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AK, who do you find most favor in, Bush or Kerry?
Nothing like being a billionaire and never having a job, no wonder the liberals love her so.
What post are you referring to? ...What are you saying? And just what "good reason is all too obvious"? Looks like faulty memory to me, but then maybe you are referring to another poster?
Patriotism, means supporting your country always, and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
Fred, AK knows exactly what I was referring to. He likes to act like he’s a nonpartisan on-line psychiatrist/mediator/psychoanalyst.
Some people enjoy debating; some people enjoy affirming others they agree with. AK enjoys asking questions like, “How do you feel about that”?
What's interesting is how the "blame America first" crowd can turn something as simple as a point of view into a political position. Even France believes president Bush can’t be wrong all the time.
France annuls first same-sex marriage
By Claude Canellas
Tuesday July 27, 8:58 PM
BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - A French court has annulled France's first gay marriage, setting a legal precedent for outlawing same-sex marriages that came down on the side of the conservative government.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040727/3/3lzn7.html
And don't bother sending me a threatening private e-mail explaining how well you know Matt and how you run this place.
Fred, did you notice Matt posted over here a couple weeks ago and the "blame America first" crowd jumped all over him?
Matt made a comment which "could" have been "perceived" as a conservative point of view and the "blame America first" crowd jumped all over his shit like they were saying, "how dare you have an opinion"?
What Sara doesn’t seem to realize is how self-defeating her posts have actually become. A person’s posts become too predicable to waste the calories needed to click the post after 4 straight years of nonstop dedication of hatred toward one administration, one party and one person.
Sure, why not? Some "people" in Chicago rounded up homeless during the 2000 elections and paid them cigarettes to vote for Gore. They would do anything.
What else could you explain such blind, hateful, knee-jerk posting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
After all, what rational person would ever think one person could do nothing but wrong, every single day, for the last 4 years?
One, I spent 5 months apologizing to you for my private e-mail addressing my concerns for your health. I’ve apologized numerous times and went out of my way to be more than social to you. I’ve even wished you a Happy B-day.
I've grown weary of your continued hateful anger towards me. You delete another one of my posts and I will respond in great detail on Raging Bull and I think you know what I will talk about, your hypocritical nature.
Makes you wonder if she's paid to be so single minded.
Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County
6:42 am EDT July 19, 2004
GLYNDON, Md. -- A mystery animal is on the loose in Baltimore County and not even the experts can pin down what it is.
A Glyndon man found a way to secretly record the beast while it grazed in his yard. For a while it was just lurking in the woods watching the Wroe family until the Wroes started watching it.
Jay Wroe: "My truck was parked here, started getting in my truck. I kind of saw it there where the sunlight is and said what in the world is that?"
Jacob Wroe: "It looked so weird to me. I didn't know what it was."
Wanting to get a better look at the beast stalking his family, Jay Wroe put technology to work for him.
Jay Wroe: "The next day, I hooked up just portable motion detectors, and put them down back in the woods there."
The trap worked.
Jay Wroe: "Very bizarre. I went and got my father and cousin and they came and looked at it and their reactions were pretty much the same -- what in the world are we looking at?"
Pictures Of The Unusual Creature In Baltimore Co.
More than a month after the first sighting, the creature has become a neighborhood regular and showing up often.
Kim Carlsen: "It comes to our house. It's been up in the woods for a while and it comes up through the bottom of our yard and eats our cat food."
Despite the fact it's lurking in these woods and no one knows when or where it will come out, no one here seems afraid of it.
Jacob Wroe: "I don't know, it doesn't look like it's going to harm anybody."
Even the other neighborhood animals like Bullwinkle the dog next door seem okay with the beast.
Kim Carlsen: "It's not afraid of the cats and the cats seem to get along with it fine."
The beast is not shy, and visits most often under bright sun. While no one here knows what it is, they do have a name for it --the hyote, a combination of a hyena and a coyote.
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3545312/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=1946268&dppid=68757
If that's not calling the kettle black! LOL
Yep, Bush and the republicans should be rolling UBL out of the secret jail they have him in any time now. And to think, just in time for the elections.
Iraq Interior Ministry Says Report on Nukes 'Stupid'
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Jul 21, 9:43 AM (ET)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper Wednesday that said three nuclear missiles had been found near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
A senior U.S. military official told reporters he had no information on the report in the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah. He said officials were checking the report.
Asked by Reuters about the report, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry said: "It's stupid."
