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US spent $250 million to find the Colombian hostages.

Should we sue the hostages to recover the costs?

They were being negligent in being
stupid enough to get kidnapped.
its their own dault, of course!

Maybe we should sue Colomnbia!!!!

An outrage, a waste of taxpayer money,
who do we sue to get this money back?

Why don't you clown GROW UP ?

Is it that hard ?

Graham

You've wailed about this speech a few times recently. Where are the
"really bad parts" IYO?

********************************
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry, 1971 to the
Senate Committee of Foreign Relations April 23, 1971

I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and say that
several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over
150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans
testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. These were not
isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the
full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It is impossible
to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit - the emotions
in the room and the feelings of the men who were reliving their
experiences in Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of what this
country, in a sense, made them do.

Just when a glimmer of hope for detente was "in the air", now this.

guilty of doing what he decries in others. That may make him less of a
snot thrower, and may improve his life in the long run. "<<

Unsettling. BTW, maybe that's not snot, but another substance not found
in the Jenn household. If so they should be careful as it can have bad
effects....Especially Arny's.

Book Review: McIntosh: "...for the love of music..."

By John Marks

McIntosh: "...for the love of music..."
by Ken Kessler. McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., 2006. $150.00. Hardcover, 12"
by 12" by 1.25", 315 pp. ISBN 0-9787236-0-0.
Available from McIntosh dealers and McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., 2 Chambers
Street, Binghamton, NY 13903. Tel: (800) 538-6576.

Stereophile's February 2004 issue, I offered the opinion that the list of
companies it might make sense to write an entire book about would be
short: "Had I to make a list, it would begin with: Quad, Nakamichi,
ReVox-Studer, AR, KLH, Levinson (all incarnations), Klipsch, Bose...."

Chapter Four

THE PREDICTABLE FUTURE

literally the Son of God, which dominated the Western world for fifteen
centuries, and effectively united all the men of our race for ten, has
become the faith of a minority.

It is vain to wish that this calamity had not happened, and nugatory to
try to blame our enemies for it, however cunning and malevolent they may
be. For it is our destiny—the destiny that is biologically...

Higher priced movies?

still plenty of work for symphony orchestras and opera tenors because the
fans who do care are willing to pay a lot per ticket.
High ticket prices were introduced to America at the 1984 LA Olympics.
Back then, the $200 prices for the opening and closing ceremonies and $95
for the gymnastics finals seemed like misprints. But, the Olympics were a
financial success even though the people you'd think would be less price
sensitive -- the out of town vacationers for whom ticket prices are just a
fraction of the total costs -- didn't show up in large numbers, and most of
the crowds were composed of locals.

In contrast, movie tickets are more or less fixed in price. So, every
filmmaker is competing in the same game. Julian Schnabel and Wong Kar-Wai
are going head to head against Michael Bay, and they're all being measured
by tickets sold. (To be precise, that's not quite true -- films that do
more matinee business, more senior business, more kids business, and run
in cheaper towns, make less box office revenue per ticket sold on average,
but it's not that big a difference.)