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Taking GF here for dinner tonight: http://www.eighty3memphis.com/index.php

And what, pray tell, did the creepy old professor want you to do for HIM? Hopefully nothing you will have difficulty living with. Kidding of course!

Now that IS a fine way to spend a morning.

Working around the house today. Then this afternoon I have some real work to do planning POs for a new DAS install in West Memphis.

Guess what I read. I read 3 males in 3 days and I was little WTF for a moment. I guess that would play on the old joke "what's the ultimate in trust between cannibals? oral sex."

Congrats! Today low budget racing games. Tomorrow Elder Scrolls VI, or VII since I'm sure they are already working on VI.

The same day UN inspectors arrive and that's the perfect excuse for the West, already gunning for him, to step in after the requisite videos of dead children and crying adults, etc. Seems a really weird decision to make. Ah well, hope this adventure just costs from the TLAMs. Malc it sounds like you are doubting that Assad is behind the attacks, remember he doesn't care about Canada or the Canadian people. I heard one of his favourite meals is Roast Moose, sorry to upset you but you need to realize he is a bad person The problem is the rebels are bad people too. there are no good guys here. The longer they kill each other the better off the world will be in the long run.

I always thought mine would be either "Are you sure the circuit breaker is off?" or "Hey y'all watch this!" But I'll settle for "What the hell is THAT?"

Japanese teams play small ball. Single, bunt, single. They tend to have a smaller strike zone too. A MLB team vs a NPB with a Japanese umpire would give up a lot of walks. But would also score a lot of runs since the average fastball in the NPB is 88-91 mph. They throw a lot more breaking pitches but good hitters can figure those out by their 2-3 AB.

Just a heartbreaking loss to the halos tonight. Couple that with the Sox routing the O's and it was a bummer of a night.

You take care of yourself Nep! Your chosen profession has a reputation of chewing people up with stress already.

Because if there is one thing I know it is that a number of nations have already decided how they want this to turn out and are more than willing to distort the facts, or ignore them to achieve that outcome. That is not to say they are wrong, only that I don't believe a word they say. For all that matters. I would nor believe the US government right now if it told me rain was wet.

Realistically most of us would end up dead in the fall of civilization... and the only winners are the cowards. Why? Because they(we) are opportunists. And generally understand that when crap is going down the drain you can't play knight in shining armor. Admittedly in part this would depend upon how the world was ending... in a epidemic you'd probably find family units sticking together but being incredibly xenophobic (in case the sickness jumped). In a more nuclear ending you'd see people trying to act as larger groups to survive, but it's unlikely they'd be larger than a township. Although the initial chaos that wiped out most people would have individuals operating on their own, or maybe clinging to their dependent relationship (so parents and young offspring). Depressingly those who'd be trying to be Chivalrous or whatever would end up getting crushed 'neath pragmatism and base instinct. Sorry my bipolar has been acting up so I've been looking at the dark side of things. I can see it now. Setting: Post Armageddon Iowa Scene: A burned out building Action: Calax huddles over a fire dressed in dirty rags cooking a human leg (not his) over a dwindling fire. Galaxy New Radio playing in the background.

Hey I am 100% in favor of charity groups. For all they good they do. They do manage to help in small ways. But I'm 100% opposed to using the military, or even diplomatic power to effect regime change. How does it help the world to change a brutal military backed dictatorship with a brutal military backed theocracy? The one thing I can tell you for certain is that the outcome of this will NOT be a free and democratic Syria no matter who wins. And you will not be able to distinguish the winner by the post conflict body count. Besides, there seems to be evidence (that the Obama admin will ignore because it does not advance their goals) that the rebels were the ones that have used gas. There are no good guys here. To reiterate; To Hell With Them!

Now reading The Red and Savage Tounge by FJ Atkinson. It's set in post Roman Britain. I think you guys would like this one. It has swords. Also reading The Boy From Reactor 4 by Orest Stelmach. I just started it but I'm hooked. If you like Dan Brown you'll like this. The style at least, not the subject matter.

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.