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never thought i would see this type of thing in the LA Times:

Bush never lied to us about Iraq

welcome back, better.shorter.

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i haven’t heard a word about this in the news. just damn.

“Under the vaunted Kyoto, from 2000 to 2004, Europe managed to increase its emissions by 2.3 percentage points over 1995 to 2000. Only two countries are on track to meet targets. There’s rampant cheating, and endless stories of how select players are self-enriching off the government “market” in C02 credits. Meanwhile, in the U.S., under the president’s oh-so-unserious plan, U.S. emissions from 2000 to 2004 were eight percentage points lower than in the prior period.”

Oops.

How would you like to have a 3-D printer for the kids?

Wow!

some great shots of russian aircraft. a few funny looking birds there.

save some money. google is offering free ISP service.

it is still in beta, but read through the page. it looks to be interesting technology. the details on installation should definitely be read, study the diagram, and don’t miss how they are including google checkout delivery services (at the bottom of the page).

The Beer Launcher:

opinionjournal has a rather lengthy, but good read, of how the democrats are leading us down a familiar path in iraq. even after living in france, i couldn’t tell you of a single french military victory save napolean, but this article tells of a military victory but political failure in algeria.

the mainstream media is doing nothing to report on the success of the surge that president bush recently instituted 2 years after democrats demanded it. my impression is that it is working rather well. this following of history down the wrong path reminds me of many an instance that mona charen illustrates in useful idiots.

take a few minutes to read the whole thing, if you can, and i’d love to hear some feedback from the leftys as to if his point of the article doesn’t ring true.

i don’t know how long these have been up, but i just saw them. it will be interesting to see how much of this gets significant viewing as we get closer to election day. but they are entertaining.

A Little text to make this work.

john stossel reports on the idea i’ve floated here a few times about the problem with employer payed health insurance. he uses a nice analogy:

Suppose you had grocery insurance. With your employer paying 80 percent of the bill, you would fill the cart with lobster and filet mignon. Everything would cost more because demand would rise and supermarkets would stop running sales. Why should they — when their customers barely care about the price?

i’m sure you’re tired of my posting of these things, but with the dems continuing to want to push national healthcare (and with it’s failure here and abroad), i’d like to keep you thinking about market driven reforms that should work in america.

i know that there was a little surprise a year ago when i pointed out that global warming was not settled science. it seems that 60 scientists are trying to get the canadian government to acknowledge this:

• Observational evidence does not support today’s computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future.
• If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary.
• The new Canadian government’s commitment to reducing air, land and water pollution is commendable, but allocating funds to “stopping climate change” would be irrational.
• It was only 30 years ago that many of today’s global-warming alarmists were telling us that the world was in the midst of a global-cooling catastrophe.

the debate is, of course, continuing here. “Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, engaged in a heated exchange with CNN newsman Miles O’Brien over CNN’s biased and erroneous coverage of global warming.” o’brien “cited the fictional movie The Day After Tomorrow to defend his science reporting.” furthermore, Sen. Inhofe (R) explains that even if every developed nation deployed kyoto, there would be only 6/100th degree change, in 50 years.

not to mention that many of the people pushing global warming were involved in the killing of millions of africans over the past 40 years with the ban of ddt. thank god it’s back.

i’m just saying.

ex-presidential candidate forbes suggests redistributing to the masses the income of the Iraqi oil fields. oddly, with this i feel he has some truly good ideas for moving iraq forward.

curiously, since they have a democratically elected government, forbes suggests that, our “Administration, however, should introduce changes that would make this goal more realizable.” isn’t this something they should suggest to the iraqi parliment?

his points:

1. distribute a part of the oil income to everyone in iraq, much as the Permanent Fund does in alaska.
2. get rid of inflation by containing the dinar to a backed rate of dollars or euros, or simply using one of these currencies.
3. protect entrepreneurial interests a la hong kong.
4. allow each “ethnic community [to have] home rule, in which its affairs are largely run by local citizens,” with a weaker central government, similar to the french, german, and italian ethnicities of suisse, schweiz, svizzera.

with this short plan, that would likely be very hard to get through the parliment (particularly number 4 in which the central government would have to cede its new found power), i feel much of the “quagmire” which is iraq today would quickly turn into a stable, liberal democratic country in the middle of the east.

boortz, for the first time that i am aware, has written a positive comment on both pelosi and rangel!! i am frankly surprised to see that nancy would come out and defend bush this way. i’m glad to see it.

it is interesting to note how clinton and carter have broken tradition and spoken out against a sitting president. there is not much precendent for former presidents publically demeaning the oval office in quite the way the last two democratic presidents have done to bush.

given the partisan life in dc now, it is amazing and intriguing to see these two democrats (pelosi and rangel) defend the president in the face of chavez’s comments. good work, dem leaders. of course, you should see the next paragraph that reminds me why it will be so hard for me to vote democratic even though the republicans are no longer conservative.

ps why are the time stamps on mountain time rather than local as they were before (or were they just on eastern before)?

sorry, harry, i didn’t get a chance to read the linked article before yahoo pulled it.

but did you see this?

