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2004-11-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Personally I don't think it's at all incompatible to be both proud of the > amount we've been able to dispose of while still being appalled that such a > significant amount was lost. > > > > Jim Davis > > -----Original Message- > From: Sam Morris [m

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2004-11-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
The problem I have with it is that 350+ tons is not a small amount. The quantity is staggering. To misplace that takes incompetence that is simply staggering. I have always thought better of our military. larry On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:09:27 -0700, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > y'know

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2004-11-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I think you're underestimating things. There's also the collateral and structure hits. Without doing the math - hey I just got in from Max you expect miracles, I'd figure the totals would be considerably more than just the estimates with the explosives alone. larry On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:48:54 -00

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
s you know something we all don't that is. ;^) Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:01 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". say for in

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
Problem is the Dems have to win. One of the first things Bush did when he was elected was to work with Ted Kennedy. That didn't work, even Ted attacks Bush daily. Also, the Republicans don't have the hate for Kerry so we can accept him as President. A lot of people on this list will never accept

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2004-11-02 Thread Matthew Fusfield
> > My hope is that when Mr. Kerry wins he'll appoint many of the other > party to his staff. I've heard John McCain for SecDef and that > there's a place for Chuch Hagel. > I agree. I don't know if Kerry will do it, but Bush has had 4 years to do it and didn't. I respect the fact that roughly

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
Is that the max amount of deaths you can come up with? What if it they blew up every dam with it flooding towns and cities. Lot's of full planes over maybe the super bowl. Maybe a few cruise ships while we're at it. And it's all Bushies fault because he wouldn't leave Saddam alone. When you go t

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2004-11-02 Thread Ken Ketsdever
Good point -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:46 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 Would we be as forgiving if we were told: "we were able to secure nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads! We did misplace two

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2004-11-02 Thread Ken Ketsdever
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". say for instance claims of imminent threats? Possession of WMD? those type of claims? On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:25:03 -0500, Jim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I saw no valid comparisons to Hitler. There was no discussion of qualities or simila

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
is because he's being groomed for a run in 2008, but it could be any number of reasons. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: William Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:48 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > Or, you can blame it on

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2004-11-02 Thread Ken Ketsdever
nly I could find one of those safer places. -Original Message- From: Sam Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:10 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 This is so tiring. Can we ever get passed it? So how many lives did we save be destr

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
They weren't my words, they're from Slate: I was just pointing out the spin. http://slate.msn.com/id/210/ The Post's Oct. 29 piece provides important context with an early quotation from military analyst Anthony H. Cordesman. "There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons of rat

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2004-11-02 Thread William Bowen
> Or, you can blame it on the soldiers like Rudy Guiliani did. What a schmuck. Agreed, never thought he'd turn out to be a chicken hawk, too. -- -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
ost. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Sam Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:10 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 This is so tiring. Can we ever get passed it? So how many lives did we save be destroying 999,620 tons? Are we done here?

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2004-11-02 Thread William Bowen
> They just had a thread about how rude it was to say > Clinton was not my President. Since I started that thread i'll jump in on this point... my query wasn't so much to say "how rude" it was. Just remarking that that particular sentiment did not seem to be prevalent in this election. I guess y

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2004-11-02 Thread Howie Hamlin
Or, you can blame it on the soldiers like Rudy Guiliani did. What a schmuck. --- On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:34 PM, Gruss Gott scribed: --- > > It is evidence of poor planning, too few troops to do the job > properly, and almost no plan to manage the country after the invasion. > That's why

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2004-11-02 Thread Howie Hamlin
Before the war: 1 million tons of expolsives in the hands of the Iraqi government none of these explosives given to terrorists After the war: no explosives in the hands of the Iraqi government ??? tons in the hands of terrorists. --- On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:09 PM, Sam Morris scribed:

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2004-11-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > The glass is half full! > but why focus on the tiny amount that slipped through the cracks? As I've said before the reason to focus on this "tiny amount" is because the Pentagon cannot account for what amount if any existed at an IAEA tagged site. It is not the amount, it is the po

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2004-11-02 Thread Gruss Gott
gt; > Jim Davis > > -Original Message- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:00 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > > > Jim wrote: > > Personally I find that off-the-cuff remarks are ofte

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2004-11-02 Thread William Bowen
> The thing that scares me the most about Kerry is what > I here from his supporters. And what, pray tell, do you hear from Kerry supporters that scares you so? Things like this? "If we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again" - Dick Cheney, September 2004 "...committe

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
This is so tiring. Can we ever get passed it? So how many lives did we save be destroying 999,620 tons? Are we done here? --- Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you've never worked with explosives. 380 tons is a > hell of a large amount > > and more than enough to make a lot of our pe

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2004-11-02 Thread Charlie Griefer
y'know, i hesitate to contribute to these threads 'cuz I feel like poor Sam gets ganged up on (or at least, is significantly outnumbered), and I do feel bad for that. but to say 380 tons is 'decimal dust'...well, I have a hard time believing if it were the Kerry camp in charge that you'd be so for

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2004-11-02 Thread Paul Vernon
> you've never worked with explosives. 380 tons is a hell of a large amount > and more than enough to make a lot of our people hurt or killed from IED's. > I am sure that those soldiers killed or mutilated will love to know that > what happened was just digital debris. So I did the math I us

