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My two cents are: So when do the branches begin to sprout?
jiminy
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 23:27:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course not. Recall, he's not really a real Boy. Is he?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 23:21:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Has our little White House Pinocchio become such a star that he doesn't need Stromboli Rove to guide and protect him?
I've go no strings...he sings
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 23:19:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Muguets. Ah, zee lilies of zee valley. Verry nice. Zee funny zeeng we socialists notice, about Zee US of A, eez zat ok, you've got people working 16 hours a day now een your country, just to break even. You know? Two jobs, three jobs, just to try to break even. No health care, eh? That's what's goin' on, you stupeed busheesit fascieeets. Not that you even know enough to care. hah.
bush twins too stupid to notice they/re nude
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 23:15:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think you're wrong about the oil grab. That's probably too brazen for even this band of crooks. Think "Contract Grab" and you'll be on the right track. Iraqi oil is almost secondary when you consider the big ancillary bucks that can be made RIGHT NOW. An oil grab requires an eye to the future. How long do you think any of these bandits will be alive? This is not about 2005 or 2008 or beyond, it's about 2003 and 2004, tops.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 22:57:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe that bad dog will swing by! It's May Day! International socialism day! Workers of the world unite day! In France, it's a holiday, for the socialists. I think it's the day where everyone buys a flower, called muguets. Here in the land of shiny suits and narrow neckties and "pocket squares" folded into Nebraska Points, we don't like to acknowledge that such a day can be happening. We hope that we can break the "worker", bust him back to where he was in 1907, and create jobs for everyone, even the little children, work or starve you little wog bastards. But over in Old Europe, where they know how to live, May Day is a celebration. Salut les camarades!
LaFollet
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 22:46:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, the White House knows this is an occupation, as necessary for an oil grab. The White House doesn't try to fool itself. It tries to fool the rubes, and anyone else who might fall for it. This is not at all out of character. The whole Bush puppet-show, from the start, has been about lies. Strategic lies, tactical lies, little bitty lies, smearing lies, economic lies, morality lies, the whole gantlet. The gammit. This here is an army squatted down on a populace, keep them in check, set up a puppet state, lie cheat, and steal the oil. Don't kid yourself that there's politics or diplomacy or international relations going on here. This here, it's piracy. It's conquer and suck dry. It's barbarism disguised as Rotary on the grand scale. Anyone who believes otherwise, why, that person is a rube.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 22:39:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only major achievement that Bush has delivered thus far is to unite the Shi'is and the Sunnis. Both want the Americans out. The White House seems unable to grasp the simple fact that Iraqi hatred of Saddam does not make them any happier about the prospect of an American occupation or charter members of the Ariel Sharon fan club.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 22:20:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ydog is not here. Sometimes he visits, on holidays. Those he waves to when he's here know who they are, and why. The others don't.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 21:49:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Glint. He isn't. Besides, you've got the date wrong. Poor, witless asshole.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 21:34:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tomorrow's May 1, the beginning of Ydog's trip to Maryland month. I wonder if he's thinking the same thing.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 21:17:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gamut? Grommet? Gauntlet, not to be confused with 'gantlet' which is what those two are always running.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 20:44:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fresh Fruit Dips Serve fresh fruit on a platter for dipping, or thread fresh fruit on bamboo skewers or party picks to make fruit kabobs. Use any of the following fruits: grapes pineapple chunks strawberries banana slices melon cantaloupe orange slices grapefruit slices apple slices cherries kiwi slices pears Ginger Dip 1 cup mayonnaise 1 cup marshmallow creme 1 tsp grated orange rind 1 tsp ground ginger
reallity check: see above
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 20:43:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gammit? Gauntlet? Are those French words??? Yech!!!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 20:36:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: 'Old Europe' presses ahead with plans for an EU army By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 30/04/2003) "Old Europe" threw down the gauntlet at the feet of Britain, the United States and the Atlantic Alliance at a mini-summit yesterday, unveiling plans for a new Euro-army with its own military headquarters.// Jacques Chirac: rebukes Tony Blair for advocating a 'one polar world' // France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg vowed to press ahead with a full-fledged defence union, brushing aside warnings that the move would entrench the European Union's bitter divisions over Iraq and could lead to the break-up of Nato. A new rapid reaction force would be built around the existing Franco-German brigade, taking in Belgian commandos and units from Luxembourg. It would answer to a headquarters in the Brussels suburb of Tervuren and be ready for joint operations next year. Jacques Chirac, the French president, insisted that the plans would bolster Nato by making Europe a more credible partner for Washington, and denied there was an attempt to set up a rival to Nato's operational command. "The aim is not to decouple European Union and Atlantic Alliance defence efforts," he said. But M Chirac gave out stronger signals when he gently rebuked Tony Blair for advocating a "one polar world" and warning of a new Cold War if Europe tried to become a rival power to America. "Quite naturally a multi-polar world is being created, whether one likes it or not. It's inevitable. For balance to exist, there will have to be a strong Europe.
Dirty little Bush to Condi--Hey, what's a gauntlet?
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 20:31:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: There are no WMD, nothing that would threaten anyone least of all the USA. Hell, Condi Rice said as much. This war was about making a statement and contracts. Snippy lied, that's all. He could have sold the whole disaster to Glint and Pete without lying, but there are the normals to consider too. So he lied.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 20:28:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Going to have to give it up. Used to be, you could come to this site and see genuine primitive troglodytes spouting off, troglodytes unarmed with anything but the meagerest of skills or knowledge. You could always drop by and take the mildly perverse pleasure of beating them about the skull. Nowadays they've become wary, hiding out so that you rarely catch one and have the opportunity to rub salt into his self-afflicted wounds. I swear, Myrt, I am just about to give it up. It sure would be nice to have Glint or even Pete stride in here and proclaim how smart, knowledgeable, right, and loveable he was, like in the old days. I feel as if I haven't bashed one of these rubes in hours!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 20:28:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Give it up.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 19:59:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Could those thousands of leftover cluster bombs that have ripped Iraqi children apart be considered WMD?
rats, I forgot that we're the only nation that should have WMD
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 19:15:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I got to hand it to Glint and the pineapple. They can take more abuse than most ignorant troglodytes. The boys on the freep could never have stood in the withering glare of rational thought this long. Intelligent liberal though is like Kryptonite to them. They die, shrivel up, sneak back to the comforting vitriol of Coulter and Horowitz and the freep. I nominate the dynamic duo for some sort of prize. Saps of the Year. Order of the Legion of Lemmings. A pink rose on each nose-- on Glint's upturned-button gnome nose, and on Pete's splayed, flabby, blackhead-encrusted schnozz.
honor them
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 19:01:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stilll $1.93 here.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 18:59:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, there must be some sort of poison stored somewhere in Iraq. We'll find it. Maybe we'll find the bomb factory that was six weeks away from producing atomic weapons, too. But that's not important. What is important is that the Iraqis are ululating freely in the streets, and wreaking vengeance on the evil museum curators who enslaved them for so long. They are demonstrating, advocating the various causes that make up this messy thing we call democracy. The ones that we don't machine-gun are, anyway. Hey, picky picky, so we started this war by lying? We own Iraq, don't we? Oil is down to $1.86/gallon, isn't it? The Arab-in-the-street is kissing a picture of G.W. Bush, isn't he? Stop complaining, you traitor.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 18:49:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have we found in Iraq the WMD that threaten this country? Or is it that a lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face, Pinocchio?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 17:45:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: De Gaulle was a socialist, wasn't he? I heard it from a trustworthy, although third-rate, lunatic.
curious Tampa grandmother
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 17:22:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy's home page: http://www.bettybowers.com/vivian.html
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 17:00:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. What does a tape measure have to do with it? Why is that funny?
Clyde Harrington
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 16:44:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rube wit.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 16:09:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't like visiting the pet store at the mall any more because of the weird stares I get upon reaching the gerbil section while browsing. Could it be the tape measure?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 16:07:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cat Hitches Ride From Indiana to Missouri... developing...
A calico cat!!!?? -- Ashcroft
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 16:04:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ooo, I'd like to take that Jiminy Cricket and gerbel him!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:59:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where the hell is Jiminy Cricket?
maybe they used Raid
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:54:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: One rule of President Bush is to never admit a lie and never apologize for your actions. He lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to invade Iraq to grab the oil fields, create profit for Halliburton and Bechtel, and tell the world that we are No. 1. This is a tragedy of almost unimaginable proportions. The United States will be viewed for generations to come as a country that will lie to gain its ends. We, as a nation, are missing that little voice we call a conscience. If the world needed proof, listen to Bush and Rummy say that we invaded for "democracy." But, of course, we will impose democracy on our terms. We liberated them, and by God we will democratize them.
pinocchio and gepetto
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:51:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not particularly funny, no. But at least he doesn't have to look for pictures to post, or think up stuff about astronomy.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:49:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Funny?
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- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:47:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dere's some hole in de bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, Dere's some hole in de bucket, dear Liza, some hole.
house henry
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:47:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: What is de origin o' de song by de name "Day-o?"
house neeger
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:43:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Isn't it time for the poet to bust in with an observation about Tabasco sauce on doughnuts? Maybe beer in the cataloupe? Come on, Pete, you can do it, poet-boy!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:32:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: What is all this Gullah apology? It is unecessary if we just ignore the blurb by the guy who worked up the theory that "kumbaya" comes from the Gullah. Are we going to have to argue for days against every nut-case idea that Glint googles up and posts on this page? The sad fact is that anyone can post whatever hair-brained idea he want on the internet. And the more hair-brained, the more likely that Glint will find it and adapt it to his world-view. The best part of the Gullah theory is not its justification, which is that "come by here" is closer to the Gullah than to some pure African language. The best part is the idea that the song was invented by the Gullah, and then somehow migrated to Angola, where it was discovered by the musicologists. Sounds almost Glint-like in its tortured confusion.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:29:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Pioneering linguist Lorenzo Turner showed that the Gullah language was actually a creole consisting of English plus a lot of words and constructions from the languages of west Africa, the Gullahs' homeland."
Plinth of Darkness
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:14:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think that Pete was bruised by the recent explication of his thoughts on Newt Gingrich recognizing his hypocrisy, and has spent the last day or two trying to dream up some good writing. Hey, if it leads to great stuff like "eating strawberries with mayonnaise," it's all right with me! Go Pete go!
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:12:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's what I thought. That Pete just wanted to post something with the strawberries/mayo zinger. He chose kumbaya but it could have been anything so excited was he by his own poetry.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:11:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought the strawberries with mayonnaise thing was pretty good for Pete. Now he just has to figure out an appropriate way to use it, some situation where it makes sense instead of just standing there as something poor Pete suspects is his best work.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:08:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint thinks the Gullah speakers originally came from--France? Sweden? God, someone, get rid of these people.
bushist moron americans really need to shut up
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:04:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, kumbaya. Means "come by here", derived from an African language (Angola is the place usually claimed as the origin), or maybe from Gullah, or South African English as I always figured. Kumbaya is a hymn or spiritual. Oh, Lord, come by here. A religious song, a song of people who have been convinced by Christers that there is a god and he's on their side. Just another example of the stupidity of your basic right-wing talk-show host, too dumb to notice that he is pissing in Jerry Falwell's punch-bowl, dropping a turd amongst Pat Robertson's cabbage rolls. Just another example of the doubly-compounded stupidity of Pineapple Pete.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:04:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: eTpe� mixin' up metaphors is like a blob of Pol Pot-shaped mayonnaise crooning kumbaya to a bunch of drill bits.
Plinth Machiavelli
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 15:00:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Vilified weapons inspectors may have got it right May 1 2003 Condoleezza Rice has talked her way into a U-turn.// President George Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is now acknowledging that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program is less clear-cut, and probably more difficult to establish, than the White House portrayed before the war. She has no doubt that the US-led coalition, assisted by experts from Britain and Australia, will find Iraq's WMD programs. But for the first time, Dr Rice is saying publicly that it is less likely many actual weapons will be found. Almost three weeks since the fall of Baghdad, with senior Iraqi scientists and officials in US custody, no chemical or biological weapons stockpiles have been found. Neither has any evidence been uncovered that Iraq had restarted a nuclear program. In explaining the gap between the prewar and postwar claims on Iraq's WMD, Dr Rice said the US was now seeing the programs in a different light. But in the months before the Iraq war, Mr Bush and his advisers, including the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, gave far more frightening descriptions of Iraq's stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Addressing the UN Security Council on February 5, Mr Powell said recent intelligence showed a missile brigade outside Baghdad was "dispersing rocket launchers and warheads containing biological warfare agent to various locations". Mr Bush was equally alarmist, describing satellite evidence showing that Saddam Hussein was reconstituting Iraq's nuclear weapons programs with his top nuclear scientists, his "nuclear mujahideen". Iraq's deadliest weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists. "We cannot wait for final proof," Mr Bush said. "The smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." When Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, suggested Iraq's WMD program could be more fragmented and degraded, he was pilloried as naive or incompetent. When his inspectors talked of a more complex search for WMD, where components or precursors could be in the form of legal, dual-use chemical or biological agents that had to be monitored, they were dismissed as flatfooted and overcautious.
VILIFIED WEAPONS INSPECTORS MAY HAVE GOT IT RIGHT--SO SORRY, 4k DEAD FETI--OUR BAD. OOPSIE. OH WELL.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 14:56:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody googled all the way to the Gullah screed? Geesh, you guys are googlin' fools! Should I post some of the other etymologies, or did you already see them before finding the Gullah theory?
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 14:56:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Then you advise us winner!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 14:55:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: faux-patriot advising us on the meaning kumbaya is like eating strawberries with mayonnaise. Give it up loser.
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 14:39:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton wasn't preoccupied with his penis. Glint was preoccupied with Clinton's penis.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 14:37:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just look at the nosedive the economy took during Clinton's preoccupation with his penis. - Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:06:42 (EDT)
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 14:36:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought it was the trade surplus Clinton ran into the hole. Are we reading the same board?

- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:50:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best one is the one about the economy nosediving under Clinton.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:46:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gammit?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:39:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: A weak dollar is good because it means Americans will have to buy goods produced in America. Whatever those are.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:38:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kumbaya originated with the Gullah, living on the Sea Islands and adjacent coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. Having lived in isolation for several hundred years, the Gullah speak a dialect that most native speakers of English find unintelligible on first hearing but that turns out to be heavily accented English with other stuff mixed in.
African? I think not.
Glint - Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:38:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean the picture of the 55-year-old gal who has to spend a lot of time listening to Dr. Fritz or whatever the new loser's name is? Looks about right to me. What's the big deal? Is she supposed to have a squashed head or something, or some other enhancement such as plates in her lips, or the sallow, lardooned look of a schizophrenic Hawaiian? What?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:33:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kumbaya? Is that Pete? Could be, since from what I hear kumbaya is a Limbaugh word of ridicule (but it couldn't be Pete because the post is coherent, as far as it goes). What I heard is tha kumbaya means "come by here", as in "please visit us, God." Sort of a hymn, a three-word hymn "oh, Lord, kumbaya." It's a Christer tune from some place in Africa, South Africa I think. Sung by bush-dwellers so boneheaded that they think there is a Lord, and that He gives a sh�t about them. Limbaugh is right on. There is nothing so ridiculous as a rube who believes in the Christian myths. Kumbaya, indeed.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:27:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, whoever posted the picture of Hillary. Can you post one of yourself so we can determine if, in the looks department, it's the pot calling the kettle black?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:23:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like even Bloomberg has been unable to avoid the disaster! Lost a big Merrill-Lynch deal? Geesh, at this rate Bloomberg will stay out of jail! Some Republicans they are!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:19:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: "pussed over ��"
please 'splain to me 'cause i not too bright
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:16:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks for dropping in, keeper of the World Wide Webster! Can you please look up Kumbaya (Koom-buy-YAHA)?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:11:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bloomberg? Aren't they the ones who recently lost that big Merrill Lynch deal?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 13:03:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: the economy "shed jobs"
just say, "no! tanked!"
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:52:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: GOD SEES WHAT YOU DO, LITTLE MAN. Man, now that is one f�king pussed over �� if ever there was one!My two cents are: Here Larry! Here Larry Larry! Mr. Flint? Over here, looky!
this guy belongs to a biblethumping listserv? don't he understand the concept of hellfire? sheesh!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:49:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: rainmaker (RAYN-may-kuhr) noun 1. A person with a strong ability to bring in new business or produce results, especially through the use of influence, connections, etc. 2. One believed to be able to cause rain either by magic (for example, some native American groups) or by science (for example, by seeding the clouds with chemicals such as silver iodide from an airplane). [From rain, from Middle English rein, from Old English regn, ren + maker, from make, from Middle English maken, from Old English macian.]
as in: Little Bush is a rainmaker for wars of imperialist exploitation.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:44:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Isn't Glint going to come back and explain everything again? I'm beginning to forget why a weak dollar is good.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:38:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: If we let all those frogs come over here, they'll rent cars with their cheap dollars and buy gas and drive up our prices at the pump! I'd recommend full body-cavity searches to discourage them, but the immoral b@st@rds would love it!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:35:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: By JEANNINE AVERSA The Associated Press Tuesday, April 29, 2003; 7:17 PM WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department says the United States could face the prospect of not being able to pay its bills in late May unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, now capped at $6.4 trillion. Treasury's debt managers have taken a number of steps since February to prevent the government from defaulting on the national debt, but "on current projections, the extraordinary measures taken since Feb. 20, 2003, will only be adequate to meet the government's needs until the latter half of May," said a statement released Tuesday. After that - absent a boost in the government's borrowing authority by Congress - Treasury would breach the current $6.4 trillion ceiling on the national debt. "The Treasury will continue to work with Congress to ensure the government's ability to finance its operations," Treasury said. Treasury has asked Congress to boost the government's borrowing authority, although it has not suggested a specific amount. A proposal is pending on Capitol Hill that would raise the debt ceiling to $7.38 trillion. Last year, Congress boosted the old debt limit by $450 billion, from $5.95 trillion to the current $6.4 trillion. At that time Treasury warned that Congress would need to again increase the government's borrowing authority. Boosting the debt limit is more a matter of politics than economics. Economists doubt Congress will refuse to raise the limit. A federal default is considered unimaginable because it would rattle bond markets, force interest rates higher, weaken the world economy and deliver a political blow to President Bush. Democrats point to the government's need to borrow more to ridicule President Bush's tax cuts, his handling of the economy and ballooning federal government budget deficits, which are expected to hit records this year and next. Republicans blame the lingering effects of the 2001 recession and the costs of fighting terrorism for the need to extend the debt limit. By Memorial Day, Republicans hope to have pushed through Congress a tax-cut bill with a price tag of between $350 billion and $550 billion through 2013. If Congress must approve a debt-limit extension during the same period of time, it could play into Democrats' political argument that the new tax cut will only make the government's red ink worse. The government had to borrow a record $111 billion in the January-March quarter to cover the shortfall between expenses and tax revenue. It expects to borrow another $79 billion in the current quarter.
Can't the government just use it's Visa card?
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:34:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Everybody who thought he was getting a free ride on the American greenback is going to eat sh�t!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:32:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The dollar's tanking? Shit! That means busloads of French tourists this summer. And, the saddest part is, WE NEED THEM! Please come to my country, Pierre! Please spend your euros here. May I shine your nice shoes, monsieur?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:31:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ha ha ha! This weak dollar will really screw up the Arabs, who own most of them!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:30:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let the showers of gold begin!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:29:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: All that means is it's a great time to be borrowing! Hooray for a weak dollar! Give me more!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:28:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, it's only that way because he really doesn't understand much. About anything.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:28:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's fun when Glint is scurrying around pretending he's been assigned to combat for the defense of the Republican Party. He's so cute! And his weapons are as wimpy as he is.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:27:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lots of nice damage control today, little soldier!
Rummy
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:24:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dollar Falls to Four-Year Low Against Euro on Economy Outlook By Monee Fields-White New York, April 30 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell to its lowest level against the euro in more than four years after an industry report showed Chicago-area manufacturing contracted and as traders speculated the U.S. economy shed jobs this month. Anemic growth, a rising current account deficit and low interest rates may drive the dollar to extend a 19 percent drop against the euro over the past year, analysts said. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that ``lingering business caution'' may impede the economy's expansion. Prospects for slow growth ``would be consistent with people positioning for a higher euro,'' said Richard Franulovich, a currency strategist at Westpac Banking Corp. ``The U.S. needs roughly $40 billion per month'' to offset its current account deficit and maintain the dollar's value. This will be difficult to achieve ``given how low interest rates are,'' he said. The dollar weakened to $1.1149 per euro at 11:05 a.m. in New York from $1.1083 yesterday. It reached $1.1173, the lowest value since Feb. 19, 1999. The U.S. currency has shed 5.9 percent against the euro this year. It fell to 119.40 yen from 119.76. Franulovich recommends buying euros against the dollar and yen and expects the U.S. currency to weaken to $1.15 per euro in three to six months. Manufacturing in the Chicago area shrank for a second month in April, the National Association of Purchasing Management- Chicago reported. Speculation the labor market remains sluggish overshadowed an industry report yesterday that showed consumer optimism this month jumped the most in 12 years, analysts said. ``While the victory in Iraq had bolstered confidence it does not translate into jobs,'' said Seth Toney, head of foreign exchange at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. ``Further contraction in employment will in turn lead to a reversal'' in confidence as well as lower spending and investment. The dollar will weaken to $1.15 per euro by early summer, he said. Fed Rates Some analysts expect the Fed to cut its interest-rate target from a 41-year low of 1.25 percent in coming months, damping returns on dollar deposits. Europe key rate is 2.5 percent. Eurodollar futures suggest traders see the Fed lowering the target a quarter-percentage point between June and September, based on the 1.225 percent yield on the June contract. The yield is typically 18-25 basis points above the target. Eurodollar futures are a gauge three-month interest rates. ``Investors are more attracted to Europe and Canada than the U.S.,'' said Greg Anderson, senior currency strategist at ABN Amro inc. in Chicago, which handles the eight largest share of trading in the $1.2 trillion-a-day currency market. ``There's more potential in those markets'' where bond yields are higher. Three-month euro-denominated deposits yield 2.52 percent, or 1.4 percentage point more than three-month dollar deposits. ABN predicts the Fed will reduce its target by a quarter point by the June meeting and the European Central Bank will follow with as much as a half-point cut. The dollar may weaken to $1.15 by September, Anderson said.
it's all good news - bloomberg.com
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:21:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here Larry! Here Larry Larry! Mr. Flint? Over here, looky!

eeoo! chunky spew barf alert!

- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:20:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Man, now that is one fμ©king pussed over τωατ if ever there was one!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:15:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: First daughters have never been so nude and drunken!
Larry Flynt
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 12:02:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Things have never been so good!
unemployment means leisure!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:39:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, yes! Now you get it! Might makes Right! Poverty is prosperity! War is peace! Bush's deficit means surplus! Up is down! Down is up!
Mr. Orwell
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:38:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not changing MY tune! I'm holding hard and fast to the one thing I know and believe! A falling dollar is good! It showers us with gold. Let it fall! Let it drop like a fvcking sick pigeon! The frogs will be everywhere, buying up our wine and cheese. This is the best thing that happened since the exponentially increasing deficit!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:35:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: The US economy faltering? What gave you idiots that idea? We got tax cuts! How can the economy falter? Grow some brain cells!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:33:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: HOLD FIRE! The enemy is maneuvering and attempting to triangulate by taking every possible stance.
Gen. Billy Laugh
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:31:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: All those euro countries are going to choke on their cheap oil! Ha ha ha! They'll be strangling in smog, the way we used to when the dollar was strong!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:30:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now this independant buy says "It's a win-win situation from where I sit." This must not be the same Chicken Little who told Henny Penny down below that the falling dollar meant that the "U.S. Economy Is Faltering." Sounds like someone who doesn't know what they're talking about because they keep changing their tune.
Burke
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:29:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best thing about a weak dollar is we tend to conserve energy, because we can't buy as much oil. It saves our roads because fewer people can afford to drive on them. It toughens up our senior citizens, because fewer of them can afford heat. This thing has got win-win written all over it!
a weaker dollar and a chicken in every pot!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:29:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, guys, we're at war here. As Ari says, Americans should watch what they say and think. This down-bumming the dollar, chortling over the weakness of the dollar, it gives aid and comfort to our enemies. Put a cork in it.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:27:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now he says "Nothing controls the foreign exchange value of the dollar?" Didn't the patriot also say "It has something to do with the Republican trade deficit?"
i wish the loyal opposition would make up their minds and stick with it more for more than two seconds
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:25:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: As long as there has been no long-term damage, it doesn't matter who "wins" and who "loses." Weak dollar? Fine with me! Maybe reverse this Republican trade deficit! Strong dollar? Shit, why not, aren't we the bull goose country? Don't we deserve a strong dollar? A strong dollar is good, too. It's a win-win situation from where I sit. The only thing that ever causes long-term damage is not the value of the dollar. It's Bill Clinton.
independent guy
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:24:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank the Lord that fluctuations in the dollar have never caused any long-term damage. Come to think of it, NOTHING has ever caused any long-term damage. If there had been long-term damage, wouldn't we be shitting bricks? Grow some gray matter.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:22:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am claiming victory.
trade deficit guy
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:20:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well Euro guy. It looks like the trade deficit guy tore you a new one.
Blunt F.T.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:19:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fluctuation is normal. Getting your ass kicked by the euro, that's new. The goddamn euro is new! We've got to do something about it! Although, like anybody else I like being showered with gold the way a weak dollar makes happen. Look what gold did for Spain! Everywhere you look in Madrid there's a huge statue! But this euro business scares me. I'm afraid we'll get our ass kicked by Old Europe. Say it ain't so! Can't we do something to make the dollar weaker? Buy more German cars?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:19:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's exactly true, four-X. Nothing controls the foreign exchange value of the dollar, because daily volume swamps anything that could possibly affect the swamping. Some idiot yahoos claim that trade balances affect it! Give me a break! Don't they know that the daily volume swamps any trade balance? Grow a brain.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:14:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: The principal variable affecting the dollar�s value in the long run is no doubt the balance of trade in goods and services. Some believe that the dollar is much over-valued, and fear it will some day collapse with repercussions world-wide. Based on the historical record, however, that seems unlikely. There have been relatively sharp changes in the value of the dollar in the past without any long-term damage. When foreigners feel they have accumulated more dollar assets than they wish to hold, the forex value of the dollar will decrease as the unwanted dollars are offered for sale.
you mean a fluctuating dollar is normal? that's not what the guy down below said!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:14:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank God our dollar is weak and we can't afford that cheap garbage from overseas any more! I'm going to go out and buy a set of Firestones right now!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:12:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is the strength of the US dollar simply a matter of government policy? In truth the government cannot control the foreign exchange (forex) value of the dollar, except in the long run and then only loosely. Its value is determined in the international forex market where daily volume swamps anything the Treasury or Fed can reasonably bring into play. The market valuation of the dollar is a function of many variables whose relative weights are imperfectly understood, and in a constant state of flux.
but we can still say it's bush's fault, can't we? huh? huh?
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:11:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't worry about the dollar sliding. It's going to be the doormat currency of the world before long, down there with the Aberzaibanian bhat. We're as good as saved!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:10:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: It looks like it has a hell of a lot to do with Clinton. He drove our trade surplus into the hole! Just look at that chart. Looks like the only times it's head was out of the water was during Bush, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:09:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, old Clinton sure built up the dollar! No wonder it was so strong back in his day. I sure hope to Christ it drops, now that the Republicans have inherited the trade deficit!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:09:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: What, am I out of the loop? I've never heard of these naked parties until now, despite their notoriety!
curious Tampa grandmother
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:07:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just look at the nosedive the economy took during Clinton's preoccupation with his penis. While he fiddled the trade deficit sky rocketed.
No Spin. Just the Facts.
THE U.S. BALANCE OF TRADE Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:06:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: What does it have to do with Clinton? Let the past be past. Today's trade deficit, the one that we hope a falling dollar will do something to reduce, is the Republican trade deficit. You know, the one that is weakening the buck against the euro. And thank god for the slide! It's the only thing that will save our ass! Although, you know, selling stuff to the frogs sort of MAKES ME PUKE!
patriot
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:06:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, how cactus-like. How eelish. I can't believe that some scumwad would try to track down pix of Snippy's daughter naked as a jaybird. From one of Yale's notorious "naked parties" no less. It's bvllshft like that that puts a "chilling effect" on the notorious "naked parties." The ones at Yale.
mr. flynt = cactus-like eel
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:03:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: What? There was no trade deficit under blow job Clinton?
nice spin 10:59, though irrelevant
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 11:01:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, do you suppose that's why it's getting weak? It has something to do with the Republican trade deficit?
hungry to learn
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:59:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt is hunting for a videotape rumoured to show first daughter Barbara Bush in the nude, reports The New York Post. Flynt's cohorts are scouring the New Haven, Connecticut, campus of Yale University, where Barbara, 21, is a student, in hopes of buying a video supposedly made at one of Yale's notorious "naked parties."
you're a sly one, mr. flynt; you're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, mr. flynt.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:54:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, so grow a brain!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:50:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Euro rises, dollar falls, the frogs buy more goods from the U.S. and we are showered with gold. Dollar rises Euro falls, buyers around the world would turn to Europe. Weak dollar helps reduce trade deficit.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:49:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: The dollar fades, the Euro rises, Snipistas keep on chompin' down their freedom fries, pouring wine into the gutteers. Yep, that'll show them Frogs who's really runnin' things. Yep. That'll sure show them.
Dirty little Bush went to war and all I got is his lousy deficit . . .
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:43:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, kiss my golden shower faucet! Since when is a weak dollar such a bad thing?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:41:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dollar Falls to 4-Year Low Against Euro on Signs U.S. Economy Is Faltering.
Damn Frogs!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:30:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Islamophobic?" Where's that cut 'n' paster who has the Websters at?
In English, Please?
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 09:24:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Kind of funny how Glint can't figure out the players on this board. That's the joke." All I know is Ydog is dead. No more cheesburgers, ticket chicks, lezzie flipper armed strippers, Aurora racers, gas jets, dead magazine glamor shots floating face down, statues cryin' in the rain, stubby legged uncles wading in the fish ponds, or nine dollar socks. Oh, the puppeteer may still be alive, but Ydog is dead as a doornail.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 09:10:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Fvck?" What the fvck is "fvck"?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 09:07:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Treasury Department says the United States could face the prospect of not being able to pay its bills in late May unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, now capped at $6.4 trillion. Economists doubt Congress will refuse to raise the limit. A federal default is considered unimaginable because it would rattle bond markets, force interest rates higher, weaken the world economy and deliver a political blow to President Bush.
Congress has no cojones
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 09:03:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who needs ydog anyway? He's a "cheeseburger" if you ask me.
Gasket
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 01:08:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: If ydog was here I could ask him how the fvck you're supposed to adjust a valve on a motorcycle down to .08 mm. The gauge is so thin it flops around and there's no room to begin with. But ydog isn't here so I'll just have to do my best without him. Most of his advice was bullshit anyway, but at least he wasn't a liar like Pete and, to a lesser extent, Glint.
Gasket
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 01:08:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, ragheads. Deny, deny, deny. The sooner you get the fvck out of Nebraska the better the world will be. Worldnetdaily.com told me to let you know because you are against Daniel Pipes, a good guy.
towel heads out of the USA!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 01:04:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: CAIR: Readers of Right-Wing Site Threaten Muslims; Hate E-mails Include: 'kill muslims...f--k all of you...and die real soon' Tue Apr 29, 2:56 PM ET WASHINGTON, April 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today reported that it has received numerous hate-filled and threatening messages from the readers of a right-wing Islamophobic Web site. The Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is working with the Department of Justice to investigate those messages that contained threats. Some of the hate messages sent to CAIR from visitors to Worldnetdaily.com include: 1) "I don't say kill (Muslims). But it would be a better world without them!" 2) F--k you; and the one humped camel you rode in on. 3) You are lower than snake sh-t. 4) islam is a scam to keep people down...kill the infidels. f--k that kill muslims...f--k all of you...and die real soon 5) Take the f--king towels off your heads and join the human race, A--HOLES!!!! 6) Please leave My Country...And leave it NOW! 7) Get out of America 8) I have been encouraged by Joe Farah of WorldnetDaily to send this to you...leave this nation and go back to the pile of cow manure you all came from 9) It won't be long before the immigration police will be there to help you go home to the cesspool you came from. 10) GO HOME! Wherever that is, it is not HERE! CAIR officials say the hate-filled e-mails were prompted by a number of Worldnetdaily.com articles demonizing Muslims and by recent false charges made against CAIR by the site's editor, Joseph Farah. His most recent articles smeared CAIR in an attempt to support the controversial nomination of Daniel Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace. The nomination of Pipes, who just this week said President Bush (news - web sites) was wrong to call Islam a "religion of peace" and refused to condemn the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, is opposed by a number of Muslim and Arab-American groups, including CAIR. Farah falsely claimed CAIR never condemned suicide bombings, called the conviction of the first World Trade Center bombings a "travesty of justice," termed the conviction of Omar Abdel Rahman a "hate crime," and that CAIR's board chairman said the Quran "should be the highest authority in America." "We never called the conviction of the World Trade Center bombings a 'travesty of justice' and did not call the conviction of Sheikh Omar a 'hate crime,'" said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Our board chairman did not say the Quran should be the highest authority in America and we have repeatedly condemned terrorism in all its forms, including suicide bombings," said Awad. He citied the group's statement of condemnation issued following a bomb attack on a Passover celebration in the coastal city of Netanya last March that left 20 people dead and more than 100 wounded: "We condemn this attack and all other attacks on innocent civilians...This attack is of particular concern coming as it did during a religious observance in which the focus is remembrance of God... To break this cycle of violence and counter-violence, all parties must focus on a political solution based on justice and equality, not force of arms." Awad also noted that the alleged statement about the Quran by CAIR's board chairman was not in fact a quote. It was a paraphrase of remarks that were either reported inaccurately or wrongly attributed by a reporter at a small California newspaper. CAIR is seeking a retraction from that newspaper. Farah's attacks also contain a number of other falsehoods and distortions. For example, he distorted the facts in an attempt link a CAIR advisory board member to the first World Trade Center attack. That person, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, is one of the American Muslim community's most respected leaders and he works with almost all national Islamic organizations. As part of the original World Trade Center case, the prosecutors released a long list of people who "may be alleged as co-conspirators." That list included anyone who came anywhere near Sheikh Omar. Since Imam Siraj was a leader in the New York community in which Sheikh Omar lived, his name was included on the list. He was never charged with any crime, nor was there any evidence presented that he was involved in the conspiracy in any way. Farah knows this but continues to vilify a respected Muslim leader. In a past column, Farah claimed, "Islam has been at war with the West, with Christianity, with Judaism...ever since the days of (the Prophet) Muhammad." He also rejected criticism of a Worldnetdaily.com article advocating that, "For every (Israeli) civilian, 100 non-combatant Palestinian adults will be slain, and for every child, 1,000 adults," saying that he found the proposal to be "a very thoughtful and quite responsible contribution to the Middle East debate." Other editorials on WorldNetDaily.com called the Quran, Islam's revealed text, a "suicide playbook" and recommended air-lifting pigs into Afghan mosques. One Worldnetdaily.com columnist wrote recently: "The only French custom that still survives (following Napoleon's invasion of Egypt) is the aversion to bathing." Another stated: "...freedom and democracy are incompatible with Islam." CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, is a mainstream organization that regularly works with national law enforcement authorities, elected officials and other civil liberties and minority groups. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has 16 regional offices nationwide and in Canada. Since its founding in 1994, CAIR has defended the civil and religious rights of all Americans. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030429/180/3xhjl.html
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 00:28:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why did the chicken cross the road? GEORGE W. BUSH- We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here. COLIN POWELL- Now at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. PAT BUCHANAN- To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American. JERRY FALWELL Because the chicken was gay! Isn't it obvious? Can't you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the "other side." That's what they call it -- the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And, if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like "the other side." ALBERT EINSTEIN- Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:58:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: He thinks Stalin and deGaulle are one. He thinks Hitler was a Socialist. Somebody send him to college. One with required courses. Leave him there till he passes.
Captain Montessori
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:07:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stalinism in the pursuit of virtue, is--Stalinism! All non-conformists to the Gulag! On a good day! On a bad day--well, those of you who have studied history--know the answer. Ha ha.
Stalin
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:05:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: What time is it when a Chinaman has a tooth-ache?
a: two thirty
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:04:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: The cheeseburger was sitting on the bus and saw a nun. He asked her, find the vegetables in the following sentences: 1) My neck's been itching all day. 2) Let us go to the beach! 3) You can't beat borscht for a hearty meal! She said, my name is Tony and I'm going to a costume party!
Haw haw haw!
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:02:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: "We were not lying," a Bush administration official told ABC News. "But it was just a matter of emphasis." The official was referring to the way the administration hyped the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States. According to the ABC report, the real reason for the war was that the administration "wanted to make a statement." And why Iraq? "Officials acknowledge that Saddam had all the requirements to make him, from their standpoint, the perfect target." A British newspaper, The Independent, reports that "intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic were furious that briefings they gave political leaders were distorted in the rush to war." One "high-level source" told the paper that "they ignored intelligence assessments which said Iraq was not a threat." Sure enough, we have yet to find any weapons of mass destruction. It's hard to believe that we won't eventually find some poison gas or crude biological weapons. But those aren't true W.M.D.'s, the sort of weapons that can make a small, poor country a threat to the greatest power the world has ever known. Remember that President Bush made his case for war by warning of a "mushroom cloud." Clearly, Iraq didn't have anything like that � and Mr. Bush must have known that it didn't.
your bush boy's a moron AND a liar. or a liar AND a moron. take your pick.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:02:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: French lettuce is ten times better, because of the socialism.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:00:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wouldn't eat So Cali lettuce if you spread French sauce on it. Lettuce is a cool season crop, and should be grown in Salinas. Anything else is just leaves.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 23:00:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stalinism in the pursuit of virtue is no vice, liberal idiots.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 22:58:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: So what? Where else is anybody going to get their lettuce from? You think lettuce is grown in Oklahoma? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 22:57:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Right, those Congos were killing one another, but were they doing it with "weapons of mass destruction?" Were they a threat to our World Trade Centers? Grow a brain.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 22:57:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Samples of Winter Lettuce Apr 29 2003 Until recently, perchlorate contamination of water supplies has been considered a local or regional problem. But new findings from the Environmental Working Group have made perchlorate contamination a national issue of concern. New research has shown that lettuce grown in the fall and winter months in Southern California or Arizona may contain higher levels of toxic rocket fuel byproduct, perchlorate, than is considered safe by the U.S.
Thanks, anti-environment Stalinists!
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 22:54:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, Banfield slams war coverage--saying it was all hearts and flowers, and not enough blood and guts and corpses. Then, the Stalinists rip her to shreds, and make her eat her words. Ain't Stalinism wonderful? Thanks, Snippy!
dirty bush--making the world safe for Stalinism
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 21:48:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 21:46:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15778
sounds familiar
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 21:12:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Earlier this month, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said that its studies had found that at least 3.3 million people have died in the war that has gripped the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998, making it the deadliest documented conflict since World War II.
BUSH WILL BE INVADING CONGO TO SAVE LIVES. SHIT. NO HE WON'T. NO OIL, NO BLOOD FOR OIL, NO GIVING A SHIT ABOUT BLOODSHED.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 20:36:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Big Lie was invented or codified by Dr. Goebbels. The idea is you just keep lying, long and loud. The Republican Party and the more troglodytic fanctions in the Snippy administration are its main practitioners today, or at least its most powerful. Why would you think that Rumsfeld would start telling the truth now?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 20:17:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought the Saddam statue thing had been discredited. Rummy is still pushing it?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 19:51:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fuck you sensor.
European
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 19:41:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Old Finnish leading tradition is to imagine a sphere and consider things from it's surface as oldfashion hierarhcical triagles.For example Nokia. This would work in Irak.
European
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 19:36:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Think of the scenes we've all witnessed - free Iraqis pulling down a statue of Saddam Hussein, embracing coalition forces and celebrating their newfound freedom," Mr Rumsfeld said. Interesting how news was so sanitized namby-pamby public didn't have to see the gruesome side of the war. Such as what happened to children when the bombs hit.
sparing the public what rumdum calls the untidiness of war
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 19:09:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kind of funny how Glint can't figure out the players on this board. That's the joke.
Pensioner
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:47:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anybody hear any good jokes lately?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:46:07 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Three gay men died, and were going to be cremated. Their lovers happened to be at the funeral home at the same time, and were discussing what they planned to do with the ashes. The first man said, "My Glinty loved the stars, so I'm going up in a plane and scatter his ashes in the sky." The second man said, "My pensioner loved to swim when it snowed, so I'm going to paddle his purple pirogue and scatter his ashes in our favorite lake." The third man said, "My cheeseburger was such a good lover, I think I'm going to dump his ashes in a pot of chili, so he can tear my ass up just one more time." - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:42:57 (EDT)

My two cents are:

One day Ydog was eating a cheeseburger on the bus when a nun boarded the bus at one of its stops. They were the only passengers on the bus and she sat down across the asile. During the ride she noticed that he was staring at her. When she asked him why, he said, "I want to ask you something, but I don't want to offend you." She said, "You can't offend me. I have been a nun long enough that I have heard just about everything." The cheeseburger then said, "Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun give me a blow job." She said, "Well, perhaps we can work something out under two conditions. You have to be single, and you have to be Catholic." Immediately the cheeseburger said, "Oh, yes! I'm single and I'm Catholic!" The nun pulled the buzzer to stop the bus and said, "Okay, let's find a nearby alley." The nun knelt down in the alley and went to work. A few seconds later Ydog started crying. The nun said, "My child, what's the matter?" Tearfully he said, "Sister, I have sinned. I lied, I lied...I'm married and I'm Jewish!" The nun replied, "That's okay. My name's Adam and I'm on my way to a costume party!" - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:28:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I just use KaZaa for the porn, and never upload.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:25:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is Stupid going to pop back in, or is he still peeling the day's pineapples?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:22:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Download "Copacabana" all you want, is what I say, Glit. Barry Manilow is not going to come after you.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:21:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Almost makes me want to turn my uploads back on. I figured it ate bandwidth, so I'd let the kids at college with hardwired internet handle the uploads. It will be interesting to see how the music congloms deal with this. Are they really going to arrest a bunch of kids while the Azerbaijanis go free? The Koreans are probably the worst. I admit, it's all probably tough on the CD business, but that don't confront me, since I'm not into bubblegum music, which is pretty much all you get out of the industry. I could cry big tears if Korn or the Back Street Boyz or Jennifer Lopez lose money. The great stuff, like Kraftwerke, is already in the can.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:20:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll have to check out Kazaa for that feature. Anyway, to clear space, I recently transferred everything I had in Kazaa to CD, then deleted it from the HD. Nothing that I deleted can be "offerred."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:00:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Problem I see is that there will be plenty of people in Korea and Spain and Azerbaijan who are not particularly impressed by the Recording Industry Association of America's threat. As long as they keep providing uploads, downloaders should have no problems. Until Ashcroft and Snippy get the rules changed.
another reason to vote Republican
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:59:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Assuming that Secret Penis is the music thief.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:56:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yo, Secret Penis, What does copying the shared folder to disk have to do with it? Besides the fact that it's already "on disc" or you wouldn't be sharing anything? Why don't you just set the program up to not share? You can do that with KaZaa at least. Let the other guy pay the price, like a good Republican. Cover your ass.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:53:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it.
Clyde Harrington
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:50:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:49:37 (EDT)

My two cents are:

A few years back when I was working along the space coast in Florida I stepped into this little bar in Cocoa Beach. About two steps in I realized that it was a gay bar. "But what the heck," I said to myself, "I really need a drink." Then this gay waiter sashays up, cocks his hip and says, "What's the name of your penis, my man?" I looked around and said, "Look man, I'm not into any of that. All I want is a drink." The gay waiter says, "I'm sorry but I can't serve you until you tell me the name of your penis. Mine for instance is called 'Nike,' for the slogan, 'Just Do It.' That guy down at the end of the bar calls his 'Timex,' because it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'." So I look at the bartender and I say, "The name of my penis is 'Secret.' Now give me my damned beer." The bartender begins drawing the beer into a glass with a cherry and a chunk of pineapple floating around. Then with a puzzled look he asks, "Why secret?" I looked at him and said, "'Cuz it's strong enough for a man, but made for a woman." - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:45:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Grokster and Kazaa file-sharing services? Never heard of 'em.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:26:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The record industry opened a new front in its war against online piracy on Tuesday by surprising hundreds of thousands of Internet song swappers with an instant message warning that they could be "easily" identified and face "legal penalties." About 200,000 users of the Grokster and Kazaa file-sharing services received the warning notice on Tuesday and at least one million will be getting the message within a week, according to music industry officials. The copyright infringement warnings, which were sent by the Recording Industry Association of America, on behalf of the major record labels, said in part: "It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer. ...When you break the law, you risk legal penalties. There is a simple way to avoid that risk: DON'T STEAL MUSIC, either by offering it to others to copy or downloading it on a 'file-sharing' system like this. When you offer music on these systems, you are not anonymous and you can easily be identified."
Time to copy My Shared Folder to disk and just steal the music, not "offer" it
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:15:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: NEW YORK - NBC News president Neal Shapiro has taken correspondent Ashleigh Banfield to the woodshed for a speech in which she criticized the networks for portraying the Iraqi war as "glorious and wonderful." Banfield delivered her remarks Thursday at Kansas State University. "She and we both agreed that she didn't intend to demean the work of her colleagues, and she will choose her words more carefully in the future," an NBC spokeswoman said Monday. Other sources inside NBC said Banfield promised, in effect, not to do it again and to check her facts before making public statements in the future.
if she had checked facts in the first place none of this would have happened
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:10:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just more vinegar.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:09:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mrs. stripper never played statues. Her pores spit out the sweat while she bumped, shook, and grinded like a Texas twister.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 16:06:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not the statue. It was the black cats.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:51:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Covering up the naked boobs of the statue, that's what convinced me that Ashcroft was on the right track.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:46:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have there been any that went from Mississippi to Florida, or from Florida to Mississippi?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:44:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since 1900, there have been 9 Mississippi hurricaines(sic) with damages totaling $16.5 billion (1999 dollars.) Mississippi ranks 8th in hurricane damage during that time. Florida ranks number one with 38 hurricanes since 1900, totaling $239 billion in damage (1999 dollars.) Florida ranks number one.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:40:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is Glint declaring his indepedence from his fond memories of ydog? Is he hoping the dog doesn't fall by to view the pressure-washed barn walls?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:40:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was it catching Padilla that convinced you Ashcroft was doing fine, or his work with the cats?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:38:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: "What you don't know about ydog could be...interesting." Possible, but unlikely. Just another spoiled rich kid who grew up to be a spoiled whiney Liberal. His parents probably kept a supply of brand new reeds available. Bet he never ever knew the ear and heartache of having to play his clarinet with a cracked reed. Well, me too - but I never played the clarinet to begin with.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:38:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mars swings by in August? Glint, could you explain how to find it in relationship to Orion's belt?
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:36:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyone who disses shelf-life is not a true American, hence cannot be a patriot. Q.E.D.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:34:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ashcroft is doing just fine on his own. Been some nice clear nights lately. Best weather comes in May, Mars swings by in August. Observatory was completed just in time for Mars' last visit. Unemployed, with no set bed time....those were the days. Then the dust storm left no choice but to go back and work during the day instead of sleep.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:34:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought Pete was in charge of certifying patriots. There's been a change of leadership? Or is Glint just doing what he thinks the big slug would do if he weren't under the rock?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:31:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: If that pleases your fancy, then carry on. What you don't know about ydog could be...interesting.
as if he were ever offended anyway
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:30:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ahh, so now Glint is deciding who is a patriot and who is not. Grooming himself for a job with Ashcroft, perhaps?
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:29:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Like a "Mississippi hurricaine" (sic.) Man, that rube can sure paint a word picture. Mississippi hurricaine, huh? We all know what those are like. They make those Florida hurricaines(sic) look like gentle breezes.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:28:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The answer to the French vs. American food thing is partly that it's better because they're socialist. That is if you consider large farm subsidies to be socialist-- I guess here in America they're considered something else, a branch of corporate welfare maybe. The deal is, your French farm subsidies are designed to keep the small farmer in business, the guy who raises some hogs, some geese, grows some strawberries, makes a little p�t� de foie gras, digs a few truffles, distills a little Calvados.... That is sort of socialist-gourmand farm subsidy. Here in America the point of a farm subsidy is not to maintain the quality of food, but to enrich corporate farmers, and grow tough, wirey fruits and vegetables with good shelf life.
patriotte
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:27:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong, patriot in name only, although I do understand why you may have come to that conclusion. Actually, I am convinced that Ydog is gone for good and not coming back. Now I can speak freely without fear of offending the poor drone who's probably tearing out pictures from magazines in some government mail room.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:22:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Glit. Is he trying to lure his unrequited love back by dissing his old flights of fancy? Yo, Glit... that reverse psychology stuff doesn't work unless your victim hears it. Ydog would have to be lurking for it to stand a chance. But why would anyone lurk here, Glit? The whole amusement of the site is to infuriate you and/or make you feel as low, mean, and ugly as you come across. You can't do that by lurking, Glit.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:19:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pearls melt in vinegar.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:16:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just you wait, 15:00:25, Pete is going to come back and explain why French socialism is bad, and why Chirac, the old Gaullist, is a French socialist. Pete knows about these things. They are, after all, the things any boob knows.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:14:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean flop sweat cascading off her ass like tears of rain down a statue in a Mississippi hurricaine? I can see it too.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:11:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, the cheeseburger was a laugh riot all right. His stories were like portraits in words. Like his tales of Mrs. Dog, the ex-stripper. You could almost see the sweat rolling down between the posterior hams, like tears down a statue's cleavage.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:07:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, I don't remember.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:03:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is their food better than ours because they're socialist, or because they're French?
mcDonalds--non! frankenfoods--non!
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:03:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Remember back in the day before Ydog slinked off, tail between his legs, he told us about the fish ponds and the wringer washer down Mississippi way?
Those were the glory days for the belly laugh.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:02:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's see: French socialism means==all citizens have access to health care, workers get six week vacations a year, children have full access to public education right through college, there's a dandy high speed public train system: have I left anything out? Sounds awful, don't it? What a crime, French socialism! A crime, I say!
quick! it's too utopian! off with their heads!
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 15:00:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete thinks that because there has been a tinge of socialism in some past French governments that the country is undergoing an inexorable yahooization like America? The poor goober can't think of anything but his idiot fear of enlightened civic policy. He doesn't understand that being afraid of whatever he thinks socialism is doesn't make him an expert on every topic. That's why he will forever spout nonsense here, and will forever be good for a disdainful chuckle or two, � la fran�aise.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:33:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: The born-again boy just can't get enough of the feces and corpses. Was that a joke he was trying for? Did it work for any of you?
4 or 5 of 22
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:29:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wait a second. So Glit's finally realized that the Dirty Bush Iraq Invasion WAS all about blood for oil? Geesh.
4000 Feti Fatale
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:27:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's part of it.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:26:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gaullist? Does it mean he poops in the soup?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:25:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, he just can't explain what it means for Chirac to be Gaullist, but he flaps his yap anyhow. Galling? No. Boring.
Captain History Book
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:23:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have I heard of Venezuela? I'll say I have. My down under consultant just flew in from Buenos Aires last night.
Did that give you a small belly laugh?
Glint - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:23:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: uh oh. boulder's not just liberal, it's pretty darn Buddhist.
get that cracker outta there!
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:21:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Your frog is important internationally because a) he has a veto in the Security Council and b) he is an eloquent and devious character, smooth, and sophisticated, intelligent, well-educated, good-looking, and classy, and everything else poor moron Pete pretends to be. Socialism or no socialism doesn't have anything to do with a Gaullist foreign policy, although of course Chirac is a conservative, a real conservative and not a mere lunatic troglodyte like, say, Newt, or Cheney. But, Christmas, who gives a rip? Not anyone who's on to the gig.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:19:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: There goes patriot spouting crap he's made up or heard somewhere on a street as if it means something. Gee, so the dude is a "gaullist" Christmas, who gives a rip. He could be Madame Albightist for all i care and he'd still be a total liberal dope. The Frogs try to seems liek theya re still important intertnationally, but with each stupid socialsitic breath, they continue to marginalize themselves. Whack-a-moles. Even if it were true who cares? Why follow any failed socialsit regime unless you are an American traitor. Fits this faux-patriot to a T.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:12:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only condition is that Snippy kiss Kim Jung Il's fundament in front of the Security Council. There are some prices that even Snippy won't pay for world peace.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:09:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: The number one middle linebacker, Ward said he's leaving Colorado because "I'm just not happy. It had nothing to do with football. I'm a big fan of the coaching staff here. They did everything to keep me here." While all of Ward's prospective schools are closer to his home in Shreveport, La., he said homesickness did not play a role in his decision. Instead, he said he found his personality - he attended a conservative Christian high school - did not mix well with Boulder."
Can't blame the kid for wanting to ditch "liberal" Boulder
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 14:09:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday that a North Korean proposal to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs would not lead in the right direction. "It is a proposal that is not going to take us in the direction we need to go. But nevertheless we will study it," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Are There Any In Theater MOABs?
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:58:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Pete doesn't understand that Chirac is a Gaullist. Probably doesn't know what that means, any more than, say, Newt Gingrich does. But you knew that, right? This is Pete farting and blowing here, after all, not someone who has a chance of knowing anything.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:56:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, your gas prices are only about 60% higher than they were last year? Did you hear about the goings-on in Venezuela? You really are clueless, aren't you, Glit?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:49:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I've always been pro-gun....What's your point?" Point is that Americans with guns shot up Iraqis with guns. You should be in shoot 'em up heaven, I reckon.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:41:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talk about "mediocre, fairly mellow yahooization"! This dork obviously hasn't been to France in a while. That describes their form of socialist state mediocrity to a T.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:40:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The Dirty Bush Oil War?" Thanks to Dubya's energy policy in Iraq our gas prices are back down in the mid $1.40's, and still declining. ◊ Faux code failing form of flattery at 12:39.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:36:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's a temporary ascendancy of the cutting-edge American yahoo. Things will drop back down to the mediocre, fairly mellow yahooization of America. I'd move to France if the bastards would let people in.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:09:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Freed from the oppression of their dictator, Iraqis are now free to complain. From tens of thousands of marchers chanting "down, down USA - don't stay, go away" to individuals spitting at soldiers, Iraqis are flexing a muscle that, paradoxically, had atrophied under Saddam Hussein. But now here's an irony that no one expected. Back in America, complaining about America is the one thing that's pretty much disappeared, lost under the weight of a collective patriotism and increasing constitutional limitations. Voicing any sort of anti-war opinion is just not done any more and a number of organisations have sprung up with the express purpose of blacklisting celebrities who speak out. Susan Sarandon is obviously on the list. She's quoted as saying she doesn't remember ever being in a climate where people were too afraid to even have a conversation about an issue, let alone a debate.
bushist fascist funn house laff riot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 13:05:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: gloomy, too. gay and gloomy. ouch.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:57:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: He doesn't seem very gay to me. Gloomy is what I see.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:57:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: "It hurts me to say this, Mr President, but your spokesman's statement today on your behalf has just made matters far worse. Senator Santorum believes that gay people should be subject to criminal prosecution for their private, adult consensual relationships. He has equated homosexuality with the abuse of minors. He has associated homosexual relationships with bestiality. If that is an example of "inclusiveness," then what would exclusiveness be? For the president to call the criminalization of an entire group of people the position of an "inclusive man" leaves me simply speechless." --Andrew Sullivan, a gay man in love with a gay-hating party of Nazis
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:53:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the deal here with exiles being "backed by the Pentagon" to lead Iraq? The Pentagon is supposed to fight wars and keep its fat mouth shut. The only politics the Pentagon is supposed to engage in is the politics of "give me more money to buy stuff." Has Glint heard about this? Is he worried? What does the stubby font of wisdom say about it? Is this good for Glint's America or bad for Glint's America? How is it going over in the sticks?
patriot
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:50:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Franken: �Clinton�s military did pretty well in Iraq, huh?� Wolfowitz: 'Fuck you.'"
truth hurts, eh, wolfie?
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:46:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:45:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: NATION AT WAR: PROTESTS; SUNNIS AND SHIITES UNITE TO PROTEST U.S. AND HUSSEIN By JOHN KIFNER and CRAIG S. SMITH (NYT) 1614 words Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 6 LEAD PARAGRAPH - The struggle for power in postwar Iraq came sharply into focus today as Shiite and Sunni Muslims united in a demonstration that railed against both the United States and Saddam Hussein, while an Iraqi exile backed by the Pentagon emerged from well-guarded seclusion in an exclusive club to stake a claim to a role in Iraq's future. At overflow Friday prayer services at the huge Abu Hanafi Mosque, a Sunni religious center that opened its doors to members of the rival Shiite sect in a rare demonstration of solidarity, hostility toward the Americans and the desire for an Islamic Iraq were on display.
gee--it used to be hard to get Arabs to unite, but Snippy's done it! <Osama's Caliphate is Coming.com>
thanks, snippy, love osama, - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:41:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, of course I don't think that having to machine-gun protesting Iraqis in the street is going to complicate the sweet syrup of freedom that will soon be spread across that unfortunate land. Of course not. Why would it? I suppose that you're pro lack of freedom now? Fudge! Loaf! Up the Saudi Royal Family! (01)
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:39:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Temper, temper?
doubt it
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:36:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've always been pro-gun. Well, not so much pro-gun as pro so what, big deal, guns. What's your point, pathetic dipshit?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:35:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: temper, temper
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:34:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, free speech, it has nothing to do with carrying assalt stuff. What's your point? Is your point that machine-gunning crowds won't complicate things? Or is your point that Snippy shouldn't go over and lead the picture-kissing, statue-toppling Arabs out of this mess? Is your point that the Snip would flop? Please specify, pathetic dipshit.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:33:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since the worst terrorist attack in American history, which took the life of my brother, occurred in New York on Sept. 11, it seems appropriate that President Bush will be making his re-election bid from that city at that time in 2004. Perhaps the millions of unemployed Americans, veterans whose benefits have been threatened, families of dead civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, working people who lost their pensions to corporate fraud, and 41 million Americans without health insurance can come to town and join him in celebrating the other achievements of his first term. DAVID POTORTI Cary, N.C.,
david said it all
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:33:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pssssst... Gleent... trying to say Andrew Sullivan has made inappropriate lifestyle choices. Get over it.
your friend and informant, X
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:31:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Dirty Bush Oil War has cost ~2600 civilian feti so far, plus a couple thousand military feti. Ain't that a satisfying deathcount?
4K working on 5K
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:29:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops shot dead at least 13 Iraqis staging an anti-American protest in the town of Falluja overnight, residents said on Tuesday, in a clash likely to fuel anger at the U.S. presence in Iraq. Residents of the town 30 miles west of Baghdad told Reuters that between 13 and 17 people were killed and many wounded when soldiers occupying a local school fired on unarmed demonstrators who had been calling for U.S. troops to get out of their country following the ousting of Saddam Hussein. Mourners began burying the dead on Tuesday, chanting: "Our soul and our blood we will sacrifice to you martyrs." American soldiers in Falluja declined all comment to Reuters. U.S. Central Command in Qatar said it knew nothing of a shooting and senior officers in Baghdad said they had no news. Al-Jazeera and CNN television quoted U.S. troops saying they came under fire after asking the crowd to disperse and had to retaliate. Numerous local people said about 200 unarmed people had asked the Americans to leave the school so it could reopen. "They opened fire on the protesters because they went out to demonstrate," Sunni Muslim cleric Kamal Shaker Mahmoud, who lives near the school, told Reuters. "They are stealing our oil and they are slaughtering our people," Shuker Abdullah Hamid told Reuters as he helped bury a man he said was his cousin at a local cemetery. The shooting in Falluja followed an attack on U.S. forces in the northern city of Mosul on Monday evening in which at least six Iraqi fighters were killed. At least 12 civilians were killed near Baghdad on Saturday when an Iraqi arms dump blew up, triggering protests about U.S. troops' handling of the weapons. The troubles may puncture some of the optimism expressed by Iraqis and the U.S.-British administration after a watershed meeting convened by U.S. reconstruction chief Jay Garner on Monday where some 250 Iraqis began efforts to build a democracy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:25:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: No worries, sheitmeister. Looking forward to YOUR loony little dictator toppling in 2004.
"assault" "protest" what happened to standards for education?
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:17:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: So now free speech includes carrying assalt weapons to the prottest? Are you guys pro-gun now? You flip flop so often that I can't keep up. Sorry about your dictator getting toppled. Tough break. Naked in the snow for nothing but the fudge stripes, I guess.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:07:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not that there's anything wrong with that. Or is there? What exacatly are you trying to say?
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 12:03:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, Glit, are you still here? Pssst... Andrew Sullivan is queer! Bet you didn't know that.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:54:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm worried that this machine-gunning of crowds is going to have a chilling effect on the development of free speech for all Iraqis. Maybe Snippy should go over there and talk to the people, lead them out of this mess. They adore him, kiss his picture and everything. It will cut into his nap time, but a leader has to make certain sacrifices.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:52:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know, Colin or Ari... Mr. Credibility and Joe Truth. It's hard to choose.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:47:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gosh, that's amazing that such documents were found in the rubble! I'll bet they're pretty convincing! Is Colin Powell going to present them to the UN, or are we just leaving it up to Ari this time?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:37:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Analysis of documents found in the rubble of Iraq's intelligence headquarters show that contrary to conventional wisdom, Iraqi military and intelligence officials sought out al Qaeda leaders, not the other way around, and ultimately met with bin Laden on at least two occasions. They also show that channels of communication between al Qaeda and Iraq were created much earlier and were wider ranging in scope than previously thought. The timing of the meetings sheds important new light on how grave the Clinton administration's intelligence failures may have been.

