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One thing that the Left is constantly harping on is how much worse crime is in USA than in UK, and how it is due to gun access, etc. - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 7:50:40 PM
- So do you consider Michael Moore part of the left? - Art Martin - 9/22/2004 4:03:14 PM
- Let's see some of that "constantly harping". I wanna see a bit of that. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/20/2004 10:58:09 PM
- Wow, great post. Thanks for showing how crime went down during the Clinton administration........ (n/t) - Publius - 9/20/2004 8:02:28 PM
  - Well, you know, there was prosperity, a surplus, stock marked boomed, that sort of thing. During the Clinton administration. Gone to hell, now. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/20/2004 8:16:54 PM
    - re: the stock market began to crash in January 2000. Long before Clinton left office. - Scott Evil - 9/20/2004 8:20:37 PM
      - yeah, just like the Clinton years erased the Bush deficit of $290.4 billion...... - Publius - 9/20/2004 8:29:25 PM
        
        Also a fact- the economy was going up fast before Clinton became President. - REB - 9/20/2004 8:41:39 PM
      - Yep, the economy was going downhill fast Clinton's last year in office. - REB - 9/20/2004 8:24:43 PM

Okay, just one more Michael Moore insanity spree... - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 12:09:03 AM
- Wow, he agrees with you and you still hate him. - Art Martin - 9/22/2004 3:56:54 PM
- inspite of MM's money and getting to sit with Jimmy Carter - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 2:51:37 AM
- How many of Bush's dumb statements are on the White House web site? - Bowser - 9/21/2004 2:16:17 AM
- That's news to Chris - FrankC - 9/21/2004 12:41:19 AM
  - What are you talking about? Makes less sense than usual. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/21/2004 2:17:06 AM
    - Come on guy, you know Kerry is toast - FrankC - 9/21/2004 3:03:39 AM
      - If you want me to be a mind reader, you have to bring something to the party. - Bowser - 9/21/2004 3:51:47 AM
        
        re: If you want me to be a mind reader, you have to bring something to the party. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 12:53:30 PM
      - "Leftwing backlash?" Like the 2002 election that "Payback Tuesday" was all about? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 3:08:41 AM

The nonsense - "U.S. taking supporting role in Iraq" - Bowser - 9/22/2004 2:10:21 PM
- re: What's the problem with releasing this lady? - Scott Evil - 9/22/2004 2:41:06 PM
  - Focus, at least try to get the point. At least one of you, anyway. - Bowser - 9/22/2004 3:25:01 PM
  - I bet the CIA will track everything she does. - REB - 9/22/2004 2:45:57 PM
  - They know where they stand on things.... - Larry J - 9/22/2004 2:43:37 PM

US to give Israel 5000 "smart bombs", "bunker busters". - Bowser - 9/21/2004 11:21:17 PM
- re: US to give Israel 5000 "smart bombs", "bunker busters". - Pete Stanley - 9/22/2004 6:14:40 AM
  - You raise a good point about the tankers, but there may already be a solution - Larry J - 9/22/2004 2:11:39 PM
- I wonder if the Israelis are about to annoy the Iranians? (n/t) - Gary - 9/22/2004 3:16:42 AM
  - Could be. I am hoping that it will be an attack against the LEADERSHIP of Iran instead of its nuclear facilities. - David F Mayer - 9/22/2004 5:28:07 AM
    - Think there might be any side effects from an attack like that? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/22/2004 3:20:29 PM
  - Whoa...good call. Maybe you're right. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 3:54:51 AM
- Excellent news. This will enable Israel to strike at underground bunkers and tunnels. Thanks for the info. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/22/2004 1:21:12 AM
- That will help a lot with those Syrian WMDs, as well give the PLO/Hammas terrorists something to think about in their tunnels. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/22/2004 12:29:58 AM

Bush's speech to the U.N. - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 4:12:59 PM
- Not TOO shabby - Tony - 9/21/2004 5:16:04 PM
- "A beacon of freedom". And talk about a flip-flop, that's costing lives. - Bowser - 9/21/2004 5:05:56 PM
  - The freedom you inherited cost lives. - REB - 9/21/2004 5:13:54 PM
    - American lives. And he's killing the ones that don't like a foreign army controlling the country. - Bowser - 9/21/2004 5:18:25 PM
      - Apparently Bowser's Missed The News About Who Is Deliberately Targeting Children, Women, & Civilians - Mark Eby - 9/22/2004 2:45:55 AM
      - Calling American solders baby killers was hip during Vietnam. - REB - 9/21/2004 7:29:45 PM
      - "Killing the ones that want freedom?" Suggest engaging the front end of your brain before replying? - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 5:31:59 PM
        
        Since when is having your country controlled by a foreign army "freedom"? - Bowser - 9/21/2004 6:50:58 PM
        
