Guard Dog
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*Sigh*... One troll thread wasn't enough huh?
Yes Christianity teaches selflesness. I am a Christian and I do believe in that. But you are missing a pretty major point. Becoming Christian is a choice everyone must make for themselves. We do not coerce. Under communisim if you do not go along you get a bullet in the head or get shipped off to a cold place to be worked to death. In fact in your other thread you seemd to think this was a good thing.
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Ahem...
B-U-C-C-A-N-E-E-R-S
Go Bucs!
Hey, hey Tampa Bay
The Bucs know how to shine
Hey, hey U.S.A.
The Bucs know how to shine
If we're in trouble that's O.K.
We can pull it out
Because we know we're on the top
When we stand up
Stand up and shout!
Hey, hey Tampa Bay
The Bucs know how to shine
Hey, hey U.S.A.
The Bucs know how to shine
Give a cheer for the Buccaneers
Go Bucs!
Bucs 20 Saints 17 WHOOOYAAA!!!!!
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Christmas was nice. She stayed at my place until Sunday morning. Bowing to the advice of folks here and the little voice in the back of my head I kept the Tiffanys thing hidden and hit the Germantown mall on Thursday for a few gifts that were nice but not so....much. It may make a reappearence on Valentines day depending on how things work out. Then again i may just return it. You can buy a lot of beer and dog food for what that thing costs.
I'm off work for the rest of the year and it is a clear and beautiful day so I'm going to take a walk over to Cold Creek and do some fishing. I'm bringing my camera this time, maybe I'll finally get a shot of that otter that only shows up when you don't bring a camera.
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Haven't been in this thread in a while. Happy Christmas to one and all. Hey, GD, maybe you can run for congress this upcoming year. You might have a chance.
Heh, no thanks, I do NOT want to go through THAT again!
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Merry Christmas everyone
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woah man, that's a bit fancy
you just slept with her, it's not like you're going out with her again - right?
She was not just a one nighter because we have history. Plus after talking the past few days we're going to give it another try but take it slow. Was that too much? I can still hit a mall somwhere tomorrow and just hold on to that. Jeez, it would have been a hell of a lot less complicated had I just not taken her to lunch!
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Last Weeks Results:
Kelverin: 10-6
GD: 9-7
Volo: 9-7
Season Standings:
Kelverin: 151-72
GD: 148-75
Volo: 148-75
A bad week for all, tho less bad for Kelverin who pulls further ahead.
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Looks like it will be a white Christmas this year. I just heard the weather for West Tenn. light rain and falling temps for today and tomorrow and snow flurries on Friday. Since a certain good looking blonde nurse will be spending Christmas with me this year I had to by one more christmas present. So I went to Tiffanys website and made a last minute buy and had it sent overnight. It got here today. And no it is not an engagement ring. Been there, done that.
So, here is the dilemma. I don't know where things are going with this girl. We dated for a few months after the accident and she really helped me with a lot of the BS I was going through back then. But, we also had some fundamental personality conflicts. We just sort of got back together a week ago. I wanted to get her something nice but not too suggestive so I settled on this: http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Item.aspx?...n+6-ri+-ni+0-t+
Is this ok? Does it send the wrong message? It seems pretty neutral to me but I gurantee she will have experts in male psychology from all over the world analyzing what I meant by it. The irony is it meant nothing.
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I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to do christmas shopping. I might be postponing it this year a bit.
Still not done? I hit Amazon for everything this year. I had it all delivered gift wrapped to it's recipient. Not real personal I know but by God it was easy. You should get a pass this year though, not like it's easy for you to get around right now.
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That's why we need to have more power for state government and less at the federal level. The states would be able to do things the federal government can only screw up.
*GD stands up and applauds*
Another convert to Federalism. Way to go Awesomness, I knew you had it in you!
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Now reading When the Game was Ours by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. I'm not a big fan of the NBA but this is a great read. If only the current NBA players had as musch class and respect for the game and each other as these guys did.
Also reading Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned by Cathy Scot. This is of particular interest because one of my dogs is a Katrina dog.
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I don't see how anyone would advocate the creation of a communist regime, USSR style, unless they are right bastards (right and not left, geddit??
), or not very bright.In LoFs case it might be a little of both because I think that is exactly what he wants.
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That is a real bummer Hurlshot. I know exactly what you're going through and it sucks. The upshot is the hardware expedites the healing process. But it also hurts like hell when it gets cold. Relax and feel better.
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to get welfare you need to prove you're actively jobseeking.
Actually thats unemployment compensation you are thinking of. Welfare has no such requirement. But it should.
