Big Ol' Smitty

Invader, you are all over the place on this.

Just wondering, King...what makes this such an important issue to you?

Ha.

This is real.

Representative Marty Seifert (R-21A), House Minority Leader, on why Republicans lost in 2006 elections

Here is the amount of money each candidate has raised in the Q1 of 2007. In millions, obviously. Republicans Romney $23 Giuliani $15 McCain $12.5 Huckabee $0.5 TOTAL $51 Democrats Clinton $26 Obama $25 Edwards $14 Richardson $6 Dodd $4 Biden $3 TOTAL: $78

I think such an election would seriously be an opportunity for a 3rd party candidate to make major headway.

Do you have evidence that Amnesty Intl. or other NGOs are using more of their resources on the abuses at Guantanamo than on Darfur, or is this just standard rightwing boilerplate? Because I'm unconvinced that the fact that Amnesty International criticizes Guantanamo is somehow exacerbating the situation in Darfur.

Haha. Really? What bullshit.

The weirdest thing happening right now in the GOP primary is the fact that Mitt Romney is the leading fundraiser but can barely break 5% in polls. Fred Thompson (of Law & Order) just mentions that he's considering running and immediately bolts ahead of Romney.

Having fun pounding those straw men? Nobody said it was your fault.

Frankly, I'd rather reside there than Invader3K's Lou Dobbs Mexican Work/Death Gulag Dystopia.

My main problem with the death penalty is that I simply don't trust the state with that level of power.

I think you're on to something! That's why I said that it was just the first thing that popped into my head, not that it was my Grand Unified Theory of the Oncoming War with Iran. (I will reveal this theory soon.)

Okay, Dobbs, explain why it's irrelevant, then. A lot of people believed that the Gulf of Tonkin incident and other war provocations were genuine and later turned out to be bullshit. Why does this case not have that potential? I'm reading this book right now, so I may be a little jaded at the moment.

Understandable, but not relevant to the situation here. You don't know that. It's interesting to see you apply very different standards of the burden of proof to Britain in this case and Saddam Hussein in the case of Iraq. I have higher standards for liberal democracies than for murderous autocrats. And I didn't make any claim, just said that's the first thing that popped into my head. The USS Maine, too. Now I'm gonna go buy a Lambroghini like Eddie Griffin's with my 98% tax cut.

Wait there's two KOABs?

Understandable, but not relevant to the situation here. You don't know that.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/28/video-...ondents-dinner/ This is horrible.

Did you see Reign Over Me? I have to disagree on the hate for dramatic Sandler.

And I'm sorry, but the first things that pop into my head when I read a story like this are: Gulf of Tonkin, the Thornton Affair, etc.

And Lost in Translation.

I kinda liked it.

Hey C-Bacon. How do you feel about the 2001 war on Afghanistan and the US military intervention in Kosovo in the 90s?