Not if he's dead. Saddam was not a 'figurehead' leader. There is no 'natural successor' who will have the skills and powers to lead that he has. He is 'irreplacable' to his regime. There are plenty of other Baathists who will try, of course.
It's the same numbers from the rhyme. Brown = 1 Red = 2
The Boy Scout Merit Badge Pamphlet version is:
"Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West."
The goody two-shoes version, I guess. I would bet good money the Bad Boys version was a reaction to that. Or something from the Navy. The first resistors I ever encountered when I was a kid were 'USN Retired' resistors from an old metal chest my father had from when he was in the navy. 'None' 20% tolerance ones. And a Simpson Multimeter. Probably that meter is to blame for what I am now.
But think of the big national T-shirt vendors. Their families will starve! There must be a MINT being made on those Arena-show shirts that sell for 2-3 times the price of the fricking album the tour is for.
You are right that my comment slanted things too far in that direction. The cultural change has to come, though. It isn't enough to say 'no' to the fishermen. The demand for their catch in the market has to be reduced.
So you're saying that no matter how good a performer is, they have no right to make a fortune producing music that makes other people's lives better for listening to it?
I agree with you about fan exposure. In fact, some of the greatest musicians became what they are because fan interaction helped them improve their technique.
Free cigarettes to homeless people in Wisconsin to vote Democrat will help, too.
And I imagine somebody has been clipping and saving the obituary pages for the last year...
Once you've decided that politics is a game to play 'for righteous results' the end justifies the means, you know. And there are lots of cynical Democrats.
Well, they didn't have any 'WMD' at hand to use at the point the US invaded. They had plenty to use a little over a decade earlier, which incidentally substantiate some of the charges lined up to file against Mr. Hussein in case this trial fell through, but don't let me bring the thread back on topic or anything awful.
But they appear to have had highly accurate classified information to use to create nuclear weapons. Certain outspoken liberals made certain to validate this by exclaiming in the past week: 'the plans were good enough that when McChimpy Bushalburton put them on a website, it helped the Iranians.' So we've verified that the Iraquis had a Nuclear Weapons program, and plans far in advance that Iran has at present. That sounds suspciously like Weapons of Mass Destruction to me.
Nobody is talking much about this at the moment, though. It's that time of year when all the grown up versions of those sucky kids in the Student Council are ranting and raving for our attention.
I've listened to enough spotty 'recorded in the basement on the cheap' music to know that everybody can NOT 'afford the tools necessary to record a song.' We don't want to listen to Johnny putz's voice through a Radio Shack mike.
It's not progress. Not by any measure.
There will continue to be a need for a music recording infrastructure.
How many people under 30 bought any of that stuff -
The idea that 'culture' is defined by 'what the children and young adults are buying' has faded. Thank good the 'culture of youth' thing is less relevant than it once was.
Now go eat the rest of your spinach. You won't get any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
There really is no toll gate to truth, you know. And no monopoly.
An appeal to orthodoxy is what scurrilous opponents of the truth have engaged in in the past. Look which side you're now on, dude. 'The Scientific Establishment' is the new popery.
The best thing we can do is protect breeding areas, try to control the fisherman, an
I'm not sure what you mean by 'try' to control the fisherman. It isn't like we need to send out 'enforcers' with Zodiac boats to stop the fishermen. We simply need to assert control of the market the fishermen sell into. If we want to stop the strip-mining of the ocean, it's simply a matter of bulldozing a few hundred 'Long John Silver' and 'Red Lobster' outlets. Have you been in a Red Lobster recently? They have signs in the dining room that say (paraphrased) "Selling you anything that swims in the seas."
Bulk mass-market sale of exotic seafood needs to stop.
Whitetail deer are another 'vermin species' that travels alongside man and whose population has soared. In places like Northern Minnesota deer totally replaced the native species, caribou.
And yet conservatonists and 'sportsmen' everywhere point to the thriving deer population as an example of how well man is managing the 'wilderness.' Deer are essentially nothing more than a larger species of rat.
Buffalo is a great example. Nearly wiped out and then buffalo bill pushed for conservation. If he had not done that, they would be gone forever.
The Buffalo were not 'nearly wiped out' due to the recklessl whim of the White Man.
There was a fundamental incompatability with huge county-sized herds of buffalo and a transcontinental railway. When a big buffalo herd comes your way it grinds anything in it's path into the ground.
