You'd be correct, Bruce,

I've never heard that on the radio....sounds like something I'd hear at the Performing Arts Center while at a Michael Flatley performance.

But good stuff....and the singer is (for the record) a great representative of what a blonde should be!

There are so many interesting forms of music...a piece I'd love to find (which I've never been able to track down, BTW) is the music to the closing credits of Blackhawk Down.  I think it's Jan Hammer....but haven't been able to locate it.

One of my favorite cable radio channels is Big Band.  Just because the music is really, really excellent.  Which doesn't minimize my appreciation of the rock and roll I grew up on and love....but it just kinda floats my boat.

Trix,

Abso (damn) lutely that one!

Oh, how that one takes me back!  It was on Napster, but as I said, I lost my hard drive and I'm sure I'll never hear it again.

"oooooh, help me!"

:D

quit knocking the education system when we spend far more on an endless war  

Montana,  as mean gene said do the research because you a way, way off

I didn't have a bunch of time to research further...the numbers I found took me about 45 minutes to track down (with a few rather simple Google searches), analyze, and evaluate.

I'm not sure about construction costs of schools...I would imagine that local taxes pay for the construction of new schools as I know that the town where I live are purposely not building a second high school so their football program doesn't suffer (nice, huh? football is more important than a quality education in an uncrowded school).

Again, not sure of the percentage of the total military budget that pays for the "endless war." One thing many people forget when considering military spending is that military salaries, benefits, expenses, maintenance, training, materiel, and everything else it takes to operate our military are all lumped together. Military spending might be $500 billion (an arbitrary number for illustration purposes) in a year, if there are 2.33 million people in the armed forces and they make an average of $75,000 (which is a rough estimate based on my knowledge) in pay and benefits, then their combined salaries/benefits alone cost $174.75 billion per year. That still doesn't account for maintenance of assets and materiel, utilities, and everything else it takes to run the military. All of those things still get paid for in peacetime...so the effectual costs of any war are really the difference it costs between peacetime operations and war time operations...which is usually cost of munitions (but remember a lot of those is already paid for and in storage, so the costs are replenishment of supply), fuel, transport, new equipment, and battle damage.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson

You still haven't provided any evidence to back up your assertion whatsoever. Link or slink.

Based on what I see from your responses is that you are a high school drop-out that is out of touch with reality because you regularly smoke pot, drop some acid at least fortnightly, and can be found at the local hemp shop on any given day of the week. Now, all that may be true, but if I don't back it up with evidence I really don't have a leg to stand on.

Back up your assertions, don't make us ask for substantiation, you should offer it up freely. When you don't back up your assertions (or you refuse to) then I know you either have no idea what you are talking about or you are purposely hiding the truth.

BTW, if there are kids sitting on the floors sharing textbooks in the U.S., how is that so bad? It happens all over Asia (like in Tibet and India...the Indians even look like they have outdoor schools) and other areas of the world. India turns out some of the most prepared students to compete in the world market in math, science, accounting, and business. So sitting on the floor and sharing textbooks probably isn't a huge hinderance to learning. Nowhere does it say that we have a right to sit in comfort in order to be educated.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson