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x2 but, to be sure, this is true on a bigger level too - as the american upper class squashes the lower class, so do western nations vis a vis africa/central america/etc. global gdp divided by world population doesn't result in a particuliar good average for all...

seems like parking is a part of ingress? utility workers gotta park the rig somewhere...

bastard! i wish...

reckon you could argue the roman empire was a welfare state, not that the results were always so encouraging

reckon hi-tech communication gear and rescue equipment are like bolts - yah, you can not use them, but the temptation to use is pretty strong - sure, you can go on an expedition w/ no rescue plan, but if you die, your family and friends are likely to remember you as being a selfish asshole.

naw, stress passes through me like shit through a goose

always nice when parents figure out how a power drill werks dunno - based on my results, i don't appear to have learned shit yet

Ummm... can I see that list? You know, the list of all the "great democracies" that "committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded"? I mean, right now there's, let's see, how many "great democracies" more than 200 years old? The US and, uhhh, who else? Oh, and Iceland, I guess. So that means that all of the older "great democracies" completely collapsed and just disappeared? Wow. I'd like to learn about some of those events - it must make for some pretty compelling reading. Any idea where I can go to read about all these 250-year-old "great democracies" committing "financial suicide" to the point where they vanished from the earth without a trace? Or is that assertion just a pile of completely fabricated bullshit? attempting to reason folks out of a position they were never reasoned into is the first step on a long, long road to unhappiness

i've definetly had wierder my fav was the 85 lb chick who became a military mortician and regaled me for years w/ stories that would fucking turn yer goddamn hair white!

pretty miserable forecast for an alpine sport climb...

i do now - generally i try to ignore the soap-opera stories beyond being familiar w/ the details in the headlines

i don't understand this story: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/15/2408652/casey-anthony-must-pay-law-enforcement.html chick is found not guilty of a crime, yet has to pay the police for their investigation???

likely not, having previously rejected cool glow-in-the-dark condoms

it's always nice when grandparents figure out how email works

penis colonoscopies?

we gotta elect this guy - w/ him and chuck norris as vp, this recession shit with be over in 3 days

a decade of decadence? hemingway made it sound so bitch'n!

on the plus side though, if yer koch is broken, they did figure out an army of drugs to fix it, and soon (?) to be generic!

i always wanted to live in a lost decade

such is life, what can ya do? not sure i buy your whole analysis, jay - ultimatley, yes, consumers care most about price, but unions don't have to make things more expensive.

my poor pants...least my nose has finally stopped peeling from that good n' thorough burn

damn, putin sure has some pretty fingernails!

corporations, like governments for that matter, are as washington said, like fire - useful, but dangerous, and requiring zealous oversight and tending, which is a major function of a union, no?

i thought we were a republic?

sounds like a continuance of the tradition of fearing and ostracizing hiroshima and nagasaki survivors. gotta feel bad for the japanese - nuke power makes sense for them, but the price of a single fuck-up is steeeeep.