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Our resident poet spoke sweetly of the Iraq War
re: "resident poet"?
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1/19/2007 3:57:11 AM
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Our resident poet spoke sweetly of the Iraq War
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 10:21:11 PM
Another war poem
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ER
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1/24/2007 12:16:20 AM
...oops, I forgot to credit the above item...
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ER
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1/24/2007 12:22:25 AM
God that took me back
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Lindy
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1/24/2007 4:21:12 AM
"How does it feeeeeeel?"
(n/t)
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ER
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1/24/2007 5:13:33 AM
re: "resident poet"?
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Fox
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1/19/2007 3:57:11 AM
When you have critics...then you know you've arrived. ;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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1/19/2007 11:23:34 PM
Nah. Sometimes it just harbors no truth. No beauty...
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et
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1/21/2007 3:14:42 AM
re: When you have critics...then you know you've arrived. ;-)
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Lindy
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1/20/2007 1:19:52 AM
"Ahem"?
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(Proudly), Bowser
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1/19/2007 4:46:05 PM
heh heh
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Fox
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1/19/2007 6:56:54 PM
Ahem
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Lindy
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1/19/2007 5:09:46 AM
A poem inspired by war
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alcaray
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1/19/2007 7:00:42 PM
Powerful stuff...
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Fox
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1/21/2007 5:48:16 PM
It's all good, Lindy
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Fox
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1/19/2007 6:56:01 PM
Here's one
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Fox
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1/21/2007 5:37:21 PM
Here's two more
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Fox
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1/21/2007 5:43:55 PM
And he didn't even know it!
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TB
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1/19/2007 3:57:51 AM
re: And TB could predict !
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Raoul
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1/17/2007 11:10:48 PM
Boy, did you miss the point.
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TB
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1/17/2007 11:38:31 PM
It was the expectations raised by Bush & Cheney.
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Bowser
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1/18/2007 4:50:58 AM
Incidentally...
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TB
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1/18/2007 6:45:00 AM
23 million people, backward country, size of California, no air force, no navy, etc.
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Bowser
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1/18/2007 8:54:02 PM
Longer wars tend to have greater cost than shorter ones.
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alcaray
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1/18/2007 6:24:33 PM
Perhaps that's why the Iraqi dollar is rising?
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Lindy
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1/19/2007 1:08:41 AM
It could help to settle things down.
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Lee
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1/19/2007 1:57:32 AM
Five days into it, Bowser.
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TB
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1/18/2007 6:37:20 AM
Meanwhile...their currency is still going up in value.
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Lee
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1/18/2007 8:54:56 AM
Didn't Podrock and I...
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alcaray
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1/18/2007 9:07:32 PM
Not really.
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Lee
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1/18/2007 11:26:03 PM
A chart you probably don't want to look at:
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podrock
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1/19/2007 7:37:07 PM
It fell right after the election
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Lindy
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1/20/2007 1:22:13 AM
Oops, my bad, I read that backwards....
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podrock
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1/19/2007 8:04:10 PM
The Iraqi economy
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TB
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1/20/2007 4:12:14 AM
That's something conquerers do every time.
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alcaray
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1/24/2007 6:18:35 PM
Wiki on the dinar:
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podrock
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1/19/2007 6:36:33 PM
corrected blockquote
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podrock
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1/19/2007 7:05:22 PM
Same thing happened with Kuwaiti dinars.
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Lee
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1/19/2007 8:36:40 PM
It is supposed to go up, and for the reasons we discussed
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alcaray
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1/18/2007 11:58:13 PM
"hopes were in trumpeting negativity "
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Lindy
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1/18/2007 12:17:16 AM
No.
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TB
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1/18/2007 3:10:57 AM
The Song of Battles
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SDAi-Tech1
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1/17/2007 11:10:47 PM
And LJ, if you're out there..........
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Lindy
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1/17/2007 10:34:04 PM
re: And LJ, if you're out there..........
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Laurie Street
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1/18/2007 7:02:32 PM
I have trouble with all those old posts
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Lindy
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1/19/2007 1:00:30 AM
Just an FYI, LarryJ is not LJ....
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Yeti
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1/17/2007 11:01:32 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.