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	<title>Comments on: BREAKING: DeLay Reveals Plan To Have Texas Legislature Oust Ronnie Earle</title>
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		<title>By: IntoxiNation &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Happy Birthday To Me - Delay Is Gone And The Right Is Spinning</title>
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		<dc:creator>IntoxiNation &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Happy Birthday To Me - Delay Is Gone And The Right Is Spinning</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Think Progress has an informative piece up regarding Delay&#8217;s interview with Tony Snow today. Check out what he plans on doing.     Filed Under: Election 2006, Blogs   Permalink Trackback Feed  274 Views  Print This Article &#160;&#160;Email This article [...]</description>
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		<title>By: CHERYL HOLMES</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-499526</link>
		<dc:creator>CHERYL HOLMES</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I emailed it to Ronnie Earle.  DeLay is beyond corrupt.  Even his resignation is corrupt.
Read this website from his own district...http://www.brazosriver.com/index.html
Some pretty good stuff here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I emailed it to Ronnie Earle.  DeLay is beyond corrupt.  Even his resignation is corrupt.<br />
Read this website from his own district&#8230;http://www.brazosriver.com/index.html<br />
Some pretty good stuff here.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=499526', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Carleton Wu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carleton Wu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suppose that Ben- having made a false statement &amp; been asked for some support for it &amp; having ducked the question as many times as he reasonably can- has moved on to the next thread. Where he will doubtless make more BS statements, be called on them, etc.

It&#039;s just part of the wingnut lifecycle, I suppose. Me, if I kept running into situations where I became ashamed to show my face on a thread, Id feel obliged to re-assess my beliefs and behaviors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suppose that Ben- having made a false statement &amp; been asked for some support for it &amp; having ducked the question as many times as he reasonably can- has moved on to the next thread. Where he will doubtless make more BS statements, be called on them, etc.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just part of the wingnut lifecycle, I suppose. Me, if I kept running into situations where I became ashamed to show my face on a thread, Id feel obliged to re-assess my beliefs and behaviors.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=498426', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: taters</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-497199</link>
		<dc:creator>taters</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are many GOP congressional incumbents whose seats are up for grabs this year. Most of them that are running have received money from Delay&#039;s ARMPAC and voted yes on the DeLay Rule.
Its very easy to find in your state by going here.

http://www.dccc.org/houseofscandal/main.html

The vast majority of Americans weren&#039;t familiar with the Sultan of Sugarland a scant two years ago - now that&#039;s changed. &lt;strong&gt;DeLay&lt;/strong&gt;, along with Abramoff, Libby, Cunningham, Scanlon, Safavian, and many others to come have defined the GOP. When Tony Rudy pleaded guilty, it was over for DeLay - despite the spin we&#039;ve seen from him as of late. I don&#039;t thnk Ronnie Earle is concerned - this is standard fare from DeLay. Mr. Earle was going to retire but undertook this because he&#039;s a good, decent American. I can&#039;t wait to see the DeLay movie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many GOP congressional incumbents whose seats are up for grabs this year. Most of them that are running have received money from Delay&#8217;s ARMPAC and voted yes on the DeLay Rule.<br />
Its very easy to find in your state by going here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dccc.org/houseofscandal/main.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dccc.org/houseofscandal/main.html</a></p>
<p>The vast majority of Americans weren&#8217;t familiar with the Sultan of Sugarland a scant two years ago &#8211; now that&#8217;s changed. <strong>DeLay</strong>, along with Abramoff, Libby, Cunningham, Scanlon, Safavian, and many others to come have defined the GOP. When Tony Rudy pleaded guilty, it was over for DeLay &#8211; despite the spin we&#8217;ve seen from him as of late. I don&#8217;t thnk Ronnie Earle is concerned &#8211; this is standard fare from DeLay. Mr. Earle was going to retire but undertook this because he&#8217;s a good, decent American. I can&#8217;t wait to see the DeLay movie.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=497199', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ghoster</title>
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		<dc:creator>ghoster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let&#039;s hear how old Tom does when he gets in to the joint with all the other crooks that won&#039;t respect him for a minute.  Forget any Club Fed, they don&#039;t exist anymore.  Old Tom will find out that those highly trained intelligent correction officers are not too impressed with crooks from the political realm.  Yep, going to be real interesting for Tom.  Hope he enjoys it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s hear how old Tom does when he gets in to the joint with all the other crooks that won&#8217;t respect him for a minute.  Forget any Club Fed, they don&#8217;t exist anymore.  Old Tom will find out that those highly trained intelligent correction officers are not too impressed with crooks from the political realm.  Yep, going to be real interesting for Tom.  Hope he enjoys it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496870', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marty Didier</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marty Didier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does this NOT surprise me?

