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Old 11-07-2004, 12:31 PM   #1
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To me, it seems like the US has learned very little from the Vietnam fiasco. If we had, we wouldn't be in Iraq today.
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Old 11-07-2004, 04:42 PM   #2
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Old 11-08-2004, 06:47 AM   #3
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Ahh..here we go I know this reflects how some of us here feel about last week.
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Thanks also to everyone who has offered us assistance, everyone who has sent us kudos or words of encouragement, and especially those of you who have brightened our arduous night with scads of uproarious hate mail.
They encourage any- and everyone to email them. Remember, this a time of healing!...or at least W Jr says so.
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Old 11-08-2004, 11:30 PM   #4
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Stupidest....remark...ever....
It's a factual remark and only a jackass would call it stupid. George W. Bush is eliminating every check and balance in our government. When he appoints supreme court justices, he'll have NOTHING to prevent him from implementing his twisted religious agenda.

He has already murdered more than 100,000 innocent civilians, and gotten 1,100 Americans killed and counting. By the end of his term, there won't be much of America left to save.
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Old 11-10-2004, 02:27 AM   #5
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Just in case you want a little something for the tree ...
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Old 11-10-2004, 08:01 AM   #6
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It's a factual remark and only a jackass would call it stupid. George W. Bush is eliminating every check and balance in our government.
How about this, as a less inflammatory version:

9/11 was the _enabler_ that defused most of the potential resistance to the Bush administration's agenda.

Stacked courts full of bible-thumpers and foreign policy that inflames friend and foe alike have the potential to be more damaging in the long run to what we currently know as America than a single terrorist attack, even one as severe as 9/11. This election set the table for both of those things to happen.
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Old 11-10-2004, 07:55 AM   #7
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That looks more like Liberace than Dubya.
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Old 11-10-2004, 08:04 AM   #8
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This ornament has been selected from renowned designer Christopher Radko’s exclusive “Stars and Stripes Collection.”
I haven't laughed so hard in a while.
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Old 11-10-2004, 09:56 AM   #9
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How about this, as a less inflammatory version

vsp, can you server as translator for Radar from here on out? He makes an awful lot of good points, but always manages to null them out by shooting himself in the foot through unneeded insults.
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Old 11-10-2004, 11:38 AM   #10
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What's the salary? That might be a full-time job.
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Old 11-10-2004, 11:42 AM   #11
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Too late. Supply Side Jesus is doing a better job of conveying the ideals.
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Old 11-10-2004, 12:20 PM   #12
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Too late. Supply Side Jesus is doing a better job of conveying the ideals.
Too bad Al Franken is a moron. The cartoon depicts not a supply-side economy but a demand-based economy where economic growth is created through consumption.

As for the other aspects of the cartoon - just meaningless pot shots at a guy that I think most people would agree, religious or not, lived a pretty decent life.

Al Franken sure has come a long way from boiling cockroaches alive on SNL to his current status as a diety of the liberals.
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Old 11-10-2004, 12:35 PM   #13
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It's a CARTOON. Relax.

And I love Al Franken
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Old 11-10-2004, 12:51 PM   #14
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And I love Al Franken
Why am I not surprised. Air America fan, too?
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Old 11-10-2004, 12:54 PM   #15
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Why am I not surprised. Air America fan, too?
Aren't you too busy wrangling nuts and bashing other cultures to be making such inane comments?
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