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Sorry, much too old...

I've always found those "In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned," bumper stickers quite presumptuous - sounds a bit like hubris to me.

Letourneau to be released tomorrow. Click here, big boy...

I thought it was a photo from a Mountie trip last year.

The funny thing is that GW is the Barney Fife of this Bush administration.

Sorry to hear that- I've sent plenty off cams to them for slings and trigger wire repairs. Hope this was just a one-off case of bad service.

And don't forget Pat Robertson: "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

I'm calling in well.

How 'bout this?

Here's a rather bad one of me leading the Gendarme. I have no idea what I'm doing with my head.

Regarding 9/11 - (NYT article dated 9/19/01) The Rev Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson set off a minor explosion of their own when they asserted on US television that an angry God had allowed the terrorists to succeed in their deadly mission because the United States had become a nation of abortion, homosexuality, secular schools and courts, and the American civil liberties union. Liberal groups and commentators denounced their remarks yesterday, as did President Bush, who has long enjoyed the political support of the two evangelists. "The president believes that terrorists are responsible for these acts," said a White House spokesman, Ken Lisaius. "He does not share those views, and believes that those remarks are inappropriate." Yet Mr Falwell's and Mr. Robertson's remarks were based in theology familiar to and accepted by many conservative evangelical Christians, who believe the Bible teaches that God withdraws protection from nations that violate his will. Several conservative theologians and evangelists said in interviews yesterday that they agreed with the basic notion but rejected the idea that mere humans can ever know which particular sins lead to which particular tragedies. The Rev R Albert Mohler Jr, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and a friend of Mr Falwell, said, "There is no doubt that America has accommodated itself to so many sins that we should always fear God's judgment and expect that in due time that judgment will come. But we ought to be very careful about pointing to any circumstance or any specific tragedy and say that this thing has happened because this is God's direct punishment." Mr Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and senior pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church there, was in Washington yesterday in a service at the National Cathedral at Mr Bush's invitation. He released a statement on the controversy, saying: "Despite the impression some may have from news reports today, I hold no one other than the terrorists and the people and nations who have enabled and harboured them responsible for Tuesday's attacks on this nation. "I sincerely regret that comments I made during a long theological discussion on a Christian television programme yesterday were taken out of their context and reported and that my thoughts - reduced to soundbites - have detracted from the spirit of this day of mourning." What Mr Falwell said on Thursday on The 700 Club, while chatting with the programme's host, Mr Robertson, was this: "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be minuscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve." Mr Robertson responded: "Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population." A few moments later Mr Falwell said: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularise America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' " To which Mr Robertson said: "I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government." James Robison, a well-known evangelist in Euless, Texas, and host of the Christian television programme Life Today, emphasised a different catalogue of what he saw as sins: arrogance in relationships with third world countries, plundering other countries for resources while supporting their despots, and indifference to others' poverty and pain. "Any time you get away from God, you do become vulnerable," Mr Robison said. "Bad judgment always leaves the door open to perpetrators of pain." Among evangelicals, the terrorist attacks have unleashed renewed calls for repentance, prayer and spiritual revival. "Many people are calling this a wake-up call, and yet it doesn't help us respond to God to somehow feel that we've been chastised by this," said Steve Hawthorne, director of WayMakers, a prayer ministry in Austin, Texas. "It might be wise for us to examine our lives and our hearts and our practices." © New York Times

The voices in my head told me to stay home and clean my guns today.

LimeKerry

Take the Silicone Challenge Not work safe, duh.

For prescription sports glasses - the g/f just got a pair by the Rudy Project Light, moldable temples, good coverage. She just got Transitions lenses for hers, but darker lenses are available. Also, a number of the models offer an optical insert, with the corrective lens behind the tinted lens.

Like anyone could look good wearing a tyvek bunny suit.

Yeah 6 weeks of campusboard training at the time helped assuage the climbing jonesing and turned me into a freak for climbing that autumn.

I had a tear several years back that I lived with for a while until my knee began to lock - The tear was also a horizontal tear most likely due, at the time, to a damaged acl that allowed my knee to twist. I had a scope job done that removed about 60+ % of the meniscus, followed by about 6-8 weeks of downtime (limited activity). I think my recovery time was a bit longer than that of friends who have had similar work done, partly due to the severity of the tear, and partly due to the doctor's conservative attitude. Similarly, I went to PT this spring for some pain in my opposite knee - I thought it was a ligament, and after some assessment and PT, my therapist interpreted the pain to be from a minor meniscal tear. Again, I wouldn't be sure without an MRI, and if the tear is minor, even an MRI may not be definitive. With respect to your injury - in general, cartilage doesn't heal much/quickly, so continued activity can exacerbate the injury. Can you get PT to help stabilize the knee and decrease further damage? It may be stop-gap, and surgery may likely be down the road. If you select surgery, expect to be on limited good behavior for a while (included your trip out west).

Ah, you called me on it. You're right, I'm here posturing semi-anonymously on a bulletin board rather than out there changing the world, just like the rest of the poser/posters. And hence, we are in a world where we are fed news by about 4 essentially undifferentiated news sources, and have the choice of voting for either an illiterate or an obfuscator for president. So why shouldn't we hold an alleged documentarian like Moore to a higher standard (Or our other news outlets, for that matter)? As the oft-quoted columnists have pointed out - he's much closer to a Riefenstahl than a Murrow. Yes, rather than F9/11's inferences and allusions, I would love to see either a smoking gun, or documented proof to the contrary regarding everything from somebody's Natl. Guard records to the 'Saudi connection' to the real reason we rolled tanks into Iraq. Moore's jump-cuts and edits are no different than the administation's allusions to Iraq/Al-queda connections. Neither provide truth (whatever that is) and tend to distract and cloud so that the truth is more difficult to expose.

Look, a snaffle!

Giant Squid!!!! (from Canadian Roadside Attractions, of course).

If Moore is taking the moral high ground, then shouln't he hold himself (and the public) to a higher standard, rather than say, 'well, they propagandize the news, so can I.' I think we can ask for more.

There's always Skin So Soft - Keeps off the little gnats that seem undeterred by DEET.

Yeah, I just picked up The Scar , too, since it finally came out in paperback - Read Perdido Street Station last year. Blew me away. The Things They Carried was the first O'Brien book I read- a good Vietnam narrative.

I hate when this happens.