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http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/050606/Area_soldier.asp Soldier Picks Up WhereHe Left Off Army Reserve Sergeant Returns to School, Work After Serving in Kuwait, Iraq By Linda McCarty The Winchester Star John Russell was studying music before his Army Reserve unit was...

We all know the type. The one who is so sure he or she is right. They will gladly prove it to you. Hundreds of web links must prove they are right. How can you be so stupid in the face of facts after facts after facts? What sets them apart from any religious fanatic? They'll tell you. It's...

Let's assume you hate American policy. That's a laugher in a way, right? But try to look at the Euro and Dollar debate without bias or paranoia. That's another laugher,right? But let's present a concept of economics that rules the psychology of self preservation and self enrichment. We...

Is war illegal if used to stop the carnage in Ruwanda, or Yugoslavia, where no imminent danger to your own country is present? Would war be illegal if the destruction of Dafur in the Sudan is stopped? Is it possible to stop a government or military from committing slaughter, ethnic cleansing...

In every strata of politics you see potential conflict of interest. You see it in local, state, province, national governance. You see the outsiders' rage against those on the inside. This is a riddle !!! For it is the outsider who knows less than the insider !! Have we seen the outsiders...

"TERRORISTS IN THE HANDS OF JUSTICE" Talk about reality TV programming. This show is a big hit, so to speak, in Baghdad. Almost 9-10 million people voted in Iraq. As much as all of them are divided about security in Iraq, wanting the Americans out, but sure there will be even less security...

May 11, 2005 Brussels Sprouts By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In his book "The Ideas That Conquered the World," Michael Mandelbaum tells a story about a young girl who is eating dinner at a friend's house and her friend's mother asks her if she likes brussels sprouts. "Yes, of course," the girl says. "I...

Trust me, ANY OF you can find whatever facts you need to support any view. But HANDCUFFS, POLICE STATE ? Looks like to me only the child had the power and none of the adults. But here's a more fairer appraisal of the issue. I used to substitute teach so I got to see the best or rather the...

This is a great board and despite the political differences I enjoy that there is a conversation.

Secreting a 700-Ton Load on Iraqi Roads 'Mother of All Generators' Reaches Electrical Plant After Slow, Circuitous Journey By Caryle Murphy Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 11, 2005; Page A16 OUTSIDE KIRKUK, Iraq, April 10 -- Altogether, it weighs more than 700 tons and is...

Secreting a 700-Ton Load on Iraqi Roads 'Mother of All Generators' Reaches Electrical Plant After Slow, Circuitous Journey By Caryle Murphy Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 11, 2005; Page A16 OUTSIDE KIRKUK, Iraq, April 10 -- Altogether, it weighs more than 700 tons and is...

Other than the usual, but no less disturbing, predictions of the end of humans, I would like to list some possibilities often not discussed. 1: Robots taking over Hans Moravec is a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh: "Robot controllers double...

The process has started. The process of indignation has started. Not your indignation. It is the Iraqi indignation and disgust that their own neighbors and fellow citizens are killing their families, brothers, sisters, parents and children. Even some of the insurgents are requesting other...

I'd like to start a new thread here about Robots, only because that wonderful insightful thread on evolutionary theory begets a look at what we wish to evolve towards. So let this discussion be a foward look at evolution and let the thread on evolution be a look at the past. I wonder how...

Usually in every issue there is a dizzying array of facts, often contradictory in nature. But watch as everyone gains in on a fact and missing another countervailing fact, and how they emphasize one fact to the exclusion of another fact. Justice seems to be adversarial, and those who can...