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Dave
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Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 12:05 pm |
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This is going to get real interesting. Russia is posturing, Rattling the saber, trying to regain "Super-Power" status with the world. Guess the fact that these missiles do not carry any war-head is a problem or maybe it just scares them.
What they don't seem to think about, is that we have more of them, closer to Russia than those that are planned for Poland and the Czech Republic.
In the grand scheme of things, these missiles were designed to shoot other missiles out of the sky. They do not carry a warhead. They carry a "Kill Vehicle". Basically its exactly like hitting a bullet with a bullet. They've been tested and they work...
I don't know how much more I can say about that part of this system. I don't want the "Men in Black" paying a visit to my house or my desk at work 
Castro cryptic on Russian bomber report
By ANITA SNOW – 8 hours ago
HAVANA (AP) — Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may send nuclear bombers to the island, and said Cuba doesn't owe any explanation to Washington about the story.
In a brief, cryptic essay posted on a government Web site Wednesday night, the 81-year-old former president neither confirmed nor denied the Monday report in Izvestia newspaper.
Moscow is angry about U.S. plans for missile-defense sites in eastern Europe and Izvestia cited a "highly placed" military aviation source as saying, "While they are deploying the anti-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, our long-range strategic aircraft already will be landing in Cuba." Izvestia said this apparently refers to long-range nuclear-capable bombers.
Izvestia points out that there would have to be a political decision on landing bombers in Cuba, and quoted the unnamed source as saying there have been such discussions.
In Washington, U.S. State Department Acting Deputy spokesman Gonzalo R. Gallegos said that American officials had received no official confirmation from the Russian government about the newspaper report, and was unaware of any U.S. efforts to directly contact Moscow about it.
"We continue to continue to work with the Russians on this issue," Gallegos said Tuesday, referring to talks aimed at explaining the U.S. government's missile defense plan. "We have consistently made it clear to them that our proposed deployment of a limited missile defense system in Europe poses no threat to them or to their nuclear deterrent."
While Fidel Castro said the president, his brother Raul Castro, was wise not to respond to the newspaper report, he did not make clear why he was commenting.
Fidel Castro also said Cuba is not obligated to offer the United States an explanation about the newspaper report, "nor ask for excuses or forgiveness."
Despite Cuba's one-time alliance with the former Soviet Union, it seems unlikely that Raul Castro would allow Russian bombers on the island and risk the ire of the U.S. government.
Raul Castro has been president only since February, securing a seamless transition from his brother, who ruled for nearly a half-century. He has repeatedly said he is willing to discuss the two countries' differences in talks held on equal terms with America's next president.
Soviet nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba during the height of the Cold War pushed the world to the brink of nuclear conflict on Oct. 22, 1962, after President John F. Kennedy announced their presence to the world. After a tense week of diplomacy, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev removed them.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gw_g2N1YLMvLFCuCLPrq6LNB1VcQD923UV3G0
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 11:14 am |
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jeffy ole boy wrote:
empty wrote: AUSTIN, Texas -- The head of the Texas agency that removed more than 400 children in the raid of a supposed polygamist group is retiring.
Carey Cockerell is the commissioner of the Department of Family and
Protective Services, who staged the April raid on the Yearning For Zion
Ranch in Eldorado.
The raid and its legal issues have cost Texas $14 million so far.
Let me guess; Cockerell wants to spend more time with his wives and children... What a waste.......
That whole thing stunk from the beginning...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 02:07 am |
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empty wrote: AUSTIN, Texas -- The head of the Texas agency that removed more than 400 children in the raid of a supposed polygamist group is retiring.
Carey Cockerell is the commissioner of the Department of Family and
Protective Services, who staged the April raid on the Yearning For Zion
Ranch in Eldorado.
The raid and its legal issues have cost Texas $14 million so far.
Let me guess; Cockerell wants to spend more time with his wives and children... What a waste.......
