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Except that town in Italy that seems to be genetically impervious to the effects of chloresterol and heart disease.
Like diabetsis, we are living a lot easier life now.
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You know? I personally don't really care one way or another for myself. My reason for living died May 18th, 2004. Getting through a day is often a painful chore to me. And it's not "my" plan. I happen to a member of the plans working group at NORTHCOM who has the responsibility for homeland defense. This group includes about a hundred military and civilian subject matter experts in a variety of fields, from legal to air defense to strategy to logistics to WMD to FBI to unconventional warfare. It's completely 100%apolitical and matters very little to my "contract". It's one of several areas that I work in. No matter who wins the election, what I do for a living is not going to change. One candidate will probably make the job more difficult, is all.
After a LOT of analysis, thought, discussion and debate the group came to the conclusion that the only viable homeland defense was to fight a global "away game" and concentrate domestic efforts on the most likely avenues of approach. There is a difference between Homeland Defense and Homeland Security.
At the risk of how this sounds, I do this stuff for people like you. I'm a hell of a lot closer to the issue than anyone else here, and I know what I'm talking about. No one should run around in fear, but neither should they blow it off. The fact remains that this country is at war, and few seem to realize they are living on one of the battlegrounds.
And yes, I think it's pretty disrespectful-and your insinuations are downright insulting-but I also don't care because we all tend to be that way here from time to time.
Sorry. This is a message board. Trust is not an easy thing. Again, my deepest sympathy.
I have said before: "Great nations have their heros, great nations shouldn't need their heros." I am sure you do a great job, thanks. Just do it for your own love. Everything will work out.
I am not saying blow it off. No man is an island, we need help. We need to be humble enough to accept this help.
I don't have a problem with the "away game", just how we went about doing it.
Life is a battleground, always has, always will be.
Hang in there... You are doing fine, I can't imagine what you have been through.
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I fear, Mike, that it will get worse before it gets better. But a lot of this has to do with people's priorities. We tend to overlook accounting mishaps when planes fly into buildings because we suddenly care most about stopping the planes, and if we can do that, we feel like we're ahead of the game.
And because the average person's attention span lasts as long as it takes to vote for your favorite singer on American Idol, it will take an uber-clusterfug of epic proportions by either party to move people to search for options.
Spoken like a true American? Once again, you gotta "shake it off". One can't let it rule your life and impair your judgement. Death happens, there are a lot of nasty things out there. Let's not make the same mistakes over and over again. Running around, go off half cocked, shouting "remember 911, 911" is not the answer.
So again, let me see? I go to work and get cut off by a car with a cat in it! How dare that pet!... I think I will go home and kick my cat!
Where can I get an anti-aircraft gun to defend our fair cities?
Gotta go, I think I see one coming close?
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The only reason that post is there is because it got moved from the other board. I didn't say anything about living in fear. I'm not living in fear, are you? One candidate supports a philosophy of going after the terror guys where they live and breed. One advocates a philosophy of increasing a Homeland Capability to better be able to respond to attack. All his mumbo jumbo about alliances and such is just that.
Simply depends on which approach you prefer. I happen to prefer the former. Especially since I help engineer it. Now, go smack yourself in the head some more if it makes you feel better.
No. It sure sounds like you are? What you do is spread that fear through a lot weaker soul. Obviously you have a vested interest in "your" plan. When it doesn't work, will you know?... Most likely not because it is your "cash cow".
Why should you be trusted?
Nothing will change my mind/your mind... We are fundamentally different people (with the exception of a certain football team...
).No disrespect.
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They did from about 1853 to about the 1930's... Mass. was a Republican state. What gives/gave?
Is it fair to say that the Republicans today are the "Party of Lincoln"... Only in name only. Any fool with the sense of history knows that just isn't true.
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They should kill all the terrorists and then go after the families too. I'm not advocating killing the women and children, but they should disrupt their lives. If terrorists like this know what is at stake beyond their own miserable lives, maybe they wouldn't be so quick to rush into martyrdom.
If I were a Russian soldier and I captured one of these guys, I'd cut off his manhood and send it to his friends. I'd call for the medics to make sure he lived so he had to go through a life of misery.
You actually think that will work?
They are fanatics... They want to hurt you where they know it will hurt... In their eyes you would be giving them their satisfaction.
We live in a different world. The only thing that can work against them is our STABILITY.
You stay stable, they lose... No other way around it.
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Chechan Conflict Info
My one PPP comment. Remember things like this when you vote. This could someday be New York.
Brilliant! Like that is going to make a difference? Fear-mongering, patronizing tones rule!
You know what? probably sooner than later they way we are headed?
Betcha you'd see a lot of those "Ain't Skeered" stickers on the back of vehicles?
...Now I gotta go on living and stop being afraid of my shadow.
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Exactly!
I wonder what stupid rules they will impose?
They should just debate on the fly. No notes and pre-submitted questions.
Debates have become a joke in this country.
They can call it a presidential "Cage Match"... Two men enter, one leaves...
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We learn from those lapses... Dosen't mean throw the baby out with the bath water and invade a country that has no ties to the disaster...
Ya? Next time I get cut off on the road, I think I will go home and kick the cat?
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I never said that both don't do it. The Republicans just do it better and more professionally. They have an "E Ride" ticket to mainstream America.
When will people realize that terror is created to destablize things, especially the financial sectors. The hardliners are falling right into their hands... It keeps the fight alive.
We all get together and sing "Kumbaya" with the Republicans and we feed right into the enemies hands... All they know is power vs power.
I am not saying we don't remain vigilant, getting everybody in a "SpitBall" tizzy is counterproductive.
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What there are rules? Didn't the British try and tell the enemy during the French and Indian War to fight in nice neat lines?
