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Belmont Club and Chester providing good coverage of Operation Matador in Iraq - Gary - 5/11/2005 4:01:07 PM

Halliburton gets $72 mln bonus for work in Iraq - Eric - 5/11/2005 12:32:01 PM

What "Good News" Costs - "Congress OKs $82 billion (more) Iraq spending bill" - Bowser - 5/11/2005 2:18:44 AM
- Whoops! Link. - Bowser - 5/11/2005 2:25:24 AM
  - Oh...only 82 Billion more?? - Lindy - 5/11/2005 6:04:08 AM

Camel Jockey Update - p - 5/11/2005 2:20:52 AM

Here we go again... - Tom Brosz - 5/10/2005 8:20:03 PM
- Another comment from the LA Times - David F Mayer - 5/10/2005 9:46:36 PM
  - Whoops. Meant to attach to post below on Iraq. Sorry. (n/t) - DFM - 5/10/2005 9:47:12 PM
- We are just going to create the liability. - David F Mayer - 5/10/2005 9:36:39 PM

Nanotech Commercial Application - p - 5/10/2005 7:52:54 PM

Two Washington Post articles on the Iraq insurgency. - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 8:33:44 PM
- To my way of thinking, the best way to spur the Iraqi Government - David F Mayer - 5/10/2005 3:15:30 PM
- re: Two Washington Post articles on the Iraq insurgency. - Doug Ellison - 5/10/2005 12:31:43 PM

LINDY FOUND GUILTY!!!!! - Publius - 5/3/2005 1:38:47 PM
- It's quite obvious that Lindy was deprived of oxygen at birth (n/t) - p - 5/4/2005 11:46:10 PM
  - re: It's quite obvious that Lynndie was deprived of oxygen at birth - Lindy - 5/5/2005 3:20:01 AM
    - As Lindy points out, the correct spelling is "Lynndie" - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2005 9:34:03 PM
      - Agreed. Tying Lynndie with Lindy does not rank as humor. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 12:21:51 AM
        
        Seeing as you saw this Techie......... - Lindy - 5/6/2005 3:50:22 AM
        
        So many factors come into play... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 8:40:56 AM
        
        For newbies that post is what you call 'lunatic crap' - ReaLly tired of this crap - 5/9/2005 6:12:40 AM
        
        For psych majors: RL exhibits a 'classic' inferiority complex. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/9/2005 9:14:50 PM
        
        You still have not taken my advice about looking into that whole Irony thing, have you? - DL - 5/9/2005 10:14:24 PM
        
        You know, R.L.... - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 5:54:14 PM
        
        A SDAI/Lindy hybrid.............. - Lindy - 5/9/2005 2:16:47 PM
        
        ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/9/2005 9:24:11 PM
        
        re: So many factors come into play... - Lindy - 5/9/2005 12:37:27 AM
- Unfortunately her superiors go free - R.L. - 5/3/2005 11:39:33 PM
  - re: Unfortunately her superiors go free - p - 5/5/2005 7:10:17 PM
    - Agree with everything you said except - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:11:31 PM
      - re: Agree with everything you said except - p - 5/5/2005 10:22:30 PM
        
        re: Agree with everything you said except - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:49:06 PM
        
        I lnoly know this because I am so interested in computer geeks (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2005 11:01:52 PM

Art from the children of Darfur - alcaray - 5/9/2005 10:03:32 PM

Good News From Iraq, Part 27 - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2005 7:40:29 AM
- Lotsa Good News - "The administration's top budget official estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion." - Bowser - 5/9/2005 8:52:20 PM

Europe: 19302 redux? - p - 5/9/2005 2:25:33 PM

This board needs a "Search" function (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/8/2005 2:38:32 PM
- Not ideal, but here is one solution - Sam F. - 5/8/2005 7:18:13 PM
  - Thanks (n/t) - DFM - 5/9/2005 2:05:35 PM

Climate notes from the blogosphere... - Tom Brosz - 8/11/2004 7:34:56 AM
- The Climate - David F Mayer - 8/13/2004 6:28:10 PM
- Tom, you are educated enough to know the facts - R.L. - 8/11/2004 8:15:19 AM
  - How would global warming screw up the future. (Assuming it exists) - Scott Evil - 8/11/2004 8:00:45 PM
    - And who's to say it's a bad thing? - Lee - 8/12/2004 7:48:04 AM
      - Oh great more wisdon fron the neo nazi hick - R.L. - 8/12/2004 8:29:13 AM
        
