Wolferz

Keep reeling, SC I have the gaffing pole

LOL Cruis, "He's coming right for us!"

I only have one word.... "Ooorah!" In my book, he has already received the highest honor.

Well, the Communist government in China is not going to allow anyone to rebuke their spin on China's history. Looks like a Black Market opportunity to sell the game and another reason to throw people in jail if caught with it.

My heartiest congratulations $ilk. Having been in a similar nightmare for 17 years, I know your pain brother.All it takes is the faith of a Mustard seed. With all the bad things going on in the world today, it is most refreshing to hear some good news for a change. You have two handsome young men there. After following your story and having lived it myself, I can only wonder as to why a mother would give up her children so easily and then vehemently block the loving parent from raising them. Such are the persecutions wrought by those with darkened hearts. I pray that your ex and your maternal grandparents will find their way out of the all consuming darkness and back to the light.

Makes ya wonder who has been at the helm of the Ship of State. eh? "Iceberg?? What Iceberg???"

Steve said: quote: Fast-forward to 2003, and what the article glosses over is how the insurgents assassinated all the most likely leaders who would have emerged to form the new government. We're dealing with the "second-string," and even they are slowly being picked off by their "fellow countrymenAbsolutely correct Steve. That is the main sticking point in The US plans for a sovereign government in Iraq, that will be friendly to our interests in the region. Interests like... Oil and Permanent military bases. The oil is a gimme. The shadow puppets in DC are not going to give anyone the real reason for permanent military bases in Iraq. They are going to claim that it's necessary for the war on terror,when in reality,it will provide a shorter, more economical route for moving Opium out of our old buddy Turkey. It's the only logical reasoning. Jump in the wayback machine and take a closer look at all the wars the US has prosecuted from 1812 forward. If one observes these events and the players behind them from the point of view of a bunch of rich and powerful drug smugglers, you will come to the same conclusion I have; It's business as usual. Iraq has been a volatile tribal society for thousands of years. They are not interested in democracy. The only freedom they cherish is the freedom to run around kicking one another's ass. Our troops will be in Iraq for a very very long time, Just to stomp out every flaming duck that pops up. GOOOOOOD Morning Viet NAAAAAM 2!!!!! The really sad part is the deaths of our troops who volunteered to fight and die for a bunch of lieing pirate-drug pushers.

You can start the collaborative screenplay in the Roleplay forum

Ok Kal, We're sinking into the Bog of Eternal Stench here, so I concede all of your points. You can think what you will about a decorated veteran, it doesn't hurt me in the least. So what? He followed his ideals and convictions upon his return from Nam. Something many Americans haven't the fortitude to do. In those days some did. Like all of the students at Kent State University who faced down the guns of idiocy and paid for it with their lives. Murdered by the Ohio National Guard. A part of the military apparatus that was sworn to protect them. Ironic? Hell yeah! That was long ago and a different story altogether. In case you haven't noticed, GW isn't running this country, oh wait, he is. Running it into the ground at the hands of his minders, like the oil companies he was the head of. Frankly, I'm surprised that Texas survived his stewardship as Governor. If I had to pick between the lessser of two evils, Nader would get the nod. Bush and Kerry aren't worth popping a cap in. So vote your conscience.It's not my place to sway your opinions, nor will I. "Many a man's eyes are not opened until he dies, but the open eyes of a dead man see nothing."

Here's a good read..... with pictures What the press is telling us in bits and pieces

