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We know you suck and hack, Lord of Flies. You needn't provide your portrait.

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Findish

Message:
All right. Let me get this straight. The government has been tying the hands of the CIA incrementally starting with the church Committee in the 1970s. Now this same august body of buffoons wants to castigate the CIA in a Senate show trial?

Name:	American
To:	Findish
Re:	Some of them ought to be clapped in irons.

In response to:
Now this same august body of buffoons wants to castigate the CIA in a Senate show trial?

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There is nothing more revolting than a marble chamber filled with self-righteous crooks, seditionists, (like Leahy & Church) and general purpose pissants... all looking for a scapegoate for the havoc they themselves have wrought!

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Civil Bagdasarian

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	Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year

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	Osama bin Laden, believed to be hiding along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, is directing an al Qaeda effort to launch an attack in the United States sometime this year, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. "What we know about this most recent information is that it is being directed from the seniormost levels of the al Qaeda organization," the newspaper quoted a senior Bush administration official as saying at a briefing for reporters. "We know that this leadership continues to operate along the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan," the official said, according to the Times. It does not appear that bin Laden is trying to take an active leadership role in formulating a specific plan, as he did in preparations for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the newspaper said, citing an administration official. There is evidence bin Laden is able to communicate with his followers, urging them to carry out operations in the name of al Qaeda, the official said, according to the newspaper. On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned Americans that al Qaeda may try to carry out a large-scale attack to disrupt the November elections, but he did not offer details. Ridge said the warning was based on intelligence received from credible sources gathered over the past months. The Times said it was not clear until the comments of the senior officials on Thursday that bin Laden and top deputies were responsible for the concern. In discussing the latest threat information, one of the officials said the intelligence was "cryptic," about both timing and location, the newspaper said. There is no specific reference to the coming U.S. political conventions in New York and Boston, but that remains an immediate focus of concern, the official said, according to the Times.

Name:

suv

In response to:
President Bush lied to us on WMD in Iraq and relied on false info from the CIA that why John Tennant was asked to leave.

Message:
Like I ve said before. Like father like son. Its the economy, together with higher gasloline prices. George Bush is a one term President. John Kerry will easily become our next President.

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In the Clinton Prsidency over 23 million new jobs were created while over 3.5 million good paying jobs were lost during President Bush's Administration. The answer is ao plain to see--kick Bush out of office, vote for John Kerry the best man for the job.

Name:	IRS
To:	SUV
Re:	Puke in a suit

In response to:
In the Clinton Prsidency over 23 million new jobs were created while over 3.5 million good paying jobs were lost during President Bush's Administration. The answer is ao plain to see--kick Bush out of office, vote for John Kerry the best man for the job

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Look, you can blow John Kerry for quarters to augment your paper-route income whether the stupid, lying dipwad is president or not. Just make damned sure you report it on your 1040.

Name:	Uncle Same
To:	SUV
Re:	Children, fools, and mental defectives shouldn't vote.

Message:
Kerry can't provide you with the brain transplant that you so obviously need.

Name:	Uncle Same
To:	SUV
Re:	Jobs jobs jobs!

In response to:
Look, you can blow John Kerry for quarters to augment your paper-route income whether the stupid, lying dipwad is president or not. Just make damned sure you report it on your 1040.

Message:
A "hardworker" like yourself could probably shake down some extra summer income at Bill Clinton's Harlem offices. Better watch old Bill, though...it's rumoured that both the Clintons are lousy tippers. Avoid conflict and disappointment by negotiating a firm compensation package before you provide services!

Name:	West Indian Iguana
To:	Adult Voters of Sound Mind
Re:	Silly Saps

In response to:
John Edwards

Message:
Does John Edwards come across as a lightweight or what? Separately or together, Kerry and Edwards don't amount to a bucket of warm spit.

Name:	Saddam Hussein
To:	Silly Americans

In response to:
A little anthrax never hurt anyone!

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - The former headquarters of a supermarket tabloid targeted in a deadly anthrax attack will be rid of the deadly spores three years later with a long-awaited fumigation.

Sunday's cleanup is being led by BioONE, a company established by former New York City Mayor Ru Giuliani and Sabre Technical Services, which decontaminated other buildings hit by anthrax attacks.

Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used to disinfect drinking water, will be pumped into the American Media Inc. building to kill the spores. The cleanup is set to last 24 to 36 hours, to be followed by repeated tests to determine the safety of the building before a quarantine is lifted.

