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I haven't checked out the web site yet but I've got to agree with LoF (can you imagine that?) about WWI. In those days Europe was like a wolf pack with too many wolves in it. The only thing that might have changed would be who fought with who and when. The colonial disputes, strangulation of trade, etc would still be the central cause. The assasination was just the match that lit the powder. The powder was still there without it. What might have changed is the US involvement. The US was far more isolationist back then, and far less developed than Europe. Had the Zimmeman Incident not happened I believe the Lusitania would not have been enough for Congress to give Wilson a Declaration of War. If the US had remained neutral the outcome would have been the same, the isolationists would have been proven right, and the US Military would have missed out on 20 years of advancement and improvment. It would have made the US less likely to involve itself in WW2 and far less capable when it did. That would have made a big change in history.

Todays Results: Kelverin: 12-4 GD: 12-4 Volo: 10-6 End of Season Standings: Kelverin: 174-81 GD: 171-84 Volo: 166-89 Yes, I know the Jets-Bengals game is still on but I have a better chance of giving birth tonight than the Bengals do of pulling that one out. So Kelverin wins the season on a surge in week 15. I was never able to close the gap and Volo keot falling farther behind. Congrats Kelverin, you win a lifetime of free use of the Obsidian forums plus the chance to purchase your own copy of Alpha Protocol on the day it's released. We'll keep this going through the Super Bowl just to see what our recods end up looking like.

Not the last one. You're forgetting football. Speaking of which, how did the Giants make out today?

F*****G Bucs. What a crappy season. Defense sucks, O-Line sucks, need a reviever or two and an upgrade at running back. How many kickers have we used this year? I lost count. One draft isn't going to help. Next year dosn't look too good either. F*****g Bucs.

Maybe this wouldn't happen if you weren't actually my alt? Just a little... how do we say... food for thought. One of these days you are going to forget what name you logged in under and post something that will give you up! Thats how Sand/Killian/Hades/et al gets caught.

Which one? The one on Oakland Park and US1 was incredible. I can't remeber the name but it was great.

Hopefully you're referring to others (but I really can't tell who - everyone in this thread seems a separate entity), but because I'm still irked off that a certain moderator accuses me of being LoF (and used the possibility of banning him permanently to try and threaten me - again, go ahead!) I want to clarify that I am not him, and being accused of being him is pretty insulting, because I agree with him (and the way he acts) about as much as I do taks. /insecure rant Well, I wasn't exactly calling you out Krezy, but we have a saying here in Tennessee: "The guilty dog barks the loudest" Kidding of course.

It's cold here today. Damn cold. This global warming is just too much!

Is it just me or does anyone get the impression that there have not been as many actual people participating in this discussion as user names?

Last Weeks Results: Kelverin: 11-5 GD: 11-5 Volo: 8-8 Season Standings: Kelverin: 162-77 GD: 159-80 Volo: 156-83 Volo led the who season and just fell apart at the end! It's down to you an me now Kel.

Colts Browns Bears Niners Steelers Vikings Bucs Panthers Texans Cards Chargers Titans Ravens Eagles Broncos Jets Volo...where are you Volo? You've only got an hour and a half left!

Sorry Tig, I am only famliar with US based animal groups and the American Red Cross. The ones I contribute to regularly are listed in in the "communisim-is-great-and-you-should-be-killed-if-you-don't-agree" thread. One new one I'm adding next year it a local Memphis charity: Memphis Oral School for the Deaf. They are now offering free Cochlear Implants for low income deaf children allowing them to hear again. Many for thr first time. One thing I have heard several time and it makes sense I guess is that if you want your donations to benefit a certain country, donate to a group based in that country. Operating costs of international groups crossing borders and dealing with multiple governments are such that they tend to be financally inefficient with just 20-40% going to actual work and the rest lost in bueracracy. So if you wand you money benefiting New Zealand pick a group based there. That is not to say groups like Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, International Red Cross, etc don't do a lot of good in the world, just it costs more to do it.

I just found out, an old NWN module I made eight or nine years ago made it into the Hall of Fame over on the NWN Vault. I hadn't thought about that thing in a while. I'll have to DL it again and run through it.

What a freaking night! It was really great. I met my GF at the Blue Cafe for a light but romantic dinner, then off to the Peabody Hotel where the rooftop and penthouse were all the scene of the best New Years bash between St Louis and New Orleans. The champagne was free and flowing and the drinks were all top shelf. We had an incredible time. We met Marc Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies, we spoke for a little bit. Afterwards we stopped one of her friends places where there was an great party going on, then we went back to my house for more champagne on the porch at 4 am on a clear, cold night with coyotes howling in the distance. She's staying here untill tomorrow. Best NY in a long time.

Why wouldn't I? A century and a half ago, certain states tried it because they were caught in a social era of savage barbarism, against a tide of left-wing thought. They would be put down just as thoroughly. It has been established for nearly fifteen decades that states cannot secede. So, you are opposed to using military force to advance US goals and interests around the world but using it to kill and coerce Americans who want their freedom is ok huh? That really sums you up doesen't it? You do not believe in communisim because it is fair or right, you as much as say you favor it because it is oppressive and brutal. Interesting that you equate slave owning and the desire to live in economic and personal freedom together as savage barbarisim. You an Yushaa do have a lot in common. He is well known for posting long multi page rants on what a beautiful place the world would be if the nations would just rise up an kill all of the Americans. I guess that does it. You sir are a lost cause and discussion with you is a little pointless.