The Moller M400.

Harry’s new ride.

though we often post here our differences in opinion, i’ve long felt that on most issues the vast majority of americans agree (something like 80+%). unfortunately, to get nominated for your parties ticket, you must pander to the wings of the party.

the most influential middle man at present is arnold. he is doing a great job in left leaning california. the opinionjournal has a lovely summary of it here.

it’s too bad that we won’t see arnold vs. hillary in ‘08. he would seriously kick her ass.

though we often post our differences here at bs, i’ve long felt that on most issues, the vast majority of americans agree (something like 80+%).

i think the best current example of this is in left leaning california. arnold is doing a fantastic job. the opionionjournal has a lovely summary of it here.

regardless of whose in the white house next year, it is truly unfortunate that we won’t see a battle between arnold and hillary in ‘08. he would seriously kick her ass.

“U.S. Official Says Close to Catching Bin Laden“

in response to m. shores sept 2 post, reuters has come up with this article. it sure would be refreshing if they would just surprise us with photos of his body rather than taunt us with fables of his near capture.

and if it fails, i’m sure we will hear from the left about how this was just another right wing political move.

m. ferguson makes an interesting point about why america’s conservatives should possibly hope for a kerry victory in november.

interesting take on the effect the american troops in europe have had on european opinions on many international matters.

Europe is free to flaunt its “concern” � and even its “deep concern” � over the eastern Congo precisely because it’s entirely irrelevant to events in the Eastern Congo. As Stephens points out, European countries now have attitudes in inverse proportion to the likelihood of their acting upon them.

as i have said before, if europe didn’t have financial ties to iraq and speak out so strongly against the war, would the american left be as much against it? in a similar vain, if europe had not depended on america for their security, would they have been as against the war?

i know that many of the left leaning bloggers here are in favor of the war, and as such, am referring to “the left” of america, not of the blog. but, do you guys think that if europe had been behind the war, the left would have supported it, or at least been less vocally against it? it seems unlikely that if the western world were in favor of liberating iraq and the only large countries against it were russia and china, that the left could be as vocally against it.

i just think it is fascinating to look into the motivations behind some of the vocal opinions we’ve been hearing from the continent.

a few thoughts brought on by the interesting perspective of the troop realignment.

Germans Wary of U.S. Troop Withdrawal

as recently as 3 months ago, we were being told by the left that the economy was in the stinker. now President Bush has “squandered [a] robust economy.”

i guess the nuancer is just showing the “complexities” of the economy.

we often hear about davidson, but i thought i’d throw out a few rice things.

Miss Texas is from Rice. they prob could have found a better picture though.

Rice Wins Commissioner’s Cup As WAC’s Top All-Around Program.

and the coolest thing. some dude at rice gold coated silica. they then injected this gold into mice with tumors. the tumors have “leaky” vessels, so the gold things accumulated in the tumor. they shine a near-infrared light at the tumor (through the skin) which heats the gold, killing the tumor.

that’s fantastic. ingenuity. i mean, how did these people think of these things.

hope it pans out. (oh, and don’t tell peta).

zell talks about why he is going to new york and skipping boston this year.

“All the speeches we heard this week weren’t able to hide the truth of what today’s Democratic Party has become: an enclave of elites paying lip service to middle-class values. Americans looking for a president who understands their struggles and their dreams should tune in next month, when we celebrate the leadership of George W. Bush.”

the much loved rodhamclinton has an editorial in the online WSJ. she makes quite a few good points. but it would be nice to hear from some companies who do a lot of offshore outsourcing, like Heinz, for instance, on their take on the issue.

i doubt that all these companies do as little investigaiton into the actual costs as mrs clinton would lead us to believe. she does propose some interesting ideas for keeping the jobs here. her ideas sound awfully business friendly though.

nice read.

scroll down to “The Agony of the Feet“ to see botwt’s opinion of the eyes wide open display in boston, and the reponse he got from the “man in charge”. it sounds familar.

still waiting for ANY argument other than, “I am 99% certain there was NO connection between Saddam and al Qaeda’s attack on the WTC.” and yvette’s “You can’t ask someone to prove a negative. It’s impossible.” (gore did not win the 2000 presidential election.)

