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My two cents are: Of Mars.
Pete�
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 23:32:54 (EST)

My two cents are: No, Pete is a citizen.
Pete�
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 23:11:07 (EST)

My two cents are: So a judge bush hasnt purchased said the energy records must be turned over. suppose he will appeal this to the same court that handed him his illegitimate presidency. more secret government, we must become the taliban and al qieda to defeat them.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 22:18:13 (EST)

My two cents are: So we now have ten good reasons why Bush should promote lesbian marriage among the poor, and even better, 10 good reasons every republican can get behind. Life is great in the big tent, truly.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 22:11:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Now the real true beauty of the lesbian marriage idea as opposed to the bush plan, is that the government only has to create half as many marriages (since the welfare moms are marying each other) thus it also presents (9) a 50% cost saving over the bush plan!!! And of course we have (10) that it avoids the church state issue since the lezzie marriages arent recognized.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 22:10:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Ok, I kind of screwed that up. need to get the list correct about what promoting lesbian marriage among the poor solves. 1) creates 2 parent families; 2) solves the childcare problem for working mothers; 3)reduces the spread of HIV AIDS and other STD's 4) solves the problem of jailed absentee fathers 5) stops further births to women on public assistance; 6) reduces domestic violence; 7) curbs teen pregnancy; 8) eliminates the controversy over medicaid funded abortions. Please feel free to add your own ideas, this one really has legs, moreso than the bushidiots hetero plan!!!!
Borg 7 of 22
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 21:44:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, did I forget to mention that in addition to cutting HIV and other std's, child poverty, unwed mothers, teen pregnancy, the need for condoms in high school, that promoting lesbian marriage among the poor also virtually eliminates the need for medicaid funded abortions????
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 21:37:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, too may not have been a citizen.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 21:35:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Mineta's Bataan Death March Universal Press Syndicate | February 28, 2002 By Ann Coulter According to initial buoyant reports in early February, enraged travelers rose up in a savage attack on the secretary of transportation. Hope was dashed when later reports indicated that the irritated travelers were actually rival warlords, the airport was the Kabul Airport, and Norman Mineta was still with us. Thanks to the hard work of the Department of Transportation, which had already arrogated to itself responsibility for commercial air safety, 19 Muslim terrorists had absolutely no difficulty in turning four planes into cruise missiles almost simultaneously on Sept. 11, resulting in the death of thousands of Americans. Outside of government work, that's known as a "failure." But in the government, it is grounds for greater responsibility. In its wisdom, Congress turned over yet more power to the Department of Transportation: Nice work � what else can you do for us? Almost instantly, dreary, wrathful federal bureaucrats conceived of methods to make air travel still worse. Even those of us who burn with an all-consuming hatred for federal bureaucracies had to tip our hats. First, the government prohibited airport screeners from looking for terrorists. Second, the government scrapped airline pricing systems that allow passengers to pay $2,000 to avoid 50-minute lines. Just like in the Soviet Union of beloved memory, "equality" was the important thing. (Except government officials like Cabinet official Tommy Thompson, who skip the airport lines.) We'll all die, but at least we'll all die together. The only bright side is that in the government's obsessive drive for "equality," perhaps airport security guards will be forced to start searching Arabs now, too. Ethnic profiling is the only reasonable security measure that has been thwarted in the war on terrorism. Every other anti-American, left-wing attack on the war has failed miserably. Liberals denounced military tribunals, FBI interviews with Arab student visitors, the detention of terrorism suspects, monitoring conversations of jailed terrorists and the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo. All to no avail � except ethnic profiling. The whole country knows that goosing little old ladies boarding planes is not going to make us any safer. Even left-wing lawyer Floyd Abrams had the sense to say: "There's a big difference between being interned and being searched a little more at an airport." But we can't stop it. Transportation Secretary Mineta is angry and he wants America to suffer. In early December, "60 Minutes" host Steve Kroft interviewed Mineta about his dogged refusal to permit an extra check of people who look like the next and last 50 terrorists. Kroft noted that of 22 people on the most-wanted list right now: "[A]ll but one of them has complexion listed as olive. They all have dark hair and brown eyes. And more than half of them have the name Mohammed." (They are also all males in their 20s and 30s.) Thus, he asked Mineta if such people should be subjected to a little extra scrutiny. "No," Mineta responded, "not just on that basis alone." Other more important factors, Mineta explained, included asking "things like, 'Did you pay cash for this ticket or charge it on a credit card? Do you have a one-way ticket or a round-trip?'" Inasmuch as this was Steve Kroft and not Diane Sawyer conducting the interview, there was a relevant follow-up question: "Did the terrorists who flew into the World Trade Center have one-way tickets?" No, Mineta admitted, the Sept. 11 hijackers all had round-trip tickets they bought with credit cards. Let the record reflect that among President George Bush's dazzling team of advisers, the only stink-bomb is the one Democratic holdover from the Clinton administration. It is absolutely contemptible that Bush will not rid us of this scourge. It is safe to assume that it was not Mineta's stellar accomplishment of having sat on the House Public Works and Transportation Committee for 18 years that has led both Republican and Democratic presidents to seek his services so ardently. He is given plumb government jobs solely and exclusively because he is a minority. But Secretary Mineta is burning with hatred for America. He has taken the occasion of the most devastating attack on U.S. soil to drone on about how his baseball bat was taken from him as a child headed to one of Franklin Roosevelt's Japanese internment camps. As Mineta has endlessly recounted in interviews of late: "I remember on the 29th of May, 1942" � note that he remembers the day � "when we boarded the train in San Jose under armed guard, the military guard, I was in my Cub Scout uniform carrying a baseball, baseball glove and a baseball bat. And as I boarded the train, the MPs confiscated the bat on the basis it could be used as a lethal weapon." Good God! A guard took Mineta's baseball bat as a child, and as a result he's subjecting all of America to the Bataan Death March! Someone please give him a baseball bat.
go anne go : screw the liar liebral sociualsits
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 21:10:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Seems some conservatives are in a bit of a huff over the Adam and Steve play in California. Love seeing Sean Hannity almost have an apoplectic attack.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 20:55:01 (EST)

My two cents are: GW romps alright. All over the world proving what that he really is not that bright.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 20:47:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I love it. the crynic wanders on to this site during shore leave and expects that his mere presence signifies debate. The only thing debatable is his citizenship.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 20:33:15 (EST)

My two cents are: What is your drift, crynic?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 17:54:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's see your green card, foreignor.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 17:26:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Hello, McBleeding Hearts, anybody home? Where have all the liberals gone? Gone to hell because your spin has spun. Your Whatevers, dogs, E's, half the Anonymous' have all run to hide. After GWB's romp in November, then December, then January you cool dudes all took a hike. Come out and play little sheep. Oh, I forgot - the Cali boys own the nite. Wow! That's a mouth full, if you get my drift. Wake up and smell the glory.
the crynic
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 16:25:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, right.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 15:46:51 (EST)

My two cents are: If I had a couple minutes, I'd blow that cut-and-paste out of the water. But, I figure anybody can see how lame it is.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 15:15:00 (EST)

My two cents are: THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO "NO" By Alan Reynolds Many formerly high-flying stocks have dropped to a few cents a share over the past three years, as the NASDAQ fell by nearly two-thirds. And many big companies have gone bankrupt. One recent bankrupt firm had 252,000 employees; another had 20,600. The first was K-Mart, the second Enron. Why has the press seized on the Enron bankruptcy with a tenacity not seen since the disappearance of Chandra Levy? One reason is the warm stench of cooked books. Enron's devious ways of hiding debt is truly newsworthy, as is the exaggerations of profits and sales. Still, there has been an unseemly amount of political interest in what appears to be little more than a case of accounting fraud. Politicians and interest groups suddenly see Enron as a handy excuse for promoting any and all political goals. Incumbents who hope to impose "campaign reform" to obstruct political rivalry were quick to claim the Enron Corp. had donated heavily to political campaigns. Yet the contributions were actually from Enron employees and political action committees (PACs). Ironically, the "reform" bills would invite even larger contributions from individual executives and make PACs more important. Those who oppose drilling for oil in the Artic Wildlife Refuge were also quick to suggest the Bush administration favored more domestic oil only because of Enron lobbying. But Enron's gas pipelines benefit from keeping crude oil scarce, because oil is a substitute fuel whose price affects demand and prices for natural gas. The last thing a gas pipeline company would lobby for is more oil. These stories rarely make sense, yet we have just begun to see the Enronization of all political ambitions. Virtually every legislative scheme, including those catering to special-interest lobbying, is being rapidly relabeled as an "Enron reform." In business, fraud is a crime. In politics, fraud is a sport Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., are trying to resuscitate quixotic efforts to disallow companies a tax deduction for the expense of stock options, even though all other forms of compensation are properly deductible. Levin, according to a recent report, "vowed to pursue the initiative as part of wider Enron reform efforts expected to advance on Capitol Hill in the wake of Enron." Those "wider Enron reform efforts" include dangerous congressional meddling with private pensions and much more. Meanwhile, efforts to politicize the Enron affair are becoming too blatantly partisan to pass the laugh test. Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., even called for a "special prosecutor" -- that is, somebody to "prosecute" the White House for undefined, totally mysterious offenses. The General Accounting Office, the congressional equivalent of a pack of pit bulls, threatened to sue for details about meetings between Enron execs and the energy task force, headed by Vice President Cheney. It turns out that the vice president himself had a brief meeting with a few Enron officials last April. So what? Holding meetings is what vice presidents do. Congressmen, too. I have a confession. I, too, met with Vice President Cheney last spring, along with three other economists and three top White House aides. We talked about the economy and tax policy for nearly two hours. If the familiar Enron paranoia made sense, meeting in the West Wing proves I must be a lavish campaign donor with undue influence over federal policy. Actually, I never give money to politicians; it just encourages them. And the administration ended up doing the opposite of what we all suggested, which was to scrap the rebate and accelerate tax rate reductions. All the chatter about "the public's right to know" all about the vice president's meetings is hypocritical hooey. All members of the House and Senate routinely meet with all sorts of people hoping to sway policy. Neither legislators nor the people they meet would tolerate this odd notion that they have no right to privacy. Imagine if every meeting with a legislator had to be transcribed, and then distributed to anyone who claimed a "right to know." Who would ever again dare say anything worth hearing? Attempts to make political hay out of Enron's business failure are already beginning to sound tired, desperate and slightly pathetic. The public may find it amusing for a while. But any politician still trying to peddle Enron as some sort of partisan "scandal" at election time is going to discover it sells no better than stale fish. Alan Reynolds is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He previously served as director of economic research at the Hudson Institute, and as vice president and chief economist at Polyconomics.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 13:59:50 (EST)

My two cents are: If y'all don't cotten to no Bill Clinton then you kin jest sock my cuck!
bubba fan club
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 11:18:51 (EST)

My two cents are: At least Dubya never wagged his finger shook his head and lied about it.
no is is is better than is is
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 10:49:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Is this a page for veterans? Everybody seems to know so much about warfare here.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 10:45:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Deception is very important. Don't want the kids to find out about that drunk driving rap.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 09:49:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Deception has always been an important part of warfare. In World War II deception saved many thousands of lives when we convinced the enemy that we would be crossing at Calais rather than Normandy. Deception saved the British air forces when it caused the Germans to waste their efforts on dummy air fields and factories. In the Gulf War we gave every indication that we were going to attempt an amphibious invasion, and as a result all of Sadam's boys were out of position and facing the wrong direction when the invasion came. Examples are legion. There are hundreds of books written on the subject. And you're scandalized that the government might actually mislead you? Just to save American lives? Just because it would make their efforts more effective? Dude, write home and ask mom to send you a clue.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 09:35:07 (EST)

My two cents are: So if Snippy's a compassionate conservative, doesn't the compassionate part of that make him too liebral? You know, helping poor people, feeding the Afghans, pro-fuel efficiency. Liebral conservative. In which case he's an oxy-moron. Which explains everything.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 08:29:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Well signs and wonders. Now the President is for fuel efficent automobiles. Gore must be laughinig.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 01:11:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe the guy WAS Pete.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 21:21:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyway, back to the unfortunate mental case wandering from town to town periodically taking off his belt when the the neighborhood dogs attack. Guy sort of reminded me of Pete. I mean, that was sort of pete's reality here, a mental case with little more than his belt to defend against the yapping dogs, over and over. Guy was like a poor pitiful walking metaphoric incarnation of Pete. Maybe I should have asked himto write something poingant on a napkin for me.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 20:53:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I can cut the poo poo stuff
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 20:50:07 (EST)

My two cents are: As long as the president* is fortright about blow jobs received and given, I have no problem with him lying on my behalf about other matters. Let's roll!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 19:28:13 (EST)

My two cents are: If the First Amendment means anything, it means that Congress cannot try to limit the amount of campaign speech or spending. Top Ten Myths About Campaign Finance Reform by Todd Gaziano (February 26, 2002) Myth #1: "Shays-Meehan is constitutional." Any bill that attempts to "equalize" citizens' political speech through criminal and civil penalties for "excessive" or "unfair" speech violates the First Amendment, which provides in plain terms that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech". Many provisions of H.R. 2356 are unconstitutional. Although the constitutional debate is complicated by the convoluted nature of past laws and current proposals, the proof of the pudding is that approximately 30 of 32 similar "reform" statutes were struck down in the federal courts. [1] Myth #2: "Congress need not consider the 'complicated' constitutional issues." According to this myth, Congress can pass a questionable (or blatantly unconstitutional) bill and let the courts sort things out. But every Member of Congress takes an oath, required by Article VI of the Constitution, to uphold the Constitution. This duty is non-delegable. Although the courts may have to rule on some aspects of a law after years of uncertainty and litigation, Congress has an independent duty not to criminalize speech that it knows, or should know, to be constitutionally protected. Myth #3: "Only right-wingers and partisan Republicans oppose Shays-Meehan." Although this is hardly an argument on the merits of the bill, it is not true. Besides Representative Albert Wynn (D-MD) and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO opposes key provisions of the bill. So does a large coalition of other liberal groups, including the Alliance for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union. According to the Washington director of the ACLU, the legislation "represents a double-barreled attack on political freedom in America." Myth #4: "Congress should decrease the amount of campaign spending." If the First Amendment means anything, it means that Congress cannot try to limit the amount of campaign speech or spending. The Supreme Court has made clear that this is a prohibited purpose, and the intent of many reformers to achieve this end renders their legislation unconstitutional. It is a fundamental tenet of the First Amendment that government has no business trying to limit the amount or type of political discourse. Myth #5: "Shays-Meehan would decrease the amount of campaign spending." Even if it were acceptable to try, almost every reform proposal regulating political speech would increase the amount of campaign spending. As long as any First Amendment protections remain, enacting convoluted campaign regulations (constitutional or not) is like trying to dam a stream with a pile of sticks. Campaign spending eventually will flow through the dam, over the dam, or find another path. But because such indirect spending is often less effective than direct contributions to candidates, the amount of money chasing the same end will increase. All past reform efforts prove this basic law of economics and politics--unless government's size and scope are significantly reduced. Myth #6: "Shays-Meehan would equalize citizen participation." The only effective way for most citizens to be heard during an election campaign is to band together in interest groups such as unions, fraternal organizations, and community groups. H.R. 2356 would restrict the rights of poor or middle-class citizens to engage in campaign activity through such groups, but it leaves wealthy individuals and huge media corporations alone. Plutocrats and powerful media corporations should be free to speak, but it is wrong to increase their power artificially at the expense of less affluent citizens. Myth #7: "Shays-Meehan would help challengers defeat incumbents." No bill would pass if it hurt incumbents, and H.R. 2356 substantially helps incumbents. The Canadian experience with reforms similar to those proposed in Shays-Meehan confirms this: Incumbents lost even fewer elections, and because of new spending caps, campaign ads became almost totally negative. According to one scholar, this caused "widespread disinterest and disgust at the issue-less, invective-driven campaign." Myth #8: "Banning soft money will increase transparency and accountability." Attack ads produced by unknown or "sham" groups have grown as a result of past reform laws. They will surely mushroom if accountable and well-respected organizations are prohibited from contributing or using soft-money contributions. Unions, corporations, and political parties are important repeat players with strong interests in maintaining their long-term reputations. These groups often pull ads that are criticized as unfair. Under Shays-Meehan, unaccountable groups will fill the void and run attack ads in increasing numbers. Myth #9: "Independent speech can be 'redefined' as a candidate's speech." Shays-Meehan attempts to redefine normal contacts between independent interest groups and a candidate as collusive so that any later campaign activity by the independent group is treated as an in-kind gift to the candidate. Try as it might, Congress cannot change by statute what the Supreme Court has said is a constitutional distinction. Unless the campaign activity itself truly is coordinated with the candidate, independent groups may spend as much as they want on election activity. Even if the redefinition were constitutional, however, the result would be that affiliates would form to engage in election activity that is less transparent and accountable than under current law. Myth #10: "Nothing will please the constitutional purists." Standing up for the Constitution is noble in and of itself. However, constitutional purists have offered a practical and effective reform proposal: lifting contribution limits to candidates but requiring rapid disclosure of significant contributions. If voters are outraged by large contributions and always equate them with corruption, as "reformers" claim, then rapid disclosure is not only self-enforcing, but also far more effective than a thousand other regulations that simply channel political contributions elsewhere. Todd Gaziano is Director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
Someone throw me a frickin' bone here
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 18:59:26 (EST)

My two cents are: It took a special prosecutor prying through the lies and denials of Big He to find his essence on the dress. The judge fined him and the bar booted him for his lies.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 18:25:34 (EST)

My two cents are: While Glint favors a secret government, I'm not so sure. Anyway, The Office of Disinformation(Lying)was nothing but more big government, Snippy style. Who needs another bureaucracy for lies when the president* and his gang do it so well?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 17:58:45 (EST)

My two cents are: "Disinformation, not misinformation. The Office of Propaganda, still-born. they got no heart, damn those lie-brals. Geesh." Either that or it just went stealthy. Get a clue!
Glint
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 17:41:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy doesn't whack his weenie? Maybe he should if it would keep him away from pretzel catastrophes.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 16:57:16 (EST)

My two cents are: So, is it boring now or not?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 10:14:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Politics gets boring when you don't have a goobering weenie whacker in the White House.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 23:16:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Guess they couldn't find Cheney a secure location.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 20:33:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Disinformation, not misinformation. The Office of Propaganda, still-born. they got no heart, damn those lie-brals. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 20:32:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Report: Agents left Cheney's itinerary in SLC souvenir shop Posted: Tuesday February 26, 2002 10:49 AM SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Secret Service agents shopping for Olympics souvenirs lost a document detailing security plans for Vice President Dick Cheney's appearance at the closing ceremony, according to The Salt Lake City Tribune. The agents were at a skateboard and apparel shop near the Rice-Eccles Stadium, where the closing ceremony was held Sunday night. According to the store owner, the agents left the document titled "site post assignment log," the newspaper reported. The Salt Lake Tribune reported the story Monday after seeing the document. "It had a pretty detailed description about what was going on," said store owner Clayton Greenhalgh, who discovered the document on a counter Sunday after the agents each purchased an $11 Olympics hat. Secret Service spokesman Jim Mankin declined comment Tuesday. The log described seating arrangements at the stadium for Cheney, his wife and daughter and other dignitaries. It also detailed more than a dozen areas of the stadium where Cheney was to go, the newspaper said. The document also reportedly contained the number of Secret Service agents who were to provide security, where they would be stationed, and their specific assignments. The log also revealed the "sweep time" -- when agents secured the stadium for Cheney -- hours before his arrival, the newspaper said. When Greenhalgh called to report the mistake, a Secret Service representative promised that an agent would pick up the log, the Tribune reported. After 45 minutes, no one had arrived, so he offered to take it to the agency's downtown office. In exchange, Greenhalgh requested an autographed picture of Cheney, but was rebuffed and then decided to contact the newspaper, the Tribune said.
Oops
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 17:40:38 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon denied Tuesday that any U.S. ground troops are inside Iraq, after a rumor of military action helped send stocks down in early trading. Marine Lt. Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said the mistaken report that caused the stir originated with Fox News, which later told him it had mistakenly rerun a report from last week that was subsequently denied by the Pentagon. Fox did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. The Dow Jones industrial average, which opened higher to start the session, fell by about 140 points to 10,033. Analysts also attributed the decline to a report showing slipping consumer confidence. The Dow later regained some of the lost ground.
Fair and Balanced Misinformation
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 17:12:10 (EST)

My two cents are: The poo poo stuff looks from here like a tactic that's been batted back and forth too long.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 16:12:46 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, it was damned ironic that everyone got shot. Everyone. Even the pacifists. Ironic.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 16:09:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Little white lies. In the interest of national security, you understand. Kenny who?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 16:08:37 (EST)

My two cents are: So, I guess it's up to Bush, Rumsfield and Cheney to tell the lies.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 16:02:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld: Pentagon Closing Office Tue Feb 26, 2:11 PM ET By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon will close a new office that reportedly has proposed spreading false information abroad, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday. Rumsfeld said the Office of Strategic Influence would not have spread misinformation and that news reports and commentary have made it impossible for the agency to do its job. "While much of the thrust of the criticism and the cartoons and comment has been off the mark," Rumsfeld told reporters, "the office has been damaged so much that it could not operate effectively."
Who said irony is dead?
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 15:58:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Irony died the day we all got shot.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 14:41:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like a story without legs.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 14:28:04 (EST)

My two cents are: However, this anonymous letter pointing to the Eyptian tube scrubber pre-dated the attacks. Sounds like a set-up, a frame, a vendetta against a former colleague perhaps?
Glint
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 14:18:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe he's the same guy who spiked the Tylenol 20 years ago.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 14:12:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Seems to me the Egyptian was his diversion, not his reason for doing it.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 14:08:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Interesting. Sounds as though the anthrax attacks might have been an effort by disgruntled beaker jock to frame a Egyptian-born scientist who was fired or laid off from Ft. Dietrich, here in the Peoples Republic of Maryland.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 13:56:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Mike Allen, Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 26, 2002; Page A19 The family of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge stayed in the Pennsylvania governor's mansion for four months after he left office and Democratic leaders in the state want Ridge to reimburse taxpayers. In December, Ridge told Pennsylvania reporters he expected to be out of the mansion within a month. "I don't want to wear out my welcome," he said. Instead, Ridge worked in Washington during the week and continued to spend most weekends at the riverside Georgian mansion in Harrisburg, officials said. White House officials said Ridge, his wife, Michele, and their two teenagers moved out within the last three weeks. President Bush offered Ridge, 56, the new Cabinet-level job in a hectic courtship before addressing Congress on Sept. 20 in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Ridge resigned as Pennsylvania governor on Oct. 5 and was sworn in to his White House job three days later, when Bush signed the order creating the Homeland Security Office. Ridge's successor, Gov. Mark S. Schweiker (R), invited Ridge's family to remain in the mansion. Schweiker has been staying about 18 miles from the state capital in the housing that came with his previous post as lieutenant governor. He plans to move into the mansion in the next month or two. Asked about the arrangement, Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said: "The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides security for former governors for six months after leaving office, and they determined the best way to provide that accommodation was to allow the governor and his family to remain in the governor's mansion." The state's auditor general, Robert P. Casey Jr. (D), said the arrangement is consistent with the legislature's practice of providing an outgoing governor with $100,000 for security, office space, staff and miscellaneous expenses for up to six months. But Pennsylvania Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Mellow (D) called Ridge's arrangement "white-collar welfare" and said it would "be a major campaign issue against me if I did something like that." Mellow said that when he raised questions about the arrangement a few months ago, Republicans criticized him for being "unpatriotic." Other Democrats said they were concerned that Ridge was granted a lavish perk not available to other citizens. State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, the Appropriations Committee's ranking Democrat, raised the rent issue as part of his effort to restore funding to a program that helps people pay their mortgages when they lose their jobs. In 1996, Ridge tried to eliminate the Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program and later proposed major cuts to its budget. Fumo suggested rent of $2,000 a month, which he said was based on the size of the house and rents in the area, and does not count security. "I don't think he should've taken advantage of the taxpayers that way," Fumo said. State Rep. John A. Lawless, a Republican who became a Democrat in November, said Ridge should be treated no more generously than military members who are moved as a result of the war on terrorism. "It was my understanding that those folks in the federal government could not take or accept a gift," Lawless said. "This is a huge gift." State House Minority Leader H. William DeWeese (D) said the arrangement was proper given the extraordinary circumstances. DeWeese said that while he was a consistent critic of Ridge's policies, "On a personal level, he's brimful of lofty earnestness." The Pennsylvania Department of General Services said utility costs for the mansion ran $142,000 last year, including offices and public areas. The mansion, on the Susquehanna River, was built in 1968 and restored after flood damage in 1972. Ridge lives in the Annapolis area during the week and now joins his family at a townhouse in the Harrisburg area on weekends, officials
Talk about homeland security
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 13:46:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete left and this place wnet to shit - literally.
Evil onE
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 13:27:35 (EST)

My two cents are: You want irony? How about you breaking a tooth on a corn laden turd?
Now that's irony
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 13:25:24 (EST)

My two cents are: This forum was once a great source of biting satire. Now, it just bites. What happened to irony? Why has it been replaced by endless comments on wee-wee and poo-poos? You broke my heart, Fredo. You broke my heart.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 12:41:33 (EST)

My two cents are: They're trying to be wrong because of spin, you fool. It's SPIN, don't you get it? If they can make the poll dance, say what they want it to say, then the spin helps them and hurts the other guy. That's why we have to hire our own pollsters and fight back against the socialist spin on the NBC, CBS, and ABC polls. We need to have pollsters who will spin the answers our way. It's all about spin.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 23:37:15 (EST)

My two cents are: How does Gary use polls to defend his position? Sure he seldom does it, but when he does, how? Ford lasts longer than Chevy! A poll of one-eyed janitors found that 53% of them agree! Of course, the poll-takers could have twisted the questions to achieve an intended result, but I trust it because one was a Democrat and one was a Republican. What an empty-headed dork.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 23:16:39 (EST)

My two cents are: You're all right in MY book, Harlan, no matter what the others might say. I never got that thing about the pollsters trying to be wrong either.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 23:08:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. Of course.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 22:43:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I beg to differ.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 22:43:36 (EST)

My two cents are: You are a troubled man, Harlan. You're as crazy and stupid as Pete, as out-of-it as Pete and the crynic, as perverted as Pete and Glint, as naive as Pete and MK, as unstable and dangerous as Pete and Jeremiah. You're a certified bull-goose looney, St. Wolf. Seek help. The fat is on the fire!
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 22:42:53 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, Anonymous, I never thought of it that way. Makes sense, though. What's in it for the pollster when he tries to be wrong? Hmm. I'll have to cogitate on that, as they say. I feel myself slowly changing on so many levels. Thank you and also the fellows who talked about the "moom pitchers." They got me thinking too.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 22:38:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Goeas and Lake? What the hell is happening here? What happened to St. Zogby? Did he become chopped liver overnight? And what's this trancient bullshit about polls being unreliable because the pollster can make them say whatever he chooses? Is this true? What, are the fucking pollsters fucking crazy? They have no interest in being RIGHT? Shit, if that's the case, why spend money collecting data? Just pretend you did. Is that what makes Goeas and Lake so damn good? Or, is it because one is a democrat and one a retchie? If so, what the hell does that even mean? The question is, have either of them ever rolled? Would they roll if called on to roll? That will tell me a fuck of a lot more than what they say their party affiliation is. Let's say they are who they claim to be. What do they do, moderate eachother's revolutionary zeal? Do they flip a coin? This month it's yours, next month it's mine? Like, do they each get to get in SOME of their rabid prejudices? Is the Republican a dreaded RINO? Is the Democrat faggot? But the big question, what I need to know, is, Why do these guys not give a loaf whether they're right or wrong? Is it good business to be a bad pollster? Who's paying for this service? And why do we even read the shit?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 22:25:25 (EST)

My two cents are: intangible? hell there was so much shit running out of his mouth it was hard to tell. Guy needs to stick to the firmer tirds in the bowl.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:57:10 (EST)

My two cents are: perhaps he meant intransigent?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:56:04 (EST)

My two cents are: E� reigns
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:54:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The laughing stalk couldn't spell it, neither could he use it correctly. It's not looking good for him saving Western civilization. Geesh.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:43:31 (EST)

My two cents are: wow, and here i ended up using transient correctlymin my little tale, gary must feel like a laughing stalk.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:31:35 (EST)

My two cents are: So Pete, what do you do if you're say all worked up to munch one of your loaves and the texture comes out wrong and its sort of runny? Do you just buck it up and get a spoon?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:26:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Why can't Gary spell "transient"? Why doesn't his other more scatalogical alter respond to E�'s question re his fecal fetish? Too offal?
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:25:11 (EST)

My two cents are: So I think it was yesterday, about 11 am and I'm driving down one of the sidestreets in town. quiet little street especially when most people are either in church or waiting for beer sales to start at noon or both. Anyway, it was quiet as I turned onto this little street except for these two little chihuaha dogs that had run out from someon'e house to bark at a guy walking in the street. He was a pretty raggedy guy, transient bum looking but with that mental cast to his affect letting you know he's one of the mentally ill for whom there is no available funded treatment and that also isnt presently incarcerated. Anyway, so the dogs are yapping at him as I turn the corner and I realize the poor guy has his belt off and is flailing away at the little bastards. About this time some teenage girl from the house comes running out calling the dogs. The dogs head back to the house but still run one or two more sortees at the poor guy still flailing away wwith his belt. By now, I'm about next to him and across from the house passing them both as he starts putting his belt back on. This is sort of when it dawns on me that I would probably never even think to take off my belt to flail at dogs. Probably because I haven't been chased by that many dogs. It was an act of experience you see, using the belt like that. Thats when I realized this guy probably wanders from town to town getting chased by dogs as a routine part of his existence - hence the quick-witted reliance on and proficiency with the belt. I felt for the guy and his reality - the being chased by dogs as a routine part of one's daily existence. It was an interesting moment.
Borg 19 of 22
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 21:23:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm still puzzled about the shit eating Pete�. I had assumed, not being knowledgeable in such matters that one would have to retrieve the tird from the toilet bowl. However, it dawns on me now that perhaps if you know you are going to stuff it in your mouth and pretend it's one of whatevers, that maybe you take the dump on a plate, or even the coffe table. Exactly how is this done? I have a few more questions for you on this matter Pete�, but, I'll pinch them off for now. Thanks in advance.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 18:12:49 (EST)

My two cents are: E is basically a scab eating twat. ShE just doEsn't know it.
You got a big one cumming
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 16:40:39 (EST)

My two cents are: I think "E," you're basically saying about polls what Gary said.
Can't use it
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 16:29:56 (EST)

My two cents are: It's possible, you poor pitiful witless asshole, that parts of the bill would be found unconstitutional by a majority of justices. Other parts will most surely hold. If you use polls at all to defend your position you are a fool, unless your position is that a certain percentage of people hold some particular thought or other. Polls do not defend political positions, but merely reflect what relative number of the peasantry might think. That is why it always hands me a chuckle when you post sales figures for books with the idea that the person who wrote the better selling one is right. The campaign finance bill passed because a majority of legislators were scared shitless of Enron. You are a stupid man, Gary, and your attempts to seem reasonable can't help but leak stupidity from the cracks.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 16:03:54 (EST)

My two cents are: To the poster of Sat. 2/23 at 12:22:07 -- It appears that you are correct, with regard to the polls,if they are to be believed, showing increasing support for Campaign Finance Reform. If you will read my post, I did qualify my statement concerning polls with "If the polls are to be believed". I seldom use or cite polls in defending my positions, because polls are transcient and can be made to say whatever a pollster wants them to say, depending on the question and how it is asked. I would submit that this is the case with campaign finance reform. The only poll that has any real crediblity with me is the so-called battle-ground poll conducted by Goeas and Lake, Goeas being a GOPer and Lake being a Democrat. All other polls, especially the polls from ABC,CBS, and NBC are highly suspect. With regard to your question concerning Republicans, CFR passed because there were enough Moderate Republicans with no guts to oppose this legislation, who banded with Democrats to get it passed. Still, polls do not change the fact that this legislation is unconstitutional and ought to die an ignoble death in the Senate.
Gary
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 12:39:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Queen of the Hill, my ass. E, the stinky twatted dinglebery teether is only queen of my swollen internal hemmorhoidal pus. While stenchy E was at the Sip N Bite, the other liberal moron, fagdog was doing Dexter in the rear room.If you know what I mean.
Trish
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 11:57:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The King is dead. Long live the Queen of the Hill.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 03:12:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, goodnight, Twat-Boy, from all us pussed over, sewn shut, E-vil witches. There may be a big one cumming, but not from you. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 02:23:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Goodnight King of France.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 02:15:35 (EST)

My two cents are: KARZAI visiting Iran----One of Bush'es Axis of Evil. Could this be a signal to pull out of Afganistan. Why put soldiers and weapons into a country, if they are play kissing cousins with the enemy??????
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 00:57:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh Geese, I got a little bouquet of pink flowers, with sprigs of Baby Breath, from the Mortician again. Whut oh Whut does this mean??? Am I bethrothed?? ER Whut???
CLIFFORD
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 00:46:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Hello, I'm looking for Mike Hunt. Has anybody here seen Mike Hunt lately? I want Mike Hunt to come right now.
E�
- Monday, February 25, 2002 at 00:12:59 (EST)

My two cents are: ???
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- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 23:11:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Eleanor of Acetone?
fits
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:40:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Or spew stinky-finger venom at your betters and call it satire.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:27:52 (EST)

My two cents are: The only thing that will really work, E�, is to befriend Fess Parker. Knock on his door and yell "where is the holy grail?" when he opens it. As he stands there with his mouth open, tell him you've got a big one cumming for him and whack him with a whiffle-bat. He'll laugh uproariously and invite you into his inner circle.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:27:30 (EST)

My two cents are: That's just a goth uniform, practically a cliche. The thing to do is let yourself go to seed. Develop big fat 16-inch folds of flab over your biceps and buy a pair of horn-rim spectacles... tell everyone you're a lawyer or a dentist, and talk about Plato. If something irritates you, say "geesh." If you feel you've done pretty well, say you have sunk a 17-foot putt, say softly to yourself: "doink."
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:22:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, E�, maybe you would feel more like an individual if you got your eyebrow pierced. Maybe your tongue as well. A purple mohawk often does the job.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:18:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Sometimes I feel as though I'm just a cog in a huge impersonal machine. I call it the Combine.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:14:57 (EST)

My two cents are: From many, one! Ha ha!
E� Pluribus Unum
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:05:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Damn the twerpedo! Full speed ahead!
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:04:12 (EST)

My two cents are: We're all on duty today. We all like to play footsie and whack-a-pinata, when we can. Sometimes whack-a-golem. Sometimes punchy clown. Depends. E pluribus unum, however. Ha ha. Whack.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 22:00:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Bandy legs are a political asset, but they can't keep up with Enron legs.
Dexter�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 21:32:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, it's not every president* whose popularity drops 20% in 4 months. No wonder he's discombobulated. Footsie?
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 21:31:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't that spelled footsey? Either way, he's not playing footsie. Remember the spy plane, how he paid for the goat balls over rice that the Chinaman fed to the crew? Didn't ever carp about the bill? Apologized twice in the same letter? Practically pushed a peanut with his nose up the steps of the Forbidden City? The Chinaman has the bandy-legged little guy seriously discombobbled. He's even starting to spout phrases about Democracy from the fifth-grade history book as if he believed them. I'm worried about the bandy-legged little cowboy.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 21:17:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought we were through with the Chicoms after Cliton's acts of treason. Now the bandy-legged little phrase-mangler is playing footsy with them.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:40:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Chinese leaders are increasingly alarmed at the signs of a growing rapprochement between the United States and China's traditional rival, India. Beijing worries (with good reason) about the possible emergence of a U.S.-Indian "strategic partnership" directed against China. The Chinese response to the warming relations between Washington and New Delhi has been to try to improve China's own relations with both capitals.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:30:30 (EST)

My two cents are: "You can support the policies of our government, or you are free to openly disagree with them." George W Bush
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:23:02 (EST)

My two cents are: "In a free society, diversity is not disorder. Debate is not strife. And dissent is not revolution. A free society trusts its citizens to seek greatness in themselves and their country." George W Bush
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:21:23 (EST)

My two cents are: It looks like the duller of the 22 is on duty today.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 20:15:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Mmmmm. Goat balls. A favorite of Dexter�'s.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:57:23 (EST)

My two cents are: That is to say, we all think you're a TWERPEDO. And we like to say Dexter�. You lousy twerpedo. Dexter�. Dexter�. Dexter�. Dexter�. Dexter�. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:56:04 (EST)

My two cents are: That's right. We do. All of us. Anything else you need to know?
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:53:54 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm flattered how everyone is using my name. Does everyone else also have pussed crusted twats that are stitched shut and foul mouths like mine too? Ciao, back to the kitchen - stewing goat balls tonight.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:29:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Whew. Geesh.
E� 1 of 22
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:03:39 (EST)

My two cents are: It's not him. He� quit.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:02:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Ha ha?
E� 17 of 22
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:01:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey! It rhymes with bird, you birds!
Pete�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 19:00:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Plus, why do you spell it "tird"? Do you think alternative orthography makes it stink less? Are you merely trying to be "cute"? Is that like when Patty Teen starts spelling her name "Patti"? Like a smiley-face?
E� 13 of 22
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:51:31 (EST)

My two cents are: So peteboy, I've been wondering about this shit eating fetish of yours and have a few technical questions. I mean I believe I have an understanding of the chewing of a turd, the swallowing of a turd, etc. But how for example do you get the turd to your mouth? Do you shit in a toilet and then prong it out with a fork? What if it breaks in half? Do you put a plate on the coffee table and squat over it? Would you eat a turd at the dining room table with a knife and fork? Ketchup? Salt and pepper? Exactly how do you do these turds?
E� 11 of 22
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:42:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm in.
E� 7 of 22
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:29:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Waste Site Story: Bush Caves on Nukes by Joe Conason In the final days before Election Day 2000, Dick Cheney flew into Nevada to assure worried citizens that, contrary to Democratic campaign propaganda, he and his running mate George W. Bush would take no precipitous action on locating a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain. "Let them know it�s not true," said Mr. Cheney after his rivals warned that a Bush administration would promote the transport of high-level radioactive waste to the controversial site, just 90 miles from Las Vegas. "We won�t support it on either a temporary or permanent basis" unless "it�s deemed safe by government scientists," he promised, insisting that there was "no difference" between Mr. Bush and Democrat Al Gore on the issue. Mr. Cheney had good reason to blur any distinctions between Democrats and Republicans regarding the unpopular siting scheme, because the Clinton-Gore ticket had carried Nevada during the two previous national elections, and late surveys showed that neither side could be confident of victory in 2000. Mr. Cheney further vowed that the Bush administration would veto "any legislation � that is not based on sound science and can�t be done safely," and that he and Mr. Bush would "support the E.P.A. setting tough standards for health and the environment before anybody does anything" at Yucca Mountain. As of Feb. 16, 2002, those guarantees had expired; that�s when President Bush announced his support for an Energy Department plan to move ahead with the Yucca Mountain project. Citing "two decades of sound science" that neither he nor his running mate mentioned two years ago�when Nevada�s four electoral votes still could have gone either way�Mr. Bush ratified the recommendation of his Energy Secretary, Spencer Abraham. That moved Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid to call Mr. Bush "a liar." Whatever one may think about the possible perils to be inflicted on Nevadans and the gaming industry, or the broader merits of nuclear energy, the Bush decision on Yucca Mountain again raises the question of the corporate domination of public policy, and especially energy policy, in this White House. Nevadans must wonder�as everyone now does in the era of Enron�whether corporate lobbyists and campaign donors somehow fixed the friendly politicians who once claimed to be their advocates. Actually, the fix was probably in long before Mr. Cheney�s late swing into Nevada. Private interests seeking to build the nuke dump at Yucca Mountain were represented by Edison Electric Institute chief Tom Kuhn, one of Washington�s most powerful lobbyists, who signed up as a "Bush Pioneer"�and then far exceeded the $100,000 minimum that every Pioneer agreed to raise. It was Mr. Kuhn, a Yale classmate of Mr. Bush, who organized lobbyists from dozens of industries to raise funds for his candidacy. And it was also Mr. Kuhn who, as Newsweek reported, told utility executives to write a "tracking code" on each campaign check "to insure that our industry is credited." As Mr. Kuhn explained in a memo later obtained by Newsweek, "a very important part of the campaign�s outreach to the business community is the use of tracking numbers for contributions �. Don Evans [then campaign fund-raising chairman, now Commerce Secretary] � stressed the importance of having our industry incorporate the 1178 tracking number in your fundraising efforts." Such was the highly scientific method used by the people who now occupy the White House to apportion influence among their supporters. It would be interesting to correlate those carefully coded checks with the names of lobbyists and executives consulted by Mr. Cheney while he formulated the nation�s energy policy. Mr. Cheney won�t release the records of his energy task force, of course, but it is known that several nuclear executives met with Bush advisers Karl Rove and Lawrence Lindsey, as well as the energy task force�s executive director, in the White House last March. Quite soon thereafter, the Vice President was publicly urging us all to "get on with the business of finding a geologic repository" for nuclear waste. As he knew very well, Yucca Mountain was the only such repository ever considered. And as he and his boss also know, there are serious problems with that site, including the fact that it sits atop 34 seismic faults. In December, the General Accounting Office issued an 11,000-word report that enumerated the many "remaining uncertainties" about Yucca pondered by the government�s own scientists and engineers, including the stability of the repository�s rock formations, the flow of underground water through the site and the "effect of volcanic activity" there. Understandably, the G.A.O. report questioned the "prudence and practicality" of moving ahead with the Yucca Mountain project now, but its views were ignored by the White House�just as the White House has ignored that same nonpartisan agency�s attempt to find out what went on in Mr. Cheney�s secretive energy task force. But hiding records hardly conceals what kind of government those coded checks bought.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:29:44 (EST)

My two cents are: FUND: 'I am not guilty of the charges asserted against me and categorically deny them. I am confident that, it the end, my name and reputation will be cleared in full. However, in light of the fact that these charges are pending against me, and on the advice of my counsel, I cannot comment further about this matter at this time'...
from the Dan Burton school of bastard denial
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:25:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Excellent. Kudos.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:24:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorkin is right. Pretty good for a bonofide (sic) druggie.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:22:25 (EST)

My two cents are: That last one was from me.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:18:59 (EST)

My two cents are: It was moi, E�. The one of the 22 who will be emailing you. Nice to see I haven't lost my edge, eh?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:18:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Great. Looking forward to hearing from you. // PS. Whoever thought up this tactic, thanks. It's awesome. Unless it's a strategy, in which case it's awesome also.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:16:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I get the feeling Pete practices his "specialty" on farm animals.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 18:06:07 (EST)

My two cents are: E-asy, twerpedo. Careful who you spew your filth at. Save your ammo unless you can see the target, punk.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:58:09 (EST)

My two cents are: "A Murder Most Foul" http://www.msnbc.com/news/714890.asp?pne=msntv&cp1=1
just like the stench coming from that foul holE�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:54:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Haven't sent it yet, E�. Will try tonight. If not tonight, probably Wednesday.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:43:03 (EST)

My two cents are: NEWSWEEK Mar. 4 issue ? ?My father is a Jew, my mother is a Jew, and I am a Jew.? In the last moments of Danny Pearl?s life, his kidnappers forced him again and again to denounce his family, his country and his religion, and to warn the world that he would not be the last to suffer if the United States did not change its ways. A video camera trained on his unshaven, sleepless face, Pearl mumbled the terrorists? script. ...
why in hell didn't they tell us he was a goddamned jew?
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:39:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Stop apologizing, and roll.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:34:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry about that.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:26:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:25:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:25:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:25:41 (EST)

My two cents are: OK. I can see I'm not wanted here. I got a big one cumming to the whole bunch of you. Let's roll.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:23:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyhow, my email is the same as it was before. Not the bangkok.com one, the other one. If you sent anything, it hasn't gotten through. Did you?
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:20:58 (EST)

My two cents are: So there was a story in the Times this AM about all these gay guy Republicans, like Brock, and how they were the ones engineering the demonizations of Anita Hill and Bill and Hillary Clinton, but then all the pubbie propagandists just started hitting on each other. Apparently there's a great gay Republican groundswell, as it were, and some of the born-again stained-dressers are having a problem with it, well the ones that aren't hitting on each other are. Stained-dressers. Cross-dressers. Some kind of motif.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:17:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Sentimental silver bullet charm = sentimental silver dildo charm.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:11:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Aha.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:10:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Dildo=pack?
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:08:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry, Sue, but we don't care why you think Martin Sheen is whatever it is you think he is. Try again. Or not. The other Ann Coulter wannabees are over at freepers, strapping on. You'd feel better with your pack.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 17:04:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I got a big one cumming for Sue. Open wide, twat.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:59:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo. Everyone posting as me? High concept. I'm in.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:59:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Sue WOULD be OK, if she'd just pull her head out of her twat. What the fuck is she thinking? She sounds like a goddamn haoule, some sort of pathetic, sick asshole.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:58:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Why so nasty? Sue sounds like an OK chick to me.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:56:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Whatever you say, Sue. You cunt. Who the fuck is Sorkin, twat? What the hell are you yammering about? Stop baiting us!
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:37:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:30:30 (EST)

My two cents are: We should take what this guy Sorkin says as being the gospel truth? He's a bonofide druggie. No matter how you feel about Bush, he does love this country and I think he is genuine when it comes to that. You may not agree with some of his policies (I don't always) but I do think he has courage. I only hope he starts using that courage and stands up to Vincent Fox, Pres. of Mexico. As well as any other leader who tries to dictate to us what we should or shouldn't do!!!!!! Martin Sheen is another idiot...We'll go there later as to why he is.
Sue
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 16:20:58 (EST)

My two cents are: It is for that reason i suggest we DO NOT assume our correct identities. Either using different handles for each post, or going the Coward Anonymous route is preferred. However, there would be a certain savage justice in all 22 of us posting as E�. The poor, pathetic asshole couldn't keep the big ones cumming fast enough.
E�
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 15:20:53 (EST)

My two cents are: I understand the pineapple will only return if we all resume our correct identities again. HaHaHa
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 15:12:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Screwball commie pinko liebral idiot traitor.
par for the course
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 15:09:45 (EST)

My two cents are: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 24, 2002 11:37:09 ET XXXXX LEFT WING SORKIN BLASTS BUSH: WE'RE 'PRETENDING' HE HAS EXHIBITED UNSPEAKABLE COURAGE The force behind NBC's WEST WING is blasting off against the real West Wing in upcoming pages of the NEW YORKER, which names Aaron Sorkin "the country's loyal opposition." NY'ER reporter Tad Friend has penned a high-impact Talk of the Town set for release in March 4 editions. Sorkin, the creatorproducerwriter of WEST WING, tells Friend: "It's absolutely right that at this time we're all laying off the [Bush] bubblehead jokes. But that's a far cry from what the Times and CNN and others on whom we rely for unvarnished objectivity are telling us, which is that 'My God! On September 12th he woke up as Teddy Roosevelt! He became the Rough Rider!'" Of NBC's own look at a day in the life of the Presidency, 'The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing,' which aired as the lead-in to a WEST WING repeat a few weeks ago, Sorkin charges: "The White House pumped up the President's schedule to show him being much busier and more engaged than he is, and Tom Brokaw let it happen?" Sorkin continues: "The show was a valentine to Bush. That illusion may be what we need right now, but the truth is we're simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibited unspeakable courage at the World Series by throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium, or that he, by God, showed those terrorists by going to Salt Lake City and jumbling the first line of the Olympic opening ceremony. "The media is waving pom-poms, and the entire country is being polite," Sorkin declares. "I just began reading Frank Bruni's campaign book AMBLING INTO HISTORY: THE UNLIKELY ODYSSEY OF GEORGE W. BUSH which begins with Candidate Bush at a service in Texas for seven people who were killed in a church by a crazy gunman. Bruni describes Bush making goofy faces at the press, and it reminds you of a junior high schooler on a museum field trip." Sorkin tells the mag that he is planning to revisit the BUSH-GORE Florida showdown in an upcoming episode. President Josiah Bartlet [played by actor Martin Sheen, who has called Bush a white knuckled drunk] is up for re-election this November. "Bartlet is going to be running against Governor Robert Ritchie, of Florida, who's not the sharpest tool in the box but who's raised a lot of money and is very popular with the Republican Party,? Sorkin says. "It was frustrating watching Gore try so hard not to appear smart in the debates. Why not just say" 'Here's my fucking r�sum�, what do you got?' We're a completely fictional, nonpolitical show, but one of our motors is doing our version of the old Mad magazine 'Scenes We'd Like to See.' And so to an extent we're going to rerun the last election and try a few different plays than the Gore campaign did." Developing...
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 14:21:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Another rightwing Virtue Nanny bites the dust. Is moral hypocrisy s prerequisite for retchies?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 14:01:24 (EST)

My two cents are: COLUMNIST ASSAULTED HIS EX: COPS By PHILIP MESSING and BRIDGET HARRISON -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 24, 2002 -- Troubled Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend, police said. Fund, 46, had a stormy relationship with Morgan Pillsbury, the 27-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend, for more than two years before the couple broke up last month, police sources said. Tuesday, Fund, famous for his attacks on President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, allegedly went to Pillsbury's East Village home and bruised her leg during an argument, the sources said. The arrest caps a bizarre unraveling of the couple's on-again, off-again relationship. Pillsbury told The Post's Page Six last month Fund had been abusive to her, but later attempted to retract the statement. Pillsbury finally moved out of Fund's Jersey City home in January, just as Pillsbury's mother, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, who had a relationship with Fund 20 years ago, was announcing wedding plans for the couple. A week later, the mom said she hoped the wedding wouldn't happen. Neither Pillsbury nor her mother could be reached for comment.
figures
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 13:42:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Where I come from, you don't even THINK the T-word. That is, unless you're prepared for any big ones that might be cumming.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 11:39:41 (EST)

My two cents are: If you take that line of reasoning, anonymous, you are on the slippery slope. The next thing you know, you will be claiming that "twerpedo" is just an extreme form of an extreme form of flirtation, and innocuous in itself. Once we accept twerpedoism, we are but a step from total anarchy. This is exactly why we must adhere to the rules, and cannot tolerate the treason of the Dumbocraps.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 11:13:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't "baiting" just an extreme form of flirtation? Frivolous, yes, but is it truly evil? I wish Pete were here to explain it all.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 11:08:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I sort of like being baited by the gals. What did that haole guy have against twats anyway?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 11:07:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Sue baits us daily! Lucy baits us daily! Trish baits us daily! If Pete were here, he'd tell those twats a thing or two!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 at 10:33:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Some anonymous twerpedo?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 21:01:33 (EST)

My two cents are: If he's gone, then who baits us daily?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 21:00:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, the poor pathetic asshole didn't stay around, so he won't know. He quit. Gone.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 20:59:39 (EST)

My two cents are: It's too bad that the haole is long gone, anonymous, and will never know how you stood up for him, the nice things you are saying about him. He probably thinks that every one of the 22 hates him. And there's no way to right that misimpression. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 20:57:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Is that sarcasm? Look, if the pineapple ever broke any rules, it was just to demonstrate liberal tactics. And then he snapped when he tried to demonstrate the twerpedo tactic. It was too much for even him.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 20:56:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I for one miss the haole lad. He taught me how to respect the rules. A guy who never broke a rule in his life. They threw away the cookie cutter when they made that one.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 20:53:38 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean the pic of the "woman" with massive arms on Glint's vanity page? Yes, I always found that a little odd myself.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 20:51:51 (EST)

My two cents are: For all we know Pete is a transexual. I offer no more proof than that picture of "Teresa," but how much more do you need?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 20:31:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe Glint always saw Pete as a transsexual. Maybe he wanted to dress him up as a girl and still have a dick to play with. He was probably turned on by Pete's cries of "Let's Roll" -- interpreting it in a way Snippy and The Beamers never imagined.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 19:12:26 (EST)

My two cents are: There was that one weekend when Glint and Pete were proudly thumping their chests about how they'd won, and then suddenly Pete up and quit. And then Glint started fantasizing about transsexuals.
What gives?
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 19:09:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint has run off. No use beating a dead horse. He doesn't even lurk any more. Thoroughly beaten. And he used to have a shot at being King of the Hill. For a while there, anyway, when everybody else stopped posting save for the pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 19:05:13 (EST)

My two cents are: She said it was all the fault of the liberals. Actually said that, on national TV, without embarassment. Takes all kinds, I suppose. I can see now where thre pineapple who used to post here but stopped for good several months ago got his politics. Folish dildo-brandishers like that spouting their ignorance into the public airways. Why don't the schools prepare people like the pineapple and Glint to apply critical judgement to the stuff they see on TV? It's as if they spend their lives looking for a second Santa Claus.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 19:02:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Does Ann Coulter really strap on? Sounds like nothing more than liberal spin to me. I'm not sure I believe it.
curious Tampa grandmother
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 18:58:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Shit, they're so fucking politite to each other, it's sickening.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 18:16:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Be kind to Sue. Sure, she's a pathetic asshole racist, but for some reason, the bandy-legged ones passing for liberals where she lives always seem to come to her defense.
Herb Wombat
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 18:12:39 (EST)

My two cents are: We really have no control over our government. We can only hope they'll do the right thing. I do think many turned a blind eye when it came to terrorism. I also think our government was more concerned about offending the other countries. I only wish they'd start being a little more concerned about their citizens, the citizens of the United States of America. Maybe that is changing finally? We can only hope! Other big problem is, we are a "Melting Pot" of different ethnic backgrounds and quite frankly, many are in the United States not because they love this country so much but because of the money. Many could care less about our patriotism and our culture. There here to work and their allegience is to the countries they came from. Years ago, it wasn't that way. People came here because they wanted a better life and wanted to assimilate. Today, we hace different ethnic cities within the United States of America. Little Armenia, Little Saigon, Koreatown, The Barrio, Chinatown etc etc These folks stick with their own kind and aren't real interested in America's way of life. Up in Sacramento there's a town that's all made up of Yugoslavians/Russians. They all stick together. I have no idea if they wave "Old Glory" and I'm inclined to believe they don't. Anyway, these are my thoughts. Did not mean to ramble on. Just a side note, there's no way I would leave my country to go live else where just to make money or because of the crazy government. I would fight like hell to change what I could in my own country. I oftened wondered why people do not try to make a change within their own country even if you have to rebel. You fight and don't give it up! It does make me mad that many bring their "baggage" (problems, cultural differences as well as religious differences)with them when they come to the United States. Come but don't snub my flag or my way of life. America has their own culture and values. We are good people! You need to meet us halfway. It's a two way street. Now I will sign off :}
Sue
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 18:10:49 (EST)

My two cents are: And the bandy-legged little phrase-mangler hasn't produced the head of Osama bin Laden.
Rolling with square wheels
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:55:12 (EST)

My two cents are: ENRON RIVETING PUBLIC Bad Signs for Bush The Pew Center has released a poll indicating that nearly two-thirds of the American people are paying regular attention to the Enron scandal -- possibly the highest figure for any similar scandal in U.S. history. The figure for February, 61%, represents a big hike over the previous month, when only 43% of respondents said they were following the story. The poll also underscores the steady long-term diminution of public support for G.O.P. economic ideology since the Gingrich counterrevolution in 1994. Back then, 54% of respondents said that government regulation of business did more harm than good. That figure has now dropped to a mere 41%, compared with 50% who believe that government regulation is necessary. The poll also exposes some potential policy trouble spots for the Bush administration. "Strong majorities favor increased spending for domestic priorities such as health care, Medicare, and education. Support for higher expenditures in these areas rivals the high levels of backing for boosting defense spending and funding of homeland defenses. When offered a choice of how to pay for defense and security needs, just 22% favor cutting domestic programs, compared with 42% who prefer to postpone or reduce tax cuts. Reducing domestic spending has appeal to some Republicans (33%), but even within Bush's own party as many as 35% favor postponing or reducing the tax cuts."
legs
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:48:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Top Pakistani investigators told Reuters on Saturday that they had received threatening calls from people using Pearl�s mobile phone a day before U.S. officials received a video showing his killing. A source close to the investigation said Saturday that three senior officials investigating Pearl�s abduction received a number of calls on Feb. 20 warning them of �dire consequences� if they did not stop chasing them. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS THE WAR � Pakistan warns of wider conspiracy � 10 U.S. soldiers feared dead in Philippines � Afghan leaders to probe U.S. attack � Complete coverage THE HOME FRONT � Last WTC burn victim goes home � Florida anthrax survivor back at work � Complete coverage The source said before receiving the calls investigators had stepped up their search, fanning out across the largely lawless Northwest Frontier and Baluchistan Provinces, which border Afghanistan, as well as central Punjab province. �They told the investigators how many children each one of them have, when they go to school, which mode of transport they use for going to school and returning back home and where their families go for shopping,� the source said. �They had very minute and precise information about the activities of their family members,� the source said. �The investigators were alarmed and informed the interior minister (Moinhuddin Haider).� On Friday, Musharraf pledged to apprehend �each and every one of the gang of terrorists� involved in Pearl�s murder. The State Department praised Musharraf�s handling of the case, but U.S. officials told NBC News that they could not rule out the possibility that Pakistani security officials were involved
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:47:42 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.glint.org/bookstore.htm
figures
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:15:22 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, so I'm XY not XX. Wanna make something out of it? Step outside, buddy.
Ann "The Man" Coulter
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:14:48 (EST)

My two cents are: What's all this phony grief about Pearl? I consider it a positive development when another member of the liebral press is beheaded. Oh sure, he worked for the Journal. BUT, he didn't write the anti-Cliton editorials. He was just another demonrat reporter. Probably owned a calico cat.
Here No Longer
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:11:29 (EST)

My two cents are: I respect Gary. While I may not agree with all he has to say, I will defend to the death his right to say it. I would expect no less from him regarding my rights. We are talking about free speech here.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:08:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Pakistan decided on Saturday not to publicly release the videotape of the decapitation of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl because it is too gruesome. A senior government official said President Pervez Musharraf's military administration had discussed releasing the tape but decided it was too barbaric to air. The official told Reuters the videotape, received by authorities from a carrier for the radical Islamic gang suspected of kidnapping Pearl, showed the reporter's severed head in its last frame. Earlier parts of the brief tape showed Pearl's throat being cut from behind while he was still talking to the camera. "It was discussed at the most senior level whether to release this video to television channels, but finally it was decided that even foreign television channels would not be able to show such gruesome scenes," the official said. "The last scene shows Pearl's head separated from his body." The official said authorities were taking stringent precautions to try to ensure pirated copies of the videotape did not find their way into the hands of news organizations. Pearl disappeared in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on January 23 while investigating possible links between alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Pearl's body has not been found and it is unclear when or where he was killed.
now what were the liberals whining about again?
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:08:07 (EST)

My two cents are: http://bootnewt.tripod.com/stitchedup.htm
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 17:07:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey man, anyone here know a dude named Dragavon?
cheech
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:50:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I wish the 22 of you would keep your responses to Gary to one post, preferably without profanity, which has to come out anyway before it reaches his delicate ears.
Herb Wombat
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:46:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter long ago strapped on the dildo of pseudo-intellectual jingo totalinarianism. Is there any doubt that she nightly straps on the the genuine rubberoid Rocco Siffletti dildo from the Frenchy's K&T Books and Videos E-store? No doubt at all.
Le Mec Enculeur
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:36:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, Gary, is one to believe the polls or is one not to believe the polls? Walk your talk, pitiful asshole. Fish or cut bait, pathetic creep. Pinch loaf or get off the pot, pig-shitting politically backward toddler.
.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:32:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe that sentimentally valuable silver bullet charm wasn't really a silver bullet. Maybe it was the representation of a fondly-remembered dildo.
Strap on, Ann strap on!
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:27:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Saw Coulter on the tube last night for a bit. She's sort of mannish, isn't she? Has a fairly masculine voice, too. Do you think she may be missing a chromosome or two?
.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:26:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Shoot that guy.
US soldier
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:14:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry. This makes the American people the targets of a propaganda war? What is it we're not yet thinking that we're supposed to be thinking?
confused
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 16:09:17 (EST)

My two cents are: TV series on Afghan offensive Oliver Burkeman in New York Friday February 22, 2002 The Guardian The often-blurred distinction between war and showbusiness finally vanished yesterday when the Pentagon confirmed that it had given two Hollywood producers the go-ahead to make a prime-time reality television series about the war against terrorism. Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor, has won the "unparalleled support" of the defence department for the project, which will follow American troops on patrol in Afghanistan. The 13-part series, Profiles from the Frontline, to be broadcast this year on ABC, would tell "the compelling personal stories of the US military men and women who bear the burden of this fighting", the programme makers said. It would be "patriotic in nature". The news that entertainment producers are to be granted access to troops has stoked growing resentment among journalists covering the conflict. Two week ago, a Washington Post reporter, Doug Struck, said a US soldier had threatened to shoot him for trying to gain access to the site of a controversial American missile attack. Responding to claims that the Pentagon was seeking less critical coverage, a central command spokesman, Admiral Craig Quigley, told reporters: "There's a lot of other ways to convey information to the American people than through news organisations."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 14:51:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Exactly. Where is the line between "peaceful assemble" and mobocracy? Isn't citizens' expressing their grievances just another word for Democrat-socialist Treason?
Le Mec Encul�
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 13:51:39 (EST)

My two cents are: I think Gary's cursory analysis is spot on. What is a prohibition of bribery but an abridgement of the freedom of speech? If we stop corporations from shoveling money into campaign funds how is the citizen going to express himself or petition the government about his grievances? The whole thing stinks.
.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 13:45:22 (EST)

My two cents are: I think Gary's reading of the First Amendment is a bit too cursory. It doesn't say anything about Texas oil brokers.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 13:40:18 (EST)

