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Not until I've found a naked picture of the bitch and posted it, I haven't.... That you are actively seeking a picture of Rosie in the buff is proof that you truely are depraved. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

So, when there are thousands more dead, an untold number of legs, arms and faces blown off, a huge number of men and women returning with mental problems and no end in sight in the years to come, who are you going to blame for this huge mess? The senators who wanted to bring them home or the ones who wish to keep them there? The one who is most to blame is the one who has vetoed all attempts to bring them home. He is the one who has turned his back on the troops and America. He made this country and the world a far more dangerous place. He is the one responsible for thousands of deaths. He is no better than Osama Bin laden and he is far more dangerous terrorist than the one he let get away. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Don't be silly, there are no hillbillies in Louisiana. Only Coonasses and they ain't worryin' 'bout nothin'. All us hillbillies are up here in Missourah' and our big worry is the occassional possum tryin to sneak its ass onboard for a free lift to altitude and even that ain't so bad. The little varmits can really turn points and don't even get them going on which of them can swoop the furthest... "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Problems with conventional cotton production http://www.panna.org/ The following is excerpted from PANNA’s Organic Cotton Briefing Kit Conventionally grown cotton uses more insecticides than any other single crop and epitomizes the worst effects of chemically dependent agriculture. Each year cotton producers around the world use nearly $2.6 billion worth of pesticides -- more than 10% of the world's pesticides and nearly 25% of the world's insecticides. Cotton growers typically use many of the most hazardous pesticides on the market including aldicarb, phorate, methamidophos and endosulfan. Cotton pesticides are often broad spectrum organophosphates--pesticides originally developed as toxic nerve agents during World War II--and carbamate pesticides. Pesticides used on cotton–even when used according to instructions–harm people, wildlife and the environment. These pesticides can poison farm workers, drift into neighboring communities, contaminate ground and surface water and kill beneficial insects and soil micro-organisms. Farmers and Farmworkers In many developing countries, farmers and farmworkers work in cotton fields with few if any safety precautions to protect them from pesticides. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, farmers in many developing countries use antiquated and dangerous pesticide application equipment, resulting in spills and poisonings. In Pakistan, one of the top five cotton producing countries, approximately 50% of applied pesticides are wasted due to poor spraying machinery and inappropriate application. A 1997 Danish television documentary showed methyl parathion being sprayed on cotton fields in Nicaragua and Guatemala while children played in and beside the fields. It also documented numerous cases of methyl parathion poisonings in cotton production. Pesticide poisoning remains a daily reality among agricultural workers in developing countries, where up to 14% of all occupational injuries in the agricultural sector and 10% of all fatal injuries can be attributed to pesticides. Farmworkers are also threatened by hazardous pesticides in industrialized countries. In one study of pesticide illnesses in California, cotton ranked third among California crops for total number of worker illnesses caused by pesticides. In September 1996, approximately 250 farmworkers in California were accidentally sprayed with a mixture of highly toxic pesticides when a crop dusting plane applied the chemicals to a cotton field adjacent to a field where workers were harvesting grapes. Twenty-two workers were rushed to hospitals with symptoms of acute pesticide poisoning. According to the crop dusting company, the pilot was experienced and followed regulations. County officials stated that the chemicals are registered for use on cotton and that the duster was not required to notify workers in the grape field prior to spraying. Wildlife & Domestic Animals Fish killed by pesticide run-off: In 1995, pesticide-contaminated runoff from cotton fields killed at least 240,000 fish in Alabama. Shortly after farmers had applied pesticides containing endosulfan and methyl parathion to cotton fields, heavy rains washed them into the water. The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries stated that there was no indication that the pesticides were applied in an illegal manner. Livestock: Meat and milk contaminated by pesticide-laden cotton straw. In 1994, Australian beef was found to be contaminated with the cotton insecticide Helix® (chlorfluazuron), most likely because cattle had been fed contaminated cotton straw. In response, several countries suspended beef imports from Australia. One year later, farmers were alarmed to discover that newborn calves were also contaminated with Helix, apparently because it was passed through their mother's milk. In a similar case, 23 farms in New South Wales and Queensland were placed in quarantine after inspectors discovered high levels of endosulfan in beef cattle, possibly due to endosulfan spray drift contaminating grazing land. Since 1987, Australian beef exporters have lost millions of dollars due to concerns about chemical contamination. Birds: It has been estimated that