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    I'm all about keeping Democrats out of power just on general principle, but Conrad Burns seems like the worst politician around. Grouchy old coot who is totally out of touch with his constituents, as well as being out of touch with what constitutes proper speech and behavior for a senator.

    How does Burns being out of touch with his constituents make him any different than the rest of the party, exactly?

     

    His position on Iraq? Abortion? Affirmative action? Gun control? The minimum wage? Social Security? The right to privacy? Civil liberties?

     

    Burns sounds like a typical "mainstream" Republican to me.

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    "Smells like teen spirit" by Nirvana.

    You can say something like it's got great sound but the lyrics are the stupidest load of crap ever spewed out the mouth of a singer. It's gotta be a top 10 finalist for most overrated song in the history of music as well.

    While I'll admit I got tired of that song long ago, I'd also remind you that song was written 15 years ago...back when Color Me Badd, Gerardo, C+C Music Factory, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch were popular.

     

    Smells Like Teen Spirit > Every popular song from the year 1991.

     

    Except that its STILL getting praised as a great song when it's just NOT. No one goes out and defends Marky Mark's "Feel the vibrations" as one of the best. The song is what it is, stupid load that is still getting more than it deserves.

    The fact that I can list 100 songs from 1991--one single year in the history of recorded music--that aren't even in Nirvana's league proves that including "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on a list of the dumbest songs of all time is just a desperate attempt to unfairly discredit a song you don't get.

     

    And, really now? "Stupid load"? Do you even know what the lyrics are???

     

    Im worse at what I do best

    And for this gift I feel blessed

    Our little group has always been

    And always will until the end

     

    With the lights out its less dangerous

    Here we are now

    Entertain us

    I feel stupid and contagious

    Here we are now

    Entertain us

    Cobain was able to combine self-awareness about his own talent and use it to make a statement about the youth culture's apathy.

     

    Did you even know that's what the songs about, or did you just think he was stringing together random words?

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    For those that think all Arabic people are terrorists (and it appears there are plenty of you here) you have a really smart friend in the Senate.

     

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/31/D8JRIA3O0.html

     

    I actually enjoyed this quote much, much more:

     

    During a fundraiser Wednesday with first lady Laura Bush, the three- term Montana senator talked about terrorism, tax cuts and the money he has brought to his state.

     

    That was (in order) the new GOP mantra: scare, borrow, spend.

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    Like what?

    They've tried to drill in Alaska, but the liberals are against it.

    What else can they do?

     

    There's no legislation that will make people stop using oil.

     

    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060905/major_oil_d...very.html?.v=20

     

    I guess Bush told Chevron to hold off on announcing this news until close to the elections then, right? It must have been Bush telling these oil companies to not discover anything until he needed the good news...

     

    Right.

     

    Did he just introduce an argument no one was actually making just so he could debunk it by posting the word "Right"?

     

    I should try that sometime. It seems like quite a time saver to skip the entire debate and go straight for the one-word sarcastic replies.

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    "Smells like teen spirit" by Nirvana.

    You can say something like it's got great sound but the lyrics are the stupidest load of crap ever spewed out the mouth of a singer. It's gotta be a top 10 finalist for most overrated song in the history of music as well.

    While I'll admit I got tired of that song long ago, I'd also remind you that song was written 15 years ago...back when Color Me Badd, Gerardo, C+C Music Factory, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch were popular.

     

    Smells Like Teen Spirit > Every popular song from the year 1991.

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    Pentagon: Cold-blooded carnage soaring in Iraq

     

    BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said Friday.

     

    Increasing violence is affecting "all other measures of stability, reconstruction and transition," according to the report, which examined the situation in June, July and August.

     

    But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."

     

    "Sectarian tensions increased over the past quarter manifested in an increasing number of execution-style killings, kidnappings and attacks on civilians," said the report which is required by Congress.

     

    The number of executions reached a new high in July, the Pentagon said, blaming the killings on al Qaeda in Iraq and death squads who are accused of targeting members of various communities to increase sectarian tension.

     

    "The Baghdad coroner's office reported 1,600 bodies arrived in June and more than 1,800 in July, 90 percent of which were assessed to be the result of executions."

     

    The report said the quarter had seen a 51 percent increase in Iraqi casualties and a 15 percent increase in the number of attacks.

     

    The report's release came after a wave of apparent sectarian violence Thursday claimed at least 46 lives across the Iraqi capital.

     

    Neighborhoods targeted

    Forty-four people died and at least 255 others were wounded in five attacks using Katyusha rockets in mostly Shiite neighborhoods of southeastern and northern Baghdad, the Iraqi Health Ministry said.

     

    The blasts destroyed six residential buildings in five neighborhoods and are under investigation, said an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.

     

    A car bomb also killed two people and wounded 13 near a gas station in the southeastern Baghdad neighborhood of Mashtal, police said.

