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A year ago in the New York Times - TB - 7/13/2008 3:22:38 PM

Stephenville, Texas lights WERE UFO's - Lindy - 7/12/2008 4:15:14 AM
- On a course to Bush's ranch? - McFly - 7/12/2008 1:05:59 PM
  - Yes.......... - Lindy - 7/12/2008 11:03:38 PM
  - well didn't I just spit out my coffee...LOL - Jody - 7/12/2008 2:48:00 PM
- re: Stephenville, Texas lights WERE MILITARY JETS - ARRELL - 7/12/2008 5:55:12 AM
  - The link - Raoul - 7/12/2008 9:59:26 AM
    - Thanks for that link Raoul - Lindy - 7/12/2008 3:07:10 PM

Democrats dodging the energy issue - TB - 7/8/2008 6:28:07 PM
- We are already in a hole. No need to drill more of 'em. - Bowser - 7/12/2008 1:52:50 PM
  - re: We are already in a hole - TB - 7/12/2008 6:47:55 PM
    - Panic in the Democratic Party - TB - 7/12/2008 7:46:04 PM
- But not all of them... - TB - 7/12/2008 3:53:40 AM

Flames belong on the Flame Board - Lindy - 7/11/2008 6:21:42 PM
- Yeah, even - nick hoffman - 7/12/2008 7:40:47 AM
  - The Love Zone - Lindy - 7/12/2008 2:35:58 PM

America's lost "mojo": The hole in New York City - TB - 6/30/2008 10:42:19 PM
- More on this - TB - 7/10/2008 6:19:27 AM
  - 'tourist' view - Doug Ellison - 7/10/2008 11:42:36 PM
    - This is a cultural epidemic - TB - 7/11/2008 6:22:52 AM
      - Haven't you heard, TB? It's all about service industries now. - ER - 7/11/2008 12:45:05 PM
        
        The bureaucrats in these things aren't in the industries, ER. - TB - 7/11/2008 3:52:49 PM
        
        Some times there's a good reason for care. - alcaray - 7/11/2008 10:23:29 PM
        
        Not all our heroes fell on the battlefield. - ER - 7/12/2008 12:04:28 PM
        
        You wouldn't want to be working in Six Company... - nick hoffman - 7/12/2008 7:48:54 AM
        
        re: The bureaucrats in these things aren't in the industries, ER. - ER - 7/11/2008 5:32:04 PM
        
        Now you are just pulling his chain. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/11/2008 10:20:24 PM
        
        But it still won't flush. (n/t) - ER - 7/11/2008 10:59:59 PM
        
        Digging - TB - 7/11/2008 5:48:09 PM
        
        Yes, I know them intimately. - ER - 7/11/2008 6:23:46 PM
        
        "Libertarian utopia" - TB - 7/11/2008 6:59:04 PM
        
        Atlas Sucked - ER - 7/11/2008 7:30:20 PM
        
        re: Atlas Sucked - TB - 7/11/2008 9:48:17 PM
        
        After that response, - ER - 7/11/2008 10:45:34 PM

Australian climate hysteria - TB - 7/9/2008 6:03:17 PM

How I learned to love the Bomb - Defense Secretary Robert Gates - 7/8/2008 9:53:13 PM
- In related news, Catholic priests sign chastity agreement - TB - 7/9/2008 12:01:07 AM

On interrogation methods--where I am right now - TB - 7/3/2008 9:12:40 PM
- It shouldn't be that difficult to define what is torture. - ER - 7/4/2008 12:02:55 AM
  - No, it shouldn't, should it? - TB - 7/4/2008 4:32:00 AM
    - Being forced to listen to Eminem? That IS torture and should be outlawed! - Eri - 7/5/2008 6:31:06 PM
    - But it does - ER - 7/4/2008 1:43:05 PM
      - re: But it does - TB - 7/4/2008 7:47:47 PM
        
