tw3k @ 260

in the infamous word of McCain

bomb bomb bomb

i don’t think it’s inevitable

Nor do I. But we’re being conditioned to view the unthinkable as a rational possibility.

Analysis: Employment is a lagging idicator, and the big gains were in services. Retail & manufacturing employment declined. Finance industry employment declined less than it will in the future. Employment will weaken in coming months, but good for now.

thank you for telling us of your husbands memories and thoughts.

selise @ 263

i don’t think it’s inevitable

Listening to Philip Ghiraldi on http://www.antiwar.com/blog/20…..giraldi-7/ who sez that his contacts still in CIA say probability is 75-80%.

yeah, i’m not saying i don’t think there’s a big risk – i do.

I had a long phone conversation with the husband, who is on a stop on his trip back to NZ. He was at the Navy Sere (spelled right?) school in the late 60’s, I believe, and he was waterboarded there. He thinks that, rather than pontificating, the voting Senators and the Attny General nominee should volunteer to have the Navy “simulate” waterboarding them. They can be safe in the knowledge that they will not drown and that it is all supervised properly. There is no doubt in his mind that it is torture and he still has a shudder in his voice in recalling it after almost forty years.

(This is one of many things that he has never discussed much until now. He is filled with disgust that it is even debatable.)

My son (the ultimate whacko theory enthusiast) says the world ends in 2012. Gave me a list of supporting data.
I have a feeling that our pres believes this also.

yeah, I think the techtonics plates will flip in 2012 :D

SunnyNobility @ 258

Once again, the inevitability message.

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“Their presence may coincide with a crucial period in the West’s confrontation with Iran.

Observers believe that the spring is the last possible moment for President George W Bush to order military strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme. The imminence of America’s presidential election may make it impossible for Washington to carry out an attack any later.”