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Deaf Politicians who can hear seem to be in control. They seems to be understand eachother and cannot quite grasp a clue as too what we want and need as American Citizens. Down side?? We seem to live like we could care less. I find it cery rare that the average American really wants change or closure on Iraq or anything else. 99% of the people out there enjoy just rolling with the punches and they refuse to try to help eachother. I have dedicated my life for years to trying to show corruption in America. I have yet too see anyone who wants to stop the corruption. 3889 dead soldiers and counting because we are lazy. We dont feel we can or should help them and theirs. That is sad!!! I hope people come around and stop rilling with the punches. I wish for people too work at helping eachother. Voting helps, but getting and staying involved is the best shot we got. Get involved. Hebrert West III, Publisher/Journalist west.herb@yahoo.com
Wichita school board members want more information about how they would pay for proposed building improvements, including the construction of several new schools, athletic stadiums and fine arts facilities.http://www.kansas.com/news/updates/story/258926.html
What wonderful timing! Just about the time the 1-cent sales tax for the arena is scheduled to end. Where, oh where can the school board find some extra money?
They could ask the turnpike authority for it. Has not the turnpike been paid off years ago?
Or was the decision made to use that money to fix the ailing State colleges? I don’t know I spent my lunch money on milk because I spent Milk money on comic books. Because I spent my comic book money on this nifty hat!
OMG am I the only one that knows where I got that from? Could Be considering in order to be old enough to remember those Saturday morning kid lessons. you might be fighting senility about now!
Ok, Bushbot apologists, let’s see you spin THIS one–should be most amusing!:
“Destruction of CIA tapes may have violated a court order
A federal judge will investigate whether the action defied his instructions to the federal government to preserve evidence in terrorism detentions.By ichard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 19, 2007″
“The tapes were destroyed by a CIA official in November 2005, at a time of growing congressional and public concern about U.S. tactics in the war on terrorism, including interrogation techniques.
It was also five months after Kennedy, in the case of the Yemeni prisoners, issued an order requiring that the U.S. preserve and maintain ‘all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment and abuse of detainees now’ at Guantanamo Bay.”
Can you say “obstruction of justice,” kiddies?
As for the rest of us: are you even mildly surprised?
Dog,
I think the Turnpike tolls go to pay for maintenance on the Turnpike infrastructure. For example, tolls just went up slightly to pay for the widening project between Topeka and KC, and for replacing a crumbling bridge (maybe two?) near Lawrence.
What does Bush have to do with the CIA Rage.
Or are you talking in Dembot speak?
Career CIA agents requested the destruction of the tapes and got it. These career agents most likely served before Bush came into office and will serve after.
Yammering Bushbot everytime something happens is beginning sound like the Libs need a “big bad wolf” in their life to discuss anything.
Too bad the Dembots just can’t use logic and common sense.
What does Bush have to do with the CIAPosted by: kansas | December 19, 2007 at 08:25 AM
That is the singularly most stupid thing I have ever seen you post.
What does Bush have to do with the CIAPosted by: kansas | December 19, 2007 at 08:25 AM
That is the singularly most stupid thing I have ever seen you post.
Posted by: Tom | December 19, 2007 at 08:31 AM
This from a guy who claims to be a reasonable guy. rofl!
Face it Tom and other Libs, you can’t even have a day with rain without blaming it on Bush.
Talk about one track minds – if the Libs don’t have a villain, someone to blame, they just can’t discuss anything.
I find that hilarious.
Troll,
Rage didn’t blame the CIA tapes on Bush. The article didn’t blame Bush. I didn’t blame Bush. I know it’s hard, but DO try to keep up.
Unless the administration obstructs as they have every investigation to date, the evidence will come out one way or the other if Bush or his subordinates had anything to do with violating the Court’s order.
And your post was indeed stupid. What does Bush have to do with the CIA…LMAO!! Could he be…THE PRESIDENT? Oh wait – perhaps he’s just Cheney’s puppet.
On the same note, what I’ve observed is that the cons blame the libs for everything..if the US fails in Iraq, they’ve already said that it will be the fault of the libs for not supporting Bush..talk about not taking resposibilty for the choice they made to go to war with someone who was no threat to us. The damage and cost cost to our country by the Bush administration is almost beyond comprehension…”there is none so blind as he who will not see”..it’s the cons that have their blinders on…not the other way ’round.
