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It looks like after 6+ years of being in Afghanistan, we may have finally come across something that can end their domination of the opium industry…

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  1. 1

    By God, I feel flush with red, white, and blue patriotism to know that our little police action in Iraq has spawned agricultural entrepreneurship there. Hell, whether opium or oranges, does it really matter? We have farmers in Iraq tilling the soil and supporting themselves. Obviously, that wasn’t happening under Saddam. I think it’s okay for us to take a little pride in the progress we’ve brought to Iraq.

  2. 2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uthdea6X2PE

    Gee, I am sorry our camp said we didn’t have anything to do with that lawsuit against Caucusing in the Casinos but really the timing of the lawsuit does indict us and also we think that those Culinary workers would have five time the power of the other voters in the Caucus. But as I explained ten years ago, I don’t lie!! I did not have sexual relations that woman!!

    (Geesh!!! what a bunch of flat fibbers the Clintons are!!!)

  5. 5

    How come AP Reporters can go off on Republican candidates but let that happen to a donkey and watch softballs be lobbed.

    Ah that’s easy Puddy. That is because democrats are pussies. Always have, always will. Why do you think they won’t go on Fox. Donks are so fragile they let a 100 Lb blonde woman get the best of them.

  6. 6

    And who said Chris Matthews is a lib?

    The Eugenics_Project(YLB) and Pelletizer the “dumb bunny”

    CHRIS MATTHEWS: Nobody seems to be the leader yet. Nobody’s Ronald Reagan. They don’t seem to have a — used to be the Democrats were the disorganized political party. Now, the Republicans are like the — like the Iraqis. Have you noticed? They got their Shia wing, the fanatics. They’ve got Huckabee. This where I get into trouble. This is just where I get into trouble. Huckabee and Thompson are the Shiites, and the Sunni, the more moderate guys, are McCain, and — who else they got over there? And uh, Rudy Giuliani. And then they got Romney, the Kurd. I mean, they’re all over the place. Who’s gonna unite them?

  17. 17

    Puddy,
    Your posts, with links, make clear that you spend virtually all your time cruising the internet. You claim, however, to work hard at your job and to have a strong relationship with your wife. Something is amiss, Puddy. I can’t do my job, maintain family ties, and spend 1/10 of the time online that you do. I guess, reluctantly, I have to believe that you, like virtually all Republicans, are a liar.

  18. 18

    @16
    Josh,
    I’m sure someone from around these parts made it. If I see anything, I’ll point you to it. BTW, cool post on the State of Jefferson. First I’ve ever heard of that.

  19. 19

    Anyone go to the Green Infrastructure Forum tonight? I couldn’t make it but really want to know the big ideas and issues raised.

    Nope couldn’t make it. I was too busy getting gas for my SUV. Maybe next time.

  20. 20

    John Edwards says:

    “When you think about what Ronald Reagan did to the American people, to the middle class to the working people,” said Edwards.

    “He was openly – openly – intolerant of unions and the right to organize. He openly fought against the union and the organized labor movement in this country. He openly did extraordinary damage to the middle class and working people, created a tax structure that favored the very wealthiest Americans and caused the middle class and working people to struggle every single day. The destruction of the environment, you know, eliminating regulation of companies that were polluting and doing extraordinary damage to the environment.”

    “

  21. 21

    @20…Dipweed…

    Did you know that Barack Obama is a huge fan of Ronaldus Magnus Reaganus? Go to about the 18:00 minute mark and listen to how he calls The Gipper inspirational and the necessary leader for the times:

    http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs......eakingnews

    To call the only former union official to ever serve as President intolerant of unions is dumb. He was intolerant of lawlessness – read PATCO – and took steps to end it.

    John Edwards is a shill and a fake. His “200,000 veterans under a bridge” canard is an example. Anyone with experience in homelessness knows that the reason they’re there isn’t economic, it’s because a huge majority of them have drug or alcohol problems or both with many more dealing with mental illness.

    I’ve worked with the homeless a lot, including homeless vets, and every one I’ve met, both in shelters and on the street, has either a substance abuse issue or mental illness or both.

