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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:03 PM
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KOEB -6/01 - The marriage amendment is the most important thing edition
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:04 PM
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1. Hi SharonRB, Hi Everyone
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:05 PM
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2. Hi, ralps
:hi:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:05 PM
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3. Hi, all!
:hi:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:07 PM
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5. Hi, Patsela
:hi:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:29 PM
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43. Hi, Sharon!
I was on the phone with a friend who wouldn't hang up. I have to watch the rerun of the first two segments. :(
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:31 PM
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46. Glad you're with us now.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:41 PM
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67. In time to bathe in Keith's magnificence.
His coverage of BOR was immaculate.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:08 PM
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6. hey patsela, patsaME on the back. three months, no smokes.
hanging by a wire.
:hi:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:08 PM
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9. Mazel Tov, be
That's great news! Keep up the good work.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:16 PM
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23. tk you. i know i can always count on you for a nice mazel....
and they help.
:hug:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:13 PM
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16. I'm very proud of you!
You'll be fine. Hang in there, baby! :loveya:
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:18 PM
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right again pats! i'm going to keep on with it.
and soon or later, i'll feel as good as i look. LOL.
:P
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:14 PM
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20. YAY be!!
Congratulations!!! Keep up the good work! :hi: :loveya:

dg
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:21 PM
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32. tks so much kelly, every pat n the back is a little brick... a brick
that will slam down and break my fingers if i ever reach for a cigarette again.
whatever works, right?
:hi: :loveya:
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:23 PM
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35. Yes but the payoff is worth it!!
I don't want you (or anyone) to end up like my dad did! :hug:

dg
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:30 PM
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44. :aw kel! hug: your dad and so many other good people.
lynne siin's dad too. i was thinking about that at the march.
and all three of us were all so close to our dads. :grouphug: awww.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:55 PM
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88. bettyellen, congratulations!
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:10 PM
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103. tk you so much Olney! coun't have done it without you all! :)
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:12 PM
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106. Hey, bettyellen, what is the story about that cat?!
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:20 PM
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well, she's a little homely, even by cornish rex standards....
and she had a litter last year, so she's a bit stretched out and lacking haie, especially nderneath. it is growimg in a bit. it's a cell phone pic of her on my computer.
i'll post a more normal one of her and my other Crex. be right back.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:24 PM
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119. okay, here's a thread with a more normal pic, a pic of what her baby
might have looked like, and what a normal Crex coat is like.

Sweat Pea is also well known on DU as the cat on the toilet, with the glowing eyes.
:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5220562
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:36 PM
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126. Congrats BE.
Your cat looks like she could use a smoke though.
:evilgrin:
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:02 AM
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143. good for you, BE
but you shouldn't let Bunny paint your kitty-girl. Rexes aren't supposed to be that blue.
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:08 PM
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8. Hi Patsy
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:14 PM
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21. Hi, ralps!
How's things?
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:21 PM
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33. It's going good. Last night I was at a gathering for AAR Milwaukee.
Hopefully Milwaukee will have Air America soon. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:26 PM
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40. I wish you luck!
The more that hear the truth, the better. :thumbsup:
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:06 PM
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4. you think a seminar is going to do it a this point?
that's my mr snarky.
:loveya:

hi shar.!
did keith give it that title? the marriage amendment?
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:08 PM
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7. Hi, be
That's what the Senate is going to deal with first when they come back next week -- gay marriage! Like there's nothing more important going on. And they know going in that it will never pass.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:57 PM
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92. I know, especially when Homeland Security funds are lower.
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 07:57 PM by CBHagman
We haven't secured the Gulf Coast against another of Mother Nature's onslaughts, al Qaeda is still eying targets, and body bags are coming home from Iraq, but the GOP leadership is just itching to do something about...gay marriage.

Frankly, I don't care if Harvey Fierstein has a wedding announcement on the front page of every newspaper in the country AND is pictured in a gown with a cathedral train. Somebody tell the Senate and the House to get their tuchises in gear and do something intelligent for the country, like securing loose nukes or guaranteeing universal health coverage.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:03 AM
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144. I'm trying to imagine the PowerPoint presentation
much less what the "Hello, my name is" badges would be like.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:10 PM
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10. Hi everyone!
:hi:


The Iraq tragedy continues....
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:11 PM
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12. Hi, Olney
:hi:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:11 PM
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11. Hands down O'Lielly will be WPITW again tonight!
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 07:12 PM by SharonRB
and Bushie will be a different kind of WPITW -- Worst PRESIDENT in the world....ever!
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:12 PM
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13. Woo Hoo boy did BillO blow it in the Clark interview!! I think that's what
Keith's referring to. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:12 PM
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14. Actually, the most important thing is the fact that Keith
will be covering Clark's smackdown of O'Reilly - and showing, clearly, what an ass O'Reilly is.


