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Did I really need a barf alert here?


1 posted on 05/15/2005 1:59:28 AM PDT by rdb3
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"Maureen Dowd is on book leave until July 6."

Sorry, off topic, but what the heck is "book leave"? Besides than being the most pretentious phrase I have ever heard. Is she reading them, writing one, in the pokey?


2 posted on 05/15/2005 2:12:42 AM PDT by jocon307 (Irish grandmother rolls in grave, yet again.)
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The title caused stomach irritation. The Times graphic - nausea. The liberal ranting - *hurl* Yeah, I could've used the warning.
4 posted on 05/15/2005 3:00:23 AM PDT by endthematrix (Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
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Did I really need a barf alert here?

Now, whatever you thought about Saddam, the best news is this: we got this war for no money down and zero payments for 10 years. That's right: every penny spent on this war has been added to the deficit. And this latest $82 billion sailed through without a hitch, with no pesky questions as to whether we should actually pay for our own wars today.

I suppose I'll get flamed for pointing this out, but the guy has a point. For WWII, we "made sacrifices" and bought war bonds, but for the war on terror, we're getting tax cuts and supposed to continue spending like mad on luxuries, while the Chinese buy up our country (treasury bonds) and our children and grandchildren are stuck with the bills?

If you personally mortgage your house as far as possible and max out all your credit cards, sooner or later there'll be a day of reckoning, and so it is also with our country. We can't go on like this.

You might also notice that the biggest problem with social security is that the excess being collected now while boomers are still working is being spent to make the deficit appear smaller.

Flame away.

5 posted on 05/15/2005 5:43:26 AM PDT by Amelia (Still cynical after all these years.......)
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Think of all the domestic programs this money could have funded. Why, this is enough for the handouts that would be needed after two or even three terror attacks. (/sarc -not funny, but perhaps sadly true).

It's called fighting them over there instead of here (aka "draining the swamp").

I suppose it interferes with progress towards the re-education/day care camps "for the children".


6 posted on 05/15/2005 6:05:56 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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I conclude that liberals are not made of any matter whatsoever.

My premises?

  1. An absence of matter is a vaccuum.
  2. Vaccuums suck continuously.
  3. Liberals suck continuously.

Q.E.D.

7 posted on 05/15/2005 6:08:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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Did I really need a barf alert here?

Nah, anything from the NY Slimes comes with an understood barf alert.

8 posted on 05/15/2005 7:37:58 AM PDT by El Gato
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