Man, Sam, that Barber guy sucks so badly he would not believe the evidence people called in giving him about the incompetence of Guilianni and that he ran New York City as a tyrant. This Barber guy is fucked up! He was so stubborn and kept saying I cannot believe any of this and wow theres a lot of people who bizzarely hate Guilianni. sigh. I'm guessing he's in his 60s cause he says things like Top Banana! I cannot believe this freak of a man is on a station like AIR AMERICA. WHERE did they get this clown from?! He sounds like Nathan Lane. To have someone as amazing as you on to this wack job is just unbelievably wrong and a slap in the face to you and the rest of us listeners. I best complain to the powers at air america pronto!
Waxman cautions Rice for 'hindering' Iraq intelligence investigation Michael Roston Published: Friday May 4, 2007
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The Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee cautioned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice against hindering investigation into the intelligence used to build the case for the invasion of Iraq. The warning came because the committee was blocked from taking a deposition from a State Department intelligence analyst who had suggested in 2003 that fears of Iraq's nuclear program were based on a hoax.
"I am writing to urge you to instruct your staff, particularly officials in your legislative affairs office, not to impede the Committee's investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials, including yourself, cited forged evidence in building a case for war against Iraq," wrote Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in a letter released Friday.
The Committee had written to Simon Dodge, a nuclear weapons analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, who had warned the Intelligence Community in Jan. 2003 that allegations of Iraq seeking uranium from Niger were "probably a hoax" and "clearly a forgery." Dodge agreed to fully cooperate with the investigation.
But the committee had been blocked from deposing Dodge by the State Department's Bureau of Legislative Affairs after they asserted it "would be 'inappropriate' because the Committee voted to issue a subpoena to compel your attendance at a hearing on your knowledge of the fabricated evidence," the California Democrat wrote.
Waxman urged Rice to make Dodge available by May 9, writing, "I trust you will cooperate in this matter and instruct your staff to cease further interference with the Committee's inquiry."
The Oversight Committee Chairman also sought a variety of documents from Rice related to the investigation which he said that she had "failed to provide."
The full letter can read at the Committee's website.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” Last night, members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA (TNG-CWA) honored several of their peers who have demonstrated the power of journalists to make social change. May 3 marked World Press Freedom Day, with the focus this year on violence against journalists. (If you’re concerned about freedom of the press, check out coverage and get resources at Media Channel.)
Online journalist Josh Wolf received the Herbert Block Freedom Award at the Guild’s annual Freedom Fund Awards banquet in Washington, D.C. Wolf spent more than seven months in a federal detention center for refusing to turn over a protest video to authorities. His time in jail set a record for a journalist refusing to comply with a subpoena. Wolf’s video shows footage of the 2005 G-8 Summit in San Francisco’s Mission District, during which a police officer suffered a fractured skull. He had shown parts of the video on his website, www.joshwolf.net/blog, but authorities wanted it all, in addition to his testimony.Says TNG-CWA President Linda Foley:
Josh Wolf spent 226 days in jail upholding the principle that journalists should not be investigators for the government.
The Block award is named for a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who died in 2001.
"I want to get our troops home as soon as I possibly can. But, at the same time, I recognize we don't want to bring them out in such a precipitous way that we cause a circumstance that would require us to come back,"
Hi Sam, missyou incredibly!you really became a part of us...Our feelings and the facts were finally being voiced...what's more your answers to the [I'll just call them] 'neo-cons' out there had depth, breadth and always that special insight that you quickly bring out on the subject at hand...ALL this-- and then SO very funny, you take the edge off all this insanity going on...--But now, with this 'new line-up', well, you know how we're feeling... Sam, we have to find a way to get you back and not just for 1 day a week...'wish you and Marc Maron would put together a little comedy club show or something so the audience could see/hear you again....hey,fellow-Bloggers,I started writing list of advertisers but we need to do more...help!!somebody,help!!..
OK I'm back Hey war dog! If you are afraid of Al Quaida why aren't you over there? They will take you even if you are 50 years old -ex con- or mentally ill. You seem to be in shape, which could really help the cause.
Giuliani and McCain agreed they would be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, although McCain said there were plenty of other options before reaching that point.
WD is that a nuke explosion as your icon? What are you so afraid of? Why do you sit and write blogs when you could be doing something constructive, like go over to your local VA Hospital and give some volunteer help for those guys carrying out your mission?
teresa said... OK I'm back Hey war dog! If you are afraid of Al Quaida why aren't you over there? They will take you even if you are 50 years old -ex con- or mentally ill. You seem to be in shape, which could really help the cause.
New Climate Change Report Debunks Key Right-Wing Talking Point On Global Warming Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the third part of its Assessment Report. The first two parts of the report released earlier this year dealt with the science and impacts of climate change. This new part suggests mitigating global warming’s effects can be done at a “modest cost.”
The right-wing has repeatedly advocated against taking bold action to curtail carbon emissions by propagating fears that it would bring down our economy:
Fox News: “Al Gore’s Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our Economy?”
Rush Limbaugh: “[Liberals] would have us destroy our economy and millions of jobs based on pseudoscience.”
James Inhofe: “Global warming is an alarmism. It’s a type of a hoax. The reality is that a cap on carbon is a cap on the economy.”
The report sets a target of reducing global warming gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050. By employing the use of energy efficient methods and by increasing use in the renewable energy area, the IPCC report says there is enormous potential for the cost-effective deployment of energy systems that would help reduce pollution while producing employment gains. According to Bill Hare, one of the lead authors of the report, the cost is manageable:
HARE: Well, over the period to 2030 it’s going to cost about, maximum, I would say about 0.1 percent loss of annual GDP growth globally. I’m not sure that would really be detected in terms of the year-to-year variations in global growth.
“It has been shown for the first time that stopping climate pollution in a very ambitious way does not cost a fortune,” said Stephan Singer of the World Wildlife Fund. “There is no excuse for any government to argue that it is going to cause their economy to collapse.”
WD is that a nuke explosion as your icon? What are you so afraid of? Why do you sit and write blogs when you could be doing something constructive, like go over to your local VA Hospital and give some volunteer help for those guys carrying out your mission?
And this is supposed to help the war effort? Really,go over to the VA hospital and do something right for once. Put your money where your mouth is. Use your brain man. Use your sheer energy that you have to run in circles to go to a VA Hosp and help lift parapalegics out of bed for a bath. Do something! Go see and understand what your "policy" has created.
And this is supposed to help the war effort? Really,go over to the VA hospital and do something right for once. Put your money where your mouth is. Use your brain man. Use your sheer energy that you have to run in circles to go to a VA Hosp and help lift parapalegics out of bed for a bath. Do something! Go see and understand what your "policy" has created.
Waxman: State Department Gags Analyst Who Warned Of Niger Forgery Three months before President Bush uttered his infamous 16 words, claiming there was evidence that Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear weapon, a State Department analyst named Simon Dodge had determined that the evidence for the claim was likely fraudulent.
Dodge emailed his assessment to fellow intelligence analysts in October 2002, and then again in January 2003 (two weeks before Bush’s State of the Union), saying the documents supposedly from Niger were “probably a hoax” and “clearly a forgery.”
According to Oversight and Goverment Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), the State Department is now refusing to let Dodge speak to Waxman’s staff, despite the fact that Dodge has indicated he is “willing to cooperate fully” with the investigation.
In a letter to Condoleezza Rice today, Waxman charges that the State Department is “imped[ing] the Committee’s investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials, including yourself, cited forged evidence in building a case for war against lraq.”
[A] member of your legislative office informed Committee staff that you were prohibiting Mr. Dodge from meeting with Committee investigators. This official claimed that allowing Mr. Dodge to speak with Committee staff would be “inappropriate” because the Committee voted to issue a subpoena to compel your attendance at a hearing on your knowledge of the fabricated evidence.
I assume that your legislative staff was acting without your authorization in this matter. It would be a matter of great concern - as well as an obvious conflict of interest - if you had directed your staff to impede a congressional investigation into matter that may implicate your conduct as National Security Advisor.
The key question, Waxman writes, is whether Rice or any other senior officials “were aware of, or should have been aware of, Mr. Dodge’s assessment.” Apparently Rice doesn’t want us to know the answer.
teresa said... WD is that a nuke explosion as your icon? What are you so afraid of? Why do you sit and write blogs when you could be doing something constructive, like go over to your local VA Hospital and give some volunteer help for those guys carrying out your mission?
That is the crap Rubin was talkin at Kent State that lead to the death of 4 innocent victims...
Yes, by all means. Let's take away the American's right of free speech and assembly. That'll stop the Gaurd from killing people they are supposed to protect.
At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."
Syphilis rise in U.S. gay, bisexual men causes worry
Fri May 4, 2007 1:01pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Syphilis has risen sharply among gay and bisexual men in the United States this decade, driving up the country's rate for the disease and placing these men at higher risk for AIDS, federal health officials say.
Since dropping to the lowest level on record in 2000, the U.S. rate of syphilis, a sexually transmitted bacterial disease, has risen steadily, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said on Friday.
The rate rose five years in a row through 2005, the most recent year for which the CDC had figures.
Gay and bisexual men accounted for 7 percent of syphilis cases in 2000 but more than 60 percent in 2005, CDC experts estimated.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine is working its magic among employees of the nation's biggest telecommunications companies, despite her support for an industry-unfriendly legislative initiative.
The New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate was the top recipient of funds from employees of AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner through the first quarter of 2007. John McCain, who holds a senior position on the Senate committee that oversees the telecom industry, lagged far behind.
Overall, employees of the nation's telecommunications and cable television companies contributed $119,250 to Clinton's campaign. McCain took in $79,300, an analysis of Federal Election Commission records showed.
Since dropping to the lowest level on record in 2000,
[during the Clinton Administration]
the U.S. rate of syphilis, a sexually transmitted bacterial disease, has risen steadily, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said on Friday.
Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats in Egypt where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.
"I don't know which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the secretary of state," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday, regarding the actions of Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki.
The dinner episode Thursday night amid a major regional conference on Iraq perfectly revealed how hard it was to bring together the top diplomats of the two rival nations.
looks like the spirit of john bolton is alive and well at foggy bottom.
what the hell are these people thinking of, tossing out insults like this.
During that period, the rates among women continued to slide — by 53 percent — while rates among men jumped by 62 percent. While syphilis statistics do not identify the gender of the sex partners of infected people, the study authors infer that a large number of those infected — 62 percent in 2003 — are gay or bisexual, in part, because so few women become infected.
To paraphrase Terence McKenna, every civilisation that is in crisis tries to return the 'the last sane moment they ever knew', and for this messed up Republican party, the last sane moment they ever knew, was under Ronald Reagan.
The 1980s - yuppies, shoulder pads, and the biggest market crash since 1921.
Those were the days. The rest of us like to look back to the days of Bill Clinton.
