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Click on my name--it takes you to my blog, which has a link to a you-tube video you might enjoy.

Sorry to hear about the crash in Conway. I'd love to have watched the video put up by the ancient winged one, but I'm in the goofiest of places and this must be a dialup connection. I feel like Oliver Wendall Douglas making a phone call, only it's 2007 and I'm not talking.

I've been working temporarily in Orange County California for the last month. I'm sitting in a UPS store in Huntington Beach -- the last day before I return (and the first day I've been "off" in a while). This is apparently the only place in this town where a person who has been Jonesing for his home computer and his home blog can spend 20c per minute to check and post. Consider this just a howdy note to my 5 or 6 friends and a few more acquaintances on here.

I have a great idea for some wildcat who wants to start a business in a beach town: open an internet bar. You'd have a corner on the market.

mzrz mann got me a ping pong table for our anniversary, and I've only gotten to play on it a couple times. So I'll be looking forward to some competition from a few of you after I get back. You know who you are. There will be beer, and there is a grill.

Southern California is a beautiful area of our country, but there's no place like home.

Great video, Arch!

I second that video Archae.

Here's the best cartoon of the week.
Click blue name link

LOLOL ... nice one Knoc Knock.

Our nation finally tired of Joey Buttafuco who morally could have been Axis Annie twin. So maybe Coulter's 15 minutes are up.

If Reagan hadn't killed the Fairness Doctrine, Coulter would be a channel 43 weather girl somewhere up in Iowa. It's so funny that Paris Hilton's looks haven't helped her out muck, but String Bean has been able to puke up garbage for 10 years and get away with it.

America is so done with Cheney-Bush. Congress should pull out the stops to chase them from office. The average American consumer is ahead of the curve.

The poor ratings of Congress are directly connected to us standing and screaming WHAT THE FK ARE YOU WAITING ON? IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH

Come home hugh come home

LOVED both the video and cartoon! Thanks, folks!

Well, it is the weekend so if you need a good belly laugh, click on Cato.

Maybe the basic difference between Demos and Republicans and Independents is that Republicans and Independents care about folks that died this afternoon. My condolences to the families and friends of the victims. If any friends and/or relatives are reading my post, I will help however I can. Will y'all let me know?

Curious you have posted nothing but emptiness. In fact the thread about the plane-crash deaths was posted by a Demo, Max B. Go over to Family Council or Citizens Journal and see what you find.

Knock Knock,
I am well aware or your observations. That is why I posted my post. Y'all jumped to the the open line expressing your personal political views without offering condolences or help to the families involved in today's crash in Conway. Not a member of any political party, KK. Thank you for your references to the Family Council and Citizens Journal, though I find them too much to the right for my liking.
As Max began this post, there was a plane crash in Conway and two people died. If I am able to help, I will do so. Perhaps talking politics is more important than helping people? Whatcha think, KK?

Curious....just a bit too selfrightous don't you think? No one is happy a plane crashed anywhere in the world today. I'm 100% sure none of us can help the folks in Conway until someone create a memorial fund for the dead.

You're offer of help may be quite sincere, but is helpful along the lines of those yellow magnetic ribbons plastered on all the cars these days.

The plane crash in Conway was an accident. The war for oil in Iraq is no accident. 108 of our troops died in Iraq in the month of June, the last 8, yesterday and today.

We can't do anything about airplanes falling out of the sky in Conway. We might do something to stop the war for oil in Iraq. But it's going to take a hell of a lot more out of us than just magnetic ribbons or empty words and prayers.

Please open your mind and direct your sympathetic efforts towards something that can be changed and the world might someday be a better place.

How does a person contact a poster named Curious? No typekey profile, no email address and no one knows where you live. Empty.
And you definitely polarized your "helping" ketich by making it a political issue :"...the basic difference between Demos and Republicans and Independents is that Republicans and Independents care about folks that died this afternoon."
Now who is interested in political commentary? And hows that split personality of yours coming along?

Btw the thread also read: "No reason this can't be Saturday's open thread, either."

I take your point Curious, and admit I was a might jovial for a thread begun on a tragic topic. But really...

Curious said--:
"Republicans and Independents care about folks that died this afternoon."

I won't paint with a broad brush, but one might reasonably question the level of concern of *some* Republicans for the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have died in the war.

We are are flawed, aren't we?

At my name is a very good dkos diary with an interview of bloggers and Speaker Pelosi...