I'm in HEAVEN, I tell ya... HEAVEN.

:hi:

Psst... if you want the REAL transcript, go here:

http://securingamerica.com/node/1047

Bill O'Reilly: I disagree. In Iwo Jima, in the Battle of the Bulge, Malmedy, all these things, and you're a military historian. You know these happened. It happened in every war. It's happened in every army, and you're right, it's a breakdown caused by stress, and a breakdown has to be dealt with by the military extremely quickly, effectively.

General Wesley Clark: Yes.

Bill O'Reilly: Murderers, if, if they're deemed guilty in a, in a military court of justice have to be punished. But to draw a wider implication, General, when 95%, and I think you'd agree with that figure, of American forces overseas under tremendous stress are performing heroically every day, to draw a wider implication at this juncture brutally unfair, both to our forces and to our country. What say you?

General Wesley Clark: I say that, first of all, you'll have to show me and prove to me that there were ever any American soldiers in Belgium and Normandy or in Iwo Jima who murdered civilians. Secondly, I think you're too low when you say 95% of the forces are performing effectively. I'd say 99.5% of the forces are performing effectively, maybe higher. But when you have incidents like this, and you have chains of command under enormous stress, that is an indicator that things aren't going right. You've got to be sensitive to those indicators. You've got to fix the problem, otherwise it's going to get worse.



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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:15 PM
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22. Hi Clark2008, Wesley Clark sure gave O'Reilly a smackdown!!
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:18 PM
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28. LOL - I was the person who coined the phrase,
"General Smackdown."

It was when he read Davis AsSman the riot act for alleging Clark didn't support the troops because he doesn't support the Iraqi war.

:eyes: How droll!
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:18 PM
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30. Thanks for the link- the General is wonderful.
:hi:
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:25 PM
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39. The real transcript
Clark: How would you like your ass on a platter served, Bill? Rare, Medium, or Well Done?
BOR: :cry: :scared:

dg
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:13 PM
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15. Go get 'em Keith!!!
Way'at y'all! :hi: ... now I have to run to the other side of the house (and downstairs), where the TV resides. :eyes:


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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:14 PM
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19. Hey there Rat!
Welcome to the KOEB.

Have you moved back home yet, or are you still in my state?
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:41 PM
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68. I'm home now getting a new roof as I write this.
Well, it is getting dark and the roofers are quiting. Thanks for asking.

... gee, I like that photo of General Clark in your sigline. I hope he runs again! :bounce: :patriot:

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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:17 PM
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26. Hi Swamp Rat! Its good to see you!
:hi:


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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:42 PM
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72. Oi Olney Blue!
:hi:
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:18 PM
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27. Way'at Swamp Rat, He is a pervert & I just finished "Sweet Jesus I Hate
Bill O'Reilly" A Great book!! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:43 PM
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74. Keith just beat the crap outta O'Lielly!!!
:bounce:

:hi: ralps!
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:13 PM
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17. Howdy All
Glad to have Keith back and to see his focus on the crap flowing out off Iraq. This war has been a horror show from the beginning, but now...God All Mighty!!! Even if this country makes itself into a democracy, the majority of them will hate America for decades, if not forever.

This is horrifying!!! :rant:

:hi: Sharon and :hi: to my fellow KOEBers. :grouphug: I almost stayed away tonight as I've been feeling so depressed over what is happening in this country and things happening in my personal life. It's just becoming so overwhelming...but I decided to say howdy. :)



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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:16 PM
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24. Hi, Grey
We're glad you're here.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:02 PM
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98. Hang in there, Greylyn.
I know what you mean. I have to listen to Bush, Chertoff, Rumsfeld, and the whole disgraceful gang at work. You wouldn't believe the penances I have come up for that lot of sinners.

But hang in there and visit your friends over here. :hug: We have to have hope.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:13 PM
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18. Hi Sharon!
I can't believe it, with all the crap going on, they're going to debate GAY MARRIAGE! That is just SOOOOOOO important right now. Hopefully, people are so ticked they aren't going to fall for that trick this time.

:hi: everyone!

dg
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:16 PM
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25. Hi, DG
:hi:
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:18 PM
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29. The economy has done better for who
you whackco????????????

Certainly not from where I'm sitting!!!!



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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:20 PM
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31. Well, he did qualify it as "overall" and that perhaps many
"individuals" were feeling all this rosy economic glow.

I'm doing better, but only because I got married. I'd still be struggling if I wasn't.


