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"Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James Loewen "Krishnamurti to himself"

Yes, I was wrong on Sen Jackson's state...had Cheney on the brain hence the WY ref. But more importantly: What we have here is an ad hominem argument. You attempt to paint me as some kind of antisemite. This is not the first time you've tried to portray me that way. If you can dispute the fact that the orginators of the Neoconservative movement are Jewish, or that they take a hawkish pro-Israel stance to the point that they will not oppose anything Israeli, feel free. I have posted many times that I support Israel's tactics of assasinations of leaders of Hamas. Your comical attempt to equate me with Hitler shares a disturbing commonality with your Kool Aid drinking wingnut pals. Distort the facts, mount a smear campaign to attack the messenger, and avoid the issue. Those Rovian tactics work to some extent I suppose. Now, bottom line: When several of the most prominent members of the Neocon movement, who happen to be jewish, pen a security strategy paper for the Likud party of Israeli govt, in 1996 that advocates the ouster of Saddam as the first step, and further when the primary outlet for Neocon writings is the periodical "Commentary" founded by the American Jewish Committee, to not affirm the obvious connection for fear of some label as "paranoid antisemite" would be both cowardly and ridiculous. You act like the PC-mad liberals...can't mention anyone's religion, race, etc because mentioning it or drawing obvious connections related to it automatically makes you a bigot. Wow, Fairweather is a PC liberal...who could have predicted this turn of events?

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Does that mean I can date the hippie chicks now? This administration is enough to give anyone a powerful case of angst. No, I am just pissed off that this little faction has so twisted and shifted the GOP that I no longer have a viable alternative when voting. The GOP used to embrace the ideals that I favor, now they have tossed them aside. You might call me a moderate libertarian, or a more isolationist and environmentally consious version of a Goldwater republican. If they were the fiscal conservatives they like to claim, and truly believed in staying out of people's personal lives, I would vote GOP everytime. But the price of power for the GOP since Nixon's "southern strategy" has been to embrace the religious right. And with that comes attempts to legislate morality to appease the base. The only "minimizing of goverment" under the current GOP is in environmental regulation and taxes. I'm all for low taxes...as long as you can balance the budget while doing it. I can accept some realpolitik use of military force to better our country. But these jokers in power now are just bunglers, and lying bunglers at that. I think the GOP is seriously on the verge of internal collapse. Look, I'm not an isolated case by any stretch. As the possibility of a Kerry victory becomes more and more probable, you are finally seeing republicans sacking up and speaking out against this administration. I encourage you to take a look at this: http://inprogress.typepad.com/republicanswitchers/ I've said it before, Kerry in my view will be a competent placeholder until we can install a moderate republican in 2008. With a republican controlled legislature, he will be kept in check.

Thanks Jay, that's good stuff.

Liberal jewish hawks in the late 60s/early 70s who broke away from the Dems. Intellectual forefathers in Irving Kristol and Norm Poedhertz (sp?), Kristol is father to the well known pundit and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who is also a regular commentator on Faux News (and a very smart guy btw). They owe alot of their ideology to Strauss. People called them "socialists for Nixon" back in the early 70s. Currently embodied in the thought and publishing of the Proj for a New American Century, Heritage Foundation, American enterprise Institute, and people such as Francis Fukuyama, and Charles Krauthammer, Max Boot. Notably, there was a coalescence of alot of the originators of this thought movement around Sen Scoop Jackson of WY back in the day. The only thing conventionally "conservative" about these shitheads is the propensity to cut taxes. They are essentially centrist imperialist hawks who want to pursue an agressive foreign policy and expansion of state powers. They are fundamentally opposed to the paleocon ideals of small goverment and isolationist foreign policy. These fuckers are all about embracing the prospects of America as an imperialist nation who should use it's economic and miliary force to pursue unilateral action in line with it's greater goals. Cheney, Feith, Wolfowitz, and Perle are the most notable of the neocons actually holding office, although you might also place Scooter Libby and Rumsfeld post 1993 in that bunch as well. They are essentially Straussian former hawkish leftists who slid right and managed to co-opt the GOP by capturing the nationalism of the stupid redneck crowd and the moral righteousness of the evangelical nutcases (often one in the same, these rednecks and evangelicals..at least where I grew up). They are not all jewish nor a manifestation of judaism, but they do have a heavy jewish background and influence and put forth a "Israel can do no wrong" mindset. I'd like to see the entire lot of them sent to run patrols in Sadr City, without body armor.

