If you go back and re-read my statements on Iraq, I believe that we could have solved the problems by enforcing sanctions we already had in place. Still they posed no immediate danger to America proper. They did to our allies and assests however. I also think the strategy we went in with was flawed. It was only set up to take down a gov't not set one up. Which is why it prolonged because there was no immediate power exchange. If you can't find those from previous discussions you have them now. My arguements about terrorists and WMD's are meerily made because of broad generalized statements. I want to point the fallacy, and in such prove a point. I agree we could have all together skipped the war and even had run it better. Especially considering the fact we should have had our focus on Afghanistan.

North Korea is a threat, but only in the short term, like I have said. I don't believe that they will nuke us, but it does show weakness when you let them do whatever they want. You don't let you kid get away with stuff without punishment. As their bad behavior escalates so does your punishment. This is more of show of force do the transistion inside the country.

So my cup is always half full, and Rye, Happy Fourth to you too.

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If you have chance, Sneaky and Theresa check out this link.  Anyone else also! It is a kids webpage, fellow racer of my nephew.  My nephew Jake is to the left on the helmet cam kid....who is the kid on the homepage.  ENJOY!!!!  Watch close, my nephew is fast and he is only seen for a quick second...noen green helmet and neon green/yellow pants....#29!!!!   The video is awesome and so is the song with it.....fun fun fun!!!!!   

Happy Fourth of July Everyone!!!! 

Stay safe and enjoy your families....  

care29!!!  

Hey everyone,

YE-HA,  off of work today through Monday, I don't return until Tuesady!!!  It is dry outside so far, then again it is only 830am.  Give it time...actually it looks like the sun is trying its best to come out!!!  I can only hope!

Theresa, the fourth we are camping at the motocross track...my stepson is racing his 2nd race ever...I'll be watching for the 1st time.  My nephew is racing is 2nd or 3rd season...I have only watched a couple of times.  With the girl in allstars, I haven't had any down time...so this weekend is a really good getaway for me.  No ball!!!!  Last night we had horrible rain storms...the coaches rented an indoor field...the girls had a lil scrimmage...loads of fun.  My daughter is learning signals, very funny to watch.  She is quite smart and quick...coach showed her once and she knows them.  She has always been that way.  Photographic memory, that one!!!   Very proud mom, I am!!!!

Biddeford is ok not the ideal small town...we are close to the river and ocean...the city itself has always been a lil bit dumpy....Saco is much nicer.  See I am from Saco originally and there has been a battle between Saco and Biddeford forever...high school football rivals.  Battle of the Bridge they call it!!! I have a TA sweatshirt, my high school and my hubby has a tigers sweatshirt, his Biddeford team...we will go out on the motorcycle together wearing our rival sweatshirts...people will actually comment, when we stop for a butt or at a store...once in line at the store...a couple oldtimers and their wives got the biggest kick out of the fact that we were married and wearing the sweatshirts...fun times!!!  So anyway I say that Saco is nicer and Rol, my hubby, originally from NYC, but has been in Biddeford since his younger years will tell you Biddeford is better.  Traffic has tripled in the past decade easily!!!

Rol was stationed at  OFFUTT, Nebraska, he worked for electronic security command.  He was in the Air Force for 6 years.  2 regular and 4 in the guard. He wishes now that he stayed.  Planes and flying have always been a passion of his since he was young. For work he builds jet engines for the military and commercial planes....  He has his pilots license for small planes.  I have flown twice with him, loads of fun....love those small prop planes. He owned one while married the 1st time around but while divorcing he sold it...bought the harley...that pizzed of the x, she hated flying and wanted him to buy a bike...lol!!!  Now I ride with him and forget that I am half her size...ouch that was mean....oops, sorry.  hahahah!!!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday weekend, maybe I'll catch ya tomorrow morning before leaving....

Good Morning Care, KO, Pets, Brats and Sneaky Cat and everyone else, how are you today?

Sneaky this forum was started with personal stories and thoughts. Feel free to join in. I misunderstood what brats, said and I apologized for it.  Anyone can read this forum, it would be nice to hear more personal stories. It is a safe room that we can talk about our religion or lack of it without being slammed. I just get tired of people telling me to move back to New York. It has happened so many times in different forums. I am open minded and have different views on things, sometimes people hate me for it. My husband and my self made over a hundred thousand dollars last year and every penny was spent in North Dakota. My husband and I don’t even buy anything made in china and that is allot of stuff. Look at your toothpaste, it is most likely made in china, ours is not. We buy everything Dakota made. We poured twenty seven thousand dollars into North Dakota schools, and some of that were parent loans for school.  If I could move back the east coast I would.

 Care in my opinion lives in my perfect idea of a town, Biddelford Maine. It is raining like crazy there and her daughters are in softball. I just like to hear how they are doing.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=265933&ac=PHnws

It is  the town I always wanted to live in, every Steven King book is centered in a little town in Maine. She is close to ocean.  Visiting Biddelford is on my bucket list. I know I will go because I drive up the coast to Massachusetts at Halloween is a tradition. We go to Salem every year to celebrate the day with some real freaks. We already have reservations at a hotel for the next three years, because it gets that busy. It is the Mardi Gras of the East coast.

I can’t wait to hear about KO’s trip to Montana, and more want about Pets animals, no one in this room will say she is a bad person. I think she is great.

This is good mood room.

I would like to hear if Sick-O is reading this because I have a 2 page answer to why women, need sex.

