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OK, thanks for clearing up my misconceptions. Like I said, I was just going by what and how I remembered things to be. But you have proven time and time again how poor my memory is:) But I do stick to my earlier assessment of McNamara. He ruined the Thunderbird. He was even more evil than I am...

I am a bad man. What can I say? Mitigating circumstances....yeah, plenty. My friend was distraught because he lost $350k that day and to cheer him up I said I'd vote for Bush. Ever hear of compassion? Empathy? I was trying anything I could to get him out of his funk. So I made a stupid...

Well, there is no denying that the war ended while Nixon was running the show. But he took his sweet time bringing it to an end. When he ran against Humphrey in '68, he made it sound like if elected, the whole mess would go away overnight. As for it being a "Democratic fiasco".....arguable...

Good post. Tough questions. Wish I had real workable answers. But right now, no one can say they do with real certainty. Only opinions now. If there were answers, the questions would be irrelevant. First scenario......hard to imagine a "small country" with nuclear capability supplying...

So you must have LOVED "Faceoff"!!

Stu, you gotta give the guy credit. He does quite well with his English. Not perfect, but it is easy enough to figure out what he means to say. So when I see "colons" and I know he means colonists, that's good enough. Besides, I like seeing grammatical and spelling errors. At least I know I...

of course, what you say is essentially correct, but skewed. The British were colonizing and Palestine was a colony that was, like most, trying to break away. But, the Jews were absolutely inhabitants of this region. Had been for literally thousands of years. I don't see why you think the Arabs...

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So, then the actions of the Isreali freedom fighters against their British oppressors must be justifiable to you. Am I reading you correctly? All the talk about the Israeli terrorists and how they bombed the King David Hotel .... all this was directed not at the "palestinians" (arabs at the...

Yup, "under oath" did him in. These others lied without being "under oath" so that makes it ok? Agnew lied "under oath" I believe...but he is conveniently forgotten by the Republicans...yeah, Agnew, forgot to mention him as a laugh riot! Clinton may have been amoral. Nixon was immoral...

Nope, it is not. But we all are guilty of it on occasion. Maybe not ALL, but most of us who are not PERFECT. It is ok to forgive and forget. Somewhere I heard something about "to err is human, to forgive is divine" (or something to that effect). Peace, :)rs7

I agree. I used the word "anger". Perhaps your wording expressed my feeling better. "Stodgy" is a good one. Lack of humor seems pretty universal among most (certainly not all) conservatives. I also clearly said that I think there are many intelligent conservatives. Even mentioned Daniel_M as...

yup, to this day I do not understand why he was so upset. but it has been resolved by putting it all aside. an issue that was not as important in the long run as it seemed to be to him when it occured. do you think everything is PERMANENT? we had a falling out, lost a friendship and...

All I can say is that in the context of the moment (it was not really a bet....but the details are not important...because, it was a promise, so therefore it was as binding as a "bet" even though the reason was unclear, and had been totally forgotten by us both by the time the election rolled...

I concur!!!! I know that Daniel_M said he was just trying to be funny when he said kicking back with a beer and watching the US kick ass on tv would be great entertainment. And while I disagree with Dan's politics (for the most part), and his "bedside manner" when dealing with those he...

Only problem I see here is how to define an "American". Here is something most of us have probably seen circulating on the internet. But for those who haven't....or those that could use a reminder: >You probably missed it in the rush of news in the last few weeks, but >there was...

He will if he can still post links. What I don't get is the redundancy. Why cut and paste, AND then include the link so we can see the same thing again? Is this some way of making the point twice as "strong"? Or is it a well conceived conspiracy to saturate all the storage of ET with total...

I can imagine.....all I ever heard on my CB (I used to have one when I lived in Colorado and drove a lot to and from Vegas and between Denver to Aspen) was about topics like what kind of action was going on at what truck stops. Not much about world politics for sure:) When did you drive...

No, I left Chicago and have been trading equities in Florida for the past 7 years. Trajan, thanks for the input. Makes a lot of sense. I guess all I can do is continue to leave my day orders in. I could up them from 10's, 20's, 30's, and go to 100, but if I did, I would want better prices...

easing (or restructuring) of tensions (end of cold war expression defining Gorbachev's approach to "normalization" of US/Soviet relations. Russian, so it would not figure to be in Websters). Or try different spelling....perestroika (not sure if there is a right or wrong way to spell russian...