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It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

"How hard is to too hard to work to take care of someone you love? How many jobs are too many and how hard would you look for a job that offers health care benefits if health care is what is needed for a family member? What is too big a sacrifice to pay for medication if that is what is needed? Certainly giving up all luxuries and vices is not too much to ask. " How hard? Very hard. People with severe mental illness and/or substance abuse can literally tear families apart. All too often, the person is turned out in order to save what's left of the family.

Here lies Stanley, done in by a three pound barbel. RIP

Wouldn't those Hooters girls have a hard time turning around in those narrow isles?

Rabbit-humping power grab. That's what it is.

Nuclear power is the cleanest most cost-efficient energy source there is. The Germans are idiots for abandoning plants that have many years of useful life left. When you decommision a plant you have to deal with waste disposal whether you do it now or later. But by waiting until the plant has operated for it's normal 30-40 year life span, at least you've gotten your money's worth out of it.

He sure is and a heck of a climber too.

Cracked, do you realize just how incredibly difficult it is to get admitted to a long term psychiatric facility if you don't have a lot of money. A friend of mine struggled for years to get his son admitted. Sounds like all you know about the subject you learned from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Bully for you, trask. Well said, by a true patriot. Look at Guantanamo Bay. Those foreign prisoners don't have legal representation, due process, a speedy trial or anything. I don't care if they are not US citizens. If we think we are trying to set an example for the rest of the world, we're doing a piss poor job of it.

First of all we have no clue what mental disease this guy had, if any. But there are many thousands of schitzophrenics who live their lives without killing other people. This guy was 38 years old. If he were a schitzophrenic he would have been living with it for years. Yet apparently he was able to function in life. You don't become a martial arts expert with severe mental disease. What makes people "snap"? Or do they? I think in most cases people should have seen it coming and might have done something to prevent it.

You're damn right. You can't execute a person who has "emotional problems". "My brother was a wonderful person; he just had some emotional problems that we're still trying to sort out," Nicole Forbes said.

Of course I don't think that. But he pulled it off so well it looked sincere.

Trash fires can produce dioxin. If you burn any plastic which contains chlorine, such as PVC, you will get some dioxin.

Moore is too partisan even for my tastes. He is stupid to pick a fight on this issue. He should graciously concede victory to Bush on this stunt- I mean genture to the troops- and move on to some other issue.

I am generally pro union, but I believe the Teacher's Union works against quality. It is the main roadblock to improvement in public schools.

Timmy, you "out-trasked" trask. Good one.

You can blame the lawyers, but really you should blame the juries. They are the numbskulls who award the ridiculous damages. The system is designed to screen out responsible and intelligent people from juries. Only sheep end up on a jury.

That's where we disagree. The asian brown cloud needs to be addressed first and foremost. More dioxins etc. coming out of dung fires than out of hazardous-waste incinerators. Problem is, if we curb reproduction in asia fast, in a few years the likes of peter puget will be whining 'cause the price of their slave-made goods went up. Although they produce more soot and sulfur dioxide than we do, we produce far more CO2, which is the primary greenhouse gas. Dioxin does not come from dung fires. Hospital incinerators, toxic waste incinerators and pulp mills are the largest sources.

"White House officials told the Washington Post they didn't know the "trophy" turkey would be there, nor that Mr Bush would pick it up." He went right past the real ones to the fake. Figures.

No you don't want to crunch into one of those trichinella cysts. You want them to be tender.

The sun is shinning up a pole?

I have this book. It is a good read. Adrift, by Steve Callahan

The Vatican Rag First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Do whatever steps you want, if You have cleared them with the Pontiff. Everybody say his own Kyrie eleison, Doin' the Vatican Rag. Get in line in that processional, Step into that small confessional, There’s, the guy who's got religional Tell you if your sin's original. If it is, try playin' it safer, Drink the wine and chew the wafer, Two, four, six, eight, Time to transubstantiate! So get down upon your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Make a cross on your abdomen, When in Rome do like a Roman, Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya, Gettin' ecstatic an' Sort of dramatic an' Doin' the Vatican Rag!

CONCISE! One word sentences. Eliminate.

I'd have a second yellow zone on the "overcammed" part of the lobes. Yellow instead of red, because overcamming is not dangerous, just expensive. So the pattern would go yellow-green-yellow-red from smallest radius to largest radius.