pesticides unintentionally kill at least 67 million birds in the U.S. each year, and it’s likely they kill many more. Estimates of bird kills from pesticides are notoriously low because many birds remain hidden in brush, are carried away by scavengers or die away from treated areas where they won’t be counted. In one case, a breeding colony of laughing gulls near Corpus Christi, Texas, was devastated when methyl parathion was applied to cotton three miles away. More than 100 dead adults were found and 25% of the colony’s chicks were killed. Ecological Disasters & Crop Failure Texas, U.S.A.: Massive pesticide spraying causes massive pest outbreaks. The boll weevil has been a major cotton pest longer and is reported to have caused greater cash losses than any other insect in the history of agriculture. Since the mid-twentieth century, there have been many attempts to eliminate boll weevils with synthetic pesticides, including DDT, toxaphene and methyl parathion. Many of these attempts have led to major ecosystem imbalances and resulting crop failures. In 1995, farmers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas lost $150 million worth of cotton due to extensive malathion spraying that led to massive secondary pest outbreaks. The U.S. government recommended the spraying program as an attempt to eradicate boll weevils from the state, and the majority of farmers voted to go with the plan in 1994. The next year, malathion destroyed not only boll weevils, but spiders, wasps and other beneficial insects, allowing beet army worms and aphids to flourish as never before. One cotton gin operator ginned only 354 bales of cotton in 1995 after contracting for 12,500. Similar problems have occurred in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, where the eradication program has also been tried. Farmers in eastern Mississippi voted to end the eradication program due to crop losses in 1995, and in 1996, Rio Grande Valley farmers voted three to one to end the boll weevil program. Nicaragua: In the 1977/1978 season, at the height of Nicaragua’s cotton boom, cotton was grown on 463,000 hectares. But massive quantities of toxic insecticides were used in the process, leading to a range of new problems. Several previously minor pests became major problems as pesticides eliminated the beneficial insects that held them in check. In addition, insect resistance to pesticides seriously weakened the efficacy of many chemicals. In response, farmers applied so many chemicals that by the late 1980s pesticides accounted for approximately 50% of production costs. Besides making cotton production financially unviable, pesticides also introduced serious health and environmental problems, including farm worker poisonings, fish kills and deep well contamination. By 1990, Nicaragua’s cotton production had declined to 35,000 hectares, less than one fifth its previous level. One UN study estimated that the social and environmental costs of insecticide use in Nicaragua during the cotton boom approached $200 million per year (compared to $141 million in cotton income at the peak of Nicaragua’s cotton boom). Uzbekistan: Cotton has left a severe scar on the once-fertile steppes of Uzbekistan, formerly a Soviet state. Early this century, government planners decided that the Soviet Union should be self-sufficient in cotton and began draining the Aral Sea to irrigate millions of acres for cotton production. Uzbekistan eventually became the source of 90% of the Soviet Union’s cotton crop and remains one of the top five cotton producing countries worldwide. But the price of this production has been deadly. Intense pesticide use combined with poor irrigation practices have left fields barren, too contaminated with pesticides and salt to grow anything. Drinking water supplies over vast areas are dangerously polluted. In Kzyl-Orda, the largest city in the Aral region, there has been a frightening increase in childhood illnesses, including blood diseases and birth defects. Pesticide residues in women’s breast milk, first measured in 1975, are now detected with increasing frequency. In addition, water diversion has reduced the Aral Sea to 60% its original surface area–some 11,000 square miles once under water are now dry and saline, and villages once dependent on fishing are now stranded miles from the shore. Thanks to conventional cotton production, the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest body of fresh water, is too saline and polluted with pesticides to support fish. One solution; http://www.sustainablecotton.org/ http://www.diaperpin.com/clothdiapers/article_hemp.asp Another solution is 50/50 cotton-hemp blended fabrics. Hemp provides another viable crop while reducing the need for greater cotton production. This means less pesticides, less erosion, less leaching as hemp does not require what cotton does. Hemp is a natural erosion barrier, does not leach the soil and requires no pesticides and can provide 3-4 harvest each year as opposed to one for cotton. As for cost, the high cost to process hemp is due to lack of technological advancement in processing equipment. Which is changing due to increase in demand for hemp. http://www.hemphasis.com/indisty5.htm http://www.tex.in/fiber/fiber.html "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Not to mention that a farmer could get three to four harvest each growing season making it far moore profitable for farmers. Dow Chemical, Monsanto and other like companies have taken noticed of the rise in hemp production abroad and the eventual production in the U.S. and have been developing hybrid hemp seeds. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

