Jim

What?

I work out in the outback pretty regularly and never carry a rife. So I'm curious - why do you feel you need the handgun?

The only applicable quote this dialog inspires is: "Childern would rather be praised than punished but would rather be punished than ignored."

I personally have a lot of faith in Congress these days. Jeesh.

Lunacy is expecting a differnt outcome from the same pathetic bunch. But I guess you can do that with a beer, a hot dog, and a seat in the sun on the third baseline.

Right, but the Democratic party leadership, including Obama, knew most of that before they voted for it. No? True dat! Don't these people friggin understand what they are voting for? WTF.

Frikin' Bushies. Because they went at this half heart sos not to disturb the "market forces" too much, the banks are holding back. Meanwhile across the pond the UK mandated how banks had to start lending with the taxpayer's cash and eliminated divedend payments to investors until the loans are paid back. WTF - Bushies could even get the solution to their screw up right. What a mess at the doorstep. A lot of work to do for Obama. Don't let the door hit you on the way out you Idiot.

(CNN) — As his Senate career nears its end, Republican Chuck Hagel isn't holding back when it comes to criticizing members of his own party — including conservative talk radio hosts. "We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh," Hagel said Tuesday during a speech in Washington, according to the Huffington Post. "You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office," a sarcastic Hagel continued. "They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they have an answer for everything. And they would be elected overwhelmingly. [The truth is] they try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody but they don't have any answers." Hagel has increasingly become critical of his party in the aftermath of the Iraq War and notably held back endorsing his longtime friend John McCain during the presidential campaign. He's reportedly under consideration for a cabinet post in the Obama administration. Speaking at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Hagel also faulted Washington lawmakers for "raw, partisan, political paralysis." "The American people don't like what is going on… they want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do, address the problems, find some consensus to governing. Get along. There will be disagreements, sure… but in the end we can't hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis."

A couple of primary differences in the way the pro-market Bushies have handled the bail out funds compared to the Brits: 1) The Brits wrote in specific rules on how the new capital would have to be dispersed into the credit markets. We did no such thing and are now begging the banks to loan more money. 2) The Brits stipulated that institutions that took bailout money could not pay dividends to their shareholders until the loans were paid back to the government. We did not include these sidebars and last week banks that received loans paid their shareholders the normal dividends, which add up to hundreds of millions. Hey taxpayers, thanks!

Talk about stink. According to the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, President George W. Bush faces the lowest approval ratings of any American president since the survey was introduced more than 60 years ago. CNN polling director Keating Holland said, “No other president’s disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year.” President Bush is now more unpopular than President Richard Nixon was when he resigned after the Watergate scandal, Holland elaborated.

I'm not in favor of proping up another failing business and one that refused to look forward, innovate, and plan. While the Japanese and European firms were building better and more efficient cars GM was obsessed with the short-term greed of pumping out SUVs. You snooze you lose. Just last year the head of GM was quoted as saying that the Toyota Hybrid was a stupid idea and that global warming was a crock. These guys just got $25 million in loans to retool last year. So what - we have to pay these guys to innovate? WTF. And while GM is whinning about their costs for health care coverage compared to Europe and Japan, when there was a modest move to make progress on this front in Clinton administration they were up front arguing aganist it. Whatever. Part of the problem is some of the long-term contract they have to deal with, but the larger issue is the crap they have been making over the past 20 years and lack of business insight.

It wasn't so much the comment itself as the fact he had just finished talking about the "new tone" his administration was going to set. As for his ability to articulate, you obviously didn't hear the press conference. His endless stammering and inability to produce words without annoying pause is striking. No big deal really, but please don't use it to describe a virtue that clearly does not exist. Oh Jesus - and you never complained about the Idiot's lack of verbal skills!!!! It's great to have an intelligent person as a president and someone who will not embarass us futher on the world stage.

Remember Nancy's drug program - "Just Say No". It was so successful that after she left D.C. she started a homeless program - their slogan - "Just Get A House"

The Blackwater issue is related to the whole Haliburton mess. Cheney and Rummy wanted to decrease standing forece strength and use contractors, their old buddies. So now we have contractors running supply lines, cooking, cleaning, security, transportation, etc. These are postions that used to be done effectively and much cheaper than by contractors. The big bottom line of course is that you do not have to have a draft to fill all the military needs for fighting a war. Just pour money at the "problem" and pay the soldiers of fortune 10 times what the common grunt earns. And everyone back home can still go shopping and kinda forget about the messy end of things. No need to sacrifice

A good thing. Sutherland was not a good steward of our lands.

W Churchill Hey - I just want to know when and where you will pay up on our presidental election bet and buy me pub grub and a beer? Next pub club?

When is Peter Puget buying me that beer and dinner? Landslide!!! Gregoire just called for the gov. I really did not want a gov named after a pet dinosaur.

Just got this: Monday 3 Wildlife Science Seminar Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Elwha River Dam Removal Brian Winter Elwha Restoration Project National Park Service 3:30 p.m. Smith Hall Room 120 UW Seattle campus

Where in Iraq did you get this information? 'Cause I have a little experience with the place. I think the distinction needs to be made about who is screwing up. With some exceptions, it's not the poor troops on the ground. They are doing what they are asked to do within the best of their abilities and with limited resources. The overall strategy is what is screwed up. We now have two failed states, Iraq and Afganistan - with another more serious one teetering on failing - Pakistan. Had we gone into Afghanistan and got Bin Laden and crushed the Taliban, and actually rebuild the country as we promised. Things would look quite different. We have less than 25% of the troops that we have in Iraq in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan is much larger, more remote, and harder to defend. Because of the build up of the Taliban in the Pakistan Tribal Lands they are now strong enough to threaten Islamabad. Don't forget that Pakistan has nukes. So with all this work, all done at the direction of the Idiot, doesn't qualify for the top 5 foreign policy blunders ever you can move to the domestic front for more bliss: No energy policy when we needed it Systematic gutting of environmental policy Placement of political hacks in important policy positions in Justice, Interior, Energy, etc departments. World vision - he we're the clowns now. Slack regulations as a mantra - excellent results in financial and economic front A huge budget hole that has left us unable to attack real issues - infrastructure, health care, energy independence. Torture, illegal wiretaps on public, signing statements king Really - this could go on a while.

Slowly. Now scheduled for 2012, at the earliest due to some related water-project work. Given the budget issues I would not bet on that date.

The worst: that's like shooting fish in a barrel. The Idiot has pegged the needle on disasters. No need to go into the gory details, they have pretty much been documented. It looks like Obama will win the White House. He has a hard job ahead of him. Carter: he was ok, the Iran thing really took over his last year. He made some very good progress on the humanatarian front, the Israel/Egypt pact, and actually started a good energy independence program. Reagan pulled the plug on that pretty fast. Oh yea - Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

Agreed. More news-o-tainment for the masses.

The rhetoric will become more shrill as the inevitable draws closer.

Looks like she's looking after #1 instead of the old guy. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html

WTF are the gun nuts so sacred of anyway? Mother-killers and Father-rapers?