Your are trying to put "honor" in a profession that has no "honor".
What would you have done during the 1884 election?
WTF?
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Why? "No quarter asked, No quarter given"
With all the fear shilling and demagoguery going on at the RNC, I guess they (DNC) got to fight on? People will buy into the hype and make poor choices. For some people there is a lot more to worry about than being a victim of terrorism.
And don't give me that BS about race AD, I live in an area that is 50 to 90% minority... There is no fear here. Leave that (fear) to the people who think they have something more important.
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No.
My sister lives outside Burlington (Enosburg Falls)... Great because she has a view of Jay... Some of the best glade skiing in the east! Her husband is from VT... He has always been a Bledsoe fan... Has no animosity towards the guy and wants to see him succeed.
Their politics are liberal yet different. She is "Move VT Forward"... The bro-in-law is "Take VT Back"... Go figure?... Everybody outside VT is a "Flatlander" to him.
Its all the hippies that stayed from the 60's that changed VT? Now it is NH that scares me... Kinda like the Indiana of NE.
Both sister-in-laws live in Mass... People there just don't get it... Too much of a rush... Like the North Suburbs here in IL.
I made a lot of sweeping generalizations here, my purpose was NOT to offend... Okay, maybe a little
Just spent some time at the family's ocean home in Hampton, NH... All in all it is a great place to visit... People there seem down to earth.
What part of VT are you from?
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A hanging chad is still hanging... Was it intent or error in the system?
My point is that the people will choose the wrong guy all the time when they get riled up.
The chanting, the repeat phrases, etc... And they mock Dean out? Go figure?
ZM brainwashing... He was a Marine?...
Hide behind patriotism, nationalism, fear... That is what I viewd it as. People are scared of change, doing the right thing.
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Zel Miller:
"People who do you want!?"
"People who DO YOU WANT!?"
RNC (People):
"Barabus, BARABUS, BARABUS!!!"
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Umm... Zell is retiring, at least thats what I understand. Is that wrong? I didn't watch the whole speech, as I can't stand the rhetoric from either side at these things. But like the DNC I have watched about 30 minutes total of the coverage. Zell sounded like a preacher speaking from the pulpit and down to the people in the church. But I will tell you, I honestly believe that if someone truely was an independant or undecided before that speech, then they probably are in the Bush camp now, for better or worse.
BTW, if you get a chance read the Washington Post from today, they are basically saying this race is over and Kerry is lost. They said he and his compaign team do not how to respond to anything or move forward. They said the Repubs have basically ignored anything bad said about them and rolled on, but Kerry and crew (pun intended) still have figured out how to let it ride.
Live in fear? Shill the fear baby! I hope my kids never grow-up fearing the unknown and looking for some protectorate.
You better not wake up tommorrow in fear of a terrorist attack? Better yet, I shouldn't get in my car and drive to work, I am in more danger of getting hurt.
What changed ZM's mind? 911? Come on.
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That's Hypnotizing. Fascinating in its natural glory... The fear it exudes is huge. You look at all that open areas of water... What a contrast! The purple spins almost completely around, tightly and connected!
Whoever gets landfall, you are in my prayers.
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That IS funny... the guy does a complete 180 after 3 short years???
Sounds like he should join the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as an honorary member!
He's from Georgia; big suprise there... I suppose if John Edwards was running for President, Miller would have slobbered at the chance to speak at the DEMOCRATIC convention instead. Stay in state where you belong.
Too funny!
Will the real "Flip-Flopenstein" stand up!
Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.
John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."
What gives Zell? I guess it is more popular and stay elected in his state when you shill 911.
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Here is the 0200 paste from the weather channel. They do expect it to drop "sea anchor" and stall a while... Still play it safe.
Hurricane watches have been issued for much of Florida's east coast
2:09 A.M. ET Thu.,Sep.2,2004
M. Newman, Sr. Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Dangerous Hurricane Frances is swirling just north of the Mayaguana after passing just to the north of the Turks and Caicos islands on a relentless course toward the Southeast. Hurricane force winds and blinding rains have slammed the Turks and Caicos during the last few hours. Damage has been reported from the islands. Frances, a category 4 monster on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, is expected to smash through the southern and central Bahamas Thursday and into the northern Bahamas Thursday night. After that, the southeast coast of the U. S. will bob to the top of the target list, but as yet there is no consensus among guidance tools as to where (or when) Frances will thunder ashore. Thus, prudence would dictate residents all along the coast (and even some distance inland) from the Keys to Cape Hatteras make at least preliminary preparations for a strike from a major hurricane. And, unless Frances throws out a sea anchor soon and begins to slow in its forward speed (as most models suggest it will) landfall could come sooner rather than later. Hurricane watches have now been issued for much of Florida’s east coast. Best advice: get ready; pay attention. This storm is larger and will effect more land than Charley did once it makes landfall. Also, if you are in a weak structure like a mobile home you'll want to make plans to evacuate should the storm forecast path go near your home. This kind of hurricane can blow a mobile home away. And keep in mind that tropical storm force winds and building surf (especially along the Carolina coast) will precede the approach of the hurricane by quite some time.
Meanwhile, in the eastern Pacific, Hurricane Howard appears to be growing stronger about 500 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Howard is expected to move northwestward, however, and remain well off the Mexican coast.
In the western Pacific, Typhoon Songda (145 mph) is sweeping WNW from the northern Mariana Islands into the Philippine Sea. Songda is forecast to churn through the Philippine Sea in the general direction of Okinawa, but wouldn't be a threat to the island for four or five days... if then.
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So true. So true.
If anything, this election reflects how one chooses to live their life... And we are all still looking for the answers to that and a way to minimize the mistakes.
There really is no right and wrong for yourself... Just right and wrong on how you interact with others.