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Record meteorite hit Norway - David F Mayer - 6/9/2006 7:14:39 PM
- Possibly a Arietids daytime meteor which are now visible - SteveS - 6/9/2006 8:34:44 PM

Conservatives denying a liberal a Yale job - alcaray - 6/8/2006 5:56:48 PM
- Is it being done by conservatives? - FrankC - 6/8/2006 6:23:58 PM
  - You read the piece? (n/t) - alcaray - 6/8/2006 10:49:51 PM
    - Considering the title of your post, I don't think you did. - Tom Brosz - 6/8/2006 11:35:35 PM
      - from your quote: "Finally, Coleâ€™s politics may have played a role, though a less important one than the other two factors, said the source." - alcaray - 6/9/2006 3:48:49 PM
      - re: Considering the title of your post, I don't think you did. - dtb - 6/9/2006 12:28:49 AM

Toronto terror plot foiled -- Canada - SteveS - 6/3/2006 3:22:27 PM
- Clash of Civilizations - ER - 6/7/2006 11:58:14 AM
  - "There is only one civilization. The rest are all dying." -- Kemal Attaturk (n/t) - David F Mayer - 6/8/2006 8:07:21 PM
    - re: "There is only one civilization. The rest are all dying." -- Kemal Attaturk - ER - 6/9/2006 3:15:19 PM
- They planned to storm parliament and behead the prime minister - SDF - 6/7/2006 4:43:00 AM
  - Then again..... - SDF - 6/7/2006 5:19:49 AM
    - Release them without clothing or supplies in the middle of the Yukon on Dec 31. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 6/8/2006 8:08:57 PM
      - Survivor - Arctic! - Laurie Street - 6/8/2006 8:29:09 PM
- The evidence - Jack Herer - 6/6/2006 12:33:01 PM
  - "Selectively excitable" - Tom Brosz - 6/7/2006 7:07:10 AM
- Wow, people are all over the place on this news - SteveS - 6/6/2006 1:03:40 AM
- looks like a STING OP - carl - 6/5/2006 4:09:04 PM
  - they were framed - Amidilliah al Ridijadijih - 6/5/2006 10:17:53 PM
- Dead silence from the left end of the blogosphere. - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 6:39:18 AM
  - re: Dead silence from the left end of the blogosphere. - azstrummer - 6/5/2006 5:02:24 AM
    - re: from the left end of the blogosphere. - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 5:15:47 AM
      - re: from the left end of the blogosphere. - azstrummer - 6/5/2006 6:01:14 PM
        
        Criminals - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 10:33:31 PM
  - Liberal usually don't have much confidence in the "official" version of the story. Waiting for the Truth to come out in the wash. (n/t) - Eric - 6/4/2006 2:49:31 PM
    - As seems to be happening with the UK "chemical" scare - dtb - 6/6/2006 5:06:14 AM
    - Odd... - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 6:51:15 PM
      - New FBI software may be unusable, may scrap $170 million project - Eric - 6/4/2006 11:46:42 PM
      - And Iraq helps solve this how...? - dtb - 6/4/2006 8:29:33 PM
        
        re: And Iraq helps solve this how...? - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 10:11:49 PM
- Obviously a result of Canadian meddling in Iraq and the Middle East. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 2:08:14 AM
- Good news - Lindy - 6/3/2006 9:18:20 PM
  - Was that a METRIC TON or a US ton of Fertilizer delivered - carl - 6/5/2006 4:10:18 PM
    - A metric tonne is about 2200 lbs (n/t) - Convertor - 6/5/2006 5:04:01 PM
- News from the UK, too - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 6:22:07 PM
- The Mounties always get their man. (n/t) - ER - 6/3/2006 3:29:17 PM
  - DUDLEY DO-RIGHT!!!!!! - carl - 6/5/2006 5:46:48 PM
    - When Moose and Squirrel open door, Iss stragedy. (n/t) - ER - 6/5/2006 8:17:31 PM

