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Thanks. Always good to hear from you.

My email to Staples:
I regret that you have succumbed to pressure from a liberal, Democratic Party group and pulled your ads from Sinclar's news programs.

Your advertising group has shot your company in the foot and you will suffer because of it. You should have just let things be, for, as Michael Jordan noted when asked to take political sides- there are just as many Republicans as Democrats and they all buy shoes.

I can only voice my protest since I am now retired and purchase infrequently from Staples, but were I still in working, I would insure we avoided purchasing anything from your company, since there are fine competitors who do just as well.

I will make my opinion known to my friends who are in a better position to influence your decision.

BTW, before retiring my budget was 2.5 billion dollars, which would buy a lot of pens.

I am in solidarity with Key West, one of FR's finest.

Will be interesting to see what happens. My guess is they will sort of maybe kind of be in compliance or almost in compliance or just about in compliance or soon will be or give them time to be or.....

There are a lot of assumptions on both sides, including the Iraqis. Yes, urban warfare is tough, but you only need look at the Afghan war to get a semi decent model. That was the plan of the Talban and it did not work. What is necessary is to defeat one of these fortified cities and the rest will follow because of the psychological impact. Selectively pound the daylights out of the first including lots of psy warfare. When that happens, lots of people close to Saddam will be having second thoughts and it will be over quickly.

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Every show he has been on has had its rating drop. Where is the push coming from for him to host anything?

This attitude has been with us forever- we do not want consequences for our actions. Remove the consequences and kiss the country goodby. Getting close, anyway.

There is an article in Technology Today which addresses "computer intellegence" or AI, and they come to an entirely different conclusion. Most of the work in AI is no longer directed at making a machine like a person, but at making a machine do its job better.

Plus the issue is not intellegence, since it all depends on what you use to measure it. My Excel spreadsheet is more intelligent than me if you use computational ability as the measure. But make the measure consciousness and you hit a barrier that may not be overcome. Computers may be able to beat a grand master in chess - not by thinking BTW but in punching numbers- but we can still pull the plug.

Who watches CNN?

There is a big difference between readiness and being able. You can be not ready to deploy and go anyway, depending on what the problem was in reducing your readiness. If it is lack of munitions, it may be that they are in the operating area so no big deal. If people, they can be got. I do not know of a time, except under Reagan, during my career that the Armed Forces were really ready. And the worst times were under Carter and Clinton. Under Carter we had ships that could not deploy, period.

This article is a slap in the face of anyone who's had to deal with a family member who is severely mentally ill.

Yes and no. A friend of mine has a son who is manac sp? depressive. But they are doing all they can to help him through it. And they recognise what they can and should do. It appears that RY is not in that category and was and is in denial. That is the problem. And I can understand it. It is the easy way out. My friends are going through hell.

Which is why it is a dying church.

The book, Rare Earth written as pure science, comes to the conclusion about the improbability of life as we know it on earth existing elsewhere in the universe. There will be life, but in the bacterial stage. Problem is getting it from there to here. When you read Rare Earth, it is amazing that it did come about. So many coincidinces that defy probability. Brings you back to the face of God.

Add me to your humor ping list, please.

As far as the article goes, I stopped listening to Clark long ago. We will not be the ones to win the war anyway.

I was told it was a couple that could not use their summer cottage. Eagles beat them there.

Does not matter. See my post about the mud flats, where the plant is actually plentiful elsewhere but threatened at its northern range. The peach tree was to show the absurdity of some of the laws. Over time, just about everything was indiginous to an area. The Sahara was once lush with vegetation.

We have bald eagles aplenty in my area. Last summer my wife was mowing the grass and one came down about twenty feet from her and grabbed a bird. We have several bird feeders in our yard.

We see many osprey, bald and an occasional gold every summer. A few years ago, five immature balds were enjoying themselves on a rock no more than 100 feet from our property. Magnificent birds.

The competition is getting very strong. The Hallmark channel had Mark Twain's Roughing It on last weekend and it was excellent. Good story and fun to watch. ABC did have a good show on Disney, The Ugly Stepsister, so they can do it if they put their mind to it.

Just noticed that the artice did point out that it was threatened but on the State's endangered list. But that does make my point, that Peach trees in Alaska can be listed as endangered.

Victoria cautions there are severe penalties for harming endangered species, which is defined as an intentional or negligent act that "creates the likelihood of injury to wildlife by annoying it to such an extent as to significantly disrupt normal behavior patterns which include but are limited to breeding, feeding, or sheltering." The fine for violating the act can be up to $100,000 and six months imprisonment. In the coming days, Victoria said, she will put up new signs in the area saying, "No access beyond this point." That means not only no driving, but no human activity at all.

If they end up nesting on your property and near your home you can be in violation and have to leave. It also makes any additional work on your property illegal. Which is why many really do not want the eagles nesting near them and will scare them off, in spite of the fines. Plus, you have all the geeens trekking in to check them out, but they are OK, because they are supposedly responsible.

Or, do as most do and not tell anyone about them and they do fine. But get the greens involved and up go the signs which just draws attention to them. And in come the authorized disruptors.

True story about an endangered crow in Hawaii. The landowner would not let the greens visit their nesting site. They tried for years to get permission and finally got a court order. They checked out the nest and made all their measurements on their find of the last nesting area. Within a few weeks the crows were gone. The greens did not do what the landowner did, which is leave them alone and let them thrive. By disrupting their site, the crows left and have not been seen since, so they may now be extinct.

BTW, I thought the Bald Eagle was off the endangered list. But the problem with the list is it can be regional and something that is endangered in your area may be thriving elsewhere. There are many examples of that. we have some mudflat plants which are on the threatened list but are plentiful to the south. Just this is their northern limit. A maple tree can be a threatened species if it is in Florida or the tundra.

Could also be a parody and he is enjoying himself by being rediculous. However, if he is or is not, the point that is made is that the sexual revolution was obviously invented by men, since they derive all the benefits and are freed from having to be gentlemen and doing the right thing. And women who buy into it have become objects and deserving of no respect. By so called freeing themselves sexually, they have made this even more a man's world.