Monica Goodling needs a tissue. Former Gonzales counsel Monica Goodling “told a colleague two months ago her government career probably was over as the matter was about to erupt into a political storm, according to closed-door congressional testimony. Goodling…sobbed for 45 minutes in the office of career Justice Department official David Margolis on March 8 as she related her fears that she would have to quit, according to congressional aides briefed on Margolis’s private testimony to House and Senate investigators.”
If aar still kept Sam, even if they didn't, which was STOOPID, why couldn't Sam do the 3-day Imus slot MSNBC fill-in when their viewers are obviously effing STARVED for good, left-leaning no-bullshit meaty intelligent TALK. Steph did great, SAM WOULD CLEAN UP!
OMG i just turned on this mornings sammy show to hear Barber? who the hell's this guy he sounds just like the Lionel freak ...needlesss to say i had to turn it OFF where is Sam? don't those idiots know a good thing when its right in front of them???? and when does Sammys new show start
At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."
May 4, 2007 3:34 PM
Funny you should mention this...I offer this personal antedote. I have four siblings. Two Democrats (liberal), two Republicans (conservative) and one apolitical.
We grew up poor, my father was self-serving, and my mother worked, when it wasn't the norm, to support the family.
My father died ten years ago and my mother struggles on social security, a small pension, and what I can do to help. The other Dem has a large family with alot of family medical issues. The apolitical is self-absorbed and self-serving as are the Republican siblings who are more well to do and are always blaming mom for their dismal childhoods. One took her in for a couple years so mom could pay rent while they saved for a larger home. Once they no longer needed the extra money, she was out, but they remain in contact for any additional expense because that's what parents are for, while they pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The other's contact with her is by sending her birthday and mother's day presents with a demand to know how she spends the money.
While my Republican sister and brother, staunch conservatives and part of the 28% still supporting Bush, were never hippies maybe they have assumed that program's requisite in support of a change that creates a country and world of darker consequences.
Be careful on your travels, for BushWorld will have dire consequences, you may meet up with those Karmic rewards you think you have now. Remember you will reap what you sow likely when you least expect it.
anybody that watched the reagan seance last night. i've just caught bits and pieces in the top of the hour xm news but it sounds like olbermann was doing a lot of neocon bootlicking. any idea what gives with that?
e.g. there is something about him talking about the republican candidates acting as royalty.
Louisiana State University Student Arrested for Alleged Threat to Kill Hillary Clinton
Friday, May 04, 2007
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana State University student was arrested on Friday after allegedly telling a fellow student he would kill Sen. Hillary Clinton when she visits Baton Rouge this weekend.
Richard Ryan Wargo, 19, is being held on a $1 million bond on counts of terrorizing, communicating false information of planned arson, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clinton, a 2008 presidential candidate, is scheduled to be in Baton Rouge on Saturday to give a speech at the National Conference of Black Mayors.
The arrest warrant for Wargo doesn't not mention the mayors' conference, or give a specific day or time when the threat might be carried out.
Wargo's classmate told an LSU police officer about the threat, according to the warrant.
Hillary Clinton's proposal to repeal the 2002 war authorization is being criticized from both the right and the left. At his on-the-record, off-camera gaggle this morning, deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto called it "a political stunt."
Meanwhile, John Edwards -- who has implicitly criticized Clinton for her refusal to apologize for her war authorization vote -- released this statement today, which casts doubt on Clinton's proposal without naming her. "This is deja vu all over again. We saw it in Vietnam and we saw it earlier this year. We don't need any more non-binding resolutions or big statements; we need to end the war... In 1971, Congress repealed the resolution authorizing the Vietnam War -- and the war continued for four long years until Congress stopped funding it."
VIENNA, Austria — Under fire for stalling a 130-nation nuclear meeting, Iran accused the U.S. on Friday of being the real culprit, as the conference adjourned for the weekend in deadlock over Tehran's opposition to language of the gathering's agenda.
With the dispute in its fifth day, several non-Iranian diplomats at the conference said it could be dissolved without progress by Monday unless differences are resolved.
At issue is Tehran's refusal to accept a phrase calling for the "need for full compliance with" the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
That position has delayed adoption of the agenda since the conference opened Monday. Tehran argues the language could lead to its becoming a target at the meeting because of its refusal to heed U.N. Security Council demands to cease uranium enrichment and other parts of its nuclear program that could be misused to make nuclear weapons.
"If I reduce it to a simple sentence, it's this," said a senior European diplomat. "The Iranians are blocking things."
SIMI VALLEY: Republican presidential hopefuls lambasted Iran in their first head-to-head debate Thursday, with the Islamic Republic accused of launching a “nightmare” quest for nuclear weapons.
One of the party frontrunners, Senator John McCain, accused Iran of sending lethal bomb making equipment, militants and suicide bombers into Iraq and killing US soldiers. “Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We all know that.
Iran continues their efforts to build nuclear weapons,” McCain said in the debate among 10 candidates gathered at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.
“My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organisation and there is a real threat of them doing that,” said McCain, who also called for a more intense US diplomacy to end the showdown.
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who leads opinion polls of the Republican race, admitted that the use of force against Tehran would be “very dangerous” but not as dangerous as a nuclear-armed Iran, and took a swipe at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“It’s the worst nightmare of the Cold War isn’t it? The nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person, an irrational force,” said Giuliani. “Ahmadinejad is clearly irrational.” Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, a long-shot candidate, warned that Iran was led “by a gentleman who believes that he is going to be responsible for the coming of the 12th imam and a guy with a bomb.
Agence-France Presse WASHINGTON, May 4: Iran may have a long range missile capable of striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a senior State Department official has said.
Mr John Rood, the assistant secretary of state for international security and non proliferation, said the weapon could be wholly obtained from North Korea, which had provided Iran with ballistic missiles previously.
The American intelligence community has estimated that Teheran, which has defied UN sanctions to pursue a sensitive nuclear programme, could develop long-range missiles capable of reaching all of Europe and the United States before 2015 if it chooses to do so, he said yesterday.
“Our intelligence estimates are based on projections of when Iran could acquire this capability on its own, perhaps with some foreign assistance. A key determinant how rapidly Iran might progress of course would be that foreign assistance,” Rood told a Congressional hearing.
The NPR station at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has an in-house news magazine program.
Today the program led with the subject of the freeze-zapped trees. So here's the scoop from professionals in the field (or, rather, forest).
The technical term is "False Spring" (not very imaginative, I know). False Springs are tracked by tree rings, mostly from oaks. The tree ring knowledge was derived from the relatively modern era of recorded climatology (and many other botanical sources), then extrapolated onto the years beyond human-recorded climate.
Early flowering oaks suffer more than later flowering oaks even though mere days might be the difference between one group and another. Red oaks flower earlier than White oaks. (This explains why I see the post-freeze White oaks leafing and greening-up while the Reds are lagging.)
The Reds will recover somewhat as time marches closer to summer. Acorn production will be severely reduced. Creatures having acorn-only diets are screwed. They will be dependent mostly upon White oaks and will be forced to travel farther to find food and will be less able to gather and store acorns for winter.
The aforementioned tree rings have an obvious signature indicating a False Spring. Not only are the ring gaps closer together, indicating slow growth, but the cambium cells (of the time) are crushed inward due to the force of freezing from the outside-in. The sap was rising from the roots to fuel the springtime flowering when the freeze hit.
In the past 350 years, northwest Arkansas oaks show signs of twenty False Springs. I'm gonna stick to decades rather than to misquote the correct years: The 1970's, 1950's, 1920's, 1890's were the most recent. The Grand Daddy of them all was in the 1820's which, said the expert, dwarfed the False Spring of 2007 though he further stated that 2007 was a significant event...probably somewhere in the middle between the worst and the least.
I am seeing the browned leaves of the Red oaks beginning to take on a sickly, greenish hue. The experts claim that there will be new flowering...maybe throughout the summer...as the oaks attempt to make up for lost time.
The experts claim that the hardwoods have evolved to deal with False Springs, though previously stressed and weak trees will die over the next few years.
Meanwhile, on a brighter note, my bird feeder is loaded with Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks and has daily visits from Scarlet Tanagers (frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn) and other seasonal visitors. The Pileated Woodpeckers are becoming braver and hanging out closer to my house (the wintertime ice storms caused tree damage that they are not able to resist exploring).
Maybe fewer acorns will result in fewer mice which will result in fewer ticks? My low opinion of ticks rivals War Dog's low opinion of peace activists. (There's a blood-sucking lesson in there somewhere.)
IT IS AMAZING HOW HATEFUL THE LEFT IS. YOU NEVER HEAR SUCH HATRED AS THEY SPEW OVER THE AIR AND HERE IN THIS ROOM. TRULY THIS COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE WHEN IT IS UNDER YOUR CONTROL
HOW CAN JEWISH FOLKS BELIEVE IN ALL THE LEFT WING LIES? THEY SHOULD BE MORE AWAKE WITH ALL THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH DOWN THROUGH HISTORY
JUST WAIT UNTILL YOU HAVE YOUR WAY IN THIS COUNTRY. THE FALL OF THIS COUNTRY WILL BE HARD AND YOU WILL BE WEEPING TO HAVE THIS COUNTRY BACK. SURE IT HAS IT'S FAULTS AND IT ISNT PERFECT BECAUSE HUMANS ARE NEVER PERFECT BUT IT IS GOING TO FALL TO THE LEFTIES AND THAT IS THE END OF GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
Looks like Woofie is re-energized by the Republican "debate" and all the Reaganite happy-talk, which was about as stimulating as a box of stale Ritz and a can o'Easy Cheese.
Here are some chestnuts from when conservatives tested the presidential plausible deniability waters with Bonzo:
"For 18 months now, we have had under way a secret diplomatic initiative to Iran. That initative was undertaken for the simplest and best reasons: to renew a relationship with the nation of Iran; to bring a honorable end to the bloddy six-year war between Iran and Iraq;to eliminate state-spondored terrorism and subversion, and to effect the safe return of all hostages...During the course of our secret discussions, I authorized the transfer of small amounts of defensive weapons and spare parts for defensive systems to Iran....These modest deliveries, taken together could easily fit into a single cargo plane....We did not--repeat--did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we."
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
The Democrats and, by extension, Liberals/Progressives/Independents are a fractured group of people. They always have been. This isn't news. It is nearly universally accepted as fact.
The Republicans and, by extension, Conservatives/Militarists/Libertarians have tended to march in cadence like good little soldiers. Again, this is not news. Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay made careers out of this fact.
What makes the upcoming election interesting is that the Republicans are now as fractured as the Democrats have always been.
Stem cell science has divided the Religious Right. They were previously in lockstep over their single issue; abortion. The evolution/creationism issue has angered learned believers.
Fiscal Conservatives hate the war, the flagging economy and escalating petroleum prices which are linked to the war and the economy and, not incidentally, years of Republican control of the Executive and Legislative branches of government.
Many Conservative-Libertarians are not happy with government surveillance and usurpation of rights.
Conservative parents and grandparents have been touched by dead and maimed kids returning from Iraq.
The Hawks are the only Conservative group still holding itself together, but they have been exposed for the tiny Republican group that they have always been.
