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JT -- Happy Easter to you too. Ex -- naw -- I have to work. One of our guys is going to a monster truck show tonight -- and I got elected to take him there. Instead of a candlelit service with hymns and incense -- it will be a car crushing event with noise and the smell of petroleum in the air.

John -- sounds like it was a great time. geez -- 78 years old, and still picking. Hope the same can be said of me (someday)!! ;)-->

WG (and Long Gone) too: Ahem!!! -- Michael Shaivo has been living with another woman for over 10 years now, and has fathered two children by the person who IS NOT HIS WIFE (by normal, ethical, legal, standards). Oh -- scuse me -- in most states (I am not sure about the land of the big swamp -- ie: Florida (sorry Raf - that is what is becoming) -- if you live with a woman for seven years -- it is common-law marriage. Mr. Michael has two wives. And this bozo is now a candidate for the Mormon church, and could probably be a leader there, if he pulls this off successfully. THE ONLY WAY THAT MICHAEL SCHIAVO COULD HAVE COMPLETE SAY -- IS IF HE WERE NOT *MARRIED* TO ANOTHER WOMAN. However -- he is married to two. One by law, and one by common-law. He has totally been a pompous *sob* when dealing with the one he was truely married too, in order to get what he wanted, while living with the other. Not only that -- he was found to be injecting Terri with an extra dosage of insulin, at a time that was not her normal med time, and that dosage could have, should have, but did not --- put her into remission, as he (supposedly) hoped it would do. Well -- I will agree with one thing -- Terri did decide to marry this guy. She seemed to have made a bad choice kinda like we all did with twi -- eh?? This man who has two wives, is breaking the law, and (IMHO) has no right to dictate that one should die. my 2 cents worth David

Ex10 --- you said some powerful stuff in chat last night. Check your private topics. :)-->

Paw -- to me this site is a *light in the night*. Do whatever you need to to make it better. (I don't know what all that entails) -- but do what you have to do, to make it meet your specifications. A long as I can access it -- I for one will be happy. I have met many folks here on both sides of any given issue, and I am proud to call them all friends, and would sincerely miss that if I could not access the site. Like Cowgirl said -- I am just getting used to the way it is working now -- but if it changes -- well, I guess I can get used to that too. :)-->

Hey there WG! --> Happy Birthday! (May your gardens be prosperous, with many years of watering them ahead.) :)--> David

Brick by brick, thought by thought, shoot -- I'm thinking even the mortar holding the bricks together was *scraped away*, and sold as so much *pottage*. I learned some good stuff there, but what was done to me and others overall, did not replace the *stolen house*.

bump.

WWJlA -- yea -- coke was a term I used too, but the over-all term for carbonated beverages was soft drinks, where I came from. I remember the first time I walked into a store up here in Minnesota looking for a 6-pack of Coke, and I guess I looked confused by the lay-out of the store, so the clerk said "can I help you?". I said "yea -- where are your soft drinks?" He looked at me like I was from Mars, or sumpthing! :D--> I actually had to explain I was looking for a 6-pack of Coco-Cola. :D-->

86% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors? Shoot -- even kids know you go the store, buy a soft drink, put it in a sack, and then go hunting for crawdads in the creek! ;)--> Some test! (but a fun one!) :D-->

To answer you're original question (the title of this thread), "I think I usta-could" Geez -- is that a Jeff Foxworthy word - *usta-could*? :D--> Regardless -- I guess I can't, because I got sucked in by one. Up here in da nort land, we say *colt litre*, and if'n ya drink enuf of them, it be about the same results as a *cult leader* when yer done. :D-->

Rascal -- good luck getting that implemented. :(--> Most envirionmental activists I know (and I know quite a few), are merely interested in *social engineering*, and not willing to bear the burden of paying for it. To them -- if a wolf kills a calf or some other livestock -- they would just say "hey -- that's the nature of the beast. What do you expect me to do about it?" -- even though they were the one's *mandating* it's re-introduction to the *wild* in the first place.

Shell -- so is it 54, or 45?? He sounds *childish* enough at times to be 45, And sounds *wise enough* at times to be 54! :D--> Whichever it is HAPpy Birthday Hap!! Have fun celebrating with your family on 3/22. :)--> David

Mike -- and what was docvic's *track record*??

To which I say: Hear, hear!! :)--> But the big question is: Where, where did it get him?? :(-->

If Daryl was straight -- his girlfriend *Sue* would be a flesh and blood woman, and not some dinosaur in the Chicago Museum! :D--> :o--> :D-->

Mr H. -- yea. Hate to say it, but I voted for * too. Everything that * and * and the other two *'s had to offer, just didn't cut it, so I cast my vote for *. We will find out if that was the correct decision, when the great "scheme of things" comes to a close -- and the true * is unveiled.

Sadly -- I think they would come up with *party doctrine* (see Socks' & outta's post), instead of being compassionate or caring. Love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation. Yea -- right. -->

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Shell -- advocating for the elderly and those with disablities sounds more like what you could get involved with, and still be *true* to yourself. More often than not, a lot of social workers *blow off* their responsibilities, and don't seem to really care about their clients -- but then again there are many who stick up for the folks they are hired to deal with -- and you could be one of the latter group. Folks like Loren (he's doing well, by the way) :)--> have staff like me to stick up for him, but we can only do so much. We don't have the power that the social worker has to see that things are actually implemented. We can only suggest, and hope it gets done on a legal level. And the develope-mentally disabled (as well as the elderly) will reap a better life when they have someone like you advocating for them, and won't be one of those *%^# folks that will be returning to the street to commit crimes. Since a lot are either home bound, or limited in ability, good advocates for them is always a plus. And also on the *plus* side -- they will gratefully accept your services, without ulterior motives, unlike the criminal element you are speaking of that go back to repeating crimes. David

EX10 -- what does your husband think about that?? :D--> :D-->

Three "official" members + One helluva-lot-of-gullible folks = One CULT.

Ha! Yea -- well right. In the case of twi, the horse does come before the cart, and peruses the cart's contents, and determines if it is worth hauling away -- so that *believing (cough!) does equal receiving*. especially -- if said cart has all the monies extort... errrr requir.... errrr demand.... errrr *God's Due* (payable to the ministry most closely affiliated with you) Nuff said. -->

To my Southern Minnesota Bro -- Happy Birthday!! Met you first here in chat, then at the Applebee's in Forest Lake for the Minnesota get-together, and haven't seen you since. :(--> Hope you are doing well, and having a good one!! :D-->

Puff is younger than I.. No wonder he still *breathes fire*. Whatever happened to P,P, and M??? -->