Amen. I sure hope America wakes up and realizes what she did in putting these unpatriotic, anti-American leftists in power. I can't believe these liberals voting unanimously to confirm General Petraeus, and their next act is to vote against everything he told them he intended to do. I can't wait to see what happens when the actual funding bill comes up. I just DARE them to back Murtha or cut it outright. Suicide.
Ah well, we architects are both artists AND engineers, natural chess players; but we play with BIGGER THINGS than chess men on an 8x8 board. What's your profession?
I'm a lawyer. Most of my career has been in corporate legal departments handling contracts and miscellaneous business law issues. Drafting contracts is sort of like chess. You have to arrange all the words to work together to achieve your goal. Sacrifices must be made during negotiations, etc., etc. I just know that the same thing that attracted me to chess also attracted me to the law.
Petraeus : sounds like a ROMAN GENERAL, yes? One wonders : was there a petraeus in ceasers army like re-incarnated PATTON? Ah yes, doctors bury their mistakes, lawyers put theirs behind bars, but all we architects can do is plant ivy and drive by with AVERTED EYES...
There was a hole in the fence between heaven and hell, bad guys kept slipping thru and causing all kinds of trouble. Saint Pete had to collar them and throw them back over the fence. Finally tiring of this he yelled at satan : If you don't fix this hole I'm going to SUE. Have you got a LAWYER? saith satan....
As to the dems, I view 11/7/6 as an evil surf wave smashing into the seawall of american conservativism, already breaking into spray. This anti-war resolution is but a weak slosh, quickly draining away. Our PRESIDENT has stood firm against the darkness, following his oath to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. GO GWB! And let's DUMP those 17 R-reps that voted with the dems asap...floating away with the weak slosh...
Don't forget these folks are from the Vietnam generation. I think they are successfully isolating GWB and in 2008 the full retreat will take place.
It's obvious to me that we want to keep repeating history.