And, LOL! I like what he just said about getting married while wrapped in an American flag. :rofl:

I mostly don't like Fineman, but he's being pretty funny tonight.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:23 PM
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34. Yeah, he's calling "bullshit" on the marriage amendment
They've gone to the well too many times & brought back nothing. heh. Howard Dean said in 2004 that the Rs would bring up immigration in '06 to rally the base. He was right but wow, has it ever backfired on shrubbie.

dg
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:24 PM
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36. Oh MAN!!! I keep trying to get the transcript from the
O'Reilly show as posted on Faux's website and it keeps timing out on me and then telling me that page is not available!!

Are they changing it AGAIN since Keith's reporting on it?

Allegedly, Faux didn't put up the real transcript and Keith's going to talk about it!

:grr:

Down the Memory Hole.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:28 PM
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41. Can someone get this link to open longer than two seconds?
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:30 PM
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45. I can get to it
Here's a part of it:

O'REILLY: And in Normandy, as you know, U.S. forces captured S.S. forces, who had their hands in the air. And they were unarmed. And they shot them down. You know that. That's on the record. Been documented.

And Iwo Jima, the same thing occurred. The Japanese attempted to surrender, and they were burned in their caves.

CLARK: Bill, that's a lot different than this.

O'REILLY: OK.

CLARK: These are no forces.

O'REILLY: Listen, what I'm trying to say to you is neither of those things, in the Battle of the Bulge or in Iwo Jima reflected negatively on our military, as far as its total performance was concerned.

It was men under stress snapping. That's what this is. This isn't Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib was cowardice, in my opinion. Off the chart, irresponsible cowardice to do that.

Here.

CLARK: I think we have to see this investigation unfold.

O'REILLY: Right, but Murtha isn't doing that, general.

CLARK: There's a big difference between.

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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:33 PM
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52. It opened for me. Here's what it says now
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 07:36 PM by ralps

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O'REILLY: I disagree. In Iwo Jima, in the Battle of the Bulge, Normandy, all these things, and you're a military historian. You know, these happen. It happens in every war. It's happened in every army. And you're right. It's a breakdown caused by stress. And the breakdown has to be dealt with by the military extremely quickly, effectively.

CLARK: Yes.

O'REILLY: Murderers, if they're deemed guilty in a military court of justice, have to be punished.

But to draw a wider implication, general, when 95 percent, and I think you'd agree with that figure, of American forces overseas under tremendous stress, are performing heroically every day, to draw a wider implication at this juncture brutally unfair, both to our forces and to our country. What say you?

CLARK: I say that, first of all, you'll have to show me and prove to me that there were ever any American soldiers in Belgium, and Normandy, or in Iwo Jima, who murdered civilians.

Secondly, I think you're too low when you say 95 percent of the forces are performing effectively. I'd say 99.5 percent of the forces are performing effectively. Maybe higher.

But when you have incidents like this, and you have chains of command under enormous stress, that is an indicator that things aren't going right. You've got to be sensitive of those indicators. You've got to fix the problem. Otherwise, it's going to get worse.
snip
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :grr:
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:47 PM
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80. This is the text I got.
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 07:52 PM by Olney Blue
This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," May 30, 2006, that has been edited for clarity.

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Now for the top story tonight, another view of this. Joining us from Washington, FOX News military analyst General Wesley Clark.

General, if you were on active duty over in Iraq, and you heard Congressman Murtha, you know, don't stick up for the military, Charlie, you know, and really bomb throwing, agitating in my opinion, what would you think about that?

GEN. WESLEY CLARK, FOX NEWS MILITARY ANALYST: Well, I don't think I'd interpret it that way, not quite like you put it, Bill. I think that what Congressman Murtha is doing is a legitimate function of the legislative branch.

He's not part of the executive branch of government. And he's getting fed information from the inside. He obviously has had a lot of people who have talk to him about this. He's not making this up. And that's the way he sees it. And he wants to get the facts out.

Look, when these things start to happen, and all of my sources in and around the Pentagon indicate that, in fact, something like this incident did happen, it was murder, people were covered up. Now I haven't seen the investigation. But people who have — are familiar with the facts are reporting these things.

And when it happens like that, it's an indicator that you are on the edge of feasibility of your policy. It's an indicator that the stress on the units is such that standards of discipline and performance are breaking down at the margin.

O'REILLY: See, I disagree.

CLARK: And it's a real warning for us.

O'REILLY: I disagree. In Iwo Jima, in the Battle of the Bulge, Normandy, all these things, and you're a military historian. You know, these happen. It happens in every war. It's happened in every army. And you're right. It's a breakdown caused by stress. And the breakdown has to be dealt with by the military extremely quickly, effectively.

