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Eych! Cats ask for it by name! The most shocking practical joke in movie history <<Hurl alert, have bucket ready>> Best comic timing and placement of epicac Best farting animal Best Commercial involving a horse The Unluckiest Guy in all of Film, TV or Radio

WL- This is all very simple. You are something special. If he starts treating you like you are not, find someone who will.

Why would you be ashamed of biochemistry? DNA is one of the most highly respected journals in the field. I usually have to go to a university library to see it. Where do you get your groceries anyway? They've got better journals than Barnes & Ignoble.

Since I am ugly and evil, those creatures don't interest me. I've always been partial to Tolkien's Elves. It's good that Frodo had the damn ring because I would never had left Imladris or Lothlorien. This is where I go when you see me and you know that I'm not home. As for mystical beasts, I like Pegasi.

Saturday marks the 4th anniversary of the hurricane Katrina disaster that so completely trashed Mississippi and Louisiana that new maps had to be made. We had volunteers come to help from all over the United States. Thanks guys- Mississippians have a tradition of helping out during disasters in other states so- we've got your back if/when you need it. I want to single out a bunch of very special volunteers that came and stayed for months. They were Australians and New Zealanders and they were magnificent! They helped in every imaginable way: they helped the injured, they helped the homeless, they helped feed us, they helped calm us. They were here for us when we felt the most alone. In talking to them I soon discovered that many, perhaps most of them, had spent months helping out after the Christmas Tsunami. After Katrina, Mississippi and Louisiana were hot, smelly miserable places. The stench of death and decay was everywhere. In many places roads were washed out. Electricity was out for months. The smell of dead animals and decaying food from ruined freezers made everything smell horrible. These people chose to come and endure the hardships to help us when we needed it the most. We will never forget them. -A Grateful Mississippian

Jeez- and Marlin Perkins though he had a Wild Kingdom. Thankfully when I hear gunshots at night I know that the shooters are just drunk and having fun. They are excellent marksmen. If they were really shooting at anyone, they'd be one daid son' bitch1. __________________ 1- a colorful local dialect called Acadian redneck

Vicksburg 15-Year-Old Dies In Clinic Waiting Room Source Link VICKSBURG, Miss. -- A 15-year-old Warren Central High School student died Thursday while waiting to see a physician, the Warren County coroner said. Wesley Husband, of Vicksburg, was in the waiting room of The Street Clinic, at 104 McAuley Drive, at about 9:30 a.m. when he died, Coroner Doug Huskey said. Husband had been out of class since last Friday and had been suffering from flu-like symptoms, Huskey said. Husband had already seen a doctor once and was waiting Thursday to see a second doctor, Huskey said. Huskey said Husband's body has been sent to Jackson for an autopsy and results are expected late Thursday. ____________________________________________ Dallas County reports 1st swine flu death Aug. 27, 2009, 4:07PM Source Link DALLAS

