Royd

I've known quite a few home schoolers, and it is my understanding that at the end of the year, they are still answerable to state requirements.

> If I go to your house and knock over a vase, I'll pay for it. Sadly, with childish brats like Mooki Mook Al Sadr running around the jobsite tearing things up as quickly as we fix them, it's one step forward and two steps back. Once we fix any given item, whether it be a school or a pipeline, and they break it, it's theirs, unless they are willing to foot the bill to fix it. Change orders ain't cheap.

If I go to your house and knock over a vase, I'll pay for it. If, when I get ready to leave, you knock it over and break it, and then scream that I broke it, sorry. I replaced it once.

How ironic that we, as humans, the weakest beings, pound for pound, of all creation, seem to have a pretty big god complex. We've come to understand something of the movement of nature, by our superior reasoning, but that's not enough. Somehow, we really think, call it hope,faith, whatever, that we can stop or reverse the actions of nature. How egomaniacal of us. Let's look at the space program. In the end, does it really matter that we have a close up look at the surface of Jupiter, with its storms large enough to consume the Earth? Nice pictures, and curiousity quelled, but really, it's a huge waste of time and money, because at the end of the day, it means squat. I have a question for you. Are your days absolutely numbered?

> They insist on biofuels, so farmers see an opportunity to make >big money growing corn that is basically inedible, except for livestock, but > since the govt. is willing to pay subsidies to grow it, they are now >converting land for edible grains, which we need to live, into fuel grains. I suppose if you look at it healthwise, yes. The problem is that land is being taken away from legume crops, also, which is essential for a proper vegetarian diet. It seems that the environmentalist extremists are winning the battle, although eventually, to their own chagrin. We are now hung up on biofuel and its advancement, yet we've thrown away forty years worth of possible growth in the nuclear industry. At this point in the game, our electric bills could have been $20 a month, and we could even afford to drive electric cars. We won't be able to afford that with the methods of producing today's electricity, unless you live near Hoover Dam. Why again, are we leaving oil in the ground, anywhere? Is it to show our great grandchildren what an undisturbed oil patch looks like? Once again, shortsighted environmentalists are standing in the way of technological advancment. The fact is that there is plenty of ground that has not even been looked at for the possiblity of oil. We have lots of natural gas off the west coast of Fl. and the political clowns on both sides of the aisle are worried about some tourist seeing a drilling rig 20 miles offshore. First, you won't be able to see one twenty miles away, and second, I think the national fuel concern is more important than state tourist dollars, regardless of how vital they are to the state economy. The hugest waste of land are the right of ways and medians on interstates. Those could be leased to farmers for the growth of such products, leaving the good land for food production.

Sadly, the same people who demand that we all change our lifestyles, are now getting a taste of a wish come true. They wanted skyhigh fuel prices so that we would all drive less, thus protecting the precious environment. The problem is that they just didn't look down the road far enough. They insist on biofuels, so farmers see an opportunity to make big money growing corn that is basically inedible, except for livestock, but since the govt. is willing to pay subsidies to grow it, they are now converting land for edible grains, which we need to live, into fuel grains. Great for farmers, not so great for the person wanting to make a sandwich. You can bet that a large percentage of those insisting on change, have never planted a garden, pulled eggs out from under an angry hen or milked a cow, and most consider such things below them. The day is coming when food will be the legal tender.

Which badge do you think they were working on that night.

Once the thing is over and they don't see Jack Bauer, they'll wonder WTF.

I've only been riding about 7 months. Almost 9K miles. The difference between a cage and a bike is that on a bike, you have to be on your game 100% of the time. Sure, you can relax, but riding a bike is physically challenging. You have to pay attention to road conditions and situations. Up ahead, what's that big black spot in the ditch. It's a bunch of turkey vultures having lunch with some unfortunate roadkill. Slow down, they may spook, and they're not quite as smart as crows or turkeys. You come upon a semi. That rear left tire looks low. Fall back or get around, or you may be eating a road gator. You can't steer with one finger, drink coffee, change the CD, talk on the phone, or smack the kids in the back seat.

I'd say so. Everything is designed, whether manmade or natural to work according to certain laws. So, yes, just as the engine in a vehicle always turns in the same direction to function properly , so, the Earth spins in one direction, and tips back and forth on its axis, giving us the seasons, thus, providing plants with their proper times of dormancy and growth to provide the fruit, which provide the seeds which continue the species. Why do I need a scientist writing a paper, mostly for the purpose of putting money in his pocket, to verify what I can readily observe out my window?

He doesn't have to. Wright did it, himself, in front of the nation. Sadly, I'd say that this is the essence of Rev. Wright, so Obama cannot say he never had a clue. I believe Obama sat in the pew and nodded his head, and said Amen to many of the things that came out of the good reverend's mouth.

How about the freedom to drive to any place, without a border check, unless you're a trucker, of course.

Atheists don't believe in the human spirit, the soul or afterlife. You are here and now, then you're dead and gone. That is their enlightenment. They have reached the apex of their meaning for life.

I believe they call them oars.

No. We're here to beat each other over the head with plastic, waffle ball bats.

Hey, Pops. Did you stop and look left, before turning R on R into Speaker's Corner?

Let's go with that. Do you really, really believe in the theory of evolution? I mean, really? Two elements, bumping along through time just happened upon each other, and voila. The rest is history. Let's say it's true. What makes you think that it hasn't happened somewhere else billions of years before it happened here? Using your logic, we have to say it's extremely possible. This extra terrestrial life just happened, by chance, to be created without all of the baggage that we, as humans, carry around. Greed, hate, contempt, you get the picture. Yet, it had the ability to advance itself techologically far beyond anything we can imagine. This entity now has the ability to make itself invisible, unmeasurable and full of all of the good qualities. It has also advanced to the point of being able to create life. We are trying to do that, right? So it is possible,right? Now, who's to say we are nothing more than a junior high science project, gone bad, created by one of the entity's children. You have a choice. You can accept my theory or you have to say we are the only form of life acrost the universe, which leads to problems with the evolutionary theory.

I don't know about anyone else, but because of the ad column on the left, every time I make a page change, everything slides to the right, and I have to recenter the page. Frankly, it's a major pain in the ass.

For someone who claims to hate religion, it sure looks like you've bought into the end time, scare tactics of the Book of Revelation.

Isn't the right to vote worth giving up a six pack of Schlitz Malt Liquor for a night, just to get an ID?

There is a problem without some kind of second verification. In Florida, our signature is checked against one already on record.

A true believer would never wish hell on anyone -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You didn't get your Get Out of Hell Free card?

If your driving is as good as your drawing, just stay in the turn lane.

I would argue that if the u-turn guy has a left hand green arrow, he has the right of way over the RonR guy. R on R must stop and yield to oncoming traffic before proceeding. If R on R is on his game, he's going to notice that u turn guy has his wheels turned, even though he shouldn't , preparing for a turn.

Anything? Every single word, character and story in the Bible is just a figment of someone's imagination? Now that takes some faith to believe that.