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So they say they've come to a "united view" over Iran's nuclear program. I'm willing to allow Iran a face saving way out of this as long as we get our demands met. Face saving is very important in the Middle East, and if we can get our demands met without firing a shot, I'm all for it. However, it has to be followed up by verifiable evidence that they've stopped their program or that it can be made to where they cannot make nuclear weapons.

Of course, this could also be a way of the EU knifing us in the back, but only time will tell.

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They are all for the environment, but when it comes to getting around, rather than jumping on a commercial airliner, they charter private planes. It's not that I even mind that they have private planes, I'd fly in one if I could, but don't tell me about how I'm supposed to be saving the environment, buying up "carbon credits", driving hybrids, recycling like crazy, using one square of toilet paper (don't tell me it was a joke, it wasn't), when you're not doing the same thing. People don't like hypocrites, especially ones that tell you how to live your life.

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Details are short, but we've captured another Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq trying to come across the border. This guy was supposedly one of the top guys, but we'll learn more as time goes on. Hey I thought Democrats said that terrorists weren't in Iraq?

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was captured a little while ago and it is believed that he was working on trying to assassinate Pakistani President Musharraf. Perhaps this will get us a little bit more of a "thank you" from Pakistan? Perhaps Mr. Musharraf will be a bit more cooperative in our efforts to find Bin Laden? Maybe not, but it shows that we're not going to stop until we completely dismantle Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The CIA was responsible for this one, so since they generally don't get credit for their successes because generally they aren't know, kudos to them!

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So 8 Democratic Presidential candidates had a debate last night and I can't stop laughing. They are making the same mistakes that John Kerry did when he was running for President. They aren't saying what they are for, they are saying what they are against. They are lemmings, following the polls. They all start out with "Bush is wrong on blah blah blah", but their only solution is to pull out of Iraq.

General Petraeus has already said that pulling out would be a vast mistake. Iraqis are wanting us to leave, but they all say they don't want us to leave right away, they want us to leave when the Iraqi security forces are ready.

Added Baghdad student Ali Adel: "The exit of the occupation has to be preceded by the building of Iraqi forces and national reconciliation."

Perhaps the Democratic candidates didn't see my "Why John Kerry Lost" article. Hey guys, take a good, hard read on that one. It spells out completely where he went wrong and you can already see parallels in your debates.

But my favorite is quotes from Hillary Clinton: "This is not America's war to win or lose," Clinton said. "We have given the Iraqi people the chance to have freedom, to have their own country. It is up to them."

Read that statement again. "This is not America's war to win or lose". That was her statement. YES IT IS OUR WAR HILLARY. We invaded, we spent the money, we sent people to kill and die, we did everything that war involves. So it is our war.

You have to wonder what kind of mentality she has if all of this is going on and she has the nerve to say something like that.

Even Kucinich weighed in with his own idiotic quotes: "I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to fund the war."

So what he's saying is that he's willing to defund troops in the field and leave them without supplies and equipment when they need it most.

American's are starting to see through the bullshit of Democrats and their stance on the Iraq war. They would like to see an end to the war, but no one wants to end it and have it get worse for the Iraqis and for us.

When General's are telling you one thing, and you believe it and run with it, but they tell you what you are trying to do is wrong and you "don't believe him" it sends a message that it doesn't matter what the facts are, you're just going to cherry pick statements and facts to make it appear that your argument is valid. Elected officials shouldn't be doing that. Michael Moore does things like that.

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I'm actually glad the Saudis are taking terrorism a bit seriously, although not as seriously as I'd like. However, it's best that the Saudis arrest them there. They punish a lot more severely over there. Perhaps a bit of public beheadings are in order? They arrested a lot of them though. 172?!?! That would be a very large scale attack by any measure.

These militants also were in flight training, so it makes you wonder if they were going to fly planes into their targets or use them in some other fashion.

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Normally, I don't like Joe Liberman because of his past stances on kids and video games, but he nails it with this article.

Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians -- innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school.

If such an atrocity had been perpetrated in the United States, Europe or Israel, our response would surely have been anger at the fanatics responsible and resolve not to surrender to their barbarism.

Unfortunately, because this slaughter took place in Baghdad, the carnage was seized upon as the latest talking point by advocates of withdrawal here in Washington. Rather than condemning the attacks and the terrorists who committed them, critics trumpeted them as proof that Gen. David Petraeus's security strategy has failed and that the war is "lost."

He's absolutely correct. If 170 people were killed here, everyone, Democrats included, would be calling for the perpetrators blood. Anyone involved would be hunted down and you'd see old enemies shake hands and forget their differences until these people were captured or killed.

