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Old 09-14-2004, 11:44 PM   #4486
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Finally, we see the true cycle of violence!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mideast_unrest
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Old 09-15-2004, 12:23 AM   #4487
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So, Soros sucks, eh?

(Money DOESN'T equal socially-aimed power based on politics?)
Um, what?
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Old 09-15-2004, 01:10 AM   #4488
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Old 09-15-2004, 03:19 AM   #4489
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Finally, we see the true cycle of violence!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mideast_unrest
Yuk it up, laughing boy. {Spree: Clowns Without Borders is not a nickname for the Likud party.}
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Old 09-15-2004, 09:45 AM   #4490
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I didn't really get what you all meant back when you explained about how if I watch FoxNews I'd end up misinformed, but then this morning I finally started getting it.
See like Fox would just say- "It looks like the Rather memos are fakes." But the NYT helps the reader understand what to do with the information they're fakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/po...n/15guard.html

Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate, Typist Says

Hurray for the PAPER OF RECORD!

Let's try here...."Ty, never said "quagmire" in a post, but saying he did is accurate."

or like this "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, we have no evidence of what happened, but if we did, I bet it would look like Exhibit 1."
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Old 09-15-2004, 10:39 AM   #4491
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Finally, we see the true cycle of violence!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mideast_unrest
Weird. Last night, this linked to a news story about a suicide bomber on a bicycle. Today, it's changed.
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Old 09-15-2004, 11:18 AM   #4492
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Florida still has fucked up election procedures.

This state baffles me. Though now I'm beginning to understand that the population has just been hit over the head a few too many times by debris scattered by hurricanes. This seems especially true of its election officials
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Old 09-15-2004, 11:25 AM   #4493
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Finally, we see the true cycle of violence!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mideast_unrest
Maybe it's just that it's early and I haven't hit critical mass on my caffeine consumption, but what is your point here?

ETA why the fuck can't we delete our own posts?
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Old 09-15-2004, 11:54 AM   #4494
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This NYT editorial pretty much sums up everything I've been saying about the Bush tax plan, in a far more concise way than I have been able to.

Bilmore, if you think you're paying too much in taxes now, just wait.
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Old 09-15-2004, 01:01 PM   #4495
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I didn't really get what you all meant back when you explained about how if I watch FoxNews I'd end up misinformed, but then this morning I finally started getting it.
See like Fox would just say- "It looks like the Rather memos are fakes." But the NYT helps the reader understand what to do with the information they're fakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/po...n/15guard.html

Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate, Typist Says

Hurray for the PAPER OF RECORD!

Let's try here...."Ty, never said "quagmire" in a post, but saying he did is accurate."

or like this "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, we have no evidence of what happened, but if we did, I bet it would look like Exhibit 1."
It was almost as transparent as the NYTimes review of Kitty Kelly's book wherein they "tsk, tsk" Kelly for recklessly accusing the Bushes of infidelity, drug use, abortion, draft-dodging, etc...

... by listing every single salacious and unsubstantiated accusation made by Kelly in the book. I was considering buying the book, but now I don't have to. Kelly should sue the Times for lost profits.

Rather has to go. He lost it long ago. He's like Andy Rooney, but he's no fun to laugh either with or at.

This morning, some guy gave an interview in which he said Kerry asked him to inflate claims of war crimes committed in Vietnam. This is the saddest election ever. Two guys with "nuthin" - absolutely "nuthin".
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Old 09-15-2004, 01:04 PM   #4496
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Old 09-15-2004, 01:27 PM   #4497
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Rather has to go.
I am amused by all of the righty wingnuts (sebby not included in this category) who are calling for the defenestration of Rather for getting gulled by fake memos but who have no problem with the fact that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith and the rest of the crowd that fucked up Iraq still have their jobs. Accountability only applies to the press.

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Old 09-15-2004, 01:44 PM   #4498
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I almost stuk an asterisk there. Ididn't mean Islam was a supposed religion. i meant that a man who moves a few thounsand heavily armed men who are likely to be bombed, into a religion's most holy shrine is arguably not a strong believer of that religion. "Supposed" going to Sadr, not Islam.
I prefer no asterisk. I enjoy your posts much more if I imagine a certain irrational hyperbole behind them, kind of like a righty Lewis Black.
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Old 09-15-2004, 01:46 PM   #4499
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I am amused by all of the righty wingnuts (sebby not included in this category) who are calling for the defenestration of Rather for getting gulled by fake memos but who have no problem with the fact that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith and the rest of the crowd that fucked up Iraq still have their jobs. Accountability only applies to the press.
Well, this is clearly much more important than those silly Nigerian uranium documents.

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Old 09-15-2004, 02:00 PM   #4500
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I am amused by all of the righty wingnuts (sebby not included in this category) who are calling for the defenestration of Rather for getting gulled by fake memos but who have no problem with the fact that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith and the rest of the crowd that fucked up Iraq still have their jobs. Accountability only applies to the press.

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You are missing the point. He should not go because he got faked out. He should go because he won't admit that the docs are fakes in light when nearly every expert in the world has concluded that they are.
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