I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is somethng about this whole set up that just seems...off. I'm thinkning there's some kind of huge catch (and I'm not talking about her chest). Another poster made the observation her pose in both pictures seemed unnatural and identical, I noticed this too. Could be photoshopped image of the same woman with a different outfit.

"Lots of people knew it was coming, and lots more stared that fact in the face and then hid it under the sports section and their bowls of cereal because they didn't want to think about it."

Exactly my point! Most people who stepped into the voting booth in 2000 weren't thinking about national security, even the ones who voted for Bush. They were too busy thinking about their little tax rebate he would give them or thought he was the Second Coming or whatever it is these religious zealots see in him. To use 9/11 to justify not voting for Gore is baseless. How many Nader voters were thinking about national security when they pulled that lever for him?

For what it's worth, I think that Gore would have at least listened to his Pentagon advisors or the CIA or anyone who had experience with these things and taken their advise instead of coming into office with a preconcieved agenda for the middle east like his opponent did. Would that have prevented 9/11? Hard to say. Would we be in Iraq today? Definately not!

It seems to me everyone involved has an agenda. The priniciple wanted to make a statement about the evils of pop culture or whatever and claimed there was a "pregnanacy pact". The mayor didn't want her town to look bad so she said there was no pact. The girls, not wanting to get into anymore trouble, also said they hadn't planned it until after they were already pregnant. Couple that with the claims that the principle pulled the contraception out of the school and no one ends up looking good here.

I don't really know what the lesson is here. I don't know if you can say it's not to get pregnant while still in high school becuase that ones already been out there for awhile.

More concerned with not "giving in" to the environmentalists then doing what's practical.

"The mood of the country is so negative, and we have real dominant issues of gas prices, the economy, Iraq, that it's a little bit harder for this particular issue ... to get as much oxygen as it might,"

So is this guy ADMITTING that they use wedge issues to get people to vote for them? He is going public with the fact that republicans play on people's emotions to get votes. Is this how republicans feel about their voters? "They'll fall for anything we do that we can basically admit that we manipulate them and they'll still vote for us anyway." And the republican voters are okay with this relationship?

Guns are a golden calf in the bible belt. Even so-called "liberals" here disagree with their fellow liberals on the coasts when it comes to guns out here. This is the one issue that everyone thinks is untouchable. No amount of school shootings have changed their minds. On the plus side, it also means cons can't use it this year to scare voters away from the dems. Even those insipid "info"-mercials the NRA puts out every election year will have lost it's impact.

I don't think there is an easy way to get through to people on this issue. Even gay marriage stands a better chance of acceptance out here then gun control. Of ANY kind.

As stupid and self-destructive as these idiot republicans are being, they didn't put themselves in office. Most of these guys were elected due in large part becuase they oppose conservation. As Blair Simpkins proved, they don't even have a basic understanding of physics. If you put toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, they have to go somewhere. Matter can niether be created or destroyed. These voters need to go back to the fifth grade and learn science (but of course they oppose science becuase it doesn't tell them what they want to hear). They take everything Rush and company say at face value no matter how much it defys basic logic. The stupid religious acceptance doesn't help either. These are people who think our foriegn policy should be based on the book of revalation. If ever there was a group of people who wanted the world to end, social conservatives would be it.

Sadly I don't see a positive future here. These people will continue to be in denial until their own stupidity kills them. And even then they will blame "liberals".

And Blair, there's more evidence supporting both evolution and global warming then there is to support hte existance of Jesus. When your ready to actually think for yourself, you'll realize that.

I'd like to see you "experts" explain where all those toxins go after they enter the atmosphere. Since you all seem to think they magically disappear. I also wonder what your precious Jesus would say to the fact that you are destroying his creation. You all seem to think that you can do whatever you want and there will be no consquences, and you call us liberals irresponsible.

if the public wasn't so easily fooled! Propoganda only works of the populace is too stupid to see throught it. William Kristol is only taking advantage of public stupidity just like cons have been doing for the past 30 years.