Why depressing Krezack? You are a young single college guy. If you have no other plans just walk into any bar near your university tonight and try to pick up an older woman. The best part about hunting cougars is they are also hunting you! Failing that I'm sure you can come up with something (or someone) interesting to do. I have a date tonight with a certain beautiful blonde nurse who managed to get two tickets to the party on top of the Peabody Hotel in downtown. Very swanky stuff. Only problem is I've lost a little weight this year and some of my best clothes did not fit right. I had to do a little shopping yesterday. Next year I'm buying some weight lifting equipment for the barn. I felt my best when I was 200 lbs (just under 91 kg for you metric types) and working out regularly. I have not done that much this year. Time to get back to it. Wow, a new years resolution to gain wait. Now that is backwards.

Also you gotta love how Christianity is now blamed for the Dark Ages. I thought it was the result on the collpase of the Western Roman Empire and the crumbling of the provincial govenments followed by the withdraw of the remaining legions to Constantinople. Their depature created a vaccum that was filled by barbarian tribes, local warlords, and a few remaining Romans with adequate military strengh to control a few miles of land. Most of these were NOT christians by the way. In Roma and all through the east Christianity had a firm hold but the western provinces still followed a plothestic version of the more traditional Roman beliefs. The barbarians largely followed the faith of ther people. I also noted there was no mention of the men who brought the Dark Ages to an end and brought on the renaissance, Charlamegne, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, I could go one. Every one of them were christians.

A divine experience is an experience with the divine. The point I am making is that a person who has a singular event without any witnesses still have that experience and that experience would be fact for them, even though it wouldn't be verifiable to another. If there was no physical evidence and no other witnesses of the murder, yet GD said he saw it happen, it would be a fact for him that the murder took place, while a exercise of belief for others. That really depends on my credibilty as a witness. If I were a drunk or drug addict, or just nuts and witnessed something it would have less weight than if I appeared to be just a normal person. That is where Nightshape disqualifies anything I might say about religion because he thinks I'm nuts (you know, my imaginary friend, God). I commented before about arrogance and hubris and how athiests were closer to communists than christians were. The theists (including killian, being hostile to God but still believing qualifies) on this board are not insulting or ridiculing the atheists, but it seems the reverse is not true. You gotta love his knee jerk response; anyone who has a different belief is deluded or crazy or ignorant. Like I said, arrogance and hubris enough to make LoF envious.

How sure of that are you? Honestly, people who post on the internet hardly remind me of the sort who would fight and die for their beliefs. Would you rebel against the US government, if there was a lawfully elected socialist or communist government? Humor aside here, I would not need to rebel. There would be a number of states that would seceede. I'd just go there. Let me turn that one around on you though, if you lived in a now truely socialist America and say half the states seceeded to form a new nation in the mold of the original US Constitution would you advocate war against them for reunification?

Poorly trained paramilitaries are hardly the threat you seem to think they are. Besides, if there's a revolution, it will have an appearance of propriety. Your reaction would seem disproportionate and wild to most. A revolution here is not going to occur tomorrow in some kind of socialist putsch. It will be the product of a generation's work, and of months of hard labor before the actual act. In 1904, it would seem as bizarre and insane to think of a socialist Russia as it is today to think of a socialist America. No sense of humor! Evidently you did not get it, you are the one who said there are no rights that are sacrosanct. Gun owners beleive the right to keep and bear is. So the ones who beleive in rights are the ones that own the guns. It was meant to be a little joke but I guess I did not set it up all that well. Besides, you strike me as a humorless fellow anyway.

Don'r worry Kill & KOTOR, this discussion is all academic anyway. LoF and those like him are a tiny fraction of a minority, and even if his ilk ever did gain any political power those of us who view individual rights as sacrosanct are the ones that own guns and are willing to use them.

Add to that the Gramm Leach Biley Act passed under Bill Clinton which allowed investment banks to merge operations with FDIC ensures savings banks, undoing a depression era law (The Glass Stengal Act) that was passed as a lesson learned from 1929. Also a BIG factor was the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act passed under Carter by an all democrat congress that got the federal governmet out of the business or regulating banks and setting interest rates. I laugh when I hear liberals and democrats complain about Wall Street being out of control and needing regulation. They used to be regulated, it was the DEMOCRATS who removed the regulations in the first place, then passed laws forcing them to loan to bad credit risks and then acted surprised when the whole thing collapsed. It was almost like they wanted the financial system to collapse, I'd say it was a conspiracy but they are not smart enough for that. Merely incompetent and lacking any idea how economies actually work.

Don't give me too much credit Hiro, I am convince the whole concept of anthropogenic global warming is just absurd to begin with. For example, last year I posted a whole week long series the BBC ran on Mars and Venus and how their surface temps were rising and falling at an even rate with the earth. Nobody here wanted to believe it. It's become a religion to these nitwits. They can't explain it, they can't conclusively prove it, the skeptics cannot disprove it. But they believe it. Ironicly the one who do are ususally the same ones who just can't use the same logic to believe in God. I find that very comical.

No sense of humor!

Lets all do as Al Gore suggests, abandon technology and return to feudal economics. It's a rough life but hey, the life expectancy was in the 40s so at least you did not have to deal with it for long.