So my question is, who would own those planes? The British, who sent them and then "abandoned them in place"? Burma? The guy who found where they were buried? because it would be very difficult to put a price on these. Will they be auctioned off, or put in a museum? Certainly you have to hope they are air-worthy and can be flown ...

Does beer with bourbon chasers count as "one color"? Evidence would seem to indicate not ...

Fabulously great beyond belief - because - that could *easily* be me. Except Mrs. Killick (not the one bought at a fair in a halter - read the book)  would nix the chainsaw-in-the-house bit. And I do have that exact stand.

Gee - I got more "Twin Peaks" than Morning in America - the violins, the grinders ... maybe Newt killed Laura Palmer!

Graham Greene The Power and the Glory - or anything else by him, including the hilarious Our man in Havana.

Also, as you can tell from my avatar - Aubrey/Maturin. Not sure who mentioned reading them every five years - but I am on The Ionian Mission for my 5th time around.

Barber's Adagio is doubtless a Passion. My pastor plays it every year to open the Good Friday service. The stark simplicity of priests and deacons lying prostrate on the bare Sanctuary floor brings home the meaning of the music.

Wow! OK, i think i got there - but only after finding an analog in my family. Tom, if you're reading this, that's you!

I am paying for my son's education at a private east-coast engineering university. He is working on a major in Aeronautical Engineering and is taking classes that sound so amazingly hard that I guess I feel he earns the money. Brought home a 3.6 GPA his freshman year will also swimming on the school D3 team and rushing a frat (with the highest collective GPA on campus). He earns it.

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well, that's OK. I have no doubt that Mario agrees with his son.

Um - *Andrew* Cuomo is the current governor of NY.

Mario is his father, the former governor.

Um - *Andrew* Cuomo is the current governor of NY.

Mario is his father, the former governor.

There is one issue you did not deal with, and it is a doozy - probably the bull-work that has (and i fear will) keep the liberal media complex alive and well for the foreseeable future.

As you note, the internet is an interactive media venue. And that's just the trouble. to be heard (and in theory responded to) a user has to take an action - get on their computer, call up a page, read what it says, *think* about what it says, respond, etc. All requiring effort and thought.

In contrast, the television requires users to hit the on button, and, if you are like me, keep a finger pasted on the channel button as i surf. That's it. No effort, no reading, no thought.

I am greatly afraid that for the majority of Americans, this is the only effort they will muster. Internet use (for anything but porn, apparently) is just TOO DIFFICULT for them.

I do believe the internet has the ability to reach "the leaven" in and among us in the way TNR did for my parents generation - but this makes it incumbent on *us* to spread the word.

Well, seems to me the alien ships we've been reverse-engineering at Area 51 must have some control systems we could use here. *They* fly a lot faster than Mach 16!

Actually and on a more serious note - the Space Shuttle (RIP) used to fly Mach 20+ through an entire series of evolutions to reduce speed - and it was essentially a flying brick with 60's level analog technology. Can none of that be used with a new space-plane?

Well, seems to me the alien ships we've been reverse-engineering at Area 51 must have some control systems we could use here. *They* fly a lot faster than Mach 16!

Actually and on a more serious note - the Space Shuttle (RIP) used to fly Mach 20+ through an entire series of evolutions to reduce speed - and it was essentially a flying brick with 60's level analog technology. Can none of that be used with a new space-plane?

Just had a Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve 9-year old last night

quite nice.

As to the martini - Bombay Sapphire, 6:1, stirred with very clean ice (ie. not melted, with excess water) - and, to quote Johnny Carson, "Happiness is finding three olives in your martini when you are hungry"

and sorry - hold the bitters and Tabasco. put 'em on some chicken wings.