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>I Curse you. > You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. > You are a pedophile. Deal with it. > — > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Yes, Mr Vulva has a lot to answer for.

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>I Curse you. >You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. >You are a pedophile. Deal with it.

LV doesn’t live here anymore.  If you want to try for his attention try alt.guitar where he’s been posting and where his Curse Osama was first posted before Chief Billy thought it a good idea to cross-post. — Ken Wilson

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>I Curse you. >You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. >You are a pedophile. Deal with it.

EL Kabong?

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> >I Curse you. >You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. >You are a pedophile. Deal with it. > EL Kabong?

   all hail lord vomit.    all hail (president) mini hitler    you better vote this time, or    expect more of the same.               –mykey

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I Curse you. >You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. >You are a pedophile. Deal with it. > LV doesn’t live here anymore.  If you want to try for his attention > try alt.guitar where he’s been posting and where his Curse Osama was > first posted before Chief Billy thought it a good idea to cross-post. > — > Ken Wilson

And isn’t that just Pathetically sad?  The old, fat, ignorant fool is SOOO desperate for attention he has to post there, even though he doesn’t even PLAY guitar, and knows absolutely nothing about them! Worse yet, he continues to whine about the cesspool of AGA, when it was he, himself who was the number one turd floating around there! Some things NEVER change! cheers… HJA

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >I Curse you. > >You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. > >You are a pedophile. Deal with it. > LV doesn’t live here anymore.  If you want to try for his attention > try alt.guitar where he’s been posting and where his Curse Osama was > first posted before Chief Billy thought it a good idea to cross-post. > — > Ken Wilson > And isn’t that just Pathetically sad?  The old, fat, ignorant fool is > SOOO desperate for attention he has to post there, even though he > doesn’t even PLAY guitar, and knows absolutely nothing about them! > Worse yet, he continues to whine about the cesspool of AGA, when it was > he, himself who was the number one turd floating around there! > Some things NEVER change! > cheers… > HJA

Actually I heard that Lard Fart Valve died and it’s really his son   posting at alt.guitar since he *does* play guitar and because the family wants to preserve the evil spirit of the Gaseous Gaseous Buffoon on the internet in order to sell off his leftover tubes.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > >I Curse you. > > >You support republicans, who are all about gay pedophilia. > > >You are a pedophile. Deal with it. > > LV doesn’t live here anymore.  If you want to try for his attention > > try alt.guitar where he’s been posting and where his Curse Osama was > > first posted before Chief Billy thought it a good idea to cross-post. > > — > > Ken Wilson > And isn’t that just Pathetically sad?  The old, fat, ignorant fool is > SOOO desperate for attention he has to post there, even though he > doesn’t even PLAY guitar, and knows absolutely nothing about them! > Worse yet, he continues to whine about the cesspool of AGA, when it was > he, himself who was the number one turd floating around there! > Some things NEVER change! > cheers… > HJA > Actually I heard that Lard Fart Valve died and it’s really his son > posting at alt.guitar since he *does* play guitar and because the > family wants to preserve the evil spirit of the Gaseous Gaseous Buffoon > on the internet in order to sell off his leftover tubes.

He certainly was sickly, wasn’t he?  That’ll happen when one lives a completely undisciplined life.  One can only hope he was on the first floor when it happened, for the sake of the poor Paramedics.

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Lessee… One Pennsylvania pedophile, one NOLA based wingnut former tech, and an effeminate lardass Canuck. An unholy trinity of talent free trolls, happily sucking UP bandwidth, and OFF one another. Hey! Where’s your moonbat-in-chief? Why aren’t you feeding at this trough Mulay? The four of you together might add up to one complete retard. Wait, that’s unfair to the retards… You guys are a fuckin’ joke. CV

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> Lessee… > One Pennsylvania pedophile, one NOLA based wingnut former tech, and an > effeminate lardass Canuck. > An unholy trinity of talent free trolls, happily sucking UP bandwidth, > and OFF one another. Hey! Where’s your moonbat-in-chief? Why aren’t you > feeding at this trough Mulay? > The four of you together might add up to one complete retard. Wait, > that’s unfair to the retards… > You guys are a fuckin’ joke. > CV

oh, it’s LV.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall October 9, 2006 02:00 AM > The Bush-Cheney policy on North Korea was always what Fareed Zakaria > once aptly called "a policy of cheap rhetoric and cheap shots." It > failed. … > www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010275.php > North Korean Foreign Policy and the Bush Administration > Kim was visiting the US to seek Bush’s support for the so-called > "Sunshine Policy" of peace and reconciliation with North Korea, a work > which won Kim the … > www.hereinreality.com/news/koreanflipflop.html > Asia Times – News and analysis from Korea; North and South > But for now, three years in, we finally know what the Bush > administration’s North Korea policy is. It is a shambles, and a > disgrace. … > www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EK26Dg01.html > Why the Bush Policy Is Failing in North Korea > Bush

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Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. Any information is welcome… Tim

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> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 > Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. > Any information is welcome… > Tim

What Marshall?  Tempermental can be addressed by a visit to a competent tech.  He will go through it and make it more even tempered, no extra charge.  These things don’t run forever without maintenance. If you can’t find a good tech, maybe someone here will recommend someone. Where are you located? Sorry, can’t help with the Mesa.

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>Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 >Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. >Any information is welcome… >Tim

If your Marshall is temperamental, why not get it fixed?

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>Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 >Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. >Any information is welcome… >Tim > If your Marshall is temperamental, why not get it fixed?

Because he’s afraid that when it’s neutered, it will loose it’s bark.  OTOH, maybe he can get it repaired ;~}

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 >>Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. >>Any information is welcome… >>Tim > If your Marshall is temperamental, why not get it fixed? >Because he’s afraid that when it’s neutered, it will loose it’s bark.  

Or worse…. turn it into a Chihuahua!!!  Hua Hua. It didn’t quiet my dog down any. >OTOH,  maybe he can get it repaired ;~}

Seems like the humane thing to do.   Even if he does buy a Mesa Spike Heal amp. Pete

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> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 > Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. > Any information is welcome…

I own one of the original Stiletto Deuce amps; Mesa recently reworked some of the channel modes on what they are offering now due to customer feedback and my guess is that it’s an improvement. Based on my experience with the older version, it’s a good amp and very versatile but some of the modes are not very useful.  Fat Clean is waaaaaay too heavy.  Single coils sound good in the dirty channel (2nd channel) using only the Fluid Drive mode; my Strat has the capacity to make you go blind using either the Crunch or Tite Lead mode there as it’s ridiculously bright; humbuckers do well using Tite Lead. The clean channel, using Tite Cleanm is my favorite and I use that with the tube rectifier setting more than anything else, choosing to use a clean boost pedal to boost it up when I want dirtier sounds.  My Les Paul is pretty much the only guitar I use with the dirty channel (as described above) and that works out nicely. If I were to do it over and were looking to spend that kind of money on an amp, I would probably look at the new Stilettos but also check out some other brands as well.  Likewise, if the Marshall is giving you problems outside of having to crank the heck out of it to get a sound you want, I’d take it to a tech.

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Speaking of rectifier settings……One of my amps is a first year Mesa Maverick 1X12 4Xel84, 35 watts. I have always loved this amp but…….when I switch between the SS rectifier and the tube rectifier, I cannot hear any difference. Granted I have a 75% hearing loss in one ear (not music related), but what should I hear doing an AB with the switch? Yes, I read the manual, perhaps it’s something subtle? I CAN hear the difference in my pro reverb ultralinear, and a super with rectifier tube through the same speakers.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 > Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. > Any information is welcome… > I own one of the original Stiletto Deuce amps; Mesa recently reworked > some of the channel modes on what they are offering now due to customer > feedback and my guess is that it’s an improvement. > Based on my experience with the older version, it’s a good amp and very > versatile but some of the modes are not very useful.  Fat Clean is > waaaaaay too heavy.  Single coils sound good in the dirty channel (2nd > channel) using only the Fluid Drive mode; my Strat has the capacity to > make you go blind using either the Crunch or Tite Lead mode there as > it’s ridiculously bright; humbuckers do well using Tite Lead. > The clean channel, using Tite Cleanm is my favorite and I use that with > the tube rectifier setting more than anything else, choosing to use a > clean boost pedal to boost it up when I want dirtier sounds.  My Les > Paul is pretty much the only guitar I use with the dirty channel (as > described above) and that works out nicely. > If I were to do it over and were looking to spend that kind of money on > an amp, I would probably look at the new Stilettos but also check out > some other brands as well.  Likewise, if the Marshall is giving you > problems outside of having to crank the heck out of it to get a sound > you want, I’d take it to a tech.

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> Speaking of rectifier settings……One of my amps is a first year Mesa > Maverick 1X12 4Xel84, 35 watts. I have always loved this amp but…….when > I switch between the SS rectifier and the tube rectifier, I cannot hear any > difference. Granted I have a 75% hearing loss in one ear (not music > related), but what should I hear doing an AB with the switch? Yes, I read > the manual, perhaps it’s something subtle? I CAN hear the difference in my > pro reverb ultralinear, and a super with rectifier tube through the same > speakers.

It’s less of something you hear and more something you feel when you play.   There is an audible difference overall between the two, but it’s fairly subtle in the way of a little less volume and maybe a little less high end depending on how loud you have your amp cranked up and how much gain you’re using.  Try playing clean or with the amp moderately distorting; that’s where I notice the most difference and find tube rectifiers to be "mushy" when playing with high gain settings. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a > 1973 > > Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. > > Any information is welcome… > I own one of the original Stiletto Deuce amps; Mesa recently reworked > some of the channel modes on what they are offering now due to customer > feedback and my guess is that it’s an improvement. > Based on my experience with the older version, it’s a good amp and very > versatile but some of the modes are not very useful.  Fat Clean is > waaaaaay too heavy.  Single coils sound good in the dirty channel (2nd > channel) using only the Fluid Drive mode; my Strat has the capacity to > make you go blind using either the Crunch or Tite Lead mode there as > it’s ridiculously bright; humbuckers do well using Tite Lead. > The clean channel, using Tite Cleanm is my favorite and I use that with > the tube rectifier setting more than anything else, choosing to use a > clean boost pedal to boost it up when I want dirtier sounds.  My Les > Paul is pretty much the only guitar I use with the dirty channel (as > described above) and that works out nicely. > If I were to do it over and were looking to spend that kind of money on > an amp, I would probably look at the new Stilettos but also check out > some other brands as well.  Likewise, if the Marshall is giving you > problems outside of having to crank the heck out of it to get a sound > you want, I’d take it to a tech.

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> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 > Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud..

 Most 73 Marshalls are tempermental.  I had a 72 that sounded like a pissed off rottweiler when pushed hard, not that that’s a bad sound. winnard

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Would that be a male or female rottweiler? My old Marshall sounds sweet when pushed…I think it’s female.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a 1973 > Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. >  Most 73 Marshalls are tempermental.  I had a 72 that sounded like a pissed > off rottweiler when pushed hard, not that that’s a bad sound. > winnard

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I fucked her. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Would that be a male or female rottweiler? My old Marshall sounds sweet when > pushed…I think it’s female. >> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a > 1973 >> Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. >  Most 73 Marshalls are tempermental.  I had a 72 that sounded like a > pissed > off rottweiler when pushed hard, not that that’s a bad sound. > winnard

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And here I thought it was a leaky cap!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I fucked her. > Would that be a male or female rottweiler? My old Marshall sounds sweet when > pushed…I think it’s female. >>> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a > 1973 >>> Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. >>  Most 73 Marshalls are tempermental.  I had a 72 that sounded like a > pissed >> off rottweiler when pushed hard, not that that’s a bad sound. >> winnard

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He admits to screwin’ the pooch. I suspected as much. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >And here I thought it was a leaky cap! > I fucked her. > > Would that be a male or female rottweiler? My old Marshall sounds sweet >when > > pushed…I think it’s female. > >>> Am interested in the popular sentiment on this amp.  Currently own a > > 1973 > >>> Marshall – amp is a little temperamental so I am just thinking aloud.. > >>  Most 73 Marshalls are tempermental.  I had a 72 that sounded like a > > pissed > >> off rottweiler when pushed hard, not that that’s a bad sound. > >> winnard

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I saw this ad for a vox ac30 and was wondering what you guys think. Too good to be true? Let me know what to watch out for and if there is any way to verify the authenticity of the amp. Thanks! http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/msg/181324514.html

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> I saw this ad for a vox ac30 and was wondering what you guys think. Too > good to be true? Let me know what to watch out for and if there is any > way to verify the authenticity of the amp. Thanks!

Real Vox…Looks to me like a RoseMorris production era model…somewhere nearer to 79-81 production…..price is average if everything is working. Soundwise…they are okay. They won’t get the classic AC30 tone…but it’s pretty good. They have a Solid State Rectifier, have a lot of pre tubes…9 total (including the TopBoost Circuit). If you are putting a lot of hours on the amp replacement will start costing you. They road fairly well, and are not as poorly constructed as the originals were. The speakers are not the cherished Bulldogs and are missing the plastic speaker covers. They sound okay…I actually like them. There a few people about (Like ToneMan in LA) who will convert this amp to a true AC30 spec…which puts it after the conversion in the same price point as a 90’s reissue. Still as I said they are pretty good amps as they are.

