ROMNEY ATTACKS FREDO, AGAIN!

Romney has been trying to put some distance between himself and Pres. Fredo. The Swamp has his latest attempt:

Romney: No more 'my way or highway' diplomacy

Posted at 2:46 PM

by Rick Pearson

"We have too much of a 'it's our way or the highway' attitude as we go around the world. When you're working with people in other nations, foreign policy is no longer the way it was last century. We got a lot of people really good at foreign policy in the 20th century—which was more like checkerboards, our side versus their side. And we jump them and they jump us back," he said.

”Now it's more like three-dimensional chess. We have to have the capacity to build relationships of very differing nations across a wide array of populations and that capacity I have and will bring with me people of great skill and experience to help advise so I can listen to their perspectives," Romney said.

So far, the wingnuts haven't responded, perhaps wisely because this is a lose-lose issue for the GOP.

STUNNING INCOMPETENCE

Nicholas William Leeson was rogue derivatives trader at Barings Bank. In INFECTIOUS GREED, page 241, Frank Partnoy lets us know managerial incompetence contributed to the fiasco:

Leeson hid his losses by entering losing trades into an error account, labeled #88888, which was not connected to the rest of the Barings computer network.

Now, Barings collapsed and was eventually sold for £1. How many of Leeson's supervisors were charged with criminal neglect?

MORE ON "REAL AMERICANS" & THE GOP

Internment Camp Malkin found this quote:

Rep. Duncan Hunter’s wife is in Wyoming and gave Westerners a boost:

Lynne Hunter spent Thursday in Rock Springs and was headed through Rawlins and Laramie on her way to Cheyenne for convention day.

“I think Wyoming’s very important because this is where real America is,” she said. “I don’t think real America is Iowa. I don’t mean that in a mean way, but this is where the real people are, in the Western states.”

MORE WINGNUT STUPIDITY

Mark Steyn, a major wingnut idiot, writes this:

It's not the economy, stupid. The economy's fine. It's gangbusters.

This is the same line that Sean Insannity pushes on his radio show and you've got to wonder how many are finally going to see that the wingnuts aren't talking about reality:

U.S. Stocks Fall After Job Growth Misses Forecast

By Elizabeth Stanton

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. stock market got off to its worst start since 2000 after government reports on jobs and manufacturing added to concern the economy will sink into recession.

``The economy's clearly downshifting rapidly,'' said James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management in Boston, which oversees $204 billion.

BOR: UNFIT TO REPORT

Falafel-boy O'Reilly goes to an Obama rally and acts out. He pushes an Obama staffer and swears at him, then claims innocence. Even the Secret Service got involved:

Secret Service agents who were nearby flanked O 'Reilly after he pushed Nicholson. They told O'Reilly he needed to calm down and get behind the fence-like barricade that contained the press.

Crooks & Liars has a clip of the FAUX News coverage and HuffPo had this pic of The Loudmouth:

SOMEBODY SHOULD SUE THE RATINGS AGENCIES

After all, they are the ones who handed out the AAA and AA ratings to a large part of the Big ShitPile.

$6.5bn of CDOs face ratings downgrades

By Paul J Davies in London

Published: January 4 2008 19:08 | Last updated: January 4 2008 19:08

The potential CDO downgrades announced Friday come as a direct result of downgrades given to nearly 800 mortgage-backed bond deals by S&P in late December. About two-thirds of the deals put on review Friday are so-called high-grade structured finance CDOs, which means they invested mostly in the safest AAA- and AA-rated slices of mortgage-backed bonds and similar securities.

FEDERAL SPENDING & RECEIPTS SINCE WW II

From National Priorities Project

RED SCARE: THE SEQUEL

Bill Gertz of the Wshington Times is very worried that the Jihadists have taken over the Pentagon. Apparently, Stephen Coughlin's contract won't be renewed and Gertz attributes that to "pro-Muslim officials within the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England." Coughlin was supposed to help "develop a war of ideas against extremism." but what's he done so far?

THE HUCKSTER GETS SOME SUPPORT

From surprising places!

Mark "Foamer" Levin writes in The Corner:

I am informed that Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich are helping Huckabee behind the scenes. Morris has been everywhere today promoting Huckabee.

