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"Afghanistan criticises US attack." Alleges 70 civilians dead this time. - Bowser - 8/23/2008 9:19:31 PM
- "Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired two military commanders in the wake of a U.S. airstrike that killed 89 civilians" - Bowser - 8/24/2008 3:05:00 PM
- Horrific track record with US bombing - Eric - 8/23/2008 10:40:34 PM
  - Interesting link. Thanks. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/24/2008 2:40:05 PM

"A few speculators dominate vast oil market." - Bowser - 8/21/2008 7:03:09 AM
- baloney... - TAFKASE - 8/22/2008 2:01:45 AM
  - For someone actually to consume the oil, they have to buy it from someone in that market. - alcaray - 8/22/2008 2:26:24 AM
- How long can a nation survive consuming 1/4 of the world's daily oil production and only produce 13 percent of the world's total output? (n/t) - Jacob - 8/21/2008 8:00:15 PM
- I did, I did - Eri - 8/21/2008 7:04:19 PM
  - have you ever bought gas before you really needed to because you thought the price was about to go up? - TAFKASE - 8/22/2008 2:03:59 AM
    - Look up the Hunt brothers, for a fun read. - alcaray - 8/22/2008 7:18:55 PM
    - Too huge a stretch - Robert - 8/22/2008 4:34:03 PM
      - and furthermore II - Robert - 8/22/2008 7:53:51 PM
      - and furthermore - Robert - 8/22/2008 4:36:10 PM
        
        In the Randian Universe, - ER - 8/22/2008 5:21:52 PM
        
        In the Randian Universe, - Robert - 8/22/2008 8:03:18 PM
        
        You both seriously need to re-read Rand. - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/23/2008 12:30:24 AM
        
        anarchic individualism - Robert - 8/23/2008 6:12:57 PM
        
        Libertarians are anarchists with property. - ER - 8/23/2008 8:36:40 PM
        
        Here's the why's and wherefore's of our economy - Lindy - 8/23/2008 2:31:50 AM
        
        Excellent analysis - ER - 8/23/2008 1:47:28 PM
        
        re: Excellent analysis....."the altar of their greed. " - Lindy - 8/23/2008 2:57:32 PM
- re: "A few speculators dominate vast oil market." - ER - 8/21/2008 3:04:11 PM
  - Can you really vacuum profits endlessly? - Lindy - 8/21/2008 4:36:03 PM
    - Over-vacuumed? - ER - 8/21/2008 5:33:47 PM
      - ...... speculation eh? - Bluh - 8/22/2008 12:34:57 AM
        
        Hey bluh... - alcaray - 8/22/2008 1:00:11 AM
        
        re: Hey bluh... - Bluh - 8/22/2008 1:13:14 AM
        
        re: Hey bluh... - Bluh - 8/22/2008 1:15:52 AM
        
        That's a little unfriendly. - alcaray - 8/22/2008 1:21:07 AM
        
        pay attention eh? - ER - 8/22/2008 12:54:57 AM
        
        I suspect everyone and I suspect no one! (n/t) - Inspector Cluseau - 8/22/2008 12:54:25 AM
        
        Okay..I know everyone here has been waiting for my *speculation* on the oil market... - Jody - 8/22/2008 3:02:28 PM
        
        "And then you killed him in a rit of fealous jage." (n/t) - Inspecteur Clouseau - 8/22/2008 1:01:23 AM
        
        re: "Ahh... The old closet ploy, I do enjoy a good closet ploy." (n/t) - Inspecteur Clouseau - 8/22/2008 1:07:03 AM