        You sound very angry. Why don't you pour yourself a nice carbonated beverage and chill out for a while - Scott Evil - 8/12/2004 6:59:58 PM
        
        Some people never learn (n/t) - SIGH - 5/9/2005 12:04:33 AM
        
        Well Mr. Robert "I have been to the top of the mountain" Lafon - Lee - 8/12/2004 10:33:25 AM
    - What the hell is wrong with you people?! - R.L. - 8/12/2004 6:36:44 AM
      - re: What the hell is wrong with you people? - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2004 1:14:28 AM
        
        More nuke plants, fine with me... - R.L. - 8/13/2004 9:45:06 AM
  - It's the laser...you're burning holes all the way up through the thermosphere! Cut it out! ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/11/2004 8:33:33 AM
    - Dont DO that!!!! - Dr. Evil - 8/12/2004 6:46:45 AM
      - Oh, wouldn't that be funny..... - Lindy - 8/13/2004 5:50:03 AM

Bush loses $100 million in Iraq - Donald - 5/5/2005 1:02:40 PM
- Iraq - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2005 8:49:11 PM
  - So that's why he's always carping on this subject... (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 5/8/2005 10:45:50 PM
- Nothing to worry about...that's just how we fund black op projects. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2005 8:04:20 PM
  - Another quote you must remember with your photographic memory - R.L. - 5/5/2005 8:27:54 PM
    - Hey - DL - 5/6/2005 6:57:06 PM
      - Nahhh, SDAI is already a proven joke - R.L. - 5/8/2005 8:01:20 AM
  - You have a lousy history on this topic.... - R.L. - 5/5/2005 8:23:11 PM
    - re: You have a lousy history on this topic.... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 12:42:40 AM
      - So much for the myth of your photographic memory - R.L. - 5/6/2005 3:08:55 AM
        
        I am waiting for you to admit your lie, or back it up.... - R.L. - 5/6/2005 5:17:04 AM
        
        You cant back your BS up can you? (n/t) - R.L. - 5/8/2005 7:58:40 AM
        
        Patience is a virtue... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 6:22:31 AM
        
        re: Patience is a virtue... - Davin L. - 5/6/2005 6:23:16 PM
        
        Now that you have exposed yourself for what you are.... - r.l. - 5/6/2005 7:54:52 AM
        
        Pretty damn lame, SDAI - R.L. - 5/6/2005 7:30:11 AM
        
        Give it a rest. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 8:07:31 AM
        
        You made a claim, an insulting one, and dishonestly tried to back it up and got called on it. - R.L. - 5/6/2005 8:37:56 AM
        
        RL is Right and I am Wrong. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 8:55:49 AM
        
        Back up your claim, or admit you lied - R.L. - 5/8/2005 8:16:18 AM
        
        Nope, that was lacking in sincerity.... Try harder - R.L. - 5/6/2005 9:57:34 AM
        
        I don't think that qualifies. - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 6:31:45 AM
        
        missing link - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2005 6:24:16 AM
      - re: You have a lousy history on this topic.... - Davin L. - 5/6/2005 1:59:32 AM
    - So did Frank - R.L. - 5/5/2005 8:48:25 PM
      - Smug again. - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2005 9:57:25 PM
        
        No again. - tony - 5/6/2005 3:00:07 AM
        
        To Frank's credit - Tony - 5/6/2005 5:38:47 PM
- Good job - p - 5/5/2005 2:47:08 PM
  - Where was your link supposed to go? (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2005 6:35:50 PM
    - re: Where was your link supposed to go? To "Thank you agent Bowser" below (n/t) - p - 5/5/2005 7:03:44 PM
      - The "if you don't like it yer a traitor" link. (All he's got, I'm afraid.) (n/t) - Bowser - 5/5/2005 7:33:18 PM
  - It's not a "good job" by Bush - Lindy - 5/5/2005 3:37:58 PM

A couple of interesting articles concerning the Democratic Party - Gary - 5/8/2005 5:55:50 PM
- re: A couple of interesting articles concerning the Democratic Party - phil - 5/8/2005 8:55:42 PM

