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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:

From the Department of Redundency Department

fire ants are nasty, nasty creatures. I have 429 bermuda in my backyard. The previous owner was the golf pro at a local country club and grabbed a bag of the same seed the fairways were seeded with. I haven't maintained it to the same standards so I do not have the super tight smooth surface. My front is a drought resistent St. Augustine that I love. Very green and takes almost zero water.

No one can really replace Adam Schiff.

I'd wait until next season's conclusion before making any decisions.

I hope to read a retirement notice on Sandy and an announcement he will be coaching somewhere in the system. I do not mind reloading for next season. Keep Shingo and Cliff.

Many times the stats proved the managers gut. You cannot factor in the human element into a spread sheet. I've also come to dislike almost all pitch hitting. Seems like a guy coming in cold doesn't do all that well.