Obama has made his choice - TAFKASE - 8/22/2008 2:22:48 AM
- Hillary was never even vetted for the VP spot - Buck Galaxy - 8/23/2008 3:01:58 AM
  - re: Hillary was never even vetted for the VP spot - Lindy - 8/23/2008 2:48:52 PM
  - She lost, she's over it. You're apparently not. - Tony - 8/23/2008 1:02:52 PM
  - Don't you think she burnt her bridge with that campaign? - alcaray - 8/23/2008 6:52:59 AM
  - Do you think Hillary as VP would have been anything other than a disasterous choice? - ARRELL - 8/23/2008 6:01:35 AM
  - She's a known quantity. Been "vetted" beyond human endurance. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/23/2008 4:13:28 AM
- Maybe Obama will make McCain his running mate. LOL. - Bluh - 8/23/2008 1:13:44 AM
- This must be the most anticipated text message in history! (n/t) - z - 8/22/2008 8:03:23 PM
- I don't think Powel would touch McCain with a 10 foot pole. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/22/2008 7:07:47 PM
  - He wouldn't. - Bowser - 8/22/2008 7:23:42 PM
    - Powell's wife won't let him run. - Eri - 8/23/2008 1:05:00 AM
      - I think that's an excuse, like people quitting "to spend more time with family". - Bowser - 8/23/2008 3:13:07 AM
- He hasn't announced it yet- He's Biden his time... - ARRELL - 8/22/2008 3:01:17 PM
  - It just came to me today. - Eri - 8/23/2008 1:08:02 AM
- Biden and Powell would be excellent choices imo - FrankC - 8/22/2008 2:31:09 AM

Drudge reporting Bayh. Says bumper stickers being printed. (n/t) - Bowse3r - 8/22/2008 10:31:21 PM
- Drudge does it again (n/t) - alcaray - 8/23/2008 6:35:05 AM
- Now Drudge saying Bayh, Kaine informed they are NOT it. - Bowser - 8/23/2008 1:09:22 AM
  - Breitbart, quoting AP, says it's Biden. - Bowser - 8/23/2008 5:18:31 AM

Got an 18-year-old you can't get to move out? - Eri - 8/23/2008 12:25:22 AM

cultural shallowing - JEKing - 8/13/2008 8:05:23 PM
- Intelligent design - Mary Anne - 8/18/2008 9:51:33 PM
  - A very perceptive (and reassuring!) essay. - semi-bicamERal dude - 8/22/2008 5:35:06 PM
  - unconscious minds - JEKing - 8/21/2008 9:21:45 PM
  - Well said!... - Blonde Bimbo - 8/18/2008 11:03:19 PM
- I have read the article, and I have to contemplate his skepticism...I will get back to you... (n/t) - Jody - 8/15/2008 12:32:17 PM
  - Upon reflection... - Jody - 8/15/2008 2:29:19 PM
    - daughter of Zeus, who holds the aegis - JEKing - 8/15/2008 5:42:46 PM
      - Compliments will get you anywhere...:) (n/t) - Jody - 8/16/2008 2:03:52 PM
- re: cultural shallowing - E.P. - 8/13/2008 10:00:04 PM
  - re: cultural shallowing - JEKing - 8/14/2008 8:48:01 PM
  - Interesting thoughts, thanks (n/t) - McFly - 8/14/2008 1:55:27 PM
- re: cultural stimulations - Raoul - 8/13/2008 9:20:26 PM

You go, girls! - ER - 8/21/2008 3:51:58 AM
- Trainor/Walsh - Lindy - 8/21/2008 4:31:58 PM

Police State: U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules - Eric - 8/17/2008 12:45:21 PM
- One wonders why. - Bowser - 8/17/2008 9:29:40 PM
  - NO Way, NYC is 2B a ID central - carl - 8/18/2008 7:04:19 PM
    - Well then don't come or go for 30 days... You'll drop off the grid. - TAFKASE - 8/21/2008 6:24:16 AM
- Secret GITMO built for DNC - Eric - 8/17/2008 1:10:35 PM
  - re: Secret GITMO built for DNC - Eri - 8/17/2008 7:22:02 PM
    - softening, not sotening. (n/t) - Eri - 8/17/2008 7:22:45 PM
  - Shameful - FrankC - 8/17/2008 5:53:59 PM

"Two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005" - alcaray - 8/13/2008 7:16:31 PM
- re: "Either way, the nearly 1,000 largest United States corporations were more likely than smaller ones to pay taxes. " - TAFKASE - 8/21/2008 6:14:59 AM
- re: "Two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005" - David Friedman - 8/21/2008 5:55:22 AM
- "In 2005, in 3 0f 4 large United States corporations paid no taxes on revenue of $1.1 trillion" - Lindy - 8/14/2008 3:10:09 AM
- Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain - Robert - 8/13/2008 9:06:21 PM

