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Sharon intends to annex 60% of West Bank and Gaza - E.P. Grondine - 4/22/2002 10:12:24 AM
- Breath pal - Buck Galaxy - 4/22/2002 6:51:58 PM
- Frankly, if he does a real annexation, and integrates the land and people - ebnelson - 4/22/2002 3:33:25 PM
  - Center for Defense Information estimates Israel warhead count at 200+ (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2002 3:36:22 PM
    - Klystrons must be essential for detonation, then? - E.P. Grondine - 4/23/2002 5:54:47 PM
    - What possible need does Israel have for that? That is outrageous. - ebnelson - 4/23/2002 2:41:01 PM
      - There is one. - Bowser - 4/23/2002 5:00:15 PM
        
        Exactly, Bowser. - ebnelson - 4/23/2002 6:06:13 PM
      - Re: What possible need... - Tom Brosz - 4/23/2002 3:34:52 PM

Europe's Dirty Secret... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/23/2002 2:38:09 PM
- Re: immigration v education - Raoul - 4/23/2002 5:14:54 PM
  - It is still the immigrants - FrankC - 4/23/2002 8:59:50 AM
- Vandals at the gate - FrankC - 4/23/2002 4:37:47 PM
- Government and the economy - Tom Brosz - 4/23/2002 3:25:38 PM

How Conservatives Think? - alcaray - 4/22/2002 9:59:30 AM
- Re: How Conservatives Think? - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2002 11:14:05 AM
  - Ouch! - McFly - 4/23/2002 1:10:54 PM
  - Re: How Conservatives Think? - Publius - 4/22/2002 11:56:42 AM
    - Re: How Conservatives Think? - Bowser - 4/22/2002 12:20:35 PM

"I think the cause of this result is the collapse of the left which is heading for a eurodisaster," - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/22/2002 11:41:28 AM
- Hey Raoul! Muslims and Jews are united (sort of)!! - Matt Burley - 4/22/2002 7:54:24 PM
- Re: did you read Matt's post? - Raoul - 4/22/2002 4:49:46 PM
  - Re: did you read Matt's post? - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/22/2002 5:47:18 PM
    - Re: did you read Matt's post? - Raoul - 4/22/2002 6:43:36 PM
      - Re: did you read Matt's post? - p - 4/22/2002 7:14:31 PM

The Real Fascism - Cato - 4/21/2002 5:43:20 PM
- Re: The link, and a short comment - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2002 5:55:02 PM
- No, it's this one: - Marcia - 4/22/2002 1:02:26 PM
- Not now Cato you fool! - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/22/2002 10:04:38 AM
  - No Master - Cato - 4/22/2002 6:04:22 PM
  - Setting an Example - Gore Vidal - 4/22/2002 5:56:28 PM
    - Should have mentioned the Weaver case - RobVG - 4/22/2002 7:10:35 PM
    - Re: Setting an Example - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2002 6:26:51 PM
      - A promise from Gore Vidal - FrankC - 4/22/2002 7:53:12 PM
        
        Re: A promise from Gore Vidal - Bowser - 4/22/2002 2:04:26 PM
      - Re: Setting an Example - Publius - 4/22/2002 12:12:10 PM
  - Ahhh....that ferhtl gewd. (n/t) (n/t) - RobVG - 4/22/2002 4:30:38 PM

Sharon intends to wait out entire Bush Jr administration - E.P. Grondine - 4/22/2002 7:11:03 PM

And as long as I'm in a bad mood... - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 7:20:43 PM
- This year's crop of spoiled affluent idiots is particularly promising - ebnelson - 4/21/2002 3:15:42 PM
  - Did anyone hear the NPR story Friday... - alcaray - 4/22/2002 6:23:38 PM
    - McDonalds - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2002 6:54:42 PM
      - You are really on a tear! Who peed in your oatmeal? n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 4/22/2002 8:13:39 AM
  - Theoretically, they'll be paying your social security - E.P. Grondine - 4/21/2002 6:16:14 PM
    - No, they will democratically vote to end it. - ebnelson - 4/22/2002 3:27:33 PM
- Re: And as long as I'm in a bad mood... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/21/2002 8:23:23 AM
- Peace Tom! No really, I love the peace symbol... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/21/2002 8:19:10 AM