Care, how is it going besides rain and rain? What are you doing for the forth?  We don’t really go anywhere my son has a job at the local pool as a lifeguard. What is anyone doing for the forth. Let’s hear about it. I love you all.  Talk to you later Theresa

Thanks Sneaky, love ya girl.

Have lots of fun at the races Care, hope your guys win.

Not a problem theresa.

Have a great 4th.

Meanwhile, I predict (and hope) that Pyongyang will back down.  Otherwise, it will be a world of hurt for many of ours.  We, the United States of America, have thousands of U.S. military personnel serving in the Republic of Korea at this very moment. 

Another point:  the Korean War is not over.  It is simply the longest cease-fire agreement in history.  This could end at any moment, most likely from North Korean provokation such as recent events, and/or infiltration (via tunnels and sea-borne vessels).

If Russia ever shoots down one of its own, then I'll eat one of my own pancakes.  (Everyone else eats them, but they don't know what's all in the batter (battre ).  But we will have Juneberries in about a week, I predict.  Juneberry pancakes are impossible to beat, for rich flavor in a pancake.  It's a difficult decision, whether or not to apply maple syrup onto a Juneberry pancake (stacked 2 or 3 high).  But, by golly, when you wake up to that smell, you will usually get up out of your sleeping bag and get right to breakfast! 

Not a damn one of those questions were answered. He did a very bad job of dancing around them too. At least Obama (who should do these) has some sense of humor. That spock bit a week ago was hilarous. Obama also has charasmatic and quick on his feet unlike Gibbs. However both have don't give very good answers when delve in to the depth of those answers that they give.

That all said, the US military is saying we are ready for anything that is head the this way from over the Atlantic, and Russia is saying if anything looks like it is headed its way it will knock it out of the sky.

So now a former allie is threatening shootin down it's missile.

Now now, Jose, I think you Commie is the wrong word. Fascist admin. in, if you don't believe me look at what Helen Thomas says...She has seen it all, and she is a hardcore libby, if she is getting upset there must be something wrong here....

North Korea is a festering sore. 

The treatment could consist of topical ointment, in the form of conventional warfare.

However, surgical removal of the main source of illness in North Korea is still the only remedy that can cure the "Korean Problem".  That may require a nuclear strike on Pyongyang.  It's really up to the North Korean dictator.  If he wants fire, he could get it, but we have a Bolshevik in the White House, and he is a well-known Communist Simpathyzer (ComSimp).

Well good evening all,

Sneaky...good to hear from you!  How have you been?  Hear from Rey lately? 

Brats, Wisconsin?  Never been there...I've been as far as Michigan.  I took a vaca in Michigan, drove from maine so I got to add a few pins to the US map...fun road trip. 

 Back to my crappy weather...Sat & Sun are suppose to sunny....my fingers are crossed!!!  Staying overnight at a motocross track on Sat so i am hoping for that 2 day break of rain.  They say it rained 24 out of the 30 days in June.  Yuk!!!

Have a nice night, and I'll try to stop in tomorrow...busy getting ready for raceday....

Hi KO, Care, Pets and everyone else. Ko you can come over anytime!  There are lot of million dollar homes in Minot. Up here on the north hill there are tons.  My house is not any where a near a million dollar house, but it is our house, and until the mortgage is paid off or least for the next ten years we are here.  I will be 61 in ten years that is when I hope to really travel.  I love Ireland; I have been there eleven times over the past 40 years it never gets old.  If I could move anywhere it would be there.  I looked at a house there while I was stationed in Iceland. We went to Ireland on a leave and it was really tempting.  My friends and I did castles and pubs tour three years ago and it was so much fun.  Maybe some time we can all go. It doesn’t cost very much it depends on how many weeks you want to go.  When the mad cow thing was happening, we went on a tour for three weeks for less than $2,000.00 including my airfare from here.  With you there Ko we wouldn't have to pay for any drinks.

Today I worked at the soup kitchen, it is a hard day.  There is this one man, his name is Albert, he dresses and he thinks he is Adolf Hitler. We are wack, but who am I to call anyone a wack?

Michigan and Ohio are both nice states, good luck finding employment; I know the unemployment is bad in both states. Too many men and women get out of the military thinking that finding a job will be easy, when it never is.  My husband is still searching for the perfect job. For me, after 23 years as Law Enforcement in the Air Force there are not a lot of job options. So I suck my retirement, and his retirement, and he gets to make more money at another career. I can’t see myself working for anyone, I am to strong willed and I like to be in charge.

Did you guys see the story about the pet python snake that killed the infant in the house? How silly is that having an infant with a big snake. It happened in Florida here is the link,

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1123803.html

The police don’t have anything to charge the parents with. I think there should be a dumbass law, and they are the first to go.

I am sorry brats I took your post the wrong way forgive me.

Care I looked at your forecast, rain, rain, rain and then more rain. Maybe we should have Sick-O do your weather also.  I hope you can squeeze some softball games in.   Is funny I never noticed how many things can be name mainly. Like Mainly Hot Tubs, Mainly lobsters, mainly bagels, Mainly Cars. It is great to be a mainly person.  How great is the Ocean today?  Every day I walk the paper route with my son, and think about the ocean. There are people here in this town that has never seen the ocean.  How great it is to see the sun rise. The fireworks don’t start in this state until about 2230; it is still bright until then. My father always remembers that about Minot, how bright it was in the evening.  Oh well see you later. Have a nice evening everyone. I am so tired from the soup kitchen, I am going to collapse.  Theresa