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• • 13 Nov 06
  • 3:29 pm

  Well said, TexMacaca.

  Posted to The Crazy Kazakh Correspondent

• • 08 Nov 06
  • 4:48 pm

  hmmm, the “site-friendly” trolls have a new theme. Instead of rational debate, they disparage any commentary they don’t like with admonishments to seek professional help. Now that is funny! It seems you have a new theme too, Jay. Instead of appreciating someone's humorous comment, you disparage the commentary you don't like with accusations of the commentator being a troll. How droll! The definition of a troll, as I understand it, is someone who deliberately and single mindedly seeks to disrupt and sidetrack a discussion with comments that inevitably lead to a flame war. And by that definition it could …

  Posted to Fear and Voting in the USA

• • 08 Nov 06
  • 6:05 pm

  I must have missed the amusement in your comment Posted by Jay Cline on Nov 8, 2006 at 12:12 PM . But I did note your amusement in your comment Posted by Jay Cline on Nov 8, 2006 at 1:40 PM. A delayed reaction I guess? Or is there a more operative explanation? Thank you for your kind words, Jay.

  Posted to Fear and Voting in the USA

• • 09 Nov 06
  • 5:15 pm

  Mike, thank you for your kind words. I probably was allowing myself to be baited ... No problem, Mike, sometimes the bait looks good. I bite if I am hungry too. But if the bait tastes like shit ... just spit it out before you get hooked. Sometimes the other end of a baited line is not a fishing pole at all but instead is another hook.

  Posted to Fear and Voting in the USA

• • 10 Nov 06
  • 5:31 pm

  Scorp asks tell me one little socialist country that has ever worked to the good of the people? Canada! You forgot Canuckistan in your list, Mike ; ) But Scorp asked for a little socialist country wheras Canada is quite large so he will probably scoff at my answer.

  Posted to Dueling Democrats