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Turnout percentages are not sequestered until polls close.

Traditional Democratic (no Democrat Luntz BS here) precincts are having much stronger turnout numbers than GOP precincts.

Dude, you've been watching The Matrix again, right?

Or maybe reading the Gospel of John. It all begins with logos, no?

Meeting this challenge will change us forever.

As I think I have said many times, its not about what we will FIND out there. Frankly, I am not sure there is anything out there worth finding in the context of the expense and risk we face.

But we must go out there to find what it is we can become.

Sorry about the pop-ups. Those links are nasty.

Less scholarly, http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jimmy … html]Bring back the Magic:

Nothing can tear you apart
If you keep living straight from the heart
Though you know that you're gonna hurt some
The magic will come

If you keep living straight from the heart
you will know when to stop and to start
Once you see that no one really wins
Then the magic begins

Bring back the magic
Don't make life so tragic
Bring back the magic
Don't make life so tragic

And of course, this one:

Im]http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jimmy_buffett/smart_woman_in_a_real_short_skirt.html]I'm looking for a smart woman. . .

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Anyway, speaking of the need for nuance. . .

Many people in their 60's today have parents who had TB and therefore have a postive skin test. They also have ailments like arthritis. My mother for example.

Treating the arthritis while NOT inflaming the TB is a tricky business requiring great care and subtlety by the doctors. My mother's story is the same as my friend's mother-in-law's story except my mother has always read up on medical stuff and has insisted that she recieve nuanced treatment.

Cobra, you obviously understand the truth of this analogy as applied to the War on Terror. So how can you still support Bush?

'tis a pity GWB needs to be John Wayne or Garry Cooper and trounce the infidel in a straight up fight.

"Whup his ass then make 'em say uncle." Yup that's a fine plan. Sneaky would be so much better.

But winning sneaky means GWB cannot be crowned as the Henry V wannabe Boy-Warrior-King

Bush doesn't really intend to win the "War on Terror" since all he really cares about are the style points.

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Whoa! Look at me! I am a Warrior-King fighter pilot Mr. President plays dress up Dude.

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Okay, I am in a mood. . .

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The analogy goes beyond BC v KE 04.

The real tragedy of the past four years is that Bush and bin Laden has manuevered the USA into the same relation with most of Islam that Israel has with the Palestinians.

Same emotional dynamics, same rhetoric, same losing end-game where fanatical martyrs brigades (costing thousands or millions) wage a war of attrition where we are spending billions and billions in response. Bottom line, the strategy bin Laden is using against the USA is the same strategy being used against Israel.

Create a war of attrition that cannot be decisively won by military means and then make babies faster than the other side. Do you remember von Braun's crude comment about "unskilled labor" ?

Here is the question about steroids versus antibiotics - - UNLESS we close the schools and GIVE a billion Muslim children real hope for a better life (not a FAUX News America feel good TV spot) the waves of suicide bombers will never end.

Parents in the West Bank are aghast and horrified that their children have become suicide bombers against Israel. When the terror culture has supplanted the influence of parents, how will our LAME Arabic language media have any influence at all.

But no, we must STAY THE COURSE!  and   BE STRONG!

and keep feeding the TB patient steroids. Because that's what God told us to do.

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Closing the terror schools, closing the mosques where hate is preached is the only solution but to do that successfully, we will need to spend trillions (with a "t" not a "b" or an "m") to replace the terror schools with something positive.

In the meantime, BUSH inflames the hate, injecting the TB patient with more and more steroids.

No one knows, yet.

However, it does appear that the first ever Zogby cell phone poll came out 55% Kerry to 40% for Bush with 5% undecided or other.

Full quote - its too big for my sig:

An imperialism of grammarians? The imperialism of grammarians runs deeper and endures longer than that of generals. An imperialism of poets? Yes, of poets. The phrase sounds ridiculous only to those who defend the old and ridiculous kind of imperialism. The imperialism of poets endures and wins out; that of politicians passes on and is forgotten, unless the poet remembers it in his songs.

Fernando Pessoa (translated by Richard Zenith)

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[ ] or < > why can't all our HTML just get along together?

I recall a sci-fi short story titled "The Exterminator" that seems rather spot on here. Do I google for the link?

Capital punishment?

Always morally wrong. Always.

Sometimes necessary due to a society's failure to plan ahead sufficiently to either educate its people to avoid egregious criminality or to take other steps to assure the safety of its citizens through non-lethal means.

To advocate capital punishment as policy is a powerful confession of one's own weakness.

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To revel in or relish the death of any criminal (no matter how heinous his crimes) is itself one epitome of evil.