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To: jjkirk who wrote (10851)	12/28/2002 12:10:39 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

For me, there is an implied reciprocal relationship of trust between the military and their civilian commanders. In the service, you have your life on the line. You are dependent on that trust that you will not foolishly or frivolously be placed in harm's way. It behooves the civilian authorities to use all possible intelligence and guile to achieve well-considered national goals without endangering the troops. IMO military force should be used only in a "pushed into a corner" last resort situation. We're talking about peoples lives. One of my biggest problems with the anti-war movement in the ‘60s, was the typical anti-troop attitude. By my way of thinking, they were deserving of sympathy, not derision. In a similar vein, I now fear for our young men and women that have patriotically volunteered to serve their country. Because of a failure to understand the nature of Islam, I see our troops occupying Muslim lands with a large bull’s eye painted on their uniforms. What seems to be missing at higher levels is insight. We’re in a war, but in a very fundamental way this is not a military war, but a cultural war. Foolishly exposing your military gives the advantage to your enemy. This is a war between modernity and an early seventh century Arabian peninsula mindset. Properly utilized in this war, rock ‘n’ roll can be more powerful than a B-52. Subvert their youth with revolutionary ideas like basic universal human rights. That idea is in fundamental conflict with the Qur’an. The turning away from fundamental Islam by the youth of Iran is indicative that modernity can win this war with few if any shots fired. But that is something that just never occurs to the current powers that be. No “out of the box” thinking. Just call out the troops, and force them to our will. And from people with little or no military experience. All of this has implications for JW’s favorite metal. The current course will inevitably led to an erosion in confidence, and an increase in fear. Fertile ground for gold bugs to prosper. JMO lurqer

To: jjkirk who wrote (10851)	12/28/2002 3:23:54 PM
From: SGJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

By contrast, the Africanized bee is a "wild" bee that is not comfortable being around people or animals. Any colony of bees will defend its hive, but Africanized bees do so with gusto. These bees are more likely to sense a threat at greater distances, become more upset with less reason, and sting in much greater numbers." >>> TTRENTT LLOTT ON WILD AFRICAN BEES before I begin my remarks, let me extend to all people of all races, as well as animals and insects of all species the warm hand of friendship and the wishing of a happy holiday season, whatever your beliefs, whether they be founded in Biblical Christianity or some other more primitive form. Again let me take this time to profusely apologize for my remarks at the now infamous birthday party for senator thurmond. Those comments were taken out of context, of course, and although not widely reported in the media, only after I had sipped several glasses of punch, which allegedly had been spiked with a derivative of that X drug that those alternative lifestyle people, who of course have as much right as anyone to the pursuit of happiness in our great country, use as a accelerator to their wild and frequent, biblically detested sex orgies. Now to the topic at hand today, wild african bees. I believe that the wild african bee is a product of both heredity and environment. It takes a lot of its behaviors from the humans and animals (hard to tell the difference sometimes, if you know what I mean) native to that region of the world. As is the case with its human counterparts, that bee thrives to get its stinger in the lighter colored domestic bee, which is of course more hard working and industrious. The blood mixing of a domestic bee and the wild, darker colored savage bee, creates a progeny, whose honey is sub par and decidedly unmarketable, as well as a personality which can at best be described as unstable. This cursed halfbreed is widely known to beekeepers as a pollen thief. They prey on the christian pure honey making bee in gangs and only after dipping their stingers, make off with the loot, leaving the lighter colored domestic bee for heavens gate. Otherwise this child of darkest africa has a rightful place in our society and we should make every effort not to add it to our long list of discriminated and despised creatures. Thank you all for your support in these trying times.