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The United States didn't enter WWI until a full two years after a German U-Boat sank the Lusitania - so badly did Wilson want to stay out of it. I'm not sure how your attempt to imply historical context works in this case. Are you sure you're not thinking of the destruction of The USS Maine as a pretext for the Spanish/American War? eh? they called it Wilson's War for a reason

Number One:

The United States didn't enter WWI until a full two years after a German U-Boat sank the Lusitania - so badly did Wilson want to stay out of it. I'm not sure how your attempt to imply historical context works in this case. Are you sure you're not thinking of the destruction of The USS Maine as a pretext for the Spanish/American War?

Led Zep gets a couple of nods, but my favorite JP guitar is the acoustic start of "Over The Hills and Far Away" - I swear he's picking and playing the chords simultaneously.

Don't you understand, Damnit! We shouldn't have to!!!!

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover is number 17. Should be number one, but I'm glad at least that it's on the list.

The United States has never renounced nuclear first-strike, and neither have the Russians/Soviets. What's Bush got to do with it? - aside from your myopic hatred.

I don't need to expose anything. You brag about yourself here endlessly. I don't care to venture beyond the walls of this site in my effort to help you temper your own ego - everything I know about you comes from your endless drivel here or links you have provided at various times to it. I simply choose to dismiss most of it as bullshit. Especially since you seem most inclined to break out your fantasy resume when you're trying to beat your own chest about a related topic. Everything I have posted here about you has been in-kind and well earned. I would also point out that I have repeatedly tried to ignore you only to have you inject some photoshopped picture of a penis or an insult my intellect. Frankly, you seem happiest when you are able to perceive yourself as physically and intellectually superior to everyone around you - and yes - it gets very annoying. Your Tiger Mountain challenge, honestly, made you look like a complete fool. Obsessed with Tvashtarketena? Um, no, not by any stretch of your imagination. But until you can produce the cards that demonstrate you to be the human being you claim to be, I'll keep calling your bluff.

I don't like people who attempt to bolster their premise with lies. Simple as that.

Clearly. I agree. You are still too deeply entrenched in you own Bushrage and political bias to carry on a reasonable conversation. Fortunately, you have Tvashtarketena to help you validate your world view.

Fuck you.

Funny how you always appear along with Tvash. I'm still not sure if you are one in the same, or you simply need to wipe his sterile dripping jizz off your chin.

You do understand anecdote versus empirical data? The parses that you chose to fish out of the story are all "might" and "could have", whereas the thesis paragraph(s) of the story contains hard data. I'll post it again in its entirety and unpicked: "A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore. A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court's order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court. Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations." You clearly claim in the earlier parts of this thread that Gore won the election of 2000, but there is NO unbiased data anywhere to support your contention. Since the Supreme Court essentially declared the election "over", the onus falls upon you and yours to validate your claims of a Gore victory. And you cannot.

I'm amazed you have time to spray in between "Would you like frys with that?" That's f-r-i-e-s, dude. Unfortunately, it looks like we have a more qualified applicant in mind for the drive through window, Hugh. Feel free to reapply when you've finished 4th grade.

Again, Matt, for your tired eyes: The studies indicate that Bush would have won any manner of recount. Now; you're trying to claim there was yet deeper fraud involved - I understand. But if that is your contention then you must take your argument to the national level and balance your "disenfranchisement" theory with opposite irregularities - like non-citizens, disenfranchised felons, deceased, duplicate, voters who did illegally vote in the 2000 election and likely lean Democrat. Are you suggesting that level of research should have been undertaken in all 50 states post-election?

Damn straight. Now go find some other dupe here to help jerk off your ego for you.

See top of page two. Lower down on page two, it spends time analizing different ways of counting "dimpled ballots" and incompete marks on optical scanned ballots. It states It then goes over some different standards for couting dimples, and in two of three scenarios, Gore wins. It then concludes: After this discussion, the author then discounts these results because nobody in the days immediately after the election requested a full and consistent recount: --- Your ball. You're picking out of mid sentence at times. From the NY Times article - one full year after the fact: " A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore. A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court's order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court. " Slam Dunk.

Funny. My father is a poll watcher too and regularly has to ask sign wavers - by his account exclusively WEA members and Democratic candidate campaigners - to remove themselves from the restricted space around the poll site.

Never heard of ACORN? You're kidding, right? In denial?

That's just scratchin' the surface, champ. There's a whole lotta more life experience fantasy you got goin' on in these pages.

I'm what is referred to in Pierce County as a super voter - that is, I have not missed an election or primary since age 18. (I'm now 45) My contention is that super-partisans - like you and I - should not be (edit: physically) monitoring polls on election day. I said nothing about "get out the vote" efforts. And lately, it seems that only organizations in support of the "D's" are having trouble following the rules ala ACORN. Do you have an affiliation with this group?

Did you read the article you cite here? If you actually read what it says, rather than just the headline, it is pretty ambiguous. The bottom line: a full and fair recount applying consistent standards would have yielded Gore thet winner. Holy shit! You're kidding. Yes, I read the articles thoroughly. Are you sure you're on the same planet here? I'd be interested to hear your reasoning. It's gotta be pretty convoluted.

Reading comprehension issues, junior?

Yea; whatever, boy wonder. Was this before, or after you: designed battery packs, studied the effects of nuclear detonations on navy vessels, became the chief technology officer of a major IT company, worked for the ACLU, were a legal scholar, soldier, studied entomology, wrote literary reviews, became a well-know speed climber, studied physics? Or was this all after your diagnosis?

You should not be allowed within 100 meters of a polling center on election day - except to cast your vote. (And neither should I.)