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Bridge to Siberia - James Brown - 1/28/2008 5:22:13 AM
- So AFTER you drive all the way to Alaska, THEN you have only just started? - nick hoffman - 1/29/2008 2:10:27 AM
  - What if the Earth warms 10 degrees or so? - TAFKASE - 1/29/2008 3:23:47 PM
    - re: What if the Earth warms 10 degrees or so? - gbaikie - 1/30/2008 9:07:35 AM
      - re: What if the Earth warms 10 degrees or so? - gbaikie - 1/30/2008 10:17:12 AM
        
        Yikes... Its probably pretty windy too... - TAFKASE - 1/30/2008 3:24:38 PM
- India-China-Russia-Europe - Bowser - 1/28/2008 4:54:31 PM
- re: Bridge to Siberia - James Brown - 1/28/2008 4:30:53 PM
- I like the idea. But make it a tunnel. - TAFKASE - 1/28/2008 3:20:43 PM
- Look deeper.. - podrock - 1/28/2008 2:52:57 PM
- Tunnel to Siberia - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 8:55:51 AM
  - re: Tunnel to Siberia - gbaikie - 1/28/2008 1:24:08 PM

Why John Edwards, is staying in the race - TAFKASE - 1/29/2008 4:38:32 PM

S. C. - Barack 55%, Clinton 27%, Edwards 18%, 98% reporting. - Bowser - 1/27/2008 2:50:41 AM
- re: S. C. - Barack 55%, Clinton 27%, Edwards 18%, 98% reporting. - TAFKASE - 1/28/2008 2:34:54 PM
  - Clinton and McCain........ - Lindy - 1/28/2008 6:04:53 PM
- Ted, Caroline Kennedy endorse Obama. Robert's kin, Clinton. - Bowser - 1/28/2008 12:52:03 AM
  - Ted? Ouch. (n/t) - TB - 1/28/2008 1:59:32 AM
- CNN exit polls - TB - 1/27/2008 7:59:58 AM
  - White vote - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 4:09:30 PM
    - At this point... - TB - 1/28/2008 12:18:11 AM
- Great speech - Robert - 1/27/2008 5:45:03 AM
  - re: Great speech - TB - 1/27/2008 7:44:24 AM
    - Arkansas- The Clinton's and Huckabee - REB - 1/28/2008 2:36:32 PM
      - This is getting funnier all the time! - Buck Galaxy - 1/29/2008 9:16:02 AM
    - What a low life post - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 9:41:17 AM
      - Hell just froze over - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 4:19:05 PM
        
        History lesson - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 8:05:17 PM
        
        Wasn't one of Bill Clinton's crowning achievements known as Welfare Reform? - TAFKASE - 1/28/2008 3:17:40 PM
        
        Only Nixon could go to China - Buck Galaxy - 1/29/2008 9:28:39 AM
        
        maybe so. - TAFKASE - 1/29/2008 3:28:21 PM
        
        Nice, but what's that got to do with anything? - TB - 1/28/2008 12:31:36 AM
        
        It had to do with azstrummer's comments - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 12:49:58 AM
        
        Got it. I should have caught that. (n/t) - TB - 1/28/2008 1:09:53 AM
        
        NAFTA - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 9:38:10 PM
        
        re: NAFTA - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 10:11:14 PM
        
        Why did NAFTA fail while the EU succeeded? - Raoul - 1/27/2008 9:57:45 PM
        
        NAFTA hasn't failed - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 10:19:56 PM
        
        And the EU hasn't exactly succeeded yet, either. (n/t) - TB - 1/28/2008 12:35:14 AM
        
        That article is flawed from the beginning. - Lee - 1/27/2008 8:44:20 PM
        
        Flawed? - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 12:09:28 AM
        
        From that graph - Lee - 1/28/2008 2:07:32 AM
        
        Whatever - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 2:41:21 AM
        
        Boy, you don't learn do you. - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 9:40:01 PM
        
