
Re: Pat Metheny Group
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Folks who know me alternate between calling me a 'Grumpy Old Bastard' and a 'Curmudgeon'.
Dammit! I am none of the above!
Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful, independent and self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she was about to sit and contemplate ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.
The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said: "Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me.
"One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the dapper, young prince that I am and then, my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so."
That night, as the princess dined sumptuously on lightly sauteed frog legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled and thought to herself:
"I don't fucking think so."
"He bushmaster it shirley"And don't call me "Shirley".
Circumcision recommended to fight HIV
AP - Wed Mar 28, 5:54 PM ET Sent 225 times
GENEVA - U.N. health agencies recommended Wednesday that heterosexual men undergo circumcision because of "compelling" evidence that it can reduce their chances of contracting HIV by up to 60 percent.
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-- In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home.
-- In 1985, Sports Illustrated magazine published a story that a rookie baseball pitcher who could reportedly throw a ball at 270 kilometers per hour (168 miles per hour) was set to join the New York Mets. Finch was said to have mastered his skill -- pitching significantly faster than anyone else has ever managed -- in a Tibetan monastery. Mets fans' celebrations were short-lived.
-- Sweden in 1962 had only one television channel, which broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to receive color pictures by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen. In fact, they had to wait until 1970.
-- In 1996, American fast-food chain Taco Bell announced that it had bought Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, a historic symbol of American independence, from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell.
Outraged citizens called to express their anger before Taco Bell revealed the hoax. Then-White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale and said the Lincoln Memorial in Washington had also been sold and was to be renamed the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial after the automotive giant.
-- In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse.
-- In 1992, US National Public Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." They even had clips of Nixon announcing his candidacy. Listeners flooded the show with calls expressing their outrage. Nixon's voice actually turned out to be that of impersonator Rich Little.
-- In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "Biblical value" of 3.0.
-- Burger King, another American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the "Left-Handed Whopper," specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original "right-handed" version.
-- Discover Magazine announced in 1995 that a highly respected biologist, Aprile Pazzo (Italian for April Fool), had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. The creatures were described as having bony plates on their heads that became burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speed -- a technique they used to hunt penguins.
-- Noted British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on the radio in 1976 that at 9:47 am, a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, in which Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, would cause a gravitational alignment that would reduce the Earth's gravity. Moore told listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment of the planetary alignment, they would experience a floating sensation. Hundreds of people called in to report feeling the sensation.
Alzheimer's vaccine works on mice: Japan scientistGood news! Now they can remember where the cheese is!
Thu Mar 29, 2:49 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have developed an oral vaccine for Alzheimer's disease that has proven effective and safe in mice, the director of a research institute behind the project said on Thursday.
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"Join the thousands of people who got slim"What, and be just another conformist?
Texas signs new self-defense by gun lawGlad to see it. Personal space is personal space and shouldn't be limited to your house. What with all the gun-totin' crazies out there now, people have a right to defend themselves anywhere.
Reuters - Tue Mar 27, 3:42 PM ET Sent 443 times
DALLAS (Reuters) - Criminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead.
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Final report released on Colo. standoffGee. Ya' think?
BAILEY, Colo. - A gunman who sexually assaulted students as he held them captive in a high school classroom last fall claimed to have lost touch with reality, investigators said in a chilling final report on the attacks.
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Britain turns up heat on Iran, woman to be freedFucking towel heads. Again I say, time to git off'n yer bloody arses and show them you're serious.
19 minutes ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran said it would free a woman among 15 British sailors held since last week after Britain presented evidence it said showed they were captured in Iraqi waters and turned up the pressure by halting official contacts with Iran.
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UMM NASER VILLAGE, Gaza Strip — Dozens of bulldozers and trucks worked furiously Wednesday to shore up a network of sewage basins in northern Gaza, a day after the collapse of one basin flooded a village with waste and killed five people.Most of the middle east is a big pile of shit anyway, now it's even worse.
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"Gimme your thoughts on this"Okay, here are my thougts: Go fuck yourself.
New, unknown climate zones seen by 2100: studySo what's the problem?
Reuters - Tue Mar 27, 4:28 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming could re-make the world's climate zones by 2100, with some polar and mountain climates disappearing altogether and formerly unknown ones emerging in the tropics, scientists said on Monday.
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Australian pleads guilty at GuantanamoTell me again how important it is to let these prisoners go, since they've been there too long.