Huge Ego Hewitt drops this tidbit:

A couple of weeks ago, there was a press release that indicated Rick Tyler, long time communications director for Gingrich, was taking a leave of absence from his day job, and helping out the communications effort for Mike Huckabee.

FEEL THE HATE!

The Huckster wins and the other parts of the GOP go nuts and even attack their very own. Remember when the GOP told us that people like Iowans were "the Real Americansm" as opposed to the liberal wackos on the Coasts? Well, it turns out that the GOP wackos have had a change of mind:

Frank J. at IMAO:

If you shoved a monkey in a paint can and put that in a paint shaker for twenty minutes, what would eventually emerge from the can would be a more rational decision maker than your average Iowan.

Stephen Green at VodkaPundit:

Dear Iowa Republicans,

I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?

MORE ON THE DONNER PARTY (GOP)

The striking disparity in turnout in Iowa between the Dems and the GOP should be encouraging for those of us who realize all the harm the GOP has done to America. For the others,not so much

...some Republicans were already fretting over Iowa caucus returns that showed 239,000 Democrats turned out and only about 116,000 Republicans.
"November could be dark," said GOP strategist Scott Reed, voicing a concern that others in his party expressed privately.

Chris Bowers has an analysis of the exit polls and it does look really bleak for the GOP:

Which caucus each group attended

Moderates: Democratic 88%--12% Republican
Independents: Democratic 75%--25% Republican

SPRING 07 TALK RADIO RATINGS

Only 6 liberals made it into the top 20. :-(

From Talkers Magazine:

A LITTLE MORE BILL KRISTOL IDIOCY

(h/t Glenn Greenwald)

In an interesting article that looks at the wingnut nepotism involved in the Kristol hiring by the NYT, author Charles Kaiser provides another example of Kristol's ignorance and naivete:

April 28, 2003:
The United States committed itself to defeating terror around the world. We committed ourselves to reshaping the Middle East, so the region would no longer be a hotbed of terrorism, extremism, anti-Americanism, and weapons of mass destruction. The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq have been won decisively and honorably. But these are only two battles.

STILL A CHEERLEADER

Despite plenty of evidence that our economy is going in the tank, Pres. Fredo sticks to his "Iraq Strategy" and says things are basically OK.

Bush says economy sound; mum on stimulus plan
Fri Jan 4, 2008 5:48pm EST

By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday that the U.S. economy was on solid footing despite a weak employment report, and gave no hint of what his administration may have in store to bolster growth.

"This economy of ours is on a solid foundation, but we can't take economic growth for granted," Bush told reporters after meeting with his so-called Working Group on Financial Markets. "If the foundation is strong, yet indicators are mixed, the worst thing that Congress can do is raise taxes."

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE ON EVOLUTION

Science, Evolution, and Creationism

(EXCERPTS)

The discovery and understanding of the processes of evolution represent one of the most powerful achievements in the history of science. Evolution successfully explains the diversity of life on Earth and has been confirmed repeatedly through observation and experiment in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

Evolutionary science provides the foundation for modern biology. It has opened the door to entirely new types of medical, agricultural, and environmental research, and has led to the development of technologies that can help prevent and combat disease. Regrettably, effective science education in our schools is being undermined by efforts to introduce non-scientific concepts about evolution into science classrooms.

Scientists no longer question the basic facts of evolution as a process. The concept has withstood extensive testing by tens of thousands of specialists in biology, medicine, anthropology, geology, chemistry, and other fields. Discoveries in different fields have reinforced one another,and evidence for evolution has continued to accumulate for 150 years.

HUCK WINS, FATS LOSES

Despite Fats Limbaugh trashing the Huckster right before the Iowa caucus, Huck still won! According to Fats' own count, he's on 9 stations in Iowa, so it's not like he wasn't heard.

GOOD FOR THE HUCKSTER!!!!

Slick Mitt got his butt handed to him in Iowa! Via CNN:

With 85 percent of Republican precincts reporting, Huckabee had the support of 34 percent of voters, compared to 25 percent for Mitt Romney. Fred Thompson had 14 percent, John McCain had 13 percent and Ron Paul had 10 percent. ... Rudy Giuliani, who has turned the focus of his campaign to the February 5 "Super Tuesday" primaries, trailed with 4 percent.

