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Dictionary: Civil War - Chris Vancil - 3/20/2006 12:58:39 AM
- re: Dictionary: Civil War - Emma - 6/6/2007 10:23:40 PM
- re: Dictionary: Civil War - gbaikie - 3/20/2006 4:57:50 AM
  - re: Dictionary: Civil War - Chris Vancil - 3/20/2006 7:55:27 AM
    - re: Dictionary: Civil War - gbaikie - 3/20/2006 9:25:08 AM
      - Oops - gbaikie - 3/20/2006 11:38:41 AM
- No. - Tom Brosz - 3/20/2006 1:55:15 AM
  - Well, there really aren't that many crips or bloods in the United States - alcaray - 3/20/2006 4:26:38 PM
  - Compromise is a dirty word to fanatics. - David F Mayer - 3/20/2006 2:54:53 PM
    - Oh. I thought you were talking about Republicans (n/t) - Robert - 3/20/2006 3:43:28 PM
  - re: Wishful think on your part. It is civil war when two or more groups are fight battles against each other. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 3/20/2006 2:09:59 AM

Sucker update, continued... - TB - 6/4/2007 12:54:57 AM
- And continued... - TB - 6/6/2007 7:35:06 PM
- re: Sucker update, continued... - Buck Galaxy - 6/4/2007 6:21:40 AM
  - Pork - TB - 6/4/2007 6:47:10 PM

French open: Justine beats Serena and it will be Ana against Maria in semi-finals - Raoul - 6/5/2007 8:15:03 PM
- So ugly women aren't allowed to play tennis any more? - ds - 6/5/2007 9:42:48 PM
  - Hmm, wondering where that was said - Raoul - 6/6/2007 5:29:55 AM

National Health Care update - TB - 6/5/2007 5:11:21 AM
- Tightening the grip in Britain - TB - 6/5/2007 10:36:24 PM
- That's right - let those who are sick and cannot afford medical care die! - ds - 6/5/2007 1:59:20 PM
  - The point...again... - TB - 6/5/2007 4:12:34 PM
    - And your solution? - azstrummer - 6/5/2007 4:52:40 PM
      - "it would make sense to do more preventative stuff before health gets so bad"..... - Lindy - 6/6/2007 2:20:20 AM
        
        Amazing how you feel about regulation when it's your ox being gored. (n/t) - TB - 6/6/2007 4:16:18 AM
        
        Excuse me? - Lindy - 6/6/2007 5:11:18 AM
        
        re: Excuse me? - TB - 6/6/2007 5:27:10 AM
      - Also, consider this: - D. - 6/5/2007 7:15:21 PM
        
        Means testing is a good idea. - TB - 6/5/2007 7:29:57 PM
      - re: And your solution? - TB - 6/5/2007 7:10:50 PM
  - Hey - it's their own fault, for not selling their cows and going into business (n/t) - M. Friedman - 6/5/2007 2:59:08 PM
  - No - let them eat cake (n/t) - M. Antoinette - 6/5/2007 2:57:08 PM
    - re: NHS - Andrew - 6/5/2007 4:25:38 PM
      - re: NHS - TB - 6/5/2007 4:52:12 PM
        
        Ah, Christian charity is your answer - azstrummer - 6/5/2007 5:02:24 PM
        
        Good grief. - TB - 6/5/2007 7:14:05 PM
        
        Never stand between a Conservative and money. - Bowser - 6/5/2007 5:57:02 PM
        
        re: Never stand between a Conservative and money. - Lindy - 6/6/2007 12:14:05 AM
        
        What's so crazy Bows.... - azstrummer - 6/5/2007 7:55:08 PM
        
        Your prejudice is showing. You might want to cover it. It looks ugly - REB - 6/5/2007 6:50:21 PM
        
        Research Ted Kennedy's role in Medicare. Then get back. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/6/2007 2:28:42 AM
        
        Ted Kennedy is enormously generous with other people's tax money. - TB - 6/6/2007 4:52:15 AM

Rats desert the sinking ship they helped build. Go figure. - Bowser - 6/6/2007 5:18:21 AM