    But John Edwards never let facts get in his way as a trial lawyer, so why should he as a Prexy candidate? Over at Crosscut, Casey Corr remarked about Edwards’ ill-fitting suits. On John Edwards, everything looks cheap. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

    He likes the Two Americas bit since he’s the ultimate divider, pitting some against others with the politics of envy and resentment. No wonder he was elected in North Carolina only once and beat feet out of town before those voters turned him down for any more time in office. In his home state, he couldn’t get elected dog catcher. Dogfood, perhaps, but not dog catcher.

    The Piper

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    20
    May Ronald Reagan rot in hell. He put a smiley face on hate, and has scarred American politics for over a generation now. He produced George W. Bush. Few individuals have caused as much global harm as he did. I’m a forgiving guy, but I have not yet come around to forgiving Reagan.

  23. 23

    Piper @ 21: “John Edwards never let facts get in his way as a trial lawyer.”
    Despite your law degree, you never actually stood in front of a jury and tried to prove your case, did you, Piper? If you had, you would understand that facts matter a helluva lot as a trial lawyer. Juries actually pay attention to facts. Their tolerance for bullshit is quite limited. You will recall that the Magna Carta, drafted in 1200-whatever, included the right to trial by jury. Taking one’s case in front of a jury, and doing it well, should be honored by all Americans. Republicans, however, disdain such a fundamental right. You should know better.

  24. 24

    @23 You have got to be shitting me! Piper Scott is a fuckan lawyer. The son of a bitch can’t stay on topic for two sentences in a row.

    Imagine for a moment Piper Scott making a presentation before a jury. His client would be on trial for murder and Piper would be lecturing on the price of cotton in Indonesia and how much air a windbag like himself must pump before he can put his fat lips to his bagpipe and blow.

    And with Piper’s well known contempt for civil liberties and constitutional rights and his avid support for war crimes -as long as it’s his hero George W. Bush committing them-Piper surely can’t be a lawyer.

  25. 25

    They’re B-A-A-A-C-K!!!

    That’s right, the sports thieves are trying to pick your pocket again! This time they want $150 million for Husky Stadium. Isn’t that supposed to be paid for by U.W. sports revenues?

    “SEATTLE … The UW Board of Regents has approved the school’s $300 million plan to remodel the … stadium … the university will … ask the state to approve $150 million in public tax revenues for the project during the current legislative session ….”

    Quoted under fair use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://www.king5.com/localnews.....1ae55.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Screw ’em! Let them gouge the fans by raising ticket prices if they need money. Better yet, sell the Huskies to some rich guy who’ll move them to Tombstone, Arizona! They suck!!

  26. 26

    A syllogism:

    George W. Bush tortures people and kills civilians.
    Piper Scott supports George W. Bush.
    Therefore Piper Scott supports torture and the killing of civilians.

  27. 27

    Let me guess, I’ll bet they want our money to build luxury boxes so they can raise ticket prices to get more money to spend on athletic department salaries, or something like that ….

  29. 29

    @25 Yes in Piper Scott’s wet dream come true the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The rest are bought off with consumer trinkets purchased with high interest debt.

    From: http://www.apesmaslament.blogspot.com/

    Meanwhile, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports the following:

    Even as many wealthy nonprofit institutions — like museums and universities — are reporting record increases in contributions, other charities, especially those that provide direct services to the poor, are struggling to get donations and keep up with rapidly escalating demands for aid. Some veteran leaders of organizations that serve the needy say they have not faced such a tough time before in their nonprofit careers.

    Why? Well, as it turns out, most people aren’t doing so well, and the people who are tend to give to their own.

    “There are two tiers of income, and donors are in one tier or the other,” says Melissa S. Brown, associate director of research at Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. “Charities with donors in the top tier see big increases, and nonprofits whose donors are squeezed by lost income are feeling the pain.” …

    Colleges, hospitals, arts organizations, community foundations, and other wealthy institutions have in the past decade built their endowments and reserves to insulate themselves from economic fluctuations. In addition, such organizations have been hiring many new fund raisers to focus exclusively on seeking big gifts from wealthy people.