        Then that shows you have no backbone. - Lee - 1/27/2008 11:34:45 PM
        
        Still no clue - azstrummer - 1/28/2008 1:53:26 AM
  - zzzzzzzzzz... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 6:06:52 AM
    - Leftist jackals eat their own and never met a friend they wouldn't betray for .... a few ounces of power. Obama .... another Jackal - Yeti - 1/27/2008 6:57:53 AM
      - Well... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 9:11:42 PM
        
        That you can not find a single candidate to like or hope for - Yeti - 1/27/2008 10:11:37 PM
        
        re: That you can not find a single candidate to like or hope for - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/28/2008 12:41:02 AM
    - Go back to sleep - Eri - 1/27/2008 6:17:51 AM
      - Good luck. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 6:32:13 AM
        
        That's a nasty remark - Eri - 1/27/2008 3:45:25 PM
        
        Not racist at all - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 9:00:45 PM
        
        Interesting analysis Tech1 - Lindy - 1/27/2008 11:12:27 PM
        
        re: Interesting analysis Tech1 - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 11:51:52 PM
        
        ...and they all lived happily ever after. - REB - 1/28/2008 3:06:59 PM
        
        Clarification - REB - 1/28/2008 3:16:30 PM
        
        It could very well be a happy ending. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/28/2008 11:30:44 PM
        
        Nicely put......... - Lindy - 1/28/2008 12:14:28 AM
        
        re: Nicely put......... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/29/2008 4:44:23 AM
        
        ah once again with the Daily Kos - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 9:44:01 PM
        
        Art's right on this one. - TB - 1/28/2008 4:12:46 AM
        
        I find it refreshing - Lindy - 1/27/2008 7:43:43 PM
- Very exciting! - McFly - 1/27/2008 4:31:19 AM
- Newsweek: Advantage Obama, Clinton campaign steps up its spin - Bowser - 1/27/2008 3:11:35 AM
  - I have to admit - Lindy - 1/27/2008 3:19:19 AM

Study: Bush, other officials issued hundreds of false statements before Iraq invasion - Algorithms - 1/23/2008 1:21:11 PM
- Why am I not surprised? - Lindy - 1/24/2008 3:00:04 AM
  - All anyone thought they knew came from Bush's intelligence. - Bowser - 1/24/2008 5:21:06 AM
- Heh. - TB - 1/23/2008 5:44:28 PM
  - Same analysis, different source - TB - 1/24/2008 7:24:55 PM
  - Consider the source - Robert - 1/24/2008 7:15:37 AM
    - The "study" is crap, Robert. - TB - 1/24/2008 6:58:15 PM
      - Your desperation is showing - Robert - 1/24/2008 7:50:42 PM
        
        point of order - RobVG - 1/25/2008 6:44:31 PM
        
        objection - Robert - 1/25/2008 7:42:24 PM
        
        Robert's right - TB - 1/25/2008 9:02:31 PM
        
        P.S. - TB - 1/25/2008 9:04:31 PM
        
        overuled - RobVG - 1/25/2008 8:27:01 PM
        
        complaint received - Robert - 1/25/2008 9:34:08 PM
        
        Feature creep. - RobVG - 1/25/2008 9:52:06 PM
        
        party pooper! (n/t) - Robert - 1/25/2008 10:22:57 PM
        
        Place, also - Yeti - 1/25/2008 4:47:53 AM
        
        It's more like frustration. - TB - 1/24/2008 9:42:14 PM
        
        Your frustration is showing too - Robert - 1/24/2008 10:06:44 PM
        
        "Truce?" Must have missed that. - TB - 1/25/2008 4:43:48 AM
        
        re: "Truce?" Must have missed that. - Robert - 1/25/2008 6:22:36 PM
        
        Iraq - TB - 1/25/2008 9:00:42 PM
        
        Truly a work of art (n/t) - Tony - 1/24/2008 8:48:49 PM
    - You Want To Talk Dishonesty? - marsby - 1/24/2008 6:23:25 PM
      - You Want To Talk Dishonesty? Just read your own post - Tony - 1/24/2008 7:15:04 PM
        
        Kind of of Nit Picking There - marsby - 1/25/2008 7:17:55 PM
        
        The UN inspectors were NOT bribed by Saddam and THEY were the ones who were right: no WMDs found - Raoul - 1/26/2008 5:20:12 PM
        
