Open Thread

26 Comments

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   Second Nature on March 23, 2006 at 8:37 pm

   God, they’re ugly and desperate.  “Stunted morality” of the Christian “peacekeepers?”……WTF?

   I guess real Christian morality involves kissing the flag while blowing up people in distant lands…your country, right or wrong.  Yeah, Jesus would love that.

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     Street Kid on March 23, 2006 at 8:39 pm

     See that I’m not the only one in a mood!  Gonna see if I can find a really short, nasty article re:  Meidcare D(isaster)!!!

     (That should keep me out of trouble!!)

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   BrendaStewart on March 23, 2006 at 8:49 pm

   well, I am not a basketball fan; however memphis is leading Bradley 42-33 respectfully….As you know I am from Il. but live in TN.  I used to be around Bradley university a lot.  They are a good team too.  This is very unusal for the Tigers of Memphis to do this good..everyone is so excited for them at this point.

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     Second Nature on March 23, 2006 at 8:57 pm

     I’m from Cleveland but live in NC now, and I can tell you I am hoping that Duke loses big time.  I’ll root for your team instead.

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     skippybkroo on March 23, 2006 at 9:27 pm

     check out the screen shot i got of the pittsburgh v. bradley game last sunday.

     i don’t know if the scoring graphic arrangement was intentional or not, but i guess angelina jolie has march madness.

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   Street Kid on March 23, 2006 at 9:15 pm

   it caught my eye

   In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.

   The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present.

   And

   The administration is negotiating a second no-bid contract for a Philippine company to install radiation detectors in its home country, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. At dozens of other overseas ports, foreign governments are primarily responsible for scanning cargo.

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   Damnit Janet on March 23, 2006 at 9:19 pm

   basketball???

   HOCKEY!!!

   Damnit… Sharks are down by 3… against the Red Wings- and boy are the boys in teal SUCKING!!! DAMN DAMN they act like spectators tonight.

   But… WHOOT hockey.. I love it. DAMN!!!

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   skippybkroo on March 23, 2006 at 9:27 pm

   who’ll be in vegas in june?  i will!

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     boran2 on March 23, 2006 at 9:32 pm

     See ya there!

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   refinish69 on March 23, 2006 at 9:27 pm

   I gave up on basketball when they got rid of the nuthugger uniforms. LOL

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     Second Nature on March 23, 2006 at 9:29 pm

     Nuthuggers, huh?  I’ll go for butthuggers, but the smuggling plums look doesn’t really do it for me.

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       refinish69 on March 23, 2006 at 9:37 pm

       Depends on the plums. LOL

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   americanforliberty on March 23, 2006 at 9:31 pm

   Malkin..what a vile person. If Iraq is such a safe place and if their were enough troops there would be no kidnappings.

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   esquimaux on March 23, 2006 at 10:13 pm

   I care! my team plays Saturday! (Stanford v. Oklahoma, women).

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   Cali Scribe on March 23, 2006 at 10:14 pm

   for WV — how can you not love a team with a guy named Pitsnogle? 😉

   The craveness of the Right knows no bounds, I’ve discovered…the only Christians they accept are those of the “Onward Christian Soldiers” variety. God, I still remember the words…

   Onward Christian Soldiers
   Marching as to war
   With the Cross of Jesus
   Going on before
   Christ the Royal Master
   Leads against the foe
   Forward into battle
   See his banners go
   Onward Christian Soldiers
   Marching as to war
   With the Cross of Jesus
   Going on before…

   The hymn was prominently featured in the Lutheran Hymnal of my childhood — thankfully it did not make it into the current Episcopal Hymnal that I can tell… 🙂

   (But interestingly enough, when you read the entire hymn, it has nothing to do with physical earthly battle, but rather battle against the forces of Satan. You can check out the entire hymn here,  along with hearing a piano version of the tune. And the tune was composed by Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame…never knew that…)

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    abarefootboy on March 23, 2006 at 10:23 pm

    ummm ummmm how’s about ..GO ZAGS … !!!!!!!!!!!

    YEAH .. i LIKE THE SOUND OF IT …. GO ZAGS… !

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      alohaleezy on March 24, 2006 at 1:19 am

      BRUINS!! BRUINS!!! BRUINS!!!! WHAT A COME FROM BEHIND MIRACLE!!!

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    Omir the Storyteller on March 23, 2006 at 10:48 pm

    I’m only interested so long as Washington and/or Gonzaga are in. Once they’re out, I’m out.

    I used to be a basketball nut when I was a kid. The town I grew up in produced some pretty darn good high-school basketball teams. (The Sonics only came to Seattle when I was in about the 8th grade.) But since then, unless the Sonics, Storm or one of the Washington teams is doing something interesting, I’m pretty indifferent.

    Right now about the only thing the Sonics are doing interesting are making leaving-town noises because the City Council and electorate don’t seem to be in a mood to give them a pile of money like they did the Mariners and Seahawks. Don’t get me started on this.

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      abarefootboy on March 23, 2006 at 11:12 pm

      Living outside mainstream civilization … like I am here in Spokane .. I mean .. we got the library .. and a Catholic basketball team .. and funding’s down for the library.

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        Omir the Storyteller on March 24, 2006 at 1:01 am

        Spokane, huh? You have my sincere sympathy.

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          Omir the Storyteller on March 24, 2006 at 1:04 am

          Even worse, it looks like UCLA came back from way down to beat the Zags by 2. Darn.

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            abarefootboy on March 24, 2006 at 1:20 am

            Back to the library … um probably something in periodicals having to do with depression.

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      Cali Scribe on March 24, 2006 at 12:21 am

      Stanford women are still in their NCAA tournament — playing Oklahoma Saturday which is going to be a very tough draw…

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    rumi on March 23, 2006 at 11:43 pm

      Let’s Go-o-o-oooo Mountaineers

    …hope that doesn’t jinx ’em

    Here’s a link for fun and interest.

    Actor Dean Haglund On the CIA, Hollywood and 9/11
    Haglund went on to describe the pilot episode of the Gunmen in which the three character basically had to stop a plane from flying into the World Trade Centre. This was aired eight months before the event actually happened. Haglund’s character manages to gain control of the aircraft seconds before it hits and averts disaster.

    “Part of the plot, as it said in the script was that this event would be used to start an international war on terror.” he commented.

    A small faction within the government wanted to carry this out in order to create a new enemy and prevent the arms trade going flat after the end of the Cold War. The cover to make everyone stand down in the episode and allow the attack to succeed was the wargames scenario that also actually happened on 9/11.

13. 

    Street Kid on March 24, 2006 at 1:26 am

    More Medicare D(isaster) Limitations

14. 

    NG on March 24, 2006 at 10:45 am

    What dooms it is social darwinism, which as an ironic by-product that nobody will notice, will prove once and for all the the theory of evolution is fact with humans. The end resultt of that proof will be the dumbing down of American thought to a complete fundamentalist christian antediluvian script.

    How can it be otherwise?  The college educated women are in debt over their heads and have to work to make the kind of living they trained for. They postpone having kids until it is too late or can have only one or two–and these are the ones with brains!

    Meanwhile the fundies are forbidden from birthcontrol and look down on real science and education because they have it all alreaDY in their bible.  They REproduce often from a young age and indoctrimate theIR offspring in their mindset (or mindlessset really).  A few generation of this, and guess who runs a democracy?