Math is hard?
noblejoanie |
11.17.07 - 11:22 am | #
According to my math, that means they got the story 99.9% wrong.
glenintexas |
11.17.07 - 11:23 am | #
OT: Boiling it down it means many 'New' Labour types have no natural sympathy for liberal or libertarian ideas and this means that their natural reflex is to command and control, to democratically centralize is the natural impulse.
Moonbootica, Heterodox |
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11.17.07 - 11:23 am | #
I keep coming on to this site right after Atrios adds a post. I must be in psychic communion with the Blue Devil.
can you imagine how many eyes and sets of hands had to read that before it got into print?
what were they all doing? thinking?
I am more worried about their conclusions and what, not paying attention to details, such as here, means for what they support and oppose.
very sloppy.
peterboy |
11.17.07 - 11:25 am | #
Maybe the NYT is correct. Maybe we are leveraging the war funding now.
GP |
11.17.07 - 11:25 am | #
Yes, NTodd, you whippersnapper you, but did Hillary?
noblejoanie |
11.17.07 - 11:28 am | #
OT: Two Canadian soldiers of the Nato-led force in Afghanistan have been killed by a roadside bomb in the south of the country, military officials say.
An interpreter was also killed in the incident while three other soldiers were wounded.
More than 200 soldiers of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) have been killed in 2007.
Meanwhile, US and police forces claimed to have killed scores of insurgents in clashes across southern Afghanistan.
That says a lot about a person.
Stinky |
11.17.07 - 11:29 am | #
But it takes 30 years to count to a billion.
apeman |
11.17.07 - 11:30 am | #
You got that right. I could really give a rat's asshole with mayonaise about the $600 million in domestic gross.
Well, as I tell my kids, words have meanings. When talking about movies, flop, without any modifiers -- like "artistic flop" -- means it failed at the box office, which Titanic, for all its suckiness and stupidity, didn't.
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
11.17.07 - 11:30 am | #
Yes, NTodd, you whippersnapper you, but did Hillary?
We speculated about which album she preferred. Olex thought it would be 1999, but I went for Lovesexy.
NTodd, On On WANDERSEXXX! |
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11.17.07 - 11:32 am | #
/Makes tent out of blankets and TV table, grabs cereal bowl
noblejoanie |
11.17.07 - 11:34 am | #
i know I ended up watching it with my Qatari friend when I was in Egypt, she liked the costumes.
Moonbootica, Heterodox |
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11.17.07 - 11:34 am | #
Bill O'Really said that Revelations "was written . . . what? Five thousand years ago."
Like Bush, Cheney, and Gonzalez - only 3 more zeros.
ignoreland |
11.17.07 - 11:35 am | #
BTW, I know I mentioned these guys were gonna play "Alice's Restaurant" at noon (PST) on Thanksgiving Day, but now I find out these guys are also playing it - at 6 am, 12 noon, and 6 pm (PST).
Only if you do it 1 number per second. And it's actually almost 32 years.
Let me verify that: 1, 2, 3, 4.....
I'll be back later.
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
11.17.07 - 11:35 am | #
My annual eye examination is this time of year - I bet it's just the same for the Times editors.
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11.17.07 - 11:35 am | #
i've softened up on Titanic, I used to really loathe it
More than 200 soldiers of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) have been killed in 2007.
216. Breaking 2006's record of 191, which shattered 2005's record of 130. Last year the diff was 3x non-US deaths. This year, about 10% more US and non-US deaths.
It's a lovely fucking war.
NTodd, On On WANDERSEXXX! |
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11.17.07 - 11:36 am | #
I can count to 8 or 9 in 1 second, so I could be done counting to a billion in about 3.5 years.
NTodd, On On WANDERSEXXX! |
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11.17.07 - 11:37 am | #
Bill O'Really said that Revelations "was written . . . what? Five thousand years ago."
He's as much a student of Christianity as Dog Burner is...
NTodd, On On WANDERSEXXX! |
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11.17.07 - 11:38 am | #
Pot or booze...........or both.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
11.17.07 - 11:38 am | #
After 60 years of marriage, survivors generally have only memories and family photographs of their wedding day. But when you are the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, whose anniversary is on Tuesday, not only will there be a service at Westminster Abbey - at which the sermon will be preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who wasn't even born when the wedding took place - but the National Archive has also been thrown open to disclose all the details of the day.
