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Stoop? :)
re: Stoop? :)
Eri
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4/22/2009 7:05:16 PM
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Nah, I never stoop over; it hurts my back.
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The elephant in the living room.
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Bowser
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4/20/2009 11:42:19 PM
I'll side with TB on this one
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E.P.
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4/23/2009 10:46:40 PM
re: I'll side with TB on this one
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Lindy
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4/25/2009 3:46:22 PM
re: I'll side with TB on this one
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E.P.
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5/1/2009 9:37:09 PM
If Everbody's talking about it, then it cannot be 'The elephant in the living room.'
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S
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4/22/2009 6:29:45 PM
My bad...'didn't scroll down far enough...
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S
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4/22/2009 7:07:51 PM
re: My bad...'didn't scroll down far enough...
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TB
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4/22/2009 8:33:56 PM
"the moral issue is a lot more complicated so it's easier for some people to pretend they never work. "
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Lindy
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4/23/2009 12:28:12 AM
Missing sources
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TB
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4/22/2009 8:43:10 PM
Or, as Pynchon put it...
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S
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4/22/2009 6:53:59 PM
Here's one of the right questions...
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Lindy
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4/23/2009 12:38:41 AM
Try and focus.
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TB
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4/23/2009 3:51:55 AM
re: The elephant in the living room.
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Marcia
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4/21/2009 9:52:51 PM
You know...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/21/2009 7:17:16 PM
PS Re: Animal Love (Pet owners do NOT read - oops that excludes the entire Zone!)
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/22/2009 9:14:39 PM
Life 101...seriously
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Jody
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4/23/2009 1:33:32 PM
re: Life 101...seriously
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Marcia
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4/25/2009 10:15:01 PM
"The more our society decays the more it turns to pets for pseudo unconditional love and affirmation."
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Lindy
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4/23/2009 12:40:34 AM
Conflicting messages.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/23/2009 6:23:48 AM
It is aways about excess
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FrankC
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4/23/2009 6:14:43 PM
You got it. Balance ;-)
(n/t)
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/24/2009 12:55:18 AM
If it truly is about balance Mr. Spock...
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Jody
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4/24/2009 1:58:01 PM
I suggest a compromise
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Jody
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4/23/2009 1:24:12 PM
Made of hemp?
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/24/2009 12:58:58 AM
How would that even *work*?
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TB
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4/23/2009 4:46:27 PM
Well, first you get a rope...
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Eri
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4/23/2009 5:20:51 PM
*giggle*
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Jody
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4/23/2009 10:20:30 PM
I love my puppy
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FrankC
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4/23/2009 12:19:21 AM
He's precious!
(n/t)
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Eri
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4/23/2009 2:33:53 AM
Awwww...FrankC...he is adorable!!!
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Jody
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4/23/2009 12:48:53 AM
This is so pathetic
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Robert
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4/22/2009 11:45:45 PM
Well said. For some, dogs, cats and people are merely objects.
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Bowser
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4/24/2009 4:35:29 AM
I've talked to veterinarians...
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TB
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4/25/2009 5:11:56 AM
bonding outside the species
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Robert
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4/24/2009 5:36:16 AM
I certainly understand.
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Eri
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4/25/2009 9:09:14 PM
I refrain from reading any more posts on this subject.
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Jody
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4/24/2009 2:22:57 PM
Lindy, Jody, Eri...somebody...PLEASE...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/24/2009 7:02:16 AM
Keep digging that hole
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Robert
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4/24/2009 4:19:36 PM
It would be nice...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/24/2009 9:18:40 PM
Sorry Tech1 but it's obvious that your envious of the affection some animals command.
(n/t)
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RobVG
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4/26/2009 10:45:10 PM
;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/26/2009 11:33:55 PM
Give it up Tech1
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Lindy
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4/26/2009 5:53:44 AM
I miscalculated.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/26/2009 8:56:48 AM
No shit!
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Eri
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4/26/2009 6:23:51 PM
On the other hand...
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TB
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4/26/2009 6:02:44 PM
"I am often careless with human emotions"
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Lindy
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4/26/2009 3:26:38 PM
Yes you did...
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Jody
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4/26/2009 1:48:08 PM
Chart clarified
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/26/2009 9:23:29 AM
Journey to the center of the Earth
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Robert
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4/24/2009 10:03:04 PM
SDAI needs to go to the vet to be fixed.
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Eri
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4/22/2009 10:09:11 PM
Now now...no need for that Eri
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Jody
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4/22/2009 11:09:19 PM
I love you too Jody. ;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/23/2009 4:51:12 AM
Heh....