The Great Game - ER - 8/18/2008 2:45:18 PM
- re: The Great Game - Bowser - 8/18/2008 9:03:18 PM
  - "if the health-care folks were in charge..." - Nick Hoffman - 8/20/2008 12:58:40 AM
    - re: "if the health-care folks were in charge..." - Lindy - 8/20/2008 12:31:00 PM
  - Yes and no - ER - 8/19/2008 2:28:36 AM
    - US Civil War - Bowser - 8/19/2008 3:29:55 AM
  - Profit in conflict... - Adam Bomber - 8/19/2008 2:25:18 AM
    - Ask Haliburton and Blackwater how conflict might pay. - alcaray - 8/19/2008 3:30:51 AM
      - re: Ask Haliburton and Blackwater how conflict might pay. - ER - 8/19/2008 2:14:57 PM
        
        Good anlysis ER..... - Lindy - 8/20/2008 12:24:45 AM

Bumper Crop - ER - 8/19/2008 1:21:38 PM
- Some people just don't learn from their errors. (n/t) - Eri - 8/20/2008 3:34:46 AM
- Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.... - ARRELL - 8/20/2008 3:21:24 AM
- Groan....... - Lindy - 8/19/2008 10:04:18 PM
- Non-political one. - Bowser - 8/19/2008 3:53:15 PM

An opinion piece concerning the candidates' economic plans... - alcaray - 8/18/2008 9:46:13 PM
- Interesting. Thanks. - Bowser - 8/19/2008 5:55:40 AM
- Thank You Alcaray! (n/t) - Jody - 8/19/2008 12:37:46 AM

A puzzlement: "Bush warns Russia over disputed provinces." - Bowser - 8/16/2008 8:15:43 PM
- 2000 civilians slaughtered by Georgia: Russia demands war crimes trials - E.P. - 8/18/2008 3:15:36 PM
- re: A puzzlement: "Bush warns Russia over disputed provinces." - Lindy - 8/17/2008 1:58:54 PM
- I'm with you - McFly - 8/17/2008 5:00:28 AM
  - Russians don't exactly have a great rep with many Euros - FrankC - 8/17/2008 5:57:39 AM
    - The bind that ties... - Robert - 8/18/2008 9:33:10 PM
      - This has nothing to do with Iraq. - Lee - 8/19/2008 3:09:23 AM
    - You should care what the Russkies do in Georgia - Eri - 8/17/2008 4:13:08 PM
      - It very well may be for the Russkis - FrankC - 8/17/2008 5:28:32 PM
        
        re: Georgia does matter - Andrew - 8/17/2008 7:31:37 PM
        
        I said I am no expert, but... - FrankC - 8/17/2008 8:06:27 PM
        
        All of these increments have additive effects at the pump - Eri - 8/17/2008 7:27:38 PM
        
        Absolutely - FrankC - 8/17/2008 7:39:20 PM
        
        I think it's only true to an extent about OPEC. - Eri - 8/18/2008 3:43:14 AM
- Ummm, have you talked to any Russkies? - Eri - 8/16/2008 10:34:07 PM

"Obamanation" (a book review) - Robert - 8/15/2008 6:52:32 PM
- candidates and parties - JEKing - 8/15/2008 8:44:55 PM
  - I really like this... - ER - 8/16/2008 1:52:42 AM
    - political frustration - JEKing - 8/16/2008 4:22:11 AM
      - re: political frustration - Lee - 8/16/2008 4:02:39 PM
        
        re: political frustration - Lindy - 8/17/2008 4:17:38 AM
      - re: political frustration - ER - 8/16/2008 5:12:27 AM
        
        impermanence - JEKing - 8/16/2008 6:08:53 AM
        
        We'll become a lot more peacelike if we lose our air superiority. - ER - 8/16/2008 11:51:54 AM
        
        No more wars - Raoul - 8/16/2008 7:34:17 AM
        
        Ask the Japanese. - Lee - 8/16/2008 3:40:46 PM
        
        frustration addendum - ER - 8/16/2008 5:30:45 AM
        
        "It just occurred to me ..........." - Lindy - 8/16/2008 4:27:49 PM
        
        re: "It just occurred to me ..........." - ER - 8/16/2008 5:42:29 PM
        
        "History rolls along with no one in charge" - Lindy - 8/17/2008 4:13:04 AM
        
        I agree with you Lindy...100% (n/t) - Jody - 8/16/2008 5:06:11 PM
- "Fairness" - Bowser - 8/15/2008 8:33:04 PM
  - Here's hopin' - Eri - 8/16/2008 12:34:47 AM

