Daiwa

Daiwa

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Reply to Wrong-Way Bush in Politics JoeUser Forums

"The 9/11 commission has found "no evidence" of "a collaborative operational relationship" between Iraq and al-Qaida." As pointed out in replies to other articles where you've included this assertion, it is technically true but it is totally specious since such a relationship was never claimed. Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission found plenty of evidence of a collaborative relationship between Iraq & al-Qaeda (just read the report), thoug

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Reply to CBS Hoaxed? in Politics JoeUser Forums

If it turns out not to be a forgery, does that mean you will vote for Kerry? No. So, what is the importance of the document in either case? Isn't this much ado about nothing? The importance of the document, CrispE, is that Senator Tom Harkin, among others, came out blasting President Bush yesterday base

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Reply to Believe in my God or I'll Kill You in Misc JoeUser Forums

Hmm... Interesting take. Someone sneek some soured milk into your coffee this morning? However, in the main, today, it is the radical Muslims who embrace the premeditated murder of innocents as a/the path to Holiness. Not too many Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews or whatnots are organizing in such a way as to enable such Holiness on a mass scale. Cheers, Daiwa

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Reply to When an Explosive Charge Is Not Handled With Care in Politics JoeUser Forums

Forgive me, blogic - in this case I need to recant slightly. You did have the "more likely" in there, which is a fair representation of his remarks. As I said before, I think Cheney's assessment is a fair hypothesis and not a dirty trick. Cheers, Daiwa

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Reply to When an Explosive Charge Is Not Handled With Care in Politics JoeUser Forums

heck somebody smarter should have ran with it and said Cheney is against Bush, but I guess it shows deep down everybody feels safer with Bush than Kerry, hiliarious You are quite right about the prism of our assumptions sometimes distorting the image, ShoZan - good call. And I've listened to th

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Reply to 60 Minutes "documents" fake? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

she had proportionate type elements (those ball things) with super/subscripting capabilities. they definitely arent typeset. Now that you remind me, that's technically true, kingbee, but the lettering would be in the same point size, not smaller (the Selectric could shift up or down a half-line, IIRC)

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Reply to CBS Hoaxed? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Drag - It is odd that whoever did this made the forgery so obvious and then managed to sell CBS on it. Makes you wonder. Cheers, Daiwa

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Reply to CBS Hoaxed? in Politics JoeUser Forums

This could be fake evidence planetd by Clintons in order to intially help Kerry but backfire on him so that he is not elected so Hillary can run in 2008, I know it's just a conspiracy theory, but everybody seems to be running around with one these days. An idea even Rush could embrace! I trust it's "qu

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Reply to CBS Hoaxed? in Politics JoeUser Forums

There were proportional font typewriters in 1973 (good ole' IBM Selectric), but none that typed superscripts , no matter what the font. No question whatsoever - it's a fraud. It's been cleverly made to look "old" but it ain't. Suggests whoever at CBS "vetted" that document is younger than about 45 or so, old enough, anyway, to not remember what typewriters of the day were like and to not realize how obvious the fraud is.

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Reply to Records Say Bush Balked at Order in Politics JoeUser Forums

Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines said the memos looked like they had been produced on a computer using Microsoft Word software, which wasn’t available when the documents were supposedly written in 1972 and 1973. Lines, a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, pointed to a superscript — a smaller, raised “th” in “111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron” — as evidence indicating forgery. Mic

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Reply to When an Explosive Charge Is Not Handled With Care in Politics JoeUser Forums

There's a danger we'll get hit whichever candidate gets elected, but I agree the risk is greater if it ends up being Kerry, whose election would embolden the terrorists in my opinion. I think Cheney's assessment happens to be correct, sadly. I wish such considerations were not a factor in our election calculus, but reality bites. Cheers, Daiwa

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Reply to Damaging Anti-Bush National Guard Records May Be Fake in Politics JoeUser Forums

Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines said the memos looked like they had been produced on a computer using Microsoft Word software, which wasn’t available when the documents were supposedly written in 1972 and 1973. Lines, a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, pointed to a superscript — a smaller, raised “th” in “111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron” — as evidence indicating forgery. Mic

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Reply to Grim Milestone More Than A Number in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well, darn. I just spent two hours plus excerpting quotes from the 9/11 Commission refuting blogic's assertions and just after highlighting one last word to bold it, the whole freakin' thing went "poof" and disappeared when I hit the Bold button. Man, does that hurt or what. I'll get back here & post the quotes again if I can, but anyone can read the report and find the documentation to support what I'm about to say: 1. We

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Reply to Moral Bankruptcy in the left? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Looking again at my last reply, I didn't really answer your question, Def. I guess it depends what you mean by "being on the offensive." All the pundits are saying he was slow to react, yada yada, but what I was hearing out of him was pretty reactive. The perfect response, and probably the only one that had a real chance of salvaging his campaign in my view, would have been to join Bush in condemning all 527's and promptly changing the subje

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Reply to Moral Bankruptcy in the left? in Politics JoeUser Forums

You're right, Def (pardon the pun) - my precision-detector failed me. Should have been: "...stupid the ABB crowd thinks we are." But you gotta admit that's kinda funny, though, don't ya? Even coming from you? You really believe GW paved that path, huh? Cheers, Daiwa

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Reply to Electoral College Tie in Politics JoeUser Forums

ShoZan is correct. There is no method immune to manipulation in some fashion. For all the reprobation Nixon deservedly received for his Watergate idiocy, he was the last "loser" to put the country ahead of himself, graciously accept "defeat" and walk away, even though there was damn good reason to believe that Illinois was fraudulently delivered to Kennedy by the Daly machine in 1960. Gore graciously accepting the outcome in 2000 and calling

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Reply to The Bush Family History of Benefitting from Smear Ads in Politics JoeUser Forums

Bungy32 - Sorry to disappoint, but my reply had nothing to do with you. I was giving Messy props for having captured the essence of the left's tactics in a concise, tight example. But as long as we're on the subject - I suppose because Kerry's lawyers haven't admitted advising on a specific ad, they haven't? Is that what you're saying? SInce lawyer/client communications are privileged, where did your information co

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