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QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 02:59 PM) Pratt, Your right, Iran has never threated the US. But prior to the declaration after Pearl Harbor, Germany had never threated the US either. So if Germany had never declared on the US, we should of just stayed out because they only wanted to kill "Every Jew", "take over Europe", but never had any specific statements on eyeing the US? We were in limited shooting naval combat with the Germans as early as 1940.

Quinnipiac Poll Lamont - 54 Lieberman - 41 Lamont has spent 1/3 of Lieberman's money in this primary. Lieberman has hired 4000 people to do GOTV, including College Republican groups.

Uhhh, what? I just think that guns and booze don't mix. And any sheriff who can't see that and orders his deputies to be armed 24/7 regardless of situation or context is pretty dumb.

I'm not talking about settlers, I'm talking about military.

What are you talking about? There were hundreds of military votes in Florida that did get counted - despite not meeting the criteria for being a countable vote. Many of them were postmarked after the election, many of them were signed and dated after the election. A full state recount was ordered and stopped. If the Bush administration truly thought they were winning this state, they'd have let every vote be counted. You don't fight a recount if you have the votes to win.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 01:38 AM) Also Joe is requiring all his officers on and off duty to be carring there service weapons 24 hours a day 7 days a week. That should be great when off duty cops decide to tie one on.

Exactly, people who follow the polls will get 65% of the vote, as long as those people aren't Hillary Clinton.

Pulling their forces out of Gaza is a relative term. They never really fully withdrew, still maintaining checkpoints within the strip.

I'm going to close this. We talk about a lot of issues here in the Filibuster forum - the death penalty is one of them. However, what we don't do is bring up profiles of people up for execution in a theme of celebrating death. We don't celebrate death at soxtalk. Regardless of circumstance. Thanks

I'm willing to wager that half of Perot's votes in 1992 came from voters who would have stayed home on Election Day rather than voted for Bush.

GA-04 Dem Primary Runoff (Insider Advantage) Johnson 49 McKinney (Incumbent) 34 I wonder if she'll run as an independent since the party is leaving her. FL Senate (Rasmussen) Nelson (D, Incumbent) 61% Harris ® 33%

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 01:36 AM) A group of my close friends and I are starting to plan a cruise for winter break and it'll be my first one, so I really don't know where to start in planning this all. Basically I'd like to know: What's the best cruise line to go through? What should I expect to pay for the cruise/airfare? And to go along with that, where's the best place to find a cheap one? Should we book the cruise and airfare seperately or together? And any thing else you guys know would be much appreciated. Thanks for the help in advance I sell cruises for a living. What kind of experience do you want? Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? How old are you and your friends? All those questions matter a lot in terms of what you want to do. If you're going to have people travelling under 21, and no parents tagging along - Royal Caribbean isn't an option. However the Crown and Caribbean Princess are really nice ships and 18 year olds can travel unaccompanied by an adult most of the time.

Balta: you haven't figured this out. Anything that happens in Iraq is clearly the fault of Iran and Syria. And anything that happens in Lebanon is clearly the fault of the Lebanese.

You know what's great? The French press kinda fell over themselves in love with Landis despite themselves. The story was just so good and the fact that he was cycling with a degenerative hip that needs replaced.... They hate Armstrong - partially because he kinda fundamentally changed the sport - and he never tested positive for anything.

You mean innocent until proven guilty, right?

QUOTE(WCSox @ Aug 2, 2006 -> 12:16 PM) The new Iraq government can't provide social services? That's another load of crap. They've been doing so for over a year. Also consider that the vast majority of the violence in Iraq is in Baghdad (and mostly becuase Iran and Syria are sending terrorists there), while the rest of the nation is relatively peaceful. And how's that "internal peace" thing going in Hezbollah-run Lebanon? LOL. Baghdad gets electricity 8 hours out of the day. There are 24 hours in the Iraqi day. The oil pipeline reconstruction project that the Americans and Iraqis have been working to increase revenue for the government has still not been completed two years behind schedule. An effort to create 140 primary health clinics in Iraq have created all of 20 three years into the project. Before last month, Beirut had health care, electricity AND a tourism industry. So yeah, I'd say that the Iraqi government's administration of social services would be not as good as the Lebanese administration of social services.

Perhaps you failed to note the past tense. Perhaps you failed to note the past tense. And I don't hear about a lot of Lebanese on Lebanese violence in Lebanon at the moment either - which would be the definition of "internal" peace.

There's no guarantee of an overthrow if Fidel dies. I expect little to actually change for a few months at least - and most likely a gradual moderation. If the US wanted to see Fidel's power disappear, we'd end the embargo and make it fair game for US interests to reappear in Cuba.

Hezbollah is not the government of Lebanon. So yeah, when youre fighting a non-state actor - you have to fight proportionally. Or you do lose, because then you're treating the non-state actor like a state actor and giving it legitimacy and the prize it was looking for which was a war with Israel in the first place.

The election was Clinton's whether or not Perot was in the race. I think Perot kept Clinton from hitting a majority and kept Bush from hitting 40%. BTW: Some enterprising blogger researchers at this point have identified over 55K of the 60+K that the Green Party raised for this Senate candidate has come from GOP donors. So far only the $30 that the candidate has donated to his own campaign has shown itself to be confirmed to be not from a GOP donor.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Aug 1, 2006 -> 06:42 PM) Yeah, Hezbollah MAY moderate itself over time. But for the forseeable future, they were gladly accepting rockets from Iran and happily kidnapping Israeli soldiers. There's absolutely no evidence that they were headed in that direction... quite the contrary, actually. There's probably a better chance of me winning the lottery sometime over the next decade than Hezbollah ceasing terrorist activities and becoming a peaceful political party. I don't think that the revolutoins in Iraq and Lebanon are comparable. Iraq's was orchestrated by the most powerful military in the world and the infrastructure is being rebuilt by the wealthiest government in the world. And while that's going on, the military is providing security. The Iraqis also have an important natural resource that could bring a economic prosperity into their nation. So you're completely dismissing any chance of a political process to work in a peaceful Lebanon? Then why didn't we go into Lebanon in 2003 when we were fighting terror over in the middle east? They actually have a legit terrorist organization operating at the time with government approval. The reason a political process has a chance to work is the same reason it worked in the Cedar Revolution. Because the people deemed it necessary and important to do what was done. This was a people power revolution, and sometimes all changes take some time to fully accomplish what was set out. The revolutions in Iraq and Lebanon are not at all comparable, we agree there. One took place three years ago and the results of which are still as violent as the current Israel/Hezbollah conflict. One had a new government democratically elected which coalesced fairly rapidly. The other took 6 months to form a cabinet and prime minister from election results. One government was able to provide some social services and provide a relative internal peace and security for its people. The other hasn't and still doesn't. In terms of revolutions, I think we saw the successful one destroyed this past month.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 1, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) Its all liberal media bias. I love America.... and puppies. But you should see what he does with kittens.

If you think nothing at all changes when one party takes over two houses of Congress you haven't been paying attention since 1994.

That's not what I said at all. I said that over time Hezbollah may moderate itself. Further, you said Revolutions take time. The Lebanese revolution happened last year. That was a revolution from within and institutions had really just begun to be created. That would have helped move Hezbollah away from either power within the government or as a terrorist force. And it would have hopefully happened from help from other states looking to see a democratic Lebanon succeed.

Optimism in August? Is that allowed here?