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Hope you get legal fees out of it too. Otherwise bye-bye five weeks wages, even if you did win. In all candor though, what was your employer's side of the argument? >give rationale as to how you came to that conclusion My rationale for agreeing with you comes solely from hearing only your side of the story.

>>...never proving he got rid of them, >because we yanked the inspectors before >they could finish looking for them 12 years he failed to prove it, and threw every roadblock he could. But somehow we were able to do this in less than 2? The war is SH's fault, no one else's. Main point is that it wasn't the inspectors' job to look for weapons; that would be impossible. Rather, it was only their job to verify their destruction. >speaking from personal experience..... No disrespect to your personal experience. But what if during the oak assault you found yourself losing. Maybe too late to go for the gun? I wish no ill will on anyone who doesn't bring it on themselves, but if someone breaks into my house, I'm aiming center mass. >ITS CALLED SELF PROTECTION!!!!!!! Nothing wrong with that. Nations have a right to defend themselves. But what if your 9mm is used against an innocent family member? Like when SH chem'd the Kurds? Was that self-protection? At that point, shouldn't the unconventional weapons be taken away? Like the UN, US Dems, US Reps, and our allies around the world agreed should happen? >against assholes that want to inflict their >beliefs, laws and morals on you. The idea of Iraqi liberation is to let the people decide how they want their society to be, not for a dictator to decide, nor for the US to decide. Shoot, if we wanted to inflict our society onto theirs it would've already happened years ago. >>something they forgot to put in the bible.... And on that, I agree. People should be free to live and shape their society as they see fit.

You're confusing 'never had them' with 'gone now'. Ask the Kurds if SH ever used chem on them. SH agreed to prove he got rid of them. He had 12 years. He didn't. He guessed UN bribes would keep us off his back. He guessed wrong. There are always lots of options. But when it comes to war, there are only two. You either go to war or you don't. And you should if you're convinced that the alternative is worse. They don't like us because keeping the masses focused on an external enemy keep their minds off oppression at home. And no, the same argument being redirected at us is cute but doesn't wash. Israel doesn't have the right to exist? The arab world had plenty of opportunities to take care of palestinians. It's just in the arab world's best interest to keep them oppressed and blame israel.

As for those against the war: - ...knowing that SH had WMD for quite some time in the past, - ...never proving he got rid of them, - ...and even if he had, making quite clear he wanted them again, Would it have been better for him to continue developing his weapons, and waiting until he used them against us or someone else to the tune of 1,500 many times over, before we did something about it? War is always a bad solution, but it's the right choice when you're convinced doing nothing will eventually be worse. Right?

"I was in combat the entire time I was there," ... "They had no military whatsoever." So which is it Jeremy? You volunteer, you serve. You don't pick your battles. And at Bragg makes him a two-time volunteer even... Someone in the military discovering consciencious objections? Sure, could happen. But in this guy's case, he seems to be objecting this particular foreign policy, not war in general.

You're talking to someone and they've got something on their face, mustard, eyelash, something. What do you do to show them where it is? (I'm trying to settle a bet for what *most* people would do. Or maybe just what most skydivers would do.)

$17/mo

funny when you hear on CNN "well, the average gas price nationwide has shot up to $1.93" or whatever. here in socal, it's like "pshah, we wish..."

Some vendors won't accept that. Like someone said above, the US Post Office refused my card a couple of times because I wrote "CHECK ID" on the back. Buying tickets on Amtrak, same thing. No signature, they don't accept the card. Yes, even if I hand them my drivers license too. But I agree with most others above, that most places don't check or care. Ugh. I wish. *Lots* of places won't take a check which only has a PO Box on it. After a couple years of this, I finally had to chuck a box and buy another one with my address. No reason to have you phone number printed on it either. The rest of that stuff above is great. Thanks!!

if you haven't seen it yet, check out the BASE section of SkydivingMovies.com. some incredible stuff there. gotta hand it to those folks.

Word. At least then the money would go to the band/arena/production instead of the opportunist parasites who offered no added value. Bono could put his take into the World Bank. (did I just say "word"? sorry 'bout that)

...so that we can get back to playing twister on the slip and slide. At this sight of this, the farmer holler'd out...

Looks like trooper #8 probably had some decent line twists to kick out, with all that spinnin'...

