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More fun with Palin - alcaray - 9/18/2008 10:11:19 PM
- The Federal budget's been online for years - Robert - 9/18/2008 11:07:15 PM

Kristof on Lehman Bros - want to make $17000 an hour? - Laurie Street - 9/18/2008 5:32:32 PM
- I bet you think Fuld's a Republican, don't you? (n/t) - TB - 9/18/2008 6:01:19 PM
  - Don't know, don't care. He's a crook. (n/t) - Laurie Street - 9/18/2008 8:37:13 PM
    - The question is a tacit admission that white collar crime is largely Republican. - Bowser - 9/18/2008 8:49:21 PM

D.C. attempts a hostile takeover of Alaska - alcaray - 9/18/2008 8:17:10 PM

"Librarians Against Palin" (based on her attempts to ban/remove books in the Wasilla Public library) - Vince - 9/18/2008 6:22:25 PM
- Everyone should read The Handmaid's Tale - Socrates II - 9/18/2008 7:32:15 PM

Russia's take on Palin - Eric - 9/14/2008 11:35:44 AM
- re: Russia's take on Palin reprise - Publius - 9/16/2008 4:06:29 PM
  - Intersting graphics accompanying original link, also killer shrimps!! - Andrew - 9/18/2008 3:54:13 PM
  - The male bimbo - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/16/2008 9:11:49 PM
    - re: The male bimbo - Publius - 9/17/2008 6:26:41 PM
      - The male bimbo - ER - 9/17/2008 8:10:46 PM
    - "It [America] needs a crash course in Capitalism 101..." - ER - 9/17/2008 12:57:18 AM
      - No. It isn't. - TB - 9/17/2008 1:21:43 AM
        
        That's the whole point, TB. - ER - 9/17/2008 2:14:14 AM
        
        Oh for crying out loud. - Andrew - 9/18/2008 6:48:24 PM
        
        "This is a fully developed corporate welfare state in its final stages".... - Lindy - 9/17/2008 4:42:31 PM
        
        You know what my solutions are. What are yours? (n/t) - TB - 9/17/2008 4:45:22 AM
        
        To oppose politicians who's platform is providing a friendly environment for corporate parasites. (n/t) - ER - 9/17/2008 10:19:25 AM
        
        Do some research. - TB - 9/17/2008 6:13:00 PM
        
        Research this, graph boy. - ER - 9/17/2008 7:49:14 PM
        
        re: Research this - TB - 9/17/2008 8:19:01 PM
        
        I'm seriously considering sitting this one out, for anatomical reasons. - ER - 9/17/2008 8:32:13 PM
        
        That's the first step. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/17/2008 8:55:04 PM
        
        Beat me to it. - TB - 9/17/2008 11:13:13 PM
        
        Setting that ball in motion... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/18/2008 9:34:15 AM
        
        You guys are a hoot. - ER - 9/18/2008 12:02:23 AM
        
        So... - Lee - 9/17/2008 5:05:02 PM
        
        1) Restore all reserve limits that were removed. - alcaray - 9/17/2008 7:24:43 AM
- One Person's Take on Palin as Published in Russia. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/15/2008 3:14:24 PM
- Even Russia is scared of her (n/t) - gbaikie - 9/15/2008 3:13:41 PM
- Wow. - TAFKASE - 9/15/2008 12:07:00 AM
- The self-poison of hate. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2008 11:36:22 PM
  - re: The self-poison of hate. - Marsby - 9/15/2008 12:44:24 AM
    - That wasn't my point. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/16/2008 2:57:33 AM
- a bit of info on T. Bancroft-Hinchey - JEKing - 9/14/2008 9:47:43 PM
- I disagree - Eri - 9/14/2008 4:26:06 PM
- What a broadside! Grape on top of round-shot. (n/t) - ER - 9/14/2008 3:24:24 PM
  - Should be memorailized in the Hall of Flame - Fox - 9/14/2008 4:21:07 PM
    - A masterpiece of Flame, no matter how you feel about the Dame. (n/t) - ER - 9/14/2008 5:02:25 PM
      - I hate to be applauding the Russkies or Pravda, but.... (n/t) - Eri - 9/14/2008 8:55:20 PM

