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JamesSavik

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  1. I hear former Senator Santorium is leading a fight to turn back gay marriage in those states. He's so popular these days that he is no longer in the senate. What a tool. ______________________ yes- I spelled his name incorrectly so it would suggest "nut house"
  2. That's not the first time bad torpedoes caused the navy serious trouble. One of their most famous submarines and skippers, the Wahoo under Mush Morton, was destroyed and lost with all hands in 1943 by a circular torpedo run. Wahoo USS Tang suffered a similar fate Tang In fact the Navy had serious torpedo problems throughout the Pacific War. They were mostly ironed out in the last half of 1943 but continued to a lesser extent through the end of the war. In 1942 the effective rate of torpedoes (run correctly, explode on target was less that 20%. It improved in 1943 after a big shake up at the Navy's Bureau of Ordinance, extensive trials of the mark 14 and including private contractors in the construction and quality control process.
  3. Here's Mark cleaning the debris of conservatives from his claws that he shreds in the political forums. My advice to right-wing posters is to post and throw out a large roast and then run. It might distract him long enough to allow you to escape un-eaten but expect your weak premise or illogical argument to be dashed to pieces.
  4. I'm getting old. If I don't get down too it, I'll forget what I'm doing and wander off to play with shiny things.
  5. Nice kitty, please don't shred the political forums.
  6. That's the danger with bioweapons. You can do some serious damage and the effected population won't know for days. Afterwards its very hard to figure out exactly who did it. This is something that we're going to see again and its going to be a lot worse than the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  7. We could arrange that with a little help from Delta airlines.
  8. It's not the super-power with 1000 nukes you have to worry about. It is the wanna-be with 12.
  9. Oops! How could I have forgotten Israel: a small country ruled by religious extremists and armed to the teeth. What was I thinking?
  10. The last questions for thought and comment: Does humanity survive? Should it? IF so why? Adama: we never answered the question Why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed and spite and jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything we've done, like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God and then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore. PS- I'm betting on the Australians FTW. There are too nice to attack and just out of the way enough to miss out on the worst of the great nuke out.
  11. No matter where you go, there is one constant: you. You can't run from you and that is the person that is giving you hell.
  12. these "books" are why I started writing again. If this crap can get published, I am certain that I can do better.
  13. Yes- this is a hazard of age but not because your brain is rotting. It's because by the time you are 40 you've know a large number of people and keeping them all straight is a real chore.
  14. Each to his own but I've known and loved some really great redheads! They really are magnificent.
  15. Most communities like to sweep domestic violence under the rug and pretend that it doesn't happen. That is clearly not true. Domestic violence happens everywhere regardless of ethnic background or economic status. It's just another form of denial. It speaks well of our community that we can talk about. That is the first step in addressing it because it can only exist in silence.
  16. What you talking 'bout Kevin? He is a very special and awesome one.
  17. I'm excited on a number of levels...
  18. If only I was twenty years younger, I could get shot down in flames by better looking guys than usually turn me down. Learn from my mistakes! Don't get any older! If you do, don't admit it. Happy birthday Pat! We'll keep it just between us.
  19. JamesSavik

    Fighting Back

    Few people have ever had freedom handed to them and were told go have fun. One way or another, you have to fight for it. This is an extreme example of our fight but one that makes me proud. Thanks Eric!
  20. I suppose as a writer, this is why I like B5 best. When you look at some of the trek series as a story arc, a lot of the episodes have major continuity issues. This is something that I try hard to avoid in my own writing. It sucks to be reading (or watching) something and have a character die and then be resurrected in chapter 30 without devine intervention or an explanation.
  21. I like Babylon 5 better. The aliens were more than people with butts on their heads nor did the humans have a politically correct stick up their ass.
  22. To all of our members taking finals in the next couple of weeks, study hard and good luck! Here are some answers for last years tests (not necessarily the right answers): Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and travelled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus." Joan of Arc was burn to a steak and was canonised by Bernard Shaw. Finally, Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offence. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of the blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died of this. During the Renaissance, history began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America whilst cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. My personal favourite paper to mark, was completely empty apart from one sentence. " Jesus, Please Help Me." # When you breath, you inspire. When you don't breath, you expire. # The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. For head colds, use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops into your throat. The moon is a planet just like Earth, only deader. Artificial insemination is what the farmer does to the cow instead of the bull. Dew is formed on leaves when sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. Equator: A managerie lion running around Earth through Africa. To remove dust from your eye, pull the eye down over the nose. Momentum. What you give a person when they are going away. Nitrogen is not found in Ireland, because it is not found in a free state. Magnet: Something you can find crawling over a dead cat. H20 is hot water. CO2 is cold water. Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives. Respiration is composed of inspiration and then expectoration. For a nosebleed: Put the nose lower than the body until the heart stops. To prevent contraception use a condominium. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
  23. I braved plague zombies and saw Wolverine Origins last night. I wasn't that excited by it but it did a lot to explain Wolverine's shadowy past, amnesia and blood rivalry with Sabertooth.
  24. Two Songs from the Upcoming Blockbuster story Twilight
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