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War in Iraq: Not Over Yet!
In case you'd been holding your breath:
In an ominous sign for the Democratic legislative campaign to end the war in Iraq, the Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution that would have required President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. combat troops within 120 days after it was enacted.
Two Democrats joined one independent and all but one Republican to reject the measure, 50 to 48, marking the third time in the last six weeks that an antiwar resolution has foundered in the closely divided Senate.
|3.16.07 @ 3:14PM|#
sage,
Are you implying that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror?
How totally retro-neocon of you. Happy Paddy Day.
VM|3.16.07 @ 3:21PM|#
Brian Doherty
check out the thread that's below
the one on warming
Sage started it all
with a silly haiku verse
now it's all the rage
VM|3.16.07 @ 3:49PM|#
Good thing that welfare
exists for haiku number
he gets free handout
As long as Iraq
is linked to war on terror
it will never end
|3.16.07 @ 3:58PM|#
"Sage started it all
with a silly haiku verse
now it's all the rage"
By definition
The last line in a Haiku
That is not your dog
|3.16.07 @ 4:08PM|#
The vote on the resolution was 48-50. However, if you assign
each Senator 1/2 of his state's population, the vote was
approximately 147,700,000 yea - 114,100,000 nay (using 2000 Census
figures).
That's 56.5% yeah, 43.5% nay.
I wonder what it would look like to break down yea,nay votes by
adding up the total votes that when to each Senator the last time
they ran.
|3.16.07 @ 4:14PM|#
Haiku Form:
English-Language haiku is incorrectly said to have a prescribed
form, three lines of 5-7-5 syllables and a seasonal reference.
However, there is a great deal of debate about the form of English
haiku and few agree that the 5-7-5 season reference form is the
only acceptable form.
What then is the form of a haiku? Some of the critical aspects of
haiku form that have been mentioned are:
brevity [one to three lines totaling 17 syllables or less]
three lines -- some would insist of 5-7-5 syllable structure, some
suggest a structure of three lines with 5 or less, 7 or less, 5 or
less syllables.
when read aloud, can be completed in one breadth
avoidance of traditional English poetic forms, such as rhyming and
metaphor.
JUXTAPOSITION … TWO ELEMENTS OR LINES OF THE HAIKU INDIRECTLY
RELATE TO A THIRD.
descriptiveness ... haiku describe, they don't prescribe or
tell.
ed|3.16.07 @ 4:23PM|#
Must stop must stop must
stop must stop must stop must stop
must stop must stop now.
Gene Berkman|3.16.07 @ 7:54PM|#
It is noteworthy that Sen. Hagel voted against the resolution to
start winding down the war. Not really much of an "antiwar
Republican."
Antiwar conservatives and libertarians really have only one choice
in the Republican primaries - Ron Paul.
|3.17.07 @ 1:13PM|#
poetry police...up against the virtual wall...assume your (previously staked out) position
edna|3.18.07 @ 12:54PM|#
the problem is not
the democrats' politics,
it's the enemy.
radical islam
has become the mainstream creed
in too many states.
the first people that
will lose their heads to a sword
are the kindly libs.
joe dies protesting
that he supported their right
to kill their own kind.
little did he know
that their ambition extends
beyond killing jews.
too late that we learn
their religion is a threat
if you don't believe.
i'm an atheist
which makes me an attractive
try for a two-fer.
for killing a jew
who is also atheist
paradise awaits.
|3.19.07 @ 10:21AM|#
edna,
You can come out of the safe room. "Radical Islamists" aren't going
to be taking over the United States any time soon.
Bedwetters.
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