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I think HRoark has done a really nice job with this thread. He wants to keep it on track.

Hey, dryad. Bon Voyage! Be sure to post from every exotic location, al la Dwayner (I'm in Bankok, and I'm drunk!).

Wealth and money are created all the time by the Federal Reserve Bank. Business activity amplifies every dollar, each time it changes hands.

So if trask really were running for president, what would his platform be?

TRASK FOR PRESIDENT!

Depends on what your definition of "destroy" is. What happens when your country stops producing job? How about when it has to print money because it doesn't collect enough taxes to pay for what it spends? When people lose confidence in the office of the president because of lies, what then. When 40 years of environmental protection begin dying the death of a thousand cuts, is that destroying the country? Maybe destroy is too strong a word. How about "savaged" or "battered"?

Is anyone else wondering where is JayB, J_B, Fairweather, sexual_chocolate and mattp? This should be mother's milk to them.

The following quote is attributed to the Frenchman, Voltaire, "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." That is a very patriotic thing to say because he is standing for a principle, that of free speech. When the Bush Administration decided it didn't like what former Ambassador Wilson said it decided to leak the identity of his wife, a CIA operative. That is not patriotism. That is treason.

What about these commonalities: All men are created equal. All men have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To the extent that people disagree on what is in the best interest of the country, then yes, patriotic acts vary. In his warped mind, Timothy McVeigh thought he was a patriot by bombing the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. With regard to the Constitution it is important to consider the intent of the Founding Fathers, but also to realize that it is a "living document". The idea that one document could countenance every possibility into the infinite future seems quite ludicrous to me.

I think it is unfortunate that there are those that would have you believe that to be a patriot one must support the government unconditionally. I strongly disagree with this. A patriot acts in what he or she believes to be in the best interest of the country. These acts may actually be against his or her self-interest. Case in point: The ACLU recently acted in behalf of Rush Limbaugh's privacy rights to his medical information. Rush Limbaugh is no friend of the ACLU, but they defended him because they defend the Bill of Rights which benefits all people. This was a patriotic act.

I wonder if masks will work as well for lions as for tigers? "Masks have also helped save lives. Tigers generally stalk and attack from behind. Human face masks worn on the back of the head confuse them. Several have been seen following people but not pressing an attack. In 1987 when the masks were introduced, 30 were killed, but no-one wearing a mask (Man-eaters and Masks. Cat News 11, 1989, p. 12). Since then it has become compulsory to wear a mask and only one has been attacked from the side." Tiger, tiger, burning bright.

Charles Krauthammer says that Dean is "smug". I guess there isn't anything that can be worse than being smug, not dismantling 40 years of environmental protections, not turning the rest of the world against the US, not threatening civil liberties, not creating the largest deficit this country has ever seen. There is no forgiving smug.

Thinker, the habit of not stepping on the rope can be pretty well ingrained.

Those are only a fraction of the items. They left out this one, possibly because he had to back off. Attempt to end wetlands protection.

You can sum it up this way: your military has to kill your nation's enemies faster than you can make them. We're falling behind.

I heard on the radio this morning that a goverment report on job just came out. They were expecting 150,000 new jobs, but only 1000 were created. Oh, but that is good news-- really. It means business is focused on profits and profits mean stocks will go up.

Late last week, the snow level was supposed to go pretty high, like 5,000 ft. So just how high did the rain go?

Of course it's my opinion. If spray isn't the place for opinion, then what is, the bathroom wall?

All true patriots are working to get this maniac out of office.

"The administration "believes you have to control resources in order to have access to them," says Chas Freeman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the first President Bush. " It sure reminds me of Japan under Emperor Hiro Hito/ Tojo around 1940 - Indonesia, or Germany invading Romania.

I'd pay cash money for a bumpersticker like that one.

The bluish-white LED's that are currently used are fine most of the time, but when it is foggy or drizzling, the blue light back-scatters badly. It would be neat if someone could come up with a head lamp with "fog lamps", that is a yellowish-white led. There is a high efficiency LED that puts out light at 592 nm, but I suspect it is nearly monochromatic. Chart. I expect yellowish light would also make it easier to discern features in snow for the same reason that yellow goggle lenses do.

1) Cover Letter 2) Resume 3) Grenade

I thought it has been a long time since we had a poo thread...