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Paraphrasing George Bush : "Don't forget Poland!" Indeed Mr. President, indeed. :D

You know I bet if California was its own country, we would probably vote in Barbara Boxer for president. For some reason I've never been able to discern, she's wildly popular across the state. Heck I think she even beat her Republican challenger in his home district and in quite a few other...

When I moved last year I hired a moving company that billed me by weight instead of volume (I actually prefer this because of odd shapes of furniture, etc). Anyway, when we weighed my personal library I discovered that I was posession of 850 pounds of books. Honestly, I don't even know how thats...

Hell no. Dying sucks, whats to be happy about? I think people have an untowards reverance towards their own inevitable demise just so that they don't go insane realizing that their time on this planet is finite. As far as I'm concerned, there will never be enough things to acomplish, experience...

You really need to learn how to read. No where in there did I say, "We should kick those damn southerners out of the Union!". All I did was affirm (jokingly even) that if they really wanted to go, I wouldn't miss them. Sorry if that hurts your sensitive feelings. I didn't think "I sorta wish...

That's actually my best time from a static position (face down in the water). Usually I come in around 6 minutes or so. I haven't done it personally since I was in the swim team in college so I am probably out of practice :-) But people can hold their breath for a very long time without brain...

I can hold my breath under water for 7 minutes. Really.

Fischer just got on a plane for Iceland a few hours ago. We'll see what happens when he hits the ground there. Reykjavik has an extradition treaty with Washington. /wow I can't believe I remembered Reykjavik was the captial of Iceland. // I think I even spelled it right too... way to go...

Please explain to me how wanting to extend Social Security benifits, medicare benifits and lobbying for an increase in minimum wage is "Dumping the poor". Do you actually think about things before you write them? Stroke of luck? You're a disgusting individual. Evidently cracking open a...

As an American my vote of course goes to Gilbert du Montier, The Marquis de Lafayette. :-) Did you know that he is one of only 6 people to ever be granted honorary American Citizenship? The other ones being Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa, Raul Wallenberg, William Penn and his wife Hannah...

Atleast 1/2 the country is pretty worried about this. Many people of both Republican and Democratic affiliation are not happy with the Patriot Act. However, there will always be a significant number of people who are cowards. What can you do? I think once some of the psychosis settles down...

During the Gulf War we did. Not all of those landmines were removed. Currently we are experimenting with deploying a system called "Matrix". Basically its a bunch of claymores that can be activated by a soldier with a lap-top. While technically these are land-mines, the idea behind them is that...

It has nothing to do with these mythical "regulations" you seem to know so much about. Your second guess was more accurate. They can pay lower wages because the cost of living is lower. Gunna ask you again here, I'll bold it so you can understand: defend them against what?. Against being a...

The first defintion for sport in the standard american dictionary is: ----- 1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION b : sexual play c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in ----- Evidently we americans consider recreation...

I always seem to confuse learning english speakers with: Whats up? <-- What are you doing? How's things? <-- How is everything? Bring it on! <-- (challenging) Lets do it! Get real! <-- This is difficult to explain, it can be disbelief at the last comment spoken, or it could be like telling...

Paperwork is about the same all over unfortunately. The biggest thing in this state (as well as every other state out there) is that if you have to provide health care for your employees you are SCREWED. Did anyone catch GM's announcement the other day when they were slashing their profit...

I think most Americans would prefer it if Bobby Fischer never came back to this country. He's been somewhat of a national embarassment ever since he started going off about his anti-semetic views in public, and he's pretty much only gotten worse since then. Honestly, he's always been kind of a...

Not particularly misleading. New York ranks #6 in the nation with an individual GDP higher than that of the USA as a whole and California is in the #12 spot. California and New York btw are the #1 and #3 most populous states in the Union. And not by a little bit. Texas is #2 and it comes in at...

Just goes to show you what a bit of sea power could do for a people willing to get off their asses and look around ><

I agree with that in sentiment, but you can't just ignore that the mass media plays a major role in shaping national perception on issues. Basically its like this, the Republican party has spent decades pretty much maligning the Democrating party in California. Ok, whatever, these two groups...