BioONE then plans to occupy the space as the headquarters for its new crisis management venture. The company hopes to move in by the end of the year.

The arrival of anthrax in the mail at the building was the first in a series of still-unsolved attacks that killed five people, among them photo editor Bob Stevens of AMI's tabloid, the Sun. The attacks emptied Senate offices and a major mail processing center in the Washington area, rattling a nation shaken by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks a month earlier.

AMI, which also publishes The National Enquirer, hurriedly abandoned the three-story office after the anthrax was found.

A real estate investor bought the building for a paltry $40,000 and then made plans to lease it to BioONE. The financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, though the decontamination at the larger Brentwood Post Office in Washington cost $130 million.

Name:	Black Sands
Re:	It's not always about you...

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Gwynne Dyer: 'Hey, America — It's not always about you'

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Gwynne Dyer, Trinidad Express

You can never say this without hurting the feelings of at least some Americans, but it needs to be said. At the stone-laying ceremony of July 4 on the site where the World Trade Center towers formerly stood, New York state governor George Pataki dedicated the building that is to replace them with the rhetoric that is standard in the United States on such occasions: "Let this great Freedom Tower show the world that what our enemies sought to destroy - our democracy, our freedom, our way of life -stands taller than ever." But 9/11 wasn't really about any of that.

Imagine the scene: it's 1999, and a group of wild-eyed and bushy-bearded Islamist fanatics are pacing a cave somewhere in Afghanistan planning 9/11. "We must destroy American democracy," says one. "An America run by a dictator would be a much better place."

"Americans have too many television channels, too many breakfast cereals, and far too many kinds of make-up to choose from." Then the third chimes in: "While we're at it, let's destroy their whole way of life. I've always hated American football, Oprah Winfrey sucks, and I can't stand Coca-Cola."

No? This scene doesn't ring true? Then why does almost all public discussion in the United States about the goals of the Islamist terrorists assume that they are driven by hatred for the domestic political and social arrangements of Americans? Because most Americans cannot imagine foreigners not being interested in the way they do things, let alone using the United States as a tool to pursue other goals entirely.

Public debate in the United States generally assumes that America is the only true home of democracy and freedom, and that other people and countries are "pro-American" or "anti-American" because they support or reject those ideals. Practically nobody on the rest of the planet would recognise this picture, but it is the only one most Americans are shown - and it has major foreign policy implications.

This is what enables President George W Bush to explain away why the United States was attacked with the simple phrase "They hate our freedoms," and to avoid any discussion that delves into the impact of American foreign policy in the Middle East on Arab and Muslim attitudes towards the United States. It also blinds most Americans to the nature of the strategic game that their country has been tricked into playing a role in.

So once more, with feeling: the 9/11 attacks were not aimed at American values, which are of no interest to the Islamists one way or another. They were an operation that was broadly intended to raise the profile of the Islamists in the Muslim world, but they had the further quite specific goal of luring the United States into invading Muslim countries.

The true goal of the Islamists is to come to power in Muslim countries, and their problem until recently was that they could not win over enough local people to make their revolutions happen. Getting the United States to march into the Muslim world in pursuit of the terrorists was a potentially promising stratagem, since an invasion should produce endless images of American soldiers killing and humiliating Muslims. That might finally push enough people into the arms of the Islamists to get their long-stalled revolutions off the ground.

Specifically, the Al Qaeda planners expected the US to invade Afghanistan and get bogged down in the same long counter-guerrilla war that the Russians had experienced there, providing along the way years of horrifying images of American firepower killing innocent Muslims. Osama bin Laden and his colleagues were simply trying to relive their past success against the Russians and get some more mileage out of the Afghan scenario. In fact, their plan failed: the United States conquered Afghanistan quickly and at a very low cost in lives, and even now, despite huge American neglect, Afghanistan has not produced a major anti-American resistance movement.

The reason Al Qaeda is still in business in a big way is that the Bush administration then invaded Iraq. The Islamists were astonished, no doubt, but they knew how to exploit an opportunity when one was handed to them. And so the real game continues, while the public debate in the United States is conducted in terms that have only the most tangential contact with strategic reality.

Perhaps it's unfair to ask Governor Pataki to get into any of that at an emotional ceremony that was in part a commemoration of the lives that were lost on 9/11, but when will it be addressed, and by whom? What major American public figure will stand up and say that the United States and its values are not really under attack; that the country and its troops are actually just being used as pawns in somebody else's strategy? Many senior American politicians and military officers understand what is going on, but it's more than their career is worth to say so out loud.