I'm writing a game manual for an online game called Outer Core It is similar to Astro Empires but it expanded and the programmer is constantly working to improve and expand it. Check it out but be warned- it is addictive. Message me if you join __________________________________ Distribution: This handbook is for distribution to Weyland-Yutani Managers, Associates and Allies only. Unauthorized duplication or distribution is prohibited and may result in the total forfeiture of shares. Disclaimer: This Guide has been prepared by our analysts and contains some matters of opinion that not all operators share. In all cases, your own best judgment is the best guide. I. Selection of Colony Sites Some of the most critical decisions that you will make are the selection of colony sites. Choosing the right sites are critical for your development. As you have more bases, they are more expensive to build so you must get the most return out of each and every one. II. Selection Criteria A. Planets vs Moons Planets are larger than moons and have more readily available space for structures. Planets offer the advantage of having more usable space without having to terraform or build multi-level platforms. You can generally develop a planet to a higher degree than a moon because of the available space. The down side of planets is that advanced defenses like planetary shields and rings cost full price. Moons (and asteroids) have less available space and you will have to start terraforming them much sooner than planets. As the level of terraforming increases, so does the price so the space available on a moon costs more. The advantage of a moon is that advanced defenses cost less and are built faster on these smaller bodies. B. Fertility An attribute absolutely critical to the development of a potential base is its fertility. This is a gage of how much population a base site can support. In its application to the game, fertility simply means how many structures can be built per level of a hab complex. The lower the fertility of a potential base site, the more that space within a base will cost. For instance: a base site with a fertility of 4 will have fourty spaces for structures when you build 10 hab complexes. A base site with a fertility of 5 will have fifty spaces of structures when you build 10 hab complexes. A base site with a fertility of 6 will have sixty spaces of structures when you build 10 hab complexes. Generally speaking, avoid base sites with a fertility of less than 5. This will retard the development of the base and is very expensive to correct even with advanced technology. C. Mineral Resources Mineral Resources come in two forms: 1. Metals Metal content, usually between 1 and 5, has a direct bearing on how productive a planet can be. Available metals, in quantity, feed your industry. This must be a key consideration in the selection of any planet. As a general rule, try to find base sites with a metal rating greater than 3. 2. Crystals Crystals are somewhat rare and are only found on certain types of bodies. They are economically important but are only one of several considerations you should take into account in site selection. D. Energy Resources One of the key factors that you must take into consideration in selecting a base site is the availability of energy resources. Cheap, abundant energy drives industry and development. 1. Solar Solar energy is rated between 0 and 4. It is available on all sorts of planets, moons and asteroids. 2. Gas Gas energy is derived by gas pockets and accumulations available at a base site. Some types of planets and moons have better gas ratings than others. It is rated 0 to 4. 3. Hydro Power derived by the movement of water by hydroelectric dams or tidal harnesses is available only on oceanic and earth-like planets and moons. Hydro power is rated 0 to 4. III. Astro Types and Company Classifications Class 1 Class 1 planets and moons are the most useful from an economic and industrial standpoint. They are high in metal and or crystal content. Metal* Rocky Craters* Asteroid Belt** Class 2 Class 2 planets and moons are useful under some circumstances but are not considered the best all around choices by our analysts. Crystal* Gaia Earth-like Arid Asteroid* Class 3 Class 3 planets and moons are not recommended but may be chosen for base sites for strategic reasons. Glacial Tundra Toxic Radioactive Magma Oceanic __________________________ *- indicates crystals **- requires starbase IV. the Roles of Bases Bases can and should be optimized to fulfill various roles within your economy. It simply isn't practical to build all of your bases to perform multiple roles. A. The Alpha Site 1. Alpha Site Selection Considerations You will want to chose a base site that has the highest metal rating, available energy resources and the best fertility rating that you can find. 2. The role of the Alpha Site Your first base, out of necessity must fulfill multiple roles. You have to create basic technologies at your Alpha site and have enough industrial capacity to build defenses, and a fledgling fleet. B. Research Sites A couple of your planets will need to be dedicated to research because you will have to build 24 or so Labs. This doesn't leave a lot of space for large numbers of other types of structures. Gaia planets and moons have research bonuses and high fertility so they make very attractive dedicated research planets. The ability to build a large number of structures because of the high fertility cancels out their disadvantage of having a relatively low metal content. C. Economic Sites You may chose to build one or two of your bases to make money. Metallic, crater and crystal planets and moons excel in this role. Metallic and crater planets have high metal and crystal content and can be developed into very lucrative bases. Crystal planets have high levels of crystals but they have low metal content and fertility. They can be developed but understand their limitations going in. D. Industrial Sites Metallic, crater and rocky planets excel in this role. You'll want to build up high levels of metal refineries, robotic factories, nanobot factories, android factories and shipyards. At advanced levels add several levels of cybernetic technology and before you know it, you'll be driving that doomstar of your dreams. V. Mistakes with Bases Sometimes you make a mistake with a base. You pick one that has a low fertility or one that is in a hostile neighborhood and you just keep getting beaten down. If you have a base site that is wretched, sometimes the only thing to do is to disband it and rebuild it somewhere else. You will receive a credit for the base and its structures and a colony ship so that you can quickly rebuild the scrapped base. It is a drastic action but sometimes it is the only thing that you can do. Remember that the longer you wait to scrap a base, the longer it will take to replace it. VI. Positioning Bases There are two schools of thought about positioning bases: Clustering Bases within a sector or two and Spreading them Out. A). Clustering Bases The advantage of having bases that are in the same system or that are relatively close together is that they can mutually support each other. This concentrates your holdings and makes it much easier to defend. Bases in the same system can keep hostile fleets under constant fire with lasers, missiles, pulse turrets and drones at higher levels. It is much easier and quicker to gather a force to mount a counterattack. An enemy must face all of your firepower and you may be in a better position to retrieve debris after a battle. The down side is that if a very large hostile force jumps into your sector, it is able to assault several of your bases in quick succession. . Spreading Bases Out Bases that are spread across a number of systems or sectors are very hard to scout. You may be able to hit a few of them but without a major effort, it is difficult to find them all. The disadvantage to spreading your bases out is obvious. They are much harder to defend. You need to build extensive base defenses and large, powerful base fleets to defend them. C. Strongholds Strongholds are a blend of the cluster and spread strategies. Strongholds are systems in which you have two or more bases and the strongholds are spread out over a couple of sectors. This strategy provides the best and worse of both strategies. Strongholds can support themselves defensive batteries and fleets. A strong enemy fleet that finds a stronghold can assault any or all of the bases that it finds there. D). Strategic Considerations When you chose a base placement doctrine, you have to make some key strategic choices almost immediately. If bases are spread out, you are committed to building significant base defenses at every base. If your bases are consolidated, you may end up having to fight large, epic battles with an enemy that may knows where your bases are. Consider the pros and cons of all three doctrines and proceed accordingly.