The Fundies were a big part of Huck's win:

Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was the big winner in Iowa's GOP caucuses Thursday thanks to big support from two groups of voters: Women and evangelical Christians.

The latter made up the majority of Republican caucus goers, and CNN's entrance polling showed Huckabee -- a former Baptist pastor -- won 46 percent of that group.

Rival Mitt Romney, who has heavily courted social conservatives, only drew 19 percent of those voters.

Huckabee also overwhelmingly won the female vote, picking up support from about 40 percent of women compared to only 24 percent for Romney.

ANY REASON WILL DO...

as long was we cut taxes for the very wealthiest. Jonathan Chait in The Big Con (pp. 121-24) reminds us of the many rationales put forward by the criminal Bush regime for cutting taxes.

The first was to eliminate the overpayments, otherwise known as budget surplus. The second was to stimulate the economy. The third and most preposterous was to make the tax code fairer to the poor!

PRICED OUT OF THE MARKET?

Another sign that the middle class has lost ground during the Bush regime, from the Christian Science Monitor:

The typical home cost about three times the average annual household income in 1990. Today, it costs more than four times household income, which is currently about $48,000 a year, according to the Census Bureau.

THE GOP == PARTY OF THE TOP 0.1%

I recall hearing Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell say something like he and his GOP colleagues would never vote to raise taxes. This was in the context of altering the AMT so middle-class families wouldn't fell the bite and making up for the corresponding loss of revenue by raising taxes on the extremely wealthy who currently only pay 15%.

Paying for Tax Fix Divides Dems, GOP

By JIM ABRAMS – Dec 12, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say it's OK not to cover the $50 billion in revenue losses from Congress' annual alternative minimum tax fix to save millions of families from higher taxes — even as the GOP president counts on revenues from that higher levy to reduce the red ink in his budget.

Senate Republicans, however, are using their filibuster powers to force the Senate into maintaining low rates for investment fund managers and accepting an unpaid-for AMT fix.

Republicans, said GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, "will not raise taxes in exchange for blocking a tax that was not meant to be."

Congress enacted "paygo" into law during the first President Bush's administration. But that law, which fostered the balanced budgets during the late Clinton years, was allowed to lapse in 2002, when Republicans were working on the Bush tax cuts.

SUB-PRIME HITS ART BELL

Well, Art rarely hosts these days but Coast to Coast AM is still on the air. Tonight, Mish Shedlock was the guest who laid out the problems caused by Wall Street Greed. This is a bad sign for the Clap Louder Crowd, like Hannity and Limbaugh, because there's some overlap between the listeners.

A PERFECT PAIRING!!!

(h/t Memeo)

20 minutes ago
The Corner:
Fred Thompson, Reagan Conservative Find

5 minutes ago
The Politico:
Fred Thompson may drop out Find

THE MARKETS ARE ALSO HEADED DOWN

DJI == Dow Jones Industrial Average

GSPC == S & P 500

IXIC == NASDAQ


SOURCE: YAHOO

MORE ON RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE

(h/t Memeo)

Scaife is one of the major wingnut benefactors and this article in Vanity Fair goes into some detail about his messy divorce. Here's a little more info about the wingnut underworld:

It is this contradictory bundle of a human being who arrives on a rainy November evening at the mahogany-paneled Duquesne Club, in downtown Pittsburgh, the sanctuary of that city’s upper crust, to be honored with the Speaker Franklin Award at a fund-raising dinner for the Commonwealth Foundation, a Pennsylvania think tank affiliated with the Heritage Foundation. An invocation praises Scaife as a selfless “servant-leader” who, like Joseph in the book of Genesis, “could have just worried about himself. But like Joseph,” he worried about his country. In a video tribute, former attorney general Edwin Meese calls Richard Mellon Scaife “the unseen hand behind so many important causes,” the man who brought “balance and sound principles back to the public arena” and “quietly helped to lay the brick and mortar for an entire movement.”

