Boycott ENTERPRISE .. it's just that bad.

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PEACE

Monday, May 24, 2004 9:16 PM

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Originally posted by SouthernMerc:
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However, the ORIGINAL cause of war was, essentially, a lie. There are no weapons of mass destruction found, a year after the war. In England, it was found that the idea of 45-minute deployable WMD was in fact a lie.

Didn't they find some artillery shells with sarin gas in them? I don't remember the exact news bit, so can you clarify?

I believe the find was of some artillery shells left over from the Iran-Iraq war. These would be battle-field weapons, tactical and extremely short-range, and a whole other category from the strategic WMD's most everyone had in mind when the war was being debated-- the sort of weapon that would have allowed Saddam to reach out and touch Riyadh (sp?) or Tel Aviv. That's why, for example, there was considerable discussion as to whether Saddam had violated range-limits on his ballistic missiles.

If I'm recalling this incorrectly, somebody shoot me a correction, please.

Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

ABSALON

Monday, May 24, 2004 11:28 PM

Dear God, if you hate it that much, just stop watching it. Watch your Firefly DVD again.

P.S. Its better than Voyager, least the captain's male.
You can add sexist to the story now :D

P.P.S. Not to totally disagree with you, I think replacing enterprise with Firefly would rock, just let me see how series, oops sorry, season 3 ends.

Oh, I'm going to that special kind of hell.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:00 AM

Annik, how're you doing? Let us know if there is ANYTHING we can do to help- even if it's just to jaw about FF.

(((((((Annik))))))

ANNIK

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:31 AM

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Originally posted by rue:
Annik,

Not having been where you are, I can only imagine.

I hope you live in a humane country with decent medical care and basic support for every day life.

And I deeply and sincerely hope you are doing better every day.

Thank you, Rue! I do live in a country with decent medical care: Canada. And I've been quite amazed/happy at what medical resources we have available to us here that fellow cancer survivors elsewhere, very sadly, don't.

The surpsing thing to me is how little there is to support someone who has kids and was once a major breadwinner in the two-working-adult-family ... I may be wrong, but it seems like getting cancer as a senior citizen is probably easier here ... at least they get a pension and probably don't have elementary-school aged dependents, as we do.

Sigh. I've said for awhile now that it's not the cancer that will kill me, it's the paperwork.

Sorry for going OT here.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

ANNIK

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:40 AM

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Originally posted by jlp:
Annik,

I too hope that you are doing well, and that you are not in any pain. I hope that this board and the general company of browncoats can bring a little enjoyment.

Best wishes.

Thank you, JLP!

This Christmas past was the first-time ever our formerly 'middle-class' family needed to use a food bank. We also signed up at the cancer hospital for a Christmas hamper. The company that sponsored our family not only gave us all the fixin's for an excellent celebration meal, but they included the Firefly DVDs from our wish list as a present for the grownups.

We watch them often, and always happily.

I am fortunate re: pain. I had an excellent surgeon and experienced minimal discomfort after my mastectomy. Ongoing practise of tai chi has kept me with a full range of motion and I haven't suffered any post-surgical complications.

Chemo was long (18 months!) but seemed manageable at the time ... and thanks to one of the drugs, my formerly poker-straight hair came back in jet-black and curly! Woo hoo!

So far, checkups are looking good and I remain a NED (no evidence of disease) ... taking this thread *slightly* back to topic, if we only had the kind of scanning technology they've got on Star Trek (or, for that matter, the stuff Simon knew how to use!) we could probably tell a breast cancer patient definitively whether or not she still carried active cancer cells lurking around her body, waiting to metastasise.

And I love visiting with all you folks ... it's like some sort of eerie-ass second home.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

ANNIK

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:48 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Annik, how're you doing? Let us know if there is ANYTHING we can do to help- even if it's just to jaw about FF.

(((((((Annik))))))

Thanks for the hug, SignyM. Us one-breasted gals are particularly good at giving really *close* hugs.

(My apologies to the list for inadvertently taking this thread OT!

)

As mentioned in the two posts above, I'm doing OK (so far). Crossed fingers and prayers are always welcome.

I have had what I consider post-chemo complications (that is, I developed some problems 'coincidently' around when my chemo finished). I now have asthma and fibromyalgia, and the two are proving to be major problems getting a handle on.

I'm so exhausted that working FT again is a distant dream ... I still teach evenings at college for 1-2 courses per semester. A couple hours at a time is about as much as I can handle. But my old 'day job' career is on indefinite hiatus. When I have a good day, I'm working on writing and editing SF ... finally!

I'll stop now ... (sniff) ...everyone's questions are very surprising and ... wow! Thanks for the interest! I will *certainly* let you folks know if there is anything you can do to help.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:00 AM

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Originally posted by Peace:
If I'm recalling this incorrectly, somebody shoot me a correction, please.

This may very well be exactly what we were looking for. These are weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was supposed to have gotten rid of them in accordance with UN Resolution 1441. It doesn't matter whether they are on missiles that can hit Riyadh or not (which Iraq also had).

It was confirmed that Iraq also had a missile that could hit both Tel Aviv and Riyadh. Iraq had produced many Al Husayn missiles which had a range of over 600 km. These weapons were strictly forbidden by UN resolution 687, which imposed a range limit of 150km. They have payload of over 500kg and can be fitted with chemical weapons.

PEACE

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:20 AM

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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
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Originally posted by Peace:
If I'm recalling this incorrectly, somebody shoot me a correction, please.
This may very well be exactly what we were looking for. These are weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was supposed to have gotten rid of them in accordance with UN Resolution 1441. It doesn't matter whether they are on missiles that can hit Riyadh or not (which Iraq also had).

It was confirmed that Iraq also had a missile that could hit both Tel Aviv and Riyadh. Iraq had produced many Al Husayn missiles which had a range of over 600 km. These weapons were strictly forbidden by UN resolution 687, which imposed a range limit of 150km. They have payload of over 500kg and can be fitted with chemical weapons.

But my impression was that these were not from discovered caches of weapon, but were derelict pieces left over and forgotten from the Iran-Iraq War-- and, according to these two articles, not even distinguishable from regular artillery shells:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/2575724

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0521/p09s01-coop.html

The shell or shells in question could only have been used in artilley, not in missiles (they couldn't be armed without being fired from a gun).

You're certainly entitled to see the issue differently, but to me this doesn't seem to be in the same class as strategic weapons.

And I apologize for helping to take this thread off-topic (I swore I wasn't going to do that, I really did....).

Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

SIGNYM

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:41 AM

Uh... WHAT was the topic of this thread?? I've forgotten!

But that's OK- weve taken some interesting detours along the way.

((((((((Annik+family))))))))

SHINY

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:25 AM

The topic is how much browncoats love each other.

{{{{{{{{{{Annik}}}}}}}}}}

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