The report, picked up the United Press International news agency, sent the U.S. dollar higher against other major currencies on the foreign exchanges.
Al-Sabah opened last year with backing from the former U.S.-led administration in Iraq.
The United States and Britain launched last year's invasion of Iraq over accusations that Saddam had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. But no stockpiles of banned weapons have been found.
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/265453/top/07-21-2004::09:48/reuters.html
Iraq Interior Ministry Says Report on Nukes 'Stupid'
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Jul 21, 9:43 AM (ET)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper Wednesday that said three nuclear missiles had been found near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
A senior U.S. military official told reporters he had no information on the report in the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah. He said officials were checking the report.
Asked by Reuters about the report, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry said: "It's stupid."
The report, picked up the United Press International news agency, sent the U.S. dollar higher against other major currencies on the foreign exchanges.
Al-Sabah opened last year with backing from the former U.S.-led administration in Iraq.
The United States and Britain launched last year's invasion of Iraq over accusations that Saddam had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. But no stockpiles of banned weapons have been found.
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/265453/top/07-21-2004::09:48/reuters.html
Nuclear arms reportedly found in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 21 (UPI) -- Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.
The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.
They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation.
The sources said al-Douri, who is related to former Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolution Council and Saddam's right-hand man Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official.
The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
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http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/07210000aaa01bea.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=....
Nuclear arms reportedly found in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 21 (UPI) -- Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.
The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.
They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation.
The sources said al-Douri, who is related to former Vice Chairman of the Iraq Revolution Council and Saddam's right-hand man Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was captured after Iraqi police intercepted an e-mail message in which he set a meeting with another former Baath official.
The report could not be authenticated by the interior ministry or the national security department, but the paper noted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari made a surprise request recently to Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to resume inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
All rights reserved..
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/07210000aaa01bea.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=...
America stamped their passports. Did you really fail to understand the point or are you a partisan devil's advocate?
Aladdin expels Ronstadt after political remarks
By Jerry Fink
LAS VEGAS SUN
Aladdin President Bill Timmins ordered security guards to escort pop diva Linda Ronstadt off the property following a concert Saturday night during which she expressed support for controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
Timmins, who was among the almost 5,000 fans in the audience at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, had Ronstadt escorted to her tour bus and her belongings from her hotel room sent to her. Timmins also sent word to Ronstadt that she was no longer welcome at the property for future performances, according Aladdin spokeswoman Tyri Squyres.
How much weight that carries is debatable, since the bankrupt Aladdin is in the process of being sold to a group headed by Planet Hollywood International Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Earl.
Near the close of her performance, Ronstadt dedicated the Eagles hit "Desperado" to Moore, producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11," and the room erupted into equal parts boos and cheers.
She said Moore "is someone who cares about this country deeply and is trying to help."
Ronstadt has been making the dedication at each of her engagements since she began a national tour earlier this summer, but it has never sparked such a reaction.
Hundreds of angry fans streamed from the theater as Ronstadt sang. Some of them reportedly defaced posters of her in the lobby, writing comments and tossing drinks on her pictures.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/drudged/517195568.html
Yes, OT, why do we need to be talking about sex in the bible and the American consitution? Both Jesus and our Founding Fathers had bettter things to talk about, yet homosexuality comes up in both sacred manuscripts, why?
No I really don't want to see that, it's Old Testament ugly. I want to see the states deciding the law.
Reports bolster Bush Iraq-uranium claim
British report says assertion was ‘well-founded’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5458642/
Have you ever noticed how you never update or make corrections to your opinions? I guess finding or ever knowing the truth is not important to ideologues like yourself.
Very very funny, worth the time.
http://jibjab.com/thisland.html
Some Virginia Residents Pack Heat Openly
Thursday, July 15, 2004
FAIRFAX, Va. — Some people are exercising their right to pack heat openly, baffling police in Fairfax County (search), a Washington suburb.
Police recently received a 911 call from a restaurant in Reston. Six men were seated at a table, the caller said. They were all armed.
Dispatchers quickly sent four officers to the restaurant. The officers were "extremely polite" and were hoping some of the men were in law enforcement, said Sgt. Richard Perez, a spokesman for the police department.
None was. The men told the officers "they were just exercising their rights as citizens of the commonwealth," Perez said.
Packing a pistol in public is legal in Virginia. And three times in the past month, residents have been spotted out and about in the county, with guns strapped to their hips.