The Liberal base hasn't changed; it's as varied and as disorganized as ever. The Conservative base has changed. It is wandering around in a fog, looking for a single, uniting cause and, thus, a uniting leader.
Conservatives cracking on Iraq. Rep. Jack Kingston, “a reliable Bush supporter from Georgia,” said that this week’s vote to override Bush’s veto “could have been the peak, possibly the last statement of House public solidarity with the White House. As the war develops in the next two crucial months, the political solidarity may change.”
last night's debate was in a way a funeral of conservative ideology. This ideology is officially dead, and it was put to rest along side of Ronald Reagan's corps.
Fred Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama, USA, to Ruth Bradley and Fletcher Thompson.[4] He attended the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. In 1959, when Thompson was 17 years old, he and Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey married.
Thompson first attended Florence State College and then Memphis State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science in 1964.
At this time, Fred and Sarah Thompson "...both worked to put Thompson through Vanderbilt and support three kids"[5].
Thompson went on to earn his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1967.
last night's debate was in a way a funeral of conservative ideology. This ideology is officially dead, and it was put to rest along side of Ronald Reagan's corps.
Well, 2 of my coworkers were on vacation this past week...so I worked at the circulation desk all week 8 hrs each day, when usually I work in back for four hours of the day...I'm exhausted....So when I come home to relax & blog..I would prefer, (this week), to read something interestingly uplifting, or just uplifting and/or interesting...Normally I don't pay attention to this back & forth stuff..but you guys were the only ones here right when I was off work, & it was the same when I came home... So even though I know that I'm responsible for how I choose to feel, I decided to express the dismay I felt while reading the blog...
//JUST WAIT UNTILL YOU HAVE YOUR WAY IN THIS COUNTRY. THE FALL OF THIS COUNTRY WILL BE HARD AND YOU WILL BE WEEPING TO HAVE THIS COUNTRY BACK. SURE IT HAS IT'S FAULTS AND IT ISNT PERFECT BECAUSE HUMANS ARE NEVER PERFECT BUT IT IS GOING TO FALL TO THE LEFTIES AND THAT IS THE END OF GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY //
First of all
turn of the TV
Secondly, who is a leftist? Who is a righty?
Dividing everyone up like this is THE DOWNFALL OF THIS COUNTRY! And people who perpetuate the myth of left or right or star bellied sneeches are aiding and abetting the destruction of this country.
How short are people's memories! Before Bush's presidency, people did not label each other that way.
We are Americans. Not Democrats or Republicans. Does it say on your birth certificate that you are a leftists or righty?
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Just wanted to drop a line and say how much I miss Sam Seder. Dave Barber is a complete ass and I have to change the station. Seriously... what is wrong with Air America? Everytime they change a show I enjoy, I listen less and less. Who is making these decisions?
Senators Challenge Bush Administration’s Claim That Sudan Is ‘A Strong Partner In War On Terror’ Last week, the State Department released its 2006 terrorism report, which included this judgment about Sudan: “The Sudanese government was a strong partner in the War on Terror and aggressively pursued terrorist operations directly involving threats to U.S. interests and personnel in Sudan.”
But Sudan remains on the State Department’s list as a state sponsor of terror. And as a result of state-sponsored genocide, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur and 2.5 million more have been forced to flee their homes. On April 18 in a speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Bush criticized the Sudanese government:
Sudan’s government has moved arms to Darfur, conducted bombing raids on villages, they’ve used military vehicles and aircraft that are painted white — which makes them look like those deployed by humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping forces.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Olympia Snow (R-ME), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote a letter today to National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell questioning the basis for the administration’s claim that Sudan “is a strong partner in the war on terror.” Feingold issued the following statement:
The Administration needs to explain why its recent terrorism report described the government of Sudan, a state sponsor of terrorism which has been behind the genocide in Darfur, as a “strong partner in the War on Terror.” As we seek to stop the genocide, it is critical that Congress have all necessary information related to this administration’s policies and priorities in Sudan.
In November 2001, Bush said partners in the war against terror networks would be put to a simple test: “You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.” But today, when asked about the discrepancy in its Sudan policy, White House spokesman Tony Fratto replied: “Look, the situation in Sudan is complicated.”
718: Number of World Bank staffers who have signed a letter expressing concern and calling for a resolution of a crisis involving bank President Paul Wolfowitz. The letter does not explicitly call for Wolfowitz’s resignation, “but wants ‘clear and decisive actions’ to resolve the issue in a way that would illustrate that the institution ‘practices what it preaches’ for good governance and against corruption.”
Alice said... You guys are kinda fucking up my long-awaited weekend... :( May 4, 2007 10:22 PM ---------------------------------- I'm doing my best to turn it around. How's this?...
Three conservative Republicans walk into a bar.
The first one says, "Give me a Powerful Candidate." The bartender says, "I don't know how to make a Powerful Candidate." The first Republican says, "Neither do I."
The second Republican says, "I'll have a Reagan Redux." The bartender shakes his head and says, "I don't know how to make a Reagan Redux." The second Republican says, "Me either."
The third Republican says, "I'll have a double bourbon on the rocks." The bartender says, "THAT I can make. But let me ask you, why on the rocks?" The third Republican says, "If it's good enough for my party, its good enough for me."
As Congress investigates why the Administration made false pre-war claims, Italy’s foremost investigative reporter Carlo Bonini, takes viewers on the trail of the forged intelligence documents purporting that Iraq sought to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.
Bill Moyers on the cost of war.
On Bill Moyers Journal online
Read more from Innocence Project co-director Barry Scheck on the lessons learned from Jerry Miller's story on The Moyers Blog.
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You're right. I think he is bright enough to see what I ignore here. I'm one of those 'create what I want to see' people mostly... & the certain things I love here when I'm not posting what I like, I patiently await... But really, if I what I'm saying is true..I should go to other places to get what I desire from my online experiences. I do sometimes..but this feels like my online homebase...so I stay...Like I said, I'm just very beat tonight and wish now were one of the times that things were posted that would be soothing, pretty, lovely, wonderful, incredible, stunning, interesting, beautiful, joyous, fantastic.....etc...
Perle: ‘I Never Believed Saddam Was Responsible For 9/11′ CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed former Iraq war architect Richard Perle to get his response to accusations by George Tenet that he was advocating an attack against Iraq in the days after 9/11. Perle acknowledged meeting Tenet a week after 9/11 at the White House, but claimed he never conversed with Tenet. Perle then said, “I never believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11.”
But CNN played a clip from 9/16/01 that showed Perle telling the network:
Even if we cannot prove to the standard that we enjoy in our own civil society they are involved, we do know, for example, that Saddam Hussein has ties to Osama bin Laden. That can be documented.
Watch it:
There is more strong evidence that Perle was advocating a war against Iraq shortly after 9/11. As ThinkProgress has noted, Perle signed a letter to President Bush on 9/20/01 that stated the following:
[E]ven if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
Moreover, conservative pundit Robert Novak recalls in a column today:
Over the telephone on Sept. 17, Perle told this column that there were few good targets in Afghanistan but many in Iraq. Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense, was then chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.
After thoroughly trashing Tenet, Perle later in the same interview cited him as a source for a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. “There was a relationship,” Perle said. “It has not only been documented, as I said in the clip. But George Tenet himself has written a letter that indicates this.”
Tenet did indeed write a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2002 claiming an Iraq-al Qaeda relationship. But Tenet recently told Blitzer, “We were sloppy in that letter.”
She basicly told me that Im not really a Christian anymore.
That hurt
What am I supposed to do with that? Out religious her?
no thanks
I hate FOXNEWS. They have successfully destroyed the relationship between my mother and I. And I don't even bring up political things. I'd rather just talk to her.
She basicly told me that Im not really a Christian anymore.
That hurt
What am I supposed to do with that? Out religious her?
no thanks
I hate FOXNEWS. They have successfully destroyed the relationship between my mother and I. And I don't even bring up political things. I'd rather just talk to her.
-conbo
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I haven't been able to talk politics, religion or current events with my folks in over a decade other than to occasionally harmlessly poke fun at each other. It makes things tough sometimes--as these are topics that I enjoy discussing with people--but, we still manage to have a substantive conversation once in a while
Just don't bring this shit into your family. It's not worth it.
Well, I'm watching the Rocky/Hannity Smackdown... I did not come up with that name... the local Fox affiliate carrying the debate did.
We've got some scarrrrrry people here in Utah. Listening to the audience I'm dumbfounded that so many people still link 9/11 and Iraq. Not the new "The Iraq war is part of the whole war on terror" argument... just that Iraq is guilty of the act. Wow. I live amongst very stupid people.
Rocky's getting booed a lot, but, also has a strong following there. But, we knew the Fannity's would be there in droves. He's up in a minute.
What's funny though is that if you were screaming at a line of Republicans you'd probably have no problem telling them how stupid you think they are, and they you...but it's different to be in a room with Republican family members...
I guess I'm speaking for myself...I wouldn't tell my mother off (either of them), like I would a "stranger"...I mean c'mon her husband wore a "Boycott Hanoi Jane" baseball hat when we went out...!
"I guess I'm speaking for myself...I wouldn't tell my mother off (either of them), like I would a "stranger"...I mean c'mon her husband wore a "Boycott Hanoi Jane" baseball hat when we went out...!"
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I'll take that one further alice...
In my own case I wouldn't tell either party off (a stranger or a parent), but I'd definitely think the stranger is a desperately ignorant jackass, whereas with my mom and/or dad I just accept that that's what they believe and nothing I say or do is going to change that at this point -- without ever getting to the point of thinking them to be ignorant.
Admittedly, I have come close to that point a few times in the past few years.
War Dog said...Another satisfied customer..Liberal and Joy just don't seem to mesh...But oh well... I can't understand why.... May 4, 2007 11:24 PM ---------------------------------- If you were joyous you'd be spending this time with your friends, online or otherwise.
Instead, you spend your time here inviting disgust.
How about them RV buddies? Them bike buddies? Don't you think that they are yearning for your joyous company about now? ---- You could not possibly be more transparent. Stop embarrassing yourself. Go away. Try to form a friendship. It's never too late.
I probably wouldn't tell off a strangr either, anonymous..But when I do say something to a stranger, it's usually, "I think you dropped this."...when I see them littering....that's about it...or spitting..spitting on the planet bothers me so when I see it, I say, "Ew. That's not only disgusting to see, it's disrespectful to your planet"...even though I don't really know if it is or not...I just know it makes me upset...
How about them RV buddies? Them bike buddies? Don't you think that they are yearning for your joyous company about now? ---- You could not possibly be more transparent. Stop embarrassing yourself. Go away. Try to form a friendship. It's never too late.
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1 – 200 of 437 Newer› Newest»greetings sam. seems like the news gets worse and more worse everyday. january 2009 can't come fast enough.
Miss you Sam, get back on the air soon!
Howdy Sam..
How is the vacation going..
You getting all relaxed now..???
