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See there's the problem, conservatives want the press to push stuff.

I thought you said the terrorists.

Unfortunately based in part on how we fund education in this country the poor do not arrive at college's doors with the same set of tools as others. Funding schools through property taxes has been a great way to continue the class system in this country. Middle class and rich schools can pay for better qualified, more experienced teachers, up do date text books, computers, decent classroom conditions, etc. Highland Park Texas, Kap's neck of the woods, requires a PhD to teach science in their high school. Los Fresnos High School in south Texas finally was able to hire a science teacher under a federal program that will forgive part of a teacher's student loans if they teach in disadvantaged schools. Which student is more likely to be successful in a college Bio-tech program? It isn't always about desire, or hard work. Racism is still alive and well in this country. Companies still discriminate. Small business is the fastest growing segment of the population and largly uneffected by anti-discrimination laws. Is anyone aguing that being born middle class, straight, thin, and white is a disadvantage in this country? The only question is how big of an advantage is it? Anyone have an alternate theory why more minorities die fighting wars in the this country then they are represented in the general population?

Oklahoma City isn't exactly a high profile target. I wouldn't be to surprised if terrorists did try and strike in the heart land. Sadaam and his government was evil, but more importantly, we knew we could kick their ass. I am also beginning to wonder if kicking the s*** out of some country wasn't a great way for our country to gain back some self respect and help our collective conciousness. Nice to know if anyone else decides to start something we can destroy them in a few months.

1) Who will win? (MIN/CHI) (3 points) MIN 2) Which team will turn the ball over more? (CHI/MIN) (2 points) CHI 3) How many TD's will Randy Moss catch? (3 points) 0 4) Which team will have more rushing yards? (CHI/MIN) (2 points) MIN 5) Who will lead the Bears in receptions? (3 points) Wade 6) How many FG's for Edinger? (2 points) 1 7) Who will have more tackles, Briggs or Urlacher? (3 points) Urlacher 8) Will Ogun record a sack? (Y/N) (2 points) No 9) Will Daunte Culpepper lose a fumble? (Y/N) (2 points) No 10) How many sacks for the Vikings? (3 points) 3 Tiebreaker: How many passing yards for Grossman. 198

If people vote for President George W. Bush because gas prices are down a dime, so be it. The President and elected leaders should do what is right and the public should be able to separate the normal running of the government versus electioneering. But we all have short memories. Same thing with those people predicting Binny being paraded forward as a last minute election stunt. I cannot imagine the President having the capacity to capture Binny and not using it. If they could have gotten him two years ago, they would have. If they could have gotten him two months ago, they would have. If they wanted to get him two minutes ago, they would have. Problem is, they cannot get him.

Talk of a draft is always poor vs. middle class, white vs. minority. For every Pat Tilman there are thousands of disenfranchised poor with limited options. To believe that every soldier is driven by a patriotic call to duty is totally misguided. Whenever the economy is bad, recruits are up. The reason that it is a scare tactic is it scares the white politicians who like the all volunteer military, especially when there is a continous line of poor minorities willing to serve. Read the names of the deceased, look at their pictures, then compare it to a group shot of the Senate. Hmmm, that Senate shot sure looks pasty white. Why is it always a minority member of the House or Senate that tosses out a press release regarding a draft? Would Congress be so quick to war if Congress knew there was an honest chance we would be sending their own kids? In one national study I read in the McAllen Monitor, white guidance counselors were almost 75% more likely to recommend a minority to the military than a white student with similar grades.

The GOP's campaign is working. Rejoice and be Glad! When it hits 2% only the fringe wackos will believe, then the Republican government can do whatever they want and we'll all go skipping down the yellow brick road whistling a happy tune. Get your GOP news right here! Buy your GOP news right here! Direct from President Rush to you, get your GOP news! The only news for America! Here's what the GOP wants you to believe! 100% Right Wing Biased, just like you like it! No truth, no independence, all right wing approved! It's sad that so many people want to give up their rights. Give up independent judges, give up the media, give up your right to free speech. Just bury your heads in the sand. Remember when the media was in bed with the Bush campaign alledging that Kerry had an affair with the intern. Where were all the conservative remarks then? Oh I forgot, that was an honest mistake by Matt Drudge and Fox.

It isn't that expensive.

Attack the technique, not the thought. A draft would make the military too white and that does scare the lilly white Republicans who cannot imagine their kids in the Army. And now they cannot hide their kids in the National Guard. Unlike the scare tactics used to get us in Iraq. Or the scare tactics that the right uses to increase the military budget, or the scare tactic the right uses to force through tax cuts, or the scare tactics Cheney used two weeks ago about a terrorist attack if Kerry was elected, or the scare tactics Bush uses about gay marriage, or the . . .

loose or tight really depends on the game, the current money situation, and your opponenets. Some games favor a more aggressive stance, as do some situations. It's all about money management and probabilities and knowing when you have an edge.

While the technology for implanting has been perfected, so to has the technology for a hand held detection scanner. The kidnappers do a quick scan, pop out the knife, a little local surgery, and they are done.

IN fine college tradition I like how they quickly turned it into a ping pong table. I would have carefully reconfigured it as a tribute t the brave firefighters the world over. Hell, who can argue with a post 9/11 tribute to fire fighters

I think everyone should have at least three email addys. Keep your regular POP server type with a full service email program. Use another web based service for mailing lists, traveling, etc. and find another to toss junk mail towards like those annoying site requests, etc.

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The problem we will have if a third party really gained a foothold is our government would grind to a standstill without one party having a majority. Hmmm, maybe that is a good idea It would be total grid lock. Here's why we are in this mess. If you took the US population and graphed their political range, we would have a bell curve with most being middle of the road moderate. Add that to an inexact label of liberal or conservative. A conservative in California could be a liberal in West Texas. So in the olden days a California GOP candidate may be more liberal that a Texas Democrat. Still with me? Now one thing that Americans do very, very, well is marketing. We have Dems vs. GOPers just like Coke vs. Pepsi. Imagine if Pepsi and Coke changed their formula based on markets? Same thing with political parties. Trying to market a range of beliefs across the country vs. getting everyone to support the same thing. So over the past decades the Dems and the GOP divided up issues and positions and have dove to the left and right. Their members individual voting records do not reflect their true feelings and are not in line with the majority of Americans. Combine that with a press that is expected to search anywhere and everywhere for news, the more tintilating the better, we have flawed candidates.

OMG, I thought it said Roker In middle school it was pitching quarters, in HS we played poker by tossing the money into a text book that had been hollowed out.

You have to love the two party system, where the cream rises to the top.

These are two of our greatest men. Either one would make us proud and do a fine job as President. :puke

Jim starting to roam? Maybe having him fixed would be better. Of course he may gain a few pounds . . .

Yall are making me so damn homesick.

I understand, then next off season we'll be complaining we don't have a decent 1st baseman and/or LFer and will need some sort of trade to fill the hole at 1st or LF. When can we fill a hole without creating a new one? :rhetorical question:

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