It goes to show the nature of this conflict. There are no front lines and by the same token any place you are can be the front line. The only way to keep them out of harms way is to keep them out of the war zone totally.

Bookworm that song was exactly what I thought of.

well at least I will go down standing on my own two feet rather than groveling at the feet of my Islamic Masters like you.

Davinci:

My brother is currently in Peru, he will be back the end of the week. I will ask him if he heard anything about this. It will be interesting to get some first hand information.

Meteorites are comprised of mostly iron, but they can contain a host of other elements and compounds many of which could release toxic fumes when heated to the temperatures encountered when coming through our atmosphere. Additionally it could have hit something in the ground that gave off toxic fumes.

Knox the obvious reference was to what I had written because I was the only one that posted the comment, now you are trying to back water claiming I am off the mark and your comment was a generalization. Perhaps you should take your own advice and fall back on Neocon mantra # 14: "I misquoted myself". I guess it is really my fault because I forgot to remind you yesterday that it's time to replace the tinfoil in hour hat Further you obviously have some problem comprehending what I wrote your you would not have started this whole thing in the first place. My response was clear and concise, you read something into it that wasn't there like you usually do and used that to go off on your usual tirade about the current administration. Then you run around ranting that anyone who disagrees with you must have their head in Bush or Cheney's rectum. I guess in your case maturity does not come with age.

That is the sickest thing I have ever heard. I am sure that when he is convicted and sentenced his cellmates will teach him a whole new meaning of the word gentle. The horible part is there are many more just like him still loose out there.

Oh Davinci, thank you for a huge laugh, I never thought of it but you are exactly right. That laid back sense of humor of yours is deadly.

Knox one again you have gone off half cocked. Do you have trouble reading and comprehending what you have read? The only misquoting that is going on is from you. You seem to have great difficulty seeing what is actually written as opposed to what you think someone wrote. For your information and edification my original comment is quoted below.

"The wonderful thing about a book is you can take a phrase or two out of context and use to reinforce about any point you want to make. I haven't read Greenspan's Book and probably won't but I suggest that those who wish to comment on it read the whole thing and draw their own conclussions from what he said. "

You will notice that nowhere did I make any comment pro or con about Greenspan's book. Since the book came out Monday, I doubt that you or anybody else except the media who received advanced copies, have read it completely. You and others on the other hand have taken a few sound bytes from the media and are going off like you have memorized every word in the book.

My reasons for not reading the book are many and vaired they include the fact that books by economists are usually slightly less spellbinding than the EPA regulations. The book is the memoirs and personal opinions of yet another retired goverment employee who just can't seem to walk away from the job. Reading Greenspan's book will not increase my bank account it will in fact decrease it by the cost of yet another dull book.

I personally don't give a big rat's pattot what he has to say one way or the other. If I did, I would buy the book and read it and draw my own conclusions from the entire context of what he said rather than a 15 second blurb on CNN.

As for knee jerk reactions, your selective amnesia has conveniently allowed you to forget your first comment on this thread, let me retort for you.

"Spidey, Spidey, Spidey....... If you could please, if just for one moment, pull your head out of Bush's rectum..... "

You constantly want to apply a double standard here, one where you are allowed to say anything, throw temper tantrums and call people names, yet you demand civility and courtesy for yourself. What goes around comes around if you can't take it don't dish it out.

affordable healthcare insurance should be available to everybody that wants it but a Mandatory Program smacks of Socialism, but then Hillary is a true blue Socialist so what is new.

I know Davinci, the government prints the money but if we withstood the 16% inflation rate of the late 70s I think we can get by now too. Actually a ballanced budget would be a very comforting thought but I don't see that happening real soon no matter who is in the whitehouse. Now Hillary has come out with her own mandated health care plan. Somebody will have to pay for that too. I think I will just sign everything over to the govenment and go on welfare I think I could get a better deal.

one other thing knox, I said that with any book you can take something out of context to support almost any argument you want to make. Perhaps you should read my post more carefully before you comment or perhaps you should remove your head form your rectum.

Knox the pork I was referring to came out of the Federal Budget and went to W VA.