You need to get right with Hillary when you get back on the air, Sam...
Hillary can be your best friend..
You and the DLC need to have a little "come to Jesus" meeting..
Better to get on the bandwagon than to get run over by it..!!!!
Man, Sam, that Barber guy sucks so badly he would not believe the evidence people called in giving him about the incompetence of Guilianni and that he ran New York City as a tyrant. This Barber guy is fucked up! He was so stubborn and kept saying I cannot believe any of this and wow theres a lot of people who bizzarely hate Guilianni. sigh. I'm guessing he's in his 60s cause he says things like Top Banana! I cannot believe this freak of a man is on a station like AIR AMERICA. WHERE did they get this clown from?! He sounds like Nathan Lane. To have someone as amazing as you on to this wack job is just unbelievably wrong and a slap in the face to you and the rest of us listeners. I best complain to the powers at air america pronto!
2008 Republicans back war
Sounds like the Repub's need a "come to Jesus" meeting... or a national intervention called the 2008 elections.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/pl_nm/usa_politics_republicans_dc_10
2008 Republicans back war
Sounds like the Repub's need a "come to Jesus" meeting... or a national intervention called the 2008 elections.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/pl_nm/usa_politics_republicans_dc_10
May 4, 2007 1:42 PM
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When the inevitable terrorist attack comes to the United States..
Who is it who will be positioned to take the blame..
Who is it who will looked to for defense and retaliation..??
The day will come when Al Qaeda want to bring the message back to the states...
At which point all bunch of politicians are going to be hung out to dry..!!!!!
And the endless war in Iraq prevents this "inevitable terrorist attack" exactly how?
donn, donn, donn
its because we've got to fight them over there...
sorry, couldn't resist. there is no connection.
yeah, bbb, I was waiting for WD to come back with that tired old non-sequitur.
Donn said...
And the endless war in Iraq prevents this "inevitable terrorist attack" exactly how?
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How many times have we been hit after 911..??
Now if we were being hit daily, I would see you have a point..
But clearly a Terrorist can not be a 2 places a once..
At the same time..
Our Battles in both Iraq, and Afghanistan have demonstrated the diminishing returns gained from attacking the U.S Mainland ....
Of course we can not quit now..
Iran has not lost anything by being a Sponsor of Terrorism..
There is work yet to be done...
WD is feverishly flipping through his book of wingnut talking points...
I'll pay you a penny to leave!
Peter B. Collins is sitting in for Thom.
This is great. I hope Thom is back soon, but Peter B. is a great host too.
Alice said...
You can download youtube videos to your hard drive with this link:
http://www.youtubex.com
May 4, 2007 2:12 PM
Waxman cautions Rice for 'hindering' Iraq intelligence investigation Michael Roston
Published: Friday May 4, 2007
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The Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee cautioned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice against hindering investigation into the intelligence used to build the case for the invasion of Iraq. The warning came because the committee was blocked from taking a deposition from a State Department intelligence analyst who had suggested in 2003 that fears of Iraq's nuclear program were based on a hoax.
"I am writing to urge you to instruct your staff, particularly officials in your legislative affairs office, not to impede the Committee's investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials, including yourself, cited forged evidence in building a case for war against Iraq," wrote Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in a letter released Friday.
The Committee had written to Simon Dodge, a nuclear weapons analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, who had warned the Intelligence Community in Jan. 2003 that allegations of Iraq seeking uranium from Niger were "probably a hoax" and "clearly a forgery." Dodge agreed to fully cooperate with the investigation.
But the committee had been blocked from deposing Dodge by the State Department's Bureau of Legislative Affairs after they asserted it "would be 'inappropriate' because the Committee voted to issue a subpoena to compel your attendance at a hearing on your knowledge of the fabricated evidence," the California Democrat wrote.
Waxman urged Rice to make Dodge available by May 9, writing, "I trust you will cooperate in this matter and instruct your staff to cease further interference with the Committee's inquiry."
The Oversight Committee Chairman also sought a variety of documents from Rice related to the investigation which he said that she had "failed to provide."
The full letter can read at the Committee's website.
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hey wd, how do you get a job getting paid to blog? uncle karl paying you?
The War Dog Plan calls for regime change in the Axis of Evil...
Local law enforcement is the key to preventing terrorism..
Just as was the case in Saudi Arabia the other day..
Nip it in the bud!!!
But you can't expect that if the Government is backing the Terrorists..
And you sure can't have them building Nuclear Weapons...!!!
"How many times have we been hit after 911..??"
last count, at least 3362 times, but that is just the fatal hits. Closer to 50,000 hits total.
"clearly a Terrorist can not be a 2 places a once.."
Just as clearly, our Military cannot be in two places at once. And it is breaking under the strain of referring a civil war.
"Our Battles in both Iraq, and Afghanistan have demonstrated the diminishing returns gained from attacking the U.S Mainland"
Oh really? Just ask Bin Laden... you can you know. He is still alive and free. And now with the Iraq War is just a recuitment poster for jihadists.
"There is work yet to be done..."
Yes, and we will be closer to finishing it, once the American people further marginalize lunatics like you.
hey wd, how do you get a job getting paid to blog? uncle karl paying you?
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Sam might pay you if you are good enough..!!!
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/05/04/online-journalist-honored-for-upholding-freedom/
Online Journalist Honored for Upholding Freedom
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” Last night, members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA (TNG-CWA) honored several of their peers who have demonstrated the power of journalists to make social change. May 3 marked World Press Freedom Day, with the focus this year on violence against journalists. (If you’re concerned about freedom of the press, check out coverage and get resources at Media Channel.)
Online journalist Josh Wolf received the Herbert Block Freedom Award at the Guild’s annual Freedom Fund Awards banquet in Washington, D.C. Wolf spent more than seven months in a federal detention center for refusing to turn over a protest video to authorities. His time in jail set a record for a journalist refusing to comply with a subpoena. Wolf’s video shows footage of the 2005 G-8 Summit in San Francisco’s Mission District, during which a police officer suffered a fractured skull. He had shown parts of the video on his website, www.joshwolf.net/blog, but authorities wanted it all, in addition to his testimony.Says TNG-CWA President Linda Foley:
Josh Wolf spent 226 days in jail upholding the principle that journalists should not be investigators for the government.
The Block award is named for a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who died in 2001.
I like what Waxman is doing. His tack could end the same place as HR 333.
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Waxman cautions Rice for 'hindering' Iraq intelligence investigation Michael Roston
Published: Friday May 4, 2007
Romney said.
"I want to get our troops home as soon as I possibly can. But, at the same time, I recognize we don't want to bring them out in such a precipitous way that we cause a circumstance that would require us to come back,"
wd If I pay you, will you go away?
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Woman Killed, Boy Injured in Brooklyn Stabbing
jbenet said...
wd If I pay you, will you go away?
May 4, 2007 2:27 PM
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Perhaps..
I am for sale..
But I am not inexpensive...
What can you afford..???
Hi Sam, missyou incredibly!you really became a part of us...Our feelings and the facts were finally being voiced...what's more your answers to the [I'll just call them] 'neo-cons' out there had depth, breadth and always that special insight that you quickly bring out on the subject at hand...ALL this-- and then SO very funny, you take the edge off all this insanity going on...--But now, with this 'new line-up', well, you know how we're feeling... Sam, we have to find a way to get you back and not just for 1 day a week...'wish you and Marc Maron would put together a little comedy club show or something so the audience could see/hear you again....hey,fellow-Bloggers,I started writing list of advertisers but we need to do more...help!!somebody,help!!..
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the leader of the Republican pack in national polls, said:
"We should never retreat in the face of terrorism. Terrible mistake."
OK I'm back Hey war dog! If you are afraid of Al Quaida why aren't you over there? They will take you even if you are 50 years old -ex con- or mentally ill. You seem to be in shape, which could really help the cause.
wd you might be interested
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Office of the Press Secretary
March 1, 2007
President BushAnnounces Butterfly Initiative in Louisiana
Lil Dizzy's Café
New Orleans, Louisiana
"It is a proven scientific fact that Butterflies start hurricanes."
"In June 2005, President Bush launched the President's Butterfly Initiative,
a five-year $1.2 billion program to combat Butterflies in 15 of the hardest-hit African nations.
Already, PBI is saving lives and spreading hope.
Aid from the American people -- that's the American taxpayers -- has reached more than 6 million Africans.
This year, 30 million more will receive lifesaving medicines, sprays and nets as the program expands.
The Butterfly Initiative also calls on developed countries,
private foundations and volunteer groups to help reduce
suffering and death caused by Butterflies. "
-- President George W. Bush
February 16, 2007
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Giuliani and McCain agreed they would be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, although McCain said there were plenty of other options before reaching that point.
WD is that a nuke explosion as your icon? What are you so afraid of? Why do you sit and write blogs when you could be doing something constructive, like go over to your local VA Hospital and give some volunteer help for those guys carrying out your mission?
War Dog said...
I am for sale..
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The question is, why peddle your wares here if no one is buying?
teresa said...
OK I'm back Hey war dog! If you are afraid of Al Quaida why aren't you over there? They will take you even if you are 50 years old -ex con- or mentally ill. You seem to be in shape, which could really help the cause.
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I am trained...
My AFSC is Nuclear Weapons..
I have yet to see the need to use Nukes in the War on Terror..
I spent 4 year in the Air Force..
But I am for a Universal Draft..
Age 18...
Everyone goes..
Either Military or Civil Duty...
After which the Military gets a Full Ride to College and the Civil 2 years..
You are how old..???
Wado, you did not answer my question:
How many Mothers and Children must die before we lose the supposed "moral highground"?
The question is, why peddle your wares here if no one is buying?
May 4, 2007 2:36 PM
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My customers buy from me..
But Sam might be able to afford me..
He does have some BIG Hollywood money and all...
New Climate Change Report Debunks Key Right-Wing Talking Point On Global Warming
Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the third part of its Assessment Report. The first two parts of the report released earlier this year dealt with the science and impacts of climate change. This new part suggests mitigating global warming’s effects can be done at a “modest cost.”
The right-wing has repeatedly advocated against taking bold action to curtail carbon emissions by propagating fears that it would bring down our economy:
Fox News: “Al Gore’s Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our Economy?”
Rush Limbaugh: “[Liberals] would have us destroy our economy and millions of jobs based on pseudoscience.”
James Inhofe: “Global warming is an alarmism. It’s a type of a hoax. The reality is that a cap on carbon is a cap on the economy.”
The report sets a target of reducing global warming gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050. By employing the use of energy efficient methods and by increasing use in the renewable energy area, the IPCC report says there is enormous potential for the cost-effective deployment of energy systems that would help reduce pollution while producing employment gains. According to Bill Hare, one of the lead authors of the report, the cost is manageable:
HARE: Well, over the period to 2030 it’s going to cost about, maximum, I would say about 0.1 percent loss of annual GDP growth globally. I’m not sure that would really be detected in terms of the year-to-year variations in global growth.
