Jimbo

I disagree absolutely with this statement. Does your state not allow convicted felons to vote? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Are you suggesting that Sean Penn cheered against the US? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Sheesh. The entire article here. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

You're going to have to back that one up. I've looked around and while it's fair to say that Sean Penn has protested the war since day one, I can't find anything about a trip to Afghanistan -or- support for the enemy. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Well, then you're kind of fucked. The best way to change the current face of American politics is to vote into office those who you think will best represent you. Otherwise your bitching means just about nothing. Not voting is about as unpatriotic as it gets, I think. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

From Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheight 911 Hayes is a writer for The Weekly Standard and much of his writing on the Saddam/Osama connection is available there for free; simply use the search engine and look for articles by Hayes. The preliminary staff report of the September 11 Commission states, "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States." Some critics, including the chief prosecutor of the World Trade Center bombers, have argued that the staff report inexplicably ignores substantial evidence of Iraqi involvement in the September 11 attacks. Whether you agree with the staff report or the critics, there is no dispute that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda, an organization whose only activity was terrorism. Fahrenheit dishonestly pretends that there was no relationship at all. Fahrenheit shows Condoleezza Rice saying, "Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11." The audience laughs derisively. Here is what Rice really said on the CBS Early Show, Nov. 28, 2003: Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York. This is a great terrorist, international terrorist network that is determined to defeat freedom. It has perverted Islam from a peaceful religion into one in which they call on it for violence. And they're all linked. And Iraq is a central front because, if and when, and we will, we change the nature of Iraq to a place that is peaceful and democratic and prosperous in the heart of the Middle East, you will begin to change the Middle East.... Moore deceptively cut the Rice quote to fool the audience into thinking she was making a particular claim, even though she was pointedly not making such a claim. And since Rice spoke in November 2003, her quote had nothing to do with building up American fears before the March 2003 invasion, although Moore implies otherwise. [Moore response: None.] "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

I think that maybe Bill does. He's the one who made the claim that there was no connection between the two. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

No connection to Al Qaeda? No way. No direct connection to 9/11, I'll buy that. But no connection to Al Qaeda? Bill, you know better than that. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

You read all 45 pages? Interesting. Isn't that what MM is doing to build his case? Somehow though it's acceptable and brilliant when he does it. Why is that? Anyhow, the point is that what MM claims as truth - isn't. More importantly, what you took for the truth - wasn't. It's not simply that he isn't from Flint, a small town with rampant unemployment and poverty. What it is, is that he is from a well to do, upper middle class town. Quite a difference if you ask me. Only GWB, the intelligence agencies, the UN, the other members of the coalation - and let's not forget Saddam - I think he was given ample warning. Uh huh, because things were wonderful before. Right? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Christ. Is that the best you can do? He said that a full two years before he did raise taxes - he hardly could have predicted the future. The man was in office for a full four years and was a heavy hitter in Washington before that. Surely you can come up with something better than that. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Absolultely, it does. Absolutely. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

It's not that new, Bill. Animal Enterprise Terrorism, for example, has been around since at least '92, as have other definitions for domestic terrorism. "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

I thought that the rule was to follow the first person down, not the second. A lot of the rules that we have were written in blood. Mean anything? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

That the six month repack cycle has anything to do with the number of fatalities at your dropzone. You may as well have said that eating breakfast seems to be working to keep your fatalities down. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Nonsense. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Gotta love thread creep. Anyhow . . . http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=615824#615824 - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

That's hardly a world record. I don't believe that extending the repack to 180 days would put any full time rigger out of business. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Lighten up, Francis. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Good one! - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Uh huh. A guy in my office will happily debate with you whether or not we landed on the moon. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

To be fair, I believe that Clinton bombed the "Christian" Serbs to stop an ongoing genocide. That bombing also, IIRC, eventually led to a peace deal (or at least a cease fire) between the Serbs and the Albanians. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Cops routinely question the suit in the ghetto or the white guy in the black part of town. As far as the straight couple in the gay neighborhood, not likely, since straight doesn't look out of place in the gay neighborhood. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Don't discount the Drudge Report. IIRC, they were the FIRST to break the Lewinsky scandle. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Seems kind of silly. I thought that the air marshals were supposed to be unidentifiable, to blend in. Gone are they days when put on our Sunday best to fly. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.

Because we haven't had another 9/11 type incident, or anything even close, then I still submit that you have no -PROOF- that the TSA hasn't made air travel safe. There's also more to the TSA than simply checking your luggage and manning the metal detectors. I'm not defending them (at least not intentionally - and I think they've got a long way to go), but you have still failed to provide -PROOF- that we are not safer with them than without. Not entirely sure that I agree with that statement. At the time that the NG was deployed to the airports I think that they might have seriously considered shooting someone, terrorist, unruley passenger, or anyone else. Their deployment was a knee jerk reaction and the country was in shock and confusion. We've since thought that maybe the guys with big guns weren't entirely necessary and now they're gone. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.