Nevermind, Kal. You are missing the reasoning for my rebuttal. There are a great deal of facts behind the entire era that was Viet Nam that you evidently don't know, and to claim that anyone who served in that quagmire is a traitor and a coward lends evidence of your unenlightened state of mind regarding the subject. I never inferred that you should respect Kerry. However, I would like to know which war record are you basing your opinion on? The real one, or the one that Bush and the Republicans are hosing everyone with? "For there own benefit by the way." Kalshion said:Wolferz, you have given me no reason to flame you so why would I? Please read my post again and think about your "Up with George Bush" comments. We are not here to flame each other personally. We are here to discuss interesting subjects and put forth our views for scrutiny by our peers, hopefully in a positive and enlightening fashion. I do not agree with many of your opinions but I respect them. You are a young man, are you not? You still have a great deal of education ahead of you, so if I may be so bold as to offer you some fatherly advice;"Don't take everything you hear on TV or read in the news media as the gospel." Seek your own answers and learn as much as you can. Always lead by example. Not the old: "Don't do as I do, do as I say do"attitude. The founders of our country fought for freedom, truth, and justice and we are still fighting that war today. Only problem now is the threat is not only from outside our borders, but within also. There are some evil SOBs that would destroy these ideals for their own profit, and I for one refuse to allow it. Do not blindly follow leaders who care not for their people. quote: "I never let my schooling interfere with my education"Samuel Clemens

quote: Originally posted by street: Do I KNOW YOU?..probably not!. Your scaring me,though. That entire post is so true to mark, in it's observation. (street talking to himself):" And I thought I was the ONLY one who really UNDERSTOOD!" I hear ya Street! Those of us with more brains than an Amoeba, and enough common sense to use them, who see what is really going on, are dismissed as lunatic Conspiracy nuts. There are very few people who want to have their cozy little bubbles popped. So they continue deluding themselves and refuse to see the real truth. Often times the truth hurts like hell, so it is avoided like the plague. Much easier to continue believing the constant stream of lies as long as their bubble remains intact. The nations shepherds have been replaced by wolves and they are eating the sheep. I'm keeping my earplugs handy so as not to be deafened when the Pricks finally pop a million or more bubbles. There will be more soapy scum flowing than the storm drains can handle. Git'cher hoses folks.

quote: Originally posted by Kalshion: He is NOT a veteran.. he is a TRAITOR who cowardly left the Vietnam war to protest against it. He is NOT deserving of ANY respect, I refuse to respect someone who insult's our soldiers, INSULTS our president who is doing a DAMN good job, and insults our troop's who fought and DIED for this country! YOU Grizzle just can't stand hearing the truth coming from a veteran who know's exactly what he's talking about. Gee Kal, You speak as if Mr Kerry cut his own orders to return home. LOL The fact still remains, he didn't shirk his duty by joining a Guard unit that in all likelyhood was never going to be called up. Although, before you turn your vociferous "I love Georgie Bush" flame thrower in my direction, I don't consider Bush or Kerry either one worthy of a single vote. They have both committed what I consider treasonous and treacherous, if not criminal acts against our nation. Hanging is too good for both of them.

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Interesting find LIS, but it's nothing new. There have been big money Lobbyists operating in every governmental body in the country. If big money wants something, they send their Bribers, errr Lobbyists to coerce the lawmakers to pass legislation that will favor their business and their profits. Could you or I walk into a Senate or Congressional meeting to redress grievances? I doubt it. But, if we had a couple million dollars or some nice little presents for the lawmakers, we could without a doubt. edit: My bad, I forgot...It doesn't matter what party affiliation the elected lawmakers subscribe to, they all do this.

