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You can't make this stuff up - FrankC - 10/9/2003 7:48:13 PM
- re: So, you say you want a revolution . . . - D. Spires - 10/9/2003 9:00:03 PM

Bad economic news - p - 10/9/2003 3:38:31 PM
- Urban Sprawl - Anne Leftleaner - 10/9/2003 5:07:44 PM
- Great news! - alcaray - 10/9/2003 4:12:42 PM
- re: Bad economic news - LJ - 10/9/2003 4:02:32 PM
  - agreed (n/t) - p - 10/9/2003 5:32:14 PM
  - LJ's right - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 4:44:21 PM
    - Winston Churchill had a famous quote that seems appropriate - Larry J - 10/9/2003 5:56:04 PM

Rumsfeld denies reduced Iraq role - LJ - 10/9/2003 3:12:36 PM
- re: Rumsfeld denies reduced Iraq role - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 4:46:51 PM

The Flat Earth Society speaks again... - Dimitri - 10/9/2003 12:14:23 PM
- I don't think anything will change until they allow married priests... - Scott Evil - 10/9/2003 2:32:01 PM

USA Today article on David Kay's report - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 5:45:11 AM

Drudge links to fake stock crash page - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 1:00:54 AM
- Yipes... - Tom Brosz - 10/9/2003 4:34:02 AM

supply siders miss out on Nobel Prize for Economics - Greg - 10/8/2003 4:22:22 PM
- They have already won their Nobel's - ebnelson - 10/9/2003 3:58:08 AM
- Friedman and several other conservative economists have won the Nobel Prize... - Larry J - 10/8/2003 5:55:08 PM

Woaah...tell me I didn't see that... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/7/2003 9:54:23 PM
- Barnes & Nobel is in on the conspiracy too? - alcaray - 10/7/2003 10:32:42 PM
  - Never underestimate the power of the subconscious - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/7/2003 10:53:39 PM
    - I was just joking (n/t) - alcaray - 10/7/2003 11:14:11 PM
    - You know, you might have a point there. - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 11:07:40 PM
- You're reading too much into it - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 10:05:40 PM
- Oh Oh... channeling Greg's HTML skills... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/7/2003 10:03:48 PM
  - try removing the blank lines, they seems to cause it (n/t) - Greg - 10/8/2003 2:01:49 PM
  - re: Hmmm - Marcia - 10/7/2003 11:04:20 PM
    - Good eye Marcia! - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 11:12:13 PM

CNN: "Schwarzenegger, who, like Hitler, is a native of Austria ... " - p - 10/8/2003 6:27:12 PM
- re: I noticed that: "Schwarzenegger, who, like the Von Trapp family, is a native of Austria ... " - D. Spires - 10/8/2003 9:23:41 PM
- Biased or just in poor taste? Hey, at least they didn't say "Australia" - McFly - 10/8/2003 8:00:20 PM
- Available here - Larry J - 10/8/2003 6:50:12 PM
- re: BAHAHAHAHHHAAHAAHA - Scott Evil - 10/8/2003 6:43:19 PM

More from the real sexist racists...the ultimate LIE! - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 6:42:39 PM
- Think - LJ - 10/8/2003 7:35:15 PM

"Defend Democracy!" - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 3:48:43 PM
- The vote: update - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 3:31:19 PM
  - There's a certain Newspeak aspect to all this - Larry J - 10/8/2003 6:34:49 PM

Gorbachev says Bush had 'hidden agenda'' in invading Iraq... - Jason - 10/8/2003 2:43:07 AM
- re: Tried to figure this out logically myself - Success_Machine - 10/8/2003 8:17:04 AM
  - Bush wants to rule the world. - Anne Leftleaner - 10/8/2003 2:44:32 PM
    - re: I knew I forgot something - Success_Machine - 10/8/2003 3:30:35 PM
- re: Tried to figure this out logically myself - Succes - 10/8/2003 8:16:53 AM
- Ooh! Ooh! I know what it is!! - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 3:40:36 AM
  - I knew that it wasn't WMD's LOL (n/t) - Estral - 10/8/2003 6:32:59 PM
- re: Gorbachev says Bush had 'hidden agenda'' in invading Iraq... - Todd - 10/8/2003 3:34:58 AM
- The Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, NM - ebnelson - 10/8/2003 3:21:04 AM
- So? - FrankC - 10/8/2003 3:19:17 AM
  - The agenda? Oil of course! (n/t) - Raoul - 10/8/2003 8:18:05 AM
    - Of course? - FrankC - 10/8/2003 2:19:04 PM
      - re: Of course? - Greg - 10/8/2003 5:52:31 PM