The Democrats recently passed a budget for our troops that included a deadline when we will withdraw. Democrats would be demonized if they pulled that stuff if the attack happened here.

What do you think would happen if Harry Reid said "the bombers are at war with the victims, we shouldn't get involved and should get out of there as soon as possible" He'd be ran out of town and labeled the traitor that he is, so how is it different because it happened in Baghdad?

Easy, it isn't.

Travis
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Hey, it's not right that the US is using underhanded tactics against us! I mean yeah, we use it against them and take potshots at their soldiers in Iraq, but for them to do it against us is not fair! Sniper rifles, IED's, training insurgents are all hard, concrete evidence that Iran is working against us in Iraq. It's only fair we return the favor. Of course, the Iranian government is nervous over our position on their nuclear program. So, of course, the rhetoric steps up a bit.

Earlier Thursday, he said that his country would attack Israel and American targets throughout the world if Teheran were attacked over its nuclear program, Israel Radio reported.

According to the official Iranian news agency, the official, who deals with defense issues, said that no American would be safe from Iran's long-range missiles.

"We are prepared to fire tens of thousands of these missiles every day," he said.

What he doesn't tell you is that they'll only have enough to fire for one day. So, technically that might be true, it's a bit misleading. Plus, you fire your missiles at Israel or US forces, you may find yourself on the receiving end of a nasty return policy.

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Well you tell me, if the head of your intelligence agency tells you that the case for WMD's in Iraq is a "slam dunk" what would you think? Wouldn't you think that means that we have concrete, irrefutable evidence that they are there? Wouldn't that bolster your case for war?

I'm very interested in reading this book that Mr. Tenet wrote. I want to know the inside details of 9/11, the war in Iraq, and our successes in foiling terrorist plots.

However, he does make a good point. There were only a few people in the room and one of them leaked it out and they should indeed be punished.

But it also raises a good point. If an informant tells you of a crack house down the road and you kick down the door but you don't find the crack but you find a kiddie porn ring, do you say "sorry" and leave? No, of course not, you arrest everyone there and kick them in the teeth for the kiddie porn.

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If the charges that this guy is accused of is true, that's down right treason. Providing a cell phone to a detainee for over a year? Who's to say what that detainee did with the phone? He could have done something mundane like talk to his wife, or he could have directed attacks against US forces.

He maintained a relationship with a detainee's daughter? There's so many problems with that I don't know where to begin. All of these things are extremely serious and he should never get out of prison if these charges are true. If his actions indirectly caused the deaths of any of his fellow soldiers, he should face a firing squad.

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Yes, because that's what that country needs, more bans on things that are fun. "The burqa is part of our culture. We can't allow anyone to ridicule our culture," Culture Minister Sayed Ghazi Gulab Jamal told the National Assembly.

But it's ok to ridicule the culture of the United States? It's ok to stifle the rights of ordinary Pakistani's? It's ok to call for the murders of people who are different from you?

This is the problem that many Muslims are faced with. They allow idiots like this to dictate how they live their lives and when you don't have fun, don't get laid, don't have friends, you become bitter and angry and then it's very easy for them to point the finger and say "See, the United States is what causes all your problems" and these people eat it up.

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He's really irritated with the recent comments by Rudy Guiliani where Guiliani stated that Democrats would put this country on the defensive and America would be less safe, (which is correct).

He asks "Which party did what the terrorists wanted in postponing elections". WHAT?? I don't ever remember Osama saying "Death To America! And Allah willing, we will postpone your elections". He asks "Which party rode roughshod over American's rights while saying that they were protecting those rights". What he doesn't mention is that after 9/11, Keith himself asked "Why wasn't more done", yet, when more is being done, he complains about it being too much.

He asks "Which party took us into the most underly backwards, underly counterproductive, underly ruinous war in our history" So what he's really saying is that regardless of Clinton saying that Saddam had WMD's, the intelligence communities all around the world saying Saddam had WMD's, Russian intelligence saying after 9/11 that Saddam was planning attacks on American soil, that the Iraq war is not justified?

How much do you need Mr. Olbermann before you act? Do you need to see buildings collapsing for you to act? Do you need to see people dead in the street from chemical attacks before you act Mr. Olbermann? Are you saying we shouldn't have gone in and Saddam should be alive and in power to this day? The fact is that after 9/11, we could not take anything for granted. We saw what 19 young men with determination and ingenuity could do to our people. What do you suppose those same people could do with the backing of a nation?

He goes on to ask "which party was in charge when 9/11 happened"? But what he doesn't mention is what party was in charge when the threat of Bin Laden was growing? What party was in charge when terrorist attacks kept happening to American's abroad? What party was in charge when we had Bin Laden in our sights and let him go over a financial deal? Keith doesn't want to answer those questions because it would show the Democrats repeated failure to take threats seriously enough.

