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To: Road Walker who wrote (177415)	11/3/2003 5:48:21 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1574199

Windsurfer Completes First Pacific Crossing Mon Nov 3,10:14 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! PARIS (Reuters) - A French windsurfer, Raphaela Le Gouvello, has completed the first solo crossing of the Pacific from Peru to Tahiti. Reuters Photo The 43-year-old arrived in Papeete Monday after traveling 4,455 miles in 89 days and seven hours, her Web Site reported. She has already completed solo crossings of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. She was escorted into Papeete harbor by a flotilla and met on the quayside by Tahitian local government leader Gaston Flosse. "You have achieved something quite extraordinary," he told Le Gouvello. She followed the route of the famous Kon Tiki expedition made by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 in a papyrus vessel. Her "home" for three months was a 7.80 meter board on which she slept. She contacted her back-up crew in Paris twice a day to report her position. Le Gouvello completed the first crossing of the Atlantic by a woman windsurfer in 2000, taking 58 days to sail from Senegal to Martinique. Two years later she crossed the Mediterranean from Marseille to Sidi Bou Said in 10 days.

To: Road Walker who wrote (177415)	11/3/2003 5:59:58 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574199

At least Boston is in this country. This is a shallow comment, and I think you know it. Yes, Boston is in this country, but I think it is important that we not lose our perspective. Certainly, no reasonable person would suggest that spending 6 times the cost of the Big Dig to insure our future safety, eliminate the permanent military infrastructure necessary to maintain the no-fly zones, free the Iraqi people, and install a democracy in the center of the Middle East, is inappropriate. Put another way, we're obviously getting our money's worth from the $87B. It is difficult to support the idea that we got our money's worth from the Big Dig, I don't care WHERE it is located. And the earned income tax credit isn't all that onerous, when you consider it goes to some folks that the economy left behind. Why do you feel the people of Iraq are more deserving than the people of the US? The EITC is an ANNUAL expenditure of between 30 and 40 Billion. Over ten years, we're talking $300B, minimum. Yes, some does go to people who need it. A greater portion goes to people who either don't need it or don't qualify for it. The EITC is perhaps the most abused provision in the Internal Revenue Code. It is nothing more than a welfare program, under which people who did not work and did not pay in taxes receive a tax refund. A handout. Why do you feel the people of Iraq are more deserving than the people of the US? I don't. But I feel we are the primary beneficiaries of getting rid of Saddam. You and other liberals have a difficult time understanding that putting a democracy in the center of the Middle East will, over a period of years, greatly reduce anti-Americanism, and therefore, the threat of further terrorism, on our soil. I don't know why an obvious fact such as this is difficult for some to see, but it obviously is.