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John Carson wrote: Now that was funny I thought so, too. :thumbsup: Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

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Ilíon wrote: One must talk to others in language they understand. But Wikipedia is not a single (simple) thing, and its language varies from contributor to contributor. Ilíon wrote: Wikipedia is not a single (simple) thing. Well, thank you, I doubt I should ever have noticed. :rolleyes: Ilíon wrote: I treat you kiddies as I do in *response* to your behavior directed at me? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Hail, Ming the Merciless! Bob Emmett

Ed Gadziemski wrote: I forget your last name; it's been a while You are lying through your teeth. It has never been in my profile and has been revealed to only one person on this board, via email, and that not "a while ago," but quite recently. Besides, if you did know my name you would have found more than a dozen hits on military.com. I thought better of you than this kind of b.s reveals about your character. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Ed Gadziemski wrote: He's the president. This is a democracy. He won the election. Ah yes, the President as strongman theory - you've been studying with Stan, I see. Personally, I prefer Presidents who are more interested in the citizens of this nation than helping out Mexico and China. Though apparently both Bush and Obama don't agree with me. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Most of it. The amphibious fleet probably spent 2/3 of its time cruising the South China sea in those days, and in between we were picking up astronauts and other short missions. The New Orleans got the lion share because our two sister ships, the Okinawa and the Iwo Jima, were often unable to get underway. If you've seen the footage of the helicopter being pushed over the side of the ship as Saigon was falling, that was (if memory serves) the Okinawa, which had only just relieved us the week before after about a 3 month delay. Nowadays the deployments are even longer, especially for the big ships. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Unemployment in Tasmania has gone up, so I guess it's not all good news. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )

John Carson wrote: No, my point is that Obama is only "socialist" in a completely debased sense of the word --- just as George Bush was only "fascist" in a completely debased sense of the word. George Bush was never a fascist in any sense of the word, Obama is a collectivist in every sense of the word. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

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Landmark Legal Foundation [^] filed freedom of information act requests to find out who attended briefings. Shortly after that threats of charges stopped on advisers to the Bush administration. I suspect they knew what was in those documents. modified on Friday, May 8, 2009 10:59 AM

Ilíon wrote: Typos and illiteracy are vastly different things. Very true. Illiteracy was indicated by your not noticing the typo both in your original post and in your first reply to me. Ilíon wrote: what [with] all the personal information on them held by their rulers which goes walking ... Inelegant, but we're none of us stylists. (Loved "rulers" BTW, so emotive - Henry VIII and all those executions, not to mention the torturing.) Bob Emmett

Oakman wrote: It gives me hope for the human race to know that no woman will have sex with him. Perhaps the low end of the gene pool will slowly be drained. Unfortunately, there are women out there who are his female counterparts. Eventually, their expectations will fall in line with their realities and the'll find one another and the breeding will begin and run amok. :sigh: "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke I'm a proud denizen of the Real Soapbox[^] ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!!!

Oakman wrote: Perhaps Stan thinks he's Queen Victoria? Didn't he "do" the queen on his infamous shore leave in San Francisco? :laugh: "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke I'm a proud denizen of the Real Soapbox[^] ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!!!

Synaptrik wrote: Occasionally his point is valid, yet he still gets ridiculed. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. :suss: "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke I'm a proud denizen of the Real Soapbox[^] ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!!!

Oakman wrote: But Obama thinks up new ways of spending money faster than the Lord God rains on the Pacific. True, kind of makes you wonder how long it will take his apologists to wake up and rein him in...for Congress to just say no. :laugh: I crack myself up. I know I should be worried, but it's like Hank Jr says, "a country boy can survive." Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit The men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen." Me blog, You read

How thouroughly closed-minded of you! ___________________________________________ .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

Here's the interesting thing. I can't prove it. I can prove that sources on the internet claim that, and you can probably claim that other sources, no doubt ones that explain how this somehow ( bizarrely ) proves some conspiracy, will claim otherwise. I guess the thing to ask is, if we can't go back in time, if there's no newspaper that reports it to give us a date, how do we decide who has the bigger reason to lie ? I go with the crackpots on this one. Assuming that a speech was given on Sept 11, 1991, about some super secret conspiracy, which was meant to stay a secret, what advantage would the orchestrators of this new world order have in waiting exactly 10 years to the day, to presumably be behind a terrorist attack ? If this was the date, and it was a matter of public record, might the date have been chosen for this purpose, without it being proof of a new world order being imminent ? How does this prove ANYTHING ? Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )

Stan Shannon wrote: I promise to do that if you ever actually post a fact. I refuse to accept your warm and fuzzy beliefs because they contradict my cold, sharp-edged facts Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Oakman wrote: According to Bishop Usher, yes. It's just a matter of counting the begats between Adama and Yeshua. I presume folks with more time on their hands than I have (Troy, maybe?) have checked his math. Maybe, but if you really think about it all, science has proven that the universe came into existence in a moment of creation, and mankind appears mysteriously in a state of innocence in an isolated garden. Sounds pretty damn close to what some bronze age middle eastern sheep herder supposedly pulled out of his ass 3000 years ago. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Synaptrik wrote: Linux deserves to succeed by its own merits. So do you. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin