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I refuse to spend one second lamenting the loss of something we never had. But I would like to thank him for saving us from the cesspool. GO SABRES!!!

Maybe so, but in this case, the word bigot fits. Eric Allen Bell is the very essence of the word itself. Saying it gets tossed around without merit doesn't mean that it's never merited. I've never read any of the periodicals you mention. As to what else you're supposed to post, I don't know. That's not in my control. I'd just like to know what your seeming agenda is given what links you provide to embellish your arguments in this thread. Is it to let us all know we're going to burn in hell for all eternity if we don't get saved? Or is it something else? Not sure why you needed to qualify your status as a nonsupporter of Romney. I fully respect your right to support whomever you wish. Doesn't make a bit of difference to me at all.

You always seem to link to sites with pronounced fundamentalist Christian philosophies. This particular link was a big step down. Using the mindless rhetoric of a bigot isn't going to win the hearts and minds of anyone who isn't already a like minded bigot. Oh, and it's Obama's foreign policy which has brought the strife in the Middle East? That's a stretch even for the most ardent republican partisan. Unless, of course , Obama started shaping Middle East foreign policy a couple thousand years ago. My word of advice is for Romney and his campaign leaders to drop the subject entirely at the moment. The foot in Romney's mouth doesn't need any more company.

When South Carolina fired upon Fort Sumter, a federal military installation of the United States, how was Lincoln supposed to respond? What were his Constitutional mandates as President of the United States and Commander in Chief?

I'll concede they had the right to do so. And the use of the term "treason" in context of how the Constitution was interpreted is a bit strong. But it was a hotly debated topic at the time. And Lincoln certainly had a Constitutional responsibility to preserve the Union and keep the CSA from expanding it's territories and laws into US held territories. Not sure why you felt the need to qualify the racial status of a pastor in Houston. Nice to know he's figured out that we're all "one human race" though. Actually, I do know why you felt the need to qualify it and it's shameful.

Great point. Amazing how much unanimity $1m and a loss of draft picks will bring. GO SABRES!!!

Speaking of battleground states, can someone explain to me how Romney can stump in Ohio and Virginia on his platform of how Obama has screwed the pooch on the economy and will surely lead us to economic ruin while at the same time the Republican governors of those states go around touting how well the economies on those states are doing?

Yes. But I'm not sure what your point is. Every one of the signers of that letter to King George knew he was committing treason as soon as they put pen to paper and all of them knew the inherent risks to their lives as a result. But they broke no US laws in doing so. Jefferson Davis and co? Not so much.

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.