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Lemonchois pulverized the Atlantic crossing sail race record - Raoul - 11/6/2006 7:42:52 PM
- AArgh! Well blow me down, matey! - ER - 11/6/2006 9:50:33 PM
  - re: It is the name of the race... - Raoul - 11/7/2006 7:50:43 PM
    - Ah, the rum route. Echoes of the triangle trade... - ER - 11/8/2006 1:04:01 AM

Saddam Guilty. Gets the gallows - Buck Galaxy - 11/5/2006 9:12:56 AM
- Added bonus - TB - 11/6/2006 1:21:11 AM
- The outcome was predetermined.. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/5/2006 11:35:40 PM
  - Cry me a river........ - Lindy - 11/6/2006 12:37:29 AM
    - "Rumsfeld supplying Hussein with chemical weapons to gas the Kurds?" - Alan G. Archer - 11/6/2006 5:19:13 AM
      - Old myth. Let it go. - TB - 11/6/2006 7:00:39 AM
        
        But Rumsfeld and the White House continued to sell him weapons - Lindy - 11/7/2006 6:25:27 AM
        
        re: "weapons" - TB - 11/7/2006 8:48:48 PM
        
        Well, well.......... - Lindy - 11/8/2006 12:55:36 AM
- More links - TB - 11/5/2006 9:16:14 PM
- Good news. - Tony - 11/5/2006 3:41:04 PM
- re: Saddam Guilty. Gets the gallows - Donald - 11/5/2006 3:06:35 PM
- Our monster killed more than that monster (n/t) - Eric - 11/5/2006 12:11:16 PM
  - FDR? Robert E. Lee? ? (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/5/2006 8:27:06 PM

"U.S. urges Muslim youth to avoid extremism" - Bowser - 11/8/2006 12:20:08 AM

Military publications: "Rumsfeld must go" - Donald - 11/4/2006 3:28:00 AM
- Department of Defense responds: - TB - 11/5/2006 3:45:25 AM
  - "that new web page we discussed earlier" - Robert - 11/5/2006 6:34:12 PM
    - re: "that new web page we discussed earlier" - TB - 11/5/2006 9:18:40 PM
      - The world is new when you just are starting to pay attention. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/5/2006 10:25:02 PM
  - Ya know, if they had been telling me the truth all this time... - Mary Anne - 11/5/2006 5:19:46 PM
  - Rumsfelds new war room. Fantasy Board stuff. "I don't do quagmires." - Bowser - 11/5/2006 6:51:01 AM
  - A bit more collected by Instapundit - TB - 11/5/2006 3:56:43 AM
- Wasting a reply on the homegrown insurgency - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/4/2006 10:38:47 PM
  - Nice try at redefining dissent as terrorism. - Mary Anne - 11/5/2006 4:56:40 PM
    - No. I mean it: Homegrown insurgency. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/5/2006 9:59:55 PM
  - Ollie-Tech1? - Lindy - 11/5/2006 4:05:15 PM
- No reaction from the Right? - Robert - 11/4/2006 8:47:23 PM
  - re: No reaction from the Right? - REB - 11/6/2006 10:20:44 PM
    - Interesting idea - Robert - 11/6/2006 11:29:58 PM
      - Powell would be a good choice. - REB - 11/7/2006 9:24:54 PM
        
        Surveillance of Iraq - Robert - 11/7/2006 10:12:28 PM
        
        Might need Tom's or Jeff's input. - REB - 11/7/2006 10:17:57 PM
        
        Missing link - Robert - 11/7/2006 10:13:27 PM
  - "The opinion of the mainstream military" - TB - 11/4/2006 10:15:48 PM
    - Why now? And they lose readership if they don't reflect the military. Occam's razor. - Bowser - 11/5/2006 12:51:12 AM
      - Performance - TB - 11/5/2006 3:00:13 AM
        
        "Other than not winning the Iraq war as quickly as they were supposed to, - - " - Bowser - 11/5/2006 7:35:28 AM
        
        As if you would have supported "overwhelming force." - TB - 11/5/2006 9:31:01 PM
    - Legitimate question about "mainstream military" - Robert - 11/4/2006 11:09:01 PM
      - The problem with "investigations" - TB - 11/5/2006 2:49:04 AM
        
        All those things - Robert - 11/5/2006 5:04:27 PM
  - re: No reaction from the Right? - ER - 11/4/2006 9:16:10 PM
    - "...a few are doing it just because its right." - Robert - 11/4/2006 10:03:17 PM
      - I'll expect your support for Gingrich in '08. ;) (n/t) - TB - 11/4/2006 10:17:22 PM
        
