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Wait a minute; that wasn't yesterday? Hi Chris, hi Sarah, hi Clay!!! We need us another midwest roadtrip! I love that photo of Alissa, Sarah, and their doting "Uncle Jeff".....happy memories! In fact I have a copy here beside my computer. Remember Alissa, fresh from howling about how hot those beef sticks we'd bought turned out to be.....we'd had to buy her a drink to recover from them!!!......then Jeff strolls up, and the first thing Alissa did was offer him a beef stick????!!! Good thing he was smart enough to decline! I'd have felt bad if that night's show had had to be

Much, much better, thank you.....for a while I seriously thought I was going to die, as our house has no air conditioning - only an evaporative cooler which is nearly worthless in high humidity (which we had along with the intense heat). For days and days, we couldn't get the interior of the house cooler than 85 degrees.....maybe 80 at night!!!! It was horrible, I just dragged around uselessly. We took to going to stores just to be in some air conditioning! But it's nice now.....the heat has broken, and in fact today it looks like winter outside....full gray cloud cover! Weird. Very nice t

Love abounds! Right back at you, Maudie!!! I think ms yvon will be back with us soon....she's had her computer worked on. The screen door, not so much.

......to alla youse knuckleheads, until she can get her computer back up to speed. It's supposed to be a deep dark secret, but she loves you guys!

less painless......so, a double negative, which would mean.....ouch, right? We love you solace. Thanks for your technological superglue which keeps VC thrumming along.

Well put, Andrew. The line I've bolded made me think of our current situation in the US, and how much I hope that other countries recognize that our leadership (to use the term broadly) is not us as a nation.

Interesting, and sad, timing for this development.... http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/26/sharon/index.html

Yes, but some of us think you may somehow be responsible for it........

Nice review, Paul! Thank you! Sounds like another fine night.

Yeah, noticed that. Seems to be all of us then, that same problem. We'll figure out what's up.

Oh, excellent.... http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/26/...s.ap/index.html

Or speaking from a ms. yvon perspective, which also suits me at the moment, more COFFEE!!! Gadz, I'm draggin' in this heat!

This thread isn't going anywhere good, so I'm closing it. Anyone wanting to have a sincerely civil discussion about the war can start a fresh thread, but personal attacks won't be tolerated. - kidsmoke

Yes, that's correct. Thanks, Oblivious.

That brings back excellent memories, Dan! So you caught that amazing show? Wish I had gotten the chance to meet you!

Wow, that is some really, really terrifying shit. What times we live in! poortranslator, you made me crack up, even in these scary shit times. I thank you.

I didn't take it personally, Kevin....just understood what ElF was saying there. I, too, feel strongly that we can't find these cures quickly enough, and that research toward that end needs to be supported.

Sure, you're added to the claims list.

Dude, El F, I've let your dialogue play out because I think this is a useful discussion, and both of you have put a very human face on why this is such a hot-button issue throughout the country. I appreciate the efforts you have made at restraint & fair play, more than you know. It's hard when an issue is so personal, as this one is on so many levels. El Kevin, I too have suffered a miscarriage, so I understand your point poignantly when you say that telling a woman that all she's lost is a "clump of cells" will not go over well with her. You've both deepened this discussion and that's a

My brain hurts.

I'm so very sorry to hear this, Kat. So sorry.

I'm also a huge M's fan & would be interested in anybody's live recordings of them. Got lots of other bands' stuff to trade.

I'll give ya $1.95 plus mailing costs. Mine has a little wear and tear.