As you should know, VV, the people you cite made their money outside of government. And funny but not surprising that you didn’t add Mr. Preznit, that MBA whose various companies all failed and were bailed out by Daddy’s friends.
BTW, you haven’t answered my question in #172 about where (or what line/s) in my post #134 I offered support for terrorists, nor my very simple question about what distinguished people graduated from your “superior” private high school you so frequently boast about.
Repeatedly writing “foment” as “fulment”(SIC) is clearly not a typo, nor can you attribute your repeated inability to spell common legal terms like “consensual” or “breach” to typos, despite your claims to be an attorneyette who should know better. And sweetie, your attacks on me after I occasionally point out your mistakes (and I could do it a lot more often) shows that you get upset, poor baby.
Toodles, noodle-head

I would have had a lot more patience with the Democrats if they had stuck by their guns on Iraq and not simply caved in on it.

They have until the next elections to prove me wrong. If they don’t, you can’t vote Republican because they are outright corrupt, and you can’t vote Democrat because they are innefectual, pick another candidate and VOTE.

The problem is that just “investigating” does nothing to fix the problem. There must be consequences for this kind of action for any possibility of fixing the problem. These people need to be charged with crimes. The Democrats need to stop “asking” and start “telling”, i.e. issuing subpoenas and when they are ignored, hauling the people in for contempt of congress or throwing them in jail until they cooperate (like the RepubliCONS did with Susan McDougall when she refused to lie about the Clintons). She spent 18 months in prison including 7 weeks in solitary confinement for civil contempt of court.

BRAVO! Finally, after 207 postings, we’re back on track about the failures of the Democrats in shooting subpoenas at the criminals of this nation and putting them on trials.

The problem is that just “investigating” does nothing to fix the problem. There must be consequences for this kind of action for any possibility of fixing the problem. These people need to be charged with crimes. The Democrats need to stop “asking” and start “telling”, i.e. issuing subpoenas and when they are ignored, hauling the people in for contempt of congress or throwing them in jail until they cooperate (like the RepubliCONS did with Susan McDougall when she refused to lie about the Clintons). She spent 18 months in prison including 7 weeks in solitary confinement for civil contempt of court.

Indeed, especially given her poor memory.

The comic strip revolves around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug’s time machine. Other favorite regulars in the strip include King Guz and Queen Umpa (the king and queen of Moo), Oscar and Ava (assistants to Wonmug), and Ooola (Alley Oop’s girlfriend).

V.T. Hamlin worked on Alley Oop for 40 years. Hamlin hired writer Dave Graue to assist him in 1950, and Graue continued writing for the strip until 2001. Jack Bender joined Graue as an assistant artist in 1990, becoming the full-time daily and Sunday Alley Oop artist a year later. In 2001, upon Graue’s retirement, Carole Bender began writing the strip.

Now what’s all this about General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan engaged in a “serious violation” of federal law by holding a meeting of federal employees prior to the 2006 midterms to discuss how they could “help our candidates” win the next election?

Political views

During an interview with Brad Linaweaver during the 1990s, Tormé said he has libertarian tendencies and that he voted for Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for U.S. President in 1996. He finds the official Libertarian position too isolationist though he agrees with libertarians on 90% of domestic issues and says that if the whole world accepted libertarian principles, then there would be no need for an aggressive military.

Torme has made connections between his politics and the television show Sliders that he co-created. He suggested that there has been a Libertarian tone to Sliders and said, “If we ever had the Sliders find a libertarian world, it would be the closest they’d come to Utopia as far as I’m concerned.”

He stated he is an ex-Democrat. Tormé has also said that he is sort of a radical animal rights person, sort of a radical environmentalist, and that he is to the left by nature. He opposes political correctness because he sees it as the great lie of the left.