        Lessee - "Contract with America". Something to do with debt, budgets? - Bowser - 11/4/2006 11:35:18 PM
        
        re: Lessee - "Contract with America" - TB - 11/5/2006 2:48:21 AM
        
        Smaller budgets, less government, lower deficits since 2001? - Bowser - 11/5/2006 6:57:20 AM
        
        Gingrich resigned in 1998. Do try to stay focused on what I'm talking about. (n/t) - TB - 11/5/2006 9:32:43 PM
        
        Ahh, the Newt - Robert - 11/4/2006 11:21:38 PM
- Looks as if the only True Believers left are in the WH and here. - Bowser - 11/4/2006 5:26:49 AM
  - LOL, good one Bowser (n/t) - Lindy - 11/4/2006 4:31:59 PM
- The editorial - Donald - 11/4/2006 3:32:06 AM
  - "Meanwhile, colonels and generals have asked their bosses for more troops." - Bowser - 11/4/2006 7:03:31 AM

pulsa danura? - alcaray - 11/7/2006 4:27:34 PM
- re: pulsa danura? - TB - 11/7/2006 9:49:10 PM

Hugo Chavez strikes again: "If you don't support me, you are fired" - David F Mayer - 11/4/2006 11:47:21 PM
- Sort of like Bush's political appointments, huh? (n/t) - Bowser - 11/5/2006 12:04:53 AM
  - No. Civil service protects government workers from being fired by President. (n/t) - DFM - 11/7/2006 9:35:09 PM
  - Actually, nothing at all like that. Kerry School of Comedy grad? (n/t) - TB - 11/5/2006 2:39:42 AM

My (current) governor condemns me - Fox - 11/6/2006 6:23:08 PM
- Must know you. Or guessed well. :-) - Bowser - 11/7/2006 9:20:42 PM
  - *grin* (n/t) - Fox - 11/7/2006 9:27:45 PM
- Already there - azstrummer - 11/6/2006 11:45:56 PM
- Oh, I thought it'd be about hair. (n/t) - et - 11/6/2006 10:53:35 PM
  - LOL, right... Gov. Goodhair condemns Fox Nohair (n/t) - Fox - 11/7/2006 12:17:51 AM
- Now, wait a second! - God - 11/6/2006 9:12:39 PM
- Just your soul. I'll bet he'd let you vote for him. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/6/2006 8:24:05 PM
- re: My (current) governor condemns me - Hans Garibaldi - 11/6/2006 7:41:13 PM
  - Imagine what he would do were he Islamic. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 11/6/2006 9:13:46 PM
    - Or Bavarian!!! (n/t) - alcaray - 11/6/2006 9:41:40 PM
      - Hey, remember the Bavarian people opted for secularization......... - Publius - 11/7/2006 10:29:10 AM

Uncle Sam Wants You (and he'l lie to get you) - Fox - 11/6/2006 4:33:54 AM
- Ok, I can't help myself. - RNE - 11/7/2006 6:11:20 PM
- Well-timed story. - TB - 11/6/2006 6:49:14 AM
  - Three recruiters are caught lying on tape. - Mary Anne - 11/6/2006 6:47:33 PM
    - re: Three recruiters are caught lying on tape. - TB - 11/6/2006 8:11:25 PM
      - It's OK to lie to a kid if there's an activist around. Here's an extension. - Bowser - 11/6/2006 8:28:40 PM
        
        Try and keep up. - TB - 11/6/2006 8:34:07 PM
  - You can't deal with issues, can you? - Bowser - 11/6/2006 7:35:57 AM
    - You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you. - TB - 11/6/2006 7:58:58 AM
      - re: You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you. - dtb - 11/6/2006 6:32:26 PM
- Didn't finish HS? Wanna fly a jet? NP!! Just sign here. - Bowser - 11/6/2006 6:03:45 AM
- Michael Moore & kerry are right! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/6/2006 5:43:14 AM

Nancy Pelosi comes out of hiding, reveals plan for Iraq - TB - 11/6/2006 1:58:04 AM
- Stump speech - alcaray - 11/7/2006 4:44:04 PM
- So, the Speaker of the House is now CINC? - et - 11/6/2006 5:34:31 AM
  - re: You mean there batteries are weak now? ;-) (n/t) - SteveS - 11/6/2006 2:10:56 PM
  - "We have no power so it doesn't matter if we're brainless." - TB - 11/6/2006 6:54:56 AM
    - Bush is not well known for his intellect, by the way. - Bowser - 11/6/2006 7:38:56 AM
      - Apparently, there's a lot of that going around. - TB - 11/6/2006 8:04:55 AM
        
