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The best coffee is found on the drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. It is plain old Community Dark Roast cherished by coon asses and honorary ones (yes I am). Lightweight Texans usually favor something lighter like tea. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

The gentleman who spit on her has probably softened over time. She is very lucky he just spit on her. Mind if I buy both of you beer? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I never rode motorcycles as a kid, and when I finally got the bug, I took a safety course riding a Rebel. It's a nice training bike. I feel you will get tired of running on frontage roads and take the plunge in traffic. When I went to pick up my bike at the dealership in New Orleans, I had this elaborate plan to parallel the West Bank Freeway on some river frontage road to avoid traffic. Never happened. I just pulled out in traffic and drove home to Arkansas. Just my 2 cents. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

LOL are you serious? If you are, then sure mate, no probs. Can I send it to Aunt Hilda in Texas? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

You must admit Halliburton has got some pull. Last time, WWVietnam, it was with a Democratic President. Even Bell Helicopter managed to ace out the Army's favorite scout ship: the OH6 by shoving the OH58 down our throats. Bell just happened to be from President Johnson's home state Texas. The following came off a NPR website.---------------------- [url]2003 · Current criticism over Halliburton's lucrative Iraq contracts has some historians drawing parallels to a similar controversy involving the company during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. Nearly 40 years ago, Halliburton faced almost identical charges over its work for the U.S. government in Vietnam -- allegations of overcharging, sweetheart contracts from the White House and war profiteering. Back then, the company's close ties to President Johnson became a liability. Today -- as NPR's John Burnett reports in the last of a three-part series -- Halliburton seems to be distancing itself from its former chief executive officer, Vice President Dick Cheney. The story of Halliburton's ties to the White House dates back to the 1940s, when a Texas firm called Brown & Root constructed a massive dam project near Austin. The company's founders, Herman and George Brown, won the contract to build Mansfield Dam thanks to the efforts of Johnson, who was then a Texas congressman. After Johnson took over the Oval Office, Brown & Root won contracts for huge construction projects for the federal government. By the mid-1960s, newspaper columnists and the Republican minority in Congress began to suggest that the company's good luck was tied to its sizable contributions to Johnson's political campaign. More questions were raised when a consortium of which Brown & Root was a part won a $380 million contract to build airports, bases, hospitals and other facilities for the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam. By 1967, the General Accounting Office had faulted the "Vietnam builders" -- as they were known -- for massive accounting lapses and allowing thefts of materials. Brown & Root also became a target for anti-war protesters: they called the firm the embodiment of the "military-industrial complex" and denounced it for building detention cells to hold Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam. Today, Brown & Root is called Kellogg, Brown & Root -- a Halliburton subsidiary better known as KBR. Related NPR Stories Dec. 22, 2003 Part 1: Examining Halliburton's 'Sweetheart' Deal in Iraq Dec. 23, 2003 Part 2: Cheney's Role in Halliburton Contracts Debated NPR News: Beyond the War in Iraq Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Sorry for the duplication John. I did not read your post before submitting mine. Quoting a Kennedy must mean I am getting a little liberal in my old age. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Better Gas Mileage, Greater Security Kennedy shares how a small investment in conservation, implementing CAFE standards, would quickly reduce American demand for oil and our dependency on foreign oil. By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. Note: Shel Horowitz's book, Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, contains a great deal of other information about the interplay of marketing and social change, and ways to move a business toward both environmental and economic sustainablity. It has become clear to most Americans that maintaining our national security will require reducing our dependence on foreign oil. But Republicans are using the current crisis to push through a reckless energy agenda, including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, that will not improve America's security. Even the conservative Cato Institute has called President Bush's claim that Arctic oil would reduce gas prices or American dependency on foreign oil "not just nonsense, but nonsense on stilts." There is a clear and pragmatic way to reduce our dependency fast. Since 40 percent of the oil used by America fuels light trucks and cars, an increase in corporate average fuel economy standards - called CAFE - could have a dramatic impact. In the late 1970's, President Jimmy Carter implemented CAFE standards to combat an oil shortage driven by policies of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The standards raised fuel efficiency in American cars by 7.6 miles a gallon over six years, causing oil imports from the Persian Gulf to fall by 87 percent. Our economy grew by 27 percent during that period. Detroit, predictably, figured out how to build more fuel-efficient cars largely without reductions in size, comfort or power. The CAFE standards worked so well that they produced an oil glut by 1986. That's when the Reagan administration intervened to rescue America's domestic oil industry from gasoline price collapse. Ronald Reagan's rollback of CAFE standards caused America, in that year, to double oil imports from the Persian Gulf nations and to burn more oil than is in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. According to a recent report by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, if the United States had continued to conserve oil at the rate it did in the period from 1976 to 1985, it would no longer have needed Persian Gulf oil after 1985. Had we continued this wise course, we might not have had to fight the Persian Gulf war, and we would have insulated ourselves from price shocks in the international oil market. Fuel efficiency is a sound national energy policy, economic policy and foreign policy all wrapped into one. Every increase of one mile per gallon in auto fuel efficiency yields more oil than is in two Arctic National Wildlife Refuges. An improvement right now of 2.7 miles per gallon would eliminate our need for all Persian Gulf oil! Yet the Republican Congress in 1995 made it illegal for the Environmental Protection Agency even to study higher CAFE standards. The result is that America now has the worst energy efficiency in 20 years. If Congress is serious about ensuring our national security it should immediately pass legislation to raise fuel economy standards to 40 miles a gallon by 2012 and 55 by 2020. This would give automakers ample time to adjust their production. In the meantime, Congress should close the sport utility vehicle loophole by holding S.U.V.'s and minivans to the fuel economy standards for cars; automakers have the technology now to achieve this. Along with the other benefits, higher fuel economy standards could bring increased demand for efficient cars, leading to an increase in motor- vehicle-related jobs. We can also substantially cut gasoline consumption by requiring tire manufacturers to sell replacement tires that are as friction-free as tires on new cars. We missed a huge opportunity in the 1980's and 1990's to increase our fuel efficiency. If overall energy conservation options available in 1989 were implemented today, each year we would save 54 times the oil that would have been used from the Arctic that year, at a fraction of the price of drilling there. Mr. Bush's Energy Security Act will actually make us more dependent on foreign oil, and it will place our hopes for national energy security in an insecure pipeline that could even become a terrorist target. There is no reason to wait 10 years for Arctic oil to come on line when a small investment in conservation would quickly reduce American demand for oil. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Note: Shel Horowitz's book, Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, contains a great deal of other information about the interplay of marketing and social change, and ways to move a business toward both environmental and economic sustainablity. Yes, I was a little off on presidents. Sorry. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

