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Fatso tourism for Zimbabwe - p - 11/29/2004 6:59:48 PM
- re: Didn't that freakish leader in North Korea make the same proposal a few years back? - Scott Evil - 11/29/2004 9:21:18 PM

10 Reasons Elections in Iraq Will Succeed - p - 11/29/2004 9:18:25 PM

News, good and bad, from Iraq - David F Mayer - 11/29/2004 8:35:52 PM

Mikey's Brother Extends His Tour - p - 11/29/2004 4:58:06 PM

1,238 - Donald - 11/29/2004 1:49:34 PM

Speaking about the UN: Kofi's Problems Increase - p - 11/24/2004 7:18:54 PM
- Look For Another Annan Verbal Attack On US To Divert Attention (n/t) - Mark Eby - 11/29/2004 3:18:17 AM

1,235 - Donald - 11/28/2004 4:17:34 PM

What's going on in Ukraine - Tom Brosz - 11/24/2004 3:51:30 AM
- Yushchenko Poisoned? - Peter Bruener - 11/27/2004 8:45:28 PM
- Pity the Ukraine - Gary - 11/24/2004 6:28:31 AM
  - Poor Ukraine, too close to Russia, too far from God. (n/t) - ebnelson - 11/24/2004 5:05:20 PM
    - Amen (if you will) - McFly - 11/24/2004 6:36:02 PM
      - The original saying was in Spanish about Mexico - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 5:21:30 PM

Meanwhile, in North Korea - Tom Brosz - 11/25/2004 9:11:30 PM
- Either Kim was shot, or the Central Committee simply got fed up with Kim's outrageous behavior - E.P. Grondine - 11/26/2004 7:41:51 AM
  - please, don't lower yourself - phil - 11/26/2004 8:21:16 PM
    - I won't (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 11/27/2004 1:49:48 AM
- Chinese hegemony - FrankC - 11/26/2004 1:11:28 AM
  - How the planned economy is stacking up........ - Publius - 11/26/2004 11:32:25 PM
  - re: Chinese hegemony - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2004 5:56:50 AM
    - metaphorically a province - FrankC - 11/26/2004 5:43:27 PM
  - If they think they can annex NK the chinese are insane. - ebnelson - 11/26/2004 4:33:47 AM
    - Surely you could see the reasoning. - Lee - 11/26/2004 7:07:01 AM
      - Sounds like a good deal for everybody. - David F Mayer - 11/26/2004 3:18:42 PM
  - We're changing our name to "Koguryo Province" - Peter Bruener - 11/26/2004 2:04:05 AM
    - I doubt if China will do imperialism well based on a many-hundreds of years old dubious claim. - ebnelson - 11/26/2004 9:03:24 PM
      - re: I doubt if China will do imperialism well based on a many-hundreds of years old dubious claim. - Peter Bruener - 11/27/2004 12:37:19 AM
      - I don't see China as rigidly dogmatic any more... - FrankC - 11/26/2004 10:30:26 PM
- Fast times in the DPRC - Peter Bruener - 11/26/2004 12:08:28 AM
  - ...oops! - Peter Bruener - 11/26/2004 12:35:16 AM
- I think Kim Jong Il has been walking the razor's edge for years. - Jacob Samorodin - 11/25/2004 10:31:24 PM
- I am HOPING that Jong Kim-Il will have a fatal accident. And be replaced by RATIONAL rulers. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 11/25/2004 10:22:06 PM

ACLU fascists go from sublime to ridiculous - ebnelson - 11/24/2004 11:58:48 PM
- Story is bogus. - David F Mayer - 11/25/2004 3:39:41 PM
  - I would suggest that the blog you refer to has a pretty strong agenda, in their own words, to make that conclusion. - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 3:49:22 PM
- re: ACLU fascists go from sublime to ridiculous - LJ - 11/25/2004 3:30:01 AM
  - It is the chilling effect of the ACLU that led to this. - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 5:41:12 AM
  - re: ACLU fascists go from sublime to ridiculous - et - 11/25/2004 4:11:35 AM
    - Perhaps it wasn't ethanol - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 5:42:54 AM
      - Don't you ever dare use Thanksgiving to deliver an insult again. - Mary Anne - 11/25/2004 12:15:55 PM
        
        I am falsely accused of being drunk, but I think the frame of the accusation was funny - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 1:41:36 PM
        
