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I'm wondering if the ABS hard saddlebags hold up like the fiberglass bags. ABS is somewhat soft and I wonder if painted bags chip or flake after they've been flexed a few times.

I just read a question about an eye problem and the answers were appalling. How can anyone not in the health care field possibly, in good conscience, give health care advice? This guy may lose his eye because he listens to some moron waxing intelligent.

I answered a question about the pill from someone who couldn't remember what her MD had told her about the effects/side effects. Then she deleted my answer and emailed me with a scathing note about what can I know about the pill since I'm not a woman.

Well, I was a surgical nurse and frequently gave post-op instructions to patients about after care of the operative site and the operative organ. So many times I would get calls from patients saying they didn't know what to do - after I had told them, given them written instruction, questioned them on their understanding of the subject. Do women really think that they can get by without listening to what the MD is telling them? Do they really believe "you can't know about the pill because you're not a girl"?? Are women really so ready to just swallow a pill that they don't care about the consequences? I never thought so before.

Anyone who thinks national healthcare will work needs to go and sit in the social security office and get a new social security card. While there, imagine that all those people are waiting to see a doctor and that they are sick. Next, go to the passport office and pictue these as sick people trying to get to a doctor. Then, come back here and report what you've seen.

It seems like this - tell me I'm wrong. When I see an answer that I think is mean-spirited I try to go to the answerer's profile and email then to ask them to: a) develop their idea a little more for me; and b) relate whether they know that they were rude, abrupt, short, abusive, etc. When I get to the profile I generally find that they do not allow emails be sent to them. I wonder if they're hiding or what? Why the lack of desire to peacefully discourse?

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000

Presidential election:

Number of States won by:

Gore: 19

Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:

Gore: 580,000

Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:

Gore: 127 million

Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:

Gore: 13.2

Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.

Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

I'm looking into buying a Ural Russian motorcycle, the "Patrol" or the "Wheels Up" models with the engageable rear wheel. Does anyone have any experience with them?

Do any of you feel like the "violation" policy is stupid? I just got 2 violations today from answers that I thought were apt. One to a lazy lady in NZ and one to (as it turns out) someone who baited answerers into thinking one thing while the oppisite was true - then he took offense when his trap worked. Anyone else had this happen to them?

She really was a traitor

A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED

KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA

This is for all the kids born in the 70's who do

not remember, and didn't have to bear the

burden that our fathers, mothers and older

brothers and sisters had to bear.

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the

"100 Women of the Century."

BY BARBRA WALTERS

Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still

countless others have never known how Ms.

Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country,

but specific men who served and sacrificed

during Vietnam.

The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot

The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.

In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF

Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison

the "Hanoi Hilton."

Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell,

cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was

ordered to describe for a visiting American

"Peace Activist" the "lenient and humane

treatment" he'd received.

He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was

dragged away.

During the subsequent beating, he fell forward

on to the camp Commandant' s feet, which

sent that officer berserk.

In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from

double vision (which permanently ended his

flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied

application of a wooden baton.

From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the

47FW/DO (F-4E's) He spent 6 years in the

"Hanoi Hilton",,, the first three of which his

family only knew he was "missing in action".

His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.

His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and

clothed routine in preparation for a

"peace delegation" visit.

They, however, had time and devised a plan to

get word to the world that they were alive

and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny

piece of paper, with his Social Secur ity Number

on it, ! in the pa lm of his hand.

When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a

cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each

man's hand and asking little encouraging

snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed

babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane

treatment from your benevolent captors?"

Believing this HAD to be an act, they each

palmed her their sliver of paper.

She took them all without missing a beat. At the

end of the line and once the camera stopped

rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,

she turned to the officer in charge and handed

him all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings.

Colonel Carrigan was almost number four

but he survived, which is the only reason we

know of her actions that day.

I was a civilian economic development advisor

in Vietnam, and was captured by the North

Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in

1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years. < /FONT>

I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one

year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year

in a "black box" in Hanoi.

My North Vietnamese captors deliberately

poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a

nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South

Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the

Cambodian border.

At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.

(My normal weight is 170 lbs.)

We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."

When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by

the camp communist political officer if I would

be willing to meet with her.

I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real

treatment we POWs received... and how

different it was from the treatment purported by

the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as

"humane and lenient."

Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky

floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched

with a large steel weights placed on my hands,

and beaten with a bamboo cane.

I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda

soon after I was released. I asked her

if she would be willing to debate me on TV.

She never did answer me.

These first-hand experiences do not exemplify

someone who should be honored as part

of "100 Years of Great Women."

Lest we forget..." 100 Years of Great Women"

should never include a traitor whose hands are

covered with the blood of so many patriots.

There are few things I have strong visceral

reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in

blatant treason, is one of them.

Please take the time to forward to as many

people as you possibly can.

It will eventually end up on her computer and

she needs to know that we will never forget.

RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF

716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of

Maintenance

DSN: 875-6431

COMM: 883-6343

PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO

EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF

ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER

STATUS WILL CHANGE

Jane Fonda laid low for years after her Hanoi stunts. The only reason she didn't go to prison was out of respect for her father. Now she wants us all to forget she's a traitor. Think it'll work??