RECAP: In the begining there were two frogs hoppy and lumpy. they were both large and fugly creatures with really big shoes, that were stuck in the back of a fifth wheel trailer driven by Bad Spot Tim on his way to get some jumpers who landed on the other side of the freeway. As he pulled out of the parking lot, Bad Spot Tim saw the strangest sheep, so he called over some locals and started to take pictures of the strange little buggers who had butt lock, only to find the locals particularly enjoyed the smell of old ear wax. Then a grumpy farmer walks up holding a (or) and out of nowhere a big ball of chemical waste fell out of the sky, leaving skid marks on the side of the farmers ass. And then the donkey who surprisingly resembled Gollum, farted loudly just before he magically started reciting the alphabet backwards. But to the farmers surprise missed the letter B. "You can't go from C to A!" yelled the farmer as he scratched his scruffy chin and the donkey said that's not my scruffy chin, but it feels yummie, like the sheep. So he took off the oven mitt full of vasilene and wiped the sweat from his thick uni-brow reached for a cold beer and instead pulled out a roll of duct tape, a gerbil, a sun lamp and a tweezers. But before he got started, he called Richard Gere over and set up the tripod and the slip & slide in front of the full length mirror (richard) WHO WANTS TO PLAY!!!! They quickly lubed the slip-n-slide using the oven mit and vaseline and then ordered the Dominos..5~5~5 deal all sausage..no cheese, and used the sausage and tomato sauce to cover their nipples before clamping on the jumper cables to the gerbal and inserting it slowly into a nearby midgets mouth, Who happens to love a good gerbal with hot sauce and starts chewing and swallowing. As soon as he gets it down richard breaks into tears and starts looking for the number for PETA in the phone book. Unfortunately he can only find... PEPA, from Salt-N-Pepa, because it's a NYC phone book. "Well" said Richard Gere "if I can't save the gerbil, I can try to save Lumpy and Hoppy." He turned around to find the two frogs...

Zackly... First, I slammed on the gas pedal instead of the brake, then I yanked the steering wheel and hit a pole. Driving a car's real dangerous, huh? Practically anything's dangerous if you try (or don't try) hard enough.

When I finally get my ass out for a 12th, I'll start rounding down to 10s.

Of course there are people who's labor is worth that much per month. Those who can find someone to pay that much. If you can, then your labor's worth that much. If you cannot, then it's not. Simple market forces. The same market forces which unions counteract. Getting defensive are we? i wasn't spouting. unlike you i was conversing respectfully. there are plenty of waste and bs on both sides of the business table. and yes, i've been in the middle of teamster strongarming (in the 90s, not 60s) to know they're lifeblood is in keeping their membership riled. How do you feel about a local sec-treas making over $200,000 while the members he represents make $10 an hour? Actually, that would be you. your oversimplification ('that's too much', 'that's not enough') ignores basic economics. check this out. if a business owner can pay the least he can for the most labor, and sells his products for the most he can get, and stays in business, and does it legally and ethically, and there are millions left over for him to pocket, then more power to him. and that's basic economics. (ed. spelling)

Dude needs to put down the wings and throw a couple cans of paint on that house...

I thought the point of that movie was just the opposite.

Of course I cannot and will not question your skill or your pride, however, if you're labor is really worth $10,000 per month, why do you need collective bargaining to get it? More power to you for getting what you can get, but what makes more sense is when someone's labor is worth exactly as much as someone else will pay for it, without the strongarming, corruption, and rank-and-file class warfare that unions promote.

For two weeks I worked at the Quick Stop where Clerks was filmed several years later. Yeah, sucked. When Kevin Smith (director) worked there, he tried many times to get my little sister to go out with him, and trying to convince her to quit smoking. After his fame, he plunged in nicotine hell himself, and sis missed out on the hollywood life. A few years back, my older sister and Bruce Springsteen shared the same pediatrician for their kids. Saw, spoke with him a few times waiting.

Any sympathy for small businessmen who take risks and operate at a loss for years before turning a real profit? There are plenty of those too. How 'bout any sympathy for union local secretary-treasurers and regional presidents who scarf down heavy six-figure salaries at the expense of the middle- and lower-class rank and file? All while they feed their card holders class-warfare hyperbole to keep their own wallets fat. Look, anyone can come up with extreme cases and present them as evidence of the entire class of people, and make a point that way. Bottom line here is that everyone has opportunity to make their own way. Education, experience, determination. Be an employee at lower risk for success or loss, or be a business owner with a higher risk for success or loss. With the former, an employee's labor is worth exactly what someone will pay for it; nothing more, nothing less. Anything else is artificial control which mucks with our whole economic system.

>Why don't Americans say they're American? We do, but depends on who's asking and why. You should broaden your question to find the answer. See... If I'm in Europe and someone asks my nationality, I interpret what they mean is to ask where I'm from, so say "American". But if I'm already in America, and a fellow American asks my nationality, I interpret what they "mean" is ancestral heritage, in which I'd say "mostly Irish". As some said above, in the US, due to it being a nation of legal immigrants (and some illegal ones too) that's a perfectly acceptable answer, even though I've never been to Ireland.

My kid's Super Soaker is green. I didn't know they came in black too...

Meanwhile, the mexican homer, who gets $54 per, is on strike cuz the company wants to find someone who'll do it for less.