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Attacks on college campuses? - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2005 7:37:40 PM
- Peripheral information? - Robert - 10/11/2005 4:03:58 PM
  - re: Peripheral information? - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2005 5:42:30 PM
    - Some bullshit gets listened too - btd - 10/11/2005 11:41:49 PM
- Sounds like a Collage anarchist "prank" - Scott Evil - 10/10/2005 8:19:44 PM
  - Yeah! those collage anarchist make a pastiche of things (n/t) - Publius - 10/11/2005 7:44:21 PM
  - An anarchist? - et - 10/10/2005 10:33:56 PM
    - re: An anarchist? - Scott Evil - 10/11/2005 5:35:47 PM
      - When I was in high school... - alcaray - 10/11/2005 6:32:12 PM
        
        re: When I was in high school... - Scott Evil - 10/11/2005 8:04:47 PM
        
        don't really know the details of the aftermath - alcaray - 10/11/2005 8:48:16 PM
      - I'm not familliar with the precepts of anarchism and I don't own the cookbook. - et - 10/11/2005 5:53:35 PM
        
        re: I'm not familliar with the precepts of anarchism and I don't own the cookbook. - Scott Evil - 10/11/2005 10:36:17 PM
    - Sometimes they shoot and Arch-Duke....... (n/t) - Publius - 10/11/2005 3:29:42 PM
      - Or, raise hell at WTO conferences - FrankC - 10/11/2005 6:07:04 PM
    - Think he means "fun-loving" (n/t) - alcaray - 10/10/2005 10:47:27 PM

Miers hearings are going to go badly... - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2005 5:35:59 AM
- "Thomas Sowell for Fed Chairman! " Very Good Choice (n/t) - David F Mayer - 10/10/2005 4:54:48 PM
  - Thomas Sowell needs to run for congress. - Scott Evil - 10/10/2005 8:12:23 PM
- Question... - R.L. - 10/10/2005 4:05:28 AM
  - It really doesn't matter if she is the most qualified... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2005 4:41:41 AM
    - strict constructionism? - Robert - 10/10/2005 4:39:57 PM
  - re: Answer - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2005 4:17:18 AM
    - More from Pournelle - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2005 3:41:02 AM
      - I pretty much agree with this analysis. - Scott Evil - 10/11/2005 9:53:08 PM
- ...as they should - Robert - 10/9/2005 7:39:30 PM
  - What's Buchanan's qualification to have a say on Ms. Miers - Scott Evil - 10/10/2005 3:15:57 AM
    - Same as anybody else - Robert - 10/10/2005 4:33:44 PM
      - You do realize that Buchanan would think Robert Bork was too liberal for the court? - Scott Evil - 10/11/2005 8:54:22 PM
- Good. Maybe in the whole USA he can find a judge. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/9/2005 2:24:04 PM
  - It's not a constitutional requirement - Larry J - 10/11/2005 12:49:09 PM
  - Hey, remember Clarence Thomas was touted as the .... - Publius - 10/10/2005 5:54:37 PM
  - Sure Plenty Of Conservative Judges Out There - Mark Eby - 10/9/2005 7:17:12 PM

Operations on the Euphrates - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2005 11:26:02 PM

"First they came for Piglet..." - Tom Brosz - 10/5/2005 12:00:37 AM
- re: Mmmmmmm Pork...Because your heart deserves it! - Scott Evil - 10/5/2005 10:07:49 PM
  - another reason to hate pork... - FrankC - 10/5/2005 10:13:09 PM
    - RACIST!!! - Scott Evil - 10/5/2005 10:46:53 PM
- Curb your enthusiasm - FrankC - 10/5/2005 6:40:50 PM
- A little more objectionable... - RobVG - 10/5/2005 2:48:01 AM
  - PIC - SDG - 10/10/2005 7:58:13 PM
  - I agree with your observation about perspective. - Mary Anne - 10/5/2005 12:44:02 PM
    - Well... - RobVG - 10/6/2005 1:53:56 AM
      - How wrong? It depends. - Mary Anne - 10/6/2005 4:38:26 AM
- The Brits will have to deal with their own decisions. - Mary Anne - 10/5/2005 2:06:53 AM
- Are those the same Brits who are killing 'em in Iraq? - Bowser - 10/5/2005 12:13:44 AM
  - Careful now Bowser...... - Lindy - 10/5/2005 5:14:34 PM
  - No subways in Bali and no Indonesian troops in Iraq (n/t) - Sam F. - 10/5/2005 8:13:59 AM
- Another item - Tom Brosz - 10/5/2005 12:07:36 AM
  - If you have become a seller of these tie pins, I am a buyer! (n/t) - Publius - 10/5/2005 2:26:46 PM
    - re: If you have become a seller - Tom Brosz - 10/5/2005 6:29:04 PM

