glacierdog

ha ha

put a paper over it and rub it with crayon.

Let's take the funding saved from the school lunch policing act and apply it to your study.

I'm sold. I need underwear with three full size leg holes anyway.....

Do you know where I could read this report? I'm rather interested in it.

I'd fight with that man any day of the week.

Thanks Jim, I will.

And yes, Colin Powel is a hard ass mo fo. I seriously doubt he would present anything but the truth. This is indicated by his relative silence up until it was time to reveal to the UN some key facts.

Did anyone happen to take that English class that teaches one to read objectively? There are so many half truths and outright fabrications in the media, that one has to sit back and think "what's the flip side to this?" While the whole deal was going on in Kosovo, I monitored a web site published on their side of the tracks, while simultaniously keeping up with CNN. It was enlightening seeing events written from both sides. I don't know if Iraq has a similar website, but it would be interesting to follow things like that again.

Really. I don't happen to work in a school lunch program, but I do happen to work in the military. Do you know what happens if you get overpaid accidentally? If you don't call and correct the problem, and then DFAS gets wise to it, you don't get paid until you have repaid every cent you were overpaid. That was a mouthful. We have to sign for every screw we recieve. Things still do get lost, but people lose their asses when they do.

I agree one hundred percent that we need to change how we do things. But I think that is happening right now. We are constantly working as a society to improve on what we have already. Everyone with gumption enough is fighting to correct their own personal gripe with the way things are. And if enough people agree, it happens. Granted, we've taken a step back here and there. But overall, I'm glad to be living in these times. I get to go to war next week. I have the opportunity to stike a blow against evil. And Bush is doing it. He isn't waiting for the UN to quibble their way to another resolution. He is saying, "This man must be stopped. We are going to do it." If that isn't a welcome change of pace, I don't know what is.

Spend some time anywhere north of the Alaska range between November and February, and you will see the most spectacular starscape/northern lights show imaginable.

We're on the same wavelength on this one, muffy. Accountability. That's what it's all about.

Oops. In reply to billygoat.. Maybe so, but I think we can all agree on what BASIC human rights are. Even the UN could come to a consensus on that issues. Well, maybe not the UN....

Point taken. But I still don't see a problem with verification of income for free lunches. It certaintly won't hurt anyone who needs it. I don't see why we should throw it out the window just because there are still other areas that need alot of work.

Star wars kicks ass. Good vs. Evil all the way.

Personally, I think it's about time. (note the play on words. ) Iraq is the middle eastern country that does not play well with others. They have never been forthright with the rest of the world, and the Hussein regime has been and always will be a repressive dictatorship. I'm all for different cultures. But when women can be jailed or shot for allowing a strand of hair to come loose from under their shrouds? I believe we should have finished Hussein off the first time. I don't think we could have found a good replacement, (look at the Taliban) but I'm sure it would have been an improvement. We are going to war to hold Iraq accountable for more than a decade of lies and subterfuge. We ARE a global community, now more than ever. And the rules need to be enforced.

In a utopian society, we would have no crack whores, broken families or poverty. But we don't and as such, there are people who go hungry. It's a damn crying shame, but even if we do drop everything else we're doing to ensure that everyone gets bread, there are still going to be problems. We can't just ignore one thing to focus on the other. What we have is a dam with a million holes in it. Every hole requires attention, or the dam breaks. But you know what? I'm glad you're concerned for the kids. Good on you. Just try to come up with a solution that doesn't involve gutting a different program.

BWAAHAHHAAAA Ahem, but about the oil. It's not about the oil. Lets just drop the stinkin' oil.

I miss Alaska.

Thanks billygoat. I happen to agree that the position I am in currently is a grievous misallocation of valuable government resources. But it is giving me a good base to build off of. I plan to run for president in about 15 years. Vote for me, I'll spend your money well (increased access privileges for all cc.com's denizens, federal funding for the man show, etc.) Seriously, though, I'm proud to be in the strongest Navy the world has ever seen. Maybe there are hidden agendas and corruption lining every action the US takes. I can't claim to know any better. I get my news from CNN, just like everyone else. But I can try to make the best of things, and find the good in the actions we do take. God bless America, and God help Bush. I would hate to be responsible for the greatest nation in the world.

The Middle East has been in turmoil since Biblical times. We have done nothing more than step in when the kids play too rough.

I think the women on this site will appreciate this one: The CIA needs a new assassin. So, they stick an ad in the paper. About a dozen people show up and they are all put through rigorous testing. It finally gets narrowed down to the last 3 people; an ex-KGB agent, an IRA devotee, and a business woman. They take the russian down a long corridor to a big metal vault. "Behind this door, we have your wife blind folded and tied to a chair. As a test of loyalty, you must take this gun and kill her." The CIA agent hands him his gun and opens the door. Sure enough, there is the Russians wife. "I can't do this," he says. He later wakes up in an alley. They then take the Irish man down the hall, same scenario. When the door opens, he hesitates a little, but still goes in, closing the door behind him. Silence. Finally, they open the door and find him sobbing in his wife's lap. He wakes up in an alley. Last, but not least, the business woman. When the door opens, she barrels in without hesitation, slamming the door behind her. Nine shots are heard in rapid succession. After a brief silence, terrible screams amidst breaking wood are heard. The CIA agents rip the door open to see the woman standing over her dead husband in a pile of wood shards. She looks up and says "I wish you would have told me the gun was full of blanks. I had to beat the son of a bitch to death with a chair!"

Well said Jay.

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