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Victims of Communism memorial dedicated - TB - 6/13/2007 5:12:39 AM

Michael Yon dispatch - TB - 6/8/2007 9:22:44 PM
- Part 3 - TB - 6/12/2007 6:45:38 PM

U.S. unit enters an alliance of last resort working with ex-insurgents - Lindy - 6/9/2007 2:57:50 PM
- Sunnis - TB - 6/9/2007 5:30:17 PM
  - The next thing you know we will be talking to Iran and Syria... (n/t) - RobVG - 6/10/2007 5:06:43 AM
- Sheikh Abdul Sattar - Raoul - 6/9/2007 4:28:59 PM
  - For what purpose? - Lindy - 6/9/2007 5:07:31 PM
    - "Up and running" - TB - 6/9/2007 5:35:19 PM
      - It was THEIR totalitarian system - Lindy - 6/9/2007 8:40:24 PM
        
        So is Darfur's. Now what? - TB - 6/9/2007 11:26:29 PM
        
        "Nothing I tell you ever actually sinks in..." - Lindy - 6/10/2007 3:37:24 AM
      - Reality checks - Raoul - 6/9/2007 6:14:33 PM
        
        Of course we did nothing - Jody - 6/11/2007 2:35:59 AM
        
        re: Of course - TB - 6/11/2007 2:43:47 AM
        
        What an arrogance!! (n/t) - Raoul - 6/11/2007 5:30:45 AM
        
        TB...what is your opinion of the Spotlight? (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 5:06:00 AM
        
        Short version? Extreme right-wing nutballs. - TB - 6/11/2007 5:12:19 AM
        
        Brother # 3 really liked them - Jody - 6/11/2007 5:30:08 AM
        
        "feeling we are right." - TB - 6/11/2007 4:00:08 PM
        
        "Resistence is futile. " - Lindy - 6/11/2007 3:23:07 PM
        
        LOL (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:32:05 PM
        
        I needed that!! (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:33:08 PM
        
        Indulge me, Tom - Jody - 6/11/2007 5:02:33 AM
        
        What is a" psycho hose beast?"... - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:18:18 AM
        
        *sigh* - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:11:56 AM
        
        Actually, I accused Krugman a bit too soon - TB - 6/11/2007 4:02:41 AM
        
        "However, some sources may cause people to have a good laugh at your expense. " - Lindy - 6/12/2007 1:18:48 AM
        
        Thank you Lindy - Jody - 6/12/2007 5:04:54 AM
        
        Hutzpa - Lindy - 6/12/2007 12:14:01 PM
        
        Bon Voyage!!...Have a great time!! (n/t) - Jody - 6/12/2007 2:23:59 PM
        
        But TB...you believe in the Bible, right? (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 5:45:43 AM
        
        Then laugh away everyone...I am not alone there! (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:40:22 AM
        
        Jody...HA HA HA HA (n/t) - The Zoners - 6/11/2007 4:41:49 AM
        
        They are defunct now, I believe. - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:26:16 AM
        
        re: Reality checks - gbaikie - 6/10/2007 12:51:13 AM
        
        Great sources, there. (n/t) - TB - 6/9/2007 11:20:55 PM
        
        Wonder if he'd like to hear about the dictatorships Bush & Cheney support today? - Bowser - 6/9/2007 6:42:11 PM
    - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. THAT is surrender. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/9/2007 5:14:34 PM

Marine interviewed for the paper - TB - 6/11/2007 4:36:18 PM
- re: Marine interviewed for the paper - REB - 6/12/2007 1:08:38 PM
- It's always been nothing but GOOD NEWS, hasn't it. - Bowser - 6/12/2007 12:07:49 AM
  - Wrong again. The point is that we've been getting nothing but the bad news. - TB - 6/12/2007 12:22:17 AM
    - The operation was a failure, Mrs. Jones, your husband died, but what a nice manicure he had! (n/t) - Bowser - 6/12/2007 1:38:31 AM

Update on French parliamentary elections - TB - 6/11/2007 4:26:47 AM
- All Europe is going conservative... - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/11/2007 9:36:36 PM

