Just seeing if this works, I am.

If it does, cool.

If not, oh well

It didn't

P: What are you doing?

C: Eating breakfast.

P: We're leaving for church in five minutes.

C: I'll be ready.

P: You're supposed to be fasting for an hour.

C: That's before communion.

P: It's probably less than an hour til communion.

C; So I won't take communion.

P: Then you might as well not even go.

C: So I won't go.

P: You have to go.

What we should do about Iraq. In a word: nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing.

What does that mean?

The show is about nothing.

Jerry: Well, it's not about nothing.

George: No, it's about nothing.

Jerry: Well, maybe in philosophy. But even nothing is something.

Sorry, sidetracked. Seriously though, nothing is what we do. It's what we should have been doing right along. Even if we are to grant that there was justification for this "war" (invasion) in the first place, which I do not, but just suppose, what are we now trying to accomplish? Bring stability? Hah!!! Some sort of stability will eventually be achieved, but only after we leave.

Let's go over our reasons for being there. Our stated reasons were: 1) to find and remove the WMDs. This is now moot so 2) was (after 1 proved moot) remove Saddam Hussein, a ruthless evil bastard. Done. Let's see, what else? Set up their government for them? Is that a stated objective? I hope not. Bring stability? Is that a stated objective? Again, I hope not. It's not in our power and it's NOT UP TO US! It is (at least) time to get the hell out of there. A full blown civil war may be be what happens next. I suppose we could stay for that but I think we're not invited (like we ever were).

Out, OUT I say! And say we're sorry as we go.

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.
"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4748292.stm

Published: 2006/02/24 16:40:00 GMT

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