“It has been shown for the first time that stopping climate pollution in a very ambitious way does not cost a fortune,” said Stephan Singer of the World Wildlife Fund. “There is no excuse for any government to argue that it is going to cause their economy to collapse.”
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A draft....... Pfffffft.
70% of Americans are against the War.
Do you want Bush to get hung from a bridge Wado?
teresa said...
WD is that a nuke explosion as your icon? What are you so afraid of? Why do you sit and write blogs when you could be doing something constructive, like go over to your local VA Hospital and give some volunteer help for those guys carrying out your mission?
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I actually make money while I do this..
I am in a room full of graphics equipment..
I turn film into money..!!!
Alice said:You can download youtube videos to your hard drive with this link:
http://www.youtubex.com
Thanks Alice :)
Saudia Arabia is the backer of the "terrorists" Are you saying you would like to Nuke Saudia Arabia?
May 4, 2007 2:40 PM
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Saudi Arabia is a problem..
But not THE problem..
They have just as much to lose as we do..
How have you been Robert..??
Are you back in school...
Are thing going well for you I hope..!!
WD said: actually make money while I do this..
I am in a room full of graphics equipment..
I turn film into money
And this is supposed to help the war effort? Really,go over to the VA hospital and do something right for once. Put your money where your mouth is. Use your brain man. Use your sheer energy that you have to run in circles to go to a VA Hosp and help lift parapalegics out of bed for a bath. Do something! Go see and understand what your "policy" has created.
When the inevitable terrorist attack comes to the United States..
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So, in other words, you're already admitting defeat and failure?
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But clearly a Terrorist can not be a 2 places a once..
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There's only one terrorist left in the whole wide world? Shit! Didn't we just see the rpoert that he was killed in Iraq yesterday?
YAY! Victory is ours!!
blah blah blah said...
hey wd, how do you get a job getting paid to blog? uncle karl paying you?
And this is supposed to help the war effort? Really,go over to the VA hospital and do something right for once. Put your money where your mouth is. Use your brain man. Use your sheer energy that you have to run in circles to go to a VA Hosp and help lift parapalegics out of bed for a bath. Do something! Go see and understand what your "policy" has created.
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Just as with my Military Service..
I have been there and done that..
But yet, I wonder..
Have you done that...
Have given years of your life to your country..
Your suggestion is worthwhile..
But I wonder if you follow it..!!!
mmrules said...
blah blah blah said...
hey wd, how do you get a job getting paid to blog? uncle karl paying you?
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I must ask...
Is George Soros pay you to blog today...???
Surly you are not without income..
I work while I blog..
That is the beauty of America...
The greatest country on earth.!!!!
Ron Paul, the only anti-Iraq War at the Republican debate leads the pack with 31%!
Jeese, war dog, even your own party thinks your an lunatic!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18436681/
Quit lying Wado. You ran to the Airforce to stay out of combat.
Yes, things are going good for me :)
Anyway, I took care of severely handicapped mentally and physically retarded people for years. Fed em, bathed em, toileted em........
Now why I would want young American kids to have to be taken care of like that is beyond me.
Maybe if you realized what some of these guys have to go through you wouldn't look at it like it was a game.
So, in other words, you're already admitting defeat and failure
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The War is not yet won..
Counter-attack is part of war..
The Cut-n-Crowd invites it..
While at the same time they give the Terrorists motivation to struggle on despite huge losses..!!
Is George Soros pay you to blog today...???
nope. day trade. you know, buy high, sell low.
blog in one window. aar/xm on the stereo, and market screens on the other monitor.
liberal capitalism. yea...
Jeese, war dog, even your own party thinks your an lunatic!
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As a Democrat I understand that not all other Democrats agree with me..
But...
We did have enough vote to sustain Presidents Bush's Veto the other day...
I feel we have enough Democrat votes to maintain a Conservative Majority...
And that is what counts..!!!
My Uncle was talking to a WW2 Vet who fought in Alaska.......
And he said if these guys keep it up there is going to be a Revolution.
day trade. you know, buy high, sell low.
blog in one window. aar/xm on the stereo, and market screens on the other monitor.
liberal capitalism. yea...
May 4, 2007 3:02 PM
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wow, my hat is off to you..!!!
I am afraid I am more Conservative..
I only invest in my own business...
its friday, ya bastids.
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Woohoo!
It's Friday, ya Bastards!
Bounce yer Boobies everybody!
Woohoo!
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War Dog is an egotistical ass that doesn't care about anything but how full his wallet is.
May the Karma God give you your just rewards!
GBC, your on!
My Uncle was talking to a WW2 Vet who fought in Alaska.......
And he said if these guys keep it up there is going to be a Revolution.
May 4, 2007 3:04 PM
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And then what Robert?
What do you do next?
May the Karma God give you your just rewards!
May 4, 2007 3:06 PM
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The Karma God has indeed treated me well..
I hope to live another 50 years..
And Prosper..!!!
Waxman: State Department Gags Analyst Who Warned Of Niger Forgery
Three months before President Bush uttered his infamous 16 words, claiming there was evidence that Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear weapon, a State Department analyst named Simon Dodge had determined that the evidence for the claim was likely fraudulent.
Dodge emailed his assessment to fellow intelligence analysts in October 2002, and then again in January 2003 (two weeks before Bush’s State of the Union), saying the documents supposedly from Niger were “probably a hoax” and “clearly a forgery.”
According to Oversight and Goverment Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), the State Department is now refusing to let Dodge speak to Waxman’s staff, despite the fact that Dodge has indicated he is “willing to cooperate fully” with the investigation.
In a letter to Condoleezza Rice today, Waxman charges that the State Department is “imped[ing] the Committee’s investigation into why President Bush and other senior Administration officials, including yourself, cited forged evidence in building a case for war against lraq.”
[A] member of your legislative office informed Committee staff that you were prohibiting Mr. Dodge from meeting with Committee investigators. This official claimed that allowing Mr. Dodge to speak with Committee staff would be “inappropriate” because the Committee voted to issue a subpoena to compel your attendance at a hearing on your knowledge of the fabricated evidence.
I assume that your legislative staff was acting without your authorization in this matter. It would be a matter of great concern - as well as an obvious conflict of interest - if you had directed your staff to impede a congressional investigation into matter that may implicate your conduct as National Security Advisor.
The key question, Waxman writes, is whether Rice or any other senior officials “were aware of, or should have been aware of, Mr. Dodge’s assessment.” Apparently Rice doesn’t want us to know the answer.
LINK
The Karma God has indeed treated me well..
I hope to live another 50 years..
And Prosper..!!!
Don't be smug WD, it may come back to bite you!!
I am not a big Revolution Fan, Robert...
That is the crap Rubin was talkin at Kent State that lead to the death of 4 innocent victims...
The Government well always be better armed if not better trained..
I recommend you stick with the ballot box..
The Cut-n-Crowd invites it..
Cut-n-Crowd? That's a new one.
You really gotta lay off the booze so early in the afternoon.
You really gotta lay off the booze so early in the afternoon.
May 4, 2007 3:14 PM
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I limit myself to a glass of red wine with dinner..
Are you still working in a bar..??
teresa said...
WD is that a nuke explosion as your icon? What are you so afraid of? Why do you sit and write blogs when you could be doing something constructive, like go over to your local VA Hospital and give some volunteer help for those guys carrying out your mission?
Another Question WD dosen't really answer.
Tonid said : "Don't be smug WD, it may come back to bite you!!"
Just read what he writes everyday. The man has already been beaten down mentally, and the kool aid he drinks just keeps rotting him from within.
Soon he will die alone, friendless and unloved.
Kind of sad.
That is the crap Rubin was talkin at Kent State that lead to the death of 4 innocent victims...
Yes, by all means. Let's take away the American's right of free speech and assembly. That'll stop the Gaurd from killing people they are supposed to protect.
WD defends against the dispair that is his life..
"I have been married for 30 years.."
Yes, WD, but your wife hates you.
"I plan to travel the us for next 10 years.."
Jumping those freight cars can be awfully tough on thosde old bones of yours WD.
"Do you have a plan..??"
Yes, WD. I do. To never become the shell of a man that you are now.
Jobless rate rises as hiring slows
WD defends against the dispair that is his life..
"I have been married for 30 years.."
Yes, WD, but your wife hates you.
"I plan to travel the us for next 10 years.."
Jumping those freight cars can be awfully tough on thosde old bones of yours WD.
"Do you have a plan..??"
Yes, WD. I do. To never become the shell of a man that you are now.
May 4, 2007 3:26 PM
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Are you a member of the Majority Report Photo site..???
All my pic are posted there..
Have fun..
Yes, by all means. Let's take away the American's right of free speech and assembly.
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At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."
Are you still working in a bar..??
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I work at a bar?
Oh. You're just making shit up again like always. Carry on.
Syphilis rise in U.S. gay, bisexual men causes worry
Fri May 4, 2007 1:01pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Syphilis has risen sharply among gay and bisexual men in the United States this decade, driving up the country's rate for the disease and placing these men at higher risk for AIDS, federal health officials say.
Since dropping to the lowest level on record in 2000, the U.S. rate of syphilis, a sexually transmitted bacterial disease, has risen steadily, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said on Friday.
The rate rose five years in a row through 2005, the most recent year for which the CDC had figures.
Gay and bisexual men accounted for 7 percent of syphilis cases in 2000 but more than 60 percent in 2005, CDC experts estimated.
were they really reading from revelations at the national day of prayer yesterday, or is randi having some fun?
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I always liked Bill and Hill because they know how to do business..
Not that big business will expect anything in return once Hillary is elected...
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Hillary Calls on Telecom for Big Campaign Cash
Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine is working its magic among employees of the nation's biggest telecommunications companies, despite her support for an industry-unfriendly legislative initiative.
The New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate was the top recipient of funds from employees of AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner through the first quarter of 2007. John McCain, who holds a senior position on the Senate committee that oversees the telecom industry, lagged far behind.
Overall, employees of the nation's telecommunications and cable television companies contributed $119,250 to Clinton's campaign. McCain took in $79,300, an analysis of Federal Election Commission records showed.
FOUR DEAD IN O HI O !!!
This one works for google's vids too...
http://keepvid.com/
Since dropping to the lowest level on record in 2000,
[during the Clinton Administration]
the U.S. rate of syphilis, a sexually transmitted bacterial disease, has risen steadily, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said on Friday.
The rate rose five years in a row through 2005
[during the Bush Administration]
GBC...this right wing fellow's rectum is SCREAMING out for some action!
Tell him how he can get it slammed without catching AIDS.
The rate rose five years in a row through 2005
looks like abstinence education is working just fine...
from AP:
Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats in Egypt where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.
"I don't know which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the secretary of state," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday, regarding the actions of Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki.
The dinner episode Thursday night amid a major regional conference on Iraq perfectly revealed how hard it was to bring together the top diplomats of the two rival nations.
looks like the spirit of john bolton is alive and well at foggy bottom.
what the hell are these people thinking of, tossing out insults like this.
