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The "ringing phone" ad - TB - 3/1/2008 7:12:42 PM
- I haven't seen the Ad. Is Mrs. Clinton attacking Obama's stand on Net neutrality? - Ima Liberal - 3/3/2008 3:27:31 PM
- Fear sells - Lindy - 3/1/2008 9:32:14 PM
- re: The "ringing phone" ad - TB - 3/1/2008 7:22:37 PM
  - Right you are - Fox - 3/2/2008 3:10:21 PM
    - the Ironic thing about the daisy girl ad: LBJ was a few cards short of a full deck himself. - Ima Liberal - 3/3/2008 3:31:22 PM
    - "Daisy girl" ad - TB - 3/2/2008 4:25:06 PM
      - In '64, I was a Republican, too - Fox - 3/3/2008 1:15:39 AM
  - Hillary's Plan to Save the World - Lindy - 3/1/2008 9:33:52 PM

Alienating our allies - TB - 2/29/2008 7:23:40 PM
- Where do you get "trade war" from that? (n/t) - alcaray - 3/1/2008 2:38:26 AM
- Don't worry. I fully expect McCain to be the next president. - Yeti - 2/29/2008 7:27:08 PM
  - You're just fooling yourself - Eri - 3/1/2008 5:29:34 AM
    - I wish. - Yeti - 3/1/2008 6:37:20 AM
      - I'm not sure you understand the depth of hatred for Bush - Eri - 3/1/2008 9:21:59 PM
  - Unfortunately, or fortunately, you're right. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/1/2008 12:41:20 AM
    - I disagree - McFly - 3/1/2008 3:39:07 AM
      - The Truth about Obama. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/1/2008 10:51:58 PM
        
        re: The Truth about Obama. - McFly - 3/2/2008 12:18:31 AM
        
        Hmmm. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/2/2008 1:21:06 AM
        
        Nonsense, Tech - McFly - 3/2/2008 3:18:13 AM
        
        So... - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/2/2008 1:50:36 PM
        
        It is something all the Illinois congressmen do. - alcaray - 3/3/2008 7:39:32 AM
        
        I'm nonplussed. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/3/2008 3:27:49 PM
        
        "I'm considering abstaining from voting for President this time around." - McFly - 3/2/2008 9:50:31 PM

The stock market doesn't seem to be rational. - Bowser - 2/27/2008 5:24:40 PM
- Still Bullish - podrock - 2/28/2008 4:31:46 AM
- The market loves rate cuts. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/27/2008 5:54:19 PM
  - At some point, they better quit. - TB - 2/28/2008 4:26:34 AM
    - re: Not yet. - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 2:38:49 PM
    - You have a strange love-hate relationship with capitalism. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/28/2008 6:13:04 AM
      - Not really. I just know how it's supposed to work. (n/t) - TB - 2/28/2008 7:30:10 AM
        
        People with stashes of $100 dollar bills will be the real losers. - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 2:51:31 PM
        
        You imagine that inflation will shoot up? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/28/2008 8:10:39 PM
        
        Once capital was invented there have been booms and busts. - alcaray - 2/28/2008 10:44:26 AM
        
        re: Once capital was invented there have been booms and busts. - gbaikie - 2/28/2008 11:09:40 AM
        
        Pretty much when coinage was invented. - alcaray - 2/28/2008 8:08:53 PM
        
        re: Pretty much when coinage was invented. - gbaikie - 2/29/2008 1:24:55 AM
        
        Why is it that you guys always confuse economics with politics? - alcaray - 2/29/2008 3:16:54 AM
        
        Because politics and economics are entertwined in a double-helix - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 4:41:54 PM
        
        No. They are quite separate. - alcaray - 2/29/2008 7:49:37 PM
        
        Different subjects: You mean like science and religon? - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 11:05:01 PM
        
        Get serious. - TB - 2/29/2008 8:17:17 PM
        
        It is possible to discuss biology without talking about electron shells. - alcaray - 3/1/2008 2:24:28 AM
        
