alrighty kids! as promised, here is that rant from me that i know you all have been dying for..... ****** Billy B. said: << I hear only 3% of Yanks actually have a passport >> okay, this annoys me. you Europeans are so self-righteous with your "i travel internationally" crap. you know what -- our country is bigger than your whole damned continent! yeah, we don't travel internationally that much -- because we don't have to! there are plenty of places to go without leaving the border. just last week i travelled over 700 miles, still within my own country. if you went 700 miles from your home, would you be in a different nation? does that make you so damned "worldly" that you can visit a place where people speak differently? i travelled from Atlanta (the South) to Pittsburgh (in the Rust Belt), and yes those are really different areas, with differnet accents, different ethnic makeups, and different personalities. but we all vote (or pretend to vote) for the same President, so our long distance travels don't matter as much as Georges the Belgian walking down the street into the Neterlands to buy hash! so -- get over it! maybe when the EU finally gets it's act together and you can travel down the street in Europe with needing a bleedin' passport you people will shut up about the international travel bit! you know what's fair: let's compare the number of Americans who travel internationally with the number of Europeans who leaved their continent! i bet the numbers are a little more even then.... << And if I really wanted to twist the knife for the US; Kyoto agreement? >> hey man -- Russia rejected is to, so it's not just us! PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org