Thenice thing about the hurricane is . ..we were 450 nm off shore, Force
two and three, bright blue skies, deck chairs and suntan lotion kinda
cruise. When we got back WHOA! Place looked pretty bad. Luckily my
favorite restaurant (seafood place on Willoughby Spit) was all right. More
imporantly very few boats, especially sailboats, were damaged.

Let's see what first. Water actually does run uphill if you don't bite it?
No, that's not it. What I buy into now is the cynical but true union
approach. Whatever hand feeds you . . .eat. Since there is little
difference in the hands . . . does it matter? Of course not. If it isn't
one thing, it s another and if it isn't another its. . . .

I do find the WMD business amusing though. At best it's a non-starter and
of no importance. Can't imagine why the Chief Shrub even bothered to
dignify it with an answer. That mistake on his part finally convinced me
he's not as smart as he could be . . .. nor is his staff. For the fun of
it I went back and did a google kinda search on the pre-invasion build up.
Counted the number of times finding WMD was listed as being germane.
Answer: Zero. Then counted the number of times Iraq (the Saddam Regime
gov't) was required to demonstrate they didn't have any. Answer: Thousands.
Silly conversation at best. Can't imagine why anyone would waste time on
it.

As to your final sort of question . . . .Two answers. One relating back to
the Iran/Iraq war is called 'mines'. The other is . . .who cares. If you
all are going to pay us danger pay . . .we all are not going to argue.

New Deal . ..etc. The one thing I can't refute, when trying to argue the
success of that program, is how come the unemployment figures kept going up
and went down only when the nation geared up for war. Other than that
little fly in the ointment I'll agree with you. The problem there is the
other factors that I didn't factor in; e.g. monetary policy, banking
regulations, silly fixation on gold standards etc. etc. etc.

Now for those of you who aren't used to this sort of interchange . .. .take
note the requirement is to ALWAYS have something sailing related. For the
rest of it you give everyone something to complaint (strike that) comment
on. It's called stirring the pot by some . . ..trolling by others.

MST Trash-A-Danna

P.S. DSK by the way presents some first class arguments and always gives me
food for thought and research. Sometimes I gotta prod him a little though.
After all . . .he is a former rag-baggerd but a good sort none the less.