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empty
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 01:18 am |
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AUSTIN, Texas -- The head of the Texas agency that removed more than 400 children in the raid of a supposed polygamist group is retiring.
Carey Cockerell is the commissioner of the Department of Family and
Protective Services, who staged the April raid on the Yearning For Zion
Ranch in Eldorado.
The raid and its legal issues have cost Texas $14 million so far.
Let me guess; Cockerell wants to spend more time with his wives and children...
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the preacher
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 05:52 pm |
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Hey Fritz:
Ya might better go back and look at what I was responding to when I said..
"who they gonna blame after January"
I was talking about Pelosi and the rest of the losers that stupid americans elected who have done NOTHING for anyone but THEMSELVES...
THEY don't blame Clinton for anything, remember he was the first black president, and God's gift to mankind along with the gift to corporate america so they could move all their jobs to cheaper labor markets...
in case you missed it, we was talking about the LIBERALS who are screwing up everything, not the Conservatives who lost cause they forgot who they served.
then again, libs dont serve anyone but themselves and unions...lol roflmbo
p.s.: re: "The Liberal Agenda, those devils!"...ya finally got it almost right, ya just left off pillaging union pension plans to pay for personal stuff...ROFL
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 05:16 pm |
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marc wrote:
Got this off another board...
"The Makers And The Takers" by Peter Schweizer (Doubleday Publishing Group)
In Makers and Takers you will discover why:
* Seventy-one percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.
* Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in sick than their liberal counterparts.
* Liberals are 21/2 times more likely to be resentful of others' success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people's good luck.
* Liberals are 2 times more likely to say it is okay to cheat the government out of welfare money you don't deserve.
* Conservatives are more likely than liberals to hug their children and "significantly more likely" to display positive nurturing emotions. * Liberals are less trusting of family members and much less likely to stay in touch with their parents.
* Do you get satisfaction from putting someone else's happiness ahead of your own? Fifty-five percent of conservatives said yes versus only 20 percent of liberals.
* Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Bill O'Reilly and Dick Cheney have given large sums of money to people in need, while Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Moore, and Al Gore have not.
* Those who are "very liberal" are 3 times more likely than conservatives to throw things when they get angry.
The American left prides itself on being superior to conservatives: more generous, less materialistic, more tolerant, more intellectual, and more selfless. For years scholars have constructed--and the media has pushed--elaborate theories designed to demonstrate that conservatives suffer from a host of personality defects and character flaws. According to these supposedly unbiased studies, conservatives are mean-spirited, greedy, selfish malcontents with authoritarian tendencies. Far from the belief of a few cranks, prominent liberals from John Kenneth Galbraith to Hillary Clinton have succumbed to these prejudices. But what do the facts show?
Peter Schweizer has dug deep--through tax documents, scholarly data, primary opinion research surveys, and private records--and has discovered that these claims are a myth. Indeed, he shows that many of these claims actually apply more to liberals than conservatives. Much as he did in his bestseller Do as I Say (Not as I Do), he brings to light never-before-revealed facts that will upset conventional wisdom. Conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork have long argued that liberal policies promote social decay. Schweizer, using the latest data and research, exposes how, in general:
* Liberals are more self-centered than conservatives.
* Conservatives are more generous and charitable than liberals.
* Liberals are more envious and less hardworking than conservatives.
* Conservatives value truth more than liberals, and are less prone to cheating and lying.
* Liberals are more angry than conservatives.
* Conservatives are actually more knowledgeable than liberals.
* Liberals are more dissatisfied and unhappy than conservatives.
Schweizer argues that the failure lies in modern liberal ideas, which foster a self-centered, "if it feels good do it" attitude that leads liberals to outsource their responsibilities to the government and focus instead on themselves and their own desires.
I've seen a few different parts of that in the news lately. Good post...
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marc
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 04:19 pm |
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Got this off another board...