Nick- A good rule of thumb to stay living is to always assume that a circuit is live. Consider the time you spend testing a circuit investing in your retirement. Glad you're still with us. Lot's of times these stories don't have happy endings. James

The Daily Show is comedy about the news, not hard news and it is slanted further to the left than Fox is to the Right. Cokeheads Jon Stewart and his little dog Colbert are not journalists, they are comedians which is French for professional smart ass. Watch them for a few laughs, watch everybody else for information. Watching them for news is like looking at grant funded art: some coke head idiot said, "Ow wow, that's profound/funny." Someone said, mustn't be judgmental, let's give him a grant. People that aren't high look at it and think Wow. What a piece of crap. Who paid for that?

Drugs on a plane are passe. It's old and it has been done to death. What I want to see is someone who brigngs a big, angry raccoon or a badger on a plane. Now that would be really interesting.

Oh... you've got it bad. *Grins and winks*

I just wasted 2 hours of my life watching a documentary about a whining, drugged out little bitch called Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis It is about this freak of a producer that makes BULLSHIT, I mean art, that no one understands, cares about or wants to watch. He bitches and whines the whole time about the evils of capitalism through the entire documentry film while he makes this weird BULLSHIT that he calls art that no one wants. He talks about squeezing art out of himself, I'm sorry but it must have been his ass because it is SHIT. Depressed because he is such a shitty artist creating BULLSHIT that nobody wants, he intentionally infects himself with AIDS and dies. I hate this f**king bastard. I want to strangle this no talent piece of shit. Dude. Become a plumber. Maybe a long distance trucker. You are a no talent artist, your art is BULLSHIT and the reason you claim to be a socialist is the only way that your BULLSHIT, I mean "ART" will ever stand on its own is if some government jackass gives you a grant so you can buy better drugs and create more BULLSHIT. Of all the people that I know that got AIDS, this one is the only god damned one that I can say with conviction deserved it because he was a most complete loser, f**k up, jack ass and sorry excuse for a human being that I have ever seen. Just because someone calls a big reeking pile of BULLSHIT ART does NOT make it ART. It's just a huge reeking pile of shit. People with green hair and Mohawks can dance around it, worship it and call it "ART" does not elevate BULLSHIT from its humble station. It is drug babbling, psycho raving, dumbass rambling BULLSHIT. NOW, ONCE AND FOREVER. He was an artist all right. A BULLSHIT artist.

