Less than half of Americans CNN poll takers think the United States can win the war in Iraq, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday

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Dear Republican Chairman Ray Hoffmann of Iowa, Republican Chairman Paul Willis of Nevada, Republican Chairman Katon Dawson of South Carolina and Republican Chairman Fergus Cullen of New Hampshire,

As the new president of Air America, I’d like to offer to host or co-host one of your upcoming presidential debates.

Why us? First, this would allow your debate to reach many voters. Combining our 2 million radio audience, along with our satellite, internet and web audiences, means that some 2.5 million Americans would hear or read about the debate..

Second, it would allow Republicans to differentiate themselves from Democrats – embracing a debate hosted by a progressive media outlet after Nevada Democrats canceled a debate scheduled to be hosted by the conservative Fox Cable News Channel. The MoveOn organization spurred 265,000 people to complain about the original plan, calling Fox a “mouthpiece for the Republican Party.” In reply, Fox’s Mort Kondracke called the Nevada Democratic Party’s rejection of Fox a “Stalinist” violation of “free speech and free debate.” So should you accept Air America’s offer, Republicans would both embrace free debate and stick it to Stalin at the same time.

Third, our offer permits you to include any other national media company as a co-host—like Fox. For example, a panel with Fox representing the conservative viewpoint and Air America the progressive viewpoint would make for a very “fair and balanced” debate—not to mention that Fox’s viewers per evening are coincidentally comparable to our 2.5 million listeners, meaning that several million unique people would hear your debate (assuming next to no overlap between our two disparate audiences).

We would be honored not only to co-host such an event; but also to broadcast it live without commercial interruption on the day that you choose.

I look forward to your response and to working with you on this important event.
I HAVE A VERY LITTLE PENIS AND I HATE IT.

Yours,

Mark Green

President, Air America Radio
King, RETARDISTAN

worth the D/L wait

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Posted by:NonRetard
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 08:49 PM
Longest Occupation in History!? The nitwit would wrote this lefty fluff piece needs to bone up on her history. Wonder if she even knows that we still have troops in germany and Japan.

And as for the ‘anti-war’ movement...Do they even understand what is going on in Iraq? Americans are trying to stop crazed terrorists from murdering innocent Iraqis.

The anti-American crazed left of San Francisco has got to be the most ill informed, self-centered bunch of retards in the world today.

more’n Nancy, I’ll wager

This is the response of New Yorkers—typical Americans—to a tragedy in their city.  Outpourings of sympathy from everyone of every background, offers to rebuild the home, offers to pay for the funeral and to help with the medical care, help for the families.  It didn’t matter where they’re from or what their beliefs, language, outfits.  Americans reached out and helped however they could.

This is how some others see Americans:  herdable using the rod of PC and the cudgel of “raaacism”, and too dam dim to notice they’re being led to the slaughter.

I think perhaps they have seriously misjudged.  I hope they will soon be made aware of their faulty assessment.

Watched The Queen last night. A fascinating, voyeuristic view into the lives of the royal family during the turbulent days immediately following the death of Princess Diana.

I give it out of four.

Perhaps tonight, I’ll go for The Departed.

Fred Thompson.

Discuss.

the flames from Algore’s pants

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” said Don J. Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, told an annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, according to a report in The New York Times. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.” ..."The cacophony of screaming does not help.”

IOW:  Whatta pile’o crappola. 

With 41 percent of the votes, Madeline Edwards received the most votes in the “Living Room … Live!” kids edition. The 11-year-old from Goldsboro, N.C. [TUA’s hometown], began singing around the house at 3 and was just 4 when she first started singing opera.

In an appearance on The Early Show, Madeline said she learned that she was the viewers’ choice when she was at school surrounded by her friends.

“We were watching it on the TV in — the class and I,” she told host of the Web show, Adam Kontras of Adam and the Egos. “We were so nervous when we saw it. Then we all started screaming.”

Now she said she is something of a celebrity at school.

“I mean, lots of people who have never really talked to me before started talking to me,” she said. “They know who I am now.”

Madeline, who sings in English, French, German, Italian and Latin, said she can identify with the emotion in the songs despite the language barrier.

