CarolC I don't want to do a thread creep, but I'll answer as quickly as I can

1. I totally agree with the IMF Media guy... the last time I read such leftist pap was Communist leaflets in Vietnam...

2. I noticed the resignations from the Times were in 87. Three days ago the Washington Times caught the New York Times out in the open and blew them up. After the Bush tax proposals were made public, the NT Times found a family of mouth-breathers in Texas, who claimed that the new tax cuts wouldn't give them a dime. The Washington Times ran the families numbers (married w/two children, on $50,000 a year) with some CPA's, and found they would get back $2,974 more because of the new child exemptions and the reduction of the marriage tax. They have been demanding that the NYT retract or apologize, but the Times only published a correction two days later. Any paper that can destroy the credibility of the Grey Lady in one shot gets my vote. And you remember that I always get the Post, and read them both every day - just for balance.

Now back to the thread... Why is it that all the photos of terrorists in vehicles show them in SUV's? I think our Predator plane folks could simply dial in "Toyota Pathfinder" into the Hellfire and they would get truck loads of Taliban, Al-Queda (or better yet, Reporters).

I think there something to be said for sticking your license plate holder into the rear window of a low slung sports car, subtley reminding him that even if he flips the sports car seven times into a field trying to get away, I can still get to him in the softest dirt and run him down...

And I can make a U turn on a median strip, or (if I don't mind the scratches and screams) a downtown bus stop.

And when I pull into a gas station and pull almost three figures in front of the decimal point on the gas pump (Price or Gallons) you know some babe will be sliding onto my front seat.

How about the guy in Martinsburg, who when some guy in a regular car pulled into his parking space during a snow storm, after he shoveled it out, hooked a chain, to the bumper and pulled the car into a hole in a construction site...

All I need now is a bumper sticker that says "I Carry a Gun and I Vote!" and I'm sh-ting in tall cotton...

It was good to hear from you Carol...