Oh, I'm so annoyed I didn't check this thread until now! This is so much fun to read and I really do enjoy spirited but civilized debate.
First off, Jim, my apologies for referring to you as "Art"-- I tend to use people's screen names until they tell me otherwise (I love screen names-- it's like a secret identity!). I'm happy to call you Jim (James, which I assume is your full name, is one of my favorite names and my writing partners and I named one of the central characters in one of our screenplays James on my suggestion.
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I think you might have misinterpreted some of my statements-- I'll go back and clarify later tonight but right now I have to go do a narration for a sea lion feeding and then to see some friends but I'll get back into this tonight, I promise!
Thank goodness for the OT board or I'd still be a "foal"-- I read almost all the posts in the Paddock every day, but I'm still too much of a novice handicapper to be of much use posting there...
And for the anti-flag burners-- please keep in mind that most instances of flag burning in this country are already illegal in that the flags burned did not belong to the burner so it was already a crime under destruction of property laws. I think there were four instances last year, one of which was by a drunk 16-year-old who probably just lit up the first thing he stumbled upon.
And according to the Boy Scout Manual, the most fitting end for a worn-out old flag is to... can you guess? That's right; burn it. And that it's disrespectful to write on the flag, or wear it. Anyone want to tell Bush, who signs lots of flags, that he's disrespecting Old Glory?
AND-- I just found out the Wall Street Journal ran a story on the bank records thing on the SAME DAY as the NY TImes, and in the same place on the paper-- front page, upper left. But is Bush calling the WSJ traitorous? Oh, nooooo...
Oops; now I'm late. Sea lions will be mad... see you in a few hours.