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A few points on your post AT, First off I was not criticizing 'the government' I was criticizing the Conservatives who run it. The Conservatives are the ones I was calling 'pure evil.' Secondly, only a retard could equate funding cancer research with Marxism. The government has a job to protect us. How much are we spending [wasting] in Iraq these days? $8 billion a month? The cancer reasearch institutes are asking for $300,000 million a year is all. What they get now is so small that that would represent a massive increase in funding. Oh, and many more Americans die from cancer than terrorism. Why the Democrats have not made this a centerpiece of their party platform is beyond me.

May I be allowed to alter my theory? Actually the lib and con don't even need to have different jobs, it can be the very same job. Like Clinton and Bush have the same job, one did it with competence they other dithered and vacationed. While Clinton was involved and listened to his advisors, I could very much see Bush sitting there listening to Rush Limbo. We know Cheney only watches Fox. And they do believe their own propaganda, that's pretty obvious

This is pretty rotten. What if the kid they recruit gets killed, loses an arm or a leg, gets all burned up, suffers a brain injury or gets screwed up in the head because of the war? What type of person would do this sort of thing? http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=2626032 Nov. 3, 2006 — - An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist. ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. "Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter. "No, we're bringing people back," he replies. "We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says. Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties. One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout. "You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked. The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up. During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they enlisted, there would be little chance they'd to go Iraq. But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq. "I would not disagree with that," Manning said. "We are a nation and Army at war still." Manning looked at the ABC News video of his recruiters. "It's hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective applicants," Manning said. "I still believe that this is the exception more than the norm. … I've visited many stations myself, and I know that we have many wonderful Americans serving in uniform as recruiters." Yet ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the Army, you could just quit. "It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just be like it never happened."

I think Rush Limbo is God!!

Ya know, I don't listen to talk radio very much. I did love listening to Hannity on the way home from work during the Terri Schivo thing, THAT WAS ENTERTAINING! 'She's about to talk!!' But I have a theory that Conservatives are much more into talk radio because their jobs are much simpler. They can do their little jobs with the radio on because they don't have to think while they do whatever they do. Liberals--who read more, btw--have jobs that require thinking, creativity and action, so no time to sit around and be propagandized. And what time of day is Rush Limbo on? Right during the middle of the day. And what time is Colbert on? At night when Liberals are getting ready to turn in to be ready to work the next day.

It's good some Conservatives are totally embarassed by the like of O'Reilly, Hannity and Rush, too bad so many worship them. And yes we Dems have our scary people too.

Dems began losing the South even before that, back in the 1930's with the New Deal TRYING to help blacks, and when Truman desegregated the military it accelerated, but Lydon Johnson really made the South GOP with the Civil Rights acts and all that.

What does it tell you then that the people who dreamed up the Iraq war go there to give interviews? How was the 'no spin zone' last night?

You guys are so funny! It's all the messengers fault! You guys really are brainwashed. Bill O, Sean Hannity and Rush have earned their money! The right wing in this country, in large measure, are just a bunch of zombies.

Who knows, maybe someday you will pull your head out of your ass, but since Dildo O'Reilly is unlikely to tell you to, I don't it will happen.

Ya, they are real interested in protecting us. Pure evil is what they are http://www.barnesjewish.org/groups/default.asp?NavID=3618 Cancer Survivors Press Congress for Research Funding By Adam Sichko, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 20, 2006 WASHINGTON - At age 76, with a metal brace on one knee and a cane in his hand, Arthur Grist knows he's probably not cut out for all the walking he did Wednesday on the National Mall. But he believes any soreness he may feel today is better than the nausea he endured during radiation treatments for prostate cancer. Grist is a retired public health professor from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He was in Washington to lobby Congress to reverse proposed funding cuts for cancer research. "You're cutting money out of cancer research? Are you kidding me?" Grist said. "They need to get their act together and put that money back in." Grist joined nearly 10,000 cancer survivors and cancer research advocates Wednesday who met with legislators and rallied outside the U.S. Capitol. Delegations from every state pushed three initiatives: To increase research funding. President George W. Bush proposed a $40 million cut in the budget for the National Cancer Institute. The House agreed to that cut, while the Senate proposed a $9 million increase to the current $4.793 billion budget. The institute says it needs almost $300 million more to maintain services. To renew an early detection program and add $47 million to its budget. The program provides screening and treatment for breast and cervical cancers to low-income, uninsured women, but the American Cancer Society says it only reaches one in five eligible women. The extra funding would help at least 130,000 more women. To persuade members of Congress to sign a Cancer Promise, in which they support increasing research funding and making cancer-related issues a priority. The National Mall was a sea of purple T-shirts throughout the one-day event. At night, about 20,000 luminarias encircled a pool in front of the Capitol. "Cancer can no longer be fought in the laboratories and at the bedsides, as it was years ago," said Maryann Coletti, an oncology nurse at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis' Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "We have to fight it in the halls of Congress and in our statehouses." A resolution supporting the goal of eliminating cancer-related deaths by 2015 passed the House unanimously Tuesday night. Jenny Steinmann, a Florissant resident and cancer survivor, emerged optimistic from her meetings with three Missouri members of Congress. "I did everything I wanted to do and said everything I wanted to say," said Steinmann, a junior at Creighton University. "The ball's in their court." Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., spoke optimistically about the detection program but sounded less certain about increasing research funding, said Tom Smith of Jerseyville, Ill. Smith said it was "hard to gauge" how effective the brief meeting was. "I hope we'll be OK." "We'll survive," he added later.