My two cents are: But did we really gain a Gary? What if this is just a kinder, gentler, recycled pineapple?
Oggie
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 13:38:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but what the hell. You lose a Glint but you gain a Gary. It's all good.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 12:31:45 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean it really isnt fair of them to assume he represents us just because the supreme court placed him in office. By the same token, we should have acknoiwledged the taliban as a legitimate government.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 12:31:28 (EST)

My two cents are: No wonder we didnt elect him. maybe we could try explaining that to the asian community. This should however bolster glints office standing so long as he continues to berate the asian new hires in front of the veeps. He must have screwed up roayal to be working on a saturday.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 12:28:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush Asian tour embarrassing disaster. President Bush returned to the United States yesterday after an awkward Asian tour ended with fresh criticism from Chinese students and North Korea, which described him as a "politically backward child". China also responded to Mr. Bush�s calls to allow greater religious freedom by arresting 47 Christians in Beijing, for what it described as forming an illegal gathering, during his visit. ... Mr. Bush's attempts to soothe sentiments in the region after he had accused North Korea of being part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and Iraq appeared to have foundered. In its first reaction to Mr. Bush�s visit, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said that the US President had insulted Kim Jong Il, the country�s leader, and dismissed his requests for renewed dialogue. "The remarks of Bush, prompted by the desire to conquer the Government of another country by dint of strength and dollars, remind people of a puppy knowing no fear of the tiger," its statement said. "(North Korea) can never pardon anyone who dares chastise its supreme headquarters and slander its political system, even though he is a man bereft of an elementary reason or a politically backward child." Could anyone credibly refer to either President Clinton or Al Gore as a "politically backward child"? No, since it doesn't apply. Sadly for all of us, it applies all to well in Bush's case, and provides endless opportunities for hostile world leaders to discredit and embarrass Americans
more loss of face to Puppy Bush
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 12:22:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh, Gary, isn't it a point of troglodyte pride to sneer at the polls? And yet, here you are citing unnamed polls to support your silly free speech opinion. Well, Gary, you need to catch up. Do a little checking into the more recent polls, kid. You'll find that, since Enrongate, public support of campaign finance reform has skyrocketed. Hell, Gary, a reasonable man like you should be able to figure that out. I mean, it didn't pass the Republican House just because a big group of trogs suddenly had pangs of conscience, did it? That was just a joke. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 12:22:07 (EST)

My two cents are: You're right, Gary. They should take the Republican route and go for a constitutional amendment along the lines of the one outlawing flag-burning. That way attempts to de-criminalize politics would pass "constitutional muster."
Oggie
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 12:18:47 (EST)

My two cents are: We're a lot more interested in the whining right, actually. Now that innovative President Bush has thought up the Lesbian Marriage Initiative, all the righties are whining. We think it's dumb of them. We guess they can't help it. Sad, really.
Pam 'N Vonda
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 11:22:45 (EST)

My two cents are: That Gary Condit posting? He trying to pass as a stained-dresser now?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 11:20:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't claim to be a constitutional scholar, but even a cursory reading of the First Amendment shows that legislation is clearly in violation of the Free Speech clause. It seems to me that our representatives have better things to do with their time than pass legislation that won't pass constitutional muster, and for which there is very little outcry if one is to believe the polls, except of course for the whining left.
Gary
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 09:29:12 (EST)

My two cents are: So you see, this has nothing to do with politics, only to do with one man's life of failure and inadequacy. As if being reamed daily by the 22 for 5 years wasn't enough.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 08:56:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Personally, I suspect as I'm sure most of the guys here do that E is probably a pretty good roll in the sack. Most smart chicks are. She's also a little to classy to hit on and we probably figure she's not going to send a tit shot to the yearbook page. So we like her, good to have around. And we get along with her, enjoy her, even Glint does. Everyone except the poor pitiful asshole dreaming whatever just crapped in his mouth.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 08:47:45 (EST)

My two cents are: In fact, you can almost see greasy smudgy pieces of his own shit oozing out of his mouth and stenching in his flared nostrils when he posts to E acknowledging once again waving the little flag that says "I'm a Fucking Failure".
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 08:41:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Even the Crynic, although in a purchased fashion, recognizes that man's basic success is measured by success with women. Hardwired or softwired, no matter how you look at it, success with the opposite sex or sex of preference is the ultimate measure. And it dosen't mean a hundred or two partners, it means what we see right here, Glint and family, Ms. Ydog, Whatever and her beau's, just modest adequate relationships. Even when they go south, there was still success. But not for pete. This poor pitiful asshole knows he is so pathetically doomed to failure that he just initiates it straight off to get it over with. Sometimes he eats his own shit, dreaming that it's Whatever's. Regardless, each one of his grossout posts to E is just pete's way of waving a little flag that says "I'm a Fucking Failure"
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 08:38:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I've come to see these gross-out posts to E as a sign of pete's failure. Maybe more than a sign of failure, perhaps a cumulative all-encompassing symbol embodying a lifetime of the poor pitiful asshole's failures. Especially with women. You can almost hear him dissing the buff okie cheerleader between the lines. He never got the cheerleaders white cottn panties down around her knees (or probably even damp for that matter) before he started with the holy grail bit pretending to be the one rejecting her. You see, this is the self defense mechanism of a poor pitiful asshole so accustomed to failure that he actually creates it before it happens thus giving himself the illusion of choice and control. Aside from all that, he's pretty happy just whacking off thinking about whatever taking a crap in his mouth.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 08:31:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Al Gore told a cheering group of young supporters Friday night that it's important to work for Democratic candidates for Congress to provide "checks and balances" on a government that has grown increasingly conservative. Addressing about 600 people at a rally and fund-raiser, Gore said "2002 is a critical year for our country" and urged them to support candidates who will take solid positions on the economy, the environment and a wide range of social issues. "I'm getting worried about the economy," he told the young supporters, who paid $25 each to attend the event. "I was the first one laid off last year."
deadwood always goes first
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 07:28:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Washington Post: "Gag Order As Corpse Count Nears 300"
since when is it necessary to force folks to gag over something like that?
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 06:12:41 (EST)

My two cents are: What lurking? He left because he couldn't teach the liberals anything. They were too stupid to understand him. He said so. Why doesn't anyone ever believe the pathetic, pitiful asshole?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 03:27:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I guess all his lame lurking paid off, huh?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 00:42:17 (EST)

My two cents are: The man is capable of nothing except contempt for all women. Notice how Glint -an apparent lonely guy who misses everybody who's come and gone from this page- graciously welcomed E back. He truly does like those who have come and gone and those who have stayed. What he'd like to say to Pete is, Stay the fuck off this page, asshole. You've driven the good people away. But, he can't say that. Pete cajoles him, strokes him and wimpers like the spoiled little queer he is. Poor Glint then ties his star to the floating tird that is Pete until it's just Pete and Glint and 22 Anonymouses. No gnat, no E, no ydog, no Ho-hum. Then we hear the plaintive wails. He misses gnat's talk of the skies outside her mountain aerie. He misses Coppertone's adventures. He's stuck with Pete, stuck with the only poster he truly doesn't like in any way, except for some putative political and Big 12 brotherhood. Sad, really. Glint's the one guy who could shut the pineapple up for good. But, he's too fucking nice in a manic-depressive way.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 00:36:12 (EST)

My two cents are: So, he's Trish today. Couldn't handle being Lucy anymore. What a disgusting shit he is in any of his redundant incarnations. No imagination, no soul, no brains, no wit. Just a poor, pathetic asshole. And a tird.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 00:22:16 (EST)

My two cents are: What saddens me, Oggie, is that this is a man capable of the most exquisite leaf poetry, or a needle-sharp analysis of the romanticism-classicism contradistinction, or a stirring paragraph on tax policy suitable for nomination as "essay of the week." And yet he chooses the gross-out route, and the gross-out route alone. A mind like his, Oggie, is a terrible thing to waste. Same with pineapples. They're not so good to waste, either.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 00:19:40 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, there, Harlan. I might go down there with the boys this year, and they always stop in Gilroy for the artichokes. Early to bed early to rise, and deep-fried artichoke hearts for lunch, eh? Don't forget that my phytoplanktonologist still has the jones. Been nice chatting with you, E�, although it got a little ugly when that guy came on with the "gross-out" strategy. The pineapple just makes it like visiting one of those foreign countries where you have to learn how to navigate without stepping in the pigshit on the sidewalk. You find after a while that it's automatic.
Oggie "Krabs" Slivovitz
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 00:14:46 (EST)

My two cents are: (fingers self, farts, and giggles)
E?
- Saturday, February 23, 2002 at 00:10:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Plus ca change. La lutte continue. Ciao!
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:35:37 (EST)

My two cents are: AS I UNDERSTAND IT, the U.S. Government is going to take our free speech away from us, on the internet. No dirty words, no slang, and no be-littling politicians. HMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN. I was wondering about the Feds taking over Airport Security searching for the bulge in my pants.
CLIFFORD
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:32:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Ha ha. What a knee-slapper.
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:29:40 (EST)

My two cents are: they call it "P.M.S." because "Mad cow disease" was taken.
right, E?/
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:27:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Now, let's see. Is that a tribute? Is it satire? Is it a nice way to say, "Happy One-Year Sexual Harrassment Anniversary, Mrs. Zorobbkin"?
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:26:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey E, take a flying hike over my pussed over twat you cunt. This page was almost nice until your sick little chatty cathy liberal pussed over twat showed up. Don't forget, you got a big one cumming.
Trish
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:24:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Great. I'd like to hear from you.
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:10:22 (EST)

My two cents are: That might be contempt, not disdain, dear.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:09:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Oggie, thanks mucho. I too must get an early start, sort of. Sorry about the Tarzan mix-up. I just been thinking about them boys who use to come by here. Whew! They sure knew everything about the moom pitchers, eh? :-))))) Wonder what happened to them fellows anywayu. When I see you, I'll try to remember to pay that debt I have encumbered.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:07:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, then I'll do the emailing.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:03:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, then I'll do the emailing.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:03:47 (EST)

My two cents are: (Wordless glance of disdain).
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 23:00:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I am SO SO EXCITED to do E with my new boyfriend tonight. He says its real mellow and it should be a blast. I'm bringing over a few cd's, some bottles of water and plenty of chewing gum. I am so in love it makes me sick! But in a good way. It's been such a long time for me. A series of clumsy, forgettable relationships all in a row makes me think I deserve something positive for once.
Whatever
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 22:58:38 (EST)

My two cents are: A doctor can help that eye twitch and any other pussy place.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 22:41:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Clarification: As in the (Wagnerian) opera's not over till the fat lady's sung, hoping things are going well.
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 22:08:29 (EST)

My two cents are: (right eyebrow raised quizzically)
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:59:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Harlan, it looks like my book is open Tuesday night. I must leave the next morning for my yearly hegira to Pacific Grove, possibly quite early if I am to observe the majestic roosting of the monarch butterflies not far from the conference grounds. As far as free speech goes, everyone is quite free to speak as he will, and more power to him if he owns a newspaper or magazine. Kenny Boy may climb the tallest tree on election day and howl at the moon if he so desires, and his right to do this is protected by our durable Constitution, our bulwark against tyranny so elegantly crafted by our forefathers. There really isn't anything to discuss. Why some people see a linkage with the prohibition of "soft money" is beyond me, and would be beyond even our most troglodytic federal jurists. As for the Ape Man, I believe you are confusing me with Prescott Jamison. The only ape man I know is named Jeremiah.
Ogden Slivovitz
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:57:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Going well, thanks. Everything pretty much normal--looking out for saltwater deer and the like, working working working, now cooking up a mess of lamb bolognese, which actually I set out on the back porch under a bunch of bricks, only to find it savaged by some critter with a taste for I-talian. Don't think I have your right email. Hope the fat lady's already sung the last part of your soap opera. Hi to dungeness and zirc.
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:50:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor, pathetic wage slave.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:49:02 (EST)

My two cents are: And a wave of the rod to you too, E. Working on the network tonight, monitoring from home. If these were the good old days I'd be billing for this time, but not these days. Nope, just plain old fixed price Glint. Hired my first job applicant today, a city slicker fellow from Shanghai via New York. I think my 4,000 hours are working out quite well. Keeping the network up, helping an unemployed fellow, like I was a few short months ago, to help support his family. No longer floating above the bubble. Feel like the bubble's sitting on my back.
Glint
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:44:55 (EST)

My two cents are: You're old news, E�. Consider all T-word and baiting references a tribute. How's it going? Email me sometimes. I'll bring you up-to-date on my soap opera.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:41:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Yo. Hi, guys. Hey, I thought I was the one who was supposed to be doing the baiting.
E�
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 21:37:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Lucy. Trish. This place is turning into a regular right-wing Twat-A-Thon
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 20:11:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Trish, you E-vil twat, STOP BAITING US!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 19:48:25 (EST)

My two cents are: McConnell is a traitor and ought to be drawn and quartered. All I need to know is, George W. Bush supports this legislation and that's good enough for me! Let's roll.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 19:14:18 (EST)

My two cents are: The Finance Reform Bill may not go to the Supreme Court, "dude." If it does, it make take some time. There is nothing good about bad legislation.
Trish
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 16:32:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Oggie, I'm planning to visit your area next Tuesday night. Maybe I'll come over and we can debate the free speech issue as it relates to the purchase of same. I'd also like to learn more about Tarzan the Ape Man. Thanking you in advance.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 16:12:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron, the gift that keeps on giving. Handed the agenda to McCain. Put the kibosh on the Social Security privatization scam. Will strenghten the SEC and probability for regulation in all areas. It's neat when Republicanism pinches off a genuine Republican loaf, like Enron, in public. Leads to all sorts of new measures designed for the good of the people rather than the enrichment of a few insiders. The pendulim always shifts a little leftward, when a fat Republican turd is floating in the punch-bowl.
Ogden Slivovitz
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 15:45:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Bill is going to pass, cloture on the filibuster, and the bandy-legged little guy is going to sign and then claim it was his idea. And keep on claiming it if it doesn't have some awful unintended consequences. Read it and weep, Gary, you poor, pitiful asshole.
House of Meat
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 15:40:07 (EST)

My two cents are: What's Gary's problem? Is he worried that Enron's free speech might be stifled?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 15:33:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Wow! That's a good one! Never heard that before.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 15:24:49 (EST)

My two cents are: THOSE who write on Sh*t-house walls, roll their sh*t in tiny balls. And those who read these words of wit, eat those tiny balls of sh*t.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 15:19:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Gary, you constitutional scholar, if the legislation is so "clearly unconstitutional," what the fuck are you so worried about. What's the need for a filibuster that only succeeds in revealing Republicans for the self-serving greedheads they are? Just let the courts take care of it, Gary. Stop wringing your manicured hands, dude. Calm down.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 14:33:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, Gary, don't worry. If that nasty bill goes to the Supreme Court, you can bet it will be thrown out on a 5-4 vote.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 14:01:37 (EST)

My two cents are: tweet*
Tweaked*
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 13:48:14 (EST)

My two cents are: I see that the Enron business has degenerated into nothng more than a name-calling exercise, and the Democrats are still coming up empty. The Global Crossing debacle however, continues to be ignored by the Democrats accomplices in the Mainstream Media. I also see that Shays-Meehan passed the House. I personally hope that Mitch McConnell filibusters this legslation to death, and if he can't sustain a filibuster, I fervernly hope that Pres. Bush will veto the thing. In fact I will be sending the White House an e-mail to that effect. I already asked Sen. McConnell to filibuster the thing if he can, even though I am not one of his constituents. This campaign finance reform bill is a bad piece of legislation, that is clearly unconstitutional and deserves to be sent into oblivion.
Gary
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 13:44:53 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what's the punch-line?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 12:04:58 (EST)

My two cents are: RHETORIC: A Texan visting New York for the first time, was shown the Empire State Building. Not to be out-done, he said "Why we got Out-Houses taller than that". Where upon the New Yorker said "You need them"!!! DE-TENTE: Why Out-houses have 2 holes.
BEAN BLOSSOM
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 11:38:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Second time for that one.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 11:38:23 (EST)

My two cents are: An Axes Outbreak? ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA, SYRIA FORM "AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL" Cuba, Sudan, Serbia form "Axis of Somewhat Evil"; Other Nations Start Own Clubs Beijing (SatireWire.com) - Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be way eviler than that Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address. MEMBERSHIP CLOSED Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best at being evil." Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded that they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. " They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the Evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake - ours is wicked cool." THE AXIS PANDEMIC Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical musical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the "Axis of Somewhat Evil", forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the "Axis of Occasionally Evil", while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable". With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the "Axis of Countries that Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics Any Time Soon"; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the "Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America", while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the "Axis of Countries That Allow Sheep to Wear Lipstick". "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell. Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the "Axis of Countries Whose Names End in 'Guay'", accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel and Switzerland, meanwhile, insisted they didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, their leaders said that's only because no one asked them.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 11:05:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Liaberal tactic.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 10:49:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Deep end. Rubber room. Movement limitation jacket.
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- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 10:48:39 (EST)

My two cents are: THE BUSHY-TAILS, from Texas, has put the U.S. in financial chaos, and Social Security won't be there, so invest in 401 plans, and wind up penniless. HMMMN, maybe one like Enron. What's a feller to do??? I know, we queer folks go to Vermont, and get married, and invest in Real Estate. We can make love, not war and let the politicians kill their interns.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 08:15:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush claims credit for expanding health coverage for poor children here in texas. something else he fought tooth and nail. wHEN IT WAS DONE, HE TOLD THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE "WELL, YOU CRAMMED IT DOWN MY THROAT".sorry about the caps, not retyping
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 07:32:42 (EST)

My two cents are: HEH HEH, If it wasn't for us faggots, we wouldn't have to support welfare momma's, and all the government programs like hammers, toliet seats, and the sex life of the Tset-se Fly!!! Yet on the other hand, your wives probably bought designer gowns by Renee of Beverly Hills, drive those Mercedes, and sneak around to see Monica. My ex-sister in law said "I got a PUSS, and I can git any-thang, I want!!! I don't need this sh*t.
CLIFFORD
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 05:44:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, come ON! Priceless is absolutely right. How long are these bozos going to bitch and carp about the election chicanery, the coup de spin, the false president we were temporarily afflicted with before the bandy-legged little fellow became the real president when he clambered up out of his hole and took the baton from the Mayor of New York, who had been temporarily filling in as the leader of the western world? Carp carp, bitch bitch, are they going to rag at him forever just for becoming president by simple* fraud and a groundless feeling of entitlement? These people probably haven't even forgiven John Wilkes Booth for shooting Lincoln, and they will probably never forgive John Walker Lindh for telling his mother she should move to England. Let's grow up and get on with it. We've got a war to fight and rich guys' taxes to cut.
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- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 02:42:58 (EST)

My two cents are: First illegal president in the history of the US. Who's carping? It's a milestone.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 02:30:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Still carping about the election and the sore loserman.
PRICELESS!!
- Friday, February 22, 2002 at 00:29:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Without what? Without dark tunnels and long rods? Without getting baited with it daily? What?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 23:43:07 (EST)

My two cents are: How soon they forget. But, in the future when they check out all the videotapes, then they'll find my heartfelt moan about the Rotary! Then they'll remember me. Let this be my legacy!!!
What's-His-Name
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 23:40:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Gee, ya can't even go to the Rotary anymore without...
Name that House Manager!
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 22:25:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Then there's Mr. Affirmative Action, and the Mafia guy and the cowgirl. And the tall dumb guy who wore the funny robes to the Senate trial where they cleared Clinton of wrongdoing, the thirteen house managers writhing pathetically under the spotlight they had sought.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 21:43:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Strict constructionists, we call them. Judges who believe the Constitution, where it says the states decide who to send to the electoral college, not the feds. In effect, four law-abiding judges.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 21:37:45 (EST)

My two cents are: There were five Republicans on the Supreme Court, and only four honest judges.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 21:36:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush lost the 2000 election? Then how come he's president*?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 21:35:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor Ann Coulter. The silly gal doesn't understand that Snippy fought the $300 check rebate tooth and nail, it was a Democratic plan, theoretically to give the economy a shot in the arm, which the long term tax cuts won't do, and to treat everyone the same, which the Bush guts won't do. Snippy probably remembers that he fought the $300 rebate, so when he claims it as his he is lying. Ann, on the other hand, is just a bad reporter. She's the kind of person who bitches about the useless practice of asking airline passengers whether someone had asked them to take something with them, without realizing that an airplane bombing was averted because a lady under questioning noted that her Arab boy-friend had given her a package to carry, with a bomb in it as it turned out. So what? So Ann is a fool with nothing to offer but misinformation, and Snippy is a Republican, and therefore forced to lie about his economic policies, which if presented honestly would lose elections for him even worse than he lost the 2000 presidential election.
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- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 21:34:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Tax cut = deficit spending.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 19:38:50 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Responding to the unprecedented demands of September 11, U.S. President George W. Bush will send to Congress on Monday a $2.1 trillion budget that brings back deficits and clamps down on domestic spending to finance the biggest military buildup since the Cold War. Bush also calls for $591 billion in new tax relief over the next decade, and sets the stage for an election-year battle with Democrats over proposed cuts in job training, highway construction and other domestic programs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 19:00:14 (EST)

My two cents are: The Pentagon's total proposed budget of $379 billion, when adjusted for inflation, would be the biggest since the Cold War.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 18:58:20 (EST)

My two cents are: 02/04/02 05:29 PM; Information technology plays prominently in President Bush�s $37.7 billion budget proposal for homeland security in fiscal 2003. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge announced Feb. 4 that �using 21st century technology to secure the homeland� would be one of four main initiatives in the new budget. The Bush administration is requesting $722 million for this initiative, aimed at using technology to prevent terrorist attacks, Ridge said.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 18:53:58 (EST)

My two cents are: February 4, 2002 : At a press conference today in Washington, D.C., officials from the U.S. Department of Education announced President George W. Bush's FY 2003 budget request of $56.5 billion--including a record high $50.3 billion for discretionary programs--continuing his commitment to improve student achievement and to leave no child behind. President Bush's request builds on recent growth in the Department's budget, which has more than doubled since 1996.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 18:50:03 (EST)

My two cents are: President Bush Requests $117 Million Budget For The National Endowment for the Arts February 4, 2002 Washington, D.C. - President Bush today requested a $117 million budget appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts in Fiscal Year 2003. This is a $12 million increase over what the President requested in FY 2002. It maintains a $10 million increase that the Congress appropriated for the Endowment in FY 2002. "We are pleased at the President's commitment to the arts, especially given the increased pressure on the budget this year," said Eileen B. Mason, Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. "The arts are an important source of hope and inspiration. We will endeavor to recognize and support significant projects of artistic excellence that enrich the lives of all Americans, and to strengthen educational activity in the arts, especially for our children."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 18:46:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Put the Tax Cut in a Lock Box Universal Press Syndicate | February 21, 2002 By Ann Coulter DEMOCRATS have been champing at the bit to raise our taxes since the halcyon days of a Democratic Congress and president, when Bill Clinton's tax plan brilliantly engineered a historic Republican takeover of Congress. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has said, "With the war on terrorism, I just don't think it's in our best interest to go forward with the tax cuts." Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said we need to "revisit the tax cut in the midst of a recession." Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said "we" can't afford the Bush tax cut and still pay for a national prescription drug program, national early childhood education programs and a national health care program. When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes. There is perennially some sector of the economy Teddy Kennedy is longing to socialize and this, too, will require raising taxes. So it was interesting that Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., recently said of the Bush tax cut: "Ideology dictated that � tax cuts, no matter what the circumstances." At least Republicans admit it. Last June, Daschle began the incremental normalizing of tax hikes by darkly warning that Congress would have to "revisit" the Bush tax cut. "At some point the reality is going to come crashing down on all of us, and we're going to have to deal with it." Again in a long speech delivered on Jan. 4, Daschle repeatedly denounced the Bush tax cut, rambling on and on about Bush's tax cut being "exactly the wrong solution." The Dukakis of the Dakotas called it a "huge tax cut" � though this was the $300 rebate that Democrats also said was so piddling it was hardly worth passing. Republicans, he charged, made this "huge" tax cut their "number one priority ahead of everything else." And then the Dakota Dukakis spent the next month denying he was calling for a repeal of what he had called the "unfortunately ... huge" tax cut. After spending months deriding Bush's tax cut as a triflingly useless $300 tax rebate, liberals turn around and attack the triflingly useless $300, saying it is blowing a hole in the Democrats' pristine budget. Liberals are always simultaneously enraged about and dismissive of policies they oppose. They commission a statue altering the races of firefighters hoisting the flag at Ground Zero, and when a firestorm of protest erupts, they say it's no big deal so let's move on. They are hysterical about the prospect of a missile defense system, saying it will scare the Russians and anger Europeans, but then tell us it won't work anyway. If it's no big deal, then how about we win? You can tell Democrats are eyeing our bank accounts by their convoluted prattle about stimulus packages and "affording" tax cuts. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has complained that Bush's tax cut "had no economic stimulus up front." What exactly is an "economic stimulus"? It's definitely not a tax cut, or Kerry would have said "tax cut." Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips. Which one was an "investment in our future" and which one is a "choice"? Was that killing babies or taking our money? Back when Democrats were seeking a tax hike because the nation was at peace, Democratic mouthpiece and CBS News reporter Bob Schieffer railed: "So Washington took the summer off and the darnedest thing happened. Somebody lost the surplus. All that tax money that the rosy scenarios and economic forecasters told us would be there to pay for tax cuts and missile defense systems � well, sorry, they were wrong." First, consider the psychosis revealed in the concept of "paying for" tax cuts. Tax cuts aren't something you pay for. It's less money for the government to spend. Hearing politicians tell us "we" can't "afford" a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't "afford" a diet. In no other context do people talk about "paying for" money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. But moreover, there are literally thousands of government programs. So it was nice of CBS' Schieffer to tell us which two we can't afford � tax cuts and missile defense. Evidently, we still have boatloads of money to fund things like Christ in a jar of urine and the worthless Department of Education. We just can't afford to defend the country. Unless maybe, just maybe, if we raised taxes.
go anne go <fock the liberals>
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 18:27:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, so twits* = normal in the land of liebrality, etc....
Got It.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 18:08:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Clifford is most likely a faggot.
Lucy
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 15:02:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Jphn Walker should be given something worse than the death penalty. If found guilty he should be given the penalty of having to listen to Fox News 24 hours a day. Only reading material supplied would be Ann Coulter. On Sundays he would be required to listen to Ashcroft sermons.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 14:35:49 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know what you mean by baiting you. I do know you people appear to be a bunch of old withered up fossils with no imagination. You are most likely faggots.
Lucy
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 14:08:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Doubt it.
Pete�
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 13:45:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Does Glint know that the Chinese women's foul holes are sideways? They bait me with it daily. I got a big one cumming for them.
Not Here
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 10:51:54 (EST)

My two cents are: What clifford should take away from here, and I mean far away, is that while he alone struggled with open letters and third-level poetry and truly desperate descriptions of what he believes are hidden taxes, the bulk of the page, at least the 22 were able to handle this without batting an eye. A days work of cut and paste fabrication by the pineapple was frequently shot down in 30 seconds by the 22. The guy just always had this sad belief he was keeping up, perhaps that he would one day be the king of france. Have you seen the holy grail!!!!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 08:43:37 (EST)

My two cents are: He's probably hiding in shame after figuring out the flattering asians were peeing in his coffee.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 08:39:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint working late? What and missing all the websurfing for the corpse photos out of georgia - a must have for any good necro's collection. I can't believe he'd be so careless. Surely there's at least one suitable for blowing up to sofa-size and hanging in the living room.
Borg 3 of 22
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 08:39:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Sad, really.
Ridi Pagliccio
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 08:21:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Learn to separate the sheep from the goats.
Tragic Clown My Ass
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:20:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Tragedy of the Clown my aching red ass. Clifford is no Tragic Clown, Jackson, he's just a disgusting, pitiful asshole. Learn to recognize the chaff from the wheat.
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- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:18:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Just a shrewd guess, anonymous. Yes, it sounds like an old wives' saying, but who is to say that the old wives' don't understand the deeper currents? I'm not sure that inside EVERY clown a heart is breaking, but there's something undeniably lugubrious about Clifford, clown though he is. You know the words to the old song: "even though you know your heart is breaking, laugh, clown, laugh." Sometimes the simple, basic expressions, the everyday banalities, really get to the crux of a situation. Yes, I think that we ARE dealing with a tragic clown here.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:16:45 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what you're saying is that our Clifford is emblematic of the Tragedy of the Clown?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:13:00 (EST)

My two cents are: They say that inside every clown lies a breaking heart.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:11:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, Clifford is a comedic master, but let's not go overboard about it. You guys are acting like he's the darn Massiah or a great sculptor like Michaelangelo, or maybe a really good Ford mechanic. After all, it's just humor he's working with, the lowest form of Art. You don't turn summersaults if some kindergartner turns out to be a great finger-painter, do you? If Clifford could come up with, say, a great essay on the difference between classicism and romanticism, the shifting of the pendulum between the two, then there might be something to get excited about. As it is, he's just a clown. A masterful clown, but a clown nonetheless.
Oggie
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:08:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I really appreciate the smooth way Clifford works a vein of humor, like this mortician thing he's been working on. He really knows how to draw it out and make you wondering what the next variation will be. It's like a great saxaphone player riffing on a great standard like "Autumn Leaves", only instead of a song it's a situation or "set-up", like the mortician thread. He just keeps working it until you think there's no way he can wring another belly-laugh out of it, but then he hits you with it. Like, the mortician is STILL sending flowers. Classic.
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- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 02:02:55 (EST)

My two cents are: You don't know what he'll come up with, but whatever it is, you can be sure it will be a knee-slapper.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 01:57:41 (EST)

My two cents are: You never know what the zany guy is going to come up with next.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 01:56:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Yep. Clifford is certainly one of MY favorites.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 01:56:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Dang humorous, there, Clifford. You know how to hand a guy quite a chuckle.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 01:55:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Lordy, Lordy, I am past 40----So, now can I have consentual sex, without the State Department looking in my bed-room?? I don't believe in bondage, M/S and masochim. Neither does the mortician, he still sends me flowers. Hee Hee
CLIFFORD
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 01:27:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry Lucy, if they're conservatives they're not intelligent.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 00:40:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Since when does "outside the bubble" include government contractors? Aren't these the ones who came up with the $250 hammer and the $5000 toilet seat? Is the Military-Industrial Complex suddenly part of the counter culture? What's happening to my country?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 23:59:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's not here, Zirconium-lobe. He's working late, trying to avoid another ass-chewing. Wondering just how many goddamn vice-president's the old salt mine has. Waiting for his pension to vest. Wondering what he's going to do if Social Security goes bellyup and the daughters foresake him for lesbian marriages. Wishing he'd never come back inside the bubble. Wondering if it's too late to get out.
.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 23:15:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 22:10:41 (EST)

My two cents are: (Washington D.C. February 31, 2002) Faced with staunch opposition to the implementation of the proposal to include marriage promotion and counseling services as a strategy to further reduce the nation�s welfare roles, the Bush administration today unveiled a new plan. The new plan, called �Bush 2� seeks to address reducing teen pregnancy, domestic violence, and the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases as well as to increase the formation of two-earner households. �We�ve jailed a lot of black men over the last few decades and there just aren�t enough to go around� said an unofficial source close to the White House. �That started us thinking about alternatives and we came up with the idea of lesbian marriages. It really addresses a wide range of issues and we�re very proud of it�. The proposal also has the backing of the United Association of Religious Leaders as well as the ACLU. Both note that since the proposed lesbian marriages are not recognized by the church, there is no inherent church and state issue with the federal promotion of the lesbian marriages. �It just keeps going win, win, win� the source commented regarding the Bush 2 plan (also known as Bush 2 Bush).
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:41:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Who will think twice? The average Afghan peasant?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:40:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Hiyall, zirc here. Hey glint, did you manage to berate the immigrants today? You too can be a star. Don't hit your head on that military industrial complex ceiling there. The veeps might let you caddy if you can pour a drink.
borg 19 of 22
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:39:44 (EST)

My two cents are: We'll, we've killed or incapacitated a good 5% of Al Quaida, and the war has hardly begun. Talk about your slam dunks! They'll think twice before they snake in here and steal another airplane and fly it into a building.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:38:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Only if someone brings mustard.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:37:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Severed pig's head found outside Indiana State building...
In Nebraska, we call that a picnic.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:27:23 (EST)

My two cents are: If it looks like a terrorist, is interviewd by a CIA spook who later gets greased, and tells its Mom she should move to England, then it is a terrorist. End of story. Smoking gun. This one is a slam dunk.
John "No I'm Not Dead, Just Tired" Ashcroft
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:25:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Dear Mom, I have become a terrorist. If you don't believe me, dig this: you should go live in England.
Taliban John
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 21:23:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Faux Anonymous at 18:47:20 (EST). Doink.
Lucy
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 19:33:52 (EST)

My two cents are: No matter how vast the instrumentality of coercion or how vicious the intentions of the ruling elite, the masters of the total state are always dramatically outnumbered by their victims. No army of occupation is large enough to exercise total control over a tyrannized population; no secret police is capable of exercising incessant and all-encompassing surveillance. The triumph of the total state is made possible by the conquest of the human mind. "We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission," explained O�Brien, an agent of Big Brother�s "Ministry of Love" in George Orwell�s 1984. "When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us.... We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 19:00:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday that a Pentagon campaign to influence global opinion will not include lies to the public, but might employ "tactical" deception to confuse an enemy for battlefield advantage.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:49:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I can't believe we have an OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INFLUENCE.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:47:20 (EST)

My two cents are: The only bait on this sick socialist site is Bill's bent pud dangling for all his guppies to nibble at.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:26:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Bait? i DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Lucy
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:15:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, sure. You bait us daily.
Coward Anonymous
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:14:30 (EST)

My two cents are: No, I accidentally sent it twice. Sorry.
Lucy
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:13:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Faux Lucy at 18:04:31 (EST).
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:11:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I came back today to see for myself what you people are all about. I allowed the entire page to load and read just about every posting. Seems this page is full of democrats, but there appears to be a few intelligent conservatives here also. This Harlan St. Wolf is a total idiot. The Glint person is somewhat obsessed with the he/she, but otherwise very bright. Fascinating. House of Meat could be smart but I think he or she is being coached by someone. I must ask, how many Anonymous's are here?That's my take on this place. How accurate am I?
Lucy
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 18:04:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Walker was trying to lure his mother to Big Ben right before he sent the jet airplanes into it.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:55:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure. Hey, mom, move to England and become a terrorist like me!
Taliban John
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:52:57 (EST)

My two cents are: The twits* keep doing it, pineapple, because they know you are a liar and a lurker, and want you to realize, for the rest of your scum-sucking pitiful life, how outclassed you are by the normals.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:52:34 (EST)

My two cents are: People who tell their mothers they should live in England are fiends, and should be shot. They have socialized medicine there, and it is impossible to get a good taco.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:49:39 (EST)

My two cents are: What crimes? Is it illegal to e-mail your mom that she should go live in England? Since when were we in the business of prosecuting grunts after a war? The treasonous ones are the airlines and the airline stockholders and the cheap rent-a-cop companies and the politicians they bought and Ann Coulter, all of whom conspired to make a joke of Airline security in the USA. Blood is on their hands.
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- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:47:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Fuzzy math.
w
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:43:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Yep.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:42:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Wouldn't that be at 8:20:20pm tonight?
20:20:20, 02202002
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 17:25:32 (EST)

My two cents are: At 10:02 tonight, there will be a rare triple palindrome. You know, 20:02, 02/2002
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 16:49:07 (EST)

My two cents are: No idea?
doubt it
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 16:03:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Walker gets some consideration for at least having a soul, misguided though he is. Snippy simply has no idea. At all.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 15:10:08 (EST)

My two cents are: The Hyde standard applies to himself only. And only up to age 55. For Walker and Bush there's no such standard.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 14:43:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Reminds of the empty "the other shoe is going to drop" following the crushing revelation that presidential candidate GW bush had a DWI when he was about half his present age. It Enron it, has the other shoe finally dropped? bwaha! Glint - Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 09:25:30 (EST) Don't forget, Glint, that many of our boys who are out there fighting the evil-doers are a good decade younger than Snippy was when he went careening drunkenly down the streets of that pussified gated community. Don't forget that Calicoban Walker is a mere lad of 20 and needs to be executed for his crimes. You can't have it both ways, Jism-Boy. Bush gets no pass for being a 30 year-old drunk driver. There are no youthful indiscretions unless you happen to be Henry Hyde-the-Salami.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 14:24:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, Enron was willing to get into bed with whoever could get the Supreme Court to appoint him president. Follow the money. By far, the most went to Snippy, probably because Enron knew the fix was on. But you also got to hedge your bet, throw some chump change at Gore just in case Clarence Thomas gets caught in a vice raid and has to "recuse" himself in the Republican tradition.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 14:06:33 (EST)

My two cents are: No, that satire was the stained-dress Republicans witlessly trying to spin the Enron scandal onto President Gore. Or two-term President Clinton, who will forever be remembered for his eight unparalleled years of peace, prosperity, and a balanced budget. Plus a whopping surplus. Hey, remember that? Sure disappeared fast, didn't it? Fuzzy math? oops. Say, by the way, did you notice that the National Inquirer says Bush Jr's very own Depression is on the way in six weeks? Paint your wagons!
yee ha
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 13:52:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey. We thought he left. Was that more satire? Ha ha.
Pam 'N Vonda
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 13:49:10 (EST)

My two cents are: "Was there anyone that Enron wasn't trying to buy? The Enron Corporation quietly drew up a plan to cultivate close political ties to Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 presidential race and tried to build relationships with his inner circle even though the company was one of the biggest campaign contributors to George W. Bush and the Republicans." -The New York Times
Hang 'em by the nuts!
red states - Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 13:47:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Turn back time tonight ... by Geraint Smith Science Correspondent It won't come around for 111 years, and after that it will never happen again. At 8.02pm, the world will witness a time that is truly, triply palindromic. It will be 20:02/20.02/2002. Read the time, the day, the month and the year forwards or backwards, in numeric form, and the result is the same, discarding punctuation. Moreover, every individual component - time, date and year - is identical, and every one is itself a palindrome. That has happened only three times before - at 10.01 on 10 January 1001, at 11.11 on 11 November 1111, and at 12.21 on 12 December 1221. "And when they happened, nobody had digital watches to notice it," says Professor Peter Cameron, professor of mathematics at Queen Mary College of the University of London. It can only ever happen once more, says Professor Cameron - at 21.12 on 21 December 2112. "It is impossible after that because there are only 12 months in the year." It's a game - just something interesting," he adds. "It's like the fact the next date that looks the same held upside down is 6009. For mathematicians, it is the significance of the numbers that matter, not the form." For once, there is no associated pronouncement of Nostradamus, and even the internet, home to a million woolly-minded ravings, is silent, according to one of the British Museum's experts on calendars, Silke Ackermann. "A couple of people have commented on it, and then there has been a deadly silence," she says. It is, though, a pleasing numerical symmetry-that seems likely to cause a bulge in the marriage statistics. A straw poll of London's registry offices reports extremely brisk business for a weekday in February, with a number fully booked by couples, presumably of a mathematical bent. The experience mirrors that of Germany a couple of weeks ago when registry offices had to open specially, even though it was a Saturday, when they are usually shut, as hundreds of couples decided 2 February 2002 (02/02/02) was an auspicious date for tying the knot. They can all raise a glass to Sotades the Obscene, who invented the palindrome as a literary form in 300BC, and was subsequently thrown into the sea wrapped in lead by King Ptolemy II, for writing rude verse about him. As for scientists of other persuasions, the second minute of the twentieth hour of the twentieth day of the second month of the second year of the third millennium is, to quote John Betts, horologist at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and Maritime Museum - self-styled Home of Time - "really a bit of a non-event." "For horologists like me, I'm afraid mere coincidences of numbers are really not terribly interesting," he says. Those of a more wishful frame of mind could take comfort from Uri Geller who is "sending out a psychic message" at the appointed hour that he says will "make your dreams come true".
something even the liebrals can't screw with
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 13:44:22 (EST)

My two cents are: "I dont remember the room number. front desk runs east west along the south side of the inside and faces north"...yea...."longish affair like an airline ticket counter." Uh huh, and?.... "some stairs and a bar i think at the east end of the bldg." Anything else?... "a vending machine where i bought a toothbrush." Aha! What brand tootbrushes were stocked in the vending machine at the bottom of the stairs where I once bought an unbreakable rubber comb prior to a bubblicious job interview? <> "I mean why are you posting it at the yearbook site?" Mucis's better there.
Glint
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 13:27:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Do these twits* ever let up?
Pete�
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 13:25:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 12:25:27 (EST)

My two cents are: President Bush took his tough talk about North Korea right to the communist state's frontier Wednesday, calling Pyongyang evil and urging it to open the border with the South. Bush tempered the rhetoric with renewed calls for dialogue with the North. You're evil,now let's talk.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 12:25:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Satirical.
J. Swift
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 12:23:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing but a couple of twats pussed over. Their foul mouths will do fine.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 11:59:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Bye Pam. Bye Vonda.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:42:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Later.
Pam 'N Vonda
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:26:28 (EST)

My two cents are: It must be some kind of anniversary, nearly, mustn't it? Gentle hellos, then. A few satirical ones, too. And why not?
Pam 'N Vonda
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:25:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I guess that means we can get married, huh?
Pam 'N Vonda
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:06:45 (EST)

My two cents are: wait a second. let us be the first to second the compulsory lesbian welfare household plan. brilliant.
Pam 'N Vonda
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:04:59 (EST)

My two cents are: unless it's berate "brenda"(sic) day.
Edgar Allen
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 09:53:01 (EST)

My two cents are: isnt today berate the office asian day?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 08:14:07 (EST)

My two cents are: interesting that glint would bring up the idea of sending bogus emails to people. really. isn't it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 08:05:05 (EST)

My two cents are: well, actually, it wasnt technical cherry loss, that happened two years before when we skipped school and went to someone who had 2 working parents house for the afternoon. This was the first time I sort of well did everything all night with a girl. the earlier stuff was more fumbling embarassment and condom using.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 08:03:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Saw a news clip of the President in Korea. Wonder who his barber is, should be fired.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 02:02:45 (EST)

My two cents are: So where's Hummer then?
Pete�
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 01:59:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Where I grew up a 30-gallon drum stove was reserved for the gentry. Most of us heated our trailers with wadded newspapers burned in a coffee can.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:51:36 (EST)

My two cents are: You too can post at the yearbook site. Be the first one, after the maestro himself. Said the spider to the fly.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:48:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Not many would want a 30-gallon drum on iron legs in their living-room. But to those of us born outside the bubble it is supportable. A supportable evil. Or maybe quite chic, perhaps. Depends on the point of view. I thought Americans were supposed to lose their cherries in cars. What went wrong?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:47:06 (EST)

My two cents are: whats this "posted at" shit about? I mean why are you posting it at the yearbook site, i havent been there forever?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:43:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Can't find a cheap wood stove, a pot-belly stove. Evidently they're illegal now. Your stove has to have a catlytic converter to save the paranoid sniffers of the American marshmallow class. People have stoves for sale, but they run $250 minimum, the kind with fans in them that fit in your fireplace. So I sent off to Cablea's for a set of iron parts that lets you turn a 55 or 30-gallon drum into a stove. Now all I need is a 30-gallon drum and I'm set. Got a 55, but it's too big for the hearth. Get a drum, you can buy one reconditioned and cleaned of toxic waste for 35 bucks, or maybe get one for a fin at the oil company, with your stove parts you can declare independence from Enron. If you got a woodlot and don't mind making wood ("making wood" is hillbilly talk out here for cutting firewood). That's what's going down today. Enron Enron Enron. So many legs it intrudes into your private life, your very physical comfort. Read it and weep.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:42:32 (EST)

My two cents are: correct on the clubs and the ambassador. Tick Tock liquor over on new hampshire ave. have to go to pg county after midnite i think.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:41:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I dont remember the room number. front desk runs east west along the south side of the inside and faces north, longish affair like an airline ticket counter. some stairs and a bar i think at the east end of the bldg, a vending machine where i bought a toothbrush.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:40:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, I'm never in Rockville at 2 a.m. The only strip clubs worth going to are across the D.C. line and down Wisconsin Ave. Good Guys is a popular one. There used to also be one called Godfathers that was closed after the sone of the Brazilian Ambassador was shot there. That was the first club I met your wife at. She gave my glasses an internal wash and buffed my tie. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:39:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I know, shit, I leave pawprints all over my posts all the f-ing time? duh, must be the turnips.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:36:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Whats the best route to take for partying in georgetown?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:35:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Does anyone know why Glint finds it so difficult to identify that dog? What a schmoe.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:34:54 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) Hey, that Holiday Inn at the corner of Md 355 and Md 124 (a.k.a. Monkey Village Ave.) where you "lost the cherry" and all was my first home in Maryland. I lived there for about 30 days in September, 1980. Your hole time sounds better than my 30 days in the hole spent there. O.K. one last final question: Which room # did your roll under the bed in?
Glint
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:34:11 (EST)

My two cents are: William Safire Tuesday, February 19, 2002 'Big Brother' in America WASHINGTON Stipulated: The protection of the U.S. capital, its monuments and its centers of authority is a vital national interest. Early in American history, when faced with a potential rebellion of unpaid officers, George Washington employed an uncharacteristic emotional trick - pretending to be going blind - to appeal to the infuriated military not to march on the capital. He soon had them in tears and in hand. Abraham Lincoln risked all by turning the capital's defense over to the man most opposed to his political aims, gambling that he could later overcome the nation's gratitude to a man on horseback. In contemporary times, after the Pentagon was hit, the White House targeted and the Capitol anthraxed, Washington again saw itself besieged. But now, in terror of an external threat, George W. Bush is protecting the capital at the cost of every American's personal freedom.
Safire finally goes liberal. But we don't want him.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:33:51 (EST)

My two cents are: canon japan
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:33:36 (EST)

My two cents are: and besides, maybe i should interrogate you about not being a faux glint?? From rockville, where is the closest place to buy booze at 2 am? Where is the closest all nude strip club?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:32:00 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) Was Falls there in 1980? Maybe. Actually, I was hoping you'd get the ones north of Shady Grove. There's at least 3 new exits there. You could look it up on a map, but unless you were there then, you wouldn't know which ones have been added. You passed on the FTb. Final question: On the bottom of the FTb how many words are printed, and what are they? Good luck. (doo doo doo dum doo doo doooooo...)
Glint
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:29:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Now capital center was the biggest hall around, but it was way out the other side of the beltway. white cement. i remember it closing at some point.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:19:58 (EST)

My two cents are: usbong was on the east side of 270 i believe although i dont think i was ever in it. 270 splits south of democracy right? thats what I'm thinking now. Now, the big music hall has got me stumped. seems I'd remember that unless it was up north like gaithersburg or further, you gotta realize, glint, gaithersburg was a redneck dairyqueen podunk burg when I was growing up. The holiday inn at the corner of 355 and mont village avenue is where I lost the cherry and it was a new hotel then. room on the north side, 2nd or 3rd floor.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:18:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Now the streets are one i could look up on a map but i'm too lazy. so here goes. 270 dosent go into bethesda, about as close as you can get is the old georgetown road exit, then maybe democracy which was only just built by about 1980 I think montomery mall went in about 73 or 74. democracy was Bells Mill Rd before that I think. After democracy would be seven locks, then falls, then rt 28. Shady grove may have had an exit by 1980, not sure, think it did. some gaithersburg exits I'm sure I dont remember, the past montgomery village avenue and the comsat building on toward germantown. anyway, thats on the 270 spur that runs north of bethesda, the other spur runs to the west taking you to river rd and 495 down by canal rd as opposed to over near connecticut ave.. I may be confused about some of these. but I think thats it
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:11:10 (EST)

My two cents are: 1000 for the shutterspeed, 25 asa for the film no din. who cares if i'm not ydog anyway
borg 5 of 22
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:58:59 (EST)

My two cents are: maybe your problem with the vp's is that they have spotted your inner liberal glint, realized that you scammed them in the interview as they now see you being a soft liberal marshmellow and coddling the asians. You probably need to redeem yourself by screaming at one or two of the asians a day for about a week. This should put you back aces with the vp's.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:54:48 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) YDOG VERIFICATION TEST 2 of N. (1) From south to north name the roads or highways which had exits off of I-270 between Bethesda and Germantown in 1980. (2) Which exit had the big music hall that was destructed in the 1980s to build an office complex? (3) What color was the music Hall. (4) The U.S. bong factory was on (choose 1) a. the east side of I-270; b. the west side of I-270.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:54:30 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) Ydog, it's good to see you. Sure, you might have been back. But there are so many imposters here. How do I know it's really you? Your e-mail address is dead. You can send me a new e-mail address, but so could any number of other faux Ydogs. I know. TEST: (1) What's the fastest shutter speed an FTb can shoot? (2) What's the slowest film speed on the film speed dial? (3) What are the units of the film speed on the dial: a. DIN b. ASA c. both of the above d. none of the above.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:47:50 (EST)

My two cents are: I was back, dont need to sign as ydog to be ydog
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:39:48 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) Today's chew out came from V.P. 2. I think this is the same V.P. who was described by one of the 3 V.P.s, who hasn't chewed my head off yet, as a nasty person. I concur.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:38:38 (EST)

My two cents are: How can you say you were back before you signed off as ydog? I've now seen Glint say he misses Jeremiah, Whatever, gnat, even the E-vil one, possibly me. Nobody seems to miss the poor, pathetic asshole even in one of his brilliant disguises.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:38:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I think its interesting that glint actually thinks he can supervise the asians. I mean its sort of like columbus buying manhattan. How do you supervise part af a 5000 year old collective dynasty? Sure they agree and nod their heads and glint smiles peacefully in the minivan thinking about riding the cushy elevator of institutional racism again.
borg 7 of 22
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:36:51 (EST)

My two cents are: now on this white house marriage initiative, I've got a better ides, one that is as parsimonious as can be I think. One of the problems with the marriage solution to welfare is that we've got at least 25% of the black male population incarcerated, so there's a shortage of husbands. Rather than promote marriage, what we should be doing is encouraging female homosexuality and same sex partner households for the girls. See, its really an economic issue, the fact that it takes two workers to survive in this economy, thats why marriage works, not because its christian, because the nuclear family is the capitalist unit of production. Anyway, with the welfare lesbian program look what else you get as added benefits...1) no additional pregnancies, 2)no std's 3)no more welfare abortions 4) a drop in teen pregnancy. practically the whole right wing agenda for poor women can be addressed by promoting lesbian welfare couples. Interesting eh???
borg 17 of 22
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:25:22 (EST)

My two cents are: shit glint, I've been pretty much back since before xmas. unfortunately it looks like the foul one has reappeared.
ydog
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:19:02 (EST)

My two cents are: (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/) Whatever happned to Coppertone? Looking at her pic here. Did she finally tie the knot or did another one slip away?
Glint
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 22:03:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Back to the drawing board.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 21:53:55 (EST)

My two cents are: To Not Here - How would I possibly know you were from CU? Moreover, why would I care? I don't know who you think I am, and really don't care. Who are you people? You sound more weird with everything you say. Based on previous statements, you seemed a bit in tune. Guess I was wrong. I'm outta here. Bunch of phonies.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 21:18:52 (EST)

My two cents are: So, it's Lucy now? No more Cheech or Chong? How about Tyson? Gone too? Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 21:05:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor, pathetic asshole.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 19:44:36 (EST)

My two cents are: CU? You're a Buff? So am I. Or at least I say I am. But you already knew that, didn't you? I used to post here, but I never really said anything.
Not Here
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:53:55 (EST)

My two cents are: No. I don't have 40D, but I am 22 years old and have a very tight lean tanned body. I've been dancing for about 11 years and I bicycle everyday. Some guys think I'm attractive. I was in Playboy a few years back in the "Girls of the SEC" edition. That was before I transferred to CU.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:32:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Now 18-13-34 is funny. I have a great sense of humor. I just don't appreciate strangers calling me a cunt. Sometimes I guess I can be one, but he didn't know that.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:30:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe Lucy has some flap jacks. Would they be size 40-D perhaps (40" Diam. that is for you bubblized dormers)?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:25:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, the pineapple is getting plenty lately. Trust me.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:24:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Who takes time out from jerking off?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:13:34 (EST)

My two cents are: No sense of humor. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:12:53 (EST)

My two cents are: I love satire. It's flaccid old goats who take time from jerking off to insult girls for no apparent reason - that is what I don't appreciate. Geezer!
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 18:10:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Easy, Anonymous. It's not as if she said twerpedoes.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:53:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I guess you don't appreciate satire.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:52:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Has anybody seen the holy grail?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:50:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Mr. Anonymous, I take offense at being called a cunt, but I do have a tight little pussy that you will never taste. You sound like a crotchety old fart who hasn't been REALLY fucked in a long time. You're the type that wastes his days on his keyboard and nights on his organ. I am so horny right now I would almost fuck you - ALMOST. I am so sick of these guys out here. I want so bad to just find a mature guy who I could fuck silly. Sir, you are not it.
Lucy
Boulder, - Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:47:55 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a satirical page, you cunt. Is your twat pussed over or sewn shut? Well, then your foul mouth will do just fine. Welcome.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:27:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Why does everyone talk in code here and why do you use these goofy names? What is this website all about anyway? Should I not use my real name?
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:12:53 (EST)

My two cents are: cept up on the northface
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:10:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Stale bait yields no fish.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:09:04 (EST)

My two cents are: That's rich.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:03:51 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know 'bout no bandy legs, but I did heard there's a woman over yonder in Tejas which has bandy arms thanks to granny's wringa warsher. Seems t'was a raining one day and granny got all gawk eyed lookin' at the statues tears instead o' watchin' the little tyke who was doin' a strip tease and chucking her clothes into da warsher. Seems her blouse got hanged up in da wringa and pulled the chil' through by da arm up to her flat chest. 'Twasn't flat for long which she got a pair o' flap jacks 40 inchus in diam-o-ter.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 17:00:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Vitreous floaters!! Yes, that's it. Thank you so much. While I was waiting for someone to answer me, I down arrowed to read some of the discussion. Wow! I thought fornigate was a web place about retinas and lenses and stuff. I really feel like an idiot. * * * * * Thank you to whoever Anonymous is. You saved my day. Do you live anywhere near Boulder? I am here until June and bored to tears. Thank you. Ta-ta.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:50:01 (EST)

My two cents are: No, but I said tracers. I knew it was something like that. Tracers, floaters. You know.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:45:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Well that's not what your said, asshole.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:44:04 (EST)

My two cents are: That's what I meant, man. Floaters.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:42:55 (EST)

My two cents are: floaters, vitreous floaters. Particles that float in the vitreous and cast shadows on the retina; seen as spots, cobwebs, spiders, etc. Occurs normally with aging or with vitreous detachment, retinal tears, or inflammation. (Excerpted from Dictionary of Eye Terminology, 3rd ed, �1997 by Barbara Cassin)
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:38:40 (EST)

My two cents are: My ex boyfriend was a doctor and he told me the medical term for those things. I would know it if I heard it. It is just so frustrating. If you don't know, could you tell me where I might find this information? Thank you again.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:38:22 (EST)

My two cents are: 15:39:06 probably has bandy legs. Goes with mangling the English language.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:37:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Virtual threads.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:34:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Thank you Anonymous, but there is a technical or medical term for them. I appreciate your answer, but would you mind finding the technical name. I have looked everywhere and I just can not find it. I am a student at the University of Colorado and I can't finish my paper until I get the technical name. I am sorry to be such a pain. Please help.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:33:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, 15:39:06, what's it going to be. Is it "devaluing?" Is it "deflating?" Or is it, as you say, "devauling?" Our president* needs to know.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:30:43 (EST)

My two cents are: They're called tracers, man.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:26:39 (EST)

My two cents are: No Oggie. Just face the sun and barely close your eyes. You will see little specs of thread or dust floating from side to side. There is a name for those things, I just can not remember it.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:13:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Could someone out there please answer my question about those threads in our eyes? I would really like to know. Thank you.
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:11:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Speak for yourself about little thread-like things in your eyelids. Some sort of parasite, I imagine.
Oggie
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 16:10:05 (EST)

My two cents are: we can't allow them (to be) made up with terrorist organizations," Bush said, referring to Iraq, Iran and North Korea that make up his so-called "axis of evil." This needs more explaining than.. Uh, the North Koreans. Are you saying the North Koreans are working in concert with terrorist Iran and Iraq. What does bush mean by 'axis' . I always thought of an axis as a hub. North Korea threat has always been there, what has taken place recently? Did they suddenly find oil?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:59:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe the real solution is to neuter all negro males over the age of 11. Or require them to work at least 5 hours a week - and prove it - to keep their balls.
Masser
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:56:07 (EST)

My two cents are: What are those little threadlike things you can see on the inside of your eyelids when you close your eyes facing the sun called?
Lucy
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:52:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm liberal, and I do not devalue our president's campaign to get the Negroes to marry one another. I always say that a happy Negro is a Negro who gets regular pussy, and what better way to ensure regular pussy than marriage? If we can get these male bucks settled down with a spouse, then maybe we'll be able to walk the streets of middle America again without fear of having our purses and/or wallets snatched by the lazy man.
Glimpse
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:50:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Watch out with that word "devaluing!" Are you sure you don't mean "deflating?" The yen has already taken one in the nuts this week, don't do it again.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:47:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Is this the best you liberals can offer? I mean, you just spend all of your time devauling the work and words of Our President.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:39:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Will the government name a marriage czar?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:36:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Who will be doing the counseling? Born agains?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:35:31 (EST)

My two cents are: So the White House is pushing marriage, encouraging the formation and maitenance of two-parent families among the poor. I think he's saying a kid has a better chance if he has two poor parents as opposed to one poor parent.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:30:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Draw you own conclusions .... The Republicans complained about the US being the cop on the block. How would you describe military policy today?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:29:50 (EST)

My two cents are: " Later this week, at the United Nations, I will set out my vision of our common responsibilities in the war on terror. I will put every nation on notice that these duties involve more than sympathy or words. No nation can be neutral in this conflict, because no civilized nation can be secure in a world threatened by terror. " Remarks by the President To the Warsaw Conference on Combatting Terrorism
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:26:53 (EST)

My two cents are: That doesn't preclude him giving amnesty to illegal aliens. He owes that much to Vicente Fox.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:21:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Pentagon Planning Effort to Sway Overseas Sentiment in Favor of U.S. Terror War: The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:21:06 (EST)

My two cents are: "Though Sept. 11 may have altered Bush's presidency, it probably didn't fundamentally alter his view of the world as a place populated by complicated, ancient feuds and dozens of dangerous groups. These groups must be confronted and, if necessary, vanquished, Bush has made clear." "Bush's darker view -- which the events of Sept. 11 reinforced -- is now driving U.S. policy on everything from civil liberties to federal spending to foreign policy. Military spending is projected to outstrip non-military discretionary spending within a few years. Extraordinary detention procedures are followed for terrorism suspects, especially those who are not U.S. citizens. Countries with whom relations have been tense are asked to choose sides. In a battle against the forces of darkness, it's dangerous to remain in the shadows." The Way Bush Sees The World- Washington Post February 17, 2002
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:15:35 (EST)

My two cents are: I say it continues as long as this Enron thing keeps growing legs.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:09:06 (EST)

My two cents are: That's easy. When the only evil left is Dick Cheney.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:05:20 (EST)

My two cents are: That's easy. When the only evil left is Dick Cheney.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:59:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Where does Bush's crusade against evil stop?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:53:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh...the Korean people?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:49:47 (EST)

My two cents are: What terrorist organization is in North Korea?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:44:04 (EST)

My two cents are: "We cannot allow nations that aren't transparent, nations that have a terrible history, nations that are so dictatorial they are willing to starve their people -- we can't allow them (to be) made up with terrorist organizations," Bush said, referring to Iraq, Iran and North Korea that make up his so-called "axis of evil."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:43:02 (EST)

My two cents are: If we're ever going to nuke Mecca, now is the time! There's a whole shitload of the head bobbing Muslim pilgrims there for the next five days. Some topsy-turvy thing called a hajj. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:22:57 (EST)

My two cents are: You can't trust analysts -- The relationship between most Wall Street stock analysts and the companies they follow is incestuous. Among 30,000 analyst stock recommendations tracked by Thomson Financial/First Call, 66% are typically ''strong buys'' or ''buys,'' research analyst Joe Cooper says. ''Sell'' ratings on company stocks are exceedingly rare -- less than 1% of all stock recommendations are sell ratings. Even after months of selling pressure on Wall Street that culminated in the fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, analysts were still overwhelmingly bullish; just 1.4% of stocks rated a sell. ''There's a natural bias to be optimistic,'' Cooper says. More troubling is that six analysts rated Enron as a ''strong buy'' at the time it collapsed in late November -- three months after CEO Jeffrey Skilling quit and six weeks after Enron slashed shareholder equity by $1.2 billion. Even lukewarm stock ratings, such as the innocuous ''market performer'' rating some firms assign to troubled companies, can place an analyst's job at risk. Why? Wall Street firms risk the loss of lucrative corporate finance deals. Some of the same firms that were recommending investors buy Enron stock, such as Merrill Lynch, were selling shares in the limited partnerships that Enron was keeping off the books. Bottom line: Do your own homework.
You're not getting any help, um, "here"
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:15:23 (EST)

My two cents are: PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) - A man whose throat was slashed and who was buried in a shallow grave next to his slain 12-year-old son survived and later led police to two men charged with the boy's murder. Forrest Bowyer, 54, dug himself out of the grave Monday, flagged down a passing motorist and called police. Officers arrested Michael David Carruth, 43, and Jimmy Lee Brooks Jr., 22, less than 12 hours later and charged them with capital murder, attempted murder, robbery and kidnapping. They were being held without bail. Bowyer remained hospitalized after undergoing emergency surgery, said Russell County Sheriff Tommy Boswell. Police said Bowyer and his son, Brett, were kidnapped Sunday night by two men who claimed to be narcotics officers. After Bowyer gave them money, they took Bowyer and his son to a construction site where they had dug a shallow grave in red clay, Boswell said. The men took Bowyer's house keys, slit his throat and shoved him into the grave, Boswell said. They shot his son in the head and pushed his body on top of his father. Police found Carruth and Brooks based on Bowyer's descriptions of their appearances and the car they drove.
Does it get much sicker than this?
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 14:13:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I gave Viagra to my parakeet, George, and he died.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 10:51:53 (EST)

