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While nothing more than an attempt to further your ongoing agenda, I none the less found your link to be complete and utter bullsh*t! As much as the Civil War has been romanticized over the years, it's no wonder that some people feel the need to whitewash it to the point of absurdity. If you think of ANY reason for the South's secession as a spoke on a wheel, you'll find slavery is the hub. It ALL came back to the slavery issue. The states rights issue was just one spoke. Bottom line: the south needed cheep labor to feed their economic engine at the time and moving forward. And it never comes cheaper than being free. You want better insight into the whole thing? I suggest you read what Jefferson Davis and those that started the Confederacy had to say on the subject. I don't disagree. I'm not making it a 'side vs. side' issue. It's a 'danger of mass media shaping, framing, and delivering the message over and over and over again' issue.

Same exact thing that Colin Powell warned GW about before invading Iraq. There is a difference between individuals doing such labeling on the internet in a public forum and a mass medium doing it by broadcasting to an audience of millions nationwide. Over and over and over again. The former is just banter. The latter can be harmful.

Well, Dwight. That about clinches it. I always would have been happy to buy you a beer or two. But now I'm gonna have to insist we get drunk together. And I would also insist that DeLuca come along for the ride. And I say that fully knowing that the next thing you post will most likely piss me off. But somehow I feel it's coming from a more honest place. A better understood place, perhaps. Peace. GO BILLS!!!

Isn't that another way of compensating for an inferiority complex? Goebbels was like 5'4" with a clubbed foot, afterall.

Because it's as old as mass media itself. Goebbels would be so proud. Always know and study the three points of the communications triangle: the messenger, the receiver, and the message.

Ya know, Drane. I've probably been your harshest critic around here but I've always respected your intelligence and well thought out positions on things. Regardless of how condescending they can be at times. And then I read gems like this and I wonder, "Why can't he see the same potential on the Sabre side of things." And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. GO BILLS!!!

Well put. When G Dub had his bull horn moment at WTC, all of us would have followed him into hell. A country is a country indeed. These empty suits would be well reminded NEVER to forget that. Perhaps it won't change anything at all. I doubt that it will. But it changed something for me. Just one mind. Just one vote. I remember reading somewhere that all those ones start to add up.

Like I said, Pa. Shameless. In every sense of the word. There are only a finite amount of times where we have the CLEAR choice to take the high road or not. Romney chose not to. For the sake of poitical expediency.

The Middle East may get relegated to one of the top three questions, but it will further underscore just how out of his depth Mitt Romney really is. If I wasn't already convinced of where my vote was going, Romney's shameless display in the wake of the tragedy at the embassy in Lybia etched it in stone.

I have to wonder what your agenda is after doing a little research on 'Stanislav Mishin' and his blog, Mat Rodina. I shouldn't say 'his blog' because Stanislav Mishin apparently doesn't exist. Some speculate it is an ex KGB agent seeking to influence Russian policy. You may be disappointed that he isn't a Russian fundamentalist Christian afterall. But, given your proclivities in that regard, I can understand why it's important for him to be one.

Every pass from JP Losman was a Hail Mary. GO BILLS!!!

Other than knowing it's upside down, I wonder how that man sleeps at night.

Absolutely. The attack had its desired result by the enemy. I just never bought that the attack was motivated by anything more than political gain.

Tragic indeed. http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/crime/Dareus-brother-killed-in-shooting

Been saying for years that 911 was motivated out of political desires by Al Queda more than anything else.

The Inquisition. Islamic extremism is NOT a religion of peace. Neither is Christian extremism. Nor is ANY extreme of ANY religion. That is a bullsh*t article because it casually links "Islam" with Islamic radicalism. It's a disingenous way of reporting things. And as the article points out, it wasn't a "Christian who shot Theo Van Gogh" I would like to point out that it wasn't a Muslim who killed either John Britton or George Tiller; it was fundamentalist Christians. Then again, we walked with dinosaurs, so WTF do I know.

Prayers go out to the Dareus family today. Marcel's brother was shot and killed. RIP.

For whom? GO SABRES!!!

Well put. Kind of reminds me of something I heard years ago. "It doesn't matter if you believe in God or not. Just act like you do." Good deeds, regardless of motivation, make the world a better place. GO SABRES!!!

You speak of a custodial responsibility. One of the reasons Teddy Roosevelt was ahead of his time. I don't think any president, especially in today's era of entrenchment, can bring much sway in the direction of protecting our air, water, and soil. Unfortunately, the reverse isn't true. A president can do a lot to f*ck it up. And then you have the wingnuts who believe it just doesn't matter. That the earth and her resources should be used up because the end is coming anyway.

While that was your intention, it certainly wasn't Conn Carroll's. And while the book review in the link was found in a newspaper you'd just as soon use to line a birdcage (assuming you think it's even fit for that purpose), it does a far better job of drawing attention to the book and it's cited quotes and content. You dated a girl who knew Deep Throat? Lucky you.

Thanks for the links. It serves to underscore the difference between a book reviewer focusing on the author and discussing the merits of his work vs. that of an editorial writer looking no further than making political hay out of the subject matter.

I was being a smartass again. While we certainly import 2/3 of our crude oil, nearly all of our gasoline is refined and produced domestically. I have many questions regarding refineries and their production but that's a discussion for another time.

Like Dom Perignon, Guinness, and Filippo Berio Olive Oil? Oh, and we produce nearly ALL of the gasoline we use in this country.

I find this chart interesting on many levels. Particularly from around 1980 to the present. And especially from 2000 to the present. http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasoline_inflation_chart.htm