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Most Welcome, Jag I thought the website would offer a great deal of insight on current events. And I agree That was some very interesting info, Baloogan. Things that make you go...hmmmm Just an off topic side note....I have been hearing C-130 transports flying over my home at regular intervals for the last couple of days. My guess is the Military is shoring up somewhere.

News of Taiwan News of Defense Spending and much much more. Spacewar Anyone seen this one? "Aint no time to wonder why,Whoopee we're all gonna die"

quote: Originally posted by Jaguar: Well, Wolferz, I don't agree with that Class Warfare rhetoric. You don't have to agree and far be it from me to attempt to force you to do so. I, like you, am only offering, in rebuttal, my opinion of the world around me. quote: Jag Said: Yes, there are some rich people that are doing what they can to destroy us, but there are also poor people and middle class people that are attempting to destroy us.I agree with the first line of that statement. But I fail to see any truth in the rest of it. Care to elaborate? It is the wealthy elite who create the poor by controlling the rule of law and the wages of the workers. They gain their wealth by keeping the workers' wages suppressed to the bare minimum of existence, but not so much as to cause the workers' demise. It is this truth that led to the rise of Communism.(read The Communist Manefesto by Karl Marx) quote: Jag said:To blame one class of people is the same as blaming the sun for setting at night and rising in the morning.Metaphor is not a proper rebuttal. quote: Jag said:socialism is destroying us, and it will continue to destroy us. This Robin Hood attitude of the Democrats and the Republicans will be our downfall. The continued overtaxing of those that earn the wealth and the passing out to those who don't earn the wealth.That was an interesting statement and tells me that you are not aware of the definition of the word Socialism Do some digging and you will discover that our government hands out more money to wealthy welfare queens than every poor person in the country combined. quote: Jag said:Your idea is an old one and a dangerous one, it is that attitude that has created the forces that will destroy us. You are one of the ones that have created the morass that will be our downfall.It Wasn't my idea and I only speak the truth as I see it from the information at hand. I also agree that we are sinking in the Quick mud but, I didn't help create the swamp. Unless you think I spent my life driving junkers and eating bologna while my employers drove Cadillacs and Corvettes and dined lavishly, while every year I paid enough taxes combined to buy a house, on wages that were always below my experience helped to create the swamp. Then I am guilty as charged. Making Accusatory statements in a debate is bad form and should be left in the mudslinging realm of the politicians. "Just the facts, Ma'am" quote: Jag said: You may know history, too bad you ignore it what is actually occurring and did occurr. Class warfare is what is destroying us, and your continued preaching of such nonsense will bring that destruction on even faster Too bad you haven't figured out the message, instead of spreading the disease. Hmmm, 3 accusatory statements in one rebuttal, tsk tsk. C'mon Jag, You're an intelligent fellow and can do better than that. Don't worry about me, Jag 'ol buddy. I have figured out alot more than you give me credit for and certainly alot more than our wealthy overseers in Washington want me to know. Give it time and sooner or later there will come a rainstorm to put out the forest fire that gives these criminals their smokescreen. You know what's left after a forest fire? That's right...nothing but naked charred trees and no place to hide, which will make hunting vermin all the easier.

Our only problem in this day and age and this country is the Bourgeois class system of Capitalism and the arrogance of those born into the upper class, who will stop at nothing to maintain their status quo. They have infiltrated our government as a means to control their wealth and the people who help create their wealth. Kind of like Communism in reverse. This is not a modern day idea, it is what has driven history for centuries. It has been the cause of numerous wars and the death of billions. This was recognized 2 millinnea ago. IE:Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, And would bring the poor of the land to an end, Saying, When will the new moon pass That we may sell grain, And the Sabbath that we may offer wheat for sale, Making the ephah small and the price great, And falsifying the scales; Buying the poor for silver, And the needy in exchange for a pair of sandals, And selling the refuse of the grain." From the Old Testament Book of Amos." So you see, Jag, you assume that everyone here, but yourself, has no knowledge of history. And you know what happens when we "Assume" [ 04-19-2004, 07:47 AM: Message edited by: Wolferz ]

LOL Fox and Denny Warning label on WORK Antivirus: "May cause Spurious Output"

Thanks for that slanted view, Jag;) Al I can say is,"You call us Chicken Little?"

