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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

idenbade - 10:48am Dec 31, 2001 EST (#10585 of 10657)

I guess Bill and Hillary Clinton are driving Chelsea to drink! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA The Clintons are good old white American trailer trash! Too bad Chelsea has now lowered herself to Bill and Hillary's level.

"Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London's West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono."

The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is "spinning out of control."

"Chelsea's out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets," a Clinton schoolmate adds. "She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking."

If the reports are accurate, Clinton's problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a lifelong addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.

Last month another of Chelsea's uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man's girlfriend.

In her younger days Clinton's grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as a "barfly."

According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor "as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary."

"One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks," the source told the tabloid. "She downed it in two swallows and then walked out."

Last week the New York Post's Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sports stars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where "bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka" were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.

The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.

gisterme - 01:59pm Dec 31, 2001 EST (#10586 of 10657)

good_guy 12/25/01 11:45pm

"...The country, Afghanistan did NOT attack us..."

Right, Bill. That's why we're not attacking the "country" Afganistan. We've been attacking those individuals in Afghanistan and their supporters who are responsible for the 9/11 massicre of our own innocent compatriots along with those of many other nations.

A collateral benefit of this action is that the "country" Afghanistan will once again be able to determine it's own future. If America deserves any blame in this it is because it has waited too long to break the cycle of destruction that has beguiled Afghanistan for decades. Better late than never.

What does any of this have to do with missile defense?

gisterme - 02:10pm Dec 31, 2001 EST (#10587 of 10657)

mazza9 12/26/01 2:02pm

"...But then again, what any of this has to do with the topic at hand is questionable. I know that you are showalter and you've been banned. Go Home!..."

Easy, Lou...this is lunarchick, not Robert. I'm quite certain they aren't the same persona. They just belong to the same club.

gisterme - 02:29pm Dec 31, 2001 EST (#10588 of 10657)

lchic 12/27/01 9:42pm

"...Golden Rule see back in this thread says don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to yourself..."

Umm, that's not quite the Golden Rule, lchic. The Golden Rule is stated in a proactive way, not as a prohibition. It is more correctly paraphrased as: "Treat others as you would have them treat you". Can you see subtle the difference, lchic?

The world would be a better place if that non-religious advice were taken to heart by all.

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