JamesSavik

That cat isn't evil, just kinky.

Yeah, sure. People change. One of the odd things about recovery from drugs and alcohol is that many times the divorce occurs after the alcoholic/addict has been sober/clean for a while. It seems that a great many selfish, self-absorbed people are even more intolerable when they are sober.

Avoid veterinarians at all cost- even if they have tuna and/or shrimp. They have evil plans. My own nicknames have been Beast, Viking, Bear and Misha. Beast dates back to early teens. My circle of friends were X-men fans and gave each other names for the X-men that we were most like. Misha was a pet name by a Russian guy I dated for a while at Oak Ridge. Difficult relationship. He broke into Russian during sex and I was never sure if that was good or bad. Viking is something they called me in college- large angry blond guy, go figure. Bear is fairly recent in origin and refers to size and temperment.

Some people only learn by pain. Stand well clear- avoid being collateral damage.

People don't understand why I can't stand Colbert. He is a popular political satirist which takes idiotic positions and defends them with a straight face. I live in the South and that's how ALL of our politicians act so Colbert just ain't that damned funny to me. At least we're not alone in Mississippi. There is always Poland.

First: It sounds like he's married. If so, DO NOT- repeat- DO NOT get involved. The family will always be #1 and you will be the hobby. Second: he might have you pegged as someone who is playing games. After allowing him to do whatever at the bar and then you didn't go home with him, you sent very mixed signals. A lot of younger guys try to play older guys for various things and they know it. If he has been burned before, he won't go there again.

Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake 06 Apr 2009 11:22:00 GMT Source Link Source: Reuters By Gavin Jones ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population. The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome. Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger. Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet. Italy's Civil Protection agency held a meeting of the Major Risks Committee, grouping scientists charged with assessing such risks, in L'Aquila on March 31 to reassure the townspeople. "The tremors being felt by the population are part of a typical sequence ... (which is) absolutely normal in a seismic area like the one around L'Aquila," the civil protection agency said in a statement on the eve of that meeting. "It is useful to underline that it is not in any way possible to predict an earthquake," it said, adding that the agency saw no reason for alarm but was nonetheless effecting "continuous monitoring and attention". As the media asked questions about the authorities' alleged failure to safeguard the population ahead of the quake, the head of the National Geophysics Institute dismissed Giuliani's predictions. "Every time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it," he said. "As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes." Enzo Boschi said the real problem for Italy was a long-standing failure to take proper precautions despite a history of tragic quakes. "We have earthquakes but then we forget and do nothing. It's not in our culture to take precautions or build in an appropriate way in areas where there could be strong earthquakes," he said. _________________________________________________________ Looks like the Sci-Fi network is going to have to get a new plot template for their made for TV movies: Italy has apparently confiscated it.

WBS- I think the said mentioned racoon was heroic and a credit to his species. After all, if that pervert is going to take a poke at a raccoon, he'll take a poke at anything and none of us beasts are safe. JS

I'm from the Hemmingway school of writers who get real drunk and write. That's why when I quit drinking, my talent dried up.

Raccoon bites off man's penis Perth Now! Source Link January 27, 2009 11:00am A RAGING raccoon has bitten off a pervert's penis as he tried to rape the animal. Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with friends when he leapt on the terrified animal.

Magneto was right. We must kill all humans.

Those are the ones that make life interesting my friend.

The funniest thing I've ever seen: Family Guy's Finest Moment

Hold your applause. If history is any guide, there will be a constutional amendment on the ballot and the voters will quash it. Iowa is Middle America and you can bet the anti-gay marriage groups will pump enough money into the state to float a battleship.

Just Another Old Tired Stereotype If you go by the way people sound, you'll find that many effiminate sounding guys are actually str8.

Have you ever considered voice recognition software? You speak, it types. Messages me and I'll give you some links to look at. Take care Pal.

