Rice: Election Going Better Than Expected – - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Iraqi elections are “going better than expected” Sunday, despite conflicting reports about the extent of voter turnout in areas plagued by intimidation and violence. “Every indication is that the election in Iraq is going better than expected,” Rice said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Kerry: “We should not hype election” – - On “Meet The Press” Senator John Kerry said – “It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country doesn’t vote.”
Iraqis Brave Bombs to Vote in Their Millions – - Some came on crutches, others walked for miles then struggled to read the ballot, but across Iraq, millions turned out to vote Sunday, defying insurgents who threatened a bloodbath.
Navy sis, is your brother in the Navy at present?
201, yes.. did Lee send u pic?
I sent you guys email!:wink:
201- of your brother? no. i don’t think lee is sending anything of anyone’s without asking. i told him i wouldn’t send the picture of him in the lingerie and top hat.
204- do you want to see a pic of my brother on his ship?:grin:
K check your mail. Please
Hey y’all! Man, I gotta quit trying to multi-task! K, I hope ya like the pic I just emailed you; it’s the most recent I have
I have a way with animals; I’ll bet those dogs would let me through to you! I sure hope they’re keeping all the other horny bachelors away though!
Sasha, gritty kitty is pretty damn cute! I think we already talked about it before, but black cats are my favorite!
Thanks Lee.
I have to go to bed now. I had a slight blackout.
‘Nite!
Thanks for the pictures Lee and Sasha! Both cute!
Yes, NS – I would!
I’m so tired. I think I am going to hit it soon. I washed my sheets and they are sooo comfy – something about having fresh sheets and freshly shaved legs feels so damn good.
208- Nite Sasha!:grin:
Siiiiiiigggggghhhhh! Thanks for that wonderful visual K!
Nite Sasha!
sis, I’ll forward that pic to K for ya! I’m sure you’re busy with those instructions I sent!
K guys, I am going to get off the board for the night. Be good without me!
I promise to download Yahoo IM here soon sis.
Lee I’ll wait for your email with the pic and send you a private good night.
Mmmmm – K!
You should be getting it any second; something coming in was tying up my bandwidth for a while. Damn dial-up!
‘liberals’ are said to be this or that quite often on this site and it’s counter-productive to an exchange of ideas.
Who would have thought that considering the fact that this is a right leaning blog:roll:
Peejz, the complaints come from Liberal/Progressives unhappy with the way they look to others. Their way to remedy that is to browbeat everyone into sharing the rosy selfimage the liberal has instead of reality.
215-There is a lot of truth to that.
As Rush put it this morning, they didn’t want the Iraqi people to win, they wanted Bush to lose. They lost 2 elections in 3 months!
214 sounds like an admission that you’d rather classify someone than engage in a discussion of issues without a preconceived notion of how it will turn out.
218, shi, there’s a column in today’s Chicago Sun Times I think you ought to read. It was written by a Progressive for Progressives like you. I sent a copy to Reilly asking her to post it for you and sandyb.
Maybe if this Progressive can come to his senses, there might be hope for you, shiloh.
Dont beat around the bush,,, progressive is just a cover word for communist.
219 – good morning pcd – thanks for looking out for my welfare.
may i suggest David Brock’s “Blinded by the Right”.
then we can all come to our senses & see where we are when we get there. i think we’d both be surprised.
205- K, he is a cutie! He’s 22!:grin:
“theres one smoking a joint, and another with spots”:shock:
220
ok, let’s not beat about the Bush.
what you said can also be said in some other words like,
“i’m making a general statement that at its core, is worthless”
conservatism is another way of saying……
[you didn't want to start that name calling so early in the day, do you?]
& good morning. JG
222 – A little too young for me.
I am fine. How about you?
I challenge you to find a difference form the progressive platform and the communist party USA platform. Better yet, the Democratic platform and the CPUSA.
Birds of a feather…
shi, where’s your standards? Brock, Ha! He’s got no credibility with anyone.