PS laugh all you want Kansas..I can barely keep from crying when I think of what’s happened to my country.
And when YOU have no rebuttal, you resorts to arm flailing and useless ad hominems aimed at the poster!! THAT is hilarious!!
Did you guys read the editorial this morning about how much money the tabacco industry donated to Tiahart’s campaign fund? I find it deplorable that he was paid off to spread the false propaganda and vote against the SCHIP program. Money over the needs of children…says volumes about his lack of character.
Bush must have been completely blind sided. At a time he was assuring “We don’t torture”, the CIA was busy torturing and then had the audacity to destroy the tapes.Yea; that’s how it went down. Right RW’s?
This thing isnt letting me post much of anything, without calling it spam! Anybody else having problems??
But, oh no, the others loved the Constitution more, they loved liberty more, so these unwise laws were passed.
Sen. Jeff Sessions(R) AL.
Yes Chas I am too, if it is more then a couple of lines I get that error I have been deemed spam. And not the good kind you eat on bread!
Me too–I’m emailing Phillip.
Well, that didn’t take long for the Libs to come out and “blame some one” including me. :D
Actually Mary, I’m happy the troops in Iraq are having success and always have been.
You seen to have assigned “cons” in general for attributes you hope they would have.
Does it piss you off that we don’t have those attributes you talked about
and “we the cons” are actually happy for the troops and actually support the troops? :)
P.S. Dog–the “good” kind you eat on bread?
Oh well–I’ve been known to hot dogs, though without so much spam in them! :)
Okay, 3rd para: SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, LOVELY SPAM, WONDERFUL SPAM!
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
There must be a glitch in the system… I noticed it yesterday too!
Rage — Huh??
Order your penis-extending Nigerian investment l0v3toy 2day! Great job, Typepad! /sarcasm
Well, Kansas we’ll see how long the “success” lasts after the troops come home…if ever. I guess the cost to our country and the loss of lives on both sides was worth it to those like you to keep the oil flowing. BTW, seen bin Laden lately?
On another note: I have to make a personal apology for something I said yesterday. I made the statement that I’ve never met a goodlooking Republican man. Hank showed up at my door last night with tears in his eyes…honestly Hank, I didn’t mean it!Actually, you and my husband are the ONLY two good looking Republican men I know!
Chas: very short, intentionally senseless Noam Chomsky quote.
They obviously have the Typepad spam filter turned up way to high.
Of course, knowing how to run a TypePad Blog doesn’t take much skill, just common sense. :)
I’m sure they can figure that out, eh??
Spirit was cut out of the EADS plants purchase. Looks like the U.S. is the only one that doesn’t think twice about selling its major export income producer to other countries! The European govt. was going to block production being sent to the U.S., cheaper dollar be damned.They know how to take care of their working class.
Order your penis-extending Nigerian investment l0v3toy 2day! Great job, Typepad! /sarcasm
Posted by: Rage | December 19, 2007 at 09:27 AM
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Rage,
That was truly funny!
I gotta agree with Herbert up there, apathy is what is killing our country. And a prescription-drugged out populace doesn’t help either. And if you think our country is doing fine…
Rage, I get those “nigerian” kind of emails about 30 times a day, when I am logged into WEBLOG… If I get out of WEBLOG, they seem to go away… I wonder why??
Chas, forward me 2 or 3 of them, with full headers. I’ll take a look.
Thanks Mary!
I feel a lot better now!
Ummm Rage — I dont have your email address???
Ok, Bushbot apologists, let’s see you spin THIS one–should be most amusing!:
Posted by: Rage | December 19, 2007 at 08:19 AM
Come on Tom! If Rage isn’t blaming Bush (if only by inuendo) why do the “Bushbot apologists” have to try and “spin’ this one?
Seriously though, they should have saved the tapes, broadcast the sounds of these great martyrs of Allah crying like babies on al Jazera, and destroyed the NIE.
Chas, actually, you do–we’ve exchanged emails. You just may not have realized who I was.
Check your inbox.
