AKC

As a matter of fact, based upon your statement: "Yes, we had public discussion on the war. It is becoming clear that it was a farce (finally for some), rigged with faulty information." Clearly even liberal icons are calling your conclusions naive. So yes, That's it. End of debate. Point proved. You've fallen somewhere to the left of Daffy Duck and your last gasps of WMDs! WMDs! doesn't even get the LA and NY Times excited any more. Wake up or drown, it's still within your reach to join the majority of Americans in respecting the great things about our awesome United States, including our willingness to defend ourselves. Au Revoir!

While your preference would of course be ostrich ass.

While you were deep in your your cave: The Iraqi's held a vote. Required reading for any species hibernating during the winter of '04/'05 And let me be the first to welcome you back the real world, as it appears I must be.

Read the "and this just I.. a late nominee...." paragraph just down the page here: Golf's Darwin Award

If it makes you feel any better it snowed here Friday and Saturday. The good news is it's 71 and sunny today though, and the course looks real good ;-)

Well in excess of 15,000 people are murdered in violent criminal homicides every year in the United States. If you haven't attended rallies decrying this, if you haven't called any talk radio stations or sent letters to the editor of your newspaper, sported a bumper sticker with your expressions against violent murder, started or joined any movement against it- if you've refused to exercise your right to speak out about this horrible number of people needlessly killed on our own soil every year, I will exercise my right to assume your dissent regarding a war in which we've unfortunately suffered the loss of 1500 soldiers is nothing more than political grandstanding. And political grandstanding while our troops are under fire, grandstanding that hurts those same troops in many ways, can in no way be fairly characterized as "patriotic" by any measure.

You guys check your PMs- I haven't hit a ball in 3 months so the playing field should be level, that is unless somebody shows up with a set of Lew Alcindor's clubs and Bob Lamb hops a cart. Then again the way this winter has gone we could have snow on the course (it's at 5000 feet). We'd REALLY find out who held onto their WNY genes under those circumstances! No worries about wings, they'll be supplied in favorable quantities.

I think it's horrible that police are killed regularly in our country- I guess if I adopt your way of thinking we could remove them from the streets and make life safer for police. Better yet, do you realize that over 400,000 people died in car accidents in the United States alone last year? Many of those people are members of our armed forces- where do autos rank on your list of ways to save Americans- wouldn't applying your plan by banning the automobile INSTANTLY save nearly a HALF MILLION American lives every year? Maybe you're on to something! 1500 is hardly an insignificant number- but then again it's less than the number of people murdered in New Yok City every year. Protecting our own shores has a cost, a cost that surely when put into perspective should not draw anywhere near the focus of the out of control death by even innocent means and worse the rampant violence within our own society. When you start marching against those I'll help you do your recruiting ;-)

I've PM'd you details- let me know if you've got a particular specialty (food/Indian Leg Wrestling, etc.) and we'll get you a project-

You've got it- of you don't have the balls to serve your country honorably you should at the very minimum have the good sense to keep your trap shut when in the presence of one who risked their lives for you. If you somehow are so driven by your selfish cowardice that you must mouth off about things you have no grasp of (your painting of all our fighting forces with the misconduct of a few is disgusting) at least do it in the company of other jellyfish and not in front of those that deserve all of our honor and respect.

If you're in Southern Cal and interested in attending a Stadium Wall Draft Party including WNY foods, a draft board managed by famed TSW racounteur Bob Lamb and Kiper-grade analysis of every pick by Kelly the F&B Dog, preceded by our inauguaral Golf Tourney, please give me a heads up so we can get you pointed in the right direction. Not recommended for those with liver conditions.

The determination of the point at which it becomes the only option is too subjective to revisit and find an answer acceptable to everyone. In this case you have those whose opposition has been reduced to whining about "WMDs" and on the other side what seems to be a very logical argument in the fact that we as a country are facing a regional enemy and it was absolutely necessary that we establish a front in that region to lessen the likelihood of further attacks on our own soil. Not only does that argument make perfect sense to me, it's perfectly reasonable to conclude that results confirm this.

With regards to gays in the military and true support for our fighting persons that would be a good starting point for you.

The ability to revise your position in real time is a very American trait, to avoid becoming entrenched in a position and refusing to consider new developments.