It is a well known fact that dinosaurs once roamed with the Israelites and the Jews. In fact, Jesus was raised on a Bronto-ranch. After learning the ropes of running the ranch, Jesus attended college and earned a degree in business. During his college years he worked as a waiter at an upscale bronto-steak house where he first envisioned serving brontoburgers and loaves of bread (he also envisioned serving fish sandwiches) to the masses. After college he returned to the ranch and began putting together his business plan to open the first of many to come McJesus's Brontoburgers. Within the first few years he was able to claim "Thousands Served". Well, the powers in Rome took noticed and King Burger who owned and operated Bronto King felt the pinch of real competition and an all out brontoburger war ensued. Commercialism at its worst! Jesus gave away holyroller collector cards, collector cups with communion wine and holyroller warrior action figures in the children gullible meals. King Buger was not to be out done and marketed his brontoburgers with fashionable crowns of thorns and 3D crucifixion collector cards. The war lasted untill the last of the dinosaures were eaten. As quoted from the Dead Seas Dispatch, a popular news scroll, "It was CRAZY!!! They were shoving these burgers down our throats! Our children were becoming fat, lazy and gullible! At the colliseum it was all Bronto King while at the Mound it was all McJesus. No one had the will to go out and smite for God. We were sure glad to see the eventual collapse of these brontoburger-empires when the last dino was slewed and served so as to get back to the rightous work of smiting non-believers." "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

I have an Dell Inspiron E1505 with Vista Ultimate. The computer is just fine although, I'm not at all impressed with Vista. I would had gone with a Mac but, the bulk of the programs I run are not compatible. The kick in the head with Vista is that some of these programs have compatibility issues with Vista. Glad I kept my old IBM thinkpad with XP (need to upgrade the HD from the old 5.1gb to a 120gb in order to install all of my programs). "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

If your into rock, blues or jazz, go to Delmar, "The Loop", in University City. Lots of kickass local bands and top acts. Might check who is playing at The Pageant or head over to Chuck Berry's "Blueberry Hill". Also, lots of great places to eat in the loop. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Go inside and complain to management that I didn't get rolling papers with my bag of McBuds. That is just outright poor service There was a pipe in there. g I posted before reading the article. Well, now that is great service. All I can say about the guy who got busted is "What a dumbass" "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Go inside and complain to management that I didn't get rolling papers with my bag of McBuds. That is just outright poor service "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Next to my Hodaka Super Rat, my Cox Cars were the must have items. I had the dune buggy, the VW bug, the trike chopper and my favorite, the dragster. It could hit a top speed of 400mph and had a dragchute that popped out at the end of the run to shut it down. You ran it on, something like, 200' of string pulled tight with each end nailed to the street. Also had several Cox planes. The Stuka, the Mustang, and a PT trainer. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

I wouldn't worry too much, at least untill they start drilling Uranus "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