        Says Who? - Marsby - 1/29/2008 5:40:41 AM
        
        Raoul is Dead On - Yeti - 1/27/2008 2:20:13 PM
        
        Nice try. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 9:35:35 PM
        
        LOL! Contained! Thanks...that was the UN...right? LMAO! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/25/2008 1:42:37 AM
  - He got you guys again - azstrummer - 1/24/2008 3:47:52 AM
    - re: He got you guys again - TB - 1/24/2008 5:12:14 AM
  - Clinton made us do it...... - Tony - 1/23/2008 6:22:52 PM
    - She made the speech in October of 2002 - TB - 1/23/2008 6:31:04 PM
      - We didn't want to.....everyone else made us do it? - Tony - 1/23/2008 6:45:24 PM
        
        Can you get off that weird kick? - TB - 1/23/2008 7:28:47 PM
        
        You keep bringing it up - Tony - 1/23/2008 7:40:16 PM
        
        re: You keep bringing it up - TB - 1/23/2008 8:31:47 PM
        
        "harmless as the driven snow" - Tony - 1/23/2008 8:41:15 PM
        
        Careful. Remember the subject of the thread. - TB - 1/23/2008 9:06:18 PM
        
        world straw prices go up as TB is stockpiling - Tony - 1/23/2008 9:27:11 PM
        
        Sure I had a point. - TB - 1/23/2008 10:57:25 PM
        
        You had, have, will have no point - Tony - 1/24/2008 3:42:22 PM
        
        re: Clinton Did It Too trademarked by the Yeti - Yeti - 1/24/2008 5:01:42 PM
  - Democratic "support" for Bush-Cheney based upon misguided trust. - Bowser - 1/23/2008 6:04:18 PM
- For those who are interested. - Bowser - 1/23/2008 3:59:17 PM

Teddie Kennedy OK's OBAMA for POTUS - carl - 1/28/2008 5:36:46 PM
- Power shift - TB - 1/28/2008 7:17:00 PM
  - Speaking as an 'older' Democrat - Fox - 1/29/2008 12:17:28 AM
  - Sorry, but I just couldn't resist - TB - 1/28/2008 10:32:26 PM
  - Interesting take. - Bowser - 1/28/2008 10:09:36 PM

Many stranded amid China freeze - gbaikie - 1/28/2008 1:28:21 PM

Liberals finally getting a clue on the Clintons? - TB - 1/26/2008 9:50:52 PM
- I'll give you that - dtb - 1/27/2008 7:01:10 AM
  - Christ what a load of crap! - Buck Galaxy - 1/27/2008 8:35:35 AM
    - You know... - TB - 1/28/2008 1:12:10 AM
      - Dems dinging the Clintons - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 2:36:59 AM
        
        re: Dems dinging the Clintons - TB - 1/28/2008 4:14:29 AM
        
        Loose ammo - Buck Galaxy - 1/28/2008 8:47:13 AM
    - re: Christ what a load of crap! - Eri - 1/27/2008 3:49:15 PM
  - If team Clinton goes back to the Whitehouse, will Hillary be on top this time? (n/t) - RobVG - 1/27/2008 7:39:36 AM
    - Wasn't she always? ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 9:19:22 PM
- Please get a clue - Buck Galaxy - 1/26/2008 11:59:49 PM
  - The DNC should never had banned them - Eri - 1/27/2008 6:20:29 AM

Terrorism in Europe - TB - 1/28/2008 4:54:25 AM

W the genius update - end transmission - 1/25/2008 6:12:54 PM
- You cant "conceal" your handle.. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/28/2008 3:08:16 AM
- I wonder if that's true. - Bowser - 1/25/2008 10:02:42 PM
- Wow. - TB - 1/25/2008 9:34:38 PM