Hurricane Ike Damage Video - REB - 9/18/2008 5:39:02 PM

And the US continues headlong into socialism. For major corporations. - Bowser - 9/17/2008 1:37:58 AM
- re: Squwackkkk!!! - TAFKASE - 9/17/2008 4:09:53 AM
  - re: Squwackkkk!!! - Lindy - 9/17/2008 12:37:53 PM
- The great contradiction of Republican financial policy - z - 9/17/2008 4:00:34 AM
  - "privatize the gains, socialize the losses" - ER - 9/17/2008 10:40:25 AM
    - An economic variant of Maxwell's Demon. (n/t) - ER - 9/17/2008 10:44:52 AM
  - re: Deregulation was led by Jim Leach R-Iowa - TAFKASE - 9/17/2008 4:12:12 AM
    - And Gramm was a McCain supporter and economic adviser. - ER - 9/18/2008 1:07:56 PM
    - No one put a gun to their heads... - ER - 9/18/2008 10:37:10 AM
      - "The right?" You're serious, aren't you? - TB - 9/18/2008 5:26:40 PM

Wet mop cleanup on aisle three! - Peter Bruener - 9/18/2008 9:36:39 AM
- An American military tradition. - Bowser - 9/18/2008 3:26:40 PM

VATICAN: Prepare for ETs, Our Brothers. - Eric - 9/15/2008 11:55:26 PM
- Anyone see the ABC Special on UFO's last night? - Lindy - 9/17/2008 12:01:00 PM
- What religions do ET's HAVE? - carl - 9/16/2008 6:47:43 PM
  - re: What religions do ET's HAVE? - ER - 9/16/2008 7:25:35 PM
- When in Rome... - ER - 9/16/2008 12:26:42 AM
  - Maybe We were SEEDED Here - carl - 9/16/2008 6:52:52 PM
    - It wasn't too long ago that the idea of birds descending from dinosaurs was preposterous. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/16/2008 9:59:32 PM
    - Turtles all the way down. - ER - 9/16/2008 7:12:52 PM
      - I suspect the "seeding" was with one of two things. - Bowser - 9/16/2008 10:54:41 PM
        
        We could genetically modify humans to live in all sorts of environments - Socrates II - 9/18/2008 3:08:40 PM
  - This article just shows - Socrates II - 9/16/2008 1:38:48 PM
    - "...pretend they don't exist or don't matter." - McFly - 9/18/2008 10:55:43 AM
      - There may be more ETI like us than not, at least in terms of behavior - Socrates II - 9/18/2008 3:19:06 PM

$482 billion deficit, bailouts and the consequences of printing money. - Bowser - 9/18/2008 2:53:07 PM

Hmmm...looks like Obama has regained the lead in the race - z - 9/18/2008 12:43:48 PM
- p.s. Obama workers in Washington DC - z - 9/18/2008 1:28:45 PM

Fed Chairman: We have lost control - Eric - 9/18/2008 12:30:07 AM
- Tonto responds: - ER - 9/18/2008 12:17:42 PM

GM ,at 100 years old, gambles on the Volt - JEKing - 9/16/2008 8:29:31 PM
- What's the point of a hybrid. - RobVG - 9/17/2008 1:13:15 AM
  - Well, you can buy one, for one thing. - Laurie Street - 9/18/2008 3:51:32 AM
  - I agree - Bluh - 9/18/2008 3:19:05 AM
- about the batteries - JEKing - 9/16/2008 10:53:37 PM
  - RE_Volting.DID they try this about 10 Years ago? - carl - 9/17/2008 3:33:47 PM
    - hybrid battery - JEKing - 9/17/2008 4:41:32 PM
- Cogeneration? - Bluh - 9/16/2008 10:01:42 PM
- I'd sure think about buying one. - TB - 9/16/2008 9:18:33 PM
  - So would I, except... - Fox - 9/16/2008 11:35:54 PM
    - Parking (Electric) meters - Nick Hoffman - 9/17/2008 3:58:12 AM
      - "Don't follow leaders... - ER - 9/18/2008 12:42:02 AM

How can they just do that?? - Laurie Street - 9/17/2008 5:11:02 AM
- Taking a lesson from Bush's play book. - Eri - 9/18/2008 3:34:40 AM
- Sadly, it's just a continuation of what Conservatives have been doing for 8 years. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/17/2008 5:40:56 AM
  - It used to be just presidents and their aides. - ER - 9/17/2008 10:36:46 AM
    - Just the Republican presidents and their aides. - Lindy - 9/17/2008 12:24:41 PM

McCain on the economy. - alcaray - 9/18/2008 2:57:02 AM

Hillary puts politics before national interests. - Lee - 9/17/2008 5:40:51 PM
- So Hillary should go - Buck Galaxy - 9/17/2008 10:01:31 PM
  - Well it was in her home state. - Lee - 9/18/2008 12:00:35 AM
    - "like McCain and Obama ...on 9/11" - Buck Galaxy - 9/18/2008 12:56:22 AM
      - Well that's true. - Lee - 9/18/2008 2:13:40 AM