My two cents are: I have used Viagra. It's perfectly legal.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 10:13:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm sorry, but I can't see rolling with a man named Poindexter.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 09:33:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Which Reagan scandal was Poindexter part of?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 09:31:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Retired Adm. John Poindexter, who was President Reagan's national security adviser during the Iran-Contra affair, is directing a new Pentagon office that will focus on new kinds of military threats, including terrorist organizations. Poindexter became head of the Information Awareness Office last month.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 01:07:57 (EST)

My two cents are: That is to say "half a term*."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 00:36:49 (EST)

My two cents are: JUust wait until Snippy finishes half a term and this Enron thing blows over. He'll blow Clinton away! He'll leave Reagan wondering what day it is! He'll murder Lincoln and Kennedy!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 00:36:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Hilarious.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 00:17:10 (EST)

My two cents are: HELP!!! The undertaker sends me flowers with a note saying "I want your body". I have known him for over 10 years----And I didn't know they fooled around, because he is married, 50 with a couple of grown kids.
CLIFFORD
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 23:15:09 (EST)

My two cents are: That's right, the poor bastard didn't survive. If he hadn't been shot, he'd be chasing calico cats right alongside Snippy and Ashcroft right now.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 22:18:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Survived what? Being shot in the HEAD!?!? Idiot!?!
Joey Buttafuco
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 22:01:16 (EST)

My two cents are: It was the calico cats. Just imagine how many calico cats were about in Lincoln's day! Only a great president would have survived.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 21:42:15 (EST)

My two cents are: How did that bum Lincoln get so many votes?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 21:24:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh, would a floating Ophelia be a cameo?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 20:48:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's take a real poll. How many of you have tried Viagra yet? Can we get some cameos?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 20:07:02 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - Abraham Lincoln has moved to the top of the list of greatest presidents in an ABC News poll for President's Day that saw George W. Bush ease ahead of Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) in the overall survey and among Republicans. Lincoln was chosen by 20 percent, while the current president and John F. Kennedy were essentially tied for second � with Kennedy at 14 percent and Bush at 13 percent. Reagan, Bill Clinton and Franklin Roosevelt were tied for third at 8 percent apiece. In the same ABC poll a year ago, Reagan was at the top with 18 percent, Kennedy 16 percent and Lincoln 14 percent. Kennedy and Lincoln were tied atop the list among Democrats this year, whereas Lincoln was the easy winner among independents, and Bush and Lincoln led among Republicans, with Reagan slightly behind them. Lincoln was first among whites, but second among blacks, who overwhelmingly chose Clinton as the greatest president. One of Lincoln's best known achievements was freeing the slaves during the Civil War. Roosevelt was the leader among those 65 and older. The poll was conducted Feb. 13-17 among a sample of 1,025 adults and had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
yuss mawstah
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 20:05:47 (EST)

My two cents are: I think it's cute how our bandy-legged president mangles phrases. Devaluation instead of deflation? Precious!
Tammy
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:30:15 (EST)

My two cents are: 'Everything turns on this confession. If that is thrown out, it seems to me there is very little proof against this guy. The government's biggest problem is that in order to make their main charges stick they will have to prove that Walker was actively supporting the al-Qaeda terrorist network in some form, not simply that he was a member of the Taliban who was fighting against the Northern Alliance,' Wallance said. The only other significant evidence presented by the prosecution is a series of emails sent by Walker to his mother in northern California while he was travelling in Central Asia, in which he questioned why she wanted to live in the US because, he wrote, 'what has America done for anybody?' He told her that she should move to England. One legal source said last night: 'This is very weak stuff indeed. As far as I am aware, there is no law in this country which says you can't tell your mother she should go and live in England.'
He really said that? Dead meat.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:24:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush 'devaluation' gaffe sends yen lower By Nerma Jelacic in London Published: February 18 2002 10:25 | Last Updated: February 18 2002 12:59 A short wave of panic took over the forex trading floors on Monday sending the yen lower after George W Bush, the US president, said he had discussed the devaluation of the Japanese currency with Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's prime minister. Speaking at the press conference after his first meeting with the Japanese prime minister, Mr Bush said: "He [Koizumi] said I want to make it very clear to you exactly what I intend to do and he talked about non-performing loans, the devaluation issue and regulatory reform and he placed equal emphasis on all three." Minutes later, the yen dipped to �132.80 against the dollar. But soon after a White House official released a statement saying that the US president had meant to say "deflation" not "devaluation". The Yen promptly recovered to its opening levels and at 1030 GMT it stood at �132.62 against the dollar.
Thank God he's over there helping them and not over here helping us.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:18:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Meanwhile Osama bin Laden runs free and Snippy tries to make a case for invading three out of 37 evil places. Oddly, this all comes during a time when Enron has taken over the attention of a populace that once rolled.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:17:15 (EST)

My two cents are: While infinity is interesting, let us not forget about pi.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:14:43 (EST)

My two cents are: What is it with these Bush characters? Seems they always get high popularity ratings when they manage to demonize some raghead, and then their numbers nose-dive because they screw up the economy. When are they going to learn that you can only ride an Arab so far, and then you've got to start paying attention to your own people? On the other hand, maybe that's what big Bush was thinking when he chased his guy up to the border and then stopped. Maybe that's why Little Bush is making a big show out of nabbing Taliban John, the very dangerous kid from Marin.
Oggie
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:14:41 (EST)

My two cents are: My guides showed me God, although it broke my heart to hear them scoffing at Uncle Sam.
Not Here, On Safari
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:06:12 (EST)

My two cents are: You can see Him with some of these new designer drugs, too.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:05:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Who needs infinity? If you rub your eyes really hard, you can see God.
Saint Pineapple
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:04:35 (EST)

My two cents are: We'll work up to infinity slowly, through complex numbers.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 19:00:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Ooh, infinity! Don't start me on infinity.
Not Here
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 18:47:09 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what's outside the bubble if God is also the bubble? Is this the flint that flakes off the bubble bath bottle after it dries from disuse? Or is it like infinity...or beyond infinity...?
tiny bubbles to you too
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 17:47:13 (EST)

My two cents are: No, if the is a god, I've got to believe he lives outside the bubble, just like me.
Glimpse
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 17:41:17 (EST)

My two cents are: The bubble IS God.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 17:25:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Will you stop talking about the goddamn bubble? Every time you say it, I see my poor kid sitting in his $700/month rented room in the most expensive town for housing in America, boiling spaghetti on a hot-plate. Somehow you think it's going to turn out all right, you change the diapers and throw the ball and help with the homework and give him the keys to the car on prom night, and you're there on high school graduation day, and it's all for what? A miserable life off campus? Is that what all the pain and hard work and inspiration and silent suffering and vocal lecturing boils down to? The hard bitter endless struggle off campus? If I had known this, I would have thought long and hard before bringing an infant into this brutal world. There is no bubble. There is no bubble, and there is no God.
House of Meat
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 17:24:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't worry, once it all shakes out, even the minority who voted for the bandy-legged little phrase mangler will demanding his head on a stake.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 15:50:32 (EST)

My two cents are: One president gets a blow job and gets impeched. The next one fucks the whole country and gets by with it. Goes to show americans are a dumb bunch of basterds.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 15:28:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I noted that President* Bush's popularity has sunk to Clitonian levels. Ladies and gentlemen and people, are we still rolling or what? Until we stop rolling, I would suggest we give the President* back his lost popularity. United we stand, I always say! After the rolling has stopped, that's when we will have time for Enron and other scandals. But, not now. Let's roll!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 13:17:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The only real advantage to living "outside the bubble" in Lincoln is safety. The football team lives in a swanky dorm and commits most of its rapes and muggings on campus. A block away, outside the bubble, things are pretty peaceful unless you happen to stumble into a beer garden populated by members of the football squad. If you can avoid that, you're a safe as you would be at a Baptist convention because the only negroes are...football players.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 13:10:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Not only that, all the "off-campus" apartments are within pissing distance of the dorms and they're all designed to look like dorms. The best orgies take place in the dorms.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 13:01:55 (EST)

My two cents are: In Lincoln, Nebraska the lines between inside and outside the bubble tend to blur. Everybody from drunken, criminal frat-rats to the Congregationalist minister wears bright red sweatshirts all the time and follows every dull off-tackle run and police blotter event of the professional college football team. It's one endless pep rally from August to January. We're talking about a town the size of Barstow here. It's all a bubble. I understand, instead of a domed stadium, they figured it would cost about the same in boosters' dollars to dome the whole fucking burg and cover the front yards with third generation synthetic turf.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:56:45 (EST)

My two cents are: It has come full circle in America. My kid goes to a college where there are enough dorm rooms for freshmen only. I tried to harden him up when he was little, knowing something like this might happen, but how the hell do you prepare a kid for life in a rented room? I taught him how to boil spaghetti-- at least he has that.
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- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:29:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but after I got out in the big mean world I rented a closet from a Jasper for what, $100.00/month? Well, it wasn't really a closet, just a small pantry off the kitchen.
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- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:26:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, "outside the bubble" is relative. To the marshmallow son of liberal parents from Marin County, it might mean becoming a soldier in Afghanistan and serving as a grunt on the losing side of a brutal war. To your normal suburban kid of the mid-'60's, it might mean hooking a ride on a freight-train and sucking diesel spew in the tunnels or working on a Mexican field crew. To a proto-troglodyte Nebraska kid in the '70's, it might mean mean living off-campus. Get it? It's all relative.
House of Meat
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:25:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I went to a normal university with 17,000 students and dorm space for 1200. We didn't know from bubbles. What's the big fucking deal about living in some hovel? Shit, I shared a crash with some jasper who let me sleep in his closet for $10 a week. Not a bubble in sight.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:22:54 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought it was a purely regional thing, limited to a few flat places.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:20:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought "outside the bubble" only referred to having the cojones to choose the mine field that is off-campus aprtment life over the quiet sanctuary of dormitory living.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:17:58 (EST)

My two cents are: You'll get used to the way everybody takes holidays off inside the bubble, Glint. First job I ever had was working row crops on a bracero crew, used the experience to land a job shoveling out the clods that fell in the ditch behind a trenching machine. The Mexicans never got coffee break so I didn't know white men got one, and when the trencher driver tried to wear me out by working straight through I didn't even notice. The problem is, though, that it doesn't do any good unless the other guys are sitting on the dirt-pile with their Thermous cups and Camels judging the cut of your jib. It is useless to drive all the way in and toil all day if nobody ever finds out because they're all out chopping down cherry trees and hurling silver dollars across the Potomac. Pace yourself Glint, use your time wisely, and avoid burn-out. You've got to be wiley to survive inside the bubble.
House of Meat
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 12:00:47 (EST)

My two cents are: That's the problem with a story like Enron. You throw your net into the waters and when you pull it out it has not only the president* and his evil crew but some virtueless socialist ward-heelers and city council members from Maryland. If Snippy is going down he's taking the whole Carrol County Library Board with him?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 11:52:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Maryland has a long and honored history in the game. Isn't that the wide spot on the map where a Greek kid with an eggplant-shaped head can become Vice-President-OTUS and get in on some chump change?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 11:50:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
More like the big top's side tent.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 11:32:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Must be a big demand for flipper armed strippers out Mississippi way. Life under the big top.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 11:30:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Wait and see.
next to the milk bottles.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 10:44:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Heard on the car's radio this morning that Enron has ties into Maryland poltics as well. Influence peddling of course in this state with its Liberal political hog waller. Looks like Enron has legs but they're not coming down where some people expected them to.
Glint
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 10:02:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Schools and Gov't closed for President's Day. I love these kind of Mondays because the freeway flies. I can get to work in 50 minutes instead of the usual 75. But guess the stock markets are closed to, and with it my employer. Looks like I'm the only one who showed up. But that hasn't stopped the data feeds from spitting sparks out the screen and rocking the building. Typical Monday morning implosions and fires to fight single handed. I hate Mondays after all.
Glint
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 09:56:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Does anyone here know which are the red states and which are the blue states?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 04:08:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing like a rack of beagle-ears. But none of your wives has 'em to match Linda Tripp.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 01:15:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Counting from the top down, right?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 01:14:30 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a 38D, asshole, and it goes all the way to the ninth rib.
Limpet
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 01:13:59 (EST)

My two cents are: That 36D goes all the way to the 7th rib, we presume.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 01:13:05 (EST)

My two cents are: 2001 was a watershed year. Forced temporary retirement made me long for the realy thing. Even with four months off I'll still pull down a six figures in income alone (prior to investment losses). This year will be different as well. Not yet living within our means. Subsidizing the paycheck with the savings account. Like Lay, have some long running financial obligations as I continue trying to turn down the volume on the family budget. Wish I had another house to sell. (Posted at http://members.fortunecity.com/fornigate/)
Glint
- Monday, February 18, 2002 at 00:03:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The poor's sense of class superiority over the rich is getting out of hand.
go ann go
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 23:45:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Ydog's got me. Mine's only a 38D.
Glint
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 23:40:39 (EST)

My two cents are: "Glint old sport. You've finally reached your level of incompetence." Found my place in the updraft of the septic tank, all right. But don't forget, this is only a temporary foray. Sort of like going back for another Master's Degree, only instead of paying tuition I pay by working for peanuts while getting the training, experience, and another bullet skill for the resume.
Glint
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 23:34:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh glory be. Is that really Ydog or a clever imposter trying to break my heart? The FTb reference is as good as a validated user password to me. Now, excuse me while I scroll and savor....
Glint
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 23:29:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Many Republicans criticized the Clinton administration for entering peacekeeping operations without having an exit strategy. It's ironic, perhaps, that this administration seems to be waging war without any exit strategy other than moving to the next battlefield. The war could become, as in the Orwell novel "1984," a permanent state of being. "War is Peace," the Ministry of Truth slogan read in the novel. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19626-2002Feb16
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 23:17:31 (EST)

My two cents are: From the third presidential debate.GOV. BUSH: "If this were a spending contest, I'd come in second. (Laughter.) I readily admit, I'm not going to grow the size of the federal government like he is. Your question was deployment. It must be in the national interests. It must be in our vital interest whether we every send troops. The mission must be clear. Soldiers must understand why are we going. The force must be strong enough so that the mission can be accomplished. AND THE EXIT STRATEGY NEEEDS TO BE WELL-DEFINED. I'm concerned that we're over-deployed around the world. See, I think the mission has somewhat become fuzzy. Should I be fortunate enough to earn you confidence, the mission of the United States military will be to be prepared and ready to fight and win war, and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place. There may be some moments when we use our troops as peacekeepers, but not often. The vice president mentioned my view of the long-term for the military. I want to make sure the equipment for our military is the best it can possibly be, of course. But we have an opportunity. We have an opportunity to use our research and development capacities, the great technology of the United States, to make our military lighter, harder to find, more lethal. We have an opportunity really, if you think about it, if we're smart and have got a strategic vision and a leader who understands strategic planning to make sure that we change the terms of the battlefield of the future so we can make -- keep the peace. This is a peaceful nation, and I intend to keep the peace."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 23:14:39 (EST)

My two cents are: The Way Bush Sees The World. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19626-2002Feb16
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 22:54:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Quite a few jingoistic Americans thought the Lotus Elite stole the tilted motor idea from Valiant, but it was the other way around. Valiant stole the tilted motor from the Lotus. I know it was tilted, because my dad had one, an orange one, for a few months, a couple of years before they even invented the Valiant. All those goofy "compact" cars came out in 1960, except for the Mustang, which came out two or three years later. Except for the Corvair, they were basically the same old iron squeezed into a smaller body, and Detroit hated them so much they immediately started growing six inches to a foot every year and soon met the hogs coming down the other way. Except for the New Yorker and the Lincoln and the El Dorado and a few others, they never sold out until they were freaks and couldn't sell at all. If you want a real, full-size American car now, you've got to go Navigator, or Suburban if you're trailer trash. I never been in a Valiant, but I read about the leaning motor.
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- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 21:22:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, a few bozos might be tracking Enron, but it has no legs. In the end, it has no legs, because it has no twat. How can something without twat have legs?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 21:14:32 (EST)

My two cents are: It's not the color that makes the joyful noise, dope. It's the electronic stuff. I say go Carvin and have at least one humbucker to play with. There's a switch to make it single-coil if you want. You could do the same thing with the Strat, but Eric Clapton might disapprove. He's actually more of a Les Paul guy, anyway.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 21:12:50 (EST)

My two cents are: . Question: How important an issue do you think the Enron situation is to the nation? Enron situation : Feb. 8-10 (National adults) Very important: 52 Somewhat important: 37 Not too important : 6 Not important at all: 2 No opinion:3 Clinton pardons: March 9-11, 2001 (National adults) Very important: 33 Somewhat important : 30 Not too important: 17 Not important at all: 17 No opinion: 3 Whitewater : July 7-9, 1995 (National adults) Very important: 20 Somewhatimportant: 25 Not too important: 24 Not important at all: 25 No opinion: 6 http://usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-02-11-enron-poll.htm
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 21:10:46 (EST)

My two cents are: It's the man in the rubber room. The only thing he can move in the lunatic jacket is his neck. Got a long pencil-like thing with a rubber knob at the end to hit the keys. NASA is hoping the voices he hears are actually transmissions from Uranus, out where the edge of the universe vibrates and is God; so they've furnished his suite with rubber-padded electronic gear and grafted the key-pusher rod onto his forehead. If ten monkeys in a room with ten typewriters will eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare by chance, then maybe one lunatic in a padded room will beam down the voices of the galaxy. NASA can only hope, and pray.
Limpet
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 21:10:31 (EST)

My two cents are: That's not h-man, unless h-man been slorping down a lot o' pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 21:06:09 (EST)

My two cents are: S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald has had a close-up view of the Enron collapse and has lashed out at its former chief executive, Kenneth Lay. The Inverness Republican, as the ranking member of the consumer affairs subcommittee, has had access to thousands of Enron documents and has studied the case closely. The Daily Herald spoke with Fitzgerald on Friday. Here are some of his thoughts on the issue: Q. Are you surprised at the public's interest in the case? Fitzgerald: I had no idea at the outset that Enron would become the issue that it has become. I'm surprised that it has riveted the nation the way it has. ... It's almost mythic in content and truly epic in scope. It involves great human themes: power, hubris, tragedy, pathos. Everything apparently except redemption. It's really a contemporary iteration of Icarus, the great mythical figure flying too close to the sun. You just can't pull your eyes away.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:53:48 (EST)

My two cents are: It takes a lifetime to live down a purple guitar.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:34:22 (EST)

My two cents are: And soon, pretty soon, like in two weeks or so I'm gonna cop a clapton copy strat. wont be no purple licorice flavored pimp-amped guitar.
ydog.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:33:51 (EST)

My two cents are: besides hchilde, I dont exactly see even an oblique ref to the musky musk from your side of the table. At least I'm burying some tongue.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:26:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The journalist who conducted the first interview with Walker, 20, after he had been captured in Afghanistan said yesterday he had grave worries about the way his work had been used by the government lawyers. Robert Pelton, whose interview with John Walker on CNN last December is one of the main strands of the prosecution case, told The Observer of his concerns. He said there were a number of instances where the script accompanying the Walker film had been presented by prosecution lawyers as comments made directly by the accused. This made Walker appear more knowledgeable about the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the war in Afghanistan than he really was. 'These were words that I was writing to narrate a report with,' Pelton said. 'I am making assumptions because I know exactly what Walker did and where he came from, but at the same time let's say I'm a good journalist and I get my facts right. There are plenty of bad journalists out there - and if it becomes a precedent that the FBI uses television reports to convict people, God help us all.' http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,651666,00.html
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:25:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I mean I've always been able to walk smooth past the hman here, why does he think it's any diff now? Eat me clown boy, you couldn't haul ginger lynn as lunchbutt with diaharrea.
ydog
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:24:48 (EST)

My two cents are: But back to walking the talk... you wouldnt be in the position to spit on the jag if you hadn't driven the valiant for 23 years so whats the point now?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:21:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, sure, Hum. We all know you "get" it. Those dark rods and long tunnels never lie. Especially on the pineapple plantation. (swish)
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 20:20:38 (EST)

My two cents are: No, because Pete himself is a floating tird in the toilet bowl of history.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 19:55:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Is nobody's dark tunnel highway sacred? When Pete� pinches a loaf in the punch-bowl, it really floats, doesn't it?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 19:46:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't get it either, but somehow I still suspect that I should be happy it's Ho-hum's dark tunnel highway and not mine.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 19:45:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't get it.
Ho-hum
SF, - Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 19:21:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, that slack from Ho-hum's dark tunnel hi-way must surely be long, slow and stuck by now. So much for photography lessons or pinata whacking.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 18:20:16 (EST)

My two cents are: There were places. Places that were somewhere else. That's what made them other places. Well, except for that fucking uncertaunty principle and the goddamnnned electrons. The electrons fucked alot of shit up.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 18:02:25 (EST)

My two cents are: The thing is, she sort of measures success by volume. Works for me.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:57:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah what the fuck, its sort of good to be back so far. Havent really been pulling my weight but thanks for the slack.
ydog
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:49:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Dead Ophie??? Dead Ophie's alive??? Where?????
ydog
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:47:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Watkins implicates Vinson and Elkins. Larry Thompson former law firm, Vinson and Elkins, has represented both Enron and Arthur Andersen. Time for Thompson to recuse himself.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:46:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Earth to dog, Ophelia's alive!
back to undercover in Mississippi
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:37:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron Corp. internal whistle-blower Sherron Watkins told Congress on Thursday that top officers fooled former chairman Kenneth Lay, and frightened her and others who waved red flags as the financial crisis deepened at the energy trader. Watkins described Enron's corporate culture as aggressive and tinged with fear. She calmly recounted how she first approached Lay in August about problems that, months later, drove the company to file the largest US bankruptcy ever. A vice president of the Houston-based energy company, Watkins said she came away from meetings with Lay convinced he had been misled. She blamed former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling and former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, as well as Enron's auditor Andersen and law firm Vinson & Elkins. "I do believe that Mr Skilling and Mr Fastow along with two very well-respected firms did dupe Mr Lay and the board," Watkins said. "It is my humble opinion that he did not understand the gravity of the situation." There you have it, Kenneth Lay is an innocent victim.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:37:21 (EST)

My two cents are: So glint, do your beadle job and retrieve that post about the nancy sinatra boots song and the african dude!!! you've got a request there dude!!!
borg 13 of 22
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:31:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Got some beefribs on the pit, smoking on mesquite. corn on cob, tater salad and coleslaw I thing. No rootabagas, no turnips.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:30:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Plus. like can you grok watching a skinflick with your old lady and she looks at the sceen and says "she's got a really pretty pussy?"
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:28:05 (EST)

My two cents are: The girl is "proud" of her bj's ok?
ydog
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:26:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Hmm. When you think about it, that sounds like more than enough. Lucky fucker.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:24:06 (EST)

My two cents are: But the truly cool thing about ms y, is the trailer trash aspect. I mean, here's an example... I have a tripod for the canon 35mm, the ftb like glints. so one of the leg braces things snaps and I mix up a little marine epoxy from a roll shaped like a dachsunds loaf and patch it. Dies ok but later cracks. Ms y looks at it and says, "you know, jb weld would have probably held better and matched the original color better as well". So , to make a long story short, I got a fox old lady that likes chicks, watches porn with me, parties like a goddess...
ydog
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:20:06 (EST)

My two cents are: had a reqlly weird ward cleaver fucking day today. air was crisp in the morning, with just a hint of ebruary spring. I lifted weights and jogged a quick mile on the treadmill before tennis and then a late breakfast. Tomorrow I'm going to eat a cheeseburger for breakfast at about 6:30 am. Never really done that.
altborg
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:15:00 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, I've thought about the jag. It's a fag car dude.
Borg 19 f 22
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:11:34 (EST)

My two cents are: What else... Ms y? bleached blonde, 40D. ex stripper.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:09:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Ok so before I scroll, hey, the little synopsis of my life was great, I saved it for an obit. When I worked in advertising we always pushed the hearing aid ads in the "obit" section. "Run it "obit" we used to say.
Borg 19 of 22
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 17:08:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Drizzling sh*t!
Fits with liar liebrals
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 16:00:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Kenny Boy didn't sell seventy million shares, he sold a hundred million.
it's right there behind the milk bottles
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 15:45:18 (EST)

My two cents are: PAPER: CRACK ATTACK; SUPERMODEL NAOMI CAMPBELL HIT WITH NEW REPORT...
Developing...?
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 15:34:22 (EST)

My two cents are: So you say it's drizzling shit? Relentless drizzling shit?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 15:24:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy will be right at home. Japanese managers are supposed to get shit-faced drunk for relaxation and pinch the waitress's bottom. The whole managerial class is like a big fraternity party. It will be like homecoming, only the babes will have slanted eyes and hair on their nipples. I understand the Prime Minister can fart on demand. Everybody has a talent and everybody has fun. An ex-cheerleader's dream.
Limpet
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 15:22:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe they're serving pretzel h'orderves at the banquet.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 15:05:16 (EST)

My two cents are: It is drizzling shit. Relentless drizzling shit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 14:46:07 (EST)

My two cents are: It is drizzling shit. Relentless drizzling shit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 14:45:50 (EST)

My two cents are: It is drizzling shit. Relentless drizzling shit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 14:45:43 (EST)

My two cents are: It is drizzling shit. Relentless drizzling shit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 14:45:11 (EST)

My two cents are: That stuff is relentless propaganda? I thought it was drizzling shit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 14:33:34 (EST)

My two cents are: BUSH-REED-ENRON CONNECTION EXPOSED Lasted Until October 2001 How the Right Wing Works Time to Subpoena Karl Rove //////// Calling himself "a loyal member of your team," Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition and George W. Bush advisor plotted an elaborate public-relations campaign for Enron, involving the blatant use of conservative talk radio and the manipulation of the new media. A previously confidential memo, written just before the 2000 elections and now reported by the Washington Post, reveals that Enron was to pay $380,000 in exchange for the services of Reed's lobbyists. Previously, reports have revealed that Karl Rove, advisor to the President, helped arrange an Enron position for Reed in exchange for the right-wing leader's support in the Bush campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Reed, along with the Christian Coalition, had a great impact in Bush's dirty but successful primary campaign against Sen. John McCain in 2000. Previously, Reed's connections to Enron had been placed no later than 1997. But the Post now reports that the formal link between Enron and Reed's lobbying firm lasted until October 2001, when it was ended by mutual consent. This would place the end of the relationship at precisely the moment when White House officials were learning that Enron was about to go belly up. In addition to filling out the mysterious Bush-Reed-Enron connection, the memo appears to be a blueprint of how the right wing manipulates the media and its whores through "blast faxes," phony letter placements in national and local newspapers, and the relentless propaganda of conservative talk radio hosts.
bwa ha ha
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 14:20:08 (EST)

My two cents are: If Bush goes down he's taking McAuliffe with him!
eye for an eye and all that
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 13:33:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Is it true that the President of Japan is going to sit on the opposite side of the banquet table from the president* of the US? Why?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:08:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Industrial engineering. Maybe there is hope for Glint! He isn't really an engineer, so whatever he knows about his job he really did learn outside the bubble! Somehow he pushed on through "management by walking around" and past a tyro's confused belief in our port 110 who art in heaven to some genre of techical competence. Welcome to management, Glint old sport. You've finally reached your level of incompetence.
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 11:03:24 (EST)

My two cents are: http://mail.thelion.com/mail/download/kzo3u3kxTEltflvr6Y82MIl48E5gtrPV0ncnIlcz/enron2.jpg
what ydog has been up to in Tejas
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:58:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Charming dodger managed to balance the budget though. Your guy completely pissed away the Clinton surplus. Ha ha. Still pissing too. Hah.
just as President Gore predicted Snippy would. ha ha.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:56:21 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm afraid that any and all references to the stained dress will be insufficient to erase the stain of Enron. Pretty funny that you tried, though. Ha ha.
www.EnronOwnstheStainedDressRepublicans.com
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:54:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Obit for the Clinton Legacy: "Black Hawk Down" is reminder of failed foreign policy --- As the corpse of the Clinton legacy chills and stiffens, a stunned silence falls over sundry sycophants and media apologists. Nowadays, it's hard to find a TV toady with even the brass to trot out the old "flawed-but-brilliant" blather as it becomes increasingly apparent that our last president not only failed to deal with the biggest threat to America since the demise of communism but, by his weakness and incompetence, actually enabled and emboldened the monstrous enemies of western civilization. Rather than as a great president, history is likely to remember Mr. Clinton as an embarrassing narcissist who, in an age requiring courage and perseverance, persisted in silly self-absorption while barbarians rammed the gate. The first scene of this strange, eventful history is the subject of one of this year's Oscar-nominated movies, the stunning Ridley Scott film based on Mark Bowden's best-seller, "Black Hawk Down," which details the 1993 debacle in which the Clinton administration sent young men into the meat grinder of Mogadishu, Somalia, while denying them the heavy armor the mission required. Eighteen soldiers died. Two were mutilated and dragged through the streets by the howling mob. Mr. Clinton immediately showed his true colors to the world by packing up and running from the field of battle. Less than two weeks later in Haiti, a handful of drunken Haitians dancing on the dock at Port au-Prince would prevent the USS Harlan County from landing in that island nation to restore order. Recall, if you will, Osama bin Laden's equestrian musings on his infamous 30-minute-long video tape: "When people see a weak horse and a strong horse, by nature they will like the strong horse." In 1993, under Bill Clinton, America became the weak horse. So it followed that ever more egregious acts of terror would be perpetrated against the United States while Mr. Clinton would prove to be ever more spineless. The first World Trade Center bombing in late 1993, the 1996 Khobar Towers attack, the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, and the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, went totally unanswered. Oh there was an ineffective U.S. attack on a Sudanese aspirin factory in 1998, but that is now widely regarded as a wag-the-dog diversion to take attention off the Monica Lewinsky scandal, timed, as it was, three days after Mr. Clinton's disastrous grand jury testimony. Furthermore, former CIA agent Robert Baer, in his upcoming memoir excerpted in February's Vanity Fair, details how Kurdish rebels and elements of the Iraqi army put their lives on the line to topple Saddam Hussein only to see their cause abandoned by a timid Mr. Clinton when victory was at hand. Now we learn the Sudanese actually offered to turn Osama bin Laden over in 1996 but the Clinton administration "could not find a way to accept the offer." The excuse for inactivity was always the same. There was never enough reliable information to be actionable, former officials now explain. "You can keep setting the bar higher and higher," said one disgusted special services officer looking back over the sorry record, "so that nothing gets done." With a constant eye to his political viability, that is exactly what Mr. Clinton did. Nothing. And thus he became the midwife to September 11, not out of villainy, but out of weakness of character. But the love for Mr. Clinton remains strong and true in some quarters, and that tells a lot about the moral flab of our national psyches in the last decade of the last century. In an era uneasy with strong masculinity, Mr. Clinton reassured many in the same way as does a Phil Donahue or an Alan Alda. Always eager to talk about his feelings, bite his lower lip or shed a tear for the cameras, the man seemed too much of a pantywaist to kick anyone's butt. Some found that trait reassuring. Many of us were terrified by it. Unfortunately, bin Laden was in the first camp. We just have to accept the fact that strength, fortitude and resolve are desirable attributes, regardless of how disturbing some may find them. Mr. Clinton may have reflected his time, but he was not the man for his time. We should all know that now. When there are battles to be fought, planes to wrest back from hijackers, and burning buildings to enter, guts are required, not the questionable compassion of a charming dodger.
D.B. Wells
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:53:58 (EST)

My two cents are: So there must be some kind of big alien shield-pod around Maryland, protecting all them freepers from knowledge of the purulent, burgeoning Enron scandal. Why, just last night all the rest of us were treated to news accounts of Kenny Boy selling (if I recall correctly) seventy count them SEVENTY million dollars worth of Enron stock, while at the same time, urging employees and other dupes, to buy or hold. Sorry to hear this news has not reached Glimp's refrigerator. Perhaps he is holding a fat wad of Enron stock? That would account for denial. Condolences. Big business is like that. Oops.
4 or 5 of 22
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:52:19 (EST)

My two cents are: House Republican investigators have begun at least one preliminary probe into the bankruptcy of telecommunications giant Global Crossing, whose jackpot investors include Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe. Top Stories ? Asia trip targets 'axis of evil' ? Bush cautions N. Korea ? Mideast bombing kills 3 ? Pentagon rebuilds from ashes of terror ? Democrats' message for voters flounders Republican sources yesterday confirmed that at least one House panel ? the Energy and Commerce Committee ? is looking into the collapse of Global, which bears similarities to the Enron scandal but has attracted far less attention among the media and lawmakers. "You're going to see that turn around," said one House Republican. "As members and investigators begin to peel back the layers of this onion, it probably stinks as much as this Enron issue." Mr. McAuliffe, finance director for the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1996, turned a $100,000 investment in Global into $18 million in the late 1990s. Like Enron Corp., Global executives stand accused of shady accounting practices that inflated the company's assets and allowed some investors to reap huge profits before it became the fourth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history last month. The Associated Press reported yesterday that Global Chairman Gary Winnick controlled companies that had lucrative dealings with the fiber-optics network corporation before it went bankrupt. Those transactions involved Global paying millions of dollars to a privately held bank, Pacific Capital Group, and its subsidiaries controlled by Mr. Winnick. Mr. McAuliffe worked for Pacific Capital. The relationships between the companies added an undisclosed amount to the personal profits of Mr. Winnick, who sold $734 million worth of stock before the company filed for bankruptcy, the AP reported. Employees of Global lost their retirement savings when the company's stock price plummeted. Congress has largely ignored the Global Crossing bankruptcy despite many similarities with the Enron scandal largely because the media have paid little attention to it, lawmakers of both parties say. One dozen House and Senate panels have been investigating Enron. "Congress often responds to what is in the headlines," said Rep. Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican and chief deputy whip. "The Enron investigations, to some extent, are being driven by the media." Mr. Blunt said he supports House committee investigations of Global to help lawmakers understand how to protect investors in the future. "It makes all the sense in the world," Mr. Blunt said. "It would be very shortsighted for us to focus on only one thing. When there are several examples out there, you really do have a chance to craft legislation." But in the Senate, Democratic leaders said they have no plans to look into Global's collapse. "I don't know much about Global Crossing," said Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat and assistant majority leader. Asked if that was because there was less media attention, Mr. Reid replied, "That's an understatement. Because if it had, I would know more about it." Sen. Jon Corzine, New Jersey Democrat and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he doesn't "see the obvious connects" between Enron and Global Crossing. "I don't think there is the blatant lockdown situation that occurred with regard to pensioners, and other seemingly apparent fraudulent criminal practices that show up in the Enron case," Mr. Corzine said. He said Senate Democrats were not avoiding a probe of Global because of Mr. McAuliffe's profit-making. Senate Republicans said it will likely be up to the Republican-led House to hold hearings into Global. "It should be investigated," said Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican. "It stinks on its face. In terms of people who made small fortunes, it really needs to be looked into. I can't imagine that we would be investigating Enron without investigating Global Crossing. The nature of the problem is very similar."
Fainally, some flippin' Enron news!
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:52:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Feb 13: " * The "semen-stained" dress. The existence of this potentially damning if rather icky piece of evidence was given such high probability by the press that the FBI DNA lab examined some of Lewinsky's confiscated clothing (and we all know how exciting that can be). The DNA testers found no evidence of executive jism. Or any other secretion from the Leader of the Free World. After a week or so, the dress turned out to be a total hoax."
LIberals. wrong again!
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:48:59 (EST)

My two cents are: At least this administration's White House leaks don't have DNA.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:45:56 (EST)

My two cents are: First Bush to visit Japan and not puke in 9 years.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:38:59 (EST)

My two cents are: TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Tokyo on Sunday at the start of an Asian tour, during which he hopes to win more support for his declared war on terror and to cajole Japan to bite the bullet on economic reforms. Bush can look forward to a warm welcome from Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, but was offered a less friendly reception by left-wing groups. About 100 demonstrators wearing helmets and face masks marched through central Tokyo to protest against Bush's hard line on Iran, Iraq and North Korea, the countries he referred to as an "axis of evil" in his State of the Union speech last month. "Stop Bush's war against Afghanistan and Iraq" read one banner. One demonstrator standing in the cold and wet wore a bib reading "Bush the Fascist." Tight security prevented the demonstration, organised by a left-wing students' group, from approaching the U.S. embassy. Bush also had supporters and right-wing groups used megaphones to blare out the message: "Welcome Bush."Although ultranationalists in Japan are often compared to America's right-wing militia groups, right-wingers in Japan are closely connected with gangsters and are often used as front organizations for the gangs' illegal activities.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:36:27 (EST)

My two cents are: http://sportserver.com/football/col/b12/photos/story/210866p-2036760c.html
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:25:23 (EST)

My two cents are: http://archive.nandotimes.com/photopage/politics/politics1.html
first honorable US leader to visit Asia in 9 years
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:23:24 (EST)

My two cents are: How cute. What does it mean? Do those monkey brain chompers want a piece of Bush's?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:12:22 (EST)

My two cents are: http://archive.nandotimes.com/newsroom/ap/ntn/images/world/world1.jpeg
Snippy Gets a Warm Welcom in South Korea
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 10:03:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Excellent program on the history channel on the history of atomic spies, the frying of the Rosenbergs, and references to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- the pod people, the well meaning Liberals, who deserve a seat in Rosenberg's final throne.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 09:55:20 (EST)

My two cents are: "KENNY BOY PAPER TRAIL LEADS DIRECTLY TO DUBYA More Than 300 Pages of Letters: While Dubya Still Governor!! Bigger Story To Come?" PANT! PANT! Reminds of the empty "the other shoe is going to drop" following the crushing revelation that presidential candidate GW bush had a DWI when he was about half his present age. It Enron it, has the other shoe finally dropped? bwaha!
Glint
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 09:25:30 (EST)

My two cents are: True, sometimes it must be. That's why I left that hierarchy in the eaerly '80s. When I went for the BS I minored in Industrial Engineering. Another term for engineering management. It was the other kind of BS. Still, I hung onto my books and have been perusing them again recently. Some basic principles may still apply.
Glint
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 09:16:34 (EST)

My two cents are: look glint, since you have never really been outside the bubble, let me clue you in, the supervisor worker relationship is adversarial, inherently and by definition. any other belief is delusional. Don't let them lead you down the path of kaizen management or tqm. run like hell.
borg 11 of 22
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 08:22:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I notice there has been nothing about Enron since last I peeked in. No grist in the mill. There just don't seem to be any legs to the story, and no twat either. A non-starter.
Glimpse Faintly
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 04:23:00 (EST)

My two cents are: What good is the runt's punch if he runs aways and takes it down into the hole with him?
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- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 00:07:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know about all this. Sometimes those bandy-legged runts can throw a pretty good punch.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 00:06:27 (EST)

My two cents are: You can have Bush AND Lindh, if I get Coulter and an ice-pick for her to use.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 00:04:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Quick, who would you rather have at your back in a street fight, Lindh or Bush? Taliban John or Squeaky AWOL?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 00:03:51 (EST)

My two cents are: John Walker has more character. Never raped a single pom-pon girl.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 00:01:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Linde. He never lied to the twins to "protect them."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 at 00:00:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Lindh. He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would run like a rabbit for Omaha just because Carl Rove told him he should.
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 23:59:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Quick, who has more character, John Walker Lindh or George W. Bush?
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 23:58:32 (EST)

My two cents are: A democrat lying about anything, of course.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 23:56:12 (EST)

My two cents are: What could be more natural than a Republican taking bribes from a corrupt businessman?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 23:55:14 (EST)

My two cents are: It's not a scandal to Glint unless there are crimes against nature. Little George staring at the prositute's vagina in the Lincoln bedroom doesn't count. No crime if there's no contact.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 23:43:41 (EST)

My two cents are: No Enron news, hunh, Glint? How about the House passing the campaign finance bill and Snippy afraid to veto? That's not Enron news? Enron, Enron, Enron, the gift that keeps on giving.
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 23:41:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Unfortunately, those weren't faux Glints. He really HAS gone over the edge. At least MK now has some company in the home.
Faux Glint #14
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 20:51:56 (EST)

My two cents are: KENNY BOY PAPER TRAIL LEADS DIRECTLY TO DUBYA More Than 300 Pages of Letters: While Dubya Still Governor!! Bigger Story To Come? The office of Texas Governor Rick Perry had suddenly released hundreds of pages of personal correspondence between Kenneth L. "Kenny Boy" Lay and George W. Bush, dating from when Bush was governor of Texas. According to the Associated Press, the documents show that "Lay wrote repeatedly to George W. Bush throughout his governorship, seeking support for legislation benefiting the energy giant." And it appears that whatever Kenny wanted, Kenny got -- at least as far as Dubya could manage it -- on everything from tort reform to electricity deregulation. Sounding a great deal like the former Richard Nixon press spokesman, the late Ron Ziegler, White House spokesman Scott McClelland pooh-poohed the immense store of Enron favoritism letters as "old news." "The governor of Texas like any other governor receives thousands and thousands of letters from people across Texas who have diverse views on a variety of topics,'' McClelland said -- amazingly, with a straight face. McClelland did not comment on whether "thousands and thousands" of Texans with "diverse views" also contributed $312,000 to Dubya during his two gubernatorial campaigns. Nor did McClelland comment on why -- shocking to imagine -- Bush did so much of what Lay requested he do. If it's all an innocent coincidence -- if Kenny Boy just gave Dubya all that cash because they thought alike -- then why did Lay feel it necessary to write Dubya so often on policy matters between 1995 and 2000? Just a few friendly reminders here and there?
www.EnronOwnstheGOP.com
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 18:32:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the awesome faux glints.
Roseola Okeefenokee.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 18:27:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Greta needs to sue her plastic surgeon and Faux news. Yikes.
Off With Her Head
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 18:20:43 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.borowitzreport.com/ GRETA VAN SUSTEREN UNDERGOES RADICAL HEAD-REPLACEMENT SURGERY Old Head to Return to CNN in Ramped-up Ratings War Fox News personality Greta Van Susteren, bowing to pressure from her new bosses at Fox News Channel, had her entire head surgically replaced today, Fox News announced. A spokesman for Fox pronounced Van Susteren�s new head �a home run.� �While we were supportive of Greta�s earlier plastic surgery, we felt that that procedure didn�t get it done,� Fox spokesman Carla Benoit told reporters. �All of us at Fox are very excited to be working with Greta and her new, much better-looking head,� Benoit said. Although Van Susteren joins a long list of unrecognizable surgically-altered celebrities that includes Roseanne, Liza Minelli, and Michael Jackson, radical head-replacement surgery is still a relatively rare option, experts say. A costly and high-risk medical procedure, it was successfully performed for the first time three years ago, on Lewinskygate figure Linda Tripp, who successfully replaced her frightening head. As Fox laid out plans to unveil Van Susteren�s new head later this week, CNN announced today that Van Susteren�s original head would be returning to her old network. CNN, where Van Susteren had toiled for years before bolting to Fox, plans to schedule what it calls �Greta�s real head� against Van Susteren�s new head in a much-anticipated head-to-head ratings battle. �We wish Greta well in her new job,� CNN Chairman Walter Isaacson said today in a prepared statement, �but may the best head win.�
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 17:57:17 (EST)

My two cents are: How did Cheney manage to get to California without being spotted?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 17:24:00 (EST)

My two cents are: http://usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-02-11-enron-poll.htm
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 16:08:02 (EST)

My two cents are: HEADLINE: Enron dogs Cheney's path to California.
drip
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 15:57:10 (EST)

My two cents are: What did you expect from the liberal press? Condit?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 15:56:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Patience, Glint. Chinese Water Torture, remember? Hell, how many years and $$$ did it take for Ken Starr, the Whitewater dude, to come up with blowjobs? In the end, that's all this might come to, who knows? The idea is to keep dragging the gill net. You know, see what you catch. Drip, drip, drip.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 15:50:18 (EST)

My two cents are: edit note: replace first "their" with "on any of their exteriors" in the last post. Not that anyone here would stoop to criticizing spelling or grammar now that Ydog has left.
Glint
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 15:26:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I checked the milk cartons in the fridge. No Enron scandal their either. Other than perenthetical comments and a bleat pleading for Pete to weigh in, there hasn't been a single reference to Enron in the news since Wednesday. Now another weekend's here so it's unlikely anything will show up until next week. This scandal is behind schedule. Is it still within budget even? In the meantime, I'll continue trying to provide more of my grist for your ever churning mill.
Glint
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 15:22:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, you might be right about the big buck's woman. Parents probably worried that their spawn was sipping out of a coffee cup that might have been set on a counter where a gallon of milk sat the day before. I can understand that: the nutty neurotic natzification of those not standing beneath the half bubble of the yammy. But then there was that purse snatching incident. What about that, huh?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 15:07:42 (EST)

My two cents are: It's all part of Hillary Clinton's plan to throw this administration* off its game and hit them where they live. Ashcroft has a calico-phobia? Okay, says Hil, start cloning the little devils. By 2004, these weirdos will be hanging curtains on every nude statue in every museum in this Great Land and tossing burlap sack-fulls of yellow cats into the Potomac at midnight. It will be the Kathleen Willey treatment to the 22nd power.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 14:14:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh my God, shades of Satan. What's Ashcroft going to do, they've cloned a calico kitty kat.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 14:08:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Some nameless bum put the arm on me in front of Frenchy's K&T Adult Video. We got to talking and he told me that another nameless bum had told him that "Mr. Slivovitz is very patient, hands over the coins with alacrity, and sometimes the long green, and I am very happy to hit him up." Why nameless bums would know my name is something I can't figure out, but there it is, as plain as the loaf on the head of a management trainee. I can only guess that bums recognize one another by their individual odors, or perhaps by the colorful arrangements of their rags, the way one leopard recognizes another by his spots. One of life's little mysteries.
Oggie
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 13:52:26 (EST)

My two cents are: I didn't dive back inside the bubble because of the cold fear in my gut, the fear that festers in the gut of every man who lives the pirate life on the outside, no. What I wanted to do was exploit the skills I had learned on the wild side, but which were needed only inside the bubble, where the individual is absorbed in the giant borg-like antpile of nanny-socialist corporate capitalism. Every ant-hill needs grasshoppers to command it, and what better breeding-ground for grasshoppers than in the good Republican grass that grows free outside the bub, and is not gnawed to stubble by the sheeple?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 13:46:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Or is it Nino?
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 13:37:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I've considered Glint's labored accusation below that the dog became some negress's "male buck", and have rejected it for a number of reasons. First, if he had married a negress he would have been bragging about it from the start. Do we hear bragging that she is black? Second, if she were "um boa nega" as the Brazilians say, he would not have taken her off the back of a Harley. He would have had to pull her out of a ten-year-old El Dorado with fender skirts and a bad paint job. Third, the fact that mom and dad popped a nut about the fianc� says nothing about her color, as important as that may be to worried parents in Nebraska. No, these people actually tried to turn the poor boy into a clarinet-playing Jew, which is halfway to a Negro from the get-go. The reason they flipped is probably that the woman is white-- so purely white, as to qualify as trailer trash. And we all know that trailer-trash spend half their lives humping, which is really rubbing Mom's face in it. On another topic, I have shelved the Jaguar idea and am thinking of going Italian-- either the Testosterosa or an older Ferrari 2+2. You really can't go wrong with Pino.
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 13:36:25 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard it throught the Chinese grapevine that I am the best customer the Three Happiness Dim Sum Cafe has ever had. The waitress said 'Mr. Meat is very patient, explains things clearly, and I am very happy waiting on his table. Even when he eats at the counter he is a perfect gentleman and not a foreign devil at all.' Every time somebody else makes a huge mistake and, out of the blue, blames me, unfairly mind you, because it was his mistake and not my fucking it up worse, and pinches the loaf, I repair to the Three Happiness and the dim sum bowls. Knowing I am loved by underlings makes the turds ride easier on my head.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 13:19:37 (EST)

My two cents are: And another thing, this character Lindh he is a screwed-up kid, the kind of boy who runs off and becomes a soldier of Islam and ends up dodging shrapnel in the desert. He changed to his mommy's name when he found out dad was queer. When he was shipped back duck-taped to a gurney by the bumbling jack-booted thugs his lawyers told him from now on you are a Lindh again, but since you entered the public prints as Johnny Walker we'll keep the middle name to make sure that every potential juror is compromised, not just the ones who came in late. It's like John Cougar, who wanted to change his name back to the Serbo-Yiddish version but didn't want to lose the teeny-boppers, so he called himself John Cougar Mellankamp for a while before sliding all the way to just plain old John Mellankamp.
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 13:12:09 (EST)

My two cents are: I know which Cobra you were talking about, slim. It was a big motor dropped into an AC Ace.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 12:59:01 (EST)

My two cents are: The walker lindh thing is some kind of power/control trip for Ashcroft, like the $8K tea cosy for the single boob of that statue. Like, he calls himself walker, and it's his mommy's name, so we'll call him something different on purpose. Daddy's name, not mommy's. Pretzel logic, playground games. Like the announcers insisting on calling Ali "Cassius Clay" for months and month. Not sad, really, more like pathetic. Stained-dress Republicans aghast at finding out that Penelope Cruz is Buddhist--now that's sad, really. Maybe she'll convert to scientology.
4 or 5 of 22
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 12:34:00 (EST)

My two cents are: So, here I am in the "pinch a loaf on the guy under you" trickle down paradigm. That's why I came on board, besides saving the economy. To get management experierience since companies are sometimes reluctant to put bubble outsiders in direct charge of their labor pool. They don't like sharing power or taking that much "risk." So, there I was at lunch -- a late lunch, delayed by teleconferencing with an ex-laid off worker bee who was probably home loving life and pinching loaves while pecking away at his lap top -- when I heard someone calling me from another table. It was a man and woman who are employed by my former client down in the gravy town of Bethesda. They said they knew someone who said they work for me, a Chinese woman. Now, they're all Chinese, but only half are women, so that narrowed it down. These people are Chinese too, so they obviously have contact with her through the complex Borg-like cultureal infrastructure (mentioned in a previous screed on this page). They couldn't remember her name (so they said). I cannot imagine how my name would come up in a conversation between people who don't know each others' names. But, according to them, this unidentified woman told them that her new boss was the best boss she's had of the four bosses she's had in the past two years (read: high boss turnover). They told me, "she said, 'Mr. Breightly is very patient, explains things clearly, and I am very happy working for him.'" I wonder if she said this before or after finding out that they know me. Is kissing up like that a cultural thing? She's right about one thing, however. The loaf stops here. Over nearly two decades of temp pimp experiences I've worked for many supervisors, managers, directors, and VPs over the years. At this point I've decided to gnaw a hole in the bubble and go in and see if I can put that aspect of my experience to productive use. At least until I can get this economy turned around after the Clinton bubble popped into a million points of jism.
Glint
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 11:17:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Since there is some curiosity with this riot act thing, let me offer some elaboration. This company shed some employees last year, before I arrived on the scene. Lost some on 911 but not enough. There was a handful of men and women in another major east coast city who had put together a server, databases, and data feed software. Cutting costs to meet deadlines, documentation was viewed as an expendable luxury by their handlers. The crew got it done and were tweaking it when they were given the old heave-ho, before the box was ready for prime time. The product was sold and clients lined up to suck up data. The server was put on a truck, carted down the coast and plopped down here. It's been failing ever since, every couple of days. A different problem each time. Whereas, they saved a buck or two by flushing the poor dot com programmers, customers have been canceling and the company has lost $millions in the past few months. One of the original crew has been cajoled back into consulting by phone from his bathtub, where he's enjoying the last laugh. So the bungling decisions made in a far away blue (Gore supporting) city have trickled down as shit upon the V.P.'s shoulders who had to turn around and pinch a loaf onto yours truly.
Glint
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 10:06:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like 21:35:02 read the tea leaves right re: lifestyle changes. Turnabout being fair play and all, I've turned into a regular worker cog and House of Meat can't make up his mind between the Jag and a Benz. Who would have thought that he is a creature that crawled out of the lap of luxury, the spoiled brat fighting with his brother in the back seat of the old man's Alpha Romeo. Sort of like that other silver spoon spitter yellowdog who went against his parent's wishes by marrying a woman descended from Mississippi slave stock and becoming her male buck. Why else would his father have hastily droped his slide rule into the beaker and his mother, when she heard the news, dove off the yacht and swam to shore before they leaped into the Lear jet and flew full throttle to Armadillo, Texas? I don't sound bitter, do I? Why should I be? I've got an economy to shore up and, unlike that 13' deep trench, I'm rolling up my sleeves and diving in to save her.
Glint
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 09:40:59 (EST)

My two cents are: I guess the question, at least the question about the jag, comes down to this.... is the ignition switch on the steering column, or is it mounted in the burled birds-eye maple dash?
zirc btw i wear an ear cuff too.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 08:32:19 (EST)

My two cents are: yeah, there is an unsettling sort of mk-like shift in glint of late. that playing down of the vp reaming, like he thinks its over, like he wont have to deal with it again when the boss returns. next he'll be telling us gourdon and the banker's going to write him a recommendation letters. The transvestite twist and perseveration just sort of rounds out the dementia. Its sort of cool in a way, I mean on the surface you've got this guy that looks fat dumb and happy in the mini-van and writing the occasional astronomy blurb for the county rag like some sort of citizen or something. Underneath, you've got a guy with a hard drive full of transvestite pics glomming over getting reamed out at work after only two weeks on the job as if it were nothing more than getting asked to park at the far end of the lot.
zirc
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 07:55:57 (EST)

My two cents are: we had a mustang and some old diesel benz's nothing every very cool. stationwagons and crap.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 07:47:31 (EST)

My two cents are: sowhat is with this walker lindh name anyway? I mean its a fucked up name. is it supposed to be hyphenated or is walker the idiots middle name? why do they keep using it? first, in the early days, it was just walker. then it seemed like when his parents appeared, the lindh got added. my belief is that this is a mess because when first captured the fuck lied and said his name was john walker, no lindh.
zirc
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 07:45:46 (EST)

My two cents are: I wasnt talking about the shelby mustang cobra, was talking about the two seater cobra. agreed, very spartan. really hung up on that dashboard eh?
zirc
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 07:38:37 (EST)

My two cents are: This was a promising site before Glint turned queer.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 00:02:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Ferget Pete, man, what I need is some gruff reality from the crynic. Some real-world stuff. Pete is too philosophical-- he just had too much classical education. The crynic is my man, the old salt, a face like a sea-boot and a gruff voice that would fry the boils on a tour-guide's neck.
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- Saturday, February 16, 2002 at 00:01:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Where is Pete? I feel the need for a lecture on how Enron was good for the economy because its criminal deals were heavily taxed.
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 23:56:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Regarding disagreement between prominent Democrats like Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle and the White House over the tax cut passed last year, 46% prefer rolling back the tax cut while 44% oppose it.
traitors and liars and sheeple
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 23:54:11 (EST)

My two cents are: As a teen-ager, a kid was teased if he didn't have the familar ring impression on his wallet. My, how times have changed. Pregnant was a word only used in hushed tones. And everybody had twin beds on televison.
CLIFFORD
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 23:49:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Powell has turned into a rubber jockey? What about the seed of the race?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:38:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:38:26 (EST)

My two cents are: My guess is that the VP was reading Glint's internet logs on the LAN nanny.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:37:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Is this going to reduce the maintenance of the yearbook page?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:36:19 (EST)

My two cents are: He's just deeply shocked by Powell's pro-condom speech. Loyal men wearing pen protectors will band together to have all such socialsits drummed out of the Party.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:35:56 (EST)

My two cents are: He's adopted a lifestyle of suffering in silence?
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:35:30 (EST)

My two cents are: His lifestyle change is he's not spending his life monitoring Fornigate.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:35:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I wish we had more employees here at the packaging plant that were worth reading the riot act to.
VP
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:33:28 (EST)

My two cents are: What am I doing wrong! I AM the VP and I haven't chewed anyone out in 27 years!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:32:41 (EST)

My two cents are: What am I doing wrong? I haven't been chewed out by the VP in 27 years!
I once had a future.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:31:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Put the dachshund out of its misery and bought a dog?
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:29:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like a switch to lasagna. Friday nights security guard at the proms around the county. It's either that or he's had to sell the lawn mower and is learning to love nature in all her untrammeled weedy dishevelment.
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:28:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The lifestyle change I may think is a sex change operation, because the neighbor child begged you to do it in a fit of passion. It's not that? Then what could it possibly be?
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:26:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Right, here inside the bubble you've got to steel yourself to gettin cussed at by the VP. Comes with the bubble. Every other day at least. They only cuss at you because they like you. If it doesn't happen at least twice a week, you're not doing your job.
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:25:19 (EST)

My two cents are: It's good that the GOP at least tried to laud their Libertarian Pedophile Republican of the Year, brought down only by a few timid nannystatists. Tut.

- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:15:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like a chapter out of MK's life, Glint. Maybe you should consider something else. The writing is on the wall. Read it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 21:14:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi ho. Not spending much time here. Up to my eyeballs in lifestyle changes. Not the kind you may think. <> Did some phone interviews today. My office isn't ready for occupation yet, so I used the boss's since he's off drinking by the pool in Florida. Just sitting around, farting up his chair. Got read the riot act yesterday by the V.P. That's something that hasn't happened in a while. As a consultant things were always at a civilized higher level. But that was back when I was a small bubble sliding nimbly around on the outside of the big bubble. I'm not complaining...it comes with the territory, on the inside.
Glint
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 20:25:53 (EST)

My two cents are: That is true as far as it goes. But what about "the power of the atom?" Maybe if the power of the atom is unleashed by the bomb, it would do as much damage even as a tank full of jet fuel.
If I Ever Had Been Here I Would Have Quit�
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:27:47 (EST)

My two cents are: The answer is obvious. An airplane, any airplane, let alone a jetliner, is bigger than a bomb, any bomb. Bigger things hurt more when they hit you. Therefore, an atom bomb, while it would do some damage, would not bring down the whole building the way an airplane crash can. QED. Geesh.
Good example of liberal "thought."
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:25:20 (EST)

My two cents are: That's right. I remember how the pineapple kept asking Glint if a small nuclear bomb could knock down a world trade center, and Glint would never answer, kept evading the question. Kind, compassionate Glint didn't want to humiliate the haole in public by responding seriously to his quest for knowledge. The pineapple evidently thought that Glint could do a few science equations on his slide rule, and come up with the answer to the age-old question, is an atom bomb as powerful as an airplane crash? Just like that. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:21:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Sad to hear that the points elucidated below are not the McGinty. How about the gridlines? Do they qualify? How about the question of whether a small nuclear device would create as much damage as a jumbo jet?
Never Was Here�
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:14:08 (EST)

My two cents are: No, they are not.
McGinty
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:11:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I'm anonymous and I believe that all of those points are the true McGinty.
Not Here�
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:11:16 (EST)

My two cents are: ???
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 19:06:42 (EST)

My two cents are: 16:47:28, I don't think any of those points are true, at least for someone who cannot identify itself as anyone other than anonymous.
doinkey
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 18:01:01 (EST)

My two cents are: First we lose Arianna. Then Enron. Now it's Limbaugh. What's next? Are we going to lose the racists? Are we going to lose the blue-noses and the holier-than-thous? What about the mean old ladies in hair-nets, are we going to lose them too? How about the old men in the American Legion who spent WWII peeling spuds in Waco and think of themselves as guardians of the military spirit? What about the folks who think that Roosevelt was a Russian spy? What about the guys in the cigar suits? The guys who know Fess Parker? Our whole base is crumbling! We've GOT to veto campaign finance reform or we're doomed!
The GOP
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 17:37:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Losing Limbaugh is just the start. When we lose Coulter, it's time to jump ship.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 17:32:01 (EST)

My two cents are: The ban on advertisements is causing the dramatic split inside the White House, sources revealed to the DRUDGE REPORT. "We'll lose Limbaugh over this," warned a top staffer during a meeting. "This will surely come back to haunt us... I'd say we send it back to them and let them take out the advertising rules."
Lose Limbaugh? The horror, the horror.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 17:30:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm just amazed at what is "thought" to be "smart" by the "good" people.
bone "heads"
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 17:27:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Geesh! I haven't been wagged so much since Clinton bombed the Bosnians.
The Dog
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 17:09:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Zogby can't be believed. He includes Democrats in the sample.
Not Pete�
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:59:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Uh-oh-- Snippy's down in Clinton territory.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:57:21 (EST)

My two cents are: ZOGBY Poll Shows Bush's Job Performance At 74%, Lowest Since 9/11...
Damn! Time to wag the dog again.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:56:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Free John Walker Lindh!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:51:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Now that you remind me, I realize that nobody could be as stupid as Pete�. I think he was a hoax made up by Ted.
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:49:43 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd probably agree that it beats the bong-holers, if I knew what a bong-holer was.
Not Pete�
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:48:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete? Is that you, dude? Mr. Brains? The one who has figured out that Woodrow Wilson started World War I, that slavery was the inevitable result of rice culture in South Carolina, and that the pendulum swings both ways? Can it possibly be you? The "lawyer" who was ignorant of the 3/5ths rule in the Constitution? The one who believes fervently in trickle-down economics, something that the economic history of the last 20 years has shown to be utterly false? Nah, couldn't be. Pete quit. He's....
Not Here�
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:47:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Amazing what passes for "intellect" in the liberal "mind" set.
dopes
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 16:05:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Gosh, if that guy can be Republican of the Year, maybe Glint stands a chance if he can get into his neighbor's hermaphrodite kid's pants.
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 15:10:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure beats the bong-holers, man.
cheech
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 15:08:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Gives new meaning to "Family Values," huh?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 15:03:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey man, Pete's an Independent, man.
chong
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 15:02:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Convicted sex offender nearly wins GOP award By MATTHEW ROY, The Virginian-Pilot � February 13, 2002 SUFFOLK -- A previous commitment will keep a Suffolk man from traveling to Washington, D.C., to accept a Republican of the Year award: He's serving a 26-year state prison sentence. Spokesmen for the National Republican Congressional Committee, an arm of the Republican National Committee that raises millions of dollars to elect GOP candidates to the U.S. House of Representatives, acknowledged Tuesday that convicted sex offender Mark A. Grethen was invited to accept the award at its Business Advisory Council's luncheon in March. U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairs the NRCC. ``We weren't aware of his current predicament. Otherwise, (the invitation) never would have been extended,'' said Carl Forti, an NRCC spokesman. The award was rescinded after the NRCC learned of Grethen's crimes, Forti said Tuesday. Grethen, 44, a former businessman, was convicted last year of six sex crimes involving children -- two counts each of forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and indecent liberties. He is in the Deep Meadow Correctional Center, and his projected release date is Sept. 25, 2024. He faces supervised probation upon his release. Grethen, one of 500 people nationwide selected for the award, would have had to pay his own travel fees had he gone to the event, Forti said. Further, he would have been asked for a contribution to attend the meeting itself. Grethen contributed $750 to the campaign committee over a few years, and his last donation was in 2000, according to the NRCC. He was selected for the award ``through our own donor history,'' Forti said. The NRCC doesn't want his money, and will turn ``every penny'' over to a group that helps victims, said Stephen Schmidt, the NRCC's communications director. U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, cqR-11th District, chairs the NRCC, which is dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives. Last month, the group announced it had raised $68.6 million in 2001 -- the most it had ever raised in a nonelection year.
Gee, I thought Pete was "Republican of the Year"
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 14:59:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, chuckle tolerantly at Ann Coulter, Mr. Brave Guy. You would be snorting derision out of the other side of your face if you were one of the high and mighty, and Ann the Man Coulter was sniping at you. Every choleric Toledo bus-driver with a subscription to the David Horowitz Fact Sheet would be agreeing with Ann that you are not a good guy, and probably couldn't carry John Ashcroft's fig leaves. How would you like that, asshole?
Read her and weep, altruistic good-hearted swine.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 14:58:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Man, Coulter really sticks it to that prick, Bob Byrd. That was the asshole stuffed shirt who was indignantly farting and blowing about how Clinton wasn't up to his brand of snuff, got a blowjob and all. The "conscience of the Senate." In my book, he's not much better than Ann Coulter, except that he's a senator who has brought a lot of dough into West Virginia, practically paved the place with federal dollars, while Coulter is just an anorexic noise-maker whose main accomplishment seems to be to have managed to resign herself to airport security checks. Byrd is probably trembling in his corner office now that Coulter has got him in her sights. The man has a long way to fall, and this new enemy may be the toughest one he's ever faced.
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- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 14:52:46 (EST)

My two cents are: The Robert C. Byrd Bridge To Poverty Universal Press Syndicate | February 14, 2002 By Ann Coulter THE POOR'S SENSE of class superiority over the rich is getting out of hand. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, Sen. Robert Byrd, who was named after a bridge in West Virginia, viciously attacked Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill for having made a success of himself. Claiming to speak for worthless layabouts, Byrd snippily informed O'Neill: "They're not CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations. ... In time of need, they come to us, the people come to us." Evidently what the people-in-need are asking for is a lot of federal projects named after Senator Byrd. Some items funded by taxpayers � but still somehow named after "Robert C. Byrd" � are: The Robert C. Byrd Highway; the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam; the Robert C. Byrd Institute; the Robert C. Byrd Life Long Learning Center; the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program; the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope; the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse; the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center; the Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center; the Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building; the Robert C. Byrd Drive; the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex; the Robert C. Byrd Library; the Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center; the Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center. And then it got late, and I had to stop researching. But it appears that every slab of concrete in West Virginia is named after Bob Byrd. Really warming to his class-envy tirade, the King Tut of the Senate further informed O'Neill: "I haven't walked in any corporate boardrooms. I haven't had to turn any millions of dollars into trust accounts. I wish I had those millions of dollars." Instead, Byrd had to scrape by with billions of dollars forcibly extracted from the taxpayers to build grotesque banana republic tributes to himself. At least the money O'Neill "turn[ed] into trust accounts" came from his own pocket. Coincidentally, the money Byrd turned into eponymous monuments also came from O'Neill's pocket. A humble display of gratitude might have been more appropriate. An astonished O'Neill responded to the harangue: "I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch." And then the hearing spun totally out of control as Senator Tut redoubled his own sob story: "Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity, too, no running water, no telephone, a little wooden outhouse." (Though Byrd was manifestly enamored of these fascinating particulars of his life story, he unaccountably skipped the part about his youthful membership in the Ku Klux Klan.) When did a lack of money and accomplishment become a mark of virtue? Some rich people may be swine, but so are some poor people. A lot of rich people work harder, are more creative, and are a lot nicer than the poor. Paul O'Neill was never in the Klan. Paul O'Neill never filched taxpayers' hard-earned money to build a vast complex of shrines to himself. More perplexingly, when did a scoundrel whose only source of capital comes from other people's paychecks assume the "high ground" over a rich man who dispersed paychecks? O'Neill is rich, I'm not, oh well. At least he didn't dip into my earnings. Every society must have concentrations of wealth in order to build and create. Even the Soviet Union of beloved memory had concentrations of wealth � but it was in the government, rather than in corporations. It's called capital. Capital is needed to launch society's most important projects � factories, inventions, bridges, skyscrapers and telescopes named after Bob Byrd. O'Neill's concentration of money came to him through the voluntary decisions of investors and consumers. Byrd's far larger concentration of money came to him by force. Send in half your paycheck to the government or go to jail. The specious core of the liberal mantra on tax cuts � "tax cuts for the rich" � is that unless taxes are cut across the board, it never happens. As loaded Hollywood liberals are always reminding us, they don't "need" a tax cut. The rich we shall always have with us, kind of like the poor. At least conservatives defend the right of middle-class people to keep their money, too. The only rich people deserving of malice are rich liberals who express bemusement at the non-rich's desire for a tax cut. They want the middle class to pay more in taxes and they use the lumpen poor as a battering ram against these hated, acquisitive, coupon-clipping climbers. Despite his maudlin self-flattery, Robert Byrd and the rest of his party don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government. There may still be a toilet in West Virginia that is not yet named for Bob Byrd.
go ann go <slam the scumbag socialsits>
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 14:02:43 (EST)

My two cents are: What is satire but witty sarcasm?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 12:07:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Damn satirical.

- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 10:40:30 (EST)

My two cents are: H-Man's comments were sarcastic? I always considered them more satirical. Not as satirical as Pete's twat riffs, but still pretty satirical.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 10:23:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I used to think H-Man was a total dildo for writing sarcastic comments on the signature line.
Boy, was I ever wrong.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 10:14:23 (EST)

My two cents are: hey wow. what about bakers dozen?
fuck cross culturalism, no? ja! you bet.
- Friday, February 15, 2002 at 00:34:44 (EST)

My two cents are: LOWELL, Mass. �� A woman was arrested for allegedly beating up another supermarket customer who brought too many items into an express checkout line. Karen Morgan, 38, punched and kicked a 51-year-old woman outside the store on Sunday, police said. Morgan was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, her foot. The victim, whose name was not released, said the dispute began when she accidentally brought 13 items into a 12-items-or-fewer checkout lane.
13 items my ass. The bitch had a full cart and paid with a check.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 23:28:01 (EST)

My two cents are: "This topic of capitalism is really the nugget of the conservative/nationalist split. Conservatives cannot see that the features of Western life have changed. They are too busy listening to people like Rush "I Don't Dare Mention Race or Jews" Limbaugh tell them how great IBM's latest takeover is to grasp what has happened. And by the time many of them do grasp the horrible facts about big capitalism, the West in general, and our country specifically, will be long ruined. We need to reach conservatives with this simple message above. We need to turn their heads. They must be made to see that Rush Limbaugh's vision of...dare I say it at the risk of sounding leftist...greed and profits at the expense of your own White culture is dooming the entire West. Remember the motto of nationalists, and heed it: our race and culture FIRST. We can all argue about the details of governing later, after we expel or jail our riffraff." J.R. COLSON
Rush too is a socialsit.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 22:33:34 (EST)

My two cents are: What was this thing with the African gentleman who took Nancy Sinatra's song too personally?
inquiring
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 22:09:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Preoccupied, dreaming of Brenda. Training his 'scope on the object of his obsessional thoughts. Brenda, Brenda, Brenda . . .

- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 21:58:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint may edge the pineapple out as bull goose lunatic. The apple never fixated on one sickness for this long, as pitiful and disgusting as he was. And to think we all thought that Glint was just a mildly shizophrenic astronomy buff who got a few too many bum steers outside the bubble in Nebraska. So it turns out HE'S the mass murderer. What is he really doing up in that "observatory?"
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 21:26:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I haven't been wedgied on the rugby pitch for six weeks.
Not Here�
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 21:22:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 21:18:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Note: "New Jersey" means "twerpedo" in Pashtu.
what's in a phoneme?
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 21:18:23 (EST)

My two cents are: I haven't looked at any of my Britney Spears videos for six hours.
Bob Dole
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 21:13:22 (EST)

My two cents are: New Jersy license plates on the car driven by the two who just tried to hijack the tanker truck?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 16:34:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, if you're reading this, "NEW JERSEY!!!!!"
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 15:18:49 (EST)

My two cents are: GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas jury on Wednesday found Thomas Mitchell guilty of aggravated assault for shooting his girlfriend because he thought she was about to say the words "New Jersey." His attorney unsuccessfully sought his exoneration on grounds that certain words set off an uncontrollable rage in Mitchell, who has a history of mental illness. Words that triggered a bad reaction in Mitchell included "New Jersey," "Wisconsin," "Snickers" and "Mars," lawyer Maria Mercado told the court. Throughout the three-day trial, Mitchell, 54, covered his ears when he thought the words were going to be spoken. Witnesses used flashcards with the words written out instead of saying them in court. "When he has one of these episodes, he isn't focused," lawyer Mercado said. Prosecutors contended that Mitchell was troubled, but not crazy. He was convicted for shooting girlfriend Barbara Jenkins three times on March 19, 1999, when he believed she was about to utter the phrase "New Jersey." She survived the attack, but died from unrelated causes just before the trial. In a statement, Mitchell told police: "I had seen that word at my mom's house and then Barbara said what she said (and) I just snapped."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 14:30:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I haven't seen Brenda in six hours.
Glint
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 14:13:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh great, the Republican held House finally passed campaign finance reform, which the Democrats have been pleading for year after year. Now it will zip on over to the Democrat-controlled Senate where they will certainly approve it PDQ. This should be a big win for Democrats.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 13:19:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Hell, I took a 3-year depreciation on my chainsaw. On my rake and hoe. Nothing is too small, the Lord notices the fall of every sparrow. Though the wheels of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. I get receipts from mendicant bums, have them sign a castaway shard of chewing-gum wrapper if that's all that's available. There is really no reason for any American who is into even Schedule A to pay a nickel to the communists. Ask Enron. On second thought, don't bother with Enron. I have nothing overseas except a caisse d'epargne account in the Camargue, hardly a secret, and I still average less than seven percent combined state, federal, and self-employment. Trailer trash and Mejicanos pay that much, families of them on the bottom end of the poverty scale. We are taxing the poor and the ignorant to feed the poor and the ignorant and send their children to school. It is a fine system, not perfect, but better than anything else.
House of Meat
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 12:47:21 (EST)

My two cents are: If you work things right, everything from the copper in your rain gutters to the titanium toe-caps in your Lobbs is deducted somewhere. Why even live in a system if you can't work it? Move to Khazakstan and buy a heard of goats if that's all you want out of life.
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- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 11:54:32 (EST)

My two cents are: And by the way, why do you assume I won't be taking depreciation on the Jaguar? At $70K I would be a fool not to. Why bother to buy anything you can't rig a little bit? You think when the crynic goes to visit his money he reports it as a vacation?
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- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 11:52:42 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way, Zirc, the 8 doesn't have the trad grille. In fact it has an oval snout not unlike the AC Ace, maybe that's why I like it. It does have the leaping cat protruding out over the snout of the car.
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- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 11:27:22 (EST)

My two cents are: You know, back in the day the car that caught my eye was the AC Ace, a spiffy-looking British boy-racer that never caught on like the MG or the Triumph or even the Lotus Elite. That was the body that Shelby put the big motor in to make the famous Cobra, which, by the way, is not a comfortable car to drive or even sit in. My dad had one for a while when they first came out, but it just didn't answer. Quite devoid of amenities, where the Jaguar has a splendidly-finished figured wood dash, Enlish walnut I believe, and the appropriate ergonomics, and it gives a bow to comfort in the suspension. My favorite among the old man's cars in that line was a chiffon yellow Maserati he bought in '59, with seats of creamy yellow leather. It had a bench in back that was slightly more comfortable for a kid than the one in the '57 Porsche Speedster he traded in, and my brother and I would switch places every hundred miles on a long trip, or aller-retour on short ones. If he had a lady along she of course sat in front and we both suffered in back. He almost got one of those goddamn gull-wing Mercedes instead of the Maserati, but we brought him back to his senses. Even then I had a sense of history, and my brother had taste.
House of Meat
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 11:24:15 (EST)

My two cents are: G'day, zirc et al. We're hearing rumors of Chandra Levy having been drugged, kidnapped, sold into slavery, bound for some far-off harem. On a lighter note, Good skijumping recently, if you like that sort of thing, good half-pipe comps, too. On a note re current vitriol levels, a swift channelsurf past faux reveals Osamist freeper talking heads advocating shooting socialsits and throwing them out of helicopters. Hey ho. Plus ca change.
saltwater c.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 09:03:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Jag.
4 or 5 of 22
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 08:40:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Jag.
4 or 5 of 22
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 08:39:56 (EST)

My two cents are: got to go get some new lezzie porn for the old lady today. figure its time to stock up before the puritans start banning sex. I'm sure we'll be registering our genitals before handguns.
zirc
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 07:56:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey guys, Zirco here. Like odd says (fu## you odd), I dont know shit from shinola, but my take is that regardless of the mechanical probs with the jag, you're going to take a fucking bath on resale or depreciation. those are business lease cars, tax deductions, not real rides. for 35-40k you can buy a cherry remanufactured 427 cobra. Of course it wont have the traditional jaguar vagina grill that's caught your eye. Plus, you can probably get a cobra built without an ignition switch at all.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 07:54:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Almost as bad as that French Poodle winning best of show. That's a dog?????
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 03:55:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Freepers fantasize about mass murder of liberals First Ann Coulter called for the execution of liberals as a means of intimidation against those who criticize the Bush agenda. Now the equally demented Freepers express their hopes for the violent killing of liberals in America, and discuss the methods of murder that most excite them. From FreeRepublic.com: "...Open Season on The Left..." 'Open Season' on these red bastards would be package bombs blowing everything from their shoulders up against the walls in their offices. 'Open Season' would be their drivers stopping and parking suddenly in traffic, then decamping seconds before men on motorcycles pulled up alongside and hosed the filthy communists in the back seat down with submachineguns. 'Open Season' would be for the last public sighting of many of these treasonous pigs to be of them being forced into the trunk of a car. Those sort of events would indicate an 'Open Season' on the leftist filth in this country. 'Open Season', indeed.
Yes! Osama Say, Kill Filth! Kill Filth!
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 23:38:45 (EST)

My two cents are: The horror, the horror.
not here
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 23:32:16 (EST)

My two cents are: It isn't easy to follow the stories, not to mention the travel plans, of all the Hollywood luminaries who announced plans to leave the country in the event their candidate lost the presidency. As he did in 2000, despite countless warnings by Barbra Streisand, Cher, Julia Roberts and similar analysts that a George W. Bush presidency would bring a wave of repression as yet unmatched in our history. As Ms. Streisand explained it, "Our whole way of life is at stake." Notwithstanding the new dark age to fall on us if Al Gore went down to defeat, Ms. Streisand and company issued no declarations about leaving the country--a wise move. At least one member of the House of Baldwin may have wished he'd done the same by the time he'd finished efforts to undo the messes issuing from just such a bulletin about his own plans in the event Mr. Bush became president. That would be Alec Baldwin, actor and political activist, and husband (at the time) of Kim Basinger, who delivered the news in an interview with the German magazine Focus. On this occasion, shortly before the election, Ms. Basinger held forth on her husband's character and principles. "Alec is the biggest moralist that I know. He stands completely behind what he says." She could, further, well imagine Alec making good on his threat. "And then I'd probably have to go too." Deluged by adverse publicity once the story reached the U.S., Mr. Baldwin explained that his wife had never talked to that magazine, that she had never heard of it, and that he had never made any such comments about leaving America. Focus magazine then produced a transcript, which forced Mr. Baldwin to provide a variety of other explanations. "The studio forces you to do dozens of interviews with people you never heard of," he told the New York Daily News, and, moreover, he and his wife had certainly "never said unequivocally" that they would leave the country if Mr. Bush won. Also among the celebrities announcing plans to emigrate if George Bush won was director Robert Altman--today enjoying a resurgent career thanks to the praise (and multiple Oscar nominations) heaped on his new film, "Gosford Park." In 2000 he talked to reporters at a French film festival (for reasons too obvious to explicate, meditations about the need to leave America tend to be delivered only on foreign shores, or reserved for the ears of the foreign press). There, at Deauville, Mr. Altman announced that he would move to France if George Bush won. Mr. Bush did win, of course, and Mr. Altman didn't move, which doesn't mean the director has given up public brooding on the subject. Indeed, we learn from a Times of London interview, conducted only last month, that Mr. Altman wanted to stay in England, for reasons he outlined in clear, if familiar, detail. "This present government in America I just find disgusting," he informed the reporter. Further, its president was a man who couldn't run a baseball team successfully. He would be happy to stay in England because there is nothing in America he would miss at all. "When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke." There is, of course, a limit to the number of times one can take to the public stage to renounce one's country and heap scorn on its leaders--after which audiences are bound to begin heading for the exits. Indeed, Mr. Altman might do well to ration further public pronouncements on his wish to abandon the U.S. for France, Britain, and similar political Edens. Otherwise--fearful vision--we may find him wandering the shores of Europe in perpetuity, catching at the sleeves of travelers to announce that he has decided to leave America.
typical scumbag socialsits
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 22:33:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm just afraid that tit for tat towelhead Saddam may decide to remove Snippy. The horror, the horror.
Ann Coulter
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 22:24:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Jaguar.
Roseola Okeefenokee
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 22:11:44 (EST)

My two cents are: If we can only keep a foreign war going, we can perhaps disguise the continuing stained-dress-conservo-inspired economic and moral decay of the United States!
Nationalism has its uses
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 22:00:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Slander. I would give up my left nipple ring before I would give up one of my Benzes.
Dennis Rodman
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 20:34:37 (EST)

My two cents are: It looks like a big black dog that some German rag-picker uses to pull a cart around the streets of Bremerhaven. And as a bonus, you can fit six fat old ladies in black dresses and veils into it.
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- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 20:33:05 (EST)

My two cents are: The Mercedes Benz is a perfect Kraut car. It even looks like a Kraut. About a fifty-seven-year-old Kraut who has eaten his share of wurst and paprika cabbage rolls and drunk his share of beer and schnapps. It couldn't look more German if it had a swastika on it.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 20:31:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Feed them with the savings, that is, if you did your bulb shopping from the Woolworth's bins.
Plymouth Rock
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 20:28:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Whether they crank it or not, 19 cents for a bulb that costs you twelve bucks at the Mercedes dealer parts department is no price differential to scoff at. If you burned out three light bulbs in a year you could feed a starving child in Botswanaland for the same period.
Volunteer for Patriotism
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 20:27:46 (EST)

My two cents are: Land Rover. A great safari car.
Captain Zerengheti
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 20:25:27 (EST)

My two cents are: I wouldn't have a Land Rover for all the tea in China.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 18:05:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Do they still pull the crank start on the Woolworth odd 3?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 16:07:15 (EST)

My two cents are: The Mercedes is a wonderful, sexy personal vehicle for the gay man, even though we were persecuted just as much as the Jews in Germany, and were forced to help build the the 1933 to 1944 models with no adequate compensation. Why can't the Jews relax and join the 21st century? There is no animosity toward the Jew OR to the homosexual in modern Germany.
Prescott Jamison
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 15:43:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Knew a lady once who had a Benz and the shop sold her a brake-light bulb for twelve dollars. It was identical to the one you buy down at Woolworth's our of a bin for 19 cents.
Olin Zirkel
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 15:36:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I wouldn't buy a Mercedes for all the Jews in Warsaw.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 15:35:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Mercedes-Benzes are to cars as blood sausage and sauerkraut are to food. As lederhosen are to clothes. As cukoo clocks are to things a white man might want to hang on his wall. As Zeppelins are to aircraft. They are fine cars for NBA players and real-estate sales-ladies. The rest of us would do better with a Buick Skylark.
Oggie
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 15:33:48 (EST)

My two cents are: If the Jagwar is just a Ford, it's a pretty neat Ford. Not quite in the same league as, say, a Shelby Cobra, but then it's supposed to be a different league, isn't it? I still need an answer on the bugs. There is no way that Ford is going to get an English work-force put a vehicle together with all the little wheels and wires working right, no matter how good it is. Three years will do it, working every other week-end? How easy is it to R&R the ignition switch? Will it take a hot-wire if the switch goes in the middle of Nevada? This is a fair chunk of cash and I'd like confirmation that I'm not pissing it away. I want a car that runs most of the time as well as looks good.
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- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 15:28:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, that Gore certainly is a villain. But what I want to know is why would anyone consider buying a Mercedes? A radically overpriced piece of Nazi stolidity. The people who used to drive El Dorados drive Benzes now. The same people who have lost the capability to wipe all the shit from their rectae or to flip the turn-signal lever. And how could someone with a zirconium ear let a loved one sit in a car that used to have the option of genuine Jew-skin upholstry? No, the Mercedes-Benz is for the shit-head and the unknowing bumpkin. I would never sit in one, let alone buy it.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 15:15:44 (EST)

My two cents are: (Washington Post) Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - NEW YORK, Feb. 12 -- Former vice president Al Gore said tonight there should be "a final reckoning" with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime in the war on terrorism...
me too! me too!
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 14:08:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) is also expected to tell Middle East leaders about U.S. intentions to get rid of Saddam during a tour of 11 Middle Eastern nations next month, the Inquirer said. "...'He's not going to beg for support,' a senior official was quoted as saying. 'He's going to inform them that the president's decision has been made and will be carried out, and if they want some input into how and when it's carried out, now's the time for them to speak up.'"
go dick go!
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 14:02:17 (EST)

My two cents are: (Reuters) - President Bush has decided to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and has ordered the CIA, the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies to devise plans to remove him...
traitors will call this purposeful action "wag the dog"
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 13:35:30 (EST)

My two cents are: The Jag is just a Ford now anyway. Mercedes.
Yo!
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 13:30:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Talk about friendly fire. That was House Majority Leader Dick Armey pronouncing the president "so wrong" on his plan to greatly expand federal funding for AmeriCorps -- the national service program Armey called "obnoxious." Poring over Armey's tirade, I could only shake my head knowingly and think: Been there. Done that. And Armey is as dead wrong as I was. I, too, had once scoffed at the notion of offering financial support to volunteers -- after all, isn't "paid volunteer" an oxymoron? In fact, on Oct. 17, 1995, I testified against AmeriCorps in Congress, convinced that young people should learn to volunteer out of the noble impulses of their hearts, not because they are getting a few dollars in return. "Helping those in need is a moral imperative," I testified back then. "It is our responsibility -- our obligation -- and in a completely different realm from getting loans to go to school or money to live on. The people I most admire in this world are volunteering their time everyday without the benefit of any fancy, bureaucratically run programs." I believed that then and I believe it now. What's different is that I've come to realize what a vital role programs like AmeriCorps can play in supporting the charitable efforts of those working in the trenches. My conversion began seconds after I finished my testimony. Harris Wofford, the former senator from Pennsylvania who was then running AmeriCorps, came rushing up to me. I was expecting him to read me the riot act, but, instead, he asked me to lunch. I was taken aback, but intrigued -- and off we went for some grilled chicken, a green salad, and a side order of crow. I must admit I'm a sucker for passion, and Wofford -- who had been instrumental in setting up the Peace Corps and had worked closely with Robert Kennedy -- had more passion than an entire season of "Sex in the City." And now he was bringing it all to bear on AmeriCorps' mission of fostering national service by training 50,000 Americans a year to, among other things, tutor at-risk kids, build homes, help seniors, clean up trails and rivers, and assist the victims of natural disasters. "My dream," Wofford explained, "is to make service of a substantial kind a common expectation of young people." It was a masterful seduction. I don't think I'll ever forget the moment when we first locked eyes and he said to me: "Together we can crack the atom of civic power." Prompted by him, I was soon witnessing firsthand how, far from undermining the spirit of giving, as I had feared, AmeriCorps members actually acted as magnets drawing in other volunteers. Indeed, Wofford estimates that "every AmeriCorps member generates and makes possible the work of about 12 occasional volunteers." As it turned out, the list of erstwhile AmeriCorps foes converted by Wofford is long and impressive, and includes many lawmakers not noted for flapping in the wind of legislative fashion, like Sens. John McCain, Dan Coats, and Rick Santorum, and Rep. John Kasich. In fact, McCain and Santorum -- who once mocked AmeriCorps as a place "for hippie kids to stand around a campfire holding hands and singing 'Kum Ba Ya' at taxpayer expense" -- each ended up introducing legislation to expand the program. I called Wofford to ask him how he had let Armey slip through his net. "When Gingrich became speaker," he told me, "abolishing AmeriCorps was at the top of his agenda. Every year since then, a bill has been introduced to abolish AmeriCorps. And Armey has always supported it." "On the other hand," he continued, "look at Kasich. He was adamantly opposed to AmeriCorps until he started researching a book on leadership and compassion, and discovered that the program he admired most, the Harlem Peacemakers, would not have been possible without the participation of fifty AmeriCorps members." Still deeply committed to mobilizing the country's young people, Wofford has just taken over as chairman of America's Promise -- a post first held by Colin Powell. In a fitting twist, he replaces new Republican National Committee chair Marc Racicot, who, as Governor of Montana, was instrumental in getting all but one of the nation's top governors to sign a letter to Congress urging it to renew AmeriCorp's funding. Of course, charm and enthusiasm can only get you so far. In the end, it was confrontation with reality that transformed the thinking of so many influential Republicans. While, in theory, the private sector can rise to the occasion and provide the time and money needed to solve social problems, in the real world -- of which conservatives pride themselves on being the only true denizens -- it simply doesn't. I discovered the hard way how much easier it is to raise money or recruit volunteers for the opera or a fashionable museum than for a homeless shelter or an inner city after-school program. It is sad but true that the task of overcoming our social problems is too monumental to be accomplished without the raw power of government appropriations and all the incentives we can muster to urge Americans -- especially young ones -- to make service part of their lives. There are, of course, those who insist on elevating ideology above proven results. You would think that, post-Sept. 11, Dick Armey would be champing at the bit to tap into the new spirit of altruism and patriotism. Perhaps a lunch with Harris Wofford, John McCain, Rick Santorum and John Kasich would tip the balance. I'll bring the humble pie. We've all admitted we were wrong. Why won't you, Mr. Armey?
Go, Arianna, Go!
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 13:25:33 (EST)

My two cents are: A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor. Then you covet it. A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his. A DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous. Barbara Streisand sings for you. A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour. A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage, which ultimately blows up the cows. CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows. DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government. AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the 2 cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts that you have reduced your expenses. Your stock goes up. A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch. Life is good. A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at cow school. A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. You produce your tenth 5-year plan in the last 3 months. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have. A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge for storing them for others. If they give milk, you tell no one. A TALIBAN CORPORATION: You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which is two. You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts. At night when no one is looking, you milk both of them. Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital. A POLISH CORPORATION: You have two bulls. Several people are killed while attempting to milk them. A FLORIDA CORPORATION: You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who like the brown one best vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best looking one. And last but not least ENRON CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
the farking socialists are the worst scumbags
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 13:12:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Go with the XK-8. Excellent rig. It's been out for a few years already and most kinks are gone. More of a high powered Ford than a traditional shepherd's pie ride. Ford muscled their way into Jag infrastructure and did the car right. Make sure you get the rag top.
poneyboy
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 13:02:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush Indicates Finance Proposals 'Make Progress' By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 13, 2002; 11:02 AM On the morning of a historic series of votes on campaign finance reform, President Bush broke with House Republican leaders today and said through his spokesman that both of the leading proposals "make progress and improve the system," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. "In analyzing the bills right now, they would both--in the president's opinion--improve the system and that is at the end of the day what he is looking for," Fleischer said. The Republican National Committee, which is controlled by Bush, has been working behind the scenes to convince lawmakers that the leading proposal would hurt Republicans worse than Democrats, who have unions to fall back on for expensive get-out-the-vote efforts. Fleischer stopped short of saying Bush would sign whatever bill was sent to him, but his statement signaled that strongly. The administration even moved to take credit for passage of a measure that Republicans have long fought. "If campaign finance reform is enacted into law, I believe that you can thank President George W. Bush, because he changed the dynamic of how this phony debate has finally ended in Washington, D.C.," Fleischer said. "What I'm signaling is that the president wants to improve the system. I'm not indicating there's a blank check. I will never indicate before a vote is taken that the president will sign anything that's sent to him." The Senate has passed a bill similar to one sponsored by Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.). House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has told Republicans the bill could cost their party control of the House and Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has said he will do anything to defeat it. Some opponents of a thorough system overhaul are backing a less restrictive version sponsored by Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) and Rep. Albert Wynn (D-Md.). The statement followed months of deliberate ambiguity by Bush on an issue that was not part of his agenda but was given momentum first by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and later by the collapse of Enron Corp., whose executives were huge donors to both parties. The Shays-Meehan bill prohibits corporations, unions and individuals from donating soft money, which can be given to political parties in unlimited quantities and has less federal restrictions on its use than hard money, which has strict limits. In July, Bush issued a series of principles for campaign finance reform. He proposed a ban on donations of soft money by corporations and unions but has never endorsed elimination of such contributions by individuals. Back then, Fleischer said Bush had told lawmakers in public and in private that they "cannot count on him to veto campaign finance reform this year, which is something that many Republicans have called on him to do."
What Fleischer really meant to say was "If campaign finance reform is enacted into law, I believe that you can thank Kenny Boy."
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 12:58:36 (EST)

My two cents are: There's House of Meat again, flaunting his considerable wealth and sneering gruffly at those he hopes are poor. Okay, House of Meat, you win. I wasn't going to ask, but I know you're dying to tell: Exactly how much ARE you worth? I promised to pretend I'm impressed. Anonymous. - Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:27:17 (EST)
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 12:58:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Meathead, I wouldn't take Zirco's advice on the Jaguar. Old pony-tail talks a good game, rubber-stoppered wheel-well cutouts and titanium accelerator jets and chest-humping transmissions, but when it comes down to the wire he thinks that every cough and wheeze of an automobile is caused by a bad ignition switch. It's like the shingles are dropping off your roof, and your rain-gutters are sagging, and nails are popping in the marlite around the tub, and the double-glazed windows fog up inside, and the toilet is cracked from the freeze and the tree out back has been girdled by the oak moth and the kitchen smells like gas, so you call the fix-it man and he says you need a new door-knob. The poor fucker doesn't even know how to surf the muscle sites on the web and find the Mr. America tips on keeping your back out of the curls; he thinks every mast and spar and boat-hook and splinter on a yacht is a chine stick. I mean, this guy is out to lunch. If you let him, he'd probably start talking about venturi valves and popping the head to switch pistons. A nice guy, and the chicks like his ear jewlery, but a yokel nonetheless. Go to the library and check out Motor Trend, eventually you'll get the goods on the Jaguar. Don't listen to anybody here. You'll end up owning a riding lawn mower and 20 dollar socks and copper rain gutters and a Mustang car and an Ibanez jumbo and a goddamn dachshund. Get out while the getting is good.
�dd K�defl�ss
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 02:21:10 (EST)

My two cents are: What kind of a car care page is this? Does anybody know anything???
Wants Answers in Milpitas
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 01:26:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't that Farkas?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:39:13 (EST)

My two cents are: How about Naomi Farkus?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:37:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't there a country-western singer named Naomi Judd?
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- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:21:39 (EST)

My two cents are: "'Naomi's fight for cameraman's film'..." Drudge.
anyone here know who Naomi is?
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:21:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Another one I been looking at is the Lincoln Navigator, or maybe a Land Rover, but there you go with the English iron again. I guess for an SUV you want an American or ricer unit, since you can't afford to have it break down. Guess I'm being a little disorganized about the new car, considering that a Navigator is about as far as you can get from a Jaguar 2+2. More useful, maybe, but not nearly so fast into the corners. Probably the attraction of the Nav is that it's so huge, and probably comes with half the electronics department in it. A plain black one would pretty much dominate the road, personal-conveyance-wise. The only way you're going to get higher up is a cab-over semi. You can probably pick one up for only $45 or 50 K, too, so you wouldn't feel the extra bite on the gas. On balance I'm going with the XK-8 if Zirco says it's OK.
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- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:13:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I just found out I retire in '06, and I'm hoping I could smooth out the 8 by then if I get it. It's a awfully nice looking car. I never figured myself for the Jaguar type, you know, mostly pick-ups and older Porsches for me, but it sure looks neat. I also like this saloon type car they got out, looks sort of like the new ricers but they put the old-fashions Jaguar radiator grille on it, which really distinguishes it-- something hard to find any more, a car that looks a little different. But I don't really need a four-seater just for tooling around, lazy-day driving and I got plenty of room for another car so I won't have to get rid of the others. If only that zirconium-eared scoundrel gives a good report on it, or at least a passable report. Or a report that can be twisted to support buying it. Then I'll go for it.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:05:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I would get the Jagwire. Unless you consider 70K a lot of money. A nice car, one fitting of your station in life. Maybe you'll let me wash it when if our paths should cross.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 23:25:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Get the Jag but remember to move the covers when giving its valves a hand job.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 22:19:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, I didn't read the bleat, but my guess is the point of interest is the easy intermixing of Enron corporate planning and the Little Bush administration. Nobody is out to hang these guys. All one has to do is reveal them to be real Republicans, and remind the voter what that means. Where they put their penises isn't even in play, so you can skip it and think about the neighbor children.
Ogden "Oggie" Slivovitz
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 21:52:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, pony-tail boy.... zirconium-ear. Walking back from the muffler shop today passed the Jaguar agency and the XK-8 caught my eye, a beige convertable. I like that figured walnut dashboard. That's a pretty nice looking Jigwar but I got a problem.... people say they're great-running cars but you have to iron out a million problems first, they come from the factory fucked up. My neighbor had an E-jag when they first came out, he was a rocket scientist and his dad was head engineer at Pan American and a pretty good mechanic, and they were always working on it. 12 cylinders, too. What's your take? Do you think I should get it? It's beautiful, a sort of subdued and gentlemanly vicious sportiness. Fucker costs $70K base, but what the fuck, hell not much more than some of the Porsches and Mercedes and it looks twice as good. Have you ever worked on a Jaguar? The only English car I ever had was an Austin-Healey roadster, 100-S, a '56, and it was built for limeys to spend their weekends under. The finest part of it was the leather-lined shop manual. Do you think I could smooth out the Jaguar in two or three years? I sort of like doing a little light mechanics, but I don't want to be hassling screwed-up ignition switches more than a few hours a week. Thanks in advance for the input.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 21:47:28 (EST)

My two cents are: MSNBC'S KEYES FLATLINES (.3)
that .3 would be...Glint!
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 20:48:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Stop sweating, Glint. I know this is like Chinese water torture to you and you're waging a one man battle to convince everyone this thing is over before it gets a chance to start. It will take time, Glint. Time and patience. Everyone is stonewalling, as is their right and as is customary and advisable. The 5th Amendment protects swindlers and bagmen, like the boys from Enron. Specious claims of executive privilege are also par for the course in these things. Buying time is never a bad idea. Bush might luck out and another plane will hit a Baptist Convention. Lacking that, he might choose to wag the dog somwhere. Maybe Yemen, that shouldn't be to tough. Anyway, count on Enrongate lasting at least a couple more years. It's in nobody's interest to truncate this baby. Relax, dude,it hasn't even started.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 20:43:45 (EST)

My two cents are: thanks for the tip on the curls, been trying to do them with elbow on knee but it feels like the back is still in the mix. chicks love the earring btw. was the center of discussion at the unit hoedown yesterday.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 20:40:37 (EST)

My two cents are: So, a lobbyist on the Enron payroll wants to "Carterize" soccer moms and that somehow turns this thing into the "Bush Enron" scandal? Puleeze.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 19:24:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Gurgling and grunting, eh pineapple. Tell us about the throes of Death. Never mind.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 18:39:45 (EST)

My two cents are: crynic is worth all you liar socialsits rolled up together and shot through cheech's ass like botulized chicken curry. (fut).
criss-crossed pineapple.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 18:31:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Time to fess up. I'm not gruff. I'm not rich. I don't even know where the Cook Islands are. I'm a liberal and admire all the Borgs. Bill Clinton is my hero and I think the House Managers tried to screw him. I only regret term limits for the President of the USA. I also think Gore was the rightful winner in the election. There, I've said it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
The Crynic
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 18:04:10 (EST)

My two cents are: the crinic is worth as much as the fat pineapple and crossdresser wannabe decide he's worth.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:49:47 (EST)

My two cents are: class envy
just like socialist bent puds
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:37:50 (EST)

My two cents are: food faux thought - Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:13:21 (EST)
I agree it is not (doink)
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:35:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, the crynic, how much? Do you have planes? Jets? Yachts? Castles? Tell us about your wheels. Your vacations. Your dynasty.
Enquiring minds want to know
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:35:30 (EST)

My two cents are: There's the crynic again, flaunting his considerable wealth and sneering gruffly at those he hopes are poor. Okay, the crynic, you win. I wasn't going to ask, but I know you're dying to tell: Exactly how much ARE you worth? I promised to pretend I'm impressed.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:27:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfff !
the crynic
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:15:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, the crynic was, and always will be, the joint invention of an insecure, fat pineapple and a transvestite-obsessed astronomer. Anonymous. - Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:03:23 (EST)
Hmmmm... food faux thought
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:13:21 (EST)

My two cents are: "...from Ethiopia to Kokomo..." - THAT is rich. / / / No secrecy, thieving cheesehead. All appropriate docs filed with IRS every year. And meat, if you're ever in the Cooks, drop by. There's always room for another house boy.
the crynic
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:12:04 (EST)

My two cents are: so faux of git
chong
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:03:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter, on the other hand, her gruffness is faux. She just isn't convincing when she says we have to cap an occasional liberal to keep the other ones saying yassah. Her natural gruff is the variety that can at most piss off an airport security dame, and she will never be able to put the fear of death into liberals. All she can achieve with her gruffness is to get her silver bullet charm taken away by an irate Dominican with a tin badge. Besides which, she secretly thinks that John Walker Lindh, traitor that he is, could probably learn how to splice a cable and change a tire if he was able to learn how to be a certified terrorist. In short, Ann has a "thing" for Taliban John almost as strong as for Ollie North, and her gruffness melts to simpering desire when she thinks of that Al Quaida-trained long rod and her dark tunnel. He baits her with it daily, without even knowing it. A sad sad tale of unrequited love and inadequate gruffness. My heart goes out to Ann Coulter, and all other wanting women.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:03:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, the crynic was, and always will be, the joint invention of an insecure, fat pineapple and a transvestite-obsessed astronomer.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 17:03:23 (EST)

My two cents are: The idea that the crynics gruffness is false is a myth. The crynic is a genuine gruff dude, and is not faking anything. In fact, you could look far and wide, searche this whole world over from Ethiopia to Kokomo and never find anyone gruffer. The only place you can even hope to find as gruff a fellow is on the merchant ships. Standing behind the wheel in a sou'wester, with his pipe upside down to keep the spray out, one eye winked shut and the other squinting against the gale. You've got to be gruff if the deckhands are going to respect you. And that is why the crynic has that special, magical gruffness. It is the gruffness of the merchant mariner, who not only has to impress deckhands, but also has had the shit kicked out of him recently by the Clinton-Gore maritime policy.
Capt. Schlursun
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:54:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Do we have to kill the traitors? No room to deal? Maybe Lindh would cop to not being fond of America in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, and Ashcroft could get a conviction for at least that.. But wait a minute! He's not charged with treason! He's charged with being a card-carrying Talibanoid, a mandatory ten in the hoosegow, and being an Al Quaida sympathizer, a mandatory fifteen. Also with conspiring to kill Americans in a foreign land, although we don't know which Americans he conspired to kill-- bastard wouldn't say even though we taped him to his cot and plucked out his eyebrow hairs one by one. Yes, judge, I heard the Attorney General say this kid was evil incarnate, but he said it quite reasonably and I believe my mind is open on the matter and I can vote to shoot him fairly.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:48:03 (EST)

My two cents are: You've got it wrong about the crynic. He is totally loyal to the Cook Islands, and would never think to treasonously revise their secrecy code and thereby gut the economy.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:41:27 (EST)

My two cents are: What's his point? Besides another demonstration of faux gruffness.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:38:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Traitors are killed, you nitwit. That's the penalty for treason. Duh.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:26:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's start with the Cook Island tax refugees.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:24:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Traitors should be killed. Plain and simple.
the crynic
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 16:05:51 (EST)

My two cents are: It's been a few weeks since we had a good Coulterism, so here's her latest in a long line of laughable tirades. At the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, Ann said "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors." You know, she could be on to something here - I mean, take that 15-year-old who crashed his plane into the Bank of America building in Tampa. Obviously a classic example of liberal parenting. Or perhaps not. But anyway, poor Ann has now reached a point where she is simply using John Walker Lindh to advocate death to liberals. Well, it is one of America's founding principals, isn't it? Intimidate and/or kill those who disagree with you. I'm sure it says so right there in the Constitution.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 14:35:03 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean, no only Bush Junior has turned liberal, but the reader's digest has? Who's going to cloak the boobed statues?
god bless you johnny ashcroft
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 14:05:04 (EST)

My two cents are: ENRON HONCHO PLOTTED AGAINST DEMS Secret Memo Exposes Deeper Political Scandal Ed Gillespie: Use Cheney Report As Weapon A newly discovered private memo from one of Enron�s top lobbyists has exposed new and troubling political connections to the ever growing Bush Enron scandal. The memo, written last spring by Ed Gillespie of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a long-time Bush aide and GOP strategist, became the blueprint for an ad campaign that targeted environmentalists and Democratic foes of the Bush Administration. The memo was distributed to as-yet unidentified energy companies and industry groups � including, presumably, Gillespie�s big client, Enron, which paid Gillespie�s firm $700,000 for its services last year. The memo and the ads were part of Gillespie�s efforts as the head of a little-known organization called the 21st Century Energy Project, a coalition of pro-Republican conservative groups that includes Citizens for a Sound Economy and the American Conservative Union. Gillespie himself is a former communications director with the Republican National Committee and has close ties to the Bush White House. As Enron�s lobbyist, Gillespie pushed hard for recommendations by Vice President Dick Cheney�s energy task force and for economic stimulus legislation with tax provisions that would have given Enron $254 million of the taxpayers� money. Gillespie, along with Kenneth Lay, also opposed instituting price caps during last year�s energy crisis in California � a position the Administration adopted and which brought windfall profits to Enron. At the same time, Gillespie was devising the stridently partisan ad campaign that later was launched by his Energy Project. "Instead of picking the fight that has been picked for us, we should pick a new fight," said the confidential April 2001 memo, presented to energy companies and industry groups. The memo suggested the industry "change the dynamic by 'Carterizing' the Democrats"--an allusion to the dour ex-president. "We need to make them the 'eat your peas' party." "If some on the left have their way," one of Gillespie�s group�s political newspaper advertisements read, "'soccer moms' will be forced to sell their minivans. They'll be a luxury only the elite can afford." Reporting on the memo, the Los Angeles Times observes: �Gillespie's simultaneous lobbying and campaign strategizing underscore Enron's influence in Washington before its collapse last year, as well as the way politics and policy often blur under the loophole-filled laws governing their combination.�
ha ha
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 14:02:14 (EST)

My two cents are: The Most Spherical Man in Show Business?
??? thought that was Drew Carey ???
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:58:49 (EST)

My two cents are: A football team is, by necessity, a socialist organization, as is the military.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:57:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Rush found out that socialsits such as the vilE were cheering for the patriot Patriots, giving him another excuse to expose his reichwing paranoia. Pretty paranoid, though. Way out on the dark end of the bell curve.

- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:55:54 (EST)

My two cents are: HEH HEH-----"WE COULD GIT NAKKID"!!!!!
CLIFFORD
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:55:25 (EST)

My two cents are: A veritable fount of vulgar irritability. We would apologize for his behavior, but why should we? It's his behavior, after all. Ha ha. Tant pis pour lui.
4 or 5 of 22
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:53:06 (EST)

My two cents are: The award for dumbest post-Super Bowl sore-losering has got to go to Rush Limbaugh. While the rest of the country was congratulating the Patriots on their stunning victory, The Most Spherical Man in Show Business was accusing them of advancing a "socialist agenda" with their "silly notion of being introduced as a team prior to football games." Is there no limit to conservative paranoia and victimhood? Now it would seem that even teamwork is an example of creeping socialism. Those dastardly liberals have infected the New England Patriots with their cancerous agenda of so-called "teamwork!" Next thing you know they will be nationalizing Microsoft and moving us into collective farms and gulags. For the Love of God, Give Tom Brady an individual introduction before the Bolsheviks storm the White House!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:47:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Faux. So faux.
not here
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:43:18 (EST)

My two cents are: No, but it aptly describes moron liberal socialsits.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:28:29 (EST)

My two cents are: "'The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude.' Remind you of anyone????"
Carter. Clinton?
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:18:02 (EST)

My two cents are: "This Enron thing has no legs, Glint, and will never rise to the stature of pissing contest." - House of Meat. I know Enron has no legs, man. I was talking about the "our party has more G.I. Joes than your party" sink jobbing. <> "Enron has legs alright...will hand the dems the off year election." Never hurts to dream the deluded dream. <> "since i have yet to buy a weightlifting book, can someone tell me how to do curls with freeweights?" don't be a skin flint. go out and buy some weights and quit mooching the free ones.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 13:12:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Okay, two suggestions for doing curls the right way, the way that isolates the biceps. Way One is to do the curls with your back against the wall. Simple. Another way, one that goes against what most books say, is to bend forward slightly at the waist while lifting. This keeps the back out of the movement. In fact, both ways do. Glad to help. The marijuana I grow (license on file with the Mendocino County Sheriff's Dept.) does not finance terrorism. Smoke domestic weed! It's better anyway.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 12:49:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Does anyone have any idea why the Bush administration spent $3.5 million on anti-drug commercials during the Super Bowl? It sure as hell wasn't to encourage people to stop taking drugs. The commercials, which preached that American drug users are funding terrorists, were designed solely to further demonize drug use (illegal, of course - not state-approved narcotics such as Oxycontin or, um, Xanax) among non-drug users. Interestingly, the commercials made no mention of what kind of drugs are funding terrorists. Does this mean that if you grow your own weed for personal consumption you're giving money to terrorists? Of course it does, you fool. Yes, the administration is using these commercials to make people believe that if you fire up a blunt, then you might as well have flown those planes into the World Trade Center yourself. "It's so important for Americans to know that the traffic in drugs finances the work of terror, sustaining terrorists, that terrorists use drug profits to fund their cells to commit acts of murder. If you quit drugs, you join the fight against terror in America," said Dubya himself. But wait a second - while we're on the subject of where terrorists get their money and weapons, shouldn't we perhaps mention that it was Ronald Reagan and Poppy Bush who supplied advanced weaponry to the Afghan regime? And if my memory serves me correctly, I believe they also sold weapons to Iran (a member of the "axis of evil" if I'm not mistaken) in order to fund right-wing militants in Central America. Remind me again who's helping terrorists? However, in retrospect I think that these ads have a point. That's why from now on I'll only be buying Afghan heroin, so I can help rebuild their economy and show my support for the new government.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 12:24:52 (EST)

My two cents are: The Unexpurgated Story at Reader's Digest By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 12, 2002; Page C01 Good Lord, it makes me so mad I could spit! Those dastardly, pinko, blue-state, soft-core porno pushers have taken over the good old Reader's Digest! It sounds unbelievable, but it must be true. I read it in the National Review. The National Review is the magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr. -- the conservative pundit who once wrote a book defending Joe McCarthy -- so you know these guys are good at spotting subversives and heretics. And now, God help us, they've spotted them at Reader's Digest. Founded in 1922, Reader's Digest quickly became America's most popular magazine, and it served for decades as "a platform for conservative ideas," John J. Miller wrote in the Feb. 11 issue of the National Review. "During the Cold War, the Digest played a vital role in educating the American public about Communism. . . . It published articles in favor of small government and missile defense and opposed to union corruption and welfare dependency." But now the Digest has gone soft, Miller says. In the current issue, for instance, the traditional commie-and-union bashing has been replaced by a "vacuous" interview with actress Meg Ryan and an article on an Alaskan all-girl rescue squad -- a story that Miller identifies as "low-grade feminism." Low-grade feminism in Reader's Digest! The horror! The horror! The problem began, Miller says, when the magazine's tough old conservative editors left in the 1990s and were replaced by people such as top editor Eric Schrier, a man with mysterious political views. "Each of his predecessors . . . was a known conservative," Miller writes. "Yet Schrier is a political mystery. People who work with him daily don't know his views on fundamental issues." Well, you can imagine the chaos caused when writers don't know their editor's political views! Why, they just don't know what to think. Or worse, they start thinking for themselves. You can be sure that kind of thing doesn't happen at the National Review, where the founder lays down the party line in regular newspaper columns so nobody is left guessing. And Schrier isn't the only Digest editor lacking conservative credentials. There's Deputy Editor Catherine Romano, who used to work at Maxim and Cosmopolitan -- magazines that Miller says are "about a half-step removed from soft porn." And there's Executive Editor Jacob Young, who is, writes Miller, "said by some to be openly hostile to Digest traditions." Now that is scary! Everybody knows you just can't trust those "said by some" people. They're even worse than the "political mystery" people. And that's not all. Miller also reveals that the Digest has been infiltrated by those dastardly "blue-state" people. The blue states are those pinko-liberal states that voted for Al Gore in 2000, unlike the red-blooded, patriotic red states that voted for George W. Bush. "The magazine of red-state America," Miller writes, "is now run almost totally by blue-state Americans." He's right. I checked the map. The Digest's mailing address is Pleasantville, N.Y., but its headquarters is really in Chappaqua, which is, as Miller points out, the "home of the Clintons." (Coincidence? I don't think so.) New York is a blue state. So are its neighbors -- New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Vermont. For red-state people to work at the Digest, they'd have to commute from West Virginia or New Hampshire, which is way too far, even for the toughest conservative. When I finished Miller's story, I ran right out to buy the latest Digest. I opened it with trepidation, expecting to see stories titled, "Corrupt Commie Unions: America's Greatest Hope," or "The Wit and Wisdom of Kim Il Sung." But it was worse than that, far worse! These sneaky new editors are too devious to print blatant commie propaganda. Instead, they've hidden their subversion. The Digest still looks the same, and it still has the same delightfully corny features that your grandma loved -- "Life in These United States" and "Laughter, the Best Medicine." It still has lots of health tips and heartwarming stories of family bonding, medical miracles and heroic cops. In fact, if I hadn't read Miller's story, I wouldn't even realize that the Digest has been taken over by blue-state, said-by-some people. That's how clever they are! But if you look close enough, you can find the propaganda. There's that story on the all-girl rescue squad that Miller correctly identified as "low-grade feminism." And the article called "Are Boys the Weaker Sex?" which gives this advice to parents: "Don't tell your boy to 'be strong' or 'act like a man,' especially when he's feeling vulnerable." Hey, who's running this magazine, Alan Alda? Maybe he is. The "Quotable Quotes" page has a quote from Alda. It also has a quote from TV chef Emeril Lagasse: "It's okay to play with your food." Is that the kind of permissive message we want to send to impressionable young people? And this cultural rot has even seeped into "Word Power," the Digest's venerable vocabulary quiz. This month's quiz features "words suitable for Valentine's Day." And those words include "dalliance" and "tryst" and "lothario." Who wrote this, Bill Clinton? I'd say that's about a half-step removed from being a half-step removed from soft porn. Outraged, I called Jacqueline Leo, the magazine's new editor in chief, and asked her about Miller's story. "It's silly," she said. "One of the things that amused me is that this is the very same group that is always beating their breasts about press bias, and now they're complaining that we don't have enough of it." When I asked her if the Digest is a conservative magazine, she said: "I don't say we're conservative, but we're certainly unbiased and well-reported. We just had a cover with Laura Bush, for heaven's sake." I asked her if she was a conservative, but she refused to answer. "I'm not going to tell," she said. "Why should I tell?" Sounds awful suspicious to me. A real red-blooded, red-state patriot would be eager to answer that question. Where's Joe McCarthy now that we really need him?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 12:17:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Porky Borgy 7 = = Talk to mommy about your homo ponytail and your out of shape carcass, because no one here really gives a shit about your fat ass, fat ass.
Blow me 6 of 6
- Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 12:12:07 (EST)

My two cents are: If Harlan St. Wolf is around, he may have some pointers. A Republican who lifts weights. Might even have an eyebrow ring or a dick-head ring, although he's never mentioned it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 23:27:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Also, you could use lighter weight until you get stronger.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 23:25:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The way to do those curls without using the back muscles is to use the arm muscles. Is that a genuine zirconium stud? Why not try a simple silver stud? Or a demure gold ring? I got a bunch of rings for my fingers once and after a while realized I didn't like rings. Maybe the ear-hole is different. Belly-button ring on a girl with nice belly is good. Ginger Lynn always seemed to be enjoying herself, enthusiastic, and in control. Pretty much a titaness of porn. She retired during the first Bush administration, the Justice Dept. went after porn, and framed her for income tax irregularity. Also, AIDS frightened her. Now she's back in the business, with a video called "Torch" which I haven't seen. Says she had a good time auditioning the others and ended up with fun people. She's a little bitter about not making the crossover and makes a comment about how she doesn't think Hollywood actors are very good at sex, although she thinks that most of them have probably tried it. Torch is undoubtedly better than anything with Bruce Willis in a big role. She's just in time for the second Bush Justice Dept., which will probably go after porn pretty soon here. I don't see them succeeding, though. Put half the internet out of business. Pause and reflect on why Republicans want to be so involved in everyone else's sexual interests. When they themselves pay to stare at women's twats pussed over in seedy motel rooms. John� said that she was a fine lady, and he was probably a reasonably astute judge of the flesh. Sailor and all. C. Wright Mills was OK, but something of a wanker. A spotlight guy.
Oggie
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 23:23:18 (EST)

My two cents are: "The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude." Remind you of anyone????
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:29:54 (EST)

My two cents are: well, that quote was just too spot on, but I wont cut and paste the rest. you have the links.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:29:09 (EST)

My two cents are: America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology-appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America. (C Wright Mills)
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:28:25 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Book_Excerpts/PowerElite.html decent excerpts
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:16:09 (EST)

My two cents are: rented a totally freak movie over the weekend called strangeland. almost pete-esque. also bruce willis unbreakable which more or less sucked. How's ginger's comeback going?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:08:20 (EST)

My two cents are: well, in other news, the ponytail is still growing, almost complete except gor the bangs?? only go behind the ears, not all the way back into the hair tie. got ear pierced. zirconium stud. lifting the freeweights and doing the treadmill everyday just about. two miles. walking about 4 or 5 a day, soon to start mild jogging but i want to drop a few more pounds. seem to have plateaued at about 225 down a bunch from 245-250 but still need to drop some more, I think about 200-210 would be ok for 6'4". So I've been boosting the exercise, beer on weekends only and, at 915 tonight, no cigarettes for 2 weeks!
Borg 7 of 22
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:06:03 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.cwrightmills.org/ slow load, but a few cool pics. follow the link to the books, ultimately takes you to amazon and some interesting reviews to sub as a synopsis.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 22:01:37 (EST)

My two cents are: U.S. sociologist. Born in Waco, Texas, Mills joined the faculty of Columbia Univ.; there he became associated with the theories of M. Weber and with issues regarding the role of intellectuals in modern life, and contributed to the development of a critical sociology in the U.S. and abroad. He believed social scientists should shun "abstracted empiricism" and become activists on behalf of social change. His radical analysis of U.S. business and society appeared in White Collar (1951) and The Power Elite (1956); other works include The Causes of World War Three (1958) and The Sociological Imagination (1959). A colorful public figure, he wore black leather and rode a motorcycle. His death at 45 resulted from heart disease. from britannica.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:50:16 (EST)

My two cents are: does anyone remember how C Wright Mills says all this ends???
Borg 29 of 22
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:47:51 (EST)

My two cents are: since i have yet to buy a weightlifting book, can someone tell me how to do curls with freeweights without using your back muscles too much? I get a tightness in the base of my neck after a bunch of curls.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:45:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Every day is an Enron day. So many more to come.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:31:14 (EST)

My two cents are: These Woulda-Wents are a trip. Life to them is conjecture, supposition, fantasy. In their little bubble minds, they woulda slew a dragon, woulda blown up the Bridge on the River Kwai, woulda fucked Cleopatra, woulda given their left nut for a shitty lottery number, woulda done different than, or the same as, the Made-A-Choices.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:29:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron has legs alright, they just haven't started talking yet. It was like this with iran-contra, dragged on for months and then all of a sudden everyone started to sing. Enron, plain and simple will hand the dems the off year election. And if not on its own, then with bushes lack of vision and our crumbling economy. You see, enron, plain and simple is the great lie of capitalism writ large. It is the quintesence of republican bigdogs looting the little guy. This is the gut concept that will go to the polls, it distances bush, bush is a ken lay, not an average joe - that's how they'll vote. I mean where were we a year ago??? the chance of building a bridge to the 21st century, now we cant even build a bridge to france.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:27:55 (EST)

My two cents are: John McCain's got to be happy. His whole happy-go-lucky wildass true-conservative agenda has Washington by the balls, just because the rest of the Republicans cavorted too openly with some crooks who happened to get caught. The ghost of Teddy Roosevelt, conservative, is squatting and taking a big dump on little Bush and his pals. Regulation! Reform! No stealing the average cluck's dough by turning his payroll taxes over to Wall Street brokers! The ghost of Teddy Roosevelt is pinching them off one after the other, they're raining down on the Bush-baby's lipless head like the Leonid meteor shower! Let's have a few more Enrons, folks, let's see who else has been greasing itself with the sweat of our brows and selling American productivity down the river. Any bets that they will be golfing buddies with a Republican politician or two?
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:24:01 (EST)

My two cents are: That "Dear General" letter, or "Dear Colonel" letter was a pretty good screed for the young punk Clinton was. Most of the kids who went into the Viet Nam-era military did so because a) they didn't know any better, b) they were adventurous and wanted to see, or c) they didn't have the courage to stand against the yokel mentality of places like Bumfuck, Arkansas. Clinton knew better, and as a curious person probably wanted to see, but he wasn't yellow enough.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:15:38 (EST)

My two cents are: This Enron thing has no legs, Glint, and will never rise to the stature of pissing contest. If you want to see pissing, lifting the leg, you'll have to go back a few years to the height of the anti-blowjob lynch hysteria. Everything from shotgun holes in the back of half the heads in Arkansas to squirting into the sinks. And not only was it some mighty fine pissing, there was quite a bit of first-class moaning, too. We will not see its equal again, Glint, not in our lifetimes, or at least not until the Republicans are once again out of office.
House of Meat
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 21:09:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Who?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 19:44:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Or, as Mike Royko called them, War Wimps.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 19:26:10 (EST)

My two cents are: What do Republicans know about principle? Hawks who wouldn't serve. Chicken Hawks, we used to call 'em.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 19:25:36 (EST)

My two cents are: 'twas mighty nice o' Rich Gephardt, Dave Bonior, Tommy Daschle, and Al Gore to go a killin' gooks in a shameful and illegal war. Least they coulda done was refuse on principle, with honor, like Bill Clinton who poured his heart out in a 'Dear General' letter.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 18:47:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like a pissing contest to me.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 18:29:15 (EST)