Bush just isn't going to be happy - Eri - 8/16/2008 2:27:37 PM
- Russia's transgression into Georgia - Eri - 8/16/2008 5:39:55 PM
  - re: Russia's transgression into Georgia - Eri - 8/16/2008 6:20:51 PM
    - And in light of all this, who would you rather see in charge in the US? - Eri - 8/16/2008 6:54:05 PM

Update on Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle. - Lee - 8/15/2008 4:12:14 AM
- There have been plans to provide them with equipment for years. - alcaray - 8/15/2008 6:25:37 PM
- re: Update on Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle. - JEKing - 8/15/2008 5:22:38 PM
  - Get Iraqi dinars while you still can. - Lee - 8/15/2008 5:36:04 PM

Further thoughts on the Russo-Georgian conflict, and the blindness of US conservatives - z - 8/12/2008 8:36:37 PM
- Patrick Buchanan's thoughts - Blowback from Bear Baiting - z - 8/15/2008 5:24:43 AM
- Stratfor's analysis - alcaray - 8/15/2008 1:20:12 AM
  - I'd disagree with only one line - McFly - 8/15/2008 5:40:44 PM
  - "The more vocal senior leaders are, the greater the contrast with their inaction..." - ER - 8/15/2008 12:54:06 PM
  - Some very good points in the Stratfor article - z - 8/15/2008 4:56:55 AM
  - Fascinating article. Thanks. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/15/2008 3:45:37 AM
- Like the blindness of liberals liike YOURSELF back in September, 1938? - Jacob - 8/14/2008 7:25:10 PM
  - Ridiculous comparisons to 1939 Nazi Germany are neither helpful nor a sound basis for effective diplomacy - z - 8/14/2008 8:47:36 PM
    - it boils down to raw power politics - JEKing - 8/14/2008 9:42:43 PM
      - The Russian forces are a joke. - Lee - 8/15/2008 12:51:47 AM
- re: Further thoughts on the Russo-Georgian conflict, and the blindness of US conservatives - JEKing - 8/14/2008 12:15:50 AM
  - re: Further thoughts on the Russo-Georgian conflict, and the blindness of US conservatives - Andrew - 8/14/2008 3:28:44 PM
    - the Caspian's 35 billion barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of gas - JEKing - 8/15/2008 3:54:46 AM
    - re: Further thoughts on the Russo-Georgian conflict, and the blindness of US conservatives - JEKing - 8/14/2008 7:52:41 PM
    - US support for Georgia rebels another brilliant foreign policy move? - Lindy - 8/14/2008 4:42:19 PM
      - US military will stay in Georgia permanently - Eric - 8/15/2008 10:20:52 AM
- Frankly I don't see a lot of difference in the response of Obama and Bush/McCain - FrankC - 8/13/2008 5:42:14 AM
  - There seems to be a lot more chest thumping and pointless vilification of Russia coming from the right - z - 8/13/2008 12:26:02 PM
    - So much for being "Soft". - Lee - 8/13/2008 3:53:41 PM
      - Looks like a false alarm - z - 8/13/2008 4:40:05 PM
        
        re: Looks like a false alarm - Lee - 8/13/2008 4:55:39 PM
- re: Further thoughts on the Russo-Georgian conflict, and the blindness of US conservatives - ER - 8/12/2008 10:30:28 PM
  - re: Further thoughts on the Russo-Georgian conflict, and the blindness of US conservatives - gbaikie - 8/13/2008 1:50:59 AM

"Mother Lode" of Gorillas found in Congo Forests!! - Jody - 8/10/2008 5:40:20 PM
- Call it a MAGILLA GORILLA find - carl - 8/14/2008 4:35:45 PM
- And how long will they survive the poachers, the loggers and the onslaught of civilization? - Eri - 8/10/2008 9:22:42 PM
  - Primate legal rights - Robert - 8/11/2008 4:33:26 PM
    - simian cousins - FrankC - 8/11/2008 10:45:37 PM
      - awareness of mortality - Robert - 8/13/2008 7:42:43 PM
        
        re: awareness of mortality - FrankC - 8/14/2008 12:02:29 AM
    - I totally agree. - Eri - 8/11/2008 8:11:00 PM
      - Me three...they *get* us...we don't *get* them...so WHO is the intelligent ones? (n/t) - Jody - 8/11/2008 9:24:47 PM
  - Hope Springs Eternal.... - Jody - 8/11/2008 11:29:40 AM
    - We should all set up carbon balancing accounts - FrankC - 8/12/2008 6:51:58 PM
      - Oops the link - FrankC - 8/12/2008 6:56:10 PM