Insider tore Cloak off plot to bomb JFK Airport - carl - 6/4/2007 6:30:09 PM
- What? We now have "terrorists" from Trinidad? - Lindy - 6/4/2007 9:38:15 PM
  - Equal opportunity OFFENDERS - carl - 6/4/2007 9:40:02 PM
- re: Insider tore Cloak off plot to bomb JFK Airport - azstrummer - 6/4/2007 9:23:40 PM
  - Go to NY Post online - carl - 6/4/2007 9:38:20 PM
    - Funny, - RobVG - 6/5/2007 2:11:02 PM
      - re: Funny, - azstrummer - 6/5/2007 2:22:09 PM
        
        Fair enough. (n/t) - RobVG - 6/6/2007 5:09:27 AM
        
        Exactly, Snitches Work Everytime - carl - 6/5/2007 4:50:10 PM

Democracy American Style - Lindy - 6/6/2007 3:41:13 AM
- What MSNBC carefully failed to mention - TB - 6/6/2007 4:50:32 AM
- Bush legacy. - Bowser - 6/6/2007 4:02:01 AM

"Discontent over Iraq increasing, poll finds." And you can see it. - Bowser - 6/5/2007 6:03:45 PM
- Signs supporting the war - TB - 6/5/2007 8:07:53 PM

William Jefferson indicted - TB - 6/4/2007 7:48:31 PM
- About 22 hours, it seems - dtb - 6/5/2007 6:46:09 PM
- Heh, heh. - Bowser - 6/4/2007 9:45:10 PM
  - Pretty lame, Bowser. - TB - 6/4/2007 10:15:12 PM
    - A little detail on your Pelosi comment - Buck Galaxy - 6/5/2007 6:31:14 AM
      - And now the fun begins - TB - 6/5/2007 4:25:55 PM
      - No wonder New Orleans is taking so long to recover. - Lee - 6/5/2007 11:15:51 AM
        
        A LOT (n/t) - TAFKASE - 6/5/2007 1:51:24 PM
        
        Norleans has been corrupt since before the Indians arrived - ds - 6/5/2007 1:55:57 PM
- This is good news - ds - 6/4/2007 8:12:45 PM

The home of the future? - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 4:03:47 PM
- re: The Hypergreen Tower, Building of the future! - Raoul - 6/1/2007 9:03:09 PM
  - Hope the rich India guy enjoys his luxury tower - ds - 6/2/2007 5:19:25 AM
    - The people in India are starting to revolt, though... - Jody - 6/3/2007 3:48:17 PM
    - Me too. - TB - 6/2/2007 8:11:17 PM
      - But for the rest of the over 1 billion people in India... - ds - 6/4/2007 6:19:31 PM
        
        Wealth is something that is created. - TB - 6/4/2007 8:00:52 PM
        
        "Mother" Teresa was a shill of the Church - ds - 6/4/2007 8:24:02 PM
        
        Point sailed right by, didn't it? - TB - 6/4/2007 10:17:58 PM
        
        Oh I saw your point - ds - 6/5/2007 3:45:48 AM
        
        India needs to get its population under control. - REB - 6/4/2007 7:40:29 PM
        
        Does India have oil? - ds - 6/4/2007 8:28:21 PM
        
        What does that have to do with my post? - REB - 6/4/2007 9:05:21 PM
        
        And do you recall... - ds - 6/5/2007 3:44:49 PM
        
        Exactly - ds - 6/4/2007 9:38:59 PM
        
        Are you sure you are not BDS insted of ds? - REB - 6/4/2007 9:42:40 PM
        
        BDS UPS USA USSR CPU IRA FBI CIA KGB - ds - 6/5/2007 3:48:17 AM
      - The peasants are revolting, sire! - ds - 6/4/2007 2:56:50 PM
        
        A favorite movie of mine. - TB - 6/4/2007 8:07:43 PM
        
        Which is what? - ds - 6/4/2007 8:16:06 PM
        
        BTW - ds - 6/4/2007 8:19:35 PM
    - The Hypergreen towers are not meant for one rich individual - Raoul - 6/2/2007 7:35:51 AM
      - But tough cookies for the poor folk at the base of those towers - kedfex-235235 - 6/2/2007 8:04:05 PM