CLARK: Yes.

O'REILLY: Murderers, if they're deemed guilty in a military court of justice, have to be punished.

But to draw a wider implication, general, when 95 percent, and I think you'd agree with that figure, of American forces overseas under tremendous stress, are performing heroically every day, to draw a wider implication at this juncture brutally unfair, both to our forces and to our country. What say you?

CLARK: I say that, first of all, you'll have to show me and prove to me that there were ever any American soldiers in Belgium, and Normandy, or in Iwo Jima, who murdered civilians.

Secondly, I think you're too low when you say 95 percent of the forces are performing effectively. I'd say 99.5 percent of the forces are performing effectively. Maybe higher.

But when you have incidents like this, and you have chains of command under enormous stress, that is an indicator that things aren't going right. You've got to be sensitive of those indicators. You've got to fix the problem. Otherwise, it's going to get worse.

O'REILLY: OK.

CLARK: This is a long-term problem.

O'REILLY: Nobody is disagreeing with that.

CLARK: Well that's my position.

O'REILLY: And in Normandy, as you know, U.S. forces captured S.S. forces, who had their hands in the air. And they were unarmed. And they shot them down. You know that. That's on the record. Been documented.

And Iwo Jima, the same thing occurred. The Japanese attempted to surrender, and they were burned in their caves.

CLARK: Bill, that's a lot different than this.

O'REILLY: OK.

CLARK: These are no forces.

O'REILLY: Listen, what I'm trying to say to you is neither of those things, in the Battle of the Bulge or in Iwo Jima reflected negatively on our military, as far as its total performance was concerned.

It was men under stress snapping. That's what this is. This isn't Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib was cowardice, in my opinion. Off the chart, irresponsible cowardice to do that.

Here.

CLARK: I think we have to see this investigation unfold.

O'REILLY: Right, but Murtha isn't doing that, general.

CLARK: There's a big difference between.

O'REILLY: But Murtha isn't doing that.

CLARK: A firefight and some guy who suddenly, after he has been shooting at you, throws up his hands, says oh, now you can't shoot me because I've put down my weapon. That's one thing.

It's another thing, if it's true as reported, that they broke into homes.

O'REILLY: OK, but whoa, whoa.

CLARK: And shot men, women, and children.

O'REILLY: I don't want to.

CLARK: That's not the same thing.

O'REILLY: The Marines came to me and said, hey, Mr. O'Reilly, would you do us a favor and wait until we release our report? Because I had confronted Donald Rumsfeld on this very issue and used the Mai Lai massacre as a starting point.

And I said to the Marines fair enough, fair enough. I will let you put out your report before I start to advance a story.

Murtha, a U.S. congressman, goes on and indicts the entire military on a national program. And I'm mad about it. And Murtha doesn't have the stones to come on this program and back up what he says.

CLARK: I think Murtha has every right to say what he's saying. He's not saying.

O'REILLY: In the way he said it?

CLARK: He's saying that what he's heard. That's the legitimate function of the legislative branch of government, just like it could have been your function.

Look, when another commander in chief was under investigation, the news media had no problems talking about it. Now when our soldiers are under investigation, there have always been cases where people have pushed for that.

This is a function — this is the way government works. And.

O'REILLY: I think you have to be tempered in your remarks, general.

CLARK: I think he is tempered in the sense that he has expressed a great deal of respect for the men and women in uniform. John Murtha is a long-time supporter of our armed forces.

O'REILLY: Don't stick up for the military, Charlie? Don't stick up for the military, Charlie? Come on.

CLARK: You know what he's saying, Bill.

O'REILLY: I know what he's saying.

CLARK: This is about a specific incident of misconduct.

O'REILLY: No, this is about.

CLARK: And there's no one in the military who's going to condone that conduct.

O'REILLY: I'm going to give you the last word, general, but this is about Murtha saying I told you so, it's a bad war. That's what it's about. It's about him. Go ahead. I'll give you the last word.

CLARK: Bill, I think — here's my last word — I'm glad you've come around. Iraq was an unnecessary war.

Here's the other point. It's a failure by the way the president defined the mission. The problem is how do we move gracefully from this position?

What we've said is we need to turn this over to the Iraqi government.

O'REILLY: All right.

CLARK: And begin responsible redeployment. But we've got to protect the men and women in uniform and the integrity of our institutions.

O'REILLY: OK.

CLARK: John Murtha is worried about that and so am I.

O'REILLY: And I don't...

CLARK: And you should be, too.

O'REILLY: You're bending over backwards to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I'm wrong.

CLARK: I'm just telling you the way I see it.

