From: Carbon on
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:26:06 -0500, MNMikeW wrote:
> "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4c4792dd$0$12637$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com...
>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:35:06 -0500, bknight wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:25:10 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> <bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:uage46dv0cv2op325d6fh7kaj6u2e312td(a)4ax.com...
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:15:22 -0700 (PDT), dsc-ky
>>>>> <Dudley.Cornman(a)eku.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with Mike...
>>>>>
>>>>> That makes you FOS too Dudley. Its silly to even suggest
>>>>> corruption, but that often happens with non-thinkers whose party
>>>>> isn't in office.
>>>>
>>>> Guess there were a LOT of non-thinkers in here a couple years ago
>>>> then.
>>>>
>>> There is that in both parties. However, I don't recall anyone
>>> accusing the Bush administration of corruption, just stupidity.
>>
>> I accused them of both.
>
> You non-thinker you.

I was right, not that I'm happy about it.
From: Moderate on
Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:05:15 +0000, Moderate wrote:
>> dsc-ky <Dudley.Cornman(a)eku.edu> wrote:
>>> On Jul 21, 2:59 pm, bkni...(a)conramp.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> So there are areas in which you see Obama being reasonable? Hell,
>>>> even I thought Bush made some reasonable moves, although I can't
>>>> think of one now.
>>>
>>> I think Bush bungled the war in many ways... not enough men, played
>>> too nice at times.
>>
>> Obama thought that was the correct strategy.
>
> Please cite your evidence that Obama thinks Bush's bungling in the
> middle east was the correct strategy.

Obama opposed the surge that won the war.
From: Alan Baker on
In article
<1552120646301624077.216219nospam-nomail.com(a)news.suddenlink.net>,
Moderate <nospam(a)nomail.com> wrote:

> Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net> wrote:
> > In article
> > <76974938301577272.827204nospam-nomail.com(a)news.suddenlink.net>,
> > Moderate <nospam(a)nomail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net> wrote:
> >>> On Jul 22, 12:20 pm, "Moderate" <no_spam_(a)no_mail.com> wrote:
> >>>> "Alan Baker" <alangba...(a)telus.net> wrote in message
> >>>>
> >>>> news:alangbaker-0E2AA9.09351722072010(a)news.shawcable.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Armitage wasn't a Clinton appointee.
> >>>>
> >>>>> He served as an aide to Senator Bob Dole, a foreign policy advisor
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> Ronald Reagan, was promoted to Deputy Assistant of Defence for
> > > > > > Asia
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> then further promoted to Assistant Secretary of Defence for
> >>>>> International Security Policy by his administration.
> >>>>
> >>>>> In 1993 -- when Clinton was president, he entered the private
> >>>>> sector...
> >>>>
> >>>>> ...where he remained until George W. Bush's presidency.
> >>>>
> >>>>> So not only is your smoke screen rather obvious, it's just plain
> >>>>> wrong.
> >>>>
> >>>> Armitage served in the Clinton State Department until May 1993.
> >>>
> >>> So you acknowledge he wasn't a Clinton appointee. He was there when
> >>> Clinton arrive and didn't lose his job immediately.
> >>>
> >>> He worked for Republicans, got his government job and promotions
> > > > from
> >>> Republicans, was re-hired by Republicans.
> >>>
> >>> In what way does that make him a "Clinton appointee" when he outed
> >>> Valerie Plame?
> >>>
> >>> Were you lying our just ignorant when you made your earlier claim?
> >>
> >> He was appointed by the Clinton administration. You were ignorant in
> >> your claim. Don't try and spin this on me.
> >
> > No, he was not.
> >
> > And when he outed Plame he was there because the Bush administration
> > re-hired him.
>
> Yes he was.


Right. He was a Bush appointee.

Goof of you to finally admit it.

Now, were you lying at first or merely ignorant?

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
<http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>
From: William Clark on
In article <8aupqnFa1qU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
"dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com> wrote:

> "William Clark" <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message
> news:clark-CD45BB.08085023072010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu...
> > In article <vfWdnbIZyq0PgdTRnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d(a)nventure.com>,
> > Jim Lovejoy <nospam(a)devnull.spam> wrote:
> >
> > > William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote in
> news:clark-
> > > 15F200.14145521072010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu:
> > >
> > > > Jim,
> > > >
> > > > You obviously do need to use smaller words and type slower. Right now
> > > > you are clearly well beyond their reading and comprehension levels.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'll try. But one syllable is as small as I can go, so I doubt I can
> get
> > > to his reading level.
> >
> > I doubt that my beagle could get to his reading level :-)
>
> Somebody who owns/tolerates a beagle shouldn't be bayin' about intelligence.
> :)
>
> -Greg

Whoosh.
From: Carbon on
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:53:48 -0700, dene wrote:
> "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4c4a4342$0$4972$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com...
>
>> How to save trillions of dollars and thousands of lives:
>>
>> Afghanistan: Go in. Shock and awe. Leave. Done.
>
> How do you shock and awe an unseen force. This force will reinstate
> itself once we're gone....unless we never leave.

Right after 9/11 bin Laden and his people were holed up in Tora Bora.
Drop a few MOABs on their cave complexes. Send in the Rangers to make
sure. Get the guys that actually did it, and then leave. No lasting
quagmire to drag the economy down.