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Burglary, assault, terroristic threats on your conviction record? No worries, you can still serve your country. Shades of Vietnam. Now - I am the first to admit that once a convict has served his or her time, he or she should be allowed to be a productive contributor to society. And it's possibly the best opportunity many of them will have. However, I am not sure I would feel comfortable serving next to a convicted felon. And for those who have been convicted of more violent crimes, should they really be in a position where they are encouraged to kill? Doesn't seem smart to me. Well, it could be worse. They could be GAY convicted felons. You'd hear an uproar then.

Wait until you see the musical! I've seen it twice in NYC and it's the best.

Yea that Hamas thing is bad for Obama. Piloting those jets into the WTC as they did in 2001, the London bombings, the Madrid bombings...yep Hamas is really a big threat to the West and Obama should take steps right away to repudiate, denigrate, deplore, reject AND sh-- upon this "endorsement".

Islam has been at war with the "west" since before there was a "west"....if we are the "west". Of course they've been warring with Europe forever, but both sides are to blame for that, you know that stupid Holy Grail and all. Religion is so stupid.

So here's the thing about all this - when Schultz sold the Sonics he was told that there was no plan to take them out of Seattle unless the team was unable to make a stadium deal in the first year. Everything proposed was rejected by either the city or the owners. Mostly the owners. There was money to fix up The Key but they wanted something like Boss Hawg Stadium down there in Arlington, Texass. Then it comes out that they never had any intention of staying in Seattle anyway. So, it was good that the taxpayers didn't get stuck building an arena. My hope for this year was that the city would enforce the contract to keep them here, and they'd continue to bleed money. First, the dumb hick overpaid by $50m. He recouped of that by selling the Storm to a local group (the Storm win, unlike the Sonics). Then tickets just didn't sell because who wants to line the pockets of a dumb hick from OKC? I went online thinking I'd get tickets to the Mavs game for my husband, the Mavs fan and could not BELIEVE it when "best available" returned a large number of courtside seats! Usually those are not to be had no matter how bad the team. Of course I bought no tickets. Stupid hick. There are two more years on the contract with Key Arena. The city is suing to enforce the contract, thinking to bleed the hick and his buddies dry for two more years. I don't know how it will come out, but I think it's great. The mayor of Seattle can be a pain but in this case I am glad. I am sure that we'll end up with the sorry New Orleans team or Paul Allen may even want to move the Blazers up here, where he lives...who knows. In the meantime, it's pretty funny as the discovery process goes forward to uncover the lies of the hicks, the OKC city council hicks, and how clueless and spineless (and chinless) this Stern guy is. I thought Rozelle and Tagliabue were worms.

On April 18, 2008 all but 2 NBA owners voted to approve the Seattle Sonics' move to OKC (having already bled the people there for $120m to reburb a 5-year old stadium). Not being an NBA fan I don't mind much but I feel sorry for the team. Moving from Seattle to OKC is one of the most depressing things I can think of.

What a waste of taxpayer money - if the State wants to know who's fraternizing with those "self-employed models" they just need to get ahold of the latest Dallas Cowboys' roster. What's the matter don't you like Family Values? That's real big down there in Texass. Bigger than the hair even. Almost as big as the hypocrisy. Glad I don't live there any more.

Barack Obama is against this meeting, which ought to throw a lot of wingnuts into some confusion...have fun. I still don't care, I think it's a non-issue that will have no impact on anybody and in 3 weeks will be forgotten except by people who have nothing else to do than obsess over stuff that in the long term makes absolutely no difference.

Sadly quite a few of them didn't WAIT until they got home. It only got worse once they were stateside.

Would that it were... So the real point is all the money and fearmonging that imply that they can actually DO SOMETHING about finding these guys. If 10B+ isn't gonna do it, maybe invest somewhere where you might get results. That's sort of investment 101.....but these morons will never admit that perhaps they made a mistake and will continue to throw our money away for naught.