"The Makers And The Takers" by Peter Schweizer (Doubleday Publishing Group)
In Makers and Takers you will discover why:
* Seventy-one percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.
* Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in sick than their liberal counterparts.
* Liberals are 21/2 times more likely to be resentful of others' success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people's good luck.
* Liberals are 2 times more likely to say it is okay to cheat the government out of welfare money you don't deserve.
* Conservatives are more likely than liberals to hug their children and "significantly more likely" to display positive nurturing emotions. * Liberals are less trusting of family members and much less likely to stay in touch with their parents.
* Do you get satisfaction from putting someone else's happiness ahead of your own? Fifty-five percent of conservatives said yes versus only 20 percent of liberals.
* Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Bill O'Reilly and Dick Cheney have given large sums of money to people in need, while Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Moore, and Al Gore have not.
* Those who are "very liberal" are 3 times more likely than conservatives to throw things when they get angry.
The American left prides itself on being superior to conservatives: more generous, less materialistic, more tolerant, more intellectual, and more selfless. For years scholars have constructed--and the media has pushed--elaborate theories designed to demonstrate that conservatives suffer from a host of personality defects and character flaws. According to these supposedly unbiased studies, conservatives are mean-spirited, greedy, selfish malcontents with authoritarian tendencies. Far from the belief of a few cranks, prominent liberals from John Kenneth Galbraith to Hillary Clinton have succumbed to these prejudices. But what do the facts show?
Peter Schweizer has dug deep--through tax documents, scholarly data, primary opinion research surveys, and private records--and has discovered that these claims are a myth. Indeed, he shows that many of these claims actually apply more to liberals than conservatives. Much as he did in his bestseller Do as I Say (Not as I Do), he brings to light never-before-revealed facts that will upset conventional wisdom. Conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork have long argued that liberal policies promote social decay. Schweizer, using the latest data and research, exposes how, in general:
* Liberals are more self-centered than conservatives.
* Conservatives are more generous and charitable than liberals.
* Liberals are more envious and less hardworking than conservatives.
* Conservatives value truth more than liberals, and are less prone to cheating and lying.
* Liberals are more angry than conservatives.
* Conservatives are actually more knowledgeable than liberals.
* Liberals are more dissatisfied and unhappy than conservatives.
Schweizer argues that the failure lies in modern liberal ideas, which foster a self-centered, "if it feels good do it" attitude that leads liberals to outsource their responsibilities to the government and focus instead on themselves and their own desires.
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Fritz
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 02:16 pm |
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The Liberal Agenda, those devils!
8:00 - Wake up. Hug tree.
8:10 - Quick breakfast of Wheaties w/ banana and unborn fetuses, stem cells spread on toast.
8:20 - Get dressed in hemp suit.
8:30 - Miscellaneous worship of false idols.
8:45 - Drive to methadone clicnic in hybrid car; 30% electric, 70% Bible furnace.
8:50 - Receive methadone. Sell for pot.
9:00 - Catch up on a little reading: Torah, Koran, Book of Mormon, other books not The Bible.
10:00 - Stop on way to welfare office to drown puppies.
10:20 - Pickup welfare check.
10:30 - Cash check.
10:35 - Buy more pot.
11:30 - Miscellaneous Sodomy.
12:00 - Light lunch of sushi and stem cell pie, plus cappuccino, at upscale coffee shop.
12:30 - Stop at nearest cemetery to bleach flags on veterans' graves.
1:30 - Miscellaneous coveting.
3:00 - Steal babies, throw them from bridge.
3:30 - Bomb a church.
4:00 - Meeting with Jews for instructions on what news stories to run today.
5:00 - Formal dinner/fundraiser of virgin Christian sacrifice. Guest speakers Michael Moore, Al Franken, Satan, and Bizarro Ann Coulter.
6:30 - Smoke cigars lit by a burning pictures of Jesus
6:45 - Infiltrate the school system to attract impressionable young student to the homosexual lifestyle.
