You don’t understand the depth or the problem Buddy,Caryl’s people captured him had him neutered and placed in a good home.Paul Martin is said to be unsettled with his new owners.

Apparently someone has purchased a Canadian ear-flap cap and a pair of galoshes, and has walked back across the border without declaring them.

Very seldom does a day pass I don’t visualize myself on the 100th floor, burning, choking, thinking about my family, and preparing to jump.

“I am willing to listen. All I ask is you give me good, solid information.”.

Asking that from MB shows your optimistic spirit and a willingness to engage, but would find MB with nothing to say.

Nice post, Yesh.

- thanks and to others, Buddy, Luther

When I look at the Republicans, all I see is a corrupt and incompetent party that violates the Constitution every chance they can.

funny, I’m an Independent, what does your statement have to do with my views?

My glasses are not tainted one way like yours. I see corruption on both sides and if you do not then you are only misleading yourself. Each side is receiving far to much money from corporate donors as well other institutions and lobbyist.

What are you guys so afraid of?

Honestly, I’m not afraid at all. That is why I voice my opinion clearly to you on these topics. You completely misunderstood my post. I called for leadership from the Democrats. Very few however gives us that today. I gave you one example of an honest man that I see on the Democrat side regarding the War on Iraq.

Will the radical Muslims:

1. Win an election and seize power in America?

Nope…not a chance.

-What kind of nonsensical mutterings are these? This is avoiding directly all the issues that I raised about giving our government the freedom to track those who might try to harm us.

-Instead of addressing any of my issues directly you sidestep it entirely with a disingenuous statement.

-Maybe you should direct your answer to France? or possibly Europe in the future if they allow Turkey into the EU?

2. Launch an invasion and sieze power militarily?

Nope…not gonna happen.

- another misleading and irrelevant remark designed to get off the orignal topic

3. Pull off another terrorist strike here and cause massive damage and death?

Maybe. Will America survive if they do? Yes. Japan took two nuclear attacks and bounced back.

- and what kind of statement is this? Are you saying you don’t care?

- As a citizen of this country I have a right to vote and determine who I want in office. For me it is important that they will do all that is ‘legal’ to protect my family, friends, my business and livelyhood.

- Exactly what do you want? Someone who will hold hands with CodePink like Dean? This is not some far right issue. I’m an average person, have traveled, owned a successful business and I desire that our government do its duty to protect our economy, our people. That is what I pay taxes for and why I vote for people.

- You seem to want to throw your hands us and say the terrorist wins without trying. This epitomizes for me the Democratic response. A lot of hot air, meetings, panels, expert opinions, more hot air, more meetings and then – nothing but a consensus to do another study.

If the terrorists are going to use nukes, odds are they have them in some corner of the world where we aren’t are now. The money we are spending in Iraq would be better spent searching all the containers entering our ports.

- well at least this is an attempt to get at real solutions. I agree we should be doing our best to stop any type of nuke proliferation or access to nukes by terrorist orgainizations. I just happen to think our government is capable of doing both.

- I also think we get more intel by being in Afghanistan and Iraq(the heart of the beast of radical Islam) and by getting more intel we will understand the underbelly of these radical organizations. Being in Iraq in my estimation gives us much more information than running blindly around the world.

Maybe if you guys had lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation from the Soviets you wouldn’t be so worried about nuclear firecrackers.

- huh? Honestly I don’t understand your response to well. But if it interest you, I grew up during a time of early age when we had to do nuke bombing drills in our schools. I also lived by an AFB which ran B-52’s every single night on runs to the old Soviet border just in case of any attack. You’re making incorrect assumptions of my knowledge and experience. As I grew up, I learned that it was more important to have a strong defense than to blow a lot of hot air. President Carter proved this by his weakness. I learned not to fear nuclear attacks, but instead to be prepared and to be on the offensive always. I learned this from men with actual military experience. Never give the enemy the upper hand.

And you wouldn’t give up your Constitutional freedoms to the bumbling gang of thieves “protecting” us now so willingly…

- now I’m really at a loss to understand this paragraph after the last. I’m not giving up my constitutional rights like you mistakenly put it.

- You are completely ignorant of the programs already on the books. The government if it wants to can peek into my privacy any day they want under certain laws on the books prior to 9/11 if they suspect I have broken certain laws. You believe way to much propaganda the ACLU sends out by its minions of misinformation.

- After 9/11

The house and senate approved the Patriot Act. Democrats signed onto the bill. Did you forget this too?

And you obviously do not understand what the constitutional law allows a President during war time to exercise specific war time acts and orders to protect this nation while under threat.

You have been somehow brainwashed by far leftist and ACLU types and Democrats who confuse us with their misleading accusations.

The President is not asking to tap your phones. He simply asked his staff what he could do legally to find, interdict and track anyone with foreign connections related to terrorist organizations such as Al Queda. This is something any student of a civics class should understand.

He is not advocating breaking my or your civil rights. He is however watching foreign communications or by way of information gathering on the fronts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places to use the information gathered from the enemy on their PCs, CDs, DVDs, notebooks, letters or any information with numbers linking back to people in this country.

What is so SCARY TO YOU about this action?

I am not the one who is illogical and afraid.

It is you monkyboy who is not making any sense during a time of war. I also find it completely unacceptable that you would tolerate an attack by not allowing our government to interdict such communications by possible enemy combatants within our nation.

We live in a wonderful, free society. I’m not afraid of the government tapping my line. I have nothing to hide in the first place. Unless they want to hear me coooo over my Darling wife or about our domestic conversations, my thoughts on where we might travel, or the music I like.

It is you who are being irrational, not I.

With regards to Russia. Have you ever traveled there? I was there in 98 and I’ll never forget the day George Soros completely rocked that nation by his move on the Russian currency market. The rubble fell… and kept falling and the poor people of that nation ran to the banks to get their money out.

This was their introduction to the free market thanks to the likes of George Soros – the supporter of organizations like moveon.org. The guy who pretends to care about people, while he raked in hundreds of millions at the expense of millions of Russians.

It took them years to recover financially and emotionally many of them have never truly trusted a free market economy again.

Thank you Democrats – yet another victory in NOT freeing a nation, but instead spreading fear.

Corrupt people? You don’t really want to go there monkyboy.

Kennedy and clan have moved hundreds of millions offshore – yet he expects you to pay more taxes.

He and those like him are worse than hypocrites. They’re scoundrels of the lowest kind. They will suck you dry here in this nation, while sending their own money offshore.

I’m sorry to say you’ve been misinformed. I do hope you wake up. I’m sure you’re a nice person.

And let it be clear, I’m not a republican. There is much the Republicans can do better – a better energy policy for one.

We should have a national energy policy which calls upon all Americans and corporations to commit like JFK called us to go to the moon. We should treat alternative energy resources and removing ourselves from dependency on oil from the Middle East.

I’ve written the President to ask for such a move.

So don’t try to pin me in. You’re making way to many assumptions of who I am and what I believe.

But the Democrats have been utter failures on the war in Iraq and have misled the public for only one reason – to gain power.

If you care to actually respond and show me where I’m wrong in anything I said, I’ll be glad to rejoin you in a valid debate. But if you just toss up trivial lines without relevance to the discussion, there’s no need to continue.

I am willing to listen. All I ask is you give me good, solid information.