(snip) They also disclose the horror of Queen Mary, the widow of George V, when the palace received a lace tray cover, woven by Mahatma Gandhi himself as a wedding present for the royal couple, because she thought it was his loincloth.
The book says that the government gave the couple the standard extra 200 clothing coupons, allowed to all brides, but that they were also inundated with coupons sent by women from all over the country - all sent back because passing on coupons was illegal. Among gifts from abroad were 131 pairs of nylons and 500 cases of tinned pineapples from the governor of Queensland. The New York Institute of Dress Designers sent 25 dresses as a gift, 20 of which were given to other brides getting married at the same time.
216. Breaking 2006's record of 191, which shattered 2005's record of 130. Last year the diff was 3x non-US deaths. This year, about 10% more US and non-US deaths.
Yeah, but the surge "changed everything."
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
11.17.07 - 11:40 am | #
I can count to 8 or 9 in 1 second, so I could be done counting to a billion in about 3.5 years.
Sure in the early stuff. But how fast can you say 438,767,754?
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
11.17.07 - 11:40 am | #
There is no "s" in Revelation.
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 11:41 am | #
Damn. I owe lipreader a beverage!
Toonscribe: Cartoon Liberal |
11.17.07 - 11:41 am | #
The US justice department is investigating the soaring building costs for a huge American embassy in Baghdad. Postponing its scheduled opening last month, the state department said it didn't "have an answer" as to when it would be finished.
The embassy was supposed to have opened by now but has suffered from repeated postponements because work has either been judged to be below standard or because of design changes.
The original budget for the embassy, the biggest US one in the world, was $592m (£296m) but this has jumped by a further $144m.
The new justice department investigation was disclosed in a report prepared for a Congressional hearing on Wednesday. The report revealed that, in addition to two other investigations related to Iraq, the justice department is looking into state department officials involved with the embassy.
The state department announced last month the opening would have to be delayed indefinitely while the contractor, based in Kuwait, dealt with a series of problems.
Toonscribe owes me a billion cokes.
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 11:41 am | #
Sure in the early stuff. But how fast can you say 438,767,754?
I'll start counting in Base10k.
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11.17.07 - 11:42 am | #
The original budget for the embassy, the biggest US one in the world, was $592m (£296m) but this has jumped by a further $144m.
A hundred million here, a hundred million there, pretty soon we're talking real money
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11.17.07 - 11:42 am | #
Conservative groups have reacted angrily to an official report showing that divorce rates in Spain have soared since a new law was introduced by the Socialist government in 2005.
According to the National Institute of Statistics, 126,952 divorces were registered in 2006, a 74.3% increase on the previous year. The sharpest rise was seen in divorces between those who had been married for less than a year: 945 were registered in 2006, up 330.6%.
[runs downstairs for first cup of coffee]
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11.17.07 - 11:43 am | #
Conservative groups have reacted angrily to an official report showing that divorce rates in Spain have soared since a new law was introduced by the Socialist government in 2005.
They need to relax. Same thing happened in the states, around about '65-70. People who'd been trying to get divorced for years and years, finally were able to. Huge spike.
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11.17.07 - 11:44 am | #
glances out window at spouse busily working in yard. Sips third cup of coffee
noblejoanie
Nothing pisses me off more than someone working hard when I want to be lazy.
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 11:44 am | #
We either rake the leaves or shovel them out of the wind tunnel that is our city driveway after the first heavy snow. It's much easier to rake 'em.
noblejoanie |
11.17.07 - 11:45 am | #
There is no "s" in Revelation.
Yes, but O'Really doesn't know that.
Snow, Liberal |
11.17.07 - 11:45 am | #
Genomsnittslönen för läkare på drygt 55 000 kronor i månaden ser hög ut jämfört med många andra yrkesgrupper. Men statistiken ger en felaktig bild hävdar Joel Bäck som är klar med sin läkarutbildning och nu gör allmäntjänstgöring under två år.
The average salary for a doctor at about 55,000 (Swedish) crowns a month seems high compared with other professions, but the stats paint an inaccurate picture relates Joel Back who has finished his medical school studies and now is doing a two year residency.
— Jag har en månadslön på 22 500 kronor trots att jag har ansvar för svårt sjuka patienter. Folk tror inte det är sant när man berättar det. Hantverkare man anlitar tjänar ju bra mycket mer, säger Joel Bäck.
I have a 22,500 crown monthly salary despite having rsponsibility for severely ill patients. People don't believe it when you say it. A handy man usually earns a bit more, says Back.
