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Safety Day sort of serves that purpose, in my opinion. Owned by Remi #?

I found a participant at my DZ, but she had no info on the calendars... Any update on when they'll be available? Owned by Remi #?

Nah.... there's a race car driver named Dick Trickle. That beats "buttkiss" in my book. Owned by Remi #?

Happy B'Day, speedy! Owned by Remi #?

Looks like the keeper on a Javelin. I don't think it's in the wrong place, just harder to pull the excess back with the loose end flipped 180 degrees. Owned by Remi #?

Yup... seemed obvious Owned by Remi #?

You even wondered? Wow Owned by Remi #?

http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=6168 Research Center Concludes That Hunters ‘Compensate’ for Diminutive Genitalia by Acting Out Domination Fantasies For Immediate Release: April 1, 2005 Contact: Justin Jest 757-622-7382 x8108 Norfolk, Va. — While the results of the research are preliminary, scientists at the Diminutive Male Genitalia Disorder Research Organization have discovered a genetic link between small penis size and the thrill of the hunt. The organization recently began to tabulate data from a two-year study of men with Diminutive Male Genitalia Disorder (DMGD) and has posted the results on its Web site, DMGD.org. The subjects of the study varied from men with a slight abnormality in penis size to men with pubis innius, a term for an inverted male pubic region. By tracing what has been identified as the "DMGD gene," an abnormality in the 21st chromosome was discovered. Researchers found that this abnormality appears to be consistently linked to two traits: abnormally small male reproductive organs and the ability to derive joy from killing, which starts with hunting small game and, in isolated instances, can manifest itself in homicidal acts. Research team leader Dr. Brian Upchurch and his colleagues in New Orleans, La., plan to investigate whether DMGD was a factor in the 2004 Sawyer County, Wis., incident in which a deer hunter went on a rampage and killed six other hunters. "These findings confirm what we have believed for a long time: Hunters just don’t measure up," says PETA’s Justin Jest. "They are apparently overcompensating for their failure to hit the mark in the bedroom by blowing small animals away in the woods." PETA intends to incorporate the findings of the study into campaign materials to combat hunting. Owned by Remi #?

Well, Swoop... when you've lived your life as a charity case like me ya get a little soft-hearted. Edit to add: They're ummmmm.... gifts for my friends. Thanks for the replies. I'll PM if I can't find a local participant Owned by Remi #?

If so, where in Ohio can I get a couple? Thanks Owned by Remi #?

There's a passage in one of my favorite books that speaks to fear: I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread. Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops off like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear. Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as it shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you have never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel Owned by Remi #?

No. I'm agreeing that some people do anti-social or risky or suicidal things because they feel rejected or hopeless or angry. Owned by Remi #?

So..... Jimbo Or are you just here to snipe at Narcimund? The observation that social rejection leads to anti-social behavior is extremely relevant. Owned by Remi #?

Brilliant observation. Drug abuse is the root of a lot of crime and risky behavior. Why does this one bother you in particular? Owned by Remi #?

It's called crystal meth Owned by Remi #?

