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Wouldn't it be great... - Lee - 7/20/2006 12:58:04 AM
- Not gonna happen - Donald - 7/20/2006 4:18:31 AM
- re: Wouldn't it be great... - Eric - 7/20/2006 3:25:00 AM

Shocking news - gbaikie - 7/20/2006 12:41:47 AM
- re: Shocking news - gbaikie - 7/20/2006 12:55:47 AM

Big Bang Theory In Ruins - gbaikie - 7/17/2006 1:45:41 PM
- Who needs the Washington Post? - ER - 7/18/2006 3:35:32 PM
- Wow - Donald - 7/18/2006 4:54:27 AM
  - Right, We Need To Ignore Al-Queida For 8 More Years - ID - 7/19/2006 3:35:04 PM
  - re: Wow - Tom Brosz - 7/18/2006 11:29:31 PM
  - re: Wow - gbaikie - 7/18/2006 6:46:09 AM
    - The ex-VP describes his life as a movie star - gbaikie - 7/18/2006 9:51:07 AM
      - Good grief - Donald - 7/18/2006 1:52:33 PM
        
        Good grief-Yeap - ID - 7/19/2006 4:26:09 PM
        
        re: Good grief-Yeap - gbaikie - 7/19/2006 8:38:02 PM
        
        re: Good grief - gbaikie - 7/19/2006 12:10:14 AM

Blogmap of a war zone - Tom Brosz - 7/19/2006 7:24:02 AM

Antenna up... - Tom Brosz - 7/19/2006 12:33:21 AM
- re: Becoming popular - Raoul - 7/19/2006 5:48:12 AM

Indonesia tsunami - Raoul - 7/18/2006 5:38:57 AM
- Tsunami Strikes Java as seen from space - ljk - 7/19/2006 3:15:22 AM

Typographical Digression - ER - 7/14/2006 8:53:27 PM
- My best friend... - alcaray - 7/17/2006 9:50:10 PM
- Vehicle - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/15/2006 7:51:02 AM
  - The Last Word - ER - 7/15/2006 12:46:43 PM
    - What do they know? - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:43:12 AM
    - It was worth a guess. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/15/2006 6:13:39 PM
      - re: It was worth a guess. - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:56:33 AM
- re: Typographical DigressionAnd, with apologies to Marge Simpson, colourful leaves on trees are not foilage. (n/t) - Tony - 7/15/2006 1:43:15 AM
- I must confess.. - FrankC - 7/15/2006 12:59:35 AM
  - Like fingernails grating on blackboard (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:55:35 AM
  - I don't think vee hick ull is an accent or regional thing... - ER - 7/15/2006 1:15:09 AM
    - I reckon you is right. - REB - 7/18/2006 8:18:30 PM
    - I think we've been here before, but... - Fox - 7/16/2006 1:42:38 AM
    - I thought the English plural was "You guys" ;-) (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 12:57:56 AM
    - My favorite redneck phrase - FrankC - 7/15/2006 4:19:03 AM
- re: Typographical Digression - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 10:59:24 PM
  - I know it's meant to be an insult, but I just couldn't figure out how. (n/t) - ER - 7/14/2006 11:04:07 PM
    - Not really. - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 11:41:56 PM
      - re: Not really. - ER - 7/15/2006 12:10:04 AM
        
        it's a deliberate reframing - Robert - 7/15/2006 3:29:26 AM
        
        We've been framed! - ER - 7/15/2006 4:04:43 AM
        
        Unfortunately the concept of the loyal opposition..... - Publius - 7/15/2006 1:32:36 PM
        
        You're preaching to the choir, Mr. Publius. - ER - 7/15/2006 3:01:11 PM
        
        Very good perceptions ER - Lindy - 7/15/2006 3:18:18 PM
        
        By any other name... - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2006 8:38:41 AM
        
        "Words mean what I want them to mean" - Robert - 7/15/2006 4:25:42 PM
        
        re: "Which principle...?" - Fox - 7/16/2006 2:57:53 PM
        
        Nice try. - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2006 5:13:23 PM
        
        "Tom, please tell me: Which of those principles is not under attack by the radical Right?" - Robert - 7/15/2006 7:18:14 PM
        