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Depends on what is asked for it.  It does look like LATER Rose Morris work, then built by Custom Sound (HI BARRY!). Early RM/Pr1mo stuff had the wanker wood inserts on the side that held the chassis in place, mid units had the silver ANNV cardboard sticker (of which I attached every 1) yet were no diff.  Not a bad amp, NOT AC30 tone, but give them a good (!!) set of tubes, and it makes no excuses. JJTj – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I saw this ad for a vox ac30 and was wondering what you guys think. Too > good to be true? Let me know what to watch out for and if there is any > way to verify the authenticity of the amp. Thanks! >Real Vox…Looks to me like a RoseMorris production era model…somewhere >nearer to 79-81 production…..price is average if everything is working. >Soundwise…they are okay. They won’t get the classic AC30 tone…but it’s >pretty good. They have a Solid State Rectifier, have a lot of pre tubes…9 >total (including the TopBoost Circuit). If you are putting a lot of hours >on the amp replacement will start costing you. >They road fairly well, and are not as poorly constructed as the originals >were. The speakers are not the cherished Bulldogs and are missing the >plastic speaker covers. They sound okay…I actually like them. >There a few people about (Like ToneMan in LA) who will convert this amp to >a true AC30 spec…which puts it after the conversion in the same price >point as a 90’s reissue. Still as I said they are pretty good amps as they >are.

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>I saw this ad for a vox ac30 and was wondering what you guys think. Too >good to be true? Let me know what to watch out for and if there is any >way to verify the authenticity of the amp. Thanks! >http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/msg/181324514.html

Looks like the circuit board has been replaced? The two yellow caps off to the right sort of look like modern production IC’s (Illinios Capactior)??? Suspect a hack job perhaps…

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> And somehow we’re supposed to be feel bad about the way we treat > illegals?????? Read this and see how Mexico treats legal non-native > residents…. > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/

What an evil reporter. To even suggest that another country besides the USA might not be perfect.

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>> And somehow we’re supposed to be feel bad about the way we treat > illegals?????? Read this and see how Mexico treats legal non-native > residents…. > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/ >What an evil reporter. >To even suggest that another country besides >the USA might not be perfect.

Did you read that article? Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants to Mexico with their expectations as to how we here in the US treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate northward… The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them.

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I especially like the quota Mexico has against the importation of certain items from China. Did you know there are more PHDs in Botany in Mexico than in the US???

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> Did you read that article? > Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants > to Mexico

My experience is that Mexico treats legal immigrants just fine, thank you. Most white folks who immigrate there are expatriate retirees who have little interest in taking Mexican jobs, let alone learning enough Spanish and the details of Mexican politics to run for office. BTW, there’s several hundred thousand of them. Once they learn the ropes and get used to the cheap prices, nice climate, hospitable people and good food, few of them leave. Go to Ensenada, San Miguel and Puerto Vallarta, visit some of them. There are Americans and Canadians who emigrate to Mexico to start businesses, and so long as they put Mexicans to work, most of them do just fine, too. Some Americans de facto illegally immigrate by abusing Mexico’s lenient tourist-visa system.  > with their expectations as to how we here in the US  > treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate  > northward… Most of these laws are in place to keep Central and South Americans from immigrating and taking the $50/week jobs many Mexicans have to put up with, thus encouraging more Mexicans to emigrate to the USA. Those laws also help prevent further illegal immgration to the USA by Central and South Americans, by denying them an easy stopover oasis in Mexico. So they’re doing YOU a favor. But you are comparing apples with oranges here. The USA is the world’s richest country. Mexico is a developing country with resources the Mexicans need to conserve, lest the IMF and the World Bank cut off their credit and create a real mess neither us nor the Mexicans  want. The Mexican federal government’s budget is less than the state budget of California. There are plenty of second-generation immigrants and foriegn investment in Mexico. Italian-Mexicans run much of the dairy business. German Mennonites grow much of the grain. The richest guy in the country (Carlos Slim) is a Lebanese-Mexican. Salma Hayek is half Lebanese. Irish Mexicans (los San Patricios) have a statue in their honor. Mexico City has over 100 Japanese restaurants. You can get Chinese food in the Mexico City airport. The guy who used to read the news on Televisa was a Polish Jew. The best selling tequila salt is "kosher pareve" (so people can chug Cuervo shots at seder, I presume). When Mexicans let any old immigrant buy land and run for office, rich white guys like William Randolph Hearst came in and nearly bought the whole country up from poverty stricken Indians for pennies and reduced  90% of the  population to plantation peonage labor. That’s what the Mexican Revolution was about. Look it up. > The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that > the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location > of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the > corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people > want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them.

Really? I think that idea was brought up about 150 years ago. As soon as someone brought up the topic of having to sign treaties with a metric pile of different indigenous tribes and giving them all "border rights" (ask your local Chippewa, Kickapoo, Iroquois or Canadian about how that works), President Polk thought that might be a problem, so he compromised by signing off on the current border (less the Gadsen Purchase). You think there’s too much drug traffic in the US? Imagine if the southern border was the Darien Gap in Panama! Golly, why don’t you collect FARC and the Cali Cartel and give ‘em all green cards, while you’re at it? — Ned Carlson SW side of Chicago, USA www.tubezone.net

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Claude V. Lucas needs ‘grip’ It’s an aging AGA neocon queen thing ;-) . ick. tick tick tick 11/08

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> You think there’s too much drug traffic in the US? Imagine > if the southern border was the Darien Gap in Panama! > Golly, why don’t you collect FARC and the Cali Cartel > and give ‘em all green cards, while you’re at it? > — > Ned Carlson > SW side of Chicago, USA > www.tubezone.net

Interesting post Ned, although actually knowing something about the subject under discussion is generally not the way it’s done in a.g.a., most posters here preferring uninformed emotion.  ;^)

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Did you read that article? > Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants > to Mexico >My experience is that Mexico treats legal immigrants just fine, >thank you. Most white folks who immigrate there are expatriate >retirees who have little interest in taking Mexican jobs, >let alone learning enough Spanish and the details of Mexican >politics to run for office. BTW, there’s several hundred >thousand of them. Once they learn the ropes and get used to the >cheap prices, nice climate, hospitable people and good food, >few of them leave. Go to Ensenada, San Miguel and Puerto Vallarta, >visit some of them. >There are Americans and Canadians who emigrate to Mexico to start >businesses, and so long as they put Mexicans to work, most >of them do just fine, too. Some Americans de facto illegally >immigrate by abusing Mexico’s lenient tourist-visa >system.

Right. Mexico is being overrun by illegal American wetbacks. > with their expectations as to how we here in the US > treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate > northward… >Most of these laws are in place to keep Central and South >Americans from immigrating and taking the $50/week jobs >many Mexicans have to put up with, thus encouraging more >Mexicans to emigrate to the USA. Those laws also help >prevent further illegal immgration to the USA by Central >and South Americans, by denying them an easy stopover >oasis in Mexico. So they’re doing YOU a favor.

Horseshit. The Mexican oligarchy is forcing thier undesirable and excess poor population to migrate northward and the American kleptocracy is embracing the cheap labor. >But you are comparing apples with oranges here. The USA >is the world’s richest country. Mexico is a developing >country with resources the Mexicans need to conserve, lest >the IMF and the World Bank cut off their credit and create >a real mess neither us nor the Mexicans  want. The >Mexican federal government’s budget is less than the >state budget of California.

The current Mexican Government exists for the sole reason of enriching those that are in control to the detriment of the general population and deserves to be abolished. If the Mexican people had any huevos, they’d be hanging the thieves in the street instead of sneaking under the wire. >There are plenty of second-generation immigrants and >foriegn investment in Mexico. >Italian-Mexicans run much of the dairy business. German Mennonites >grow much of the grain. The richest guy in the country (Carlos Slim) >is a Lebanese-Mexican. Salma Hayek is half Lebanese. >Irish Mexicans (los San Patricios) have a statue in their honor. >Mexico City has over 100 Japanese restaurants. You can get >Chinese food in the Mexico City airport. The guy who used to >read the news on Televisa was a Polish Jew. The best selling >tequila salt is "kosher pareve" (so people can chug Cuervo >shots at seder, I presume).

So? >When Mexicans let any old immigrant buy land and run for office, >rich white guys like William Randolph Hearst came in and >nearly bought the whole country up from poverty stricken >Indians for pennies and reduced  90% of the  population to >plantation peonage labor. >That’s what the Mexican Revolution was about. Look it up.

They need to redo it. Soon. Or else become a US territory. Look *that* up. > The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that > the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location > of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the > corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people > want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them. >Really? I think that idea was brought up about 150 years ago. >As soon as someone brought up the topic of having to sign treaties >with a metric pile of different indigenous tribes and giving them all >"border rights" (ask your local Chippewa, Kickapoo, Iroquois >or Canadian about how that works), President Polk thought that >might be a problem, so he compromised by signing off on the >current border (less the Gadsen Purchase).

It was a mistake to not stay there when we were in Mexico City then. It was a mistake that ought to be rectified. Sooner rather than later. >You think there’s too much drug traffic in the US? Imagine >if the southern border was the Darien Gap in Panama! >Golly, why don’t you collect FARC and the Cali Cartel >and give ‘em all green cards, while you’re at it?

Somehow I don’t think that the drug cartels will have as easy a time buying the US Army and the DEA that they do with their current partners in the Mexican Government.

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> Somehow I don’t think that the drug cartels will have as > easy a time buying the US Army and the DEA that they > do with their current partners in the Mexican Government.

That was done a L-O-N-G time ago, at the heads of state level between S.& L. America and D.C. In the name of fending off Communism, we provided arms and ‘advisors’ while looking the other way, re; the $hundreds of millions in drug money payoffs amassed by S.& L. American El Presidentes and their Hener-als. El Salvador during Ronnie’s fantasy. You’re creepy blind to reality ‘ol Spa-ster, -but you do amuse. :-)

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drug cartels are run by our own CIA as well. It all just depends on if it’s in our own best interests at the time. Iran Contra?

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Ned must be a Chicago red diaper baby ;) . YOu tell em Ned. Clobber them with the facts!!!

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Keith Olbermann outed The Move America Backwards crew as being Republican shills. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/08/24.html#a4616 Max Blumenthal has a great post on them and the phony "Iraq picture" man hmself, Kaloogian shows up. http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2005/02/calling-kettle-black-ethica… http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/003008.html "If Kaloogian wants to fight corruption, he should get up, turn the light on, and take a look in his own slimy bed. After all, Move America Forward’s "Chief Strategist," Sal Russo, who handled Bill Simon’s hapless 2002 gubernatorial campaign, is knee-deep in unethical business dealings and scandals." "That’s right. Move America Forward’s Sal Russo ran tax shelters and bilked campaign donors out of $200,000. Oh, and then there’s the little thing about Russo and Simon being in bed with a major drug trafficker, something they still can’t explain. Simon struggles with an explanation for why he, a former federal prosecutor, did not know that the company president with whom he was going into business, Paul Edward Hindelang, was in fact a convicted major drug trafficker…. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050126-114931-1687r.htm U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have seized a U.S. oil company and 43 oil wells in Pennsylvania, as well as numerous trusts and bank accounts in Europe, as part of a 13-year investigation into a $70 million money-laundering scheme.  ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said the company and the wells, valued at $6.5 million, were owned by Shaboom Oil Inc., headquartered in Phoenix – a subsidiary of Shaboom Investments Inc. in Panama. Along with the wells, the seizure included 1,100 acres of land in the Allegheny National Forest in northwest Pennsylvania. Mr. Boyd said ICE agents, beginning over the weekend, seized all the ownership shares in Shaboom Investments, along with the assets affiliated with Yately Investments Ltd. in Monaco, including bank accounts at Merrill Lynch and HSBC Republic Bank in Monaco. Also seized were accounts at the Children’s Assistance Trust, Broadhurst Development Corp., Quantum Endowment Fund NV, Quantum Industrial Holdings Ltd., Asian Infrastructure Development Holdings Ltd.; Dolphin Fund PLC, and an account at Barclay’s Bank PLC in Monaco under the name of Quadrangle Nominees Ltd. Mr. Boyd said ICE agents, along with Investigators from the Monroe County, Pa., Sheriff’s Office, located the assets after the money-laundering probe determined they had been purchased with illegal drug proceeds. A federal court in Miami had ordered them forfeited to the U.S. government. In total, ICE and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office have seized and turned over more than $70 million as part of the ongoing investigation.     The seizures were based on a 1981 guilty plea by Paul Edward Hindelang, who operated one of the nation’s largest marijuana smuggling operations in the late 1970s. He pleaded guilty to importing 250 tons of marijuana and conspiring to import an additional 150,000 pounds of marijuana into Florida, Louisiana and other states. As part of his plea agreement, Hindelang agreed to forfeit $640,000 to U.S. authorities.     Mr. Boyd said that several years later, ICE agents learned Hindelang had hidden millions of dollars worth of drug funds in overseas accounts. Working with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, ICE began "Operation Cash Extraction" in 1992 to track down Hindelang’s hidden funds. The Weekly engaged in an amusing e-mail exchange with Russo, who finally refused to answer when asked why Simon was not suing Deloitte for failing to red-flag Hindelang’s criminal past in its report. (Deloitte is Simon’s accounting firm, by the way). So why is a guy who bilked donors, did business with drug traffickers and was successfully sued by his former clients coordinating a demagogic campaign accusing the UN of corruption? Could it be, um, money? Nah They also put together that Creepy Caravan bus tour to try and fend off Cindy Sheehan down in Texas. MAF also produced phony commercials about WMD’s being in Iraq.

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courageously avow: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> And somehow we’re supposed to be feel bad about the way we treat >> illegals?????? Read this and see how Mexico treats legal non-native >> residents…. >> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/ >What an evil reporter. >To even suggest that another country besides >the USA might not be perfect. >Did you read that article? >Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants >to Mexico with their expectations as to how we here in the US >treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate >northward… >The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that >the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location >of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the >corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people >want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them.