Name:	Shrub Humor
Re:	A small thing, that brain.

Message:
George W. Bush meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?"

"Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people."

The Queen takes a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligence riddle."

The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?" Tony Blair walks into the room. "Yes, my Queen?"

The Queen smiles. "Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"

", answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

Cheney goes to his advisors and asks every one, but none can give him an answer. Finally, he ends up in the men's room and recognizes Colin Powell's shoes in the next stall.

shouts, "Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"

Cheney goes back to the Oval Office and to speak with Bush. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It's Colin Powell."

Bush gets up, stomps over to Cheney, and angrily yells into his face, "No, you idiot! It's Tony Blair!"

Name:

My record is fine---Edwards

Message:
John Edwards on the issues
ISSUES 2000 Dates are 2004 unless stated otherwise.

Abortion
Right to abortion is constitutionally protected. (Jan 8)
Voted NO on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted NO on disallowing overseas military abortions. (May 1999)

Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action needed 40 years ago & still needed today. (May 2003)

Death Penalty
Death penalty OK despite flaws, on state-by-state decision. (Feb 26)
Capital punishment needed-some crimes deserve ultimate. (Feb 26)
Death penalty for heinous crimes, but applied fairly. (Jan 25)
More DNA testing to reduce wrongful capital convictions. (Jan 1)
Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)

Foreign Policy & Defense
Bring UN, allies and friends to Iraq. (Nov 2003)
Need multilateral solutions for world's problems. (Sep 2003)
Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include Eastern Europe. (May 2002)
Voted YES on killing a bill for trade sanctions if China sells weapons. (Sep 2000)
Independent commission needed to look at intelligence flaws. (Jan 29)
FBI failing to go after terrorist cells in America. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on adopting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. (Oct 1999)
Reduce $9B spending on missile defense. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on deploying National Missile Defense ASAP. (Mar 1999)

Gay Rights
Enormous strides for gays and s without gay marriage. (Jan 29)
Let each state decide about civil unions and gay marriage. (Jan 22)
Governments don't belong in bedrooms, including gay bedrooms. (May 2003)
Voted YES on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
Voted YES on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)

Gun Control
Hunting is fine, but criminals & kids should have limits. (Jan. 2004)
Leading Dems distance themselves from divisive gun debate. (Oct 2003)
Guns are about independence-don't mess with that. (Oct 2003)
Voted YES on checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
Voted NO on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
Voted NO on loosening license & checks at gun shows. (May 1999)

Labor
Address moral crisis: Shareholder & Worker Bill of Rights. (Jun 2003)
Raise minimum wage to at least $6.65. (Jan 25)
Help bring jobs to where they are most needed. (Nov 2003)
Stand by our farmers-but end millionaire farmer subsidies. (Sep 2003)
Ban hiring permanent replacement workers for strikers. (Sep 2003)
Fair trade deals & closing corporate holes creates jobs. (Aug 2003)
Invest in rural America. (Aug 2003)
Increase the minimum wage again. (Jul 2003)
Support unions; ban striker replacements. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on repealing Clinton's ergonomic rules on repetitive stress. (Mar 2001)
Voted NO on killing an increase in the minimum wage. (Nov 1999)
Fight for values of people and workers over privilege. (May 2003)
Career spent fighting for the working people. (May 2003)
Give this White House back to the American people. (May 2003)

Patriot Act
Patriot Act is being abused by the Attorney General. (Oct 2003)
PATRIOT Act removes liberties that it's supposed to protect. (Sep 2003)
Support the Patriot Act with rigorous review. (Jun 2003)

PATRIOT Act ok, if watchdogs protect civil liberties. (May 2003)
Ashcroft erodes liberties in the name of protecting America. (May 2003)
Protect civil rights from Ashcroft, even if unpopular. (Sep 2003)

Trade
Renegotiate NAFTA rather than cancel it. (Feb 26)
Require labor and environmental standards plus right-to-know. (Jan 25)
Against NAFTA, against Chile trade, against Singapore trade. (Jan 4)
Level the playing field for American workers. (Nov 2003)
I supported steel tariffs, but now ease off. (Sep 2003)
National venture capital fund for those hurt by trade. (Sep 2003)
Against Fast Track--not enough for US workers. (Jul 2003)
Voted YES on extending free trade to Andean nations. (May 2002)
Voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam. (Oct 2001)
Voted YES on removing common goods from national security export rules. (Sep 2001)
Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China. (Sep 2000)
Voted NO on expanding trade to the third world. (May 2000)

If you can't get through this list without wanting to throw up, I'll understand. But pass it around anyway. This is the nail in the Iraq War's coffin for any sane, thinking individual, regardless of their political stripe. (Thanks to Tom Paine.com and the Center for American Progress.)