Joy in the liberal media... - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 6:41:27 PM
- For crying-out-loud! - Bowser - 4/21/2002 5:10:55 PM
  - Media bias redux - Tom Brosz - 4/22/2002 5:20:11 PM
  - Bush Jr has made the mistake of criticizing Israel - E.P. Grondine - 4/21/2002 6:23:51 PM
- President Bush is - ebnelson - 4/21/2002 3:13:39 PM
  - I sure hope so. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 3:26:39 PM

'Women and slaves must be Muslims' - more modern thought from bin Laden - Matt Burley - 4/22/2002 12:52:09 PM

Le Pen ahead of Jospin: unbelievable ! - Raoul - 4/21/2002 6:16:40 PM
- and a humorous footnote on the death of the Fench Communist Party - Matt Burley - 4/21/2002 7:52:44 PM
- Unfortunate - FrankC - 4/21/2002 7:42:35 PM
  - Re: Safety - Raoul - 4/21/2002 8:15:55 AM
- It's truly a shameful day for France - Matt Burley - 4/21/2002 7:33:13 PM
  - Thanks! Very enlightening. Assume Chirac will have no trouble beating him. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 7:50:51 PM
  - I see Le Pen as a French Buchanan... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/21/2002 8:41:44 AM
  - So the French should just role over to immigration? - Lee - 4/21/2002 8:20:15 AM
- Re: Le Pen ahead of Jospin: unbelievable ! - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 6:51:25 PM
- Story wouldn't be complete without some idiot in France blaming America - Matt Burley - 4/21/2002 3:55:14 PM
  - Re: Moisi is no ...whatever you call him - Raoul - 4/21/2002 5:45:47 PM
    - Maybe I'll go read Moisi in French to see if it's better - Matt Burley - 4/22/2002 11:48:59 AM
      - The French aren't the ones burning synagogues - Lee - 4/22/2002 8:10:24 AM
- Not to worry! - Bowser - 4/21/2002 12:09:07 PM
  - Goldwater - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 3:09:12 PM

Just curious; how amny of you actuall have been to Israel? - Jacob Samorodin - 4/13/2002 5:20:07 PM
- I've never been; probably obvious from my posts n/t (n/t) - McFly - 4/13/2002 7:26:51 PM
  - Most Americans are qualified. - Marcia - 4/13/2002 10:58:18 AM
    - Re: Specially since Americans give Israel over 4 billion a year.nt (n/t) - SteveS - 4/13/2002 12:21:59 PM
- [corrected post:] Just curious; how many of you have actually been to Israel? - Jacob Samorodin - 4/13/2002 5:25:28 PM
  - Re: 1979 - Raoul - 4/13/2002 7:51:36 PM
    - Re: 1979 - Bowser - 4/13/2002 4:51:27 PM
      - Re: 1979 - Raoul - 4/14/2002 9:08:46 AM
    - Re: I wonder if that could go on a résumé . . . - D. Spires - 4/13/2002 9:49:10 AM
      - Re: LOL LOL, very good Dan (n/t) (n/t) - Raoul - 4/13/2002 9:56:21 AM
- Re: Just curious; how amny of you actuall have been to Israel? - Publius - 4/13/2002 11:20:08 AM
- I refuse to go to Israel until a just peace. - ebnelson - 4/13/2002 9:37:45 AM
- How many here are Muslims? - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/13/2002 8:00:15 AM
  - testing html - SDT1 - 4/22/2002 8:32:59 AM
    - more testing html - SDT1 - 4/22/2002 8:35:28 AM
      - yet more testing html - SDT1 - 4/22/2002 8:37:42 AM
  - Re: Ever-Clairvoyant . . . - D. Spires - 4/13/2002 9:55:04 AM
    - That's me ...psychic as heck... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/13/2002 10:51:52 AM
      - Re: True . . . - D. Spires - 4/13/2002 11:01:43 AM
  - Cripes, I'm not qualified to comment on anything...thanks SDAI, now I'm really bummed :-) n/t (n/t) - McFly - 4/13/2002 8:56:40 AM
    - Re: Are you qualified to say that . . . ? ;^) (n/t) - D. Spires - 4/13/2002 9:50:57 AM

