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Posted on 03/24/2006 5:11:37 PM PST by Phsstpok
Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page
- Meme:
- The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
- Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
- Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
- The paleocons and country club Republicans have turned their back on Bush (the Nixon wing of the party tries to rise again)
- Topics:
- 'Civil War'? - Tune in this weekend for a discussion of Iraq and Harvard professors' campaign against Israel. (Opinion Journal web site promo)
- Is Iraq really headed toward civil war? An interview with Reuel Marc Gerecht, an expert on the Shiites in Iraq. (Opinion Journal web site promo)
- Plus, the politics of Iraq in the U.S., and professors at Harvard and Chicago claim the "Israel Lobby" dictates U.S. foreign policy (Opinion Journal web site promo)
- Is sectarian violence in Iraq approaching all-out civil war? (FNC web site promo)
- Plus, is negative media coverage making defeat in Iraq more likely? (FNC web site promo)
- Guests
- Reuel Marc Gerecht
- yet another ex-CIA type who used to support the war but now thinks the Bush administration is incompetent
- Journal Editorial Report (at Fox News) contact information - jer@foxnews.com
- The program is from The Wall Street Journal and airs on FOX News Channel Saturday at 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and again Sunday at 6 a.m.
The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondracke, Fred Barnes)
- Meme:
- Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
- Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
- But those folks in Hollywood really are nuts
- Topics:
- President Bush pressures Iraqis to form a permanent government as support for war begins to fade
- And, Congress gets ready to act on immigration reform
- Plus, actor Charlie Sheen joins chorus who think 9/11 was hoax
- Beltway Boys contact information beltway@foxnews.com
- The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
- Meme:
- Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
- Topics:
- The pres. vs. the press: Is there any objectivity left in the White House briefing room?
- Did media coverage keep sex-pot teacher Debra LaFave out of jail?
- Hillary's hubby's headlines
- The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET and Sundays at 2:30 a.m. ET
- Fox News Watch contact information Newswatch@foxnews.com
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
- Meme:
- It's not all over in Iraq, but it's close
- Bush must force the Iraqi's to take over, this Tuesday, if not sooner
- Topics:
- Guests
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
- did you know that she has hit 12 gazillion countries in the last 48 hours and no one in the MSM mentioned it?
- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
- Carl is greatly saddened that the Bush administration is so incompetent
- he went over to Iraq and he told the Iraqis that they must form a government now, no foolin - Bush hasn't done that, you know
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
CNBC'S TIM RUSSERT SHOW (Tim Russert)
- Meme:
- "A review in Sunday's New York Times said the book may be 'the most alarming analysis of where we are and where we may be going to have appeared in many years.'"
- The paleocons and country club Republicans have turned their back on Bush (the Nixon wing of the party tries to rise again)
- Topics:
- Guests
- Kevin Phillips
- OK, Mike Wallace was a bust last week and the guys the week before were so bad we had to drop that show down the memory hole, but THIS guy is gold!
NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)
- Meme:
- Bush has lost in Iraq, it's all over
- The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
- Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
- Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
- Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
- Topics:
- Iraq, Iran, and U.S. foreign policy.
- Extended comments at MTP web site, including:
- the future of the U.S. role in Iraq
- continuing tensions over a nuclear ambitious Iran
- will Bush's low poll numbers spell trouble for Republicans in November?
- What is the outlook for the remainder of the President's term in office?
- Guests
- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
- did you know that she has hit 12 gazillion countries in the last 48 hours and no one in the MSM mentioned it?
- David Broder (roundtable)
- thinks he's the smartest man in Washington
- knows he's smarter than anyone in the Bush administration
- Elisabeth Bumiller (roundtable)
- thinks Broder is right about being the smartest MAN in Washington
- knows she's smarter than Broder, therefore she's lots smarter than anyone in the Bush administration
- plans on taking a year off from the NY Times to write a
hit piece book about Condoleezza Rice prior to the 2008 campaign, but it's not to help Hillary, nooooooooo.....