If you are going to abolish corrupt governments you better start with the leader of the pack, your own.  After that just let the Mexicans keep taking California back.  They promise once that is complete all that’s left is the Alamo and after that they’ll leave you alone. Ken Wilson

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courageously avow: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Did you read that article? >> Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants >> to Mexico >My experience is that Mexico treats legal immigrants just fine, >thank you. Most white folks who immigrate there are expatriate >retirees who have little interest in taking Mexican jobs, >let alone learning enough Spanish and the details of Mexican >politics to run for office. BTW, there’s several hundred >thousand of them. Once they learn the ropes and get used to the >cheap prices, nice climate, hospitable people and good food, >few of them leave. Go to Ensenada, San Miguel and Puerto Vallarta, >visit some of them. >There are Americans and Canadians who emigrate to Mexico to start >businesses, and so long as they put Mexicans to work, most >of them do just fine, too. Some Americans de facto illegally >immigrate by abusing Mexico’s lenient tourist-visa >system. >Right. >Mexico is being overrun by illegal American wetbacks. > > with their expectations as to how we here in the US > > treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate > > northward… >Most of these laws are in place to keep Central and South >Americans from immigrating and taking the $50/week jobs >many Mexicans have to put up with, thus encouraging more >Mexicans to emigrate to the USA. Those laws also help >prevent further illegal immgration to the USA by Central >and South Americans, by denying them an easy stopover >oasis in Mexico. So they’re doing YOU a favor. >Horseshit. >The Mexican oligarchy is forcing thier undesirable and >excess poor population to migrate northward and the >American kleptocracy is embracing the cheap labor.

Yeah.  Don’t you just love how the Republicans love their electorate. These same jackasses that are giving your jobs away to illegal immigrants are the same ones exporting them to other countries as well.  Don’t you know you need a large population of useless unemployed crackers to keep a military well stocked with fodder. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->But you are comparing apples with oranges here. The USA >is the world’s richest country. Mexico is a developing >country with resources the Mexicans need to conserve, lest >the IMF and the World Bank cut off their credit and create >a real mess neither us nor the Mexicans  want. The >Mexican federal government’s budget is less than the >state budget of California. >The current  American >Government exists for the sole reason of >enriching those that are in control to the detriment >of the general population and deserves to be abolished. >If the  American >people had any huevos, they’d be hanging >the thieves in the street instead of

fighting their illegal war. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->There are plenty of second-generation immigrants and >foriegn investment in Mexico. >Italian-Mexicans run much of the dairy business. German Mennonites >grow much of the grain. The richest guy in the country (Carlos Slim) >is a Lebanese-Mexican. Salma Hayek is half Lebanese. >Irish Mexicans (los San Patricios) have a statue in their honor. >Mexico City has over 100 Japanese restaurants. You can get >Chinese food in the Mexico City airport. The guy who used to >read the news on Televisa was a Polish Jew. The best selling >tequila salt is "kosher pareve" (so people can chug Cuervo >shots at seder, I presume). >So? >When Mexicans let any old immigrant buy land and run for office, >rich white guys like William Randolph Hearst came in and >nearly bought the whole country up from poverty stricken >Indians for pennies and reduced  90% of the  population to >plantation peonage labor. >That’s what the Mexican Revolution was about. Look it up. >They need to redo it. >Soon. >Or else become a US territory.

Mexico already has enough problems, why would they do something stupid like that. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Look *that* up. >> The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that >> the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location >> of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the >> corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people >> want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them. >Really? I think that idea was brought up about 150 years ago. >As soon as someone brought up the topic of having to sign treaties >with a metric pile of different indigenous tribes and giving them all >"border rights" (ask your local Chippewa, Kickapoo, Iroquois >or Canadian about how that works), President Polk thought that >might be a problem, so he compromised by signing off on the >current border (less the Gadsen Purchase). >It was a mistake to not stay there when we were in Mexico City then. >It was a mistake that ought to be rectified. >Sooner rather than later. >You think there’s too much drug traffic in the US? Imagine >if the southern border was the Darien Gap in Panama! >Golly, why don’t you collect FARC and the Cali Cartel >and give ‘em all green cards, while you’re at it? >Somehow I don’t think that the drug cartels will have as >easy a time buying the US Army and the DEA that they >do with their current partners in the Mexican Government.

Oh yeah.  Ask Phillip Morris and the big-pharma boys how it’s done. That’s if corrupt cops and bureaucrats aren’t already making hay over the business of the war on drugs. Ken Wilson

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dolt.princess Kenni, spokesloon for the Al-Queef brigade of the People’s Liberation Jihad for the Independence of the Democratic People’s Republic – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >courageously avow: >>> And somehow we’re supposed to be feel bad about the way we treat >>> illegals?????? Read this and see how Mexico treats legal non-native >>> residents…. >>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/ >>What an evil reporter. >>To even suggest that another country besides >>the USA might not be perfect. >Did you read that article? >Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants >to Mexico with their expectations as to how we here in the US >treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate >northward… >The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that >the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location >of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the >corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people >want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them. >If you are going to abolish corrupt governments you better start with >the leader of the pack, your own.  After that just let the Mexicans >keep taking California back.  They promise once that is complete all >that’s left is the Alamo and after that they’ll leave you alone. >Ken Wilson

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courageously avow: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >dolt.princess Kenni, spokesloon for the Al-Queef brigade of the People’s >Liberation Jihad for the Independence of the Democratic People’s Republic >courageously avow: >>>> And somehow we’re supposed to be feel bad about the way we treat >>>> illegals?????? Read this and see how Mexico treats legal non-native >>>> residents…. >>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/ >>>What an evil reporter. >>>To even suggest that another country besides >>>the USA might not be perfect. >>Did you read that article? >>Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants >>to Mexico with their expectations as to how we here in the US >>treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate >>northward… >>The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that >>the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location >>of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the >>corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people >>want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them. >If you are going to abolish corrupt governments you better start with >the leader of the pack, your own.  After that just let the Mexicans >keep taking California back.  They promise once that is complete all >that’s left is the Alamo and after that they’ll leave you alone. >Ken Wilson >Go back and sit in your corner, Princess. >Nobody called you. >You don’t need to worry. >Your colony is a well behaved one and won’t need any disciplining.

The only disciplining you do is choking your chicken because it keeps spitting on you.  Here’s a hint, quit choking it.  Besides, it’ll make you go blind on top of already having turned you into a drooling dullard. Ken Wilson

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Quote: "Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants to Mexico with their expectations as to how we here in the US treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate northward… " That’s not their excess population.  They’re losing a major portion of their productive labor capacity to US.  Their policies are generally idiotic and should not be compared to those of the US on an even playing field. Not that I’m defending the US, per se…

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dolt.princess Kenni, spokesloon for the Al-Queef brigade of the People’s Liberation Jihad for the Independence of the Democratic People’s Republic – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >courageously avow: >dolt.princess Kenni, spokesloon for the Al-Queef brigade of the People’s >Liberation Jihad for the Independence of the Democratic People’s Republic >>courageously avow: >>>>> And somehow we’re supposed to be feel bad about the way we treat >>>>> illegals?????? Read this and see how Mexico treats legal non-native >>>>> residents…. >>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/ >>>>What an evil reporter. >>>>To even suggest that another country besides >>>>the USA might not be perfect. >>>Did you read that article? >>>Contrast the way that the Mexican Government treats immigrants >>>to Mexico with their expectations as to how we here in the US >>>treat their excess population that is being forced to migrate >>>northward… >>>The more I read about stuff like that the more I think that >>>the Southern US border ought to be moved to the current location >>>of the border between Panama and Columbia and that all the >>>corrupt governments in between ought to be abolished. If people >>>want to be US citizen units that badly we can accomodate them. >>If you are going to abolish corrupt governments you better start with >>the leader of the pack, your own.  After that just let the Mexicans >>keep taking California back.  They promise once that is complete all >>that’s left is the Alamo and after that they’ll leave you alone. >>Ken Wilson >Go back and sit in your corner, Princess. >Nobody called you. >You don’t need to worry. >Your colony is a well behaved one and won’t need any disciplining. >The only disciplining you do is choking your chicken because it keeps >spitting on you.  Here’s a hint, quit choking it.  Besides, it’ll make >you go blind on top of already having turned you into a drooling >dullard.

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> Right. > Mexico is being overrun by illegal American wetbacks.

That’s the point. There aren’t any Americans emigrating to Mexico to get Mexican jobs that pay $50 a week or run for office there. So why would Mexico’s immigration policy even be pertinent to the current debate on Mexicans immigrating to the US? Americans who do want to immigrate to Mexico practically have the red carpet laid out for them. I’m puzzled. Why would AP, a mainstream news organization, even run this story? It’s badly researched propaganda, irrelevant and outdated to boot (Mexican immigration laws mainly date from 1917, so AP had a mere 89 years to dig up the dirt). So, what were you right wing types doing the past 40 years or so, while millions streamed over the border? > Horseshit. > The Mexican oligarchy is forcing thier undesirable and > excess poor population

The Mexican policies on population control have cut the Mexican birthrate (in Mexico) by 75%, to nearly US levels. Mexicans aren’t offering other Mexicans 4 to 10 times their usual pay rate to emigrate to the US. > to migrate northward and the > American kleptocracy is embracing the cheap labor.

That I agree with. The lack of enforcement (and a rational immigration policy) on our side is a scandal. > The current Mexican Government exists for the sole reason of > enriching those that are in control to the detriment > of the general population and deserves to be abolished. > If the Mexican people had any huevos, they’d be hanging > the thieves in the street instead of sneaking under the wire.

Well, I doubt Salinas Gotari and his brother are going to have streets named after them any time soon. The amount of good old fashioned grassroots democracy.. there’s political signs hanging all over, the Mexican press is like bloodhounds all over the politicos, and Mexico City (according to Lonely Planet) hosts 300 protest marches a year (the one where the feds tried to impeach the mayor drew a couple million), is amazing and admirable. Maybe WE could learn something from them! > Or else become a US territory.

That’ll happen about a hundred years after the next time the Cubs win a pennant (GO SOX!). IOW, never. You don’t want to give illegal immigrants citizenship on one hand, but you want to try to integrate 100 million Mexicans, (or simply murder them?) into the US on the other hand? Ain’t happening. > Somehow I don’t think that the drug cartels will have as > easy a time buying the US Army and the DEA

The US Army isn’t being used to defend US borders, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard do that. They’ve been  shortchaged for years and there’s no indication (other than Bush’s expensive window dressing and lip service) that there’s going to be substantive change. (He may surpise me but I doubt it. Sugar and lettuce growers won’t like it) OTOH, Mexicans use their military to protect their borders, that’s how they get videos like this ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasgsIKLlWA — Ned Carlson SW side of Chicago, USA www.tubezone.net

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Right. > Mexico is being overrun by illegal American wetbacks. >That’s the point. There aren’t any Americans emigrating >to Mexico to get Mexican jobs that pay $50 a week or run for >office there. So why would Mexico’s immigration policy >even be pertinent to the current debate on Mexicans >immigrating to the US? Americans who do want to immigrate >to Mexico practically have the red carpet laid out for them. >I’m puzzled. Why would AP, a mainstream news organization, >even run this story? It’s badly researched propaganda, >irrelevant and outdated to boot (Mexican immigration laws >mainly date from 1917, so AP had a mere 89 years to >dig up the dirt).

Spin Spin Spin. No wonder you neo-Bolsheviks are so dizzy. Mexico’s immigration policy is pertinant in that if the US enforced a similar policy then we wouldn’t be overrun with Mexico’s excess population, because we wouldn’t be allowing them into the country. >So, what were you right wing types doing the past 40 >years or so, while millions streamed over the border?

Trusting the elected representatives to deal with it. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Horseshit. > The Mexican oligarchy is forcing thier undesirable and > excess poor population >The Mexican policies on population control have cut the >Mexican birthrate (in Mexico) by 75%, to nearly US levels. >Mexicans aren’t offering other Mexicans 4 to 10 times >their usual pay rate to emigrate to the US. > to migrate northward and the > American kleptocracy is embracing the cheap labor. >That I agree with. The lack of enforcement (and a rational >immigration policy) on our side is a scandal. > The current Mexican Government exists for the sole reason of > enriching those that are in control to the detriment > of the general population and deserves to be abolished. > If the Mexican people had any huevos, they’d be hanging > the thieves in the street instead of sneaking under the wire. >Well, I doubt Salinas Gotari and his brother are going to have >streets named after them any time soon. >The amount of good old fashioned grassroots democracy.. there’s >political signs hanging all over, the Mexican press is like >bloodhounds all over the politicos, and Mexico City (according to >Lonely Planet) hosts 300 protest marches a year (the one where >the feds tried to impeach the mayor drew a couple million), >is amazing and admirable. Maybe WE could learn something >from them! > Or else become a US territory. >That’ll happen about a hundred years after the next time the >Cubs win a pennant (GO SOX!). IOW, never. You don’t want to >give illegal immigrants citizenship on one hand, but you >want to try to integrate 100 million Mexicans, (or simply >murder them?) into the US on the other hand? Ain’t happening.

I thought you left-urds liked open borders. No wall No border. No corrupt and thieving Mexican Government, Fine with me. > Somehow I don’t think that the drug cartels will have as > easy a time buying the US Army and the DEA >The US Army isn’t being used to defend US borders, the >Border Patrol and the Coast Guard do that. They’ve >been  shortchaged for years and there’s no indication >(other than Bush’s expensive window dressing and lip service) >that there’s going to be substantive change. (He may surpise me >but I doubt it. Sugar and lettuce growers won’t like it)

That’s easy enough to change. All it takes is the will to do. >OTOH, Mexicans use their military to protect their borders, >that’s how they get videos like this ;-) >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasgsIKLlWA

Nice misdirection. Typical.

