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Defense Contractors Defeat Rumsfeld - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 2:50:44 PM
- Very frustrating. - Tom Brosz - 12/23/2002 8:23:56 PM

Israel’s deployment of an anti-scud missile defense system - Scott - 12/20/2002 9:10:39 AM
- Re: Israel’s deployment of an anti-scud missile defense system - Larry J - 12/23/2002 8:06:11 PM

The Empire - Raoul Lannoy - 12/22/2002 11:29:02 AM
- Wonderful lines. Kipling was a genius. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 12/23/2002 7:13:37 PM
- The Red White and Blue Hen - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/22/2002 4:17:24 PM
  - superb! :-) - McFly - 12/23/2002 5:17:12 PM
  - Shame on Foxy Loxy - FrankC - 12/23/2002 3:57:55 PM

Iraqi warplane shoots down a predator drone. - Lee - 12/23/2002 6:34:36 PM
- Iraqi pilot sez: - McFly - 12/23/2002 6:49:36 PM
- Brutal SOB's - FrankC - 12/23/2002 11:05:13 AM

Die, Frist, Die! - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 6:06:35 PM
- Unusual behavior for a racist - Larry J - 12/23/2002 6:42:05 PM
- Re: Die, Die, Die! - Tom Brosz - 12/22/2002 8:15:50 PM
- Watch Bill steal. Watch Bill defraud. - Bowser - 12/22/2002 3:33:36 PM
  - Pretty feeble there, pal. - Tom Brosz - 12/22/2002 8:19:39 PM
    - Remeber when Bowser was predicting war before the election, if Bush even allowed an election? - ebnelson - 12/22/2002 1:44:35 PM
  - Won't hold up. Keep on swinging. § (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/22/2002 1:54:42 PM
- Ain't gonna stick, in fact I think it well on its way to complete backfire. - ebnelson - 12/22/2002 1:42:16 PM

Guarding settlers in the Middle East - Raoul - 12/20/2002 4:02:01 PM
- Think I can still pull off a wealthy westerner act? n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 12/20/2002 6:27:41 PM
  - Re: Hmmm:-) - Raoul - 12/21/2002 11:16:58 AM
- Re: Middle East - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 5:30:54 PM
  - Well if your memory only goes back that far and no further... - alcaray - 12/20/2002 6:25:26 PM
    - Bingo!!! - Bowser - 12/20/2002 6:55:49 PM
    - Memory - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 6:54:43 PM
      - Typical deflective argument. Never mind. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 12/20/2002 7:22:20 PM
        
        Re: Typical - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 11:40:05 AM
        
        Statistics - alcaray - 12/23/2002 5:44:18 PM
        
        Trying to make the stats prettier - alcaray - 12/23/2002 5:55:31 PM
        
        nuts! n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 12/23/2002 5:56:19 PM
- Yep. n/t (n/t) - Bowser - 12/20/2002 4:43:40 PM
- Re: Guarding settlers in the Middle East - McFly - 12/20/2002 4:28:51 PM
  - I think that was the Clinton/Albrieght policy - Scott - 12/20/2002 4:41:00 PM

News Flash: Saddam Hussein is going to make 100,000 clones of himself! - Jacob Samorodin - 12/23/2002 5:29:36 PM

Iraq unravelling? - Tom Brosz - 12/23/2002 5:10:49 PM

"Know your rights...all three of em!" - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 3:03:26 PM
- Sorry to hear that. - RobVG - 12/23/2002 5:03:25 PM

Bush pardons - FrankC - 12/23/2002 1:05:48 PM
- Character counts - Bush has got it. A class act. (n/t) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 4:50:34 PM
  - Yo Tech! (n/t) - Take a break..........pulllease n/t - 12/23/2002 4:52:48 PM
- Fer Chrissakes........ - Problems from 1957? - 12/23/2002 4:50:19 PM
- What? No pardons to fugitive financiers with $1,000,000 political donations? - Matt Burley - 12/23/2002 3:39:43 PM

