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Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans and ban certain undesirables from using our airlines. They demand the right to criticize and blaspheeme the name of our supreme commander and cheef George W Bush while forcing multiculturalism down our throats and praising Bill Clinton. We all know however that it's totally Clintons fult for everything bad in america. Now we are at war and we must make a decision. support the safty of America and defeat terrorists, or support civil liberties and give victory to the enemy. Its all because of Bill Clinton and civil liberties that we are in this war so it is only fair that we give it up. no one said life was supposed to be fair you liberal crybabys. Dont give me that rubbish about equality and diversity. WE ARE AT WAR! If your not for Bush and against civil liberties your a terrorist! Your probably even a Communist and should be detained. Therefore fellow Americans we must throw all of our trust and resources behind George W Bush and behind this war with no ifs ands or buts. Be sure to report any and all detractors and freedom supporters to your local military and never question. Bush knows what hes doing and we will win this war once and for all. Thank you and May God bless America.

Back in the day when people still had to know how to use non-computerized references! And indexes!

2,081 posted on 02/10/2006 7:18:06 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

And find that little exchange-rate table, which was *never* in the same place in the Investing section :-).

I empathize...I had the worst headache yesterday...and with the recent memory of how bad it can hurt, I offer you my sympathies...

2,083 posted on 02/10/2006 7:20:09 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

Young people today don't really know what it was like going on a resource safari back in the old days...never knowing what you would find...using other people's footnotes to lead you on to more information...cussing under your breath at the lack of precision in some of the indexes, and at the lack of compassion at the cataloger who didn't use your keywords!

2,086 posted on 02/10/2006 7:21:45 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

I have a currency exchange box on my home page...(Not the bio page here.)

It's interesting to watch it fluctuate.

Poor FAce! Mine is just from a flareup of my sinuses...the infection is being stubborn. Are you sure it's a migraine, and not something else causing it...that's a long time for even a migraine....

2,088 posted on 02/10/2006 7:23:04 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

Yes, my kids were amazed at how much information is in the footnotes, bibliography, etc. The computerized library catalog spoiled them!

It's really annoying when you track down a source and it's in a foreign language, though! I'm reading a book now where half the sources are in French, which limits my opportunities for further reading. I can get through a poem or a brief news story in French, but not a history book!

Yes, it is. My mom does investments for my brother (the one in Europe), so she's always watching the exchange rates. It irritates her when she visits us that we don't have cable, so she can't watch CNBC :-).

I studied Latin because I was tired of all the latin footnotes I would find in history books. Took a while to finally get classes on it, though. I wanted to take it in 8th grade, moved to a different school that didn't teach it. I tried to take it in 9th grade, but the Latin teacher became a full time counselor. I finally took a couple of semesters of it in college, years later. But in the meanwhile, I studied French...about 6 years in all. I am not fluent. I can muddle through short passages. I tend to read all the verbs in my head like they were simple past tense....;0)

2,091 posted on 02/10/2006 7:28:38 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

I began having migraines when I was eight years old (my son began to get them when he was nine) and for years, I never knew if I had one headache that lasted seven days or seven headaches of a day each. The longest up to now was 10 days.

I don't get them often, now, but they seem to make up for the infrequency by their duration.

I tend to read all the verbs in my head like they were simple past tense

I do the same with Spanish, which I studied for 10 years in junior high, high school, and college. I was fluent at one point, but after so many years away from the southwest, I've really lost it.

2,094 posted on 02/10/2006 7:47:59 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

I found that with the latin, french and 1 semester of spanish that I can often muddle through Italian...which actually suprised me.

2,095 posted on 02/10/2006 7:49:30 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

Yeah.
The pouty lips and the outraged "GRRRR!" sound that comes forth is awfully hysterical.
Especially when baby has a bubble land on their nose and pop.

I gotta say one thing in praise of this post... That is, without a doubt the most impressive Keyword list I've ever seen, either on FR or anywhere else!!

Kudos!! :o)

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