    And wealthy donors overwhelmingly prefer those types of institutions: A study released this month of more than 8,000 gifts of $1-million or more to 4,000 nonprofit organizations found that the largest share of those dollars, 44 percent, went to higher education, followed by hospitals and other medical institutions (16 percent), and arts and cultural organizations (12 percent). Social-service groups received just 5 percent of the dollars, according to the study by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research.

    A bit further down in the article comes this news from LA on how the homeless are doing.

    Other charities in Los Angeles are facing an even tougher time. Beyond Shelter, a Los Angeles charity that has focused on moving homeless families out of emergency shelters and into permanent homes, is struggling to meet payroll next month while trying to help a homeless population that has exploded in size in the past two years, according to Tanya Tull, the charity’s president.

    Ms. Tull says she has watched government support decline, while foundations that provided support in the past are making smaller and smaller grants to her charity because they are deluged with requests from other social-service groups.

    “Every agency we speak to is turning families away, and the shelters have been full all year,” she says. “I am seeing families with children sleeping in their cars, riding the bus all night, sitting in fast-food restaurants, just to have a place to be. This is a very, very sad thing to experience, after so many years when we thought we were getting a handle on the problem.”

    In her 25 years of working with the homeless, Ms. Tull says, “this is the worst I have ever seen in terms of the numbers of homeless families and the fact that the safety net is gone.”

    What’s this? I recently read that Los Angeles has halved their downtown homeless problem through a creepy combination of repressive policing and high-tech legerdemain. I guess that stuff doesn’t really work. Oh, wait, she’s talking about homeless families. They don’t count.

    The rich are having a big party, and we get to come and eat cake. No wait … the cake’s all gone. All they’re serving now is crumbs.

  30. 30

    If we give in to the U.W., next they’ll want $750 million for a canoe house and threaten to move the rowing team to Dubuque, Iowa if they don’t get it!!!

  31. 31

    From: http://www.apesmaslament.blogspot.com/

    Meanwhile, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports the following:

    Even as many wealthy nonprofit institutions — like museums and universities — are reporting record increases in contributions, other charities, especially those that provide direct services to the poor, are struggling to get donations and keep up with rapidly escalating demands for aid. Some veteran leaders of organizations that serve the needy say they have not faced such a tough time before in their nonprofit careers.

    Why? Well, as it turns out, most people aren’t doing so well, and the people who are tend to give to their own.

    “There are two tiers of income, and donors are in one tier or the other,” says Melissa S. Brown, associate director of research at Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. “Charities with donors in the top tier see big increases, and nonprofits whose donors are squeezed by lost income are feeling the pain.” …

    Colleges, hospitals, arts organizations, community foundations, and other wealthy institutions have in the past decade built their endowments and reserves to insulate themselves from economic fluctuations. In addition, such organizations have been hiring many new fund raisers to focus exclusively on seeking big gifts from wealthy people.

    And wealthy donors overwhelmingly prefer those types of institutions: A study released this month of more than 8,000 gifts of $1-million or more to 4,000 nonprofit organizations found that the largest share of those dollars, 44 percent, went to higher education, followed by hospitals and other medical institutions (16 percent), and arts and cultural organizations (12 percent). Social-service groups received just 5 percent of the dollars, according to the study by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research.

    A bit further down in the article comes this news from LA on how the homeless are doing.

    Other charities in Los Angeles are facing an even tougher time. Beyond Shelter, a Los Angeles charity that has focused on moving homeless families out of emergency shelters and into permanent homes, is struggling to meet payroll next month while trying to help a homeless population that has exploded in size in the past two years, according to Tanya Tull, the charity’s president.

    Ms. Tull says she has watched government support decline, while foundations that provided support in the past are making smaller and smaller grants to her charity because they are deluged with requests from other social-service groups.

    “Every agency we speak to is turning families away, and the shelters have been full all year,” she says. “I am seeing families with children sleeping in their cars, riding the bus all night, sitting in fast-food restaurants, just to have a place to be. This is a very, very sad thing to experience, after so many years when we thought we were getting a handle on the problem.”

