Sean Conners aka SConn1

Reply to Like Fire, Fear Spreads When Given Plenty Of Air in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

You're a good guy. For a liberal. lol,,,are we gonna start that again? thanks for the comments tho, and despite the dig, it's actually nice to have someone step off their political soapbox and just say that. i'll try to track down your article and leave some comments...today's gonna be kind of a busy day for me "offline" but i will try. as far as baker goes, i'm sorry but i don't share your sentiment. like many on here, he may take

Reply to The Republican Party is broken in Republican JoeUser Forums

now tell me how many people (party not necessary) were accused, indicted, or convicted of crimes against minors in the time it took you to write that non-story? 1st, you call it a non story. that doesn't make it so. to me, sex with 8 and 10 year old girls by someone who was a rising star in the GOP is a story. 2nd, that wasn't your premise. you contended that i should have been writing about bill jefferson, not all the other cases of molestatio

Reply to Like Fire, Fear Spreads When Given Plenty Of Air in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

i think there is a lot of inappropriate misgivings we get about each other. the comments here today, and on the sex scandal post et al... are evidence of that. hopefully, this post and the comments will serve to do some healing and we can all get back to actually discussing and debating things instead of trying to paint others with broad brushes of insults and the like...at least until the next "blow up" on JU. as far as the fear mongering rightwinger...oops...there i go again...and i

Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

now that's extreme. but if a plane flying overhead would throw them that hard, one has to question just how deserving they are to make the top 60% of the scores and get in the university system. if your make or break is a plane overhead for a few seconds, then perhaps you aren't really that strong of student. i can see the parents wanting the wind at their children's back for the test, but i would think the examiners would encourage more planes to weed out the kids who can't focus. <br

Reply to The Republican Party is broken in Republican JoeUser Forums

But you chose to tar "republicans" with a scandal of what amounts to a City Council man in a podunk - on the DAY Jefferson was indicted with more counts than the last 3 congressmen combined. so, i haven't gotten around to it...i'm hardly AP over here. and i guess i consider sex with 8 and 10 year old girls with an adult mayor, who was a rising republican star, a bigger story than one about cash. jefferson, if found guilty, should serve long an

Reply to Paris Hilton Released From Prison w/ latest updates in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

And california is a world upon itself. and l.a. is world within itself...ditto for hollywood.

Reply to Security at the FBI and Government Agencies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

If they have access to printers they can print it out and take it away. If they use computers they can put it on removable media ad take it away. Don’t allow removable media and they can memorize it or write it down by hand or if that doesn't work, they can stuff their jock with em like sandy, lol.

Reply to Security at the FBI and Government Agencies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

i liked that part about the security checks. my wife has some pretty high security clearance...high enough that she really doesn't even like to discuss it in fear of saying something illegal or whatnot. after 9/11, they redid it all. they were goin back to her childhood lookin for dirt. we got calls from people she hadn't seen in 10 or 20 years that wondered why the feds were showing up and asking all these questions about her. the whole process took

Reply to The Republican Party is broken in Republican JoeUser Forums

so nice that everyone else takes advantage of us (including our own people). i think i get what you are saying, and many studies on people's actual honesty have backed that up. we all love to take advantage where we can (example....: get that free stuff or below cost discount because you know someone, not because you deserve it) and think nothing of the people we are ripping off. yet we will scream to the high heavens when someone else, esp. someone we a

Reply to The Republican Party is broken in Republican JoeUser Forums

I'll be interested to see what you have to say about the host of Democrat "bad apples" that are sitting in office now again...i've called for reid's ousting, criticized pelosi for giving jefferson a big comittee seat and criticized murtha, hillary and others. i think the democratic leadership sucks for the most part. i'm not so quick to damn pelosi, as she is "some good, some bad" in my view thus far. but she is sliding in my polls as of late.

Reply to Like Fire, Fear Spreads When Given Plenty Of Air in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

thanks for the comments guys. food for thought for all, i'm sure. i too hope that baker continues to post, i just wish he wouldn't throw the bombs around so much along with some of the other inflamatory language...but hey, some wish i would change my style too. and charles, you could probably say the same in some part of your life. it's funny tho, and i believe that we should all take note, that sometimes our passions and such make these comments get way too personal too often and ear

Reply to Turkey Invades Iraq in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Saying we have the right without giving us the power is a bit inconsistent, is it not? i've stated that some plans look simply unfeasible or impractical. but what "power" am i not giving? i simply contend that actual enforcement of the 86 laws would dry up the incentive to come here. but "immigration reform" hasn't been anything about that. some of it has been a thinly veiled exercize in racism in my view. and at the same time, the people who w

Reply to Paris Hilton Released From Prison w/ latest updates in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

in the end, she ended up getting that "special treatment" that everyone feared. justice was not served from what i can see now.

