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1k point buy in...let's go, bitches... >:)

Anyone read him? His Strategy is a very good read and makes a lot of sense. I know people like Mearsheimer loathe him, but I think he has a lot to say, especially about having limited objectives, that can inform today's defense policies. I'd put him right up there with Jomini's Summary of the Art of War.

Have a problem with a current live game.

Sent email but wanted to try every channel (so I'm posting here).

As I've said, I'm reading my way through the KJ Bible (KJ because you can't fully hope to ever be a Man of Letters like I hope to be someday without reading the Bible, like it or not, and the KJ version has had the biggest impact on English Literature) and it struck me partway through "Exodus"--OT, almighty, intimidating God speaks using "thou," but that'd be the INFORMAL version grammatically in James'/Shakespeare's day...but the OT God is anything BUT familiar and informal...?

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Timbuctoo, once regarded as equal to Cambridge or Oxford as a centre of Learning. Now Islamic thugs are running about destroying shrines and other things of great "Islamic" cultural and historical significance, killing, raping and looting

well done to the Fundamentalist Islamic Criminals

boring or what!

Who will win more TdF stages?
Who is faster?
Who cares?

'Tis the season for some BBQ. Anyone have any recipes or favorites they wanna share?

Comic genius, Eric Sykes has died. Eric was one of the post WW2 comic talents, wrote for the Goon show, had his own comedy series and was a brilliant comedian. He will be much missed.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/07/05/louisiana-republican-when-i-voted-for-state-funds-to-go-to-religious-schools-i-didnt-mean-muslim-ones/

Because it needed to get even more comical. Thank you home state

An cartoon from a while back, but one of my favourites of all time:

http://xkcd.com/386/

Leaving that "God Particle" title alone--and if anyone brings God into THIS thread...shame on you, we have a debate coming up, for once, let's have a discussion sans the rhetoric, eh?--can any of our brilliant scientists here explain this? I've heard of it, and apparently it's important, but...what's it all mean, this particle...why would it hep give proof of...things? (Note my very technical jargon there.) ;)

call for players.....

I saw them on the GR site and noticed that there were none for 2011, are they still happening?

Zmaj raised an interesting point. We can slander and insult and wrestle and mock politics and religion without end, but as soon as someone starts in on personal histories and former cheating cases, it becomes very hush hush and people start tiptoeing around. Not that I disagree necessarily, but what makes personal history and former cheating cases et al. more taboo than politics and religion, the latter of which is supposedly deeply personal?

South Korea announces it will resume "scientific whaling"
Boycott all South Korean products and services and let the "shopkeepers" know it's Whale Hunting by South Korea that has driven your decision.
and what a "contradiction in terms" -- "scientific whaling" is a propoganda phrase

the great debate between the two biggest parties. Democrats defend Obama and Republicans defend Bush or whoever

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go ahead.... me unhappy anyways

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france has 5 sc left and balance of power in their hands!!!!

Here is a bad joke I just came up with. Apologies....

in good position, fun game. pm me for deets and password.

A multi or three seems to have got caught out in a game I was playing - but the actions dont seem to match the notes in-game.
Have mailed the mod account - I see that one of the caught/accused is still playing?

i'm sort of new and just wondering why the other variants are disabled if anyone knows please reply :)

I DEMAND JUSTICE

The Rabelais Gunboat Series.

The obvious way to do a category-specific Ghost-Rating is to restrict the games you use in the rating to that category, unless I'm very much mistaken, that is how it is currently done. This does not necessarily give the best outcome, or even a better outcome than do the regular ratings.