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If you don't know, then never mind!

did you make it up? I think I met your brother there after the show. I guess the Bug Jar is no longer a surprise, huh?

Hey Jack... here is an idea... When you are chillin on the front of the boat, exchanging longing glances at Juliete, why not take the time to ask her "WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON HERE???".

Plus, those are only the deaths in that particular theater of operation. There are still training deaths that occur stateside, so really we aren't comparing apples to oranges, and like you said doesn't include wounded.

Probably more than you would think. Do you suppose most of these guys died in accidents learning how to color within the lines? When I was stationed at Ft. Knox (In 1993 so this will acount for at least 2 of those deaths) 2 guys were blown up because they were careless when doing a vehicle refuel and didn't properly attach the ground wire. Just prior to that (I wasn't there that day, thank god!) 7 or 8 guys were blown to bits by some lunkhead who was playing with a "dud" 40mm grenade that was leftover from a Mk19 range. Amazingly no one was killed, but most of them sustained major injuries. (As an aside, what happened was that said moron approached a group of guys lingering around the motor pool with a 'nade he found in the back of one of the hummers. As he was walking toward them he was tossing it into the air and catching it on the way back down. When got got up to them and said "look what I found guys" he muffed the catch, and BLAM!. He is still in Ft. Levenworth with all of his front teeth blown out. Probably fairly popular there. I felt bad for him because he was just some stupid hillbilly, but he also damn near killed a bunch of people I knew which was messed up).

A thousand thanks yous!

Can we make a request for BOTD? I'd like me some Leanne Tweeden!

Hmmm... maybe.. I dunno. 6 months I could live with.. but 2 years just seems like too much. You have some valid points though.

Once the again the justice system has failed us all. I completely understand the need for deterrence and what she did was dangerous. But the bottom line is that no one was hurt, and even if the state of Virginia feels the need to convict this woman as a felon, 2 years is just too much, considering that there was not excessive property or personal damage.

It's ok... not super great and not bad. Way better to go during nicer weather though. Never been to the Left Bank so I can't offer any advice there.

Pretty sure the Canadian girls are hooked on something too.. at least the ones that work the rub & tugs.

"Hello, Mr. Ahma.. Mr. Amadej.... uh, Mr. A, please to be talking to you today. Why do you feel you should not pay the monies you are owing to us? Ve feel you are being a very bad man."

I like ibuypower.com. Granted, it's mostly for gaming PC's (as is alienware.com but they are $$$) but you can spec out a pretty cheap machine there. Give it a try and then compare to Dell or Gateway.

Right and he was being sarcastic. Too bad that weas completely lost on you. How many times do I need to explain something to you before it bores it's way into your skull? I'm gonna guess the magic number is 8, so I expect this may take some more posts... Oh, ok maybe you do get it now... No one mentioned the respone to it, Iraq, or any of that until you showed up. Now it would seem you are just arguing with no one for the sake of arguing. Heck, maybe you just really enjoy typing. Again, I don't know where this is all coming from. Once again, the OP's intention was to show that muslim extremism ins't rooted in the quest for oil. Then you came in and started blathering on about Iraq, when the OP was about muslim extremism in India. And by the way "sparky" don't think I didn't notice your convenient edit... If that's how you debate (or come in and act like a retard or whatever it is you are doing) then I'll take that as notice to not bother with you anymore.

Um... no I didn't. Go back and read it again. How many times do I need to ask you to do that before you actually do it? Maybe you just don't get obvious sarcasm. Again, I, along with the OP, was mocking those who believe that muslim extremism is rooted in oil. Nothing was said about Iraq. Nothing. It wasn't about Iraq. Actually, this all reminds me of the movie "Airplane": First there were the dinosaurs, but they died and turned into oil. Then came the arab's in their mecedes benz... Then came AD, pooping all over the thread and blathering on about Iraq...

Maybe not. The companies will save 7 Billion in operating costs. Yeah they won't have satellite competition, but terrestrial radio is still free, so they won't be able to jack up their rates too high, or they risk losing their tenuous hold on their customer base.

So what if Iraq is "all about the oil". This thread isn't about Iraq. In fact the word wasn't used in this thread until you popped in... The OP was making a point about the simplistic notion of terrorism by islamic fundies being related to oil. Then you came in ranting about Iraq and calling people stupid. Yeah, intelligent discourse my a$$...

I didn't so much make a statement about oil as I was agreeing that this latest attack by Islamic fundies in INDIA had nothing to do with oil. Try going back and reading again....

Except of course the article is about a train bombing in India. But hey, feel free to make it about Iraq if it makes you happy. And should we or anyone not "do something about it"? We should accept it as a part of modern life, put on the blinders, and say "sh*t happens"? I can't accept that as a reasonable response to a problem that will, in all likelyhood, get worse.

The cast on SNL may be ok, but the skits are generally garbage these days. I've watched SNL for most of it's history, and the writing is as bad as it's ever been. It used to be that the first hour was good and you could count on the last 30 minutes to be so-so at best. Now, by the 3rd sketch, it's horrible. Even the music acts are terrible now, as half of them aren't even truly "live". Ashlee Simpson was just unfortunate enough to get caught, but I"m pretty sure she is closer to being the rule than the exception. (Example - AFI was on recently, and their backup vocals were a little too good, and then I noticed that even though the bass player didn't quite make it to his mic when he had to sing, his vocal part miraculously appeared.) I'm fully in the MAD TV camp now which sucks because I have been a life long fan of SNL.

We all know that girls schools are shelled with mortars and people are beheaded because of our imperialism and greed for the sticky black stuff.

Read the entire "regression from the mean" thread.

The NCAA standards for what is offensive are random at best. "Seminoles"? No problem. "Fighting Irish"? OK. "Fighting Illini"? RACISTS!

Isn't that "The Hamburgler"? Anyway, I didn't hear the press conference, but from what I have seen I can't fathom why people are flipping out. This and the way people are ready to lynch the local weathermen for predicting 6-12 inches of snow (when there actually was 6-12 inches) blows my mind. I think most of the bright people left Erie County and we are left with some sort of "stupid vacuum".