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Indonesia gets hit again - Buck Galaxy - 4/13/2005 6:36:56 AM
- Krakatoa is begining to awaken - Eric - 4/14/2005 2:39:28 AM

Cleaning the outside of your computer screen is easy... - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2005 1:07:52 AM
- D'oh! Should have been on Off-Topic. Haven't pulled that one in a while. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2005 2:39:26 AM

Colonization - Raoul - 4/13/2005 5:38:34 AM
- re: Colonization - JE King - 4/13/2005 3:54:12 PM
  - re: re:International law and the UN - Raoul - 4/13/2005 4:11:20 PM
    - "The only country in the world that still has disputed borders is Israel." Not true. - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2005 6:14:41 PM
      - re: "If the West Bank had been "occupied" by Egypt, or Syria nobody would have given a rat's ass." - alcaray - 4/13/2005 8:41:25 PM
        
        Kind of an odd thing to say... - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2005 9:03:39 PM
        
        They were questions for you. I am trying to clarify your position. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/13/2005 10:47:16 PM
        
        re: Theodor Herzl - Raoul - 4/13/2005 9:36:30 PM
        
        the new anti-semitism - JE King - 4/13/2005 10:06:46 PM
- "Even the Torah is opposed to sionism." - David F Mayer - 4/13/2005 5:43:57 AM
  - What are your qualifications for determining who is a Jew or not. - Bowser - 4/13/2005 7:15:32 PM
  - re: Easy to mak ones mind - Raoul - 4/13/2005 4:16:53 PM
    - re: make, I meant (n/t) - Raoul - 4/13/2005 4:25:00 PM

"Democracy" and free enterprise cross paths in Afghanistan - Bowser - 3/5/2005 6:47:53 PM
- Sounds fine to me. - David F Mayer - 3/7/2005 3:23:36 PM
- Formative stages of wealth accumulation - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/7/2005 2:05:23 AM
  - re: Formative stages of wealth accumulation - Lindy - 3/7/2005 7:01:41 PM
- Isn't Karsai a CIA man? - Lindy - 3/6/2005 6:27:10 AM
  - I hope you are joking here (n/t) - Tony - 3/6/2005 4:36:26 PM
- re: "Democracy" and free enterprise cross paths in Afghanistan - gbaikie - 3/5/2005 11:49:52 PM
- re: "Democracy" and free enterprise cross paths in Afghanistan - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2005 7:15:43 PM
  - The observation was about the government, not necessarily opium. - Bowser - 3/5/2005 9:11:07 PM
    - re: The observation was about the government, not necessarily opium. - Rick - 4/13/2005 7:43:27 PM
    - re: The observation was about the government - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2005 9:26:13 PM
      - "And what would you propose a "government in control" do about the opium crop?" - Bowser - 3/5/2005 11:40:59 PM
        
        re: opium crop - Tom Brosz - 3/6/2005 4:33:20 AM
        
        re: opium crop - Publius - 3/7/2005 4:07:53 AM

Clinton finds his surrogate family - FrankC - 4/13/2005 12:06:20 AM
- re: Clinton finds his surrogate family - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2005 3:53:32 AM
  - Only one - Tony - 4/13/2005 12:59:27 PM
    - Handmaiden, I believe - DL - 4/13/2005 4:12:50 PM
- Nice (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 4/13/2005 2:16:46 AM

More legal problems for the Catholic Church - ReLigion in trouble - 4/13/2005 4:01:45 PM

California teacher's union girds for war - Tom Brosz - 4/12/2005 9:18:24 PM

High Gas Prices? Culprit found - phil - 4/12/2005 2:55:11 PM
- Funny article - Tony - 4/12/2005 3:58:01 PM

Author of Senate Schiavo memo identified - Donald - 4/7/2005 1:15:04 PM
- What a shock! - R.L. - 4/7/2005 4:51:46 PM
  - If I might point something out... - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2005 9:41:24 PM
    - Well there was this thread... - alcaray - 4/11/2005 4:25:10 PM
      - Quote of the year! (n/t) - Tony - 4/11/2005 4:35:57 PM
  - re: What a shock! - gbaikie - 4/8/2005 8:54:33 AM
  - As with the war, - alcaray - 4/7/2005 9:22:53 PM
    - NOT A SOUL. None of the Rather cluckers, no one. - Bowser - 4/8/2005 7:22:17 AM
      - You got your way...The poor woman is dead. Now please quit dancing on her corpse. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 4/12/2005 2:46:32 PM
      - Hmm, didn't see the conservatives here chasing their tails over the Berger admission. (n/t) - RobVg - 4/9/2005 4:11:06 AM
    - How about a Kurdish president of Iraq? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/8/2005 2:10:10 AM
      - Which has nothing to do with the Schiavo memo. And it seemed to work. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/8/2005 10:44:39 PM
      - Pretty normal way to set up a parlimentary govt... - alcaray - 4/8/2005 5:51:46 PM
        