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Lare I see the logic you are using but you need to understand something. The US is a market economy. That means there are no price controls, etc. For example only: A hamburger at McDonalds costs $2. McDonalds decided on that price based on simple economics, a 2-4% profit after all the expenses to get it from the cow to the wrapper the ugly girl hands you at the counter. Incidently in the US most profit margins are LESS than 4%. Greedy cororations huh? Anyway, that is figuring in the cost of the labor of all the people who worked to put the hamburger in your hand, most of whom did earn minimum wage. Let's face it, that is not skilled labor there. If the price of the labor increases, the price of the hamburger also increases to keep pace with the additional cost of production. You see the trouble here? It's great that the minimum wage earner has more money but that can buy less with it because costs have increased. Thats why increases in the minimum wage do so little good. That was never intended to be a living wage. It was intended to be for kids and adults in need of supplemantal income.
The idea should not be to increase the minimum, the idea should be to create a marketplace with enough skill jobs and applicants to fill them. The creation part is easy, get the government out of the way and let business men/women do business. As for the second there are literally thousands of opportunities for free/nearly free adult education in the US. Even college. I earned a BSEE from a State University in Florida and the Federal Government paid for more than half of it. I was working on my MSEE before I lost my old job and my company was paying for it. I was born with fewer opportunities than most, my father was a barely employed dump truck driver, my mother was disabled. I grew up in a mobile home in a dirt poor town. But when I got out of high school I took advantage of the same opportunities that are trhere for everone and my life turned out just fine. Thats why I get aggaravated hearing people say we don't do enough for the poor here in the US. There are tens of thousands of opportunites to stop being poor but we do not spoon feed them to you. Like Killian said, you have to get off your ass and work.
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I just asked myself "What would Shryke do?" and let things go from there.
You put on a latex tutu, wore make-up and grew a blue beard?
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I'd rather pay 40% of my income in taxes and have a safe, peaceful community with an as small as possible gap between the rich and the poor than have a bit more money and have to be scared that some neglected slum thug will kill me for my shoes.
Heck, I'm paying 40% of my income in taxes now and we don't have that. Whats the magic number? 70%? LoF would say it's 100% but he's wrong. Goverment is incapable of creating a "fair" or "equitable" society without reducing everyone to the lowest common denominator. In other words, you would not have to worry about the slum thug robbing you because you're just as broke as he is. It's funny though the leaders of these totalitarian/communist never seem to miss any meals while their people are starving.
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On Friday I got a call from a girl I dated a few months back. She wanted to talk so we met for lunch at a nice place near where she works (she's a RN). So, anyway, one thing led to another and we ended up back at my place. Anyway, she just left this morning. I have a feeling this was probably not the best move I could have made because we are still the same people who had major differences last summer. But once she was actually at my place, well, I just asked myself "What would Shryke do?" and let things go from there.
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Last Weeks Results:
Kelverin: 13-3
GD: 11-5
Volo: 8-8 (ouch)
Season Standings:
Kelverin: 141-66
GD: 139-68
Volo: 138-69
Kelverin takes the lead for the first time this season!
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Generational wealth is literally the Worst Thing.Wealth is for those who owns it LoF, either by hard work, by being smart, or being an heir to one who was.No. Hell no. I'm an inheritor; my grandfather left me an obscene sum, and my grandmother will leave me even more. That doesn't make me any less motivated to contribute; if anything, it makes me more motivated, because I feel obligated to increase the family fortune. Why is that bad?
So wait, getting money given to me makes me less motivated but if it's given to you it makes you more motivated?
Does it make you less motivated? If so that says something about your character, not our society, economic system or way of life. Just as it says something about KOTORs character if he is motivated to live up to his inhertiance.
I could make the same statement about welfare. There are some who recieve it who use it to turn their circumstances around and get back up on their feet. There are others who arrange their lives to live within it's means and settle in for a carefree life of doing nothing and living off the labor of others like some kind of parasite. I do not pretend to know the ratio between the two but you can bet large there is far more of the latter than the former.
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I tried but I drew the Hades/Sand/Killian card on the first draw and lost my turn. Odd game, the only way to win is not to play.
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I've got the Saints for tonight. Still very busy. I've got a real, live woman in my house this weekend. I don't want to waste a miniute with picks!
), or not very bright.
No but that would have been another way to go.
Capitalism is un-Christian.
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Oh, right. Good point there and very relevant to the world today. I mean, heck, that just happened last month right? I can certainly see how Christinas today might feel bad about it you know. Why I just got back from killing muslims in Acre myself just last week. Deus Vult and all that. While you are at it why not trot out the inquisition, destruction and forced conversions of the Aztecs, Incas, Patagonians, Insert-Native-Population-Name-Here. Being Christian means I have to answer for all of that crap too right? Why is it everytime on this board someone mentions that there just might...might be a glimmer of virtue in the Chrstian religion every horrible act done in its name by people hundreds or even thousands of years dead gets brought up to impugn the entire philosophy and everyone who follows it?
The one I really feel sorry for is God. Imagine having to watch all the horrors humanity has commited in His name.