warpedskydiver

Just like you cannot blame others for your lack of concise, honest, factual, and personal responses to any single thing has ever been posted by you.

I would have purchased more MH-53 and MH-53 Pavelows. UH-60 has a few things about it that would make it less desireable than the MH-53

I have no doubt he is very capable of writing his own words and speaking his own mind. FDT does not need pollsters and writers to tell him what to say.

The $23B will be money well spent.Quote If 23 Billion dollars are a drop in the bucket in your opinion, I say then you should pay the entrire bill. Get out your piggy bank

Next election you will be eating your own words.

Is the cat bloated looking?

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr very grrrrrrrrrr Be nice, that is my daughters head that you see, she is hugging her very protectful GSD.

Cest la Vie! when they say doggie style, they really mean it!

Yeah, like your tax dollars are not wasted on complete shit, that has nothing to do with helping anyone but the politicians themselves.

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Or the two dunkin donut shops within eyesight of each other in some godforsaken shithole in New Jersey. Dude, that is all of New Jersey

Europeans Pay Big For Barnyard Sex It's legal – and it doesn't scare the horses, say customers, animal houses of ill repute "Is it just the latest alternate lifestyle? Denmark's animal bordellos – in which people pay for sex with horses and other beasts – are advertising on the 'Net and drawing customers from as far away as Norway, Germany, Holland and Sweden. As long as no one gets hurt – including the animals – Denmark won't prosecute. Neither Denmark and Norway have any laws banning the practice of bestiality – at least not yet. The proprietors – and presumably customers as well – have convinced themselves and the governments involved that the animals are experienced and welcome the chance for this intimate interaction with another species. Danish animal owner offers his horse to journalist posing as potential client Aftenposten and 24timer are reporting it costs between $85 and $170 for some animal action. Torunn Knævelsrud, the Norwegian food safety authority's section chief for animal welfare, expressed skepticism that animals could welcome sex with people. "It could be that the animals don't really care," Knævelsrud said. "But I think it is in the nature of the case that animals will often be victims of injury, stress or suffering in connection with sexual acts with humans. Either that they are held fast, or frightened, or suffer pain or physical injury." The animal bordellos could soon find themselves forced underground, however. A new Norwegian Animal Protection Act is being considered that includes proposals from the Norwegian Animal Welfare Alliance and others prohibiting sexual intercourse with animals. "The acts provoke moral disgust," Knævelsrud. "The question is whether immorality should be made illegal. The FSA group discussing the new animal protection act has been in disagreement about this." A farmer who sells animal sex said he is extremely surprised that foreigners are ready to travel so far for it. "But the clients tell us that it is much simpler to buy animal sex in Denmark than in their own country," a horse owner from Nord-Jylland told the newspaper. A new dissertation from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Oslo showed that Norwegian veterinarians know of at least 124 cases of animal sex abuse in Norway. The thesis reports that 22 percent of Norwegian veterinarians suspect or are sure that they have treated animals that have been sexually abused by humans. Peter Sandoe, chairman of the Council on the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said that it is difficult to determine the extent of the problem and how many owners actually lease their animals for sexual purposes. "It's hard to get a handle on animal sex because the problem crosses over borders," he said. "I realize the phenomenon exists and has a certain scope, and that knowledge will be included in the discussions about how we think the law ought to be changed." (WorldNetdaily.com 9/22/06)Quote

