hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, feeling pain, while not pleasent, reminds us we are alive (where there is pain, there is life) and since I have danced in the rain, and enjoyed it very much, I would have to choose the skydiving since I have never tried it, (but only if I could do a "tandem" jump).
A friend of mine had to give up her dog (she found a very good home) because her boyfriend is very allergic.....& she has only been seeing him about 2 months.
Now she's all sad....personally when she called I didn't know what to tell her as I think she should have kept her cat (she had him for 3 years) which I think will last longer than this relationship.
What do all of you think? Would/could you give up your pet for a mate?
I couldn't, my pets are a part of me. If you're allegric or don't like pets, then I couldn't be with you.
Read each line with lot's of attention. Do not go to fast... Analyze each sentence... Take your time... Then, when you are ready, answer the question at the bottom.
Imagine that there is a huge flood around where you are... People are killed... Houses are blown away by massive waves of mud... Death is all around... The skys are dark and crying.... You are a reporter... This is the occasion to take the picture of your life... You are ready to take it.... Suddenly!! A shout! A shout for life! A man... A man stuck on an SUV!! Crying for help... His eyes imploring for life... You recognize this man... . . . . . . . . .
It's George Bush... Imploring you... . . . . . . The picture of your life... The pulitzer prize...
Now be honest... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The picture... Black and white or color?
No, I would not and I would also block that person, after the first email. I wouldn't give someone like that a chance to email me a second time. I have gotten emails similar to yours and I block them IMMEDIATELY!!!!
(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court's liberal justices were in the majority.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The administration opened the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to hold enemy combatants, people suspected of ties to al-Qaida or the Taliban.
The Guantanamo prison has been harshly criticized at home and abroad for the detentions themselves and the aggressive interrogations that were conducted there. The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the Constitution, but that the system the administration has put in place to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is inadequate.
The administration had argued first that the detainees have no rights. But it also contended that the classification and review process was a sufficient substitute for the civilian court hearings that the detainees seek. In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants."
Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also dissented.
Scalia said the nation is "at war with radical Islamists" and that the court's decision "will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined Kennedy to form the majority.
The court has ruled twice previously that people held at Guantanamo without charges can go into civilian courts to ask that the government justify their continued detention. Each time, the administration and Congress, then controlled by Republicans, changed the law to try to close the courthouse doors to the detainees. In addition to those held without charges, the U.S. has said it plans to try as many as 80 of the detainees in war crimes tribunals, which have not been held since World War II.
A military judge has postponed the first scheduled trial pending the outcome of this case. The trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's onetime driver, had been scheduled to start June 2.
Five alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks appeared in a Guantanamo courtroom last week for a hearing before their war crimes trial, which prosecutors hope will start Sept. 15.
President Bush has said he wants to close the facility once countries can be found to take the prisoners who are there.
Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama also support shutting down the prison.
I guess this is for those of you (us) who've been single and out of the "dating scene" for a while.
This online dating thing gives us a chance to "meet" people we might not ordinarily meet, and that's a good thing when you aren't into the bar scene.
I guess I'm wondering if there are other people out there as afraid of getting back into dating as I find myself? I've met lots of nice people here, .....but, what is the next step?
Sonora Dodd, of Washington, first had the idea of a "father's day." She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.
After Sonora became an adult she realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972.
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Hi Tony!!
RE: HOW MUCH TIME SHOULD A WOMAN SPEND ON HER MAKE-UP?