O'REILLY: I know. Maybe I'm wrong about it. I'd like to talk to the man face to face like we're talking here. General, thanks as always.

CLARK: Well, let's talk some more, Bill.

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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:32 PM
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49. The Sisyphus of morons. n/t
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:40 PM
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64. wasn't that a GREAT line?
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:15 PM
Response to Reply #64
110. Perfect!
Hi, spooky!
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:08 AM
Response to Reply #110
145. YES.
I bet Billo thinks Keef just called him a sissy. :rofl:
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:40 PM
Response to Reply #49
66. YES!!
I LOVED that comment! :loveya: KO

dg
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:42 PM
Response to Reply #49
130. that line was primo.
the best.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:25 PM
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37. Happy Birthday, CNN!
"Victim'e mother" :rofl:
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:25 PM
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38. Darn gay marriage is driving gas prices sky high!
And making David Hasselhoff cry!

And making bettyellen want a cigarette!

Save America: ban gay marriage.



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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #38
42. Don't forget flag burning!
That makes gas prices go up too!



dg
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:11 AM
Response to Reply #42
146. I was amused that one of those "domestic miracles" that might
help * if he could accomplish it would be to drop the price of gas by $1/gallon. I thought, "you mean to where it was a year ago?!" One of the talking points already circulating is that if Dems are elected, the price of gas is going to go up. I think we need to remind folks what the price of gas was in 2000 and 2004...
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:31 PM
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47. Since there are lots of hormones around here....

this is an interesting article exploring testosterone. It's been lanquishing on the bottom of the Greatest page all day- I liked it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x214548
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:38 PM
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56. Keith is doing a blistering smackdown of O'Liely.
:hi: everyone
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:38 PM
Response to Reply #56
58. oops, sorry, Olney, I put this in the wrong place.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:42 PM
Response to Reply #58
70. It's OK- hi spooky!
:hi:

Yes, it's quite the smackdown on countdown!
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:28 PM
Response to Reply #47
121. Oh Olney B, I wish I could blame what I'm feeling today on hormones......
or the lack thereof. I'm afraid it's just plain and simple justifiable outrage.
But I'll check out your linkie anyway.
:D
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:35 PM
Response to Reply #121
125. When you read the article, you will see its not about
estrogen! :)

It's actually a decent rant about the Bush administration.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:37 PM
Response to Reply #125
127. oh goodie, I really need to focus on someone else's rant for awhile.
I'm off to read it now.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:32 PM
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48. does keef do that voice ??? who does that remind us of?
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:33 PM
Response to Reply #48
50. That's Stewie from Family Guy, done by the actual voice actor
if I'm not mistaken.

:hi:

Congrats on your not smoking, be!
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:35 PM
Response to Reply #50
55. thank you and thank you very much for the good thought, bleeve!
it all helps.
:hi:
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:33 PM
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51. Wesley Clark is amazing.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:39 PM
Response to Reply #51
61. I know.
Swoon.

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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:33 PM
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53. Swoon!
Keith is fawning over my Wesley as I swoon and fawn over both of them...

:loveya:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:34 PM
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54. Okay, someone needs to teach KO how to pronounce
Abu Ghraib. His pronunciation is almost as bad as *'s.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #54
76. GIVE THE MAN SOME FLOATY HEARTS
He deserves them!

I know you don't dole them out often for KO, but he earned them tonight, Sharon! :)

dg
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:46 PM
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79. He sure did -- here you go
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:48 PM
Response to Reply #76
82. I was floatie hearting all on my own!
There is NOTHING in my world like watching Keith Olbermann both smack down O'Reilly while passing out serious accolades to my general.

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:14 AM
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147. and Joachim
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 10:15 AM by gkhouston
but damn, that was SUCH a wonderful and classy smackdown and I'd mispronounce "cat" if I were an announcer, so who am I to talk?

edited to add these: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:56 PM
Response to Reply #147
150. too late to edit my bad
but I see that the soldier's name was Jochen, not Joachim, so KO's pronunciation wasn't as bad as I'd thought. :blush:
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:38 PM
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57. false patriot who would rather be loud than right
Oh... snap!
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:39 PM
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59. You tell 'em, KO
Boy, he was really angry!
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:39 PM
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60. Yay!!!! For Keith's Smackdown of Bill O'Reilly!!
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:39 PM
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62. I've never seen Keith so angry.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:40 PM
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63. KO opens a can of Whoop Ass on BOR
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Way to stand up for those soldiers, KO! :patriot:

dg
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:40 PM
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65. Wow. Wow. Wow.
That takedown of O'Lielly was brilliant. Stunning in form as well as substance. Keith, you are so cool. :loveya:

I don't think he's been that choked up in a while. Maybe never.

