Nawlins/Katrina + 1 yr. : What did we learn for NEXT TIME?

I thought for sure Belichick would let Brady attempt the TD record, but guess he just wanted a comfortable win.

EtOH - Port
“drugs” - i have an increasing penchant for Rx’ing tramadol. 
TMJ - i usually start out with NSAIDS - Aleve - then go to Flexeril, then Valium - in a less-to-more-addictive-substnaces pattern.

BATMAN, regular joe, realising the american dream w/a super bad attitude.

Maybe not surprising, ajgundam5, but certainly deserving of praise.  The US invented the game of basketball, but now struggles for dominance…point of reference.

Cystic Crypt, congratulations to the gold medal winners.  Their hard work paid off! :-D

Just remember that there are only three methods Doctors have to “cure” you.

They can burn you.
They can poison you.
They can cut you.

:)

Meanwhile, sometimes pills are necessary, but you know what?  The Army taught me that 90% of your health problems could be cured if you drank double the recommended water per day. (AMA recommendation of course, which is 64 ounces of water over 12 hours.)  Personally, I drink between 4 and 6 liters of water and here’s the results:

Cholesterol way down.  (Even my good cholesterol.)
Blood Pressure down to normal
Loosing weight
Less Hungery
No more allergies
Easier to breathe while working out vigorously
No more dry mouth
General good feeling throughout the day, no highs or lows.
Harder to get sick, faster to recover from getting sick.

Yea, I’d say good ol H2O is the best thing to happen to mankind since the dawn of man when it comes to health and well being.

Carlin at Carnegie
and
Carlin on Campus

:-D

It was a tuesday. I was going to school in Brooklyn NY. It was my first year of highschool. I had to take a 15 minute subway ride to get to school. It was actually my first day on the subway. Previous days my father had the good will of driving me to school. That day I got lost on the subway and got to school at 8:30 AM. By my second period class my classmate noticed some smoke over the trees. Minutes later some lady comes into the classroom and quietly whispers something onto my teacher’s ear. Once the lady left, our teacher informed us that a plane crashed into one of the towers of the WTC. We spent the rest of the period talking about how in the 1940’s a similar accident had happened with the Empire State building. We went off to the next period class as usual. There we went on the computers and found out that a second plane crashed into the other tower. Panic started taking over the class as our teacher told us that it might have been a terrorist attack. By 4th period we were all watching the news on any available tv that the school had to offer. There were kids crying and teachers as well when we found out that both towers had fallen. By six period my mother came to pick me up. She walked 70 blocks to get to my school. There were no trains running and the busses and cabs were full. As we walked back to my house, we heard jet fighters zooming past our heads and people would duck in fear. I myself was scared since on tv they had said that there were 6 airplanes missing. When I was approaching my house, i noticed a thick layer of ashes on top of the cars. I collected some of it, that i still hold to this day. I also picked up a burning paper that came falling in front of me. Later on that day me and my family walked to the Brooklyn Promonade to see Manhattan. On the there, we saw people taht were coming from manhattan covered in dust. I will never forget that scene. Downtown Manhattan was one big dust cloud. The only thing you could see were the sirens of the official vehicles. “what a day”.
A few days later my neighborhood was covered with faces. Papers everywhere with “have you seen…” “last day seen…” I knew people that died there. RIP

MY OPINION: I, as a person that experienced the tragedy, do not wish to see another American city devastated as NYC was.

-Ezto

The thing is - this isn’t news. I’ve read about similar circumstances - innocent people fingered by mean neighbours and sent to be tortured and die in US prison camps. Even in medical journals.

Sadly this also undoubtably happened under Saddam as well - the only difference is that the US is now the criminal here. This is not to say that the US is as bad as Saddam was (this is more difficult to judge but IMO most US forces refrain from these practices). But no question in my mind that the US has not been acting with clean hands. The questions I have is exactly how widespread is the US misbehaving with regards to the big picture? Atrocities happen in all wars by all sides - war is hell. The clear difference now is that it gets reported more often. Maybe it happens (with US forces) more often than before, but again who knows for certain?

The other point is that sometimes, rarely, it may be necessary to resort to these sorts of tactics to prevent a worse disaster. When/if this is ever the case, I am glad I will never have to be the person to make this call (what if you are wrong :cry: ). But clearly in the case of Lyndie England, et al, this was a case of some evil miscreants who have not been punished sufficiently, IMO for their crimes.