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Result of latest surrender vote in the Senate - TB - 3/15/2007 11:57:25 PM
- You think this is 'FUN'?!!!! - Arrell - 3/16/2007 8:41:37 AM
- Forgetting exactly who lost that "war". - Bowser - 3/16/2007 1:40:43 AM
  - You're not getting it (and a link to the House Bill info) - TB - 3/16/2007 2:00:03 AM
    - IT'S ALREADY LOST, AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS. - Bowser - 3/16/2007 2:46:45 AM

Unsettled science - gbaikie - 3/16/2007 6:30:47 AM

US. Attny firings issue runs deeper than even I suspected - Yeti - 3/13/2007 4:30:04 PM
- AG AG just had a press conference - Tony - 3/13/2007 7:15:17 PM
  - They were pressured, fired, and the threatened - R.L. - 3/14/2007 12:36:15 PM
- Also: if the removals were: "perfectly appropriate and within our discretion" ... - Yeti - 3/13/2007 4:38:35 PM
- Okay, you lost me. - TB - 3/13/2007 4:34:51 PM
  - Any Clinton fired had to be replaced by someone confirmed by congress - R.L. - 3/14/2007 10:57:31 AM
  - Gonzales admits he made mistakes, but TB knows better, right? - R.L. - 3/14/2007 10:55:14 AM
  - Please read the following link.... - R.L. - 3/14/2007 4:23:07 AM
    - Carol Lam - dtb - 3/14/2007 10:25:41 AM
      - And Harry Cummins was investigating a Republican Govenor for corruption... - R.L. - 3/14/2007 11:54:01 AM
        
        True, but not as documented as for Lam - dtb - 3/14/2007 1:48:41 PM
        
        Link for quote: - R.L. - 3/14/2007 12:20:17 PM
    - re: Please read the following link.... - TB - 3/14/2007 4:59:47 AM
      - Page 35 certainly indicates that ROVE was in on it... - R.L. - 3/14/2007 5:16:05 AM
  - Heh, heh. Let's put the "cute" back into "prosecute". - Bowser - 3/13/2007 8:48:53 PM
  - Clinton fired em all, or maybe it was Reno asserting her authority - Tony - 3/13/2007 5:01:33 PM
    - How's Old Shakey Doing these days? - carl - 3/13/2007 5:03:38 PM
      - That is pretty low... - R.L. - 3/14/2007 12:42:13 AM
      - Don't know that Lee is that low. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/13/2007 8:49:56 PM
        
        No, Lee is lower than that... - R.L. - 3/16/2007 4:36:22 AM
      - Man, I hope you get parkinsons and live a long, long time. - Yeti - 3/13/2007 5:16:15 PM
  - re: Okay, you lost me. - dtb - 3/13/2007 5:01:29 PM
  - re: Okay, you lost me. - Yeti - 3/13/2007 4:46:02 PM
    - You're blithering. - TB - 3/13/2007 5:02:59 PM
      - You are the one with no clue... - R.L. - 3/14/2007 2:49:00 PM
        
        Look up Jay B. Stephens. (n/t) - TB - 3/14/2007 3:59:54 PM
        
        Are you SERIOUSLY going to try to defend this? - R.L. - 3/14/2007 7:24:51 PM
        
        I'm not defending it. I'm pointing out the usual rank hypocrisy. - TB - 3/14/2007 11:51:20 PM
        
        Yet you haven't condemned it- what does that say about YOUR rank and file hypocrisy? - ARRELL - 3/15/2007 12:50:12 AM
        
        Did you even READ the emails?!! - ARRELL - 3/15/2007 12:28:00 AM
        
        Where does the Patriot Act even come into this? - TB - 3/15/2007 1:33:13 AM
        
        Ok, so you DIDN'T read the emails.... - R.L. - 3/15/2007 1:51:10 AM
        
        Fine. You want to play? - TB - 3/15/2007 2:53:56 AM
        
        A suggestion, obviously ignored - Tony - 3/15/2007 2:02:32 PM
        
        You want to play bullshit? - R.L. - 3/15/2007 9:46:54 AM
        
        Which "right wing congressmen" would those be? - TB - 3/15/2007 5:55:56 PM
        
        P.S. Add another 20 days to the "no tinfoil comments" ban - Tony - 3/14/2007 5:09:07 PM
        