LoL! I might be tarnishing my status as an Independent but the idea that we went to war for oil doesn't make sense. Not when I'm paying $3 a gallon right now. But I guess one could blame it on poor planning as well. Just a thought. Keep up the posts everyone. And keep up the news Max.

Curious. People die every day
in Africa from preventable
diseases. I'm curious. What
are you doing to prevent
those deaths?

As for the war, it may have
been for oil. Just because
we haven't been successful
at extracting Iraqi oil doesn't
mean it was not the reason.

Personally I think it was
because Saddam tried to kill
his (Bush II) daddy (Bush I).

Well, it is an open thread so I'll head out to left field -- as if I usually don't anyway -- and ask my burning question. The "No sagging" edict in the photo on this blog a day or so ago of the Camden (?) bar I understand. If the guys let go of whatever they're holding in their nether regions, it's "all fall down." But why are head rags, which, incidently, I think I've seen for sale at Wal Mart as "do rags," objectionable? Or are do rags and head rags two different things?

And yes, Curious, if I could do anything for the Conway plane crash victims, I would as would anyone on this post. However, if any of us were really in a position to do so, we probably wouldn't be on the blog right now. We would be holding friends' and relatives' hands in Conway, providing the survivor with a place to stay, meeting mom and dad flying in from out of town, etc.
Yes, I know someone who lives only a few hundred feet from the airport. She and her husband are fine. The crash site was well away from her house. My guess is that if you know someone in that area, you have already checked on their situation so your comment is so much empty blather.

If we invaded Iraq for oil, and I think that was a big reason, wouldn't the best outcome for the oil companies be higher profits? And that's what we have.

Mission Accomplished.

Right, Love. Stealing Iraq's oil be a trick. Turning around and selling the oil you stole to American consumers at double the price would be a super home run. We already know these people aren't happy with a regular heist, it's the whole enchilada or nothing for them.

That Cheney's the most evil man to ever be President....and I don't think anyone's managed to get the Kryptonite in his shorts yet.

EverythingIsCyclical you really should reach a bit deeper to understand cycles. These guys are playing for the long haul. Iraq oil War is only 4 years old. They got all the other inventories of black stuff to sell until we hit 2009 and pools of petro really become shallow as 1.5 BILLION Chinese discover the wonders of driving and being mobile.

I don;t give a damn which party is in power there will be some big oil grabs then cause only Brazil is not addicted to Oil.

Ethanol from corn is a joke and will be abandoned in 2-3 years.

I agree about the ethanol. It's driving the prices of too many food stuffs up i.e. milk, cheese, dairy, and countless corn based products. Eventually the public will backlash against it.

My apologies for being so tardy in responding. Had other events to which I needed to attend.
KK. I am anonymous because I was told by my boss that if I spoke out for any reason I would be fired. Not worth the cost of litigation.
B&B, there is no reason I should support AIDS relief in Africa when so many are suffering here in the good ole US of A.
{self - righteous)
Doigotta,
"blather" There are ways to offer immediate assistance for the families of the victims. Political rhetoric is not one of the choices.
TAP,
I sincerely respect your opinion, your postings, and your knowledge of the law. We all are flawed. Frivolity before empathy, in my feeble re-tirded mind, results in a society that laughs a lot and gets nothing done. Two people died, right here on American soil, and that has nothing to do with Iraq.
I HATE WAR. What I hate most is sanctimonious, political animals who proclaim a concern for Iraqi victims and yet aren't willing to get off of their Barcca Loungers with built in remote controls
Talk about blather.......

Curious, I guess I should have indented after the first sentence of my post yesterday. When I looked in later I decided I shouldn't pile on with the others who reacted to your scolding.

Maybe it would have been better to have given the plane crash a thread of its own, then had a separate open line. But one truth is this is mainly a political blog and another is that the people most immediately connected to the victims of that tragedy were probably not occupied by reading it.

I got the sense that you have some connection to the victims of the crash. Even if you don't I'm still sorry that the plane crashed. It was such terrible tragedy that the AT blog chose to mentnion it.

But you're still scolding people for talking politics on a political blog.

If you want to take responsibility for a relief fund or something, just say so. I bet there'd be at least a modest outpouring. I'd pitch in if it were needed.

What I don't understand, curious, is why on earth did you come to a Democratic/liberal political blog and talk about how supposedly Republics and Independents are better than Democrats because we didn't spend as much time as YOU thought we should on the crash?

It's an open thread, no one had pictures or new information to discuss, and we wandered off onto another subject. If someone had shown up with pictures or new information, including appeals for help, then I'm sure it would have been discussed more.