        At a 1st grade level maybe. - Lee - 3/2/2008 8:07:55 AM
        
        What is with the 4 of you? - alcaray - 3/2/2008 11:53:31 PM
        
        Then stop with the unintelligent comments. - Lee - 3/3/2008 1:46:27 AM
        
        re: barter - TB - 3/1/2008 10:38:16 PM
        
        see what I mean? (n/t) - alcaray - 3/2/2008 1:57:53 AM
        
        I can't think of a single economic activity that does not involve the govenment in some way... - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 11:08:23 PM
        
        About the time someone invented fire. - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 2:43:27 PM
        
        Actually, more like the invention of agriculture. - TB - 2/28/2008 8:47:51 PM
        
        You must be biased against intangible assets! - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 10:31:06 PM
        
        Go back and re-read "Ascent of Man." - TB - 2/28/2008 10:54:32 PM
        
        Not only human behavior. It is the way evolution works as well. - alcaray - 2/29/2008 3:57:56 AM
        
        I burnt my copy. - TAFAKSE - 2/28/2008 11:01:11 PM
  - Avoiding a hangover by staying drunk. - Bowser - 2/27/2008 9:56:53 PM
    - Certainly not. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/28/2008 3:34:58 AM
    - Yes, Bernanke's No Greenspan or even Volker. (n/t) - marsby - 2/28/2008 2:06:26 AM
- You just noticed that? - TB - 2/27/2008 5:27:52 PM
  - re: You just noticed that? - Hans - 2/28/2008 12:13:30 AM

Red carpet for Ahmadinejad in Iraq - Raoul - 3/2/2008 8:59:33 AM
- Has the Bush administration made any comment about this? - alcaray - 3/3/2008 12:12:39 AM

"He Who Must Not Be Middle-Named" - TB - 3/2/2008 5:55:50 AM
- Where there's a will, there's a way. Conservative linking. - Bowser - 3/2/2008 3:54:26 PM
- Had Obama been running for Prez in the 1980s - Socrates II - 3/2/2008 12:47:10 PM
  - How sad that we see Obama's middle name in terms of current events. - Mary Anne - 3/2/2008 3:30:15 PM
    - The point--and there was one-- - TB - 3/2/2008 4:23:47 PM
      - Yes, I know. It's still stupid. - Mary Anne - 3/2/2008 4:43:15 PM
        
        It's not stupid at all. - ER - 3/2/2008 5:01:17 PM
        
        Yes, I admit it: sloppy usage. - Mary Anne - 3/2/2008 5:30:54 PM
        
        re: sloppy usage. - TB - 3/2/2008 11:29:50 PM

Looks like Las Vegas has 'dodged a bullet'. - Jacob - 3/1/2008 7:17:35 PM
- context? (n/t) - alcaray - 3/1/2008 7:59:19 PM
  - The evidence seems to point to an guy who was planning large-scale terror and death. - Jacob - 3/2/2008 2:49:09 AM
    - The 'evidence' is being kept quite quiet right now.... - ARRELL - 3/2/2008 9:31:44 PM
  - Deadly Ricin Found in Las Vegas Hotel - Lindy - 3/1/2008 9:30:57 PM
    - re: Deadly Ricin Found in Las Vegas Hotel - alcaray - 3/2/2008 1:47:26 AM
      - re: Deadly Ricin Found in Las Vegas Hotel - Jacob - 3/2/2008 2:41:07 AM

Prince Harry's been on the front lines in Afghanistan for some time. - Eri - 3/1/2008 5:36:16 AM
- Prince Harry killed up to 30 people - Eric - 3/1/2008 5:48:15 AM
  - Go Harry! - TB - 3/1/2008 3:55:33 PM
    - And Tillman, Lynch, etc. - Bowser - 3/2/2008 1:28:15 AM
    - If George Bush had sons.Would they be allowed to fight like Prince Harry? - Jacob - 3/1/2008 6:16:14 PM
      - McCain already had a son in Iraq. - TB - 3/1/2008 10:04:50 PM
        
