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  Describe Yourself.

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  not everyone feels comfortable revealing details of themselves on this forum, and i've never met anyone on this discussion board (but of course i hope i will one day!

  ) and i just thought that it would be fun and interesting for all of us to post a little about ourselves!.

  i'm 40, own 3 businesses, married to a jw wife (wish i wasn't) and am addicted to a certain website..., .

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  Okay first I have to say: Rayzorblade you are adorable, Amanda please take care of yourself! Being sick is a drag!, Heaven you are so funny! I wish my son had an off switch too..LOL, Jo you are anything but average! You are hilarious and so intelligent!, Xena you are too cool in my book! I am a single mom of a 6 going on 50 year old son, work in an art gallery, music lover, book lover, and oh yeah I'm blond so be kind...LOL I'm also 29 so I guess I'm no lady..LOL ~Aztec
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  sharring my secrets

  by kls in

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  you all are so special, i just finished reading the thread i posted the other day and again you all made me cry(probably girl thing) not in a bad way but in a happy way,sometimes i think i found you guys just in time.so because of your caring i would like to share my life story,no i won,t drag it on.i was raised in a home with two sisters and a brother,i was the youngest ,i am three years younger then one sister ,ten years between my other sister and twelve years younger then my brother.father was a beater,belts,boards but his favorite was his fists,i went to school with plenty of black eyes and lying were they came from.my older sister and brother were married and out of the house and very seldom visited.as kids my brother and sister were beat also so there was alot of tenson when they did visit.so with my one sister and me we take the beatings for them and hide in our rooms hoping we didn,t do any thing to irritate our parents.my mother , i swear she would blow things out of perportion just to see us get beat , i think because she was beat so offen by my dad , i would hear them in my room at night or in the day , the shit would start to fly and we just hid.my parents were both drinkers but usually it was moderate until i was about ten years old and my sister was twelve, the drinking became out of control especially for my mom,fights got more intense till it was like living in a war zone.it got to the point that my mother never left her bedroom and was drunk twentyfour hrs.

  a day, not even coming out to eat.my dad ,sister and me would do the shopping and cleaning and cooking.life was ,well for my sister and me was becoming normal .then one day coming home from school ,i see the police, my older sister and brother are there..odd, they are all crying and inform me dad killed himself and they just took his body.

  well , we have funeral moms drunk at , and all of a sudden everyone is gone to their own lives while my sister and me are stealing food to live.

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  Oh wow! Honey, I promise, yet again, I will never bitch about my childhood! I had a physically and emotionally abusive father too so I can, in a small way, understand some of your pain. What you went through was awful and so unfair! You are such a sweet and special person! If sharing makes you feel better than please continue..Much love to you!!! ~Aztec
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  Miss me?

  by Vivamus in

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  didn't anyone miss me?

  i've missed you guys.

  i seem to be unable to post when i'm at home.

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  Hey Viv sweetie! I am finally able to post from home after 2 weeks..LOL Don't worry the bugs will slowly work themselves out! I am glad to see you!:) ~Aztec
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  Finally received our "shepherding call" today

  by Jourles in

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  it was inevitable.

  after dodging the bullet for a few weeks, the elders finally made their way to our house today.

  the reason i think this to be so, is because he asked me what he should write down for my report.

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  Wow Jourles! I don't get into these discussions much because it's been so long since I attended a meeting, I wouldn't know what to say if I got a shepherding call. But I do care about you and hope the best for you so please take care and contact me on yahoo if you need to okay? ~Aztec
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  I baygoona speak English for a bag of suck

  by Brummie in

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  with the current arguments about english language: this is the vernacular of a true born & bred englishman, some of us dont even speak english in england:.

  what slang words are common in your area?.

  http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang.htmbrummie and black country slang word and phrases.