To get some perspective, here are some real-life comparisons about what $87 billion means:

$87 Billion is more than the combined total of all State budget deficits in the United States. The Bush administration proposed absolutely zero funds to help states deal with these deficits, despite the fact that their tax cuts drove down state revenues. [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities].

$87 Billion is enough to pay the 3.3 million people who have lost jobs under George W. Bush $26,363.00 each! The unemployment benefits extension passed by Congress at the beginning of this year provides zero benefits to workers who exhausted their regular, state unemployment benefits and cannot find work [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities].

$87 Billion is more than double the total amount the government spends on Homeland Security. The U.S. spends about $36 billion on homeland security. Yet, Sen. Warren Rudman (R- N.H.) wrote, America will fall approximately $98 4 billion short of meeting critical emergency responder needs for homeland security without a funding increase. [Source: Council on Foreign Relations].

$87 Billion is 87 times the amount the Federal Government spends on After School Programs. George W. Bush proposed a budget that reduces the $1 billion for after-school programs to $600 million cutting off about 475,000 children from the program. [Source: The Republican-dominated House Appropriations Committee].

$87 Billion is more that 10 times what the Government spends on all environmental Protection. The Bush administration requested just $7.6 billion for the entire Environmental Protection Agency. This included a 32 percent cut to water quality grants, a 6 percent reduction in enforcement staff, and a 50 percent cut to land acquisition and conservation. [Source: Natural Resources Defense Council].

There you go. In black and white. A few million of you will receive this letter. Please share the above with at least a half-dozen people today and tomorrow. I, like you, do not want to see another approval rating over 50 percent.

Name:	American
To:	Sand Flea

In response to:
No? This scene doesn't ring true?

Name:	American
To:	Michael Moore & his Ilk
Re:	The correct funding figure is ZERO!

In response to:
. I, like you, do not want to see another approval rating over 50 percent.

Name:	Smedley
To:	forum Dems and other scum

In response to:
Bush gets up, stomps over to Cheney, and angrily yells into his face, "No, you idiot! It's Tony Blair!"

Message:
I'll believe in intelligent Democrats when they can tell a joke without having to borrow from 30yo+ jokes

Name:	Smedley
To:	"Cheeseburger" Moore

In response to:
To get some perspective, here are some real-life comparisons about what $87 billion means:

$87 Billion is more than the combined total of all State budget deficits in the United States.

Let's cut $87 Billion from Welfare, $87 Billion from the useless DOE and another $87 Billion other various entitlements, because 9-11 alone cost the US over a hundred billion dollars and thousands of lives. Think of the damage that ten suitcase nukes in alQaeda hands would do?

Name:	Smedley
To:	Gwynne Dyer

In response to:
Gwynne Dyer: 'Hey, America — It's not always about you'

The reason Al Qaeda is still in business in a big way is that the Bush administration then invaded Iraq.

Name:	Gay Marriage
To:	Prostitutes

Message:
You may have had a 'Clinton', (and a Danny.)

Name:	Sul Rost
To:	forum this from...http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/
Re:	More mischief against the CIA

In response to:
This Novak could be the same crumbumb traitor who mentioned that lady CIA agent and Congressional anti CIA's were trying to blame President Bush. Formerly journalists were held responsible for publishing damaging details. Why not punish the blabbermouth divulging secret sources for whatever reasons? h

Message:
The outing of Valerie Plame in the column of Robert Novak has now led to the resignation of Jim Pavitt from the CIA. Mr. Pavitt was Valerie Plameâ€™s superior. His work has been devastated by this catastrophic security leak, and he has apparently chosen to resign as a result. The announcement of his retirement is the tip of an iceberg of national disaster. Donâ€™t believe for a moment the rantings of lying radio hosts about this case. Valerie Plame was no small fish. The revelation of her name is, in fact, the most serious intelligence disaster in the history of this country. Only a tiny number of high officials, such as the president, the secretaries of state and defense, and a few high White House officials even have access to the names of the CIAâ€™s NOC â€œnon-official coverâ€ officers. These are seemingly private individuals who are actually key CIA personnel, whose clandestine activities are run via carefully designed covers, companies that are legitimate from top to bottom and are not in any way thought to be CIA-associated, and have survived years of scrutiny from foreign intelligence operations, and are believed by even the best of them to be entirely non-CIA connected.

