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"Biggest" is decieving. It is monetarily the largest. It is this way because it has been criminalized. De-criminalization would make more of it, but the monetary value would plumet.

I like your first example better than your second one. The nam 'McClellan' still gives me an upset stomach. There was a Buffalo regiment on the Peninsula actually. Before the 'Seven Days' they fought at Fair Oaks/Seven Pines and the grandson of the builder of Buffalo Harbor was killed their, John Wilkeson. He served in the 100th New York Regiment. http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghi...00thInfMain.htm His father followed him as a civilian and tramped all over the peninsula looking for him. He actually caught up to the regiment and his son John was angry saying, 'When a father sends his son off to the army he should never expect to see him alive again.' His uncle, another Wilkeson, a writer for the New York Tribune and later New York Times, found his maggot eaten body later and had it returned to Buffalo for burial in Forest Lawn. The Wilkeson who was the writer later sent the first written report of the Gettysburg battle to the papers. He was also the person who started the rumor that William T. Sherman was insane. Anyway, McClellan was a bad field general for sure. As to the Germans and their pocket battleships, I think the failure of any doctrine on their part can be attributed to resources. They just couldn't afford to build enough ships with all the other demands they had on their industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/us/15cen...artner=homepage Americans drank more than 23 gallons of bottled water per person in 2004 — about 10 times as much as in 1980. We consumed more than twice as much high fructose corn syrup per person as in 1980 and remained the fattest inhabitants of the planet, although Mexicans, Australians, Greeks, New Zealanders and Britons are not too far behind. [CANADIANS?????] At the same time, Americans spent more of their lives than ever — about eight-and-a-half hours a day — watching television, using computers, listening to the radio, going to the movies or reading. This eclectic portrait of the American people is drawn from the 1,376 tables in the Census Bureau’s 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States, the annual feast for number crunchers that is being served up by the federal government today. For the first time, the abstract quantifies same-sex sexual contacts (6 percent of men and 11.2 percent of women say they have had them) and learning disabilities (among population groups, American Indians were most likely to have been told that they have them). The abstract reveals that the floor space in new private one-family homes has expanded to 2,227 square feet in 2005 from 1,905 square feet in 1990. Americans are getting fatter, but now drink more bottled water per person than beer. Taller, too. More than 24 percent of Americans in their 70s are shorter than 5-foot-6. Only 10 percent of people in their 20s are. More people are injured by wheelchairs than by lawnmowers, the abstract reports. Bicycles are involved in more accidents than any other consumer product, but beds rank a close second. Most of the statistical tables, which come from a variety of government and other sources, are presented raw, without caveats; and because the abstract is so concrete, the statistics can suggest false precision. The table of consumer products involved in injuries does not explain, for example, that one reason nearly as many injuries involve beds as bicycles is that more people use beds. With medical costs rising, more people said they pray for their health than invest in every form of alternative medicine or therapy combined, the abstract reports. Adolescents and adults now spend, on average, more than 64 days a year watching television, 41 days listening to the radio and a little over a week using the Internet. Among adults, 97 million Internet users sought news online last year, 92 million bought a product, 91 million made a travel reservation, 16 million used a social or professional networking site and 13 million created a blog. “The demand for information and entertainment seems almost insatiable,” said James P. Rutherfurd, executive vice president of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the media investment firm whose research the Census Bureau cited. Mr. Rutherfurd said time spent with such media increased to 3,543 hours last year from 3,340 hours in 2000, and is projected to rise to 3,620 hours in 2010. The time spent within each category varied, with less on broadcast television (down to 679 hours in 2005 from 793 hours in 2000) and on reading in general, and more using the Internet (up to 183 hours from 104 hours) and on cable and satellite television. How does all that listening and watching influence the amount of time Americans spend alone? The census does not measure that, but since 2000 the number of hobby and athletic nonprofit associations has risen while the number of labor unions, fraternities and fan clubs has declined. “The large master trend here is that over the last hundred years, technology has privatized our leisure time,” said Robert D. Putnam, a public policy professor at Harvard and author of “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.” “The distinctive effect of technology has been to enable us to get entertainment and information while remaining entirely alone,” Mr. Putnam said. “That is from many points of view very efficient. I also think it’s fundamentally bad because the lack of social contact, the social isolation means that we don’t share information and values and outlook that we should.” More Americans were born in 2004 than in any years except 1960 and 1990. Meanwhile, the national divorce rate, 3.7 divorces per 1,000 people, was the lowest since 1970. Among the states, Nevada still claims the highest divorce rate, which slipped to 6.4 per 1,000 in 2004 from 11.4 per 1,000 in 1990, just ahead of Arkansas’s rate. From 2000 to 2005, the number of manufacturing jobs declined nearly 18 percent. Virtually every job category registered decreases except pharmaceuticals. Employment in textile mills fell by 42 percent. The job projected to grow the fastest by 2014 is home health aide. One thing Americans produce more of is solid waste — 4.4 pounds per day, up from 3.7 pounds in 1980. More than half of American households owned stocks and mutual funds in 2005. The 91 million individuals in those households had a median age of 51 and a median household income of $65,000. That might help explain a shift in what college freshmen described as their primary personal objectives. In 1970, 79 percent said their goal was developing a meaningful philosophy of life. By 2005, 75 percent said their primary objective was to be financially very well off. Among graduate students, 27 percent had at least one foreign-born parent. The number of foreign students from India enrolled in American colleges soared to 80,000 in 2005 from 10,000 in 1976. As recently as 1980, only 12 percent of doctors were women; by 2004, 27 percent were. In 1970, 33,000 men and 2,000 women earned professional degrees; in 2004, the numbers were 42,000 men and 41,000 women. More Articles in National »