No one is above the law... - LJK - 6/8/2006 1:01:56 PM
- Spy=privacy? - Lindy - 6/9/2006 12:23:09 AM
  - Newspeak - LJK - 6/9/2006 12:52:02 PM

Is it possible ...... - FrankC - 6/8/2006 5:11:02 AM
- Algorithms bbs performed said disappearing act, apparently after electrocuting its private parts (n/t) - Ex-Algorithms B.S.er - 6/8/2006 3:39:22 PM
- Huh? - Lindy - 6/8/2006 1:46:11 PM
- Could a moderator move this to Community please? :-p (n/t) - Tony - 6/8/2006 11:19:24 AM
  - physician heal thyself? - FrankC - 6/8/2006 4:51:01 PM
    - Me too - Robert - 6/8/2006 5:05:39 PM
      - I'm with Lindy: "Huh?" - Fox - 6/9/2006 1:25:16 AM
- re: and space-science? (n/t) - Raoul - 6/8/2006 5:42:13 AM
  - perhaps (n/t) - FrankC - 6/8/2006 6:07:52 AM

"Marines: Allegations undercut us" - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 6:00:42 PM
- Deja vu all over again - ER - 6/3/2006 11:53:59 PM
  - re: Eventually it will all sort itself out as the Lt. Calley/My Lai case did during the Viet Nam era. - Scott Evil - 6/7/2006 1:52:17 PM
  - A very reasonable viewpoint. - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 1:33:33 AM
- More careful consideration of this matter from Insty... - et - 6/3/2006 7:16:27 PM
  - re: More careful consideration of this matter from Insty... - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 9:04:45 PM
- Sherman's dictum. - ER - 6/2/2006 7:16:38 PM
  - re: Sherman's dictum. - gbaikie - 6/3/2006 12:11:22 AM
    - re: Sherman's dictum. - ER - 6/3/2006 1:19:15 AM
      - The New York Times sells political power. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 5:18:36 AM
        
        re: The New York Times sells political power. - SteveS - 6/3/2006 3:52:19 PM
      - Ian Sholes! - Fox - 6/3/2006 3:58:23 AM
        
        re: Ian Sholes! - ER - 6/3/2006 12:28:08 PM
      - re: Sherman's dictum. - gbaikie - 6/3/2006 2:28:17 AM
    - re: Sherman's dictum. - ER - 6/3/2006 12:28:06 AM
      - MSM = Main Stream Media - Mary Anne - 6/3/2006 1:00:16 AM
        
        re: MSM = Main Stream Media - ER - 6/3/2006 1:06:55 AM
  - So very true... - Donald - 6/2/2006 7:48:07 PM
    - re: So very true... - Lindy - 6/3/2006 1:09:26 AM
    - Ah you are such a nobel statesman! - Scott Evil - 6/2/2006 10:07:16 PM
    - As you may have noticed, it isn't really about Iraq for Donald. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 10:02:16 PM
      - You are absolutely right - Domald - 6/3/2006 2:58:10 AM
- Rape and Murder are OK with you? - Lindy - 6/2/2006 6:30:17 PM
  - I read the papers. - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 10:11:50 PM
    - Example of how "the papers" work. - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 11:11:56 PM
  - Where did he say Rape and Murder is ok with him or anyone else? - Scott Evil - 6/2/2006 10:05:43 PM
    - Yo! Evil! - Lindy - 6/2/2006 11:40:38 PM
- This is why... - Donald - 6/2/2006 6:25:10 PM
  - re: This is why... - Publius - 6/2/2006 7:17:24 PM
    - want to stop war? - Scott Evil - 6/2/2006 10:11:20 PM
      - re: want to stop war? - Publius - 6/2/2006 10:46:37 PM
        
        re: War is a continuation of politics by other means - Scott Evil - 6/7/2006 1:39:00 PM
        
        re: want to stop war? - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 6:12:47 AM
        