        There is no way you can convince me the Administrations's torture policies are justified. - ER - 7/4/2008 7:59:43 PM
        
        Justified? No. Understandable? Yes. - TB - 7/4/2008 10:58:11 PM
        
        Bush sucks, Congress sucks, the people suck! - Eri - 7/5/2008 7:08:02 PM
      - The best answer I have seen - FrankC - 7/4/2008 5:39:43 PM
        
        Taking responsibility - Robert - 7/4/2008 6:29:10 PM
        
        Exactly- (Returning late to the thread) - ARRELL - 7/8/2008 3:28:09 PM
        
        Well-said! (n/t) - Eri - 7/5/2008 7:12:09 PM
        
        Sounds good. - Lee - 7/5/2008 4:44:29 AM
        
        Confessions - TB - 7/8/2008 5:27:04 PM
        
        Good post. - TB - 7/4/2008 7:50:34 PM
        
        re: Good post. - Robert - 7/5/2008 5:33:42 PM
        
        Posterity - TB - 7/8/2008 4:14:37 PM
        
        "you have to admit that you're not known for changing your mind" - Robert - 7/8/2008 5:25:00 PM
        
        Give him some credit... - ARRELL - 7/8/2008 6:49:04 PM
        
        Now, hold on thar... - TB - 7/8/2008 8:53:47 PM

Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded - TB - 7/2/2008 6:03:02 PM
- Good for him - Tony - 7/2/2008 6:44:47 PM
  - But on another hand... - TB - 7/2/2008 11:47:21 PM
    - We considered it torture before... what changed? - ARRELL - 7/3/2008 12:14:03 AM
      - It's not torture...it's - z - 7/3/2008 4:09:39 AM
        
        Maybe you can answer the question I asked on another thread - TB - 7/3/2008 4:19:06 AM
      - Just making a point. - TB - 7/3/2008 3:31:58 AM
        
        Do we have principles or don't we? - Mary Anne - 7/3/2008 11:34:22 AM
        
        In the first gulf war how many lives were saved by the Iraqis surrendering in droves because they KNEW we would treat them humanely? - ARRELL - 7/3/2008 4:53:25 AM
        
        Assuming that's why they surrendered. - Lee - 7/3/2008 5:32:33 AM
        
        Our army certainly assumed so... - ARRELL - 7/3/2008 5:55:50 AM
        
        Lets assume for a moment that torture actually does save lives... - ARRELL - 7/3/2008 4:33:54 AM
        
        re: Lets assume for a moment that torture actually does save lives... - TB - 7/3/2008 4:51:07 AM
        
        See my post above - ARRELL - 7/3/2008 5:19:23 AM
        
        Actually, you've pretty much won this argument. - TB - 7/3/2008 8:09:32 PM
        
        BTW... - TB - 7/3/2008 8:11:58 PM
      - It's because our motives are pure, as pure as the driven slush! - Bowser - 7/3/2008 2:37:35 AM
        
        What might those motives be? (n/t) - RobVG - 7/3/2008 2:44:01 AM
        
        You jest, or course. - Bowser - 7/3/2008 3:39:40 AM
        
        Sorry, wasn't kidding. - RobVG - 7/3/2008 5:32:18 AM
        
        I'm not sure I'll agree with a "no preemptive war" amendment. - ER - 7/8/2008 6:46:24 PM

Group proposes George W. Bush Sewage Plant - Lindy - 7/8/2008 11:43:46 AM
- A plant that cleans up tons of liberal crap? Could work. - TB - 7/8/2008 4:08:15 PM
  - Right.. - ER - 7/8/2008 6:10:29 PM