7:00 - Miscellaneous taking the Lord's name in vain.
7:10 - Smoke pot.
7:15 - Giggle for about twenty minutes.
7:35 - Order pizza with extra cheese and stem cells.
8:00 - Pay pizza man in food stamps.
8:30 - Watch Real Time with Bill Maher.
9:30 - Bedtime snack of nachos with three kind of cheese and peppers. No stem cells, watching weight.
10:00 - Miscellaneous dishonor of mother and father.
10:30 - Early bedtime, need rest for tomorrow's All-Day Sodomy Fest.
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Fritz
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 02:09 pm |
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the preacher wrote: addendum:
re: "who they gonna blame after January of next year?"
FOX News...
lol The right still blames Clinton! They'll keep doing it.
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the preacher
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 02:00 pm |
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'zactly, Steve
then again, if you was a liberal, you could get everything for free for no reason, and sit on the couch drinking beer while you counted your welfare money in the motel the government rented for ya, (anyone remember Katrina?)
watching your 60 inch Plasma TV...
leastways, that is what a lot of the Katrina "victims" are doing in Atlanta
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Vero Steve
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 01:36 pm |
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My Opinion.................
I rather be a conservative not job than a liberal with no nuts or no job..........
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the preacher
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 12:31 pm |
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addendum:
re: "who they gonna blame after January of next year?"
FOX News...
lol
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the preacher
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 12:30 pm |
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"intercourse Pelosi and all the rest of those of her ilk"
who they gonna blame after January of next year?
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 11:40 am |
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Pot callin' the kettle black?
Pelosi: Bush 'a total failure'
Story Highlights
* House speaker says president losing all credibility with the American people
* Pelosi says she won't bring offshore oil drilling to vote
* She says companies should drill in existing allowed areas first
* Pelosi defends House's record, says Senate Republicans stall legislation
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/pelosi.interview/index.html
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 11:19 am |
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Fritz wrote:
Dave wrote: What it comes down to, at least in my opinion, is this...
We're all basically fed up with the way the government has been run. But, its a whole lot easier to remember one name (George Bush) than it is to remember the names of all the people (past and present) in the Senate and the Congress that have made this mess we're in today... At 23% approval rating, there's more than liberals that think he's screwing us! That's what, depending on the poll, anywhere from 9 - 14 percent higher than the approval rating of congress?
I'll make it even more simple to understand what I'm trying to say...
You remember the name of the boat that sank in the North Atlantic, the "Titanic", right?
Name the passengers....
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the preacher
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 10:17 am |
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Empty, me too. At least this year. I have already started hiding money in jars in the backyard so when the libs do away with the tax cuts, raise my taxes, make me pay for illegal aliens healthcare, and basically take everything I make to pay for those who don't / won't work, I got enough money to buy food...
RSDF
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empty
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 04:33 am |
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| You guys are only reinforcing the reason I vote 'other than'.
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Fritz
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 02:12 am |
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the preacher wrote: and the 9% approval didnt get there till the last election when the majority changed...but that must be Pres Bush's fault too, huh?
RSDF Of course, the Democrats still cannot override a veto without Republican help. During the "great spending" Republicans did as they pleased with your money, no vetos on spending of any kind.
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the preacher
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 01:33 am |
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and the 9% approval didnt get there till the last election when the majority changed...but that must be Pres Bush's fault too, huh?
RSDF
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zippo
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 01:09 am |
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Fritz wrote: Dave wrote: What it comes down to, at least in my opinion, is this...
We're all basically fed up with the way the government has been run. But, its a whole lot easier to remember one name (George Bush) than it is to remember the names of all the people (past and present) in the Senate and the Congress that have made this mess we're in today... At 23% approval rating, there's more than liberals that think he's screwing us! I believe the last poll I saw congress was @ 9%, thats where the real screwing is coming from. The control the purse strings and pass laws.
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