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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 09:24 PM) Uh, Kap -- Not trying to quibble but we did have an election in 2004(not a mid-term) as well and this was posted on FR (Oct 10) less than a month before the Kerry/Bush election. So, the point you were going for is kinda moot. Again, I harken back to my Warren Ellis-esque statement about the barbary apes regarding politicians. So this is the traditional month before an election story.

! QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 04:36 PM) Ever wonder how come shrimp are so lean and good for you? Here's why. Google --> marine porn --> naked shrimp on a tredmill Marine Biologists have so much fun

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) Nick Drake and Terry Kath are my dark horse choices, but I'll also throw Jimi in there. I think Jimi was heading off into amazing new directions so as not too be doing the Experience retread thing past its time. I don't know that the new stuff would have carried most of the fans of the earlier stuff with it, but the same can be said for theBand of Gypsies material and some of that stuff has withstood the test of time musically and socially better than a lot of the Experience stuff. Terry Kath is an interesting choice. While I was/am a big fan, I never really thought there was potential beyond some really uber popular stuff, not moving music in any direction. Jimi was the guy I thought of right away. I figured the thread would be dominated by PINHOs.

At least in this neck of the woods the greatest voting mischief is with absentee ballots. Buying votes is common enough that only the largest and most blatent abuses are fought over. We've had elections where four or five percent of the votes are absentee and 99% of them come in for one candidate. Imagine in a race with 5,000 voters than 700 or 800 are absentee and 670 vote for one hard working candidate who "got out the vote".

This country works with so many despicable characters, it's a whos who of potential dictators and other scum. The silence by the Grand Old Party tells me it's either untrue, or business as usual that both parties engage in. If this was a real story you can bet the GOP would be grabbing this story and trying to push Foley off the front pages. Shall we also start talking about the political motivation to have the story break right before elections? If one is to buy into the Foley timing, isn't this just as suspect?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 11:39 AM) So, are you saying that Teddy WILLING went along with a good cop/ bad cop thing with Ronnie in order to help defeat the evil empire, or that it is a good thing Teddy was a traitor because it eventually helped us in the end? Plus, apparently news ofthis has been out for a while, at least since 2004. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240644/posts I am saying it is nearly impossible to prove, there are dozens of explainations, and I have a hard time believing Russian sources. And if you believe the article, a Rep was a co-conspirator. That makes even more sense.

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Sure, Reagan was a genious, he got Ted to help him play good cop bad cop with the Russians. First off I take these things with a giant bit of scepticism. Notice they also mentioned a Rep. So many explainations. Diplomacy and war mongering at the same time, carefully orchestarted by the State Department. Someone exaggerating things to write a book and get it noticed. Ted being a commie. The entire Democratic Party as Communists sympathisers. BTW, wasn't it Reagan's group that held negotiations with the Iranians to keep the hostages until after the election? I believe there was considerable talk about arms for hostages? I place all these reports in the same light.

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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 10:19 PM) http://www.nbc11.com/news/10123870/detail.html So some kid gets another kid to drink some hot sauce on a dare. Kid who drinks the hot sauce gets his ass whooped by it and now the school characterizes it as "a deadly weapon". LOL! Someone please tell me why schools are getting so sissified? You bring cold medicine to school and you're a criminal, you bring hot sauce to school you're a criminal and on and on and on. This "zero tolerance" madness in the schools is really getting out of hand. Because we have to get tough in the schools and liberal teachers and administrators can't be trusted to make judgements. So we teach to standard tests and make certain that no one gets hurt.

I just love how the GOP faithful believe Reagan did that all by himself.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 11:30 PM) This is, of course, before Reagan's ultimate victories with the collapse of the Iron Curtain and of the Soviet Empire itself. Amazing what one guy could do. If only he had a few more minutes to solve cancer, hunger, and Dole's ED.

Leon Durham's miscue was so much more satisfying.

Mission Insertable? I love the names they come up with

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 12:12 AM) ALL TERRORIST THREATS ARE HOAX'S! IT'S A PROVEN FACT! CASE IN POINT 9-11! WAS THERE A THREAT FIRST? HELL NO! THEY JUST WENT AHEAD AND DID IT! IF YOUR GUILLIBLE ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO GIVE US WARNING FIRST THEN YOUR IN TROUBLE! FROM YOUR OWN GUILLIABLITY... While it may be possible to state that all terrorist threats until today have been hoaxes,. it is impossible to predict the future. Plus, the statement is false to begin with. There have been many, many, threats and warnings that have come true. Kidnappings in Mexico city, bombs in the middle east and Ireland, come to mind.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 09:03 PM) I disagree, as far as which C card you end up with. PADI is more universally recognized than NAUI or NASDS, and a YMCA cert is essentially useless despite the fact that they were the forst organization to offer standardized scuba training as far back as the late 1950s. My first scuba certification training was a Y program through the Chicago park District. Great program, but if you didn't pay the extra $50 at check out time to get simultaneous PADI certification you couldn't find too many places (especially internationally) that would recognize the card. Maybe that's changed in the (insert big crooked number) years since I got certified, but i think PADI is the best route for Americans. Since they standardized the requirements for certification a number of years ago, it is rare that a dive shop will not recognize PADI orNAUI. SSI and NAUI are still battling, but that is more at the instructor level and making it difficult for SSI instructors to gain approval from NAUI. I will stand by my statement that the quality of the instructor will be far more important in continuing to dive then the agency that issues the card.

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QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 10:21 PM) There is actually a place here in Plainfield that gives lessons in one of those pools. I think he would be more comfortable in that first. After that they have hook up that take you on weekend things to go diving. I think he's more interested in getting it done because we are going to Atlantis in Feb and The Vigrgin Islands in May. Aside from that he's back to traveling for work so he's going to be in California, Texas, and Florida for long weekends more often after Christmas. I'm going to check on the price. I like to get him one off the wall gift a year and this might be it. LOL. All of the agencies that certify divers (NAUI, PADI, SSI, YMCA) have a universal referal program. Jim could complete the classroom and confined water dives, receive the referal, and do his final check out, open water dive anywhere. Getting certfied requires 5 dives. The first few are confined (pool) dives and/or snorkeling. Don't get too hung up on which agency is doing the cert, they all have basically the same standards. More important is the instructor and dive shop.

Like two baseball teams, they may have different goals, but the game rules and strategies are the same. They are both in the same industry and have more similarities than differences at most neighborhood parties.

Interesting how each author picks different occupations to highlight. What do you think that these people cut a wide path through society and could be found in a wide variety of social and economic conditions.