^_^

You must be a loser to make $200K in NYC.

That doesn't mean you know more about NYC than someone who has read about NYC in magazines.

That doesn't mean you know more about NYC than someone who has read about NYC in magazines.

What I see are a bunch of blokes who know the natural order of things. They also seem to know a trouble-maker when they see one.

Why? Because you're being called on the same pot-stirring here that you're known for in the UK room? I'm just here to enjoy and encourage public discourse.

Or Alla reads here.

For the life of me I just can't believe someone when they say they don't check out other women because their woman is "good enough for them." While I admire them for trying (and even buying their own BS) I just can't accept it.
And here's why. You said you prefer Shooting Times. OK. Got it. Now, you have a gorgeous wife who gets VS catalogs yet you can't look through them and admire the contents because you have a "gorgeous" model at home. Well, you have a whole bunch of guns too yet you keep looking at gun magazines. Aren't your guns "gorgeous" too?
While I realize a man can't own just one gun, I simply do not buy that he doesn't look at other women because his is already "good enough." Like the insatiable need to still "see what's out there" when it comes to firearms - be that for simply admiring their beauty or learning of new and cutting edge techniques, etc. - how can there be no need to "see what's out there" with women?
I realize this is personal and it's your business, but as someone who just a few days ago was talking about Danica Patrick and Salma Hayek, it seems odd to me that what you have at home is so great you "don't" even look at anything else. To me, it sounds more like you "can't" look at anything else.
I'm not trying to take a shot at you here, like I said, it's your business. I just don't buy it.

One TOS violation post deleted and the one quoting it.
William33.

Madoff - "F*** My Victims"

Sure

And Rich's comment has nothing to do with the OP, what's more I don't think it's exactly truthful.
Of course if you think its fine to play that game then I *could* bring up Rich's consistent anti-muslim invective. Of course it too would have nothing to do with the OP, aside from having some silly neener-neener dig.

Seriously, this stuff really isn't cool.

Not to mention one that is blatantly anti-Semitic.
How many of you have worked with Barney Frank and his staff during this recent crisis? Or are you all armchair critics who purport to know what is going on behind the scenes? I have had more than a bit to do with the House Financial Services Committee in the past year or so in lobbying for real and meaningful reform to the shambles that is the financial services industry in this country, and I have found Frank's office to be more than willing to listen to and incorporate criticism from major institutional investors. Is the man perfect, above reproach? Hardly. But to dismiss him out of hand for being gay and insufficiently Jewish and therefore deserving of contempt is to highlight your own prejudices.

Boston Globe: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank had harsh words yesterday for the Israeli Navy after a bloody raid on a pro-Palestinian flotilla outside of Gaza, describing nine activists killed in the conflict as "innocent" and calling for an independent inquiry into the showdown.
Frank, in a wide-ranging interview with the Herald, went on to say that "as a Jew" Israeli treatment of Arabs around some of the West Bank settlements makes me ashamed that there would be Jews that would engage in that kind of victimization of a minority.
(video)

I think they should have an "International Johns Day" complete with smiley-face T-shirts and kissing booths.
I've never been among their number but I can see how they must have been maligned and misunderstood.

Can I kiss the back of your hands in adoration? Please. You're awesome.

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Police discovered six dead bodies in a cavern near the tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, three of them cut open and their hearts removed.
Authorities are investigating the identities of the four men and two women found dead in the natural cave, said Francisco Alor, the Quintana Roo state attorney general.
"They were apparently tortured and their chests were opened to remove the hearts," Alor's office said later in a statement.
Three of the bodies had the letter "Z'' carved on their abdomens — a possible reference to the Zeta drug gang, though officials did not make an explicit connection to cartel violence that has plagued many parts of Mexico.
More than 22,700 people have died nationwide in drug violence since late 2006, when President Felipe Calderon sent soldiers and federal police to battle the cartels.
Also Sunday, armed men in two cars barged into a girl's coming-out party in the southwestern town of Coyuca de Catalan, sparking a deadly gunbattle.
Some of those attending the "quinceanera" celebration were also armed and returned fire, Guerrero state police said in a statement. Two partygoers and one attacker were killed, while three people were wounded.
Police have not yet determined a motive, but the area is plagued by drug trafficking.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/06/bodies-cave-near-cancun-hearts-cut-attack-girls-party-kills/?test=latestnews