Remember that "Red States" vs. "Blue States" map from 2000? - Larry J - 10/8/2003 4:45:04 PM
- Map not unusual - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 5:35:11 PM

Arnold the TOTAL TERMINATOR...... - carl - 10/8/2003 4:51:23 PM

Shoulda been about the oil.... - LJ - 9/5/2003 4:49:49 PM
- Nimrods....... - Lindy - 9/5/2003 6:54:50 PM
  - re: Nimrods....... - Al H. - 10/8/2003 4:39:50 PM
  - re:Elgar's Nimrod - Raoul - 9/5/2003 9:37:10 PM
  - re:Elgar's Nimrod - Raoul - 9/5/2003 9:36:51 PM
  - try reading the bible (n/t) - SDG - 9/5/2003 7:08:44 PM
    - re: Start at the index . . . ? - D. Spires - 9/5/2003 7:23:03 PM
      - Genesis 10:8 -10 (n/t) - Fox - 9/6/2003 12:57:14 AM
      - I think we have Bugs Bunny to blame... - alcaray - 9/5/2003 8:54:52 PM
        
        re: Same is true about any hero, Einstein . . . - D. Spires - 9/6/2003 1:52:10 AM
        
        "Mighty Nimrods?" - Lindy - 9/6/2003 6:06:40 AM
        
        re: For you, very likely 'new', Lindy . . . - D. Spires - 9/7/2003 5:15:15 PM
        
        Dang! Scooped again! - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 9:03:35 PM
        
        You win in the research category, every time. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/5/2003 9:27:00 PM
      - short changed ol' Nimrod - Tony - 9/5/2003 7:33:14 PM
        
        The origin of "Nimrod" - Tom Brosz - 9/5/2003 9:02:16 PM
        
        re: The origin of "Nimrod" - Lindy - 9/6/2003 6:12:08 AM
        
        A real person? Ha! That is just to get you off your guard, monkeyboy! (n/t) - Tom Bigboote' (that's "Big-boo-tay" BTW) - 9/6/2003 7:48:43 AM
        
        dumbbell - Mary Anne - 9/6/2003 3:35:30 AM
        
        re: â€˜Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh â€“ what a maroon . . . !â€™ - D. Spires - 9/7/2003 5:58:07 PM
        
        fascinating - SDG - 9/5/2003 10:54:02 PM

Media vs. the truth in Iraq - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 4:14:23 PM

Bush Leads a Medieval Presidency - Greg - 10/6/2003 3:56:51 AM
- Aren't you the one who believes Iraq was WMD-free after 1991? ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 6:12:29 AM
- re: Bush Leads a Medieval Presidency - Lindy - 10/7/2003 10:38:43 AM
  - there are two good sayings for this - Greg - 10/8/2003 8:06:19 AM
  - re: Bush Leads a Medieval Presidency - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 6:40:45 AM
- Right onâ€¦ - Todd - 10/6/2003 6:01:40 AM
- re: Bush Leads a Medieval Presidency - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 4:37:39 AM
  - Tom leads the Medieval defense of his Lords Throne. - Davin L. - 10/6/2003 3:29:51 PM
    - Odd. I don't feel like I'm on defense. - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 4:58:32 PM
      - Corrected USA Today link - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 7:03:15 PM
      - Of course you don't, tom - Davin L. - 10/6/2003 5:54:42 PM
        
        Stop drifting off the subject. - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 6:46:21 PM
  - re: Tout va tres bien, madame la marquise (1936) - Raoul - 10/6/2003 9:21:26 AM
    - you would have read Candide too I suppose (n/t) - Greg - 10/6/2003 9:42:54 AM
      - Pangloss Wisdom - FrankC - 10/6/2003 6:25:22 PM
      - re: you would have read Candide too I suppose - Estral - 10/6/2003 3:18:42 PM
        