        "Find one objective measure "....... - Lindy - 11/6/2006 7:50:13 PM
        
        A lack of command of his native language. BIG index of stupidity. - Bowser - 11/6/2006 9:38:28 PM
- Fortunately, the Diebold machines are on our side. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/6/2006 4:39:39 AM
- Wait! Barbara Boxer has a plan, too! - TB - 11/6/2006 2:58:19 AM
- What's Bush's plan? (n/t) - Bowser - 11/6/2006 2:11:57 AM
  - Bush's plan - TB - 11/6/2006 2:40:28 AM
    - Define "plan" - Robert - 11/6/2006 5:28:28 PM
      - Speaking of ex post facto - Robert - 11/6/2006 5:42:38 PM
        
        It was all there. - TB - 11/6/2006 6:19:34 PM
        
        Seriously, please define "plan" - Robert - 11/6/2006 8:24:15 PM
        
        re: "plan" - TB - 11/6/2006 8:55:19 PM
        
        yammer infantile generalities - Yeti - 11/6/2006 10:27:03 PM
    - re: Bush's plan - Laurie Street - 11/6/2006 4:44:09 PM
      - Have you noticed that your example sounds like the Democratic ones? (n/t) - TB - 11/6/2006 6:20:17 PM
        
        Here comes the new plan, same as the old plan - Laurie Street - 11/6/2006 8:37:12 PM
    - Stage one: "Iraq is making steady progress in fighting terrorists, meeting political milestones, building democratic institutions, and standing up security forces." - Bowser - 11/6/2006 5:37:55 AM

Power out in Europe - Raoul - 11/6/2006 6:45:12 AM
- Probably some "youths" hiding under transformers again. (n/t) - Lee - 11/7/2006 5:08:06 AM
- That dang global cooling! (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/6/2006 11:25:15 AM
  - You're ok, Techie - Laurie Street - 11/6/2006 5:08:55 PM

Washington Post interviews troops in Iraq - TB - 11/7/2006 2:16:55 AM

Financial war on North Korea - TB - 11/4/2006 6:01:17 PM
- Now there's a brilliant idea! - Laurie Street - 11/6/2006 8:45:33 PM
  - Really works well only on countries of limited internal resources. - TB - 11/7/2006 1:08:57 AM
- Jumpin' Jehosaphat! - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/5/2006 11:41:45 PM
  - Sometimes an ad is just an ad. - TB - 11/6/2006 12:10:03 AM

Nicaraguan elections today - TB - 11/6/2006 1:05:12 AM
- Ortega won! Time to crank up that Hurricane making machine that Reagan launched into space a few years back. - Scott Evil - 11/6/2006 10:10:29 PM
- Any relation to our Publius? (n/t) - ER - 11/6/2006 1:18:02 AM
  - Seriously doubt it. (n/t) - TB - 11/6/2006 1:21:41 AM

Unemployment rate 4.4 percent. - TB - 11/4/2006 2:15:36 AM
- Enjoy it while we can - FrankC - 11/4/2006 6:44:10 AM
  - "A new broom sweeps clean" - Robert - 11/4/2006 10:28:02 PM
    - "For the Right, it means resisting the temptation to become bitter and spin dark yarns about media conspiracies and stolen elections." - TB - 11/5/2006 3:25:43 AM
      - Let's hope we have a clean election - Robert - 11/5/2006 5:39:00 PM
        
        The main change that is needed - TB - 11/5/2006 9:46:22 PM
        
        Greens not in the game??? After they gave you the presidency??? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/6/2006 6:28:20 PM

Rev. Ted Haggard admits to sexual immorality - Lindy - 11/6/2006 3:15:13 AM
- What're gonna do? Let's say yer an evangelist, want a massage. - Bowser - 11/6/2006 6:06:19 AM
  - up the chain - Eric - 11/6/2006 5:37:48 PM

Hands up anyone this makes sense to... - Tony - 11/5/2006 3:29:16 PM
- They are just lucky that they aren't shot while escaping. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/6/2006 4:23:44 PM
- Makes perfect sense to me. - Mary Anne - 11/5/2006 7:26:32 PM
- Because a "confession" under torture is inadmissable. - Bowser - 11/5/2006 6:48:05 PM
- Try this one - FrankC - 11/5/2006 6:29:09 PM
  - Right on the mark. ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/5/2006 9:27:15 PM
- One reason. - RobVG - 11/5/2006 6:11:46 PM
  - Not a reason. - ER - 11/5/2006 6:29:29 PM
    - My guess..... - Lindy - 11/6/2006 12:29:19 AM
    - Not much so far. - TB - 11/5/2006 9:03:41 PM
- No rhyme, no reason - Lindy - 11/5/2006 5:28:43 PM
- I find this very hard to believe, - ER - 11/5/2006 4:22:41 PM
- re: Hands up anyone this makes sense to... - Eric - 11/5/2006 4:02:15 PM
  - "on par with Sadaam" is neither realistic nor helpful. (n/t) - Tony - 11/5/2006 4:25:50 PM
    - Same reasons, same results. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/5/2006 6:56:38 PM
    - Some are republicans now begining to see how dysfunctional this really is. - Eric - 11/5/2006 5:56:58 PM

Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Makes 111st Place With CPI Table - Alan G. Archer - 11/6/2006 1:30:46 PM

"Former head of the National Association of Evangelicals buys meth and paid male prostitute for massage and gay sex" - Lindy - 11/3/2006 8:06:15 PM
- So let's be clear here.... - Donald - 11/4/2006 2:35:19 AM
  - It's not as if he wanted to marry the guy! Get a grip. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/4/2006 2:44:06 AM
    - Oh...I don't know... - Donald - 11/4/2006 3:19:51 AM
      - Maybe he keeps George's hands busy during those weekly calls? - Lindy - 11/4/2006 4:20:08 AM
- Didn't let anything get into his body, though. Didn't inhale, anything. - Bowser - 11/3/2006 9:31:52 PM
- What's interesting is that.... - Donald - 11/3/2006 9:23:46 PM
  - And in the Florida governors' race we have....... - Publius - 11/3/2006 11:25:11 PM
    - Yo, Publius, should we tell them about Arza? (n/t) - ER - 11/4/2006 9:27:18 PM
      - Naw, Tom would just expain Jeb has already asked him... - Publius - 11/5/2006 7:08:32 PM
    - I'm sure all of this is just a lie...........right? (n/t) - Publius - 11/3/2006 11:26:36 PM

Another world. Cheney - "We've got the basic strategy right," - Bowser - 11/4/2006 6:27:02 PM
- "deadly dysfunctional" - Eric - 11/5/2006 12:17:29 PM
- Meanwhile: Conservatives Challenge Iraq Policy - Donald - 11/4/2006 8:26:42 PM

Saddam Guilty. Gets the gallows - Buck Galaxy - 11/5/2006 9:11:27 AM

Saddam verdict to be announced just before US elections. - Bowser - 11/3/2006 11:35:25 PM
- So? - TB - 11/5/2006 4:07:36 AM
- What will we do if he's acquitted? - ER - 11/4/2006 2:06:24 PM
  - Elect him president in the next election, of course.... - Publius - 11/4/2006 9:14:10 PM
    - Wouldn't be the first leader who made a comeback from a jail cell. - TB - 11/5/2006 3:27:44 AM
  - Won't be. The panel is loaded. - Bowser - 11/4/2006 3:08:41 PM
- whoda thunk it?re: Saddam verdict to be announced just before US elections. (n/t) - ian 9ognito - 11/4/2006 3:58:23 AM

Nuclear test looking less like a real nuclear test? - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2006 3:36:10 AM
- Very possible - Donald - 10/10/2006 1:48:21 PM
  - re: Neo con this Neo con that - Adam Bomber - 10/10/2006 1:51:13 PM
    - Connecting the dots - Donald - 10/10/2006 1:54:14 PM
- I'm starting to think it was a hoax. North korea has nukes like Sadam had WMD's... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2006 1:47:49 PM
  - NK's nukes are in Syria?? ;-) (n/t) - Tony - 10/10/2006 2:04:04 PM
    - No No, I ate them (*burp*). Spicy! (n/t) - The Yeti - 10/10/2006 3:54:42 PM
    - re: LOL - Scott Evil - 10/10/2006 2:40:21 PM
- Two things that could've happened. - Lee - 10/10/2006 6:33:11 AM
  - re: Two things that could've happened. - katmandu32 - 11/5/2006 3:57:49 AM
- The amount to initiate a nuclear explosion would be 'Pounds' even when converted to TNT equivalents - :( - 10/10/2006 6:06:15 AM
- News story link - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2006 4:31:08 AM
  - Interesting article - azstrummer - 10/10/2006 3:32:05 PM

"- - - secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops," - Bowser - 11/5/2006 1:13:11 AM
- Interesting. - TB - 11/5/2006 3:14:42 AM
  - Additional reading - TB - 11/5/2006 3:18:47 AM

"No Foley ethics report before Election Day" - Bowser - 11/4/2006 11:48:04 PM

Hope he's right - "- - - says the language of chaos and catastrophe has got out of hand. " - Bowser - 11/4/2006 3:04:42 PM
- Stormy weather - ER - 11/4/2006 3:42:24 PM
- Whoops! Regards climate change. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/4/2006 3:34:49 PM
  - Using fear as a political weapon. - TB - 11/4/2006 6:03:47 PM

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