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/01/pilger-genocide-gaza-palestine
A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the former senior UN relief official Jan Egeland and Jan Eliasson, then foreign minister of Sweden, in Le Figaro. They described a people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water, and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes.
Egeland and Eliasson wrote this four months ago in an attempt to break the silence in Europe, whose obedient alliance with the United States and Israel has sought to reverse the democratic result that brought Hamas to power in last year's Palestinian elections. The horror in Gaza has since been compounded: a family of 18 has died beneath a 500lb US/Israeli bomb; unarmed women have been mown down at point-blank range. Dr David Halpin, one of the few Britons to break what he calls "this medieval siege", reported the killing of 57 children by artillery, rockets and small arms and was shown evidence that civilians are Israel's true targets, as in Leba non last summer. A friend in Gaza, Dr Mona el-Farra, emailed: "I see the effects of the relentless sonic booms [a collective punishment by the Israeli air force] and artillery on my 13-year-old daughter. At night, she shivers with fear. Then both of us end up crouching on the floor. I try to make her feel safe, but when the bombs sound I flinch and scream . . ."
When I was last in Gaza, Dr Khalid Dahlan, a psychiatrist, showed me the results of a remarkable survey. "The statistic I personally find unbearable," he said, "is that 99.4 per cent of the children we studied suffer trauma. Once you look at the rates of exposure to trauma you see why: 99.2 per cent of their homes were bombarded; 97.5 per cent were exposed to tear gas; 96.6 per cent witnessed shootings; 95.8 per cent witnessed bombardment and funerals; almost a quarter saw family members injured or killed." Dahlan invited me to sit in on one of his clinics. There were 30 children, all of them traumatised. He gave each a pencil and paper and asked them to draw. They drew pictures of grotesque acts of terror and of women streaming tears... http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2007/01/pilger-genocide-gaza-palestine

i'm thinking that Isreal is thinking that they'll gain nothing, zippo from this for the Pals and the arabs will whine about other things. after the Pals get their state they'll continue to moan so there is zippo gain for Isreal for a Pal state... zippo!
Isreal could create the Pal state, pave the Pal state's street and sidewalks, install a great infrastructure, build them public buildings and parks and the Pals and the Arab world still would want Isreal to leave the ME so again... a Pal state has zippo benefits for Isreal.

I did...and he told me that it's going to take more than a year and a half to clean up the mess left by the worst administration in American history. I agreed with him.
Did you call Shrub yet and ask him why he gutted just about every enforcement arm of the government? Or, maybe you don't want to because you approved of it.

I did...and he told me that Shrub gutted that rule too, along with gutting the entire department. It's going to take a long long time to undo all of Shrub's damage, don't you think?
Maybe you can call Shrub and ask him why his administration gutted the department. Oh nevermind, it's always all about getting the mean old government off of the saintly corporation's back, isn't it?

You tell me.
Perhaps Hamas thinks that. There are lots of perspectives in the world. 99.99% percent of the people in the world think theirs is the correct one. Understanding is more that just condemning the actions of other folks when it conflicts with your view of the world.
In a democracy, the government acts on the behalf of the electorate, not the other way around, as it would be in say an autocracy. Much the same way the US Government is supposed to be acting on our behalf in Iraq/Iran and in Afghanistan/Pakistan. If that is not the case, then perhaps we should have elected a president that would withdraw from both places as soon as he or she was sworn into office.

Confessing your sins to Father Pat, on Saturday, with just a wee bit of bragging.
You would be mistaken. Understanding is not the same as condoning.

White power, go to hell.