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Veeeeeeeeeeeeery interesting! I haven't read "DaVinci Code" either, but I have read Dan Brown's other novels. Any good writer of fiction includes enough fact and plausable theory to make the story believable to the reader. Dan is indeed a good fiction writer and he does dig up some interesting...

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These and other physical limitations have been cause for deferment from the military for a long time. I think a person who has flat feet (fallen arches) is not capable of marching hundreds of miles while carrying a heavy load. Pretty much the same reasons for spinal defects. There are actually...

O.K., in for a penny here. All of you have valid points. I am late deafened, so my "Native" language in English. All of us have to function in a world dominated by hearing people. In order to function highly (successfully achieve?) we have to understand and use proper written English (Speaking...

Do we? Presidents don't hire and train CIA and FBI agents. It has been proven that we cracked the Japanese secret codes long before Pearl Harbor and FDR did indeed have the forewarning of the attack. He even replaced the Pearl Admiral Before the attack because he complained about lack of...

I don't think Taylor is "so worked up". I think he is being realistic about the fact that we are indeed at war with a fanatical people who want to kill civilians here. The do have sleeper cells operating here. And we also have splinter cells operating to stop them. Most of the intercepts of...

Your personal insults are getting old Beowulf. Please read the forum rules? Thankyou.

RONGO! Google Stand Wati, and John Ross, Colonel Ely Parker.3,600 Native Americans served in the Union Army during the war. Many, many more fought for the confederacy. Then there is this tidbit of forgotten history: "While the war was raging back East, out in the West things were seldom...

You are young. Get busy. The world is depending on you to make a difference! :hug:

A fine job there Sablescort! Now, they have to take a loyalty oath to the bar, but they have to take one to uphold the contitution in order to hold pubic office too? How do you uphold both? I took an oath. I think Reba did too. General clark did. I haven't been released from mine, has anyone?

Actually, a lot of women moved into the workforce in the 50's, many more than before the war. Women were even trained as bomber and fighter pilots, but their roles were mostly limited to moving planes from the factories to the front lines, and factory work...google "rosie the riveter". My mother...

I guess I am Reba's male alterego in the 50's ,60's, and 70's. Everyone loved "their" generation teen years. Mine ended a bit early with a certain overseas vacation that changed my perspectives, but my childhood memories of the fifties and early 60's are good. Clothes fashions and hair dos were...

Why do we have three seperate divisions of power in our government? Can you name them? Well, even if you can't, you should know that one group of people run them all. Lawyers. There is already a Constitutional answer for this ongoing problem. Men who hold a title of Nobility can not hold public...

I have to agree with a lot of what you said. Look at where our oil comes from, and we get very little of it from the middle east.

A couple of points: Per capita, more free blacks owned slaves than whites. Illinois required a $1000 bond be posted before a free black could enter the state. General Fremont issued the firs emancipation proclamation an Lincoln ordered him to rescend it and then...

I was refering to you brave "clinical psychologist doctor" that you were quoting. I am familiar with her rants and dribble. Her rants are made possible by the sacrifices of others. And you threat does not scare or amuse me the least little bit. You do not know me well enough to threaten me...

18 year olds do have to register for the selective service. Our active service people and National guard and reservists have been extended nearly beyond endurance. Remember, Iraq isn't the only place in the world our service men and women are serving. Since 1974 young men have had a free ride...

Some of that information is actually true. Not bad for a blatently leftist website. Um... aand whose idea was it to turn our economic future over to China? And how much do they pay and compensate their workers? And whose idea was it to export jobs to the near and far east? Yeah, and the NEA has...

A case where an officer has to fire more than four rounds is pretty rare, I think you would agree. Most service pistols hold a stack of twelve or more. My dad was a Deputy Sheriff and he carried a Ruger revolver, with six spare rounds. I know that there is the feeling "what if" but for the most...

I've had two friends commit suicide. Actually, they were brothers. The incidents were years apart. But it was so sad. The first brother was learning to fly when I was in High School. We were in the Civil Air Patrol together. I am not wise enough to point out exact causes, but a factor with...