I guess that asking us to discuss cruising is a lot like asking Alabama Man if he still beats his wife when he gets drunk.

In television the journalist is a thing of the past. Now all we have are pretty people that read press releases and couldn't find their own ass with both hands. The few times that I have had anything to do with the press, they were inaccurate, took a press release at face value and did no further investigation. They did nothing more than repeat what the government had told them and I find that very disturbing.

I am going to take a different tack on this thread- knowing me, of course I would see things differently. Rather the raw news, education or bullying, the issue that I see is the way the media sensationalizes the stories. You know they are going to lead the local news with the most shocking headline that they can like: Gruesome murder... Local man Arrested for Molesting Gerbils... Area Bridges: Are They All Falling Down? The Media, be it national or local, is a business. For their business model to work, they have to keep you in a state of fear and anxiety so you'll tune in and watch to see where the next threat is coming from. In recent years we've blamed a particular political party for fear-mongering (and they deserve it to some extent) but the real fear mongering is done by the media to keep you watching. I challenge you to watch the news over the next few weeks with a different attitude: watch and see where they are fear-mongering and grandstanding. Pay particular attention to crime reporting and sex crimes/sex offenders. You'll be surprised at how much of their time they use on just those two points.

I have no doubt that we will survive. My concern is how many will we lose. If it follows the model of the 1918 outbreak and kills so many kids... If I had any kids, they sure as hell would NOT be going back to school for a while.

from the article: FREDERICK, Maryland If you read Twilight, you know what is there.

The problem occurs when a great many people have it and medical facilities get overloaded. AIDS is a poor metaphor for flu because it is so slow and its spreads via blood and fluids. Flu is airborne and can infect anyone. People with pre-existing conditions are at special risk. A bug that is only 1% fatal still kills 10,000 people when 1,000,000 people get it. When that number rises to 10 or 100 million cases, so do the numbers of fatalities. In the case where medical facilities are overloaded and supportive care is unavailable, the fatality rate could easily rise up to 5-12.5%. The problem with epidemiology is that if you do nothing, you get blamed for the results. If you do something and forestall a serious problem, you get blamed for over-reacting. It's a no win situation for politicians that aren't known to get excited about sticking their necks out. My fear is that with people going back to school and being housed in dorms, this thing is going to take off in numbers that will be serious. In the 1918 outbreak, the groups most susceptible to Swine Flu were young people under thirty. It killed so many that it hastened the end of World War I. Today the population of humans are so large and interconnected that this could be a very serious problem.

Be Ready for Another Wave of Swine Flu Cases

Analysis: This time of year, schools are either starting or will be starting shortly. There is no better an incubator for a virus than a school and there are very few viruses that are more contagious than a flu. Biowarfare experts call the process of many people in an enclosed environment like an office or a school viral amplification. In this environment, a virus that isn't even very contagious will spread geometrically. Viruses move through schools rather quietly at first. Before you know it, 20-60% are infected. Those that are infected are contagious before they are symptomatic. Children take it home and spread it to butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. Before you know it, there is no tracking it and its completely out of control. H1N1 virus is one of the worst possible flu viruses. It can cause the immune system to over-react and cause the lungs to fill with fluids (pulmonary edema) which can cause rapid death as was seen in the 1918 pandemic. I am afraid that we are about to see a very serious public health emergency. As of 8/20, Mississippi State University is reporting 100 cases. MSU FluWatch If one of them have it then ten of them will have it and if ten of them have it a thousand of them will have it then we're in deep f**king shit. Influenza type A, subtype H1N1 CDC H1N1 Flu Page US Deaths from H1N1 as of July 17 US H1N1 Deaths 436 as of Aug 5 Australia's Worst Case Scenario 6,000 Deaths

