2:07:12 AM
    - Lessee. - Bowser - 1/27/2009 2:30:20 AM
      - You're right: an anti-Semite has much to teach me. - TSM - 1/27/2009 3:50:42 AM
        
        Exactly. That's precisely the technique! - Bowser - 1/27/2009 4:13:54 AM
        
        Stop lying about your fake "Jewish friends" - FZ - 1/27/2009 6:05:01 PM
        
        ...ain't just the Hamas provoking a fight. (n/t) - Jody - 1/28/2009 12:18:17 PM
        
        maybe so, maybe not - FZ - 1/28/2009 2:53:02 PM
        
        Well, because... - Jody - 1/28/2009 10:17:42 PM
        
        MODERATOR this needs to go to Flame - Lindy - 1/28/2009 4:42:10 AM
        
        Yoo hoo FZ. - Lindy - 1/28/2009 4:40:04 AM
- An Israeli tactic of which they are proud. - Bowser - 1/26/2009 4:55:11 PM
  - Your link is to the worst anti-Semitic website I have ever seen - The Silent Majority - 1/27/2009 1:57:21 AM
    - The quotes are from the Israeli Minister of Defence. - Bowser - 1/27/2009 2:02:45 AM
      - and, as you said, they refer to tactics - FZ - 1/27/2009 2:40:03 PM
      - No, what's pathetic is you could've chosen a more credible site - but didn't. - The Silent Majority - 1/27/2009 2:13:28 AM

Comedians demonstrate more sense than right-wing pundits - McFly - 1/26/2009 2:20:15 AM
- "Arguably treasonous?" (n/t) - TB - 1/26/2009 7:55:11 PM
  - defining terms - Robert - 1/27/2009 6:48:33 PM
    - "l'Ã©tat, c'est moi" (n/t) - Barack Obama - 1/27/2009 9:17:25 PM
- To put things in context. - Jacob - 1/26/2009 6:58:05 PM
  - What bothers me the most about that statement - Socrates II - 1/27/2009 1:34:41 PM
    - You'll find this interesting about Mr. Limbaugh. - Jacob - 1/27/2009 6:38:00 PM
      - He was just a DJ who got lucky career-wise - Socrates II - 1/27/2009 6:59:06 PM
- That is funny! But - - - - Bowser - 1/26/2009 3:08:00 AM
  - And then there are those who get all of their news from people like Jon Stewart. - Lee - 1/26/2009 3:59:12 AM
  - What they are is scarey! (n/t) - Eri - 1/26/2009 3:12:56 AM

The US, Obama and torture. - Bowser - 1/27/2009 8:42:53 PM

How many have died in armed conflicts worldwide since WW2? - Jacob - 1/26/2009 7:07:26 PM
- When one side is unarmed and is slaughtered, like in Rwanda, is it technically "armed conflict"? - The Silent Majority - 1/27/2009 11:56:48 AM
  - No, that would be armless...hack hack. (n/t) - Lee - 1/27/2009 1:41:18 PM
    - You seriously want to turn genocide and democide into a pun run? (n/t) - TSM - 1/27/2009 6:33:52 PM
      - It's easy to see victims as statistics if you don't see their faces. (n/t) - Jacob - 1/27/2009 6:39:39 PM

So that I may understand better... - Jody - 1/26/2009 2:21:05 PM
- Reagan outlawed it, clinton reinstated it, Bush outlawed it - Tony - 1/26/2009 10:07:45 PM
  - How much money are we we talking about... - Jody - 1/26/2009 10:53:27 PM
    - Just a note here - Eri - 1/27/2009 4:51:01 AM
      - But why must *we* foot this bill? (n/t) - Jody - 1/27/2009 1:30:27 PM

"Analysis: Thinking small in Afghanistan". - Bowser - 1/27/2009 4:04:25 AM

2 face execution over China poison milk scandal - Lindy - 1/22/2009 1:18:55 PM
- So you support the death penalty? - The Silent Majority - 1/27/2009 2:15:36 AM
  - re: So you support the death penalty? - Lindy - 1/27/2009 3:51:24 AM
- There's no link there, Lindy. (n/t) - Eri - 1/25/2009 11:26:13 PM
- I think that we could learn something very positive from China here. - David F Mayer - 1/25/2009 10:38:24 PM
  - Don't like corporations? Then change the laws so they're no longer needed. - Lee - 1/25/2009 11:47:15 PM
    - Correct on All Points. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/26/2009 1:40:20 PM
  - In fact, the lesson is muted. - nick hoffman - 1/25/2009 11:35:28 PM