Unlike many of you, I was in a family for more than 26 years who joined Organized Crime.  This wasnâ€™t any ordinary Organized Crime system as it has direct ties to very wide spread Political Corruption from my local area all the way up to the highest point in our Federal System.  Try taking a step back and look at what his statement suggests!  

What Tom DeLay may REALLY be saying is that there are MANY others involved in HIS corruption NETWORK that will set Ronnie Earle up to be removed.  Considering this, realize HOW many others and WHAT powers they represent in our system of governing!  

Ronnie Earle certainly has courage to stand up against someone as powerful as Tom DeLay.  Iâ€™m also sure Earle has been busier than a â€œOne Armed Paper Hangerâ€ to keep his ship going.  From my experience in a crime family associated with this, the â€œcriminal corruption systemâ€ probably tried to run Earle into the ground hoping to make him stop.  This particular corruption group uses as many tricks as they can dream up, so Iâ€™m sure thereâ€™s a lot more we havenâ€™t heard about regarding this.  

It may be wise to think about what those accused of corruption are really trying to say.  That way, more of what this story is about will show itself.  Behavior means everything, words are only music and often, just a lot of noise.  But within their jabbering are little tidbits of information that explain more about what they are involved in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does this NOT surprise me?</p>
<p>Unlike many of you, I was in a family for more than 26 years who joined Organized Crime.  This wasnâ€™t any ordinary Organized Crime system as it has direct ties to very wide spread Political Corruption from my local area all the way up to the highest point in our Federal System.  Try taking a step back and look at what his statement suggests!  </p>
<p>What Tom DeLay may REALLY be saying is that there are MANY others involved in HIS corruption NETWORK that will set Ronnie Earle up to be removed.  Considering this, realize HOW many others and WHAT powers they represent in our system of governing!  </p>
<p>Ronnie Earle certainly has courage to stand up against someone as powerful as Tom DeLay.  Iâ€™m also sure Earle has been busier than a â€œOne Armed Paper Hangerâ€ to keep his ship going.  From my experience in a crime family associated with this, the â€œcriminal corruption systemâ€ probably tried to run Earle into the ground hoping to make him stop.  This particular corruption group uses as many tricks as they can dream up, so Iâ€™m sure thereâ€™s a lot more we havenâ€™t heard about regarding this.  </p>
<p>It may be wise to think about what those accused of corruption are really trying to say.  That way, more of what this story is about will show itself.  Behavior means everything, words are only music and often, just a lot of noise.  But within their jabbering are little tidbits of information that explain more about what they are involved in.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496593', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Carleton Wu</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496590</link>
		<dc:creator>Carleton Wu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ben,
Your link does not appear to contain any evidence that Saddam was killing 100 people per day in the 2000-2003 range. I have already agreed that Saddam was a bad person- what I am asking for is: evidence to back up your assertion that Saddam was killling 100 people per day.
You keep misunderstanding this, and providing links that prove that Saddam was a bad person. That is, you are either misunderstanding my request over and over again (ie you&#039;re an idiot) or you are intentionally providing these links because you can&#039;t prove your case &amp; lack the stones to admit it.
Try again, but don&#039;t just give me another &quot;Saddam was bad&quot; link. Give me a &quot;Saddam was killing 100 people a day in 2000-2003&quot; link, or admit that you perhaps spoke to quickly earlier.