        Q.E.D. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 7:05:51 PM
        
        proved what? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/21/2004 10:14:03 PM
        
        Follow the thread. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 12:19:57 AM
        
        I'm not going to read it again to try to puzzle it out. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/22/2004 3:08:34 PM
        
        quod erat demonstrandum? - REB - 9/21/2004 7:10:50 PM
        
        Latin for That which was to be demonstrated - REB - 9/21/2004 7:22:23 PM
        
        That's what he regards as "freedom". Doesn't make sense to me, either. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/21/2004 7:20:02 PM
        
        What you don't understand is this is the path to freedom. - REB - 9/21/2004 7:25:38 PM
        
        Some people expect instant gratification - Larry J - 9/21/2004 8:39:37 PM
        
        You're trying to imply the US is on the side of the Iraqis. - Bowser - 9/21/2004 10:44:50 PM
        
        No Implying At All - Mark Eby - 9/22/2004 2:02:37 AM
        
        What are you talking about? - REB - 9/21/2004 7:02:29 PM
        
        re: This... - Raoul - 9/21/2004 7:53:52 PM
        
        re: This... - REB - 9/21/2004 8:40:41 PM
        
        Raoul Has Yet To Admit We Attacked Germany Without "Provocation" Too - Mark Eby - 9/22/2004 2:00:22 AM
        
        re: What would Churchill think about that? (n/t) - Raoul - 9/22/2004 5:49:57 AM
      - Still saying our solders are the bad guys. How sad. - REB - 9/21/2004 5:25:11 PM
        
        re: If Bush gets re-elected the dog will shift into "Its a genocide" mode. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 5:29:46 PM
      - Sorta like killing Nazis in Germany, except a lot of the fighters are not Iraqi. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 5:24:06 PM

1,037 - Donald - 9/22/2004 12:37:54 AM
- You know the war was not over WMDs, but you persist in lying it did. - ebnelson - 9/22/2004 3:21:13 AM
  - The sooner you apologize to Donald the easier it will be and the better you will look. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/22/2004 4:49:00 AM
    - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have not been the one lying. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/22/2004 11:55:46 AM
      - You lied over that. And if there's no apology to Donald I'll dog you with it. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/22/2004 2:14:01 PM
        
        Sorry, I forget dogs have limited vocabulary. ruff! ruff!! (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/22/2004 2:50:24 PM
  - You need to tell that to George Bush. Here it is from a speech, But for all the flip-flopping. It was regime change, then WMD, then "democracy". - Bowser - 9/22/2004 3:34:55 AM
- re: 1,037 - John - 9/22/2004 1:36:45 AM
  - They bombed a Bradley in Baghdad - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 3:47:43 AM
- And Very Shortly - Mark Eby - 9/22/2004 1:29:33 AM
  - Man I Don't Like That Title - Mark Eby - 9/22/2004 1:41:55 AM

Parenting advice from Teresa 'Let them go naked" Heinz-Kerry - Larry J - 9/21/2004 5:35:48 PM
- Anybody got any pics of Teresa 'Let them go naked" Heinz-Kerry Naked? - pig - 9/22/2004 12:46:36 AM
  - I don't think she qualifies for oldies but goodies (n/t) - SteveS - 9/22/2004 2:54:03 AM
- re: That's the same advice she gave the workers at her Muscatine, Iowa Ketchup factory just before she moved it to Mexico. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 7:15:05 PM
  - Money is her god, Profit is her love, People don't count. That is CAPITALISM. - David F Mayer - 9/21/2004 10:09:23 PM
    - re: Human capital does have value. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 10:18:07 PM
      - To See The Complete Book of Business Ethics, Click Here! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/22/2004 1:25:14 AM
        
        re: You must be a union man. - Scott Evil - 9/22/2004 2:12:55 PM
- She is a piece of work - FrankC - 9/21/2004 6:01:37 PM

Zarqawi's demands - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 6:27:26 AM
- Maybe Zarqawi had info of the considered release and used the current beheading... - SteveS - 9/22/2004 12:46:25 PM
  - Very possible - Tony - 9/22/2004 1:01:51 PM
  - Was meant for a reply to Tony (n/t) - SteveS - 9/22/2004 12:47:54 PM
- and the release of Dr Germ was a complete coincidence........ (n/t) - Tony - 9/22/2004 12:15:25 PM
  - re: was it? - Scott Evil - 9/22/2004 1:40:52 PM

Soldier attacked by "peace" advocate - p - 9/22/2004 1:11:03 PM

Has anybody noticed... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 12:39:58 AM
- You probably need to get things straight. - Bowser] - 9/22/2004 3:26:37 AM
  - Maybe you do. - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 3:53:24 AM
    - Now I'm demonstrate you're wrong, and you're going to change the subject. - Bowser - 9/22/2004 4:47:16 AM
      - BTW... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 5:55:24 AM
      - I'd bet I'm tracking this a lot closer than you are. - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 5:53:09 AM
        