STILL A LONG WAY TO GO IN IRAQ

According to Iraq Body Count, the civilian death toll in 2007 was still horrendous:


Year Civilians Killed
2003 10,077 – 12,010
2004 9,741 – 10,573
2005 13,071 – 14,324
2006 25,699 – 27,519
2007 22,586 – 24,159

MORE NEO-CON FAILURE

Here's another reason war whore Bill Kristol shouldn't have been given a column at the NYT.

US General Predicts Record Poppy Haul
By JASON STRAZIUSO – 7 hours ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. general in charge of NATO's Afghanistan mission said Wednesday he expects another year of "explosive growth" in the country's poppy fields, a harvest militants will turn into weapons for use against Afghan and NATO troops.

After a record haul in 2006, Afghan farmers increased opium production some 34 percent in 2007. Afghanistan last year produced 93 percent of the world's opium, the main ingredient in heroin. Its export value was estimated at $4 billion.

Links between drug growers and insurgents have been suspected to be growing in recent years.

Proof of that was made clear when Afghan and NATO forces last month recaptured from militants the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, the world's largest poppy-growing region.
When Afghan and NATO forces moved into the town, they discovered dozens of heroin labs and stockpiles of drugs worth $500 million in street value, according to U.S. Ambassador William Wood.

McNeill estimated that insurgents get 20 percent to 40 percent of their income from drugs, but he said some U.N. officials have told him the number could be as high as 60 percent.

FATS VS. THE HUCKSTER

I'm glad a major spokesperson for conservatives - Rush Limbaugh - admitted this, according to Politico:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Gov. Huckabee, mighty fine man and is a great Christian, is not a conservative, he’s just not,"

This effectively breaks the tie between the Fundies and the GOP.

SO MUCH FOR STATES' RIGHTS

An insistence on states' rights has been part of the GOP mantra since Raygun but doesn't apply when it may offend important sections of the GOP's base, as we saw in the Schiavo case. I'm glad to see Arizona is fighting this.

Arizona joins California suit against EPA over emissions
Associated Press - January 2, 2008 3:44 PM ET

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona is joining with California and 14 other states to sue the federal Environmental Protection Agency for denying its right to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trucks and SUVs.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard says the state is joining the suit because "reducing greenhouse gases is vital to address state climate change."

LIBERALISM APPEALS TO THE MAJORITY

(h/t Jonathan Chait, The Big Con, p. 120)

Prof. James Stimson created this graph of public support for an activist, liberal Federal Government.

1993 NAFTA VOTES

Some wingnuts are lying about NAFTA so I thought I'd set the record straight.

The House Vote:

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Democratic	102	156
Republican	132	43
Independent		1
TOTALS	234	200

The Senate Vote:

NAYs ---38
Akaka (D-HI) Boxer (D-CA) Bryan (D-NV) Burns (R-MT) Byrd (D-WV) Campbell (D-CO) Cohen (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Craig (R-ID) D'Amato (R-NY) Exon (D-NE) Faircloth (R-NC) Feingold (D-WI)	Feinstein (D-CA) Ford (D-KY) Glenn (D-OH) Heflin (D-AL) Helms (R-NC) Hollings (D-SC) Inouye (D-HI) Kempthorne (R-ID) Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Levin (D-MI) Metzenbaum (D-OH) Mikulski (D-MD)	Moynihan (D-NY) Reid (D-NV) Riegle (D-MI) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sarbanes (D-MD) Sasser (D-TN) Shelby (D-AL) Smith (R-NH) Stevens (R-AK) Thurmond (R-SC) Wellstone (D-MN) Wofford (D-PA)

ROMNEY TURNS TRUTH-TELLER ABOUT IRAQ

The Mittster admits what almost all rational & informed Americans know: Fredo fucked up in Iraq.

Romney says Bush mismanaged Iraq war
Tue Jan 1, 2008 3:37pm EST

By Andy Sullivan

JOHNSTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday the Bush administration mismanaged the Iraq war, distancing himself from his party's unpopular president two days before Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential contest.

"I think we did a less than effective job in managing the conflict following the collapse of Saddam Hussein," the former Massachusetts governor said at a news conference. "I think we were under prepared for what occurred, understaffed, under planned, and, in some respects, under managed."

How will the BushBots react to this stunning indictment of not only the "War President" but also the GOP's undeserved reputation as the Party of National Security?