As for the Kaplan &#039;critique&#039;, it&#039;s mostly nonsense and misreadings of the study. Or, perhaps, non-reading of the study, since several of Kaplan&#039;s alledged critiques have no basis in the study whatsoever. You would&#039;ve uncovered this easily if you had googled &quot;Kaplan Lancet&quot;:
http://timlambert.org/2004/11/lancet7/
http://crookedtimber.org/2004/11/01/talking-rubbish-about-epidemiology
For example, Kaplan uses Iraqi Body Count to contrast with the Lancet study&#039;s numbers, but the two studies measure completely different things- IBC counts press reports of civilian casualties due to violence, the Lancet study measured excess mortality due to all causes. There is no reason why those two numbers would have anything to do with each other- eg if Saddam was killing lots of people right before the war, it&#039;d would&#039;ve been entirely possible for the Lancet number to have been negative. Whereas the IBC number could never be negative.
For another example (this from Tim L) &lt;i&gt;It is not true that they expanded the survey to an adjoining clusters if there werenâ€™t enough people in a cluster. The sampling unit was households, not people. And a cluster was the thirty households that were nearest a randomly chosen location.&lt;/i&gt;
That point by Tim is particularly striking- in indicates that Kaplan did not understand even the basic mechanics of the study.

Apparently, neither do you. Have you &lt;b&gt;read&lt;/b&gt; the study, or are you satisfied with a summary written by someone who apparently didn&#039;t read it either? Are you satisfied with just enough knowledge to &#039;prove&#039; your preconceptions, or would you rather actually learn about that subject?

What&#039;s sad about this is that there are actually some reasonable points that can be made against the Lancet study- nothing invalidating, but any paper done under those sorts of conditions will have issues. You could&#039;ve found those if you 1)understood anything about statistics or 2)were willing to search for a real critique rather than blindly accept whatever BS you could find because it fit your preconceptions.