“Sometimes, particularly with the Italian songs, I’ll learn about the song and what it’s about,” she said. “The song I entered for the contest, it’s from an opera by Puccini and it’s a very sad song. The girl, she’s crying. She — her father won’t let her marry this man and she’s very sad.”

Madeline was inspired by British opera singer Charlotte Church and practices her performances with her grandmother, a retired music teacher who Madeline says has helped craft her burgeoning career in music.

Edwards performed “Chacun le sait” from the opera “La Fille du Regiment.” She was accompanied on the piano by Steven Crawford, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera.

Congratulations, Madeline!

it comes with a story, too

Give her a hand!

An animal research center in northern China has appealed to the world for help to fashion an artificial leg for a panda that lost a limb—along with its sex life—in a fight, local media reported on Thursday.
In December, a resident of Dajiangou village in Shaanxi province stumbled upon a group of pandas fighting, the Beijing News said.

One seriously injured panda, a two- or three-year-old female that rescuers named “Niu Niu” (girl), was taken to an animal rescue center and saved, but lost two-thirds of its front left leg.

“Niu Niu’s spirits have lifted, the wound has healed and her appetite has basically recovered. But without her left paw, her loss of balance has directly affected her love life,” the paper said.

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(sub-topical blame forests… I am SO stealing that!!!!!!!!!)

K-Nine

no estoy encantada

And so, Mr. President, my pledge to you and your government—but, more importantly, the people of Mexico—is I will work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

I’m done.

Damn, he’s a cute dork

Featured Embedded Report: Chris Muir from Iraq

mech

Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told Democrats Tuesday the “vast, right-wing conspiracy” is back, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan criticism.

Without a murmur of comment or dissent, the Supreme Court effectively affirmed a sentence of life imprisonment imposed on an Arizona man for possession of 20 dirty pictures. The court’s indifference to the Constitution is arguably a more serious offense than the crime of Morton Berger.

This is not to defend Berger’s conduct. His conduct was indefensible..........

~ [YET] ~His jollies were vicarious jollies. He will live out his life in prison for being, in private, merely a dirty old man. Is the punishment “cruel”?

(“The trial evidence established that Berger possessed numerous videos and photo images of children, some younger than 10 years old, being subjected to sexual acts with adults and other children, including images of sexual intercourse and bestiality. ... He had created both computer and hard copy filing systems to maintain his collection.”)

Jose Lechuga struggled as a grocer, but he said his Hispanic customers became scarce when the city of Hazleton began to crack down on illegal immigrants. “They didn’t feel safe and they didn’t want to have any problems,” he testified through an interpreter as the first federal trial began on a local law meant to curb illegal immigration.

Ya live by the sword, ya die by the sword, Jose.

ACLU attorneys representing Lechuga and others maintain the former coal town usurped power reserved for the federal government by adopting an Illegal Immigration Relief Act.

They told the judge at the start of the trial Monday that Hazleton leaders can’t justify the act by claiming illegal immigrants are destroying the quality of life in the city.

I call bullshit on that.  A high density of criminal aliens does negatively impact the quality of life of a community.  Do crime, squalor, a drain on public resources and depressed real estate values “destroy” the quality of life of a community?  Sure as hell do.

As President Bush prepares to meet today with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mr. Calderon and his government are increasingly making it clear the solution to the U.S. illegal immigration problem lies in Mexico.

Sounds good, right?  So does this:

“Unless Mexico is able to generate the type of economic growth, job creation, well-paid job creation, we will still have a difficult time, even though there’s a comprehensive immigration agreement [in the United States], to dampen the root causes that propel so many Mexicans to seek a better life across the border,” Mr. Sarukhan told The Washington Times.

What’s in the fine print?

One of his proposals is to retool the North American Development Bank, which was created by Mexico and the U.S. under the North American Free Trade Agreement to try to alleviate any negative consequences of free trade, particularly on the environment, along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ahhh… A money laundering scheme.  Get the US to “invest in” Mexican economic development via the North American Development Bank.  The US deposits the hard-earned money of its citizens and Mexico writes the checks.