Latest Middle East terror tactic - TB - 6/11/2007 5:13:07 PM

The Secret History of the American Empire - ds - 6/5/2007 7:08:17 PM
- LINDY IS THAT YOU? (n/t) - Carl Rove - 6/6/2007 9:12:02 PM
  - re: Doesn't sound like Lindy (n/t) - Jody - 6/7/2007 12:09:20 AM
    - It isn't. - TB - 6/7/2007 1:51:00 AM
      - Wow - now that's how you do a backhanded compliment - ds - 6/7/2007 1:45:58 PM
        
        If brains of a hedgehog, you mean... - Jody - 6/8/2007 12:28:49 PM
        
        re: Wow - now that's how you do a backhanded compliment - Lindy - 6/7/2007 7:05:57 PM
        
        Brains of a hedge hog? - Lindy - 6/7/2007 6:16:09 PM
        
        Geesh, Lindy, I was defending you - CropCirclesRUs - 6/7/2007 6:57:10 PM
      - ...and you, TB, our resident" Bush Baby..." - Jody - 6/7/2007 12:43:15 PM
        
        Conspiracy: An inconvienent truth. (n/t) - Jody - 6/8/2007 12:47:34 PM
      - " If there is one good common side effect of having a mind so open..." - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:32:23 AM
        
        re: hangars - TB - 6/7/2007 5:16:06 AM
        
        " A little black piece of plastic - Jody - 6/8/2007 1:09:23 PM
        
        lower expectations? - Ray - 6/8/2007 9:44:12 PM
        
        Darlin'...don't you mean The Rapture? (n/t) - Jody - 6/8/2007 11:02:51 PM
        
        History is written by the winners - Jody - 6/7/2007 12:01:20 PM
        
        Reality check (probably not much use on this thread) - TB - 6/7/2007 5:16:45 PM
        
        re: Reality check (probably not much use with you Tom) - Jody - 6/8/2007 11:44:34 AM
        
        I did not feel ANY burden of proof was on you... - Jody - 6/7/2007 6:53:22 PM
        
        "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (n/t) - George Orwell 1984 - 6/7/2007 10:40:07 PM
        
        And that means exactly what? (n/t) - TB - 6/7/2007 11:35:40 PM
        
        Give it up Tom...you know what Lindy meant..you are nit-picking (n/t) - Jody - 6/8/2007 11:53:33 AM
        
        Why don't you give it a try? - TB - 6/8/2007 7:52:27 PM
        
        re: Why don't you give it a try? - Jody - 6/8/2007 8:42:47 PM
        
        May be it's just not gonna happen this lifetime to him - Lindy - 6/8/2007 10:36:17 PM
        
        Nice try. Go read the book. (n/t) - TB - 6/8/2007 8:54:49 PM
        
        But aren't quotes (sayings) subjective? - Jody - 6/8/2007 10:08:22 PM
        
        TB - Barl - 6/8/2007 10:54:19 PM
        
        Eh, not like I have anything else to do. - TB - 6/9/2007 1:18:02 AM
        
        Barl...or Bard?... - Jody - 6/8/2007 10:58:38 PM
        
        You asked me to rephrase it....I thought you meant..what does it mean to me? - Jody - 6/8/2007 10:10:41 PM
        
        ...or what I thought Lindy meant by quoting it... (n/t) - Jody - 6/8/2007 10:12:09 PM
        
        Obviously it went right over your head.......... - Lindy - 6/8/2007 1:31:53 AM
        
        Lindy, the sentence is self-cancelling. - TB - 6/8/2007 2:37:08 AM
- re:the book just came to my B&N yesterday.... - Jody - 6/6/2007 4:23:13 PM
- I have known this for quite sometime.... - Jody - 6/6/2007 1:48:07 PM
  - re: I have known this for quite sometime.... - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:33:43 AM
    - Lucky you!! - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:46:55 AM
  - We were paramount in putting Hitler in power - Jody - 6/6/2007 1:53:21 PM
    - International banking... - Jody - 6/7/2007 1:51:19 PM
      - re: International banking... - Jody - 6/7/2007 2:03:57 PM
    - re: We were paramount in turning the USSR into a super power. - Lee - 6/6/2007 8:40:32 PM
    - re: Ever hear of the Rothchilds...from England? - Jody - 6/6/2007 2:13:06 PM
      - re: Ever hear of the Rothchilds...from England? - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:37:17 AM
      - re: Ever hear of the Rothchilds...from England? - Jody - 6/7/2007 3:19:47 AM
        