And ya'll wonder why I moved away from Georgia. Might also explain a few things since I grew up down there

Looks good, look forward to the updates.

EDIT:All set, thanks for the help.

I asked this in another thread and got no response so: One question: Would it be possible to use another fuel canister with these? It looks like sizing is made specifically so the windscreen thing rests on the canister for stability. Would using a larger canister, or another brand of canister cause problems with fit of the windscreen etc?

Damn Jon!

The soloist was Dave Turner AFAIK. I think they just dropped him a rope and let him jug out, as he was only a couple of pitches from topping out on Tempest.

I have a blunted chisel, around 3/8", a small double brush the size of a toothbrush that has wire bristles on one side and nylon on the other, a medium punch blunted to where it's rounded instead of sharp pointed, and a sharp punch to clean deadheads. The blunted punch is key. Without it, you are relying on the chisel blade which is too wide to be effective in really pasting (after you "x") and the corners are too sharp/narrow to use as something less wide than the entire blade (seems like the corner cuts the head more than pasting it in). I cannot imagine being able to effectively place anything smaller than a #4 with the back of your hammer or a LA. Here's what I do: Clean out the placement as well as you can. Try to find a spot in the groove that constricts at the bottom (so the head can act sorta like a stopper)and has alot of texture. After I "x" it into place, and do the intial pin/paste of the sides with the chisel, I take the dull punch and really paste the edges and center, moving from the center outward in an alternating pattern. When I've tried to just use the chisel, and had one rip, it usually was because the back center of the head didn't get pasted flat enough to fully contact the rock. I've placed #0s that I could not rip with two people bouncing on them, and placed perfect looking #3s that ripped right after I got on them. At first, I tried to approach heading like it was this delicate procedure. Then I realized to get the things pasted and really molded to the rock, you gotta whale on them in the center and be more careful at the top and bottom. "Rock" them after you paste to see if they rotate at all. Then bounce test the s&*% out of them. Before I ever placed one on lead, I had done at least 3 multi-hour practice sessions in the talus fields.

I spend 6 mos/yr driving on snow/ice. If you live where it gets really cold: Switch to 5W-30 when the high temps are only hitting 30F and lows below 0F. With the 4-EAT automatic in a Suby, a tranny pan heater (in addition to your block heater, oil pan heater, and batt blanket/or trickly charger) is essential if you want it to shift past 2nd gear anytime before the 6th mile of the drive. A regular AWD Legacy Wagon with 100lb of sandbag in the cargo area is the single best slick/icy/snowy road vehicle I've driven. Way better than any SUV unless you are off road or in deep snow or something. Delfating the tires will increase surface area and possibly get you out of a stuck spot. Put a come-a-long strap winch, a shovel, and 100lb of kitty liter or sand or something in trunk. Keep a sleeping bag, some bars, a canister stove, lighter and water in the car all winter. Oh yeah, stop watching the aurora and look out for MOOSE!!

Buhbye kid, welcome to banned camp.

Hell yeah! F-U Yankees

So I just looked at the Mass regs and they have shotgun, archery, and muzzleloader for deer, no regular centerfire rifle season. I don't know about Mass, but there have been some large B&C and P&Y scored whitetails come out of upstate NY. It's not a consistent trophy producer like the upper midwest, southeast, or Saskatchewan. Check out this one, the Mass typical record 193 3/8 Boone and Crockett score taken in 2002. Thing had a 25" inside spread:

Scott, are you aware that there are a few states where you can ONLY hunt deer with shotguns? New Jersey is one I believe, Illinois (if I recall right, I didn't deer hunt there, only pehasant) is another.

Another hapless victim of the_N0dder

Hey, didn't like Toronto and another canyuker team play an outside game last season, or maybe the season before? That's Real potential for some whiteout hockey there.

Suddenly cracked baby wants to talk about ethics.

But, but...uhh, but, they're both Libruls! Yeah yeah! And Kilborn was the orginal host of the Daily Show, so really it's all the same. Yeah. Damn libruls destroyin our Murcan democracy.

Dude, by the time you finish that master's some guy named Punjab Rangool will be doing the job you thought you would get, in India, for $8k a year. You'll spend a couple of years post grad working throwaway part time jobs and climbing while looking for that career spot. Then one day you'll see it's a losing proposition and go to massage school, where like Polish Bob, you make your money by giving the "happy finish" to balding middle aged men.

Bump. Anyone get out there and survey the damage yet? Pics? Any other word from Superpoo?