At 11/26/09 01:53 AM, aviewaskewed wrote:

I mean, we still have Bush Sr's war on drugs going...why? Because we still spend money to fight it and nobody has gone on record as saying "the war on drugs is over".
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On this point you've made Avie...if someone in Government came out & said "the war on drugs is over"...they would have to add, " & we have lost !"

Just like the war on terror, IMO by allowing the Government under Bush to illegaly violate your Constitution & form the Homeland Security. I've seen it reported that it is in essence, no different in its powers in the US as the Gestapo was in Germany. Wire taps on any American ,without warrant, without cause ,& without any justification to a higher authority above them...they can enter any residence any property for any or no reason, without cause of any kind & without any higher authority ,that they answer to ! ! & That's scary !
But seeing as the Federal Reserve was an illegal act that the Government went along with...no actually they went & deliberately mislead the American people from day one & right up until today.

I can say that I am not at all surprised. The amount of Americans who come to this site 7 have absolutely NO IDEA, abotu their own monetary system...& how many actually believe that The Federal Reserve is a Government controlled organization...It isn't folks...it is a Banking Cartel & it is controled by people who are not elected & many are not even Americans !

At 11/28/09 10:35 AM, Proteas wrote: *sigh*

I've got nothin'. :-(

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Santa's only in it for the golden shower(s) !

sorry first thing that popped into my head :p

maybe it could be an advertised event.

At 11/27/09 04:02 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I feel like death warmed over right now. Bleh.

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Sorry to hear that Skunky .
(get someone to turn some of those leftovers into a hearty Turkey soup, & go get comfy & pamper yourself)
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I had orientation at my Union today to get up to speed at being the interm Treasurer. it was only about 4 hours at the office & i've been reviewing up til now. & because I have 2 days starting Sunday with office Staff & other Exec members schedualed 8 hours.
Monday for Exec meetings & an afternoon at financial institutions , signing authority, credit card authority, etc.

F-M-J, this learning curve has a nearly verticle beginning !
-my brain is melting....melting I say !

f-m-j =fuck , me, jesus !

At 11/27/09 03:24 AM, Grimm51 wrote: What do you all think?

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Try moving out into the country side.
look at what your good at & do something you really enjoy
Make sure the place is small ( like a village) not bigger than that.

relax, you'll live longer

If I wasn't in such a hurry , I would post a picture of my Passport.
IT WILL ALLOW ME TO TRAVEL TO CUBA....& everywhere else :)

FUNK ....WTF, new look dude.
I personally believe an automatic upgrade on the lolipop level to something more in line with reality, is IMO in order.

Oh , worked Stone temple pilots on Wednesday... Shook my soul & bounced it around my rib cage. They still do a kick ass live show.

Seven...You burn it dear, I'll still eat it.

Rydia L H stay upright, it seems some of us here, are more concerned than some of those there !

hurt~ humor ~ family, I don't get it

Proteas, nice gun...I can't see anything 'special' about it .

By the way can you imagine how well stainless steel chain mail would go over if you could slip back in time & supply it !!

Gotta run, happy belated turkey day, folks !

At 11/25/09 06:23 PM, SadisticMonkey wrote:

At 11/25/09 04:05 PM, DizzeeRascal wrote: Again, ''war crimes'' when it's against you, ''neccessary evils'' when it's against them. God bless America.

Except that the US, although flawed, are not evil scumbags like the Japanese were.

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You want to back that up SadisticMonkey ? lol.
Your politicians at the time decided to put on a show for the world... "we are mighty" they should have labeled it.
Because of this act, Russia decided it also had to have the bomb !
Out of which we had an arms race that generated enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world a hundred times over (there were reportedly 70,000 nuclear bombs in 1986) best guess is about 25,000 are still in service or are still assembled & could easily be recommisioned.

Maybe you & others wouldn't call such shortsightedness 'evil' , but IMO it sure as hell wasn't an intelligent decission !

At 11/24/09 11:30 PM, LucidCity wrote: At the beginning of the first period of doubling there would just be two human beings; the second, 4; the third, 8; the fourth,

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You can't use this fallacy to describe humans.
First & most important... if all you have for genetic diversity is 2 examples of an organism as complex as a mammal. Constantly interbreeding the resultant progeny will show birth defects, & other genetic problems.

So this part of the bible is an impossibility. Not allowing marriage between brother & sister, & other close relations, is against the law in most of the world. But before the law got involved, people knew it was problematic & it was a taboo.
Which must have really sucked in the early days...if you had a hot sister.