Name:	Here lies Michael Moore, 3 slugsetc
To:	forum
Re:	Thanks Hollywierd for stuffing Michael Moore's propaganda

In response to:
Had to go see Spiderman ii or take a box of tissues to tearjerker,"Notebook" Pick a better Country...Ken Hamlin to Michael Moore.

Why redo Buford Pusser in Walking Tall and call him "Chris"? Did The Rock balk at being a Pusser or was the whole name just too much?

That was not a bad flick until they trashed that brand new pickup instead of just confiscating it. Who would do something that inane? The expensive car in The French Connection was torn up while searching for the pounds of heroin which later vanished from the police property room. But nobody tore it into little pieces! Mysteries of Hollywierd just go unanswered.

Name:	Anthrax Sandwiches
To:	Sul Rost
Re:	Low carbs, no trans fats, natural male enhancement!

In response to:
The announcement of his retirement is the tip of an iceberg of national disaster. Donâ€™t believe for a moment the rantings of lying radio hosts about this case. Valerie Plame was no small fish. The revelation of her name is, in fact, the most serious intelligence disaster in the history of this country. Only a tiny number of high officials, such as the president, the secretaries of state and defense, and a few high White House officials even have access to the names of the CIAâ€™s NOC â€œnon-official coverâ€ officers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Name:

Smedley

In response to:
Yet Novak knew about Val. Odd, isn't it? Damned odd, I'd say!

Message:
FYI, word in DC was that Val & Hubby were quite open about her CIA work -- at cocktail parties even

Name:	The DNC Deligate
To:	forum
Re:	be nice to deligates--STIFF the Cab drivers

In response to:
Dear DNC: The voucher to cabbie plan STIFFS the working STIFF! I'm spending so I will pay and TIP the cab driver. I'll not S-CREW the cab driver!

Message:
Cabbie must apply to DNC to redeem the Taxi vouchers to get their $12 per passenger for the fare. DNC hussling cab drivers for a cheap subsidized ride/illegal campaign contribution. At Boston's Logan Airport. Meter fare, comes to over $40 inc. Airport Surcharge and tolls. Massachusechetts Port Authority agreed to ream itself out of the surcharge but the Mass Turnpike Authority which makes fire engines pay toll on the way to EMERGENCIES will not wave the charge.

How about those compasionate folks at the Massachusechetts Turnpike Authority who slow down fire engines AND frig the firemen out of a toll BEFORE they can come save your A_ss from a fire!

Hey, my state, California, may be somewhat s_crewed up but Mass. and its Turnpike Authority get the Golden Booby Hatch Award. Hip Hip Hooray! Let those firemen stop and pay toll, maybe your sorry Democrat culo will fry while the firemen pass the hat for the toll!

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To:	forum MIT fans ---hey they have a high S.A.T. requirement
Re:	http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=3936

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Always wondered what spinach was created to do. The main nutrient is hopelessly bound to oxilates or something and cannot be fully assimulated by the human body. Sorry Popeye, that stuff may be better for solar energy than muscle power!

Message:
We always knew that spinach would save us somehow, and now it looks like it may be able to combat global warming. Solar cells give us hope that we may be able to avoid fossil fuels in the future, and drastically cut greenhouse gases. The problem is, they're not very efficient. But that's where spinach comes in… Geoffrey Lean writes in the Independent that scientists at M.I.T. isolated the proteins from spinach leaves that control photosynthesis (the way plants get food from the sun). They laid them on a thin gold film and covered them with organic material that conducts electricity. When they shone light on these layers, power was produced. Researcher Marc Baldo says this method can "take advantage of two billion years of evolution" by converting sunlight into electricity the same way plants do, rather than artificially. Why spinach and not some other vegetable? Baldo says, "There's a lot of it and it's very, very green." They plan to try it with peas in the future.

Name:	Hiram Willspointe
To:	Lord of Flies
Re:	fliessux@pussbrain.rad