Nightingale

hehe. Me too. Kenpo [ken-PO] (noun)= def: The art of adding insult to injury.

Got it in less than half the time. Course, I've driven to most of the states, so that helps a lot.

wasn't hard at all. Just the standard life insurance through my work. no skydiving exclusion

Corporations profit because they produce a product people need or want. They should not be penalized and have their profits garnished simply because they are successful. When you patronize a company, say... McDonalds... the only thing they owe you is what you purchased, your hamburger. Nothing more.

1. be nice. 2. calls and shows up when he says he will. 3. moves heavy objects for me every so often 4. respect my choices of fun stuff (karate/skydiving) although he is not required to participate. 5. be able to have an intelligent debate 6. can make me laugh and/or get me to relax.

Well said! I absolutely agree with you!

I want him out of office. I don't think he's done a very good job. BUT, 9/11 was not his fault, so he shouldn't apologize for it. Sure, we probably had some clues beforehand, but its not easy to put something like that together, and it's very easy to look back and say *d'oh! we should've known! It was not his fault. There are a lot of other things he's done that I don't like, but 9/11 has nothing to do with it.

The dot showed me as centrist leaning towards left. According to your answers, your political philosophy is centrist. Centrist Centrists favor selective government intervention and emphasize practical solutions to current problems. They tend to keep an open mind on new issues. Many centrists feel that government serves as a check on excessive liberty. Your Personal Self-Government Score is 50%. Your Economic Self-Government Score is 40%.

nope, I'm a leftie, at least socially. I'm a little more towards the moderate end of leftie, but I'm definitely not right wing and have only been able to bring myself to vote republican once in my life (and even then, it gave me the willies, but he was the best candidate for the job). I'm pro-choice. I'm pro gay rights I'm pro religious tolerance I'm against using the military for anything other than self defense I favor basing laws and legislated morality on reason rather than tradition I favor protecting the environment, even if its at the expense of businesses. We've only got one planet, ya know. What makes me more of a moderate is that I think my money should stay in my pocket until I decide what to do with it. I recognize that some taxes are necessary to support a stable government and military, but don't take my money to feed the homeless. If I wish to do that, I will write the check myself (and I do!) http://www.politicalcompass.org/ put me as somewhat left of moderate, and a not-too extreme libertarian Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -1.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

Kenpo Karate - 15 years. Never officially got my black belt, but I do compete in black belt level competition, and have for the last seven years or so. My instructor's been pestering me to test for black for years, but its been quite a logistics nightmare, because I've had seven instructors along the way, and I want them all here for my test. Also, I have a monopoly on teaching private lessons, since the black belts charge $50 and brown belts charge $35. The newbies figure a brown belt can teach them the basics as well as a black belt, so they'd rather save the $15, and I'm the only brown belt. I test for black, I lose my extra pocket money, because for $50, they can have either me or the head instructor teach them, so they'd just go to the HI. Also took TKD for two years in college. Wasn't my thing. Feet should stay on the ground so you can keep your balance, not go flying through the air trying to kick someone in the head... the kenpo philosophy involves kicking out the knee first, so the opponent is on the ground, and THEN kicking him in the head. Much more efficient.

www.martialtalk.com If you sign up for the forum, put me (Nightingale) down as who referred you.

I'm a leftie. I don't think Bush should apologize for 9/11. He wasn't the one that flew a plane into a building.

Its kinda funny seeing the anti-abortion protesters outside that clinic. they can't seem to get their minds around the fact that not all planned-parenthood clinics (or even most!) perform abortions! When my friend went in to planned parenthood for her exam, she was really nervous and asked the nurse "do abortions happen here?" and the nurse said (summarized) "nope. we'll refer someone to another clinic if that's what they want, but our goal here is to work with people like you, BEFORE abortion is ever a question. There's a difference between being pro-choice and being pro-abortion. We don't promote abortion here. Our goal here is to make sure that through education and family planning, that you'll never even need to think about an abortion. If you ever come back here asking about an abortion, it means that I didn't do my job today."

Yup. The planned parenthood clinic I took a friend to in college (for the pill, not an abortion) had a whole wall of "abortion alternatives" brochures

YES! Take them to small claims court. Depends on the laws in your area, though. In California, you can't charge for carpet after the "lifespan of the carpet" expires, and before that, they have to charge you a pro-rate.

