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This reminds me of that scene in Back to School where Rodney Dangerfield had Kurt Vonnegut write a paper about one of Vonnegut's own works and received a "C" because, according to the Professor, the student knew nothing about Vonnegut.

QUOTE(winodj @ Apr 4, 2005 -> 07:53 AM) They are now talking about postponing the wedding according to NPR this morning. Of course DJ would have the latest news. Chuck is moving the wedding date.

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QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 4, 2005 -> 08:47 AM) Staying close to the beer! Do you think they are drinking Corona and limes? One very good thing about having the vigilantes out there, is if they stay long enough, they will save lives. The Border Patrol checks out every instance of ciculating buzzards. All too often it is a person who didn't make it. I also hope this helps increase the Border Patrol's budget. Right now they have to place much of their resources on stopping drugs, guns, and other contraband and don't have a lot of extra fund to chase illegals. I would hate for agents to be taken off of drug smuggling and placed on chasing down leads of every Mexican-American on the border.

There are people who read a book and think they have it all figured out. Sometimes their mistakes are so spectacular they become famous. About a year ago a guy was hiking alone and got pinned by a boulder. He hacked off his own arm to escape. He wrote a book and was hailed as some brave guy. My Scouts just laughed at the guy. Step one to keeping your ass alive in the wilderness. Have a buddy with. Step two, if you do not have a buddy, tell someone where you are going and when you will be back. I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet this guy had a GPS with him but couldn't read a map. He also pushed the panic button pretty quick. If he was planning on hiking the trail, he would have had provisions for a couple weeks at least. He would have cached food along the way, or arranged food drops to general delivery at a post office. Find a backdrop to hike to, heading north and then follow that feature back to the trail. Another likely guess is, on day one, he realized that 2,600 miles is a long way and gave up.

I guess they aren't sticking to those wilderness areas. Easier to just hang around town.

What a fool. If he can't read a map and use a compass, he shouldn't be out there. That is a fairly well maintained and marked trail. He obviously hadn't done his pre-trip planing.

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One of the first things I learned as Editor of my college paper was all campaign ads are cash in advance. No money, no ad.

I was reading some of the coverage about the coverage and was surprised to learn that news organizations have been renting rooftop space near the Vatican for years in anticipation of this story. I know they prepare obits and make plans for world leaders deaths, so they can be prepared, but even remembering to rent locations for years in advance was surprising to me.

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I'm not saying he's innocent. Just talking about the testing process. I would like to know what the testing procedures are. If there is a second test conducted at a different lab and how accurate the tests are. Nothing is 100% accurate. 99.9 means one in a thousand will be wrong. Either a false negative or a false positive. Isn't it poppy seeds that can trigger a false positive on some drug tests? This also highlights how these guys have to be careful with over the counter typoes of stuff. I imagine some of these drugs are trying to mimick the real deal stuff, perhaps they come close enough to trigger a false reading.

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Vietnam was more costly in lives lost and changed forever, Iraq will be more costly in dollars. That is the changing face of war. High tech is replacing a soldier on the ground anywhere they can. Another issue is the moral obligation we feel to re-build Iraq, something we did not have with Vietnam. It appears as if our leaders have voted an unlimited budget for these purposes.

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QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 3, 2005 -> 06:05 PM) Did our nation go "bankrupt" after Korea, Vietnam, or the Persian Gulf War? Why would it happen now? Because our politicians no longer have the courage to raise taxes to pay for wars. Instead they continue to increase our national debt and stay in power. Republicans use to be for fiscal responsibility and painted Democrats as "tax and spend". Now the Republicans have become the "spend and don't tax" party. They keep telling us someone else will be paying for this stuff tomorrow that they are giving us today. Who can say no to a free lunch?

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QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 3, 2005 -> 01:24 PM) Sorry, I can't read your mind. Point taken. I seem to remember you complaining that the American policy towards Mexican "visitors" is discriminatory because Mexicans typically can't afford to apply for visas, but perhaps I took that out of context. The point about Mexican tourists was the ones that can afford the proper Mexican paperwork (which is the biggest expense, not what the US charges) are not looking for safe houses and places to hide. They own about 3 out of 4 businesses along the Texas-Mexico border so they do not need jobs. There are so many legal to be here Mexicans on the border that are being harassed by vigilantes who do not have the training that our law enforcement agencies have. The Border Patrol is complaining about all these calls to check out legal citizens are taking away from their efforts to stop drugs and illegals from entering. Imagine a neighborhood watch in Chicago which calls in reports of every black person they see. Yes, Iraq under Hussein used the death penalty. Interesting that among civilized countries we are in the minority using the death penalty. Most countries find us barbaric in that regard. We found someone even more extreme than us. So . . . Any government which kills more people or for less of a reason is evil and anyone who uses the death penalty less than us or not at all, is a weak liberal country. I do not believe any country has a moral obligation to bankrupt their nation to save another. The most absurd part of the Iraq War is that we are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Much of this money is coming from countries which refused to join us in Iraq. :headshake We now know our intelligence was wrong about other things, could it be that Iraq was not executing or torturing as many people as our government claimed?

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 3, 2005 -> 10:29 AM) That's an interesting comment coming from someone who spends so much time here defending the rights of Mexicans. What about all of the Iraqis that Saddam slaughtered over the years? What about the Kurds and Shiites that he gassed? What about all of the people who were arrested, tortured, and murdered by Saddam's secret police? What about all of the brutality and murders committed by his sons? Are you suggesting that American lives are worth more than Iraqi lives? Surely you don't believe that they're "just brown people" who don't have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that we do? I didn't expect an answer. And BTW, read closely. I am defending the rights of Mexican AMERICANS to not be harassed by other Americans.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Mar 31, 2005 -> 10:10 AM) From what I understand, Iraq themselves went out of their way to mislead not only their own people, but also parts of their military. On occasion, even Saddam was lied to by his sons, telling him they had a level of preparedness that wasn't true. So if they don't know or lie to appear stonger, how are we supposed to be accurate? This just doesn't come as a surprise to me. Did we not expect him to lie? I believe our intelligence agencies are suppose to verify and look past the public statements. QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 1, 2005 -> 08:10 AM) Despite the apparent flaws in our intelligence, the world is a much better place with Saddam behind bars and his sons out of the picture. Nobody deserves to live under a regime of terror like that. Would you have given your life to make that happen? How many American lives is a fair price to make that happen? 10? 100? 1,000? 100,000?