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Hey Ned – how about that Roti family????? Jeez those Italians sure do know how to infiltrate a government to their own purposes, don’t they? :) . Shoulda sent them eye-talians back on the boat when they had the chance! It’s a wonder Chicago has any asphalt on the roads at all!!  I got to wave at Chicago from the air this weekend and picked up a Sun Times. Some expose!! Spent the week listening to a room full of 80 year olds talking in their foriegn accents they think they don’t have about "mexicans" . Funny how an englishmen who sneaked over here in a horse trailer on a boat thinks he has more rights to be here than a Mexican, and every other street where I was is named after a german. Meanwhile Mexican restaurants have sprung up all over the place. I didn’t know there was such a thing as Illi-Mex – like Tex-Mex but different – they used those red kidney beans and chili (as in chili-dog) spice instead of pinto or black beans and real chili, the waitresses don’t know a chimchanga from a flauta or a corn tortilla from a flour. (still not as weird as the taco I had in Heidleberg that was made with corn meal instead of masa and had gyros meat as fajita – well sometimes you just have to made do, I guess) Hell, there was even an Indian restaurant  and several Thai restaurants in town. When I graduated from high school we only had one Chinese restaurant, hamburger joints, chili parlors, and buffets. What IS the US coming to???? Invaded by foriegners, a culinary revolution. :)

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Yo, Claude. Ned Carlson is the one person who would know about the topic. You, OTOH, are looking like your normal asshole self. Maybe you could listen for a change.

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>Yo, Claude. Ned Carlson is the one person who would know about the topic. >You, OTOH, are looking like your normal asshole self. Maybe you could listen >for a change.

Bite me.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – cried: >Yo, Claude. Ned Carlson is the one person who would know about the topic. >You, OTOH, are looking like your normal asshole self. Maybe you could listen >for a change. > Bite me.

Thank you.

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> Hey Ned – how about that Roti family????? Jeez those Italians sure do > know how to infiltrate a government to their own purposes, don’t they? > :) . Shoulda sent them eye-talians back on the boat when they had the > chance!

Yeah, especially that Enrico Fermi guy. >It’s a wonder Chicago has any asphalt on the roads at all!!

Coulda fooled ME. Only Mexico City has more asphalt speed bumps than Chicago (the Mayor went to Mexico once and deduced that’d be a good idea). Mayor Daley went to the UK once, now we’s got more roundybouts than Surbiton.   I > got to wave at Chicago from the air this weekend and picked up a Sun > Times. Some expose!!

Next, they’ll (finally) deduce why the Cubs suck. C’mon, let’s get our priorities straight. > Meanwhile Mexican > restaurants have sprung up all over the place. I didn’t know there was > such a thing as Illi-Mex – like Tex-Mex but different – they used those > red kidney beans and chili (as in chili-dog) spice instead of pinto or > black beans and real chili, the waitresses don’t know a chimchanga from > a flauta or a corn tortilla from a flour.

You went to the wrong place. Come out here to the South Side, you can find Mexican cuisine that’s frightenly authentic. Like guys frying pork rinds in TWENTY GALLON deep fryers.   (still not as weird as the > taco I had in Heidleberg that was made with corn meal instead of masa > and had gyros meat as fajita – well sometimes you just have to made do, > I guess)

Some Polish stores sell a German snack called "Tacos". I never knew tacos looked like little fried pinwheels.   Hell, there was even an Indian restaurant  and several Thai > restaurants in town. When I graduated from high school we only had one > Chinese restaurant, hamburger joints, chili parlors, and buffets. What > IS the US coming to???? Invaded by foriegners, a culinary revolution.

If variety is the spice of life, Chicago is panang curry with a side of habaneros. — Ned Carlson SW side of Chicago, USA www.tubezone.net

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> > Hey Ned – how about that Roti family????? Jeez those Italians sure do > know how to infiltrate a government to their own purposes, don’t they? > :) . Shoulda sent them eye-talians back on the boat when they had the > chance! > Yeah, especially that Enrico Fermi guy.

laughing ……yeah, right, him too!! >It’s a wonder Chicago has any asphalt on the roads at all!!

I read that the Roti family was stealing millions of dollars of asphalt from y”all. Da Mob- doz guys are wunnerful. Didn’t you read the Sun Times last week? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Coulda fooled ME. Only Mexico City has more asphalt speed > bumps than Chicago > got to wave at Chicago from the air this weekend and picked up a Sun > Times. Some expose!! > Next, they’ll (finally) deduce why the Cubs suck. C’mon, let’s get our > priorities straight. > Meanwhile Mexican > restaurants have sprung up all over the place. I didn’t know there was > such a thing as Illi-Mex – like Tex-Mex but different – they used those > red kidney beans and chili (as in chili-dog) spice instead of pinto or > black beans and real chili, the waitresses don’t know a chimchanga from > a flauta or a corn tortilla from a flour. > You went to the wrong place. Come out here to the South Side, > you can find Mexican cuisine that’s frightenly authentic. > Like guys frying pork rinds in TWENTY GALLON deep fryers.

I wasn’t in Chicago – just the airport – unfortunately – I was downstate. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->   (still not as weird as the > taco I had in Heidleberg that was made with corn meal instead of masa > and had gyros meat as fajita – well sometimes you just have to made do, > I guess) > Some Polish stores sell a German snack called "Tacos". I never knew > tacos looked like little fried pinwheels. >   Hell, there was even an Indian restaurant  and several Thai > restaurants in town. When I graduated from high school we only had one > Chinese restaurant, hamburger joints, chili parlors, and buffets. What > IS the US coming to???? Invaded by foriegners, a culinary revolution. > If variety is the spice of life, Chicago is panang curry with a > side of habaneros.

What I miss. There are no good Greek, Polish, Jewish or Chinese restaurants in Texas as far as I have been able to determine. And the best political scandals this side of Washington.

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Two recent news reports should shake every American to their core. 1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since becoming President.  He simply says he does not have to follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. 2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal prosecution of reporters who write about classified information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information is a well established practice in Washington.  Traditionally, this happens when a whistleblower observes "questionable" activities, and thinks the American people should know about it. (don’t get me wrong….I’m not in favor of the press being free to report classified information at will, especially when it would endanger lives.) GWB has *greatly* expanded the power of the white house. These are 2 extreme examples.  On item number 2, just who decides if information leaked is classified?  Hmmmm?  GWB, that’s who.  So, we could begin to have an administration that will attack the press for telling people what they’re up to. The hell with the "war on terror."  Clearly, this has nothing to do with that, at all. We’re being had….big time. Bend over America…..GWB says this is good for you….so you may as well enjoy it, eh? Mike

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>Two recent news reports should shake every American to their >core. >1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >becoming President.  He simply says he does not have to >follow any laws that get in his way.  Period.

So? >2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >prosecution of reporters who write about classified >information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information is >a well established practice in Washington.  Traditionally, >this happens when a whistleblower observes "questionable" >activities, and thinks the American people should know about it.

Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue. Some Bush-hater’s opinion of what is a "questionable" activity is no excuse for illegally publishing restricted information. Throw away the key. >(don’t get me wrong….I’m not in favor of the press being >free to report classified information at will, especially >when it would endanger lives.) >GWB has *greatly* expanded the power of the white house. >These are 2 extreme examples.  On item number 2, just who >decides if information leaked is classified?  Hmmmm?  GWB, >that’s who.  So, we could begin to have an administration >that will attack the press for telling people what they’re >up to.

Soon, hopefully. Just who is supposed to decide the classification of information? Some traitor at CNN or the NYT? >The hell with the "war on terror."  Clearly, this has >nothing to do with that, at all. >We’re being had….big time. >Bend over America…..GWB says this is good for you….so >you may as well enjoy it, eh?

Can I get another "Boo Hoo"

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> > He [GWB] simply says he does not have to > follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. > So?

You’re an idiot.

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>> > He [GWB] simply says he does not have to > > follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. > So? >You’re an idiot.

Coming from a lamer like you, that’s a compliment. Got a bag packed?

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>>1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >becoming President.  He simply says he does not >have to follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. >So?

See your response to #2 below. >2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >prosecution of reporters who write about classified >information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information >is a well established practice in Washington.   >Traditionally, this happens when a whistleblower >observes "questionable" activities, and thinks the >American people should know about it. >Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >>becoming President.  He simply says he does not >>have to follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. >So? >See your response to #2 below. >>2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >>prosecution of reporters who write about classified >>information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information >>is a well established practice in Washington.   >>Traditionally, this happens when a whistleblower >>observes "questionable" activities, and thinks the >>American people should know about it. >Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue.

Actually, this poast is a sterling example of the basic hypocricy and capacity for selective outrage that is standard operating procedure for the left wing fringe element. In the same article there is both whining about the President’s alleged ignoring of laws and glorification of the mass media’s heroic ignoring of other laws regarding classification of information. If someone was actually *trying* to gen up an example of this type of hypocricy, they couldn’t do a better job. If society is devolving towards selective obedience of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? Where will the traitors hide when others decide to ignore the laws against lynching, for example?

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right, upside down, you name it. Left will stand up for left, right for right, etc. etc. someone’s commonplace is another’s outrage, blah blah blah, all "dyed in the wool" politics as usual.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Two recent news reports should shake every American to their > core. > 1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since > becoming President.  He simply says he does not have to > follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. > 2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal > prosecution of reporters who write about classified > information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information is > a well established practice in Washington.  Traditionally, > this happens when a whistleblower observes "questionable" > activities, and thinks the American people should know about it. > (don’t get me wrong….I’m not in favor of the press being > free to report classified information at will, especially > when it would endanger lives.) > GWB has *greatly* expanded the power of the white house. > These are 2 extreme examples.  On item number 2, just who > decides if information leaked is classified?  Hmmmm?  GWB, > that’s who.  So, we could begin to have an administration > that will attack the press for telling people what they’re > up to. > The hell with the "war on terror."  Clearly, this has > nothing to do with that, at all. > We’re being had….big time. > Bend over America…..GWB says this is good for you….so > you may as well enjoy it, eh? > Mike

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Republicans aren’t just but lickers, they like to receive more than they give, aswise. Really has anyone noticed how many are perverts? child abusers, faggots, faggot child abusers? And don’t any of you faggot child abusers start your whining to me, I know you for what you are and whining will not be torerated, You see as conservatives go, I’m the real thing, not one of you ex(?) Trotskyite, opportunistic, lying whores so shut yer holes. I’d rather lynch you than talk to you you floatsom scum. Bush got  alot of people killed with a big bump starting on 911.

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>Republicans aren’t just but lickers, they like to receive more than >they give, aswise. >Really has anyone noticed how many are perverts? child abusers, >faggots, faggot child abusers? And don’t any of you faggot child >abusers start your whining to me, I know you for what you are and >whining will not be torerated, You see as conservatives go, I’m the >real thing, not one of you ex(?) Trotskyite, opportunistic, lying >whores so shut yer holes. I’d rather lynch you than talk to you you >floatsom scum. Bush got  alot of people killed with a big bump starting >on 911.