        re: Pretty normal way to set up a parlimentary govt... - gbaikie - 4/8/2005 7:11:09 PM
        
        re: Pretty normal way to set up a parlimentary govt... - alcaray - 4/8/2005 7:47:12 PM
        
        re: Pretty normal way to set up a parlimentary govt... - gbaikie - 4/9/2005 7:17:04 PM
- I thought the blogosphere had irrefutable proof! (n/t) - alcaray - 4/7/2005 3:47:04 PM
  - And I'm so glad that the 'nets ability to "self-correct" straightened things out... Er... (n/t) - alcaray - 4/7/2005 3:48:46 PM
    - Yeah!.... its so much .... better than .... Main Stream, er... Liberal Media... uhmmm.... (n/t) - Davin L. - 4/7/2005 5:54:36 PM
- More on this - Donald - 4/7/2005 2:18:50 PM
- Interesting, though, that the time it takes for the actual truth of the matter to come out - DL - 4/7/2005 1:21:07 PM
  - Yup - Donald - 4/7/2005 2:11:45 PM
    - re: Yup, ahhh yup - Publius - 4/12/2005 2:23:10 PM

No conservative cluckers on this, either - "Corruption in Iraq under US-led CPA may dwarf UN oil-for-food scandal. - Bowser - 4/12/2005 7:13:47 AM
- I'd love to cluck but your link, like your brain, doesn't seem to work. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 4/12/2005 2:44:53 PM

Leftist icon Seymour Hersh admits and defends habitual lying - phil - 4/11/2005 7:51:25 PM
- re: Leftist icon Seymour Hersh admits and defends habitual lying - gbaikie - 4/12/2005 7:30:58 AM

The country with the best perceived attitude - Raoul - 4/11/2005 3:35:40 PM
- re: The country with the best perceived attitude - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2005 7:13:31 PM
  - re: The country with the best perceived attitude - Raoul - 4/11/2005 10:02:14 PM
    - History - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2005 11:32:43 PM

Ferry claims Democratic supporters are idiots - phil - 4/11/2005 12:36:57 PM
- It appears the source of Kerry's claims... - Larry J - 4/11/2005 8:37:45 PM
  - further proof that longface has NO sense of humor (n/t) - p - 4/11/2005 8:52:28 PM
- So maybe we stoop to that level... - alcaray - 4/11/2005 4:53:33 PM

Good News from Iraq, Part 25. - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2005 7:14:39 PM

Billions of 'free money' for education - phil - 4/11/2005 3:31:22 PM
- Holy cow...Public school teachers are given tenure? - Scott Evil - 4/11/2005 6:18:18 PM

U.S. Commanders See Possible Cut in Troops in Iraq - gbaikie - 4/11/2005 8:17:42 AM
- Formulated plan - Ron - 4/11/2005 11:55:35 AM
  - Already been posted here half a dozen times including just below - p - 4/11/2005 3:33:16 PM

Hybrid autos: is the increased MPG pseudoscience? - phil - 4/9/2005 1:22:44 AM
- A good small engine and a manual transmission - David F Mayer - 4/11/2005 2:55:33 PM
- re: Emmissions is a very bad way of measuring MPG. - Scott Evil - 4/11/2005 1:46:14 PM
- re: Hybrid autos: is the increased MPG pseudoscience? - Doug Ellison - 4/10/2005 3:39:04 PM
- The EPA test is not accurate. The EPA will do anything except - David F Mayer - 4/10/2005 6:41:20 AM
- Sad State Of US Math? - Mark Eby - 4/9/2005 6:38:50 PM
- Not convinced enuf to buy - Donald - 4/9/2005 3:51:44 PM
- Get a Saturn SL-1 or the closest equivalent - Gary - 4/9/2005 3:32:42 AM
  - Or a Geo Metro. - RobVG - 4/9/2005 5:19:21 AM
    - Wow! What sort of engine do they have? (n/t) - Gary - 4/9/2005 6:29:29 PM
      - Gerbils. - Scott Evil - 4/11/2005 1:59:09 PM
      - I just looked it up. - Gary - 4/9/2005 6:51:25 PM
        