        I was aware of it. - ER - 3/1/2008 11:54:22 PM
        
        No argument but besides that... - Eri - 3/2/2008 5:58:16 AM
        
        Maybe it wasn't just a case of corporate greed. - ER - 3/2/2008 3:05:46 PM
        
        Good thinking (n/t) - TB - 3/2/2008 4:26:18 PM
        
        I knew a forward fire controller in the Navy. It's tough work. - ER - 3/2/2008 8:30:16 PM
    - I'm sure there are a few, but they all involve execution, (n/t) - ER - 3/1/2008 4:22:24 PM
      - [Shakespeare] King Henry V: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." - Jacob - 3/1/2008 6:25:08 PM
      - Or marrying a non-favorable female - Eri - 3/1/2008 4:33:38 PM
- That was Matt Drudge. - TB - 3/1/2008 5:42:23 AM
  - I got so tired of his hammering Hillary - - - - Bowser - 3/1/2008 5:44:50 AM
    - He hammers everybody - TB - 3/1/2008 3:57:32 PM

What kind of a "democracy" is this? - Bowser - 3/2/2008 1:23:29 AM
- re: a democratic facade only - Eric - 3/2/2008 1:51:47 PM

To heck with politics - FrankC - 3/1/2008 1:14:48 AM
- GREAT NEWS!!!! - Raoul - 3/1/2008 10:36:37 AM
- re: To heck with politics - Eri - 3/1/2008 5:23:55 AM
- re: To heck with politics - Marcia - 3/1/2008 3:11:06 AM
- WTF? over. - RobVG - 3/1/2008 2:53:45 AM
  - Fealty. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/2/2008 4:53:56 AM
  - Well... - FrankC - 3/1/2008 5:42:46 AM
    - New argument. - RobVG - 3/1/2008 6:41:47 AM
      - Still waiting to see AvWeek's take on it... - TB - 3/1/2008 3:59:40 PM
  - Aren't Euro Dollars worth more? (n/t) - Lindy - 3/1/2008 5:33:34 AM
    - What's that? An Euro is an Euro, not a Dollar !! - Raoul - 3/1/2008 10:41:35 AM
      - My thoughts... - Lindy - 3/1/2008 3:44:44 PM

Conservatives on the march - "Attack Ads on the Way" - Bowser - 3/2/2008 4:12:36 AM

Regarding Bush and Bernankes comments on inflation, recession and the economy - Yeti - 2/29/2008 7:16:44 PM
- Estate sales - azstrummer - 2/29/2008 8:25:50 PM
  - Careful - TB - 2/29/2008 8:45:03 PM
- "Democrats' fault" - TB - 2/29/2008 8:25:21 PM
  - re: It's kind of funny, but the economy really started having problems when the Democrats took back the Congress. - Yeti - 2/29/2008 8:36:14 PM
    - Point a bit too complex for you? Read the whole post. - TB - 2/29/2008 8:42:04 PM
      - Oh, I read it. Its pretty clear what you are gearing up for. - Yeti - 2/29/2008 8:48:33 PM
      - Well it is... - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 8:48:06 PM
        
        Oh, come on. You going to try to give me a 'novelty' mortgage on a Bridge next? - Yeti - 2/29/2008 8:51:31 PM
        
        Bush never vetoed any spending throughout his terms. I assumed that was what tassekafka meant. (n/t) - alcaray - 3/1/2008 9:21:07 PM
        
        Huh? - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 9:58:16 PM
        
        re: Huh? - Yeti - 2/29/2008 10:19:32 PM
        
        Of course they did. - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 10:58:51 PM