I hope this is the end of Bill.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:41 PM
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69. We can only hope, Patsy!
KO was brilliant.
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mohinoaklawnillinois Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:44 PM
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77. Standing ovation for Mr. Olbermann..
Absolutely brilliant putdown of Mr. Despicable.

Keith :yourock:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:47 PM
Response to Reply #77
81. Hi, Mo!
Welcome to the KOEB! Nice to see you.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:42 PM
Response to Reply #65
73. How soon before DU crashes?
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 07:43 PM by WolverineDG
The last time he was this pissed & gave a kick-ass rant, DU almost shut down!

Again, because there can never be enough :loveya: for KO: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

And for the soldiers who were killed at Malmedy by the Nazis: :patriot: :cry: :patriot:

dg
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:45 PM
Response to Reply #73
78. LOL!
DefCon 6!!!

Absolutely amazing. :loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya:
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:16 AM
Response to Reply #65
148. he was this mad about the Schiavo mess, I think, but showed
it in a different way. I'm curious to see what BO will do.
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:42 PM
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71. You Go Keith
He is pissed! And rightly so! That stupid bastard O'Liely is the biggest horse's patoot God ever put on this planet.

Lord what an ignoramus!!!!!



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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:43 PM
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75. Boy, Keith was PISSED!
Pissed that O'Reilly slaughtered those American GIs who served in WWII.

Pissed that O'Reilly then LIED about what he said.

Pissed that O'Reilly tried to dress down a decorated four-star general.

PISSED.

And, he was reading. Wonder if he's going to blog that? It's not up, yet, but boy, I want to pass around THAT rant.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:51 PM
Response to Reply #75
84. Absolutely!
And someone (probably Crooks & Liars) will post the clip. Simply amazing. He was so mad his voice was shaking.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:56 PM
Response to Reply #75
90. REALLY pissed.
Top-shelf rant.

:thumbsup:
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:03 PM
Response to Reply #75
99. He had to read it,
Otherwise, he'd go offscript & call BOR a goddamn motherf*ckin' piece of shit asshole on live TV.

(There, I said it for him)

dg
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:50 PM
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83. Today's Worst person in the world is.... Mark Oten(sp? for being caught w/
a male prostitute. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:53 PM
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85. Check this out -- Run, Al, Run!
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:53 PM
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86. did y'all see the Keefalicous love fest in GDP?
good stuff. :hi:

://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2657787&mesg_id=2657829
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:55 PM
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89. I saw, I saw
It's really good stuff about our boy.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #89
93. and this, which just made the greatest?
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:59 PM
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95. He sure did.
The patron saint of DU!
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:01 PM
Response to Reply #95
96. Today
you mean. :rofl:
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:55 PM
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87. Hi Ladies
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 07:56 PM by bunny planet
Just watched the show up to and including the story on O'Reilly.
I am so grateful for Keith's outrage today, not just about that treasonous blowhard O'Reilly, but for literally being the only person on television who will give voice to the truth about anything and everything.

Today, as a New Yorker, my anger just knows no bounds. I now believe it is probably possible to spontaneously combust from anger and outrage. New Yorkers are furious today, simply and utterly furious. I can't watch the rest of the show right now, hopefully KO will cover the story about NYC not having any important landmarks and not needing almost 100 million dollars in terrorism protection money that's now been cut from the budget. I've got buddies with respiratory problems, dead friends and friends who have lost family members, and NYC was used to showcase the 'national security President' during the Republican 'hate-fest' of a convention held in my home town. The backstabbing, and downright hypocrisy and lies, and just general bullshit is so overwhelmingly infuriating as to possibly defy description. These pieces of shit cannot be removed from office fast enough, every last one of them. And today I found out also that my county will be using Sequoia machines without paper trails despite our good fight here to prevent that from happening for the 2006 election. We are promised the nefarious machines will be retrofitted with a verifiable paper trail in time for the 08 election, when my first born will be old enough to exercise her constitutional right to a free and fair vote for the crucial and all important next Presidential election. I'm sorry for the rant ladies but I am just shaking with fury today and you guys are my buds, it's so good to know there are friends who so totally understand where I'm coming from. I just don't know how much more of this criminal regime I can stomach. I am worried for my family and my fellow citizens with every fiber of my being.

