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    Polar bears are white because, as the article stated, their hairs are hollow. My friend had a Samoyed dog with the typical white coat. They used a "mist machine" to keep the dog cool. It also developed a light green tint due to the algae.
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    The best alternative that I have found is to just throw the patio furniture into the pool. It will sit on the bottom and not blow around. Also the chlorine will clean up the pvc.
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    A mini-skirt looks bad when it looks like it is a protective blanket being used to move a piano. Age isn't as much a factor as content. However, when someone thinks that the "almost there" look isn't enough, and goes the leopard-skin route... that's a clue. There is a faux-country bar in Tampa that has a long bar down one side. At the far end is "desperation corner". I remember looking down there and thinking, "That leopard must have been huge..."
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    LOL! I'm going to pretty much bring my gear bag and a toothbrush. I'll have the helmet, dirt alert, jumpsuit, and weights. Maybe I'll leave the dirt alert at home... I've never had any problem. I always carry the schematic print of my Cypres. I understand the procedure. Before I put my rig (in its gearbag) on the conveyor, I tell the screener that it is a parachute. They call a "special guy" over to run the swab test. He usually says, "You skydivers are crazy" or "Where you goin' ?" Everyone has been polite, but I am polite first.
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    I had 4 2-lb weights in my gear bag and they wanted to look at them because they show up as big black blobs on the x-ray machine. They fondle them quickly and ask what they are for. "To increase my fallrate." Then, they swipe your rig with a cloth tab to test for explosives. After that, you go on your way. Say something smart-ass and you get to spend some time with a very humorless group that has nothing but time.
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    No matter which party you are, you have to believe that the Reps haven't won an election in years. The Dems keep lobbing them the easy ones. Kerry? Come on... Nobody voted for anyone. They voted against whoever the Dems put up. At least Obama is going to make this the first race in years. The Reps are going to have to make promises that counter Obamas and that is good.
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    Heck, I could do that. Over the next 4 years, half of the military in Iraq will come home. So, all those expenditures will be down. There's the money. It will happen, regardless of the party of the President, but that party gets to spend the money.
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    Political speeches can be like that. When Obama made his speech, it was all about how he was going to do just simply evereeething. He would do it for free and everyone would be happy. The general consensus was, "how do you do everything for everybody and it is free?" Speeches are just politics and promises. It's a little early for her to start promising. However, it is a nice contrast from the Screeching Blue Banshee. Ever wonder if her handlers had some kind of practical joke going on? "Ok, tonight we'll have her dress in the Blue Robot Dress. However, to offset the robot-look, we'll have her flash the botox-dead-nerve smile-of-the-dead." Hillaryous.
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    Personally, I don't see McCain running in 2012. I would think that he wouldn't be interested. However, his VP might. That would be historically interesting.
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    OOohhhh, nice try but who played it sir?? Race card? Bill Clinton in the Dem primary.
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    billionaires?
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    20 years of Rev. Wright? Rev. Wright is now running for President? Or the whole Rev Wright thing was a calculated move on Obama's part because it benefitted his campaign? Blues, Dave I could never run for President because not all my friends are perfect. In fact, very few.
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    Not like Obama. So well known before his candidacy... I guess it is all those years that year that we got to know about Obamas experience from his previous year. Come to think of it, I had 2 years as a Senator in the school govt at our Jr. College... I got the lunch room repainted and new trees put out on the lawn.
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    Of course, we all know. Bill Clinton reminded everyone during the primaries... repeatedly. In the Carolinas, "Umm... he's black..." In Mississippi, "...did I mention he's black?" Hillary, "Shut up, dummy."
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    "...at that speed". Remember, that speed was not 90mph out of a Cessna. It was 200 mph. Last November, I dumped at a speed around 140. The harness put the brakes on my frame, but my arms, legs, and head continued for a moment. One arm still gives me problems. That was with my nice, comfy, slow-opening, 6-month-old, sport main. So, if he dumped while standing at the bottom of the stairs... the jet was going 200mph. He had a round. Regardless of the condition of the canopy... realistically, what would that round do to him at 200mph ?
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    ...to be in the computer industry. I used to dream of being a... lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree... Ahh... the larch.
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    I've got patients like that. Somehow, a patient who lies, seems counter-productive. "I'm not really sick. Fine." "Your arm... has fallen off." "Only a flesh wound." "If you aren't ill, why are you here?" "It's my only social outlet. The cashier at the market has a restraining order."
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    I just wonder 2 things with people like that. Do they believe it themselves, and do they really think we believe them? Must be sad to be that fake. It always seems to be two things. The fake energy that it generates, and their expectation that everything in their life lasts an hour. They talk to desperate people who want to talk about being "extreme" and "on the edge". It generates all this enthusiasm. People who are too ready to be excited about anything. Also, on a good or a bad day, life only lasts an hour. So, living a Walter Mitty dream life for 30 minutes is cool, even if nobody believes them and it ends. "Yeah, so I like took all the money that I got when I was a pirate and bought this new underground technology for hacking government systems. I have to live with my crew to protect me..."
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    One thing that I have learned about liars of all flavors - don't educate them. If a troll gets on the forums and starts spewing trash, it is easy to bust them. But people tell them how they know they are fake, and that just gets us better educated trolls. The same goes for liars in real life. If you tell them how you know that they are lying, then they become better liars.
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    Actually, you just make a small circle around the mound. Then, a small splash on the mound. However, you aren't supposed to light it. Good news is, they run out and die right now. The bad news is, you get a little brown ring on your lawn.
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    There is all kinds of talk about pornography. I miss out on this stuff because I don't even own a pornograph. Can I still play my LPs on it? Will they take the reel-to-reel as a trade-in? I'm going to go by Walmart and ask if they have any pornography that is slow and relaxing.
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    If there are two choices, we'll call them O and C. If someone says that they will totally support O, then they will come out and say, "Everyone vote for O". Straight and clear. If someone has a history of being a duplicitous swine, then they will say, "Vote for whoever. Vote your conscience." It not saying to vote for C, it is saying that you don't have to vote for C (as was promised). Just saying to vote for anyone... else, even if there is only one "else". Not exactly, total support.
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    It's easy to see the parallels...
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    I stopped by and picked up a raft last night.
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    Two observations... clicky A jet exit has been done as a side door exit, on May 25, 2000, out of an Airbus A330-301. However, there were "equipment issues" because the hijacker made his own stuff. His exit was less than stellar because it involved the placement of the flight attendant's foot on his butt. Obviously, homemade equipment is less than reliable.