Seven U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq - Donald - 5/8/2005 8:14:05 PM

Wow...first one on the newly repaird board, and I can shove everything under the line! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/8/2005 6:14:14 AM
- And you had to go and blow your big line with typo! ;-) Tsk. Tsk. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/8/2005 7:21:19 AM
  - Premature ejaculation (in the literary sense of the word) (n/t) - ;-) - 5/8/2005 7:57:02 AM
    - Is that like getting your comeuppance? (n/t) - Sam F. - 5/8/2005 7:22:17 PM

Blairs win in the UK is NOT support for the War - Doug Ellison - 5/6/2005 11:30:59 AM
- "British Prime Minister Tony Blair says Iraq war hurt his party in Thursday's election." - Bowser - 5/6/2005 6:35:40 PM
- Really? - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 2:04:47 PM
  - Al Qaeda trying to influence the British election - Gary - 5/6/2005 3:53:32 PM
    - I don't think so. - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 5:37:30 PM
    - Were the Madrid bombings ever conclusively linked to al Qaeda? - Sam F. - 5/6/2005 4:40:50 PM
- re: Blairs win in the UK is NOT support for the War - gbaikie - 5/6/2005 1:26:33 PM
- Equally, a loss would not have been opposition to the war. - Sam F. - 5/6/2005 12:17:52 PM

269 Dead in Iraq over the past nine days - Lindy - 5/6/2005 3:23:42 PM
- Try and remember... - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 6:21:06 PM

Now were in a mess: Clean air is causing global warming - Scott Evil - 5/6/2005 5:13:03 PM
- OPPS. Should have been on the Space board. - Scott Evil - 5/6/2005 5:54:50 PM

Alleged al-Qaida No. 3 arrested in Pakistan - David F Mayer - 5/4/2005 7:20:49 PM
- Sounds like a Monty Python routine - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 5:59:38 AM
  - re: Sounds like a Monty Python routine - R.L. - 5/6/2005 8:15:53 AM
- It looks like he has been crying quite a bit. - Scott Evil - 5/4/2005 10:14:07 PM
  - A lot of that going around. - Tom Brosz - 5/5/2005 5:21:41 AM
    - Oooo that last one had to hurt. - Scott Evil - 5/6/2005 5:52:05 PM
  - re: It looks like he has been crying quite a bit. - Lindy - 5/5/2005 3:16:59 AM
    - It's not wise to piss off America - p - 5/5/2005 2:45:00 PM
      - His mistake was pissing off Pakistan (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:05:37 PM
        
        See the URL, it's not just he (n/t) - p - 5/5/2005 10:21:03 PM
        
        don't see the connection (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:43:40 PM
        
        ahh, I get it. I was talking about al-Libbi. - alcaray - 5/5/2005 10:45:54 PM
    - "Could they have literally beat the shit out of him?" Right on the third try. - David F Mayer - 5/5/2005 5:58:24 AM

GWB, 9-27-04 - "Taliban no longer is in existence." 5-5-05 "Afghan fighting 'leaves 70 dead' " - Bowser - 5/6/2005 2:54:49 AM
- Won't see it. Save your breath. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/6/2005 5:50:55 PM
- I gotta hand it to you - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 3:30:21 AM
  - re: I gotta hand it to you - Doug Ellison - 5/6/2005 11:25:39 AM
    - Bad day at the polls? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 2:15:42 PM
  - Keep it simple. The point. Try for the point. - Bowser - 5/6/2005 4:14:18 AM
    - Oh, glad you mentioned the jobs. - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 2:14:33 PM
    - You haven't had one in quite a while. - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 5:54:24 AM
      - OK, Tom, the point. I'll help you. Yer guy is an ignorant liar. Can't make it any clearer. Used his own words to demonstrate it. - Bowser - 5/6/2005 6:27:48 AM
        
        Ah, the pipeline myth. Haven't heard that one in a while. - Tom Brosz - 5/6/2005 6:35:01 AM

Dutch fleeing their homeland in droves - p - 5/6/2005 5:17:03 PM

Scandal rocks Mayor - Donald - 5/6/2005 2:01:48 PM

Berger Award nominee - phil - 5/6/2005 1:54:25 PM

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