Mon Mar 26, 11:27 PM ET
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Australian David Hicks, the first prisoner to face a new U.S. war crimes tribunal, unexpectedly pleaded guilty on Monday to a charge of helping al Qaeda fight American troops and their allies during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
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"I hate Sean Penn....I know, strong words....and I don't use them very often....but this asshole is about the most anti-American, ignorant, dickwad I think I have ever heard TRY to talk politics....First of all...he's ignorant...OK, he's a "graduate" of Hollywood High which means he didn't really go to school at all....then he flunked out of an automotive repair program at a junior college. So he can play-act...who the fuck do most of these actors think they are? They act like we will all stop and listen in awe every fucking time they open their mouths. Yes, this is America. He does have the right to say whatever he wants....but I also have the right to bash him for it. "Go ahead and read the rest. She lays it out quite well.
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"okonchatelno pochuvstvoval"Parle vous sie deutch por favor?
Anna Nicole Smith died of drug overdose ReutersNever would have guessed that.
13 minutes ago
DANIA BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - An accidental overdose caused last month's sudden death of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said on Monday.
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Lesbian argues Ga. gays can't adopt kidsYeah, whatever. Blah blah blah.
[...]Rethinking whether she is lesbian or not? She can't decide? She don't know?
Aside from a few gay friends, she has turned away from the gay community. She no longer dates, and doesn't go to gay clubs or events any more. She said she is rethinking whether she is still a lesbian or whether she should abandon dating for good.
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Iran says detained Britons well, location secretOh yes. A fucking camel trips and oil companies raise prices.
24 minutes ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran says British sailors it detained are well but has not disclosed where they are being held, Britain said on Monday, as tension over their capture and Tehran's nuclear plans sent oil prices to a 2007 high.
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"Have elvaston himself goochland"I've often wondered that.
Iran seizes 15 British Navy personnelSince the Brits were in such a hurry to leave Iraq - withdraw their support for us over there - I wonder if they're maybe going to want a little support from us with Iran?
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BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship on Friday, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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"Never scrub your toilet bowl again"What makes you think I do now?
A precious little girl walks into a pet shop and asks, "Excuthe me, do you have any widdle wabbits?"
The shopkeeper's heart melts, he gets down on his knees so that he's on her level, and says, "Do you want a widdle white wabbit or a thoft, fwuffy bwack wabbit, or one like that widdle bwown wabbit over there?"
The little girl blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and whispers, "I don't weally fink my pet pyfon gives a phuk."
"24 ladders in one"No thatnks. I'd probably just hurt myself.
That would be so fucking cool. Scary, but cool.
Astronaut's small step opens Grand Canyon Skywalk
By Tim Gaynor Tue Mar 20, 9:37 PM ET
GRAND CANYON WEST, Arizona (Reuters) - Indian elders and a former astronaut took the ceremonial first steps on Tuesday on a glass-bottomed walkway perched 4,000 feet over the Grand Canyon that promises dizzying views for those who dare.
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Owners frantic over pets amid pet food recallThey're trying to get to us through our pets now...
By Anupreeta Das Tue Mar 20, 6:55 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A massive pet food recall has touched a nerve with pet-loving Americans, many of whom see their pets as family members.
The recalled products, manufactured by Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada, account for 1 percent of pet food sold in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has said.
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"his is rustproof"Big deal. So's mine.
"That capacitate on shawl"Oh yeah, talk dirty to me...
"titel enzKortom komende"Uh, no thanks. Not today.
"Concealed weapons are a threat, just like all other firearms in the community, ..."I don't know about these idiots, but where I come from, you have to have a pretty good set of skills, and attend quite a truckload of education in order to be qualified to even apply for a CCW (Carry Concealed Weapon) permit.
A while back we gave kudos to a South Dakota paper for putting the list of CCW permitholders in that state online and searchable– the public has a right to know who chooses to endanger their communities by carrying a concealed weapons.They actually believe people who carry a concealed weapon LEGALLY are a danger to their little pussy asses.
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DEAR MARGO: With the subject of breast augmentation coming up so often in your column, I could use some input on a situation in our family. My husband has a brother with a live-in girlfriend. A few years ago, he confided in my husband that he just couldn't deal with her having small breasts, and at his urging, she was getting implants.Let me offer a little advice: Shut the fuck up and quit your whining. You're just jealous and there's no need to punish everyone else in the room because of your insecurities.
At the next family gathering, it was obvious that the procedure had, indeed, been done. As time went on, their investment in her chest apparently went unnoticed, so she began showing up at family events with less and less of her new assets covered.
At the family Thanksgiving this year, she showed up in a see-through black lace top. For Christmas, she wore a couple of strips of cloth for a shirt that barely covered the tips of her now enormous breasts.