        Take it up with the New York Times. - TB - 3/14/2007 11:53:53 PM
        
        and look how well that turned out for rostenkowski..... - Tony - 3/14/2007 4:35:50 PM
        
        And this is relevant in what way? - R.L. - 3/14/2007 4:27:49 PM
      - Cute answer! Completely devoid of substance, but Cute! - Yeti - 3/13/2007 5:13:22 PM
        
        Background - TB - 3/13/2007 5:23:21 PM
        
        Lets run yet another list - Yeti - 3/13/2007 9:33:15 PM
        
        the rightist talking point is that everyone fires their US attorneys all the time - Tony - 3/13/2007 5:30:10 PM
        
        Yet in the E-mails, Sampson specifically said this was NOT the case... - R.L. - 3/14/2007 2:29:17 PM
        
        Exactly - Tony - 3/14/2007 3:25:11 PM
        
        re: Exactly - gbaikie - 3/14/2007 11:00:36 PM
        
        Let me type slowly for both TB and GB. - Tony - 3/15/2007 3:19:31 PM
        
        Beautiful, Tony. On of the best posts I have ever read here. - Yeti - 3/15/2007 4:54:11 PM
        
        Good idea, i'll light one up for ya now - Tony - 3/15/2007 5:26:01 PM
        
        Dirty rat bastard ;-) - Yeti - 3/15/2007 11:00:48 PM
        
        One person has stepped down, congressmen on both sides of the aisle are calling for investigation, GWB and the AG said mistakes were made - ARRELL - 3/14/2007 11:30:21 PM
        
        yawn (n/t) - gbaikie - 3/15/2007 1:30:16 AM
        
        OH! What a stunning refutation of the facts- you must be SOOOO proud (n/t) - R.L. - 3/15/2007 1:47:15 AM
        
        93 federal prosecutors (n/t) - gbaikie - 3/15/2007 3:42:26 AM
        
        When you are ignorant on a topic.... - R.L. - 3/15/2007 10:17:26 PM
        
        AGAIN- not ONE iota of contribution to the discussion... (n/t) - R.L. - 3/15/2007 3:53:30 AM
    - PS - Yeti - 3/13/2007 4:55:53 PM

Dogma update... - TB - 3/15/2007 7:40:13 PM
- re: Dogma update... - ER - 3/15/2007 11:28:05 PM
  - re: Dogma update... - TB - 3/15/2007 11:39:43 PM
    - Well, I agree with you about the nuclear power... - ER - 3/16/2007 1:02:55 AM
      - re: Well, I agree with you about the nuclear power... - gbaikie - 3/16/2007 4:26:09 AM
        
        re: Well, I agree with you about the nuclear power... - gbaikie - 3/16/2007 4:28:15 AM
- Gawd knows you'd have it. - Bowser - 3/15/2007 7:46:09 PM

TXU Follow-up - Fox - 3/16/2007 12:46:16 AM
- Very good! (n/t) - Bowser - 3/16/2007 2:37:50 AM
- Good news! - TB - 3/16/2007 1:28:42 AM
  - GigaWatt Question? - ER - 3/16/2007 1:49:39 AM
    - re: GigaWatt Question? - TB - 3/16/2007 2:03:51 AM
      - Breeders - ER - 3/16/2007 2:37:20 AM
        
        re: Breeders - TB - 3/16/2007 2:47:51 AM

Troop Surge is Working (so far) - folcwine - 3/15/2007 9:16:23 PM
- Nothing new here. The troop "surges" have always worked. - Bowser - 3/16/2007 2:43:45 AM
- Ask me in a few more months. - TB - 3/15/2007 9:25:42 PM

Update on John Couey, the man who raped and murdered a 9 year old girl. - REB - 3/13/2007 9:00:05 PM
- I still think the death penalty is too easy - ARRELL - 3/15/2007 9:35:36 AM
  - I don't want revenge. I want to be 100% sure he'lll never rape and kill another little girl ever again. - REB - 3/15/2007 11:55:45 AM
    - Traffic court hasn't got the same rules of evidence as capital criminal cases do. - Mary Anne - 3/15/2007 12:59:28 PM
      - Perhaps. - REB - 3/15/2007 1:08:39 PM
        
        Undercutting justice. - Mary Anne - 3/15/2007 1:21:23 PM
        
        re: Undercutting justice. - REB - 3/15/2007 1:32:45 PM
        
        Life in max security without parole is fine with me. - Mary Anne - 3/15/2007 2:01:31 PM
        