[btw, &lt;i&gt;Clearly, you do not have a good understanding of confidence levels as they pertain to ranges which are statistically to &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;(sic)&lt;/i&gt; broad. 30,000 deaths would carry not much lower of a confidence level because the range is too wide. Funny how you did not see that.
I did not &quot;see that&quot; because that doesn&#039;t make any sense. What makes a confidence interval &quot;statistically too broad&quot;? And your second sentence doesn&#039;t make any sense at all, Im not sure what&#039;s &quot;carrying&quot; what.... FYI, IBC&#039;s numbers don&#039;t have confidence intervals, since they aren&#039;t making a statisitcal extrapolation. They are just counting. If that&#039;s what&#039;s confusing you, Im not sure bc as I said, your statement is gibberish.]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ben,<br />
Your link does not appear to contain any evidence that Saddam was killing 100 people per day in the 2000-2003 range. I have already agreed that Saddam was a bad person- what I am asking for is: evidence to back up your assertion that Saddam was killling 100 people per day.<br />
You keep misunderstanding this, and providing links that prove that Saddam was a bad person. That is, you are either misunderstanding my request over and over again (ie you&#8217;re an idiot) or you are intentionally providing these links because you can&#8217;t prove your case &amp; lack the stones to admit it.<br />
Try again, but don&#8217;t just give me another &#8220;Saddam was bad&#8221; link. Give me a &#8220;Saddam was killing 100 people a day in 2000-2003&#8243; link, or admit that you perhaps spoke to quickly earlier.</p>
<p>As for the Kaplan &#8216;critique&#8217;, it&#8217;s mostly nonsense and misreadings of the study. Or, perhaps, non-reading of the study, since several of Kaplan&#8217;s alledged critiques have no basis in the study whatsoever. You would&#8217;ve uncovered this easily if you had googled &#8220;Kaplan Lancet&#8221;:<br />
<a href="http://timlambert.org/2004/11/lancet7/" rel="nofollow">http://timlambert.org/2004/11/lancet7/</a><br />
<a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2004/11/01/talking-rubbish-about-epidemiology" rel="nofollow">http://crookedtimber.org/2004/11/01/talking-rubbish-about-epidemiology</a><br />
For example, Kaplan uses Iraqi Body Count to contrast with the Lancet study&#8217;s numbers, but the two studies measure completely different things- IBC counts press reports of civilian casualties due to violence, the Lancet study measured excess mortality due to all causes. There is no reason why those two numbers would have anything to do with each other- eg if Saddam was killing lots of people right before the war, it&#8217;d would&#8217;ve been entirely possible for the Lancet number to have been negative. Whereas the IBC number could never be negative.<br />
For another example (this from Tim L) <i>It is not true that they expanded the survey to an adjoining clusters if there werenâ€™t enough people in a cluster. The sampling unit was households, not people. And a cluster was the thirty households that were nearest a randomly chosen location.</i><br />
That point by Tim is particularly striking- in indicates that Kaplan did not understand even the basic mechanics of the study.</p>
<p>Apparently, neither do you. Have you <b>read</b> the study, or are you satisfied with a summary written by someone who apparently didn&#8217;t read it either? Are you satisfied with just enough knowledge to &#8216;prove&#8217; your preconceptions, or would you rather actually learn about that subject?</p>
<p>What&#8217;s sad about this is that there are actually some reasonable points that can be made against the Lancet study- nothing invalidating, but any paper done under those sorts of conditions will have issues. You could&#8217;ve found those if you 1)understood anything about statistics or 2)were willing to search for a real critique rather than blindly accept whatever BS you could find because it fit your preconceptions.</p>
<p>[btw, <i>Clearly, you do not have a good understanding of confidence levels as they pertain to ranges which are statistically to </i><i>(sic)</i> broad. 30,000 deaths would carry not much lower of a confidence level because the range is too wide. Funny how you did not see that.<br />
I did not "see that" because that doesn't make any sense. What makes a confidence interval "statistically too broad"? And your second sentence doesn't make any sense at all, Im not sure what's "carrying" what.... FYI, IBC's numbers don't have confidence intervals, since they aren't making a statisitcal extrapolation. They are just counting. If that's what's confusing you, Im not sure bc as I said, your statement is gibberish.]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496590', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: the brain</title>
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		<dc:creator>the brain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom Delay is A crook, and should not pass go; and head straight to jail. His hammering days are over. When he rants about the prosecutor. He should remember how he tried to inpeach Bill Clinton for A small thing as A blow job. If the texas legislators, fall for the former hammers B.S. they need to be voted out of office. A.S.A.P.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom Delay is A crook, and should not pass go; and head straight to jail. His hammering days are over. When he rants about the prosecutor. He should remember how he tried to inpeach Bill Clinton for A small thing as A blow job. If the texas legislators, fall for the former hammers B.S. they need to be voted out of office. A.S.A.P.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496498', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: GOPHater</title>
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		<dc:creator>GOPHater</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DeLay is your prototype repug.  Crazy and stupid to boot.  Let&#039;s hope he gets sent to the slammer, then he can call some of his &quot;mates&quot; his old nickname the hammer for what they do to his fat lardass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DeLay is your prototype repug.  Crazy and stupid to boot.  Let&#8217;s hope he gets sent to the slammer, then he can call some of his &#8220;mates&#8221; his old nickname the hammer for what they do to his fat lardass.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496465', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Caradoc</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496235</link>
		<dc:creator>Caradoc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t worry about Ronnie. He&#039;s got the goods on most of the Legislature too. He&#039;s untouchable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t worry about Ronnie. He&#8217;s got the goods on most of the Legislature too. He&#8217;s untouchable.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496235', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Innocent Bystander</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496176</link>
		<dc:creator>Innocent Bystander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The chief architect for K-Street and pay-to-legislate has no idea what his key aides are doing?  DeLay is CEO of the Republican Syndicate (the Bush family are thre trustees).  Why are all Republicans cowards?  They won&#039;t fight in wars they love so much.  They never take any responsibility for their own actions.    We are going to need a truth and reconciliation committee to expose all the lies and crimes that these bastards have committed over the past 30 years.

