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To: LindyBill who wrote (246714)	4/21/2008 11:12:39 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

6 dead, 23 hurt in shootings over weekend Warmer weather likely to trigger more violence, police fear By Megan Twohey and Emily S. Achenbaum Tribune reporters 11:30 PM CDT, April 20, 2008 Maurice Sanders was feeling giddy as he stepped out of a neighbor's party Saturday night. The West Side party had drawn more than 50 teenagers, and Sanders had spent hours there joking with friends and flirting with girls, he said. The hint of summer was in the air, but the euphoria inspired by warm weather quickly turned to terror when someone on the corner unleashed gunfire into the small group assembled outside the party in Chicago's South Austin neighborhood. By the time the shooting stopped, four people had been wounded, including Sanders. "I fell face-down," said Sanders, 16, who was struck by a bullet in his left foot in the 5300 block of West Madison Street. "When I saw another boy on the ground, I thought he was dead." Sanders was one of 28 people shot, six fatally, in Chicago between 12:01 a.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Sunday, part of a bloody string of violence that stretched across the city, police said. At least one more shooting occurred Sunday evening. It's the dark side of summer's promise. At a news conference Sunday, Police Supt. Jody Weis spelled out the twisted reality: As the days grow longer and people head outdoors, more confrontations erupt. And with guns flooding the streets, many of those confrontations end in violence. "There are just too many weapons here," Weis said, pointing out that 19 people in the city were shot, four of them fatally, the same weekend in April 2007, and that 20 to 22 people were shot on average every weekend last July... chicagotribune.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (246714)	4/21/2008 11:28:09 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793840

Conservatism is also a matter of honor, duty, valor, patriotism, self-discipline, responsibility, good order, respect for our national institutions, reverence for the traditions of civilization, and adherence to the political honesty upon which all principles of democracy are based. Given what screw-ups we humans are in these respects, conservatism is also a matter of sense of humor. Heard any good quips lately from Hillary or Barack? I just thought these words needed repeating.

To: LindyBill who wrote (246714)	4/21/2008 12:17:41 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 793840

I was unlucky enough to have to take a C-2 flight out to the USS Lincoln..... As the author said, you sit facing backwards in what I could describe as the most uncomfortable seats I ever had the displeasure of hanging in. I say hanging because there's no way to sit back in the seats. In order to near any vague form of comfort you have to strap yourself in with a 4 point harness tightened down to the max.... then you're just hanging there, leaning forward in your seat. Once at cruising speed things aren't so bad, but slowing down for a landing makes the aerodynamic flaws of the C-2 come to the forefront. As we slowed the approach for a trap I noticed getting slammed sideways back and forth in my seat. I was thinking, man, this plane really has some serious yaw instability problems, it feels like the pilot is stomping the rudder pedals. After we landed I asked the pilot if we were being buffeted by crosswind during approach or if the C-2 was really that unstable around the yaw axis....the answer was the latter. Closest I've ever come to having motion sickness....

To: LindyBill who wrote (246714)	4/21/2008 2:05:40 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793840

P J O'Rourke is a National Treasure - at least IMO. Some memorable moments from the piece you posted...THANKS! >>>This is not a pilot taking off. This is a pilot as cat's eye marble pinched between boundless thumb and infinite forefinger of Heaven's own Wham-O slingshot. >>>I look from John McCain to what the opposition has to offer. There's Ms. Smarty-Pantsuit, the Bosnia-Under-Sniper-Fire poster gal, former prominent Washington hostess, and now the JV senator from the state that brought you Eliot Spitzer and Bear Stearns. And there's the happy-talk boy wonder, the plaster Balthazar in the Cook County political crèche, whose policy pronouncements sound like a walk through Greenwich Village in 1968: "Change, man? Got any spare change? Change?" >>>Conservatism is also a matter of honor, duty, valor, patriotism, self-discipline, responsibility, good order, respect for our national institutions, reverence for the traditions of civilization, and adherence to the political honesty upon which all principles of democracy are based. >>>At least John likes women, which is more than we can say about Hillary's attitude toward, for instance, the women in Bill's life, who at this point may constitute nearly the majority of the "women's vote." >>>They're not just running against the hero John McCain, they're running against heroism itself and against almost everything about America that ought to be conserved.