225-Actaully he’s engaged,to an older woman.:grin: She’s 26 not too bad.
228 – lee will be glad to hear that. and i’m an old maid compared to 26.
It seems there is a concern about the Iraqi government’s turnout figures, it appears the 60% figure was based on registered, rather than eligible voters, unlike how calculations are usually done:
“The 60 percent figure is based on the notion that 8 million of 14 million eligible Iraqis turned out. But the 14 million figure is the number of registered Iraqis, while turnout is usually calculated using the number of eligible voters. The number of adults in Iraq is probably closer to 18 million, which would lower the turnout figure. And the registration figure itself is questionable. Anyone who received a ration card was deemed registered, and there was no effort to remove duplicate names or those who sought extra food rations. Election officials concede they did not have a reliable baseline on which to calculate turnout.”
BTW, Dan Secor is a Fox analyst now? And he was praising the Bush Admin’s handling of Iraq? That’s surprising.
Sorry 230 is from the WP.
229-:lol:
227 – i can see where Brock, once the golden boy of the Right, no longer has credibility with them.
you’re not saying because someone disagrees with you their credibility is lost, are you?
is so, we’re in a lot of trouble.
the Senate can disband and the anarchists can sharpen the long knives.
JG – if you see no difference between Communism & the Democratic platform we should move on to another subject.
233. Not trying to piss you off Shiloh. Just log onto their website and look at their platform or “manifesto”. I don’t blame you for being embarassed, communisim is like the black plague of political systems. Killed more than anyone, but it is a fact.
226,
There are a lot of differences between the C.P platform and the Democrats. What amazes me is thayt the communists are becoming pretty moderate in their platforms. The NDP (Social Democratic)platform in Canada is more radical.
Communist are communist…. same evil, no matter what.
215,
I wear my progressivism on my sleev as you know, PCD, no shame here. In fact, I must reply to you by saying that I never paint rosy pictures of anything (well, gay marriage excluded). Read my writings on Iraq and other issues. When was the last time I accused ‘conservatives’ of being anything?
236,
The history of communism is sordid, and I am not a supporter of the communist party in any country, John.
CPUSA: Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs rebuilding schools, bridges, roads and hospitals.
K-E: . . . Create good-paying jobs here, not ship them overseas; support our unions; establish a National Education Trust Fund to ensure that schools always get the funding they need; offer a fully refundable College Opportunity Tax credit on up to $4,000 of tuition for every year of college.
CPUSA: Bush is privatizing Medicare, Social Security and public education with phony reforms instead of enacting health care for all, protecting retirement funds and full funding for public education through college.
K-E: . . . use targeted tax cuts to extend affordable, high-quality coverage to 95 percent of Americans, including every child; make affordable health care a right — not a privilege — for every American.
CPUSA: Bush is bankrupting the Federal Government with giant tax cuts for the very rich and super-funds to the military instead of securing the budget for human needs by taxing the rich and spending on human needs.
K-E: . . . cut the deficit in half during first four years in office; end corporate welfare as we know it; roll back the Bush tax cuts.
CPUSA: Bush is rolling back civil rights gains instead of enforcing and expanding affirmative action to end racism in all areas of life.
K-E: . . . extremist judges are turning back the clock on our 40-year march toward equality; will strongly enforce our nation’s civil rights laws, support affirmative action to reduce discrimination and expand opportunity, and only appoint judges with a record of enforcing the nation’s civil rights and anti-discrimination laws.
CPUSA: Bush is curtailing women’s rights and choice by undermining Roe v. Wade instead of upholding the right to choice and ending the gender wage gap.
K-E: . . . help Balance Work And Family; close The Pay Gap; Protect Women’s Health And Right To Choose; only nominate individuals to the federal bench whose records demonstrate a respect for the full range of constitutional rights, including the right to privacy and the right to choose.
CPUSA: Bush is abusing immigrant workers in low-wage jobs instead of providing a clear path to citizenship and equal rights.