        "Mayer set the pattern"...The New Encyclopedia Brittannica, Vol. 10 p.201 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:09:00 AM
        
        OOPS!...Wrong reference...I am still looking...get back to you (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:32:32 AM
        
        That reference goes to this quote: - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:37:54 AM
        
        re: In 1922, former NY mayor John F. Haylon stated - Jody - 6/7/2007 3:58:58 AM
        
        "Haylon Takes a Stand on National Issues, The New York Times (March27, 1922) p.3 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:51:57 AM
        
        In a letter dated November 23, 1933 - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:05:27 AM
        
        Elliot Roosevelt..F.D.R. His Personal Letters 1928-1945, Vol.1 (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950 pp.371-73 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:49:34 AM
        
        re: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:09:23 AM
        
        Justice Frankfurter: James Perloff, The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline (Appleton, WS: Western Islands , 1988...p.3 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:46:45 AM
        
        President Woodrow Wilson - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:14:13 AM
        
        The New Freedom (New York: Doubleday, 1914..pp.13-14 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:42:57 AM
        
        British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:20:46 AM
        
        Benjamin Disraeli: Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (Palmdale, CA: Omni Publications..reprint of orig.1924 editionp.iv (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:55:30 AM
        
        Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty(retired) served as a - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:33:37 AM
        
        The Secret Team: The CIA and its' Allies in Control of the United States and the World( Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.,1973 pp.2-3 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:58:17 AM
        
        re: Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:38:01 AM
        
        see above post (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:59:33 AM
        
        re: Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:42:56 AM
        
        see above post (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:00:18 AM
        
        President Franklin D. Roosevelt... - Jody - 6/7/2007 4:57:29 AM
        
        re: President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Epperson (1985) p.7 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:02:29 AM
        
        You got a problem with your posting system? (n/t) - TB - 6/7/2007 5:20:00 AM
        
        re: You got a problem with your belief system? (n/t) - Jody - 6/7/2007 11:58:00 AM
        
        What I've always found fascinating... - TB - 6/7/2007 5:30:43 AM
        
        re: What I've always found fascinating... - Jody - 6/8/2007 11:28:00 AM
        
        Accidental vs. Conspiritorial - Jody - 6/8/2007 4:29:10 AM
        
        re: Accidental vs. Conspiritorial - Lindy - 6/8/2007 2:02:36 PM
        
        Ah, yes The Gospel according to Tom.. (n/t) - Jody - 6/7/2007 11:39:37 AM
        
        Does TB stand for Totally Biased? (n/t) - Jody - 6/7/2007 12:02:30 PM
        
        re: Nope, probably True Believer (n/t) - Jody - 6/7/2007 3:12:39 PM
        
        So TB - you deny that certain American companies helped the Nazis in WW2 kill lots of Jews? - ds - 6/7/2007 1:49:42 PM
        
        re: In 1922, former NY mayor John F. Haylon stated - Lindy - 6/7/2007 4:05:07 AM
      - Don't forget the Bilderbergers and the Lizard People. (n/t) - TB - 6/6/2007 6:01:20 PM
        
        re: Don't forget the Bilderbergers and the Lizard People. - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:38:34 AM
        
        re: Don't forget the Bilderbergers - Jody - 6/7/2007 3:36:40 AM
        
        M16 creation: Dr. John Coleman, Conspirators" Hierarchy: The story of the Committee of the 300 (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers 1992..p 207 (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 3:40:14 AM
        
        Now the Lizard people... - Jody - 6/7/2007 3:39:50 AM
        
        I quoted me (n/t) - Jody - 6/11/2007 4:48:24 AM
        
        re: Now the Lizard people... - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:42:31 AM
      - I like their candies - ds - 6/6/2007 2:46:58 PM
        
        re: No...but I am not surprised...*sigh*... - Jody - 6/6/2007 3:13:43 PM
        
        "even if .001 is true ........." - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:41:31 AM
        
        yep...and I thought I had control issues.!!!! (n/t) - Jody - 6/7/2007 5:08:29 AM
        
        Quick - ds - 6/6/2007 4:01:58 PM
        
        re: Ford and Hitler - Jody - 6/7/2007 1:19:06 PM
        
        re: Quick - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:43:50 AM
        
        re: WARNING: Warning...Danger Will Robinson!! - Jody - 6/6/2007 4:42:33 PM
        
        "Proceed directly to denial " - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:45:19 AM
        
