I just think it's funny Al Maliki doesn't even flinch.

He knows that while every person in that room may hate him... thay hate Bush just tiny bit more...





As a side note, I'm sorry "The Daily Show" ended LAST week. I would have liked to see what they could do with this...

I'm glad to know we're not above the, "but he hit me first..." mentality.

Again, you've flown off the handle.

I wasn't making a case for a "guilt by association". I was making the case that he apparently has a bad taste in friends. No, he's not palling around with terrorists like that idiot said, but he's got weird friends. Freinds who don't seem to have the best of moral character.

Obama seems like a good guy and again, I'm not accusing him of anything but bad taste.


Things have a way of coming to light DURING an investigation, Irwin.

I say things like "seems" and "maybe" because the only thing we can ever be sure of is that we're never really sure of anything.


I take what the prosocuter said... but again, after an investigation (which is done to investigate FACTS) things get out.

It's great to know Obama seems to be and has been deemed to be a non-player in this...

... but I await the investigation.

Lenscrafters?



Are you really in a fraternity? You didn't seem like the type...

He really wouldn't hurt a fly, though.

Bully breeds always look meaner then they really are.


I swear, that only happens in pictures. No one says that unless I'm in a picture.


I'm not at school anymore, so I've been... *ahem*... talking to Mary... a lot...

Haven't gotten wasted yet, though. I'm waiting for the college kids in my college town to go home and bars to lower their prices. Then I'll be hittin' the town...

Did you miss the part where I said, "Obama seems to be far and away from the actual corruption of trying to sell his vacant Senate seat"? Did you miss the part where I said, "... but... there are an uncomfortable number of connections between Obama and otherwise dishonorable characters"? Did you miss the part where I made this about the people Obama decides to associate himself with (like Rezko) rather then about Obama himself? Did you also miss the part where I said we should wait for the facts?

... I'm guessing you did.


If we thought he had a golden penis, we'd ask him sell it and get us out of this recession.

I like Lil' Wayne - or rather, as a person who doesn't like rap at all... I really like Lil' Wayne.

I like Akon too, but I guess that's technically hip-hop.

Well, in honor of mdma's "comming out", I thought I might share a pic too...



My dog and I last Christmas.

As individuals, we should have learned economic conservatism a LOOOOONG time ago, but government spending is what got us out of the last Depression, so on the federal level, bunkering down may NOT be what we want to do. Infustructure is a massive weak point of this country, and while this author trys to scare us away from the industry by saying it used to be "pork", it remains the most likely target of terrorists, from both home and abroad.

And to combat his point, most states took care of their own bridges and roads and infustructure projects with their own budgets, but now the states are running drastically low on capital and need the feds to infuse their projects with money. So yeah, on the federal level, infustructure projects ARE considered pork, but if states can't pay for it anymore, isn't it the responsibility of the union to intervene?

In fact, it seems monumentally irresponsible to not care that states can't pay for their own projects. So no matter how you feel about the auto or bank bailout... a STATE bailout seems almost essential.

You may like this author, Reaganite, and you may say he "hits it out of the park"... but I guess even foul balls find their way off the field, too, sometimes...

I guess we can't wait for an actual, full-fledged investigation to take place before we go accusing everyone in the same party of the same thing?

Look, I may have voted for Obama, but if he's in any way involved I want him tried for it. So while I may detest the Republicans that pile in like a pack of eager lemmings, I can't get around the proximity that Obama had to these people. I await the investigation, but these knee jerk reactions from either side, blindly accusing and excusing the people on their bench is going to quickly diminish the importance of what's going on.

From what I've read, Obama seems to be far and away from the actual corruption of trying to sell his vacant Senate seat... but, at the risk of sounding like Sean Hannity (not my intention)... there are an uncomfortable number of connections between Obama and otherwise dishonorable characters.

Rezko's name has come up. Again. A lot.

I'm not making accusations, and while Irwin will probably jump on like I just punched his mom, I would like to wait till the investigation uncovers FACTS before we attack and defend the people involved.

But that's just me.

There is no such thing as an unbiased source.

An individual's duty is to look around, even with people they may not entirely agree with, so as to see all aspects of an issue.

For the "better" or "worse" remains to be seen.

That can't be overstressed.

Since they chair the committees, Democrats essentially decide what Congress decides to vote on.

However you feel on the issue is irrelevant, but the fact that Democrats refused a vote on lifting the drilling ban is a perfectly good example of how much control they really do have. Again, how you feel about the issue of drilling is irrelevant - the fact that Democratic committees wouldn't let it be voted on allows them to push an agenda.

Iraq is really the only thing Lieberman diverges from the Democrats on.

If nothing else, he's left of center...

I missed the game, but my room mate's a Giants fan :evil grin: ...

I still have no faith in McNab, though. I used to like him... but we can't have a QB that only likes to play when he wants to. Glad to see Westbrook back, though.