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  1. not sure - but here something about pubic actions. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  2. most sound bites these days come from republicans themselves. Sort-of an elephant devouring itself -- yuck. There are a few tv ads in local campaigns of dems making hay of this but on the national level they're mostly watching the show. As to examples you ask for - rather getting excited about fictional literature you could go with something more real - such as the ancient greeks. "Where is the liberal outrage over Socrates?" would be a more apt complaint. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  3. the favorite advice of pundits to democrats these days is not to "overplay your hand". My impression is the dems to be better listeners this time around then the repubs were in '98 - when their impechment zeal basically cost them a fair amount of seats in the elections later that year. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  4. Ritalin, Rubifen, Red Bull Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  5. actual reference Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  6. what's all that have to do with Saddam? T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  7. well, he has to figure out something else. President''s salaries are very low compared to private sector salaries of CEOs and similar top management positions. So (Ex)Presidents cash out later when they get huge honoraria as public speakers. Without that the potus job would be a bad deal economically. Now for Mr Garbled Wishiwashi Babble (GWB) this is likely not going to very profitable (unless he wants to start some sort-of comedy show) - so it's only fair he gets a few insider breaks. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  8. for what exactlyt? ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  9. only that those were not his words. ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  10. not only the liberals - the current admin all high on diplomacy and making concessions. Predictably so - because there hardly any other choice (in absence of an event bigger than 9/11) The Iraq War has drained anything would need for any other larger military interventions - any resources from troops to machinery, international credibility, domestic support, budgets, etc. With the Iraq experiment the current admin has effectively castrated the US's ability to threaten with military intervention. You can bet that this (at least perceived) weakness is one of the major reasons that emboldened Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong to engage in all the aggressive and uncompromising stances and rethoric lately. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  11. which world? I can easily imagine that if a group of conservative muslims and a group of conservative westerners/christians can look at one and the same debate and conclude that "their guy" won and that the other one looked like and evil idiot. Ahmadinejad has been obsessive at gettting attention in the Muslim world and is not shy to bluntly borrow from Nazi ideology to get there. Even he will realize that he won't score publicity points in the west with that. This and the open letters and debate challenges to what is perceived the most powerful man in the west are publicity stunts directed at his own people. I'm not sure what his ultimate ambitions are - but on a more immediate scale this is an internal power struggle between Iran's mullahs and the office of president. The former used to be the moral/ideological/spiritual/legislative leaders and the president was basically just executing what they said. In order to push the mullahs back Ahmadinejad has to dominate all moral and ideological discussion and appeal to conservative and religious fundamentalist in his country on which the mullahs lean. Although it doesn't go to some of the fashist extremes as in Iran, there are mirror images of all this toxic dynamics of wielding grandious ideology and aggressively moralizing in order to cement power and support in a religious/conservative populance also here in the west. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  12. US recruiters should be getting desparate enough now to start making house calls. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  13. Uuuhhh .... so this god guy is a peeping tom? ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  14. in recent polls 60% oppose the war, 60% disapprove of Bush, ... get the picture? 60% will oppose any pro-war candidate. As a pro-war guy not backed by any party Lieberman is dead in the water Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  15. this is most likely rubbish as it applies to the current admin - Powell was the only one military of rank in the 00-04 admin and was by far the most reluctant about the Iraq war. They managed to tarnish his reputaion and leave him no option but to resign. Whatever you call it - what many people have a beef with are politicians that start wars not as a last resort and/or in response to aggression, but as a means of realizing ideological goals. We know since "Mein Kampf" that this is a bad idea. You read some of the PNAC stuff on reordering the arab world and you know why people are upset. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  16. Perhaps the anticipated Arctic Ozone Hole is already much further along than we think. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  17. you can! - on Saturday - 3rd place match who wants to referee? - keep your whistle handy Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  18. yeah - ok - but what were they waiting to 122nd minute for T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  19. She's (besides Cheney) the one who most strongly advocated the now highly unpopular Iraq War to GWB. She also never ran for or held elected office. (edit) plus: a woman who sacrificed family life for academic career will scare the living daylight out of the religious right - the ones you need to get elected as a GOPpy. (/edit) The girl is a no-starter. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  20. So... Germany, France, Portugal... Who's the fourth? Italy If it's any consolation - remember - before the semi's there are still a few fish in the pond. (see attached --- Better NOT open at work ) Cheers, T BTW, what's NWS (national watercolor society?) ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  21. That lady just got knocked up out. ... but what a game to the last second ... It's an all European club now. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  22. Woha !! ...what a nailbiter to the last penalty kick. Azzurri, be afraid! Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  23. so a child rape every hour would be acceptable to you? T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  24. Some article put very well saying the most important game of the tournament will be 9 days early on June 30: Germany vs Argentina The betting odd between the two have very much converged in the last day or two - and both are in fantastic shape. This is a game I'm not going to miss eve if my house burns down or my wife threatens divorce. The fact that the winner of this one will play Brazil in the final is more of an afterthought.
  25. The seven accused of planning the Sears Tower bombing are also indicted for allying with a foreign terrorist organization and concealing their connection with such an organization. But as far as anyone can tell they only had contacts with an FBI agent. The only logical way to reconcile the indictment with the fact is thus that the FBI is a foreign terror group. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true