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better there than on the slab pitch, eh?

john lost his legs back in 'nam, man...to a vicious tunnel-snafflehound - that's what killed him on the tropics and swear to stick to a life of cold n' ice. but then this IS supposed to be spray free...

whaaaa? tell me you did it in front of a touron!

ah yes, i have it: "republicunts!"

nah, not creative enough - you can't take them hitlerites on in their own game, you gotta change the game!

it's always been ugly george mcclellan called lincoln a miscegnator jackson was called a polygamist washington's opponent probably wondered aloud how anyone could vote for a man w/ wooden teeth ("after all, what does this tell us about his attention to little details?") i don't understand how the word liberal got so maligned - it used to mean that you though all folks should be treated the same - i guess that thinking IS dangerous do we have a proper comeback for "libtard?" it's vexing me...

the walls of pompeii are covered in 2000 year old graffiti maybe you can just roll the boulder over?

i thought only tweakers n' whores were to be found on aurora? oh, and jack'n'the'boxes too...

aww, i was just being cynical of everything is all - i'm bereft of hope and have just accepted the fact that fucking w/ that evil plant will inevitably result in zombie flesh - if you tell me that it works for you i'd be interested in trying it though...

dave - i'll see you out there after 730 saturday morning - if you haven't found a partner you can tag along - hopefully geoff'll be there too and we can all rage together in perfect harmony

i look foward to mrs palin continuing her fine work as governor of the enlightened north for many more years to come

we can all sort it out - dave's is fancying himself a hard(er) man these days though, so maybe ya'll should do something cool like flight time/flying swallow? flying circus? you could aid-seige ground zero and we could holler back n'forth at each other!

tauntauns don't do talus

i'll be out there saturday mornign at 730 w/ ben - i gotta leave around 4, but he might well want to stay later

we don't like signs much at beacon, 'cept maybe for pissing on!

dude, what's wrong w/ jim magic mud, eh?

actually i was just ripping off george orwell Fine. He who does not know history is doomed to repeat it. now you're ripping off Lord Acton or somebody. doesn't matter. he was wrong anyway. i agree (though it was george santayana who's credited w/ that old saw)- the russia/germany ww2 thing is the perfect example - hitler was intensly interested in napoleon's invasion of russia and very concious of avoiding his historical mistakes - the problem is that no situation in the present is a perfect match with a past historical example (the chaos theory thang), so a history book is like an advisor - wise perhaps, often right maybe, but hardly foolproof

actually i was just ripping off george orwell

Just curious. I don't really remember having any good/if any at all speakers like that in HS. However in college some of the memorable classes are when you have speakers come to your class and talk about their first hand experiences with you. Good for you. you'd like my "history of war" elective then - i have several quest speakers a month, from 90 year old ww2 fighter pilots to 19 year old former students and now current army rangers back from afghanistan my favorite was when one fool fell asleep during a new jersey vietnam vet's visit - the vet's name was lou - he was blown up by a malfunction artillery shell in the midst of a firefight and seriously mangled - he's in a a wheel chair now and still plenty scarred 40 years later - nonplussed by the kid, he tore into him w/ a vengeance, beating the kid's desk w/ his cane and shouting "i didn't get blown the fuck up so you can sleep through my fucking story, kid!" the kid sat bolt upright, beat red, for the next half hour.

if CBR's gonna get turned into a crag, would somebody please machete a better path through the goddamn slide-alder!!!

no good - too many raw recruits from kentucky, tennesse, alabama and mississippi would try to fuck'em and be rendered combat-ineffective after developing GAIDS!

can't a course of action be both rational and incredibly evil?

high school social studies - why?

i suppose mary accounts for the less than perfect record?

i had a holocaust survivor speak to my class a couple years ago - she was ukranian - she was sent to auschwitz but lived b/c she spoke several languages and actually wasn't jewish and so the guards used her as a translator - anyway, she was very clear that she hated stalin far more than hitler, based on her memory of the horrible famine that proceeded the war and the way everyone in her village was drafted by stalin, then immediately killed "he who controls the past, controls the future"