        IBM and the Holocaust - ds - 6/6/2007 4:12:00 PM
        
        re: IBM and the Holocaust - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:49:29 AM
        
        re: IBM and the Holocaust - ds - 6/7/2007 1:59:57 PM
        
        Resisting the Empire - ds - 6/7/2007 8:22:23 PM
        
        Wow. - TB - 6/7/2007 10:25:05 PM
        
        Are you suggesting a conspiracy Tom? (n/t) - Jody - 6/8/2007 4:36:21 AM
        
        I believe I was talking about only one person. - TB - 6/8/2007 8:29:33 PM
        
        Note how TB - ds - 6/8/2007 11:53:11 AM
        
        re: Note how ds - TB - 6/8/2007 8:28:19 PM
        
        Concentrate... concentrate... orange juice made from concentrate - ds - 6/8/2007 8:34:52 PM
        
        Quick question: how do you feel about the Cuba embargo? (n/t) - TB - 6/8/2007 9:01:23 PM
        
        I think it is time to end it - ds - 6/11/2007 4:08:43 PM
        
        It has taken me a long while to get it...but I finally am. (n/t) - Jody - 6/8/2007 12:32:29 PM

Blackwater Security is flying people to secret torture centers around the world - Eric - 6/11/2007 2:59:54 PM
- The picture proves only that an aircraft with that number landed in England. - TB - 6/11/2007 4:02:34 PM
- Outsourcing Torture - Lindy - 6/11/2007 3:13:19 PM

What Did the CIA Tell President Bush About Iraq? - gbaikie - 6/11/2007 10:07:34 AM

San Francisco vs. the Blue Angels - TB - 6/11/2007 2:26:31 AM

New pitcher, new strikes. The Bush war strategy. - Bowser - 6/9/2007 2:18:17 AM
- Fatal Flaw - Eri - 6/9/2007 7:28:36 PM
- And if he had kept on everyone who set up the current Iraq situation? - TB - 6/9/2007 5:49:21 AM
  - "There is actually nothing Bush can do that would make the deranged happy..." - Lindy - 6/10/2007 8:48:22 PM
  - What did Bush think when he decided to attack Iraq? - Raoul - 6/9/2007 8:03:16 PM
  - You've got it all wrong - Eri - 6/9/2007 7:30:40 PM
  - That would be Bush and Cheney, wouldn't it. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/9/2007 3:07:27 PM
    - (Apparently he doesn't want to answer this one.) (n/t) - Bowser - 6/9/2007 9:32:14 PM

Incredible interview with Condi Rice. - Bowser - 6/10/2007 6:43:57 PM
- ""It may take successive administrations to succeed." - Lindy - 6/10/2007 6:53:25 PM

Michael Moore debuts new Sicko Footage on Oprah - Eric - 6/10/2007 1:47:32 PM
- Powerful stuff - Eri - 6/10/2007 4:40:33 PM
  - Thanks for the video - Lindy - 6/10/2007 6:45:22 PM

This is not a class act - "Hilton Sent Back to Jail in Hysterics" - Bowser - 6/8/2007 11:57:38 PM
- Judge Screwed - ed - 6/9/2007 1:46:44 PM
- A sad testament - Eri - 6/9/2007 1:33:12 AM
- That sense of Entitlement - Lindy - 6/9/2007 1:21:21 AM
  - re: That sense of Entitlement - Eric - 6/9/2007 10:49:08 AM
    - She was NOT a first time offender - Eri - 6/9/2007 2:50:58 PM

Press conference on early surge results from General Odierno in Iraq - TB - 6/8/2007 10:50:42 PM
- Grim. - Bowser - 6/8/2007 11:46:00 PM
  - re: Grim. - TB - 6/9/2007 1:11:33 AM