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11.17.07 - 11:45 am | #
There is no "s" in Revelation.
Yes, but O'Really doesn't know that.
Snow, Liberal
We should save time and discuss what he does know.
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 11:46 am | #
oh, dear, I find this disturbing.
From memeorandum:
Costume flap imperils immigration post
— WASHINGTON - Just when it appeared Julie Myers had cleared every
hurdle in her quest to officially become the nation's top immigration
official, a dreadlocked wig and a prisoner's outfit could cost her the
job. — Myers, director of Immigration …
Link Search: Ask, Technorati, Sphere, Google, and IceRocket
"the democrats are going to approve fifty doll... i mean, fifty million ... no, wait fifty billion dollars. yeah, billions. that's the ticket."
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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11.17.07 - 11:46 am | #
Coming up next on the 10@10 Marathon: "Great Clapping Songs."
I didn't know they wrote that many songs about syphillis.
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11.17.07 - 11:46 am | #
DHAKA (Reuters) - Military ships and helicopters were trying on Saturday to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed more than 1,600 people and pummeled impoverished Bangladesh with mighty winds and waves.
Cyclone Sidr smashed into the country's southern coastline late on Thursday night with 250 kph (155 mph) winds that whipped up a five meter tidal surge. It was the strongest cyclone since a 1991 storm that killed some 143,000 people in Bangladesh.
Navy ships scoured coastal areas for hundreds of people reported missing and sought to clear river channels clogged with sunken vessels to restore normal navigation, officials said.
Helicopters flew sorties to devastated areas, dropping food, drinking water and medicine for the survivors.
"We are here to help you. You help us by allowing a safe landing and keeping a safe distance," the pilot of a helicopter warned people in Mathbaria, Barisal district, as they thronged towards his craft, television pictures showed.
The official death toll rose to 1,595 late on Saturday and disaster ministry officials said it was likely to rise further. Private television channels said the death toll had already crossed 2,000.
Buzzy Krongard resigned today from Blackwater's advisory board.
Richard |
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11.17.07 - 11:47 am | #
What really got me riled during the debate was wolfie's insistence that the debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with the implication being that safety was the correct answer. What a fucking nazi.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
11.17.07 - 11:47 am | #
watertiger and michelle, sitting in a tree, K-I....
Moe Szyslak |
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11.17.07 - 11:48 am | #
Um....
Congrats watertiger on the yahoo link?
Expect a lot of crazy company.
HoneyBearKelly |
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11.17.07 - 11:48 am | #
"Senator Lieberman regrets her lapse in judgment regarding the Halloween incident," spokeswoman Leslie Phillips said. "He is inclined to support her nomination, given the committee's review of her entire record, the fact that the union representing 7000 ICE employees supports her and her year's experience in office."
Had dKos existed in 2000, I suspect it would have had the same level of hate for Al Gore as it does now for Hillary.
nair dwell |
11.17.07 - 11:50 am | #
That'd be enough to make me click that MM link.
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11.17.07 - 11:50 am | #
What really got me riled during the debate was wolfie's insistence that
the debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with
the implication being that safety was the correct answer. What a
fucking nazi.
Refer to Benjamin Franklin.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
11.17.07 - 11:50 am | #
What really got me riled during the debate was wolfie's insistence that the debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with the implication being that safety was the correct answer. What a fucking nazi.
Yeah.
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11.17.07 - 11:51 am | #
watertiger and michelle, sitting in a tree, K-I....
C-K-I-N-G...
Drat! I was going there.
First come gloves.
Then come chairs.
Then come Malkin in a coffin carriage.
Snow, Liberal |
11.17.07 - 11:51 am | #
I esp. liked this from one of Magalangadingdong's lapdogs:
Whoa! I am no fan of hers but, she does need to have a personal life - geez. Before we take her life away and make it a 24/7 job, lets work on the biggest problem with the biggest do-nothing congress evah.
I didn't know they wrote that many songs about syphillis.
Tertiary syphilis appears to be the malady of choice afflicting this regime.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
11.17.07 - 11:51 am | #
Had dKos existed in 2000, I suspect it would have had the same level of hate for Al Gore as it does now for Hillary.
Had dKos existed in 2000, Gore would have won.
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11.17.07 - 11:51 am | #
Morning, all.
Steve's movie reviews:
MR MAGORIUM'S MAGIC EMPORIUM.
Okay, the Kenosha Kid's right -- Natalie Portman is very attractive.
