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wow, now I am confused as to my brain. I am SOoooo left brain, math, science, logic oriented, but when it comes to cooking I love to tweak recipes with what is on hand or what I think will better a recipe that evening. I thought that was the science part of me. Maybe I have a right lobe afterall. or then again, maybe I am halfbrained. dinner is almost always good and devoured however, by both myself and MsHAP, who is very happy not to have to cook that night. She is very happy to grab a bag of some heat and eat prepared food and call it good. I of course will eat it since I didn't have to take time to cook it, but I would never ever buy it or cook it myself. ~HAP

Krys- thanks but I don't plan to save a copy to keep. Maybe will D/L to puter, listen and delete. Actually the preview mp3 only took 5 minutes or so to grab via my dialup, I will get around to getting faster connection, I just haven't had the need to move it up on my priority list. No biggie either way from my view. If I want it I will get it, and the same goes for the voice bits from GS. ~HAP

TopOTW, in the "olden days" of email, emoticons were not little pictures. "Smilies" as they were always called simply were characters or letters typed in sequence. :) = colon, dash, right parantheses Ron's "emoticons" above are not programmed into this forum to display as pictures, you are not doing anything wrong. Emoticon is short for "emotion icon". an icon is a mini picture. So these are really "smilies" in the old style. ~HAP

If she were just your friend, would you still give her your phone number Shell? Happy bday young one. ~HAP

hey, I got dialup, but don't make any adjustments on my account. I've been looking for a reason to change. but for what I do, there hasn't been one yet. Large software updates I do while I sleep, and at my age, who cares if a page takes 30 seconds to load, but for this, I might finally have a reason to come into the 21st century. ~HAP

You are making too big a deal over this. Let it go, IMHO ~HAP

bon ami is still available- awesome stuff I use "Simple Green" for sensitive areas with grease or oil spots and for cleaning dirt from grout, sometimes. ~HAP

Its working now, thanks ~HAP

Ok, at least he is finally accepting blame, instead of the way his PR people tried to make it the victim's fault. Good for him. For awhile it looked like the message was "I did NOT have target practice on that man" :-D I can let this rest now and chalk it up to a shamefully mishandled but unfortunate accident, whether he was sober or not at the time. ~HAP

Someone asked how far the victim was, I wonder if that 30 yards as reported distance would yield such a tight pattern of shot? Anyone? I completely agree Kennedy deceitfully mishandled that accident too. no argument from me. He was thoroughly lambasted at the time for it by the press and politicians as was deserved. It likely was a determining factor in him never running for President. that was then, this is now. Private time? pffft no such thing. After you accidently shoot someone, the first thing you do is make sure the victim has medical care. this takes 10 minutes when there is medical staff on hand already. After help has been secured, you report it (maybe call your lawyer first). Next I would go to the hospital to support my friend and offer moral support and prayers. Yoiu STAY there for the duration, grabbing whatever fare the cafeteria has to offer. You don'tsend your friend off in an ambulance and then go back to the ranch, have quail dinner or whatever, and talk about the weather. Who got to eat the victim's bird anyway? ~HAP

The news reports say he was approximately 30 yards (90 ft.) away. That is a little less than the distance from front to back of a city residential lot. Seems to me that Teflon Dick should have been able to see him at that distance, or he should not have been hunting at all. ~HAP

where does the other two thirds come from? One source of course is borrowing against our future (how many %?), and the rest is from...? In any event, whatever you got means someone else didn't. Having read you now for a few years, I doubt if you meant to gloat, but that is the way it came across, Gaglen ~HAP

ex70- You better not do that in CO, its illegal to shoot game from a vehicle here, FYI, at least last time I looked. yes, the stamp is new, (September). It is just another little miscue, generated by lack of adequate reliable intelligence research before hunting in a foreign country. Oh wait, Texas isn't foreign is it? His victim also was cited by the way. I hope Cheney pays his $7 too. Its the least he can do. Leno said Cheney's popularity went up 40% when the nation heard he had shot a lawyer. ~HAP

Cheney has been cited for hunting without the correct bird stamp. He has sent a check for $7, the cost of the stamp. scofflaw! teehee ~HAP

Johniam, according to Bob Hope, bothe Agnew and Ford were known for hitting spectators at the golf course. "There are 86 golf courses in Palm Springs, Gerald Ford never knew which one he was gonna play until his second shot" "When spiro yelled 'fore' you didn't know if he was announcing his shot, or callig out the numbere of people he had hit in the round" LOL, ~HAP

NIKA- I gotta 'pologize for intruding into the hallowed sanctum of the nine corps thread, but I just had to comment on the Group W bench. I read the first sentence of your post, and started humming the song before I got to "bench W" in it. I found Arlo downloaded onto an old harddrive I replaced from my kid's computer. The song is on the comeback. ~HAP

well, if he had shot a dem candidate for office, it would be a different story! hmm, wonder if there will be a lawsuit? tort reform anyone? ~HAP