So the railroads could not have been built if the buffalo were not (nearly) exterminated. The stories one reads of men shooting buffalo from railroad cars has nothing to do with sport. It related to maintaining the railroads.
Arguements that the railroad should not have been built should be addressed on the merits of the topic, not made into a caricature about 'stupid man wiping out those majestic buffalo herds.'
I want to hold a "conversation" with the medical community over the validity of the germ theory.
First off, you'd be holding a 'conversation' with the Biology community. The 'medical community' is more concerned with coming up with new billable medical procedures, proving their efficacy sufficiently to maintain credibility, etc.
Similarly, the 'scientific community' is not a public advocacy organization. The loudmouths who've already decided what needs to be done to solve 'global warming' are not a scientific community. They are a policy advocacy community, who aim to use 'science' like a bludgeon to have their way. Similar to the 'medical community' a part of their job is to keep the funding for their 'work' arriving in the bank accounts.
The scientific process does not work by random jerks on the internet reviewing scientific research.
Agreed. And now that we've characterized both sides in the 'conflict' properly, perhaps we can either drop the subject or go make some popcorn to enjoy the fight.
You're ALL a bunch of morons here, when it comes to 'Science.' In particular, those claiming 'The Scientists say....' are appealing to a fucking priesthood.
No Scientist wants your ilk trailing around behind them. None who recognizes that Science is a process, not an endpoint, in any case. Can't you find a new set of slogans to paint on placards and run around with chanting?
If Sony doesn't succeed in the PS3, they may soon fold as a company. I can see WalMart buying Sony at a firesale price, just for the name. Then WalMart will simply replace the Durabrand logo on their low-end product line with their new Sony logo.
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Wow. A 'Cold War' advocate.
I thought I'd seen everything.
Tell me, were you alive in the 60's to remember the terror the earth's people lived under?
Not if he's dead. Saddam was not a 'figurehead' leader. There is no 'natural successor' who will have the skills and powers to lead that he has. He is 'irreplacable' to his regime. There are plenty of other Baathists who will try, of course.
The guy has been riding along on his 'Former US Attorney General' creds for decades now.
Boy, would a certain other 'wing' of the US Populace go bonkers if Ashcroft tried something like that...
It's the same numbers from the rhyme. Brown = 1 Red = 2
The Boy Scout Merit Badge Pamphlet version is:
"Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West."
The goody two-shoes version, I guess. I would bet good money the Bad Boys version was a reaction to that. Or something from the Navy. The first resistors I ever encountered when I was a kid were 'USN Retired' resistors from an old metal chest my father had from when he was in the navy. 'None' 20% tolerance ones. And a Simpson Multimeter. Probably that meter is to blame for what I am now.
But think of the big national T-shirt vendors. Their families will starve! There must be a MINT being made on those Arena-show shirts that sell for 2-3 times the price of the fricking album the tour is for.
If you're gonna believe that, you may as well head on up to Canada now.
Or Mexico. Oh, wait. Mexico has very strict, enforced laws, and doesn't let illegal aliens work in their country....
You are right that my comment slanted things too far in that direction. The cultural change has to come, though. It isn't enough to say 'no' to the fishermen. The demand for their catch in the market has to be reduced.
My comment spun off on a tangent.
So you're saying that no matter how good a performer is, they have no right to make a fortune producing music that makes other people's lives better for listening to it?
I agree with you about fan exposure. In fact, some of the greatest musicians became what they are because fan interaction helped them improve their technique.
Who do you support in Tuesday's election? Lyndon LaRouche as a write-in candidate for all posts?
That part that sucks is neither of them was Ramsey Clark.
Free cigarettes to homeless people in Wisconsin to vote Democrat will help, too.
And I imagine somebody has been clipping and saving the obituary pages for the last year...
Once you've decided that politics is a game to play 'for righteous results' the end justifies the means, you know. And there are lots of cynical Democrats.
Well, they didn't have any 'WMD' at hand to use at the point the US invaded. They had plenty to use a little over a decade earlier, which incidentally substantiate some of the charges lined up to file against Mr. Hussein in case this trial fell through, but don't let me bring the thread back on topic or anything awful.
But they appear to have had highly accurate classified information to use to create nuclear weapons. Certain outspoken liberals made certain to validate this by exclaiming in the past week: 'the plans were good enough that when McChimpy Bushalburton put them on a website, it helped the Iranians.' So we've verified that the Iraquis had a Nuclear Weapons program, and plans far in advance that Iran has at present. That sounds suspciously like Weapons of Mass Destruction to me.
