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I've always had silver wheels but these were fitted when i bought it.
I do like the silver look though. But wifey isn't impressed.
I've always had silver wheels but these were fitted when i bought it.
I do like the silver look though. But wifey isn't impressed.
MAGiK (27-04-2011)
They both look good,
But i like the black, nice
if you really want silver rims go out and get silver rims, your wife will love it when there done, trust me my girl friend is the same she hates the idea till its done then all of a sudden it looks really nice :P lol just buy her a new handbag or a pair of shoes and get your silver rims if thats what your really want
lol if only eh.
The problem is i like them in black but i can't help feeling they'd look better in silver or a nice light graphite grey colour.
I used to be indecisive but now i'm just not sure.
have black on one side and silver on the other!
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I also prefer them black it makes them look as though they belong on the car more than the silver imo.
Also they dont show the dirt as much.
Once you go black, you wont go back lol.
But they already are black ......
I used to be indecisive, but now i'm not so sure .
defo the black.looks great in the black not that it dont look great in silver to but black all the way i say
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BOLIVAR — The Bolivar Volunteer Fire Company will hold its annual Easter egg hunt on March 24 at the fire hall starting at 2 p.m. It is open to any child up to age 13. Questions can be directed to Heidi Speidel at (724) 676-4714.
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Don't think anyone's mentioned "Miriam" by Norah Jones. There's also Bruno Mars' "Natalie," and ZZ Ward's "Put The Gun Down" references an Adeline ("Adeline, have mercy/you don't want to break my heart"). Though none of these are necessarily good connotations, someone above mentioned Jolene, so I just felt the need to throw some of these in the mix.
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Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Valerie - The Zutons
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Come on Marianne - The Four Seasons (cause thats my name..hehehehe)
And the Beatles have soooo many songs with girl names. Lucy, Michelle, Rita, Sadie, Julia, Molly, Prudence
I think it would be cute to have a child named after a song, cause then you could always sing it to them.
August 2nd, 2013 06:35 PM #19
Martha, My Dear by the Beatles
Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles
Sara Smile by Hall and Oates
Corinna, Corinna by lots of people, most recently Boz Scaggs
Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett
The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix
Jolene by Dolly Parton
For Emily Wherever I May Find Her by Simon and Garfunkel
Daisy Jane by America
Sherry by the Four Seasons
Peg by Steely Dan
Gloria by Van Morrison
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Sharona by the Knack
Jennifer Juniper by Donovan
Katherine Kiss Me by Franz Ferdinand
Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys
Help Me, Rhonda by the Beach Boys
Valleri by the Monkees
Gigi by.....who? Maurice Chevalier?
Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago
Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls
Mary Jane's Last Dance by Tom Petty
Lovely Rita by the Beatles
Really Rosie by Carole King
Jane Says by Jane's Addiction
Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith
Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
Amanda by Boston
Lady Jane by the Rolling Stones
Annie's Song by John Denver
Helen Wheels by Paul McCartney
Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp
I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean from Brigadoon
Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole
Maria from West Side Story
Fur Elise
Minnie the Moocher
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Repulsor is the most annoying Int hero in my opinion. Can escape pretty much everything.
Wayyyy better guide to warding. And it explains reasoning behind warding so that you could choose wisely where to place it since there is a cooldown on buying wards. Also, no matter what an int DPS build can never beat an agi DPS build. Also, if your team has a good support hero, it's pretty easy to hold that INT carry down long enough to kill him.
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Myrmidon is pretty useless late game(I am talking 45-50 min and on) though he is beast in early.
Dr. Repulsor will wreck any game, even in high-tier because when mastered, you don't want him as your enemy.
Like someone said "Easy to play, hard to master".
I also bought the game recently. IGN is Kisu. Still new to the game so I random every match.
when i'm on a smurf i am a non rage relaxed player so ya
i'll try to borrow a friends account. add waytocubed or bonedher
Mines Madilele, add me whenever, I usually play most of my games with Korn and we lose.
I tried playing like 5 games without him in matchmaking and I won all of them, so my rating is back to 1500~
Added most of the people in this thread, don't really have anybody to play with since Korn plays DFO and other gay stuff..
TheRedTyrant is my HoN account. I can play all the characters. It just sucks that right now, my PSR is pretty low due to bad players via Solo Matchmaking. But it's getting back up there.
My best heroes are: Myrmidon, Bombadier, Devourer, Balphagore, Moraxus, Armadon.
Level 3 spellshard will be enough to do a TON of damage to enemies after dashing at them.
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Add Patroll. Maybe we'll get some onRPG matches going..
hurr durr
Regardless of if int heroes can carry they are extremely good at CC...