When you mow your lawn and find a car... you might be a redneck.

Firecracker Chainsaw Massacre 2002 Darwin Award Nominee (January 2002, Croatia) A Croatian was killed while trying to open a hand grenade with a chainsaw. He wanted to retrieve the explosive to make firecrackers for the New Year’s holiday. Loch Ness Monster 1999 Honorable Mention (June 1999, California) Last summer down on Lake Isabella, in the high desert east of Bakersfield, a woman was having trouble with her boat. No matter how she tried, she just couldn't get her new 22-foot Bayliner to perform. It was sluggish in every maneuver, regardless of the power applied. She tried for an hour to make her boat go, but finally gave up and putted over to a nearby Marina for help. A topside check revealed that everything was in perfect working order. The engine ran fine, the outboard motor pivoted up and down, and the prop was the correct size and pitch. One of the Marina guys jumped in the water to check beneath the boat. He came up almost choking on water, he was laughing so hard. Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer. Shed Protection 2002 Honorable Mention (August 2002, Netherlands) A 66-year-old Margraten resident wanted to protect his garden shed against burglars. The best way to do this, he decided, was to construct a booby trap. He cobbled together some ropes and a shotgun aimed at the door. Proud of his ingenuity, he demonstrated the effectiveness of the device to two friends by shooting himself in the abdomen and lower arm. An emergency operation prevented him from winning a Darwin Award. Police searched his home, and confiscated firearms and ammo, along with 15 full-grown marijuana plants that perhaps helped him formulate this painful lesson in safety. Budget Hangliding 2004 Reader Submission KATU 2 News - Portland, Oregon www.katu.com Man dies from 36-foot fall off fire escape March 29, 2004 CORVALLIS - Corvallis police say a 43-year-old man died after jumping from a fire escape on a downtown building. Police say Michael Gurwell intentionally jumped from the fifth floor fire escape Saturday night while holding a neon kite with an 8-foot wingspan. He was wearing protective knee pads and a bicycle helmet. Gurwell fell 36 feet to land on the roof of the second floor. He was taken to Good Samaritan hospital, where he died about 40 minutes later.

I'm sitting at work bored out of my mind!

Rear admiral When I was a student at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) in 1983, I faithfully attended the weekly lecture on Gerichtsmedizin (forensic medicine) that was based on the grim harvest of the West Berlin police department. Apart from the gruesome, the horrifying (child abuse!) and the plain morbid, there were a few candidates who'd undoubtedly qualify for a Darwin Award. One that sticks out in my mind was the lamentable case of a middle-aged West Berliner whose autoerotic proclivities and aspirations as an amateur electrician provided a spark of levity for the permanently nauseous audience. This gentleman had -- presumably by a process of trial and error that I leave others to speculate about -- arrived at the conclusion that ramming a "candle"-shaped lightbulb up his rectum was a pretty darn pleasant experience, especially when practised in combination with a small leather harness attached to his procreative equipment. Unfortunately, he must have felt uncomfortable by the initial chill emanating from the cold glass of the lightbulb. But necessity is the mother of invention: He detached socket, switch, and power cord from an ordinary table lamp and adapted them to his specific purpose, put the harness on his little friend, and proceded to amuse himself with the now instantly heatable lightbulb in his rear end. Tragically, his skills as an electrician were vastly inferior to his inventiveness. While happily playing with his new toy, his shoddy workmanship sent 240V through his body, electrocuting him in flagranti. A slide of his contraption... pluss harness... and his inspirational story were part of the standard lecture on Gerichtsmedizin (forensic medicine) at the Freie Universität Berlin back in the summer semester of 1983... and presumably longer. from www.darwinawards.com

a logbook is your personal record... why would you want false info in there? I'd just do the recurrency jump.

If my rigger saves my butt, you bet he's getting a bottle of anything he wants.

pick a field of study you're interested in. I did well in school because I wanted to. I wanted to go to class because the classes were interesting and engaging. I had great professors that wanted me to do well. If you're at a state school with large class sizes, consider transferring to a private school with smaller classes.

Their Flake Bars are made in Africa, but they're still MUCH better than any US chocolate.

Cost Plus World Market. They've got a lot of the UK chocolate there.

yeah... the email showed up this morning and yes, you're still dead. I'll see you on friday