They're MESSING with my FRUIT LOOOOPS!!!!! - carl - 7/7/2008 9:28:22 PM

Please stop blowing smoke up my... - Buck Galaxy - 7/5/2008 8:56:11 AM
- he needs a holder - FrankC - 7/6/2008 4:53:02 PM
  - see how much nicer this looks - FrankC - 7/6/2008 6:37:27 PM
- Well that is the last straw...he just lost my vote! - Jody - 7/6/2008 12:45:09 PM
  - have to go smoke before he pushes that button - FrankC - 7/7/2008 7:30:42 PM
- This man could be a great President, Buck - McFly - 7/6/2008 3:26:30 AM
  - 19th Century? And me without a horse. (n/t) - Eri - 7/6/2008 6:04:18 AM
- Just exactly where do you have your bare - - - ? :-) (n/t) - Bowser - 7/6/2008 12:23:03 AM
- huh? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/5/2008 4:03:57 PM
- That's a hell of a nicotine stain. - Lee - 7/5/2008 2:54:55 PM

This is what I'm talking about. - Bowser - 7/6/2008 6:10:01 PM
- " That which is needed to win a situation like this, the "hearts and minds" of the population" - Lindy - 7/6/2008 11:41:49 PM

McCain's character - TB - 7/1/2008 4:49:51 AM
- Pardon me as I grab a towel to clean the keyboard and screen. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/1/2008 7:46:38 AM
  - OMG....you met John McCain?? - Lindy - 7/1/2008 12:25:38 PM
- That's why - Buck Galaxy - 7/1/2008 7:39:40 AM
  - Don't you wish the Democrats had picked their best? - TB - 7/1/2008 3:54:52 PM
    - But they didn't - Buck Galaxy - 7/5/2008 12:30:15 AM
      - "Great ideas" - TB - 7/5/2008 12:54:40 AM

Press works with Conservatives to sway opinion, pervert the language. - Bowser - 7/4/2008 12:05:02 AM
- Sometimes a contractor is just a contractor - TB - 7/4/2008 5:07:28 AM

Do we have a constitutional scholar, or colonial historian, in the house? - ER - 6/27/2008 2:21:11 AM
- American colonists versus the Crown - E.P. - 7/3/2008 9:48:41 PM
- Some information - TB - 6/27/2008 3:56:39 AM
- I'm not constitutional scholar but I can read - Eri - 6/27/2008 3:11:47 AM
  - If that's what it meant - Lee - 6/27/2008 3:26:01 AM
    - What the founding fathers wanted doesn't matter. - ER - 6/27/2008 3:59:07 AM
      - Private militias have existed as well. - Lee - 6/27/2008 4:07:44 AM
        
        We have them today too, they're called "gangs". - ER - 6/27/2008 4:24:27 AM
        
        And "Blackwater" - Robert - 6/27/2008 4:44:10 AM
        
        I wouldn't worry about it too much. - Lee - 6/27/2008 4:28:30 AM
- The court did not consider it the "key phrase". - RobVG - 6/27/2008 2:57:48 AM
  - The Second Amendment says no such thing. - ER - 6/27/2008 3:30:15 AM
    - Clarification. - ER - 6/27/2008 3:39:41 AM
      - whatever the Supreme Court says it is - FrankC - 6/27/2008 4:46:06 AM
      - If that's the case - Lee - 6/27/2008 3:43:32 AM
        
        Wrong again. - ER - 6/27/2008 4:14:24 AM
        
        That's what I said. - Lee - 6/27/2008 4:25:27 AM

With the 4th of July coming up Friday - FrankC - 7/2/2008 4:11:19 AM
- re: With the 4th of July coming up Friday - Robert - 7/2/2008 4:40:44 PM
  - never considered it an oath - FrankC - 7/2/2008 6:09:39 PM
    - Agreed Frank. (n/t) - Jody - 7/3/2008 2:33:41 PM
    - Do citizens have a responsibility to make it right rather than wrong? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/2/2008 8:14:24 PM
      - right and wrong and responsibility - FrankC - 7/2/2008 10:57:24 PM
- re: With the 4th of July coming up Friday - ER - 7/2/2008 10:50:02 AM
  - Pledges and oaths - TB - 7/2/2008 5:32:13 PM
    - Renewing your wows. - ER - 7/2/2008 7:15:01 PM
      - re: Traditions - TB - 7/2/2008 7:40:30 PM
        
