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Recent content by poretz

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    Did the CIA “Out” Valerie Plame?

    Rove isn't the only one in question you know: Scooter Libby (and by implication VP Cheney), could also explain her keeping quite if they didn't give the same release for her to speak openly about her "source".
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    CEO Payouts: Problems and Solutions

    I'm thinking it makes sense, and agree it should be stopped. I actually used to be quite close friends with a CEO that was getting paid over 15x his manager and even more so than his average line employee. I worked close to the numbers and watched how the more the company made the more he and...
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    Remembrances: Dr. Yasser Salihee, Translator and Friend

    I should also note that this dear brother and his family are not the only casualties of this terrible act. One should not also forget that the soldier who pulled that trigger could invariably wind up being similar to this soldier who after coming home was so traumatized from his experience...
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    CEO Payouts: Problems and Solutions

    I found this enlightening but not a surprise:
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    Remembrances: Dr. Yasser Salihee, Translator and Friend

    Dear and precious brother your love and contributions were not in vain, and will never be forgotten. [/i]
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    browsed the neighborhood, stalked, and killed

    What about the question of enabling complicity? You're right, first they should be investigated. But I wonder what kind of standards we would hold as evidence of either negligence, complicity, or culpibility??? This kind of accountability doesn't seem currently built into our culture or justice...
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    browsed the neighborhood, stalked, and killed

    Hmmm good question, but that wasn't what I suggested, though maybe it is implied without my intention. I merely suggested that the person holding the weapon and carrying out the actrocities was not alone in blame for what was already clearly an illegal act. Think of organized crime where there...
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    browsed the neighborhood, stalked, and killed

    So do you think the environment has no part in forming this "monster"? I'm thinking by focusing all our attention on the "monster" we provide an easy way out which I see ultimately leading to more of the same. Shouldn't an accounting of pathology be done? Otherwise "killing" him is no better...
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    browsed the neighborhood, stalked, and killed

    How about holding his family and community responsible too while we're at it. "These people don't just pop up out of nowhere".
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    Press Secratary: Scott McClellan caught in his own words.

    Don't forget "without any loss in pension"... :(
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    Drowning of Marine Recruit May Lead to Charges

    Thank you for helping find another link. I fixed the links to the NPR story, but it looks like they appear to require their original context to launch, so I just re-pointed all the links to the NPR page... I'm sorry I didn't realize they would break when I copied and pasted them from there...:(
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    15% Say US Would Be Safer Without Iraq War

    So I guess that fifteen percent represents those able to unblinkingly face reality, while the other fifty-two percent acknowledge the mess but remain hopeful that everything will work out, and those remaining just continue to hope for the best in their denial that there is no way what they see...
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    Drowning of Marine Recruit May Lead to Charges

    Support our troops? Support our troops? How in the world can anybody claim to offer unquestioned and blanket support to all our troops when within their ranks exists such a sick culture of sin and cruelty that can only explain the kind of abuse testified to by this story and video? Place this...
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    Make Poverty History!

    Suggestion: Go back and research why they didn't raise "ANY" money... Then "pray".
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    Make Poverty History!

    Actually I wouldn't encourage anyone give to those largest of organizations as the money still seems to be diverted into governmental bodies never to be seen again (Sri Lanka for example - six months and still no sign of governmental distribution of aid that was entrusted to it). If you would...
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