Happy Thanksgiving!
A Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless you All! Just celebrated a couple days late but its great to have the family together for Roast Turkey and the fixings. Hope eveyone had as good a weekend as I did.
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A Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless you All! Just celebrated a couple days late but its great to have the family together for Roast Turkey and the fixings. Hope eveyone had as good a weekend as I did.
When the "M&M" balloon crashed and injured sisters Sarah(9)and Mary(26 and in a wheelchair)Chamberlain during the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade NBC coverage hosted by Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, and Al Roker didn't give any mention of the incident. They played a film of the balloon in last years parade and pretended nothing had happened. If they won't even be honest about a Thanksgiving paradewe can be sure they can't bring themselves to be honest about reporting the war in Iraq, as if there were any doubt on that anyway.
ALCA/FTAA is badly needed to increase access to markets especially for the Mercosur countries. Granted protection for consumers and their own markets need to be built in, that is part of the MAI that among other items that will be part of the agreement when it is finalized. That cannot be done until meetings are begun, should have started by Jan. 1 2005, why the holdup? Don't settle for WTO it's a mess.
Mercosur, NAFTA, and CAFTA are fine as far as they go but none go far enough. GATS is incomplete and the Andes Pact faces insurmountable obstacles between Argentina and Chile. NAFTA and CAFTA are incomplete as is Mercosur. For example NAFTA will not work to its best in the U.S. so long as the border is insecure. For Mercosur to be entirely successful Uruguay must demonopolize. Jorge Batlle had the right idea, demonopolizing(privatization) at a gradual rate is necessary in order for his country to have a healthy ecomomy. I hope Tabare Vazquez doesn't lean too much towards the European Economic Union just to avoid the U.S. because the EEU has already proven to be a dismal failure. The unempolyment rate is ridiculous with some 10% of European children living in households with both parents on the dole.
All you have to know about in order to reject the concept of the so called "family tree" of the evolutionists it the "Cambrian explosion". During the Cambrian period 35 out of 40 phyla appeared with no antecedents.
It was yesterday (November 20th) at the University of Toronto Chrissy Matthews made the brilliant observation that "The other side isn't wrong, they they just have a different perspective." No further comment necessary to that. Wish he would stay in Toronto. My apologies to my Canadian neighbors, I shouldn't wish Matthews on them even in jest. Those half-wit libs have caused enough damage to Canada. Anyone got an idea of a place to which we can deport Matthews to where he will cause no harm to anyone but himself and the rest of the terror apologists.
Ever watch the history channel special on the Rappa Nui and Easter Island? How do the come up with a complete history for an Island where there are no indigionous people? A history that includes the history of multiple tribes, how they managed to wipe each other out and desrtoy the forest and landscape that used to cover the island. Thats what they say.
Check it out for yourself, google bangui1985report with no spaces. You'll find that in Africa the UN in an effort to get more money from the rich countries(U.S.)they changed the definition of Aids. If a person was 10% underweight, had protracted weakness(asthenia), and repeated attacks of fever for a month they earned 11 points out of a 50 point diagnosis system based on teir symptoms and signs. A cough was worth two points. The fist three symptoms being present for any reason and including a cough establish a diagnosis of AIDS which required 12 points.
Survival of the fittest. How can you prove that? Any organism that is either fit enought or lucky enough to survive will become by definition one of the "fittest" that has survived. Can't be proven because it can't be seen until after the fact. You'll never know if they were actually the fittest or just lucky, it does happen. After all the Twins won the World Series a couple of times, I'm a fan but I have to admit that that took plenty of luck!
Iowa State 30-16 over Colorado Buffalo to move into a 2 way tie 4-3 for second place with Missouri in the Big 12 North division behind 5-2 Colorado with one more game left. ISU has lost to Missouri in overtime already, though so they need for last place Kansas State 1-6 to upset the Tigers while they defeat the Jayhawks of Kansas(2-5). Colorado faces Nebraska who at 3-4 needs to win the last game to finish at .500. If nothing else happens right at least Nebraska league record won't be better than .500.....how cool is that.. been waiting a long time for the Huskers to hit the skids!!!
Another political ploy uncovered. I hadn't realized this was a secret, but from reading the newspapers and watching the news it appears that the media at least appears to be under the impression the Lewis "Scooter" Libby is some kind of criminal mastermind. Lets take a look-see. The Identities Protection Act of 1982 and the Espionage Act of 1917 are the two statutes being used as excused for these indictments. To have violated the 1982 law Mr. Libby must have known that Valerie Plame was a covert agent and Intentionally disclosed that information....and she has to have served abroad within 5(five) years of said disclosure. If anyone is to be indicted it would be Joe Wilson who has been telling all and sundry in D.C. about his wifes' job for the last few years. but that is old news.
In a stunning display of intelligence the fearless leaders of the Dem. party displayed the savvy that has kept them in power and maintained their popularity with the mainstream of America by shutting down the senate over the bogus indictment of Lewis Libby? Come on guys, while I'm not a particular fan of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Deanna I mean Baghdad Dick Durbin I thought even they had more brains than that. This is such an obvious political ploy that it is backfiring even before the senate shutdown is over. Get a grip fellows, all of America is watching you and you're just embarrassing yourselves. President Bush and his men have made a few mistakes, granted, but honest mistakes or the errors in judgement that follow placing trust in your friends as opposed to intentionally misleading or downright lying, which is dangerously close to becoming the weapon of first choice for the Democrats leadership especially in the persona of Pelosi, Feinstein, Reid, Schumer, and Chappaquiddick Teddy Kennedy.