Why is the "Iraq vote" still an issue? Why do people care about it still??? More than 86% of people were all about the war then, and damn near all the congressmen/women voted for it. Its a simple game of numbers. Their constituents wanted it, so WTF?!?! I have always been against the war, but I am not going to hold a vote on the war over someones head. Plus, how were any of us to know how truly f-ed the war would get? I knew it would be bad, but I severly underestimated how poorly Bush and Co. would manage things. People need to get over the Iraq vote and move on.

To put it another way: If your job is to appease a large number of people, and 86% say: we want coffee. What are you going to do?? You're gonna give them coffee so they keep you employed. So what if 14% wanted tea? You have to appease the majority, otherwise your career is over. Also, Chris Matthews is obviously a sexist asshat. Just like most men his age. Not surprising.

No surprise there. Croatia was an ally of the Nazis and Italy.

During the Bosnian war, Croatians proudly displayed swastikas on their uniforms as well as symbols that honored the fascist Ustaše. The Croatian death squads went by that name.

The Ustasa was later kicked out by Tito and the Chetniks and the partisans from Yugoslavia, who were mostly Serbs. During the Bosnian war, the Croatians at first fought the Yugoslavians, but then joined in the genocide against the Bosnian Muslims. No surprise there. Croatia has a long tradition of Nazism and is a lousy country to visit if youre brown.

I saw that, too. It simply begs the question:

Has Chris Gregoire lost her damn mind?

First there's the constant flopping over the viaduct, then there's the "warming" to the Sonics' extortion demands.

She seems to be doing her best to piss off the people that want to vote for her in the hopes of attracting people who would never vote for her anyway.

Sheesh.

Oregon has introduced a bill to mandate beacon devices if you go above 10K feet on Mt Hood to make it easier to find you if something happens. It's being opposed by some climbers that feel it makes the sport less dangerous, and they don't wanna do that.

I used to be a firefighter and did search and rescue all the time in a pretty rural mountainous area. It's dangerous work. And just because Big Bob wants to go climbing in January makes it even more dangerous.

Our legislators should propose the same thing here in Washington. We have rescue on Rainier quite a bit as well. If you're gonna go over 10K feet, you gotta have a beacon. Otherwise, as a climber/hiker you're being really selfish when you put that rescuer in danger as well.

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Plus, if you time it right, you can do the Olympics too ...

If they can have sex, they should be able to take pictures. I don't find 14 year olds hot, but I did when I was 14, and that's about the age everyone I know started. Might as well accept it as reality.

I think Tiz's point is that adult men CAN have sex with 14-year-olds in Hungary right now - they just can't film it, which is what might be considered inconsistent. If the fundamental problem is with older men having sex with girls that young, they should be raising the age of consent.