        Fine with me too. as long as he stays there. - REB - 3/15/2007 2:06:02 PM
- re: Update on John Couey, the man who raped and murdered a 9 year old girl. - Marcia - 3/14/2007 1:15:52 AM
  - re: Update on John Couey, the man who raped and murdered a 9 year old girl. (n/t) - loretta blankenship - 3/16/2007 12:46:06 AM
  - Here is another one. - REB - 3/14/2007 2:01:56 PM
    - What about the woman? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 3/15/2007 1:05:13 PM
      - His wife? - REB - 3/15/2007 1:09:44 PM
        
        So he should fry and she shouldn't? - Mary Anne - 3/15/2007 1:22:53 PM
        
        No, she should go to jail for following along. He planned it. - REB - 3/15/2007 1:28:37 PM

"Pentagon: 'Civil war' inadequate term for Iraq war." And how 'bout 'quagmire'? - Bowser - 3/15/2007 8:01:26 PM
- re: Choice of words - Raoul - 3/15/2007 9:36:45 PM

More realistic assessment of Khalid statement, IMO - TB - 3/15/2007 9:31:43 PM

These are Americans. More 'hearts and minds'. Sickening. - Bowser - 3/14/2007 6:24:26 PM
- Its not a problem, as TB will assure you.... - ARRELL - 3/14/2007 6:55:51 PM
  - What the problem is... - TB - 3/14/2007 11:42:55 PM
    - Sadly, TB, you have no idea. - Bowser - 3/15/2007 12:44:16 AM
      - Ah. The Invisible Turtle Heads Theory of atrocities. (n/t) - TB - 3/15/2007 12:51:01 AM
        
        Too many comic books, TB. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/15/2007 12:53:32 AM
        
        Still puts me miles ahead of people who get their news from Counterpunch. (n/t) - TB - 3/15/2007 12:56:01 AM
        
        I believe the citation was MSNBC, TB. - Bowser - 3/15/2007 1:49:16 AM
    - So you ARE saying that cold blooded murder is NOT the problem... - ARRELL - 3/15/2007 12:11:02 AM
      - the problem... - TB - 3/15/2007 1:08:16 AM

New question on the Citizenship test - Tony - 3/13/2007 4:28:54 PM
- What's actually going on - TB - 3/13/2007 4:59:45 PM
  - P.S. If the media is so hungry.... - Tony - 3/13/2007 6:05:25 PM
  - Last I heard, 100 hours went quite well. Hows that surge thingy going? - Tony - 3/13/2007 5:32:11 PM
    - Hows that surge thingy going? Part 3 - TB - 3/14/2007 3:13:57 AM
      - Did you see this? - REB - 3/14/2007 8:20:08 PM
        
        Not that significant. - TB - 3/15/2007 1:35:00 AM
    - re: Hows that surge thingy going? Part 2 - TB - 3/13/2007 10:16:35 PM
    - re: Hows that surge thingy going? - TB - 3/13/2007 6:01:27 PM
      - Oh I'd just look at Al Jazeera and the BBC (n/t) - Tony - 3/13/2007 6:02:51 PM
    - Try some research. Start with Schumer. (n/t) - TB - 3/13/2007 5:48:51 PM

Tracking bin Laden - TB - 3/13/2007 4:01:03 AM
- re: Tracking bin Laden - Andrew - 3/15/2007 1:11:31 AM

Alleged Prostitute Threatens To Sell Washington D.C. Client List - Eric - 3/4/2007 8:07:00 PM
- Sheesh- I gotta change my name AGAIN?! (n/t) - ARRELL - 3/6/2007 3:33:40 AM
- Washington D.C. Client's Have Sex With Prostitutes (n/t) - News at 11 - 3/6/2007 1:39:45 AM
- I did not have sex with that woman. (n/t) - ER - 3/4/2007 11:05:47 PM
  - And THAT WOMAN did not have sex with me. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/5/2007 6:55:07 PM
    - Like there is one that would? - RobVG - 3/6/2007 1:24:52 AM
      - They say there's someone for everyone. - Still hopin' at 66. - 3/6/2007 7:17:41 PM
  - Define "sex" (n/t) - LS - 3/5/2007 6:45:38 PM
    - $600 dollars an hour... (n/t) - :) That help? - 3/15/2007 12:18:22 AM
    - re: Define "sex" (n/t) - 1423 - 3/14/2007 5:05:09 PM
- It's the worlds' oldest profession - Lindy - 3/4/2007 10:54:43 PM
  - re: It's the worlds' oldest profession-practicing the second oldest - RNE - 3/6/2007 5:46:22 PM

