Andrewwhyte

What language are you trying to speak?

Apparently the missile testing was scheduled and actually was a coincidence. Sadly we will not get away that easily. Personally I think we have to turn up the pressure. The Soviet Union was defeated with unrelenting pressure. The Chinese are their friends, let them send food aid. Push this guy at every turn. Meanwhile let him know that he can become the great liberator if he wants.

If you are interested enough to ask the question, then the answer is yes.

Welcome. You will love it. Tomorrow we are all going to the airport to sell flowers. It will be great.

Actually a very good comeback. The dept of Homeland Security has pretty much denuded both our economies of the economic benefit of the treaty. There was a time when The US was the champion of capitalism in the world. The Republicans were especially keen on it; intellectual giants like Schultz, Baker, Kirkpatrick. Sigh, seems like such a long time ago.

What will be truely interesting is how the neo-cons will justify the war when the final result is a Shiite dominated ally of Iran. This is the reason Bush the Elder wanted no part of a ground invasion; because he was smarter than the Younger.

Except we have a treaty.

Gotta love Big Ben Roethlisberger pointing tho the almighty during the game. 'cause we all know he's living the good life just like Tim.

America had a good bit to do with 3 out of those 4. America: God's sword.

Hookers and blow.

He's only in his 2nd pro year, so as long as he stays healthy, it's logical that his skill will improve with experience. I think you under-estimate the value of a true double-threat QB. Tarkenton's already been mentioned up-thread, so I'll cite Randall Cunningham as a great example of this. Anyhow (re: general thread topic), people who bitch about pro sports figures publicly hot-dogging in one way or another miss the point: it's entertainment, which means publicity is the coin of the realm. Having a personal-brand gimmick is just good business. Those of us old enough to remember, for example, Joe Namath at the pinnacle of his pop culture popularity understand this. Randall Cunningham is a great example. He never really became an effective quarterback until he learned how to sit in the pocket. The difference between him and Tebow is Cunningham had an arm. I gotta admit this is getting harder every week. I don't care if they lost, he looked good yesterday. His escape act in the end zone was brilliant. He is going to get hurt eventually though. There is a reason QBs are not encouraged to go in head first.

It is very difficult to tell. When people are told the same thing over and over for a lifetime there is a tendency to believe it after a while (You love Big Brother).

HOW 'BOUT THEM REDSKINS? Gawd I never thought I'd ever say that (barf)

Well if the US wants to be reimbursed for resources spent freeing people from dictators does that mean you are in favour of US paying reparations to countries you have installed or propped up dictators in? I guess you could start with Iran, but their are certainly plenty of other candidates. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait come to mind.

We're still trying to help you kick your comma addiction. The first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem. That means a lot. I know it's been a problem... I just don't know what to do. You have no idea... Well... the first thing to realise... is that you can't just... substitute... one addiction... for another... It just doesn't help.

While we're on the subject, when are the natives going to pay us for all the good things we brought to them like democracy and literacy. African-Americans too, they owe us.

King Airs are very expensive to insure (something to do with the accident rate probably). The KA200 is valuable enough that hull insurance is usually prohibitive in a skydiving operation. Plenty of 90s around.

Where? US will be less than UK for example. What size tunnel? Might matter.

What are the economic implications. You usually a higher than normal retirement level at times like this, but where will they find jobs. Nothing like a homeless vet to spruce up the election scene.

The thing with different riser lengths is it will tend to make you fly in circles.

See! They were right. He spent all that time and effort and never found a planet. All he found was Pluto which he called a planet in a cheap stunt in order to get more grants.

The hall of fame balloting will be interesting.

Well, this retired admiral disagrees with you.

Dude! Go outside during the day. You need sunshine.

Scandinavia produces an enormous amount of hydroelectricity, and a great deal of their heating is electric, so I would expect them to have a far smaller "heating" pollution level from hydrocarbons per capita than Canada. However, there is a lot of domestic wood-fired heating, so there is still pollution, most likely with a higher particulate loading than for the same amount of heat with hydrocarbons. They also have enormous gas fields just off shore, but don't use any of it; it all gets shipped to mainland Europe. Wood is a hydro-carbon essentially. However it doesn't count towards the co2 footprint because it (presumably) is regrown. Canada also has massive hydroelectric production (not nearly as much as Norway per capita), but we sell most of it to the Americans. We also sell most (all) of our petroleum production to the US. The big problem we have in a Kyoto style world is that our country is not developed yet. We are placed in the "developed economy" group because the development we have is wealthy. However most of our land is not occupied. If we accepted Kyoto we would have to limit immigration only to those rich enough to purchase the price of their future carbon footprint at the door. Not a problem for developing economies in the third world. Not as much of a problem for countries with stagnant or declining population bases. Big problem for us. The truth is Kyoto was over the day Bush said it was. Our government of the day made a little political hay with it but never put in any measures to live up to it. The current gov would have pulled out years ago but they just got the majority needed to do so. Kyoto was never going to solve anything. Treaties that allow the problem to get worse while some are asked to pay the price are simply not going to work.