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Paul Leddy, the Web designer, said Gannon contacted him in an America Online chat room in 1999 and wound up paying him $200, plus $50 in monthly maintenance, into the following year to create a gay escort site. He said the checks came from Bedrock Corp., which Gannon has confirmed that he worked for at the time. Leddy, who has helped design a variety of Web sites, including porn sites, provided Microsoft Word files of several of his invoices to Bedrock, a Delaware-based company. At first, Leddy said, Gannon sent him nude pictures with the heads cropped out, or asked him not to post the faces. He said he had no doubt, after seeing Gannon in the news recently, that the explicit pictures were of the same man. Leddy said Gannon’s postings later moved to another gay escort site, which Aravosis says remained active until March 2003, or shortly before Gannon began covering the White House. In one of the Web sites found by Aravosis, a man who Leddy said is Gannon was offering his escort services for $200 an hour, or $1,200 a weekend. Another describes him as "military, muscular, masculine and discrete [sic]" and provides an America Online e-mail address that matches the initials on a logo used by Gannon on several of the sites, including the one Leddy said he designed. Bedrock, Gannon’s company, is listed as the owner of JeffGannon.com, as well as three sites with such names as hotmilitarystud.com. Aravosis posted the pictures with strategically placed gray boxes, although he provided links to the unexpurgated versions. http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html Gannon is also embroiled in the Valerie Plame story. In 2003 he interviewed Plame’s husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, after unnamed administration officials leaked her role as a CIA operative to columnist Robert Novak. According to his Talon News story, Gannon asked Wilson about "an internal government memo prepared by U.S. intelligence personnel [detailing] a meeting in early 2002 where your wife, a member of the agency for clandestine service working on Iraqi weapons issues, suggested that you could be sent to investigate the reports." Scottie McClellan, the White House Press Secretary was seen in a gay bar in Austin in 1995. Mr. McClellen is married, and was on the "receiving end" of (evidently, among other things), a wedding card from a Mr. Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert. "He was often seen in gay clubs in Austin, Texas and was comfortable being there," the Texan said. "He’s been seen in places that normal people who are looking for heterosexual relationships are not seen alone." To paraphrase Bill Maher, Gannon/Guckert had two jobs: he had a seedy, sleazy one and then he had his business as a gay prostitute. The Rove shills, such as Washington Post mole Howard Kurtz and a variety of Right Wing homophobes, are filling the airwaves. What’s the Rovian spin? Well, that evil left wing bloggers are delving into "the personal life" of Gannon/Guckert and upsetting his "family." "Personal life" — excuse us, but prostitution, gay or otherwise, is illegal in the District of Columbia. And what about all those Internet nude photos of Gannon/Guckert (he’s "cut" he wants the kiddies to know) that America’s children could have been exposed to? Indeed, this is quite a milestone for the Republican Party to be defending Gay Internet Prostitution. In fact, it’s a revolutionary turnaround from an election in which they rode the homophobic horse as their twin issue, paired with scaring the nation half to death (what ever suddenly happened to all those terror alerts AFTER the election?). We can’t imagine how the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today have not yet written any editorials commenting on the new White House orchestrated position that considers gay prostitution a private matter. This is indeed such an unprecedented change in their faux "moral values" that it should be noted on the editorial pages of every newspaper in the nation — as well as 24/7 on cable television. Yes, Rove has sent his message points out on Gannon/Guckert to thousands of right wing Stepford media moles — and the word is that only liberals would discriminate against a gay prostitute trying to make his name as White House stenographer for Rove. Yes, and the usual diversions have started to pop: an American citizen suddenly being "unrendered" from the torture chambers of Saudi Arabia and charged with plotting to kill President Bush three years ago! And we have the odd so-called pre-election tapes popping up, which reveal nothing other than that they can grab some headlines from the Gannon/Guckert scandal. Oh, and that Bush oddly said in them that he wouldn’t condemn gays, because he was a sinner too, whatever that meant, since he rides atop homophobia like a bunking bronco. But the real issue here is that the White House Republican noise machine has now come out in defense of prostitution — and gay prostitution in particular — as a private issue, which Republicans are entitled to practice without being exposed by mean bloggers. Maybe the White House is scared of Gannon’s little black book filled with client names? Or we’ve just always misunderstood that they were earnest and committed supporters of gay hookers. So, let’s hear one for the Republicans, the hobgoblins of hypocrisy. Who would have thought that they would have embraced gay prostitution as a personal choice and privacy issue? Who said Rove isn’t full of surprises? Maybe there are even more of his "positions" that will come to light. Now that it’s out in the open, will someone please tell the grassroots evangelicals that their fearless leader and his spokespeople in the media hinterlands now support gay prostitution as a personal right. Let the word spread into the fundamentalist Bush base like wildfire. Gay prostitution and gay prostitution websites are sanctioned by the Republican Party. Let the pitchfork rebellion commence! The red state homophobes have done been had. The GOP leadership has laid down the line: only the Democrats would criticize gay prostitution. The Republican Party considers whatever consenting adults do in their bedrooms, even if it involves paying a "Bulldog" for sex, is fine with them. We hope the red state newspapers are reporting the Republican message points on Gannon/Guckert and letting their readers see some of his more personal features evidenced in photos on his websites (which he is now, apparently, trying to sell for a profit). And if their readers are outraged, just tell them that they know it’s all part of the White House scene. And that for this to unfold, as it has, Gannon had access to more than classified information. So, they should write Rove and Scottie McClellan and ask, "Hey, bros, what’s up with that?" But that’s okay with the GOP, because Gannon/Guckert’s prostitution business was entrepreneurial — and the man knew how to take orders. A good military man, so to speak. And his services were in need. In the profiteering-oriented Republican Party, it’s simply an issue of supply and demand. http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05032.html

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Used  be executive discretion in prosecuting law, then there was that boston butwipe who Guilianni and other mayor/asswipes picked up on w/ the "broken windows shool" of "law" "enforcement". Before we had allot of laws that were there in case a cop knew someone was a criminal but didn’;t have the evidence, so he’d full out a law like vagraccy ( in Fla there’s one for wlaking without a destination, upheld by the fla supper court), Lot’s and Lot’s of laws which were never intended to be applied with any generality, but now, with the "brok win" thing, it’s ARREST EVERYBODY. PHHHT, Aerifreedom down the toilet to the applause of the cowardly middleclass which is too engaged struggling with cok in all their orfices to care about Magna Carta so we get a fag George for a John.

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 –snip– >If society is devolving towards selective obedience >of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? >Where will the traitors hide when others decide to >ignore the laws against lynching, for example?

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Bushes and republickens have allot of homo stories buried, lot’s and lot’s of them. I think part of the initiation ceremony of their secret clubs is butfing. I’d bet G sr, Quayle, &G jr have had their chocolat packed by a rep buddy.

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> –snip– >If society is devolving towards selective obedience >of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? >Where will the traitors hide when others decide to >ignore the laws against lynching, for example? > The white house? > The Repair Guy > http://repairguy1993.netfirms.com/

nice!

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> –snip– >If society is devolving towards selective obedience >of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? >Where will the traitors hide when others decide to >ignore the laws against lynching, for example? >The white house?

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If Steve Colbert can get in, we all can get in.

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courageously avow: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Two recent news reports should shake every American to their >core. >1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >becoming President.  He simply says he does not have to >follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. >So? >2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >prosecution of reporters who write about classified >information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information is >a well established practice in Washington.  Traditionally, >this happens when a whistleblower observes "questionable" >activities, and thinks the American people should know about it. >Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue. >Some Bush-hater’s opinion of what is a "questionable" >activity is no excuse for illegally publishing restricted >information. >Throw away the key. >(don’t get me wrong….I’m not in favor of the press being >free to report classified information at will, especially >when it would endanger lives.) >GWB has *greatly* expanded the power of the white house. >These are 2 extreme examples.  On item number 2, just who >decides if information leaked is classified?  Hmmmm?  GWB, >that’s who.  So, we could begin to have an administration >that will attack the press for telling people what they’re >up to. >Soon, hopefully. >Just who is supposed to decide the classification of >information? Some traitor at CNN or the NYT? >The hell with the "war on terror."  Clearly, this has >nothing to do with that, at all. >We’re being had….big time. >Bend over America…..GWB says this is good for you….so >you may as well enjoy it, eh? >Can I get another "Boo Hoo"

What’s a "Boo Hoo"?  Formula for infants? Ken Wilson

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courageously avow: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>>1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >>>becoming President.  He simply says he does not >>>have to follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. >>So? >See your response to #2 below. >>>2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >>>prosecution of reporters who write about classified >>>information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information >>>is a well established practice in Washington.   >>>Traditionally, this happens when a whistleblower >>>observes "questionable" activities, and thinks the >>>American people should know about it. >>Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue. >Actually, this poast is a sterling example of the basic >hypocricy and capacity for selective outrage that is >standard operating procedure for the left wing fringe >element. In the same article there is both whining >about the President’s alleged ignoring of laws and >glorification of the mass media’s heroic ignoring >of other laws regarding classification of information. >If someone was actually *trying* to gen up an >example of this type of hypocricy, they couldn’t >do a better job. >If society is devolving towards selective obedience >of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s >next? Where will the traitors hide when others decide >to ignore the laws against lynching, for example?

I think it’s time for Mulay to quit fucking with you and give you your teething ring back. Ken Wilson

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dolt.princess Kenni, spokesloon for the Al-Queef brigade of the People’s Liberation Jihad for the Independence of the Democratic People’s Republic – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >courageously avow: >>>>1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >>>>becoming President.  He simply says he does not >>>>have to follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. >>>So? >>See your response to #2 below. >>>>2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >>>>prosecution of reporters who write about classified >>>>information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information >>>>is a well established practice in Washington.   >>>>Traditionally, this happens when a whistleblower >>>>observes "questionable" activities, and thinks the >>>>American people should know about it. >>>Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue. >Actually, this poast is a sterling example of the basic >hypocricy and capacity for selective outrage that is >standard operating procedure for the left wing fringe >element. In the same article there is both whining >about the President’s alleged ignoring of laws and >glorification of the mass media’s heroic ignoring >of other laws regarding classification of information. >If someone was actually *trying* to gen up an >example of this type of hypocricy, they couldn’t >do a better job. >If society is devolving towards selective obedience >of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s >next? Where will the traitors hide when others decide >to ignore the laws against lynching, for example? >I think

Another lie from the dolt-princess.

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dolt.princess Kenni, spokesloon for the Al-Queef brigade of the People’s Liberation Jihad for the Independence of the Democratic People’s Republic – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >courageously avow: >>Two recent news reports should shake every American to their >>core. >>1.  GWB has quietly violated approx. 750 laws, since >>becoming President.  He simply says he does not have to >>follow any laws that get in his way.  Period. >So? >>2.  The GWB administration is considering criminal >>prosecution of reporters who write about classified >>information that is leaked to them.  Leaking information is >>a well established practice in Washington.  Traditionally, >>this happens when a whistleblower observes "questionable" >>activities, and thinks the American people should know about it. >Criminal prosecution of criminals is long overdue. >Some Bush-hater’s opinion of what is a "questionable" >activity is no excuse for illegally publishing restricted >information. >Throw away the key. >>(don’t get me wrong….I’m not in favor of the press being >>free to report classified information at will, especially >>when it would endanger lives.) >>GWB has *greatly* expanded the power of the white house. >>These are 2 extreme examples.  On item number 2, just who >>decides if information leaked is classified?  Hmmmm?  GWB, >>that’s who.  So, we could begin to have an administration >>that will attack the press for telling people what they’re >>up to. >Soon, hopefully. >Just who is supposed to decide the classification of >information? Some traitor at CNN or the NYT? >>The hell with the "war on terror."  Clearly, this has >>nothing to do with that, at all. >>We’re being had….big time. >>Bend over America…..GWB says this is good for you….so >>you may as well enjoy it, eh? >Can I get another "Boo Hoo" >What’s a "Boo Hoo"?  Formula for infants?

A whining sob. Sort of like the content of your poasts.

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>> –snip– >>If society is devolving towards selective obedience >>of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? >>Where will the traitors hide when others decide to >>ignore the laws against lynching, for example? >The white house? >I doubt if you can get in, but don’t let that stop you >from trying.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> –snip– >>>If society is devolving towards selective obedience >>>of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? >>>Where will the traitors hide when others decide to >>>ignore the laws against lynching, for example? >>The white house? >I doubt if you can get in, but don’t let that stop you >from trying. >Are you trying, in your fumble-fingered way, to say >I’m a traitor?

Well, let’s see. From dictionary.com… traitor: One who betrays one’s country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason. treason:  the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one’s country or of assisting its enemies in war; specifically : the act of levying war against the United States or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one who owes it allegiance If the (earth) shoe fits… — |   ^        JOIN THE |  /"   ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN |   /    TO RID THE US OF |   X    NATTERING FUCKWITS |  /    

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>> –snip– >>>>If society is devolving towards selective obedience >>>>of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? >>>>Where will the traitors hide when others decide to >>>>ignore the laws against lynching, for example? >>>The white house? >>I doubt if you can get in, but don’t let that stop you >>from trying. >Are you trying, in your fumble-fingered way, to say >I’m a traitor? > Well, let’s see. > From dictionary.com… > traitor: One who betrays one’s country, a cause, or a trust, > especially one who commits treason. > treason:  the offense of attempting to overthrow the > government of one’s country or of assisting its enemies in war; > specifically : the act of levying war against the United States > or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one > who owes it allegiance > If the (earth) shoe fits…

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >>> –snip– > >>>>If society is devolving towards selective obedience > >>>>of only the laws that one agrees with then what’s next? > >>>>Where will the traitors hide when others decide to > >>>>ignore the laws against lynching, for example? > >>>The white house? > >>I doubt if you can get in, but don’t let that stop you > >>from trying. > >Are you trying, in your fumble-fingered way, to say > >I’m a traitor? > Well, let’s see. > From dictionary.com… > traitor: One who betrays one’s country, a cause, or a trust, > especially one who commits treason. > treason:  the offense of attempting to overthrow the > government of one’s country or of assisting its enemies in war; > specifically : the act of levying war against the United States > or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one > who owes it allegiance > If the (earth) shoe fits… >We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created >equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable >Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of >Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted >among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, >–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these >ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to >institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and >organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely >to effect their Safety and Happiness.

And your point is?

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Left-Wing Gives Ammo to Conservatives February 06, 2006 03:48 PM EST What was liberal LA Times Columnist, Joel Stein (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein24jan24,0,3682678.colu…) , thinking when he admitted recently in his article, "Warriors & Wussies", what conservatives have been saying all along – that you can’t say you support the troops and be against the war? Did he not know the ammunition he would be placing in their hands when he said: "I DON’T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on….But I’m not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken – and they’re wussy by definition….But when you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you’re not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you’re willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism, for better or worse. Sometimes you get lucky and get to fight ethnic genocide in Kosovo, but other times it’s Vietnam." While there are no words to describe how egregious (conspicuously bad or offensive, blatant or ridiculous to an extraordinary degree, outrageously bad or reprehensible) Stein’s comments are, at least they’re honest, more honest than the great majority of liberals who say they support the troops but not the war in Iraq. This wasn’t always the case. Following the attacks of 9/11 and prior to the campaigning of the 2004 elections, liberals were saying the same things about Saddem Hussein as conservatives were. Even if they changed their position on the war, for whatever reason, they need to be intellectually honest about what it means to ’support our troops.’ For the record, remember? … "Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities" – From a joint resolution submitted by Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter, July 18, 2002. "Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement." – Barbara Boxer, November 8, 2002. "The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability. Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability." – Robert Byrd, October 2002. "There’s no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat… Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He’s had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001… He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn’t have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we." – Wesley Clark, September 26, 2002. "In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." – Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002. "Saddam Hussein’s regime represents a grave threat to America and our allies, including our vital ally, Israel. For more than two decades, Saddam Hussein has sought weapons of mass destruction through every available means. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons. He has already used them against his neighbors and his own people, and is trying to build more. We know that he is doing everything he can to build nuclear weapons, and we know that each day he gets closer to achieving that goal." – John Edwards, October 10, 2002. "The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation." – John Kerry, October 9, 2002. "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein’s regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed." – Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002. Everyone knows what they and other liberals are saying about the war now. But. it will be interesting to watch the ‘flip-flops’ that occur leading up to the 2008 elections when things continue to improve in Iraq and Afghanistan, and surveys such as the following mount between now and then… A recent BBC survey (http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060124-012008-3394r.htm) shows: While Italians, people of the Congo and 90% of the people of Zimbabwe are the most pessimistic about their future… The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are among the most optimistic people in the world in regards to their personal and national future. 70% of Afghans say their personal circumstances are improving, and 57% are positive about their country’s future. In Iraq 65% believe their personal circumstances are getting better, and 56% are optimistic about their country’s economy. Bear in mind, a war is still being waged on their soil. In regards to the prospects of our troops coming home, the Associated Press reported on January 26, 2006 that "Iraq’s Army is emerging as a lightly armed counter-insurgency force that may control more of the country than the U.S.-led coalition by this spring," quoting U.S. Army Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, spokesman for the military transition command in Baghdad , "They’re not going to be the 101st Airborne anytime soon. But in 2006, this is the year that the majority of Iraq will be secured by Iraqis." War is hell, but so is the reign of ruthless dictators who kill their own people, fix their eyes on conquering other nations, or riding the world of ‘the Great Satan’ (America) or ‘the infidels’ (Jews and Christians). Supporting our troops means : "We stand with you as you risk your lives to prevent further attacks on our nation, and equip nations that have been set free from the Talibans and Saddem Hussein’s of the world to stand on their own. We honor you and what you are doing http://www.navyseals.com/community/navyseals/socomdigital/video_17.html ."

