blank said about:
Re: XP: Open folders get closed on reboot?

Many thanks!!   I thought for sure that would
fix it.  But alas, it was already checked.
I hit Apply and reboot, no help.  

Hard to get used to, but superneat!

Ya.  Thanks.  I guess I'll uninstall it and pray.
I've been noticing some sluggishness and other
weirdness too, since install.  

If no help, I'll try a system restore (resore?) for
the first time ever.   Any tips or warnings on that?

--Doug

PURE Republicanism??  It's now clear.
Six years of PURE Republicanism - BOTH houses
AND the Prez.  Pure as it gets.
 So?
Are you better off now than seven years ago?
Are you proud with what they have done to
America and her reputation?  ...Your reputation?
...all that sleaze, lies and bribery?
How about all the killing...the torture?  Proud?

If actions speak louder than rhetoric, then
name ONE good thing about Republicanism.
 Just one.  

Just one *real* thing.  

Can't do it?
So?  Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?
Might be time to consider Change.

On Sun, 25 May, HeyBub said:

Sure, for the "lower their expectatations" Repubs.

Laff!  OK, I get it.  Satire!

To see all the sleazy Repub scandals in the last five years,
one has to google the scandal *lists*, else google is
overwhelmed.       Meanwhile the Dems' scandals are just two:
  Some nobody with a freezer full of bribery cash, and that
guy caught buying $1,000 heterosexual, adult hookers.

"one has to google the Republican scandal *lists*,
else google is overwhelmed."

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The scandal sheet - Salon.com
Jan 18, 2005 ... Indeed, here are 34 Republican scandals worthy
of further attention, gathered into one place. -- every one of
them worse than Whitewater....

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/01/18/scandal/index.html
- 30k -  -------

Vaguely Logical: a handy dandy list of republican scandals, 2006
...
a handy dandy list of republican scandals, 2006 edition. William
Rivers Pitt presents thumbnail sketches of the various
Republicans involved in various ...  ranging from sending lewd
emails to teenagers to scamming Ohio taxpayers. ... Rep. Tom
DeLay (R-Texas): Once the most powerful man in the House of
Representatives, Texas congressman DeLay now stands indicted on
three counts of money laundering, charges stemming from his
all-out attempt to secure a permanent Republican majority in the
House. His story isn't finished;....

http://vaguelylogical.blogspot.com/2006/10/handy-dandy-list-of-republican.html
- 21k -  -------

Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats - Salem-News.Com
Oct 17, 2007 ... Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats
... Here is a partial list of names of serious problems related
to GOP movers and shakers. ...

www.salem-news.com/articles/october172007/repub_scandals_10_17_07.php
- 93k -  -------

Republican Sex Scandals - dKosopedia
Republican Sex Scandals. (Full list of scandals at Moral Values)
.... Brent Schepp, Republican County Board Candidate was charged
with molesting a 14-year ...
 dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals - 97k -  -------

Scandal after scandal after scandal - The Carpetbagger Report
I remember scandal fatigue was a conservative buzz phrase in the
late 90s. ... Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary
Committee were investigated for ...
   www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/1421.html - 31k -
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Top Five Republican Gay Sex Scandals
       August 31st, 2007
      It’s gone past ridiculous and straight to the absurd.   At
this point, it appears your average public restroom has more gay
Republicans in it than clean handtowels.    The
“holier-than-thou” party has spent an awful lot of time on their
knees this past year, but they haven’t been doing a lot of
praying.
  www.badmouth.net/top-five-republican-gay-sex-scandals/ - 105k
-  -------

Senate 2008 Guru: Following the Races: Republican Culture of
Corruption...
      Does it seem like there's a new Republican scandal in the
news every single week? Well, that may be because there is: .....
you are looking at a very partisaned list of those involved in
scandals. ...

http://senate2008guru.blogspot.com/2007/08/republican-culture-of-corruption-2007.html
- 98k -  -------

Master List of Scandals and Misdeeds
   (11/09/2007 update):  ...it is recommended that this post be
renamed "Master List of Scandals, Misdeeds & Failures" since
there is no thread keeping track of the abject failure of this
Administration.) .... Republican Congress suspends Habeas Corpus.
19. Circumventing the 1978 FISA (Foreign ...

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x357
- 37k

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You think that Republican list of sleaze is meaningless
rhetoric?
Or do actions and patterns of dispicable action mean something?

CNN.com - General to testify on abuse probe - May 11,
2004
   "There will be a full accounting for the cruel and
disgraceful abuse of Iraqi detainees," Bush said at the
Pentagon briefing. ...

======insert:

On 14 Oct 2006, sleaze cover-up defender Jim Alder said about:
Re: Seen enough Evil yet?  What would it take, Jim !?

"treating prisoners with kid gloves??"  Like this?  