At 11/23/09 07:41 PM, Proteas wrote: Dammit... forgot the picture.

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Oh, Shit !
That's such a distant shot..the mustache could still be there, I just can 't see it because of resolution problems !

I feel 'just the fool' ;p

At 11/23/09 02:41 PM, Tri-Nitro-Toluene wrote: I'M NOT DEAD!

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Me either !
& my hangovers gone ;p
Nice to hear your still breathing.

HAI GUIZ!!!!

I have a Stone Temple Pilots rig & show tomorrow.

At 11/23/09 03:21 AM, Ravariel wrote:

At 11/22/09 09:47 PM, Proteas wrote: What? Y'all act like you've never seen a giant single celled amoeba monster the size of Wal-Mart before.

You leave my sister out of this!

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That's your sister ?
At first I didn't recognize her...she's had her mustache removed ;)

At 11/23/09 12:49 PM, Elfer wrote: For comparison, you do light rigging, right? Let's say one weekend you go sport climbing, and you use a rope that your friend bought that is technically past its expiration period but was used so lightly that it's not really important. Then you send an email to someone else in which you say "Yeah, the rope was past expiry but we used it anyway, and it was completely fine." The person you're emailing understands the context, so there's no need for you to explain that you were out doing recreational climbing at this point.

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To start with, Yes I rig for a living.
Without trying to be an ass...there are somethings that are not allowed EVER !
So there is no way I will be rock climbing, unless someone is "paying me to do so"....I've done it in the past, we have the equipment necessary to do it in the future.

Second, I do not keep expired rope around, I no longer give it away either, I cut it up into small unusable pieces, that goes for slings & wire rope as well as shackles, carabiners & all other hardware & clamps.
There is absolutely no excuse for having a piece of equipment on site that could cause harm. >period<
There is no deviation allowed to this concept /rule. >period<
Third I never use another riggers equipment unless that rigger is there & is a rigger I know & trust...that's why I'm still alive.

To get back to the e-mails.
THere are only some e-mails that are really.... hmmm.... lets say problematic.
IF there is a outcry, I believe its in several news spots, then the date of the e-mail & the paper that may or may have not have been published that the info refered to in the e-mail "might make it suspect" can easily be produced & the conspiracy folks will get their bubble burst once again.

My whole tack on Newgrounds & elsewhere has been on how I personally believe Global Warming is a crock of shit name.Al Gore's video is worse, its a made up infected pile of feces
It IMO should be called what it actually is, "climate change" on this point I stand firm, & will take whatever criticism that comes at me, because I can see it in my own backyard !
Which let's me believe ,without actual proof about the rest of the planet, that it is going on elsewhere & I have seen the lack of ice in the Gulf of St. Lawerence personally. So reading/hearing there's less ice up North isn't hard to imagine it being true.

But that still doesn't mean we are completely responsible for all that is going on.
People are confused, worried & upset about this subject. Having even unproven out of context rumors which these e-mails help fuel is IMO also very serious .

At 11/21/09 10:21 AM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 11/20/09 11:39 PM, Dawnslayer wrote: Question is, can you get elected?

But it will allow me to answer your question....can I get elected !

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It seems that I can get elected.
I have been elected to an Executive position in my local union.
I would like to say I was wildly popular & won by a landslide...but that wouldn't be the truth, I actually won by 20 votes.
Here comes a learning curve, hopefully it isn't too steep & I'm not in completely over my head !

At 11/23/09 11:35 AM, Elfer wrote:

At 11/23/09 10:27 AM, Al6200 wrote:

2. Most of the emails that are questionable are not highly technical, but rather discuss institutional, social wrongdoing. Even the more technical emails have statements that necessarily imply wrongdoing, especially if one considers their context.

If you think that these emails indicate that they ultimately published things that were intentionally misleading in terms of global temperature trends, you're going to have to corroborate your claims with the actual publications. You can't just say "I think this person probably published misleading information," without giving an actual example of published information that you consider misleading and expect people to take your accusations seriously.

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I'd like to point out that these e-mails have been released & you (Elfer) may think Al6200 ,myself & others may all be crackpots... but if these people have releasd papers on climate change, & were dismissing things for sake of an algorhythm then it stands to reason they have proof in their released papers about their research & can refute these claims ,based on e-mails that are now circulating & your saying "THose with concerns need PROOF.
We're saying , no we have some questionable things here !
You prove you weren't lying or covering up, by providing context to the e-mails with released official papers/articles etc. The onus isn't on us to prove anything...we're not in a court of law !
We're in the court of public opinion, & I for one do not see any global warming in my part of the globe...which is all I actually have to go on. Personal experience on my little part of the world..the Eastern Canadian coast.