I'm not apologizing for Bush's mistakes. Had he been more aggressive, we might still have the WTC standing. However, Clinton had a KNOWN THREAT IN HIS SIGHTS and called it off because we might end up killing the prince of the UAE.

Keith doesn't want to mention that. Keith doesn't want to acknowledge that the Democrat's favorite guy failed in such a spectacular fashion that had he acted properly, well over 3,000 people would be alive today.

Hey Keith, how about instead of getting angry at the guy who points out the truth, how about you and other Democrats actually get a track record of DOING something about a threat.

The ultimate irony Mr. Olbermann is that you quote Franklin Roosevelt's famous "We have nothing to fear but fear itself", yet you ignore one of his other famous quotes which he ironically made on September 11th, but in 1944

"When You See a Rattlesnake Poised to Strike, You Do Not Wait Until He Has Struck Before You Crush Him"

Travis
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The House has just passed the budget with the time line still in it 218-208, which passes, but does not have enough votes for a veto. I swear, Democrats JUST DON'T GET IT. You aren't going to get this passed with a time line in it.

The commanders on the ground are saying no time line, but your idiot majority leader Reid chooses not to believe him on that, but chooses to take words the General said out of context. Soldiers on the ground are saying no time line and are very angry about the "The Iraq war is lost" comment from Reid. You can't win, you simply don't have the votes. Any delay you continue to do will do nothing but hinder the jobs of military personnel who will remember the undermining you're doing to them at the most crucial time and will likely hold it against you come election time.

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"Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics," Obama said in a statement. "America's mayor should know that when it comes to 9-11 and fighting terrorists, America is united. We know we can win this war based on shared purpose, not the same divisive politics that question your patriotism if you dare to question failed policies that have made us less secure."

Ok Mr. Obama, let's hear your ideas on fighting terrorism. Republicans have come up with dozens of ideas of fighting terrorism and going on the "offensive". Democrats have, rightfully so, gotten the reputation of being on the "defensive" side of the issue. So, what concrete ideas do you have? Anything? Tell me you're a bit more then speeches about hope and fluffy clouds and such.

It takes more than simple "Audacity of hope" to run this country and protect it from threats. It takes leadership abilities and radical ideas that sometimes don't work. The only thing I've heard from Democrats is complaints about the ideas that Republicans come up with. So, where's your ideas Mr. Obama, the world is waiting.

Or are you going to pull a John Kerry and say "I have ideas, but I'm not going to tell you unless you elect me President". If you truly believe Hillary Clinton's statement of "We have to protect our country from terrorism -- it shouldn't be a Democratic fight or a Republican fight", then you should be telling the President, the CIA, and anyone else who'll listen your ideas for fighting terrorism.

Or you could tell us your ideas of how to pay off our national debt. Universal healthcare has been floated around lately, but people complain about the national debt, so how do you plan to pay for it? Democrats complain about the national debt, but they put in pork spending for spinach and peanut farmers into a military budget bill.

So do us all a favor, stop complaining and start doing, people love a go getter.

Travis
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Drop hard math classes because it will effect your standings in the rankings? That's not how you raise students. You don't teach them that when things are tough and you are getting beaten that you change the rules of the game. You man up and study and do whatever it takes to make your math skills better. Otherwise, you're raising a generation of idiots.

Luckily, this is happening in the UK, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it was happening her in the US. Now, I'm a bit biased because I was in Calculus/Trigonometry in 9th grade, so I don't see why others can't be in harder classes then I was.

You want to know why western countries are falling behind in math and science scores on the global scale? This is why.

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God, Democrats REALLY want there to be something with this US attorney firings bit, but sadly, unless they find someone lied under oath, they aren't going to find anything. "Get rid of Republicans no matter what it takes" seems to be the motto.

So why is it that the 93 US attorney's fired under Clinton means nothing, but the 8 US attorney's means everything? There's no difference between the two. I'd love to see Gonzales go, but for different reasons. If Democrats want to get rid of the "culture of corruption", perhaps they should look at legitimate places such as William Jefferson and the recent resignation of aides with ties to Jack Abramoff.

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USC students wrestled an armed attacker at a party who was carrying a gun. Here's a few problems that I have with this story though. First off, where's the massive media coverage? This guy could have easily gone on a rampage and these students did the right thing and took out a threat until police arrived. Secondly,:

USC school police responded quickly, as did the Los Angeles Police Department," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a news conference Tuesday.

How about some recognition for the students in your news conference? Had they not done what they did, you might be talking about the dead woman he threatened or worse.

