JoeUser ForumsGreat post. It will give me some new stuff to listen to. I have to disagree with the Tool part. I really liked 10,000 days.
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Bush did fail with Lebanon. Instead of Condi Rice pushing for an end to Israel's push into Lebanon they should have let them kill as many Hezbollah fighters as possible. Obviously what they call "peace" isn't if you watch the news. So now instead of Hezbollah fighters being killed, Hezbollah is destabilizing the whole nation. I'm betting that the Col wouldn't have praised us for sitting back and allowing the job to get done, though. I'm still chickling over the line: <table
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" It has to do with how our citizens are being impacted by certain actions of Big Business." Then put up or shut up and explain how, without socialist pressure, you can fix the problem. How, exactly, can you manage the salaries of the CEOs, in such a way that the money gets back to the workers, without being socialist? Sure, you'd tax the hell
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I have to be honest and say that I don't think the school should have a DAMN thing to do with ANYTHING that happens off campus. The Methodist school I went to decided about halfway through that they'd start investigating reports about "unseemly" behavior that occurred in the bars 50 miles away in a larger city. All it did was give people with petty grudges something to trump up gossip about their arch enemies. It's no different than elementary and high school kids getting in trouble f
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There's nothing you can get from the View that you can't get from any public waiting room or other place where pampered, barely functional middle-aged women sit and bitch to one another. With the exception, I guess, of Rosie's new lesbian perspective.
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"Yeah, it's sad we spent 40 years fighting the cold war only to start legislating socialism less than two decades after the Berlin Wall came down." And that's if you don't count our long, slow slide into socialism as beginning with Roosevelt, or Johnson's "Great Society".
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yeah, that's basically what I was describing there. Instead of Sisyphus pushing a rock, though, he's standing behind a podium in a room full of people throwing tomatoes at him.
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I was "asked to leave" a college by a coach who had drank enough beer with his players that they had stacked the cans to cover an entire dorm room wall. One of the list of heinous sins I was accused of was a bag of empties in my closet. If you haven't had to live in a dorm where the head resident was a coach and all the RAs were players, well, you don't know how bad it can be.
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You know I have a position, but I wasn't really taking one there, Col. I have to just wonder, after YEARS of this, what do you get from it? Sometimes when I visit your blogs I feel like Dante visiting hell, seeing you guys pushing rocks for eternity.
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Yes, but as professors they should know how our system of justice works. The 88 not only bypassed the assumption of innocence, but published their approval of the vigilante-style harassment of what they called "rapists". Come on, that's not behavior that should be allowed in ANY place that associates itself with "higher education". In the end, they showed a dedication more to their biases and hatred than their students. For that, and the fact they supported the harrassment of people
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I'm really worried by the fact that he hasn't regained consciousness yet. It seems like they could at least pin down WHY this is happening in all this time. I hate doctors and hospitals. My family tries to keep me out of them when a family member is sick, because i have a tendency to grab the staff around the neck and shake them.
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No offense, but I don't see how either side could be totally sane and do this. You realize that you are just saying the same things over and over, and the other side is just saying "No!" and saying the same thing you disagreed with, right? I could see it if you were arguing over some philosophical ideal that has no answer, or something you can prove quantitatively once and for all, but damn, this is like swiftboatvets meets the democratic underground in hell to argue for eternity.
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Admissions down 3% this year. Whether that is because of the mess or not is debatable, but I wouldn't send my kid to a school that punished the whole team based upon unfounded accusations, and allowed professors to create a vigilante movement against them, complete with people banging pots and pans and yelling meanness outside their residence. The saddest part is that if this was the basketball team none of this would have happened. NIFONG wouldn't have pursued it. The Basketball tea
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"IIR wasn't he trailing politically there when this case hit? I am operating just from memory here but I seem to recall this being a pull-from-behind sort of publicity thing...? I could be wrong though." Yeah, but not the same election shedule as the big one. He won that election back
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I'm still wondering why Nifong went so far out on a limb about this. A lot has been made about these newest revelations, but by the time this case was a month or two old it was blatantly obvious that something was really, really wrong. I mean, once the election was over and it was obvious that this was bogus, why did he so stubbornly keep at it? I can see it from the angle of trying to stem minority outrage during an election. I don't agree with it, but I can at least understand it.
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I didn't care for the speech. It was annoying to hear him claim that we are "rallying the world" against extremism. He made several statements like that just smacked of propaganda. For the most part, though, he was honest, and no one can blame him for trying to show optimism. In the end I think a lot of us would have been a lot more happy with an angry Bush, condemning the politics that stayed his hands for so long, and letting us know that he's ceasing to give a damn about world perc
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"Let's just make tv illegal period. Think of how much energy we'd save. Maybe our illiteracy rate would fall to absolutely zero. Childhood and adult obesity would probably fall drastically as well." Odd, but if I recall correctly our illiteracy rate has dropped as TV has become more universal. Not just like 19th century, mind you, but even in th
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Col, I dunno where you get your numbers. I read that the red cross estimated that around 350,000 homes were destroyed by Katrina AND Rita. Over HALF of those were rental properties that the people living therein wouldn't have a claim for the property anyway. Re: your dollar amount, I already posted that $122 BILLION was allocated for Katrina relief. That's almost twice the $70 billion you cite, even if your claim wasn't totally bogus. There's absolutely, positively no federal respon
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Mmkay, Col. The fact is homeowner's insurance is not as expensive as you're making it out to be, unless of course you live in an area where your property is prone to wash off into the ocean or flood. There, again, is a good case TO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO LIVE. You're actually saying that if a person can't insure their home that the government should insure its value for them? Without any contract, or government program, or terms set before the destruction of the home? The government
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Thank you, again, no hard feelings. I don't believe you frequent such stuff, and I understand it was an example. I just despise those people to the point that I can't bare to look at their filth, even when it is just philosophy.
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" How long have we known this dam needed rebuilding?" The seepage problems and repairs have been underway since the 1970's. "Will the dam cooperate and hold together until 2012" The more
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You should be able to edit from KFC's main page (not the forums), regardless of whether or not people have posted after. Just make sure you are logged in. No hard feelings intended, just a warning would be nice.
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More like saying that the quarterback should be be receiver, too. I'm sure the insurance companies would just LOVE it if we paid through the nose every month, and then the government came in and rebuilt our houses for free. Oh, wait, not free, since it is our tax dollars. So, in essence, the Col says we should pay twice. Once in insurance premiums, then again in tax money when we pay for the government to rebuild.
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"Rebuild the levies to with stand a cat 5 storm." The fact of the matter is, between activists and the fact that people insist on living several feet below sea level, there may be NO way to protect these places for a Cat 5 storm. The walls meant to stop a katrina-style event were supposed to have been built, and were fully funded and ready to go
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Why lie? Who is ignoring it? They recognized this problem in 2004, manipulated the water levels to reduce the chance of failure in 2005, and construction started in 2006. Complete remedial construction will be done by the Army Corps of Engineers by 2012. It's fully funded at a cost of $306 million. The reports coming out today are all just knee-jerk responses to the fact that the fishermen and resulting businesses are pissed that they are keeping the water levels down. The people li
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