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You and Stein are morons. It is Duhbya who ISN’T supporting the troops! He cuts the funding to the VA, cuts combat pay, makes the troops stay longer than their original committment, tries to hide their coffins as they come in, never goes to any of their funerals, etc. To him they are expendable pawns, just as the rest of Americans who aren’t the "haves" and "have mores". You retard!

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Virtual Truth Commission Telling the Truth for a Better America Home Page | Topics | Names | Dates | Country Other | Reports by Topic: CIA and Crack Cocaine Crack Cocaine to Finance the Contras a.. On January 20, 1987, Joel Brinkley (special to the New York Times) reported. "Contra Arms Crew said To Smuggle Drugs" The 3rd secret had

fall that the American flight crews which covertly carried arms to the Nicaraguan rebels were smuggling cocaine and other drugs on their return trips back to the US. Administration Officials said today that when the crew members, based in El Salvador, learned that DEA agents were investigating their activities, one of them warned that they had White House protection. The Times then quoted an anonymous US official who said the crew member’s warnings which came after DEA searched his San Salvador house for drugs, caused ‘quite a stir’ at Ilopango." Written Statement for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, April 27, 1998 of Celerino Castillo III (DEA, Retired), author of Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War a.. "Webb’s revelations detail how a group of rich, powerful Nicaraguans set up a massive and unstoppable flow of cocaine into South-Central LA beginning in 1982 in order to help finance the cash-poor, CIA-devised Contra war gainst the Sandinistas. Webb showed how Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes, a former Nicaraguan official with apparent ties to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, directed mountains of cocaine… Jill Stewart, "Just Another Big Embarassment Under Shelby", Phoenix New Times. a.. Reporters Robert Barry and Brian Barger found that some contra troops were involved with shipments of cocaine sent to the United States through Costa Rica. AP wiere service refused to run the story, however it was accidentally sent to some foreign AP offices and then printed in most Spanish-speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere. Jake Sexton, "The Rewards of Responsible Journalism" a.. Blandon Reyes, Oscar Danilo, a former Nicaraguan official with apparent ties to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, directed a massive and unstoppable flow of cocaine into South-Central LA beginning in 1982 in order to help finance the cash-poor, CIA-devised Contra war gainst the Sandinistas. Jill Stewart, "Just Another Big Embarassment Under Shelby", Phoenix New Times. a.. Menesus, Norvin. Nicaraguan drug trafficker. Reported by LA times to have donated "no more than $50,000 of his street sales to the contras." Gene "Chip" Tatum, "LA Times ’spins’ CIA Drug Involvement, Big Sky Patriot, November 6, 1996 a.. Bolivia’s "cocaine coup" government of 1980-82 was the first in line filling the contra drug pipeline. But other contra-connected drug operations soon followed, including the Medellin cartel, the Panamanian government, the Honduran military and Miami-based anti-Castro Cubans. The contra-connected cocaine also moved through transshipment points in Costa Rica and El Salvador. [For details, see Robert Parry's Lost History; Cocaine Politics by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall; or Gary Webb's forthcoming book, Dark Alliance.] Robert Parry, "Contra-Cocaine: Evidence of Premeditation" The Consortium for Independent Journalism, a paid subscription service, Volume 3, No 11 (Issue 63) – June 1, 1998. a.. October 22, 1982. The first publicly known case of contra cocaine shipments appeared in government files in a cable from the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. The cable passed on word that U.S. law enforcement agencies were aware of "links between (a U.S. religious organization) and two Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary groups [which] involve an exchange in (the United States) of narcotics for arms." The material in parentheses was inserted by the CIA as part of its declassification of the cable. The name of the religious group remains secret. Robert Parry, "Contra-Cocaine: Evidence of Premeditation" The Consortium for Independent Journalism, a paid subscription service, Volume 3, No 11 (Issue 63) – June 1, 1998. a.. Letter from the U.S: Anger over CIA and crack trade The series raised serious doubt about whether the CIA was actively involved in pushing crack into Los Angeles’ black community, or whether it simply turned a blind eye to the contra operation. Webb’s series sparked a ground swell of protest, and many black leaders, including black Democrats, demanded an investigation into the CIA-contra-crack connection. a.. South Central residents condemn CIA’s reported role. John Veit, DEA’s finest details corruption a.. Contra drug point of entry: Mena, Arkansas. At the height of activities, handled a night flight every five minutes, without lights. Bill Alexander, Democratic Congressman for Arkansas, stated that activities at Mena have been responsible for large volumes of drugs coming into his state. In spite of mounting evidence, however, Clinton, as Governor of the state, appears to have made no attempt to help with investigations by local prosecutors into the illegal activities there… Untitled material on Drug-running and ArkansasSite 1 or Site 2 CIA Involvement and Knowledge a.. "Are CIA Hands Clean?" That’s what many shocked Americans have asked after reading the San Jose Mercury News’ explosive series of article that questioned the agency’s role in America’s so-called War on Drugs. The Mercury News investigation claimed that the CIA supported a drug pipeline from Colombia, South America the the San Francisco area that may have financed the Nicaraguan Contras by selling tons of cocaine. a.. Feb 11, 1982, Attorney General William French Smith grants an exemption sparing the CIA from a legal requirement to report on drug smuggling by agency assets. This occurred only two months after President Reagan authorized covert CIA support for the Nicaraguan contra army and some eight months before the first known documentary evidence revealing that the contras had started collaborating with drug traffickers. The exemption suggests that the CIA’s tolerance of illicit drug smuggling by its clients during the 1980s was official policy anticipated from the outset, not just an unintended consequence followed by an ad hoc cover-up. The exemption had been secretly engineered by CIA Director William J. Casey according to a letter placed into the Congressional Record by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., on May 7, 1998, which establishes that Casey foresaw the legal dilemma which the CIA would encounter should federal law require it to report on illicit narcotics smuggling by its agents. The narcotics exemption is especially noteworthy in contrast to the laundry list of crimes which the CIA was required to disclose.. The CIA’s inspector general Frederick P. Hitz confirmed that long-held suspicion in an investigative report issued on Jan. 29, 1998. The Clinton administration quietly rescinded Casey’s narcotics exemption in 1995. Robert Parry, "Contra-Cocaine: Evidence of Premeditation" The Consortium for Independent Journalism, a paid subscription service, Volume 3, No 11 (Issue 63) – June 1, 1998. a.. General Pual F. Gorman, head of the U. S. Southern Command, acknowledged in 1984 that "substantial evidence links drugs, money and arms networks in Central America. The fact is, if you want to go into the subversion business, collect intelligence, and move arms, you deal with drug movers." Jerry Meldon, Contra-Crack Guide: Reading between the lines," in The Consortium (paid internet service) a.. In 1984, the CIA intervened with the Justice Department to block a criminal investigation into a suspected contra role in a San Francisco-based drug ring. Robert Parry, "Contra-Cocaine: Evidence of Premeditation" The Consortium for Independent Journalism, a paid subscription service, Volume 3, No 11 (Issue 63) – June 1, 1998. a.. In December 1985, Brian Barger and I wrote the first news article disclosing that virtually every Nicaraguan contra group had links to drug trafficking. In that Associated Press dispatch, we noted that the CIA knew of at least one case of cocaine profits filtering into the contra war effort, but that DEA officials in Washington claimed they had never been told of any contra tie-in. The Casey exemption explains why that was possible. After the AP story ran, the Reagan administration attacked it as unfounded and the article was largely ignored by the rest of the Washington press corps. But it did help spark an investigation by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who over the next two years amassed substantial evidence of cocaine smuggling in and around the contra war. Still, the Reagan and Bush administrations continued to disparage Kerry’s probe and its many witnesses. Robert Parry, "Contra-Cocaine: Evidence of Premeditation" The Consortium for Independent Journalism, a paid subscription service, Volume 3, No 11 (Issue 63) – June 1, 1998. a.. Ross, Ricky. Los Angeles drug dealer, supplied by Blandon Reyes with smuggled contraband powder, quickly capitalized on existing heavy street use of PCP, heroin, and other durgs in South Central LA to introduce a cheap new drug known as crack…"not only did the CIA know that its Contras were unleshing a virulent drug in America’s ghettos via Blandon and Ross, but the agency allowed it to happen because it needed the money to fund Ronald Reagan’s war against socialism." Jill Stewart, "Just Another Big Embarassment Under Shelby", Phoenix New Times. a.. I was a 25 year veteran, highly decorated international deep cover agent, who witnessed, first hand, how the CIA, State Department and the Department of Justice teamed up to kill every major international drug case I was involved in, for political and economic reasons. At the same time our … read more »

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You really are an idiot.  Clinton had nothing to do with Iran-contra. That was your Republican friends that did that.  If the CIA was smuggling in cocaine, it was because someone in the Reagan admin told them to do it (which is very doubtful). BTW – here’s the Urban Legend’s debunk of the "Clinton Body Count" (Bill Clinton has been quietly doing away with those who oppose him = FALSE).  Weep & weep moroon – http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm.

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You have no credibility. Loser. You call House Committee Records right wing crap<< even when they are about liberal Democratic Representatives that called for the HEARING<<< AS IN Believe what you want. And there is plenty of info on people that have "died" because of all the dealings around the clintons. I never said he ordered anything. He doesn’t have the balls for it anyway. But he had to be protected from people that would end his career. You actually believe 2 people pack suitcases, then shoot themselves? Like that Grey Money article said, the liberals got mad , because without clinton who would they have. Hasn’t changed yet. Democrats got nothing but talk<< just like you. Thank you

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> You really are an idiot.  Clinton had nothing to do with Iran-contra. > That was your Republican friends that did that.  If the CIA was > smuggling in cocaine, it was because someone in the Reagan admin told > them to do it (which is very doubtful). > BTW – here’s the Urban Legend’s debunk of the "Clinton Body Count" > (Bill Clinton has been quietly doing away with those who oppose him = > FALSE).  Weep & weep moroon – > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm.

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Let me repeat – Bill Clinton had nothing to do Iran-Contra.  Nice try but no dice.  Clinton hasn’t been in power for 6 years & you guys are still trying to pin stuff on him.  It’s very pathetic. Mr Soul

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You are true idiot here. http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/exsump3.htm "We interviewed numerous people concerning Cabezas’ claim, including Zavala, Cabezas’ associates, and government agents and prosecutors who interviewed Cabezas during the Frogman case. We concluded that it was extremely unlikely that an arrangement such as Cabezas described existed, based on our assessment of Cabezas’ credibility, his inconsistent claims about the enterprise, Zavala’s and other co-conspirators’ denials, and the fact that no evidence of such an arrangement emerged during the extensive wiretap investigation conducted by the federal authorities in the Frogman case. We also did not find support for Cabezas’ claim of the CIA’s involvement in cocaine trafficking, which he reported for the first time to the OIG, despite having spoken about the alleged Contra connection on several prior occasions. We found no evidence that the prosecution of Cabezas, or of Zavala, was anything less than aggressive, despite Cabezas’ claims of ties to the CIA."