In the first episode, at a coffee shop, Fairfax police wrongly confiscated weapons from two college students and charged them with a misdemeanor. Police realized their mistake, returned the guns and tore up the charges the next day.
Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (search), an organization of gun owners, said members were involved in all three police encounters. But he said there was no coordinated campaign to start packing heat publicly.
"It was probably more of a coincidence, but not completely," Van Cleave said, noting that word of the improper confiscation spread quickly among members through e-mail.
In Virginia, as in many states, carrying a concealed weapon requires a permit, issued by a local court. But no permit is required to simply wield a gun in the open, a right reinforced by a state law that took effect July 1.
Fairfax police are perplexed by the sudden display of weaponry but assume it was done to make some sort of statement.
Crime is at 20-year lows in the county, Lt. Col. Charles K. Peters pointed out, even with the population soaring.
Packing pistols publicly worries some people.
"This just shows you the extreme nature of what they're trying to do," said Bob Ricker, head of Virginians for Public Safety. "It's just something that I think is completely unreasonable."
Virginia law 18.2-287.4 expressly prohibits "carrying loaded firearms in public areas." But the second paragraph of the law defines firearms only as any semiautomatic weapon that holds more than 20 rounds or a shotgun that holds more than seven rounds.
Regular six-shooters or pistols with nine- or 10-shot magazines are not covered under the law.
Three days after the restaurant incident, a married couple were walking their dogs about 3 p.m. in Reston. In addition to pistols on their hips, Perez said, both the man and woman were carrying an extra magazine of ammunition.
An officer spoke with them and was informed they were members of the defense league and were aware of the coffee shop incident. Perez said the officer took no further action.
Van Cleave said the gun owners may have been celebrating a law that took effect July 1. The statute bars any locality from enacting any regulation on gun ownership, carrying, storage or purchase. Alexandria, for example, had an ordinance prohibiting open carry. It's now invalid, Van Cleave said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125849,00.html
Passengers Give Troops First-Class Seats
Jul 15, 10:01 AM (ET)
DALLAS (AP) - Eight soldiers flying home from Iraq for two weeks of R&R flew in style instead of coach after first-class passengers offered to swap seats with them.
"The soldiers were very, very happy, and the whole aircraft had a different feeling," flight attendant Lorrie Gammon told The Dallas Morning News in Thursday's editions.
The June 29 seat-swap on American Airlines Flight 866 from Atlanta to Chicago started before boarding, when a businessman approached one of the soldiers and traded his seat.
When the swapping was done, "the other two first-class passengers wanted to give up their seats, too, but they couldn't find any more soldiers," Gammon said.
Another flight attendant, Candi Spradlin, said she was impressed with the acts of good will.
"If nothing else, those soldiers got a great homecoming," she said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040715/D83R8SBO0.html
Wilson contradictions leave Democrat senators speechless
July 15, 2004
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
Like Sherlock Holmes' dog that did not bark, the most remarkable aspect of last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report is what its Democratic members did not say. They did not dissent from the committee's findings that Iraq apparently asked about buying yellowcake uranium from Niger. They neither agreed to a conclusion that former diplomat Joseph Wilson was suggested for a mission to Niger by his CIA employee wife nor defended his statements to the contrary.
Wilson's activities constituted the only aspects of the yearlong investigation for which the committee's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, was unable to win unanimous agreement. According to committee sources, Roberts felt Wilson had been such a ''cause celebre'' for Democrats that they could not face the facts about him.
For a year, Democrats have been belaboring President Bush about 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union address in which he reported Saddam Hussein's attempt to buy uranium from Africa, based on British information. Wilson has been lionized in liberal circles for allegedly contradicting this information on a CIA mission and then being punished as a truth-teller. Now, for committee Democrats, it is as though the Niger question and Joe Wilson have vanished from the Earth.
Because a Justice Department special prosecutor is investigating whether any crime was committed when my column first identified Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA employee, on advice of counsel I have not written on the subject since October. However, I feel compelled to describe how the committee report treats the Niger-Wilson affair because it has received scant coverage except in a few media outlets. The unanimously approved report said, ''interviews and documents provided to the Committee indicate that his wife, a CPD (CIA counterproliferation division) employee, suggested his name for the trip.'' That's what I reported, and what Wilson flatly denied and still does.
Plame sent out an internal CIA memo saying ''my husband has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.'' A State Department analyst told the committee about an inter-agency meeting in 2002 that was ''apparently convened by [Wilson's] wife, who had the idea to dispatch [him] to use his contacts to sort out the Iraq-Niger uranium issue.''
