Jumbie

Whether it's alcohol, acid, ecstacy or pot, music makes it better.

For me, I've gotten fond of The Who's 'Sparks'. It's pure instrumental and lifts the soul. (I know that sounds wanky but you tend to think that way when you're high)

Regime

Calibrate

Coalition

Degrade

Human Shield

Collateral Damage

Embedded

I gotta see this movie someday...

Hey, the instrumental version of 'Heart will go on' is great. I guess Celine's police-siren voice is the real problem.

What's MMA?

So, is Mr. Spock an Elf or what?

Yikes!

Antaran Battlecruisers!

I see Mulan come down here to Blargh every now and again and let off steam about her edventures in the teaching world.

But, she's in the wrong place. She needs to be getting a drink over at the bars...

We got a Boobies thread and a cock thread going.

Aren't we an egalitarian board?

Well, I'm off ta shave...

free Dork Tower?

Dammit, someone send me a care package!!!

I'm stuck in the land behind god's back...

Ain't no such thing as friendly fire

I've never seen a live rock show....!

Still, my university did have an old blues guitarist drop by for a lunchtime show once. He had an acoustic guitar and there were maybe 100 of us at the most in the audience at the GC Pit (lotsa people coming and going).

This guy sang with a great deep emotion and took time between songs to tell us about Chicago blues and delta blues and what it was like for him growing up. His real art was storytelling, both in his music and his relationship with the audience.

I had been interested in the Blues before that show from a history-of-rock point of view. After that, though, I couldn't get enough of the stuff.

"If you don't start acting the way I want, then how am I supposed to love you unconditionally?"

It just gives me a great bg case of the giggles to think that I've actually encountered real live people with the names Dick Johnson and Peter Willey.

Also, Matthew Cockburn.

I am Baghdad, in the land of Iraq.

Once, this was Mesopotamia, birthplace of Western Civilization.

I have given the world art, music and fables. Babylon, Sumeria and Ur, my long dead sisters lie buried in the sand.

Gilgamesh pursued eternal life here. Alexander pursued glory here. The British came after oily riches.

Today, 'The Mustache' lords over my people with an iron fist. His enemies' silicon tipped spears seek him out with angry fire, but it is my people who feel the pain. In the desert, a Steel Wave rushes in to break my back.

Tomorrow, a new master takes me (Gently, he claims)

Tonight the youngest ones cry. History means nothing next to the oldest fears.

There's no accounting for taste...

Ahgh. We'll all be having FRENCH toast again soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/internat...20CND-EURO.html

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I don't see how france considers themselves a "true friend" to the US like you say jumbie, not when their trying to pull these kind of diplomatic tricks.

I did say the French PEOPLE saw themselves as friends.

The govt of France has other (cynical) reasons.

Just as Many Americans support this war for other reasons than their leaders - who have been wanting this war since before sept 11th. (Esp Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz) to show American superiority to the world.

IC, the effort to try and restrain US power has never been a secret for France. Their foreign minister is especially thought to be pushing for a role for France in the world, which will give it greater leverage in Europe itself. With Europe becoming more integrated that's a definite issue for them.

Warcraft has some funny stuff. Especially if you click on the units over and over.

Duke Nukem was corny, but funny too.

You know... Keeping this whole Freedom fries thing in mind:

Turkey decided not to let US troops attack Iraq from their territory...

Thanksgiving is gonna be a whole lot different this year :darwin: :kat: :stabbed: :mohawk:

Saddam Would not attack FRANCE! France is Saddam's best ally. And western business partner.

But there's nothing to stop Saddam from attacking Arabia, Israel, Kuwait or even a US carrier group with nukes.

WHY?

Because in the past, America had promised to respond to a nuclear attack with nuclear weapons of their own. That kept the Russians honest.

But the US would never retaliate against the PEOPLE of Iraq for what their leader did. The US would end up looking like the monsters and alienate a lot of the world in a huge way.

So Saddam can be fairly sure that a nuclear attack would not be met with a nuclear response.

Actually, The Russians planned to fight Hitler all along. They just entered into a peace treaty with Germany so that they could get time to build up their forces.

The French are still in Alliance with the US. they never broke any agreement.

NATO is a defensive alliance, which states that an attack on one is an attack on all.

The US is attacking another country FIRST. So the Alliance doesn't enter into it.

The French have no obligation to follow the US into a fight that the US goes looking for. The French people Genuinely believe that it's wrong to go to war so quickly. They aren't Saddam supporters.

They're wrong, in my opinion, but France has a right to do that.

I remember something the French President said - "Only your real friends tell you when you're wrong."

The French see themselves as friends stopping America from doing sometihng it shouldn't do.

No, No, No NO.

This is all wrong.

France was wrong to oppose the UN resolution, especially if they did it out of selfish reasons.

BUT

we can't expect them to support the US just for WW2.

First of all, the US didn't rescue France. Russia beat the Germans. THey killed 10 Germans for every 1 that the US got. And they lost 20 Million people doing it. So, if the French owe anyone anything it's the Russians.

Second, France gained freedom from Germany so they have a right to excercise that freedom. And to think that France owes the US is like a jerk who takes a girl out for dinner and thinks that she owes him some pussy.

France SHOULD have supported the US resolution, but not out of some imaginary gratitude.

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Something else: We all like to make fun of the French's military 'glory', but if the US had shared a border with Germany in 1940, they would have gone down just as quick. They had no proper tanks, no proper airplanes and would have stood no chance against the incredible German war machine (which was to the rest of the world then, what the US is now.)

*Gack* *cough* *retch* *uggh* "EEwww" *spit* "Goddamn"

What's in this shit?

Ammonium Carbonate - 156g !

Who the hell makes cold medicine from AMMONIA?

-------2 hours later--------

Man, that stuff really worked. My head's all clear.

"Still have to pay me a million dollars to take more of it though."

Girls with ANIMALS want to sell me a refinanced mortgage and Herbal Solutions Inc think I need a 'larger, stronger cock!"

Opening my email inbox is such an adventure these days...