During that period, the rates among women continued to slide — by 53 percent — while rates among men jumped by 62 percent. While syphilis statistics do not identify the gender of the sex partners of infected people, the study authors infer that a large number of those infected — 62 percent in 2003 — are gay or bisexual, in part, because so few women become infected.
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/hotnews/75h16444784070.html
(Listening to Randi Rhodes...)
To paraphrase Terence McKenna, every civilisation that is in crisis tries to return the 'the last sane moment they ever knew', and for this messed up Republican party, the last sane moment they ever knew, was under Ronald Reagan.
The 1980s - yuppies, shoulder pads, and the biggest market crash since 1921.
Those were the days. The rest of us like to look back to the days of Bill Clinton.
War Pup's Pic
Randi talked about Terrence McKenna or that's you, I?
't was I. :) Randi just talked about the Republican's desire to return to the days of Ronald Reagan.
Wasn't there a Cold War going on then?
Yes...& then, more than now, I was very scared of nukes...
Monica Goodling needs a tissue. Former Gonzales counsel Monica Goodling “told a colleague two months ago her government career probably was over as the matter was about to erupt into a political storm, according to closed-door congressional testimony. Goodling…sobbed for 45 minutes in the office of career Justice Department official David Margolis on March 8 as she related her fears that she would have to quit, according to congressional aides briefed on Margolis’s private testimony to House and Senate investigators.”
Makes me want to cry.....NOT!
Have to leave for work.
Later Sederites!!
get yer effing war on
GOP 2008!
Scud Bush!
HEY!
If aar still kept Sam, even if they didn't, which was STOOPID, why couldn't Sam do the 3-day Imus slot MSNBC fill-in when their viewers are obviously effing STARVED for good, left-leaning no-bullshit meaty intelligent TALK. Steph did great, SAM WOULD CLEAN UP!
Barber's discussion pushing for total elimination of the "pitbull" breed, was absolutely fucking stupid.
I hope he gets mauled by a pomeranian.
OMG i just turned on this mornings sammy show to hear Barber? who the hell's this guy he sounds just like the Lionel freak ...needlesss to say i had to turn it OFF
where is Sam?
don't those idiots know a good thing when its right in front of them????
and when does Sammys new show start
I want Sammy back to weekdays starting NOW
Sam, I hate weekday mornings so much now - I miss your show - please find a way to get back on - somewhere, somehow!!! WE NEED YOU BAD
Sam I miss you!
I hope you're OK. I can't wait for Sundays.
(Listening to Rachel...)
On killing things with a dull axe...
They're psychopaths. This is a race between Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers.
I'm surprised the Repubs even talk. They might as well show up in hockeymasks.
SEDER and STAFF
where is the update on the sunday show? Post something. WAKE UP.
NRA Wants To Arm Terrorists
"would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat"
Jeese, where is the NRA on "suspected" terrorists losing every other constitutional right?
Waaah. I miss Seder. Waaah.
The "I haaaave a baaazzzneeeeesssss lady"
*"I haaave a baazneees" lady
War Dog said...
Yes, by all means. Let's take away the American's right of free speech and assembly.
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At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."
May 4, 2007 3:34 PM
Funny you should mention this...I offer this personal antedote. I have four siblings. Two Democrats (liberal), two Republicans (conservative) and one apolitical.
We grew up poor, my father was self-serving, and my mother worked, when it wasn't the norm, to support the family.
My father died ten years ago and my mother struggles on social security, a small pension, and what I can do to help. The other Dem has a large family with alot of family medical issues. The apolitical is self-absorbed and self-serving as are the Republican siblings who are more well to do and are always blaming mom for their dismal childhoods. One took her in for a couple years so mom could pay rent while they saved for a larger home. Once they no longer needed the extra money, she was out, but they remain in contact for any additional expense because that's what parents are for, while they pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The other's contact with her is by sending her birthday and mother's day presents with a demand to know how she spends the money.
While my Republican sister and brother, staunch conservatives and part of the 28% still supporting Bush, were never hippies maybe they have assumed that program's requisite in support of a change that creates a country and world of darker consequences.
Be careful on your travels, for BushWorld will have dire consequences, you may meet up with those Karmic rewards you think you have now. Remember you will reap what you sow likely when you least expect it.
I am En Fuego!!!
anybody that watched the reagan seance last night. i've just caught bits and pieces in the top of the hour xm news but it sounds like olbermann was doing a lot of neocon bootlicking. any idea what gives with that?
e.g. there is something about him talking about the republican candidates acting as royalty.
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But Hillary took care of this guy...!!!
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Louisiana State University Student Arrested for Alleged Threat to Kill Hillary Clinton
Friday, May 04, 2007
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana State University student was arrested on Friday after allegedly telling a fellow student he would kill Sen. Hillary Clinton when she visits Baton Rouge this weekend.
Richard Ryan Wargo, 19, is being held on a $1 million bond on counts of terrorizing, communicating false information of planned arson, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clinton, a 2008 presidential candidate, is scheduled to be in Baton Rouge on Saturday to give a speech at the National Conference of Black Mayors.
The arrest warrant for Wargo doesn't not mention the mayors' conference, or give a specific day or time when the threat might be carried out.
Wargo's classmate told an LSU police officer about the threat, according to the warrant.
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No matter what Hillary says, it's never good enough for them...
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Hillary hit from both sides
Posted: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:49
PM by Mark Murray
Categories: White House,
Democrats, 2008
From NBC's Mark Murray and John Yang
Hillary Clinton's proposal to repeal the 2002 war authorization is being criticized from both the right and the left. At his on-the-record, off-camera gaggle this morning, deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto called it "a political stunt."
Meanwhile, John Edwards -- who has implicitly criticized Clinton for her refusal to apologize for her war authorization vote -- released this statement today, which casts doubt on Clinton's proposal without naming her. "This is deja vu all over again. We saw it in Vietnam and we saw it earlier this year. We don't need any more non-binding resolutions or big statements; we need to end the war... In 1971, Congress repealed the resolution authorizing the Vietnam War -- and the war continued for four long years until Congress stopped funding it."
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Iran continues to stall for time..
In the end, there will be only one way to deal with Iran..
Everyone is learning this step by step...
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Iran won't budge at nuclear conference
By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria — Under fire for stalling a 130-nation nuclear meeting, Iran accused the U.S. on Friday of being the real culprit, as the conference adjourned for the weekend in deadlock over Tehran's opposition to language of the gathering's agenda.
With the dispute in its fifth day, several non-Iranian diplomats at the conference said it could be dissolved without progress by Monday unless differences are resolved.
At issue is Tehran's refusal to accept a phrase calling for the "need for full compliance with" the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
That position has delayed adoption of the agenda since the conference opened Monday. Tehran argues the language could lead to its becoming a target at the meeting because of its refusal to heed U.N. Security Council demands to cease uranium enrichment and other parts of its nuclear program that could be misused to make nuclear weapons.
"If I reduce it to a simple sentence, it's this," said a senior European diplomat. "The Iranians are blocking things."
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R E G I O N: Republican presidential candidates rap Iran
* Ahmadinejad says Iran’s nuclear ‘rights’ non-negotiable
SIMI VALLEY: Republican presidential hopefuls lambasted Iran in their first head-to-head debate Thursday, with the Islamic Republic accused of launching a “nightmare” quest for nuclear weapons.
One of the party frontrunners, Senator John McCain, accused Iran of sending lethal bomb making equipment, militants and suicide bombers into Iraq and killing US soldiers. “Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We all know that.
Iran continues their efforts to build nuclear weapons,” McCain said in the debate among 10 candidates gathered at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.
“My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organisation and there is a real threat of them doing that,” said McCain, who also called for a more intense US diplomacy to end the showdown.
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who leads opinion polls of the Republican race, admitted that the use of force against Tehran would be “very dangerous” but not as dangerous as a nuclear-armed Iran, and took a swipe at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“It’s the worst nightmare of the Cold War isn’t it? The nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person, an irrational force,” said Giuliani. “Ahmadinejad is clearly irrational.” Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, a long-shot candidate, warned that Iran was led “by a gentleman who believes that he is going to be responsible for the coming of the 12th imam and a guy with a bomb.
War Dog is a notorious poor speller.
He meant Reagan MISTAKE!
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Iran will never be allowed to build a Nuclear Weapon...
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‘Iran may target USA, Europe in eight yrs’
Agence-France Presse
WASHINGTON, May 4: Iran may have a long range missile capable of striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a senior State Department official has said.
Mr John Rood, the assistant secretary of state for international security and non proliferation, said the weapon could be wholly obtained from North Korea, which had provided Iran with ballistic missiles previously.
The American intelligence community has estimated that Teheran, which has defied UN sanctions to pursue a sensitive nuclear programme, could develop long-range missiles capable of reaching all of Europe and the United States before 2015 if it chooses to do so, he said yesterday.
“Our intelligence estimates are based on projections of when Iran could acquire this capability on its own, perhaps with some foreign assistance. A key determinant how rapidly Iran might progress of course would be that foreign assistance,” Rood told a Congressional hearing.
REAGAN MYSTIQUE!!!!!!!!!
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War Dog is such an imbecile.
Guard your buttholes. War Dog is here.
I heard a rumor that Sam is coming back to do the Sam Seder Show in the morning. Is this true?
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Wow, everyone here sure gets upset when you talk about Reagan's greatness..
Poor Jimmy blew a fuse this morning..
He had a whole list of crimes that the Internet Claims Ronnie committed..!!
I always thought everyone understood and accepted that Reagan is on every Top President List..
I heard a rumor that Sam is coming back to do the Sam Seder Show in the morning. Is this true?
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HE will on Sunday afternoon starting in 2 weeks..
Don't know the exact time slot..
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Fred Thompson is on Fox talking about Reagan right now..
Lots of folks think Fred will be the next Reagan...
I look forward to him joining the field..
Lots of great Conservatives running this year..!!!
REAGAN MYSTIQUE!!!!!!!!!
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War Dog is such an asshole!
aphex twin - petiatilcxhtdui
Ronaldus Maximus if my favorite topic..
So if you want to help Promote his Name..
I am all for it..
I can't understand how anyone could feel differently..!!!
Lots of folks think Fred will be the next Reagan...
May 4, 2007 9:12 PM
Lot's of folks think llama shit tastes good, too!
So the fuck what?
REAGAN MYSTIQUE!!!!!!!!!
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You kill me with this crazy talk shit!
Ronaldus Maximus??????????
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Well I like it too..!!!
Reagan was the ideal Conservative President..
Respected and Beloved by both parties..
And the way he Handled the Soviet Union was masterful...
Without firing a shot...
You should love that...!!!
Respected and Beloved by both parties..
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Jesus fucking Christ man, you're killing me with this shit. Stop it!
You're fucking hilarious.
And let's not forget about The Reagan Tax Cuts..
Tax cuts work every time they are tried...
But Reagan used tax cuts to get us out of the mess Jimmy plowed us into..
It was the stark contrast to Jimmy's mess that made it look so spectacular..!!!!
