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Today FOX News reported the Huckster tried to explain away his letter to the President demanding the Cuban ban be lifted inthat his mistake for doing so was due to its "proximity" to Arkansas.
If The Huckster can't figure out what's going on in Cuba because it's "too far away", what does that suggest his competency will be for the rest of the world??
Comment Posted By Chris On 10.12.2007 @ 21:58
DENNIS KUCINICH - A MERRY PRANKSTER
Given Kucinich's tendencies, "The Washington Post"'s Tony Kornheiser must be jumping for joy that Kucinich is doing this even though Kucinich is trying to get Kornheiser off of ESPN with the Fairness Doctrine.
Comment Posted By Chris On 8.11.2007 @ 18:40
Great news, Rick. Best to you and your family. Caught a bit of your brother this morning and he did a good job, fwiw. But you already knew that.
Comment Posted By Chris On 26.08.2007 @ 23:23
Rick,
Comment Posted By Chris On 24.08.2007 @ 00:08
Make sure you put some cig's in the loft. Seriously, best wishes to you getting through the storms.
Rick,
Comment Posted By Chris On 23.08.2007 @ 00:47
"Rather than tax it, ban it."
Careful what you wish for. I'm totally sympathetic to your argument, however, things could get worse for you. That is all.
Sorry Rick, no sympathy from me on this one. I'm all for "sin taxes." Raising government revenues while simultaneously providing disincentive for use of a deadly (for the user) and annoying (for everybody else) product strikes me as the height of sanity.
Comment Posted By Chris On 22.08.2007 @ 19:05
9/11 TRUTHERS GUT PUNCHED BY HISTORY CHANNEL
Thanks for the heads-up, Rick. Will be sure and catch the replay. These truthers are truly deranged. Hope you're correct in your assessment that this will put the issue to rest for all but the blind or willfully ignorant. Based on some of the comments here, I'm not so sure.
Comment Posted By Chris On 21.08.2007 @ 22:32
MY TOP TEN MOVIE LINES OF ALL TIME
"Just a bit outside."
(Bob Eucker; Major League)and I know this isn't a movie, but still -
Comment Posted By Chris On 17.08.2007 @ 21:57
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
(Gordon Jump; WKRP In Cincinnati)
"Round up the usual suspects."
(Claude Rains; Casablanca)"Do you mind? We've just been married."
(Alan Rickman; Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves)"I'm invincible!" "You're a looney."
(John Cleese, Graham Chapman; Monty Python and The Holy Grail)"We're gonna need guns. Lots of guns."
(Keanu Reeeves; The Matrix)"Wire main office, tell them I said Owww!"
(Slim Pickens; Blazing Saddles)"You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
(Lauren Bacall; To Have And Have Not)"I'm getting a new tucker-inner! You're banished, banished, banished!"
Comment Posted By Chris On 17.08.2007 @ 21:18
(Jack Lemmon; The Great Race)
TIGHTENING THE GORDIAN KNOT OF WAR
How does labeling their Revolutionary Guards qualify as a prelude to military action? As you say, this is ratcheting up the economic pressure on the regime, maximizing the discontent of the Iranian people with their leaders. This seems like the best way to achieve regime change in Iran without military action, because we will need regime change to stop their nuclear program. Russia and China don't care about the Iranian nuclear program, as evidence by their past actions. They only signed onto this weak sanctions package in order to suck up to the West a little. Does anyone believe that Russia and China feel threatened by a regime that they do a brisk business with?
I also don't see why we should fear Iranian threats of terrorism. What are they going to do that they aren't already doing? Arm Hezbollah and encourage them to attack the Israelis? Arm and train terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan? Unleash the Shia militias that we are already hunting? It doesn't make much sense to fear that an enemy will do more of what he is already doing in order to hurt us.
I'm sorry, but I think this is exactly the type of action we should be taking, and not only against the Iranians, but the Syrians too. We have a tremendous advantage over our enemies and their allies (Russia, China) in the worlds' largest economy, and we should be using it as a weapon against them. This is the kind of asymmetrical warfare we excel at, crushing the competition economically.
Frankly, we're probably taking a larger risk by setting a precedent in labeling a branch of a nation's military a terrorist organization, but that's a different argument.
Comment Posted By Chris On 15.08.2007 @ 13:58
