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    Where is Torrid? He needs to rally the troops. We need summore of the blaming Bush stuff, there is no hilarity in the reponse with that.

     

    Where is all the "Al Qaeida exists because of Bush" stuff, or "it happened during Bush's administration". I mean, step up already, demonstrate that time-tested unwillingness to learn from histtory DAMB YOU!!!! :dunno:

     

    I'll try:

     

    If anything is to blame for 9/11 (other than blaming the terrorists) I think it's the short-sighted foreign policy of forming allegiances with regimes like Iraq and then attempting to "democratize" them when it blows up in our face. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc. supported bin Laden and Saddam Hussein back in the 80s. Now it's blowing up in their face. The worst part is their solution to the mess they created is to bomb and then occupy Iraq. For years, al Qaida has been saying that the U.S. will invade their holy lands and regions full of oil reserves. So what does Bush etc. do after 9/11? How about validating everything bin Laden has been saying for years?

     

    Nobody took terrorism seriously enough and I'm not giving Bill Clinton a pass by any stretch. But to act like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz etc. are cleaning up Clinton's mess is laughable. They played a direct role in creating the problem and they continue to make it worse while their buddies in the oil industry and military contractors reap the benefits. Naturally, none of these hawks in the administration have any combat experience but they all know better than their own men and women on the ground.

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    I'm going to see them one month from tomorrow. After a beer festival.

     

    Let me know how they are. An ex-GF and me bought tix to see them at the Troc years ago, then got utterly smashed and horny while the opening act was playing and left to go fock. So the night wasn't an entire loss, but I wish I'd seen them.

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    I thought the economy was doing pretty well. There might be a slight downturn soon, but overall the figures look decent. :cheers:

     

    Job growth - Strong -- but not too strong -- growth.

    Manufacturing (ISM) - Surprise decline in August

    Consumer confidence - August reading lowest since November

    Leading indicators - Point to slowing economy.

    Inflation (CPI) - Price gains moderating.

    Industrial output - Suggests hot economy may be cooling

    Retail sales - Surpringly strong growth

     

    ETA: http://money.cnn.com/news/economy/

     

    My apologies - I meant their out of control deficit spending.

  20. Posted

    Well since this thread is all sensitive and stuff ...

     

    I need to date someone who's smart and someone who shares my interests - reading, movies, follows the news. I think it's really weird when people just don't read. :thumbsup: I can do without dating someone who's into sports, I'd rather watch the game w/ my guy friends anyway, but I've dated girls who don't just not like sports - they think they're stupid and almost look down on people who like them. I'm not having that anymore.

     

    It's also really important to me to date someone who has her own life. I need a lot of personal time and space and can't stand it when someone calls me everyday. It helps if whoever I'm dating and I can do things together without interrupting each other, like if I bring work home or I'm cooking or whatever she can read or watch TV, do her thing. We're together but not up each other's asses.

     

    I don't have to date a model but she's got to be cute. And I think sexually chemistry is just something you have or don't have. I've been in relationships with girls who just aren't into experimenting or want sex more/less than I do, whatever. I think either you naturally are compatible in bed or you're not, and I wouldn't waste my time w/ someone if we weren't.

     

    I'd never have said this 5-10 years ago but I couldn't date someone who doesn't get along with my friends and family.

     

    There may be one more.

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