PastaJoe
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Driving to Cape May, the southernmost town in New Jersey on the Atlantic Ocean for a week of lying on the beach.
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Yeah, the gay thing...while that is probably true, he has taken a hot rich babe from Manhattan to at least pose as his woman, and word is he will be marrying her to make the national stage to quell those fudgey rumors.
You know there's going to be alot of jokes already about the convention being in Minnesota, the infamous site of the Larry Craig wide stance.
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I'm not sure about Christ, there's some rumors floating around about him that I won't repeat, but let's just say it wouldn't make him a favorite of Republicans.
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Kadaffi in Libya , when he realized the US meant business and came clean stated that Iraq was doing its research in LIBYA. Saddam had a program and was working on developing a weapon, he just moved it to Libya.
Gadaffi, there's a reliable source of intelligence.
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The name that comes up the most among the political talking heads is Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota. He's a Republican governor in a traditionally Democrat state, and he has connections with the evangelicals.
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If the oil companies can so easily pump oil from the areas they presently lease, then why are they (allegedly) pushing for more areas to be open to leasing (will cost them additional $$ if not tapped), through the Republicans?
Someone please explain why this makes sense.
They have now leased 41 million acres of offshore leases. They're only pumping in 10.2 million of those acres. Seventy-nine percent of all the offshore oil available off the coast of Florida, into the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast, lies within those acres that they now have. There's estimated to be a total of 54 billion barrels of oil at their disposal right now.
The offshore leases they have are in deeper water, and while they have the technology to drill there and have done it, it costs more than if they were to drill closer to shore where the new areas being discussed are. It's all about them trying to maximize their profits, it has nothing to do with available sites with oil to drill. Instead of spending billions of dollars of their profits in stock buybacks, they could be using the profits to cover the cost of drilling in the currently leased deep water sites. Let them commit to fully develop those currently leased sites, and then we can discuss whether they need additional leases.
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I gotta confess, I will buy this...I already plan on giving my 7 previously owned box sets to my sister for Christmas...and will buy this for mysef. I have a part time job, where I will be able to buy this at cost! Still, likely around $250, but I guess I would be labled a Sopranos fanatic. To me, it is the epitome of good, smart, story telling. I have purposely avoided watching them over and over again, because, one day, I want to sit down and watch them from the begining, all over again.
I can't watch the re-runs on A&E. In fact, other than sports, I can't watch anything with commercials anymore. Can't wait!
I DVR all the shows I watch, so I can skip past the commercials. And the Soprano episodes they show on weekend nights has some of the swearing left in.
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I will never be accused as an apologist for Bush's foreign policy debacles, but this credibility stuff is bunk.
The intelligence community and those of all of our allies all concluded Saddam was working on WMD. They were fooled - but that's hindsight. The point is that it was their job to assess things, and that's the conclusion they gave. The conclusions of the experts is credibility by any reasonable definition.
So would Obama have fallen victim to the same thing Bush did, or is he magically different? Where will he find 'credible' sources on Pakistan harboring terrorists if not his own services, who can sometimes be wrong? MoveOn and the Carter Foundation? Or is he going to pick and choose when to listen to the professionals within his own government, whether it be the CIA, NASA, or the OMB, and call their findings credible only when it suits him? That sounds suspiciously like Bush...
The intelligence community said it was possible he was working on WMD, but their evidence was not conclusive. The Bush administration took the possible and sold it to the public as a certainty, especially the inferrence that he would have nuclear capabilities soon. That's why they got paranoid whenever their assersions were challenged by people like Joe Wilson.
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Now the politicians are getting into the act:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A member of an Iraqi city council shot at U.S. forces Monday outside Baghdad, killing at least three soldiers, two Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said. But the U.S. military said one coalition soldier and an "enemy" were killed and five others were wounded. The military said it is investigating.
The Iraqi official fired an AK-47 at U.S. troops after they entered the City Council building in al-Madaen, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, according to one Interior Ministry official. The councilman killed at least three people and wounded four, a ministry official said.
U.S. forces returned fire, killing the councilman, according to two Interior Ministry officials.
The shooting happened after U.S. soldiers and local officials had attended a ceremony to open a park in al-Madaen, also known as Salman Pak, an Interior Ministry official said.
In other violence, a mortar attack killed at least 10 people Sunday evening in northern Iraq, according to a military operations command in Diyala province.
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The show is repeated on A&E weekdays at 10am. I never get why people will pay for DVDs of shows that are on tv anyways. It's like buying the Seinfeld DVDs; there's about 4 episodes on various stations every day.
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NO!! We've lost the war!!
< Reid, Murtha, pulosi, kennedy, everywhinningcryingbleedingheartliberalinamerica>
The war was over years ago, Saddam was defeated. This is now an occupation of a country with internal political factions that don't like each other.
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Hmph. I wonder why all these bad asses are endorsing Obama. Its perplexing, no?
It's reverse psychology, they want a continuation of Bush's policies that have allowed them to maintain and increase their influence on the world stage. They figure Obama will reestablish American prestige and partnerships and be more effective against them. In their view, why change what works for them.
