ParaTed2k

ParaTed2k

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I flew right by Mt. St. Helens during it's first series of eruptions back in October. ( i was flying into Portland, and they re-directed the plane to go around it because of the steam/smooke cloud being in our flightpath) I just kept remembering when i was a kid and when it went off in 1980. I was 700 miles away and there was dust all over everything two days after the eruption. Get this, I was in Iraq and there was dust all over everyt

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It is entertaining (to say the least) to hear enviro-wackos whine, complain and moan about all the ways we have found to destroy nature. First of all, every poison or element we stuff into a warhead was first developed by Mother Nature in the folds of the earth's crust. Match any of our weapons, smoke stacks, exhaust pipes and oil spills against the Mother Nature's track record of volcano erruptions, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, tornadoes a

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I think it goes back to the concept that we applaud in our entertainment acts that we would never put up with in real life. "Desperate Housewives" is one example. The acts of Dirty Harry and other rogue cops in filmdon is another. I think it feeds from our own imaginings when confronted with moral and ethical dimlemnas in our own lives. When someone cuts us off on the highway while we are in what we think is a hurry, we may imag

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Chalk another one up to "Zero Intelligence" in our school system. It is ironic that we hire our educators and school administrators because we have an interest in a thinking populace, yet in the end it is those educators and administrators who seem least interested in actually thinking.

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Iamheather... please take this in the spirit intended, but could it be that it took you three husbands to become a good wife?? lol Just a thought.

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