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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:58 PM
Response to Reply #87
94. Hi, Bun-Bun
I definitely feel your pain, as the Big Dawg would say. I think it's an outrage that they took that money away from NY and DC. NO FRIGGIN' NATIONAL LANDMARKS IN NEW YORK? Who the hell are they kidding? I understand your outrage and anger. I feel it as well.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:06 PM
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101. Thank you Sha-sha.
I knew you'd understand. Did KO cover the NYC has zero landmarks story? Randi said Homeland Security must have misread the report, they said GROUND ZERO landmarks. Also, no mention of monies for covering the extremely vulnerable chemical plants in my adopted home state of NJ, Newark did get an increase in terrorism dollars, but that does not cover the chemical plants.

It is clear, that NYers were used for the terra terra terra 24/7 terra three card monte game that doubles for policy in this administration and now that we've outlived our usefulness, and 80% of us did not vote for the Prince of Darkness in 04, we are very clearly told 'drop dead'. Our first responders still don't have any of the equipment they need to communicate during another event of any magnitude, the air at ground zero is still dangerous healthwise, our ports are unbelievably vulnerable, and the blivet thinks the most important thing this country needs to talk about on Monday is his racist, homophobic, discriminatory, and disgusting 'defense of marriage' act. Really, at the risk of repeating myself, when IS enough going to be enough.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:11 PM
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104. He didn't cover it tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
I heard Randi -- she was really pissed today.

For these guys, I don't think enough is ever enough. But I've had it -- my head is ready to explode everyday.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:22 AM
Response to Reply #104
149. I'm sure he'll cover it sometime. It was an outrage.
And is it just me, or does this smell like money was channeled away from blue states and to red states? We shouldn't be playing politics with our nation's security and let's face it, NYC is more of a target than West Nowhere, Idaho.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:13 PM
Response to Reply #101
107. Sounds like Scaryborough is going to cover it, though
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:16 PM
Response to Reply #107
111. I can never watch him. Seems like he's trying to backpedal on the
wingnuttiness of his past couple of years of broadcasting. Sees the handwriting on the wall. Although I like Al Franken, I really can't watch him make nice with some of the people who are his friends, his dittohead friend Mark and G. Gordon Liddy come to mind.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:22 PM
Response to Reply #111
117. I'm watching a C-SPAN special
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 08:33 PM by Patsy Stone
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:26 PM
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120. my only teevee is being monopolized by the offspring.
The older two are watching 'Brokeback Mountain'. This will serve as an opening for a discussion later on I'm sure. I watched it last night when I was waiting for the Prom Princess to come home (she had a great time despite being a little bit taller than her date). Perfect discussion just in time for the cynical Preznit's efforts to take away civil rights from tax payiing gay Americans on Monday.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #120
123. I'm sure they'll show it again.
It's 9 hours long. Last night, tonight and tomorrow. Last night was the basic history of the building of the building itself. The basements, the little Senate subway, the Rotunda, inside the dome and out on the topmost balcony. Did you know in the electrical shop in the basement is one of the eight original carrera marble soaking tubs for the Senators and guests? Crazy.

It's cool.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #123
124. Some of them need a good soaking.
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 08:35 PM by bunny planet
Do they put the electrical stuff in the tub too, that might 'shock' some of them into having a conscience again.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:38 PM
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128. :)
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 08:39 PM by Patsy Stone
They do, and it would, but they aren't accessible and were in service in the 1800s. Minton tile on the floor in front, which ran throughout the Senate baths. There was a masseuse as well. They left it as a piece of history, but it's in a generator room in the basement.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:39 PM
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129. oooh, I love Minton tile.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:49 PM
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132. How could I have guessed?
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 09:19 PM by Patsy Stone
Another great thing are these Corinthian columns which survived the fire intact. Before there was the eagle, or any real symbol of America, a sculptor chose "maize" as a fitting icon, and the capital of each is decorated with beautiful intricatly carved ears of corn.

:thumbsup:

ed: gram.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:58 PM
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134. that is way cool
Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 09:12 PM by bunny planet
but no Corinthian leather? Sorry, I couldn't resist, give me a Ricardo Montalban opening and I run with it.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:14 PM
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109. The comment she made
about the Statue of Liberty having been reclassified from a national monument to a harbor hazard... :rofl: and :(
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:19 PM
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114. Yes, my Randela was brilliant as usual today.
I loved her conversation with the young woman who is a Captain who'd just gotten back from Iraq, 'it's time for you to be informed Captain.'
I loved when she talked about her mom Loretta today, who used to look like MTM (talks like Selma Diamond) and now needs to be on weight watchers.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:03 PM
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100. Rant away!
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:17 PM
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113. Bunny, please see my post above, post 47.
Great article.

Joe Scarborough is covering the diss of NYC right now!
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 07:57 PM
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91. Please let this be the end of American Idol on Countdown for the season!!!
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:01 PM
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97. "Maria:
A soft light suffuses your heavenly visage. Your laugh is like clear mountain water running down from on high, and your eyes are like pools of unfathomable contentment.