"Big U.S. companies announce massive (45,000) job cuts" and the stock market stays up. - Bowser - 1/27/2009 12:44:00 AM
- Hilarious! A president's just been elected on little more than irrational and emotional grounds. - The Silent Majority - 1/27/2009 2:28:33 AM
  - Is that a randomly generated response? Not bad. - Bowser - 1/27/2009 2:33:04 AM
    - Who wrote about "emotional attachment" and lacking a "rational basis"? Your ghost writer? - TSM - 1/27/2009 3:21:27 AM

Body Count GAZA=1,300 Israel=14 - Lindy - 1/19/2009 2:28:23 PM
- It shows how goddamn stupid Hamas is to have started with Israel. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/26/2009 1:41:26 PM
- The Israelis really care about their soldiers. - Lee - 1/21/2009 11:48:16 PM
  - re: The Israelis really care about their soldiers. - Laurie Street - 1/23/2009 8:46:25 PM
    - Same place as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Belgium, and all of our other allies. - Lee - 1/24/2009 4:13:52 AM
- re: Body Count GAZA=1,300 Israel=14 - REL - 1/21/2009 4:50:43 AM
  - Depends on who you listen to - Lindy - 1/22/2009 3:26:06 AM
- An absolute slaughter, condoned and financed by the US. - Bowser - 1/20/2009 3:33:27 AM
- Hamas Should Have Anticipated the Consquences BEFORE Firing Rockets & Mortars At Israel for 8 Years. - David F Mayer - 1/20/2009 2:23:11 AM
  - By the way, doc, - - - - Bowser - 1/20/2009 3:47:25 AM
    - By the way, I have NO idea of what you are talking about. I had NO part in the other thread. - David F Mayer - 1/23/2009 2:38:18 PM
    - No, it's not him. - FZ - 1/20/2009 5:15:31 AM
- Solution remains the same: massive UN deployment to West Bank and Gaza (n/t) - E.P. - 1/19/2009 4:30:41 PM
  - Solution: let them have a real nation instead of a miserable, fenced-in prison camp (n/t) - z - 1/19/2009 6:23:28 PM
    - Where? - TB - 1/19/2009 7:35:00 PM
      - Where? West Bank, Gaza, East Central Israel. In other words, the places offered in the Barak plan. - David F Mayer - 1/25/2009 10:43:26 PM
      - Y'know, I started out as pro-Israel as anyone here. - Bowser - 1/20/2009 4:04:44 AM
        
        re: Y'know, you can repeat that as often as you like. - TB - 1/20/2009 4:12:54 AM
  - "Some 50 of the U.N.'s 220 schools, clinics and warehouses were battered in shelling" - Lindy - 1/19/2009 5:31:11 PM
  - It'll probably be NATO instead. (n/t) - Jacob - 1/19/2009 5:17:37 PM

Obama's base seems to be disheartened. - Lee - 1/25/2009 6:16:57 PM
- Frankly, I don't think that the Socialists have a clue about political reality. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/25/2009 10:33:07 PM
- I question the veracity of the website, Lee. This is pure conjeccture (n/t) - Josy - 1/25/2009 7:39:14 PM
  - Geez...my glasses, I swan...conjecture.... (n/t) - JoDy - 1/25/2009 7:40:17 PM
- That is a Trotskyite website, and you are desperate. - FZ - 1/25/2009 7:29:24 PM

Bush STARTS PARDONS WHEN??????? - carl - 1/13/2009 5:50:00 PM
- He started a month ago. (n/t) - Tony - 1/13/2009 8:41:04 PM
- "Clinton issued 141 pardons and 36 commutations on his last day in office on January 20, 2001." - Bowser - 1/13/2009 6:38:46 PM
  - He sold 'em right up to when the doors closed behind him. (n/t) - Bowser - 1/13/2009 6:41:46 PM
- Pardon me? (n/t) - Jody - 1/13/2009 5:59:39 PM
  - Said DICK NIxon to FORD - carl - 1/13/2009 6:54:54 PM
    - No, are we supposed to? - Eri - 1/13/2009 7:07:31 PM
      - That was CHEVY CHASE, NO? - carl - 1/13/2009 8:11:03 PM
        
        He plays group sports? - Eri - 1/13/2009 8:15:29 PM
        
        Mountain BIKING Prez and........ - carl - 1/13/2009 8:46:31 PM
        
        What sports did W partake? How about waterboarding? (n/t) - Robert - 1/13/2009 11:05:15 PM
        
        Oh yea! That IS a group sport, isn't it? (n/t) - Eri - 1/14/2009 12:10:23 AM
        
        Sadly...yes... (n/t) - Jody - 1/15/2009 3:08:57 PM
        
        Yep. Also minored in 50m backpedal and 100m dodge-n-weave. - Robert - 1/14/2009 5:57:17 PM
        
