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It wasn't an anti-war statement either, just a wish that he stay safe. YOU chose to read more into it than I meant. How the HELL did Pat Tillman get into the service then? You shame his memory you big coward.

Oh I didn't realize God was a writer.

I don't agree or disagree, I don't really know. I work more locally. McAuliffe never did much for me, so perhaps it's true. If you scratch the rhetoric in many ways Dean is closer to center than many people realize. As a candidate he was easy to paint as a screaming leftist.

OK, how about this: I hope he kills a lot of people and if he gets killed I'll send flowers. What the HELL is wrong with not liking war?! War is against the laws of God and should be avoided at all costs. That guy most likely has a family that desperately loves him and wants him home in one piece. Would you flame them too? I keep wondering why you aren't there, Sir Chickenhawk.

The party leader is primarily responsible for two things: raising money and recruitment. Those are a couple of things Dean excels at. Strategy is not a unilateral function of the party chair.

It's on the front page of the Seattle PI too. I'd rather he was not smoking and was on base in America playing ping-pong because there were no wars, but it is what it is. I hope he comes home, and quits smoking.

Now that sounds silly. There are plenty of conservative Catholics and probably a lot of them voted for Bush. Being raised Catholic and going to Catholic schools I can say from experience it's PLENTY conservative. One thing it doesn't do is pay much attention to politics. The Protestant Christian Coalition is a very politically-oriented machine. Or perhaps it's that the Republican party is a conservative Protestant idealogically-driven machine. I'd even venture to pare it down to Southern Baptists, which are almost a breed unto themselves, although they are starting to splinter now too.... In any event this guy had been mentioned as a possible Supreme but he is SO conservative that the moderate Republicans might have trouble with him. Bush isn't going to risk getting Borked if he can help it. My litmus test is whether he is as afraid of calico cats as Ashcroft. If not, he's an improvement.

I remember running into two tiny women patrolling the Erie Canal trail years ago and they carried Halt! and one of those screamers - not the personal alarm system that sounds like a siren, but the canned thingy that makes a blast like a fog horn. The thing will shatter eardrums AND call attention to the situation if anyone's around. AND one more thing - don't yell "help"! That's scary and people will often run away. Yell FIRE! because they'll all run toward the caller to see the fire. Sounds strange, but it's true.

I am the eldest of five unplanned pregnancies. My favorite line to my mother whenever she complained about us was 'DIDN'T YOU EVER HEAR OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD?!' Job's Comforter, that would be me.

Sez you. There is only one being who knows when life begins and He ain't telling.

It may well be that they've left. It wouldn't be the first time. The question becomes how one holds the city after they've cleared out.

Any any valid points you may have made or may make in the future are greatly diminished by your intolerance and inability to refrain from personal attacks just because you don't agree.

Amen.

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I just like the salt. Forget the peanuts and their crumbs. There's plenty of room for the two theories to peacefully co-exist and taken together they make a lot of sense. I think the error lies in believing that they have to be mutually exclusive. I understand that evolution makes some people uncomfortable, but that's where their faith ought to come in. If their faith isn't enough, that's a weakness of theirs. If God wanted us to know everything absolutely, we'd know. Faith is what bridges the gaps.

Until someone can explain where the goo came from, creationism has its place.

Thank you. That's what I meant. A bigot. Now if I'd said "racist" that would have been out of line, unless of course it's true. But that I don't know. Bigoted however is very true in this case.

Just tell me how you would administer it. Through a church? As long as the institution or bureau or entity is run by human beings - and in particular men - there's bound to be inefficiency. So because there is no perfect way to ensure ALL the money reaches ALL the children, we should just give up? "Suffer the little children". Doesn't seem Christian to me.

At a campaign stop in West Virginia, US President George W. Bush defended the decision to invade Iraq, calling the campaign a “catastrophic success”. "Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." —George W. Bush, telling Time magazine that he underestimated the Iraqi resistance (August 30, 2004) And since you just can't seem to address any of my posts without making it personal: you can just consider yourself a bigoted uninformed dumbass.

Since it appears to be the general concensus that the lives of children are precious then I have to wonder why people scream about social programs that are intended to benefit children as being big giveaways for leeches. Head Start, school lunches, CHIP, etc...all are for the benefit of those innocent children who didn't ask to be born. Yet those programs are being cut and I don't see too many people upset by it. I'd like to see people worry more about the day-to-day suffering of children who are born into poverty. Somehow once they're born, the majority of American's don't give a rat's ass and the ones who do are labeled "tax and spend liberals". Everyone's entitled to an opinion but it's the woman who has to make the choice and then live with it. Come the day when more men take responsibility for their half of creating an unwanted child, then perhaps abortions will decline even further (as they have over the past several years). I still remember the day they hauled in a local right-to-lifer in western NY for vandalizing a clinic and while they were at it arrested the bastard hypocrite for non-payment of back child support. Give me a break.

How about "Catastrophic Success"?! That beats "mission accomplished" any day.

That's what I am hoping. It's just hard to believe after they've miscalculated and underestimated and just plain screwed up (Rummy and the gang, not our troops) that they'd be smart enough to do that. But, hope springs eternal. Yesterday I heard an interview with a kid who sounded like he couldn't possibly have started shaving daily. He said "yeah, I am scared, because I've never been in a battle before and I don't know how I'll do, but I hope it'll be ok". And of course I don't blame him one bit ... but I thought, why possibly would they air that? To give the bad guys succor, or to mess with their heads? Or maybe it just is what it is. My friend's son is there. I'm just gonna light candles and pray.

That reminds me of something I saw last week. Kevin Costner, God bless him, was a guest on Bill Maher's show. And Kevin had a message. He said "I am a CONSERVATIVE! And I believe that our environment is in trouble and we need to do something about it now, it may be a higher priority even than healtcare! And I am a gun owner, I believe in gun rights, and I support the Second Amendment, but I don't think that people should be able to own guns like AK47's! And I am a conservative but I think that women should have the right to choose whether to have a baby or not..." And so on. And I don't think the poor thing ever realized that although he likes to apply the label "conservative" to himself because it's a popular mantra, he was pretty much espousing the opposition's platform... I wish people wouldn't rely so much on labels and instead look at issues separately on their own merit. I realize it's not easy and I guess these days we just want "ease" but in the long run it would probably help to actually SOLVE some of those issues.

I've heard they were expecting something like this. I think that a lot of what we've been seeing in terms of the preparations and interviews with the troops, etc. is big PR meant for the insurgents, not for us. And our guys knew there was a good chance they'd be inflitrated. Maybe they were smart enough to identify and feed this guy bogus info. I sure hope so.

By the way in Washington they have outsourced (privatized) the licensing and registration bureaus. It's heavenly.