"Rape by Democracy" - the wrong Michael Moore - 12/22/2002 5:34:28 PM
- And exactly what was wrong with this? - ebnelson - 12/23/2002 3:26:18 PM
- Re: Addressed this on the other topic - Tom Brosz - 12/22/2002 6:11:23 PM
- The internet is a form of broadcast communication. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/22/2002 5:57:00 PM
  - Oh really? - Obnoxious Bystander - 12/23/2002 10:17:14 AM
    - Re: Oh really? - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 11:27:34 AM
      - More on Moore... - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 11:48:59 AM

Global folks pick person of the year - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 2:47:37 PM

Iraq CIA invitation - a stunt. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 2:43:59 PM

Wiccan Briton author of PC Viruses - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 2:35:29 PM

Stupid Republican Tricks - alcaray - 12/23/2002 9:20:34 AM
- Context is everything. - ebnelson - 12/23/2002 10:30:03 AM

State's Right Democrats - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/23/2002 9:13:33 AM

US to World - "Screw people." - Bowser - 12/21/2002 8:14:24 PM
- Yes and no and maybe - Robert - 12/21/2002 10:38:38 AM
  - P.S. - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 2:18:00 PM
    - Lack of context - Robert - 12/21/2002 5:11:49 PM
      - Re: Lack of context - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 5:39:40 PM
        
        Re: Lack of context - Robert - 12/21/2002 6:34:05 PM
        
        Lower the bar - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 7:04:49 PM
  - Drug costs - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 2:09:59 PM
    - Re: Drug costs - Robert - 12/21/2002 4:57:54 PM
      - Re: Drug costs - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 5:27:35 PM
        
        Re: Drug costs - Robert - 12/21/2002 6:28:07 PM
        
        Re: Drug costs - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 7:01:01 PM
        
        Re: Drug costs - Robert - 12/22/2002 6:25:03 PM

Patrick Bourrat - Raoul - 12/22/2002 11:35:03 AM
- Very tragic (heard he may have been trying to save his camaraman) - Matt Burley - 12/22/2002 11:27:03 AM
  - Journalists under fire - Mary Anne - 12/22/2002 2:52:50 PM
    - The Honor of Journalists under fire - Documentary Heats Up Debate - 12/22/2002 4:25:43 PM
      - Marxists getting indignant over the murder of civilians. Now THAT'S funny. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/22/2002 5:32:23 PM
    - I'm sure there's at least a few journalists motivated by such lofty objectives - Matt Burley - 12/22/2002 4:22:01 PM

Way back when, in another time, another life, - Bowser - 12/20/2002 6:22:59 PM
- Been happening for many many years.§ (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/22/2002 1:55:54 PM

Bill Frist – right at home with Bush and Cheney. - Bowser - 12/21/2002 1:07:48 PM
- If it pleases you to pretend that there is a conspiracy, I hope you feel very good. - ebnelson - 12/22/2002 1:38:12 PM
- Democrats - don't you love em! - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/21/2002 3:24:25 PM
- Sure didn't take the Democratic buttmonkeys in the media long, did it? (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 1:57:44 PM
  - $880 MILLION - fraud. And I did what? n/t (n/t) - Bowser - 12/21/2002 3:39:12 PM
- Dived right in, didn't you? (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 1:56:40 PM

Lott stepping down as Majority Leader. No article yet. § (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/20/2002 3:47:15 PM
- Great day for the GOP - FrankC - 12/20/2002 5:01:36 PM
- Article @ MSNBC - Robert - 12/20/2002 4:03:25 PM
- Good - Larry J - 12/20/2002 3:52:24 PM
  - it is good he didn't step down to soon... - Scott - 12/20/2002 4:51:43 PM
    - Two can play at that game... - Larry J - 12/20/2002 4:56:51 PM
      - Re: Two can play at that game... - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 5:08:46 PM
        
        The game - Robert - 12/20/2002 8:25:56 PM
        
        HZ's Rightist Tabernacle Choir - LIndy - 12/21/2002 8:34:55 PM
        
        Re: The game - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 12:57:10 PM
        
        There is a bright side... - Robert - 12/20/2002 2:59:45 PM
        
        I'd have to agree with you - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 6:54:01 PM
        