1918 flu reconstituted and analyzed - carl - 10/6/2005 9:17:58 PM
- re: Catastrophic 1918 Pandemic Was Also A Bird Flu - Johannes - 10/6/2005 11:15:24 PM
  - Everybody knows it was caused by the planet Venus - LJK - 10/7/2005 2:26:17 PM
    - Un-publish the 1918 flu genome? - LJK - 10/10/2005 2:31:51 PM

Christian Democrat leader Angela Merkel set to replace Gerhard SchrÃ¶der as Germany's next chancellor - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2005 4:19:50 AM

More Silliness:Do-nothing agency and its head are awarded Nobel Peace Prize. - David F Mayer - 10/7/2005 12:07:57 PM
- re: More on the award and the IAEA record - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 6:08:39 PM
- The people who saw to it that Saddam disarmed? (n/t) - alcaray - 10/7/2005 2:40:53 PM
  - The people who completely missed Saddam's nuclear program until after the first Gulf War. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 4:01:20 PM
    - You will never forgive them for being right where you were wrong. (n/t) - alcaray - 10/7/2005 4:51:44 PM
      - The point... - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 5:10:02 PM
        
        LOL!!! - DL - 10/8/2005 3:05:10 AM
        
        Paraphrasing you from memory - Tony - 10/7/2005 6:49:20 PM
        
        Given the information I had at the time, I'd make the same judgement again. - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 3:57:53 AM
        
        And you'd be wrong, again (n/t) - R.L. - 10/8/2005 4:32:28 AM
        
        That's one time for me. How many times for the IAEA? - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 6:08:43 AM
        
        The difference is... - R.L. - 10/8/2005 6:20:53 AM
        
        re: The difference is... - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 3:56:07 PM
        
        Hypothetical alternate realities as a defense... - R.L. - 10/8/2005 10:30:15 PM
        
        alternate realities as a defense... - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 11:46:02 PM
        
        re: Your president was wrong, El Baradei and Blix were right - Raoul - 10/7/2005 6:26:33 PM
        
        re: Your president was wrong, El Baradei and Blix were right - gbaikie - 10/9/2005 10:08:21 PM
        
        The point - alcaray - 10/7/2005 5:51:47 PM
    - More here. - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 4:04:56 PM
- Symbolism, mostly. - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 2:20:38 PM
- Good for them. - Scott Evil - 10/7/2005 1:39:12 PM

Looks like Rove may have been cut loose. - Bowser - 10/8/2005 7:18:31 PM
- The photo of the two of them creeps me out - Lindy - 10/9/2005 6:34:32 AM

Meanwhile, back in Kosovo... - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2005 12:17:30 AM

can't wait to read the new Clinton Scandle book! - Scott Evil - 10/6/2005 11:40:39 PM
- Maybe you should start with 'Dick and Jane'- It doesn't look like you are ready for big words like 'Scandle' (n/t) - R.L. - 10/7/2005 7:16:13 AM
- Buck's Insult deleted (n/t) - FrankC (moderator) - 10/7/2005 5:13:19 AM
- What a load of garbage! (n/t) - Eri - 10/7/2005 1:50:40 AM
- Migawd! - Bowser, aka "Madonna" - 10/7/2005 1:39:26 AM
  - re: Migawd! - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 1:46:03 AM
    - Thousands upon thousands of nnocent people weren't being killed by Americans. - Bowser, aka "Madonna" - 10/7/2005 5:03:39 AM
      - And that's really all that matters, right? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 2:21:31 PM
        
        Innocent lives lost really is a big deal to liberals. (n/t) - Bowser - 10/7/2005 3:58:27 PM
        
        Only when there's a political advantage to be had. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 4:05:41 PM
        
        I see: liberals have no principles. Talk to Tom DeLay lately? - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 6:00:42 PM
        
        What's this? "Republicans do it too?" ;) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 4:07:16 AM
        
        Not quite. - Mary Anne - 10/8/2005 6:06:44 PM
        
        I thought Liberals were big supporters of innocent until proven guilty. So far there has been no real evidence against DeLay. - REB - 10/7/2005 6:26:43 PM
        
