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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 11:29 AM) Tex, All I can say, is if you get a chance to see her speak live, take it. You might change your thinking a bit. Her demeanor and "swagger" has changed quite a bit in the last six years. She may fire up the Dems, but it will not unite. Not even close. She is a lightening rod. Dear James, This is it. The Republicans have circled their wagons and decided that control of the Senate is down to four states. They are going to throw every desperate, lying, misleading, dirty tactic they have left in the Republican playbook at our candidates. It's going to be a long two weeks. But even the Republicans know that if we win in Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee, and New Jersey, then Democrats will take back the Senate. It's that simple. Together, we have given to or raised more than $11 million dollars for Democratic candidates and committees since the end of 2004. Every day we are spending and giving more to elect Democrats. Every day. But we can't stop now. In two weeks, Election Day will be here. But to win, we need to make a final push starting right now. The cash that candidates have on hand by this Friday will determine how large their final media buys can be. And these four Senate races are so close that the size of Friday's media buys may be the difference between victory and defeat. Will you join us in lending your immediate support to four must-win Senate candidates? Take back the Senate: contribute to candidates' final media buys In Tennessee, Harold Ford, Jr. is running for the history books. He opposes President Bush's failed "stay the course" policy in Iraq and supports Democrats' efforts to achieve energy independence. His victory on the Tuesday after next will bring one of the most impressive voices of his generation to the Senate. "It's time for a Senator on OUR side." That's what Claire McCaskill is saying all across Missouri in her effort to unseat Senator Jim Talent, a Bush rubber-stamp Republican who was recently named by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) one of the "Oil Slick Seven" for doing the bidding of Big Oil. The Talent campaign has launched vicious, personal attacks against Claire McCaskill. With your help, we can make sure that Missouri's voters see through his unwillingness to tell them what he really believes in. Take back the Senate: contribute to candidates' final media buys The next person we need by our side in the Senate -- Bob Menendez -- is already there and already leading the way on one critical issue after another, starting with Iraq. Bob had the courage to vote in favor of my amendment to change course, set a deadline in Iraq, and bring our heroes home. He has been endorsed by the LCV for his outstanding record in the environmental community, and he deserves to win election to a full term in the Senate. Jim Webb in Virginia, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former Secretary of the Navy, is our fourth must-win Senate candidate. He's running neck-and-neck against George Allen, the GOP incumbent who -- just a few short weeks ago -- was considered all but unbeatable. Allen, whose true character has been put on display for Virginia and the nation to see this fall, has been placed on the LCV's "Dirty Dozen" list of the 12 members of Congress with the worst environmental records. Take back the Senate: contribute to candidates' final media buys In each of these four key races, we've got momentum on our side. But in every one of them, the outcome is up for grabs. Pull out all the stops. Let's get it done. Let's win. Sincerely, John Kerry Paid for by Friends of John Kerry. Authorized by McCaskill for Missouri Authorized by Harold Ford Jr. for Tennessee Authorized by Menendez for Senate, Inc Authorized by Webb for Senate 2006

I was thinking about prison sentences and all they are suppose to do: Protect Society from the individual Protect Society from others like this individual (making an example) Rehabilitate offender Satiate society's thirst for revenge/justice Satiate the victim's thirst for justice/revenge Balancing this is the cost, both human, and monetary that locking someone up and rehab programs cost. Wow, how we ever get that right is beyond me.

That would be an interesting move. As always, it would depend on how much NY is willing to spend on A-Rod's contract.