New Army Chopper Overheats AP IMPACT: By AARON C. DAVIS Associated Press Writer 6:05 PM PST, November 9, 2007 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Army is spending $2.6 billion on hundreds of European-designed helicopters for homeland security and disaster relief that turn out to have a crucial flaw: They aren't safe to fly on hot days, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press. While the Army scrambles to fix the problem -- adding millions to the taxpayer cost -- at least one high-ranking lawmaker is calling for the whole deal to be scrapped. During flight tests in Southern California in mild, 80-degree weather, cockpit temperatures in the UH-72A Lakota soared above 104, the point at which the Army says the communication, navigation and flight control systems can overheat and shut down. No cockpit equipment failed during the nearly 23 hours of testing, according to the Pentagon report, prepared in July. But the report concluded that the aircraft "is not effective for use in hot environments." The Army told the AP that to fix the cockpit overheating problem, it will take the highly unusual step of adding air conditioners to many of the 322 helicopters ordered. The retrofitting will cost at least $10 million and will come out of the Army's budget, according to the Army. California Rep. Duncan Hunter, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, told the AP that the lightweight helicopter will still have too many weaknesses. "In my view, we would be well advised to terminate the planned buy of 322 Lakota helicopters and purchase instead additional Blackhawk helicopters," Hunter said in a letter this week to Army Secretary Pete Geren. But Army spokesman Maj. Tom McCuin at the Pentagon said: "It's certainly a concern to people out there in the field now because it's hot in those cockpits, but it's being fixed." The Army has received 12 of the Lakotas so far from the American Eurocopter Corp., a North American division of Germany's European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., or EADS. Testing on the first six by an independent arm of the Pentagon revealed the problems. The rest of the choppers are scheduled for delivery to the active-duty Army and the National Guard over the next eight years. The Lakota represents the Army's first major effort to adapt commercially available helicopters for military use. Air conditioning is standard in commercial versions of the aircraft, which have not had overheating problems. But the military usually avoids air conditioning in military aircraft to reduce weight and increase performance. "We don't need air conditioning in the Blackhawks, so we didn't think it would be an issue" in the Lakota, McCuin said. "But when we got the helicopter into the desert, we realized it was a problem." The Army plans to use the Lakota for such things as search-and-rescue missions in disaster areas, evacuation of injured people, reconnaissance, disaster relief and VIP tours for members of Congress and Army brass. All of its missions will be in the U.S. or other non-combat zones. Blackhawks, Chinooks and other helicopters will still be available for more demanding duties, such as fighting wildfires or mass evacuations. EADS spokesman Guy Hicks declined to comment directly on the criticism leveled against the aircraft. "We're proud of our partnership with the Army and the UH-72A, but we defer on anything to do with aircraft requirements and performance. It's the Army's program and they should address that," he said. The commercial purchase was designed partly to cut costs and quickly get aircraft into the field to replace two aging Vietnam-era helicopters, the Kiowa and Huey. The Army said the Lakota will also free up more Blackhawks to send to Iraq for medical evacuation flights. The Lakota has another problem: Testers said it fails to meet the Army's requirement that it be able to simultaneously evacuate two critically injured patients. The Lakota can hold two patients, but the cabin is too cramped for medics to actually work on more than one of them at a time, the testers said. Also, the Lakota cannot lift a standard 2,200-pound firefighting water bucket, though it can handle a 1,400-pound one. The Army said it had no intention of using the Lakota to fight wildfires anyway. But Hunter said the military should be buying versatile aircraft useful in any domestic disaster. The report by Charles McQueary, the Defense Department's director of operational testing, said that overall, the Lakota performs better than the Kiowa or Huey and pilots found it easy to fly. But the report said inadequate ventilation, heat emitted by aircraft electronics and sunlight streaming through the large windows caused cockpit temperatures to reach 104.9 degrees during a simulated mission in California. The report did not say how long the helicopter was in the air before it reached that temperature. The Lakota is supposed to be able to fly for 2.8 hours. The aircraft's safe operating limit is 104 degrees, according to the Army. Beyond that, alarms may sound, signaling the pilot has 30 minutes before possible system shutdown, the report said. It said pilots should land as soon as possible or take other action to cool the cockpit. Kim Henry, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, said that the Army began outfitting the helicopters with vents after the report was issued and that they have been effective at lowering temperatures. However, the Army decided it still needs to put air conditioning on about a third of the choppers, including those bound for hot climates like the Southwest, and all of those configured for medical evacuations, McCuin said. "The Minnesota Air National Guard probably doesn't need air conditioners," he said. The cost of an air conditioning unit per aircraft is about $98,000, McCuin said. Redesigns to add vents, scoops and other devices to increase cockpit ventilation for the rest of the fleet could add millions more. Despite the needed fixes, McCuin and other officers familiar with the Lakota lauded the aircraft, pointing to parts of McQueary's report that found the aircraft does meet hovering, range, endurance and speed requirements. The Army officials also stressed that the problems are being discovered and dealt with now, when just a few of the helicopters have arrived. Loren Thompson, a military analyst with the Lexington Institute, a defense think tank in Virginia, said the Army is facing a new kind of criticism over the Lakota. Whereas the Army has been ridiculed for decades for overspending on aircraft, it now faces questions of whether it was too cost-conscious. "The Army may be learning that its performance requirements are so demanding that adapting commercial helicopters is almost as hard as starting from scratch on a new military design," Thompson said. Copyright 2007 Los Angeles Times partners: KTLA Hoy

I got out of bed today, and actually left the house.

