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I haven't even heard them.

Because she hasn't, I will.

It's a Catch 22 it seems for most cities. The ones that need the best police protection can't seem to afford to pay even average salaries to its finest.

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 01:14 PM) Ditto. Give me Instant Karma or # Nine Dream any day. I was just thinking about #9 Dream and Mind Games myself. And I was thinking the split duets on Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey between John and Yoko were really good too.

WHITESOXRANDY on Tommy John:

LOL! Post of the year!

There was a Larryville band that I was really into. But now I don't remember their name.

Never said I want to. I just came out and sure enough, there's a Barbara Streisand record in my collection and a picture of Judy Garland on the wall.... comes with the toaster oven I guess.

Apparently Rice's visit went so badly, it is spelling trouble for Merkel's already tenuous grip on power. Her government might not last six months.

I have to like ABBA. It's my heritage.

Except even the Israelis don't torture. Because it doesn't work. And I don't think that anyone has more experience dealing with suicide bombers than these people.

Can't say I disagree about Imagine. Far from my favorite Lennon song - it's lauded up as an amazing piece of songwriting when it reality, it's oversimplistic, poorly produced and lyircally far from his best. I'd also have to put Hotel California up there. "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley as well.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:10 AM) VICTORY is a fully functioning government elected by the people of Iraq. That elected government will have control of the armies of Iraq, which will need to be strong enough to fight off the terrorists who will wish to bring that government down. When these objectives are met, the troops will come home. Pretty clear, if I can come up with it. Go ahead, s*** away about how I'm wrong. Kind of a catch 22 isn't it? How do we know for certain that the government of Iraq is fully functioning without us there to prop it up? And if that is our government's definition of victory, how does the military reach that goal? Kap, I think you nailed on the head what a "victory" in Iraq would be. The problem is you can't shoot your way to a stable government. Self-determination involves the determination of the Iraqi people to want stability. We can offer some help militarily, but the bulk of our solution at this point is economic and diplomatic - it seems to me at least. We need to renew our commitment as a nation to Iraq. We need to change our approach in its reconstruction, politically and structurally. That's been where our problem has been the whole time since the fall of Saddam Hussein. For all the people that like to trumpet the fraud and corruption of the UN's Oil for Food program, the amount of waste and fraud that's taken place in our administration of the reconstruction makes OFF pale in comparison. Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to recall reading that less than 1 in 5 reconstruction dollars seems to actually go to reconstruction in Iraq. We need to take steps to ensure that Sunnis are not further marginalized politically because doing so only feeds the insurgency. We need to take better steps in reaching out to former Baathists who aren't under trial for crimes against humanity and include them in the new Iraq as long as they are willing to be honest brokers. Because even the bad guys who ruled Iraq are still guys in Iraq - and if we want to build a model for democracy in the region - they have to have a say, even if we don't want to.

So because the French say it's OK, mean it's OK? Torture is never acceptable IMHO. I do believe that there are some moral absolutes. And torturing someone for any reason is one of those No-Nos that I live by.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 10:40 AM) I hear ya. Which is what I was thinking when the assumption was made that these guys were Christians. Of course, that was also done without any basis in fact. Of course they aren't Christians. Christians don't do that. But it doesn't mean they don't self-identify as a Christian. I doubt it's an evolutionist plot tho. In Lawrence they all sip Lattes at the Bourgeois Pig while discussing the merits of Wittgenstein. Not a violent bunch.

Hey again, we're arguing two different things. The war in Iraq is different than the war on terror. Always has been. And for all the people here saying that Dean is a clueless asshat, nobody here has said what victory in the Iraq war at this point would even mean. Maybe it's because that has never been defined. And if you don't define victory, you can't achieve it.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 08:10 PM) Jim Daniels used to do the night show right? Like late nights? If that was him and I think it was (he had a few other guys usually) it was a really entertaining show. Yeah. I think it was his show that made me into a big sports fan in 2002-2003. He did sports radio right. Its about sports, but more. And funny too.

I lived in Lawrence. Beatings like that just don't happen randomly.

And who didn't love the HUGE show before Jurko Harry and that other guy?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 05:46 PM) (the earliest copy of the illiad, by the way, is dated at something like 400 B.C. and it was written in 900 B.C. do we question it's legitimacy?) How many people try to base law on the Iliad?

QUOTE(Balance @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 05:34 PM) The president would not have had to spin-doctor intelligence and lie to the American public to support our involvement in WWII, the Civil War, or the Revolutionary War. There was no question that those wars were just. Our president got us into Iraq based on statements that, at best, could be described as "half-truths." To be fair, I think there's plenty of information to point to the fact that Roosevelt was waiting for an excuse to get into war with Germany in 1941. In fact, they already were moving to a limited shooting war with the Germans over the Atlantic. The Revolutionary War - well there are reasons to argue that it was the opposite of a just war - the colonists who led the charge seemed to be doing so instead of facing a revolt from the working poor. There was a lot of tension between the haves and the have nots in the 1770's and may of the elite colonists saw this as a way to focus this anger away from them and towards the British. Even so, how we got into war doesn't matter when it comes to winning the war. You don't win or lose a war you're currently fighting because of your past. You win it because of what you do now and 10 minutes from now and 10 days from now. I think Dean is right. The way we are approaching our situation in Iraq, I don't think victory is on the table. That being said, I don't think cutting and running is the answer. I think defining what our victory is and whether or not there's even a victory to get is the answer. I think Dean is saying that there's no more victory to have here. We took the horse to water, bent its muzzle into the river but we can't force it to drink.

Randi Rhodes>>Lionel. My favorite on-air personalities were: Jim Daniels - used to do overnights on Fox Sports Radio, went to Afternoons... since then, who knows. Jay Marvin - formerly nights on 89 WLS, now doing mornings on the Air America affiliate in Boulder Co and filling in for Springer and about five other syndicated liberal talkers when they go on vacation.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 04:58 PM) It's like trying to prove a certain musician is the best ever. Are you doubting Rush? It's so complex! And I have the math to back it up.

So when is a distracting sound constitute indecent exposure?

I think you should leave feedback when youre comfortable that their end of the transaction has been completed to your satisfaction or lack thereof.