Nice cameo by Kermit the Frog. Can't remember anything else about it.
BEOWULF.
Grendel looks like a leprous Rondo Hatton. Everybody else, including the CGI Angelina, looks hydrocephalic.
Not quite as loopy as 300, but close.
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11.17.07 - 11:52 am | #
debaters should choose between "safety" and "civil liberties," with the implication being that safety was the correct answer.
give me liberty or ... oh, fuck it. just keep the boogeyman away.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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11.17.07 - 11:52 am | #
Tertiary syphilis appears to be the malady of choice afflicting this regime.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
"Clap Three Times"
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 11:52 am | #
I have finally decided.
The Hulk can beat Superman, simply because, Supes is too principled to kill Hulk immediately, and the madder Hulk gets, the stronger he gets, so he'd eventually beat the hell out of him.
Just thought you'd all like to know.
Duane V |
11.17.07 - 11:53 am | #
We're currently at 10 to the 6th power. I'm waiting for 10 to the 9th.
I'm waiting for the US national debt to be measured in moles (6.022×10 to the power 23).
Richard |
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11.17.07 - 11:53 am | #
MADRID.- El secretario general del PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, abrió el Comité Federal de su partido advirtiendo a sus dirigentes de que las elecciones no están ganadas. "Estamos bien, pero las elecciones no están decididas. Hay que sudar la camiseta como la mayoría de nuestros votantes la sudan en sus trabajos".
Madrid-The secretary general of the socialist party, Zapatero, opened the federal committee of his party telling his lieutenants that the election has not yet been won. "We are okay, but the elections have not yet been won. We need to get our shirts sweaty like the majority of voters sweat in their jobs.
The copy editing of the Times began to decline years ago with the advent of spell[ing] checkers, adding greatly to the loss of their dignity otherwise due to lousy reporting and editing and general dumbing down.
tracy |
11.17.07 - 11:57 am | #
Also the Austin Dog Burner(TM)
Nah. He's got mad cow.
Richard |
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11.17.07 - 11:57 am | #
Oh sweet mystery of life at last I found yooooooouuuu.....
Makes me rethink "Clap For the Wolfman"...
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 11:58 am | #
Let's see:
$1,000,000.00 = 1 Million
$1,000,000,000.00 = 1 Billion
$1,000,000,000,000.00 = 1 Trillion
I think that's right.
Lime Rickey |
11.17.07 - 11:58 am | #
how long would it take to count all the real numbers between 0 and 1,000,000,000?
long time prolly.
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11.17.07 - 11:59 am | #
"I actually used to work at a comic book shop where these sort of arguments went on for days..."
I loved that scene in Stand By Me where they are arguing who would win - Mighty Mouse or Superman.
Vern: You think Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman?
Teddy: What are you, cracked?
Vern: No, I saw him on TV the other day, he was holding five elephants in one hand.
Teddy: Boy, you don't know nothing. Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman's a real guy. There's no way a cartoon could beat up a real guy.
Vern: I guess you're right. It'd be a good fight though.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
11.17.07 - 11:59 am | #
We have actual copy editors at my place of work.
Moe Szyslak |
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11.17.07 - 11:59 am | #
euphronius, I tried it once as a little girl.
I got tired.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
11.17.07 - 11:59 am | #
my tree version of the NYT says "billion"
euphronius |
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11.17.07 - 12:00 pm | #
Spell checkers have increased the victims of lightening a billion fold.
lipreader |
11.17.07 - 12:00 pm | #
Terrorists are the least of my worries right now.
Economic destruction plays a far more prominent role.
Sallyh,
I believe that was a stated goal of OBL.
1Watt, Hermit |
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11.17.07 - 12:00 pm | #
Except in Britain, a billion is a million million, what we call a trillion.
Moe Szyslak |
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11.17.07 - 12:00 pm | #
The next Hulk film will wipe the floor with that last dreary Superman film.
Duane V | 11.17.07 - 11:57 am | #
please, dog, don't let them make another one!
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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11.17.07 - 12:00 pm | #
I think that's right.
Well, if you're British, a billion is what we call a trillion.
British billion = a million million.
American billion = a thousand million.
Richard |
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11.17.07 - 12:01 pm | #
1Watt, OBL didn't have to even lift a finger on that one. Bush is doing a bang up job all by himself.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
11.17.07 - 12:01 pm | #
Or something like that:
1,000,000,000 is a billion in North American, but is a thousand million in Britain.