"Policically connected manufacturer." "Corps of Engineers defends supplier, says pumps were better than nothing." - Bowser - 3/14/2007 3:14:50 AM

'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - gbaikie - 3/5/2007 1:15:57 AM
- My opinion is that the swindle isn't in that global warming exists... - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 3/9/2007 4:33:21 PM
- re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - Nick Brooks - 3/9/2007 12:10:11 AM
  - re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - gbaikie - 3/9/2007 3:22:43 AM
    - re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - Nick Brooks - 3/13/2007 5:12:02 PM
  - re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - gbaikie - 3/9/2007 1:28:59 AM
    - re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - Nick Brooks - 3/12/2007 12:49:56 PM
      - re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - gbaikie - 3/12/2007 6:56:09 PM
        
        re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - Nick Brooks - 3/13/2007 5:16:45 PM
        
        re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - Marcia - 3/14/2007 1:35:37 AM
        
        re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - gbaikie - 3/14/2007 1:06:24 AM
      - Welcome to the HZ - podrock - 3/12/2007 6:07:19 PM
        
        re: Welcome to the HZ - Nick Brooks - 3/13/2007 5:27:19 PM
        
        re: "Welcome to the HZ" - seconded - Fox, Moderator - 3/14/2007 1:09:51 AM
    - re: 'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary - gbaikie - 3/9/2007 2:08:26 AM
- Ironic - azstrummer - 3/6/2007 2:34:37 AM
  - A very reasonable position. Seriously. - TB - 3/6/2007 3:27:38 AM
- An example of how it's done - TB - 3/5/2007 5:50:46 PM
  - CO2 is not a pollutant - Lee - 3/6/2007 7:23:49 AM
  - re: An example of how it's done - gbaikie - 3/5/2007 8:03:38 PM
- Hysteria on the other side is no more productive than hysteria on the "global warming" side. - TB - 3/5/2007 1:42:18 AM
  - re: Hysteria on the other side is no more productive than hysteria on the "global warming" side. - gbaikie - 3/5/2007 2:22:37 AM
    - "The Great Global Warming Swindle?" - TB - 3/5/2007 2:49:00 AM
      - re: "The Great Global Warming Swindle?" - gbaikie - 3/5/2007 3:19:52 AM
      - Too bad, really, since there's some good information there. - TB - 3/5/2007 2:50:22 AM
        
        re: Too bad, really, since there's some good information there. - gbaikie - 3/5/2007 4:15:06 AM
- You can also find documentaries on Alien Autopsies, Alien Abduction, Fee Masonic conspiracies and [....] - Yeti - 3/5/2007 1:25:59 AM
  - re: You can also find documentaries.... - gbaikie - 3/5/2007 1:55:08 AM
    - worth to watch if - [blank] - 3/5/2007 9:15:21 PM
      - re: worth to watch if - gbaikie - 3/6/2007 4:09:03 AM

More fun in the Democratic Party - TB - 3/13/2007 1:06:21 AM
- You keep comparing a donkey with gas to an elephant with diahrrea. - Bowser - 3/13/2007 3:22:25 AM
  - Who do you like in 2008 so far? ;) - TB - 3/13/2007 3:53:54 AM
    - Chuck Schumer, but he's not running - Fox - 3/14/2007 12:30:54 AM
    - WJC. - Tony - 3/13/2007 4:31:04 PM
    - Jeb. Think of much worse it could be with someone smarter. - Bowser - 3/13/2007 4:18:51 PM

"President (Bush) seeks $3.2B to pay for 8,200 more troops than previously planned" (Not Johnson.) - Bowser - 3/11/2007 6:20:53 PM
- Special rules for Bush to play by???? - Randy - 3/11/2007 11:35:44 PM
- "- - - to achieve the goal of establishing Iraq and Afghanistan as democratic- - - " - Bowser - 3/11/2007 6:23:44 PM
  - Fighting Death and Destruction with more Death and Destructio - Lindy - 3/11/2007 8:24:04 PM
    - Sissys! (n/t) - Lindy - 3/12/2007 11:26:31 PM
      - To repeat: - TB - 3/13/2007 12:25:31 AM
        