        Ode to a fat cat........... - Publius - 6/3/2006 3:21:03 PM
        
        Nice try. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/3/2006 7:58:50 PM
        
        oi vey, Techi - Publius - 6/3/2006 9:33:54 PM
        
        You know exactly what I meant. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/3/2006 11:04:54 PM
        
        You know exactly what I meant.==no, but I do know what you said....... - Publius - 6/4/2006 12:34:54 AM
        
        So you have combat experience? - Scott Evil - 6/7/2006 1:43:19 PM
        
        Chickenhawk argument - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 6:29:04 PM
        
        re: Chickenhawk argument - Publius - 6/3/2006 8:54:01 PM
        
        "an effective swimming coach can only do his job, if somewhere in his past he has personally not been afraid to get wet" - Lindy - 6/4/2006 8:54:18 PM
        
        re: Chickenhawk argument - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 9:13:13 PM
        
        Can I quote Walt Whitman here? - Publius - 6/3/2006 9:39:05 PM
        
        re: Walt Whitman - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 6:33:50 AM
        
        Lezzsee, Poetry is gas in Broznian Newspeak.... - Publius - 6/4/2006 1:21:26 PM
        
        Great. More gas. - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 10:28:23 PM
        
        Should I swoon, are my posts really poetry? - Publius - 6/5/2006 1:01:15 PM
        
        Gas, cont. - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 5:56:34 PM
        
        Actually............ - Publius - 6/5/2006 7:28:23 PM
        
        Click the link. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 10:36:52 PM

D-Day - Tom Brosz - 6/6/2006 5:48:09 PM
- re: D-Day - gbaikie - 6/7/2006 12:03:19 AM
- re: D-Day - ER - 6/6/2006 6:24:26 PM

Islamic fundamentalists (i,e, terrorists) have captured Mogadishu - sz - 6/5/2006 12:48:58 PM
- There is no Al Queda. - Amidilliah al Ridijadijih - 6/5/2006 10:16:20 PM
  - Propaganda? Black propaganda? - ER - 6/5/2006 11:08:27 PM
    - Just Scott Evil's landmark 1000th post failing to be funny. (n/t) - Tony - 6/6/2006 5:22:25 PM
    - Sounds like satire, from the other posts. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/6/2006 2:06:01 PM
- re: Islamic fundamentalists (i,e, terrorists) have captured Mogadishu - ER - 6/5/2006 2:43:18 PM

FEDS TO HEAD TO BUNKERS - Eric - 6/6/2006 3:00:07 AM
- Oh, terrific. Helicopters at night and no stargazing off the porch. - Mary Anne - 6/6/2006 3:33:41 PM

King Bush Under Scrutiny by the American Bar Association - Lindy - 6/6/2006 2:02:14 AM

17th anniversary of Tiananmen Square - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 2:28:16 AM
- Film - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 2:36:24 AM

Demonstrations in Iran followed by torture and killing in prisons. - g3orge - 6/4/2006 9:47:06 PM

Clinical Dehydration Department - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 5:53:56 PM
- re: Clinical Dehydration Department - gbaikie - 6/3/2006 10:51:13 PM
  - The return key can be your friend...... (n/t) - tony - 6/4/2006 8:24:57 PM

CENTCOM statement on the Ishaqi incident in Iraq - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 2:18:09 AM

NO way to disrupt FORMATION of HURRICANES? - carl - 5/30/2006 7:40:25 PM
- We just have to find that exact spot to flutter the butterfly's wings (n/t) - azstrummer - 6/2/2006 4:53:55 AM
- re: Why Bother, New Orleans is now a Mobile Chocolate City - Ray Nagin - 6/1/2006 2:40:32 AM
- Why is there air? - ER - 5/31/2006 1:09:14 PM
  - To fill up basketballs. To fill up volleyballs. - Mary Anne - 5/31/2006 2:46:31 PM
    - re: To fill up basketballs. To fill up volleyballs. - ER - 5/31/2006 2:52:56 PM
      - Too true. - Mary Anne - 5/31/2006 3:10:18 PM
        
