A Land Far Away

It has been a long time since I was last here and a part of this project, but imagine my surprise when I typed in the web address and found that it's still here. I also see that you're still playing on NWN1! Truly remarkable! The forums don't seem active, but I thought I would at least drop a note h...

No, but it looks like you are. I just stop by every once in a while, mostly to say hi or bye, depending on who's coming or going. Thus the belated hello.

Now let's stay on topic.

Belated hello, Aelred. I must admit I've wondered what you've been doing more than a few times over the last couple of years. Glad your interest has returned. I always hoped that it would.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Your journey has had its ups and downs, but your legacy at ALFA will forever be an inspiration to so many of us who had the chance to work with you. You spent your time here with a vigor and enthusiasm - a ...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/1/ The former editor in chief of Ms. magazine (and a Democrat) on what she learned on a campaign plane with the would-be VP. It's difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about ...

So address the fraud and fix the loopholes.

My how things have changed in 40 years. Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you? JFK must be turning in his grave.

All this nonsense about liquidity and credit is a straw man, designed by the right wing to confuse voters who don't understand basic tax and business issues. Obviously it's working, though it's a shame people are fooled so easily by such blatant misinformation. Apparently all you have to do to conf...

all business expenses are still above-the-line deductible, so that all you are taxed on is the profit. The profit is what you were going to take out of the company anyway. Let me say that again: the profit is the only part you are taxed on, and that is coming out of the company anyway. Income taxes...

"I'm about to buy a business" (lie) "Which turns over more than 250k" (lie) "and will be affected by your tax plans" (lie - unless it NETs more than 250k a year, which it didn't remotely come close to. "Therefore you plan is bad for small businesses" (lie) Wh...

And you must also be smart enough to realize that it's not McCain who is making allegations that he is a secret Muslim. He has repudiated such statements. The ads don't say, "He should have known better than to sit on a board with a former domestic terrorist," which is all that really happ...

C, you sound like the Texan from Catch-22 (which, y'know, is A Bad Thing.) (And increased education generally correlates with increased likelihood of voting Democrat.) It's not the lack of education but the lack of awareness that I was alluding to. Where do the poor, the transient homeless, and the...

You keep hammering on policy as though it's acceptable to lie and mislead about policy, but nothing more. It's not. The end result of such tactics is exactly the same; To scare people away from the other guy. You keep suggesting as well that policy matters are fair game but judgment is not. Since wh...

it is because the poor, the homeless, the transiently dislocated, the mentally ill and the poorly educated (all folks statistically less likely to hold ID) are all more likely to vote democrat than republican. Playing devil's advocate for a moment, that seems like a rather dubious voting bloc to be...

Are you retarded or something? Claiming that Medicare is going to be reduced is equivalent to saying taxes are going to be raised, and is in no way similar to claiming a senator is actually a secret Muslim or a terrorist or anti-American. To be similar would be like Obama running ads claiming that ...

I agree with Buckley's criticism of the GOP, but I also agree with Lowry's analysis of Powell's endorsement, which was extraordinarily disappointing to me. For a long time, before the Democratic nominee emerged, I was hoping for a McCain-Powell ticket. Powell's reasons for swinging to Obama were a w...