My two cents are: It reminds you of that as well as the guy you stole the line from.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 18:24:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, every day is an "Enron Day." This "scandal" reminds me more of the tobacco hearings a few years back than it does impeachment hearings.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 18:20:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Every day an Enron day Marc Sandalow Monday, February 11, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WANT TO FEEL Enron's power in Washington? Consider this Capitol Hill scene from a chilly afternoon last week. On one side of the Capitol, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco was being feted as the new Democratic whip by the party elite. Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, California state Sen. John Burton, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown joined scores of influential politicos and wealthy California donors. On the east side of the building, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California was rushing out the Capitol door in the opposite direction with an armful of documents. What could possibly keep Boxer away from her good friend and political soul mate's moment of glory? What force of nature could keep a senator, who must raise $10,000 to $20,000 a day for the next two-and-a-half years to win re- election, away from a roomful of proven donors? "Today's an Enron day," Boxer explained as she hurried to her Buick parked next to the Capitol. Every day is now an Enron day in the nation's capital. It is not just the hearings that brought Enron executives before television cameras to either plead bad memories or the Fifth Amendment, nor Boxer's efforts to pass a 401(k)-reform measure (that distracted her that afternoon.) The implosion of the well connected Houston energy company has seeped into legislative nooks and crannies that have no direct connection to natural gas lines, electricity futures, or anything else that involved Enron. In the process, it has touched off a domino-like collapse of President Bush's and the GOP's domestic priorities. If Sept. 11 brought a return to Reagan era military buildups and the sacrifice of civil liberties favored by Republicans, the Enron debacle is ushering in a new era of government regulation long championed by Democrats. Now, 401(k) reforms, government oversight and campaign-finance reform are in, while proposals to boost domestic oil production, deregulate markets and privatize Social Security are out. At stake is more than the popularity of the wartime president. The high- profile implosion of Enron is serving as a Texas-sized wrecking crew on Bush's domestic agenda. Remember the energy bill? Last spring, the drilling-friendly proposal was atop the Bush agenda. The House approved it last summer, and post Sept. 11 fears of America's dependence on Middle East oil producers seemed to give it the push it needed to clear the Senate. Not after Enron. Today, the bill is foundering in the Senate. Whatever measure reaches the president's desk will hardly resemble the one he proposed. And what about privatization of Social Security? This was a big idea for the Bush campaign throughout the first year of his presidency. How much political capital will he now want to invest in persuading Americans that they can do better by investing a portion of their own pension plans in the stock market? Campaign-finance reform? It was dead in the hands of House Republicans before Enron entered the equation. Now, with Enron's much publicized $6 million in contributions over the past decade, Congress will be hard pressed to vote it down next week. The stimulus package? Democrats gleefully point out that Enron would be entitled to a $250 million tax cut under the Bush plan. Publicly, Democrats use phrases like "troubling" and "tragic" to describe Enron's collapse. Privately they use words like "miracle" and "godsend." Just as polls show the Republican Party is at an historic high-water mark, the Enron story has provided its opponents a powerful tool with which to knock off GOP priorities. Democrats, looking for a way to stand up to a popular commander-in-chief, think they have found one.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:44:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Barr was forced to finance an abortion against his principles. He fits.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:33:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry about Barr. He was, after all, a House Manager.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:30:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Bob Barr?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:29:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Rudy Giuliani?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:29:10 (EST)

My two cents are: How about the big strapping quarterback, Jack Kemp?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:28:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Wasn't Little Gary Bauer a war hero? How about Butt-Boy Assistant Ambassador Keyes?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:25:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Usually, after another humiliation, or being cornered, Glint likes to go on hiatus. We'll see.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:24:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I knew Glint really didn't want that list. A partial list at that. Subject closed.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:18:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Kissinger ought to be executed for war crimes and for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize under false pretenses.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:11:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, there were lots of good reasons to be against the war in Vietnam. Lots of good reasons to avoid the draft. It was a shameful war, illegal, and based of lies. Plus, there was a chance of getting hurt if you went. It's called putting oneself in harm's way, like Gore did. The worst, the lowest, were the All-Talk Hawks whose only protests against the war, whose only anti-war thoughts, revolved around themselves. They supported this shameful war but begged off, pulled strings, when it came to them. Other priorities, don't you know. Traitors, all of them.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:05:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Then, of course, there are the others. The governors, the mayors. The others.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 17:00:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The whole Republican leadership is yellow-bellied. Read it and weep, socialists.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:59:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing worse than a man who believes in a war and believes in sending kids to it, but doesn't sign up himself. Ashcroft. DeLay. Cheney. Armey. Lott. Rove. Hastert. Nothing lower. They stayed home out of fear, and cowardice. The worst.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:58:45 (EST)

My two cents are: That's not fair. Republicans who served would have been the leaders in the senate and the house but they got blown up while they were in the Army. Heroes, but dead heroes. We're left with Hastert and the rest, but that's just the way the bullets flew. Republicans are fierce warriers and are always charging into the machine guns so it's no surprise we got stuck with DeLay. Trent Lott. Dick Armey. Dick Cheney. John Ashcroft. The yellow guys. Didn't even refuse on principle, with honor, like Bill Clinton.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:56:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Who served in the military? Prominent Democrats House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt - Served his country in uniform, 1965-71 House Minority Whip David Bonior - Served his country in uniform, 1968-72 Senate Minority Majority Leader Tom Daschle - Served his country in uniform, 1969-72 Vice President Al Gore - Served his country in uniform, 1969-71; recipient of Vietnam Service Medal Bob Kerrey... Democrat... Congressional Medal of Honor, VN Daniel Inouye... Democrat... Congressional Medal of Honor, WW II John Kerry... Democrat...Silver Star& Bronze Star, VN Charles Rangel...Democrat... Bronze Star, Korea Max Cleland... Democrat... Silver Star & Bronze Star, VN Howell Heflin... Democrat... Silver Star Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) - two tours in Vietnam, two Distinguished Flying Crosses as a helicopter pilot, two Bronze Stars, and the Soldier's Medal. Ambassador "Pete" Peterson, Air Force Captain, POW, Democratic congressman, Ambassador to Viet Nam, and recipient of the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit Rep. Mike Thompson, D-CA: served in combat with the U.S. Army as a staff sergeant/platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade; was wounded and received a Purple Heart. Prominent Republicans Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve. Majority Leader Dick Armey- avoided the draft, did not serve. Majority Whip Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve. Senate Majority Minority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve. GW bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years VP Cheney - several deferments, the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service") Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - sought deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State And They Call Him General Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve, Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve "B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting classes Senator John McCain - McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross, and smeared by Bush campaign. Former Senator Bob Dole - shot up. Chuck Hagel - two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam. Duke Cunningham - nominated for the Medal of Honor, received the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, fifteen Air Medals, the Purple Heart, and several other decorations
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:50:59 (EST)

My two cents are: You really don't want that list of Democrats who served in Vietnam, do you? I mean, you don't really want the list of Congressmen, Governors and Mayors. Probably best for you to stay away from that one.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:47:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Who served? The Democratic leadership. Gephardt. Daschle. Gore. Who else?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:44:31 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean the war continued even after Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize? Pretty good trick.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:42:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah, so enlisting was out of the question. I see. Wasn't Kissinger's Peace Prize shared with another war criminal?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:40:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Actually, the cable splicing started about a month or two after Operation Frequent Winds (a.k.a. fall of Saigon). Course this was two years after Nixon abolished the Selective Service draft and Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:33:57 (EST)

My two cents are: 17 year old? A 17 year old Hawk? What else could he do? Well, he could fucking enlist in the Armed Forces, that's what he could do, if he gave a shit about this country, that is.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:27:10 (EST)

My two cents are: I was splicing cable long before it became acceptable as a way to roll for our country. Sure, at the same time others were fighting in Nam while others fly jets in Texas and others wrote cop out letters to Generals. But what else could a 17-year-old do? Wasn't 4,000 hours worth, but probably counts for nearly 1,000 of them.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:19:30 (EST)

My two cents are: or wrong

- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:08:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The Truth* is right.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 16:08:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, it's always the hawks who never lifted a finger for this country who stand in judgement of those who did. Let's have a list of Republican Vietnam veterans, combat or otherwise. Cheney? Bush? DeLay? Lott? Any House Managers? Governors? Mayors?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 15:27:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Leave it to the Woulda-Wents and Lottery Winners to set the bar high on what constitutes acceptable military service. Traitors, all of them.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 15:16:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Would you care to give us a count on how many "non-combatants" died in Nam, Spooge-Boy? I mean, compared to the Texas Air National Guardsmen who leap-frogged over the waiting list and went AWOL.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 15:04:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Why don't these Dumbocrap home movie makers try and find a better subject, instead of wasting a lot of time? A new documentary telling us Shrub's a moron imparts about as much information as a new documentary telling us smoking causes cancer.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 15:03:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Perhaps two days' wages w/o O.T. after tax. <> Glad Clinton didn't have any "other priorities" to keep him out of Nam. Not like Gore who got to cluck a shutter for Soldier of Fortune magazine.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 15:01:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Curious George is back � and that has some in the White House worried. A new behind-the-scenes documentary of the 2000 presidential campaign called "Journeys with George" by New York filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi portrays President Bush as a bumbling prankster. "These are my people," Bush says as he wades to the back of the campaign plane where reporters are whipping up margaritas. "It takes an animal to know an animal. And I'm not admitting I'm an animal with 60 days to go in the campaign." The teetotaling President-to-be is also seen guzzling a nonalcoholic beer, bumping down the plane aisle with a sleeping mask over his eyes � even giving Pelosi mock romantic advice. "I predict that you ... will have a relationship that goes beyond hand-holding," he says. That's too much for some of the keepers of Bush's image, who are accusing Pelosi of portraying Dubya as a dummy for political reasons. Pelosi's mom is the House Democratic Whip Nancy Pelosi. "She promised then-Gov. Bush and looked him in the eye and said it was for personal use," a senior adviser said. Pelosi, 31, said she made no such promise and had no political ax to grind "when I made my home movie." "I invite all those anonymous White House advisers to Austin, Tex., on March 8 to see the movie for themselves," she said. Not only was Bush a willing participant in what he called a "lousy documentary," Pelosi said, but he even came up with the title and added: "You know you can spell it with a G." "I have no idea why he said that," Pelosi said.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 14:58:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Another pithy contribution, The Truth*. Why, The Truth*, why? You poor, pathetic asshole.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 14:58:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Socialsits are Godly.
The Truth*
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 14:36:20 (EST)

My two cents are: It's a post-Vietnam presidency* for sure, in that the whole lot of them (except for the liberal, Powell) ducked out of Vietnam because of "other priorities."
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 14:31:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Notice how Democrats often refer to Ken Lay as "Kenney Boy?"
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 14:24:26 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.charen11feb11.story?coll=bal%2Doped%2Dheadlines
"This is, in short, a totally post-Vietnam presidency..." - Mona Charen, syndicated columnist
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 14:18:11 (EST)

My two cents are: My steeley toed boot had laces. Probably replaced a time or two, since they most likely weren't dipped in the mink oil. Good boots that cost a day's wages more than a quarter century ago, assuming 3 or 4 hours O.T. and time-and-a-half. Adjusted for inflation a good pair of boots today should still cost about a day's wages. The hard hat was provided courtesy of the employer.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 13:58:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Being Liberal Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry Universal Press Syndicate | February 7, 2002 By Ann Coulter DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH: "[O]ur international problems are utterly intractable, and the sooner we recognize this, the better. ... We should figure out clever ways to declare victory at the first decent opportunity and remove our troops (from Afghanistan)." Love, Bruce Ackerman Yale law professor (from New York Times column dated Nov. 6, 2001) Insistent that victory abroad was impossible � one week before Kabul fell � Professor Ackerman breezily invited Bush to engage in a hapless caper of putting Osama bin Laden on trial: "By all means, bring Osama bin Laden to justice and weaken or destroy the Taliban." He instructed that "we should satisfy ourselves with limited victories abroad" because "our domestic problems are manageable." But "ridding the world of terrorism is quite another matter." Using the strategy of a drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost (he didn't lose them there, but the light's better), Ackerman recommended that the Bush administration leave al-Qaeda alone and concentrate on anti-choice extremists here in the United States. Thus Ackerman explained: "We should be seriously engaged in anti-terrorism efforts at home. ... [O]ther attacks may well occur � perhaps committed by homegrown extremists." Of course, other attacks may also well occur � perhaps committed by Yale law professors. Getting al Qaeda will be tricky, but locking up Ackerman is doable. Feigning objectivity while trying to demoralize the country, Ackerman wrote: "Even if we catch and kill Osama bin Laden, others will take his place." It is a commonplace among men � and I do mean men � that civilian troops culled from a liberal democracy will always prevail over barbaric mercenaries with daggers between their teeth. But liberals have no confidence in a free nation. They are invariably mesmerized by the self-advertised brutality of savages. Not surprisingly, many Times columnists subscribed to Ackerman's two-part war strategy for America: 1) SURRENDER NOW! and 2) focus on anti-choice extremists at home. After ceaseless warnings of a "quagmire," the cover story on the Times' Week in Review section the week after Kabul fell was titled: "Surprise: War Works After All." Point Two of the Ackerman war strategy has been championed most earnestly by Times columnist Frank Rich, providing continuity with his typical National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League press-release style. In October, Rich was denouncing the administration's ham-handed approach to the war on terrorism on the grounds that Attorney General John Ashcroft had doggedly refused to meet with Planned Parenthood representatives after the anthrax mailings. This, strangely, was despite the fact that anthrax has never been sent to an abortion clinic, and therefore Planned Parenthood could be of absolutely no help in tracking down the source of the mailings. But as Rich interpreted it, Ashcroft had "gone so far as to turn away firsthand information about domestic terrorism for political reasons." According to Rich, abortion clinics had plenty of experience with "such homegrown Talibans as the Army of God." Planned Parenthood could have provided leads on "the convergence of international and domestic terrorism." The "Army of God" turned out to be one guy: a bank robber-cum-anti-abortionist who was already on the FBI's most-wanted list. Since his escape from prison on bank robbery charges, he had been sending harmless white powder to abortion clinics. Nonetheless, Rich blathered on, proclaiming that Planned Parenthood had "marshaled the medical and security expertise" to combat terrorism. Demonstrating some of that hard-earned expertise, the "director of security" for Planned Parenthood laughed at "the sight of Mr. Ashcroft and other federal Keystone Kops offering a $1 million reward for anthrax terrorists." It showed how "little grasp they have of the enemy." About one month later, the "Army of God" bank robber was caught, thanks to Ashcroft and other federal Keystone Kops offering a different $50,000 reward on widely circulated wanted posters. The SURRENDER NOW! strategy was given early moral succor by Maureen Dowd's pre-war columns in which she repeatedly accused Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of being out of touch. In Aug. 2001, for example, she said "the urgent question" was "just how conscious of the world around him Rip Van Rummy is." Amid a lot of (similarly hilarious) sneering, Dowd snipped that Rumsfeld was "clueless about the press." (If Dowd ran the Department of Defense instead of killing terrorists, it would be issuing catty press releases on Britney Spears' underwear and the collapse of Talk magazine.) Dowd was exultant. "I guess we can close the book on W.'s contention that the best way to run government is with the wisdom of corporate chieftains," she said. In a ringing peroration, she declared that Rumsfeld � as well as Vice President Dick Cheney � do "not know anything about how the world works." The "most striking thing is how out of touch they act." Al Qaeda must dearly wish it were so.
more socialist pond scum
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 13:52:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Two prostitutes were riding around town with a sign on top of their car which read: "TWO PROSTITUTES---$50.00 A policeman, seeing the sign, stopped them and told them they'd either have to remove the sign or go to jail. Just at that time, another car passed with a sign saying: "JESUS SAVES " One of the girls asked the cop, "How come you don't stop them ?! "Well, that's a little different," the cop smiled. "Their sign pertains to religion." So the two ladies of the night frowned as they took their sign down and drove off. The following day found the same cop in the area when he noticed the two ladies driving around with a large sign on their car again. Figuring he had an easy arrest, he began to catch up with them when he noticed the new sign read: "TWO FALLEN ANGELS SEEKING PETER---$50.00
see how scum socialsits liberalize anything
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 13:38:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Engineer boot. No lace, big black boots, round tow, steel in them here and there in painful places, strap over the hinge of the foot and on the top of the boot about eight inches up. I think Marlon Brando wore a pair in "Wild One." Also called motorcycle boots. Slip on, slip off. Last a thousand years, even laying concrete pipe 13' down in an 18" trench where one each foot is rasping on opposite sides of the pipe wedged in by the dirt. Just rasps away leather until it hits steel. Shit-kickers.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:25:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Engineer boots? Don't know about them hoser, but I've still got my steel toed cable splicing boots. Kept them mink oiled and they're still in pretty good shape. Threads haven't rotted or anything. Kept them around to use when mowing the grass, and haven't used a push mower since my old man's. Not that steel toes would keep the piggies save. My grandfather once stuck his foot under a running Lawn Boy and it cut right through the steel and split his big toe in two. He showed me the boots next time I saw him. Good safety lesson for a future cable splicer.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 11:03:16 (EST)

My two cents are: "Glint is a wuss." Perhaps. But nevertheless a wuss who has lived to roll another day.
Glint
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 10:48:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Did I ever tell you about the time Preston Cowan got half-buried in the 13-foot deep hole, full extent of the backhoe, from the sides caving in because it was cement pipe and he was whacking it with a hammer because we were going to put a riser on it? And he couldn't get out and we thought maybe more might cave in on him? Walt Harms jumped down in with a shovel to dig him out? Larry Randall was operating the hoe? Joe Offield was there, jumped in a truck to go get Ray Adams who was the usual backhoe hoe guy? Didn't think so. I l see Preston afterward when we lit up Camels, clear as yesterday, with a shaky smile, in those goofy brown overhauls and engineer boots, looking at me. Do they still make engineer boots? Used to wear them a lot. World's least comfortable shoe.
House of Meat
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 01:26:34 (EST)

My two cents are: To think that only five months ago our dishrag "president" was going to give them all citizenship for a few votes. Reagan tried that stunt and they still wouldn't vote for him. Sure, open up the borders, let our little brown brothers flock in, everybody gets a green card, everybody gets a citizenship certificate if he can evade La Migra for a few years, what the fuck, fill the whole country up with greasers from Maine to Calexico. Thank God the Arabs attacked our skyscraper and the Snip got a new schtick, the bandy-legged little fuck.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 01:09:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds disgusting and makes me want to say something condescending about these people. Maybe I'll let one of them wash my car for a fiver next time I'm in town. Maybe I'll give one a ride to his barrio hard next to "El McDonalds." On the other hand, fuck 'em. If they don't like it here, to hell with 'em. In fact, they're illegal aliens anyway. Deport the beaners back to Beanico.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 00:11:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Everybody in La Pi�ata had a dead-end job. The cash-register lady, the muchachas in the kitchen, the tall skinny guy cutting the meat at the meat-counter, the pepperguts buying their Sunday menudo in pots to take home, even the negro sitting outside on a brick planter, having a smoke. Yet nobody seemed to mind. It is as if they didn't even know what the big bucks are, or what HTML is for that matter, or Java. Dead-end-job greaseballs is what they were. People who know about dirt and tamales and donkeys and not much more. Losers.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002 at 00:05:41 (EST)

My two cents are: No Denny's around at lunch time, with or without eggs benedict, but there was an abarrotes place called La Pi�ata, sign outside said they had tamales calientes. Nobody spoke English in there, and all the food was foreign, except for some milk and butter, stuff like that. Turned out you order up at the register then go back and give the slip to the muchacha. Had a couple of doubled tortillas with carnitas in them, and a tamarindo chico. I asked for a tamarindo pepito but the lady at the caisse said �chico? so I learned that a small drink is called chico and I used that on the muchacha in the kitchen. Never did know any Spanish, so it's rusty. Quero dos tacos de carnitas, por favor, y un Tamarindo chico. Mucha' gracia'. Carnitas exellente, pero salido, like a country ham, although not as salty as that, and the tamarindo tasted good washing down the salty carnitas and cilantro. Came with two little tubs of sauce in the bag, one green one red, and a radish, and a quarter lemon. Stop on the red, go on the green, don't mess with mister in-between. $1.57 per, plus $0.75 for the drink. Wish I had a bagful of them right now. Caramba!
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- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 23:59:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds to me like the soil guy has a more interesting job than the guy writing HTML tags. Oh, but it's dead end. Sorry, I forgot.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 19:43:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint is a wuss.
cluck cluck cluck
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 19:40:56 (EST)

My two cents are: 13' x 18" trench?
I doubt it.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 19:39:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, and moonlight drenched my garden ho, too. Ha ha. Doink.
Still Not Here
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 18:22:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Parked black hos?
Not Here
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 17:40:24 (EST)

My two cents are: ...Mark said he once parked one of the backhoes on a soft bank next to a highway. The soil gave way under the stiff leg, and the tractor rolled down the bank. That was the end of his career working for his dad. He now works on experiements and equipment for soil analysis at a Maryland research station of the USDA. Since 911 the army has become interested in the technology for the purpose of sweeping for land mines. Apparently the grass, and money, is greening up on the Army side so he's thinking of jumping the fence. Learned a lot about dirt during dinner last night. Yes, he gave us the dirt on dirt. (ouch!)
Glint
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 16:08:40 (EST)

My two cents are: ...The other time of insubordination in the line of cable splicing duty was at a back hoed pit. Backhoe had been looking for a pipe, and finally located it 13 feet down. That was nearly the maximum extent of the arm, straight down. The forman told me to stand on the bucket of the backhoe and they would lower me into the 18" wide trench and once down I would screw a bell onto the pipe. No shoring. I'd never seen a 13' deep grave before, but I knew one when I saw it. I said no. They could fire me, but at least I'd be alive to spend my $3/hr paycheck on Friday. So the foreman went down himself. Mark said that the forman eventually quit and went to work for another construction company where he ended up getting somebody killed on the job...
Glint
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 16:03:19 (EST)

My two cents are: ....There was one thing we had in common. Mark and I had both worked for his old man at different times. For me it was the Summer after graduating from high school, as a 17-year-old cable splicer. Those were the days of brawn and muscle. The forearms which swelled and the tanned bulging shoulders. Been going downhill ever since, but that's beside the point. I explained that there were two instances in which I was knowingly insubbordinate, refusing to do the work that I was told to do. His father, who owned the construction company, was on-site on both occaisions. The first was when trying to locate the end of a buried cable using a "thumper." The thumper was a diesel generator that sent out 25,000 volt pulses once per second. It was connected to one end of the cable and the pulses shorted to ground at the other end. The idea was to walk around and find a spot where the pebbles were jumping and start digging. The foreman said it was perfectly save, but I stil had my doubts sticking that metal shovel into the ground, especially once the "blue flash" started squirting out of the cracks. I put my shovel down. Mark's dad looked at the foreman, who picked up my shovel and finished the job. I thought the worst thing they could do would be to fire me, but at least I'd be still be alive the next day!...
Glint
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:57:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Star party went well last night. Clouds, which according to the Weather Channel's hourly forcast were set to come in at 10p, waited until 1a to drop the curtain down. The astronomer with the wing franchise showed up at 11p with a big supply of spicey and old bay wings. Prior to the star party was dinner with an invited guest from the old country back west. To make a long story short, it was the son of one of my father's college classmates. He had an older sister my age but back then the few years age difference between us was enough that I can hardly remember him. Why was he here? Our mothers were yacking one day, his told mine about the ugly divorce and the dead end career analalyzing dirt for the USDA, and mine told his we'd be happy to "take him under our wing." Every week she asks, "have you called Mark yet?" "Have you contacted Mark?" Finally, enough was enough, and Mark came out with his kids. Apparently word of the observatory passed from mother to mother to son and so before coming to dinner he checked his kids out for the weekend from his ex and brought them up to rub their eyeball juices against the premium eyepiece glass.....
Glint
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:47:56 (EST)

My two cents are: How's about you guys stop posting the Drudge re-posts? This would be a clean little site without the cut and paste. We'd have Glint putting on the brave face in the morning, and the 22 borgs pissing and moaning about him all day and night, and the non-existent pineapple jumping in every now and then to say he's quit. That would be fine, and a lot more easy to scroll through. I can hop to Drudge all by myself. Fuck you very much.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:21:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Ice dancing. They should call it twat wide open dancing. Heii akapacaloonaka! Foul hole dancing. I got a big one cumming for it, ya taunt me with it daily. Yeek! WOP! Doink.
Not Here
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:17:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I can't believe the bitch got bested by a damn Norweigan. The USA practically invented mogul-jumping! And now the herring-chokers are cleaning our clock! Fuck the Olympic, I'm switching to Hannity and Colmes. They're installing the cable right now.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:13:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Our Team Olympics is distressed because the FBI fucked up America's case against its most dastardly traitor, Bigtime Taliban John. Two lousy second-place medals. Put on a brave face, America. You are great at sliding on snow and ice. Great enough to be second place.
wait 'til the ice-dancing
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:11:38 (EST)

My two cents are: You guys are all forgetting about the cum-stained dress. This is the anniversary of the third month after the cum-stained dress was first alluded to in a phone call to Linda Tripp. Who has been treated so shabbily by the Bush administration that her house is on the block. Clinton masturbated in the sinks. One of the neighbor kids has a big ass like a woman. Got to go now. Cruise the dark seas of the sky. Maybe have an Oly and a White Owl. C'mon, Weasel!
Glimpse
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:05:44 (EST)

My two cents are: New York got only $11 billion and Snippy promised $20 bil? I'm crying.
Let's not treat Snip's promise as a little money-grubbing game, Big Apple.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 15:02:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Where do terrorists get their money? If you voted for Bush, some of it came from you.
Carlyle Group
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:59:10 (EST)

My two cents are: �This is an impressive crowd,� he said. �The haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.� GWB
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:58:25 (EST)

My two cents are: It depends on what your definition of economy is is.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:58:09 (EST)

My two cents are: If Republicans are so sure they know what's right for the economy, why haven't they been able to produce a balanced budget, let alone a surplus, in the last 22 years?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:47:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy gasoline, some of it may come from you!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:45:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy drugs, some of it may come from you!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:45:06 (EST)

My two cents are: The buck stops with Bush, whose incompetence has allowed notorious Bigtime Taliban John to slip through the dragnet of decency. Treason. Geesh. This administration* shall pay.
Ollie N.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:35:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Another coincidence. Geesh! Haven't you traitors ever heard the saying, It's a small world?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:04:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Another coincidence. Geesh! Haven't you traitors ever heard the saying, It's a small world?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 14:04:00 (EST)

My two cents are: New Bush Tie to Enron White House lawyer got 35G while in Tex. By BOB PORT Daily News Staff Writer Yet another White House official has a long history with Enron. White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who has been mentioned as a possible Bush nominee for the Supreme Court, received more than $100,000 in political contributions from the energy industry in recent years as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court. Enron and Enron's law firm were Gonzales' biggest contributors in his 2000 judicial election, giving $35,450. Gonzales also worked for Enron's law firm from 1982 through 1992. Bush with Alberto Gonzales in December 2000 In addition, Gonzales served as special counsel to the host committee for a 1990 world economic summit held in Houston. Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was chairman of that committee. Now Gonzales is the White House advocate for keeping secret the roster of people who helped Vice President Cheney devise the administration's energy policy. Congress plans to go to court to force the release of that information. When the White House position is tested there, Gonzales will be fighting a precedent-setting case. "I think the administration will lose in court if it goes that far," said Philip Schiliro, chief of staff for Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who started the congressional inquiries. White House spokeswoman Anne Womack said, "We're very confident of our position." Gonzales, 45, a Harvard Law School graduate, has grown to become one of the President's most trusted advisers. As governor, George W. Bush chose him to be general counsel. In 1997, Bush named him Texas secretary of state, and two years later appointed him to a vacancy on the state's high court. Texas elects judges. Within two weeks of being sworn in as a justice, Gonzales got his first $5,000 campaign check from Vinson & Elkins, the Houston law firm that has Enron as its biggest client and represents Haliburton, the energy services company where Cheney used to work. In May 2000, Gonzales was author of a state Supreme Court opinion that handed the energy industry one of its biggest Texas legal victories in recent history. In Bernal vs. Southwestern Refining, Texas justices, voting 6-3, threw out a class-action suit by 885 Corpus Christi, Tex., homeowners whose families were harmed and property damaged by heat, smoke and toxic fumes in a 1994 refinery tank explosion. Texas law gives lower courts final say whether a lawsuit qualifies as a group action. Such suits let average people pool resources to hire lawyers and experts. But Gonzales said the Texas Supreme Court could take over the Corpus Christi case on a technicality. "We were just outright flabbergasted," said William Bonilla, the Corpus Christi lawyer who started the suit. "It was just grossly unfair, and these people, to this day, haven't gotten a dime." Bonilla said Gonzales' opinion "blocks any plaintiffs from bringing a personal injury claim as a class action in Texas." He said Gonzales, given his history with V&E, Enron and Haliburton, should have recused himself. "I felt that to a certain extent it was an intellectually dishonest opinion," said Houston attorney Andres Pereira, who argued the case in Austin for the damaged residents. The day the ruling was released, Gonzales' campaign treasury recorded a check from the Petroleum Club � a private oilman's business club in Midland, Tex. � for refreshments at a reception. All told, Gonzales' campaign amassed $102,838 from energy interests, according to the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice. Gonzales built such a big war chest � $844,000 from mostly lawyers, lobbyists and oilmen � he still had $45,000 unspent last year. While Enron and energy figured heavily in Gonzales' career, the White House insists it's unfair to suggest this could color his advice. "He always puts the law first," said Womack. "Judge Gonzales is a very accomplished attorney." Gonzales has publicly supported reform of elections for judges in Texas, she said, adding, "Obviously, those who lost their case are going to be critical." This government is Enron in office.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 13:45:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I am a marijuana grower/distributor, legally licensed and registered with the Mendocino County Sheriff's. I am currently allowed to grow twelve plants at a time (three per patient.) If you have the required "prescription" and/or caregiver written recommendation, I would be more than pleased to fill your request. One of my patients is very near death and I should have a surplus within a short time.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 13:34:57 (EST)

My two cents are: This has got to be Clinton's fault, this FBI fuck-up. After all, it was Clinton whose clandestine blowjobs created a morale crisis among the jack-booted thug community.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 13:03:58 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - The FBI may have violated its own rules in questioning John Walker Lindh by not taping or transcribing his statements, and that could determine the outcome of the case against him, experts said Thursday. The FBI's only record of its two-day interrogation of the accused Taliban fighter is a summary form written by the agent who questioned him. Lindh did not sign the form. `WHERE'S THE PROOF?' ''Everything turns on the confession. If it's thrown out, where's the proof?'' said former federal prosecutor Gregory Wallance, now a private attorney in New York City. The defense and prosecution agree the case depends largely on the FBI's account of an interrogation with Lindh on Dec. 9 and 10 while Lindh was a U.S. military prisoner at Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan. But the FBI's interview with Lindh appears not to have been recorded, an FBI agent testified this week, or transcribed and signed by Lindh.
First Clinton skates, now Taliban John! Geesh!
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 12:22:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyone here sell marijuana? My phytoplanktonologist needs marijuana. If nobody here is in the marijuana business, forget it. No biggie. My phytoplankton guy can just find a "pusher" somewhere.
Blue Cheer
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 12:16:13 (EST)

My two cents are: OK, OK, OK, let me check my calendar.... Wednesday, my last meeting of the day is at the Board of Realtors, just a long block from here. Probably over by 4:30, maybe even earlier!
Ogden "Oggie" Slivovitz
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 12:10:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm not knocking ginger lynn.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 09:50:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Rewriting history in Oval Office Friday, February 8, 2002 By MARIANNE MEANS SYNDICATED COLUMNIST WASHINGTON -- Either White House press secretary Ari Fleischer needs a lesson in American history or he thinks we know so little about our national past that we would buy a blatant political spin that disparages the Founding Fathers. Incredibly, Fleischer recently defended the White House insistence on keeping the names of the participants in Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force a secret by claiming that the precedent for such arrogant behavior was set by the drafters of the Constitution. Asked why President Bush and Cheney are adamant about denying a General Accounting Office request for the names of the panel's advisers, Fleischer tried to wrap their controversial decision in historical context. "The very document that protects our liberties more than anything else, the Constitution, was, of course, drafted in total secrecy. The founders ... recognized that in order to make careful decisions, they wanted to set forth a deliberative and thoughtful process and they concluded to do so quietly." Good grief! The administration's pro-industry energy policy is the substantive equivalent of the Constitution! The energy panel's sessions were a model of thoughtfulness and balance, not a special-interest picnic! The mind boggles. This is a flagrant revision of history. Fleischer selected one narrow fact to make a misleading point while ignoring the reality. The Founding Fathers actually operated very much in the open. They were not a clandestine band of wealthy industrialists pressing self-serving policies on an ideologically sympathetic government without regard to the public good. Theirs was the great cause of framing a democratic experiment unique in the world, for which they needed unity among themselves and public support for ratification. The legislatures of the 13 states published the names of those they chose as delegates to the 1787 Federal Convention, which later was called the Constitutional Convention as it became clear where their deliberations were leading. The delegates were prominent public figures rather than mysterious businessmen ashamed to acknowledge what advice they were offering. Many convention framers had previously held elective office. They did not hide. The media knew who they were. When deliberations began that hot summer in Philadelphia, the doors of the meeting hall were indeed closed to the press and others. The delegates knew they had to go beyond their initial instructions to merely tweak the Articles of Confederation, which were inadequate to undergird a fledgling democracy. They needed privacy to debate a whole new way of governing. They represented diverse regions with nothing in common except the urgency of forming a new central government strong enough to hold the quarreling states together. They were going about something much more fundamental and shocking than promoting the welfare of the oil and gas industry. And when they were done, they all signed the resulting document for the world to see. As soon as the delegates had agreed, they flung open the doors and invited public inspection. Within days, newspapers published the full document and the debate was on. The Constitution was sent to the states, where it was debated in the press and the legislatures and eventually ratified by every state legislature. The Founding Fathers flooded the country with the records they had kept of their debates, copies of letters they had written to friends, philosophical arguments over the wisdom of their actions -- anything to spread the word about the content and purpose of what they had done. They knew the Constitution would not be accepted if it were shrouded in secrecy. The White House handling of the cowardly Cheney task force is the antithesis of this openness. The administration argues that to release any information about that group would have a chilling effect on the president's ability to function. The idea is that the participants must remain anonymous because otherwise they wouldn't have the nerve to give frank advice. If they are ashamed to have their opinions exposed to others, however, perhaps their advice is not so hot. The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, isn't asking for controversial confidences that the panelists whispered in the vice president's ear. The agency is seeking only information that clearly should be on the public record -- the identities of the participants, those they met with and the subjects they talked about. The fuss over this request is so overblown that it forces one to ask what the White House might be hiding. Poor Fleischer, having exhausted all remotely credible defenses, tried in desperation to drag in the Founding Fathers. This miserable effort is not what those worthies had in mind when they produced their brilliant formula of federal checks and balances.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 09:19:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know about faux wombs, let's just call them private-sector petri dishes. Except, wait a minute, who would finance that? Kenny Boy, could he make a killing on unborn futures? Maybe Junior could start a real domestic Peace Corps, recruit some real patriots like Glimpse and MK and crying cynic and Jeremiah, dole them each out a couple dozen packed-to-the-brim petri dishes, have them life-lovers bring up batches of embryos, see them to the fruition of birth. Gonna get crowded in their so-called pro-life homes, but hey, whats a principle for if you cant live by it. If not in their back yards, then whose?

- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 08:58:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush II, liar. Geesh.
Read His Lips
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 08:41:27 (EST)

My two cents are: February 8, 2002 Money-Grubbing Games By PAUL KRUGMAN irst there is a promise. Then there is no promise. Then there is a promise � until your attention is diverted again. In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, before George W. Bush began his stratospheric ascent in the polls � and just before his first post-terror visit to New York � he made a personal promise: The city would receive at least $20 billion in reconstruction aid. At the time everyone thought that was a floor, not a ceiling. Then a funny thing happened: Only $11 billion in aid to the city was actually budgeted. I wrote about this in a column last November titled "The 55-percent solution" � but was lambasted by critics, who insisted that of course Mr. Bush would honor his promise. Now we have the Bush administration's $2.1 trillion budget proposal. Strange to say, it contains no additional aid to New York. It seems that the bucks stop here, at 55 percent of the original commitment. New York legislators were quick to react, and demanded that Mitch Daniels, the White House budget director, explain the absence. Mr. Daniels first responded that he intended to count $5 billion in relief to victims of Sept. 11 as part of the aid package � a clear violation of everyone's understanding of what the promise meant. Then he lashed out at New York's representatives, saying, "It's strange to me to treat this as a little money-grubbing game." The White House quickly tried to undo the damage. Mr. Daniels retracted his remarks, and Mr. Bush reiterated his promise to provide $20 billion � just in time to have another photo op with New York police officers and firefighters. But the money is still not in the budget. And that fact � together with the fact that Mr. Daniels's initial remarks surely represented his true feelings � says volumes about the administration's priorities. To place the stiffing of New York in context, you need to realize that when it comes to tax cuts and military spending, the Bush administration's budget is an exercise in unrestrained self-indulgence. There is a lot of stirring rhetoric, warning the nation that this is a time of war, in which everyone must make sacrifices � but this austerity does not extend to the wealthiest few percent of the population, who will not only get the lion's share of the future tax cuts already written into law, but would get most of the additional $600 billion in tax cuts the administration now proposes. (Actually it's about $1 trillion without the accounting tricks, but who's counting?) And while there is much talk of hard choices, the administration seems loath to make any choices at all when it comes to defense spending. Does a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group have a 70-ton artillery piece that made sense, if it ever did, only in the cold-war era? We'll buy it. Do two competing contractors offer advanced fighters designed to fight a nonexistent next generation of MIG's? We'll take both. But there are big cuts elsewhere, and big diversions of resources that will force future cuts. You know about the diversion of the Social Security surplus to cover deficits in the rest of the government � deficits that would be much smaller if the administration would forgo some of those tax cuts, and would vanish if it also exercised some restraint in its weapons purchases. But did you know that the administration has budgeted $300 billion less for Medicare than the Congressional Budget Office says is needed to maintain current benefits � never mind add-ons like prescription drug insurance? It's unclear whether the administration actually intends to deny medical care to retirees, or is simply trying to hide the sheer scale of the looming fiscal disaster. The broken promise to New York is actually small change compared with all of this. And that, in a way, makes it puzzling. Since the budget is already deeply in deficit for the foreseeable future, why not put it another $9 billion in deficit for one year, and avoid offering critics such an easy target? One answer is that terror or no terror, key Republican lawmakers retain an abiding dislike for the Big Apple � and this administration never offends its supporters on the right. But my guess is that it comes down to sheer arrogance. Buoyed by those approval ratings, this administration simply believes that its former promises don't matter. After all, don't people know that there's a war on?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 02:49:46 (EST)

My two cents are: With the development of the artificial womb, as reported on Drudge, Glint's dream will soon be a reality. Women will be able to abort their "unborn children" without committing murder. The embryos will simply be transferred to faux wombs, by the thousands, and Glint and his ilk can pick one of the shelf just like at Costco. The ones who are unclaimed after 9 months will be born and sent to publicly financed orphanages directed by Newt Gingrich.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 02:46:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Thank you all very much. And, Oggie, I'll be over Wednesday before 6:00 God willing. Unless I hear different from you of course. I read your stone-cold silence on this matter as approval. Thank you.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 02:40:22 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what's your major problem with Ginger Lynn? She's back, you know.
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 01:42:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I AM VERY ANGRY!!!! Just like you so called Christians, Red-Necks, and Knock-Kneed Texans, who have their heads slurping on Puss, and calling it Family Values. We homos, queers, faggots, and fairys love Peter!!!! Oh well, suck up to BABY BUSH!!!!!
Clifford
- Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 01:40:18 (EST)

My two cents are: And here I thought the banker was about to drink another jar of urine.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:49:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't knock the flat-sided crayon you fool! There is little on this or any other plane as functionally omniscient.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:48:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Yup, Harlan wins, such as the prize may be. But the glintster really is twitching in the last cold rays of twilight. And with Glint, so goes the page, the bastion, the dim memory of the one called "Jeremiah", and dimmer still of the one called "Kramer". They were sad people, the blunt flat-sided crayons of life. Spooge-boys.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:46:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, meant to tell yall, down here in the south you can buy a pinata in the grocery store, over there by the helium baloons. have a rack of crynics sort of dangling from the ceiling.
31
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:41:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Yup, the smirk is gone. Wiped clean off the frat-boy's face in a matter of days. The smirk is gone. In it's place we now have the "bitter crook-shank sneer" - a purposeful but sour twisting of the upper lip accompanied by a hateful gaze cast off the shores of the Maryland Potomac.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:40:05 (EST)

My two cents are: I am now a middlemanager with a minivan. Mooooo. Moooooo, Mooooo. There is no brasilian musk in this job. None!!!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:35:43 (EST)

My two cents are: So now its day 12 without a cigarette. may take. Ponytail came out pretty fine, almost down to the midback, not too grey but some. Wife still wants to do another girly. Lifting weights still. hope you guys are well. really proud of quitting the stoges.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:34:06 (EST)

My two cents are: As Borg 37 of 22, I've not commented much. This "Harlan" fellow certainly deserves some sort of "most stoic" award or somesuch. And the bitter guy, well, sheeeiiiit. Who could complain, a pen that asceptic. As long as one isn't still hankering after a whiff of Ginger Lynn or anything.
37
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:30:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The sad part, the really sad part, was the earnestness. It was as if he were putting the whole family history of the farm on the Brazos into each wimpy little burger. Day after day, patty-melt after patty-melt, he sweltered out there with the dachsund and his jar of urine, out there in the red brazos mud. Looking for Dean. It was always about Dean. Dean, Dean, Dean.
Dean.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:25:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Linda Tripp's name will soon surface in Enrongate. Like a great swelling iceberg bursting forth upon a green sea of Dean.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:17:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, I always thought the socialists would carry the day here. Nice job Harlan, a trencherman you are to be sure. As borg 29 of 23 myself, "Howdy Glint", and a big fat dead dog "Howdy" to you too bitterman. Maybe one day. In anycase, the true horror was not the Bush election as we all feared, but the Bush presidency. An administration marred by mis-steps, mis-calculations, mistakes, and mis-information. The smirk is gone.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:15:32 (EST)

My two cents are: There's no scandal in Enrongate. It was just political. Uh, I mean, it was just business. You know, in business shit happens. That's what business is like. Some people get screwed. Some don't. It's the American way. Some do. It's like working with slopes, nobody wants to do that, that damn alpha male made us do it. Sucks. I'm waay jealous. That thing about coveting your neighbor's wife, does that count for other guys' girlfriends. Hope not. What about if I keep thinking about hermaphrodites. Writing about them too.
Gimp
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 23:08:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Liars is as liars does.

- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 22:59:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, nobody likes being thought of as a liar, especially that liar, Pete. So if Pete says he isn't here, the liar isn't here.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 21:13:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete is telling everyone on this board that Pete hasn't been here in many a day.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 21:06:01 (EST)

My two cents are: I wish the pineapple WOULD come back. I miss his explanations of why rich guys are better for the economy than poor guys. And I like it when he explains how Ponzi scams are good for the economy because they create a lot of taxable transactions. Very entertaining, the pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 20:26:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Whatever the pineapple says, I still think it's the pineapple.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 20:18:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey dope, the Pineapple, aka Pete, hasn't been here in many many days.
Pete� [McCoy�]
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 18:21:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Do you think the pineapple moron pasted the "joke" post down there? Why? My guess is he thought it was too preciously hilarious not to post, but he felt it made fun of everything he believes in. So he posted it with a note that it is what people he doesn't like think. This is one complicated pineapple, no doubt about it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 17:40:18 (EST)

My two cents are: ME ME ME ME ME ME
How moronic pineapple ex-para-legals view the world
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 17:36:12 (EST)

My two cents are: No, afraid not. Enrongate is something you have to look at in the long view. It is corruption too deep for the frivolous smear tactics we have seen perfected by the GOP. It cannot appeal to the average joe in the street unless a pattern or even just a few important episodes of fellatio is revealed. Enron reveals real weaknesses in our political and economic structure, and will have to be dealt with seriously, over the long haul. No thinking citizen wants so pervasive an intermingling and dependence between our government and criminal organizations such as Enron, but the ties have become so tight that it may take years to untangle them, and subdue the dishonorable greed of the current executive administration to a point where it will no longer sap the productivity of America. There are signs of progress. For example, the Enronites and their allies in government aren't particularly tough, and they dropped their stranglehold on California ratepayers and ran like rats the minute the Senate switched from the lap-dog of the nouveau riche to a more businesslike structure under Daschel. The humiliated Enron execs are starting to hurl turds at one another, and Skilling testifying before Congress practically defined the type Chief Executive Liar. It is easy to see why an organization with nothing to sell but empty promises hired him, and allied itself with the Republicans. Be that as it may, I don't think we will have an Infotainment Tonight People Magazine sort of scandal here, like the ones the right-wing lunatics have been inventing for the objects of their paranoia lately. No blow-jobs, no stained dresses, just fraud, crime, and the raping of America.
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- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 17:32:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Dear Employee: As a result of the reduction of money budgeted for department areas, we are forced to cut down on our number of personnel. Under this plan, older employees will be asked to take early retirement, thus permitting the retention of younger people who represent our future. Therefore, a program to phase out older personnel by the end of the current fiscal year, via retirement, will be placed into effect immediately. This program will be known as SLAP (Sever Late-Aged Personnel). Employees who are SLAPPED will be given the opportunity to look for jobs outside the company. SLAPPED employees can request a review of their employment records before actual retirement takes place. This review phase of the program is called SCREW. SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early Workers). All employees who have been SLAPPED and SCREWED may file an appeal with upper management. This appeal is called SHAFT(Study by Higher Authority Following Termination). Under the terms of the new policy, an employee may be SLAPPED once, SCREWED twice, but may be SHAFTED as many times as the company deems appropriate. If an employee follows the above procedure, he/she will be entitled to get: HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel's Early Severance) or CLAP (Combined Lump sum Assistance Payment). As HERPES and CLAP are considered benefit plans, any employee who has received HERPES or CLAP will no longer be SLAPPED or SCREWED by the company. Management wishes to assure the younger employees who remain on board that the company will continue its policy of training employees through our Special High Intensity Training (SHIT). We take pride in the amount of SHIT our employees receive. We have given our employees more SHIT than any company in this area. If any employee feels they do not receive enough SHIT on the job, see your immediate supervisor. Your supervisor is specially trained to make sure you receive all the SHIT you can stand. And, once again, thanks for all your years of service with us. The Management
how liberal socialsit morons view the world...
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 17:22:35 (EST)

My two cents are: There's almost too much Enrongate news to keep up with. Thank goodness for the weekend, traditionally the time of headline respite. Monday and Tuesday, it will be back to flogging Enron. I just hope the new House Managers don't overplay their hand like that other sorry-ass group of hicks did. This one needs to be drawn out. There should be no call for an independent counsel, not until the administration* has stonewalled itself into the whole public relations corner. By the way, I do support the stonewalling strategy. Always the best option. Ultimately, it's a doomed strategy, but other things can happen during the delay. The best thing Snip can hope for is another terrorist attack, followed by a wag the dog bombarding of Sudan or maybe Somalia. If we can make the rubble bounce in a few more squalid hell-holes, maybe we can buy some more time on Enrongate.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 16:02:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe you'll be in the same regiment as Jenna, and can line up for a free one! Come on, cheer up, wake up, join up. The prez needs you, dude.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 15:35:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's not going to roll anywhere, anonymous. America has already taken its pound of flesh from Glint. And every April 15th America takes another bite. America has used Glint up, squeezed him to hard, and although he is patriotic and would like to answer the president's call, he just doesn't have any more to give. He's been squeezed of money by America, chased on American highways by American cops just for breaking American laws, and generally kicked around and taken advantage of by America and Americans, every place from his neighborhood tavern to the nursery where Americans try to sell him trees with thin sticks holding them up. No, you'll have to send a younger generation off to Khazakstan to demonstrate values. Glint has no more to give. America has used him up and cast him aside like a cigar butt. All he can do for America is lift his head like an old dog on a porch, and wheeze at a teenage queer if one walks by. It's sad, really.
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- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 15:32:36 (EST)

My two cents are: A going away party at the Little Piece of Nebraska tonight? Everybody going to get together to cheer as the boys march off to enlist in AmeriCorps? Are you really going to Khazakstan, glint, to show American values to the Islamic world? Hey, they're probably waiting with bated breath for your arrival. They're hungry for American values over there, Glint, president Bush is no fool, and you are just the dude to impart them. You can tell them about your life outside the bubble, as you all sit cross-legged around the cauldron, picking out choice bits of guts for one another. Thank our American Lord that guys like you are going, to correct the bad impression that the treasonous John Walker Lindh gave the towlies. You can show them how a cornhusker rolls a doobie, the way you did back in the day. You can share hermaphrodite urges with them. American values, Glint. The president has called for it, so let's roll. Or you could hang stateside and empty the pans. That would be OK, too. And you'd be helping Americans rather than foreigners. Your pick. So let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 15:25:44 (EST)

My two cents are: All this may be true, but I still don't see anything about a blow-job. Why have an investigation if there's no blow-job? The Democrats ought to help this unfortunate business disaster into the wheel-chair and hook up the IV right now, the way its flabby lips aren't wrapping around any politically long rods.
Glimpse
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 15:13:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Back in the Lewinsky days there were news dumps several times a minute. A blue wack rag here, a dried up was of tissue in the Oval Office trash there. Finger wagging and circus tents yanking up. Breaking news is becoming a lost art or something.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 15:10:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. that hot story was probably making the web jump two days ago. Great opinion piece for sure. The author's find wit and well made point would probably be crystal clear, had I bothered to read it. Seems like the Enron story's been missing for 48 hours now. I read they killed a terrorist king pin in Algeria. Now, that's news. Glad someone's rolling.
Glint
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 15:06:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Jan Jarboe Russell: Call out the counsel on Enron Web Posted : 02/07/2002 12:00 AM As we say in Texas, I reckon it's about too damn late to do much about Enron. I live in a state that just loves to bust grannies for bingo but historically has turned a blind eye every time a guy in a suit tries to sneak gas deregulation past the Yankees on the East Coast and the bodybuilders on the West Coast. This has been going on for years. But this time the boys at Enron succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of any Texas oil and gas operator in history. As Californians now realize, they did not have an energy crisis last year. That was just a sham. Gas prices went up because Enron's then-CEO Ken Lay was selling his Enron stock. Enron has turned the economy to crud and corrupted our government. And what, pray tell, is the reaction of our president? It comes as no surprise that President Bush says we don't need a special counsel to investigate Enron, his largest political contributor. "This is a business problem that our Justice Department is going to investigate, and if there's wrongdoing we'll hold them accountable for mistreatment of employees and shareholders," Bush told reporters. This is a lovely but surreal idea. In Bush's mind, Enron is a bidness problem and we need to leave it to the bidnessman to solve. That's the way political debate usually goes in Texas, but hasn't Enron put a hitch in that particular getalong? How can anybody living in the real world believe that the Bush Justice Department can investigate Enron? After all, Attorney General John Ashcroft, his principal deputy and the entire Houston office of the U.S. attorney's office have had to remove themselves from the investigation because they've all rubbed shoulders and taken money from Enron for years. I'm no fan of independent counsels. They're expensive and they take too long. However, if ever a case needed the cool eye of an independent counsel, it's this one. The new law on independent counsels says they should be appointed when an investigation presents a conflict of interest for the Justice Department or when it would be in the public interest. Enron is bingo on both points. It's not just officials in the Justice Department that have close ties to Enron, it's the whole Bush administration, as well as both Democratic and Republican members of Congress. Congress is full of lawyers, many of who worked for firms that worked for Enron. Enron has greased the palms of Democrats and Republicans alike. Think that Enron and the government are not co-dependent, as Californians would put it, or tight as a tick, as we say in Texas? Consider this: Just as Lay is officially stonewalling Congress, so has Vice President Dick Cheney refused to cooperate with the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, about which Enron executives had Cheney's ear last year when the vice president was writing the nation's energy policy. We know for sure that Lay had Cheney's ear. Lay laid out eight points about what he'd like to see in an energy policy in a memo to Cheney, most of which Cheney wrote into the policy. Among Lay's recommendations: "Don't cap prices in California on energy." So take that, California. Long before the energy bill was written, Enron had already sneaked out of most government regulation. Many of its contracts were exempted from regulation during the first Bush administration by the Commodity Futures Trading Corporation, which, at that time, was under the direction of Wendy Gramm, wife of the senator from Texas. Mrs. Gramm wound up on Enron's board. All that's water under the bridge. It's too late to do anything about Enron, but it's not too late to realize that, as Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., put it, "We've got an Enron government." Sad as it is, the best way to take it back is with an investigation by an independent counsel.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 14:38:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Cool! http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time_ann.ram (requires RealAudio)
Glint
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 14:38:15 (EST)

My two cents are: So here we are on Saturday with Enron taking another weekend off. You'd think that once the Democrats had realized it had legs like Uncle Stubbs they would have helped it into the wheel chair and hooked up an IV to keep it alive. Oh well, it gave them hope while it lasted. <> Clear, steady, calm, almost warm, and gorgeous last night. Hauled the library and eyepieces down from teh observatory and rolled out the light bucket. Dachshund fell asleep in the garage on a cushion near the desk. Party here tonight. Astronomers and gawkers both.
Glint
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 14:06:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, somebody got a blow job, that's for sure. It's going to time and money to find out who, when and where, but, what's the hurry. These investigations usually run about $50 million, which may sound like a lot of money to you, you trailer-trash peon.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 13:56:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I take your silence to mean you will welcome me into your home Wedneseday night, Oggie. See you then.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 13:45:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Impeachment hearings? About Enron? Why? Did someone get a blow-job?
Oggie
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 12:58:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Pressured what fed to quit? You mean the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the guy who didn't see the rules the way Kenny wanted him to see them? Kenny didn't pressure him to quit, he told him if he didn't come around he'd have him fired. The guy got fired and replaced with an Enron man. So what? No more soft money, that's what. No more Turks and Caicos. No more Social Security privatization. But plenty of volunteer service from fellas like Glint and the crynic. We don't care what Dick Armey thinks, let's go down and sign up. Let's roll. Let's all join Snippy's bed-pan brigade. It's the right thing to do.
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- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 12:36:05 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic just says shit like that because it's easier than thinking. It's short hand for a lazy brain, just like tree hugger. Wha tthe crynic is really trying to say is that he's a self-centered, lying wanker.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 12:00:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Sorry, was the crynic's reference to "tax and spend" liberals the same libs who somehow managed to come up with a completely balanced budget followed by a huge fed surplus which stupid Snippy quickly pissed away? You know, pissing it away just like Al said he would? Axing open the frigging lockbox? Just like Al said stupid Snippy would?
eight years of peace and prosperity recalled---a mere madeleine
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 11:28:41 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't think it's anybody's business that Snippy cozied up to Kenny Boy, nor that Kenny Boy pressured that fed wimp to quit, cause he wouldn't go along with Kenny Boy. Isn't that what power and privilege are all about?
Silver Spoon In Nose
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 11:15:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, I'll talk about Enron, Loaf-Boy. What do you think of this idea? How about the the administration* turns over all notes and documents on Enron to clear its good name? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 10:41:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron? Anybody want to talk about Enron? Hello? What's the latest on Enron? Have the impeachment hearings begun?
Glint
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 09:19:23 (EST)

My two cents are: AND TO THINK-----All I wanted in life was PETER. Instead, all I got was Enron, Mooslime, and Ashcroft. Who is screwing who here.
Clifford
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 02:23:26 (EST)

My two cents are: I just stopped by to see if Enron grew leg one yet. Nice to see it's getting some mileage as humor at least. Guess it's fun to laugh at people who lost their nest egg. Ha ha.
Glint
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 02:06:34 (EST)

My two cents are: No, it's not a lot, but it's enough to buy out the lease on my car.
Armand Vendice
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 01:10:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, I see. You consider $30K a LOT of money.
Glimpse
- Saturday, February 09, 2002 at 00:58:20 (EST)

My two cents are: I can't seem to get to sleep. Keep waking up sweating buckets with a hard-on and the image of a nine-year old boy with large breasts and flabby hips in my mind. I'm a college man and very wealthy, Doctor, from outside the bubble. Am I going to be all right?
Glimpse
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 23:44:23 (EST)

My two cents are: A new proposed agency called Federal Air Transpotation Airport Security Service? If so it will make for an interesting acronym.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 23:40:05 (EST)

My two cents are: The guy's a pri...a prince of a man!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 21:33:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Ahh, the crynic's an OK Joe, for a traitor to his country. He just gets a little hot under the collar when he hears about some punk going around for seconds in the government cheese line. It's his share of the taxes, which he cheerfully deducts and sends to the IRS before sheltering the rest of his loot, that paid for that cheese, Jocko. He loves helping other people, especially the homeless, who he feeds, takes around to employment agencies, and supplies with the small necessities of life such as a that stack of National Geographics in the attic and his old razor blades. So it just burns him up when one of the peons gets stiffed on his Velveeta because some scofflaw has circled around for another tub. When the though crosses his mind, he may flail out at a harmless individual like House of Meat, and call him a trailer-dwelling invalaid without a nickel in his portfolio or a genuine English wicker picnic-basket with pewter accessories. That he should fling such vile insults expresses more of his essential kindness and hurt to hear about the stolen cheese, more than it indicates any real ill will on the crynic's part. The gruff old sailor is probably down at the mission right now handing out dumplings and Maypo.
S. Hudson Pilbert, Esq.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 21:17:04 (EST)

My two cents are: My fellow Americans: As we gather tonight, our nation is at war with terrorists we help finance every time we fill the tanks of our gas-guzzling SUVs. Our economy is in a shambles ... thanks in part to my own absolute and unwavering allegiance to my corporate contributors...And yet, my approval ratings are higher than a Presidential niece on Xanax! Tonight, America is embracing a new creed! "Let's Roll" -- over the principles of our democracy, that is! In a damn steamroller! And it's not gonna be cheap! That's why I'm callin on every American to commit to 4,000 hours of voluntary service -- to make up for the social services and basic necessities government SHOULD provide, but no longer will. You want those potholes fixed? Then get out there and do it yourself! We've got war to fight here, people! And as I stand here tonight and exploit the grief of those who have suffered, with nakedly manipulative stories of little boys whose daddies have gone to heaven -- and make vague yet frightening references to the ever-expanding list of countries which may soon tremble before us like sorority sisters at a Deke party -- I wnat to assure you -- that I will DAMN sure not allow some pathetic group of terrorist-loving scandalmongers to use the innocent mistakes of a bunch of fellas I hardly know at some company called "Endrun," or something like that, to bring down THIS administration! Not over my dead body are we gonna release any information to the G.A.O. about that! God Bless you, and may God Bless God's very favorite country of all, the God-fearing U.S. of A!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 19:53:18 (EST)

My two cents are: The crynic is really quite the individualist, no?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 18:49:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Please do what you can to help: > > Open up your hearts, my fellow Americans. Please do what you can to support those in need -- The Men from Enron. Think of it! Enron executives in our very own country are living at or just below the seven-figure salary level...poverty in the land of Texas plenty. Even worse than that -- Mrs. Lay says they're broke! And as if that weren't bad enough, they will be deprived of so much more as a consequence of the bankruptcy and the current Congressional and SEC investigations -- not to mention legal and psychiatric fees. But now, you can help! For only $20,835 a month (about $694.50 a day -- that's less than the cost of a large screen projection TV) you can help an Enron executive remain economically afloat during his time of need. Your contribution by no means solves the problem, as it barely covers the per diem, but we must begin somewhere to help our Texas brothers! Now $700 may not seem like a lot of money to you, but to an Enron exec it will mean the difference between a vacation spent sucking butt in DC, golfing in Florida, or enjoying a Mediterranean cruise. For you, seven hundred dollars is nothing more than rent, a car note or mortgage payments. But to an Enron exec $700 will almost replace his per diem. Your commitment of about $700 a day will enable an Enron exec to buy that home entertainment center, trade in the year-old Lexus for a new Ferrari, or enjoy a weekend in Rio since he's no longer going to the office. HOW WILL I KNOW I'M HELPING? Each month, you will receive a complete financial report on the exec you sponsor. Detailed information about his or her stocks, bonds, 401(k), real estate, and other investment holdings will be mailed to your trailer. You'll also get information on how he plans to invest his golden parachute. Imagine the joy as you watch your executive's portfolio double or triple! Plus upon signing up for this program, you will receive a photo (unsigned -- for a signed photo, please include an additional $50.00). Put the photo on your refrigerator to remind you of other peoples' suffering. HOW WILL HE KNOW I'M HELPING? Your Enron exec will be told that he has a SPECIAL FRIEND who just wants to help in a time of need. Although the exec won't know your name, he will be able to make collect calls to your home via a special operator just in case additional funds are needed for unexpected expenses. YES, I WANT TO HELP! I would like to sponsor an Enron executive. My preference is checked below: [ ] Mid-level Manager [ ] Director [ ] Vice President (Higher cost; please specify which department) [ ] President (Even higher cost; please specify which department) [ ] CEO (Contribution:: Average Enron janitor monthly salary x 700) [ ] Entire Company, whatever is left of it [ ] I'll sponsor an Exec most in need. Please select one for me EXTRA BONUS President Bush will be notified about your generosity toward his friend(s). A selected number of contributors will be invited to a Pretzel Party at the White House. Vice-President Cheney has promised not to publicly reveal your name or what you say. It may make you feel better if you consider your contribution to unemployed Enron execs an essential part of the President's "War Against Terrorism." God bless you. And God bless America.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 18:26:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Avon lady?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 18:09:02 (EST)

My two cents are: 17:34:05 - No, they are usually classified as murderers.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:58:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Those annoying wireless communication sales reps?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:55:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Panhandlers? Jehovah's Witness? Girl Scout Cookie sellers?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:55:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Abortion protestors?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:34:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Already passed by the Utah House of Representatives, the bill defines the crime of "commercial terrorism," which can be a felony offense. The Bill reads, "a person is guilty of commercial terrorism if he enters or remains unlawfully on the premises or in a building of any business with the intent to interfere with the employees,customers, personnel, or operations of a business."
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:28:04 (EST)

My two cents are: No, but I have been subjected to a bottle in front of me.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:20:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Reality to Meathead! Come in! Interesting. Your heart seems empty and hollow, yet your skull is so thick as to preclude rational thought. Were you beaten as a child? Have you ever been subjected to a frontal lobotomy? Your weak jaundiced posts prove it's impossible to reason with unreasonable people, huh, cheese thief?
the crynic
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 17:02:20 (EST)

My two cents are: So, what's it going to be, Glint? Bedpans in Baltimore or American Values in Khazakstan? Time to choose your poison. Get off of your knees but keep on with your praying. Bush has called you to action, son.
Oggie S. <I hear the goat is very tender in Khazakstan>
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 16:05:05 (EST)