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Yep, you got me. The I.R.S., D.E.A., C.I.A., all lied. All the information taken in Congressional hearings"under oath", never happened. All the "sworn testimony" of the Arkansas State Troopers never happened. All the money that went through the Arkansas State agency "verified" by the I.R.S., never happened. Etc.Etc.Etc.Etc. And I have said, clinton "DID NOT" run the "drug" operation. He was part of the money laundering, etc. part of things. Actually I could care less about his drug use. The Arkansas police "TAPED" on a wire tap, Roger Clinton talking about how good the cocaine was and that he had to get some for his brother, he is a vacuum cleaner nose. Several others testified about clinton drug use. But none of that ever happened either. Like I said, stay fat, dumb, and happy. Thank you

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Let me repeat – Bill Clinton had nothing to do Iran-Contra.  Nice try > but no dice.  Clinton hasn’t been in power for 6 years & you guys are > still trying to pin stuff on him.  It’s very pathetic. > Mr Soul

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You really are a dumb ass. This was from the 1st C.I.A. lie about involvement. If you had taken time to read the rest of that article I posted, you would have seen that was the internal C.I.A. "SELF INVESTIGATION. Later, just like the HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE hearing transcript says, Maxine Waters asks if the C.I.A. knew of drug dealings and he said yes. You are one pathetic fuck.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> You are true idiot here. > http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/exsump3.htm > "We interviewed numerous people concerning Cabezas’ claim, including > Zavala, Cabezas’ associates, and government agents and prosecutors who > interviewed Cabezas during the Frogman case. We concluded that it was > extremely unlikely that an arrangement such as Cabezas described > existed, based on our assessment of Cabezas’ credibility, his > inconsistent claims about the enterprise, Zavala’s and other > co-conspirators’ denials, and the fact that no evidence of such an > arrangement emerged during the extensive wiretap investigation > conducted by the federal authorities in the Frogman case. We also did > not find support for Cabezas’ claim of the CIA’s involvement in cocaine > trafficking, which he reported for the first time to the OIG, despite > having spoken about the alleged Contra connection on several prior > occasions. We found no evidence that the prosecution of Cabezas, or of > Zavala, was anything less than aggressive, despite Cabezas’ claims of > ties to the CIA."

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Green/Peace – you should watch Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson. You’d love it! Mr Soul

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And you’re a dumb ass to believe something from the "Virtual Truth Commission".   Please see Conspiracy Theory – you’ll love it!!! Mr Soul

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Seriously who is gonna investigate those who have top secret clearance if they can keep anyone else from seeing it because it’s top secret? They aren’t going to investigate themselves. Anything this White House doesn’t want to see the light of day they decler top secret or pull out some Presidental perogative starting with Kenny Boy and the Veep’s energy meetings on down to who serves pretzels at the white house.

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 drugs+CIA+Afghanistan+Columbia an old story, a continuing saga, many volumes, chapters and verses Here’s the deal – anything Clinton did, the current regime is doing mo better.

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Unlike Bill O’Reilly, David Letterman *knows* he’s just a comedian.        Posted via TITANnews – Uncensored Newsgroups Access              >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< -=Every Newsgroup – Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-

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The scary thing is that many people believe O’Reilly. Franken aired the piece about O’Reilly, on his radio, insisting to some caller that Boxer (when questioning Rice) had said "troops".  When the caller tried to correct O’Reilly, saying that Boxer had actually said "truth", O’Reilly just belittled her.  O’Reilly continued this lie/distortion for several days.  Franken played the actual pieces, so don’t try to same I’m wrong about this one but I heard O’Reilly actual words. Media Matters watches what O’Reilly says very carefully & corrects/debunks it all the time.  They caught O’Reilly spinning again with the Silent Night bit on the Letterman show.  And O’Reilly knows they watch him because he berates MM all the time. Mr Soul

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> Unlike Bill O’Reilly, > David Letterman *knows* > he’s just a comedian.

Compared to Johnny Carson, Letterman is clue less. 60% of what you say is crap, but I never watch your show. What’s that. Regards, Rich Koerner, Time Electronics. http://www.timeelect.com Specialists in Live Sound FOH Engineering,        Music & Studio Production, Vintage Instruments, and Tube Amplifiers

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The biggest difference is O’Reilly is Number 1 in his time slot and Letterman isn’t.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > 60% of my OT is crap and the other 39%, worms. > I need to stick to amps, guitars, basses, and music. > Regards, > Rich Koerner, > Time Electronics. > http://www.timeelect.com > Specialists in Live Sound FOH Engineering, >        Music & Studio Production, > Vintage Instruments, and Tube Amplifiers

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99.9% of anything on TV is crap.

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>> Unlike Bill O’Reilly, > David Letterman *knows* > he’s just a comedian. >Compared to Johnny Carson, Letterman is clue less.

Comparing any mere mortal late night host to Carson is like comparing any other composer to J.S. Bach, Rich — as both Letterman and Leno would tell you in the blink of an eye, nobody can measure up to Carson! >60% of what you say is crap, but I never watch your show. >What’s that.

A joke — that’s what I mean about Letterman *knowing* he’s just a comedian.        Posted via TITANnews – Uncensored Newsgroups Access              >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< -=Every Newsgroup – Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-

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>The biggest difference is O’Reilly is Number 1 in his time slot and >Letterman isn’t.

O’Reilly is on basic cable and doesn’t have any real competition.  Letterman is on network TV and has to compete with Leno, whose safer, less edgy hosting style appeals to the old folks who give him his ratings edge.  Letterman’s not worried, he’s still pulling down $20+ million a year on the top-rated TV network with absolute job security and a successful production company.        Posted via TITANnews – Uncensored Newsgroups Access              >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< -=Every Newsgroup – Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-

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> O’Reilly is on basic cable and doesn’t have any real > competition.

You are correct in stating that O’Reilly has no competition, but you left out that MSN, and CNN have tried many well known names to compete with him, and they have been blown out of the water every time. See ya, John

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>> O’Reilly is on basic cable and doesn’t have any real > competition. > You are correct in stating that O’Reilly has no competition, but you left > out that MSN, and CNN have tried many well known names to compete with him, > and they have been blown out of the water every time.

They had the same trouble competing with Barney the dinosaur! Bill walked on, smug and smiling. After allowing the subject of "war on Christmas " to breach, Letterman told O/Reilly that he was 60% full of crap, and freely gave up some credibility just to tell O’Reilly that he had never watched his show, which was a HUGE put-down. I mean, when talk show hosts have an author as a guest, they at least have to pretend that they’ve read their book… Bill apparently wasn’t prepared for that, and didn’t have any response other than a very pickled expression on his face. Zoid

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I remember when Lord Fucktard and his puppets used to nearly own AGA, what a difference a year makes! Now in the face of all the lies that have been found out, and all of the Repugs being investigated & indicted, it is great to be on the winning side, and see the AGA right-wing cowards afraid & ashamed to even post here any more! It is so cool to have the American people to finally figure out that we liberal PATRIOTS were right all along! God Bless Michael Moore, and the brave senators who voted against this terrible war for oil, the jig is up, anyone who voted for Bush last fall must have trouble sleeping at night! This is SO MUCH FUN seeing these asshole sociopaths squirm daily! HeHe! FYI: – the brave patriots that voted against the war: Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Chafee (R-RI) Conrad (D-ND) Corzine (D-NJ) Dayton (D-MN) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Graham (D-FL) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Kennedy (D-MA) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) Sarbanes (D-MD) Stabenow (D-MI) Wellstone (D-MN) Wyden (D-OR)

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I must have forgotten to sweat, man; *why* are we sweating bullets this time, exactly? Just wondering, Lars

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> I must have forgotten to sweat, man; *why* are we sweating bullets this > time, exactly? > Just wondering, > Lars

I dunno, could it be: A)  Bush’s approval numbers at all time low. B)  Scooter indicted. C)  Cloud of suspicion over Rove. D)  DeLay indicted. E)  SEC investigation of Frist. F)  Abramoff scandal. G)  Micheal Brown mess. H)  Only 28.8% of Americans polled still believe we’re headed in the right direction. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country… I)  Growing fear that all of this is leading towards losses in the midterm elections. J)  American awakening to the conclusion that HE LIED TO US about WMD and the threat (or at a minimum, selectively used "intelligence" supporting his predisposition for war). K)  Bush losing the public trust. L)  Increasing casualties in Iraq. M)  Admissions that less Iraqis are fully trained than previously claimed. or N)  ALL OF THE ABOVE!

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Wonder on, you’re too dumb to get it

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I must have forgotten to sweat, man; *why* are we sweating bullets this > time, exactly? > Just wondering, > Lars > I dunno, could it be: > A)  Bush’s approval numbers at all time low. > B)  Scooter indicted. > C)  Cloud of suspicion over Rove. > D)  DeLay indicted. > E)  SEC investigation of Frist. > F)  Abramoff scandal. > G)  Micheal Brown mess. > H)  Only 28.8% of Americans polled still believe we’re headed in the > right direction. > http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country… > I)  Growing fear that all of this is leading towards losses in the > midterm elections. > J)  American awakening to the conclusion that HE LIED TO US about WMD > and the threat (or at a minimum, selectively used "intelligence" > supporting his predisposition for war). > K)  Bush losing the public trust. > L)  Increasing casualties in Iraq. > M)  Admissions that less Iraqis are fully trained than previously claimed. > or > N)  ALL OF THE ABOVE!

Keep going, I’ll let you know if start to I get worried. Lars

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courageously avow: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > I must have forgotten to sweat, man; *why* are we sweating bullets this > > time, exactly? > > Just wondering, > > Lars > I dunno, could it be: > A)  Bush’s approval numbers at all time low. > B)  Scooter indicted. > C)  Cloud of suspicion over Rove. > D)  DeLay indicted. > E)  SEC investigation of Frist. > F)  Abramoff scandal. > G)  Micheal Brown mess. > H)  Only 28.8% of Americans polled still believe we’re headed in the > right direction. > http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country… > I)  Growing fear that all of this is leading towards losses in the > midterm elections. > J)  American awakening to the conclusion that HE LIED TO US about WMD > and the threat (or at a minimum, selectively used "intelligence" > supporting his predisposition for war). > K)  Bush losing the public trust. > L)  Increasing casualties in Iraq. > M)  Admissions that less Iraqis are fully trained than previously claimed. > or > N)  ALL OF THE ABOVE! >Keep going, I’ll let you know if start to I get worried. >Lars

Fess up Lars.  Every time you look at the chaos and see the Republicans self-destructing you fill your Depends(tm). Ken Wilson Proud Owner of Lord Valve, PMG, John Wheaton, Claude Lucas,  Freep the Xenophobe, Chuck, pseudobacker, Max Floater and the rest of the  Union of Rightwing Idiots Needing Explanations (URINE)  and, at his own request, Lars Overshank (aka ‘The Cowardly Lion’) Supporting the Troops at http://www.resisters.ca http://www.criticalhistory.com/

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I must have forgotten to sweat, man; *why* are we sweating bullets this > time, exactly? > Just wondering, > Lars > I dunno, could it be: > A)  Bush’s approval numbers at all time low. > B)  Scooter indicted. > C)  Cloud of suspicion over Rove. > D)  DeLay indicted. > E)  SEC investigation of Frist. > F)  Abramoff scandal. > G)  Micheal Brown mess. > H)  Only 28.8% of Americans polled still believe we’re headed in the > right direction. > http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country… > I)  Growing fear that all of this is leading towards losses in the > midterm elections. > J)  American awakening to the conclusion that HE LIED TO US about WMD > and the threat (or at a minimum, selectively used "intelligence" > supporting his predisposition for war). > K)  Bush losing the public trust. > L)  Increasing casualties in Iraq. > M)  Admissions that less Iraqis are fully trained than previously claimed. > or > N)  ALL OF THE ABOVE!

I’ve kept you amongst the AGA living (non-filtered). Respond to another troll with non-amp/guitar/gear pablum and you disappear.

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>Wonder on, you’re too dumb to get it

…and too dumb to join Lard Vulva & Co. in duly shamed posting silence while the wheels fall off the GOP corruption bus.        Posted via TITANnews – Uncensored Newsgroups Access              >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< -=Every Newsgroup – Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>I must have forgotten to sweat, man; *why* are we sweating bullets this >>time, exactly? >>Just wondering, >>Lars >I dunno, could it be: >A)  Bush’s approval numbers at all time low. >B)  Scooter indicted. >C)  Cloud of suspicion over Rove. >D)  DeLay indicted. >E)  SEC investigation of Frist. >F)  Abramoff scandal. >G)  Micheal Brown mess. >H)  Only 28.8% of Americans polled still believe we’re headed in the >right direction. >http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country… >I)  Growing fear that all of this is leading towards losses in the >midterm elections. >J)  American awakening to the conclusion that HE LIED TO US about WMD >and the threat (or at a minimum, selectively used "intelligence" >supporting his predisposition for war). >K)  Bush losing the public trust. >L)  Increasing casualties in Iraq. >M)  Admissions that less Iraqis are fully trained than previously claimed. >or >N)  ALL OF THE ABOVE! > Keep going, I’ll let you know if start to I get worried. > Lars

Well, I guess that some republicans have more sense than others!  ;^)   http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/22/opinion/main1067474.shtml "Fifty-six percent

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I am a struggling amateur guitar player, and own two Fender Stratocasters (a Japanese Blue Flower and an American Standard). I am a huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound on their first album Gish. I love the way that he manages a thick, doomy, ominous sounding bottom end, with a screaming high end for his virtuoso, squealing guitar solos. I have heard that this sounded the same live so it can’t be all studio tricks. If anyone can direct me towards how I can get something approaching that, I would be grateful. Incidentally, I dont like the guitar sound on later albums and am not interested in how he got them. Also, I own a nice Demon practice amp currently, but entirely understand that I need to upgrade (what does Billy use I wonder?). Best QH

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from the radio tracks i remember, it sounded like a germanium transistor fuzz pedal going into a 4×12 tube half stack with a closed back cabinet.

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Billy Corgan makes a point in interviews of not saying exactly what amps he uses or what equipment generally for reasons of his own I’ve noticed. Why he won’t is the subject of some debate but he refuses to be drawn on it and has ended interviews with people who won’t accept that. However post 2 there sounds like a reasonable guess for the period in question.

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sounds like a big muff pedal to me.

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But since it is so rare of a tone, It is likely Billy swapped the standard PNP to the rare  NOS NPNs, occuring to his old roadie. He also used NOS 9vdc batteries from the 1970’s to keep that vintage Big Muff sounding.

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> sounds like a big muff pedal to me.

after siamese dream came out i read somewhere he used a big muff too.