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  How we tawk in Mitchigan..LOLHere are some common Michigan pronunciations so that you can proudly walk around and convincingly say you've been a Red Wings fan, ya know, like since you were a kid. "AK-cidih": Accident. "Got inta'a baad AKcidih' with my rennel cahrr....some drunk f&*#$@ on 696!" (in the Texas Accent Pronunciation Guide, this is noted as "got inta a bay-ed wreck in mah rent cawr.") "aeh Narbor": Ann Arbor. Home of the Michigan Wolverines. "Ashfault": Asphalt. It almost sounds like we're from Jersey, doesn't it? (this one sent in by Bob) "Aent": Aunt. When you hear Will Smith talk about his "awntie", doesn't that just sound wrong? "Bob-lo": Bois Blanc. The name shared by several Michigan islands (and a former amusement park). Next time someone blows their nose: "Hey, it's the Boblo Boat!" "Bolth": Both. Suzanne, a fellow Michigan expat who, like me, ended up in CincinNASTI says that we say "bolth". Is this true? "Char-LOTT": Charlotte, a Michigan village close to Lansing. Related: Saline, MI, pronounced "SuhLEEN", its neighbor "MYlun" (spelled Milan), and of course, Lake Orion, pronounced "OReeyun." This phenomenon is what happens when townsfolk in the 1800's weren't quite sure how to pronounce "all them fancy French" town names, and is actually much more prevalent throughout Ohio (e.g., Delhi, OH, pronounced "Dell-High"; Lancaster, OH, pronounced "LANKster"; Marseilles, OH, pronounced "MarSAYLES", and my favorite, Bellefontaine, amazingly pronounced... "Bell Fountain"! Ohio Public Schools is all I'm sayin'...) "Ciddy": City. Which ciddy in Michigin are ya from? Baddle Creek, er AnNarbor? "Cloze": Clothes. That kidza real cloze-horse. "CAHL-yum": Column. In some parts of the state, they still say this. Hmmm... I think I used to say this when I was a kid even. (Another one sent in by the indefatigable David Pool. "COMF-terbul": Comfortable. The caabz in those F150's are damned comfterbul. "Cahngriss": Congress. Those guyz frum Waashingtin, DC. "Crick": Creek. According to Tristan, in some parts of the state, they say "crick". Not so much in GraRapids. I think that's some kind of Hoosier thingy... "Davenport": Sofa. "Maaam, Eric's gotiz shoes up on the davenport again!" (thanks to...uhh... this person) "Deerburn": Dearborn, home of Ford Moder Company. Likely if you work there that you work "at Ford's". Or maybe "K-Mart's". (Oh, I know, it's not supposed to be possessive. Scientists are still trying to determine why people from Michigan talk this way. For the record, folks: there is no family with the last name of "K-Mart" that owns that corporation.) Ya goin' bowlin' tonight? Er snowmobilin'?"DihTROIH": Detroit. You can always tell a non-native because they'll say "DEEtroit". Dear God, what a freaking insult, people! Ya soun' like-a buncha hillbillies already. No, use that breath clipping mechanism and cut off the T. Then accent the second syllable and cut off THAT T as well. It's almost like two clipped words slurred together. Welcome to DihTroih! It's not so bad! Just don't go a block off that main drag or we'll put ya in the hahspidal. "DisPARate": Disparate. Fundamentally distinct. Or, what you might do to make fun of a tropical bird. "EeeevsTraaaf": Eavestrough. US equivalent: rain gutter (thanks to Bill). "FI-yerr": Fire. Say it in two full syllables. You gotta love it when Captain Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager launches an attack against some troublesome alien species with a Midwestern accent! Perhaps we pronounce it that way because we shop at Meijer. Texas pronunciation: "fahr". Kentucky pronunciation: "fawr". Brooklyn pronunciation: "I'm on fi-yah, bay-bee". "Flint": Flint. Oh, alright, it sounds the same. I just wanted to say that, if Detroit was the anus of the US, Flint would be about sixty miles up it, hee hee! Oh, those warm memories of my days of misspent youth in Happy Valley... near the Chevy Engine Block plant... near the bubbly, stinky Flint River... kinda brings baack a tear ta my eye... er is thadda metal flake from the plant powerhouse smokestack... I dunno... "Foilage": Foliage. This one sent in by David Pool, who sez his wife and father in law use it to refer to plants and bushes. Sounds like something you'd do at the "Beauty Parlor" instead. "FREVer": Forever. Winn'er seems like it's laastin' FREVer this year. "Frigerraider": Refrigerator. Hey, why waste energy on that first syllable? They know whut yer tockin' about. Maahm sez you left the melk outta the frigerraider again! "Gran Blank": Grand Blanc, a suburb of Flint. "Ya know, I tried ta thinkuva specific featura that town but my mine' drew a gran blank." "Grrarapids": Grand Rapids, my hometown. It's cold, so slurrr those werds tagetherr! Residents are sometimes known as GraRaptiles. ;) Some famous Grand Raptile home-girls: Stacy Haiduk (Seaquest DSV), and the lovely Gillian Anderson, ladies and gentlemen. NOVEMBER 2001 UPDATE: Someone kindly brought to my attention that Judy Garland was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota... I've heard people in GR Mich brag about her being from there for years! Oops. "GROSHries": Groceries. Wouldjamind goin' to the groshry store? (thanks to Susie) "Haahkee": Hockey. A Michigan favorite. With an abundance of lakes and cold temperatures, it's understandable that we dig hockey and won the Stanley Cup. The Red Wings... a mighty force to be reckoned with! "I-munna": I'm going to. I-munna head overta K-Mart's on Gratiot an' finda cup holder fer my Tie-ota. (a classic example of conserving energy the Michigan way) "Kiddycorner": Kitty-corner. Elsewhere in the US: "catty-corner". Local variation of "cater-corner," the actual original English word. "When I was a kid, we lived kiddycorner from the Brznickiwiczskiszaks." (thanks to Dave) "KI-nuh": Kind of. I dunno, I kinuh like Faygo. "LayKEERie": Lake Erie. Shallow, skanky, dreary...let's go sail Lake Erie! "liVONEya": Livonia. Perhaps the fladdes' ciddy in Michigin. "Maahm": Mom. I was tockin' ta my maahm about goin' ta the maall. "Melk": Milk. Tell 'em you waana glassa melk. "Michiganderr": Michigan native. Who knows where the hell this came from. All I know is, I am not a duck. "Mier": Mirror. Don' lookin the mier... yull breakit. "Minnuhsoda": Minnesota. Our brethren to the West. Shares affinity with Michigan in that Minnesota and the UP are the only places in the country where you can still find guys named "Lars". "MON-row": Monroe, a town in southeastern MI that was apparently, mysteriously transported through time and space from somewhere near PigHoller, Kentucky. DECEMBER 2002 UPDATE: A couple of folks have written me to let me know that it's MONrow rather than MAAHNrow. The rest of the state still strangely enough calls it munROW. "Muskeeda": Mosquito. The State Bird of Michigan. I've seen them carry away cats, sometimes even small children. "NAWzeeus": Nauseous. "Went ta Liddle Sleazers an' gah really nawzeeus. Musta been the pepperoni-n-shrooms." "Night-meer": Nightmare. "I hadda nightmeer I wuz out in the wuds near Grayling, with no ammo and completely outta Stroh's." "NUKE-yuller": Nuclear. "Let's hope we don't hafta, ya know, fi-yer our nuke-yuller missiles." "Er": Or. Ya know, it wuz like watchin' X-Files er somethin'. "Pah-neeack": Pontiac. Ya might live in Pahniac, er ya might drive one. An' ya might be embarrassed. "Pahp": Pop. "Soda", in other parts of the world. Hey, do they call it a Sodasicle? I think not. "Let's stahp by SevenuhLeven and gedduh pahp." "Pellow": Pillow. Je ne sais pas pourquoi ces Michiganders pronouncent ce mot en tant que "pellow". C'est très étrange. (sent in by Patty) "Port Urine": Port Huron. For some reason, the locals get pissed if you don't pronounce it this way. "Reeelatur": Realtor. This one sent in by Joe in Kalamazooooo. "Ruff": Roof. Yo, Jack, ya lef' yer tools on thuh ruffa yer cahrrrrrrr. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Kripes almighty, the grief I get over "Ruff". Here's a little tip to Michigan expatriates: the next time you're at dinner and someone makes fun of the way you say this, ask them how they say "woods", "look" and "book" and then tell them to shut the hell up and eat their "fud".) "Samwich": Sandwich. Somethin' ya might have with melk. This one sent in by Cheryl, who also says we pronounce it "samrich"... but that must be some kinda freaky Lansing thing. David Pool's mother-in-law calls it a "san-widge"... part of the little-understood Saginaw variant. "SOWnuh": Sauna. A Finnish word should be pronounced in the appropriate Finnish accent common to da U.P., eh? (sent in by Caleb) "Sherbert": Sherbet. Is this unique to Michigan? Another one from Kalamazoo Joe. Ahh, geez-o-pete, ya soun' like my sisterr!"Sisterr": Sister. Ahh, geez-o-pete, ya soun' like my sisterr. Draw out that rrrrrrr. "Stold": Stole. "Stopda take a leak aat a rest area on I-94 and some guy stold my Pahniac... canyabaLEEVE it?" "Sump'n": Something. Craig found some kinda animaler sump'n in the baackoviz Chevy AAAvuLAANche. "Tempachur": Temperature. Another very true Michiganism from Joe in Kalamazoo. "Thenks": Thanks. Also: "THENKyou." "Hey, Maatt, thenks fer thuh pahp. Yuhwaaana beer?" "Tie-ota": Toyota. Originally developed by the hourly automotive workers as a passive-aggressive way to diss Japanese carmakers. "That kid drove one-uh-them Tie-otas inta the plant parking lot, so the guyz loosined all his lugnuts. He dint get too farrr." "Tuh": To. It's hardta get inta the habita sayin' teeeoooo. "Terr": Tour. "Welcome 'ta the Manitou Ilun Ferry. My name's Pam, 'n I'll be yer terrguide fer the trip." (there really WAS a Pam, she was damned cute, and she did indeed speak like this... sort of a Northern Woods Bipsy... prob'ly some Seaholm chick!) "Vanella": Vanilla. "Didja hear? GM's got a new color for the Z34 body style: vanella." (this one sent in by Jennifer) "Wasteland": Westland, a Detroit suburb. (long ago submitted by Jan Pickard) (related: Bland Rapids, Cantoon, Sterile Whites, Farm Town, Royal Joke, HazelTucky, TaylorTucky, etc.) "WEEK-en": Weekend. "Ya goin' huntin' this weeken?" "No, we're takin' Maahm's Chriscraft out on LayKeerie." It's 25 degrees and we're standing around talking... do you REALLY need to pronounce the d? I didn't think so. "Winzerr": Windsor, Ontario. Detroit's sisterr ciddy on the other side of The Tunnel. A sort of, uhh, business retreat center for busy, uhh, male executives. Riiiiight. "Wuds": Woods. Be careful in the wuds... it's deer season, an' ya got 30,000 unemployed auto workers, drunk off their ass, armed ta the teeth with high-powered weapons. I love Michigan! "Yuh": You. How the hell arrrrya? How ya doin'? What thuh helleryuh thinkin' about? Where ya goin'? Ya goin' bowlin' tonight? Er snowmobilin'? Ice fishin' might be kiina fun. Michiganians never say "arse" (Great Britain), "warsh" (Indiana/Kansas) or "soda" (Eastern US). In case ya weren't wonderin'. ~Aztec
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  Honk if you love Jesus.

