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My two cents are: Let's see, Glint is on record as loving terrorists and hating the terrorized?
call ashcroft
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 22:52:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush was interviewed by Russia's RTR TV on Thursday. The transcript was released by the White House on Saturday. Asked about U.S. dollar policy, Bush replied: "The policy of my administration is for there to be a strong U.S. dollar." When the reporter told Bush the dollar was not strong at the moment, Bush replied: "Well, I understand that. And the marketplace is making decisions as to whether the dollar should be strong or not. Our policy is a strong dollar. And we believe that good fiscal and monetary policy will cause our economy to grow and that the marketplace will see a growing economy and therefore strengthen the dollar," he said. "But you're right, the market, at this point in time, has devalued the dollar, which is contrary to our policy," he said. (then he choked on a Pretzel)
HEY MORONS, YOUR BOY'S A MORON, MORONS-= SO FUCKING DEAL WITH IT
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 22:50:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: yo. got that.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 22:48:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Neither Glint nor Spete knows their taus. No surprises there. Therefore they deserves whatevers they gets.Plus it s so interesting how much they wahst insterested in egotistically minded sites and places are so interested in the egoistically minded sites and places hey ho and not worthy of typos although really if one were interested in one's ego those might be things one might want to attend to hey boys well who cares we dont
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 22:47:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank G*d.
GOD
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 22:43:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got to check things off checlist. Won't bother posting it this time. Then off to bed for early morning start.
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 22:27:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: I Glint an American?
Clyde
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 21:16:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the deal here? Did Glit drink some beer? Why is he talking to faux-Pete? Why doesn't anyone ever let me in on anything?
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 21:15:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 21:13:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Among those who have prayed for Rudolph's capture was Emily Lyons, a nurse [that assisted in the murder of countless number of innocent babies] who was crippled and nearly blinded from shrapnel and nails in the January 1998 bombing at the New Woman All Women clinic in Birmingham. She said she is looking forward to seeing Rudolph when he goes to trial. "You don't have to go to the Middle East to find terrorists. Rudolph is one of them. He terrorized and he murdered," Lyons [cackled as she itched the hairy wart on her nose].
bedtime fairy tales
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 21:05:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, Ydog's autopete still lives. He needs it to write lyrics to go along with his heavy metal kazoo music. The songs dont' have to make sense when the singers don't know english. It's like being in Japan and buying a six pack of Horse Piss beer. ◊ Ydog, glad to see you back. So, is your trip to Maryland over?
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 21:01:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted on Sunday that Britain and the United States would unearth evidence of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" and make it public before long. "Over the coming weeks and months we will assemble this evidence and then we will give it to people," he said. "I have no doubt whatever that the evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction will be there."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:56:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is anybody surprised Glint's daughter suffers from OCD?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:55:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hi, twat.
T
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:53:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: The anti-Pete sites died?
doubt it
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:53:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, anyone can tell you know your brewskis, that's for sure. A real grasp of brand names. And, it's nice to see you taunting again. That's the ticket, NASCAR-Boy!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:52:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, Glint, can't say as I have. Maybe Pedernale Dog can rean in and get a whole store full. Speaking of which, i thought his autopete contraption died with all his anti-pete sites? Eh? Time to snooze. PS: Hi T. Aloha!
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:52:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, when it comes to beer Ydog and myself don't foll around. It's There's just some things that trancend all other things. That's why his apparent fear of the Olney Ale House is sort of peculiar. ◊ Probably am celebrating mundane things. You see, I've been sick. Came down with a 48 hour but Tuesday afternoon and spent Wed and Thu at home. Probably something I caught in NYC, perhaps a low grade case of SARS. Poe's theory is that it was the fault of all the "bad air" there. She's like Howard Hughes junior when it comes to germs. Probably something that waiter put in the Sam Adams. Probably cums in the salad like Jesse Jackson used to.
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:49:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030531/wl_mideast_afp/us_iraq_powell_030531004225
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:46:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I gave Bush the power seat that Microsoft assigns to Ben. I'm a sporting kind of guy.
Osama
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:46:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The names I've chosen for my Microsoft Hearts board are Beavis, Butthead, Bush and Osama. I play as Osama.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:45:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, Christ-on-a-stick! How fucking interesting!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:44:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Last night, instead of mowing, I tried out the new grill top on the camp stove. Nobody was home so I grilled myself a few burgers. I popped open one of the Boddington's and it squirted foam. I like pale ales and sour beer, but this beer curled the snake basket. Given that it's an English beer I suspected that it might have been better served somewhat warm. I checked the label and sure enough, serve slightly chilled but not ice cold. Shouldn't have stuck it in the freezer while I was getting the grill ready. As the day goes on and the ice in the cooler melts, the beer will just get better and better. ◊ Now here's the wierd thing. When I emptied the can I could hear something rattling around inside of it. I checked the label, and it's got some sort of "recyclable" foam generating gizzie inside. Says it's to allow the drinker to "share the pub experience." So, I rean inside and got a clear mug and popped open another one. I poured it into the glass and it was top to bottom foam. Within about 90 seconds the glass was clear with about 1/4" of foam on top. Foamwise, it's just like a Guiness. Tonight I demonstrated for the wife. She said how does it work? I said, I don't know, and felt foolish for showing her and then not knowing. So in a fit of rage I tore the can in two and out fell a little platic bubble thing. Like the ones you used to get out the 5 ¢ machine - the one that spit out plastic bugs and JFK 3-D rings. Has anybody ever seen one of these gizmos before?
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:41:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: The real Glint wouldn't dress up like a cigar?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:40:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since we're talking about boring shit, I'd like to announce I just scored a shut out in Hearts. Four moons in a row.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:39:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: You seem pretty giddy about fairly mundane things today, Glint. You don't get out much, do you?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:37:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: You must be feeling pretty masculine today, Glint. NASCAR, beer and hot dogs. Are you wearing your bra today or just letting those puppies flop?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:35:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Interesting. A cooler that talks.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:33:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, so now Glint tries the gentle approach with ydog. Where's the taunting? Where's the gotchas? How diabolically clever for a shallow rube!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:33:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've only scrolled enough to see the fake Glint at 20:29. ◊ I bought a cooler that says it can hold 24 cans. I haven't tried it yet, with ice and all, but I figure if I can get 16 cans in the thing that's 2 gallons of beer. That ought to get me through the tailgate party at least. Besides, you can always get more beer at the track.
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:32:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: He owns Latinos? Cool.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:30:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey Ydog, have you ever drank Boddington's Pub Ale? You see, at the track no bottles are allowed, but cans are. Also coolers with dimensions under 14" can be hauled in. So I went to my favorite Korean owned beverage store and told the man I wanted imported cans, but not Heinekin. He showed me the Boddington's - "the cream of Manchester." Only they come in 4 packs costing around $7. I wanted a case, but they don't sell cases of Boddington's. I put my negotiating skills to work and haggled the price down to a more reasonable $23. Sure, I was at a disadvantage because I really needed cans. Nice thing is they're pint cans.
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:30:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I say we all dress up like cigars and protest Rudolph's arrest!
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:29:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: They nabbed Eric Robert Rudolph, folk hero. <> Bought a cast iron grill plate for the cook stove, so the hot dogs and burgers at the NASCAR tailgate rally are back on. Also, I converted one of my binocular tripods into a portable cook table. Heavy duty - the same one I took on a cruise ship a few years back. Never tipped over, even in stiff sea breezes. Guess I'll be cooking for a crowd. Dairyman said a high school buddy and the "latinos" from the landscape company he either works at or owns are going to be there too.
Glint
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:19:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's like a butterfly collection for you isn't it 19. You fukin monstor!!!! You stick them with pins and then slowly dribble carbon tet on them. Pinning their wings to to corkboard. You watch them flop and flail in the poisoned restraint. Like a human being in the death chamber, strapped to the table while George W. Bush smirks and has another pretzel.. Carla Faye Tucker was a born again christian.
REMEBER CARLA FAYE <YOU COULD BE NEXT>
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:13:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, the "rubiossee". Or morons, perhaps. The term "feeb" comes to mind. "Velveeta Republcan" has always been a moniker that made some sense to me, Ivins coined it I think. In anycase, I've pretty much given up on everything except the fact that things are just going to get better and better for me. It's weirdly fucked up but the more they privatize, the more I'm worth. Not like I can be farmed out to a 20 year-old programmer way quicker than me in Sumatra. I think it's called globalization, but as a libertarian with 50 feet of sidewalk in front of my house, well, I figure this is fat city!!!
M.K.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 20:05:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete. Glint. The Rooboisee.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 19:35:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I am so happy
MK
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 19:13:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2003 A no-help government Molly Ivins Star-Telegram Molly Ivins It was horrible and sickening, but I could not stop watching the final days of the Texas Legislature. Fellow Texans, the ripple effects of this disaster will come to haunt us all. Just for starters, this budget is going to cost about 144,000 jobs. Perhaps its most serious effect is on public hospitals. A health care system so fragile that it is almost overwhelmed now -- turning away ambulances for hours at a time, unable to admit a single patient -- will be swamped after this. The counties will be desperate, the cities not much better. Every area of social service has been cut, not because we have a $9 billion shortfall but because House Republicans do not believe government should help people. We are watching government morph into something very strange. Benito Mussolini said, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." The real driving force behind this session is something I bet most of you have never heard of -- ALEC. ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded, extremely right-wing group that sponsors conferences for state legislators and draws up model bills that are introduced all over the country. ALEC is particularly interested in privatizing government services and deregulating everything, and it is anti-environment to an extent that's almost loopy. Let's be very clear about this: People who want to privatize prisons and schools and social services are in it for the money. The real questions of government are always: Who benefits, and who pays? And the answer given this session with jaw-dropping regularity is private corporations profit, while people pay the price in worse services. If government provides a certain service -- say, prisons -- for X dollars, how does a private corporation do the same job and make a profit? You ask that question, and you get a lot of pious piffle from the right about how private industry is more efficient and less bureaucratic than government. Dilbert and I doubt that. The right says that in the private sector, pay and performance are related. I look at the CEOs of American corporations, and if there's a connection between pay and performance there, I missed it. What you get when you privatize and outsource is something like the Department of Defense and the military-industrial complex. We spend $399 billion a year on defense, and if you think that money is well spent because much of it gets run through defense contractors, you have not been paying attention. DoD is the happy home of the $700 hammer, the endless cost overrun and the revolving door, with accompanying conflicts of interest and dubious contracts. It's a fiscal nightmare. The Pentagon once had to announce that it couldn't account for $17 billion. You get nightmare public policy consequences as well. What happens if you privatize prisons is that you have a large industry with a vested interest in building ever more prisons. The result is even more idiocy, like the three-strikes law and long terms for small-time drug possession. One veteran lobbyist said of this session, "You look up and you suddenly realize that these people are playing a different game." They don't want to make government better. They don't want it to work well. They don't want it to help people. It used to be a joke that when a legislator was contemplating some scurvy piece of special-interest legislation, he would go to ridiculous lengths to make the spurious claim, "And so you see, members, we must do this for the sake of the cheeldrun of Texas." Man, you stand up in the Texas House today with a bill that really will help the children of Texas, and you will not get a single Republican vote. They are playing a different game. They are out to take government apart, and then they turn around and say, "See, I told you government doesn't work." And they believe in all this with a self-righteous certitude that has to be seen to be believed. During the debate on tort reform, Democrats took to referring to the part of the gallery where the big-business interests' lobbyists sit as "the owners' box." It sure ain't the people's Legislature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly Ivins writes for Creators Syndicate. 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045
abrainabovestemcell
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 19:12:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: The one who no matter how many times people tell him still fails to understand about Hitler and National Socialism being antithetical to Russian Socialism, German Socialism, French Socialism, and all the other socialist kinds of socialism. No Western Civ 102 in Dunster House for those majoring in typing and shorthand.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 19:06:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which Glete�? The stubby squash-faced one or the lardassed four-eyed one?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 18:39:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: He who laughs best laughs last at the Plim Plaza: buffet style. No Puerto Rican waiters to try to jew you out of your nickel. Nothing but the foods of the world and a private chunk of near-boardwalk deck. I pity the fugitive from the Pedernales, if someone around here is the fugitive from the Pedernales. I think maybe someone is.
Glete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 18:37:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The dwarf mumbled silently under the leyland cypress, there by the volcanic steam vents on the awkward moraine of the north west escarpment of the Piedmont plateau. A twig of the bitter haploid pine dangled from his mouth like soured kudzu on a Mississippi deltoid afternoon. It was not a pretty place or site. Never had been. The dwarf was germanic, sausage bred and squat like a norse elv. It longed for the mud of the Brazos, the Nebraskan belly of wheat. The landlocked dirt clods that promised enduring farmlabor for generations of immigrants unable to pack their kids off to the east coast and join the ranks of waiters from Puerto rico that dared set foot on the shores. One day he would malign those waiters, he would show them, yes he would. And then, he would go to the Plim Plaza and have Mexican and Italian, and Seafood "All on One Plate"!!!!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 17:24:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somewhere there's a statue that says something like give me your tired and hungry and poor to spit on like serfs. It draws alot of foreign waiters that end up boinking some pretty pristine cotton candy panties.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 17:15:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is pretty funny, like i dont even need to fire up autopete...... Last time I proofread, area is not are a. Doink.// Anyway, liberal loser sheeple, erring in writing, as poetic as it may be, is part of the ritual of sinning that all good poetic prose must endure. One then relieves it with several more good lashings of old liberal twisted logic and nasty tactics. It works for me. Amen. //Thanks 12;29, glad to know you too think faux patirot is really a patriot. I realize we all know it isn't, but the furry faux is par for the poetry course. Fore! //As for the 19 Pedernales Fugitive, I have just one thing to say: Durkheim sucks
19 lol
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 17:13:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where's Glint, off on a road trip? I tremble for the Puerto Rican maitre d's along the route.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:28:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is lard a disability?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:27:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's true. I notice we haven't heard a whole lot from Ashcroft since he draped the bedspreads on the statues and cleared the calico cats out of the Brussels Hilton.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:26:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: What? I thought Rudolf was a terrorist! Yet they're sending him to a civilian jail? Are they going to let him have a trial? What the �vck is going on here?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:25:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rove keeps a tight lid on Ashcroft ever since the Padilla brouhaha. As a political strategist whose two tools are chicanery and ridicule, he is a little sensitive about having a totally ridiculous figure like Ashcroft around. A guy who never wins anything, but annoints himself with Crisco when he is appointed to something after losing.
Captain Political Philosophy Book
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:22:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: This is the first time they've let Ashcroft out of his cage to make an announcement on a matter of earthshaking importance since he told us that Jose Padilla was that close to irradiating everything from Winnetka to Arlington Park. The real test here will be to see if the hillbilly gets out of jail before the greaser gets out of whatever secret dungeon he is held in.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:20:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're missing the fact that Pete explained that the announcement of his radial keratomy has already been made. He can see like an eagle now. No more Mr. Magoo. Not that there's anything funny about some poor bastard fumbling around and getting into trouble because he's half-blind, even in a cartoon. It's so '50's. Haven't we gone beyond mocking people's disabilities?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:17:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do they really let Pete kick the Xerox machine? I'm surprised the four-eyed lummox can even see it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:14:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. Does Ashcroft think something he had something to do with made the hillbilly fall into the FBI's hands?
curious Tampa grandmother
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:12:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, Pete, you're missing the point. It is not that your writing is full of errors. The point is that your writing sucks. You have no feel for the language, the way, say, Glint does. Also, you're kind of stupid, and when you work your brain hard, as you do when you're trying to be stylish, your output only get worse. You have usually wisely chosen to restrict yourself to variations on doing and tra la la, and for that we all commend you. But it still sucks, same as when you grasp for eloquence.
Pete Fan Club
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:11:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: ZAQANIYAH, Iraq - There were few tears for Iman Salih Mutlak at her wake. She is a hero to some - a martyr who tried to kill U.S. soldiers with grenades, then died in a hail of their bullets - but her family feels nothing but shame. Their rage comes not because of her planned attack, but because the 22-year-old woman left the house alone and without permission from her father - thereby besmirching the honor of her tribe. "When she left the house, she lost her innocence," said her 71-year-old father, Salih Mutlak. "Had she returned home, I would have killed her myself and drunk her blood."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 16:10:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: In a statement Saturday, Ashcroft called Rudolph "the most notorious American fugitive on the FBI's 'Most Wanted' list." "This sends a clear message that we will never cease in our efforts to hunt down all terrorists, foreign or domestic, and stop them from harming the innocent," he said.
A real American Patriot: Ashcroft
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 15:33:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, 19, I'm waiting for your expose on Mumford and thinking by then, perhaps, you ought to come down with the appropriate bout of acute ecomomic anomie. Toodles.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 15:27:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Last time I proofread, area is not are a. Doink.// Anyway, liberal loser sheeple, erring in writing, as poetic as it may be, is part of the ritual of sinning that all good poetic prose must endure. One then relieves it with several more good lashings of old liberal twisted logic and nasty tactics. It works for me. Amen. //Thanks 12;29, glad to know you too think faux patirot is really a patriot. I realize we all know it isn't, but the furry faux is par for the poetry course. Fore! //As for the 19 Pedernales Fugitive, I have just one thing to say: Durkheim sucks!
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 15:20:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've had it. Heading out to Harbor Freight to buy a Chinese brass drift. About the only person left in the world who will give you good value on hard goods is the Chinaman. That is, cast iron stuff and primitive stuff, grinder pedestals, pot-belly stoves, breaker bars, soft-metal punches and drifts, you can't beat the Chinaman. Don't buy the wrenches.
Gasket
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 14:14:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: At the Ace hardware store, where they had the gutter spikes, I see that eight-foot cove molding sticks are $3.57 per, while at the Home Base they are $4.97. The difference is that the Ace is in my neighborhood, where it has to serve a lot of black guys and Mexicans. Whether of not it's fair that the white man gets screwed at Home Base while the mud people get a break in their store, it don't do the country any good. All it can do is sap initiative and make the less productive people think that they can get a free ride while the white man sweats.
Gasket
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 14:10:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nobody had any brass drifts for sale, so I bought a handful of gutter spikes-- big aluminum nails for hanging rain-gutters. Back down in Nebrasky they use to clip the ends off and use them to drift in bearings. Also got the four tapered roller bearings for $10 ea. at the bearing store. Forgot grease seals and went to get them at the trailer supply, and they had bearing sets, that's two bearings and races plus the thrust washer plus the grease seal plus the hubcap for $8.95. What is wrong with this country? This has been as bad as if I'd bought some Leyland cypress trees with little bitty stakes! When anyone knows if a stake is good you need a big stake, not a little bitty stake! Beginning to think that capitalism sucks. It's just a way for people to put the bite on a man, the same as government.
Gasket
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 14:03:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: He'll get to, oh, maybe to Durkheim.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:56:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whoever that 19 is, if he doesn't start proof-reading he's never going to get to poetry.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:55:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, I'll bite. Who's Eric Rudolf? Is this going to be funny? Sad? Should I sit down first?
Clyde Harrington
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:54:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush preparing medal ceremony for rudolph
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:50:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: the most pathetic thing i've seen lately was pete here by himself giving that "open mik" for questions to him for a half hour of dead silence. Well, his sort of calling in sick for the weekend comes close i guess. Does the guy have a clue???
19
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:42:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any good defense team needs somebody to kick the copier when it jams.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:18:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Eric's mommy should have visited an abortion clinic before his birth.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 13:17:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just wanted to let you all nkow that I won't be posting much this weekend. aHve to hop a plane to NC to join the Eric Rudolph defense team.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 12:34:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, I think the problem is the fucker can't write for shit. From what I can tell, his mind is too clutterred, too much gets in the way for any kind of communication. For instance, he has a need to write "faux patriot" everytime he responds to one of patriot's posts. Why? Is he afraid that someone will think he considers patriot a "real" patriot? Or, is it intended to undermine patriot's self-esteem, make him doubt his own patriotism? Regardless, Pete comes across, in his writing, like an barely literate speed freak swatting at imaginary killer bees and succeeding only in slapping himself stupid.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 12:29:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think he's making a big mistake. An important rule of pedagogy is to not let the learner commit errors, or she gets in the habit. For example, in bow shooting, if you shoot in an awkward stance from the start you will never shake it. I imagine golf is the same way. It holds true in foreign language learning, which was my own pedagogical specialty. When Pete comes on fornigate, he should try to write just as well as if he were crafting a note to the garbage-man. Sure, this is just fingermania, but for chr*st's sweet sh*t, it's fingermania in the Church of Communication. Do you finger-diddle in the confession box, Pete? I think not. I think your Catholic guilt keeps you in line there. Why can't your communication guilt keep you in line in this here church? You think you get a pass just because you are the deacon? No, as Jeremiah said, the kids shouldn't see the deacon with a shot glass in his hand, and by extension they shouldn't see him maniacally fingering the keys. Suck it up and give us the quality your garbage-man has come to expect. Thanks in advance, four-eyes.
patriot
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 12:12:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, he already said this is just fingermania and the real writing happens somewhere else, somewhere special. This guy isn't going to cast his pearls before swine.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 11:12:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nothing wrong with that boy's writing a little consistent proof-reading couldn't fix. That last one proves it. Tejas and the stuff about bigger liberal, bigger target. So what if it's incomprehensible and he's clearly misidentified another poster. There are no typos!
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 11:01:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bottom line: the bigger the liberal, the bigger the target, the harder they fall. You area loser liberal idiot from Tejas. Talk about worthless. G'night all! PS: I no longer wear glasses or were you asleep at the switch too on that revelation?
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 02:57:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, sure you don't proofread. The fact you are a liberal also confirms you are a liar, oh and an imposter Pete. Doink!
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 02:54:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: I do not have Tourette's! It's just that I don't proof-read. If I proof-read, my stuff would be poetry. I feel it in my bones, and you should too.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 02:51:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't even dream of it, anonymous. Poor Pete has the written equivalent of Tourette's Syndrome. The pathetic grease-ball will be at the level of tra la la as long as he lives.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 02:49:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's your problem with Mrs. Clinton, Pete? Is it simply that she's better than you, or did you stay at the pineapple shed one day and figure it all out, working it out all night by the gridlines? You must have some reasons other than your involuntary blurtings. Did she once sneer at you for being dumb enough to think that you could see the moons of Jupiter by holding a stick in front of your face? Do you suspect that if she met you she'd think you were a fat, moronic, prissy sap? Come on, man, line it out. This is the bigs, and you're not going to make it on the weight of your jowels any more. You've got to produce, or relinquish your license to piss and moan about everything you don't understand. One good reason, Pete, in the clear cold light of dispassionate analysis. No more bumper-sticker slogan Pete-think. Tra la la, four-eyes.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 02:45:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, it's Pete, the guy who thinks the reason his writing stinks is that he doesn't proof-read it. Yo, Pete! You're probably a great violin player, too, except that you don't bother to put your fingers in the right places? Can you tell that nobody else proof-reads? It's a knack that smart people develop, Pete-- the ability to pay a sort of half-assed attention to what you're doing as you do it. Sort of like chewing gum and walking at the same time. Tough, I know, but if you practice, maybe some day...
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 02:36:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: She deserves every last bit of criticism. She is teh Chief Enabler. Eva Braun! Zeig Heilster Numero Uno. Sick socialist traitor. At least all demonrats are now done politically. Never again will america stoop to their filth. Never again.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 01:58:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not to mention years of being villified by conservatives.
Hil
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:40:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I concede. If I had known that I would face mounting criticism from such an unlikely quarter as the liberals, I never would have got into politics to begin with.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:39:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know what stuns me? What stuns me is that after years of being vilified by conservatives, Hillary Rodham Clinton is suddenly facing mounting criticism from an unlikely quarter: liberals. Who would have believed it could happen? Yet there it is. A most unlikely quarter from which to be facing mounting criticism. It's all over but the concession speech, from what I figure. As stunning as that is.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:37:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy's war lies are nothing compared to what Clinton did. Why, the man snuggled with a woman and then appeared on Glint's television set claiming he had not snuggled with her. How poor Glint ever lived through it is beyond me. What depths of inner strength kept him from slitting his wrists right then and there, I will never fathom. Yet he made it, and is whining about Clinton's snuggling to this day.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:34:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Can you say dinero? Try it: dee nair oh. If Cheney and his buds don't make a dollar selling more oil, then nothing is going to trickle down on the rubes. The people who aren't investing now because Snippy and Kenny Boy and have made it a bad bet won't have more money to not invest, and we'll all be up sh*t creek without a p@ddle. This will put a hurt on Pete's ex-wife, and we wouldn't want that, would we? Grow a brain. Learn economics 101. Don't the South American terror universities teach it?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:31:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: And don't be disingenuous about global warming. You know and I know that it's a political issue because the inferior races are yapping about how we've got to cut back on "greenhouse (yeah, right) gasses" and burn less oil. How the fVck are we going to sell more oil if we burn less oil? Get a clue. Grow a brain.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:24:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know and I know that the WMD bit was just a bureaucratic shuffle. There were many reasons to attack Iraq... the mass graves, Poppy, the oil, the opportunity to have some place to put the troops where they wouldn't piss off terrorists and lead to possible future 911's. Stop hammering the "no wmd's" angle. It's a dry hole.
Wolfowitz
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:22:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Iraq will get rid of its tons of weapons of mass destruction there will be no war with the maniacal, ruthless, and vindictive dictator.
Snippy
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:12:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: HOMELAND SECURITY RULES MAY STALL FIREWORKS!
This will break Glint's "heart"
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 21:10:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know much about global warming. Hell, I don't know any more than Coulter or Limbaugh about it. From what I gather, though, it's a hot political issue and that's why they shriek about it. Why? What makes it political?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 20:59:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rube thing. You wouldn't understand.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 20:45:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's interesting how Glint and his ilk can tolerate Snippy's lies about Snippy's war and yet act stunned and outraged about that Clinton didn't want to yammer about his dick and the Times hired a bad reporter.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 20:21:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ewww, the Times.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 20:10:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: The New York Times said that families were loosing the college money?
barf alert
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 19:48:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is that Ann down there farting and blowing about global warming and DDT? What the hell, I thought it was Pete who informed us that the North Sea was rising ten feet a year. Has the urine-lady turned her squirt-gun on the haole?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 19:46:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is a the company beer keg shallow?
doubt it
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 19:45:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: The best one is the part about moving the US Army out of Saudi Arabia. How much army was that, Glit, and how tough would it have been to set them up in some nice motels in Bessarabia? Hey, now that we've avoided possible future repeats of 911 let's kick down to yellow.
I'd say weird before shallow.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 19:43:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, do you even consider how shallow you are?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:37:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would Bush be mad at the U.S., clown?
Oh, maybe for not electing him. What do you think, Belly-Boy?
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:35:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't get snippy, Beer-Boy.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:32:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Beer logic. Looks okay until the next morning.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:31:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would Bush be mad at the U.S., clown?
Belly Chuckles
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:27:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: " So, the position of the Democrats is that eliminating any chance Iraq had of producing chemical or nuclear weapons, deposing a maniacal, ruthless, and vindictive dictator, and moving armed forces out of Saud to calm the wrath of terrorists thus avoiding possible future repeats of 911 is not a good thing?"
it's always a hoot when Glint comes up with what he thinks is irrefutable logic. must be the beer.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:26:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush is "not mad" at the US, but Europe "is mad" at Bush. Is that clear?
euro si, dolar, no
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:09:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush begins fence-mending trip President says he's not angry with France Friday, May 30, 2003 Posted: 9:34 AM EDT (1334 GMT) President Bush copters by the Washington Monument Friday on his way to Andrews Air Force Base to depart for Europe. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story Tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO Security tight in Evian, France for G-8 summit. PLAY VIDEO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bush, Chirac meet at G-8 for first time since Iraq war. PLAY VIDEO RELATED Will Bush be able to forgive and forget? Interactive: President Bush's itinerary WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush says he is "not mad" at France and other countries that opposed the war in Iraq -- as he sets off on a European trip that will see him meet some of the war's strongest critics. Bush left Washington early Friday on an ambitious seven-day, six-nation trip during which he will get personally involved in Middle East diplomacy and receive an update from U.S. officials in charge of Iraq. "I'm not mad. ... I'm disappointed, and the American people are disappointed, but now is the time to move forward," he told the French television network FR3. He will try to mend fences with European countries that opposed the war to topple Saddam Hussein. While in France for the first G-8 summit since the war, Bush will hold a one-on-one meeting French President Jacques Chirac, who is expected to tell the US President to go fuck himself. However, as this exchange will be in French, Bush is expected to fail to understand, his situation in most respects.
stick a freedom fry up snippy's nose, Jacques!
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 18:08:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let see. The level was yellow. Then we went after the Devil (Saddam) and the level went to orange. After we beat the Devil, it went all the way down to yellow. Then orange again. Now yellow again. You can sense the progress.
uh, why is there even a green at all?
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:41:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Following business news during the Bush administration has proved to be a complex undertaking. Each week seems to provide us with fresh new examples of companies forced to pay settlements to the SEC or restate their earnings due to faulty accounting. But when it�s all said and done, can there possibly be a method to calculate the true cost of corporate recklessness? As accounts of financial misdeeds continue to splash across the news it has become increasingly evident that the true cost of corporate misbehavior defies a simple price tag. Consider the ongoing examination of Enron�s financial disaster. While the exorbitant cost to lower level employees has been detailed, The Houston Chronicle reports that Enron�s dishonesty is costing taxpayers bundles in legal fees as well. The case is so large and complex that a second examiner was added late last week, ensuring that the budding trial will �continue to shatter all records for legal costs.� The Chronicle also reports that prosecutors are set to delve into Enron�s Whitewing and Yosemite projects, dual examples of the company�s penchant for duplicity. Although trial costs are escalating, they can in no way compare to the cost of federal inaction, as President Bush so mistakenly displayed with his antics last summer. Recent news items have uncovered that at least two companies can put a price tag on their corporate misdeeds. PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP was slapped with a $1 million fine from the SEC for destroying and altering documents with the knowledge of several of its top partners. Royal Ahold, the Dutch-based owner of large US food chains, has announced that it has uncovered another $29 million in premeditated accounting errors, pushing their total restated earnings to $909 million. But simply tossing around figures like �$909 million in overstatements,� or �a $1 million settlement� does not begin to measure the total effects of such recklessness on the economy, or on society as a whole. Confidence has been shattered. Trust has been destroyed. And, according to an article in today�s New York Times, the college savings of many families have evaporated in this creaking economy. But if the cost of corporate recklessness has proven difficult to fully quantify, then the cost of the Bush economic plan is truly immeasurable. Also, confidence levels in the economy have not met expectations for May. Sounds a little too obvious, doesn�t it? Perhaps confidence levels are down because the Republican-led Congress approved legislation last week to hike the debt ceiling all the way to a record $984 billion. Perhaps confidence is down because of recent news that the Euro has climbed to a new record high against the dollar, raising prices on consumer goods for ordinary Americans. But Treasury Secretary John Snow and other administration officials have begun to indicate that they are comfortable with such a development. Billionaire investor George Soros has joined the growing chorus in opposition to this policy, arguing that it will cause the dollar to sink even more, and could hamper European growth as well. Whatever the reason for consumer distress, you can see why a lack of confidence in the Bush administration is completely justified.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:39:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is Kenny boy in jail yet? Has he given all that money back to California?
not holding my breath
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:37:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow--a color change. Don't we feel better.
sigh of non relief
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:36:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm for deposing this current American ruthless moron maniacal vindictive dictator--in 2004.
Captain History Book
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:35:33 (EDT)

My two cents are:

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Friday dropped the federal terrorism alert level one step -- to yellow -- saying intelligence pointing to an imminent attack has decreased. - Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:33:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, so now you assholes are into calming the wrath of terrorists? Jismhead.
bushist bullshit moral, economic, geopolitical bankruptcy: the moron way
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:33:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course, he was supposed to have destroyed them, was he not?
5 to 10 K dead: blood for oil is a good deal
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:31:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's a novel idea. Let's attack everyone, thereby eliminating any chance they would have of producing chemical or nukular weapons. The way to sell it is lie, say they ALREADY HAVE such weapons, dontcha know. I think we need to forget about the dictator angle though. Too general, dontcha know. I mean, we may need some of those maniacal, ruthless and vindictive dictators, dontcha know. Like we needed Saddam. How about we say whoever we decide to attack needs to disarm to avoid war. Of course, without arms they can't disarm. HA! Then we go in, kill a bunch of them and, when no weapons turn up (as we already knew they wouldn't) we play the dictator angle. Not too much though. There are our brutal dictators and, uh, the others.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:28:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: "We know where [the WMD] are, they are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north of that." - Donald Rumsfeld, March 30 --- "We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some [WMD], perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them." - Bush, April 24
so find them
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:27:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the position of the Democrats is that eliminating any chance Iraq had of producing chemical or nuclear weapons, deposing a maniacal, ruthless, and vindictive dictator, and moving armed forces out of Saud to calm the wrath of terrorists thus avoiding possible future repeats of 911 is not a good thing?
Good luck in 2004!
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:19:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: So much for new business. What about old business, such as Enron. Are the Democrats still flopping around the lefeless dead corpse of Enron like they were in a bad sequel to Weekend at Bernie's?
Captain Corpse Abuse
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 17:06:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blair: WMD dossier claims 'absurd' Matthew Tempest and agencies Friday May 30, 2003 Tony Blair today made an angry but opaque denial of accusations that Downing Street asked for a dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction to be "sexed up". Speaking in Poland ahead of a speech on the extension of the EU, Mr Blair said it was "completely absurd" to suggest that MI6 was made to "invent some piece of evidence". However, the actual allegation, made to the BBC yesterday by a senior security official, was that the government had asked for the document to be "sexed up".
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:50:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz By David Usborne 30 May 2003 The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged. The extraordinary admission comes in an interview with Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, in the July issue of the magazine Vanity Fair. Mr Wolfowitz also discloses that there was one justification that was "almost unnoticed but huge". That was the prospect of the United States being able to withdraw all of its forces from Saudi Arabia once the threat of Saddam had been removed. Since the taking of Baghdad, Washington has said that it is taking its troops out of the kingdom. "Just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to the door" towards making progress elsewhere in achieving Middle East peace, Mr Wolfowitz said. The presence of the US military in Saudi Arabia has been one of the main grievances of al-Qa'ida and other terrorist groups. "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," Mr Wolfowitz tells the magazine. The comments suggest that, even for the US administration, the logic that was presented for going to war may have been an empty shell. They come to light, moreover, just two days after Mr Wolfowitz's immediate boss, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, conceded for the first time that the arms might never be found. The failure to find a single example of the weapons that London and Washington said were inside Iraq only makes the embarrassment more acute. Voices are increasingly being raised in the US � and Britain � demanding an explanation for why nothing has been found. Most striking is the fact that these latest remarks come from Mr Wolfowitz, recognised widely as the leader of the hawks' camp in Washington most responsible for urging President George Bush to use military might in Iraq. The magazine article reveals that Mr Wolfowitz was even pushing Mr Bush to attack Iraq immediately after the 11 September attacks in the US, instead of invading Afghanistan.
Let's celebrate our awareness of Bushist moral, geopolitical, and economic bankruptcy
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:27:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Absolutely. Just ask the fine people of Kennebunkport. Or Tucson - take your pick.
Glint
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:27:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Irrelevant. We are celebrating our awareness of your light pollution myopia.
Captain Celebration
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:24:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anybody really care?
formerly CTA
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:21:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: STATEMENT OF NEED AND PURPOSE: Good outdoor lighting at night benefits everyone. It increases safety, enhances the Town's night time character, and helps provide security. New lighting technologies have produced lights that are extremely powerful, and these types of lights may be improperly installed so that they create problems of excessive glare, light trespass, and higher energy use. Excessive glare can be annoying and may cause safety problems. Light trespass reduces everyone's privacy, and higher energy use results in increased costs for everyone. There is a need for a lighting ordinance which recognizes the benefits of outdoor lighting and provides clear guidelines for its installation so as to help maintain and compliment the Town's character. Appropriately regulated, and properly installed, outdoor lighting will contribute to the safety and welfare of the residents of the town. This ordinance is intended to reduce the problems created by improperly designed and installed outdoor lighting. It is intended to eliminate problems of glare, minimize light trespass, and help reduce the energy and financial costs of outdoor lighting by establishing regulations which limit the area that certain kinds of outdoor-lighting fixtures can illuminate and by limiting the total allowable illumination of lots located in the Town of Kennebunkport.
TOWN OF KENNEBUNKPORT OUTDOOR LIGHTING ORDINANCE
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:17:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sorry, but light pollution awareness week was last month.
Glint
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:16:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Light-pollution-myopia celebration day.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:07:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rummy/Rice in 2008!
Joe American
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:05:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other top officials are spending hours coping with frequent, unsolicited attempts by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to make foreign policy, according to senior administration officials who are directly involved. In one example, the officials said Bush himself had to quash a Rumsfeld proposal last month to send Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to South Korea to announce that the United States was pulling American troops off the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea.
Rummy out of control
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:03:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Do you know what day this is?
Glint
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:02:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure that shouldn'te "hair" and not "heir"? Or even "hare" perhaps?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:01:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: "their" not "heir"
Captain Correction Correction
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 16:00:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: "heir" not "they're"
Captain Correction
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:57:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nobody's pooh-poohing light pollution, asshole; they're contempt is based on the fact that (due to your conceptual pollution) your environmental awareness extends to light pollution only.
Captain Verisimilitude
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:56:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: My friend, the gentleman dairyman, asked me to bring along my Coleman camp cookstove for the tailgate partying. Think I should leave the table cloth home? Oh well, it's his tailgate.
Glint
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:55:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've got a need for speed, baby!
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:52:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: They should call it dark pollutions. (00)
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:29:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Liberals don't care about the environment." - Ann
just look how they poo poo light pollution
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:24:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Al Haig? Call the pussed over twateous thing Hillhag!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:17:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. -Hillary Clinton
ugly female version of al haig
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:13:41 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Global Warming: The French Connection May 28, 2003 INASMUCH AS June is around the corner and it's still winter, it is time to revisit the issue of "global warming." A sparrow does not a spring make, but in the Druid religion of environmentalism, every warm summer's breeze prompts apocalyptic demands for a ban on aerosol spray and paper bags. So where is global warming when we need it? In 1998, President Clinton denounced Republicans for opposing his environmental policies, citing Florida's inordinately warm weather: "June was the hottest month they had ever had � hotter than any July or August they had ever had." This, after the Senate rejected the Kyoto Treaty by the slender margin of 95-0. In fact, all the world's major industrial powers initially rejected the treaty, including Japan. That's right: Even Kyoto rejected Kyoto. That same year, CNN's Margaret Carlson remarked that when her neighbors experienced temperate weather at Christmas, global warming was the word on everyone's lips. Adding to the world's supply of hot air, she said global warming was the big sleeper issue. Well, this year, Washington, D.C., had the coldest February in a quarter-century. What are the scientific conclusions of Ms. Carlson's neighbors now? In a single day in February, New York got its fourth-deepest snowfall since 1869. Baltimore got more snow in February than in any other month in recorded history. I wish there were global warming. In 1995, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced a computer model purportedly proving "a discernible human influence on global climate." According to the U.N., there was not enough evidence to determine if Saddam Hussein was a threat, but the evidence is in on global warming. The key to the U.N.'s global warming study was man's use of aerosol spray. You have to know the French were involved in a study concluding that Arrid Extra Dry is destroying the Earth. In a world in which everyone smelled, the French would be at no disadvantage. Aerosol spray. How convenient. According to global-warming hysterics, global warming would begin at the poles, melt the ice caps, and then the oceans would rise. On the basis of such fatuous theories, in August 1998, the host of NPR's "Science Friday," Ira Flatow, told his listeners to look out their windows and imagine the ocean in their own back yards. Explaining that receding glaciers in Antarctica would dramatically lift sea levels, he warned that their grandchildren could be "hanging fishing poles out of New York skyscrapers," thus qualifying as the world's all-time greatest "fishing story." Since then, evidence disproving "global warming" has been pouring in. God knows how many trees had to be sacrificed to print new data refuting global warming. In January 2002, the journal Science published the findings of scientists who had been measuring the vast West Antarctic ice sheet. Far from melting, it turns out the ice sheet is growing thicker. The researchers were Dr. Ian R. Joughin, an engineer at the jet propulsion laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Pasadena, Calif., and Dr. Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. About the same time, the journal Nature published the findings of scientist Peter Doran and his colleagues at the University of Illinois. Rather than using the U.N.'s "computer models," the researchers took actual temperature readings. It turned out temperatures in the Antarctic have been getting slightly colder � not warmer � for the last 30 years. The chief scientist for Environmental Defense, Michael Oppenheimer, responded to the new findings by urging caution and warning that "there is simply not enough data to make a broad statement about all of Antarctica." That's interesting. We didn't have to wait for more data when lunatics curtailed the use of nuclear energy in this country on the basis of the movie "The China Syndrome." That was hard scientific evidence. We didn't wait for more data when DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was banned on the basis of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring," which brainwashed children into believing DDT would kill all the birds. American soldiers in World War II were bathed in DDT. Jews rescued from Nazi death camps were doused in DDT. It was a miracle invention: Tiny amounts of DDT kill disease-carrying insects with no harm to humans, protecting them from malaria, dengue and typhus. But in 1972, the U.S. banned one of the greatest inventions in modern history. Now environmentalists are in a panic that African nations will use DDT to save millions of lives. Last year, 80,000 people in Uganda alone died of malaria, half of them children. The United States and Europe have threatened to ban Ugandan imports if they use DDT to stop this scourge. Environmentalists would prefer that millions of Africans die so that white liberals may continue gazing upon rare birds. Liberals don't care about the environment. The core of environmentalism is a hatred for mankind. They want mass infanticide, zero population growth, reduced standards of living and vegetarianism. Most crucially, they want Americans to stop with their infernal deodorant use. - Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:11:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: One finger wagging gonad rubbing Clinton is too many. No way another can get into the people's house.
Joe American
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 15:05:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON, May 29 � After years of being vilified by conservatives, Hillary Rodham Clinton is suddenly facing mounting criticism from an unlikely quarter: liberals. Core Democratic constituencies that helped Mrs. Clinton win her Senate seat in New York two and a half years ago are expressing deep disappointment in her, saying she has been unwilling to challenge President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress on issues of importance to them. Those who have expressed disappointment in Mrs. Clinton include gay rights advocates, antiwar organizers and even advocates for children and the poor, a group with which she has been closely associated for decades. Political analysts and critics on the left say Mrs. Clinton appears to be modeling herself on her husband, Bill Clinton, who was also criticized for abandoning the Democratic Party's liberal base to win larger political appeal. In Mrs. Clinton's case, they say, she appears to be taking for granted her liberal allies, a strong source of support, in favor of cultivating a broader audience. "Is she playing to a national audience?" asked Anne Erickson, the director of the Greater Upstate Law Project, a group that advocates for poor people in New York. "As a Democrat with liberal leanings, I can personally say that it is pretty disappointing to watch her stances on issues," Ms. Erickson said. "We expected better from her."
i love it when liberal scumbags feed on their own; after defending this criminal and ehr sickness that is Bill gee they are just waking up? No, it is always dishonestly about teh liberal "agenda" -- their true GOD
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 14:11:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Faux patriot, sorry if you are offended by reverse liberal tactics, even if it wasn't even up to your level of nastiness. As for what goes on here, it is mostly political prose/poetry. The writing happens somewhere else. And, you opine about only one small small nugget in the gold mine of literary technique. Proofreading, as I ahve said all along, is not one of my efforts on here. You get pure, unadulterated (close your eyes Cliton) fingermania. So, up yours, liberally of course.
Pete�
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 14:05:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Democratic leaders, including some of the nine running for their party's presidential nomination, have criticized the Bush administration for failing to fund the nation's homeland-security needs. Still, when asked who's winning the issue of homeland security, polls show Mr. Bush has a gigantic lead. A recent poll commissioned by Democracy Corps and done by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner found that 17 percent of respondents thought Democrats are better on homeland security; 57 percent said Republicans are better. And 64 percent strongly endorsed the direction Mr. Bush is taking in the war on terror. Meanwhile, a CNN-Time poll from last week found that 62 percent of those surveyed said none of the Democratic presidential candidates is convincingly credible in handling terrorism.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 13:44:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Would appear a few posters are still obsessed with Clinton jism while ignoring bandylegs strutting around knee deep in iraqitestostogrease.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 01:52:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nixon. This current crowd almost makes me miss the two-bit burglar.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:26:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wouldn't it have been funny if I had put my nickel in her tau tau the way I did with the Mexican lady?
Glint
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:24:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: That b@st@rd Dean! I'll never forgive him, or his wh�re wife.
Glint
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:23:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The right-wingers put the term limit on the presidency as a way of closing the barn door after FDR got out. Hell, if they'd just left it alone, and if John Dean hadn't undermined and finally destroyed his presidency, Nixon would have served six terms.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:22:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: They can't all be gems.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:20:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Licks Gonads
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:19:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Loose Guts
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:19:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Clinton brings up a good point. Why shouldn't a president be able to run again later, after serving two consecutive terms earlier. The 22nd amendment was just a right wing scam anyway. They were afraid of never getting elected. The right is always against voters' rights and free elections. Clinton is being entirely altruistic in this, although he would loved to have run again. By the time any new amendment could get past, Clinton will be 85 years old and down to 5 blowjobs a week.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 30, 2003 at 00:01:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: A third term for Clinton? Now there's a thought.
up with peace and prosperity! Throw the war and poverty bums out now! Regime change begins at home.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 23:29:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: La Guardia? Lady Godiva? Lars Gotterdammerungen? La Grippe?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 23:24:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: P.R. flacks will be studying how the Bush Administration sold this war for decades. How did this pack of sneering bullies (Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, Wolfowitz et al.)--led by a confused, Ivy-League frat boy--pass the beat-down of a weak, oil-rich Arab state as a war first of national survival, and then of liberation? One: pick a good enemy. Saddam was a torturer, murderer, plunderer, and A-1 bastard. The people of Iraq are better off without him. But what about the rest of the world's dictators? Ah yes: we call them allies. Two: cheat. If you can't find proof of weapons of mass destruction, invent some. Thanks to a mixture of satellite imagery (is that a chemical weapons plant, an oil refinery, or Dick Cheney's pacemaker?) and "intelligence" fabricated by the Iraqi National Congress, we had all the proof needed to go to war. Three: lie. My favorite? The promise that the Iraqi people would soon have free education and health care, two things the Bush Administration is unable to provide inside the United States--where it contends with neither religious strife nor Arabic. Now these plans appear to be well beyond the reach of the American occupiers, who are currently unable to provide the citizens of Iraq with reliable water, electricity, food, or the rule of law. Perhaps American troops would be more welcome in Iraq if Dubya told the Iraqis that the destruction of their government, economy, and civil society was really just the Mother of All Tax Cuts...Devin Murphy
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 21:49:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Which Pete is the faux Pete again? These charges shouldn't be hurled unless you substantiate with a time label.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 21:21:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Must be a faux Pete.
figures
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:59:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's the way, Pete at 20:39:18. Now you're letting it flow naturally!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:40:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Duh-h-hhhh? Duh? Duh-h-h.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:39:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Watch out, Pete! Someone is trying to miseducate you again!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:37:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, the ex-Reagan advisor is not a good example. Many, many people have misinformed Pete. Are we going to count every one as someone who educated him? I don't think so. All we have to do here is find out if there's anything that Pete knows, and then figure out where he learned it. Pretty soon we can zero in on the person who educated him, assuming the conditions are met.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:36:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G. is a young lady from the Rust Belt majoring in English Composition. She's a little rough around the edges, but beneath the "dontcha knows" and puerile wit, there's an inner Ann Coulter.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:35:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: What about the professor who was an ex-Reagan advisor and who taught Pete about how the real danger was the South American terror universities? Didn't HE teach Pete?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:33:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Even the Colorado professor who won the Prix de Colorado couldn't educate Pete. What makes you think you can?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:31:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Someone educate Pete?
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:30:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, don't be so nasty there. All I was trying to tell you is that your writing will never be good unless you relax and stop trying to force it out of yourself. It probably won't be good anyway, but it's the only chance you have. You do want to become poetic, don't you, or at least stylish? Is coherent good enough? No matter, it will require less trying and more natural flow. You stink as an active participant in your writing, and should try to be an innocent child again.
patriot
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 20:29:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Someone educate me on who this L.G. person is/was? Is this a time warp? Is it the newly reconstituted old lotsadots? Hello!
Pete�
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 19:54:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G. satisfies a public? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
sometimes no talent is just no talent...dontcha know
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 19:01:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or even our own L.G.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:56:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who says one has to have talent to satisfy the public?
such as American Idol
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:47:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: P.S. I agree with you about Hope. No talent.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:37:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong about Ancient Evenings, L.G. Number one best seller in England, where people know how to read. Also, won a Pulitzer.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:35:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong on all counts, L.G. June is anything BUT a charming month. For instance, on June 5, 1864, General William E "Grumble" Jones was killed at Piedmont. On June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died. On June 17, 1989, 1989 John Matusek Oakland Raider/actor, died at 38 of a heart attack. The list goes on and on. June 29, 1913 the Second Balkan War began. June 25, 1956, 51 people died in the collision of the "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" off Cape Cod. No, L.G., you picked the wrong month for "charm." You should have quit when you were ahead (your masterwork about Bob Hope.)
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:30:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong again. The finger wagging goes way back to Buchanan when he was denying his homosexuality. Of course, Buchanan never went into everyone's living room and wagged. I blame the media.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:22:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: June, usually a charming month, is about to be polluted with a tidal wave of Clinton stories all engineered to focus on Hillary's "memoroids." I predict it will be the least-read work since Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings. In the mean time, the those Clintons, with their pathological need for love, attention, power and yes, chaos, are sucking up the available air that the democrats need to even come close to beating George Bush. Clearly, this is not my problem and one side-show will be interesting, if not queaze-making, to watch. BJ playing piper to Hillary's cobra-in-a-basket.
L.G.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:21:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll buy the jism on the rug as part of every term, but the finger wagging lies - that's pure Clinton. Just look at his certificate of impeachment.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:16:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: I beg your pardon. The fact is, ALL presidents cum on the Oval Office rug THE FIRST DAY IN OFFICE. It's a tradition that goes back to Jackson, maybe further. In fact, the joke among the fraternity of presidents is that it isn't the Oval Office. No, they call it the Oral Office.
what a rube
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:08:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Normal presidents don't soil the Oval Office carpet with their putrid drops of jism. Clinton is a sleazebag who should follow his hero Kennedy to a Dallas coda.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 18:01:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bob Hope, mediocre comic, right wing lackey and legendary horndog, just turned 100 years old, dontcha know. This charlatan hit his peak, oh, 60 years ago and by now he couldn't blow out one candle, let alone 100. Unless, of course, Raquel Welsh, circa 1966, were to perform her "specialty" on him like she used to back on those "tours" in Nam. Even then it would be a race to see what extinguished first, the candles...or him.
L.G.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 17:59:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something wrong with screwing government employees? I mean, interns aren't even on payroll and receive no benefits. What's the big deal? And, the president is on the clock 24/7/365. Even when the fucker is sleeping, he's sleeping on our dime. Even when he gives the First Lady a poke, we're paying the freight. Even when he's golfing or choking on pretzels, drunk as a skunk, who do you think is footing the bill?
stupid is as stupid does
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 17:51:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course the little bandylegged strutter doesn't have a tremendous ego. His goal to set rules for the rest of the world is purely altruistic.
although we won't have to follow the rules
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 15:41:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Watch what you say about Kennedy and Clinton. I consider it treason to disrespect two of the three best presidents in our history!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 15:24:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: A president with an ego?
doubt it
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 15:23:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: BOSTON - Former President Bill Clinton says in the future, a former two-term president should be able to return to office later in life - but the Constitution would have to be amended. "It wouldn't affect me, but for future generations the 22nd amendment should be modified," Clinton said Wednesday during an appearance at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. "There may come a time when we have elected a president at age 45 or 50 and then 20 years later the country comes up with the same sort of problems the president faced before, and the people would like to bring that man or woman back," he said. He added that he didn't feel strongly about the issue, though. Clinton has said a 1963 visit to the White House as part of a youth group, where he shook President Kennedy's hand, had a "very profound impact" on him.
the ego on this scumbag is simply unfathomable. The only impact Kennedy ahd was passing his affinity for screwing governemnt employees on the job
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 15:20:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, he's sure warned me. After about 5000 repetitive posts, I'm finally coming to understand who the enemy is along with my yappin curs.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 15:03:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: It may be that Pete's sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 14:58:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good. Now we know who the enemy is. It's mentality. Whew!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 14:39:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Have fun with your purth...
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 13:53:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, faux patriot fool, the last guy to tell us all to relax didn't do it. In fact, you "don't do it" when you relax. Unless you are the three dollar queer variety agenda-mongering liberal demonrat scumbag arsehole that you are along with your defenseless yappin curs. Your liberal demonrat "mentality" is the enemy. Always has been, always will be.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 13:48:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds to me like this guy Wolfowitz has some lint on his mirror.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 11:15:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Baghdad. Nothing Arab about THAT name. Most ragheads ought to be OK with having a guy named Wolfowitz in charge.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 11:14:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good thing Islam doesn't have any holy sites in Iraq.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 11:13:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I could feel a bit more sympathetic about that ice-cream- soaked lady who attacked the toddler if she had rubbed cold freedom fries in his face instead of the hot French fries she chose. As is, she linted up the mirror pretty good.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 11:11:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to stress the threat posed by Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction above all others was taken for ''bureaucratic'' reasons to justify the war, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in remarks released Wednesday. Wolfowitz, seen as one of the most hawkish figures in the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, said President Saddam Hussein's alleged cache of chemical, biological and possibly nuclear weapons was merely one of several reasons behind the decision to go to war. ''For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,'' Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair magazine's July issue. No chemical or biological weapons have been found in Iraq despite repeated assertions by President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair before the March 20 invasion that the threat posed by Saddam's vast stocks of banned weapons warranted a war to eliminate them. The United Nations and America's allies were not convinced by the argument that it was justification for a war, which was launched amid protests in many world capitals. Washington's ties were major allies France and Germany are still strained. Wolfowitz said another reason for the invasion had been ''almost unnoticed but huge'' -- namely that the ousting of Saddam would allow the United States to remove its troops from Saudi Arabia, where their presence had long been a major al Qaeda grievance. ''Just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door'' to a more peaceful Middle East, Wolfowitz was quoted as saying. The magazine said he made the remarks days before suicide bombings, attributed to al Qaeda, against Western targets in Riyadh and Casablanca two weeks ago that killed 75 people. The United States announced last month that it was ending military operations in Saudi Arabia, where they have long generated Arab resentment because of their proximity to Islam's holiest sites. Wolfowitz's remarks were released a day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, seeking to explain why no weapons of mass destruction had been found, said Iraq may have destroyed them before the U.S.-led invasion.
geesh
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 10:20:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint is just a bored, knee-jerk misanthrope with an anger problem. The waiter episode is pretty much the same as the routine he pulls with the local constabulary in Dogpatch when he notices they're tailing him. I've come to the conclusion that Glint hates people and has chosen those who serve as the objects of his hatred. Makes it more tolerable when he has to lick the asses of those HE serves.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 10:12:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wolfowitz says weapons of mass destruction mere "bureaucratic" pretext for war. Real reason was Bush needed someplace to put US troops after Saudi Arabia pullout.
tell that to the 5 to 10K dead Americans and Iraqis
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 08:46:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 08:45:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Woman Assaults Boy Over Spilled Ice Cream May 28th, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A suburban Washington woman was in a Maryland jail Monday on charges of assaulting a 4-year-old after he spilled ice cream on her in a fast-food restaurant over the weekend, police said. The woman shouted obscenities at the child and his grandmother, chased the boy around the restaurant and eventually rubbed hot french fries in his face, a Montgomery County police spokeswoman said. The woman, identified as Malika Hayes, 18, left the restaurant but was later arrested. The felony charge can be punished by up to 25 years in prison.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 07:50:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ok, agreed, so the gourdian kind of doting dad comments on the upcoming boringness of listening to his kid and idly wondering if she's gonna choke. Some kinda a cultural thing. Meanwhile, in the wider world, guys with wooden vampire stakes try to hijack Qantas jets. Figures.
Gourdian Knot
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 07:43:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Pete. He tries so hard. Sometimes I want to help him, explain to him that it can't be forced, he's got to relax and just hope that it happens, but not hope too hard. But then I realize, it's just that disgusting asshole Pete.
patriot
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 02:49:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: You know. Pete. The poet guy. The lint guy.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 02:37:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, did you know Pete was wondering where you were?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 02:36:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bit of a strut in the bandylegs gait as he leads us over the cliff.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 01:02:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why is it that the only victims we got left on this site are the two weakest links in the chain? Couldn't one of the tough nuts have stayed around? What the hell glorious libertarian paradise did M.K. romp off to? Why do we always end up with the dregs?
Sonny Bling
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:45:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Autumn, and flooding my garden, the moon, through lint, on the mirror.
Poet Fella
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:43:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sure, it was good, but tell me this: was it as good as slicing up your neighbor's squash patch with the biggest, meanest, greenest lawnmower on the block?
doubt it
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:42:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lint on the mirror... so much lint on the mirror... so very, very much lint. On the mirror.
Poet Fella
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:40:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, wrong, clang, doink. This is a doting dad. He couldn't have been any more satisfied even if she were singing about the Crab Nebula to the Royal Astronomical Society. Nope, the idea of bringing a yellow-skinned wog into this great land and making her into a petite rubessa, along with the opportunity to throw his weight around at a tip-hungry New York spic waiter in front of the women-folk, well, it's too bad they don't bottle that stuff. This was not a day for some secret bitter diary, dude, this was a day to post on fornigate and gahd@mmit if the world quails before the power of it and whispers against it in the musty library stacks of wimp liberalism. Geesh, this was better than pounding in a Leyland cypress stake that you just bullied the grasping money-hungry capitalist the nurseryman into giving you for free. This was another feather in the chief's war-bonnet, and a glorious big one.
patriot
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:38:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: That tainted day. Plus, the continuing reminder that Dad was totally bored and wishing he were elsewhere. that's worth a permanent screaming diary notation.
Captain Update
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:02:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yo, I thought this WAS going easy. No?
innocent bystander
- Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 00:00:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, 19, don't probe too deep. Don't push the popsicle stick too deep into the festering carbuncle of Glint's psyche. This could be a Pandora's box. There could be lots of lint on the mirror. Go easy.
Sonny Bling
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 23:39:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 22:46:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: despite "nobody's rube's" assertions to the contrary, I really need to point out this thematic waiter bashing. There is something deeper here you see because he mentioned that the kid couldn't afford the purse on her waitress salary, Two new york tales, two references to waiters. So there is this likely thios whole boiling fat white pasty middle-aged rage at waiters cheating on their tip income tax or working their way through college outside the bubble that seems to have glorp by the shorthairs. Maybe its as simple as the kid wont go to college, is balling badboys day and night and having the time of her life as a waitress. Maybe its the kid that refused to hook glorp up with Brenda and this is the payback. Why didnt he just buy princess the freaking purse??? Nooooo he had to bring up the waiter thing. Poor kid probably hates the stained and tainted purse now. A horrible reminder of that awful awful day.
19
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 22:33:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: More than a quarter of the six million votes in the state have never been recounted. Eighteen of Florida's sixty-five counties did not recount their votes because Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State, did not instruct them to do so -- even though her office had previously insisted that all counties recount their votes in "automatic" recounts.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 21:45:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Speaking to a cheering crowd in Chattanooga, Tenn., one day before the Nov. 7, 2000, election, George W. Bush repeated a line that had by then been a standard part of the stump speech for many, many months--and one that now seems, in the face of looming U.S. military action in Iraq, quite contradictory. "Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place." The line was an explicit condemnation of Clinton/Gore foreign policy--specifically that the White House had stretched the military too thin with peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Somalia and the Balkans. President Clinton and Vice President Gore, his Democratic opponent, had strayed from the central mission of the military: to fight and win wars, Bush said. That line proved to be among the most popular in the stump speech, guaranteed to evoke an eruption of applause from the conservatives who packed Bush's campaign rallies. Bush's campaign rhetoric already rankled allies in Europe by seeming to suggest that U.S. soldiers were doing the bulk of the heavy lifting in the region, and indicating that he would withdraw American forces if he became president. The Europeans noted that U.S. soldiers constituted less than one-fifth of the peacekeeping force, and argued that America, which led allied forces in Kosovo, had a significant strategic interest in the stability of the region. Fast forward to the present. Details have begun emerging in recent days about the Bush administration's vision for postwar Iraq, and clearly the White House has abandoned its aversion to nation building, as it plans for what appears to be the biggest American-led, rebuilding project since the Marshall Plan in the early 1950s. Last week, Washington Post reporter Karen DeYoung's byline topped an astonishing story with this headline Full U.S. Control Planned for Iraq. "The Bush administration plans to take complete, unilateral control of a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, with an interim administration headed by a yet-to-be named American civilian who would direct the reconstruction of the country and the creation of a 'representative' Iraqi government, according to a now-finalized blueprint described by U.S. officials and other sources," DeYoung reported. Speaking to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night, the president alluded to his postwar vision of Iraq, declaring that America had a major interest in stabilizing the country and could help create the first democracy, outside of Israel, in the Middle East. And for the first time, the president linked removal of Hussein, and the postwar reconstruction efforts to not only the greater stability of the region, but to the first stage of the resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. "Rebuilding Iraq will require a sustained commitment from many nations, including our own: We will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more. America has made and kept this kind of commitment before -- in the peace that followed a world war. After defeating enemies, we did not leave behind occupying armies, we left constitutions and parliaments. We established an atmosphere of safety, in which responsible, reform-minded local leaders could build lasting institutions of freedom. In societies that once bred fascism and militarism, liberty found a permanent home," Bush said. Shifting Policy The difference between Bush's rhetoric and policy goes to prove the old adage that talking about governing, and actually doing it, are two very different things. Under grilling from reporters, administration officials, apparently not yet equipped with talking points, have struggled to maintain that Bush's views have not changed. Bush's critics have jumped on the apparent shift as proof that an inexperienced candidate had merely manufactured a foreign policy criticism that sounded good to his base of voters. At a press briefing on Monday with deputy assistant secretary of Defense Joe Collins and National Security Council senior director Elliott Abrams, a reporter asked: "I remember a campaign pledge about nation building. Isn't that what this is. ... Isn't this nation-building?" Collins took the question: "I've always been of the opinion that the indigenous people build their own nations. I'm not sure what the right phrase for what we are engaged in is. We speak about -- in two different phases, humanitarian relief and reconstruction. And I would prefer to leave it at that." Abrams also took a stab at an answer: "I think that's right. The responsibility for turning Iraq into a stable, peaceful democracy falls to the people of Iraq. The most we can do is get--if this conflict occurs, is get this monstrous regime that is preventing them from doing that out of the way." But is that all the administration is planning, getting a "monstrous regime" out of the way? DeYoung reported that "once security was established and weapons of mass destruction were located and disabled, a U.S. administrator would run the civilian government and direct reconstruction and humanitarian aid." In the event of an invasion, Gen. Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, would maintain military control, and the humanitarian effort would be led by retired Army Lt. Gen. Jay M. Garner. But how does that plan square with Bush's comment in a 2000 debate with Gore that "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'" It doesn't, says Leon Fuerth, Gore's long-time foreign policy adviser. "This just shows that in the campaign they hyped any issue they could, first of all because they had convinced themselves that they were right," said Fuerth, now a professor at George Washington University. "Back then, they felt that they had to tear down the Clinton/Gore policy to make up for the lack of experience that their own candidate had. That was then. This is now. This is the school of hard knocks." Tucker Eskew, former director of the White House Office of Global Communications, said that times had changed. What makes Iraq different, he said, was that nation's ability to threaten America with weapons of mass destruction. "9/11 did awaken the president to this threat, as it did everyone," Eskew said. "The president has said it himself. ... The point I think that was being made during the campaign about nation building concerned the idea that, in the context of those times, it had not always seen in our national interest." Some Key Differences The debate over nation building was a significant one in the 2000 campaign. Bush took the position that the Clinton administration had failed to prioritize strategic interests, acting as if U.S. interests in Haiti, Somalia and Kosovo were as great as in the Middle East, Western Europe or Asia. Gore responded that Bush's view of the world was overly simplistic and ignored the complexities of foreign entanglements. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Ari Fleischer said, "The president will talk in the speech about what the future may hold, not only for the people of Iraq, once liberated and allowed to become on their own democratic, but also what it means for the security of the region, because the president believes that a free Iraq will lead to a more stable Mideast." Clinton made similar arguments about stabilizing the Balkans and promoting democracy in Haiti -- our own backyard. Bush's critics will argue that the difference is oil -- Iraq has it. Haiti, Somalia and the Balkans do not. Bush's defenders angrily deride that notion. The president, said Eskew, will explain that nation building in Iraq is necessary, "because [Saddam Hussein] has weapons of mass murder, because he has used them before, because he has attacked his own people and his neighbors and because he has ties to terror."
Bush = LIAR
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 21:37:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Crawford is a shit hole. I've been there. Of course, for Bush it's paradise because his "ranch" is all tricked out with the latest gadgets and he's a rich little bastard. Not that I'm succumbing to class envy mind you. I too come from great wealth. I'll leave the class envy and hatred to Glint.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 20:56:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Crawford, wherever the fuck that is, sounds like a perfect place for waste. It's already polluted.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 20:49:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: For eight years, Dallas billionaire and Republican stalwart Harold Simmons has used his considerable fortune, and the political influence that goes along with it, to press Texas lawmakers to amend a state law barring private companies from running radioactive waste disposal sites. Each year, his efforts have come up short. But now, the state legislature is set to approve a bill which could clear the way for Simmons' Waste Control Specialists to permanently store hundreds of millions of cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste at its West Texas dump.
store it at the Bush dump
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 20:34:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has suggested publicly for the first time that Iraq may have destroyed chemical and biological weapons before the war there, a possibility that senior U.S. officers in Iraq have raised in recent weeks. Rumsfeld has repeatedly expressed optimism that it is just a matter of time, and of interviewing enough senior Iraqi scientists and former government officials, before military teams uncover the illicit arms that President George W. Bush cited as a major reason for attacking Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein's rule. While Rumsfeld repeated that assertion Tuesday, he added, "It is also possible that they decided that they would destroy them prior to a conflict." Major General David Petraeus, commander of the army's 101st Airborne Division, now in northern Iraq, mentioned the same possibility two weeks ago. Given that WMDs were the administration's primary justification for war (as it made Iraq a clear and imminent danger), is the realization that no WMDs existed mean that all the death in the conflict was for naught? How can Bush justify the death of 18-year-old Army private David Evans, who leaves behind his three-month-old son? On Sunday and Monday seven other brave Americans, like Evans, were sacrificed at the altar of Bush's incompetence and political opportunism. And there is no end in sight. (We may have suffered four more losses today.) How much death is too much? How long before the costs are too high, where even an apathetic US public will be forced to stand up and take notice? There has to be a tipping point.
apathetic US public, aka, Glint
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 20:15:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where's Glint? Working????? Those modems must be pretty dusty.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 20:09:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, scoff if you will. But, what if Al Qaida had gotten ahold of those trucks and driven them into a building? Think about it, traitors!
Harl
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:25:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Blix couldn't find a WMD if it bit him in the arse. Not like our boys, that's for sure!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:24:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Two totally germ-free trucks! Wow! Worth every one of them dead 5 to 10 thousand Iraqis!
Ayatollah you so
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:17:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: See, we found two trucks! Blix never found two trucks. So much for the fvcking human shields and their chant of, "Give Blix more time!"
Glint
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:13:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm something of a local Westminster star-gazer who's only interested in pollution insofar as it screws up my hobby. Filth other than light filth? Copacetic.
Tau Omega Guy
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:10:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm an anti-light pollution activist who just happens to also be something of a star-gazer. What's important to remember is that light pollution confuses the mating habits of turtles and makes migratory birds fly around in circles.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:06:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Every time I ignore those enviro-whacko posts about "light pollution," I can practically taste the lint on the mirror.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:04:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: What do the enviro-nuts want us to use for the night shifts, candlepower? Har har.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 16:01:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Never bought into that light pollution enviro crapola. Just a bunch of lies from the turtle huggers.
Harlan St. Wolf
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:59:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why bomb Iran? Because Al Qaeda isn't there, that's why!
LOVE, PAKISTAN AND SAUDI ARABIA <The Caliphate is Coming.com>
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:59:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Two trucks found in northern Iraq filled with laboratory equipment are the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein had a biological weapons program, the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency said in a report Wednesday. No actual prohibited weapons were found in the trucks, but intelligence officials say the vehicles fit the description of a mobile biological weapons laboratory received from an Iraqi source. ed. Insert witty comment of disbelief here.
let's bomb Iran next!
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:57:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enviro-whackos even claim sky/light pollution truly exists. Har dee har har. Doink.
lord what fools these mortals be
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:51:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Try avoiding the lint on the mirror!
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:44:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: I always avoid those enviro-whacko articles. They don't even have to be urine-colored for me to know not to bother.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:40:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lint on the mirror, eh? Wow! I can see it now. And those enviro-whacko oil articles that no one reads? Oh, yes! You nailed it, Pete!
Glint
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 15:02:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, the FREAKS are back in town. I can see the lint building up on the mirror right now. Yikes! Where's gnat and/or Mary with their inane postings of enviro-whacko oil articles that no one reads? Sheesh!@
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 14:06:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mr Rumsfeld's admission came amid mounting embarrassment at the failure to produce evidence that Saddam Hussein had an active programme to create weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The fear that Saddam was building an arsenal was the main reason President Bush and Mr Blair gave for going to war. Mr Rumsfeld, speaking at a foreign affairs think-tank in New York, also tried to play down fears over law and order in Iraq by comparing looters in Baghdad to rioting English football fans. "We all know what happens at a soccer game in England," he said. Mr Rumsfeld said that it was possible Iraqi leaders had "decided that they would destroy the WMD prior to a conflict". He said this could explain why allied troops had not faced chemical, biological or nuclear weapons during the invasion. His remarks are being seen as another sign that the White House is backing away from its earlier insistence that Saddam had been developing the weapons and was prepared to use them. Seven weeks of intensive searching by a force of nearly 2,000 American special forces troops have failed to produce a "smoking gun". There are reports that the hunt is being scaled back because there is a dwindling number of areas to search in Iraq. But Mr Rumsfeld - one of the main architects of the war on Iraq - insisted: "It's hard to find things in a country that's determined not to have you find them." Crucial clues could still come from senior Iraqi officials who have only recently surrendered, he said, adding: "I suspect we'll learn a lot more as we go along and keep interrogating people." His admission that weapons of mass destruction might not exist in Iraq echoes the views of senior British commanders and intelligence experts. In London, a very senior Army officer told the Evening Standard-"It's becoming highly embarrassing and bad for morale of the troops. The emphasis is now clearly switching away from weapons to evidence about war crimes, mass burials on a scale we never imagined, and links with terrorist organisations." The tide of doubt about whether there was an active chemical and biological warfare programme has provoked a call for an investigation of the CIA's intelligence on Iraq and the political use made of it by the Bush administration. Similar questions about the political manipulation of Iraq intelligence material by Downing Street are being voiced in the UK. Tony Benn told LBC radio that Mr Rumsfeld's comments indicated that Mr Blair's justification for war on Iraq had been based on falsehoods. Mr Benn said: "I believe the Prime Minister lied to us."
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:48:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
Morrison
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:42:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow, Pete. Talk about poetry! I sure wish I thought the thoughts you think.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:41:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tips is the only language they all understand.
The Code of the Rube
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:39:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tips is the only language they all understand.
The Complete Rube
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:38:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tips is the only language they all understand.
How to Survive as a Rube in a Tough Town
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:37:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tips is the only language they all understand.
Uncle Glit's Words to Live By
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:37:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: But the fact that Rumsfeld even raised the possibility that Iraq might have destroyed unconventional weapons before the war prompts new questions about the intelligence Bush and his senior advisers relied on to go to war, and on the credibility of the United States, defense analysts said Tuesday. "They don't have a good explanation, and therefore are trying to come up with as long a list as possible," said Joseph Cirincione, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "But it's impossible to destroy or hide the quantities the administration said they had without our noticing it." Bush, in an interview last month with NBC News, acknowledged, "there's going to be skepticism until people find out there was, in fact, a weapons of mass destruction program."
oopsie
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:31:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, sorry, Glint, that passages first sentence was meant for youa dn teh rest for Pencionere. But, I do agree with your horse analogy, problem is that nelly thing works well initially with Borderlines, but its the hidden opuddles of rain that percolate to the top after a couple years when insecurity creeps in that is a killer. Very Morrison, ... it starts when you're always alone, ... the paranoia that is ... Pete� - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 22:05:26 (EDT)
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 12:24:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
??
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 11:28:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: The girls from Tau Omega Taus are back on board, I see.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 11:11:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: That fat pig fucker stiffed me.
Montalvo
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 10:42:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I reassured him that we would leave a cash tip, not bothering to explain that his actions had resulted in a pay cut."
Typical troglo. No courage of his "convictions"
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 10:18:29 (EDT)

My two cents are:

My most memorable tipping experience was when Neil poked a dollar bill into that stripper's tau-tau. Actually, that wasn't what had me rolling on the floor, her reaction was. Wouldn't that be funny if... Did Lady Dog ever work at Godfather's on Wisconsin Ave.? - Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 02:10:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: "... not bothering to explain that his actions had resulted in a pay cut." You think waiters are dumb, don't you? Tips is the only language they all understand. ◊ Your reading comprehension is affected by your short term memory loss causing embellishments. The wife and kids weren't around when I took care of the check. Hence they weren't in on the "deal with a waiter." The street haggling just happened. No pre-planning. I just didn't want my daughter to be taken advantage of by the street peddlers. They got a sale, so nothing to complain about.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 01:57:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/05/27.html
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 01:22:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is it so evil that our poor rube wants his wife and daughters to think he's a capable guy, a street-haggler, a sharp fellow who can deal with a waiter who is horrified and boggled to find that the tip line is blank? The way waiters are, you know... Julio had probably led the sheltered life of a New York hash slinger, had never come across a whole family of rubes. Whatever... is it so awful that the man wants to present himself as a man of depth and breadth, someone with more to him than his favorite television shows and his lawn-mower? Get off the poor rube's back.
Dances With Yokels
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 00:45:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's just A Rube Goes to The Cith except this rube wanted to show the family that he's nobody's rube. You go with chip on your shoulder and you don't take no shit from the spics or the disgusting turban people. You show the farm wife and the honor roll daughters that dad's nobody's rube. No siree, you're darn tootin'. The one daughter came up with the interesting observation that, hey, New York is like a foreign country. You know, like LA, or San Francisco, or Boston. Not at all like Carroll County (America) or Lincoln (USA.)
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 00:39:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Did he think Julio was a poor guy, Good Ol' Glint the Compassionate Conservative, or was his smirking description of the encounter more along the lines of berating the staff, as posited by 19? Sounds an awful lot like berating the staff to me, but maybe he's just trying to make himself seem more worthy by making the staff seem less worthy. Maybe he really does think that poor Julio is worthy of his respect, instead of just another non-productive bozo squawking for his tip.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 00:25:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, he'll just come back and explain why he is not really lying. This is one of the more irrepressible weasels, this Glit character.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 00:21:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I reassured him that we would leave a cash tip, not bothering to explain that his actions had resulted in a pay cut.
Good Ol' Glit, the Liar
- Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 00:19:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I left "tip" line blank. Either that or drew a dash through. Important point is that I did enter the total, so it was NOT like a blank check. Poor Julio freaked out. I didn't berate the poor guy. I explained the cash was coming. Besides, I also tipped the singers. ◊ Not a good weekend for the Plim. Rain rain rain.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 23:17:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gee, after you point out that Bush is drunken, lying, corrupt war criminal who was chosen to loot the Treasury, there's not a whole lot to say, except he's a phony and a retard, you still want poetry?
tough room
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 22:02:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still have those issues with ole GWB on your back porch, eh dogrunninonempty? I'm waiting for you guys to come up with something new of substance, not the old tired leftist cliche politics that Americans have permanently discarded. Where's the originality? Where's the demonizing negativity? Where's the spirit of anarchy? Where's the art? Where's the love? Brother!
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 21:20:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Its kinda sad when people berate staff, sort of like George Bush Junior grinning from ear to ear and popping a lemon-twist pepsi to see if he got a prize from under the cap while sending Carla Faye Tucker to the electric chair. I think I heard he was munching corn nuts while he told the James Byrd family there was no need for a hate crime law in Texas.
19
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:50:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: driving to new york to berate a waiter. definite ego problem there! probably came up short on the change needed to spend jesus week at the plim plaza or something. The reality of the horror is that most of us write "cash" in the tip slot on the printout. leaving it blank makes the waiter or waitress vulnerable to a blank check, thats why he brought it back you rube. You can also put a "zero" or a null sign. so why didn't you just order the rootabaga souflee? slightly over your head I imagine.
19
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:44:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's right, the Russians are liberal socialists. Just like Hitler.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:23:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Russians are liberal socialists?
doubt it
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:20:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: On the other hand, a full 90% of the 2-11 age group believe in the tooth fairy, God and trickle-down economics.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:09:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I analayzed that poll. It was conducted by the notoriously inaccurate Gallup Organization and their ilk. However, the only age group of Russians that showed a strong majority that believed in God was the highly impressionable 19-29 group.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:07:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, "Glint," you did not. The fake Glint (you) did. Read the code fool. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:04:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: 55 percent of Russians believe in God, while only 33 percent do not. Of those who believe, 91 percent said they are Orthodox Christians. The Moscow Times also reported that 62 percent of Russians throughout the country intended to celebrate Christmas.
so much for the liberal socialsits efforts in Russia. BWAHAHAHAHAHA
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:03:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, did I say you handle the poetry, Pete, and the scientific logic,and I'll take care of the heavy thinking, the figuring out how the world works, or not? What part of heavy thinking don't you understand? Geesh, this would be a *lot* easier if my b�tt-boy would follow directions!
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:01:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, clubbed to death yapping idiot seal, the truth hurts you. I know. Glint knows. You don't. Here's another whack again with the truth stick.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:01:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: CNN, sure. Everybody knows they have no interest in being correct in their polling. You wonder why they hooked up with USA Today and Gallup. I'm telling you, it's a dang konspiracy. Thank goodness there's Glint to analyze the data.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:00:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Officials said on Saturday that US and British forces will help a new 450-member Kenyan anti-terrorist unit establish a 24-hour watch on flight-approach paths at Kenyan airports and Nairobi National Park. The park, which is next to Nairobi's main airport, has vast, largely unwatched fields that could be used in an attack, Kenyan officials said.
good timing
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 20:00:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, support for Glit's blurtings from Pete! What a surprise! See, guys, the inside story is that CNN needs to be wrong, so they take polls only when they know the polls will say what they want them to say. They probably figure out when that is by reading the polls, right poor pathetic asshole hoale?
Pete Fan Club
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 19:58:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, "impressionable 18-29 year-olds"? I'd say impregnable 18-29 year-olds, if Cliton is in the room. //CNN only does polls when it can show the normal fall from a sky high rating and/or they can adequately load and spin teh question from the liebral perspecitve. Americans are on the their "gig." // I see the "nasty demonrat" is back on stage. Have at it loser. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 19:50:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, that thing about the age groups surprises me, too. Usually it is the younger ones who are impressed by the engineered image of a shallow, empty-headed president, and it is the old folks who can discern a dumb man walking. This phenomenon explains how Pete and Glit were primed to become moronic troglodytes in the Reagan mold.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 19:23:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: "...the only age group in which Clinton outscored Bush II was with impressionable 18-29 year-olds...." Glit, thinking hard
Thank God Bush Has the Support of the Geezer-- who needs the 18-29ers!
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 19:20:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's the dream team. Mutt and Jeff. The crazy fat man with the blood pressure and the chubby little guy with the mind of an Einstein, or at least of a Tammy Faye Bakker. An unstoppable team, even if the chubby little guy's stubby legs churn like a propeller as he tries to keep up with the crazy fat man.
.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 19:16:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: April? Ah, THAT explains it. By now, Bush is the greatest president ever, dontcha know. So much good has transpired in the past month!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:54:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: You handle the poetry, Pete, and the scientific logic. I'll take care of the heavy thinking, the figuring out how the world works. No-- don't thank me-- I'm more than happy to provide this serviceDd
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:37:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's wait all the way into July before we do our poll! That will REALLY screw Bush!
Liberal Media Polling Aoutfit
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:33:17 (EDT)

This posting was modified by the Webmaster to protect the innocent.
My two cents are: If they got bad numbers by waiting until April, think of how bad the numbers would have been if they had had the patience to wait until May!
Kürt Rölle's First-Class Mind, Hard at Work
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:29:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. Why is polling in April bad?
Joey Milkarton, age 8
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:28:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't think dopes like me should be allowed to see quotations from Iraqi political figures! We dopes will flock to the Iraqi cause then, and our troops will never be able to take Arab cities!
Glint, All-American Fool
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:26:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: How dare CNN act as Iraq's mouthpiece and blurt out quotations from Iraq's foreign minister as if they were quotations from Iraq's foreign minister? There should be a law against spreading information like that! All news should be submitter to me, or at least to Karl Rove, before the public is allowed to see it!
Glint, Stout-Hearted American
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:24:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seen any elves lately, Glint? Any Banshees? Boogie-men? Leprachauns? Flying saucers?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:15:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: They're on to our gig! The Steel Trap Mind Club has figured out why we waited until April to do our poll! We've been caught red-handed!
CNN Liberal Pole Team
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:13:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: If the made ME king, I would decree that all poles have to be taken in February. Enough of this "curious" waiting until April! It's not curious to me at all! They must think I'm a rube to try that poll-in-April stunt!
Glint, Musing With His Steel Trap Mind
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:11:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Curious that each of the previous similar polls were conducted in February of their respective years. Wonder why they waited until April? "
Glint's Steel Trap Mind
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:09:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Any time I can get gasoline for $1.79, I'm for whatever administration is doing that for me.
Glimp
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:08:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought THIS was the quagmire phase.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:07:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tra la la!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:06:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: ahem?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 18:06:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted May 19-21, finds 66% of Americans approving of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president, down 4 points from last month but still above the prewar level of 58%. The poll also finds that few people are willing to assign very much blame to the Bush administration for recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, and that most people have confidence in the administration to protect the country from future terrorist attacks. Americans are also less likely now than earlier this year to believe that there will be further acts of terrorism in the United States."
ahem
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 17:48:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Also, the only age group in which Clinton outscored Bush II was with impressionable 18-29 year-olds. Bush II beat Clinton in each of the other three age groups: 30-49, 50-64, and 65&older.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 17:46:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let me see here about that CNNpole. Ah, o.k., it was conducted April 5-6 during the Liberal press's much balleyhooed "quagmire phase" of the Iran-Iraq war. Curious that each of the previous similar polls were conducted in February of their respective years. Wonder why they waited until April? Was it so that CNN could act as Iraq's mouthpiece and blurt out the following? Yeah, thought so.
Glint

Iraqi foreign minister: Coalition in 'quagmire'

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri 
said Monday that U.S. and British forces are 
being "defeated on all fronts and are retreating in the 
face of strong strikes" carried out by a popular resistance. 

He said that the coalition leadership is "contradicting 
itself" in statements and its stance is the "subject of 
laughter in the world." 

Sabri accused the coalition of wanting to exploit Iraqi 
natural resources and being a pawn of "the Zionists," 
referring to Israel and its supporters, which he repeatedly 
accused of inciting the war. 

"If they continue to be stubborn with their aggression, we 
will attack them with all they have," Sabri said. "No one 
will be safe except for those who surrender to us on the battlefield." 

He added that the public and government are unified in 
their fight against the coalition. 

Sabri described the coalition's military problems as 
a "quagmire," a term often used in the Vietnam conflict. 
Quagmire referred to U.S. forces being bogged down in 
Vietnam with no end in sight. 

"The aggression has to stop," Sabri said. 

"We are determined with God's help to give the ultimate 
defeat to those aggressors," he said. "And with each day, 
the Americans, Britain wade into a quagmire, and the losses 
increase for those two outlaws." 

Sabri said Iraqi diplomats are working with Arab groups, 
the Non-Aligned Movement and Organization of Islamic 
Conference, and seeks to have the U.N. Security Council 
demand a halt to the coalition campaign. He said he hopes 
the Security Council exercises its jurisdiction. 

"If they [U.S. and British] go further in the aggression, 
they will increase their losses, and the rift between them 
and the Arabs and Muslims will be bigger," Sabri 
said. "They will increase in the hatred and the feelings of 
hatred between them and the Arabs and Muslims and all the 
people of the world." 

He said, "Americans are talking a lot of lies and 
fabrications because lies are the golden rule of the 
American administration. 

"They have been lying to their people, they have been lying 
to world public opinion and now they are falling victim to 
their lies." 

He added, "They only have one chance, which is to withdraw 
quickly. That will save them more losses." 

Sabri said Iraq is following the rules of the Geneva Conventions. 

"I can assure you that the prisoners [of war] are being 
treated very well, according to the Geneva Conventions and 
our Islamic values."

- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 17:33:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: You claim those two, do you?
why?
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 17:31:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Some loser is bored as usual.A ll the "jig" quotes are from a false Pete. I only posted 16:21 and 13:49 today, which should have been obvious. (01)
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 17:13:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to doubt a guy who's so ill-at-ease with himself that he writes "toodles" and "tra la la" to puncuate his lame statements.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 17:00:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to doubt a guy who can pick out Orion's Belt in the winter sky.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:35:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, Pete does tend to exaggerate. For instance, about the experience of cops with the "bombings during the 60s."
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:34:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to doubt a guy who's lived near Canada and understands the climatic limitations of varnish.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:33:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shouldn't that be "jibe" or "gibe," not "jive"?
shouldn't that be "legacy?"
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:32:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are there others in the crowd who think Pete is lying about the Mace cannons? Or does he mean percussion drums?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:32:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nope. Your jig is up.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:31:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: They always let you off when you're compliant with the guy and have your hands on the steering wheel when you offer to blow the cop.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:30:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: The "mind control jig?" Shouldn't that be "gig?" As in they're onto my ...?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:30:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gee, that's some long-lasting paranoia, not to mention some old cops. Or, perhaps Pete doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:29:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Made the cop do the walking, eh? Atta boy!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:28:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've never had a problem with the boulder cops, except once. I was going 35 in a 25 and since I was compliant with the guy and had my hands on the steering wheel when he walked up to the car, he let me off. // I have seen some crazy sh*t happen to other people. I witnessed mace cannons being sprayed by police on the whole south end of the stadium by 10 cops for no real reason after the Miami game. The truth is, the rift is more cultural/political and stems from the anti-war riots and bombings during the 60s. The cops are over paranoid about the crowd mentality. Basicly, the cops are all conservative right wing law abiders. teh students and most others are liberal lawbreaking anarchist/socialsits. I prefer the former to the sickenss that is the latter. Black and white and no gray to be seen for miles around. Aloha!
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:21:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, yes, the people are sheeple. Sure, they admire Clinton's presidency. It's all part of the mind control jig. It doesn't jive with his legayc.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:18:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who would have thought it? Some two years after he left office hounded by right-wing detractors and stained by his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton now ranks as this nation's third best chief executive, according to a recent CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Only Abraham Lincoln (chosen by 15%) and John F. Kennedy (13%) finished ahead of Clinton (11%) in the April poll, which asked Americans who was ''the greatest'' president. George W. Bush managed to tie Clinton for third place. Ronald Reagan, a conservative icon, garnered 10% of the vote, followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter. Bush's father, the 41st president, was chosen by just 2% of the respondents, tying with Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson. These results have to cause a lot of gnashing of teeth among those who tried to make Clinton's private missteps the legacy of his public service. To them, he is the ''Great Satan'' of this nation's ideological divide. He ended conservatives' 12-year hold on the White House and frustrated their attempts to paint him as a ''tax-and-spend liberal'' -- which makes him a hero in my book. When Clinton left office, the huge deficit that piled up during the years of Reagan and Bush Sr. had been replaced by the largest federal budget surplus in history. Employment and homeownership had soared; poverty and unemployment rates had dropped. But these accomplishments were overshadowed by the distracting noise generated by the right-wing sex cops who ignored the indiscretions within their own ranks while making a federal case, literally and figuratively, out of Clinton's marital infidelity. The passage of time, however, puts some things into proper perspective. Lewinsky now hosts a reality television show. And remember Kenneth Starr? The special prosecutor who turned a lame investigation of charges that Clinton and his wife illegally profited from an Arkansas land deal into a $50 million taxpayer-financed peep show has faded from public view. In 9/11's wake, Americans seem more focused on elected officeholders' work than their personal lives. When asked to name the USA's ''most important problem,'' 52% of those responding to a May Gallup Poll said it is the economy. Just 8% said it is terrorism. This may explain why the number of people who view Clinton as the best president has more than doubled in the past two years -- and why Bush managed only to tie Clinton in this ranking. Many Americans are once again worried about pocketbook issues, and many of them remember the Clinton years' good economic times. ''It's the economy, stupid'' -- the mantra of Clinton's 1992 campaign that bounced Bush-the-father out of the White House -- is again the prevailing political reality. As economic conditions worsen on the watch of Bush-the-son, the good economic times that prevailed during Clinton's years boost his image, especially among younger Americans. Clinton was considered the best president by 29% of 18- to 29-year-olds. Only 10% of that group picked Bush. All of this makes me giddy. As a candidate, Clinton was the Republican Party's worst nightmare. He grabbed the political center, yet held on to most of his party's liberal base. As president, he routinely outflanked Republicans' legislative efforts and frustrated the GOP's attempts to make his moral failing an impeachable offense. Now Americans put him in the top ranks of great presidents. This has to make conservatives squirm.
go Big Dog go!
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 16:08:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's just the pixel dust. (01)
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 15:30:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Frosty beer. Poor Glint's been watching television again. Can't even remember the reality of a beer he had last weekend. The pixels have taken over.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 15:17:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: The desperate feller down there? Sure, I know Glurt.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 15:16:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actions speak louder than words. Besides having a life, I've got better things to do with my weekend than explain life to a waiter who sings La Bamba when hd should be fetching me another cold frosty Sam Adams draft.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 15:15:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: You talking about Glimp, the Class 1-A "street haggler?" The guy who knows how to punish a waiter and not bother to explain? Mr. Cool Rube?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 14:57:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, what's with the Rube Goes to the Big City routine? Is Glump working up a routine for the talent show?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 14:54:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: There is one area I don't agree with. The site portrays the local cops as abusive. My [albeit dated] experience was that the local Boulder cops were laid back almost to a fault. That is, as long as you're carrying a quarter lb. or a bong in your bag, and not a firearm, bottle, or can. (01)
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 14:11:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, Glint, you'll no doubt aprpeciate this site: http://www.skycircuit.com/cuboulder/
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 13:49:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Same thing I was wondering. Where are all the Sikhs?
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 11:35:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where did all those Indians go, rube?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 11:28:22 (EDT)

My two cents are:

One thing different about this visit compared with our last bite of the big apple. Not a single solitary raggedy-assed turban in sight! - Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 11:03:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whip out your stash, let's find out.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:57:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: How fascinating! I'll bet you can still roll a doobie too! Who said this guy's a rube?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:52:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: I managed to impress my daughter in a way that I never expected: Street haggling. Honed by time spent in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Lima, and south of the border, it's a skill that has been unusued for a while. She was alarmed at first when she pointed out a purse that she was interested in and I began by asking the proprieter about a different item. But eventually I worked my way over, and the price downward, to the item of interest and worked out a price that was within her waitress' budget. ◊ We had lunch at one of those diners in Times Square with the singing wait staffs. As a waitress, she could appreciate the humor. I usually leave cash tips, so when I signed the credit card receipt I didn't put a tip down. While the women folk were "freshening up" in the can, our waiter, Antonio or whatever the fu>k his name was, came over and pointed to the blurb on the receipt, which he had previously circled twice with a ball point pen, which said, "customary 18% gratuity not included in price for tables under 5," smiling and saying, "Sir, the tip was NOT included in the price, not in the price." I reassured him that we would leave a cash tip, not bothering to explain that his actions had resulted in a pay cut.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:49:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yet alone parrot such a dummy.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:44:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would he want to parrott someone who got fewer votes? Also, in order to parrott Snippy, you need a mouth full of marbles and no clue about the English language. Keep 'em coming, rube.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:39:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: If nitwit Lieberman hadn't sold out to Clinton, he coulda been a contender. But now - fuhgeddabadit!
former weekend New Yorker
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:38:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, what observations about NY did she have that were interesting?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:36:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Presidential candidate Senator Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said Sunday that the U.S. should back a policy of "regime change" in Iran by working to support dissident elements in that country. Asked if he thought Iran was "ripe for regime change," Lieberman told "Fox News Sunday," "Yes." "I think it would be in the interest of the world and, most particularly, of the Iranian people to have a regime change in Iran," the top Democrat urged. Lieberman quickly cautioned, however, "I'm not suggesting military action by us." Instead, he said that the U.S. should take a proactive role in toppling the government of Iran by backing pro-American elements in Tehran. "There's no nation in the world where the government is more anti-American and the people are more pro-American then Iran," he told FNS host Tony Snow. "And that's the equation we have to flip."
Loser Lieberman: Trying to parrot Dubya.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:35:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Over the years, the double taxation of dividends has distorted corporate behaviour. A third of American companies pay no dividends at all - including, incidentally, Mr Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Instead of dividends, a more tax-efficient way of rewarding investors has been to boost the share price. By the 1990s, chief executives were undertaking all kinds of shenanigans to engineer this. Typically, they borrowed heavily to buy back shares. Others embarked on the kind of unethical behaviour that ended so disastrously at Enron and WorldCom. As a big part of their remuneration was in stock options, chief executives had an incentive to pull all manner of stunts - including dodgy accounting - to make the share price go higher. It would have been better if they had paid out dividends. A nice cheque, paid to shareholders twice a year, cannot be faked. In fairness to Mr Buffett, his worries fit into the old tradition of American billionaires who feel mildly guilty about their wealth. Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, famously gave all his money away. Mr Buffett also has a point when he says the US tax code is absurdly complex and needs redesigning. So we should interpret his views charitably. The same cannot be said about Mrs Clinton, whose motives may be selfish, if not scurrilous. Mrs Clinton chides Mr Bush for increasing the budget deficit. But now is just the moment for the Federal Government to borrow more. The American economy is stalling and the world is being stalked by deflation, or continuously falling prices. The prudent response is to cut interest rates and pump money into the economy. The American deficit isn't that large anyway in the grand scheme of things. The independent Congressional Budget Office calculates that it will be just three per cent of GDP, lower than the deficits in France and Germany. Mrs Clinton should check her history books. She would discover that the last person to try to balance the budget during a downturn was Herbert Hoover in 1932. There is one thing that might tip the world economy into a depression, and that would be Mrs Clinton winning the presidential election in 2004.
Hillary Clinton, P.O.T.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:30:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Last time we were in Manhattan together was a family was two years ago. Poe had a couple of interesting observations about the Big Apple this time around: 1. Several blocks of 7th Avenue along the side of Carnegie Hall was closed for a street fair. Lots of kabobs, gyros, vendors, dogs, cats, cops chasing bad guys on foot - that sort of thing. Poe said, "it's like visiting a foreign country." 2. Reflecting back on her visit on the trip home Poe said, "I've become hooked on that city, in spite of the way it [especially the subway] smells."
Glint
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:24:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Damn liberals are always lyin' to us'ns. Like 'bout them museem pieces that was stolen. Turns out to be jest a few things and stuff. Then there's the whopper 'bout Weapons of Massive Destuctions. Another liberal lie.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:20:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tehran Tuesday told Washington to stay out of its internal affairs as U.S. policymakers prepared to discuss whether to take a tougher stance on Iran aimed at destabilizing its clerical establishment. Washington has stepped up its criticism of Iran in recent days, accusing the Islamic Republic of harboring senior al Qaeda members and developing a secret nuclear weapons program. Iran denies the charges. "We hope that wisdom and logic dominates the Americans' debates and they refrain from carrying out any interference in our affairs," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi. "Iran has always defended its interests with full power and will continue to do so. It won't hesitate even for a fraction of a moment to defend itself," he told Reuters without elaborating. Washington's increasingly-hostile rhetoric has alarmed Iran's clerical leaders, already unnerved by the presence of U.S. troops across its borders with Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington broke ties with Tehran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution and President Bush last year placed Iran in an "axis of evil" alongside Iraq and North Korea . "The message Iran is hearing from Washington is: 'We're out to get you'," said a local analyst, who declined to be named.
time to consolodate forces in afghanistan with those that are in iraq.
they can meet somewhere in the middle - Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 10:01:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: "The museum sacking that wasn't Rich Lowry" If you only read The New York Times, you might think the only truly important recent event in Iraq was the looting of the Iraqi National Museum. For art lovers, this branded the U.S. occupation with the worst of all possible labels, worse than "imperialist," worse than "illegal" -- "Philistine." Robert Deutsch, an archeologist at Haifa University and a licensed antiquities dealer, shakes his head at all the coverage of the museum sacking. The Times originally reported that 170,000 pieces had been stolen. "Nonsense," says Deutsch. He points out that there would have to be "miles and miles" of display area for such a massive amount of material to be readily available for the snatching. Subsequent reporting has cited roughly 30 items stolen from the museum's exhibition area, although hundreds more were taken from well-secured storage areas in an inside job (Saddam Hussein's cousin was the museum's director). But the most valuable pieces appear to have been kept safe, in what is shaping up as the "Great Civilization-Rattling Heist That Wasn't." "They just had to have something to complain about," Deutsch says of the museum hype from skeptics of the war. "The war was fast. It was clean. They found a small place where they can complain."
You mean the Liberally bent press exaggerated (i.e. LIED) to us again - and in our living rooms?
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 09:52:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: If yellowdog wants to write the clarinet score to hit songs by Judas Priest so that bands from east Europe can play them too, well, what's wrong with that?
Eddie Fenderbender
- Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 09:44:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's something wrong with writing hit songs? Like, don't they pay you and stuff? Or is this just more jealousy and class envy from the rube?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 23:04:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: UN chief warns of anti-American backlash in Iraq Rory McCarthy Tuesday May 27, 2003 The UN's most senior humanitarian official in Iraq warned yesterday that US attempts to rebuild the country were overly dominated by "ideology" and risked triggering a violent backlash. Ramiro Lopes da Silva said the sudden decision last week to demobilise 400,000 Iraqi soldiers without any re-employment programme could generate a "low-intensity conflict" in the countryside. "The reconstruction of minds is as important. We cannot force through an ideological process too much," said Mr Lopes da Silva, 54, a Portuguese UN official who served in Angola and Afghanistan before becoming the humanitarian coordinator in Iraq last year. In unusually frank comments, he said the first three weeks after the collapse of the Iraqi regime were characterised by "talk about grandiose plans and a lot of promises but there were no decisions".
Quoth Dim Son: "What, me worry?" <morongrandiosity.com>
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 22:23:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: You mean, in history 101 haole neglected to learn of the peace marches during the Johnson administration during the wholly fucked up Vietnam war? Someone forgot to tell haole about "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" Shee-it. Lots more fun when a-comin' the morons try to invade Iran, wagging the dog to get the sheeple's minds off the ruined economy.
Captain History Book
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 22:21:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's this I hear about Ydog? Sounds like he's trying to peddle his bubble gum music in new Europe? What do you suppose this guy's dream is, to write the hit song that'll bring back the Archies?
Glint
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 21:34:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't know where the Pensioner went. But I bumped into Roscoe P. Bartlett at the Memorial Day parade today. I was standing along the parade route and Roscoe told the driver to stop the car. He leaned over from his seat in the back of a convertable and was leaning out admiring the Dachshund. "A long haired Dachshund?" asked the honorable congressman. It was a magic moment we all three shared together. The Dachshund, yours truly, and the Clinton impeacher. Happy Memorial Day!
Glint
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 21:26:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where did the poor, pathetic asshole go? Where's the entertainment?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 19:40:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete's on a creative history jag. Just sit back and enjoy.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 17:59:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who supported LBJ? Why didn't anyone tell him? Kosovo? Oh, you mean that highly successful NATO action against Serbia for their incursion into Kosovo? The one that had nothing to do with oil? That Kosovo?
feminazi
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 17:54:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll bet thrax doesn't know code. Anyway, it is hilarious to listen to feminazis "opine" as follows: "Came from a badly thought-out war." Funny that they still support LBJ/Kennedy on the alst really "badly thought-out war." That is of course unless you don't count Cliton's UN-approval-less Kosovo wag the dog to detract from his crimes in america. Or, maybe the Sudan missile or the shack hit of Al-quaeda. No, the only thing coming out of a socialsit are bad thoughts. Lots of them. Proven here daily. Toodles
Pete�
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 17:48:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: According to aid groups, between 3.1 million and 4.7 million people have died as a direct result of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire), making it the world's deadliest conflict since 1945. Recent reports of cannibalism (including the possible cannibalism of two UN workers while they were alive last week) and savagery (including decapitation of babies) are nothing new. Mass graves are discovered on a regular basis in Ituri, where 50,000 people have been killed since Uganda and Rwanda invaded the Congo in 1998. Half-a-million more people are regularly displaced. Several countries are said to be thinking about sending troops to the region, but the situation is complex and chaotic.
Where are the Bushist Human Rights Defenders? <no blood for no oil>
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 17:19:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: AMONG THE PORTIONS of the report the administration refuses to declassify, sources say, are chapters dealing with two politically and diplomatically sensitive issues: the details of daily intelligence briefings given to Bush in the summer of 2001 and evidence pointing to Saudi government ties to Al Qaeda. Bush officials have taken such a hard line, sources say, that they�re refusing to permit the release of matters already in the public domain�including the existence of intelligence documents referred to on the CIA Web site.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:28:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: One document is called the PDB, the President�s Daily Brief. The congressional report contains details of PDBs provided to Bush (and top national- security aides) prior to 9-11. The PDBs included warnings about possible attacks by Al Qaeda. (One PDB was given at the presidential ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, and dealt with the possibility that Al Qaeda might hijack airplanes.) But an administration review committee overseen by CIA Director George Tenet has refused to declassify anything that even refers to the existence of PDBs�though they are described on the CIA�s own Web site (www.CIA.gov). A U.S. intelligence official said the review committee must consult with the White House before releasing anything. But the official denied charges by Florida Sen. Bob Graham, a Democratic presidential candidate, that Tenet�s review committee was covering up White House embarrassments.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:27:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: 9/11 panel told of cover-ups before attacks Witnesses: U.S. suppressed warnings By Bryan A. Keogh May 24, 2003 WASHINGTON -- The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were made possible by gaping holes in airline security, government cover-ups that prevented problems from being fixed and a failure to respond to a growing threat that terrorists might use airliners as weapons, witnesses told an independent commission this week. "The notion that these hijackings and terrorism were an unforeseen and unforeseeable risk is an airline and FAA public-relations management myth," said Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general at the Department of Transportation, in testimony Friday.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:25:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Estimate of Money to Be Spent in Iraq Monday By The Associated Press Though the Bush administration has not disclosed an estimate for the costs of reconstruction in Iraq, private research institutes have said it could be $100 billion.
No Tax-Just Spendthrift NeoCons rob US Citizens to Pay for their Oil War
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:21:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: all those hippie chicks are socialsits. try for thrax's number. she's available.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:18:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Came from a badly thought-out war. Speaking of which, the warmongers in Washington are starting another wag the dog war with Iran. Keep the sheeple busy so they won't notice they're being robbed.
misdirection
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:16:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way, T is heading this way shortly if anyone wants to say bonjournon...Have a nice Memorial Day. Aloha!
Pete�
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:16:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, I do agree on the time warp thing. The hottest chicks are all the women from my wet dreams in the late 60s early 70s, sort of neo-hippie chicks with corduroy and tank top things. My current is mid 30s but would be the dreamsicle of the 60/70s era. I mean history does have a way of taking the interesting things and making them better. The biggest problem is getting the youngest off Radio Disney and the oldest off suicide rock. Somewhere in between, they like the History Channel" which is known here as Classic Rock. The best thing about Memorial Day weekend are all the countdowns. //And you are right, the socialsits got so under my skin in the last decade with their lies and sickness, that I really don't know when to stop the fight. Probably never will. Oh well. G'day.
Pete�
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:15:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: The deduction Watson, is apparent. Similar to the reduction of the "alleged Superman Complex. Look, I know you socialsits can't handle fine distinctions, so we'll just leave it at a lot of brain damage. I saw Platoon again teh other day and can see where it came from. Still wondering if youe ver saw the Thin Red Line. Oh well.
Pete�
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:08:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, but can they speak of the pompatus of love?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 15:00:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it, Pete. I mention my kids love death metal and you deduce that I'm at a loss to understand why or somehow object. Where do you get that. Hell, I like some of it myself although it gets pretty repetitive for my taste. On the other hand, the kids also seem to know every song ever recorded from 1968 on and always seem to have the radio tuned to 107.7, The Bone, Classic Rock That Rocks, dontcha know. It's like being in a 70s time warp. If this is their "rebellion," I can't figure out what it's supposed to be rebelling against. It's all good, Pete. Don't worry so.
Pensioner
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 14:24:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, mercernary. That describes it pretty well. Been one to one degree or another since I was a kid. But these public appearances are like money for nothing and a minimal intrusion on my actual life. I could do them in my sleep and that's pretty much how I approach it. We're talking about $150 per hour and no heavy lifting. A drunkards dream if I ever did see one.
Pensioner
- Monday, May 26, 2003 at 14:09:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Of course Dim Son'll stuff socks in his crotch again. What else can he stuff his pants with? Grunions?
sin cojones
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 23:11:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: ow the Bush Cartel is Blaming Iran for Terrorism in Saudi Arabia that Saudi Arabia Did Little to Stop. Al-Qaeda is a Creature of Saudi Arabia, But the Bushes Blame Everybody But Saudi Arabia. The Phony War on Terrorism. Sunday, May 25, 2003 Bush CartelReports of Terror Crime Were Inflated Report: Bush Cartel Denies Red Cross Access to Iraqi POW's 5/25 Indict Tom DeLay, Try Him and Send Him Off to Jail -- And Throw Away the Key 5/26 " A senior member of Saddam Hussein's government handed Baghdad over to U.S. troops in exchange for a pay-off and a safe exit from Iraq, Le Journal du Dimanche claimed Sunday." 5/26 Bush Cartel Breaks Off Talks with Iran. Starts the Media Drumbeats of War. 5/25 "Electronic Voting Machines: How Bush Will Steal The Next Election, Without the Help of the Supreme Court 5/26 Gun gangs rule streets as US loses control 5/25 Bush Cartel Tries to Grab More KGB Style Powers 5/25 Robert Byrd: The Senator Votes "Nay" 5/25 U.S. has gained little if Bush lied about reason for war 5/26 America's Shooting Gallery Doesn't Stop for the Holidays! 5/25 Ted Kennedy Speaks on the Gun Lobby, the NRA and the Gaping Loopholes in Our Gun Laws that Terrorists Could Drive a Mack Truck Through 5/26 Enron Subsidiary Finds Buried Documents, Literally Buried 5/26 Ridge says Texas search under 'potentially criminal investigation.' Expect Tom Ridge to appoint Ken Lay to head the investigation. When the Bush Cartel investigates wrong doing among its own, it's only to bury evidence, not find it. Hypocrisy of the Day: Bush Cartel to Implement National System of Gun Control....in Iraq 5/25 Pentagon Pushing for Regime Change in Iran. New Propaganda Being Floated to Justify War Against Iran. 5/25 First, The Bush Cartel Censored the 9/11 Investigation; Now They are Setting the Wheels in Motion for Ensuring the Space Shuttle Investigation Doesn't Reveal Damaging Information About How the Bush Administration Might Have Prevented the Disaster. 9 Dowd: "It's like O. J. vowing to find the real killer." DOT "Reviewing" (As In Whitewashing) FAA's Role in Locating Texas Democrats 5/25 Governors of Both Parties Resist Bush Medicaid Plan 5/25 There is a greater risk of a nuclear weapon being used now than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis 5/25 "This tax cut is the unraveling of fiscal responsibility," Pelosi said. "Instead of investing in our children, we are indebting them." Robert Byrd: A Smarter More Efficient Defense Plan 5/25 The Head of This Media Conglomerate (Hollinger) is a Ken Lay/Bush/Enron Type of Guy 5/24 You Have to be a Masochist to be Gay and Run as a Republican: GOP Intra-Party Slime Fest in Florida 5/24 Swedish Minister "Expresses" Himself About Bush 5/25 Florida Judge Orders Abortion on Mentally Disabled Woman 5/25 Rumsfeld's Whopper of the Week 5/25 Typical: Bush Cartel Tossed Bremer Into Iraq, In Part, Because He is More Photogenic 5/25 Evan Bayh, the Latest Democratic Senator Turned Republican-Lite 5/25 Sharon Accepts Plan for Palestinian State 5/25 "A judge threw out a convicted killer's death sentence Friday, saying the jury improperly relied on the Bible to reach its decision." 5/25 Bush Targets One Million Campaign Donors 5/25 AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) Cigarette Company Documents Outline Strategy to Derail Global Tobacco Treaty 5/24 en. Levin Questions Proposed IRS Focus on Low Income Workers 5/24 Geov Parrish: The Old Boy's Club; While Annika tees it up amidst media circus, Bush administration quietly explores ways to roll back Title IX 5/24 Bush beats Whitman: "there was little reason to believe Bush would put environmental protection over the interests of his corporate supporters and friends." 5/24 Weapons failure: It now appears that the so-called "clear and present danger" of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) did not exist and that French and German critics were correctly skeptical of the U.S. argument for the use of force. 5/24 Senate sends Bush bill letting federal borrowing grow by nearly $1 trillion 5/24 Right-Wing KS Atty Gen hires his own arrest-challenged nephew 5/24 haracter Witness: Republicans Claim Bush is "decent, ethical, honest". The Truth is Much Different. Here's the record over the last eight months. 5/24 Boycott Jebworld: The Florida House and the Senate have voted for a "reform" bill that says that a Florida worker must lose BOTH eyes, or BOTH arms, or BOTH legs, or BOTH feet to qualify as "catastrophic" injuries. 5/24 Senate budget slashes education and health care spending 5/24 Senators Laugh in Murdoch's Face 5/24 Warning to Bush from contrite cold war veteran 5/24 Where are the weapons of mass destruction? 5/24 Bush Going to Middle East for Photo Op, After He Totally Ignored the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict for the First Two Years of His Administration, Allowing It to Fester and Deteriorate. Will He Stuff Socks In His Crotch Again? 5/26
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 23:09:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Reports of terror crimes inflated By Mark Fazlollah Inquirer Staff Writer In the first two months of this year, the Justice Department filed charges against 56 people, labeling all the cases as "terrorism." But an Inquirer investigation has found that at least 41 of them had nothing to do with terrorism - a point that prosecutors of the cases themselves acknowledge.
the liarbush the reichwingers suck up to
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 22:59:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: One fun thing is that Snippy, caught with his economic pants down, is ready for another Wag the Dawg War--this time with IRAN? Ready to give up your grandchildren's financial security? Ready for more more more environmental and social pollution? YOU BETCHA!!
let's all eat cake, shall we?
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 22:57:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community. First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) First US president to establish a secret shadow government. Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'. Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war. Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. Records and References: At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available). AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war. Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view. All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view. All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review. For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
Dim son resume 3
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 17:51:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/) Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history. Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her). Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States. Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history. First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission. First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history. Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. Withdrew from the World Court of Law. Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections). All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
Dim son resume 2
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 17:50:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Accomplishments as president: Attacked and took over two countries. Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history. Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period. Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history. Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Dim son resume 1
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 17:49:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Quite interestingly, the name chosen by the one recently identifying itself as "Pensioner" has a second less well known (particularly by the dim-witted socialist crowd) meaning as a "mercenary." How appropos! Alas, it is but popish ceremony to indulge the whims of one previously identified with chagrin as "Ho-hum" to now take the inherently contradictory identity that has really marked him all along, i.e. his "agenda." The thing that all Demonrats have but never admit. That "personal" stake in the issue, however buried and sickly it truly is from the normal set. As one once opined, aptly: "The mercenary pensioner will bow before he breaks; he who only studies to have the praise of some witty invention cannot strike upon another anvil."
Pete�
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 15:07:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ah, so reminiscent to see the failed dogrunningyellow pat himself on the back about his own pots, a la Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 19:28:49 and thereabouts. Then appear later to cover it upa s if he was some pilalr of virtue by using his teenage handle all along. So deja vu. And the Pensionere, I mean, good grief, has he joined the Geritol Gripe corner? Wondering why his kids like Death/Metal? It couldn't have anything to do with teh dead?end Socialsit example set by the parents through demonrat socialist policies. The kids, who always rebel, are a direct 180 degree reflection of the parents' inanities. In this case, liberal feel gooders breed this mania. Ye reap what ye sow. No one gets out of this alive. But I see the socialistas are so lost they ahve no political yakety to yak any more. No main stage mantra to double checka gaisnt the conductor of the flailed opera. Lost cadets. Every single one of them. It is a good time to sit back, sip the wine and watch them lose more substance by their idiotic manner of naysaying for the sake of naysaying. No one is listening to your "cause" any more cause they know you are the "cause." Drive Safely.
Pete�
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 14:47:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dividend Voodoo By Warren Buffett The annual Forbes 400 lists prove that the rich do indeed get richer. Nonetheless, the Senate voted last week to supply major aid to the rich in their pursuit of even greater wealth. The Senate decided that the dividends an individual receives should be 50 percent free of tax in 2003, 100 percent tax-free in 2004 through 2006 and then again fully taxable in 2007. The mental flexibility the Senate demonstrated in crafting these zigzags is breathtaking. What it has put in motion, though, is clear: If enacted, these changes would further tilt the tax scales toward the rich. Let me, as a member of that non-endangered species, give you an example of how the scales are currently balanced. The taxes I pay to the federal government, including the payroll tax that is paid for me by my employer, Berkshire Hathaway, are roughly the same proportion of my income -- about 30 percent -- as that paid by the receptionist in our office. My case is not atypical -- my earnings, like those of many rich people, are a mix of capital gains and ordinary income -- nor is it affected by tax shelters (I've never used any). As it works out, I pay a somewhat higher rate for my combination of salary, investment and capital gain income than our receptionist does. But she pays a far higher portion of her income in payroll taxes than I do. She's not complaining: Both of us know we were lucky to be born in America. But I was luckier in that I came wired at birth with a talent for capital allocation -- a valuable ability to have had in this country during the past half-century. Credit America for most of this value, not me. If the receptionist and I had both been born in, say, Bangladesh, the story would have been far different. There, the market value of our respective talents would not have varied greatly. Now the Senate says that dividends should be tax-free to recipients. Suppose this measure goes through and the directors of Berkshire Hathaway (which does not now pay a dividend) therefore decide to pay $1 billion in dividends next year. Owning 31 percent of Berkshire, I would receive $310 million in additional income, owe not another dime in federal tax, and see my tax rate plunge to 3 percent. And our receptionist? She'd still be paying about 30 percent, which means she would be contributing about 10 times the proportion of her income that I would to such government pursuits as fighting terrorism, waging wars and supporting the elderly. Let me repeat the point: Her overall federal tax rate would be 10 times what my rate would be. When I was young, President Kennedy asked Americans to "pay any price, bear any burden" for our country. Against that challenge, the 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax-free -- seems a bit light. Administration officials say that the $310 million suddenly added to my wallet would stimulate the economy because I would invest it and thereby create jobs. But they conveniently forget that if Berkshire kept the money, it would invest that same amount, creating jobs as well. Overall, it's hard to conceive of anything sillier than the schedule the Senate has laid out. Indeed, the first President Bush had a name for such activities: "voodoo economics." The manipulation of enactment and sunset dates of tax changes is Enron-style accounting, and a Congress that has recently demanded honest corporate numbers should now look hard at its own practices. Proponents of cutting tax rates on dividends argue that the move will stimulate the economy. A large amount of stimulus, of course, should already be on the way from the huge and growing deficit the government is now running. But don't cut the taxes of people with huge portfolios of stocks held directly. (Small investors owning stock held through 401(k)s are already tax-favored.) Instead, give reductions to those who both need and will spend the money gained. Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more stimulus to the economy than putting the same $310 million in my pockets. When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a "break" requires -- now or down the line -- that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party. Supporters of making dividends tax-free like to paint critics as promoters of class warfare. The fact is, however, that their proposal promotes class welfare. For my class. The writer is chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
wealthy Buffet decries Bushism as Voodoo
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 13:19:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: 9/11 panel told of cover-ups before attacks Witnesses: U.S. suppressed warnings By Bryan A. Keogh Washington Bureau Published May 24, 2003 WASHINGTON -- The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were made possible by gaping holes in airline security, government cover-ups that prevented problems from being fixed and a failure to respond to a growing threat that terrorists might use airliners as weapons, witnesses told an independent commission this week. "The notion that these hijackings and terrorism were an unforeseen and unforeseeable risk is an airline and FAA public-relations management myth," said Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general at the Department of Transportation, in testimony Friday. But Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told the 10-member panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that the federal government was caught unawares and had not anticipated such an attack. "I don't think we ever thought of an aircraft being used as a missile," he said, acknowledging that the United States was unprepared. During two days of hearings, some commission members argued there were plenty of indications that terrorists were planning a major attack against this country in the months before Sept. 11. These members said they were stunned by Mineta's comments and by how they conflicted with other testimony. A security inspector with the Transportation Security Administration told the commission Thursday that undercover tests he had conducted revealed persistent, egregious weaknesses in airport security systems. "Although we breached security with ridiculous ease up to 90 percent of the time, the FAA suppressed these warnings," said Bogdan Dzakovic, who became a Federal Aviation Administration whistleblower one month after Sept. 11. Dzakovic called the state of airline security "unsafe" and said his "Red Team" of undercover security agents were frequently able to smuggle bombs and firearms aboard airplanes. After he informed the FAA of these security lapses, Dzakovic says, little was done to fix the problem. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was created in November. Its hearings this week marked the panel's second such public session. Nearly two months ago in New York the commission heard from the families of the attacks' victims. On Thursday, the members of Congress who helped create the commission complained that the Bush administration is not being forthcoming with information the panel needs for its fact-finding mission. "I hope the administration will not abuse the principle of executive privilege to deny the commission the critical repository of day-to-day activity on issues related to the terrorist attacks," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
of course they'll abuse the privilege, John. Geesh.
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 13:09:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 12:43:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: That was me, by the way, just now.
4 or 5 of 22
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:32:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hi there. Greetings.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:31:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: i prefer industrial death metal (as opposed to speed or thrash death metal), NIN are gods of course, Rammstein are pretty good (east german i think). Distant Sun, from what i've heard i like. Ministry are a a cheap NIN copy incapable of slowly ramping a trance beat up into a cacaphonic crescendo. you might try listening to www.live365.com you'll have to download their player but listen to either a station called "orifist" or the one called "stream uranus". its ad driven, but not too bad and the industrial death metal is phenom!
19
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 07:42:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was like shooting fish in a barrel, sending him into the rage that sparked 17:30:21. Almost too easy. The only thing left to do now is of course watching the wound "fesster". And play some tennis.
19
- Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 07:22:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Told you it was a play day.
Captain Verisimilitude
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 22:39:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: 19, pensioner, dungeness and their ilk win. quod erat demostrandum.
shadow on cave wall
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 22:38:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I need to know which death metal bands. My teenage socialist kids have a love for death metal. Kind of like it myself. So many lead singers willing to get a case of throat polyps to deliver the death message. You've got to admire that
Pensioner
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 21:05:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's something wrong with a socialist taking all the money, chicks and booze The Man wants to give?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 20:10:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: landlocked plebian
19 hahahahahahahahah
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 19:30:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: 17:30:21 I'll take this as a qed, axiomatic, proof beyond definition. like drowning a goldfish, really. wake me when it's over loser. there at colorado state
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 19:28:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: 19
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 19:24:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: 19 wins !!!!!
19 wins !!!! <19wins !@19wins>
19 wins , 19 19 Wins - Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 19:23:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Since Chris Matthews and Gordon Liddy, the criminal, have stated that women will vote for Bush because of the bulge in his flight suit, the formerly private parts of Bush are now a subject open for questions and answers. Why did he have an erection upon seeing all those young men aboard the carrier? At our house we've been laughing about Bush's stuffing his flight suit with socks, � la male ballet dancers. I've been polling my girlfriends. None of us, not a single one, will vote for Bush, bulge or not. I think someone should legally seek to examine the Bush bulge. The Clinton persecution set all the precedents we need. We're entitled to know -- surely if Clinton had to have his doctor sign off on the often-sued Clinton private parts, then we Democrats should be entitled to know if Bush stuffed it or not. Or perhaps we could just subpoena Laura and ask her. Maybe old girlfriends should be forced to testify. Or the president's parents might appear on television to insist that yes, their son is indeed hung. Maybe Rove should be asked if he suggested the stuffing. Possibly Rummy should be called in to testify. Ari will never tell the truth, that much we know. A grand jury should be convened and immediately seek to answer these pertinent questions, especially if, as Liddy giggled, all women will vote for a large bulge.
just a sock after all
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:51:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: "...there wasn't a single top official of the Clinton administration convicted of any crime involving public conduct in office. And, you know, the only official ever convicted of anything was the chief of staff to the Sec of Agriculture, who was convicted of lying under oath in a failed prosecution that cost $21 million by an independent counsel. By contrast, 27 officials of the Nixon administration were convicted in Watergate, and 32 members of the Reagan administration convicted of crimes committed in Iran Contra and other scandals. So that's quite a contrast. And everything that Clinton was accused of in terms of crimes turned out to be bogus." --Sidney Blumenthal, Buzzflash Interview Two points: Bush's whore press would rather die than let facts like those get out. They are so obsessed with blaming "criminal" Clinton for every Bush failure. Other countires laugh at what whores our once-free American press has become.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:43:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The White House Reloaded The defining trait of the fanatic -- be it a Marxist, a fascist, or, gulp, a Wolfowitz -- is the utter refusal to allow anything as piddling as evidence to get in the way of an unshakable belief. Bush and his fellow fanatics are the political equivalent of those yogis who can hold their breath and go without air for hours. Such is their mental control, they can go without truth for, well, years. Because, in their minds, they're always right. Oopso facto. That pretty much sums up the White House m.o. on everything, from the status of al-Qaeda to the condition of post-war Iraq to the magical job-producing virtues of the latest round of tax cuts. Who else but a fanatic would have made the outrageous claim, as the president did last Friday, just four days after the deadly reemergence of al-Qaeda in Riyadh, that "the United States people are more secure, the world is going to be more peaceful"? More peaceful than what? The West Bank?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:41:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Here are some questions that an independent and unbiased media would be investigating (if we had such a thing): A. Where is Osama bin Laden? B. Where is Mullah Omar? C. Why is the 9/11 Commission underfunded? D. Where are Saddam Hussein and his sons? E. Where are all of those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? F. Why have contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq been awarded without bidding and competition?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:38:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: "According to inside sources, there could be two, possibly three Supreme Court resignations next month. President Bush said today he wants all the Supreme Court justices to stay on -- at least until after he's reelected."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:33:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Yesterday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer announced that he's leaving his job. Yeah, after 21 years in government, Fleischer said he wants to lie in the private sector."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:30:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Real reason Ari Fleischer is leaving the White House: "He got tired of playing Scrabble with President Bush and having to say over and over again, 'Mr. President, that's not a word!'"
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:29:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: How come all that anger is displaced?
Captain Freud
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:23:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: ?
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- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:22:19 (EDT)

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- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:22:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Couldn't think of anything to ask, although it wasn't a full 30 minutes. Figures.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 18:03:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, times up. The window of opportunity came and went. Don't say I never offered. Night all!
Pete�
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:59:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, it is open forum ask Pete anything (reasonable) time. I expect silence, but there are 30 minuites here if any of you want to ask me what it is that makes you wonder about my tidings or things in general. All eyes, fingers ready ...
Pete�
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:34:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, 19 (ahem, woof, woof), "fanmail" are you sure you don't eman chainmail, as in how you wrapped Ophelia's body before the Pedernales swallowed her whole? Anyway, thanks for not wishing me a Great Memorial day weekend. It will make mine more memorable, plus the only memories I recall are all the failed webpages you created for others to fester, but instead your own gas-breath was the only ignition needed for it to implode. Seems politics are a lost cause for you now as it should be. You were never any good at it anyway. But what really makes one wonder is this DC consultancy dream. How do you take a backyard bat swatting hick to the city? I mean threesomes and basement torture chambers are harder to come by and, more importantly, how would a "private" consultancy jive with your avowed communist leanings? Did you disclose that aspect of your "personality" to the prospective employer or did you hide it as is common for the non-disclosure rule breaking crowd mentality? Sorry, but once a loser always a loser. Unless and until you embrace the potential that America does provide by shedding the evil of socialism and the negativity of demonrat policies. Teh positive spin is only false and failed window dressing. Ask Condoleeza, Colin, Clarence and the rest. America is waking up from its long cold slumber with the lies of the left. It seems to have affected you also. Good. Sleep tight.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:30:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice comeback. No embarrassment there. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:24:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, those rolling hills worry me if you are going to use a cab. Should be for flat land. The manual probably says so. Or else your family can sue after your demise them for failure to warn (of the obvious). Sure beats the killer premiums on life insurance, though.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:22:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mucha do about nothing, 10:26:50. Creating non-existent issues lacking any credibility out of thin air is what is getting you devious demonrat socialists on the wrong sdie of the approval spectrum. Keep it up, though, it is funny to watch you idiots dissemble about Bush. Reminds me of the rights efforts to whack a bona fide criminal and pervert in Cliton, and look, he skated. Until his "legacy" starts taking a shellacking that no varnish can improve. Nope, you idiots are done. Toast. Kaput. Zeig Heil yourself.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:21:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought The Bobsey Twins had a code just to prevent this type of embarrassment.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:08:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: "But, I do agree with your horse analogy, problem is that nelly thing works well initially with Borderlines, but its the hidden opuddles of rain that percolate to the top after a couple years when insecurity creeps in that is a killer. Very Morrison, ... it starts when you're always alone, ... the paranoia that is ... Pete� - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 22:05:26 (EDT)"
Further proof that parody is dead, but interesting
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 17:04:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, we got varnish-eating fog today. Wet fog out here coastside, high fog everywhere else. I can see to the ocean now but this morning it was backyard visibility. I've got a $200K view reduced to zip by the fog. Next door neighbor's house is for sale. Asking $695K. Might get it if the fog ever lifts. Just finished soft ball. We lost, 17-12. Tomorrow, SF has it's Carnaval - in the fog. Seems to happen every year at Carnaval. Doesn't seem right. But then again, when it's cool and foggy, you could hang a coat on the dancers' bare nipples and they're always bare, fog or no. Happy Memday.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 16:39:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good for you. Didn't know the kiddie wading pools were on sale over at Target.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 14:14:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: The breeze is soft and balmy off the gulf this morning. Here on the coastal plains. The cooler is full of michelob and tecate. A 12 pound marinated brisket is cooking on the mesquite stoked smoker. It'll hit 90 today while im slathered in Hawaiian Tropic by the pool and playing volleyball later. Ticketchick is well and reports my tunes are generating interest among eastern european death metal bands and more traditional rock groups in western europe, several DJ's and music critics as well. Have actually gotten fanmail!!!! How weird is that!! Got another consulting offer from D.C. in the mail last week. We'll see. You can soak those wheel bearings in kerosen and scrub them with a wire brush and repack if needed. Gawd i miss the way a gasoline soaked puncture wound festers. Anyway, I was just stopping by to wish the pensioner and pirate boat guy a happy memorial day weekend. Glorp, of course I have to mention you, you banker blower. Wipe your chin.
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- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 13:44:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: DeLay clearly used his status as House Majority Leader to get the information directly from the FAA and presumably do so more expeditiously than members of the public. That's called abusing your office. Why is the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives using the powers of his office to help his political allies in Texas arrest members of the state legislature so they can be forced to make a quorum call and allow the passage of the DeLay-authored redistricting plan? (Earth to David Broder, Chris Matthews, Tim Russert and the rest of DC's wizards of high dudgeon: when will you start talking about this?) There's also another significance to DeLay's use of his office to obtain information from FAA. His willingness to bend the rules in that instance makes it a lot easier to imagine he played some role in getting the Texas state troopers to call in Homeland Security. That all focuses a lot more scrutiny on whatever contact took place between DeLay and Craddick on Monday, May 12th, the day all of this went down. Here again is a clip from the Chronicle ... In disclosing the Transportation Department's inquiry, spokesman Alcivar would not say exactly which office of the FAA provided the information for DeLay. Nor would he say whether DeLay used normal channels available to congressional offices for obtaining information not otherwise available to the public.
just a little abuse of office among friends
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 12:59:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: US blamed for Baghdad tension -- Britain says American military failure to secure capital threatens to delay reconstruction Nicholas Watt and Richard Norton-Taylor Saturday May 24, 2003 The Guardian Britain believes that heavy-handed tactics by the US military are to blame for America's failure to secure Baghdad, which threatens to delay the reconstruction of Iraq as foreign companies steer clear of the capital. Tony Blair has been told in stark terms that American forces have exacerbated tensions because they have refused to mingle among the local population in the same way as British forces in Iraq's second city of Basra. The finger of blame is being pointed at troops from the 3rd Infantry Division, the main US forces in Baghdad, who are said to be desperate to return home after bearing the brunt of the military campaign. One source said: "In the capital the US forces have not adopted the mingling profile with the populace that has been a success in other cities. That is not the instinct of a heavily armoured division that has gone through a tough war." The failure to secure Baghdad, which contrasts with successes by US and British forces in other parts of Iraq, will have grave consequences for reconstruction. It is understood that US corporations, such as Bechtel and the USAid government department, are reluctant to start repairing Iraq's infrastructure until Baghdad is safer.
poor cowardly Bechtel war profiteers
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 12:54:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hope the girl doesn't choke you.
Captain Kubrick
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 12:52:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: The yawn is from Dad?
says it all
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 12:51:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Student Recital. Yawn. Hope the girl doesn't choke. 1:30 start.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 12:43:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too many liberals in NYC for my taste. Must be a liberal sympathizer. He better back off that liberal stuff.
L.G.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:54:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, better keep the on-street walking to a minimum. Could get lost. Could get chewed up and spat out.
ciao line
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:52:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Q Line? C line? Where's he staying? Queens?
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:49:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Alert: Big Apple chews up and spits out guys like that who aren't playing with a full deck.
TERROR ALERT: PUCE AD NAUSEAM
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:47:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got to get on our feet. Taking the Q and C lines to The new Hayden planetarium. As the greasers would say, chow!
Glint
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:45:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: He'll take any opportunity to share the mundane details of his mundane life with anybody. Pathetic Power washer.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:39:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: wow
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:34:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: "You can also take Glint's claims of owning a deck with a grain of salt." - Anonymous@17:25. I meant to post this yesteerday but got involved in the Friday afternoon staff meeting. Shows the deck badly in need of a power wash during a partial solar eclipse on Christmas Day a couple years back. ◊ Later...
Glint
binos & SCT on dirty deck

- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 11:27:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've noticed that really evil men are really men who are controlled by their circumstances, rather than masters of their circumstances, they take the worst common denominator of the popular impulse of their time and make it sound grand and beautiful. President Bush gains popular support by appealing to our belief in the success of America, in the generosity of America, and the internationalism of American corporations and ideas, but as a person, he is intensely parochial, narrow-minded and regional... He's really a Texan honky at heart, in the Tommy Lee Jones mode, simple and yet, inwardly carrying grudges and inwardly twisted... of course, I talk about Tommy Lee Jones as a movie character... Bush has none of the charisma of a Hitler. When Hitler spoke, it was like a football stadium or an intense hockey game and people would just raise up their hands and say "HEIL HITLER." One violinist was even overwhelmed by Hitler's sexually-charged political charisma that she had to hug a tree in order not to HEIL HITLER. When Bush speaks, I feel like eating popcorns and chewing tobacco at the same time, not that I do either. Hitler's stupidity and the tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again is a trait that George Bush Jr. does share, although, I find that George Bush contradicts himself more often than Hitler whose message was pretty much, "We're so fucking great. We're so fucking great. NO need to argue, we're fucking great. Everyone else sucks. Let's kill them all. Out of pity. Who should we kill first? etc..." George Bush's message is "We're so fucking great. Our economy sucks. Put some money back in the economy when we cut your taxes" and, in the same vein, "We need more security measures taken as to safeguard our liberties. More security, more liberty," and again, "We don't need anyone. Let them come to us now that we have Iraqi oil under our thumb." Not that such messages may not bring the Europeans to the table, but that we need not even say such things. The hairdo: I see distinct similarities, but that clueless smile that our president has tells me that he's smoked some weed at some point in his life. I've seen that smile on so many dead-heads dead-on... "Yeah..." The mustache? I must confess that Charlie Chaplin's Hitler imitation is pure Creole... vintage Chaplin... Steven Spielberg's Hitler in the last Indiana Jones flick signs a book. I personally hate Hitler because he burned books. IT shows what a wicked man he was when he treats people and books in the same manner, as nothing but remnants of an evil past.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 10:26:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's the only wealthist I've ever known. His wealthist taunts at ydog are cruel.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 09:58:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Surveys pointing to high civilian death toll in Iraq Preliminary reports suggest 5-10K civilian casualties well above the Gulf War I. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BAGHDAD � Evidence is mounting to suggest that between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi civilians may have died during the recent war, according to researchers involved in independent surveys of the country. None of the local and foreign researchers were willing to speak for the record, however, until their tallies are complete. Such a range would make the Iraq war the deadliest campaign for noncombatants that US forces have fought since Vietnam. Though it is still too early for anything like a definitive estimate, the surveyors warn, preliminary reports from hospitals, morgues, mosques, and homes point to a level of civilian casualties far exceeding the Gulf War, when 3,500 civilians are thought to have died. "Thousands are dead, thousands are missing, thousands are captured," says Haidar Taie, head of the tracing department for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Baghdad. "It is a big disaster." By one measure of violence against noncombatants, as compared with resistance faced by soldiers, the war in Iraq was particularly brutal. In Operation Just Cause, the 1989 US invasion of Panama, 13 Panamanian civilians died for every US military fatality. If 5,000 Iraqi civilians died in the latest war, that proportion would be 33 to 1.
Captain Correction: up totals to 5-10K civ casualties, plus military equals what? <calling all pro-embryo activists to rise in protest and horror>
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 09:19:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: May 23, 2003 War vs. Tourism Little known fact: the U.S. government gave $2.5 billion to the airline industry to help them out during the Iraq war's decreased travel and higher fuel prices. But, according to this fellow, the airline industry only lost $2 billion in decreased trabel and fuel prices. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the airline industry made half a billion dollars to do nothing but let the military bomb some foreign country. Nice work if you can get it. It'll never cease to amaze me how the same companies that scream "FREE MARKET!" at the top of their lungs 95% of the time will become whiny begging bitches the moment they think they can get a government handout. It's never about ideology, only about winning.
that's from lying media bastards, but there's a spacious playground also at www.wealthbondage.com, and myirony.com
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 09:13:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dancing With the Devil By BOB HERBERT, Let's see. Who's less patriotic, the Dixie Chicks or Dick Cheney's long-term meal ticket, the Halliburton Company? The Dixie Chicks were excoriated for simply exercising their constitutional right to speak out. With an ugly backlash and plans for a boycott growing, the group issued a humiliating public apology for "disrespectful" anti-Bush remarks made by its lead singer, Natalie Maines. The Chicks learned how dangerous it can be to criticize the chief of a grand imperial power. Halliburton, on the other hand, can do no wrong. Yes, it has a history of ripping off the government. And, yes, it's made zillions doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism, including members of the "axis of evil" that is so despised by the president. But the wrath of the White House has not come thundering down on Halliburton for consorting with the enemy. And there's been very little public criticism. This is not some hapless singing group we're talking about. Halliburton is a court favorite. So instead of being punished for its misdeeds, it's been handed a huge share of the riches to be reaped from the reconstruction of Iraq and U.S. control of Iraqi oil. A Democratic congressman, Henry Waxman of California, has raised pointed questions about the propriety of rewarding Halliburton with lucrative contracts as part of the U.S. war on terror when the company has gone out of its way to do business in three nations that the U.S. has accused of supporting terror: Iraq, Iran and Libya. In an April 30 letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Mr. Waxman wrote: "Since at least the 1980's, federal laws have prohibited U.S. companies from doing business in one or more of these countries. Yet Halliburton appears to have sought to circumvent these restrictions by setting up subsidiaries in foreign countries and territories such as the Cayman Islands. These actions started as early as 1984; they appear to have continued during the period between 1995 and 2000, when Vice President Cheney headed the company; and they are apparently ongoing even today." According to Mr. Waxman, a subsidiary called Halliburton Products and Services opened an office in Tehran, Iran, in February 2000, has done work on offshore drilling projects and has asserted, "We are committed to position ourselves in a market that offers huge growth potential." Shareholder complaints since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, particularly from the pension funds of the New York City Police and Fire Departments, have prompted Halliburton officials to agree to reevaluate their operations in Iran. The federal government has been well aware of Halliburton's shenanigans. In his letter to Secretary Rumsfeld, Mr. Waxman noted that "Halliburton was fined $3.8 million in 1995 for re-exporting U.S. goods through a foreign subsidiary to Libya in violation of U.S. sanctions." The fine was not enough to stop the company from dancing with the devil. It still has dealings in Libya. Now, with the U.S. takeover of Iraq, Halliburton has hit the jackpot. It has only recently been made clear that an "emergency" no-bid contract given in March to the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root covers far more than the limited task of fighting oil well fires. The company has been given control of the Iraqi oil operations, including oil distribution. "It's remarkable there's been so little attention paid to the Halliburton contracts," said Mr. Waxman. In addition to doing business in countries that have sponsored terrorism, the congressman said, Halliburton has been accused of overcharging the U.S. government for work it did in the 1990's. And last year the company agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to ward off possible criminal charges for price gouging. "Their reward for that terrible record," said the congressman, "was a secret no-bid contract, potentially worth billions, to run Iraq's oil operations."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 09:01:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Straussian Neocons are better than you The neocons, Christian-Zionists, and Wolfowitz Zionists -- these folks are better than you. They are the enlightened leaders and you are a member of the mindless, materialistic, spoiled mass of Americans who need to be told what to do, who need to be fooled and deceived. This is the mindset of the Bushite Straussians. Not only are they better than you, they feel it is perfectly acceptable to lie. For the Bushites, Strauss rules. 'The Bush administration is rife with Straussians," Seymour Hersh wrote in The New Yorker, "The Straussian movement has many adherents in and around the Bush Administration... In addition to Wolfowitz, they include William Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, and Stephen Cambone, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who is particularly close to Rumsfeld." "It's hardly surprising then why Strauss is so popular in an administration obsessed with secrecy, especially when it comes to matters of foreign policy," writes Jim Lobe (Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception). Not only did Strauss have few qualms about using deception in politics, he saw it as a necessity. While professing deep respect for American democracy, Strauss believed that societies should be hierarchical -- divided between an elite who should lead, and the masses who should follow. But unlike fellow elitists like Plato, he was less concerned with the moral character of these leaders. According to Shadia Drury, who teaches politics at the University of Calgary, Strauss believed that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right � the right of the superior to rule over the inferior." "Strauss believed that the essential truths about human society and history should be held by an elite, and withheld from others who lack the fortitude to deal with truth. Society, Strauss thought, needs consoling lies," notes William Pfaff. "He held that philosophy is dangerous because it brings into question the conventions on which civil order and the morality of society depend." It's all in your best interest, of course, because you can't handle what needs to be done -- for instance, bombing defenseless Third World countries -- so it's up to the Bush Ubermensch to lead the way. "Robert Locke, another Strauss analyst says,'The people are told what they need to know and no more.' While the elite few are capable of absorbing the absence of any moral truth, Strauss thought, the masses could not cope. If exposed to the absence of absolute truth, they would quickly fall into nihilism or anarchy, according to Drury, author of 'Leo Strauss and the American Right' (St. Martin's 1999)." In order to avoid this nihilism -- the natural state of affairs for lowly citizens such as yourself -- you must get religion. "Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control," writes Lobe. You see, secular society is dangerous -- "it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, precisely those traits that may promote dissent that in turn could dangerously weaken society's ability to cope with external threats." But what if there are no external threats? "Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat," Drury wrote in her book. "Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured... Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in." "For Leo Strauss and his disciples, the ignoble lie -- disinformation -- was the key to achieving and holding political power. And raw political power was the ultimate goal. For Strauss and the Straussians, there were no universal principles, no natural law, no virtue, no agape, no notion of man in the living image of God.," writes Jeffrey Steinberg. William Kristol, a leading Washington "Straussian" and the chief public propagandist for the war party in the George W. Bush Administration, made the point bluntly in an interview with Nina J. Easton, who authored a book-length profile of the top leaders of the right-wing insurgency of the 1990s, Gang of Five (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Kristol told her, "One of the main teachings [of Strauss] is that all politics are limited and none of them is really based on the truth." Considering the influence of Strauss on the Bushites, the end-to-end Bush lies -- notably the absurd lies and fabrications about Saddam Hussein -- become understandable. Unfortunately, far too many Americans swallowed these transparent lies hook, line, and sinker. Do we want our "leaders" (not democratically elected, but appointed by a right-wing Supreme Court) to tell lies, or do we simply not give a damn? It would appear most Americans don't care, choosing instead to believe comfortable (for the moment) lies and deceptions. Bush and Crew are all about Big Lies -- and it would seem the American public dines on Big Lies and comes back asking for seconds, thirds, ad infinitum. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. Plato, The Republic
Kurt Nimmo: ANOTHER DAY IN THE EMPIRE
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 08:50:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: World government reports indicate that more than 5.5 million jobs worldwide have been eliminated due to corporate downsizing in the past 10 years- and an estimated 55% of all jobs created in the next 10 years will be near poverty level. Even 90% of people in North America earn less than $40,000 a year, and today's two-income families are not living as well as their parents.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 08:21:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wealthism describes a set of attitudes directed at the wealthy by the nonwealthy. "Wealthism includes those actions or attitudes that dehumanize or objectify wealthy people, simply because they are wealthy. The main attitudes of wealthism are envy, awe, and resentment. . . . Wealthism differs from the other 'isms' in that racism and sexism are perpetrated by those who have power, whereas wealthism is directed at those who have power." - Joanie Bronfman, The Experience of Inherited Wealth: A Social-Psychological Perspective
no class warfare, please, we're republicans
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 08:03:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe now we can have a play day.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 07:45:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fears contracts in Iraq too close to Bush By Vikram Dodd in London May 24 2003 Every contract awarded by the United States government agency for international development, USAid, for reconstruction work in Iraq, are to be reviewed by two official watchdogs. The awards have been criticised because foreign firms are not allowed to bid, leading to allegations of a US carve-up. British newspaper The Guardian has learnt that the general accounting office (GAO) is due to examine how eight contracts came to be handed out. USAid's office of the inspector general (OIG) has begun its own investigation and has already interviewed the officials involved. The award of the biggest contract, potentially worth $US680 million ($1 billion), to the Bechtel conglomerate is the most controversial. Bechtel has close ties to the Bush Administration, making big donations to the Republican party and its candidates. It is understood that the OIG will examine whether USAid took account of Bechtel's alleged past failings in the developing world. Criticism by Democrats has prompted the investigations. Bill Allison of the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington said: "It is an indication that internally they do feel a good deal of heat." Under President George Bush the vice-president of Bechtel, Jack Sheehan, has a place on the Pentagon's defence policy board, and its chairman, Riley Bechtel, was appointed to the President's export council. Its contract for Iraq covers work on power stations, electricity grids and water and sewerage systems. The company has been trying to play down the significance of the recent revelation that it tried to build a $US1 billion oil pipeline from Iraq to the Red sea port of Aqaba in Jordan in 1983, at a time when Saddam Hussein was regularly using chemical weapons.
blood for oil & fat contracts for bush buddies <is kenny boy in jail yet?.com>
- Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 07:44:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, maybe the fog caused those highway deaths. Perhaps Glint's family was involved. That's all well and good but just think what that very for is doing to the local varnished doors.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 23:05:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, at least nobody's suggesting that the haole's irrational hatred of "liberals" is a sublimated wish to wreak vengeance on his ex-es.
Captain Verisimilitude
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 22:42:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yikes, did you make it to the big apple? "FINZEL, Md. (AP)--More than 100 cars driving in heavy fog crashed in a series of accidents on a western Maryland interstate Friday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 30, authorities said. As many as 150 cars could have been involved in the accidents, but officials were waiting for the fog to thin to evaluate the damage, Garrett County Emergency Director Brad Frantz said. Authorities shut down 20 miles of Interstate 68. Visibility was near zero in the Big Savage mountain range where the accidents occurred, Frantz said. Thirty-six patients were taken to two hospitals in Cumberland, said Kathy Rogers, spokeswoman for Western Maryland Health Systems. She said the hospitals were expecting up to 80 patients. The initial crash was reported about 1:45 p.m., said Valerie Edgar, a State Highway Administration spokeswoman. ``We don't know what truly caused it, but it's probably the fog,'' she said."
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 22:07:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought so too, Glint, but then again even the best families generate bad seed. Anyway, this "complex," you amy notice is something I refer to as "allegedly," because I'm not so sure it is a real "complex," or just a description designed by those who seek $120 per hour to listen to your whining. Personally, I have no trouble with any of it and it is only when I must deal with people who any rational person would conclude is not balanced that I tend to get myself in over the top. I beleive your problem is you can't handle the truth because of your socialsitic myopia. Don't worry, I feel your pain. (ahem)
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 21:59:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: With a female, as with a race horse, it's all in the breeding. Good stock equals good female. I prefer farm stock myself. Not every farm female is of good farm stock. That is, simply coming from the farm does not guarantee a thing. You've got to look real closely, as you would when buying any livestock. Check the smile. Do the gums show when she's grinning? If so, that's a good sign. Hip width is a plus. Same with the haunches. Sturdy haunches is what you're looking for. The breasts? Are they maleable? Can they squeeze together with minimal effort? Will she take a demeaning job if it includes family health benefits? Will she still do the dirty deed no matter how fat and empty you get? Can she fade away when the game's on or the stars are out and you want to be alone? You need answers to these questions before you finalize the arrangement.
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 21:09:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Marry a legless retard.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:51:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Marry a milk maid. They never cause no trouble.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:41:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: No personalities = no personality disorders.
Farmer
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:31:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Farm stock" women can't have Borderline Personality Disorder? Wow! Do they also have tails?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:29:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: You need to consider the very real possibility that it is you who are in need of help. Assuming there is such a thing as The Superman Complex, the word "complex" indicates something far more negative and unhealthy than a simple, altruistic "ambition to help others."
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:22:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, you may say you don't consider it positive but your words indicate otherwise. Note how you color it as an "ambition to help others with their problems" instead of a personality need of your own - a need to control, perhaps, or a need to aggrandize yourself in the eyes of others. As I said, sounds like narcissism to me. And, drop the Catholic angle. That's bogus.
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:16:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, Pen, i fail to see how you think I am looking on this alleged "Superman Complex" as a positive. It has gotten me more screwed up than all of you idiots combined. I chalk it up to a Catholic upbringing and the priestly seeds. While the premises changed, the ambition to help others with their problems persists today. If we followed your advice, no one would help anyone and we would all be dried up sour pusses stoicly watching our neighbors croak. Some serious psychological problem with that course, if you ask me. I prefer the nice guy helper. Lets me sleep soundly at night.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:02:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, I actually had a death case a few years ago where that happened. On hills and marshy/swampy land it is lethal.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 19:00:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: DeLay admits to role in hunting for Texas Democrats Posted on Friday, May 23 @ 10:06:07 EDT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DPS focus of 'potentially criminal' action By R.G. Ratcliffe and Karen Masterson, Houston Chronicle U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay admitted Thursday he provided Texas Speaker Tom Craddick with the same information that state police used to enlist a homeland security agency in the search for runaway Democratic legislators. DeLay said his staff used public information at the Federal Aviation Administration to track former Texas Speaker Pete Laney's airplane. Laney was among 55 Democrats who broke a House quorum on May 12 to kill a congressional redistricting bill sought by DeLay, R-Sugar Land. Craddick and DeLay wanted the errant legislators arrested and returned to the House to force a vote on the bill. "I was told at the time that that plane was in the air coming from Ardmore, Oklahoma, back to Georgetown, Texas," DeLay said of the FAA's information, which he said was also available on the agency's Web site. "I relayed that information to Tom Craddick." Texas Department of Public Safety officers working in Craddick's office had the same information when it contacted a federal air interdiction agency to seek its help in finding Laney's airplane. The federal agency has since said it was misled into believing Laney's airplane was missing and possibly had crashed. Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge, meanwhile, said Thursday his agency is investigating "potentially criminal" misuse of the federal air interdiction service by the DPS.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:35:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Reichwingers not allowed in New York City. Daughter ok. Not responsible.
turn back now
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:33:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: US turns to British news Owen Gibson Guardian Unlimited: US traffic rose by 83% The BBC and the Guardian's online news services were the two most popular British news websites in America during the build up to the war, figures have revealed. UK news websites experienced huge increases in the number of visitors from across the Atlantic as Americans sought non-US coverage of the events leading up to and including the outbreak of the war at on March 19. With most US media toeing the party line, television news channels such as Fox that are not governed by the same impartiality rules as the UK, many Americans turned to UK websites for an alternative view, according to new figures. In the week immediately following the outbreak of war, traffic to the BBC News site from the US increased by 47%, while traffic to the Guardian website soared by 83%.
Faux pas?
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:32:37 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Will be enjoying the code orange weekend in New York City. Ji will be making her singing debut at Carnegie Hall. She went up yesterday for rehearsels. Unless I find an internet cafe, I'll catch up when we return> - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:29:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Victims of the peace decide Americans are worse than Saddam From Anthony Browne in Khan Bani Saad THE small dank cells with cold stone floors, tiny windows and iron bars for a door used to house criminals and the victims of Saddam Hussein�s regime. Now Khan Bani Saad prison, overlooked by watchtowers and surrounded by razorwire, is filled with families who are victims, not of the war, but of the peace. Sabrir Hassan Ismael, a mother of six, held her three-year-old daughter Zahraa in the cell that is now their living room and bedroom, and cried: �Look at me; look at my family. We live in prison. We can�t buy food because we don�t have money. We have no gas to cook. �We can�t sleep because it�s very hot. There are huge insects that bite us. All night my daughters cry and they can�t sleep. I live without any hope. Just look at us.� Outside children play in the foetid puddles, swirling dust and searing heat of the prison courtyard, where prisoners once walked in dread. Before the end of the war Mrs Sabrir lived with her husband, a local mayor, on a farm in the town of Khanaqin, close to the Iranian border. They are members of the Arab Saraefien tribe that had survived unscathed through the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War in 1991 and the invasion of Iraq. As opponents of Saddam they even welcomed the American invasion. But it is the peace, and the disintegration of Saddam�s grip, that has destroyed their lives. On April 11, two days after the fall of Saddam, Kurdish fighters entered Khanaqin, ordering all 15,000 Arabs to leave within 48 hours. �There were so many Kurdish fighters we couldn�t count them. They came into our house, and fired into the air, and grabbed me by the shoulder and said we had to leave in 48 hours or they would kill us,� said Mrs Sabrir�s son, Amar Hassan Tahar, 26. The tribal elders insist that Jalal Talabani, leader of the PUK Kurdish political party, was behind the purge. They went to the local governor, also a Kurd, to plead for more time. �But he said if Talabani gives us 48 hours, he will give us just 24, or else he would send in the bulldozers to flatten our houses,� said Fadhel Jasas, one of the elders. The following day Mrs Sabrir and her family had not left, and the Kurds returned, installing eight armed men and women to live in their house. �They ordered us to cook for them, and slept there, and said they would kill us if we didn�t leave the next day. The next morning they threw all our belongings out in the street, and we left,� Mr Amar said. After seven days of travelling by foot and by donkey from Khanaqin, 1,500 of the tribe ended up in the abandoned prison, 30 miles north of Baghdad. They had nowhere else to go. They are part of the rising tide of internal refugees in Iraq, forced out of their homes by the ethnic conflict that yesterday resulted in more gunfights between Kurds and Arabs in the town of Kirkuk. Every day on Iraq�s highways, Arabs who have been forced out of their homes are drifting south hoping to find somewhere to live. Many, but not all, of the Arabs in Khanaqin had been forced to move there in 1975 from southern Iraq because they opposed Saddam�s regime. Saddam wanted to Arabise the predominantly Kurdish towns close to the Iranian border. The dictator gave the tribe houses and land, which he reportedly bought off the Kurds, but now the Kurds have taken them back as part of a drive to reverse the process. The occupants of Khan Bani Saad prison, forced to leave their land for a second time, just want somewhere they call their own. �I want a home to live in and land to farm� said Mrs Sabrir�s husband, Hassan Tahar Yassim. They have identified land nearby that used to belong to Saddam, but others have already occupied it. The tribe has appealed for help to the coalition forces, but no one has even visited them. They have eaten or sold almost all their animals, and have only a week left of food. Now they hate the Americans. �None of the American promises has happened. It is unbelievable what has happened,� Mr Yassim said. His son concludes: �We have discovered that Saddam is better than the Americans.�
'Saddam is better than the americans." <four to five thousand dead, and how much were those bombs? its ok, we'll sell their oil and make a bundle.>
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:27:51 (EDT)

My two cents are:

I would gladly support death by incineration here for all death row inmates. Don't waste numbing drugs on them though. Let the audience have them. An oxygen mask and a bottle of Nitrous Oxide, perhaps. - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:25:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush 'is on brink of catastrophe' From Roland Watson in Washington THE most senior Republican authority on foreign relations in Congress has warned President Bush that the United States is on the brink of catastrophe in Iraq. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that Washington was in danger of creating �an incubator for terrorist cells and activity� unless it increased the scope and cost of its reconstruction efforts. He said that more troops, billions more dollars and a longer commitment were needed if the US were not to throw away the peace. Mr Lugar�s warning came as it emerged that the CIA has launched a review of its pre-war intelligence on Iraq to check if the US exaggerated the threats posed by Saddam Hussein�s weapons of mass destruction. The review is intended to determine if the Pentagon manipulated the assessment of intelligence material for political ends. Democrats have begun to say that the US is in danger of jeopardising the success of the military action in Iraq, but Mr Lugar is by far the most senior Republican to break ranks with the White House over the issue. Mr Lugar, a moderate who expressed initial reservations about the war, said that the Govevrnment�s planning for post-war Iraq had clearly been inadequate. �I am concerned that the Bush Administration and Congress have not yet faced up to the true size of the task that lies ahead, or prepared the American people for it,� he said, writing in The Washington Post. Mr Bush should state clearly �that we are engaged in �nation-building�,� he said, a statement that would require the President to swallow one of his tenets of the 2000 election campaign.
well, duh, Richard <fratboy pisses away every last dollar, buys euros for twins>
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:25:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: The chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said he was starting to suspect Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction in advance of the war on Iraq, a German newspaper reported today. "I am obviously very interested in the question of whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction, and I am beginning to suspect there possibly were none," Mr Blix told the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel.
well, duh . . ..
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:21:57 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Ah yes, Bangkok. Where the street vendors would happily sell you Thai sticks for the marked up price of 5 baht or a girl for 40-100 baht. Of course that was back when the exchange rate was 20 baht to the dollar. - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:21:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thrax is borderline.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:19:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: 500 African cockroaches meet fiery death in Thailand BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's health ministry cremated more than 500 giant African cockroaches and declared the kingdom free of the bugs, which were banned last year after a surge in their popularity as pets. The Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which had been confiscated and used as evidence in a court case, were stunned with pesticide before being burned alive in a hospital incinerator. Some 1,000 bugs were originally confiscated last November, with a portion kept as evidence and the remainder used in research. The roaches became the hottest thing in pets among Thai teenagers in 2002, raising concern among health officials that the rapidly multiplying roaches would spread typhoid and diarrhoea. Some also feared the non-native creatures would damage Thailand's ecology. The insect was subsequently banned under the country's 1992 Wildlife Protection and Conservation Act, under which which offenders may face up to four years in jail or a maximum 40,000 baht (952 dollars) fine. Only one trafficker was prosecuted and fined 5,000 baht, the health ministry said in a statement. "After a crackdown and invoking the ban officials tried to buy the cockroaches in sting operations, but did not find any other insect traffickers," the statement said. The roaches, which can grow up to 10 centimetres (four inches) long and live for seven years, sold in Bangkok markets for 50 baht (1.20 dollars) each at the peak of their popularity.
Ardent pro-lifers oddly absent
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 18:11:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I almost forgot. TGIBF!
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 17:19:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: But didn't it feel good to kill all those Iraqis, anyhow?
who cares about Al Qaeda, we invaded Iraq!
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 17:19:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cryptic al-Qaeda missives leave the CIA, Dim Son, scratching their heads By Tabassum Zakaria in Washington May 24 2003 Fugitive al-Qaeda leaders still have the ability to send orders to their followers in ways that shield their location and keep intelligence agencies guessing, United States officials said. Al-Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan after the US bombed their bases after the September 11, 2001 attacks on America were still able to get orders out to followers, the officials said. "I think it is possible there are guys in Iran and/or guys in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area [who] are ordering things and things get done," one US official said. The fugitives use mobile phones that are quickly discarded, create email accounts for one-time use and employ human couriers to pass along verbal messages, US officials and terrorism experts said. And al-Qaeda suspects use unfathomable wording that can bewilder intelligence analysts as they plough through mountains of intercepted communications. "They will often use specific words to mean one thing, and we think it means something different," Roger Cressey, a former White House counter-terrorism official, said. " 'We are delivering the grapefruit today' - now is the grapefruit people, passports, weapons, explosives, or what?" One intelligence official said al-Qaeda used phrases like "the sun will come up on Sunday" which has a precise meaning for the recipient of the message but means little to an analyst looking for details of a plot.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 17:18:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's good ditch advice regarding rollover. Especially since I generally encourage flooding of said ditch whenever possible. You see, if it floods it does so in the direction of Gourdon's nearby house, it being the second lowest point after the ditch itself. (01)
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 17:16:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wondering if that is legal advice or personal.
Whackem and Ripem, Attorneys at Law
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:57:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow, Pete, what a horrendous tale. I really feel for you. Thought Ho-Hum had it bad. Sounds like your ex is a real "bwitch." Makes me thankful for my scupulous farm stock Nebraska honey.
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:56:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Dr. Pensioner, lease provide the source of your insights, lest you be accused of plagiarism.
Dr. Milton T. Eisentower
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:55:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: The cozy cab will provide protection against D.C. pygmies with a hunger for gonads. (01)
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:51:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's the problem. You seem to think of this "Superman Complex" as a positive thing. In reality, it's a personality disorder. Not on the level of Borderline, but akin to narcissism. If this is what you have, there is no cure. It's as much a part of you as your bone structure and you need to stay out of live-in relationships. Not only will you continue to make bad choices, but it's not fair to the other half. Keep to yourself as much as possible. Don't feed the monster inside. Let people try and rescue themselves and fail on their own. Your "cure" can only hurt them more. Toodles.
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:49:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, but the cab might be tough to sneak out of on a rollover into the ditch. I prefer not to drown as my exit strategy. Toodles.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:42:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ha! The only way out now is 6 feet under. Juvenile or not, it is my fate. Sad but true. Extorted right out from under my own eyes. I fail to see any error in my ways, only the inability to generate enough of a validation for my alleged Superman Complex to rescue the unrescuable. The truth has a different shade than plae and if there is nothing left in my life to do, I will still fight the greatest evil facing Amercia: evil socialists. G'day.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:41:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hi Pete. I'm leaning toward the cozy cab over the umbrella. It seems to offer more tank-like protection if circumstances ever require driving into downtown Washington to greet the freed Negroids. Also afraid that a low tree branch might knock the parasol off. Of course that would probably be better than having a low tree branch knocking the cab off.
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:41:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Seems to me you're being a tad tough on yourself here and still trying to lash out at perceived socialist simultaneously. That can't be good for the blood pressure. Try and leave socialists out of it and ask why you're beating yourself up so. Is it because you now see your adult life marked by decisions more befitting an troubled adolescent? Okay, I can understand that. So, you're juvenile. Accept it. Turn it into a positive. Call it boyish charm instead of infantile emotionalism. Don't worry, be happy. Personally, when things got rough for me, I just quit working, except for a few public appearances most months. There was no way I could go on working and luckily I had a way out. I'd suggest you find a way out or take some boring job that requires showing up and not much more.
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:38:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, anon, only if someone like T is stupid enough to let me.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:28:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, I do, but I agreed to let me son move to Seattle to be with his muther____, and so I agreed to pay her child support while he's there this year and hopefully not going to flunk out of another school. The other one is with me full time, but to get that, I had to agree to pay child support as if the mother had her full time. The mother, a diagnosed Borderline Personality, only cares about herself and money so as long as I pay her, I can try to keep that kid from getting too screwed up. She already worked over the one that ahd to go to Seattle. I'm going on three months now where the mother has had no contact with the kid, but I still pay her as if she runs her life daily. Oh the price of sanity. Long story, but just be glad you guys don't have to know the joys of living around a Borderline. Second only to socialsits for manipulation, evil and self-absorption. Truth.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:27:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: I suppose this means you won't be marrying "on a lark" again any time soon?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:14:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm morally opposed to polyurathane whether it's sold under the brand name, Verithane or not. Like a good sailor, I'm prepared to re-varnish as needed. But I will be watching that varnish like a hawk.
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:06:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bummer. Child support? Thought you said you had total custody.
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 16:02:07 (EDT)

My two cents are:

AND YOU THOUGHT WE AHD IT BAD? World News May 23, 2003 Pygmies beg UN for aid to save them from Congo cannibals By Michael Dynes, Africa Correspondent... PYGMY leaders have called on the UN to set up an international tribunal to put government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo on trial for acts of cannibalism against their people. Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN�s Indigenous People�s Forum that during the four-year civil war his people had been hunted down and eaten. �In living memory, we have seen cruelty, massacres, and genocide, but we have never seen human beings hunted down as though they were game animals,� he said. �Pygmies are being pursued in the forests. People have been eaten. This is nothing more, nothing less, than a crime against humanity.� More than 600,000 pygmies are believed to live in the Congo�s vast jungles, where they eke out a subsistence existence. Both sides in the war regard them as �subhuman�, and believe that their flesh can confer magical powers. UN human rights activists reported this year that rebels had cooked and eaten at least a dozen pygmies. Some of the worst atrocities took place when the Congolese Liberation Movement, one of the main rebel groups, tried to take the town of Mambasa from the rival Congolese Rally for Democracy last year. Mr Makelo called on the forum to ask the UN Security Council to recognise cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide. There were reports yesterday of cannibalism against other Congolese in the mineral-rich province of Ituri in the east. Fierce clashes between ethnic Hema and Lendu militias this month are know to have resulted in more than 300 deaths. A mass grave containing the remains of more than 30 men, women and children was found near the town, UN officials said. Church leaders and residents have accused Lendu militiamen of killing civilians, cutting open their chests, removing hearts, lungs and livers, and eating them. Father Joseph Deneckere, a Belgian priest who has lived in the Congo since 1970, said that traditional superstitious beliefs, entrenched hatreds and attempts to settle old scores lay behind the atrocities. �Some of the victims had their sexual organs missing after tribal fighters cut them off to use as charms,� he said. Tribal fighters had also been seen wandering around the bush with human organs �draped from their weapons�. Acquitto Kisembo, a resident of Bunia, the town at the centre of the fighting, said: �The sight of a corpse with a missing liver or heart is horrific, especially when you know those parts were eaten, and that the same could happen to you.� UN officials have opened a formal investigation into the allegations, which they describe as credible. - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 15:59:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd keep an eye on that varnish, Pen. Seriously, a coat of varathane can't hurt now. Do you have some fancy shmancy stained glass peep window? How about a green awning?
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 15:54:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, the ticker is fine. It's the blood pressure, what with the ex's extortion racket and work load, suddenly I found myself in a cave with little air. So, on pops the little oval pills and voila, now I'm back to having lost 10 lbs with another 20 to go. 3-6 months on the BP meds and then if the cycle of reality returns I may be off of them. // I'll make it easy for you guys. After this last financial rape episode by empowered women out to steal from their ex's, I have no retirement plan, have no stock, have no house, no cash, no real assets and after all is said and done I owe $150,000 which will take me several years to pay off because of current child support, etc. I am living in a nice girl's studio for now temporarily while the ex galavants to Orlanda, etc on my dime. It is possible I may buy a one way ticket to Nairobi and work as a jeep guide for a load of impoverished swedish tourists in the bundu. Or, I might just sit here and die after paying innumerable taxes and debts to former dried up hose-hags gold digers who moved on to the next rip off. // Ho-hum.//And, yes, you are right about the varnish Glint. Waht they can never see astounds me. The silicone won't help this crowd any longer, if it ever did. //Oh well.
Pete�
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 15:52:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, some fog today. Visibility down to about a mile out my picture window, down from 60 miles of coast two days ago. Today, I can just see the breakers hitting Ocean Beach. Cool out. I can hear the varnish crack.
Pensioner
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 15:49:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: The GSA? You mean the same GSA that was started by Harry S. Truman, Dimocrat? Figures. Another Liberal organ of government that wants to glom onto other people's money and not let go.
Cornelius Bitteroot
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:58:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: And remember, on this memorial day hail to those who gave the last full measure of devotion to oust the limey, grab California from the Mexican, free the Negroid, grab the Phillipines from the Spaniard, kick Kaiser Bill's ass, save the world from lunatic Republicanism masked as German agression, hold the North Koreans to the the North of Korea, achieve Peace With Honor in Viet-Nam, arrest pineapple-faced Manuel Noriega, save the medical students of Grenada, kick the evil Arabs out of Kuwait, crashed helicopters in Somaliland, dropped bombs on Bosnia, and set the towel-heads of Iraq on the path to Americanism. Honor them all. No need to honor those who went AWOL during the Battle of Amarillo.
patriot
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:29:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: California's energy crisis -- its blackouts and sky-high power prices that cost California billions -- was manufactured by key power companies that hoarded energy supplies to make more money. Overall, the companies kept more than 30 percent to 50 percent of their power off the market. During some of the worst moments of the crisis, they held back even more -- anywhere from 55 to 76 percent of production -- all in an effort to cut the power supply and drive up prices. But the companies denied allegations of manipulation. "It's preposterous. It never happened," said Duke Power Company's Tom Williams in June 2001. And they're still denying it today. But records show federal regulators have power plant control room audio tapes that prove traders from Williams Energy called plant operators and told them to turn off the juice. The government sealed the tapes in a secret settlement and still refuses to release them. The new report found Williams held back more energy from California than any other company. It's vindication for state investigators upset that energy companies blame the crisis on everything from the weather to not enough power plants. "This report shows that those excuses are simply untrue. There was enough capacity to avoid almost all of the blackouts," Gary Cohen, state investigator said. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a federal grand jury is now examining the role the power companies and energy traders played in the California market's meltdown and whether any laws were broken.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:26:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: BANGKOK: Thailand is preparing to burn alive more than 1000 giant pet cockroaches that health officials say are pests, but will then hold a traditional Buddhist funeral rite for them to please their former owners.
Hey Eeeeeleanor, ever consider running a rescue mission for cochroaches out of your home?
Oh, I see...you already are! - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:23:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just out of curiosity, Pete, how much they charging you for that heart medicine?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:22:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: OK, everything is loaded up. Leave pretty soon. Before the ice melts in the cooler. Hate to think what old bones Pete might dig up while I'm gone. His dredging up his Hitler-was-a-socialist fantasy bodes ill. Hang tough. The wily bastard must be stopped. Say no to the evil one whose old college teacher won a prize at the old college, finally hit it big. Don't let Pete hit it equally big. Don't let him give himself a prize, too.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:21:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's the wizard with the keen understanding of the "California Energy Crisis?" The one who said it was about paying bills? I'd like to hire that guy.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:20:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The reason for cutting taxes and going on a spending binge is to bankrupt the federal government and make it impossible to maintain social security and other government services. That way we can achieve Iraqhood in ten years. We will all be able to employ maids again, maybe even butlers and laundrywomen.
patriot
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:17:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush has already abandoned Iraq, foreign policy guy. If you hadn't noticed, Iraq is totally fucked. There isn't a window frame left in any government agency, utility, factory, barracks, wmd depot, or bus station in the country. There isn't a desk or a telephone. The telephone lines themselves have been looted, and unsupervised Arabs are digging up the underground cables for the copper as we speak. Iraq is at less than zero. Nobody is getting paid. The $600,000,000 the G.I.'s found in Baghville is in Kuwait under GSA rules, which means NOBODY touches it, certainly not an Iraqi police sergeant or water district engineer. Snippy's projection is for 30,000 US troops to sit on the country. They're pulling out in planeloads as we speak. Mission accomplished. End of Story. Bite this, Great Satan.
Captain Araby
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:14:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the idea is to cut revenues and go on a spending binge? You know, that just might work.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:13:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's good for Cali is good for America.
'nuff said
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:11:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's the point of controlling Congress if the only tax package you can get passed is the one you ridiculed as too small? Geesh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:10:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Cali gets the big bite because Cali is like having a country bigger than France producing for you, amidst the leech, or red, states. The US economy won't fall through the toilet until the Cali economy falls through, so the Republicans have to try to nurse it along until the election. It's the only way they stand a chance.
Captain Economics Book
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:08:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't see why Glint should have to pay his tax dollars to California.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:06:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: California, which doesn't have to take any shit from France because it has a bigger economy, is not part of America and cannot be the American Big Dog. That honor goes to Nebraska, which if you laid all the corn end to end and called it ground would be bigger than even Texas.
Captain Modern Geography
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:05:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: D.J.? Sounds like and alias for l.G. Okay, "D.J." who said $50K makes a family of four "rich?" I'll murder the bastard!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:03:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought the biggest dog was Texas. Alaska is a state now? When did that happen?
Rip
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:03:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: It wasn't L.G. It was D.J. Moronic comment either way. D.J. thinks the family making $50k with two kids are going to make out great from the class warfare-driven tax cut for the rich. There's another topic in here... oh, yeah: The reason there are so many mentally ill people in downtown San Francisco is that Ronald Reagan closed down the state nuthouses. Nobody could open them up again because taxes were outlawed in California back in the late '70's by prop 13. So now anyone who walks down the street with some quarters gets to be a point of light.
patriot
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 14:01:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I thought Alaska was the "biggest dog" in America. Shows what I know.
Captain Geography
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:54:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: California. You mean the "bent pud" state?
Chadmore Bailey
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:44:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: No problem with the bills, dude. Pete Wilson't dereg scam is being rescinded and the whole house of cards is falling. Look for Cali to receive billions back from the perps.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:44:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why should Cali get such a big chunk of the $20B in aid to state governments? Doesn't seem right. Cali has shunned the GOP and they get rewarded? I guess when you're the biggest dog you get the biggest bone. Sigh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:42:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe now California will finally pay its electric bills.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:40:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: $2.4B for Cali! Yeah!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:34:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G. said it. Or, at least she says somebody else said it. It's L.G.'s secret. She will never give up the names. Maybe there are no names to give up. Maybe L.G. just made it all up.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:33:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not so fast. Nelson's vote could have been cast as a representative of his constituents -- good ol' Nebraskans, reliably conservative voters. Much UNLIKE like their neighbors to the east, the Iowegians.
Crazy Horse
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:31:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who said that was "rich," L.G.? I'll murder the bastard who said that! Who said it? I want names!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:30:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's not get carried away. Nelson is a die-hard liberal, the only thing that keeps him in line are the good poeople of Nebraska. Ben Nelson is up for reelection in 2004 and Bush has better numbers in Nebraska than he does. He voted out fear.
Buffalo Bill
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:29:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: President Bush has mostly abandoned Afghanistan, but he has staked his presidency on the "liberation" of Iraq. And so America will stay for a decent interval, no matter what. But some day, the nation will reassess the situation and, most likely, call an end to costly military adventurism in a place that few Americans care about.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:28:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: So now families with two kids making $50K a year are "the rich." Hey, Democrats, keep playing that class warfare crap. I'm looking forward to another round of tax cuts NEXT year, too! And in 2005 after our man W gets reelected.
D.J.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:26:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thank you, Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska)!
good thing bush murdered mccain in the primaries! couldn't you just imagine......?
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:24:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jobs be coming!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:21:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: U.S. Senate passes $330 billion tax cut bill 51-50, with Vice President Cheney casting tie-breaking vote. Bill now goes to President Bush's desk
Thanks, Dick. Job well done!
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:20:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Members of the nation's largest psychiatric association discovered San Francisco's mentally ill problem up close this week, as they stepped out of their annual convention and were surprised -- some say shocked -- by the legions of mentally ill people."
get a job, pensioneer
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:16:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I wouldn't go that far, not in this particular case.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 13:03:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: In other words, the glass. It's half full?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:47:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: One good thing about being put on the heart medicine at a realtively young age is that it forces you to change your perspective on life. Suddenly, it no longer matters that the country is teeming with evil socialist nazis with no virtue. A bad ticker causes a man to reevaluate the arrogant opinions of one's youth and adopt a more concilliatory tone. Work, too, loses meaning and early retirement is not only desireable, but vital to living.
the bright side
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:41:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Know what you mean about differing climes at varyous LatLons. Last Summer when Neil and I were camping in West Virginia the daytime temperature at the mountain top observaory site was mid-80's. Drove into the valley to catch the U.S. highway - valley's where the all the people and towns are - on the way to visit Dolly Sods of Monongahela and it was over 100°. And in West Virginian valleys, that's not a dry heat.
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:38:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Leave Pete out of any such dire projections. His "time horizon" is in doubt.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:26:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not many bubbles in a world-wide economic meltdown. Hoover II.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:15:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: The neat thing is, when the real disaster of Snippy's tax cuts hits, we'll be over it, but young sprouts like Glint and Pete will be sitting holding a lot of limp paper, and no way to build it back up. Not even social security for the poor bastards. Pretty much everyone will be comparatively screwed then, all up and down the line, from Bill Gates to the guy scuffling in the paralegal game in Hawaii. Everyone except the pensioneers.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:12:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: The good thing is, even if Snippy sends the world into a deflationary spiral I'll have a fair loan and the income should hold for the necessary few years. Deflation would be great on a pension, if this one wasn't the first thing on the cutting block. Don't suppose they'll cut it ex post facto, though. Screw them in motion, not in the end zone.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:09:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe I'll take out a few thou extra on the second, get a bigger bike for down here. Good thing the house appreciated $75k in the two years since I bought it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:06:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: There you go. Ronnie baby. Think I'll strap the old motorbike on the folding trailer, take it up the woods. Good time, since I got the extra wheels for the company boat in my garage up there, and they'll stand in as spares. Only thing is, the folding trailer is not licensed. But then I can use the license plate off the boat trailer, which doesn't need one for sitting hubless on cinderblocks. Course then I wouldn't have the motorbike down here. But everyone says it's dangerous in traffic, so maybe it's best to stick to the backwoods roads. Decisions decisions.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 12:05:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aha, So, without those 8 years, you would receive no monthly benefit at all. Now I get it. The 8 years add nothing to a reduced benefit. There is no vesting without those 8 years. Uh-huh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:52:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, you know what they say: when it's hot in the valley it's foggy in the city. Not that mid-90s is all that hot, but it is hot compared to a place where the summers are colder than the winters near Canada and Colorado.
USWS
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:41:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Isn't Frisco where they have the hippies? Free love and everyone wears tie-die T-shirts, and the men have long hair like women? Me and Mern were thinking of taking a tour there with the birding club
Clyde Harrington
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:39:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's cool, but swab the varnish prior to 6p. Looks like terminal fog will be rolling in with arm length visibility. Either that or the clear sky clock doesn't have data. I'm not sure what defaults get displayed when data starvation occurs, but tongight's cloud pixels are black - worst case possible unless you're looking for some anonymopus Frisco good time without the need for a glory hole.
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:22:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, Glint, Glint. Take a shower.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:16:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Aha! I suspected Glint knew what he was talking about! It was the fictional future surplus that billy belched about! You been talking to Jeremiah without telling us, Chubster? You been getting the inside scoop from the Sage of Branson?
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- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:15:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Duh-h don't you varnish doors to make the look shiny? My lawn tractor looks shiny! My lawn tractor has a nice glean!
Chubby
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:13:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Surplus? What surplus? You mean the fictional future surplus that billy belched about?
Willard Twist
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:11:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: No desperation about it, Chubby. You got the adolescent disease, the apocalyptic outlook, about everything from c0cks to small sums of money. Simmer down, child. Laudable try with the varnish/economy comparison, but of course it doesn't work for a variety of reasons, from your misunderstanding of the purpose of varnishing wood to the far stretch toward Clinton varnishing the economy, by which I assume you mean he turned a large deficit into a large surplus, as everyone from Orrin Hatch to DeLay and Newt and the Contract on America had been screaming for. You're a funny little guy, Glintster. Keep 'em coming.
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- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11:11:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whose party ruined the balanced budget? Whose party pissed away the surplus? That's right, the invassion lemming who get off on brown-nosing dirty little bush.
Unvarnished Truth, for a change
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 10:51:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: This $25k nut. Sounds like someone is desperately trying to worm their way back into a bubble somewhere. I say go ahead and plow it back in. Whatever.
Glint
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 10:18:28 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Pete, this guy's varnish thing is very typical your garden variety DimLib thinking. It's a reflection of the way they view the economy. They slather the varnish on the outside wood. Then they wait a couple hours and say, "Such a nice shiny glean." Couple years down the road the mist, spreay, sun, and fog take their toll. Similarly, they sucked away on Clinton's c0ck as he varnished the economy. They all stood back, opened their creamy lips, and said, "prosperity and surplus is ours." Then the crooked winkyed one moved out of the house while the varnish was still looking good on the outside. Now the weathering, 9-11, dot-com pop, has taken it's toll, however they try to put the blame the new WH occupant. Typical tunnel-eyed "O"-mouthed cum guzzlers. - Friday, May 23, 2003 at 10:04:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: --> Guess that last truncation wiped out the clear sky clock for Frisco. So, here, I'll post it again so that you can use it's 48 hour look ahead window to time your varnishing. ◊ That's funny. When I google on "sun" and "eclipse" my resume pops up because of the references to Data General and Sun Microsystems.
Glint
Frisco clear sky clock Take that Liberal scum!

- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 09:35:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or maybe it would be better to think 60/25. You've got me confused, now. Pick a number, but make it hard and fast. No sliding scales of payment, no returns on investments. That all starts after the 60/25.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 01:47:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe I threw you off with the hypotheticals. OK, new hypothetical. Suppose the person can retire at 60 with 30 years? That should help. I think you have all the variables, you're just not putting them together. 60/30 should help. I think. Don't even think about money amounts, monthly payments, interest, the nut, the vig. It's all irrelevant. Think 60/30.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 01:41:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: You're still not tracking on this. All this grief. You just don't get it, as Bill Bennett used to say before he was outed. You keep introducing nuances, years, increased benefits. Why can't I get this across? You've got to learn to be flexible. OK, maybe it's my fault. By the numbers. How much does the 8 years add to the benefit? Everything. Based on current salary, etc., how much more per month extra with the 8 years for $26k? Nothing extra. Zero. Zip. Or, if you want to put it another way, everything. For the 8 years and $26k investment, the monthly return is the other 15 or so years. Are you starting to catch on? How many ways can I say it? Seems simple to me. Maybe you're making this more complicated than it is. That's all I can figure.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 01:34:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's all I was asking. What you're telling me is, it all has to be paid lump sum before you can leave. Okay. Now, how much does that 8 years add to your eventual benefit. Based on current salary, no raises anticipated. In other words, if you left at 60, say, how much more do you get per month extra with that 8 years that costs 26K? You're making it sound like this is unique. It isn't. You invest 26K. You get an increased lifetime benefit, based on 8 additional years. How much is that per month in extra benefit? In other words, how long do you have to live, post-retirement, to recoup your 26K? 3 years? 10 years? What? There's no new wrinkle here, no special nuance to it. Everything you've said up to now is the most basic. You are investing 26K. What's your monthly return? geesh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 01:02:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, I leave for a few days, and Pete is back again trying to foist off his "Hitler was a socialist" scam. What, do you have to drive a stake through this moron's heart to stop the lies?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 00:28:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: And, lest it puzzle you, there is no payment schedule. Due signed and delivered upon exit, complain about it if you want your legs broken. You arrange the payment schedule with the your favorite mortgage company. Believe me, you don't want to pay the vig this outfit charges. You can beat these rates down at Acme Finance. This is a rate that floats in the climate of the hour. It sits at 5.5% right now, when I can get a second at prime plus zero, no fees, which is 4.25% and you get to keep your legs. Down from 11% some other years. Believe me, you don't want the Company to hold any of your paper.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 00:16:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: You don't understand, Smedly. There is no option. There is no investment. It's a simple yes or no switch. You don't get the time in even if you spent the time in, unless you pay the nut. Get it? OK. Suppose you have to work for an outfit, oh, 20 years, some of them as a temp, to get a monthly check if you have the 20 and hit a certain age, let's say 60. As a temp, you aren't in the system and can't pay in, right, so if you want the benefit of what you would have paid in you have to pay the nut and the vig. In this case the nut would be $7k and the vigorish is $18k. The catch is, even though you put the temp time in, you didn't put the temp time in unless you pay the nut and the vig. Get it? You put in the years, but you can't take them out because the book says you didn't put them in. If they were before 1982, OK, you put them in. But if they were after 1982, when the Company decided that they had to squeeze a little more out of the turnips, they don't count even though your body was there. By the book it wasn't there. What you have to do, you have to pay up or start over. You got this? This is the bigs, guy. This is where they don't fuck around.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 23, 2003 at 00:10:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, call it service. That's what it is. Optional for you to buy. It's service rendered prior to your actual membership date, ergo, service prior to membership. I suss the concept, You're making an investment of 26K. How long will it take for you to get that nut back in increased benefit? What's the payment schedule? Years, months? Are payments allowed to continue into retirement even as your allowance is raised the full amount you are purchasing even as you are paying it off, month by month? In other words if it adds $1000/month and they take $300 per month out, you would still be $700 to the good until payments were complete. At which point your net is $300 higher. What are the requirements/options re: the payoff?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 23:43:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Why, of course the people don't want war...But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII
Group Captain History Book
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:37:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, where did Pete go? Is he pulling another "high lottery number" caper here? Running away again? Geesh!
Captain History Book
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:25:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Uh-oh. Pete smells some facts coming. Time to go fishing. Let's just explain that Hitler, who was elected with 19 votes or something, as a commie, turned on them and ratted them out and the rest is history. But... oops, as I say, time to go fishing. Toodles. Tra la la.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:22:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Errol Leslie Flynn made his inauspicious debut onto the world's stage in a small private hospital on Davey Street in Hobart, Tasmania, on June 20, 1909.
OK, Tasmania. Spelled Ireland.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:20:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: In truth, Hitler, who was elected with 19 votes to a local constabulary in Germany after WWI, as a communist, survived the purges of the communists by turning on them and ratting them out. Tehrefore, he justified his non-existence as a human by trumping his ego, never an ideal. Going fishing. Toodles.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:18:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bolshevism is the declared enemy of all nations and of all religions and of all human civilisation. The World Revolution is now, as always, its acknowledged and proclaimed goal. Stalin himself has said, as the organ of the War Commissariat, "The Red Star", in January 1935, triumphantly announced: "Under Lenin's banner, in the proletarian revolution, we shall triumph over the whole world." And the communist emigrant, Pieck, said at the Seventh World Congress of the Komintern, held on the 28th July this year: "The triumph of Socialism in Soviet Russia proves at the same time that the triumph of Socialism throughout the whole world is inevitable." On the day before the Congress was held, "L'Humanit�" (the organ of the French Communists) greeted it with the outburst: "Long live the Komintern, the General Staff of the World Revolution."
Josef Goebbels, Expressing Pete's Concerns Way Back in 1933
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:17:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gee, let's use our pod brain for a second. Eire? New Zealand? Gee, bingo. You spell Potato, I spell Ireland.
I'm jsut a no-excuse socialist dope.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:16:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was the Jew who discovered Marxism. It is the Jew who for decades past has endeavoured to stir up world revolutions through the medium of Marxism. It is the Jew who is today at the head of Marxism in all the countries of the world. Only in the brain of a nomad who is without nation, race and country could this satanism have been hatched. And only one possessed of a satanic malevolence could launch this revolutionary attack. For Bolshevism is nothing less than brutal materialism speculating on the baser instincts of mankind. And in its fight against West European civilisation it makes use of the lowest human passions in the interests of International Jewry.
Josef Goebbels at Nuremburg, talking to Pete
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:16:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Flynn's land 'o eire? He's talking about New Zealand, right?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:14:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Anyway, you tirds didn't read it right. He ran as "Hittler" and got 19 votes for one of the commie slots. Lied about all of it. But he turned coat. The truth is Hitler was a follwoer and many Germans despised Jews, to which he found a special affinity in his ambitious political rise to power. He enver lost his masses over the individual mentality which is common with all socialsits and lying, thieving demonrat socialsits right here under cover in the old US of A.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 22:02:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bizarre that the dope below didn't even get the hint that Flint's Virgin Islands (as hypnotized by Camden) was actually supposed to be located in Costa Rica, hence the reason for my referral. I doubt the Virgin Islands, or even warm varnish, exist in Flynn's land 'o eire. Doink.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:59:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: The red color of our posters in itself drew them to our meeting halls. The run-of-the-mill bourgeoisie were horrified that we had seized upon the red of the Bolsheviks, and they regarded this as all very ambiguous. The German national souls kept privately whispering to each other the suspicion that basically we were nothing but a species of Marxism, perhaps Marxists, or rather, socialists in disguise. For to this very day these scatterbrains have not understood the difference between socialism and Marxism. Especially when they discovered that, as a matter of principle, we greeted in our meetings no 'ladies and gentlemen' but only 'national comrades,' and among ourselves spoke only of party comrades, the Marxist spook seemed demonstrated for many of our enemies. How often we shook with laughter at these simple bourgeois scare-cats, at the sight of their ingenious witty guessing games about our origin, our intentions, and our goal..... Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Adolf Reaches Across the Decades to Touch Pete
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:55:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Adolf Hitler was arrested after the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler was charged with treason. Such an offence carried the death penalty in Germany at this time. His trial lasted five weeks and turned Hitler into a national figure. For the first time, he was given a platform on which to make his views widely known to people outside of his party. Hitler's right to defend himself was used as a means of attacking all those he hated - the Jews, communists, socialists and weak politicians who had lost Germany the war; the shameful signing of the Versailles Treaty by weak politicians etc. None of this was new and many right wing parties existed in Germany. However it was the way Hitler presented his ideas that brought him media attention. "History will tear to tatters the verdict of this court", he announced shortly after sentence was passed. Hitler was found guilty of treason - a crime against your country. If he had been a socialist or communist, it is almost certain that he would have received the death sentence. However, many in the court supported his views and he received a prison sentence of 5 years.
Captain History Book
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:50:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hitler ran as a commie? What a mind fuck! I didn't know he was liberal!
Uncle Hoadie
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:46:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Interesting that Pete is aware of "in like Flynn", but at the level of remembering a movie that used it as a word-play in the title.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:44:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or, to make it more clear, I'm not buying service prior to membership, I'm buying membership.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:36:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nah, there's nothing to "suss" here. It's already well under control. There are no options. You can play this one deep or shallow and it comes out the same. This is the big leagues, now. No room for players from the peanut gallery.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:35:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: My guess is that it is the apoplexy as much as the lard. A fat angry man is a walking death rattle.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:33:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey, you, thanks for the education. Duh! Like, now I know what you're -duh- talking about. Let's see. You're buying service prior to membership, SPM, and they want what you would have paid, had you been a member, plus the interest that would have been earned in the years up to now. Make the account even, is that it? Duh. Gotcha! Save it. I -duh- think I know that part in my sleep for the past 30 years, okay? I play the game a wee bit deeper than that and I have some questions you may have to look up before I can suss it all out to you to the penny. Dig?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:32:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Heart medication at 46. It's the lard that does it. What a loser.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:32:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, not a rube, but possibly a [ch]erub? You certainly aren't a gynecologist. Of note, at least.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:31:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: That can't be Pete. Or it is Pete and the booze erases his dyslexia. You be the judge.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:31:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: 'Course it's only $26k, and worth what? $10k or so a year? I won't turn my nose up at it, and neither will Mern.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:29:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bullshit! That varnish was boiling and the door was smoking. What do you take me for, a rube? HA!
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:28:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: See, that's your problem, if you aimed for Costa Rica, you'd already be in like Flint. But, no, its gotta be Honduras. Hoi-Moi-Polloi to you! Yes, am freeking nuts. So what? What's your excuse? My library card is about to expire. I need more miles to fly, anyway.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:26:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not drinking, for sure, but am adjusting rather timidly to my first dose of heart medication. Damn ex-vixens. Bottoms up. Yum.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:24:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, if you take proof as teh shiny glean from the same day you wiped its coat, then you ahve little time for things as complex as evolution. But, in truth, the point you ignore is that there was a reason in the first place for feeling that varnish was even necessary. Truth be told, it is more likely a candidate for varathane, knowing the sun's juxtaposition to your door as opposed to Kilimanjaro. But the real rub, or lack thereof, aside from the fact that in autumn more moonlight floods my garden because the leaves begin to descend back to the soil that first gave it birth, is that you did not warm the varnish or the door so it will never seal properly. This cardinal sin would make any queer choirboy blush, if one were so inclined to persist.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:22:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's like this. Worked for an outfit twenty-five year or so. Retire at 60 with 50%. Only come to find at 56 or 57 that the seven years working temporary full time, I have to pay in the seven thousand dollars I would have put into the retirement fund. But the Company, which borrows money at 3%, pegs interest at the Savings and Loan rate over the 18 years or so, sometimes as high as 11%. So in addition to having to buy the $7k I got to pay $18k interest. That's a $26k bill just came in the mail yesterday, two years after I asked for an accounting. In other words, I took out a seven thousand dollar baloon loan in say 1985 and the single payment is coming due. The great thing is, there's no decision to make, because if you don't pay it the time spent doesn't count. Which means I'd have to work an extra seven years in order to retire. Piss me off. That $26k would be a nice down-payment on a fishing lodge in Honduras, way I figure. But what the hell. When I got that job I was pulling down the minimum wage when they needed me, and sleeping under the truck when it rained. Anything more is gravy. Give the breaks to the young tender kids coming up, like this lunatic in Hawaii who's trying to say something here this afternoon, God help him. I'll pay the dues for myself and whoever else needs it, same as always. A man's got to be a man.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:21:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: demonstrating my inherent socialist, racist, asocial, crime defending, thieving agenda that invariably underlies every single driveled word, idea or thought emanating from my pie hole of crusted oblomovism.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:21:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, dog, it is only you sipping the fresh effervescense of the dew off the corpses on the Pedernales.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:18:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete, I hear your warning loud and clear. Today, after I varnished the edges, I ran my hand over both sides of the door. What I decided to do is lay another coat on the inside. That's the two coat side that will never have to suffer the long short summer night of teeth-chattering cold, nor the Killer Fog, nor the afternoon sun, nor salt air. There was a roughness to the inside that I didn't like. Need to sand it smooth, rub it with a tack cloth and apply another coat of varnish. Now, the outside is a different story. Virtually flawless, if I do say so myself. Four coats. Period. Sooner or later, something else will have to be done with this door, I'm sure. My guess is later, but I've never lived really too near Canada, so what do I know. I have lived HERE for over 50 years, though, and I like to think I'm right on this one. If not, I think I'll be able to take whatever further action is required in the future. None of this a chore to me. My days of "producing" are over, unless production includes taking in money for nothing and your chicks for free. One of these years, who knows, I may have to take a trip to Home Depot and picked up another door. I was going to oil the door, that was my first thought. But, hey, I went with exterior grade varnish. I figured that was the ticket in a Mediterean climate, seeing that's usually been the product of choice because it works. The other alternative was polyeurathane, but that's semi-rube and that's the one that cracks. Paint was out of the question. Full Rube. Look, I'm at peace with my decision. Call it my humble version of the copper gutters.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:17:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Used to have a problem with the bottle myself. Sauternes. Wife wouldn't let it in the house after I tied that one on, let me tell you. Could always make myself understood, though.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:12:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: If Bill Bennett were here we could offer him odds that Pete wasn't drinking.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:11:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, as usual, you even confused your won confusion. You spew political confu-sion. Your specialty. Mine is demonstrating your inherent socialist, racist, asocial, crime defending, thieving agendas that invariably underlie every single driveled word, idea or thought emanating from that pie hole of crusted oblomovism.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:11:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: That didn't clear anything up for me, tell you what.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:10:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bard of the Island has spoken. Or the lunatic at the library computer.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 21:09:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks, Pete. You've cleared it all up except for the one about not having a calling for political confusion. Stilled stumped.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:53:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Socialist regimes tithe?
sign me up!
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:52:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's the fog. Watch. Many a fine varnished vessel has disintegrated in that coastal fog. You think your door stands a chance? Watch.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:44:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Also, those long cold summer days in SF, nights should peel the varnish off any shiny new door purchased with the tithings of a socialist regime."
now I see
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:43:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Shock and awe.
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- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:40:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gee, I would have thought your peyotic ability was good enough to miss the comma required on this quote between SF and night, but lo and behold, it was the days that were missing as I intended. Anyway, the idea was comprehendable probably even to Sagan who is likely right now peering into and oblisk saying: "It's full of stars!" ZZZZ, oh well. "Also, those long cold summer [days]in SF[,] nights should peel the varnish off any shiny new door purchased with the tithings of a socialist regime. Pete� - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:23:14 (EDT)" Talk about liberal confusion, I msut admit my rushed thinking and addlemania really short circuited that one. I'm sure the varnish will crack either way. Especially in the cool (cold) humid foggy days ahead. Watch. It is guaranteed based on his failure to warm the varnish and door when applied for a strnger bond. Watch. Next he'll be varnishin gthat pension that went tits up with the malaise of teh Cliton "economy" asleep at teh switch on corporate fraud and overspending while also overtaxing. It always does with a socialsit. Which reminds me, Hittler actually got 19 votes when he ran as a communist back in the early days. Of course, you socialsits will all be in denial as to how much closer you are to his impersonal "the sum is greater than the parts" mentality. But then again, parts is parts whether you run a gulag or a concentration camp. It is all about socialsim. You birds' fave.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:33:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: I loved the late Ronald Reagan!
Harlan St. Wolf
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 20:01:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: The 1980's! That was Reagan's decade! The Big Monkey! Ten years of trickle-down! Sully, how could you?
Your Buddy, Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 19:41:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The bottom line is that the U.S. government is going to go seriously broke in a few years because of demographic pressure and entitlement growth. Yet the current administration is merrily adding to the national debt by not one but two big tax cuts, while pushing spending to heights unseen since LBJ opened the spigots. I'm sorry but we saw the consequences of that kind of combination in the 1980s and it took a decade to bring the budget back to balance. The fact that the Democrats are no better is not an argument. It makes Bush's negligence even worse.
Andrew Sullivan, Glint's Pal
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 19:29:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not going to waste any more time on this non-issue. It has no legs.
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 19:24:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Halliburton was fined $3.8 million in 1995 for re-exporting U.S. goods through a foreign subsidiary to Libya in violation of U.S. sanctions.The fine was not enough to stop the company from dancing with the devil. It still has dealings in Libya. Now, with the U.S. takeover of Iraq, Halliburton has hit the jackpot. It has only recently been made clear that an "emergency" no-bid contract given in March to the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root covers far more than the limited task of fighting oil well fires. The company has been given control of the Iraqi oil operations, including oil distribution. In addition to doing business in countries that have sponsored terrorism, Halliburton has been accused of overcharging the U.S. government for work it did in the 1990's. And last year the company agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to ward off possible criminal charges for price gouging. Their reward was a secret no-bid contract, potentially worth billions, to run Iraq's oil operations. Halliburton and its subsidiaries are virtuosos at gaming the system. It's a slithery enterprise with its rapacious tentacles in everybody's pockets. It benefits from doing business with the enemy, from its relationship with the U.S. military when the U.S. is at war with the enemy, and from contracts to help rebuild the defeated enemy. Meanwhile, the flag-waving yahoos are hyperventilating over nonissues like the Dixie Chicks.
No legs
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 19:18:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: I understand why living near Canada would explain the reason for having Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, inaddition to an Equator, but what would living next to Colorado have to do with it? Would you have to live near Canada and Colorado simultaneously, or could you live near each of them consecutively? Sometimes Pete's posts raise more confusion than they give answers, at least for me.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:12:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's not hard to see why Republicans are in trouble on the environmental front. The environment has become a mom-and-apple-pie issue in the United States, and the Republicans are on the wrong side of it. According to a Gallup poll released in April, sixty-one percent of Americans say they are either active participants in or sympathizers with the environmental movement. Eighty percent favor stricter emissions standards for business. Only seven percent endorse the Bush-Cheney view that government is regulating too much. But that hasn't stopped the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress from doing all they can to relax environmental regulations. Whether it's more arsenic in drinking water, killing the Kyoto protocol, pushing for expanded logging and limited wilderness, or putting industry executives in charge of dozens of regulatory agencies, Bush has pursued the most nakedly pro-corporate agenda in memory.
heard a pubbie say they don't believe in polls
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:11:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: The summer nights are long in Frisco? Can't they do anything like the rest of America?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:06:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Enough of this! It's obvious you have no calling for political confusion!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:03:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's a tie-in between the movement of the sun, long short summer nights and varnish degradation. How else do you explain the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:02:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: They sell varnish in Frisco? Why?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:00:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: They put it on the shelves hoping some newly-arrived warm weather rube will buy it.
Old Frisco trick
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 18:00:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: The varnish peels because of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn? Is that what he means? I feel as though I'm not getting half of this.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:59:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: The real crime is they even SELL varnish in San Francisco. There ought to be a law against it!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:47:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the earth moves in nice, neat circles around the sun, but it's the movement of the sun that causes some days to be longer than others. Just as I thought!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:45:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the sun moving around the center of the Milky Way is what makes the days in San Francisco longer in the summer?
i'll be danged
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:41:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd know about the movement of the sun if you had lived near Canada too.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:30:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: I beg to differ. Pete knows all about "the movement of the sun."
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:27:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why, is Glint a liar, too?
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:26:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can also take Glint's claims of owning a deck with a grain of salt.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:25:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: I know no more about pensions than Pete knows about varnish, cold weather or, well...anything.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:25:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, you think it was me acting like I know something about pensions. Nah, I just have a pension. What the fuck do I know?
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:23:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: San Francisco isn't cold in the summer. It's foggy quite often in some parts, I know, but there are probably more clear days than ones that start out foggy, and the fog seldom lasts all day. What's this thing about the haole living near Canada and Colorado? Where is that? Southern Idaho? To any of you who take statements by Mark Twain as necessarily the truth, you shouldn't
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:23:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Obviously none of you liberals have a calling for political confusion! Doink!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:21:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's the problem with pensioners. They think they know everything about pensions just because they have one. This is like Pete claiming he knows how to find the planets in reference to Orion's belt just because he owns a telescope. Or Glint thinking he understands a Man of the Sail just because he's got a deck.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:19:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mark Twain didn't say that thing about the coldest winter being a summer in SF, but somebody did. I find a windbreaker works quite well, maybe a coat two or three days a year when the temps sink into the low 40s at night. Twain did write a good one about travelling by carriage to the Cliff House in winter and how cold it was. Nevertheless, I've got to go with the thermometer on this one. All I know is I brought my Frisco wardrobe to Ohio when I was young. The first day it snowed, I quickly realized how little I knew about actual cold. Went out and spent 200 1965 dollars on suitable clothing. I couldn't help but notice how many doors were varnished in the face of all reason.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:18:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's easy, Clyde. It was about drying varnish and crimping aversion, tra la la. Big words, true, but lots of sense to the way they're strung together, if you stand on your head and squint your left eye.
patriot
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:17:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, Pensioneer, I'm glad somebody around here understands what this Pete is trying to say. I it's sure way the hell out of my district.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:13:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll that guy who got crushed was a socialist.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:12:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, the rich golden tint. That's what I achieved with the varnish on the exterior door. Too bad it was all for naught, given the frigid night time temperatures. Alas.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:10:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Got something against varnish, Glint? The climate in Maryland would seem tailor-made for varnish.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:05:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Varnishing an exterior door in SF??? You fool! Those 55 degree summer nights will strip it right off! Not to mention those 45 degree winter nights.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:04:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's a "clear" stain, but it does give the wood a nice rich golden tint. Martha Stewart might think it's a "good thing" if she wasn't busy with her other problem.
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:02:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: "I guess the Pensioner's surrender on the political front gives him more free time to opine on such things as drying varnish. Perhaps that was his calling instead of political confusion." - Pete. Right. Political confusion is not my calling I guess. Sigh.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:02:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Newsmine Names Related Names � Peggy Faulkner SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A hiker was crushed by a falling 5-ton boulder after he pushed a friend out of the rock's path, authorities said. Seth Buhr, 22, was hiking with three friends in Big Cottonwood Canyon, about 15 miles southeast of Salt Lake City , when the boulder fell as the group was taking a break beside a waterfall Wednesday, Salt Lake County sheriff's spokeswoman Peggy Faulkner said. Two of the hikers noticed a shift in the rocks above Buhr and a woman, and yelled for them get out of the way. Buhr pushed the woman into a pool before the boulder crashed down on him.
PICTURES..........................?
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 17:01:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, Pete is posting the irrelevant stuff today? The old switcheroo, eh?
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:54:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too cold at night for varnish?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:52:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Stain? Why stain it?
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:51:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops, my mistake. The stain was only $75/bucket - or $15/gallon. Forgot that I'd also bought a few other things in the same transaction. Good thing I double checked the receipt just now. Let me know if you need any further details.
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:47:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Door maintenance? Brush away. I applied a 2nd coat of stain on the deck's deck before finishing finishing the mulching, one J.D. bucket at a time. The deck stain's cost about $90 for a five gallon bucket, so I may as well try and use it up. After a couple of years sitting in the bucket it won't be any good for next time, and I'll have to buy a new bucket anyway because I used about 3.5 gallons out of this one on the first coat.
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:44:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: As for political comments, I reliquished my rights to that by demonstating against my country whilst on foreing soil. Now I can only bow my head in shame and hope for leniency from the tribunal.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:42:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nice trivia there, Pete. I believe the issue was varnish and how it might stand up to the elements. Now, regardless of the length of nights (darkness having little to do with the issue,) you must admit that "cold" as the nights in SF might be, they are never really COLD. Not in the sense that Nebraska nights are cold, or New York nights are cold or even Sacramento nights are cold, in the winter. By your silly statement, varnish could only be a coating of choice in Florida. Here in America. And, of course the days are longer in the summer than the winter, but you were the fool who referred to the long summer nights in San Francisco. Now you tell us the nights are SHORTER in the summer. Which is it, Pete? Does San Francisco have long summer nights? Compared to where? Does the sun still set in the west. Will the varnish make it or not? Geesh.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:38:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess the Pensioner's surrender on the political front gives him more free time to opine on such things as drying varnish. Perhaps that was his calling instead of political confusion. Anything is better than the apparent short sighted liberal inanities. But he knows this, but is "too cool" to admit any folly in his ways. Plus, it would crimp his asocial aversion to any sort of conformity. Just atoms passing in the night. Tra la la ...
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:29:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, looks like the Pensioner never learned about the sun's movement and the reason for having Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, inaddition to an Equator. Clearly, the old man Pensioner was asleep at the switch during the lesson on the shady side, or lack of it, on Kilimanjaro. Here's a short snippet for the socialists on the benefits of a non-socialist mindset and/or belief in an indoctrinated education: 1) The days are longer in the summer than in the winter in SF because of the position of the sun; 2) Mark Twain may or may not have said that "The coldest summer I ever spent was in San Francisco." But, it does apply, as I know first hand (having lived near Canada and Colorado) he certainly meant it when he wrote that "you can never go without a coat in the summer in the city of San Francisco." If you were not blinded by the seething rage of socialism and the anti-American spirit, you might elarn something. I am not holding my breath. Batter up!
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:26:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Take a look at your payment options. Do they add the service credit to your account when you commit to buying it up in installments? If so, do they allow you to keep making the payments after retirement, or must it all be paid for before retirement? I can help you with this but I need more information. It's possible you can derive the benefit of an increased retirement allowance and have payments after retirement deducted from the increased allowance. All depends on their rules.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:17:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not me. Owe $8k to buy in for time spent as temp, and $18k interest on that. No free lunch. Got to keep the nose to the grindstone a few more years.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:07:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't think I didn't hesitate before posting about the door. I had to weigh whether it was worth the risk of Glint cutting and pasting a couple thousand words about shellac, closets and wood pulp before I took the plunge.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:06:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, that's what did in the old door. Moisture, afternoon sun. It was a cheap shit door but it did last about 8 years before the elements did it in. I figure this new one is good for about 30 years or longer. But, hey, it may need some more varnish along the way and I'm prepared to do the job.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 16:03:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you're lucky, Glint will google up a series of irrelevant door-related articles and post them. I'm still sorting through the ones on the topic of bearings for a hint of Nebrasky wisdom.
Gasket
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:57:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: That door disintigrated because of the afternoon sun hammering it, and the rain and fog as well. That's why we don't put interior doors on the exterior, doncha know. Even if you had varnished it, the sun would have eaten right into it with that photoelectric atom-jacking. I suppose you could call it a radical form of light polution.
Beev
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:55:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete meant short, moderate nights. Murder on varnish. That's why there are no sailboats in San Francisco. Duh!
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:43:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: The old door was shot. It was really an interior door. Made of particle board which was disintegrating from the short, moderate nights after 12 years.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:34:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Besides that, the nights aren't particularly long when you live you live in the western edge of the last place the sun sets in the mainland US. They're short nights, not long nights. So, the sum it all up, it's neither cold in any kind of relative sense and the nights are short. I think the varnish will make it.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:32:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: If you'd known you'd have to varnish it, I guess you would have stayed with the old door, eh?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:29:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's why there are no ships north of the tropic of cancer. The varnish won't stick.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:28:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm sure the pineapple's joshing post is hilarious, but don't have time to figure it out.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:27:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: The outside varnishing is done. I'm not sure just how 55 degree nights threaten it, but I'll take my chances.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:27:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Bush administration, Clinton said, "is still focused on defeating terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and that's good, but not good enough. The power of our example is just as important as our military might." Clinton also took aim at the growing budget deficit and Bush's tax cut proposals � all issues that are being raised by the nine Democrats who are running for president in 2004. Sunday's crowd at Tougaloo made it plain who many of them would like to see in the White House. "I think if you were to take a vote here, they'd vote for Bill Clinton if he was running again," said Jerry Keahey, class of '61.
Remember when we had a grown-up president? An elected president at that?
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:23:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'd get those claw marks off the back door before you apply the varnish. Also, those long cold summer in SF nights should peel the varnish off any shiny new door purchased with the tithings of a socialist regime.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:23:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Went to see John Hammond at Yoshi's night before last. Great show. About half were Tom Waits songs, plus stuff from his new album - Spider and the Fly, Same Thing, Money Honey, et al.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:22:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: In reality abortion prevents cancer. On the fetus.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:16:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Houston -- Texas approved one of the nation's most sweeping abortion "counseling" laws Wednesday, requiring doctors, among other things, to warn women that abortion might lead to breast cancer -- a correlation that does not exist, according to the American Cancer Society and federal researchers. In February, the National Cancer Institute -- the federal government's cancer research organization -- asked more than 100 of the world's experts to review more than 30 studies that have been conducted and attempt to resolve the issue. Their conclusion: Having an abortion "does not increase a woman's subsequent risk of developing breast cancer."
Yeah, right. And I suppose masturbation doesn't cause blindness. HA!
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:10:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Your loss.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:07:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Notice how Pete refrains from posting more than a sentence or two now, because he is afraid of having his stupidities explicated. That's a minor victory over mediocracy.
patriot
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 15:05:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: It would have been shameful to paint over the fine wood. Thus the varnish. Oil-based spar varnish, applied with a two inch bristle brush. Four coats on the outside, two on the inside, sanded lightly between coats, dontcha know. The door edges are all that's left. It's a five minute job that will allow me to contemplate my crimes against America as I work.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:56:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: I think the whole WMD thing was just a ploy to humiliate Powell and render him unelectable when Snippy bottoms out in the polls next year.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:55:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: If saying there are no weapons of mass destruction isn't treason, nothing is.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:54:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why varnish? What's wrong with paint? What's wrong with good old American bullet-proof urathane?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:49:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: JON CARROLL: America's television viewers are confused and alarmed. Where is the twinkly, wisecracking star of last season's surprise hit? Just as we were getting used to inviting him into our living rooms, he unaccountably disappeared. A lonely nation asks: Where is Donald Rumsfeld? During the war on Iraq, he was all over the place, announcing victories, minimizing setbacks, ridiculing critics. He allowed it to be known that he had remade the Army as a swift third-millennium fighting machine and that we were seeing the result on the sands of Iraq. Now we are waging peace in Iraq with the same soldiers who waged the war, and Rumsfeld is AWOL. One would hate to think that's because the peace is not going as well as the war. Surely it could not be because the Pentagon failed to predict that ethnic tensions and rampant lawlessness would mean that the Army would be forced into police work. It takes a big man to face the press when things get tough. Res ipsa loquitur loudly. A while ago, I called the American presence in Iraq an "occupation." I was quickly corrected by patriots. The American liberators had no plans to occupy the country. Kick Saddam out, accept huzzahs from grateful freedom fighters, return home. So now we control the government of Iraq. We are deciding who can serve in a new government. American troops patrol the streets. American diplomats try to broker tensions between Shi'ites and Sunnis, between Arabs and Kurds. Americans run the economy and are considering taking over the banks as the dollar has fallen against the dinar. If that's not occupation, what is it? A really long game of Risk? Once it was obvious that war was inevitable, I was in favor of an occupation; I was alarmed to hear that plans did not call for one. If we overthrow the leader of a nation and make pariahs out of his supporters, it is only right that we stick around until the nation gets working again. That's what we said we'd do in Afghanistan, and we are slowly backing out of that commitment. Afghanistan is, frankly, boring. We've got Kabul locked down; warlords are running the rest of nation just as in the pre-Taliban days, and the Taliban are still lurking, ever watchful. We did do serious damage to al Qaeda, which was part of the point, but the entire country took a body blow, even though it was not the ostensible target. America has occupied other vanquished countries successfully. The process started with admitting that we were in the occupation business. We lent a hand to our enemies, understanding that an impoverished, chaotic Japan or Germany was not in the best interests of world peace. World peace does not seem to be a large concern of the Bush administration. World peace is for cowards. Lately, the second American big cheese since the war ended, L. Paul Bremer (and it does not inspire confidence when the American occupying administration is about as stable as the government of the Ivory Coast), has ordered that looters be shot on sight. As we have seen in our big cities, shooting looters is not as easy as it sounds. Looting is a spectator sport; crowds gather. Shooting a bystander would not be a good thing. Besides, suppose a soldier only wounded a looter. Who would arrest the looter? To what jail would he be taken? Who would guard him? Before what magistrate would he be brought? According to which laws would he be tried? Who would judge him? That's the trouble with occupation: You need a plan. Since we have found no weapons of mass destruction and no significant links to terrorism, we must have invaded Iraq to free its people from a cruel dictator. Freedom should not be just another word for nothing left to lose.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:48:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ask them to send you to Gitmo. I hear there's some primo bud down that way.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:48:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: One could explain to 14:34 about satire, but it would be entirely too satirical to do so.
anyone for irony?
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:46:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're dealing with perceptive troglos here, dudes.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:45:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, of course you should turn yourself in for treason. What's a Big Brother Bushist government good for, if not to make one think up is down, and wrong is right, and patriotism is treason, and treason is patriotism?
It's like a theme park
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:42:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: FARENHEIT 9-11: THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH TRUTH BURNS Monday, May 19, 2003 THIS FILM is about the Bush family, their extensive connection with the Bin Laden family and the environment within the USA post Sept 11. He has footage of the Bush family dining with the Bin Laden family. It elaborates on the business relationship between the families that has existed for many years. It explores how a Saudi charter plane travelled the US immediately after Sept 11 and how the FBI were pissed that they couldn't interrogate its Bin Laden passengers as they were ferried to Paris. It looks at the way in which the government used the events of Sept 11 to push their own agendas. Moore expalined that since COLUMBINE and its appearance at the Oscars he receives 6,000 pieces of fan mail a day and gets given pieces of footage that he can't talk about now but will make this perhaps the most incendiary documentary of all time. In his words 'If I don't make this, I may as well stick my head in the sand like everybody else." During question time one audience member questioned his ability to finish the film, to which his answer was "Any attempt to stop it will just create more interest." He also said he would explore the reasons as to why Blair put his arse on the line to support Bush and make a film that is funnier and more shocking than COLUMBINE. Thus began the distributor buying frenzy. FARENHEIT 9-11: THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH TRUTH BURNS will be ready for Cannes next year and release Sept in North America (prior to the elections I'm told). The Bush administration will spend a mere 3 million dollars on the investigation of the deaths of 3000 americans by Saudi Terrorists. They are blocking information. They don't want you to know what happened. They don't want you to know that the only airplanes in the air later that day (911) were filled with Bin Ladens being escorted from the US.
yes, funny about Bush and the Bin Ladens being the only ones in the air
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:40:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's right. We all know about Clinton's treason in leading the Moscow Riots and the March on Leeds right before he became a Soviet Operative. That's why this Rio thing is eating at my soul.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:40:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm doing fine except for the nagging feeling I should turn myself in to John Ashcroft for treason. I'll think about this as I varnish the new back door today.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:38:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: If demonstrating against the war while on foreign soil isn't treason, nothing is. Pensioner - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:28:03 (EDT)
Bill Cliton
Moscow, USSR - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:34:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Earth to idiots. Huffington is now an avowed catty liberal apologist. Another traitor. Benedict Arnold. Judas. The worst kind.
Yup!
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:33:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: You good, pensioner dude?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:32:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: HUFFINGTON: A White House Fluent In Language Of Fanatics By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet May 21, 2003 Maybe Karl Rove has moved his office into the "Matrix." Maybe Laurence Fishburne is auditioning for Ari Fleischer's job. Maybe it's all just a bad dream: "The White House Reloaded." I've been racking my brain, trying to reconcile the ever-widening chasm between what the White House claims to be true and what is actually true. After all, we know the president and his men are not stupid. And despite the tidal wave of misinformation pouring out of their mouths, I don't believe they are consciously lying. The best explanation I can come up with for the growing gap between their rhetoric and reality is that we are being governed by a gang of out and out fanatics. The defining trait of the fanatic � be it a Marxist, a fascist, or, gulp, a Wolfowitz � is the utter refusal to allow anything as piddling as evidence to get in the way of an unshakable belief. Bush and his fellow fanatics are the political equivalent of those yogis who can hold their breath and go without air for hours. Such is their mental control, they can go without truth for, well, years. Because, in their minds, they're always right. Oopso facto. That pretty much sums up the White House m.o. on everything, from the status of al-Qaeda to the condition of post-war Iraq to the magical job-producing virtues of the latest round of tax cuts. Who else but a fanatic would have made the outrageous claim, as the president did last Friday, just four days after the deadly reemergence of al-Qaeda in Riyadh, that "the United States people are more secure, the world is going to be more peaceful"? More peaceful than what? The West Bank? In the weeks before the attacks in Riyadh, the president had repeatedly maintained that "we are winning the war on terror," and that al-Qaeda was "on the run... slowly, but surely, being decimated." So he clearly wasn't going to let a little fact like 34 dead bodies � the result of three closely coordinated suicide bomb attacks � change his mind. He was similarly unperturbed by that troubling new report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, an influential and non-partisan British think tank � released a day after the Riyadh bombings and three days before the president proclaimed us "more secure" � which found that al-Qaeda was "just as dangerous" and "even harder to identify and neutralize" than it was prior to 9/11. And just 4 hours after the president strapped on his trusty blinders and delivered his rosy vision of a more peaceful world, the tranquility was shattered by the five simultaneous suicide blasts in Casablanca. Oh well, at least we still have the upcoming Jessica Lynch TV movie to make us feel good about ourselves � give or take a few last minute rewrites by the BBC. The president's evidence-be-damned fanaticism is equally apparent when it comes to the state of post-war Iraq. "Life is returning to normal," he proclaimed just two weeks after the fall of Baghdad. "Things have settled down inside the country." Really? Just who is preparing his morning briefing papers? Pollyandy Card? Little Condoleezza Sunshine? Did he bother consulting any Iraqis about "normal life" there? Probably not. One of the keys to being a flourishing fanatic is to surround yourself with those of a shared � and equally deluded � mindset. And according to that mindset, the definition of "settling down" can be expanded to include rampant looting, sporadic water and electrical service, hospitals in disastrous condition, outbreaks of cholera and dysentery, streets filled with uncollected garbage and raw sewage, half a dozen ransacked nuclear facilities, missing barrels of radioactive material, growing anti-American sentiment, and disparate ethnic and religious groups arming themselves. No wonder Don Rumsfeld called the media's reporting of all this "an overstatement." It's just another "normal" weekend at Camp David. And don't bother trying to make the case that everything isn't hunky-dory in Baghdad to rabid acolytes such as Jay Garner. Like the president, the demoted viceroy doesn't care what the facts indicate � to him even a looted and punctured glass can be half-full. "We ought to be beating our chests every day," he said, dismissing the notion that any of us should feel bad about the problems besetting Iraq. "We ought to look in a mirror and get proud. We ought to stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say, 'Damn, we're Americans.'" That's sure to win us some more goodwill around the world. Hoo-rah, and pass the Kool-Aid, General Jay! And if you think the president is saving his fanaticism only for the international sector, think again. His dogged devotion to selling his latest round of tax cuts for the wealthy as a "jobs creation plan" � despite an avalanche of evidence that it will do nothing of the sort � proves that he can be just as fervent on the home front. "Jobs are on the line," said Bush after the Senate passed its version of the tax cut. "I call on Congress to resolve their differences quickly so I can sign a bill that will help create jobs, boost take home pay and spur economic growth." And for those with "...illionaire" as part of their economic description, it probably will. It obviously makes no difference to the president that 10 Nobel Prize winning economists have condemned his tax cuts as "not the answer" to high unemployment, or that a new Congressional Budget Office study found that the "jobs and growth package" will actually have very little effect on long-term growth. Not interested. Not listening. The 1.4 million jobs the White House repeatedly says the tax cuts will create are more a matter of a fanatic's faith than of dispassionate forecasting. The fact is there are now 2.1 million more unemployed Americans than when Bush took office � the vast majority of them having lost their jobs after the president's initial $1.3 trillion tax cut was passed in 2001. Difficult evidence to ignore � unless "ignore the evidence" is your eleventh commandment. A popular definition of insanity is: doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Well, that seems to be the White House theory on the power of tax cuts to produce new jobs: It didn't work before; let's try it again. Welcome to the D.C. Matrix. Arianna Huffington is the author of "Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America."
of course they're fanatics, arianna--what took you so long?
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:31:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm with L.G. on the Times. Now let's move on.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:29:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: If demonstrating against the war while on foreign soil isn't treason, nothing is.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:28:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Occupation of Iraq illegal, Blair told Clare Dyer, legal correspondent Thursday May 22, 2003 The Guardian Leaked advice from the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, reveals that he warned Tony Blair two months ago that attempts at postwar reconstruction of Iraq by US-British occupying authorities would be unlawful without a further UN resolution. Lord Goldsmith, the government's chief law officer, told the prime minister that the longer the occupation went on and the more the actions of the occupying authorities departed from their main task of disarmament, the harder it would be to justify the occupation as lawful. The advice, published in today's New Statesman, was written in a memo to Mr Blair and circulated to a small number of government departments on March 26. The magazine says it follows oral advice from Lord Goldsmith at a cabinet meeting six days into the war, making clear that all activity beyond essential maintenance of security would be unlawful without a further security council resolution. "My view is that a further security council resolution is needed to authorise imposing reform and restructuring of Iraq and its government," Lord Goldsmith wrote. He listed specifically the limitations placed on the authority of an occupying power under international law. These included attempts at "wide-ranging reforms of governmental and administrative structures", any alterations in the status of public officials or judges except in exceptional cases, changes to the penal laws, and the imposition of major structural economic reforms. Lord Goldsmith stressed that any military action must be limited to achieving Iraqi disarmament. He wrote: "The government has concluded that the removal of the current Iraqi regime from power is necessary to secure disarmament, but the longer the occupation of Iraq continues, and the more the tasks undertaken by an interim administration depart from the main objective, the more difficult it will be to justify the lawfulness of the occupation." His opinion throws into doubt the legality of the efforts of the US-led office of reconstruction and humanitarian assistance to form an interim Iraqi administration.
ILLEGAL OCCUPATION? HELL, IT WAS AN ILLEGAL WAR.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:27:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess I was a traitor while in Rio in that I briefly joined and anti-war demonstration across the street from the American Consulate Office. Somehow it seemed like the right thing to do after two weeks of decadence.
Pensioner
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:25:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Talk about eugenics emergencies, time to get the jismheads fixed up with Ann Coulter. Never be able to get one of them awesome Dixie Chicks to give 'em the time of day, nosirree. Painful, rejection. Yep.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:24:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: To blunt French complaints about the resolution's open-ended grant of authority until "an internationally recognized, representative government" is chosen by Iraqis, a new amendment requires the Security Council to review the implementation of this resolution within 12 months. In the current draft, the seven-year-old oil-for-food program would be phased out over six months, during which time the secretary general of the United Nations would retain the authority to decide which of the $10 billion in approved contracts made by Saddam Hussein's government would be honored.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:21:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Lee Hannland thinks she's getting a tax refund. Yo, Lee, did anyone ever tell you you're one wide-awake chick?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:19:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, that lock-box stuff was about your money, Lee, the payroll tax or self-employment tax, which you pay. Since you probably pay very little if any income tax, it is Bush who is robbing you. Don't trouble your head about it, though. We're at orange, and shouldn't let ourselves be distracted by trifles.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:18:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: I like the way Pete worked in the traitors-in-Rio angle. Slick.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:15:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Texas Deleted Documents About Search for Democrats By KATE ZERNIKE OUSTON, May 21 � The fight over the flight of Democratic legislators intensified yesterday as the Texas Department of Public Safety admitted it had destroyed documents that were collected last week as state troopers searched for the missing lawmakers. What started out as a local partisan dispute about redistricting escalated into accusations of a cover-up and abuse of federal power. Indeed, federal authorities are investigating how the Department of Homeland Security became involved in the search for the lawmakers. Today's uproar began after The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that a commander at the Department of Public Safety issued an e-mail notice instructing that all "notes, correspondence, photos, etc." concerning the search "be destroyed immediately." "It just doesn't smell right," said State Representative Garnet F. Coleman of Houston, a leader of the move by 51 Democrats to go to Oklahoma to deny House Republicans a quorum for a vote on redistricting. "Clearly, there's some people trying to remove information, or delete information, that is damaging to their reputation," Mr. Coleman said. "We question the motive on the destruction. And what we really want to know is, who told the Department of Public Safety to do it?" Democrats in Texas and in the state's delegation in Washington have asked for an investigation into why the federal Department of Homeland Security was called in on the case.
why? because that's what power is all about!
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:15:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glad to hear we're getting a tax refund. If it had been Gore, he'd try to glom onto my money by stuffing it into an air tight iron clad lock box full of chads.
Lee Hannland
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:14:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: L.G., you should know by now that there's serious, and then there's Pete and Glit.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:13:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: When do you suppose the New York Times loomed so large as an evil force on Pete and Glit's radar screens? Ann Coulter would be slapping her thighs if she could see how they've adopted her penis envy of the newspaper.
L.G.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:11:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, if you take away the fake "sunset" provisions, the tax cut is more like a trillion dollars. I wonder if poor pathetic Pete thinks this installment will create as many jobs as the last one?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:08:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jayson Blair is slapping his thighs? Why? None of the boys ever did that down home.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:06:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wrong, L.G., it was New York Time "mis"management. As in "a la socialista" agenda. The Times is a mouth piece for treasonous liberal thieves. The enemies of America.
Pete�
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:04:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Thursday embraced a dramatically reduced compromise version of his tax-cut plan Tuesday, calling the $350 billion package "good for American workers, good for American families." In a rare trip to Capitol Hill, the president thanked the GOP-led Congress for passing an AIDS spending bill and promised to make Medicare reform a top issue when lawmakers return from a Memorial Day recess. He claimed victory on the economic package, though the tax cuts were less than half of what he had requested. Indeed, Bush once called a $350 billion tax-cutting plan "itty bitty." "The principle of the bill is pretty simple -- that we believe the more money people have in their pockets the more likely it is somebody is going to be able to find work in America," Bush told reporters. He fielded no questions. "This package will help ease economic anxiety," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a written statement. "It'll pump up our consumer-driven economy. It'll put more money in individuals' and families' pockets."
this is how a REAL American president starts to chip away at socialism. Next up: spending cuts (demonrat policies)
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:02:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: I eagerly looked up that Coulter piece, realizing it was Thursday and that the piss-font postings have been late, but was disillusioned to find that it was just more technical analysis of New York Times management. What is this, journalism school? Let's get back to masturbating in the sinks, people.
L.G.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 14:00:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: We now have a choice on how to take our weekly Ann. Solid gold font (13:51) or with white space (13:17).
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:56:10 (EDT)