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Jody
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4/23/2009 10:21:41 PM
I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that! I'd have needeed a new keyboard.
(n/t)
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Eri
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4/23/2009 2:36:18 AM
You're one sick bastard
(n/t)
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Eri
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4/22/2009 3:55:07 PM
I am sorry SDAI said that to you Bowser.
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Jody
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4/22/2009 2:22:11 PM
As a woman....
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Lindy
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4/22/2009 5:13:38 PM
SDAI will never apologize. He's too sure of his own superiority.
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Eri
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4/22/2009 7:04:17 PM
No harm, no foul. I don't read him.
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Bowser
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4/22/2009 2:42:29 PM
re: You know...
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FrankC
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4/21/2009 8:48:19 PM
And what's more...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/21/2009 10:58:56 PM
You should have left the dog out of it.
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TB
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4/21/2009 8:17:20 PM
Agreed
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REB
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4/22/2009 1:18:40 PM
Me, too.
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Jody
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4/22/2009 2:20:38 PM
3 things you don't mess with in Texas...
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REB
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4/22/2009 2:35:44 PM
You BETTER put the wife first!
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Eri
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4/22/2009 3:56:44 PM
But in Texas...
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TB
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4/22/2009 8:12:54 PM
True but she has to go to the head of the line.
(n/t)
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Eri
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4/22/2009 10:10:04 PM
Nah.
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SDAi-Tech1
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4/21/2009 11:02:37 PM
More like a big, smelly fish
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S
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4/21/2009 5:54:20 PM
Cheney says torture's no big deal - we learned a few things!
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z
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4/21/2009 4:24:33 PM
Well, at least one
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S
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4/21/2009 5:45:28 PM
I guess there really was an Axis of Evil after all.
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ER
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4/21/2009 10:36:45 AM
More of a red herring than an elephant.
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TB
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4/21/2009 6:43:36 AM
"- - - live with the burden of knowing that we have plumbed the shallows of their credibility, honesty and integrity."
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Bowser
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4/21/2009 6:52:27 PM
Distraction or not....it's important to our Zoners Tom...
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Jody
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4/21/2009 3:13:48 PM
My turn...
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Jody
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4/21/2009 9:17:17 PM
I don't have a porch. Sniff.
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Eri
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4/22/2009 3:25:04 AM
Stoop? :)
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Jody
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4/22/2009 6:14:21 PM
re: Stoop? :)
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Eri
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4/22/2009 7:05:16 PM
To the moon Alice!!!;)
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Jody
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4/22/2009 7:08:52 PM
Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars...
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Eri
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4/22/2009 10:11:13 PM
re: My turn...
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FrankC
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4/21/2009 10:16:12 PM
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - attributed to Churchill
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TB
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4/21/2009 10:13:24 PM
Mark Thiessen was Bush's speechwriter
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Lindy
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4/22/2009 12:23:46 AM
More on lives saved
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TB
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4/21/2009 11:57:54 PM
Still more
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TB
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4/22/2009 3:37:14 AM
Why are you knocking yourself out?
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/22/2009 5:45:54 AM
re: Why are you knocking yourself out?
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TB
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4/22/2009 5:51:42 AM
The hard choice
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TB
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4/22/2009 12:07:37 AM
As has been demonstrated, the credibility of your sources is highly questionable.
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Bowser
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4/22/2009 12:05:16 AM
Evasive action
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TB
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4/22/2009 12:09:04 AM
And not to put too fine a point on it...
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TB
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4/22/2009 12:14:16 AM
The US tortured and Bush lied. And you deny it. Except to say it worked.
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Bowser
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4/22/2009 2:31:58 AM
I assume others got the point.
(n/t)
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TB
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4/22/2009 3:29:45 AM
Sadly, TB, I think everyone got exactly that point.
(n/t)
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Bowser
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4/22/2009 4:08:59 AM
The only point I have gleaned from this thread was that this seems to be personal with you Bowser.
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Jody
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4/22/2009 1:55:24 PM
Wasn't rhetorical, wasn't directed at TB alone.
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Bowser
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4/22/2009 5:29:20 PM
Well....
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Jody
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4/23/2009 2:14:12 AM
re: More of a red herring than an elephant. (you should be ashamed of yourself Tom)
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Lindy
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4/21/2009 2:37:44 PM
It's not Bush Derangement,
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ER
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4/21/2009 10:22:55 AM
re: Bush Derangement
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TB
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4/21/2009 5:56:27 PM
"There was a reason this release happened now"
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Lindy
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4/21/2009 11:54:28 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.