THEY PARTY, WE PAY

The Wall Street Masters of the Universe, speculators, realtors and all the others who made tremendous amounts of money seliing the Big ShitPile won't be much affected by the drastic reduction of public finances and public services. Arizona (and Tucson) will certainly be affected.


Mortgage crisis takes a bite out of states and cities

Tax revenue is down considerably across the nation, creating budget shortfalls and forcing hard choices on what to cut.
By Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 31, 2007

DENVER -- Dozens of states, counties and cities across the nation will enter the new year facing deep and unexpected budget holes as the widening mortgage crisis cuts sharply into tax revenue.

"We're talking about a pretty tough fiscal environment for the next four or five years," said Christopher W. Hoene, the director of policy and research for the National League of Cities. "Libraries, parks, after-school programs . . . you'll see lots of questions raised about cities' abilities to fund them."

in a recent survey, 24 states reported that their tax collections had taken a hit because of the housing crisis.

The 10 most affected states, including California, Nevada and Arizona, will lose a combined $6.6 billion in tax revenue next year, according to a report prepared for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Even more distressing to budget planners is the decline in sales tax revenue. If people aren't buying homes, they're not buying refrigerators and washing machines to furnish them. ... On average, states receive about a third of their revenue from sales taxes.

In Arizona, state Sen. Bob Burns will spend his holiday poring over a budget that looked balanced six months ago but is now in the red -- with spending nearly 10% above what the state can afford, given the anemic pace of tax collection.

"Education and healthcare are usually politically untouchable, but we have to put those on the table now. We have to include just about everything, really," Burns said. "If we don't make some serious moves in '08 and '09, we'll be out of savings. And out of gimmicks."

40 DAYS CAMPAIGN, 57 DAYS LATER

Looks like the 40 Days campaign of the Arizona Right to Life group was a big nada. All they mention is this in their end of year letter:

Our commitment to activism was
continued through Tucson Chapter’s
40 days for Life campaign (pictured
top right) which held a prayerful
vigil at Planned Parenthood
facilities, as well as their Face
the Truth events which brought the
pro-life message to hundreds of
people in the public square.

SCHADENFREUDE!!!

Ross Douthat brings this analysis of the Donner Party to my attention:

Michael Tomasky, on the GOP's future:

Despite Bush's failures and the discrediting of conservative governance, there is every chance that the next Republican president, should the party's nominee prevail next year, will be just as conservative as Bush has been—perhaps even more so.How could this be? The explanation is fairly simple. It has little to do with the out-of-touch politicians and conservative voters ... and reflects instead the central hard truth about the components of the Republican Party today. That is, the party is still in the hands of three main interests: neoconservatives; theo-conservatives, i.e., the groups of the religious right; and radical anti-taxers, clustered around such organizations as the Club for Growth and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. Each of these groups dominates party policy in its area of interest—the neocons in foreign policy, the theocons in social policy, and the anti-taxers on fiscal and regulatory issues. Each has led the Bush administration to undertake a high-profile failure .... And yet, so far as the internal dynamics of the Republican Party are concerned, they have been failures without serious consequence, because there are no strong countervailing Republican forces to present an opposite view or argue a different set of policies and principles.

I wouldn't discount the GOP's ability to lie and smear its way out of this problem but even Jonah Goldberg is concerned.

"THEY HATE ME, THEY REALLY HATE ME"

(Via Atrios) MediaMatters points out that Dana Milbank of the WaPo lets us all know the truth about the "liberal media":

KURTZ: I had the impression it was a camp reunion when I was out there in Iowa. And it is great, the retail campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire. It is fun to cover and it is real, but it's -- when the votes are counted and we decide who did well -- for example, Hillary Clinton, let's say she doesn't win Iowa. Let's say she gets edged out by 1,000 votes. Is the press going to savage her as a loser?
MILBANK: The press will savage her no matter what, pretty much.
STRONGKURTZ: --the press with Hillary Clinton, it's a poisonous relationship. And I visited the various campaigns out there. It's a mutual sort of disregard. And they really have their knives out for her, there's no question about it out there. So --

[SNIP]

MILBANK: It's more that they dislike Hillary Clinton. There is a long history there, her antagonism towards the press. It's returned in spades. And it is a venomous relationship that I see out there.