  * Urinating on detainees
  * Jumping on detainee's leg (a limb already wounded
by gunfire) with such force that it could not
thereafter heal properly
  * Continuing by pounding detainee's wounded leg
with collapsible metal baton
  * A baton-wielding U.S. soldier forcing an Iraqi
prisoner, covered in feces, to try to walk in a
straight line while his ankles are bound.
  * the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl by two interrogators
  * Two inmates "Hung by their arms from the ceiling and beaten
so severely that, according to a report by Army investigators,
their legs would have needed to be amputated had they lived."
  * made to crawl around the floor naked while U.S. soldiers
rode them like donkeys
  * punched one prisoner so hard in the chest that he needed
resuscitation.
  * sodomized with lightsticks and brooms
  * raped and sodomizeded female and child detainees

Google:
   CNN.com - Rumsfeld: Unreleased images 'cruel and
inhuman' - May 7 ...
   A military report about that abuse describes
detainees being threatened,
sodomized with a chemical light and forced into
sexually. ...
www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/07/iraq.abuse.main/index.html
- 56k
   [ More results from www.cnn.com ]

Nature of Abu Ghraib abuse - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
"The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling, and
the worst part is ... Taking photographs of dead Iraqi
detainees and MPs posing with cheerful looks. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_of_Abu_Ghraib_abuse - 31k

On March 15, 2006, Salon.com published the most extensive
documentation of the abuse.[54] The source who gave the CID
material to Salon magazine is familiar with the CID
investigation.
     "A review of all the computer media submitted to this
office revealed a total of 1,325 images of suspected detainee
abuse, 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse, 660 images of
adult pornography, 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees,
29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts, 20 images of a
soldier with a Swastika drawn between his eyes, 37 images of
Military Working dogs being used in abuse of detainees and 125
images of questionable acts."
                The Abu Ghraib files
279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal
investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse
inside the notorious prison -- and make clear that many of those
responsible have yet to be held accountable.
  http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/

CNN.com - General to testify on abuse probe - May 11,
2004
"There will be a full accounting for the cruel and
disgraceful abuse of Iraqi detainees," Bush said at the
Pentagon briefing. ...
www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/11/iraq.abuse.main/ -
57k

Taguba's 53-page report, classified "Secret" and dated
April 4, 2004, concluded that U.S. soldiers had
committed "egregious acts and grave breaches of
international law" at Abu Ghraib.[3] Taguba found that
between October and December 2003 there were numerous
instances of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal
abuses" of prisoners. In violation of Army regulations,
intelligence officers asked military police to "loosen
up" inmates before questioning. The report estimates
that 60% of the prisoners at the site were "not a
threat to society" and that the screening process was
so inadequate that innocent civilians were often
detained indefinitely. Guards invented their own rules
and supervisors approved of their actions.

New Iraq Prison Abuse Images Show 'Savage Beatings'
Another detainee described how US Army Specialist
Charles Graner and other US soldiers sodomized another
detainee with a phosphorescent light. ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0521-03.htm - 15k

   Former Iraqi Detainees Allege Torture by US Troops
   Two former Iraqi detainees tell ABC News in an
exclusive interview that they ... of policy detainee
abuse," but it did not address the specific
allegations. ...
   www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1115-08.htm - 20k

Pentagon Study Describes Abuse by Units in Iraq - New
York Times
Forum: The Transition in Iraq. The investigation is the
last of 12 major inquiries to be made public that focus
on allegations of detainee abuse by American ...

www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/washington/17formica.html?ex=1308196800&en=704079ed00
c9d82e&ei=5088&am...

   Pentagon Study Describes Abuse by Units in Iraq -
New York Times
   In a second case, General Formica said two Iraqi
detainees at a safe house in ... criminals that are out
there looking for detainees to abuse," he said. ...

www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/washington/17formica.html?ex=1308196800en=704079ed00c
9d82eei=5088partner=rssny...

These are just pointers Jim.  Mild.  Do some reading.
Find out what's on the world's TVs & headlines for a
change.

Does reading about these "high school pranks"
give you a Republican boner, Jim?  

=========end insert

We're in Iraq to help them, remember?  

Nice way for we Americans to rescue them from Saddam, huh?

You do have satire down pat!  
Of course, you also sound like a serious Republican.
(For weeks I thought Limbaugh was a closet liberal
and would spring his hoax any day.)  

And "stay the course," "same ol sh.t," and
"more of the same," are?

Gotcha!  Actually if you research it, they are against
individual thought and the elites are willing to lie
in order to promote a unifying "mind set," the greatest
good.    ...google: Strause conservative philosophy
...Limbaugh quotes him all the time.  

Close enough.  NO Thought Crimes!
Beware of the Great Evil Liberal Conspiracy!
          But Good News!
The neocons did not support Duhbya in the 2000 primaries.  
He's just a 9-11 newbie convert.

 ...they supported John McCain.

PURE Republicanism??  It's now clear.
Six years of PURE Republicanism - BOTH houses
AND the Prez.  Pure as it gets.
 So?
Are you better off now than seven years ago?
Are you proud with what they have done to
America and her reputation?  ...To your reputation?
...all the sleaze, lies and bribery?
How about all the killing?
...Americans torture now?  Proud?

If actions speak louder than rhetoric, then
name ONE good thing about Republicanism.
 Just one.  

Just one *real* thing.  

Can't do it?
You have only feelsgood rhetoric?

So?  Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?