bjorn_skurj

How far away are you from Voorheesville?

Well, I confess I resorted to the Wiki, but everything was pretty well cited. If you believe the original sources, that is. I confess also to misreading it in the first place - the plane he hit the wires with did not crash. Still, though, that's not good flying. But, it should be noted that some of our greatest presidents - Washington, Lincoln, FDR - couldn't even fly an airplane. Wiki article

According to minutes of research on the Internet, McCain starting out was not the sharpest of aviators (in the Navy, they are aviators, not pilots, which are a whole 'nother thing in the Navy), probably losing at least two jets, which are not cheap, to bad aviating - he let one stall out while landing and hit wires with another one. (It was not McCain's jet that fired the rocket that started the Forrestal fire.) He apparently got better, though, leading several successful sorties and being awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy Commendation Medal. His mission when he was shot down was to take ou

You don't have to be rich to live in the North Country. The economy is totally different there.

I wonder when someone will start advancing the argument that John McCain was involved in an immoral activity when he was shot down.

Watch out, man. That part of the state is given over to roving gangs of bandits, I have heard.

Got this in my e-mail today: Dear Friends, I have had enough of John McCain and his whining and his falling back on his time as a POW during the war in Viet Nam for every single thing that he is criticized for. I was engaged to a fabulous young man, Dennis Cama, who went to Viet Nam and came back in pieces in a body bag. Why?-because he decided to cover for one of his friends who was too tired to go out and lead the team on a mission. He gave his LIFE, not just his time for this country, and not once did I ever get a letter from him whining or gripping about his duty to America. He and

The British tax laws were pretty rough back then, and George had not yet gotten Krishna.

Maybe we can get Ween to play our company party.

Corollae are good cars, in my experience.

The last book I borrowed from the library was Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer," in 1988. I ended up paying a huge fine because I am really bad about bringing things back to libraries.

Me neither, dude.

Nice pics. Anyone get their head busted?

In New York, money pretty much always trumps sentiment. Look what they did to Penn Station. I typically never count the Yankees out, but if they are going to do it, they better start soon.

I don't like Fox.

In New York, the statewide teachers union really likes that school revenue is linked to property tax, which they see as a very stable base for their members to get paid from. There is some talk of a property tax cap here, but a fully income-tax-based solution seems off the table at this point. It is a big issue in the Hudson Valley where I am and on Long Island; not so much in other parts of the state, where people's homes aren't worth so much and people are mostly subsistence farmers or belong to roving gangs of bandits.

I saw in in a theater with a pretty good sound system and it did indeed rock my shit.

Both those shows are superb and should be required watching for every American.

"Mean old bullpen, taught me to weep and moan. Mean old bullpen, taught me to weep and moan. Got what it takes to make a modern man leave his home."

Jesus fuck, how the fucking pus-ridden scabby hell am I supposed to get behind a team which blows a fucking seven-run lead to its division rivals? How? HOW?!?!?!?

That's one word for it.

There may never be definitive proof. Forgive us our suspicions.

I didn't, and I'm just a copy editor. Compare Colin Powell's evidence before the U.N. to Adlai Stevenson's during the Cuban missile crisis and you'll see what I mean. I reckon the "coalition of the willing" and the lawmakers thought it would be a better bet to go along with what most thought would be a pretty easy war than risk being branded a bad ally/person, especially in the post-9/11 environment.

Jesus, in a way I hope Bush and Cheney were lying. If they were that gullible to go to war on the flimsy evidence they had ... oy.

Maybe the feeling that was around after Nixon quit - that the system can be abused, but it holds up to that abuse and can right itself. That said, it would have been an awful catharsis to impeach Bush. It would have been like the whole country being on an episode of that show "Intervention." There would be anger, tears, maybe even civil unrest in some spots. (Like New Paltz!) And what if he and Cheney didn't want to go? We'd be like a Latin American country - our fate decided by who the military supported.