        Don't worry ed... - RobVG - 11/25/2004 4:13:47 PM
        
        Not a bit of it: I meant what I said. - Mary Anne - 11/26/2004 2:12:11 PM
        
        PS - RobVG - 11/27/2004 12:26:54 AM
        
        Incase you haven't noticed, this website thrives on insults. - RobVG - 11/27/2004 12:12:27 AM
        
        re: Don't worry ed... - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 5:17:05 PM
        
        Thanks ed. (time for a nap) (n/t) - RobVG - 11/26/2004 2:53:05 AM

1,071 - Donald - 10/10/2004 2:14:19 PM
- re: 1,071 - Lt. Welsh - 11/18/2004 12:54:06 AM
  - Terminology is not easy to deal with. Cut Donald some slack. - Tom Brosz - 11/19/2004 12:23:36 AM
    - re: Give Donald a break? - Sandra Jones - 11/26/2004 9:00:14 PM
    - Yeah, I know it's an old post, but my point is still a good one. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/19/2004 12:24:45 AM
- re: 1,071 - Mark Eby - 10/10/2004 10:34:08 PM
- Meanwhile: For Marines, Iraq a frustrating fight - Donald - 10/10/2004 2:35:25 PM
  - re: Meanwhile: For Marines, Iraq a frustrating fight - Stephen Ahern - 11/8/2004 4:58:01 PM
    - re: Meanwhile: For Marines, Iraq a frustrating fight (n/t) - Stephen Ahern - 11/8/2004 5:03:27 PM
  - E-3. Any military types want to comment? - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2004 3:39:00 PM
    - re: E-3. Any military types want to comment? - gbaikie - 10/11/2004 6:49:36 PM
  - And How Many Do You Quote Who Feel Otherwise? - Mark Eby - 10/10/2004 3:49:13 PM
    - The problem with that. - Bowser - 10/10/2004 9:31:29 PM
      - re: The problem with that. - E-7 McKeen - 11/18/2004 12:46:06 AM
      - Really - Mark Eby - 10/10/2004 10:30:59 PM
        
        The Invisible Turtle Heads Theory - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2004 3:31:27 PM
        
        Oh, I do understand............. - Publius - 10/11/2004 6:39:42 PM
        
        re: Oh, I do understand............. - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2004 10:53:53 PM
        
        the difference is........ - Publius - 10/12/2004 3:53:40 PM
        
        Perception - Tom Brosz - 10/12/2004 4:28:01 PM
        
        Since I'm sure That Went Over Your Head - Mark Eby - 10/10/2004 10:38:36 PM
        
        You just make stuff up, don't you. Like Bush, reality doesn't intervene in your thinking at all. - Bowser - 10/11/2004 4:44:35 AM
        
        Try Reading Your Own Source (n/t) - Mark Eby - 10/11/2004 11:46:43 PM
  - And the quagmire continues - Donald - 10/10/2004 2:38:35 PM

Two More Top CIA Officials Resign - Eric - 11/26/2004 2:41:45 AM
- A good start; next stop Dept of State (n/t) - phil - 11/26/2004 8:16:30 PM
- Let It Rain... - Peter Bruener - 11/26/2004 5:47:01 AM
  - You got that right - FrankC - 11/26/2004 6:18:24 PM
- Excellent. - ebnelson - 11/26/2004 4:32:21 AM

Holy Time Warp Batman - Mark Eby - 11/25/2004 6:54:01 PM
- Just reminding people about how the war was never about WMDs - R.L. - 11/25/2004 6:58:47 PM
  - Do me a favor... - Tom Brosz - 11/25/2004 9:03:41 PM
    - OK in return you find ONE instance where i opposed the war on Afghanistan - R.L. - 11/25/2004 9:20:17 PM
      - re: OK in return you find ONE instance where i opposed the war on Afghanistan - gbaikie - 11/26/2004 1:27:30 AM
        
        Actually, I posted in support of nuking Afghanistan terrorist camps - R.L. - 11/26/2004 6:34:17 PM
  - By Selective Use Of Data Again? - ID - 11/25/2004 7:33:35 PM
    - Go ahead- I didnt find one post about how the war was to 'liberate' the Iraqis- just references to bogus WMD claims... - R.L. - 11/25/2004 7:39:27 PM
      - re: Go ahead- I didnt find one post about how the war was to 'liberate' the Iraqis- just references to bogus WMD claims... - Mark Eby - 11/26/2004 1:03:55 AM