Good for these students who stood up as protectors and prevented a bloodbath from happening.

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Well would someone please forward this on to Hollywood celebrities then please? Most of them live in their own little bubble and you should hear some of the idiotic things they've said and done. Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Sean Penn, Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, they are all wealthy beyond what I could even hope to achieve, but there isn't a brain cell amongst them all.

That's one of the problems with America right now. We don't lavish fabulous wealth and praise upon scientists, teachers, and other highly intelligent people. There's no reason why a cancer researcher shouldn't be driving to work in a Lamborghini, or a network security officer live in a 7 bedroom mansion.

When the above mentioned celebrities are broke because they are too stupid for their own good, then I'll have a renewed faith in fairness.

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And yet, they don't seem to get it. They are appearing to be undermining troops to the general public, they don't have enough votes to override a veto, so they are doing all of this for show. What's worse is that they have already made their political statement, but now they are just shoving an almost identical bill to the President and he has specifically said he will veto anything that contains a time line. This new bill contains that time line.

So all the Democrats will succeed in doing is making the military's life more difficult because they will have to get creative with the money that they already have.

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Oh thank God. Now I don't have to listen to snippets of her going on about crackpot theories about how 9/11 was an inside job or how aliens have nestled into Donald Trumps hair on the news. Now, only if we can get American Idol canceled, I can have some peace and quiet in my house.

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Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.

The truth is rather tough to swallow sometimes, but the fact is that Democrats would indeed return to the "defensive" stance of fighting terrorism and we would continue to be vulnerable to attacks. I disagree with a lot of things Mr. Giuliani stands for, but this one is dead on.

“I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense,” Giuliani continued. “We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense.”

He added: “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.”

It's high time we took the fight to those who want to fight. Let them know that Navy SEALS might one day kick down their door and capture or kill them. Let them live in fear that a Tomahawk cruise missile might come in through their front window. Let them know what it's like to be hunted. Then, and only then, will they begin to think twice about attacking Americans.

If militants want to attack us for our support of Israel, does that mean that Iran is fair game for supporting Hamas and Hezbollah? Does that mean that the Palestinian government is now fair game? Does that mean that the Palestinian people are fair game because they elected Hamas to be their government? Does that mean we can slam commercial aircraft into their mosques and shopping malls? Does that mean that we can kidnap Iranians and saw their heads off on camera with full color and sound? Now all of a sudden it seems a bit more personal to them if we ever grabbed someone off the streets and butchered them like cattle just to send a message to them.

But we don't do that. We're better then that. We don't cut heads off of people and send tapes out to the media. We don't hijack aircraft and slam them into buildings. If we took the gloves off in a spectacular way like that, you can bet that the rules of the game would change completely.

But Democrats don't see it that way. They see it as "we're attacked, let's go get those that attacked us". They never want to be proactive about it and go after people who are planning to attack us or who are in foreign countries and they don't want to have an international incident because we went in to go get them.

Mr. Giuliani's right, a Democratic President would make this country less safe. His stock went up in my book a couple of points for this.

Travis
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China is set to surpass the US at the top polluter in the world because of it's bustling economy and record growth. Here's the kicker though: Even though they signed the Kyoto treaty, they are exempt from it's rules because it is a "developing country"?

Excuse me? China? They've been around for thousands of years, they are just as modern as the US in many areas, so why is it that they get to skirt the rules and the US wouldn't if it was a signatory to the Kyoto treaty?


So when is Greenpeace and other environmental groups going to protest China over their pollution? China certainly won't give a shit about those groups, but you won't hear from them anyways. They love to bash America over just about every possible issue, but they won't take those same concerns to other countries like China and Russia because they know those countries won't care. They think that American politicians are weak enough that they might cave.

Where the problem really lies for China is that they have over 1.5 billion people and they are growing almost exponentially. Problems such as pollution, over crowding, massive inflation, and others are going to sneak in over the next several years and China will then have problems that environmentalists have nightmares about.

Travis
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If the military lied to the Pat Tillman family over how he died it would be absolutely disgraceful. It appears that may be the case. How far up the chain of command this went seems to be the only question now. Regardless of how a soldier died, his family needs to know the truth. If he was working on a classified mission, then the family at least needs to know that he died via hostile or friendly fire.

It's simple honor here people. You don't lie to someone who's son gave his life defending this country. The truth is a lot less difficult to deal with when it's not clouded by lies.

Travis
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Toyota has now become the worlds largest automaker after surpassing GM in total sales. How did they do it? They made a more reliable car at a cheaper price. It's that simple here. If you demonstrate to me that your car will last 200,000 or more miles reliably, you can bet that I'll be a customer for life. Honda has proven that to me. I own 3 of them and not one has failed to start up on me, ever.

