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We (US) are a nation of consumers who get our politicians, news, entertainment, and consumer products all from the same small group of corporations. We don't care what our government does so long as we get cheap gas, cheap fatty, salty foods, cheap clothes (made with indentured prostitute, child labor in US territories off the coast of China) and still have enough money left over to buy a bunch of useless plastic shit (that the kids play with for a week until we take it to the overflowing landfill) at Walmart. We don't care if our government rewards energy companies for poisoning us with mercury or waters our veggies with sewage waste water while simultaneously spreading human and industrial sludge in our agricultural fields. We don't care if we have to leave our children in the custody of other people to raise because both parents have to work to maintain the lifestyle that out media paints as "normal". So we work long hours so that we can afford our gas guzzling, overpriced SUV's and the creation of the illusion of ownership of our overpriced housing. We also don't care about living a lifestyle that is sustainable for our children or grandchildren, just so long as we can get whatever we can....NOW. Hopefully that will be enough to elevate us over the poor schmucks who were too stupid or lazy to get off their asses and get a 5$/hr job (which is 821 times less than the average CEO salary) to pay for their overpriced health care and $160,000 four year education. Our government can do whatever it wants, kill whoever it wants, enslave, spy on us, torture, poison, destroy entire ecosystems, dumb us down and do it with money borrowed from our children (and our "enemies") so long as the reality TV programming keeps coming and we are told that we're better than everyone else. There, that ought to get things started Nice. I think I'll burn my Chinese silk pajamas. No, I'm kidding. It is nice. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Sadly, I've met two different couples who had accidential shooting in their homes. Both resulted in the death of a child who was a visitor. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Surgical airstrikes like we used to stop the Serbs would at least slow down the Sudanese military slaughter. Ironic that a republican administration sits and watches ethnic cleansing like Roosevelt did before and during WWII. Sure would be nice for another country to step up to the plate; some country not extended as far as us. Wonder what the French are doing this weekend? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

"I did not have sex with Osama. It was his goat and she was 14. Besides, it was before 9/11, so it's ok." Democrat or Republican? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Because it is another opportunity for the extemists to point and say, 'Look at America attacking the muslims again.' Besides the US is spread way too thin as it is. Give them a good reason for the extremists to say that. Utilize the 8th Air Force before the Italians or Spanish go in. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Yes...and no, brother Twardo.

Actually it's very depressing that anyone would think Dunkirk is a good parallel for the situation in Iraq. I was thinking of the Gallipoli campaign, but that went pretty quick too. Thankfully, it was not the end for Churchill. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

My Lai was an outrage and an attempted cover-up that failed, but it was not the norm. My Lai happened March 16, 1968 and nobody just quit. I went back to serve from 72 to 73. All the infantry guys had gone home, but there was still a war going on, and Americans were still dying. edited to add Watergate probably stopped us from bombing the North Vietnamese back to the stone age. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Ok. You win (for now).

If you were talking about some private charter school for the affluent, I think it would be fine. If only Spanish speaking kids are eligible, you are asking the tax payers to pick up the tab for one select group; many of whom are here illegally. Sorry, I don't agree. This is part of the myth of "cheap labor". This is what happens when the "melting pot is replaced by "multiculturalism". We end up being bilingual for everybody. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Do you have charter schools in Santa Monica prepared to go 50/50 in Arabic or 50/50 in French,Fang, or other Bantu languages spoken in Gabon? Seems like back in the 70's all those Vietnamese, Cambodians, Hmong, and Lao survived English and moved on to higher professions. My flight surgeon is from Ghana and my orthopedic surgeon is from Vietnam. I can assure you these guys learned English because their parents knew it was essential in a country that spoke English. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

You mean the same way he wipes his ass with the US Constitution? Has he quartered troops in your home without permission, then? Or imprisoned you without trial? Or tapped your phone without a warrant? This sounds similar to the behavior of the British occupation forces during our great war of independence; maybe everything except the phones. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

This could apply to a six pack of beer too. Never leave 2 behind when drinking someone else's beer. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Get down and get dirty. There ain't no such thing as limited warfare. The only way to beat these people is at their own game. This never stopped us before so why now? Television? Do you think they care if it's Sunday when they display the heads of their victims? We need to exploit every opportunity we get to kill them. Let them know there is no place to hide. Letting these guys go will cost innocent lives in the end. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Seems like there were some guys jumping off a train in the Base videos show in that bar in TFs over the Memorial Holiday. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Like I said, I'm on your side. It's a great idea. Hope it works. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Getting off the Arab oil teat/tit is like securing the borders. This president has too many Mexican and Arab friends to listen. I'm on your side, but like his old man, this guy doesn't care what the citizens think. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Hmm. You sound like a Nazis persecuting the Jews.... Like maybe May 13, 1939? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

English mustard. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Funny how the government works when the civilian sector exerts enough political pressure for the sake of "good business". The Clinton administration pushed to stop export restraints on ICBM technology so Hughes Co. could show the Chinese how to put satellites in orbit (the Chinese could do it cheaper). We simply accelerated Chinese ICBM capability to accurately attack us. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

CNN's Lou Dobbs does hold the President's feet to the fire, but he does it in a civil manner. Like "Why is the President Ignoring Our Laws". Bush needs more PR like this. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/25/dobbs.july26/index.html Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

There was also a song called "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" that I learned at Fort Benning a long time ago. It was about a woman wearing a yellow ribbon for her lover in the US Cavalry. This was before Tony Orlando and Dawn and way after the John Wayne movie which also had the song. To me, the yellow ribbon applies to our troops and their safe return. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Oh... Prescott's just pissed that he never got invited to the Crawford, TX ranch. It's where they feed all those foreigners BBQ beef, give em a horse and let em play cowboy for a couple of days. They get to keep the boots and hat, but they know they can't take the six guns home. Too bad. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Some via... partly by bribes of money and/or weapons to local power-holders in the more remote tribal badlands. Yeah... So the "Kurdish Problem" hasn't so much disappeared, as become unfashionable to mention... Ever since the Kurds suddenly became "Plucky-Freedom-Fighters". Isn't it about time that someone set out Dubbie's sock puppets and taught him that: THE ENEMY OF YOUR ENEMY IS NOT NECESSARILY YOUR FRIEND!!! It's either that, or allowing for an independent Kurdistan, which would be a very special kind of mess! Mike. "The Kurdish Problem", sounds like the "Jewish Problem" of a long time ago only they are still here too. We used to welcome Kurdish delegations in this country back in the 70's, and then like a lot of other hopeful underdogs, we turned our backs on them. As for Hezbollah, they could turn in all weapons and still control Lebanon with Iranian money. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

John, I like your posts, and I don't think you are anti-British. I think you are just trying to convince we Americans what life would be without guns; maybe slightly repetitious using the Brits as an example. I keep waiting for them to slam us about our open- borders and gang shoot-outs. We have the same sorry, self-serving, lazy, politicians. Wait a minute! Some of those British posts get a little coarse and downright anti-American at times, but what the hell; sometimes they're right. Keep it up John. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.