Bhutto Assasination: Why and What it Means

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Friday December 28, 2007 · 7:09 AM PST

2007/12/28 · 07:09

There are a lot of people to blame with this. Al Queda, Taliban, Musharraf, Bush. It's early, but let's try to sort it out.

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Monday November 19, 2007 · 7:05 PM PST

2007/11/19 · 19:05

I'm a little confused about defense appropriations. Strangely enough, it seems that some, if not all, of these programs deserve some scrutiny. And, PLEASE, someone post something about relative domestic spending compared to the F-35 and others.

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Sunday November 11, 2007 · 4:35 PM PST

2007/11/11 · 16:35

I've been giving this issue a lot of thought since the 2000 presidential election and I'm curious about what others think of the possibility of either eliminating or altering the Electoral College.

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 6:30 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 18:30

Perhaps I'm just at the end of my rope as far as this new two-year campaign for the presidency goes. I'm just burned out listening to tiny people with tiny minds talking about important issues. So here's something for those of us history buffs that would rather debate whether Aaron or Bonds is better. (And, as far as I know, George W. Bush has never taken steroids.)

I've put at least dubya-esque thought into this so don't make too much fun of me. And if you believe Taft is ranked too low, you are probably right. COMMENTS?

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Sunday October 21, 2007 · 4:40 PM PDT

2007/10/21 · 16:40

I've been rewatching recent interviews on various talk shows with the Clintons and they both express the need for ex-presidents to travel the world and convince everyone the U.S. will no longer conduct "cowboy diplomacy" and actually listen to foreign leaders about their concerns and the concerns of the people that live in their respective countries. OK, sounds good to me, but where do we sent Dubya?

I have a few ideas but I thought it would be more fun to get opinions from you guys.

I Love the Smell of Congressional Incompetence: Smells Like Turkey

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Tuesday October 16, 2007 · 5:23 PM PDT

2007/10/16 · 17:23

More than half of the cargo that goes into Iraq and Afghanistan goes through this base in Turkey. And 95 percent of the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protective vehicles go through this base. And Turkey will be so mad if this resolution passes that they may deny U.S. forces access to the base. Yet, it is more important to pass this resolution than to keep our troops as safe as possible in Iraq and Afghanistan by providing them the best staging point for operations all over the Middle East and alienate a critical ally in the region?

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Sunday October 14, 2007 · 5:07 PM PDT

2007/10/14 · 17:07

My dad (a conservative) is quite elderly, and the lights are only flickering. The 15-year-old babysitter I use for my 7-year-old daughter is a big fan of Colbert and, evidently, doesn't understand satire. I'm trying to teach my daughter comedy.

The thing these three have in common is they don't get it. Is this something we need to worry about?

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Friday October 12, 2007 · 4:57 PM PDT

2007/10/12 · 16:57

But why? Why is it impossible for someone who lives a moral, ethical, compassionate existence based solely on an intrinsic desire to do so rather than adherence to hopelessly antiquated messages in ancient texts that basically try to scare you into being good — children's tales that are so utterly transparent with their "reward/punishment" motif that my 7-year-old is beginning to question them?

It's a question I have trouble answering. The 60s and 70s seemed to be decades of social and societal rebirth on a myriad of topics: Civil rights, women's rights, government corruption, sexuality, pointless wars, etc. There seemed a real momentum in this country to take a more liberal, accepting look at people and the world. Everything I know about that era screams of future religious (or atheist) tolerance.

I just want to know why.

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Sunday October 07, 2007 · 12:57 PM PDT

2007/10/07 · 12:57

It would have been inconceivable to a reasonably intelligent adult in 1968 that the U.S. wouldn't AT LEAST have a permanent base on the moon in 2007. The technology was in place, the value of the resources to be gained (e.g. Helium 3) were obvious. Something has held our country back from what seemed like a slam dunk only a few decades ago.

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Friday October 05, 2007 · 4:40 PM PDT

2007/10/05 · 16:40

While it would be easy to blame our country's absurd incarceration rates on some mass public crusade against drug use, I'm a little more cynical. The so-called "War on Drugs" is big, unregulated business which has run absolutely amok due to the greed of people who profit from it, not unlike many of the players in our healthcare industry.

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