RumRunner

Remember Bolshevik - remember well - NEVER f(ck with the bacteria - they outnumber humans trillions to one.

I have several friends who started out reserve, went active, finished out their 20 as full time guard or reservists. All finished degrees - none have any complaints. Your gig is your gig - just thought I'd tell ya about a few friends for whom staying in worked well.

My bad Hap - I meant to reference size about Denver - Ft Collins just reminds me of yet another mid-sized city. Boulder is perhaps on my favorite CO list because the time I've spent at the NCAR Mesa Lab - which I confess is like being spoiled - plus I always liked the Nepalese restaurant on Pearl St - great hot sauces!!

What planet are you from or have you just been missing from planet earth for a while? You have already shown your lack of respect and decency with the alluded to threat of violence...or was that just the redneck in you coming out? Ya see son - I can make any comment I want to about your idol - legally, ethically and morally. If your disagreeing with my comments results in you knockin' on my door then you are fundamentally embracing felonious and violent criminal behavior. But then again that is nothing new to the wierwille family - not new to any one of the wierwille con men gang of thieves.

You go girl...strong words but true for a bunch of us I suspect.

How about Bolshevik walks out of the BRC and as he marches down Cyclops Road there is a double line of GSC'ers applauding on both sides of the road. I volunteer to toss him the first beer of freedom. Maybe a little Ritchie Havens playing in the background. As Bolshevik gets into my pickup truck he turns and tosses his last words at TWI in the spirit of Edward R. Morrow...Good night and good luck...

Boulder - nothing else to say. Stunningly beautiful - close the the wilds- flat iron mountains in your back yard - neighbors leave you alone - good food - great microbrews - small enough to NOT feel like you live in Denver or Ft. Collins.

Equal time for all hot dogs!!! http://brands.kraftfoods.com/oscarmayer/media/omwienerjingle.mp3

Naw Ham Bolshevik is safe from wayGB. First of all I think his brain functions orthogonally to TWI thinking...secondly...tapping fingers on desk...he may be just unstable enought that L(nder would want him to be far away from NK

TinyMUSH - Amberyl

I can't help it Ham - I have to pull a George Carlin on you. You might remember when he reduced the ten commandments to something like two commandments. Now I am not as talented as him so I'll reduce your six to three. 1. Given as an axiom 2. Logically follows from 1 3. Logically follows from 2 which follows from 1 Thus 1-3 can be collapsed into 1. 4. Given as an axiom 5. Follows from 4. Thus 4-5 can be reduced to 4. 6. uhhhhhh - smirk - uhhhhh - that one can stand as wishful thinking I suspect

Heh - last time I was in Nanjing my travel MD told me ahead of time that being in Nanjing was about the same as smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

OK knowing my reputation for cynicism let me preface this post with the promise that the question I ask and the reasoning I use to come up with the question are genuine and not meant to derail, demean or in any other way devalue this thread. Question: Why would I care what Jesus' birthday was? Unless I was a Pharisee of the times perhaps and watching over the young lad to make sure he got his Bar Mitzvah on time, or some such other calendar driven event, his birth would seem to be pale in the face of his sacrifice and resurrection. The birth was simply an entrance into the world - an unpleasant place at best; little noticed by contemporaries at that; and not noticed by the local powers (Rome & Jerusalem). The death and resurrection was the culmination of Jesus' public and indisputable victory over evil and the promise to all mankind of their ultimate victory as well. Now those dates - heck yeah - those are worth remembering regularly. Hey Martha!!! Tomorrow we can party and celebrate how Jesus kicked Satan's azz right into the 16th sub-basement of the heavenly outhouses. Make sure you pick up some tequila and limes on the way home from work! Ohhh - I'm a month early?!?! So what let's celebrate the victory anyway! Further, if I am going to watch dates, verify actual dates through several calendar changes etc, I got bad news for those congregational types. I am really going to celebrate Jesus' victory with some margueritas and some grilled steaks. No need for putting on a suit and tie and sitting in an uncomfortable chair while someone intones the same snot as last year. Let's party over his victory. Steaks this year! Seafood next year. None of that repetitive congregational snot.

Oh ye of little faith.

Heck I don't even know what liberal theology is but I sure have to agree with the comment about arrogant thinking.

Do you gardeners realize that between the various bug infestations, snails, hail, etc that you are officially (loosely) fifty percent of the way to being able to claim the ten plagues of Egypt on your crops? Groucho and I can spare you. Just send us 15% of your healthiest crops at harvest time accompanied by a money order for $200.00 (USD).

Come on Bolshevik - cough up - we need some fresh dirt to dig through around here.

Yeah WS - let's all go ahead and crap on our living room floors. The maids will get it tomorrow - or god will clean it up during our sleep - or - or - or The killer is that, as a consumer, it costs little or nothing to reduce, reuse, recycle. In fact if you are composting you get a net gain out of recycling. If you reuse (maybe reuse that box that was shipped to you for shipping something to someone else) you also net gain - less cash outflow. Reduction from large industry is a problem of another scale - not insurmountable - but not one I am going to delve into here. Thanks for being so adamant about the planet's health

I'm kinda thinking that since, to use Garth's approximate wording, we've been so nicely programmed to turn our brains off by the media, by religion, by the variously perverted forms of christianity, by mind-numbingly repetitive and politically correct spew taught in K-12 that perhaps...just perhaps... a little anarchy and rebellion might be just what we need.

While I completely agree with you (WS) about the need to be environmentally aware and pro-active (it happens to be part of my profession)...Most of the names in the cited article are not even second stringers in the oceanography world - most are red-shirted side-liners. Ebbesmeyer's claim to fame was when a cargo container ship dumped tens of thousands of running shoes overboard during high seas. Instead of a clean up he proposed (and got limited funding for) that we dump ARGOS drifters (buoys that go with the currents and transmit location etc via sat link) into the mess and watch the ocean circulation of the running shoes. Now this is fundamentally flawed science. The currents exist with or without the shoes. You can (and scientists do) track circulation by just tossing ARGOS drifters out into open ocean currents as well as littoral currents - INDOEX and ARGO are good examples of well documented international efforts to map ocean circulation. http://argo.ucsd.edu/ The ocean currents are far too extensive for the shoes to make significant (in even the tiniest sense of the word) changes in ocean circulation - hence even if he had proposed measuring change in circulation his premise would have been flawed. a) the circulation is too powerful to change via surface contamination and b) since he had no baseline for the currents he could not have measured relative change. All that being said - back to your concern - yes TWI taught environmentally disastrous concepts and irresponsibility - as always personal responsibility was replaced by the magic kingdom of god's miracles wrought from New knoxville. As I've been saying for a few decades now - just because you have a dishwasher that cleans dishes doesn't mean you should use it to take a crap in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyttEu_NLU

That's rigggghhhhhhhtttttt! We would just throw more blue books and CSBPs on the fire for BBQ.

Thanks man - that was good for a serious chuckle...

Uhhhh - you ever stop to think that some of us might like cyber-Hell!?!?!?

Heh heh heh - last I checked - which was a LONG time ago - I can't be converted. I was listed as a seed boy when I walked out of the first idiot clergy meeting back in '86 or '87 and never looked back. I never did figure out the whole born again of incorruptible seed thing then later being a serpent seed boy...then again - who cares?!?!?!