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I unfortunately missed the original show and heard the rerun @ 9pm. Does it strike anyone else that McCain, who was a pilot in Viet Nam, thus spared from actually seeing the results of his bombings and strafings, seems still angry from his 5-year incarceration? I will not trust the man.
I have PTSD and have been working on getting well for almost 20 years. It's a long process but the important thing is to start. War, and all it's associated maladies affects generations of people, not just the generation that fought it. It is an exercise in insanity.
I also see many parallels between Iraq and Viet Nam: We entered the war on lies, we've "turned the corner" (light at the end of the tunnel)so many times we have gone in circles, we'll pull out when the host country "takes over their own security" which they never will, the "surge" produced nothing but more "suspected terrorist" and american dead, there is no defined "mission", and now the absurd argument that pulling out now would mean all who died, died in vain. As if pulling out a year from now with more dead would be defined any different. How sad. How ignorant.

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Idaho has a great law. It must have been drafted and passed by those whom remembered that stop signs were for 4000# cars, traveling @ mass X acceleration. No bicyclist in their right mind would challenge a car for the right-of-way.
An idea, where bike lanes are painted, would be to slow traffic to a bicycle speed. I ride Interstate Ave, and cars blow by me at speeds exceeding 50mph, especially under the broadway bridge ramp. Enforcement seems non-existant. The primary change has to be the mindset that cars are king. Perhaps in rural areas, but not in cities. Portland has wonderful car alternatives. People are not going to switch to them until it's financially painful to drive.

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