Senators call out FBI Director Robert Mueller - Eric - 9/17/2008 11:40:33 PM

Size matters. - Bowser - 9/17/2008 10:41:27 PM

CNN: Pakistan military orders troops to repel unauthorized US incursions - McFly - 9/16/2008 5:39:13 PM
- I believe that quite often there is a back-channel deal. - Bowser - 9/16/2008 6:54:03 PM
  - Yes, you're right! There is a previous precedent. - Jacob - 9/17/2008 8:04:24 PM
  - You can't keep a deal in the back-channel, if you have to let your army in on it. - alcaray - 9/16/2008 9:25:38 PM
    - There's a way around that. - Bowser - 9/16/2008 9:58:14 PM
- re: Unauthorized US incursions - SteveS - 9/16/2008 6:06:27 PM
  - I'm sure he knows - McFly - 9/17/2008 2:48:07 AM
    - re: Well, he ought to, I quoted him - SteveS - 9/17/2008 1:28:28 PM
      - Oh gee-willakers... - McFly - 9/17/2008 5:51:53 PM
  - Obama is right, and he's focused on the real problem - z - 9/16/2008 10:48:06 PM
    - re: America's image - SteveS - 9/17/2008 1:21:38 PM

John McCain MUST release his medical records - Lindy - 9/17/2008 2:33:51 AM
- re: medical records - TB - 9/17/2008 5:31:51 AM
  - I was all ready to say thanks for the info... - alcaray - 9/17/2008 7:20:49 AM
    - re: info... - TB - 9/17/2008 6:02:05 PM
    - An oft-oerlooked technique in "information management"... - ER - 9/17/2008 12:33:33 PM
    - re: I was all ready to say thanks for the info... - Lindy - 9/17/2008 11:59:36 AM
      - "Rolls over easily?" - Bulldog FanciER - 9/17/2008 1:54:21 PM

Bush doctrine - gbaikie - 9/13/2008 2:20:56 AM
- Totally clueless - Robert - 9/15/2008 2:29:20 AM
  - re: Totally clueless - gbaikie - 9/15/2008 3:45:27 AM
    - Totally clueless II - Robert - 9/15/2008 4:39:05 PM
      - re: Totally clueless II - gbaikie - 9/15/2008 8:18:05 PM
        
        Give it up - Robert - 9/16/2008 1:09:10 AM
        
        re: Give it up - gbaikie - 9/16/2008 5:10:36 AM
        
        Heh. - TB - 9/16/2008 4:14:06 AM
        
        Did you have a point? - Robert - 9/16/2008 8:08:06 PM
        
        See answer to alcaray, below. (n/t) - TB - 9/16/2008 9:21:54 PM
        
        No, seriously - Robert - 9/16/2008 10:50:13 PM
        
        Yes. I do. - TB - 9/17/2008 12:11:16 AM
        
        re: Yes. I do. - Robert - 9/17/2008 3:27:34 AM
        
        Reading off the cards. - TB - 9/17/2008 4:44:14 AM
        
        Casual, informationless slander. Kind of like Tech's riff on librarians. - alcaray - 9/16/2008 5:16:59 AM
        
        Okay, just one try... - TB - 9/16/2008 5:30:47 AM
        
        If we counted them up... - alcaray - 9/16/2008 6:11:00 AM
        
        If she can put liberals into such a frothy rage as the past few weeks, she has to be a good person. (n/t) - Lee - 9/16/2008 11:55:16 PM
        