Democratic moral code: power above all else. Another in an endless series. - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 10:05:00 AM
- Re: Democratic moral code: power above all else. Another in an endless series. - Publius - 4/21/2002 4:35:04 PM
  - Power above all else. - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 7:41:32 PM
- They're both doing it!! - Bowser - 4/19/2002 10:26:42 AM
  - Re: They're both doing it!! - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 11:16:35 AM
    - Re: They're both doing it!! - Bowser - 4/19/2002 12:22:42 PM
      - Re: No . . . - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 1:25:03 PM
        
        ? - Bowser - 4/19/2002 1:56:40 PM
        
        The evidence is clear that the rules have not been followed by the dems - ebnelson - 4/19/2002 5:42:12 PM
        
        Re: Knights - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 2:12:37 PM

Two Wongs can make it White! - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/20/2002 8:10:57 AM
- Thin Skin Syndrome TSS - Lee - 4/20/2002 12:13:48 PM
- T-shirts and hate crime - FrankC - 4/20/2002 10:42:46 AM
  - Re: T-shirts and hate crime - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/20/2002 12:29:06 PM
  - Re: T-shirts and hate crime - Tom Brosz - 4/20/2002 12:20:04 PM
- Re: Two Wongs can make it White! - Tom Brosz - 4/20/2002 9:43:15 AM
  - Back in 1988, I went TDY to Silicon Valley for two months - Larry J - 4/21/2002 4:30:24 PM
    - Where have all the laundries gone? - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 6:54:32 PM
- Sounds like a pretty bizarre marketing strategy - Matt Burley - 4/20/2002 9:26:40 AM

Not time to sell oil holdings yet - E.P. Grondien - 4/21/2002 6:04:41 PM

Thanks loads, George W. - Tom Brosz - 4/20/2002 12:40:57 PM
- Re: Thanks loads, George W. - Publius - 4/21/2002 4:49:29 PM
- It ain't GWB, Tom. - Bowser - 4/20/2002 2:13:30 PM
  - It's all yours Bowser. - RobVG - 4/20/2002 3:21:50 PM
  - Aside from the "yada..." part, that speech was coming along pretty well... :-) n/t (n/t) - McFly - 4/20/2002 2:46:28 PM

Crying for Argentina - ebnelson - 4/20/2002 2:33:58 PM
- Re: Crying for Argentina - Bowser - 4/20/2002 4:13:15 PM
  - The people keep voting themselves free money. - ebnelson - 4/20/2002 5:20:24 PM
    - There's a lot of that going around. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2002 3:49:42 PM

Fratricide an Age-Old Danger of War . . . - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 1:39:56 PM
- There's tremendous anger and grief up here... - Jacob Samorodin - 4/20/2002 5:10:04 PM
  - Re: There's tremendous anger and grief up here... - Tom Brosz - 4/20/2002 7:58:33 PM
- The Battlefield - RNE - 4/19/2002 3:00:19 PM
  - The "fog of war". - Bowser - 4/20/2002 6:23:29 PM
- Oh, well. - Bowser - 4/19/2002 2:10:40 PM
  - Re: I didn't realize that . . . - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 3:30:05 PM
  - Modern warfare - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 2:25:11 PM

Letter from Justin @Community! (n/t) (n/t) - Robert - 4/20/2002 7:35:08 PM

Should the US participate in a UN deployment to the West Bank? - E.P. Grondine - 4/20/2002 3:11:10 PM
- No. We would simply be targets of convenience - ebnelson - 4/20/2002 5:30:22 PM
  - I would tend to agree... - McFly - 4/20/2002 3:23:39 PM
  - We're already loosing people to this problem - E.P. Grondine - 4/20/2002 1:32:49 PM
- More on the USS Liberty - Bowser - 4/20/2002 3:53:16 PM
- I've stared at this for a while, now. - Bowser - 4/20/2002 3:04:08 PM

