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| Teresa sez "No blood for oil!" |
| 2004-10-11 |
| The wife of presidential candidate John Kerry told a receptive audience in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas that Kerry would seek out all other options before going to war. "John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil," Teresa Heinz Kerry told about 1,200 supporters at the McAllen Civic Center. She said her husband, as president, would be able to approach the families of slain soldiers and say, "'I did everything I could to prevent this, I'm sorry.' " She spoke for about an hour and was interrupted frequently by applause and cheering, The (McAllen) Monitor reported in its Monday editions. Earlier, Heinz Kerry attended a $1,000-a-head private fund-raiser at the McAllen home of developer Alonzo Cantu. It was not immediately clear how much the event raised. Speaking at the rally, Heinz Kerry criticized President Bush's working relationships with other nations. "Diplomacy is not about, `I'm telling you.' Diplomacy is about, `what do you think?'" Heinz Kerry said. "If you cannot have respect for the other side, you cannot have diplomacy." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #24 If it's blood for oil, how come I paid $2 bucks a gallon today, Tharassa |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-10-11 11:32:08 PM |
| #23 Great minds do so think alike, don't they, Mike? |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2004-10-11 10:08:00 PM |
| #22 Sgt Mom: "How cunning is it?" *"It's so cunning that it could be a Professor of cunning at Oxford!" *"It's so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a fox!" *"It's so cunning you could brush your teeth with it!" Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-10-11 9:46:56 PM |
| #21 Oh, good. I was thinking I was the only one flashing on "Blackadder" every time I heard the words " I have a (cunning) plan!" |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2004-10-11 8:20:57 PM |
| #20 Kerry has a plan? I think over on LGF they're calling him the Baldric candidate. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-10-11 6:22:20 PM |
| #19 Ketchup for oil? |
| Posted by: A. Bungfodder 2004-10-11 5:53:14 PM |
| #18 What about 'Blood for Ketchup'? |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-11 4:14:15 PM |
| #17 Tah-ray-zah is secure in knowing that she and the rest of her family can outbid almost anyone at the gas pumps except for the likes of Bill Gates. "Let them eat cake." |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-11 2:30:46 PM |
| #16 Aw come on. Maybe the poor guys just trying to paraphrase Joni Mitchell from the Song Woodstock. "we have to get our selves back to the garden. Or Maybe REM ... "Stand in the place where you were, think about it" Ok..as my better half says, Jim, you are a smart-ass. |
| Posted by: Jim K 2004-10-11 2:24:49 PM |
| #15 I think I have an analogous perspective on Kerry vs Bush, using my own skills as a computer DBA who works with Relational Databases. Nightly I run a job which extracts YTD sales dollars through the previous days. In doing this I need to access 14 different tables. In the Kerry system I try to do all the upates at one time in one program using say 2500 seconds of CPU time. It gets the job done in some cases and when it doesn't it susbstitutes new terminology such as the old GOTO’s are replaced with GOING GOING GONE. This produces completely random branches and is equivalent to the effect of ten GOTO’s. Or in the case when there is no answer available the Kerry system will produce random answers based on new commands such as DON’T DO WHILE NOT, DIDN’T DO, CAN’T DO, WON’T DO, and MIGHT DO. In the Bush system rather than running all the updates in one gigantic query, the Bush system uses logical steps taken one at a time independent of each other to produce a more efficient end product getting the job done correctly, so nothing is missed. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-10-11 2:20:16 PM |
| #14 CL, that upper middle-class "town hall" assembly was slumming for Kerry. Has anyone noticed that of the four men on the ticket this November, the one with the smallest net worth is... Bush? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-11 1:07:54 PM |
| #13 Talk about labelling, how do you look around a crowded room full of Americans and grandly pronounce that not a one of their households makes more than 200K bar his, the President's and the moderator's? What a smug, out of touch jerk. Does Kerry actually know and associate with any small business owners? You know the kind, the ones that create most of the new jobs. The ones that don't shuttle between Sun Valley and Nantucket. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-10-11 12:42:09 PM |
| #12 Well there is that "little people" / "Do you know who I am?" thing (he hates labels, except when he's tossing them about) that we have to swallow... Then we'll be good to go, lex. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-11 12:21:27 PM |
| #11 Call him Verbal. The man with the plan. |
| Posted by: Usual Suspects 2004-10-11 12:19:55 PM |
| #10 OK, so Luvvy and Thurston fly around in a Gulfstream and drive gas guzzling SUVs, and they're lecturing us about oil dependence?! |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-11 12:19:17 PM |
| #9 Phil - No, no - he has a plan. No new drilling. No new refining capacity. None of that nasty icky stuff will be required. Don't worry - he's got a plan. A clean plan. A better plan. Sensitive. Responsive to environmental concerns. Dolphin-safe. Child-safe. GAIA-approved. Back to the trees. Of course, he'll keep Tarayzah's private jet, but otherwise, it's back to the trees. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-11 12:19:00 PM |
| #8 Well, I thought I'd ask, again... what's Kerry's and Tah-ray-zah's feelings on drilling for oil in this country? You know, so we don't wind up doing the "blood for oil" thing? |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-10-11 12:13:19 PM |
| #7 Get this straight, you imbecilic twat: the true blood for oil policy was that of France and Russia, who were signing multi-billion oil deals with a man who was slaughtering thousands of his citizens every month. To make it crystal clear for you, again, the deal was massive oil contracts for TotalFinaElf, LUKoil etc in exchange for the blood of Saddam's victims. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-11 12:06:18 PM |
| #6 Mary Lincoln was a piece of work, too... but then she had zero effect on Abe's policy-making - per Abe, anyway. Tarayzah is a loonie. And Punkin' think's she's just swell. Skeery. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-11 12:05:31 PM |
| #5 . . . a confused weak-minded conspiracy theorist, too. Would that be a first for First Lady? Nope. Remember Hillary and her "vast right-wing conspiracy?" |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-11 12:01:35 PM |
| #4 Whew .com. Is that all one sentence? And on a monday morning too..... Sorry Teresa, I dont have any respect for the terrorists who deliberatly target, rape, and murder, innocent children (or as you call them Teresa 'piggies'). They need to be killed. And killed dead. Some cancers have to be cut out. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-11 12:00:29 PM |
| #3 Totally clueless cue ball - never made it out of her oral-fixated adolescence / daddy complex fantasies and still peddling the mindless 60's mantras of her long lost youth as timeless memes. Amazing. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-11 11:09:43 AM |
| #2 Well teresa, aussies gave you their answer yesterday. Go Bush, Go! |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-10-11 11:06:12 AM |
| #1 Oooh. She's a confused weak-minded conspiracy theorist, too. Would that be a first for First Lady? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-10-11 11:02:00 AM |