Might I suggest a little educational material in regard to Taiwan and the PRC.... World Fact Book From what I have gleaned from that website, Reunification of Taiwan with mainland China is a subject best left to the people of Taiwan to decide. Not the PRC, or the United States, or anyone else on this planet. The united States has no formal relation with Taiwan's government, nor are there reciprocal embassies between the two. The PRC has been making steady progress toward a market society and away from the Russian style of Socialism. They absolutely had to do this or risk the same implosion as the USSR. Therefore I am of the opinion that an aggressive action by the PRC to reclaim Taiwan would only prove to be counter productive, and I think the leaders in the PRC are intelligent enough to see that the outcome of such an action would not be in the best interest of either entity. Not because of fear of retaliation from the United States. Uncle Sam has spent far too much of our money, blood, and resources to continue sticking his nose into other peoples business. Money that would be better spent caring for the military veterans of past wars, upgrading the pay rates for current military personnel, education, paying down the national debt, repairing the Social Security System, revamping the tax codes, etc. etc ad nausea.( I misspelled Nauseum on purpose because just thinking about this garbage makes me ill). The following is off topic, but I think it needs to be said................................... There are many fine, intelligent people from all over the globe who inhabit this forum. Most with open minds to differing points of view. Can a person command respect from others if they show no respect for others? Let us not disrespect anyone's views with fiery passions of our own views in the effort to win a debate. This form of action only serves to lower and debase all of us. If the mind holding an opposing view leaves this place, and no longer shares their wisdom, then we are all lessened by that departure. My Father taught me that... " It's what you learn "after you know it all" that counts!" To this day I am still learning. I won't name any names, but.... I think you know who you are. Some of you need to go back to school instead of talking out of it. Keep the childish name calling behind your teeth or fingers as it were, where it belongs please. I know it's exceedingly easy to let this slip, behind the anonymity of your monitor and a digital signal. I am guilty of it myself. Stop and think, Is it something you would say when face to face with a stranger and risk losing some teeth?

quote: Originally posted by LostInSpace: Don't mean to throw this thread off subject again but can you guys go the CPA web site CPA and look at the picture with the article "Bush, Blair Welcome U.N. Special Envoy Proposals on Iraq". Am I going mad or does that picture look like Blair is doing the devil horns on Bush? Looks more like Rabbit ears to me LOL, Maybe Mr Blair is trying to tune in a better picture for Mr Bush.

quote: Originally posted by Jaguar: 50 years? OMG, that is hilarious.... I have NO idea where you get your information, but it is a bit dated. We have close to 200 years worth just in the US alone, and if you include all the other oil producing nations, we have enough to last the millenium, and possibly longer. Please, get up to date, my job is not to teach, so you will have to find the info yourself. There is PLENTY of oil, and always has been, all the chicken littles do make me laugh though... Peep Peep Peep Does this shed anymore light on the subject of oil reserves? According to that article, we don't have enough fossil fuel left to worry about global warming.

quote: Originally posted by Jaguar: quote:Originally posted by Wolferz: quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: OK, that's enough guys, this is supposed to be a fun thread, not a bunch of Political BS... Let's keep it civil!! Thanks No political BS in this thread to see. Move along. That's because I deleted them.....LOL LOL Would it be better if you left a line that says Off Topic, post Deleted? I'm confused enough as it is.

quote: Originally posted by Jaguar: OK, that's enough guys, this is supposed to be a fun thread, not a bunch of Political BS... Let's keep it civil!! Thanks No political BS in this thread to see. Move along.