ok, let's forget about all the other countries on this planet and their governments. If they have terrorist cells operating out of their territory, we could just marshall our forces and go in and clean out the lot of them. This type of thinking is just a pipe dream. If we conscripted every able bodied person in the country, we wouldn't have enough troops to cover every theatening condition on the planet. Our best bet is to use what we have to seal our borders against entry by these fanatical nutjobs. Could 9/11 have been prevented? Of course it could. Forget all the "ifs" and look at the situation from a neutral point of view. Look at history for the other sneak attacks on our country. Get out the picks and shovels and dig for the truth. The real truth, not the truth as told by the American History books issued to High School students. Before the US entry into WW II there were a great many things going on around the globe. At that time, The United States had an isolationist policy. We had saved France from total annihilation at the hands of the Kaiser. Americans were sick of war and wanted no part of the conflict perpetrated by the Nazis. We stood back even though Nazi U-Boats were killing American Merchant Mariners in the Atlantic, ferrying supplies to Britain. We stood back and watched as our government put a stranglehold on Japan with an oil blockade. America was forced into WW II by a shadow government that is still in DC today. They set us up the bomb. "All Your Resource are belong to us" is their ideology. They wanted a major catastrophe for the purpose of firing up our War Machine again. It was used to manifest Pearl Harbor and it was easy enough to set up the 9/11 attack. There are things going on in the CIA that have nothing to do with protecting American citizens. Things that they are not going to share with anyone, especially the FBI. If the FBI had caught even the scent of the impending attack, they would have been told to siddown and shaddup. So it's alleged that there were Arab Islamic extremists who carried out the dastardly deed, but the facts are so shrouded in secrecy and misinformation, we will never know who was truly behind it. Nor will we ever know if it could have been prevented. There are so many questions of oddities, during the event, that I personally witnessed on television that day. It's ludicrous. Questions that will never be answered, because the answers are hidden away in secret FBI, CIA, and FAA reports. Our government has been operating "Sub Rosa" since 1941. Personally, I don't trust people who keep secrets. Especially secrets that could endanger the security of my country, myself, and my family. These are just my personal feelings, gained from a lifetime of observations and experiences. I have always been guided by an unseen force. Call it intuition if you will, many people do. Others have accused me of having a nose like a Bloodhound and all this Hoohah going on since 9/11/01 has a very pungent odor to it. Put your nose to the ground and follow the scent. I guarantee you won't believe who the real skunks are. "sniff" "sniff" "snuffle" I smell a Jag attack coming

I 2nd that HELL NO!

Flash Traffic for Galcom HQ. GCV Kentucky standing by for orders. GCV Kentucky out.

ShEEsh!, I was wondering how they stacked up that many young'uns. There were two sets of twins sprinkled in there. As a State Senator, I'm sure Daddy brings in more than enough money to care for all of them. If it were me though,the last two would be named.. "Getoff and Stayoff.

Ya know, It's a pity that we aren't color blind when it comes to people. I am not, nor have I ever been an Americanwho rates people by their ethnic background. Our society has come a long way in ridding us of racist inequalities. But the poblem still exists to an extent, only because of the constant media bombardment of the labels that Shingen mentioned above. I have no problem with people of color holding pride in their heritage, but we all could get along better if we stopped putting labels on our ethnic backgrounds. We ALL live in America. That makes us "all" AmericansPERIOD! The sooner everyone starts embracing the heritage of America,the better off we all will be. All of us came from, or were born of people from a different continent and together we created a new nation founded on the principles of freedom and equality. Using labels like African American, Latin American, etc is Racism to the extreme and a slap in the face to our country. I contend;If You don't like or want to be called an American, then pack yourself up and return to your point of origin. I am an American of European descent but I don't feel compelled to run around clubbing everyone else over the head with it by saying I'm Euro American. I feel no sympathy for any American who wishes to blame his/her social status on a racist theory. If your stature is unpleasing to you, you have noone to blame but yourself in our present society.We have travelled a very long road in the war on racial bias but, we still have a few miles to go. Now I'm not saying that one's heritage should be tossed in the trash can, Just the labels. There is no such thing as an African American or an Asian American etc, we're ALL Americans by geographical location of residence. If we really wanted to expand it, we're all Earthlings or Terrans Or should we continue to break it down and call ourselves Ameriterrans or AfriAmeriTerrans? That would get idiotically complicated. Wouldn't it? The Gammulans hate us. Let's band together and end the racial bias that Terrans, living in Gammulan space, are suffering. In the Universe WE are the minority. Crappy Cola, another bleeping label!