Analysis: This time of year, schools are either starting or will be starting shortly. There is no better an incubator for a virus than a school and there are very few viruses that are more contagious than a flu. Biowarfare experts call the process of many people in an enclosed environment like an office or a school viral amplification. In this environment, a virus that isn't even very contagious will spread geometrically. Viruses move through schools rather quietly at first. Before you know it, 20-60% are infected. Those that are infected are contagious before they are symptomatic. Children take it home and spread it to butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. Before you know it, there is no tracking it and its completely out of control. H1N1 virus is one of the worst possible flu viruses. It can cause the immune system to over-react and cause the lungs to fill with fluids (pulmonary edema) which can cause rapid death as was seen in the 1918 pandemic. I am afraid that we are about to see a very serious public health emergency. As of 8/20, Mississippi State University is reporting 100 cases. MSU FluWatch If one of them have it then ten of them will have it and if ten of them have it a thousand of them will have it then we're in deep f**king shit. Influenza type A, subtype H1N1 CDC H1N1 Flu Page US Deaths from H1N1 as of July 17 US H1N1 Deaths 436 as of Aug 5 Australia's Worst Case Scenario 6,000 Deaths

I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. You can smell it can't you? The fear, the dread- something is coming. What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

September 8, 2001: Was an ordinary Saturday. I worked on my truck. I grilled some burgers and had some friends over for supper. My next door neighbor Lori and I sat on her front porch and talked about nothing until midnight. I went to bed and had one of the worst f*ing nightmares of my life. I still remember fragments of it. I saw a face I can only describe as cruel and hateful. His eyes were dark and the face was angry. I could see the eyes as two pinpoints of red light. Then I was with a crowd of people- I don't know where. I was surrounded by shining glass and people. Suddenly there was fire and breaking glass everywhere. There was blood and screaming and people were ripped to shreds. I woke up in a cold sweat at a quarter to five fighting the sheet that had wrapped itself around me. There was no going back to sleep after that. It was like no dream that I've ever had experienced. Later in the day I called Aunt Mae and went out to see her. She was still alive at the time but very old and wise in the ways of things that modern people such as myself like to think of as superstition. I told her about the dream and she closed her eyes and shook her head. She had it too. I asked her what it meant and she told me that the four horsemen were about to ride. War is coming. Things like this don't happen to me. I am a scientist. I believe in what I can see, hear touch and quantify. I told myself that it was just a stupid dream and that I should forget about it but that face gave me a cold chill. I had seen evil. I went about that Sunday in a daze. I couldn't concentrate. I tried to rest but every time I closed my eyes there was that face. When I went to bed that night I was scared. I didn't want to know jack about the horsemen or the maniac that I kept seeing. I drank Canadian Club until I passed out. Monday came and I was able to throw myself into the work. I had hardly a thought of what I had seen. Until Tuesday morning Sept. 11, 2001. I knew exactly what I had seen. When the face of Mohammad Atta was put on the screen of the television set in our office I nearly shit myself. That was the face that had been haunting me. I went home about 2:00 because I was so shaken I was afraid that I would make mistakes. I went home and drank myself into a stupor. I never talked about it. I locked it away in the back of my mind. It was something that I didn't want to know about. A nameless fear that sits waiting somewhere on the verge of your subconscious. There it has stayed for all of these years. Until a few minutes ago. The nightmare is back.

So has Mississippi and Louisiana. I don't know about other states. Mississippi tore down rest areas all over the state and rebuilt only a few of them with 24/7 security. That is a pretty big public policy commitment for a state like Mississippi. Completely rebuilding these rest areas for a few million a pop, a grounds staff and a couple of certified law enforcement officer. That equals out to adding (I'm guessing) 25 million per year state wide in maintenance, salaries and benefits. When the legislature authorized this, the state passed a law the same year that gave judges the opportunity to charge cruisers caught having sex with a felony but I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted under it. A lawyer friend of mine says that they are afraid that it won't stand up to challenge. This was all started around ~1988 when AIDS was still universally fatal. It may sound overboard today but those of us who were there remember talks of concentration camps for the infected.