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Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way
urbazewski writes "As spring gets underway (in the northern hemisphere anyway) it's a good time to start undoing the effects of a winter's worth of websurfing and gameplaying on your physical condition. A meta-analysis of studies of currently popular low carbohydrate diets by doctors at Stanford and Yale reveals that they are really just low calorie diets in disguise: 'findings suggest that if you want to lose weight, you should eat fewer calories and do so over a long time period." John Walker's 'engineer's approach' to losing weight is built around this astonishing insight, as described in his online book/weight loss plan The Hacker's Diet. The spreadsheets are out of commission, but the basic insights are an excellent antidote to fad diets." Ramen, Ramen, Ramen is not on the approved list.
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Until a few days before Sahaf vanished he was probably the most reliable source for the whole war. Seriously, think about it. We got raw and accurate information with no extra layers of bullshit. Some of it might of been propaganda but I still thought most of it was at least accurate. Everytime he said "we shot down this, we got POWs" and dismissed it as bullshit the next day it turned out true. In the closing days this wasn't the case though.
Yeah yeah...it should have been your not you're. I know. Excuse me, mister grammar nazi.
hahahahahahaha
youre almost as funny as baghdad bob himself
I can't believe the Iraqi Information Minister would contradict John Walker (Lindh), a known member of the Taliban...
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You obviously were not following the news very closely. He is right: the Iraqis were telling the truth more often than not, up until the last few days. They weren't totally truthful, but then, neither were "our" military. And if our military lies habitually even when it is winning, how do you think they would react if they were losing? Surely no more truthful than Baghdad Bob.
The guy was saying that the US had lost the war and ranting about chemical warfare pencils and bullshit like that. The US media might not be reliable, but neither is the Iraqi propaganda minister.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
just like the Soviet Russia jokes and the ??? profit jokes?
well you have to admit that FINALLY people have all but abandoned "All your base" jokes. And I haven't seen any petrified portman's lately, even though I've been pouring hot grits down my pants.
So what you're saying is that it won't be funny once we have a Beowulf cluster of these?
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In many cultures, the greatest moral offense a man can commit isn't murder, robbery, rape, arson, or even blasphemy. In these cultures, there's a word for someone who is even lower than the murderers and rapists, because he has demonstrated with clear finality his lack of moral character. This one word, never used carelessly, reserved only for the lowest of the low is oathbreaker.
Many societies value personal honor, honesty, and integrity above anything else. People can make mistaks, and still maintain their honor if they take accountability for their actions. But the oathbreaker is the lowest of the low, never to be forgiven, and never to be trusted. This is because he has voluntarily sacrified the only thing that every man brings with him into the world, and the only thing that every man (hopefully) takes with him into the grave: his honor.
When a man's honor is gone, he has nothing.
Ladies and gentlemen, William Scott Lockwood III has nothing. If our society were still built on the concept that a man's word is sacred and that honoring others with the truth is a noble goal, William Scott Lockwood III would be dead right now.
A man's word is his bond, and when he breaks his word, he's no longer a man at all. He's worse than a coward, worse than a liar, and worse than a thief, but he's all these things and more. He's an oathbreaker.
In the past, oathbreakers become nonpersons. They stand below even murderers and thieves. Even beggars would not give or recieve comfort from an oathbreaker. Quite often, they were simply killed outright. Sometimes, they were merely cut off from honest society, trusted by no one, alienated until the day they died. After their death, their families were shunned and distrusted forever, because a man holds in his hand no only his own honor, but the honor of his family as well.
The Lockwood family has no honor left. The Lockwood family has no place in honest society, among civilized humans, because they have no honor, and they are not a part of civilization.
Killing an oathbreaker was considered to be an act of mercy, sending a tortured soul on to final judgement instead of forcing him to live an empty, hollow life.
Maybe it's time that we bring back the practice of killing oathbreakers, and ensuring that their bloodline does not propogate. Maybe a lack of honesty is what's wrong with our society. Maybe that's why everything is falling into chaos around us. When you can't trust a man's word, what basis is there for civilization?
I think upon consideration that you will agree: William Scott Lockwood III is less than a gentlemen, less even than a man, less even than a human, less even than an animal. William Scott Lockwood III is an oathbreaker.