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Are you people smoking something ? Must be. Don't you understand that these Great Lords of the Jungle is crying out for our help - your help! They need us and we need them and it saddens me to see people like you all joking about this when in FACT it is a VERY serious matter. How would you feel if you were on the verge of exstinction ? It would not be a good feeling. Wouldnt you want something done about it ? Of course you would! These awesome cats dont come lookinf for trouble they would rather stay...

For those of you who are getting tired of the Lamestream media quoting polls showing that the majority of people favor Killing Terri, feel free to add your own examples of polls that were way off favoring the 'politically correct' viewpoint when the outcomes of elections show that they were WAY OFF!!!

If you, gentlemen, really want “to see US politics from another angle”, compare it with politics of present-day totalitarian regimes in Central Asia, for instance. And you’ll realize that there are practically no differences for our “democratic” state and e.g. authoritarian government in Turkmenistan. It’s common knowledge that Turkmen authorities abridge liberty of speech, freedom of the press, exercising control over mass and I-net. They bow down, imposing restrictions on freedom of association and assembly, in order to curtail political activity of non-governmental organizations, including groups of religious minorities. Nijazov does it with the aim of exercising control over latitude...

I am starting a grammar thread at the behest of Xenalyte and TheMom. Post your most irritating pet peeves of grammar or usage here.

I wanted to invite everyone to greet our newest signup, whyareyoudumbandhateful. Do you think his or her first post will be to make a donation on the Freepathon thread?

http://www.electioneering.net/anti-hero/allyourbase.swf

Is anyone else finding the Internet to be extremely slow at times over the last couple of days. Yesterday around 4:00 PM pacific, and then again today at about 2:45 PM pacific, nothing would load and I was told the page did not exist. This was true for every site I attempted to load. Then all of a sudden, things were working normally again. I have not had this problem in the past. Probably just a little paranoid based on the "communication" threat from AQ.

TOKYO — Japan has begun preparations to offer about $1 billion to help rebuild Iraq in 2004 in response to a U.S. request for financial contributions, government sources said Thursday. But the sum has yet to be finalized and could swell to as much as $3 billion if Tokyo finds Washington is seeking more from it, the sources said. (Kyodo News)

The ultimate html ALL YOUR IRAQ BASE BELONG TO U.S. site. Very cool.

What started as an April Fool's joke involving bad grammar landed seven people in jail Tuesday. Sturgis police arrested seven Sturgis men for placing more than 20 threatening letters on various businesses, schools, banks and at the post office. At least 12 signs were posted Monday morning. Another 20 were put up Tuesday evening, according to Sturgis police. The letters all read "All your base are belong to us and you have no chance to survive, make your time." {snip} The "All your base are belong to us" are lines said by Cats, a bad guy in a 1989 Japanese...

NASHVILLE, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Emotionally triggered physical changes in heart rate, sweating and other factors could soon prompt robots or computers to ask if a person needs assistance, scientists said Tuesday. A pair of professors at Vanderbilt University is running a project aimed at a robotic personal assistant able to respond appropriately to its owner's moods. Nilanjan Sarkar, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering, and Craig Smith, an associate professor of psychology and human development, describe their research in the current issue of the journal Robotica. "The prime motivation of our research is to determine whether a robot can...