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WTF is this, SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE? Discuss this situation with your parents, and, while you're at it, you might think about getting a night job for some extra cash. You're gonna need it.

There's not much to say about the India attacks other than the fact that they were horrific. The situation in Kashmir is horrific. The partition of India was horrific. The colonial rule of India was horrific. The lesson here is that war nearly always begets more war. The "we surrender, we'll be nice now" ending in Germany and Japan were extreme rarities. Much more common is the ongoing, never ending situation in Kashmir, which has come close to, and and may one day, play a central role in the nuclear devastation of both sides, in addition to being a prime motivator in the recent attacks. If you push people around, as several on this forum continually suggest we continue to do, they usually find a way to push back. Best just not to push them around at all and find a better way to establish a more positive, stable, and reciprocal relationship.

One thing I always wondered about Silent Running; isn't pretty fucking cold out near the orbit of Saturn for even hardy trees? How about an orbit around the earth, for example? Just sayin.

While we're talking about 'forcing' other religions and societies to conform to our idea of what we think they should be, based on our misperception of what they actually are, it's probably helpful to keep in mind that the United States is one of the most violent societies in the world. Of the 60 nations tracked by the U.N., we rank #1, by far, in the total number of crimes committed and #8 in the per capita crimes committed, for example. We have proven our willingness to use extreme violence to start 2 regional wars in the past 5 years. We currently our infamous for kidnapping and torturing our prisoners, whom we've completely stripped of any semblance of human rights. We are the only nation to use nuclear weapons on completely civilian populations, or populations of any kind, for that matter. We purchase 40% of the world's weaponry, and produce a similar percentage. We have, by far, the largest aresenal in the world, spending more on weaponry than the next 10 countries combined. I think if any reform is to take place, we might look at ourselves first to make the badly needed changes for providing a more wise, just, and moral example for the rest of humanity.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Let's go eat!

Pat Gallagher, making shit up about a subject like racism isn't cool. When I next see you in person you're going to be asked to account for this lie. You shouldn't have posted it if you didn't want people to read it. Don't blame me, amigo. Look in the mirror; he's your problem.

Which is why I voted for him. Which is why you're an ankle-grabbing moron like the rest of your crew here. You're a racist, man, and you're actually serious about being one. There's no satire, humor, or any of the other common components of this forum that your brain doesn't seem to be able to process in your anti-Muslim/arab postings. KKKKK's even worse; he includes blacks as his targets (B-Ho). Don't worry, I read your treatise on the worth of the various races over on the White Supremacy climbing site. It's ugly, dude.

I'm looking for the raw html for a simple slide show utility. When you enter a page, the slide show starts in a borderless window; standard start, stop, backup controls. Any of you really smart kewl kids have something like this? Saku!

So there's no connection between enrollment and funding? There's also plenty of actual arguments that I've put forward concerning agriculture in the other thread, if at some point you change your philosophy and decide to engage them. Um, I've already destroyed your idiotic pronouncements in that thread already. Guess you (and Bill) never got the memo. If you actually knew anything about agriculture, and you laughably don't, it would still be a waste of time to spoon feed you what I've already very clearly posted. I suggest an checkup for ADD. Might help.

Though I realize you are being completely sarcastic, it probably will help the situation some do close down Guantanmo. It will be interesting to see what their demands will be with the hostages being held. Isalm in general is very peaceful oriented and devote religion. I live in a country that is more than 80% muslim and feel no concern about safety to be honest. I have found them to be very generous people and very famil oriented more so than most other people in the world, especially considering most of them have been dealt this shit that everyone of them must be part of jihad or some terrorist organization. These terrorist cells are no different than what you find in the States and Europe in white supremecy groups. Their extremist and represent a small minority. Save it Ken. The guy's just a racist.

Well, I came up with about five examples right off the bat, but certain asshats and village idiots seemed to conveniently skip over them. The resources depleted: Mayan soil depletion (currently our problem). Easter Island timber and soil depletion (currently our problem) Greenland soil depletion (currently our problem) Mesopotamian water supplies, desertification, and soil depletion (currenly our problem) Anyone notice a pattern here? In each case society completely collapsed and was never reconstituted. I think JayB's trying to argue that global population growth and increase in pre capita demand for everything is not going to (or already is) colliding with soil depletion, energy depletion, and water depletion, to name the big three. JayB believes that the earth is a machine that can indefinitely be cranked to volume 11. He doesn't actually know anyone in farming, for example, so he's ignorant of what his beloved Green Revolution has done to the land and sea. And therein lies the heart of the conservative movement; blissful, and most certainly intentional, ignorance. Well, in addition to out and out avarice, failed myths, and just plain psychosis.

Hey, I know the election's over, but I just wanted to share some of McCain's talking points with you guys. It's such a shame that we can't talk about Ayers and preconditions and stuff, cuz his people worked so damn hard uncovering those critical issues. Similarly, I think JayB's come up with yet another valuable contribution here; thinking that this adminstration has botched Iraq and the WOT = appeasement and believing that our actions cause all terrorism everywhere, and that won't necessarily get Hadji Goatherder on our side. Given that and his arctic avocado idea, he's like a remake of Logan's Run come early.

DOOOD; I don't need to see that.

Israel used to make cars with fiberglass bodies. Maybe they still do, but there was one small problem. Camels, like porcupines, love fiberglass. If you broke down in a feral camel area and left your car for any length of time, you'd come back to find the body eaten off of it.

We're latent bloomers.

Squirts? Doooood. I'm exactly your age, remember? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

This year. Google it. Oops, no facial moles. I remember "John Boy" playing the lead role, but it was Michael York. Still, it correctly predicted that people sporting helmet cuts should die before age 30.

And who can forget Logan's Run: correctly predicted that male facial moles would not fly with the American moviegoing audience.

Zardoz: Predicted that excessive body hair and middle aged pony tails would come back in fashion. They haven't, but the future isn't here yet, is it?

I was out canvassing instead of climbing.... I agree, it's not nearly enough to just vote if you truly want to beat the brainless zombies back into the cellar.

It's funny that someone mentioned Brazil. How abou the original 1984, hmmm? Pretty much a spot on prediction of current events on most fronts.

A couple of yahoos hit a deer and throw it in the back of the truck, but they don't have a knife to gut it. They stop at a roadhouse, borrow a knife, gut the kill, and dump the entrails in the outhouse, go back in, and proceed to drink. An hour later a cowboy staggers in through the door, white as a sheet. One of the yahoos says; "Boy, you look like you seen a ghost" "Worse...I jist shit my own guts out... the yahoos gasped ...but fer the grace a god and a good stick, I got 'em all back in agin!"

On second thought, it's best not to make the neighbors envious out his way.

I guess we'd have to shoehorn in some zombies, then. The budget's starting to bloat, but I'll bet we could get FW to play the part for some wall butteflies and a pair of retreads.

What would be great would be to remake Tron by adding the MS Clippy as a sidekick.