        I miss setting the point gap and checking the dwell. - RobVG - 4/10/2005 6:14:10 AM
        
        head-warp - Gary - 4/11/2005 1:44:29 AM
- Other factors - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2005 2:11:47 AM

France less keen on the E.U.? - Tom Brosz - 4/10/2005 9:27:03 PM
- My State is a perfect example - FrankC - 4/10/2005 11:48:28 PM
  - England and New Zealand do not have constitutions - Gary - 4/11/2005 2:01:45 AM
    - re: England and New Zealand do not have constitutions - gbaikie - 4/11/2005 3:45:38 AM
- re: France less keen on the E.U.? - Raoul - 4/10/2005 9:42:52 PM
  - Constitution - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2005 5:23:09 AM
    - No problem the self-anointed elite at Yale Law are re-drafting the Constitution as we speak - phil - 4/11/2005 12:17:36 PM
      - re: No problem the self-anointed elite at Yale Law are re-drafting the Constitution as we speak - McFly - 4/11/2005 1:07:55 PM
        
        re: No problem the self-anointed elite at Yale Law are re-drafting the Constitution as we speak - p - 4/11/2005 2:24:37 PM
  - The more complicated, the more corrupt. - David F Mayer - 4/11/2005 4:32:33 AM

Some good news from the Anti-"anti-science" Front - Fox - 4/10/2005 5:29:13 PM
- I suppose that it has never occurred to the illiterates who - David F Mayer - 4/11/2005 4:37:16 AM
- Missing link . . . (pun accepted) - Fox - 4/10/2005 5:34:07 PM

This is not good... Marburg outbreak spreading.... 90% death rate - R.L. - 4/8/2005 9:53:37 PM
- re: This is not good...RL still posting - Lindy - 4/9/2005 6:12:37 AM
  - oh shut up. you're baiting (n/t) - tony - 4/9/2005 2:24:19 PM
    - Tony......... - Lindy - 4/9/2005 4:47:26 PM
      - I already knew the facts - tony - 4/11/2005 1:27:24 AM
        
        I'm not baiting.......... - Lindy - 4/11/2005 3:23:05 AM
    - Baiting? Check the dates on posts. - Bowser - 4/9/2005 3:21:15 PM
      - Obviously at this point........ - Lindy - 4/9/2005 4:40:21 PM
- re: This is not good... Marburg outbreak spreading.... 90% death rate - phil - 4/9/2005 1:03:07 AM
  - It's not that big a worry. - Lee - 4/9/2005 5:48:10 AM

An Iraqi protest is finally "noticed" by the media. - Tom Brosz - 4/10/2005 5:16:41 AM
- New developments about the Associated Press snuff photos - Gary - 4/11/2005 3:08:39 AM
- An Iraqi exit plan strategy - Eric - 4/10/2005 2:09:34 PM
  - re: An Iraqi exit plan strategy One Could Only Hope So (n/t) - p - 4/10/2005 4:45:40 PM
- More on the Second Anniversary - gbaikie - 4/10/2005 10:30:25 AM
  - Meanwhile: 1,546 - Donald - 4/10/2005 3:51:26 PM

It's Official... - Dmitri - 4/10/2005 5:46:56 PM

Here is a link to an Ultra Leftist Bulletin Board. - David F Mayer - 4/6/2005 5:32:03 PM
- re: Here is a link to an Ultra Leftist Bulletin Board. - Uncle Joe Ra Ha - 4/9/2005 11:52:14 PM

Maine Moonbat at Colorado Space Symposium - p - 4/9/2005 1:32:32 PM
- re: Maine Moonbat at Colorado Space Symposium - gbaikie - 4/9/2005 10:31:58 PM

Poll: Bush standing with public weakening - Donald - 4/8/2005 1:31:03 PM
- Major CLUE for Dems: the poll that counted already happened DUH! (n/t) - p - 4/9/2005 1:04:44 AM
  - Only if you're suggesting that that will be the last one, ever. - Mary Anne - 4/9/2005 1:11:55 AM
    - try some common sense - p - 4/9/2005 1:25:31 AM
      - re: try some common sense - Mark Eby - 4/9/2005 7:02:04 PM
      - LOL! - Mary Anne - 4/9/2005 5:14:11 PM
- Does it matter? - Gary - 4/8/2005 3:26:57 PM
  - "MSM Opinion Polls" - LOL! (n/t) - alcaray - 4/8/2005 7:07:55 PM
  - Yes: reverse coattails. - Mary Anne - 4/8/2005 6:56:09 PM
- More on this... - Donald - 4/8/2005 1:44:30 PM

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