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Some Iraq blogs - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 2:40:43 AM

Moderate Iraqi Cleric Calls For Iraqis to Tone Down Violence - David F Mayer - 4/7/2006 7:27:47 PM
- Here's the response - Donald - 4/8/2006 1:21:40 AM
  - The politics of the bombing - Tom Brosz - 4/8/2006 5:01:00 AM
    - The real nightmare scenario... - Donald - 4/8/2006 1:19:53 PM
  - Meanwhile: 2,348 - Donald - 4/8/2006 1:24:40 AM
- Hope you noticed that's an "Onion" article. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 7:48:25 PM

Good news! - Donald - 4/8/2006 1:28:02 AM

It's OFFICIAL: Bush committed TREASON - Jack Herer - 4/6/2006 2:36:29 PM
- The President has declassification authority - Larry J - 4/6/2006 11:57:48 PM
  - Sorry Larry - R.L. - 4/7/2006 7:54:08 AM
  - Speaking of twits..... - Lindy - 4/7/2006 12:55:26 AM
    - To paraphrase myself... - Lindy - 4/7/2006 3:57:17 PM
  - Impeach Bush - Donald - 4/7/2006 12:42:45 AM
    - For what, doing what's legal? - Larry J - 4/7/2006 1:24:16 PM
      - OH COME ON LARRY!!! - R.L. - 4/7/2006 11:20:14 PM
      - "Partisan hack ignorant of the law" - Lindy - 4/7/2006 3:03:21 PM
    - Unethical?? - Lindy - 4/7/2006 12:58:20 AM
- Broadcast media practically lying in its teeth on this. - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 6:11:07 PM
  - Okay, Lindy doesn't really count as an example. - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 4:40:32 AM
  - Tom, would you allow Bush's fudging and dodging up until now from a member of your own family? - Lindy - 4/6/2006 8:18:46 PM
  - How do you know what NIE it was? - alcaray - 4/6/2006 6:23:56 PM
    - Because I follow these things. - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 11:31:28 PM
      - There are many NIEs. You don't know that none mentioned Plame. - alcaray - 4/7/2006 3:36:32 PM
        
        I don't know that none mentioned you, either. - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 8:06:23 PM
- Oh Boy.... - Lindy - 4/6/2006 4:43:06 PM
  - Well, it is just hearsay - alcaray - 4/6/2006 5:11:20 PM

Leaker in chief - Donald - 4/7/2006 1:51:27 PM
- U.S. Code: Section 421. Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents, informants, and sources - Eric - 4/7/2006 3:52:53 PM
  - Plame wasn't covert. - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 4:04:28 PM
    - "Does it mean anything at all that after years of investigation that not one single indictment has come down? " - Lindy - 4/7/2006 5:13:22 PM
      - Lindy... - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 7:50:34 PM
- Classified information used for political purposes - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 3:26:59 PM

HOMELAND SECURITY...your tax dollars at work - Lindy - 4/5/2006 4:19:59 AM
- A bit misleading - Buck Galaxy - 4/5/2006 10:45:10 PM
  - Yeah, but who pays his salary so he can use it to influence young girls? (n/t) - Lindy - 4/6/2006 4:44:53 PM
    - re: Yeah, but who pays his salary so he can use it to influence young girls? - SDG - 4/7/2006 2:38:50 AM
      - " Your perspective is skewed" - Lindy - 4/7/2006 6:20:04 PM
    - Used PC's at work - carl - 4/6/2006 8:12:15 PM
  - re: A bit misleading - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 5:58:11 AM

