Posted on 06/01/2006 1:08:49 PM PDT by Buck Ninety-Nine
WASHINGTON, May 31 After vowing to steer a greater share of antiterrorism money to the highest-risk communities, Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced 2006 grants that slashed money for New York and Washington 40 percent, while other cities including Omaha and Louisville, Ky., got a surge of new dollars.
Homeland security officials said the grants were a result of a more sophisticated evaluation process
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I'm glad our maneuvering didn't disturb your concentration!
Relax. We're still orbiting. We have to grab some more Martian atmosphere to fill our tanks before we go scooting off anywhere else.
You can see more of the planet from up here anyway.
Oooh ... I see it now. Thanks, Bob!
Hi yoo 2!
Hi Ho, Steve!
What's noo?
Hi Steve. How are you doing?
[enters singing]
...
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually
As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in every way
As you happen to see
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere
---- "It Can Happen", YES, 90210
c. 1983 ATCO Records Division of Atlantic Recording Corp.
That's a very magnanimous position to take.
I opined to someone last week that, despite my own take on it, I thought it would be just like God to have made reality be some blend of old/young that would leave everyone on both sides totally humiliated at how wrong they got it.
Returning after 5 day suspension. Still crazy after all these years : )
Fine Tulip, and you?
Um... what can happen?
I don't have to worry about that. LOL!
""Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid,""
You can, if you live in a really nice neighborhood.
I'm fine. Debating on when I should go to bed. It's too early for it now - especially on a Saturday night. But I was working outdoors most of the day (yes, even though it was near 100 degrees, but we started early), and I'm starting to get drowsy.
I am back in L. A. for a few days, and it was 104 today where I was. Might as well be in AZ : )
I counted only three days. Did you get time off your time off for good behavior?
I think it was for this posting, the Pander Man Song.
You signed it as Sammy Davis Banker. You can get in trouble for using a fake name.
There were a lot of places around the country that had temperatures in the 90s to 100s. I had heard it was 115 degrees somewhere in the Dakotas.
You can fool yourself You can cheat until you're blind You can cut your heart It can happen
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You can mend the wires You can feed the soul apart You reach It can happen to you It can happen to me It can happen to everyone eventually
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Actually, what you have missed is the incredibly long period of time -- before the Big Bang -- that convinced God that it might be a good idea to create us.
: ) It was a few minutes away on another thread.
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