My two cents are: For some reason I just can't picture the crynic, dressed up in his old salt's nor'wester and slicker carrying a plate of food out to the homeless, or dragging a street bum around to the employment agencies, or providing them "a few of life's necessities" like portfolios, hot young girlfriends, and secret accounts in the Cook Islands. What is it about the man that makes me peg him for a liar? Maybe it's the impossibility of what he says, judged against the gruff conservative role he plays. I love helping other people, just don't tell me I have to do it. I love paying taxes, my share of the cost of this great land, just don't tell me I MUST pay them. Which is exactly what the corrupt liberal IRS is trying to do. Hiding my income in secret accounts off-shore is more than justified every time some low-life trailer trash sneaks back around to the end of the line to steal a second chunk of free government cheese. Oh crynic, crynic, cryic, stop bragging about the man you would like to have been, and start being the man you can be! AmeriCorps is waiting, Commodore! Teach the homeless how to navigate the Straits of Sunda or the Sea of Othosk! Snippy has summoned you! Let's roll!
House of Meat
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 15:54:00 (EST)

My two cents are: When Bush yammers about pension reform, he's yammering about 401ks and the like. These are not pesions. They are savings accounts. Social Security is a pension and Bush is bleeding it dry. Just like Enron propped itself up on the backs of employees' investments.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 15:49:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Social Security lock box? Geesh, no. We need that Social Security dough to pay for a tax cut for the rich, so it can bring prosperity the way Reagan's brought recession.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 15:40:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Probably more interested in what Brenda sprouts than what Brenda spouts.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 14:45:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Hello, Oggie. I'm going to be in your neck of the woods next Wednesday. Maybe I'll drop by and we can discuss this thing in more detail. As always...
Harlan St. Wolf
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 13:57:16 (EST)

My two cents are: So, Brenda is a liberal. That explains the Lust/Hate relationship Glint has with he/she. His thing for hermaphros is well known. But, when a teenage one sprawls in the back seat of his minivan and spouts liberal rhetoric, the poor hick really gets all het up. We feel your pain, Glint. What liberal trash does this sexy freak spout?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 13:56:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Say it isn't so! Gore must be rolling over in his lock box.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 13:30:17 (EST)

My two cents are: One casualty: Pledges to wall off Social Security surpluses. The lockbox to protect that program is now wide open, with nearly $1 trillion from the Social Security surplus now tapped for other government programs.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 12:53:27 (EST)

My two cents are: The new White House budget lays out the nuts and bolts of the Bush Administration's two-front war. For the war on terror, the President is asking for a $48 billion increase; almost 15 percent for the Pentagon. That's the biggest jump in defense spending since Ronald Reagan's 1981 budget. On the domestic front, the Administration wants to double spending for homeland defense, including $11 billion to beef up border crossings, $5 billion to improve airport security, and $6 billion to prevent biological attacks. The President defended his request for homeland security money today at a rally in Pittsburgh. The White House also wants to spend $591 billion over the next ten years for tax cuts including money to help the unemployed buy health insurance and to promote charitable giving. But there are tradeoffs in the $2 trillion plan. To pay for the wartime budget, other programs take a hit, like job training. The plan eliminates eight programs to save $500 million. And highways, road-building programs, popular in many states, would lose $9 billion. The Army Corps of Engineers would lose almost $13 billion for new projects like dams and bridges. Other tradeoffs: Cuts for the international space station, for low-income heating aid, and for teaching hospitals, which get much of their support from Medicare.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 12:52:16 (EST)

My two cents are: The President's budget will run a 106 billion deficit this year, and continue in the red until at least 2005.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 12:49:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron tale drags Bush aides along Fri Feb 8, 6:36 AM ET Judy Keen USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- Fallout from the collapse of Enron is a preoccupation and irritation at the White House, where President Bush's aides say they feel like they're riding a roller coaster they can't steer or stop. � Test drive reports of the latest models on the road � Excerpts from leading books to help improve your career � Your celebrity gossip questions answered! � Up to date and in your inbox, sign up for the Daily Briefing email today ''There is a Washington -- which includes the press corps -- that instinctively goes into scandal mode and oftentimes without the facts,'' White House communications director Dan Bartlett says. ''We're just resigned to the fact that as long as this story is out there, we're going to have to respond.'' Chief of staff Andy Card says the Enron scandal rates a ''zero'' as a distraction inside the White House. But Bush aides are exasperated about the time they must spend answering questions about the energy giant's collapse and its ties to the administration. The deftness of those responses has been questioned. Soon after the company filed for bankruptcy court protection on Dec. 2, press secretary Ari Fleischer made almost daily disclosures of phone calls from Enron executives to administration officials. Vice President Cheney refuses to identify business executives who met with him and his aides to discuss energy policy, even though the fight probably will end up in court. The president told reporters that Kenneth Lay supported his opponent in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial race, even though the former Enron CEO gave more money to Bush's campaign. The White House is resisting some requests for information. For example, Bush aides acknowledge that Lay submitted a list of recommendations for energy commission appointments, but they refuse to release all the names on the list. Even some Bush allies say the White House hasn't been forthcoming enough and worry that the controversy will continue. Scandal veterans from President Clinton's administration say their successors don't seem to have learned much from the mistakes they made. ''What hurt the Clintons was the perception that they were not as forthcoming as they might have been,'' says Mark Fabiani, who was Clinton's spokesman on scandals for two years. ''The first lesson is, if you've got material, turn it over right away. Don't fight it.'' For now, Bush advisers have decided to try to ride out the Enron controversy while saying as little as possible about it. Their strategy: * Insist that it's a business scandal, not a political one -- and certainly not a big deal for Bush. ''But for answering press inquiries, there aren't meetings, discussions, strategies on Enron,'' says Mary Matalin, a senior Cheney adviser. ''And you can count on less than one hand the people who are dealing with the press inquiries.'' * Try to seize control of the story by talking about ways to prevent future business disasters and reminding people that the administration is leading the investigation, not resisting it. Bush notes regularly that he has proposed changes to pensions that would protect workers' investments. ''This is a business problem that our Justice Department is going to investigate, and if there's wrongdoing, we'll hold them accountable,'' he said Tuesday. * Disparage those who suggest the administration should share more information or may have done something wrong. ''This is just another partisan fishing expedition'' is a refrain used often by Fleischer and other Bush spokespeople in response to requests for details about administration officials' contacts with Enron. Last week, Fleischer scolded a Time reporter for the magazine's Feb. 4 cover, which featured a photo of the White House and the line, ''How Sticky Will It Get?'' * Hope that Democrats in Congress overplay their hand. Bush aides insisted that Enron executives got no help from the administration as the company was collapsing, and nothing has come to light to contradict that statement. Bush advisers believe that Americans will reject Democrats' efforts to gain politically from the mess. They're encouraged by polls showing no dip in Bush's sky-high approval ratings since Enron began dominating headlines. Democrats were also beneficiaries of Enron's largess, and Bush advisers believe they risk seeming hypocritical if they go too far in their efforts to paint the president as tainted by Enron money. But Democrats say Enron's ties to Bush could be an issue in November's elections. The risk for Republican candidates is that the controversy could reinforce some voters' beliefs that the GOP is too cozy with big business and too willing to do favors for big donors. Clinton's spokesmen dealt with controversies over the Whitewater real-estate development, the firing of travel office employees and his attempts to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Their advice: * Name a ''scandal spokesperson'' so questions don't dominate daily press briefings. This is a particular problem for Fleischer, whose briefings often have been broadcast live on cable news channels since the Sept. 11 attacks. When the last Clinton scandal spokesman, Jim Kennedy, left, he said he hoped the post wouldn't be filled again. Now, he says, ''Maybe it's time for Ari Fleischer to start collecting résumés.'' * Collect all information, even from officials reluctant to share it, and release it immediately, even if it's damaging. ''The most challenging problem in dealing with a crisis like this is getting your arms around the facts when not everyone is telling you all the facts,'' says Lanny Davis, another former Clinton scandal spokesman. * Limit the president's public comments. ''The less he says about this, the better,'' Fabiani says. ''There's no hiding the fact that he's very close to Ken Lay . . . but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it. If he keeps talking about it, people start to wonder, why is he so defensive about it?'' White House staffers say they intend to defend themselves aggressively while continuing to limit the information they share. A Justice Department request last week that White House aides retain all memos on Enron has been interpreted as advice to ''freeze'' disclosure of more information on dealings with the company. Bush plans to broach the topic only when promoting his proposals for protecting 401(k) retirement plans, aides say, and will continue to focus on the war and his domestic agenda. ''We think there's a disconnect between what's focused on here in Washington and what the people out in America are focused on,'' Bartlett says.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 12:30:32 (EST)

My two cents are: "But the crynic is a special case, even among troglodytes, a man who has traded his soul for a dime..." House of Meat - Friday, February 08, 2002 at 02:25:53 (EST) - - What a poor pathetic fuckface you are. I was volunteering before it was in vogue. For many years now, I have worked with the homeless; providing meals, finding jobs, and donating a few of life's necessities. As I have said many times, I enjoy helping others, just don't tell me I MUST do it. And that's what Clinton's liberal "tax and spend" corrupt regime mandated. Or at least tried to. Like it or not, your admission of working the system to benefit yourself is just like sheltering assets abroad, except yours is on a minute scale. It wouldn't surprise me if you hoarded more than your share of the government cheese. Toke up and float away, fuckface.
the crynic
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 12:19:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, that is why we seek them. They feed the delusions perfectly.
KL
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 12:04:17 (EST)

My two cents are: No, it's real alright. Although they have fled there is still the empty ache for authority remains.
Glint
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 11:57:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Ah, the delusions of grandeur. Each cog must have its share of them, or the machine does not run smoothly.
Ken Lay, Organizational Consultant
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 11:55:44 (EST)

My two cents are: This Clinton creep is worse than anyone could have imagined. My entire workforce is made up entirely of Red Chinese expatriates. Split evenly between male and female, leading such a group is an amazing experience. My previous experience working with such persons at the peer level was unpleasant. Communication is difficult and there was a sense of resentment. Of course that may stem from being viewed as an "outsider" - a consultant from outside of the monolith - a foreign participant in the ruling dynasty. But in this new role a different side is seen. One in which the individual yields fully to authority. I can't go into it in detail but from this new viewpoint I no longer view the communication as a cross-current. There is a silent and vast network there, almost borg like, a power like an open spigot there for the tapping, like a keg.
Glint
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 11:51:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I just picked up another two hundred bones a month after the ruinous taxes, courtesy the congress's need to keep up with inflation. At this rate I will be "making my age" by the time I'm 35! Who said that life inside the bubble had no rewards. High wattage, here I come!
Ogden "Oggie" Slivovitz
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 11:23:45 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm wondering what the folks back in the corn fields would say if they knew the prodigal son has joined a company that permits beer in the workplace. Not only permits it, apparently, but uses it to soothe and stupify its employees the way gin and ale were used by 19th-century English industrialists to herd the stout yeomanry of Albion into the dank manufactories of the industrial revolution. What's next, blow-jobs in the hallways? Isn't this a violation of business policy? The government is hounding a harmless Ponzi scheme like Enron while Maryland dot.commers are sucking down the Devil's own elixer in the lunch-room and heading back to the accounting sheets woozy with the fatal brew? Clintonism has infected this country worse than we had ever dreamed.
House of Meat
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 11:18:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I endeavor to do something different with each job assignment. I thirst for the jagged edge of a new challenge, going against the impossible odds. In the immediate case however it is necessary to cut a slit in the bbble and slip back inside. You may think of me as a double agent. Agent 00F (hexadecimal).
Glint
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 11:15:43 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm charmed at the speed of Glint's coming to merge his outside-the-bubble identity with the company's. "We're fighting the recession here." I'll bet we are. Here I thought Glint was a grasshopper, thinking the world owes me a livin', and I find out he is an ant, willing to toil with the other ants in the fight against the winter! A pirate from beyond the bubble has become the Organization Man, with his own slot in the flow-chart. In union there is strength, eh Glint, united we stand? Yet I never thought you'd sell your essential self, your point of pride, for a few beers and a chance to shank a cue-ball or two. Don't fret, though. You'll make a good little peon, so long as you get an occasional whiff of teenage hermaphrodite undies, and can keep a wide variety of telescopes out of the pawn-shop.
House of Meat
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 10:55:22 (EST)

My two cents are: ???
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- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 10:40:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Greta von Susteren rounded out her first week of seeing the world through new eyes with a confrontation with Dick Morris that shows her Clinton-loving ways aren't going to fly at Fox. At least not with their regular contributors. On last night's show, Dick went so far as to tell her, as she frantically tried to spin the Clinton line on terrorism efforts, that she was - gasp! - "still a CNN person." It was amazing to watch her former face return. That's a great big bed over there at Fox. Everybody get comfy and no pinching. (Final transcript will be posted when complete.)
News Flash
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 09:46:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Brenda's not a thing. Brenda is a..., well it's a...sort of like one of those....Well, It's hard to describe. Oh yeah, a Liberal.
Glint
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 09:43:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Brenda? Something for Glint to fantasize about during those lonely hour "ice fishing," or "in the observatory."
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 09:38:47 (EST)

My two cents are: I was begining to think Brenda no longer cared. Perhaps Brenda was getting up 5 minutes earlier each day to apply the makeup in order to avoid missing the bus and spending a few agonizing minutes in the Chrysler. Was I ever wrong. That got the day off to a good start. Well, time to start start surfing for resumes at monster.com. We're fighting the recession here. Got a waiver on the hiring freeze. This dot com is going to make it, come heck or high water.
Glint
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 09:16:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Hannity, a little pufferfish inflated with his own self-importance. Colmes, a spineless jellyfish trying hard to be a liberal.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 02:54:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't buy that House of Gristle. I think what scared Glint off from the Bahamas was that he found out they don't have any Denny's there, with or without eggs benedict. If he found out they don't have any Hannity and Colmes, that would only have sealed the deal.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 02:28:45 (EST)

My two cents are: We can't expect the crynic to put in hours volunteering for America, since he's not really an American any more. A man who puts what is most near and dear to him into another country loses his citizenship, in spirit at least, whether they let him keep his passport or not. And the crynic's money, his portfolio, is now in the Cook Islands, and the crynic's patriotism, such as it is, is there too. I doubt that Snippy's call to service applies to those who have forsaken America, and become men without countries, international fugitives from the pain and responsibility of belonging to something larger than themselves. But the crynic is a special case, even among troglodytes, a man who has traded his soul for a dime. Even Glint had the sense to stay in his homeland, once he found that there were mosquitos and negroes in the Bahamas, and that the people there had unfamiliar accents.
House of Meat
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 02:25:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, when you think of it, we've all put in our time. Everybody with the possible exception of the crynic, that is. If you spin it right, 4000 hours is the MINIMUM any of us has "put in." I got some people to sign some papers just before they croaked. Had to get them to put a pathetic X on the dotted line and make a fucking doctor attest to their competentency. That's just the tip of the iceberg. I've worked with those in the alcoholic community as well as drug users. I've counseled various people in the vagaries of romance and worked as an amateur (NO PAY) sex therapist.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 08, 2002 at 00:33:28 (EST)

My two cents are: I've put in my time, too, serving my fellow man, and am not about to be drafted into Snippy's altruism corps. Although, who knows, the rewards are enormous if you aren't just a soulless exurban parasite driven by materialistic desires. The best advice I can give to those of you who haven't volunteered for America, and who are driven by a desire to accumulate "wealth" and inanimate posessions, is to suck it up and get it over with. At least try to make it look like you are doing it willingly, and it might get you more stuff in the future, as a result of the respect you will fool people into according you.
Ogden Slivovitz
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:21:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Kelly, You said you'd like me to fill you in. I'd love to fill you in every way possible. Speaking of cream, did you ever hear about the menage-a-trois between Clinton, Lewinsky, and the Oval Office sink? As you know, I own a [REDACTED]-inch telescope. But did you know that I own several larger ones and one other instrument that can also be measured in inches that may interest you. I couldn't help notice you're from Oregon. I hope you're not one of those tree hugger types, unless you're one of those nudie tree hugger types. Have you ever pinched a loaf while sitting on a high branch? My web site accepts any scans of heavenly bodies and yours might count in that class. That is unless you're a fat bitch with moles and whiskers. Good luck, and let me now if you decide to take the [REDACTED] you're considering. I'd be curious to know if you're able to take it all at once.
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:21:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Hi, I have the chance to purchase a [telescope brand & model; REDACTED], like the one detailed on your web page....... "[REDACTED] SCT The [REDACTED] inch is a long focal length Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (SCT) with a focal ratio of f/11. It is small enough to fit under the seat in front on airplanes and has traveled to many locations. The [REDACTED] was purchased new in 1986 and is used primarily as a travel telescope and platform for piggy back astrophotography." Your set up looks very well thought out. If you have the time, could you please fill me in on its details. I am especially interested in how you deal with power and alignment/tripod attachment. thanks for your consideration. kelly - salem, oregon
fan mail answering night
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:13:07 (EST)

My two cents are: You're behind the times, homes. We've changed it to Faux Gnus. Get it?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:11:09 (EST)

My two cents are: As we conservatives call it, Faux News.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:09:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Is Coulter on Fox to split the beaver? Sounds sort of disgusting. Does she even have room for a beav on that anorexic frame?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:08:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Yawn. I already got my weekly Coulter fix on the local morning talk radio yackfest. A masculine woman.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:08:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Fox? Isn't that the porn network that the Christians are complaining to the FCC about?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 23:03:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I am a Army veteran, and worked in a VA hospital after my discharge. So Ogden, now it is your turn!!!
WILL-YUM
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 22:43:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Ann Coulter will be on Hannity & Colmes shortly, on Fox News.
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 22:21:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Me, I think that when Glint goes to the Islamic world to demonstrate American values the way his president* asked, he better keep his eyes open. It is just possible that the Arabs might send him on a snipe hunt.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 21:53:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, the 'axis of evil' bit was a little ridiculous, but hey, he'll make up for it when the army of Republicans flocks out of the country-clubs and golf courses of America and turns into a herd of Albert Schweitzers. Those supercilious foreigners think they're pretty smart just because they know what the Axis was and aren't exactly certain who is Evil, but wait until the fat lady in the pearls and mink coat shows up in their hospitals ready to tote the bedpans and impart American values. Wait until the legion of Glints shows up in the Islamic world to show the rag-heads what America is all about. THEN we'll see who looks ridiculous.
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- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 21:50:26 (EST)

My two cents are: "WASHINGTON �� President Bush on Thursday urged Americans of all faiths to turn to prayer as they struggle through "this time of testing" after the terrorist attacks." So what's it going to be, Snippy, groveling in front of your false idols or hustling bed-pans. A lot of us don't have time for both, bandy-legged little phrase-mangler.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 21:44:52 (EST)

My two cents are: And as I already explained, times are going to be hard for another three years at least, and seven if Bush gets lucky and manages to convict Taliban John and give the people a reason to vote for him. The president didn't ask you to lie in your hammock scratching your ass and call it service to your country. He didn't ask you to squash gourds or go about your usual rounds with a mason jar in your knapsack. He asked you to be a point of light, he asked you to volunteer and to serve. This is your hero sounding the horn of patriotism. How can you not respond, the way a sea-urchin responds to a prod with an abalone-iron? Get up off your fat duff and give something to your country, punk! Yours not to reason why. I want to see those stubby legs pumping as you hustle those bedpans up and down the stairs. Get with the program. No slackers. Let's Roll! Last one in is a rotten egg!
Ogden Slivovitz
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 21:37:07 (EST)

My two cents are: asked them.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 20:17:40 (EST)

My two cents are: "In Speech, Bush Calls Iraq, Iran and North Korea 'Axis of Evil" -- N.Y. Times, 1/30/02 ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA SYRIA FORM AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL Cuba, Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs Beijing (SatireWire.com) - Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best." Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool." THE AXIS PANDEMIC International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the Axis of Somewhat Evil, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the Axis of Occasionally Evil, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable. With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America, while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the Axis of Countries That Be Allowed to Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick. "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell. While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the Axis of Countries Whose Names End in "Guay," accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, world leaders said that's only because no one
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 20:16:24 (EST)

My two cents are: No such thing as a free beer though. Or an open pool table for that matter. Paying for it today, let me tell you. Writing up evaluations for two of my employees tonight. Next week I'll be interviewing for another position. Tables are sort of turned now. Instead of being the "monster" and checking out the jobs I'll be the ogre that downloads resumes and breaks the hearts of the would be applicants. Thank goodness I'm a compassionate person.
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 18:33:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I already explained it once. I'm spending my 4000 hours hand cranking the economy back into shape here. I'll spend the next two years working at about half the usual rate so that the money can be divided among two working stiffs instead of one, to keep two families instead of one off unemployment and off welfare. Why I spent the entire afternoon yesterday shooting pool and drinking hefeweisens courtesy of the management. The beer flowed like a streaming data feed. But after two years of this the recession should be beat down and it'll be time to go back working for a temp pimp. But for now boys there is data to harvest and value to add. Need to get the numbers cranking and rolling to your favorite financial web sites so you can see the crooks and crags of my jagged stock charts. Data rolling on like that old man river. Let's rock & roll!
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 18:28:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The family can live off whatever kicked the Denny's girl up into the top tax bracket.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 18:10:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Nixon rehabilitated himself? Does that mean he could appear in public without being booed and hissed? His whole public life was about rehabilitating himself, and it never worked. He just went in deeper and deeper. A genuine evil person, like Osama bin Laden and John Ashcroft. We are lucky to have the young Bush, a foreign-policy liberal and domestically an inspiration to all the millions of Americans who are now going to devote 4,000 hours to keeping the bedpans clean, no matter what Dick Armey says about AmeriCorps. Yo, Glint, have you decided how you're going to use your 4,000 hours? Seriously, and no jokes about letting people look through your telescope? The guys who get in the corps early will be the guys who advance the fastest. Seniority counts, man, so run don't walk down to your local recruiting station. You'll soon be on a bus to Bed-Sty, with a brand-new AmeriCorp T-shirt and baseball cap, and a sure $230/week coming in.
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- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 17:59:51 (EST)

My two cents are: When the troglodytes whine about Clinton mistakenly bombing a "aspirin factory" in respone to the 1999 embassy attacks, it should be nothed that from 6 to 12 of bin Laden's closest advisors were killed in that bombing. Clinton took out about as many Al Qaeda terrorists in one raid as Bush did in thousands. Oh, but Bush got rid of the Taliban, something he showed no interest in before Spetember 11.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 15:54:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Keep Your Eye on the Target Mr. Speaker: We have been told on numerous occasions to expect a long and protracted war. This is not necessary if one can identify the target- the enemy- and then stay focused on that target. It's impossible to keep one's eye on a target and hit it if one does not precisely understand it and identify it. In pursuing any military undertaking, it's the responsibility of Congress to know exactly why it appropriates the funding. Today, unlike any time in our history, the enemy and its location remain vague and pervasive. In the undeclared wars of Vietnam and Korea, the enemy was known and clearly defined, even though our policies were confused and contradictory. Today our policies relating to the growth of terrorism are also confused and contradictory; however, the precise enemy and its location are not known by anyone. Until the enemy is defined and understood, it cannot be accurately targeted or vanquished. The terrorist enemy is no more an entity than the "mob"or some international criminal gang. It certainly is not a country, nor is it the Afghan people. The Taliban is obviously a strong sympathizer with bin Laden and his henchmen, but how much more so than the government of Saudi Arabia or even Pakistan? Probably not much. Ulterior motives have always played a part in the foreign policy of almost every nation throughout history. Economic gain and geographic expansion, or even just the desires for more political power, too often drive the militarism of all nations. Unfortunately, in recent years, we have not been exempt. If expansionism, economic interests, desire for hegemony, and influential allies affect our policies and they, in turn, incite mob attacks against us, they obviously cannot be ignored. The target will be illusive and ever enlarging, rather than vanquished. We do know a lot about the terrorists who spilled the blood of nearly 4,000 innocent civilians. There were 19 of them, 15 from Saudi Arabia, and they have paid a high price. They're all dead. So those most responsible for the attack have been permanently taken care of. If one encounters a single suicide bomber who takes his own life along with others without the help of anyone else, no further punishment is possible. The only question that can be raised under that circumstance is why did it happen and how can we change the conditions that drove an individual to perform such a heinous act. The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington are not quite so simple, but they are similar. These attacks required funding, planning and inspiration from others. But the total number of people directly involved had to be relatively small in order to have kept the plans thoroughly concealed. Twenty accomplices, or even a hundred could have done it. But there's no way thousands of people knew and participated in the planning and carrying out of this attack. Moral support expressed by those who find our policies offensive is a different matter and difficult to discover. Those who enjoyed seeing the U.S. hit are too numerous to count and impossible to identify. To target and wage war against all of them is like declaring war against an idea or sin. The predominant nationality of the terrorists was Saudi Arabian. Yet for political and economic reasons, even with the lack of cooperation from the Saudi government, we have ignored that country in placing blame. The Afghan people did nothing to deserve another war. The Taliban, of course, is closely tied to bin Laden and al-Qaeda, but so are the Pakistanis and the Saudis. Even the United States was a supporter of the Taliban's rise to power, and as recently as August of 2001, we talked oil pipeline politics with them. The recent French publication of bin Laden, The Forbidden Truth revealed our most recent effort to secure control over Caspian Sea oil in collaboration with the Taliban. According to the two authors, the economic conditions demanded by the U.S. were turned down and led to U.S. military threats against the Taliban. It has been known for years that Unocal, a U.S. company, has been anxious to build a pipeline through northern Afghanistan, but it has not been possible due to the weak Afghan central government. We should not be surprised now that many contend that the plan for the UN to "nation build" in Afghanistan is a logical and important consequence of this desire. The crisis has merely given those interested in this project an excuse to replace the government of Afghanistan. Since we don't even know if bin Laden is in Afghanistan, and since other countries are equally supportive of him, our concentration on this Taliban "target" remains suspect by many. Former FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned in July over duplicitous dealings with the Taliban and our oil interests. O'Neill then took a job as head of the World Trade Center security and ironically was killed in the 9-11 attack. The charges made by these authors in their recent publication deserve close scrutiny and congressional oversight investigation- and not just for the historical record. http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr112901.htm
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 15:01:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but dr. ruth picked him up by clearing the bases at 13:50:36. Brilliant satire. Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, as they say on the hog farm.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 14:45:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Another homer for Hermaphro-Boy at 13:35:48. Oops, sorry, just another weak foul ball.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 14:43:15 (EST)

My two cents are: Clinton will dance on Spooge-Boy's grave.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 14:33:59 (EST)

My two cents are: This scandal is going to take a good four years and maybe $50 million to conclude. That's OUR money, people. Money that could otherwise be spent keeping Glint up-to-date on the activities of Clinton's penis.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 14:32:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush Makes Decision on Detainees Thu Feb 7, 1:04 PM ET By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has determined that the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict in Afghanistan and Taliban soldiers, but not al-Qaida fighters and other terrorists, The Associated Press has learned. The decision, which the White House planned to announce Thursday, has enormous legal implications for the more than 150 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Two administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the decision was designed to ensure that U.S. soldiers would be afforded protections covered by the Geneva Convention in the event they are captured. The administration has said the Guantanamo Bay detainees are being treated humanely regardless of their legal designation. The decision was made as U.S. troops completed 320 new holding cells in Camp X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. A plane carrying more captives was expected to arrive at the base on Thursday. There are 158 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, at least 100 of them citizens of Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials have asked that they be turned over for interrogation at home. Bush has said the Saudis will be handled on a case-by-case basis. A few other countries, including Australia, Britain, Sweden and Yemen, also have citizens among the detainees. France sent a delegation to the base to verify the citizenship of several French-speaking suspects. The first detainees arrived Jan. 11. The Bush administration had resisted categorizing the Guantanamo detainees as prisoners of war, saying they were among the most dangerous fighters of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network and the ousted Taliban regime. But human rights groups and some European governments pressed for the prisoner-of-war designation so that the detainees would have greater legal protections under the Geneva Convention. They also have expressed concern over how the captives have been treated. Britain said last week it wants the United States to return British suspects to stand trial at home. Besides the three Britons held at Guantanamo, the British Foreign Office said Monday that two other suspects believed to be British are being held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said prisoners would be repatriated to "those countries that we feel will handle them appropriately."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 14:24:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Great, sure, but I say we move on. Does anyone have the newest numbers for Bush since his polling was rocked by the Enron Scandal�?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 14:17:11 (EST)

My two cents are: That show sounds like loads of fun. Could get Ken Starr or Linda Tripp to emcee.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 13:56:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I think what would help rehabilitate Clinton's image would be to land his own television show. Not a news talk show, but something more exciting and Clintonesque. How about a game show, we'll call it "Kiss It." Members of the studio audience answer arcane questions about such subjects as the Dingleberry Bill. The winner will get to pick from three doors. Behind each door will be a receptacle of some sort. Perhaps behind door 1 is Monica Lewinsky. Behind door 2 is a sink. And behind door 3 is his former Attorney General, Janet Reno. One the winner has made their choice the program concludes when Bill empties his load into the winning container. They will change every week and include reall people like Bwawney Fwank and inanimate objects like this flower pot. Due to its adult material it will need to air outside of prime time and preferably on cable. Willard's handlers are currently looking at a slot on the Comedy Central channel immediately after The Man Show.
dr. ruth
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 13:50:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Please don't misunderstand me, Anonymous@12:52:03. If Clinton were to rehabilitate his own image ala Nixon it would please me to no end. What's bothering me is his continued inaction in that regard. Asleep at the switch, again.
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 13:35:48 (EST)

My two cents are: What would this page be like without Glint? Now that Pete is gone, the Glintster is no longer in the shadows and the full scope of his buffoonery can be appreciated. I especially enjoy the posts when he's convinced he's hit a grand slam. You can almost hear the "Aha!", almost see the in-your-face home run trot as he rounds second while the ball goes foul by 50 feet. His trimphs are many. That's the genius of gooberism. Glint misses Jeremiah for good reason. We all need a little brother to lord it over. Pete had Glint. Glint had Jeremiah. Glint had the upper hand in that pair. In fact, Glint WAS Jeremiah with a touch more variety in his bloodlines.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 13:23:20 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton on Wednesday renewed his criticism of the Bush administration for refusing to turn over documents about the FBI's handling of Boston mob informants in the 1960s. Burton, R-Ind., is trying to build a case that previous administrations have regularly turned over the kinds of prosecutorial documents that Bush ordered Attorney General John Ashcroft to withhold from the committee in December, citing "executive privilege." "If we can't see the Boston documents, then isn't it fair for us to conclude ... that Congress will never get deliberative documents from the Justice Department? Unfortunately, I'm beginning to come to that conclusion," he said at the start of a hearing at which a Justice Department attorney was to explain the reason for withholding the material. Burton has amassed a list of instances where Congress has accessed such documents, dating back to the anticommunist Palmer raids and Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s. Among those scheduled to testify Wednesday were Mark Rozell, a political science professor at Catholic University who has written a book on executive privilege. California Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said the Bush administration has used executive privilege to block access to documents on issues such as the census. "There can be no accountability when the government chooses to operate in secrecy," he said. Executive privilege is a doctrine recognized by the courts that ensures presidents can get candid advice in private without fear it will become public. The Constitution doesn't mention it; its meaning has been defined over the years by presidents, judges and government policies. But since George Washington, presidents have used a form of privilege to keep information from Congress or the courts. Bush argued that he was worried about chilling prosecutors' private deliberations in criminal cases in invoking privilege in the Boston mob case and the Clinton-era fund-raising investigation of the 1990s. Wednesday's hearing is focused only on the Boston case. Angry lawmakers accused Bush of trying to create an "imperial presidency" by thwarting Congress' ability to oversee the executive branch. Burton, who subpoenaed the records, threatened to take him to court. The case is emblematic of the struggle between the White House and Congress over how much information the administration is willing to share with lawmakers. Senators recently complained that Bush didn't consult them before deciding some terrorism defendants could be tried by secret military tribunals. Other lawmakers have been frustrated by their inability to get information about the administration's deliberation on a national energy policy, and Congress' investigatory arm is considering suing the White House over energy meeting records. The Boston case stems from revelations that Joseph Salvati of Boston spent 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit even though the FBI had evidence of his innocence. Salvati's conviction was overturned in January after a judge concluded that FBI agents hid testimony that would have cleared Salvati because they wanted to protect an informant. Salvati had been paroled in 1997.
go Melon Man, Dan go
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 12:59:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course, after Cheney kicks the bucket, the move will be forever known The Dick Trick.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 12:54:20 (EST)

My two cents are: When Ford croaks you can bet those numbers will be even better for him. Even Nixon himself began to rehabilitate his image by dying. Now days, we call this phenomenon Cheney's Ace in the Hole.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 12:52:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Great, Glint. Clinton's numbers are on the rise. Time is weaving its magic. Why, look what 25 years has done for Gerald Ford (the last unelected president* before Snippy.) In 25 years, it's possible nobody will even remember this Rich guy at all, especially anyone under 40 year old. That's the beauty of death. People who die take their opinions with them and are way under-represented in polling numbers. I'll bet Ford doesn't do quite as well with the dead demographic, one which he -unlike Clinton- will soon be joining.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 12:50:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, here it is getting close to Noon and there hasn't been one substantial Enron post yet. Since there's no smoke there, perhaps we can toss about a golden oldie scandal whose legs were strong. Let me refresh your memories about aFox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll conducted one year ago on Feb. 7-8, 2001 of 901 registered voters nationwide.: . "Do you think that some of the pardons former President Clinton issued on his last day in office were an abuse of the presidential pardon power or were they fairly typical of presidential pardons?" Abuse of power 55; Fairly typical 32; Not sure 13. . "Have you heard or read about former President Clinton granting a presidential pardon to Marc Rich, a businessman who has been in exile in Switzerland since being accused of rigging oil prices and avoiding taxes?" Yes, have heard or read about 72; No, have not 26; Not sure 2. . Asked of those who have heard or read about Rich's pardon (N=649): "Which pardon do you think was more justified: Gerald Ford�s pardon of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton�s pardon of Marc Rich?" % Ford's pardon of Nixon 64; Clinton's pardon of Rich 9. Not sure 27.
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 12:01:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I am smelling some fat consulting fees for people who have already put in their 4,000 hours and know the ropes. Once the flood of volunteers starts coming, following Snippy's clarion call, somebody will have to show them how do do it. Snippy himself can deliver a personal anecdote on how counter-productive it is to skip your entire last year of service, go AWOL. Someone who has taught fishing to the Ubangi could explain how it is done, to the throngs of idealistic Americans heading overseas to the birthplaces of malaria and ebola and AIDS. But we can't get too excited about it yet. To make money consulting on it, Snippy will have to put some money into it. Let's wait until the Snip throws some slops into the trough before we muscle up to it.
Outside the Bubble
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:59:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Wrong. Glint has taken pains to teach his daughter that public assistance is merely a way to "give her hard earned money away to buy the lazy man's vote." Obviously this view extends to any assistance, either by a government a church, or simply handing a quarter to a bum. Why should anybody or any institution give "hard earned money away" to the "lazy man?" In a situation like this, Glint asks himself, what would Jesus do? Jesus would vote Republican, and stop the giveaway.
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- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:51:16 (EST)

My two cents are: That's not fair. Glint only worries if the food or the blanket come out of his taxes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:39:28 (EST)

My two cents are: He keeps seeing beggars and crazy homeless dudes on the street, and is worried that someone might give them some food or a blanket.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:33:06 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought the Clintons pinched off the welfare teat back in the '90's. Why is Glint still worrying about it?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:30:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint has Attention Deficit Disorder unless the subject matter is a Democrat's blowjobs. Being raised among farm animals may be the cause.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:28:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Copy that, bro. Sure, the fight against letters to the editor of the New York Times is important, and somebody has to keep Maureen Dowd in line, but while Coulter is distracted there are air passengers spilling their latt� in ticket lines all over America, and white chicks being patted down by Dominican low-lifes and their bullet charms taken away. Please, Ann, you're going to have to let the Times romp free across the liver of American patriotism for a while-- it's not an easy choice to make, but there's only one way for a true conservative to make it. You simply must continue bitching and whining about the airports, and let somebody else monitor the socialist press.
S. Hudson Pilbert
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:27:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Great Annie Coulter column today explaining what is wrong with the New York Times and a guy who wrote a letter to its editor. Also Mo Dowd. But I am disturbed: who is complaining about airport security while Coulter is off task?
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- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 11:11:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Thu Feb 7, 1:31 AM ET WASHINGTON (The Hollywood Reporter) --- A coalition of Christian and conservative groups is calling on federal regulators to investigate the Fox network, claiming that it is systematically violating the nation's indecency rules.
Brit Hume blowjob rumors finally reach Christian conservatives
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 10:59:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor Glint. He still thinks it's all about finding some minor transgression against the blue noses of Nebraska, and gnawing and scratching at it and making it seem to swell up into an impeachable offense. Nah, Glint, this is about Character and Virtue-- it's about Republican politicians with both hands full of gimmie; it doesn't unfold like a sit-com or a comic book, directed by red-faced House Managers. It is not about pretending the vice-president is a liar and then repeating that over and over again, but about simply letting the vice-president demonstrate that he is a liar, and that he lies in the interest of crude avarice only. It is becoming more and more clear, beyond the general miasma of corruption that is Republicanism, that this administration sold favors to Kenny Boy, at the expense even of other Republicans, for example by forcing open the transmission lines, enabling Enron to extend and fortify its fraud against America. Enron does stick to the Snippy administration, in objective reality, like shit on the wall, and what you are looking at is merely the effectiveness of Republican lying, will it work for a majority of Americans or won't it work. A political party whose very existence depends on disguising what it is before the public is necessarily very good at lying, and if not lying well enough is what sticking is, then it might not stick. Keep checking in, check your blue nose and your animadversion to the welfare teat at the door, and enjoy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 10:42:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Data's still flowing like a river to the sea this morning. All is well. Will check back later for the latest news on the Enron "scandal®."
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 10:22:32 (EST)

My two cents are: It's so cute when a goober whose life has been spent in Nebraska and Maryland can sneer at any other state, yet alone Cali.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 10:20:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's right. This Enron thing has dragged on long enough. Nothing is sticking. Let's pack it in, okay? Let's roll. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 10:18:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like the value added data's flowing; even downhill to places like Cali. Can head back to bed, and the blessed rest that comes in a country without any Democrats in the White House. So, I'll leave you with this thought from the New Republic Online, a liberal rag if there ever was one: " Want to clear a smoke-filled room in a hurry? Then tell folks you're organizing Al Gore's 2004 presidential campaign." Good night and God bless.
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 03:04:10 (EST)

My two cents are: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Officials are investigating a horrible case of animal cruelty in West Palm Beach. Investigators said that a cat was found with her two front two legs cut off, left for dead in a ditch nearly two weeks ago.
How many times did they have to recount the legs? the stumps? the weeks? Were the legs completely attached or were they left swingin'?
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 02:51:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Another non-stick Enron day is past. How can you guys stand it?
Glint
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 02:45:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Where I lived, out in Hawaii, nobody had ever heard of Elvis when the liberal press made such a big socialist deal out of his death. We were surprised that someone we had never heard of had made several movies in Hawaii, and was identified with the state as much as he was with the tuna-fishing industry. If we wanted to listen to a swivel-hipped greasy-haired crooner, we had plenty of ukulele boys. For rock and roll, we got bootleg saxaphone-band records from Tokyo. Everything was different, in Hawaii. The dark-skinned were on top, and four-eyed haole boys like me learned what it's like to be an enslaved minority with a wedgie.
Not Here�
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 01:05:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Never got behind Grand Funk Railroad either. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:43:38 (EST)

My two cents are: The Cali boys never could understand Judas Priest or Yes the way we could. Shallow fucks.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:42:50 (EST)

My two cents are: It was guys from Ohio who used to drive to Indiana to harvest the Culvert Weed, the Ditch. They'd come back with about 20 pounds in the trunk and smoke it till they hyperventilated. I saw it all. Pathetic. I'd come back after the summer with a few lids of what we Cali boys might have called bunk weed, Acapulco Gold, and these mergatroids would be giggling for hours while Donovan sang Season of the Witch.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:41:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Our usual dates were all out "doing it" with guys from Cali.
Glimpse
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:38:20 (EST)

My two cents are: The thing that I didn't like about the boys from Cali is they always stole our dates. You could almost never get a date when the ditch-weed harvest was on.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:36:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Then we went to the Orpheum theatre down-town and watched "The Sound of Music" for the 23rd or 24th time, I forget which.
Glimpse
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:34:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Talk about shallow! Guys from Cali used to flock to Nebraska in the hippie days to harvest the hemp that grew along the side of the road. We locals called it "ditch-weed", and wouldn't smoke it with a ten-foot bong.
Glimpse
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:32:34 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000009359feb06.story
typical result of evil socialsits
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:32:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course they are shallow, dildo. They are the ones whose ancestors didn't drop out in Nebraska. Just skittered on through like so many air-headed lemmings, too shallow to understand Carhenge or the Bone Cabin.
Proud of Staying In Poke Junction, Indiana
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:30:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Drudge Link: Survey shows Californians live up to shallow image...
Poll proves long-time Glint theories about Cali
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:27:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Dr. of physiology. Sort of like being a dentist without the income. No wonder she switched careers and became a fishwife.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:25:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Got a URL for the pix? I need to see them bazongas. The bazongas of the pixie-faced doctor of electrical engineering.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, February 07, 2002 at 00:11:38 (EST)

My two cents are: This didn't happen in Waco by any chance, did it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:53:25 (EST)

My two cents are: CAT FOUND NEAR DEATH WITH LEGS CUT OFF...
Drudge
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:52:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, she split the pelt long time ago. Pix taken by the old married talk show host she was boinking back int he day. Kind of cute in a pixie sort of way. Pelt looked like a six-pack of brillo pads. Nice bazongas.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:41:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Where did she split the pelt? Any pix?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:38:12 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard Doctor Laura Schlessinger, former split beaver model, today say the Clinton family was amoral, totally amoral.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:28:33 (EST)

My two cents are: You know when you kill something, say a lizard or a centipede or a weasel or a chicken, it will often jerk about a bit after it's pretty much dead? Kind of a reflex herking and jerking of the muscles once used in life? That's the way it is with poor Glint here. Soon he'll be gone. But for now, a paw occasionally jerks as if running, or lips pull back from his teeth as if in a snarl, or staring eyes pop open as if contemplating the world outside the death- bubble. It's hard to believe that the troglodytes were finally put away and the clods tamped down over them by grandmotherly old Harlan St. Wolf. I suppose, though, that he's still more than they deserved.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:25:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Politics is bad, but it's also hilarious, unless you are like Glint and put your faith in worldly goods. Naked we came into this world and naked we will leave it. Behold the lilies of the field, they sow not nor do they reap. A genuine person can't really be bothered too much about politics, knowing that politics, particularly Republican politics, is about meaningless things, baubles, consumption, gimcrack symbols to ward off the cold heart and meaningless suspicion, like the Mercedes car or the high-wattage Judas Priest PA system. Easily as fun as those monkeys that you pull the string and they shinny up the pole. Except that they are real hayseeds listening to half-drunk bus-drivers relating their beliefs to a fascist talk-show host, and getting all worked up about the crack mothers sucking on the welfare teat.
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- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:21:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds to me as if this Walker dude was just a Cali-born yokel wandering around trying to find his ashram. In the Second World War there were thousands of American citizens, maybe caught on the old sod, nips, krauts, wops, you name it, who put on the meatball or the swastika or the sphaghetti-bowl and bore arms against their country. And not a single one of them was cited afterward. We tried Ezra Pound and two or three other mergatroids for announcing propaganda on the enemy radio, and that's it. Draft-dodgers like John Ashcroft were not allowed to kick people around after they were out of combat. Sure, they tried the big boys, Goering, Hess, Speer, Eichmann when they finally caught him. But nobody went after the grunt. We had to wait for the righteous indignation of John Ashcroft for that.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 23:10:40 (EST)

My two cents are: cant we sort of nathan hale this walker dude?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:27:57 (EST)

My two cents are: In a way, I really cant follow politics anymore. Its like I'm afraid to watch. Things are bad, very bad, and the bushies are in office so things will get worse. Maybe I'll lose my job, my house, etc. I guess this is happening and has happened to alot of people. Scared about it, scared about more war. this sucks, is it what happens when you have no fucking vision?
Borg 11 of 22
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:26:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Isnt Marilyn Chambers day coming up in june? I'm sure its coming. really.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:22:37 (EST)

My two cents are: hey there anon at 1 43 06 you took the c wright mills right out of my mouth! btw, nine days without a cigarette.
Borg 7 of 22
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:21:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, and birthday happy, Ronald. Tree. Bookcase. Waga-waga! Sndehjplf, kdlrithjd!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:12:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Happy birthday, Bob! May you rest in peace.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:10:58 (EST)

My two cents are: you mergatroids can yack all you want about these things. Me, I've been putting in mega-hours trying to get February 6th declared a holiday in honor of the birthday of Bob Marley. Ja love!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 22:07:59 (EST)

My two cents are: At least the kid was a volunteer. Didn't opt for the cushy life in the Afghan Air National Guard. If he'd caught shrapnel in Grenada, he's be wearing a chestfull of medals.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:56:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm crying.
Burt Lumpertz
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:55:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, the poor fellow could have just quit the Taliban. But, no. Not Calicoban Johnny.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:52:40 (EST)

My two cents are: And that's how they treat fellow right wing nuts. Just imagine what they'd do to a poor fellow who happened to be a liberal.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:50:19 (EST)

My two cents are: This will turn a true conservative's stomach. What bullshit: following is an excerpt from a document filed in federal District Court by lawyers for John Walker Lindh to support their motion that he be released from jail pending his trial on charges of conspiring with Al Qaeda to kill Americans: In early November 2001, troops of the State of Afghanistan defending a battle line against Northern Alliance advances in the Takhar region retreated toward Kunduz. Mr. Lindh walked without rest for about two days, covering approximately 50 miles through mountainous terrain before arriving in Kunduz. Upon arrival, he was exhausted, severely dehydrated and in physical and psychological shock that impaired his ability to speak. On approximately Nov. 24, 2001, Mr. Lindh and others surrendered their weapons to troops under the command of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum and were driven by truck to the fortress at Qala Jangi near Mazar-i-Sharif. At Qala Jangi, Mr. Lindh was held prisoner by Dostum's forces. Dostum and his troops have a reputation for massacring, raping and looting prisoners. That reputation was known to Mr. Lindh and others. On or about Nov. 25, 2001, Mr. Lindh was seated on the ground in the area around the Qala Jangi fort with his hands bound behind him. At that time, he heard an explosion. When Mr. Lindh attempted to run, he was hit by shrapnel or bullets and fell to the ground, where he lay for some hours until he was helped into the basement of the fort by other prisoners. Mr. Lindh remained in the Qala Jangi fort basement for about seven days until Dec. 1, 2001. During that time, Mr. Lindh had almost no food and very little drinking water. While Mr. Lindh was in the basement, Dostum's soldiers threw grenades through ventilation ducts, killing prisoners below. At one point, Dostum's soldiers poured oil or diesel fuel down a duct into the basement. About 5 to 10 minutes later, Dostum's soldiers lit the fuel and also poured it into another area of the basement, in which prisoners were more tightly packed. Many prisoners died from the fire. Dostum's soldiers also fired large rockets into the basement through a ventilation shaft, killing many prisoners. Toward the end of the week, Dostum's soldiers directed ice cold water through the ducts to flood the basement. As the water rose, Mr. Lindh was able to stand up with the help of other prisoners to avoid drowning. Around Mr. Lindh, other prisoners who could not stand were drowned. Wounded, starved and freezing, Mr. Lindh emerged from the fort on Dec. 1, 2001. He was dizzy and numb from the events and apparently still had shrapnel or bullets imbedded in his body. After Mr. Lindh emerged, he was taken into U.S. custody. Government agents restrained and blindfolded Mr. Lindh and drove him from Mazar-i-Sharif to a location where he was held for approximately 5 to 6 days. Mr. Lindh was held in a room with a single window that was covered with a black cloth such that Mr. Lindh could distinguish day and night only from light he detected around the cloth's edges. Armed guards stood sentry inside the room. Although a medic checked Mr. Lindh, the medic did nothing more than change his bandages. Despite his state of malnutrition and dehydration, Mr. Lindh was provided only small portions of food. His requests for medical attention to his wounds and for additional food were refused. Unidentified government agents interrogated Mr. Lindh in this dark room over the course of two or three days. Mr. Lindh provided the interrogators with whatever information he had that might assist them in the war effort. During this time, Mr. Lindh asked his interrogators on more than one occasion when he could see a lawyer and when he could he see a doctor. The interrogators never advised Mr. Lindh of his right to counsel and stated that they did not know when Mr. Lindh could see a lawyer. After the interrogations, Mr. Lindh was provided somewhat more food, and the guards were no longer posted in his room 24 hours a day. On or about Dec. 6 or 7, 2001, Mr. Lindh was taken by airplane to Camp Rhino, a U.S. Marine outpost in the high desert zone about 70 miles south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was blindfolded and tightly handcuffed with plastic straps so tight that they cut into his skin and cut off the circulation to his hands. During the course of being transferred to Camp Rhino, Mr. Lindh's government custodians threatened him with death and torture. When the airplane landed, soldiers cut off all of Mr. Lindh's clothes. Completely naked, other than his blindfold, Mr. Lindh was then placed on a stretcher. He was bound to the stretcher with heavy tape that was tightly wound around his chest, upper arms, shoulders, ankles and the stretcher itself. Completely immobilized and still blindfolded and handcuffed, Mr. Lindh was then placed inside a rectangular, windowless metal shipping container. The metal container sat on the desert floor surrounded by rolls of barbed wire and a watchtower. Guards were posted outside the container. There was no light, heat source or insulation inside the container. There were at least two small holes in the container that allowed some light and air to enter. Mr. Lindh's hands and feet remained cuffed such that his forearms were forced together and fully extended, pointing straight down toward his feet. Mr. Lindh remained fully exposed within the metal container until, after some time had passed, a single, thin blanket was placed over him. Mr. Lindh was kept in these conditions continuously for two to three days. During that time, he was provided minimal food and little medical attention. Due to hunger, the cold temperature and the position in which he was restrained, Mr. Lindh was able to sleep little if at all. During this time, he began to experience pain in his feet, in addition to the pain from his untreated shrapnel wounds. Guards would frequently shout epithets at Mr. Lindh through the small holes in the metal container. After approximately three days' being held in these conditions, Mr. Lindh was led from the shipping container to a nearby tent and sat on a cot. When his blindfold was removed, he was facing a man who identified himself as an F.B.I. agent. When Mr. Lindh asked for a lawyer, the agent told him there were no lawyers there. Mr. Lindh was not told that his parents had retained an attorney for him who was ready and willing to see him in Afghanistan. The government had also prevented the Red Cross from delivering a note that Mr. Lindh's parents sent to him on or about Dec. 3, 2001, stating that they had retained counsel for Mr. Lindh. This was the first of several attempts by Mr. Lindh's parents to communicate with him through the Red Cross, none of which were allowed. After interrogation by the F.B.I. agent, Mr. Lindh continued to be held in the metal shipping container, but his treatment began to improve. His leg and hand cuffs were loosened somewhat, and he was no longer blindfolded at all times. The duct tape was removed from his body, allowing him to move his legs and arms as long as he requested permission to do so. He received more food and, eventually, a thermal blanket. On approximately Dec. 14, Mr. Lindh was transferred to the U.S.S. Peleliu. Sometime after transfer to the ship, Mr. Lindh, for the first time, received surgery for his wounds. On Jan. 6, he was allowed, for the first time, to receive letters from his parents and the lawyers that they had retained on his behalf........ aww, the poor baby! Let's roll.
If Pete had rolled, he could have taken it.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:40:13 (EST)

My two cents are: You mergatroids make me sick. Whether you like the Bush or not, he deserves your respect for running for president and coming dang close to winning. Lay off!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:35:15 (EST)

My two cents are: This was predictable. It's just what you should expect when you give the White House keys to whiney brats.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:31:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't forget wag the dog. Funny how the charges grew just as Enrongate is about to become a Dick's and Bush's shit sandwich.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:28:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it is embarrassing. But, so are the lesions. So is the calico cat problem. So is the fact that he lost his Senate seat to a corpse. Now he's piling on a mergatroid even Snippy called "a poor fellow." It's this administration*'s idea of PR, made necessary by the abject failure in smoking Osama bin Laden out and quashing Al Qaida as well as the hollow "victory" against the mighty armies of the Taliban. The mergatroid is all they've got.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:23:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Get with the new paradigm, stoopid. Vlad Putin the Butcher of Grozny is a good guy, a guy we can trust and invite to the ranch. The Cali-ban punk is nothing but meat for the hanging tree. He conspired to kill Americans overseas. Not only that, he succored the Taliban, which according to judicial guidelines is an automatic ten years. He succored Al Quaida, which is fifteen. All along the way he failed to choose the righteous path. Unlike John Ashcroft who sought and was given a draft deferment in the '60's for doing indispensible war work-- teaching business in a cornshuck college. I'll tell you this, stoopid, there aren't many people who can claim to have beat the rap on the charge of conspiring to kill Americans overseas. New paradigm, Jackson.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:22:04 (EST)

My two cents are: What is up with this Ashcroft? He seems to regard the law as if it were the voice of God snarling at the Sodomites. What kind of asshole stands up and vents venom about some character who wandered into the Taliban? How many people were tried for treason after a) World War II, b) the Korean War, c) the Viet Nam war, or d) the Panama incursion? This is something new, this hysterical revenging attitude in a government official. Almost everyone below the Mason-Dixon line committed treason for four years, and at the end they got to go home and take their horses for the plowing. Isn't anyone else embarassed to have such a vicious asshole running the justice department?
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- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:13:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I turned my rumpus room into an urban shrine for Meher Baba.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:05:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I didn't watch it, and I don't even have a rumpus room. I don't rumpus much any more, is the reason.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 21:04:28 (EST)

My two cents are: So he lied? Big deal. It wasn't under oath. He just came into our rumpus rooms and lied.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 19:09:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, it would go along way with me if President* Bush would clearly state that he secretly despised him.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 17:56:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, but none of this in any way tells us just how Snippy FELT about the man deep inside.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 17:51:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Ex-CEO a top fund-raiser since early '90s By BOB PORT Daily News Staff Writer o hear President Bush talk these days, his relationship with former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was merely a casual one � a politician and his distant supporter. In truth, Bush and Lay have maintained a close alliance for a decade. A Daily News examination of their relationship found a pattern of mutual benefit that begins in Texas and moves to Washington. According to documents, interviews and past reports, Lay began to cultivate their friendship in 1989, and Bush grew to depend on Lay for campaign money. Since Bush first ran for governor in Texas, Lay and his wife, Linda, have personally given Bush, his campaigns and his inauguration parties more than $610,000 � not from Enron Inc., Enron employees or an Enron political action committee, but from their own bank accounts. Among the Bush-Lay ties: Eight times, according to federal election records, Bush campaign staff and even Bush's parents flew on Enron corporate aircraft during the Republican presidential primary in 2000 � flights sometimes arranged personally by the future President. Bush kept Lay as chairman of the Governor's Business Council in Texas, and Lay later spearheaded the President's campaign finance efforts there. Lay was named one of Bush's "pioneers" � those supporters who hauled in $100,000 or more in donations of $1,000 or less. Over the years, Lay helped gather millions for Bush. When asked to talk about the President's relationship with Lay, White House spokesman Ken Lisaius stuck to the official line, saying only: "Ken Lay has been a supporter." "I would let the President's words speak for themselves," Lisaius also said. Denials Sound Familiar Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, a campaign watchdog group in Austin, Tex., said Bush's behavior reminds him of former President Bill Clinton's early Monica Lewinsky denials. It's as if, McDonald explained, Bush is stammering: "I did not have political relations with that man." Kenneth Lay was a big-league player on the Dubya team. In January 2001, it was an Enron corporate jet that carried former President George Bush to his son's inauguration � and to a huge party financed in part by the single biggest gift on record given by the Lays to Bush: $100,000. So solid are the ties between the Lays and the whole Bush family that many Texans are shaking their heads as they watch the President tap dance away from any hint he might be friendly toward Lay or Enron. "It's truly stupid," said Jim Hightower, former editor of the liberal Texas Observer and a 30-year commentator on Texas politics. "He's like a 4-year-old squeezing his eyes shut tight, pretending we can't see him." "Here in Texas," Hightower added, "we're taught as kids you don't abandon your friends." For years, in the society columns of the Houston Chronicle, the Lays qualified as Bush family friends in the many charity events they frequented. In 1996, George and Laura Bush joined the Lays in spearheading a fund-raiser for the literacy project sponsored by George's mother, Barbara Bush. In 1999, the Lays chipped in $100,000 for the Andersen Cancer Center at Texas A&M University � in a fund-raising drive chaired by then-Gov. Bush and his wife. Lay, the President and the former President certainly acted like old friends when they watched the opening game of the Astros' 2000 season together at Enron Field. As friends often do, Kenneth Lay sought favors. As Lay passed the hat in 1999 for Bush's presidential bid, Gov. Bush signed a Texas energy deregulation bill that opened huge new markets for Enron. Bush set up a panel that met in secret and granted exemptions to allow power plants to exceed legal pollution limits. Enron got plenty. In 1997, Lay wrote to Bush, asking him to arm-twist the Texas congressional delegation to support more federal aid for businesses investing abroad. Enron sought loan guarantees and cheap federal insurance for projects in India and Bolivia. Some Texans Irked What galls some Texans is Bush's effort to deflect questions about his relationship to Lay. Bush tried to dismiss the idea the man he called "Kenny boy" was his buddy by implying that Lay had backed former Texas Gov. Ann Richards during his 1994 bid to win the Austin governor's mansion. Bush said he'd kept Lay in charge of his Governor's Business Council only to maintain continuity. Lay lavished three times more campaign cash on Bush and worked hard to elect him. "Wasn't that silly of George Bush?" Richards said last week on CNN's "Larry King Live." "What a stupid thing." Richards recounted how Lay warned her before the race that he and and his wife "are very, very close to the Bush family." Richards recalled Lay saying that while he might vote for her, his wife was "going to be in this race for George W. � money, marbles and chalk."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:54:02 (EST)

My two cents are: We don't need a special prosecutor for McClarty. He holds no executive office. Glint was just a tad off. Nothing new there. But, surely the local D.A. can handle McClartygate. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:37:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, bastard, if the Justice Department didn't have to recuse itself, you KNOW they'd be going after McClarty with guns blazing. The Justice Department would love nothing more than full disclosure on how the Enron gang wormed its way into the hallways of our government. Unfortunately, the Robert Kennedy Justice Department DID have to recuse itself. Cliton skates again! McClarty too. Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:33:57 (EST)

My two cents are: How can you say that after Glint has blown the lid off McClartygate? Oh, this one has legs, beautiful legs! Of course, the lie-bral press won't even mention it. In fact, nobody is mentioning it except Glint. Let's get a special prosecutor because the Justice Department will never take on McClarty. And, besides, the Justice Department has recused itself because of its ties to McClarty. Thanks, Glint. Yours is a lonely job. Keep plugging. A grateful nation salutes you, sir!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:28:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Republicans cannot spin Enron on Clinton. It's a direct connection from Lay to Bush or Bush to Lay.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:18:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Some mergatroid has been messing with Port 110 again! Stop it, Pete!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:10:44 (EST)

My two cents are: A slogan that only we 22 use with any regularity, notwithstanding the occasional sarcastic "Let's roll" in the traitorous Doonesbury comic strip.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 14:00:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Why was that character who said "Let's roll" into his cell phone such a white-bread christer? Why couldn't he have said "No balls no glory," or "It is a lovely day to die" or "Let's kick ass" or "Let's get some" or "Let's boogie, dudes" or even "Last one in is a rotten egg?" Now Snippy is stuck with a slogan that sounds like the start of a Soap Box Derby�.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 11:24:26 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm beginning to see why Glint is so fixated on spin. Lacking knowledge of how things really are, he can percieve on how things can be made to appear to be, which is of course the province of the spin-meisters. A guy gets a blow-job in a hallway, and he can't see the blow-job itself, but just the way some nut like Starr or Barr spins it. Enron robs and pillages its way through stock-market scammery, and all he sees is Snippyites spinning it as an indication that there may be a need for minor adjustments in pension fund regulations. He can't see a tax-deferred pension as a government subsidy to the pensioner, but as just another troglodyte spon on the free market, a place for the pensioner to roll the dice, and so much if he's got someone else's money on the table. I believe, as stated before, that we are looking at the failure of American education. We need to carve the commandments over the schoolhouse door. Let's roll.
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- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 11:14:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course money in the future is worth more than money in the present. That is why you have to pay interest if you borrow money today and pay it back in the future. Or something. The socialists will never understand economics. They don't understand that ever since Al Capone criminals have paid taxes, so every crime contributes to the economy. Doink.
Not Here
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 10:18:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint is right that the government still gets its pound of fat with the deferred taxes. Half a pound of fat twenty years from now is easily worth a pound of fat today, the way the government sees it. I'd make that trade any day, as a free-market capitalist.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 10:13:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Enrongate may be over, but McLartygate has just started. My heart bleeds for the socialists. Bring on the special prosecutor!
bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 10:07:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Enrongate is over? Great! Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 09:48:53 (EST)

My two cents are: That's the ticket, $30K-Boy! You've uncovered the real evildoers in this Enron thing. Now we can go back to smoking out goat farmers.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 09:47:25 (EST)

My two cents are: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_7142.html
"Bush-Cheney sales team eased Enron's path to success"
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 08:35:24 (EST)

My two cents are: TIME (SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 VOL. 150 NO. 9) THE SCOOP - THE WHITE HOUSE: THAT INVISIBLE MACK SURE CAN LEAVE HIS MARK For a man who had supposedly vanished from the corridors of power, MACK MCLARTY was the man to see in 1996. BILL CLINTON's former chief of staff, now a White House counselor tucked away in the basement, provided assistance to businessmen who ponied up $1.5 million for the Democrats in the last election. On Nov. 22, 1995, for example, Clinton scrawled an FYI note to McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on ENRON CORP. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, KEN LAY, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the President's party. Enron denies that its gift was repayment for Clinton's attention, and White House special counsel LANNY DAVIS says McLarty acted out of concern for a major U.S. investment overseas.
in the name of full disclosure <Glint>
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 08:32:51 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/garner.htm
cartoon
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 08:22:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Happy Birday dear Ronald.
Glint
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 08:16:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Now, why would I do that. It's funny that the loonies are trying to hang this Enron thing, what with it's alleged illegal insider trading and all, on a state gov't. Not like they needed the Govenor's approval to build a power plant in India. What we have here is a major effort to spin a business collapse into a burning tire necklace. Keep playing that hand, elections are around the corner.
Glint
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 08:11:48 (EST)

My two cents are: What's the deal here? Did Glint slink off again? Man, it ain't like the old days, when right-wing lunatics could take a little pressure. There used to be loon-balls on here who could take their lumps day after day, churning out yards and yards of scrollable drool and frothings, never minding that they were exposed with each post as dull-witted, ill-informed, and in over their heads. Now all we have is the hit-and-run boys who slip in with some moronic revelation based on the idea, say, that Hillary could be nailed by FACA only because she wasn't part of the executive branch, or that deferred federal income taxes aren't part a federal subsidy. And when they are justly ridiculed for their stupidity they do the gerbil waltz-away, only to stick their little vibrating noses out of the gerbil bubble the next day, promoting some equally boneheaded idea. Whak-a-Mole� gets a little boring when the moles are hiding most of the time.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 02:21:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron is a front.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 01:50:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Thomas E. White became the 18th Secretary of the Army on May 31, 2001, after nomination to that post by President Bush and confirmation by the United States Senate. As Secretary of the Army, Secretary White has statutory responsibility for all matters relating to Army manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications, and financial management. Secretary White is responsible for the department's annual budget of nearly $70 billion. The Secretary leads a work force of just over one million active duty, National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers and 270,000 civilian employees, and has stewardship over 15 million acres of land. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of the Army, Secretary White served as Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Services, the Enron Corporation subsidiary responsible for providing energy outsource solutions to commercial and industrial customers throughout the United States. Mr. White was responsible for the delivery component of energy management services, which included commodity management; purchasing, maintaining, and operating energy assets; developing and implementing energy information services; capital management; and facilities management. Secretary White also served as a member of Enron's Executive Committee and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Enron Operations Corporation. He was also responsible for the Enron Engineering and Construction Company, which managed an extensive construction portfolio with domestic and international projects.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 01:49:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was a Pentagon official during the Vietnam War. Another Enron board member who facilitated Enron's most egregious violations overseas, Frank Wisner, Jr., has intimate CIA ties and is the son of former CIA Deputy Director Frank Wisner, Sr., who was present at the creation of the CIA. Enron's symbiotic relationship to the CIA/Pentagon-based Bush/Cheney oligarchy is well documented. As a pioneer of energy deregulation during his administration, George H.W. Bush virtually created Enron, and paved the way for its meteoric growth. And, as David Walsh (www.wsws.org) wrote, "to speak of "connections" or "intimate ties" between Enron and the Bush regime nearly misses the point. To a large extent, the present administration is an extension of the Enron board of directors. This government, one might say, is Enron in office, not simply because numerous Bush cabinet members and other appointees (and other leading Republicans) have been employed in one capacity or another by Enron, but more profoundly in the sense that the social types found in Enron's boardroom and in leading government posts in Washington are interchangeable." As a corporate agent and beneficiary of US and western military and intelligence operations, Enron is also no more an aberration than the United Fruit and Standard Fruit companies, whose dominance of Central America during the 1960s depended on cooperative operations with the CIA, the Pentagon and organized crime.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 01:43:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Secretary CHENEY (briefing, 29 Jan 90): "And the US presence around the world I think gives us enormous influence, obviously is required if we plan to continue to be the leader of the free world, is welcomed by most nations around the world. And the fact that we are present in so many parts of the world with our own military forces alleviates the need for others, who might be tempted to build their own, if there were a vacuum there to be filled." Cheney's enthusiasm for the American military as the ever-present cop-on-the-block is summed up in his observation that, "The rest of the world is confident about, feels good about, is happy with US military forces in their neighborhood."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 01:15:59 (EST)

My two cents are: BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A top-level Bush administration delegation unveiled plans Tuesday to widen United States involvement in Colombia's civil war, including providing training, weapons and aircraft to Colombian troops to protect a pipeline carrying U.S. oil.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 01:13:05 (EST)

My two cents are: You're kidding! Does this mean Clinton was a Democrat, on the side of the people, a good guy? And Bush is a Republican, on the side of the monied interests, a bad guy? Who would have thunk it?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:58:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Highlights of the FY'03 Budget Request Feb. 4, 2002 The administration of President George W. Bush is requesting $396.1 billion for the military in fiscal year 2003 ($379.3 billion for the Defense Department and $16.8 billion for the nuclear weapons functions of the Department of Energy). This is $45.5 billion above current levels, an increase of 13 percent. It is also 15 percent above the Cold War average, to fund a force structure that is one-third smaller than it was a decade ago. In all, the administration plans to spend $2.1 TRILLION on the military over the next five years. The budget plans, if approved by Congress, would lead the nation back into deficit spending in FY'03 - for the first time in four years.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:57:24 (EST)

My two cents are: When the going gets "too easy", the tough are outta here.
Bwahahahahahahaha
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:54:36 (EST)

My two cents are: SILENCE ON THE RIGHT; or, The Busted Effort to Blame Enron on Bill Clinton and the Democrats Have you noticed that the right wing has suddenly grown almost silent over how Bill Clinton and the Democrats were the real cause behind the Enron scandal? You heard it constantly for a day or two, or three, from the usual gang at the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Faux, not to mention various corporate-sponsored right-wing vanity sites. And you still hear echoes of it from the likes of CNN's Jonathan Karl -- a conservative who regularly lets his partisanship show, most recently in his snide attack on Senator Fritz Hollings (see next item). But, mostly, there is silence where once there was noise. How come? Simple. Clinton and the Democrats did not cause the Enron disaster. They tried to PREVENT disasters like Enron from occurring -- and were stopped by the deregulation-crazed, corporate shill Republicans. Here's a handy guide on the subject, with half-a-dozen of the bigger reasons why the right wing has suddenly gone missing on this matter. Download it and send it to your friends -- and to anyone out there who still thinks it's possible to fob this Republican scandal off onto Bill Clinton and the Democrats. How the Clinton Administration and the Democrats Tried to Prevent the Enron Disaster from Happening Stopping Auditor-Consulting Conflicts by Accountants In 2000, Clinton Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Arthur Levitt, Jr. proposed regulations to prohibit accounting firms from simultaneously serving as consultants and auditors. Arthur Andersen and other accounting firms mounted a massive lobbying campaign against the Clinton-Levitt regulations, killing them. The lead lobbyist for the accounting firms was Harvey Pitt. After being sworn in as President, George W. Bush named Pitt chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Greater Disclosure of Energy Derivatives In 1997, Clinton Commodities Futures Trading Commission Chair Brooksley Born proposed greater regulation (by way of more stringent disclosure) of energy derivatives, the key financial instrument in Enron's Ponzi-scheme empire. Her proposal was beaten back by House Republicans, including then-House Banking Committee Chair Jim Leach (R-IA) who scolded her for two hours at a hearing. Oversight of Energy Traders In 2000, William Rainier, Born's successor as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, told Congress that he was "deeply concerned" about a bill to exempt energy trading from CFTC review, noting that those who trade energy derivatives were not subject to any other oversight. Rainer's objections were largely ignored by the Republican-controlled Congress, and the exemption, heavily backed by Enron, became law. Cracking Down on Tax Havens In 2000, Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers proposed a crackdown on tax havens such as those used by Enron. With the US co-chairing the OECD's Forum on Harmful Tax Practices, Summers crusaded for a crackdown on money-laundering and tax havens. His proposal was opposed by the GOP Congress. When the Bush Administration took office, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill abandoned Summers' crusade, telling the Wall Street Journal, "The government has not been respectful of the cost it imposes on society." The New York Times reported that Bush's top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey (a former economic adviser to Enron) also opposed efforts to crack down on tax havens. Protecting 401(k)s In 1997: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) proposed banning investment of more than 10 percent of the total 401(k) plan in the employer's stock--the maximum that investment experts recommend a person sink into any company. The GOP Senate watered down her bill so much it no longer applied to any corporation in America; Protecting Investors and Shareholders On December 20, 1995, President Clinton vetoed the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act, which would have restricted lawsuits against corporation accused of securities fraud. In his veto message, Clinton presciently noted that while he supported the notion of reducing frivolous lawsuits: "I am not, however, willing to sign legislation that will have the effect of closing the courthouse door on investors who have legitimate claims. Those who are the victims of fraud should have recourse in our courts. Our markets are as strong and effective as they are because they operate -- and are seen to operate -- with integrity. I believe that this bill, as modified in conference, could erode this crucial basis of our markets' strength." The GOP Congress overrode Clinton's veto. What's that you say, WSJ? Faux? CNN? Clinton was to blame? Go ahead, say it. Make our day.

- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:52:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Tuesday February 5, 2002 7:40 PM Governors and state legislators are weighing whether to clamp down on the public's access to government documents and meetings, driven by worries that terrorists could use the information to plan attacks or escape capture. But those proposals have dismayed open-government advocates and the media, who warn a sweeping approach would block a key element of democratic society - public scrutiny of government. Florida closed public records about security plans and drug stockpiles back in December, with new proposals under debate or just being drafted there and in Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee and Washington state. Some would close the doors on talks about water supplies and sewer systems, while others would limit information about ongoing criminal investigations, evacuation plans and bioterrorism response assessments. ``Gee whiz, do we need to be so open with all this stuff?'' said Missouri state Rep. Randall Relford. After a request from municipal attorneys, Relford authored a measure that would let local governments meet in secret when discussing terrorist prevention plans for water, sewer and electric utilities. Elsewhere: -Washington Gov. Gary Locke and Attorney General Christine Gregoire are seeking to close public records dealing with preventing or responding to terrorism. Gregoire's office said more documents must be kept secret so the FBI can share information with local law enforcement without fear it will be made public. -Idaho Attorney General Al Lance is pursuing a measure that would let judges close public records if state agencies believe they contain information that would jeopardize public safety. Another proposal would keep the plans for evacuating public officials during an emergency under wraps. -Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening has proposed sealing access to public records that might be useful to terrorists. For all, Sept. 11 is the inspiration. States have to protect themselves from ``the devious methods and manners that the enemies of democracy are now looking at,'' Lance said. But civil liberties lawyers and newspaper editors have criticized the ideas at legislative hearings. The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to press and speech freedoms, is posting articles about the proposals on its Web site. ``We're just seeing the first wave. Everybody's going to see the potential for closing down meetings and for closing access to a variety of records,'' said Paul McMasters, ombudsman at the Freedom Forum. ``The fact of the matter is, none of the people on those planes on Sept. 11 had filed (a government) request to get the information that they needed to do the kind of damage they did.'' Still, McMasters said some of government's worries are legitimate. There needs to be a balance between a knee-jerk rush to secrecy and an equally knee-jerk response to keep all records public, said Charles Davis, director of the Freedom of Information Center at the Missouri School of Journalism. The key is to carefully write laws that narrowly define what should be kept secret, he said. ``They are not records deemed by only record keepers to threaten public health and safety. That's broad enough to drive a truck through.'' Even aside from the impact of terrorism, access to public records is a perennial topic in state legislatures, with some lawmakers seeking to make more information available and some seeking to limit it. New Jersey, a focus of the investigation into last year's anthrax attacks, moved ahead last month with a long-discussed plan to open more information to the public. Some of the new, Sept. 11-driven proposals - like those in Idaho and Washington state - have drawn pointed criticism, while others are moving through the legislative process with little fanfare. Lance, a Republican, said the public's rights in Idaho would be protected by allowing a judge to decide when a government agency's desire for secrecy is valid. ``The people's right to know is very important,'' said Relford, the Missouri Democrat. ``There's a balance, and we've got to look for that middle ground.''
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:51:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't fall into the trap carefully baited with Glint's truncated dictionary post. "As... formerly granted by the British Parliament to the crown...." My aching ass. What a woeful rube.
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- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:51:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Plus, he actually isn't ashamed to mention his affinity to the music of Judas Priest.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:50:25 (EST)

My two cents are: What is it Glint is crowing about being too easy? He's confirmed the special treatment, tax-wise, of money placed in certain savings funds, per the IRC. The whole idea of deferring taxes is to realize special treatment. You defer paying taxes on what you earn so you can pay at a lower rate later. Nothing is really too easy for this rube. Nothing. From driving along country roads, fucking around with the police, to getting along with the neighbors, to letting a poor fucked up queer teenager alone. This guy is the most evil one of all, in his passive-aggressive way. Worse than a bull-goose looney like Pete. Or a poor inbreed like Jeremiah. Or a lost soul like MK. Or even a crusty old salt like the crynic. Glint is the true Republican disease personified.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:48:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, "deferred" taxation, as opposed to current taxation, is special taxation. Obvious.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:41:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Montana. Nothing wrong with it. God's fucking country. Just an example of electoral subsidy. As opposed to electile dysfunction, I mean.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:39:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Before you go, Glint, perhaps you could share with us just how much money you are worth, net. Come on, don't be shy.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:38:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Why are you bad-mouthing Montana?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:37:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Sub-si-dy, n., pl -dies: a grant or gift of money: as a sum of money formerly granted by the British Parliament to the crown and raised by special taxation... <> So, special taxation is the same thing as a deferred tax? (BWA!)
This is getting way too easy, i'm outta here... <[email protected]>
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:37:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Nothing. Roads have nothing to do with taxes according to the president*'s red budget. Somebody didn't grease the wheels, I guess.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:36:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, poor Glint. Oops, I mean $30K Glint. Lest we forget.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:35:23 (EST)

My two cents are: What in blue blazes do roads have to do with taxes?
Glimpse
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:34:43 (EST)

My two cents are: Or, Glint, those farm SUBSIDIES, to put it in terms you might comprehend. Every dairy farm withing, what, 100 miles of Eu Claire, Wisconsin gets subsidized. Or, maybe the fact that Montana gets proportionally about 10 times the electoral votes than a place where voters live.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:33:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Nope. Subsidy is when the trucking industry gets you to buy roads for it, or when the investment industry gets you to underwrite other people's investment by giving them a tax gift. A grant is like, when you give the doggie a cookie. Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:30:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Some things are sad, really. Or sick. Guys like the crynic and Glint, who just love to flash the fat roll and bitch about the ghetto. These are Americans. Bullet-headed, fat-assed Americanos who have no idea what this America thing is really about. Traitors, all of them.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:30:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Total rube. The government still takes a dollar instead of ten dollars, so there's no subsidy. Half of your schtick is grasping for straws, bubbles. If you didn't paint yourself into so many corners all that would be unnecessary.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:28:23 (EST)

My two cents are: No, Glint, your cash ain't nothin' but trash. You're the kind of rube who enjoys saying, "You think $30K is a lot?" That's the problem, rube. You don't get it, do you? Geesh! Sad, really.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:27:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Was Glint crowing about $30K? I didn't catch it. I thought he was complaining that he had on $59. Either way, I thought your 401K you could only put in two or three large in any year. All that stuff doesn't matter much when you're outside the bubble of captivation by the material.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:26:00 (EST)

My two cents are: I got an idea, Glint! How about a tax for voting? Let's see the liberals get around that one!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:25:43 (EST)

My two cents are: You think $30K is a lot? It's only the maximum limit on the SEP-IRA contribution. Anything over the top has to go somewhere else. To some island other than CONUS, perhaps?
Glint
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:25:22 (EST)

My two cents are: You've been talking about these 401-K subsidies for five days now. Deferred taxes aren't a subsidy, which is more like a grant. With deferred taxes the Gov't still gets its pound of fat. Subsidies are what Democrats use to buy votes in the ghetto.
Glint
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:22:07 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but what about shooting up? She be shooting up, too?
Crack Cousin
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:21:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, rube. The more you can contribute, the greater the subsidy. Look at the shallow fuck, crowing about 30K and scoffing at $59. Go stone a hermaphrodite, you Talibanoid.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:21:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but you still be sucking on the welfare teat, bitch.
Crack Daddy
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:20:11 (EST)

My two cents are: If we could only get "abortion on demand", our crack babies wouldn't pop out so fast.
Crack Mother
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:19:11 (EST)

My two cents are: The whole point of not subsidizing idiotically risky investments by deferring taxes on them is not to pound our taxes down a rat-hole. Are you starting to get a glimmer, or are the crack babies distracting you?
.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:17:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Whatever, Glint. Just so long as it's not "subsidized" by taxes, that's all I care about. Let's pay the taxes when they come due, and not fall into the trap of deferring them.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:15:32 (EST)

My two cents are: The whole point of these tax deferred plans is to, well, avoid paying taxes. So by definition they have to be blessed by the big gov't. Duh? Course where the dingleberry's constituents come in is you got to pay taxes to defer taxes. When you're sucking on the welfare teat, shooting up, and popping out crack babies you don't have taxes to defer, and you don't get a very big tax break, do you?
Glint
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:15:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know, Meat-brain. It seems to me, considering Glint's ignorance, that Snippy's education policy is going to help America rather than hurt it. If the Ten Commandments had been posted over Glint's blackboard, he may have learned the fundamentals of finding out which end is up before spouting off about it.
Yabba
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:13:44 (EST)

My two cents are: You don't put self employment dollars in a 401 K. Besides, with a SEP-IRA you can plop in up to $30K instead of $11K. But when you've only got $59 to invest, I'd go ahead with the 401K too.
Glint
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:11:23 (EST)

My two cents are: It's all about the pendulum. We go along for a while becoming more and more corrupt and sick as a society, the pendulum shifting way to the right, as pendula shift. And then, the pendulum swings back to the left, the Democrats sweep into office, and the corruption is hosed out of the stables. The fact that the administration operated so contrarily to the public interest from the get-go is the legacy of the Gingrich nuts taking over the congress and grabbing what they could, getting the legislative side over toward corrupt, and of course the corruption on the Supreme Court, which created and blessed the Snippy administration. The pendulum will shift back, but the Republicans can pride themselves on the fact that they will have done severe and long-lasting damage to America.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:10:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Robert Mosbacher, Sr. and James A. Baker, III became paid Enron consultants upon exiting the revolving door in GHWB�s cabinet.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:09:45 (EST)

My two cents are: 5. Energy Task Force Meetings Are Held in Secrecy Like Clinton's Health Care Task Force Which GOP Criticized. Bush's energy task force is "something of a secret society� to close followers of government, the shroud of secrecy may seem familiar: It is precisely the approach taken by Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care task force at the same point in the Clinton administration," according to the Washington Post. All sessions are off the record and members and staff are expected not to talk to the media about the task force. In 1993, when the Clinton administration sought to keep meetings and files of its Health Care Task Force secret, Rep. William F. Clinger (R-PA) then-ranking Republican on the House Government Operations Committee, said, "The process of health care reform needs sunshine, and a solid place to start is with the simple and reasonable act of making the names public�It concerns me that several hundred people, including what appears to be countless special interests, are involved in making such dramatic policy recommendations without the public knowing who is involved." [www.crp.org; New York Times, 1/30/01; Washington Times, 3/12/93]
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:04:47 (EST)

My two cents are: He really is a rube, isn't he.
Ozob
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:04:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Check it out, rube. I can invest in a 401K without paying taxes until later when I won't have to pay so much. Or I can invest in Sister Cleo and pay taxes on the interest. The 401K is subsidized by the federal government. Did you ever why it had such a strange name? 401K? It could well be called the Dingleberry Fund. Government program, Glint. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I heard that, too.
House of Meat
- Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 00:02:33 (EST)

My two cents are: You see, a public servant in fact is not free to receive secret "advice", so their strings must be pulled on the sly. The reason for FACA is that citizen advice is never really citizen advice. On any advisory group worth its charter, you will not find the people who are going to get things done to them, but instead you see the lawyers of the people who are going to do things to them. In other words, the people who stand to get fucked by the government do not end up on citizen advisory groups, but instead you see the people who are going to get the government to help them fuck somebody. The average citizen simply doesn't have the time to go himself or the money to send a lawyer. This is exactly what happened in formulating the energy plan. Enron got the government to help them fuck people.
S.Hudson Pilbert
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:59:03 (EST)

My two cents are: I need to get a SEP-IRA opened up. Gotta land those self employment $$s somewhre outside of the tax veil. What's this with the dream of 401Ks being "subsidized" by taxes? Been smoking more stucco chips from the urban ranchero?
Glint
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:52:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Had a good nap, and Glint is a rube. It came to me in an improbable dream, perhaps.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:51:30 (EST)

My two cents are: No nutshell, bunky. Executive privilege rightly refers to executive business. For instance, if I want to secretly blow the whistle on some slimey federal deal by telling a reporter to file a Freedom of Info Act claim on, say, my memo telling the boss that he is committing a crime, he can't get it. The feds still get to go through the material and find my smoking-gun memo and withdraw it as "pre-decisional", on the theory that free discussions shouldn't be chilled. But this applies to me and my boss as civil servants, operating theoretically and a priori, in the best interests of the people. It is illegal for me to receive recommendations from any advisory group without its being chartered under FACA. which means among other things that its meetings have to be announced a few weeks in advance, and its members can't engage in "lobbying activities", an oxymoron since an advisory group is usually just a collection of pressure groups to begin with. Of course this all breaks down pretty quickly in practice, because America is subtly shot through with corruption top to bottom, but the law is there and it is bullshit for Cheney's lawyers to deny it.
S.H. Pilbert
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:50:14 (EST)

My two cents are: My, my, grumpy aren't we? Did you miss your nap time?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:47:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor ignorant fellow. You don't seem to understand that a 401K is subsidized by your taxes, so it's not just a question of the employee taking a risk with his own money, he's also taking a risk with Captain Glint's. Everyone has perfect freedom to pound his money down a rat hole. There are no blackout periods. If you want to bitch about something, bubble boy, bitch about the tax deferment that corrupts the free market by inducing people to invest in the first place. What a rube.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:39:31 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Releasing details of White House energy task force meetings last year would put a chill on future presidential deliberations, government lawyers told a federal court on Tuesday. Critics of the task force say its behind-closed-door operations allowed interests such as Enron Corp. to influence the Bush administration as it drafted energy policy, while environmentalists were largely shut out. But Justice Department lawyers representing the energy task force, which was chaired by Vice President Dick Cheney, said demands to see the documents about the task force's work were unconstitutional, adding that the documents themselves might be subject to executive privilege. ``In order for the executive branch to function effectively, a president and his senior advisers must be able to work in an atmosphere that protects the communications if the president is to get the blunt, candid advice upon which wise decision-making depends,'' the lawyers said in a brief filed with U.S. District Court in Washington. The argument was filed in a case brought by Judicial Watch, a public interest law firm that has been widely described as conservative after it spent years in court dogging the administration of former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.
well, there you have it in a nutshell
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:35:51 (EST)

My two cents are: I've heard that one of the recommendations in the wake of Enron is to force employees to diversify in their company retirement plans. Good idea, bad law. Let's keep the nanny state from making people's investment decisions for them. Sort of like Social Security all over again, in a way. Assume the sheeple are dumb and need someone to handle their money for them. A good idea however would be to give employees more control instead of less control over their savings. Eliminate the blackout periods that keep a person from trading and buying into the various funds.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 23:08:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Laugh all you want! At least my face hasn't erupted yet.
Richard Armey
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 22:00:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Dick Armey? Never heard of such a thing. Must be something when they all stand at attention.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:59:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Spoken by a man who's intimate with obnoxiousness.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:57:50 (EST)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's plan to expand the AmeriCorps program might hit some roadblocks on Capitol Hill, the Republican Majority Leader in the House said Monday. "The idea that government can teach charity to America rings very hollow with me," Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, told reporters. "I do not understand why anybody would embrace AmeriCorps. I consider just the structural framework of AmeriCorps as obnoxious."
go Dick go
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:56:21 (EST)

My two cents are: The Associated Press Tuesday, February 5, 2002; 1:21 PM HOUSTON �� The Houston Astros want to shed the name of Enron Field. The baseball team asked a federal bankruptcy judge in New York on Tuesday whether the team should continue its stadium-naming agreement with Enron Corp., the energy giant that collapsed in an accounting scandal. "The Houston Astros have been materially and adversely affected by the negative public perception and media scrutiny resulting from Enron's alleged bad business practices and bankruptcy," said Astros vice president of business operations Pam Gardner. The team filed a motion requesting guidance on the issue from the court overseeing Enron's bankruptcy proceedings.
Treasonous unpatriotic slime-balls
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:52:12 (EST)

My two cents are: PowerScam: The Enron Bush Connection http://www.etherzone.com/dowb020901.shtml
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:41:03 (EST)

My two cents are: December 13, 2001 Enron Closes D.C. Shop By John Bresnahan Even as at least four Congressional committees have begun laying the groundwork for investigations into the abrupt collapse of energy giant Enron Corp., the Houston-based firm has essentially shut down its lobbying operation in Washington. Enron boasted a government affairs shop with roughly 25 employees until last week, when the company laid off all except a handful, including Linda Robertson, a former top aide in the Clinton White House, according to informed sources. A knowledgeable source said the Washington office had languished "for months"while top Enron officials in Houston provided little or no information about what was happening as the company�s finances rapidly spun out of control. Enron filed for bankruptcy Dec. 2. Enron spent more than $1.7 millionon its in-house lobbying operation last year plus hundreds of thousands of dollars more on outside firms, such as Bracewell and Patterson, Quinn, Gillespie & Associates and the Alexander Strategy Group, home to Ed Buckham, the former chief of staff for House MajorityWhip Tom DeLay (R-Texas). In addition to Robertson, Enron had recently hired Pat Shortridge, a top aide to House MajorityLeader Dick Armey (R-Texas). Shortridge recently returned to Armey's leadership office following the closing of Enron's Washington office. Enron officials did not return several calls seeking comment. The Washington layoffs come as a top official from Arthur Andersen, Enron's auditing firm, told the House Financial Services Committee that the company failed to provide "critical information"about its financial condition to his company. Joseph Berardino, Arthur Andersen's CEO, testified yesterday before the House panel in the first hearing of what is now expected to be a comprehensive Congressional probe of Enron's demise that will involve at least four committees � two each in the House and Senate � and several federal agencies, including the Justice and Labor departments as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kenneth Lay, Enron's CEO, and other company officials declined to appear before yesterday's joint hearing of twosubcommittees from the Financial Services panel, although Lay has apparently promised to cooperate with future requests. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.)is seeking an array of documents from Enron and has called on the SEC to provide his committee with reviews and records of Enron's accounting practices and filings since 1997, along with information on its partnerships and personnel. The Louisiana Republican has also threatened to subpoena Enron's former chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow, unless he speaks to committee investigators by Dec. 21. The SEC is already planning action against Fastow for ignoring a subpoena to appear before the commission. Tauzin's actions, however, may lead him to clash with Financial Services Chairman Mike Oxley (R-Ohio), who believes his panel should have jurisdiction over the House investigation because the matter involves allegations of possible financial improprieties. "Enron was essentially a giant [financial-trading] concern, and that falls under the Financial Services Committee," said Oxley, who waged a bitter fight with Tauzin for the gavel of the Energy and Commerce Committee before the opening of the 107th Congress. Oxley was given the reconstituted Financial Services Committee instead, a tribute to his strong fundraising on behalf of his GOPcolleagues. Ken Johnson, Tauzin's spokesman, downplayed any talk of a turf war over the Enron probe. "They have a role and we have a role,"noted Johnson, pointing to Energy and Commerce's jurisdiction over national energy policy as well as accounting standards. "The only possible conflict would come a long way down the road if somebody introduced legislation." Tauzin, however, also plans to make a large document request from Arthur Andersen soon, a move that will land him right in the middle of the Enron fight. The Senate is expected to weigh in on the Enron fiasco soon as well, and the fact that Democrats control that chamber is likely to raise the political stakes for the White House and GOPCongressional leaders. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee on consumer affairs, said he will hold the first of several hearings on Enron Tuesday. And the Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), is expected to begin an investigation of the company early next year, Lieberman confirmed Tuesday. The Connecticut lawmaker's probe was triggered by a formal request from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Senate Democrats see a chance to score political points, and some of the issues they raise "may make the White House squirm,"according to a top Senate Democratic aide. Feinstein, for instance, questioned whether the Bush-led SEC dragged its feet in failing to look into Enron's financial condition. A Dec. 7 letter from Feinstein to Lieberman cited "the reluctance of the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Enron's financial records and impending bankruptcy." Enron officials, including Lay, were close with President Bush and other top Republicans. Lay, a top Bush fundraiser and the No. 1 individual contributor to his White House campaign last year, was considered to be on the short list to head the Department of Energy at one point. Enron itself donated $2.4 million to political campaigns in the last election cycle, with the overwhelming majority of that going to Republicans. Several Bush aides, including top political adviser Karl Rove, were criticized earlier in the year for owning hundreds of thousands of dollars in Enron stock. Democratic and media pressure led the aides to sell the stock before Enron's collapse. Other Bush White House officials, including U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, Army Secretary Thomas White Jr. and Bush's top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, had worked for the company before joining the administration. Enron's bankruptcy is also causing pain for lawmakers. At least 15 Members owned stock in the company at some point last year, according to financial disclosure records. For instance, Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles (R-Okla.) held Enron stock valued between $15,000 and $50,000. "It's one of my great investments,"cracked Nickles when asked about it. Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio)said he wasn't aware that he had even purchased any Enron stock, although he was listed as having sunk between $15,000 and $50,000 into the company, as well. "No one would believe that, but it's true,"said DeWine. At one point, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) had as much as $350,000 invested, according to her 2000 financial disclosure report. Harman, like several other lawmakers, declined to comment. Wendy Gramm, wife of Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) and a former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, served on the board of directors for Enron and held stock options worth between $250,000 and $500,000, according to the Gramms' 2000 financial disclosure report filed in May. Wendy Gramm was a member of Enron's internal audit committee and has been named personally in at least one lawsuit filed against the company by creditors. Sources said she was likely to be interviewed by House Energy and Commerce investigators about her role in the company's failure. It is unclear if Mrs. Gramm was able to dispose of her Enron stock before the company's implosion. The Senator himself said he "didn't know anything about it,"while his wife, through an Enron spokeswoman, declined to comment. This "fishing expedition" seems bi-partisan to me.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:34:32 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.publicintegrity.org/reports/bop2000/bush_patrons.htm
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:29:20 (EST)

My two cents are: "This is just another partisan fishing expedition," said White House spokeswoman Anne Womack. "The president believes that we should spend more time protecting people's pensions and ensuring that what happened at Enron can't happen again."
Getting so I can say that in my sleep-- Womack
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:27:52 (EST)

My two cents are: When Bush tried to pass off Ken Lay as a Richards supporter who he kept on, and tried to downplay their relationship... he raised a red flag. Bush has something to hide.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:26:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Has anyone seen the memo from Hughes complaining about Cheney masturbating in the White House sinks?I'd like to know if it's true or just an unfounded rumor.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:19:45 (EST)

My two cents are: If Karen Hughes says he should be ashamed of himself, he must be doing something right.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:16:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Austin American-Statesman Tuesday, March 7, 2000 Bush backer's ads mix business, environment by Scott S. Greenberger Sen. John McCain of Arizona called him a "sleazy buddy" of Gov. George W. Bush's, and environmentalists expressed outrage at what they call his misleading message. Sam Wyly of Dallas, a longtime Bush family backer, bought his way into the national political consciousness last week by laying out more than $2.5 million for TV ads in three key states -- New York, California and Ohio -- with presidential primaries today. The ads attack McCain's environmental record, tout Bush's and at the same time boost Wyly's own renewable energy company. The ads also put Bush, their intended beneficiary, on the defensive: McCain on Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, claiming that the spots are tantamount to an illegal political contribution. "Tell his sleazy Texas buddies to stop these negative ads: . . . Don't try to corrupt American politics with your money," McCain told supporters in California. Wyly, 65, and his brother Charles oversee a family fortune that may be worth as much as $1 billion. They made their money in an array of interests, including Sterling Software, Sterling Commerce, Bonanza Steakhouses, Michael's craft stores, Maverick Capital and Earth Resources, an oil and silver company. Maverick Capital received a lucrative contract in 1998 to invest $96 million of the University of Texas endowment . The quasi-public University of Texas Investment Company has been under fire for allegedly steering such contracts to Bush's top donors. Sam Wyly's current passion is GreenMountain.com, a Vermont company that offers consumers electricity produced from wind power and other renewable energy sources. Wyly is chairman and his family has invested more than $100 million in the company. The Wylys also have longstanding political interests, and they've been Bush backers since former President Bush was a congressman in the 1960s. They donated $210,000 to the younger Bush's 1994 and 1998 gubernatorial campaigns, trailing only Enron Corporation and the Bass family, the Fort Worth billionaires, as Bush's largest contributors in the races. It was Sam Wyly's involvement with GreenMountain.com and his close ties to the governor that spurred Tom "Smitty" Smith of Public Citizen to call him in the spring of 1999. Smith wanted the bill deregulating the state's electric utility industry to include a provision forcing utilities to reduce emissions from coal and other fossil fuels -- a measure that would help producers of renewable energy. But Bush favored a voluntary ap- proach. Until Wyly spoke to him, that is. Wyly's entreaties, as well as rumblings of federal sanctions if Texas didn't clean up, convinced Bush to sign off on the mandatory rules. "He asked how he could help, and he made calls and visited the governor," Smith recalled. "He's certainly an environmentalist, but he's also a very smart businessman." Wyly would like to promote similar legislation at the federal level, and a second President Bush would be a powerful ally. Spending $2.5 million to advance that goal -- and raise consciousness about the issue -- may be a prudent investment. "Sam's goal is to create a permanent organization within the Republican Party to promote clean air issues and, especially, to oppose the use of coal-burning power," said Rob Allyn, who produced the ads. Wyly did not return phone calls seeking comment. "He's decided to spend the rest of his life promoting clean air issues, and he's decided to put his money where his mouth is by getting media to talk about clean air issues," Allyn said he added. He describes Wyly's effort as "enlightened self-interest," readily acknowledging that federal legislation would benefit GreenMountain. "In the Republican Party, free enterprise is not a dirty word," Allyn said. The ads attack McCain for a Senate vote against renewable energy, then praise Bush for cutting emissions from the coal-burning electric power plants. Smith praised the ads for raising the issue of polluting coal-fired plants. But he and other environmentalists also say the ads include inaccurate statistics and portray Bush as an environmentalist when his record says otherwise. "Governor Bush is no environmentalist, and the increasingly browner air in Texas is a clear demonstration of that," Smith said. Environmentalists say Texas air has gotten significantly dirtier since Bush took office in 1995. They note that Houston recently surpassed Los Angeles as the nation's smoggiest city. In 1995, Bush eliminated a tough auto emissions inspection program for Houston and Dallas. In 1999, he backed a voluntary, rather than a mandatory, approach to cutting emissions from industrial plants "grandfathered" from the state's 1971 clean air law. McCain on Monday told reporters there is no question that the ads are a coordinated effort with the Bush campaign, which would make them illegal. "It's all Bush people. If it has a longhorn, it walks like a longhorn, it moves like a longhorn, so it's a longhorn," he said. "It's a Texas operation." In Los Angeles, Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes called the allegations irresponsible . "Senator McCain should be ashamed of himself," she said. "He is accusing us of something that would be illegal based on not one shred of evidence, and it simply is not true."
Wyly, Bass and Enron
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 21:03:25 (EST)

My two cents are: I've heard of jimmying a window or a door, but never a debt. How did they jimmy up the debt? What about Mount Pinatubo? Whose administration did Mount Pinatubo jimmy up in? And didn't the last El Ni�o jimmy across the southern oscillation during the Clinton years? Lots of stuff is Clinton's fault. What about all those earthquakes in Armenia? What about the Puffy Combs and Bananarama? Pretty much everything that confronts us was jimmied up during the Clinton years, unless it was jimmied up in some other administration's years. It's danged inconvenient, if not downright irrelevant.
Jimmy D.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 20:59:13 (EST)

My two cents are: and the Bush years as governor of Texas.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 20:55:46 (EST)

My two cents are: All of this of course ignores the fact that Enron jimmied up its debt during the Clinton years. That's simply irrelevant if not downright inconvenient.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 20:05:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Casey had his brain removed? Was that before or after he hired the terrorists to blow up the Hezbollah guy at the mosque as it was letting out, but they blew up the women and children instead?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 16:22:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, guy, it's just a coincidence that Starr was a doctrinaire, politically-motivated sex pervert commited to finding a crime that doesn't exist, and with a level of integrity that permits him to manufacture crimes when none has been committed. Stop jumping to the conclusion that any of this had anything to do with his character.
S. Hudson Pilbert, Esq.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 16:11:34 (EST)

My two cents are: If we have to depend on the integrity of the Snippy administration* and its justice department, then our ass is grass. You need a special prosecutor when the regular prosecutors are crooks. For example, Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes. Makes no sense to have the weasels guarding the duck pens. The problem arises when you have someone like Starr, a doctrinaire, politically-motivated sex pervert commited to finding a crime that doesn't exist, and with a level of integrity that permits him to manufacture crimes when none has been committed. Enron is a fairly important indicator of the health of an economy managed by Republicans, and so the congressional investigations are important. If they come up with compelling reasons for a special prosecutor, then it should be considered. It might be easier to just pass a law outlawing supply-side economics and other forms of Republican quackery, but that may be politically impossible at this time.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 15:46:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Coincidences my ass!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:58:46 (EST)

My two cents are: There are too many coincidences and connections with this administration to consider an investigation a witchhunt. But the idea that some people like you see it that way, means it may be washed over by our justice department. It depends on the integrity of the attorney doing the investigating.
Mary
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:35:17 (EST)

My two cents are: I thought the Justice Department had to recuse itself. Or was that just Ashcroft and the whole Texas branch?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:33:44 (EST)

My two cents are: This isn't a witch hunt. Choosing to intimidate a young woman who had NOTHING to do with power and politics. To drag an individual citizen through the mud for the powerful's own personal gain is a witchhunt.
Mary
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:31:51 (EST)

My two cents are: William Casey was the fall guy. They removed his brain because he knew too much.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:31:22 (EST)

My two cents are: You mean the justice department's job is to waste money on the witch hunt?
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- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:28:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Go away.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:28:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Don Regan was the fall guy. Seems there's always a fall guy, and the con goes on. Who will be Enron's fall guy?
Maryt
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:27:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Initially I thought an independent counsel was needed. Then I remembered the circus of Ken Starr and his ego. All Starr was able to find was better off left alone. Walsh was a failure too in my opinion. All the Iran Contra biggies are with us today, running our country.
Mary
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:25:13 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't want to see a special prosecutor. I see that as a waste of money. This is why we have a justice department.
Mary
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:17:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Cut taxes...and spending. Starting here.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/000/867aejst.asp
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:05:22 (EST)

My two cents are: McCain undergoes surgery for face cancer. What IS it with these retchies?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:01:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Fox Newsbabe Greta von Susteren came on last night knowing that many tuned in for a look at her much touted new face. Her clever handlers had former Clinton Administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as her first guest as an almost total argument for why some public women really do need to visit a plastic surgeon.
L.G.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 13:59:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, if Noonan wants a special porosecuor, then I'm recalling my vote for a special prosecutor. She's as nutso as Coulter and there's no way I'll go along with either of them.
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- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 13:53:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Unless you count dumping that federal guy just because Kenny Boy asked Snippy to. Then you might need to get someone. Someone incompetent would be good. Don't wanna tread on trickledown toes. Doink.
Not Here
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 13:21:58 (EST)

My two cents are: "Obviously the primary question at the moment is whether anyone from Ken Lay on down literally violated the criminal code. The Justice Department is investigating. This is good. But it seems to me the administration might consider a special prosecutor in the case, too. " Peggy Noonan http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=95001773
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 12:46:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Good example of the liberal/socialist mind at work. No special prosecutor is needed for Enron itself. You use a special prosecutor to investigate an administration and bring it to justice. Since no one in this administration committed any crimes or indiscretions, there is therefore no reason for a special prosecutor, QED. Doink.
Not Here
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 12:23:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Is taht like King of the Hill the way I used to be, only with turnips? POW!
Not Here
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 12:13:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Obviously the primary question at the moment is whether anyone from Ken Lay on down literally violated the criminal code. The Justice Department is investigating. This is good. But it seems to me the administration might consider a special prosecutor in the case, too.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 12:06:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint is out of his league only if you compare him to the socialsits. If the comparison is within his ilk, he is far and away the bull goose chump. He is the King of the Turnip Load.
House of Meat
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 11:29:43 (EST)

My two cents are: I read the FAQ and the first "don't" was "Don't be fair." What the hell FAQ are you reading, Harlan? You mixing this up with your Shirley Temple group again?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 11:17:12 (EST)

My two cents are: No fair giving out the week's awards on Tuesday! Read the dang FAQs!!!!!!!!!!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 10:32:42 (EST)

My two cents are: I nominate the following post for Best Homo Pineapple Post of the Week: Trickle is fickle. Like liberals. All fluff and no stuff.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 10:22:26 (EST)

My two cents are: If the Supreme Court ever appoints a Democrat as president*, and we have another surplus, we should probably spend it all before another Republican gets appointed and gives it to his friends in the form of...a tax cut!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:56:19 (EST)

My two cents are: ???
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- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:53:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Remember back when we had the Clinton Surplus. Remember how chumps like Glint were yowling for a tax cut. It was like, WE had overpaid the government and WE deserved "our" money back. Well, now the govenment* is spending money it doesn't have. What's the solution? A tax cut!!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:51:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Wow howdy!! The Glintster is seeing red today. Same color as Snippy's "budget." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:46:34 (EST)

My two cents are: If you say so. Anything to make you feel better, pal.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:43:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Looks like hyena@22:02 threw Glint into one of his depressive cycles. Think I'll lay low until it passes.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:43:11 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree, as long as the category is Imbecile/Hilarious (SOCIALIST) Post. Otherwise, any TROGLODYTE post sweeps the Imbecile/Hilarious awards. Oops, I take it back. The post about Glint being out of his league is right-on as proven by the "Willard" post below. You da man, Nebr-Boy!Good nickname, huh?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:41:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Dubya gave nicknames to folks? Well, why didn't you say so, hyena@ 22:02. It's an outrage, I tell you. I hope he was careful so this thing doesn't blow up in his face. Some nicknames are honored, deserve to be retired. If you don't believe me, you can just ask Willard.
Glint
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:36:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I nominate this as the Imbecile/Hilarious (socialist) Post of the week: "Glint, you're out of your league here." - Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:40:14 (EST
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 09:23:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Well the Bushes and Reagan assholes are at it again giveing a tax cut they cant afford . Then ask the working class to pay for everything. I sure am glad I had sense enough to get the hell out of the party after Reagen ruined the entire economy of the state of California.I think they all suck on one another.They call that speak no eveil of one of the party. I think Enron may get rid of the dumb Basterds.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 08:38:30 (EST)

My two cents are: What I've never understood about Republicans and other right-wingers is how they think takining everything for themselves is going to make things better when it can only make things worse. It's as simple as the fact that if you take all the money away from the chumps, then the chumps won't have any money to fleece and NOBODY will get a shot at the brass ring. Where would a Republican politician be if there weren't enough Glints and other chumps to put him in office? When you take all the chump's money away he will just lash out at you as the incumbent and vote you out. What's the point of having a bunch of destitute chumps around? Countries where criminal pseudo-capitalism of the Enron variety has run amok, and where there are starving, begging chumps on every corner, the quality of life is not the better for it. What we need is a rising tide that floats all the boats, not just the yachts. We need a rising tide that will float the yacht, that will float glint's petit-bourgeois bubble-boat, and that will float the rubber ducky of the genuine low-lifes. We need something like the Clinton prosperity, everybody getting better together. This happens every time the Republicans get in office-- everything goes belly-up for everybody. This will be one of the big belly-ups, with the wag-the-dog scam that Snippy handed himself by ignoring national security and letting the Arabs scare everyone. There is a real danger that he will actually get Republicanism woven into the fabric of the economy, and create a situation that only a lot of slit GOP throats can ultimately cure. It's kind of stoopid.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 01:35:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Stoopid. Typical liberals. No brains. Don't even know that every time Enron cheats an investor the transaction is taxable and grows the economy. How can they be so stoopid. Typical. Doink.
Not Here
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 01:19:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Exactly the difference between the capitalist and the stoopid liberal traitor. While stoopid is telling his kids that the kingdom of god is among ye if ye will only forgive they neighbor his tresspasses and all that crap, the capitalist is taking his kid to church and learning from the Good Book of the shame of the blow-job and the proper stoning of the hermaphrodite. While the stoopid liberal is volunteering 4,000 hours cleaning bedpans and washing lepers' feet the crafty capitalist Republican is teaching the girls that everyone else cheats and the government is the boogie-man that steals your hard-earned money and is good only for electrifying your sod house or propping up the price of your corn syrup on the pretext of helping the Florida cane growers or putting its necessary work out to bid by corrupt consultants, and that everything else, like helping keep the hookworm cysts out of hillbilly children's livers is outside the bubble of Republicanism and despicable to someone like you who deserves to have everything come easy.
Independent, but leaning toward Bush
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 01:14:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Trickle is fickle. Like liberals. All fluff and no stuff.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 01:10:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh yeah, they love to talk about the moral decay as they pick the bones of poor slobs like Glint and Jeremiah. Jeremiah, who's sure Clinton cooked the books to show a surplus when there wasn't one. I hope that puke is more comfortable now that we're into the overdraft account, big time. Real proserity is anethema to gerbils like Cheney and the boys because too much of it might end up in the pockets of mud people. This upsets the sense of tranquility they feel when it's all in the pockets of Pioneers. Trickle down is for the mud people. Flood down is for the Pioneers. Trickle. Flood. Figure it out. Trickle is a feel good word. Better than drip or dribble.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 00:21:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Typical.
Pete�
- Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 00:17:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I've never heard the Republican character described more neatly, period guy. That's it in a nut-shell: grab everything you can and scurry off like a gerbil when the going gets tough. Isn't that what this is all about, character? Bush and his bushies large and small have the character of a crew of levantine looters, the moral authority of a nest of jack-daws. It's a wonder that any of them can take time off from robbing his fellow-citizens to teach his children to despise the community they live in.
Oggie
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 23:45:54 (EST)

My two cents are: So, did you think Cardiac Man was going to be on the '04 ticket? Listen, Drew Pearson Jr., by the time of the next election the man will be nothing but a pickled brain wired into machinery like the bad boy on teenage mutant ninja turtles. I wouldn't be surprised if the GOP was intending to use the poor dying bastard as this year's Spiro Ted Agnew, figuring him for dead meat anyway, hang the whole thing on him. These guys have a way of grabbing everything they can carry and scurrying off like jacklighted gerbils when the going gets tough, if Enron is any example.
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- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 23:34:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Geesh, this guy Glint must have just fallen off the corn truck. Look, bro, this Enron gang is a bunch of crooks and gangstas. Con men. Bunco artistes. Scamsters. Can you dig it, Star-Boy? This is a few degrees worse than your average greasy lobbyist who competes with other lobbists for the politician's ear. This gang blew the competition out of the water, supported Snippy for a decade, got him to give them nicknames, the whole disaster, the whole mutual finger-fuck. Soon enough Kenny-Boy will be in jail. Soon enough it'll be every man for himself. By the time this is done, the singing you'll hear will be like the Mormon Tabernacle Fucking Choir on Angel Dust cut with Ibogaine. This will get uglier before it gets uglier. You think Cheney will be on the next ticket if he escapes jail time? Dream on, clodhopper! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 22:02:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Somebody in the administration* got to these palookas. They saw what happened to poor Bradley and they're zipping their lips. Bradley sleeps with the fishes.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 20:58:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Feb. 3, 2002, 2:28PM Fastow, Kopper to take 5th, lawmaker says Reuters News Service WASHINGTON - Enron's former chief financial officer, who is charged with pocketing $30 million from questionable deals that led to the company's collapse, will not answer questions in testimony before Congress, a lawmaker investigating the firm said today. Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow and an aide, Michael Kopper, will invoke their rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to not incriminate themselves, said Rep. Billy Tauzin. The former Enron officers have been subpoenaed to testify before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which the Louisiana Republican chairs. "They will be before the committee on Thursday and Fastow will take the Fifth, Kopper will take the Fifth," Tauzin said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's former chief executive officer, will answer questions, Tauzin said. Fastow was singled out for harsh criticism in an internal Enron report that was released on Saturday. The report blasted former company executives for their role in creating a complex web of outside partnerships that were used to hide Enron debt and losses. The report has been criticized as "extremely self-serving" by Andersen, the accounting firm that audited Enron until the company filed for bankruptcy Dec. 2. Fastow and Kopper would not be the first players in the Enron saga to refuse to testify citing the right against self-incrimination. Fired Andersen partner David Duncan invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before a congressional panel last week. Duncan has been accused by his former employer of ordering the destruction of documents relating to the Enron case. Duncan has said through his lawyer he did nothing improper. Houston-based Enron, once the seventh-largest company in America, collapsed in a cloud of debt and questions about its finances and accounting practices. It is under investigation by nine congressional committees, the Justice and Labor departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Enron internal inquiry released on Saturday said the company inflated its profits by nearly $1 billion and top employees took in millions of dollars "they should never have received" through complex partnerships that played a major role in the company's collapse.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 20:28:26 (EST)

My two cents are: You know how bad it is when poor, pathetic Glint pines for Jeremiah's return. Geesh, indeed.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 19:00:57 (EST)

My two cents are: What's happened is the page has changed. It's deeper now especially since we all got shot. We've set aside our childish ways. The jism, the black bastard child, the spooge in the sink, the bent schlong beating on the lectern, the flashing thong, phone sex, Livingston's hookers, Hyde's salami, Burton's bastard, Burton's pumpkin, Chenowith, Newt, Porn Starr. Gone. All gone. It was all fun, sure, and nothing came of it all. No harm, no foul, as they say. It was fun and frivolous, a humorous political sideshow for future generations to chuckle at. But it's over. Now we have some real issues. We've all been shot and the government's been sold to crooks. We cannot go back. Adapt or die. It's a new world, Glint. A dangerous world. Either roll, or get off the road.
Let's roll
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:56:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, it's disgusting, the whole New England area is FILLED with saltwater cows and their ilk, waving their silly old patriot hats, dancing with a joy so intense you'd think Gore had won the popular vote by half a million. Its disgusting. Plus, why isn't this "axis of evil" thing going over with those goddamn socialsit Europeans? Ooh I could just SPIT. Where is God when you need him to deliver a good smiting. Well, nevermind. I AM a proud stained-dress Republican. I swear. I really mean it. Un huh. Yep. I do. Cross my heart? Really.
Ann "the man" Coulter
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:53:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint, you're out of your league here. You're not stupid in the drooling, encephalitic Pete sense of the word. But, you've pondered too many pinched loaves, to many hermaphrodites, too much jism on blue cotton. You're poor, tortured brain has been conditioned by the rantings of conservative Christian radio and the long gone, discredited, racist Greaseman. Here you've got a real scandal, a BIG one -Enrongate- and you're searching the archives in hopes of demonstrating old wrongs. Why, Glintster, why? Even if you knew what the fuck your goal was, didn't Ma Breightly ever tell you, two wrongs don't make a right? Now go slop the hogs, ya knucklehead!
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:40:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Europe shuns Bush rhetoric By Thomas Ricks in Washington and agencies President George Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric has not gone down well in Europe, which does not appear willing to go along with his plan to extend his military campaigns. Even the former national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, criticised the "axis of evil" label for Iran, Iraq and North Korea. "I really don't know what it was designed to do," said Mr Scowcroft, who is seen as a mentor to the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice. Between the "axis" phrase and the speech's general neglect of Europe, which was barely mentioned, the State of the Union address "sent absolutely the wrong signal to the allies," said a former United States ambassador to NATO, Robert Hunter. The US delegates to the 38th Munich Conference on Security Policy agreed that a gap had developed between the US and its NATO allies. " Meanwhile accusations by the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, that Iran has been a safe haven for al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban leaders have raised doubts about relations between the Iranian Government and the US. Until a month or so ago, US officials had expressed hope that the Afghan crisis might bring the two closer. When the US began its attacks on Afghanistan, Iran pledged to help with search and rescue missions if American pilots were lost, and Iranian diplomats backed US and United Nations moves to build an alternative regime in Afghanistan. But last month, Mr Bush said Iran had been trying to exercise influence that could undermine the new, internationally-backed and broad-based Afghan Government. He warned Iran to stay out of Afghan affairs and threatened to deal with Iran "in diplomatic ways, initially". Following Mr Bush's State of the Union address, in which he described Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil" bent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, Iranian officials have denounced his comments and have denied giving help to the Taliban or al-Qaeda. The Iranian Government strongly opposed Afghanistan's deposed Taliban regime. "We hated each other, and we never had any commonalities," the head of Iran's powerful Guardian Council, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, said on Friday.
which evil one has been smoked out?
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:39:58 (EST)

My two cents are: What does this have to do with Hillary Clinton asking for executive privilege? Notice how the old Husker doesn't give a loaf about loaded words when the cut-and-paste is one that soothes his fevered brain. "Glaring conflict of interest?" Please. As you read on, you'll note there was no conflict of interest shown, yet alone a "glaring" one. Just more retchie pap. Barbara Olson died for the same sin. May she rot in hell.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:33:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The Hillary-chaired task force, as you'll recall, had overriding issues of perjury, like most Clinton scandals. Here's a flashback from 1995: Most recently, Hillary Rodham Clinton�s top aide Ira Magaziner escaped criminal prosecution for perjury when the U.S. Attorney for D.C. Eric Holder, announced that he would not prosecute Magaziner despite overwhelming evidence that he had lied to investigators. On March 3, 1993, Magaziner swore under oath that all participants in Hillary�s task force were government officials. At that very moment, dozens of lobbyists for corporations that would profit under Hillary�s plan were active participants in the task force. It was not a small point. The whole lawsuit turned on that very question. A suit was filed under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which requires open meetings if lobbyists and other private individuals meet with government officials. As long as Magaziner claimed there were no outsiders, he could argue the meetings could stay closed. The request for a criminal investigation was made by U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, who presided in the case against the task force. Holder�s refusal to indict Magaziner came as no surprise to observers who questioned whether Holder could conduct an impartial investigation because of a glaring conflict of interest. According to news reports, Holder was at the time under consideration by President Clinton for appointment as a judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. On May 10, 1995, Attorney General Janet Reno rejected a request that an independent counsel be appointed to investigate Magaziner.
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:17:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush administration should appoint a special prosecutor.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 18:00:41 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm beginning to think the war is lost. It's depressing to me that guys like Glint, who wouldn't know how to roll any more than he knows how to sex a gourd, are on the internet scolding legal scholars like the mad Larry Klayman about misinterpreting the laws of the land. This man, Glint, may even have received security clearances! Now that we've smoked out the Evil One, maybe we can address the problem at home. Maybe we can volunteer the Glints of the world for some on-the-job, "volunteer" training about how America works. Okay, Mr. president*?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 16:15:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Does this mean that compared to an administration of incompetent liars a competent honest man looks better?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 16:12:44 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't think that Gore is looking better every day. He looks about the same, and his seeming better is an artifact of comparison with Bush, who is looking worse and worse. Sure, the guy did mention the Dingleberry bill from time to time, and probably knew about FACA requirements, but at least he didn't lie every time he opened his mouth the way Bush and his crew seem to. Everything from "choked on a pretzel" to "Kenny who? The Richardson guy I kept on for continuity?"
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- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 16:05:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint is going into a bad slide here. Yo, star-voyager, the FACA applies ONLY to the executive branch. If "Hillary Clinton was not part of the Executive Branch " then there is no way she could have been affected by it. Do you have any idea at all about how the government works? By the way, bonehead, the way you get around the spirit of FACA is by having the interest groups call the meetings, not by trying to stretch "executive privilege" to mean "totalitarian government." Larry Klayman is certainly an asshole and near crazy if not totally crazy, but he still knows a little more law than you do, or perhaps than your talk-show hosts do.
House of Meat
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 15:57:02 (EST)

My two cents are: ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - More voters nationwide are beginning to take Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at her word when she says she won't run for president in 2004, according to results of a poll released Monday. And, by a larger than 2-to-1 margin, voters nationwide think the New York Democrat should never run for the White House. The poll, by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion, found that about one in four voters think the former first lady will run for president in 2004. That is down from 36 percent who felt that way in a poll issued in March by the institute, based in Poughkeepsie. Broken down by party, more Republicans (30 percent) than Democrats (19 percent) believe Clinton will run for president in 2004. "She remains, nationally, a person who still divides the country along party lines," Marist pollster Lee Miringoff said. Clinton has said she does not plan to run for president in 2004, but has not flatly ruled anything out beyond that.
yeah right*
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 15:33:37 (EST)

My two cents are: Another bit of Husker brilliance, Glint. That one about Hillary Clinton and executive privilege had me in stitches. As if she invoked executive privilege! HA! Get 'em, Husker!
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 15:23:30 (EST)

My two cents are: I nominate this as the Imbecile/Hilarious (socialist) Post of the week: "Gore is looking better ever day. Anonymous. - Monday, February 04, 2002 at 13:55:00 (EST)"
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 14:17:25 (EST)

My two cents are: CHICAGO - The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed homosexual adoption.
who'd want to adopt a fudgie?
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 14:15:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Gore is looking better ever day.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 13:55:00 (EST)

My two cents are: Stonewall
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 13:51:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Heard Al Gore, who is considering challenging the winner again in 2004, came out carping Saturday in Nashville about President Bush's domestic policies. Can you say laughingstock? The Liberal New York times reported that "North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan 'laughed uproariously' when asked about supporting Mr. Gore again." Once bitten twice shy might describe the Senator who told the reporter, "Al Gore lost North Dakota by 28 points...The entire ticket went down with him in North Dakota. When you lose by 28 points, that's a mega-landslide." I think Mr. Gore would find more support for his candidacy among Republican voters. Bwa!
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 13:50:07 (EST)

My two cents are: "...This is the Hillary Health Care Task Force, Part II � which was also in violation of FACA." - Larry K. Larry knows better than to gloss over the distinguishing difference between the two. Hillary Clinton was not part of the Executive Branch and thus did not benefit from the Executive Privilege which VP Cheney has invoked. A different kettle of fish, and he knows it.
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 12:45:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Nice to see the Liberals starting to take a shine to Larry. We've appreciated his vigorous efforts at keepint polticians honest for years. It's really good to see him plowing on. He's certainly got his finger on the pulse. With his efforts regarding the energy task force inquiry he has undoubtedly expanded his financial base by courting contributions from Liberals. But don't expect him to work miracles. We're still waiting for him to announce victory in his lawsuit against the Clintons on behalf of Linda Tripp, not to mention Elian.
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 12:40:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure, Glint may be an irresponsible father, as tax matters go, but did you see the way he finessed that question about the full and open investigation? Maybe brains DO run in the Breightly family.
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- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 11:48:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Shit, if Glint's kid is an independent tycoon, she should already know about the worst kind of tax, the capital gains tax! Isn't it child abuse for Glint to have left her innocent this long? Shit, she should have known that she was getting robbed on behalf of the lazy man's vote since she was in diapers! Some father.
moron@17:59:29
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 11:44:47 (EST)

My two cents are: Careful with that factual stuff, dude. If it turns out that she makes a bracket you'll be in a world of hurt. He'll grab onto it like a crocodile and never let go. Anonymous. - Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:01:39 (EST)
Captain I Told You So, Moron@17:59:29
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 11:35:59 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush Pattern: Secret Meetings Polluters Bet Big On Bush On The Campaign Money Trail This concludes the three part series on how Gov. George W. Bush and his administration undermined efforts to control Texas's air pollution by working together with representatives of grandfathered polluting industries. Air Pollution in Texas In 1971, the Texas legislature passed legal loopholes, called grandfathering, to exempt industrial plants in operation or in the process of being built from complying with Texas environmental laws. Today, according to the state regulatory agency, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC), these plants contribute 903,800 tons of pollutants a year - 36% of the state's industrial total. (1) Since Gov. Bush took office, Texas has recorded the highest smog levels in the nation, surpassing even Los Angeles. (2) Every major urban area: Houston, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Austin, and Longview is now or will soon be declared in Non-attainment of Federal EPA minimum air quality standards set up to protect public health.(3) Over 12 million Texans, 65% of the citizens of the state, now breathe polluted air. (4) The Bush Response: Secret Meetings and a "Voluntary Smokescreen" In fall 1996, in response to increasing public health problems and media pressure, as well as impending EPA deadlines, the TNRCC began initial steps toward requiring significant pollution reductions from grandfathered industrial plants. Unfortunately, working in secret with representatives from the oil and gas industry, Gov. Bush's administration developed a "voluntary pollution permitting program" to allow these facilities to obtain permits without significant emission reductions. One participant of the secret meetings; Jim Kennedy, a Dupont employee, wrote in a memo discussing the meeting that, "One of the leaders actually stated that emission reduction was not a primary driver for the program." By the end of the 1999 legislative session, only the grandfathered power plants and a few of the largest polluters were required to reduce emissions. According to the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition (SEED), over 84% of the polluting facilities are still grandfathered, and remain exempt from Texas's strongest pollution control laws. (5) Campaign Contributions Are Cheaper Than Complying With The Law Grandfathered industrial polluters donated large sums during both of Governor Bush's gubernatorial races. Texas election laws allow unlimited personal or political action committee contributions to elected officials. Political Action Committees (PACs) and lobbyists of the top 100 grandfathered polluters and others that participated in these secret meetings donated more than $670,000 to Governor Bush's gubernatorial campaigns. These participants include some of the largest industrial polluters in the state, such as Texas Utilities, Dow Chemical, Lyondell Petrochemical, Alcoa, Exxon, and many others.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 11:29:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I forgot the young girl was a gourd-meat tycoon, a top-bracket gal. Too bad that makes her have to work until late May donating half her minium-wage plus tips to the federal trough. But, shit, $2.50 per will help pay for business school if she doesn't get a scholarship. Sounds like brain-power runs in the family.
moron@17:59:29
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 11:26:13 (EST)