i know the leftists on this site are tired of this question, but how are you so sure and yet can’t provide anything to support your position? as i said, i’ve an open mind, but nothing has been written here to make me understand the dems take on the matter.

interesting article in the Medical Herald.

i’ve previously stated numerous reservations i have with a national healthcare system, probably most of which are based on treating patients in our system and hearing of their experiences elsewhere in their home countries’ national system. it comes down to what this article focuses on: rationing.

i’ve recently learned something about hillary’s plan that i had never heard of, and does not exist in other countries’ systems. it would have been illegal to provide treatment or be treated outside of the national system. that is scary and very unamerican.

anyway, it is an interesting article that, though somewhat biased to its audience, does a fair job of giving voice to the other side.

thomas sowell has a very interesting article on a topic brought to light over the wallmart class action. i like the bit about, “If an employer could hire four women for the price of hiring three men, why would he ever hire men at all?” good thing i own my own business (and only women interview for our jobs).

thinking of thomas sowell, reminded me of this article that i read over the weekend and this article that i found from the liberal boortz.com website. i think that it is sad that the naacp which has done so much good for this country has turned into another left wing voice rather than continued down the path to improve the lives of african americans.

i’m not sure on what basis the framptons KNOW that saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. i don’t think the citizens of this great country really know the inner workings of our current enemies.

to that end, please look at stephen hayes’ newest book. i’ve not yet read it, and probably won’t, but i don’t see how you fellas can be so certain that there was not a link.

then, also, we continue to hear reports in the news that refer to the reason we went to war was because W thought that saddam had wmd, but that we never found them. this even appeared in any article that discussed a sarin gas attack in iraq this year. now this has come about, and i’ve not heard a word about it.

so, i guess what i’m getting at is, can you guys admit that there were wmd and that maybe saddam did have something to do with the two largest terrorist attacks on american soil? i’m not trying to be controversial, just curious how you are so steadfast in these untenable (imho) positions.

i don’t know if you are aware of the Eyes Wide Open exhibit. i was innocently driving down the road in Chatham, MA, on July 16, when i happened past their free speach.
 
it frankly made me quite mad. they had all these boots lined up for the fallen soldiers, then another pile of 1,000 to represent the iraqis who’ve died since the war started on their soil. don’t get me wrong. those soldiers deserve all the honoring they can get.
 
but to put on this display without even a nod to the 3,000+ 9/11 losses is insane. i know they are making a political statement, in MA, of all places. but , jesus, give us a little perspective. and it was on the lawn of a church.
 
then, i get off the plane to browse bs, safely back in atl, and i read that bit about the 14 member syrian musical band. the same politics putting on this display are the ones that are keeping us from searching more than 2 middle eastern men.
 
being a scientist and not a statesmen, i can’t put in words here at bs how it made me feel. but if this reflects where our country is headed, i’m worried.

interesting piece at the opinionjournal about raising the minimum wage.

i’ve been told by a source at better.shorter that i scared off elise and catherine in discussing the economy. i thought then, and still do now as i reread the post (better.shorter march, scroll to the “they just don’t get it” post by matt on 3/26 and read the comments)that what i said wasn’t that controversial nor inflammatory. and i am sad if i had that unintended consequence of running off two newbs.

i’ve never taking economics, but i do know that raising the minimum wage will generally have the opposite effect from that intended by its backers, and i know that there has to be some unemployment for the economy to remain strong.

additionally, the economy does seem to be better than the dems tried to lead us to believe just 3 short months ago.

btw, “compassionate conservatism” - who ever said i was compassionate?!

“Creating and amassing wealth is an outright moral obligation.”

it is interesting that america has come so far from the “protestant work ethic” that we need articles like this one to remind us of how best to serve ourselves and our fellow americans.

it is a refreshing read.

gmail is open to posters at blogger. if you ain’t got it yet, sign in to post a new, uh, post, and there is a link on the “dashboard” page. hit the “yes, please” link and you can join chris, harrison and me with the gmail.

a gig of email space. nice. we will have to wait to see how well the spam filters work though.

in case you are interested, archie

“The new government is thanking America and Bush. Why are the media silent?”

“The new government is thanking America and Bush. Why are the media silent?”

“The new government is thanking America and Bush. Why are the media silent?”

i’m not to fond of his take on bush and iraq, but a lot of what he says wrt gaza makes sense to me. give it a look.

this is horrible. i know that it occurs frequently in war, but it does make a sad story even sadder.