The wonderful thing about a book is you can take a phrase or two out of context and use to reinforce about any point you want to make. I haven't read Greenspan's Book and probably won't but I suggest that those who wish to comment on it read the whole thing and draw their own conclussions from what he said.

Left Wing Conspiracy oh yes definately yes Right Wing Conspiracy probably not, very difficult to get people from the right side of the aisle to agree on anything

The paper said that the Fed is probably going to lower the prime rate to help the housing market, that alone will probably cause Davinci to have a spasm

One parting shot, you don't have to have a majority in Congress to spend bunches of money. Just ask Harry Bird, D W.Va, the porkingest piker to ever come along. He delivers the pork to W.Va. regardless of who has a majority.

I have said it before and I will say it again, we had better wake up to the fact that we are in the beginning stages of WW III. There may still be time to head it off if more nations take a hardline stance against terrorists and terrorist nations. It is a very unstable world out there and nukes in the hands of unstable religious zealots and fanatical dictators is not a comforting thought. Sooner or later someone will use one and then all hell is going to break loose.

If the U.N. had any cojones they would take a strong stand against Iran and North Korea, but the U.N. is nothing more than a 3rd world debating society.

Thank God France finally seems to be growing a set of balls.

I am far from a religious zealot, there are just some gaps in the chain of evidence that I don't understand. Further just because a bunch of "scientists" come together and reach a consensus does not establish fact. Evidence does and there are pieces of the puzzle missing. For instance we had Neanderthal man, then Cromagnon, and I probably butchered the spelling, came on the scene. Did Cromagnon evolve from Nenadertal? The fact that we have changed from a superstitious group to an enlightened group in a few hundred years does not indicate evolution it indicated an advance in education.

I just got done watching "The Universe" on TV guess what, in the beginning there really was nothing. Then there was a "big bang" and all matter was created. Well that's the short version, it took a while for things to cool down. For a very brief period after the big bang, the 4 forces of nature, gravity, electromagnatism, strong and weak nuclear forces, existed as one, that allowed the matter to speed away from the big bang as a speed faster than the speed of light. As I said before I find it absolutely amazing that whenever necessary for us to come into existence, the constant laws of Physics make a necessary adjustment.

sorry I hijacked the chili pepper thread into a discussion on evolution but for me there are things out there that need further explaining.

OMG Gina's back how have you been we missed ya

Is the world warming up, quite possibly. Is it man caused, maybe. Are there things that we can do about it definately. There is much conterversy over the global warming issue. There are things that can be done to reduce carbon emissions etc that contribute to the global warming problem. If we do what is necessary and by we I mean the whole damn world not just the U.S., to reduce greenhouse gases etc and we later find out the environmentalists were wrong we can bash the hell out of them. If we do nothing and find out they are right there will be noone to left to bash or do the bashing.

There are many gaps in our knowledge that can only only bridged by assumptions. Evolution is one of them. Just as there are many laws of nature that are absolute except when a variation is necessary to support life for instance every substance becomes heavier and more dense when it freezes except water. If it were not for this variance of a basic law of nature, life would be impossible because lakes and streams would freeze from the bottom up instead of the top down and all water would be locked in ice.

As was pointed out earlier many established scientific beliefs of the past have been proven wrong. The world is round not flat, the earth revolves around the sun not vice versa. Now the established mainstream belief is the theory of evolution, hummm could that possibly be wrong too? Time will tell.

Wow I ask a few pertenent questions and right away I get the smoke and mirror routine accompained by one mega sized spin. That's what I like about the evolutinists, when you ask a question they can't answer they immediately resort to smoke and mirrors.

Wow it only took 150,000 years for hominoids to become man, and in 50 million years a shark is still a shark and your reasoning is there is no reason for change if a species is successful. They you go on to say that the dinosaurs changed very little in 300 million years. Then based on that we should have taken a couple hunderd million years to advance to our present state and we did it in only 150,000 wow what over achievers. We have found fosil links to previous species for most animals but none for man why is that. Are we looking in the wrong places? Where is the rock solid evidence? Anything scientific is considered a theory until proven beyond a doubt. That is why they still call it "The Theory of Evolution" not the Rock Solid Fact of Evolution.