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[SteveW]

And Nate. I get what you are saying. In a perfect world? That would be just great. Send out the military to help make life great...or at least bring it up to 19th century standards.
But some areas are just tough...like Sadr City.

Also we shouldnt overlook all the rebuilding that has been successful.
Where these people arent intent on killing one another as a display of "macho"

That place is a sh!thole, like much of the middle east.

It will change as soon as the people there want better and refuse to accept the status quo enough to really make some changes.

Until such time, it is and will remain a dump.

[jimzinsocal]

Ouch!! I think maybe Dave here has a bone to pick with Jimmah Carter

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...e.asp?ID=25994

[jimzinsocal]

That place is a sh!thole, like much of the middle east.

It will change as soon as the people there want better and refuse to accept the status quo enough to really make some changes.

Until such time, it is and will remain a dump.

Yeah and it seems to all be hinged on silly religious issues.
Shia hate the Sunnis. They both hate the Jews and arent too fond of us.
If they would grow up...put the guns and head removal equipment away...settle the oil revenue deal?
They just might create a functioning economy that will attract foreign investment and JOBS
So our soldiers can do something more noble than building
sewers for these [partially] ungrateful people.

[jimzinsocal]

Hanson on the idea of +30,000 troops

http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedi..._to_a_head.php

[SteveW]

Ouch!! I think maybe Dave here has a bone to pick with Jimmah Carter

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...e.asp?ID=25994

I've always regarded Jimmy (and Billy) as a couple of "Booger Eatin' Morons"........

[jimzinsocal]

Who Should Be Person of the Year?


TIME’s Person of the Year is the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year. Who do you think fits the bill this year?
35% Hugo Chavez
21% Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12% Nancy Pelosi
11% The YouTube Guys
8% George W. Bush
8% Al Gore
5% Condoleezza Rice
2% Kim Jong Il

Well? Look who won

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/16/time.you.tm/index.html

[jimzinsocal]

Yet another BU or Proof idea from the government rocket scientists who
think deep thoughts about our coins.
I should remind everyone this idea is the creation of the very same group
that recently discovered were losing money on our coins, and felt it prudent
to announce to the world that melting down coins was worth the effort.


U.S. coin series will feature women, for a change

From the Associated Press
December 17, 2006

WASHINGTON — Not to be outdone by their husbands, the nation's first ladies will get their chance to shine on U.S. coins.

Starting next year, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams and the rest will appear on a new series of gold coins. It will be the first time the U.S. Mint has produced a series featuring women.


A new presidential series will be on $1 circulating coins, and the wives will be on half-ounce gold coins likely to sell for more than $300 apiece.

Both coins were authorized by Congress in 2005, with lawmakers modeling the $1 coin series after the Mint's popular 50-state quarters.

The hope is that changing the images every three months will help the maligned dollar coin achieve acceptance. The Susan B. Anthony dollar, introduced in 1979, and the Sacagawea, introduced in 2000, have both been flops.

The half-ounce gold coins have been designed to appeal primarily to collectors, although the Mint will be offering bronze replicas that will sell for $3 to $4.

The first four coins are scheduled to go on sale around Mother's Day, but the public will get a first look at the designs at an unveiling ceremony Tuesday at the National First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio.

The series' first coin features a stern-looking Martha Washington wearing a bonnet on one side; the other will have a depiction of her mending a soldier's jacket and the phrase: "First Lady of the Continental Army."


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^^What horse shit. If you want to do something nice for a women?
Go buy her a $2,000 ring and a dozen roses.

[jimzinsocal]

Not like Im a big fan of "The No Spin Zone" but this is still a pretty
good thing to have done. More of the idiots on the tube should do the same...get out of the penthouse and go there and say "thanks"

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?op...8162&Itemid=21

[jimzinsocal]

Heres a dose of reality you may not like

http://newsbusters.org/node/9701


^^"Inducted"? Captain Kirk should be "indicted" for attempted murder
on a $2,200 dollar suit.

BTW? Later Uncle Neocon will be presenting his conservative gifts for children.

[jimzinsocal]

read the whole thing

http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/12/the_roc.php

These soldiers are volunteers, and are highly motivated to kill “Ali Baba” - the name they give the insurgents. There are major shortcomings with the Iraqi Army in Fallujah: logistics, pay and the lack of heavy weapons hold the jundi back from being fully independent (this will be covered in more depth along with the police in future posts on the MTTs/PTTs). But a fighting spirit is not one of these shortcomings.

[jimzinsocal]

Now this. This exactly the sort of thing that burns my butt about some liberals.
OK. We have different ideas how to solve social issues...but dont hand me this trash.
Be realistic. It doesnt help a soul to misrepresent facts or distort them to make some point.

http://newsbusters.org/node/9704

Now be sure and watch the video linked. Youll see the highlighted "here" about a third of the way down.

"But JimZ...hes a Senator...he wouldnt lie"

Oh please. Hed lie to his mother if it made some political point.

Heres what he bases his pointless assertions on.
I know because I heard it myself.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5023829

And the last freaking thing I need is a "hunger" lecture from a 400 pound senator who wouldnt know hunger if it jumped out of his scotch bottle and bit him on the nose.

[and note I said "some" liberals]

Its just bugs me because what sort of message is that to advertise? That things suck?
His dead brother is rolling in his grave.

[Dutchcedar]

^^^ When they decide to include government assistance in the equation of poverty in America, I'll listen. Until then, its all just a bunch of fuzzy number juggling to make political hay out of a non-problem.

[jimzinsocal]

And like the guy at the NPR story. Hes been out of work for years...has some strange disease...collects 1500 in disability...and has the boo hoos because of the 1320 rent every month.
Well for Gods sake. Thats hardly worth Kennedy getting on the tube telling us 12 million little kids go to bed without Twinkies every nite.

You gotta really work at it to go to bed hungry in America.

[jimzinsocal]

Why I still like ol Newt

http://instapundit.com/archives2/2006/12/post_1095.php

[Dutchcedar]

And like the guy at the NPR story. Hes been out of work for years...has some strange disease...collects 1500 in disability...and has the boo hoos because of the 1320 rent every month.
Well for Gods sake. Thats hardly worth Kennedy getting on the tube telling us 12 million little kids go to bed without Twinkies every nite.

You gotta really work at it to go to bed hungry in America.

I quit cryin' over people who live beyond their means a long, long time ago. Bein' a former whiner of the same persuasion (cryin' over high rent), I understand, but don't shed tears.

edit: And yeah, Newt's one of the few straight talkers. Let's hope he keeps it up and gets air time.