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"I am very much afraid that Terri Schindler is more valuable to the Bush Agenda dead than alive."

Unfortunately, this remark displays everything one needs to know about you, no further links required.

Please note: Displaying your self-hatred is anti-social. It also diverts a serious subject and discussion into being about "you" (attention seeking, like the kid throwing the tantrum with his mother in the dept. store.) Please ask yourself where such thoughts as the one above come from, and then sincerely engage your mind and your heart and deal with the truth of the matter. You'll be amazed at what you might find. Maybe even "someone" you can love, rather than hate... you have a spiritual context which is waiting patiently for your engagement, and it loves you dearly.

Merely a reaction to your comment. No offense intended.

This is not another "Cedar Revolution." These are the hard core Syrian hardliners. God help the Syrian people in the chaos to follow...

Never underestimate the power of an idea.

" Well, I was pulling for the Eagles. And then McNabb started throwing those interceptions ... but then the Birds were leading by halftime ... but then New England started coming on strong. By the time the Eagles had closed to three, I was an Eagles fan again. But then there was that horrid two-minute drill ...."

Exactly!

(and very well scribed, I might add...)

or man...

Well, if there's going to be a war out of this, we should be in a pretty good position...

Great photo! Look closely at the facial expressions and body language of these three men. Bush is practically in Gerry's face with that little "not-a-smile" smile. Gerry's face looks like he has gas, and his hands are balled up- did GW just refuse to shake his hand? Meanwhile, the congressman looks like he's hoping to sell Bush a used car...

"Karami, who was reappointed to his post Thursday, 10 days after resigning amid mass street protests, said he would welcome an international independent delegation headed by former President Carter to observe the parliamentary elections,..."

Right! Get Jimmy Carter to verify your vote. Jimmy Carter, the preferred election observer of dictators world-over, is definitely who you want. - Hugo Chavez.

(//sarcasm)

Hmmm... $90 million tax payers' dollars to be spent paying academicians to stare at our collective navel.

Hillary has quite a long way to move eastward, before she sees a "centrist" sun appear over her horizon.

Yes, DirecTV is available. Unfortunately, the channel selection is severely limited, with CNNI is the only international news carried.

CR is 3rd world. It IS poor. And I.C.E. rules. I avoided the standard two year wait for a telephone by finally finding the correct 'bribeable'. Which is the way things are done in CR...

Latin Americans (at least here in CR) have little knowledge or idea about what is really going on in their own countries, much less the rest of the world. That any of their former presidents' have been exposed (albeit limited) is a surprise, and I suspect the motivation is politics. I also don't hear of much govt. effort to return the guy from Switzerland- I suspect that he would rat out others in the govt. if he was 'forced' back home, and this is the 'unwritten' understanding. I have no direct evidence for this, however..

The cost of living in CR is NOT low, and in some basic ways (electricity, telephone, cell phone (primitive, featureless service) and telephone internet access (all branches of ICE) are very expensive, 28.8kps is maximum modem speed. And the 'on line' time is metered by ICE, making intenet service very expensive here. International 800- numbers do not work here- one is charged full international rates for these calls. All 'public' services are shut down or fail regularly, with no pattern and no warning.

ICE has literally gone 'on strike', promising to shut down service to the entire country, to thwart a government plan to introduce competition. In one infamous showdown, the government was forced to publicly back down. More recently, ICE gave workers time off (and protest signs) for parades to protest CAFTA. While CAFTA dows force some small changes to promote competition, these are limited and don't go into effect for three years! Working for ICE is like the security of government civil service in the States; it is considered a most desireable sinecure...

"I think most of us can agree that a weapon that doesn't perform doesn't serve as a deterrent nor a last line of defense."

Huh?! What was MAD? Just how devastating WAS Reagan's nuclear war, anyway?

To open your comment with "I think most can agree" immediately betrays your mindset...

Please attach a link to any legitimate poll, survey, govt. report, think tank analysis, etc., that poses this premise and produces any such a statistical finding.

Right. And will the average ticket price at this year's world-wide-telecast of the Rugby Bowl be $3000.00?

I know, I know, Betamax was better than the VCR...

"ballyhooed"...

Once the NYT realizes they can't ignore a story, they immediately characterize it to denigrate it for future references... it appears a pattern.

And so, we do her dirty work for her. Like the impossible anomaly of a life-rewarding terrorist, from her leftist redoubt Hillary throws out a tiny, non-commital sop for all those who are just looking for an excuse to present and discuss her; meanwhile we credit and then endlessly rage at her duplicity, which effectively serves to reassure and even titillate her hard core loyalists with her crafty posturing.

Hiliary plants one seed in the public garden that will produce two crops, and, like the cuckoo who lays her eggs in other birds' nests, " her work is done here." Now she can sit back innocently above the fray and let MSM and its critics cultivate and deliver from the center, and maybe even a little from the right. And at the same time these same parties protect her left flank! Using our airplanes to blow up our own buildings comes to mind... I know that's over the top in imagery, but my point is the cold-blooded EFFICIENCY of it all!

Hilary is the machiavellian personification of the "Carl Rove" myth. She is a very dangerous person. IMO she is Evil. The Islamofacists have a word which exonerates such duplicious behavior to infiltrate and subvert their hosts. I'm not sure which Holy Book Hillary is actually thumping here...

(Yeah, I know. Mixed metaphors. Anyway, you get the idea, I hope...)

" I may be the only one; but, I have always viewed Lincoln as the lousy politician who inflamed and triggered the Civil War. Having good ethics, does not immunize us from poor judgment."

Wow! And everything would have just worked out fine if Sadam had been left alone...!

p.s. Having good ethics will go a very long way in keeping ourselves from "bad" judgment. The fly in the ointment is the "bad" ethics of others...

Let's give credit where credit is due-

Please remember the fine work of Pat Schroeder, another infamous 'progressive' Democrat Congresswoman "Professional Cryer", in forcing this "equality of opportunity" down the throats of the military... who objected for these specific social reasons, as well as the enormous cost of redesigning, restructuring and retrofitting the entire military.

And all the ignorant, well-meaning fools who supported her.

"Good for the Iranian kids! The irony is that a conservative site like this one is praising youthful rebelliion. Hey, freedom is messy... our mullahs like Jerry and Pat and "Spongebob" Dobson can whine all they like, but it's misbehaving kids that are the real freedom fighters."

I lose count of the examples of your bias, hatred, and ignorance in reading your statement...

Hmmm...

"He said the network [FOX] is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration. "There's nothing wrong with that. It's certainly legal."

Sounds as if he's floating an idea to an audience of Program Directors to see if it might offer some traction as a blanket MSM defense, now that ALL of them have been caught by the new media in undeniable bias. Premptive strike, IMHO.

Ted may be LL, but he is NOT stupid.

(30 years in Atlanta, GA)

""We recommend the new secretary of state reviews the false and failed policies of the United States and avoid making the same mistakes," Asefi said."

I'm confused... Isn't this exactly what she's doing? Talk about irony...!!