Recession - how to tell it's gonna be long, wide and deep. - Bowser - 2/28/2008 8:20:43 PM
- I know. I heard his statement and immediately panicked. (n/t) - Eri - 2/29/2008 4:18:21 AM
- Interesting. - TB - 2/28/2008 8:43:01 PM
  - Artificially propped up - azstrummer - 2/29/2008 2:22:35 PM
    - Like a scarecrow - photogal - 3/1/2008 10:50:55 AM
    - "Salvation?" - TB - 2/29/2008 6:44:01 PM
      - re: "Salvation?" - azstrummer - 2/29/2008 8:23:46 PM
        
        re: "Salvation?" - TB - 2/29/2008 8:33:06 PM
  - Nukes, WMDs, democracy, torture, rendition, etc. and etc. - Bowser - 2/29/2008 2:06:15 AM
    - re: Nukes, WMDs, democracy, torture, rendition, etc. and etc. - TB - 2/29/2008 2:15:19 AM
      - Bookmark this. - Bowser - 2/29/2008 3:58:13 AM
  - The economy's doing great by me. - Lee - 2/28/2008 11:30:39 PM
    - re: The economy's doing great by me. - TB - 2/29/2008 1:01:29 AM
      - Apparently a lot of other people, too. - TB - 2/29/2008 2:01:41 AM

While we were busy doing something else. - ER - 2/29/2008 12:57:44 AM
- I've heard about Turkey on NPR several times - Eri - 3/1/2008 5:32:24 AM
- I agree there hasn't been much in the media. - TAFKASE - 2/29/2008 4:30:09 PM
- re: While we were busy doing something else. - Yeti - 2/29/2008 2:41:08 AM
- Kurds. - Bowser - 2/29/2008 2:03:02 AM
  - "Rational" administration - TB - 2/29/2008 2:08:12 AM
    - First, there is no solution. - Bowser - 2/29/2008 3:51:50 AM
      - Maybe. - TB - 2/29/2008 4:10:14 AM
- re: While we were busy doing something else. - TB - 2/29/2008 1:09:43 AM
  - re: While we were busy doing something else. - gbaikie - 2/29/2008 2:13:58 AM

And the good news is... - Buck Galaxy - 3/1/2008 5:07:19 AM
- And the bad news is... - TB - 3/1/2008 5:22:02 AM

What I received in my e-mail by a devout Conservative - Jody - 2/28/2008 2:22:00 PM
- Just sick! (n/t) - Eri - 2/29/2008 4:19:28 AM
- Betcha I can guess who you got it from... - Fox - 2/28/2008 6:17:37 PM
  - Aya;)...and check out the URL.... - Jody - 2/28/2008 8:15:38 PM
  - I know where it came from - Robert - 2/28/2008 7:29:13 PM
    - Robert got it. - TB - 2/28/2008 8:31:02 PM
    - Rarified strata of the blogosphere - The Liteside Layer - ER - 2/28/2008 7:53:54 PM
- To be fair... - ER - 2/28/2008 4:11:04 PM
- Desperation and fear will reveal hatred - McFly - 2/28/2008 3:03:36 PM
  - Check this out! The NYT goes for broke on McCain - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 3:49:56 PM
    - Does NYT Want To Loose Credibility? - marsby - 2/29/2008 4:28:36 AM
    - No doubt, a "strict constructionist" Supreme Court will make the right decision. (n/t) - ER - 2/28/2008 4:25:24 PM
  - The real attack will be on the Elderly opponent of Obama - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 3:15:21 PM
    - Your point is taken - McFly - 2/28/2008 4:59:03 PM
      - I sincerly hope you are wrong. - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 5:12:07 PM
        
        re: I sincerly hope you are wrong. - yeti - 2/28/2008 8:14:13 PM
        
        No conservatives are running. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 6:11:26 PM
- In style and substance, that sounds like it was written by one of our posters. - ER - 2/28/2008 2:35:02 PM
  - It does read like someone quasi-literate. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 5:53:05 PM
  - I'll venture a guess.... - Lindy - 2/28/2008 3:39:14 PM
    - Guess again. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 4:48:48 PM
  - re: In style and substance, that sounds like it was written by one of our posters. - TAFKASE - 2/28/2008 2:55:57 PM

Cutting taxes because the surplus is too big! - TAFKASE - 2/27/2008 7:38:08 PM
- Look at what Conservatives DO, not what they say. - Bowser - 2/27/2008 10:01:48 PM
  - The Economics of Mystics - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 6:17:56 AM
    - Por favor. - Bowser - 2/28/2008 4:45:19 PM
      - Hmmm. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 5:35:32 PM

