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I would still say Africa is a much more worth cause. Many of their problems are easily solved, such as their disease problems. They have epidemics of diseases that have cheap cures. For under a dollars worth of medication each, right after birth, the lives of millions of children could be saved. There is a popular old wives tale in many areas that sex with a virgin can cure AIDS. Think about that. That little bit of "knowledge" has led to the rape and disease of how many people? In Zimbabwe President Mugabe has allowed the redistribution of land to the majority blacks, taking it away from the rich white farmers. The problem is that the majority of the people taking over the land, don't have the capital or knowledge to farm it, and now the country has desended into self-caused famine. My point is that it would be much cheaper per life in Africa to save people, than say aid that we send to anywhere else in the world, where the problems we are trying to solve are so much more complex.

I would respectfully say I don't think it is all about resources here today. Africa IS the worlds largest natural reserves of so many things it is amazing. Think about it... gold, silver, copper, diamonds, platinium, palladium, uranium, and huge oil reserves... that is right off the top of my head. If it is all about oil, why do we work so hard in the middle east, yet ignore a country like Nigeria, which has huge reserves of crude, amongst other things. Russia would also be much easier to buy off, as they always are net importers of food stocks, and we are the worlds biggest exporters of food. It would be an easy swap.

He has to be on the roster all year.

because I wasn't paying attention...

I thought about the same answer at first, but I figured I'd give the fat pitch for someone else to smash

With out the oil in the middle east, we would care about them about as much as we care about the ethnic slaughters that have gone on in many countries in Africa in the 90's, into the 2000's. Outside of a precious few people, no one realizes how many people have died, and are dying there. The number of dead just from civil wars is in the millions, from just the 90's. Can anywhere else in the world say that? No. How many US troops are there. Very little. How many UN troops are there? Even less. How about disease? Kids are dying with diseases that were curable decades ago. AIDS is ravaging the continent. Misinformation about diseases is only exaserbating the problem. No where else in the world has experienced anything remotely like this in the 20th century. I honestly believe if it were a predominantly white continent we would have sent troops there long ago. Sorry Africa is a pet peeve of mine. It is an ignored continent that holds about 20% of the world population.

wow no kidding. Good for you guys. We have already started saving up hoping to make it to AZ next year. I can't wait. I think I have my best friend and his wife talked into going over with us. It ought to be fun.

Trust me. I am going to do everything I can to whoop his ass. I am in the finals of both of my hockey leagues, I am so pshyched. I won a tie breaker for an 8-8 game last week in my 16 team league. The guy won the regular season by 40 points and I picked him off by concentrating on the categories I knew I could beat him in, and rotated in players that specialized in those areas. It ought to be an interesting two weeks to say the least, but I guess I have to try to do what the rest of you pukes failed at

And welcomed back with 20 degree temps and snow

Barely. Kevin Bacon came after me when I booed him

He probably wouldn't hit any worse than Willie has :puke

And a rookie 3rd base coach...

Listen NTNboy the question was who would have "wanted" to, not who did. :finger

As much as I love the guy, it has to be Paul. If you listen to his music it always reflects the era it was from.

You mean Roberto Alomar right? Sandy is back...

Way to be Bull. You are a class act man. It takes guts to answer critisizm like that. Good luck this year Jim

This from a guy who eats Vegemite :puke

God anything but that song! I got forced to sit through a High School production of Footloose this weekend :puke :puke :banghead :sleep

Well you know where Coach K learned his craft, right?

This has been the worst year picking brackets for me in a long time. I had won pools two out of the last three years. I might finish last this year

I have to take exception to the Bull comments. Isn't he learning a whole new pitching motion this year? That has got to be enough to screw you up for a while.

It was interesting that they left the kid out there to get beat up that way. I would be curious to see how he reacts to the adversity.

Have fun AB!!!