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Not to mention Tom DeLay and his entourage in the House.

Actually for the same reason people dislike politicians in general: he's a big hypocrite.

So these guys got fired for not doing their homework and investigating and confirming the source(s) of information upon which they based a news report. Too bad they weren't merely starting a war. They could have gotten away with such shoddy work. I'm not defending them but I certainly find it ironic that where peoples' lives are at stake the standards of proof, and accountability, seem to be so much lower.

I wasn't purporting to be an expert. I made a statement about Abbas being the new guy, meaning that he'd just been elected to replace Arafat, which is what the original thread started with. You elected to attack, for whatever reason I don't know. I was just expressing the hope that under new leadership peace might stand a chance. Perhaps you have something against peace. I love how you neocon simpletons always try to nail me personally for even the most innocuous statement. That is, I realize, a measure of your fear and how threatened you feel. so, in the same spirit as your unnecessary and unprovoked attack: Why don't you eat my shorts you pathetic little twit?

Could be. It was some cartoon that told her about the junk food as I recall. I don't recall. there's a book out but I haven't read it yet, I'm reading Marv's book now. I needed some nostalgia over the holidays.

So then in that respect he is the NEW leader. Which is what I was talking about. And I hope he's got the guts to work for peace instead of same-old same-old.

Didn't he just get elected to replace Arafat?

Maybe Newtie's just preparing his platform for his Presidential run. I agree that maybe letting Bush run SS into the ground would be a good idea except for two things: that man and his cronies NEVER admit error. They'd tell you that's what they intended all along. Second, there are people's lives involved. I personally have tried to save for retirement assuming I won't get any SS, just in case. But there are other people who can't, and what will happen to them?

Don't forget Saddam. I predict he'll make a political comeback too.

I am so sorry for the loss of your son.

I don't know but there have been shootings in which several Israelis, at least a civilian or two among them, have been killed. With the tsunami those haven't gotten too much press. Hopefully this new guy, Abbas, will prove to be the one who can finally move the peace process forward.

Well the fact is he didn't, and neither did anyone else. So five kids are dead for no reason.

You will next time someone's missing a paperclip in your office and they yank down your pants and... Dumbass.

story (Try, hard though it may be, to ignore the typo in the title - it's 2008 but those can't be edited.) Now here's a guy who can really talk about family values. I guess this should scare the shorts off the Repigs who insist Hillary's running. Gingrich is someone she could beat. All they'd need to do is run the add of Newtie's chainsmoking mom.

Yes - but it's tough. When my bro's wife was going through her trouble (which, God bless the poor thing, turned out to be a very rare brain disorder that has put her in an institution, wasting away) it was hard for him to come to grips with the fact that she didn't recognize her own kids and that her inability to focus or remember things was anything unusual. We would hear the stories about some of the stuff she did and ask him what he was going to do about it ... he didn't know what to do, so he didn't do much. It only got better when my mom got on a plane and sorted it all out. It's too bad that the Yates family didn't have someone who could, or would, have done that for Andrea.

I have two close relatives who have had the terrible luck to be in the position of dealing with a mentally ill and potentiall violent spouse. Fortunately neither one killed their children, although one of them tried more than once. Thank God the kids were able to get away and call 911. Like I said, there are no winners. But if you look at the history, this woman had tried suicide, had been institutionalized a number of times, and was warned when she and her husband told her doctor that they wanted to have another kid that it could be dangerous. If SHE didn't have the wherewithal to say NO, I blame him. His response was something like "if someone told you that you could have a Mercedes for free, and all you had to do was suffer a cold for a couple of weeks, would you do it? oh yeah". That's either cavalier, or dumb. And definitely irresponsible, with hindsight being 20/20. I do give him credit for supporting her during the trial. Assuming he wasn't playacting, either he really loved her or knew that he bore part of the guilt. If I had been in his shoes I'd have found it hard to be in the same room with her without wanting to tear her to pieces.