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
The glass is half full! 999,620 tons are now off the streets. Many times more than was even known about. We can't get all the explosives and weapons out of the hands of the enemy but why focus on the tiny amount that slipped through the cracks? I'm not saying we don't care that they have the exp

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2004-11-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
you've never worked with explosives. 380 tons is a hell of a large amount and more than enough to make a lot of our people hurt or killed from IED's. I am sure that those soldiers killed or mutilated will love to know that what happened was just digital debris. On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:29:47 -0800 (

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
1,000,000 tons vs 380 tons. Do the math. What's your problem with me today? They just had a thread about how rude it was to say Clinton was not my President. If someone want's to leave the country beacuse they hate our system so much why slow them down. --- "Larry C. Lyons" <[EM

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
hat's fine if there's proof. As the saying goes: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > Ji

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2004-11-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
as opposed to such statements as "Don't let the door slam on your ass on the way out" or talkin about 350 tons as decimal debris. larry On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:17:50 -0800 (PST), Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I aggree. > > The thing that scares me the most about Kerry is what > I here f

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2004-11-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jim wrote: > Personally I find that off-the-cuff remarks are often the most honest and > that worries me. This is hardly the first time that this kind of sentiment > has been voiced here. You may be getting too politically correct here. Accusing someone of being a genocidal sociopath is taboo,

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:28 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > Matthew Fusfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I can't say I liked everything Clinton did, I think part of the > reason he is generally considered t

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
nd of sentiment has been voiced here. It just struck me more clearly as it was the first thing I read after coming home from voting. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:36 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bus

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2004-11-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Matthew Fusfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I can't say I liked everything Clinton did, I think part of the > reason he is generally considered to be more successful was he had an > opposition-party Congress to deal with during a large part of his > term. My hope is that when Mr. Kerry w

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2004-11-02 Thread Sam Morris
I aggree. The thing that scares me the most about Kerry is what I here from his supporters. -sm --- Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Honestly the last bunch of messages in this thread > really sicken me. I just > took my six year old son to vote and he was more > mature about it that so

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2004-11-02 Thread Matthew Fusfield
ill be infuriating if we see a simple > consolidation of the existing base while ignoring critics. > > Jim Davis > > > > -Original Message- > From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:56 PM > To: CF-Community > Sub

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2004-11-02 Thread Adam Haskell
> C'mon Jim that's a bit harsh for a couple of off the cuff remarks. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:26 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > > Honestly t

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2004-11-02 Thread John Stanley
C'mon Jim that's a bit harsh for a couple of off the cuff remarks. -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:26 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 Honestly the last bunch of messages in this thread really

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
Honestly the last bunch of messages in this thread really sicken me. I just took my six year old son to vote and he was more mature about it that some of the people on this thread. I will support the president as selected by the process. Remember however that "support" does not mean "deify": no

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2004-11-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Ken wrote: > I heard he was looking at changing his title to Fuhrer. PTH* Value = 12. Boy that's really going to bring our mean down! (PTH = Posts to Hitler) ~| This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting

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2004-11-02 Thread John Stanley
exactly! -Original Message- From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:50 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 I heard he was looking at changing his title to Fuhrer. -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL

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2004-11-02 Thread Ken Ketsdever
I heard he was looking at changing his title to Fuhrer. -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:00 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 Bush has reportedly vowed that if he loses the election, he will ring the

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2004-11-02 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Yes, he is also the creator of the Minix OS that some claimed Linux was stolen from! >-Original Message- >From: Kevin Graeme > >The creator of the electoral-vote site has come out of anonymity. >http://tinyurl.com/5aqje Outbound email scanned for viruses. (e230) ~~~

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2004-11-02 Thread John Stanley
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:56 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 The creator of the electoral-vote site has come out of anonymity. http://tinyurl.com/5aqje On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:57:25 -0600, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW electoral-vote.com has the

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2004-11-02 Thread Kevin Graeme
gt; Jim Davis > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:00 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > > > > 1.) Toss out the electoral college in favor of in

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2004-11-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
e > popular vote. > > Jim Davis > > -Original Message- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:00 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > > 1.) Toss out the electoral college in favor of instant ru

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2004-11-02 Thread Jim Davis
offer much that same benefits without requiring changes at the federal level) or a pure popular vote. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Kerry 298 Bush 231 1.) Toss out the elec

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2004-11-02 Thread Gruss Gott
1.) Toss out the electoral college in favor of instant runoff. 2.) Make election day a national holiday. 3.) Federally funded elections with a 50 state tour. On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:34:38 -0600, Andy Ousterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once cast, there is no weak or strong vote. The point bein

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2004-11-02 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Once cast, there is no weak or strong vote. The point being that more of Kerry's electoral votes are at risk then Bush's. But that is all academic at this point. Let the challenges begin! Andy -Original Message- From: Ken Ketsdever But a single weak vote equals a single strong vote.

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2004-11-02 Thread Ken Ketsdever
But a single weak vote equals a single strong vote. -Original Message- From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:56 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 Obviously a leftist publication bent on bending the will of the undecided wimps

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2004-11-01 Thread Jim Davis
sting base while ignoring critics. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:56 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 Obviously a leftist publication bent on bending the will of the undecided wimps who wa

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2004-11-01 Thread Andy Ousterhout
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