I have lived here all my life.
I remember when nice weather used to start & when to expect the bad stuff...well it has changed in when it comes & goes...but the amount of cold shitty weather has increased here ! Especially cold & wet !
IF your going to try to convince the world that we're in trouble of global warming...your going to have to do more than show me melting ice caps. I've been to the Arctic more than once & I have see fossils of trees that used to grow there, in places where the closet tree is hundred of miles south of us.

Second seeing as we know that man had nothing to do with those warming & cooling trends, IMO its up to all scientists to prove we're the direct cause...& all of them are not saying that. part of the problem, possibly because it isn't true ?!?.

Seeing proof that at one time most of central North America was under water...I'm not about to panic anytime soon, because a bunch of Government Scientists are falling in behind their elected masters, in their new vision of HEY WE'VE FOUND A GREAT NEW TAX GRAB...WE'VE GOT TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM dum, dum ,dum, DUMB !!! GLOBAL WARMING ! and we need money ,lot's & lot's & lot's of taxpayer money to fix it.

I'm wondering how long it'll be before the 'Church of Global Warming', signs up for its tax free religious status

I have survived !
;;; barely, much money was raised, brewery workers have large order to fill Monday !

Malachy was right...I guess I didn't explain myself enough, but when the gravy thickens in the pie I've always really liked it. Nice crispy light pastry, thick tastey filling .

I've got a prime rib roast thawing... I'm hoping this hangover is over by the time supper rolls around .
I need a beer.
& no ...not want a beer
I need one (at least 1)

At 11/20/09 03:24 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: On another note, it's important to realize that a growing economy does not necessarily need 'more gold' to back it. Having more goods and services in an economy with a relatively unchanging amount of gold is better than inflation, where businesses are given the false impression that they are making gains.

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That's very true.
Having things of value (ie; goods & or services) is important, but there's some things fro example diamonds that we know are an artificially inflated item, DeBeers has been stockpiling massive amounts of Diamonds for years & controling exactly what is available on the world market...their monopoly has slipped a little with Canada & the Soviets getting involved & there's at least 1 African country that deals with Isreali dealers as opposed to DeBeers, but everyone wants to profit, & are not bringing enough onto the market to drive the price down .

At 11/21/09 10:19 AM, masterguy-1243 wrote: I prefer trimmed. It's better than a 'fro or bald.

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Me ...I perfer the song !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16RxBoKJ u8

At 11/21/09 01:26 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: Actually i played in one of them.

http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-35895 4-Canning-news.html

That was the week that Kiss came to Halifax.
They played on the 18th, We re jigged the stage & VIP seating area on Tuesday & Wednesday (14th 15th)
Pre rigged the Lighting on the 16th & 17th hung the PA preped the delay towers & set up the Production on Saturday, show Sat. night & load out Sunday night , Sunday day & finished Monday !.
But I have worked shows (esp.in Wolfville) they have a summer theatre festive. The Annapolis valley is about an hour and 15 minutes drive from where I live.

At 11/21/09 10:51 AM, Proteas wrote: So it's going to be turkey today, leftovers probably through thursday, and then MORE TURKEY. YAY!!!!

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You ever use leftover turkey & veggies with gravy in a pie crust ?
What about turkey soup or stew ?
It doesn't just have to be turkey dinner leftovers or sandwiches...c'mon be creative (or just search engine, left over turkey ideas)
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We're thinking ham or prime rib for Sunday, we've got both...just have to make a decission.
But that will have to wait to see if i survive the Party I'm going to tonight. A long time friend has survived a brain aneurysm, he's in rehab, & we're having a Bar-b-Q & party/benefit at a local pub where all money raised will go to him to help with his bills at home while he heals.
Food has been voluteered & over a grand has been raised in 50 /50 tickets sales already , the band is donating all all the funds from the door to the event...& it sounds like it is going to be very drunk out !

Party ! ! ! & with a great excuse (& as some of you probabley suspect ...I don't even need an excuse :)

At 11/21/09 01:14 PM, Memorize wrote: Of course, I find it kind of funny that the EPA would label CO2 a pollutant when it's required for life...

I wonder if one day there will be too much oxygen and if they'll label that a pollutant.

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What I find strange...is no one is complaining about the concentration of Nitrogen in the atmosphere .
It's at about 80 %....holy sweet blistering mohammad ,80 percent ! ! !
We're all going to die...its over !