So let's look at health care - do you really think that healthcare is all SKILLED positions? I don't know, last time I worked in a hospital the unskilled far outnumbered the skilled. Someone has to empty the bedpans, shine the floor, etc. Business and professional services? Like HR Block, right? Again, what kind of jobs? I worked at a professional services company for 8 years and of our 8,000 employees, 5000 of them were non-skilled, making minimum wage. Same with Construction. Crane operator? Skilled. Flagman? Unskilled. Not that these jobs are unimportant to society. I'm not questioning the numbers, I'm questioning the QUALITY of these positions. The idea is that millions of people had decent jobs that paid a living wage - and many of those jobs are gone, being replaced by jobs that often don't pay as much. And interestingly enough the people I do know who are stuck running registers at Target, selling used cars, working at BestBuy, are all college-educated white guys between 48-55 years who were formerly their family's breadwinner. But hey, I make a ton of money, so to heck with everyone else. I'll donate a bunch and maybe it will trickle down to them.

Hey, freedom's on the march. Who cares how many young people or Iraqi citizens die, or how long it goes on? It doesn't affect us here. It's the playoffs. Urp. Pass the remote, Earl.

You're so delusional you're imaging something that she DIDN'T imagine. That's not like you - perhaps I misunderstood. She never said she saw anything on TV. The prosecution witness did, and he lied, and he admitted it. She did say she saw knives and heard voices to get them. She did say the TV told her to stop her kids from eating junk food. Last evening CourTV broadcast its documentary on this whole sad, horrific thing. Anyone who saw it would know that the woman was not only desperately ill, but had been for some time. Without medication she thinks she did her kids a favor. On medication she has to live with what she did. It's horrible for ALL of them. The only one I don't feel sorry for is the husband who either didn't notice or didn't act until it was far too late. There are no winners here.

Running at cash register at Target isn't quite what a person with two college degrees and three kids in college was hoping for, although most of the ones I know will take it. A new term in the 2000's is "bridge job". And that's what a lot of these new jobs are. One would know that by visiting the BLS website, the link to which I've posted many times.

According to the jury, as reported in this morning's Dallas Morning News, it was THIS testimony and THAT lie in particular which caused them to consider Andrea Yates sane. So overturning the conviction was appropriate.

IF true it proves that Saddam did more effective long-range planning that the idiots who brought us Operation Eternal Quagmire. I wonder if anyone ever stopped to think that perhaps dictatorial creeps are NECESSARY in that part of the world to keep things under control? So messing around with "liberation" is not necessarily a good idea. It's certainly not paying off for the Iraqis, pretty soon they'll be on the endangered list. We're not even liberating enough oil to pay for this war that was supposed to pay for itself via oil.

In Texas BY LAW the jury is not allowed to know that a person adjudicated insane will go to a mental hospital until he/she is deemed "sane". The prosecution uses this law to give the jury the impression that if they find someone insane, that person goes home that day, to kill some more. THAT's in part why this guy's lie was so impactful. There's no other way to explain her bizarre behavior - either she saw it on TV or she's really a nutcase. By the way, the preacher who was so condemned for contributing to the wackiness ... the one who had them living in an abandoned bus...anybody know who he is? Surprise, surprise, he's the same guy that presided over Bush's "moment of enlightenment" (when he was born again).

The Repigs are doing the same there here in WA around the governor's election...fighting certification, didn't work, now they are trotting out all sorts of new "reasons" why we need a REVOTE in the state. Anything like that would have to go thru the legislature. Alas for them, the GOP is a scarce commodity in the WA legislature. The shoe's on the other foot and they don't like it. Gee, don't they remember "get over it"? If there were true voting issues they should be examined so they can be avoided next time. After the election of 2000 there was no such real effort, and that is the issue. There is never going to be a perfectly-executed election as long as people are involved, and certainly if we never examine what may have gone wrong there never will. The constutition allows for the challenge and it was a two-hour delay. Probably cost the taxpayers about the same as 2 minutes in Irakistan. "Get over it."

I heard Ashcroft, as a parting gift, is going to load it up with evildoers and sink it in Lake Erie.