- Charlie Cook (roundtable)
- a "non-partisan" political analyst who the Democrats love
- John Harwood (roundtable)
- hopes to live up to David Gregory's high expectations now that he works for CNBC
- Has been one of the "good liberal" reporters at the Wall Street Journal, not one of the "bad conservative" editorialists
- What would you like to ask this week's guests? (web page for submitting questions for this weeks show)
- Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)
- Meet the Press links (background and related stories for this weeks show from show web site)
CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
- Meme:
- The White House is racist because they want to demonize all immigrants
- Teddy and his friends need illegal immigrants as servants because they don't want to have to pay the minimum wage, taxes or benefits and definitely not health care costs, those are for the little people
- Topics:
- Iraq War, Iran, Immigration
- Guests
- Sen. Edward Kennedy D-Massachusetts
- Teddy floats onto the stage
- they must be desperate if they let him go out to the Sunday shows
- Stephen Hadley White House National Security Adviser
- Hadley is one of the prime targets of the "they must resign" campaign, right behind Rumsfeld
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
- Meme:
- The White House is racist because they want to demonize all immigrants
- There are good Republicans (Specter) and bad Republicans (Tancredo)
- Global warming is too real and we're all doomed, even Western governors know it (pay no attention to the fact that he's a Democrat)
- Bush has lost in Iraq, it's all over
- The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
- Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
- Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
- Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
- Topics:
- In a Sunday exclusive, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., square off on immigration reform just days before the issue explodes on Capitol Hill.
- George travels to Montana's Glacier National Park with the state's Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, to see firsthand how warmer temperatures have melted the glaciers and to learn how Schweitzer confronts global warming.
- Guests
- Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
- we must make illegal immigration a felony... wait, you're talking about the Irish now? Well, that's different
- George Bush broke Scottish law by not getting
Arlen's every senators permission before listening in on the terrorist's phone calls - when listening legally to a terrorists phone calls overseas, if the NSA realizes that the terrorist has called somebody in the US, they must stop listening immediately, even if they did hear the words "nuclear" and/or "bomb"
- Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
- they will be looking carefully for his horns and tail
- Fareed Zakaria (roundtable)
- The war is not lost, but he could have run the war better than anybody in this White House, in fact...
- Katrina vanden Heuvel (roundtable)
- Katrina hates the Bush family
- George Will. (roundtable)
- George really hates the Bush family
- ABC This Week comment web page
CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
- Meme:
- Bush has lost in Iraq, it's all over
- The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
- Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
- Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
- Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
- Topics:
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gives us perspective on Iraq. How will the government control the violent insurgency?
- Guests
- Condoleezza Rice: U.S. secretary of state
- did you know that she has hit 12 gazillion
countries in the last 48 5 hours and no one in the MSM will edit the hell out of what she said mentioned it?
- Retired Gen. Bernard Trainor: U.S. Marine Corps, author: "COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq"
- two weeks ago he didn't give Timmy the expected answers bashing the Bush administration, Wolf will give him a second chance
- Retired Gen. George Joulwan: U.S. Army, former NATO supreme allied commander
- just in case Trainor hasn't learned his lesson they have a second retired general and this one has been reliably critical in the past, hasn't he?
- He's an Ayrab, you know, they must hate George Bush, and if not we can make his scary
- Sen. Pat Roberts: R-Kansas, Select Intelligence Committee chairman, Armed Services Committee
- Pat Roberts said all of those crazy things about assassinating Hugo Chavez... what... oh... never mind
- Senator Pat Roberts has been covering up for the Bush administration, that's why CNN trusts Senator Specter to investigate the NSA (which he's not cleared to know about)
- Sen. Jack Reed: D-Rhode Island, Armed Services Committee
- Senator Reed didn't do so good on ABC This Week last Sunday, this is his
do over opportunity to revise and extend his remarks
- Qubad Talabany: representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government to the United States
- Who? Haven't got a clue, but the name sounds like "Taliban" so let's have him on and scare people about all of them Ayrabs... what... oh... never mind
- CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
This is NOT intended to be the live Sunday Morning Talk Show thread. I trust AB will do that as usual. This is strictly a preview of who will be on the main shows. The idea is to give folks a chance to muster their resources for that thread. I would particularly ask that anyone with specific knowledge or resources about the topics / guests announced for these shows post them here so that the rest of us can go into the shows with a heads up on what to look for.
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These are links to recent articles by or about this weeks guests that I think might give a clue as to why they have been invited on this week's shows
- David Broder (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
- Elisabeth Bumiller (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
- Charlie Cook (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
- Reuel Marc Gerecht (Journal Editorial Report)
- Stephen Hadley White House National Security Adviser (CBS Face The Nation)
- John Harwood (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
- Katrina vanden Heuvel (ABC This Week roundtable)
- Retired Gen. George Joulwan: U.S. Army (CNN Late Edition)
- Sen. Edward Kennedy D-Massachusetts (CBS Face The Nation)
- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. (Fox News Sunday)
- Kevin Phillips (CNBC'S TIM RUSSERT SHOW)
- Sen. Jack Reed: D-Rhode Island (CNN Late Edition)
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Fox News Sunday, NBC Meet The Press, CNN Late Edition)
- Sen. Pat Roberts: R-Kansas (CNN Late Edition)
- Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. (ABC This Week)
- Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. (ABC This Week)
- Qubad Talabany (CNN Late Edition)
- George Will (ABC This Week roundtable)
- Retired Gen. Bernard Trainor: U.S. Marine Corps (CNN Late Edition)
- Fareed Zakaria (ABC This Week roundtable)
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:11:47 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
PingThe Weekend Preview Thread is up
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The most interesting guest to me is Condi Rice. How badly will they edit the interviews when they show the clips on the news?