        That report is four years old - Lindy - 3/13/2007 2:39:02 AM
        
        Sorry, but physics hasn't changed much since then. - TB - 3/13/2007 3:42:04 AM
        
        Royal Society Study 2002....European Commission 2001 - Lindy - 3/13/2007 5:46:18 AM
        
        Cite. - TB - 3/13/2007 11:17:39 PM
    - World Health Organization sheet on depleted uranium - TB - 3/11/2007 10:34:05 PM

Video: “The Great Global Warming Swindle” - gbaikie - 3/12/2007 5:51:02 AM
- Similar to Gore's movie. - TB - 3/12/2007 12:35:15 PM
- Nuances. - SDF - 3/12/2007 9:02:47 AM
  - Unfortunately... We have about 500 years left. - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 3/12/2007 8:03:51 PM
    - That's arguable though. - SDF - 3/12/2007 10:54:56 PM
  - re: Nuances. - gbaikie - 3/12/2007 11:24:13 AM
    - re: Nuances. - SDF - 3/12/2007 10:22:37 PM
      - Might want to hold up on the wiffle bat... - TB - 3/13/2007 3:45:31 AM
        
        re: Might want to hold up on the wiffle bat... - SDF - 3/13/2007 10:47:41 AM
        
        Junkscience vs RealClimate - who ya gonna believe? - Laurie Street - 3/13/2007 7:42:27 PM
        
        Junkscience has a stronger argument. (n/t) - SDF - 3/13/2007 9:39:31 PM
        
        re: Junkscience vs RealClimate - who ya gonna believe? - TB - 3/13/2007 8:37:54 PM
        
        Plastic lemons make awesome wiffle balls. - Lee - 3/13/2007 6:53:04 AM
      - re: Nuances. - gbaikie - 3/13/2007 12:48:18 AM
      - Or.... - SDF - 3/12/2007 11:11:34 PM

STAFF:Top General won't apologize for remarks on Gays - carl - 3/13/2007 5:02:24 PM
- He's obviously never heard of the Sacred Band of Thebes. (n/t) - ER - 3/13/2007 5:47:25 PM
- That's good to hear. - Lee - 3/13/2007 5:43:32 PM
  - Don't ASK, Don't TELL........... - carl - 3/13/2007 6:50:03 PM

Who's who in the oil industry - TB - 3/13/2007 3:56:21 AM
- Question - SDF - 3/13/2007 10:00:20 AM
  - We should be pouring footings for nuclear reactors today. - TB - 3/13/2007 4:10:43 PM
    - Nuclear does nothing for transportation. - SDF - 3/13/2007 4:21:05 PM
      - It will. - TB - 3/13/2007 4:37:53 PM

New Iraqi oil law drafted entirely in US. By US. For US. - Bowser - 3/13/2007 12:31:06 AM
- When did you turn into such a Chomsky fan? (n/t) - TB - 3/13/2007 1:10:10 AM
  - About the time you stopped dealing with content. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/13/2007 3:23:10 AM
    - That's pretty funny, coming from you. - TB - 3/13/2007 3:49:17 AM

Richard Armitage Lobbied for Mossad Agents involved with 9/11 - Lindy - 3/12/2007 1:19:31 AM
- That's very interesting reading. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/12/2007 7:40:51 PM
  - re: That's very interesting reading. - Lindy - 3/12/2007 11:21:57 PM

"Bush pushing U.S. compassion in Guatemala." - Bowser - 3/12/2007 7:35:29 PM
- Security - TB - 3/12/2007 7:55:59 PM
  - The poor man (GWB) is just tragically understood. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/12/2007 8:12:22 PM

Deficit still dropping - TB - 3/12/2007 6:09:22 PM
- Exactly how have tax cuts for the wealthy helped? - Bowser - 3/12/2007 7:40:13 PM

Left's lunatic fringe - SteveS - 3/11/2007 11:56:07 AM
- They're distancing themselves from the worlds greatest mistake. You guys own it. (n/t) - Eric - 3/12/2007 9:54:39 AM
  - re: Thatâ€™s funny, itâ€™s the most watched news outlet - SteveS - 3/12/2007 11:47:50 AM
- "Then they dash to their computers and fire off 2,500 e-mails condemning the outlet, none of which are ever read." - Fox - 3/11/2007 3:35:52 PM

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