Why is it people do not ask questions of their doctor? Look vicodin is nasty and has long term effects on your health and ability to tolerate pain. It is addictive, has a diminishing effectiveness, and causes GI problems. There are qute a few non narcotic options availible. I personally take tramadol, for me it is effective enough to take away just enough pain where I can get by, without too much of a problem. I chose to feel some pain in order to know if I am aggravating my problems. If the pain becomes more than I should have to deal with, I can go back to taking a full dosage daily, or even double up without much of a problem other than feeling warm, extremely thirsty, and a bit ill. There are meds that may or may not work for you, everyone is different. An anti inflamatory like anaprox can help the effectiveness of non narcotics. I have a close friend that had been on meds so long that he spent a months time locked up in a hospital to be weaned off of oxycontin, and fentanyl. Unfortunatly they did not have a protocol for weaning him off the fentanyl and he was again hospitalized, and really felt like dying. I hope this information helps someone. Pain meds are not fun at all.

Go worship your new master.

Obviously you have not paid any attention to anything she has said or done since 1992.

New Orleans murder rate for year will set record Prosecutions are so lax in post-flood city that criminals speak of 'misdemeanour murder', Ethan Brown reports Ethan Brown Tuesday November 6, 2007 Guardian Unlimited On a cool, clear mid-October weekend six people were murdered in New Orleans. The killings brought the tally of the slain in the Crescent City this year to 163, above the total of 162 for the entirety of 2006. The following weekend three more people were murdered in New Orleans - on Saturday alone. With nearly two full months left in the year, it is looking like the homicide rate in New Orleans will substantially outpace 2006's near-record numbers, which themselves far eclipsed even gang-plagued, hopelessly violent cities like Compton, California. Indeed, with a murder rate of nearly 70 per 100,000, New Orleans is now three times more dangerous than murder-plagued cities like Philadelphia (recently nicknamed "Killadelphia") and Baltimore (home to HBO's apocalyptically grim series The Wire). What's happened? The New Orleans police department's top brass tends to place the blame for all of the city's criminal justice woes on Katrina, but it's well known that New Orleans was an extraordinarily dangerous place well before the hurricane made landfall. The crack cocaine wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s that made Washington, DC and New York City such hotbeds of street violence hit a particularly bloody crescendo in New Orleans. During the mid-1990s New Orleans reigned as the nation's murder capital, a frenzy of violence and drug dealing fomented in part by a police force that had grown almost irredeemably corrupt. Indeed, in 1994 federal prosecutors indicted 10 New Orleans cops on drug trafficking charges. More dramatically, that same year a New Orleans officer named Len Davis was charged with ordering the murder of a woman who had filed a police brutality complaint against him. So, when Richard Pennington was sworn in as top cop in New Orleans in 1994, he made eradicating police corruption a top priority. Mr Pennington also emphasised community policing and insisted that the New Orleans police department (NOPD) focus on high crime areas (or "hotspots"). The so-called Pennington Plan was astonishingly effective in bringing down the murder rate in New Orleans. By the late 1990s, New Orleans not only finally began experiencing the significant crime declines that had been occurring in major metropolises like Los Angeles and New York City, it also had the largest decrease in crime among 50 major US cities. But by the early 2000s, crime began rising in New Orleans again. After a failed mayoral bid in 2002, Mr Pennington was out as police chief-he is now top cop in Atlanta-and the long-suffering criminal justice system in New Orleans began collapsing. In recent years, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office has released hundreds of suspects under Article 701 of the Louisiana code of criminal procedure, which states that suspects cannot be held for longer than 60 days on felony arrest without an indictment. Reasons given for the lack of charges filed in 701 cases range from incomplete police reports to overburdened assistant district attorney's who were simply not able to file an indictment before the 60-day period expired. Unsurprisingly, the city's drug business began getting the message that felony crimes-even murder-would most likely end in a 701 release. Pre-Katrina, there were a few hundred 701 releases per year. But after the storm, the trickle of 701 releases became a flood. In 2006 alone, there were nearly 3,000 such releases, a five- or six-fold increase over pre-flood levels. Experts offer various explanations. Some cite the inexperience of Orleans Parish district attorney Eddie Jordan, who took office without ever trying a case in criminal court. Others cite inadequate case processing on the part of the New Orleans police department. In one quadruple murder, for example, a police report was a total of three pages. Whatever the reason, 701-related laxity has become so common that New Orleans street hustlers have dubbed doing 60 days in jail for a killing a "misdemeanour murder." This was no exaggeration: in addition to the thousands of suspects being released under Article 701, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office secured just one conviction in the 162 murders committed in 2006. Worse still, the district attorney's violent offenders unit (VOU) which handles the city's most violent crime has recently been wracked by staff departures. Former prosecutors have publicly complained that they were forced to spend much of their time performing administrative tasks like photocopying. Unsurprisingly, Mr Jordan - he finally resigned last week -attempted to portray the former prosecutors' complaints as merely sour grapes. But when a small New Orleans-based non-profit organisation called "Silence is Violence" announced on October 1 that it would provide an administrative assistant to the VOU, it became clear that the district attorney's office was indeed suffering from a profound lack of resources. The district attorney's office faced a severe crisis of confidence under Jordan. Dozens of former employees were recently awarded a $3.7m judgment in a race discrimination claim filed in federal court in 2003. The former employees (who are white) claim that Mr Jordan (a former federal prosecutor who is New Orleans' first black district attorney) fired them because of their race. Mr Jordan asked New Orleans' city council to add the amount of the judgement to his office's 2008 budget so the sum can be repaid. Mr Jordan's office also warned that if it does not receive help, his office could be "forced to close" and will be "without sufficient assistant district attorneys to prosecute approximately 2,500 cases, which are currently awaiting trial." The office is now run by interim district attorney Keva Landrum-Johnson, the first female district attorney in the history of New Orleans. As the year comes to a bloody close, it seems that New Orleans is nearing the tipping point where it may become so violent that it is no longer livable at all. Certainly, the current murder rate is so high and the city's population so low (around 250,000, well below pre- Katrina population of about 500,000) that a significant chunk of the city is already simply being killed off. Incredibly, the killing fields of New Orleans do not appear to rank high as a concern among state and local officials. The mayor, Ray Nagin, has been silent in the face of the sort of mass killing that occurred and often dismissive of it. This summer, he told a group of reporters that the murder rate "keeps the New Orleans brand out there." The police chief, Warren Riley, isn't much different. Earlier this year, after the back-to-back murders of Harvard graduate and independent filmmaker Helen Hill and jazzman Dinneral Shavers (who appeared in Spike Lee's Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke), Mr Riley unveiled an anti-crime plan that was comprised of little more than random traffic stops. And Mr Riley was all-too-defensive recently when the New Orleans-based Metropolitan Crime Commission released a report urging the New Orleans police department to focus on violent offenders. Perhaps the most serious blow to New Orleans' ailing criminal justice system is the recent election of former Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal as Lousiana's governor. Mr Jindal has boasted that he will turn New Orleans-which is already profoundly suffering from a lack of public resources-into a model of far right privatisation politics on such issues as education and healthcare. So, New Orleans speeds along to the sort of wholesale destruction than even Katrina could not have wrought without anyone in major leadership positions stepping up to stop the bloodletting. "The trouble is," University of New Orleans criminologist Peter Scharf told me recently, "there is no willing to stand up and say 'This is fucking nuts.'" · Ethan Brown is the author of Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler (Random House) and the forthcoming Snitch: Informants, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice (Public Affairs). He lives in New Orleans Quote Be careful if you go to the big sleazy, stay in the tourist areas, do not wander off looking for out of the way places, be careful of the cops. If you are murdered nobody in the NOPD will give a rat's ass.

