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June Rawks! How can the month I was born in not! Not to mention the little sis, and one grandfather have the same birthday thats three days after mine You know the rules Minx... We need to see the good first! Or at least a good bruise or two

Hey, those voices keep some of us company !

CC.com cafeteria tray races? Alpental next weekend?

Yeah, but only dirtbags who can't climb cracks

Besides bruises are sexy

Would you like some crack gloves archie?

Saw her several years ago when she was opening for Johnny Lang! She puts no a kick ass show!

-My wife lead 5.7 for the first time in 2 years! -An 8 year old girl on lead -Three more musculars guys than I, smoking and falling off top rope I strung :chestbeat:

Maybe Porter has a nicer Murse than you AlpineK? Were all pulling for you!

Usually the same thing.

poor bastard! Being a poor student definitely has it's advantages! mmmm college really was a great 11 years!

POTD!

Children who annoy the hell out of themselves?

Somebody has his dense cap on today

aaah, someone has post envy how cute! I actually inherited a steel fly rod from my great grandmother!?!?! Still amazes the heck out of me, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet, and unluckily a broken bamboo rod as well. Both have got to be 40 or 50 years old. Haven't been fly fishing in 4 years Stupid climbing, get's in the way of everything.

Marriage is mostly for the stubborn But a good other half makes it worthwhile.

I'm sorry to hear about the engagement Pink That pretty well bites. I imagine that it will bite less now than later though.

What the hell! You better get well soon. Without yoda this place just isn't the same! Lots of good vibes going your way. The folks at Swedish are top notch so your in good hands! Josh

hmmm, I'll have to look into that Though I can't believe you missed the pefect pavlov play on words

I don't think the article was implying that criminal behaviour was irredemable or unchangeable, just that in the short term we are a slave to our brains patterns. It doesn't say that over time those patterns can't change with the proper stimulus and application of effort. Isn't that what biofeedback does? The indication I see is that the focus should shift from pure retribution to rehabilitation, which I think would be a better policy anyway. Some people may be truly incurable in which case they should still be locked up where they can't harm anyone. Those who have the ability to change their behavior or even to learn to control what situations they end up in, if they can't control they're responses, should be supported. My wife works with criminals on a daily basis and what she's consistently seen is that to get someone to not re-offend they have to be given the chance, and allowed to develop things that they value enough that they want to hold onto them (posessions, friend, family).

Hey, if a good friend won't piss in your cheerios to start your day off right, then who will?

I didn't say that I minded being paranoid Just that your making me paranoid Pascal had something to do with Fluid Dynamics? Are you sure? I think I'd know that sort of thing, but it doesn't ring a bell?

Dmanit, get our of my head! Your starting to make me paranoid

Then it should only be pursued until a superior solution is determined.

Belief in a creator is a completely different case. Anyone making the argument that covering your ass is a good reason to believe in God is an idiot and missing some very important details. I guess in my opinion for belief to have meaning it must be chosen freely and completely for it's own sake. It can't be coerced, forced, or chosen in the form of a cost benefit analysis. If any of these are the core reasons someone believes, it speaks to a level of cynicism that i have trouble reconciling with open honest and complete faith. I don't think CYA and a free choice go very well together. In my mind what makes belief and faith in some creator special is that it is unburdened by cynicism and must be chosen in spite of a lack of empirical evidence. Whole different discussion in there though. Besides were more talking about hell on earth, and not something as esoteric as religion. I'd be more than happy to agree that there is likely more going into global warming than we are aware of. That said, we only have two options in how to act.