Bush to "ill" to attend the G-8 Summit - Lindy - 6/8/2007 6:09:16 PM
- Uncomfortable around people who aren't afraid of him. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/8/2007 8:44:13 PM
- Bush tried to catch up with Sarko during a jogging session:-) (n/t) - Raoul - 6/8/2007 6:40:57 PM
  - The German PM turned down his offer for another massage - ds - 6/8/2007 6:46:14 PM
    - It's just a cop-out - Lindy - 6/8/2007 8:02:51 PM
      - I don't really have to praise Bush. - TB - 6/8/2007 8:52:56 PM
        
        "I'd still vote for Bush over Kerry"........ - Lindy - 6/8/2007 10:29:54 PM

Britain launches new submarine - TB - 6/8/2007 9:16:40 PM

How rich, famous people handle jail - TB - 6/7/2007 8:05:54 PM
- Eat the Rich - ds - 6/7/2007 8:25:44 PM
  - Actually, I have more pity for her than anything else. - TB - 6/8/2007 7:44:31 PM
    - She's definitely not having a good day today - ds - 6/8/2007 7:48:13 PM

June 6, 1944 - TB - 6/7/2007 1:20:38 AM
- Kate Smith radio show - TB - 6/7/2007 6:21:13 AM
  - Kate Smith and PRODUCT TIE INS - carl - 6/7/2007 4:39:01 PM
- re: June 6, 1944 - Raoul - 6/7/2007 5:45:08 AM
  - re: June 6, 1944 - Marcia - 6/8/2007 2:25:17 AM
    - re: June 6, 1944 - forgot.... - Marcia - 6/8/2007 2:28:15 AM
      - re: June 6, 1944 - forgot.... - Raoul - 6/8/2007 5:31:46 AM
- Roosevelt's speech that evening - TB - 6/7/2007 2:25:33 AM
- Thanks Tom - McFly - 6/7/2007 1:48:32 AM
  - Ignore 'em. (n/t) - TB - 6/7/2007 2:00:56 AM
    - Yeah, keep sticking your fingers in your ears - ds - 6/7/2007 1:50:34 PM
      - re: Yeah, keep sticking your fingers in your ears - or make excuses for those that do. (n/t) - Marcia - 6/8/2007 2:31:07 AM
- And on a lighter note... - TB - 6/7/2007 1:21:25 AM

Turkish forces enter Kurdish Iraq - Andrew - 6/6/2007 4:04:00 PM
- Maybe not... - TB - 6/7/2007 7:42:13 PM
- Can't blame them - TB - 6/6/2007 5:59:06 PM

Republicans hellbent upon humilitating themselves further. - Bowser - 6/7/2007 4:06:31 AM
- Mrs. Cheney as a Republican Religious Icon? - Lindy - 6/7/2007 6:01:28 PM
  - She's as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice our country... - EdithB - 6/7/2007 6:55:38 PM

Ho hum. "Gates prods Iraqi government to move faster." - Bowser - 6/7/2007 1:07:52 AM
- Oh, yeah, on yesterday's NYT article - TB - 6/7/2007 1:26:26 AM
  - "Baghdad Security Plan not succeeding because of "sectarian bias" within the Iraqi police. - Lindy - 6/7/2007 6:05:21 PM
  - "Commanders say Push in Baghdad is Short of Goal" - Bowser - 6/7/2007 2:16:53 AM
    - Would you please repeat that? - Lindy - 6/7/2007 3:27:48 AM

The Debates - TB - 6/6/2007 7:52:30 PM
- I keep reading... - azstrummer - 6/6/2007 8:38:14 PM
  - re: I keep reading... - TB - 6/7/2007 12:20:49 AM
    - compared to the other nut cases - azstrummer - 6/7/2007 4:46:03 PM
    - And on the internet surveys... - TB - 6/7/2007 12:22:04 AM
  - Hillary scares the hell out of them, doesn't she? (n/t) - Bowser - 6/6/2007 11:18:10 PM
    - Yeah, they're all shaking out there. Reality check: - TB - 6/7/2007 12:35:48 AM
  - re: I keep reading... - gbaikie - 6/6/2007 10:18:34 PM

Potential breakthrough on stem cell research - TB - 6/7/2007 1:35:10 AM

Iran supplying Taliban? - TB - 6/7/2007 1:03:20 AM

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