For those who wonder why American Citizens should have firearms that can fire many bullets at once,
22 Bullets fired by police at this innocent family, husband and wife and six kids sleeping in their home.
(Note, apparently not one shot fired by “expert” SWAT policemen hit anything. And you wonder why civilians need high capacity firearms? It takes more then one bullet to hit the target sometimes. And in this case, even 22 wasn’t enough, luckily.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317398,00.html
Minneapolis SWAT Team Raids Wrong House
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Obviously, XXX, the board is looking at another bond issue; while there are some alternatives available, to do what was presented at the meeting last night will require the capital infusion that as far as I know can only come from another bond issue (unless the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would like to help).
Well, I must be high on the list of spam, given my difficulty in posting the above.
Democrat Majority Congress is funding the Iraq war again!
Let’s see, isn’t that 3 times this year the Democrats have vote FOR the Iraq war?
And you voted for these people because you thought they would end the Iraq war!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317410,00.html
House Expected to Pass $70 Billion War Funding Bill, Delivering Serious Blow to DemocratsWednesday, December 19, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is expected to give President George W. Bush a victory in his yearlong battle with anti-war lawmakers over Iraq by approving $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.
Blaming Bush, Hank? Not precisely. But, as the sign on Harry Truman’s desk said, “the buck stops here.”
And I DO blame Bush for the climate of arrogant lawlessness. He IS supposed to be in charge, you know.
Interesting: Me, dog, Chas, and now Vaughn. Don’t see a discernable pattern as of yet.
Some kind of Bayesian illogic. /more sarcasm
Wow, Hank… do you so-called “conservatives” have no shame? Blaming me for not blaming Rage for not blaming Bush?
You’re spinning so hard, you’re gonna need Dramamine.
DREAMER CAN ‘WORK’ IT OUTSHOWS POVERTY ISN’T HOPELESS
December 17, 2007 — DON’T believe the naysayers. The American Dream – the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you’ll make it – is alive and well.
Adam Shepard set out on July 24, 2006, with $25 and the clothes on his back. No cellphone, credit cards or global-positioning software.
His goal was to end a year with $2,500, an apartment and a car. Three rules: 1. He could not use his education. 2. He could contact no one to bail him out. 3. “I couldn’t start charging stuff on my Visa.”
Well, Adam didn’t do it in a year. He made it out of poverty in just under six months.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12172007/news/columnists/dreamer_can_work_it_out_937955.htm
How’d he do it?
“and destroyed the NIE”Posted by: Hank Price | December 19, 2007 at 10:09 AM
Yeah, why bother with pesky NIE’s anyway? They’re just full of those annoying facts the President doesn’t care about and can’t be bothered with reading.
Yep. Huge waste of money. Get rid of NIE’s.
Got ‘em, Chas. Got other things on my plate, but I’ll let you know what I find.
Thanks much Rage!!
Interesting article heckler, enjoyed it. :)
Cheney busy burning records?http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071219/ts_nm/whitehouse_fire_dc_4
How’d he do it?Posted by: Heckler | December 19, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Let’s see…
White. Young. Attractive. College educated. Obviously well-fed, and in excellent physical condition. A mom, dad, and brother in what’s probably an upper-middle class family.
Nope. No advantages there. Looks like a fair contest to me.
Heckler — When is the last time you ever heard of a nearly homeless guy landing a date with a radio disc jockey?? Ever??
My assessment still stands, Libs need a villain or some one to blame to discuss anything.
They just can’t help themselves. :)
“Democrat Majority Congress is funding the Iraq war again!”
Yeah. Sucks.
It’s too bad the Eagle finds it unnecessary to report what our represenatie are voting on in washington.
If they don’t report it, we will never know
Our politicians are at it again, Stripping funding from Previous legislation.12-17-07
Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California….
….But the measures did not pass before House Republicans blasted the changes to the border fence……..The 2006 Secure Fence Act specifically called for “two layers of reinforced fencing” and listed five specific sections of border where it should be installed. The new spending bill removes the two-tier requirement and the list of locations.
“Pulling back from the double-fence mandate is a prescription for failure that will only allow more smugglers, criminals and illegal aliens to enter the United States through our land border with Mexico,” said the California Republican, who also is running for his party’s presidential nomination.
Chas Tom
Read it again. You both have obviously missed something. Think about it.
