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  • Mikes Pace

    [Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
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    Greetings to the king of making assumptions that turn out to be completely wrong

    Have you ever taken on a fullback in the hole with all of your fury? Have you ever sacraficed yourself like that so your buddy make a tackle for a 3 yard gain on 1st and 10? Have you ever done that all night? 10 times a year?

    Yep! Loved every minute of it. The training was a bitch, but the playing was a blast. Today my knees are shot and my shoulder still gives me trouble, but my knee problems are primarily from volleyball. Funny thing is, the only concussion I ever got was playing touch football in gym in HS. Some people decided to play tackle instead without telling anyone and my head hit a rock when I came down.

    I forgot. I'm obviously the one who doesn't know anything.

    This I cannot dispute.

  • debaser

    [Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
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    Seriously? Green Bay has been through some lean years? You mean back in the 80s? They have had just 1 losing season in the last 16 years! They've started 3-0 this year with some pretty exciting games. Favre just broke the all time wins record, tied the career td record, is about to set a few more records (including the int record most likely), has been hitting 8-10 receivers a game and the defense is great.

    Maybe you're just burnt out on football. Nothing wrong with that, but maybe if you paid more attention to "your team" you'd be more interested.

  • ps

    [Read the article: The UAW strike is over: Did anyone win? ]
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    It isn't that "the US auto worker couldn't work any slower" as you yourself acknowledge when you state "their fellow american workers at Honda and Toyota". GM, Ford and Chrystler are failing because they aren't listening to what the consumer wants, they're trying to tell the consumers what they want and the consumers don't care. They put out badly designed cars that aren't what people want even if they were designed well. The consumer says "I want a small to mid-sized car that gets good mileage and performance and is safe" and the American car companies say "Have you seen the new Hummer?"

    They could easily become good, profitable companies again, but they'd have to get rid of the current management and that won't happen because current management is too busy trying to place the blame anywhere else.

  • Groenhagen

    [Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
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    Or "groggy" as you seem to be.

    Personally, I doubt you're in the military at all. You sound a lot like the idiots I see who claim they are so people won't disagree with them and then it turns out they're just a janitor near a military base.

    Why the hell do you care if Clinton wasn't drafted 'cause he got a deferment? And what does it have to do with this? It is a red herring, just like the other idiot here screaming "You Can't Center Headings!!" When actually, you can. It all depends on how much effort you want to expend.

    Cheney got what, 5 deferrments? Limbaugh got quite a few, Rove, got a few himself. Bush got daddy to get him into the Air National Guard ahead of others on the list so he wouldn't have to go. Gore volunteered, so did Kerry. Of course, none of those except Bush are what's really being discussed here. Bush went AWOL and then deserted. You have no way to refute that, so you scream Clinton. The Bushies were handed tons of documents about AlQueda by the Clintons when they took over. They immediately said "We don't care, we're going to focus on porn" and allowed 9/11 to be the disaster it was.

    I'm sure if you respond to this, you'll scream "Clinton" yet again or some tired equivalent. The truth is you can't look at facts 'cause they show you were lied to and believed it. You were a gullible fool and apparently prefer continuing to be on to admitting you were wrong and changing your mind. The truth is there for you to see, but

    You can't handle the Truth.

  • Rush

    [Read the article: Rush Limbaugh and the "phony soldiers"]
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    Why does Rush hate the troops? Why does the Right hate our brave young men and women in uniform?

  • Poor Groggy

    [Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
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    You sure do like calling people liars don't you.

    Mark Twain must have been predicting you.

    It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

    What's with your sudden appearance here? Did Limbaugh cut you off on calling in and slavishly agreeing with him?

    You can't type without saying "ClintonClintonClinton" can you? Even if I were to grant that Clinton was a "draft dodger", he did use a legitimate procedure to avoid the draft, that still doesn't equate to Bush going AWOL and deserting.

    You've made many incorrect statements since you replied to me. I'm not saying you're lying, I'm saying you're an idiot. You have no idea what you're talking about and insist on showing that to the world. Once you accept they lied to you and you foolishly believed them, you'll be able to look at the world again without seeing Bill's face everywhere. I understand, it is the only defense you have left.

    Bush is so blatantly wrong and horrible all you can do is yell "Look over there!" That's not the answer. You have to face reality or you'll spend the rest of your life trying to blame others. Accept you made a mistake and you can correct it, insist it was someone else's fault and you'll just continue to compound it.