Well, this could be awkward..... US veterans of the first Iraq war want to sue Iraq for torture.... Of course Bush is trying to stop them - ARRELL - 1/26/2008 7:24:58 PM
- re: Well, this could be awkward - TB - 1/26/2008 8:20:06 PM
  - 'Awkward' defined....or- 'Cliff notes for the irony impaired' - ARRELL - 1/27/2008 1:16:46 AM
    - I didn't even know you were going there. I should have guessed. - TB - 1/27/2008 7:17:42 AM
      - Nice touch Tom - Lindy - 1/27/2008 7:49:52 PM
      - So... If our guys had just been waterboarded then youd be cool with that... - ARRELL - 1/27/2008 9:21:24 AM
        
        Clean over your head again. - TB - 1/28/2008 1:34:55 AM
    - re: 'Awkward' defined....or- 'Cliff notes for the irony impaired' - gbaikie - 1/27/2008 4:50:52 AM
  - So you have no problem with the victims of torture holding the responsible parties legally responsible...? - ARRELL - 1/26/2008 10:33:10 PM

Articles of Impeachment - Jack Herer - 1/24/2008 4:31:44 PM
- Nobody wants him impeached more than me, but... - Eri - 1/25/2008 4:39:24 AM
  - The goal - azstrummer - 1/25/2008 4:56:11 PM
  - Immunity and humiliation - Raoul - 1/25/2008 6:34:57 AM
    - LOL! Lynchem! - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/27/2008 6:25:31 AM
      - None of those previous presidents have started a war they couldn't end (n/t) - Raoul - 1/27/2008 9:17:16 AM
        
        Generally US presidents don't start wars... - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/28/2008 1:32:54 AM
    - Frankly - Lindy - 1/25/2008 4:56:02 PM
      - I nominate them for residency at Git mo (n/t) - Eri - 1/26/2008 7:03:52 AM

Maybe it's just me. Clintons v. Obama - Bowser - 1/26/2008 2:06:15 AM
- Hillary's a Scorpio, she doesn't like being crossed - Lindy - 1/27/2008 11:46:06 PM
- re: Maybe it's just me. Clintons v. Obama - Eri - 1/27/2008 4:16:59 PM
- no attack ever fed a humgry child. - Bill Clinton - 1/26/2008 10:09:19 PM
  - Obviously not Bill - azstrummer - 1/27/2008 4:24:28 PM
    - re: Obviously not Bill - Eri - 1/27/2008 4:37:12 PM

Prince Charles delivered a speech to world leaders as a hologram - Eric - 1/26/2008 10:44:20 PM

Media bias update - TB - 1/25/2008 5:07:46 PM
- More - TB - 1/26/2008 10:08:37 PM

The ship could be leaving harbor soon. - Lee - 1/26/2008 2:33:48 AM

The lucky australians!! - Raoul - 1/25/2008 11:16:49 PM

Voting by mail - TB - 1/25/2008 10:59:34 PM

"In Kabul, Shattered Illusions" (I know I keep nagging away at it.) - Bowser - 1/25/2008 7:17:15 AM
- WHAT?? They STILL haven't found weapons of mass destruction? (n/t) - Disgusted - 1/25/2008 10:52:52 PM

Anybody who thinks Obama will be the VP for Hillary has another thing coming. - TAFKASE - 1/17/2008 3:21:27 PM
- In which parallel universe did anyone ever think this was likely? (n/t) - tony - 1/17/2008 4:40:36 PM
  - I think they would make a kick-ass twosome - Lindy - 1/17/2008 5:20:51 PM
  - I think Dick Morris was floating it. - TAFKASE - 1/17/2008 4:50:10 PM
    - On the Republican side it is even easier: - TAFKASE - 1/17/2008 4:53:41 PM
      - Quote of the Day - Socrates II - 1/25/2008 3:02:41 PM

Hamas...Making fools of the Eqyptian leadership - TAFAKSE - 1/25/2008 2:45:10 PM

Fred Thompson drops out of the race. - TB - 1/22/2008 7:53:41 PM
- S.W.A.G. : Rudi's next - Fox - 1/23/2008 12:08:54 AM
  - Huckabee will probably be McCains choice as VP. - TAFKASE - 1/23/2008 1:30:24 PM
    - re: Huckabee will probably be McCains choice as VP. - James Brown - 1/25/2008 5:43:17 AM
    - God help us all! - Lindy - 1/23/2008 7:21:16 PM
- Good. One less. - Lindy - 1/22/2008 9:42:05 PM
  - you really think he is only B-grade? - TAFKASE - 1/22/2008 9:50:06 PM
    - If he ran the nation the way he ran his campaign... - alcaray - 1/23/2008 1:20:14 AM
      - You think? - TB - 1/23/2008 1:37:12 AM
        