NYC to Install MASSIVE CAM/Security System, checkpoints - carl - 8/13/2008 1:52:50 PM

Obama will announce VP choice via e-mail/tm to supporters - z - 8/11/2008 5:38:31 PM
- note to Democratic cheering section: don't abandon all cynicism - JEKing - 8/13/2008 1:53:19 AM
  - Indeed - Jody - 8/13/2008 1:12:00 PM
- McCrab upgraded to telegraph. (n/t) - Eri - 8/11/2008 8:06:42 PM
  - Nope...smoke signals :) (n/t) - Jody - 8/11/2008 9:23:29 PM
- Coincidentally - Robert - 8/11/2008 5:51:32 PM
  - Oy vey, I can see I'm going to have to sign up, too! (n/t) - Eri - 8/11/2008 8:07:42 PM
    - Join the DNC spam database, no thanks. I'll wait for one of you to post it. (n/t) - SDG - 8/12/2008 2:23:23 PM

Osama's chauffeur get's a 5 1/2 year sentence. - Jacob - 8/8/2008 6:39:15 PM
- Will HE still Keep His LICENSE? - carl - 8/12/2008 8:12:00 PM

Bruce Springsteen 2 perform at next SUPER BOWL - carl - 8/12/2008 8:10:58 PM

"Paper: Secret deal kept U.K. troops out of Basra." - Bowser - 8/6/2008 10:40:13 PM
- Too bad the British military wasn't as pathetic in 1940 as they are today. - Lee - 8/7/2008 12:38:34 AM
  - re: Too bad the British military wasn't as pathetic in 1940 as they are today. - annie - 8/9/2008 11:02:31 PM
    - British military personnel seem to really have a wonderful time when visiting the Iranians. - Lee - 8/10/2008 5:31:15 PM
      - re: British military personnel seem to really have a wonderful time when visiting the Iranians. - Andrew - 8/12/2008 12:52:58 AM
  - You know, over 110 British soldiers have died in Afghanistan - z - 8/8/2008 5:26:28 PM
  - Dunkirk ring a bell? - Tony - 8/8/2008 3:25:40 PM
    - The British are good, but Dunkirk wasn't exactly a victory. - Bowser - 8/9/2008 3:42:03 AM
    - Considering how the victors have made a mess of things. - Lee - 8/8/2008 4:26:22 PM
      - "A German dominated Europe couldn't be worse" - McFly - 8/10/2008 5:15:29 AM
        
        re: "A German dominated Europe couldn't be worse" - Lee - 8/10/2008 5:53:55 PM
        
        odd... - McFly - 8/11/2008 5:58:06 PM
        
        Maybe not defending them. - Lee - 8/12/2008 1:04:16 AM
        
        We need a fantasy board too, apparantly. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/10/2008 9:17:59 PM
        
        German yes, Nazi no. - nick hoffman - 8/10/2008 10:29:22 AM
      - Better slow suicide (with no evidence to back it up) than quick genocide (n/t) - Tony - 8/8/2008 4:37:06 PM

"Bush to relax protected species rules. Plan takes scientists out of decision making on species status." - Bowser - 8/11/2008 11:07:24 PM
- re: "Bush to relax protected species rules. Plan takes scientists out of decision making on species status." - Eri - 8/11/2008 11:11:48 PM

It appears that the Georgians have badly miscalculated in their move to retake South Ossetia - z - 8/9/2008 12:58:07 PM
- It's probably a good thing the US military is over-extended in the Middle East. - Bowser - 8/9/2008 4:41:09 PM
  - There are 1000 American military men, with weapons, in Georgia. - Jacob - 8/11/2008 1:54:11 PM
    - I believe that's past tense, and they left a couple of weeks ago. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/11/2008 8:53:11 PM
  - There's nothing the US and the West will do to help Georgia in this war - z - 8/11/2008 2:50:49 AM
    - It's interesting to see Cheney and Bush lecturing Russia. - Bowser - 8/11/2008 4:18:40 AM

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