I am disgusted by both sides on the immigration issue in Washington. - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 5:32:55 PM
- Economy would TANK - carl - 4/6/2006 8:04:26 PM
  - re: Economy would TANK - Publius - 4/7/2006 5:58:29 PM
  - re: No it wouldn't... - Scott Evil - 4/6/2006 8:15:53 PM
    - Yes it WOULD - carl - 4/6/2006 9:04:21 PM
- I am in favor of some kind of amnesty - FrankC - 4/6/2006 6:24:22 PM
  - Not me... I'm for enslavement... - Scott Evil - 4/6/2006 8:17:44 PM
    - How about enslavement for those who hire illegals. - Lee - 4/7/2006 5:31:35 PM
    - enslavement will also give you.... - FrankC - 4/6/2006 9:15:10 PM
      - You coud pass slaveholder rules to make sure that the indentured servants were treated humanely. - Scott Evil - 4/6/2006 9:50:22 PM
  - Never WORK, Underground Economy TOO BIG!!!!! - carl - 4/6/2006 8:08:02 PM
- Technically, should be "illegal immigration issue." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 5:38:20 PM

New depths of barrel scraping in the "Bush economy sucks" campaign - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 4:17:29 PM

'Our Federal Wallet Stretched To Limit By Illegal Aliens Getting Welfare' - gbaikie - 4/5/2006 9:53:26 PM
- Correction: Our Federal Wallet Stretched To Limit By Illegal Wars (n/t) - Jack Herer - 4/6/2006 12:23:02 PM
  - All a matter of Perspectives - carl - 4/6/2006 8:10:44 PM
- Another babystep closer to an American Kristallnacht - alcaray - 4/5/2006 10:39:55 PM
  - re: Another babystep closer to an American Kristallnacht - gbaikie - 4/6/2006 6:16:42 AM
    - All right, modify my statement to say Arab terrorists, instead of 9/11. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/6/2006 3:41:11 PM
  - True, considering what they're really linked to. - Lee - 4/6/2006 5:33:58 AM
    - Never step between a paranoid and his obsession. - alcaray - 4/7/2006 3:38:57 PM
  - Not everybody coming over a porous border is looking for work. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 1:43:35 AM

NIE contents - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 4:45:50 AM
- Go down the posts today. - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 3:17:26 PM

Theocracy and freedom cannot coexist - ljk - 4/6/2006 8:32:03 PM
- Theocracy and freedom ......from a philosophical standpoint - Publius - 4/7/2006 2:36:49 PM
  - re: Theocracy and freedom ......from a philosophical standpoint - ljk - 4/7/2006 2:53:21 PM
- In spite of being quite vocal.... - FrankC - 4/6/2006 10:15:13 PM

Playing Hardball With Secrets - Donald - 4/7/2006 1:45:33 PM
- Tom Maguire comments - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 2:28:58 PM

Cynthia McKinney deserves the book thrown at her - R.L. - 4/5/2006 8:21:01 AM
- McKinney apologizes - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 5:09:11 PM
  - The last time I broke into a federal building - R.L. - 4/7/2006 6:47:33 AM
- If she had been reasonable about it... - Tom Brosz - 4/5/2006 6:36:19 PM
  - Yup, I know she is a loon... - R.L. - 4/6/2006 1:02:32 AM
    - "Can you admit that DeLay is a morally bankrupt criminal?" - David F Mayer - 4/6/2006 3:32:09 PM

More Bad News From Iraq (for the USA haters only) - David F Mayer - 4/6/2006 8:22:16 PM
- Wow! - Tony - 4/6/2006 9:39:40 PM
  - "Other" means other coaltion forces. - David F Mayer - 4/7/2006 12:36:20 AM
    - Iraqi deaths down? - tony - 4/7/2006 1:45:07 AM
      - Best place to track this sort of thing - Tom Brosz - 4/7/2006 4:36:38 AM
  - (they don't count at all) (n/t) - alcaray - 4/6/2006 10:11:42 PM

Zacarias Moussaoui - FrankC - 4/6/2006 6:10:32 PM
- No... We just torture the guy every time the terrorists take a hostage... - Scott Evil - 4/6/2006 8:12:22 PM
  - Nope, force feed him PORK while watching - carl - 4/6/2006 9:05:52 PM
- re: Zacarias Moussaoui - Raoul - 4/6/2006 7:11:32 PM
  - no doubt he would gain with some personal satisfaction.... - FrankC - 4/6/2006 8:08:57 PM

