mr. William J. Krar had way more chemical weapons (of mass destruction) than saddam hussein had.

And i believe that he is due to get out of prison, a free man, soon.

well, “soon”:
he went in in 2004 and he got (ONLY!) 11 years.
so he’s in for at least a few more years.

And i believe that he is due to get out of prison, a free man, soon.

he never cooperated with authorities.

i do Not fear al Qaeda.

Noonday is only about 300 miles from here:
capital of the state of texas.

Oklahoma kiddo @
31

We here remember the Murrah Bulding horror. But we don’t talk about it much down here. A bitter pill to swallow. A homegrown monster terrorist, killing children in day care. Wonder how long it will take for the right wing to start blaming Democrats for being soft on immigration, in light of the VT killings?

Except if this kid came here in ‘92, that puts it during BushCo I.

I suspect he was in the US from an age younger than Michelle Malkin was when she arrived on our shores, certainly at a younger age than eirther of her immigrant parents.

So he was, for all intents and purposes American, reared if not Native Born. I’m sure he spoke accentless English and from his pictures he looked as assimilated as could be. The only issue of his ethnicity MIGHT be one of discrimination, real or presumed.

Most Korean-Americans are Christian, although some belong to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. Not sure what the fundies are calling the Church that owns the Washington Times is called nowadays.

way OT: mortgage foreclosures up 800% in CA compared to a year ago! (NPR)

I’ll take it another notch OT, but equally important.

I smell a rat in this Sallie Mae sell-off. A BIG rat. A HUGE rat that looks alot like the Savings & Loan rat that quietly disappeared billions of dollars from the accounts of Americans.

We have a gigantic financial institute, originally operated by the government, being passed into the hands of a few private investor groups and a couple of mega banks.

So if you think the foreclosure thing is exploding, wait until the nations student loan portfolio gets passed into the hands of the usury industry created by George W. Bush.

from the Sallie Mae website:

Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading provider of student loans and administrator of college savings plans, has helped millions of Americans achieve their dream of a higher education. The company primarily provides federal and private student loans, including consolidation loans, for undergraduate and graduate students and their parents.

In addition, Sallie Mae offers comprehensive information and resources to assist students, parents, and guidance professionals with the financial aid process. Sallie Mae owns or manages student loans for nearly 10 million customers, administers more than $11 billion in college savings accounts for 1 million customers through its Upromise subsidiary and employs approximately 12,000 individuals at offices nationwide.

Sallie Mae was originally created in 1972 as a government-sponsored entity (GSE). The company began privatizing its operations in 1997, a process it completed at the end of 2004 when the company terminated its ties to the federal government.

Welcome to Serfdom. Don’t say that nobody warned you.

You heard it here first (in EPU land)

raven @157

I taught on Camp Pendleton when the war ended and the refugees came here to escape the nightmare that was Vietnam. Many of the Marines had married Vietnamese women, and there were every mix imaginable. The black/asian mix is absolutely, astoundingly beautiful. I could not believe how smart all the kids from Vietnam were.

When I got to Korea at Kimpo Airport they had two boxes, one for the first timers and one if you’d been there before. They were for the orphanage’s. My dad was a school principle and they adopted one of the orphanages near my “compound”. Both the Koreans and Vietnamese are very hard on mixed race kids, especially if they have African American blood. It was great to see Hines Ward from the Steelers and UGA go to Korea after he was Superbowl MVP and meet with Amerasian kids and try to get that culture to make some movement toward acceptance.

Speaking of Asian-American athletes, Tiger Woods is half-African-American, half Thai. Michelle Wie is Korean-American. Michelle Kwan is Chinese-American. Yao Ming (Houston Rockets) and several Asians in the major leagues are all Asian nationals. The co-founders of Yahoo and YouTube are both Asian-Americans.

Not a shooter among them.

Me, too. I do know the business end of a gun, taught by my father how to handle a .22 and taught by an uncle on a .44. Hubby’s shown me how to use a deer rifle. But I’ve never shot at anything except a target (except for that poor little bird with a BB gun when I was eleven).

And I’m Asian-Polynesian-Caucasian. I’d be far more worried about my dad’s martial arts than his use of a gun; after seeing him catch a trout with his bare hands, I’d hate to see him catch a thief unawares.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articl…..55,00.html

I served as a poll worker here in California in the last election. It’s not difficult to do a write in- and anyone can ask for a paper ballot if they don’t like the electronic method.

I’m not sure I understand this paper/electronic option we are being offered. Leading up to the last elections, there was protest/distrust about the elctronic voting machines, so they offered paper ballot option to voters. I don’t trust the machines, so I took a paper ballot. After voting, the poll worker took my paper ballot and ran it through an optical reader (scanner).

So what’s the difference? Pencil or stylus, on paper or touch screen, either way it runs through a black box to be counted; either way a vote can be flipped. Maybe senior citizens trust a pencil & paper, but I really don’t see any benefit from an honest vote standpoint.

And to add to my cynicism, the other day I was studying that GWB43.com WhoIs listing.

One of those companies from Chattanooga, registered to the GOP through SmarTech? They specialize in in optical scanning and paper-to-digital document conversion.

Paper, electronic, electoral college, SCOTUS or purple thumbs in Iraq…it’s all beginning to look like a game of Three Card Monty to me.

(sorry, I’d love to be proved wrong.)

Nuff about me, we gotta world to save out here!

Oh…there ya are. Cool.

katherine graham cracker @ 26

Tweety’s verision of the gun control question

“Everything is the Democrats fault.”

He also said that shooting up old cars with AK-47s was just benign fun. Somehow I don’t see this as much of an argument for permitting people to own AK-47s, but then again Matthews is an idiot.

Matthews has been one of the only mainstreamers who has been consistently challenging the neo-cons. He has been doing so ever since he realized that he was duped by the Bush administrations WMD lies as well as half of the American population. Matthews has asked some of the hardest, most challenging questions in regard to the endlessly repeated claims being made by the “cakewalk in Iraq” psychopaths about Iran’s “alleged” nuclear weapons program. (deja vu)

I have watched Matthews get so angry about these claims its as if steam is coming out of his ears and fire out of his nose. He is pissed about the lies that led our nation into a needless war based on false intelligence. I have heard him challenge Frum, Kristol and many others with hard driving and logical questions. He often refers to the right wing radicals as the “best and the brightest” in a very sarcastic tone.

He was one of the very first mainstreamers to go into Walter Reed to visit the injured soldiers. I believe his show broadcast for days out of Reed. It is obvious from his expressions that he is really moved, concerned and pissed off that these young lives have been so devastated by this ‘war of choice”

I may not agree with everything that Matthews says, but if you had really been listening to him over the last four years, you would have heard a shift and been witness to what I am saying about Matthews.

He has learned some of the lessons from the MSM’s failure to do their job by challenging the Bush administrations endless claims about WMD’s in Iraq in the run-up to the invasion.

Too bad that Matthews was not listening to the Diane Rehms show before the invasion he would have heard many of her guest (Brezinski, Ritter, General Zinni and many more question the intelligence, wisdom and need of pre-emptively invading Iraq.