Pcottraux's Tuesday FReeptoon

March 14, 2006 | pcottraux

[pcottraux]

The pleasure's mine.

[pcottraux]

Yum. I had leftover spaghetti for lunch today. There's still plenty of noodle, but the sauce is all gone. Now the noodles may be doomed to a life without purpose.

[pcottraux]

Alright, where did everyone go?

[Supernatural]

I'm still here, bro'.

[Nowhere Man]

Heh, Dinkelmeyer's experiences mirror my own in Phys Ed although by high school, things were much better when I was put in adaptive Phys Ed. Much smaller classes, more teacher attention, less formal overall. One time, we had weight lifting, there was only 4 or 5 to the class and during the winter of 1984/85 when we went ot the small workroom, I took in my ghetto blaster (a huge sucker, a 1979 vintage Radio Shack SCR-3) and we listened to tunes as we exercised. Those were the days.

[jla]

Good job, Coe-true.
By the way, whatever became of that little gal that Dinklemeyer had a crush on?

[pcottraux]

Indeed they were.

When I got to HS P.E., we did almost nothing the whole semester. Usually, it was just show up to class, and sit on the bleachers and talk to your friends or do whatever you want while the coach runs off to do errands. Once, we went downstairs to the detention room (a Dinklemeyer that will show up later) and did text book work. And then, for about two weeks, we walked around the track outside.

But 95% of the class involved sitting on the bleachers socializing.

[pcottraux]

Great!

[pcottraux]

Well, there were two actually. One that he liked but she didn't know he existed, and another who secretly liked him. But neither gal really made it through the strip. I just couldn't think of anything to do with the characters, so they both pretty much vanished. There will be more girls to appear here and there throughout the strip (the "she smiled at me!" story is a good one).

And when we finally reach the end of the strip, there is a shocking, surprise ending....

[Supernatural]

I like surprise endings.

I always guess the endings.

[proud_yank]

They have a special place in my heart, somewhere between Thermodynamics and having teeth pulled :-)

[pcottraux]

I don't think you'll guess this ending, because there's no buildup to it. It comes out of nowhere. (I always guess surprise endings, too).

It's too early to think about that, though. That's a looong way away. We haven't even met all the regular characters yet.

[pcottraux]

What a terrible thing to say about having teeth pulled!

[proud_yank]

LOL!

[pcottraux]

How much do you really trust the UN in handling the Iran situation? I just read on DoctorZin's Iran thread:

"Yahoo News reported that the five veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council are deadlocked over the best way to pressure Iran. China's Ambassador Wang Guangya told The Associated Press as he left the meeting. 'I think they want to be too tough.'"

Too tough...now there's a laugh.

[proud_yank]

I don't put trust in them at all, and I personally think that a fresh fart in a stiff breeze would be more of a deterrant than the UN.

When it comes to the UN & the Middle-East, there are many Arabic nations in the UN, and Europe in particular does lots of business there. As such, the group on average is anti-Israel and anti-American. With as much $$ exchanging hands between Saddam and UN officials, they really did not want us taking Saddam out.

The UN was really trying to shed light away from Oil for Food, especially during the election (Remember 'Should the UN oversee the US election' articles?) & the tsunami near Christmas 2004 ("UN accuses the US of being stingy with money" type headlines).

In my opinion and from what I have read, we have the UN backed in a corner. Plenty of records of financial deals between them and Saddam, and the threat of pulling financial funding that they won't kick and scream too much over Iran. History is repeating itself, with Iran. They are basically following the same path that Saddam chose to take and it is only a matter of time before we take them out.

To put them into perspective, the UN still has no definition for 'Terrorism'.

I'll ping you if I see any good UN reads. There have been some pretty good articles posted on FR regarding the UN.

[pcottraux]

Wow. You are quite well-informed on this.

It bothers me that so many think that we NEED to be going to the UN to deal with problems, that it is essential, when really going to the UN is apparently the LAST thing we should want to do.

I see what you mean about this being a repeat of the mistakes leading up to Iraq. Diplomacy is a great thing but at some point you have to draw the line and stop debating.

[proud_yank]

Wow. You are quite well-informed on this.

Thanks, though I don't really deserve it! Actually, to be quite honest, I did spend a bit of time amongst the 'anti-Bush' crowd. The real eye-opener for me came when I very quickly realized (during the election) that none of these things people were whining about for soo long(i.e. war for oil, we should have waited for the UN to act before going to war, etc) were even campaign issues brought up for debate by the dems.

A lot of what I learned came by finding answers to what I 'thought' was true. At that point I basically became a hard-core conservative, and almost instantaneously.

Obviously, the BS spouted by the left wasn't true, nor are these claims even real political issues. Given the fact that over the past 40 years, liberal democrats have lost 20+ seats in the senate and 90+ seats in the house, one would have to be an invalid to think that liberal dems could 'miss' an opportunity to actively campaign on these issues ('Bush is a crook', 'Bush lied' type BS) if they were in fact true.

In my opinion, I really don't think that there is a huge 'rift' in the US, nor are we 'radically divided'. Though these claims are constantly brought up and propagated by the media, and they all boil down to the same theme "ITS BUSH'S FAULT". The majority of the people doing the screaming are either completely worthless, and their opinion doesn't matter to anyone. Or they're younger people, who think the world is going to end. Either way, the press is essentially their mouthpiece.

Looking back on my own beliefs, I would say (and my folks would agree) that I was always very conservative, even as a child. I can remember when I was young asking my Dad why we had to pay taxes, when we earned that money. During the first election, though I was not political, I voted for Bush. Gay marriage is just 'wrong', Gore's stance on 'gun control' and gun registries was just stupid, etc. But post-9/11 when I started paying attention to world issues (Read: following the MSM and believing them) boy, was George W a crook, murderer, etc. If anything, that is the 'rift' we are seeing.

I see what you mean about this being a repeat of the mistakes leading up to Iraq. Diplomacy is a great thing but at some point you have to draw the line and stop debating.

You're second sentence is 100% correct. Diplomacy is great, and we disagree with numerous countries on a daily basis without military conflict. All things considered, that is the best way to handle disagreements whenever we can. What issues like Iraq, Iran, etc. boil down to is 'how do you effectively deal with a bully'. Nine times out of ten, you have to punch them square in the nose to get them in line. Imagine the screams of the world had Saddam launched a nuclear warhead into Israel and we had the ability to stop it.

You and I are essentially the same age (I'm 25 this Sunday), so that puts us at 4-5th grade during the first gulf war. We missed a lot of political issues in those years, leading up to where we are now!

It bothers me that so many think that we NEED to be going to the UN to deal with problems, that it is essential, when really going to the UN is apparently the LAST thing we should want to do.

You and me both! The US Constitution gives the president, and congress to declare war. Nowhere does it say that the UN Charter or general assembly has the final word.

The 'global govt' crowd, and all of this 'one world', 'were all global citizens' crap is insane. That is what many things like Kyoto, the Int. Criminal Court, international taxation, are aimed to achieve.

Anytime I read something good on FR regarding the UN and their agenda, I'll be sure to ping you. There are some other good UN-related articles that I have read I'll try to find and FReepmail to you as well.

[A message]

LOL very good one tonight P.

[pcottraux]

Thank you. Post 79 will be a little easier to answer than post 78.