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The first time I saw him was on the Tonight Show when he was doing Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weatherman. It's tough seeing all the comics I loved as a kid dieing off. Dick Martin from Laugh In, Rodney Dangerfield, now Carlin. I suppose Don Rickles and Jerry Lewis will be going soon too.
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The rule is it has to be a little bigger than the one her last friend to get engaged got. It's all about flashing the bling to her friends, and if her's has a smaller diamond than a friend who got engaged before her, it shows that you don't love her as much.
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If Hillary was getting woman to vote for her because she is a woman, is that sexism against the male candidate?
My argument is that the Hillary supporters are rascist in that some will vote for McCain than vote for Obama. If it was the other way around, you wouldn't see the switch.
How can somebody vote for Hillary AND vote for McCain... They are 180 degrees apart. What is the reason other than Obama is black?
Given that the candidates had similar views on most policy issues, if Obama had been getting something like 40% of the woman vote at the start of the primaries, and then woman thought she had a real chance and switched to giving Hillary 90%+ of the woman vote, then it would be sexism.
Hillary supporters could vote for McCain for a number of reasons; military and foreign policy experience, they don't believe Obama has enough overall experience, they may be moderates who are concerned that Obama may be too liberal, and given that they don't know alot about him they may be concerned about what influence the people who he's associated with at his church have had on him.
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I said during the primaries that the Obama supporters were falsely accusing the Clinton campaign of racism, and that Obama was getting 90%+ of black support because he was black, which in itself was a form of racism against the white candidate, but in the end all it got me was being falsely accused of being racist myself for pointing out those facts, so good luck with your argument.
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Speaking of media, yesterday CNN had two articles posted in its political thread. One where Cindy McCain was discussing families being off limits...scroll down a bit and there was an article about Cindy McCain slamming Michelle Obama (again).
I mighta sorta woulda expected that they'd follow up a bit, since it is somewhat ironic and contradictory. But if not it's odd that they posted them both.
duh
Cindy McCain is starting to act like a Stepford Wife, just parroting the same lines over and over. And this was after Laura Bush came to Michelle Obama's defense and said she understands that Obama was talking about being proud of the political system. You would think that Cindy would be more sensitive given how her family was attacked by Bush operatives in 2000.
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In case you're interested, round 1 of the NHL draft is tonight at 7pm on Versus. The Sabres have the 13th and 26th picks in the first round. Rumor is the Sabres would like to move up into the top of the draft to get a premium defenseman, and are looking to trade Afiniganov as part of a deal.
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Its not making the H powered car thats the problem, its producing the actual hydrogen thats the problem.
What the hell is the point of having a "clean" hydrogen car when the process to make the hydrogen is more polluting than a fossil fuel car? And again, who is going to foot the bill for the completely new hydrogen delivery infrastructure needed?As fan in chicago said, you cant simply change the laws of physics and chemistry and *assume* that in 10 years we will have an economical, clean, safe way to mass produce hydrogen.
It must be nice to live in pasta joe land where you close your eyes, click your heels together 3 times, spin around and voila, you have inexpensive clean hydrogen powered cars with a full infrastructure.
How's your Ostrich Inc. buggywhip business doing? Are you getting alot of customer calls on the partyline on your dial phone? Keeping track of your sales on your abacus?
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Nice guy that Robert Byrd.
When Byrd was twenty four he joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1942. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds"
"The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia... [and] in every state in the nation."
So in your view nobody can repent for their past mistakes and make amends by making positive contributions to society. Ever heard the story of the apostle Paul and the road to Damascus? Look it up.
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Currently the most economical way to make hydrogen produces more pollution that the energy equivalent of gasoline.
But in ten years the technology to do it through solar and wind power may progress to the point where it is a practical mass production solution. Honda has a pretty good track record of making the right business decisions, and their president is confident that the infrastructure to support the cars will grow as consumer demand does. People used to laugh at the Japanese and their funny little cars back in the 70s too.
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And since there is a 100% guarantee that hydrogen powered cars will by mass marketed in ten years, we should completely abandon all efforts to find add'l sources of energy that is usable with today's technology. Hippie logic at work.
It will just prolong the dependence on old technology and delay the investment in new.
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That's a whole lot of assumption there, mister.
People had to assume we could fly to the moon too until they tried it.
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Let's not forget that the steam engine started out with an efficiency of only 3%, and internal combustion engines were similar. The reason why these technologies became so efficient was because of the ongoing production and research fueled by increased consumer demand. In the case of internal combustion, current cars have had a century to mature. I don't doubt hydrogen will be the same way, it has to start somewhere, which is why I applaud Honda's future thinking move to produce a hydrogen powered car. They say it will take about 10 years to become mass produced, about the same amount of time it would take to yield results from new offshore and Alaskan oil drilling. As hydrogen cars begin to take hold of a larger segment of the market, over time this will push the development of new technologies and materials. I think it's inevitable that the efficiencies of both the production and use of hydrogen will approach those of the current internal combustion engine, and costs will obviously also go down, even if this is the far off future. We can either keep doing things the same old way or start the transition to new now.
Lego's secret vault
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If you're into it, Legoland is an amusement park north of San Diego that has amazing dioramas of cities and national landmarks. Great place to take the kids.