The Clinton Intel Record - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:28:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Remember when Jeremiah told Glint he'd get him half-price tickets to Mel Tillis if he'd only drop by? It breaks my heart.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:24:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's all karma. Glint should never have given Jeremiah the cold shoulder like that. Poor Jeremiah is probably still sitting in the gun-shed with a candle in the grimy window.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:23:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Glint may be a blowhard, but you got to admit that's a good one about the yellow rain. Haw haw." Always wondered why it's called the "golden state."
Hyuck! Hyuck!
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:20:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, but soon after the miraculous march, we saw pictures of Shiite leaders organizing anti-American mobs, who had the gall to demand the eviction of their liberators.
Arabs. They'll gall ya every time. Fvck 'em.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:11:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: George W. Bush will not be pushed around, either.
tell it to Kate Harris
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:09:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: George W. Bush will not be pushed around, either.
tell it to Cheney
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:09:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: George W. Bush will not be pushed around, either.
tell it to the Chinaman
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:08:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: American men and women did not die in the sands of Iraq to let one tyrant be replaced by another tyrant?
doubt it
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:07:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: That simply is not going to happen this time?
doubt it
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:06:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Millions of muslims would have been thrown in jail for taking part in a pilgrimage a few months ago?
doubt it
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:05:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I lay it all at the feet of Richard M. Nixon. Now there's a sonofab?�tch who never took over a single fvcking cvntry.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:03:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ya got to marvel at how the troglodyte mind works.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:01:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Striking Nigerian oil workers have taken about 100 foreign workers hostage on several offshore oil installations, company officials and union workers said Tuesday. The hostages include 21 Americans.
another reason to give thanks that fvck dummy carter has left the bridge.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:00:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, it sounds like this George W. Bush is going to be ruling Iraq with a heavy hand. Well, it's what them sand niggers need, you ask me. This ain't Jimmy Carter. Shit, that yellowbelly Carter didn't even pretend Iran had nukes and go in there and kick ass and take the joint over, make freedom of expression available to everyone who didn't bite the hand that fed him.
always with the outside agitators, people coming in and stirring up the locals
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 11:00:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint may be a blowhard, but you got to admit that's a good one about the yellow rain. Haw haw.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 10:55:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some Shiite Muslims in Iraq will keep biting the hand that released them from the murderous grip of Saddam Hussein. If you want to know why, here�s the �Real Deal.� LAST WEEK, millions of Muslims took part in a pilgrimage that would have gotten them thrown in jail a few months ago. Why, it was an extraordinary moment in Iraqi and American history. We all saw pictures of Muslim families openly worshiping their god as they wished, without fear of imprisonment or fear of death. Ah, but soon after the miraculous march, we saw pictures of Shiite leaders organizing anti-American mobs, who had the gall to demand the eviction of their liberators. It sounds like the ingrates who protest against our military, which guarantee their rights to protest. Now, some say the Shiite protests weren�t too well-organized and had all the spontaneity of a Republican National Convention. And I agree. Others in this administration laughed off the events as crude attempts to shape the post-Saddam Iraq. Now, to me, they looked like a ham-fisted political move that I would have expected from some dweeb in my high school student council. But hey, only a fool, or a liberal journalist, would fail to see these protests for what they really were: clumsy attempts by radical Iranian Muslims to turn Iraq into its sister state. Here�s a message from Donald Rumsfeld today. And this is the message he delivered to them earlier today: Get lost. You messed up your own country. Don�t even think about messing up Iraq. Hey, boys, this isn�t 1979 anymore, and you aren�t dealing with Jimmy Carter, either. Instead, you�re dealing with George Bush. And he�s made it clear that American men and women did not die in the sands of Iraq to let one tyrant be replaced by another tyrant. The citizens of Iraq must all be free to worship as they please. They�ve got to be free to speak as they please, and they�ve got to be free to live as they please, or else our American heroes will have died in vain. That simply is not going to happen this time. The Shiites in Iraq and Iran had better get it straight that George W. Bush will not be intimidated. George W. Bush will not be pushed around, either. He means business. And that business is all about freedom for the good people of Iraq.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 10:54:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's not always the guys and gals in country who win the wars. Sometimes it's the out-country, in-bubble blowhards who will engage in the pre-emptive spin so necessary to sell the war doncha know.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 10:35:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's free-lancing at a little damage control, eh? Thanks, little soldier!
Rummy
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 10:12:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've said a mouthful; a hole lot of jism.
Dr. J
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 10:10:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's good to see Glint's philisophical angle on the killing of 13 Iraqis. "Sometimes you have to do what you've got to do to stay alive." True. How very true, you tough son of a bitch. Spoken like a man who knows what to kiss and when.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 10:00:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sometimes it would be nice to know what really happened before coming up with a conclusion.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:55:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops shot dead at least 13 Iraqis during an anti-American protest in the town of Falluja overnight, witnesses said on Tuesday, in bloodshed sure to inflame anger at the U.S. presence in Iraq. U.S. officers said their men returned fire after being shot at first. U.S. Lt. Christopher Hart said a crowd of 100 to 200 chanting people approached his men, who opened fire after two gunmen with combat rifles appeared from behind the crowd on a motorcycle and started shooting. Some people in the crowd then also fired at the troops, he said. He put the death toll at between seven and 10.
Sometimes you have to do what you've got to do to stay alive.
Glint - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:51:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chicago Tribune - A Northwest Side doughnut-shop customer believed he had been given oversweetened coffee and shot the 29-year-old server to death last week, police said Monday. Bond was set at $3 million on Monday for Alfredo Natal, 48, who cleans CTA buses. Natal thought the clerk, Sukhdev Dave, an immigrant whose wife was pregnant, was pouring too much sugar in his coffee, Grand Central Cmdr. Lee Epplen said.
don't screw around with a man's coffee in the morning
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:46:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I passed through France in April and there were almost NO tourists. Highly unusual, but probably the new norm. Go to England, the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria or Spain if you go to Europe. Italy is nice but full of communists.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:41:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: "By the way, the only thing that would have looked more ridiculous than those 'travelling lounges' at the airport would have been seeing the human squash riding in one." You had your chance. I bent over backwards trying to hook up and make your visit as pleasant as possible. But noooo. You'd rather glom all the free rides you could get those mobile lounge monster buses. I heard the same thing yesterday on the radio. The part about replacing them with underground rail. The only other place I've been that used the mobile lounges was St. Louis International. But that was years ago, and only during construction of a terminal expansion.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:26:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just started raining like a cow peein
yellow rain? Must be in California.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:21:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1887795
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 02:28:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's schools that let kids read Catch 22?
RNC
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:35:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's b*llsh*t! All Iraq is ululating its love for Snippy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:34:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy has freed them from their mothers and fathers by killing them.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:33:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here's a fine way to teach the youth of today about the great American values of freedom and liberty. The head of the English Department at Lynn English High School in Massachusetts recently approved an English teacher's request to show Bowling for Columbine in class. Not so fast! Administrators decided to prevent the teacher from showing the Oscar-winning documentary because it contained anti-war views. The ACLU of Massachusetts has concemned the move, saying in a press release, "No reasonable pedagogical purpose supports this censorship for students who can vote or serve in the armed forces very soon." John Reinstein, Legal Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said, "What will come next? Think of all the famous literature that could be viewed as expressing antiwar messages." Think All Quiet on the Western Front, Red Badge of Courage, Slaughterhouse Five, Johnny Got His Gun, Catch 22. Yup, those high school administrators really know a thing or two about educating the kids on freedom of speech and democracy: if it disagrees with the official government line, we'll censor
has laura read snippy any of these books?
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:33:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only reason those mines are blowing up kids is that Snippy has freed them to frolic across the sands.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:32:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: So the "pretzel" incident was really Kate Harris through the Rose Garden? That's a relief-- I thought it was Cheney.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:31:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy will never go back to the "homemaker" after Kate Harris, who knew how a Republican likes it. She socked him in the eye, and then sneeringly told him to put ice on it. Oh yeah!
RNC
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:30:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Home wrecker is more like it. I wish Whatever were here to speculate and marvel at how Laura can take it.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:26:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unexploded ordnance and landmines littering northern Iraq have killed or maimed more people - many of them children - since the end of the war than during the fighting.
must be rumdum's untidiness of war
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 01:21:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, break Glint's heart, the poor, witless asshole. He's probably telling some fool about his "buddies" at bangkok.com. Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 00:01:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: The case for invading Iraq to remove its weapons of mass destruction was based on selective use of intelligence, exaggeration, use of sources known to be discredited and outright fabrication, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. A high-level UK source said last night that intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic were furious that briefings they gave political leaders were distorted in the rush to war with Iraq. "They ignored intelligence assessments which said Iraq was not a threat," the source said.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 23:21:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: yborg not present here.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 23:18:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, if she's got something on Snippy, good for her. I don't want to hear the details of awkward Republican sex. Yech!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 23:06:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Homemaker's Recipe for Success The White House made a number of recess appointments last week as Congress fled for spring break. One was April H. Foley, a "homemaker," according to campaign contribution disclosure documents, from South Salem, N.Y. She was named to the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank. The appointment is good until Congress adjourns next year. So why a homemaker for this job? Well, "early in her career," the White House announcement says, she was director of business planning for corporate strategy with PepsiCo Inc. and director of strategy for Reader's Digest Association. More recently, she was president of the United Way of Northern Westchester County, N.Y. Not all of it, just the northern part. Still not locked in on the merits? Did we mention she used to date George W. Bush when both were at Harvard Business School and has remained friends with him? � 2003 The Washington Post Company
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:57:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: This guy I met last weekend says the moving lounges will be history once they complete some subway project or something. Something to live for, eh?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:47:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: The butthead, you mean?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:46:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: If he's here, I would think he's not saying anything because Glint wants him to say something.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:45:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, the only thing that would have looked more ridiculous than those "travelling lounges" at the airport would have been seeing the human squash riding in one.
traveler
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:45:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why won't ydog say anything? I know he's here. I just know it.
Glint
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:44:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: That was from me. Not that you care, Mr. Invisible!
Your Jewish Momma
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:03:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: And, how are YOU? That's the big question. You never write, you never call. For all we know, you might as well be dead. Do you like it when we suffer? Is that it, Mr. Shot, Mr. I've-got-my-own-life?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 22:02:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: gnat would never say that
lady that she be
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 21:41:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: whack off
gnat
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 21:39:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Borg! What up, dog?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 21:34:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Several hundred Iraqis, mostly Shi'ite Muslims, protested in the center of Baghdad saying Shi'ite clerics from the holy city of Najaf were not properly represented at a meeting of prominent Iraqis on Monday.
gee--that's a pretty damn Saddamite thing to do? What's up with these Yank nationbuilders, anyhow?
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 20:46:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: gnatborg: please check in.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 20:41:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unless you're in the mountains. Then it can rain any old time, as if it was some bogus midwestern state. Although most of the time it doesn't.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 20:00:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't rain often toward this time of year in Californy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:59:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Coming down here too. Sky opened up for about ten minutes.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:43:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rained last night. Don't send it my way.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:36:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: rain just let up
window seat
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:29:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: There are Patriots and then there's our Patriot.
the intelligent one
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:13:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just started raining like a cow peein.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:12:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
patriot
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 19:11:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's all memories, isn't it, Glint? All old nostalgia for times gone by, times that weren't even that great at the time. Poor, witless asshole.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:28:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some kink of weird gotcha, I guess.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:27:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Many happy hour memories with my RJAF buddies. Many a pitcher was drunk, with belly laughs galore as they tried their hand at picking up American chicks. The good old days. ◊ Reminds me, need to power wash the siding before Ydog gets here. Hope Olney Ale house has enough beer on tap for us.
Glint
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:26:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: They weren't your buddies. They just said that to be nice.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:23:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: RALEIGH, N.C. -- Gov. Mike Easley has proclaimed April 29, 2003 as Dale Earnhardt Day in North Carolina.
who's dale earnhardt?
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:22:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: (AW&ST) A large number of U.S. strike missions to suppress military activity in western Iraq were quietly launched from an airbase in eastern Jordan, despite that government's denial that U.S. forces there carried out offensive military operations against Iraq. Publicly, Jordan's leaders said they were not a party to the conflict and there was no activity from inside their country against Iraq. The U.S. presence was limited, they said, to several hundred troops, most of whom manned Patriot air defense missile batteries. A total of 24 F-16s, equipped with advanced Litening II targeting pods and GBU-27 laser-guided bombs, along with their pilots and ground crews, were pulled from the Colorado, District of Columbia and Alabama Air National Guards for the assignment, according to one of the pilots involved and a senior Air Force official. Such amalgamations are called "Rainbow" units, and this one served as the 120th Expeditionary Fighter Sqdn., under the 410 Air Expeditionary Wing. Officials of the D.C. Air National Guard would only say that pilots and ground crews from their 113th Wing were at a "classified location" in the Middle East.
USAF hosted by my old foot washing buddies.
Glint - Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:20:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which is not to say that Glint's not a liar. Of course he lies. But sometimes it seems as if Pete can't make a statement without lying. Glint, on the other hand, can rattle on about any number of boring topics, apparently without lying at all. He's not in Pete's league with the lying.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:20:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: BAGHDAD (AFP) - Joyous crowds in Baghdad showed their scorn for Saddam Hussein, mocking his birthday by dressing up a donkey as the fallen strongman and giving him a cake made of excrement. "Today marks the commemoration of oppression and we will celebrate this anniversary every year," said Jaafar Saadun, the donkey's owner.
your daily freshly pinched loaf
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:16:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, I'm pretty smart. About, say, 120 points ahead of Pete, but he's dumb. I'd spot Glint maybe 75 points. Say 50 to 75, depending on the topic. That puts Glint 70 to 45 points ahead of Pete, but Glint loses big on moral authority, since he's a criminal pedophile, a known pervert, a thief, and he has a bad heart. Pete's only consistent wrong activity, aside from his fundamental selfishness, is lying. If any of his claims were believable, we'd have to write him off as criminal as well.
patriot
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:15:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, one moron named patriot on this page is enough. - Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:59:25 (EDT)
ZINGER!
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:11:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good idea. Any imports coming our way with an Ishmaelite origin should be dragged through Brazil first, just in case. Suitcases should be opened and closed, and parked during the antrax incubation period before moving on their way. The only exception: oil.
Portugezer
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 18:06:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: First Hawaiian Bank was also on the boycott list.
love my krups coffee grinder
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:59:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Do I HAVE To Be a Moron To Be Counted As a Patriot?"
No, one moron named patriot on this page is enough.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:59:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/2002/08/07/stories/2002080700090900.htm
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:55:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Marcel opened his first factory in 1945, right outside of Paris.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:54:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Curiosity killed the sand flea.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:53:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: RASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, almost certainly from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the substance which he was taking to Canada. A spokesman for Brazilian federal police in the Amazon state of Para said on Monday an autopsy of the Egyptian man, whom he named as Ibrahim Saved Soliman Ibrahim, showed that he had died after vomiting, internal bleeding and multiple organ failure. "He was the victim of anthrax," said Fernando Sergio Castro, adding that police were 90 percent certain that Ibrahim had died of anthrax. Ibrahim died in the hotel were he was staying on April 11. Several health workers who found his body were taken to a hospital after becoming ill but are now out of danger. Ibrahim had traveled to Brazil from Cairo to join his ship, the Wabi Alaras, which loaded bauxite in the Amazon to take to Canada. "We imagine that this is about bioterrorism and Brazil was just used as a point of transfer," said Castro. Ibrahim died before his ship sailed to Canada, where it was quarantined by authorities last week. Castro said Ibrahim had been given the suitcase in Cairo by an unidentified person and was due to deliver it to somebody in Canada. But he doubted Ibrahim knew what the content of the bag was otherwise he most likely would not have opened it. "He opened it because he was curious," Castro said.
should begin shipping everything from the middle east through brazil
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:52:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: If the 41,200,000 don't like it, they can move to Canada.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:50:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: How Many People Lack Health Coverage In the U.S.? The U.S. spent $1.4 trillion on health care in 2001, yet 41.2 million Americans lacked basic health coverage. For most of the past 16 years, the number of people without health insurance has been on the rise. Although the number of uninsured declined between 1998 and 2000, that number is on the rise again because of a weakened economy and layoffs at many companies. Currently, some 41.2 million Americans lack health coverage, up 1.4 million from 2000. This includes 8.5 million children.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:45:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: The "president's" goal is first to enrich his friends and second to bankrupt the United States so it can no longer serve its citizens.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:36:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you are an Iraqi, don't hold your breath.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:34:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush had asked Congress for $726 billion in cuts over 10 years. The House capped new tax relief at $550 billion, while the Senate agreed to cuts of no more than $350 billion. The White House has scaled back its expectations, saying at least $550 billion is now the president's goal
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:34:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: White House asked Congress for $74.7 billion to pay for the Iraq War and reconstruction, the request included money for �universal health service delivery to the Iraqi population.�
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:29:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Probably the Turin birth that confused you. Turin is about as far from Switzerland as it is from France. In other words, if he's not Italian he's either Swiss or French, geographically.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 17:03:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Marcel naci� en 1.914, en Tur�n. Su madre, Marie Brigitte de Orl�, era una noble francesa, y su padre, Mario Bich, era un ingeniero futurista.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 16:53:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thought Marcel Bich was Swiss.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 16:50:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, Frog all the way. Founded by Marcel Bich, himself a Frog.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 16:40:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Watch out there, boycott-lady. Last I heard, Bic was a Swiss company. Be sure who you're boycotting. Probably the safest bet is to boycott pineapples.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 16:11:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Salade de Torsettes au Crabe, Ventr�che de Thon du Pays Basque, et Coupe Glac�e Chocolat Banane et Framboises
Now, that's a snack!
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 16:06:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tremble tyrants and you treacherous ones,/ The shame of all the parties./ Tremble, your parricide projects/ Finally are about to receive their prize./ Everyone is soldier to fight against you./ If our young heroes fall down,/ France produces new ones/ Quite ready to fight against you. / To arms citizens!/ Form your battalions!/ Let's march, let's march/ Let an impure blood/ Water our furrows! / French men as magnanimous warriors/ Hit or not hit!/ Spare these sad victims,/ With regrets, arming themselves against us./ But those bloodthirsty despots,/ But those accomplices of Bouill�,/ All those tigers, who, without mercy,/ Tear their mother's bosom./ To arms citizens!/Form your battalions!/ Let's march, let's march/ Let an impure blood/ Water our furrows!
now that's an anthem!
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 14:46:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles,/ Je ne me sentais plus guid� par les haleurs :/ Des Peaux-Rouges criards les avaient pris pour cibles/ Les ayant clou�s nus aux poteaux de couleurs. / J'�tais insoucieux de tous les �quipages, / Porteur de bl�s flamands et de cotons anglais. / Quand avec mes haleurs ont fini ces tapages / Les Fleuves m'ont laiss� descendre o� je voulais./ Dans les clapotements furieux des mar�es, / Moi, l'autre hiver, plus sourd que les cerveaux d'enfants, / Je courrus ! Et les P�ninsules d�marr�es / N'ont pas subi tohu-bohus plus triomphants........
now dat's poetry
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 14:37:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Although I suppose being patriotic here is the same as being patriotic for France, since they won the Revolutionary War for us, as any French textbook will note. Vive le Marquis de Lafayette! And of course it was largely the frog who gave us our ideas of freedom and whatnot. That makes us patriots fight for Pete's right to wallow in his offal and daily slime the basic ideals of the country he professes to belong to. That gives Glit the right to be a booger-eating stinkwad whiner with nothing to contribute, yet tolerated by his betters. Hip hip hooray America!
patriot
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 14:18:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: France is probably the best country in the world. They know "way of life" in France. Good strawberries, too. People in France are always reading. You see them reading on park benches, in the subway, in the restaurant, all over the place. I believe that fewer people sit staring at the television set all day the way Pete does, or after work the way people who have jobs, like Glint, do. Good cheese, good bread, good wine. Beer not so good, but it's EU and you can get German or Dutch or Danish beer or Irish stout from the six counties. I guess now you can get Czech beer, your Pilsen Urquel. Good French-fried potatoes, what they call pommes allumette. Good steamed potatoes, pommes vapeur. Good mussels, fine oysters. Stately Old Europe buildings a thousand years old. Babes in fancy clothes. Clean and civilized. Of course Ann Coulter says the frogs don't take baths. She must have picked up a slaughter-house worker or something last time she was passing through on her way to Bulgaria. Your frogs not only take baths, they clean their bungs in the bidet, which is more than you can probably say for Ann Coulter. I hearby wave the tricoleur and say allons enfents de la patrie, I wish I could be patriotic for your country instead of this pest-hole over here.
patriot
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 14:12:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Check Pete's most recent "serious" post: "Unlike the Demonrats, New Gingrich recognized his hypocrisy and was run out/excluded from the political posts." Most fifth-graders can write a more coherent sentence with less effort. He doesn't have a good enough intuition for English to know when to use the definite article. He isn't bright enough to understand that self-recognition is a necessary component of hypocrisy, that it can't exist without recognizing itself. He can't decide between "run out" and "excluded" because neither is true and yet neither has anything to do with Newt recognizing his hypocrisy-- so to solve the meaninglessness of each word he uses them both! I mean, folks, we're dealing with a moron here. This poor yahoo can't string three words together without tying himself in knots. And yet there is no topic that he can restrain himself from blathering about, from how to find Saturn by first locating Orion's belt to military tactics tailored to whatever fantasyland he imagines is on the other side of the mountain. A ridiculous, strutting, empty-headed fool. Someone to laugh at, nothing more.
patriot
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 14:03:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Received an email from a friend that included a list of names, items associated with France to be boycotted. Included in list: BIC (razors, pens and lighters), Dannon (yogurt and dairy foods, Givenchy, Krups, L'Oreal, MP3, RCA, Rowenta, Smart & Final, Yoplait, Culligan (owned by Vivendi), Woman's Day Magazine. Still friends even when I show up at her house wearing Givenchy fragrance, carrying my Yoplait purchased at Smart & Final
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:31:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's a three exclamation points "idiots" dontcha know.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:30:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blah blah blah nonsense from the idiot left. What a waste of time. Idiots!!!
Pete�
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:22:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Like a mummified, clueless, waterheaded cadaver, Charlton Heston was guided to the podium by midgets while a harelipped ventriloquist said bye-bye to the NRA for the half-dead former porn star.
L.G.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:20:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but think of all the classic L.G. wit that's down the tubes. Glit is as bad as a Bagtown museum looter.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:09:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stands to reason. Glit's been taking a pretty rough beating here lateley.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:07:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Andrew Sullivan, you see, is not only queer, he's British. A genuine poofter.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:07:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Miss all the pickles? Just view the source. Glit obscured all the way to the last post that he felt was too beautiful to be lost to view.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:06:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're getting warmer? Hey, Andrew, as long as we're getting warmer, I suppose your idiotic ruminations are jolly-ho spot-on.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 13:02:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go Andrew Go!

THE CLINCHER: Several reports over the weekend, barely covered in the mainstream American press for some reason, strike me as blockbusters. The Sunday Telegraph's scoop of documents in Baghdad clearly linking al Qaeda with Saddam, if verified, means that an essential debate is over. Even opponents of the war against Saddam's dictatorship said they would be more inclined to support war if there were proof of a link to al Qaeda. Now, it seems, there is. But the manner in which we found this out after the event, raises a more complicated question about foreign policy in the age of terror. We know that Saddam had elaborate designs to make chemical and biological weapons. No serious person doubts that - although whether he tried to destroy evidence before the war, how extensive it was, what exactly it amounted to, are still questions in search of good answers. (But we're getting warmer, it seems.) So what does a free country do when confronted with an enemy state, with WMDs, that we strongly suspect is in league with terrorists like al Qaeda, but cannot prove without invading? It's tough. My view is that, after 9/11, we have little option but to launch a pre-emptive strike and hope for retroactive justification. But I understand why people demand proof before such action. This new finding - and I bet there will be more like it - strengthens my position, I think. The threat was not the weapons as such; it was the regime, its capacity to make and use such weapons and its potential or actual alliance with al Qaeda. We had to make a judgment about how likely it was that such a link existed. We bet right. Bush clearly didn't create that alliance. It existed long before he came long. It's clearer and clearer that we did the right thing. And this debate is even more important to have now when we can look at the evidence than before, when we couldn't. - Monday, April 28, 2003 at 12:27:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: TIKRIT, Iraq � More-sophisticated field tests conducted yesterday on the pile of 55-gallon drums found near a small industrial town in central Iraq came up positive for a chemical nerve agent. Top Stories � Self-proclaimed mayor detained � Iraqis target Gen. Franks for war crimes trial � Grassley aims for larger tax cuts � Reality TV takes on a life of its own with new cable channel � Iraq war's color lines But military officials said it will be two to three days before laboratory tests can show with certainty whether fluid from one of the 14 drums is a chemical agent used to make weapons of mass destruction.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 12:22:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do I HAVE To Be a Moron To Be Counted As a Patriot?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 12:11:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shouldn't have done it, Eleanor.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 12:09:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice comeback there, Pete. You da man!
Pete Fan Club
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 10:45:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
�
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 10:39:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Please, anon. Don't be crass. Wasn't it just yesterday that Glit and Tpee and their ilk mourned the loss of the two thousand innocent adult and child feti in Iraq plus the other two thousand combatant adult feti in Iraq, totally mourning the deaths of four thousand grown feti, give or take a few hundred? It wasn't? Oh. OK, then.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 09:11:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins. So why didn't the Bush Regime tell the American people it "might not find" the weapons the regime claim represented the reason for committing mass slaughter in their name and sending their loved ones to their deaths? Beyond that, the Bush administration decided it must flex muscle to show it would fight terrorism, not just here at home and not just in Afghanistan against the Taliban, but in the Middle East, where it was thriving. So why didn't the Bush Regime tell the American people it would be committing mass slaughter in their name and sending their loved ones to their deaths to "flex US muscle" in the Middle East - and not in response to an imminent threat?
TOPPLE LIAR BUSH
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 09:08:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush pal blasts Newt for pre-war hit at Powell WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State James Baker, who has close ties to President Bush, blasted former House Speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday for trashing Secretary of State Powell's efforts before the Iraq war. Gingrich's comments "were totally inappropriate," Baker told the Daily News. "They came from someone with no foreign policy or national security experience, and who was in effect forced to resign." Gingrich charged Tuesday that Powell presided over "six months of diplomatic failure" before the war - apparently angering Bush. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been close to Gingrich and named him to an agency advisory board.
idiot vs. idiot
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 09:03:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blah blah blah nonsense from the idiot left. What a waste of time. Idiots!!!
Pete�
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 01:25:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Theodore Roosevelt 1918
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 00:42:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you suppose there's anyone in the world who thinks that Cheney wants democracy in Iraq, doesn't want military bases there, has no interest in the oil? Remember, these are the guys who say that if you take the US treasury and give it to their rich friends it will help everybody else. These are the folks who say that the Santorum ghoul is inclusive. These are the people who can't choke out a sentence without lying. "Anyone in the world" doesn't include gullible lemmings like Pete and Glint. Make that "any intelligent, responsible person."
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 28, 2003 at 00:25:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's queer? He found out? What does that have to do with his liking Andrew Sullivan?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:59:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, Sullivan made some bad lifestyle choices.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:59:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Andrew Sullivan? He's Glit's favorite queer. Or at least he was until Glit found out he was queer.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:58:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: GOP defends Ayatollah Santorum If the president truly believes the Pennsylvania zealot is "an inclusive man," we're all in trouble. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Joan Walsh April 26, 2003 | It took a few days, but finally President Bush came to the defense of Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who's been hammered by Democrats and a few brave Republicans for equating homosexuality with bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery in an Associated Press interview. Since the story broke Monday, there's been official silence from the White House, but on Friday Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters, "The president believes that the senator is an inclusive man. ... The president has confidence in Sen. Santorum and thinks he's doing a good job as senator -- including in his leadership post." Well, now we know. Calling Santorum an "inclusive man" is about as truthful as calling Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a "man of peace" -- even Sharon's admirers know he's a warrior. But being president makes you very powerful, and means you're almost never called a liar, even when you're lying. There is nothing inclusive about Rick Santorum, who, as chairman of the Republican Conference, is the GOP's No. 3 Senate leader. He is a right-wing extremist who has more in common with fanatical Islamic fundamentalists than with many Americans. The president's failure to repudiate him or his remarks is appalling -- and in the long run, it will cost him politically. Premium Benefits Download Salon's antiwar sampler. A selection of new protest songs from the Beastie Boys, Ani DiFranco, John Mellencamp, Chumbawamba and others. Free audiobook of Jonathan Franzen's book of essays "How to Be Alone" 6 month subscription to Mother Jones magazine Get Salon's headlines delivered to your e-mail address Salon Daily Download text or pdf Give the gift of Premium for only $20 Premium Help Log Out I agree with Andrew Sullivan, a stalwart Bush defender who nonetheless wrote on Friday, with evident pain: "The White House still doesn't understand the damage that this incident is doing, the fact that it is beginning to make it simply impossible for gay people and their families -- or any tolerant person -- to vote for the president's party."
time to topple "Sodom" Santorum
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:46:58 (EDT)

This posting was modified by the Webmaster to protect the innocent.
My two cents are: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/opinion/26LAMA.html?ex=1052322398&ei=1&en=db52cafd4bfaee3d
I dare you to read this one to the end, Mr. Rölle
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:38:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: "In the last election, the spin-liars made Bush look more moderate than he actually is on abortion rights'' and other subjects, Burk said. She pointed to an array of policy decisions and appointments -- such as the selection of Wade Horn, who advocates preferential treatment for married women among welfare seekers, in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services -- as evidence that Bush is slowly dismantling the women's rights apparatus in the government. And just last week, women's groups were outraged by the Bush White House's refusal to condemn Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, for remarks that compared consensual homosexuality to incest.
I love the pro-incest, pro-reproductive rights for rapists Taliban mentality Rabid Rightist Republicans
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:32:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: �� unicode.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:28:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: No snow for the swim. Snow Friday, Saturday. For swim, clouds, no snow, air temp 48��, water temp 49.1��. Pretty low pops for this time of year. Damn low, matter of fact, except the coho are about normal.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:25:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Come to think of it, you could get health care free in England, too, even as a frickin' Yank. Walk in, see the doc, walk out, no problema. That's what's got all these Rabid Rightists's panties in a twist. They want to save up all the health care for embryos.
Embryos Only Need Apply
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:25:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can go straight to Iraq, buddy, if you don't like the minimum wage guy not liking getting ripped off here in the US of A. As it happens, I don't like getting ripped off here, either. Deal with it.
Capt. Jack Frost, USAF (Ret.)
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:21:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Think back to 1994, when Gingrich went after so-called "liberal Democratic cultural values" in the wake of Susan Smith's horrifying drowning of her two young sons in a South Carolina lake. Gingrich was quick to blame the heinous crime on a "Democrat-led" (sic) breakdown of society, declaring, �How a mother can kill her two children, 14 months and 3 years, in hopes that her boyfriend would like her is just a sign of how sick the system is, and I think people want to change. The only way you get change is to vote Republican.� Just one problem for Newt's "liberal" bashing hypocrisy. The most important contributing factor to Smith�s psychological scarring was the sexual abuse she received for years at the hands of her stepfather, who was a key operative in the South Carolina Republican Party. According to South Carolina press reports at the time, �[Smith] detailed one incident at about 5 a.m. one March morning when she woke up to find Russell (her stepfather) standing over her. Russell, a Christian Coalition member, had been out putting up campaign posters for presidential candidate Pat Robertson, the televangelist who founded the Christian Coalition, Smith said. He kissed her and then took her hand, and put her hand on his genitals and kissed her again. . . � Ah, yes a Grand Old Party poobah sexually abused his stepdaughter, which left her a psychological basket case. Hmm.
hmm a lot of pedophiles toeing the fascist pubbie party line . . . are there not?
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:19:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got a physical in France once. Just walked into the hospital, waited a few minutes, and a guy came out, did the physical, signed the form. I couldn't find any place to pay, so I walked back out. I've heard that they'll take your dough, but you have to work at it.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:19:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Saudi Arabia. Kuwait. United Arab Emirates. Universal Health Care. And a free camel, too.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:17:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or Bulgaria. The guy could go to Bulgaria or Lithuania. Or Poland. Or any place else in New Europe! Get health coverage as part of being there! New Europe, man, it's better than Canada, because not only can a guy get his broken bones set, it's not old, like Canada.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:16:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: The minimum-wage guy can go to Canada if he doesn't like it here.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:15:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: In a scathing letter sent to Natsios, the Massachusetts Inspector General called Bechtel's handling of the Big Dig "an invitation to fraud, waste and abuse." Apparently, this amounted to a sterling recommendation in Natsios' eyes because, three years later, when the time came to draw up the very short list of companies invited to bid on $1.5 billion in Iraq contracts, he didn't hesitate to include the old gang at Bechtel. Hey, what's a little "fraud, waste and abuse" among chums? In today's business-loving Washington, a propensity for playing fast and loose with taxpayer money clearly qualifies as "no harm, no foul." It certainly hasn't hurt Halliburton, which, despite being fined $2 million for routinely overbilling the Pentagon, continues to land hugely profitable government contracts -- like the $2.2 billion it scored to provide troop support in the Balkans. According to a GAO study, the company boosted its bottom line by charging the Army $85 for plywood that cost $14, and racked up profits by cleaning the same base offices up to four times a day. It goes without saying that everyone involved in these cushy deals denies any impropriety. In fact, they are downright offended by the suggestion that these contracts -- bid on by a very select group of well-connected companies, and awarded based on secretive, unexplained criteria -- were anything but on the up and up. "We won this work on our record, plain and simple," crowed Riley Bechtel in an email to employees, making it sound as if their record of scheming and insider dealing was something to brag about. And a spokesman for the company assured reporters that Bechtel had not "attempted to bring any political pressure to bear." They didn't have to. When the fix is in, no one has to remind the referee to count to 10 when the chump takes his dive. It's all done with a wink and a nod. And sometimes not even that. The perfect explanation for how this all works came from none other than Our Man in Baghdad, retired Gen. Jay Garner. When asked about his uncanny success as a businessman following his long military career -- especially how he helped Sy Technology boost its government contracts from $8.5 million in 1999 to $46.8 million in 2001, with much of that business coming from the Army division he used to run -- Garner replied: "I do not go to friends for business. I get business from my friends, but it's not solicited by me." Don Corleone couldn't have put it any better. Here's another way of looking at the process: "The purpose behind the abuse," said Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), "was so that cronies of the president could win the spoils of political gain for themselves." Although Grassley's description suits the Bechtel pact to a tee, he was actually talking about Bill and Hillary's Travelgate.
go arianna go
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:13:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: So let's accept that a family plan costs 11,000 per year. This assumes that haole has a decent job, decent plan. Now, if you're making minumum wage, tell me, Captain Arithmetic: how much will you make in a forty hour work week? What percentage of your paycheck will be devoted to health care? What's left for rent? food?
Calling Captain Arithmetic
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 22:00:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: How can lying validate anything? Mutually exclusive sort of deal he's into there. Especially when the lies are so preposterous. How could a guy who is such a clumsy liar survive in a lying business? Or check this: "Unlike the Demonrats, New Gingrich recognized his hypocrisy and was run out/excluded from the political posts." Most fifth-graders can write a more coherent sentence with less effort. He doesn't have a good enough intuition for English to know when to use the definite article. He isn't bright enough to understand that self-recognition is a necessary component of hypocrisy, that it can't exist without recognizing itself. He can't decide between "run out" and "excluded" because neither is true and yet neither has anything to do with Newt recognizing his hypocrisy-- so to solve the meaninglessness of each word he uses them both! I mean, folks, we're dealing with a moron here. This poor yahoo can't string three words together without tying himself in knots. And yet there is no topic that he can restrain himself from blathering about, from how to find Saturn by first locating Orion's belt to military tactics tailored to whatever fantasyland he imagines is on the other side of the mountain. A ridiculous, strutting, empty-headed fool. Someone to laugh at, nothing more.
patriot
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 21:49:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why was Newt kicked out of the club?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 21:44:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: So how long a wait before an attempt to validate his existence by telling you how much he's worth, how much he's done, how much he knows, how great he is, etc. etc.?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 21:24:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete is lying as usual. Workers at Jobs for the Retarded are neither a) considered self-employed or b) charged $900/month for health care insurance.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 21:02:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: If we want the Arabs to like us, how long do we have to keep Pete and Glint hidden?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 20:10:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bob Packood effectively works behind the scenes sometimes to make sure that our message is heard.
Poppy Bush, 1991 - I'll say he worked behind the scenes
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:59:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, but they kick you out of the club if you threaten to sing.
Bob Packwood
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:53:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: You never lose your membership in the club. Regardless of recognizing your hypocrisy.
Bob Livingston
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:47:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Newt is a frequent guest on my show. I love the guy, although I recognize his hypocrisy. I also like to have Ollie North, Liddy Abrams and Poindexter drop by for a chat. Great fellows! I, of course, recognize their hypocrisy and criminal convictions.
Sean Hannity
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:25:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gingrich recognized his hypocrisy? Really?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:21:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unlike the Demonrats, New Gingrich recognized his hypocrisy and was run out/excluded from the political posts. He is not in power any more. This is something called a "distinction." Something a liberal demonrat neither knows or earns. Ever. Oh, and I pay about $900 per month for family coverage as a self employed individual. If you don't like it, move to Canada.
Pete�
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:06:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't believe the Beastie Boys are against the war. Where does Iggy stand on the question?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:03:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy walks frumpy way because was down in Crawford, tried to wipe ass with corn-cob. Didn't know what it was.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 19:00:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, it won't be the only inspectors who have actually FOUND WMD before. Who needs 'em?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:59:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: all the better to plant them, my dear! but--they won't be naughty UN inspectors! they'll be bush's butt-boys! ha ha
le wolf
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:53:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: One of the more amusing bits of news is that Snippy wants to send in MORE WEAPONS INSPECTORS to look for WMD. How very French of him, ou�?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:36:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: so under the bushist fascist war and poverty regime, the employed don't have health care, and the unemployed don't have health care. a small minority--with an independent income--can afford the 10 to 12 thousand dollars a year that health care costs (which may be more) can have it, maybe, if they can find a group to accept them. if they are sick, they can't. got that? health care as a luxury item. basic health care as a rolls royce. only for the few, and screw the rest of the grown up embryos.
if the poor have no bread, why, let them eat cake!
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:30:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, it was a war of liberation, that's the ticket! Despite the fact that Snippy kept saying there would be no war (and hence no liberation) if Saddam got rid of the tons of WMD we can't find.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:29:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: U.S. empty-handed in Iraq search for weapons of mass destruction Posted on Saturday, April 26 @ 09:40:23 EDT (1313 reads) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No proof of Powell's arms claims By Walter Pincus, San Francisco Chronicle Washington -- The United States has yet to find weapons of mass destruction at any of the locations that Secretary of State Colin Powell cited in his key presentation to the United Nations Security Council in February, according to U.S. officials. Powell's speech on Feb. 5 signaled the end of the Bush administration's support of continued U.N. weapons inspections and set the stage for military action by providing information that he said showed Iraq was in continued violation of Security Council resolutions that required it to disarm. He told the council he was sharing "what the United States knows about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as well as Iraq's involvement in terrorism." In the 38 days since U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq, however, military forces have yet to produce any of the weaponry or chemical or biological agents Powell described, nor have they produced Iraqi scientists with evidence about them, officials said.
we lied. so we lied. we don't give a shit about the 400K we killed.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:25:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The worm always turns. Sure, your corporations aren't offerring health care these days. Many of the corporations are on the skids due to the Bush Economy. It's always during times of growth (i.e. Democratic government) that corporations become competitive again and realize they need workers. That's when they find a need to offer benefits. Employer-paid health benefits is a product of good times, not Republican times.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:17:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tortured Ugandan Political Prisoner Wishes Uganda Had Oil KAMPALA, UGANDA�A day after having his hands amputated by soldiers backing President Yoweri Museveni's brutal regime, Ugandan political prisoner Otobo Ankole expressed regret Monday over Uganda's lack of oil reserves. "I dream of the U.S. one day fighting for the liberation of the oppressed Ugandan people," said Ankole as he nursed his bloody stumps. "But, alas, our number-one natural resource is sugar cane." Ankole, whose wife, parents, and five children were among the 4,000 slaughtered in Uganda's ethnic killings of 2002, then bowed his head and said a prayer for petroleum.
sorry! only liberating oil people!
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:16:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ted Turner said on Thursday too few people owned too many media organizations and called rival media baron Rupert Murdoch a warmonger for what he said was Murdoch's promotion of the U.S. war in Iraq "He's a warmonger," Turner said in an evening speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco of Murdoch, whose News Corp. Ltd. owns the fast-growing Fox News Channel. "He promoted it." Fox News Channel has been the most popular U.S. cable news network during the conflict, trumping AOL Time Warner Inc.'s CNN, which Turner started more than two decades ago and came to prominence with its blanket coverage of the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). Asked by an audience member for his thoughts on Fox's larger ratings share than CNN's, Turner said, "Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better." "It's not how big you are, it's how good you are that really counts," Turner said.
Ted Turner, Only Remaining Republican With a Brain
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:09:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hell, we aren't running a nursery or a hardware store in this country, we're not even running a country. We're running an empire and a corporate free-for-all.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:08:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: If glurps wife can suck at teat of the local school district, who says its morally wrong?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:06:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: oh dear, people round here not getting health care any more. big employers only hiring part time people, so they don't have to pay health care. only people with health care are in very large companies, and even they are screaming about costs. wonder if bill and hillary's little health care card would look pretty damn good to everybody about now. sorry bill and hillary. you were right, those ads were wrong. we all get shafted so health insurance companies can make beeg bucks. every one else can just fucking die. eets bushist fascist way.
the people from the stupid anti-health care card republican ad
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:05:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, asswipe big time so called lawyer, how much you paying monthly for family health insurance? Or are you sucking at the teat of your socialsit state?
Captain Correction
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:02:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: while he Newt Gingrich was viciously denouncing Bill Clinton for a little tryst with an intern, the Newtster had been carrying on an actual adulterous, full-frontal-intercourse affair with a congressional aide some 20 years his junior. His second wife wasn't apparently pleased with the Romeo philandering of Newt, so she filed for divorce. But his second wife should have known she married a guy with a roving jolly stick. After all, Newt notified his first wife that he was divorcing her while she was in the hospital with cancer! Of course, during all the time he was cheating on his second wife, Newt was conducting a slash and burn campaign against Clinton claiming that he lacked moral character! HAW HAW HAW.
newt was using freedom letters at the time?
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:00:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look asswipe socialsit. Health care can come from you paying premiums like everyone else. Get a job and take some responisbility. Those who can't are already covered by state programs and/or welfare. We aren't running a nursery in this country. You ahve to sweat a little to survive in the real world. Stupid loser.
P�
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 18:00:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: So sweet, the Bushist Fascist Defenders of Embryos! Liked it best when they pushed for issuing health cards for all the little embryos! Not helath care cards for the big full term Mommies, but health card for the little embryos! You betcha!
yes, that's the bushist fascist invasion lemmings, they're REALLY for the little people!!
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 17:55:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: W A S H I N G T O N, April 25 � To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House indeed had another reason for war � an imperialist agenda primed as a global show of American power and democracy. �� Officials inside government and advisers outside told the AP the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans. "We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis." Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins.
ETPE SUPPORTS LIAR REGIME BWA HA HA
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 17:53:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Freedom dressing?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 17:25:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: This traitor had salad for lunch, French dressing. Beautiful day, except clouds to the east. All this late rain, good for the mountains but bad for the strawberries and cotton planting.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 17:02:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - The White House urged Congress on Friday to pass a law making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an assault on its mother, a subject currently in the news in connection with a California murder case.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 16:59:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I slipped up and went for breakfast at a French place, La Note. I finished my cappucino, fresh-sqeezed orange juice and was half way done with the lemon ginger pancakes, before it hit me. Tasted too good to stop, so I cleaned my plate. The place was packed with traitors.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 16:44:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Death be not proud, but maybe a little vain is okay. That seems to be the impulse behind WhiteLight's art caskets, customized coffins adorned with scenes such as "Fairway to Heaven," "Gone Fishing," and, for the devoted hair-metal fan, the "Kiss Kasket." Using the same technology that enables advertisers to shrink-wrap photolaminate ads on buses, the 18-gauge plain steel coffins almost appear hand painted. WhiteLight began manufacturing the caskets in 1999 and now offers 37 different designs; the Dallas-based company reports selling 2,500 a year, at approximately $3,000 each.
be frugal, get a can of spray paint and design your own
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 16:19:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Road to War Was Paved With Lies Libertarian CATO Right Takes On the American Enterprise Institute Neo-Con Right 4/28 Iraqi Citizens Angry at U.S. After Disputed Cause of Explosion in a Residential Neighborhood 4/27 Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume Documents Allegedly Discovered Revealing Al Qaeda Link to Saddam, French Betrayal of America. Let's Just Say That It is Interesting that the U.S. Let Journalists Rifle Through Iraqi Intelligence Documents of Such Alleged Importance, As In Planted. 4/27 It Could Only be GunGuys.Com! Ambushed actress dies. Tacoma Police Chief Shoots Wife, Self. Jeb Thanks NRA. 4/28 Support Independent Media! More Bush Cartel Trampling on Dissent Through Strom Thurmond's Son, No Less 4/27 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! U.S officials are holding three terror suspects between the ages of 13 and 15 at the remote Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba 4/27 Key Iraqi Weapons Official Captured. When the U.S. Military Interrogators are Done with this Sap, He'll Confess to Eating the WMD's. 4/28 Some Iraqi civilians were mistakenly targeted while driving white Toyotas 4/27 White House Admits WMD Had Little To Do with Attacking Iraq 4/26 EPA Investigators Perform Personal Tasks for Whitman 4/27 Ashcroft Puts a Muzzle on the Department of Justice 4/27 Politically Incorrect Bill Maher is Author of "When You Ride ALONE, You Ride With Bin Laden." The Newest Sodom Santorum's Man on Dog Action Site U.S. Media Losing Global Respect 4/27 Report: Rebel Leader Promises Thousands of Bin Ladens 4//27 The Bush Legacy: Jobless and Hopeless, Many Quit the Labor Force 4/27 DARE WE REPEAT: THE WHITE HOUSE ADMITS TO ABC NEWS THAT THEY "GINNED UP" THE IRAQ WMD CHARGE 4/2/8 Reposted: Bush Has Quite Expensive Taste When It Comes to Clothes. It's Not What a Working Man Can Afford. No Sirree. Army Snipers Still in Iraq: "Then there's a feeling of exhilaration, and you feel like you've really done something for your country. You've taken someone out." 4/27 Bush Cartel Not Telling Real Costs of the Iraq War and Conquest 4/27 Rolling Back the 20th Century 4/27 Iraqometer 4/27 Things are Getting Mighty Interesting on the Newt Watch: James Baker Blasts Gingrich 4/27 The Bush Legacy: Your Paycheck is Falling 4/27 Molly Ivins: Republicans Take Aim at the 40-Hour Work Week 4/27 The Cooperstown Scandal That Won't Go Away 4/27 Wolfowitz blocked China hosted summit on North Korea in 1980s 4/27 Bush's actions are helping Europe to fashion a new sense of identity 4/27 Democrats Say Bush Tax Plan Won't Help Economy 4/27 Carving up the New Iraq 4/27 Eric Alterman: Bush Goes AWOL 4/27 The Corporate Media False Patriots 4/27 Take Back America on June 4, 5 and 6 in Washington, D.C. All the President's Lies; Bush's rhetoric bears no resemblence to his policies. How does he get away with it? 4/26 Using 9/11 for Partisan Purposes and Buying the Presidency 4/26 It Gets EVEN Scarier: Rumsfeld Takes Advice from Gingrich 4/26 ExxonMobil: Propping Up the "Diabolical" Leaders of the World 4/26 Death by Depleted Uranium 4/26 Reservist Surgeons in Iraq Face Bankruptcy at Home 4/26 Rumsfeld's rejection of Islamic state angers Shias. What did you Mullahs think, that the Bush Cartel is serious about democracy? 4/26 DeLay tells Texas Legislature to Redraw Districts in Favor of Republicans 4/26 The Bush Cartel Scam. Dictate a Highly Suspect Story to an NYT Reporter About an "Unavailable" Scientist Who Says Iraq Destroyed WMD's. Then Bush Implies Saddam Ate the WMD's. Which Brings the Bush WMD Lie to a Full Lie Closure, Aided by the NYT. High Profile, Well-Connected Fund-raiser for GOP pleads guilty in case of child pornography. Maybe He Raised Funds for Rick Santorum. Just asking. Just Another Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Leader With "Moral Clarity" About Kiddie Porn. 4/25 More on Your Republican Kiddie Porn Fundraiser (Apparently a Good Buddy of Ollie North, By the Way). Read Down in Story. 4/25 Eating Their Own: House GOP targeting Grassley as tax villain 4/26 Bush lies and manipulates public and Congress 4/26
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 15:43:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G. may be a complete fraud to Pete, but you can't argue with her searing wit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 14:52:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Would appear this page mimics the emptiness of the dark zone at the edge of he universe
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 14:27:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: �The idea that there is one people in possession of the truth, One answer to the world�s ills, Or one solution to humanity�s needs, Has done untold harm throughout history.� United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan
that fraudulent L.G. does have a way with words
- Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 02:43:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry, L.G., but you are a complete fraud.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 22:43:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: A more sensible way of exiting would be to take a seat on a tusk of that Republican elephant and let Dumbo carry him off into the sunset.
totin' his rifle
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 22:24:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: So who made the Beasties Boys experts?
Sean Hannity
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 19:46:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030424/music_nm/music_beasties_dc_1
Traitors
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 19:38:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030425/ap_en_tv/tv_rooney_s_war_5
Traitor
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 19:35:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Springsteen has always been a socialist traitor and it hasn't hurt him a bit. He needs to be arrested.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 18:36:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Dixie Chicks are Getting a Raw Deal... by Bruce Springsteen The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves. To me, they're terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about - namely freedom. Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create freedom in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home. I don't know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support.
all you loyal patriots going to trash his albums next?
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 13:24:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, cum clean Jism-Boy.
Dixie Chick
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 11:49:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll come clean with a confession. I did download some Dixie Chicks. Wanted to hear their remake of Landslide. What shall I do? Should I clear the bits that represent the music, or would it hurt them more if I downloaded more of their music for free?
Glint
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 09:45:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: How's the water? Snowing?
Glint
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 09:26:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dixie chick's - possessive what?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 03:11:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's what happens when you haven't been around women for a long while. Similar effect one gets with increasing alcohol consumption. Difference between a dog and a fox. For the Dixie chick's, that's about 27 beers.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 23:14:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you have the name of that soldier?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 22:59:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah yes, traitors. Even though the soldier stationed in Iraq said he'd go see them in a New York minute.
he must be a traitor too
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 22:37:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, the Dixie Chicks. I forgot about them. They're traitors, right? I've compiled a long list of traitors and sometimes I lose track. Anyway, they deserve the chair.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 21:41:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ohhhh, need a road map?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 21:02:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 20:42:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pro war people can't be concerned whether there are WMD found in Iraq. They have their own WMD right here in this country, one of the Dixie Chicks. Many would like to cast her into the dark zone at the edge of the universe. And wearing peace earrings during interview?
a true patriot would wear cluster bomb earrings
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 19:59:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Friday! Beer day!
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 16:04:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The president believes the senator is an inclusive man. And that's what he believes," Fleischer said.
And he believes it because he believes it and that's what he believes
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:54:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I surrender.
patriot
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:29:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why does Snippy have such a frumpy look? Maybe it's just the way he walks.
and talks
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:23:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Scott Ritter is one the proud minority that actually voted for Snippy.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:22:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Scott Ritter is a conservative Republican.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:16:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: So that's why Glint flocked to Maryland.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:14:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, it's just more incoherent spitefulness from a guy who doesn't know anything. See, Ritter pisses Glint off because he said there were no WMD in Iraq. Never mind that so far his claims appear to be true. What's important is he dared make a liar out of Snippy.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:13:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Another Maryland Republican perv?" Don't you read what you post before hitting [SEND]? What part of Maryland is Burke, Virginia in, Einstin? It's just that pervs flock to Maryland because the Liberals are so easy to score with.
Glint
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:11:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: You got something on Ritter, Germany-Boy? Spill it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:11:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: When is Scott Ritter going to acknowledge his "short comings?" Did they ever figure out why he wanted to travel to Baghdad before the shooting started? Perhaps he had to pick up his check.
Glint
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:08:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Probation before judgement? That's about as scott free as you can get in Maryland.
Glint
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 15:05:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Republican has moral shortcomings?
surely you jest
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:58:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint Delgaudio?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:54:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: By Allison Klein Sun Staff Originally published April 24, 2003 A prominent Republican fund-raiser who once said former President Bill Clinton was "a lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation's young people" pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court to production of child pornography. Richard Anthony Delgaudio, who was sentenced to two years' probation before judgment, admitted to taking lewd photographs of a 16-year-old girl he met in East Baltimore's Patterson Park in 2001. In some of the photos, he was engaged in sex with her, court records show. Delgaudio, 50, of Burke, Va., is a frequent talk-radio guest and national figure in conservative politics. He is president of the Legal Affairs Council, a group that helped pay the legal bills of former Reagan administration officials Oliver L. North and Caspar W. Weinberger after they were charged in connection with the Iran-contra affair. In his pornography case, there was additional evidence that Delgaudio took erotic images of at least one other, younger teen-ager, but that evidence was not admissible in court because police improperly stopped and searched Delgaudio, a judge ruled. Largely because of that, prosecutor Adam C. Rosenberg offered Delgaudio a plea agreement, rather than taking the case to a jury. "This is a satisfying outcome because it ends a lot of legal issues," Rosenberg said. In yesterday's ruling, Judge John M. Glynn ordered Delgaudio to stay away from Patterson Park and the neighboring Butchers Hill area. The judge also publicly acknowledged Delgaudio's humiliation. "Mr. Delgaudio has been very active in the state of Virginia and around the country. He was a respected member of the community," Glynn said. "This type of thing is a mortifying experience." Delgaudio thanked the judge for his "good work." He is not able to appeal because of the conditions of the plea agreement. After the hearing, Delgaudio - who is also an author of political books - refused to comment about his case. In a letter to the judge, Delgaudio's attorneys - Bruce Fein and Howard L. Cardin - wrote that he was remorseful and did not know the girls were underage. "He acknowledges the acute moral shortcomings of his conduct, and he will continue intense self-examination and professional and spiritual counseling," the lawyers wrote in the letter, dated yesterday. Cardin also said he did not want to speak about the case after yesterday's hearing but described his client as "brilliant and eloquent." Delgaudio, who has no prior record, was arrested in November 2001 with a book of obscene photographs he had taken of 15- and 16-year-old girls, according to court documents. The teen-agers went with him on several occasions to a hotel on Pulaski Highway, where they had sex and he paid them to pose in erotic positions for his camera, records show. The girls told Delgaudio their ages, according to police. As part of his restitution to the community, his attorney said Delgaudio would contribute $5,000 to "young mothers who are in distress and in need."
Another Maryland Republican perv
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:49:52 (EDT)

My two cents are:

False squash face at 13:55, 14:02, 14:06 and 14:10. I would never implicate a family member for federal offenses I may or may not have committed myself. Besides, Pete�s the one who gave me the program and told me which songs to download. - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:22:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Galloway has vehemently denied he accepted any cash payments from the regime, initially, suggesting the documents may have been forged. The outspoken Labour Party member called earlier Daily Telegraph stories about his dealings a "smear campaign" against war opponents, and his lawyers have initiated legal proceedings against the newspaper. David Blair, the British reporter who first broke the story, told the BBC: "I think it would require an enormous amount of imagination to believe that someone went to the trouble of composing a forged document in Arabic and then planting it in a file of patently authentic documents and burying it in a darkened room on the off-chance that a British journalist might happen upon it and might bother to translate it. That strikes me as so wildly improbable as to be virtually inconceivable."
of course liberals will believe anything, such as buying into the belief that the dried cum on the dress was a "smear" campaign by the v.r.w.c.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:12:07 (EDT)

My two cents are:

We�re all going to miss Poe, but that�s what happens when you mess with American industry. - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:10:53 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Meanwhile, I keep a framed picture of Hillary Rosen by my side of the bed. - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:06:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: One of Her Majesty's leftist traitors? I wonder how many of our own were on the take, receiving proceeds from the oil for food sales?
Glint
SECRET DEAL: Documents signed by Saddam Hussein's son authorize $3 million for the British member of Parliament, George Galloway. Mr. Galloway of the Labour Party, at a Baghdad conference, above, challenged Tony Blair to name Iraq's alleged sites of weapons of mass destruction. Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:04:40 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Lately, Poe�s been wondering why I keep giving her Kraftwerk t-shirts and CTA posters. - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 14:02:49 (EDT)

My two cents are:

If worse comes to worse, I�ll just wind up blaming the kids, as I do for all my life�s screw ups. - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 13:55:52 (EDT)

My two cents are:

It's actually a double whammy. Not only is the music copyrighted, but it's a bootleg copy of the downloading service's subscriber client app. To top it off, it's downloading over a free trial internet subscription service. The CD's themselves cost about 10-15¢ apiece. What's not to like? - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 13:51:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm so scared I'm going to start downloading Jailhouse rock!
Glint
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 13:46:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that a glint in their eyes?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 13:43:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Judge Says ISP Must Name Downloaders Fri Apr 25, 9:00 AM ET Grant Gross, IDG News Service WASHINGTON-- A U.S. federal judge has again sided with the recording industry in its efforts to subpoena the name of a music downloader, upholding a portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that requires Internet service providers to turn over names of alleged copyright infringers.
RIAA on a ... Roll?
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 13:40:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I have been struck that many people who are liberals, not only leftists, have forgotten their own traditions. What has happened is a shortening of historical memory of liberals and the Left on both sides of the Atlantic so that their primary memory of American war making is Vietnam. World War II and the victory over Nazism is ancient history for them. Because they now, in effect, oppose most, in some cases, all uses of American military power, they oppose it even when the enemy, such as Saddam's Iraq, is a regime which really does deserve a chapter in the modern history of fascism and totalitarianism. We used to say that anti-anticommunism was the cause of leftist opposition to American military intervention. In this case, the opposition continued even when the enemy regime offered nothing but terror and war to its citizens and neighbors and was an anti-Semitic regime to boot."
Jeffrey Herf, a professor of Modern European History at the University of Maryland
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 13:02:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's getting really creative! That dinar he found shows he's got an original mind, at least!
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 12:23:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: What? Oh, yeah, snow swimming. Just part of the job. One of the reasons I never became a modem honcho outside the bubble. Glad you had the groovy experience, though.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 11:48:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..

Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 11:46:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: After ignoring the story for five days, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was finally forced to respond Thursday night to an allegation that she fabricated records of meetings with families of 9/11 victims - after Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly broke the mainstream media embargo on what some are calling the most serious charge ever lodged against the scandal-scarred former first lady. In a statement obtained by "The O'Reilly Factor," Sen. Clinton's spokesman Phillipe Reines attacked author-publisher Steven Brill, who alleged on Sunday that Sen. Clinton had lied about her role in helping 9/11 families - then had her office generate phony documents to back those lies up. "Brill's accusations are completely false and an obvious last ditch effort to jump-start anemic book sales," Reines said, referring to Brill's just-released book, "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era." "It's hard to understand why Mr. Brill would choose to exploit such a horrible tragedy in this manner," the Clinton spokesman added. On Sunday Brill told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg that Sen. Clinton's office tried to grossly exaggerate her role in helping the families of 9/11 victims. "They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened," the author-publisher alleged. He described the Clinton account as "an elaborate story, with an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls - a long, long story." But, he charged, "none of it turned out to be true."
Clinton legacy of lying refuses to die
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 11:39:45 (EDT)

My two cents are:

I've swam while snow descended in the outdoors. In Glenwood Springs, CO. Big outdoor hot springs pool in the middle of town. Probably would have been a trip even without the lysergic acid diethylamide. - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 11:10:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: O.K. Greaaaat.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 10:56:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gonna leave in a few minutes, go up north, get a workboat we got lent out, take it to the freehold. Come back Sunday, drop by the sawmill site and take a dip in the river, see what the chinook are up to. Let's see, weather is Today Snow or rain. Snow level near 3000 feet with additional accumulation 3 to 5 inches. Highs 45 to 55. Tonight Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level near 3000 feet with additional accumulation 1 inch or less. Lows 30 to 40. Saturday Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level 3000 feet rising to 3500 feet. Highs 45 to 55. Saturday Night Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level near 3500 feet. Lows 30 to 40. Sunday Cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level 3500 feet rising to 4500 feet. Highs 45 to 55. Sunday Night Rain or snow likely. Snow level near 4500 feet. Lows 35 to 45. Nothing like swimming under a snowfall, makes a guy feel alive.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 10:42:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Old Europe. Step aside, graybeard. Bulgaria is coming.
Rumsfeld
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 10:36:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looting is act of socialism and letting it happen US created 24 million socialist. Of which 60 per cent are friendly shia fundamentals. There is only one way to liberate them and they like it too. They have also lots of relatives in Iran. Going home?
European
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 05:24:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete came out of the institutions, and he turned out OK, with his breezy style and mighty pea-shooter. (01)
Glint
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 02:58:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Juvenile detention facilities in the U.S. were recently found by federal investigators to show a "pattern of egregious conditions." Violations of incarcerated children's rights included physical abuse, excessive use of discipline, overcrowded and unsafe conditions, inadequate educational, medical and mental health services.
snippy motto: do as we say not as we do
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 00:29:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Carp, bottom feeders.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 00:10:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: This has been neat. Pete lets himself be played like a carp on a hook. Thrash, Carp! Fart and blow! Dance on your tail across the foam! Pete the carp.
patriot
- Friday, April 25, 2003 at 00:03:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mecca. First we carpet-bomb Mecca.
Pea Shooter Pete
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 23:58:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds great. Osama's country is Saudi Arabia and there were a bunch of Egyptians. Who do we carpet-bomb first?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 23:57:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Generalissima Annthrax
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 22:50:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: will he stop at nothing?
terrified of the pea-shooter
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:49:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Help, I'm being bombarded with reports of Ann Coulter lectures at college Republican clubs! This is getting vicious!
The Liberals
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:43:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: You go on up ahead there, Ann. I'll be right behind you.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:41:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ann is exaggerating about the mushroom cloud, it's just her well-known comic effect wizardry. What she really meant was that because of their dishonest political agendas some Democrats would have opposed invading Iraq unless there was some evidence of a reason to do so.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:40:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: The humorous part is where he says he will join any war Ann wants to start. Where is the proviso about the lottery number being low enough? Is he treating Generalissima Coulter the same way he treated his Uncle Sam?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:36:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aided by Ann Coulter, Pete once again breezes by for the sport of it, hits a few shots, then rolls away. Some people walk a dog, others do macrame. Pete just likes to line up the liberals on a line then fire his pea shooter.
The mighty pea-shooter has roared again!
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:33:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: We OWN Iraq, dimbulb. You idiots don't see that Iraqi oil flowing freely to Texas and hte tax cut stimulis will make us all rich ecxept the socialsits who don't beleive in the work ehtic and production. Filnally all hte socialsits scumbags ahr on hte run and if htey come back we get htem as soon as we ahve destoryd Syria and Lebanaon and Iran and socialsit countries of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and Kwuhait and Trucial Oman and Turkye. It is sad really the naysayers will be dealt a blow forever I am NOT STUPID!d
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:29:15 (EDT)

My two cents are:

ANNE KNOWS THE TRUTH ABOUT LIBERAL SLIME AND I WILL JOIN ANY WAR SHE WANTS TO START TO ERADICATE THESE F*CKERS FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH: Conservative political analyst Ann Coulter, brought to the University as a guest of student government, called liberals "traitors" in front of a packed room of students in the Memorial Union on Wednesday. More than 75 students turned out for her speech entitled "Liberalism & Terrorism: Different Stages of the Same Disease." Associated Students of ASU, ASU College Republicans and Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute sponsored the author and conservative columnist's visit. Coulter said the Democrats asked for too much evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before invading Iraq on the basis of dishonest political agendas. "There would have to be a mushroom cloud over Manhattan" before the Democrats would have committed to sending troops to Iraq, Coulter said. Coulter also called for racial profiling of Muslims to ward off future terrorist attacks. She said Muslim extremists were responsible for all terrorist attacks during the past 20 years. "When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile," Coulter said. "It is a description of a suspect." "Blaming liberals for terrorism is half-true," one student said. "We allied with a lot of unsavory characters to defeat the Soviet Union," Coulter said. Christina Corieri, vice president of the ASU College Republicans, said she hoped students heard "another viewpoint" by listening to Coulter. "There have been several liberal teach-ins in the past few months on campus," Corieri said. "We wanted to bring a conservative view on campus." Coulter also said the "liberal media," such as MSNBC, CNN and The Washington Post, have misrepresented her in the past. "Never believe anything I am alleged to have said unless it's in a book or a column or you've heard me say it." - Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:21:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Iraq is going to hell. Shiites are killing Sunnis, Kurds are killing Arabs and Islamists are killing secular Baathists. Baghdad, the cradle of human civilization, has been left to looters and rapists. As in Beirut during the '70s, neighborhood zones are separated by checkpoints manned by armed tribesmen. The war has, however, managed to unite Iraqis in one respect: everyone loathes the United States.
we already rolled and look at the untidiness
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:16:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: It is a sad world when the liberals beleive those who possess the truth are simply confused. No, this attack on reason with the lies of the left can only end with all out war. I say we kill every last one of these scumbags. Nothing else will save the country from self-immolation. Let's roll.
Pet�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 21:12:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone have any believable theories on how Pete got so confused? Was he beaten a lot by his adoptive parents? It is more common than generally known. Is it compensation for the shame he felt when lectured by the priest about his masturbation? What is it that gets a man so overwrought about things that do not affect him one way or the other? What was Pete like ten years ago? A normal schmoe trying again to pass English Composition? My working hypothesis is that he was for most of his life uninterested in anything but daytime forensic television, and in the question of whether or not he was really queer. What changed him? Simple: he heard Rush Limbaugh snorting out derision on the radio and had an epiphany. The rest is history.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:29:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Great. Pete's going to chain himself to a tree. Next thing he'll wear a nipple ring to the Carrol County Young Republicans meeting and be stomped to death by frightened Rotarians.
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- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:19:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: When you cool down, it is easy to see that Eisentower is right on. Stalin was not a socialist, or even a communist, but what I would call a militant Russian imperialist, of the totalitarian stripe. That he got there by going left is sad but true. Hitler, on the other hand was right-wing authoritarianism taken a bit further than in most western countries. An equivalent of Naziism has always existed in the United States in the Republican party, but has never been as close to a Hitler-style putsch as it is now, with a weak puppet president fronting a central group of powerful fascists, and with odd right-wing lunatics such as John Ashcroft playing the roles of the various madmen who surrounded Hitler. Nixon, although he was a Republican who ran a lawless administration, was essentially without political beliefs, and cannot be identifed as anything but sui generis, a "wild hair" in the tufted fundament of history.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:15:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am ashamed to have Pete sitting to the right of me.
Saddam Hussein
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:05:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, Eisentower's full of it. Stalin was a socialist of the worst ilk. A rotten, stinking socialist. I am ashamed to have him sitting to the left of me.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:05:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not the name, Ri Gun. Reagan?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:00:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - North Korea's lead official at nuclear weapons talks in China acknowledged to a U.S. envoy that his country has nuclear weapons and said whether Pyongyang tests, exports or uses its bombs depends on U.S. actions, a senior U.S. official said Thursday. The comment was made by North Korean delegate Ri Gun to Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly during a social gathering Wednesday after formal discussions on the North's nuclear weapons program.
holy shit!
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 20:00:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete noticed that I didn't say Stalin wasn't a socialist. Perceptive fellow, that Pete.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:59:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://wwww.bushoccupation.com/GWbush_resume.pdf
snippy's resume
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:41:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's harsh.
but true
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:34:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, Pete, if anyone's a traitor, it's you. You've never lifted a finger to help this country, you whine like a baby about your taxes, you do not believe in our system of justice. You wail and stomp you foot because those who oppose your fascist views have not been arrested or summarily executed. You're a racist, a sexist and an arrogant, fat prick.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:20:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Your mind is boggled, Pete? No shit.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:17:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cowardly demonrats always agree with anti-reason. Reason enough to be anti-liberal. The lengths these slime go to lie, dodge and foment socialsit agendas is simply mind-boggling. Be ever vigilant for the enemy is right there with these traitors.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:04:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: CANBERRA (Reuters) - Three Australian teenagers were ordered on Thursday to work for free in an animal hospital after being found guilty of drunkenly bashing to death 10 quokkas -- small marsupials unique to Rottnest island off Western Australia. Fremantle Children's Court heard that the protected marsupials, which resemble a large, furry squirrel with a rat's tail, died of multiple trauma injuries.
Even the Rottenest can no longer harm an animal. Wonder where these people were the last 400 thousand years!
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 19:02:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I find everything Eisentower says to be reasonable and true, regardless of the fact others have plagiarized his material.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 18:48:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dr. Milt weighs in with another plagiarized "argument" from a left wing apologist. These boys are really scared of the truth: http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 18:23:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Socialsit revisionism. Typical infiltration anti-reason by the liars on the left. Hitler established the ultimate state controlled, anti-capitalist totaliatarian regime. So did Stalin and otehr State controlled redistibutive anti-fee enterprise states. No matter how the left tries to distance itself, redefine reality and lie, these creatures were all socailsits. Exactly the same thing advocated from scum like Cliton, Gore, Rangel, Boxer and the other assorted loser/traitors who call themselves Democrat. The true enemies of America.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 18:19:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: To most people, Hitler's beliefs belong to the extreme far right. For example, most conservatives believe in patriotism and a strong military; carry these beliefs far enough, and you arrive at Hitler's warring nationalism. This association has long been something of an embarrassment to the far right. To deflect such criticism, conservatives have recently launched a counter-attack, claiming that Hitler was a socialist, and therefore belongs to the political left, not the right. The primary basis for this claim is that Hitler was a National Socialist. The word "National" evokes the state, and the word "Socialist" openly identifies itself as such. However, there is no academic controversy over the status of this term: it was a misnomer. Misnomers are quite common in the history of political labels. Examples include the German Democratic Republic (which was neither) and Vladimir Zhirinovsky's "Liberal Democrat" party (which was also neither). The true question is not whether Hitler called his party "socialist," but whether or not it actually was. In fact, socialism has never been tried at the national level anywhere in the world. This may surprise some people -- after all, wasn't the Soviet Union socialist? The answer is no. Many nations and political parties have called themselves "socialist," but none have actually tried socialism. To understand why, we should revisit a few basic political terms. Perhaps the primary concern of any political ideology is who gets to own and control the means the production. This includes factories, farmlands, machinery, etc. Generally there have been three approaches to this question. The first was aristocracy, in which a ruling elite owned the land and productive wealth, and peasants and serfs had to obey their orders in return for their livelihood. The second is capitalism, which has disbanded the ruling elite and allows a much broader range of private individuals to own the means of production. However, this ownership is limited to those who can afford to buy productive wealth; nearly all workers are excluded. The third (and untried) approach is socialism, where everyone owns and controls the means of production, by means of the vote. As you can see, there is a spectrum here, ranging from a few people owning productive wealth at one end, to everyone owning it at the other. Socialism has been proposed in many forms. The most common is social democracy, where workers vote for their supervisors, as well as their industry representatives to regional or national congresses. Another proposed form is anarcho-socialism, where workers own companies that would operate on a free market, without any central government at all. As you can see, a central planning committee is hardly a necessary feature of socialism. The primary feature is worker ownership of production. The Soviet Union failed to qualify as socialist because it was a dictatorship over workers -- that is, a type of aristocracy, with a ruling elite in Moscow calling all the shots. Workers cannot own or control anything under a totalitarian government. In variants of socialism that call for a central government, that government is always a strong or even direct democracy� never a dictatorship. It doesn't matter if the dictator claims to be carrying out the will of the people, or calls himself a "socialist" or a "democrat." If the people themselves are not in control, then the system is, by definition, non-democratic and non-socialist. And what of Nazi Germany? The idea that workers controlled the means of production in Nazi Germany is a bitter joke. It was actually a combination of aristocracy and capitalism. Technically, private businessmen owned and controlled the means of production. The Nazi "Charter of Labor" gave employers complete power over their workers. It established the employer as the "leader of the enterprise," and read: "The leader of the enterprise makes the decisions for the employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise." The employer, however, was subject to the frequent orders of the ruling Nazi elite. After the Nazis took power in 1933, they quickly established a highly controlled war economy under the direction of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Like all war economies, it boomed, making Germany the second nation to recover fully from the Great Depression, in 1936. (The first nation was Sweden, in 1934. Following Keynesian-like policies, the Swedish government spent its way out of the Depression, proving that state economic policies can be successful without resorting to dictatorship or war.) Prior to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, worker protests had spread all across Germany in response to the Great Depression. During his drive to power, Hitler exploited this social unrest by promising workers to strengthen their labor unions and increase their standard of living. But these were empty promises; privately, he was reassuring wealthy German businessmen that he would crack down on labor once he achieved power. Historian William Shirer describes the Nazi's dual strategy: "The party had to play both sides of the tracks. It had to allow [Nazi officials] Strasser, Goebbels and the crank Feder to beguile the masses with the cry that the National Socialists were truly 'socialists' and against the money barons. On the other hand, money to keep the party going had to be wheedled out of those who had an ample supply of it." Once in power, Hitler showed his true colors by promptly breaking all his promises to workers. The Nazis abolished trade unions, collective bargaining and the right to strike. An organization called the "Labor Front" replaced the old trade unions, but it was an instrument of the Nazi party and did not represent workers. According to the law that created it, "Its task is to see that every individual should be able� to perform the maximum of work." Workers would indeed greatly boost their productivity under Nazi rule. But they also became exploited. Between 1932 and 1936, workers wages fell, from 20.4 to 19.5 cents an hour for skilled labor, and from 16.1 to 13 cents an hour for unskilled labor. Yet workers did not protest. This was partly because the Nazis had restored order to the economy, but an even bigger reason was that the Nazis would have cracked down on any protest. There was no part of Nazism, therefore, that even remotely resembled socialism.
Dr. Milton T. Eisentower, PhD.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 18:07:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: The upcoming weekend is green. Astronomers here have adopted a highway, and will be cleaning it Saturday as part of our Earth Day observation. After wards, we'll brunch at a restaurant in our "district" and give them an offer they can't refuse w.r.t. the trash thrown out on the highway by their lighting fixtures. Then onto the tree committee, where I will be speaking. Sunday, free planetarium programs for the public as part of the Earth Day activities on a county level. Let's just say I'm going under cover for a while, like a covert op in a naked parade of human shields. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:59:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, sorry excuse for a faux patriot, no matter how hard you try to distance yourself from other failed socialists, the truth (don't wince) is that Saddam himself termed his Baath part as socialist. Heck, even Osama called him a socialist. What else do you call the nationalized handout system (ie Democrat Party's wet dream) that was Iraq under Saddam. Yes, it was very very socialsit. All fialed regimes are, in one extreme or another. And yes, Hitler did in fact say: "We are national socialists, enemies of the capitalistic system." Even if all he had said was "we are enemies of the capitalistic system," it would all still equate with socialsim. I notice you don't even try with Stalin and the other miserable failure European socialist regimes you wish America mimicked. Fortunately, we have been able to marginalize the sickness that is your scum to the point of extinction just by pointing out your lies, hypocrisy treason and failed socialism. Praise God!
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:39:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Overgrootvader en grootvader Bush hebben het goed uitgekiend. Via Brown Brothers & Harriman investeren ze in nazi-Duitsland, via de UBC-bank van Thyssen krijgen ze de bewapeningswinsten terug in de Verenigde Staten. De winsten lopen in 1934 op tot honderden miljoenen die ook naar Rotterdam en New York vloeien. In New York is Prescott Bush ondertussen managing director van UBC. "De familie Bush wist zeer goed dat Brown Brothers het Amerikaanse geldkanaal naar nazi-Duitsland was en dat de Union Bank de geheime pijplijn was om het nazi-geld via Nederland opnieuw naar Amerika te brengen", schrijft John Loftus, voormalig procureur van het US Departement Nazi War Crimes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:34:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Op 1 mei 1926 besluit George Walker het vice-presidentschap van Harriman & Co aan zijn schoonzoon te geven, Prescott Bush, grootvader van George W. Bush jr. In 1931 fusioneert Harriman & Co met een Britse investeringsmaatschappij. Brown Brothers & Harriman verkrijgt een belangrijk aandeel in de Poolse mijnindustrie, de Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation. Twee derde daarvan is in het bezit van Friedrich Flick, (6) lid van de 'Vriendenkring' van Heinrich Himmler. Hij gebruikt een deel van zijn winsten om de terroristische Schutzstaffel (S.S.) te financieren.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:33:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: De familie Bush speelde een centrale rol in het financieren en bewapenen van Adolf Hitler voor zijn machtsovername in Duitsland. Ze hielp de kanonnenfabrikanten de nazi-oorlogsmachine op te bouwen. In de eerste oorlogsjaren streek de familie Bush de winst op van de slavenarbeid in de ertsmijnen van Auschwitz. Ze hielp de theorie van de 'raszuiverheid' ontwikkelen. De banden van de familie Bush met nazi-Duitsland.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:33:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: "We cannot make a comparison between the Iraqi and the Iranian people... the characteristics of the Iraqi people are different to those of Iranian people," he said. "We should not make a copy of the Iranian revolution and establish it in Iraq." Hakim said there could be a separation of church and state in Iraq, unlike in his host country Iran. "Religious leaders are from the people and they must carry out their responsibilities," he said. "(But) it is not very necessary for the Iraqi regime to be in the hands of religious people. It all depends on the will of the Iraqi people." Hakim denied there was a rift between himself and Ayatollah Ali Sistani, another senior Iraqi Shiite cleric who has advocated a secular system in Iraq. Sistani's house was besieged by rival hardliners in the holy city of Najaf last week. "There is no problem between myself and Ayatollah Sistani, on the contrary, we have the greatest respect for one another." Hakim said he planned to return to Iraq "in the very near future". Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have filled the holy city of Karbala this week in a show of strength marked by chants of "Yes to Islam, no to America" raising worries in Washington of a rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iraq. Hakim, stroking his grey beard, played down such fears. "In these marches the Iraqi people want to say they are able to manage their affairs themselves," he said. "I believe the Iraqi people have no enmity, no hostility toward any other side or country, they only want freedom, security, justice and independence."
the head mullah likes GWB
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:31:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kennedy said all that in an off the record interview? I also believe he claimed fire was a liquid. Off the record, of course, but take it from me.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:31:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...planning to invade with his Bible-banging friends.
post eater?
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:27:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Eden was in Iraq -- Adam and Eve were created in Iraq -- Satan made his first recorded appearance in Iraq -- Nimrod established Babylon and the Tower of Babel was built in Iraq -- The confusion of the languages took place in Iraq -- Abraham came from a city in Iraq -- Isaac's bride came from Iraq -- Jacob Spent 20 years in Iraq -- The first world Empire was in Iraq -- The greatest revival in history was in a city in Iraq -- The events of the book of Esther took place in Iraq -- The book of Nahum was a prophecy against a city in Iraq -- Nahum The book of Revelation has prophecies against Babylon, which was the old name for the nation of Iraq --
This is the country that Franklin Graham is planning to
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:24:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which do you enjoy most, Pete when he's foaming at the mouth, or Glint when he's foaming at the mouth? I like Pete because he's so predictable, especially if you've checked Limbaugh. But Glint is also interesting because he has a few curve balls, like the Dark Sky thing and strange new hatreds that pop out now and again.
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- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:22:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Gig", huh. I wish one or both of the dynamic duo would post something. We're running out of straight lines.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:15:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: This grease fire gig has legs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:13:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not to worry. Even if grease splattered your way, slime shouldn't ignite.
safe on the sidelines
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:05:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Intellectual sloth? Glint? Pete? Hey, you're talking about a guy who dives deep in the pickle jar, and a fellow who is always questioning, questioning. For example, is a nuclear bomb as destructive as an airplane crashing into a building? And they both study up on Limbaugh, and are deep into Hannity. I don't think we can hurl charges of intellectual sloth at these two fellas, no sir, we got what amounts to a Brain Trust here.
Gibb
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:03:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: The jism on Glint's monitor post 14:44:57 passes the code. (01)
Snowball Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 17:01:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Grease fire? Oh, I get it, I think. The Dixie Chick is greasy, right? There's a bellylaugh for you.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 16:59:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're afraid of starting a grease fire.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 16:54:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why don't the pro Snippy people just bind the Dixie Chick to a stake and brand a big T on her forehead? Then burn her.
sounds familiar
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 16:47:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: These lamers bother because they are dumb. Stupid. Slow in the noggin. Not too bright. And of course they compound it with ignorance nurtured in great wellsprings of intellectual sloth.
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- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 16:42:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here we have a pathetic attempt to equate a "defeatist" Joe Kennedy with one of Hitler's bankers, a man who was sanctioned for financial support of the Third Reich. Coulteresque, but Coulter would find a better tag line than the feigned confusion with Prescott Bush. Sometimes one wonders why these lamers bother.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 16:36:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: In February of 1941, the elder Kennedy submitted his resignation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as ambassador and thus ended any hopes of a political career. Author Ronald Kessler, in his book entitled "Sins of the Father," wrote Kennedy believed the Jews had "brought on themselves" whatever Hitler had wrought. Kessler wrote that during a 1938 meeting "Kennedy assured the German ambassador that America only wanted friendly relations with Hitler." "Joe said that Hitler's government had done 'great things' for the country, and that the Germans were 'satisfied' and enjoyed 'good living conditions.' Joe told the ambassador that a recent report which said the limited food in Germany was being reserved for the army could not be true," wrote Kessler in the book.
it was prescott i tell you! PRESCOTT!
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 16:00:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Joseph P. Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and the late president John F. Kennedy's father, was awed by the strength of the Nazi military machine. Like most Americans in 1938, he believed the world's democracies had to co-exist with the Nazis. "The horns of the dilemma are economic chaos and war and any step to prevent either of these is worthwhile taking," Joseph Kennedy was quoted as saying at the time. He further angered the British and many Americans by predicting in a newspaper interview, which he thought was mostly off the record, that democracy was finished in Britain and perhaps in the United States. The remarks caused British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to call Kennedy "a defeatist, an appeaser, pro-Hitler." He also felt that Kennedy should be discredited.
wait a minute! don't they mean prescott?
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:57:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete doesn't think his own thoughts? Whew, that's a relief. I was beginning to think I had signed on with some sort of lunatic! (01)
Glint
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:34:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete? Oh, you mean the satirist!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:34:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, no, no, wrong again, patriot. The way it works is, Limbaugh thinks like Hitler and Pete adopts the Limbaugh thoughts whole. Pete isn't smart enough to think evil thoughts-- he just borrows them and stews in them.
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- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:32:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now it's time for Pete to quote Hitler himself. You remember that one, where Hitler himself SAID he was a socialist. Hitler's word is his bond on Pete's planet.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:31:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't forget the other grandpa, Walker. He too bankrolled Hitler. It's an amazing coincidence that our current president* is descended from not just one, but TWO, Nazi sympathizers.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:30:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Adolf Hitler spent his whole career ridiculing socialism. It is but one of the ways he was a lot like Pete.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:28:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete didn't notice the '80's when they were happening. I think he was too busy fretting about the South American terror universities.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:26:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fun? I didn't sign on for clown duties. Treason is serious business, and if the Dixie Chicks aren't treason nothing is. I will keep working my BPM magic with photos of the Dixie Chicks until they swing. I will not be deterred, not by the UN and Germany, not by Garofolo, not by anything. And I will prevail. I have never lost before and I am not going to lose now, even if I have to bring the cigar suit out of storage. (02)
Glint
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:25:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here we go again with poor Pete. No, pineapple, Hitler was not a socialist, Saddam was not a socialist. Hitler and Saddam were fascists, Nazi, and as such were much admired and respected in their days by the Republican Party. Check your history of the '30's, look into the Prescott Bush affair, ponder the undending line of Republican office-holders who filed by to kiss Saddam's ass in the '80's, think about special envoy Donald Rumsfeld supplying him with the means to produce chemical and biological weapons. Nope, sick man, your sad attempts at revisionism don't wash. You remain the scrofulous uninvited crasher here, the odd man out, the turd in the punch-bowl, the seriously underwhelming air-head. All I can recommend for you is that you keep pushing the brook and listening to the talk radio, and some day a bag of money might fall on you out of the sky and make your life seem worth it all.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:20:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aw, Glint, this is no fun. Why don't you start talking about the UN and Germany again. That would perk things up. The Dixie Chicks pictures are cool but nobody really cares about them. Not like they do about Garofalo and Bing.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:13:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Boom of the '80's? I wish!
George Bush I
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 15:08:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe a deck of cards with photos of most vicious pro war individuals. Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, Coulter.......
Captain Superlative
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:58:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: "You don't go from despotism to freedom on a featherbed."
Thomas Jefferson
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:51:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: TRAITORS

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:44:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: patriot is sure myopic about economic development by the Reagan tax cuts (even in face of a naysaying liberal demonrat Congress and a Cold War to fight and win) which in fact led to the great boom of the 80s and into the 90s. It is the Democrat insoired tax increases and failure to cut in the 90s that has led to a cyclical downturn. One thing is obvious to most "intelligent" Americans. The Reagan/Bush model is much more sane than following redistributive socialsitic policies like those in failed socialsitic countries run by such slime as Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, Mussolini and to a lesser extent France, England and a whole host of other lesser forms of socilaistic countries. No, socialsim as advocated by the demonrats is suicidal. We need to eradicate their treasonous thievery before it is too late.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:43:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: She's the one who said Bush made her embarassed to be an American? She gets on a playing card for that? Doesn't he make every American embarassed?
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:42:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: It doesn't matter who Natalie Maines is. What's important is that someone had the skill to put her picture on a playing card! Now there is a potentially productive capitalist! Should be honchoing a rack of modems somewhere.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:40:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Natalie is a chick who thinks she's from Dixie who is a traitor for aiding the enemy on the eve of war. When liebrals start to open their fat mouths even in country music, it is time to start the revolution to eradicate this slime.

- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:38:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess that Pete's post of 14:14:05 (which passes the code test) is proof that he IS interested in astronomy, no matter what slime spouts from the pie-holes of the Naysayers. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:37:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is Natalie Maines?
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:35:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: A senior White House official, asserted today that Mr. Gingrich's criticism "was seen at the White House as an attack on the president, not an attack on Powell." There was widespread anger at the White House, the official said, but he declined to characterize the reaction of Mr. Bush himself. However, the president is said by Republican politicians to have little love for Mr. Gingrich, going back to Mr. Gingrich's savage attack against Mr. Bush's father for raising taxes, a step that ignited the wrath of conservatives generally. While dismissing Mr. Gingrich's comments, State Department officials said today that they wondered whether Mr. Gingrich might have checked with someone in the administration before launching his attack. The former speaker serves on the Defense Policy Board along with other prominent conservatives and is known to be close to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney.
Is there any wonder why Democrats love the guy?
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:31:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: It is an interesting concept, grading a mock news outfit on how enthusiastically it transmits propaganda. Not that there is anything intrinsically evil about a government presenting a positive picture of its deeds, but from a news organization one expects information, not the party line.
Captain Too Clear for Pete
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:27:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: The latest card in the "Most Wanted" Deck

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:23:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: We patriots don't ignore your Laffer curve at all, pineapple. We just look at the Reagan experiment, which proved it to be so abysmally wrong that even troglodyte economists won't touch it, leaving it to fools like Limbaugh and thus to you.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:22:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aw, come on, give Fox an overall A+. That was some of the best cheerleading we've seen out of a news outfit since the Spanish-American War!
Jingo Starr
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:20:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Get it right 23:32. It is not: "revenues increased by lowering revenues;" but revenues are increased by lowering TAXES, which then lead to more taxable transactions and therefore more economic stimulation/activity. You traitors ignore this because it goes agaisnt your fundamentally misguided socialsitic vein. Power grabs can never admit the error of your ways.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:19:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whoa, Glint is the 11:04 from a shot you took? Beautiful!
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:14:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tendentious self described truthtellers. Hmmm. Sounds like the usual veiled tenesmus from the lying sack of sh*t liberals to me. (01)
Pete�
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:11:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Led by the highly tendentious Peter Jennings, ABC�s reporters presented the most adversarial and negative coverage of the American war effort. Their reporter in Baghdad, Richard Engel, did the most to play up Iraqi claims of civilian suffering at the hands of Americans (see the section on Baghdad reporters), while Jennings � more than any other anchor � zeroed in on purported weaknesses and failings in the U.S. effort to win support among liberated Iraqis. At the same time, ABC�s Ted Koppel used his position as an embedded reporter to issue lectures about U.S. policy (see the section on embedded reporters). The war�s swift and victorious conclusion showed that the self-described truth-tellers at ABC weren�t just sanctimonious � they were wrong.....

Grading TV's War News Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 14:01:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, I mean dickweed. Glint has given up on trying to make us think Pete isn't a dickwad.
Captain Idiomatics
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 13:07:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dickweed? Don't you mean dickwad?
Captain Invective
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 12:59:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sisyphus Glint, forever pushing the boulder that is his attempt to convey an impression that he thinks Pete is anything other than an unwholesome dickweed.
Glint Fan Club
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 12:30:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The notion of seeing Jupiter's moons by holding a stick up to block that mag-4 planet seems to be easy, Glit, for the shallow mind to fathom. That's why the shallow mind, if it is also a foolish and gullible mind, would advance the idea, all proud and flushed with a sense of accomplishment. Pete hasn't lied about "the code?" Evidence?
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 12:07:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Try this memoir title on for size:
"the truth is is, but lies stick like spunk"
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 12:00:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: How's this for the title of Clinton's memoirs:
"the truth is but a lie that has yet to be uncovered"
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:58:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: "the truth is but a lie that has yet to be uncovered"
sounds like the very definition of that spunky CODE BLUE
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:54:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: When has Pete lie? When hasn't he?
the truth is but a lie that has yet to be uncovered
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:50:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Code blue? Does it involve spunk on a dress?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:43:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank god for the code. Without it, Glit would have no way of telling the faux Petes from the true lunatic.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:20:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Only code I'd ever care about would be Code Blue.
not playground code
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:19:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: "So name one thing that Pete hasn't lied about." - "patriot." Pete knows the code. Pollywanna crackers like you don't.
Glint
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:11:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...won't get fooled again?
Snippy
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:06:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is it again that the notion of seeing Jupiter's moons is difficult for the shallow of mind to fathom? The moons have what, a brightness of mag. 4.5 to 5.5? In a dark sky the human eye can see mag. 6, some as faint as mag. 8. At opposition Jupiter is what, some 700M km away. The furthest out moon Callisto is about 2M km from Jupiter. So, under ideal conditions when the planet is at opposition and the moon has reached maximum angular separation, then the two are separated by something like 10 arcminutes? Human eye has a resolution on the order of 1 arcminute. Should be a piece of cake. However, the mag. -4 planet Jupiter dazzles the eye with its light pollution masking the Galilean moons in its glare. ◊ They've rehired the director yesterday. He's been given a new spot in "technical operations." Just hope it's not a case of fool me once, shame on you, etc.
Glint
Take That, Liberals!

- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:04:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: THEY can't have nuclear weapons because THEY'VE never used them but WE can because - WE'VE done it before (twice) and WE can do it again.
as the song goes
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 11:01:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: With just a few of those bombs, we can make the environment of Pyong Penh as pristine as a shaved hamster.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 10:46:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: The United States has regained the capability to make nuclear weapons for the first time in 14 years and has restarted production of plutonium parts for bombs, the Energy Department said Tuesday. The announcement marks an important symbolic and operational milestone in rebuilding the nation's nuclear weapons complex, which began a long retrenchment in the late 1980s as the Cold War ended and the toll of environmental damage from bomb production became known.
yeah, pristine evironments are for pussies
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 08:35:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: so poe is goth and junior has red hair and liberty spikes. not that there's anything wrong with that. sort of a theme.
a thousand points of leitmotifs
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 08:32:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not this liberal lady neither. Has to do with them what's all het up and heartbroken about imbedded embryos, whilst busting the actual chops of an actual fully-grown male fetus. They call those hair things "liberty spikes," by the way. (Almost like "liberal spikes." Hmm. Freedom. Scary thought to the Stalinists.)
hoo ah
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 08:24:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Evangelical crusaders prepare to fight Islam with aid and a Bible By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 22 April 2003 Evangelical charities with an overt hostility to Islam are preparing to distribute food, water, medicine and building materials in Iraq, all in the name of Jesus. One of the charities, Samaritan's Purse, is run by Franklin Graham, the son of the evangelist Billy Graham, who declared after the 11 September attacks that Islam was "a very evil and wicked religion". Another is the Southern Baptist Convention, whose former president once described the Prophet Mohamed as "a demon-possessed paedophile". About 800 of SBC's volunteers are reported to be on their way to Iraq to deliver food packages labelled with a verse from St John's Gospel, in Arabic, saying that "grace and truth were realised through Jesus Christ". Such insensitivity is viewed by some as playing into the hands of those to whom the "war on terrorism" is a religious crusade. But what really riles Muslim groups all over the world is that these activities are overtly supported by the Bush administration.
maybe Snippy's the demon-possessed pedophile.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 08:17:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not this liberal lady. Would just as soon try to nurture a hook-nosed sea snake
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 02:29:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete is productive?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 01:41:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: He seems to drink a lot. And his awful children seem to be putting undue demands on him, wanting him to validate their lifestyles or scour the television programming looking for forensic programs. Maybe it's true, that he's just an average schmoe who life has handed a shit deal. I'm will to consider the possibility that he is not evil, but just stupid and helpless in adversity. A man whose reaction to life is panic and lashing out. I could go either way, pathetic miserable asshole or fucked-up schmoe.
.
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 01:38:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I disagree. It is becoming apparent to me that Pete is nothing but a pathetic, miserable asshole.
patriot
- Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 01:32:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think that there is a diamond somewhere deep within Pete. I hear the cry of a hurt child wanting to find its way home. Pete may be a liar, a nasty and hurtful man, yet I beleive that deep down inside there is good in him. What horrible things must have happened to him to make him this way. We should trust him, not to tell the truth, for that will come later, but to finally cry out for help. We must nurture Pete, and help him him to become something a mother would be proud of.
Liberal Lady
Seattle, WA - Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 01:30:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, Glit, just for the sake of argument, let's say you're right. So name one thing that Pete hasn't lied about. Ball's in your court, Chubby.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:43:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: I just can't believe that Pete would lie! Reactionary morons don't lie, do they?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:41:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talk about liberal tactics. There are quite a few things that Pete hasn't lied about. It is well within the realm of possibility that Pete has a job. The fact that he has a computer is pretty good evidence right there. Typical liberal demonization. And it's the five year and two monthiversary of spew on the blue dress! Typical of liberals. Pete, don't listen to them. I believe you. (01)
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:39:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I agree, dot. It just doesn't stack up. The evidence just all points in the opposite direction. Add to that the fact that anything he says that we can check up on turns out to be a lie, and it's hard to believe that the fat man is gainfully employed. A bus driver maybe. The guy who rakes the beach in the morning, quite possibly. But a producer? Even a tricky parasite? I'll have to disbelieve that one.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:36:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Glit, it just don't scan. The man is too stupid to be functional in any real job, productive or parasitic. Oh, sure, he may have a gig in the matchbook factory or on the envelope line, but I doubt that he has ever managed to climb very high in the clerical world. I mean, come on, Glit... port 110... crashing airplane vs. atom bomb... no shade in Africa... the gridlines... moons of Jupiter seen by holding up a stick... railroads in Afghanistan... scours the tube for forensic shows... revenues increased by lowering revenues... descended from Lord Beeston and the princess of Squanta... just what do you think this guy has that someone besides a rescue mission would pay to get? Pea shooter is about right.
.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:32:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: You said pee shooter! (01)
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:26:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seems to get a bit testy sometimes. Really doesn't have to shout, can hear small print.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 23:09:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete rolls away?
sounds reasonable
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 22:39:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: How do you know how much time he spends here? Perhaps he just breezes by for the sport of it, hits a few shots, then rolls away. Some people walk a dog, others do macrame. Pete just likes to line up the liberals on a line then fire his pea shooter. That doesn't take either a lot of time or a lot of skill.
POW!!!
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 21:56:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: How does he find time to be here so often when he's such a busy lawyer?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 21:25:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is he Jeffrey Fieger?
I got it!
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 21:15:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Answers to confounding liberals who abhor truths: "Is he really a lawyer? [YES] Does he make court appearances? [YES, OFTEN] Has he ever won a really big settlement? [MANY AND JURY VERDICTS AND APPEALS]Has he ever told a Judge to grow a brain? [NEVER, MOST ARE NOT COMPLETELY STOOPID LIBERAL IDIOTS LIKE YOU MORONS] ??? [TAKE A ROLAIDS;Doinkz.] (01) - Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:36:56 (EDT)
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 21:14:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: top Russian Foreign Ministry official was quoted as saying yesterday in Tokyo that a "catastrophic" development of events in the US-North Korean nuclear standoff was imminent and could occur within the next day. "It is probable that, as early as tomorrow, there will be a catastrophic development of events," Itar-Tass quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov as saying.
let's make jokes about freedom fries
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:44:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, OK, it's time for reality. He's a legal secretary, tops.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:42:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: GOP Memo: Unelected Fraud's Numbers Soon to Crash Attempts to Put Happy Face on Disaster But There's No Good News for the Failed Regime A GOP memo being sent to Republicans across the country predicts that President Bush's high approval ratings will soon "drop to more realistic levels" and that some polls may show him behind Democratic rivals.
gee--I'd vote for war and poverty over peace and prosperity any day, wouldn't you?
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:41:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Quote of the Day The Bush Administration discovers, all of a sudden -- Iraq is full of Muslims who don't necessarily like us. Surprise, surprise, Gomer. - Paul Begala
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:38:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Howard Dean: Santorum Immoral, Unfit for Leadership WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Wednesday called for Republican Sen. Rick Santorum to resign his leadership post after the lawmaker compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery. "Gay-bashing is not a legitimate public policy discussion; it is immoral. Rick Santorum's failure to recognize that attacking people because of who they are is morally wrong makes him unfit for a leadership position in the United States Senate,'' Dean said in a statement.
TOPPLE "SODOM" SANTORUM
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:37:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is he really a lawyer? Does he make court appearances? Has he ever won a really big settlement? Has he ever told a Judge to grow a brain?
???
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:36:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice conservative tactics, there.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:33:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Christians who are willing to leave the safety and comfort of America to go to barbarous lands, risking disease, pestilence and murder, simply because they so love their fellow man �" Jesus fucking Christ. What a POT.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:33:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: (from Cambridge Dictionary of American English) parasite noun [C] an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it (FIG.) Many people believe that lawyers are parasites (= useless people who live off others).
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 20:09:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Quick definitions (liberal) noun: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties noun: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets adjective: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition adjective: having political or social views favoring reform and progress adjective: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness (Example: "A liberal newspaper") adjective: not literal adjective: given or giving freely (Example: "A liberal backer of the arts")
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:56:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whew, then it's a good thing that the USA is capitalist! Even better that there are plenty of liberals, who by definition are those who believe in free-market laissez-faire capitalism!
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:52:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Guess Ann didn't hear it was about "weapons of mass destruction?"
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:50:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: "jobs, opportunities, and taxable revenues:" Things that socialists never create. Only suck from.
Pensioner
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:50:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete creates jobs for the boys in white coats, opportunities for people who sell mops, and revenues a-plenty via the excise tax on liquor.
econ 101
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:48:51 (EDT)

My two cents are:

GO ANNE GO Will the 'true' imperialist religion please stand up? Media organizations from CNN to the New York Times have all recently admitted to years of lying about conditions in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They explain that they faced either losing "access" or subjecting their Iraqi employees � and, of more relevancy, themselves � to Saddam's torture chambers. Stipulating for purposes of argument that the media were performing a service to anyone other than Saddam Hussein by being his pimp, rather than just pulling out, it still leaves another devilish question. Why, then, were these same news organizations � CNN and the Times in particular � so insistent that the United States take no action to remove Hussein from power, knowing what they now admit they knew? Liberals learned to live with Iraqi citizens being fed into plastic shredders, summary executions, maimings and unanesthetized ear-loppings. Only now have they found something truly fiendish going on in Iraq: Christian missionaries are proselytizing! On the basis of the raw terror on display at the New York Times, I gather the operating theory is that Iraqis who withstood Saddam Hussein's sadistic tyranny for 30 years will be unable to withstand a Christian missionary. I don't know. Liberals have resisted Christianity pretty well. Christians are already a majority in America, and we can't even stop public school teachers from passing out condoms to fourth-graders or prevent Hollywood from producing movies that portray Christians as marauding skinheads. But in the left's doomsday scenario, Arabs who have been stewing in Islamic theology their entire lives could watch a 20-minute video on the life of Christ and convert en masse. God only knows what trouble that could lead to. Interestingly, absolutely everyone concedes that a lot of Muslims are going to have to convert to some new religion. That's the point of the much-ballyhooed claim that the terrorists and their sympathizers are not practicing "true Islam." Well, they think they are. Muslims who share Mohammed Atta's religious beliefs as it pertains to infidels are bossily informed that they are incorrect and ordered to practice "true Islam." Only if a Christian mentions Jesus Christ, evidently, does it constitute imperialism. In fact, the "true Islam" ruse is straight out of the imperialist's handbook. When the British colonized India, they encountered such charming Hindu practices as "suttee," which involved throwing the widow on her husband's burning funeral pyre. Instead of convincing the Hindus that this hideous practice was a priori wrong, the British went to great lengths to produce ancient Sanskrit texts proving that the natives were not practicing "true Hinduism." As Anthony Pagden describes it in the book "Peoples and Empires": "The British ransacked Sanskrit texts and questioned local religious leaders in an effort to discover a 'purer' form of Hinduism" that would match � as Pagden puts it � "their own notions of 'morality.'" (Pagden, who has taught at Harvard and has written for the New York Times, would be finished as a respected academic if he ever expressed a personal view as to the morality of burning women alive.) As luck would have it, the governor general of India, Lord Bentinck, made the exciting discovery that suttee was just such a distortion of the original Sanskrit! He outlawed it in 1829, proclaiming that he had restored the Indians to "true Hinduism." Similarly, when Napoleon occupied Egypt at the end of the 18th century, he imposed a predominantly French culture, claiming he was merely restoring the Egyptians' true culture. (The only French custom that still survives is the aversion to bathing.) Indeed, Napoleon even declared that the French, not the Muslim warriors he had overthrown, were the "true Muslims." Liberals don't mind pompously asserting that the terrorists are not practicing "true Islam" and demanding conversion to a form of Islam closer to their own "morality" (as per Pagden). Like the prim Lady-Do-Rightlys of Britain, they insist they are not destroying a religion, but rather restoring it to its proper understanding. Inarguably, anyone who views flying planes into the World Trade Center as a matter of religious devotion is going to have to get a new religion. Could we at least stop pretending that the British colonial office approach of pandering "true Islam" is any less "imperialistic" than Franklin Graham's missionaries showing videos on the life of Christ? Throughout the history of empire-building, Christians were a constant thorn in the side of the conquerors and slave-traders. They quaintly insisted that, as Pagden puts it, the biblical command "'Love thy neighbor as thyself' should be a real deterrent against pillage and the unwarranted expropriation of the goods of others, even when, as was generally the case, those others were not Christians." Though some colonialists used Christianity as a fig leaf for pillage, they were precisely as Christian as Cuba, China and North Korea are "democratic" today. Someday, liberals will denounce democracy, citing the atrocities of Red China as proof of what such a monstrous system of government can do. Christians who are willing to leave the safety and comfort of America to go to barbarous lands, risking disease, pestilence and murder, simply because they so love their fellow man � these are the miscreants who inflame and enrage liberals more than Saddam Hussein and his rape rooms ever did. - Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:48:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint was arrested for having sex with a cow? How do these rumors start?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:44:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I never asid that I peronsally produce those things, jsut htat real capitalsits do and I am for capitlaism. I would produce them I my lottery number ahd been low enough. I can't help it if all hte production jobs were given to minorities.
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:41:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: You almost got it, patriot. Pete's real problem is that he assumes that he's in a "sector", but he's really just a slime mold, a carbuncle, a grease spot, a blemish in the spleen of fringe America. Why such an ignorant, unintelligible, useless yahoo would consider himself a producer is beyond understanding. What do you suppose he thinks he produces? Religious insights? Poetry? Trenchant analysis of current events? Historical analogies? He is moronic enough to believe all the above, but "jobs, opportunities, and taxable revenues?" A total idiot?
Geesh
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:38:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aw, come on, Pete. You've never produced anything but turds your whole life. The sad part is that you're so dumb the job you pretend to have, because you think it sounds intelligent, is the least productive form of counterproductive parasitic community-wounding activity there is above grave-robbing. Even Glit's modem-maintenance gig is more productive that your imaginary job, you poor, pathetic, ignorant asshole. If you're really a wholesale fruit clerk, or a sweeper, or a doorman, or whatever it is, admit it and the world may view you as marginally "productive." As is you're just Pete the liar.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:31:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah "chump" you work for ME!
American Non-liberal
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:23:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I really meant to say is those ingrates in the private sector deserve to be rolled cause their kind of "service" to the country in the form of creating jobs, opportunities and taxable revenues is not as worthy as us guys on the government dime wasting away your hard earned tax dollars. See, that is what real service is all about. Stealing from the productive and redistributing it to dolts who continue to vote for my power hungry party. The one that keeps me in high perks and wasteful government spending. But I can chump myself on the back by proclaiming my work a public service, nonetheless, and still bite the hand that feeds me. That is the true socialsit way. Zeig Heil!!!!
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 19:23:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Point being.......?
the bottom line is.....? what?
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:54:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: In Washington State, after legislators said they would have to renege on a promise to raise the salary of home health care workers to $8.70 an hour from $7.86, the Senate majority leader, James West, a Republican, complained that the health care workers were "perpetual pathetics" who were always whining. In response, the workers union produced a woman, Sherry Beebe, who had cared for Mr. West's ailing mother. "I was one of the workers who took care of your mom," said Ms. Beebe in a letter to Senator West. "Stop being so selfish and think about where you would be if you had to care for your mom for almost no pay or benefits."
mom should have flushed james down the john
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:48:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: New Delhi - A 22-year-old man in New Delhi was arrested for allegedly trying to have sex with a cow, a report said Wednesday. The Asian Age newspaper reported the man was caught after he was found "in a strange position" with a cow. he man has been charged with disturbing public peace and was jailed.
So that's why dows are sacred to the bipties
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:39:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Residents of a small "Peace Camp/Shantytown," set up April 13 at the University of Colorado to protest the war in Iraq, were evicted by school officials Tuesday morning. About two dozen tents, housing between 20 and 40 students and community members, were removed from the Norlin Quadrangle. Campus police moved in about 6 a.m. and asked the campers to leave immediately, which they did.
there's still hope for them yet - look at pete
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:33:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: NEW YORK April 23 � The nation's largest transit agency concealed more than half a billion dollars from the public while it was arguing for a fare increase, the state comptroller charged in an audit Wednesday. The audit found that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority kept two sets of books one public and another for internal use, Comptroller Alan Hevesi said.
downloading MTA....
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:31:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cricket delivers salvation. Consider the case of Sir Paul Getty, who died last week in London at 70. Before discovering cricket in the 1970s, Getty was a heroin-scarfing degenerate who named one son Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone. A meeting with Mick Jagger � another '60s wild man whose love of cricket rescued him from the crazed leftoid politics that consume ex-wife Bianca � converted the American oil heir into a cricket obsessive. Getty, whose only previous knowledge of slashes and cuts was the 1973 amputation of his son John III's ear by kidnappers, became transformed by cricket's redemptive powers. He constructed, at ludicrous expense, an exquisite village cricket ground at his Bucking�hamshire estate (many Aust�ralian Test players have competed in matches there), bought the company that produces Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, donated �2m towards renovations at Lord's and regularly attended Test matches with the likes of Australian great Keith Miller (Getty's fondness for Australia extended to a fascination with the soap Neighbours). He and Jagger were co-investors in a cricket web site established in part so that the Rolling Stones could follow Tests while on tour. Thus the rich hippie American who in the '60s sided with the communist North Vietnamese evolved into Britain's Sir Paul, who two years ago donated �5m to the Conservative Party in order to preserve "the British way of life".
Well played, sir.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:27:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, it was more like the negligence of an incompetent ButtFlusher.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:23:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: sorry, that was unintentional.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:12:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: MARTYRS FOR BUSH NYT: BUSH PLANS TO EXPLOIT VOICELESS 9/11 DEAD AS 2004 CAMPAIGN PROPS The New York Times reports that George W. Bush will spend $200 million on his campaign for election in 2004, and employ the use of 3000 Americans murdered by terrorists on 9/11 as human shields against opponents' focus on the failed Bush economy. The plan, according to the Times, is to hold the 2004 GOP convention as close in time as possible to the commemorative events surrounding the third anniversary of the September 2001 attacks, in order to maximize the benefits of exploiting the victims of those horrific attacks by claiming their deaths ushered in a need to advance the Bush Regime's radical right-wing domestic agenda and insane foreign policy agenda. For two years, George W. Bush has destroyed the most fundamental American values at home, as well as waged wars that reward campaign contributors but benefit terrorists worldwide. If that were not enough, he has done it all in the name of those tragic victims who lost their lives in September 2001. But the deceased cannot stop Bush from declaring them martyrs for this unelected, out of control regime's power ambitions. It's up to New Yorkers and Americans around the country, who must organize en masse in that city at convention time, and speak up for their fellow Americans and New Yorkers who can no longer speak for themselves. They must forcefully oppose this morally bankrupt, un-American regime that continues to crassly and disgracefully exploit victims of anti-American terrorists. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Media Whores Online Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists." MWO casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television, the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy print media "journalists." Whore Watch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere, Osama bin Laden is Laughing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MISTAH KURTZ TELLS THE RULES Howie Lies, Then Gets Indignant What Becomes A Moron? Playing Miss Manners! One thing's for certain about those smarmy, self-important fools and wannabes who occupy the middle reportorial tier at the Wash Post -- people like Stenographer Sue Schmidt, Ceci "Rider" Connolly, and the inimitable Howie "Mistah" Kurtz. Catch them out in a blatant lie, and they'll lash back like seven-year-olds. Take Howie's latest. He writes a column blasting Bill Clinton for, he says, blasting George W. Bush. In fact, Clinton, who was asked to fill in on a panel at the last minute, gave a balanced assessment of the invasion of Iraq, defending and even praising certain aspects of the American effort and criticizing others. But for Howie, it was all a churlish, even vaguely unpatriotic screed against a President we're all supposed to be hailing like Caesar! So he lied and said that Clinton just blasted away. Busted! Clinton's press office immediately called Mistah Kurtz on the lie. And Howie's response? Well, okay, fair enough, Clinton said other stuff, but ewwww bad timing, he should have waited two weeks and he should have said something different and he should have, should have, should have, sh... Thrown to the wall, Howie morphs into Miss Manners, instructing Bill Clinton on what to say and when to say it. You know -- there are rules here, and Mistah Kurtz is here to tell you what they are. Except, of course, those rules apply only to Democrats and elected Democratic presidents. Kurtz may think that he can obfuscate by hurling what he apparently thinks are WMDs: Weapons of Media Instruction. But it's just the same schoolyard screeching, and nobody's buying it as anything else. Mistah Kurtz Plays Miss Manners -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey MWO gang, We were watching CNN fn which is CNN international news on our cable system. At about 8PM tonight 4/21 Candy Crowley did a story on the fundraising efforts of the Democratic Presidential hopefuls. When she named them she said pretty soon we'll need a deck to keep them straight and THEY WERE SHOWN AS A DECK OF CARDS as in the Saddam and Cronies deck. John Kerry gets reamed for saying "regime change" but our most respected news agency (ha) and their respectable commentator (ha) portrays the men seeking the highest office in the land as part of a terrorist network. What a whore. She gets our nomination. Thanks, Leslie Anderson Jacob Crabtree -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subj: Butterqueen: Not Playing with a Full Deck? MWO, I know you're on vacation for a couple of days yet, but I wanted to make sure you left room in your next issue to point out one of Candy ("Butterqueen") Crowley's more egregious displays of reportorial bias. On Monday's edition of "Wolf Blitzer Reports" (which, frankly, I should have given up watching LONG ago), she "reported" on the 2004 Democratic presidential hopefuls and their fundraising efforts to date. Most of the report had a superficial, lightly mocking tone (when it wasn't outright derisive), but she really did her masters in the Bush White House proud with the closing shot - faces of all of the leading Democrats arrayed on playing cards, as if they were 9 more members of Saddam Hussein's murderous cadre. And in case this display was too subtle for anyone who might have missed the subtext, she and Wolf got a good on-air laugh at how the candidates must feel appearing on a set of playing cards at this particular time. How classy. At the end, you could even see her eyes mist over as she envisioned receiving a pat on the head and a lump of sugar from Karl Rove. *sigh* Maybe Dubya will extend her reign as Butterqueen for another year! Steve MacNeil Transcript of CNN's Crowley/Dobbs atrocity: CROWLEY: That would make ten candidates. And if it keeps going like this, pretty soon we're going to need a deck of cards to keep them all straight. So far, nobody seems to have an ace in the hole. State polling shows Richard Gephardt holding a slight lead in Iowa and John Kerry leading in New Hampshire, but nobody has so captured Democratic attentions as to rule out anybody. Only 272 more shopping days, Lou, until the Iowa caucuses. DOBBS: Candy Crowley, I just can't wait really to see what the reaction is amongst those nine to being in a deck of cards -- given the fun everyone's having in Iraq with them. Lou Dobbs "can't wait to see" your reaction to CNN's placing Democratic presidential candidates' images on a deck of playing cards in the same way the US military has placed Iraqi murderers' images on cards. Lou need wait no longer. Below is a list of CNN's Moneyline sponsors. "React" to the atrocity, and don't forget to cc Lou Dobbs, Candy Crowley, and CNN president Jim Walton. IDT Long Distance (IDT) Petmeds.com (PETS) Dell Computers (DELL) Earthlink (ELNK) Cit.com (CIT) Express Med In normal times, a report like this one would fall well within bounds. But it fails the simple double standard test. In the current atmosphere, it is nearly impossible to imagine Candy and Lou having a laugh over playing cards featuring the images of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle...you get the idea. In the context of a disgracefully biased national media, whose record on fair treatment of Democrats is as abysmal as we all know it to be, a "joke" like this one is no longer innocent but an egregious smear deserving action. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daddy Warbucks Is Alive and Well Joe Conason The prospects for instilling democracy and staunching terrorism in Iraq have dimmed since our soldiers knocked over that Saddam Hussein statue. While the American military�s triumph over the dictator�s enfeebled and ill-motivated army was pre-ordained, the political triumph of liberal democratic values is not. When American forces depart, what they leave behind may well be a Shiite theocracy, supported and influenced by the terror-masters and mullahs in Teheran. In the meantime, American corporations will at least have minted a few billion bucks. For cynics observing the development of U.S. policy, the business of America still seems to be business, abroad or at home, and not democracy. The war was said to be about changing an evil regime, combating terrorism, eliminating weapons of mass destruction or an uplifting combination of the above�and certainly not about anything as grimy as oil. Somehow, the U.S. Special Forces secured the oil fields first, and the troops arriving in Baghdad set up their armor around the Ministry of Oil, and the Iraqi exile politicians now being groomed for power happen to favor privatizing their country�s petroleum resources. Preserving the oil fields from destruction was crucial, but whether they were saved for the future benefit of the Iraqi people remains doubtful. As for post-war arrangements with traditional American allies and multilateral institutions, the administration�s exclusion of the United Nations, the French, the Russians and the Germans may or may not be in the national interest. Fareed Zakaria has argued persuasively in Newsweek that our true interest lies in making all assistance to Iraq "multilateral," since this would "take some of the economic and military burden off the United States" and help remove the stigma of U.S. occupation in Iraqi eyes. The White House and the Pentagon, however, have rejected that eminently sensible advice, supposedly for geopolitical and strategic reasons�as well as to punish those who tried to thwart the drive to war. There�s another obvious downside to multilateralism: American corporations would have to share with their competitors in Europe and Japan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Made for TV Gene Lyons Sometimes it's hard to tell how many Americans understand the difference between TV and the three-dimensional world. Just before the Iraq war, polls showed almost 60 percent held Saddam Hussein responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks--a claim not even the president made, although Bush took pains to link Saddam's alleged "weapons of mass destruction" and the terrorist threat. Most who opposed the war thought the connection specious or dishonest. Nasty SOB that he was or is, we thought Saddam could be deterred. To take him down by force, we feared, would burden the U.S. with its own West Bank, embittered, humiliated, and seething with ethnic and religious hatreds which Saddam's tyranny kept in check. It would also be expensive, with American taxpayers paying first to blow Iraq to smithereens, then footing the bill for Halliburton, Bechtel and President Junior's other corporate chums to rebuild it. Never mind the human toll; we are all geo-political strategists now. Crocodile tears aside, few GOP triumphalists exchanging high-fives over defeating a Third World nation with military resources amounting to roughly 1/2 of one percent of the U.S. defense budget appear terribly concerned about the dead and maimed on either side. The Pentagon has no plans to enumerate Iraqi casualties, military or civilian. The phrase "many thousands" is, as they say, close enough for government work. Reporting on a 12-year old Iraqi boy, orphaned by a U.S. bomb and hospitalized with both arms blown off, a CNN correspondent actually asked if he understood the purposes of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." A Kuwaiti doctor tactfully responded that Ali Hamza had suffered "psychological trauma" and had no political views. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Santorum Scandal By now everyone has heard of the latest Republican bigotry scandal involving comments made by rabid right-wing cafeteria Catholic Rick Santorum, in which he compared homosexuality to incest. Santorum "clarified" his remarks, saying what he meant was that homosexuality was equal under the constitution to incest and polygamy. That is, these lifestyles differ fundamentally from monogamous marriage which is legitimately sanctioned in law, and all should be equally and righteously prohibited and punished under the constitution. Andy Sully weighs in: But Santorum must also know that such a right to privacy is now settled constitutional doctrine: it underpins the right to abortion and even the right to practice contraception. If he wants to abolish it, he must surely hold out the possibility of the government once again policing some of the most intimate sexual and reproductive matters imaginable, regulated by nothing but majority opinion. Santorum's position is therefore that there should be no constitutional restraint on the power of government to regulate sexual morality - even within your own bedroom. The only restraint - especially against any sexual minorities - would be mandated by majority decisions. Worried yet? It gets worse. "Worried yet"? Most of us have been worried since Pat Buchanan's infamous keynote speech at the 1992 GOP Convention - the one so enthusiastically delivered and received by Republicans before they decided it would be best not to tell the truth about what they believe - and have voted accordingly. A little late to the party, aren't ya, Sully? So we debate the question of same-sex marriage, or hate crime laws, or anti-discrimination laws as matters of public concern. It seems to me it's perfectly legitimate to discuss these matters Sully believes it is "perfectly legitimate" to debate same sex marriage laws, or any other kind of marriage between consenting adults, in a country whose constitution's First Amendment declares there must be no state establishment of religion? All marriages should be treated by the government in the same way as any other civil contract, with citizens free to ascribe to their own arrangements any other regulations involving numbers, sexes and practices they choose. The courts have never provided a sufficiently compelling public interest rationale for laws governing the types of marriage contracts into which consenting adults may enter. Despite efforts to attach flimsy secular interests to a prohibition of homosexual marriage or polygamy, such regulation is religiously-oriented and its imposition is unconstitutional. As for Santorum, he fancies himself a devout Catholic and he loves to tell us he is one, for example by obtaining ashes on his forehead before an appearance on Hardball to support the senseless and immoral slaughter of thousands of innocents in Iraq. Back to Sully: We now know where Santorum stands. But what about his party? Andrew "House Slave" Sullivan knows well where "Rick Santorum's party" stands on homosexuality: The fake Christian protestant fundie fanatics that dominate the Republican Party and control the Bush Regime believe homosexuals should be stoned to death as a literal reading of the Old Testament requires, and the cafeteria Catholics who support the regime believe homosexual acts should be prohibited by law. As for Andrew Sullivan - we know where he stands as well. He has been working for years to elevate the American Taliban into a position from which they can corrupt US law with their crackpot and morally bankrupt beliefs. Thanks Sully. (And you too, Ralph.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeb Bush's DFC Kills Another Child MIAMI - A 16-month-old boy died after he was beaten by his guardian, who is now charged with first-degree murder, Miami-Dade County police said Friday. It was the second death this week of a child whose guardian had been approved by the state Department of Children & Families. Deondre Bondieumaitre died Wednesday shortly after he was taken to a hospital by paramedics, investigators said. An autopsy Thursday showed that the boy died from blunt force trauma. How did this savage win the approval of Jeb Bush's DCF? Oh, that's right. Florida's DCF head, Jerry Regier, is a right-wing fundie fanatic who believes punishing children with blunt force trauma is Godly and should not preclude someone from serving as a guardian.
full-term fetus dies at hand of loving adult caregiver
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:11:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:04:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: American forces are changing their search strategy after coming up empty at most of the top suspected weapons sites in Iraq, officials said Wednesday.
yep, they're changing from "search" to "Plant" mode
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:03:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's all about pleasing Daddy, at this point, is it not? An even more pressing drive for a non-biological child. Maybe Glumph will try for some unconditional pride--unlike eTpe, who drives his own child from the house. Brainy, that is.
Plinth of Darkness
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 18:01:42 (EDT)

This posting was modified by the Webmaster to protect the innocent.
My two cents are: Ms. Rölle declares her major before she has any higher education. That's sensible.
future drone
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:54:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Deep in epTe's rant, there was some horrid anti-Utopian mewl. That's worth a chortle.
Edgar Plinth
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:52:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Isn't that what all the naysayers said would happen? An Islamist fundamentalist state, and ayatollagarchy?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:47:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: How can you say a guy is dumb when he's brilliant enough to stew about whether or not there's an edge to the universe?
Pete Fan Club
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:46:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: First I thought it was about fomenting a state, like you Ma used to foment pies. The majority of civil servants probably are Democrats, probably because they are or were somewhat idealistic and accepted the idea of service as a benefit to the fomented citizenry. In the State Department, the personal agenda would be to provide intelligent and effective service in diplomatic matters, starting somewhere around reviewing visa applications and helping overseas tourists like Pete when they get rolled by whores. And, Pete, I advise you that the "grow a brain" line ill becomes you. You are a stupid man, and by far the least intelligent who frequents this site now that Jeremiah is gone (although he did have a certain peasant cunning that you do not rise to.) The less you bring the question of intelligence or brain-power to our attention, the better off you are, which isn't very good at all.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:44:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: via The Seattle Times: As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq's future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country.
no kidding--thanks a lot, snippy!, love Osama <Yo Ho, The Caliphate is Coming. Com>
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:42:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Most civil servants are demonrats. Their pay depends on fomenting a socialistic state so they can get more. Grow a brain, it is all about their personal agenda, idiot!
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:07:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't give a shit about embalming.
gonna be cremated maybe live in an urn
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 17:00:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Newt is stuffed to the gills with his own slime. Doesn't need to borrow slime from anyone.
salamanders have gills?
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:54:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here's a hint for you.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:54:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I hold privacy so dear that I don't give a shit which state his daughter's school is in.
Liberal
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:52:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: He can afford everything he wants but a good education for his daughter. Must be the adopted one.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:50:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: For any of you who didn't know it, the State Department is mostly a civil service outfit. It's stuffed to the gills with professionals far superior in every way to this pathetic hairball Pete, who wouldn't know what America was if he lived in it. Think of it this way-- would you rather have Pete representing America, or a normal person?
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:49:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: I won't mention the state of the JI's college for privacy sake. Privacy is something the Liberals hold dear, I'm sure. I will say that it is one of the oldest colleges in the country. Unfortunately, I can't afford the new ones.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:44:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, well Newt knows the State Dep't is still stuffed to the gills with liberal slime left overs from the cliton regime. The pod people have infected all our institutions. It is taking time to find them and ferret them out of their cubby holes. Never trust a liebral demonrat when its personal agenda conflicts with the good of the country. Enemies of Amwerica. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:29:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know about Pete's ability to grasp dual pie charts, but Earl Z. has been known to handle two pancakes at a time.
TuMour Laupoffher
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:24:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: A top Russian Foreign Ministry official was quoted as saying yesterday in Tokyo that a "catastrophic" development of events in the US-North Korean nuclear standoff was imminent and could occur within the next day. "It is probable that, as early as tomorrow, there will be a catastrophic development of events," Itar-Tass quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov as saying. He added that the standoff had "reached an extreme stage" but did not give a more detailed explanation about his warning.
Rewskies are sure paranoid, but they couldn't do squat in Afghanistan or Iraq. Failed socialists. Idiots!
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:24:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't get me wrong-- I'm not saying that Glint is above average in brain capacity. But he at least has managed to hold down a job for a year, and hasn't figured out a way to sneer at and resent his children the way Pete has. Don't want him to get a swelled head about it. Parts of his head are already swollen enough, judging from the phots.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:16:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, OK, stop rubbing it in, Pete has no technical aptitude. But look at it this way: Glint has to poetical aptitude. Problem is, that doesn't square with the fact that Glint doesn't lapse into gibberish often, but Pete never lapses out of it.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:13:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you can get him to pretend to be interested in astronomy, Glint, you can get him to pretend to understand a graph.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:10:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: You could dress up the graphs a little. Use the jelly-beans for money on the income graph, and use little mortarboards and dunce caps on the capability graph. What say, Glit? I know you can do it. Do you need someone to help with finding the stats?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:08:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: To really do it with pie charts you'd have to have twenty of them. I still think it's worth trying to get Pete to understand a line graph.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:06:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Out of state seems like a pretty big deal, until you realize that the state is Maryland. Now if Pete could get his daughter to go out of state he'd never have to help her search for forensic television shows or fret about her clit ring.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:03:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Out of state, huh? Twenty miles over the Pennsylvania line in Hog Waller JC?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 16:01:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete? Check out his posts. He doesn't seem capable of handling two pants legs at the same time.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:59:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good idea, Glit, with the pie charts for Pete. But I think you'll need TWO pie charts, one showing the slice of highly capable people and the other showing the slice of rich people and wastrels. Do you think Pete can handle two pie charts at one time?
patriot
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:57:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's been barely a week since the U.S. took control of Baghdad, but the Pentagon is already embroiled in a new war, this time with the State Department. The opening salvo was delivered Tuesday morning by the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives and member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, Newt Gingrich, at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute. Gingrich, who is close to Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, aimed the full fury of his rhetorical fire at the State Department, accusing it of actively subverting President George W. Bush's agenda in Iraq and beyond.
next untidy war
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:46:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Begin Test

_{- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:43:02 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Not Exxxx-ACTLY unless he had a remnant from a cluster bomb.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:38:43 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Boy, 7, charged in video store robbery attempt...developinnnnnnng!

Exxxx-ACTLY!

some people appear surprised, - Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:24:22 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Faux Molly Coddle.

Molly Coddle

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:19:05 (EDT)

My two cents are:
The story of the 7-year-old guerrilla girl.... Myers was asked about the weekend report of a little girl handing over a remnant from a cluster bomb � weaponry condemned by human rights groups � to four American soldiers near Baghdad.
The fragment, the size of a soft drink can, exploded injuring the soldiers and child alike.
In Baghdad, U.S. Col. Michael Linningham, commander of the 101st Airborne's 3rd Brigade, told reporters it was an accident. The child thought she was doing a good thing.
Linningham was on the scene. Since then, however, his report has been massaged through Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and popped into the spin dry cycle at the Pentagon.
Yesterday, not surprisingly, Myers had a different take.
"The story we got this morning is that the little girl handed over what was an improvised explosive device to do harm to the four soldiers," he said.
"It wasn't a try to return a portion of ordnance ... She tried to run away."
A 7-year-old? asked a reporter.
``Exxxx-ACTLY!'' said Myers, crisply.
And so, to sum up yesterday's Pentagon briefing, Rumsfeld said the United States has not found weapons of mass destruction, has not found Saddam Hussein, has no idea when the war will be over and has no plans for Iraq's future.

but it has the 7-year-old nailed.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:17:39 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Old story.

See below.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:13:20 (EDT)

My two cents are:
-- A television news engineer faces smuggling charges after attempting to bring into the United States 12 stolen Iraqi paintings, monetary bonds and other items, federal officials said Wednesday. A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., charges that Benjamin James Johnson, 27, tried to bring the paintings into this country last Thursday.

Who would have believed it. The looter was an American.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 15:05:50 (EDT)

My two cents are:
School costs! Ouch! Eeek! Ow! Good luck with those babies, Glint. You'll need luck. Ouch! Oog! Geesh!

Pete�

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:56:19 (EDT)

My two cents are:
College of Nebrasky were good enough for me, and the functional equivalent should be good enough for Poejiz. No use wasting money on a edication when a cheap places will get you a nurse job or maybe X-ray technician. Or maybe even go for the brass ring and become a web site administrator!

Glint

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:52:36 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Personally, I think Pete knows what he is talking about. I should know.

Fred Fielding

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:51:36 (EDT)

My two cents are:
The amusing thing to me is all this running around visiting colleges and acting if we're going to choose one based on all sorts of scientific selection criteria. With my kid, we just looked up which was the highest-rated school that was far enough away so he didn't have to live at home. If I were Glit I'd just send one girl to Harvard and one to Princeton, or maybe Yale, or MIT if one of them is technically-oriented. Not that those schools are necessarily better than the local JC, but they have cachet, like copper rain gutters. That's the problem with rubes-- their own experience tends to be so limited that they don't see the opportunities that are all around them. Or maybe Glit's too cheap.

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- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:48:41 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I've noticed that about orphans and administrative orphans. Rejected themselves, they tend to be cold-hearted bastards, the sort of people who cure the baby's crying by wrapping him in duct tape. I feel so sorry for Pete's kids.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:43:30 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Or if Pete is lucky, the daughter will show up with an eyebrow-ring one day and he can cut her out, too.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:41:21 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Costs of college? I hardly feel them, and it's not some bozo diploma-mill christian academy in the rust belt, either, the way poor Poejiz is headed. Fortunately for Pete, the boy is unwelcome in the house, the heart, and the pocketbook because of the spiked hair, and the girl will be content to scour the forensic television shows all her life and doesn't need any other education.

patriot

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:40:01 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Oh, yeah, the costs of school. Ouch! (002)

Glint

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:37:01 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Oooch! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Captain Wha

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:35:59 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Roger, wilko Glint, and out. Good luck with the costs of school. Ouch! By the way, anything that calls itself "Captain Wha" is one not to be taken seriously. Hummus hubris hurrah! Doink. (00)

Pete�

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:33:31 (EDT)

My two cents are:
WASHINGTON -- A television news engineer faces smuggling charges after attempting to bring into the United States 12 stolen Iraqi paintings, monetary bonds and other items, federal officials said Wednesday.

A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., charges that Benjamin James Johnson, 27, tried to bring the paintings into this country last Thursday. They were contained in a large cardboard box that was examined by Customs agents at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.

Johnson worked for six years as a satellite truck engineer for Fox News Channel, which fired him after learning he had admitted to taking the paintings, a network statement said.

Fox did the right thing

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:20:35 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I saw a show in London in 1973, "Oh, Calcutta!", that had all that explicit sex stuff in it. Maybe it was England that did it to Clinton rather than Clinton who did it to England.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:16:23 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Pete, new code confirmed as authentic. Ji has chosen a college; sending in the deposit this week. She'll be heading out of state. Didn't want to take a chance that she might end up sitting in the same chair Ydog once did. ◊ Put it in a pie chart, so-called "patriot." (10)

Glint

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:14:14 (EDT)

My two cents are:
"Being kind, you idiots sure exhibit a lot of hubris for being so dim-witted. You tirds somehow manage to patronize the entire populations of your respective nations by deceiving yourselves into thinking that you must make yourselves responsible for creating a Utopia for your adopted presumed child-like people. No. Competition, initiative and a little pain make life worth living, not your failed and suicidal idealism designed to molly coddle your own ego and sense of self worthlessness.
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:54:20 (EDT)"

The great ones bear repeating.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:13:24 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Hey Glit, here's one for you as a sort of scientist, or at least a math guy. If accumulation stuff and being rich and productive in America is really about brains and rube ingenuity, why doesn't income level show the same bell-shaped distribution that those things do? When you figure it out, try to tell it to Pete. He won't get the part about the Gaussian curve, but maybe you could use ping-pong balls or jelly-beans to explain it.

patriot

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:11:55 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Well, he's got a little girl who watches television with him. That's pretty good.

I nominate him for parent of the year.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:08:07 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Yeah, it's almost impossible to believe that Pete would have a kid with spiked hair, a resentful little bottom-feeder who is unwelcome in the house. How could it be?

Say it Aint' So

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:06:54 (EDT)

My two cents are:
False Pete, right, with the goth kid and the daughter scouring the forensic shows?

Pete Fan Club

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:05:01 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Good try, Pete, but it doesn't really hang together. Work on it a while-- you've got some great ideas there but you have to burnish them up.

Captain Wha

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:02:39 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Ola, GLint, I too weave through the kid mania. The son is into goth and black. Spiked hair, etc. Told him he isn't welcome in the house as long as he wears that all the time. He can wear it on his outings but not while living a "normal" existence. Tired of this anti-social rebel without a cause sh*t that ain't gonna get him anywhere in life except living with a bunch of drug-crazed hippie chicks who want babies. Now, the daughter on the other hand sits right next to me while we scour every last forensic show on TV. She's a real addict for reality. The kind liberals abhor. A chip off the old block. She'll be a real crusader agaisnt the evil of the liebral pod people. 1 out of 2 ain't bad. (00)

Pete�

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:02:23 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Ola, GLint, I too weave through the kid mania. The son is into goth and black. Spiked hair, etc. Told him he isn't welcome in the house as long as he wears that all the time. He can wear it on his outings but not while living a "normal" existence. Tired of this anti-social rebel without a cause sh*t that ain't gonna get him anywhere in life except living with a bunch of drug-crazed hippie chicks who want babies. Now, the daughter on the other hand sits right next to me while we scour every last forensic show on TV. She's a real addict for reality. The kind liberals abhor. A chip off the old block. She'll be a real crusader agaisnt the evil of the liebral pod people. 1 out of 2 ain't bad.

Pete�

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:02:13 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Scotland Yard is today investigating a controversial new play after it apparently showed live sex acts in a London theatre.

Look here too!

� Gallery: See the scenes that shocked
� Review: Audiences won't give a XXX

The graphic review XXX, which had its premiere last night at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, featured some of the most explicit sex scenes ever seen in Britain.

At one point a man from the audience was dragged on stage where a female member of the cast appeared to perform oral sex on him.

thank you bill clinton! the legacy endures

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 14:01:47 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Being kind, you idiots sure exhibit a lot of hubris for being so dim-witted. You tirds somehow manage to patronize the entire populations of your respective nations by deceiving yourselves into thinking that you must make yourselves responsible for creating a Utopia for your adopted presumed child-like people. No. Competition, initiative and a little pain make life worth living, not your failed and suicidal idealism designed to molly coddle your own ego and sense of self worthlessness.

Pete�

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:54:20 (EDT)

My two cents are:
No film? Live feed is OK?

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:49:22 (EDT)

My two cents are:
That's nothin, Lucky Pierre will say, I'm gonna get me two.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:48:19 (EDT)

My two cents are:
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington Legislature wants to make it a crime to take pictures up a woman's skirt.

The lawmakers acted after the state Supreme Court ruled that using a hidden camcorder to shoot under a skirt was "reprehensible" - but not illegal.

A bill passed by both houses of the Legislature would make the up-skirt videos a felony.

One lawmaker notes the bill also applies to filming up a man's kilt.

liberals

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:47:54 (EDT)

This posting was modified by the Webmaster to protect the innocent.

My two cents are:
Gonna get a Rölle in the hay tonight, a waggish youth will say across the stalls.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:47:02 (EDT)

My two cents are:
No nicknames, please.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:46:53 (EDT)

My two cents are:
In the boys rooms at high-school, the refer to them as the Roll Sisters.

get it?

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:45:02 (EDT)

My two cents are:
She's leaving home. Bye, bye.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:43:29 (EDT)

My two cents are:
No last names, please.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:41:56 (EDT)

My two cents are:
A gang of American GIs in Baghdad who embarked on an audacious plot to smuggle nearly $1 million (�600,000) from Saddam's secret cash hoard back to the US are under arrest today.

Kelly's Heros?

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:41:16 (EDT)

My two cents are:
With a name like Ji R�lle? Right.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:39:37 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Ji will move to Frisco to get in touch with her roots and be among her own people. Probably work in an acupuncture shop.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:38:28 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Where does it say that cornholing is a requirement? Is that the way they had it set up in Colorado? No wonder the bluenoses were upset.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:36:27 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Maybe they could go into business together as a combined sex therapy and mime shop. How about mime therapy?

Poejiz

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:34:42 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Out there the guy cornholing the employee gets protection. Let it all hang out.

pur logic

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:34:38 (EDT)

My two cents are:
California is doomed. Soon it will be empty and broke. When that day comes, I'm moving to the Los Angeles basin, probably an abandoned mansion in Beverly Hills. Maybe Chuck Heston's place.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:34:32 (EDT)

My two cents are:
According to the Center for Disease Control, Republicans are 2.7 times as likely to contract AIDS as Democrats. Apparently, the Pro-fetus moral objection to the use of condoms extends to queer Republicans.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:32:45 (EDT)

My two cents are:
We already have the freed to contract STDs, Mr. Logic. What does west have to do with it?

the pooters

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:29:48 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I have no problem with Republicans. I just wish they'd stop cornholing one another.

pooter marshal

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:27:41 (EDT)

My two cents are:
a better analogy... I have no problem with Republicans, I have a problem with them voting.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:24:29 (EDT)

My two cents are:
That wasn't a threat.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:23:15 (EDT)

My two cents are:
"I have no problem with homosexuality," Santorum said, according to the AP. "I have a problem with homosexual acts." I have no problem with Republicans, I have a problem with them breathing.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:21:28 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Shut up and keep heading west. At least out there you'll get benefits and the freedom to contract and spread the STD of your own choosing.

pooter marshall

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:12:01 (EDT)

My two cents are:
During an interview broadcast on the national "Democracy Now" radio program, pro-Israel commentator Daniel Pipes outlined why he advocates the profiling by law enforcement and security personnel of Muslims and Arab-Americans. When program host Amy Goodman asked whether Pipes' support for profiling extended to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, he said: "It's not a subject I know enough about to talk about."

President Bush recently nominated Pipes, considered by many Muslims to be the nation's leading Islamophobe, to the board of the taxpayer-funded United States Institute of Peace (USIP). His nomination must be confirmed by the Senate.

In that same radio interview, Pipes also said razing Palestinian villages from which anti-Israel attacks are launched is acceptable because societies under attack may take "preventive steps." (In a July 18, 2001, article in Canada's National Post newspaper, Pipes said Israel needs to take more active steps to protect its citizens, including razing "villages from which attacks are launched.")

Over the weekend, both the Washington Post and the Dallas Morning News published editorials critical of the president's decision to nominate Pipes to the USIP board. The Post said Congress "should have the good sense to turn (the nomination) down," and the Dallas Morning News called Pipes a "bad choice." In the Jewish Forward, Judith Kipper, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Pipes "has very extreme views."

A number of Muslim and Arab-American-groups have also come out against Pipes' nomination saying he has a long history of advocating the political marginalization of America's Islamic community. The groups point to an October 21, 2001, speech to the American Jewish Congress, in which Pipes warned of the "true dangers" posed by "the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims."

"It is outrageous that someone with undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, both in history, would fail to condemn the unjust internment of Japanese-Americans by disingenuously claiming he is ill-informed. Mr. Pipes obviously knows that he cannot advocate profiling Muslims and Arabs on one hand, and then reject the earlier profiling of Japanese-Americans. This position alone makes Pipes unfit to join the USIP board," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the group that first opposed Pipes' nomination.

Awad added that Pipes has called for increased surveillance of ordinary American Muslims, claims 10 to 15 percent of Muslims are "potential killers," has decried any positive portrayal of Islamic history and beliefs in public schools, and termed the PBS documentary "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" an "outrage." Last year, Pipes faced a storm of criticism when he launched Campus Watch, a web site that included "dossiers" on professors and academic institutions thought to be too critical of Israel or too sympathetic to Islam and Muslims.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:11:42 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I've always wanted to see a real California logging camp "cookhouse."

Mrs. Breightly

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 13:00:57 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Feed on the corpses.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:59:22 (EDT)

My two cents are:
If we keep it in our pants, will they give the benefits back?

the pooters

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:58:20 (EDT)

My two cents are:
It's like getting one of those cards announcing that instead of a Christmas present, someone has made a contribution in your name to some charity you aren't interested in. "Dear American Taxpayer: We are pleased to inform you that in gratitude for all the billions you're going to be pouring into Iraq, the U.S. government has made a sweetheart deal on your behalf with a company you've never heard of." Eighty billion dollars -- the size of just the first expense report the Bush administration has submitted to Congress -- works out to about $1,000 that needs to be kicked in by each household in the United States. Of course we're putting it all on the credit card, to be paid for in the future, with interest. But it's still real money. If we made a contribution that big to our local public broadcasting outlet, we'd qualify for a CD recording by six, nine or even 12 tenors. From the Bush administration, we don't even get a tote bag. But at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that we share a $10 trillion economy with some smiling companies that are doing well out of the war.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:56:30 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Send them pooters to California. They can afford and deserve to have 'em.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:36:47 (EDT)

My two cents are:
COLORADO SPRINGS - The new City Council became the state's first governing body to pull health and family-leave benefits for same-sex partners of city employees - just four months after the city became the state's fifth to offer such benefits.

pooters can just keep it in their pants

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:34:28 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I've always wanted to go on the Gray Line Tour of Gay Neighborhoods and look at the queers! (01)

Glint

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:31:34 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I've always wanted to see the mimes in Union Square in Frisco.

Poe

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:30:04 (EDT)

My two cents are:
If they do run out of money, I hope they don't decommission the trolleys. I've always wanted to ride on the trolleys.

Mrs. Nebrasky Smitty

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:29:07 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Music to mine, too. I'm sick and tired of hearing that if California was a country it would have the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world, ahead of France and Bulgaria. It's about time those kooks stopped rolling in money and face the music. We'll see how smug they feel when they have to start paying taxes again!

Nebrasky Smitty

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:27:44 (EDT)

My two cents are:
I predict we'll get a family sex therapist and maybe a mime.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:18:00 (EDT)

My two cents are:
Or a family sex therapist.

Anonymous.

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:17:11 (EDT)

My two cents are:
(KFWB) 4.22.03, 2:55a -- California could completely run out of money soon.

music to my ears

- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:14:55 (EDT)

My two cents are:
End of Test.} - Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:03:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course a family dentist wouldn't be so bad either.
Glint
Just say N2O! - Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 12:01:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ji had earlier expressed an interest in the biological sciences. Now she seems to be revisiting her decision and is a little uncertain. I suggested something on a parallel track: pharmacology. Would be nice to have a family pharmacist. Might rekindle my extracurricular collegiate research on the subject.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:51:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Comes a time in some women's lives when they realize it's not all about me me me. They put down their shopping bags and their nasty little resentments and pick up the cudgels of freedom! It helps to be outside of Nebraska or other small-minded bluenose states, where people breath freer and stand taller for the natural rights of men and women. So Poo and Jism.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:49:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Arianna Huffington, once a proud Republican, now a proud liberal! So it shall be with the black-clad daughter!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:35:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Living out his dreams of glory in the daughters, huh? Poo and Jism. With luck and study they'll grow up to see the light, regular little Arianna Huffingtons. Especially the chinaman daughter, the Manchurian candidate. I predict that as they age they will stop seeing the humor in corpses, and will come to reject daddy's teaching in other areas as well. Serpents' tooths, both of them.
Spock
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:24:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shhhh... keep it on the q.t. I hear Glint's daughters have been getting good report cards! He's not the type to put on the bumper sticker, though, so most don't know it.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:20:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's frogs in Maine? Wha...? Why hasn't Ashcroft rooted them out? What is Camp X-ray for?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:19:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Sodom" Santorum has a problem with homosexual acts? How many has he experienced?
government belongs in the bedroom?
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:17:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: In the April 7 interview, Santorum describes homosexual acts as a threat to society and the family. "I have no problem with homosexuality," Santorum said, according to the AP. "I have a problem with homosexual acts."
time to topple "Sodom" Santorum?
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:16:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Try Telling the Politicians in Maine That Tax Cuts Are a Great Blessing By FRANCIS X. CLINES UGUSTA, Me. During a break in the Statehouse labors of stanching Maine's revenue hemorrhage, Representative Peter Mills, a rock-ribbed Republican and fiscal conservative, laughed out loud at the very notion of President Bush's dispatching emissaries to lobby the nation for still another big tax cut for wealthy Americans. "They can't talk to us," Mr. Mills warned, stunned at the tax-cutting hubris of the White House. "We're in no mood to listen." In truth, the dozens of political cadres being sent by the president to put pressure on the few Senate Republicans balking at another $550 billion in upper-bracket cuts should be required to stop first at the nation's statehouses. For this is where grass-roots fiscal triage is the relentless agenda lately. Republicans in Washington brag about further choking the downward flow of federal revenues, while ground-zero politicians like Mr. Mills are reduced to being role players in a budgetary version of M*A*S*H. "I can't wait! Olympia's fighting for a mere $350 billion tax cut!" the legislator said of Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, his friend and the lead Republican targeted by the president. "Thank you so much," said Mr. Mills, a career Republican, dripping sarcasm at the chilling effects he expects with the next round of federal tax cuts, whatever the eventual size.
bushist starting calling Sen. Snowe a "Franco-Republican" har har <Snowe's state is filled with citizens of French heritage. Went over great with them! Har har.>
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 11:10:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: France will suffer for its disagreement with the United States over the war in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview with PBS. When asked if France would be punished, Powell replied "Yes," triggering a cross-Atlantic diplomatic crisis that led the European Commission to announced April 23 that the United States would not break international rules of diplomacy that govern relations between nations, Agence France-Presse reports.
Merde! Now we'll have to shut down zee MacDonalds! Sacre bleu! <civilization as we know it eez feenished!>
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 10:52:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's wrong with Blix? Didn't he see the 57 hoodlums and the American crane pulling down the statue? It brought a tear to Mr. Limbaugh's eye every time he saw it.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 10:35:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, sweet. So the Goth kid picks a career that will what a surprise have her living out her father's morbid curiosity.
laughing stalk
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 10:11:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Case for war built on fake reports April 23 2003 chief inspector:... "Is it not disturbing that the intelligence agencies that should have all the technical means at their disposal did not discover that this was falsified?" // The chief United Nations weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has questioned the intelligence used by the United States and Britain to justify attacking Iraq for concealing weapons of mass destruction. Dr Blix, faulted by Washington for not coming up with evidence of illegal weapons, also accused US officials of deliberately seeking to discredit his team in the run-up to the war in a bid to win political support for military action. "I think it's been one of the disturbing elements that so much of the intelligence on which the capitals built their case seemed to have been shaky," he said in a BBC radio interview. Dr Blix, who addressed the UN Security Council late last night on his readiness to send inspectors back to Iraq, said he would not dream of accusing US and British intelligence agencies of fabricating reports on illegal arms. But he questioned their ability to spot "fakes", such as a report Iraq had imported tonnes of raw uranium. "Is it not disturbing that the intelligence agencies that should have all the technical means at their disposal did not discover that this was falsified?" he said. "I think that's very, very disturbing. Who falsifies this?" US and British troops have failed to find nuclear, chemical or biological arms since they launched war and ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
4000 full-grown feti died for Bush's pack of lies
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 10:07:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good point about the file name changing, Glint. PacheLbel has been known to be one litigious bastard.
F. Lee Belli
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 05:05:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: You said "stream!"
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 01:46:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thank Clinton for bringing jism into the mainstream.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 01:44:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poe's been watching here sister fielding scholarship offers from various colleges and undoubtedly wondering about her own future and career choice. I think she might have found one. I was watching a program on the Discovery channel last week on the history of undertaking and embalming. She scooted past, stopped suddently in her tracks, and sat down glued to the tube. Every once in a while I heard her mutter "very interesting" under her breath. She's always been interested in medicine, so why not medical or forensic science? Kids got an education in the science of gathering physical evidence during the Starr inquiry, so it's only natural.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 01:40:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: What am I saying? Poe's the one with the straight A's year in and year out. Ji's had a B this time around.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 01:35:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: "PacheLbel!" Alright, I'll go in and change the filenames of the downloaded .mp3's if it'll make you happy. Actually, don't some players intentionally misspell in order to defeat the copyright robots that patrol the cyberspace looking for Bill Gate's lost coins? An extra lette here, a missing letter there. Anyone looking knows it when they see it. ◊ College of my choice is right. Straight A student. Not in my DNA.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 01:32:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pity?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 00:33:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I want to know, why didn't Glint's mother throw him on the bonfire the day he was born?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 00:32:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Think he should add the merry-go-round music to the CD list. If it's good enough for fgaters it's good enough for stargazers.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 00:12:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing1/witness_kleinberg.htm
read this if you dare, but you don't
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 00:10:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Under the terms of her accreditation to report on the activities of MET Alpha, this reporter was not permitted to interview the scientist or visit his home. Nor was she permitted to write about the discovery of the scientist for three days, and the copy was then submitted for a check by military officials. Those officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted. They said they feared that such information could jeopardize the scientist's safety by identifying the part of the weapons program where he worked
lookee lookee, it's the weimar republi==name it and blame it or civilization is toast-
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 00:07:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: PacheLbel! Jesus fuckin' Christ! Pachelbel! Learn to fuckin' spell! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?????
jOHANN PACHELBEL 1653-1706
- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 00:01:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I got your Christianity right here, bub!
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 22:50:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shia has always been the rigid faith of the poor and oppressed waiting for deliverance. It is seen as a messianic faith which awaits the coming of the "hidden Imam", Allah's messenger who will reverse their fortunes and herald the reign of divine justice.
sounds a bit like Christianity?
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 22:42:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Forget the homework, Ji. No matter how well you do, or how poorly you do, the college of Dad's choice will accept you. Give up.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 22:41:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Overall, a good mix, despite the jarring.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 22:40:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got to go. Am turning you over to Ji who needs this very computer to finish a homework paper.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:47:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Also burning a "Planetarium Moods" CD for use in the star theatre. Here's the tracks. Let me know what you think. This is a long playing disc, about 77 minutes worth.
Glint

01. Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars
02. David Lanz - Cristofori's dream
03. Brian Eno - Ambient Music For Airports 2-1
04. Yoga - Japanese Bamboo Flute
05. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (classical guitar) 
06. Badarzewska-Baranowska - The Maiden's Prayer
07. Enya - The Council of Elrond (from Lord of the Rings) 
08. Meditation (Chinese instrumental)
09. Pachebel - Canon in D (Harp and Flute)
10. david lanz - Dream of the Forgotten Child
11. Oscar Lopez - Classical Soul (classical guitar) 
12. Schubert - Ave Maria in A Major (classical guitar)
13. Brian Eno - Ambient Music For Airports 2-2
14. Enya - Morning Glory
15. Vangelis - Heaven & Hell

- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:39:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: I will personally vouch for President Bush. In doing so, I realize I am putting my good word at some possible risk. Yet I do so in total confidence!
Harl
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:30:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shhh. He's trying to recapture a time that he now thinks was happier.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:28:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: In 1997, two distinguished legal scholars, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins, compared crime rates in the G-7 countries (Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States) between the 1960s and 1990s in their book, "Crime Is Not The Problem: Lethal Violence In America Is." Bluntly, they stated their conclusion: "What is striking about the quantity of lethal violence in the United States is that it is a third-world phenomenon occurring in a first-world nation." Instances of personal violence include but are not limited to barroom brawls, quarrels between acquaintances, business associates, lovers or sexual rivals, family members, or during the commission of a robbery, mugging, or other crime.
according to snippy it's not us, it's all those other red-butted monkeys causing all the trouble in the world
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:26:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: CTA? That would be...Chicago. Look, you can't go wrong if you blow off every group named for a city, state or country.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:21:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not gonna go for that set-up, Glint. Too easy. WORK for your whipping, rube! You gotta EARN it, baby!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:20:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just finished downloading Poem 58 from CTA. I had forgotten how groovy it is, baby!
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:17:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Way to slither back in, Glint. Good approach after "The Troubles."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 21:17:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, blame the Congress. Look, Saddam had us in his cross-hairs and we had to go in. Even with the demoralized Clinton military and the antiquated weapons systems he let rust.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 20:50:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: October 2002, The United States Congress not only granted the president a virtual declaration of war for an historically unprecedented "pre-emptive war," but did so without raising any questions about the whys, the evidence, the costs, or long term implications for the nation � and for the world � of such an unprovoked invasion. Only a democratic society accustomed to war � and predisposed to the use of war and violence � would accept war so quickly, without asking any questions or demanding any answers from its leaders about the war.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 20:43:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: You should be hit with a shoe.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 20:22:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah. Good poster, though. Got a rope around the neck, got it half broken and falling--yep. Good poster.
TOPPLE BUSH NOW!
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:58:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Will Glorp be posting the picture anytime soon of that huge dirty Bush statue being toppled?
curious Carpenteria cousin
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:55:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war23.html
seen this one yet? the last one's the best.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:52:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:51:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Another day, another Clear Channel Hate Jock... Posted Monday, April 21, 2003 by stranger Hesiod points us to yet another hate-filled Clear Channel 'personality' - and this one picks on gay teenagers. Des Moines radio 'personality' Jan Mickleson was running out of places to point his Angry White Man Hate, so he decided to direct it at Gay high school kids who were taking part in a national Day of Silence in solidarity with victims of intolerance. His incitement led to a flurry of harrassing calls to the high school - to the point where student phone clerks had to be relieved of phone duty. Here's Jan Mickleson's email address - send this guy an message that real men don't pick on high school students. Not even real Angry White Men. And be sure to send a copy to his General Manager.
harrassing gay teens--who does this remind you of?
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:41:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stupid Buttflash!
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:39:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, The Lies, The Lies . . . A BUZZFLASH COMMENTARY by Gregg Gordon It was a scene that could not but remind us of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said -- the toppling of that hollow, sheet-metal statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad. Proof for all the world to see that Americans had "liberated" Iraq. The people were joyful. Let the dancing in the streets begin. And most of us bought it. Although the crowd actually seemed a little light by joyful liberation standards, it was a war zone after all. Maybe people just weren't getting out yet. Few doubted the sincerity of those assembled as they smashed the brutal dictator's head with their shoes. But in subsequent days, more glimpses of this scene have been published. Photos of the square from a longer distance than the live TV coverage show a crowd not just small, but pitiably small -- a knot of people in a vast traffic circle cordoned off by American armored vehicles. This crowd would not have made for a respectable bierstube in Germany, much less brought down the Berlin Wall. Another photo showed, among the screamers and chanters, a man who bore a striking resemblance to a figure photographed just a few days earlier in the entourage of Ahmad Chalabi, the convicted bank swindler and fugitive from neighboring Jordan who is Rumsfeld's choice for Hussein's successor.
annals of the bushist fascist Stalinist invasion lemmings
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:35:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think the pictures are a good representation of Glint's thinking. They're a safer way to express these thoughts because somebody else is responsible and Glint can get a pass for a change. Of course, the pictures aren't funny but Glint can always beg off and claim he doesn't think they're funny either. Plus, he probably finds some Gotcha factor in them, which is in line with his upbringing. In fact, I think Nebraska is called The Gotcha State or something. My only problem is, I've grown accustomed to his freelancing about Ramsey Clark, the UN, college professors and jism. The Glint Original Gotchas that he seems so proud of but, because of his charming ignorance, become "Kick Me" signs taped onto his ample butt.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 19:17:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy is just trying to explain what Rumdum meant when he said there's always a bit of untidiness after a war.
Huzzah! I've killed the Devil!" shrieks Punch in his final triumph.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:57:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's being careful today. Sticking with pictures he finds funny and not pretending to know a fucking thing. He's accepting his rubeness. We can indulge him the pictures he thinks are funny and be happy he finally recognizes his limits.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:54:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: You see, he was making a joke about the coat in the image. It looks like a coat with the guy's nametag on it. The kind of coat one might wear working at a gas station. One might also wear a coat like that if one installs satellite TV dishes or drives a bus. But the most funny job a guy with a jacket with his name on the front is gas station attendant. Ho ho ha ha! Do you get it now?
Captain Back of the Book
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:20:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: That little shit Bush is a real embarrassment.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:17:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:05:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy got a job at a gas-station?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:02:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was hard not to watch a movie about a woman getting cancer at the South Pole. But I managed.
guzzler
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 18:01:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I boycotted that made-for-TV movie. Forced myself to watch "The Ten Commandments" instead of "Ice Bound." I'd do it again!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:53:09 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:48:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's got to be Glint's most pathetic post yet. Heston re-run beats Sarandon post. And they said the man wasn't deep.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:40:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: You've got to wonder If Susan Sarandon's bashing of President Bush and the war in Iraq had anything to do with the poor showing of her movie, "Ice Bound," which aired this past Sunday on CBS. "Ice Bound," the true story of Dr. Jerrie Nielsen - who was diagnosed with breast cancer while at the South Pole - averaged only 8.9 million viewers from 9 to 11 p.m., finishing behind both ABC and NBC. You've got to take into account, though, that "Ice Bound" was up against old warhorse "The Ten Commandments," which averaged 12.2 million viewers from 9 to 11 p.m. and 10.6 million viewers overall (7-11 p.m.) with Charlton Heston as Moses.
Heston rerun beats Sarandon premier
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:36:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wonder if they have dicks?
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:29:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Those are lesbos. And so are all the others who laugh at squash face!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:16:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Think you could score with either of those women, Glint? Or would they just laugh like all the others?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:13:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure they're protester. See the sign they're holding?
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:09:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: What disgusts me about that one woman "on her way to a Frisco protest," for all we know, is she appears to have two breasts, unencumbered by the Nebraska Cyclops Squeezer! Yech!
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:08:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ewwwwwww! Armpit hair! EWWWWWW! (01)
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:04:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's especially sad about this fantasy-mongering is the way in which Mr. Bush's 10-year deficits -- totaling anywhere from $1.82 trillion to $6.7 trillion -- squeeze out social spending on the lower and middle classes so that the rich can upgrade their yachts. Massive cuts are already in the works for -- amazingly -- veterans' benefits, student loans, health care for the poor and disabled, food stamps and school lunches. Cuts in Medicaid alone would likely wipe out health insurance for 13.6 million children. About 65,000 abused and neglected children would find themselves without help or protection. Mr. Bush can proceed on this unconscionable course because he has surrounded himself with ideologues who, like him, reject the very idea of government as part of the apparatus of a healthy and humane society. But it won't work, and history will catch up with this crowd. Meanwhile, many will suffer.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:03:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hair club for women? Here's a couple of members, spotted on their way to a Frisco protest.
definitely not "anti-bush" by the look of it
Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 17:03:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Recent days have brought news of the awarding of a contract worth up to $680 million to rebuild Iraqi roads, schools, sewers and hospitals damaged in the war. Bechtel, which is jokingly referred to in business circles as Bushtel, donated $1.3 million to political candidates during the last two election cycles -- with most of it going into the coffers of Republican campaigns, including the 2000 Bush for President effort. Surely, Bechtel is an attractive target for a Congressional investigation of war profiteering--like those begun after World War I and during World War II. But if Congress is going to get serious about war profiteering, there is no better place to begin than the Texas-based Halliburton Corp. energy conglomerate that Vice-President Dick Cheney once headed. According to a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers released this week, a Pentagon contract given without competition to a Halliburton subsidiary to fight oil well fires in Iraq is worth as much as $7 billion over two years.
liberal lies
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:56:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I joined the hair club for women too. To meet chicks.
yellowdog
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:55:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're all tirds. Doinkerz!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:54:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not a belly laugh, fool. It wasn't about bodily fluids. Geesh!
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:49:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Belly-laugh?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:43:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think they found ticketchick in that wierdos basement chained to the radiator. Did you guys hear the news? They are now looking for Ophelia in the Pedernales.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:34:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, ydog, has Ticketchick popped the mangy mongrel yet?
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:30:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I joined the hair club.
yellowdog
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:25:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: No club, grandma. He just works on the basis of the reality of human nature. Every time.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:18:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, that Pete fellow sure is into making moronic pronouncements, isn't he? Is he in a club or something?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:17:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Schulz is a lightweight, a goober. Always has been. Casper Weinberger is the Bechtel guy to watch.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:15:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mr. Shultz was chairman of the fiercely prowar Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was committed to moving beyond the mere political liberation of the oil-rich country to the all-important and conveniently profitable "reconstruction of its economy." Under the headline "Act Now; The Danger Is Immediate," Mr. Shultz, in an op-ed article in The Washington Post last September, wrote: "A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone." Gee, I wonder which company he thought might lead that effort. Last week Mr. Shultz's Bechtel Group was able to demonstrate exactly what wars are good for. The Bush administration gave it the first big Iraqi reconstruction contract, a prized $680 million deal over 18 months that puts Bechtel in the driver's seat for the long-term reconstruction of the country, which could cost $100 billion or more.
feed on the corpses
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:13:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Man, they're really on to the Pensioner's gig. Wish they'd give the old fart a break.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:11:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anybody hear any good feces jokes lately? I could use a belly-laugh.
Glint
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:10:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Forget the universe, I want more information of Pete's seductive actions.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:09:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dark matter? I thought it was the pincher's Klingons.
Bull Moose
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 16:00:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, maybe he's even discovered the dark matter at the edge of the universe. Anonymous. - Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:30:46 (EDT)
Archiver
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:58:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: What sounds sexy in theory is not always what really works on the basis of the reality of human nature. Intellectuals rely on seducing themselves by words and thoughts, not action.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:56:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I love flapjacks. Especially the way the butter oozes out from under 'em on a hot day. Yessirree, sure makes my billy boil.
Earl Z.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:55:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: We altered the premises, and then changed them back. And nobody was the wiser.
the Liebrals
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:54:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: In my opinion, the liebrals changed the premises but didn't alter the premises. Or was it the other way around?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:53:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're right, Pete, scratch another rational conversation because the liebrals changed AND altered the premises so bad that the morons couldn't keep up.
Bamboozled by the Liebrals Again
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:51:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, I for one wish I knew the things Pete knows.
Sleeps on Stumps
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:50:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: More proof that it is impossible to have a rational discussion with liebrals because, by nature, they always change, alter or lie about the premises. Next.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:49:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hell, if he were alive today he could probably explain who has a UN veto and who Carter's attorney general was.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:47:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Allow me to synthesize: Einstein = genius. Pete = moron.
any questions?
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:46:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Einstein were alive today, I bet he could explain which is more powerful, a nuclear explosion or an airplane ramming into a building.
I Miss Albert
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:46:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Over his head" for Pete starts at about the Three Stooges.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:45:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone here besides me have a feeling that when Pete starts talking about Einstein he's in a little over his head? Aren't you supposed to understand the gridlines before you can understand special relativity? Or am I just overreacting?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:44:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nothing arrogant about a waterhead comparing himself with Einstein.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:43:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Einstein was a liberal from way back. Wouldn't trust the guy. I'm sticking with Pete.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:41:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, no. You got me wrong, Pete. I've got no bone to pick with Einstein and science. Einstein did not come across as a Valley Girl. I was talking about you, not Einstein. When YOU address these "issues" it's like Einstein filtered though a Rube Goldberg Vapid Machine. That's why people all laugh at you.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:40:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now Pete pretends to have clue one about Einstein? This is getting good.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:40:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody besides Pete pretended to know there's an edge to the universe?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:39:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not sure liebrals actually do claim to know if there's an edge to the universe. Pete may be blowing smoke up his own ass on this one. I wouldn't go by anything Pete says. It's a fool's errand.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:37:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Leave it to a cowardly anon liberal traitor to think the pursuit of science as Einstein once did was akin to a Valley Girl. The essence of liberal arrogance. Not literal or strict. Loose, licentious. Fits.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:37:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's all this about the liebrals claiming to know if there's an edge to the universe? Where are these liebrals. I have a bone to pick with them.
Into the Universe Edge Issue and Proud of It
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:35:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where you get in trouble on these so-called "issues," Pete, is that you come off like some Valley Girl pondering the Meaning of Life. "Like, wow, wouldn't it be far out if we were, like, all just part of some giant's dream and when he like wakes up, reality as we know it to be, will like stop and we'll like all disappear?" It's not about knowing or not knowing, you see. It's about coming across as a waterhead. Hope this helps.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:27:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well at least I don't chortle on issues like trying to claim I know whether there is an edge to the universe or if it is infinite. The pondering of those options is fuzzy enough. Only liberals are arrogant enough to claim to know.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:22:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: I purposely ignored commenting on the "penisless" yuck posted by the obviously faux patriot (didn't pass the code test, dontcha know.) That doesn't mean I didn't chortle though. It was a real chortler.
Pensioner
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:12:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Has Pete given up his belief that God is the vibration at the edge of the universe? Geesh, first it's Jim Jones, then the Bahai, then Zen, the Pentacostalism, the edge-vibration cult, now he's ready to jump to what?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:09:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Penisless 28-year-olds? I don't get it, false dude.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 15:07:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: It hurts to be called an old fart by those who may well die horrible early deaths before they become old farts.
Pensioner
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:57:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: We all know you envy penisless 28 year olds you old fart.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:53:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Saying there might be or might not be an edge is entirely different from citing the "edge of the universe" as if it is fact. Get a clue. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:52:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would I envy a bunch of penniless 28 year-olds?
Pensioner
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:51:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong, 14:43 is the failed one. (01)
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:50:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: 14:36:31 fails the code test. Doinkerz. (01)
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:43:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2007, may provide definitive answers. Its lens will be three times bigger than Hubble's, and it will be able to see objects 20 to 25 times fainter, according to Ed Weiler, head of NASA's office of space science. Some astronomers hope it will let them view the very edge of the universe, the "dark zone" beyond which there are no stars or galaxies. "If the Next Generation telescope doesn't see the edge, I don't know what would," said Weiler.
perhaps there is an edge
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:42:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not going to scroll through this looking for the class envy, Pete. Please let us know where it is.
potential enemy of pensioner
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:42:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Class envy? What do you say to that, pensioner?
Gozer
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:40:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: MEDIUM oysters, sliced into bite-size pieces 1 tsp. Real Bacon Bits 2 Tbls. vegetable cooking oil 1 Tbls. butter 1 clove garlic, crushed 3 Medium sized fresh mushrooms, chopped coarsely 2 Tbls. chopped green onion 1 Tbls. chopped green pepper 2 large eggs, scrambled with 2 Tbls. of Half and Half Using small saute pan, gently heat the cooking oil, butter and bacon bits. When butter is melted, add the oysters and garlic. Heat till mixture bubbles, stirring continually, then add the vegetables to the pan. Cook for about 2 minutes, then add the egg mixture and cook until the eggs are firm. Be sure that you stir the mixture well to prevent the burning of the eggs and oysters. Serve as we do with golden hash browns and a fresh fruit cup.
Captain Fresh Fruit Cup
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:39:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Isn't there bacon in a Hangtown fry as well?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:37:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, Pensioner's "party" preaches inclusion, but we all know that is just another lie as he demonstrates below with his class envy and prejudices. And, leave it up to a delusional socialsit to think there is an "edge" to the universe. Spouts about God and knowing more than anyone else. Pretty typical for an infinity-challenged socialsit liar troupe.
Pete�
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:36:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: A hangtown fry is a hangtown fry, professes to be nothing more. Nowhere near the worst stuff anyone et. I've had 'em in Hangtown, in Sonora, in Frisco, and it's always the same, eggs and oysters. What's to not like?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:36:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shadow puppetry! I knew there was a reason SCOTUS selected this guy!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:30:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who cares? As long as he retains that feisty rube inferiority complex, he's still good for the belly-laughs.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:20:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's feeling low and mean right about now. He thinks he's put a week's worth of screw-ups behind him, cowered them away, and the first thing he does for his comeback is call some minor college administrator a professor. Crack does that.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:16:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ever stop in Slumgullion for the Slumgullion Stew? Yech!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:02:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Once had breakfast in Placerville. Hangtown Fry. Worst shit I ever et. Ersters and scrambled eggs.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 14:01:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: How ya doing, Germany-Boy?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:54:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: The important thing about this college administrator (professor to rubes) is the places he CHOSE to go. Nebraska and Florida. Should have been arrested before he got drunk and watched a woman take her clothes off.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:51:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: This peeping tom Lewis fellow was from Arkansas. Figures, doesn't it?
Glint
Arkansas Connection - Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:47:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: These yahoos have conjured up the notion that people protest out of some hatred of Snippy. It's all they can understand given their 8 year hatefest of Clinton. Few people hate the Snip. What's to hate or love about the little drunk?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:40:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: "A desperate Saddam Hussein did not unleash horrible weapons on U.S. troops or his own people."
some threat to the U.S., eh Snippy?
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:39:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: You should read what you post, rube. Professor? Hyuck, hyuck. Belly-laugh.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:37:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: The "war" was just a lie. Bush had no interest in "liberating" Iraq. Over and over, he repeated that all Saddam had to do was disarm and there would be no war, i.e., no "liberation." Apparently, Bush lied.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:36:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Professor? Well, no. He was the "university's associate vice president for administrative services." Processed job applications. A Republican job.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:33:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: But wasn't the war illegal? Absolutely not. Independent action by countless countries and long inaction by the United Nations have ``thrown the law into a state of confusion such that legal rules are no longer clear and no authoritative answer is possible,'' explains Michael J. Glennon, professor of international law at Tufts University, writing in Foreign Affairs. ``The default position of international law has long been that when no restriction can authoritatively be established, a country is free to act.'' It was a low-casualty war that freed a people from a sadistic dictator, while making the world safer and ultimately more prosperous. The torture chambers and children's prisons are closed. And the price of oil will eventually drop. What's not to like for the protesters - other than President Bush himself?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:29:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: P resident Bush remains under intense criticism in many parts of the world, and the barbs are echoed by protesters here in America who see the Iraqi invasion as a selfish and illegal grab for oil. Winning the war in the most humane exercise of overwhelming force in history did nothing to convince the detractors that Bush might be even partially right. And they are unfazed that almost every prediction and analysis they made has proved wrong. A desperate Saddam Hussein did not unleash horrible weapons on U.S. troops or his own people. The latest intelligence indicates he played it safe and buried, destroyed or shipped out of the country evidence of such weapons shortly before the war began. (Could he have shipped himself out too?) Thousands of refugees didn't pour into neighboring countries. Oil wells were rigged with explosives, but U.S. troops outraced the saboteurs. That meant the price of oil didn't soar. Last month Iraq's deputy oil minister predicted that war would drive the price of oil up to $70 a barrel, higher even than in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The anti-war crowd confidently predicted economic disaster. Prices peaked at $37.83 a barrel a week before the war began, then fell to the high twenties when it was clear the oil fields were safe. This further irritated oil-producing countries, especially Russia. Russia is so outraged that it now insists sanctions remain until Saddam's weapons are found. For years, Russia wanted to lift international sanctions. It said that, weapons or not, sanctions cause intolerable hardships for the Iraqi people. While the United States and other members of the coalition try to nurse Iraq back to health, Russia and others now want the tourniquet kept cripplingly tight. Economic punishment now that Saddam is gone is immoral, but the policy works for Russia. The prospect of sanctions remaining already has the price of oil rising. Defenders of Saddam also said that Iraq was no friend of terrorism. Yet terrorists - including Abu Abbas, convicted of organizing the 1985 murderous hijacking of a cruise ship - are being captured in Baghdad. Again, Bush was right.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:29:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: TAMPA (AP) - A high-ranking administrator with the University of South Florida has been placed on indefinite paid leave after his arrest on a charge of peeping into a neighbor's window as she dressed. Scott W. Lewis, 48, was charged Thursday with voyeurism, a first-degree misdemeanor, Tampa police said Monday. Lewis, the university's associate vice president for administrative services, was released from jail Friday after posting $500 bail. He did not respond to requests for comment Monday. It could not immediately be determined if he had an attorney. Lewis' neighbor was getting dressed at Thursday night when she saw someone looking into her bathroom window, police said. Police said Lewis appeared intoxicated when he was arrested and later acknowledged peeping in the window. "He's on leave while we learn more about and examine the situation," USF spokesman Michael Reich said Monday. Lewis came to South Florida from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was associate vice chancellor for business and finance, according to his resume.
Another drunk Liberal college professor
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:24:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Think they're moving down my way. If not moving, a lot of commuting going on.
sigh
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:17:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, here in the Bay Area, we're rejoicing that San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties lost more population than anywhere in the country the past two years. Apparently, the "Dot Bomb" is at the heart of it. Lots of former 25 year-old millionaires have left to seek employment at the Lincoln, Nebr Walmart, which has resulted in lower rents and more vacancies. House prices continue to rise, however, probably due to low interest rates. I know a guy who just got a one bedroom apartment for $1300/month. Last tenant paid $1800. It's all good. Fewer Dot-brats and fewer resident rubes.
Pensioner
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 13:07:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Corn diggity-doo-dah! Nebrasky's growin', Myrt, gittin' bigger and better by the day. Oh, they's naysayers around who said it probly weren't happenin'. Liars and city-slickers most likely.
Crease Forehead, Jr.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 12:45:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: "probably lost pop" Lie?
doubt it
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 12:31:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: "There were only two counties in Cali that lost population in the last census, one of them my freehold Perot county...the whole state of Nebraska probably lost pop, and no wonder why." - Commander Dotbrain. From the Center for Public Affairs Research Nebraska State Data Center (2001): "Information from the 2000 Census released on March 15th by the US Census Bureau put Nebraska's population at 1,711,263 persons. This was an 8.4 percent increase since the 1990 Census count."
Another day, another lie outed.
Glint - Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 12:18:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: We've been sending illicit weapons to Syria since the 1990's, figuring that the Syrians would give them back if we ever needed them.
Mysterious Scientist
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 12:16:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snort in derision as you may, I am quite pleased that a mysterious Iraqi scientist has shown up to explain everything.
patriot
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 11:54:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, what do you want, a bellylaugh-free smoking gun or a safe scientist?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 11:51:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: When are we going to hear more about the mysterious Iraqi scientist who lead the troopers to where he buried the evidence, the building blocks of bad things? Oh, that's right, the reporter was not permitted to interview the scientist or visit his home. Nor was she permitted to write about the discovery of the scientist for three days, and the copy was then submitted for a check by military officials. Those officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted. They said they feared that such information could jeopardize the scientist's safety by identifying the part of the weapons program where he worked
Dang that need to not jeopardize the scientist's safety!
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 11:50:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's spring. Time for WMD planting.
johnny a-bombseed
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 10:21:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hunt for Iraqi Arms Erodes Assumptions HUNT FOR WMD TURNS UP NOTHING. By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 22, 2003; Page A01 CAMP DOHA, Kuwait -- With little to show after 30 days, the Bush administration is losing confidence in its prewar belief that it had strong clues pointing to the whereabouts of weapons of mass destruction concealed in Iraq, according to planners and participants in the hunt. After testing some -- though by no means all -- of their best leads, analysts here and in Washington are increasingly doubtful that they will find what they are looking for in the places described on a five-tiered target list drawn up before fighting began
are you shocked? awed? disgusted? 4000 dead grown up feti died for these lies.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 10:20:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Late Wednesday night -- after 12 hours of negotiations in their fractious divorce case -- presidential sibling Neil Bush and his wife of 23 years, Sharon Bush, reached what Neil's Houston attorney, Rick Flowers, described as "an amicable, irrevocable mediated settlement agreement." But Sharon's attorney, David Brown, complained that Neil's "adultery" with Houston mother of three Maria Andrews -- the 40-year-old ex-wife of oilman Robert Andrews and a volunteer in former first lady Barbara Bush's Foundation for Family Literacy -- couldn't be considered under Texas divorce law. "He acknowledged that his girlfriend was working for his mama," said Brown.
is barbara the most dirty bush?
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 10:17:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: AP: The United States expects an eventual government of Iraq to be a democracy where the rights of minorities are guaranteed, not a theocracy run by clerics such as in neighboring Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says.
that's what they expect? what if the clerics wint the election? wait a minute. I know the Pubbie Stalinist answer to that!
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 10:10:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Perhaps check this one out. http://www.msnbc.com/news/wld/graphics/strategic_israel_dw.htm
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 02:06:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glad they destroyed them days before the war, instead of keeping them and using them against our troops.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 02:03:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, great. This scientist surfaces, and he happens to know that Hussein had sent stuff to Syria and that anyway he has taken to only pursuing projects that are virtually impervious to detection by international inspectors, and by gwarsh even American forces on the ground combing through Iraq's giant weapons plants! And, oh, by the way, he also has the dope on how Iraq has been cooperating with Al Qaeda! And to cap it all off, the mysterious scientist has buried evidence of Iraq's illicit programs, it's right over yonder, the supply of material on the building blocks of illegal weapons. The guy is almost too good to be true!
With the 101st Airborne? ... Iraqi scientist... wha?
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 01:46:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: WITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, south of Baghdad, Iraq , April 20 : "A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons program for more than a decade has told an American military team that Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began, members of the team said. They said the scientist led Americans to a supply of material that proved to be the building blocks of illegal weapons, which he claimed to have buried as evidence of Iraq's illicit weapons programs. The scientist also told American weapons experts that Iraq had secretly sent unconventional weapons and technology to Syria, starting in the mid-1990's, and that more recently Iraq was cooperating with Al Qaeda, the military officials said. The Americans said the scientist told them that President Saddam Hussein 's government had destroyed some stockpiles of deadly agents as early as the mid-1990's, transferred others to Syria, and had recently focused its efforts instead on research and development projects that are virtually impervious to detection by international inspectors, and even American forces on the ground combing through Iraq's giant weapons plants. An American military team hunting for unconventional weapons in Iraq, the Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, or MET Alpha, which found the scientist, declined to identify him, saying they feared he might be subject to reprisals. But they said that they considered him credible and that the material unearthed over the last three days at sites to which he led them had proved to be precursors for a toxic agent that is banned by chemical weapons treaties. The officials' account of the scientist's assertions and the discovery of the buried material, which they described as the most important discovery to date in the hunt for illegal weapons, supports the Bush administration's charges that Iraq continued to develop those weapons and lied to the United Nations about it. Finding and destroying illegal weapons was a major justification for the war. The officials' accounts also provided an explanation for why United States forces had not yet turned up banned weapons in Iraq. The failure to find such weapons has become a political issue in Washington. Under the terms of her accreditation to report on the activities of MET Alpha, this reporter was not permitted to interview the scientist or visit his home. Nor was she permitted to write about the discovery of the scientist for three days, and the copy was then submitted for a check by military officials. Those officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted. They said they feared that such information could jeopardize the scientist's safety by identifying the part of the weapons program where he worked." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20030421/ts_nyt/illicit_arms_kept_till_eve_of_war__an_iraqi_scientist_is_said_to_assert
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 01:26:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmmm, meant to type dark zone not dark matter.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:52:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, maybe he's even discovered the dark matter at the edge of the universe.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:30:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course I know, madame. So do the other 22. It is the troglodytes who have always had the tin ear.
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- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:28:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: And Glit? Well, Glit never had any potential, once he left amateur astronomy and apprentice computer engineering. Glit was just a guy whose jism hangup led him into nipping around the edges of civic affairs when the Republicans tried to bring down Clinton for being a horndog. The sooner Glit gets back to his Popular Science subscription and learns to leave politics to people who haven't been limited to the rube bubble, the happier he will be. Maybe he can find a Pino hermaphrodite site that is a better fit for his aptitudes.
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- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:26:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tiny Ponto knows who's who.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:25:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete lost all his potential when the women stopped identifying themselves as women, and he couldn't work his patented Lounge Lizard Larry magic. No more could we see the oily lothario at work. In a few weeks he was reduced to complaining that his brother-in-law had stolen his favorite telscope eyepiece. I would have been sad were it not mildly hilarious.
Menos Que Ponto
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:08:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean, sheeit, even Gnat is spiking these clowns. And not an evil bone in her body.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:05:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Back in the day there were troglodytes to deal with who had a little more on the ball. Jeremiah. MK. H-man. Even the crynic put a little spit on it. These losers who pop in these days are just the masochists, the pain boys. It's hardly worth stomping them.
Well, THIS is more fun than I can stand.
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:04:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I feel sort of superfluous here, I want you to know, now that Glit has gone under cover and Pete pops in only now and then to hurl a feeble imprecation. I used to have a purpose in life, but now that the pensioner and E rule this page, I may just have to shuffle off to watch Beverly Hills, 90210 re-runs.
Commandante Menos Que Ponto
- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 00:01:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: She was much-hated Brenda from Beverly Hills, 90210?
Brenda?
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:57:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: This Sean Doherty sounds interesting. What shows was he in?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:56:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Birth Name: Shannen Maria Doherty Birthdate: April 12, 1971 Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee Occupation: Actor Claim to Fame: Played Brenda on Beverly Hills, 90210 Significant Other(s): Rob Weiss, actor, director; met in 1994; announced engagement December 1995; reportedly separated April 1996 Husband: Ashley Hamilton, actor, only son of actor George Hamilton; married September 24, 1993, two weeks after they met; separated after five months; filed for divorce April 1994. Judd Nelson, actor; together 1994; met on the set of Blindfold Chris Foufas, real-estate developer; couple exchanged commitment rings 1991; separated 1992 Dean Factor, owns photo studio; met in 1990; briefly engaged; separated 1991 Family: Father: Tom Doherty Mother: Rosa Doherty Brother: Sean Doherty; born in 1967.
Also a great pal of Ari Fleischer
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:55:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is Shannen Doherty?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:50:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too hard core to burn.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:49:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looking at the blue and red county map, I notice that America's major sinsimilla-producing counties all voted for Gore. The ditch-weed baliwicks pretty much went for the Snipster. Makes me feel like rolling up a doobie, although I sure Glit could roll it a lot better if he was glorifying himself to punks in the parkin-lot.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:48:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I could never understand this. Why didn't Ari Fleischer's mother throw him on the bonfire the day he was born?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:45:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy is standing at a Clintonesque approval level, but his own boys in the Senate are selling him out. This character, Grassley, made a deal that no tax cut comes out committee that is over less than half of what the Snip claims is good for the economy. So he's got Ari Fleischer saying that we need the tax cut to ensure that our boys in Iraq have jobs to come back to. Worth a belly-laugh or two when you consider that it's a volunteer military, and the jobs they come back to will be the same ones they never left. And then you've got your reservists, who by law are guaranteed whatever job they left. So maybe I am starting to understand what's funny about the Three Stooges.
Commandante Menos Que Ponto.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:44:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was raining, even in the valley. Practically unheard of in California, as noted below by the Frisco guy. Came back up through the Mother Lode, through Tuttletown, and Angels Camp where they have the frog contest, and Fourth Crossing and Dogtown, and San Andreas, and Moke Hill, Mokelumne Hill, and Jackson, and Sutter Creek, and Amador City, and Drytown and stopped short of Placerville, Hangtown, and down home through Bridge House and Sloughouse and Jackon-Latrobe Highway. Man, I haven't been up there since February 1984 and all sorts of new rubes have moved in-- these foothill counties are easy prey to the Rotarians and Realtors and end up four-by-fouring ground and marketing theoretically buildable lots as their main industry, selling them to dentists from Iowa and Nebraska, and it just gets worse and worse. It's the San Franciscization of the Mother Lode. I seen it happen all over this once-great state, starting in southern Cali, which, to tell the truth, never had much of a chance to begin with, despite Harold Loyd, but the carbuncle has spread. There were only two counties in Cali that lost population in the last census, one of them my freehold Perot county. Sheeit, the whole state of Nebraska probably lost pop, and no wonder why.
Commander Less Than Dot
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:36:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: And it's fun to kick Arab ass when your're in a rebuilt Abrams and they're in something left over from the Battle of Kursk, the Death Ride of the Panzars.
patriot
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:24:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Meeting down in Sonora today. Sweet young thing, new to the job, didn't feel like going, which they told me Friday so I went this morning. Went down through Lodi and Farmington and Jamestown, but anyone coming from the west goes through Jimtown. Found out at the meeting why she didn't want to go, there was this fat tub of shit, a Pete type, who was whining and bitching about her. So I cut him, hard and stern and tough and courageous like Glint yapping about greasing stalinists. And afterward I told his boss, be nice to my dewey young colleage because she doesn't like what this fat tub of Pete-like shit does to her, and she said yes, yes she would. Haw. It was like kicking Arab ass!
patriot
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:22:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: The pisser about that county vote map is that my freehold retreat county up north voted for Snip. Last time a Bush was running they had a choice, and voted for Perot.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:16:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Famous European paper reports they have a CIA transcript that says Iran, not Saddam Hussein, used chemical weapons against Kurds in Halabja in 1988, based on post-mortem inspections and what chemicals each nation had in its arsenal.
oh shit. now we have to reanimate the 4000 full grown fetuses we executed? oh shit. my bad. well, snippy's bad. way bad.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:15:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, Bigger, Longer, Uncut. And what's wrong with being anonymous? Almost as good as posting faux Blump and etPe
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:12:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was pretty funny watching all the Stalinists on MSNBC reacting all pissed off to being called Stalinists.
Bwa ha ha haha
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 23:08:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: And don't even THINK of telling me you're not a traitor! I'm on to your gig!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:43:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Popular vote, my ass! He also probably won Florida. Not that the votes were ever counted, but so what? What's your point??? Let's roll!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:42:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody must have wanted him if he won the popular vote.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:37:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Like a hunched-back, three-toed marsupial, Al Gore soon found out he was "NOT WANTED" in over 2000 counties. Dontha know and save the last dance for me.
L.G.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:22:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too bad Newt flaked out. Now there was a guy who knew how to amend the Constitution. Didn't he ram about 29 of the suckers through?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:14:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is the Republican Dream. To have "free elections" based on square miles taken and counties won. The Electoral College and Supreme Court are nice, but not as reliable as red counties and square miles. Glint prays every night for this change.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:12:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, I was being facetious. I think Snippy is doomed unless he can steal the next "election" too. Get the Supreme Court to base the result on counties.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:10:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't be to sure. Appears Snippy has let the Shiite Muslims out of the Pandora Box and is in a quandary as to how to handle it.
if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same...
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 22:03:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint and Pete can smell total dominance.
'nuff said
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 21:36:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aw, give up. Bush stands at 73% approval, which is positively Clintonesque. And it's already April, 2003. Once the tax cuts kick in there will be wealth. Halliburton and Bechtel are at full employment. There is no hope for us traitors. They are on to our gig. We're phuct.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 21:35:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks to Bush & Co., America is hated the world over as never before. Deficits are exploding, unemployment remains high, the stock market is still in the tank and interest rates are poised to take off. The country is headed to hell in a handbasket from so many directions one can barely keep track. And yet the increasingly Foxified media tell a story only of heroism: of the US military, of the American people and of the President of the United States, who has so far managed to avoid service to either one.
awash in a sea of red
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 20:50:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are you saying Glint's a liar? I'll kick your a$$!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 20:22:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, whoever it was, it wasn't me. But thanks to whoever posted that map. take that liberal scum!
Glint
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 20:19:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, so now you're trying to say Gore won! Traitor!!!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 20:18:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody clipped off the right hand side of the map, where the total vote appeared.
as if
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 20:04:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Blue part of Cali map is where most of the people live."
obviously, it's the same everyehere in the country
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:58:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: As-Saliyah, Qatar - Australian forces have found 51 combat planes at an abandoned airfield in western Iraq, a military spokesman said Friday at the war command's headquarters in Qatar. "In the last 24 hours, we were asked to secure an airfield in the western Iraq region. We encountered very little resistance, there were no casualties," said Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Eliott. "We found 51 attack aircraft... well camouflaged, well concealed, and a lot of small weaponry - all conventional," the Australian military spokesman said. Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks said that several MiGs were among the planes found by the Australian troops. Invading forces encountered no enemy aircraft during their three-week war on Saddam Hussein's regime and enjoyed complete freedom of the skies apart from some ground fire. - Sapa-AFP
what, all those planes and no pilots?
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:42:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The map just goes to prove that more dirt voted for Snippy than Gore.
Give land the vote!
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:41:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The people of Tikrit are like the rest of Iraq. They hated Saddam Hussein. I want to kill him," the 28-year-old cafe-owner spat out his words. But as lorry-loads of US Marines trundled through the arch, he switched focus: "This is an occupation. Nothing else. We will keep quiet for a year and if they have not gone we will kill them." The gratitude for removing Saddam Hussein on which Washington mistakenly expected to bank for years is almost exhausted. Those who warned the Bush administration against this war have been proved right. Only in the Kurdish areas of the north is there any satisfaction.
sounds as if they might bite the hand that offered freedom fries
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:32:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're not Glint. Glint is cowering!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:23:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whoever posted that map, thanks.
Glint (take that liberal scum!) OOPS!
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:22:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bangladesh Ferry Sinks; 55 Bodies Found. YES!!!!!!!!!!
Glint
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:20:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean there's one county for all of Los Angeles?
mind blown in Nebr
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:19:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blue part of Cali map is where most of the people live. Not that many on the mountain side of the state.
red part of map=bush=big time deficit
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 19:01:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush won more Cali counties than Gore and still got his ass stomped in Cali? Go figure.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:51:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: How do you start a county?
Cali dude feeling deprived
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:47:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cower, Germany-Boy, cower.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:46:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some of them states look like they have a county every 500 yards. Poor Cali. Only 59 counties. No fair! That's downright cruel to would-be local yokels who aspire to county office. Un-American!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:45:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, how the hell did Gore get so many more, er, votes?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:42:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush won more square miles!!!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:40:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush! Our man for County Board of Supervisors!
especially the counties where there's more livestock than American people!
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:40:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks, whoever posted that map. You know, I don't think there's a single blue county in the entire state of Nebraska.
Glint
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:29:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: MODESTO, Calif. - Charges were filed Monday against Scott Peterson, who faces two counts of murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife and unborn son. The Stanislaus County district attorney filed the charges hours before Peterson, 30, was expected to be arraigned in a Modesto courtroom. District Attorney James Brazelton said in the filing that Peterson acted "intentionally, deliberately and with premeditation" in killing 27-year-old Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson, the couple's unborn child. The charges include the special circumstance that Peterson committed more than one murder, allowing the district attorney to seek the death penalty. California law permits a murder charge for a fetus if a pregnant woman is slain, even if the fetus is not viable, said Hallye Jordan, spokeswoman for the state attorney general. The law has been on the books for about 30 years.
good law, exercise it
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:27:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: BUSH COUNTRY

Take that Liberal scum!

- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:24:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin was beheaded by the sword on Monday in the Saudi capital Riyadh, the interior ministry said. SNIP Saudi Arabia applies a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law, imposing the death penalty for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery, drug trafficking and repeated drug use.
doesn't say which head they snipped off
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:23:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: God�, you have that kind of gaudy furniture in your palace?
surely not
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:17:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Simone womand could sing quite the jig.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:16:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died of natural causes at the age of 70. In a statement, her manager said she died at her home near Marseille in southern France.
the damn ©unt died where?
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:15:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Furniture looked pretty gaudy to me.
before and after bombing
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:10:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: What 17:45 says is not true.
GOD�
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:07:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Leave it to the liberal media to first doubt, then dodge, then reluctantly go along, then retract, then redoubt, then dodge, then demonize. The cycle of Liberal politics. Ain't it great!
doubt it
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 18:06:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some pretty good parody going on here. Yee-haw!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 17:56:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: And so it went. A torrent of propaganda deceiving Americans into believing Iraq was armed to the teeth with WMDs, somehow responsible for 9/11, and intending, as Bush repeatedly claimed, to attack the U.S. Inspectors found no WMDs. So far, neither have U.S. occupation forces. No nukes. No poison gas and dispersing systems. No Scud missiles. No al-Qaida camps. Just lots of palaces filled with hideous Mesopotamian baroque furniture and a ruined, destitute nation.
but maybe if they keep looking they'll find....?
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 17:45:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: [ahem]
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- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 17:39:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I knows Jigaboo!
eenie meenie minee moe ..
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 17:39:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey! Now wait just one minute. Only we get to race bait. We all must be on to this jig, er, gig.
Pensioner
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 17:38:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: You sure you aren't on to a jig?
patriot
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 17:38:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: The gig is not false. It's a real gig. And I'm on to it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 16:44:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: That gig is false? How would Pensioner know? He knows Alioto, but he don't know Boo.
Jerry Santana
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 16:40:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: One word: Kuwait.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 16:40:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Iran? Nah.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 16:39:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Syria? Nah.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 16:39:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rumdum said we went into Iraq to stop them from threatening their neighbors. Which neighbors were they threatening? Does he consider the U.S. a neighbor of Iraq?
just wondering
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 16:00:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: We hate handouts. If you're a FOS (Friend of Snippy) all you got to do is stick your hand IN the treasury and pull out all you can.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:56:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Handout? What handout? Where can I get me one of them handouts?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:54:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh My God We Are So Goddamn Broke Ha Ha Ha Ha The government ran up a deficit of $252.6 billion in the first six months of the 2003 budget year, nearly twice the total for the same period a year earlier, cuz they're just that goddamn snickeringly hell-bent on trashing the economy for the benefit of BushCo's giddy money-drunk WASP mafia cronies, woo hoo! What, too bitter? The latest figures, released by the Treasury Department, highlighted the government's deteriorating fiscal situation and mind-numbing molestation of the national treasury, suckers, ha ha ha guess what while you were all dumbstruck watching the war on TV ShrubCo was busy doing to the nation what Jenna does to a beer bong, beeyatch. Record deficits are forecast this year and next, ha ha ha hahahahaha. The total deficit so far this fiscal year compares with a shortfall of $131.9 billion a year earlier. "We sincerely hope to quintuple that number by this time next year, and lose money so fast it makes the very core of your being swoon with sadness and bitter rage," said Dick Cheney, picking his teeth with the dried arm bone of an Iraqi child.
go, mark, go
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:50:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, False Anonymous, us pensioners are all tied to the welfare state. We "need" the handout to exist and we "must" defend the system that will soon be overloaded with our extremely liberal bretrhren.
Pensioner
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:44:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's the rubes who stayed behind got that crease down the middle of the brow.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:31:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm on to your gig, false Pensioner.
Pensioner
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:28:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Truthfully, I guess you could say we are all rubes. One way or the other, given our agrarian roots. But I will defend to the death my right to naysay. What else is there left for us to do? Oh, woe is me!
Pensioner
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:22:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I blame self-indulgent agenda driven rube dude democtrats. Hindsight is always 20/20.
patriot
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 15:21:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: By major rubage, I mean LOTS AND LOTS OF RUBES! Potato people with creases down the middle of their forheads. Pasty piano legs with spider veins. Squashed faces breathing through the mouth. Couples with matching T-shirts, their wall-eyed, no-neck children ankling alongside. You hear the rubes talking about "the drought in San Francisco," unaware that it hardly EVER rains in the summer. Major, major rubage.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 14:48:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean, we're talking major rubage. I blame Alioto. Didn't used to be like this.
Pensioner
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 14:32:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Personally, I'd be glad if it was true that Glint hates San Francisco, although I'm pretty skeptical that it is true. For Glint, it's all some weird gotcah to say he hates SF. But, it would be nice if he could convince all the other rubes that SF sucks. Otherwise, the rube hordes will be flying in like locusts again in about a month and a half. Sure, they leave all their money here but, geesh, that's a lot of rubes!
Pensioner
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 14:27:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess Pete and Glint part company on San Francisco. Other than that, they're in solidarity and they're both perverts.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 14:04:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stupid San Francisco! Stupid Paris! Stupid Rome! Smart Omaha!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:58:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here's the pattern: Glint starts free-lancing, says something stupid, gets reamed out for saying something stupid, tries briefly to weasel his way out, disappears, then comes back anonymously with some nonsensical pictures and posts about the moon, the stars or minimal sigs. What was that about Germany, rube?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:45:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: For those of you who live in sane areas of the world, yes, people like this do indeed exist.
Glint, addressing the multitudes
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:42:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: been to a lot of San Francisco peace rallies, rube? Is this the beginning of today's picture flood to wipe out the memory of yesterday's humiliation? You're pretty predictable, rube.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:41:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any good peace rally in San Francisco would not be complete without a delusional hippy moron making ridiculous claims. For those of you who live in sane areas of the world, yes, people like this do indeed exist.
California nut
Take that Liberal scum!

- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:37:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: "This particularly grotesque sign was all over the protest. I can understand the sentiment, showing a baby to put a human face on the clinical concept of collateral damage. It's the same tactic used by the anti-abortion folks when they show aborted fetuses and the like. The thing that puzzled me was the choice of the baby. I'm no doctor, but to me the misshapen head on this child indicates some sort of birth defect. But when your goal is to score a propaganda victory amongst a group of people whose entire ideology is based on pure emotion, using a deformed baby seems a natural choice."
liberals sure are stupid
Take that Liberal scum!

- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:34:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is it a wonder this Doherty says she's a Republican?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:34:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is Shannen Doherty?
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:33:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Taht says it all.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:24:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't let him off the hook on the German thing. Make him 'splain!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:23:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: On Thursday night's Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC, Shannen Doherty extolled her love for Donald Rumsfeld, said she's �a big supporter of President Bush� and revealed that on her refrigerator she displays a picture of herself with Ari Fleischer. Doherty proclaimed: �I'm a Republican...I'm a big supporter of President Bush.�
wonders never cease
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:22:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.famousidiot.com/
Not in my name!
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:15:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh-huh. Blank space equals a sig. You win. Go away, rube. Cower like a good rube.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:06:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, I was wondering how our little fighting force managed to beat the mighty Iraqis. How diabolically clever! On to North Korea!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:05:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Blank" has size. Notice the space below and get a clue.

- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 13:04:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aerial deception and misdirection, network-centric warfare and advanced communications were combined to swiftly collapse Iraq's defenses. One clue to clandestine U.S. activity came from television footage shot early in the conflict of Iraqi soldiers combing the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad and shooting into stands of reeds. The hunt for downed coalition pilots was triggered by two over-age U.S. Air Force Predator UAVs that had been stripped of equipment and flown into the city's airspace to probe its air defenses. Intelligence officials also monitored Iraqi communications during the search to see what was left functioning of Iraq's military command and control system. The unmanned aircraft were never shot down and finally ran out of fuel, which doubtlessly told analysts something about the state of Iraq preparations. Baghdad was the zone of the country's most concentrated air defenses. One Predator plunged into the Tigris and the second into a lake. The UAVs were referred to as "chum" because they served as bait for the anti-aircraft defenses.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:59:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: He only comes here for the abuse.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:55:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cower, rube. It's best. Unless, of course, you want to 'spain y'sef.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:52:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Minimal" requires size. It IS size. Stupid rubes!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:51:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Blank" ≠ ("no sig" ≡ empty set {})

see it? there it is, not nothing., - Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:50:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the smallest sig is no sig, which also happens to make no sig the smallest apple too. And the smallest tird.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:44:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: The smallest apple is no apple.
rube logic
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:43:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: O.K. you win, revisionist Zenist. A dot is more minimal than nothing.

- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:41:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, yeah, we get it. Blank is no "sig." Now, cower.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:39:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dot is minimum sig? Wish someone had told me earlier.

- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:34:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: As you were, rube. Cower.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:34:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: it's surely the minimum you can do to avoid wearing the coward jacket.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:29:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Typical fascist "analysis.' The dot is the minimum you can do to avoid SIGNING as anonymous. The context is signing. Stupid conservatives! Stupid Nebraska!
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:28:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The deal with the dot is, it's the minimum you can do to avoid signing as anonymous."

wrong as always. - Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:12:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, it's selfish to try. I mean, just because you're bored and Glint's fun to bat around...
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:12:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: No use trying to lure Glint out from cowering in the shadows. Oh, he might dart out to deny he ever said Clark worked for Carter, but he has too much more 'splainin' t'do, dontcha know.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 12:03:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Studies Hannity?
one neandethal studying another neanderthal
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 01:18:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's not fair, either. Somebody has a UN veto, and whoever it is is probably as bad as the Germans. And how can you expect a guy yapping about the marriage penalty to take fifteen seconds to figure out how it works? Right, fault him for not knowing the difference between a battleship and a destroyer, hey, this is a big picture guy who knows that there are always customary precautions, even if they're only a bos'n's mate with a megaphone. And Ramsey Clark was SOMEBODY's attorney general, wasn't he? Picky, picky.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 01:15:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint? The guy with the German UN veto? The marriage bonus guy? The one who knows that the USS Cole, a battleship, was not afforded the customary precautions in Yemen? The fella who thinks Ramsey Clark was Carter's Attorney General? That Glint?
patriot
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 01:08:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's not fair. Glint also watches the History Channel and studies Hannity.
Anonymous.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 01:02:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I heard Limbaugh twenty years or so ago when he was peddling cell phones in Cali, missed everything since except I looked at his web page recently because Glint's pie chart was linked to it. Turns out that this guy is apparently the source of most of the dynamic duo's misinformation and opinion. Can you imagine that? Grown men who claim to be informed and responsible citizens, grafting their world-views from a third-rate radio talk-show yahoo? Geesh, it makes you wish Barbara Olson was still around to broaden their outlooks.
Stunned at the low quality of Pete and Glint's political grasp of realpolitik.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 00:59:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's nothing. The man with the anal cyst knows exactly what pie-charts Glint is going to post.
Weird but True
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 00:52:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Man, you really blew that one. Let's try again: Why is it that Rush Limbaugh knows exactly what Pete is going to say, and says it a day earlier? ESP?
Twilight Zone, man.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 00:51:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is it that knows exactly what Pete is going to say, and says it a day earlier? ESP?
Twilight Zone, man.
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 00:50:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy seems to have enough mental functioning to memorize answers to questions and regurgitate them verbatim. But will often, in the midst of answering an unrehearsed question, veer off into one of his canned answers, however unrelated, just so he'll have words coming out of his mouth. And what's with the droopy mouth? Has he had a stroke no one knows about? Isn't Dick Cheney the one with the severe cardiovascular problems?
questions, questions
- Monday, April 21, 2003 at 00:33:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Republicans have somehow gotten the idea that it might not make sense to enact yet another huge tax cut as the country embarks upon a war of unknown cost or duration. "I'd put off a tax program until after the war," GOP Representative Amo Houghton recently told Congressional Quarterly. Senator John McCain called for a moratorium on any new tax cuts or major nondefense spending. The larger idea, of course, is that wars require some measure of public sacrifice often tax increases and certainly not large tax cuts. The White House is trying to stamp out this disturbing outbreak of public-mindedness by making a fairly novel argument: It would be unpatriotic not to cut taxes. Wartime, according to this administration, demands that we put aside our partisan differences and unite behind the president so he can complete the crucial job of starving the government of the funds it needs to prosecute the war.
Nothing but liberal eyebrow-twisting lies,
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 23:26:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any student of parliamentary debate, and anyone who watched Tony Blair answer his domestic critics in his recent sessions in that chamber, would not have been surprised by the Odd Couple press conference George W. Bush and Blair held at Camp David. In contrast to Blair's urbanity, Bush's stultiloquence was enough to inspire a Sputnik-like initiative in U.S. schools to teach children how to answer questions truthfully, tactfully, and in something resembling English sentences. Pounding his hand, Bush repeated "however long it takes" three times in curt responses to a question about the time required to win the war. Blair instead made references to Kosovo and Afghanistan, gave a reminder of what had already been achieved in less than one week, and suggested as a reason for our timing a desire to achieve a number of aims�such as regime change, disarmament, and freeing Iraqis�in addition to military victory. In response to a concern about the absence of French, German, and Turkish support, Bush proclaimed his pleasure with "the size of our coalition" and then with a guffaw offered up the "list." Blair instead acknowledged both that "there are countries that disagree with what we are doing" and that a reluctance to commit to combat is understandable because war is "a brutal and a bloody business." It was a moment of American embarrassment, and not only about ineloquence. In the United States, perhaps anyone can grow up to become president. Becoming a leader, though, is more elusive. Leadership requires not only conviction but also honesty, empathy, patience, mercy, and not just the ability but also the desire to express them.
Honesty? Haw.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 23:19:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Appearing at the Philadelphia waterfront before an audience filled with Coast Guard and Customs officials, Bush delivered a paean to the importance of port security: "More than ninety percent of our combat materials and our trade moves by sea. At this port alone, thousands of cargo containers arrive every day." For this reason, the president continued, "We are taking even greater security measures at our borders and ports." Really? Despite a $67 million request, Bush gave no money in his 2003 budget to Customs' vanguard Container Security Initiative (CSI), which helps screen cargo at foreign ports. Worse, last summer, Bush vetoed $39 million for CSI, and his recent $75 billion wartime budget supplement does not award CSI a single dime. Bush's 2003 budget, 2004 budget, and his wartime supplement also allot a grand total of zero for port-security grants. And, when Representative John Spratt introduced a $1.5 billion port-security budget amendment in the House a couple of weeks ago, Republicans killed it with Bush's tacit imprimatur. The Coast Guard estimates that it will cost $1 billion to secure U.S. ports immediately and another $4.5 billion over the next ten years. Yet they've seen a mere $318 million since the terrorist attacks.
Truth, Snippy style
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 23:17:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Those are pretty tough words, false patriot. You probably scare old ladies in muu-muus pretty bad. You want to argue policy? Bring it on, fool.
patriot
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 23:01:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: He didn't give up sweets because of the war. Geesh, at least the media got that part right. Doing it on any particular day was incidental. The reason he gave up sweets was he was losing a few seconds off his mile. Stopped the sweets and went back to whatever it had been, seven-something.
Captain Current Events
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:58:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rightwing PC crap = truth. Get used to it traitor.
patriot
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:56:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: The deal with the dot is, it's the minimum you can do to avoid signing as anonymous. Many have done it. But only one of them knew what it means when the meat bees fly close to the ground.
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- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:54:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wouldn't give up gherkins for World War IV.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:53:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'll get no more meat bee tales from Tiny Dot, not while there are children crying and when the rich is feeding off the poor and as long as the capitalistic parasite consultant is feeding off the corpses of daddies watermeloned by dewey-eyed young jarheads. It's sort of like Davey Crockett and the Indian Bill.
.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:51:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: One of these wars, he may even give up drinking. I mean, for real.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:14:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's giving up pretzels for football season!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:12:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush gave up sweets for the war? Wow! There's a man willing to sacrifice for his country. Next war, I'm giving up gerkins!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 22:11:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: .S. media losing global respect Posted Sunday, April 20, 2003 by vgdesign By Stephan Richter, Japan Today With his "preemptive" war against Iraq, U.S. President George Bush took a gamble of historic proportions. But what is far less acknowledged is that the same is true for the U.S. media. American news reporters and major media outlets used to command great respect around the globe. However, in the age of "embedded" reporters, how much longer will that be the case? There have certainly been journalistic heroes with an American passport. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, for example, are part of the global media lore. With their courage and relentlessness, they took down the Nixon Administration during the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s. Of course, most U.S. journalists endeavor to live up to that reputation. They dream that one day they, too, will score a media coup of similar proportions. Unfortunately, the U.S. journalistic profession as a whole today seems to have a somewhat exaggerated sense of its own importance. Too many journalists � in particular many of those based in Washington � are too docile in not wanting to challenge the powers-that-be. They much prefer to stay within the general consensus. As a result, they regale news-hungry audiences with such "strategic" insights as the information that Bush gave up eating sweets on the day the Iraq invasion started
American "journalists" now spew rightwing PC crap
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 21:54:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 21:53:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wish everyone would watch the movie of South Park.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 21:21:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wish you were dot.
dotfan
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 19:49:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: You only wish you were dot. I know dot. You are no dot.
.�
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 19:44:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why do you suppose the yahoos think that when Bush says something it reflects something he thinks, or something he thought of. Glurg already posted the horseshit of the day from the Bush speechwriters.
.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 19:35:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030419/ts_nm/iraq_bush_dc_2
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 18:56:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Happy Easter to true Blue American patriots, i.e. nonliberal democrap traitorz! (11)
Pete�
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 18:25:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is this hodad?
Slug
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:23:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll bet you ran the gammit. Right?
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:21:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Roger. Willko. Eyes only, eh? 10-5.
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:20:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good old Slug. Wherever he is is in country.
Get Some�
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:19:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who, me? Special ops? You got the wrong merc, Slim.
Slug
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:18:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't tell him, Slug. He's a stalinist.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:17:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good to have you back, Slug. I assume you were in country doing some spec op stuff. What was it like?
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:13:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's what's wrong with the Marine Crotch, always was and always will be. They send them in and pull them out and never let them get used to it. I remember in Angola when we had the Excelsior and were on the balcony taking odds if we could watermelon a market mammy, just about every merc who'd come from the Crotch skulked off to the cocktail lounge. Give me a squad of guys like this Pete, and I'd show an "Arab strong-man" what it's all about.
Slug
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:07:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where the hell is Saddam, anyway? Do you suppose the old bird is tough enough to pull a Tito? Are they going to be pitchforking our guys out in the tumbleweeds for the whole Occupation? Do we have to make the whole frigging desert a free-fire zone? What the h*ll is wrong with the Bush military machine? Let's nail the coonskin to the barn door and get on with it!
Get Some�
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 16:02:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: I like to think of Saddam as a sort of desert sheikh type of dictator, like Omar Sharif. An Arab strong-man type. I like to think that Saddam transcends 1930's politics.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:58:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, sure. That's the old definition. I'll let you know the new one wehn I cmoe up wtih it.
Pete�
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:58:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: See, repressive dictators are rightwing by definition. Socialism demands and requires control of the means of production by the workers, the people, not the government or an individual.
Political Philosopher
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:56:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: We going down the valley going one by one, gonna be rewarded for the things we done. Are you gonna be among the Chosen Few? Will you make it through?
Pat Boone
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:55:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Okay, listen up. Saddam = rightwing fascist dictator. Hitlerian. The guy in Korea = rightwing commie dictator. Stalinist.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:54:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Amen, Glint. I've been want to explode me some Islamic skulls ever since they started World War III. I was ready to roll, and it's too d*mn bad that I had to stay here and roll like well formed butter. It's just too d*mn bad that joining up would make me a career grunt with no war, once this one is over and all the good heads have been watermeloned. (01)
Pete�
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:54:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Waiting for WMDs--the dirty bush easter egg hunt.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:49:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: You get your Holy Bible in the back of the Book, the Book of Revelations is the place to look. If you understand it and you can if you try, the Lord is a-comin' from his throne on high.
Pat Boone
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:49:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: War is wasted on these young pussies. I'd give my left nut to be able to make some foreign stalinist's head explode like a watermelon. Lemme at 'em! (01)
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:47:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe he's handling snakes over at the tent. It is Easter, you know?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:46:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Book of Revelations? Never heard of it and our resident phony Christian is quivering and cowering in the dark, hand on his groin, nowhere to be found. Sorry, pal, you're on your own.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:40:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good thing we're getting the wusses weeded out before we take on Syria. What's so bad about exploding like a watermelon anyway?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:39:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Pentagon dispatched an entire brigade�3,000 troops�to the search and offered $200,000 bounties for any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) uncovered. Local officers were authorized to make payments of $2,500 on the spot. "The White House is screaming, 'Find me some WMD,'" says a State Department official, adding that the task is one of many suddenly facing the department. Members of the Administration must feel a new bond with Blix, since they are now the ones arguing that these things take time. Even the hard-liners concede that they have confirmed absolutely nothing so far. Soldiers rooting around with rifles and test kits stumble on something suspicious, and it's an instant headline. But barrels of nerve agent have turned out to be pesticide; tip-offs about weapons sites have gone nowhere; the buried or mobile bioweapons labs have so far failed to surface. A senior Pentagon official says U.S. forces have been to several "promising" sites in southern Iraq and have come up empty. "It's there, but it's well hidden," a second Defense official insists. "It will take time to discover and verify because they took time�and effort�to hide it." Some officials now question whether huge stockpiles will ever be found: it's easy to hide a liter of anthrax, but not the factory-size facility needed to produce it. The failure to turn up anything to date raises two possibilities, neither one good, says Joseph Cirincione, chief of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "It may be that there aren't as many weapons as the President said, in which case we have a major intelligence failure, a huge embarrassment for the President and a huge blow to U.S. credibility�and that's the good news," he says. "The other option is that there are as many weapons as the President feared, and they're no longer under anyone's control."
FIND ME SOME WMD!!!
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:38:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: How does one explain a very bad dream?
or maybe a nightmare
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:38:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can someone please explain the Book of Revelation? I don't get it.
Clyde Harrington
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:35:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: The reason I'm more interested in the religion of Afghanistan than Alabama is that it's more interesting.
Northeastern Elite
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:34:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: The jury is out? B*llsh*t! It hasn't even been convened yet! Wake me up when you find a short-necked giraffe.
Evangelic Doofus
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:33:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: The capital of Iraq is Crawford.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:32:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Guess it depends on the capital of what.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:32:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: The toll killing takes on America's soldiers Men who have been forced to overcome their aversion to taking lives are already coming home, and many of them will need years of intensive care and counseling By Joseph B. Verrengia, Associated Press By Joseph B. Verrengia, Associated Press The beefy Army drill sergeant has been a soldier since he was a teenager. Now 35, he was eager to go to war with the Third Infantry Division and do for real what he had been teaching recruits. But after at least five confirmed kills, he discovered combat was different than he had expected. "I didn't think it would be like this, killing people," Staff Sgt. Thomas Slago reflected, not long after squeezing the trigger on his assault rifle to stop an approaching Iraqi guerrilla, then watching the gruesome result through his scope. "He exploded like a watermelon," Slago said. In numbers not seen since the Vietnam War, trauma experts say, soldiers soon will return home from battle forever changed by what they've seen and done. War in Iraq has meant machine-gunning guerrillas intent on suicide charges. It has meant gunplay in neighborhoods, building corridors and desert bunkers. Marine Cpl. Clint Begley of Shreveport, La., approached a bunker thin another bunker, Elenes shot off the top of an attacker's head. Then a second man. Afterward, he said, "OK, I'm done. I'm ready to go back to Kuwait now." The presence of Iraqi villagers and irregulars in civilian disguises added to the stress and confusion. "I didn't expect the whole civilian thing," said Lance Cpl. Jack Self, never taking his finger off the trigger of his grenade launcher. He watched a woman tugging two heavily laden donkeys away from a stone house that could provide cover to snipers. He had blasted other buildings like it and found bodies in the rubble. "Part of me wants to kill everything I see. You just can't trust anybody," he said. "I hope there's nobody in that building when I destroy it." Veterans centers are posting trauma advice on Web sites for both soldiers and their families. They are expanding treatment programs for that fraction of soldiers who need special help. "There will be a lot of work to do when the men and women come back from Iraq," said psychiatrist Matthew J. Friedman, executive director of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a researcher at Dartmouth College. "We've had killing and we've had death and injuries. We've had civilians killed. There was a fragging."
collateral damage
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:26:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, you say it wasn't so great? Really? Daddy sucked the whole long drawn-out time? Ya think?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:23:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but look at the great life he enjoyed before his Daddy battered him to death!
naysayer
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:22:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nearly 100 Islamic clerics have affirmed an emerging fundamentalist, anti-American position for Shiite Muslims in the capital.
doubt it
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:21:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Child placed by DCF is beaten to death BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER AND JENNIFER BABSON [email protected] KEY WEST -Christopher Lamont Bennett's criminal history included arrests for selling cocaine, stalking and assault and battery. A domestic violence restraining order prevented him from going near the mother of his infant daughter. Yet state child welfare workers thought Bennett was the best choice as caregiver for a sickly son he barely knew. On Tuesday, police say, Bennett fatally beat his 5-year-old son Zachary, leaving him with a ruptured liver, a bleeding brain, and ''broken ribs consistent with having been stomped,'' an autopsy showed. Zachary is the second child under the DCF's watch to die in as many months. Last month, 8-month-old Kelton Wright also was allegedly killed by his father.
In Jeb Bush's Florida, no right to life for kiddies
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:21:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nearly 100 Islamic clerics have affirmed an emerging fundamentalist, anti-American position for Shiite Muslims in the capital.
no kidding?
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:20:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Give it a rest, Nicholas.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 15:18:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2003/nf2003037_4103_db056.htm
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 14:42:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Media out of step with evangelicals in U.S. society By Nicholas D. Kristof Claims that the news media form a vast liberal conspiracy strike me as utterly unconvincing, but there's one area in which accusations of institutional bias have merit: Nearly all of us in the news business are completely out of touch with a group that includes 46 percent of Americans. That's the proportion who described themselves in a Gallup poll in December as evangelical or born-again Christians. Evangelicals have moved from the fringe to the mainstream, and that is particularly evident in this admin- istration. It's impossible to understand George W. Bush without acknowledging the centrality of his faith. Indeed, there may be an element of messianic vision in the plan to invade Iraq and "remake" the Middle East. Robert Fogel of the University of Chicago argues that America is now experiencing a fourth Great Awakening, like the religious revivals that have periodically swept the nation in the last 300 years. Yet offhand, I can't think of a single evangelical working for a major news organization. Evangelicals are increasingly important in every aspect of American culture. Among the best-selling books in America are Tim LaHaye's Christian "left behind" series about the apocalypse; about 50 million copies have been sold. One of America's most prominent television personalities is Benny Hinn, watched in 190 countries, but few of us have heard of him because he is an evangelist. Bush has said he doesn't believe in evolution (he thinks the jury is still out). President Ronald Reagan felt the same way, and such views are typically American. A new Gallup poll shows that 48 percent of Americans believe in creationism, and only 28 percent in evolution (most of the rest aren't sure or lean toward creationism). According to recent Gallup Tuesday briefings, Americans are more than twice as likely to believe in the devil (68 percent) as in evolution. In their approach to evangelicals, the national news media are generally reflective of the educated elite, particularly in the Northeast. It's expected at New York dinner parties to link crime to deprived childhoods - conversation would stop abruptly if someone mentioned Satan. I tend to disagree with evangelicals on almost everything, and I see no problem with aggressively pointing out the dismal consequences of this increasing religious influence. For example, evangelicals' discomfort with condoms and sex education has led the administration to policies that are likely to lead to more people dying of AIDS at home and abroad, not to mention more pregnancies and abortions. But liberal critiques sometimes seem not just filled with outrage at evangelical-backed policies, which is fair, but also to have a sneering tone about conservative Christianity itself. Such mockery of religious faith is inexcusable. And liberals sometimes show more intellectual curiosity about the religion of Afghanistan than that of Alabama and more interest in reading the Upanishads than in reading the Book of Revelation. I care about this issue partly because I grew up near Yamhill, Ore., which has 790 people and five churches. My science teacher at Yamhill Grade School taught that evolution was false, and a high school girlfriend attended a church where people spoke in tongues (she was an ace student). In the evangelical tinge to its faith, Yamhill is emblematic of a huge chunk of Middle America that we in the Northeast are out of tune with. Moreover, increasingly it is not just Middle America, but Middle World. As Professor Philip Jenkins notes in a new book, fundamentalist Christianity is racing through the developing world. The number of African Christians has soared over the last century, to 360 million from 10 million, and the boom is not among tweedy Presbyterians but among charismatic Pentecostalists. One of the deepest divides in America today is already the gulf of mutual suspicion that separates evangelicals from secular society, and policy battles over abortion and judicial appointments will aggravate these tensions further in coming months. Both sides need to reach out, drop the contempt and display some of the inclusive wisdom of Einstein, who wrote in his memoir: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 14:27:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, but when will quality of music blurbs on this page improve?
stuck to merry-go-round music like gum to a shoe
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 14:10:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I hope you're not trying to suggest that an interest in the welfare of feti should extend to an interest in the welfare of actual children! That would be wrong!
appalled in Akron
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:36:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Once again a child here has died a gruesome death. Saturday, January 4, 2003 By BARBARA SHELLY Columnist Try to imagine a 9-year-old boy bound like a mummy in duct tape and gagged, a sock stuffed in his mouth. Think of that child choking on his vomit and fear. According to the Wyandotte County coroner, those were Brian Edgar's final moments, his adoptive parents' punishment of him for stealing. Blame may or may not extend beyond the adults present when he died. His adoptive parents, Neil and Christy Edgar, have been charged with the murder of Brian, and with abusing their three other adopted children. A 19-year-old woman, who authorities said might have been a baby sitter, also is charged with Brian's murder. Nick Tomasic, Wyandotte County district attorney, has said the Edgar children frequently were bound and gagged before bedtime. Disagree though we may on appropriate forms of discipline, most people would call that child abuse. It was tragic treatment for the four children, all of whom had been adopted out of foster care. But who knew what was going on in the home of Neil and Christy Edgar, both pastors of a Pentecostal church called God's Creation?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:35:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who is Earnhardt? How did he die?
NY Times reader
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:26:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: At least the quality of music he's stealing has improved. I must say I'm slightly impressed.
Liberal
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:22:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glurp next will explain why there is simply no connection between child abuse and the unwantedness of children. Say, there was a great child abuse story in the paper this morning--bet that would be almost as much fun as Dale Earnhardt's death pics. Ya think?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:21:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's this st1t about Germany not having UN veto power? Why not? How about Japan?
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:18:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I sort of look forward to being a second-rate power, and hope it happens within the next few years. It should be groovy, like England in the '60's. The only thing that could bugger it up is if a Democrat gets elected in 2004, but this administration may have made it irreversible so we may be in luck anyway.
patriot
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 13:07:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: What Snippy gives with one hand, he takes away with the other. His policies cut aid to the states, forcing them to raise your taxes and cut services your family needs. Our total net taxes will increase, even as our roads, bridges, schools, libraries, and other economic infrastructure crumble. Like the game of Monopoly when too few have too much, and too many have too little, the economy sputters and fails.
boardwalk vs baltic avenue
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:58:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can someone explain what's funny about the Three Stooges? I don't get it.
Clyde Harrington
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:40:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Carter wrecked the helicopters that were pulled through the streets of Teheran! It's pancake day at the Glint household! Jism! Star Wars! Dark sky! Perfidious France! Policy wonk! (01)
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:36:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: He just didn't read the part about how the UN is organized? Jesse Helms didn't explain that part to Glint? He has shielded himself from knowledge of Satan?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:33:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Today is not your day, Glint. You're all over the map and you seem frenzied and confused. Crack? Possibly. At any rat, my suggestion to you is, give up. Sure, it's fun seeing you try and make sense of this crazy world, but it's kind of pathetic. No, skeedaddle, ya freak!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:33:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK,OK, so Glint is a little confused about who gets to do what in the UN? At least he has control of the story about the secret pact between German and Iraqi intelligence agencies, the ones between the information ministries that were going to be under diplomatic cover. Glint can read, and he can understand the import of what he reads, that much is clear.
Glint Fan Club
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:32:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: See why I asked, rube? Because I knew you had no answer. Germany did not refuse to enforce any UN resolutions, right? And this "secret pact" is as substantial as marzipan, right? Now, run and cower.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:29:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let me try this out: "Hey, Glint, tell us again about Germany threatening to veto a UN resolution."... "Yo, Glint, is this the same as when Germany threatened to veto any new UN resolution that had teeth?"
yeah, I think it might fly...
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:28:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: WEll, rubes don't worry about the deficit. Not when they swallow Fearless Leader's fairy tales. Yes, it's true: war is peace, poverty is prosperity.
selling Brooklyn Bridge next
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:27:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: They probably didn't have that thing about the permanent members of the Security Counsel on the History Channel when Glint was watching?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:26:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: How does vetoing a resolution equate to not enforcing a resolution? And do you think Glint is really ignorant enough to know that it was the winners, not the losers, who got veto power in the UN?
stunned patriot
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:24:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's cute that he calls Saddam Hussein, who like a good Republican admires Hitler, a stalinist. The interesting thing is how such a diabolical rube, a fellow who can spot the opportunities for special ops in the human shield gambit, takes at face value a newspaper story about, what, secret pacts between the intelligence agencies that explained this all to reporters so Glit could have an opportunity to pontificate?
Jemmy Gammot
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:22:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: I could have sworn that Germany threatened to veto any new (i.e. 2003) resolution if it contatained any teeth. At least France was on record as saying so. What secret pacts? The ones between the information ministries that were going to be under diplomatic cover. Can't you read? Do you want me to post .wav files so you can hear the cut and pastes too?
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:21:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean he got the gammit thing?
Missed that
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:19:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I didn't think he'd ever get the gammit thing.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:18:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since Bush�s policies took effect, millions of Americans lost their jobs. Even many Republicans in Congress reject Bush�s failed "one trick" approach to growth, and tax cuts for the rich never help the economy. In an ironic reminder of his days as a cheerleader, Bush�s prospects grow dimmer, even as the mass media shake their pompoms for him.
No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool, you still can't walk on water
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:17:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: You got 'splainin' t'do, pigfucker.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:16:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: But don't release them until my opponent loses the election because they haven't been released.
Truly diabolical, or something
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:16:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just another rube lost in the Fog of Information.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:15:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Huh? When did Germany refuse to enforce UN resolutions? Where do you get this shit, rube? What secret pacts? Be specific. In other words, run and cower.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:14:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean other than refusing to enforce 12-year-old U.N. resolutions they voted for and in the mean time making secret pacts with the Stalinist leader that the U.S. was trying to build a coalition in order to press him into cooperating with the weapon inspectors? You mean, "is that all?"
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:10:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gammit?
ever, like, you know, learn English?
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:07:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, do you ever, like, you know, question your own beliefs? Have you ever tried "critical thinking?"
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:03:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, in your fevered, water-soaked brain, just what do you find so horrible about this Iraq/Germany deal that never happened?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 12:00:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pancakes and crack for breakfast.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:59:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh, no. But I get your point. It's proper to pay a ransom of WMD to try and spring hostages from terrorists. On the other hand, it's wrong, wrong, wrong, to ask for assistance in stopping an attack by an aggressor on your country.
It's called lobbying, rube
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:58:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Notice how NATO gets pulled into this for no reason. Classic.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:56:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did Germans have hostages being heldin Iraq?
apples calling oranges, come in please.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:55:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Release the hostages you kidnapped and we'll give you a few plane loads of cruise missiles. K?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:55:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Help us repell your NATO ally and we'll reward you with big contracts." "Yavo!"
sound of a circus tent being pulled up
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:53:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, Glint's a rube you see. It escapes him that this is nothing compared to secret arms deals between Reagan and Iran. 'Splain that, dickwad.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:50:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you can convince that wacky Snippy not to kill us, we will be quite grateful and we will reward you. Please get that shithead not to be killing our children.
Iraq to Germany - geesh
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:45:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: The rube understands the spy business, or "special ops." In the spy business, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and is reported in the Telegraph then it is a duck.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:44:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: When in doubt post a picture that has nothing to do with anything.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:43:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: What does he have to 'splain, you stupid rube? That Iraq made overtures, you stupid rube? Looks like that's already been 'splained, you stupid rube. Geesh!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:41:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER!!!