Let me throw another wrench in the Monkeyworks, Jag, you'll get a kick outta this one and it might just wake up some other sleeping moles ... EJECT EJECT EJECT

I received this news blog in an E-mail from someone I don't even know and there was no link to this story. I have searched the AP website to no avail. The majority of their archived stories are available, if you want to pay for them. LOL I have seen news reports about this jail: The AP report: quote: "We need more Sheriff's like this guy !! Maybe he should run for PRESIDENT !!!!! TOO HOT FOR ARIZONA CONVICTS ??? It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, 116 degrees sets a new record, the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towel! s as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane." Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates, "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths." Now, ordinarily I would not view this type of incarceration as a bad thing. I have lived in the field in every kind of tent that Uncle Sam has to offer but, on a sweltering summer day in the forests surrounding Ft Knox, you don't spend much time in a canvas tent. I can only imagine the torture induced in the heat of Arizona. "If you can't do the time don't do the crime" is a familiar phrase in America. In many cases it's a load of horse hockey. People in this country are warehoused,at the publics' expense, for very slight infractions of the law. Prisons are supposed to be used to rehabilitate criminals. Do they? The answer to that question is a resounding NO! Is it fitting punishment for not following the rules? It's definitely punishment. Sometimes criminal punishment. Case in point:Breaking Probation Could Kill You Everyone is up in arms about Abu Ghraib. It makes me laugh to see everyones' righteous indignation about it, when every day in the US prison system, there are far worse cases of criminal abuse happening and we turn a blind eye to it. There are so many laws and regulations in this country now, if the Police knocked down your door today, and entered your home with a search warrant, they would find "something" to arrest you for. The criminal justice system,now, is no more than a money making scheme and many innocent citizens are incarcerated for any menial infraction of a myriad of laws, from local laws to federal laws. Not every inmate is guilty of some heinous crime and many are railroaded into jail. Why? A: Prison Industries. Prison Industries are a money maker for someone, using what equates to slave labor. If their labor force begins to dwindle, they easily cure the problem by sending out the Gestapo for more bodies. Does anyone, other than the criminal justice system and our Barristers, know what our laws are? Good luck finding the answer to that one. Welcome to PRISON PLANET boys and girls. Be sure to keep the nose Goblins out of your Proboscis. That is if you can find all of them. I guarantee the law enforcement community can.

quote: Originally posted by neograymatter: Last Christmas I received a pair of wireless headphones, not having much use for them, I stuffed in the closet. Last week, I near went nuts one day trying to keep watch on my Megaron while I was cooking supper. IÔÇÖm really paranoid, and had to check my ship every 30 seconds (Who knows what Resnig could do to my ship when IÔÇÖm off-duty?) It probably wouldnÔÇÖt have been so bad if there wasnÔÇÖt a staircase between the kitchen and my computer. After burning supper, I decided to dig out the set of wireless headphone and try them with Universal Combat. They worked great! Now I can put my mind at ease, and actually get some work done, while leaving my ship to itself (although I near kill myself scrambling up the stairs when the klaxon sounds. Tell us who makes this device...

Only ten sectors?? ROTFLMAO. They're just pulling another EQ by making a buggy game and then throwing buggy add ons out there to pick your pocket Again! I think I'll stick with Eve until I can get a muscle rig that will run UC. I wonder what the asking price is on an SG 3900. If anyone here plays Eve, Give Timberwolf a shout sometime.

For any noobs reading this thread Now you know that Derek is as serious as a heart attack when it comes to the rules that you agree to abide by when you register here. Plain and simple; No Article 15 No Tribunal No warning Just a quick trip out the airlock Period! This board is one of the few pleasures I have left to enjoy. It's clear of low life trolls and numbskulls,which leaves the intelligent people to enjoy conversations about the Battlecruiser series and many other topics. Derek provides this haven from the madness we face in the outside world as a courtesy, not a requirement. I, and I'm certain, many other members of this board, stand behind Derek 100% on any decision to toss a troublemaker in the Airlock and punch the Open Outer Door button. If you haven't read the SOP(Standard Operating Procedures) for this board, do it. Now.----------> SOP Carry on. Edit: In addition, Wolf 57s' comment about what Mr Smarts' occupational status with 3000AD should be:::ROTFLMAO Derek IS 3000AD. Wolf 57 apparently failed to realize this important fact, and now everyone who reads this will know. "People with open minds learn something new every day and a day without learning is like a day without sunshine" [ 05-24-2004, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Wolferz ]