“World Bank Corruption May Top $100 Bln”

first the un screws up the oil for food program, now this surfaces. i really wish washington would strap a pair on and demand full disclosure of these fiscal atrocities prior to sending any more money behind the fence in new york.

though i’ve not watched any tv this week, i haven’t heard a word about this story. when will the press get on the un like it gets on its own government.

As mr kerry continues to try to paint himself as the average american, the nytimes had this adver.. i mean article on the front page, above the fold, so i’m told.

the article actually is about his 6foot8 aide. but with comments about his bp&js, his $20 hotel tips, and the football carried for when john wants to toss “it on the tarmac,” it appears the times is attempting to propagate the idea that mr kerry is just like you and me.

they didn’t mention the hairdresser that he flew down on his private jet (that costs about $5,000 per hour to run). and all the while kerry is telling me i shouldn’t be driving my blazer - since HE doesn’t own one - as he continues to “nuance” his way through all the issues.

and the left hates bush.

[a bit disjointed, i know, but i really can't believe the times doesn't have anything better for above the fold.]

As mr kerry continues to try to paint himself as the average american, the nytimes had this adver.. i mean article on the front page, above the fold, so i’m told.

the article actually is about his 6foot8 aide. but with comments about his bp&js, his $20 hotel tips, and the football carried for when john wants to toss “it on the tarmac,” it appears the times is attempting to propagate the idea that mr kerry is just like you and me.

they didn’t mention the hairdresser that he flew down on his private jet (that costs about $5,000 per hour to run). and all the while kerry is telling me i shouldn’t be driving my blazer - since HE doesn’t own one - as he continues to “nuance” his way through all the issues.

and the left hates bush.

[a bit disjointed, i know, but i really can't believe the times doesn't have anything better for above the fold.]

As mr kerry continues to try to paint himself as the average american, the nytimes had this adver.. i mean article on the front page, above the fold, so i’m told.

the article actually is about his 6foot8 aide. but with comments about his bp&js, his $20 hotel tips, and the football carried for when john wants to toss “it on the tarmac,” it appears the times is attempting to propagate the idea that mr kerry is just like you and me.

they didn’t mention the hairdresser that he flew down on his private jet (that costs about $5,000 per hour to run). and all the while kerry is telling me i shouldn’t be driving my blazer - since HE doesn’t own one - as he continues to “nuance” his way through all the issues.

and the left hates bush.

[a bit disjointed, i know, but i really can't believe the times doesn't have anything better for above the fold.]

it would be nice to hear some of this in the main stream media. i don’t think the un gets any real criticism on tv. considering how much time halliburton has gotten for $65 million (i think), i’m much more interested in hearing what will become of the investigation into the oil for food program that apparantly was 150 times worse (some $10 billion).

i hope the congress straps a pair on and takes on these guys. with the amount of money we give them, it should be pretty easy to get them to act right. but that can’t happen. oh well.

it would be nice to hear some of this in the main stream media. i don’t think the un gets any real criticism on tv. considering how much time halliburton has gotten for $65 million (i think), i’m much more interested in hearing what will become of the investigation into the oil for food program that apparantly was 150 times worse (some $10 billion).

i hope the congress straps a pair on and takes on these guys. with the amount of money we give them, it should be pretty easy to get them to act right. but that can’t happen. oh well.

it would be nice to hear some of this in the main stream media. i don’t think the un gets any real criticism on tv. considering how much time halliburton has gotten for $65 million (i think), i’m much more interested in hearing what will become of the investigation into the oil for food program that apparantly was 150 times worse (some $10 billion).

i hope the congress straps a pair on and takes on these guys. with the amount of money we give them, it should be pretty easy to get them to act right. but that can’t happen. oh well.

wow. they suspended the WHOLE police force. i mean, really, that seems a good way to fight crime.

i actually think that is a bold, ballsy move. but seriously, i wouldn’t want to be there now.

wow. they suspended the WHOLE police force. i mean, really, that seems a good way to fight crime.

i actually think that is a bold, ballsy move. but seriously, i wouldn’t want to be there now.

wow. they suspended the WHOLE police force. i mean, really, that seems a good way to fight crime.

i actually think that is a bold, ballsy move. but seriously, i wouldn’t want to be there now.

yesterday, when i googled waffle, the first four results were j kerry’s page. not anymore. i wonder why. back in the day when chris put up the google search that took you to the white house page (i can’t remember which derogatory statement he searched) it lasted for days. does google support j kerry? it wouldn’t surprise me.

yesterday, when i googled waffle, the first four results were j kerry’s page. not anymore. i wonder why. back in the day when chris put up the google search that took you to the white house page (i can’t remember which derogatory statement he searched) it lasted for days. does google support j kerry? it wouldn’t surprise me.