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" Do you want your dick be even more attractive than your face?"The only response this one gets is a picture:
Hard-core porn interrupts news showI've got five bucks says someone is looking for a job.
AP - Wed Mar 14, 9:29 PM ET
MESA, Ariz. - A cable news program was temporarily replaced with hard-core pornography, shocking viewers who had been watching a health show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. The incident Monday night on KPPX-TV was "an act of human sabotage" at the Phoenix-area station, said ION Television, which operates the station.
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Something's fishy about $1,000 New York pizzaYou can sugar coat a dog turd, but it's still a dog turd.
Reuters - Wed Mar 14, 9:28 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York restaurateur has cooked up the world's most extravagant pizza -- a $1,000 (516 pound) pie topped with six kinds of caviar and fresh lobster.
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Al Qaeda suspect admits organizing 9/11Hard to say. Maybe he had something to do with it, maybe he had everything to do with it. Then again, maybe he had nothing to do with it.
Wed Mar 14, 11:27 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has claimed he organized the September 11 attacks on the United States and a string of others, according to the transcript of a military hearing at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released on Wednesday.
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"Turn back the clock"GAWDAMMIT!! I JUST TURNED IT FORWARD!!!
1879 : ALBERT EINSTEIN BORN:
On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish
electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein's theories of special
and general relativity drastically altered man's view of the universe,
and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible
quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.
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"gunnysack mite"Yeah, those things can be a bitch.
Bet on for fate of Heather Mills' legNow THAT'S funny.
Reuters - Mon Mar 12, 3:33 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An online gambling site is taking bets on whether Heather Mills' artificial leg will fall off during her upcoming appearance on "Dancing with the Stars."
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"sluts need really hard fuck"This I know.
The many names for female masturbation:
3 Point Shot
A Night in With the Girls
Airing the Orchid
Auditioning the Finger Puppets
Beat the Beaver
Beating Around the Bush
Brushing The Beaver
Carpet Bumping
Cat Got Tongue
Checking for Squirrels
Clam Bake for One
Cleaning your Fingers
Clitters
Coming Into Your Own
Countering Cunts
Creamin'
Coming Into Your Own
Cunt Cuddling
Dialing the Rotary Phone
Digging a Trench
Doing your Nails
Dousing the Digits
Drilling For Oil
Engaging in Safe Sex
Erasing the Problem
Fanning the Fur
Feeding the Bearded Clam
Feeding your Slot
Fiddling the Bean
Fingerbating
Fingerpainting
Finger Blasting
Flickin' the Bean
Flit your Clit
Fucking Without Complications
Gagging the Clam
Gagging the Lips of Love
Genital Stimulation via Phalangetic Motion
Get a Lube Job
Get To Know Yourself
Get a Stinky Pinky
Going Mining
Groping the Grotto
Greasing your Hips
Grissle Rub
Gusset Typing
Having Sex With Someone you Love
Hee-Haw with wrinkled Mee-Maw
Hitchhiking South
Hitchhiking to Heaven
Hitchhiking Under the Big Top
Jillin' Off
Jocelyn Eldering
Let Your Fingers do the Walkin'
Levy Break Limbo
Making Soup
Manual Override
Muffin Buffin'
Nulling the Void
Paddling the Pink Canoe
Pampering the Pussy
Parting the Red Sea
Pearl Fishing
Pet the Petunia
Pet the Pussy Cat
Polishing the Nugget
Polishing the Peanut
Polishing the Pearl
Play Poker
Play the Clitar
Play Couch Hockey for One
Play the Silent Trumbone
Playing With Her Pineapple
Playing with Mrs. Palmer's Five Daughters
Playing With the Man in the Boat
Pushing the Button
Pussy Soccer
Riding the Unicycle
Rolling the Dough
Rubbin' the Nubbin
Rubbing the Donut
Rubbing the Red Pussycat
Scoring the Hoop
Slapping the Mackerel
Soaking the Whisker Biscuit
Spelunking
Spearing the Bearded Clam
Squeeze the Peach
Strumming
Strumming the Banjo
Surfing the Channel
Teasing the Kitty
Teasing the Tuna Taco
Testing the Plumbing
The Virgin's Release
Tickling the Taco
Tiptoe Through the TwoLips
Toggling the Bit
Tossing Pink Salad
Trolling the Bermuda Triangle
Two Finger Taco Tango
Washing your Fingers
Boston Singer Brad Delp DiesA sad day in rock and roll. I love their music. Even saw them in concert once back in the day. Great show.