Quote for the day - ER - 2/26/2008 6:29:24 PM
- "When the laws can be used to plunder, the plunderers will make the laws." - Bowser - 2/26/2008 7:34:56 PM
  - OK. You win. - Bowser - 2/26/2008 11:28:10 PM
    - re: OK. You win. - TB - 2/26/2008 11:57:21 PM
      - You quote your crank, I'll quote mine. - Bowser - 2/27/2008 2:55:45 AM
      - More great P. J. O'Rourke quotes - TB - 2/27/2008 12:40:15 AM
        
        LOL!...I love it when a great satirist pokes fun at us humans! (n/t) - Jody - 2/27/2008 8:26:18 PM
  - That doesn't mean what you think it does. (n/t) - TB - 2/26/2008 10:17:07 PM
- It's a simple fix. - TB - 2/26/2008 7:01:53 PM
  - Simple, but not easy. - ER - 2/26/2008 8:18:23 PM
    - re: Simple, but not easy. - TB - 2/26/2008 10:00:14 PM
      - Radar Love - ER - 2/27/2008 12:03:08 AM
        
        re: Radar Love - TB - 2/27/2008 1:22:07 AM
        
        re: Radar Love - ER - 2/27/2008 1:49:06 AM
        
        Definitions - TB - 2/27/2008 5:13:18 PM
        
        (Idealized) Definitions - ER - 2/27/2008 8:35:01 PM
        
        re: (Idealized) Definitions - gbaikie - 2/28/2008 5:09:04 PM
        
        Idealized indeed. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 7:33:37 AM
        
        That explains a great deal... - TB - 2/28/2008 4:30:18 AM
        
        PS - Yeti - 2/27/2008 6:21:12 PM
        
        Okay, I'll sacrifice one of my definitions, but argue from a hundred other loaded ones - Yeti - 2/27/2008 6:18:27 PM
        
        A post of beauty - Tony - 2/27/2008 6:55:07 AM
        
        re: Radar Love - gbaikie - 2/27/2008 4:57:33 AM
    - re: Simple, but not easy. - Marcia - 2/26/2008 8:43:35 PM

The best analysis of Obama to date - JEKing - 2/25/2008 8:34:09 PM
- Don't expect to hear much in way of analysis. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 4:39:10 AM
  - re: Don't expect to hear much in way of analysis. - JEKing - 2/28/2008 6:01:44 AM
    - The poor have more to fear. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 6:43:18 AM
  - You shoulda put that on flame - Lindy - 2/28/2008 5:19:04 AM
- Here's a good reason why we need to be able to remove trolls - azstrummer - 2/25/2008 9:57:20 PM
  - The thought police are effective at DKOS. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 4:54:32 AM
    - re: The thought police are effective at DKOS. - azstrummer - 2/28/2008 4:01:22 PM
- Is it only a coincidence... - ER - 2/25/2008 9:23:01 PM

New Zealand's entry for the Darwin Awards - nick hoffman - 2/24/2008 8:45:02 AM
- They should use his image and story in a click-it or ticket advertising campaign. (n/t) - TAFKASE - 2/25/2008 6:15:55 PM
- He already paid the ultimate price - Eri - 2/25/2008 2:27:02 AM
- New Zealand's entry for the Darwin Awards - Bowser - 2/25/2008 1:26:08 AM
  - I trust you no longer drink and drive (n/t) - Eri - 2/25/2008 2:30:04 AM
    - Bowser's beaten that demon, to his credit. (n/t) - TB - 2/25/2008 3:09:06 AM
      - Thanks. A small clarification. - Bowser - 2/27/2008 8:34:11 PM
        
        No problem - TB - 2/28/2008 4:46:34 AM
      - Excellent. That's a big demon to beat! (n/t) - Eri - 2/27/2008 4:13:56 PM
        