        Correct Link - REB - 10/7/2005 10:19:40 PM
        
        There has been enough to procure an indictment. - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 7:00:38 PM
        
        Ronnie Earl is guilty of the same "Illegal fundraising" as Delay. - Scott Evil - 10/7/2005 9:56:14 PM
        
        Do you have a source for that FACT? - R.L. - 10/8/2005 8:25:58 AM
        
        If it is as you say, he should be tried. Why have there been no takers? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 10:33:49 PM
        
        could be coz no crime was comitted - Tony - 10/8/2005 1:47:39 AM
        
        re:No idea, maybe he will be... - Scott Evil - 10/7/2005 10:45:22 PM
        
        Greg Abbott - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 11:34:35 PM
        
        So tell me, why does Robert only post Iraqi casualties? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 6:15:37 PM
        
        re: So tell me, why does Donald only post Iraqi casualties? - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 7:11:37 PM
        
        re: casualties - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 4:05:41 AM
        
        What Tom glossed over - R.L. - 10/8/2005 5:53:41 AM
        
        No comment, Tom? - R.L. - 10/8/2005 9:56:31 PM
        
        re: comment - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 11:43:34 PM
        
        Oh god, You DO have a sense of humor!!! - R.L. - 10/8/2005 5:42:48 AM
        
        Ack! That should be "Donald." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 6:16:55 PM
- Yech. - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 12:45:36 AM

Update on New Orleans floodwalls - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 5:15:12 PM
- Should read... - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 5:16:54 PM

Heightened alert on New York City subways - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 1:26:58 AM
- But doesn't the war in Iraq mean - R.L. - 10/7/2005 6:52:01 AM
  - No, it does not. It means that we have REDUCED - David F Mayer - 10/7/2005 12:09:06 PM
    - Both not quite accurate. - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 2:34:10 PM
      - re: Both not quite accurate. - R.L. - 10/8/2005 8:00:58 AM
        
        The term "not quite" has an exact meaning. - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2005 4:16:49 PM
      - re: Both not quite accurate. - REB - 10/7/2005 5:58:22 PM
      - The Katrina response was outrage over incompetent handling of a catastrophe... - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 5:56:38 PM
        
        Paranoia? - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 6:24:53 PM

How come I haven't seen any outrage about this? - LJK - 10/5/2005 8:28:59 PM
- A better idea - Lee - 10/6/2005 6:39:55 PM
  - You make Sharia sound moderate (n/t) - alcaray - 10/6/2005 8:34:15 PM
    - Only to the criminals (n/t) - Lee - 10/7/2005 5:28:04 AM
      - And to those convicted of crimes they didn't commit. - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 6:12:59 PM
        
        To hear them tell it, they're all innocent. - Lee - 10/7/2005 7:12:05 PM
        
        To hear DNA testing tell it, some of them are right. - Mary Anne - 10/7/2005 9:08:54 PM
- Bennett likes to take risks - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/6/2005 3:52:22 AM
  - re: Bennett likes to take risks - Scott Evil - 10/6/2005 2:58:40 PM
    - Bennett is the perfect example of Washington pork - Lindy - 10/6/2005 3:05:34 PM
      - True...take a look at Ted Kennedy. - Scott Evil - 10/6/2005 3:18:02 PM
        
        re: True...take a look at Ted Kennedy. - LJK - 10/6/2005 4:09:55 PM
- stricken by terminal ennui (n/t) - FrankC - 10/5/2005 10:43:08 PM
- I though Bennetts comment was dumb... - Scott Evil - 10/5/2005 9:57:02 PM
  - You could abort all the white fetuses in the country and lower the crime rate too. - Mary Anne - 10/5/2005 10:19:22 PM
    - I think you are probably correct... - Scott Evil - 10/5/2005 10:43:51 PM
      - Earth is such a nice planet... - LJK - 10/6/2005 1:06:03 PM
- Because it's just dumb - Tony - 10/5/2005 8:39:46 PM
  - re: Because it's just dumb - LJK - 10/5/2005 8:57:25 PM
    - re: Because it's just dumb - Fox - 10/5/2005 9:44:57 PM
    - And 0h yeah - LJK - 10/5/2005 9:08:28 PM

Bush's speech on terrorism this morning. - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2005 6:07:17 PM
- still waiting for the "unprecedented details" to emerge.... (n/t) - Tony - 10/7/2005 6:46:47 PM
- "Overall, the United States and our partners have disrupted at least ten serious al Qaeda terrorist plots since September the 11th" - REB - 10/6/2005 6:40:56 PM