Boston's Web site was taken down Friday night and replaced with one sentence: "We just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."
Singer Brad Delp was found dead Friday at his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire. He was 55.
Authorities are investigating, but they do not suspect foul play.
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Documentary questions Moore's tacticsGo figger. They're finding out that Michael Moore-on withholds the full truths in his films to make them lop-sided.
AUSTIN, Texas - As documentary filmmakers, Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine looked up to
Michael Moore.
Then they tried to do a documentary of their own about him — and ran into the same sort of resistance Moore himself famously faces in his own films.
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Pi fans to meet March 14Uh, yeah. That sounds like a thrill a minute there.
AP - Sun Mar 11, 9:37 PM ET
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers.
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You Can't Travel Back in Time, Scientists SayWell, that does it. I am totally disappointed now. I had big plans.
While the idea makes for great fiction, some scientists now say traveling to the past is impossible.
While the idea makes for great fiction, some scientists now say traveling to the past is impossible.
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"Can you hit the lamp"
"Squirt clear across the room..."I don't care who ya' are. Thas' funny.
"I nut go shatter"Owie. Sound painful.
SEC cracks down on spam-driven stocksWe'll nail them through other means since they obviously have no conscience.
Reuters - Thu Mar 8, 1:27 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading on Thursday in the stocks of 35 small companies linked to spam e-mail campaigns urging small investors to buy shares.
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Man chainsaws house in two in divorce splitHe's being proactive! That what's the world needs more of!
Reuters - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago Sent 315 times
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
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"is acne ruining your life"Uh, not for 30 years or so.
Wasting all that talent and enery. All he needs is a girlfriend or wife to do the same thing.
AP - Thu Mar 8, 7:10 AM ET
RALEIGH, N.C. - When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
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Man burns genitals in 'Jackass' stuntFuckin moron.
AP - Thu Mar 8, 7:00 AM ET Sent 833 times
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Attempts to do a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges. The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the "Jackass" movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
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"Handbags"No thanks. Got plenty.
"Fort laxative"Good gawd.
Prisoner caught with grenade where?Well, after all that prison sex, his asshole can probably handle it. But still. Ick.
Reuters - Fri Mar 2, 9:25 AM ET
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his backside -- a novel attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans.
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Off-duty Northwest employee chargedIs she sure he didn't just sneeze?
Mon Mar 5, 10:47 PM ET
MINNEAPOLIS - An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.
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According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, the woman said she was trying to sleep in her seat when the man sat down in an empty seat next to her. She said he touched her, and then got up and left. She then realized what had happened, and told flight attendants, according to the affidavit.
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1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. "Free" men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don't know your rights you don't have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights reserved.
11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911 - government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control -- it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the "gun control laws" we ALREADY have, don't make more.
24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
26. "A government of the people, by the people, for the people..."
"Of pyrimidine so varnish"Yes. And of conical so wax.
"Or legatee he jelly"No clue.
Here is my reply:Dear XXXXXXX,On March 21st, I'll hand-deliver your message to Washington when I testify at Congressional hearings on the climate crisis.
Can you commit to finding 10 friends to send a message to Congress demanding immediate action?
Ask them to visit:
http://algore.com/cards.html
Bah!I'll not deny the globe is warming. Big deal. Maybe it is warmer this year than last year.
I hope AlGore takes his phony phukking Oscar off his over sized mantle, caresses it gently with vaseline, and shoves it up his ass.
Then, I hope he strolls out of his oversized, fully electrified mansion to his oversized, polluting SUV and drives it to his private jet - which he is constantly flying around the country to promote his obsession - (whilst emitting even more of those hydrocarbons), and flies it straight to hell. Hopefully fully loaded with his DVDs.
"Women will love your new figure"Hmm. Never thought of myself as having a 'figure'.
This image provided by NASA and taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager shows a 4-millisecond exposure of Jupiter and two of its moons on January 17, 2007.
The spacecraft was 68.5 million kilometers (42.5 million miles) from Jupiter, closing in on the giant planet at 41,500 miles (66,790 kilometers) per hour.
The volcanic moon Io is the closest planet to the right of Jupiter; the icy moon Ganymede is to Io's right.
The shadows of each satellite are visible atop Jupiter's clouds; Ganymede's shadow is draped over Jupiter's northwestern limb. (AP Photo/NASA)
McCain says he's in presidential raceWell, he sucks as bad as any politician can suck.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. John McCain made it official on Wednesday that he is seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination and said he plans a formal announcement in April.
"Penetrate your partner for hours on end"Ooohhh... Now that just sounds brutal.