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What... you are going to make me read? Especially one of these threads? OK

Aw, she's just a pathetic post whore... (your turn, Harriett... )

Why sweat the small stevestojan?

I'm sure many would disagree and also, on the other hand agree, but I respect you for that post. I really do. I'm serious, I also have to deal with things, real world, real time. I don't think more than a few have caught my drift. We are in a war, and most of America doesn't get that. Prosecuting a war most often doesn't do well for campaign adds. You fight wars to win. This is a very, very bizzare war-because we have never been faced with this type of adversary as a primary. You think this stevestojan is easy? Cool, you work it.

Once again, I here ya. Welcome to the 21st. Century.

Don't be, not at all. I'm especially disturbed by the knocks on Southerners.... Scatimonious prick.

Good, save some for when you have a date.

He has one, it just sucks.

You have a happy day. You are a moron, total, but I believe in giving everyone their due. Seriously, T-Bone...that was a hell of an accomplishment. I thought they had to be out of gas more than once. If they don't win the series, they most definitely have a lot to be proud of. Welcome to being a Bills fan. Folks only count the Championships, as that is our nature. Few remember how they got there.

I'd be banned in the quickest time known to TBD history, if I ever said what I really thought. So would many of us, but that's the point. Bring some cowbell. I sure hope the Bills will. You don't want to knock the South, with me. Memphis Jim. There's a lot more personal pride there than folks like you would ever comprehend. From any side. Be enlightened.

I think they are all cute. I caught one line out of Eryns though, that I found disturbing. "My Mommy told me Kerry will give us all health care, so I'll vote for Kerry." It's their parents I'm more concerned with. I'm already very aware he plans on cutting defense to make his budget plans work, and it isn't a drop in the bucket. middle America? If you have a combined income of about 75K, look out.

Funny, it says Los Angeles times. You guys just can't get your hands around ANYTHING that isn't "Bush Bad". I know it's an article on polling, but the sad fact is all that ever gets talked about is what's wrong. Anytime anyone implies that there are things going on in the world that ain't so bad, because we might actually be doing something right, some of you (and you are a bandleader in this regard) trip all over yourselves to post a contrary. And, as I've stated before-I'm not pro Bush. My focus is narrow, based mostly on National Defense. I have a good feel for what works and what doesn't. I also don't think the rest of it matters much if you can't execute your programs because the world economy is in chaos, or Chicago got blown up, so an effective defense policy is very important. Senator Kerry does not have anything resembling an effective Defense/Security platform. None, nadda. I'm sure you will go to his campaign site and tell me why he does, and why I'm wrong. I don't care. The man would make a lot of people happy, you all miss the good old days of Bill Clinton and everyone is entitled to do whatever feels good, but Kerry will be dangerous for America. Why? Because in very simple terms he cares way too much about what "people" think.

'Ludes. Take two, walk into a wall and spend the next hour trying to figure out what you just did. I'd bug you about the fried chicken again, but someone would accuse me of stereotyping. You don't have to go to the market for the chicken, just buy the smallest ones you can find. Now, if i suggested watermellon for desert... Actually, I prefer scratch made mac and cheese, silver queen on the cob and butter beans, with biscuits. Did I send you the biscuits?

Worse yet, the only times the fans get excited is when he takes the field.

Isn't there a goat out there somewhere calling your name?

I hear ya. I think Ralph might get it finally too, he's not going to be around much longer and would it be a slap in the face to do it posthumously. If it weren't for him and a few others, you wouldn't have a Super Bowl.

Where the hell are you geting that from?

Terrorism Knowledge Base

Haven't watched any Lost, but Forbidden Planet is a true classic.

Is Iraq Better Off? Ask the Iraqis Steven E. Moore, Los Angeles Times 10/20/2004 John Kerry is playing the prophet of doom in the most important foreign policy initiative of our generation. In Pennsylvania, Kerry described Iraq as "the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time." In New York, he opined that murderous cleric Muqtada Sadr "holds more sway in suburbs of Baghdad than Prime Minister [iyad] Allawi." In Columbus, Ohio, the senator claimed to have a more accurate perspective on the situation in Iraq than did the interim prime minister, whose favorability rating of 73% among Iraqis, it's worth noting, is higher than Kerry's 48% favorability rating among Americans in the latest polls. Kerry, of course, has never set foot in Iraq. I was there from July 2003 to April 2004, conducting about 70 focus groups and a dozen public opinion polls and advising L. Paul Bremer III, then the civilian administrator, on Iraqi public opinion. Whatever you might hear from Kerry, Michael Moore, the mainstream media and anyone else to whom defeating President Bush is more important than the fate of the Iraqi people, those who know best what's going on in Iraq — the Iraqis themselves — are optimistic about the future. Iraqis consistently say in nationwide polls that the situation in their country is improving. In polls over the course of the summer, for example, more than half of Iraqis said their country was on the right track. The vast majority of Iraqis — 72% — see the same benefits in democracy as Americans do: the hope for peace, stability and a better life. Most polls show that 75% of Iraqis want to vote for their leaders rather than have clerics appoint them. In a recent speech, Kerry charged that Saddam Hussein's brutality "was not, in itself, a reason to go to war." Iraqis disagree, as should any supporter of human rights. Nearly 55% of Iraqis say that toppling Hussein was worth the price of the current difficulties. These figures are easy to understand when you look at another set of numbers. In an Op-Ed article circulated this year among the more than 200 independent newspapers now published in Iraq, an Iraqi democratic activist observed that Hussein tortured and killed as many as 750,000 of his own people. Iraqis don't understand the debate about whether Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. To them, Hussein was a weapon of mass destruction. UNICEF, hardly an apologist for the Bush administration, estimates that 5,000 Iraqi children a month died of starvation and malnutrition while Hussein siphoned funds from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program to build his palaces and enrich French politicians. Americans are only now learning of the extent of Hussein's corruption of this humanitarian program; the Iraqis have known about it for quite some time. When asked to rate their confidence in the U.N., Iraqis gave the organization a 2.9 on a scale of 1 to 4, with a 4 meaning absolutely no confidence. In contrast, more than 60% of Iraqis tell pollsters that the Iraqi government has done a good job since the June 28 hand-over. Polling in Iraq is done much as in any developing country. Interviews are conducted face to face by highly trained Iraqi interviewers. For a 1,500-person sample, for instance, 75 qada (the Iraqi equivalent of precincts) would be chosen at random, with interviews conducted in 20 randomly chosen households in each. Though difficulties abound, the cooperation rate is usually more than 80% — much higher than in the U.S. Iraqis are amazed that, for the first time, somebody cares about their political opinion, and they frequently want interviewers to interview cousins and friends. From 20,000 to 30,000 insurgents, many from outside Iraq, are trying to prevent Iraqis who want democracy from achieving it. Kerry has said he would begin withdrawing U.S. troops six months after his inauguration. Iraq's autocratic neighbors are vigorously supporting the efforts of extremists to derail Iraqi self-government. Hastily withdrawing U.S. troops for political reasons would be a mistake for which we would pay for decades. A look at the nightly news confirms the finding that six out of 10 Iraqis are worried about security, but what's being given short shrift are the strides being made and the intensity of Iraqi optimism. Steven E. Moore is a Sacramento-based political consultant.

Hard to do as a Braves fan.

Bush because Kerry bad. Reason? Defense.

How do you tell the polock @ the rooster fight? He brings the duck. How do you tell the dago @ the rooster fight? He bets on the duck. How do you tell the mafia went to the rooster fight? The duck wins.

Didn't stop me, I PM, rodeo queen...