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  1. jfields
    So, is Russia in the Russian continent, or in Asia? Or is the country just commuting back and forth?
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    They haven't so far, so I doubt there is anything to worry about.
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    Nope. Didn't say it was.
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    But sometimes we have specifically targeted them. Saying "Sometimes they die" is not a fair assessment of the way that life is both calculated and taken in some military operations. It is not a clear cut good guy/bad guy scenario. Wendy mentioned Nagasaki and Dresden. There are more you could throw in, where we intentionally targeted civilians. We don't do it much, but we do it. They weren't collateral damage. They were the target.
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    Sure we do, and we have through history. We may not target them specifically much these days, but when we kill them and call it "collateral damage" or some other euphemism, we have still murdered them. And if you look at some of the things that went on in Vietnam, we certainly killed women and children. Sometimes they were acting as combatants, and sometimes they weren't. (And I'm not saying it was easy to tell the difference.) I'm also not saying we are a big perpetrator of these acts. In comparison to most places, we are the good guys. But to say that we haven't and don't do it is untrue.
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    Whatever. Bring it on, Flygurl! I double-dog dare ya!
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    I got it, I got it! THAT is where they've been hiding the weapons of mass destruction. They hid the uranium in cigarettes!
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    Kevin, While I generally agree with your point in this thread, I call bullshit on your bullshit. Saying lung cancer was unheard of until the advent of cigarette smoking is totally unproveable. It wasn't that long ago that doctors were using phrenology and occasionally drilling holes in people's heads to let the spirits out. Does the fact that bipolar disorder wasn't diagnosed and understood until recently mean that it never happened in human history? No. Ditto for a hundred other ailments. The logic of "we didn't see it, so it didn't exist" can mean that people didn't know what they were looking for as easily as that something wasn't there.
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    Amazon, Welcome to the new millenium. They use GPS, microchips and remote control.
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    While we are making suggestions of things for people to do, let me throw out one more, to... oh... the audience in general. http://www.friesian.com/valley/9-f03.htm Maybe enrollment is still open...
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    No problem. I wasn't annoyed. Your out of the blue comment was hilarious in the context of the drawn-out debate we've been having.
  12. jfields
    The succinct version of what we've been saying for the last hundred posts.
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    Shock & Awe?
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    If we stopped reading our private messages and IM's, we could debunk much faster, but it would take a lot of fun out of things.
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    Justin, I'm ashamed of you. If you are going to take my line, use the whole thing.
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    If I had a dime for every time somebody private messaged ME that they don't agree with YOU, I'd be a very rich man.
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    Smallest plane I've jumped is a King Air. Biggest is a C-141. I'll probably get a smaller plane before I get a bigger one.
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    Did they have pop-ups and rhymes?
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    [Other hushed documentary narrator voice] That's right, Chris. We can expect some violence tomorrow. But right now, see how BoBo the silverback is unusually irritable. This may be a classic case of withdrawl, since the tribe has been without a female for awhile. When the female returns to the tribe, BoBo will undoubtedly sequester her away from the other males and use loud grunts and groans to tell them of his privileged position with her. The other male apes would be smart to leave a healthy distance from BoBo until his appetite has been sated. What do you think, Chris? [/Other hushed documentary narrator voice]
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    Okay, honestly laughing out loud in the office here, with people staring. Thanks!
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    I realize that, man, hence the sarcasm.
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    Then he'll tell the teacher and you'll get sent to detention, young man.
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    Tell that to the Irish.
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    We will. Self-proclaimed porno pixies, on the other hand...
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    Nope. Still waiting.