St. Louis had Wrestling at the Chase every saturday night from the late 50's up untill 1983. Harley Race Jerry Brisco Rick Flair Cowboy Bill Watts Johnny Valentine Dick Slater Dick "The Bruiser" Murdoch The Von Erichs And my uncle Ray Bouquet who wrestled there through the 60's (he confirms that it is all fake!) "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Iraq killing tracked to contractor could test laws By BILL SIZEMORE, The Virginian-Pilot © January 11, 2007 As pressure grows in Congress to hold private military companies such as Blackwater USA more accountable for their conduct, reports have surfaced of a Dec. 24 shooting in Baghdad that could serve as a textbook case. According to the State Department, a civilian U.S. contractor shot and killed an Iraqi security officer. Lou Fintor, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, would not say which company the shooter worked for. Two independent sources have told The Virginian-Pilot that he worked for Blackwater, based in Moyock, N.C. When asked about the reports, Anne Tyrrell, a Blackwater spokeswoman, said Wednesday: "No comment." Blackwater provides security for U.S. diplomatic staff in Iraq under a multimillion-dollar State Department contract. Details of the shooting are sketchy. Fintor said there are conflicting reports. "We continue looking into the incident in an effort to try to determine the facts," he said. He declined to provide any further details about the American contractor, citing the U.S. Privacy Act. However, a former Blackwater contractor and an executive of another private military company, citing sources inside Iraq, independently said that the shooter was a Blackwater contractor. So far, there is no word of any criminal charges being brought in the case. Nearly four years after the U.S. invasion, tens of thousands of civilian contractors are working in Iraq. So far, none has been charged with any criminal wrongdoing. One reason: Contractors operate in a legal gray area, in which it's uncertain whether they're subject to civilian law, military law or neither. The latest effort to clear that up came Wednesday when U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., introduced legislation he says will bring about transparency, accountability and coordination for private contractors operating in a war zone. "The lack of a legal framework for battlefield contracting has allowed certain rogue contractor employees to perpetrate heinous criminal acts without the threat of prosecution," Price said. Among other things, Price's legislation would extend the reach of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act to allow prosecution in civilian courts of any contractor involved in a military operation. The law has been on the books since 2000 but has not been applied against contractors in Iraq. Price's attempt to subject contractors to civilian courts comes on the heels of legislation enacted last fall that seeks to put them under military law. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., an Air Force Reserve lawyer, inserted language in a military spending bill that extends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to cover contractors in a "contingency operation" such as Iraq - not just in a declared war. Whichever approach prevails, the congressional scrutiny is long overdue, in the view of Peter W. Singer, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who has written a book about the booming private military industry. It was Singer who first called public attention to Graham's move. He wrote last week in Defensetech, an online military discussion group, that thanks to Graham's phrasing in the Pentagon budget bill, "contractors' 'get out of jail free' cards may have been torn to shreds." "It's probably the most important legal change for the private military industry in its history," Singer said in an interview. "For the first time, this vacuum in the law is being plugged. It shows that Congress has woken up from its slumber on this issue." Not everyone agrees with Singer's interpretation. Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, a trade group representing Blackwater and other military contractors, said that in his view, military law would not apply to Blackwater contractors working for the State Department. "It might be doable for Defense Department contractors, but it's not a panacea," Brooks said. "It's a square peg in a round hole." Price's bill seeks to cast a wider net, applying to contractors "employed under a contract (or subcontract at any tier) awarded by any department or agency of the United States Government, where the work under such contract is carried out in a region outside the United States in which the Armed Forces are conducting a contingency operation." A spokesman for Price said that he had not heard of the Dec. 24 slaying but that it is the kind of case the legislation is intended to address. Singer, the Brookings scholar, said the incident provides further fuel for a vigorous discussion about the unprecedented privatization of warfighting - a discussion that's sure to happen in the new Democrat-controlled Congress. According to a recent Pentagon estimate, more than 100,000 private contractors are carrying out military roles in Iraq - a figure almost as large as the uniformed military force there. "This is going to be part of a much, much bigger debate: Have we outsourced too much?" Singer said. " It was never debated. The consequences of it were never weighed. Now we're trying to clean up all the mess that's been created." Staff writer Joanne Kimberlin contributed to this report. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