  by lulu in

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  i bought it and put it on my back bumper and i'm glad i did.

  what an uplifting experience followed.

  that bumper sticker really worked!!

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  Don't be sorry lulu. It was funny!:) ~Aztec
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  Why does the USA ignore the terror of Israel?

  by back2dafront in

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  http://www.devo.com/mideastlog/

  they shoot children, don't they?

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  Amen Jo! LOL Minimus! ~Aztec
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  Time to Arrest the Leaders of the Anti-War Movement,

  by LuckyLucy in

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  http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/index.html

  the u.s. sedition act

  united states, statutes at large, washington, d.c., 1918, vol.

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  Wow! Sorry about the formatting. I'm using the Mozilla browser and it won't let me space anything out. GRRR!!!~Aztec:(
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  Time to Arrest the Leaders of the Anti-War Movement,

  by LuckyLucy in

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  http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/index.html

  the u.s. sedition act

  united states, statutes at large, washington, d.c., 1918, vol.

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  Yes Will they have lied to us. I found this article on msn.com and it was originally reported in the Washington Post: DOCUMENTS THAT purportedly showed Iraqi officials shopping for uranium in Africa two years ago were deemed “not authentic” after careful scrutiny by U.N. and independent experts, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the U.N. Security Council. ElBaradei also rejected a key Bush administration claim — made twice by the president in major speeches and repeated by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday — that Iraq had tried to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes to use in centrifuges for uranium enrichment. Also, ElBaradei reported finding no evidence of banned weapons or nuclear material in an extensive sweep of Iraq using advanced radiation detectors. “There is no indication of resumed nuclear activities,” ElBaradei said. Knowledgeable sources familiar with the forgery investigation described the faked evidence as a series of letters between Iraqi agents and officials in the central African nation of Niger. The documents had been given to the U.N. inspectors by Britain and reviewed extensively by U.S. intelligence. The forgers had made relatively crude errors that eventually gave them away — including names and titles that did not match up with the individuals who held office at the time the letters were purportedly written, the officials said. ANOTHER SETBACK FOR U.S. “We fell for it,” said one U.S. official who reviewed the documents. A spokesman for the IAEA said the agency did not blame either Britain or the United States for the forgery. The documents “were shared with us in good faith,” he said. The discovery was a further setback to U.S. and British efforts to convince reluctant U.N. Security Council members of the urgency of the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Powell, in his statement to the Security Council Friday, acknowledged ElBaradei’s findings but also cited “new information” suggesting that Iraq continues to try to get nuclear weapons components. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein pursued an ambitious nuclear agenda throughout the 1970s and 1980s and launched a crash program to build a bomb in 1990 following his invasion of neighboring Kuwait. But Iraq’s nuclear infrastructure was heavily damaged by allied bombing in 1991, and the country’s known stocks of nuclear fuel and equipment were removed or destroyed during the U.N. inspections after the war. However, Iraq never surrendered the blueprints for nuclear weapons, and kept key teams of nuclear scientists intact after U.N. inspectors were forced to leave in 1998. Despite international sanctions intended to block Iraq from obtaining weapons components, Western intelligence agencies and former weapons inspectors were convinced the Iraqi president had resumed his quest for the bomb in the late 1990s, citing defectors’ stories and satellite images that showed new construction at facilities that were once part of Iraq’s nuclear machinery. Last September, the United States and Britain issued reports accusing Iraq of renewing its quest for nuclear weapons. In Britain’s assessment, Iraq reportedly had “sought significant amounts of uranium from Africa, despite having no active civil nuclear program that could require it.” Separately, President Bush, in his speech to the U.N. Security Council on Sept. 12, said Iraq had made “several attempts to buy-high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.” Doubts about both claims began to emerge shortly after U.N. inspectors returned to Iraq last November. In early December, the IAEA began an intensive investigation of the aluminum tubes, which Iraq had tried for two years to purchase by the tens of thousands from China and at least one other country. Certain types of high-strength aluminum tubes can be used to build centrifuges, which enrich uranium for nuclear weapons and commercial power plants. By early January, the IAEA had reached a preliminary conclusion: The 81mm tubes sought by Iraq were “not directly suitable” for centrifuges, but appeared intended for use as conventional artillery rockets, as Iraq had claimed. The Bush administration, meanwhile, stuck to its original position while acknowledging disagreement among U.S. officials who had reviewed the evidence. In his State of the Union address on Jan. 28, Bush said Iraq had “attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.” Last month, Powell likewise dismissed the IAEA’s conclusions, telling U.N. leaders that Iraq would not have ordered tubes at such high prices and with such exacting performance ratings if intended for use as ordinary rockets. Powell specifically noted that Iraq had sought tubes that had been “anodized,” or coated with a thin outer film — a procedure that Powell said was required if the tubes were to be used in centrifuges. 81 MM ROCKETS ElBaradei’s report yesterday all but ruled out the use of the tubes in a nuclear program. The IAEA chief said investigators had unearthed extensive records that backed up Iraq’s explanation. The documents, which included blueprints, invoices and notes from meetings, detailed a 14-year struggle by Iraq to make 81mm conventional rockets that would perform well and resist corrosion. Successive failures led Iraqi officials to revise their standards and request increasingly higher and more expensive metals, ElBaradei said. Moreover, further work by the IAEA’s team of centrifuge experts — two Americans, two Britons and a French citizen — has reinforced the IAEA’s conclusion that the tubes were ill suited for centrifuges. “It was highly unlikely that Iraq could have achieved the considerable redesign needed to use them in a revived centrifuge program,” ElBaradei said. A number of independent experts on uranium enrichment have sided with IAEA’s conclusion that the tubes were at best ill suited for centrifuges. Several have said that the “anodized” features mentioned by Powell are actually a strong argument for use in rockets, not centrifuges, contrary to the administration’s statement. The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based research organization that specializes in nuclear issues, reported yesterday that Powell’s staff had been briefed about the implications of the anodized coatings before Powell’s address to the Security Council last month. “Despite being presented with the falseness of this claim, the administration persists in making misleading arguments about the significance of the tubes,” the institute’s president, David Albright, wrote in the report. Powell’s spokesman said the secretary of state had consulted numerous experts and stood by his U.N. statement. © 2003 The Washington Post Company " When/if it happens that peaceful dissent by the people -- a long held and exercised freedom in this country -- is cause for arrest and court action, it will be as sure a sign as any that Freedom itself has been the true victim of 9/11." Teejay I couldn't agree more! ~Aztec
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  Why does the USA ignore the terror of Israel?

  by back2dafront in

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  http://www.devo.com/mideastlog/

  they shoot children, don't they?

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  Yes and why are we surprised that the Palestinians would want a homeland of their own? Isreal is just as guilty of terrorism as Al Quada and the US in it's unflinching support of Isreal is just as guilty. And we're surprised that they hate us...LMSadAO ~Aztec