    In her 25 years of working with the homeless, Ms. Tull says, “this is the worst I have ever seen in terms of the numbers of homeless families and the fact that the safety net is gone.”

    What’s this? I recently read that Los Angeles has halved their downtown homeless problem through a creepy combination of repressive policing and high-tech legerdemain. I guess that stuff doesn’t really work. Oh, wait, she’s talking about homeless families. They don’t count.

    The rich are having a big party, and we get to come and eat cake. No wait … the cake’s all gone. All they’re serving now is crumbs.

    Posted by Tim Harris at 12:10 AM 0 comments

    Labels: income inequality, New York Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

  32. 32

    Bush Hates Dolphins

    “Conservationists on Wednesday blasted President Bush’s decision to exempt the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using high-power sonar in its training off Southern California ….

    “Attorneys for the Natural Resources Defense Council said the group would challenge the exemption … in court.”

    http://archives.seattletimes.n.....ery=whales

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: What do you expect from the anti-environment president? I’ll bet he hates rabbits, too.

  36. 36

    @25 Roger Rabbit says:

    They’re B-A-A-A-C-K!!!

    That’s right, the sports thieves are trying to pick your pocket again!…Better yet, sell the Huskies to some rich guy who’ll move them to Tombstone, Arizona! They suck!!”

    ROFLMAO !!!

    Is all you can say “Screw ‘em!” ?

    Oh wait, you`re a rabbit. Never mind

  37. 37

    $150 million in public money for a new University stadium? That can NOT be right. We had a thread on University sports programs a while back and I criticized “big sports” programs as total wastes and drains on Universities. While they might be nice ‘team/character’ builders, that’s only available to 20 or 30 students out of 40,000. Not a great return on investment.

    But the point is, I was ASSURED, over and over that in fact these programs don’t pull money but GENERATE money for the University. I was told they’re fountains of cash and not a drain of funds. Yet, here we go again, turns out they’re not self sufficient, not even close, they need the public (who don’t go to the games) to cough up hundreds of millions for their ‘self sufficient’ little sports program, so 30 students can gain “teaming” skills. KISS MY ASS.

    And Go Hawkeyes!

  38. 38

    Headless Lucy AKA “Piper sucks so does PuddyPud”: One of your favorite terms is fuckan. We don’t welcome your latest incarnation.

  39. 39

    Proud Leftist: I don’t have to explain anything to you except God provides generously and mercifully. Ever heard of multi-tasking?

    You should know this, you claimed to be a Christian.

  40. 40

    Hey Headless Lucy you copied:”What’s this? I recently read that Los Angeles has halved their downtown homeless problem through a creepy combination of repressive policing and high-tech legerdemain.”

    Well who lives in LA? The rich movie moguls and the rich movie stars. Why are they not giving to charities?

    When the liberal MSM puts down certain people and promotes class warfare, eventually people say screw it. Continuous negativity does no one any good. I still give to my favorite charities but others can be turned off with class warfare.

  41. 41

    K: Still the moron I see. Henry L. Goddard must have known your parents.

  42. 42

    So K, by your definition if you post here a lot you are barely scratching out a living? Well you identified Goldy, and YLB – The Eugenics Project. How do you explain the others here a lot besides Pelletizer?

  44. 44

    This is sweeeeeeeeeet justice:

    Fair use and copyleft to the URL holder below:

    The group Unite Here, which represents 440,000 textile and hotel workers and is the parent union of the culinary workers’ organization, began running a Spanish-language radio spot in which, according to a translation provided by the Clinton campaign, a narrator says: “Hillary Clinton does not respect our people. Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from voting in their workplace on Saturday. This is unforgivable. Hillary Clinton is shameless.”

    The ad goes on tout Obama’s candidacy and his defense of workers’ rights.

    Chris Bohner, a representative of the culinary workers union, said the union’s leadership was deeply offended by the lawsuit.