This is from 1999. From The Florida Times-Union jaxstaff@jacksonville.com http://www.times-union.com/ http://cafe.jacksonville.com/cafesociety.html By Beau Halton, Times-Union staff writer ‘THEY’RE NOT ALL DRUG ABUSERS’ WELFARE TESTING FINDS OTHER ILLS (Marijuananews note: Notice the disconnect between the headline and the lead sentence. A more accurate header would have said "People On Welfare Use Drugs Less Than General Population." In fact, by the logic of the drug warriors, marijuana use could be said to prevent welfare dependency. Also, it is worth noting that unemployment may be -- in part -- the result of our society's failure to take depression seriously. Many marijuana users are self-medicating for depression, but are not allowed to use it when they are on welfare.) The percentage of Jacksonville-area welfare applicants found to be using illegal drugs is lower than that of the general populace, according to results of a new state drug abuse test for people applying for welfare. The test results also show that, for welfare applicants, chronic depression and other mental health problems are more prevalent than drug problems. The planned statewide test, which includes series of psychological questions, has been piloted in the Jacksonville area since January. Results show that of 1,364 applicants, 5 percent - 72 - tested positive for illegal drugs. The 72 represent 21 percent of the 340 people who were referred for urinalysis tests. In comparison, an estimated 6.5 percent of Americans use illegal drugs, according to national drug abuse experts. Estimates for Florida and the Jacksonville area range from 5 to 10 percent. "The thing we all seem to have in our heads is that it’s only the poor who do this stuff," said Donnelly Rembert, a Methodist Medical Center grant writer who recently completed a Jacksonville study on mental health and substance abuse. "The middle class can demand that the poor stop using drugs and that they get tested all the time," she said. "But if you have money, the only reason you have to stop [using drugs] is if your life gets way out of control." Under the Florida law passed last year requiring the screening, welfare applicants who fail the drug test are offered free treatment, and those who receive the treatment don’t lose out on benefits. The test is for illegal drugs, not alcohol or prescription drugs. But treatment is offered for people who abuse those drugs too. See Better Pass a Drug Test Florida House Approves Measure To Drug Test Welfare Recipients. People who refuse to be screened or test positive and refuse treatment for drug problems are denied cash assistance, but they can receive Medicaid and food stamps. The applicant screening, also being tried in Tallahassee, comes amid a nationwide effort to move people off welfare. Since the effort began in 1996, the welfare rolls have decreased by about 65 percent. Annual welfare payments have shrunk from about $23 billion to $19 billion nationwide, and from about $3 million to $900,000 in the Jacksonville area. St. Johns County has been giving urinalysis tests to people who apply for county welfare assistance for several years. Of 742 applicants tested in 1997, 33 of them, or 4 percent, tested positive for illegal drugs, county statistics show. Under the Florida law, people must be tested if there’s a "reasonable suspicion" they’re drug abusers. Getting a psychological profile via a series of questions is the best way to find out if there’s a reasonable suspicion, officials said. See Michigan First State To Force Welfare Applicants To Pass Drug Tests; DEA Spends $349,000 On Museum -- NORML Press Release Applicants are asked, for example, if they have never felt sad over anything, if they are often resentful, if their life is uninteresting or if they are sometimes "no good for anything at all." Even though the individual questions seem innocuous, drug abusers usually answer them in similar patterns, officials said. Results showing low percentages of drug abuse come as good news for Candace Moody, director of employer services for First Coast Workforce Development, which seeks jobs for people on welfare. "There’s a stereotype about people on welfare, and we’re delighted the test results prove that wrong," Moody said. " . . . They’re not all drug abusers." The results show that no one has refused the screenings or drug tests in Jacksonville. Four people who have tested positive have refused treatment. "Many of the most serious drug users openly admit their problems," said Phyllis Cooper, assessment specialist for River Region Human Services, the agency handling the testing in Jacksonville. "They’re sick and tired of being sick and tired," Cooper said. The test results also show that, of the 1,364 applicants in the Jacksonville area, 123 have been referred to mental health counseling. The message is that, more often than simply abusing drugs, people applying for cash assistance have trouble coping, Cooper said. "Usually, when people apply for welfare, they’re not just concerned about getting a job," she said. "They’re also worried about problems with their spouse or how they’re going to afford day care or how they’re going to catch the bus for work." Copyright: The Florida Times-Union 1999 "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

I've had my Dell E1505 with Vista Ultimate since Feb. and have yet to have any problems with Norton. I am, however, wondering why Roxio Creator was bundled in with the software package as the driver is not compatible. To date Roxio have not yet offered a solution. I agree that Vista is more fluff than substance. Setting up programs that worked great with XP was time consuming. I did have to wait for a driver to be developed from Safe-Net to interface with my Sentinal Superpro USB keys. As I was told by a technician from Safe-Net, Microsoft was not so anxious to supply beta copies to programmers so as they could uprade their programs for Vista. I still cannot download from Vista to my embroidery machine and have to operate it using my other laptop that does have XP (glad I kept the old doorstop). I am taking possession of a DTG (direct to garment) printer next week and have been told that there are glitches with the software compatibility when interfacing with Vista and that I should probaly use XP. Again it was due to MS not wanting to supply copies to programmers. I was wanting to go with a Mac but, was told by the programmer of digitizing software I use that it was not compatible with Mac. Nor was the machine compatible with Mac's OS. If not for my software, I would had booted MS a long time ago. And that's another thing, Rebooting. Every freaking time I turn around there is another fix and another reboot. It has gotten to the point where it seem that it will never end. Fix, reboot, fix, reboot... I am rebooting in my sleep. It is a never ending nightmare of fix and reboot... I can't take it much longer....AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Oh, the humanity.... I want a Mac. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