My two cents are: "the midnight shift?" What difference would that make, tax wise?
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 10:55:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The return of Jeremiah? Dare we dream?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 10:27:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Weak, silly answer, Glint. Too little, too late. Peevish, paranoid, petulant, pussy answer. Give it up. Pray for the return of your brilliant sidekick, Jeremiah. There's a guy with his finger on the pulse of Branson.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 10:09:36 (EST)

My two cents are: She working "the midnight shift," Glint?
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 10:06:04 (EST)

My two cents are: "Glint's daughter is going to be in a pretty high tax bracket, with the reported tips and all. It's informally called the zero bracket." moron@17:59:29. You obviously are assuming that Denny's is her only source of income.
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 09:52:48 (EST)

My two cents are: "Where do you stand on an open, complete investigation into White House influence peddling?" Last I heard there was something like 8 investigations going on today in the house alone? Looks like we'll never get around to doing a complete investigation into White House influence peddling by the Chinese during Clinton. Reno already sunk that boat once.
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 09:48:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, Jeremiah's too busy looking for a cousin to marry up with his butt-ugly daughter.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 09:41:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I was rooting for the Rams. Figured a St. Louis victory would draw Jeremiah back into the fray.
Glint
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 09:33:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Congratulations, E. That is, if you were for the Pats.
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 09:19:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 07:46:45 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.txpeer.org/Bush/Polluters_Bet_On_Bush.html
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 02:32:58 (EST)

My two cents are: ???
Booze?
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 02:26:55 (EST)

My two cents are: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1338000/1338493.stm
Anonymous.
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 02:19:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Thank God we have been spared the horror, the horror of that horrid socialsit saltwater cow LORDING it over all us stained- dress so-called conservatives just because we thought God wanted the Rams to win the Super Bowl but God didn't. Oh well. (stomps foot) Darn it.
Ann "the Man" Coulter
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 00:32:00 (EST)

My two cents are: STILL PUZZLED!!!! How am I going to come up with 2.12 trillion dollars. Not in 2 short years, volunteering to do the work, the Government won't do. Wouldn't it much easier to hire the Enron people to shag-nasty the rich, like they did to us. They could raise ZILLIONS!!!! Can you image Ted Turner penniless, Micro-soft going belly-up, Southwestern Bell without a ringy-dingy, not to mention the Texas Oil Barons. Even the poor little ole lady in Pasadena could ride around in a rick-shaw.
WILL-YUM
- Monday, February 04, 2002 at 00:22:29 (EST)

My two cents are: BUSH'S PLAN: $2.12 trillion for "New Realities". AAAAAAAAH This Mooslime slop, is getting costly. And for pennies a day, I can feed a sick little kid in Africa. While Jimmy Swaggert, Enron, Political Action Companies, can sqaunder money faster, than a speeding bullet.
WILL-YUM
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 22:44:10 (EST)

My two cents are: Rep. Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee that is spearheading one of the main investigations, suggested that "maybe somebody ought to go to the pokey for this? I think we are going to find out 'yes' to that question." Dorgan told Reuters the committee on Monday would discuss whether to subpoena Lay, but he said he had no interest in offering Lay limited immunity in exchange for his testimony. "I would not be interested in that and I don't think the members of the committee would be," Dorgan said. A spokesman for Tauzin said that Lay should have planned on a rough welcome from Congress. "What was he expecting coming up here, a debutante ball?" asked Tauzin spokesman Ken Johnson. "Thousands of innocent people got stiffed on his watch."
No-legs McGillicuddy
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 22:21:49 (EST)

My two cents are: TV GOSSIP & NEWS Is Stripping in Anderson's Future? It's not exactly a stretch, considering how much we've seen of Pamela Anderson's assets, but the former Playboy Playmate is thinking about quitting acting and becoming ...a stripper. Yes, the acting world may lose the star of the syndicated action series V.I.P. to the rock stage, where she would strip during her boyfriend Kid Rock's concerts, according to Reuters. "Within a couple of years, I am just going to bow out," Anderson, 34, told the TV magazine Extra. "I have a stripper pole in my bedroom. I was thinking that I would just take pole dancing lessons and go on the road with Kid Rock." The two have been dating since last April. Anderson has two children by her former husband, drummer Tommy Lee. � Cheryl Everette
How did Drudge miss this one?
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 22:13:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Linda Tripp. This heroic woman, in the face of death threats from agents of Bill Clinton, exposed Clinton�s abuse of power, perjury, obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses, and misuse of taxpayer resources, not to mention blowing the lid off Filegate with testimony directly implicating Hillary Clinton. Her reward from the Bush White House? Unlike virtually every Clinton U.S. Attorney, who remained on the job, Linda Tripp was asked to leave government at the beginning of the Bush Administration. The Bush Administration is fighting her in court over her Privacy Act lawsuit against Clinton Pentagon officials for releasing her confidential government files. And, unlike ambassadors appointed by President Bush in reward for their campaign contributions, the Bush Administration has refused to hire her for jobs for which she is qualified. Last reports were that Linda Tripp was jobless and her house was about to be repossessed.
Larry Klayman feels your pain, Linda.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 19:48:14 (EST)

My two cents are: After September11, 2001, Judicial Watch was proved right. On September 27, 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported that the father of President Bush worked with the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had supposedly been �disowned� by his family, which runs a multibillion dollar business in Saudi Arabia and has been a major investor in the senior Bush�s firm. Other reports (including an ABC News interview of Osama�s own sister-in-law) have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi family have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business�s bank records.[
Who needs Whineburger when you have Klayman?
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 19:43:49 (EST)

My two cents are: ENERGY TASK FORCE. In order to complete a much needed review of U.S. energy policy, President Bush authorized the creation of an energy task force, run by Vice President Cheney, to review policy, meet with interested parties, and formulate policy and legislative recommendations. Judicial Watch wrote the Vice President requesting he provide documents and conform his Task Force to the requirements of Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). FACA requires that government task forces which have private individuals as members file a charter, allow for input from interested persons, comply with the FOIA and the Government in the Sunshine Act, publish notice of its meetings in the Federal Register, and must have a board that is fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented. Vice President Cheney, through his counsel, told Judicial Watch that it would not comply with the law. So Judicial Watch sued on July 16, 2001. The White House has refused to make information available not only to Judicial Watch, but also the General Accounting Office (GAO). Judicial Watch is concerned that energy policy was and is being made in secret by individuals and interests with a financial and political stake in particular policies. If the Vice President wanted to involve the oil industry or environmentalists in his Energy Task Force�s deliberations, that was his right, but the law requires that the American people be kept informed about these deliberations.[12] This is the Hillary Health Care Task Force, Part II � which was also in violation of FACA. Being conservative, Judicial Watch generally believes in a less regulatory environmental policy. Yet this doesn�t mean that such policies be developed in a way which violates the law. And now that it is known that Enron, a thoroughly corrupt company, was involved in at least six Energy Task Force meetings, it is all the more important that documents concerning these meetings become public. Judicial Watch will be in court next month, at a February 12, 2002 hearing, demanding these documents. Because of the Bush White House�s refusal to obey the law on the Energy Task Force and �let the sun shine in,� liberal environmentalists now have a club with which to beat upon much needed energy initiatives, such as the opening of oil drilling in Alaska�s wilderness.
go Klayman go!
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 19:39:12 (EST)

My two cents are: Republican Rep. Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the report tracked his findings. "Not only were there corrupt practices," he said. "Not only was there hiding of the fact that debt was being put off the balance sheets and profits that were reported that didn't exist, but we're finding more than that ... what may clearly end up being security fraud." "Officers all the way to the board of directors have some responsibility," Tauzin said, adding the report even mentioned Ken Lay, the former Enron chairman, who is due to testify at the Senate subcommittee hearing on Monday. Houston-based Enron, once the seventh-largest company in America, collapsed in a cloud of debt and questions about its finances and accounting practices. It is under investigation by nine congressional committees, the Justice and Labor departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. An Enron internal inquiry released on Saturday said the company inflated its profits by nearly $1 billion and top employees took in millions of dollars "they should never have received" through complex partnerships that played a major role in the company's collapse. While the report's findings were called "extremely self-serving" by Andersen, the accounting firm that was Enron's auditor for nine years, its findings have already begun to provide fresh fodder for four days of congressional hearings beginning on Monday. The report concluded that partnerships with names such as LJM1, LJM2 and Chewco were used to do deals meant to hide losses, fatten profits and enrich corporate executives at the former energy trading giant, which was President George W. Bush's biggest political contributor.
no legs
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 19:30:12 (EST)

My two cents are: will-yum = cheech
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 19:24:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Is the super bowl over yet? Who won? The Huskers?
Stupor B�ll
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 19:24:11 (EST)

My two cents are: HAVE YOU HAD YOUR DAILY DISH OF MOOSLIME???? I want 72 virgins and 28 boys too!!!!!
WILL-YUM
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:45:22 (EST)

My two cents are: It's his tribute to his adopted state of Maryland. It was going to be either Poe or Husker.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:32:22 (EST)

My two cents are: The most fiendish part of Osama's plan was to have "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at the Super Bowl sung by Barry Manilow.
Roseola Okeefenokee (faux)
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:31:33 (EST)

My two cents are: What kind of guy calls his Goth daughter "Poe," after Edgar Allen?

- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:09:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Either way, she still has to pungle up the payroll tax. Just like the rich guy, except the rich guy only pays up to what is it, $60,000? Then he gets the free ride (now watch the false Pete� jump in with total incomprehension of the fact that when you run a deficit it means you're paying for Snippy's tax cut for the wealthy with the Social Security tax on everybody. You're also paying for the tax deferment in the 401K's but let's not befuddle Glint too much with such complex matters.)
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- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:06:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Careful with that factual stuff, dude. If it turns out that she makes a bracket you'll be in a world of hurt. He'll grab onto it like a crocodile and never let go.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 18:01:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint's daughter is going to be in a pretty high tax bracket, with the reported tips and all. It's informally called the zero bracket. What a moron.
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- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:59:29 (EST)

My two cents are: You can't whack him in any old corner he finds. For instance, you won't see me whacking him when he pastes some stuff from 1998. I prefer to just let him gloat like a bumpkin on that one.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:57:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Didn't they take away the Rev. Mr. Swaggart's backwards collar when they caught him paying to stare at women's vaginas? Is he still part of the sanctified church? Suffer the vagina-starers to come unto ye?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:54:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, got to let him out of one corner just to see the next one he'll find. Part of the game. Whack-A-Mole in the Corner, you know.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:53:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, well if you're only trying to keep the hick in a corner, then by all means carry on! I thought you were trying to rip him asshole from elbow.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:49:51 (EST)

My two cents are: It's pretty cool how Glint can spend days obsessing about trans-gender teenagers, then, through the magic of conservative Christian radio blurt out some hysterical crap about killing "acknowledged unborn children." The shift from one mode to the other must be painful. Kind of like the way Jimmy Swaggert goes from Saturday night, whacking off to whores in panties, to Sunday morning praising Jay-sus.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:45:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Lesions, traitor. They were lesions, not second degree bruns. Geesh!
Pete�
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:35:57 (EST)

My two cents are: I know you're right but it's hard to pass up on a chance to keep the hick in a corner. I know he'll find more corners but you've got to make the guy squirm some. It's a sport. Anyway, I said I'd only do it for a few days and that's how long it's been. You're free, Glint. Find another corner.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:23:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, that person, whoever it is, hammers the same old weaknesses post after post. At least when I try to advise Glint on the adjustment of his foibles, I start from some statement from his gut, and work on that. An axiomatic Republican principle, for example investigate them but don't go on fishing expeditions against us, is not really fair game. Let's just work on grooming the guy for living in a democratic society, pal, let's not try to re-cobble his entire soul.
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:17:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't give him the satisfaction of admitting it, Glint. The guy is a scab-picker, and he's not content to pick at the carbuncle scabs on Snippy's face, or the load-on scabs, or Cheney's payback scab, or the 2nd degree burn all over Ashcroft. No, he's got to pick at your scabs as well. Don't tell him what you want, the quid pro quos. He's just looking for you to make a move and then he's going to judo-chop you. Be cool. Ignore the bastard.
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- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:13:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes, yes, Glint. We all know where you stand on feti, you emotional basket case. Where do you stand on an open, complete investigation into White House influence peddling?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 17:02:22 (EST)

My two cents are: I heard thees Gleent man takes up how you say the collection of monies for the leettle embryos! So sweet, really. Eef you geeve heem monies he will geeve them leetle names, embryo "Biff" and embryo "Buffy," nice All-American names. He will take them down for their physicals. So sweet. Until they are born. Then uh-oh he will dump out their Petri dish.
Impermanence Imam
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 16:47:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Great abortion post by the guy who twists knobs to find the conservative Christian radio station. We're all going to be haunted by "killing" that which hasn't been born. Could be right. Abortion has been going on forever and the guilt we feel is immense. We better clean up out act or we'll be haunted by this just like Glint is haunted by the legacy of slavery.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 16:36:26 (EST)

My two cents are: No one ever queets fighting the evil within! Hokay, well, sure they do. Through thees life strategy, as you say, the evil without ees unseen, and the evil within ees unseen, and the good ees seen as evil in various orificial metaphors whilst in Shalimar bad moonlight floods the dunnies. As is said. Amen.
Punjabi Who Has Seen the Light
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 16:09:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't you just love it, Meat, when Glint and the false Pete� get the synergy going, talk back and forth expressing their deepest beliefs and life strategies? It invariably results in a belly-laugh day for me!
Oggie
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:59:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I guess all the Dinos noticed.
Dino 4 or 5 of 22
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:57:18 (EST)

My two cents are: When I was teaching my toddler how to cross the street, I thought of teaching him how to jay-walk the way I suspected all the other kids did, but I didn't want him to grow up thinking he wasn't being screwed by the cops and the traffic engineers and the City Council. So I forced him to go to the corner and wait for the light to turn green and then walk across inside the two white lines. Kids have to learn early how they are getting a bum deal and how everyone else is snaking the rules, or they will never understand how to work the system.
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:56:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. I've noticed.
Dino from Howard Beach
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:55:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Yes. I've noticed.
Dino from Howard Beach
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:55:08 (EST)

My two cents are: I am not your grandma, smart-ass, nor am I the grandma of any free-market capitalist reactionary. I am simply ....
curious Tampa grandmother
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:50:48 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree that the false Pete� is stupid, grandma, but I think with Glint it's more a case if ignorance and lack of common sense. Both of them are definitely at sea when venturing past the slogans fed to them by right-wing talk-show hosts and the pile-tormented bus-drivers who seem to make up most of their callers. With Enron, they both entirely miss the fact that its failure was largely a result of avoiding the free-market efficiency of capitalism-- it was corporate welfare-stateism, which is perhaps a twisted sort of socialism. It can be logically argued that Enron fell because it lied to its outsider investors, and in fact relied on them to make bad investments. A terribly-managed company, a criminal company, perverted the efficiency of the market-place by lying to the market-place. so it continued to be badly-managed and to lose money and undermine the country's true productivity so long that when capitalism finally caught up with it the company and its investors fell hard. Meanwhile, capital was diverted from productive investments that operate honestly and did not depend on buying the cooperation of the Republican party the way Enron did. The upshot is that we were all screwed by years of waste, as money was poured into a scam that ultimately produced nothing but lawsuits and busted stakeholders and a few cream-puff winners who managed to end up with the cash that came in. I guess that's why those two characters appear stupid, grandma. They simply can't perceive or understand the simplest elements of what occurs around them. But what can you expect of a tird and a bubble-boy?
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:45:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, has anyone else noticed how stupid Glint and the false Pete� are?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:28:25 (EST)

My two cents are: Just like Glint, I can't think of any reason to promote honesty in your kid besides tax outrages. I told mine to never never under-report income because if the bastards find out your ass is grass-- always go for the phony deductions, and even if you get audited they probably won't padlock your house or throw you in the pokey. But at the same time I wanted him to be able, at a tender age, to calculate the tax break he is getting from Snippy as an unproductive, shiftless burger-pit floor-mopper, and compare it to the tax break the Kenny Boy is getting. After seeing the false Pete�'s analysis of Enron, I also had to explain to him that even though it looks as if burgers get taxed, natural gas transactions might get taxed as well so we have to take care of the natural gas middlemen or nothing will trickle down and there will be no burgers to tax, or something. I'm not quite straight on it yet, but I like to give my boy pointers anyway. It would be horrible to have him grow up thinking he had any civic responsibilities, I know that much.
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:26:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Why do you fools think that was the quitter? Whoever it was didn't mention the twat or knowing how it is to be black because of playground experience as the fat-cracked haole.
House of Meat
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 15:15:47 (EST)

My two cents are: No one ever quits fighting the evil of the liar party, they just head fake them and emerge up their dark canals with long rods.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 13:53:54 (EST)

My two cents are: If so then the quitter has come forth from the tomb. Appeared to be Resurrection Night.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 13:43:34 (EST)

My two cents are: I have trouble weeth Eenglish. I know what the meaning of "is" is, but what please eez the meaning of "I quit" if it's not "I quit'? Ees that when it's a lie? Like, "I quit" means "I don' quit'?
Confused Punjabi
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 13:32:23 (EST)

My two cents are: What's really good is drilling the Arctic National Wildlife refuge! And trying to pass it off as a blow against the axis of evil! Bwahahahaha!
Kenny Boy
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 13:16:44 (EST)

My two cents are: What's really good is Snippy giving out Hillary Health-Kare Kards to embryoes, while cutting funds from the actual program for actual children! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Brilliant!
No One Will Ever Notice Especially Pretzelhead
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 13:09:19 (EST)

My two cents are: White House Guards Records (Washington Post Staff) Tuesday, February 3, 1998 - Throughout last year's controversy over Democratic campaign fund-raising, the White House strategically released entry logs, telephone records, notes and other internal documents that may not have provided a flattering portrait of its activities but at least preempted congressional critics from putting the information out first. In the two weeks since the furor erupted over whether President Clinton had a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky and coached her to deny it under oath, the White House has assembled many of the same types of records and turned them over to independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. But information about White House visits and presidential phone calls that was made public last year is now being guarded with fierce protectiveness. ...
abuse of power to cover up during a criminal investigation <[email protected]>
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 10:37:10 (EST)

My two cents are: She sells c shells, by the sea shore, and counts korn shells in the back 80.
Captain Unix
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 10:17:19 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know how a society that considers itself civilized and champion of the downtrodden underdog can continue this course of killing what are now acknowledged to be unborn children. The utter magnitude of this ongoing horror shall haunt this nation when future Americans look back in shock at the way this generation beat a path to the abortionist's door as the nation committed the crime of mass infanticide.
Glint
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 09:58:36 (EST)

My two cents are: She sells c cells, by the sea shore.
WILL-YUM
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 06:01:24 (EST)

My two cents are: The feel gooders will try to affect her for sure. Have a good night.
Pete�
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:56:33 (EST)

My two cents are: I didn't watch the game. I think Crouch had an off day, complete with multiple interceptions for his passing game. He made some yard rushing though, but nothing spectacular. <> Oldest daughter is learning about taxes. She's sloping tables at a Denny's. (Did you know they have a new menu without eggs bennedict? Time to switch to Perkins.) When she quits her shift she can use a computer to post her tips. That way when the pay check comes the restraunt will deduct from her paycheck taxes for her tips. Some people cheat and under report their tips. That way they pay less taxes and get more money. I've encouraged her to report honestly, and believe that she is reporting her nightly tips accurately. She complains about the paultry pay checks which are basically chump change. Why am I causing her to earn less than her co-workers? Is it because I want to make sure she pairs her fair share as an American citizen? Well, maybe that's part of it. The real reason is, I want her to learn at a young age just how much hard work the government sucks out of our muscles for itself. She's going to grow up being aware of how high income taxes are. When she gets old enough to go to the voting booth, she'll remember this lesson and be less likely to allow the Liberals to give her hard earned money away to buy the lazy man's vote.
Glint
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:48:15 (EST)

My two cents are: I love it Glint, and tell me who paid the salaries of the thousands of employees? Enron. What did those employees do with 30%+ of their gross salaries? Right, pay taxes. What happened to each transaction for the sale of natural gas? Right. Taxed. See, the tax generation from ANY business that Enron did was in the billions. They will never figure it out. Only demonize the low profits % taxable rate. They ignore the massive secondary tax payments from their existence in the business cycle. These socialsits are morons. They'll never get it. By the way, how'd Crouch do at the Hul Bowl?
Pete�
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:29:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Pete, I thought that Citizens for Tax Justice, a research group that advocates a more progressive tax system , said in a report last month that Enron paid no taxes in 2000 and received a $278 million rebate because of a big tax break for stock options cashed in by employees. But when rational minds looked past the hype and spin it was discovered that even after factoring in the tax breaks Enron paid $112 million in federal income taxes in 2000. <> Now, I'm not defending Enron. However, I don't want to see the Liberals use the employees who used poor judgement in their retirement planning as an election year club.
Glint
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:24:29 (EST)

My two cents are: Anyway, Glint, socialsits wouldn't know how the economy works if Stalin stood before them with a pitchfork stuck 6" deep in them. They are done toasters. They have a severe defect in the thinking arena for how things really got to where they are and how bad it will in fact get if their myopic utopian socialsit idealism really took hold. It would make 9/11 look like a hay ride. Stupid people. Every last one of em. End of story.
Pete�
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:12:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Coverage. It is all about coverage.
Pete�
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:09:35 (EST)

My two cents are: What difference does it make? Pregnant women get coverage for their oven buns. Isn't that what Liberals wanted all along? Told you Dubya was the great uniter. Now everybody's happier. Libs because the lazy woman gets meds and those who care about life because the unborn gets treated like a human being.
Glint
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 02:02:05 (EST)

My two cents are: Went to a party tonight. Took a walk before leaving just to get some fresh air built up. Wound up down by Gourdon's and realized I'd forgot the wide mouth soda bottle. But I figure what the hey, who needs a bottle anyway? Better to be a natural man. <> The party was at the divorcee's house, in our old neighborhood. She's married now, married a school teacher. A member of the teacher's union, a Clinton man. I was drinking a Harp with him and mentioned that one of the science techers at his school was in the astronomy club. She is a real life version of the actress Carol Kane. A spacey stoney woman who's always fun to be around. She always shows up at the star parties here up on the hill. He said oh yeah her, the weird woman. Said her and her husband have been showing up on the weekends hiking around the farm. Now the farm isn't his. The house he lives in is the divorcee's and the farm is land that belongs to her parents. But this guy is annoyed that the astronomy teacher hikes around the place uninvited. I told him that I could relate. Mentioned the retired govey with the unleashed dog that used to treat our lawn like a public park. He agreed that was an outrage. I told him that the problem with people like the dog walker and the astronomy chick is that they are socialists who think that the land is part theirs. He agreed with a vigorous nodding of the head. Anyway, end of story.
Glint
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 01:40:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Let me see if I can understand what the President has in mind. The CHIP program doesn't typically cover pregnant women so he wants to make the fetus eligible for health care under this same program. Does this mean the fetus gets health care but not the mother? Interesting, wonder if he'll have guidelines on how to accomplish that. Why not just include pregnant women in the CHIP program? Because smirkmouth has other goals in sight.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 00:30:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The problem the GOP will have with Ashcroft is how to slowly let the tazmainian devil out of the closet. Won't be pretty, but it will at least show the bushies for whom they purport to represent!!!
Anonymous. <Behind every fortune lies one great crime>
Fyodor, Dostoyevsky - Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 21:21:17 (EST)

My two cents are: Ms y watching ashcroft agrees he and bushie are our own taliban
Anonymous. <we all feel a little shame knowing this url>
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 21:18:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
we all feel a little shame knowing this url
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 21:16:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Ashcroft. A stained-burqa conservative.
Bwa ha ha
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 21:08:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Who knows what lurks behnd the Ashcroft burqua.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 19:03:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course. What's up with that? Ashcroft: Pro-embryo, anti-boob?
hmm . . . . is Ashcroft fey?
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 18:42:53 (EST)

My two cents are: Then there's Ascroft's burqas. Reserved for semi-nude statues.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:57:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Say whut?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:54:43 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm thinking nothing will come of any of this Enron mess 'cause eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:50:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy's burqa, too.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:36:09 (EST)

My two cents are: Cheney's burqa.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:25:49 (EST)

My two cents are: What's behind the veil except Behind the veil lurks private interests. Which bent his ear at meetings of his energy reform task force last year? He says to leave the veil in place, secrecy is his to uphold. Cheney and the dance of the veils, interesting. Have noticed when he speaks one side of the mouth is more animated than the other.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:21:13 (EST)

My two cents are: Or not.
Justine
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:15:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Of course. Comb on.
Juliette
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:03:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Spread em Juliette, one big one's combing.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:59:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure it isn't.
#45 of 22.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:59:14 (EST)

My two cents are: It is a scandal. Not.
7 of 21 remaining.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:58:39 (EST)

My two cents are: I agree. For example, try this one: Snippy's a great wartime president*! Snippy's a great wartime president*! Snippy's a great wartime president*! There, now. Don't we all feel more secure?
Juliette
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:58:25 (EST)

My two cents are: But, if the 22 of us each tell 22 friends it's not a scandal and those 484 friends each tell 22 of their friends it's not a scandal, and so on, in a matter of days all of the USA will know it's not a scandal. It's actually a very brilliant strategy. I'm calling my 22 friends right now!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:53:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The Glinster is right on the edge. He's sweating bullets and saying it isn't about sex. You've got to admire a chump who thinks he gainsay a scandal away 22 people at a time.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:50:22 (EST)

My two cents are: There was a very nice scandal in the paper this morning about nefarious Eron deals in Oregon, and another story about Enron nepotism to boot. I think this Enron scandal is shaping up very nicely, thank you. You can tell a scandal is going well when the stained-dress conservatives spin so hard trying to pretend it's not a scandal. For example, the Glinster keeps posting that it's not a scandal, as if saying it would make it so.
Justine
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:46:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, Harlan, you weren't supposed to mention the far off Chritian conservative radio station. You've played right into Glint's chubby hand. Can't you see he was only trying to get attention? Can't you see he's playing the loonball card? Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:44:36 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't see any reason to call Spud names, NH. After all, Glint paints a pretty clear picture of the slimeball that calls itself Geraldo. People have been impeached on less evidence than that, thank God.
Ozob
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:41:34 (EST)

My two cents are: How can I tune into the far off Christian conservative radio station? What's the format?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:37:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Spud, you are an idiot. I can't believe that anyone would be "inclined to agree with Glint" without ever having seen Geraldo. Get a clue, moron.
Not Here
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:37:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh. Horsey-rides. Is that why he choked on that pretzel?
Justine
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:36:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, you poor Democrats. You're going to have so much egg on your faces when the full disclosure investigation into Enrongate turns up only sweet, naive innocence on the part of the Bush Administration and Dick Cheney in particular. I can't wait for that moment. Have your silly little fishing expedition, see what I care. But, I'll tell you what. What goes around comes around. Don't be surprised if we don't go on a fishing expedition the next time one of your ilk gets appointed president. You have cast the first stone. Payback is a (rhymes with witch!)
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:35:19 (EST)

My two cents are: Cheney will never have to resign because of the Enron-energy plan. It's not against the law for him to meet with as many crooks as he likes and do what they tell him to. It would be like resigning for talking to yourself. The danger of Enrongate for the administration is that it breaks the Bushies carefully cultivated appearance of not being terminally sleazy, without character, and out to screw the country for what they can suck out of the trough. No, there is no resigning in Enrongate. When Cheney finally resigns, it will be for more of his over-enthusiastic smacking of Snippy's publicly visible skin during their sado-masochistic horsey rides in the TV room. America is not going to stand for having their duly-appointed president* smacked around like that, no matter who he is.
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- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:32:21 (EST)

My two cents are: How long will it take Cheney to resign after he's forced to reveal who's in his Enron-energy cartel? Who will be puppetmaster then? Will Cheney be caged and sent to Gitmo? If so, who will pre-chew Snippy's pretzels?
Youth Wants to Know
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 16:21:39 (EST)

My two cents are: The trademark post down there? Just a post-card. Save your attention for the analysis of why Mary is stoopid.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:58:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Did someone blink and not see Pete? Oh well.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:46:41 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't that guy Stone on one of those celebrity gossip shows? That hardly qualifies as the kind of serious news you find on Fox.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:43:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Where can I see this Geraldo character? I'm inclined to agree with Glint, but I'd like to judge for myself.
Spud
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:40:33 (EST)

My two cents are: Look, television news guys always have weird names. There's even one whose first name is "Stone." Right. Hey, it's a boy! Let's name him "Stone!"
doubt it
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:38:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Wolf Blitzer? Who is Wolf Blitzer? Nobody is named Wolf, sport. Somebody's conning you.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:36:43 (EST)

My two cents are: If Wolf Blitzer snapped his head like that, they'd fire him. Geraldo always gets a free ride on the back of the little man. He must be a secret Republican.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:35:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Nobody on this page seems to see the nuances. Did anybody notice that Geraldo rapidly blinked thoughtfully? I didn't think so. It's the key to the whole post.
Prescott Jamison
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:33:31 (EST)

My two cents are: Once again you prove yourself to be full of shit, Meaty. The Lebanese press knows ten times more about Lebanon than Geraldo does. And it doesn't distract you by snapping its head when you meet with it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:29:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, comma dude, you never can tell with Glint. He doesn't seem to think very hard before he decides on something. It is quite possible that, given the invite to of meet either with Geraldo or the Lebanese press, he would choose the Lebanese press.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:27:52 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe he is angry at Geraldo's false modesty in bragging about meeting with the Lebanese press, when obviously it is the Lebanese press that should be bragging about meeting with Geraldo. That's my theory anyway. Take it or leave it. Let's roll.
,
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:24:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Maybe he's mad at Geraldo for pulling Fox up a notch. Or maybe for pulling it down a notch. Who can say?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:21:57 (EST)

My two cents are: Yeah, but what did he do wrong? What is Glint objecting to, other than maybe the head-snapping? I still don't get it.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:20:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Ola gang, long time no see. I quit. But so what. Now, I quit again. So what.
Pete�
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:18:53 (EST)

My two cents are: You don't understand what Geraldo did wrong? Geesh, what a dufus! He said the Lebanese press asked him to say that they thought anti-Israeli terrorists were OK, bonehead. And then when Sean Hannity said that despite whatever word the Lebanese press would like Geraldo to pass on America has to kick the terrorist ass wherever she finds it, Geraldo agreed with him! Get a brain, dildo. Stoopid.
Not Here
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:18:27 (EST)

My two cents are: They should start using broken broom handles. The sharp ends.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 15:02:51 (EST)

My two cents are: The Marine guards find the toothpaste during the daily rectal checks. To me it's no big deal, though, having been a fan of Preparation H since grammar school. To me the most bizarre twist is the trying to turn a naked cartwheel. I've heard about doing a lot of different things naked, but certainly not the good old-fashioned American cartwheel. Is this some sort of slur on our values? Maybe we should check the rectums two times a day, see how they like that.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 14:52:41 (EST)

My two cents are: What name-calling? Glint, I at least officially recognize you as a true connoisseur of second-string television punditry. I can't figure out from your report what you think Geraldo did wrong other than snap his head back and forth, but I am confident that you somehow reamed him a new asshole with your analysis. Let's roll, dude. Let's roll those melons slow and easy.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 14:47:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Could it be soap?
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 14:30:34 (EST)

My two cents are: It's not toothpaste...
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 14:19:09 (EST)

My two cents are: GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA .... According to these Marines, they don't just pleasure themselves to freak out the snipers, but also to embarrass the female Army guards in the camp's interior. The weirdness doesn't end there. They've also eaten their toiletries and urinated on equipment. "The other day," says Westbrook, "one of the guys tried to do a naked cartwheel." In the most bizarre twist, Lance Corporal Devin Klebaur says a few have also been known to "put toothpaste in their ass." "What's the purpose?" I ask. "I'm not sure," he says, puzzled.
becasue they are a bunch of fucked up rag heads, that's why! <via drudge>
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/856fcmtf.asp, - Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 14:17:42 (EST)

My two cents are: Geraldo has added a new dimension for Fox. As long as you hold your nose during as he pompously promotes himself as a world class news hound. Like the other night when he was reporting from Lebanon. He bragged about a meeting he had had with the Lebanese president. Geraldo said the Leb pres stressed how the anti-Israeli terrorists in Lebanon are seen as freedom fighters, and are by Lebanese standards main stream with many of them holding political office. Geraldo said that he was asked by the Leb pres to pass the message to Americans, elaborating how Lebanon's recent history of war has ravaged the country that only now it was coming back as a viable modern society. Sean Hannity waited as Geraldo's monologue came to an end and until his head stopped snapping back and forth. Sean said that by definitition this country must go afer the terrorists no matter where they are found and we must also punish those who harbor and support them. If Lebanon won't turn over the anti-Israel terrorists then they should realize there may be a price to pay. Geraldo stuttered, paused, rapidly blinked thoughtfully and said, "You know Sean, I've got to agree with you." They need to give Geraldo's leash to Sean. Let's roll.
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 13:54:17 (EST)

My two cents are: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ?? An influential Arab television station said Saturday that it never aired an October interview with Osama bin Laden because the interview was conducted under duress and the questions were dictated to its correspondent. The statement from Al-Jazeera was the latest round in a rift between the satellite outfit and CNN over the bin Laden interview. Al-Jazeera objected when CNN began airing the video Thursday, and a CNN official fired back, saying the cable network had done nothing illegal and Al-Jazeera should explain why it hadn't made the tape public in the first place. That explanation came Saturday in a statement faxed from the Qatar-based station to The Associated Press. CNN spokeswoman Megan Mahoney declined to comment on the Al-Jazeera statement.
Glint <Thanks, CNN, but I think I'll stick with FOX NEWS>
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 13:39:37 (EST)

My two cents are: You guys are getting down and dirty with your name calling. It must be frustrating to have to keep slapping this Enron thing and it still won't stiffen up. Maybe there's something along the lines of a viagra, except instead of invigorating the sex drive it jump starts the outrage. Oh well, sticks and stones and all that jazz.
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 13:37:17 (EST)

My two cents are: I threw my support to Bush the minute I heard him utter the magical phrase, "revitalize the Peace Corps." Yay, team-- let's get over there and show them Arabs some American values.
RPCV, Ruanda '66
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 13:17:15 (EST)

My two cents are: You are a bunch of assholes. Every pundit worth his word-processing software is saying that the smirk is gone.
Wanda Turlock
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 13:13:44 (EST)

My two cents are: It's the upper lip that's noir.
flounder
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:29:38 (EST)

My two cents are: I think snippy looks plenty noir when he speaks of the Axis of Evil. He gets a tough Texas glint in his eye, and his lip stiffens in a grim smirk that silently utters the word, "daisy cutter." Terrorists are trembling in their holes all over Arabia.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:12:55 (EST)

My two cents are: The Islamoid terrorists have given the liberal media shills three days to get out of Pakistan. Why can't we have that kind of patriotism in THIS country?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:10:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy needs to lighten up on the Marvel Comics "Axis of Evil" angle. He's just not a noir kinda guy.
Stained Dress Republicans
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:08:39 (EST)

My two cents are: As someone who has eaten a lot of peanuts, I feel damned lucky to still be alive.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:07:40 (EST)

My two cents are: Fuck communists, register them fetuses. For every little unborn embryo, its very own little Hillary Klinton Health Kare Kard!
Choked On Pretzel
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:06:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Axis of Evil? What the hell....?
???
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:05:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Hey, stained-dress republican. A policy is useless unless it is supported by the business community. Or, if not the whole community, at least one company that stands to benefit.
tird
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:03:19 (EST)

My two cents are: You choke me up, guy. Keep 'em coming.
Proud American With Tears in Eyes
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 12:01:32 (EST)

My two cents are: Let's roll? Yep, that says it all. The turncoats are starting to look like vampires. Family values will prove out. The fetus has finally been cut a break. Keep the faith, patriots. Register Communists, not firearms. Remember the Pueblo. America will prevail, and the Axis of Evil will split apart and fall like so many rotten nectarines. Let's roll.
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- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 11:56:33 (EST)

My two cents are: We don't want to hear about the blowjobs Cheney's been getting from Enron. Or giving.
Stained-Dress Republicans
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 11:55:21 (EST)

My two cents are: When Snippy says "let's roll," first of all it means, "let's you roll and not me." Next, it means, "I'll get rid of any anti-Enron guys you want." Next, it means, "I hope you guys haven't noticed just how bad my buddies are ripping off you socialsit Californians and Oregonians and your ilk for your so-called energy deregulation, which happens to exist just so you can get ripped off ha ha ha so let's roll."
third eye blind
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 11:53:22 (EST)

My two cents are: This Walker character is a Republican, right? Fucking turncoat. Him and National Review and Drudge and the saintly Klayman and Novak and a thousand other wannabe insiders. Well, Coulter's never going to turn. Kudlow won't turn. Fat Tony Blankley, he won't turn. Sun Myung Moon will not turn, nor will his followers or his newspaper. They will continue to recognize Enrongate for what it is, an unfortunate business disaster, unrelated to any identifiable GOP office-holder or nut-cupper. This is America, not Commie China. Support family values. Let's Roll.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 11:51:50 (EST)

My two cents are: "In an interview with National Review Online, Walker in essence accused Cheney of lying about the GAO's demands. "There have been material misrepresentations of facts coming out of the White House in recent weeks," he says. In particular, Walker points to a statement Cheney made in a television interview last Sunday. "They've demanded of me that I give Henry Waxman a listing of everybody I meet with," Cheney told Fox News, "of everything that was discussed, any advice that was received, notes and minutes of those meetings." "That was a very critical and highly material misrepresentation," Walker says. "If we were asking for that, I'd understand where they are coming from. But we are not." Indeed Walker is correct...."
go, right-wing media, go!
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 11:07:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Peanut-size jellyfish kills Briton...
[developing....]
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 11:02:20 (EST)

My two cents are: By the way, I am grateful this Imbolc and thank the spirits in the trees that they have given me the grace to be one of the few individuals who have maintained the courage to post under a real fake name. Glint, Harlan St. Wolf, and me. Only we three stand tall above the warren of cowardly anonymous rodents that this site has become.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 10:55:04 (EST)

My two cents are: I didn't see Snippy's speech either, but from the clips I've seen and read I'm a little worried that the Snip is unfamiliar with his new liberalism, and is getting it confused with his love of Big Government. It seems that his better tendencies get glued up in vaguely-described huge government programs unsupported in any conceivable real-life budget. If the bandy-legged little guy is uneasy with his new concern for the down-trodden, he seems even less comfortable with his apparent success and his high poll numbers, and is starting to swagger again. This seemed cute a few months ago, but now he has taken on the harder aspect of a sawed-off bully operating from the little man's complex. If he continues to have the support of the sheeple, he could do some real harm, ignorantly smirking into international relations, loudly threatening countries he has no real power or mandate to discipline, ignoring potentially helpful outfits like NATO and Russia and China in the equations, generally behaving like a guy who is so proud of punching out the waitress he forgets about the maitre d', and thinks he's going to keep his table. We had all better hope that the bandy-legged, word-mangling little fucker doesn't get himself stuck in too many tar-babies.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 10:50:22 (EST)

My two cents are: Afraid I'm going to have to wait on Imbolc, pal. My sheep are not lactating yet.
Hortense Beegum
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 09:49:18 (EST)

My two cents are: Happy Imbolc everyone. Imbolc is the pagan fesival of the lactating sheep. Imbolc marks the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox. Happy Imbolc.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 09:24:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I think there's more to this 4000 than meets the eye. We all know every rightwing administration, especially every bush administration loots the economy, some giant sector of it at least. poppy and neal had the s and l's. newbushie has enron so far and that funeral home, service corporation hasn't even reared its head yet, thats the other cardboard shoe. But anyway, lets say we loot the economy, cut social services and other programs and replace them with volunteers? lets see, if we loot the entire budget surplus maybe we could get 25 million volunteers to up 4000 hours to replace the costs. Shit especially the retired, they should work for free.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 09:19:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I pretty much blew off the state of the union address. thought it too painful to watch such an inept and struggling orator. from what i can tell, he's back courting the rabid rightwing christians and still cant offer us up a vision of the future aside from putting out 4000 in the hopes of breaking even.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 09:14:58 (EST)

My two cents are: I'd watch those compliments gling, sometimes people dont say what they mean and dont mean what they say.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 09:13:08 (EST)

My two cents are: here's the rub, sure bushie is back on his wretched anti-abortion agenda, geez, are there still throwbacks out there trying to stop a womans right to choose? anyway, if you want to give an unborn child legal rights as a person, then it is also a dependent correct? Hence an income tax exemption. So next, a state gets a suit filed saying that if it declares a child eligible for services, it must acknowledge its dependent status and the state loses a whole lot of money. fed too.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 09:12:02 (EST)

My two cents are: I have decided that I really am in love with my avatar Pete after all.
E�
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 06:10:32 (EST)

My two cents are: You are the honyocker, asshole. This is a business imbroglio. What do the Republicans have to do with business?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 04:24:21 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor Glint. Blew a cylinder and only got two left, eh? Don't you just hate the way liberal biased PBS announcers refuse to say that Clinton and Hitlery are slimeballs and should be impeached? How can you listen to that shit? Poor Glint, climbing higher up the turnips. When the vice-president sells pieces of himself to crooked commodity traders and then tries to cover it up, we're looking at a little more than an unlucky business venture. This here is a real corruption of the American political system, a betrayal of our most honorable traditions as well as our run-of-the-mill laws, simple shit-eating conspiracy to defraud America's citizens, rooted throughout the Republican party and the Bush administration*. It is not the employees of Enron that matter here, but the growing lawlessness of commercial enterprise and the appointment of a beneficiary of that lawlessness to our highest political office by a corrupt court. You go through life seeing nothing past the blue dresses, looking at grave matters as if they mean nothing more than than that someone might look like a vampire, a comic-book creature that doesn't even exist, squawking about "spin" yet forever confusing it with substance, as if what you manage to discern of the surface is what is really happening. You poor ignorant punk. Let's hope whatever you have is not contageous. Other than that, how far into your application to the AmeriCorps are you? Do you need a recommendation from someone who's been through that mill, has put in his 4,000? Let me know. Always willing to give a poor ignorant punk a hand up.
House of Meat
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 03:56:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I wonder if the groundhog will crawl out of the ground and see it's shadow. Speaking of ground, it's hard to believe that it's been 11 months since they buried John.
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 03:53:56 (EST)

My two cents are: The Democrats are appearing somewhat desperate in their efforts to spin an unforunate business disaster into something it's not by linking it to policy making. There is little apparent shame as they cry their crocodile tears for the poor employees of Enron while rubbing their hands together with glee. It looks like they're on course to overplay their hand on this one and come out looking like vampires.
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 02:02:49 (EST)

My two cents are: By "more distant programs" I didn't mean to imply more distant than the BBC or even the doop doop doop of the time signals ringing out of Ft. Collins. I meant line-of-site FM naturally. Also, that back yard astronomer NY Dr. was on the History Channel, not the Discovery Channel. I'm not running on all cylinders this late.
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 01:37:58 (EST)

My two cents are: Vendetta is always the bottom line, Glint, when freedom-loving people talk about Republicans. What make of turnip truck did you just fall off of? Hey, that sentence ended with a double preposition. The crynic would be appalled, or at least the residue of Miss Twinkle his 3rd grade teacher would be appalled. In my coracle on the edge of the cosmic sea, er, within view of the sky, to put it another, albeit less poetic way, I can maintain the state of fat, dumb, and happy, that the Sons of Nebraska are famous for. That was just a single. Hardly enough to make the crynic cry "fie, fie, for shame." So Boxer said that the White House didn't return her letters, eh? Smells like vendetta to me, all right. I would certainly go on vendetta if I was a senator and the White House got my "goat." I think everyone will agree that having your goat got is a good reason for a vendetta. Keep the melons rolling, Glint. You're all we've got.
Ogden "Oggie" Slivovitz, No. 17
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 01:34:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Speaking of Senator Boxer, I was listening to a PBS program with her tonight while in the observatory. Sometimes I'll switch over from the WWV time signals to the BBC shorwave broadcast to catch up on the news. But the hill is a pretty good place to pick up more distant programs, such as Baltimore's fine classical music station, or Frederick's conservative Christian station, or some PBS out of Washignton. Boxer was on talking about Enron and the energy task force. She insisted that she wasn't trying to link the two together. It was just that the energy task force was something that her constituents might be interested in knowing about. The show's host pressed her on the subject, and she slipped up. Lifted up her leg and squirted a bitch about the White House not returning her letters and how that got her goat. Vendetta, that's the bottom line. Soon as I got the dome open and the scope unwrapped and uncapped the clouds rolled in. So I had to drink a pot of coffee up there and smoke a stogie instead while the Dachshund slept. One thing about that NY Dr. with the back yard observatory on the Discovery Channel last night. He didn't have a hill like mine. flat walk from the house to the dome. At least he probably won't keel over one of these years trudging up a hill to his ship waiting at the edge of the cosmic ocean.
Glint
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 01:21:10 (EST)

My two cents are: "I TOO", am concerned about the term "Lets Roll". There is Rock and Roll and Bushy-Baby favorite buddie, Holy Roller Ashcroft. Hmmmmmm, Did LBJ like to "roll". From what I have heard, he was a nudist, who like to embarass his female staff, naked as a jay-bird. Was that why they called his wife, Lady Bird.
WILL-YUM
- Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 01:08:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Can Glint or somebody explain why Iran and Iraq and North Korea are an "axis?" Didn't Iran and Iraq recently have an altercation involving human waves and mustard gas?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:43:01 (EST)

My two cents are: Does anyone here know what Snippy means when he says "let's roll?"
.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:39:55 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm still trying to figure out how Enron contributed to the availability of energy in the USA. Are they still wheeling and dealing big-time, making sure we all get the cheap juice? I haven't noticed the lights flicker since they spiraled in. Does this mean the energy policy Enron gave us is so good you can kick one of the legs out from the stool and it still stands?
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- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:26:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Not only would the real Glint never say such a thing, the real Glint wouldn't even answer the question. The real Glint is an emotional troglodyte who figures only blowjobs are worthy of full investigations. Oh, and Whitewater - the scandal that wasn't. Maybe another investigation into the death of Vince Forster. That's emotional enough. This poor sap is as emotional as the hermaphrodites he fantasizes about.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:24:38 (EST)

My two cents are: Does Glint know that 401K accounts are subsidized with his taxes?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:23:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Oh, please! How faux can you go, traitor?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:11:54 (EST)

My two cents are: Sure. Let's roll.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:11:20 (EST)

My two cents are: How about it, Glint? How about full public hearings with all cards on the table, just to reassure a doubting public, Enron asked for and received no special benefit for the millions they generously gave to Snippy. You with me, Husker?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:10:35 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, Boxer's idea would have benefitted the employee more than Snippy's. Glint is a piece of work. For all his yammering about light pollution, which inhibits his ability to star-gaze, this is a guy who commutes many miles while when he's working, thus creating more than his share of photo-chemical smog...which inhibits his ability to star-gaze.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:08:08 (EST)

My two cents are: Isn't Snippy's 401K proposal about the same as the one Sen. Boxer brought up a while back and the Republicans killed? Or is that too much like talking about Dingleberry bills?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 22:02:48 (EST)

My two cents are: Neat play with the "contract on the house" thing!
go glint go
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:57:18 (EST)

My two cents are: I like Glint's line that "after all, the gov't needs the cooperation of private industry if a policy is to be effective." That's exactly why the War on Drugs doesn't work. The gov't needs the cooperation of the dopers, but failed to consult them. Fortunately, the Snippy Administration saw the light and was careful not to leave private industry out of formulating its energy policy. If they had, we would all be trying to get to the mall in golf-carts and trying to start refrigerator compressor induction motors with 12 volts dribbling out of the sockets. Thank goodness the oil industry and the energy middlemen were cut in on the planning!
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- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:52:24 (EST)

My two cents are: I am the "Gling" below by the way. Wendy Graham? Is she connected with the White House? I think her connection to the White House is that her husband once put out a contract on the house, but didn't get the loan. You're still way down the food chain on the Enron feeding frenzy. <> Clear and windy here tonight. Will probably use the observatory instead of the bigger roll-out telescope to keep the wind off. Need to get cracking before the moon rises at 22:06 EST here in Carroll County.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:41:51 (EST)

My two cents are: They are business people Glint. They didn't get rich kissing the peon's ass.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:40:56 (EST)

My two cents are: Don't look now, Glint, but we have a Republican president*. You're going to have to keep that job at least three years.
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- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:38:24 (EST)

My two cents are: Only slipped in that one about the board of directors because it looks like they may be vulnerable. Wendy Gramm may have to turn over some of the cash-out profits to the creditors for negligent performance. Perfect.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:36:29 (EST)

My two cents are: You want to know how they rewarded me? They gave me a frawking cell phone today! So now they can call me in the middle of the night to service their clients in bed. So to speak, that is.
Gling
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:36:16 (EST)

My two cents are: I had a good day today. The vice president whom I am now working for, as a captive employee, said today that it is his belief that today I prevented a client with a $billion teat from canceling their contract. On the downside, will I be rewarded monetarily, like say a mere 1% of the savings? Doubt it. I haven't worked so hard for so little money in years. I'm going to put in about two years, maybe 4,000 hours, and by then hope that this recession is over and the employment spot market will pick up again.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:34:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Great to see you back in the saddle, Glint, underage hermaphrodite-baiting and all. However, you make a mistake in assuming that Enrongate is somehow about pensions. In reality, it's about bribery, illegal business practices, bad management, lack of character in the GOP, investment fraud, crimes committed by the Enron board of directors, permissibility of secret overseas money-laundering accounts, Social Security "reform", John McCain's agenda, and, most generally, the hosing out and re-regulation of the entire corporate community of America and its relationship to the possibility of establishing a United States government that pays more than lip service to the ideals of the Founding Fathers. I'm surprised you don't understand that. Have you been sleeping through the news hour?
House of Meat
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:32:37 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't know, anonymous. Do hermaphrodite minors have testis?
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:25:50 (EST)

My two cents are: We could begin the night with the Mike Tyson fantasy. Use the best shoe polish, spare no expense. We could end the evening with Brenda cooling off down at the pet cemetery reminiscing about the tranny that checked itself out.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:24:23 (EST)

My two cents are: Is the glintster getting a little testy?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:23:31 (EST)

My two cents are: I don't need to. Klaman's on the job, remember him? The guy you thought was a Republican hack, a shill just out to get Clinton. Guess you guys were wrong about him as usual. Just like you were wrong about Bush. The way you had him pegged if he wasn't pouring strichnine into the water supply and rinsing the bottles out with his own piss he must be a Liberal. No way he could really be a compassionate conservative. Maybe we'll still get through to the denser 15% of voters after all.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:14:02 (EST)

My two cents are: And, thanks Glint, for that wonderful story. Kids say the darndest things, eh? Anyway, have you written to the White House, demanding they turn over the list of name, dates of meetings and minutes of those meetings? I'm speaking about Enrongate, of course. Do you remember when President Clinton turned over the list of people who had spent the night at the White House? Many of them were contributors. Isn't it only proper that Dick and Bush turn over the names, etc., of the contributors who dictated the "energy policy"?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 21:09:08 (EST)

My two cents are: THANKS ADAM!
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 20:48:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Well, the kids got their report cards today. As usual they both got straight 'A's. Poe had to give an oral report today in her creative writing class. The assignment was to write a fantasy. Hers was about animals. Becoming a groundhog living in a burrow under the dome so that she could skip school and catch up on her sleep for two weeks. Next, she would changling into a kangaroo and hop off on adventure. You know, that sort of thing. There is one person in her class who doesn't need to fantasize when it comes to changing. Brenda got up and spoke about a fantasy where there would be a chance meeting with a celebrity in a public place whose eye Brenda would catch. The specific example Brenda gave was Mike Tyson. Tyson would ask Brenda out and they would go on a date. In the fantasy Brenda is invited back to the boxer's room. Suddenly Brenda is attacked and brutally raped. The end. Poe concedes that at least this is better than the assignment in which they were to write about a real person whom they admired and why. Brenda chose a transvestite who was constantly abused and humiliated for his choice of lifestyle. He eventually ended up committing suicide. I think I need to help that kid. A night and in the observatory and all Brenda's dreams would come true.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 20:45:51 (EST)

My two cents are: Nah, it's just a way to sell public health care for poor women to right wing dummies like Glint.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:47:45 (EST)

My two cents are: It means the beginning of the end to women's right to choose.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:41:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Forget about feti, what are we doing for the unborn children who aren't even embryos yet? What about those kids who are just a twinkle in the potential mother's eye? I say, we offer pre-pre-natal care to all poor women who aren't barren.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:38:06 (EST)

My two cents are: I'm curious. Just what does changing the name 'fetus' to 'unborn child' actually mean legally? Does it mean the fetus has rights and status that was previously given only at birth? Would that make an illegal immigrant?s fetus a U.S. citizen if it was conceived in the U.S.?
Mary
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:23:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Ashcroft, not only opposes a woman's right to choose, he was also a sponsor of the Human Life Amendment. For those of you who are not familiar with this amendment, it would not only make abortions illegal but it would also criminalize the use of IUD's and birth control pills. Ashcroft and his supporters on this amendment believe that life begins at fertilization, a rather extreme position even among right-to-lifers.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:17:15 (EST)

My two cents are: } If you're going to investigate influence peddling, just bore in with your tunnel vision on Enron, right? Or maybe you'd like to include labor unions with that?" I think this is an excellent idea. Let's start with Bush and Hoffa and the teamsters.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:11:36 (EST)

My two cents are: Biggest crock of crap I've heard come out of GW's mouth yet. What, is he saying that an uninsured pregnant woman can't get medical help unless the fetus is declared an unborn child? Idiot.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:10:44 (EST)

My two cents are: Not Eleanor. Dexter.
Dexter
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:03:21 (EST)

My two cents are: PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A woman was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for killing a man by sitting on him during an argument. Rachael L. Thompson, 20, was convicted in December of involuntary manslaughter in the suffocation death of Shiraz Jamsa, 49. She said she got mad at Jamsa when he refused to pay her for an act of prostitution, so she knocked him down, sat on his chest and hit him in the head while trying to get his wallet. Thompson weighed about 190 pounds at the time, Jamsa 115 pounds.
Eleanor?
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 17:36:39 (EST)

My two cents are: Liberals. A real piece of dishonest crap.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 17:09:27 (EST)

My two cents are: Snippy is a born again liberal and Glint is loving it. Told you the old Husker was a bleeding heart.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 17:05:45 (EST)

My two cents are: Nice to see we agree, Corn-Boy. Give up, Cheney!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 17:04:49 (EST)

My two cents are: Please, no......we are begging 'ya. Someone stop Al Gore. These stories that he may run again fills one with such ennui. Could we stand the brown clothes, the flapping arms, the global warming drone or worse, another lip lock? Someone put him in a lock box before we snooze again.
http://kitcarson.net/~mbs/gorejiggy.gif
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 17:04:34 (EST)

My two cents are: Bush proposes pension reform President urges Congress to give more control to workers President Bush urged GOP lawmakers Friday to pass measures giving employees more control over their 401(k) plans. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Feb. 1 � Reacting to the outcry over Enron�s collapse, President Bush urged legislators to update regulations to give workers more freedom over 401(k) pension plans. His proposal calls for the right for employees to diversify plans heavily weighed down with their employer�s stock, and would bar executives from selling stock during �blackout� periods like the one that kept Enron workers from bailing out while the company�s shares plunged last year.
What a compassionate man our president is! <[email protected]>
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:59:25 (EST)

My two cents are: http://www.ananova.com/images/news/monkey_breastfeedingAP372x500.jpg
yum!
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:55:49 (EST)

My two cents are: If you're going to investigate influence peddling, just bore in with your tunnel vision on Enron, right? Or maybe you'd like to include labor unions with that. Sure, the loss isn't as big. But it might have been if the money would have gone into the retirement plan instead of union coffers and politicians' pockets.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:43:16 (EST)

My two cents are: Look at 'em. Sick, sick, sick. Shameless. Shame is good. I have shame. I am ashamed. I should be.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:37:11 (EST)

My two cents are: Drudge has wit and humor? I suppose there are plenty of examples that can be cited. This faggot is about as funny as a wart. He's keeping the Enron ball in the air, though.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:36:14 (EST)

My two cents are: Look at these sick liberals. Shameless morons.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:34:59 (EST)

My two cents are: This is health insurance for poor women. It fits nicely into Bush's liberal agenda. With all these healthy, poor babies that will be born, Bush has already begun to reinstitute welfare as we knew it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:34:21 (EST)

My two cents are: So, you do favor the investigation into influence peddling? Whitewater was no Enrongate, Glint. After years of investigation, it was zilch. Glad to see you're on the right side. Let the investigations begin. No more stonewalling!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:32:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Health insurance for the unborn. How about health insurance for the born???
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:10:06 (EST)

My two cents are: Nice to see the Liberals starting to take a shine to Matt. We've enjoyed his wit and humor for years. It's really sad to see him struggling so. He's gone a whole year without a good scandal since BLT after selling pardons. Talk about your blatant influence peddling, that was a no brainer. So Matt has to do with Enron. Surely, you don't expect him to work miracles, do you? Enron's not Whitewater, but it's all you've got.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:05:36 (EST)

My two cents are: "What about that investigation into influence peddling, boy?"
You're badgering the witness
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 15:57:31 (EST)

My two cents are: The price of flying air force 1 has went up by about 1 thousand per cent. We need to take it away from them clowns. They have it in the air 24 hours a day spreading shit.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 15:25:20 (EST)

My two cents are: Your three legs are showing stumpism.
Yo!
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 15:23:26 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint must not know that when the White House Denies knowing anything about Enron they are like all the rest. When there lips move they are lieing.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 15:21:14 (EST)

My two cents are: What about that investigation into influence peddling, boy?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 15:12:48 (EST)

My two cents are: The Enron people who banked their whole retirement on Enron are just going to have to work a little longer. Maybe a company in Waco can give them a cab they can drive unti they're 85. They all need immediate work. Seeing that they're already in Texas maybe they can go work at Gulf State Utilities in Beamont. They offered me a job once, and I turned it down. Maybe someone can take that job if it's still open after 21 years. Great interview too. No evening connecters to Lincoln, so I got to stay a second night. The company took me and the staff out for a fine Italian meal. After that we went to some rhinestone cowboy disco where we got into a hot debate over corn fed V. grass fed cattle, and Angus V. Long Horns. They settled it by setting me on a mechanical bull. They were such nice folks, fun loving too. They had the greatest belly laughs you've ever heard.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 15:08:03 (EST)

My two cents are: I just wish Drudge would agree this thing has no legs and stop pretending it does.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:44:00 (EST)

My two cents are: He won't give a straight answer because he knows this thing has a thousand legs.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:42:03 (EST)

My two cents are: Evasive little prick, isn't he. Just like his president* and vice-president*.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:34:08 (EST)

My two cents are: stOOpid

- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:31:28 (EST)

My two cents are: Who needs nicknames when they've already spotted you Dick and Bush?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:29:46 (EST)

My two cents are: How about including possible influence peddling by the administration in the investigation, Glint? Surely you can't object to that. I mean, since there's nothing to hide.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:28:02 (EST)

My two cents are: Why can't us liberals come up with clever nicknames like Dingleberry?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:25:40 (EST)

My two cents are: You're making the common mistake of mixing up the two separate issues: (1) Enron investigation and (2) energy policy task force. President Bush has already called for an investigation of the Enron collapse. Ways to protect investors and employees should be covered. Between you and me investors are aware of the risks. If not, then they should stick to money markets. The employees had 13 options in their retirement plan. If they didn't diversify they only have themselves to blame. But let the investigation determine if the company did anything illegal by locking them out of trading at a time when the stock price was tumbling. That's what the investigation needs to deal with. Now, as far as the energy task force is concerned, would anyone be surprised if executives from leading energy companies were consulted? I would be more outraged if Enron or another big player was excluded from policy making. After all, the gov't needs the cooperation of private industry if a policy is to be effective. As far as the secrets go, well, that's up to the court to decide.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:24:50 (EST)

My two cents are: Glint has all the logic skills of Coulter.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:24:04 (EST)

My two cents are: Poor women aren't voters? You're a real pip, Glint!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:21:43 (EST)

My two cents are: The wonderful thing about the president wanting to grant rights to cute little oven buns is that he is going out on a limb for a segment of society that are not voters. Thus, politics has nothing to do with it. He is truly a compassionate conservative, just like he said.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:17:30 (EST)

My two cents are: Great answer, Glint. The question really is, do you favor a complete investigation of this Enron thing. Seeing as how the administration* has nothing to hide, of course.
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:09:55 (EST)

My two cents are: Woman on ladder: I'm looking but I don't see the moon. Ladder usher: I do, and she's a beaut!
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:07:30 (EST)

My two cents are: "Should Cheney turn over the list of insiders he met with?" On the one hand I'd like to see a more open gov't. On the other hand, considering that Congressman Dingleberry is behind this partisan effort, I'd have to say kudos to Cheney.
Glint
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:02:53 (EST)

My two cents are: As usual, impeccable logic, Ann. Since we are at war with Al Qaida, not Afghanistan, does this mean Johnny Calicoban walks?
Anonymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 13:53:17 (EST)

nymous.
- Friday, February 01, 2002 at 13:53:17 (EST)

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