I can understand why a DeLay, Cunningham, et al would use their office to enrich themselves to the tune of millions salted away in off-shore accounts...but why do the NEDs/Bens/IRI&#039;s of the internet defend them?  Is the $1.00-per-post worth the humiliation and selling out of their own country?  Or are they all employed in an Indian internet center, contracted by the RNC to make it look like there are Americans that support their crimes against this country?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The chief architect for K-Street and pay-to-legislate has no idea what his key aides are doing?  DeLay is CEO of the Republican Syndicate (the Bush family are thre trustees).  Why are all Republicans cowards?  They won&#8217;t fight in wars they love so much.  They never take any responsibility for their own actions.    We are going to need a truth and reconciliation committee to expose all the lies and crimes that these bastards have committed over the past 30 years.</p>
<p>I can understand why a DeLay, Cunningham, et al would use their office to enrich themselves to the tune of millions salted away in off-shore accounts&#8230;but why do the NEDs/Bens/IRI&#8217;s of the internet defend them?  Is the $1.00-per-post worth the humiliation and selling out of their own country?  Or are they all employed in an Indian internet center, contracted by the RNC to make it look like there are Americans that support their crimes against this country?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496176', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the smell of right wing farts, especially those belonging to Dick Cheney and George Bush.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the smell of right wing farts, especially those belonging to Dick Cheney and George Bush.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496169', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496157</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Carleton what gets me is guys like you come on here with your BS links that are easily torn apart.

Here is the link for why the Lancet study is BS (tell me the part of their argument which is wrong). Clearly, you do not have a good understanding of confidence levels as they pertain to ranges which are statistically to broad. 30,000 deaths would carry not much lower of a confidence level because the range is too wide. Funny how you did not see that.

http://www.slate.com/id/2108887/

I have plenty of links including Human Rights Watch but here is one from the Iraq Foundation that discusses in great detail what Saddam did for 22 years.

http://www.iraqfoundation.org/hr.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Carleton what gets me is guys like you come on here with your BS links that are easily torn apart.</p>
<p>Here is the link for why the Lancet study is BS (tell me the part of their argument which is wrong). Clearly, you do not have a good understanding of confidence levels as they pertain to ranges which are statistically to broad. 30,000 deaths would carry not much lower of a confidence level because the range is too wide. Funny how you did not see that.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2108887/" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/id/2108887/</a></p>
<p>I have plenty of links including Human Rights Watch but here is one from the Iraq Foundation that discusses in great detail what Saddam did for 22 years.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iraqfoundation.org/hr.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.iraqfoundation.org/hr.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496157', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Seth Sonderling</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496156</link>
		<dc:creator>Seth Sonderling</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Everybody, did you see this WaPo piece?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040402104.html

It made me so mad, I wrote the reporter a little note. Was I off base?

Dear Libby:

How dare you? 

This man is a criminal and a foe of our country, and you portray him as some kind of hero. I can&#039;t wait, Libby Copeland, till he is in prison, then will you be proud of this piece of garbage? Did you graduate from J-school or are you just a flack? Was DeLay&#039;s communications director sitting right there with you as you assembled this puff? Of all the possible angles on this crook, you take this puffy route? Tell! I WANT TO KNOW. 

Write me back, if you&#039;re not too much of a coward and weakling. DEFEND YOURSELF. Read MediaMatters.org? Maybe you should.