This reminds me of the horrendous treatment Al Gore received from the Press when he ran for President and it continues to this day. Here's what former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough said on Hardball, 11/18/02:

MATTHEWS: Do you think the media's biased towards the Democrat?
SCARBOROUGH: No. I think in a lot of cases they have been. I think in the 2000 elections, I think they were fairly brutal towards Al Gore. I think they hit him hard on a lot of things like “inventing the Internet” and some of these other things, and I think there was a generalization that they bought into that, if they'd done that to a Republican candidate, I'd be going on your show saying, you know, they were being biased.

WALL STREET IS A MORAL HAZARD

There are two main principles on Wall Street: (1) Don't get caught and (2) Fool the hicks. In return, you get an obscene amount of money, as Cliff Schecter reports:

While executives at the top five Wall Street firms are getting a record $38 billion in bonuses this Christmas season, millions of working families are worrying whether they will lose their homes in the New Year-in the wake of the nation's mortgage crisis.

Wall Street seems to be giving unprecedented cash rewards to the very people whose conduct threatens to strip millions of Americans of their homes and drive our country into recession, while at the same time refusing to take the actions necessary to address the crisis.

DIRTY DOINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AGAIN

Reminiscent of what happened to John McCain on the 2000 GOP primary, Romney is being subjected to scurrilous attacks.

Mysterious holiday card spotlights Romney's religion

December 30, 2007

(CNN) – A holiday card that falsely claims to be from "the Romney family" and highlights Mitt Romney's Mormon faith was anonymously sent to Republican mailboxes across South Carolina earlier this week.

The source of the card is unknown.

View entire card [PDF]

I HAVE A BETTER SOLUTION

Here's the problem, according to gasbag Broder:

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.

SOLUTION: GET RID OF ALL THE MOVEMENT CONSERVATIVES

ON THE YEAR 1934

Wingnuts try to refute global warming by claiming that 1934 was the hottest year ever but never tell is that is true for the U.S. only. NASA provides graphs of the U.S. temps and the global temps:

I DON'T THINK MR. ROSENTHAL GETS IT

Appointing a known propagandist is the real issue, not a mere difference of opinion. I wonder if anyone will fact-check Kristol's crap?

From The Politico:

Rosenthal told Politico shortly after the official announcement Saturday that he fails to understand “this weird fear of opposing views.” “The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that’s a bad thing,” Rosenthal added. “How intolerant is that?”

“We have views on our op-ed page that are as hawkish or more so than Bill,” Rosenthal said, adding, “The whole point of the op-ed page is to air a variety of opinions.”

“People who don’t want to hear what their ideological opponents have to say are making a gigantic mistake,” Rosenthal said.

RESPONSES TO GLOBAL WARMING

On AOL, there are 4 kinds: the skeptics, the cyclists, the fatalists and the Right-wing Stalinist. Here are examples:

SKEPTIC:

donmolive 04:03:03 PM Dec 30 2007
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I do believe that a lot of "sperts" are going to have egg on their faces in a short period of time. Contrary to what Al Gore says, this is not a consensus. In fact, over 400 prominent scientists from over 6 countries have said that man-made global warming is a hoax.

CYCLIST:

tnkker 04:00:12 PM Dec 30 2007
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The earth has warmed before, and it has frozen before. It just happens.

FATALIST:

bobanthonyvideo 04:03:54 PM Dec 30 2007
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theres nothing we can do, this is all silly.

RIGHT-WING STALINIST:

mlp7595 03:57:56 PM Dec 30 2007
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Here we go again with the socialist scare-mongers trying to frighten all the weak-minded into marxism where they run the show in their communist palaces and the people eat scraps off the table.

IRAQ: "NO PLACE IS SAFE"

So much for teh Awsum Surge.

No place in Iraq is safe, says US military
5 hours ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Despite a drop in violence across Iraq, there is still no place in the country that is safe from attack by extremists, the US military warned on Sunday.

"We have made no projections of peace at hand. We realise that security is very fragile and that at any moment any attack could occur at any place in Iraq," military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told a news conference in Baghdad.

"There is no place in Iraq today that is safe from terrorism," Smith added.