Water is a huge issue here. On one end, Mexico owes us a couple trillion acre feet of water from a 150 year old treaty, water our farmers badly needs and on the other, on our ballot is a $100,000,000 bond issue to improve storm water drainage throughout the county.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 11:52 PM) Tex, Why? More than a few things, number one, I believe we need someone who could unite the country, not further divide them. We need someone with Reagan's or (early version) Bill Clinton pr abilities. The biggest magic that happened with Reagan was making us feel better about our future and our ability to overcome adversity. We had the embarrassment of Nixon, the clumsiness of Ford in W.I.N., and the paralysis of Carter. Then Reagan comes riding in, literally, bigger than life and gives us back our swagger. With the terrorism threat, we need someone who can give us back our swagger. Hillary aint it.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 24, 2006 -> 07:16 AM) That's true. There were thousands of people wiped out because of these bastards. And to clarify, there were thousands of people wiped out because of illegal acts committed by these bastards. CEOs, COOs, CFOs, etc. can still be incompetent and wipe out your pension, as long as they do it legally. Which is something I think about when the topic of private investments in Social Security comes up, but that is a different horse to whip.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 10:31 PM) Jim Edgar. Edgar Scissors Hand?? Yep, he was pretty good also.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 12:18 PM) I can't remember the last time we had a gubernatorial candidate that was worth their salt. Adlai Stevenson, Jim Thompson . . .

And, he is sooo banned from here

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 10:06 PM) I think it's sort of strange to talk about "early voting". Absentee, ya, I understand. But "early voting"? That's one of the things that they said skewed the exit polling on election day two years ago. Kind of weird, to me. Yah yah yah, go make our next Governor a Jewish Cowboy

I can't think of any serious Republican candidates that I would not vote for instead of Hillary. She is so far down my list of candidates.

I don't have a good scale to know if this is fair or not. Rapists have gotten less. A drunk driver kills a person and gets less.

Be a human. Treat her like any other friend. Ask her if she would like to go do something, anything. Just call. She's probably as nervous as you are. Don't over think this. Be yourself.

I voted today. When the summary came on the screen, in contested contests, I voted for more Republicans and Independents than Dems. Here in South Texas, The GOP doesn't even bother to run a candidate in many races.

Here's a good bumper sticker: I Never Change My Mind -- I'm a Republican Nice to know that Republicans form their opinion at an early age and never, ever, change them. That would be flip flopping or going back on their word.

No way a mlb pitcher has something on his hand that he doesn't know about.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) /rolly Obama and Hillary... "I will serve my full term"... What bulls***. That is a very long list including the current President. Obviously a guy who never won office before, would be thinking about running for President. LOL. Think about it Kap. Do you really think he had formed plans to run for President way back then? He was trying to win his race. In the middle of that, you think he was thinking hey, people are going to really like me and I'll receive widespread support for a Presidential bid? No matter how hard conservatives try and lock up the nomination for Hillary, she won't be the candidate.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:19 PM) it's not like they played a major role here. You know, like dying or anything

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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 09:24 PM) Uh, Kap -- Not trying to quibble but we did have an election in 2004(not a mid-term) as well and this was posted on FR (Oct 10) less than a month before the Kerry/Bush election. So, the point you were going for is kinda moot. Again, I harken back to my Warren Ellis-esque statement about the barbary apes regarding politicians. So this is the traditional month before an election story.

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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) Nick Drake and Terry Kath are my dark horse choices, but I'll also throw Jimi in there. I think Jimi was heading off into amazing new directions so as not too be doing the Experience retread thing past its time. I don't know that the new stuff would have carried most of the fans of the earlier stuff with it, but the same can be said for theBand of Gypsies material and some of that stuff has withstood the test of time musically and socially better than a lot of the Experience stuff. Terry Kath is an interesting choice. While I was/am a big fan, I never really thought there was potential beyond some really uber popular stuff, not moving music in any direction. Jimi was the guy I thought of right away. I figured the thread would be dominated by PINHOs.

At least in this neck of the woods the greatest voting mischief is with absentee ballots. Buying votes is common enough that only the largest and most blatent abuses are fought over. We've had elections where four or five percent of the votes are absentee and 99% of them come in for one candidate. Imagine in a race with 5,000 voters than 700 or 800 are absentee and 670 vote for one hard working candidate who "got out the vote".