I purchased Vol 1 a couple of days ago and I have watched it twice, so far. I can't wait to see Vol 2. IMHO Vol 1 was pure genious in the handling of the loss of blood and limbs by the combatants, with the mix of anime and black and white photography. The best being the eye blink back to color and then the switch to the blue lighting backdrop in the Tea Room scene. I almost died laughing when the last Crazy 88 got sword spanked and sent home to his momma. It brought back memories of childhood. LOL My only beef about Vol 1 would be the short time span of the subtitles and captions. Oh, and thanks alot for whetting my appetite, Scriv

Kal, Watch that blood pressure close, my friend, Believe me, you don't want to become disabled from a Ticker Temblor. etc etc ad nauseum.... I could tell you all about the horrific treatment I've recieved from Federal agencies since my health failed, and about all the red tape I have been forced to wade through to get back a piddly amount of the over $20,000.00 I have paid into this governmental scam of an insurance system since I began working. But this should be related/ debated in a thread all it's own. I'll fire that one up later, after I have had a chance to type up a good essay(read horror story) with my one good hand and eye. Hopefully, what is left of my brain that still lives will cooperate. Race, Good to hear that you are in good health. Do whatever is required to keep it that way, but I'm sorry to say,there is still a good chance that you will become disabled before you reach retirement age. Plan ahead now. Think about it.. What will you have to live on if, all of a sudden you suffer a stroke like I did, and it takes you one to two years to complete the SSI & SSID application process? Or if worse yet, a bunch of ignorant Senators decide to raid the SSA funds..... Again... for one or two of their pet projects that profit no one but themselves. Look up Senator Young of Alaska and his two bridge to nowhere projects. Can you say ...Pork Barrel? I knew you could. "Git them britches off and squeal like a pig!" C'mon Jag, string an arrow and start shootin!

How about a link fellas?

Yeah, $ilk, I mostly agree, I saw a news article about Ms Gorelick's supporting role in this tragedy and then all of a sudden she's on the panel charged with investigating it. I just shook my head and thought to myself," Par for the course" The Denizens of the Black hole called DC should be instructed to yell "FORE" the next time they want to drive a Golf ball at our heads. I agree that the two party system is a miserable failure and we should impeach the lot of them. Get rid of the Electoral College crapolla too. Candidates should campaign with their own money and win by majority vote only. The States should pay Senate and Congressional Salaries. Betcha they'd get a massive pay and benefit cut real quick. Maybe go back to State Militia for all military provisions too . That would certainly stop a sitting President from starting an unfounded war. I'm curious though, $ilk....Why would you want to see the Social Security System scrapped? It is in serious need of an overhaul, but scrapping it would be catastrophic. I was just reading that most people today will need to put 70 to 80% of their wages into an IRA or other retirement plan in order to live a comfortable retirement... Could any of us live on 20 to 30% of our wages in this economy while we are salting the rest away for old age? I was instantly motivated to cry out "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...Over!" when I read that. Then there are those of us who are disabled or will become disabled before retirement age.. Do we just cut the elderly and disabled off at the knees and say thanks for paying/ playing, good luck? I hope you don't mind tripping over homeless, starving elderly and invalids when you walk down the street. Or worse, getting whacked in the head by one, right before he/she steals your wallet. In essence you would be trading your tax money for more Police and jails in lieu of SSA payments. Ok, enough is enough, I'm going to start ignoring comments that have no bearing in reality, including my own. PS... Race, Watch your Blood Pressure man. You don't want to go through the Social Security Disability application process.....It sucks Mammoth Moose Member.... Believe me!..

Looks like their stock would return some better dividends, now that the two Caballeros are gone, but, the Golden Parachutes have been deployed and all the money is raining down into the pockets of two thieves. LOL I'm glad I don't have money invested in the company.