You knew it was only a matter of time untill he found out about this magical platform "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Got any proof of this? Nearly everyone I know smoke pot. Most smoke daily after work. Most of my friends do not drink. Soley pot smokers. They all work good jobs. Most of them, you would never suspect that they even smoked or would even condone it. There is no link between pot smoking and welfare. I would venture to say that there are more working people who smoke than there are poor. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

My partner in crime, the look out. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Nearly hallf a million cell phones retired daily? Damn! That really says something about consumerism and waste. I would think that of the half million phones retired, near most of them are perfectly good phones. Is it that people must have the latest gizmo or their life will just go to hell? Sad that we have became a nation of mass consumption. What is new today is garbage tomorrow. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Emulation is not new. People have been copy catting their "heroes" for thousands of years. I can imagined that a number of kids of the old west days wished to be like William Bonney aka Billy the Kid after reading the fabricated accounts of his bank robberies (Billy the Kid never robbed any banks. His only thefts were some butter and some ones laundry and later he rustled some cattle to settle a debt owed to him) and shoot outs with the law (Though credited with killing 21 men, he actually only killed 4 men in self defense but, as a member of the Regulators during the Lincoln County war he was present during shoot outs with corrupt lawmen in which no one knows who bullet killed who). These stories were mostly of the imagination of dimestore novelist who knew that exaggeration sells. He was made to be meaner than he really was and a faster than lightning gunfighter ready to kill all who got in his way. All false. None the less young boys idolized him in those days much like some kids idolize the figures in certain movies. The invincible counter hero sells movie tickets. Movie makers know this just as the dimestore novelist knew it to be true to sell books. So, it is fair to say that the media should share in the blame for how some kids may react after seeing a movie or after reading a book. However, they (the media) cannot be held accountable for some ones delusion that they (the kid) are just like the counter hero whom they worship. Those who do as Cho did seem to be destined to do as such for whatever reason. Identifying with a counter hero only serves to reinforce their dellusion and spurs them on to do the unthinkable. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Willie has proven that a good lawyer is worth every penny. ExAFO, I take it that you have no plans to become a defense attorney. Oh, you should also check her arms for needle marks as the government says that a joint leads to heroin and we all know that the government is always right Willie Nelson pleads out on pot charge Tuesday, April 24, 2007 – Willie Nelson and his tour manager avoided jail Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession after an incident last September in Louisiana. Nelson and his tour manager, David Anderson, plus Nelson's sister, Bobbie Nelson, and two drivers, received citations on Sept. 18, 2006 after state troopers said they found marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms on Nelson's tour bus during a commercial-vehicle inspection on Interstate 10. Officers at the scene smelled something suspicious. A search of the bus found 1 1/2 pounds of marijuana and about two-tenths of a pound of psychedelic mushrooms. Nelson and Anderson were each fined $1,024 and were placed on probation for six months. The citation against Bobbie Nelson, a member of his band, was dismissed. A conviction could have resulted in a six-month jail term. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

Are you reading my mind? I was just wondering when I was going to be warned when suddenly there it was. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

I can understand the rest but, what does Hunter S. Thompson have to do with this. He was a highly respected journalist as well as a counter-culture hero. I really miss his "Hey Rube" column on ESPN.com. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young

My name is not "sporto" it is Mark (somehow I expect such child like names to come from a kid. How old are you? 18, 19 maybe 20. At such an age why are you not in Iraq fighting the war you so boldly defend. Much nicer to be safe in your house and let others die for you? WOW!!! you really are much like Bush!) Also, your original question implies that the Dems are using Tillmans death merely to embarrass Bush when it is Tillmans own family that is pushing for the truth. I take it that you much rather see Tillmans death be used as a recruitment tool."JOIN THE ARMY AND BE A HERO LIKE PAT TILLMAN. HE DIED A HERO FIGHTING EVIL" Fact: he was mistakingly killed by his buddies and they were ordered to lie in an attempt to cover up the truth. That said, Tillman is a hero for his commitment. "...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young