To: Bananas, Ima Teacher, and Spectre

[Chef Dave]

Hi Guys!

Is it simply a coincidence that I know other people with your user names or did y'all follow me to this site?

Welcome!

One thing you may have noticed about this site is the incredible absence of spam. As new members, I'm sure you have discovered that there is a probationary period. All posts that are submitted have to be reviewed by a site administrator prior to being posted. This has all but eliminated spam.

Another neat thing about this site is that this forum offers rewards to active members. For example, get a load of the stainless steel coffee mugs ... http://www.theteacherscorner.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3652

You can even win a briefcase for referring others to this site.

Anyway - welcome to this site! Look around and make yourselves comfortable. I look forward to reading your posts.

David

[Ima Teacher]

You can run, but you can't hide! LOL

[Chef Dave]

Hi Ima Teacher! Welcome!

I think Spectre is Billybob and I know that Bananas is here. How many pastor's wives would have the same user name?

[Bananas]

Hello all,

Anything to keep warm with the snow and sleet.

[Spectre]

Have mercy. I have been busted. Thought I could sneak in here with a new pseudo name. It was actually my "code" name while I was with Special Forces.

Chef Dave, how did you know?

[Chef Dave]

Have mercy. I have been busted. Thought I could sneak in here with a new pseudo name. It was actually my "code" name while I was with Special Forces.

Chef Dave, how did you know?

You have a tendency to recycle user names. If you recall, this was your old user name at t.net.

[Spectre]

:confused: Ugh!

I didn't remember that.

You'ved a good memory Chef Dave! Maybe you oughta work for the CIA.....:eek:

[Chef Dave]

You'ved a good memory Chef Dave! Maybe you oughta work for the CIA.....:eek:

Hmmmm ... funny you should mention that. I nearly did.

After I left elementary education, earned a degree in culinary arts, and spent 5 years in the food service industry, I thought about working for the CIA in their food service program.

I decided that houses were overpriced in the area around Langley. Given Langley's proximity to Washington D.C., homes are very expensive. Sale of my eight bedroom, 8 1/2 bathroom, 2 kitchen, 2 dining room house (built in 1873) in Pennsylvania would have allowed me to buy a one or possibly two bedroom condo. Purchase of a house would have required more money.

Then again - if I wasn't happy as a restaurant manager, I can only imagine how bored I would have been working in the food service department.

It's much more fun being a chef instructor. :)

[Spectre]

I was recruited by the "agency" (or someone I suspect was them) upon leaving active duty with the special forces. They never did reveal exactly who they were and that left me a little suspicious. Besides, my dealings with "spooks" during my special forces days did not endear them to me. I found them to be a very curious brood, to say the very least. I had one of them comment to me that he had "problems" with democracy. That, of course, led me to wonder if he and I were, in fact, on the same side.....

[Chef Dave]

My dealings with "spooks" during my special forces days did not endear them to me. I found them to be a very curious brood, to say the very least. I had one of them comment to me that he had "problems" with democracy. That, of course, led me to wonder if he and I were, in fact, on the same side.....

Ah yes ... by all means ... let us suspend habeas corpus to safeguard our security ... let us indefinitely jail "terrorist suspects" for as long as we want without the right to counsel or even a trial ... let us violate the privacy of our citizens by tapping their phones and monitoring their e-mails ...

After all - we're protecting democracy, right?

The history of recent years has reminded me of something that was once said by Hermann Goering, Reichsmarschall of Nazi Germany:

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

In 2002, George Bush used WMD (weapons of mass destruction) as an excuse to invade Iraq.

Cincinnati, Ohio Speech, Oct. 7, 2002:

"The Iraqi regime... possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons."

"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.

State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003:

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent."

Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003:

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

Do I need to remind anyone that no WMD was ever found in Iraq?

:cool:

[Bananas]

I know that Bananas is here. How many pastor's wives would have the same user name?

Probably not anyone else, but living in such a fishbowl could surely do it to some pastors' wives. ;)