Comments on: ThinkFast: January 22, 2007

By: beavis

beavis — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:23:52 +0000

test post

By: Sharon Cox

Sharon Cox — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:37:24 +0000

Yep! Zooey, look’s like it will be Billings this time..Nothing set in stone , will go over for a viset first this fall I think..Then plan to move over one year from now..If not will stay put and my buddy will wing it alone..Lived south of Missoula for many year’s, loved it also love St.Regis and Kalaspell, spectacular mountain ranges…Truth be known any winter in Montana can be hard work,89 was dreadful if I remember well…

Trees pruned and Bear run for the afternoon, lot’s of new’s coming down the pike….Many running for President, mite early I think..Great post’s all…Blessings

By: Bluestocking

Bluestocking — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:27:56 +0000

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong said heâ€™s concerned that President Bush has proposed cutting funding to the National Cancer Institute for the second year in a row. â€œThe people who want to be president in 2008 should talk about something that kills 600,000 Americans a year,â€ he said.

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Does this mean that Lance won’t be accepting any more “Tour De Crawford” invitations to go biking with Bush any time soon, since he’s not only not providing more funding but is in fact proposing cuts in funding? Yeah, Lance — this is the sort of thanks you get from Bush for providing him with such a wonderful photo-op…

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:50:26 +0000

Just in case I don’t get a chance to post tomorrow.

State of the Union address

Pig

Lipstick

By: USA

USA — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:25:23 +0000

Marijuana. The chemical THC injected into the tumor. Studies have already been done showing it eliminates cancer. You heard it here first folks.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:24:44 +0000

Wonder if there are any activestâ€™s in Billings, Montanaâ€¦I can only hopeâ€¦.Blessings
Comment by Sharon Cox

Crap, Sharon! All the way to frickin’ Billings!? How about Missoula, it’s nice in Missoula…… The only thing between Billings and the North Pole is a couple of weeds. *shiver*

By: big papa

big papa — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:08:49 +0000

Remember, Shrub is a consumate FAILURE, always has been, so heâ€™s VERY COMFORTABLE with his low, low ratings.

Comment by DieNowForPeace #2

This posting is proof positive that…

…even well-informed, well-intentioned, Progressives have a hard time digesting the concept of…

…the criminal Bushites stealing so much money…

…that approval/disapproval ratings are the least of their concerns…

…Too many of us cannot bring ourselves to believe that this administration is perpetrating (through the office of the POTUS)…

…the biggest FRAUD, con job, rip off of the American tax payers in history…

…$9 billion dollars is NOTHING compared to the overall tally they’ve stolen through Iraq no-bid contracts, contracts to non-existent companies, security companies….

…the list goes on and on…

…then add on Katrina, tax breaks to oil companies, tax amnesty (remember that one when the Bushites first rolled into D.C.?)

…the Repulsivescam-led Congress voted in a one-time tax amnesty for offshore corporations to declare their offshore profits at a lesser rate of (from 35%) down to 5%…

…they said it would bring more corporate criminal enterprises into the fold, and to have them pay a portion of their taxes owed, and keep the rest to reinvest in the American economy…

…but as we all know now, they took their windfalls and invested them in emerging (foreign) markets…

…now the Bush dollar is tanking, and there are plans to merge U.S. , Canadian, and Mexican currencies into an “Amero” (like the European Euro)…

Nope, I’d say Bushiva and L’il Dick have done exactly what they set out to do…

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:04:00 +0000

katy – It did indeed seem wierd of wierds that it was supposed to take several months to deploy (since most of the buildup was stop loss and keeping scheduled rotations in country). That would mean that as soon as they are all there, they can start coming back.
Hmmmm.
Casey’s a short timer, for sure.

By: WaltTheMan

WaltTheMan — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:35:29 +0000

#80 – katy,
It’s called “Bait and Switch.”

By: katy

katy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:35:01 +0000

something else i found at the google news… could explain dubya’s problem… not that it’s an excuse, but an explanation:

Why Do Good? Brain Study Offers Clues
01.22.07, 12:00 AM ET
MONDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) — People may not perform selfless acts just for an emotional reward, a new brain study suggests.
Instead, they may do good because they’re acutely tuned into the needs and actions of others.
[...]
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/01/22/hscout601147.html

and now we understand why the sharons of the world are such jewels!
well, as if we didn’t already know…

but dubya, we know, is just not wired right, or correctly… whatever…
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By: katy

katy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:27:42 +0000

speaking of GEN. CASEY, this story was in my local paper… found this link at the google news:

Casey: Troops might start leaving Iraq in summer

By ROBERT BURNS, The Associated Press

TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq – President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq is not selling well at home, in part because critics worry that it won’t work and that even more troops might be on the way. But the top U.S. commander in the country is sounding a more optimistic note.

Gen. George Casey told reporters Friday that even as the first of the 21,500 U.S. reinforcements take their positions, security in the country might improve enough for the extra forces to start leaving by late summer.