This last summer, we saw headlines almost daily like:
Arctic Ice Melting at Record Rate
Arctic Ice Extent at Record Low
The End is Near
Now that we have New Ice Freezing at a Record Rate, where are those headlines?
Heckler — When is the last time you ever heard of a nearly homeless guy landing a date with a radio disc jockey?? Ever??
Source, Max?
But, if the Democrats dont vote for Iraq funds, then the CONS just accuse us of being unamerican, and they say we want to lose the war, and not support our troops! So, with an election year coming, they have to do something… I mean, hey, priorities!!
I’m sorry Rage, by the time one wades through all your name calling and general BS it’s hard to focus on your point, if htere was one.
Why don’t you try to carry on a dialog without all the BS?
Can you?
Just wondering.
To their credit, about half the Dems in the Senate refused to roll over and take it nice. . .again. The number in the House will be larger.
But it STILL sucks.
P.S. Oh, Max: Have you looked at the Repub numbers?
Source, Max?
Posted by: Rage | December 19, 2007 at 10:54 AM
His point exactly!
You’ve got GOOGLE. Pick a source that fits your agenda.
Chas
You failed reading comprehension didnt you!
HE WASNT HOMELESS FOR LONG!!! He did the experiment for a full year. He was in an apartment in well under 6 months from the sound of it.
BS, Hank? There are patterns, Hank. The spam filter really won’t let me elaborate now, so I’ll let it go.
Chas
If you act like a homeless guy- you will be a homeless guy….and you won’t get a date with a D.J.(i’m not sure what’s so special about that anyway)
Heckler, there is no need for your worthless ad hominem attack… The real thing wrong with the story is that he was obviously relying on his “college” learning, and his prior life style, before even engaging in the experiment..
In other words, he knew how to make a little money work for him… He didnt end up homeless AFTER some kind of medical, or financial, or social mishap, or drug abuse, or alcohol abuse… like so many homeless…
You have to take all of those factors into consideration, in order to determine just how successful he actually was…
Many of us on this Blog could do much the same thing… Because we KNOW where to find things that we would need…
So many who are homeless dont know where to even LOOK for what they need… That is the really SAD thing…
Well, the date might not be so special if she looked like Helen Thomas… BUT, if she looked like Kim Kommando… thats another matter!! LOL
To their credit, about half the Dems in the Senate refused to roll over and take it nice. . .again. The number in the House will be larger.
But it STILL sucks.
P.S. Oh, Max: Have you looked at the Repub numbers?
Posted by: Rage | December 19, 2007 at 10:58 AM
The Republicans never pretended to be for surrender in Iraq. Why would they vote against funding our troops in Iraq?
Ummm Dems arent for surrender either… Just end the damn thing, and bring home the troops, thus, protecting them… Thats the REAL protection for the troops!!
Excuses and Apologies for Success.
Sounds like a book title written by Rich Democrats with a guilty conscience.
Well, Adam didn’t do it in a year. He made it out of poverty in just under six months.Posted by: Heckler | December 19, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Now isn’t that just about as Republican as it gets? This guy “slums it” for a few months, and now he’s an expert on poverty.
It’s pretty obvious that conservatives on these boards don’t even understand what poverty means. If you haven’t lived it, you haven’t a discussion point. If you don’t think “There, but for the grace of God go I” every time you see some poor unfortunate on the street, You’re just way too full of yourself and what you have to offer.
BS, Hank? There are patterns, Hank. The spam filter really won’t let me elaborate now, so I’ll let it go.
Posted by: Rage | December 19, 2007 at 11:04 AM
I think what Hank means is poisoning the well before comments to your discussion starters are submitted.
Example: “Ok, Bushbot apologists, let’s see you spin THIS one–should be most amusing!”
Of course, all of those other phrases
“Spoiling for a fight”"Handing out Prairie Coal”"Salting the bird’s tail”"Catching a Weasel sleeping”"Ad captandum vulgus”"Come on you tedious, contemptuous fool”
And etc.
There’s a California congressman, a Democrat and classic northern California liberal, named Fortney Pete Stark who is always shooting his mouth off. But he may have done it this time.
During a debate on the children’s health bill today in Congress, Stark stood to lecture Republicans and said the following:
“You don’t have money to fund the (Iraq) war or children,” he said. “But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people — if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303419,00.html
I wonder if all the Democrats who voted to continue the Iraq war yesterday, are amused by all the heads being blown off in Iraq.