        Devil, details, etc. - Tom Brosz - 7/16/2006 6:28:06 AM
        
        Burning the straw man - Robert - 7/16/2006 10:06:16 PM
        
        LOL! - Tom Brosz - 7/17/2006 2:15:49 AM
        
        I'm right behind you in line, Robert! (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 1:21:34 AM
- I don't want a pickle... - Fox - 7/14/2006 10:34:02 PM
  - Now you are reaching into regional linguistic sub-.standardisms....... - Publius - 7/15/2006 12:44:20 AM
    - *Snicker* (n/t) - Eri - 7/16/2006 1:23:10 AM

Doc BLOWS UP Swanky Manhattan townhouse 2 prevent wife getting it - carl - 7/11/2006 5:17:00 PM
- DOC DIES that blows up townehouse - carl - 7/17/2006 4:08:31 PM
  - The entire estate will go to pay injury claims. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/18/2006 3:14:43 PM
    - Yup, so true.... - carl - 7/18/2006 4:22:26 PM
- Well, that's another off-Broadway show that brought down the house n/t (n/t) - sz - 7/12/2006 1:50:36 AM
  - NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK!!!!!Ultimate Irony is......... - carl - 7/12/2006 2:10:56 PM
    - Gold digger wife - Lindy - 7/12/2006 10:52:59 PM
    - Go back and see "War of the Roses" - Lindy - 7/12/2006 3:34:02 PM
      - Sad Part is that this is 3rd or 4th attempt - carl - 7/12/2006 4:19:25 PM
        
        This guy needs a cerebrectomy. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/12/2006 8:45:02 PM

Howard Dean in the Twilight Zone - Tom Brosz - 7/17/2006 7:34:09 AM
- In another 5 years maybe the conservatives... - alcaray - 7/17/2006 5:16:29 PM
  - You really are an idealist, aren't you? - Robert - 7/17/2006 8:31:27 PM
    - I think you called it Robert......... - Lindy - 7/18/2006 1:55:08 AM
- There was peace with Israel under Clinton, if you don't count - David F Mayer - 7/17/2006 3:29:31 PM
  - Actually, David.... - Donald - 7/18/2006 5:06:48 AM
    - Anybody else class the al Aqsa Intifada as a "pothole?" (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/18/2006 5:47:06 AM
- Bush did ruin everything, the world knows that. War mongers are unacceptable. (n/t) - Eric - 7/17/2006 1:44:19 PM
- George Bush in the Twilight Zone - Lindy - 7/17/2006 1:16:33 PM
  - Look at history, Lindy. - Tom Brosz - 7/17/2006 4:51:30 PM
    - re: Who wins? - Raoul - 7/17/2006 8:26:52 PM
      - Look at history. - Tom Brosz - 7/17/2006 8:42:32 PM
        
        re: Look at history. - Raoul - 7/18/2006 5:47:31 AM

Liberty City Terror cell????? - Publius - 6/23/2006 1:45:30 AM
- CIA looking for "regime change" in Cuba....pays to train terrorists here in Miami - Lindy - 6/24/2006 2:43:24 PM
  - re: CIA looking for "regime change" in Cuba....pays to train terrorists here in Miami - Psy_Junky - 7/18/2006 1:25:30 AM
  - Yeah, Lindy. Let Radio Havana and Granma International tell you how it is. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/24/2006 7:31:51 PM
    - Radio Havana tells you how it is.......so what?. - Publius - 6/24/2006 9:55:04 PM
      - The point I was making is that Castro's media is probably a little low on the credibility scale - Tom Brosz - 6/24/2006 10:32:29 PM
        
        Would you consider it anti-American to hear what the 600,000 Canadian visitors to Cuba last hear had to say? (n/t) - Publius - 6/25/2006 3:20:59 PM
  - "The Pearl of the Antilles" - ER - 6/24/2006 5:52:49 PM
    - I mourn for Cuba.......... - Publius - 6/24/2006 8:48:37 PM
      - No hay mal que dure cien anos, ni pueblo que lo soporte. - ER - 6/24/2006 10:16:35 PM
        
        And don't forget...................... - Publius - 6/25/2006 12:03:45 AM
        
        If trade relations were restored... - ER - 6/25/2006 12:25:42 AM
    - I appreciated that story - Lindy - 6/24/2006 8:19:38 PM
      - It's just human nature. - ER - 6/24/2006 8:52:32 PM
- re: Liberty City Terror cell? - Fox - 6/23/2006 4:18:48 AM
  - NPR & AP - Fox - 6/23/2006 3:33:56 PM
  - If this is true - Lindy - 6/23/2006 4:58:30 AM
    - Tom, I hope this was the AQ event you referred to after Zarqawi's termination - LJK - 6/23/2006 1:04:05 PM
      - Is anyone here concerned that this "terror cell" is starting to look suspiciously like a media staged event? (n/t) - Publius - 6/24/2006 2:00:23 AM
        