Thor Heyerdahl died last night at age 87 - Larry J - 4/18/2002 9:36:19 AM
- Re: Thor Heyerdahl - Tom Brosz - 4/18/2002 3:05:11 PM
  - Thor gets ignored and Shackleton gets off scot free for the mission he failed to organize - ebnelson - 4/18/2002 3:27:27 PM
    - Re: Shackleton gets off scot free for the mission he failed to organize - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 5:22:43 PM
      - Shackleton had two simultaneous expeditions that got in trouble - ebnelson - 4/19/2002 5:34:40 PM
- Re: Thor Heyerdahl died last night at age 87 - RNE - 4/18/2002 12:53:21 PM
- Re: The search for Atlantis . . . - D. Spires - 4/18/2002 11:53:33 AM
  - Solved - E.P. Grondine - 4/20/2002 2:54:10 PM
  - orichalcum is brass and not a gold alloy - Gary - 4/18/2002 3:27:15 PM
    - Re: The World, according to Plato . . . - D. Spires - 4/18/2002 3:50:15 PM
      - Sorry to interrupt... - RobVG - 4/19/2002 7:15:23 PM
        
        Re: Also sorry, Rob . . . - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 4:41:48 PM
        
        Not a construct? - RobVG - 4/19/2002 6:19:41 PM
        
        Re: Agreed . . . - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 7:43:34 PM
- He was a real hero to me when I was a kid. - ebnelson - 4/18/2002 10:06:14 AM

Is Tyranny a Root cause of terrorism? - p - 4/19/2002 6:00:58 PM
- No. - Bowser - 4/19/2002 6:38:11 PM
  - Terrorism?? Nonsense. - Matt Burley - 4/19/2002 10:22:50 AM
    - Yes - FrankC - 4/19/2002 10:39:04 AM
      - OK - Bowser - 4/19/2002 10:53:46 AM
        
        Re: OK - FrankC - 4/19/2002 11:37:46 AM
        
        Re: OK - Bowser - 4/19/2002 12:30:21 PM
  - Re: Criminals are not born out of desparation . . . - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 9:20:41 AM
  - Soiled again - FrankC - 4/19/2002 9:10:30 AM
    - Post Script re: Gandhi - Mary Anne - 4/20/2002 12:23:42 PM
    - PS - Bowser - 4/19/2002 2:03:54 PM
- Of course it is. - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 6:19:04 PM
  - It should be a great piece of propaganda. - Bowser - 4/19/2002 10:18:37 AM
    - Re: Sauce to the gravy . . . (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 4/19/2002 10:49:00 AM
  - Totalitarianism - Matt Burley - 4/19/2002 9:14:23 AM
    - Re: Totalitarianism - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 9:52:56 AM

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time... - Buck Galaxy - 4/19/2002 4:09:22 PM
- You know what was the best part of 1970's Baretta show? - Matt Burley - 4/19/2002 7:44:05 PM
  - RI was about 5 years old then... Didn't he have a parrot? - Scott - 4/19/2002 8:14:09 AM
    - White cockatoo and an "old grey ghost." (n/t) (n/t) - RobVG - 4/19/2002 8:42:10 AM
- Re: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time... - p - 4/19/2002 5:26:05 PM
- Let's hope the news saturation is a lot less than for OJ too. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 5:14:24 PM

Rumsfeld Surmises 2 "New" Bin Laden Tapes Use Old Video . . . - D. Spires - 4/18/2002 4:02:13 PM
- The mystery of the tape. - Bowser - 4/19/2002 5:35:37 PM
  - Re: The mystery of the tape. - SDG - 4/19/2002 7:41:40 PM

GAO confirms Clintonistas trashed White House - p - 4/19/2002 7:33:40 PM
- Re: GAO confirms Clintonistas trashed White House - FrankC - 4/19/2002 10:00:39 AM
- Pathetic. The really sad part is the vandals probably aren't ashamed of themselves n/t (n/t) - McFly - 4/19/2002 9:15:15 AM

Wall Street Journal Opinion Page - recommended - Tom Brosz - 4/19/2002 7:12:36 PM

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