Texsox

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 10:55 PM) Do you think I just fell off a turnip truck? I’m hip to your sorry-ass-no-green-using-sit-back-and-wait-to-see-what-sort-of-responses-this-provokes tactics. Can you believe that 17,108 of those 30,242 gun deaths were suicides? I never would have guessed so high. Should we informally consider them in your criminal category or the nuts category? There might even be an al-Qaeda joke hidden in here somewhere, too. Nuke wasn't around, I thought I'd help out the NRA crowd a bit. BTW, I have owned various firearms, and do not believe they have a role in home protection when there are kids in the house. I also do not believe the founders predicted modern armies and guns in the hands of average citizens having no roll in protecting the country or procuring food.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 10:09 PM) Not trying to pick a fight here, just reacting to the "us" versus "those nuts in the Middle East" dichotomy. I'll just mention that in 2002 there were 30,242 gun deaths in the U.S. Carry on. Most of these are honest citizens defending themselves from criminals.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 10:17 PM) This is not meant as a slam, and I'm not looking to fight , but...everytime I see a list of songs that someone has on their iPod it looks like this. A bunch of songs by a bunch of bands that I've never heard. What, nobody listens to U2? Nobody likes to throw in the Rolling Stones Greatest Hits? Ever heard of Willie Nelson? Wasn't "Appetite for Destruction" as important to anyone else as it was to me? That said, I wish I had the pc knowledge and power to download the songs on your list. I'd like to give them a spin. Oh, and "What's Goin' On?" is an awesome song. It will remain pertinent for eternity. Genesis, T-Rex, Clash, Smokey, Faces (Rod and Ron), all seem pretty mainstream to an old guy.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 02:12 PM) Me too. I disagreed with his positions a lot, but he always held true to what he believed and didn't waffle on what he thought. Yes, he never waffled in his beliefs, for those interested I4E can be found here.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 18, 2005 -> 02:53 PM) I ate at a Subway once. get kicked out?

Baba O'Reilly Saturday in the Park Evil Woman Long and Winding Road

Love it.

In the beginning I couldn't find enough info, now I have to trip over the story.

I'll admit that unless there is something huge happening I don't click the link, I turn the page, I flip the channel. It seems like another day brings more of the same.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 06:24 PM) I was thinking the same thing.

Murtha 2008? McCain - Murtha 2008? McCain + Conservative Dem = Dream Ticket Politically, I believe the GOP wants this settled before the presidential primaries. This is not the issue that will help them. We could also see some Dems dragging their feet, hoping for an "issue".

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 18, 2005 -> 08:15 AM) Nepotism sucks. Jeb 2012 The last installment of the BFD Trilogy

YAS, maybe it is a spiraling of this by both parties, and I know as a country we have long given up on a President acting Presidential. But I stand by my point, no one bothered to attack the statement yesterday, in an all too common reaction, they instead attacked his character and made a nice sound bite about waving a white flag to terrorists. I didn't read a shot at Bush, just a difference in opinion on the course of action in Iraq. During this administration, a CIA operative was outed, two decorated Veterans who ran against Bush were smeared. If you believe that is how our highest levels of government should conduct themselves, then we have different views. Peace, Larry.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 18, 2005 -> 08:00 AM) Yea, and then the f***ers came back at midnight and voted for the cuts anyway. And they cut all the things that hurt the little people. IMAGINE THAT. I guarantee you that if the Democrats EVER get off their ass and get a message besides "we ain't Bush" they would win in a f***ing LANDSLIDE right now. It will take more than a message. The GOP Radio Network will destroy any message that is genuine. I don't know how to separate the marketing from the message. Politics of ideas is dead, politics of marketing hype, is here. If you vote GOP, you can smugly high five Rush, Hannity, et. al. and feel smarter than the rest. What I really think the Dems need is a hero. An icon. Sadly, there are none currently. I think they are waiting for the Senator from Illinois, but that is a very risky strategy.

Bush has used this tactic much more than anyone since Nixon. What Bush did to McCain was wrong on so many levels. And that style has not changed. I can't remember anyone outing a CIA agent for political gain. Clinton spent much of his second term deflecting attacks, he never was in a position to smear. At the minimum, Bush has been the most successful at this since Nixon's first term and re-election. And I say Bush's administration, but I believe the entire GOP party is in that mode. Did it start at the top or was it grass roots?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 18, 2005 -> 07:38 AM) I agree with the fact that basically the current plan is to draw the "Terrorists" into Iraq and fight them there. It's all but said. And to tell you the truth, that's probably what needs to happen, at least in the short order... until they get their army in gear - which is closer to happening then it was 6 months ago by all accounts. Again, from some of the rhetoric that I have seen here - 80-90% of the Iraqi's "hate us and don't want us there"... where do people get this? I just do not hear that from people that have been over there for extended periods of time. If we were using their country as a magnet for terrorists to come and shoot at us, should they be happy? If the theory that all the terorrists are content to shoot at us in Iraq, (which just doesn't make sense to me), aren't we being unfair to Iraq?

Kap, here is one thing I am very disappointed in President Bush. I cannot remember an administration that smears people faster who disagree. Reagan was a master at not doing that, yet always getting his way. Bush Sr. was decent at it, Clinton somewhere in between. But this administration reacts like a rapid dog as soon as anyone dares to disagree. His first month in office led me to believe he would be one of the greatest at building bridges, but it hasn't worked out that way. I can't imagine what he would have done if the Dems had control of either house.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 18, 2005 -> 07:27 AM) Because now that we're there, all the extremists are there. If we leave, the power vacuum is such that you will have a United Islamist State of Iraq, with their new best friends Iran. And that CANNOT happen. In a democracy, if that is who they vote in, don't we have to accept that? And the point that some proponents of withdrawing are making is the criminals are there because we are there. Remember even the pro-war folks claim that because we are there, the terrorists aren't attacking here? I love this irony. Hawk " we are winning the war on terror by engaging the enemy in Iraq. They will not come to America while we are in Iraq. Dove "so Iraq would be better off if we were gone and the terrorists left to battle us in another area. We are there to help Iraq, right?!" It seems as if we are using Iraq as a shooting range and US military personnel as targets. I believe we need to have serious dialog with the goal being getting out by the end of 2006. That has got to be better than a "stay until whenever plan". Plan your work, work your plan. Failure to plan your work, is preparing for failure. Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

"See the mission through" doesn't Rep. Johnson know it's accomplished??

Well the attack dogs are out, which is very sad. Honest debate should be encouraged. I don't see where leaving soon is a defeat. Isn't Sadaam removed from power? I keep seeing him in a court room, not commanding. Maybe it's a defeat to military suppliers who are hoping for a multi-year involvement to boost the bottom line. Until we say, what will it take to get out? And honestly answer that, why is the default a presumed defeat?

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 17, 2005 -> 11:42 PM) Lordy, what a relief! To click on a link without something REALLY weird happening around here. I am embarrassed to say that I fooled around ripping his chest hair more than one time because the first voice sounded like our beloved George W. to me and it seemed extra strange. I never watched Baywatch. Go figure. No Little Britain postings DePloderer? He even asked me to re-wax him, I couldn't stop. And I never watched Baywatch either.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 17, 2005 -> 09:47 PM) I don't get it. Nor will you until you are married . . .

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 17, 2005 -> 09:54 PM) The brains behind the band is clearly the brother....the hotness is most definitely the sisters' strength:) What brother?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 17, 2005 -> 09:48 PM) oh go on, Tex...and leave me breathless. I didn't know you were family