GM on the other hand has been pushing out SUV's and trucks as hard as they can because they are extremely profitable. While that is the case, they should have brought out other, more fuel efficient vehicles in case something like the current gas prices had happened. Don't hire more marketing people, hire more engineers. Hire designers, talk to car buyers, including those who bought your competitors vehicles, cut costs but not quality. Those things will get you back on top quicker then any slick marketing campaign can.

As a side note, GM is working on an all electric prototype called the Volt. If they manage to keep their claims of 300 miles per charge and keep the car reliable, that would go a very long way towards regaining market share. I know I would personally purchase one if the claims are true and the price is right.

Travis
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Holy crap on a stick. Just when you thought Harry Reid and Democrats couldn't sink much lower, he pulls this kind of crap. Harry Reid is stating that he believes General Petraeus when he said that "The war cannot be won militarily", but he WON'T believe General Petraeus when he said that timelines are a bad idea.

This is the most blatant attempt at selective facts that I've ever seen. Harry Reid is losing ground here very quickly. He has already gotten soldiers on the ground pissed at him for undermining their work in Iraq. Him and Nancy Pelosi want to put in a time line regardless of what commanders on the ground are saying. They don't have enough votes to override a Presidential veto, so they decide to blame it on President Bush. Admit it, you simply don't want America to win the war in Iraq. You want us to fail spectacularly so you can say "see, I told you".

Get your head out of your ass Reid, no one is buying your line of bullshit.


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"Sunday morning me and (her) woke up, and we were just talking, and for some reason we just decided to kill her," one of the girls told police in her interview.

I hope they enjoy waking up each morning to the sounds of guards banging on their steel doors with a baton. They strangled a young girl for no other reason then to feel what it was like to murder someone. Well now they know. They also will know what it's like to never have all the things that life has to offer now that they will be sitting in a jail cell for the rest of their lives. They won't have boyfriends/husbands. They won't have children. They won't drive nice cars or live in nice homes. They won't have any of the things that you and I take for granted every day.

So I say, enjoy your feeling because that's the only feeling you're going to have until the day you die.

Travis
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A simple animation of a couple of stick figures and one "shoots" another is enough to get you kicked out of school until you can pass a mental health test from a school psychologist? Jeez, I'd be considered a full blown threat by those standards. I used to draw all sorts of disturbing things while doodling around.

I used to have discussions with my chemistry teacher about explosives and ways of killing mass amounts of people (the first Gulf War was going on at the time and there were news reports of Saddam's bunkers), so we used to discuss how we would get around the problems of underground bunkers. Sure, it was unorthodox, but my teacher saw it as a way of encouraging thinking in chemistry, physics, and other scientific areas. I used to mix chemicals in my garage and make explosives and set them off in a nearby abandoned area. Safety first. :) I owned knives, guns (I got my first rifle at 5 which was stored at my Grandfather's house), and other assorted weaponry.

The difference is that I never thought about killing people around me. I knew what was right and what was wrong. That was taught to me at a very early age, and even though I went through an unorthodox "explosives, guns, knives" stage, it never went beyond good old fashioned curiosity.

The point is is that in today's society, school officials can't be too careful about even minor things that normal teenage boys think about. Otherwise you have a massacre on your hands and lawsuits up the ying yang. You'll have screaming parents crying "why didn't you do something about this". Hindsight is always 20/20.


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Well no kidding! With rising mortgage rates and people stretching themselves too thin as it is, it's no wonder that people aren't buying new homes. However, those of you out there who save your money, invest wisely, and don't overstretch yourselves, now is a good time to purchase a home if you can afford it. The interest rates are higher then they should be, but you can get a decent bargain if you look around.

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Or "Hey guys, we're noticing you're getting a grip on Iraq regardless of what we've been doing. And, we were thinking that you probably are pretty serious about our nuclear ambitions, so before we get our asses kicked, we'd like to appear friendly".

Or maybe they just want to appear that they are sensible and can be reasonable in the eyes of the idiot Democrats.

Or it could be both, who knows?

Travis
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Hey Ray, when you have to CONTINUALLY apologize for your comments, it's probably best to keep your mouth shut and get to working on rebuilding New Orleans.

"Let me tell you something. You ought to go to Philly and you will appreciate how clean New Orleans is."

Perhaps if you worked on rebuilding and stopped blaming others for your failure to get your citizens out of the city as quickly as possible, maybe more people would be alive today. There was SEVERAL days notice that a major storm was heading towards New Orleans. Ray Nagin had an obligation to evacuate the city and waited until it was too late.

