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Well, I've just spent several hours trying to input my tape player into my computer. It didn't work like it was suppose to but finally worked in a way it shouldn't have worked. All I can say is persist with every option until you find the answer. I then spent several more hours editing a demo tape to the proper length. Decided it was time to try something different. I hope someone appreciates all the work I am willing to do to. Just think what I could do as an employee! Damn straight..don't quit until I come up a winner!
Anyway, didn't get a chance to write today so I'll leave you with some pertinet stuff to read.

Let's just sell off the entire country to foreigners. Whatda ya say? Anyway whatever is left. I suppose this could be a plus cuz if it gets blown up it up it belongs to someone else anyway. I am still quite uncomfortable with it though.

Just in case you forgot..the occupation and the civil war continue unabated..as do the deaths of our servicemen and women and your tax dollars being shipped overseas.

In further violence, officials confirmed that about 45 Shiite Muslims were kidnapped over the past two weeks on the main highway to Syria and Jordan. The highway passes through Sunni insurgent strongholds west of Baghdad.....
.....it followed a crackdown by the British on Shiite militias that have infiltrated security forces in the city and threaten the authority of the government in Baghdad......Meanwhile, gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying employees of a power station to their homes in the Shiite district of Sadr City, killing five passengers and wounding six, police said.A car bomb killed seven people, six of them civilians, in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad and a flashpoint of Sunni-Shiite tensions. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed Tuesday evening when a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint in the northern city of Tal Afar, the Iraqi army said.An Iraqi journalist working for the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television was slain in western Baghdad. Adil al-Mansuri, an Iraqi in his 20s, was stopped by gunmen Monday and shot, according to a colleague, Aysar al-Yasiri.A Sunni Arab politician, Mohammed Shihab al-Dulaimi, was kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad, his associates said. Al-Dulaimi is the spokesman for a coalition of political groups that rejected the results of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.The other victims reported by police died in a series of shootings and bombings, mostly in Baghdad.......They'll be standing up anytime now. Our troops have done all they can do. Bring them home to their families and let the Iraqis settle this for themselves.

As most knew they would, the swiftboaters get together to smear John Murtha....Think Anne Coulter will be mad because they are people who "can't be criticized"?
Murtha is running for re-election against Diana Irey, a Washington County commissioner, who has been critical of Murthas comments about the war and what she sees as his lack of support for the troops.
Apparently Irey wants to support the troops by leaving them to die in somebody elses civil war. What a "patriot".

Iraqi reconstruction. I have questioned for some time why this is the first war where we have had an abundance of "private contractors". Didn't the Army Corps of Engineers do this in the past. What do you think?
It is a story of mistakes made, plans poorly conceived or overwhelmed by ongoing violence," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. "And of waste, greed and corruption that drained dollars that should have been used to build schools, improve the electrical grid, and repair the oil infrastructure."
And why are we spending billions to rebuild an area that is bent on destroying it anyway? Could we spend this money rebuilding the American gulf coast instead? Please!?

Rush agrees with the jihadists.

Do you plan to vote for people who just make stuff up?

That theory -- that it was Hezbollah, not the Israelis, who brought down the Qana building -- is being repeated by right-wing pundits and bloggers everywhere. One is hard-pressed to find mention of this vast media-Hezbollah conspiracy in the Israeli press, but among the American pro-Bush movement, there is no bit of reality-denial too extreme to be rejected. ..... This reality-denying syndrome essentially prevents meaningful debate of issues among a substantial portion of our population. How do you have a meaningful debate over what the U.S. ought to do in Iraq with people who believe that things are going really well over there and who insist that Saddam really did have WMDs? How do you have a meaningful debate with people over the Israel-Lebanon war who insist that reports of civilian deaths in Lebanon are the by-product of a massive conspiracy/cover-up between the international media and Hezbollah rather than Israeli air attacks? And how do you have a meaningful debate with people who continue to insinuate that Saddam helped plan the 9/11 attacks?Meaningful political debates require agreement at least as to the basic facts comprising reality. For a substantial portion of the American population, that agreement is lacking, due to a desire to believe only those facts which comport with one's beliefs and the powerful, self-contained ideology-based media bubble which enables that desire. Those who live in the world where Iraq helped Al Qaeda plan terrorist attacks, Saddam had WMDs, things are going well in Iraq, and Hezbollah rather than Israel collapsed the apartment building in Qana, don't merely have different political views but really live in a different reality.

As linked in the above story, Michelle Malkin gets an "F" because she didn't do her homework...or at least didn't care what the actual truth was. Michelle is one of the large number of righie bloggers who doesn't allow comments. How will she ever learn.

Ya know..it's starting to look like they do this stuff on purpose.

On the lighter side..Triumph looks at global warming with some Republicans.

Hotties from the hill.