        Not really - Fox - 6/24/2006 4:14:04 PM
        
        Timothy McVeigh-types - Publius - 6/24/2006 9:07:10 PM

People have got to get their [expletive] together - gbaikie - 7/17/2006 2:49:44 AM
- link messed up (n/t) - alcaray - 7/17/2006 5:19:01 PM

NYT reporter documenting the enemy - Tom Brosz - 7/16/2006 3:42:31 PM
- Photographer is South African. - RobVG - 7/17/2006 5:10:57 AM
- Strange. - RobVG - 7/17/2006 5:06:35 AM
- Thoughts on make of body armor on skinny? - Alan G. Archer - 7/17/2006 3:36:21 AM

Wilson and Plame sue Cheney - Tom Brosz - 7/13/2006 11:47:51 PM
- Plame's a babe! - ER - 7/15/2006 4:20:37 AM
- George H. Bush's view of traitors to the country - Jack Herer - 7/14/2006 12:00:20 PM
  - re: George H. Bush's view of Philip Agee - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 4:45:53 PM
    - re: George H. Bush's view of Philip Agee - Publius - 7/14/2006 8:17:02 PM
      - re: Philip Agee - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 8:30:34 PM
        
        Thanks, can you find me the album "Julie Wilson at the St. Regis" in any form, tape, record, or CD? (n/t) - Publius - 7/15/2006 12:34:14 AM
        
        Just in some forms. - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2006 2:17:26 AM
        
        Danke.... - Publius - 7/15/2006 12:55:02 PM
- and Rove and LIbby and 10 John Does - Robert - 7/14/2006 3:29:42 AM
  - Motives - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 4:18:21 AM
    - In court argument it is merit, not motive, that matters (n/t) - alcaray - 7/14/2006 3:39:38 PM
    - What Lindy said (n/t) - Robert - 7/14/2006 4:56:09 AM
    - "it's about keeping their names in the headlines" - Lindy - 7/14/2006 4:40:19 AM
      - Motives, continued: - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2006 6:15:30 PM
- They have every right to do so - Lindy - 7/14/2006 2:54:05 AM

Iraqi offical said Iranian gunmen had been captured - gbaikie - 6/30/2006 11:13:52 PM
- IRAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING - gbaikie - 6/30/2006 11:17:23 PM
  - re: IRAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING - Sarah McCain - 7/14/2006 11:05:55 AM
  - Oh, yeah, the picure - gb - 6/30/2006 11:25:55 PM
    - Ahh....the price of love - Lindy - 7/1/2006 4:14:45 PM
      - No, anyone not outraged by this deserves to be in hell. (n/t) - ER - 7/1/2006 7:40:37 PM
        
        re: anyone not outraged by this - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2006 1:27:28 AM
        
        I'm glad you're so sure of yourself, Tom - Lindy - 7/2/2006 2:44:48 AM
        
        I do all right. - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2006 2:49:55 AM
        
        Excising evil - Lindy - 7/2/2006 3:11:16 AM
        
        re: Excising evil - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2006 5:14:19 AM
        
        Fantasy of peace, fantasy of spin - Lindy - 7/2/2006 10:03:49 PM
        
        anyone not outraged by this - ER - 7/2/2006 2:05:15 AM
        
        re: outraged - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2006 2:25:48 AM
        
        "I've been reading her posts for a very long time. " - Lindy - 7/2/2006 2:52:49 AM
        
        Your point - Tom Brosz - 7/2/2006 5:25:46 AM
        
        re: "Your only point...." - Lindy - 7/2/2006 10:14:48 PM
        
        You can't even keep the countries straight. - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2006 1:16:56 AM
        
        Sorry - Lindy - 7/3/2006 2:52:36 AM
        
        Careful now..... - Lindy - 7/1/2006 9:24:42 PM
        
        Found it - Lindy - 7/1/2006 9:38:46 PM

Novak: Rove Was a Source in Outing Plame - Donald - 7/12/2006 2:46:44 AM
- re: Face it... The Plame thing was a lot about nothing... - Scott Evil - 7/13/2006 1:06:00 PM
  - Well, it was more like a pissed-off CIA that started the investigation. - alcaray - 7/13/2006 4:06:52 PM
- re: Novak: Rove Was a Source in Outing Plame - gbaikie - 7/12/2006 9:38:47 AM
  - What's your point? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/12/2006 1:06:58 PM
    - The point was the reporter's headline was crap. - Tom Brosz - 7/12/2006 5:49:43 PM
      - OK, I'll bite. A better headline would be....? (n/t) - Tony - 7/12/2006 8:49:48 PM
        
