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amazing how many folks haven't figured out that a magnetic stowaway key container costs like 5$ and saves your ass at least once a year!

preferably w/ some goddless hobo you've picked up off the street, free of all social graces and incapable of controlling most bowel functions

sounds too easy!

read the book i quoted the intro to above - "savage wars of peace" - yeah, uh, there's really never been a moment in our country's history when we wereN'T getting militarily involved in our neighbors affairs how long did it take liberals to turn on lbj kk? not long, but the context did matter. so far this thign can't hold much of a candle to past bullshit.

great intro quote to max boot's "savage wars of peace": “The history of the United States shows that in spite of the varying trend of the foreign policy of succeeding administrations, this Government has interposed or intervened in the affairs of other states with remarkable regularity, and it may be anticipated that the same general procedure will be followed in the future. We must be prepared.” - Small Wars Manual, US Marine Corps, 1940

you seem to miss your own point - the spray-lectorate does indeed appear uneasy and unhappy - as unhappy as w/ iraq 8 years ago? no, but of course the circumnstances ARE different, and had bush's dad decided in '91 to continue rolling towards baghdad w/ the memory of kuwait-atrocties fresh in mind, i suspect it would have been a good deal more popular than the '03 invasion w/ its smoke and mirrors justification obvious bullshit from the get-go same old, same old at any rate - fuck, even eat-the-peanuts-out-of-my-born-again-turds carter couldn't resist the temptation to send in The Boys

Why dont you spend it with your family? john frieh's inspired me to do more than just the normal rockign b-day party for my 5 year old on saturday though, complete w/ rope course on a big ole'tree

living the dream - fucking bastard!

but it's a sunk cost -- we already paid for them. i think the boys will feel nekkid now that they're gone though, and it's not like anyone in charge is gonna tell them no when they ask for a restock, right? i hope this thing works, but the fact that i don't even know what "works" means in this situation isn't a good sign - is there some sorta libyan jeffersonian over there ready to jump up and regulate soon as the big-Q is scragged?

starts for me the first friday in april - a whole week - n cascades, canada, zion, yosemite, pretty much wherever/whatever - would prefer a big wall i think, but jesus wherever the weather's good!

hello homeland security!

in the 1000 degree temps of the san juaqion valley in summer i threw up in the parking lot of a mexican grocery store after wandering around the aisles in hangover hell vainly searching for somethign i could make work for a multi-day trip in kings canyon - i seem to recall the vast buzzing in my skull came to a head and resulted in the Big Sprint while i was in the meat section, watching flies crawling all over the tripe and brains sitting out at room temp in buckets on the positive side, a few minutes afterwards a shiny quarter got me a plastic "homey" (collect the whole neighborhood!) in the form of hispanic pimp or priest, which of the two i never could figure.

dude, you have to clear out the inventory from time to time - sounds like we've popped off 124 tomahakws in the past few days, about half the number we used in desert storm, according to my exhaustive wikipedia research still, they're 30 year weapons and we, like, ya know, got this big old glut of 'em and they're totally just wasting money sitting around getting dusty on the shelf - if we don't use all these old school reagan-era weapons up soon, how ever will we justify spending 100 billion to engineer an even better way to blow shit up for twice the price of the old way? anyhow, just to keep the tab strait - according to the navy's website, tomahawks cost a bit shy of 600$ k/copy (in '99 dollars), so that's uh, 80 millionish already spent on this noble endeavor? i imagine that's a wee bit more than most cities usual 4th of july outlay, but in truth i probably wouldn't give a shit if the goddamn military would just photgraph each one actually hitting somethign and set it to a snazzy metallica soundtrack

rc's better

Shit is only natural around Uranus. well played sir. i for one think would like to know what were doing about what the queers are doing to the soil!

on the positive side, since we don't seem to make anything much in our country anymore beyond munitions, at least somebody oughta be increasing their payroll in these parts?

out of curiosity, what would you do to really bring them saudi boys to heel? they do pretty clearly have us by the balls, so long as they're friendly on oil and keep the fuck-israel thing on the low-down

legalize pot and prostitution and watch the tax revenues roll in?

we shouldnt' be global cops, it's that simple - at any rate, i don't see how arguments over how we stir the shitpot can change the fact that the pot still smells like shit

what american attempt to overthrow a dictator didn't end in folly? i guess the hitler overthrow went well enough, but that was a different kettle of fish, and certainly we were but one player out of many in the operation. seems like if we do a no-fly now, it'd be similiar to iraq from 1991-2003 - a big old inconclusive open-ended debacle that displeases everyone involved

"One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face." but didn't winston love big brother in the end?

no fly mighta been useful if it was coordinated w/ rebels from the get-go, but the usa engineering revolutions in other folks countries isn't exactly what you want is it larry? reminds me of iraq in '91 - us encourages folks to revolt, then stands by w/ a wierd look on its face as the would-be rebels get slaughtered.

pirates have never been noted for their keen intelligence still, woulda been cool to see video of a CIWS being turned on them...

more or less ghey than speilberg taking the guns out of the hands of the evil scientists dudes in the re-release of ET? american empire...chinese empire...really, what's the fucking difference, beyond the obviously uncool fact that i can't buy a skewer full of bbq'ed scorpions at my local food-court?