The dominant meme appears to be that Bush has failed in Iraq, the GOP is running away from him, but Bush is so unpopular that the Republicans are doomed in November anyway. And the Bush administration/conservatives/fascists/blogs are trying to blame the messenger for the bad news out of Iraq, but they're just doing their jobs and they never get anything wrong.
I will probably still be light on this and the Sunday thread. I'm still having trouble with my eyes. I've moved up my appointment with my surgeon to this Saturday, the 25th, instead of waiting for the 8th. I'm hoping that he can help me so that I can function with just the right eye till it's time to try to fit some correction to the left eye. I'm really hoping that he's not going to tell me that the keratoconus is advancing rapidly and that's why I can't focus and read with that eye. AND THE SOAP OPERA CONTINUES
You think you're tired of this? Imagine how my boss feels? Imagine how I feel? I really don't want to have to offer lame excuses anymore.
I count on others to carry the load again this week. I shall return... I hope...!
on a separate note, may I recommend this thread to anyone who hasn't seen it:
This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for
Free Republic ^
Posted on 03/23/2006 10:03:45 PM CST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 03/24/2006 1:31:56 PM CST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Now hear this:
Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.
That is all.
The above exercise was just a drill. But if John McCain has his way with his proposed rules for regulating political free speech on the internet, this is how we will be forced to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.
Carthago delenda est
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:17:21 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: Phsstpok
One, don't you Ever sleep? (Thinking of which, how are you? Hope your eyesight is healing and that may be so judging from your post.)
Two. How DO you DO this? Thanks for the information but I remain amazed with your ability to put all of this together so well, so quickly.
Three. Thank you for the heads up. I missed it last weekend and appreciate the ping this evening.
Morgan
To: Phsstpok
Who knows what the Republicans in DC are thinking. For the most part, those guys are too out to lunch for most Republicans in Red State America.
From a sales standpoint, it's a valid tactic to get the buyer to commit to a position. For example, when a buyer says the price is too high the salesman will ask if this is the only objection preventing him from buying? In other words, if the price were lower would you buy then, or is there another reason to not buy? Once the prospect buys into the one single objection, the salesman has the opportunity to overcome it and close the sale. If the buyer fails to buy once the bought-into objection is resolved, the buyer is exposed to the lie of his original objection.
The same way, Democrats make claims and we have to hold them accountable for their positions or the current Bush Lied De Jur. Republicans have not held Harry Reid and other Democrats accountable for their past accusiatons, and they now believe they can make claims without responsibility. IF this is a procedure to make Democrats accountable, great. If not, it will further alienate Republicans from our DC leadership.
To: Morgan in Denver; Phsstpok
Yeah, what Morgan said...
Please take care of yourself...
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:06:31 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
To: Phsstpok; Morgan in Denver
I heard Chris Wallace on with Mike Gallagher this morning, and he said one thing he would tackle with Condi is the Muslim in Afghanistan, Mr. Rahman, that is supposed to be given the death penalty for being a Christian..
So....that subject could be hit by all of the Sunday Hosts...
Also...like you pointed out, the immigration reform will be hugh.
But, Levin just got back from Iraq, so we know he will talk about how AWFUL it is over there.
I wish this internet campaign bill that is supposed to be voted on...Jeb Hensarling in the House has the GOOD one...would come up as a subject, because it really affects we freepers..
PLUS, I am tired of hearing how "Bush lied, people died"...unless they want to give equal time to the documents that have shown just how much interaction there was between Saddam and Bin Ladin..
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:13:38 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
To: Txsleuth
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:19:50 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: Phsstpok
I see immigration being a WH v. Congress issue more than a DEM v. GOP issue, where the WH wants some form of guest worker program, but (a majority of) Congress seems to not. The DEMs in Congress are more likely to take the President's side on immigration.
The Afghani Christian may be a point of discussion, as a Bush "failure" in that "we" installed the government that isn't up in arms about the prospect of executing a person due to his conversion from Islam to Christianity. Note that the WH will be asking Congress for $$$ for Afghanistan activities, later this week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will be hitting on the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program in hearings again this coming week (Tuesday), and Feingold's censure resolution on Friday. In that vein, I expect a meme on the order of "Bush is a lawbreaker."
