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Count me in if anyone can join. No doubt we will be practicing kinky, pagan rituals.

Someday that journalism professor is going to have students in his class who read FreeRepublic. The new media. And he thinks they don't question the status quo.

There is separation of church and state somewhere. I'm not sure where, but somewhere. And the church is not a political party in America. Citizens of America are proud to vote in elections even if they make the wrong choice. The pride stems from the voting itself. It is difficult enough to get to the polls from work, and amazing to think that religious people have the luxury to boycott voting.

There is separation of church and state somewhere. I'm not sure where, but somewhere. And the church is not a political party in America. Citizens of America are proud to vote in elections even if they make the wrong choice. The pride stems from the voting itself. It is difficult enough to get to the polls from work, and amazing to think that religious people have the luxury to boycott voting.

There are one-issue voters whose issue will always stop them,


I agree with you, and "we" are all Republicans or at least conservatives debating on FreeRepublic. There must be one stronger ideology that holds us together. Gee, I wonder what that is? Possibly something to do with responsibility no matter what our "issues" are! We are watching how Condi negotiates with misogynist leaders on the world stage. Let's see how she does.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Volkswagen has filed criminal charges against the makers of a short film involving the Polo, a small car the company sells in Europe, according to Reuters.

VW lodged a criminal complaint with prosecutors in Brunswick, Germany, but did not specify a perpetrator, Company spokesman Hartwig von Sass told Reuters.

"This is an attack on Volkswagen's good name," he said of the ad, which he called cynical and criminal.

Under German law, it is possible to file charges against persons unknown and prosecutors and police are obliged to try to track down the perpetrators.

The VW spokesman told Reuters the complaint was about "all crimes that could be considered in this regard."

A report earlier this week on the Website of the British newspaper The Guardian said that VW was considering taking some sort of legal action against the makers of the film but the company had been unable to locate them.

The makers of the film, according to various media reports, are a London based creative team known only as Lee and Dan. They have been quoted as saying that the ad was leaked accidentally and was never intended for public viewing. They have apologized for the film, according to previous reports.

They have reportedly not said how the making of the film was financed.

The film, which looks like an advertisement for the car, shows a middle-eastern looking man getting into a Volkswagen Polo, a compact car the company sells in Europe. The man drives the car to a spot in front of a sidewalk cafe. He looks down and presses the button of what looks like a bomb detonator held in front of an explosive-filled vest.

At that point, filmed from a vantage point outside the car, an explosion goes off inside the passenger compartment and blood spatters across the car's windows. The car, however, remains intact. The film ends with the tag line "Polo: small but tough."

Volkswagen has insisted that it had no knowledge that the film was being made and that Volkswagen provided no financing for it.

"We vehemently condemn that film and what it represents," Tony Fouladpour, a spokesman for Volkswagen of America told CNN/Money earlier this week.

Lee and Dan have not yet responded to an e-mail sent Wednesday morning by CNN/Money.

The pair have worked on advertising campaigns for various companies and products according to their Web site.

The film first appeared on the Internet around the middle of January.

I'm sorry, actually I was thinking about the connection with children in general. A child can be corrected at an early age (before hormones set in) and successfully grow to be a well-behaved productive citizen. It is too late to try to correct an adult. We correct children, and in prison we babysit adults.

No, it is not a whole other topic. Post 97 mentioned "We are attempting to manage a group of people who don't want to be managed, and whose internal discipline is faulty or nonexistent." How do you think that happened?

Why didn't any of you remember the comment about sitting around their swimming pools during the first debate. I still have a chill up my spine from that comment.

Out at the end of the BART line on the Delta in the Bay Area of Northern California. Toughest cops in the world told the cabbies not to call unless they're bleeding. I'm proud to live in this rough, beautiful area where gardenias and bougainvillea thrive.

I would like to ask Kerry if he would consider arming mothers forced to make a choice of which child to leave behind in a school held by terrorists.

I overheard a man talking to his son in a bookstore in Marin on a Saturday morning a few years ago. I'm convinced that poor little boy will grow up to be a Republican. If he survives the psychological abuse.

OK, let me try this again. Wonderful ideas, but simple problem...

Voter fraud = Republicans are not allowed to vote.

(Of the two cities that "made" a difference in California, Los Angeles and San Francisco) in San Francisco, workers going to the polls after work were told at the polling stations that there were no more ballots.

Voter manipulation = on the day of the presidential election, I heard in the taxi on radio at 5:08p. west coast time on my way to vote that Gore had already won.

No matter what everyone thinks, the problem is simple. And simply bad. Even when the media is prevented from giving "their take" on the results in a presidential election on the East Coast when workers are leaving their offices to vote on the West Coast you still have the problem of simple voting in every election. When the workers get off work in the two cities in California that "made" a difference (Los Angeles and San Francisco), the workers that went to vote at the polls after work in at least one of those cities, San Francisco, were told that the polling places were out of ballots.