        Yeah, those same thoughts have occurred to me. (n/t) - ER - 7/2/2008 10:13:34 PM
  - Actions SPEAK LOUDER than WORDS - carl - 7/2/2008 3:39:57 PM
    - So just what else did you have in mind, citizen? - ER - 7/2/2008 5:22:48 PM
- bizarre how "a more perfect union" became "a perfect union"! - alcaray - 7/2/2008 8:33:38 AM
- "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." Mark Twain (n/t) - Bowser - 7/2/2008 5:40:49 AM

Britain: slow death by political correctness - TB - 7/1/2008 7:25:03 PM
- do any of the people in this thread live in the UK? - Doug Ellison - 7/2/2008 11:03:39 AM
  - The people who wrote the article do. - TB - 7/2/2008 5:47:02 PM
  - Are British Conservatives as clueless as their American cousins? - Robert - 7/2/2008 5:31:13 PM
  - Well said, Doug... - nick hoffman - 7/2/2008 2:58:24 PM
    - Speaking from personal knowledge - Mary Anne - 7/2/2008 10:37:50 PM
      - Not "people"; some people. - alcaray - 7/3/2008 1:52:19 AM
        
        Yeah, whatever. - Mary Anne - 7/3/2008 11:22:02 AM
- More from England - TB - 7/2/2008 12:56:55 AM
- A great cartoon on this topic... - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 9:06:05 PM
  - The scary part is the last 2 minutes of the episode (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 9:07:52 PM
- They should apologize properly - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 7:57:47 PM
  - And a bottle of English wine. - ER - 7/1/2008 8:55:30 PM
- unreal and interesting - FrankC - 7/1/2008 7:41:11 PM
  - Natan Sharansky on identity and democracy - Mary Anne - 7/1/2008 9:48:27 PM

Does anyone think that Bush will clean up any of his messes? - Bowser - 6/28/2008 11:49:39 PM
- Psssstttt - Eri - 6/29/2008 2:25:21 AM
  - Where would you have put the prisoners? (n/t) - TB - 6/29/2008 4:44:50 AM
    - Drop 'em by parachute into their own countries. - Eri - 6/29/2008 7:02:26 PM
      - Ah. Kill them. As long as we're clear on what the enlightened approach is. (n/t) - TB - 6/30/2008 1:20:37 AM
        
        Or was that "release them to fight again?" I'm sure either approach is better than Gitmo. (n/t) - TB - 6/30/2008 1:32:19 AM
        
        What ever happened to fair trials? - Lindy - 6/30/2008 2:02:19 AM
        
        Either America lives by the principles it espouses or it doesn't... - ARRELL - 6/30/2008 2:01:35 AM
        
        re: principles - TB - 6/30/2008 5:47:16 AM
        
        Either you are faking ignorance or you REALLY don't know what you are talking about... - ARRELL - 6/30/2008 6:12:49 PM
        
        re: Either you are faking ignorance or you REALLY don't know what you are talking about... - TB - 6/30/2008 7:12:14 PM
        
        What a bunch of nonsence. - alcaray - 6/30/2008 8:23:02 PM
        
        You left off the important part... - ARRELL - 6/30/2008 10:39:21 PM
        
        re: the important part - TB - 6/30/2008 11:06:42 PM
        
        "First, we have now apparently redefined "torture" as anything at all--anything--that makes a prisoner either physically or mentally uncomfortable." - alcaray - 7/1/2008 12:46:02 AM
        
        The statement is true. - TB - 7/1/2008 12:55:44 AM
        
        You made the allegation. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/1/2008 1:14:58 AM
        
        Read this carefully - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 12:26:23 AM
        
        Objective values & morals - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/1/2008 1:07:32 AM
        
        Giving your post a response in kind - SDUH - 7/1/2008 2:15:27 AM
        
        You give mirror writing a bad name... - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/1/2008 3:02:35 AM
        