        :You didn't address the issue. Are you saying things are going well in Iraq?. - Bowser - 9/22/2004 11:46:05 AM

Dude, where's my party? (on the RNC fracture) - Chris Vancil - 9/22/2004 9:48:14 AM

An Early Exit from Iraq? - Chris Vancil - 9/22/2004 9:40:44 AM

Yes, Mr. President, there are questions to be answered - Donald - 9/21/2004 1:56:50 PM
- Donald, if you are very lucky, your guy will be able to walk away from this with not too much more erosion - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 3:40:09 PM
- re: Does the Kerry campaign know you are attempting to keep this issue alive? - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 1:59:03 PM
  - re: Like what they're not able to read like you folks? Nobody says the contents of the memos are false...Bush's official record support them...interesting huh! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 2:41:05 PM
    - Still falling for the 'fake but accurate' lie? - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 4:04:25 PM
      - re: Nope, I suggseted long ago the contents aren't questions, RNC's Polly. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 9:02:26 PM
    - re: Yes they do. I agree completely. He's got a lot of explaining to do. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 2:45:25 PM
      - re: I'm sure Kerry will read this and think... - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:33:45 PM
        
        If Kerry reads this and thinks - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 4:05:30 PM
        
        re: if he does read this, my services as a political consultant are for hire. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 3:37:46 PM
        
        re:I think you don't know the mean of nut. There really should only be one Rove a century. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:50:05 PM
        
        re: Opps, I meant to say my wife, Anne Leftleaner's services as a political consultant are for hire. (n/t) - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 3:40:19 PM
      - Give Chris a break. He's flopping around like a fish beached fifty feet above the tide line. - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 3:16:48 PM
        
        re: Nope, don't feel like a fish. Feel like someone retching over a particular smelly RNC and what it will do to get something... (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:32:08 PM
        
        You mean like moveon.org/CBS/DNC coordination? Or CBS/DNC coordination to produce, broadcast and use counterfeitted documents? - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 4:10:35 PM
        
        re:Pot Kettle Black...oh and that all important question...Evidence? (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/22/2004 9:04:24 AM
        
        re: Money...Its all about money... - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 3:47:32 PM

McAuliffe loses what remains of his shattered mind... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 12:59:09 AM

Dan Rather should resign...........and ........ - Publius - 9/21/2004 1:58:14 PM
- Bush's contract is up for renewal in November - FrankC - 9/21/2004 5:06:11 PM
  - I feel sorry for Dan Rather - REB - 9/21/2004 5:20:20 PM
    - General problem with reporters: Most of them are obscenely stupid and absurdly gullible. - David F Mayer - 9/21/2004 5:42:21 PM
      - Or maybe just nuts. - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2004 12:35:55 AM
      - re: General problem with reporters: Most of them are obscenely stupid and absurdly gullible. - RE - 9/21/2004 6:02:53 PM
- No- he just needs to report the news. - REB - 9/21/2004 2:37:41 PM
  - He will report all the news that fits his prejudices. (n/t) - DFM - 9/21/2004 10:05:13 PM

CBS's memo becomes a free pass for Bush? Isn't that what Rove wanted. - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 6:51:22 AM
- Nobody, even Rove, could count on DNCBS self destructing like that - Larry J - 9/21/2004 1:47:59 PM
  - re: Nobody, even Rove, could count on DNCBS self destructing like that - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:16:32 PM
    - You were had, Chris. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 6:00:04 PM
    - re: Nobody, even Rove, could count on DNCBS self destructing like that - Larry J - 9/21/2004 3:34:13 PM
- re: Yeah, the news media is right wing. BAHAHAHAHAHAHa (n/t) - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 1:22:02 PM
- You don't get it yet. You have been used by the DNC. There is no scandal about Bush and TANG. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 12:23:58 PM
  - Right: There is no scandal about Bush and TANG? Let us look a little closer... - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:00:08 PM
    - I fyou wnat to base your vote on re-electing Bush based on confused stories from crazy people, feel free. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 8:04:26 PM
    - What You And The DNCBS Don't Get - Mark Eby - 9/21/2004 3:35:30 PM
      - re: What You And The DNCBS Don't Get - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 4:01:42 PM
        
        Chill Cil, It's An Abbreviation - Mark Eby - 9/22/2004 12:35:31 AM
- All You Have To Do Is Read The News To Know It's Slanted Left - Mark Eby - 9/21/2004 11:21:48 AM
  - re: All You Have To Do Is Read The News To Know It's Slanted Left - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:11:35 PM
    - Eay To Detect Fakes? - Mark Eby - 9/21/2004 3:29:21 PM
      - re: Easy To Detect Fakes? - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:56:10 PM
        
