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This thread just oozes originality.

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Jeff, the ultimate goal would have been outright victory over the North. What Nixon was working toward was short of that. He was pressing for a negotiated stalemate, POWs exchanged, a line drawn in the mud (ala Korea), etc. I believe that wouldn't have been too terribly difficult to obtain had certa...

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Considering it was Nixon's election platform and the primary focus of his second term to bring American troops home while leaving South Vietnam capable of shouldering the war on it's own I'd term it neither absurd nor a stretch to speculate he may have been able to pull it off. Once cut off at the k...

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Arguing by analogy is pointless since the *parallels* are often made of straw. Disregard Stein's inclusion of liberal presidents' shortcomings if you find it upsetting but his point still stands by itself: Nixon was committed to ending the war but through Peace With Honor and not high-tailing it out...

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Cable.

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How will history judge Felt? An interesting perspective from Ben Stein. * * * Deep Throat and Genocide By Ben Stein Published 6/1/2005 12:22:42 AM Re: The "news" that former FBI agent Mark Felt broke the law, broke his code of ethics, broke his oath and was the main source for Carl Bernste...

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Anything that shows up with a mask on looking for handouts gets politely dropped into the river.

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where I is we gots ourselfs lots of foxes. cute damn things. specially the youngins, like it always is. every year the momma and poppa foxes raise up a litter of kits in the field. all spring summer the kits play in the field and make a awful rackit learnin how to be regular foxes. fox cries sound l...

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Coontang!

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I'm reminded of the Simpson's episode in which Homer creates his own religion. I have a suspicion that today's friends will be tomorrow's target practice.

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Thanks, SR, and thank your buddies, too. You're all better men than most.

/salute

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Nice work, Pop, keeping your wits about you. :thumbup: Today you are a sheepdog.

Glad to hear everything worked out for the best. It'll be a great story to tell at her wedding.

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Lots of places donate their day-old food to homeless shelters, etc., but for obvious reasons (food poisoning, for example) they do NOT just set up a buffet for any human/animal that wants to dumpster dive. Yep, it seems cold-hearted but waste disposal in a society has to be strictly controlled to av...

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Excellent camera, Kor. A little pricey, imo, but that's based on my budget, not yours. ;) Digital cameras are like fruit right now until they reach a resolution plateau, meaning it will not hold it's resale value very well, but ya gotta jump in sometime and that's a fine prosumer-level camera to beg...

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Actually, Chipper, it's been sort of Canada's Watergate (much worse, really) and widely reported upon in Canada (within government restrictions). The American MSM, in contrast, does seem to be actively ignoring the story. That site says $100 million but I've read it has since been estimated to be as...

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http://www.snopes.com/risque/caught/pumpkin.htm Sorry, B. Anyway, why would he be screwing a carriage?

After all, that's what turns into a pumpkin at midnight.

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Nice job and great post, Vindy, looks like it was alot of fun. Are you heading for an auto design/engineering sort of degree? :thumbup:

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um, no. If the insurgency began after the Saddam photos were published, you might have a point. Since it didn't, there is no cause and effect as there was when Newsweek published it's desecration claim. The two incidents bear no resemblance to each other and trying to draw a parallel between them in...

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^x2@Jeff250.

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I thought The Scotsman was a wee bit more accurate in it's description than the BBC.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=540962005

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Whoa, that's one impressive looking shooter.

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News you can use.

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Personally I've always thought American biker gangs (black leather/chrome, male honor code, long hair/bad teeth, weapon fetish, rowdy fighters/partiers) were the inspirational source for Klingons, rather than any single ethnic group.

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Only an unsaved idiot would have a hard time seeing how obvious it is that Star Trek's, Klingons, are actually Arabs in disguise.

I guess you can't argue with Landover Baptist.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was roid's source without him realizing it's a parody site.

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the klingon-arab link is fact.

Attribution? Granted I've never been a Trek fanatic but that's the first time I've heard Arabs were Roddenberry's inspiration for the bad guys.

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Jeff, no one needs to accept shoddy reportage. The problem I see is allowing the use of too many anonymous sources. That is a phenomenon that's been growing steadily and dangerously since the days of Watergate. Editors have to start demanding more on-the-record attribution, especially when peoples l...

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TNG was good but all the various spin-offs after TNG were insipid I'd-like-to-buy-the-universe-a-Coke politically-correct caca.

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Remove the Korans from prison. Simple.

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FC, you'll have to be more clear on why this is upsetting. As you probably know, yanks don't give two shakes about soccer and I doubt anyone of us has heard of the guy that purchased your team.

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Woodrow, firstly, Air America was the CIA so that's apples/oranges to Hughes. Secondly, what significance does restrictive helicopter RoE have to your theme of war profiteering? Are you suggesting that the US wanted damaged helicopters (and dead pilots that took alot of time/money to train) so that ...

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Psychiatric medical studies on MDMA are older than raves. That was my point. This is a dog-bites-man story. Use came before abuse. That MDMA is again in a clinical trial for folks considered emotionally blocked should be of little surprise unless you frame your reference from a point of view of MDM...

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Far out! Who knew that a drug designed so kids could get their groove on at all-night parties would end up with an actual medical use?

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Matrox Parhelia. I run triple head but it can also run dual head with video out for WYSIWYG video production. There's no going backward once you've gone triple. :D Edit: Didn't notice the tuner requirement. It does not have that but I'm sorta waiting until a well-made HDTV card comes available. Righ...

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Let's just combine it into one massive *Global Overpopulation of Obese SUV Drivers!!!*. That may still draw the desired reaction. :fear:

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Heh, I was just Googling "Overpopulation Myth" when you posted, Lothar. :P Anyway... ^x2 From what little attention I pay to birth rates, the latest news seems to be that in developed nations birth rates are dropping to worrisome levels (especially Japan and Europe, IIRC). It is true, howe...

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Libre Belgique newspaper reported that an agent who was "without a doubt under the influence of antidepressants" had discharged his weapon.

Just a wild guess but sounds like he's on the wrong meds. Apparently he could use a little target practice as well.

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Nelson Mandela.

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Thanks for the feedback.

All opinions welcome and I'll make sure to get things buttoned up so as not to be either a fire hazard or interfere with anyone else's television/phone usage.

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Gonna convert a system I have to a server. Thing is it needs a case and I don't want to buy one so I was thinking of making sort of an *art* server by just arranging the components (MB, PSU, HDD) within a frame and hanging it on the wall (or something like that). Can I simply affix everything onto a...

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Hmm... scarey... nazi... bent on world domination... Seems like a vaguely familiar allegation but I just can't put my finger on where I've heard it before.

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