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WASHINGTON – The income gap between the rich and the rest of the US population has become so wide, and is growing so fast, that it might eventually threaten the stability of democratic capitalism itself.

Is that a liberal's talking point? Sure.

Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace, said: "Blair says climate change is the gravest threat we face but it seems his friend in the White House refuses even to admit that our world is warming. It is like claiming al-Qaida never existed.

"The prime minister should press on regardless, working with independent US states like California that recognise the problem exists and that a solution must be found."

We aren't as evil as Hitler!

Boo-rah!

Corn dogs and lemonade for all!

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*So what's a few more keystrokes?

1.  Who was hijacking all those Western domestic airplanes all throughout the 1970s and 1980s?  Yes, the --1970s--; three decades ago.  Murdering pilots, raping stewardesses, killing civilian passengers.

2.  Who bombed the WTC?

3.  Who bombed the U.S.S. Cole?

4.  Who has expressed the desire to kill every U.S. citizen
(children and women included)?  (Genocide).

5.  Who attacked on 9/11?

6.  On and on.

Sort of makes the Islamoterrorists look like Nazis, IMO.  Unless, of course, we're supposed to placate their blood lust and stupid religious bigotry by constantly turning the other cheek and allowing them to butcher us into oblivion (which is what -they've- openly admitted they'd like to do and would do, given the opportunity).

We have and continue to treat them a heckuva lot better than they'd ever even remotely consider treating us. 

--Cindy

This I believe has potential and would be the direction I'd lean toward. Gains by Iran would have to be looked at as temporary, they are a point in the overall strategy. No sense being overly bound by a line some Brit drew on a map in the last century. Use the cultural rifts to our advantage and give them what they want at the same time.

Chickenshit wingers (4.00 / 37)

This is what always kills me about wingers. We're supposed to be the wimps, right? The cowardly,  entitled idiot idealists?

I'm sitting here in New York, a city full of unrepentant libs and lefties who still crane their necks and say a silent prayer every time a plane passes low over downtown (well, yeah, okay, mostly we're atheists, but you get the idea). Four years on, everybody knows that New York, New York is still a wonderful target. But do they sit around pissing themselves for fear of the swarthy shadows in their heads? F#ck no.

So here's the Republican tough guy, a Midwestern Real 'Murcan and a regular Malboro Man when he's talking trash, but the topic turns to terrorism and he starts thinking maybe Osama's been spiking his bratwurst with anthrax or something. Before you know it, he's soiled himself and crawled under the sofa, wailing for his pappy to come save him from the terror bogeyman. "Please, Mr. AM radio host, tell daddy Bush to kick some Hajji ass and don't let 'em put the bad stuff in my bratwurst! Waah!"

Can you just see Osama's skinny ass sitting in a cave, hooked up to his dialysis machine, going, "Yes, World Trade Center attack was smashing success. Next, we strike at the heart -- Waukegan! Mwahhahaha! We will cut off their supply of mass-market cheese, cheap beer and kringle, and they will crumble like overdone falafel!"

Jesus. Someone needs to take these whiny little crybabies by their fat, pink ears and tell them to f#cking grow up.

Caller:"Thanks for talking about this.  This is so important.  We should be able to do whatever it takes to make ourselves safe.  No limits.  When I drop my 3-year-old off at day care in the morning, I need to know that he will be safe when I come to pick him up at night [Callers voice breaks].  I just can't imagine if anything were to happen to him."

Host: "Wow, that a powerful image.  Thanks for reminding us what's at stake here."

If the War on Terror has clubbed our suburban senses to the point of collective psychosis, where we actually have people in the suburbs who believe that detaining random Muslims in Cuba without charges protects a three year old in a suburban Milwaukee day care, then the terrorists have won.

Almost FOUR years since 9/11.

Almost
Four
Years

And we still have raving testosterone-charged lunatics on the radio in nearly every medium sized town in the Midwest, getting huge ratings by lumping terrorists, random Muslims, religious radicals with dark skin, Iraqi civilians, al Qaeda, and Afghan teenagers who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, into a single bucket labeled, "Those who would kill me without hesitation, and therefore should be detained so I can stop checking the lock on my suburban door three times in 15 minutes before going to bed," then the terrorists have most certainly won.

If we can defend "temporarily" putting aside four amendments contained in the Bill of Rights, in the name of a false sense of "Security", then the terrorists have won.

Of course to discuss this is treason since as no should dare criticize our Precious Leader. After all, he is following the guidance of his Heavenly Father and therefore cannot err.

*Everyone here, IIRC, has criticized Pres. Bush at various times and on various points.  And no one here quite fits your description, IMO.

The media can do what they want.  He was re-elected, won the majority of votes by a respectable margin.

Everything's a bit odd these days, all around.  This is primarily why I can't understand attempts at pigeon-holing matters...particularly the major matters.

--Cindy