Kit, are you saying that mentioning an unfortunate event in a VPs day should be off limits? I don't see anyone rejoicing "in iniquity". Its not like dick MEANT to shoot a major campaign contributer. Are you saying hunting birds is wrong? what was the iniquity? ummm, prayers maybe, ...support- Not required, and certainly not always advised. Even so, I would not make this particular shooting incident political by any means. This is in the open forum, but I don't see any one who has posted a prayer against VP Cheney regarding this incident. That said, it is our very freedom to support or not support a political viewpoint that makes us SAFE from the ilk of BinLaden. I do not know you, and from your posts, you seem very pleasant, but I wonder if people in general who say things like "support our leaders no matter what" feel the same way when another leader is at the helm? sorry, I don't understand what you tried to get across in that post, but it came across strangely to me. ~HAP

awww, STL, you beat me to posting this. I thought at first glance that Cheney had shot Dan Quayle, instead of hunting quail. {JK} I thought it was Gerald Ford who hit someone with a golf shot. but in that case, it was one of his better shots since it was just barely off the fairway. ~HAP

In an openly available website like GS, I am not sure there can be a definition of "good". Do you mean good for the stated purpose and goals of GS? I certainly don't qualify then, assuming that the goal of GS is to encourage discussion of, and exposing TWI. I rarely participate in those topics, or in doctrine. I prefer to play in the peripheral aspects of Greasespot, and I think being "good" in those areas means not labeling as "evil", or painting with a broad brush, people with different views. Listening with a purpose is good. Being mean and purposefully antagonistic is not. (I like the bumper sticker "mean people suc@") Having integrity is good, dishonesty is not (although for the most part, the anonymity on any internet site often lends itself to a certain amount of this). Having an opinion is good, having a STRONG opinion is good, disagreeiment is good. Belittling and bullying is not. Giving people space is good, making all the "space" YOURS is not. "Good" here is pretty much the same definition I hold as "good" in any other aspect of my life. For what it is worth, I would classify all but a VERY few of the regulars as good, including you Excat. I am sure that some others would name a few others as "bad" instead of the ones I think of, so perhaps that makes all of us good. ~HAP

I came here by following a link from Google after hearing of the death of a well known TWI person. I wanted to locate his wife, who I consider a dear person. I was impressed with the courtesy in the Memorium Forum. I was also impressed with the strong feelings for and against a group which I was involved in for 14 years. I did NOT come here to praise, bash, or discuss TWI, nor to "get over" any issues. TWI was long-passed history for me. I stayed to find other old friends (its been good), and to explore political views, both mine and other's. The latter reason has been somewhat disappointing, disturbing, and non-enlightening. ~HAP

ok, that works too! and can listen anytime , thanks. Crystal clear, gonna be a great interview, and is SOOOO cool to hear what people really sound like instead of my imagineered voices from their typed posts. ~HAP

Ok, I finally figured out I need to point winamp or whatever mp3 player to that URL, but the buffering due to my dialup is screwing things up. Can the file be downloaded to my computer to be played later? I don't much mess with .mp3, so my experience is like non-existant with them. Guess I gotta find that round TUIT and look at various DSL/cable connection options. What parts of the interview I get to hear are clear. Ahhhh, never mind, now it is working, I just had to wait. ~HAP

Cutting back on student loans and food stamps, but here comes your TV voucher from the government! ~HAP From: http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/04/technology...taltv/index.htm By Marc Gunther, FORTUNE Senior WriterJanuary 19, 2006: 12:10 PM EST (snip.......) Government handouts The difficulty, of course, is that the analog broadcast system will then be shut down -- which will leave most of today's TV sets unable to receive a signal over the air. Roughly 20 million of those soon-to-be-obsolete sets are in homes where people don't subscribe to cable or satellite. The other 50 million or so are in pay TV homes, and used as second, third or fourth sets. Sets hooked up to cable or satellite services should work fine no matter what. To avoid a consumer revolt, Congress has set aside about $1.5 billion to smooth the transition. Owners of outmoded TV sets will be eligible for two vouchers, worth $40 each, to help buy converter boxes that will enable today's analog TV sets to receive digital signals. Yes, the very same federal government that is cutting back on college loans and food stamps will soon be issuing TV vouchers. .......(snipped) Free TV signals scrambled People are supposed to apply for the vouchers during a three-month window in 2008, and use them within three months. But there probably won't be enough vouchers to go around, and no one really knows how much converter boxes will cost. Disadvantaged people are most likely to be left behind in the scramble. The nightmare scenario is that people who depend on free, over-the-air TV for news and entertainment will lose their access, or have to pay more for it, so that the rest of us can get faster service on our Blackberries and ESPN on our cell phones....................

I thought basketball has best of 7 series throughout the playoffs too, at least in the NBA?