yesterday, when i googled waffle, the first four results were j kerry’s page. not anymore. i wonder why. back in the day when chris put up the google search that took you to the white house page (i can’t remember which derogatory statement he searched) it lasted for days. does google support j kerry? it wouldn’t surprise me.

the engines of the minuteman III are being replaced with newer, epa approved propellants. i’m glad the epa is protecting the environment from the exhaust of NUCLEAR weapons.

the engines of the minuteman III are being replaced with newer, epa approved propellants. i’m glad the epa is protecting the environment from the exhaust of NUCLEAR weapons.

the engines of the minuteman III are being replaced with newer, epa approved propellants. i’m glad the epa is protecting the environment from the exhaust of NUCLEAR weapons.

Greenspan: Make Bush Tax Cuts Permanent

Thu Feb 12,10:56 PM ET

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday that Congress should make President Bush’s tax cuts permanent and cover the $1 trillion price by trimming future benefits in Social Security and other entitlement programs�

[interestingly, yahoo has removed this article from their archives.]

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Greenspan: More taxes may be needed

Friday, March 12, 2004 7:28AM EST

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday that tax increases probably will be needed in combination with benefit cuts to close the funding gap faced by Social Security.

“Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries?

Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women�s rights? Angry at Russia for corrupt elections? Is the world angry at China for threatening Taiwan, or angry at France for joining the Chinese in joint military exercises that threatened the island on the eve of an election? Is the world angry at Zimbabwe for stealing land and starving people? Is the world angry at Pakistan for selling nuclear secrets? Is the world angry at Libya for having an NBC program?

Is the world angry at the thugs of Fallujah?

Is the world angry at anyone besides America and Israel?”

good point. (scroll to the bottom of the page, if it is still there.)

“Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries?

Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women�s rights? Angry at Russia for corrupt elections? Is the world angry at China for threatening Taiwan, or angry at France for joining the Chinese in joint military exercises that threatened the island on the eve of an election? Is the world angry at Zimbabwe for stealing land and starving people? Is the world angry at Pakistan for selling nuclear secrets? Is the world angry at Libya for having an NBC program?

Is the world angry at the thugs of Fallujah?

Is the world angry at anyone besides America and Israel?”

good point. (scroll to the bottom of the page, if it is still there.)

“Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries?

Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women�s rights? Angry at Russia for corrupt elections? Is the world angry at China for threatening Taiwan, or angry at France for joining the Chinese in joint military exercises that threatened the island on the eve of an election? Is the world angry at Zimbabwe for stealing land and starving people? Is the world angry at Pakistan for selling nuclear secrets? Is the world angry at Libya for having an NBC program?

Is the world angry at the thugs of Fallujah?

Is the world angry at anyone besides America and Israel?”

good point. (scroll to the bottom of the page, if it is still there.)

mommar’s son seems to have a great idea for libya. i doubt he speaks for his father, but the article is very interesting. it would be wonderful to see his ideas play out.

mommar’s son seems to have a great idea for libya. i doubt he speaks for his father, but the article is very interesting. it would be wonderful to see his ideas play out.

mommar’s son seems to have a great idea for libya. i doubt he speaks for his father, but the article is very interesting. it would be wonderful to see his ideas play out.

mommar’s son seems to have a great idea for libya. i doubt he speaks for his father, but the article is very interesting. it would be wonderful to see his ideas play out.

“More than a million antiwar protesters poured into the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday’s anniversary of the invasion of Iraq to demand the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops.“

what do these people think would happen in iraq if the coalition forces left now? even kerry has asked Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to reconsider and leave his troops there awhile longer.

i think one of the underlieing fundamental reasons there is so much protest is the hatred of Bush, which i can’t understand. i could hardly tolerate clinton, but i certainly never hated him. do any of you understand the hatred that is rampant on the far left?

and why can’t reuters refer to the “islamic militants” as terrorists? is there any doubt that those 19 people were terrorists? i guess by refering to them as militants, reuters is acknowleding that there is a war on, as opposed to the US simply invading other countries to route out terrorists - a point which is not clear from their editorial style.

i would love to hear kerry’s supporter’s responses to these articles:

The U.S. loses an ally, and Kerry has little to say.