Global warming: the final solution - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2006 5:51:24 PM
- Crazier & Crazier. The flaws of ideology are become more evident. - David F Mayer - 4/6/2006 3:40:42 PM
- Death threats from the Right - dtb - 4/4/2006 5:39:20 PM
  - That's "a" death threat. - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 8:34:46 PM
- As I said - Laurie Street - 4/4/2006 4:58:04 PM
  - Of course some are running to his defense. - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 8:42:19 PM
- re:My guess is that this news was intended for the April first issue. (n/t) - Johannes - 4/3/2006 3:40:34 AM
- PS - Forrest Mims is an Intelligent Design advocate - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 3:28:42 AM
- I call bullshit - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 3:19:41 AM
  - Really? - Tom Brosz - 4/3/2006 6:00:35 AM
    - The last paragraph - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 9:48:32 PM
    - Student evaluation link - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 9:41:44 PM
      - The point... - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 12:16:52 AM
- FINE...what does this prove? - R.L. - 4/2/2006 8:21:26 PM
  - What it proves - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2006 9:18:55 PM
    - You deny that CO2 traps IR radiation...? - dtb - 4/3/2006 4:05:02 AM
    - What exactly do you object to, Tom? - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 2:51:37 AM
      - re: What exactly do you object to, Tom? - gbaikie - 4/3/2006 9:00:33 AM
        
        re: What exactly do you object to, Tom? - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 9:35:56 PM
        
        re: What exactly do you object to, Tom? - gbaikie - 4/4/2006 12:03:56 PM
        
        A couple of points - Laurie Street - 4/4/2006 4:20:36 PM
        
        re: A couple of points - gbaikie - 4/5/2006 7:22:35 AM
        
        re: A couple of other points - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 8:54:52 PM
        
        re: What exactly do you object to, Tom? - gbaikie - 4/4/2006 4:29:10 AM
      - It's the so-called "solutions," not the theories. How specific do I have to be? - Tom Brosz - 4/3/2006 6:13:44 AM
        
        re: It's the so-called "solutions," not the theories. How specific do I have to be? - Laurie Street - 4/3/2006 8:28:11 PM
        
        Commentary on the politics from the Telegraph - Tom Brosz - 4/3/2006 4:19:45 PM
        
        Canada's Kyoto report card - Tom Brosz - 4/3/2006 6:20:42 AM
  - And your comments on his first article are? - Lee - 4/2/2006 8:53:14 PM
    - Anyone that thinks that way has a bucket of loose screws... - R.L. - 4/3/2006 6:48:11 AM
- Did you ever notice... - Larry J - 4/2/2006 7:54:45 PM
- A standing ovation.... - FrankC - 4/2/2006 7:46:05 PM
- Did you ever read Omni magazine? - Lee - 4/2/2006 7:43:10 PM
  - The other side of the story - ljk - 4/6/2006 3:18:53 AM

United 93 - REB - 4/4/2006 5:37:20 PM
- There was a made-for-TV movie on A&E recently... - Larry J - 4/4/2006 6:51:50 PM
  - "It seems a lot of people have forgotten or want to forget the events of that day. " - R.L. - 4/5/2006 6:39:54 AM
    - I have not forgotten... - RNE - 4/5/2006 5:20:39 PM
      - "too soon" - Tom Brosz - 4/5/2006 7:27:21 PM
        
        Tom, If you lost someone to those crimes... - R.L. - 4/6/2006 1:14:24 AM
        
        re: If you lost someone to those crimes... - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 2:02:10 AM
        
        Yeah, the incredible sacrifice of our military should be kept quiet.... - R.L. - 4/6/2006 2:47:30 AM
        