War Dog.
Now I made a lot of money with Hill and Bill..
They know big business..
But with Ronnie is was bigger and better..
With Bush once again thing are boiling again..
Big Willie had it right...
"It's the Economy Stupid!"
Sunny J and Other Tree Huggers,
The NPR station at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has an in-house news magazine program.
Today the program led with the subject of the freeze-zapped trees. So here's the scoop from professionals in the field (or, rather, forest).
The technical term is "False Spring" (not very imaginative, I know). False Springs are tracked by tree rings, mostly from oaks. The tree ring knowledge was derived from the relatively modern era of recorded climatology (and many other botanical sources), then extrapolated onto the years beyond human-recorded climate.
Early flowering oaks suffer more than later flowering oaks even though mere days might be the difference between one group and another. Red oaks flower earlier than White oaks. (This explains why I see the post-freeze White oaks leafing and greening-up while the Reds are lagging.)
The Reds will recover somewhat as time marches closer to summer. Acorn production will be severely reduced. Creatures having acorn-only diets are screwed. They will be dependent mostly upon White oaks and will be forced to travel farther to find food and will be less able to gather and store acorns for winter.
The aforementioned tree rings have an obvious signature indicating a False Spring. Not only are the ring gaps closer together, indicating slow growth, but the cambium cells (of the time) are crushed inward due to the force of freezing from the outside-in. The sap was rising from the roots to fuel the springtime flowering when the freeze hit.
In the past 350 years, northwest Arkansas oaks show signs of twenty False Springs. I'm gonna stick to decades rather than to misquote the correct years: The 1970's, 1950's, 1920's, 1890's were the most recent. The Grand Daddy of them all was in the 1820's which, said the expert, dwarfed the False Spring of 2007 though he further stated that 2007 was a significant event...probably somewhere in the middle between the worst and the least.
I am seeing the browned leaves of the Red oaks beginning to take on a sickly, greenish hue. The experts claim that there will be new flowering...maybe throughout the summer...as the oaks attempt to make up for lost time.
The experts claim that the hardwoods have evolved to deal with False Springs, though previously stressed and weak trees will die over the next few years.
Meanwhile, on a brighter note, my bird feeder is loaded with Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks and has daily visits from Scarlet Tanagers (frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn) and other seasonal visitors. The Pileated Woodpeckers are becoming braver and hanging out closer to my house (the wintertime ice storms caused tree damage that they are not able to resist exploring).
Maybe fewer acorns will result in fewer mice which will result in fewer ticks? My low opinion of ticks rivals War Dog's low opinion of peace activists. (There's a blood-sucking lesson in there somewhere.)
WTF?
Conservapedia?
QubeTV?
the Rublic party
Conservatives are either:
a) f--cking insane
b) pathetic little chicken sh-ts afraid to be confronted with anything that doesn't conform to their twisted and narrow world view
c) all of the above
And how about that debate last night. It looked like mr. beautiful, dumb, dumber, clueless and few grumpy old men.
Sam we need you back on the air. We have no comedic release for all of this pent up absurdity!!!
Pink Floyd, Dogs of War
I can't believe the funny shit these cornball right wingers say. They are fucking hilarious.
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We do enjoy the audience..
But maybe you would like to tell us YOUR fav President..
And who you like in 08....
If you have given it any thought..!!!
IT IS AMAZING HOW HATEFUL THE LEFT IS.
YOU NEVER HEAR SUCH HATRED AS THEY SPEW OVER THE AIR AND HERE IN THIS ROOM.
TRULY THIS COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE
WHEN IT IS UNDER YOUR CONTROL
HOW CAN JEWISH FOLKS BELIEVE IN ALL THE LEFT WING LIES? THEY SHOULD BE MORE AWAKE WITH ALL THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH DOWN THROUGH HISTORY
Thank God for Nova M and Mike Malloy!!!!! SAM SAM SAM WHERE ARE YOU???????? Which Sunday do you start your show?
JUST WAIT UNTILL YOU HAVE YOUR WAY IN THIS COUNTRY. THE FALL OF THIS COUNTRY WILL BE HARD AND YOU WILL BE WEEPING TO HAVE THIS COUNTRY BACK.
SURE IT HAS IT'S FAULTS AND IT ISNT PERFECT BECAUSE HUMANS ARE NEVER PERFECT BUT IT IS GOING TO FALL TO THE LEFTIES AND THAT IS THE END OF GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
WHY ARE YOU FOLKS SO HATEFUL.
YOU ARE NOTHING BUT KILLERS BECAUSE YOU SOUND VICIOUS
Checking in, Hi Sammy, Hi Bloggi. No new Bloggi!?
Looks like Woofie is re-energized by the Republican "debate" and all the Reaganite happy-talk, which was about as stimulating as a box of stale Ritz and a can o'Easy Cheese.
Here are some chestnuts from when conservatives tested the presidential plausible deniability waters with Bonzo:
"For 18 months now, we have had under way a secret diplomatic initiative to Iran. That initative was undertaken for the simplest and best reasons: to renew a relationship with the nation of Iran; to bring a honorable end to the bloddy six-year war between Iran and Iraq;to eliminate state-spondored terrorism and subversion, and to effect the safe return of all hostages...During the course of our secret discussions, I authorized the transfer of small amounts of defensive weapons and spare parts for defensive systems to Iran....These modest
deliveries, taken together could easily fit into a single cargo plane....We did not--repeat--did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we."
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
Woof..
IT IS GOING TO FALL TO THE LEFTIES AND THAT IS THE END OF GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY
May 4, 2007 9:44 PM
That really was funny, It has to be a sendup though. Nobody is really that stupid!
Are they?
Fact-Checking the Republican Debate.
Link
---In My Opinion---
The Democrats and, by extension, Liberals/Progressives/Independents are a fractured group of people. They always have been. This isn't news. It is nearly universally accepted as fact.
The Republicans and, by extension, Conservatives/Militarists/Libertarians have tended to march in cadence like good little soldiers. Again, this is not news. Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay made careers out of this fact.
What makes the upcoming election interesting is that the Republicans are now as fractured as the Democrats have always been.
Stem cell science has divided the Religious Right. They were previously in lockstep over their single issue; abortion. The evolution/creationism issue has angered learned believers.
Fiscal Conservatives hate the war, the flagging economy and escalating petroleum prices which are linked to the war and the economy and, not incidentally, years of Republican control of the Executive and Legislative branches of government.
Many Conservative-Libertarians are not happy with government surveillance and usurpation of rights.
Conservative parents and grandparents have been touched by dead and maimed kids returning from Iraq.
The Hawks are the only Conservative group still holding itself together, but they have been exposed for the tiny Republican group that they have always been.
The Liberal base hasn't changed; it's as varied and as disorganized as ever. The Conservative base has changed. It is wandering around in a fog, looking for a single, uniting cause and, thus, a uniting leader.
You guys are kinda fucking up my long-awaited weekend... :(
Evening all!!
Don't forget Moyers tonight on PBS
Conservatives cracking on Iraq. Rep. Jack Kingston, “a reliable Bush supporter from Georgia,” said that this week’s vote to override Bush’s veto “could have been the peak, possibly the last statement of House public solidarity with the White House. As the war develops in the next two crucial months, the political solidarity may change.”
LINK
last night's debate was in a way a funeral of conservative ideology. This ideology is officially dead, and it was put to rest along side of Ronald Reagan's corps.
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A southern boy...
Ya gotta hold the south..
Bill knows that..
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Fred Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama, USA, to Ruth Bradley and Fletcher Thompson.[4] He attended the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. In 1959, when Thompson was 17 years old, he and Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey married.
Thompson first attended Florence State College and then Memphis State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science in 1964.
At this time, Fred and Sarah Thompson "...both worked to put Thompson through Vanderbilt and support three kids"[5].
Thompson went on to earn his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1967.
I hope they bring the old blog back. Free-Wheeling is the way to be.
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last night's debate was in a way a funeral of conservative ideology. This ideology is officially dead, and it was put to rest along side of Ronald Reagan's corps.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
If that is the case..
Where are the Liberal Candidates who are to rise to the Presidency..????
Paris Hilton was sentenced, today, to 45 days in jail for driving on a suspended license among other things.
Good! Maybe a little time in jail will make her realize she is not above the Law!!
War Dog said...
Alice said...
You guys are kinda fucking up my long-awaited weekend... :(
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How so..???
May 4, 2007 10:33 PM
Well, 2 of my coworkers were on vacation this past week...so I worked at the circulation desk all week 8 hrs each day, when usually I work in back for four hours of the day...I'm exhausted....So when I come home to relax & blog..I would prefer, (this week), to read something interestingly uplifting, or just uplifting and/or interesting...Normally I don't pay attention to this back & forth stuff..but you guys were the only ones here right when I was off work, & it was the same when I came home...
So even though I know that I'm responsible for how I choose to feel, I decided to express the dismay I felt while reading the blog...
//JUST WAIT UNTILL YOU HAVE YOUR WAY IN THIS COUNTRY. THE FALL OF THIS COUNTRY WILL BE HARD AND YOU WILL BE WEEPING TO HAVE THIS COUNTRY BACK.
SURE IT HAS IT'S FAULTS AND IT ISNT PERFECT BECAUSE HUMANS ARE NEVER PERFECT BUT IT IS GOING TO FALL TO THE LEFTIES AND THAT IS THE END OF GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY //
First of all
turn of the TV
Secondly, who is a leftist?
Who is a righty?
Dividing everyone up like this is THE DOWNFALL OF THIS COUNTRY! And people who perpetuate the myth of left or right or star bellied sneeches are aiding and abetting the destruction of this country.
How short are people's memories! Before Bush's presidency, people did not label each other that way.
We are Americans. Not Democrats or Republicans. Does it say on your birth certificate that you are a leftists or righty?
-conbo
idiots
Five more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.
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I would prefer, (this week), to read something interestingly uplifting
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That sounds like a job for...
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What was his nic...
The swami guy from Tucson...
What ever became of him..!!!
Just wanted to drop a line and say how much I miss Sam Seder. Dave Barber is a complete ass and I have to change the station. Seriously... what is wrong with Air America? Everytime they change a show I enjoy, I listen less and less. Who is making these decisions?
Senators Challenge Bush Administration’s Claim That Sudan Is ‘A Strong Partner In War On Terror’
Last week, the State Department released its 2006 terrorism report, which included this judgment about Sudan: “The Sudanese government was a strong partner in the War on Terror and aggressively pursued terrorist operations directly involving threats to U.S. interests and personnel in Sudan.”
But Sudan remains on the State Department’s list as a state sponsor of terror. And as a result of state-sponsored genocide, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur and 2.5 million more have been forced to flee their homes. On April 18 in a speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Bush criticized the Sudanese government:
Sudan’s government has moved arms to Darfur, conducted bombing raids on villages, they’ve used military vehicles and aircraft that are painted white — which makes them look like those deployed by humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping forces.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Olympia Snow (R-ME), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote a letter today to National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell questioning the basis for the administration’s claim that Sudan “is a strong partner in the war on terror.” Feingold issued the following statement:
The Administration needs to explain why its recent terrorism report described the government of Sudan, a state sponsor of terrorism which has been behind the genocide in Darfur, as a “strong partner in the War on Terror.” As we seek to stop the genocide, it is critical that Congress have all necessary information related to this administration’s policies and priorities in Sudan.