Ummmm, Robert.... I think I broke the board- VERY sorry - r.l. - 11/25/2004 7:06:06 PM
- re: LOL ! - Raoul - 11/25/2004 9:02:15 PM
  - Yeap - Mark Eby - 11/26/2004 12:13:37 AM
    - re: The UN sanctions were working - Raoul - 11/26/2004 6:43:23 AM
      - Correction They Had Worked - ID - 11/26/2004 5:40:32 PM
    - Funny all around.... - et - 11/26/2004 12:24:43 AM
      - And Your Point Was? - Mark Eby - 11/26/2004 12:54:55 AM
- This is for the best, I suspect... - et - 11/25/2004 7:23:37 PM
  - Great Observation!!! - Mark Eby - 11/25/2004 7:31:40 PM
    - I'm a trained observer and I got the T-shirts to prove it. ;-) (n/t) - et - 11/25/2004 11:24:51 PM

1,232 - Donald - 11/26/2004 2:49:03 PM

Native American Families Prepare for Day of Mourning - E.P. Grondine - 11/24/2004 6:17:33 PM
- It sucks to be technologically impaired. (n/t) - Lee - 11/26/2004 7:18:53 AM
- Native Americans DEFINITELY got the @^*% end of the stick. (n/t) - DFM - 11/25/2004 6:14:03 PM
- re: Day of Mourning - Tom Brosz - 11/24/2004 9:38:56 PM
  - re: Day of Mourning - LJ - 11/24/2004 11:02:57 PM
    - re: Day of Mourning - Tom Brosz - 11/25/2004 12:25:32 AM
- Solution: Massive UN Deployment - p - 11/24/2004 7:08:55 PM

Lech Walesa fighting for freedom again? - Tom Brosz - 11/26/2004 6:32:57 AM

YESSS!!!....Dan Blather [I mean, Rather] is leaving leaving leaving... - Jacob Samorodin - 11/23/2004 10:17:45 PM
- Of course, he's actually been planning on retiring since last summer... - Tom Brosz - 11/24/2004 1:31:06 AM
  - I think he would have preferred to linger on. - Gary - 11/24/2004 4:48:07 PM
    - "The Economist" chimes in - Gary - 11/26/2004 5:47:13 AM
    - Oh, for crying out loud. He's 73 years old. - Mary Anne - 11/25/2004 1:54:19 AM
      - Whatever reason he claims, it will inevitably be tied back to his fraud in this election. (n/t) - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 4:00:22 PM

It’s sad to see a man of Nelson Mandela’s stature reduced to babbling such nonsense - Matt Burley - 9/11/2002 7:14:11 PM
- Re: Mandela - Raoul - 9/11/2002 7:35:07 PM
  - "anti-american policyism" - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2002 3:22:11 PM
  - Re: Mandela - McFly - 9/11/2002 12:08:46 PM
    - Re: Assumption and accusation . . . - D. Spires - 9/11/2002 1:02:59 PM
  - Mandela's not evil, just misguided - Matt Burley - 9/11/2002 10:27:04 AM
    - please send your last paragraph to the White House... - Scott - 9/11/2002 10:37:50 AM
  - "Either-or" again. - Bowser - 9/11/2002 8:24:16 AM
    - Re: Either-or - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2002 10:19:40 AM
    - Re: Please Do...I am not syndicated. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2002 9:09:44 AM
      - Re:peace - Raoul - 9/11/2002 5:38:52 PM
        
        re: Re:peace - gbaikie - 11/26/2004 3:10:28 AM
        
        Re: Preemptive war - Tom Brosz - 9/11/2002 6:41:24 PM
        
        It was never about WMDs - R.L. - 11/25/2004 6:37:04 PM
        
        That wasn't the 1973 Yom Kippur war... - Larry J - 9/12/2002 1:42:39 PM
        
        Oops... - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2002 4:31:08 PM
        
        Man this is gonna be good (not the war - the speech!) (n/t) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2002 8:54:04 AM
    - I hope that Bush Delivers an Either-or Ultamatum to the UN Tommorrow - Scott - 9/11/2002 8:37:13 AM
      - see "High Noon" the analogy is apt n/t (n/t) - p - 9/11/2002 8:51:06 AM
        
        Don't get my hopes up. N/T (n/t) - Scott - 9/11/2002 9:15:22 AM
- He sounds like Al Sharpton now... (n/t) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/11/2002 7:30:47 PM
- Nelson Mandela has always been an over-hyped media creation. - Lee - 9/11/2002 8:50:28 AM