The book was better but....they did a good job with the movie. I spent a lot of time at the beach that summer and since my eyes aren't very good ALWAYS made my baby sister "go first" in case there was a shark hidden somewhere in that wave....this was when the family lived in Matawan, NJ mind you and all shark lovers know about Matawan and sharks....so you can't blame me.

April 17th, 2008 GAO: Al Qaeda still operating in Pakistan’s FATA region Posted: 12:05 PM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) — Al Qaeda is still operating within Pakistan’s mountainous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, and the United States lacks a “comprehensive” plan for meetings its national security goals there, a U.S. government study released Thursday said. Despite the United States providing $10.5 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan, a key U.S. ally, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said it “found broad agreement … that al Qaeda had regenerated its ability to attack the United States and had succeeded in establishing a safe haven” in Pakistan’s Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA). Of the $10.5 billion in U.S. aid, more than half — $5.8 billion — was specifically provided for the FATA region, the GAO said.

lots of things evoke an emotional reaction in the viewer but that doesn't make it art. this is right up there with those freddy kruger movies...which are only marginally better because they were fake.

lots of things evoke an emotional reaction in the viewer but that doesn't make it art. this is right up there with those freddy kruger movies...which are only marginally better because they were fake.

Yuk. And if people want to see that sh-- just go to a RTL rally, they wave those nasty photos all over the place. This isn't art and giving this dingbat any attention, even bad, is just what she wants. Mom always said ignore it and it'll go away, and it usually does.

Yeah right. What's it like to live your life afraid all the time? It woulda been tea and crumpets for us if the people of your mentality were in the majority in the 1770's. Why even your fearless leader sez "bring 'em on". You empower our enemies with your fear. I boarded a jet the first available day after 9/11 ready to smack the sh-- out of anyone who was foolish enough to try anything - and I wasn't afraid. And I'm still not. If it's our freedom they hate, then exercising my freedom of speech just rubs their noses in it. While cowardice like yours plays right into their hands. YOURS is the reaction they want. Divisive. Afraid. And of course le mot du jour: bitter.

You really need to go fill that prescription. It's burka, by the way. You are truly a dumbass, which is why I'd blocked you for years. I guess our recent technical issues wiped that out. Too bad. There is NOTHING, repeat NOTHING, that the US can do to make the world love us and to make terrorists not want to kill us. And if foreigners read drivel like the crap you post, that probably doesn't help. Substitute a few nouns here and there and you sound just like them, only Western. Goodbye .... <block>

I am so sorry to say this - but I agree with you.

I believe it - who else was around for them to marry? My family landed in 1658 and my brother has spent years tracing them, I'll have to ask him what he found in that regard. By that time though there were more people around. Plus a bunch of us moved west (one co-founded Portland OR as a matter of fact) and so hopefully improved the gene pool some. I like to think so anyway. I think my dad was born in Scranton by the way...he was a big bullshitter that's not the sort of thing one makes up.

OK so how about for the whole summer then? You entirely missed my point, but that's the hallmark of a wingnut I guess. EVERYTHING is literal because the abstract is...too scary? Wish I knew. And tell you what - I'd take one week with with NO US DEAD, NO DEAD CIVILIANS and celebrate it with a $6 latte. There would still be a lot of winners.

Not so fast .... seems like The Shrub is now seeing the light, Actually this might make a better flip-flop thread...

I am a marketing person. I can sell you a server that administers itself. I can also sell you software you didn't know you needed. And I can flame wingnuts at the same time. But for now, I am going to walk my dogs. Telecommuting has its perks!

I could but I'm trying to manage a conference call and email as well as this. Given that's it's really not an issue as far as I am concerned you will have to settle for "B" material.

You think maybe they'll hang a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign up, is that it? I can see where that would worry you.

I saw "meeting" not "coddling". Precisely what does Jimmy Carter have to give these guys? He's a retired guy who builds houses for the poor and thinks world peace is a good idea. All he can offer them Hamas is a dialog.