        Demons - Lindy - 2/27/2008 9:58:32 PM
- re: New Zealand's entry for the Darwin Awards - ER - 2/24/2008 3:48:37 PM
  - That puzzled me, too. - TB - 2/25/2008 1:35:14 AM

US "Intelligence chief: Taliban making gains in Afghanistan" - Bowser - 2/28/2008 3:50:55 AM

William F. Buckley dies - TB - 2/27/2008 5:01:45 PM
- RIP - ER - 2/27/2008 6:12:53 PM
  - Didn't I hear on the news...? - Eri - 2/28/2008 1:05:06 AM
    - Grand Old Paleoconservative - ER - 2/28/2008 1:20:45 AM
      - I admit - Eri - 2/28/2008 3:37:22 AM
  - re: RIP - alcaray - 2/27/2008 9:15:56 PM
- Bright guy. - Bowser - 2/27/2008 5:56:52 PM
- NYT obit - TB - 2/27/2008 5:24:56 PM
  - Did you catch the tilt? - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 12:27:50 AM
- RIP - You boring old fart. - TAFKASE - 2/27/2008 5:24:00 PM
  - You thought he was boring? - alcaray - 2/27/2008 5:56:15 PM
    - No. It was tongue-in-cheekeeee - TAFKASE - 2/27/2008 7:31:02 PM

Hillary meltdown - TB - 2/25/2008 3:40:53 PM
- I'll Probably Vote For Obama - marsby - 2/28/2008 2:17:55 AM
  - Mental Fatigue - marsby - 2/28/2008 2:26:44 AM
- I expected more, too. This is just "pro forma". - Bowser - 2/25/2008 6:21:36 PM
  - Oh, there's plenty of ammunition. - TB - 2/25/2008 8:46:08 PM
    - but what about Hillary's Experience? - Ima Liberal - 2/26/2008 3:43:08 AM
- Clinton attack Machine - still a myth - Tony - 2/25/2008 3:56:36 PM
  - A myth? Really? - TAFKASE - 2/25/2008 5:37:34 PM
    - I already pointed that one out, and it's totally lame. - TB - 2/25/2008 6:04:15 PM
      - The Clintons aern't even bothering to deny that they were behind it... - TAFKASE - 2/25/2008 6:20:14 PM
  - It's not like I invented the term. - TB - 2/25/2008 5:35:02 PM
    - Remember how Obama was going to be ripped to shreds by the CAM? - Tony - 2/25/2008 7:56:38 PM
      - Wagers - TB - 2/25/2008 8:37:24 PM
        
        Admit it though... - TB - 2/25/2008 8:41:03 PM
        
        I expected the campaign to be better run than Kerry's general election one - Tony - 2/25/2008 9:01:39 PM
- Example - TB - 2/25/2008 3:47:09 PM

1 EUR = 1.5 $ ! - Raoul - 2/27/2008 5:13:24 PM
- I'm not complaining... - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2008 12:24:39 AM
- It is pretty ugly... - TAFKASE - 2/27/2008 5:21:33 PM

All of this just to avoid admitting defeat. - Bowser - 2/25/2008 11:22:30 PM
- Overseas troops - TB - 2/26/2008 3:11:17 AM
  - Didn't the US intentionally downsize our # in the standing Army? - Eri - 2/27/2008 4:12:49 PM
    - It started with Bush 1 - TAFKASE - 2/27/2008 5:26:55 PM
    - Yes - TB - 2/27/2008 5:05:25 PM
  - How to tell freedom loving liberators from brutal occupiers. - Bowser - 2/26/2008 4:58:52 AM
    - Good Lord. - TB - 2/26/2008 6:37:29 AM
      - "you don't want to let go of this mindset" - Buck Galaxy - 2/27/2008 4:57:46 AM
        
        "That it is more peaceful now than before is acknowledged - - - " - Bowser - 2/27/2008 5:54:55 AM
- You need to catch up. - TB - 2/26/2008 1:42:08 AM
  - More - TB - 2/26/2008 3:11:31 AM

Drunkblogging the latest debate - TB - 2/27/2008 4:57:44 AM

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