        Hey Mary Ann, How long can you tred water? (n/t) - Publius - 6/2/2006 7:21:20 PM
        
        Is it raining where you are? ;) (n/t) - Mary Anne - 6/3/2006 12:06:24 AM
- Stop them? Where's the fun in that? - McFly - 5/31/2006 1:12:48 AM
- Bad idea, even if it worked. - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 12:39:26 AM
- Correct, and besides, what have South Americans ever done to you? (n/t) - Tony - 5/30/2006 8:13:38 PM
  - Science by public demand? - ljk - 6/1/2006 1:56:38 PM
    - re: Science by public demand? - ER - 6/1/2006 5:59:28 PM
      - re: Science by public demand? - gbaikie - 6/1/2006 11:09:24 PM
        
        re: Science by public demand? - ER - 6/1/2006 11:31:34 PM
        
        re: Science by public demand? - gbaikie - 6/2/2006 5:29:36 AM
        
        re: Science by public demand? - gbaikie - 6/2/2006 7:18:31 PM
        
        How about giant icebergs - ljk - 6/2/2006 2:53:59 PM
        
        re: How about giant icebergs - gbaikie - 6/2/2006 7:47:50 PM
        
        re: How about giant icebergs - LJK - 6/2/2006 7:52:52 PM
        
        re: How about giant icebergs - gbaikie - 6/2/2006 8:19:20 PM

Bush in a bind - Eric - 6/2/2006 10:45:34 AM
- It looks like the killing of Iraqi civilians is becoming a daily phenomenon - Jack Herer - 6/2/2006 2:57:58 PM
  - His definition of "daily" must differ from mine. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 4:01:50 PM
    - "Daily" or not... - Donald - 6/2/2006 4:46:19 PM
  - Not good - Donald - 6/2/2006 3:57:35 PM
    - re: Not good - Jack Herer - 6/2/2006 4:02:30 PM

"Six world powers agreed Thursday on a 'significant' package of incentives to convince Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program" - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2006 9:30:24 PM
- re: "Six world powers agreed Thursday on a 'significant' package of incentives to convince Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program" - SteveS - 6/2/2006 2:14:48 PM

Flashback - 11/67 - ER - 6/2/2006 2:08:01 PM

Wheeeeeeeee!!!! NOAA declares Walt Disney World STORM READY!!!! - carl - 6/1/2006 10:41:52 PM
- Setting your priorities... - ER - 6/2/2006 12:52:33 PM
- Come on Down! - Lindy - 6/2/2006 2:44:23 AM

Only the Iraqis can bring peace to their country. - David F Mayer - 6/1/2006 2:11:54 PM
- and only when the occupiers leave, which will never happen. (n/t) - Eric - 6/2/2006 10:43:03 AM

No, Chicken Little, the Sky is NOT Falling - David F Mayer - 5/29/2006 4:26:34 PM
- No, No, not Michael CRICHton! - Robert - 5/29/2006 10:41:43 PM
  - State of Fear - Laurie Street - 5/30/2006 5:13:35 PM
    - Finishing books that one starts - Mary Anne - 5/30/2006 8:45:47 PM
      - -smile- (n/t) - Fox - 5/31/2006 2:53:19 AM
    - FUD - Robert - 5/30/2006 5:51:50 PM
      - re: FUD - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 12:41:58 AM
        
        No, why? Do you? (n/t) - Robert - 5/31/2006 3:14:17 AM
        
        Anybody else have the blinders on? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 6:13:33 AM
        