        Why, I have no idea what you mean! - SDUMB-ASS - 7/1/2008 3:43:23 AM
        
        Ad hominem... - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/1/2008 4:57:05 AM
        
        Don't look at me- this is apparently between you and the Bulgarians now... - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 6:11:58 AM
        
        re: Read this carefully - TB - 7/1/2008 12:53:53 AM
        
        "Does it matter that the potential victims don't even get a vote?"- No, it really doesn't - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 1:30:43 AM
        
        Rationally, I agree with you. - TB - 7/1/2008 1:51:44 AM
        
        Then why do you keep defending what you KNOW is wrong? (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/1/2008 2:40:04 AM
        
        Why are you attacking? - TB - 7/1/2008 4:10:46 AM
        
        A New York Times article on the interrogation of KSM - TB - 6/30/2008 7:39:41 PM
        
        A lot of "these people" weren't guilty of anything, yet were held for years and then released. - alcaray - 6/30/2008 9:10:44 AM
        
        Monsters, using their conduct to justify one's own. - Bowser - 6/30/2008 6:03:10 AM
        
        "we've become the monster we were supposedly ridding the world of" - Lindy - 6/30/2008 1:53:28 PM
    - A ranch just outside Crawford, Texas. Some in Kennebunkport. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/29/2008 5:48:10 AM

Obamanomalism - Robert - 6/27/2008 7:38:20 PM
- If the ends don't justify the means, what does?"-- Pat Buchanan - ER - 6/29/2008 7:15:16 PM
- But wait, there's more - Robert - 6/28/2008 2:44:21 AM
  - But wait, there's even more - Robert - 6/29/2008 5:33:35 PM
    - Okay, now that you've set the height of the bar... - TB - 6/30/2008 1:31:14 AM
      - Like a dog returning to vomit... - Robert - 6/30/2008 2:42:21 PM
        
        "Clean campaign" - TB - 6/30/2008 6:03:47 PM
        
        Amazing - Robert - 6/30/2008 7:51:14 PM
        
        re: Amazing - TB - 6/30/2008 8:18:43 PM
        
        A bit more "clean campaigning" - TB - 6/30/2008 8:26:45 PM
        
        Congratulations, TB - Robert - 7/1/2008 2:34:18 AM
        
        Nice dancin' yourself - TB - 7/1/2008 4:45:36 AM
- When you can't defend your positions on policy, I guess it's natural to turn to smear campaigns (n/t) - z - 6/27/2008 8:28:35 PM
  - Republicans haven't had less to offer in many, many decades (n/t) - Robert - 6/27/2008 10:40:42 PM
    - Less is still more than nothing. - TB - 6/27/2008 11:52:22 PM
      - "Obama hasn't come up with anything I wasn't hearing twenty years ago" - Robert - 6/28/2008 2:32:15 AM
        
        Heh. You have no idea, do you? - TB - 6/28/2008 3:00:08 AM
        
        You have no idea, do you? - Robert - 6/28/2008 3:22:16 AM
        
        Good Lord, is this sad. - TB - 6/28/2008 4:06:54 AM
        
        "Who's going to end up having to run Obama?" - Lindy - 6/28/2008 4:24:52 PM
        
        Best and brightest - TB - 6/28/2008 8:27:50 PM
        
        >"So, what do you think of........" - Lindy - 6/29/2008 1:09:28 AM
        
        Condescension, #12 of a finite set - Robert - 6/28/2008 6:22:45 AM
        
        re: Condescension - TB - 6/28/2008 8:24:25 PM
      - No- its fair to say that this administration has given us FAR less than nothing in many areas.... (n/t) - ARRELL - 6/28/2008 12:17:28 AM
- re: Obamanomalism - ER - 6/27/2008 8:00:03 PM
  - "These people" It's a conspiracy, I tell you! (n/t) - TB - 6/27/2008 9:00:36 PM
    - I wish they'd hurry up and send me my check. (n/t) - ER - 6/28/2008 12:07:49 AM
    - You're one to talk! Sheesh- you find socialist conspiracies everywhere you look! (n/t) - ARRELL - 6/27/2008 9:12:11 PM
      - Check out the next thread up! - TB - 6/27/2008 9:23:16 PM