157,000 new payroll jobs in May - TB - 6/5/2007 1:22:44 AM
- McDonalds and WalMart are really hiring, huh? - ds - 6/5/2007 3:50:00 AM
  - Go look up what "service providing sector" actually means. (n/t) - TB - 6/5/2007 4:02:47 AM
    - I did - ds - 6/5/2007 1:54:02 PM

Bush repeats the lie, disparages Americans. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/2/2007 9:34:40 PM
- re: Bush repeats the lie, disparages Americans. - REB - 6/4/2007 9:57:14 PM
- If we have another Republican President... - Eri - 6/3/2007 9:31:19 PM
  - re: If we have another Republican President... - TB - 6/4/2007 12:38:28 AM
    - Gee, what will you win... - ds - 6/4/2007 2:58:04 PM
      - Nothing, really. - TB - 6/4/2007 7:52:06 PM
        
        Oh of course, the republicans have NEVER rewritten reality - ds - 6/4/2007 8:30:16 PM
    - Well, we are always cleaning up your messes.. (n/t) - Eri - 6/4/2007 2:23:05 AM
- Fred Thompson - Lindy - 6/2/2007 10:56:14 PM
  - re: Fred Thompson - no, it's not about bank accounts - Marcia - 6/4/2007 12:08:21 AM
    - I'm fairly famliar with Irish history already - Eri - 6/4/2007 2:25:34 AM
  - Yeah? Wait for it. - TB - 6/3/2007 12:43:04 AM
    - Elegant. - Lee - 6/3/2007 1:15:49 AM

Hitchens vs Hitchens - gbaikie - 6/4/2007 6:25:14 AM

The Founding Fathers were children of the French Enlightenment - Raoul - 6/3/2007 1:08:54 PM
- re: Bastille Day and the Declaration of The Rights of Man. - Marcia - 6/3/2007 10:44:25 PM
- re: The Founding Fathers were children of the French Enlightenment - Marcia - 6/3/2007 9:41:12 PM
  - re: Enlightenment comes from many fronts. - Marcia - 6/3/2007 9:44:02 PM
- Yeah, Bill Maher's going to teach us history. - TB - 6/3/2007 7:23:52 PM
  - Religions - Raoul - 6/3/2007 8:14:03 PM
    - "wasn't immediately completely successful" - TB - 6/3/2007 8:30:55 PM
      - Fewer and fewer christians practice their religion (n/t) - Raoul - 6/4/2007 5:31:10 AM
      - Intellectuals - Raoul - 6/3/2007 8:51:00 PM
        
        re: Intellectuals - TB - 6/4/2007 12:29:34 AM
        
        BHL wants all nations to boycott the Beijing Olympic Games - Raoul - 6/4/2007 5:38:06 AM
        
        re: Intellectuals - Free editorial cartoonists are the arms of the free press. - Marcia - 6/4/2007 2:37:53 AM
        
        re: Intellectuals - gbaikie - 6/4/2007 12:14:45 AM
- We are inspired by Napoleon - FrankC - 6/3/2007 5:46:52 PM

The rosy view - "Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal" - Bowser - 6/4/2007 4:34:42 AM

The 6 day war....and then what? 40 years ago - Raoul - 6/3/2007 8:39:54 PM

Some guy awakes from a coma - gbaikie - 6/2/2007 10:14:02 PM
- Nice link. Thanks. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 6/3/2007 6:31:52 AM
- That's an amazing story - Lindy - 6/2/2007 11:00:45 PM

Another rat flees Bush's sinking ship - Eric - 6/1/2007 11:35:51 PM
- More than meets the eye. - Bowser - 6/1/2007 11:48:06 PM
  - re: More than meets the eye. - Lindy - 6/2/2007 5:19:13 PM

Censorship and the internet - TB - 6/2/2007 2:31:25 AM
- re: Censorship and the internet - Bowser - 6/2/2007 2:37:07 AM
  - How would you know? - TB - 6/2/2007 3:17:10 AM

