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Reply to Can men and women be friends? in Sex & Romance JoeUser Forums

My wife and I are coming up on 20 years of marriage. When we dated, she knew that most my friends were girls, and didn't have a problem with it (In fact, if she had have had a problem with it, I would have considered that a trust issue and we never would have married). Through the Army, College and everything else our life together has put us through, I still have more friends that are women than are men, and my wife still has no problem with

Reply to Prove God or Shut the #$*@ Up in Religion JoeUser Forums

Prove to me that Purple exists or, in your own words, shut the #$*@ Up. ;~D Link

Reply to A Response to Evolution, Fact or Theory? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Holy Sticker Shock Batman!!!! ;~D

Reply to In protest, man paints house pink with polka-dots in Politics JoeUser Forums

Interesting that neither photo gives us a good look at the astro turf. Mr. Ehlan should show several pictures of the "natural grass" lawns in the area mixed in with one of his astro turf. Then challenge the board to choose which one they think is the astro turf. If they can't tell the difference, they should drop the whole thing, but if they can, he should. ;~D

Reply to Beating of Queens Satanist Prompts Hate Crime Charges in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Hate Crime" legislation is nothing more than a way to infuse the thoughts of the accused into the trial and sentencing. I a person rapes a woman, does it matter to the judge and jury whether the guy did it because she was hot and he could no longer control his sexual urges, as a means of lashing out against his feelings of inadequacy with women, or just extreme violent tendencies? Usually not. However, if the victim was a member of a protected gro

Reply to Right to Privacy in Restroom Not Absolute in Politics JoeUser Forums

No privacy for anyone! Every bathroom a glass house so we can take a dump while watching our neighbor do the same! Whatever. Rhetoric Award to Deference for taking the decision to the extreme!! What part of "case by case" did you not understand? The decision did not authorize surveillance cameras in e

Reply to High Court voids 'mandatory' sentencing in Politics JoeUser Forums

I am glad to see that the High Court did this. We have lost the concept of "case by case basis" in this country. It has given way to the mindless "Zero Tolerance" or "Mandatory Sentence". Now we have people in prison for say, drug possession who are treated the same a dealer. The law language of most drug laws considers the dealing a more serious crime than possession (especially of small amounts of marijuana), but because of "Mandatory sen

Reply to The EMT, His Spanish Teacher, and the Stranger Dying of AIDS in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

You were right, it was worth it. All of us who ride ambulance could fill the Library of Congress with the stories of blood, guts and gore. We're usually willing to share a few with whoever is willing to listen. The real stories however, are the ones we just can't seem to get ourselves to tell. They are also the ones that, if we did tell, the listener would usually walk away disappointed for the lack of "blood, guts and gore". P

Reply to It's official: No WMD's found in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Paul, you make some very compelling points here. However, Res. 1441 was merely yet another example of the UN's inability to live up to its word. Among other things, the Resolution required the government of Iraq to make a full report of all proscribed weapons and delivery systems (which included a lot more than just WMD) to the UNMOVIC and the IAEA no later than 30 days after the Res. was adopted. (Res. 1441, Item 1) Futhermore,

Reply to Creationism & Hubble in Religion JoeUser Forums

Is it a matter of human ego that the universe was created by a Judea-Christian God? No more a matter of human ego than believing that, if we can't quantify it, or bring it into the parameters of our human senses, it does not exist.

Reply to Creationism & Hubble in Religion JoeUser Forums

Hubble has shown us some very awesome sights. It has also let us peer into the far reaches of space that (up until now) have been all but invisible to us on earth. we are still stuck in a study held into the restraints of time and space. Time that is still relative to the observer and space relative to the visible spectrum. <TD class="mb-Body-Quot

Reply to It's official: No WMD's found in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

People always throw around the names of other nations that have WMD or fit one of the other reasons given by Prs. Bush to go back into Iraq. Doing this leaves out the major detail that none of those other nations broke the terms of a ceasefire with us. We took the ceasefire agreement seriously enough to give all the occupied areas and assets of Iraq back to the Hussein regime and redeploy home. The UN took it seriously enough to

Reply to No wmd in Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

When people start throwing around names of other countries with WMD, they need to remember... 1) WMD was just one of the reasons given by Prs. Bush to go back into Iraq and more importantly 2) None of the other nations brought up in this type of discussion continuously broke a ceasefire agreement with the U.S. We took it seriously enough to turn over all occupied areas and assets of Iraq back to the Hussein regime an

Reply to It's official: No WMD's found in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

And America gave chemical weapons to IRAQ so that they could use them on Iranian Soldiers. ......... Yeah, that was a pretty stupid call. If there is one policy both the left and the right need to get off the agenda is, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Reply to It's official: No WMD's found in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

And America gave chemical weapons to IRAQ so that they could use them on Iranian Soldiers. ......... Yeah, that was a pretty stupid call. If there is one policy both the left and the right need to get out off the agenda is, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Reply to 10 COMMANDMENTs in Life in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Marriage is what you do when you have found the one person, in the whole world, who you care enough about to annoy for the rest of your life!!! ;~D

Reply to It's official: No WMD's found in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

But then again i'm still upset at bush 1.0 for not finishing the job in 1991. I agree with you here. I still remember being in Southern Iraq, gearing up for a push into Baghdad. The Air Force and Navy had been "softening the target" and we figured that would be the next phase in the whole operation.

Reply to What will the next Century bring for the United States in Politics JoeUser Forums

You have some interesting predictions here, told in an interesting and compelling way. They weren't non-partisan at all, but that's ok too, since it was an opinion piece, on your own blog.

Reply to Why I Hate George Lucas in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

George Lucas' true talent and magic is churning out tie in toys, games and advertising gimics. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that he invented the concept. If he didn't, he sure perfected it!! With all the changes to the original three, all George is really telling us, is we were wrong for considering the Star Wars series as anything important to us in the first place. He claimed he was making memories for us all, then he messed up thos

Reply to I Don't Feel Like a Veteran ANYTHING in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

I think that, what you describe here, are the best reasons to think that you would make a great leader.

Reply to It's official: No WMD's found in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"The thing that upsets me is that the real WMD menace in the region (Iran) is blatantly pursuing WMD's and we sit idly by and do nothing." For me, I do think we will end up officially at war with Iran. I also think we are already at war with them, the battlefields just happen to be in Iraq. I even agree with you that Iran may have been a bigger problem that Iraq, even at the time we returned to hostilities with Iraq. However, would the pr

Reply to Fake Memo scandal at CBS investigated in Current Events JoeUser Forums

MJ-12!! Art Bell would be proud!! ;~D (<><>) We are watching (<><>)

Reply to For Vets only in Misc JoeUser Forums

gotta say I am from the one bullit one kill school... That was a common joke in Gun Bunny School (13B). "Snipers boast about 1 shot 1 kill... Around here it's 1 shot, 1 platoon!" ;~D ((((Gee, I hope everyone respected the "vets only" and no civilians read that!)))) ;~Shhhh

Reply to For Vets only in Misc JoeUser Forums

Why use a bullet when you can use a grenade? Why use a grenade when there's a LAW handy? Why use a LAW when a good fire mission is just a radio call away!!! (just don't let the LT call it in. ;~D) You know them sneaky buggers are never alone! Take out him, his spotter and his extra a

Reply to For Vets only in Misc JoeUser Forums

I'll take my (at least mine for awhile) M109A4 155mm Self Propelled Howitzer, and a Killer Junior Fire Mission. ;~D But that's just me.