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Good grief, sean. Learn to READ! I said it's not the GOVERNMENT'S JOB i don't think it is either. but the govt is the best vehicle we have to do certain things. i'd like to see another...but haven't. i look at it like former late chief justice spoke about democracy... it's not the best form of govt. it's just that every other one is worse. (paraphrase) It goes both ways, Sean. I find it telling that you see nastiness f

Reply to Like the Cardassians Used To Say... in Republican JoeUser Forums

And thanks for the cut-and-paste article, BTW... do you have an opinion of your own or is your opinion expressed in the too-short opening paragraph? That honestly does sound dangerous reminiscent of a typical COL Gene opening paragraph. this article is a reference point for another article that was written and had the "13 incidents" in that article. that made it too long. so i did it this way. when people started actually commenting on it, which i didn't

Reply to Like the Cardassians Used To Say... in Republican JoeUser Forums

Victory is mine? Why not say "mission accomplished" instead? cause i was referencing Family Guy. it's "stewie's favorite line and i was havin fun. guess yer not.

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

that was a GLARING mistake and one that was immediately corrected

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

We have an individual moral responsibility to care for the poor and needy. that's not socialism. that's what Christ taught. socialism was what Marx taught. throwing that at me is just trying to put me down. "socialism" might as well be "dumbfuckism" in this context. you all think you are being eloquent with these backhanded insults, you are not. We do not reduce government spending by increasing it, Sean. You are 100%

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

and don't think it was lost on me that ya'll had to change the subject and hijack the post for your own agenda. this isn't a 7 year old story baker. the orig. 37 years was. but the new 18 years isn't. you just don't like the fact that this scumbag happens to be a republican and it was pointed out. but it's ok for the right to paint everyone else with stereotypical brushes and declare "there they go again!" with your generic brushes.

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Envormental concerns are to be considered at all times and given proper weight against other factors. that has nothing to do wit hpersonal property rights. i did say there "given proper weight." Social Security will not be privatized and must be kept out of "for profit" interests. that's right. not "for profit" interests. later i clarified... i don't think i would jump off the cliff o

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

to refresh your memory... Health Care...All American children are inherently covered by their citizenship. Universal coverage is the ultimate goal, but the needs of children, followed by seniors, comes 1st and foremost. Health care cannot be denied to any child by anyone licensed to practice in the US. i also said, in another discussion.... if given the choice of having the goverment help, or having a person suffer becasuse of a political platform plank, i c

Reply to Turkey Invades Iraq in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

But as they tell us repeatedly with the illegal immigration issue...countries have no right to protect their borders! who's they? when have i ever said that no one has a right to protect their borders? just because i want the 1986 laws to actually be enforced has no bearing on that. talk about misleading and false...but at least you are getting consistant!

Reply to Turkey Invades Iraq in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

oh? misleading? read... ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey has declared several areas near the border with Iraq to be "temporary security zones" in a sign of increasing activity by the military in its campaign against Kurdish rebels.The declaration Wednesday came amid a Turkish military buildup on the border, and on the same day as Turkish security officials and an Iraqi Kurdish official said hundreds of Turkish troops crossed into northern I

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Oh, and your "King of all Blogging", which is BEYOND pretentious and wholly inaccurate. which brings me to another point: you DON'T win elections with a victim mentality, which I see pretty much prevalent in your writing). which brings me to my point. which is you can't even keep your story consistant in the same comment. how can i be arrogant and "kingly" and at the same time "have a victim mentality." sorry g

Reply to Another Republican Sex Scandal in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The fact is, Sean, when you stick with ideas like UNIVERSAL health care no, i don't . you try to pin that on me, but it's not true. i do believe that we have a reponsibility to cover every child. i have yet to see a plan that can insure everyone from the private sector. i keep challenging people to show me one, or show me things on other issues...but you just see what you want, call me a democrat or a liberal and attack. i think helth care is a