        *chuckle* (n/t) - Jody - 1/15/2009 3:07:52 PM
        
        re: Oh yeah! That IS a group sport, isn't it? (Corrected Spelling in subject line. acckkkk) (n/t) - Eri - 1/14/2009 12:11:07 AM
        
        re: Oh yeah! That IS a group sport, isn't it? (Corrected Spelling in subject line. acckkkk) - ako - 1/25/2009 8:44:08 AM

Cheney criticizes Bush for not pardoning Scooter - Eri - 1/23/2009 2:27:31 AM
- Also on Olbermann: "invisible leprechauns live in my pants!" - TB - 1/23/2009 4:20:31 AM
  - Bush's prolific use of signing statements sort of shoots that argument through the temples. - Bowser - 1/23/2009 3:25:22 PM
    - Number of all U.S. war veterans who have been denied Veterans Administration health care since 2003 - 452,677 - 1/24/2009 5:07:28 PM
    - re: shoots that argument through the temples - TB - 1/23/2009 5:44:49 PM
      - Life is lived forward, true, but understood backward. - Bowser - 1/23/2009 10:32:32 PM
  - Not saying he did any. Knowing Bush, he didn't. But he COULD have had he wanted to. I'ts legal. - Eri - 1/23/2009 4:29:10 AM
    - But he COULD have had he wanted to. I'ts legal. - TB - 1/23/2009 4:56:59 AM
      - Lock-step, lock-step, lock-step! - Eri - 1/24/2009 2:46:06 AM
- Interesting. Frankly, I wondered about that. - Bowser - 1/23/2009 3:29:12 AM

What goes around, comes around. - TB - 1/23/2009 6:20:40 PM
- Strange: Sun Myung Moon's rag reporting GOP handouts - E.P. - 1/24/2009 3:55:12 PM
- And I'm sure that bridge you're selling was given to you by a Conservative administration. (n/t) - Bowser - 1/23/2009 10:33:43 PM
- What's wrong with a 340,000% ROI? - Robert - 1/23/2009 8:04:04 PM
  - re: What's wrong - TB - 1/23/2009 8:26:14 PM

"I hope Obama fails" - RobVG - 1/22/2009 2:17:15 AM
- Of all the ways he *could* have phrased that... - Jody - 1/23/2009 6:03:16 PM
- Rush Limbaugh and Al Queda - the only people who seem to hate Obama right now - z - 1/22/2009 11:31:39 PM
- Rush is an Egotistical Pompous Ass. - REB - 1/22/2009 2:21:32 PM
  - Not the rock group. - REB - 1/22/2009 7:16:13 PM
    - And here I was wondering about the group "Egotistical Pompous Ass". - Mary Anne - 1/24/2009 3:10:16 AM
      - Oh they have their standards...the Egotistical Poompous Ass - Jody - 1/24/2009 11:03:11 AM
    - re: Not the rock group. - azstrummer - 1/22/2009 8:17:50 PM
      - re: Not the rock group. - REB - 1/22/2009 9:22:22 PM
- After eight long years of Bush-a-hatin', we're not all in the mood for Obama-fellatin' - The Silent Majority - 1/22/2009 8:38:39 AM
  - OK. You and your six friends can hope that the leader of a country in trouble fails. - Mary Anne - 1/22/2009 1:26:28 PM
    - Where I've always been. - Mary Anne - 1/22/2009 7:20:33 PM
      - re: Where I've always been. - TB - 1/22/2009 7:40:32 PM
        
        Wanting Bush to fail - azstrummer - 1/22/2009 8:32:19 PM
        
        Watching. All one had to do was watch until you couldn't see through the tears. (n/t) - Bowser - 1/23/2009 2:01:01 AM
        
        re: Wanting leftism to fail - TB - 1/22/2009 9:05:54 PM
        
        Failure is not an option. - RobVG - 1/23/2009 4:36:31 AM
    - Really. Where have you been for eight years? (n/t) - TB - 1/22/2009 5:23:05 PM
- Scooped by Bowser on Flame (What is the world coming to?) (n/t) - RobVG - 1/22/2009 3:10:11 AM
- Nice to see a clear-eyed conservative here. (n/t) - et - 1/22/2009 3:09:15 AM
- Depends on what his goals are...wouldn't you say? - Lee - 1/22/2009 2:43:29 AM
  - Id' say we might just need a "jump to the left" - RobVG - 1/22/2009 3:05:43 AM
    - Well, there you go then. - TB - 1/22/2009 4:26:48 AM
  - Moving towards the center, away from the past 8 years of the far right - Lindy - 1/22/2009 2:56:07 AM
    - Not all of us are overgrown children, Lindy. - Lee - 1/22/2009 4:34:12 AM

