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Use a linear horizontal axis and it gives a very different picture (beware of semi-log plots)

Aikido almost by definition is a sport for old folks since it consists in harnessing and redirecting the energy expanded by an attacker.

He doesn't need my advice or pay for what I am saying since independent experts have been saying it for years, jackass.

In the end? The decision to arm and finance Islamic extremists and warlords was done 6 mos before the soviet intervention. Letting go of that cowboy and his handpicked cowboy staff was clearly the right move, although it shouldn't hide the fact that Obama expanding Bush's "war on terror" is terrible policy that will create blowback for generations to come. btw, the Telegraph is also known as the Torygraph for its constant mouthing of conservative policies.

what's wrong with being sensitive? and I don't mean the posturing that poses for being PC nowadays.

Index is hard indeed. You mention crack pitches and if you want to get lots of practice mileage, bouldering as mentioned by several people is the way to go. Unfortunately you appear to be from Everett because husky peak is one of the best places to work on cracks of all sizes/difficulty but perhaps there is something equivalent in your neck of the wood.

I dropped the big one this am. I meant business as it broke the waterline and needed 2 flushes to clear. Didn't do a damn thing for Asscrackistan. That's not a very PC thing to call Afghanistan when we have quite a bit of responsibility for the mess there today. You must think it is funny/clever since you have already used it in the past. I personally don't think it's funny or clever.

Seagal didn't sell out like Chuck Norris who went from being antiwar during Vietnam to being a rabid warmonger today.

So, Gore got a $500 massage and he was later accused of sexual assault, but no charges were filed and no investigation conducted? something's quite odd about this story since Gore probably can afford all the sex he wants. That's pretty low standard of proof to give legs to a story like that, Billcoe. Don't you have something more relevant to report like the US military funding the warlords in Afghanistan? congressional investigation confirms: US military funding warlords

crazy dude: [video:youtube]mKRR9RMmcIQ

If there was a dipnet fishery at Tsiu, you'd likely get numbers like that.

I think I saw that movie. Wow, never saw that clip. Do you know where it is? At Childs it's pretty flat ground once on the river bank. You'd have to run pretty fast to get away from a big wave.

I now see that you go near Chitina. I love the Copper. At Childs' Glacier you can wait for an iceberg to calve and flush salmon on the opposite bank (not very legal I imagine).

So how does it work? you keep the net in the water until you catch something? Where do you go on the Copper?

Most serious analysts who don't shill for hawks and the MIC have been saying for a long time that the only possible positive outcome involved negotiating with the moderate Taliban. Although corporatist Democrats claim that national politics demand staying the course in Afghanistan, it is patently untrue. Despite continual propaganda, most Americans have wanted withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan for years.

Of course, but that's not part of corporate media narrative because it contradicts the spin of DLC corporatists about the necessity to move to the "center" (i.e. further to the right if it were possible). Regressives love it too because it gives the impression that more than the usual dead-enders (20-25% of the voting age pop.) actually believe anything they are saying.

The Pentagon’s Afghan Mineral Hype June 14, 2010 · This morning’s New York Times includes a story headlined, ”US Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan.’’ In fact the country’s mineral wealth has been known for centuries. Records of it date back to the time of Marco Polo. Mineral stories were mapped by the Soviets during their occupation of the country, and more recently by other mining experts. While it’s possible that the team of Pentagon officials and American geologists credited with the “discovery” may have added some detail to existing knowledge on the subject, it’s hardly the revelation their reports–and the article–suggest. So could this “revelation” in fact be an Obama administration PR campaign to buttress U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan? For years, we were told of Afghanistan’s potential valuable oil prospects. When oil faded from the picture there was no economic reason to be there. The place wasn’t like Iraq, where the international oil companies got their hands on a huge oil reserve. But now, with the Times apparently swallowing the Pentagon’s bait, we’ve suddenly got a new reason to fight: Getting our hands on a lucrative mining colony. More: http://unsilentgeneration.com/2010/06/14/the-pentagons-afghan-mineral-hype/

That's rich. Ya no kidding. I am not sure what planet you live on.

There are many more people out of a job today than in 1930, and there is lots of cleaning to do. What do these people do for AmeriCorps?

Crazy Heart Up in the air Sin Nombre ...

Considering how much needs to be cleaned up and how many youth are out of work, Obama should start a civilian conservation corp to clean shorelines along the gulf. The sooner, the better.

Although I'd be more circumspect about parental responsibility (depends on the kid's amount of solo experience and I hope for their own sake the parents weren't pushy), I tend to feel like PP, which doesn't happen too often.

I thought the title meant that it was officially beer-thirty.

except that your vision of economic freedom contains little freedom for the wage earner. there is nothing to compare. Unfettered capitalism was a complete failure in Chile, and state intervention in the economy proved necessary to repair the so-called "economic miracle" implemented by Friedman and the Chicago boys. In the meantime, Cuba hasn't be free to trade within its natural economic environment for half a century thanks to the US embargo.