War should never be "promoted", instead it should be understood as the final and necessary arbiter of conflict which resists all other solution. It's not something that's in the grasp of everyone. Speaking of nonsense, Lamby and other WNYers will be attending the annual SoCal TSW West draft party on the mountain- reserve your room at the earliest possible time.

You are a patriot and one of the reasons we are beneficiaries of the greatest experiment in government in recorded history.

You should never let knowledge frighten you. Instead embrace elements of any discusion you don't understand so that you limit foolish outbursts like your uninformed "gays in the military" reference without considering other sides of the argument. There are, after all, points of view more informed and contrary to yours.

I'd be suprised if you ever served in the armed forces since you fail to realize the major difficulty of supporting an openly gay person in your own division. However "enlightened" you belive yourself to be, the miltary is not about "you". Your ability to function at the highest level requires a submission to the overall team. While some of us would be able to function with an alternative lifestyle soldier in the mix, you betray the upbringing of a large number of those who do have the courage to join the military who come from the outposts of America, form small towns in the South and Midwest. You'd in your ignorance require that these kids be FORCED to shower and bunk literally right next to an openly gay person simply to forward your political biases. You'd go so far as to blame them and their parents reliance on religion, etc., for being ignorant. But the reality is that these elements can seriously upset the ability of a fighting unit to function at its peak. You say YOU'D be OK with it yet you won't even sign up to serve! Hypocrisy is rampant in the weakest of our society!

We apparently won't have any chance to watch Owen Pochman kick the ball for the seriously overmatched Galaxy but there is the opportunity to watch a player of ours who will NEVER make our NFL roster. Kellen Brantley isn't even physical enough for the minors- he's getting knocked all over the field. You might get away with it at DB and catch a roster at the 4th or 5th spot, but there's not a chance to move up at LB.

New Vegas is a little to pastuerized for me, the only place on their Vegas list I like to slip into is the Double Down. The best bar in Vegas, albeit a great American Dive Bar, is called Pogos. I have to warn you to dress down though- this is where the second and third generation of Vegas natives go to play Cheers. I also rarely drive by Dino's without stopping in to see what flotsam has washed up on any given night. Given just one bar to go to the balance of my life I'd pick the awesome Bar Monkey in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica.

There's no comparison between the war Kennedy secretly dragged us into with absolutely no public discourse and no Congressional consideration. Vietnam was the most dishonest action our governemnt could have brought upon us and it forced the public discourse to take place after we were commited. Iraq is exactly the opposite- a long public discourse preceded nearly every member of our COngress to say "Let's Roll". At that moment the only way to support the troops was to cease any public discourse dissenting from the action that could affect those who might consider contributing to the mission. Just as awful is that every one of these brave kids will return to an America where many in their age group will have adopted the position of the gutless cowards who lead the antwi-war movements and consequently the legacy of our brave and honorable heroes will be a life-long undercurrent of snide disgust from many of their peers. It's a horrible thing- instead of a national heros welcome it will only be those who truly and honestly "support the troops" who will offer them the honor they deserve. Every time some jackass in a bar says to one of our returning heroes "Yeah, you were probably in Abu Ghraib" it will be the voice of the gutless who have protested the war that will bear the full responsibility. I'm ashamed as a vet, as an American and as a human being.

The Pope's not American- he should say anything he wants at any time he wants to say it. Your presumption about the influence of the Anti-war movement is completely contradicted by the facts regarding recruiting- it's rural states where dissent is minimal where the largest percentage of recruits come from while the mega-cites (which are the targets of the terrorists) send pitiful percentages of soldiers by comparison. Some call it enlightenment, I call it cowardice. To let other's children protect your liberal cities is a sickness in our society. It stems from a lack of belief, among some even a hatred of America that is nurtured in those same liberal cities IMO.

I hate to trample on your Presidential icon as he and I served in the same division of the Nuclear Navy, but I have to tell you Jimmy continues even today to make questionable decisions. You can be forgiven for not realizing this if you're too young to have been around for his Presidency ;-)

If you were to don that prior to the near unanimous decison by Congress to go to war it could be true, once action begins you become Just Another Unpatriotic American. Now there's a shirt you could wear AND be accurate!

Denying history does little to excuse your position. Fortunately you have family who can help you to grasp the fact that being unpatriotic in wartime is exclusively a phenomenon of the left. As a centrist myself your false accusations against your political opponents are amusing, you might not find rightwingers so indifferent about those types of lies though.