"The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it."
-George Carlin

The actual burn can be viewed as a rite in which we are reminded of the fragility and impermenance of everything. Almost right. The burn is a rite in which we are reminded of the fragility and impermenance of almost everything. I'm a bard. In what I do I'm keenly interested in the use of ritual. Ha...

Bob, Simon - that was disgusting. If it was intended as a joke it was in extremely poor taste. Have you known any Buddhist monks? I have. They're nice people.

Toolmaker wrote:Seriously Silver.. do you actually believe this?

Just tell me when that little checkbox is on my 1040.

Don't you need mountain flying permits to fly to BRC Airport? And don't you need specialized training to get those permits? Nope. There's no such animal in the FAR's* as a "mountain flying permit." As to specialised training, it would be a very good idea and nearly all CFI's** I've ever known provi...

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Thanks, all. Looks like I'll probably get getting one.
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Hello all, I'm considering buying one of these , and this seems like the place to find out what people think about them. What I'm concerned about it the floor. I understand there isn't one unless you buy it as an option - fine, but then it's not attached to the canopy material. It's attached by clam...

We do? Really? And yet all these people do all manner of things to get here legally or illegally. Yes indeed, there are some third-world shitholes with a lower standard of living than ours. Be proud. Did we start the slave trade? Certainly not. And within a few years of it becoming unprofitable, an...

...and I'm the one being judgmental? Yep. To label their attempt at shock value as "childish" is judgmental and condescending as well. It just is - especially when a few words back you stated that you didn't understand their choice. It's good to admit that we don't understand something. It's less g...

lurker wrote:

..."I'm the President. I got women throwing themselves at me all the time. They've seen what I'm married to--they feel my pain"

I would have loved that...

Not as much as you loved what did happen, I'd bet.

11 million dollars may not hurt them enough to make them stop, but it's established a legal precedent - the word needs to be gotten out to everyone who could concievably have a case to bring.

Personally, if it meant that I could have a return to the growing economy and general prosperity of the Clinton administration, and give back the tanking economy, assault on civil liberties, and worldwide disgust with the new Amerika, then I would happily check off a box on my tax return to give a d...

Flon wrote:...and it has never been entirely clear to me what the person hoped to accomplish by the act other than childish shock value.

Well done! You admit you don't understand and yet you judge - in the same sentence!

Thank you, Simon. I realize that I didn't express myself as well as I had intended. I mean, I knew what I meant, why didn't everyone? Because they only have the words I put down to go on. Sigh. My fault. By "secure enough to allow dissent" I did not mean our current government. I meant the hypotheti...

I'l bring up a couple of points here. First, mullingitover, thank you. That was one of the most lucid and coherent responses that I have ever seen to the subject. Next, I don't want to see flags burning. I much prefer to see the flag of my country flying proudly. Here's my point, and follow me throu...

Said a certain sweet red-headed siren,
"These Burners are cute - I must try one."
She came home in the nude,
Stewed, screwed and tattooed
With lewd pictures and verses from Byron.

...but goods that have a lot of explination behind them... Then that's where it belongs. Leave it there, sweetie. Flirting doesn't require a history lesson. Plenty of time for that if it turns out to be some kind of relationship. Myself, I flirt outrageously, but not with everyone. First, no pinups...

I wonder if it wasn't a self-centered-materialistic nightmare to start with - it just took a few decades for technology and the temporary wealth of empire to allow it to mature.

Thoughts?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are beginning our descent into Belfast airport. Please set your watches back 200 years."

Laphroaig! My favorite! Tastes like regular whiskey poured through two feet of smouldering peat!

Straight up, please!

My first CD is out in about a week! Ten songs of Celtic harp and I sing four of them. PM me if you want a link to where you can get a copy!

I did it, and supported a girlfriend the while. I didn't make much, but it was a mythic time.

I always liked this one.... For some reason.... I don't know why... http://upload.uploadsystem.com/sarasmiles777/whiskey%20angel.jpg What a great expression. I find that, when viewing a naked-or-partially-naked woman I always look at the face first - it's now I learn if there's any point to looking...

Don't behave.

Wow! With a literacy-based theme in 2008, BRC could become The Commonwealth! (if you're read it, you know. If you haven't - read it!)

Sign me right up! I'm on it like white on rice.

Well, in the long view the Native Americans are immigrants, too - as is pretty much everybody except those from a tiny area of Africa, and who are still there. We're all immigrants, and any relationship to any arbitrarily-assigned area within a set of borders is no more than a convenient fiction who...

To the "This Theme Sucks" crowd - If you're unhappy with the canvas, it needs more paint.

PrincessCharming wrote:...I'll be straining my ears for the organic strings and things...

And when they've found my Celtic harp and I, we'll take the strain away and make them feel nice and relaxed.

Thanks! :D

Come by in person sometime...I'll drag a tune out of the harp for you!