“You’re going to see some progress gradually over the next 60 to 90 days,” Casey said, standing alongside the visiting Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Asked when he thought some of the added U.S. troops could be pulled back, Casey replied, “I believe the projections are late summer, but the first troops are just arriving,” so nothing is sure.
[...]
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/01/20/top/18937724.txt

so, what kind of ploy is this?
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By: Sharon Cox

Sharon Cox — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:27:38 +0000

Yep!, Katy, was just thinking of all the younger generation I can convert like I have here….My best buddy who is a Dem already has our new home set up….Our plan is to turn this big house into a safe haven for any abused person’s and their children…An over night or to of safety while on their trip to escape and recovery…..We are both anxious to get it started….Gonna be a great endevor….Gotta go prune some fruit trees and hug a big cedar…..Have a diamond day all…Blessings

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:22:02 +0000

Must concern you alot that McCain, who polls ahead of Hillâ€™reh,
Comment by Jason M. Hendler â€” January 22, 2007 @ 9:09 am

There is very little I can add to what other posters have said to skilfully rip your inane post apart except one thing: You have some gall to come here and post taunting comments, when it is you you have been wrong all along; wrong about the invasion, wrong about the occupation, wrong in your support of Pres Bush’s other misguided initiatives, wrong about Global Warming, and more recently, wrong in your predictions about the mid-term elections.

In true Bush cultist fashion, you do not base your opinions on reality, Mr. “Standford/Ivy League Graduate” Hendler. But we already know that.

By: katy

katy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:16:35 +0000

there will be when you get there, sharon!
show ‘em how it’s done!

By: Sharon Cox

Sharon Cox — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:14:05 +0000

Would be great RUCerious, not leaving for Montana untill later this year….Maybe sometime this summer we can all get together…No beer for me but a nice glass of wine will do….Wonder if there are any activest’s in Billings, Montana…I can only hope….Blessings

By: Krazny

Krazny — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:10:45 +0000

I second that beer and politics before you go Sharon.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:01:37 +0000

Sharon – you had mentioned moving to Montana…
Krazny and I want to take you out for a beer? or whatever before you leave…
What say?

By: Sharon Cox

Sharon Cox — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:49:35 +0000

Back at ya Zooey, sorry I am so slow, multi tasking and sending out anti war email’s again this morn…Like spring here above 40…..T shirt weather but getting gusty wind’s, snow’s gone….Been weaning away from TP so will not be around much…

Question for the researcher’s on board……Does any one know what the poll number’s were if any when we ended Viet Nam.?…….Blessings all…BTW, as you all knew already, jason’s numbers on poll;s are way off….bull shit’s numbers are down again and continue to sink as we get our message pounded into our elected officials’……Sadly they are all slow learner’s….

By: Barfly

Barfly — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:26:05 +0000

From Huffington Post:

Burdened U.S. military cuts role in drug war
Air and sea patrolling is slashed on southern smuggling routes.

By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
January 22, 2007

WASHINGTON â€” Stretched thin from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has sharply reduced its role in the war on drugs, leaving significant gaps in the nation’s narcotics interdiction efforts.

Since 1989, Congress has directed the Pentagon to be the lead federal agency in detecting and monitoring illegal narcotics shipments headed to the United States by air and sea and in supporting Coast Guard efforts to intercept them. In the early 1990s, at the height of the drug war, U.S. military planes and boats filled the southern skies and waters in search of cocaine-laden vessels coming from Colombia and elsewhere in South America.

But since 2002, the military has withdrawn many of those resources, according to more than a dozen current and former counter-narcotics officials, as well as a review of congressional, military and Homeland Security documents.

Internal records show that in the last four years the Pentagon has reduced by more than 62% its surveillance flight-hours over Caribbean and Pacific Ocean routes that are used to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and, increasingly, Colombian-produced heroin. At the same time, the Navy is deploying one-third fewer patrol boats in search of smugglers.

The Defense Department also plans to withdraw as many as 10 Black Hawk helicopters that have been used by a multi-agency task force to move quickly to make drug seizures and arrests in the Caribbean, a major hub for drugs heading to the United States.

And the military has deactivated many of the high-tech surveillance “aerostats,” or radar balloons, that once guarded the entire southern border, saying it lacks the funds to restore and maintain them.

The Department of Defense defended its policy shift in a budget document sent to Congress in October: “The DOD position is that detecting drug trafficking is a lower priority than supporting our service members on ongoing combat missions.”

Members of Congress and drug-control officials have said the Pentagon’s cuts and redeployments have hamstrung the U.S. drug interdiction effort at a time when an estimated 1,000 metric tons of inexpensive, high-quality cocaine is entering the country each year.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-drugwar22jan22,0,7593287.story?coll=la-home-headlines

By: TC

TC — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:12:59 +0000

CHENEY BLEW IT
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6274147.stm