In November 2001, Bush said partners in the war against terror networks would be put to a simple test: “You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.” But today, when asked about the discrepancy in its Sudan policy, White House spokesman Tony Fratto replied: “Look, the situation in Sudan is complicated.”
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718: Number of World Bank staffers who have signed a letter expressing concern and calling for a resolution of a crisis involving bank President Paul Wolfowitz. The letter does not explicitly call for Wolfowitz’s resignation, “but wants ‘clear and decisive actions’ to resolve the issue in a way that would illustrate that the institution ‘practices what it preaches’ for good governance and against corruption.”
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Alice said...
You guys are kinda fucking up my long-awaited weekend... :(
May 4, 2007 10:22 PM
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I'm doing my best to turn it around. How's this?...
Three conservative Republicans walk into a bar.
The first one says, "Give me a Powerful Candidate." The bartender says, "I don't know how to make a Powerful Candidate." The first Republican says, "Neither do I."
The second Republican says, "I'll have a Reagan Redux." The bartender shakes his head and says, "I don't know how to make a Reagan Redux." The second Republican says, "Me either."
The third Republican says, "I'll have a double bourbon on the rocks." The bartender says, "THAT I can make. But let me ask you, why on the rocks?" The third Republican says, "If it's good enough for my party, its good enough for me."
hahaha
thats funny crank!
:)
-conbo
Im not laughing because you are funny btw. Let's not get the wrong idea.
I laughed at your joke because you decided you were funny.
-conbo
that works all the time for humorists. just say 'im funny'
and wala
nothing more to it
(im referring to Wardog's statement previously when he told you weren't funny, that you only say are)
-conbo
On Moyers tonight...
As Congress investigates why the Administration made false pre-war claims, Italy’s foremost investigative reporter Carlo Bonini, takes viewers on the trail of the forged intelligence documents purporting that Iraq sought to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.
Bill Moyers on the cost of war.
On Bill Moyers Journal online
Read more from Innocence Project co-director Barry Scheck on the lessons learned from Jerry Miller's story on The Moyers Blog.
Preview A Brief History of Disbelief, premiering on many PBS stations this weekend on The Moyers Blog.
View a slide show on the cost of war from photographer Nina Berman.
Each week, video, transcripts, and further resources and investigations from Bill Moyers Journal is available online at www.pbs.org/moyers.
You're right. I think he is bright enough to see what I ignore here.
I'm one of those 'create what I want to see' people mostly... & the certain things I love here when I'm not posting what I like, I patiently await...
But really, if I what I'm saying is true..I should go to other places to get what I desire from my online experiences. I do sometimes..but this feels like my online homebase...so I stay...Like I said, I'm just very beat tonight and wish now were one of the times that things were posted that would be soothing, pretty, lovely, wonderful, incredible, stunning, interesting, beautiful, joyous, fantastic.....etc...
Lol! :) Nice, Crank..
Remember to Watch Bill Moyers on PBS Tonight :)
Oh & Funny...I almost forgot that one... :)
Perle: ‘I Never Believed Saddam Was Responsible For 9/11′
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed former Iraq war architect Richard Perle to get his response to accusations by George Tenet that he was advocating an attack against Iraq in the days after 9/11. Perle acknowledged meeting Tenet a week after 9/11 at the White House, but claimed he never conversed with Tenet. Perle then said, “I never believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11.”
But CNN played a clip from 9/16/01 that showed Perle telling the network:
Even if we cannot prove to the standard that we enjoy in our own civil society they are involved, we do know, for example, that Saddam Hussein has ties to Osama bin Laden. That can be documented.
Watch it:
There is more strong evidence that Perle was advocating a war against Iraq shortly after 9/11. As ThinkProgress has noted, Perle signed a letter to President Bush on 9/20/01 that stated the following:
[E]ven if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
Moreover, conservative pundit Robert Novak recalls in a column today:
Over the telephone on Sept. 17, Perle told this column that there were few good targets in Afghanistan but many in Iraq. Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense, was then chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.
After thoroughly trashing Tenet, Perle later in the same interview cited him as a source for a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. “There was a relationship,” Perle said. “It has not only been documented, as I said in the clip. But George Tenet himself has written a letter that indicates this.”
Tenet did indeed write a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2002 claiming an Iraq-al Qaeda relationship. But Tenet recently told Blitzer, “We were sloppy in that letter.”
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I am not talking to my Mom anymore.
She has totally totally gone of the deepend.
She basicly told me that Im not really a Christian anymore.
That hurt
What am I supposed to do with that? Out religious her?
no thanks
I hate FOXNEWS. They have successfully destroyed the relationship between my mother and I. And I don't even bring up political things. I'd rather just talk to her.
-conbo
I never realized that Jesus decreed that his follower's to be a Republican supporter.
I missed that somewhere.
-conbo
Evening:tond,Alice,Crank.
What's up? Or is it still the war puppy "all day & all night show? Hope not :)
conbo,
I could give you "pee-in-your-pants" funny, but not while an AARP-eligible child is spamming the blog.
It's like trying to get laughs from mall clerks while they crouch behind their counters to avoid the locked-and-loaded madman.
Sorry,condo too :)
She basicly told me that Im not really a Christian anymore.
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ixnay on the Happy Jesus Day stuff...
That might be the key..
am not talking to my Mom anymore.
She has totally totally gone of the deepend.
She basicly told me that Im not really a Christian anymore.
That hurt
What am I supposed to do with that? Out religious her?
no thanks
I hate FOXNEWS. They have successfully destroyed the relationship between my mother and I. And I don't even bring up political things. I'd rather just talk to her.
-conbo
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I haven't been able to talk politics, religion or current events with my folks in over a decade other than to occasionally harmlessly poke fun at each other. It makes things tough sometimes--as these are topics that I enjoy discussing with people--but, we still manage to have a substantive conversation once in a while
Just don't bring this shit into your family. It's not worth it.
Well, I'm watching the Rocky/Hannity Smackdown... I did not come up with that name... the local Fox affiliate carrying the debate did.
We've got some scarrrrrry people here in Utah. Listening to the audience I'm dumbfounded that so many people still link 9/11 and Iraq. Not the new "The Iraq war is part of the whole war on terror" argument... just that Iraq is guilty of the act. Wow. I live amongst very stupid people.
Rocky's getting booed a lot, but, also has a strong following there. But, we knew the Fannity's would be there in droves. He's up in a minute.
Well, peeing in your pants is overrated.
-conbo
What's funny though is that if you were screaming at a line of Republicans you'd probably have no problem telling them how stupid you think they are, and they you...but it's different to be in a room with Republican family members...
//Just don't bring this shit into your family. It's not worth it.//
I don't. She reads into everything I say now, looking for ways the evil internet has brainwashed me.
I do not bring up anything anymore.
I guess I just can't talk to her. at all.
-conbo
shut up Wardog
im too angry to be on here tonight
later
-conbo
I guess I'm speaking for myself...I wouldn't tell my mother off (either of them), like I would a "stranger"...I mean c'mon her husband wore a "Boycott Hanoi Jane" baseball hat when we went out...!
Immortal Sole with Squidcat -- Death by Squid Sauce
Brother Chuck and a friend he met at King of the Blues doing their version of the cheery spiritual, O Death.
This has major huevos!
Another satisfied customer..
Liberal and Joy just don't seem to mesh...
But oh well...
I can't understand why....
big-bellied bardo bluesswigged
swilling the midnights moonshine
taking all who linger too long down
down down into the moby depths of
black-blooded passions fury
i have never told off my mother
its not apropriate
conbo-
for those who can weather that winter
will have surely lost their faire
eyes and be left a-tumbling thriugh
time with the dusty bones of ancients
Link...
...if you're interested in what Gassity's gotta say.
They both get 30 minutes to present their side, then it gets opened up to audience questions. THAT will be the interesting part.
"I guess I'm speaking for myself...I wouldn't tell my mother off (either of them), like I would a "stranger"...I mean c'mon her husband wore a "Boycott Hanoi Jane" baseball hat when we went out...!"
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I'll take that one further alice...
In my own case I wouldn't tell either party off (a stranger or a parent), but I'd definitely think the stranger is a desperately ignorant jackass, whereas with my mom and/or dad I just accept that that's what they believe and nothing I say or do is going to change that at this point -- without ever getting to the point of thinking them to be ignorant.
Admittedly, I have come close to that point a few times in the past few years.
FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How's everything?
And thats why there are so many 'unhinged' people areound you
-conbo
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Hint:
It is a mistake to think everyone you know does not read ever word you type here...
Think about it...
War Dog said...Another satisfied customer..Liberal and Joy just don't seem to mesh...But oh well...
I can't understand why....
May 4, 2007 11:24 PM
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If you were joyous you'd be spending this time with your friends, online or otherwise.
Instead, you spend your time here inviting disgust.
How about them RV buddies? Them bike buddies? Don't you think that they are yearning for your joyous company about now?
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You could not possibly be more transparent. Stop embarrassing yourself. Go away. Try to form a friendship. It's never too late.
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~~~ How's everything? ~~~
Everything sucks pretty bad, not to put too fine a point onnit.
I miss everyone here.
Historian Howard Zinn Calls for Activism
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I probably wouldn't tell off a strangr either, anonymous..But when I do say something to a stranger, it's usually, "I think you dropped this."...when I see them littering....that's about it...or spitting..spitting on the planet bothers me so when I see it, I say, "Ew. That's not only disgusting to see, it's disrespectful to your planet"...even though I don't really know if it is or not...I just know it makes me upset...
Jeff Gannon spokesman for the International Bible Reading Association.
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i think it is time for your evening sleepy bye time pills wado
-conbo
How about them RV buddies? Them bike buddies? Don't you think that they are yearning for your joyous company about now?
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You could not possibly be more transparent. Stop embarrassing yourself. Go away. Try to form a friendship. It's never too late.
May 4, 2007 11:34 PM
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Hahahahahahahaha..
I could talk about you and your life, but that would be to easy..
I am still bringing out film...
We have a ride tomorrow at 7 am...
We go to Branson on Monday..
If you had 1/10 of friends and activities your life would have been sooooooooooooooo different...
Back to the 9400 is just beeped...
Ps. Remember what a girl looks like...????
Oooops, I said I was not gonna do that....
hahahahahahahah...
I know two friends here where I live now..one is on vacation....one I might go see this weekend or maybe next weekend...
i think it is time for your evening sleepy bye time pills wado
-conbo
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Think about what I told ya, and ask yourself who is reading..
Problem solved..!!!!
Wardog you have ceased to be even partially coherrent
-conbo
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