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How about "two sides to every issue"?

Stop! Don't! Come back! Actually, the skin's the part most people who are allergic to mango are allergic to...full of interesting chemicals.

Shoulda asked yesterday...BBQ chicken, roasted-garlic mashed potatoes, corn on the cob. Today, probably a pimiento cheese sandwich and Ruffles.

I think the vast majority of Americans HAVE chosen...and Fascism won. Look at our current situation. There is nominal private property, but the government can (and does) tell you what to do with it. That, I was taught, is one of the key tests of National Socialism (the name the Germans gave to their Fascism). If we're going to chose a third option (unlikely), now might be a good time to start.

Worthless without pics... Seriously, I can live down the mistakes I make, but how do you recover from the things you never did and should have done?

Cut its functions down to what's Constitutionally mandated, and you wouldn't need a tenth of what they spend now.

Either it's an elaborate sendup, or Toyota's suddenly developed a sense of humor....

[reply"I am pleased at the compromise we have reached on the antiterrorism legislation, as a whole, which includes the sunset provision on the wiretapping and electronic surveillance component. It has been a source of considerable concern for people, and I think the sunset provision provides Congress a chance to come back and measure the record appropriately, and that is appropriate." So, on the day he cast his vote for the Patriot Act, he specifically called out his 'concern' about the powers of surveillance granted in the act, and said it would be 'appropriate' for Congress to 'come back and measure the record.' Oh, NOW I get it...unconstitutional and tyrranical acts are perfectly acceptable, as long as they're reviewed occasionally for their effectiveness! Sorry to be so late catching up; I was still stuck on that silly Fourth Amendment stuff. How about we institute house-to-house searches for terrorist-related evidence? I'm sure that would be MUCH more effective than simple wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping, and then Congress can rubber-stamp it more easily. That is, if they have the guts to stand up for their piss-on-the-Bill-of-Rights positions. That's why Kerry will do nothing that Bush hasn't or wouldn't do...he'd be seen as "soft on terrorists", not as pro-liberty.

That's a wild video! It's an A-6, BTW.

What makes you think that isn't the goal? A nation of proud and confident people won't look for leaders; they'll be too busy leading!

I think I may be in love....

We had two Alaskan Malamutes, Cyrano and his sister Maggie. She came up lame about a year and a half ago, and was diagnosed with bone cancer. We decided to have the leg amputated, as this would provide the most pain relief. The surgery went well, and Maggie came home about five days later. I fed them, and retired for the night. When I went to give them their usual morning Milk-Bone the next morning, Maggie didn't respond. I found her behind the yard shed...probably threw a clot overnight. I was VERY broken up over losing this great dog, but Cyrano was devasted. In fact, he still has Mal "crying jags" to this day. Still, it was probably better than the progression of the disease; she had a life expectancy of another year no matter what we did, and much of that in great pain.

Why Anvil, I'm surprised at you! No "Other and justify your response" option? I'd have loved to cast my vote in favor of America's answer to Stalin: Abraham Lincoln. Yes, that will shock many who only know who publik skool teaches. What, the Great Emanicipator? The man who saved the nation? Look at it more as the man who established the precedent of shitting on the Constitution...locking up Maryland legislators, sending troops in to direct elections in the North, threatening to incarcerate the Supreme Court until it saw things his way. Mostly, though, it was his going to war to force states that wanted to leave a voluntary arrangement to stay that frosts me. Although he was quite clear that if he could save the Union without abolishing slavery, he'd do that in a hot minute. Oh, we wouldn't want to forget the unconstitutional income tax, as well...might as well steal some cash while we're violating every other principle the nation was founded on.... FDR comes second on the list, for the reasons many have stated: he regarded individuals as totally superfluous, and wasted no opportunity to grow the government. That was a neat trick, too, forcing us into WW II by threatening the Japanese with economic ruin, then denying intel to his Pacific Theater commander that an attack on Pearl Harbor was imminent. Of course, he had to do it; it was the only way to get the country out of the Depression that was growing worse by the year. Yeah, he and Lincoln would have a lot to talk about in Hell, if there was such a place. They could laugh about LBJ's piker attempt to emulate them, too.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" Sorry, violates the Fourth Amendment, got to go. Barmy SCOTUS decisions to the contrary notwithstanding, prior restraint is one of the things the founders of this nation wanted to protect us against. In the final analysis, if you can justify any sort of invasion of privacy, you can justify them all. It's sort of like doing urine tests on certain occupations, on the grounds that you MIGHT prevent a loss of life. My response to this was, "Okay, but you won't catch them all with just a few spots urine tests; why don't you just conduct random searches of their cars, homes and other property? That way, you'll catch a lot more bad guys and save even more people!" Invading a person's mind just takes this idea to the final degree.