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>He also used NOS 9vdc batteries from the > 1970’s to keep that vintage

NOS batteries?  That sounds like bullshit to me. What’s the average shelf life of a carbon-zinc 9 volt? Considerably less than 30 years, I’d imagine.

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>He also used NOS 9vdc batteries from the > 1970’s to keep that vintage > NOS batteries?  That sounds like bullshit to me. > What’s the average shelf life of a carbon-zinc 9 volt? > Considerably less than 30 years, I’d imagine.

I think your leg is being pulled…

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>> He also used NOS 9vdc batteries from the > 1970’s to keep that vintage > NOS batteries?  That sounds like bullshit to me. > What’s the average shelf life of a carbon-zinc 9 volt? > Considerably less than 30 years, I’d imagine.

Yeah but the Canadian distributed DURACELLS were odd… you keep em in the freezer. .. Pulled off the market cause they were TOO good, like those 350ci V8 100mpg carburators…

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>>>He also used NOS 9vdc batteries from the >> 1970’s to keep that vintage > NOS batteries?  That sounds like bullshit to me. > What’s the average shelf life of a carbon-zinc 9 volt? > Considerably less than 30 years, I’d imagine. > I think your leg is being pulled…

or his pull is being legged..

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> sounds like a big muff pedal to me.

no that was the bass player..

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> Yeah but the Canadian distributed DURACELLS were odd… you keep em in the > freezer. .. Pulled off the market cause they were TOO good, like those > 350ci V8 100mpg carburators…

Well, I hope to hell they were better than those damned Canadian Oreos. A Canadian co-worker just wouldn’t-fucking-shut-up about them. Then he FINALLY brought some down for the rest of us to try…. …Nastiest, most chemically tasting cookie I ever put in my mouth. Anything that tastes like that is bound to cause some degree of brain damage. It absolutely confirmed all my suspicions that the USA is planning to take over Canada by gradually poisoning their food supply.

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>> sounds like a big muff pedal to me. > no that was the bass player..

No, you’re thinking of the Talking Heads.

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Eh, Bruce doesn’t play guitar…

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What you’re looking for is a guitar wall of sound. 1) Big Muff 2) Marshall head (JCM800 or MKII preferred) 3) Lots of tracks to record. Record the same track 3 or more times, pan hardly L, C, R (hard to pan C, hehehe) Do not look for power tubes distortion, I know that in studio Billy Corgan replaced the ones in his JCM800 with other with a cleaner sound. In live he uses an Eventide too…. Simple and Smashing! There are many articles on Internet you can refere to…. F. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I am a struggling amateur guitar player, and own two Fender > Stratocasters (a Japanese Blue Flower and an American Standard). I am a > huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound on their first album > Gish. I love the way that he manages a thick, doomy, ominous sounding > bottom end, with a screaming high end for his virtuoso, squealing > guitar solos. I have heard that this sounded the same live so it can’t > be all studio tricks. If anyone can direct me towards how I can get > something approaching that, I would be grateful. Incidentally, I dont > like the guitar sound on later albums and am not interested in how he > got them. Also, I own a nice Demon practice amp currently, but entirely > understand that I need to upgrade (what does Billy use I wonder?). > Best QH

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>>He also used NOS 9vdc batteries from the >>> 1970’s to keep that vintage >> NOS batteries?  That sounds like bullshit to me. >> What’s the average shelf life of a carbon-zinc 9 volt? >> Considerably less than 30 years, I’d imagine. > I think your leg is being pulled… >or his pull is being legged..

Well, his peg wasn’t lulled. Ron

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Why anyone would want to sound like Billy "The circus freak" Corgan is beyond me. This guy has shit for brains. Fuck Billy Corgan and hs guitar sound. You should find a real guitar hero!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> What you’re looking for is a guitar wall of sound. > 1) Big Muff > 2) Marshall head (JCM800 or MKII preferred) > 3) Lots of tracks to record. > Record the same track 3 or more times, pan hardly L, C, R (hard to pan C, > hehehe) > Do not look for power tubes distortion, I know that in studio Billy Corgan > replaced the ones in his JCM800 with other with a cleaner sound. > In live he uses an Eventide too…. Simple and Smashing! > There are many articles on Internet you can refere to…. > F. > I am a struggling amateur guitar player, and own two Fender > Stratocasters (a Japanese Blue Flower and an American Standard). I am a > huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound on their first album > Gish. I love the way that he manages a thick, doomy, ominous sounding > bottom end, with a screaming high end for his virtuoso, squealing > guitar solos. I have heard that this sounded the same live so it can’t > be all studio tricks. If anyone can direct me towards how I can get > something approaching that, I would be grateful. Incidentally, I dont > like the guitar sound on later albums and am not interested in how he > got them. Also, I own a nice Demon practice amp currently, but entirely > understand that I need to upgrade (what does Billy use I wonder?). > Best QH

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> I am a struggling amateur guitar player, and own two Fender > Stratocasters (a Japanese Blue Flower and an American Standard). I am a > huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound on their first album > Gish. I love the way that he manages a thick, doomy, ominous sounding > bottom end, with a screaming high end for his virtuoso, squealing > guitar solos. I have heard that this sounded the same live so it can’t > be all studio tricks. If anyone can direct me towards how I can get > something approaching that, I would be grateful. Incidentally, I dont > like the guitar sound on later albums and am not interested in how he > got them. Also, I own a nice Demon practice amp currently, but entirely > understand that I need to upgrade (what does Billy use I wonder?). > Best QH

Lots of folks with lots to say. BC is known for his use of the Big Muff, sure, but if you’re looking for the Gish sound, look no further than the ADA MP1. they can be had cheapy thru ebay, so look out for one. BC said he wrote the whole of Gish with the MP1 and can’t imagine it any other way.

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Yes, MP1 into a JCM800 amp (I think in effect return). F. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I am a struggling amateur guitar player, and own two Fender > Stratocasters (a Japanese Blue Flower and an American Standard). I am a > huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound on their first album > Gish. I love the way that he manages a thick, doomy, ominous sounding > bottom end, with a screaming high end for his virtuoso, squealing > guitar solos. I have heard that this sounded the same live so it can’t > be all studio tricks. If anyone can direct me towards how I can get > something approaching that, I would be grateful. Incidentally, I dont > like the guitar sound on later albums and am not interested in how he > got them. Also, I own a nice Demon practice amp currently, but entirely > understand that I need to upgrade (what does Billy use I wonder?). > Best QH > Lots of folks with lots to say. BC is known for his use of the Big Muff, > sure, but if you’re looking for the Gish sound, look no further than the > ADA MP1. they can be had cheapy thru ebay, so look out for one. BC said > he wrote the whole of Gish with the MP1 and can’t imagine it any other

way.

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> I am a struggling amateur guitar player, and own two Fender > Stratocasters (a Japanese Blue Flower and an American Standard). I am a > huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound on their first album > Gish. I love the way that he manages a thick, doomy, ominous sounding > bottom end, with a screaming high end for his virtuoso, squealing > guitar solos. I have heard that this sounded the same live so it can’t > be all studio tricks. If anyone can direct me towards how I can get > something approaching that, I would be grateful. Incidentally, I dont > like the guitar sound on later albums and am not interested in how he > got them. Also, I own a nice Demon practice amp currently, but entirely > understand that I need to upgrade (what does Billy use I wonder?). > Best QH

Don’t listen to those here who say that Billy Corgan makes a point of not saying what equipment he uses.  He does that sometimes in references to some songs, but he’s a huge guitar geek and he likes to talk about his gear in magazines. His Gish sound was all recorded with a strat with a little tube preamp straight to the board.  I can’t remember the model right offhand, but it was a pretty simple setup.  I think the pickups in the Strat were stock, too.  In the early days he would just plug that little preamp straight into the PA, but that changed right after he recorded Gish. Since Siamese Dream, and (I think) at live shows since the Gish days, Billy plays a Fender Strat through an old Marshall JCM800 100 watt head (he dubbed it "The Voice of God"– and named a song on Machina after it) that he’s had slightly modified for "more headroom."  I don’t know the specific model.  Right after he recorded Gish, Billy also fell in love with the sound of old Electro-Harmonix Big Muffs.  While Billy and James Iha both used a TON of other effects (especially flange and chorus in Billy’s case, and James would work a mean whammy when he felt like it), the basics of Billy’s sound from Siamese Dream through Adore is a Fender Strat (tuned 1/2 a step down) through a Big Muff into the Marshall.  James Iha preferred some type of Gibson (either a Flying V or a Les Paul) with various fuzz pedals (he was using the now-discontinued Boss FZ-2 for a while) through a Marshall of his own. Now, sorting out all the different things on their pedalboards would be another matter. Another key element of Billy’s sound, post-Gish, were the Fender Lace Sensor pickups he installed on his favorite strats.  First it was just a "red" one in the bridge, which is where he gets that thinned-but-sustaining-all-day, trebly solo sound of his.  That was for Siamese Dream.  Then, just before making Mellon Collie he bought a "blue" one for the neck (which is why his rhythm parts and cording got a lot thicker and bassier– he loved the bottom end of blue lace sensors), and a "silver" one for the middle (he used it for clean sounds). If you want to sound like Billy on those albums, you will need to buy a Big Muff.  That’s the biggest part of that thick, fuzzed out sound he had.  With a strat and a Big Muff, you can "emulate" that sound through about any amp. For Machina, Billy radically changed his setup again.  He started playing a Fender Mexican Tele a lot on stage, and much of the album was recorded with a special "C-tuned" guitar he had custom built for better intonation at such extremely downtuned.  He still used the Marshall, but a lot of stuff on that album and the subsequent tour were done with a 275 watt Marshall Valvestate (solid state) amp.  Between Adore and Machina Billy also had one of his Big Muffs modded for a little more gain and clarity.  If you feel like spending over $200 on a distortion pedal, you too can buy a Creamy Dreamer. I wish I could be more help about the Gish sound, but if you want to sound like Billy on the stuff that came after, just buy a $50 Big Muff, tune your guitar a half-step down, and riff away.  The pickups and amp were a part of that sound, but you don’t NEED them to get close. Jeremy

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> > sounds like a big muff pedal to me. > after siamese dream came out i read somewhere he used a big muff too.

It was a Big Muff.  Siamese Dream is probably the most "Big Muff" album ever recorded.  Even more than Mudhoney’s "SuperFuzz/BigMuff." Musiciansfriend should just throw up some samples of "Hummer" when they try to sell Big Muffs. Jeremy

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I don’t think he used the JCM 800 at all back then.  I think it was justs the ADA MP1 straight into the board.  I don’t think he ever used it much once he got the Marshall.  Then he got the Big Muff and found the sound the Pumpkins were known for. But yeah, Gish was just a Fender Strat through the MP1.  Easy to cop if you can find one. Jeremy

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> His Gish sound was all recorded with a strat with a little tube preamp > straight to the board.  I can’t remember the model right offhand, but > it was a pretty simple setup.  I think the pickups in the Strat were > stock, too.  In the early days he would just plug that little preamp > straight into the PA, but that changed right after he recorded Gish.

interesting, i’d love to see your source on that info. until the recent Future Embrace tour i have always seen an Amp on stage when he’s playing. even back to the marked, there was always some sort of amp. never known that he’s gone straight to the PA. > Since Siamese Dream, and (I think) at live shows since the Gish days, > Billy plays a Fender Strat through an old Marshall JCM800 100 watt head > (he dubbed it "The Voice of God"– and named a song on Machina after > it)

which song? that he’s had slightly modified for "more headroom."  I don’t know > the specific model.  

2203 i think. the "mod" is that it was fitted with KT88 power tubes. Right after he recorded Gish, Billy also fell in > love with the sound of old Electro-Harmonix Big Muffs.  While Billy and > James Iha both used a TON of other effects (especially flange and > chorus in Billy’s case, and James would work a mean whammy when he felt > like it), the basics of Billy’s sound from Siamese Dream through Adore > is a Fender Strat (tuned 1/2 a step down) through a Big Muff into the > Marshall.  

i’ll concur that’s the basic SD sound, but Adore? hello? > Another key element of Billy’s sound, post-Gish, were the Fender Lace > Sensor pickups he installed on his favorite strats.  First it was just > a "red" one in the bridge, which is where he gets that > thinned-but-sustaining-all-day, trebly solo sound of his.  That was for > Siamese Dream.  Then, just before making Mellon Collie he bought a > "blue" one for the neck (which is why his rhythm parts and cording got > a lot thicker and bassier– he loved the bottom end of blue lace > sensors), and a "silver" one for the middle (he used it for clean > sounds).

huh?? Really do your homework here – the lace sensor set was Always red, silver, blue. i’m also 90% sure that these were already in use when Gish was made. > For Machina, Billy radically changed his setup again.  He started > playing a Fender Mexican Tele a lot on stage, and much of the album was > recorded with a special "C-tuned" guitar he had custom built for better > intonation at such extremely downtuned.  He still used the Marshall, > but a lot of stuff on that album and the subsequent tour were done with > a 275 watt Marshall Valvestate (solid state) amp.  Between Adore and > Machina Billy also had one of his Big Muffs modded for a little more > gain and clarity.  If you feel like spending over $200 on a distortion > pedal, you too can buy a Creamy Dreamer.

Mexican Tele? you’re either really smoking crack, or i’ve been had by a really bad troll. The custom "C-tuned" was built by Reverend, but his main guitars for the Machina tours were Gibson Les Paul Juniors. while he *did* use 3 marshall valvestate combos, that was only for the semi-distorted sounds, the main tone came from a Diezel VH4 head that AFAIK he’s still using to this day.

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Actually, I thought the NPN swap had the larger bullshit ratio of the two … ;-)  cheers.

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