You got me by the gonads. Be patient. I'll find it. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Hard work and dedication got you this far and now you get to live your dream. Good luck. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

/reply] If you want better milage that is a consumer choice; why does the gov need to be involved, just buy the damn hybrid. It wasn't a hybrid. It was better gas mileage for ALL cars. Our President, (bet you're glad he's not yours), represents the oil interests that love consumption. He is the government. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Well, what do you know? If I'm not mistaken, Jimmy Carter required auto makers to improve gas mileage a little better each year and Bush put a stop to this. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

A real American terrorist would have left a copy of the Bible in a titty bar and taken himself out with his victims. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

The beginning of hope. Maybe it will rub off on other states. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I used to jump with Beryl Baxter when he would come down to the Little Rock area. Met some of you guys at Hot Springs way back. Nice to know you guys base jump. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I knew it was a shot in the dark. Nobody base jumps around here. I did get a pm. Thanks.

Thanks for the advice.

Looking for a mentor. I live in SW Arkansas. Willing to travel anywhere. No base jumps. Last 2 jumps have been on large 7 cells for accuracy. No problems. Can take course before meeting mentor. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I don't think she hangs out at gun shows, cut and shoot, or VFW clubs now. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Eddie, she won't be tried for treason. As for getting shot, I bet she is very careful where she shows her traitorous face. I'm on your side. I have only two words for her: very popular in the 60's. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

On day 7 myself Wonderful. "I have summoned you by name; you are mine." Isaiah 43:1 Amazing, some of the dumb things I have done only to find he was still there. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

[replyBush despises them, but loves their cheap labor and the heat it places on the rest of American citizens to work cheap and crap on benefits, that's why he let's them in... I think President Bush has some twisted idea he can help save the social security system by letting all these illegal people come up here and work. Even after 9/11 and a dramatic outburst of public opinion, he just pretends he cares about our porous border. Trouble is, it's not just Mexicans coming to see us. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Learning to serf in a combat zone? Not bad. When I was a patient at the 6th Convalescence Center, Cam Ranh Bay, the nurses were dating air force guys who would take them water skiing on the weekends. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Arkansas, eh? So Clinton really did think he was telling the truth! Don't forget the part about beating up the brother and out running the father to remain a virgin. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I heard that a couple on vacation did not like the room service. When they got home to watch vacation videos, there was a shot of the maids anusing and pubicing the family toothbrushes. Really don't know if this is true. Maybe you should just pub their tooth brushes. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

You are lucky if you can eat fresh sushi where you live. I used to eat it only when I worked away from home, and it was a real treat. I once got a free hunk of tuna right off the boat in Venice, La. The skipper even had wasabbi(green hot stuff) to put on a sample. Talk about good. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.