And how will Pete Stark vote on this when it comes up in the House?
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“You don’t have money to fund the (Iraq) war or children,” he said. “But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people — if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.”
Posted by: Max | December 19, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Come on Max!
You clipped that right out of a Lib post on the WE Blog right? :)
And the Democrat Majority in Congress can’t fund SCHIP to give health care to our children, but the Democrat Majority in Congress can fund the Iraq War.
Don’t the Democrats care about the children?
Kansas, I posted the source.
There must be over 1,000 sources to confirm what Pete Stark said.
I couldn’t possibly have made that up.
Depending on the wind, the Democrats are either For or Against the Iraq war.
I’m just replaying their own words.
If it sounds ugly to you (and it should) it’s the words of the Democratic party.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22322180
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of “occupying forces” as the key to national reconciliation, according to focus groups conducted for the U.S. military last month.
That is good news, according to a military analysis of the results. At the very least, analysts optimistically concluded, the findings indicate that Iraqis hold some “shared beliefs” that may eventually allow them to surmount the divisions that have led to a civil war.
Conducting the focus groups, in 19 separate sessions organized by outside contractors in five cities, is among the ways in which Multi-National Force-Iraq assesses conditions in the country beyond counting insurgent attacks, casualties and weapons caches. The command, led by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, devotes more time and resources than any other government or independent entity to measuring various matters, including electricity, satisfaction with trash collection and what Iraqis think it will take for them to get along.
*****
The Iraqi people want us out. Since they now have democracy (hahaha), why don’t we give them what they want?
The Democrat Energy bill calling for a 600% increase in Ethanol production, will burn most if not all of our corn.
Therefore, in 2017, don’t be surprised to see:
-Hamburger $15/lb
-McDonalds and all fast food Pizza and Burger chains are bankrupt. A million jobs lost.
-Ribeye Steak $40/lb
-Thousands of closed retaraunts closed putting 3 million more people on the streets, homeless, starving, and without healthcare.
-Milk $12/gallon-Bread $7/loaf
-Children now suffer from poor nutrition, resulting in more illnesses and disease, and all their teeth fall out. And SCHIPS is gone, so they have no health care.
-Millions switch to diets limited to beans and pork fat.
-The resulting mass flatuence increase speeds up the rate of global warming.
-Water supplies run low due to ethanol production. Fortunately, sewage reclamation plants are able to recycle more of our water.
-Still, even beer tastes bad and people turn to brewing their own, causing thousands of deaths from alcohol poisoning.
Don’t the Democrats care?
Capn, the Democrat Majority Congress wants to keep American troops in Iraq.
Don’t you get it?
Don’t listen to what they say, pay attention to how they vote!
Yeah, Max, I guess that’s why they passed a spending bill twice that had a timetable for withdraw.
Worst. President. Ever. vetoed it twice.
If you’re going to draw conclusions, you might start basing them on evidence sometime.
Chas
“So many who are homeless dont know where to even LOOK for what they need… That is the really SAD thing…”
The experiment wasnt about homelessness.(whole other issue) It was about poverty and the idea in some peoples head that there is no way out. He showed that by simply working hard and making wise and frugal choices with his money he could get ahead of the game.
He didnt blow money on beer, weed, and KFC. He didnt go get a 60 in. flat panel from Rent A Center. He saved every dime he could and only bought what he had to have.
Myth Busted.
This guy had no expenses and no problems to overcome.
He didn’t have a conviction on his record. He didn’t have children to support. He didn’t have a sick child and no health care.
What this proves is that in the richest country in the world, a single man with a clean record and no dependents can eke out a subsistence living.
Wow. Impressive.
Amazing what one can do if they are frugal and save money Heckler.
My grandfather managed to eek out a top wage of $400.00/month before he retired at age 65. He always grew most of his own food, raised bees, repaired lawn mowers and did odd jobs so he could raise money.
He saved over $400,000 by the time he was 65 years of age. That’s ready cash available in his savings accounts.
One of his part time jobs was laying brick down on the early streets of downtown Wichita. I think about him every time I visit down town.
Yeah, Max, I guess that’s why they passed a spending bill twice that had a timetable for withdraw.
