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Nice.

O-gins

Actually they sound more like Pharisees, and anyone who remembers anything from Bible school (full disclosure: former Preacher's Kid), knows how much Jesus liked the Pharisees.

The whole "Clinton did it" argument is getting damned tiresome.

And it's been stated in Joan's blog's letters section already but it should be done again.

"The worst thing of all, the hardest to fathom, the most infuriating but the most important, is this: It literally means nothing. It is random, senseless, incomprehensible. We wish it meant something. It would feel better if it meant something. We try hard to manufacture something that it can mean. But it stubbornly means nothing. Literally, it is a sign of nothing, the nothing that surrounds us, the nothing we must face, the implacable end we come to." -- Cary Tennis

At least to those of us who worship at the alter of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Where would they get their material from if we had an administration that was, you know, competent?

Harry Reid?

The last line in the article smacks of irony, and not so subtle irony at that.

I was born and raised in a non-executing state with prison crowding problems (and I continue to be shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that MOST of the prison population are minorities caught with marijuana or meth). I despise the death penalty, I always have. I have yet to see a state government attempt to address the core issues that lead to prison overcrowding. But it's easier to make a speech about being tough on crime rather than educating the public about what needs to be done to stop the crimes from happening in the first place.

It's hard work to be sure. But then we're all Americans, and apparently we can't be bothered to move our lard-asses from in front of the TV.

O-gins

though Bay Area politics scares the shit outta me. What the hell is wrong with Oakland anyway?

O-gins loves me some San Francisco liberals.

Because that was quite possibly the stinkiest load of crap I've ever read.

Bush's gaffes aside, it's hard to feel at all sorry for one of the richest people on the planet.

Eddie Izzard (Dress to Kill) sang it best, "God attack the queen, send big dogs after her that bite her bum." He goes on to sing of her knickers, but I digress.

Yes, it's sad when you're accosted and insulted by a boorish idiot but that's life. No one is immune, not even QE2.

Who the hell cares whether the plot moves much less Ashley Scott's forehead when you have the rough-and-tumble Ulrich eye candy?

It's all about the eye-candy.

I don't know about this. They don't call him the Chimperor for nothing.

No I like watching people like you comment about it like it's your kid someone said is ugly, though. --RealName

Bravo! A response worthy of an overtly intolerant self important and smug TFer. Well done. Youcanhascheesburger now.

Ending American participation in the war in Iraq carries with it significant problems, the big one being the very real possibility of political and military conflagrations between regional powers coming to the aid of their religious brothers and sisters.

I don't have a solution to this problem, but it's worth pointing out. I hate this war, I hate the loss of life, I hate the loss of treasure, I hate seeing the broken bodies and minds of our soldiers coming home to a system ill-prepared to assist them in their time of need. I blame those that got us into it, but there is a very real energy security problem that America and the West faces if we get out of the region before it's stable.

We're damned if get out and we're damned if we don't. Thank you Mr. President.

For having to sit through that!

Not everyone is raised by parents determined to make their daughter study her maths and sciences so that one day she'll grow up and become an eminent scientist, the likes of which haven't been seen since Marie Curie or Emma Carr.

The "reinforcement of stereotypes" aside, your gnashing of teeth says more about you than it does about this new learning tool.

As a Hawaiian, I take offense at not being included in the answer. We are the United States after all and if someone can't understand the basic meaning of the two words put together, then their answer shouldn't count.

O-gins - it's "The Mainland" not "Stateside".

That a majority of the people here would miss the forest for the trees?

He drove while high?!?!!1onequestionmarkone1!

Puh-lease. Get over yourselves.

You sound like a bunch of turkey-necked old ladies in pill-hats wobbling their asses out of church.

I'd really like to see a national movement to vote against incumbancy. Get rid of everyone in Washington and start fresh.

You know it has just enough jingoist appeal to stick.

The airlines have successfully raised fare ceilings 3 times this year and all of them have stuck. Average ticket prices YOY continue to rise weekly.

Thankfully I bought my tickets for Christmas in September, before the oil shocks started to spread through the industry.

Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Saying it twice doesn't make it any more important to those of us who ignored it in the first place.

Andrew took much delight in slapping "bird shit" smack in the middle of this post -

But I certainly enjoyed reading it.

that should have been "Booby shit" not "bird shit"

*giggle*