Yes, I would hope you could go into more detail even if I can't get back to you till monday. But some of those who were dictating the battles in fact got their asses kicked. AQnd the Graf Spee was really lost to the Germans because of good British false information, spreading the report British reinforcements were on the way when they were not.

What will the next war look like? No one knows. The military is not structured correctly for the Iraq occupation, that's for sure. Don't know that they should have been prepared for that type of mission, but if this is what the military is going to be doing in the future better get them prepared for it. I would hope we will see no more major wars ever again and that the 21st century sees the end of war period. We shall see. I would like to ask you about this "dictating the nature of the battle" thing. You listed the battles, most of which I am familure with, but you did not say who was dictating the nature: "(e.g. the Meuse, 1940, If you can't (e.g. Moscow in 1941, the later Korean War, the Battle of the River Plate, Midway)"

You forgot Kent Hull and The House! The latter was best o-line man ever for Bills. And how do you leave Ted Washington off the list?

Canada is really, really good and you are really, really bad! Take that! Yes, I just started a pissing contest you you and you are all covered in urine now

The vast majority of Americans want to leave Iraq, but the 25% or so that want to stay no matter what it costs or whatever happens are the solid deep red Conservatives. So McCain has to act like he has an 'aggressive' plan for Iraq. What a shame it is that a presidential candidate has to appeal to the people who were so wrong to begin with and simply are not capable of seeing the mistake because of their own pride and a lack of common sense.

Actually, when I thought of the question I was more worried about who we would give up. You can't get something for nothing. I really don't know who is out there, but a someone at the point to quarterback the PP would be nice. Carolina seemed set but at deadline added two players that made a huge difference for them. I wouldn't be against a rent a player PP specialist

One wonders if McCain will still be calling for more troops in 2008, or if Hillary will still be calling for.... Poll: McCain trumps Clinton From the "Tell Us Something We Don't Know" Department, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has John McCain beating Hillary Clinton "soundly" in a head-to-head 2008 matchup. Although the poll found Americans favoring a Democratic president by an eight-point margin, that preference isn't translating to support for a particular candidate, at least as far as Clinton is concerned. McCain leads Clinton by a margin of 50 percent to 36 percent in the poll of registered voters; Clinton leads Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, still unknown to a lot of Americans, by only six percentage points. Obama-mania? The poll didn't try any head-to-head matchups with the Illinois senator, but it did find that more than 40 percent of the Democrats surveyed said they didn't know enough about Barack Obama to say whether they had a favorable or unfavorable impression of him.

