WHO POSTED THIS, p.2 ?

One thing that is rarely discussed is that Jutland impelled the British to think of alternate tactics which led ultimately to the air craft carrier. The royal Navy had one commissioned and in operation in the North sea the last week of the war but it never got into action. Its first planed action was an attack on the zeppelin sheds at Hamburg

When my daughter was two, she went out into the yard after a rainy night and immediately started to eat the funny white puffy things poping up in the grass. We rushed her to a pediatric poison center where they pumped her stomach and then stuffed her full of charcoal. What a mess that was...

I suspect these nations opposed the unilateral actions of the United State because they view the system of collective consultation, debate, and consensus as a means of containing the overwhelming power possessed by us at the moment. I doubt that any of them would have been sorry to see Saddam deposed but they fear a world in which a single supper power keeps its own council and act solely on its own perceived interest. A return to a world of self justified unilateral action is a very insecure and dangerous world which we have not really experienced since the early 19th century when Britain could do just about what it pleased. The Congress of Vienna and the system of interlocking alliances it produce was the fist attempt at this sort of "containment". It failed with the First World War. The League of Nations and the UN were further attempts. The current Neo conservative ideologues that seem to hold sway in both the US and Britain seem to be intent on returning to that earlier world.

I miss it all, more than I ever thought I would. You're so right about missing the little things that matter the most of all. Like spending all day cooking a $40 roast beef with all the trimmings on a Sunday and not having to eat it all by yourself for 2 weeks, or end up sharing it with the dog because they "forgot" and ate at Wendy's on the way. If only I had a nickle for every diaper I bought......

I definately want to visit there after I go to Ireland. I hear the flight is long tho so maybe by ship. Don't like flying at all.
My son went everywhere, east, west, north and south coasts. Did the whole thing. Went to some 'gathering' in the outback somewhere. He's in VT so I can't ask for a refresh on details right now.