        Frist will make a fine majority leader. - Lee - 12/20/2002 6:19:23 PM
        
        Re: The game - Robert - 12/20/2002 1:49:14 PM
        
        Re: The game - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 7:05:07 PM
        
        Suck it up, for crying-a-little-less-out-loud. - Bowser - 12/20/2002 7:01:01 PM
        
        Pelosi is at least as rich as First. - ebnelson - 12/20/2002 7:53:59 PM
        
        Aw, c'mon... - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 7:06:34 PM
        
        Once the feeding frenzy starts, even Democrats are likely to get bitten. - Larry J - 12/20/2002 5:22:11 PM
        
        Why doesn't anyone go after the CBC? - Lee - 12/20/2002 11:40:39 AM

'WTC proposals: Cast your vote' - Robert - 12/19/2002 4:21:22 PM
- Atomic Vortex Tower - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/20/2002 4:18:03 PM
  - Obviously a frustrated Tower of Babel architect in your ancient karmic ancestry...;) (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 7:06:44 PM
- Re: 'WTC proposals: Cast your vote' - SteveS - 12/19/2002 7:59:28 PM
- All this shows me is that sculptors should not be architects. - Tom Brosz - 12/19/2002 5:29:04 PM
  - Re: All this shows me is that sculptors should not be architects. - Robert E. B - 12/19/2002 6:03:45 PM
  - My thoughts - SDG - 12/19/2002 9:05:01 AM
- Re: 'WTC proposals: Cast your vote' - Robert E. B. - 12/19/2002 5:05:59 PM
- The owners of the land get to decide. - alcaray - 12/19/2002 4:57:54 PM
- WTC proposals revisited - Robert - 12/19/2002 12:15:04 PM
  - Just ornery enough - Mary Anne - 12/20/2002 6:17:30 PM
    - Re: Just ornery enough - Robert - 12/20/2002 7:54:17 PM
      - Re: Just ornery enough - SDG - 12/20/2002 8:40:29 PM
        
        I like it - Robert - 12/20/2002 10:06:06 AM
        
        Insulation - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 7:48:04 PM
        
        Re: Insulation - Fox - 12/21/2002 4:51:13 PM
        
        Re: Insulation - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 7:24:09 PM
      - So, you want some cookies? - Mary Anne - 12/20/2002 9:21:05 AM
        
        Re: So, you want some cookies? - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 7:13:30 PM
        
        Cookies! - Robert - 12/20/2002 10:25:45 AM
    - Hear, hear! - Tom Brosz - 12/20/2002 7:02:26 PM
  - I like your idea best. - Robert E. B - 12/20/2002 11:56:36 AM
    - 'Phoenix Rising' -- exactly (n/t) (n/t) - Robert - 12/20/2002 3:33:12 PM
  - The Atlas reference was a mataphor - Lee - 12/20/2002 11:54:27 AM
  - Re: WTC proposals revisited - gbaikie - 12/20/2002 11:25:04 AM
  - Re: WTC proposals revisited - Splinx - 12/19/2002 1:51:24 PM
- I understand that high rise similar to the original WTC is impractical - FrankC - 12/19/2002 9:25:28 AM
  - But they're just hollow shells - Lee - 12/19/2002 2:09:41 PM
    - Well, I suppose... - FrankC - 12/19/2002 3:39:08 PM
- The designs seem like something out of Bladerunner - Lee - 12/19/2002 9:12:14 AM

France gets pulled into the Ivory Coast civil war - Matt Burley - 12/21/2002 5:44:30 PM

Guantanamo fiasco. Grim. - Bowser - 12/21/2002 4:12:25 PM
- Re: Guantanamo fiasco. - Tom Brosz - 12/21/2002 5:07:30 PM

Snooping in All the Wrong Places - Bowser - 12/19/2002 6:45:38 PM
- Re: Snooping in All the Wrong Places - Lindy - 12/21/2002 4:47:56 PM

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