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Israel, In addition to my questions a couple posts back; What do you think would happen if all countries quit fighting a proxy war here and pulled out? If the EU, Russia, UN, US, etc. decided they didn't have a dog in this fight and went away? I believe a lot of the violence is perpetuated by people from outside the fight. Like you have pointed out, the EU has helped Palestine and the US has backed Israel. What if everybody left. What would the region look like? I believe you mentioned it would be suicide for Israel to lose the US as an ally. Did that mean that Israel would be over-run if the US wasn't there for Israel?

IMHO the #1 reason we give financial aid to foreign countries is to buy our friends. We can control countries when we are giving them millions and millions of dollars. We also are helping ourselves. Look at your local supermarket in January. See all the fresh fruits and vegetables? Those are grown far away. When we build better sewage and water treatment facilites we are helping those people who grow our foods to keep better sanitation. I do not want people squatting to take a crap next to my strawberries. We also help other countries because as Americans we are basically good at heart. I could go on. And by the way, we are not even close to being the most generous country Map & Graph: Economy: Top 100 Economic aid - donor (per capita) Scroll down for more information Show map full screen Country Description Amount 1. Luxembourg $356.69 per person 2. Norway $309.38 per person 3. Denmark $303.6 per person 4. Netherlands $217.83 per person 5. Sweden $191.51 per person 6. Switzerland $150.64 per person 7. France $105.41 per person 8. United Kingdom $75.28 per person 9. Belgium $74.36 per person 10. Finland $73.12 per person 11. Ireland $72.88 per person 12. Japan $71.67 per person 13. Germany $67.27 per person 14. Austria $50.18 per person 15. Australia $45.74 per person 16. Canada $40.75 per person 17. Spain $33.19 per person 18. Portugal $26.87 per person 19. New Zealand $25.51 per person 20. United States $24.59 per person 21. Italy $17.33 per person The above is from the 2002 CIA World Factbook.

s***, if we are going to finish second, Lets Have Fun I wish we had this staff with last year's team. I like the move. Baines will be a Manager someday. I like the way he played and presented himself. I always thought of him as a winner. Let's give a bunch of guys a first chance and see what developes. 22 More Days

Just because management requires a certain coach, do not think it is all bad. Didn't Halas Hall require Dikta to keep Buddy Ryan? That worked pretty well for a season. And as well as those two got along, you know that Da Coach would never have hired Buddy. Fisk is one of my All-Time favorite players. As an ex-catcher, I always regard the players at the most important position in a favorable light.

I do not want to make a wrong conclusion to your post. Are you stating that the only peace you see for Israel is via a military victory? It appears that your view is Palestinian leadership does not want peace, and only a war will end the acts of terrorism against Israel. If that is correct, how should Israel fight the war? Should Israel be the aggressor and say enough is enough, and launch an all-out attack? Or should they continue to live in fear or terrorists? Sounds like the Palestinian people have suffured much at the hands of poor leadership. If it was the US fighting the 6-Day War, we would have bent over backwards to rebuild a Palistinian homeland for their people. Look at all we are doing for the Iraqi people, and we have done for Japan after leveling major cities with atomic weapons.

From greasywheel121 regarding Kong's wife getting hit by a foul ball. . .

I was just back from South Padre Island. The wait to get across the Queen Isabella Causeway (only way onto the Island) was 3 hours at the peak Saturday night. Absolute madness I saw many yankees getting the sun burns of their lives. I took it as my sworn duty to remind half the population to wear sun screen and offered to share

On one of the top of page banners I swear the Zero on Zero's jersey looks like giant white lips for E-Lo. Anyone else see this?

They all make perfect sense.

Another cultural icon closes, how sad

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I found that surprising. Do any of these count? Searching the UN site I found countless references to condemning Palestinians acts. And a few against Israel as well. My thinking would be more along the lines of do we need another UN condemnation? They do not seem to be working.

I am so homesick you bastard

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Israel, A couple questions, Do you see peace in the Middle East without a clear military victory for Israel? If military might is the only path to peace, how many people will Israel have to kill and of what nationalities? If you see a peace without a clear cut military victory what concessions would Israel have to make? Hasn't the land that Israel currently consideres its boundaries been shared for thousands of years? One problem I see with the land argument would be returning the US to the Native Americans aka Indians. Wouldn't it be a similar situation? I am not clear on this part of Israel history. When Israel was created and the two states partitioned, were people displaced or could they remain and be a part of the new state? Since Jews are only 20% of the entire Israel population isn't it misleading to continue the equation Israel = Jews?

Going in 2nd, CF, SP, Closer are all ?. I do not have a problem leaving our guys out. Jimenez poised for a career year? Repeat that eveery Spring and you'll be right at least once. What the hell is a "career year"? For E-lo, he had a "career year" at the AS Break.

Thank you for recognizing that. I find being called a racist something worth defending. To me it is a very serious allegation. I was not weeping, but defending the Texsox name. You are not a skycap by any stretch of the imagination. But hey, keep trying! Seriously, I would be very interested to watch you and Sideshow try and come to a peace agreement. How would you two decide the path of history? How would you two create a world for your grandchildren's grandchildren? Could you two even agree on a place to hold the meetings and say an agenda of 5 items? Instead of trying to outshout each other, could you listen enough to work out a peace agreement? Without one, both sides will live in fear, and that is insane. So, do y'all want to keep fighting, and have your grandkids, grandkids fighting?

My wife is a X-ray tech. Surgery with a live human isn't a walk in the park either.

I cut up a chicken the other day. It was honey bar-b-q flavored

Speaking of players like this, Is Skippy Dillard still living at Illinois expense?

Tomorrow morning about 200 head will be taking a trip away from the ranch and sent to what the cows and steers will think is heaven. They are heading to the feed yard for 5 months of munching on grain before they will show up on a table near you. PETA

And looking at auto manufacturers as an industry, no one manufacturers a car anymore. They are assembly plants. A transmission from this company, a complete dash assembly from this over company, some plastic parts from here, some seats from there. Alps down by me produces the wireless openers for 6 different auto brands.

One of the most important things an education should teach is the ability to think and make decisions. It should create situations that are all about the gray area. The lines between art, erotic art, and pornography is a moving line based on the person viewing it. And if you begin to ban something because someone may find it erotic, you would have to take down a shoe display because some people have shoe fetishes. I think the display and the debate it has produced is great for college students. It should be taken down soon and replaced with something that will also produce such debate. IMHO the most appropriate public setting for an exhibit like this is a college campus.

Well this summer I had the pleasure of helping my buddy castrate his bulls. I helped cut the bulls from the cows. Drive them down the chute to the gate, lock 'em in, rope the back leg, pull it back, and watch the cutter cut off the sack, reach up and pull down the balls and toss them aside. There is only the smallest amount of blood. Open the gate and off they run. After that, a disection would be a piece of cake.

cw, manufacturing jobs will be decling for the rest of our lives. We will never see a net increase in manufacturing jobs again. Intellectual jobs and service will continue to grow. Technology is replacing workers. Low skilled positions are migrating. The challenge for America is to improve our education systems to train workers for higher skilled jobs. I cannot see manufacturing jobs increasing. But look at industries that have been created. The Internet has created jobs. People will not pay more to buy American. We have lost agriculture jobs for the same reasons. Technology allows production of foods in far off places and getting them to market. We need to evaluate the economy in term of total jobs and the total wages they pay.