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	<title>Comments on: Breakfast with Ron &#8211; The Secret Ballot</title>
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		<title>By: Charlie (Colorado)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Charlie (Colorado)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;For god&#039;s sake don&#039;t ever let Moxie and DennisThePeasant get together.&lt;/i&gt;



Are you kidding?  We should breed&#039;em.



Dennis: re: &quot;Hubba Hubba&quot; -- I agree completely.  I write Moxie every couple of months and propose marriage.



She seems to feel that the fact we&#039;ve never met is an impedimant, whereas I suspect it&#039;s my only chance.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>For god&#8217;s sake don&#8217;t ever let Moxie and DennisThePeasant get together.</i></p>
<p>Are you kidding?  We should breed&#8217;em.</p>
<p>Dennis: re: &#8220;Hubba Hubba&#8221; &#8212; I agree completely.  I write Moxie every couple of months and propose marriage.</p>
<p>She seems to feel that the fact we&#8217;ve never met is an impedimant, whereas I suspect it&#8217;s my only chance.</p>
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		<title>By: SomeJoe</title>
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		<dc:creator>SomeJoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m also in NYC, also in a creative field, also voted for Gore last time and also don&#039;t know anyone else who has admitted to supporting Bush. I suspect a few people, but I&#039;m just not willing to risk social pariah status over something I&#039;m not obligated to divulge. It pisses me off because it seems like cowardice on my part, but I&#039;m realistic about this and don&#039;t want bigotry towards my beliefs to affect my family.



I&#039;m in the East Village, I know of five communist bookstores within ten minutes of my apartment. Yet, on 13th St &amp; 1st Ave some brave, comedically-gifted neighbor made &lt;a href=&#039;http://www.flickr.com/photos/33729734@N00/443664/&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a covert Bush &#039;04 sign, spelled out with dozens of blue anti-war/Bush stickers.&lt;/a&gt;



Diversity of opinion is alive and well in NYC, it&#039;s just flying below the radar.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m also in NYC, also in a creative field, also voted for Gore last time and also don&#8217;t know anyone else who has admitted to supporting Bush. I suspect a few people, but I&#8217;m just not willing to risk social pariah status over something I&#8217;m not obligated to divulge. It pisses me off because it seems like cowardice on my part, but I&#8217;m realistic about this and don&#8217;t want bigotry towards my beliefs to affect my family.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m in the East Village, I know of five communist bookstores within ten minutes of my apartment. Yet, on 13th St &amp; 1st Ave some brave, comedically-gifted neighbor made <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/33729734@N00/443664/' rel="nofollow">a covert Bush &#8216;04 sign, spelled out with dozens of blue anti-war/Bush stickers.</a></p>
<p>Diversity of opinion is alive and well in NYC, it&#8217;s just flying below the radar.</p>
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		<title>By: nadadoc</title>
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		<dc:creator>nadadoc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jamie et al, I think I win the prize for living in the belly of the beast, Santa Cruz Ca. My overt bravery went as far as putting a &quot;9/11/01 We will never forget&quot; bumper sticker on my car. Believe me, in this town just that much makes a statement, but I think it would be beyond even &quot;them&quot; to defile my car or me for that.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jamie et al, I think I win the prize for living in the belly of the beast, Santa Cruz Ca. My overt bravery went as far as putting a &#8220;9/11/01 We will never forget&#8221; bumper sticker on my car. Believe me, in this town just that much makes a statement, but I think it would be beyond even &#8220;them&#8221; to defile my car or me for that.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie Irons</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie Irons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;flenser&lt;/b&gt;



Again I really like your &quot;statement of purpose,&quot; or perhaps &quot;mission statement&quot; on the War Against Islamic Fascism.



I&#039;m going to commit its essence to memory.



Jamie Irons
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<p>Again I really like your &#8220;statement of purpose,&#8221; or perhaps &#8220;mission statement&#8221; on the War Against Islamic Fascism.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to commit its essence to memory.</p>
<p>Jamie Irons</p>
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		<title>By: flenser</title>
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		<dc:creator>flenser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ed



Let&#039;s try this out on you.



&lt;i&gt;We are at war with Islamic terrorists and with the states that sponsor and support them. By and large these are Arab and Islamic states. They have been waging an undeclared war on us, using terrorists as their proxies, for decades, and the time has come for us to show them the error of their ways. The nature of how this war will be fought will vary from country to country. In some cases it will entail full-scale military invasion and overthrow of governments. In other cases it will consist of economic sanctions or diplomatic pressure. In still other cases it may mean surgical strikes to take out the military assets of the countries in question. The means may vary, but the goal will be the same; to dissuade these countries from waging war on us at no cost to themselves.&lt;i&gt;



Al Queda is not the problem. It is only a symptom of the problem. Are we clear now?