Take that Liberal scum!

- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:40:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is not the one making the flapjacks. He will be served after he finishes hunting for Easter eggs.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:40:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, I like two flapjacks. Big, fat doughy ones squished together in the middle of the plate. I'm downloading Captain Beefheart. Not bad for a rube, eh? Pretty hip, eh? Please accept me.
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:39:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Germany's intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam's secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal. Documents recovered from Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad They show that an agent named as Johannes William Hoffner, described as a "new German representative in Iraq" who had entered the country under diplomatic cover, attended a meeting with Lt Gen Taher Jalil Haboosh, the director of Iraq's intelligence service. During the meeting, on January 29, 2002, Lt Gen Haboosh says that the Iraqis are keen to have a relationship with Germany's intelligence agency "under diplomatic cover", adding that he hopes to develop that relationship through Mr Hoffner. The German replies: "My organisation wants to develop its relationship with your organisation." In return, the Iraqis offered to give lucrative contracts to German companies if the Berlin government helped prevent an American invasion of the country. The revelations come a week after The Telegraph reported that Russia had spied for the Iraqis , passing them intelligence about a meeting between Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister. Both the British and Italian governments have launched investigations.
Shroeder thinks he can ment fences with the U.S.? Got some 'splainin' t' do.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:36:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: ...along the bottom edge.
Eleanor
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:33:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sort of surprising that Glit knows how a sock is rolled. Do you think he learned from unrolling them, or does he demand that the little woman does that, leaves them on the dressing tray ready to go, the way Mom did?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:33:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Earl likes a raisins on his flap jacks. One on each.
Eleanor
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:32:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit likes to flip an occasional pancake. It reminds him of being outside the bubble, and thank God that's over with.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:32:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's a good idea to get all the pancakes made before the crew wakes up. Put them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:30:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's always at his best talking to people who aren't here.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:29:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint likes flapjack.
One will do, thanks
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:28:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint thinks Bonzo scared the to death with Star Wars.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:26:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you suppose that Glint is really dumb enough that he thinks Reagan did something to the USSR?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:24:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pancake feed today, this morning. Started mixing up batter and flipping pancakes at 5am. ◊ E, does Earl like flapjacks? :-) (01)
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:22:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stupid Penn State!
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:20:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not me. I heard she was rolled up and her whole body was poked back through her own asshole like a rolled up pair of socks!
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:19:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh please! What's so compelling about trading arms for hostages held by a terrorist nation? What's so compelling about a shadow government? You liberals are stupid. i'm downloading Link Wray. Do you like me now?
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:19:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: That' snot what I heard. I heard she was rolled up like a turf loaf.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:18:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lots of the most compelling evidence was shredded by Ollie North. Then, of course, there was the stonewalling.
To a troglodyte, the "truth" is merely a lie that hasn't been discovered.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:15:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: How do you her face was in the turf? The way I heard it she was tits up. At least that's how she ended up after the second passover.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:14:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: The gammit, eh? Rubes are such fun! Isn't it pathetic that Glint says he's downloading good music today? There's no limit to what he'll say in order to try and impress the liberals.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:13:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yep, Lawrence Walsh found no compelling evidence. What can you do? Iran didn't want to mess with Reagan. You saw what he to the USSR. Pleased, having played a small part in the star wars.
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:13:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Doesn't the gammit have to include the stupid demonstrator lady who gets her face pushed into the turf?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:12:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why do we have to do everything? Why can't they pump their own oil and rebuild their own infrastructure? We're going to get tangled up in nation-building here if we're not careful!
Lyman Hollifer
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:11:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: How's the occupation of Iraq going? Have we built trust up with the natives? Are they coming back to work in the oil fields, or are we going to have to send a bunch of our own guys over there? I don't get Fox.
Clyde Harrington
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:09:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: That runs the gammit. It's got Stupid liberals, stupid women, and California. Everything but the shields and Irish.
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:08:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Carter lost because of the helicopter? You mean Reagan's owners' hands are clean on the treason thing? Geesh, thanks, Glit. I was starting to get a little cynical there about the City on the Hill. Looked like the same old manure bin for a while there.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:06:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: The head of the National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is opposing a double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case, saying it could provide ammunition to the pro-life lobby. "If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder," Morris County NOW President Mavra Stark said on Saturday. Prosecutors in California announced Friday their intention to charge Scott Peterson, 30, of Modesto, both with killing his wife and their unborn son. Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she disappeared Dec. 24. Both bodies were identified on Friday after washing up on the shore of San Francisco Bay. More than two dozen states, including California, have adopted "fetal homicide" statutes, and prosecutors often will seek a double-murder charge when a pregnant woman is killed.
deaattthhhh to baby killers!
death to Marva Stark and all her ilk! - Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:06:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stupid liberals! Stupid human shields! Stupid women! Stupid Notre Dame! Stupid California!
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:06:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gosh, it's sure great of Glint to let us know that he knew all along that there would be CIA agents among the "human shields?" What a guy! We could have stumbled along through life not knowing what a knowing dude this Glint is, how he is wired into to the spy business, or "special ops" as those in the know call it. I also like the way he sternly lays down the law, "at least there damned better have been." I do have misgivings, though, about the foul spellings he seems to be adopting. Say it ain't so, Glip.
patriot
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 11:03:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Arms for hostages? Why didn't I ever think of that? Geesh.
Carter
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:55:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, we only like Presidents who rescue Jessica Lynches, not 52 hostages.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:52:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, somehow it's always the liberals fault when helicopters crash in deserts. Why is that?
mistaken causality, emblematic of invasion lemming moronism
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:46:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, so Ray-gun conspired with the Ayatollah, an enemy of America, to humiliate the sitting American President, Carter, so he, Ray-gun could get himself elected. Sweet.
say, let's trade arms for hostages, so i can be the Pres!
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:44:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did anybody think that there weren't special ops or CIA types among the human shields? I mean other than the bonehead down 18:19 way? Stupid Liberal pea brained human shields. Could there have been a more perfect cover? Geesh, I thought eveyone assumed that there would be plants among their ranks. Same thing with the peacenik demonstrators, one would assume. Or expect. At least there damned better have been. ◊ Happy Easter. Christ is risen. Indeed, Christ has risen!
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:35:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: I just about forgot - downloading some CCR. (01)
Glint (born on the bayou NOT!)
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:20:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I don't get it. Those hostages all came home while Carter was President." - patriot. More cluelessness from such a dumb cluck. The hostages were freed around January 20-21, 1981 when Reagan was president. In case you forgot, Carter lost. In case you forgot why: "President Carter ordered a military rescue mission, which failed, resulting in the deaths of eight American servicemen when their aircraft collided in the Iranian desert." Carter, an even dumber cluck.
Glint
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 10:14:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Suppose the French were the superpower"
???....BWAAAAHAAA !!!
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:57:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's look at it this way, Glit and Stupid. Suppose the French were the superpower, and they invaded the USA to clean Bush and his gang out. After they had disposed of Snip, and we were through dancing in the streets and throwing flowers, don't you think we could count on Billy Graham to loudly proclaim that they should now go back to France and let us declare an evangelical state? Wouldn't America, from normal people to people who can tolerate Ann Coulter, pretty much unite behind getting the frogs out once they had rendered their service? Wouldn't we hesitate to let them reorganize our school systems and provide us with textbooks and sell all the oil we pump to pay for French companies to come in and fix our bridges and street-lights and golf courses? Try to walk a mile in the other guy's moccasins, Glit.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:34:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: We can't find them, Rummy? Then how did we know they were there?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:32:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Baghdad's feared police force back on the streets By Matthew Schofield Knight Ridder Newspapers More photos Basher Oba, 27, of Baghdad, Iraq, motions for the U.S. military to proceed through as he directs traffic with a bull horn. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Ali Baba is back on the streets. Few think that's a good thing. Ali Baba is the nickname residents gave to local police under Saddam Hussein. The name comes from the legend Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. But while in the legend Ali Baba was a sort of Middle Eastern Robin Hood (the tale predates Robin Hood by more than a thousand years, locals point out) the nickname refers only to the thievery part. "The police are Ali Baba to us," one mother said, afraid to give her name. "We were afraid of them before, why should we not be now?" Even with the clamor for order amid looting and calm amid continued shooting, that's a common view of the reconstituted police force, which began joint patrols last week with Marines and U.S. troops. "We're having trouble convincing the neighbors that they should trust the police," said Marine Capt. Alan Yankowsky, who has been working with residents and police since the occupation of the Iraqi capital. "The problem is that the police weren't nice guys. They basically robbed and raped and plundered. "And now, look around. The police are back, they're driving the same cars as before, they're wearing the same uniforms, and they have all the same faces. I can understand the concern," he said.
well, we're not there for people to be safe and happy after all, we're there for hegemony. after all, why not?
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:19:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: U.S. has $253B deficit in fiscal 1st half - - - - - - - - - - - - By JEANNINE AVERSA April 18, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- The government ran up a deficit of $252.6 billion in the first six months of the 2003 budget year, nearly twice the total for the same period a year earlier. The latest figures, released Friday by the Treasury Department, highlighted the government's deteriorating fiscal situation. Record deficits are forecast this year and next. The total deficit so far this fiscal year, from October through March, compares with a shortfall of $131.9 billion a year earlier.
Dubya equals Ruin -Nation (unless you're Bechtel)
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:15:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Huge deal to rebuild handed to old friend By Elizabeth Becker and Richard Oppel in Washington April 19 2003 The Bush Administration has awarded the San Francisco-based Bechtel Group the first part of a massive contract to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq, involving everything from airports, schools, roads, bridges and railroads to its power grids, water systems and sewers. The $US680 million ($1.1 billion) contract gives the company a flying start in one of the most lucrative building programs in decades and further solidifies the US's imprint on postwar Iraq. "This has never been done before - an American corporation rebuilding an entire foreign country," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Washington DC-based Project on Government Oversight.
hey, bush broke it, bush's cronies will fix it, and the american people, whose economy bush destroyed, will pay for it through the nose, bush business as usual
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:06:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: US needs help to find elusive weapons cache, says Rumsfeld By Eric Schmitt in Washington April 19 2003 While coalition forces now controlled most of Iraq, the United States will still need the help of Iraqis to find any banned weapons, the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said. "It's going to take time to find anything. They've learned to function in that country in an inspections environment. They buried things, they used underground tunnels. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will," Mr Rumsfeld said, referring to the United Nations inspections. "What we will do is find the people who will tell us." Mr Rumsfeld said it was not like a treasure hunt "where you just run around looking everywhere hoping you find something". The US, has found no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons so far.
Oops--so sorry for killing 4000 Iraqis over nonexistent WMDs. Not the oil. Not for the oil. Nope. Nosiree.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:03:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enraged Iraqis take to the streets By Jonathan Steele, Baghdad April 20 2003 The Sun-Herald Iraq's political differences erupted yesterday as tens of thousands of religious protesters called on the US to leave the country. As the protest raged, Washington's closest protege, Ahmad Chalabi, told a press conference "the moral imperative is on the US to provide leadership and the Iraqi people will accept it". On the second Muslim day of prayer since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, thousands of worshippers poured out of the mosques and marched through Baghdad's predominantly Sunni al-Azameyah neighbourhood. They chanted both anti-American and anti-Saddam slogans. Shia clerics in Baghdad and the spiritual capital of Najaf have in recent days called for an Islamic state.
the fruists of bushism
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 09:01:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Easter mass in Baghdad compares US occupation to crucifixion April 20 2003 Thousands of Iraqi Christians flocked to churches today for their first Easter mass since the fall of Saddam Hussein, and heard the US occupation compared to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. A month to the day since US and British troops invaded Iraq, the country's Christian clergymen took to the pulpit to express their resentment and to steel their faithful for the tough times ahead. Muslims have already protested against the US presence in recent days. Leaders of the majority Shi'ites expect millions of people this week at a long suppressed pilgrimage to their holy city of Karbala, which could turn anti-American.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 08:59:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Intelligence officials told reporters last week that Rumsfeld had ordered the drawing up of contingency plans for a possible invasion of Syria and that Feith, the Pentagon's number three official, had begun work on a policy paper about Syria's support of terrorist groups. "There's got to be a change in Syria," said Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz last Sunday on a TV network news program. "It is a strange regime, one of extreme ruthlessness." At the same time, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director James Woolsey, a favorite of Wolfowitz and Perle who may be tapped to play a top political role in post-war Iraq, declared that Washington was fighting enemies in a "World War IV" that includes "fascists of Iraq and Syria," a reference to Syria's ruling Baath Party.
wonder what the little white house rabbit has in mind for you Easter basket
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 01:19:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: The emerging government of Iraq?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 00:30:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Americans turn to BBC for war news Jason Deans Thursday April 17, 2003 Rageh Omaar: dubbed the 'Scud Stud' by the New York Post TV ratings for BBC News in the US have rocketed since the outbreak of the Iraq war, even as mainstream American network bulletins have lost viewers. Audience figures for BBC World News bulletins on US public service channel PBS increased by 28% in the three weeks after the start of the conflict. In New York the viewership for the evening news programme has jumped by a third while in Dallas, Texas, it has quadrupled, according to PBS. At the same time two of the main US networks lost viewers on their flagship nightly news broadcasts, with CBS down 15% and ABC down nearly 6%.
hmm. . . I wonder why that would be?
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 00:06:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say. Paragraph nine is what is important here: "In a particularly important development, officials said the United States was likely to reduce American forces in Saudi Arabia, as well."
hoo ah
- Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 00:04:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, it is sick when a holy organization can't get its money's worth. When the officers of God are given the runaround by senators and congressmeen interested only in a flop. Of course, these are just some sort of geek snake-waving outfit, obviously, so it doesn't much matter. If it were a real religion, like the Catholics of the Muslims or the Unitarians, maybe it would seem outrageous. When a bunch of these golf-buddy style of Rotarian Bible-thumpers get stiffed, though, it's all to the good.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 23:40:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - Six members of Congress live in a $1.1 million Capitol Hill town house that is subsidized by a secretive religious organization, tax records show. The lawmakers, all Christians, pay low rent to live in the stately red brick, three-story house on C Street, two blocks from the Capitol. It is maintained by a group alternately known as the "Fellowship" and the "Foundation" and brings together world leaders and elected officials through religion. The Fellowship hosts receptions, luncheons and prayer meetings on the first two floors of the house, which is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a church. The six lawmakers - Reps. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn.; Bart Stupak, D-Mich.; Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Mike Doyle, D-Pa.; and Sens. John Ensign, R-Nev. and Sam Brownback, R-Kan. - live in private rooms upstairs. Rent is $600 a month, DeMint said. "Our goal is singular - and that is to hope that we can assist them in better understandings of the teachings of Christ, and applying it to their jobs," said Richard Carver, a member of the Fellowship's board of directors who served as an assistant secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan administration. The house, valued at $1.1 million, is owned by the C Street Center, a sister organization of the Fellowship. It received more than $145,000 in Fellowship grants between 1997 and 2000, according to IRS records - including $96,400 in 1998 for reducing debt. Its tenants dine together once a week to discuss religion in their daily lives. "We do have a Bible study," said DeMint, a Presbyterian who asked to move into the house less than a year ago when there was a vacancy. "Somebody'll share a verse or a thought, but mostly it's more of an accountability group to talk about things that are going on in our lives, and how we're dealing with them." Few in the Fellowship are willing to talk about its mission. It organizes the annual National Prayer Breakfast attended by the president, members of Congress and dignitaries from around the world. The group leaves its name off the program, even though it spent $924,373 to host the event in 2001, bringing in $606,292 in proceeds, according to the most recent available IRS records, and pays travel expenses for foreign officials to attend. Doyle, a Catholic from Pittsburgh who moved to C Street about six years ago, got involved with the Fellowship when he began attending weekly prayer breakfasts in the Capitol as a freshman lawmaker in 1995. Since then, Doyle has helped organize Fellowship-sponsored youth leadership seminars. He was president of the House Prayer Breakfast in 2000. "My living arrangements are totally appropriate and within the House rules," said Doyle. "There's no direct correlation between the tenants and the Foundation - there are tenants who have absolutely zero involvement, and some do. And there's no benefit to live there, other than the fact that it's convenient." Other than Doyle and DeMint, current and former lawmakers who have lived in the C Street house refused to comment. "We feel like it's nobody's business but our own," said former Rep. Steve Largent, R-Okla., who lived there before leaving Congress to run unsuccessfully for governor in his home state last year. That secrecy is unsettling to the Rev. Barry Lynn, a United Church of Christ minister who heads watchdog group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. "What concerns people is when you mix religion, political power, and secrecy," Lynn said. "Members of official Washington should always be open and direct about the groups they choose to join, just to dispel any concerns that there's an inappropriate or unconscious agenda in these groups." Lawmakers living under religion's roof is not necessarily problematic, Lynn said, "as long as there are no sweetheart deals that are being made that could trade low rent for access." The C Street house is not the only religious-run organization that rents to lawmakers. The United Methodist Church, for example, leases living quarters to lawmakers at its headquarters at 110 Maryland Avenue in northeast Washington, directly across the street from the Supreme Court and the Capitol. Monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment starts at $960. "We consider it part of our mission in the ministry to provide housing for members of Congress," said Jim Winkler, a lobbyist for the church. "There's opportunities for you to talk to them. But we don't approach them and ask for their support for anything." While the Fellowship wants leaders to use Christ's teachings in their daily work, Carver said the group does not seek to improperly influence its C Street tenants. "We have no issue in legislation before the Congress, and nor would we," Carver said. "And the idea that we would have any quid-pro-quo is really impossible because there's no quid that we're asking for." Other than the weekly Bible study dinner, DeMint does not feel like he lives in a religious atmosphere, and said he knows very little about the Fellowship. "We have a lot of discussions and things like that, but if they want to have influence, they're sure not getting their money's worth," he said.
sick America
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 22:51:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was in Rio? Oh yeah.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:54:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go back to Rio, Harl.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:32:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: What is well formed butter?
Harl
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:27:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, how's that road ark of yours? Still riding like well formed butter or is it a well formed lemon?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:21:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: What are the Buffs?
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:20:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: I see the Buffs as a Top 33 team this year, possiby Top 31.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:16:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: How was football practice, Pete? Anybody kick a touchdown? Any groin injuries? How badly does America's Team suck?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:15:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint can always be counted on to dash in, humiliate himself, then cower in the darkness.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:37:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: They're all Greek days for Pete, if you catch my drift.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:35:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, how come everybody's giving Glint a free ride? What's so great about Glint?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:35:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete would have made a good scapegoat, back in the Greek days.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:34:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, why do you suck so bad?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:32:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, glad you could drop in, Pete! Are you really ugly, the way the guy says? Are you as dumb as you sound? Do you ever tell the truth? How can we know when you tell the truth? Why can't you lose a few pounds? Compulsive eater? Bad genes? Couch potato?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:31:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let me calrify! Sickness it is speaking for itself. Nexxxt. Got it? Doink.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:28:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: 'Tisn't what?
Or 'tis it?
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:24:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Said Tweedledum to Tweedledee, Your presence is obnoxious to me.
Bob Dylan
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:23:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, we don't know exactly what Pete looks like. All we know is that he is large, he is morbidly overweight, he has crazy eyes, and he is probably exceedingly ugly.
fact check
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:22:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tweedledum and Tweedledee looked the same. We're dealing with a squat little gnome with fat legs and a misshapen head on the one hand, and a humongous lard-assed half-blind man-whale with a nasty look in his walleyes on the other.
fact check
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:20:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: No 'tisn't.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:19:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Quite a pair. Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:07:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll be nexxxt. What do I have to do?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:07:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sickness 'tis speaking for itself. Nexxxt. (01)
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:05:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Indeed we are, Mutt, indeed we are. Diabolically clever, if I don't mind saying it.
Jeff
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:04:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're quite a pair, aren't we, Jeff?
Mutt
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:03:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Au contraire, Glint. It is I who must confess that I wish I knew the things YOU know.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:03:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gosh, I wish I knew the things you know, Pete.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:01:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, but it wasn't Reagan's treason. Fess told me that the used-car salesmen and advertising execs who ran Ronald Reagan didn't wake him up to tell him about it.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 20:00:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Certainly an interesting theory there, anonymous. It would be a stroke of genius, a page right out of Weekend at Bernie's. Promise weapons and money to terrorists if they would keep 52 of you fellow-citizens held hostage in Teheran, and then campaign against your country's President's inability to get them released. Truly awesome and diabolically clever, if that's that case, although it IS probably treasonous.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 19:57:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Carter's failure over 444 days to free the 52 American hostages held by the radical Iranian government was a principal reason for his ignominious defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan in 1980. The hostages were freed on Jan. 20, 1981, immediately after Reagan was inaugurated. More than two dozen Iranian officials, international leaders, intelligence operatives and arms dealers have come forward in the past 15 years to allege that the Reagan-Bush campaign did sabotage Carter's hostage negotiations and his hopes for an "October Surprise" of a last-minute hostage release.
as if they'd ever do such a dastardly thing
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:45:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think that's one of many of Glint's impulsive posts he would like to disown. As I recall, the logic was that these potato countries were all out brothers in arms in liberating Iraq and that they have a collective population of 75 million people who basically hate one another. This is bad news for France because, if the European Union could vote on starting wars, France would be in the minority and the European Union would go to war over the objection of France. I call this Rube Logic and it's why I still come to this site.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:45:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess France wasn't terribly concerned about a troglodyte "boycott" of French goods. Not with 75,000,000 eager new customers on deck. Besides that fact that all you've got to do to break a troglo boycott is have a 4th of July sale.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:30:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm on a tear now! Downloading The Blue Things, RIAA be damned! (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:27:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: That guy was probably the most modern Shah that Iran ever had. And Carter kicked him out of there like yesterday's bad sausage.
Steamed Conservative Policy Guy
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:24:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: The faux human shield kept the official written documents up his ass until it was time to present them to the Republican Guard leadership.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:22:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Shah was very modern in his selection of instruments of torture.
human rights coma invasion lemmings
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:20:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: It all has to do with the Pakistani excursion train to the Afghanistan border. You wouldn't understand.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:20:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: 2. As a guarantee of this (which the commanders of the Republican Guard did not completely trust), the United States disclosed some of its agents whom it had planted among the "human shields" who were guiding the American military to positions to be bombed and where President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership could be found. A brief meeting was held between one of the agents serving as a "human shield" and some members of the Republican Guard during which the latter were handed official written documents addressed to the first echelon of the Republican Guard. These reassured the Republican Guard commanders that the assurances were reliable. The documents provided for: After the occupation of Saddam International Airport, Republican Guards of the top echelon should arrive at the airport so that they could be transported away. If that proved impossible, a place should be agreed upon where an Apache helicopter or two could land somewhere near Baghdad in order to transport them away. Some commanders of the second echelon should secure themselves within the Iraqi Republican Palace adjacent to the Airport. American forces would fire some shells at it in order to announce that they had taken it, then American forces would transfer them to the airport. Orders should be issued to the commanders of the Second Echelon of the Republican Guard not to resist and to lay down their weapons, together with promises of their safety, and that of their families, and they would be transported to secure locations. In turn they were to issue orders to those of lower rank in their commands not to put up resistance. The Republican Guard's first echelon used a deception to get lower ranks to accept such an order by telling them that the resistance would be carried on secretly in accordance with a plan prepared by the Iraqi leadership to protract the war and catch the American forces in a trap that had been laid for them. This trick was used on the lower ranking commanders of the Republican Guard.
uh oh--now the lemmings apologize to the human shields
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:19:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Pete is masturbating to downloads of the Chicago Transit Authority. Priorities.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:18:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: hey, Glint, explain again how France si screwed now that 75,000,000 eastern Europeans have joined the EU. I need a laugh.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:18:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Museum shcmuseum.
Rumsfeld
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:16:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: At least Carter kept the museum intact when he changed the regime in Iran.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:15:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Guess that just goes to show: never trust a disgruntled follower of a deposed Shah. He might be selling you a "bill of goods."
On the other hand, like Don Quixote, they raced in, without regard to reality, to vanquish the Shah and his attempt to modernize Iran.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:13:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone know if there are any good Milk sites on the internet? Other creamery products as well. Butter, cream, cheese. But mainly milk, I've been to the pure cheese sites.
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:11:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Review my bleat about the moral high ground at 17:22:15.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:09:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: huh?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:09:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nancy may have given a lot of blow jobs, sure. But remember: she never polished the Ayatollah's knob. (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:08:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Iranian fairy tale is typical Reichwing attempt to rewrite history--the Shah was Saddam Hussein on a peacock throne, from a human rights point of view. Remember human rights? They were just SO important to the invasion lemmings last week.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:08:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: All that head that Nancy used to give to different guys in Hollywood? It was youthful indiscretion. She was experimenting.
Captain Science Book
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:04:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, really, it was all about SAVAK. How could any red-blooded American president resist invading a sovereign nation when it knew a bloody dictator was brutalizing his own people? We had to overthrow the Shah. We put him there, we overthrew him. Oh, wait a minute. Wasn't there a revolution in Iran? Like, um, the rising of an oppressed people? Gee whilikers. I don't think we got the chance to invade and overthrow the Shah. Bummer.
your iranian story is your bad wet dream
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:04:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Arms for hostages? Why didn't I ever think of that? Geesh!
Carter
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:01:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Reagan? You mean the guy whose wife gave the best head in Hollywood?
P. Lawford
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:59:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. Those hostages all came home while Carter was President. So what could Reagan have had to do with it, besides treason?
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:58:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, those were the days, when you could change a regime just by withdrawing support.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:56:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: All worked out in the last scene. The American people dumped Carter and hired someone who could bring the hostages home without killing the special ops. (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:45:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd think Carter would have evacutated the embassy before deposing the Shah. Always suspected he was an idiot, but now all doubt has been removed.
The Plinths
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:40:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Vomited? Nonsense, it was quite the opposite. She gulped.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:37:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that why the Republicans spent the 80's kissing Saddam Hussein's ass? They didn't want another Iran?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:28:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank the Lord there's nobody in Iraq who wants to have an Islamic fundamentalist state!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:28:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: So it's history repeating itself, in other words. Bush toppled Saddam just like Carter toppled the Shah and grabbed the hostages? No wonder he crashed all the choppers in the desert.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:25:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: He came. She vomited again.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:24:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: A frightening image, Glint. You came while kissing the woman?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:23:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, the wisdom of the simple Arab corner store businessman.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:22:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: But if we have to install Shahs, I won't be able to talk about liberals loving dictators! We'll lose the moral high ground! (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:22:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Pete is listening to the webcast of the Buffs Spring game. Priorities.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:22:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jismless? Yeah maybe. But that was after freedom kissin' the Mrs.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:21:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dang! If we can only get another Shah installed in Iran, this whole nightmare will go away!
Carl Rove
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:21:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's got a point, there. Dark ages are always dark.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:19:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: A few days ago, I walked into a local small business owned by a naturalized American citizen who was from Iran. During our conversation, the owner asked me what I thought about the U.S. and Coalition forces invading Iraq. I said that in my opinion Jimmy Carter and his State Department were totally responsible for this war, Iraq's slaughtering of its own citizens, and the tragic war with Iran. The shop owner grabbed me and gave me a "bear-hug." He said that in his 20 years living in America, I was the only American who understood what Iranians have known about Jimmy Carter from the beginning. He agreed with me that Jimmy Carter started the dominoes falling that eventually created the chaos that led to the present and recent wars in the Gulf. Thousands of Iraqi citizens now fleeing the Gulf II War zone will join thousands of Iranians who fled during the "Reign of Terror" which the Ayatollah Khomeini unleashed after then-President Jimmy Carter decided to make a regime change by pulling U.S. support from the Shah of Iran. The Shah and his administration were suppressing Islamic fundamentalists who wanted to return Iran to the 7th century under Islamic law. President Carter's advisors were out of touch with reality. Like Don Quixote, they raced in, without regard to reality, to vanquish the Shah and his attempt to modernize Iran.
liberals always f*ck things up
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:19:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: The thing about the EU is, most of the money, productivity, and military capability is in Germany and France, almost all of it if we leave England aside for the moment. New Europe, which is a bunch of Central European states that have not yet discovered the hot shower but can grow cheap beets, is going to be nothing but market for the developed countries, if they can find some place that wants to buy beets. Even so, I agree that it is pretty hilarious that Glit thinks the French somehow lose when the EU gets stronger.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:18:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: "...the destabilization of the Middle East will add a dollar or two to Glit's gas price." Yeah, and it will keep the scared of the dark city dweebs and their yard lights from moving out beyond the lighted beltway ramp. Sounds win-win to me. Full glass and all that.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:17:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: When you think about it, France is about as close as you can get to a rube-free country. I wish I could afford to live there, but, you know, the dollar. Guess we're all stuck here in second-rateville
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:12:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Police used DNA to identify Laci Peterson.
i just wonder whose dna was on her?
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:12:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can't forget that 75 million people just got into the EU. That ought to cook France's goose pat�! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:10:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Isn't it about time for Pete to crawl out from under the rock and say aw, ya liebrals don't know nuthin? Is he done for the day?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:09:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, we're talking 'bout DNA? [That DNA is a bad mofo {shut yo' mouth!}] (01)
Shaft
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:08:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, we're talking 'bout DNA? [That DNA is a bad mofo {shut yo' mouth!}]
Shaft
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:08:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Markets for goods produced" by America? What goods would those be? TV ads?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:08:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the rube talking about? $20 mil for what, the turkey shoot? Probably not even that, since we'd spend close to it in the baseline, since equipment and bombs don't last forever, and the ships, airplanes, ground transport and personnel are sunk costs. Where the price of Snippy's adventure will be felt is all over the place, for example the destabilization of the Middle East will add a dollar or two to Glit's gas price, the trough for Bechtel and other nation-builders will cost something before they pull out, the cost of dealing with an increasingly paranoid North Korea is anyone's guess, the yapping of the congressional rubes against imagined enemies will affect international trade to a greater or lesser degree... the Snipper's stupidity will cost big bucks in the long run, let's start with a couple hundred billion in the short term, say three years. It will all be exacerbated by the administration's irresponsible fiscal policies. Hard times coming for the Breightly fruiting head. Makes my heart bleed.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:06:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's almost too simple to explain. It's the resentment of the jismless.
Dr. Freud
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:06:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: No matter the subject matter Clinton's name will somehow be dragged into it by the Clinton obsessed.
Dr. Freud on call?
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 17:00:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: $20 billion?
that's the downpayment, rube
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:54:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: good idea. that's what's wrong with the lot of them--they really like that hairball flavor, and want to cram it down everyone else's throat, too.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:46:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: 80 billion American taxpayer dollars? The number is more like $20B. Thanks to splattering Saddam's DNA in a most un-Clinton-like manner across the Baghdad suburbs. Without the head, the chicken only has entertainment value left. Sure, sometimes it'll run into your pant leg and squirt blood, but basically it's a done deal.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:45:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: A six-week vacation and a 36-hour week. Of course, they don't have as many SUV's, and I don't think anyone would pay five dollars for coffee in a paper cup-- France has no Starbucks or other rube coffee peddlars that I am aware of. Sure, their rock and roll sucks, but it turns out that French isn't a bad language for rap, so if you like teen music you're probably in business. Good strawberries, too, although all that good food is only there because of the heavy subsidizement of agriculture. People who hate socialism should probably stay in Texas and eat strawberries that taste like hairballs.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:35:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: good point 16:29
the name change didn't help any
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:34:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, they already have six week vacations in la belle france.
what a good idea
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:31:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jefferson Airplane didn't suck?
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:29:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Although it sometimes seems as if they would, I don't think Americans will make good serfs. That is the basic problem. The Republican program of government bankruptcy and disenfranchisement and impoverishment of the citizenry may look good on a balance sheet, but to believe in it requires an assumption that Americans will continue to work harder and harder for less and less, and that there will be markets for goods produced. I just can't see it working. It is only a matter of time before the French are ahead of us in economic and military strength, as well as in morality, culture, and standard of living.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:27:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: IMPEACH PEACENIK BUSH BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!! By R. L. Procter Communicator, Columnist, Author, and Senior Executive Vice-Fellow at the Prestigious Joseph McCarthy Institute for Creative Vilification. Friends, neighbors, and right thinking, patriotic, Dixie-Chicks-hating, Tim Robbins-boycotting, freedom-fries-eating Americans everywhere - we're under siege, and our so-called "President" is finally showing his true lefty-liberal, white-feather-waving, peacenik colors. You remember his State of the Union Message -- Mr. Bush told us that Saddam was harboring 25,000 liters of anthrax! 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin! 500 TONS of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent! 29,984 munitions capable of dropping all this pandemonium on Americans like you and me! And don't forget Saddam's HIDDEN NUCLEAR WEAPONS! Oh, the humanity! So we sent our troops over there at a cost of 80 billion American taxpayer dollars, and what have we found? BUPKIS! NADA! ZIP CITY! Now we know that Mr. Bush and his cohorts wouldn't lie about something as serious as Weapons of Mass Destruction to get us into a war for political purposes. So that means these weapons MUST exist! And if they're not in Iraq, that means they've been dispersed throughout the entire Middle East! Syria! Iran! Saudi Arabia! Egypt! Jordan! Kuwait, for God's sakes! You can't trust a single one of those dune goons for a second! They're all in on it! Jealous of our sacred freedoms - the ones that AG Ashcroft has thoughtfully put in his "freedom vault" for safekeeping until the current crisis has passed! And what does Mr. Bush do as these insane terrorists disperse these horrible weapons and prepare to use them? NOTHING! This crisis has existed for HOURS in the Middle East, AND HE'S TAKING A VACATION ON HIS RANCH! Friends, no amount of duck tape and plastic sheeting can save you from those evil Syrians and Iranians and Egyptians and Jordanians and Kuwaitians, who are dry-washing their hands even now planning ways to use these WMD on poor, defenseless little us! Mr. Bush babbles some nonsense about a "diplomatic" (i.e. Carter-esque, defeatist, non-robust, ineffectual, vaguely whining) solution to this crisis. Did we show diplomacy in Iraq? We kicked Saddam's butt, that's what we did! Yeah! And now we need to let these other dusky-skinned evil-doers feel the cleansing sting of superior Yankee firepower! Hooo-yahhh!!! The ONLY solution to this crisis is to IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH! He's left American UNPROTECTED from this MENACE! WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE! SYRIANS RUNNING AMOK! BUSH DOES NOTHING! GET HIM OUTTA THERE!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:26:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: I beg to differ. Name change = suck. Look at Jefferson Starship.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:22:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I sense that the frogs have staying power. Back in 1918, England was more of a superpower even than France. Sun never set on the British Empire, and all. Now they are just a bunch of banger-eating rock monkeys. America is going into a serious decline as we speak, with the destruction of our free-market economy and the inability of the government to adapt to change. In fifteen years, it is doubtful that we will be able to field much of a military presence. Funny thing about declines of empires, the real jingoes never know what to do about it but the same thing that is screwing it up in the first place. However that works, my guess is that by 2025 the United States will be subordinate to Europe ("old" Europe), and by 2050 France will have more on the ball than the USA, and certainly Germany will. The wild card is of course China, but they've already pretty much kicked our ass out of any important role in Asia besides that of troublemaker and apologizer.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:20:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: I have a confession. I also downloaded the Buoys today. Was watching the MST3K feature on SciFi this morning. There was a cave scene in the movie and one of the commentators asked, "Where's Timothy?" and it triggered a flashback. (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:19:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe I'll download some Sons of Champlin. Right now, I'm working on Ken Nordine and Eddie Lawrence (The Old Philosopher.)
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:18:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh, I don't think Chicago had anything to do with the City of Chicago by then, if ever. Glint, Glint, Glint, it's not like the qualtiy went down when they changed their name. They still sucked, Glint.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:17:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Sons of Champlin was a great blues band. Had a great guitar player. What was anybody from that band doing moving to Chicago?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:12:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: "What were Chicago's "hit platters?" I believe the CTA only had one LP. Once they lopped off their name I didn't care any more.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:12:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, let's see... the last time the Frogs were a superpower was in 1918. They weren't in the first tier much after that. The last time they were the world's only superpower was in 1812. Plus �a change, plus c'est la m�me chose, quoi.
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:11:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bill Champlin. Remember the Sons of Champlin? They were good but never really made it. Played the local clubs for years, places like The Sweetwater and Keystone Berkeley. Marin County group. Bill Champlin was like Chicago's 10th lead singer for awhile. Long after the heyday.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:10:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't believe in time.
Buzz Link
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:08:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Suppose the French were the superpower"
???....BWAAAAHAAA !!!
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:07:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: What were Chicago's "hit platters?" I think I've heard of them. Are you sure you're not talking of Queen? Who is Bill Champlin? Shouldn't that be Champlain?
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:06:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's just the rube treasuring his pitiful past again.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:05:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was slightly older than 9-10. But look, being a Herb Alpert fan at the time I had to transition slowly, and anything with vocals needed a good horn section, o.k.? (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:04:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? About time? If so, I can't imagine why, we've all got time enough to die.
poetry
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:03:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: She was ambivalent at it? Why was she ambivalent? You'd think she'd be pleased at it. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:03:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, sure, a kid of 9 or 10 was going to thing Chcago was "the most" back in 1969. The cool kids were all into the Lemon Pipers though.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:01:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's look at it this way, Glit and Stupid. Suppose the French were the superpower, and they invaded the USA to clean Bush and his gang out. After they had disposed of Snip, and we were through dancing in the streets and throwing flowers, don't you think we could count on Billy Graham to loudly proclaim that they should now go back to France and let us declare an evangelical state? Wouldn't America, from normal people to people who can tolerate Ann Coulter, pretty much unite behind getting the frogs out once they had rendered their service? Wouldn't we hesitate to let them reorganize our school systems and provide us with textbooks and sell all the oil we pump to pay for French companies to come in and fix our bridges and street-lights and golf courses? Try to walk a mile in the other guy's moccasins, eh Glit?
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 16:00:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: By heyday, I mean heyday, rube. For Chicago that was the barren '70s. Forget the subtle distinctions between CTA and Chicago. There is no difference. They changed their name so they could market that logo of "Chicago," that looked like the Coca-Cola logo.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:59:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Back in '69 my sister's boyfriend at the time asked me for Christmas ideas. I told him she really wanted the CTA album, and he bought it. She was ambivilant at the gift and when they broke up soon after that gave me the album. The plan worked.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:55:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's a band named after a bus line? What won't they come up with next!
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:50:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bank of Montreal. And what you did was wrong, was it?
G*d
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:49:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: ah, so it is we white guys who need more white guy feti so we can propagate our ilk? is that it? I for one applaud this insistence on bringing more and more unwanted people into the world. a whole family of the unwanted. what more could one want?
perspectivist
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:48:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Protesters pour from the mosques to reclaim the streets for Islam Jonathan Steele in Baghdad Saturday April 19, 2003 The Guardian Iraq's huge political differences erupted into the open in the capital yesterday as tens of thousands of religious protesters called on the US to leave the country even as Washington's closest protege, Ahmad Chalabi, told a press conference that "the moral imperative is on the US to provide leadership and the Iraqi people will accept it". On the second Muslim day of prayer since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, thousands of worshippers poured out of the mosques and marched through Baghdad's predominantly Sunni al-Azameyah neighbourhood. They chanted both anti-American and anti-Saddam slogans. Shia clerics in Baghdad and the spiritual capital of Najaf have called in recent days for an Islamic state and yesterday's protest could have become a Sunni counter-demonstration. Roughly 60% of Iraqis are Shia while Sunnis have traditionally ruled the country. But the marchers yesterday called for national unity among the country's Sunnis and Shias, as well as the Kurds. "No to America, No to Saddam! Our revolution is Islamic," some chanted. Others carried banners in English and Arabic, reading: "Leave our country. We want peace" and "We reject American hegemony". As the demonstrators moved forward with Korans, prayer mats and banners they met a dozen American marines coming from the opposite direction. The protesters began waving their right fists in the air and chanting, "America is God's enemy".
"America is God's enemy"? Surely not!!
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:43:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't think it matters. If you really have to know, it involved the Bank of Montreal. (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:36:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: sure perspectivist is going abck to the lying liberal roots. It is something this slime always has in their back pocket. They will now commmence an unholy flow of look at all the homeless, the rich are getting richer, white guys are too many, lets scrape more fetuses, blah blah blah ... ie liberal agenda: socialism, class envy, racism, murder. Par for the liberal course with these slime.
Pete�
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:34:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: I recall CTA doubleLP was released circa 1969. Was that past their day of hay? ◊ Fake mes at 15:20 & 15:19 (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:33:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: At this sacred Eastertime, isn't God especially interested in what Glump got ratted out for?
moral majority
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:32:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's only one word for a guy who would risk jail for Chicago: Rube.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:24:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Next I'll download Spanky and Our Gang!
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:20:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm downloading Bread!
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:19:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: At this sacred Eastertime anybody who puts marshmallow Peeps in their kid's Easter basket should be arrested for child endangerment.
yellow, blue, pink, whatever the color
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:15:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: At this sacred Eastertime, it's important to remember how important it is to keep the numbers of America's unwanted children rising, ever onwards. The unwanted child has an important role to play in our society: filling our prisons, serving as cannon fodder, growing up unhappily into positions of power where they can abuse and torment those around them. Remember--every unwanted child winds up somewhere. It might grow up to be Ann Coulter!
perspectivist
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:12:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: There are already signs that the US viceroys preparing o run Iraq may have serious trouble incorporating the country's Shiites into an interim government. The largest Shiite Muslim group, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution, boycotted the first American-led meeting of opposition groups in Iraq. Thousands of Shiites flooded the streets to protest the American-led summit. And there has been other strong Shiite resistance to American-endorsed leadership. Shiite religious leaders took control by force of a downtrodden suburb called Saddam City and renamed it after a Shiite martyr, Sadr. And in Kut, a Shiite cleric who claims to be a direct descendant of the sect's founder, has staged an armed take-over of city hall. His men chant "La, La Chalabi," or "No, no, Chalabi," against the once-exiled Iraqi businessman Ahmed Chalabi.
No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool, you still can't walk on water.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:09:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chicago was pretty good with Bill Champlin singing. Of course, that was well after their heyday.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 15:02:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chicago? Geesh! What next? Blood, Sweat and Tears? Geesh, what a rube!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:55:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: "He also suggested, quoting soldiers' loved ones, that faith in God can provide comfort and a sense of purpose during difficult days."
hey, anything's worth a try
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:38:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Praise the Lord and pass the contracts!
Connected
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:34:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: We love being reminded of the value of freedom, especially when it's a dollar sign followed by lots and lots of numbers.
Bechtel
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:25:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: CRAWFORD, Texas - Celebrating the weekend's Christian and Jewish observances, President Bush offered a message of religious hope and the nation's prayers Saturday to the families of soldiers who have died or been wounded in Iraq or remain deployed overseas. "This holy season reminds us of the value of freedom, and the power of a love stronger than death," Bush, on a five-day stay at his 1,600-acre ranch, said in his weekly radio address. Bush declared that the Easter and Passover holidays have "special meaning" this year for service members' families, "who feel so intensely the absence of their loved ones during these days." "Thanks to the courage of our Marines and the help of Iraqis, their families have even more reason to celebrate this weekend," Bush said. Politics - AP Bush Offers Prayers for Families in War Sat Apr 19,10:13 AM ET Add Politics - AP to My Yahoo! By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer CRAWFORD, Texas - Celebrating the weekend's Christian and Jewish observances, President Bush offered a message of religious hope and the nation's prayers Saturday to the families of soldiers who have died or been wounded in Iraq or remain deployed overseas. [Photo] AP Photo [Video] Bush Doubts Iraq Will Meet Deadline (AP Video) [Special Coverage] Latest news: � U.S. Wants Phased End to U.N. Sanctions -Report Reuters - 5 minutes ago � U.S. Prepares for Iraq Shiite Pilgrimage AP - 8 minutes ago � U.S. General, Iraq Tribal Leaders Meet AP - 10 minutes ago Special Coverage "This holy season reminds us of the value of freedom, and the power of a love stronger than death," Bush, on a five-day stay at his 1,600-acre ranch, said in his weekly radio address. Bush declared that the Easter and Passover holidays have "special meaning" this year for service members' families, "who feel so intensely the absence of their loved ones during these days." Seven American prisoners of war, held in captivity for three weeks, were heading to two Army bases in Texas on Saturday after being rescued by Marines last Sunday and spending several days at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. Two of them, Apache attack helicopter pilots, were returning to central Texas' Fort Hood, from where almost half the 42,000 personnel are in Iraq. Bush planned to attend Easter services Sunday at Fort Hood. "Thanks to the courage of our Marines and the help of Iraqis, their families have even more reason to celebrate this weekend," Bush said. Bush had no plans to meet with the two pilots, White House officials said, although they said his schedule might change. In an unusually short address, Bush also linked the hope of the two major religious holidays to the war's painful sacrifices. Although the fighting has all but wound down, and the military's attention has turned mostly to restoring order and rebuilding Iraq, 250,000 U.S. troops remain deployed in the Persian Gulf. That means that people remain separated from loved ones or are grieving the losses of soldiers who have died, Bush said. "As a nation, we continue to pray for all who serve in our military and those who remain in harm's way," he said. "America mourns those who have been called home, and we pray that their families will find God's comfort and God's grace." He also suggested, quoting soldiers' loved ones, that faith in God can provide comfort and a sense of purpose during difficult days. ◊ CTA = Chicago Transit Authority, numbnµts.
Well said, good and faithful leader.
Glint - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:18:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: CRAWFORD, Texas - Celebrating the weekend's Christian and Jewish observances, President Bush offered a message of religious hope and the nation's prayers Saturday to the families of soldiers who have died or been wounded in Iraq or remain deployed overseas. "This holy season reminds us of the value of freedom, and the power of a love stronger than death," Bush, on a five-day stay at his 1,600-acre ranch, said in his weekly radio address. Bush declared that the Easter and Passover holidays have "special meaning" this year for service members' families, "who feel so intensely the absence of their loved ones during these days." "Thanks to the courage of our Marines and the help of Iraqis, their families have even more reason to celebrate this weekend," Bush said. Politics - AP Bush Offers Prayers for Families in War Sat Apr 19,10:13 AM ET Add Politics - AP to My Yahoo! By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer CRAWFORD, Texas - Celebrating the weekend's Christian and Jewish observances, President Bush offered a message of religious hope and the nation's prayers Saturday to the families of soldiers who have died or been wounded in Iraq or remain deployed overseas. [Photo] AP Photo [Video] Bush Doubts Iraq Will Meet Deadline (AP Video) [Special Coverage] Latest news: � U.S. Wants Phased End to U.N. Sanctions -Report Reuters - 5 minutes ago � U.S. Prepares for Iraq Shiite Pilgrimage AP - 8 minutes ago � U.S. General, Iraq Tribal Leaders Meet AP - 10 minutes ago Special Coverage "This holy season reminds us of the value of freedom, and the power of a love stronger than death," Bush, on a five-day stay at his 1,600-acre ranch, said in his weekly radio address. Bush declared that the Easter and Passover holidays have "special meaning" this year for service members' families, "who feel so intensely the absence of their loved ones during these days." Seven American prisoners of war, held in captivity for three weeks, were heading to two Army bases in Texas on Saturday after being rescued by Marines last Sunday and spending several days at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. Two of them, Apache attack helicopter pilots, were returning to central Texas' Fort Hood, from where almost half the 42,000 personnel are in Iraq. Bush planned to attend Easter services Sunday at Fort Hood. "Thanks to the courage of our Marines and the help of Iraqis, their families have even more reason to celebrate this weekend," Bush said. Bush had no plans to meet with the two pilots, White House officials said, although they said his schedule might change. In an unusually short address, Bush also linked the hope of the two major religious holidays to the war's painful sacrifices. Although the fighting has all but wound down, and the military's attention has turned mostly to restoring order and rebuilding Iraq, 250,000 U.S. troops remain deployed in the Persian Gulf. That means that people remain separated from loved ones or are grieving the losses of soldiers who have died, Bush said. "As a nation, we continue to pray for all who serve in our military and those who remain in harm's way," he said. "America mourns those who have been called home, and we pray that their families will find God's comfort and God's grace." He also suggested, quoting soldiers' loved ones, that faith in God can provide comfort and a sense of purpose during difficult days. ◊ CTA = Chicago Transit Authority, numbnµs.
Well said, good and faithful leader.
Glint - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:18:27 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Take that Liberal scum!

- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:18:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Fort Hood ready to welcome ex-POWs" The site has been chosen and the ceremony practiced, and now all that remains now is for the two 1st Cavalry Division pilots who were captured in Iraq to step off a plane and into the waiting arms of their families. The 1st Cav announced Friday that Chief Warrant Officer-2 David Williams and Chief Warrant Officer-2 Ronald Young Jr. are scheduled to return to Fort Hood this evening. No definite time has been given for their arrival at Robert Gray Army Airfield. The members of one Fort Hood congregation will have a special guest with them Sunday morning when President George W. Bush arrives at the post to attend Easter services at one of the post's chapels. No schedule for the president's visit has been released, and the chapel where he will attend services has not been announced by the post. The president's visit to the post comes on the heels of the American military's success in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but while more than 20,000 Fort Hood soldiers are still serving in the combat area. ◊ Fake me at 13:14.
Welcome home troops! Dubya, America loves ya!
Glint - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:07:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cocks, Tits and Asses?
in need of a Brenda fix?
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:06:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe gliton for punishment will volunteer as a fetal babysitter. I heard his hellfire and brimstone church is ready to start an ASPCA-like orphanage for abandoned feti. So sweet, really.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 14:03:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fox news fan or not, his ass is going to jail.
Snip
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:58:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: White House Sides with Record Labels in Internet Download Case...
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:57:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pay for some rebuilding? Hmmm ... lessee ... one of the barns in Crawford needs some work ... Jeb's got some undeveloped land near the Gulf ... and Neil would like to build a home for his mistress.
Hot diggity!
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:55:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: US should be "embarrassed" over failure to find WMDs: ex-spies Thu Apr 17,10:36 PM ET Add Top Stories - AFP to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government should be "embarrassed" over the apparent failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the main justification for going to war, retired intelligence officials said Thursday. "It's going to be very embarrassing when it turns out they have nothing to declare," said former defense intelligence analyst Eugene Betit. Another, former CIA station chief Ray Close, said: "I'm hoping they will be embarrassed into acknowledging a role for some independent body. And who could it be but the UN?" As the "smoking gun" continued to elude US sleuths in Iraq, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix called for experts to return to the country to determine whether the weapons allegations had any foundation. Adding to the pressure, Russia, a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, said it would not support the lifting of UN sanctions against Iraq unless UN inspectors confirmed the absence of weapons of mass destruction. But Washington has so far rejected such calls, and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday sought to deflect concerns that evidence could be planted.
sure, but we're shameless
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:55:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: CTA?
California Teachers' Association?
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:51:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Iraq war news? Apparently Saddam's some place where he doesn't need some $600M in cash. If it turns out not to be counterfeit, that's quite a haul. Should be able to pay for some rebuilding until the oil can get pumping again. ◊ Downloading CTA.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:49:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: You don't need Fox News. You've got Glint. He pretty much has the Fox News riff down.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:45:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I long to see Fox News. I've heard so much about it. Where can I get tapes? Is there a CD out?
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:33:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not only that, wasn't the guy who killed those people in Yosemite, wasn't he from Modesto? Or am I thinking of Tree Frog Johnson, the guy who kidnapped his little brother? If this thing goes all the way back to Tree Frog, there's no way it stays off the front page.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:32:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe it was because Lacey lived in Gary Condit's old district. They figured Modesto was a winner, a horse that had already turned up in the win column.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:31:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe the Lacey story went national because the editors could sense that there was a half-empty half-full angle to it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:30:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any news out of Iraq? Have the ragheads settled down? Are they anxiously awaiting the new curriculum, the new textbooks that the US contractors will set up for the Iraqi school system? Are they glad that Franklin Graham is roaming their country with beady eyes and a Bible?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:29:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was it the Christmas Eve angle? She disappeared on Christmas Eve or something? I'll bet that's what gave the story a peg.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:27:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get this Lacey thing. There are hundreds of people go missing every day across this great land, some of them pregnant. Why did she get to be national news and the Sacramento whore, pregnant mother of five, who disappeared on the same day not even get a mention?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:26:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: What show is Garofolo in? I want to boycott it.
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:23:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Laci's family might be comforted if Glint would convey to them the sunny side glass half full of this story.
sunny delight
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:23:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Republican. It's all taxes. Taxes and killing people we don't like. And oil. Oil fits in there somewhere, as long as it's not taxed.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:21:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why can't a fetus count as a dependent for tax purposes? That would settle this once and for all.
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:14:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't think Glint's saying she had no right to abort. You're putting words in his mouth. He wouldn't call HER a baby killer if she had aborted.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:09:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh, well, you see, Glintster, what you have here is a "law." Whoever killed this pregnant woman, timed it wrong. The fetus was "viable" and only she has the right to remove the fetus. Under the law, that is. If someone else makes that decision and forces it on the woman, then, under a 1970 Cali law, it's special circumstances - double murder in this case. Only Laci had the right to yank the fetus and she never got the chance cuz she got snuffed.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:07:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's good associating murder and dead fetuses. The one single positive sunny side glass half full piece of this story. (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:03:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, will you and the family be planning a Cali vacation to picnic at the fetal grave?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 13:00:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't be coy, Glint. You know there's more than just THAT that's good about this killing. Any killing for that matter, eh?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:58:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hitting the crack pipe a little early today, Glint?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:56:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yep. That will teach the next guy who wants to kill a woman with a viable fetus in her a goddam lesson! What part of A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE don't these bozos get???
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:55:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best thing with the Peterson killing is charging with fetus murder. Makes it a multiple murder which lends "special circumstances." One baby killer down, thousands more to go. (01)
Glint
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:51:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: ''Give it to them (the Europeans) before they change their minds,'' says retired Gen. general William Odom, director of national security studies for the Hudson Institute. ''The task in Iraq will make the Balkans look simple.''
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:46:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're just keeping the oil safe for them and you know it!
Harl
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:28:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15136-2003Apr12.html "Some Iraqis, however, question the allocation of U.S. forces around the capital. They note a whole company of Marines, along with at least a half-dozen amphibious assault vehicles, has been assigned to guard the Oil Ministry, while many other ministries -- including trade, information, planning, health and education -- remain unprotected. "Why just the oil ministry?" Jaf asked. "Is it because they just want our oil?""
uh - yes. your blood, your oil, now our oil
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:24:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Robbins??? What makes him an expert???
Sean Hannity
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:19:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: And then came the speech: You are either with us or against us. And the bombing began. And the old paradigm was restored as our leader encouraged us to show our patriotism by shopping and by volunteering to join groups that would turn in their neighbor for any suspicious behavior. In the 19 months since 9-11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred. Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear. A unified American public has grown bitterly divided, and a world population that had profound sympathy and support for us has grown contemptuous and distrustful, viewing us as we once viewed the Soviet Union, as a rogue state.
Tim Robbins
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 12:16:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway these big Iraqi "demonstrations" for an Islamic state have the stench of Bing, Garofalo and other enemeies of America all over them. Traitors!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:59:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: The way I have it figured, if the Iraqs want an Islamic state, more power to them. We can live with that. What's the big problem? I'm sick of the nay sayers.
Harl
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:51:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's pretty obvious that Glit and the pineapple sense that this Iraqi adventure is going to be a disaster for the troglodyte cause, and don't want to be around to experience the shame. The rats are leaving the sinking ship. Good riddance.
America, the Founded on Liberalism and Still Going Strong
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:11:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is it that it's always the military-industrial complex that makes the easy buck? Guys who actually build nations are always left at the mercy of whatever dusky people inhabit the local real estate. I demand guarantees or I'm not even packing my suitcase.
Bechtel
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:06:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: They're pulling down posters of the president? That makes my blood boil. Why don't we punish them? Where are the military police?
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:04:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: I predict that within six months they will be pulling the posters of Snippy off the walls. Hey, these are Arabs. Only a fool would trust the Arab.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:02:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, sure, like the hate us. Fat chance!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 10:39:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't think there's going to be any rebuilding. I think that we're going to be driven out of Iraq by the sheer hatred before anybody but the military contractors make a dime.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 03:47:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's a pretty good idea about Glit going for a consulting job in the "rebuilding." He can be like Perle, Cheney, and the others. Howl for war as a non-combattant, then feed on the corpses. Why is it that I know that won't bother Glit?
patriot
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 03:46:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bush army has failed in its efforts to weaken Clean Water Act restrictions on arsenic, to drill for oil off the coast of California, and to move a massive industrial outpost into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. These were big victories for the environment. But there have been devastating defeats. The EPA � in charge of enforcing environmental laws � has been the site of the most thorough-going turnaround. A few recent actions: In January, the EPA exempted the oil and gas industry from water pollution rules. Last month, the agency decided cities could not be held responsible for their toxic runoff. There is a move currently underway to loosen rules mandating that chemical plants, automobile factories and steel mills cut their emissions of air pollution.
time now for snippy's war on the environment
- Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 00:35:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why, what's happening in Iraq? Do you have any info? Is everybody OK with us helping them out by selling their oil and re-writing their textbooks for them and having Bechtel give them some nice new street lights? The Arab is a happy camper under our rule, isn't he?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 22:59:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which of them will do what? They'll expose themselves every time or the people they expose themselves to will rat them out? Glit needs to know which it is! It's either that or sign up with Bechtel and go to a place where the guy next to you might be one of the "liberated." Glit may be dumb, and he may be crazy, but he's not going to go to Iraq and expose himself to any of the people his country has set free.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 22:54:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: He was ratted out for exposing himself over the cube partitions. What did you think? They'll do it every time.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 22:51:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Glit and his bubbles. He never could figure out whether he was on the inside or the outside, or that his whole schtick is petty politics and shitting pokers over non-life-or-death issues, and in fact totally meaningless issues on any reasonable scale. The bubbles are all inside his brain, maybe? (01)
Code of the Rube
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 22:50:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: "He was ratted out for doing what?" That's irrelevant and on a need2know basis. Point is, it reminded me of why I left the bubble in the first place. Life's too short and all that for the petty politics and sweating over non life-or-death issues (01).
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 21:51:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who you calling an Enemeie of America?
patatroiot
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 20:15:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Go Arabs!
Enemeies of America
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 20:13:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can say that again.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 19:50:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think he's saying that if it appears on the Limbaugh site it's the truth. Looks like Pete's claim that he's not a Limbaugh fan is just another lie.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 19:50:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 19:49:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: faux-patriot at - Friday, April 18, 2003, 17:52:27, the truth really does irritate you, doesn't it. Idiot.
Pete�
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 19:24:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, "demonrats" says it all. Enemeies of America. Every single slimey scumbag one of those traitors.
Pete�
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 19:22:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Naysayers: they really come out of the woodwork every time an Republican president takes over a foreign country, don't they? If it was a Democrat, and he'd been legally elected, I suppose they would be cheering. Lemmings.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 19:14:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Reserving government contracts for domestic companies violates international law, of course. It seems like just the other day that Donald Rumsfeld was lecturing Saddam Hussein about the importance of obeying international law. The World Trade Organization rules forbid governments to discriminate against the companies of fellow members when they are looking to spend some money. This is not one of those high-minded international laws that we agreed to just because we're so noble and can't really be expected to obey, my dear fellow, we being the world's only superpower and all that. This particular law is superpower-friendly. Our country is the one with more of the big global companies that are most likely to benefit from open markets for government business. We also have a smaller government share of GDP than any of our major trading partners. That means we have more to gain from access to other nations' government business than they have to gain from access to ours. And therefore we have more to lose if other nations retaliate by cutting off our access to their government contracts, which they are understandably threatening to do. And, lest we forget, the doctrine of free trade holds -- based on near-mathematical proof, not just pious wishful thinking -- that a nation benefits by buying foreign goods, not just by selling its own goods to foreigners. As the folks footing the bill, we should want the reconstruction of Iraq to be as inexpensive as possible. If a firm from Uzbekistan can patch a pipeline for less than a firm from Texas, giving the work to that firm in Texas is just paying too much. Even if the Uzbek firm is able to underbid the Texas one only because it is getting an Uzbek government subsidy, that just means a bit of the burden is being shifted from American taxpayers to the taxpayers of Uzbekistan. Thanks so much for that Halliburton contract, George. And all the lovely deals for Bechtel and other well-connected companies. You shouldn't have.
Kinsley
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:48:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, we paid for the destruction. If it weren't for us, there wouldn't be all these roads and bridges that need rebuilding. So if someone's going to make money rebuilding them, it ought to be us. To be fair, the Bush administration isn't pushing this line. It doesn't need to, as it is awarding these contracts with no public bidding or discussion. Members of the House of Representatives were the ones who voted to add a provision to the war-financing bill that would have forbidden the awarding of reconstruction contracts to companies from nations that didn't support the destruction that made it all possible. The provision was removed by the conference committee. Nevertheless, justifiable public outrage about Halliburton and other sweetheart deals has been muted by a widespread feeling that "we deserve this." Which brings to mind the punch line of that old Lone Ranger and Tonto joke ("Well, Tonto, it looks like we're surrounded by Indians"): "What do you mean, 'we,' Kemosabe?" What am I to Halliburton? What is Halliburton to me? Misdirected national emotion is turning into a theme of the Bush II years. We're filled with righteous anger at Osama bin Laden, so we go and pummel Saddam Hussein. We're filled with gratitude toward the soldiers who fought this war and with self-satisfaction as the citizens who will pay for it, so we give a teary hug and a big wet kiss on the mouth to a company practically all of us have nothing to do with. It's like getting one of those cards announcing that instead of a Christmas present, someone has made a contribution in your name to some charity you aren't interested in. "Dear American Taxpayer: We are pleased to inform you that in gratitude for all the billions you're going to be pouring into Iraq, the U.S. government has made a sweetheart deal on your behalf with a company you've never heard of." Eighty billion dollars -- the size of just the first expense report the Bush administration has submitted to Congress -- works out to about $1,000 that needs to be kicked in by each household in the United States. Of course we're putting it all on the credit card, to be paid for in the future, with interest. But it's still real money. If we made a contribution that big to our local public broadcasting outlet, we'd qualify for a CD recording by six, nine or even 12 tenors. From the Bush administration, we don't even get a tote bag. But at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that we share a $10 trillion economy with some smiling companies that are doing well out of the war.
go michael go
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:46:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean chumps, don't you?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:39:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: What you call Hanks in for is to talk about package delivery. Call Speilberg for space monsters. Call Reagan in to talk about chimps. Use them for the stuff they're good at.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:38:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean, it's like calling in Tom Hanks to talk about D-Day, or calling in Steven Speilberg to talk about Auschwitz, or calling in Ronald Reagan to talk about football. What the hell do they know about it?
WG
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:36:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: The hall of fame wouldn't let Robbins and Sarandon in? I don't get it. Kevin Costner was the key actor in that movie. Somehow the goof pulled it off perfectly. I'll bet Cooperstown wouldn't have turned Costner down, but not because they could recognize a good baseball movie. They probably think Field of Dreams was the good movie. What troubles me is that any actors should be spounting off about baseball, if that's what was going on. Can't they get some baseball players to do it? Maybe a manager, a coach, the masseur, I don't care. Just not actors. What do actors have to do with it? You might as well call in Bill O'Reilly, for all any of them know about anything.
Whelp Greenlee
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:34:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: "With the advantage of hindsight, it is clear I should have handled the matter differently."
yeah, maybe I should have pulled the poker out of my butt
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:27:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: What!? The Hall of Fame President said that these actors were putting the troops at risk by stating their Hollywood opinions. Now he's apologizing??? Traitor!
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:19:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: The baseball Hall of Fame president issued an apology Friday, saying he was sorry he failed to call Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon last week before canceling a "Bull Durham" celebration because of the actors' anti-war stance. In an open letter to the 28,000 people who called or sent a letter or e-mail to the Hall, Dale Petroskey blamed himself for bringing politics into the shrine. "I inadvertently did exactly what I was trying to avoid," the former Reagan administration official wrote. "With the advantage of hindsight, it is clear I should have handled the matter differently."
nyuck, nyuck, nyuck
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 18:01:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: The bombed Iraqi gets plenty of compensation in his freedom. Plus, instead of all the oil revenue going to a few Baathist officials, it will be spread around Snippy's golf pals, with quite a bit trickling down on Arabs who have emigrated to America and hope for a job with Halliburton or Bechtel. If they are honorable Arabs, they will mail some back to the old country.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:55:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, I used to think that Pete was the only one left spouting the discredited idea that lowering taxes increases tax revenue? Well, when I went to the Limbaugh public site to check on the pie charts, I saw that the fat boy is also pushing it hard. Limbaugh and Pete. Who do you suppose is the brains of that pair?
patriot
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:52:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, citizen, if Snippy paid off every greaseball who got in the way of one of his bombs, he'd have to triple the tax cut to generate the revenues to foot the bill. Get a clue about econ 101.
Yepe�
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:50:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Iraq is under US control?
doubt it
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:48:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: President Bush is wise in not compensating the Iraqis. Now that Iraq is under US control, he has to show the rest of the world that he's treating the average Iraqi citizen the same as he would treat the average US citizen.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:28:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: The United States is ignoring the plight of children in northern Iraq by refusing to allow a plane full of medical supplies to land in the city of Arbil, a British aid agency said on Friday. Save the Children disputed the U.S. line that it was unsafe to land at Arbil, saying the city, between Mosul and Kirkuk, was "as safe as many parts of London".
more blood for oil
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:23:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: The cleric at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines denounced the presence of US troops in the country during Friday prayers, saying it amounted to imperialism by "unbelievers."
uh oh
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:22:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: The US Defence Department does not plan to financially compensate Iraqi civilians wounded during the US-led invasion of their country or the families of those killed, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
what a surprise
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:21:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: When will these towelheads understand? Operation Iraqi Freedom only promised them freedom from Saddam. It's right there, in the fine print, under the 32nd footnote on page 387.
Snippy
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:09:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Probability is that North Korea doesn't have any nukes yet. That's just something Colin Powell said when Kim Jung kicked out the verification team and shut down the monitoring cameras. The idea was to pretend that they already had a couple of bombs so Snippy wouldn't have to do the right thing and deal with them, right at the start of his great Arabian adventure. Why are they going for bombs now, with easy-going Snip in the White House? They're scared, is one thing, and the other thing is they realize that Nixon never would have gone to China and kissed Mao's ass, and China would never have displaced Chiang on the Security Council, if they didn't have nukes. They see Snippy bowing down to the chinaman after they wreck our airplane, and say to themselves, hey, why don't we get some nukes. Every third-world hell-hole with any aspirations at all is working on nukes, desperately trying to get some before Snippy decides he wants their oil, or chicle, or coconuts, or rebuild contracts for Bechtel, or whatever the boys in the back room convince the little shit to go for.
patriot
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:07:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something unmentionable, clearly, since he failed to mention it.
Boyz 2 Hammurabi
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:07:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: He was ratted out for doing what?
that's the real question
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:05:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Everything's turning to shit. I say we get on with the business of killing 20% of the world's population. These people don't deserve liberation. Us or them. Let's roll.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:04:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: There was a large anti-American demonstration in the Iraqi capital on Friday. During the first Friday prayer after Baghdad's occupation by U.S. troops, the Imam of one of the city's central mosques, Ahmed Al-Kubaisi, declared that "the United States has invaded Iraq for the sake of Israel's interests". He pointed out that Iraq did not have any mass destruction weapons. The people, who attended the prayer, marched out into the streets, carrying posters, saying: "No to America. Yes to Islamic State". The demonstrators called for the immediate withdrawal of all the U.S. troops from Iraq.
CNN unable to report on democratic demonstration in Iraq. How do you spell government-controlled media? Bush's not Saddam's.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:01:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you think North Korea will nuke South Korea, Japan and our 37,000 hostages before or after we attack them?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 16:54:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: North Korea's announcement that it has begun reprocessing spent fuel rods to make nuclear weapons has put talks among the U.S., North Korea and China next week in jeopardy, a senior Bush administration official told CNN.
Hey, look over there --- Syria!
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 16:47:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, that's the slur they have ready in Nebraska, in case a Phillipino ever shows up there.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 16:45:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: I blame it on the poor performances by the ululating masses. And Clinton.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 16:44:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON - President Bush's job approval has risen past 70 percent after the war with Iraq but remains far below his father's level after the Persian Gulf War.
but pretty close to Clinton's post-impeachment numbers!!
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 16:05:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the ethnic slur for Filipino is Pino, right?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 15:33:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: At a time when the United States is flush from its victory over Iraq, it looks supiciously like the Bushies are stepping forward to flex their muscles and enforce their idea of the new world order by wagging their fingers at Syria. It's "straighten up, or what happened to Iraq could happen to you." Ari says they should ponder this.
I'll be judge, I'll be jury," Said cunning old Fury: "I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 15:11:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Long week tending the hot modems, eh? Trying to watch his back? Finally having to nurse his Friday beer, on the lookout for the hatchet, the stilletto? I feel for the poor sap.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 14:38:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: All you really need to know is it's been a long, weary week for Glint and he craves the "corn crib."
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 13:14:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: T-bird? Sure, why not? I'm taking the lads out to dinner tonight so I should have enough left over for a bottle of T-bird.
Pensioner
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 13:12:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll try and help. Apparently, Glint once told us all about being ratted out for something or other he did or didn't do at work. After a few blood sacrifices that left Glint temporarily unsupervised, the one who ratted Glint out is now Glint's ruler. Glint seems to approve of this arrangement for some reason. The rest you know. The "lunch test," the beer, etc.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 13:10:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Another year older, eh? Geesh, that calls for celebration! Why not buy a bottle of Thunderbird?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 13:07:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I still can't decipher the original post. Do you suppose it's one of those cuniform tablets that Halliburton paid the guys to steal from the Baghdad museum?
Can't Read Moronese
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 13:05:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's tale is a warning to us all. Don't get sucked into the maelstrom of ass-kissing required for membership in the Great American dorkoisie. Don't follow leaders, especially undistinguished little shits with roots deep in the cowturds of Crawford, Texas, and watch a parking meters. Glit is the man who thought he was sucking out of the trough and now finds that he's sucking out of the ass of the 1% that the Republican Party is dedicated to serving. Take heed, lest this happen to you.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 13:02:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Today is the 6 month anniversary of my retirement, as well as my birthday. The birthday was not of my choosing, but the retirement was. Glint's horror story reminds me I did the right thing.
Pensioner
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:53:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's fighting the good fight back at home. As one of the few, the proud, the manly, it gives me a warm feeling to know that such a stud is rooting for me.
Semper Fi Mac
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:51:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's a natural at this bureaucratic infighting. This office intrigue. It takes my breath away.
Rube Who Stayed to Home
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:49:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'll pay for that lunch. Big time.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:42:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I ignored all but the part that said he's working for a guy who hates him and he thinks that's a good thing. And the part about lunch. I figured it was gibberish because the poor rube is shitting bricks about this latest outrage.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:41:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's o.k. I had lunch on the ratter's boss on Tue.
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:32:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: What mystifies me is how you understood or at least got some information out of the original gibberish post about the boss and the rater or ratter. What's your secret?
Can't read Moronese
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:30:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:30:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's been a long weary week. I can't wait to hit the corn crib. (01)
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:23:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: You don't get it. The point is, you should always go to lunch when your betters ask you to. You will pay the price for going or not going, so go. Keeps them from talking about you at lunch if nothing else.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:21:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tab? Of course there would have been a tab, like always. Xpense it. This is the suburbs of the capital of the only remaining super power. We've got our own war to fight, struggling for Tech stocks and dot coms.
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:18:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, that's right. There is definitely no such thing as a free lunch. Were they offerring to pick up the tab? Not that it matters, you're fucked anyway. Just remember, if you ever get invited to lunch by your rulers again, go. Pay the price of that lunch, whatever it is, and smile. They've got you by the balls and the price will be paid whether you go to lunch or not. Go.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 12:04:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why not? No such thing as, right?
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 11:55:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something tells me you aren't quite as indispensible as you've imagined yourself to be. Are you saying the bastards invited you to lunch and you turned down the offer?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 11:33:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glass half full?
They made the glass too big
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 11:32:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't drink beer? Why not? Is it because when they offered Christ strong drink on the cross he turned his face away from it?
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 11:31:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Great. The glass is half full. Of hemlock. Don't drink the beer today, you poor rube.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 11:15:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let me tell you about someone else in my life. Rememer when I had no boss there for a while? Well, that has all changed. This new boss is the one who ratted me out the VP. The same VP that stood by without a word, hands folded, while the SVP read from the riot act. The ratter and I kept our distance. The Director helped make this possible and served as a good means for sending any necessary daggers of mine on their wasy. As you may have figured out already, the VP, the one who wouldn't defend his guy, was turned lose a while back. So was the Director. So was the person I had trained as my backup. Now I'm working for the ratter. Not that the rater isn't a good choice. In fact it's the perfect choice (one that I actually would have preferred) because they once held my job. So who would better understand the issues and problems? The contempt has been exorcised through familiarity. They're not loading on the sh1t like I would have expected, and I understand why. If I were to leave who would do what I do? The only person with a clue is the ratter and I know for a fact they have no intention of getting their hands soiled again in the dirty trench issues that keep the company afloat. Plus it works for me because the ratter still has information locked up in their head that needs shared, and now that we're working closer it's making my job easier because I don't get stone walled any more. Why just yesterday they invited me to lunch.
Nowhere to Go but Up.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 11:12:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, yeah, the "panel on cultural property." I suppose he knows a lot about it. If he was Tommy Franks, we'd have the oil now, right? What would he do, bomb the Presidential Palace with cuniform steles? Trip up the Republican Guard with Assyrian pottery? I'd like to hear how loud this guy bitches about "cultural property" if the price he has to pay at the pump hits $3.00. Traitor.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 10:28:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, I could be funny, but funny is not going to save this town. We are in crisis mode, even though Ridge claims it's only level yellow. Ridge can't see the real threat, which is imperialistic cynical Rotarianism, the ascendancy of the Loyal Brotherhood of Pest Control Salesmen. The pinheads have come up out of the basement and are rocking and rolling in Old Baghdad. It's as if the crynic was in charge of maritime policy, or the captain of a ship with peoples' lives in his hands. It's as if Glint were responsible for providing a necessary service, with no threat of imprisonment if he skimmed off the top hurting only old women, and men who couldn't beat him up, paraplegics perhaps. It is as if Pete were the only man in Toledo who knew the bus schedules, and was required to explain them to the team putting together the brochure. It is that bad.
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- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 10:21:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The head of a U.S. presidential panel on cultural property has resigned in protest at the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the wholesale looting of priceless treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum. "It didn't have to happen... Our priorities had a big gap," Martin Sullivan told Reuters on Thursday. "In a pre-emptive war that's the kind of thing you should have planned for." Sullivan, who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years, said he wrote a letter of resignation to the White House this week in part to make a statement but also because "you can't speak freely" as a special government-appointed employee.
you can't speak freely? oh right. that's why we started killing all those people. so they could shut up.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 10:21:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has called on Iraqis to coverage on Karbala on April 22 to oppose a U.S.-installed interim government. Al-Hakim -- who currently lives in Iran -- is expected to return to Iraq soon, which reportedly concerns some U.S. officials who believe that Al-Hakim is likely to install an Iranian-style government in Iraq.
what goes around comes around?
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 10:17:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: well, the other 20 of the 22 are really funny, while the 2 are well, you know what I mean, do you not?
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 10:14:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, Glit, just three? First, do you want them in latitude and longitude, the State Plane Coordinate System, Township and Range, what?
Pythagoras
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 10:12:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: One subscribes to a major h*llfire Bible-thump listserv & p*tcall-pervs c*rpses and a g*y adolescent m*le friend of his kid's. eTh otohre mkaes on eesns. On a good day. The point is, the other 22 are really funny.
meat bee et al. story aficionada
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 09:52:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: The U.S. State Department has tapped Bechtel Corp. to be the primary contractor to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure, giving it a contract that could be worth up to $680 million, the department said Thursday.
PLUNDERGATE
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 08:54:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hazard, huh? Pretty cute. Out here in Cali, we got some cute places too. Out here, the sign showing the population of a town also show the elevation since elevation in Cali range from below sea level to about 14,000 feet. It's cute when you see a town sign that lists a population of, say, 25, and an elevation of 9000. Cute.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 01:14:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Geesh, if you think about it, there is an infinite number of places like that." Oh yeah? Name three (not including Hazard.)
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:46:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are you saying MS Expedia doesn't give the true skinny? I've been wrong about everything all along?
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:43:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: BOX ELDER CEMETERY, north of Cumro, Custer County, Nebraska.

Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:43:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: It really depends on whether you get stuck behind a Volkswagen bus in the hills.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:41:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, if you think about it, there is an infinite number of places like that, but only one of them lies in Hazard. Maybe that's what God is. Particularly if it vibrates.
Anonymous.
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:40:19 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:34:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The difference in travel time in driving from Hazard, NE to Los Angeles and Hazard to New York City is only 11 minutes.
Source: MS Expedia
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:30:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure nobody asked. I just thought I'd save you the trouble.
Glint
The Hazard Home Page Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:24:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cumro looks like a good dark sky site in a sparse part Custer County (as if there are many non-sparse parts). Must not be incorporated. Lots of little towns around there that don't show up on the maps. Towns like Sweetwater, which is near Hazard. Hazard, NE was the subject of some pop tune about a decade ago. My feeling was that the song writer had never been there; just plopped his finger down on the map and wrote a song about the town his pointer pointed to.
Glint
- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:14:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: ?
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- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:06:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just pathetic.
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- Friday, April 18, 2003 at 00:06:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: dikei sleowg fefnw de olfeeod. kejklsdoi dkleflj - Oops sorry, transmitter wasn't in plain text mode. Did anyone ever get the answer to yesterday's Fornigame at 15:10:47? ◊ Last hint: Look around here: YFMWDJF.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 23:46:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, to be honest with you, the town of Cumro doesn't ring a bell. Something like that hasn't happened since the weekend before last. I was watching the films of Harold Lloyd on the TCM channel. In the intro to the movie with the little monkey Harold's grand daughter said that her grandfather was born at Buchard. Had to look it up because I didn't recognize the name. About 70 miles sse of Lincoln.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 23:38:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, there are 20 to 22 happy ones of all sexes here.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 22:08:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I left once, came back. Am a happy gal.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 22:07:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's what keeps me going, the daily PeteGlint Follies. I almost left once but then they came up with the secret code and I knew I had to stay. Now I'm glad I did as I watch two guys who probably despise eachother seek comfort in the arms of one another. I'm a happy guy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 21:58:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Six months, a year. I go way back with meat bees, tree falling. That's why Glit could never lay a glove on me, strive as he might. You see, for a few of us, the whole point of this site is to make Pete and Glint feel low and mean, like the nasty creeps they are. That is reward enough. That is the jewel in the crown that the American flag flying over Baghdad can never displace. That Old Glory flying over the minarets of Damascus can never displace in our heart of hearts.
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- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 21:03:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Very well, will stay on task. "To make its case, the Bush administration has to find a lot - not 20 chemical shells here, or a couple of drums there. If Iraq destroyed any incriminating evidence, people will say that the inspectors could have contained Iraq." David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector
they'll find them one way or another
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:46:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Judges question Bush administration's attempt to block lawsuit against Cheney WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration ran into strong opposition in federal appeals court Thursday as government lawyers tried to stop a lawsuit delving into Vice President Dick Cheney's contacts with energy industry executives and lobbyists. Appeals judges Harry Edwards and David Tatel suggested the White House had no legal basis for asking them to block a lower court judge from letting the case proceed. ``You have no authority'' to ask the appeals court to intervene, Edwards told a government attorney during arguments. He added later, ``You have no case.'' The appeals judges gave no indication when they would issue a ruling. The Bush administration has taken the unusual step of coming to the appeals court in the midst of the case. Federal agencies have disclosed 39,000 pages of internal documents related to the work of Cheney's energy task force, but the Cheney task force itself has produced nothing, claiming the need for confidential advice to the president from his top advisers. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has ruled that the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch may be entitled to a limited amount of information about the meetings that Cheney and his aides had with the energy industry in formulating the White House's energy plan. The plan, adopted four months after President Bush took office, favored opening up public lands to oil and gas drilling and a wide range of other steps backed by industry. The task force has acknowledged that one of the executives it met with was former Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay. Edwards, a Carter-era appointee, and Tatel, an appointee of President Clinton, said the administration has failed to show that it is suffering legal harm at the hands of the lower court. The third member of the panel, Appeals Judge A. Raymond Randolph, expressed doubt that the Cheney task force is required under the law to disclose information about its inner workings. However, Randolph, an appointee of Bush's father, questioned whether the administration should be seeking appeals court intervention. Tatel and Edwards pressed the government on why it hadn't sought to narrow the scope of information requests rather than simply trying to block them altogether. The government's position is that the current record in the case is sufficient. The Bush administration says it has demonstrated that the makeup of the Cheney task force was limited to government officials. But the groups that are suing allege that participants from industry effectively became members of Cheney's task force in assembling the White House's energy policy.
See? Carter and Cliton judges. Traitors!
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:45:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Syria is the key. Always was. Saddam was just the appetizer, the easy win, the juice for Glint. Damascus has always been the keystone. I think we can beat the fuckers. North Korea is ripe for negotiation because who wants an actual war? Hey, it ain't me, babe!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:41:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Long time ago but I think I remember the lots and lots of dots posted. So many recent eventful things going on maybe it just seems way back when-- in regards to tree falling, meat bees, by poster I always called tiny dot.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:40:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: All this nostalgia is b*llsh*t! The naysayers are on the attack and we're lollygagging around here yapping about warriors who fell by the wayside. Bulldoze them into the pits like so many human shields and forge ahead! We've got to get to Damascus before the summer doldrums!
Glunk
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:26:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, that was me, not six months ago by the calendar. I'm still here in all my glory, fighting the mystic fight. Tiny tiny dot had lots of dots in a row. A titan of the misty past, such as these things are measured.
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- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:24:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wonder if he and his purple guitar ever made it big time.
he could be famous now
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:23:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seem to recall tiny, tiny dot could give tutorials on verb tense, meat bees, fallers falling trees, and explain why Pete was no longer king of the hill.
way back when
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:21:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: We have Hman to thank for the rape jacket.
'nuff said
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 20:21:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: The crynic? Fighting for a spot in the lifeboat. Fighting to save his sorry Pino ass. Turns out he lacked the character to stay for the long haul. You wouldn't have thought it of a guy like the crynic, but there it was. No character.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:50:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hman may have been a little rough around the edges, but he invented the pithy saying on the signature line. Oh, they bitched and moaned about it, but now they're all doing it. Hman rules!
he's the guy cornholing Pete on the outside of the Lucky Pierre
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:43:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tiny tiny dot? What was his gig?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:37:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: I kind of miss the Pino. You know, the foreign guy. What was his handle? Oh yeah! the crynic. I miss that wacky Pino.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:37:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, the other dot. The tiny, tiny dot.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:35:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: On the other hand, MK and Jeremiah were in a league of their own.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:35:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Same thing. Hman. Dot. Same genius of the right. But, alas, he's gone now. Still, it's fun practicing field goals with Pete and Glint.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:27:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whatever happened to tiny dot?
a favorite
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:25:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something about heroes aspiring. They're breathing? Is that it?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:17:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anybody figure out the one about heroes?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:16:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: One could tune in Fox News Hannity/Colmes and watch a bit of cartoon in the making. Neanderthal hairline Hannity wielding his ever present caveman club/pencil and Casper Milquetoast Colmes sitting beside him, barely upright due to lack of backbone.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:12:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's almost gibberishistic enough to be the real Pete.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:11:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I long for that little Pino guy, what was his name? Little Spanish dude.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:09:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, such heroes to aspire. Whereas the liberal demonratrs here aspire to Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Saddam, Pot and other of their ilk.

- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:09:04 (EDT)

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faux pete
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:08:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't be greedy. Pete and Glint should be enough to satisfy your sadistic urges.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:07:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I long for the return of Hman. Wonder if he's dead?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 19:03:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blulshti! Now that th Arabs are turned on by lbieration, the only shtistorm will be in liebral's pance!
Pete�
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:59:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy's Iraq Adventure = Shitstorm in the Making
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:53:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Spare the duct tape and spoil the child.
Rev. Franklin Graham
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:51:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: LEVITTOWN, Pa. -- A Levittown, Pa., woman, honored last year for her work as a foster mother by a local organization, is now under arrest for allegedly wrapping up her foster children with duct tape. Middletown Township police said Colleen Broe, 34, was charged Wednesday with felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and false imprisonment for restraining the children by using duct tape. Her husband, Neil Broe, 41, was also charged with endangering the welfare of children by documenting his wife's activity for months without reporting it to authorities, police said. Police said that digital photos of the children they obtained showed the children with their ankles, wrists, torsos and other areas taped, and some pictures depicted the children so severely taped up that they look "mummified."
but it was code orange
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:51:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Translation: how about I sky out there and we do the Lucky Pierre on Brenda?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:39:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Code.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:38:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, how is Cumro in the winter? Seems a lot of ancestors came through that little spot of Neb.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:32:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit isn't impressed by the fact that the cowardly French suffered twice as many military casualties in WWII than the Americans. He figures they were all shot in the back while running away. Something a Breightly would never do, being prudent enough to find a way not to serve.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:23:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint still bitches about France, but he doesn't call Chirac a coward any more. Is that because Chirac's being a wounded combat veteran of the Algerian War sort of puts the GOP warmongers' virtue-free wartime draft-dodging in the spotlight?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:20:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blix wants lots of things, but the only one I will chant in support of is his want for more time.
Liberals
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:13:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I saw some sort of O'Reilly "special" on one of the antenna networks. Saw five or ten minutes of it, really. The guy seemed like an uninteresting blowhard. Should I have given it a full hour?
patriot
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 18:12:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: 10th Anniversary Of Waco: 'Children' Speak Out...
Lying brats!
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:57:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Report: Blix Wants Inspectors in Iraq -- Again...
Sure, so they can keep hiding the WMD!
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:56:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nation's Jobless Claims Shoot Up...
I blame Cliton
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:55:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Faux Glint (in case God is watching.)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:44:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint spelled out "d@mned?"
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:43:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess Glint's saying I should watch a whole hour of O'Reilly before I pass judgement. The show probably gets better as it lurches on. I'm going to give it a whirl. Do you think he'll ever re-run that segment with Garofalo? That one seemed classic. Two celebrities debating foreign policy. It doesn't get much better than that!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:42:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shop owner free to hang his U.S. flag upside down By Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News April 16, 2003 Alamosa officials found out Tuesday that Old Glory stands for even more American freedoms than they thought. There's the freedom to hang Old Glory upside down, for instance, even if other people don't like it. When bombs started falling on Baghdad last month, Alamosa business owner John Fleming put an upside down U.S. flag in the window of his book and music shop, The Roost, on State Street. It was Fleming's protest against the war. Hanging the U.S. flag upside down, Fleming said, is an official distress signal. It says so in the Boy Scout Manual. "I was in distress over the war," Fleming said. "It doesn't mean I don't support the troops." He heard some members of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars were thinking about picketing his store. Fleming thought that would be great. "That was their First Amendment right," he said. Then three police officers showed up. One of them was the chief of police. They told Fleming to remove his upside-down flag or be ticketed for a misdemeanor crime called "contempt of flag." "I went into physical shock," said Fleming, 45. "Instead of supporting my rights, they were taking rights away from me." He took down the flag. But then he called the American Civil Liberties Union in Denver, which prepared to file a lawsuit. "The need for litigation was avoided, however, when Alamosa officials agreed to resolve the dispute," ACLU Legal Director Mark Silverstein said Tuesday. Alamosa City Manager Michael Hackett did not return a telephone call Tuesday. According to the ACLU, Alamosa officials explained to the police chief that Fleming's upside-down flag was a statement of opinion, protected by the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld that freedom at least twice in cases involving the use of the flag to make statements, Silverstein said. And the old Colorado statute making "contempt of flag" a crime was struck down by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1973, he said. Fleming learned Tuesday that he can replace his upside-down flag in his shop window. "That's good news," he said.
Communist books and subversive naysaying music, no doubt.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:39:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, as a damned liar, I feel it imperative to finally admit I've seen this O'Reilly character before and actually heard this Hannity joker on the radio. So, although I've only had a chance to catch about an hour of Fox News in my own home, I am familiar with their fine work. I watched about 40 minutes of "news" on Fox night before last and it honestly seemed the fellows "reporting" were on steroids or possibly speed. They were pretty loud which seemed somewhat incongruous for a "news" channel. I'm sure the Fox News regulars are aware of this phenomenon and probably endorse it. But, why, one must ask. Is shouting the news preferable. It seems to me a lot of the shouting is just posturing or maybe selling. The laughter often seems strained or forced. Why laugh at all? Why the funny facial expressions? I tell you, Mara Liasson can't hold a candle to these guys, no matter what she does with her eyebrows. These guys don't seem to trust their eyebrows. They throw in every part of the face and they also move their heads quite a bit. Quite entertaining on some level and it's easy to understand why Fox News often outdraws The Food Network itself.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:38:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's this kid in an adjacent cube who is upset because there are "naysayers." Pete was on here a while back, crying about the naysayers. What is this naysayers deal? I checked the Limbaugh public page to find out if there are any new pie charts and he's got a section on the naysayers. Do we have a new boogie-man here, the naysayer? Is this right-wing-wide, or just a Limbaugh deal?
patriot
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:24:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are the oil wells secure? How about the Oil Ministry building? These things we must save, for they are the wealth of the Iraqi people.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:17:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The man is definitely not under the Socialist/Marxist umbrella, like some I could name.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:15:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyone who can get me to agree with everything he says knows a lot and deserves his own show. Barbara Streisand, not.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:13:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hannity. The man is like a god to me.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:10:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can slander my name, my wife, my daughters, my state, my father and mother, my school, my job, my tractor, my legs, and the fact that my face resembles a disked winter squash. But don't you dare slander Fox News, you damned liar!
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:09:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: The list of banned Iraqi weapons cited as the central reason for war by President Bush was lengthy and specific: Anthrax. VX. Botulinum toxin. Nerve gas. R-400 aerial bombs. Bush's assurances that U.S. troops will unearth these weapons of mass destruction, however, have not been borne out by searches at suspect sites in Iraq -- so far. The dilemma for Washington, according to foreign policy analysts, is that with each passing day, the failure to produce evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons undercuts the success of the military campaign, as well as U.S. credibility overseas.
Wait til they see the 57 ululating Shi'a.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:06:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, seeing as O'Reilly and Hannity's shows are each an hour long, I'd say that either you haven't watched much in the way of their shows plus all of the epiglotts you claim to have checked out, or you've spent more than 60 minutes watching FNC. Either way you're a damned liar.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 17:06:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I sure hope they don't shut down the "Married But Lonely Site." They probably will. These things come in threes, you know. First "Popular Astronomy Today," then "Chicks with Dicks," ... what's next?
Name witheld by request
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:54:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mueller closes barn door.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:54:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI announced Thursday that it had sent agents to Iraq to assist in recovering antiquities stolen from museums by looters. ``We are firmly committed to doing whatever we can to secure these treasures to the people of Iraq,'' FBI Director Robert Mueller told a news conference at the Justice Department. He said the agents would ``assist with criminal investigations'' and with the recovery of stolen items. Mueller also said the FBI was cooperating with the international law enforcement organization Interpol in issuing alerts to all member nations to try to track any sales of the artifacts ``on both the open and black markets.''
Meanwhile, Jose Padilla's brother is sneaking freely about the country with a suitcase full of dirty bomb.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:53:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean people pay for television? For TELEVISION?
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:50:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, it sure must be neat to be a child these days. When I was a kid, the only way I could be exposed to pornographic materials was to find them under a bridge.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:49:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators want to shut down a spam operation that allegedly used deceptive e-mail with bland subject lines like "new movie info" and "did you hear the news" to lure people to pornographic Web sites. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that after receiving about 46,000 complaints it had asked a federal judge to halt the operation until there can be a trial. It is the first FTC case involving spam with deceptive subject lines, the agency said. "When consumers opened the e-mail messages, they were immediately subjected to sexually explicit solicitations," the FTC said. "Because of the deceptive subject lines, consumers had no reason to expect to see such material." Children may have been exposed to the pornographic e-mail, the agency said. The FTC accused Brian D. Westby, of suburban St. Louis, of using the e-mail spam operation to drive business to an adult Web site called "Married But Lonely."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:42:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: normal human anturea dn my bet
more code clues
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:39:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you got Fox News you'd know the Arab world is all turned on by liberation and may even start cutting off the hands of thieves rather than the heads of thieves. Unfortunately, they all have to be killed if we are to survive. It's either us or them.
let's roll
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:24:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clyde, this is America and nobody's just going to GIVE you Fox News like some cheap hotel in Rio gives you 5 commercial-free 24 hour international news channels. No, it doesn't work like that here. If you want your Fox News, you have to demand your Fox News. Call you local cable monopoly (here we have Comcast, which took over ATT which took over Viacom)and whine that you can't get your Fox News and you WANT your Fox News. Tell them you'll take your business elsewhere if you can't have your Fox News!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:20:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but what if unruly Arabs blow up the clorine factory in Sioux Falls and kill a couple hundred thousand people? He's got to be vigilant in the homeland, too, and get some concentration camps built and populated.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:20:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: The way I have the message figured, if Bush gets the full tax cut and is therefore presiding over a vigorous economy, he's a shoo-in for 2004.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:18:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: My take on Pete's statement is that he figures this is the only chance at freedom he's going to give the Arab, and if the Arab doesn't take it he's a naysayer and will be classed among the 20% of the world's population that we have to kill. I kind of wish he'd learn English, though, so I didn't have to do all this translating.
Luke Zoll, paranoid schizophrenic
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:15:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Arab world isn't turned on to hacking anymore?
good news!
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:10:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I like about O'Rielly is he tells you straight up that he doesn't ever use spin. I admire that kind of honesty.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:09:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: I have no idea what Pete is trying to say, but I'll fight to the death for his right to say it!
patriot
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:07:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, as of two days ago, I DO get Fox News and I've watched it for about an hour total. The guys on Fox News always seem pretty pumped up, like they're on crank. Lots of hearty laughter and they all have mastered the modified "epiglottal push" so that they sound kind of like '60s Top 40 DJs. They all seem to have an opinion too and they seem pretty protective of the turf they've staked out. All in all, I'd give it an A for Bounce Factor, but I wouldn't say there's actual news reporting going on to any significant degree. I can see why Fox News sometimes draws a million or so viewers a one time. It's pretty entertaining and certainly comforting in its bluster. The thing I don't get is this O'Reilly character and this Hannity dude. Sure, anybody has a right to spout off like Glint, but it seems these two are pretty weak on facts. It's hard for me to see any difference between them and the likes of Bing, Streisand and the Dixie Chicks. And yet they have their own shows and I guess some people think they know a lot of things.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:03:54 (EDT)

My two cents are:

LIBERAL WARNING ALERT: TRUTH AHEAD! Aside from the fact that this �richest one percent� line is the biggest lie since Rock Hudson pretended he was straight, the Democrats have it all wrong...again. Worse, they know they have it all wrong, and are forging ahead regardless. This is partisan politics at its most odious, and as usual the Dems shamelessly demonstrate that they care far more about the power they can wield within the Beltway than they do the welfare of the country. I don�t know why this would surprise anyone, for such is the mindset and historical legacy of those who reside under the Socialist/Marxist umbrella. Democrats wish to stifle the Bush economic plan for two reasons. The first reason is merely petty. If Bush is for it, they�re against it. We could easily call this strategy the �Daschle Doctrine,� and I hope the donkeys stick with it. Wholesale obstruction at any cost has overdrawn the accounts of the DNC, their political capital depleted not just because of a thinly veiled anti-war (aka: anti-Bush) stance, but also due to an insatiable appetite for small-minded bickering. They obstruct on legislation. They obstruct on confrontation with the UN. They even obstruct upon the appointment of well-qualified individuals to fill judicial vacancies. In this last case the lefties realize they screwed up, and more than a few are wishing that the only �Estrada� they ever heard of was the guy who played �Ponch� on the old TV show �CHPs.� The second reason, however, holds greater relevance. Congressional liberals don�t want tax relief instituted because it would work. It would encourage investing and bring on the condition that voters most cherish...a healthy wallet. Moreover, coming on the heels of his demonstrated leadership in the wake of September 11th, and the crushing of Saddam Hussein, George Bush�s stewardship over a vigorous economy would make him unbeatable in 2004. Still, I�m amazed when I see polls claiming six of ten Americans are against tax relief. My only question to such folks is...�ARE YOU INSANE?� Why would anyone be against keeping their own money? Why would anyone wish to send their hard-earned funds to an entrenched bureaucracy which blows cash with abandon? Has the liberal plan to spay/neuter American intellect been so effective that 60% of our citizens believe the government exists to provide cradle to grave oversight? Are they really that dependent? Do they not realize that more taxes mean more intrusion, more inroads against personal liberty, civil rights and the heritage of rugged individuality? The answer is no, they don�t believe that. The polls have been twisted by media to reflect their selfish desires, the questions put forth during a time when people are willing to cough up dough for a just cause. Americans will always give extra in times of true need, and that altruism is reflected in the poll numbers. Ask the same question during peaceful periods - �are you in favor of tax reduction� - and you�ll get a far different answer. But no matter, Democrats chamber up such low caliber ammo and declare it the mother of all bombshells. The truth, is that the greatest tax cuts go to the rich because the rich make more money. Duh. Moreover, a dividend tax repeal would allow the financially successful to invest heavily, expanding businesses and creating more jobs. The cold fact is that the dogfood stocker in the Butte, Montana Wal-Mart, or the guy with the little bar and grill in Elk City, Idaho (that would be me) does not move the economy. A tax break helps us live a little better, but long term benefits come via reducing imperious tax loads on those firms and individuals who can effect positive change on a large scale. In reality, only two groups champion �the richest one percent� theory. On the one hand are the snobbish political elitists who promote class warfare. On the other are the least productive members of society, those who feel they deserve a free ride. The former hopes to play on dark emotions and create conflict. The latter are merely lazy and jealous. The duo has, does and will continue to swim in an incestuous, symbiotic stew. And what a shock...both are Democrats. - Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 16:01:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good thing journalists don't run our security department. The Arab world is now turned on to liberation. We'll see whether or not they embrace it and aprpeciate it or do as the usual naysayers do. It is all about normal human anturea dn my bet says those people aren't really any different from us. It is how they are defined by those with a liar agenda that need to be eradicated, ie socialsits (like saddam), etc.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:58:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't even get Fox News, so how can I watch it? Does it come out on tape?
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:54:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Never underestimate the power of a nasty, piano-legged little man chewing the stub-ends of his dreams of glory reflected off young Marines on the way to empire in the middle east: we have not heard the last of Glint. He has not fired the final salvo. Soon we may see more examples of human shields acting in ways that would not be considered polite in the cornfields of Nebraska. We will hear of strange powders found in 55-gallon drums, and of jubilation in the streets as scores are settled mano a mano in the messy dishevelment of democracy. Glint will have his say, and have no illusions-- it won't be pretty.
fear him
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:52:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: On the other hand, he may really be stupid.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:43:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sometimes I think Glint lobs his Stupid Bombs just for the attention he draws. He's a lonely man.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:27:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: When you combine that with the fact that 99% don't watch Fox News and 90% don't listen to hot talk radio, it's no wonder the French have us by the balls!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:19:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: STUDY: 42% of Americans Don't Use Internet...
Poor fuckers. They'll never hear the one about Ollie North, bin Laden and Gore
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:18:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's up with him picking fights? Glutton for punishment?
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:15:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time!
peacenik chanter
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:07:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good. You're on to his gig.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 15:02:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow! I'm beginning to see why Glint's so gun shy.
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:56:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why The Anti-War Movement Was Right Filed April 16, 2003 The Bible tells us that pride goeth before the fall. In Iraq, it cameth right after it. From the moment that statue of Saddam hit the ground, the mood around the Rumsfeld campfire has been all high-fives, I-told-you-sos, and endless smug prattling about how the speedy fall of Baghdad is proof positive that those who opposed the invasion of Iraq were dead wrong. What utter nonsense. In fact, the speedy fall of Baghdad proves the anti-war movement was dead right. The whole pretext for our unilateral charge into Iraq was that the American people were in imminent danger from Saddam and his mighty war machine. The threat was so clear and present that we couldn't even give inspectors searching for weapons of mass destruction -- hey, remember those? -- another 30 days, as France had wanted. Well, it turns out that, far from being on the verge of destroying Western civilization, Saddam and his 21st century Gestapo couldn't even muster a half-hearted defense of their own capital. The hawks' cakewalk disproves their own dire warnings. They can't have it both ways. The invasion has proved wildly successful in one other regard: It has unified most of the world -- especially the Arab world -- against us. Back in 1991, more than half-a-dozen Arab nations were part of our Desert Storm coalition. Operation Iraqi Freedom's "coalition of the willing" had zero. Not even the polygamous potentates of Kuwait -- whose butts we saved last time out and who were most threatened by whatever threat Iraq still presented -- would join us. And, I'm sorry, but substituting Bulgaria and the island of Tonga for Egypt and Oman is just not going to cut it when it comes to winning hearts and minds on the Arab street. In fact, almost everything about the invasion -- from the go-it-alone build-up to the mayhem the fall of Saddam has unleashed -- has played right into the hands of those intent on demonizing our country. Islamic extremists must be having a field day signing up recruits for the holy war they're preparing to wage against us. Instead of Uncle Sam wants you, their recruiting posters feature a different kind of patriotic image: an American soldier ill-advisedly draping the American flag over Saddam's face. The anti-war movement did not oppose the war out of fear that America was going to lose. It was the Bush administration's pathological and frantic obsession with an immediate, damn-the-consequences invasion that fueled the protests. And please don't point to jubilant Iraqis dancing in the streets to validate the case for "pre-emptive liberation." You'd be doing the Baghdad Bugaloo too if the murderous tyrant who'd been eating off golden plates while your family starved finally got what was coming to him. It in no way proves that running roughshod over international law and pouring Iraqi oil -- now brought to you by the good folks at Halliburton -- onto the flames of anti-American hatred was a good idea. It wasn't before the war, and it still isn't now. The unintended consequences have barely begun to unfold. And the idea that our slamdunk of Saddam actually proves the White House was right is particularly dangerous because it encourages the Wolfowitzes and the Perles and the Cheneys to argue that we should be invading Syria or Iran or North Korea or Cuba as soon as we catch our breath. They've tasted blood. It's important to remember that the Arab world has seen a very different war than we have. They are seeing babies with limbs blown off, children wailing beside their dead mothers, Arab journalists killed by American tanks and bombers, holy men hacked to death and dragged through the streets. They are seeing American forces leaving behind a wake of destruction, looting, hunger, humiliation, and chaos. Who's been handling our war PR, Osama bin Laden? The language and imagery are all wrong. Having Tom DeLay gush about our "army of virtue" at the same time we're blowing up mosques is definitely not sending the right message to a Muslim world already suspicious that we're waging a war on Islam. Neither is Ari Fleischer's claim that the administration can't do anything to keep Christian missionaries -- including those who have described the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a "demon-possessed pedophile" and a "terrorist" -- from going on a holy crusade to Baghdad. You think the Arab world might take that the wrong way? If there is one thing that could bring Sunnis and Shiites together, it's the common hatred of evangelical zealots who denigrate their prophet. And it doesn't help to have the American media referring to Jay Garner, the retired general Don Rumsfeld picked to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq, as "viceroy." It reeks of colonial imperialism. Why not just call him "Head Bwana?" Or "Garner of Arabia?" I didn't realize the Supreme Court had handed Bush a scepter to go along with the Florida recount. The powerful role that shame and humiliation have played in shaping world history is considerable, but something the Bush team seems utterly clueless about. Which is why the anti-war movement must be stalwart in its refusal to be silenced or browbeaten by the gloating "I told you so" chorus on the right. On the contrary, it needs to make sure that the doctrine of preemptive invasion is forever buried in the sands of Iraq. Especially as the administration, high on the heady fumes of Saddam's ouster, turns its covetous eyes on Syria. I give it less than a week before someone starts making the case that President Assad is the next, next Hitler.
go arianna go
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:54:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yep, France and Germany are licking their chops over the customers in the EU.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:49:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh, just making a point, rube. UN resolutions get vetoed all the time by the US. Your problem is the French out-lobbied us. They wanted to give it another 30 days. I notice you leave your fatherland off your hate list.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:45:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: More Frog news. I bet if you take a look on Fox, Russia's supporting lifting of the sanctions. I bet you.
Shep's The Greatest
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:44:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I need more time!
Snippy
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:41:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia will not support a United States proposal to lift United Nations sanctions on Iraq unless it is confirmed that the country has no weapons of mass destruction, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:41:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't worry about those jobs lost here, the 400,000 Americans who work for French companies. The Bulgarians will get 400,000 new jobs to balance it off.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:38:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Another day, another day the left hides. Marginalized tar babies. A good day. Amen.
Pete�
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:37:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: "has the US ever vetoed a French UN resolution?" What, if anything, does this have to do with Iraq? Seems you're trying to change the subject.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:16:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the war was about liberation? Then why did Snip say over and over that all Saddam had to do was disarm to avoid war? Was he lying?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:15:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Those 75 million new unfettered customers for French goods ought to teach the Frogs a thing or two!
Ruben Bubble
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:13:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: The World According to Rube.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:12:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: What, the French wanted to give it 30 more days? Egads! Uh, by the way, has the US ever vetoed a French UN resolution? Just wondering.
NATO???
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:10:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tor might be French in which case they are neither.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 14:05:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Tor, are you twatted or twat-free?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:59:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: The French turned their backs on their NATO allies, apparently having forgot what it was like being liberated themselves from the grasp of a dictator. But even worse they lobbied other security council member nations to refrain from supporting the enforcement of earlier U.N. resoltions calling for Hussein to disarm and cease support and harboring of terrorists and terrorist organizations. The French have crossed the line and should now be out of the equation with respect to Iraq, as long as they don't veto the U.N. resolution calling for the lifting of economic sanctions in Iraq.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:55:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't want to explain yourself about the French, huh? this is getting predictable.
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:47:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: More, Glint, more!
geesh!!!
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:46:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint does it again! Hey, Glint, I'll bet that chart would look even better for the USA if it was confined to the period of 1991-2002, huh?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:44:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Breath-taking stupidity, Glint. Simply breath-taking. Thanks for the yucks.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:41:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Speeding Ticket Dooms Pro-Abortion Lawyer's Judicial" - The failure to pay a speeding ticket has derailed the nomination of a high-ranking NARAL Pro-Choice America official for a seat on the New Jersey Supreme Court.
wow, and this candidate had it all: female negroid and supported the death penalty for fetuses too!
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:40:59 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Take that Liberal scum!

- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:40:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: What the rube doesn't understand is the French don't suffer at all by the inclusion of new countries into the EU. It's all good for the French. Kind of scary for the USA, but not for the French. Glint sees the EU as a group composed of enemies and somehow believes these poor countries who have just been let into an ECONOMIC UNION with the French somehow HARM the French because of...the war on Iraq??? Explain this, rube.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:37:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Again, what's your problem with France, dildo? Oh boy, 75 million PEOPLE added to the EU! Now, that's what an economic union is all about! Shit, if India could get in with its billion people, the Frogs would be reeling! Bring it, Glint! I'll even get fight you drunk about the French, rube! You got a problem with the French? BRING IT!
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:33:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, boo-freakin'-hoo, you little froggy twerp. What sort of name is Jean-David anyway? You some sort of hermaphrodite or something?
curious Tampon Grandmother
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:29:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, not Glint. :)
Islander
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:28:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: The new EU members will add what, about 75M people to the EU? 75M that are mostly supportive of the U.S. will tame the French and their dreams of being in charge of the a new EU superpower. French are losing their influence, and their grip.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:27:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's your problem with the French, Fat Boy?
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:26:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: ??? Glint?
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- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:26:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, act like you got a pair. You keep picking fights then running away like a little girl (no offense to little girls.)
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:25:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: The French ambassador to Washington, Jean-David Levitte, has pleaded for a stop to "French-bashing" by Americans now the war with Iraq is at an end.
after france's side lost the war, you kidding?
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:25:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Coalition." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ruben Bubble
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:21:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: You got a problem with the French, dirtbag? bring it!
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:20:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seven of the ten new members to sign on to the EU were also coalition members. Most all of the former Soviet block countries are pro-US. Provides a balance to the stodgie old European members.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:19:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Come on, sport, what did the French do to piss you off? I'm ready for you. Bring it, ass-bite!
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:15:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Okay, Glint, you want to take me on about the French? Bring it, dude!
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:10:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: AFP ≡ Agence France-Presse. Ref: 22:05:51, 21:55:22, 21:50:10, April 15, 2003 at 21:50:10, 21:46:00, 21:29:16… French p00p.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 13:00:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Perhaps the good Dr. Freud could shed some light on the CCPP identity problem here at fgate.
code club playground pals
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:56:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: At Least Saddam Wasn't At Tailhook! by Ann Coulter April 16, 2003 DESPITE LIBERALS' calm assurance that Iraq wasn't harboring terrorists, this week Abul Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, was captured in Baghdad. This is the second time the United States has caught Abbas. But the last time, the Europeans let him go. That's why liberals are so eager to have Europeans "help" with the war on terrorism. They did a bang-up job last time. In 1985, Muslim terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and threatened to kill the passengers and crew unless 50 imprisoned Palestinians were released by Israel. The terrorists doused American and British women with gasoline and taunted them with matches. They forced passengers to hold live grenades. When their demands were not met, the terrorists shot a wheelchair-bound American, Leon Klinghoffer, and forced other passengers at gunpoint to throw him overboard in his wheelchair. Even as the Americans were preparing a rescue mission, the Italian and Egyptian governments made a deal with the terrorists, offering the release of the Palestinians and safe passage to Egypt to end the ordeal. The Europeans were delighted with this masterful act of diplomacy. The Americans were not so pleased. Oliver North conceived of an operation to get the terrorists back. Contrary to Egyptian president Mubarak's assurances that the terrorists had already left Egypt, North found out the terrorists were still there. Indeed, working with Israeli intelligence, North determined the precise EgyptAir 737 that would carry the terrorists out of Egypt, even down to the flight number. He wanted to intercept the flight, modeling the operation on the extraordinary World War II interception of Yamamoto, mastermind of Pearl Harbor. President Reagan was briefed on the daring plan - along with copious warnings from timorous State Department officials that the Europeans might have their feelings bruised, America would look like a cowboy, and it would only strengthen the hard-liners in Egypt. Asked if the operation should proceed, Reagan said: "Good God! They've murdered an American here. Let's get on with it." Adm. Frank Kelso, the officer in charge of America's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, ordered his men to carry out the mission. In no time flat, Tomcat fighters had taken off from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga. After refueling in midair and guided by Hawkeyes, the Tomcats caught up with the EgyptAir flight. The fighters stealthily trailed their target for a while in total darkness, their lights off, even in the cockpit. Then the Tomcats swooped in on the EgyptAir flight, surrounded the plane, and forced it to land at a NATO base on Sicily controlled by the United States. The New York Post headline the next day was: "GOT 'EM." Reagan said: "I salute the Navy." And then Abul Abbas was released by the Europeans - whom liberals insist on approval from in this war. Abbas dashed to safety in Iraq under Saddam Hussein - whom liberals have assured us was not harboring terrorists. Republican presidents keep catching terrorists while liberals keep sending them back. If there is a parable of how liberals support the enemy, this is it. Adm. Kelso, whose men carried out the dauntless EgyptAir interception, was cashiered out of the Navy because of "Tailhook." Feminists don't care about Saddam Hussein and his rape rooms. But they were hopping mad at Adm. Kelso for walking through the Tailhook convention to say hello to his boys - boys who captured Leon Klinghoffer's murderers. To jog the memory of the horror that was Tailhook, Lt. Paula Coughlin was the officer who made the most lurid allegations, accusing a black Marine of molesting her. But then she kept identifying different black males as the perpetrator. Liberals managed to put their concern for racist accusations against blacks on the back burner in this one case. When liberals get going, the ironies never end. Though Adm. Kelso was cleared of any wrongdoing after an official Navy investigation, liberals wanted him punished. Former Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., engaged in a hysterical witchhunt of Kelso, marching with her fellow termagants to the Senate to encourage them to deny Kelso retirement with four stars. Naturally, the New York Times editorialized against him. After a lifetime of honorable service to his country, Adm. Kelso was barely permitted to retire with four stars, in a 54-43 Senate vote. A majority of Democrats opposed Kelso, along with all the Republican women in the Senate - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Arlen Specter, Bob Packwood and so on. Had the Senate denied him his retirement with four stars, this American hero would have received a pension of $67,000 per year, rather than the princely sum of $84,000 per year given a four-star admiral. The left's relentless attacks on Oliver North hardly require elaboration. He was endlessly investigated, charged with crimes, indicted by Lawrence Walsh, and his Senate campaign destroyed. Al Gore compared North's supporters to Down syndrome children. Now liberals are demanding that the Europeans be let into Iraq so they can release some more terrorists, while liberals do their part at home, carving up the colonels and admirals who capture people who murder Americans.
From this week's Journal of Tobacco Addiction and Nicotine Withdrawl
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:48:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: It gets to a guy's head when he hears thousands of the peaceniks incessantly chanting, "Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time!" everywhere he goes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:42:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: See, pussy, it's impossible to agree to disagree when all you do is hide. Hell, given your expertise on human shields vs. my ignorance, we may even have agreed. But you're a well-known chickenshit, so we'll never know. Have a beer.
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:40:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blix has lost credibility in my book. He seems to be playing to the chanting peaceniks.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:39:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: I said, drop it. Or, are you now feeling up to the challenge? Sorry, pal, you had your chance. Happens every time, doesn't it? I think you'd be better off talking to Dr. Freud. But, that really scares you, huh?
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:38:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can't we just agree to disagree, Tor? I want to be your pal. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:34:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: God, you ARE pathetic. Okay, forget it. Just come back on the page and pretend this never happened. I have no desire to deprive a waterhead of his sport.
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:33:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: My doctor says I shouldn't fight. Anal cyst.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:33:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Associated Press Thursday, April 17, 2003; 9:05 AM BERLIN - The chief U.N. weapons inspector for Iraq urged the U.S.-led coalition to allow his team back into the country to look for weapons of mass destruction, saying that would increase the credibility of any discoveries, a magazine reported Thursday. Hans Blix, who was in charge of searches for chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles in Iraq, also challenged President Bush's administration to present proof of its allegation that Syria has chemical weapons. "Whoever claims this should, in the interests of credibility, very quickly present the relevant proof," Blix said in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel. "For my part, I doubt that the Syrians would have been enthusiastic to serve as a depot of weapons of mass destruction for Baghdad."
Blix Nix Hix Fix
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:32:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: What is this, Beer Thursday, Glint?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:28:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you want to fight, Tor, let's fight about teloscopy. I'm too depressed about the human shields to argue about them. Besides, I don't feel very good. I am recovering from a bad cold, and my piles are acting up too. And I wear glasses.(01)
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:28:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: No medals unless you can also show a driver's license or other picture ID for which you have undergone registration procedures.
General Hershey Bar
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:25:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: I just registered for the draft. When can I expect my medal?
Dubuque 18-year-old
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:24:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, chickenshit, I don't know squat about human fucking shields. But you seem anxious for a fight and I'm willing to give you one. Bring it!
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:19:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: So it's true what they say about you, Glint? You're just a pussy?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:17:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Get him, Glint!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:07:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought codes were to be used in case you don't know who you are. I'm confused.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:05:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Won't work, 17. Pete knows his way around port 110.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:00:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's obvious that the 22 real Americans need a code of their own. I propose that every time we post, we send a duplicate e-mail to the other 21. That way, we'll always know who is posting what.
17
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:00:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're surprised?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:57:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, that's how you bring it, Glint? That's how you handle your big chance? That's getting deep?
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:55:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK. Where is your evidence that the human shields are a) human and b) shields. I'm waiting. (01)
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:52:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow! The opportunity Glint's been waiting for! A chance to go mano a mano on human shields. A chance to bludgeon an opponent and show off his knowledge to us all. Go, Glint, go!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:45:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Okay, Glint. You want to pick a fight about human shields but nobody seems to care? I'm your man, you yellow bastard! I'm here to defend the human shields once I do a little research. So, bring it, dude! Hit me with your best human shields shot. No more whiny, namby-pamby Glintist bullshit. Get deep for once in your life. BRING IT, ASS-BITE!
Tor
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:37:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll bite. What's AFP?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:33:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Won't end up with the oil? That's what Bing, Baldwin, Streisand, and Donahue are saying! So's your old man! Treason!
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:32:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who keeps posting the AFP frog propaganda?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:31:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't believe the liberals. The greatest military campaign of all time, and all they can talk about is the post-war quagmire. So there are no WMD's, the puppet government isn't going to work, we got Marines shooting rock-chuckers, and we probably won't end up with the oil. Picky, picky.
Dances with Tarbabies
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:29:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: The odd thing is nobody has really said anything about human shields BESIDES Glint. It's often like that around here. Glint rants at "peaceniks," even makes up chants for these peaceniks, as if he's somehow being read by these peaceniks. He attacks Donohue, Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Bing in a way that suggest he's scoring points against their defenders on this page, whoever these invisible defenders are in his fevered mind. It's like he hurtles himself into some made-up fray screaming, "So's your old man!" in an empty room.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:22:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who says Glit doesn't do anything outside his own property lines? I call bullshit on that. He goes into town on Fridays for free beer, doesn't he?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:21:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: You want to know where the nerve gas is? By now, it's in a thousand bindles all over the middle east. It's the diaspora of the nerve gas and the anthrax. But don't worry to much-- as I keep trying to explain to you these aren't weapons of mass destruction. That's just a bullshit phrase, worthy of a Pete, as void of meaning as a pronouncement from Glit. Oh, sure, you can release serin in a subway and down a half-dozen japs and make a lot more sick, but generally these things aren't particularly effective. No more than a few thousand Americans at a time will die. A real "weapon of mass destruction", a nuclear bomb, will kill hundreds of thousands. So far only North Korea is geared up to produce those. Everyone else that Snippy doesn't like is playing catch up, desparate to make some nukes before they come under Rummy's baleful gaze.
Captain Laugh at the Rubes
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:19:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Like a whipped dog gnawing on bird bone, imagining that little bone to be all who have beaten him all his miserable life, from the dreay, depressing plains of Nebraska to the liberal, wanton cities of the east.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:14:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Word is they threw all the nerve gas in the Tigris. Torie is sending divers to search it out.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:12:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still on the obsessive, nonsensical human shield rampage, eh Glit? Entire batteries on school roofs. And now it's the schools stacked floor to ceiling with grenade cartons (Now grenades come in cartons? Or was that milk in the cartons? How can we be sure it wasn't sarin nerve gas in milk cartons?) Cowards at heart, and you should know. Glit, Glit, Glit, Is there anything at all that Torie Clark could tell you that you wouldn't believe?
patriot
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:10:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Human shields ... Alec Baldwin ... Donohue, etc. They need outlets for venting. Maybe it's all for the best.
Patrice Nesbitt
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:09:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is anybody quite as obsessed by "human shields" as Glint? There's something unnatural about this. It's as if the human shields' strong commitment to something, whether misguided or not, shines a bright spotlight on the utter emptiness inside Glint. It's as if the only true commitment Glint has is to express his fear and hatred for the commitment of others to anything beyond one's own property line. Fascinating.
Dr. Freud
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:04:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Coalition: Another Saddam half-brother nabbed" So, like does that mean that we've got one whole brother now???
Curious Tampa Grandmother
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 10:57:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Just days ago, U.S. troops were cheered and kissed as they destroyed the symbols of Saddam Hussein's regime. Today, after a week of chaos, it is a whole different story. After looters ran wild, American forces shot civilians and the lack of basic services spread misery across the land, many Iraqis turned their anger away from Saddam Hussein and toward what they saw as their new oppressor: the United States of America. "They are aggressors," wheezed Ali Ahmed, 17, lying in a hospital bed as a tube drained fluid from his lungs. "They destroyed us. They put us in war and didn't let us sleep. They just raided Baghdad." Ahmed said he was shot in the back by an American bullet Friday as he left his home to purchase bread for his family's breakfast. A suicide bomber attacked U.S. troops up the street, and Ahmed accused the Americans of responding with indiscriminate fire. U.S. troops rolled across the deserts of Iraq expecting to find people dancing in the streets and cheering their arrival. There was some of that. But there was also anger. Many Iraqis say that could subside quickly if the Americans - now de facto rulers of their nation - can quickly restore basic services, bring law and order to their cities, and stop shooting their people. Others say they need to do one more thing: leave. "If Americans and British are here to destroy the regime and liberate Iraq, we welcome them," said Emad Fadil, a 26-year-old worker in the southern city of Basra. "But if they come to occupy Iraq, we will fight them to the end - like the Palestinians." On Tuesday, a crowd in the northern city of Mosul allegedly attacked a group of Marines trying to take over a government building. Iraqis threw rocks, hit the Marines with fists and elbows and spat at them, according to Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks at U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar. After reporting incoming fire, the Marines opened fire on the crowd, killing seven people, he said. On Wednesday, another shooting in Mosul killed three people and wounded at least 11, including several who said American troops fired at them from rooftops. A Marine sergeant near the scene said the Americans were responding to fire from another rooftop. "They are killing us and no one's talking about it. We want Saddam back," said Zahra Yassin, whose 17-year-old son was shot in the stomach and wounded. "Let the embargo return. At least there was security." In the city of Kut, southeast of Baghdad, an anti-American cleric took over City Hall. Hundreds of his followers blocked U.S. Marines from entering Tuesday with a message that "there is more than just one leader in the region." The Marines departed, opting against confrontation. In the southern city of Ur, Shiite Muslims boycotted a meeting to create a postwar government because of U.S. plans to install a retired American general as Iraq's temporary administrator. Thousands protested near the meeting, chanting: "No to America and no to Saddam!" There have been daily demonstrations in Baghdad as well, many outside the Palestine Hotel, temporary home to hundreds of international journalists and U.S. Marines. Hundreds of people hold up banners demanding the restoration of electricity, water and phone service. Many also urge the Americans to leave town. Even as people topple statues of Saddam, they criticize the U.S.-led invasion for the death and destruction it wrought, and warn that Americans will become targets unless they fix what they destroyed and leave. "America comes to destroy Iraq and its people," said Fouad Abdullah Ahmed, 49, part of a rally setting a Saddam statue on fire. "We are Muslim. We don't like the Americans and the British." Many Iraqis believe the Americans launched the war to seize their oil. In what many in Baghdad consider confirmation of that, one of the first Baghdad buildings seized by U.S. forces was the oil ministry. They are still there. "Let them take the oil and leave," Mohammed Ramadan said in the northern city of Tikrit, trembling at the sight of American tanks rolling through his city. Actor Fadel Abbas watched his theater get torched by looters. "They didn't want to protect these places - only the oil ministry," he said. "Why the oil ministry?" The U.S. military now says it will work to stop looters. Americans armed newly recruited Iraqi police officers with handguns to help keep order. Marines and Iraqi police caught about a dozen men trying to loot money from a burned out bank in central Baghdad on Wednesday. Looting that has plagued Iraq's cities has been the cause of much of the people's anger, and many blame the Americans for encouraging it. Donny George, director for research at the Ministry of Antiquities, complained that the Americans let Iraq's museums be sacked. "This is what the Americans wanted," he said. "They wanted Iraq to lose its history."
It's all just part of the fun as Operation Iraqi Freedom gives way to Operation You Break It, You Bought It
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 10:35:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, the human shields picke the targets that are least likely to be targets: hospitals and schools. When the Iraqis attempted to move them to the real "human shield sites" like the AAA batteries etc. they balked. Cowards at heart. ◊ On the other hand perhaps the hospitals and schools are legitimate sites to be bombed. Doesn't the warehousing of weapons in school classrooms and hospital basements make them legitimate targets? Besides, the kids aren't in school - their classrooms are floor to ceiling with grenade cartons. Why did the human shields want to defend Saddam's weapons? Did they want him to use them against our young military recruits? Shame on the human shields. Shame and double shame.
Glint
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 10:00:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: The simple fact is, Pete's yellow. There is no way a guy like that is going to expose his ass for even his copper rain gutters, much less an abstraction like the country whose citizens he hates. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with being a coward-- it's not a choice, just a character flaw. But being yellow and exhorting others to fight, that must be something the save the ninth circle of Hell for. Guess that's where Glit and Pete finally get to meet up and compare eyepieces.
patriot
- Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 00:03:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, guy, if there was a war on he would have been there! He says so himself! Who better to judge what Pete woulda done? Can you really bring yourself to believe that he would be as craven as Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, William Bennet, and 95% of the rest of the Republican high pie? Hey, this guy lives to serve. Mr. Altruism they called him on his last tourist safari.
He woulda went, goddamnit, it's his middle name!
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 23:52:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: If it weren't Pete, it would be amazing that someone would rationalize a few years' service as being "a career grunt." Of course the bloodthirsty fellow adds "when no war was on" as if he were hot to get some gook ears but, tsk, no war. And it almost is amazing, even for Pete, that the asshole proudly notes that he registered for the draft! Oh, what a selfless gesture, Pete registered for the draft! Geesh, I'll bet he even got a social security card and a driver's license! Is there no end to what Pete will do to serve his country? Everything but tread near the slippery slope that leads to becoming a "career grunt when there was no war." Geesh, what a pitiful, disgusting excuse for an American. Why don't people like that slink off to Bulgaria, where they belong? Talk about you chutzpah.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 23:48:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: �No to Saddam, No to US� Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent NASSIRIYAH, 16 April 2003 � Thousands of demonstrators gathered yesterday on the road leading to a hastily constructed air base outside this city, the location of a meeting between US government representatives and members of the opposition Iraqi National Congress. The demonstrators, numbering in their tens of thousands, railed against US occupation of Iraq and the resulting hardships its citizens are being made to suffer. Many Iraqis boycotted the meeting in opposition to US plans to install retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner atop an interim administration. As demonstrators began to gather in the late morning, many could be seen dressed in their best outfits and carrying signs in English and Arabic protesting the war and telling the US Marines to go home. They chanted �No to Saddam, and No to America�.
oh wow--free speech! woops! shut em up!
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 22:16:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: US MILITARY MOVES TO CRUSH MEDIA COVERAGE OF IRAQ PROTESTS ACTS TO PREVENT REPORTING OF ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS NO PRIOR RESTRAINT DOCTRINE SHATTERED BY DEFENDERS OF CONSTITUTION? PHYSICAL COERCION OF NEWS MEDIA BY THE US MILITARY PRO WAR PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN HAS PROGRESSED INTO ALARMING AND DANGEROUS TERRITORY Anti-American Protests Intensify in Iraq BAGHDAD (AFP) - Anti-American protests intensified here and in southern Iraq as US forces struggled with the complex task of rebuilding the country after toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein. Exasperated US military officials tried to hamper the media from covering new demonstrations in Baghdad on Tuesday while some 20,000 people in the Shiite Muslim bastion of Nasiriyah railed against a US-staged meeting on Iraq's future... For the first time, visibly angered US military officials sought to distance the media from the protest, moving reporters and cameras about 30 meters (yards) from the barbed-wired entrance to the hotel. "We want you to pull back to the back of the hotel because they (the Iraqis) are only performing because the media are here," said a marine colonel who wore the name Zarcone but would not give his first name or title. Should anyone be confused, here is how it works: When Iraqis kiss a US soldier in front of a news photographer they're celebrating their newfound "liberation." When they protest against US policies it isn't an inspiring act of "democracy" but something to suppress.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 22:05:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gee, now that Blix isn't looking any more, how much more time will it take Dim Son to find the WMDs? Or to plant them so he can find them? He's a little behind schedule, isn't he?
dim son needs more time
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 22:00:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton blasts US approach to international affairs Tue Apr 15, 8:27 PM ET - AFP to My Yahoo! NEW YORK (AFP) - Former US President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) blasted US foreign policy adopted in the wake of the September 11 attacks, arguing the United States cannot kill, jail or occupy all of its adversaries. "Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us," said Clinton, who spoke at a seminar of governance organized by Conference Board. "And if they don't, they can go straight to hell." The Democratic former president, who preceded George W. Bush at the White House, and who led the US to eight years of unparalleled peace and prosperity, said that sooner or later the United States had to find a way to cooperate with the world at large. "We can't run," Clinton pointed out. "If you got an interdependent world, and you cannot kill, jail or occupy all your adversaries." He said he believed Washington overreacted to German and French opposition to US plans for military action against Iraq and suggested that the current administration had trouble juggling foreign and domestic issues. "Since September 11, it looks like we can't hold two guns at the same time," Clinton said. "If you fight terrorism, you can't make America a better place to be." Clinton said that if he were at the White House right now he would scrap a 726-billion dollar tax cut proposal made by the president in January to stimulate the flagging economy. Congress has since cut the proposal to 550 billion dollars in the case of the
WISDOM FROM THE BALANCED BUDGET PEACE AND PROSPERITY PRESIDENT
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 21:55:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, dope, if there was a war on I would have been there. Problem for you demonizing asshioles is that Vietnam was over by the time I got out of high school so there was nothing to do. Sure, I registered once I hit 18, as required. No dodging or burning for me. And I sure as hell ain't stupid enough to be a career grunt when no war was on. Grow a brain. Doink.
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 20:44:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but he has such an urbane way of noting that doubting his willingness to serve his country is well off "the mark." Oh, pip, pip, well of the mark, don't you know, wasn't given a number, pity, would have served gladly and all that, don't you know.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 20:10:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: "If needed." This must be the universal Pete excuse. When was the disgusting asshole ever needed?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 20:08:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Would have went if drafted and so ordered by the United States of America under pain of imprisonment, duh, but not patriotic enough to volunteer. Sorry, folks, there's just no room for a saber-rattler without the balls to serve. Pete is a shirker, just a fraud in this as in everything else. A snake. The lowest of the low. You are shameful, Pete.
Disgusting to be around him.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 20:07:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good try, traitors, but well off of the mark. By the way, I never had a lottery number. Too young. I did register for teh draft. Did not avoid it. Would gladly ahve gone if needed. Time and place matter. Except when one is a liar traitor socialist liberal demonrat.
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:58:55 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Go ANNE GO: At Least Saddam wasn't at Tailhook! Despite liberals' calm assurance that Iraq wasn't harboring terrorists, this week Abul Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, was captured in Baghdad. This is the second time the United States has caught Abbas. But the last time, the Europeans let him go. That's why liberals are so eager to have Europeans "help" with the war on terrorism. They did a bang-up job last time. In 1985, Muslim terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and threatened to kill the passengers and crew unless 50 imprisoned Palestinians were released by Israel. The terrorists doused American and British women with gasoline and taunted them with matches. They forced passengers to hold live grenades. When their demands were not met, the terrorists shot a wheelchair-bound American, Leon Klinghoffer, and forced other passengers at gunpoint to throw him overboard in his wheelchair. Even as the Americans were preparing a rescue mission, the Italian and Egyptian governments made a deal with the terrorists, offering the release of the Palestinians and safe passage to Egypt to end the ordeal. The Europeans were delighted with this masterful act of diplomacy. The Americans were not so pleased. Oliver North conceived of an operation to get the terrorists back. Contrary to Egyptian president Mubarak's assurances that the terrorists had already left Egypt, North found out the terrorists were still there. Indeed, working with Israeli intelligence, North determined the precise EgyptAir 737 that would carry the terrorists out of Egypt, even down to the flight number. He wanted to intercept the flight, modeling the operation on the extraordinary World War II interception of Yamamoto, mastermind of Pearl Harbor. President Reagan was briefed on the daring plan � along with copious warnings from timorous State Department officials that the Europeans might have their feelings bruised, America would look like a cowboy, and it would only strengthen the hard-liners in Egypt. Asked if the operation should proceed, Reagan said: "Good God! They've murdered an American here. Let's get on with it." Adm. Frank Kelso, the officer in charge of America's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, ordered his men to carry out the mission. In no time flat, Tomcat fighters had taken off from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga. After refueling in midair and guided by Hawkeyes, the Tomcats caught up with the EgyptAir flight. The fighters stealthily trailed their target for a while in total darkness, their lights off, even in the cockpit. Then the Tomcats swooped in on the EgyptAir flight, surrounded the plane, and forced it to land at a NATO base on Sicily controlled by the United States. The New York Post headline the next day was: "GOT 'EM." Reagan said: "I salute the Navy." And then Abul Abbas was released by the Europeans � whom liberals insist on approval from in this war. Abbas dashed to safety in Iraq under Saddam Hussein � whom liberals have assured us was not harboring terrorists. Republican presidents keep catching terrorists while liberals keep sending them back. If there is a parable of how liberals support the enemy, this is it. Adm. Kelso, whose men carried out the dauntless EgyptAir interception, was cashiered out of the Navy because of "Tailhook." Feminists don't care about Saddam Hussein and his rape rooms. But they were hopping mad at Adm. Kelso for walking through the Tailhook convention to say hello to his boys � boys who captured Leon Klinghoffer's murderers. To jog the memory of the horror that was Tailhook, Lt. Paula Coughlin was the officer who made the most lurid allegations, accusing a black Marine of molesting her. But then she kept identifying different black males as the perpetrator. Liberals managed to put their concern for racist accusations against blacks on the back burner in this one case. When liberals get going, the ironies never end. Though Adm. Kelso was cleared of any wrongdoing after an official Navy investigation, liberals wanted him punished. Former Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., engaged in a hysterical witchhunt of Kelso, marching with her fellow termagants to the Senate to encourage them to deny Kelso retirement with four stars. Naturally, the New York Times editorialized against him. After a lifetime of honorable service to his country, Adm. Kelso was barely permitted to retire with four stars, in a 54-43 Senate vote. A majority of Democrats opposed Kelso, along with all the Republican women in the Senate � Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Arlen Specter, Bob Packwood and so on. Had the Senate denied him his retirement with four stars, this American hero would have received a pension of $67,000 per year, rather than the princely sum of $84,000 per year given a four-star admiral. The left's relentless attacks on Oliver North hardly require elaboration. He was endlessly investigated, charged with crimes, indicted by Lawrence Walsh, and his Senate campaign destroyed. Al Gore compared North's supporters to Down syndrome children. Now liberals are demanding that the Europeans be let into Iraq so they can release some more terrorists, while liberals do their part at home, carving up the colonels and admirals who capture people who murder Americans. - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:49:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, yeah, I guess we might as well root out any WMD that happens to be around, as long as we're here liberating the 57 joyous ragheads.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:42:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The soldier is in Iraq to liberate the people, topple the dictator's cabal, and root out any WMD. The shields are there to thwart this effort. They are traitors and should be treated as such. Glint - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:12:24 (EDT)"..... Geesh, you mean that people who stand on the hospital roof are thwarting the effort to bomb the hospital? Nah, I don't think they're traitors at all. They are people who trust Snippy's claim that hospitals wouldn't be bombed. How can that be treason?
back to Glit's original reason for being steamed today
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:41:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: "...Severely emaciated, some had survived by eating the scabs off their sores. All the men had beards down to their waists, said onlookers. Most looked absolutely dazed when they emerged, said Mr Sadoun Mohamed, 37, who lives in the area. 'They had not seen sunlight for a long time,' he said. 'They kept blinking and covering their faces.' ..."
ZZ Top at the USO?
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:31:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I once sat next to a guy in a bar who had been named Pilgrim by the Loyal Order of Moose. Not many of those around.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:10:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: My dad was Grand Commanding Bhagwan!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:08:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you want to see true piano legs, let this whole thing load, then scroll down to the picture of Mr. Rube in shorts. But be forewarned: the picture also shows the infamous squash-face, if my memory wasn't rattled by the shock, so brace yourselves.
peace in the valley
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:07:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thick ankles, not really piano legs. Let's agree to call them piano ankles, OK?
peace in the valley
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:05:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Piano legs?
doubt it
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:37:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Frankie was slumming that day.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:23:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Leader, though, didn't partake until she was First Lady. You had to have more than good head to be selected by Mr. Ring-a-ding-ding.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:19:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: What was she supposed to do with those piano legs besides spread them?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:19:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: My dad was Post Master Commander!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:18:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you suppose Kitty Kelley only did Nancy because she had balled so many of the Sinatra crowd? Peter Lawford, for example, said she gave the best head in Hollywood. Sammy Davis Jr. said she had the classiest doggy style?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:18:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I would have went and addressed envelopes but I drew a high lottery number. Dang the luck!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:18:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: They too have served who have addressed envelopes. Like Glit and the drug war.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:16:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or copping one.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:12:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Perhaps he's entering a plea.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:07:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Either addressing it or addressing envelopes and hustling in and out of the courthouse to get the papers for Maybelle to type. Paralegal, at most.
Another gullible citizen falls for Pete's self-description.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 18:04:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete must be addressing the court today.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:49:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blix Blowz Chix
Bent Bill
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:46:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: 1-2-3-4! Give Blix more time!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:45:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time!
familiar peacenik chant
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:44:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why won't Glit post the wide-angle view of the toppling ceremony? Doesn't want to hurt our morale?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:40:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: One thing about Glit, he sure ain't no bean-counter!
Glit Fan Club
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:38:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Both of those adopted mothers look exactly like the kind of people who would become human shields, or who would at least pretend to be war dead in front of the White House. I despise them both. The little girls will probably grow up to be peaceniks. I hope they worm them good.
do we really need more chinamen?
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:37:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shouldn't that be @5535? Just wondering.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:36:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Apparently they got sick from the bugs on some island in the Potomac. But it was Malaria so definitly counts as a war casualty because there was a war gearing up. All I know is somebody here cares about body counts and insurance claims and the count of the bean.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:35:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: There should be a statue of limitations on war injuries. If something festers for years and then becomes a problem, why should the taxpayer foot the bill? War is hell on the home front, too, doncha know. I say if there's not life-threatening illness within eight years, the taxpayer should be freed of any responsibility to support the vet. We shouldn't kiss people's @55e5 just because they drew low lottery numbers.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:33:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: It depends. If they're Breightlys, we can count them against Vietnam, Iraq, the Gulf, Korea, the War of the Spanish Succession, hell, it don't matter. Whatever gets them up to the trough. If they're normal patriotic Americans, they don't ask for anything special. Just put them in County General with the rest of the veterans.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:29:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not many weeks ago there were several cases of Malaria in suburban Virginia. Can we up the Vietnam casualty count, or do we have to wait and count them with OIF (Oper. I. Free.)? Please advise.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:20:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I notice that the dyke "mother" on the left already has one of them baby slings. Man, whoever invented that little item didn't overestimate the intelligence of the American consumer.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:19:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hopefully, she'll seek the help she needs.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:18:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's in-law picked up malaria on the farm? Where's the farm? He sounds worthy to be a Breightly in-law, though, if it's true as Glit says that he tried to blame it on Vietnam service he never had. You don't get the brass ring if you don't stick out your finger, eh, Glit?
wink wink
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:17:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I didn't read Kitty Kelley's Nancy book, but I did read the one on Sinatra. She did a real hatchet job on "Ol Blue Eyes." Said he threw the spaghetti at his loyal cook and valet if it wasn't "al dente." I don't believe anything she's going to say about Neil and the others.-
Clyde Harrington
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:14:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sharon may have to "disappear."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 17:02:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush�s younger brother Neil, is planning to write a tell-all book about her two decades with the Bush family, The Observer has learned. Ms. Bush, who lives in Texas, recently visited Manhattan to discuss her idea for the book with several publishing executives. She had a long lunch with biographer Kitty Kelley, who wrote a controversial 1991 portrait of Nancy Reagan and currently is researching her own book on the Bush family. The two women discussed the possibility of Ms. Bush acting as an important source for Ms. Kelley in addition to writing her own book, Ms. Kelley�s agent, Wayne Kabak, told The Observer. Such a turn of events could provide Ms. Kelley with invaluable inside assistance for her research on the family.
geesh
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:55:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: California Republican Congressman Darrel Issa has introduced a bill that would require the Defense Department to build a CDMA cell-phone system in postwar Iraq in order to benefit "US patent holders." As Farhad Manjoo noted in Salon, CDMA is the system used in the United States, not Europe, and was developed by Qualcomm, one of Issa's most generous donors. Some argue that it's too simplistic to say this war is about oil. They're right. It's about oil, water, roads, trains, phones, ports and drugs. And if this process isn't halted, "free Iraq" will be the most sold country on earth.
sold to the highest bidder
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:53:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Terror alert only YELLOW? Hey, we smote evil! I want GREEN! It was yellow before the victory and it's yellow now. What's up with that?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:49:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm sure our boys are spreading their seed! We're talking red-blooded American dudes!
Give Blis more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time!
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:31:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mothers were adopted? By whom, the Chinese?
back on the playground
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:30:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, Glint only loves them when they're killing and dying. Just like he loves people until they're born.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:28:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dissing the troops already, Glint? Figures.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 16:17:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: These pictures are just too sweet not to share. Newly adopted mothers with their babies in China.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 15:41:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, anybody know if the pussy's any good in Baghdad. How are our boys making out (wink wink)?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 15:34:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Same thing happened to in-law. Was on the liver list. Something that was picked up on the farm. I suppose if they had ever spent time in another country one might have been able to claim it as yet another casualty from the war.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 15:32:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Guy I work with been sick from something he picked up in Vietnam 35 years or so ago, maybe malaria. Turns out he needs a liver transplant. Guess that's in line with the continuing casualties idea. Wars just keep on giving, if you happen to be one of the fortunate few who are not too tied up with their lawn tractors to participate.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 15:26:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: That Glit! What a card!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 15:20:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like another ButtFlush loaf dump.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 15:13:26 (EDT)

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Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:59:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: One warmed-over Palestinian terrorist found in Iraq. Whew. GLAD WE KILLED ALL THOSE IRAQIS AND US AND BRIT SOLDIERS. WOW. THIS INVASION WAS REALLY WORTH IT.
3500 DEAD SO FAR
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:57:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stray dogs found in Iraq!!!
no WMD, though
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:49:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: If the g*dd*mn Constitution would let us treat our prisoners here in the USA the way the Iraqis treated the Krafwerk Fan Club, the Negro wouldn't be running wild in the streets.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:46:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the peaceniks chant, "Not in my name! Give Blix more time."
damn chanting! wish it would stop <Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Give Blix more time! Over and over and over. Geesh!>
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:45:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: In a tough prison, the guards get your scabs before they're ready to eat.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:43:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice thing about it is you can always make more scabs.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:41:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: What, these guys were prisoners? Prison is supposed to be rough. That's why they call it prison. You think Riker's Island is a country club?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:40:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is really in a frenzy today. Tripping over his own feet. Trying to shame liberals with tales of stupid human shields. Trying to tie Blix's weapons inspections to emaciated Iraqis. Throwing out some Monica stuff. Using the word, "peaceniks." All to hide his own shame.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:38:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, that's rule number one of survival. Eat the scabs off your sores. Many who would otherwise be dead today are glad they learned that little trick.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:36:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: What was the Kraftwerk Fan Club doing in Iraq in the first place?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:34:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like my Sunday school class back in Nebrasky.
Rube
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:33:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's see. Blix is a weapons inspector. Snippy decided Blix shouldn't get more time to inspect, so Snippy started a war because he decided Saddam wasn't disarming fast enough and the US was thus threatened. Snippy kept saying if Saddam would only disarm faster, there would be no "need" for war. Now, what does all this have to do with these 123 poor Iraqis?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:32:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dear Diary: That old guy with the sqashed face and the cum-stains on his khakis was staring at me again last night. That is one weird old bumpkin. I'm not sure what a bumpkin is, but Dad says he's one and I can sure believe it. Oh, why can't we live in a real neighborhood without so many oddball neighbors?
brenda
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:30:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: "...Severely emaciated, some had survived by eating the scabs off their sores. All the men had beards down to their waists, said onlookers. Most looked absolutely dazed when they emerged, said Mr Sadoun Mohamed, 37, who lives in the area. 'They had not seen sunlight for a long time,' he said. 'They kept blinking and covering their faces.' He said they were taken to the Saddam Hospital for treatment...."
and the peaceniks chant, "Not in my name! Give Blix more time."
Marines free 123 from Iraq hellhole - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:27:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: The star power. That's what has always made me hate Clinton more than anything else. The star power and all that pussy.
Teletubby William Bennet
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:21:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:20:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: 60 minutes is breaking viewer records in Nebraska. Evidently everyone is tuning in to see Bob Dole.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:19:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good gotcha there, Glint. You know how they hate to be reminded of Republican follies!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:18:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why did Clinton have to harsh our mellow?
War-fevered Troglodytes
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:17:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Manhattan forum on corporate integrity that paid him $100,000 to speak?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:15:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint needs to remind himself that it's time to whack off to Brenda's pictures.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:13:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just a reminder.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:09:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was more a desertion than a simple case of AWOL. Desertion during wartime (undeclared.) Sounds almost as bad as treason (undeclared).
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:07:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: "W fought a good fight, Clinton says" "Saddam is gone and good riddance," former President Bill Clinton said yesterday at a Manhattan forum on corporate integrity. He praised Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for their handling of the war. Clinton also said Bush should not be faulted if banned weapons of mass destruction aren't found. "I don't think you can criticize the President for trying to act on the belief that they have a substantial amount of chemical and biological stock. ... That is what I was always told," Clinton said.
who cares what he thinks?
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:06:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush AWOL?
doubt it
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:03:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, you don't hang up your rifle. You turn it in to the quartermaster. You do get to keep the boots.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:02:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy would have served with honor if he didn't have the burden of entitlement as a Bush. Same way Pete would have served if he hadn't had the burden of a high lottery draw.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 14:00:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Curse the code! I did everything perfectly, imitated Pete to the core! And everyone got on to my gig. Why? Because of the cursed code!
Faux Pete
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:59:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, the oath the rightwingers worry about, hold dear to their hearts, is the oath not to fib when somebody is accusing you in a lawsuit that would be frivolous if it weren't a smear organized by political opposition. Evidently Clinton weaseled words there, which shocked, shocked the Republicans.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:57:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Code time on the playground again. Time for me to return to class.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:51:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oath one takes when joining Armed Forces is same oath the President takes when taking office. Rigid right hated Clinton for breaking this oath. So why did Snippy skate when he went AWOL while serving in National Guard? Should have been sent to Leavenworth.
pays to have friends, relatives in high places
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:49:06 (EDT)

My two cents are:

In the meantime, back to code YELLOW alert. - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:47:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gee, I was sure that was the "real" Pete.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:47:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete at 13:36 flunks out codewise. Get a clue you human couch shields!
Pete™
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:44:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: For five years after the war, the Pentagon and the VA refused to admit that our troops had been exposed to chemical weapons, via the same sort of despicable delaying tactics our Vietnam vets were subjected to over their Agent Orange claims. For example, the Pentagon brass were unwilling to admit U.S. Army culpability in blowing up captured Iraqi chemical munitions that caused the biggest friendly-fire incident in the history of warfare. To date, not only has no one responsible been punished � instead, in typical fashion, all those who were in charge have been either promoted or knighted.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:37:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nothing more disgusting than a lazy vet trying to live off the gravy train afforded by the 10% of Americans who pay 91% of the income taxes. Get a clue about economics 101. Why can't they serve out of patriotism, the way I would have if my lottery number had been low enough?
Pete�
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:36:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Within weeks after our warriors took off their boots and hung up their rifles, dozens, then hundreds of Gulf War vets became casualties. And as the years tick by, this figure has already grown to tens of thousands. It wasn't bullets that took them down, but a casualty-producer the experts didn't count on called Gulf War Illness. So far, according to an April 2002 Department of Veterans Affairs report, an additional 7,758 Desert Storm vets have died, while 198,716 vets have filed claims for medical and compensation benefits. Of the claims filed, 156,031 have been granted as service-connected, with more vets being designated casualties as each day passes. The 198,716 figure represents a staggering 28 percent of the vets � 696,579 � who fought in the Gulf War conflict!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:32:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: BAGHDAD � An infuriated Lt. Gen. William Wallace, the commander of U.S. Army forces in Iraq, warned his subordinates Tuesday that soldiers were getting lax now that the fighting has died down. Said Gen. William Wallace: "We cannot, we cannot, we cannot allow our soldiers to relax their guard." The Army is dealing with a rash of accidents. On Monday, six soldiers died, not at the hands of the enemy, but apparently because of safety problems. There was a truck crash, an accidental firing of the weapon on a Bradley armored vehicle, a grenade explosion inside a Humvee truck and the collapse of a refueler. "I am less concerned about the Fedayeen than I am about safety," he said. "Don't let your guard down until you have the opportunity to go back home and hug your family." Among the 123 U.S. military deaths from March 21 through Tuesday, 36 have been officially classified as accidents. Among the 31 British deaths, 16 have been classified as accidents. Of the 52 total accidental deaths, 28 were in helicopter crashes/collisions and 12 were in vehicle crashes. The rest are mostly from "non-combat" discharges of weapons.
Hey, look on the bright side -- none of those accidents were caused by bulldozers
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:32:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's all right to make the ridiculous comparison between Hitler at Munich and Saddam sassing Snippy. But it's never OK to talk about, say, Prescott Bush ordered to close his bank because of his financial support for Hitler, or Hitler being viewed by the world as a slightly foolish-looking aggressor, much the same way as Snippy is viewed as a slightly foolish-looking aggressor, or any other view of Hitler that doesn't coincide with the world-view of the more troglodytic members of the Great Unwashed.
Captain History Book
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:29:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Soldiers sign away their lives on a pretty severe deal. The pay sucks, the risk is infinite and the benefits of military service are shrinking fast. At any time in the future, some politician nobody has yet heard of can become president and order them into combat against any adversary for any reason. Then, when our troops come home � if they come home � they face a lifetime of medical care in the overburdened, underfunded VA hospital system. A fiscal year 2004 budget plan approved by the House Budget Committee would slash $470 billion from domestic spending, including health care and compensation for disabled veterans provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The House budget resolution would leave intact the $1.6 trillion Bush tax cut plan and allow huge spending increases on defense and homeland security.
warriors on this page should be writing letters to pResident
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:28:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Little touchy, aren't you, Herr R�lle?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:27:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: The "Hitler card" is a natural, Glint. I thought it was a pretty good point.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:25:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: The "Hitler card?" We're not allowed to draw the parallel between Hitler's popularity with temporarily fruitful agression and Rove weighing the bounce that Snippy might get from attacking Syria? Would it help if we talked about the early popularity of the Vietnam war? The Civil War? The Crimean war? (What, there was a Crimean war? Why wasn't that on the History channel?) The Pellopenesian War? The Punic Wars? The Hundred Years War? The Thirty Years War? Is just Hitler out, the one that Sowell and many many other troglodytes equate with Saddam Hussein?
patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:25:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why have you resorted to playing the "Hitler card" already? Your train of thought doesn't usually run out of steam that fast.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:02:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some stupid kid stands in front of my car, you're damn right I'm going to run him over. Sorry if I offend you with my plain speaking.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 13:02:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's temporary love of the military men and women is touching. Of course, once they start filing claims they'll just be more stupid people for him to scorn. What, you say you're all messed up by having gone to war??? What did you expect, stupid? Claim denied. Next.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:54:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: How many hundreds dead or wounded in three weeks of "war?" How many VA claims yet to come? How many more dead or wounded soldiers in the next phase? Tell me about casualties, you sick rube. Or, better yet, no that the war is over, get a contract to go over and help with the nation building. Sounds like a safe gig.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:51:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does the future casualty count include civilian victims of the many irate Iraqis who scarpered with suitcases full of nerve gas and anthrax, assuming Saddam had some? Or is it just the ones that get caught in the general shitstorm that post-war Iraq will be?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:50:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: My guess is the casualty count for Americans hasn't even got into gear yet. Many a dead American is going to accrue to the account. As far as the casualty count for everyone else, that could be a little higher than the lowest for any war.
patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:48:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: "This war had the lowest casualty count of any war." What kind of halfassed statement is that? Geesh, find something a little meaningless to say. This war had the lowest casualty count of any war. Budweiser is the King of Beers. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. At Ford, quality is Job 1. God is in heaven all's right with the world. Nebraskans become good actors because they sit around the haystack with nothing to do.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:46:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: You do not judge casualties by the ultimat number of casualties. You judge them by what the DJs at Fox News tell you.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:45:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Patritot is Pete?!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:43:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Soldiers don't run hysterically in front of bulldozers? Neither do human shields. It would cancel out the whole point of "shield." Glit apparently has no standards for evidence or for his blurtings in point of what he imagines to be the manly point of view. Hysterical runners in front of bulldozers who don't run in front of bulldozers, wars to grab oil under the excuse of protecting Americans from chemical attack that become wars to topple cabals, the man stacks lie upon lie.... is he capable of sorting out the reasonable from the unreasonable? Or is he just a bigoted rube with no idea that thinking is a possibility, someone who accepts the party line and tells what lies are necessary to support it?
patritot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:41:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: The military force is like machines, Glint. At least, that's the goal. Unfortunately, they aren't really machines and "casualties" are not measured on the battlefield. By the way, I believe the "NATO hostilities" in Kosovo had, by far, the lowest number of "casualties." And, for your information, Gulf I had the most. You judge these things by the number of veterans' claims made and approved.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:40:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: cabal [kə'b�l] noun 1 a small group of intriguers, esp. one formed for political purposes
Sounds like the GOP
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:35:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: The military force is trained and equipped for their mission. This war had the lowest casually count of any war. So low that friendly fire casualties stuck out. Also, they got the job done - quickly. Nothing at all like the "human shield" pin heads.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:35:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hitler got popular with Glit's ethnicity when he took over Austria, but he got even more popular when he took over Czechoslovakia. Why not Snippy?
patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:35:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit figures that if taking over Iraq gets a five-point bounce, taking over Syria would get another five-pointer.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:33:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I never heard this shit about liberation until every other reason had fizzled. Was there something about liberation in the UN resolutions? Please explain.
Confused
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:33:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Notice how Glit drops back to rooting out "any" WMD. Any that happen to be there, as an afterthought, something that will be neat to do if any happen to turn up. Main thing is to liberate the people and topple the "cabal." Right. Do you suppose Glit is a)dumb b)Machiavellian c) a clueless dickhead?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:32:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: U.S. concentrating forces near Syrian border....The United States has bolstered its military presence near the Iraqi- Syrian border. U.S. officials said Central Command has ordered a buildup of assets in western Iraq. They said the buildup is centered at Al Rutba and includes M1A1 main battle tanks, AH-64A attack helicopters and A-10 ground-support fighter-jets.
Rolling.........???
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:31:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Topple the dictator's cabal? Geesh, there was a cabal? Why didn't we go in sooner!?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:29:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: The point is, Glint, you yourself wouldn't think of fighting and maybe dying in Iraq. It would be stupid for you to do so. You're not looking for a fight. But, there are quite a few 18-21 year old stupid kids who are. That's your soldier, Glint. Not you, certainly not me. We don't believe war was the only answer in Iraq. We don't believe it had to be done. Not by us at least. Send some stupid kids who you can convince to believe Saddam sent the planes into the buildings. This was never about liberation, Glint, and you know it. Hell, Snippy kept saying the only way Saddam could avoid war was by disarming. According to Snippy, Saddam didn't disarm (although there's still no proof of this.) So, let's suppose Saddam DID disarm to Snippy's satisfaction. Bingo! No war. No "liberation." Or, was Snippy just lying again? See, Glint, lots of these stupid kids will come home and they won't be as stupid as when they went to Iraq. They'll realize how stupid they were and they will be of no further use to the likes of Rummy. But there's always a new batch of stupid kids you can send to Syria to avenge 9/11.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:23:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: 408 in the Al Almiriya Shelter in Baghdad in 1991.
now THOSE were human shields!
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:17:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: The soldier is in Iraq to liberate the people, topple the dictator's cabal, and root out any WMD. The shields are there to thwart this effort. They are traitors and should be treated as such.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:12:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, plenty of soldiers die by succumbing to hysteria. It's the nature of the military that this is going to happen a certain percentage of the time. It's all factored in, all charted and measured. And the deaths due to hysterical reaction generally happen more often in basic training, although they are common in combat as well. Many of the "friendly fire" incidents are not as accidental as they may seem to a rube like Glint. Some are the result of stupid panic. Now, the lady who got bulldozed doesn't seem to have acted hysterically at all. Not compared to a panicky kid who runs through a mine field out of fear and madness. Or a kid who starts shooting wildly, afraid he's going to die, only to kill some of his friends.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:11:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, but soldiers are stupid. That's how you want them, Glint. Young and stupid. That way, you can send one of these dummies into battle and convince him he's avenging 9/11 by dying in Iraq. Talk about stupid. Oh, sure, maybe a sodier only gets run over by a bulldozer once in awhild, but lots of them seem to get killed by their own friends. Talk about stupid. Anyway, Glint, you're a shallow, sorry midget and maybe you should just play with your own shit for a spell. Later, rube.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:03:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Occam's Toothbrush reports that a Canadian "human shield" volunteer died in Iraq in January when his truck flipped over on the Baghdad-Basra highway. "When he left here just after Christmas they were quite aware of the risks that were involved," said Edward Snider, his friend and neighbour, "although it's kind of ironic that the end came in a different kind of situation. Would his "friend" have felt better if he's been shredded by gunfire? You would think it would start to sink in with these groups that they are not affecting the buildup, or planning for war. Have they even noticed that most Americans would view them as traitors? In an additional irony, the body is considered "cargo" and therefore cannot be shipped out of the country without going through U.N. clearance due to the sanctions on the Iraqi regime.
food for the nose
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:02:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: "GOOD! He should have kept running over her to make absolutely sure she was dead! I'm sorry... but if you run in front of a bulldozer WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN? Anyone who is so STUPID that they'd offer themselves as a human sheild deserves what they get! elsewhere on the web - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 10:47:32 (EDT)".......If you want more on this topic, Glit's argument, or the argument he has adopted from the elsewhere troglodyte, lacks logic. What a rational person expects when she stands in front of a bulldozer is for the bulldozer to stop. That's the whole idea, you see, to stop the bulldozer. Since the rumor is that Israel is a more or less humane country, the expectation is that the dozer stops and somebody comes and hauls you away, and you are right with your God or yourself. But accidents happen, bulldozer drivers can have bad eyesight or be absorbed in knocking down the huts. As far as the ranting, it would make more sense to rant at the operator who didn't watch where he was operating. However much Glit likes to think that in the operator's position he would drive over the woman on purpose, a normal man would stop and wait for her removal. What's the lesson here? The only lesson I can see is that Glit is a pathetic asshole.
Patriot
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 12:02:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Soldiers don't usually run hysterically in front of a bull dozer. What's your point again?
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:56:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lookw like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:50:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know who's really stupid, Glint? Soldiers who fight in wars. Good way to get killed for someone else's lies.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:50:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's see. A dead human shield is a stupid person compared to a living Glint?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:43:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, Glint likes to pretend these tales have some larger application. In his sad little world, human shields (stupid people) are the close brothers and sisters of everyone who disagrees with Glint's narrow, distorted view of the world. Of course, it's all bullshit. He really posts this stuff out of his own self-loathing and his need to shock in order to get any attention at all. A lot of this current flood is the result iof his shame and humiliation about John as revealed last night. My advice is to ignore Glint. Soon he'll be trying the "good guy" approach, which is just as pathetic.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:41:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's nose is getting rubbed in what? You mean, Glint's pretending there's a point to all this?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:31:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Stupid people, like Liberals, need to have their noses rubbed in these tales of the bone headed." But that's not why you do this, Glint. You do it out of your own bleak emptiness. You're so afraid to look inside that you cover up your fear by judging others. You are a very sad little man. See you later, pig.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:30:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: You talking about your relatives again, Glint? Boring.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:26:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why? Because idiodic acts by unintelligent people need to be held up as warnings to others inclined to walk into a similar situation. Stupid people, like Liberals, need to have their noses rubbed in these tales of the bone headed. Can't let these people be rememebered for any more than what they were, which is simply moron members of the gene pool.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:24:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is typical Glint. Once he's cornered, once he's revealed as the tortured man he is, that's when he really loses control. That's when he embarks on yet another pathetic jag that he believes will convince others that he doesn't care what anyone thinks. Inside, deep inside, there's a scared and lonely child.
Dr. Freud
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:21:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't flatter yourself, Glint. You're not plain-spoken. You're just an angry, inferior prick.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:18:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Klinghoffer Daughters Want Abu Abbas Tried in U.S." WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The daughters of the elderly American who was killed on the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship said on Wednesday they wanted captured Palestinian guerrilla leader Abu Abbas tried in the United States. Abbas, who masterminded the 1985 hijacking, was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq this week, leading to a string of demands over his fate. His wife and the Palestinian Authority said he should be freed and Italy wants him extradited there. In one of the most shocking incidents from the hijacking of the Italian cruise liner, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled elderly American Jewish passenger was shot by the hijackers in his wheelchair and tossed overboard. Klinghoffer's daughters, Lisa and Ilsa, said Abbas should be brought to the United States immediately. "We want him brought here. We want him tried here in our country. We want to know that he will serve his full sentence -- which is hopefully a life sentence," said Lisa Klinghoffer in an interview with NBC's "Today" show. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Klinghoffer daughters urged the United States to try Abbas on charges of piracy, hostage-taking and conspiracy. Also known as Mohammed Abbas, he was sentenced in absentia in Italy to life in prison for planning the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship in the eastern Mediterranean. The Israeli Supreme Court declared Abbas immune from prosecution in Israel over the Achille Lauro in 1999 after he was allowed to return to Gaza by an Israeli Security Committee that concluded that he had renounced violence. The Palestinian Authority demanded on Wednesday that Abbas be freed in accordance with a Middle East peace deal, while Italy said it would also seek the extradition of Abbas. Lisa Klinghoffer said she hoped there would be no "deal-making" in the case of Abbas. "I hope this sends the message that no matter how many years go by, terrorists can't run and terrorists can't hide because they are going to be caught," she told NBC. Their parents were on a cruise with friends to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary when the hijacking occurred. Their mother, who was suffering from colon cancer at the time, died four months after her husband. "It was supposed to be a wonderful, happy time for them," said Lisa Klinghoffer. "It showed the world at the time that it could happen to anyone."
Sad, but justice may finally be administered
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:18:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: What troubles me is plain-spoken stupid people who sit in judgement of others.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:14:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, Glint, why?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:13:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just sharing the humor found at some of the U.K. sites. That's all. Unless you'e like more. There's plenty of places there with plain spoken people who have no patience with stupidity.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:08:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like that other stoopid human shield, the guy that tried to keep the kid out of the line of fire, died from his wounds too. Serves the numbnuts right. Let the kid take the bullet.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:08:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the soulless rube yammering about today? Rachel?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 11:06:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Rachel was alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them to stop," he said. "She waved for bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled 'stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her."
GOOD! He should have kept running over her to make absolutely sure she was dead! I'm sorry... but if you run in front of a bulldozer WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN? Anyone who is so STUPID that they'd offer themselves as a human sheild deserves what they get!
elsewhere on the web - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 10:47:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: HA HA HA HA! Serves ya right, ya frickin' quisling! If this offends anyone, TOO BAD! I have a strict no comforting idiots after their idiocy results in their fortunate and timely deaths
G Crawford
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 10:30:42 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Dances with Bulldozers Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 10:27:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, we're all trying our best. To make the world a better place. (01)
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 09:33:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, Paul Williams, Marlon Brando, David Janssen, Henry Fonda, Buffet and Germald Ford, Malcom X., Dick Cheney, Harold Loyd. Sitting around the haystack taught some of them to lie, some of them to cheat, some of them to act in movies and on television, a few of them to be superlatively shallow, and all of them to get the hell out of Nebraska.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:49:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nobody likes a wise-ass sheeney, Goldberg.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:42:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: And Reagan foreign policy is where you bomb the shit out of weak countries like the dread Iraq after twelve years of sanctions and no-fly? And you get down on your knees and beg forgiveness of the strong countries that could put a hurt on you, like China and North Korea? And then you run around bumping into walls and talking about paddles and tyrants as if it meant something and you could tell what that was if it did?
Jonah Jewberg
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:41:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody whacked the United States in the butt with a paddle? Things are going from bad to worse!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:37:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you suppose that whoever threw that chicken violently at a box was goaded into it by PETA?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:36:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did you know they pronounce that "vee-gan", with a hard g? I had gone through life thinking it was "vejan" as in "vegetable", but no, it's "vee-gan." What a load of bullshit.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:34:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I wish Clinton's people studied harder considering how Carteresque American foreign policy was for most of the 1990s. Note to laymen: 'Carteresque' is code for saying, 'Thank you, sir! May I have another!' to every tyrant or terrorist who whacks the United States in the butt with a paddle."
Johnah Goldberg
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:18:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Al-Jazeera criticized for not running PETA ad" A vegetarian activist group says the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera is willing to run graphic footage of human war victims but won't accept their commercial showing bloody animals. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday it offered to pay the network $10,000 to run its 30-second Arabic-dubbed spot, but was refused. Al-Jazeera said it's still possible the ad may run. PETA specifically targeted Al-Jazeera because the news network was in the news early in the war for airing pictures of bloody American bodies. The ad shows cows hanging upside down in a slaughterhouse after their throats had been slit, goats being killed and a chicken thrown violently at a box. It hasn't aired on any television network. "It's certainly curious that they would be willing to show people the outcome of war but not be willing to show people the outcome of choosing to eat meat," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach
Odd, but they do have a point.
Glint - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:10:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Al-Jazeera criticized for not running PETA ad" A vegetarian activist group says the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera is willing to run graphic footage of human war victims but won't accept their commercial showing bloody animals. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday it offered to pay the network $10,000 to run its 30-second Arabic-dubbed spot, but was refused. Al-Jazeera said it's still possible the ad may run. PETA specifically targeted Al-Jazeera because the news network was in the news early in the war for airing pictures of bloody American bodies. The ad shows cows hanging upside down in a slaughterhouse after their throats had been slit, goats being killed and a chicken thrown violently at a box. It hasn't aired on any television network. "It's certainly curious that they would be willing to show people the outcome of war but not be willing to show people the outcome of choosing to eat meat," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach
Odd, butm they do have a point.
Glint - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 01:10:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, has anyone solved the puzzle of the seven word saying in the Fornigame at 15:10? Hint 4: It's part of the chant which got PacBellMan banned from the site eons ago.
Glint
- Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 00:55:43 (EDT)

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