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Open Thread

By: Pam On: Oct/29/07 - 17 Comments

Here are some topics to choose from, or pick a topic of your own:

Tancredo to leave House next year

Silky promises to heal the sick, end the war and walk on water -

Free advice: Don’t take LATimes’ fire advice

Military fund-raising alert: Project Valour IT kicks off today!

Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS

Abortion Ban Back at 4th Circuit

Posted on: October 29, 2007 |

Posted in: Daily Links, National News

17 Responses to “Open Thread”

  1. Matthias Roggenbuck
    October 29, 2007 - 08:53 AM on October 29th, 2007

    You forgot this one:

    Thousands of Anti-War Activists March in San Francisco [and New York and Los Angeles and Philadelphia and Chicago and Seattle]

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305707,00.html

    No comment on “all those traitors”?

  2. Pam
    October 29, 2007 - 09:04 AM on October 29th, 2007

    I hadn’t even heard of it until you posted it. Ho hum…:-@

  3. BonBon
    October 29, 2007 - 09:05 AM on October 29th, 2007

    Thats one of the beauties of living in America Matthias. You even have the freedom to be a coward and not to support the defense of freedom and liberty in the world.

  4. PCD
    October 29, 2007 - 09:36 AM on October 29th, 2007

    1, Mattias, they are a small number. Did you see the human debris that turned out? Who in their right mind would pay any attention to them? We already know you are not in your right mind.

  5. TedintheShed
    October 29, 2007 - 10:40 AM on October 29th, 2007

    Pam,

    have you posted anyting about the Law of the Seas Treaty?

  6. Robert
    October 29, 2007 - 12:59 PM on October 29th, 2007

    Pam we say a few of them in the San Mateo area of Kalifornia (just south of San Fransicko) this weekend. They were standing there looking rather forlorn and bored and genrally ignored, holding their “Stop the War Now!” and “U.S. Out of Iraq!” signs. I wanted to walk and say to one of the end the war now koowns ‘Why don’t you tell that to the terrorists, seeing as how they started it?”

    But that is far too sensible, far too logical, for them to be able to process.

    They looked like the pathetic bunch of misfits and losers they are.

  7. Pam
    October 29, 2007 - 01:16 PM on October 29th, 2007

    I still love the protests during the 04′ election cycle. When interviewed, many of the protestors didn’t even know what the protest was about, let alone what the sign said that they were carrying.

  8. Matthias Roggenbuck
    October 30, 2007 - 08:26 AM on October 30th, 2007

    2- “I hadn’t even heard of it until you posted it.”
    3- “You even have the freedom to be a coward and not to support the defense of freedom and liberty in the world.”

    I even had THAT kind of freedom to be informed properly!
    I owe it to your country and its liberation of mine in WWII. Unfortunately you abuse this good deed as a justification for any other military action…
    By this you are disrespecting both your victims and veterans of the past AND the present.

  9. PCD
    October 30, 2007 - 08:48 AM on October 30th, 2007

    8, No, Mattias, it is you that abuse the world, the military that freed you from Hitler and kept you from being a vassal state of the Soviet Union. It is you who wouldn’t lift a finger to keep Saddam or Milosevitch (SP?) from killing thousands.

    Mattias, you are a stone waste of humanity.

  10. Matthias Roggenbuck
    October 30, 2007 - 08:58 AM on October 30th, 2007

    9- Oh come on…
    “Abusing the world” without “lifting a finger”… I wonder how many people are capable to do that!! :d/

  11. PCD
    October 30, 2007 - 09:20 AM on October 30th, 2007

    10, stupidity like you demonstrate daily is abuse of the world.

  12. San Francisco Liberal
    October 30, 2007 - 09:45 PM on October 30th, 2007

    Just felt an earthquake!

    5.6 down in San Jose.

    Robert, did you feel it?

  13. Robert
    October 30, 2007 - 11:28 PM on October 30th, 2007

    Yes, I was in South San Jose and it was very strong. Frankly, I don’t mind saying scary. I have been through many; I am a Native. But I don’t believe you ever really get used to them, because there always is the uncertainty, the voice in your head that says “oh shit-is this the big one?”

    This one started moderately, then gained intensity with some pretty good movement. Lasted about 15 seconds by my count.

    I was working with Chemistry, and had to clean up ~1 gallon of spilled chemical. No damage though.

    How about you?

  14. San Francisco Liberal
    October 31, 2007 - 07:59 PM on October 31st, 2007

    Yeah, it was a bit scary for me and the wife too…this being only the second one we’ve felt in the years since we moved out to SF.

    Never felt anything like this back in Michigan!

    I was walking up to the checkout counter at the neighborhood library when the windows started to rattle loudly, etc.

    Lasted longer than that 4.6 I felt a few months ago. Like you said, went on for about 15 seconds or so.

    It’s a really bizzare feeling. Hard to describe – without sounding corny – it’s almost supernatural.

  15. PCD
    November 1, 2007 - 06:14 AM on November 1st, 2007

    14, SFL, better find another place to live. What you felt was noting. I was in Ahaheim for the Landers and Big Bear quakes. Nothing like being awakened at 5 am with the pet screaming and the walls bobbing and weaving like they were loose leaf paper. Follow that up by another round at 8 am and a phone call from my Uncle in Phoenix asking if we felt that one because the water was splashing out of HIS pool in Phoenix.

  16. San Francisco Liberal
    November 1, 2007 - 09:54 PM on November 1st, 2007

    Jesus, that’s fucked up PCD.

    My brother lives in LA and was there in `94 for the big Northridge quake.

    As freaky as these small ones are, I know they’re nothing compared to upper 6’s and 7’s and can only imagine what those must be like.

    As far as moving from SF…nah…I’m stayin’ (!)

  17. PCD
    November 2, 2007 - 06:04 AM on November 2nd, 2007

    SFL,

    I was still in Anaheim for that one too.

    What I’m saying is that you haven’t experienced a real big quake. Maybe think of that if you drive the 880 where it collapsed during the “World Series Quake” and imagine being bent over in your crushed car for days as one survivor was.

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