Next to John Kerry, Michael Dukakis was a hawk.

i just don’t get his position (which is probably because he’s not sure how to take one on any topic) on america’s response to the terrorists.

why does hockey have fighting? it’s all revenue. why aren’t some of these thugs charged with assault by the local authorities?

here’s an interesting article on the subject. i think it is clear from the earlier responses on this blog that we agree that violence in hockey is wrong. what is it going to take to get this sport to behave? i guess the congress will have to pass a bill. right after they finish the debate on steroids in baseball.

powers of ten.

this was m frampton’s response to a quote from t. jefferson that i posted 2/10. (to which he also called it a “tired argument” - it was said by thomas jefferson, of course it is a tired arguement.)

i didn’t really want to get into it then, but the modern interpretation of tj’s quote would have something to do with this:

in response to a $5/month per child medicaid premium, “It would put a big strain on us,” said Hensley, whose family income is about $25,000 a year. “Something would have to go. I don’t have cable, so probably the Internet. Maybe my cellphone.”

now, i’m not advocating a medicaid premium (those of us who pay for health insurance would pick up the tab for the healthcare of those who chose not to pay), but it does indicate where the priorities of those who receive government aid are. and this is a fundamental difference btwn those on the left and the right - whether or not you are willing to admit these are the priorities of america’s poor.

i think this article needs little comment except, after reading the entire article, perhaps the huge breasted woman might be found with the man who has the large penis.

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

good ol’ TJ

since no one commented on kerry’s opinion of the South, i thought i would repost. maybe y’all don’t care, but it is interesting to see him write off a significant (in my opinion) portion of the country.

and he even says “former Vice President Al Gore would be president if he’d won any number of other non-Southern states in 2000, including New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Ohio.” umm, actually, if he’d one just one more state, in the south, (florida) he would have been our president - how scary is that?

mr.””’’s frampton, any comment?

i’m sure you’ve seen this in the opinionjournal, but since i live in the South i found it quite interesting:

If the Democratic nominee writes off the South, President Bush can count on 161 electoral votes. The GOP has a near-lock on 11 other states–Alaska, …, and Wyoming–with 53 electoral votes. (Bill Clinton lost all these states twice, except Montana, which he narrowly carried in 1992 owing to a large turnout for Ross Perot.) This brings the total to 214 electoral votes–nearly 80% of the 270 needed for victory.

it scares the hell out of me that this guy could be the next president, but since he will get the dem nomination, maybe it is good that he doesn’t concern himself with us (The South).

did you see dean give dave’s top ten “Ways I, Howard Dean, Can Turn Things Around?” dean gave the list, making fun of his iowa speech. it was hilarous.

did you see dean give dave’s top ten “Ways I, Howard Dean, Can Turn Things Around?” dean gave the list, making fun of his iowa speech. it was hilarous.

did you see dean give dave’s top ten “Ways I, Howard Dean, Can Turn Things Around?” dean gave the list, making fun of his iowa speech. it was hilarous.

did you see dean give dave’s top ten “Ways I, Howard Dean, Can Turn Things Around?” dean gave the list, making fun of his iowa speech. it was hilarous.

did anyone notice that kerry voted for the patriotic act, he voted for “no child left behind,” and he supported resolution 1441?

why then are so many recent kerry comments about how bad bush has done with the patriot act, education and the war?

i guess this isn’t too surprising, but it is very disappointing. a little offense usually helps teams to win games.

with the upset of ou, the bcs outcomes will certainly be interesting.

from hjr’s link to arts and letters daily:

on christmas of 1914, the british and germans had an informal ceasfire and played soccer in no man’s land.

wow. i’d never heard of this day. very interesting, indeed.

a republican getting rid of steel tariffs? what is the world coming to?

oh, yeah. it’s the republicans who ARE the ones supposed to do this sort of thing. about damn time.

the article talks about how hard politically this will be. i, for one, am MORE likely to vote for w after this than before. of course, i don’t live in west virginia, so no one cares what i think.

go free trade, baby.

what in the hell is German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder thinking?

god is it annoying to hear this guy whining for our money after all he has said and done over the past two years. and he doesn’t even have the decency to stop by 1600 PA Ave to say hello (though he may not have been invited).

i know, i know. he’s going to get money from the u.s. investors. his views on the war on terror do not mean that his country must suffer from lack of u.s. investment. but i kinda wish it did.

i wonder if there will be any consumer backlash to companies that head his appeal.

on the other hand, it is interesting to read his “center-left” reforms.

and you thought the right was going too far in moral legislation. careful what you do in moscow’s subways.

i can’t read what you guys are putting up tonight! did the ne have another power outage from the state to the north (canada)?

i hope bs is back online soon!!!

