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My daughter has been getting ready for this for weeks, she loves it. 10 is a pretty fun age  :D On the other hand, it can be kind of depressing down here in south Florida where so many people don't participate for cultural/religious reasons. Turn off your outside light so kids don't think...

I think Penn Jillette is great. He was spectacular on Real Time with Bill Maher a couple of weeks ago.

Don't be afraid to post things that might be controversial. Yes, there are many right wing Bush apologist types on this site, but not everyone is  one ;)  It's a good article and worthy of displaying. From truthdig - http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday/ "It is...

And the republicans don't?  ;D :D :)

A barber? What for? Hair extensions? Half the armour officers I knew looked like that after their haircut.

I've always considered myself somewhat of an anti-monarchist - it's a remnant of the past and has no relevance to my life as a Canadian or as a member of the army. I didn't like swearing allegiance to the figurehead monarch of a foreign country and I wasn't thrilled about toasting her at dinners...

Exactly. If and when I obtain my American citizenship I have no intention of giving up my Canadian citizenship and don't think I have to. I will not impose on the country I'm not living in at the moment, but I don't see any reason to give up my current citizenship.

That thought occured to me when I was watching them interact in their quarters.

When I first moved to the US to start a new job I was amazed to find that a few of the people in my new shop - mainframe programming using Natural/Adabas were from the Marines. They had been Natural programmers there. What a great concept, having IT professionals as an integral part of your...

Sharon is pretty cute, although it might be pretty hard on the brain to have multiple versions of your sweetie  :)

I am so looking forward to tonights episode...The plan had Galactica going back and Pegasus staying with the fleet but the previews have Sharon saying 2 Battlestars have jumped in. Way to go Lee!! It didn't make any sense to split such a small force to begin with and if you did to send the...

Not likely. On another note have you ever considered giving linux a try? There are a number of very user friendly, stable and feature filled distros out there these days. You can try most of these on a live cd so you can see what it looks like/how it acts without without having to install it...

If you know some people who are in, pick the one you feel is the biggest 'loser.' Then say to yourself, "If that guy (girl) can do it, so can I!!" Don't forget, everyone who is and whoever was in uniform has gone through the same thing. Don't take things personally. Let comments go in one ear...

George, when did you 'upgrade' to ie7? Do you have a system point you can restore to before that point that might clean things up? Then you could try again from a clean system. I know the process sucks, it worked fine at home the other day (although it took an amazing amount of time) but when I...

I did upgrade to ie7 just to have it for those rare occasions when a page won't render in either opera or firefox. It has to be better than the crap that is ie6 but I haven't really checked it out yet. Like old medic, I enjoy being able to use opera and firefox in both windows and linux so the...

Opera has been ad-free for free since version 7, almost a year now I think. I didn't use rss until I tried Opera and I used thunderbird as my email pgm until I tried opera. No, opera's email client is not as feature filled as the standalone tbird, but it does everything I need. It doesn't hurt...

Firefox is good but try Opera. Very customizable, small and fast, not as big a target for hackers, built in email, bittorrent, and rss reader. I use it at work and home and love it.

Oh, ok. So you aren't talking about anything current. You are talking about Vietnam era policies. I'm pretty sure right now you need a green card to get in. (Notice how I was nice and never used the word 'old' once  ;) )

Interesting. I've never heard of anyone being able to join who didn't have at least a green card. Were you special?  ;D

Were you a green card holder when you joined? This seems to be proposing to open up the US armed forces to non green card holders. And we know how long it can take to get one of those things  ;)