        Novak: No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson - SteveS - 7/13/2006 2:46:56 PM
        
        re: "democrats ... their exhaustive impeachment pursuits" - alcaray - 7/13/2006 9:29:08 PM
        
        Can't believe I missed that - tony - 7/13/2006 11:07:51 PM
        
        There was no effort.......... - Tony - 7/13/2006 8:07:49 PM
        
        re: OK, I'll bite. A better headline would be....? - gbaikie - 7/12/2006 10:39:28 PM
        
        Next you'll be quoting Hoekstra's opinions on the CIA.... - Tony - 7/13/2006 1:14:06 AM
      - The link is bad now. Was the headline: "Novak: Rove Was a Source in Outing Plame"? - alcaray - 7/12/2006 8:18:40 PM
        
        re: The link - Tom Brosz - 7/12/2006 10:04:02 PM
        
        Good grief, he comes to a lot of conclusions on scanty evidence! - alcaray - 7/12/2006 10:26:30 PM
        
        What? That's NOVAK. Do you know the history of this issue? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/12/2006 11:57:47 PM
        
        Lord knows "NOVAK" wouldn't spin or make anything up (n/t) - alcaray - 7/13/2006 3:13:49 PM
        
        Flimsy conclusions - Tony - 7/13/2006 1:12:22 AM
        
        Timing is everything - Robert - 7/13/2006 6:26:03 PM
        
        "There is zero evidence for any of this" You don't get it. - Tom Brosz - 7/13/2006 4:10:10 AM
        
        I'm not hanging on anything - Tony - 7/13/2006 1:55:05 PM

Einsteins Love life and view on E=mc2 - carl - 7/10/2006 11:30:44 PM
- Found out 'ol Al was a caring guy - carl - 7/12/2006 4:22:42 PM
- re: Einsteins Love life and view on E=mc2 - Lindy - 7/11/2006 12:57:09 AM
  - Another genius who was all too human - LJK - 7/13/2006 2:14:31 PM
  - He wasn't always the white-haired absent-minded professor - LJK - 7/11/2006 1:32:54 PM
    - The NUTTY PROFESSOR.......... - carl - 7/11/2006 5:13:07 PM
      - Boston Globe article - LJK - 7/12/2006 12:51:34 PM
        
        Caltech and Princeton University Press Release Tenth Volume of the Einstein Papers - LJK - 7/12/2006 3:03:56 PM

VICTORIA'S wind farms - gbaikie - 7/11/2006 12:55:04 AM
- Refining the argument - ER - 7/11/2006 1:29:43 PM
  - re: Refining the argument - gbaikie - 7/11/2006 8:06:10 PM
  - re: Refining the argument - Tom Brosz - 7/11/2006 5:32:07 PM
    - D'accord - ER - 7/11/2006 6:02:13 PM
      - re: D'accord - Tom Brosz - 7/11/2006 8:48:48 PM
        
        re: D'accord - ER - 7/11/2006 8:56:56 PM
        
        French nuclear power. - Tom Brosz - 7/11/2006 9:42:28 PM
        
        re: French nuclear power Part II. - ER - 7/12/2006 12:43:48 AM
        
        Storage - Tom Brosz - 7/12/2006 6:26:29 AM
        
        re: Storage - ER - 7/12/2006 11:15:23 AM
        
        re: Storage - Tom Brosz - 7/12/2006 5:55:22 PM
        
        The Pandora Project - ER - 7/12/2006 7:49:04 PM
        
        re: French nuclear power Part II. - gbaikie - 7/12/2006 1:25:38 AM
        
        re: French nuclear power. - ER - 7/12/2006 12:23:15 AM
        
        Thanks, TB. I'll check them out. (n/t) - ER - 7/11/2006 10:46:34 PM
- A damned good idea which should have been done decades ago! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 7/11/2006 1:27:04 PM
- missed a zero - gbaikie - 7/11/2006 1:08:07 AM
  - Here in the US, we've been misdirected and mislead. - Eric - 7/11/2006 1:39:24 AM
    - And now, the Rest of the Story. - Tom Brosz - 7/11/2006 6:46:14 AM
      - They are different stories, guys. Good job on muddying the water, though. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/11/2006 6:18:54 PM
        