As you point out, Iraq and predictions of impending doom there is nearly a certainty, these days.
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posted on
03/24/2006 6:35:01 PM PST
by
Cboldt
To: Phsstpok
An amazing assemblage of documentation, Phsstpok. I am in awe!
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:30:51 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Never argue with a man who buys ammo in bulk...)
To: Phsstpok
I sure don't know what Fox News Sunday is thinking lately...last week they had Durbin and no Rep. Senator to balance him...
This week, they have Levin, with no Republican Senator to balance him...
I am gonna complain now...looks like a trend that I don't like...
It would be different if every other week they had a single Rep.
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posted on
03/24/2006 7:53:42 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
To: rockrr
I want the wife of the soldier who just returned from Iraq - Cavuto had her on Thursday (?) ---- her husband can be there also (just kidding). That was a great interview and FoxNews owes it to us for sticking by them, to have a full program interview with them, - even tho FoxNews have really let us down!!
Other than that - it will just be the same o same o junk.
Fire Rumsfeld - they now realize they can't fire Cheney!
Bush has failed! Civil war! When will we withdraw! on and on!!!
I will watch, however, because keeping up with their crap is important to me.
President Bush says --- If you are not with us you are against us! Well, I know where the media and the Democrats stand. They want failure and it does not matter how many lives are lost.
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posted on
03/24/2006 9:05:21 PM PST
by
malia
(The Democrats .... Retreat and Defeat!! The Media ....no reporting just commentary)
To: Phsstpok
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posted on
03/25/2006 3:31:07 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(To Dems: Communism has been tried repeatedly and it doesn't work.- Freeper Lizma)
To: Txsleuth
Notice ZERO coverage of the FEC rules restricting Free Speech. Notice no coverage of the creeping regulation of the 'net
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posted on
03/25/2006 3:42:07 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(To Dems: Communism has been tried repeatedly and it doesn't work.- Freeper Lizma)
To: Txsleuth
Good morning Txsleuth. No response last evening because I got off. My nighttime hours on FR are limited. Sorry.
I'm tired of all the Bush Lied crowd as well. I guess it gets old after six years of constant harping. The Democrats are saying "give us a chance and we'll do better with Iraq" but they have no plan and everything they say they would do is being done.
Finegold, Senator Soupy Sales, is at least consistant. He's been against the war from the start.
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
Here is Mark Kilmer's brief preview from
RedState.COM
Who is on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics |
For Sunday, March 26, 2006 Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert spends his time with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace spends his time with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (We also Carl Levin as a bonus.) Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will chat with... oh, gawd... Ted Kennedy. He'll also have on National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, so Ted won't have time to contribue too many greenhouse gases, melting the polar shelf or whatever. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos has Tom Tancredo and Alren Specter on to swap immigration plans. Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to Rice, plus he'll have Pat Roberts square off against Jack Reed. ~~~~~ Secretary Rice. This is part of the White House offensive on Iraq, as is Hadley. Why Levin (FNS) and Ted (FTN)? Perhaps the Dems' A-squad of articulation was busy This would explain Reed, as well. Steph, in search of a viewer or two, is going a different route this weekend, and immigration is a big deal at the moment. I doubt Snarlin' Arlen will buy into a proposal to build a giant dungeon under Colorado's Elbert County to House the illegal aliens who aren't shot, but the discussion might be interesting. I will post the review of these shows by 2p ET Sunday afternoon. |
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I find it bizarre that even someone like Kilmer from a conservative blog finds it necessary to imply that Tancredo wants to either shoot or throw all immigrants into some sort of dungeon. This could be a defining moment for him with a chance to break past the caricatures... or not.
RedState has been very low volume today because of the WaPo conservative blog scandal involving one of their founders apparent acts of plagerism. They happened when he was 17 to 21, but he's only in his mid 20s now, so it's pretty damaging. He's resigned from the WaPo blog and will probably have to start all over again to build a whole new career.
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posted on
03/25/2006 3:07:54 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: Phsstpok
Sorry I havn't been around much...staying with my daughter this weekend...but appreciate the updates.
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posted on
03/25/2006 4:13:57 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
To: Phsstpok
Oh my goodness...I just realized that Memphis is playing right now...
I have to root for them now....since Texas lost.
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posted on
03/25/2006 4:17:13 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
To: Txsleuth
Well, since the Memphis Tigers don't seem to be able to find the net for love or money in the first quarter I'm really not too happy to watch this.
Did you know Bulletproof Monk is on FX?
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posted on
03/25/2006 4:26:53 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
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posted on
03/25/2006 5:00:12 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: Phsstpok
Excellent!! Thanks for all your hard work. Believe me, it is greatly appreciated.
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