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Source? WIki cites various people who proposed the idea, but Our Beloved Tyrant was not among them. Curiously the concept has arguable legitimacy under a statute passed by a Republican congress in 1996 over Democratic opposition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_coin word of the day: numismatics trillion buck coin? hell, why not? how cool to find that fucker down deep in the cushions? economists. kee-rist. they're the first to get put up against the wall when The Revolution comes

a lone polish soldier crouches in his trench - he sees a german rushing at him from the west and russian from the east - he has but one bullet for his rifle - who does he shoot?

so what's her thesis? why do them thare tribal folks cling to their suicide belts so tightly?

is he dead, or just climbing rocks in another dimension?

keerist, my own family'd be well shot of me

that "unbroken" story just got released as a movie - heard an interview w/ that jolie character - dude's story sounded pretty stout, he shoulda been a climber?

great book, nice n' short too - read that right around the time my daughter nearly died of complications of hte swine-flu, sorta set my shit in its proper perspective - i never knew the dust bowl was so lethal to babies - the account of starved horses eating fenceposts protruding from dust mounds was memorable as well

think we're taking mike automovat - room for a 3rd there old boy

great weather for caving - was thinking of going to the dynamite cave tomorrow - it ain't too far from adams or trout lake - anybody know if there's snow on the roads 'roudn there?

congrats - you should post up a teaser passage - gawd-damn, i hope you used some strong language, it is my only must-have in modern writing, and the reason john muir deservedly lies in a shallow grave

you're right, let's keep this shit fresh: i like asparagus - there, i said it - i've never said that before (probably 'cuz it makes my piss stink, but on second thought, i think i dig that )

deism was little more than a fig leaf over atheism to begin with, but paine left that plenty far behind - "the age of reason" was principally anti-christian, yes, but his point was that all religion was bullshit, certainly any sort of organized religion "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church."

the content of books are impossibly caught up in my mind w/ waht was occuring when i read them france almost caved before the bosche - the year after verdun there was a huge mutiny that was put down w/ violence still unknown but supposedly many secret files are to be opened up in the next few years

except dennis miller. maybe

if you bring me a fetching black boy to kiss full on the lips for as long as you like, can we dispense w/ the fallacy that i'm anti-whateveryouwannnathinkiam? what don't you get? i hold up everything for derision, most especially meself.

looks more like 5 gallon buckets to me

rocks, like white people, all look the same

seems to me that fred is the one to be giving out awards to the world, not the other way around

WOW WHAT AN EXPOSE. I never claimed to be PC, you conservatard. i'd like to point out that, of us 3 pc-poor punters quoted above, my prose was by far the most poetic

b/c the british done stuck a flag up in both places at some point? b/c both took tea and could make the queen's speech?

what are your thoughts on paine being kicked to the curb by american society and nearly dispatched to the dustbin of history when he came out as an atheist?

"the shining" is i believe king's best, though oddly it's very differetn from the movie, which is genius in it's own right shit! reminds me of a book to add to my list for the year - read king's brand-new sequel to "the shining" - not too bad - jesus, it'd been 2 decades since i'd read anything by him

"the stand" and "it" were my high-school anthems - i reread each so many times that i recall reading the former in a single day once - "the stand" was made into a pretty decent tv-seires, unlike "it" - the ending's a bit of a let down, but the first 200 pages are as gripping as they get (at least for a goddamn 16 year old ) read "guns" years ago and reread it recently for the centeniall n' i found meself in the crapper w/ nothing else - over the past years i've also read tuchman's "proud tower" and "the march of folly" which were maybe even better

"put climbing above VIRTUALLY everything else in his life?" jesus, does eating and taking a crap really get to compete?

naw, don't mean books published in the year, just books you read that year - gotta include some intangibles - where you were when reading, what was going on, what you can recall from it weeks afterwards your "poilu" reminds me to go back and add to my original list - done re-read "what price glory" and "the guns of august" early in the year to celebrate the centenial of the great war