Lets all be more godly - R.L. - 11/24/2004 9:19:54 PM
- I had almost forgotten that old spam. Thanks for reusing it. - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 5:44:25 AM
  - Guess it hit a nerve- You must be a sinner or a hypocrite - R.L. - 11/25/2004 3:40:02 PM
    - re: 'Guess it hit a nerve- You must be a sinner or a hypocrite' No more so than anyone else. - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 3:57:43 PM
      - No.... - .L. - 11/25/2004 8:02:57 PM
        
        re: No.... - ebnelson - 11/26/2004 12:39:43 AM
- RIght on! - GW - 11/25/2004 4:11:52 AM
- Just don't ridicule Islam, Wicca or Judism as you'll be non-PC - p - 11/24/2004 11:32:09 PM
  - I dont see those religions trying to make their nonsense law in the US- christians are doing so successfully - R.L. - 11/25/2004 3:44:40 PM
    - What candidate was that? - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 5:40:19 PM
  - We must laugh or we would go mad. - Mary Anne - 11/25/2004 12:11:26 PM
  - There's a difference between getting kicks and calling bullshit. (n/t) - et - 11/25/2004 4:22:10 AM
  - Clue: Leviticus is one of the five books of Torah - Fox - 11/25/2004 3:37:25 AM
    - "What if Joe Lieberman had been elected?" If he'd been nominated, he probably would have been. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/25/2004 5:48:08 AM
      - Lieberman would have been a very formidable opponent - ebnelson - 11/25/2004 6:21:36 PM
- *grin* (n/t) - Fox - 11/24/2004 10:28:18 PM

Comments on environmentalism, continued from Space Board - Tom Brosz - 11/25/2004 8:00:18 PM
- Sticking it to the man.... - et - 11/26/2004 12:11:09 AM
- re: Comments on environmentalism, continued from Space Board - LJ - 11/25/2004 11:44:45 PM

Hey, Yemen. Thanks a bunch. - Tom Brosz - 11/25/2004 8:56:00 PM

Dolphins on a rescue mission! - Raoul - 11/25/2004 7:36:39 PM

Nelson Mandela's nonviolence - Gary - 9/12/2002 3:45:07 PM
- How can you blame them? - Lee - 9/13/2002 8:38:21 AM
  - Funny how some people never change - R.L. - 11/25/2004 6:43:31 PM
    - Funny - Mark Eby - 11/25/2004 6:50:55 PM
- A small part. - Bowser - 9/12/2002 4:11:48 PM
  - Re: A small part. - Tom Brosz - 9/12/2002 4:38:23 PM
    - The Christian Bible has a parallel - Bowser - 9/12/2002 7:50:37 PM
      - "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2002 9:56:36 AM

expect more crap like this under our 'god fearing' president... - R.L. - 11/19/2004 9:32:48 PM
- Yeah It Really Sucks - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 5:15:46 PM
  - Man, you really buy the negative campaign ads. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/22/2004 4:42:49 PM
    - Where were you during the last two Democratic admins? - ID - 11/23/2004 7:12:35 PM
      - Your 20/20 hindsight is at once both remarkable and revisionist. Keep it up! (n/t) - PPD - 11/23/2004 9:00:09 PM
        
        Really? - Mark Eby - 11/24/2004 4:07:10 AM
      - Right here, enjoying the absence of foreign adventures. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/23/2004 7:25:36 PM
        
        So You Enjoyed 911? - Mark Eby - 11/24/2004 4:09:02 AM
        
        Ah. Back to the invasion-of-Iraq-equals-revenge-for-911 silliness. Get a leg to stand on, guy. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/24/2004 4:32:29 PM
        
        Get A Clue - ID - 11/25/2004 11:42:23 AM
  - "Weak Foreign Policy"?? - Lindy - 11/21/2004 6:19:40 PM
    - It's Simple Lindy - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 9:57:08 PM
  - And this is related to 9-11 in what way? - R.L. - 11/21/2004 5:47:47 PM
    - As For You In Post Comments - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 6:02:31 PM
      - As for the issue of "political ignorance"............... - Publius - 11/22/2004 12:26:10 AM
        
        Blah Blah Blah - Mark Eby - 11/22/2004 2:02:12 AM
    - Nominate A Decent Candidate Next Time - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 5:54:19 PM
- Our True Believers believe anything. Their "reality" is based on precisely that sort of underpinning. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/20/2004 6:04:13 AM
  - The Ones That Believe The World Is A Sunnny Place If The US Would Just Leave It Alone? (n/t) - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 5:16:46 PM
  - And they don't believe Islam and the communist economic system should be taught in schools. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/20/2004 6:07:37 AM
    - On the contrary... - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2004 7:00:41 AM
      - Oh, Tom, get honest. - Bowser - 11/20/2004 7:29:35 AM
        