As a side note, if you're dumb enough to stay in the path of a Catagory 5 hurricane, you can't blame FEMA for your idiocy. If a hurricane of that magnitude is coming my way, I'm leaving. I'm packing up my family and friends and we're getting as far away as possible. Too poor to drive away? Walk. You can easily cover 20 miles in a day. The government isn't going to hand hold you the entire way. I don't expect the government to hand hold me if a disaster hits my neighborhood.

It's been more than a year and a half and there are people STILL taking handouts from the government. How much longer do they need? Am I missing something? I've been kicked in the teeth by life many times, some of them to the point where I had to rebuild from NOTHING and it didn't take me this long to get back on my feet.

Am I being insensitive? Am I wrong here? Am I the only one who wants to help these people get back on their feet instead of enabling them to do nothing but suck on the proverbial tit?

Travis
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Some condemned men who die via lethal injection may have experienced excruciating pain and may have suffocated to death according to this article.

They said the potassium chloride injection, which causes an intense burning sensation, did not reliably hasten death because prisoners given it died no faster than those who got only the other two drugs.

They concluded that pancuronium was the only reliably fatal part of the cocktail, meaning the executed may actually have died of suffocation as it paralysed their lungs.

On one hand, they brutally murdered someone and deserved to be put in this position. I don't feel sorry for them in the least. Many times the victim was the victim of another crime (rape, robbery, kidnapping, etc.) and were likely terrified until the moment they died. Because of this, part of me doesn't give two shits if they suffered when they were put down like the rabid animals they were.

On the other hand, our Constitution clearly prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment". Any manner of death that is not done correctly can be viewed as "cruel". These problems with lethal injection need to be addressed and corrected as soon as possible. If not, liberal politicians will seize upon this and start to commute sentences of people who deserve to die.

Although I do have a solution that will fix the problems with lethal injection such as doctors not willing to administer the drugs, possible complications and such: Gunshot to the head. Three to the head, you know they're dead. I think I heard that phrase in a movie once, but it's true. That will fix all problems.

Travis
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Good God, this guy's skull must be thicker then anyone in the history of the planet. He's saying that Congress will pass the funding budget with the timeline in place. That part is true, they do have the votes to pass the law. However, the President has threatened to veto the bill because of the timeline and Democrats simply don't have the votes to overturn a Presidential veto.

So instead of taking that out and giving the troops the money that they need, they come out with this laughable quote: "If the president disagrees, let him come to us with an alternative. Instead of sending us back to square one with a veto, some tough talk and nothing more, let him come to the table in the spirit of bipartisanship that Americans demand and deserve."

The President has ALREADY given you an alternative. Pass the budget without the timeline. You insist on putting it in and you don't have the votes to override the veto, so YOU'RE the one who's giving "tough talk and nothing more".

As a side note, Harry Reid isn't very popular with the troops on the ground. This soldier particularly takes issue with Harry stating that the war is "lost". A good read of how things are going on the ground and how the Iraqi civilians really feel about us.

Travis
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This article is so unbelievably full of shit, I just HAD to post it. The article's text is in bold, mine is not.

The massacre of 32 students at Virginia Tech University has left Americans dumbstruck. It is the latest and so far the most bloody in a series of murderous attacks at US educational institutions. At each of the appalling crime scenes, youngsters have settled grudges or played out video game fantasies with powerful automatic weapons. And those weapons are sold over the counter in virtually each of America’s 50 states.

Umm...No you can't. You cannot buy "powerful automatic weapons" over the counter. You can buy them if you have a special, hard to get license, but automatic weapons are almost NEVER used in the commission of a crime. The best known criminal use was the North Hollywood shoot out a few years ago.

However at this hour of America’s horrified grief, in which all decent people worldwide share, (Doing well so far) it is worth pointing out that there is a lesson here which, on past evidence, no US administration will choose even to hear, let alone learn. Here we go, he's going to blow it.

That lesson is this: if a suicide bomber walks into a crowded market in Iraq and blows himself up along with 32 innocent bystanders, it is terrorism. (True) If the same thing happens in America, it is not. (WHAT?!?!? Yes it IS terrorism, regardless of where is happens) Americans — and by extension anyone in the country — enjoy a constitutional right to bear arms. However anachronistic this may seem to outsiders given that the days of frontiersmen and citizens’ militias are long past, there still remains a powerful lobby, funded by the weaponry manufacturers themselves, that defends what it claims is a fundamental right.

Sorry buddy, the Constitution is what says it's a fundamental right.