Quote of the day on constitutional issues - TB - 6/28/2008 8:46:21 PM
- Can you name any of these people? (n/t) - Tony - 6/30/2008 4:31:37 PM
  - "Those people", Tony, are us; me and thee. (n/t) - ER - 6/30/2008 4:47:47 PM
- Damn! - Eri - 6/29/2008 7:05:55 PM
- So, the US constitution can't ever be changed? (n/t) - Raoul - 6/29/2008 8:55:36 AM
  - Of course it can. - Mary Anne - 6/29/2008 2:44:07 PM
    - "I remember habeas corpus" - TB - 6/30/2008 1:27:53 AM
      - If it weren't a Constitutional issue... - Mary Anne - 6/30/2008 2:47:40 AM
        
        re: If it weren't a Constitutional issue... - TB - 6/30/2008 5:55:24 AM
        
        As I said: habeas corpus is being undermined. - Mary Anne - 6/30/2008 11:05:40 AM

The creeping temptation to conspiracy theory... - TB - 6/27/2008 9:16:02 PM
- re: The creeping temptation to conspiracy theory... - Buck Galaxy - 6/28/2008 3:10:17 AM
  - There's an easy test. - Bowser - 6/28/2008 5:40:25 AM
  - You see, this is why we have to avoid the temptation. - TB - 6/28/2008 3:46:42 AM
    - Thanks for the link - Buck Galaxy - 6/28/2008 8:12:24 AM
      - There's no pattern there, Buck. - TB - 6/28/2008 8:17:20 PM
- "Paranoia strikes deep,,,into your heart it will creep..." - ER - 6/27/2008 11:59:39 PM
  - Just a note - TB - 6/28/2008 1:50:13 AM
    - What's the difference? - ER - 6/28/2008 3:15:29 AM
  - Ayn Randian nuns will rap his knuckles with a ruler.... - ARRELL - 6/28/2008 12:13:59 AM

Cardinal Hansen calls for heresy trials - TB - 6/23/2008 3:05:14 PM
- Hansen's speech - TB - 6/28/2008 1:47:51 AM
- It gives compensation to their lives. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/23/2008 8:12:06 PM
  - re:They suffer from a host of nagging inferiority complexes and psychological hang ups and need something to focus on outside themselves to compensate for these things. - Yeti - 6/24/2008 5:23:35 AM
- Gotta love the snark there TB. - Tony - 6/23/2008 7:06:20 PM
  - Snarks - TB - 6/23/2008 8:25:37 PM
    - I do know something about the industry, hence my reply - Tony - 6/23/2008 8:50:50 PM
      - That's good. - TB - 6/24/2008 3:07:14 AM
        
        Nobody mentioned "cost effective" except you. - Tony - 6/24/2008 7:10:10 PM

Glenn Greenwald makes an amazing discovery... - TB - 6/27/2008 2:52:10 AM
- substitute Obama for Dem Party and you may have a smidgen of a point - Tony - 6/27/2008 2:14:12 PM
  - Love for McCain - TB - 6/27/2008 4:38:34 PM
    - Bush is NOT a mainstream Republican! - Lindy - 6/27/2008 4:40:23 PM
      - Unfortunately, he's closer to the current mainstream than Reagan was. (n/t) - TB - 6/27/2008 4:52:05 PM
  - or Fox "News". - Bowser - 6/27/2008 2:35:54 PM
    - re: or Fox "News". - TB - 6/27/2008 4:50:59 PM

Mexican drug wars, cop killings and the US. - Bowser - 6/27/2008 3:17:04 PM

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