        We love Palin! - alcaray - 9/17/2008 12:43:58 AM
        
        She's just regular folks. - Lee - 9/17/2008 3:15:34 AM
        
        Doesn't cut it - Lindy - 9/15/2008 10:16:05 PM
        
        Remember when you guys kept telling us "everything's changed" after 9/11? - alcaray - 9/15/2008 9:34:17 PM
  - You shouldn't be so harsh, Robert. - ER - 9/15/2008 2:58:48 AM
- re: Bush doctrine - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2008 12:13:44 AM
  - Bush Doctrine: Leftist speak by gloabalists for globalists, leftist speak, bush hating anti-americanism... And term used by Dick Cheney . - Yeti - 9/15/2008 8:19:35 PM
    - And also used by that boil of liberalism on the hide of glorious conservative thought, the American Enterprise Institute - Yeti - 9/15/2008 9:26:30 PM
    - Here, I still have it in my bookmarks: www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf - Yeti - 9/15/2008 9:04:09 PM
  - You are free to find another name for it, I suppose. - alcaray - 9/15/2008 8:57:56 AM
- I thought the Bush Doctrine was to make the oil company executives rich... - Ima Liberal - 9/15/2008 12:12:02 AM
- Typical Krauthammering nitpick CYA maneuver. - ER - 9/14/2008 2:07:27 PM
  - An Obviously Ambiguous Ambush - Marsby - 9/15/2008 1:25:53 AM
    - re: An Obviously Ambiguous Ambush - ER - 9/15/2008 1:34:37 AM
  - re: Typical Krauthammering nitpick CYA maneuver. - gbaikie - 9/14/2008 4:20:50 PM
    - Yeah, "ALL nations of the world are "ready" for democracy" - Lindy - 9/16/2008 12:17:13 AM
  - re: But Palin got it right - SteveS - 9/14/2008 2:43:19 PM
    - I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. - ER - 9/14/2008 3:36:25 PM
- Odd that I, and most other observers, knew exactly what he was referring to.... - ARRELL - 9/13/2008 10:16:59 PM
  - re: Odd that I, and most other observers, knew exactly what he was referring to.... - gbaikie - 9/14/2008 3:16:09 AM
    - Thanks - McFly - 9/14/2008 12:14:41 PM
      - re: I,m amazed at how wrong you guys are - SteveS - 9/14/2008 2:47:34 PM
        
        Careful Steve, you're going to get dizzy spinning like that - McFly - 9/14/2008 6:40:36 PM
        
        re: Funny - SteveS - 9/16/2008 4:07:15 PM
  - She didn't know any of them. It should have been a smorgasbord. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 10:27:17 PM
    - ??? (n/t) - ? - 9/13/2008 11:07:16 PM
- If you read Krauthammer regularly, you probably do believe Bush is a liberal. (n/t) - ER - 9/13/2008 11:27:13 AM
- "I've said Bush's foreign policy is liberal rather than conservative." So much for you. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/13/2008 2:25:36 AM

One thing that's not needed is an economic probe. - Bowser - 9/17/2008 12:25:30 AM

"U.S: Al-Qaida unpopular and 'imploding'." - Bowser - 9/16/2008 5:57:23 PM
- This, in spite of all our efforts to keep them popular. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/17/2008 12:18:34 AM
- Doesn't seem to be aware of rising Al Queda/Taliban attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan - z - 9/16/2008 10:02:28 PM

Would LUV to have the Mental health concession in NYC - carl - 9/16/2008 6:50:06 PM

List of Books Sarah Palin wanted Banned from the Wasilla Library - Lindy - 9/13/2008 4:10:57 AM
- The real farce. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2008 3:59:16 AM
  - re: The real farce. - Mary Anne - 9/16/2008 3:39:08 AM
    - See MA... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/16/2008 7:39:32 AM
  - Could you supply me with the basis for your assertion... - alcaray - 9/15/2008 7:26:24 PM
    - You have it in a nutshell. - Mary Anne - 9/16/2008 1:44:57 AM
      - re: You have it in a nutshell. - TB - 9/16/2008 3:54:14 AM
      - Thanks! (n/t) - alcaray - 9/16/2008 2:12:10 AM
    - Well... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2008 11:05:27 PM
  - So what you're really saying is... - ER - 9/15/2008 1:17:10 PM
    - ...people are human. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2008 10:59:45 PM
      - Yes, but most of us aren't like you. - alcaray - 9/16/2008 1:31:47 AM
- Sorry, no. - Mary Anne - 9/13/2008 4:29:03 PM
  - Now That's The Mary Anne I Voted For - Marsby - 9/14/2008 2:44:46 AM
    - re: Now That's The Mary Anne I've seemed to know. - Marcia - 9/14/2008 3:20:04 AM
      - re: Now That's The Mary Anne I've seemed to know. - Marsby - 9/14/2008 3:54:41 AM
        
        Thank you for your kind words, but accuracy is accuracy. - Mary Anne - 9/14/2008 4:12:33 AM
        
        re: Thank you for your kind words, but accuracy is accuracy. - Marcia - 9/14/2008 4:47:06 AM
- debunked - Buck Galaxy - 9/13/2008 5:47:11 AM
  - Hadn't been published yet... - McFly - 9/13/2008 1:54:40 PM
    - re: Hadn't been published yet... - Marcia - 9/14/2008 3:22:39 AM
- Yeah right. - RobVG - 9/13/2008 4:18:50 AM
  - Looks like the ALA's all-time hit list to me - Fox - 9/13/2008 12:37:54 PM
    - *heh* Take your pick... - Mary Anne - 9/14/2008 3:31:25 AM

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