Smile for me, Maria, and release me from the earthly bonds and let me live with you among the angels."


Phew, channeling Keef's thoughts can be exhausting.


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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:09 PM
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102. Lord, you STILL haven't sent her this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RN4irN97yYw&search=hasselhoff

Send her this & she'll love you forever!

dg
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:11 PM
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105. You know
The simplest way to her heart would be to just watch American Idol with her. Some wine, a fire, Simon Cowell, and thee.

:hi:
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:14 PM
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108. In case I forgot to give KO the credit he so richly deserves
Floatacular devices for you Keith Olbermann
:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

for relentlessly going after one of the most disgusting, traitorous, racist, misogynist, misanthropic, lying, canniving, bloviating, propagandizing, gutless, chinless, spineless, cowardly asswipes ever to disgrace the teevee and abuse the American populace, Bill O'Reilly.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:20 PM
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115. Aw, come on, Bunny -- tell us how you really feel about him
:rofl:
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:22 PM
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118. you don't really want to hear how I really feel about him.
Suffice it to say , O'Leilly is pond scum.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:16 PM
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112. For you Stephanie Miller fans (esp. Botany)
How long will it take her in her show tomorrow to cast aside Russ Feingold & proclaim KO to be back at the top of her Future Husband list? I say less than 5 seconds.

dg
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:21 PM
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116. You're probably right, DG.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:29 PM
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122. I'd venture to guess it'll be the first sentence out of her mouth manana.
Hello sweetie.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:20 AM
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140. Hi Bunny!
:hi: I'm listening to KO's rant on Steph's show right now. God, I love him when he's righteously indignant! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :patriot: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

dg
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:21 AM
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141. Didntcha just love it
And you were so right. It only took her 19 minutes to ditch all the other future husbands. I think she read us last night.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:42 PM
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131. Steph is just using Russ & KO to keep me jealous.
It won't work ...... I know that she is in love w/ me and that right
now her pulse is quickening as she reads this post.

That little mink is just trying to keep me on my toes.

BTW :hi: Steph! I know that you read the KOEB.
Join in and blog along w/ KO ..... most of the EDVs are
real nice ..... they are not too catty :rofl:


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

History for Luffa Boy. (He went to Harvard?)



Dead U.S. G.I.s found after the allies retook the land in Jan. 1945



S.S. on trial in 1946 for the Malmedy killings

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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 09:05 PM
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135. I dunno, Buddy
Girls get all worked up when their guys stand up for what's right & hand some jerk his ass on a platter like KO did tonight! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: KO.

Bot,what have you done for Steph lately?

dg
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 11:16 PM
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139. I do plenty for Steph .....
Send her news clips
send he sound drops
send her any news that has farts, sex, sex toys, or beavers in it.
(listen for a story in the AM where a 39 year old women had sex
w/ a 16 year old boy then gave him a Mercedes ...... )
solid caller 2 times per week
let her press her body up against mine in Columbus .... Lucky Girl :rofl:
offered her a dream date to Taco Bell, the 2nd run movie house, 2 bottles
of Crane Lake wine ($4.99 each), and chance to ride the "buddy coaster"
@ my amusement park of love.


BTW .... come on S.M., I kid .... I kid Don't be angry .... :rofl:


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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:48 AM
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142. Dude, I'm listening to Steph right now
you have been soooo tossed. Steph is back to doing battle with the KOEB over Keith!

dg
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 10:25 PM
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138. Ms. Steph:
Is that an upper case or lower case "B" in "Buddy"?

And is that a buddy with benefits?

In any case, you both deserve 'em.

:patriot:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 08:51 PM
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133. And we have VIDEO!!
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 10:03 PM
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136. I'm way late, and there's just not enough that I can say tonight
about the performance our man just gave.

Maybe I'll just make it simple and limit it to one floatie: :loveya: and say "Multiply that by a million and you might come slightly close to how I feel about this one."

Well, Keith tipped us off at the end of Dan Patrick's show today that he was going after Bill again tonight. I had a long day at work, and it resulted in me getting home late, so I thought, "Perfect. Another hilarious attack on Billo that will provide me with needed comic relief at the end of a hard day."

But did we get comic relief this time? No. Instead, we got Edward R. Murrow.

Keith...the angriest he's been since Katrina. Making the TV shake as he rips another hole in Mr. O'Reilly's...reputation.

What an amazing piece of TV.

Thank you, Keith.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-01-06 10:10 PM
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137. Another excellent synopsis of what we just watched.
Be careful, Berry: you might end up expected to do this all the time.
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