        You're missing the point again. - Tom Brosz - 4/6/2006 6:01:35 AM

2,343 - Donald - 4/5/2006 1:01:26 PM
- 81, 76, 50, 49, 43, 25 (n/t) - gbaikie - 4/6/2006 4:42:31 AM

How to make me vote Republican... - R.L. - 4/5/2006 9:21:53 PM
- How to make me decide today who I will vote for in '08... - alcaray - 4/5/2006 11:36:28 PM
  - :) be honest.... - R.L. - 4/6/2006 3:32:34 AM

Justice DeLay'ed - R.L. - 4/4/2006 2:53:06 AM
- And on the right, crickets chirp.... - R.L. - 4/5/2006 10:10:27 AM
  - Not sure what you're looking for... - Tom Brosz - 4/5/2006 6:38:32 PM
  - So you think he is guilty also? (n/t) - SteveS - 4/5/2006 2:17:46 PM
    - Of many things, yes I do. - alcaray - 4/5/2006 5:36:31 PM
- Goodbye and good riddance - Donald - 4/4/2006 4:50:45 AM
  - Hubris - Lindy - 4/4/2006 2:33:45 PM
    - neo-con tactics - Jack Herer - 4/4/2006 4:32:07 PM

Waste In the Federal Government - David F Mayer - 4/5/2006 5:22:13 PM

Rumsfeld's Checklist - alcaray - 4/4/2006 5:54:02 PM
- ?? (n/t) - R.L. - 4/5/2006 9:38:20 AM
  - Link - alcaray - 4/5/2006 4:06:26 PM

Jill Carroll says her statements were made out of fear... - R.L. - 4/1/2006 9:19:02 PM
- No kidding? I thought that she loved being kidnapped and mistreated. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/5/2006 1:20:16 PM
- Why was the 'Right' so eager to attack her? - R.L. - 4/2/2006 2:01:32 AM
  - The Right? - FrankC - 4/2/2006 7:28:13 PM
  - re: Why was the 'Right' so eager to attack her? - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2006 3:14:13 AM
    - You avoided the question.... - R.L. - 4/2/2006 4:25:28 AM
      - re: You avoided the question.... - Tom Brosz - 4/2/2006 5:38:58 AM
        
        So your rush to judgement is the lefties fault yet again... - R.L. - 4/4/2006 2:59:49 AM
        
        BS... - R.L. - 4/2/2006 9:19:22 AM
- "I'd better hear within a few days that she had a gun to her head when she said all this" - Tom Brosz - R.L. - 4/1/2006 10:34:28 PM

Iran's Secret Magic Weapons of Death - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 10:11:44 PM
- I still remember how the USA sank over half the Iranian Navy in an afternoon. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 4/5/2006 1:18:53 PM
- thats a propeller? - alcaray - 4/4/2006 10:18:54 PM

More info on Antartica, These articles are a bit more recent than Tom's 31 year articles... - R.L. - 4/3/2006 10:46:02 PM
- re: More info on Antartica, These articles are a bit more recent than Tom's 31 year articles... - REB - 4/4/2006 5:03:56 PM
  - re: More info on Antartica, These articles are a bit more recent than Tom's 31 year articles... - Laurie Street - 4/4/2006 5:47:36 PM
    - re: More info on Antartica, These articles are a bit more recent than Tom's 31 year articles... - REB - 4/4/2006 5:56:09 PM
      - Orbits - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 8:28:19 PM
        
        In other words... - FrankC - 4/5/2006 5:34:46 AM
      - re: More info on Antartica, These articles are a bit more recent than Tom's 31 year articles... - Laurie Street - 4/4/2006 6:10:33 PM
        
        Casting a shadow. - REB - 4/4/2006 6:21:47 PM
- Bottom line - FrankC - 4/4/2006 2:08:51 AM
  - re: Bottom line - alcaray - 4/4/2006 3:44:55 PM
- But not much more precise. - Tom Brosz - 4/4/2006 12:11:48 AM

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