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TREETOAD

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  1. What about Julbo Nomad with the X4 lens? The lens adapts to changing light conditions.

     

    I have a pair and they definately do the job, It is hard to notice when they change shade. They are excellent on snow. I like them.

  2. After more than an hour of solemn ceremony naming Rep. Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, as the 2007-08 House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium in the House chamber last week and told a short story about "unleashing Chang," his "mystical warrior" friend.

     

     

    Here are Bush's words, spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians:"Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.

     

     

    "I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down."

     

     

    Bush then unsheathed a golden sword and gave it to Rubio as a gift.

    --linky

     

    You are kidding of course.

  3. It's not a bad way to start off the weekend though. Incidentaly, did they ask you if you wanted to face up or down? You know the old ankles in the sturips or staring into a mirror saying dirty things to the doc. Did you push back?

  4. I try not to think about all the stuff in the hospital that lurks on almost every surface. We have some heavy dutie hand cleaners all over the place but you never know. Stuff like hep c can live on a surface for a week and you may not know that you have it until your liver is so fucked up that it's too late. There are all sorts of resistant bacteria around now and we have to go into isolation rooms all the time to fix stuff. It really gives me the creeps.

  5. In our endoscopy suite there are pictures of all the staff members taken with the ass cam posted on the ceiling above the surgical bed. It kind of takes the edge off.

  6. Unchain my heart, baby let me be

    Unchain my heart 'cause you don't care about me

    You've got me sewed up like a pillow case

    But you let my love go to waste so

    Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

     

    Unchain my heart, baby let me go

    Unchain my heart, 'cause you don't love me no more

    Ev'ry time I call you on the phone

    Some fella tells me that you're not at home so

    Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

  7. why is it that there is a need to identify ourselves as americans or poor dru as a canadian. why not develop an identity as a resident of this planet. borders are arbitrary, manmade definitions. would it not be better if we all considered ourselves part of one large community rather than divided units?

     

    Imagine ....

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    Imagine there's no heaven,

    It's easy if you try,

    No hell below us,

    Above us only sky,

    Imagine all the people

    living for today...

     

    Imagine there's no countries,

    It isnt hard to do,

    Nothing to kill or die for,

    No religion too,

    Imagine all the people

    living life in peace...

     

    Imagine no possesions,

    I wonder if you can,

    No need for greed or hunger,

    A brotherhood of man,

    Imagine all the people

    Sharing all the world...

     

    You may say Im a dreamer,

    but Im not the only one,

    I hope some day you'll join us,

    And the world will live as one.

  8. (always have to have a worldwide enemy to keep up the Defense Department budget rolleyes.gif)

     

    It often seems people have to have an enemy to understand and feel comfortable with their own identity.

     

    For years the USSR was a common quantifiable enemy around which Americans could rally, and through this shared hatred and fear, in some perverted way we could identify with each other as Americans.

     

    You should check to see where Wolfiwitz,Rove,Cheney,etc were when the "Cold war" was just getting going They have been at this shit for many years, behind the scenes pushing this evil empire doctrine. Check to see where they all went to school and who was their mentor. Good reading

  9. Curious why you ask, but it’s all really interesting. Are you writing a book?

     

    Anyway, my paternal grandparents were from Salem, OR. Their parents emigrated here… not quite sure what they did down in Salem, but by the time they moved to Seattle they owned a hotel and were doing quite well.

     

    My maternal grandparents were born in 1890 (grandpa) and 1900 (grandma) – odd, considering I am only 26. They emigrated here and the marriage was arranged. They were farmers, and produced their own labor force… altogether they had 14 children, the last of which was my mother. I guess my grandpa didn’t believe in birth control, either that or they couldn’t afford it.

     

    During the war they were all sent first to the Puyallup Fairgrounds, and then to Minidoka in Idaho or Tule Lake in Oregon (for the “really dangerous ones”). Several of my uncles served in the military during the internment period anyway and fought for our country in Italy, which I find to be interesting.

     

    I haven’t heard much about what happened after the war, and those that would talk were too young to remember or to really grasp the severity of the situation – that is, completely starting over. When we ask about what happened, no one really says anything, or they start talking about something else. Typical Japanese stoicism.

     

    No not wriing anything, I just thought it would be interesting to see what paths everyone been travelling on, and more to humanize the interface between everyone. It's good to know where you are from I suppose and to think about it from time to time. Cool stories and it is interesting to see how wars have affected so many lives

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