If you watch some of the higher pro matches there was one I saw where a bubbles actually carried a team for the most part....rofl. I do see what you mean though about int's not being able to carry at late-late game however there's a lot of games that don't last past 30 minutes, so idk.
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wretched hag is int carry and... my favorite hero.
Heroes of Newerth - Powster
Savage 2 - Powster
Starcraft 2 - Powster.380 (Master Protoss/Zerg)
Steam (CS:S, L4D2, TF2) - Powster
and about ints carrying late game. puppet master is a hard carry late game definitely can't think of others dps wise though.
my ign is waytocubed if you want to play some matchmaking or casuals though that account is shared so it might not be me =P
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bombardier is pretty wicked , his ulti owns with spellshards lvl 3, got in a match with him restoration stone , spellshards lvl 3 , staff of the master, got an annihilation that game
What were you playing? Casual mode for sure.
name is takukukuku
i'll carry anyone to victory
Last edited by takushikun; 01-04-2011 at 10:14 PM.
Carry doesn't mean farming all game to be good at late game. It means Owning early game to end game. (Late game heroes like chronous and scout needs a good team that will give them Kills to be effective.)
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That aside I have to say I disagree about any hero being able to carry because in certain cases it depends on your opponent as to how you should be playing your hero and also they could rape you really bad if you decided to carry as opposed to what you were intended to do.
But yeah...
I like how everyone isn't even mentioning str heroes : 3 F yall meng
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Gene Could Link Autism to Digestive Problems
More than 30% of people with autism also have some kind of stomach or intestinal problem, compared with fewer than 10% of people who aren't autistic, says study author Daniel Campbell, research assistant professor at Vanderbilt University.
That suggests the genetic variation may be responsible for causing autism in this specific group of people, although it may not be related to other cases of autism, Campbell says.
As scientists learn more about the disease, Campbell says, it appears that autism is not a single disease but a spectrum of disorders with common symptoms but different causes.
Campbell's research was financed by the National Institutes of Health, a private group called Cure Autism Now and other sources.
Some researchers say Campbell's findings, although intriguing, are preliminary.
Hakon Hakonarson, an autism researcher and director of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Applied Genomics, says it would be surprising for one gene to be responsible for the wide variety of problems included in the study: chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, reflux, irritable bowel syndrome and ulcers.
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Artist HK Miller Jr., a resident of Indiana and retired elementary art teacher from Ben Franklin Elementary School, will have a show titled "The Eastern Farm: Simple Shapes and Functional Beauty," on display beginning Monday at The Artists Hand Gallery, Philadelphia Street, Indiana.
Featured in the show are oil landscapes of rural scenes of Pennsylvania and neighboring states, featuring Indiana County locales. He also does landscapes of the Gettysburg battlefield and is represented by Gallery 30, 30 York St., Gettysburg. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 9.


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Los Campesinos! have announced the details of their new album.
'Romance Is Boring' is to be released on 1st February 2010, and will contain new single 'There Are Listed Buildings'. The band will also play their biggest headline show to date that month, at London's Koko on 25th February.
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'There Are Listed Buildings'
'Romance Is Boring'
'We've Got Your Back (Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2)'
'Plan A'
'200 - 102'
'Straight In At 101'
'Who Fell Asleep In'
'I Warned You: Do Not Make An Enemy Of Me'
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'I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know'
'A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State; or, Letters From Me To Charlotte'
'The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future'
'This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind'
'Coda: A Burn Scar In The Shape Of The Sooner State'
Los Campesinos! are selling the new single on their current UK tour, which calls at:
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with a combined 20-11 singles record and a 7-7 doubles mark in
three days of play.
Pezzutto faced John Strahl of Abilene Christian for the title in the B-draw singles bracket. Strahl rolled to a 6-0 win in the first set before Pezzutto came back for a 6-2 second-set victory. Strahl would bounce back with a 6-2 victory in the fourth set to claim the championship.
In singles consolation play, the Lumberjacks went 6-0 on Sunday with five straight-set victories. NAU also won three of four doubles matches on the day, with the easiest win an 8-3 victory for freshmen Patrick Schimmelbauer and Kevin Taylor.
"Each day we improved our performance on the court and in return got results," said head coach Kim Bruno. "It was a grueling three days and our men's team toughed it out and performed well on the last day to leave Las Cruces on a high note."
The Lumberjacks will return to New Mexico for their next fall tournament, participating in the Balloon Fiesta Invitational, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, October 9-11.
Northern Arizona Results
B-Draw Singles Final
John Strahl (ACU) def. Robin Pezzutto (NAU), 6-0, 2-6, 6-2
Consolation Singles
Andrew Reiff (NAU) def. Luke Hawk (ACU), 1-6, 6-0, 10-7
Hugo Ramadier (NAU) def. Yoeri Van Speybrock (WNMU), 6-0, 6-1
Patrick Schimmelbauer (NAU) def. Devin Stroman (WNMU), 7-5, 6-1
Josh Brown (NAU) def. Scott Keaton (NMSU), 7-5, 6-3
Andres Perez (NAU) def. Karl Bein (ACU), 7-5, 6-1
Kevin Taylor (NAU) def. Francisco Pereira (WNMU), 6-2, 6-2
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Brown/Reiff (NAU) def. Duran/Keaton (NMSU), 8-6
Roy/Strahl (ACU) def. Flodberg/Perez (NAU), 8-5
Schimmelbauer/Taylor (NAU) def. Proctor/Campbell (ACU), 8-3
April 29, 2010 Reiff, Ramadier, Flodberg on All-Big Sky Mens Tennis Team
April 25, 2010 Mens Tennis Falls in Big Sky Final to Sacramento State, 4-0
April 24, 2010 Mens Tennis in Big Sky Final after 4-1 Win over Weber State
April 22, 2010 Mens Tennis to Open Big Sky Championship vs. Weber State
April 10, 2010 Mens Tennis Rallies to Beat Eastern Washington, 4-3
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March 26, 2010 Tennis Teams Volunteering Time to Help Youth Development
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March 11, 2010 Mens Tennis to Host Montana in Home Finale Friday
February 28, 2010 Bad Weather Cancels Men's and Women's Tennis in Las Cruces
February 27, 2010 Mens Tennis Overwhelmed in 7-0 loss to No. 59 New Mexico State
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February 23, 2010 Winter Olympics Close to Home for Mens Tennis Freshman Taylor
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January 20, 2010 Mens Tennis to Open Season Thursday; Match Moved to Noon
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October 21, 2009 Reiff Leads Mens Tennis on First Day of ITA Regional
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October 10, 2009 Taylor Advances to Finals at Mens Tennis UNM Balloon Fiesta
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Texas could finally become a leader in solar thanks to a new resolution passed by the city council of Austin. The bill will require the municipal utility, Austin Energy, to obtain 60 percent of its electricity generation from renewables over the next decade, and to be completely carbon-free by 2030. It calls on Austin Energy to build 600 megawatts of solar power by 2017, and it mandates the city support the build out of 200 megawatts of distributed solar on rooftops.
The council resolution, passed on August 28, could directly lead to the installation of an additional 800 megawatts of solar power, or about four times the total installed capacity in the entire state.
Most importantly, the strategy was done for the sake of economics, says Greentechmedia. Austin Energy signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) earlier this year with Recurrent Energy, a solar developer, for rock bottom prices. The five-cent per kilowatt-hour rate is one of the lowest solar deals around. The low price prompted the city council to look more deeply at solar power as a way to save on costs, which led to the most recent resolution.
Not only is solar generation becoming much more affordable, but it also acts as a hedge against fluctuating natural gas prices. Texas is still a monster when it comes to the production and generation of electricity from coal and natural gas. But with solar generating the most electricity around midday, it can shave off some of the load at times of peak demand. Austin decided to allow the Decker Power Plant to shutter as a result, an old natural gas plant that is largely used just for peak power.
The Austin city council move is also indicative of the improving trend for solar. The Wall Street Journal reports that the global solar market is finally tightening after years of oversupply. Generous support from governments in China, Germany, and the U.S. led to a dramatic expansion of solar manufacturing over the last five years. That caused prices panel prices to collapse as the world was left with a glut of solar modules.


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What the Left should take from the Tax Day Tea Parties
Yesterday afternoon 250,000 or so Americans, mostly lower-middle class whites, took to the streets to show their frustration with all things related to progressive politics. Multiculturalism, progressive taxation, even spending on the social programs that they themselves benefit from.
The initial reaction to sights like this is one of both shock and humor. Shock that people in 2009 could actually believe some of the things that these protesters believe, and humor from the realization that they're being serious. Once that passes it's easy to fall into a haze of righteous anger at the protesters, but it is critical that you don't, because that reaction is exactly what the organizers of these events want you to have.
The organizers of the Tax Day Tea Parties are well aware that such a thing will have no effect on any policy decisions on a federal or even state level, and that's not the goal. They understand that such a blatant attempt at astroturfing won't change anyone's mind about conservative and neoliberal policies, and again, that's not the reason for these events. The vast amount of money behind the Tax Day parties should speak volumes about what sinister purpose the protests really hold, but before I describe that, it's important to get an idea of who exactly was behind the Tax Day Tea Parties.
Former U.S. Congressman Dick Armey
-The driving force behind the protests, he is the chairman of FreedomWorks, a non-profit astroturfing front famous for it's stances against Social Security, any kind of social welfare, and for lower taxes on the wealthy.
-Famed sexist and homophobe, racist status unknown (assumed: yes)
-Financial status: Millionaire
-Demographic status: Old, white, male
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
-Just as important as Armey in organizing the events, Gingrich had been promoting them for weeks on talk radio, the internet, and tv interviews with the demagogues at FOX.
-Had 84 ethics violation charges filed against him during his time in Congress.
-Divorced his second wife in the hospital while she was getting chemotherapy in order to marry his secretary with whom he was having an affair.
-Supposedly converted to Catholicism in 2009.
-Financial status: Millionaire
-Demographic status: Old, white, male
While it's true that there were more people involved in the organization of the tea parties, the involvement of demagogues like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck is not as important as the involvement of the two former congressmen. Their political views aside, the pundits of FOX exist only to inflame for the sake of ratings. Though they contribute to the problem significantly in their own way, the actual motivations are self-serving in an almost pure and childlike needy way. The same cannot be said for the actual organizers, as their motives are both self-serving and sadistic.
As I said earlier, the goal of the Tax Day Tea Parties was neither to influence policy decisions nor was it to rally the base or bring in new people into the fold. The goal in fact was to drive a stake into the newly beating heart of working class solidarity.
The people at these protests, the people that some of us are so angry at, the people who so many of us write off as incurably ignorant, are people just like us. They go to work, tuck their kids in, drink with their friends, and do all the things that every working person around the world does. Their racism, xenophobia, and appeal to the ruling classes is born out of ignorance and fear. These are people whose lives have been destroyed by machinations that they don't comprehend, so they blame blacks. These are people who have lost jobs to globalization, so they blame immigrants. As Obama said, all these people have to cling to is their guns and their religion, and as times get harder, more complicated, and scarier, they turn to the people they trust for hope.
It just so happens that the people who have implanted themselves into the figurehead positions of the white lower-middle class happen to be men who both understand and play on their fears, and then use their undying support to rob them blind. The reason they paint socialism as the devil and liberals as his horsemen isn't because they think it doesn't work, it's because it works against their own personal interest. Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey don't see you and me as anti-American Leftist radicals, but they do see us as a threat to their already swollen bank accounts, and so the strawman is built. But that much is obvious, every rational liberal should understand by now that the guys in charge rarely believe what they preach. The problem is what we don't see, the clever plan designed by the conservative elites has two parts, and so far the second half of it has gone off without a hitch. While we are quick to tear down the effigy they build of people like us, we simply buy into the idea that they create that all conservatives are people like Sean Hannity, who exist only to hate and spew their poison as much as possible. The perpetuation of this myth is the number one goal of the Tea Parties, because it only helps to drive the working classes apart and forces them to engage each other rather than their common enemy, and it turns out that they were quite effective in that regard. How can people who don't know the difference between fascism and socialism be reasoned with? How can we sit down and talk with someone who cares more about seeing Obama's birth certificate than they do about any of his actual policy decisions? The idea that men like Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey want us to take away from these protests is we can't, and if we are to believe that, we may as well join the Republican Party now, because it's about as valid of an idea as any of their policy proposals.
Men like Vladimir Lenin and Che Guevara didn't have a choice except to hate. They lived in a time where information could take days or weeks to be successfully relayed, and the most powerful institutions of the world threw everything they had against them to make sure that their struggle for equality would die a silent death, but the contemporary left is blessed in that regard. We are not bound by distance, nor by ruling power determined to silence our voice. The only thing that prevents us from truly reaching out to these people and promoting a real class solidarity is the subtle and not-so-subtle propaganda of men like Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey that forces us to steel ourselves and hate the same people who are fighting the struggle as the rest of us.
Before we can bring about social justice, before we can fight the revolution in the halls of Washington, we must first fight and win the revolution in our own hearts.
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that was pretty good, but I like Matt Taibbi's article better:
It took a good long while for news of the Teabag movement to penetrate the periphery of my consciousness — I kept hearing things about it and dismissing them, sure that the whole business was some kind of joke. Like a Daily Show invention, say. It pains me to say this as an American, but we are the only people on earth dumb enough to use a nationwide campaign of "teabag parties" as a form of mass protest, in the middle of a real economic crisis.
What's next? The Great Dirty Sanchez-In of 2010? A Million Man Felch? (Insert Rusty Trombone joke here).
This must be a terrible time to be a right-winger. A vicious paradox has been thrust upon the once-ascendant conservatives. On the one hand they are out of power, and so must necessarily rail against the Obama administration. On the other hand they have to vilify, as dangerous anticapitalist activity, the grass-roots protests against the Geithner bailouts and the excess of companies like AIG. That leaves them with no recourse but to dream up wholesale lunacies along the lines of Glenn Beck's recent "Fascism With a Happy Face" rants, which link the protesting "populists" and the Obama adminstration somehow and imagine them as one single nefarious, connected, ongoing effort to install a totalitarian regime.
This is not a simple rhetorical accomplishment. It requires serious mental gymnastics to describe the Obama administration — particularly the Obama administration of recent weeks, which has given away billions to Wall Street and bent over backwards to avoid nationalization and pursue a policy that preserves the private for-profit status of the bailed-out banks — as a militaristic dictatorship of anti-wealth, anti-private property forces. You have to somehow explain the Geithner/Paulson decisions to hand over trillions of taxpayer dollars to the rich bankers as the formal policy expression of progressive rage against the rich. Not easy. In order to pull off this argument, in fact, you have to grease the wheels with a lot of apocalyptic language and imagery, invoking as Beck did massive pictures of Stalin and Orwell and Mussolini (side by side with shots of Geithner, Obama and Bernanke), scenes of workers storming the Winter Palace interspersed with anti-AIG protests, etc. — and then maybe you have to add a crazy new twist, like switching from complaints of "socialism" to warnings of "fascism." Rhetorically, this is the equivalent of trying to paint a picture by hurling huge handfuls of paint at the canvas. It's desperate, last-ditch-ish behavior.
It's been strange and kind of depressing to watch the conservative drift in this direction. In a way, actually, the Glenn Beck show has been drearily fascinating of late. It's not often that we get to watch someone go insane on national television; trapped in an echo chamber of his own spiraling egomania, with apparently no one at his network willing to pull the plug and put him out of his misery, Beck has lately gone from being a mildly annoying media dingbat to a self-imagined messiah who looks like he's shouldering more and more of the burdens of Christ with each passing day. And because he's stepping into a vacuum of conservative leadership — there's no one else out there who is offering real red meat to the winger crowd — he's begun to attract not professional help but apostles, in the form of Chuck Norris (who believes we have to prepare for armed revolution and may prepare a run for "president of Texas") and pinhead Midwestern congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, a woman who is looking more and more like George Foreman to Sarah Palin's Joe Frazier in the Heavyweight Championship of Stupid. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
This new Holy Trinity of right-wing basket cases has been pushing all sorts of crazy hallucinations of late, from Bachmann warning that the Americorps program would eventually be turned into a regime of forced re-education for American youth, to Beck's meanderings about Obama creating FEMA-run concentration camps to warehouse conservative dissidents, to Norris and Beck stirring up talk of secessionist movements. And a lot of people are having fun with this, because, well, it's funny. It's like a Farrelly Brothers version of right-wing political agitation. But it's also kind of sad.
After all, the reason the winger crowd can't find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That's why even people like Beck's audience, who I'd wager are mostly lower-income people, can't imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who fucked them over. Beck pointedly compared the AIG protesters to Bolsheviks: "[The Communists] basically said 'Eat the rich, they did this to you, get 'em, kill 'em!'" He then said the AIG and G20 protesters were identical: "It's a different style, but the sentiments are exactly the same: Find 'em, get 'em, kill 'em!'" Beck has an audience that's been trained that the rich are not appropriate targets for anger, unless of course they're Hollywood liberals, or George Soros, or in some other way linked to some acceptable class of villain, to liberals, immigrants, atheists, etc. — Ted Turner, say, married to Jane Fonda.
But actual rich people can't ever be the target. It's a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master's carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you're a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you're on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that's what we've got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can't be mad at AIG, can't be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it's struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It's really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated.
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These two opinion pieces are full of lies, it shows just how scared the left is of the tea party crowd. It also shows just how stupid some people are for getting their news from MSNBC and the like.....Dumbass
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1.) We are not all on the same team. Some of us want this country to be what it is supposed to be, a free Republic, and some are working to make into something it will never be, a socialist utopia.
2.) I don't claim to hate anyone.
3.) Race, sexual orientation, xenophobia, and hippies have nothing to do with the TEA parties. That's distraction from the real issue.
4.) The real issue or the "bigger picture" is chosing between tyranny and liberty, it is polarizing by it's very nature so choose your side because there is no middle ground.
5.) We agree something must be done about the government. I say we return to a strict following of the Constitution and nothing else.
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Does anyone know what the law is or have a link to the law about informing a LEO that your carrying in a traffic stop in Virginia? I looked on the Virginia State Police web-site and didn't come up with an answer. Packing.org has this:
Date updated: Aug 5, 2005 @ 11:44 pm
While not law to notify a law enforcement officer, Virginia CCW permit holders have a note in VCIN (Virginia Criminal Check System), so the officer usually knows when walking up on a vehicle stop if a person is/can be legally armed.
But it was last updated in 2005 and I'm not sure if it has changed or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :wave:


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|Technically, you're not importing the boat, but bringing the boat into the country temporarily, since you're not going to be there permanently. That may make a huge difference in the paperwork you have to do and what fees you have to pay. Importing the boat generally requires paying a VAT or import duty. Visiting boats don't have to pay that--but you will probably have to take the boat out of the UAE waters once in a while to be in compliance.
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Hi all,
Mrs FirstSteps has decided that it's a good thing to take our boat to the United Arab Emirates for a couple of years.
I know we're only going to be there for a couple of years and I don't want to sell our pride and joy, but don't want to leave her languishing in an Australian marina either.
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For those of you keeping up with the original thread, I'm sure you've seen my final word in the matter. I still feel as if I need to start a new thread to give myself the means to defend myself in what has been a one-sided smear campaign.
My goal is to provide quality work. From anyone that's either seen it on this forum, Facebook, or in person, I strive to include every movie-accurate detail for any Boba Fett costume I paint either for myself, or for commission. When other people wear my work, I take that as an extreme compliment. With that, I need to make sure that whatever I'm commissioned to work on meets MY standard. With that standard, comes time...a lot of it.
It has taken me almost 5 years to complete my Boba Fett. In those 5 years, I have painted dozens of commissions ranging from helmets, full armor sets, soft-parts, etc. I've done repair work on shoddy paint jobs, repaints; anything to create a movie accurate Boba, be it Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi SE.
I unfortunately could not meet one of my customer's time lines due to a lack of completion-time and resources. This turned into having my name and reputation dragged through the mud. As a transitioning veteran into the civilian sector, I had to deal with a lot of B.S. that the VA wasn't able to snap its fingers for to automatically "fix". This is the personal truth, not a sob story. I don't expect or want sympathy from anyone, especially the Internet.
I have noticed a trend on this forum that is leaving me puzzled, main example being with the impatience for the deliverance of goods from Fettpride. I can't fathom how some people on this board feel as if guys like me and Chris are Walmarts? As I said in the other thread, this Fett armor is not pre-painted, pre-packaged, and has a UPC slapped on it ready to ship upon the click of your paypal payment.
I don't own a sweat-shop, I don't have employees, and I certainly don't have the means to dedicate every waking second to paint molded fiberglass and resin. Almost all of my previous and current customers understand this...except for a select few.
We've had characters getting banned on this forum because their harassment has been so extreme over impatience and the need to soil reputations, be it personal vendettas or just plain spite. This is not the community that I remembered joining as an 18 year old, doughy-eyed at all of the amazing work that was posted on these forums. The amount of drama and unrelenting impatience is driving the fun out of this hobby, and I KNOW I'm not alone on this.
For my previous customers...thank you for your patience, and it's truly awesome to see you guys rocking my work to conventions! To my current customers, thank you for baring with me during these times, and I really hope you all enjoy the quality of work.


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Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of The World
There is really something about reading a book on a quiet, rainy night while Bob Dylan plays in the background.
In short, I just finished my first Haruki Murakami book and I guess this begins another burden on my wallet as I want to read more of Haruki Murakami. I have thank/blame saturnine for his impromptu book recommendation the other day we met, although I've already been quite interested to read Haruki for a while.
On the book itself, I must say it was a really engaging read, but it was still simple enough that I could put the book away for a long time and come back to it without feeling lost. I think it's the lack of proper names that made that possible. Referring everyone directly to their role in the story is actually makes the story stick to my memory easier. It's also how I remember people in real life too. I almost never remember anyone's proper names, but instead store them as nicknames/Internet handles/short descriptions.
One thing that really jumps out to me is how the End of the World portions eerily mirror the premise of Haibane Renmei closely that I couldn't help draw parallels to it, even though I'm aware that the book was written 17 years before it was even conceived. Perhaps Yoshitoshi ABe was a big fan of Haruki too.
Hmm.. I wonder which title should I get next to read? Thinking of getting Norwegian Wood next since it's in chronological order after Hard-boiled.


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VIDEO: Hundreds of New York Tea Party Activists Vow to 'Take Our Country Back'
posted at 12:32 am on February 16, 2010 by The Other McCain
TV News 12 covered the "Blueprint for Change" conference in Nanuet, N.Y., featuring Chris Cassone performing his Tea Party anthem, "Take Our Country Back":
Monday's conference was also covered by the White Plains Journal-News:
NANUET — Organizers estimated more than 450 people attended the Blueprint for Change conference today sponsored by the newly-formed Rally for America at the Comfort Inn. . . .
While some who attended said they were concerned about America and its direction under President Obama, several said it was the overall actions of government, on the local, state and federal levels, that attracted them to the conference. They cited overspending, overtaxing and a government that had grown far too large as the main issues concerning them. . . .
You may have noticed that the TV news video reported that the conference organizers were collecting petition signatures to qualify an independent Tea Party for the ballot, an angle also covered by the Los Angeles Times today in a story that misrepresents the NY23 campaign by Doug Hoffman in last year's special election:
Many Republican Party leaders have welcomed [Tea Party involvement in local GOP organizations], particularly because they worried that the energy driving the tea party movement might create a third party that would split the conservative vote.
That scenario played out in New York's 23rd Congressional District in a special election last year, a cautionary tale in Republican circles because it led to a Democrat capturing a longtime GOP House seat.
That's bass-ackward. As has been extensively chronicled (see Michael Patrick Leahy's TCOT reports here and here), the national and New York state GOP officials were warned before they handpicked Dede Scozzafava that the ACORN-backed RINO would not be endorsed by the state's Conservative Party. In any close election in New York, support from the Conservative Party is essential to Republican candidates, as the Conservative line usually adds 5% or more in the multi-party balloting. Without the Conservative endorsement, Scozzafava was doomed to defeat from the day she was picked by GOP insiders.
Furthermore, the Hoffman campaign strategy was based on winning a plurality in a three-way contest, and polls showed them well on their way to that goal until Scozzafava dropped out the Saturday before Election Day and endorsed the Democrat, Bill Owens. This startling betrayal by the GOP candidate was the only reason Hoffman fell about 3,000 votes short of winning. From start to finish of the NY23 campaign, then, the Republican Party was exclusively responsible for electing the Democrat.
Any attempt to foist blame for the Democratic victory in NY23 onto Hoffman and his supporters is a willful perversion of the actual history of that campaign.
Too many people let themselves be sucked into this bogus storyline of third-party conservative candidates helping elect Democrats, an irrational fear promoted with equal fervor by GOP operatives and the MSM. So long as the Republican Party nominates conservative candidates and promotes conservative policies, the third-party threat is irrelevant.
The failures of George H.W. Bush, not Ross Perot, were responsible for the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, and Clinton certainly would have beaten the hapless Bob Dole in '96 even without Perot on the ballot. As in all such instances, scapegoating the third-party candidate (and third-party voters) serves mainly to exculpate the GOP for its own policy and political failures.
If you look at what happened in the Massachusetts Senate special election, Republican primary voters wisely picked Scott Brown, a candidate who — while relatively moderate on some issues — was solidly conservative on the issues that mattered most, particularly his opposition to ObamaCare. This is far different than what happened in NY23, or what the National Republican Senatorial Committee has tried to do by prematurely endorsing Charlie Crist in Florida.
The real danger is when the GOP establishment plays favorites amd tries to circumvent the party's rank-and-file by picking well-connected "insider" candidates. The establishment-insider pick is almost invariably less conservative than other Republican candidates for the nomination. This tendency is indicative of the timid, defensive attitudes ("Oh, we can't take a chance with a right-winger") that have prevailed in the upper echelons of the GOP for more than a half-century.
At some point, Republican leaders must stop fearing their own party's conservative grassroots and stop blaming third-party scapegoats every time the GOP establishment botches a winnable election.


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Just saw this forum and decided to become a member. I don't own any guns yet but I'm planning on purchasing an M&P 9mm soon. I'm currently serving Active duty in the Army Reserve, living in the Chicago suburbs. I have been around guns my whole life and am a decent shot. Thanks for having me here!
Welcome from Jersey... And thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service to our nation.
The M&P is a great platform so you should be very satisfied with this pistol. If it comes with the usual gritty/sandy trigger (pre-travel or takeup if you will), consider installing an Apex Tactical USB (Ultimate Safety Block). This little gem will completely remove that gritty feeling and return not only a smooth trigger but one which feels lighter to boot. And to get a more crisp break, install the Apex hard sear.
The M&P is a fine gun with excellent ergonomics and is a natural pointer for most folks.
Welcome from another Midwesterner.........that Chitown, and Illinois is a rough place for handguns.........good luck with whatever you purchase.
The M&P is a good pistol and good choice. As mentioned by SouthernBoy one or two low cost parts from Apex Tactical will make it even better. The Apex USB, about $35, will instantly take the grittiness, if present, out of the trigger pull. Don't take us wrong, the Trigger is ok as received and will smooth out over time by wearing in as is the case with most new guns. The Apex parts just make it a lot smoother right away.
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Thanks TOF. I'll take a look at other APEX gear. Are there any other items from there specifically that you recommend?
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TAMPA - Three former USF women's soccer players are going overseas to continue their careers as professionals.
Mallori Lofton-Malachi, one of the best keepers in program history, has signed with Aland United in Finland. Defender Valorie O'Brien and keeper Nicole McClure will continue to play together as teammates for Selfoss in Iceland.
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Why did I choose the University of Southern Mississippi? Well, as any graduate student looking at programs and professors at several different institutions can tell you, it was a complex and very personal decision. In the end USM's history department won my heart for a variety of reasons.
The University of Southern Mississippi is a wonderful university full of opportunities for students. That being said, I based my decision on the type of career the faculty of the history department can help me launch and the personal interest they take in each graduate student's success. Our faculty includes . . . leaders in their fields. In addition to offering students the important opportunity to study under some of the brightest historians writing today, our department also embraces graduate students and encourages them to think creatively about their research. My research interest centers on the uses of food during wartime. Although no one faculty member has the same exact focus, I am constantly humbled by the steady support the faculty as a whole have offered to me during my studies. They are constantly sending out emails to graduate students advertising calls for paper from the historical organizations they are a part of and are eager to help students get papers accepted at conferences or published in journals. Inside the classroom, the faculty challenges graduate students to gain a broader understanding of history and their place as future historians within the historiography.
Apart from the history department's stellar academic standing and the wonderful learning environment the faculty foster, the university as a whole has a very collegial feeling. The university boasts both a library and an archive, with a team of librarians and archivists that are always willing to dig through the shelves to help find exactly what you need for your research. The university also holds a substantial number of oral histories, and graduate students from the history department receive fellowships and training in oral history. The history department also hosts the War and Society Lecture Series that brings some of the most prolific writers in that field to the university. The graduate students are given the chance to meet and socialize with these people during their stay in Hattiesburg.
The graduate student community is also one of the reasons I choose USM's history program. We are a very friendly group, always open to sharing ideas, giving constructive critiques, and generally working to help each other achieve our goals.
Overall I feel as though USM's history department fit my idea of graduate education. The faculty is the best, they expect the best, and they cheer on their students through the difficult process of becoming historians. The University of Southern Mississippi's history department truly provides an environment where I feel comfortable expressing my ideas and confident in the education I am receiving.
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In the modern world, many Buddhists act like they don't really believe in kamma, by which skepticism they endanger their own future. However, there is a parallel to cetana (volition), in Western psychological research which provides some additional support for the validity of the idea of kamma.
First, I will present two quotations from Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa, Bhikku Syanamoli, tr., VISUDDHIMAGGA, 1964, Colombo: A. Semage.
XVII 251 "firstly, kamma-process becoming in brief is both volition [cetana] also and the states of consciousness, etc. associated with volition."
XVII 252 "thirteen kinds of volition"
In Western psychological research, volition is called conation.
Now, the various psychological processes, when they occur, give rise to memories of the processes. Therefore, when one acts, the conation part of the behavior gives rise to conation memories.
These conation memories have the special property of causing behaviors to happen, because conation itself has the property of causing behaviors to happen.
Now, association of one process/event, perceptual or behavioral, with others is an almost universal process. In the case of the conation we are considering, the false self of oneself and the false self of the recipient of a behavior we do, are associated with the conation, and therefore the memories of them are associated with the conation memory.
Associations tend to generalize when conditions are right for that to happen. That is to say other processes/events which are similar become more like the original process/event.
Now what will happen when a conation memory returns to an active state, often in a future lifetime?
The conation memory will cause a process/event very similar to the process/even involved with the original conation.
However, the other false self the original behavior was directed towards will usually no longer be present. So generalization will cause one's own false self to to replace the other false self in the process/event repetition. Thus, in various ways, what one does to others will be done to oneself in the future whenever the conation memory becomes active.
That gives us strong additional evidence that the idea of kamma is in fact true.
Of course, other content of the behaviors/events will be part of what happens, along with the conation/cetana.
I think the quotation about the 13 kinds of cetana is important for future research on conation. There should be additional knowledge about kamma that can be obtained by research on those thirteen kinds.