martino

God can perform miracles. Never doubt it for an instant!

...smiling and offering a cart to people who walk into Walmart?

Actually, what it says is "Bush Says He'll Veto All Iraq Bills with Timetables". Same difference. But the wording is mine, for emphasis. The point is, when the Democrats have a practical definite PLAN for Iraq -- which Bush and the Neocon Nation have always claimed they lack -- he has nothing responsible to say to them but a veto threat.

Is he being reasonable? Is he dodging the real alternative plan he has pretended to be praying for, when it is handed to him with every i dotted and every t crossed?

http://www.saneguns.org/law/nramythquotes.html

"[The Second Amendment's] intent was to guarantee the right of states to form militia, not for individuals to bear arms.

Robert Bork, quoted in "Bork Says State Gun Laws Constitutional," Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1989, Part 2 pg 5

http://www.saneguns.org/crime/homicides_handguns.h...

"One of the most startling comparisons is the relationship between new handgun sales in the United States and the homicide rates. The correlation (0.9815, where 1.00 is a perfect correlation) certainly provides extremely strong support for the argument "handgun sales = homicides", although it does not, by itself, establish causation."

Anyone have anything new to contribute to this topic? I say this because I have read about a dozen retreads of the NRA jingle about "prying my gun out of my cold dead hands" today, and the irony of that comment, in the present context, is of course lost of the unsophisticates typing it.

Anyone?

Is the pendulum swinging back to Progressive Liberalism, as the failure of every G.O.P. plan becomes harder to defend?

Circuit City just fired off a bunch of hourly store employees who had worked their hourly rate up beyond minimum wage, while at the same time keeping 3 top ranking officers of the company on with combined salaries of $33M.

What does this say about Circuit City's attitude toward their average patron? Do you plan to join any boycott?

Footnote: Exxon's official position is that Global Warming does not exist.

...Didn't the Democrats tell you that the 20,000 would be too many, and yet not enough. ...That opening those "just a few more troops, I promise, just a few" floodgates, and you don't know where it will end. In short, didn't we foretell the future as to the bottomlessness of the pit of misery for the United Sates, that is Iraq?

We could gloat over being right -- and cons being wrong over and over again -- if only Bush wasn't killing more Americans than Osama Bin Laden's boys did on 9/11.

When I was a kid, growing up in a medium-to-large sized city, our doctor ran his office with the help of two or three nurses and a receptionist. Fast forward a few decades, and I know of no doctor who has such a practice, by himself. My current family doctor, whom I am happy with, is part of a medical associates company that has about a dozen doctors. I see only him when I have an appointment. It isn't a clinic in the strictest sense. But I am just wondering if anyone goes to a doctor who isn't part of a larger group these days? Judging from my region of the country, one doctor to one office seems part of the past.

Related: Does anyone know if there is any incentive to join a group, if you are a new doctor, besides the money one? Have insurance companies forced this sort of "pooling" of doctors into companies?

What I am trying to do here is open a dialog that takes the average conservative -- who as we know, detests both these people -- beyond the easy shot of making a big deal out of Barack Obama's middle name and parentage, or Hilary's husband's affair, of who's ugly or who's black, to the crux of the central issue facing voters in the next election, which is leadership.

Who would do a better job?

Please take a few minutes to consider this. Resist the cheap shot if you have it in you to do so. While it's certainly true that more syllables won't get you more than 2 points, please bear in mind that using an adult vocabulary will increase any literate reader's respect for your intelligence and opinion.

Thanks.

I noticed hundreds of copies of my avatar here.

Did you guys band together and agree to mock me by copying my avatar? Just wondering.

You know. Don't ya?

Oh, what WILL Abdullah and Usama do without their Big Mac?

How does that strike you? Can you see this happening in the United States?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070226/ap_on_he_me/br...

If you favor it, please say why. If you oppose it, please say why.

Thanks.

Why has this guy been subjected to extreme slander in the media? Example: ABC TV kept repeating that the judge of this particular proceeding was a "taxi driver turned judge." But hold on. ---The judge is 56 years old. He graduated from law school at age 25, one of the youngest people to do so and be accepted by the bar. He drove a cab in student and pre student days, over 30 years ago. So this is like saying "He used to hang out around elementary schools all day long ... oh, when he was 10 years old, btw."

Bottom line, if you have any exposure to courts, you know he isn't that rare a type. There are lots of prima donnas, mild eccentrics and people whose years of experience make them dispense with protocol. Their sacrosanct position seems to encourage this sort of behavior.

I think they were grasping for anything to extend the airtime for this popular story. I'm surprised they didn't complain about the janitors who cleaned out the courtroom, just to get more play for this story.

Any and all thoughts on this topic solicited.

Do you feel a sense of personal validation from best answers and thumbs up? Do you go into an emotional tailspin when someone gets your answer or question deleted? Do you find yourself on occasion going to heroic lengths to rebut people who get up on you verbally here, adding details? Do you 'report abuse' often, trying to get questions or comments that incense you deleted?

No good or bad answer to this. Just checking tendencies here.

I know which one the Conservative-controlled media seems to prefer... Anything to keep the people's minds off the truth.