Seth Sonderling</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody, did you see this WaPo piece?<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040402104.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040402104.html</a></p>
<p>It made me so mad, I wrote the reporter a little note. Was I off base?</p>
<p>Dear Libby:</p>
<p>How dare you? </p>
<p>This man is a criminal and a foe of our country, and you portray him as some kind of hero. I can&#8217;t wait, Libby Copeland, till he is in prison, then will you be proud of this piece of garbage? Did you graduate from J-school or are you just a flack? Was DeLay&#8217;s communications director sitting right there with you as you assembled this puff? Of all the possible angles on this crook, you take this puffy route? Tell! I WANT TO KNOW. </p>
<p>Write me back, if you&#8217;re not too much of a coward and weakling. DEFEND YOURSELF. Read MediaMatters.org? Maybe you should.</p>
<p>Seth Sonderling<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496156', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ricardo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496077</link>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How do these guys become millionaires on the congressional salary?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do these guys become millionaires on the congressional salary?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496077', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-496022</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Delay is a classic â€˜ganstaâ€™, blame the man, blame the prosecutors, blame everyone but yourself for committing the crime. 

Comment by Ryan Neat 

Ronnie Earl is so fucked. This is just the start of payback. Earl though he could use his piss-ant  position to run with the big dogs. Ronnie I wouldn&#039;t want to be you if I could disappear with a ton of money and my pick of the Hollywood whores.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Delay is a classic â€˜ganstaâ€™, blame the man, blame the prosecutors, blame everyone but yourself for committing the crime. </p>
<p>Comment by Ryan Neat </p>
<p>Ronnie Earl is so fucked. This is just the start of payback. Earl though he could use his piss-ant  position to run with the big dogs. Ronnie I wouldn&#8217;t want to be you if I could disappear with a ton of money and my pick of the Hollywood whores.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=496022', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-495962</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Delay is a classic &#039;gansta&#039;, blame the man, blame the prosecutors, blame everyone but yourself for committing the crime.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Delay is a classic &#8216;gansta&#8217;, blame the man, blame the prosecutors, blame everyone but yourself for committing the crime.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=495962', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: stewart</title>
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		<dc:creator>stewart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>some people just dont get it...now let me see if I have this correctly? As everyone aorund de-Lay is either copin a plea, getting convicted, or under indictment De-Lay sez-fire the prosecuter, now if memory serves isnt that manuever out of the nixon play book?
Oh this guys a gem ...but very boring, amusing, but boring.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>some people just dont get it&#8230;now let me see if I have this correctly? As everyone aorund de-Lay is either copin a plea, getting convicted, or under indictment De-Lay sez-fire the prosecuter, now if memory serves isnt that manuever out of the nixon play book?<br />
Oh this guys a gem &#8230;but very boring, amusing, but boring.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=495953', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Angie Boughton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/comment-page-5/#comment-495892</link>
		<dc:creator>Angie Boughton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only reason Delay is running his mouth, is because he is losing power.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only reason Delay is running his mouth, is because he is losing power.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=495892', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ergy Earpp</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ergy Earpp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What was this blog about again?

Oh yeah.  Minus all the name calling and distractions.... Revenge.

Tom Delay must be very hurt (boohoohoo) and vows revenge on an old man.  Good luck Tom!!!

Doesn&#039;t really help his self image does it.  Well, we&#039;ll find out just how religious ol&#039; Tom is when we find out how much he is involved in the Abramoff fraud.   Real Christian he is.  Protects unborn children from their mothers, etal.  I guess money laundering and a sense of fairness isn&#039;t mentioned in his version of ethics...too bad.  Christ, he&#039;s wrapping himself in religion like W. wraps himself in his flag and war bonnet.   What a charade.

But for now, good bye and good riddance!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What was this blog about again?</p>
<p>Oh yeah.  Minus all the name calling and distractions&#8230;. Revenge.</p>
<p>Tom Delay must be very hurt (boohoohoo) and vows revenge on an old man.  Good luck Tom!!!</p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t really help his self image does it.  Well, we&#8217;ll find out just how religious ol&#8217; Tom is when we find out how much he is involved in the Abramoff fraud.   Real Christian he is.  Protects unborn children from their mothers, etal.  I guess money laundering and a sense of fairness isn&#8217;t mentioned in his version of ethics&#8230;too bad.  Christ, he&#8217;s wrapping himself in religion like W. wraps himself in his flag and war bonnet.   What a charade.</p>
<p>But for now, good bye and good riddance!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=495874', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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