The committee found that the CIA report, based on Wilson's mission, differed considerably from the former ambassador's description to the committee of his findings. That report ''did not refute the possibility that Iraq had approached Niger to purchase uranium.'' As far as his statement to the Washington Post about ''forged documents'' involved in the alleged Iraqi attempt to buy uranium, Wilson told the committee he may have ''misspoken.'' In fact, the intelligence community agreed that ''Iraq was attempting to procure uranium from Africa.''
''While there was no dispute with the underlying facts,'' Chairman Roberts wrote separately, ''my Democrat colleagues refused to allow'' two conclusions in the report. The first conclusion merely said that Wilson was sent to Niger at his wife's suggestion. The second conclusion is devastating: ''Rather than speaking publicly about his actual experiences during his inquiry of the Niger issue, the former ambassador seems to have included information he learned from press accounts and from his beliefs about how the Intelligence Community would have or should have handled the information he provided.''
The normally mild Roberts is harsh in his condemnation: ''Time and again, Joe Wilson told anyone who would listen that the president had lied to the American people, that the vice president had lied, and that he had 'debunked' the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. . . . [N]ot only did he NOT 'debunk' the claim, he actually gave some intelligence analysts even more reason to believe that it may be true.'' Roberts called it ''important'' for the committee to declare much of what Wilson said ''had no basis in fact.'' In response, Democrats were silent.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak15.html
whip-o-wills
Slim-Fast Sheds Whoopi Goldberg After Bush Riff
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Whoopi Goldberg (news) will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bush (news - web sites)'s name at a fund-raiser last week, the company said on Wednesday.
Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" in Goldberg's remarks at last Thursday's $7.5 million star-studded fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
"Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, adding that the company regrets that Goldberg's remarks offended some customers.
Republicans have expressed outrage over the fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, John Edwards (news - web sites), in which entertainers lined up to skewer the president.
The New York Post said of Goldberg's appearance at the event: "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia."
A spokesperson for Goldberg declined immediate comment.
Slim-Fast is a unit of Anglo-Dutch food-to-detergent group Unilever
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&u=/nm/20040714/en_nm/people_goldberg_dc_3&...
What does it mean to be so polluted with hatred that you're blind truth? A perfect example is this post of Sara'. If Sara really cared about America she would have highlighted or questioned why this is "the custom in American politics"? However Sara saw fit to point fingers and highlight the first sentence in the 2 sentence paragraph below.
President Bush has taken not one ounce of personal responsibility for the failings of our intelligence. Pathetically, that is the custom in American politics, but it still reflects poorly on the president.
And I'm sure you know where the line is.
Maybe you should get the codes for the nukes too? You could write them on your wall at work and have them safe for the president in case he loses them. B-)
God bless the gun lover, after all, you can't shoot a man who ain't heeled.
If love is the new prerequisite for marriage then you bigotry-concerned, tolerance for others' lifestyles and beliefs, liberals should be making arguments for incestuous marriage and polygamy.
A brother and sister who live together and "love" each other should have all the legal benefits of marriage, why not? Do gays have a "special" love?
Which "liberal activist Supreme Court judges"? You’re a liar, I've been posting about my home state of California from post one. I never said a word about Massachusetts. You use the Massachusetts example because it works in your favor then ignore my California example when it works against you, in favor of personal attacks, third person no less.
You debate when there’s someone around of your hatred mindset to affirm your personal attacks, lack of logic and blindness to any truth which conflict with your own political ideology.
You do hate America, or better yet take a "blame America first" approach to most everything you post here.
Not only do you post negative articles all day, every single day but you even pull black clouds out of silver linings in positive news. There is absolutely no excuse for a balanced, logical person to think they are being objective with such a daily predetermined mindset. I hope you didn't raise your children with such "negative reinforcement".
Sometimes I actually hope Kerry wins so you can see how a balanced American citizen finds bad and good in a every person's views, actions and opinions.
Sure, that's why you're still here, you debate like a hatefull moron and only further my positons with every third post you post.
You example works perfect for you in MA but then there's that little problem in CA which happens to be the subject which I've been addressing. The masterdabaiter who's concern for truth has been trumped by his unbalanced hatred and rage.
BTW, I still can't decipher that 2/3 California governers reply. Do I need a Dick Tracy decoder ring?
No he hasn't, what's the lesson here? Ignore laws I disagree with?