Pyongyang is getting headlines again. though buried a bit, NK repeats their threat on a higher level to show their weapons. anything for a story.

now if i just had a few nukes lieing around, i could get in the newspaper too.

interesting title for an article about Bush and arnie. another unbiased report from AP.

interesting title for an article about Bush and arnie. another unbiased report from AP.

interesting title for an article about Bush and arnie. another unbiased report from AP.

interesting title for an article about Bush and arnie. another unbiased report from AP.

i hadn’t been to LGF in awhile, but popped in tonight and found this interesting treat. scroll down to the 6:55pm oct 13 blog.

it makes for some interesting reading, as do the comments (#52 has a nice point).

i hadn’t been to LGF in awhile, but popped in tonight and found this interesting treat. scroll down to the 6:55pm oct 13 blog.

it makes for some interesting reading, as do the comments (#52 has a nice point).

i hadn’t been to LGF in awhile, but popped in tonight and found this interesting treat. scroll down to the 6:55pm oct 13 blog.

it makes for some interesting reading, as do the comments (#52 has a nice point).

i hadn’t been to LGF in awhile, but popped in tonight and found this interesting treat. scroll down to the 6:55pm oct 13 blog.

it makes for some interesting reading, as do the comments (#52 has a nice point).

i wish i had seen fox news sunday. tony snow interviewed Sen. Jay Rockefeller today. check out the oct 13 article on hoystory.com in which rockefeller debates himself.

and loses!

(i must attritbute the title to the esteemed m. frampton.)

wow. it seems more, nonpolitcial, right thinking people are getting involved in politics. if 32-year-old Mr. Bobby (named after the Brady Bunch kid) Jindal wins Louisiana’s governor’s race, i think the republicans will have driven another nail in the democrats national coffin. he says things like:

“I’m against all quotas, all set-asides,” he says. “America is the greatest. We got ahead by hard work. We shouldn’t respond to every problem with a government program. Here, anyone can succeed.”

amazing. someone is running for office who realizes how America became the world’s superpower .

this could be interesting!

i think this article sums up a lot of what i’ve been trying to say over the past few weeks.

Sorry BM, the better team won.
A palindromic victory, 41-14 Georgia over Tennessee.

one of many touchdowns for the future SEC champs.

it’s refreshing to root for a winning team.

ps - try to save THAT photo to your desktop, vol.

Politician’s never cease to amaze. CA’s recall, removing a dem and replacing him with a republican, somehow means Bush is in trouble for 2004?

Nancy Pelosi:

“President Bush should take heed of that message,” Pelosi said. “The American people are anxious about the economy and increasingly angry at his failed leadership.”

the message is that gray davis screwed up. how do you get Bush’s “failed leadership” from that message?

the aclu is taking frampton’s earlier post seriously. even though no one’s rights have been violated, the aclu and a bunch of muslim groups are trying to get the court to say that the act is unconstitutional.

now, i’m no lawyer (hjr help me out here), but my understanding is that the only privileged communication is between a lawyer and his client, and in most cases a crazy and his pshrynch. what a patient tells me is NOT priveleged. it is confidential. but a court can still get it. i’m not sure why that should be different for a library or mosque. i believe a judge must sign off on it before the FBI can “secretly” obtain this type of information.

“Fourth Amendment rights do not extend to records or personal belongings that they have provided to third parties.”

many of the great things about our country stem from the bill of rights. i don’t want to give those up (and live in a totalitarian state) to avoid terrorism. but i think the aclu is going a bit overboard here.

i know we’ve covered this before, but i think it is a subject we should follow.

i find it painfully annoying that there is still debate about whether we should have gone to iraq.

but even more agonizing, are the french. “Polish troops in Iraq said they had found four French-built advanced anti-aircraft missiles. ‘To our surprise these missiles were produced in 2003.’”

and the french response: “it was impossible [that France's] newest missiles … should turn up in Iraq.”

well, apparently not impossible.

that pretty much sums up my opinion of all that is wrong in america, and, frankly, much of what is right.

but really. with regards to the story, i’m shocked that they feel that way. “High-level Republicans said the attacks against [Schwarzenegger] were politically motivated.”

i kinda ruined the punch line for you guys, but when i read that last paragraph, i lol that a politician would actually say that.

maybe we shouldn’t hire muslims to work with the “hundreds of suspects in the war on terror.”

i know i’m an insensitive pig, but really, what did you expect sending muslims in to work with these people everyday.

i’m not sure what a Rice major in “study of women and gender” is, but i am glad to see the department of defense paid for her fellowship to shoot some film:

“Dual fellowships from Rice University and the U.S. Department of Defense enabled her nine-month stay in India. She lived with a family in the city of Varanasi on the Ganges River, studying Hindi and traveling around the country making a documentary film.”

i’m sure we are all safer now that this student has come to “the personal realization that there is no such thing as one single definition of the Indian woman.” yeah, we probably should repeal that tax cut for the rich since the government uses the money so wisely.