        I aint no liberal (n/t) - Greg - 10/6/2003 3:48:59 PM
        
        Oh come now Greg - FrankC - 10/6/2003 5:30:54 PM
        
        Bush and co aren't conservatives - Greg - 10/7/2003 3:21:09 AM
        
        what a conservative would do - Greg - 10/7/2003 4:27:42 AM
        
        re: what a conservative would do - Raoul - 10/7/2003 8:16:27 PM
        
        re: what a conservative would do - gbaikie - 10/8/2003 12:32:30 AM
      - re:Voltaire - Raoul - 10/6/2003 10:24:40 AM
        
        you should read the book - Greg - 10/7/2003 5:10:31 AM
  - thanks for illustrating my point (n/t) - Greg - 10/6/2003 4:40:55 AM
    - Not sure what you mean. - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 4:47:09 AM
      - Candide - Greg - 10/6/2003 6:53:27 AM
        
        Where did you make that point in your post? - Justin Kelly - 10/6/2003 7:07:40 AM
        
        re: Where did you make that point in your post? - Greg - 10/6/2003 8:51:13 AM
        
        Whoa...if you did this in public, someone would throw a glass of cold water in your face. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/6/2003 3:19:25 PM
        
        No paragraph breaks are like no breaks in the unibrow... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/8/2003 6:46:51 AM
        
        Cutting Greg a little slack... - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 3:23:35 PM
        
        re: Where did you make that point in your post? - gbaikie - 10/6/2003 10:10:08 AM
        
        some other comments - Greg - 10/6/2003 8:58:43 AM

UN Declares Mission Accomplished - FrankC - 10/8/2003 3:47:52 AM
- Meanwhile, in the Congo... - Larry J - 10/8/2003 1:32:40 PM
  - Quagmire...no exit strategy...why do they hate us (n/t) - p - 10/8/2003 1:47:42 PM

Bustamante -- a shoo-in . . . ? - D. Spires - 10/3/2003 11:47:33 PM
- Criminal charges? - FrankC - 10/4/2003 3:18:38 AM
  - re: He may be bookable . . . - D. Spires - 10/7/2003 7:58:36 PM
  - it sure excited Republicans when a Democrat did it (n/t) - Greg - 10/4/2003 12:15:46 PM
    - And yet, Democrats said gropping women was no big deal when Clinton did it / nt (n/t) - Larry J - 10/4/2003 12:19:18 PM
      - lets be clear about one thing...clinton wasn't accused of groping...Clinton was accused of raping... - Scott Evil - 10/7/2003 9:57:24 PM
      - Nonsense - alcaray - 10/7/2003 8:42:22 PM
        
        re: Nonsense - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 9:11:19 PM
        
        Nor not fessing up about an affair - alcaray - 10/7/2003 9:48:12 PM
        
        re: Nor not fessing up about an affair - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 10:13:41 PM
        
        re: Nor not fessing up about an affair - alcaray - 10/7/2003 10:39:48 PM
        
        re: Nor not fessing up about an affair - gbaikie - 10/8/2003 7:12:35 AM
      - so which do you prefer, Arnold is bad or Clinton was good (n/t) - Greg - 10/4/2003 3:36:01 PM
        
        No need to choose they are both kinda sleazy. - FrankC - 10/5/2003 2:19:00 AM

Meanwhile in Iraq.. - Betsy - 10/7/2003 2:21:43 PM
- history would indicate that your advice is profoundly good. - ebnelson - 10/8/2003 4:21:40 AM
- Good advice - FrankC - 10/7/2003 4:31:48 PM
  - re: The issue, Frank, is that we have already failed . . . - D. Spires - 10/8/2003 12:02:45 AM

Democrats going to try to sabotage recall election? - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 10:54:21 PM
- Inspite of the mein kampf-esque spamming of the democrat lie - ebnelson - 10/8/2003 3:31:46 AM
- If the election is close, expect whoever has anything to gain to challange it - alcaray - 10/7/2003 11:12:26 PM

Clark campaign turmoil - ebnelson - 10/8/2003 3:29:23 AM

The real history of the California recall - Tom Brosz - 10/8/2003 12:30:29 AM
- I bet the dems wish they had not messed with the Republican primary - ebnelson - 10/8/2003 3:14:43 AM

The REAL Bush-Nigeria connection - LJ - 10/7/2003 8:21:35 PM
- LOL! That's pretty good. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 9:03:54 PM

Baghdad in Turmoil With Protests, Attack - Don - 10/7/2003 12:47:41 PM
- U.S. Soldier Killed, Another Wounded in Bomb Blast - Don - 10/7/2003 12:51:17 PM
  - Its now three killed, two wounded - Don - 10/7/2003 1:09:00 PM
    - Two Iraqi scientists shot for cooperating with weapons inspectors - Tom Brosz - 10/7/2003 7:32:03 PM

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