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Mmmm... corymbic implant.

You can gather sex in health class? Damn. Back on topic, gentlemen... The fact is that we can confidently expect some other twit to assume the role of Grand Poobah in Al Qaeda, and failing that some other group. However, that does not eman we shouldn't do something. E.g. I find an incontinent dog in my living room. Removing the dog will not stop poop. It will stop poop in my living room, and it will stop this particular poop. If you follow me.

I'd say , no. I'm open to discussing it though. I have no problem at all with homosexuals of any flavour in the military. I know some, and they do as fine a job as they always have. In fact they work better because they're not constantly worried. However, with the greatest respect, sex of any kind confuses what is by nature a demanding and necessarily simplistic arrangement - military discipline. By undermining discipline you put people's lives at unnecessary risk. Including particularly the persons concerned. So I view it as a kindness to the perpetrators to place every possible obstacle in the way. Having sex with animals is by way of the impossibility of giving consent, a form of cruelty. Fetishising cruelty is not something I would care to encourage in the armed forces.

I think whoever plays Jesse would have to be some unknown new guy. Really make the character distinctive. I think Colin Farrell could do Cassidy.

And a damn fine job you're doing too, if I may say.

One more problem is that - in the UK - most insureres won't cover the cost of replacing songs from iTunes on a lost or stolen player.

"The loudest lie is the one we tell ourselves." - Eric Hoffer. Hoffer sounds like an interesting chap, if anyone has read him tell me if his books are worth getting.

I personally indulge only in the vices of drinking and pie eating. However, I am of the same opinon as the British Medical Journal in that there is no medical evidence to suggest that marijuana is worse for you than alcohol, and as such I consider it hypocritical to make it illegal. I find it particularly strange that it is as illegal as it is. A friend of mine who also does not use marijuana pointed out that by making something illegal which everyone is doing we undermine respect for the law. We disinhibit people from committing other crimes.

Hey! You know damn well I was/am behind the regime change in Iraq. I just wanted it doen after we'd finished the job in Afghanistan.

It is in my opinion a nonsense to talk about fighting terrorism. That's like talking about fighting swimming. It's a technique of fighting. But we can fight a single guy who has chosen to pursue terrorsit goals, using the rule of law to try and avoid nobbling innocent people. We can also try to nobble terrorist operations, by tying their shoelaces together etc. But terrorism is emphatically not going to go away. On the other hand, if we fail to successfully prosecute our existing terrorist targets, and bring people like Bin Laden visibly to justice then we will only see a rise in this technique. And as Meta so kindly observed, that was my point. We've removed the Talibs from the capital and many other areas, but until we give the PBA (poor bloody Afghans) some sort of alternative to a subsistence/tribal/bandit economy then we can only expect trouble. This means actually spending some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid we promised them five years ago. I'm not saying prosperity is the whole answer, though. It's a complex problem and it needs a complex solution. I mean, hell, we have terrorists born and raised in the UK in quite comfy surroundings. EDIT: Gfted1. I don't know anyone in the services above the rank of corporal who feels more indiscriminate firepower is the answer. That road leads ultimately to a war of attrition and genocide. Which while a technical possibility isn't going to involve either of our countries. Half measures on that road are the worst of all worlds. You have only to look at the 'both hands' approaches of countries like Turkey, Colombia, and the old apartheid South Africa to see that unfettered does not mean more effective. Generally it means more brutal and sloppy.

Preacher and Transmetropolitan. Awesome. If they ruin Preacher though, I'd hate them forever.

Sorry, buddy, I'm rubbish at that sort of thing.

Playing PST for the fighting would be like eating a sandwich for the bread. Or something. :"> Anyway, yay BG3!

http://politicalhumor.about.com/ Shields up Mr. Chekov! Klingons in the White House, Trekkies in the Congress. God help us. What is the hand basket we're in and where are we going? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Of course he could have been referring to the ancient, pre-civilized Vulcans ... perhaps the common ancestor of Romulan-Vulcans ..? /nerd <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's going nerd! Someone fetch a broom!

We don't have enough troops in Afghanistan. A failure to successfully prosecute Afghanistan has lanced the boil in such a way that it festers worse.

When my godfather died I got really really angry and broke stuff.

Hmmmm... perhaps there is one of those internet tests we can make them sit?

Sorry, read this before and somehow missed the central message. For what little they are worth you have my sincere condolences. I have no profound wisdom to offer, which won't surprise you. But I shan't pretend I do, which might.

Mmmm... broken pizza. *drools*

What if he actually WAS a klingon? *thinks* It would explain a lot about Rumsfeld.

Two words: termites; marmite.

Oh. And I've come up with an even better idea. A chicken that lays exploding eggs.

Good point.

I'd have to agree though, that going after Iraq at the same time was somehwat similar to operation Barbarossa. For heaven's sake people, it's military science 101. Don't have wars on two fronts.

It's no worse than listening to supposedly competent politicos. Look at Dog.