cindergirl,
you should have your friends here at cc.com watching out for you. before you meet him have him show up at a pub club so your net friends here can check him out first.
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i'm reminded of what many commentators said about saddam during the first gulf war. when people wondered why saddam didn't pull iraqi forces out of kuwait in the face of certain military defeat it was pointed out that while the iraqi army would lose, saddam would likely win politically by being a hard liner and consequently stay in power.
i think what's really going on here is not so much about US troops winning or losing it's about dubya and his political cronies winning and losing. oh and haliburton might lose some money if the current iraqi government gets overthrown.
i'm only posting this here because spray is slow and i figure you're all bored.
of special interest to you sailors. this guy built a wheeled device that is powered by the wind and travels downwind faster that the wind. see video.
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small PDF file with a text description of the device
More discussion here
can it be? is it possible?