How does the state of Maryland allow you to carry a weapon when you are always so far off target?

You really do have a problem with comprehension. I said that FOX was only one of several places I saw, heard or read about this situation. Another was MSNBC and I'll be damned if CNN didn't have something on one of their Chiron (character generator) crawls about this early this evening.

Bill O'Reilly actually interviewed the head of the Army National Guard units for Maine on his program tonight. I believe there was even mention of this in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation today. It's one of the most liberal rags in the nation, so I would imagine there's a chance you might believe it. Or, perhaps you will believe the Associated Press report on the matter? It is readily available on the Internet at a number of sites.

Maine Teachers Warned on Iraq War Talk

Friday, February 28, 2003 1:35 a.m. ET

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- After complaints that the children of soldiers were upset by anti-war comments by teachers at schools across the state, Maine's top education official warned teachers to be careful of what they say in class about a possible invasion of Iraq or about the parents of their students.

The Maine Army National Guard has received dozens of reports of children of guard members in elementary and middle schools who said teachers and a few fellow students have criticized the looming conflict.

Maj. Peter Rogers quoted parents as saying their children have come home upset or depressed because of comments made in classrooms by teachers and repeated on the playground by a few of their classmates who heard those remarks by the teachers.

"They were hearing comments from teachers like, 'The pending war in Iraq is unethical' and 'Anybody who would fight that war is also unethical.' and 'Your parents are bad people if they go to fight this war,'" Rogers said.

"So children who are already losing family members to deployment were understandably upset."

Charles Haynes of the Freedom Forum, an educational organization in Arlington, Va., said he has received several dozen e-mails and phone calls in recent months from parents across the nation concerned that teachers are unfair or biased in how they address the issue of Iraq in the classroom.

Haynes urged schools to keep alive classroom discussions about Iraq, and present different views on the issue, even if there have been complaints about teaching methods or teacher comments.

"Often it is a misunderstanding of what the teacher is trying to do," he said. "But it's also the case that some teachers have a political agenda they can't keep out of the classroom, and that they must do."

In Maine, Department of Education Commissioner Duke Albanese sent a memo to superintendents and principals, writing that it had been brought to his attention some school personnel had been "less than sensitive to children of military families regarding our continued strained relations with Iraq."

He said discussion should allow for questions and differences of opinion, but "be grounded in civil discourse and mutual respect."

The issue has also grabbed the attention of Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Gov. John Baldacci.

"Any suggestion that their parents are doing something wrong is extremely unfortunate and could have a harmful effect, particularly on young children," Collins said.

Baldacci said he's "disappointed" by the actions of some educators in public school systems.

Copyright © 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed

This was the mildest of all reports I have seen on the subject, but I figured not even you would be dumb enough to call the AP something "published by Conservitives-R-Us or some equally obnoxious underground right wing publication." Does this mean you only believe something published by "Liberal-Liars-R-Us" or the "James Carville Newsletter and Virtual Bird Cage Liner?"

Z-dr, I have been extremely patient with you and your mindless, unthinking hatred of a better man than you. I have gently chided you about stupid, mindless, assinine and unsupportable statements such as "...Even it it is by a coattail riding playboy greedy out of touch with reality war mongoring baffoon such as Jr. Bush."

Let me put it succinctly and bluntly for you. I consider your idiotic statements of this type to be classless, clueless and inexcusably poor behavior aand totally UNACCEPTABLE behavior from someone supposedly an adult.

Do not do it again ever on this forum.

Here are some FACTS you may be able to get your mind around, though I don't think it expands that much.

George W. Bush was graduated from Yale. You weren't and neither was Al Gore.

George W. Bush went to work on his own... not riding is father's coattails and made a lot more money than you have.

When he had an opportunity to say stupid, false things about opposing candidates, even when they baldly lied through their teeth about him or his family members or other things as did Gore on at least ten (10) documented occasions during the 2000 campaign, Bush showed he has class and dignity. I don't think I need to draw the comparison for you, do I?

The only one here without contact with reality seems to be you, my friend. I have destroyed almost every one of your outright lies repeated verbatim from the "Liberals Have to Lie to Win Handbook." I have repeatedly shown here your lack of knowledge of basic historical facts and factual information, yet you say PRESIDENT Bush is the one out of touch with reality. Do you have any idea just how pitiable you make yourself appear with such vitrolic BS?

If we are to believe anything you have said over the past several years, every male is a playboy. The problem you have here, sir, is that you have encountered a moral and principled man and you don't know how to deal with those things. You have no clue because all your heroes have been sleazy sexual predators. You have this insane urge to tear down a man who obviously doesn't lack moral values as did Bubba and you - based on your own words.

He will be MISTER Bush or PRESIDENT BUSH to you here in the future... or not to be mentioned by you at all... has proved by his actions that you are a hate-filled cretin and malcreant. He is not a "war mongering buffoon (spelling corrected)" as you claim. How can you make that charge in one post and, almost in the same breath, claim he is something less than a man because he has not just gone in and beat the living bejesus out of Iraq and UBL and his henchmen. Like most liberals, you want it both ways, as it suits your needs.

Do and say what you wish on your forum, sir, but so long as you visit here, you will strictly limit your remarks to proper adult behavior and courteousness to all other users here. You will no longer be allowed to spew venom and brain dead hatred for President George W. Bush or anyone else. You may say anything that is provably and demonstrably FACTUAL and ACCURATE about his actions that you wish without challenge. That is why this forum is here. Just be aware that you had damned well best have lots of documented proof of whatever you say here, though. You will not be allowed to shoot off your mouth with an empty mind. At least not here, you won't.

Perhaps you cannot understand people like George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan because they possess charateristics that seem to be missing in you or totally alien to you. Even George H. W. Bush was a boring straight arrow... though the Democrats attempted to promote a slanderous lie about him in the 1988 and 1992 campaigns. I do understand those men and consider your heroes to be even more the lesser when compared to such men of overwhelming ethics and moral values. And, oh yeah, every one of them have class.

You are still very welcome to post here but knock off the crap. Had you said that you disagree with President Bush on a specific policy and presented cogent, well reasoned, rational, informed and structured arguments to support your beliefs, you would have been applauded, even as one of us drew a bead on your arguments. That's not what you have been doing and it is an unacceptable practice.