Nobody is talking much about this at the moment, though. It's that time of year when all the grown up versions of those sucky kids in the Student Council are ranting and raving for our attention.
I've listened to enough spotty 'recorded in the basement on the cheap' music to know that everybody can NOT 'afford the tools necessary to record a song.' We don't want to listen to Johnny putz's voice through a Radio Shack mike.
It's not progress. Not by any measure.
There will continue to be a need for a music recording infrastructure.
That sounds like a banal world where only 'big stadium rock' bands can survive.
Sorry. I can do without the bombast, I don't want to listen to music from the grandstands.
How many people under 30 bought any of that stuff -
The idea that 'culture' is defined by 'what the children and young adults are buying' has faded. Thank good the 'culture of youth' thing is less relevant than it once was.
Now go eat the rest of your spinach. You won't get any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
You cited '100K a year' a few comments up. That is WELL above average.
Well, go talk amongst yourselves, then.
There really is no toll gate to truth, you know. And no monopoly.
An appeal to orthodoxy is what scurrilous opponents of the truth have engaged in in the past. Look which side you're now on, dude. 'The Scientific Establishment' is the new popery.
More likely farmed catfish. Salmon can be farmed but a cheap plentiful bottomfeeding species like catfish is more practical.
The best thing we can do is protect breeding areas, try to control the fisherman, an
I'm not sure what you mean by 'try' to control the fisherman. It isn't like we need to send out 'enforcers' with Zodiac boats to stop the fishermen. We simply need to assert control of the market the fishermen sell into. If we want to stop the strip-mining of the ocean, it's simply a matter of bulldozing a few hundred 'Long John Silver' and 'Red Lobster' outlets. Have you been in a Red Lobster recently? They have signs in the dining room that say (paraphrased) "Selling you anything that swims in the seas."
Bulk mass-market sale of exotic seafood needs to stop.
Whitetail deer are another 'vermin species' that travels alongside man and whose population has soared. In places like Northern Minnesota deer totally replaced the native species, caribou.
And yet conservatonists and 'sportsmen' everywhere point to the thriving deer population as an example of how well man is managing the 'wilderness.' Deer are essentially nothing more than a larger species of rat.
Buffalo is a great example. Nearly wiped out and then buffalo bill pushed for conservation. If he had not done that, they would be gone forever.
The Buffalo were not 'nearly wiped out' due to the recklessl whim of the White Man.
There was a fundamental incompatability with huge county-sized herds of buffalo and a transcontinental railway. When a big buffalo herd comes your way it grinds anything in it's path into the ground.
So the railroads could not have been built if the buffalo were not (nearly) exterminated. The stories one reads of men shooting buffalo from railroad cars has nothing to do with sport. It related to maintaining the railroads.
Arguements that the railroad should not have been built should be addressed on the merits of the topic, not made into a caricature about 'stupid man wiping out those majestic buffalo herds.'
I want to hold a "conversation" with the medical community over the validity of the germ theory.
First off, you'd be holding a 'conversation' with the Biology community. The 'medical community' is more concerned with coming up with new billable medical procedures, proving their efficacy sufficiently to maintain credibility, etc.
Similarly, the 'scientific community' is not a public advocacy organization. The loudmouths who've already decided what needs to be done to solve 'global warming' are not a scientific community. They are a policy advocacy community, who aim to use 'science' like a bludgeon to have their way. Similar to the 'medical community' a part of their job is to keep the funding for their 'work' arriving in the bank accounts.
The scientific process does not work by random jerks on the internet reviewing scientific research.
Agreed. And now that we've characterized both sides in the 'conflict' properly, perhaps we can either drop the subject or go make some popcorn to enjoy the fight.
You're ALL a bunch of morons here, when it comes to 'Science.' In particular, those claiming 'The Scientists say....' are appealing to a fucking priesthood.
No Scientist wants your ilk trailing around behind them. None who recognizes that Science is a process, not an endpoint, in any case. Can't you find a new set of slogans to paint on placards and run around with chanting?
If Sony doesn't succeed in the PS3, they may soon fold as a company. I can see WalMart buying Sony at a firesale price, just for the name. Then WalMart will simply replace the Durabrand logo on their low-end product line with their new Sony logo.
The Phone company isn't editing content when they comply with court orders.