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I thought the All Blacks only choked in the championship game?

New Zealand gets a shot at some payback on France today. Ireland should have no trouble with Argentina. There were the 2nd place team of a weak pool. Australia & Scotland and RSF & Wales are interesting matches.

Hey the best writers were all a little nuts. BTW Orogun that was f-----g funny!

Someone read "The Man In the High Castle"

I'm guessing Cubs over Mets in 7 and Jays over Royals in 5.

Why would the fact that criticism came from a foreigner make it any less valid? Any input they have is welcome far as I'm concerned. But you have a very strange view of American interventionism....you dont believe the USA should ever intervene in other countries it seems unless the USA is directly threatened ? Thats a little irresponsible I would think I don't know about that. I'm becoming more inclined in that direction myself.

It might still happen in the "didn't make to the World Series" riot

Great game. The Thursday night NFL game was excellent too.

Can I ask you a question, I have to be honest I don't understand how you can live in the USA but not like your country? I am probably misunderstanding you ?Because there is a lot to dislike. Off the top of my head: 1) I don't like being spied on by an increasingly authoritarian state. 2) I don't like the power private corporations wield, such as getting laws made that benefit them at the expense of people such as TPP or PIPA. 3) I don't like having money taken from me to support foreign wars and drone assassination. 4) I don't like the political process being blatantly controlled by corporate powers and billionaires. 5) I don't like the tendency to intervene in other countries, usually leaving them worse off, while abandoning citizens here. Sounds very... libertarian. Better watch out KP, Barack Obama will start to think you are a likely domestic terrorist and order you killed by a drone.

Go Mets!

Nevermind

Well CNN International is very objective, they feature the Republicans and Trump quite regularly CNN is objective? I laughed so hard I spit up my coffee! They are not as bad as MSNBC (they make no pretense of objectivity) but I'd hardly call them objective. You know what news source it completely politically neutral in the US? None of them. That's correct. Not a f-----g one of them. All of them tilt to one political philosophy or another either subtly of overtly. But I wouldn't worry about it overmuch. That isn't new. It's been that way since before the last civil war. You sure you weren't watching the local USA CNN....thats very different to CNN International ? Sorry Bruce, I didn't notice you said "international" CNN. I have seldom paid it much attention but since it is a Turner enterprise and he is a big democrat supporter I'd be surprised if it really were "fair". But I don't know.

Speaking only for myself I don't give a s--t what anyone one else areound the world thinks. They don't live here and don't get a vote so criticize away. We're still gonna do what we're gonna do.

Well CNN International is very objective, they feature the Republicans and Trump quite regularly CNN is objective? I laughed so hard I spit up my coffee! They are not as bad as MSNBC (they make no pretense of objectivity) but I'd hardly call them objective. You know what news source it completely politically neutral in the US? None of them. That's correct. Not a f-----g one of them. All of them tilt to one political philosophy or another either subtly of overtly. But I wouldn't worry about it overmuch. That isn't new. It's been that way since before the last civil war.

Do you guys remember playing the older versions of Total War? When one of your agents caught the plague the first thing you do is send him to an enemy city.

Leaving for work in a few. Going up to Dyersburg today for a meeting on the reinforcement of the cantilever arms of the Caruthersville Bridge. It has almost nothing to do with us except that the bridge happens to cross the river so we have to be involved. Plus it's a nice drive and it gets me out of the office.

I finally got around to reading CNN's gushing reviews of Hillary's performance. They don't call that the Clinton News Network for nothing,

I hope the Royals & Astros put on half as good a show

Wow I can hear them cheering all the way down here

You got to love baseball. They have been playing professional ball since the 1880's and today something happened that has never happened before. This is a great game in Toronto!

Hey a lot has changed since I posted that! It's been a great game so far.

I believe the Egyptians used to stopper hornets nests with linen and throw them into enemy formations. I guess that could technically be a bio weapon because the stinger venom is the weapon the hornets are just the vector.

I can't imagine the Ron Paul crowd will find a lot to like in Bernie Sanders. There are some similarities on a few things, like trade protectionism for example. But libertarians are opposed to government expansion and Sanders is about TOTAL government takeover. But I guess they would both appeal to knee-jerk contrarians who are just looking for someone outside the "establishment". But they are just asholes looking to muck things up.

Watching the Blue Jays/ Rangers game 5. So far the Rangers are sharp and in control.

Do you mean wipe part of Italy as in our current knowledge it was Genoese traders that brought plague with them from their travels to east, not central Asians that come carrying it to Europe? I remember reading that the plague came along the Silk Road, exact origins unknown. There are multiple theories where it come, but first/most known/ mentions of the plague in Europe are from reports by the notary Gabriele de' Mussis, who write about sailors' stories about merchants from the Italian city of Genoa, who in 1346 had travelled to the Black Sea port of Caffa (now Feodosia) in the Crimea, came under siege from the Tartar army of a Kipchak khan called Janibeg. When plague broke out among his troops, Janibeg ordered the survivors to load their comrades' corpses on to catapults and toss them over Caffa's walls. As the horrific rain of cadavers fell, the plague entered Caffa. When the Genoese fled, they carried with them into Europe what came to be called the Black Death. Although current belief is that what de' Mussis described to happen in Caffa is probably at least partially true, also they believe that refugees from Caffa weren't only or most prominent source of the plaque in Europe, as maritime trade with other Crimean ports continued as did overland caravan routes. Interesting stuff. I never heard that before. That has to be one of the first uses of bio weapons.