I think the Sabres need a power play specialist to help them. I know the scores bundles of goals at even strength but for the play off run I hope they acquire a person who specializes on the power play. Every little bit helps at that time of year. So I'd throw this question out. Would you be willing to mortgage some of the future for a better chance at cup this year? Really open ended question, I know. But so what

What do you suggest as the best medicine?

He may be very smart but school just does not interest him. He might not get motivated to learn about literature or history, that doesn't mean there is anything wrong with him. He might not be motivated to do anything. That would be a problem, I guess, but no pill or surgery will cure it. We just expect kids to be motivated and ambitious, but many times they are not. Some people don't get ambitious until they hit 40. Some never do.

So to review: The ultra Conservative military is failing at the ultra liberal mission of making Iraq a nation state. Hannity, who admits to an agenda is no different than the for profit media that simply wants to make a buck, you served in the military which means no one else can point out things about said military. Interesting BTW, do you see our giant Cold War military as a part of this liberal monster that is stealing our money? Lord knows they waste enough money and function as an over bloated bureaucracy

The resistance in Hati lasted years and brutal tactics were used and didn't work. Haiti was/is a failed state just like Iraq is. No, they are not teenagers, but I really don't think a vast majority, or even a majority support the Iraq war. If you think that Sean Hannity is as fair and balanced as a regular news organization then perhaps you need a news flash. Most news organization try and present both sides. Hannity has little interest in that, even if his little buddy there, the drowned sewar rat looking colbs makes it appear that way. No, all Iraqis don't hate Americans, just most. Afterall, some are making millions of dollars off of us. Isn't that how it always works? American 'aid' is wonderful, especially to the few who steal the majority of it. How many Iraq war veterans ran for Congress as Republicans?

Japan and Germany are not Iraq. Very different places. How long did resitance last in those places after the war? I'm not sure I agree that the vast majority of troops are Conservative. Most 18 year old are not really political. Still, I would challenge the premise of what the soldiers were saying. I don't believe the mass of troops believe in the mission. I think he aired troops who said what he wanted said. Would have been easy to do 100 interviews and then put on tv the ones you wanted. There are many instances of troops not wanting to go, their families complaining of yet more tours and the hardships entailed. Hannity just put some gung ho guys on. Really, who in their right mind would want to put their lives on the line for the Iraqis who basically hate our troops?

Appears to me that he was talking to some of his fans that happen to be soldiers. Those men do not speak for all the soldiers. That one soldier who said we might have to be there for thirty years probably believes that, but that just won't happen, and in my opion it shouldn't. The United States occupied Haiti for 22 years in the 1920's and 1930's and it is now the poorest most underdeveloped place in the western hemisphere.

I surrender. He was right. I guess we should not let people who call themselves Conservatives carry out basically Liberal ideas.

I didn't offer solutions, I said the 'solutions' out there won't work or are unpracticable. Do I know anything about Iraq? I know enough to see it's a total failure as to its original objectives. I'd be interested to know what your two books are that you place so much faith in that you can dismiss 'Fiasco' so confidently.

I agree the Republican Party is built upon the great lie of limited government, state's rights and such other nonsense. Stilldoesn't make Iraq a "liberal" adventure.

What is your point? It seems to me you are trying to make your point the hard way. If you want to tell me Iraq is going better than the media says it is, say it. If you are trying to say something else, say it. And I have already pointed out to you that the media is hardly the only source of information on Iraq. The Iraq Study Group that just released its study clearly says Iraq is deterioriting quickly and Bush's policies have been a failure. They are not the media.

I'd like to congradulate you. You have now created the perfect pretzel of logic. Twists and turns everywhere lead us to liberals as the villians in the Iraq affair. We can blame them for the whole idea and we can blame them for cutting and running, too. I guess George W. Bush is the leader of the Liberals. Everything that costs lots of money and fails is infact liberalism. It must be nice living inside such a simple world

Idiom, I think of Monthy Python and the search for the holy grail

Then go read your books if that will make you feel better. I would just wonder what "political or military" goals the common criminals have who are running amoke everywhere in Iraq.

What a perfect rant about nothing, concluding with a criticism of liberalism, of all things. I do agree this venture was doomed before it even started, that's why I always opposed it. And the reasons were not very coplicated as you seem to profess.