This Gukert / Gannon interview with Anderson Cooper is a riot. http://63.240.197.69/video/gannon360.mov The Washington Post had a write up that covers the main points: Jeff Gannon Admits Past 'Mistakes,' Berates Critics By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 19, 2005; Page C01 Jeff Gannon, the former White House reporter whose naked pictures have appeared on a number of gay escort sites, says that he has "regrets" about his past but that White House officials knew nothing about his salacious activities. "I've made mistakes in my past," he said yesterday. "Does my past mean I can't have a future? Does it disqualify me from being a journalist?" Gannon chastised his critics, breaking a silence that began last week when liberal bloggers disclosed his real name, James Dale Guckert, and a Web page, which he paid for, featuring X-rated photos of himself. "Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?" As for his critics, Gannon said: "People have said some of my writing expressed a hostile point of view" toward gays. "These people are willing to abandon their principles on the basis of trying to make me out to be a hypocrite. These are the same groups that cherish free speech and privacy." John Aravosis, a gay activist who posted the pictures of Gannon on his Americablog.org, said the issue is not Gannon's right to be a journalist but his "White House access. . . . The White House wouldn't let him in the door right now, knowing of his background." Aravosis said Gannon is guilty of "what I call family-values hypocrisy. Basically, he's asking the gay community to protect him when he attacks us." Gannon resigned earlier this month as a reporter for two conservative Web sites, Talon News and GOPUSA, both owned by a Texas Republican activist. Gannon became a target after asking President Bush a question that slammed Senate Democrats and contained false information about Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). In the interview, Gannon did not dispute evidence that he has advertised himself as a $200-an-hour gay escort but would not specifically address such questions. Dismissing speculation that he had a permanent White House press pass, which requires a full-blown FBI background check that usually takes months, Gannon said he could not get one because he was required to first get a pass from the Senate press gallery, which did not consider him to be working for a legitimate news organization. Instead, he said he was admitted on a day-to-day basis after supplying his real name, date of birth and Social Security number. He said he did not use a pseudonym to hide his past but because his real last name is hard to spell and pronounce. Gannon said he began covering the White House in February 2003, at least a month before Talon News was created. He said he was then working for GOPUSA. Talon was launched as "a marketing consideration to separate the news division from something that could be viewed as partisan," he said. Suggestions that White House officials coddled him or gave him special access are "absolutely, completely, totally untrue," Gannon said, adding that he was often among the last to be called on at press briefings and sometimes could not ask a question at all. "I have no friendships with anyone there. . . . The White House, as far as I know, was never aware of the questions about my past." Asked how recently he was putting his photo on escort sites, Gannon said that "so much of this stuff" was "years in the past. . . . Anything that goes on the Internet is there forever," he said. "Every day I learn about another site where there are allegedly pictures of me." Gannon says he was questioned by the FBI in the Valerie Plame leak investigation after referring to a classified CIA document when he interviewed the outed CIA operative's husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson. But he said yesterday: "I didn't have the document. I never saw the document. It was written about in the Wall Street Journal a week before. I had no special access to classified information." Aravosis and other critics cite several examples of what they view as Gannon's anti-gay writing. Gannon wrote last year that John Kerry "might someday be known as 'the first gay president,' citing his "100 percent rating from the homosexual advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign" for backing a "pro-gay agenda." Gannon said he was just reporting the facts and playing off suggestions that Bill Clinton was the first black president. In reporting on comments by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) that legalizing gay marriage could lead to judicial approval of bestiality, Gannon made an issue of the fact that the Associated Press reporter who interviewed Santorum was married to a top Kerry aide and described the comments of gay activists as "predictable responses." Gannon said he was not taking a stand on the issue. Other allegations, meanwhile, keep surfacing. Aravosis wrote yesterday on his blog that an unnamed television producer says Gannon told him the Iraq war was going to begin four hours before Bush announced it. Gannon chuckled at that, saying many reporters sensed an attack was imminent because the White House kept delaying the routine announcement that no more news would be made that day. "You could feel it in the air," he said. Despite the battering he has taken, Gannon hasn't abandoned plans to work in journalism and hopes to generate sympathy by speaking out. "People criticize me for being a Christian and having some of these questionable things in my past," he said. "I believe in a God of forgiveness." Owned by Remi #?

Here's one from The Post and a link to one of the bloggers that have been trying to figure out who the guy really is. I think Gannon is currently or was just recently on CNN talking to Wolf Blitzer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14148-2005Feb10.html http://www.americablog.org/ http://www.dailykos.com Pass the butter and salt, please Edit to add the "All Gannon, All the Time" americablog link Owned by Remi #?

No, it's real. In additional to all the attention bloggers are directing at this, The Washington Post, and the Boston Globe are starting to run stories too. I'll post some links later. Owned by Remi #?

And watch this story. http://www.nydailynews.com/02-10-2005/news/gossip/story/279466p-239417c.html Owned by Remi #?

I'm getting an average of 300KB/sec Owned by Remi #?

good start Owned by Remi #?

Ok, I guess I got slammed on that one. I use "guy" as a more generic thing. Owned by Remi #?

I can understand "wrong" guess..... But why "bad" guess? Owned by Remi #?

url "http://www.gossamer-threads.com"]Gossamer Threads[/url Owned by Remi #?

http://www.freefall.com/images/rantoul/2004/13aug/pages/9233260-R1-032-14A.htm Owned by Remi #?