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Very simplistic thinking. President Bush had very similar thinking, originally. He thought we could just plow through Iraq, then on to Syria, and finally Iran, and then the entire Middle East would be just one big US colony. The problem was that we didn't even have enough troops to stabilize...

Yup, that's how you do it. Sounds good! When did you say dinner was? 8^) Salmon is not hard to cook. It is relatively forgiving of slight under-cooking or overcooking. If you don't know how to cook -anything-, salmon is a good place to start! Be sure to let it sit for a five minutes or so...

Is this poem a lyric or an ode? Why so? Help is GREATLY appreciated. I will start anew this morning with a higher, fairer creed; I will cease to stand complaining of my ruthless neighbor's greed; I will cease to sit repining while my duty's call is clear; I will waste no moment whining, and my...

This is why we don't have sex with people we just met. If you willingly have sex, and you don't enjoy it, it's still not rape, it's still sex. Painful, maybe unfulfilling sex, but still just sex. Hopefully she will learn from the experience and be a little more selective next time, or at...

President Bush's plan was just to dump taxpayer dollars on GM, Citibank, AIG, etc. Just give them billions of dollars with no conditions on how they use it, no requirement to pay it back. This was the TARP program--Troubled Assets Recovery Program. AIG decided to give all their top execs a...

.....the law won. Now I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun. I needed money cause I had none. So I fought the law, but the law won. I was robbin' people with a six-gun, Now I've lost my girl and I lost my fun. I fought the law, but the law won. So I need to most delusive, complex and scheming way...

The Bible had hundreds of authors over a period of several millenia. The Old Testament shows many signs of having been edited, with various writings spliced together, even in the same book. There are even places where the same story is told twice, two different versions, one after the other...

FOX News is not really a journalistic enterprise, it is a 'propaganda organ' for the Republican Party. People don't watch FOX News to be edified and informed, but to have their own prejudices reinforced. If you want to hate Obama and 'liberals', FOX gives you plenty of ammunition. At this...

Lots of beginners here seem to want to start out on a deadly serious sport bike--GSX-R, CBR, R1/R6, ZX, etc. These bikes are beautiful and sexy, and they really are marvels of engineering, but they are not for beginners. They are twitchy like thoroughbred racehorses, not forgiving. They...

Both good and bad. 850 is really big for a beginner, but then a $600 bike, you won't feel too bad if you drop it. It has more power than you need, maybe more than you can even use, but let's assume you're grown up enough to not use all of it the first day. The Yamaha 850 was a fine bike in...

It doesn't sound too bad to me. Real serious sportbikes like the R6 are sometimes driven very roughly, they are thrashed. I mean, that's what they're made for! So a bike can be really badly worn out in 11,000 miles. They are really racing bikes for the street and racing machines are not...

I like the Suzuki better than the Kawasaki. It's more popular too. 500 is just a good size to learn on. Good for around town, big enough for a day on the freeway. But I would not buy a shiny brand new bike to learn to ride on. You're going to be rough on your first bike. Get an old 'beater'...

They are both very good cars, and you or I would probably be happy with either of them. But if it was me, I'd go with the RSX. Acuras are more sporty, better handling. Plus the interiors are nicer, nicer materials. Both cars are very well-built, though. Very reliable and long-lasting.

They don't have a plan, that's why they are only whining about Obama's plan, they can't offer any real alternatives. GW Bush came into office with an agenda already in place. For eight years, he used every emergency and crisis as a justification to pursue this pre-set agenda. Even the...

The GS 500 is a good bike for learning. Not too big and heavy, but still enough power to be fun, enough for long trips at highway speeds. All the Japanese manufacturers today make a very good product, well engineered, long lasting, economical, reliable. It's a twin so it's easier to work on...

Yes, lots of people have used bicycle speedos on motorcycles. I belong to a mailing list for vintage BMW bikes, and some of the first watercooled bikes BMW made in the 80s have speedos that die early, and they cost hundreds to replace, so lots of people put on a bike speedo. For a street bike...

If you belong to AAA you can call them and they'll send someone out with a 'Slim Jim'. If you know anyone in AAA, they can come to wherever your car is, call AAA and they'll do it on their card (it doesn't have to be their car).

I also didn't know they made a 250 triple. Triples are bad news, especially Kawasaki triples. They are remarkably unreliable and short-lived because the middle cylinder doesn't cool as well as the outer two. And ANY 30 year old Kawasaki is going to be a lot of trouble, just one thing after...