    “We can’t think of a more negative and disgraceful political tactic than publicly supporting a lawsuit that would disenfranchise thousands of workers, bellhops, dishwashers, housekeepers, recent immigrants who’ve just become American citizens,” Bohner said. “The ad intends to point out the fact that the Clinton campaign is supporting this lawsuit, which is entirely appropriate, and we completely stand by the ad. We’ve waited for the Clinton campaign to denounce the lawsuit, and they didn’t.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....id=topnews

    Maybe people are going to understand the real NEW Progressive after all. All they have to do is visit this blog to see the 16%ers in action.

  46. 46

    Did Keith Olbermann say anything worthwhile on his show last night?

    No…… glad I missed it again.

  47. 47

    I’m sure we can all agree that military-service-related head trauma and/OR PTSD would have no effect on the later incidence of mental illness or drug and alcohol abuse among veterans. Right? Right?

  48. 48

    Proud Leftist: It’s Friday, I have to show my work to the gang. It’s not a slide show full of graphs, it’s actual activities, measurable by throughput. Can you say 10GE? The faster the throughput the better I get $$$$. Trust me the system is lightning fast!

    So Puddy will be back later.

  49. 49

    45 Pud

    You swallow any propaganda you are fed.

    Wikipedia:

    The abortion-breast cancer (ABC) hypothesis (also referred to by supporters as the abortion-breast cancer link) is a rejected hypothesis that posits a causal relationship between induced abortion and an increased risk of developing breast cancer.[1]

    I should mention that your article outlined only a correlation and not a causal relationship, which I am sure was out of the area of expertise of the Master of Arts who wrote it.

    Further Wikipedia with links to original source:

    A large epidemiological study by Mads Melbye et al. in 1997, with data from two national registries in Denmark, reported the correlation to be negligible to non-existent after statistical adjustment.[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8988884] The National Cancer Institute conducted a workshop with over 100 experts on the issue in February 2003, which determined from selected evidence that it was well-established that there was no correlative relationship between abortion and breast cancer, effectively refuting the causality hypothesis.[http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/ere-workshop-report] In 2004, Beral et al. published a collaborative reanalysis of 53 epidemiological studies and concluded that abortion does “not increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.”[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15051280]

    Telling people things that are not true is called lying.

  51. 51

    RR at 30: The UW Rowing team already got their new boathouse, a couple of years ago. Actually, its quite a nice investment. It also serves as a dormatory for the crew team (NCAA rules have an exception allowing the UW to have seperate dorms for crew athletes, due to the UW’s long history and tradition of such). Also, it serves as a great location for UW and community meetings and banquets. The Northwest Rowing Council recently had their year-end dinner there. Personally, I was glad to see that a sport other than football or basketball got the attention and facilities they deserve.

    As for the football stadium, it is in need of some refurbishment. Some are arguing to tear the whole thing down, turn the existing spot into a new 520 interchange and transit-station combo, and put up a new stadium a few blocks north-east of the current location. I think refurbishment is the better plan.

    But there is a huge difference between this proposal and the Sonic’s situation. For one, Husky Stadium is, and will continue to be, a public facility, and the team is not professional, it is amateur (well, aside from the obvious arguments on that issue). Most importantly, from what I understand the U.W. isn’t seeking a grant but financing, which will be eventually paid out of U.W. athletic department revenues (I could be wrong on that – I’m still absorbing the details). So I think it’s worth considering. But it’s also worth giving it a very hard look.

    (Fair disclosure: I got my graduate degree from the U.W., so I guess I’m an “alumni”, even though I don’t feel like one. The college where I received my undergraduate degree had a 95,000 seat stadium (expanded to over 100,000 after I left), but students could get tickets for only $2.00 each. You had to show your student ID to be able to use the ticket, to prevent scalping.

  52. 52

    @33
    Michael,
    Puddybud doesn’t care about facts. When the voices in his head tell him that abortion causes breast cancer, the voices are never wrong.

  53. 53

    The Sonics are also in the news again.