Bra Sizes Explained Have you ever wondered why A, B, C, D, DD, E, F, G, and H are the letters used to define bra sizes? If you have wondered why, but couldn't figure out what the letters stood for, it is about time you became informed! {A} Almost a boy {B} Barely there {C} Can't complain! {D} Dang! {DD} Double dang! {E} Enormous! {F} Fake {G} Get a Reduction {H} Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up!

Math is Hard Last week I got a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $2 and was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me back two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help and while he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried. Why do I tell you this? Read on... Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit? Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit? Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M" of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M." The set "C", the cost of production, contains 20 fewer points than set "M." Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M". Answer this question: What is the cardinality of the set "P" of profits? Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20. Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers. Teaching Math in 2000: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Andersen determine that his profit margin is $60 ? Teaching Math in 2005: El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de produccion es.............

The Work Virus There's a new virus going around. The code name for it is "WORK". If you receive WORK from your colleagues, your boss, via e-mail, or from anyone else, do not touch WORK under any circumstances. This virus wipes out your private life completely. If you should happen to come in contact with this virus, take two friends and go straight to the nearest bar. Order drinks, and after three rounds, you will find that WORK has been completely deleted from your brain. Forward this virus warning immediately to at least five friends. Should you realize you do not have five friends, this means you are already infected by this virus and WORK already controls your whole life. If this is the case, go to the bar and stay until you make at least five friends. Then retry. I think I have five friends, but am not entirely positive so I'm headed for the bar anyway. Never hurts to be safe

I wasn't making a joke about Mr Nader. We are long overdue for some leadership in the Oval Office that has at least an inkling of common sense and far fewer hands up his backside, using him as a sock puppet to mime the wishes of a few over the needs of the many.

quote: Originally posted by Grayfox: my brain is simply about to burst with all the trivia you just now packed into it wolfy thanks! "Sledge-o-matic" Works every time /Ducks under sheet of plastic

Kerry is just another rich, elitist, jet setting snob with multimillion dollar homes all over the globe.I read an interview article where all he did was brag about inventing a Chocolate Chip Cookie and starting up a dinky little business in Boston to make and sell them. I don't think it made him wealthy, it didn't have to. He already had money from his WASP parents and he kind of lucked into the Heinz fortune by speaking French at just the right moment while vacationing in Vegas. I don't think anyone in their right mind would vote for him. He damned sure isn't going to champion the cause of the common man. It makes me wonder if his 3 Purple Hearts came from friendly fire. My experience in the military was that most of the officers out of West Point were royal, elitist Iceholes. The only good Officers were the men and women who came up through the ranks and graduated Officers Candidate School. We had a saying for those people... "There by the grace of God, not by an act of Congress." I would have followed one of them into the jaws of the Abyss. The West Pointers I only wanted to shoot in the back. The new LT's we received in our Company fresh out of College ROTC were good Joes, after we got them trained. It didn't take most of them long to figure out who was running our unit...Us NCO's. Officers in our company were mostly paper pushers. This year, I think I'll be voting Nader.

"Answers To Quiz" 1. Boxing. 2. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute. 3. Asparagus and rhubarb. 4. Baseball. 5. Strawberry. 6. The pear grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems. 7. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. 8. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 9. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west. 10. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner. 11. Lettuce. 12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings. ...Well, now you know! Feel any smarter?

quote: Originally posted by Jaguar: And morse code is Dit dah. not beep bip..... And yes, I know morse code....LOL LOL This is the 21st Century. Not using the old Telegraphers Key anymore I bet if you asked the average high school student what Morse Code is, They would give you a vacant stare. I still chuckle when I remember my kids watching a black and white TV show for the first time. They asked me," Dad, is the TV broken? They didn't want to believe me at first, when I told them that it was made that way and it was all there was until the 1960's.

Answers tomorrow A Stilletto is a type of shoe and if Echo wears them, I would seriously like to be her...... Podiatrist Yeah. that's it, her Podiatrist