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Yeah; mine too. I'm torn between seeing the rare need for exercise of the concept versus indignation over the incredibly common flagrent abuses that occur in its name. I think we are long past the time that our society should just be becoming aware of the need for legislative review and...

Yessiree; seein' the great job the govmnt and the Corps of Engineers did with the 'glades the last time they exercised eminent domain to do so, how dare we question their intent and liklihood of success this time. I've been following this fellow's plight as reported by Zarella for some time...

Y'mean you're not a member yet? Dave

O.K. I'm sort of speechless. And I'm not used to that state. Such kind words are most meaningful when they come as these do, unsolicited from valued and esteemed friends and peers. To ignore and fail to acknowledge them, or to respond simply with thanks would both be, I feel, inappropriate...

Chris's comment is, I was reminded this morning, particularly apt. I saw a goshawk near my home, and was beginning to be impressed with the number of goses in the area, when it turned out this one was one of the two goses I mentioned having seen in the State Park about 8 miles south. She was...

The sharp-shinneds, and Cooper's are easily differentiated by the rounded tail of the latter vs. the squared-off tail of the former, but if you can't get a good view of the tail and don't have a good reference for size, be aware that a female sharp-shinned and a male Cooper's can be about the...

Abso-damn-lutely! In '60 or '61 saw one by definitive sighting (shape of bill, dark eye, light hackels, and all this close-up) near Batstow - and within a short time got a great close-up view of an immy (1st year) bald (more massive, yellow beak with its characteristic parallel dorsal and...

Thanks, Ron, Several good points! I'm always amazed to read the letters home from soldiers in the Civil War, many of whom had no more than an eighth grade education. Most of their letters would earn an "A+" in any college English Composition class today. If graded on a curve they'd be the...

Why Bob; that's just about the nicest thing anyone has said to me in just ever-so-long! Best t'ye, buddy, Dave

Hi, Guy, You may have pin-pointed more than one problem: Mine is a 2000-vintage iMac and I'm on dial-up! Thanks, Dave

Hey Guy, This technocretin needs some help. The download by my iMac running OSX (Tiger) went fine. I got a file named "GoogleEarthMac.dmg" I clicked on that and my security ran it and I got an ikon that looks like a thin hard drive labeled "Google Earth." When I click on that I open a file...

Hey, LIP, Welcome aboard. Pine barrens on Long Island! Whodathunkit? Thanks for the pics. Dave (Pppob)

I'm with you, NJP ! Winter has always been the season I most long for, the one whose waning I find depressing, the one in which I have always felt most alive! Back in the late 60s and thru the 70's when I was doing field research up here the South Dakota winters were wonderful. But since we...

I don't think you're missing it; I know exactly what you mean, and you experience it well and deeply. I've learned to revel in it. Originally a city kid, I was "uneasy" /"lacking in self confidence" / "uncertain of what was present outside my immediate, known location" /"fearful of the unknown"...

Rest assured,Furball, that I, too, see God (of which God I am, by the bye, in consummate and sublime awe and take as a source of assurance, hope, and inspiration) throughout all metaphoric Creation, just likely not the God you see, and certainly not the anthropomorphic God of Judeo-Christian...

Thanks, Bob, Damn! I checked the three on my computer desk (never quite trusting the several electronic dictionaries bundled with my several word processors...) as well as Funk & Wagnall's and the 1936 as well as the (oft criticised) 1961 editions of Webster's International, and my unabridged...

This forum is probably not the appropriate venue for remediation of anyone requiring instruction in the niceties of grammar and vocabulary of the official language of the United States. If necessary, however, I can recommend several good dictionaries and reference works on contemporary...

Before going to the picture, Lemme guess, might it have been taken at a hockey game? The NJ Devils vs. the NY Rangers perchance ??? Dave

Hi. Bigfootmorph. The truth of an assertion or the validity of a concept is not, and never has been able to be determined by the number of believers therein, only by weight of objective evidence in support of testable hypotheses concerning the truth or validity thereof. Mere numbers of...

Hell yes! On numerous occassions: 1. First off, I HAVE been married a few times!, and 2. I have seen and heard far more times than I've ever been able to understand purportedly serious questions from supposedly thoughtful "really serious" people about the existence of "Bigfoot."...