        Baloney - Mark Eby - 9/21/2004 10:31:24 PM

For all of you upset with CBS - Bush used clumsily forged documents to go to war. And True Believers are incensed at - - - ? - Bowser - 9/21/2004 5:58:05 AM
- See what I mean about immunity to facts? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 3:09:18 PM
  - Nope. Weasel out of this. "The president's statement in the State of the Union was incorrect because it was based on forged documents from the African nation of Niger, White House spokesman Ari Fleis… (n/t) - Bowser - 9/21/2004 3:36:18 PM
    - Short answer? Fleischer was wrong. - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 10:40:33 PM
- re: So the Yellowcake memos were forgeries...Is that why Kerry thought he could get away with the memogate forgeries? - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 1:33:18 PM
  - re: Your evidence is? We should reserve Memogate for the future... - Chris Vancil - 9/21/2004 3:27:33 PM
    - are you drunk? - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 3:36:02 PM
- So you think we went to war over the docs? Tell us: what does your dog say back at ya? (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 12:51:34 PM

Another American has been beheaded - Scott Evil - 9/20/2004 9:21:01 PM
- I am disappointed with the utter failure to capture or kill these guys. - David F Mayer - 9/21/2004 5:36:53 PM
  - re: I agree. The pressure needs to be turned up on these bastards. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 9:53:26 PM
    - They MAY indeed escape. - David F Mayer - 9/21/2004 10:11:32 PM
- God Bless that man and comfort his family - ebnelson - 9/20/2004 9:58:10 PM

Kerry Flip-Flop Countdown: One (1) Day and Counting (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 4:08:47 PM
- Its gotta be killing him to hold a position this long. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 10:11:01 PM
- Don't worry, others are keeping track of this. - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 4:29:10 PM

European security policy - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 4:16:29 PM
- re: Help me...Is that satire? - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 4:46:17 PM
  - Yyou guys are nutty. - alcaray - 9/21/2004 6:40:40 PM
    - I agree. A Euro RDF could be really important. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 9:53:59 PM
      - re: It would make me feel safe. - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 10:05:40 PM
        
        London is wonderful. - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 10:10:33 PM
  - You wish. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 4:52:17 PM

Turtle Island - Raoul - 9/21/2004 5:32:30 AM
- I just saw death toll near 700. - REB - 9/21/2004 9:46:24 PM
- re: Turtle Island - REB - 9/21/2004 3:20:15 PM

Kerry tries out for post-election job as stand up comedian - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 9:23:59 PM

Man this is entertaining - It sounds like the plot from an as yet unreleased Micheal Moore or Oliver Stone conspiracy movie - Scott Evil - 9/21/2004 5:20:50 PM
- re: Tinylink - Raoul - 9/21/2004 6:19:17 PM
- Lucy is a figment of Burkett's imagination - ebnelson - 9/21/2004 5:40:54 PM
  - A lot of things are figments of Burkett's imagination. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 6:24:32 PM

Kerry's Iraq policies: Reality check from the Washington Post - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 4:07:04 PM
- Reality check from Chrenkoff, too. - Tom Brosz - 9/21/2004 6:22:04 PM
- re: Kerry's Iraq policies: Reality check from the Washington Post - REB - 9/21/2004 4:55:23 PM

John Kerry and Jane Fonda at anti-war rally - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 7:16:15 PM
- Huh, if you think that looks like Jane Fonda you obviously never saw "Barbarella!" (n/t) - Publius - 9/20/2004 8:12:46 PM
- That war caused untold grief, and it was fought for nothing. - Bowser - 9/20/2004 7:36:41 PM
  - Kennedy got us in that war for the right reason - REB - 9/21/2004 6:00:55 PM
  - 'war is a crime' - ebnelson - 9/20/2004 8:37:12 PM
    - War is a series of crimes, one after the other, by everyone. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/20/2004 8:54:56 PM
      - Then your definition explains nothing and is meaningless. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/20/2004 8:59:00 PM
- Not really relevant - Tom Brosz - 9/20/2004 7:33:43 PM
  - Trying to understand...... - Publius - 9/20/2004 8:21:15 PM
    - Since Bush volunteered to go to Vietnam - ebnelson - 9/20/2004 10:11:17 PM
    - Kerry and the war - Tom Brosz - 9/20/2004 8:51:41 PM
    - So, did you vote for the draft dodger or the war heros in 1992 and 1996? - Larry J - 9/20/2004 8:40:05 PM
      - Yeah, Lt. Calley was confined to base and had to say "me bad" four times per day. (n/t) - Publius - 9/21/2004 1:52:27 PM
- Woops. Wrong picture. Just follow this link: - David F Mayer - 9/20/2004 7:23:57 PM
  - No don't go bringing up Jane Fonda - REB - 9/20/2004 7:33:27 PM

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