Terrell was a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Partial bibliography

The natural approach: Language acquisition in the classroom, Hayward, CA : Alemany Press, 1983.
Dos Mundos, Spanish language textbook, McGraw-Hill
Deux Mondes, French language textbook, McGraw-Hill

He took jobs as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the Nashville music scene. He began participating in talent shows and earned enough money to live on. In 1991 he had a gig at the Bluebird Cafe and met Wayne Edwards who became his manager.

With Edwards assistance, Tracy Lawrence signed with Atlantic Records and released his first album Sticks and Stones. On 31 May 1991 Lawrence walked his former girlfriend to the door of her hotel room and was confronted by three armed men. The men robbed them and attempted to force Lawrence and his friend into her motel room. Lawrence resisted and was shot four times, allowing his friend to escape. Two of the wounds were major and necessitated surgery. One of the bullets remains embedded in Lawrence’s pelvis.

Lawrence’s album shot up the charts to number one on the back of publicity from the shooting and spawned several Top 10 singles. Lawrence’s second album Alibis went Platinum and generated three straight Number One singles.

Lawrence was Billboard’s Top New Male Vocalist in 1992 and received the Academy of Country Music’s Best New Artist and Top New Male Vocalist in 1993.

In 1994 Lawrence released his third album, I See It Now was also a Platinum album. Lawrence released a Live album in 1995 and another studio album entitled Time Marches On in 1996. In 1997 Lawrence released another album entitled Coast is Clear which he co-produced. Tracy also sang harmony on Trace Adkins’ 1997 single, “Every Light in the House Is On”.

In March 1997, Lawrence married a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. But by September, they’d separated, and by December she’d filed charges against him in Nevada for allegedly throwing her into a wall, punching and threatening to kill her. Lawrence, who admitted to shoving his wife, was eventually convicted of misdemeanor battery and suspended by his record label until he got “his personal matters straight.” He was ordered to pay a $500 fine to a women’s shelter in Las Vegas.

Tracy’s first greatest-hits album, called “Then & Now: The Hits Collection”, was released in 2005. The album featured re-recordings of many of Lawrence’s Top 5 hits, as well as two new songs, “Used to the Pain” and “If I Don’t Make it Back”, both of which were minor hits. New re-recordings of the older songs were featured because Lawrence had switched record labels, and the label for whom he was recording did not hold the rights to the old recordings.

In 2006, Tracy started his own record label, Rocky Comfort Records. A partnership with his manager and brother Laney Lawrence, Rocky Comfort operates as a joint venture with CO5 Nashville. Tracy’s current single, “Find Out Who Your Friends Are”, was released to radio on August 21, 2006. For the Love, the first album on the label, was released in January 2007; the album is Lawrence’s first album of all-new material in almost three years. Two versions of “Find Out Who Your Friends Are” were recorded on the album: a solo version, and a remix with Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney as guest vocalists. Some radio stations play the remixed version instead of the solo version.

Kidder followed up with House, in which he chronicles the design and construction of the award-winning Souweine House in Amherst, Massachusetts. House reads like a novel, but it is based on many hours of research with the architect, builders, clients, in-laws, and other interested parties.

Bibliography

Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine, Back Bay Books, 1981, ISBN 0-316-49197-7
Tracy Kidder, House, Hougton Mifflin Co., 1985, ISBN 0-618-00191-3
Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren, Avon Books, 1989, ISBN 0-380-71089-7
Tracy Kidder, Old Friends, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994, ISBN 5-554-72949-5
Tracy Kidder, Home Town, Random House, 1999, ISBN 0-671-78521-4
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Random House, 2003 hardcover: ISBN 0-375-50616-0, 2004 paperback: ISBN 0-8129-7301-1
Tracy Kidder, My Detachment: a Memoir, Random House, 2005, ISBN 0-375-50615-2 (a Vietnam War memoir)

2003

Hines began his NASCAR career in 2003, when he and NASCAR Craftsman Truck owner Jimb came to an agreement with Hines to run 5 truck races for him in the later portions of 2003.