Already Got my FAL, 20 20-rounders, and a G1 and Para kit that can be built up anytime...but I'll wait until AWB sunsets so I can have a legat folding stock

When I worked at Miami Flight Service, we had some dry-ass solo piano crap for the hold music. One midwatch, I went into the electronics bay and switched the piano CD for one called Digital Dance Bands, a compilation of big-band favorites. The response was impressive; pilots actually liked being on hold for a while. About 6 months later, I got called into the Assistant Air Traffic Manager's office. He held up the dics and asked if it was mine. I 'fessed up, and we got the sucky piano back

Cocheese, finding new hobbies for your "downtime"? If Skymama is right (and I bet she is), find out what momma knows, then teach it to daughter.

Thanks, AggieDave, now my whole office can't get any work done today. You've single-handedly destroyed American productivity. That is just so hilarious...and WRONG!

Sorry to be so blunt, but I'm continually dumbfounded by the number of people who are willing to rob me at gunpoint to pay for things they want. All the folks who subscribe to the idea that more tax money will solve every problem should at least have the honesty to steal from me in person, rather than having civil-service proxies do it. Of course, there are few indeed who have the stones to do that...and fewer that would survive the attempt! If you want to reduce traffic, how about making all roads private toll roads? I'd cut down on my trips if I was paying for each one, I guarantee ya! At the same time, we'd reduce the lifeblood that fuels the exponential growth of governmental interference in what ought to be our private lives. Oh, BTW boys, that means you don't need that fuel tax money, nor Highway Patrol, and traffic violations that can be proven are revenue to the road owner, to help maintain the road. Proof is not the unsupported word of the enforcement agent!

OK guys, we have a challenge here...how about we start a "Sunny's Bed Fund" drive? Our slogan could be, "What would you give to get Sunny in bed?" I can delay purchasing an AAD for two weeks...anyone with me?

From the other shoulder, the one with the devil on it: My second-to-last jump (1978), I landed my PC crosswind and tore up my right knee. I had arranged with a friend to jump his spankin'-new Strato-Cloud later that day. I HAD TO make a standdup landing, never having done one before, to avoid further injury. I did, and it was THE most beautiful jump of my short 1st skydiving career. So wrap that ankle and enjoy the day.

I fell your pain, Adam. When I was a Flight Service Specialist in Miami, I had a supervisor who, when told he had to work a position, said in a most self-righteous voice, "I don't HAVE to know how to work a position...I'm a SUPERVISOR!' There's nothing worse than someone with authority, but the incisive intellect of a ball of mud! I always wondered how that person had the gall to evaluate his subordinates....

Hi Sunny...what's more likely, that you'll regret spending the day at work instead of jumping, or that you'll regret jumping and not spending the day at work? I'd go, if I could. Only 10 more pounds to tandem weight!

Of course, he wans't impeached for simply getting a blowjob. He was impeached for, among other things, being the chief law-enforcement officer of the nation and lying under oath. If the Senate had had more than a handful of people who took their oath of office seriously, Clinton would have been out on his lying ass. Not that any politician sees lying as a problem, under oath or otherwise.

Appropriate, coming from the American version of Stalin. The fellow who disbanded Maryland's legislature and regulated voting in the North with federal troops, and who intimidated the SCOTUS into going along with him.