I have tried to address this thread several times but its difficult. HIV/AIDS has killed a lot of people around me- among those were my best friend and the love of my life. I don't know how to say this other than being very blunt about it. In the mid eighties when science finally got a bead on the cause of AIDS, I saw several different very irresponsible types of responses. Denial- it's not here/it only happens to old people/its only in New York & 'Frisco Ignorance- I don't want to know/don't want to change the channel from MTV Idiocy- If we're all going to die, I'm going to get all I can while I can Panic- *marries the ugliest cow available, joins 1st Baptist church, only tricks on the weekends with choirboys or at deer camp* When I raised the issue of monogamy with guy I would have happily spent the rest of my life with, it broke us up- and he was dead in less than a decade. My best friend I met in a 12th step program back in the early eighties. He got sick and was dead six weeks later. It sucked because he had gotten clean and turned his life around just in time to die. My education was in the sciences. I knew we were in real trouble. I followed the science behind AIDS/HIV for years and I watched a lot of people take a lot of stupid chances for all sorts of bad reasons. I also saw a lot of people change their behavior and survive. The point of all this I guess is to say that not all AIDS victims were saints nor were they sinners. They were just people making human mistakes; responding, or not responding, to a nebulous threat. What we've got to get past is denial: HIV's most deadly ally. HIV is everywhere. It afflicts people of all ages. You can get it with ONE mistake.

My own work, humble as it may be, would be illegible chicken scratchings were it not for the noble efforts of Jan the Talon Rider!

Nope- got away clean on that one.

there was the time i broke into the board room, took the chairs apart and put whoopie cushions in the seats the next day I appeared before the board to discuss a budget matter I managed to keep a poker face despite all the stuffed shirts making farting noises every time they moved. By the time the meeting was over, I was biting my lip and sweating. Finally I made out to my car to go to lunch I laughed until I had tears in my eyes. Then I pulled out the micro cassette recorder that I had in my coat and listened: Chairman: I here by call *poot* this meeting of the board *whomp, brappel* of directors {braaap} to order... {burrrummnp}

Some years ago I was robbed at gunpoint by a crack head. Not just any crackhead- it was one that I knew. I knew him before he was crazy for the crack. Nice guy. I met him at a party and we even slept together a few times. Several years later I'm handing over my cash to him while staring down the barrel of a stolen gun. He gets twenty bucks or so and heads off. Years later he comes up to me and says- I'm clean and part of my 8th step I'm supposed to make amends. Yakkety, yakkity. Tries to manipulate me, play me. I'm in the program too so I know all about that. I take my amends and he wants to be friends again. I told him that the program says that you have to make amends. It doesn't say that I have to forgive & forget. The last time I saw you I was looking down the barrel of a gun. If I never see you again, it'll be too f-ing soon. Least you think that I'm a heartless bastard, if he had made one wrong move that night, one of us would have ended up dead. I won't willing allow someone that done that anywhere near me.

would rather go fishing.

Fantasies are a dime a dozen. After the first few thousand, they lose their charm. It is the stories that illuminate something about the human condition that stand the test of time. It is said that there are no heroes: just ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. When we as writers manage to capture even a modicum of this reality, we have created something extraordinary.

Obamagasm (O-ba-ma-gasm) 1. The state of rapture displayed by democrats and liberal pundits over the prospects of Barak Obama in the 2008 Presidential race. Did you see the old hens on "the View" having Obamagasms this morning? It was embarrassing. 2. The extreme enthusiasm expressed toward Senator Obama's presidential candidacy. Did you hear the reporters support for Obamma? He totally had an obamagasm! eewww! 3. The peak of excitement that occurs when Obama does anything good, characterized by strong feelings of pleasure, usually accompanied by celebration. Occassionally results in college students blowing their loads in their trousers at the sight of Obama winning a campaign. After learning of the the 2008 Iowa Caucus results, Steve obamagasmed. 4. Spontaneous orgasm which takes place while listening to Barack Obama speak. Can happen to both men and women, but especially to old black women with large hats. Oh my God, Chris Matthews just had an Obamagasm!