The Boston Herald has one of the first truthful, nonpartisan statements i’ve read from a dem in a long time. and it’s from patrick kennedy of all people:

“If Saddam Hussein lacked weapons of mass destruction, the Rhode Islander asks,
‘then how come he gassed all his people with them? The fact is, he definitely had
them. Whether he destroyed them or not is up for debate. But he had them and
he’s got a propensity for invading neighboring countries and causing instability in
a part of the world [where] we can’t afford to have a lot of instability.’”

wow. with dems like this, they might actually accomplish something in dc.

just when you thought hollywood had the corner on wierd, houston area robert durst proves the old adage.

additionally, i don’t understand the title of the article since father and son have different names, but that’s another story about News2Houston.

interesting how egypt defines “life in prison”:

“Also, according to Egyptian law, a life sentence normally means 25 years behind bars. The prison year is calculated as nine months, meaning that Zohdy was more than four years overdue for a release.”

hey. thanks for the welcome back from italy. we had a great time. soon the pictures will be at archieroberts.com.

thinking of italy, it is interesting that the socialist country of italy is having the same problem the democratic northeast is having. hmmmm. makes you wonder.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wuothit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
–
Matthew W. Norman, M.D.
Psychiatric Associates of Atlanta
http://www.atlantapsychiatry.com

an interesting statement on both socialized (”national”) healthcare and government unions…

“Britain’s ITV reports that 50-year-old Lorraine Wolstenholme, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has had to sleep in her wheelchair for the past year because her nurses, supplied by the country’s self-styled National Health Service, are not permitted to lift her into bed ‘in case they hurt themselves.’”

mr justice finds “it quite extraordinary that no means can be devised for lifting an eight-and-a-half stone woman once a day safely, or reasonably safely.”

btw, if you thought the metric system is funny, what the hell is a stone?

careful what you wish for Dems.

i imagine most of you have seen this today on botwt, but i couldn’t help myself:

“Particularly objectionable is the way the Democratic candidates–again, partly excepting Lieberman–are trying to make political hay of the recent rough patch in Iraq. They are doing so in an effort to appeal to the most malevolent elements in their party: those who would rather see America fail than the president succeed. Notwithstanding President Bush’s current swoon in some polls, it strikes us as a politically risky strategy for Democrats to campaign on the hope of a quagmire in Iraq. It’s as if they’re all jumping off a cliff and hoping the voters will follow them. Maybe we should call them the Lemmocrats.”

i know i’m kinda late to better.shorter, but have you guys already commented on former vice president, and current president, of Liberia, Moses BLAH?

too bad seinfeld ended before “President Blah” made the american headlines.

just what we needed. those crafty aussies.

you, too, can be james bond for just $235,000.

history repeats itself. interestingly, dean and limbaugh are published in the WSJ one day apart, on different issues, but the contrast is intriguing.

dean apparently feels that it is the government’s fault that americans are spending and living beyond their means. “today’s two-income families earn 75% more money than their single-income counterparts did a generation ago, but they actually have less money to spend. For many, personal bankruptcies have become the rule rather than the exception. This year more children will live through their parents’ bankruptcy than through their parents’ divorce.”

so his solution? “through tax reform, put money in the hands of those most likely to spend it.” that spent money would not create jobs the way the same money invested would. the proper means of returning the money to the people is through the tax cuts that have been implemented. it is our money that we are talking about, not the government’s.

while the next day, we are reminded that Pres Reagan attacked a recession via conservative ideologies. He “understood that it was freedom, the natural yearning of the human spirit, that propelled people to pursue excellence–so long as government obstacles were swept aside. Mr. Reagan’s often-expressed optimism and confidence in the American people was infectious and inspired millions of Americans to attack a recession and defeat it.”

i doubt that national security will be the key issue in the next presidential election, as frampton’s friday article suggests. our economy is getting stronger and hopefully by nov 2004, americans will see this and continue the nation’s leadership with fiscal responsibility (though pres Bush has failed a bit on this measure - think farm bill/steel tariffs) and strong national defense.

as we go on about our lives, it is hard to imagine what Kim Jong II is subjecting his people to in this, the new millenium. one blogger said this reference is worse than aushowitz. i don’t know about that, but where is jane fonda now? why doesn’t the left care about human rights?

i think bush has done very well with regards to NK. i hope the chinese will follow suit. it will be interesting to see how the six way talks turn out.