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Hurlshort

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  1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100306/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran So apparently the President of Iran is calling 9/11 a big lie. Now you have video of the event and you have a group claiming credit for the event. I can understand him going after the War on Terror and all that, as it hasn't been all that effective at wiping out Al Queda, but this is fairly delusional stuff, up there with his Holocaust stance. The really disturbing part is you have a highly placed politician feeding bold faced lies to his entire country. The US has a lot of misinformation floating around, but if a president was this delusional he'd be impeached in a day.
  2. It is really buggy though, I've had it lock up a few times when my connection was on the fritz.
  3. Mao is responsible for the emancipation of the Chinese people from Japanese imperialism and Nationalist military dictatorship. Stalin is responsible for mass industrialization and victory in the Second World War. Their successes outweigh their "crimes." Even if you were to subscribe to a Machiavellian philosophy, that doesn't make much sense. If the deaths are what led to Chinese emancipation or Russian Industrialization, then you might have an argument for the means justifying the end. As it stands, both Mao and Stalin did a tremendous amount of damage to their countries at the end of their lives with no clear justification.
  4. I hope so. It would be a shame if anyone was able to pirate it.
  5. I bought the Orange Box and I don't remember having to patch it to get it to work. That being said, I'd probably avoid using Steam if I was on dialup.
  6. I'm not sure where LoF gets the idea everyone hates socialism here. Even the US, which is more resistant to socialist ideals than Europe, still has programs like welfare. Now when you jump on the communist train and start choo chooing, that's usually when you get the collective raised eyebrows.
  7. Without cake it is Portal in name only! It's probably going to just be Half-Life with Cake.
  8. Yeah, I have a decent MacBook, but the graphics card is pretty weak. Still, it will be nice to play some of the older games from Steam on it if they manage to make them OSX possible.
  9. Don't beat yourself up about it. I'll be honest, when you first announced your engagement I was like awesome! But then I heard about the four kids and I was like baggage! And now with the breakup I'm like bullet dodged! Seriously, you were taking on a lot to get into a relationship with a girl with multiple kids, and if she isn't going to completely adore you for being willing to do that, then she isn't worth your time.
  10. Zaeed is just a bonus character. As a DLC, he can't have any real importance to the main campaign because he is completely optional. So yeah, after his mission, he is just a filler guy.
  11. I didn't really even get what Kiro meant by the comment. Maybe it was just a bad joke or something. We are here for you Kor, whether you need to vent or just talk about other stuff.
  12. Because it was hilarious, probably. I mean, super nerdy, but still quite funny by both Killian and Boo.
  13. Would you like to address what happened to India after 1991? Because that would seem pretty relevant here.
  14. Politicians will bemoan the whole big government all day long to get votes, but they don't really want small government. That is their meal ticket. We've been having these same arguments since the Article of Confederation and I just don't see any dramatic changes on the horizon. It's all posturing.
  15. The US has faced much bigger divisive issues in its history than health care. Maybe we just need to let the politicians duel it out with pistols again.
  16. I'm not trying to be harsh, but I wouldn't call it a relationship if you haven't even kissed yet. So technically you can't be dumped.
  17. My wife always tells me her next marriage will be for money. I don't think that advice will help any of you, but its all I got.
  18. Wow, that's quite a bitter take on life. On the side, my daughter's new favorite word is delicious, and she runs around shouting Super Skylar and calling me Super Daddy. I guess my life is officially over. I'm really hoping for another update from sluggo soon. It's a fairly fascinating evolution watching him become a lady's man.
  19. That was about the only funny thing in Year One the movie. And as funny as it is, I don't know if it is four year old dead corpse revival funny.
  20. Wow, what did they do to you for that much? I was in surgery for about 2 hours to get a rod put in my leg.
  21. That isn't the way our hospitals work.
  22. That reminds me, I got my hospital bill the other day. For my lovely two night stay, the bill was $75,000. Luckily I have double health coverage. The ambulance ride was $1700.
  23. Congrats! Pictures or it didn't happen I'm hoping you've at least got the first kiss at this point.
  24. That was definitely an epic hockey game. The one silver (get it?) lining for the US team is they were the youngest team in the tourney, and they will be able to keep that core together for at least a couple more Olympics.
  25. The PSN setup sucks, is the main reason.
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