        Teaching and advocating - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2004 7:44:42 PM
        
        Where do you get these impressions? - FrankC - 11/20/2004 6:53:46 PM
        
        And TB screams when it's mentioned. Short memories. Convenient memories. - Bowser - 11/22/2004 8:13:47 AM
        
        If a tenth as many academics advocated Christianity in colleges as advocate Marxism, you'd have a cow. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/22/2004 5:34:20 PM
- Is the fundie creation myth less valid than the Indian creation myth? - ebnelson - 11/20/2004 4:04:43 AM
  - If the fundie creation myth were taught in literature and in anthropology where it belongs, no. - Mary Anne - 11/20/2004 12:43:31 PM
    - I'm not so sure... - FrankC - 11/20/2004 7:28:48 PM
      - Similar to the lack of communist indoctrination - alcaray - 11/22/2004 4:46:16 PM
        
        What were/are your majors in college? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/22/2004 5:59:50 PM
        
        re: What were/are your majors in college? - alcaray - 11/22/2004 6:18:16 PM
        
        Is Art History - Mark Eby - 11/24/2004 4:12:30 AM
        
        For all you know he might have degrees in all those subjects. - Tom Brosz - 11/24/2004 6:57:03 AM
        
        My Actual Assumption - Mark Eby - 11/25/2004 6:43:42 PM
      - I'm not so sure thorough is accurate. - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 5:37:05 PM
        
        Bad choice of words - FrankC - 11/21/2004 7:25:37 PM
  - No, they are both equally invalid- the difference is.... - RL. - 11/20/2004 5:21:56 AM
    - P.S. - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2004 5:35:18 AM
    - Cripes...did you live in Matherville where Mary Anne lives? - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2004 5:31:43 AM
      - Do You Go To Church? - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 5:48:26 PM
        
        Tom has mentioned the Lutheran church. - Mary Anne - 11/21/2004 9:26:54 PM
      - It's a pretty safe bet that people whose careers are intimately associated with science won't meet the Mathervillians - Mary Anne - 11/20/2004 7:17:10 PM
        
        Methinks that should be spelled "Mathervillains" (n/t) - Fox - 11/21/2004 4:02:36 PM
- Geez, so don't buy the damn book. - Tom Brosz - 11/19/2004 10:30:42 PM
  - Damn the book. DAMN IT! - et - 11/19/2004 11:40:00 PM
    - "...should the NPS be 'honoring' this aspect of religion?" - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2004 1:12:29 AM
      - False advertizing - Mary Anne - 11/20/2004 1:04:36 PM
        
        re: False advertising - Tom Brosz - 11/20/2004 7:57:15 PM
        
        False Motive - Mark Eby - 11/21/2004 5:53:21 PM
        
        re: False Motive - Tom Brosz - 11/22/2004 12:03:40 AM
        
        Can I Have Another Softball? - Mark Eby - 11/22/2004 2:13:00 AM
        
        I agree - Tom Brosz - 11/22/2004 4:17:18 AM
        
        Beyond obession- war against Christianity - REB - 11/22/2004 6:44:25 PM
        
        re: ***Fundamentalism*** is a threat to the Liberal way of life. - Mary Anne - 11/23/2004 1:16:02 AM
        
        re: ***Fundamentalism*** is a threat to the Liberal way of life. - REB - 11/23/2004 2:19:46 PM
        
        And not just fundamentalist Christianity - Fox - 11/23/2004 2:22:52 AM
        
        Don't forget fundamentalist socialism. 100 million dead this century. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/23/2004 3:35:37 AM
        
        re: fundamentalist socialism - Fox - 11/23/2004 3:12:48 PM
        
        Very good way to put it. - Tom Brosz - 11/23/2004 4:52:02 PM
        
        Hope there is a rebroadcast of "The Ascent of Man" some day - LJ - 11/23/2004 6:48:20 PM
        
        DVDs - Tom Brosz - 11/23/2004 7:39:13 PM
        
        Thanks, Tom! - LJ - 11/23/2004 8:59:43 PM
- re:Ah, memories!! - Raoul - 11/19/2004 9:57:44 PM

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