Worst. President. Ever. vetoed it twice.
If you’re going to draw conclusions, you might start basing them on evidence sometime.
Posted by: CapnAmerica | December 19, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Yeah, worst President ever is forcing the weak-kneed gutless Democrats into voting to appropriate $70 BILLION to continue the killing in Iraq.
The worst President Ever was FDR.
FDR killed Tens of Thousands of American troops in needless island to island fighting in the Pacific in WWII, when we could have bypassed most of those islands.
Not Once did FDR bother to talk to Tojo directly after they bombed Pearl Harbor to find a way to bring peace without war. FDR could have found out what America did wrong to cause the Japanese to bomb us at Pearl Harbor.
It was the most mismanaged war in the history of the planet.
And FDR launched America into Socialism and screwed us all with Social Security and Medicare.
“Now that we have New Ice Freezing at a Record Rate, where are those headlines?”
Posted by: Max | December 19, 2007 at 10:51 AM
You should read more than just the headlines.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17853
“After record retreat in September 2007, Arctic sea ice had been making a slow winter recovery. Mean sea ice extent remained at record-low levels in October 2007, but beginning in late October, sea ice grew by more than 150,000 square kilometers (about 58,000 square miles) per day for about 10 days—the fastest regrowth observed in the satellite record.
Despite this rapid growth, sea ice extent remained below normal for November, though it was not a record low….Record sea ice growth rates after a record low may sound surprising at first, but it is not completely unexpected.”More at link.
Also, the new, young ice can melt easier/faster next summer, than older, multi-year ice.
‘Without Its Insulating Ice Cap, Arctic Surface Waters Warm To As Much As 5 C Above Average’http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212201236.htm
Years from now people will look back upon the Bush Era as truly America’s Dark Age.
Max
he said that in October not today — and I do believe he apologized 2 days later
Heckler, duh. If someone has nobody but theirself to care for, and you scrimp and save, yeah you can get an apartment in probably even less time than he did. I do wonder how he’s affording a 2,500 dollar apartment per month, when he is only making 6.50 per hour. Did he get furniture…I hope that’s bills paid.
He didn’t prove anything at all. at the end of 6 months, I’d have had a whole lot more than that if I was able and had nobody but me to worry about that’s for darn sure.
Oh Ken, Pete Stark apologized? Guess that makes it ok then.
I wonder if Pete will vote for the Iraq war since he doesn’t (or maybe he does) enjoy the killing so much.
That’s the thing about these wishy washy Democrats, you never know which way they will vote.
Hard to forecast the wind.
He didn’t prove anything at all. at the end of 6 months, I’d have had a whole lot more than that if I was able and had nobody but me to worry about that’s for darn sure.
Posted by: political_mama | December 19, 2007 at 02:40 PM
“If I was able”! Funny mama. Even if you are “able” you don’t have to if you don’t want to. Just hold your hand out to the Democrats. They will buy your vote.
Max?
I TRY to respect you.
It’s really hard sometimes.
FDR is almost universally acclaimed as a truly great President.
Without the socio economic reforms of FDR, America would look very much like Mexico does.
In just a few short years, bush and your business bot Republicans have almost entirely wiped out that legacy.
Hey, wait, that’s the idea!
I second ksagnostic’s comment elsewhere: You want opinion line? Your useless spam filter will create it. Blech!
A newborn girl who was found crying in a garbage bin in Queens, NY on Monday night was in stable condition Tuesday in the intensive care unit at Elmhurst Hospital Center, where the staff has unofficially named her Christina because she was found around Christmas. A barber, Luis Cordero, 19, and some boys on skateboards had heard the girl’s screams from inside a paper bag and rescued her from the garbage, nearly dead from exposure to the subfreezing cold, as temperatures began dropping to near 20 degrees.
Not all monsters are in Hollywood movies or killing children in abortion mills.Police are seeking the parents.
Maybe the mother knew the baby would have no health care because Republicans want poor sick kids to suffer and die.
This typepad thing is going to discourage me from posting. Get it nearly everytime.
‘Last throes’ delayed successful anti-IED strategy.