1,000,000,000,000 is a trillion in North America, but a billion in Britain.
...there's been a growing list of incidents perpetrated on attractions at Disneyland that are not only illegal but that are increasingly, well... let's just say disturbing.
The big problem isn't graffiti or hot-to-trot teens in a back row, it's park visitors smuggling in the cremated remains of their loved ones and then spreading the ashes inside a favorite attraction. The Haunted Mansion is by far the most popular location for this, but you'd be surprised where else people are dumping cremated remains at Disneyland.
The craze seems to have gotten its start at the Haunted Mansion, with the earliest known incident taking place in the late 1990's. Ever since then the practice becomes more popular by the year, and it happens so frequently now that Disneyland has trained the ride operators how to handle such an incident and what to do when remains are discovered inside the attraction. Sometimes the person spreading the ashes is seen on the surveillance cameras and the Cast Members can respond quickly.
Because they have been instructed by the Security and Legal departments to never actually detain a park visitor, most of the perpetrators spreading the ashes are never actually caught however, and they disappear into the park. But when a Haunted Mansion Cast Member sees ashes being spread from a passing Doom Buggy, the attraction is cycled out and shut down for hours at a time while the Custodial department comes in and begins the clean up. The Anaheim Police are also involved in the incident, but there's rarely anything they can do about it either.
Sometimes however the cremated ashes aren't found until the end of the night when the Cast Members close down the rides and walk the tracks looking for lost and found. Just last month that situation occurred when a Cast Member at the Haunted Mansion found several piles and a trail of ashes alongside the ride track. The Anaheim Police and Disneyland Security were summoned, and judging by the large amount of ashes this deposit was likely a small group of deceased people, or perhaps a very large married couple. The police identified the substance as human remains, and the custodial crew came in for the clean up.
We can barely imagine the number and depth of dirty tricks in every state in the nation during both the '00 and '02 elections.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
11.17.07 - 12:04 pm | #
if i remember correctly in 2004 everyone just kind of assumed the CIA was putting out tapes to help bush win.
euphronius |
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11.17.07 - 12:06 pm | #
Geez, we're reading each others minds on this thread.
Richard |
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11.17.07 - 12:06 pm | #
dirk, in your case, Swedish Bikini Team issue.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
11.17.07 - 12:07 pm | #
I'm gonna take a nap so I'll be at full strength for this evening's drinking.
Moe Szyslak |
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11.17.07 - 12:07 pm | #
We can barely imagine the number and depth of dirty tricks in every state in the nation during both the '00 and '02 elections.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich | 11.17.07 - 12:04 pm | #
we don't have to image. most of it is well documented.
we only have to look.
dirk gently, sociopathetic |
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11.17.07 - 12:07 pm | #
aiiight, while I could listen to Click and Clack all day, Jonathan Schwartz's voice gets on my last nerve.
Thanks Dave. Can we use all those words for black people when discussing Judge Thomas?
Just checking on proper form.
rootless-e |
11.17.07 - 12:09 pm | #
The big problem isn't graffiti or hot-to-trot teens in a back row, it's park visitors smuggling in the cremated remains of their loved ones and then spreading the ashes inside a favorite attraction.
Put my ashes in Minnie's thong panties.
Lime Rickey |
11.17.07 - 12:10 pm | #
ta = typical american.
dirk gently, sociopathetic
I have it on good confidence that NTodd is an Atypical American.
And Toonscribe, that Hulk film is almost finished and in the can, man!
Duane V |
11.17.07 - 12:17 pm | #
Whether the Democrat bill said $50MM or $50B is irrelevant. It mandated troop withdrawals just as our troops are pressing the advantage against the agents of Osama bin Laden in Iraq.
We're killing more Middle East terrorists, at a lower cost to our brave soldiers, than at any other time in the history of the War on Terror. In fact, troop losses are lower than several years during the past four administrations when America was *not* at war.
This has been an amazing, remarkable achievement for the U.S. military. Once the partisans depart the political field, military historians will correct the record, and Democrats will be viewed as acting shamefully against American interests for cheap political victories.
apetra |
11.17.07 - 12:30 pm | #
"math is hard"-beltway bumpkins
jr |
11.17.07 - 12:53 pm | #
Maybe people were finally beginning to count the zeroes and comparing those social programs which will make us paupers with the War On Iraq, which will make us rich.
So they descend to direct obfuscation, if that's the word I want.
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