        Anybody else deaf to humor? - Robert - 6/1/2006 12:55:58 AM
        
        Me! Me! (waving arms wildly) - Mary Anne - 6/1/2006 12:38:25 PM
        
        Welll, ooooohkay - Robert - 6/1/2006 3:51:03 PM
        
        Oh. I thought you meant "in general". - Mary Anne - 6/2/2006 1:56:51 AM
        
        generally, no (n/t) - Robert - 6/2/2006 2:43:24 AM
        
        Greenpeace - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2006 6:33:16 PM
        
        But what about irony and sarcasm? - Robert - 6/2/2006 2:42:38 AM
        
        re: irony and sarcasm? - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 6:21:47 AM
      - re: FUD - ljk - 5/30/2006 7:22:00 PM
- re: No, Chicken Little, the Sky is NOT Falling - Johannes - 5/29/2006 6:55:56 PM
- Stop recycling Crighton's prose and look at the data. (n/t) - et - 5/29/2006 5:17:57 PM

Harry Reid ethics standards above the rest? - SteveS - 5/30/2006 1:23:11 PM
- The rest of the story........ - Tony - 5/30/2006 2:54:06 PM
  - re: The real story........ - SteveS - 5/30/2006 3:52:49 PM
    - I didn't say it was OK or even ethical. - Tony - 5/30/2006 5:26:59 PM
      - Hey, buddy-- - Mary Anne - 5/30/2006 6:48:52 PM
        
        Good Grief Mary Ann - FrankC - 5/31/2006 3:32:25 AM
      - I didnâ€™t say it was illegal - SteveS - 5/30/2006 6:45:54 PM
        
        A) It's Chapter 2, not chapter 1 - Tony - 5/30/2006 8:12:34 PM
        
        Nitpicking aside, he has a point. - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 1:34:57 AM
        
        How the NYT sees it - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 4:37:04 PM
        
        Where? - Robert - 5/31/2006 10:23:31 PM
        
        Ah. Playing - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2006 2:07:21 AM
        
        Ah. Inconsistency - Robert - 6/1/2006 3:54:53 PM
        
        re: Ah. Non sequitor - Tom Brosz - 6/1/2006 5:44:23 PM
        
        Ya got me - Robert - 6/2/2006 2:33:38 AM
        
        Having your cake - Tony - 6/1/2006 6:12:10 PM
        
        Bingo. (n/t) - Tony - 6/1/2006 5:08:06 PM
        
        Chapter 2, page 42 & 43 - SteveS - 5/30/2006 9:43:40 PM
        
        Much better, but I draw your attention to the word "repeatedly".... (n/t) - Tony - 5/31/2006 2:41:29 PM
        
        Thanks and "repeatedly".... - SteveS - 5/31/2006 4:39:12 PM
        
        Possibly true, but..... - Tony - 6/1/2006 3:55:51 PM
        
        re: Possibly true, but..... - SteveS - 6/1/2006 10:03:59 PM
  - ...and perspective - Robert - 5/30/2006 3:44:26 PM
    - re: ...and perspective - SteveS - 5/30/2006 4:39:41 PM
    - Caesar's wife... - Mary Anne - 5/30/2006 4:26:32 PM
      - re: Caesar's wife... - Robert - 5/30/2006 5:01:45 PM
- How's this for a chuckle? - Mary Anne - 5/30/2006 1:31:48 PM
  - "Doesn't attend prizefights" - Tom Brosz - 5/30/2006 2:55:26 PM
  - Laughing so hard it hurts - SteveS - 5/30/2006 2:18:47 PM
    - You know what the next excuse will be... - ljk - 5/30/2006 7:17:36 PM

Beslan children in China as a therapy - Raoul - 5/29/2006 9:32:57 PM
- Things changed because the crackpot fanatics who - David F Mayer - 6/1/2006 5:49:39 PM

Israel Succumbs to Terrorism - David F Mayer - 5/31/2006 1:48:15 PM
- From the Onion, but in some quarters, has a disturbing amount of truth to it. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/31/2006 4:27:24 PM
  - It seems that the terrorists think that it will actually happen. - David F Mayer - 5/31/2006 6:19:57 PM

2,471 - Donald - 5/31/2006 1:50:06 PM

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