K-E: . . . offer a reform bill in his first 100 days that allows immigrants to earn legalization and encourages family reunification.
CPUSA: Bush is exploiting and ruining the environment by protecting corporate polluters instead of conserving our natural resources for the public good.
K-E: The League of Conservation Voters called Kerry an “environmental champion.” K-E will: improve the environment in backyards and communities across America; revitalize contaminated industrial sites, get toxics [sic.] out of communities; guarantee our children access to clean, safe parks and baseball fields; take on traffic congestion and sprawl; reverse the Bush-Cheney rollbacks to our Clean Air Act; plug loopholes in the law; take aggressive action to stop acid rain; use innovative, job-creating programs to reduce mercury emissions and other emissions that contribute to global warming.
CPUSA: Bush’s war in Iraq is a disaster for our security and economy. He is pushing for more preemptive wars and for first strike nuclear military policy instead of negotiations and cooperation utilizing the UN.
K-E: Today, our leadership has walked away from more than a century of American leadership in the world to embrace a new — and dangerously ineffective — American disregard for the world. They bully instead of persuade. They act alone when they could assemble a team. They confuse leadership with going it alone.
CPUSA: Bush is denying civil liberties and free speech in the name of fighting terrorism instead of repealing the USA Patriot Act and helping cities, towns and states fund firefighters and police.
K-E: Our first defenders will respond to any attack with courage and heroism-but they also need the equipment and manpower to do the job; believe in an America that is safe and free, and [promise to] protect personal liberties as well as personal security.
CPUSA: Bush discriminates against Gays and Lesbians with a Constitutional Amendment instead of expanding civil rights and liberties for all.
K-E: . . . strongly enforce our nation’s civil rights laws; support affirmative action to reduce discrimination and expand opportunity; strongly enforce equal justice for all victims of hate violence; back the Fairness Act to reverse damage done to civil rights laws by right-wing judges.
Sandy, I am not saying that you are. I am just saying that the progressive agenda is the same as the Communist.
Same misguided and failed concepts, with a different name.
The evils of communism are not represented in this platform. I don’t see a call for an end to elections, the extinguishing of civil and human rights, and the complete ownership of civil society by the state. There is, I would guarantee you, a difference between the US communist party’s platform today and in the 1950′s-70′s.
218- given the fact that Sandy is the only “liberal” on the board with the ability to have an intelligent conversation with, I would say you are wrong.
240,
Socialism has had failed concepts and programs. But I would also argue that it saved the US from a fascist or communist revolution in the mid-1930′s, and many programs which could objectively be considered ‘socialist’ guarantee the well-being of millions in the US. The US tried laissez-faire economics; the result was disaster (1929-1938).
are you concerned at all about the pleasure you seem to derive from going out of your way to insult me?
it’s okay with me ’cause i’m used to it. it’s you i’m concerned about. your hate will make you
sick.
& your lack of manners should be an embarrassment.
i’ve tried to have an intelligent conversation with you, but all i get is these belittling comments. i guess you would call them ‘intelligent insults’?
you’re a pip.
what’s a pip?
241. See that is what communist do when in power. They didn’t say those thing in the Russian Revolution… They basically said what the dems say today.
245 – i was thinking the same question. in the venacular i think it means, ‘you’re really something else’
ok JG – you’re convinced that the opposition are Communists. i get it.
does that leave you & the people who agree with you as the only patriots involved in the process?
is there a loyal opposition that has the welfare of the country at heart?
is everyone ‘else’ enemies of America? ’cause that’s kind of what you’re getting close to saying, if not precisely what you are saying.
Well, taking someone down a pip refers to (British) taking an officers pip from the uniform… Capitan to lieutenant etc… due to their pips referring to their rank… (some desperate glory) 1917.
Whats a matter man,,,, we gonna come around the square with some Puerto Rican girls, who are DYING TO MEET YOU!