Review of The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse - LJK - 10/7/2005 5:03:55 PM

Katrina impacts employment - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2005 4:42:17 PM

Warming the cockles of a conservatives heart. - Bowser - 10/7/2005 4:12:40 PM

Spot-on Political Comic - LJK - 10/7/2005 1:44:57 PM

Rove testimony - alcaray - 10/6/2005 10:08:27 PM
- No, you dont.... - eternal flame - 10/6/2005 10:26:14 PM

Michael Yon on Mosul - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2005 10:26:11 PM

Some commentary on Miers from another Texas woman. - ennuet - 10/6/2005 10:16:19 PM

Towards a Fair Tax System in the USA - David F Mayer - 10/6/2005 8:15:26 PM
- re: Towards a Fair Tax System in the USA - Tony - 10/6/2005 9:17:20 PM

London Bombings carried out by MI6 Agent - Lindy - 10/3/2005 11:06:36 PM
- Mere fairy tales. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 10/6/2005 4:15:51 PM
- Cheese alert: "...former USDA federal agent..." (n/t) - Alan G. Archer - 10/3/2005 11:33:16 PM
  - USDA federal agents - Lindy - 10/4/2005 2:55:41 PM
    - The only spies that I knew about in the - David F Mayer - 10/6/2005 4:18:13 PM
    - "This is not a conspiracy theory"????? - Tony - 10/4/2005 3:11:48 PM
- can someone move this to OT? (n/t) - DL - 10/3/2005 11:32:37 PM
  - Thinking about it... - Fox, as Moderator - 10/4/2005 2:11:40 AM
    - A day later - DL - 10/4/2005 3:33:41 PM
      - FYI, re: a day later - Fox, as Moderator - 10/5/2005 1:12:26 AM
      - re: A day later - FrankC - 10/4/2005 4:24:47 PM
        
        respectfully, Frank - DL - 10/4/2005 9:42:03 PM
        
        The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd - FrankC - 10/4/2005 10:49:58 PM
        
        It is kind of interesting... - Tom Brosz - 10/4/2005 11:34:28 PM
        
        Politics has become the perfect playground for immorality - Lindy - 10/6/2005 3:05:06 AM
        
        You tell me (n/t) - alcaray - 10/5/2005 3:57:40 PM
        
        In God we trust - Lindy - 10/4/2005 5:11:30 PM
    - re: Thinking about it... - DL - 10/4/2005 4:22:24 AM

stockmartket updÃ¥te: takeover becomes a merger - Daniel - 10/6/2005 3:28:02 PM

Bushes new pick- The judicial version of Mike Brown - DL - 10/3/2005 3:19:24 PM
- I think it is a great pick. - Scott Evil - 10/5/2005 10:57:07 PM
  - geee, big surprise that.... - DL - 10/6/2005 3:02:10 AM
- "How can this be good for the country?" Easy. - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/4/2005 7:58:06 AM
  - "This nomination is a no-brainer." - R.L. - 10/4/2005 10:29:17 AM
- re: Bushes new pick- The judicial version of Mike Brown - Mark Eby - 10/4/2005 2:48:15 AM
- When freepi explode....... - Tony - 10/3/2005 3:55:32 PM
  - More explosions - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2005 5:03:29 PM
  - I think it was a mistake. - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2005 4:39:29 PM
    - re: I think it was a mistake. - Scott Evil - 10/6/2005 1:34:37 PM
    - I can remember when Clinton used to put powerful conservatives into position - Lindy - 10/3/2005 8:09:25 PM
      - I must have missed that. Can you name some? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2005 9:35:35 PM
        
        She's probably thinking of Mario Cuomo (n/t) - FrankC - 10/5/2005 4:17:53 AM
    - The Left's take on this - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2005 4:43:55 PM
      - re: Yes it's cronyism and she's not qualified and should withdraw her nomination. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 10/5/2005 9:55:43 AM
      - If I were paranoid and had shares in Alcoa - Tony - 10/3/2005 8:02:16 PM
        
        re: If I were paranoid and had shares in Alcoa - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2005 9:33:49 PM
        
        Bush (in case you have not noticed) is very powerful - alcaray - 10/3/2005 9:49:35 PM
        
        Bush's mind - Laurie Street - 10/3/2005 11:53:47 PM

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