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Is that Red Green?

Why don't you just say that it was posted from Wayne Wallace's site, the "Epics" page?

I think we're replowing old ground here, folks. There's been numerous threads on this board under this topic. Use the Search function, select All Forums, input "falls whippers", In Subject only, newer than 7 years, get a scotch, sit back, and enjoy.

REMF = Rear Echelon Mother Fucker???

well, I'm sure that's a large part of it anyway...

Well said. So where are all of the moderate Muslims who need to stand up even at great cost and take back their faith from the radical extremists? Oh, that's right. They're worried about having their throats slashed or their heads cut off. The Rise of the Third Reich all over again.

Ba-dum ching!

At 44kN MBS, that thing is burly! I agree with SP, it would find limited usage in mountain rescue situations.

trendsetter...

Remember, if that doesn't work out for ya, REI has a great return policy... Whoa! I almost missed this jewel! Thank you! Thanks a lot! You guys have been great! Remember, I'll be here all week!

FW: More discussion on this thread, too. And BTW, you should watch the film.

They are half to blame, yes. They created a demand for home ownership. A demand that they could not afford in their current financial postion but, in their entitlement mindset, wanted nonetheless. So people on the supply side dreamed up a loan package that would get the consumer what he wanted - in the short run. And of course the folks on the supply side were not about to do this without some financial reward to themselves. But any fool who couldn't read the details of their loan package and figure out that he was gonna get screwed when the rates went up after the stated period of time is an idiot. The word "sub-prime" should have been an immediate clue and cause for caution. And I wasn't responding to products derived from cows in particular, either. I was merely carrying on your cow analogy, and provided a specific example within a cow scenario. Yes. A demand is created; it's created by the consumer. Many times, a supplier provides something for which a demand must be created. But over time, the consumer demands refinements of the original product, to which the supplier/manufacturer must respond. So yes, eventually, it is driven by the consumer. If the supplier(s) does not respond, the demand eventually fades. Or the consumer will find a supplier that will respond to the consumer's desires and revise the product/service in accordance with the consumer's needs. Do you remember JFK fiscal policy and later, Reaganomics? The old supply-side economics thing? Let's take hula hoops for example. Have you seen many hula hoops in stores lately? If we give hula hoop manufacturers a tax credit/incentive and flood the market with hula hoops, do you think that will increase the demand for them? No, I don't think so. I think it is the consumer that must create the demand for goods and services in almost every case. Clearly, as applied to those desiring home ownership and exampled by the sub-prime mortgage mess, the answer to your question is an emphatic "No." I'm not quite sure I follow your question here. If I knew "what" otherwise? That consumers are not rational decision making beings? Or how am I somehow complicit in helping a consumer make a bad choice? Or I am somehow responsible for the ethics of large corporations? Please elaborate/clarify your question. I think so, yes. I do not support the bail-out of Bear Stearns, nor any other player in the sub-prime mess, any more than I supported any player in the Savings and Loan Bail-out 20 years ago. Nobody learned a damn thing from that mess back then, as evidenced by the situation today. It's just the same game being played out on a different ball field. And I don't think the Fed "rescued Wall Street" as much as they rescued Bear Stearns and ended up setting it up for Morgan Stanley to make a steal purchase. And I can't say I do either. What you read may well be true. But I will say that I am a believer in personal responsibility, and by extension, corporate responsibility. Bear Stearns made their own bed; they should lie in it.

I fail to see where you read "so much hatred" in this thread. The responses to this thread are way milder than in previous threads surrounding this same topic (Islamo-facism/Muslim extremism). Howz'bout the notion that fundamentalism breeds extremism? Or howz'bout the notion that intolerance breeds extremism, eh? Yes, that is sad, and shit like that happens whenever intolerance, fundamentalism, and extremism are left unchecked. Look at our own civil rights history in this country. Agreed. But it would seem that the pacifist "let 'em run all over us and beat us into the ground" approach ain't working very well, either. You have another suggestion?

Or howz'bout placing the blame on the the consumers who have such a high demand for low-cost milk that the farmer has to concentrate his cows on less pasture land in order for him to make enough profit to stay in business? He's only responding to your demands for more milk at a lower price. When cows are pastured on more land, like in say, organic milk farms, it costs more, because there's less cows per acre. It also costs more for the milk, because most people won't pay twice the cost of a gallon of gas for a gallon of organic milk (yeah, that's what I said - organic milk is running about $7/gallon right now). So the price remains "artificially" high in order to cover those costs of products not purchased and thrown away (exceeded shelf life, etc.). If more people would partake of organicially produced foods, the price would drop substantially. It all comes back to the consumer. No demand, no supply. Simple enough.

Haven't you grown out of that phase yet? Luckily for me I haven't. Clearly, I have not. Clearly...

Yah, and I'll bet that they're probably a lot cheaper than the one you're thinking about taking with you. Criminy, 'bone, it's only 10 days... buy a cheap one that you can play for a week, then give it to a street kid or an orphanage on your way out of country. Mebbe these guys could help you find that guitar-maker in the market square...

bill, She didn't say anything all that prescient, but I liked this, from the Comments: oh my god, a TWENTY THREE YEAR OLD WOMAN IS DRINKING BEER! This can't be legal!! Somebody alert the authorities. And while you're at it, send them to my house, too, because you can't have people in their mid-twenties going around consuming alcoholic beverages in their own domicile! What a moron. Oh, and she does appear to have nice tits. That's always a nice plus. Or two...

"Dangers: ...The largest danger posed to noodlers are other forms of aquatic life found in catfish holes. Far more dangerous than catfish are alligator, beavers and snapping turtles, who will take over abandoned catfish holes as homes of their own. These animals are always on the mind of experienced noodlers." Or on the ends of their arms...

then its a scavenger hunt! Now that's fuckin' funny, I don't care who you are.

Thank you finding that, Bigtree. Agreed; complete nutterz. And a good use of Grieg. Just precious how the 3-year old girl already knows all about the Jews... just fucking precious. That was fucking insane.

Ah! Good point...

Well, yeah, Harper's Ferry and them Marylanders are only an hour or so away. That is rah-ight close. But you prolly went rah-ight by mah folks' house on yer way to Seneca. It's only 90 minutes from mah folks' front door. That was nice during summer breaks from my learnin' at VA Tech. But Ah ain't never goin' back, neitha, 'cept to visit mah kin.

A whole lotta stuff passes for "adventure" in Ol' Va'ginny. Hey ivan, you ever get up around Fort Valley, between Front Royal and Strasburg?

It's all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out. Water balloon catapult update: His little sister hid out in the kitchen, and watched from the safety of the interior side of the sliding glass door. Our one-eyed cat was not so fortunate... UN inspectors arrived and subsequently ordered the weapon dismantled (awww, Mommmmmm!). The case for re-armament is currently under appeal...

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