"US troops death in Iraq hits 2-year high", over 4 years, and no closer to "democracy". - Bowser - 5/30/2007 3:00:47 AM
- What alarms me....... - Lindy - 5/31/2007 9:54:26 PM
- Of course Bowser.... - azstrummer - 5/30/2007 3:12:21 AM
  - it is a terrible cost. - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 1:38:10 PM
    - "And The Islamo-facists are dying in droves all over Iraq and Afganistan (And elsewhere)." - azstrummer - 6/1/2007 7:01:58 PM
      - "they're being replaced as fast or faster than we can blow them up." - TB - 6/2/2007 2:43:08 AM
  - Signing up - TB - 5/30/2007 3:52:22 AM
    - Fact: The "Green Zone" is less than 5% of Baghdad - 4 years later. - Bowser - 5/30/2007 6:02:32 AM
      - I'm just curious... - TB - 5/30/2007 6:13:32 AM
        
        We just had Memorial Day. - Bowser - 5/31/2007 12:15:44 AM
        
        Citation - Bowser - 5/31/2007 2:29:22 AM
        
        re: We just had Memorial Day. - TB - 5/31/2007 1:03:55 AM
        
        The Soviets - azstrummer - 5/31/2007 1:58:36 AM
        
        What imperialistic countries imploded? - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 1:43:11 PM
        
        re: What imperialistic countries imploded? - azstrummer - 6/1/2007 3:10:55 PM
        
        I think you views are a little optimistic. - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 4:18:56 PM
        
        Whoa boy - azstrummer - 6/1/2007 5:47:27 PM
        
        re: imperialistic countries - TB - 6/1/2007 4:12:10 PM
        
        re: The Soviets - TB - 5/31/2007 3:21:41 AM
        
        Stupidity, ignorance and the Soviets. - Bowser - 5/31/2007 2:33:10 AM
        
        re: I'm just curious... - Andrew - 5/30/2007 8:28:07 PM

"Phony Analogies" - How Iraq & Vietnam are the same, differ. - Bowser - 6/1/2007 9:13:03 PM
- re: "Phony Analogies" - TB - 6/2/2007 1:39:58 AM

Peggy Noonan in the WSJ "sticks it" regarding Conservative democracy. - Bowser - 6/1/2007 5:39:52 AM
- re: Peggy Noonan in the WSJ "sticks it" regarding Conservative democracy. - Jack Herer - 6/1/2007 3:53:31 PM
- Where have you been? - TB - 6/1/2007 3:44:19 PM
  - Rudy & Romney would be a good ticket. - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 4:09:17 PM
    - Hillary - TB - 6/1/2007 4:53:22 PM
      - Elections?? - Lindy - 6/1/2007 6:41:13 PM
      - In a way its really sad that Gore wasn't the President during 9-11 - TAFKASE - 6/1/2007 6:38:40 PM
        
        Actually........ - Lindy - 6/1/2007 6:57:38 PM
    - It isn't just the president - TB - 6/1/2007 4:48:26 PM

Sony's flexible full color OLED released - Lindy - 5/31/2007 1:06:16 PM
- I forsaw something like this a few years ago. - REB - 5/31/2007 1:50:59 PM

Guess who won the election in Syria. - TB - 5/30/2007 7:18:51 AM

Michael Yon Memorial Day message - TB - 5/28/2007 3:54:03 AM
- re: A great big THANK YOU to our boys - Jody - 5/28/2007 2:06:09 PM
  - Ditto. - TB - 5/28/2007 5:04:06 PM
    - Double Ditto. - Eri - 5/28/2007 5:16:10 PM
      - Which one? - Eri - 5/28/2007 10:26:47 PM
        
        Oops! - Eri - 5/28/2007 10:28:12 PM
      - And where did you read all that? (n/t) - TB - 5/28/2007 5:21:40 PM
  - re: A great big THANK YOU to our boys - Marcia - 5/28/2007 4:41:13 PM
    - ... and don't forget the girls - Fox - 5/28/2007 6:36:36 PM
      - re: ... and don't forget the girls - Marcia - 5/28/2007 8:51:52 PM
        
        Apology not required - Fox - 5/28/2007 11:31:54 PM
      - re: absolutely (n/t) - Jody - 5/28/2007 8:48:36 PM

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