If Fred is not clear enough for your liking, who the hell do you think is? He does not waffle, nor pander to special interest groups. Maybe that is what you abhor, he is consistant with a philosphy you do not like, and therefore you will say anything to dissaude people from backing him for president.

Hydro codone is one of the shittiest drugs around, I am glad I was able to get off of them after eight years. My god, don't you know there are more effective medicines around?

Toyota Matrix, efficient, easy to drive, dependable, nice looking, and it is a corolla so it will last so long you won't probably remember having another car.

He gave the same speech in SF, but showed the same flaw himself. Of course, it's still only primary season, so you can do shit like that. Show me where he said it would be a good idea to give illegals drivers licenses.

Knob Creek, I think anyone who appreciates fine bourbon will agree. Jack will get you drunk, but it does not taste even close to fine sipping bourbon. To actually taste bourbon use a bit of tepid water to mix with and swish it in your mouth to detect all the flavors contained in it.

The finger in the bbl episode was not even close to being the same as what we are discussing. A squib could have resulted in death or serious injury if it were near the chamer and had another round fired afterwards. A friend of mine had a damascus bbl shotgun that completely peeled due to using a modern cartrdge. The shotgun was an antique and was totally ruined.

boresighters fit a whole lot tighter and have more mass than what the mythbusters placed in the muzzle of the weapon they used in their experiments. In the first photo you can clearly see where an object was lodged in the muzzle end.