tvashtarkatena

I would like there to be no mean people.

This isn't news to anyone on this forum. As for our thoughts on FDR...how, exactly, can you be so sure of them? You seems to point out 'our' thoughts, as if 'we' all think the same thing, a fair amount, without ever actually asking what they are. About 90% of your posts consist of such assumptions. It's tiresome.

The Future is Drying Up (NYT) Sounds expensive.

bump. In good shape. Phinney ridge Seattle.

1" (not Olympic) hole size. Looking for 10 lbs and heavier. Already have everything else.

Aye wan you to meet my lil fren....

Pakistan in the NYT

You wanna play some fuckin games?

Pressure drop

BM sent.

"Groovy...."

Wannaballism

If there had been some traumatic brain injury, some lack of oxygen at birth, fetal-daddy-got-jiggy-witta-bonobo syndrome, something, anything, to explain why this rubber necker still stands at the side of the road, barking at the spot from which accident has long been cleared away.

My new religion requires me to make amends to those I've trespassed against, so here goes.... KKK: you're the smartest Phi Beta Kappa I know. And I don't really refer to you as my sweet little monkey. Serenity: nice pecs. JayB: If you move back to Phinney ridge, you can have my two dogs as a housewarming present. Muffy: you can car-ca-carpool with me anytime. Seahawk....seahawk.... Ah, fuck it. Bring on the firey lake, bitch.

Do you guys like space art?

Hadaball Lector

"You can't hug a child with newly chewed arms"

But, but...free beer...naked, dancing.... I live on a city lot and I've got about all the space I'm willing to take care of, sometimes too much. My basement is virtually sound proof, so that takes care of the screaming issue.

Who is pretending? I know I am not…..nor is his approval rating….. I suppose you can pretend that he is a good president…… Kevbone...IMO, rejecting the demonization of a president and calling BS on claims that he's chiefly to blame for all the worlds problems is very different from pretending he's a good president. I'm not a huge fan to be honest, but I think it's not only unproductive but downright dangerous to blame him for everything that he's being blamed for. In doing so, we fail to ask honest questions that get to the root causes, and basically delay any real action for 2 to 3 years when we see that the problems persist despite who's in the oval office. It's the same issue I have with Gun Control. I have no desire to have a handgun, and I see the danger in dipshits owning one, but I also don't think that they are to blame for the upsurge of violence in this country. Perhaps we can spend another 10 year working on legislation to ban handguns....I don't think we'd see a big impact on violent crime....and then we'd realized that we've wasted 20 years failing to address the real root cause....poverty, absent fathers, glorification of violence in movies/TV/video games, etc..... Another clarification: There's been a drop in violent crime in this country over the past decade or more, which has only very recently turned around.

Oh, my little naive mooshy kooshy. I just wanna squeeze yer innocent lil' cheek for that one.

Read back, I answered the question.

I'm more of a brain eater, actually. monkey brains, perhaps? KKK's not a monkey, although I call him my sweet little monkey, sometimes.

My latter point was not a legal argument, it was a moral one.

By the way Congress just passed the Protect America Act of 2007, which allows the government to monitor, without a warrant, "communications concerning persons reasonably believed to be abroad". That is the standard, word for word. Talk to your brother in Cleveland about Osama bin Laden? You can be monitored. Text message your aunt who has a home in France and may be abroad? You can be monitored. Email your grandma in Ireland? You can be monitored. The law outlines no safeguards for what it does with this very private information, either. Fortunately, the law has a sunset clause, up in Feb 2008, but there are debates in Congress going on right now to make it permanent. Might be a good time to drop your Congressman a line. None of our's voted for this bill, BTW.

A little clarification: the Bill of Rights and Constitution apply to any PERSON on American soil, not just Americans. And torture has everthing to do with the Bill of Rights, because they enumerate and codify our basic values for ourselves and the rest of the world. They are our shared, official definition of the 'freedom' we speak about so much.