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2003-01-22 Home Front

Hokey Smokes Bullwinkle!: Even Tom Friedman Gets it!

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Posted by Frank Martin 2003-01-22 11:27 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 joe lieberman and John edwards still see it he right way, We'll see where everyone else lines up after the 27th.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-01-22 14:49:54|| 2003-01-22 14:49:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, one man's tyrant is another man's...ah, hell. My forehead's looking funny these days from constantly hitting it on my keyboard.

Posted by seafarious 2003-01-22 12:50:57|| 2003-01-22 12:50:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Calif vs. Iraq oil: The amount of easily recoverable oil off the Calif coast is an order of magnitude less than the easily recoverable oil in Iraq. A current comparison of the ultimately recoverable oil in CA vs. Iraq is not really doable because different exploration patterns were used for these two reservoirs. Also, natural gas reserves off the CA coast are easily brought to consuption markets but this is not the case in Iraq which has far more natural gas than can be sold (unless new pipelines are constructed)

Posted by mhw 2003-01-22 13:21:24|| 2003-01-22 13:21:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."

Don't mean to get off topic, but I did. 5 years ago, Irvine California. Parked a red rental under a tree at night on the street. Buzzards crapped all over it. It was awful!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-01-22 16:45:08|| 2003-01-22 16:45:08|| Front Page Top

#5 A year ago Friedman was still talking solely to liberal/transnational progressive elites here at home and abroad. Then he started talking to real people who voiced the frustration of living under an oppressive regime like that in Egypt. Then he started talking to common folks and finally grasped that the Syrian, Iranian, and Iraqi leaderships are corrupt and despised. Took some time, but heâs learning.

Posted by Mike Cakora 2003-01-22 18:30:53|| 2003-01-22 18:30:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I did it first. In 1980 I rented a car to go camping in the New Mexico desert. After a week it was so filthy, I washed it at a DIY place so I wouldn't get dirty every time I brushed against it.
Come to think of it, that could make a good analogy for US relationships with so many Muslim countries -- the people have no ownership stake, the countries have become filthy, and the dirt is rubbing off on US!

Posted by Tresho 2003-01-22 19:23:58|| 2003-01-22 19:23:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Friedman's typically 2/3rds conventional wisdom and 1/3 anti-idiotarian. The last third snuck out.

Posted by Mark Byron 2003-01-22 21:08:55|| [markbyron.blogspot.com] 2003-01-22 21:08:55|| Front Page Top

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