His career started at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP). Hines qualified 30th in the #27 Dodge Motorsports Dodge Ram and had just made it into the top-10 when he wrecke and crashed into the wall, finishing 32nd. At the next race at Texas Motor Speedway, he qualified 4th, and ran in the top-15 all day, coming home with an eleventh place finish. Hines ran his last two races races that season at Martinsville Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway. At both racs, Hines qualified the #7 in 22nd place, and finished 13th.

2004

In 2004, Tommy Baldwin signed Hines to drive three races for the Hungry Drivers program, a Busch Series competition to see who would drive his #6 Ragú Dodge Intrepid that season. In his debut at Texas, he started 14th and finished 20th despite a late spin. After a 25th at Talladega Superspeedway, Tracy had his best finish of the year, a 17th at Michigan International Speedway.

Hines continued to run in the Truck Series, replacing Matt Crafton in the #88 Menards Chevrolet Silverado for ThorSport Racing, competing for NASCAR Rookie of the Year. He finished 20th, 16th and 29th in the first three races, before posting a 5th place finish at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. Starting at Texas, Tracy had a streak of 8 straight top-17 finishes, capped off by a 9th at IRP. He also led 2 laps at Gateway. Tracy finished off the 2004 season, with a pair of 13ths and earned an 18th place points finish.

2005

In 2005, the #88 had gone back to Crafton, and Paul Wolfe was in the #6 Hellmann’s Dodge for 2005. Despite a lack of sponsorship, ThorSport fielded a second truck for Hines, the #13. In 23 races he finished in the top-20 only 7 times. Despite a 5th at Richmond International Raceway and leading 2 laps at Kansas Speedway, he was released with two races to go in the season.

Hines drove one race in 2005 the #43 Channellock Dodge for The Curb Agajanian Performance Group at California, where he started 26th and finishing 36th after a late crash. After Wolfe was released from the #6, Evernham Motorsports, who now owned the car, hired Hines to drive at The Milwaukee Mile, where he started ninth and finished nineteenth. He also ran at IRP in the #6, starting fifth and finishing 24th. Later in the season at Texas, he attempted a Busch race for Glynn Motorsports, however the #92 Ultra Comp Trailers Dodge crashed in practice and withdrew.

2006

Tracy was to have signed to drive the #92 Glynn Motorsports Dodge in the Busch series, but the team dissolved. Instead, he signed to drive the #14 Dodge Charger for FitzBradshaw Racing, with sponsorship from TakeMeOn Vacation, Bluegrass, and JaniKing. Hines was teamed with fellow hoosier Joel Kauffman. After an aborted attempt at Rookie of the Year, Hines resigned from Fitz Bradshaw Racing. Hines plans to spend the rest of this season racing sprint cars. He is open to another NASCAR ride, if it opens up for him.

Tracy Hickman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. He graduated from Provo High School in 1974, where his major interests were in drama, music, and Air Force JROTC. In 1975, Tracy began two years of service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His initial posting was for six months in Hawaii before his visa was approved, and he moved on to his final calling in Indonesia. There, he served as a missionary in Surabaya, Djakarta, and the mountain city of Bandung before being released honorably in 1977. As a result, Tracy can still speak conversational Indonesian, and occasionally bases his magical phrases on that language.

He married Laura Curtis in 1977, and together they have four children. Tracy and Laura have been publishing game designs together for over twenty-five years including the popular and innovative Advanced Dungeons & Dragons “Ravenloft” module. They published their first joint novel, Mystic Warrior, in 2004.

Tracy has worked as a supermarket stockboy, a movie projectionist, a theater manager, a glass worker, a television assistant director, and a drill press operator in a genealogy center. It was in 1981 — between jobs and wanting to buy shoes for his children — that he approached TSR about buying two of his modules, and ended up with a job instead. That job led to his association with Margaret Weis and their first publication together: the Dragonlance Chronicles.

On his personal website, Hickman states that he continues to be an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and resides in St. George, Utah.