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That's what I've been led to understand too. Basically built on silt that has sank over time because of the pumping out of the ground water.
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I've often wondered about how the city of Venice Italy came about. Basically under water also isn't it?
you have a point...you really have to wonder about the logic of building a city below sea level. When you need to build levees to stop your city from flooding, and actively pump water out, maybe its time to rethink where to live.In cub scouts they teach you to camp on higher ground so you dont get flooded during a rainstorm.
What part of some one thinks "Hmmm, sea level is this high, and we live below it. That means that water is going to flood FROM the sea into my home/city. Sounds like a good place to live."
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I thought cold fusion was a soft drink.
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How about:
"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore."
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Mine was probably Sep 30. 1990. Bills were getting kicked around by Denver down by 3 Td's.
It was an unusually cool day, and at one end zone some snow flurries started from a lonely cloud and the stadium just exploded with cheering. It seemed to spark the Bills, they scored 3 TD's in 77 seconds to win 29-28.
At least that is how I remember it.
That's the one I was trying to remember. To me it ment we had finally arrived as a contender.
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I love the way that Al Gore is constantly bashed for claiming to invent the Internet when he never did. Typical conservative M.O. - take something out of context, repeat it enough times and it becomes "fact". So much "fact" that nobody ever bothers to look into it themselves.
Gore said the following:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
He claimes he fostered the creation of the Internet, not that he invented it. Self-serving yes, claiming credit for a major technological invention no. Creation does not equal inventing.
Gore no more "invented" the Internet than Ike "invented" the interstate highway system.
He may have invented it; but I pioneered it.
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Does anyone know if the suicide bombings in Isreal have subsided? Or are we just not hearing about them as much because of what's going on in Iraq?
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Funny stuff. Alas...better than anything you could make up.
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I'm in mine with my youngest kid.
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Thought for the day:
If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in
the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, that gives a
firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C. is
80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are 25% more likely to be shot
and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest
gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C
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I believe it. Why not? Woodward confirmed it. Woodward and Bernstein were the only ones we were waiting on to tell us. So what?
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Being reported on ABC. Haven't seen it on any internet sites yet, but they showed a picture of an advance copy of the magazine layout. I'll wait until it's confirmed by Woodward.
He was the No. 2 guy at the FBI at the time. Chose to remain unidentified b/c he thought being a leak was dishonorable. Now, at 91, after telling his family in '03, they've told him it was not and they're proud of him. Yaknow, Mr. Felt, it was the Truth, inscrutable and immutable.
At least he's not claimimg to be Billy the Kid.
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...are you people naive enough to think that this was made up?
You're kidding right? This is a classic example of why this place grew to bore me. Some so blind with political idolatry. Think about this. If prisoners HAD copies of the Koran, who do you suppose gave them to them? Hmmm...?
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I thought it ment "five with mayonaise"
i'm all about having an excuse to drink. but to me, the history of Cinco De Mayo just isn't enough. Cinco De Mayo celebrates Mexico's defeat of France in 1862, with some help from us Americans.Defeating the French just doesn't seem like a big day to me. Maybe its my English and German heiritages speaking, because we call those days weekdays
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Subject: Bear Hunting
Frank was excited about his new rifle and decided to try bear hunting. He travels up to Alaska, spots a small brown bear and shoots it.
Right afterwards, there was a tap on his shoulder and he turned around to see a big black bear.
The black bear says, "That was a very bad mistake. That was my cousin and I'm going to give you two choices.
Either I maul you to death or we have sex."
After considering briefly, Frank decides to accept the latter alternative.
So the big black bear has his way with Frank.
Even though he feels sore for two weeks, Frank soon recovers and vows revenge.
He heads out on another trip back to Alaska where he finds the
big black bear and shoots it dead.
Right afterwards, there's another tap on his shoulder.
This time a huge grizzly bear is standing right next to him. The Grizzly says, "That was a big mistake, Frank.
That was my cousin and you've got two choices.
Either I maul you to death or we have rough sex."
Again Frank decides it's better to cooperate with the grizzly than to be mauled to death... so the grizzly has his way with Frank.
Although Frank survives, it takes him several months to fully
recover.
Now Frank is outraged, so he heads back to Alaska to track down the huge grizzly bear. He finds it and shoots it dead.
He's feeling sweet revenge, but seconds later there is a tap on
his shoulder.
He turns around to find a giant polar bear standing there.
The polar bear looks at him and says, "Admit it Frank, you don't come here for the hunting do you?"
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Is Anyone Watching Now ?
Walter Cronkite weighs in
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/n...n_cronkite_dc_3
Donald Trump was oddly right - how does a "loser" stay in a job so long ? Talk about the "Peter Principle" !
When Dan says "adieu" - I think I'll be cleaning the gecko's fingernails
He's still going to be a reporter for CBS.
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the USPS is constantly looking for new icons to commemorate with a stamp. Other presidents have been on them. It's not a permanent thing, hardly anything to get upset over, just because of blind hatred of a greatness some will never acknowledge. It's not like naming an aircraft carrier after him or anything.
Some Facts on the Hurricane
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Back when I was in high school, I think I remember driving my Chevy to the Levee, but...it was dry