dr_zoidberg:
Haha. You and your hot chicks...
It takes a village to make a drunk
What rural African regions lack in material wealth, infrastructure, and modern conveniences, they more than make up for in drunken leisure time.
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/10_04/10-04-soused-africa.htm
What rural African regions lack in material wealth, infrastructure, and modern conveniences, they more than make up for in drunken leisure time.
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/10_04/10-04-soused-africa.htm
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jerry031:
I've been up here for just over a week. I've been busy buying high dollar items and getting re-settled in. Found a house in Independence Park that I'm buying, now I just have to wait until the end of March to move in.
denio:
Heh, thanks for the link. It's always good to look though windows in to others' lives.
Damn, who's the president of France? Jimmy Carter? They need to have the Thatcher/Reagan revolution, even if it comes 25 years too late.
Self-doubt leaves French feeling down in the mouth
SUSAN BELL
IN PARIS
IT IS official: the French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to see a positive future.
This gloomy portrait of the current state of Gallic...
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Self-doubt leaves French feeling down in the mouth
SUSAN BELL
IN PARIS
IT IS official: the French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to see a positive future.
This gloomy portrait of the current state of Gallic...
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dopespike:
Yikes, the French being pessimists... well, I've been there, and one of their bad drivers almost hit one of my marching band members. I don't see how the french being pessimists is "playing into the hands of the extreme right-wing National Front party." Most of the liberals that I know are some of the most pessimistic people I know.
michael_j_totten:
Last time I was in Paris I had just left LIbya. It looked to my sore eyes and soul like the mothership of capitalism and the world capital of happy.
If you're French and feeling bummed, just hop on an airplane to Tripoli. It will do wonders. (Same goes for Americans who think they live in a fascist police state.)
If you're French and feeling bummed, just hop on an airplane to Tripoli. It will do wonders. (Same goes for Americans who think they live in a fascist police state.)
Even as I was leaving for Honolulu in the deepest dark last winter, there were those who asked if I was sure, really sure, that I could leave Alaska. I went to lunch with Sherry Simpson, the writer; as we walked out behind Humpy's, we saw a physicist raven on a low roof, dropping pieces of ice onto a car hood and then checking...
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padme:
Alaska is amazing in many small ways that people wouldn't understand if they had never lived here.
I love beer 
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fleur:
And they have lil blurbs of awful music! haha.
uptight:
I don't drink. Maybe it's the Muslim in me...
Or maybe I'm just a wuss
Or maybe I'm just a wuss
Woo hoo! The beer festival is tonight 
I'm gonna drink all the different Belgian ales I can get my lips on. Love the Belgian beer, so naturally it's hideously expensive.
I'm gonna drink all the different Belgian ales I can get my lips on. Love the Belgian beer, so naturally it's hideously expensive.
dr_zoidberg:
Mmmm. Real beer.
padme:
You might try Choc beer, its an american beer, made by italian immigrants. and its so so good.
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drstinkypants:
yes. right on. also one of my favorites
i am enjoying some sierra nevada "celebration ale". not too similar to what you metioned but delicious none the less
its a shame you are not within 2 timezones of me. i think i would like to get a drink with you if we were within driving distance.
how is the beer selection in AK?
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i am enjoying some sierra nevada "celebration ale". not too similar to what you metioned but delicious none the less
its a shame you are not within 2 timezones of me. i think i would like to get a drink with you if we were within driving distance.
how is the beer selection in AK?
[Edited on Jan 11, 2005 1:44AM]
snidely_whiplash:
Hm. It's been a week and I am still not admitted to the SG Conservatives group. Maybe I'm not conservative enough? Conservative-libertarian? Who knows. I just call 'em like I see 'em.
Oh yeah. Between you & me, get the book "The Predatory Female" by Shannon Lawrence.
Oh yeah. Between you & me, get the book "The Predatory Female" by Shannon Lawrence.
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uptight:
Melanie Phillips is one of my favourite writers, but she is a little wide of the mark here. Ordinary British people do not buy into the terrorism-friendly crap fed to them by the media, Muslim activists and extreme left.
The moderate left have though. In the past, these people have taken a neutral view on Middle East politics - prefering to ignore it as "a problem that is impossible to sort out".
However, when Bush came to power it became the fashionable view that he was an inarticulate, right-wing, dunce. Ronald Reagan was regarded in the same way here.
When the war was getting started, this snowballed into "Bush is an inarticulate bullethead who must be stopped - and Blair is his poodle" (the intelligentsia were looking for a good excuse to hate Blair, anyway).
So then it became fashionable for the "politically-aware" to go on these huge marches against the war in Iraq and at this point the anti-semites on the extreme left and in Muslim organisations hijacked these fickle, naive, emotional moderates into their fight against "the zionist entity".
Nowadays if I mention my suport to Israel to any vaguely fashionable young person, they are convinced I am evil.
The assualt on public sanity also comes from the media who are quite rightly anxious not to encourage Islamophobia, but naively express this in "peace march mentality" - hence they became anti-war and pro-Palestinian.
In the end the whole thing gets skewed. A neutral, rational stance flies out the window - the war becomes a bad thing perpetrated by evil right wingers, Israel becomes the oppressor of the poor Palestinians and terrorists are described as "millitants" because they don't want to offend Muslims.
Luckily, as I say, the ordinary person on the streets isn't taken in - but with such "sensitive" bullshit flying around there's a danger that they could manifest a reverse effect to that desired by the media, the left and the Muslim activists.
Over-protection and media distortion could end up polarising our country. As moderate left and some neutrals get pulled into hatred of America and Israel while the moderate right and other neutrals start losing patience and become racist.
For this reason I am constantly pointing out to fashionable friends that the Liberation of Iraq, the war on terrorism and Israel aren't evil. I am also having to point out to other people that Muslims aren't always evil terrorists.
Ultimately this mess is the fault of the media who control the war information is portrayed. They let their liberal tendancies get the better of them.
The moderate left have though. In the past, these people have taken a neutral view on Middle East politics - prefering to ignore it as "a problem that is impossible to sort out".
However, when Bush came to power it became the fashionable view that he was an inarticulate, right-wing, dunce. Ronald Reagan was regarded in the same way here.
When the war was getting started, this snowballed into "Bush is an inarticulate bullethead who must be stopped - and Blair is his poodle" (the intelligentsia were looking for a good excuse to hate Blair, anyway).
So then it became fashionable for the "politically-aware" to go on these huge marches against the war in Iraq and at this point the anti-semites on the extreme left and in Muslim organisations hijacked these fickle, naive, emotional moderates into their fight against "the zionist entity".
Nowadays if I mention my suport to Israel to any vaguely fashionable young person, they are convinced I am evil.
The assualt on public sanity also comes from the media who are quite rightly anxious not to encourage Islamophobia, but naively express this in "peace march mentality" - hence they became anti-war and pro-Palestinian.
In the end the whole thing gets skewed. A neutral, rational stance flies out the window - the war becomes a bad thing perpetrated by evil right wingers, Israel becomes the oppressor of the poor Palestinians and terrorists are described as "millitants" because they don't want to offend Muslims.
Luckily, as I say, the ordinary person on the streets isn't taken in - but with such "sensitive" bullshit flying around there's a danger that they could manifest a reverse effect to that desired by the media, the left and the Muslim activists.
Over-protection and media distortion could end up polarising our country. As moderate left and some neutrals get pulled into hatred of America and Israel while the moderate right and other neutrals start losing patience and become racist.
For this reason I am constantly pointing out to fashionable friends that the Liberation of Iraq, the war on terrorism and Israel aren't evil. I am also having to point out to other people that Muslims aren't always evil terrorists.
Ultimately this mess is the fault of the media who control the war information is portrayed. They let their liberal tendancies get the better of them.
saintgeorge:
Things just haven't been the same for the French since they fought and paid for your war of independence.
Local color
Flamboyant lawyer hater Wild Bill dies
'LAWYERS SUCK': Anger led Wasilla man to picket with inflammatory signs.
(Published: December 30, 2004)
WASILLA -- The signs are still up at Wild Bill's compound near the Parks Highway just east of the city: "Lawyers Suck," one reads. Nearby is another: "Cops and Wild Bills are the last line of defense against Satan-lawyer filth."
But Wild...
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Flamboyant lawyer hater Wild Bill dies
'LAWYERS SUCK': Anger led Wasilla man to picket with inflammatory signs.
(Published: December 30, 2004)
WASILLA -- The signs are still up at Wild Bill's compound near the Parks Highway just east of the city: "Lawyers Suck," one reads. Nearby is another: "Cops and Wild Bills are the last line of defense against Satan-lawyer filth."
But Wild...
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jerry031:
Love the new avatar.
People like Wild Bill seem to only exist in Alaska. That's one of the reasons I love it there.
People like Wild Bill seem to only exist in Alaska. That's one of the reasons I love it there.
slapmeharder:
i always thought the most interesting picture from the 64 quake is 4th ave. freaking nuts.
hello fellow alaskan.
hello fellow alaskan.
pauillac:
You might be interested in a book I just finished - The Devil and The Disappearing Sea by Rob Ferguson.
It's the story of an aid worker who spent a year in Central Asia on an enviromental project to save the disappearing Aral Sea. the Aral Sea was once the worlds 4th largest body of fresh water ( slightly larger than Lake Huron). It is now 20% of its 1960 size; and is predicted to disappear entirely by 2020.
Aside from the mind boggling chronicle of the water mismanagement which led to the problem, the story is a good read on a variety of levels. I think you would particularily like the descriptions of the incompetance and corruption among the local bureaucrats.
It's the story of an aid worker who spent a year in Central Asia on an enviromental project to save the disappearing Aral Sea. the Aral Sea was once the worlds 4th largest body of fresh water ( slightly larger than Lake Huron). It is now 20% of its 1960 size; and is predicted to disappear entirely by 2020.
Aside from the mind boggling chronicle of the water mismanagement which led to the problem, the story is a good read on a variety of levels. I think you would particularily like the descriptions of the incompetance and corruption among the local bureaucrats.
The super-polite Japanese feel a little out of place in France
Paris sends Japanese into suicidal state: report
Paris sends Japanese into suicidal state: report
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jerry031:
Happy Holidays Stock, see ya in a month.
ghettoblaster:
Merry Christmas.
A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where
she selected:
A half-gallon of 2% milk,
A carton of eggs,
A quart of orange juice,
A head of romaine lettuce,
A 2 lb. can of coffee,
And a 1 lb. package of bacon.
As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt
to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed...
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she selected:
A half-gallon of 2% milk,
A carton of eggs,
A quart of orange juice,
A head of romaine lettuce,
A 2 lb. can of coffee,
And a 1 lb. package of bacon.
As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt
to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed...
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dixiebootboy:
HAHAHAHAHAHA
ghettoblaster:
bahahahah, keep em comig!