What do you mean? I you so far gone that you think if a reporter from the 'liberal media' interviews someone, the interview, the words the person spoke can be discounted, because it was reported in the 'liberal media?' Are you a Bill O'Reilly fan by any chance?

This is total crap. They deserve just as much blame as Bush does. The whole idea of invading Iraq was stupid. Bush's incompetence is real and profound, but Iraq would have failed had we did it with a good president. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...2/neocons200612 As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness. Target No. 1: the president himself.

Way I look at it, Dems can't lose. They win they win, if they somehow lose and the GOP is still in power that's fine leading up to 2008. The Republicans have proved they cannot govern in any competent manner. What are they gonna do? Cut more taxes? 2008 will be a slaughter if Dems lose on Tuesday. Would probably be a good thing for Dems, actually

In a large way it is. In a small, yet important way it isn't. The South dominates the GOP.

Tim Russert was just on Hardball reporting that the gap between people who think the Southern Party--the GOP--and Democrats is 15 points. 52% Dem 37% Southern Party. That's the largest its ever been according to him. It was only 6 points in 1994! We are seeing a rejection of the Deep South in this election. And why didn't the GOP try to pass an amendment banning abortion?

Oh, you make a great point. Ya, Poland was a joke and seemed ready for war. Chamberlain also believed that Poland was strong and that's why he made an alliance with them instead of the hated USSR, who would have been a great deterant., I don't remember the clowns name who was in charge of Poland, but he thought his country could be a factor in war. Why was Poland eager for war??? Hitler was pressuring the Poles in the Corridore. What was that city where there were riots? Not Danzig, the other one.

LOL! Tim McVeigh gain a lot of weight in prison. He was skinny when he went in and a fat ass when they killed him!

I agree 100%! But Hillary has been great at saying nothing, just like Bush leading up to 2000. I just wonder who the GOP will nominate. I think I'm going to be enfuriated by the 'values voters' tearing apart a good Eisenhower type Republican in favor of someone the Falwell crowd approves of. The Republicans lost me when the Southerners took over the party.

He would have made a much better President than the fool who is in there now. That's not saying much, I know. Bush is so bad, that saying Jessica Simpson could do a better job wouldn't be that far off the mark. Hell, at least she wouldn't have the moron Congress behind her. Oh, bad choice of words, anyway, what Kerry, the combat veteran, said today: "If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me, who's been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans, to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is, if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq and not the president and his people who put them there, they're crazy. It's just wrong. This is a classic GOP textbook Republican campaign tactic. I'm sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not debate real policy, who won't take responsibility for their own mistakes, standing up and trying to make other people the butt of those mistakes. I'm sick and tired of a whole bunch of Republican attacks, most of which come from people who never wore the uniform and never had the courage to stand up and go to war themselves. Enough is enough. We're not going to stand for this. This policy is broken. And this president and his administration didn't do their homework. They didn't study what would happen in Iraq. They didn't study and listen to the people who were the experts and would have told them. And they know that's what I was talking about yesterday. I'm not going to be lectured by a White House or by the likes of Rush Limbaugh who's taking a day off from mimicking and attacking Michael J. Fox, who's now going to try to attack me and lie about me and distort me. No way. It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did. It's over."

That premise is complete BS, that's not why we went to war

Yes Progressive! And popular! I forgot that was one of the words the far right wing media chose to demonize and the faithful picked up on it like a bad case of poison ivy. BTW, how's that Social Security 'reform' going?

Shouldn''t this be in the politics section? But, good article. The tax cuts have to go. We are sitting on a time bomb, really. When the baby boomers begin to retire it will be a mess. Did you know Bush wanted to borrow to trillion dollars to 'fix' social security? This guy is so disfunctional its unbelievable! No responsibilty for anything.

This won't save the Southern party. The Party of Bush and Falwell, unless they steal the election, is going down for defeat. We will most likely have a Democratic House and a Senate with a small majority GOP--With several liberal Republicans--that will pass Progressive measures. Bush will have to veto minimum wage laws, alternative energy bills, perhaps more stem cell related measures and other bills that are supported by the vast majority of Americas. The 30% of the country--mainly Southerners--will cheer, but most won't. Gay marriage will not save the GOP this time

America deserves to be attacked because people here protest against a stupid, senseless, counter-productive, emotionally driven war? You are a total moron.