Oh, wait I just remembered my Scuba Training & its suppose to be about 80 % .
Whew...we ducked a possible bullet there =:p

At 11/21/09 12:49 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote:

At 11/20/09 09:12 PM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 11/20/09 08:21 PM, Dawnslayer wrote: Am I the only who's noticed that winters are getting colder, but summers are getting hotter?

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Must depend fairly specifically on where you live.
Elmsdale, Nova Scotia is where I am

I went to nova scotia in july, too bad i didn't see you there.

did you attend any music festivals/concerts ?
I workedon a bunch of them...except for a couple of days in PEI shooting an industrial at the end of July, I was here !
It is another warm day here in Elmsdale. It's plus 10 outside & i've been out doing some stuff in the yard & putting things away in the barn, & I'm in shorts & a t shirt & sneakers, with a light sweater on, that is open.

At 11/20/09 11:39 PM, Dawnslayer wrote: Question is, can you get elected?

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Ok ...fun !
THis is the truth, I am pesently running for Exec office in my union. The votes will be tallied on Monday Nov23/09. So while this isn't public office, it is for a union local of over 425 members.
I have no idea if I will win. The other person running has a following in New Brunswick where he is quite popular...but our local has members in all 4 Atlantic Provinces, & depending on how many votes are actually cast ,will have a real impact on who will win ! We have had elections in the past where less than 30 % of members voted...last election the ballots cast hit over 95 %, so It's a impossible to say Imo what will happen.
The vote is a secret ballot mail in.
I will post whether I won or lost on Monday.... I can actually say that as of yet, I am not really concerned about winning, or losing. Perhaps there will be some kind of emotion come election day, right now I'm simply waiting & its not a big deal.

But it will allow me to answer your question....can I get elected !

At 11/21/09 09:36 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/21/09 01:02 AM, SevenSeize wrote: We have a cajun french restaurant down here doin them for 39 bucks. 15 lb turkey, cooked for me. heck yes.

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That's around what a bird about that size raw, would cost here !

I guess it depends on who's doing it, then. I've had deep fried turkey before, and it was only slightly moister than normal over cooked turkey. :-\

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When I first had it I was curious about what was going on with the big pot full of oil over a propane burner & the guy making it said it was really important to make sure the temp. of the oil stayed high, so he started it at 400+ He said the turkey has to hit the oil when its really hot, becasue it sears the the whole carcass, & seals the moisture in the bird, inside & out.

At 11/20/09 11:36 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

I'm ordering a deep fried turkey for thanksgiving. I've heard they're awesome but never tried one.

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I've had that before. first time was in Michigan & it was GREAT !
THey put the whole turkey into this big pot with a rack the turkey was set on, & they dumped into 350 degree oil, not greasy at all , really moist.
If had it here as well , best turkey I've ever had.

Wisdom tooths gone 'eh... do you feel less intelligent ?

At 11/20/09 08:21 PM, Dawnslayer wrote: Am I the only who's noticed that winters are getting colder, but summers are getting hotter?

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Must depend fairly specifically on where you live.
Elmsdale, Nova Scotia is where I am
In the City of Halifax about 50 kms away & on the coast its colder than where I am inland, in the summer months but usually a little warmer in the winter months, because of the ocean effect.
We haven't been getting warm weather until July August when it used to start back in June...sometimes the long week end in May would be warm enough to attempt to swim. But now it's August Sept Oct when its warm & somewhat dryer. THis November has been a really nice month, hitting 15 degrees today, nice yesterday, theres only been a couple cold days & wet days so far, but the cities have had more rain.

IT proves that the concept of the latest tax grab is in fact a hoax.
The earth goes through short term cycles of warming & cooling, with even larger periods of major warming & cooling. THe bastards who wanted to milk this & get even richer off the backs of the workers have been exposed by the so called scientists in the pockets of these Govenrment big Business Bozo's.

Its a rip off, I said it way before this, because its been colder during our winters lately for a shorter span of time...but the unseasonal chilly periods is getting longer around here & wetter !

Nothing new...we're being lied to & manipulated .
They're getting sloppy & its getting easier to spread the word when they are found out !

At 11/20/09 02:30 PM, energybackedmoney wrote: The reason I don't agree with your conclusion about having plenty of gold is because you started with a false assumption that in 1971 the US had enough gold to back $800 billion dollars. To put this in perspective, estimates for the amount of gold ever mined in the history of the world is only around 5 billion ounces so it would not be possible for the US to have 23 billion ounces as your calculations suggested. The current estimates of the US gold reserves are currently around 261 million ounces which isn't even worth half a trillion dollars. To put that into perspective, our budget deficit in 2009 is close to $2 trillion.