    You know how professional sports teams are always telling the communities that they have to expend huge amounts of public money for facilities controlled by the team, because they bring so much money into the local economy we can’t afford not to? It was a central argument used by the new Sonics owners when they tried to get Renton and the State legislature to pay for a new gilded arena (“I don’t feel the love yet, keep throwing money at me, maybe it will make a difference when I decide to leave….” NASCAR used a similar argument.

    But when they want to break a lease and the city sues them for “incidental damages”? Not so much.

    From the briefs filed by the Sonic’s lawyers:

    “The financial issue is simple, and the city’s analysts agree, there will be no net economic loss if the Sonics leave Seattle. Entertainment dollars not spent on the Sonics will be spent on Seattle’s many other sports and entertainment options. Seattleites will not reduce their entertainment budget simply because the Sonics leave.”

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....cs18m.html

    You have to wonder what Oklahoma City thinks about that – they are about to vote on a funding package for the team.

  54. 54

    Piper – Here is the promised epitaph for left-liberal progressive William O. Douglas, from Washington State, appointed to the Supreme Court by FDR:

    “As the term wore on, Janet Meik got to know the Court’s night staff of cleaning women, maintenance men and janitors. Where most clerks had treated them as invisible, she took an interest in their problems. The picture was bleak. Employees in the lower-echelon jobs were virtually all staffed with blacks, the upper-echelon jobs were nearly all white. Laborers and messengers were commonly asked to perform personal work for the Justices, particularly for Douglas, who insisted on using Court personnel to chauffeur him, serve at parties in his home, do grocery shopping, run personal errands, and transport his oriental rugs to storage at the Court each summer — all on their own time. …

    ” … (F)ear of being summarily fired for breaking something … workers had been seriously injured falling from rickety scaffolding used to clean the marble edifice. Hydrochloric acid, outlawed as a cleansing agent in most places, was still used … Discipline was severe and loyalty presumed. Slight deviations were dealt with by transfer or firing. There was no appeal, since the Court was exempt from the civil service laws. … Not my domain, (Thurgood) Marshall said. …”

    Fair use blah blah blah from THE BRETHREN: INSIDE THE SUPREME COURT
    Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong, Simon & Schuster, 1979/2005
    Pages 293 – 294, 2005 paperback edition

  55. 55

    @50…rhp6033…

    Ashamed to name your undergrad school? That its stadium seats 100K suggests you’re from the Big 10? If so your shame can be lived down…or anesthitized with whatever today’s offering is from Lee’s stash.

    If it’s not a Big 10 school, it won’t be held against you.

    A $2 ticket is pretty close to 10-cents a dance. Were your seats in the same county as the actual game?

    the Piper

  56. 56

    @53…E & P…

    Good to hear from you again!

    The good ol’ liberal plantation at work!

    Curious as to who cleans the toilets and pulls weeds at John Edwards’ place? To what union do they belong? Are they paid middle-class wages and benefits? Are their children offered college scholarships by the boss man?

    Something I learned eons ago while still working in labor relations for the SEIU and thinking about practicing law was that I found out the worst employers were always liberals. The more liberal they were, the worse they were as employers. They thought you ought to work for next to nothing since “the cause” was more important. And no abuse was out of bounds since “the cause” was entitled to my blood.

    I remember the passage about Douglas…Except I can’t remember which of his hotty wives was the beneficiary. There were so many of them and he always seemed to discard them like some people discard a used tissue.

    Somewhere along the line I believe some wag developed an algorithmic formula to calculate the age of his next wife with the correct answer always younger than the last one even as he got increasingly old. Really, how creepy was his obsession with co-ed cuties? These days, he’d be hounded off the bench and lynched by a coalition of feminist organizations.

    No wonder he spent his latter years in Goose Prarie!

    The Piper

  57. 57

    Instead of empty and fact-free insinuation, why don’t you find out and tell us “who cleans the toilets and pulls weeds at John Edwards’ place?”

  58. 58

    Apologies for the delay in getting Woodward from SPL.