     

    Thursday's violence followed a string of insurgent bombings Wednesday in Baghdad and the nearby provinces of Diyala and Babil, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 100 others, emergency officials said.

     

    The attacks hit as Iraqi and U.S. security forces engage in an extensive security crackdown in the capital.

     

    Amid flagging support domestically for the war in the United States, President Bush launched a new series of domestic speeches Thursday, again asserting that the battle for Iraq is the "central front in our fight against terrorism."

     

    Bush told an audience at the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, that the effort was akin to World War II and the Cold War and warned that failure to persevere will lead terrorists to take their battle to U.S. shores.

     

    Also on Thursday, Congressional Democrats sharpened their attacks on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with one senator proposing a resolution that would call on President Bush to sack the outspoken Pentagon chief.

     

    Sen. Barbara Boxer of California said that she wants to attach the measure to the defense appropriation bill coming to the Senate floor after lawmakers' August recess.

     

    Many Democrats have disputed Bush's view that the Iraq war is essential to the fight against terrorism. In a statement, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada called for "beginning the redeployment of troops from Iraq, refocusing our efforts on the war on terror and protecting Americans from terrorism here at home."

     

    Other developments

     

    U.S. troops transferred security responsibilities Friday in most of the key northern province of Tameem to two Iraqi army battalions. Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division made the transfer during a ceremony at an Iraqi military base outside Kirkuk. That oil-rich city and Hawija will remain under U.S.-led coalition control.

     

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday said Iraqi security forces soon will assume leadership responsibility in the southern province of Thiqar. Iraqis recently took control of security in Muthanna province from the British.

     

    A U.S. Marine and soldier died Wednesday "due to enemy action" during operations in Anbar province, west of Baghdad. Since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, there have been 2,633 U.S. military fatalities. Seven American civilian contractors of the military also have died in the conflict.

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/01/...main/index.html

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    This is awesome...

     

    Bush disputes Iraq in civil war, says Iraqis want peace

     

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A day after a Pentagon report described spreading sectarian violence and increasingly complex security problems in Iraq, President Bush painted a rosier picture.

     

    "Our commanders and diplomats on the ground believe that Iraq has not descended into a civil war," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "They report that only a small number of Iraqis are engaged in sectarian violence, while the overwhelming majority want peace and a normal life in a unified country."

     

    The president acknowledged "a bloody campaign of sectarian violence" and the "difficult and dangerous" work of trying to end it. (Watch Iraqis meander amid the aftermath of rocket and mortar attacks -- 5:15)

     

    On Friday, the Pentagon reported that death squads increasingly targeting mainly Iraqi civilians heighten the risk of civil war. The report, the latest in a series required by Congress, also said the Sunni-led insurgency "remains potent and viable."

     

    "Conditions that could lead to civil war exist in Iraq, specifically in and around Baghdad, and concern about civil war within the Iraqi civilian population has increased in recent months," the report said.

     

    A growing number of members of Congress are calling for either a shift in the Bush administration's Iraq strategy or a timetable for beginning a substantial withdrawal of American forces.

     

    But Bush, repeating nearly word-for-word the message of a speech earlier this week in Salt Lake City, Utah, said: "The security of the civilized world depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in Iraq, so America will not leave until victory is achieved."

     

    He added, "The path to victory will be uphill and uneven, and it will require more patience and sacrifice from our nation."

     

    New White House campaign for support

    The president's radio remarks are part of a new White House offensive to build support for the Iraq war and for Republicans in the fall elections. This series of speeches was launched Thursday, with an address before an American Legion convention, and is to culminate September 19 with remarks before the U.N. General Assembly.

     

    The next speech is set for Tuesday, when the White House is bringing representatives from countries that have suffered terrorist attacks to populate the audience and emphasize the global nature of the enemy.

     

    Bush often ticks off a list of recent attacks to demonstrate that the world should be united against Islamic militants who share a purpose, if not a common network.

     

    He often says various factions of terrorists -- such as Sunnis who swear allegiance to al Qaeda, Shiites who support groups such as Hezbollah, and "homegrown" terrorists with local grievances -- belong under the same umbrella, even though many terrorism experts disagree.

     

    The president plans to expand on this description Tuesday before the Military Officers Association of America, said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. Bush will describe how Islamic militants think, what they have said about their aims and why the world should take them seriously, Perino said.

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/02/Bus...o.ap/index.html

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    Since when does Isis dress that way? That is why I didn't think it was Black Adam and Isis.

    Osiris was the Egyptian god of death, and the husband of Isis...which weirds me out to no end if he's Black Adam Jr.

     

    Osiris is the husband and brother of Isis , and who is Adrianna Tomaz a.k.a Isis and Black Adam looking for? Her brother

     

    Kahndaq = Arkansas ?

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