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Then the US had money out that wasn't backed by gold...which would have been illegal.

In 1971 the US was on the Gold Standard, at that time as far as I can find on the net,the US had 800 Billion dollars in currency in circulation...that would have had to be backed by gold...it was at $38 $39 dollars an ounce then so do the math to figure out how many ounces of gold at 39 dollars per ounce was needed to back 800 billion dollars.
I guess we know why Nixon go tthe US off the Gold Standard !

THen take that amount of gold in ounces, & multiply it by todays per ounce price or $1148.72 US gold per ounce on my kitco chart today.
See the answer ?
You don't need wonder why i say ripped off 'eh!

There has been about 161000 tons of gold mined, half of it in the last 50 years. I see it in some articles as tonnes, I can't find if they're talking metric or british or american tons ..there is a differece.
metric tonne = 32150.76 troy ounces
long ton (UK) =32666.667 troy ounces
short ton (US) = 29,166.667 troy ounces
Today a metric tonne of gold is worth almost 37 million american dollars.

At 11/19/09 11:58 AM, Elfer wrote:

At 11/19/09 11:41 AM, Ericho wrote:

At 11/19/09 11:35 AM, Xavierthewarlord wrote: Because the other tastes better.

Not according to the Asian people. I'm pretty sure they do indeed eat cats and dogs.

That's because they don't have the excess of farmland needed to produce large amounts of livestock. Cats and dogs can pretty much run around and look after themselves, so they're pretty cheap for meat.

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I haven't seen it posted yet, but they also eat "rice rabbits" or what we would call 'Rats' .
Yes they do people, I've got a brother in South Korea, he's travelled all over Asia & has been all over China having visited there 8 times. He's also traveled around India for 2 months by train...they eat rat ;)...I wonder why McDonalds hasn't caught on ?

At 11/19/09 07:32 PM, Proteas wrote: ... are we talking Chili Con Carne, here? Because I'm liable to get violent if you try to put carrots and celery in my chili.

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Sorry my mistake...I was thinking of a gumbo .
For chili , I like burger, with sweet onion, fresh garlic, green peppers , I dump in hot sauce usually Louisianna hot sauce. I put hot dried peppers whole , you can remove them after cooking, I grow hot peppers in my garden every year this year was fire peppers & cayenne & I dry them . I like at least 2 kinds of beans, kidney beans & any kind of canned molasses or tomato cooked beans , I have put celery in there as well when I haven't had enough onion.
This is how you usually get chili in the area of Nova Scotia I live.

At 11/20/09 09:55 AM, energybackedmoney wrote:

At 11/15/09 01:56 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I agree that the transfer of energy would be difficult to many of the places that are so geographically distant.
So in reading your idea, it doesn't seem practicle to me.

Backing a dollar with specific amount of energy doesn't necessarily have to mean guarnateed delivery to every remote location.

It seems to me anyway that those who are argueing there isn't enough gold,,,are not putting the dollars of today up against the dollars of yesterday into their considerations.

In Murray N. Rothbard's 1981 article "The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar", Murray calculated going to a 100% gold standard in 1981 would correspond to a gold price of $1,696/ounce. Since 1981 the money supply has grown multiple times more than the gold supply so if the Federal Reserve's gold were to back all dollars then, according to Rothbard's logic, gold would have to be multiple times higher than $1,696/ounce.

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If you had read my whole post, simple math showes that the gold reserve already owned by the American people 1n1971 (over 800 billion in 1971 dollars) in todays dollars would be 23 TRILLION DOLLARS.
Your in debt 12 TRILLION....can you not do even simple subtraction ?
THe American people have been ROBBED , & not for the first time.
The whole Federal Reserve is & has been robbing the tax payers of America since day #1.
The Government especially the Republician Party has done everything it can to continue the theft IMO.

At 11/20/09 08:58 AM, gumOnShoe wrote:

At 11/20/09 08:53 AM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 11/19/09 05:20 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: Palin is far more amusing.

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Easier on the eyes as well.

But she doesn't even present a meaningful attempt at a facade of being intelligent, whereas gore does. So, when Gore messes up its more fun to call him on it.

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I can't debate Gore with you...seeing as anytime i come across anything by him or about him these days ,I ignore. After seeing all the fallicies & out right lies & fabrications in his 'inconvienient truth' his views are as important to me as a lump of polar bear shit.
But Sarah...what I was thinking on ,about her has nothing to do with her actually speaking, unless its to moan, groan or howl for More ;)