    YLB or an unreasonable facsimile wrote yesterday that President Reagan was psychotic. Here’s something apropos via Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: “To his mind, two presidents in a row—Johnson and Nixon—had ‘very bizarre psyches,’ and he fears that Carter ‘may also turn out to be another weirdo.’ After he meets Gary Hart in 1987, he writes, ‘I don’t think the republic can afford another weird President.'” ( http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20774 )

    The New York Review review of ASJ’s Journals tells us that George McGovern voted for Ford in 1976, and that Schlesinger refused to vote again for Carter in 1980.

    YLB also wrote yesterday that President Truman was so tender-hearted toward the women and children of Japan that he refused to drop a third bomb on them in 1945. Nobody else known to me has said or implied that we had a third bomb in 1945.

    Our little stockpile of Fat Man & Little Boy, after the successful test of 16 July 1945, was the only stockpile we had. That’s why leftist assertions — that Truman used our nuclear monopoly as a strategic blackmail against poor dear Stalin — were risible: There was nothing more in our monopoly stockpile almost up to the moment that the USSR blew its own A-bomb in 1948 or 1949.

  59. 59

    45 Hey, Pudknocker…if you’d bothered to actually read and comprehend the article you cited (instead of just plugging in the link provided by whoever’s paying you to troll here), you’d see that the authors specifically cite the well-established effect of breastfeeding in protecting women against breast cancer. So, the issue whether or not women had kids and nursed them when they were young, not the circumstances of the women who didn’t have babies.

    So, what would you advocate? Saving women from breast cancer by keeping them all barefoot and pregnant through what might have been their college years? I doubt that many would find that an acceptable solution.

  60. 60

    @59

    Now don’t be mean. Republicans just don’t understand science/math/reality. They’re “faith based”. The difference between correlation and causation is too difficult for them to grasp. Just say it’s what Jesus wanted and leave it at that. Trying to argue with facts will get you no where.

  61. 61

    “Conservatives tend to blame their travails on Republican politicians’ missteps and especially on their inability to communicate. But the public’s unhappiness with Republicans goes much deeper than any such explanation. A mishandled war, coupled with intellectual exhaustion on the domestic front, has soured the public on them. It is not just the politicians but conservative voters themselves who are out of touch with the public, stuck in the glory days of the 1980s and not thinking nearly enough about how to make their principles relevant to the concerns of today. Unforeseen events could yet change the political environment radically. As it stands, Republicans are sleep-walking into catastrophe.” Lowry & Ponnuru, National Review, 19 November 2007.

    Dittoes.

    David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, was on Glenn Beck this morning. The unfunded mandate from GWB’s Medicare prescription drugs is currently projected at $8 Trillion, a very high price to pay for buying Florida’s electoral votes.

    Conservative rightly castigate the $6-7 Trillion price tag of the Johnson-Nixon Great Society, which may or may not have put a dent in poverty, depending on the elasticity of the definition of poor. So we’ve now tied unfunded drugs around our ankles to enhance the plunge as we walk off the cliff.

    The Medicare drug liability is close to the often-lamented unfunded liability of Social Security that GWB was going to fix with the political capital he earned in November 2004. Social Security and drugs, alas, are among the least of our problems. All of Medicare is unfunded in multiples of tens of trillions of dollars. The total Total for Medicare, Medicare drugs, and Social Security is c. $50 Trillion, a point to ponder while cashing your $250 stimulus windfall.

    Like Rush, we must be zoned on Oxy.

  62. 62

    @56: “They thought you ought to work for next to nothing since ‘the cause’ was more important. And no abuse was out of bounds since ‘the cause’ was entitled to my blood.”

    Our leftist HA brethren must love the Leninist cadence of your comment.

  63. 63

    60 “(Conservatives) just say it’s what Jesus wanted and leave it at that.”

    That’s their first, and worst, misconception.

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    Daddy Love: I can’t read? Or you don’t like to look at facts?

    If you abort the baby what’s there to breast feed? The saddened boyfriend, husband, affair mate?

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    Lee#52: I didn’t post abortion and breast cancer until later.

    Sucks to be you…

    Sometimes I put stuff on the board for discussion purposes cuz reading Pelletizer pellets gets boooooooooriiiiiiiiiing!

    Especially when Darryl the thread policeman doesn’t police the Pelletizer crap…

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