        No they aren't. Do the reading. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/11/2006 8:29:59 PM
        
        I did - alcaray - 7/11/2006 10:52:39 PM
        
        A more specific article - Tom Brosz - 7/11/2006 11:49:12 PM
        
        I'm going to have to repeat this a few times before the lightbulb goes on, aren't I. - alcaray - 7/12/2006 8:32:14 PM
        
        How about this question? - Tom Brosz - 7/12/2006 10:09:41 PM
        
        the law is the law is the law - alcaray - 7/12/2006 10:29:09 PM
      - re: And now, the Rest of the Story. - gbaikie - 7/11/2006 9:29:34 AM
    - re: Here in the US, we've been misdirected and mislead. - gbaikie - 7/11/2006 2:11:01 AM

Chavez update - Tom Brosz - 7/6/2006 8:27:10 PM
- Can't stand a democracy, but love a military dictatorship. - Bowser - 7/7/2006 2:05:01 AM
  - re: Can't stand a democracy, but love a military dictatorship. - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2006 2:21:44 AM
    - If you want to see what Venezuela will be like in twenty years, - David F Mayer - 7/12/2006 1:01:15 PM
- Sounds familiar. Joe Stalin could have written it. Probably did. - David F Mayer - 7/6/2006 11:51:34 PM

Iraq Culture Smart Card - LJK - 7/11/2006 7:39:21 PM

I'm starting to like Ned Lamont - Tony - 7/11/2006 2:28:05 PM
- That was funny - Lindy - 7/11/2006 6:20:45 PM

Terror plan to Flood NYC HOLLAND TUNNEL.................. - carl - 7/7/2006 3:14:18 PM
- Water still flows DOWNHILL, last time I checked. - David F Mayer - 7/10/2006 7:51:38 PM
- Tunnel is below the river bed, too. - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2006 5:19:06 PM
  - Look for the psychological - ER - 7/8/2006 6:33:06 PM
  - re: Tunnel is below the river bed, too. - Robert - 7/8/2006 4:42:54 PM

Russia kills most-wanted warlord - David F Mayer - 7/10/2006 7:49:59 PM

The Quagmire Continues - Donald - 7/10/2006 3:01:46 AM
- What's bad about the quagmire... - Lindy - 7/10/2006 4:18:48 PM
- Meanwhile: 2,544 - Donald - 7/10/2006 3:03:16 AM

Canadian linked to terror plot - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/8/2006 9:59:21 PM
- Akmeds' a Canadian? - Lindy - 7/9/2006 2:58:53 AM
  - They were just a group of teenagers being given fertilizer by the Canadian Mounties... - Eric - 7/9/2006 5:50:26 PM
    - You have to blame the media for sensationalizing it - Lindy - 7/9/2006 7:06:01 PM
      - Errh Lindy, did it occur to you....... - Publius - 7/9/2006 9:19:02 PM
        
        "The riot squad is restless, it needs someplace to go." --Bob Dylan - ER - 7/9/2006 11:54:09 PM
        
        Peeling back the onion...... - Publius - 7/10/2006 2:20:17 AM
        
        re: The riot squad - Tom Brosz - 7/10/2006 1:17:50 AM
        
        "Why weren't they stopped?" - Lindy - 7/10/2006 1:59:35 AM
        
        re: The riot squad - Lindy - 7/10/2006 1:54:05 AM

George and Laura on CNN Live with Larry King - Lindy - 7/7/2006 1:12:07 AM
- Interview on again tonight at 9pm CNN (n/t) - Lindy - 7/9/2006 4:16:37 PM
- re: George and Laura on CNN Live with Larry King - Lindy - 7/7/2006 1:36:36 PM
  - re: George and Laura on CNN Live with Larry King - Eric - 7/8/2006 6:03:20 AM
    - George's behaviour and speech impediment - Lindy - 7/8/2006 6:11:36 PM
- After six years, he looks like he's finally comfortable in his own skin - Lindy - 7/7/2006 2:19:48 AM
  - "...a likeable kind of guy." - McFly - 7/7/2006 5:35:27 PM
    - re: "...a likeable kind of guy." - Lindy - 7/7/2006 5:54:17 PM
  - Saw part of it. - RobVG - 7/7/2006 2:26:51 AM
  - Been that way a long time. - Tom Brosz - 7/7/2006 2:23:52 AM

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