My two cents are:

AND FOR OUR RESIDENT TRAITOR LIBERALS JUST BACK FROM RIO, HERE'S MORE ANNE COULTER TO SHOVE UP YOUR ... The Weather's Great, Wish I Were Here May 21, 2003 RIO DE JANEIRO � Actually I'm in Brooklyn right now, but I'm counting on my employer to follow the strict fact-checking methods in operation at the New York Times. Under the excellent system of checks and balances at the Times, reporter Jayson Blair kept turning in reports with datelines from places like West Virginia and Maryland � while submitting expense receipts for the same time period from Joe's Bar in Brooklyn. You can't blame him. He couldn't very well turn in articles with the dateline "My Mom's House." In the current Newsweek magazine, Seth Mnookin reports that Blair was forced to resign from the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, The Diamondback, for precisely the same misconduct he engaged in at the Times � phony reporting, plagiarism, irresponsibility and fantastic lies. Once known as "the Newspaper of Record," the Times is now trying out the motto: "Almost as Accurate as the Maryland Diamondback." Editor Howell Raines ignored Blair's repeated, brazen mendacity. He ignored his editors' urgent demands that Blair be fired. He ignored press conferences in which public officials remarked that Blair's stories for the Times were full of lies. Raines ignored it all � until finally one day, another newspaper caught Blair plagiarizing one of its stories and blew the whistle on the Times. And then Raines claimed to be shocked to discover that Blair was engaging in "a pathological pattern of misrepresentation, fabricating and deceiving." After all, the Times had issued Blair a series of warnings. One sternly worded memo urged Blair to be "more black." (That's a joke. In the immortal words of Jayson Blair to Newsweek: People should not "believe everything they read in the newspapers." He really did say that.) This episode is considered a low point in the paper's 152-year history. Not as low as when it endorsed Jimmy Carter, but still pretty low. As has now been widely reported, publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger responded to the meltdown at the Times by bringing a stuffed toy moose to an internal meeting with reporters to discuss the burgeoning scandal last week. Also at the meeting, Raines finally admitted the blindingly obvious fact that he engaged in egregious mismanagement because Blair was black. Raines said: "Does that mean I personally favored Jayson? Not consciously, but you have a right to ask if I as a white man from Alabama with those convictions gave him one chance too many by not stopping his appointment to the sniper team. When I look into my heart for the truth of that, the answer is yes." So, for being a warm-hearted white liberal, he wants a pat on the head (much as his black maid, Grady, used to give him). Raines said he would not resign, and Pinch said he would not accept Raines' resignation if offered. Which brings us to Pinch. While we are having a debate about diversity and race-based policies, can't we all agree that no one should be defending nepotism? In one of 4 billion columns attacking President Bush this year, Times columnist Maureen Dowd accused him of getting into Yale only because he was a legacy. She sneered at the argument of White House aides that Bush also earned a degree from Harvard Business School though no Bush family member went there. Dowd responded: "They seemed genuinely surprised when told that Harvard would certainly have recognized the surname and wagered on the future success of the person with it." I believe Sulzberger is a pretty well-known name, too. The Sulzberger-Ochs dynasty has controlled the Times for a century and a half. A college admissions committee would not have to wager on young Pinch's future success. It was his birthright to run the most powerful newspaper in the world someday. No messy elections could stand in his way. And yet, it appears that Harvard managed to turn him down. He was a legacy at Columbia University, but they didn't want him either. (Those must have been some low SAT scores.) Maureen might want to stay mum on the subject of dumb rich kids, at least for the next three or four decades. Like Raines, Pinch blithely washed his hands of the stunning mismanagement at the Times, saying, "The person who did this is Jayson Blair." Commenting through his spokesman, a small stuffed moose, Pinch made the Churchillian pronouncement: "We didn't do this right. We regret that deeply. We feel it deeply. It sucks." Uday Hussein had more right to be in charge of Iraq's Olympic committee than Pinch Sulzberger does to be running a newspaper. Under the race-based admissions at the University of Michigan, applicants are given four points for being a legacy and 20 points for being black. Does anyone think Pinch got only four points to be publisher of the Times? Couldn't the Sulzberger family just buy him a boat? - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:51:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: NEW YORK - Last Memorial Day, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey presented a unit of the Marines with flags that had once flown at the World Trade Center. On Thursday, Col. Richard Mills returned to ground zero to hand back the flags, which had accompanied his 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit during missions around the world, including recent combat in Iraq. Mills said that when he originally accepted the flags in honor of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, he made two promises on behalf of the Marines: "First, that we would carry them wherever we went." And second, "that we would do so with honor." "I'm here this morning to report that mission accomplished in both areas," Mills said at a ceremony overlooking the site where the World Trade Center stood.
MA, and job well done!
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:45:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Audience Boos Dixie Chicks May 22, 7:05 AM EST LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Many country music fans aren't ready to forgive the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for comments critical of President Bush: Voters rejected the group's nominations for three Academy of Country Music Awards and the audience booed the mention of their name. Presenter Vince Gill urged the audience at Wednesday night's show to "Stop it, stop it." He added: "You know who gets blessed when you forgive � you." Maines has been in the country music doghouse since she told a London audience on March 10, before the start of the war in Iraq, that "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
GOOD! It's time to start the war agaisnt this kind opf treason. Dont let these liebral mutherfuckers ahve one inch. This is the real war. Liberal traitors! POW!!!
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:43:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: That makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. Ain't never seen no pinched loaf that was white. Always brown, and stinky.
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:33:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Imagine that, a guy who goes by the name of "Pinch." Pinch flushed Jayson "Loaf" Blair, darky.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:27:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: She said "pinch" again. Like "pinch another loaf" or something.
huh. huh huh. uh huh huh.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:23:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Latest on Jayson " The AA A-A" Blair
Ann Coulter

RIO DE JANEIRO � Actually I'm in Brooklyn right now, but 
I'm counting on my employer to follow the strict fact-
checking methods in operation at the New York Times. Under 
the excellent system of checks and balances at the Times, 
reporter Jayson Blair kept turning in reports with 
datelines from places like West Virginia and Maryland � 
while submitting expense receipts for the same time period 
from Joe's Bar in Brooklyn. You can't blame him. He 
couldn't very well turn in articles with the dateline "My 
Mom's House." 

In the current Newsweek magazine, Seth Mnookin reports that 
Blair was forced to resign from the student newspaper at 
the University of Maryland, The Diamondback, for precisely 
the same misconduct he engaged in at the Times � phony 
reporting, plagiarism, irresponsibility and fantastic lies. 
Once known as "the Newspaper of Record," the Times is now 
trying out the motto: "Almost as Accurate as the Maryland 
Diamondback." 

Editor Howell Raines ignored Blair's repeated, brazen 
mendacity. He ignored his editors' urgent demands that 
Blair be fired. He ignored press conferences in which 
public officials remarked that Blair's stories for the 
Times were full of lies. Raines ignored it all � until 
finally one day, another newspaper caught Blair 
plagiarizing one of its stories and blew the whistle on the 
Times. 
 
And then Raines claimed to be shocked to discover that 
Blair was engaging in "a pathological pattern of 
misrepresentation, fabricating and deceiving." After all, 
the Times had issued Blair a series of warnings. One 
sternly worded memo urged Blair to be "more black." (That's 
a joke. In the immortal words of Jayson Blair to Newsweek: 
People should not "believe everything they read in the 
newspapers." He really did say that.) 

This episode is considered a low point in the paper's 152-
year history. Not as low as when it endorsed Jimmy Carter, 
but still pretty low. As has now been widely reported, 
publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger responded to the 
meltdown at the Times by bringing a stuffed toy moose to an 
internal meeting with reporters to discuss the burgeoning 
scandal last week. 

Also at the meeting, Raines finally admitted the blindingly 
obvious fact that he engaged in egregious mismanagement 
because Blair was black. Raines said: "Does that mean I 
personally favored Jayson? Not consciously, but you have a 
right to ask if I as a white man from Alabama with those 
convictions gave him one chance too many by not stopping 
his appointment to the sniper team. When I look into my 
heart for the truth of that, the answer is yes." So, for 
being a warm-hearted white liberal, he wants a pat on the 
head (much as his black maid, Grady, used to give him). 

Raines said he would not resign, and Pinch said he would 
not accept Raines' resignation if offered. Which brings us 
to Pinch. 

While we are having a debate about diversity and race-based 
policies, can't we all agree that no one should be 
defending nepotism? In one of 4 billion columns attacking 
President Bush this year, Times columnist Maureen Dowd 
accused him of getting into Yale only because he was a 
legacy. She sneered at the argument of White House aides 
that Bush also earned a degree from Harvard Business School 
though no Bush family member went there. Dowd 
responded: "They seemed genuinely surprised when told that 
Harvard would certainly have recognized the surname and 
wagered on the future success of the person with it." 

I believe Sulzberger is a pretty well-known name, too. The 
Sulzberger-Ochs dynasty has controlled the Times for a 
century and a half. A college admissions committee would 
not have to wager on young Pinch's future success. It was 
his birthright to run the most powerful newspaper in the 
world someday. No messy elections could stand in his way. 
And yet, it appears that Harvard managed to turn him down. 
He was a legacy at Columbia University, but they didn't 
want him either. (Those must have been some low SAT 
scores.) Maureen might want to stay mum on the subject of 
dumb rich kids, at least for the next three or four 
decades. 

Like Raines, Pinch blithely washed his hands of the 
stunning mismanagement at the Times, saying, "The person 
who did this is Jayson Blair." Commenting through his 
spokesman, a small stuffed moose, Pinch made the 
Churchillian pronouncement: "We didn't do this right. We 
regret that deeply. We feel it deeply. It sucks." Uday 
Hussein had more right to be in charge of Iraq's Olympic 
committee than Pinch Sulzberger does to be running a 
newspaper. 

Under the race-based admissions at the University of 
Michigan, applicants are given four points for being a 
legacy and 20 points for being black. Does anyone think 
Pinch got only four points to be publisher of the Times? 
Couldn't the Sulzberger family just buy him a boat?

- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:17:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: So Snippy says things have settled down in Iraq and life is returning to normal.
interesting, his concept of normal
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 13:08:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: RIYADH VILLAGE, Iraq -- Elifat Rusum Saber, 14, has been nauseated, tired and bleeding from the nose since her brother brought home metal and chemicals from the neighboring Tuwaitha nuclear research center two days after the fall of Baghdad.
sounds like female trouble to me
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:59:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: With its former boy-wonder boy, Jayson Blair slapping his thighs over having "fooled the most brilliant minds in journalism," the New York Times management has gone into full naval gazing mode, appointing a committee of 20 staffers to sort out where they went wrong. Meanwhile, journalists of every stripe are squinting at anything any Timesnic does in public that might conflict with the Times' "Rule Book."
L.G.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:58:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hell yes, he's dead. Buried in his red pickup truck. So get your ear off Sam's grave and get a clue, knucklenuts.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 12:49:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sam Walton is dead? Why didn't anyone tell me?
Clyde Harrington
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:47:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Coolidge jacket, maybe? How about the Nixon jacket?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:45:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Taft jacket?
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:43:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why not get the Taft jacket from Poppy and try it on? Might work same as last time.
RNC
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:42:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Been there, done that. No, I think we're going to have to start calling them Frenchy.
Rove
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:41:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe you could pretend you found a DimboCRAP bug in your office wall, Carl.
RNC
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:40:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're proud to wear the Hoover jacket. After all, we're Republicans and can't turn our backs on our great men. It's the AWOL jacket we want to put in the closet.
Rove
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:39:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: We've got to do something to compensate for the Hoover jacket on Little George. Maybe some more triumphs in international relations?
RNC
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:38:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're not saying it's inevitable, trooper. We're just worried shitless, and looking hard for a good smear. Maybe some jism? French connection? Any ideas, little soldier?
Rove
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 11:36:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's this about the "AWOL status" becoming "a big issue?" First Enron, now this? Will the legs ever stop growing? HA HA HEE HEE!
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 08:06:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: If that was truly the case, Anonymous@01:23:42, you would have done it this way: 8o))
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 08:03:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Earlier today I was enjoying that WalMart billionaire whatisname..." You mean Sam Walton, dead guy? I enjoy the dead as much as anyone can, but I really doubt that he's in a position to render reliable economic advice. I suggest you ignore any eminations from his pie hole. Probably just pent up gas beging expressed through the process of decay. ◊ Faux Glint at 01:29.
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 07:51:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Watch out with that "pole", though. No telling what excitement Glint can work himself up to with that. He's become openly homosexual since last time you were here, in a sort of Nebrasky/juvenile way. Compared to Glint, even Pete is sophisticated.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 03:05:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's Virgil! Long time no see, Virg.
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 03:02:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: 1. Where is the weapons of mass destruction. 2. Where is Sadam 3. Where is Bin Laden 4. Where did the 2.1 million jobs go 5. Why are so many of Bush's people resigning 6. Did the Bush administration stage the rescue of the young lady I could go on and on. For all of you folks that are riding high Bush is follow exactly in his daddy's footsteps and will out of office after the next ellection. his pole numbers are exactly like his daddy's
Virgil Owen <[email protected]>
Crestline, CA God Bless America - Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 02:28:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't bother me with that. I'm still disturbed about these recent claims about the positrons and the dark matter. I hope against hope that it is just some jismating graduate student trying to make a name for himself. On the other hand, it would be good to get the key to the universe settled one way or the other.
Glint
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:29:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: What are we going to do about Kerry? The b@stard is going to stand there sneering at the little guy's AWOL status. It's going to become a big issue. Everyone will know about it, same way they knew that Gore claimed to have built the Eiffel Tower. We're doomed unless the Arabs blow something up in the red states.
RNC
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:27:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm a Negro, by the way. That's why I do it this way, :), instead of this way : )
Anonymous.
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:23:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: IMHO, it would have been more behooving to my fortune if I had spent the time inventing the umbrella. ;)
Cob Milliken, Inventor
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:21:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gave the phvck up and moved to Belem. Rains here every afternoon.
Cob Milliken, Inventor
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:20:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: BTW, I've given up. :)
Cob Milliken, Inventor
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:19:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was the only problem I ever tackled that made my head hurt, except for trying to figure out the longitude by the positions of the moons of Jupiter.
Sir Isaac Newton
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:18:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Spent my life trying to develop a fertilizer that could activate itself, without rain. Scratched my head over it for thirty-five year, and never did figure it out. There's got to be a way, but I just couldn't find it. Not in one lifetime.
Cob Milliken, Inventor
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 01:16:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: Too bad Snippy doesn't quite know what to do about the other half.
maybe math skills are on par with reading skills
- Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 00:15:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, all Snippy said was the dead ones, or the jailed ones, are not a problem. Anymore, that is.
telling it like it is!
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 22:34:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: GEORGE W. BUSH: Al Qaeda is on the run. That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly, but surely being decimated. Right now, about half of all the top al Qaeda operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, they are not a problem anymore.
then it must be someone else doing all the dastardly deeds lately
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 22:09:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: Earlier today I was enjoying that WalMart billionaire whatisname busting dirty little Bush's chops
gerunds gerunds everywhere and not a drop to drinking
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 22:06:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who's Caspar?
4 or 5 of 22
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 22:04:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Old Nebraska wives' tale.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 21:57:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fertilizer will lay dormant pending rain. A little rain and that stuff really jumps. Made the mistake once of fertilizing in May. Out here in coastal Cali it doesn't rain, usually, from May to late September. Nothing grew until the first storm. Then that fertilizer really came to life. Now I alway fertilize in September.
learned my lesson
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 21:36:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm still waiting for something on the bicycle bottom bracket. No legs?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 18:22:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, I hope it rains and activates the fertilizer.
Captain Ornamental Horticulture Book
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 18:20:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, they are all cowering and they will all continue to cower. Solrac, Caspar, Ho-hum, B'Hommad, Bill Bub Gormley, Terry Stott, all the liberals. Glit's taunts are just too much for 'em.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 18:18:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Adam is still around. I think you might be able to draw him out with some taunting.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 18:08:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unfortunately, Adam has died, dead and buried.
Captain's Log
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 17:55:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Check the log.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 16:12:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who posted the link for that web page? {01}
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:20:38 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Cumming soon! - Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:14:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Poor Glint. He always slips into the bald-faced lie, no matter how hard he tries to sidestep. Must be all that reading of New York Times blurbs posted on the freep.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:06:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, have you gone out yet to inspect the fertilizer and see if it's been activated?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:04:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Janitor isn't a relative, man. Just one of the wife's co-workers at the school.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:04:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Maybe, but at least the grass gets cut.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:02:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm having a hard time believing that Glit actually gave the lawnmower to his younger brother the janitor.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:02:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: On the one hand, you feel sorry for the poor goobers who are getting the shaft, losing their jobs and their retirement equity. On the other hand, maybe personal ruin is the modern equivalent of the blood that Thomas Jefferson said needed to fertilize the liberty tree every now and then. At least Bush's domestic victims aren't dying, except for the ones who can't get longer-term medical treatments and the very few who waste away from malnutrition.
patriot
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 15:00:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sold the Cut Cadet? Hardly. It was a gift. Think about it - the man didn't have a lawn tractor to call his own. I've found a box of spare parts - plugs, belts, filters. I'm going to track him down give those to him, and wish him godspeed.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:56:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like we got a live Republican fish here, might be better than even Hoover, who wrecked the Republican Party for 24 years, or 16 if you count Eisenhower. The difference is that the economic disaster is clearly the result of a criminal oligarchy's greed, and we have the added international affairs meltdowns all over the globe, and the Iraq disaster. I predict that by next election day even the Nebraska goober will be screaming for Snippy's head on a corn fork.
patriot
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:55:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: But they really ARE so stupid! Gliton for punishment clearly believes that down is up! It's sort of like a Jerry-Springer-watching pygmy fire ant elucidating the Nicomachean Ethics!
Captain Simile
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:53:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: So you sold him your old one? Ah the classified ads are a thousand points of light.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:52:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: How can the moronists really be so stupid?
SHOCK AND AWE
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:49:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, don't you get it? Down really IS up!
moronist view
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:48:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yeah, that Damn Clinton, balancing the damn budget, and wracking up that big fat surplus! Sure makes Dim Son look like an asshole!
jismhead
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:47:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only one that needs to apologize is Clinton. He's responsible for the Rubin-Reisch bubble that's working its way painfully through the economy. ◊ At least the widow woman's grass is cut. Helping the elderly: it's not unlike being in the peace corp. And the janitor who now has my old Cub Cadet. That is what it means to be a compassionate conservative. The thought of a man going through life without a lawn tractor was just too much to bear. [01]
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:44:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: 'Iron hand' cleric issues fatwa amid Baghdad chaos Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Wednesday May 21, 2003 Baghdad's most powerful Shia cleric warned yesterday that he would use a "hand of iron" to impose an extreme vision of Islam that could seriously challenge America's secular ambitions for Iraq. Sheikh Mohammed al-Fahtousi, a youthful hardliner, said he would enforce a new fatwa that bans alcohol, commands women to wear veils and orders cinemas to close. The sheikh appears to have considerable popular support in the vast, impoverished Shia district in eastern Baghdad formerly known as Saddam City, where his supporters stepped in swiftly to fill the power vacuum after the war. Sheikh Fahtousi, 31, admitted having up to 1,000 armed, former soldiers under his control, several of whom were guarding his office yesterday at the small al-Hekma mosque. While US troops continue to patrol most of Baghdad, none was in evidence in the Shia district yesterday. On Friday the sheikh issued his fatwa, ordering his laws to be in place by the end of this week. Several alcohol factories were attacked hours later. Yesterday Sheikh Fahtousi said Baghdad's sizeable Christian population should also follow his commands. "Our fatwa is for all the people. Alcohol is banned under every religion." A committee from the mosque would be sent to the house of any who refused to obey. "It should be a hand of iron to handle this matter. We will send these people to the Islamic courts." His words will not be welcomed by all Iraqis. The country was one of the more secular countries in the Arab world. In Baghdad, alcohol has been readily available and before the war, women often walked unveiled in the streets, studied freely at universities and, in the past, were able to find work.
THANKS, DIM SON
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:37:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: AL QAEDA MESSAGE. Full text of the audio tape which is believed to have been recorded by al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri. The tape was broadcast by the Arabic television channel al-Jazeera. " After dividing Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and Pakistan will come next. They would leave around Israel only dismembered semi states that are subservient to the United States and Israel. O Muslims, these are the facts that have been made clear to you. All the worn out and shabby masks have fallen. Here are the rulers of the Muslims with their airports, bases, and facilities. They allow their ships to pass in their water, provide them with fuel, food, and supplies and allow their planes to cross their airspace and to even take off from their airports. They welcome their armies to attack Iraq from their territories. The armies also advance from Kuwait. We have Qatar where the command of the campaign has taken up its headquarters. We also have Bahrain, which hosts the command of the Fifth Fleet. We have Egypt where war vessels pass through its canal. And we have Yemen that supplies the crusader vessels from its ports. And we have Jordan where the crusader forces are stationed and where Patriot missile batteries have been deployed to protect Israel. After all this, they shout with all hypocrisy and deception that they oppose the war on Iraq. Protests will not do you any good, neither will demonstrations or conferences. Nothing will do you good, but toting arms and taking revenge against your enemies, the Americans and the Jews. Demonstrations will not... protect your jeopardised holy places or expel an occupying enemy, nor will they deter an arrogant aggressor. The crusaders and the Jews do not understand but the language of killing and blood. They do not become convinced unless they see coffins returning to them, their interests being destroyed, their towers being torched, and their economy collapsing. O Muslims, take matters firmly against the embassies of America, England, Australia, and Norway and their interests, companies, and employees. Burn the ground under their feet, as they should not enjoy your protection, safety, or security. Expel those criminals out of your countries. Burn the ground under their feet, as they should not enjoy your protection, safety, or security. Expel those criminals out of your countries. Do not allow the Americans, the British, the Australians, the Norwegians, and the other crusaders who killed your brothers in Iraq to live in your countries, enjoy their resources, and wreak havoc in them. Learn from your 19 brothers who attacked America in its planes in New York and Washington and caused it a tribulation that it never witnessed before and is still suffering from its injuries until today. O Iraqi people, we defeated those crusaders several times before and expelled them out of our countries and holy shrines. You should know that you are not alone in this battle. Your mujahid brothers are tracking your enemies and lying in wait for them. The mujahideen in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Chechnya and even in the heart of America and the West are causing death to those crusaders. The coming days will bring to you the news that will heal your breasts, God willing."
AL QAEDA BROUGHT TO KNEES BY IRAQ INVASION <WHEW.>
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:29:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Kerry's in great shape. At this point during the 2000 election, Bush had a 24% lead over Gore and he still lost.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:25:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Security Council is expected to approve on Thursday a U.S. draft resolution lifting U.N. sanctions on Iraq after Washington offered fresh concessions overnight aimed at winning the votes of at least 11 of the council's 15 members, diplomats said on Wednesday.
fresh concessions with your freedom fries, sir?
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:24:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tell the haole traitor to shut his gob.
Pro-American
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:20:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Federal Deficit 3 Times Higher: Bush will formally apologize to Gore By JEANNINE AVERSA WASHINGTON - The government ran up a deficit of $201.6 billion in the first seven months of the 2003 budget year, more than three times the total for the corresponding period a year earlier. The latest figures, released Tuesday by the Treasury Department, underscored the government's worsening fiscal situation. Record deficits are forecast this year and next. The total deficit so far this fiscal year, from October through April, compares with a shortfall of $64.8 billion a year earlier. Revenues were down by 5.4 percent to $1.06 trillion for the seven months of the 2003 budget year in comparison to that period a year earlier. A big part of the drop stemmed from lowered tax payments flowing into the treasury, a byproduct of tax cuts and the weak economy. Individual income tax payments totaled $493.8 billion, representing a decline of almost 8 percent from the previous year. Corporate tax payments plunged by 28.7 percent to $62.8 billion. Federal spending for the seven months totaled $1.26 trillion, a 6.5 percent increase from the corresponding period in fiscal 2002. For the 2002 budget year, which ended Sept. 30, the government ran up a deficit of $157.8 billion, ending four consecutive years of surpluses. The Congressional Budget Office is predicting this year's deficit to exceed $300 billion, which would mark an all-time high. (The CBO's estimate doesn't take into account a fresh round of tax cuts being worked on by Congress and advocated by President Bush)
Povert is prosperity: War is Peace; Up is Down: the Moronist Creed
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:18:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hedges said he had given similar talks at several other colleges on his book, but had never had such a response. "I was surprised at how vociferous it was and the fact that people climbed onto the podium," Hedges said. Elinor Radlund, who attended the ceremony, said a woman beside her began singing "God Bless America" while a man rushed down the aisle shouting, "Go home!"
Although this story has no legs, and I'm going to ignore it, I do appreciate the part about the woman singing "God Bless America."
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:17:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: I realize you want to hear more about how I felt, leaving in tears and all, but I just can't talk about it now.
Mary O�Neill of Capron
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:10:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I realize it was a rental cap and gown, and my duty as a true-blue American was to treat it gentle-like. But what that liberal said just made me so-o-o mad!
Rockfor College Cap and Gown Abuser
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:09:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: What, hurling my cap and gown on the stage wasn't enough?
Rockford College Patriot
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:07:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks, Pete�. You're a true-blue friend in the lonely vale of tears, and I want you to know... I love you, man!
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:06:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Activate the fertilizer?"
must be old-time Nebrasky folk wisdom
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:02:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, the parasol is ok for short stints, the cab for long hot summers. unless you rent it out. I'd always pick the easy bail out variety meself.
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 14:01:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hey E-vile WITCH! Read this and weep you traitor: "BOSTON -- The presidential campaign of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry received some startling news Wednesday from his own back yard. A poll recently conducted by the research institute Mass Insight shows Kerry trailing President Bush in the race for president in the Bay State. The poll, which involved 500 Massachusetts voters at the end of April, shows the president with a 6 percentage point lead -- the exact numbers have not been released. "
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:59:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Reinstate the draft. Time for Rockford graduates to prove their support and loyalty in such perilous times.
it's rah, rah war time
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:48:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: He always uses got instead of have. Unless he says, "Have got." Ari just can't seem to be able to help him build a concept.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:47:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whitman Quits As EPA Chief WASHINGTON, May 21, 2003 Christie Whitman, a former New Jersey governor, said her resignation is effective June 27. (AP) Whitman had a history of clashing with the White House, starting with the president's abrupt decision to withdraw from the international global warming treaty. (CBS) Christie Whitman, who has often been at odds with the White House over environmental issues, submitted her resignation Wednesday as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. With Whitman's departure, Mr. Bush loses one of the most prominent women in his administration � a moderate former New Jersey governor selected by the president to help soften his image as a political conservative, particularly on environmental issues. Whitman had a history of clashing with the White House, starting with the president's abrupt decision to withdraw from the international global warming treaty. She had been the administration's point person in rolling back environmental protections initiated by previous administrations. "Whitman had what many referred to as the most thankless job in the administration, and presided over some of the most controversial environmental policy in modern times," reports CBS News White House Correspondent John Roberts.
WHITMAN OUT, TO BE REPLACED BY SOMEONE EVEN WORSE.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:46:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Susan McDougal refused to talk to Kenneth Starr about the Clintons and Whitewater and was jailed for it - but she's willing to talk to anyone now about the American justice system. "Going to jail was the best thing to happen to me," McDougal said at Borders bookstore at Park Place mall last night. "I wouldn't trade one day of it. I wake up every day knowing I did the right thing." McDougal is touring the country to promote her book [ironically entitled], "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk."
Another Clintonite after a "book deal?"
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:44:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rockford College?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:42:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: Good heavens! The president said "got" instead of "have?" Is that as bad or worse than lying under oath? ◊ Faux Glint at 13:18.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:23:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Me too. But I would have gone the extra mile and thrown my cap and gown on the stage before making my tearful exit.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:18:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't believe that the socialsits sent someone to offend the tender ears of the Rockford College graduates! I would have left in tears, too, and I'm sure Fess Parker would have as well!
Pete�
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:17:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, Glit, don't give up on the googling. I need some real advice on how to replace the trusty Caliban bronze drift. And remember, there are many different types of bearings, so don't post something about bicycle bottom brackets next.
Gasket
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 13:14:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: President speaking before Coast Guard graduates: "Still got relatives living here."
sounds as if he needs to return to class
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 12:33:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: US interrogators in Baghdad are using a mix of heavy metal songs and the Sesame Street theme tune to break Iraqi captives. American officials said subjecting prisoners to long sessions of the "culturally offensive" music encouraged them to talk. "These people haven't heard heavy metal before," Sergeant Mark Hadsell told Newsweek magazine. "They can't take it." The interrogators' favourite tracks include Metallica's Enter Sandman and the Drowning Pool song Bodies, from the Vin Diesel action film XXX. They also use children's music, such as the famous Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street theme, and a selection of songs from Barney, the jolly purple dinosaur.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 12:27:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops...cab...
Glint
Cab

- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 12:21:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Tell me what you think. Should I add a cab or a parasol?
Glint
cab

- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 12:18:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: But seriously, you'll want to grease the cones and load the inside spacer up with grease too. Put 'em all back onto the axle. The spacer for riding in the grease seal must be put on the right (i.e. co-rect) way. The seals seldom need to be replaced as the problem was the water. Remember, don't use coin washers, and repack the outside bearing each time the wheel is off. The bearing system is now fitted onto the axle the other way around. The reason for this is that you always want to pound on the flat end of the axle, not the nut end. The nut is on with 5-10 ft. lbs. or more. Of course you remembered to clean out the wheel, right Rusty? Slide it all back in place and now hammer it into position. You can heat up the hub for assembly if you want, it might help ya some. You must work quick in that case or the bearings absorb heat and swell up and you still gotsta hammer it in. Heat won't help getting them out, don't even try it. I have no evidence of damaging any bearing with this hammering. I have had the bearings out several times and they live on. Grease up the outside of the cone. Put the dust cover on and tighten it just a little.
There you are, Rusty!
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 11:43:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: "When you change out your bearings...There must be some corn-pone way..."
just slather on some outhouse butter - the moister the better!
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 11:31:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Found this image of the town hall. This is where the Lions club meets. Thought I'd post it in case the battery goes dead in Ydog's GPS receiver.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 11:11:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: "...The point is not that Blumenthal is a hypocrite (although he seems to be exactly that). The point is that throughout this book Blumenthal seems utterly incapable of understanding how his own uncompromising, take-no-prisoners defense of the Clintons contributed to the poisonous political atmosphere that he bemoans. Time and again, in the book as in life, he rearranges facts, spins conspiracy theories, impugns motives, and besmirches the character of his political and journalistic foes�all for the greater cause of defending the Clintons (and himself)...."
typical liar liberal, just like so many here.
Slate - Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 10:15:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: ROCKFORD � New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was booed off the stage Saturday at Rockford College�s graduation because he gave an antiwar speech. Guests wanting to hear the author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter were appalled. College President Paul Pribbenow is rethinking the wisdom of such controversial topics at future commencements. This is Pribbenow�s first graduation. Hedges began his abbreviated 18-minute speech comparing United States� policy in Iraq to piranhas and a tyranny over the weak. His microphone was unplugged within three minutes. Voices of protest and the sound of foghorns grew. Some graduates and audience members turned their backs to the speaker in silent protest. Others rushed up the aisle to vocally protest the remarks, and one student tossed his cap and gown to the stage before leaving. Mary O�Neill of Capron, who earned a degree in elementary education, sat in her black cap and gown listening. She turned to Pribbenow and asked him why he was letting the speech continue. He said it was freedom of speech. Pribbenow later said when people stop listening to ideas, even controversial ones, it is the death of institutions like 157-year-old Rockford College. In tears, O�Neill left the ceremony. Her husband, Kevin, sat in the audience with their daughter and was as indignant as his wife. �This is a ceremony. ... The day belongs to the students. It doesn�t belong to a political view,� he said.
Another fu©ked up NYT reporter
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 10:05:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: "When you change out your bearings, what do you do to get the outer races back in the hub?" Look dude, if you lubricate them like you're supposed to they don't need changing. However, whenever I change out the marine bearings, here's what I do. You probably know that the bearings are the last thing to come out of the crankcase when you are taking a motor completely apart. First you must get the connecting rod off the crankpin. To do this you must raise the sleeve out of the crankcase. To do this, you must heat the motor up in the oven with it on a low setting. (Some where between 200-300 F.) (Make certain that you mark the orientation of the sleeve relative to the crankcase before removing.) Then you push the sleeve up with a dowel from inside the crankcase. (While the motor is still hot) When you get the sleeve up, (and the engine cools) make sure you mark the back side of the connecting rod then you can take the connecting rod off the crankpin and push it up out of the way and remove it. Now it is best to put the crankcase back in the oven to warm it up again. While still hot, press the crankshaft to the rear and out of the crankcase. It should come out rather easy. But it�s best that you don't hammer it at all. You are trying to force the crankshaft through the front bearing and the prop drive washer. The rear bearing should most likely stay on the crankshaft. I use a drill press to do this. Then when the crankshaft and rear bearing are hot, I generally get the rear bearing off the crankshaft by prying in behind it with a small screwdriver and then a larger one. To get the front bearing out of the crankcase, you have to have the crankcase hot and push the bearing from the rear. It should almost fall out the front. Look at your new bearings, generally, you remove both seals from the rear bearing and leave the front seal on the front bearing, but do whatever you want to. To put it back together, heat up just the rear bearing and put the crankshaft in the freezer. Now put the hot rear bearing on the cold crankshaft and press it into place. Let it cool. Heat up the crankcase and put The crankshaft and rear bearing in the freezer. Now put the cold crankshaft into the hot crankcase. if it didn't go all the way in, you might could pull it on through with a nut and washer(s) on the nose of the crankshaft. Place the front bearing in position on the front of the crankshaft. Try to draw it into position with the washer and nut method. At some point, you can use a wrench socket as a spacer to push the front bearing home. (Do not hammer it). Place the drive washer in position and when you install the prop, it will be locked into position.
You can thank me later.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 09:47:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not "string" - they're getting pretty strong, the Leylands. Wonder when Ydog's going to drop by and see them. He'll be impressed, I'm sure. Also, that pole isn't 5" tall, it's 5' tall. Come on, I'm on my first cup of black Maxwell House, here.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 09:42:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gentle rain here. Should activate the fertilizer and give the Leylands another year of explosive growth. They're getting pretty string. Some have pulled their own stakes out of the ground. ◊ Widow woman said she's having a spite fence put up between her and Mr. Peebody. Had enough eye pain I guess and Leylands take too long to grow. Her John Deere garden tractor broke down so I offered to cut her grass last night. (I want her to save her money for the fence.) ◊ Actually, I'm quite pleased with Peebody. Apparently the photocell switch on his mercury vapor lamp went out. Noticed that the light was on day and night. Then some nights it was off all night. Like someone threw a switch to turn it off during daylight and forgot to turn it back on at night. He's now got what looks like a low pressure sodium light. Still a bare bulb, but not nearly as much glare. It's also on a short pole, about 5" high. Thus, his pissing shed blocks the light from much of the hill up by the observatory where the star parties happen. He's a NASCAR fan. Maybe I'll see if he's going to Dover Downs. Dairyman said he still has a couple extra tickets left.
Glint
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 09:39:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Didn't the whole shebang fall about 90 points on Tuesday?
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 09:25:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: The United States on Tuesday scrambled to ease domestic concerns over mad cow disease, quickly banning Canadian cattle and beef imports after Canada reported its first case in a decade. News of the mad cow case sent shock waves through the North American food industry and commodity markets. Shares in major hamburger chains like McDonald's and big beef processor Tyson Foods fell on Tuesday.
anyone for tofu?
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 07:48:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm with Glint. The dark-matter Sword of Damocles has been hanging over our heads for too long, and I'm impatient to get it back in the scabbard. Thanks to the interesting points in the urine-colored post, we may be on our way.
Anonymous.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 01:52:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Could always put a few grazing animals on the fenceline.
wouldn't have to mow
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 01:29:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yo, Glit, since ydog is studying the twelve mysteries of the Tung dolphin, maybe you can help. When you change out your bearings, what do you do to get the outer races back in the hub? Out here Cali-side we always used a bronze drift, but they don't have one at the AutoZone up the corner. There must be some corn-pone way, for when you pop one out mowing the back fenceline and can't make it down to Pep Boys, so let's hear it.
Gasquet
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 00:32:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Whatever mud you smear on Glint, the fact remains that this guy does some of the best juvenile word-plays on semen and penises anywhere on the world wide web.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 23:14:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't see why the patrician mind has such a hard time wrapping itself around the concept of radial distance and the well-worn East African stick. If you do the math you'll find out that the technique would work great if Jupiter were as bright as a medium-sized asteroid.
Glint, Amateur
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 23:06:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: My plan is to open those hubs and repack those bearings every time I dip them in the ocean. Otherwise, the once-every-fifteen-years greasing schedule seems to work out fine, no matter what grandpappy Honus use to squirt into his lawnmower.
Man of the Sail
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 23:03:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Questions. The study of the American rube leaves nothing but questions.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 23:01:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Are those fish are in some of the drinking water that Pete claims to ozonate daily? Right after he's done watching the moons of Jupiter with the aid of a stick.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 23:00:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: The line that comes right after the Halls of Monte Zoonma?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 22:57:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Even as Michael Powell and the GOP sweep away long-standing media ownership safeguards, media mogul Rupert Murdoch is mobilizing to further expand his TV empire beyond broadcast and cable. His plans to acquire the key direct broadcast satellite service (DBS) � DirecTV � will allow Murdoch to advance his conservative political agenda, creating new channels and services that disseminate the rightwing ideology now espoused by Fox News.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 22:56:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: We had a treati with Tripoly? Geesh! That must be where the part about "the shores of Tripoly" comes from in the Marine Corps hymn.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 22:56:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Oracle Of Omaha has some words about the Tax-Cut: The annual Forbes 400 lists prove that -- with occasional blips -- the rich do indeed get richer. Nonetheless, the Senate voted last week to supply major aid to the rich in their pursuit of even greater wealth.
can't do math can't balance budget sends home for cash from rich Daddykins
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 22:42:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the work of Carter to me.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 20:23:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Old news, traitor.
Stand up and be shot.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 20:15:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four U.S. Marines on a resupply mission were killed when their helicopter crashed into a canal in central Iraq and a fifth drowned trying to save them, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
good going, Snippy
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 19:20:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'm not going to waste any more time on this non-issue. It has no legs.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:50:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: By the way ... The Barbary Treaties was a Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and Tripoly, intending to protect American ships, that was ratified by the U.S. Senate on June 10, 1797, during the Presidency of John Quincy Adams. While the language may be antiquated, the intent is clear as Article 11 states, "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen (Muslims), and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:50:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: A couple of liberal idiots living in their "fishbowl." Hehehehehe

Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:47:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Men of the sail"? Corn Country? Another prime example of liberal "thought." Doink.

- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:38:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: I always enjoy Glint's resentment towards those who are better off than he is. The list is long.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:37:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: Most men of the sail do come from corn country.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:30:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like the coals aren't hot enough to sear the meat..
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 18:30:08 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Point is, always lubricate your wheel bearings. If you were truly a man of the sail, you would have done so. After all, with or without an O-ring, lubricants and semen go together. - Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:51:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or homosexual fantasies. Whatever. They're slick.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:37:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's at his best when he does the double-entendres on his masturbation fantasies.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:37:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wow, Glint! Your lawn-mower looks like a helicopter! Geesh, does it fly!!???
ePte�
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:36:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ditto for rabbits too.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:33:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: For over sized gourds you just raise & drop. GRZZZZPPPHHT!!! Try doing that with a mid-deck mower.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:29:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can't say airborne for sure. But it definitely munches the sh1t out of wayward gourd vines! (01)
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:27:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mad Max Redux. What a poor, pathetic asshole.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:05:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why doesn't the President visit Iraq so that he can firsthand experience how grateful the Iraqis are for all that he's done for them?
probably be a sight to behold
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 17:04:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Excuse me! There is no movie called Mad Max Redux! Gotcha!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:56:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint's scoring some big time rube gotchas today!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:55:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glint, does that thing get airborne? Mad Max Redux?
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:29:07 (EDT)

My two cents are: They'd better fix that broke fillabuster vote requirement for judges before anyone walks off the high court.
Lee Hannland
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:22:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, sure. I guess you can call a rear mounted three-point mowing deck a lawn mower. Tri blade action and all.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:20:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: As long as Scalia votes, everything is in good hands.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:15:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, I can forgive them for missing the votes. But I dang sure can't forgive them for missing the "discussions." I'll bet those "discussions" leading up to the voting are where it all happens.
anyone know who Jim Dyke is?
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:13:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's a flat deck grooming mower. Get it right.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:12:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: I like this one. Nice jaunty dangle angle. Looks good in a man's hand.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:09:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: I myself don't know from trailers, but I get a kick out of Glit's description of his lawnmower as a "mowing deck." It don't go fast and it don't go far, but it by gum shore gets a lot o' wear. The hopeless rube never fails to appear.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 16:08:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) has missed 162 votes in the House this year � 85 percent of the total � prompting reporters to charge that he has abandoned his congressional duties in his pursuit of the presidency. In his closing statement at the South Carolina debate earlier this month, Gephardt listed the creation of �an Apollo II program to make us independent of foreign oil in 10 years� as one of his top legislative priorities. Gephardt has missed every vote on energy-related issues this session. House records show Gephardt also missed votes on other issues that are frequent themes in his presidential candidacy, including welfare reform, human cloning, healthcare, homeland security, education and tax cuts. Commenting in the South Carolina debate that �people don�t vote,� Gephardt rued the �cynicism� about politics that �abounds� among voters. �We�ve got to have a president in this country, and I hope to be that president, who restores faith and hope in people that we can solve the major problems that this country faces,� he said. Other Democratic presidential aspirants also have missed votes. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) failed to add his voice in 63 instances this year, 34 percent of Senate votes. Last Thursday, when the Senate considered the House version of President Bush�s global AIDS initiative, Kerry used a floor debate to decry a provision in the legislation that required 33 percent of funds to be spent on abstinence education. �We should not tie the president�s hands ... I will support an amendment to strike this earmark.� Later in the day, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) proposed just such an amendment. Kerry missed the vote on the proposal, which failed 45-52. Other key areas in which Kerry has skipped votes include legislation on homeland and international security, education funding, and partial-birth abortion. Last week Kerry postponed a health care speech in Iowa to vote on the tax cut. Reporters charged that missing votes amounts to dereliction of duty. �It�s not just votes they miss. They miss the negotiations, they miss the discussions,� said Jim Dyke. �So when Gephardt goes out and talks about energy policy and how important it is, not only did he miss all the votes on energy legislation, but he missed being a part of the discussions that led to the legislation.� Dyke added, �The danger for all the candidates�is that they call for important initiatives on the campaign trail that are already under consideration in Congress and expose themselves to a great deal of hypocrisy.� Neither Kerry nor Gephardt returned calls seeking comment. Other Democratic presidential hopefuls have also missed a number of votes. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) has missed 22 percent, or 40 votes this year. Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) has been absent from 12 percent, or 22 votes.
lazy socialistic slobs
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:59:56 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't they have bearing stores in Ireland? Maybe they should try www.bearingssupplyco.com.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:51:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Always glad to help out trailer trash like yourself.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:45:33 (EDT)

My two cents are: You are now more enlightened as to trailer maintenance. But what about that other fisherman who has not had the foresight to do what you just did? Just maybe your part will fit his trailer. If he consents, give it a whirl. You might have a new friend for life that may just share his favorite fishing secrets.
handle his bolt and lug nuts with tender care.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:43:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: If all else fails, new bearings hubs and trailer parts can be obtained from : Parnell Trailer and castor center, Unit 1D Hibernian Ind Est, Greenhills Road, Tallaght, Dublin Tel 01 451 2588, Fax 01 451 2622.
Parnell McMic
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:33:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Although simple tasks, a competent person should perform all work listed below. So you'd better ask a buddy.
Captain Log

Check wheel bearings periodically by the following procedure: 

CAUTION - Leave the trailer connected to the tow vehicle 
with brake set and wheels choked. (Trailer must be on level ground). 

 A. The first step in jacking up your trailer is to block 
the wheel on the opposite side, both front and back. 

B. Position the jack on the frame as near to the wheel as possible. 

C. Proceed to spin the wheel and listen for any noise. Feel 
the wheel for any roughness in its rotation. 

D. A quiet and smooth rotation indicates that the bearings 
are in good shape. If a noise or grinding sound is evident, 
you will need to change the bearings. 

E. At this time the wheel bearing adjustment should be 
checked. We have set the proper torque to maximize the 
bearing life but on occasion it may be necessary to make an adjustment. 

To check to see if an adjustment is needed, grip the edge 
of the wheel to see if it rocks, or can move. If the wheel 
moves at all, an adjustment is necessary. 

First remove the bearing protector or dust cap (refer to 
the section on bearing protectors in Section F) and the 
cotter pin. Tighten the spindle nut a little more 
than "finger tight" (approximately 20-24 inch pounds). When 
the nut is positioned properly the wheel should turn easily 
and have no end play. 

Reassemble the reverse of disassembling using a new cotter pin. 


Note: This bearing adjustment should be checked after the 
first 75 miles and about every year after that. 

F. If needed, grease hubs carefully before launch or before 
storage. Do not add grease when hub is cold, too much 
grease will damage the hub seal. 

Smaller trailers are built with a steel dust cap and must 
be lubricated by repacking the hub at the end of each season. 

Hubs are fitted with lubrication system which incorporates 
a grease fitting. This allows the hubs to be easily greased 
without disassembly, and assures lubrication to the inner 
bearing. Using a high temperature grease (such as Shell 
Darina, or Drydene 4000) and a hand-operated grease gun, 
lubricate each wheel periodically or before a long trip 
with a few pumps. 

NOTICE: It is highly recommended that once a year, each 
wheel be pulled, and the following items visually inspected 
and replaced if necessary: bearings, bearing races, seals 
and brake components, Repack with new grease and reassemble 
using a new cotter pin.

- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:32:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Based on my experience, I'd say once in 20 years is OK. The grease ain't going anywhere, after all. And once after every time you launch in salt water.
Sir Launch-a-Trailer
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:25:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why would a trailer start to jack-knife if you didn't want it to?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:23:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Q: Duh, How often should I grease the bearings?
A: Proper lubrication is essential to the current function and reliability of your trailer axle. Bearings should be lubricated every 12 months or 12,000 miles.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:23:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: He's working on his knowldeges, so he can qualify as an amateur bearing-packer, same as he has made himself into a credible amateur astronomer and amateur tree-planter.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:22:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: During rest stops, check the hitch, lights and tires. When parking at the rest stop, block the well lubricated wheels firmly on level ground as well as on slopes. Avoid sharp turns.
More Service Tips
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:21:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's because, to Glit, dragging a boat trailer is romantic, close to being a true Knight of the Road, and towing a great big semi trailer.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:20:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit's going to post everything on the topic that he can find in his Boy Scout Manual.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:19:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Geesh, never heard of O-rings on a wheel bearing. Maybe in the Bearing Buddy� grease cap? (beware of plain caps fitted with a zerk. Your Bearing Buddy� has a spring and piston assembly that keeps pressure on the grease. My problem, come to realize, was not that I didn't have the benefit of poor Glint's faux-bricole, since there was no bearing problem for 20 years of owning the 1956 model Sea-King_trailer, but because last fall was the first time I ever launched in salt water. Aha! Now I understand why the bearings took gas this winter. Fine, I was thinking of changing them out anyway, and didn't really care to go boating yesterday. Isn't it amazing how one can work one's way through the minor vicissitudes of trailer-ownership without a degree in lubrication from the University of Nebraska at Cornpone? America, is it a great country, or what?
Captain Gasket
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:17:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: If the trailer starts to jackknife, stop, pull ahead to straighten out and start again. Practice away from traffic until you can do it smoothly. The method will vary, depending on where the driver places his or her hand on the steering wheel.
Remember, it is important to keep both the trailer well lubricated. Lack of lubrication can result in wheel drag or even a sheared axle!!
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:16:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: "There was a time when boaters cared for their boats. They spent time sanding the hull, oiling the teak, varnishing the brightwork, and squirting grease in their tow vehicle's wheel zerks. Their engines ran like Swiss watches. Maintenance and service were part of the hobby. Of course, that was before videogames, cable TV and the Internet."
Q Lube™
DRIVE-THRU BOAT LUBE - Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:10:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Improper bearing maintenance and lubrication account for most highway trailer breakdowns. At most ramps, boaters are forced to dunk their axle wheels and bearings in the water in order to unload the boat. When a warm hub is submerged in cold water, the air inside the hub contracts and draws water in through the best of seals. Once parked, the fresh- or saltwater will settle at the lowest point in the hub. This is where corrosion and rust begin. The next time the trailer is moved, the bad spot on the bearing may cause excessive heat and eventually total bearing failure. In the worst case scenario, heat can be intense enough to sever the axle and wheel.
Captain K-Y
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 15:01:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just a couple of hours after White House press secretary Ari Fleischer announced he was standing down, the prime minister's official spokesman Godric Smith revealed he too was quitting. On this, however, there is absolutely no sign that the announcements were co-ordinated - so it must be planetary alignments!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:42:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Many smaller boat trailers come equipped with "bearing buddies" - an easily serviceable bearing assembly with a grease fitting. An occasional squirt or two of fresh grease into the fitting maintains lubrication and helps push out any residual water. Take care not to overfill the grease fitting - this could push out the "o" ring seals.
Captain Bearing
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:35:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: Gasbag, the reason the abundance of moaning on wheel bearings from a swab like you was responded to is that you don't know jack about wheels unless it's got a guy wire to a rudder somewhere. I have no interest in your water holes and walnut shells so keep your yapping about them to yourself.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:16:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can get all the barfing I need out of the circumspect reply from Glint. Watching Glint manfully keeping himself from coming out and saying that Pete is just too ignorant for even a fellow-troglodyte.
Mr. Freep
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:13:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nothing will get ya to stop reading quicker than the first sentence of a urine-fonted post that turns out to be some pop science that appealed to the moron haole.
patriot
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:10:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Interesting post, yet highly disturbing. I'm not familiar with the problem of extra time and space dimensions. Must be getting behind with the reading. About 18 years ago I arranged a public lecture by a U.S. Navy astronomer who discusssed the 11 dimensions in which we live, but are there more beyond this? I have trouble comprehending beyond the 4th. Still, one must consider the messenger, an assistant professor in this case. Out to make a name for himself by adding another patch to bigbangblackhole mainstream astronomy. Still, this dark matter issue has been hanging over our heads for a number of years now. It would be nice to see it cleaned up once and for all.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:10:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Pete: is this guy Mr. Sophistication or what? Sounds like a fellow whose teacher went on to earn a prize at the school picnic.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:09:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glimp, the reason the absence of advice from you on wheel bearings was not bemoaned, as was that from ydog, is that you don't know your ass from on the subject, while ydog, a can-do guy as well as someone exploring the seventeen-variation hummingbird position of the concubines of the Ming emperors, does know his way around wheel bearings. I have no interest in your gardening devices as anything more than objects of derision. Please keep your yapping about them to yourself.
Gasket
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:06:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: No, race-baiting like that lame ass example make me barf. You are the enemy. Sickness that needs eradication by quarantine in American politics.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:04:00 (EDT)

My two cents are:

A team of scientists has suggested that two of the biggest mysteries in particle physics and astrophysics -- the existence of extra time and space dimensions and the composition of an invisible cosmic substance called dark matter -- may be connected. "For the most part, these two questions have been treated separately in the past, and for the first time we're making a direct link," said Konstantin Matchev, a UF assistant professor of physics. "We're suggesting that the dark matter may be due to extra dimensions." If correct, the scientists' theory may lead to the discovery of the first concrete evidence of dark matter, an invisible substance that may comprise as much as 30 percent of the universe. Dark matter has never yet been directly or indirectly observed. Scientists have long inferred dark matter is present based on a discrepancy between galaxies' rotational speed and the amount of visible stars within them. In a nutshell, there are not enough stars or visible objects to account for the speed, which means the galaxies must also contain the invisible dark matter. Its composition is unknown. Extra dimensions are predicted by the superstring theory, which offers a unified description of all of the fundamental particles and forces in nature, including gravity. While this widely accepted theory predicts at least 10 dimensions, however, no one has ever found more than one dimension in time and three in space. According to one alternative theory, these additional dimensions might be curled up into a ball so small -- significantly smaller than atoms -- that they are difficult or impossible to observe. Matchev said his team believes these dimensions may give rise to heavier versions of known particles, the lightest of which could constitute the elusive dark-matter particle. "This phenomenon of extra dimensions provides a completely new dark-matter candidate," Matchev said. "We named it Kaluza-Klein dark matter, after the two physicists who first proposed theories with extra dimensions in the early 1920s." Most important is that Kaluza-Klein dark matter may be detected using a variety of current and future experiments, Matchev said. In addition to dedicated underground searches designed specifically to look for dark-matter particles, Kaluza-Klein particles may give distinct, albeit indirect, signals in numerous other experiments, he said. For example, an ongoing experiment on the South Pole designed to detect elementary particles called neutrinos -- as well as an antimatter detector set to be placed aboard the International Space Station -- could be used to find these heavier particles. The South Pole device, known as the Antarctic Muon Neutrino Detector Array, or AMANDA, is designed to detect particles with no electrical charge and no mass created in massive cosmic events such as supernovas. But this "neutrino telescope" also may pick up telltale high-energy neutrinos necessarily created when dark-matter particles collide where they are most concentrated, at the gravitational centers of stars and planets. The detection of these types of neutrinos from these areas would provide indirect evidence of dark matter, Matchev said. "Most of the stuff produced by dark-matter particle collisions is probably absorbed in the dense cores of the sun or the Earth, but the neutrinos, being so weakly interacting, escape and may reach our detectors," Matchev said. "So what we're looking for are unusual sources of neutrinos near gravitational centers." Matchev said scientists also have a separate shot at detecting dark matter in a future antimatter detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, slated to reach the International Space Station in 2005. The detector may pick up positrons, the antiparticles of electrons, similarly created when the dark-matter particles collide. "If we see more positrons than we expect, then we know there is something going on," Matchev said. "What is more, the positron signal is rather unique for Kaluza-Klein dark matter and may thus provide the first evidence of extra dimensions." - Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:02:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, Negroes make ya barf. What else is new?
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 14:01:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: That's one more sense you Demonrats don't have. At least you get one point for admitting it. Doink.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 13:55:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: The only difference between you and us, Pete, is that our poop doesn't smell.
Democrats
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 13:50:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: It is as if the hypocritical idiot socialsit who is obsessed with America's use of oil has never used one drop of the stuff. The truth is that idiot socialist is as dependent on the stuff as any of us. Hypocritical, bigoted, racist socialist demonrat. That is what it is really about.
Pete�
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 13:47:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, who is black, told CNN on Monday that "race, substance abuse and psychological disorders" played a much more "nuanced role" in destroying his career than is being portrayed in the media. "I am sorry for what I've done," he told CNN by phone. "It's my hope that others will learn from my mistakes." Blair said he hopes to "write and share my story so that it can help others to heal." He has signed with literary agent David Vigliano to consider book and movie offers.
Captain BARF ALERT!
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:22:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Smells like Tau Omega Alpha has been moistening the page with its ketchupy-mustard drippings.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:16:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan says there will be major terrorist attacks soon--howcum Dim Son and Ridge haven't upgraded their little Terror Color Chart?
TERROR ALERT: PUCE AD NAUSEAM
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:15:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: US offers a bigger Iraq role to the UN STUART REID THE United States has submitted a revised version of its draft resolution on post-war Iraq to the United Nations Security Council, giving the body a greater role in the reconstruction of the country. The council is due to discuss the draft later today, with the US pushing for a vote by the end of the week. The revised resolution includes a role for the UN in choosing a new government in Iraq and, for the first time, mentions UN weapons inspectors. The proposal would also give the United States and Britain, as occupying powers, authority to run the country until Iraq has "an internationally recognised, representative government". US Ambassador John Negroponte distributed copies of the final draft to the UN Security Council at a closed-door meeting last night. He says the draft takes into account concerns raised by members about US and British plans for post-war Iraq.
backpeddling
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:12:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Chirac threatens to abstain in UN vote Gary Younge in New York Tuesday May 20, 2003 The Guardian President Jacques Chirac yesterday signalled that France would abstain from supporting the American-sponsored resolution on postwar Iraq if the UN was not given a greater role in the country. "The president said he was convinced the text can be markedly improved so everyone can look upon it favourably," said Mr Chirac's spokeswoman, Catherine Colonna. "As it stands, the role envisaged for the United Nations is unsatisfactory," she added. The British-backed draft resolution, presented to the security council 10 days ago, names the UK and America as "occupying powers" in Iraq and gives them control of the country's oil revenues. It originally relegated the UN to an advisory role, alongside the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. A revised draft circulated last week beefed up the role of a UN envoy in Iraq. America would like to see a vote this week and is keen for unanimity, if not a huge majority, to endorse its presence in the region. But France, Russia and China, all of whom have powers of veto in the UN security council, still have serious reservations.
somebody ought to have reservations about oilism, hey?
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:10:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: The United States said Monday it wants a vote by the end of the week on a revised resolution to lift sanctions against Iraq and give the United Nations a clearly defined role in helping Iraqis establish a democratic government. The proposal also would give the United States and Britain, as occupying powers, authority to run the country until Iraq has "an internationally recognized, representative government." It was the third attempt by the United States to come up with wording acceptable to all 15 Security Council members amid calls by Russia, France and China for a stronger U.N. role in postwar Iraq.
three time's a charm
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:04:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: There was someting about Mr Bitterman, and cutting a cat in two, and pissed off soccer moms, and who's better with a mop, and whether feminism and women's liberation are funnier than Dim Son's foreign policy and jismheadedness and haole gutter fixations or whether haole gutter fixations and jismheadeness and Dim Son's foreign policy and domestic policy and letter from collegesend me more money Daddy deficit spending budgetary practices are really a lot funnier.
Mu!
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 12:02:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bullshit! They don't know the meaning of AWOL!
Snippy
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:12:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) has missed 162 votes in the House this year � 85 percent of the total � prompting Republicans to charge that he has abandoned his congressional duties in his pursuit of the presidency. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has seized on the absenteeism to point out that several of Gephardt�s missed votes have been on legislative and policy matters that are centerpieces to his campaign. In his closing statement at the South Carolina debate earlier this month, for example, Gephardt listed the creation of �an Apollo II program to make us independent of foreign oil in 10 years� as one of his top legislative priorities. Gephardt has missed every vote on energy-related issues this session.
good. no wonder gas prices keep falling - democrats are awol
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:09:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Viscious anti-Semitic jokes? Wow! Talk about your atrocities! Couldn't Kennedy have put his money where his mouth was like the Bush family did? Wimps!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:08:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:04:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: Former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was grilled on Monday about Bill Clinton's confession last year that the government of Sudan offered his administration a deal for Osama bin Laden's extradition - but the former White House aide couldn't come up with a coherent explanation. Asked by nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity about allegations that Clinton turned down three separate offers for bin Laden's extradition, Blumenthal responded, "I know that the National Security Council and the State Department believed that is disinformation from the Sudanese." The Clinton spinmeister described Sudan as "a terrorist state" and accused its leaders of fabricating the bin Laden extradition story to "get in good with the Bush administration." But moments later, Hannity confronted the former White House aide with a transcript of Clinton's bin Laden remarks to a Long Island, New York business group in February 2002. "Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan," Clinton told the group. "And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. "They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." Before Blumenthal responded, Hannity noted that Clinton's remarks proved "he knew the offer was there. You're denying the offer exists. Clinton's acknowledging the offer exists." Still, Blumenthal continued to deny such an offer ever took place, despite his boss's clear declaration to the contrary. "I know what I was told by the National Security Council and the State Department about the Sudanese being very bad actors, and about running disinformation campaigns about what they were doing," he told Hannity. Continuing the non-sequitur, Blumenthal added, "And I would be extremely skeptical about a former terrorist state that harbored Osama bin Laden, and what they're saying now in trying to get well with the Bush administration."
thanks for letting me run free, bent pud man - i love you! - usama
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 11:00:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: No. Prescott Bush may never have told a Jew joke in his life. Anti-semitic jokes solve nothing. You've got to go to the source of the "problem" and Prescott Bush was a man of action, not words. Instead of wasting time teling "vicious anti-Semitic jokes," he bankrolled Adolf Hitler who then slaughtered millions of Jews. Jokes are for wimps.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:54:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: "[JFK's dad] Joseph P. Kennedy was a nasty bigot who told vicious anti-Semitic jokes." - George Jacobs.
wait! don't he be meanin' prescott bush?
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:49:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: BAGHDAD, May 19 -- Iraqis have begun tracking down and killing former members of the ruling Baath Party, doubtful that the United States intends to adequately punish the mid-level government functionaries who they say tormented them for three decades. The assassinations appear to have picked up since the United States issued a decree last Friday that prohibits senior Baath Party officials from holding positions in Iraq's postwar government. A senior U.S. official said the order was intended to "drive a stake through [the Baath Party's] heart," but many Iraqis who continue to see party officials walking free believe it did not go far enough. The number of former Baath Party officials killed since the war ended is difficult to pin down in a city of 5 million people with only two functioning police stations, no recordkeeping and a destroyed government. Drawing on anecdotal evidence, however, former exile groups and Iraqis familiar with some of the killings say it could reach several hundred in Baghdad alone. Many of the killings have been carried out in the slum formerly known as Saddam City, a neighborhood on the eastern edge of the capital largely inhabited by Shiite Muslims, they say. Revenge killings on a smaller scale have been reported in the cities of Najaf, Karbala and Basra in the Shiite-dominated center and south of the country, where a bloody rebellion was put down in 1991 by the Sunni-controlled Baath government. The killers appear to be working from lists looted from Iraq's bombed-out security service buildings, which kept records on informants and victims alike. But others are simply killing Baathist icons or irksome party officials identified with the Hussein government. The singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to Hussein, was shot dead on Saturday. So was the president of the Iraqi Artists Union. "We want the Americans to kill them, but we don't think they are going to," said Muntathar Mohammed, a 40-year-old unemployed Sadr City resident. "Why can Americans kill anyone they want? Why can't we? I will kill Baathists myself. This is my right."
This is just awful...I hope we step in and put a stop to this within the next 8 or 9 months!
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:40:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The page has been virtually trunc'd. Also, the cleartext problem has been eliminated. If you want more, visit the pickle jar once it's updated or view source.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:34:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Now fix the page you sassy rube.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:14:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sssssassssy! That's what you are, Glint! Sssssassssy!
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:14:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: -->

Too bad about that sorry assed boat trailer. My Land Pride™ (manufactured in good old Kansas, Big 12 country) mowing deck has four small 10" wheels. Course I always keep them greased up: the wheels themselves as well as the swiveling vertical shafts. Although it's not high speed motion, they get a lot of wear so maintenance is they key, which you have now learned. The secret is, the wheels have little grease nipples sticking out of them, Zerk. It's a sign to the owner. It says "lubricate here." If you ignore the needs of your wheels you'll have trouble ahead. Or in your case, Casey Jones, trouble behind. - Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:11:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: I hope so too asswipe. Now fix the page.
Anonymous.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 10:06:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: I gave the CubCadet 2 a highschool janitor. Hope he takes good care of her.
Glint
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 09:37:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mop or not, surely many if not most things are more amusing than "feminism" andor "women's liberation," such as oh for example Dim Son's diction, jismheadedness and Haole poetics, Mr Bitterman, are they not?
many ways to skin a
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 08:20:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: The United States said Monday it wants a vote by the end of the week on a revised resolution to lift sanctions against Iraq and give the United Nations a clearly defined role in helping Iraqis establish a democratic government. The proposal also would give the United States and Britain, as occupying powers, authority to run the country until Iraq has "an internationally recognized, representative government." It was the third attempt by the United States to come up with wording acceptable to all 15 Security Council members amid calls by Russia, France and China for a stronger U.N. role in postwar Iraq.
three times a charm
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 08:15:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can hammer a nail better than Snippy.
libby
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 02:40:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: What has always amused me about "feminism" or "women's liberation" is that I can mop floors better than any woman alive. Why? because I'm a man! There is more than one way to kill a cat.
Mr. Bitterman
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 02:15:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it. Why did he kill the cat? What was the secret word? And what does it have to do with putting your sandals on your head, silently or otherwise?
Clyde Harrington
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 02:12:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: In addition to spreading the oil wealth around, the Bush administration has committed itself to generous public services � though only, so far, in Iraq. Schools will be repaired, damaged infrastructure rebuilt and education made available even to the poorest. There will be quality health care for all. Imagine: A universal health program, of the kind that has eluded Americans for at least half a century, will be created with a snap of the imperial fingers in Iraq. As for the troops we were all vigorously enjoined to "support" with our flags and yellow ribbons � they will come home to find their veterans' benefits cut by an estimated $15 billion over the next 10 years. American veterans' hospitals, which already resemble the looted hospitals of downtown Baghdad, will soon have fewer amenities to offer than morgues. As for the troops we were all vigorously enjoined to "support" with our flags and yellow ribbons � they will come home to find their veterans' benefits cut by an estimated $15 billion over the next 10 years. American veterans' hospitals, which already resemble the looted hospitals of downtown Baghdad, will soon have fewer amenities to offer than morgues.
wonder in aliceland
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 00:10:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Nan-ch�uan Kills the Cat/ The monks of the eastern and western halls were quarreling about a cat. Nan-ch�uan came by. He stepped right into the middle of the quarrel, picked up the cat and said, �OK, now! You monks, if you can say the right word, I�ll spare the cat. If not, I�ll kill it. Quick now, say it?� Nobody spoke. Nan-ch�uan killed the cat./ Later, Chao-chou returned to the monastery. He entered Nan-ch�uan�s room. Nan-ch�uan told him what happened. Without a word, Chao-chou took off his sandals, put them on his head, turned around and walked out of the room. As he was leaving Nan-ch�uan said, �If only you had been here, I would not have killed the cat.�
Nan-chu'an Kills the Cat
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 00:07:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hmm. That's the ticket. "Illiberals."
Mu!
- Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 00:00:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Let's hear it for Belgium An attempt to try Tommy Franks for war crimes in a Belgian court has outraged the US Tuesday May 20, 2003 Belgium is becoming an interesting country. In the course of a week, it has managed to upset both liberal opinion in Europe - by granting the far-right Vlaams Blok 18 parliamentary seats - and illiberal opinion in the US. On Wednesday, a human rights lawyer filed a case with the federal prosecutors whose purpose is to arraign Thomas Franks, the commander of the American troops in Iraq, for crimes against humanity. This may be the only judicial means, anywhere on earth, of holding the US government to account for its actions. The case has been filed in Belgium, on behalf of 17 Iraqis and two Jordanians, because Belgium has a law permitting foreigners to be tried for war crimes, irrespective of where they were committed. The suit has little chance of success, for the law was hastily amended by the government at the beginning of this month. But the fact that the plaintiffs had no choice but to seek redress in Belgium speaks volumes about the realities of Tony Blair's vision for a world order led by the US, built on democracy and justice. Franks appears to have a case to answer. The charges fall into four categories: the use of cluster bombs; the killing of civilians by other means; attacks on the infrastructure essential for public health; and the failure to prevent the looting of hospitals. There is plenty of supporting evidence. US forces dropped around 1,500 cluster bombs from the air and fired an unknown quantity from artillery pieces. British troops fired 2,100. Each contained several hundred bomblets, which fragment into shrapnel. Between 200 and 400 Iraqi civilians were killed by them during the war. Others, mostly children, continue to killed by those bomblets which failed to explode when they hit the ground. The effects of their deployment in residential areas were both predictable and predicted. This suggests that their use there breached protocol II to the Geneva conventions, which prohibits "violence to the life, health and physical or mental well-being" of non-combatants.
No more of those waffles for Tommy
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:59:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Once the USA can have an elected government, then maybe we'll let the Iraqis have one. Probably not, but maybe.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:53:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well-informed court observers say that there could be two Supreme Court resignations next month, Chief Justice William H. Rehn- quist and Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, bringing the greatest upheaval on the court in 32 years.
yo, antonin! It's payback time, fella!
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:53:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Elected government." HAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:52:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thousands of Shiite Muslims marched peacefully through Baghdad today in the largest protest of the five-week-old U.S. occupation of Iraq, calling on the United States to surrender power to an elected government and denouncing the exiles and ethnic organizations that U.S. officials have courted to help form a temporary administration.
uh oh. you mean they took our propaganda seriously? shee-it. shiite?
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:51:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Mr. Bittermans of this and other worlds surely can be counted on for throwing the virtual chador back onto the thankless feckless liberal soccer moms of america. Where it belongs.
so there
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:48:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Snippy. What a disaster. Nevertheless, I think it's somewhat possible he'll be elected.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:46:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: I saw the poor man's picture. I figure it's the HIV.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:44:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: US post-war effort seen as "fiasco" Mon May 19, WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nearly 40 days after the fall of Baghdad, US efforts to restore order and establish a functioning administration in Iraq (news - web sites) are faltering as US forces struggle to cope with lawlessness, a fragile infrastructure and fractious Iraqi political forces, analysts said. "It's close to a fiasco," said Loren Thompson, an analyst with the Lexington Institute, a Washington research organization.
WAR IS PEACE. POVERTY IS WEALTH. FIASCO MEANS FIESTA. BWA HA HA.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:43:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: All your soccer mom wants is her SUV, her abortion on demand and a warm place to shit. She doesn't deserve her own show!
Embittered Cripple
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:43:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: boat trailers have always had problematic wheel bearings. the tiny wheels turn to fast and too often. of course you probably already got new bearings by now. i've soaked bearings in kerosene and toothbrushed them and hit them with some emory paper to restore them a bit. works better on roller bearings than ball bearings. looking at pete's posts its no small wonder it took the dude 32 years to win the college vanity award. surpised it didnt take 35. must be about to croak or something.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:40:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Damn them pissed off soccer mom Troglo-pinata-whackers.
Mu!
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:32:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: The swing voters? You mean the pussed-over socialist soccer mom Zen-baiters? Those dang ��tches vote! It's E-vil is what it is.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 23:10:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: What we need is a show for the swing voters who Pete knows so well.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 22:33:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes, but only the troglodytes will listen. It's a mid-day audience of shut-ins and embittered cripples. That's who listens to talk radio. I agree, however, that such people are easily swayed by angry commentary on the radio set. I suppose a leftist asshole equivalent of Rush Limbaugh could take over the Army of Geeks. Might be fun to listen to a good radio war between two assholes who rant but are quite happy to read your commercial between rants.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 21:59:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Move Over, Right Wing Radio - the Liberals Are Coming by Thom Hartmann... NEW YORK - A political explosion happened this weekend in New York, and it may be the big one that gives Karl Rove nightmares. It could mean the end of George W. Bush's seemingly unending ability to tell overt lies to the American people and not get called on them by the American media. At a Saturday talk radio industry event put on by Talkers Magazine, Gabe Hobbs, Clear Channel Radio's vice president of News/Talk/Sports, announced that in the near future this corporate owner of over 1200 radio stations is considering programming some of their talk stations "in markets where there are already one or two stations doing conservative talk" with all-day back-to-back all-liberal talk show hosts.
pendulums do swing
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 21:42:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: You can't say, "as I understand it." That's MINE!
L.G.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 21:29:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: As I understand it, the NY Time began it's slide downward when this geek, Howell Raines came aboard and began publishing poker-up-the-butt anti-Clinton, or should I say, anti-blowjob, tripe. Sure, this conservative tactic might work on rubes like Glint, but so what? Rubes like Glint might cut and paste a Times article once in a while, but rubes like Glint really aren't much of a target audience for newspapers of any merit at all. Anyway, that's when I stopped reading the Grey Old Lady, when they started fighting the cultural wars. In all my years as a loyal Times reader, never, never did they become combatants in the cultural wars until they bent over for Ken Starr. Have only read headlines since then, as I stand in line at Starbucks waiting for my dry cappucino.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 21:28:05 (EDT)

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My two cents are: Rölle? He pretty much keeps his finger on the pulse of America by following the jism trail. Most of that comes from the internet and it causes him to believe big stories are small and small stories are big. Any man who would dress himself in a cigar suit has to figure there will be at least 5000 protestors to appreciate his hard work. The fact that a mere 200 weirdos showed up has got to be eternally humiliating to even a clod-hopping rube.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 21:04:14 (EDT)

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My two cents are: So what? That's always the question with Rölle. Does he come up with the moronic ideas himself, or steal them all from the troglodyte propagandists?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 19:03:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: How often do you suppose Glit picks up a copy of the New York Times to catch up on the greatest story of our times? What do you suppose he bases his insights on? Question of whether he pulls it out of his ass or just repeats whatever Limbaugh tells him.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 19:01:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yup, what an important story. A hell of an important story. The biggest story in this country today, in fact. Yes, I'm talking about our ongoing debates over race, feminism, the family, and homosexuality. Seems like I've been searching forever and a day for a newspaper that would cover that story. Seems that all the newspapers want to fight it rather than cover it. And the New York Times! Don't even say the name! Talk about a newspaper on the front lines, fighting like a pair of cats!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 18:56:38 (EDT)

My two cents are: Why do ignorant people like Pete and Glint like to spout about topics far beyond the comprehension even of a Red Skelton or a Rush Limbaugh? All this tut-tutting about everything they know nothing about, from Leyland cypresses to newspapers. Can't they stick to topics they can master, like the quality of their morning bowel movement, or whether or not they have popcorn hulls stuck in their teeth?
patriot
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 18:52:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get it, where does the NYT fight the culture war? Does the rube mean the "style" section, or the book reviews, maybe the editorial page? The classifieds? Why won't these rubes give some examples of all this horror? They're just like the New York Times, always tantalizing you with spin but never delivering any facts.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 18:48:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: What I'm looking for is a newspaper that will actually cover the biggest story in this country today: our ongoing debates over race, feminism, the family, homosexuality �oops, I forgot about the National Enquirere! My bad! I had one all along and didn't know it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 18:44:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Hard to believe that anyone can have a "reverence" for a newspaper, and for years as well. But it takes all sorts of bizarre types to make a population of rubes.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 18:42:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somewhere inside, although it embarrasses me to say so, I still believe in the New York Times � a reflex from years of reverence past. And although it may no longer be a fair paper, the Times is still, in important ways, a great paper. That is why I keep wanting to believe. And that is why I keep on getting fooled. What I'm looking for is a newspaper that will actually cover the biggest story in this country today: our ongoing debates over race, feminism, the family, and homosexuality � our "culture war." But the New York Times doesn't want to cover the culture war; it wants to fight it.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 18:19:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: For that, you have to read the Moonie Times.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 17:37:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Never liked the New York Times myself. Too stodgy. Too essentially conservative. Poker-assed. The kind of outfit that would be shocked, dismayed, outraged to find that the President got some nookie. And then they go out and waste good trees on front-page reports on the death of NASCAR drivers, and long, melancholy screeds eulogizing dead NASCAR drivers. What is with the paper's hangup with low-lifes, with the Joe Guzzlers and Moe Christers of the country? And why always the establishment, conservative spin in the news stories? What's wrong with just straight reporting?
patriot
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 17:26:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: How many times is the poor, pathetic pineapple going to post that? As many as it takes to get someone to read it?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 17:18:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess this means Pete is cancelling his subscription to the Old Grey Lady?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 16:53:44 (EDT)

My two cents are:

The Old Gray Liar May 14, 2003 Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War THE NEW YORK TIMES is to be commended for ferreting out Jayson Blair, the reporter recently discovered making up facts, plagiarizing other news organizations and lying about nonexistent trips and interviews. A newspaper that employs Maureen Dowd can't have had an easy time settling on Blair as the scapegoat. Blair's record of inaccuracies, lies and distortions made him a candidate for either immediate dismissal or his own regular column on the op-ed page. The editors have set up a special e-mail address for readers to report falsehoods they discover in Jayson Blair articles. OK, but how about setting up one for Paul Krugman? They ought to claim all those front-page articles predicting a "quagmire" in Iraq were also written by Blair. The Times has now willingly abandoned its mantle as the "newspaper of record," leapfrogging its impending technological obsolescence. It was already up against the Internet and Lexis-Nexis as a research tool. All the Times had left was its reputation for accuracy. As this episode shows, the Times is not even attempting to preserve a reliable record of events. Instead of being a record of history, the Times is merely a "record" of what liberals would like history to be � the Pentagon in crisis, the war going badly, global warming melting the North Pole, and protests roiling Augusta National Golf Club. Publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger has turned the paper into a sort of bulletin board for Manhattan liberals. In the Soviet-style reporting preferred at the Times, its self-investigation of the Blair scandal included copious denials that race had anything to do with it: "Mr. Boyd [managing editor] said last week that the decision to advance Mr. Blair had not been based on race." "Mr. Blair's Times supervisors ... emphasize that he earned an internship at The Times because of glowing recommendations and a remarkable work history, not because he is black. The Times offered him a slot in an internship program that was then being used in large part to help the paper diversify its newsroom." Did Blair write that? If the Times "diversity" program refused to consider Blair's race, then it wasn't much of a diversity program, now was it? This is like job advertisements that proclaim: "Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer." Well, which is it? In one of several feverish editorials supporting the University of Michigan's race-based admissions program, the Times denounced the Bush administration for imagining "that diversity can be achieved without explicitly taking race into account." Any diversity program that failed to do so, the Times lectured, was "necessarily flawed." But then it gets caught publishing Jayson Blair and the Times demurely insists that its own affirmative action program scrupulously ignored race. The Times not only expressly took race into account, but also put Blair's race above everything � accuracy, credibility and the paper's reputation. It hired a kid barely out of college. In fact, it turns out he was not yet out of college. He had no professional journalistic experience, except at the Times. He screwed up over and over again and the paper had to print 50 corrections to articles he'd written. Despite all this, Blair was repeatedly published on the front page, promoted and sent love notes from the editor in chief, Howell Raines. Ignoring the warnings of a few intrepid whistleblowers, top management kept assigning Blair to bigger stories in new departments without alerting the editors to Blair's history because � as Raines said � it would "stigmatize" him. (After this scandal, does the demand for black heart surgeons go up or down?) Raines jettisoned the Times' famous slogan, "All the News That's Fit to Print," preferring the slogan: "The New York Times: Now With Even More Black People!" If mismanagement at Enron had been this clear-cut, the Times would be demanding the death penalty for Ken Lay. Indeed, taking a page from all corporate scandals, the Times insists that the organization is fine; it was just one bad apple. As I recall, the Times editorial page did not accept that explanation when Merrill Lynch said it about Henry Blodget. Raines' behavior is far worse than the corporate chieftains. He clearly bears the most responsibility for this fiasco, but when disaster strikes ... he blames the black kid! So far, Raines' response has been basically to say: "You try to help these people ..." (Raines' other great contribution to race relations was his unintentionally comical magazine piece about his black maid, "Grady's Gift.") Put aside whether race should be used as a hiring criterion. Even people who support affirmative action don't have to support Raines' approach of refusing to hold blacks responsible for anything, from fake reporting to gang-raping a jogger in Central Park. What Raines did to Blair was cruel. Think of it in a nonracial context: Suppose the owner of a big company sends his kid to learn the business and tells low-level managers to treat him just like anyone else. The managers curry favor with the boss by reporting that his son is doing great and is a natural genius for this business. So the kid keeps getting praised and promoted, until one day he is actually put in charge of something he has no ability to run. That is cruel. And it's the story of Pinch Sulzberger, isn't it? - Monday, May 19, 2003 at 16:21:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Leylands are spurting skyward. The trunks on the 3-year olds are about 3" in diameter. The ones Gordon planted 5 or 6 years ago are up to the roof of his split level hovel.
Glint
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 15:32:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oops.
Ruben Bubble
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:43:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is disinflation supposed to have a softer tone to it than deflation?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:42:14 (EDT)

My two cents are:

Just another stinky old Nugger

- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:39:36 (EDT)

My two cents are: Not that we trust the polls, mind you. They're rigged.
Ruben Bubble
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:38:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: See, God, I'm not alone. Please don't smite me!
Ruben Bubble
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:31:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Just a rube appealing to God based on numbers.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:30:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: So, the point is 3 out of 4 people favor the death penalty, huh? So, why post it? Where's the argument? Just a rube taking up space.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:28:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's latest update on the death penalty shows a continued high level of public support for the death penalty for those convicted of murder. The poll, conducted May 5-7, finds 74% of Americans in favor of and 24% opposed to the "death penalty for a person convicted of murder." Gallup has asked this basic death-penalty-support question since the 1930s. Support has been above 70% over the last two years, after having been in the mid-to-high 60% range in 2000-2001. The current number is the highest support level Gallup has obtained on this measure since May 1995, when 77% supported the death penalty. The highest support level was 80% in 1994, and the lowest was 42% in 1966.
come to ol' sparky now
Take that Liberal scum!

- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:23:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: That IS a good rube!
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:20:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: Evidence to the contrary?
???
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:18:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Evidence?
???
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 13:05:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Actually, most of those Walmart workers are pretty much like Glint. They vote Republican because they're rubes and think there's something in it for them.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 12:19:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: Don't worry about it, Bottom runger. It's just Glint working the word "spew" into a post. The refund part is just the set-up.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 12:08:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: I've voted Democratic all my life and I have yet to receive anybody's tax money as a refund. When was this giveaway and how do I apply?
Bottom rung guy from the Midwest
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 12:02:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: I don't get the part about the Walmart Democrats either. I do understand, however, that the poor asshole has been mulching Leyland cypress. Got to give those bushes TLC if you want them to thrive.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 12:00:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: That was a false L.G., liberals. It came near to showing a touch of wit.
Patriot
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 11:51:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 11:45:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: What was that spew over Target all about yesterday? It's like the guy doesn't realize that the bottom rung people, whom he assumes all work at Walmart, vote Democrat so they can get other people's tax money refunded to them. How sweet for them. ◊ Got the flower beds mulched but only half the leylands. Ran out of fertilizer. Replaced one dead tree which expired during the winter.
Glint
Take that Liberal scum!

- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 11:13:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's with the, "As I understand it" crap, L.G.? You been talkin' to insiders, gal? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 10:54:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure is bizarre and bewilderin'. Yep, yep, yep. Dontcha know. Land-o-goshen. Willickers. Dang nab it. I'll be and gollll-eee!
L.G.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 10:48:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Look, L.G., this is not a battle of wits between you and patriot, dig? It's not two evenly matched gladiators in the arena, my little friend. The difference is, patriot rules and you, uh, suck. At least, that's my observation.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 10:35:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: Something happened at the New York Times?
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 10:32:19 (EDT)

My two cents are: One of the more bizarre and bewildering aspects of the New York Times meltdown is the revelation of their executives' use of a stuffed Beany Baby moose to work through their "confrontation" problems. As I understand it, and it isn't easy, when you have a problem with a colleague there, you take your company issued stuffed moose and place it on his or her desk thus signalling that you are open to discuss your "issues" with them. It all sounds way too new age-y to me but - hey - can we give it a try. Hey Patriot, moose is in your corner, ya bitch!
L.G.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 10:26:52 (EDT)

My two cents are: I appreciate the poacher and devouring metaphors for Cheney.
Poetics
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 09:15:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: I would have preferred Cheney to the eagle.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 09:14:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: I appreciate how the poacher is cheered.
Delphine Curdle
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 09:13:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: If only it were Edward McGonagall . . . Pig fat vat bad,/ dreamy shiny gutters sniping,/ socialsit treeson witty witness,/ Plato's pig,/ fat chance,/ sad, really/ Kilimanjaro fate/ fat chance.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 09:12:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Ahh, Ed McGonagall. It's all good, except the part about the eagle. I would have preferred an owl to an eagle.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 09:11:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: If only it were Gerard Manley Hopkins . . . more likely it's Edward McGonagall . . .The Moon Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou seemest most charming to my sight; As I gaze upon thee in the sky so high, A tear of joy does moisten mine eye. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the Esquimau in the night; For thou lettest him see to harpoon the fish, And with them he makes a dainty dish. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the fox in the night, And lettest him see to steal the grey goose away Out of the farm-yard from a stack of hay. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the farmer in the night, and makes his heart beat high with delight As he views his crops by the light in the night. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the eagle in the night, And lettest him see to devour his prey And carry it to his nest away. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the mariner in the night As he paces the deck alone, Thinking of his dear friends at home. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the weary traveller in the night; For thou lightest up the wayside around To him when he is homeward bound. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the lovers in the night As they walk through the shady groves alone, Making love to each other before they go home. Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou cheerest the poacher in the night; For thou lettest him see to set his snares To catch the rabbit and the hares.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 09:03:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: Al-Qaeda serpent growing new heads By David Johnston and Don Van Natta in Washington May 19 2003 Al-Qaeda leaders are believed to be regrouping in a number of countries including Kenya, Sudan, Pakistan and Chechnya, and preparing to unleash multiple strikes over a short period to prove the network is still viable. Counter-terrorism officials believe that Saif Adel, the Egyptian said to be al-Qaeda's new military commander and mastermind of last week's bombings in Saudi Arabia, is hiding in Iran with other leaders. These include Saad bin Laden, son of al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden; Abu Mohammed Masri, the network's head of training; and Abu Musab Zarqawi, who was holed up in Baghdad last year. Another group of leaders is believed to be on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. "There are some senior members of al-Qaeda in Iran . . . who might have had a hand in this," a Bush Administration official said of the Saudi attacks, which killed 34 people. US intelligence agencies have also picked up signs just as strong as those before the Saudi bombing that al-Qaeda is plotting further attacks and that they are imminent, US officials said. The "chatter" among terrorism suspects may be even more definitive than before the co-ordinated car bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh, one official said. Another said the signs were just as strong as before these attacks. Both officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was not known where al-Qaeda might strike next, but there were potential threats to Western interests in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, east Africa - including Kenya - and South-East Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia. The terrorist leaders have begun recruiting members, training them and planning new attacks on Western targets. Government officials point to the secret arrests in the United States in the past two months of two Arab men who are suspected of having been sent by al-Qaeda leaders to scout fresh targets. The pair, whom the officials would not identify, were involved in "pre-surveillance". They were part of a group of about six al-Qaeda followers arrested over recent months whose presence in the US has led to fears that the group remains determined to carry out further attacks on American soil.
"Thanks so much for your invasion, Little Snippy!" love, Osama.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 08:56:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: A full month after our great triumph, the critics are as critical as ever, the United States is still isolated and Iraq has turned into a seething pit of chaos and resentment. Instead of being cornered and cowed, al-Qaida is on the offensive, deploying suicide bombers to slaughter Americans. And has anyone noticed that Afghanistan has slid back into anarchy?
enough to make a liberal spittin' mad
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 02:05:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: 1. Liberal [n.] 1. City in Kansas (USA), population 16573; zip code 67901. , 2. City in Missouri (USA), population 684; zip code 64762. 2. liberal [n.] 1. A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties; progressive. , 2. A person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets. 3. liberal [adj.] |ETYM| French , Latin , from free; perh. akin to , , it pleases, Eng. . Related to . , 1. Having political or social views favoring reform and progress. , 2. Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition.
Captain Dictionary
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 01:51:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: I can pictue the Fat Man settling in the creaking easy chair with a slim volume of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ready to read into a little poetry as a non-political pleasure.... well, maybe actually the picture is of him settling into the creaking chair with the remote in one hand and a salami sandwich in the other ready to catch an interview with Coach Cletus on the sports network, or maybe learn a little about the gridlines on the discovery channel, or inform himself about international affairs from Fox News.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 01:46:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Would appear Pete thinks he's the only one who drinks from the fountain of knowledge, liberals only gargle and spit.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 01:44:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: " Fortunately, my experience with the sickness that is liberalism (I would call it a complete immersion in the pig fat vat of socialistic egomaniacial treason and thievery) has only solidified my belief that these people are the true enemies of America and should be eradicated." Sounds like Hitler is alive and well and living in Hawaii.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 01:43:23 (EDT)

My two cents are: Or, if you don't have the time for all that study, just try dropping five hundred mics of 25.
[email protected]
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 01:36:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: To study how things truly are is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be one with all things. To be one with all things is to be enlightened by all things, and this traceless enlightenment continues forever.
Dogen Zenji. Zen Baiter, googled.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 00:47:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Zen-baiters"? Geesh. What's a Zen-baiter?
Hakuin
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 00:31:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: What makes Pete even more fun is, to hear him tell it, he's a liberal's worst nightmare come to life. A fire-breathing troglodyte with lots of 'tude, dontcha know. A grand master at identifying liberal tactics and making them his own.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 00:04:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Still, if it wasn't for Pete, we'd have to invent him. Or find a drunken bus-driver somewhere with nothing to do between shifts.
Anonymous.
- Monday, May 19, 2003 at 00:00:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Agreed, it was poetry, one of his best poems, the Ode to Pete's Soul.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 23:58:43 (EDT)

My two cents are: What's all this fear about who votes and what they vote for, Pete? What the hell does that matter? Easy, ya big goof. You're in your mama's arms.
Anton Scalia
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 22:44:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: When Pete lashes out at stereotypes, you wonder just what he considers himself.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 22:41:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: I'll consider that poetry and leave it at that.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 22:14:39 (EDT)

My two cents are: Oh, I KNOW they were all liberal. Wbhy else would they win a prize administered by liberals. Fortunately, my experience with the sickness that is liberalism (I would call it a complete immersion in the pig fat vat of socialistic egomaniacial treason and thievery) has only solidified my belief that these people are the true enemies of America and should be eradicated, except those who inspire romantic literature and poetry as a non-political pleasure. Marginalized apolitical reomantics at universities are harmless. It is the half-wit pseudo-intellectual Zen-baiters and half wit brianwashed soccer mom "mentalities" who actually think they know something that are the most dangerous pod people invading American power unwittingly because their brand of stupidity actually votes. Doink.
Pete�
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 22:12:24 (EDT)

My two cents are: Everybody's name comes up sooner or later. The idea is to stay put.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 21:55:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: He won the university's highest teaching and research honor, the Hazel Barnes Prize? This great award is given by the school to an employee? How many teachers are there in the joint? Is it one of those things that you're bound to get if you wait around 20 years?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 21:42:06 (EDT)

My two cents are: I guess this is the guy who taught Pete how to be poetical. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:59:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yes. Of course, if that's what the hoale wanted, he could phone the man at 303-492-6032, or email him at [email protected]. That, of course, is not what this is about. Pete's announcement was for us and it was about Pete. Forget the fact that all of us could, if we were poor, pathetic assholes, also name people we know who have accomplished more than Pete (including ourselves) and can be googled.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:52:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, but it would be OK if he were well-wishing the professor, and feeling gratitude for what he learned from the prof, and happiness for the prof's success.
rather than using it for ego-inflating
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:46:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jeffrey C. Robinson Professor of English Office: Hellems 112 Telephone: 303-492-6032 E-mail: [email protected]
think I'll email or call this queer and see if remembers Pete. Maybe even get him to post here.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:39:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: I suspect even Pete, in the recesses of what passes for his mind, understands just how feeble and sad it is to crow about having met or known prominent or faux-prominent individuals. The pitiful lummox just can't help himself.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:36:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: Wait till he figures out his teacher was a liberal. The liberal.
burrrrn the professssor
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:30:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: How insecure do you have to be to derive any self-esteem from the accomplishments and fame of those who cross your path? Pitiful.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:30:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: People who fear class warfare and class envy don't have much class to begin with.
Patrician Lumumbe
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:29:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: First the close encounter with Fess Parker, then the session with Nixon "in a small group," now this teacher who 20 years ago taught Pete all he knows. This Pete is surrounded by celebrity and yet he, himself, is a poor, pathetic asshole.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 20:25:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: So Haole Luyah, Kumbaya Kimosabe the E-Vile Witch-baiter, went to the University of Colorado majoring in business envelope processing, and then got a job at Kinko's in Cambridge delivering xeroxes and pizzas at Dunster House. Trala la, traitor.
fix him up with Thrax
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 19:56:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: We're too squeamish about the topic.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 19:49:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: My children ripened in the dark dungeons of the internet, and I believe it made them less squeamish about "Pete's Specialty" than were preceding generations. We don't talk much about it, though, so I can't be sure.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 19:48:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Man, Pete must be a heavy hitter, to have had a teacher who won a prize! I wish I could take back everything I ever said about him. But I can't. Oh well. Tralala.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 19:42:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bush quote: "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."
so that's why it's so dark here
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 19:41:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: Somebody from Colorado won a prize? It had to happen sooner or later.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 19:40:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: What class envy? The patricians envy the bastard sons of whores? I don't think so.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:48:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: I see Pete's here, trying to redeem himself in some unlikely way. Poor pathetic asshole. I wish him luck.
patriot
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:47:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Damn wheels didn't turn so good, so I went around the block to loosen them up, still not so smooth. So I opened up the hubs and the bearings all rusted, no roll. One was so rusted the inside race stayed on the axle. Guess you're supposed to grease those things ever now and then. Got to get me some new ones, but none of the standard bearing shops are open and I don't want to pay ten times more at the boat store up the corner. Also need a bronze punch. If ydog were here, he could probably tell me how to make the old ones work long enough to get up to the lake and back, but no, he had to scamper off to a life of upward mobility, insane monkey orgiastic sex, body-piercing, pony-tails, brisket, and stout.
Gasket
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:45:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: You losers always quit. You define quit. Traitor.
POW!!!
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:38:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Buuurrrrrrrrnnnnnnnn hheeeeerrrrrrrrrr!
THE WITCH!!! THE E-vile WITCH!!!!!
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:37:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Is Pete on the patrician side? I quit!
Patriot
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:37:08 (EDT)

My two cents are: Looks like my old teacher has finally gotten the pinnacle: "English professor wins teaching honor University of Colorado English Professor Jeffrey Robinson has won the university's highest teaching and research honor, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in the area of Romantic literature and poetics. Robinson holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and Brandeis University. He said his Hazel Barnes Prize, which carries a $20,000 award, is recognition of his 32-year career at CU. He said he plans to use the money from the prize to take some research trips, buy books and write and ponder the literary questions that have defined his career. He has published 13 books and has won a Guggenheim fellowship and four CU faculty fellowships."
Pete�
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:36:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: When the U.S. Organization for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Aid (ORHA) made its first TV broadcast to the Iraqi people Wednesday night, the new channel used as its logo the eight-pointed star seen on many buildings here. If ORHA's head of communication, Margaret Tutwieler, or her staff had consulted with any Iraqis before adopting this logo, they'd have known that the eight-pointed star is the symbol of . . . the Ba'ath Party.
throw the bush baby out with the Ba-athwater
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:28:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: Best President this lousy socialist country will ever be lucky to have. After Lincoln, of course. Shut up traitor.
REAL AMERICAN
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:26:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: George W. Bush Resume Past work experience: Ran for congress and lost. Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas. Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:11:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Class envy. Typical socialist idiot.
Pete�
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 17:10:02 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sure, go sailing. There's a patrician activity.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 16:52:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: Much as I'l like to stay around and bullshit with myself, this wind may not pass these freshwaters again soon, and I must be off sailing.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 15:57:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: And the clientele? Rather low-brow. I suspect that the shop is nothing but a front for Wal-Mart... purely for people with an ersatz brand of Americo-Christian virtue, quite unlike the real thing.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 15:54:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: I was trying to avoid 3-Day Blinds. Went there last time, and it was a week and a half before they were ready.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 15:51:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: Try 3 Day Blinds. Sure, you pay a little more but the clientele is virtuous and normal.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 14:50:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: Yet I believe it will rise again, and the productive will once again come to afford servants. The K-marts will always be with us, and my mistake was to visit it, and to permit my nose to be rubbed in the necessary yet seamy underside of a great country.
patriot
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 14:10:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: And this used to be a great country.
patriot
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 14:05:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: K-mart's gone to the dogs?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 13:19:01 (EDT)

My two cents are: Thanks for that snapshot of your nasty bigoted self.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 12:56:26 (EDT)

My two cents are: Went to Target to get a cheap blind for the afternoon sunblast. Just about everyone there was a low-life. Most of them chubby or downright lardassed, ranging from Glintesque to Petelike. No blinds the right size, so went to Big K-mart. That place was primo low-life. Welfare moms yelling at the kids, surly blackamoors bumping into people, lardassed Mexican families, men named Cletus with creases in their foreheads. Passed the mirror department and realized I was the only patrician-looking genleman in the store, really the only one whose portrait would be fitting on an American banknote. I see that Martha Stewart has wisely removed her name from the garden implements.
patriot
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 12:31:37 (EDT)

My two cents are: The Snip can do what he want.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 12:25:17 (EDT)

My two cents are: According to the Spanish figures, renovating and modernising Iraq's oil industry will cost $3.5bn alone. The scale of the expected shortfall in funding has been underlined by the US commitment to reconstruction, a slim $2.5bn approved by Congress. US Treasury Secretary John Snow insisted last week that countries like France and Germany, who opposed the war, would have to make substantial contributions. The US, UK and Spain are now sponsoring a UN resolution to end sanctions against Iraq and the oil for food programme, instead placing Iraqi oil revenues first under the Pentagon's control, then under a transitional Iraqi authority through which the money could be channelled for reconstruction. The resolution, which would give the occupying powers authority in Iraq for at least a year, would also call for an international fund to rebuild Iraq. The resolution, which is expected to be tabled this week, is being opposed by France, Germany, Russia and China over the lack of a clearly defined central role for the UN and concern that placing Iraq's oil revenues in the hands of an occupying power would breach the UN convention.
"What? You mean chickens really DO come home to roost?" screamed Dim Son.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 09:32:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's not like we can impeach Kennedy for lying under oath. Little bit too late for that. Dead men tell no lies.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 04:19:34 (EDT)

My two cents are: Unless Fletch-Tite is flesh colored paint for his schnoz, nothing's going to make Clinton look better.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 04:16:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does anyone know where I can get some Fletch-Tite�? Nobody in this burg sells it.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 03:38:27 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sounds like a ploy to dumb down the presidency in a round about way to make Clinton look good. It's the old "every fucks in the oval office" canard.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 02:25:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: What about this intern that had an affair with JFK. What kind of affair was it? Did he stick his cock in her pussy or in her head or up her ass hole? Did she eat his cum or just let him dribble it into her hole? And if she did eat it did she swallow it or spit? And if she swallowed it, did she take time to savor the flavor first? She must think we give a damn, otherwise why is the old hosebag talking now?
people want to know diddley
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 01:18:20 (EDT)

My two cents are: Does Enron have a leg yet?
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 00:52:46 (EDT)

My two cents are: Was that one of the book burnings by the Nationalist Socialist party? Socialists, book burnings, pogroms. Birds of a feather.
Anonymous.
- Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 00:29:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Books fed the bonfires Crowds cheered at the burnings in May 1933 By Katharina Deschka-Hoeck Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Roaring fires, fuelled by books written by condemned German authors, burnt in Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Hanover, Munich and more than 20 other German cities on May 10, 1933. This was the day, 70 years ago, when students, professors and National Socialist officials attempted to destroy a large and important part of German culture. The torchings began just a few months after the Nazi party took power. In Frankfurt, as in other German cities, thousands of onlookers flocked to the city square in the middle of the night. �A huge crowd which became denser and denser passed through the inner city streets with us,� Valentin Senger was to later recall. He was 14 at the time, and part of a crowd heading for the R�merberg square where students were staging a National Socialist show that many locals didn't want to miss. The aim of the event was to destroy �undesirable and harmful writing.� Students had set up a central collection point at the city university a few days earlier, giving people enough time to hand in books that were considered as belonging to a �Jewish, Marxist and pacifist heritage.�
Nazis burn non-Nazi books--just a little reminder for those fgaters who flunked world history 101 <and we all know who they are . . .>
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 23:06:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Bargaining Over Spoils in Iraq Russia's consistent position on Iraq seems to be finally bearing some practical fruit. During the final hours of his visit to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell finally uttered what Russian policy-makers have wanted to hear from the Bush administration all along If translated from the diplomatic language -- which always leaves opportunity for retraction -- what Powell said on Ekho Moskvy radio is that the Iraqi regime will acknowledge the country's Saddam Hussein-era debt to Russia. Despite Powell's assurance, however, Russia still seems to be "standing firm" on Iraq, and the obvious reason is that in addition to the debt the Kremlin would also like the United States to promise that the nascent Iraqi authority will honor commercial deals that Hussein's regime signed with Russian companies. Only hours after Powell's comments, Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov came out to publicly hint that Russia will still not support the suspension of UN sanctions on Iraq unless not only the debt but also the contracts are honored. "We discussed debts and contracts" in the talks between Russian diplomats and Powell's team, he said, adding that "this is a legal question, not only an ideological one. "These questions are currently being discussed in New York -- the fate of the resolution depends on it," he said. It is amazing, if not outrageous, to have top statesmen of two countries abandon all conventionalities of international diplomacy to publicly bargain over the spoils in a country occupied without a clear UN mandate. It is also amazing that, while negotiating the spoils, neither side no longer even bothers to mention weapons of mass destruction, which was the reason these sanctions were imposed in the first place. This public horse-trading makes a mockery of U.S. posturing that the entire military operation was meant to disarm a dangerous regime that possessed weapons of mass destruction. It also makes a mockery of Russia's posturing that the argument with the United States is not about money, but about international mandates for use of force against a sovereign nation and principles of global government in general. Such horse-trading has always been part and will probably remain an inalienable part of realpolitik, but in the past it was at least done behind closed doors rather than in an open manner that shows the Iraqi people to what extent their new government will be a puppet of a global superpower.
BUSH SUCKS UP TO POOTY-POOT
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 22:59:25 (EDT)

My two cents are: The U.S. executive selected by the Pentagon to advise Iraq's Ministry of Oil suggested today that the country might best be served by exporting as much oil as it can and disregarding quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. His comments offered the strongest indication to date that the future Iraqi government may break ranks with the international petroleum cartel. Already, officials within the oil ministry -- now supervised by U.S. forces -- are actively considering pulling Iraq out of OPEC and exporting as much crude as possible to maximize revenue once the oil fields have returned to full capacity, according to a senior engineer at the ministry. Iraq's oil production historically has comprised 90 percent of its economy while bringing in nearly all of its foreign exchange.
OIL BE SEEING YOU IN ALL THOSE OLD FAMILIAR PLACES . . .
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 20:45:13 (EDT)

My two cents are: Fears of deflation in the US rose on Friday as stock prices fell and government bond yields dipped to 45-year lows after a key measure of inflation dropped to its lowest level in 37 years. Concerns have also grown about a global-wide deflation which the US could import, as western Europe flirts with recession and Japan looks more likely to enter a deflationary spiral.
WAR IS PEACE. POVERTY IS WEALTH. DEFICIT IS NO PROBLEMA. BWA HA HA.
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 20:43:58 (EDT)

My two cents are: A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran. For now, President Bush's official stance is to encourage the Iranian people to push the mullah regime aside themselves, but observers believe that the policy is not yet firm, and that has created an opportunity for activists. Neoconservatives advocating regime change in Tehran appear to be winning the debate within the administration, several knowledgeable observers said.
WE NEED ANOTHER WAR! QUICK1 al qaeda's infiltrated iran! INVASION! INVASION!
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 20:41:57 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Doink"? Quest-ce que c'est que le "doink"?
M. Camus
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 20:39:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Well, that proves it. Pete didn't cave. Far from it.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 20:25:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: New York Times/CBS poll shows 67 percent of Americans approve of President Bush's job performance and yet only half believe the Bush administration has at all improved the nation's economy, only 42 percent believe public schools have improved under Bush, just 35 percent believe Bush has ensured the existence of Social Security and Medicare for future generations, only 36 percent say he's helped create new jobs and just 19 percent believe Bush has helped reduce the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly.
67% approve of job performance doing what?
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 20:11:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Fort Wayne man alleges that dancers at a local adult entertainment club caused severe injuries while dancing with him during his bachelor party, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Allen Superior Court. Justin Scheidt went to Showgirl III, 930 Coliseum Blvd. E., in the early-morning hours of his wedding day last June as a continuation of his bachelor party that started the night before, the lawsuit said. His friends paid $40 for the female entertainers to get Scheidt on the main stage and dance, the lawsuit said. After Scheidt climbed onto the stage, female entertainers told him to lie on his back and straddle a pole. Two of the dancers held Scheidt's arms down as a third climbed up the pole about six feet and then, "let herself free fall down the pole," the lawsuit said. She landed, "squarely on his genitals causing him excruciating pain," according to the lawsuit. Scheidt told the dancers to stop but they refused and proceeded to take turns climbing the pole and falling on him in a similar fashion, the lawsuit said. None of the dancers was identified in the lawsuit. While on his honeymoon, Scheidt was unable to consummate his marriage because of "serious and permanent injuries" he sustained from the dancers falling on him, the suit said. He also suffered "mental and emotional distress" and incurred medical expenses.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 19:38:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Who said Pete caved? I'm watching you idiots. But there is no intelligent life on here to respond to. Liberal antithesis. Doink.
Pete�
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 19:36:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: There is no question that our country needs more jobs. Unemployment is at 6 percent and 48,000 jobs were lost just in April. The Economist reports that, �500,000 jobs have disappeared in the past three months pushing the total lost under Bush junior over two million.� �Long term unemployment at 1.9 million, is the highest in 10 years, and those numbers do not include the large numbers of discouraged workers (people who want work but have given up looking) and the larger number of underemployed (those who are working, but not as much as they would like to).� But as John Cassady notes in The New Yorker, the link between tax cuts and jobs is decidedly murky. �Two years ago � President Bush persuaded Congress to pass the biggest tax cut in a generation. But since then, a million and a half jobs have disappeared. By contrast President Clinton raised taxes to reduce the budget deficit, and the economy created more than 20 million jobs.�
IT'S STUPID'S ECONOMY
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 18:25:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: COMING SOON: pro-America's 51-card DECK OF MORONS. STARRING DIM SON AS THE "WHAT, ME WORRY?" JOKER.
THEY'RE NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 18:22:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: Glit spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
aha
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 18:20:44 (EDT)

My two cents are: The rightwing Internet site NewsMax.com is now selling a "Deck of Weasels." Modeled after the Pentagon's deck of most wanted Iraqis, the NewsMax deck depicts what it calls "the 54 worst leaders and celebrities who opposed America." It calls them "enemies of America" and shows a photo of each one "wearing the beret of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard." Click on their names, and you are supposed to find "their own quotes against America." Thirteen foreign leaders make up the spade suit, including U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. No quote for him, actually, just this comment: "Still insists Operation Iraqi Freedom needs his permission." Thirteen celebrities make up the heart suit, including Martin Sheen, the ace, who is quoted saying: "By some demented form of logic the men, women, and children of Iraq are relegated to collateral damage' as the dogs of war slouch toward Baghdad." Thirteen Democratic politicians make up the diamonds suit. Senator Robert Byrd, the ace, is quoted as saying, "We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance." Thirteen media people make up the "club" suit, with Dan Rather as the ace for saying, "Everyone we met in Baghdad talks the Saddam line, including these women. . . . They don't trust the American government." The deck contains two "jokers," Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson.
new McCarthyism
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 17:58:11 (EDT)

My two cents are: Charles Pena, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute, a conservative/libertarian think tank in Washington, said it has become increasingly clear that Iraq "was not a hotbed for al Qaeda operations." "The war was a brilliant military victory that demonstrated unrivaled U.S. capabilities," Pena said. "And the Iraqi people were liberated from a brutal dictator. But the hard truth is that victory in Iraq has little to do with winning the war on terrorism. In fact, it may have made the problem worse." Pena said that conclusion was bolstered by the State Department itself, which issued a caution stating that, "the recent events in Iraq may increase the potential threat to U.S. citizens and interests abroad, including by terrorist groups."
non moron conservatives finally wake up and smell the bushist stupidity
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 15:11:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis said on Friday their patience with U.S. pledges to restore law and order in Baghdad and to improve the economy was running thin and fear of lawlessness could lead to anti-American violence. Iraqis, many hiding in their homes for fear of being robbed, are now calling for the establishment of any interim government that would end what many see as growing anarchy. Some Iraqis who had celebrated the downfall of Saddam Hussein last month in a U.S.-led invasion now say insecurity outweighs any feeling of political freedom and liberation. "Under Saddam we lived in fear, now we live in terror from crime and we live in poverty," said Othman, a taxi driver queuing to fill up his car with petrol.
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 14:17:28 (EDT)

My two cents are: "Trolling for rubes. You around, Beer-Boy?" You talking to me? I went looking for Girl Scouts. Found them at a jamboree north of town. Heading back this afternoon to give another talk, after the mulching. Clear sky clock doesn't look too promising, however.
Glint
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 11:00:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rumsfeld baffled by bin Laden May 17 2003 Bush Administration officials have acknowledged that the United States now faces serious obstacles in finding Osama bin Laden and other remnants of al-Qaeda's leadership. In the first public comments in months about the possible whereabouts of bin Laden, the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters they cannot even be certain whether bin Laden is alive. "I just don't know," Mr Rumsfeld said. "What can I say? Who knows?" But other government officials said privately that it was possible that bin Laden ordered the suicide bombing attacks in Saudi Arabia this week.
but but we crushed al qaeda when we invaded Iraq! hey! no fair!
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 10:21:14 (EDT)

My two cents are: How is the war on terror going? You know about the Riyadh bombings. But something else happened this week: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a respected British think tank with no discernible anti-Bush animus, declared that Al Qaeda is "more insidious and just as dangerous" as it was before Sept. 11. So much for claims that we had terrorists on the run. Still, isn't the Bush administration doing its best to fight terrorism? No. The administration's antiterror campaign makes me think of the way television studios really look. The fancy set usually sits in the middle of a shabby room, full of cardboard and duct tape. Networks take great care with what viewers see on their TV screens; they spend as little as possible on anything off camera. And so it has been with the campaign against terrorism. Mr. Bush strikes heroic poses on TV, but his administration neglects anything that isn't photogenic. I've written before about the Bush administration's amazing refusal to pay for even minimal measures to protect the nation against future attacks � measures that would secure ports, chemical plants, nuclear facilities and so on. (But the Department of Homeland Security isn't completely ineffectual: this week it helped Texas Republicans track down their Democratic colleagues, who had staged a walkout.) The neglect of homeland security is mirrored by the Bush administration's failure to follow through on overseas efforts once the TV-friendly part of the operation has come to an end. The overthrow of the Taliban was a real victory � arguably our only important victory against terrorism. But as soon as Kabul fell, the administration lost interest. Now most of Afghanistan is under the control of warlords, the Karzai government is barely hanging on, and the Taliban are making a comeback. Senator Bob Graham has made an even stronger charge: that Al Qaeda was "on the ropes" a year ago, but was able to recover because the administration diverted military and intelligence resources to Iraq. As former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he's in a position to know. And before you dismiss him as a partisan Democrat, bear in mind that when he began raising this alarm last fall his Republican colleagues supported him: "He's absolutely right to be concerned," said Senator Richard Shelby, who has seen the same information. Senator Graham also claims that a classified Congressional report reveals that "the lessons of Sept. 11 are not being applied today," and accuses the administration of a cover-up. Still, we defeated Saddam. Doesn't that make us safer? Well, no. Saddam wasn't a threat to America � he had no important links to terrorism, and the main U.S. team searching for weapons of mass destruction has packed up and gone home. Meanwhile, true to form, the Bush team lost focus as soon as the TV coverage slackened off. The first result was an orgy of looting � including looting of nuclear waste dumps that, incredibly, we failed to secure. Dirty bombs, anyone? Now, according to an article in The New Republic, armed Iraqi factions are preparing for civil war.
"You da man,
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 10:18:41 (EDT)

My two cents are: It now seems probable that Al-Qaeda and its local cells within Saudi Arabia have decided to take advantage of the growing vulnerability of the ruling House of Saud to launch a major campaign of terror with the aim of toppling the increasingly unpopular royal government with an ultra-hardline Islamic regime. In order to lay the foundations for the overthrow of the royal family, the terrorists appear to have calculated that a series of highly co-ordinated suicide attacks would serve to demonstrate that the Al-Qaeda network is fully operational within the Kingdom. As leading anti-terrorism experts point out, Al-Qaeda enjoys far wider support across all levels of Saudi society than either the West or the royal authorities are prepared to acknowledge. Indeed, the Saudi government has only recently abandoned its official position of denying that Al-Qaeda had any serious support base in the Kingdom, despite evidence that substantial funding for the group has its origins in the country and that no less than 15 of the 19 hijackers responsible for the 11 September attacks were Saudi citizens. As JID has pointed out on earlier occasions, Washington's decision to pull out most of its 5,000 troops from the Kingdom represents a major shift in US regional policy. It is also being seen in militant circles as an important victory for Bin Laden, justifying his campaign to expel non-Muslim forces from the country. This week's attacks against foreign civilians may be seen as the next phase of Al-Qaeda's strategy of 'cleansing' the Kingdom prior to ousting the ruling House of Saud.
"Thanks so much for your invasion, Little Snippy!" love, Osama. <theCaliphateIsComing.com>
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 10:01:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: In an abrupt reversal, the United States and Britain have indefinitely put off their plan to allow Iraqi opposition forces to form a national assembly and an interim government by the end of the month. Instead, top American and British diplomats leading reconstruction efforts here told exile leaders in a meeting tonight that allied officials would remain in charge of Iraq for an indefinite period, said Iraqis who attended the meeting. Iraqi leaders ar the meeting expressed strong disappointment at this decision, but the fear is that a divided or weak interim government will not be able to withstand the intense and at times conflicting ethnic and religious pressures that have tended to divide Iraq instead of cementing it together.
OILIGARCHY SI, DEMOCRACY NO <WHATABIG FUCKIN'SURPRISE.COM>
DEMOCRACY IS COMING.COM OH SHIT NO ITS NOT.COM, - Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 09:54:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: AD DEPICTS BUDDIES RUMSFELD, SADDAM Pro-America group uses real photo to show U.S. once backed Iraqi leader By Josh Richman A California Pro-America group intends to place advertisements depicting U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in mass transit systems from coast to coast. The photo is real -- it was taken Dec. 20, 1983, when Rumsfeld, then a special envoy for the Reagan administration, visited Saddam to discuss U.S. support for Iraq in its war with Iran. California Peace Action and its sister Peace Education Fund incorporated the photo into an ad emblazoned with the words, "Who are we arming now? "U.S. troops die for the failures of policy makers," the ad says. "The war in Iraq marked the seventh consecutive time that American troops have been sent into combat against a regime the U.S. had previously backed. We aided both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. While American soldiers and innocent civilians paid the price, policy makers avoided accountability."
Anonymous.
- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 09:50:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 05:18:00 (EDT)

My two cents are: Signs of the times. Have to drag every indiscretion out of the backpack and display it for the public to feed on. Most seem to have an insatiable appetite for these kinds of things.
Mimi be looking for public purification stone?
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:45:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd think they could put together good scams with a tad more cover. By now it's like, "Okay, take our pictures now. Oh, and by the way, this is all bullshit." What is Rove thinking?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:44:16 (EDT)

My two cents are: They asked the one woman to snap pictures. You can see her in the picture snapping away. Nothing like a rube belle in the peanut gallery, taking shots for the memory book. Why, that could be YOU up there, Myrt!
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:21:53 (EDT)

My two cents are: On Tuesday, at a speech promoting his economic plan in Indianapolis, White House aides went so far as to ask people in the crowd behind Mr. Bush to take off their ties, WISH-TV in Indianapolis reported, so they would look more like the ordinary folk the president said would benefit from his tax cut.
BEYOND DIM SON'S DUKAKIS MOMENT--TAKE OFF YOUR LIES, SO YOU LOOK MORE LIKE WORKING STIFFS, BWA HA HA
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:14:04 (EDT)

My two cents are: The truth about Jessica Her Iraqi guards had long fled, she was being well cared for - and doctors had already tried to free her. John Kampfner discovers the real story behind a modern American war myth Thursday May 15, 2003 The Guardian Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war. An all-American heroine, the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict. It couldn't have happened at a more crucial moment, when the talk was of coalition forces bogged down, of a victory too slow in coming. Her rescue will go down as one of the most stunning pieces of news management propaganda yet conceived. It provides a remarkable insight into the real influence of Hollywood producers on the Pentagon's media managers, and has produced a template from which America hopes to present its future wars. But the American media tactics, culminating in the Lynch episode, infuriated the British, who were supposed to be working alongside them in Doha, Qatar. This Sunday, the BBC's Correspondent programme reveals the inside story of the rescue that may not have been as heroic as portrayed.
LYNCH RESCUE MORE BUSHIST BULLSHIT
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:10:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: For the prime-time television address that Mr. Bush delivered to the nation on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House rented three barges of giant Musco lights, the kind used to illuminate sports stadiums and rock concerts, sent them across New York Harbor, tethered them in the water around the base of the Statue of Liberty and then blasted them upward to illuminate all 305 feet of America's symbol of freedom. It was the ultimate patriotic backdrop for Mr. Bush, who spoke from Ellis Island. For a speech that Mr. Bush delivered last summer at Mount Rushmore, the White House positioned the best platform for television crews off to one side, not head on as other White Houses have done, so that the cameras caught Mr. Bush in profile, his face perfectly aligned with the four presidents carved in stone. And on Monday, for remarks the president made promoting his tax cut plan near Albuquerque, the White House unfurled a backdrop that proclaimed its message of the day, "Helping Small Business," over and over. The type was too small to be read by most in the audience, but just the right size for television viewers at home.
more bushist bullshit
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:07:35 (EDT)

My two cents are: Amnesty International is investigating claims that British and American troops tortured prisoners of war in Iraq with night-long beatings and, in at least one case, electric shocks, the group said Friday. The human rights organization gathered statements from 20 former detainees who said they had been kicked and beaten by soldiers while being interrogated, Amnesty researcher Said Boumedouha told a news conference in London. The UK denied these claims, but there was no immediate comment from the Pentagon.
cat got their tongues?
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 21:04:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: Jism-sniffers. Yep, that's it.
he also likes corpses don't he
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 20:59:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: This all points to a breakdown in traditional values. Back in the old days everybody knew the score. People knew how to keep intimate secrets and neither a lady nor a gentleman told. Nowadays, you have jism-sniffers like Glint and competive sex and anti-sex. President Bill Clinton was a true gentleman, probably because of his upbringing. Behaviorally, very, very litle has changed. The president, the Rotary hick, the night watchman, has always been able to find supplicant, willing young ladies or old ladies, doesn't matter. What's changed is the hunger of the Glintoids to be teased and eventualy consumed by reality and those who cater to his weird lust.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 20:43:12 (EDT)

My two cents are: On Thursday the Daily News reported that Marion "Mimi" Fahnestock, a 60-year-old church administrator, was the woman behind the name. Fahnestock declined to discuss her relationship with Kennedy, but she handed out a brief statement Thursday to journalists waiting outside her Upper East Side apartment building. "From June 1962 to November 1963, I was involved in a sexual relationship with President Kennedy," the statement said. "For the last 41 years, it is a subject I have not discussed."
never even in confidence to Linda Tripp
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 20:02:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: I suppose I could always try to play him the way he tries to play ydog, insult him in his absence. Nah, no sport.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 19:56:45 (EDT)

My two cents are: A Millenium Rube for sure.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 19:55:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: You gotta admit, that was a damn good rube we had.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 19:37:31 (EDT)

My two cents are: Next time I snag a rube, I'm going to play him real careful like.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 19:34:55 (EDT)

My two cents are: On the other hand, they might have cut him loose, handed him his pink slip and his beer mug and said adios, rube.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 18:58:30 (EDT)

My two cents are: I mean it's down to Glint now that Pete's caved in. Ah, Glint would never leave. He's probably just shit-faced, driving home from the beer blast.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 18:53:59 (EDT)

My two cents are: "We gave her three bottles of blood, two of them from the medical staff because there was no blood at this time,"said Dr Harith al-Houssona, who looked after her throughout her ordeal. "I examined her, I saw she had a broken arm, a broken thigh and a dislocated ankle. Then I did another examination. There was no [sign of] shooting, no bullet inside her body, no stab wound - only RTA, road traffic accident," he recalled. "They want to distort the picture. I don't know why they think there is some benefit in saying she has a bullet injury."
not acceptable Jessica script
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 18:53:10 (EDT)

My two cents are: I hope you're wrong but I'm beginning to think we may have overplayed our hand. Sigh.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 18:44:03 (EDT)

My two cents are: No rubes. Fished out. The rubes are in the closet, where they feel safe, listening to Limbaugh. Mulling over the latest spin from O'Reilly, dreaming about Ann Coulter on rubber sheets. You can't blame them. How long can a man being stand to be a human door mat?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 18:32:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Trolling for rubes. You around, Beer-Boy?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 17:53:09 (EDT)

My two cents are: Sequel? We're talking series! Imagine the November sweeps!
Cecil B. Zogby
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 17:01:54 (EDT)

My two cents are: Where's the sequel potential?
Iran
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 16:59:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: Check with Halliburton.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 15:10:49 (EDT)

My two cents are: It was like a Hollywood film. They cried 'go, go, go', with guns and blanks without bullets, blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show for the American attack on the hospital - action movies like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan." There was one more twist. Two days before the snatch squad arrived, Harith had arranged to deliver Jessica to the Americans in an ambulance.
Maybe it paid for good scriptwriters and directors.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 14:09:22 (EDT)

My two cents are: In the year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress gave the Pentagon $28.5 billion in "emergency-response" money to fight terrorism. The Pentagon has spent almost all of it. But nothing on the public record shows in any meaningful way how the money was actually used. And even confidential reports to congressional staff about the spending leave defense-budget experts wondering exactly what was bought in many cases.
it's a secret
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 14:04:50 (EDT)

My two cents are: Guy named Burr was pretty heavy. Played Perry Mason?
Clyde Harrington
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 12:53:18 (EDT)

My two cents are: There's that fat guy who reminds me of "Norm" on Cheers and who makes his living writing books about virtue and talking about it on the Sunday morning news shows. What's he up to these days?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 12:34:40 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mr. Limbarge was too fat for television back in those days. Name me the lard-asses who have had successful TV careers? Now that he's shed pounds and is muscular and svelte, maybe he should take another go at the "little screen."
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 12:14:05 (EDT)

My two cents are: Rush's TV career "crashed and burned" because he was the victim of a liberal smear campaign that struck a sympathetic note with liberal media owners. As a result, his show was placed in late night/early morning slots that no decent, law-abiding, God-fearing person would be likely to catch. I suppose his being a bloated, overbearing, way-too-full-of-himself asshole may have also played a role in it all, but I'd rather not dwell on it.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 11:28:47 (EDT)

My two cents are: You'd think, with all the liebral, traitor socialists in this country, a fellow traveller, like Stephanopolis, would have better numbers. I mean, I can understand why Limbaugh's TV "career" crashed and burned, but Stephanopolis?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 11:20:29 (EDT)

My two cents are: ???
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- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 11:17:42 (EDT)

My two cents are: STEPHANOPOULOS PULLS LOWEST RATING IN HISTORY OF ABC'S 'THIS WEEK'... developing..
Socialisits on the run in America. They will never hold power again. Forever. Tralala.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 10:53:21 (EDT)

My two cents are: Mexicans all had personal soap-caddies, made of plastic, fit together like a sandwich. If I'd understood their jabber in the turkey sheds I would of known. They were good people, some of them, and would have told me if they'd known. Suppose they figured a man would know to bring his own.
Clyde Harrington
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 10:49:15 (EDT)

My two cents are: Went to a bath-house once, back when I worked at the turkey ranch down in Corona. Bunch of Mexicans. Towels were way too small and rough as a wood-rasp. Had to buy soap if you didn't bring any. Grand-dad told me that's all they had back on the old sod. Bath-houses. Happy to get it.
Clyde Harrington
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 10:43:51 (EDT)

My two cents are: It's all the lights from the bath-houses, probably. I hear Frisco is full of queens.
J. Preston B.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 00:05:48 (EDT)

My two cents are: What good is a clear sky? It's useless because of the light pollution. The astronomy buff always gets the shit end of the stick.
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 00:03:32 (EDT)

My two cents are: Will it sell soap?
Anonymous.
- Friday, May 16, 2003 at 00:00:58 (EDT)

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