Sigh!..Another Columbine? - Jacob - 1/23/2009 6:17:21 PM
- 1927 - podrock - 1/23/2009 8:21:46 PM
  - Well...America doesn't have the monopoly on that kid of horror. - Jacob - 1/23/2009 11:18:29 PM
    - Cought - Raoul - 1/24/2009 7:51:08 AM

NSA was listening to everyone! - Eri - 1/23/2009 2:31:21 AM
- re: NSA was listening to everyone! - Eric - 1/23/2009 11:54:03 PM
  - And I'll one up you....... - Lindy - 1/24/2009 12:58:14 AM

I miss the grownups already - TB - 1/21/2009 8:11:52 AM
- PS Lots of grownup play on occasion. See the smile, it's not a smirk. (n/t) - Bowser - 1/21/2009 8:06:11 PM
- How 'bout the cowboys? - Bowser - 1/21/2009 8:02:13 PM
- Did the opiate junkie tell you to think that? - et - 1/21/2009 3:34:39 PM
  - It's like watching Wile E. Coyote - Robert - 1/21/2009 11:11:17 PM
  - Only one of these would have been done by a person over 12. (n/t) - TB - 1/21/2009 4:51:28 PM
    - re: Only one of these would have gotten someone kicked out of the library. - Mary Anne - 1/22/2009 1:53:29 PM
      - I didn't say "obscene." - TB - 1/22/2009 6:43:43 PM
        
        Yet, it is. - Mary Anne - 1/23/2009 7:17:39 PM
      - Good Point Mary Anne. (n/t) - Jody - 1/22/2009 2:54:12 PM
    - so you can use your hand to make a gesture,... - Doug Ellison - 1/21/2009 8:28:58 PM
    - I see. Apparently "Grown-ups" troll the internet all day with mindlessly partisan bullsh*t. (n/t) - et - 1/21/2009 5:28:47 PM
      - Well, you're here, aren't you? - TB - 1/21/2009 5:49:58 PM
        
        Wanna compare piles? - end transmission - 1/22/2009 2:58:51 AM
    - Wrong. - Eri - 1/21/2009 5:09:27 PM
  - Busted! (n/t) - Jody - 1/21/2009 4:27:40 PM
- Like the grownups who started all those stories about Clinton trashing the White House? - Tony - 1/21/2009 2:36:23 PM
  - Stories? - RobVG - 1/21/2009 3:51:31 PM
    - And - RobVG - 1/21/2009 3:54:51 PM
      - The initial stories were reminiscent of a Viking pillaging trip - Tony - 1/21/2009 7:18:01 PM
        
        I'd let you have the last word but... - RobVG - 1/22/2009 1:58:09 AM
      - It is a big deal. - Eri - 1/21/2009 5:15:11 PM
        
        Sex - RobVG - 1/22/2009 1:53:44 AM
        
        Nah, it didn't bother me. - Eri - 1/22/2009 2:20:36 AM
        
        He should have refused to answer, I would have respected that. (n/t) - RobVG - 1/22/2009 2:38:52 AM

Change is Here! - Lindy - 1/20/2009 5:33:56 PM
- No. Same old crap, different bunch of Good Old Boys. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/23/2009 2:40:24 PM
- Did you see Al Gore on TV? - Jacob - 1/20/2009 11:51:55 PM
- Of course... - Eri - 1/20/2009 7:17:30 PM
  - re: Of course... - Jacob - 1/20/2009 11:55:07 PM
    - re: Of course... - Delbert - 1/21/2009 3:46:23 AM
      - Correct. They covered that on the news. (n/t) - Eri - 1/21/2009 4:20:12 AM
- re: Change - TB - 1/20/2009 5:39:50 PM
  - re: Change - Doug Ellison - 1/21/2009 12:18:19 AM
    - post people? - FrankC - 1/21/2009 1:33:33 AM
      - He means transhumans from the future, obviously. (n/t) - The Silent Majority - 1/21/2009 3:51:56 AM
      - Internet version of pod people? - TB - 1/21/2009 2:18:49 AM
        
        I resemble that remark (n/t) - podrock - 1/21/2009 2:47:04 AM
      - M ost - nick hoffman - 1/21/2009 1:48:28 AM
        
        re: M ost - Doug Ellison - 1/21/2009 8:34:35 AM
        
        I only forgive typos when I agree with the post. :) (n/t) - FrankC - 1/21/2009 5:27:27 PM
  - re: Change - Lindy - 1/20/2009 6:01:23 PM
    - better hurry - FrankC - 1/20/2009 6:20:48 PM

Pew Poll on public priorities - TB - 1/23/2009 5:25:41 AM

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