Yet at the same time, the Americans lose no time in insisting that others around the world surrender their weaponry — whether the weaponry belongs to Afghan tribesmen, Iraqi neighborhood patrols or, on a larger scale, the nuclear arms of North Korea and the suspected Iranian atomic program. Arab news has long said that Iran shouldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons. Plus, when we're fighting against a force such as the Taliban, why should we leave them with weapons? The scale of the weapon is irrelevant. Uhh...yeah it is relevant. If I have a gun, I can only kill so many people. If I have a nuclear weapon, I could kill hundreds of thousands to even millions. There is an inherent moral contradiction in the rights that Americans seek to maintain for their own citizens and the demands they make on the citizens of other countries. We aren't making any demands against the Iranian or North Korean citizens, so your line of thought is bullshit so far. The unfortunate truth is that because the US has consistently sought to impose different standards on non-Americans, it has left itself open to charges of hypocrisy. Its partial treatment of Israel with its own nuclear weaponry, created from stolen or supplied US technology, only compounds this. Here we go, it's all the JEWS fault right? All nations naturally and understandably maneuver to gain the best advantage. It is part of the international power game. But America, the sole superpower, needs the trust of its friends and allies if it is to play an effective international role. So all nations can maneuver to gain the best advantage but America can't?

Its constant use of double standards destroys that trust. The damage unfortunately goes much further. Most Americans simply do not see the falsity of their own position. So sure are they of their own moral rectitude that they utterly discount the standards and concerns of others as either irrelevant or wrong. This is all the easier for them because of the widespread ignorance of the outside world which, in the present administration, extends from the man in the street all the way to the president himself. I seem to have a good grasp of international relations, especially when it comes to the Middle East. This lack of international knowledge and awareness is the more remarkable given that America is such a rich mix of races and cultures. Yet once within the capacious US borders, immigrants sign up to a constitution which includes this obsolete right to carry guns whose sole purpose is to kill. Tell that to the people who hold criminals at bay for the police or defend themselves or others from harm. Gangland murders and campus massacres by deluded youths armed with lethal firepower are the price Americans pay for this blindness. So criminals armed with guns are the reason why we should disarm ourselves? How will we defend ourselves? Though they may be terrified and deeply disturbed, they do not see such crimes as terrorism or indeed as constitutionally state-sponsored terrorism. So if it's state sponsored terrorism, then the government had a hand in the Virginia Tech massacre?

It's funny that this guy fails to mention the problems of his own country. REAL automatic weapons and explosives are available to just about anyone. Why else would there be terrorist attacks in the Middle East ALL THE TIME? We have our fair share of idiots and criminals, but we tend to treat them as idiots and criminals instead of "martyr's" who killed the "evil Jews" and are now heading up to heaven. Face it, if everyone in the Middle East would stop seeing terrorist attacks as "martyrdom missions" and start seeing it for the evil acts of terrible people the world would be a better place.

Travis
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Well it's about time someone tried something radically different with radio. Clear Channel is testing out commercial free radio with an hourly "sponsor". Commercial's were one of my biggest complaints against radio and it's the main reason why I bought my Sirius satellite radio. I got tired of listening to 20 minutes of commercials, have the morning guy talk for 10 minutes, followed by another 20 minutes of commercials. I'm not exaggerating either, I timed it once.

Granted, commercial radio has to be paid for from somewhere, but 20 minutes per hour or more is ridiculous. Will this help terrestrial radio get back it's audience? Only time will tell, but I have to tell you that I cannot see a reason why I wouldn't switch back. The satellite folks seem to get it right the first time. I get to listen to any genre of music I like without commercials. Personally, I like Raw Dog comedy on channel 104 if anyone is curious. However, it's uncensored comedy, so it might not be your cup of tea. :) God, I sound like a commercial. :)

Travis
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This man is right. When a soldier dies, flags are rarely flown at half mast. When the Virginia Tech massacre happened, the flags were flown at half mast. It's only fair that they be flown for soldiers who died defending this country. There's no reason not to.

Travis
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The Palestinian people have been wondering out loud lately as to why the world shuns their new government and refuses to give financial aid to them. We've been saying all along that Hamas is a violent, terrorist organization and yet all we keep hearing is "no they aren't". Well you can't say that when their spokesman is calling for renewed attacks against Israel.

No where else on earth could people actually get away with such blindingly stupid ideas. Do you think that America or any other nation on earth would deal with a country if they elected Al-Qaeda to their leadership posts? The only reason why there isn't a bigger call for Hamas to be removed is because they haven't pulled off a large, one time loss of life terrorist attack like Al-Qaeda has.

The world is right in removing all aid to Hamas and the Palestinian people for their election of this terrorist organization. It lets them know the consequences of their actions. When they complain they haven't been paid for their government jobs and they are living in poverty, you can just look at your elected officials for the reason. It's their job to manage the government and they STILL refuse to make peace with Israel. Until they are removed from power or they hit rock bottom, this will always be the case.