In early 2006, the U.S. strategy in Iraq began to shift from hunting bombs to hunting bombmakers. The focus on breaking up bombmaking networks, accompanied with “a broader counterinsurgency strategy this year,” has brought “casualties from the bombs” to “their lowest point since 2003, the first year of the war.” According to USA Today, the strategy “was ignored or rejected for years by key decision-makers,” like Vice President Dick Cheney, who “insisted the insurgency was dying”:That plan and others mirroring the counterinsurgency blueprint that the Pentagon now hails as a success were pitched repeatedly in memos and presentations during the following two years, at meetings that included then-Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby. […]Bush administration officials, however, remained wedded to the idea that training the Iraqi army and leaving the country would suffice. Officials, including Cheney, insisted the insurgency was dying. Those pronouncements delayed the Pentagon from embracing new plans to stop IEDs and investing in better armored vehicles that allow troops to patrol more freely, documents and interviews show.In May 2005, Cheney declared to CNN that the insurgency in Iraq was in its “last throes.”
This almost makes me think that plans to make things better in Iraq were passed over so the occupation would continue. Just a thought
” sea ice grew by more than 150,000 square kilometers (about 58,000 square miles) per day for about 10 days”
Wow, about 580,000 square miles of ice. Twice the size of Texas. In 10 days. That just boggles the mind!!!
Ya know, I had a brilliant post!! But the spambot won’t let brilliance publish anymore, so . . . your loss, all.
;-)
Tried again – NO! This spambot is ridiculous. Until WEBlog gets this mess ironed out, I’m probably out of here.
Good luck, editors. It’s been fun.
Mulvane City Manager Hixson has called Wellingtons City Manager Gus Collins and congratulated Wellington for being the host city for the casino as Mulvane does not want to be any part of the casino issue any longer. Congrats is in order for Sumner County as a whole and best wishes for a very successful endeavor. More can be seen on this in the Wellington Daily News. It is official it will be at exit 19, I just hope now Harrahs and MGM will go ahead and put in proposals at Exit 19 also. If not good riddens.
Congress is sending the large appropriations bill to Bush nearly three months late, something Republicans try to remind the public at every turn.
But what they don’t mention is that a year ago, when they controlled Congress, Republicans gave up on passing 10 of the 12 fiscal 2007 spending bills, leaving Democrats to clean up the problem at the start of this year.
At least we get some port security, and cargo inspections with the new funding. Something the Repubs. ignored for years.
Congrats to Kansas’ Mark Mangino by being named the Associated Press Coach of the Year!
Get in my belly!
Max, you really need to have that socialist bee in your bonnet looked at… it is becoming quite obssessive for you…
And, by the way, there WAS no medicare under FDR!! That came later!!
ksagnostic — dont you get sort of tired of all of the spinning on the Blog?? It makes me dizzy just watching it!!
“That came later!!”
Thanks to the “”Greatest” (gimme) Generation.
GMC70: I agree with you … the “spambot” is vexing. Recently I entered the correct numbers/letters but it still didn’t pass me in. But have you noticed the numbers/letters are clearer than formerly? It is irritating to type in a supurb, near genius commentary only to lose it to the spambot.
It does appear that opinion editor Phillip Brownlee sits high in the downtown Wichita EAGLE tower waiting to pounce on WE Blogger’s entries which he disapproves.
“” sea ice grew by more than 150,000 square kilometers (about 58,000 square miles) per day for about 10 days”
Wow, about 580,000 square miles of ice. Twice the size of Texas. In 10 days. That just boggles the mind!!!”
Posted by: littlejohn | December 19, 2007 at 04:40 PM
No, read what you copy/pasted… about 58,000 sq miles, NOT 580,000.
And “sea ice extent remained below normal for November, though it was not a record low.”
To: President Bush and Congress, read http://www.wen2k.com/tell.php?Id=804 . It shows m,y idea to increase fuel economy in cars and trucks as well as suv’s. Herbert West III, Publisher/JOurnalist west dot herb at yahoo dot com.
For the record…
I AM seeing more checks on my posts. The squiggly letter thing?
But I haven’t had any refused yet.
Knock wood
First they take the guns from the mentally ill, then they’ll come after yours, right?http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071220/pl_nm/usa_guns_dc_3
If we want to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here, we’d better go into Saudi Arabia!http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071220/wl_nm/iraq_saudi_fighters_dc_2
Ummm they got those guns from the mentally ill, Phantom LOL