After many hours toiling away at properly tagging my MP3s -- yes, I can be obsessive at times -- it occurs to me that there are a truckload of artists with the first name of Billy (or a variation thereof)... Billy Joel, Billy Preston, Billy Joe Royal, Bill Withers, Bill Haley, etc. I suppose if you're given the first name of Billy at birth, the odds are fairly significant that you may grow up to be a musician, eh?
US Representative, Charlie Rangel (D-NY) is at it again. Rangel's prescription for fixing the ills we're feeling in Iraq is a draft . I have very mixed feelings about this. Conscription is conscription no matter what you choose to label it. Is that appropriate in a free country? On the flip side of this coin, I've often thought that compulsory national service would be a great idea for American kids right out of high school. It might have been a better start for me than learning to down beer at a Liberal Arts university! Two years in the service might give kids time to think about their future, learn higher levels of responsibility, and begin to take life more seriously. There are many countries who require some level of mandatory military service: Belarus, Chile, China, Croatia, Serbia, Russia, Iran, Lebanon, our neighbor Mexico, and our old buddy Germany, to name a few. Gee, now that I look at that partial list... aren't many of those countries Socialist or at battl...
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(Love the pic with the gun below)..
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