Travis
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Catching hypocrites is one thing I love to do on a nice sunny Monday morning. Usually, it's people preaching morality but having a mistress on the side (Jesse Jackson). But on Earth Day, all the environmentalist idiots come out in force and try to tell us how to live and work and vote.

Well Sheryl Crow has told us that one square of toilet paper should be all that we use per sitting. "except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".

I'd hate to be her boyfriend because you know damned good and well that even three squares of toilet paper isn't enough to finish up your business in a clean manner. But of course, the real issue is that Sheryl likes to preach about environmentalism and such, but her traveling circus requires 3 18 wheelers, 4 buses, and 6 cars.

How is that being "environmentalist" Sheryl? How is it that 13 vehicles are needed for you and your crew of roadies, make up artists and hangers on? Certainly they could all take a Greyhound bus or fly coach right? Certainly you could ship most of your equipment via UPS right? I'm just saying don't tell the public how we need to do one thing when you yourself won't do it.

Travis
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That's illegal in of itself. But to say that "I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids," Newsom declared. "We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it." means that the mayor is aiding illegal immigrants. If I know of a bank robber next door and the feds come to my house and I do not cooperate, do you think they'd leave me alone and say "oh well?" No, they'd throw me in jail for obstruction of justice. So why aren't the feds doing the same with this guy?

Travis
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At first I thought that the British soldiers disgraced and embarrassed themselves when they did the video "confessions", but I told myself that it's different when you're actually in the situation and there are real guns pointed at your head. So I chalked it up to a simple "you don't know because you weren't there" episode and moved on.

However, one of the hostages seems to have found humor in all of this. Personally, I'm a bit disgusted by it and I'm willing to bet that he'll be demonized for it, but at his home coming party, he got dressed up with a blindfold and his friends pointed fake finger guns and made light of the situation. Here's a link to the article, with pictures.

Travis
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Arrest warrants are going to be issued for 3 former KGB agents in the death of the former Russian spy, poisoned with radioactive material.

Warrants are expected to be issued against Andrei Lugovoy, Dmitri Kovtun and Vyacheslav Sokolenko within the next few weeks.

Mr Putin's government is already furious with Tony Blair for granting political asylum to billionaire dissident Boris Berezovsky, who has continued to demand the overthrow of the Russian leader from his UK base.

Putin's not too popular now a days. The Russian nation has slowly but surely crawled it's way out of the massive collapse it suffered in 1991 and it's citizens are becoming more and more to like the freedoms that they have. Putin has been putting a clamp down on dissidents lately and people are starting to see through his line of bullshit. It really says something when a billionaire moves to another country and demands your overthrow.

Travis
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Granted it was for a nuclear power plant, and there does not appear to be terrorist connections, but this guy needs to be tried for treason. Who knows what the Iranians plan on doing with these codes? Who knows if it was simply to make a better nuclear power plant or to make it LOOK like they were trying to make a nuclear power plant.

According to court records, the software is used only for training plant employees, but allowed users access to details on the Palo Verde control rooms and the plant layout. In October, authorities alleged, the software was used to download training materials from Tehran, using a Palo Verde user identification.

Why else would anyone want access to this? Our nuclear plans, documents and designs are very sensitive information and the Iranian government, regardless of if they were involved with this or not, has been poking it's nose around our defenses and other areas and it's high time we started treating these breaches as the serious matters that they are.

No more terrorist cases that end up with a mere 5 year sentence. No more spies getting off secrets to foreign governments and using the defense of "it wasn't classified". You start putting people in jail for life or executing those convicted of treason, you'll see a significant drop in these cases, either because they'll be more careful, or they won't want to risk it.

Travis
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Yet another reason not to vote for Hillary. She has said that she would use him as a "roaming" ambassador to "help change America's tattered image."

"I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?"

Actually I can Mrs. Clinton. But let's take a look at your pick for "world ambassador".

Former President of the US, that's a positive.

Rode the wave of economic prosperity and didn't do anything to screw it up too much except raise taxes significantly.

Did nothing to prevent a known threat from growing and did little once it was known that it was a threat bent on attacking US interests.

Was willing to lie to a grand jury over his infidelities (which I'm ok with if he had only lied to his wife and child. That's his business not mine, but once it went to a legal proceeding he had the duty to tell the truth, even if it was over something mundane)

If you want to make him "cheerleader" for America, fine. But don't put him in a position where he needs to make decisions that effect American interests. He's already proven that he can't make tough decisions about the welfare of US citizens.

That is of course, if you actually WIN the Presidency Hillary.

Travis
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