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To: Road Walker who wrote (516767)	9/28/2009 4:33:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577295

RW, > What do you want to do? Cut benefits to the poor? Unify the budget, for starters. The SS "trust fund" is a complete myth. All it consists of are a bunch of self-issued IOUs. As money is "withdrawn" from the "trust fund," the IOUs will have to be sold to creditors. And that's in addition to the trillions of new debt Obama wants to accumulate over the next 10 years. Once the accounting is taken care of, we can find honest ways to fund whatever benefits we want to preserve to those who need it the most. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (516767)	9/28/2009 4:36:53 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577295

This is a true story and now a book and movie. During the 1970s, the military attempted to get soldiers to burst the hearts of goats with their minds. We could afford millions for this insane garbage but we can't afford to provide health insurance for the entire population. Please explain it to me.....I just don't get it. Colbert tries to burst goat's heart with mind Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert attempted to utilize a 1979 U.S. military document called "The First Earth Battalion Manual," that strives to give soldiers "super human powers" to do things like kill goats with their minds. Alongside Colbert Thursday night was Jon Ronson, the British author of "The Men Who Stare at Goats," which details a secret U.S. Army unit that used the directive to teach soldiers to tap into their psychic abilities. The manual, Colbert reports, "promised to train soldiers to predict future events, read other people's thoughts, stop their own hearts, even bend spoons with their minds." "How are you going to eat your hummus now Al Qaeda?," Colbert says. "Your spoon's all bent. Advantage: America!" On Colbert's show, Ronson discusses a military "goat lab" at Fort Bragg, where soldiers tried to burst goat hearts by staring at them. As Colbert notes: "So, why stare at them? It seems to me we've had the technology to burst goat hearts for a long time." The military, according to Ronson, tried lining up 30 goats in a room to test their ability to stare goats to death. Alas, Ronson says "at one point the goat starer was staring at number 16, and goat number 17 fell over and died. I guess that's collateral damage." A 2005 book review in The New York Times praised Ronson's non-fiction book, but the folks at Wired.com reported in 2007 that the goats at Fort Bragg are used to train medics, rather than psychics. Colbert failed to kill the goat with the powers of his mind, but George Clooney will try the same tactics in the big-screen version of Ronson's book: The film version of "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is set to be released November 6. ---David Edwards and Kathleen Miller rawstory.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (516767)	9/28/2009 8:32:31 PM
From: Jim McMannis	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1577295

Comprende ahora? Message 25977836

To: Road Walker who wrote (516767)	9/29/2009 12:37:20 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577295

Sue Hutchinson is running for King County Executive. She's a witch AND a Republican. In 2008, she helped get the County Ex race made non partisan so she would have a chance at winning. In the earlier part of this decade, she was a tv anchor but got her hands slapped when she called in sick one weekend so she could go skiing. Not happy about getting her hands slapped she accused the station manager and the news director of having an affair. As it turns out, the news director was a lesbian, did not take kindly to being accused of having an affair with a man, and the whole thing exploded in Hutchinson's face. She ended up getting fired. And then turned around and sued for discrimination....they settled out of court to get rid of the witch. Now she wants to run King County as a non partisan. I am only pointing to this all out to you to let you know that the Rs are no less slimier up here. Ex-Seattle TV anchor stresses 'nonpartisan' label How does a conservative get elected in famously liberal Seattle? Stripping party labels off the ballot and declining to call yourself a Republican is a good place to start. Having great name recognition as a longtime television news anchor doesn't hurt, either. seattletimes.nwsource.com