&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
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<p>Let&#8217;s try this out on you.</p>
<p><i>We are at war with Islamic terrorists and with the states that sponsor and support them. By and large these are Arab and Islamic states. They have been waging an undeclared war on us, using terrorists as their proxies, for decades, and the time has come for us to show them the error of their ways. The nature of how this war will be fought will vary from country to country. In some cases it will entail full-scale military invasion and overthrow of governments. In other cases it will consist of economic sanctions or diplomatic pressure. In still other cases it may mean surgical strikes to take out the military assets of the countries in question. The means may vary, but the goal will be the same; to dissuade these countries from waging war on us at no cost to themselves.</i><i></p>
<p>Al Queda is not the problem. It is only a symptom of the problem. Are we clear now?</p>
<p></i></p>
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		<title>By: Katherine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katherine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You absolutely right, ed.  Kerry will take care of us and make all the nasty terrorists disappear.



Would that be before or after he provides nuclear material to Iran?



Would that be before or after he cuts and run from Iraq?



Would that be before or after he cuts funding from developing bunker-busters?



But I am not worried.  John Kerry promised me that next time we get attacked he would respond forcefully.  I donít know exactly what he means by that but he mentioned that he might call a Summit and appeal to the UN.



So should he win this election all I need to do is make sure that will not be in an area that Mr. Terrorist chooses as a target.  I may also consider liquidating all of my assets and turning them into gold sovereigns. Buying Hazmat suits, Geiger counter, iodine tablets, and other survival items may also be in order.

I may even line my crawl space with lead sheet, would be a shame to get all that wine spoiled.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You absolutely right, ed.  Kerry will take care of us and make all the nasty terrorists disappear.</p>
<p>Would that be before or after he provides nuclear material to Iran?</p>
<p>Would that be before or after he cuts and run from Iraq?</p>
<p>Would that be before or after he cuts funding from developing bunker-busters?</p>
<p>But I am not worried.  John Kerry promised me that next time we get attacked he would respond forcefully.  I donít know exactly what he means by that but he mentioned that he might call a Summit and appeal to the UN.</p>
<p>So should he win this election all I need to do is make sure that will not be in an area that Mr. Terrorist chooses as a target.  I may also consider liquidating all of my assets and turning them into gold sovereigns. Buying Hazmat suits, Geiger counter, iodine tablets, and other survival items may also be in order.</p>
<p>I may even line my crawl space with lead sheet, would be a shame to get all that wine spoiled.</p>
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		<title>By: Terrye</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terrye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>insatty:



Yes. I hope Bush does better and by better I mean I hope he does not try to be nice. You know what they say about nice guys.



Go check out TradeSports.com for the electoral college map. It will make you feel better.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>insatty:</p>
<p>Yes. I hope Bush does better and by better I mean I hope he does not try to be nice. You know what they say about nice guys.</p>
<p>Go check out TradeSports.com for the electoral college map. It will make you feel better.</p>
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		<title>By: chuck</title>
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		<dc:creator>chuck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, ed got his honeymoon here and blew it. Has he been here before? Anyway, I am a big believer in the tit-for-tat strategy in the prisoner&#039;s dilemma game.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, ed got his honeymoon here and blew it. Has he been here before? Anyway, I am a big believer in the tit-for-tat strategy in the prisoner&#8217;s dilemma game.</p>
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		<title>By: Jamie Irons</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie Irons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Call me a fire-breathing Neo-Con if you must&lt;/b&gt;, but I feel offended when people post passive-aggressive nonsense, and simulated feelings of grievance that they &quot;haven&#039;t been protected enough&quot; and &quot;feel let down by this administration.&quot;



Of course, if Mr. Bush had dropped a bag of Daisy Cutter hammers on Mr. Bin Laden, and had displayed Mr. Bin Laden&#039;s neatly catalogued and labelled remains on the White House Lawn for certain aggrieved parties to view at their leisure, some other sort of grievance and let down would have been forthcoming...



Jamie Irons
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Call me a fire-breathing Neo-Con if you must</b>, but I feel offended when people post passive-aggressive nonsense, and simulated feelings of grievance that they &#8220;haven&#8217;t been protected enough&#8221; and &#8220;feel let down by this administration.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, if Mr. Bush had dropped a bag of Daisy Cutter hammers on Mr. Bin Laden, and had displayed Mr. Bin Laden&#8217;s neatly catalogued and labelled remains on the White House Lawn for certain aggrieved parties to view at their leisure, some other sort of grievance and let down would have been forthcoming&#8230;</p>
<p>Jamie Irons</p>
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		<title>By: Terrye</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terrye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ed:



I tell you what. Go check out Monsoor Ijaz. He is a Pakistani American with a PhD who has spent much of his life on this issue. He has worked with both the Clinton and Bush administrations on this subject.



He also seems to think we are making some headway.



But what does he know? I am sure he is not nearly as up to date on all this as Kerry and his side kick.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ed:</p>
<p>I tell you what. Go check out Monsoor Ijaz. He is a Pakistani American with a PhD who has spent much of his life on this issue. He has worked with both the Clinton and Bush administrations on this subject.</p>
<p>He also seems to think we are making some headway.</p>
<p>But what does he know? I am sure he is not nearly as up to date on all this as Kerry and his side kick.</p>
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