Guard Dog

If you make this into a movie I'll go see it!

Hey I remember that name. She was an active poster on the Bio Boards back when SoU came out.

1) I am sorry they are in that situation but nothing that we do at a national level will change one thing about it. If they are not being killed by the army, they will be killed by the rebels. By helping one side or the other we are only choosing who will kill them. 2) Exactly why I get so enraged when our current president does everything in his power to sabotage domestic energy production. And he does. This current BS in Syria has nothing what-so-ever to do with freedom or democracy. It is the same toxic BS that has been going in the middle east since Ali declared himself the heir to Muhammad. Assad and the Ba'ath party are Shi'ite, 90% of the rest of Syria, especially the rebels are Sunni. That is all this is about. I was talking to an old guy at the VFW tonight. He's a Korean War vet so he knows more about civil wars (if you could call it that) than anyone on this board. He put it just like this 'If you have two ant hills in your yard you don't help one of them wipe out the other one. You get rid of both of them". Well, since we can't do that I say to hell with them both. Every one that get killed fighting each other is one less that will be killing innocent folks elsewhere.

I think experience should have shown us it is utter folly to try to stop (or help) one group of barbarians slaughtering another group of barbarians. No matter who wins the victorious group is going to kill civilians, women and children, by the thousands once it's over and then look for their next fight. They won't hold anyone who helped them with any high regard. After all if they are more than willing to slaughter other Muslims whose faith is only slightly different from theirs where to the infidels hope to stand? I would not expend one cent of American treasure or one drop of American blood to stop them from doing what they seem to love to do. So they are using chemical weapons now. Where do you think they might have have come from? In short, to hell with them.

I think I'm going to the VFW tonight, that means dinner will be BBQ pulled pork sandwiches with beer and baseball. Sounds like a plan to me.

I've got one in my truck, another in my camping gear, hell my whole house and property are sort of geared that way. It's just smart. Especially if you are going to be in a cold environment like you would be.

That sounds real nice. My preparation just involves closing enough doors in the house so that if the kids catch on to the fact their parents are missing, we will hear them coming. It's a chess match. I can hear the "Mission Impossible" music in the background during this!

Think about it, soon you won't be saying " my GF" but my "fiancée" She dropped her first hint this weekend. It was all I could do not to laugh. I know her and she has been calculating how long to wait before making that comment. She will wait a week or two and follow up with another comment. Then if I don't respond in some way she expects there will be a conversation about it. All I have to do is hold her off until October.

The Rays resigned Delmon Young. Ugh... not this again.

If this is your first time through that will only get worse. It slows down for a few books starting after #8 but comes together nicely in the last 3. There were a few unresolved plots in the end but Sanderson did a good job wrapping things up.

I made chicken piccata with angel hair pasta and steamed asparagus. Add to that home made garlic bread and a nice Pinot Grigio and a dessert blackberry tart for later... much later I hope!

Uh oh... whose?

Feels like a good night for a fire so I split wood today for it. GF will be here in an hour, I've made a nice dinner, soft music, moonlight coming in through the loft window, and a fire in the fireplace to close the deal. Ok, it was a safe bet anyway but I believe in doing it right!

Wow, that's a surprise..you eat normal food. I thought you would have gone hunting tonight with Tommy and tracked down some wild bear or Elk for dinner? Not today! I wondered, briefly, if coyote was edible. But I looked at Tommy and thought it would be too weird! But I'm too busy for real cooking tonight though.

Just to follow up on what some of you have said. I think Bruce was on this point earlier as well. There is a world of difference between what Manning did and what Snowden did. Manning released info on things the US was doing to other nations. Snowden leaked what it was doing to it's own citizens. One is laudable, the other is treason.

Been very busy with work lately. One of our projects is looking like it might not wrap by contract date. It gets expensive if we run late so it's all hands on deck on that one project.

Tomato soup and a grilled cheese with jalapenos and a tomato slice on it

Alan there are many right wingers who are pro gun control. Mitt Romney, John McCain, Christie, Guliani, George H Bush, I could come up with a dozen or so if I think about it. However, the political right in the US tends to be more libertarian and right leaning politicians tend not to get reelected unless they follow. But I believe many if not most of them would be as quick to infringe on individual freedom if it suited them. The left in the US tends heavily to statisim and the concept of individual freedom is quickly becoming the punch line of a joke to them.

I usually drink Knob Creek or Woodbridge but this stuff has a really great flavor. It has a faint cherry aftertaste and is really smooth.

Allow me to repeat my previous question to you Volo, when did you lose your sense of humor? It's been so long I've forgotten!

I was a Boston Red Sox fan for 30 seconds last night. When Ryan Dempster nailed A-Rod after throwing at him three times I thought that was a beautiful thing.

Actually a drivers license is not a right. It IS a privilege and is specifically described as such by state laws. That is why they can take it away from you... which kind of makes my point actually!

It is such a trip reading back through this thread. a lot of names I haven't seen in years. I used to post as RedRanger on BIS but I wasn't really into it or around much. Anyway after NWN came out I moved over to the Bioware boards and there was a thread that resurrected all the drama of putting the names of Forum Members in the game. So I figured I'd pick an inconsequential NPC and make than my board name. There was a Guard Dog outside the Shining Knight store in the NWN city core that never did much but bark at everyone that walked by so.... I thought it was appropriate! The avatar came from Grangier's web site. They sell that sign.

The guys at the VFW gave me a bottle of Four Roses single barrel bourbon for my birthday last month. I just opened it up tonight, oh wow is it good. I was going to have just one glass but that turned into four. Which ended brings me to where I am now, a little buzzed and playing Karliene songs on my wave radio. All in all a good night so far. It's kind of a tradition at our VFW, on your birthday you get a top shelf bottle of your favorite spirit. Sometime in the future, hopefully long into the future the USA will be gone. When that happens and history looks back on our legacy as a people, if we are remembered for nothing more than producing the worlds finest whiskey then I think we could have done far worse!

This is reminding me of a great but overused Shakespeare quote. Present company excepted of course!