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Re: The “Definitive 200″ Contest:
Tell Us Your Top Ten & Win!

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:56:27 -0000

Older, none-the-wiser, but seeing many good *new* choices, too! Thanks!!

Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Comapny
Fresh Cream - Cream
Let 'Em Run - The Bills
Greatest Hits - Bruce Springsteen
Natty Rebel - Bob Marley and The Wailers
Hell Freezes Over - Eagles
Kick - INXS
On The Track - Leon Redbone
Best of the Doors - Doors

Re: McCain: Selectively A Deregulator

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:06 -0000

Clearly McCain is very much into regulatory "intervention" if your name is Charles Keating or you own a "gaming" emporium. Even better if you've played golf in Scotland with a certain reptile from "K-Street".

Re: So, How’d She Do?

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:24:38 -0000

If the questions were deliberately specific to Palin's weaknesses (which,IMHO, requires little effort to choose), she ably responded in J-School fashion by answering the question she wanted, not the one asked.

My local paper polled its readership (unscientifically) and received assurances that less that 3% of readers had EVER changed their votes in response to a "debate". Given that the current two-party media circus is more ceremonial dance than debate, it was really just another chance for people to figure out what Joe Biden looks like and what hockey moms have to say about the third graders back home. While Tina Faye could be the smarter stand-in, Frances McDormand did the original impression in the movie "Fargo" - except McDormand was relentlessly successful under the radar (and won an Oscar). Oh-oh!

Re: Michelle Obama To Hit ‘Daily Show’

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:59:35 -0000

Wherever did you get the notion of Steven Colbert as having any conservative cred? Just because some conservatives "don't get" the hyperbole doesn't make him conservative. I understand you gave both appellations, but he's just not conservative except in the over-the-top, we're all laughing at them, sense.

Re: Doing Battle With the Somali Pirates

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:12:25 -0000

Bring back John Paul Jones.

Re: Dick Cheney And Al-Qaeda’s Operational Cycle

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:42:18 -0000

No space aliens have landed on my lawn in the past 60 years. Therefore my tinfoil antenna is working!

And, what's more, by triggering trillion dollar wars in Afhanistan and Iraq, and causing untold billions to be spent on "Homeland Security", Al Queda can simply sit back in the cave and laugh as the US destroys its own economy to fight the invisible foe of the global war on whatever.

Re: Hannah Arendt in the Black Sites

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:04:34 -0000

What is described is corporatocracy: the manipulation of all conventional forms of government for the enrichment of management and stockholders.