No ruler since Alexander the Great has held on to Afghanistan. The US is repeating VERBATIM the mistakes it made in Korea and Vietnam.

Karzai was and remains a Unocal employee, guarded by Blackwater or some other Praetorian Guard. As fits the pattern of the past sixty years, the US military exists to squash third world people in order to steal their resources.

Bush43 and Cheney ought to be relocated at once to downtown Kabul to conclude their criminal terms of office. Kind of keep them on their toes, bring them closer to the action.

There are flying objects which are unidentified. So, good for the USAF or Soviets or whomever.

Until a UFO lands down in the quad @ MIT and little green men come out to say hi, a UFO is an unidentified flying object, period.

I'm with you. Gardening is so much more than growing plants.

Having a PRIVATE BANK print money backed by nothing and then lending it to the US Treasury is starkly insane.

Cmon Mr. Bama, sir... strike the root.

Really? On which topics?

The other shoe hasn't dropped re: the Derivatives debacle, some $51 TRILLION (more than all the money in the world!), largely held in off-balance-sheet shadow investments. Ooh la la! Talk about a party! Who's going to pick up THAT tab?

Blaming ordinary Americans for signing ARMs is pathetic. Could only appeal to low-IQ moose hunters. Wolf hunters, whatever. When does the GOP try and blame Clinton?

Back to the voting thing: do I get to vote for anything that matters? Like having the Treasury Department take over the Federal Reserve? Can I vote to have Pelosi executed for dereliction of duty? Can I vote IN STARK TERMS to get the living fuck out of Iraq alert? Can I vote on impeachment? Can I vote on anything that matters other than replacing Bush43 with our first negro President and hoping that he's not just another standard-issue asshole who's going to "stay the course" no matter how fucked-up that course may be?

Does voting change ANYTHING at all? Because I've been voting for thirty years and I'll be damned if I can name so much as one single issue where voting has made any difference.

As others have pointed out, "The War On Drugs" is a war on the American people and an excuse to maintain inflated budgets and prisons (some privately run!) -- and let's not overlook PROPERTY SEIZURE!

A warrantless battering-ram raid, some planted evidence, insert cash register sound here. And since when did local police departments become black-clad night-vision combat squads?!

Real change? Don't hold your breath. Bold common-sense moves like ending "The War On Drugs" and having the Treasury Department take over the Federal Reserve and closing about 700 of our 751 worldwide military bases just won't happen. They make too much sense. In the Bizarro World of Washington DC nothing that makes sense ever seems to take place.

How about returning power to hte states except for a two-week period of time the US Congress would convene? And having random people serve, like jury duty? The system is shot through and through with corruption with only a handful of honest men and women serving.

Real change?

Go, Joseph, to Israel, and serve there where your true interests reside. Leave America. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Feminism? Oh, gosh. We don't really go for that up in Alaska, y'know. Wink. Sparkle. Grin.

Our future first female President has made good use of her high fuckability rating, by gosh. For shure. Ask any Joe Six-Pack. Who cares about what's under the hood as long as you look good as you drive it off the lot?

Feminists? You mean those angry women in pant suits? Oh, ya, you betcha. Shallow "Bush Doctrine" rhetoric are one thing, but a MILF will induce jealousy on a base level. Ya, you betcha. Wink.

A suicide being an introverted murder -- cmon kids, plug some politicians and bankers. "They" don't care if you kill yourself, but ventilating some suits will get their attention in a big way. Oops! Not politically correct! Shame on me!

Or from sudden heart attacks, or in one-car accidents. I'm just sayin'.

Such as the ES&S machines which have been flipping votes either to McSame or to lesser candidates.

E-voting was designed and built from the ground up to steal elections. And this election looks no different. Remember that these same corporations manage to manufacture ATMs which print a paper receipt and rarely if ever "lose" a transaction.

If a third election is stolen via e-voting, what will you do?

It's not the Jews, it's the Zionists.

It's not aluminum foil beanies, it's COPPER MESH!

Those helicopters aren't black, they're dark grey.

Stay off the couch.

And you have another generation of starving African stick babies. And another crisis. And another. And another. How about food with sterilization? How do you say "STOP FUCKING" in African?

If people aren't starving they'll be making more people right up to the carrying capacity of their environment.

Isn't that "throwing good money after bad"? I seriously doubt I'm going to be seeing 30% increases in stocks I'm (reluctantly) buying now. This year has been a fucking bloodbath and I'm happy to have just plain cash (what's left of it).

When I was in college I lived cheaply (anyone remember "Living Poor With Style"?). Which proved to be a good thing, since when I graduated the economy was shitty. Then I started a family and it was a good thing to know how to live cheaply. And now the economy has half-collapsed (derivatives have yet to be addressed, and they could bring down the entire circus tent on our heads) and I'm glad I know how to live like a hippie.

"Keep investing in your 401k!" Yeah, right. I'm not a mathematician but I know when I've been mauled by a bear market. Even CDs @ 3% look better than more 30% losses.

Wait. Do I have that backwards?