        You thought he ran a competent campaign? (n/t) - alcaray - 1/23/2008 2:37:40 AM
        
        How are we defining "competent?" - TB - 1/23/2008 4:45:12 AM
        
        Precisely. - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/23/2008 5:48:26 AM
        
        Oh my god. This is like shooting fish in a barrel - Yeti - 1/23/2008 6:40:22 PM
        
        re: Oh my god. This is like shooting fish in a barrel - SDAI-Tech1 - 1/24/2008 11:34:08 PM
        
        "Economic boom times?" - TB - 1/23/2008 7:30:59 PM
        
        Don't need to look far - Yeti - 1/23/2008 9:22:36 PM
        
        Oh, sure. Go for it. - TB - 1/23/2008 11:04:35 PM
        
        Nice try - Yeti - 1/24/2008 3:04:14 AM
        
        No squeaking, now. - TB - 1/24/2008 5:27:21 AM
        
        Man I wish you came with a google translate button - Yeti - 1/24/2008 6:46:12 AM
        
        "We experienced a sustained economic boom during Clinton" - TB - 1/24/2008 7:14:39 PM
        
        re: "True." - Yeti - 1/24/2008 7:24:34 PM
        
        "Supposed?" Okay. Whatever. - TB - 1/24/2008 7:31:40 PM
        
        re: "Supposed?" Okay. Whatever. - Yeti - 1/24/2008 8:23:26 PM
        
        "America's decline..." - TB - 1/23/2008 6:08:47 AM
        
        America's decline has always been Washington DC's gain. - TAFKASE - 1/23/2008 1:27:43 PM
        
        Wow! Nice spin! - alcaray - 1/23/2008 5:36:03 AM
        
        What spin? - TB - 1/23/2008 5:59:57 AM
        
        See, TB doesn'ts spin. Its the rest of the world that spins around him - Yeti - 1/23/2008 6:06:56 PM
    - Frankly........ - Lindy - 1/22/2008 11:07:28 PM
- Darn. - REB - 1/22/2008 8:05:00 PM

Awwwwwww - Jody - 1/24/2008 12:50:59 PM
- Ack!!!...Mattress testing?????? - Jody - 1/24/2008 8:04:45 PM
  - BUT...that WAS funny!!..trying this again!! - Jody - 1/24/2008 8:18:44 PM
    - Are some people just stupid? - Lindy - 1/25/2008 5:39:57 AM
    - Emphasizes something to me - Eri - 1/25/2008 4:49:44 AM
      - re: Emphasizes something to me - Marcia - 1/25/2008 5:26:14 AM
        
        re: Awwwww to Jody as well just the same. :} (n/t) - Marcia - 1/25/2008 5:27:24 AM
- "Ach! Scheiße! Nein, nein, nein!" (n/t) - Robert - 1/24/2008 7:12:50 PM
  - Aber, ja, ja, ja! (n/t) - Eri - 1/25/2008 4:52:01 AM

Nuclear Power Plants may shut down? - Eri - 1/24/2008 4:06:09 AM
- re: It is a scientific fact that - Johannes - 1/24/2008 6:37:37 PM

New Hampshire Diebold Conspiracy update - TB - 1/23/2008 6:38:54 PM
- Only die hard conspiracy nuts would claim the results were fixed.... - ARRELL - 1/24/2008 6:23:18 PM
- Thanks (n/t) - Tony - 1/23/2008 7:11:46 PM

More economic prognostications: why things are different now than 4-5 years ago - Yeti - 1/23/2008 6:31:47 PM
- Nice Analysis ;) - Tony - 1/24/2008 3:50:34 PM

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