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Though I am sure we could agree to start with lawyers, regrdless of their repugnancy (present company excluded, off course).[/b] [/QB][/QUOTE]
A liberal coating of full flavored BBQ souce, and slow roasting over open flames does much to hide the repungent flavor, much like blue fish. Though it is still an acquired taste.
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Remember the Great Leap forward in the 60's in China.Every peasant was required to produce a certain quota of steel [ if you could call that stuff steal? ] now that probably warmed things up a bit.Anyway, I bet they still have those cast Iron Pots some where. They have policy in place of aborting any pregnacy after there first born [ the peasants ] if they can be that totalitarian about something as innocent as human life,do you think they can be trusted about anything? Back to the cast iron pots....ah ha they may figure out a way to use them again,....cooking people. That will give a whole new meaning to the term,eating Chinese take out!!!I know from now on after thinking about this macabre scheme. I will be picking at my chinese take-out thinking Hmmmmmm.....should I of ordered vegetarian?
sometime's I feel like an ant under a cattle stampede.
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Hey art, technically i'm not a lawyer but have my J.D.....EAT ME!
btw nother damn storm warning and towns under emergency c'mon. I just bought all the aerosol cans I could find and the kids and I have been outside releasing all the contents.
I'd leave my SUV running but oil is to high.
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quote:Originally posted by keithsan: Hey art, technically i'm not a lawyer but have my J.D.....EAT ME!
You were the "present company excepted" in my earlier post.
Your sacrificial offer (LOL) to keep others alive in the coming worldwide economic depression is duly noted by your neighbors, some of whom are lurking on this site.
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More comforting to look only at the shadows of falseness. Posts: 4402 | From: Florida | Registered: Jun 2003
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quote:Originally posted by keithsan: Hey art, technically i'm not a lawyer but have my J.D.....EAT ME!
You were the "present company excepted" in my earlier post.
Your sacrificial offer (LOL) to keep others alive in the coming worldwide economic depression and anarchy is duly noted by your neighbors, some of whom are lurking on this site.
I share your love of chickens (God save the Chickens!), but sadly, they will be among the first to go in said depression and anarchy.
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we took my mom with us tuna fishing once, the first strike was a 4-5 pound yellowfin, so we let her reel it in...it hit on Penn 80# rig we had set for marlin, so it wasn't much of a fight, she got reeelly mad when i sliced off a chunk and started eatin' it... LOL, then later on that night , she wouldn't sop hovering as i grilled the dinner...she wanted to make sure i burned it...
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Solar activity disrupts radio communication and crashes satellites 02/03/2005 14:13 It is possible to say now that the Sun will cause a mess on Earth in the near future
Powerful bursts on the Sun have become quite frequent lately. Planet Earth was seized with a strong magnetic storm several days ago, which measured almost the maximum on the 0-9 scale. Proton currents were especially intensive in the European part of Russia. Common people's interest in the solar activity is not limited to the desire of having a good tan. The activity of the Sun may result in bad health, headaches, and blood pressure surges. It may also disrupt radio and satellite communication, or lead to technical malfunctions in the work of devices possessing strong electromagnetic fields.
Magnetic storms usually cause a lot of trouble to people. Such days are especially dangerous to those, who suffer from cardiovascular diseases. Flying control officers, drivers and operators experience a lower reaction during magnetic storms. The amplitude of magnetic fluctuations increases from southern latitudes to northern ones. In Russia, railway accidents, for example, are more frequent in northern territories. Athletes are subjected to traumas during magnetic storms. Artists probably make the only group of people, who treat magnetic storms with sympathy. Magnetic storms are visible in the north, in the form of beautiful Aurora Borealis, or northern lights.
A magnetic storm left the Canadian capital, Ottawa, without electricity for eight hours in 1989. A solar storm put the TV satellite Telstar 401 (owned by AT&T) out of order in 1997. Galaxy IV satellite was damaged with a magnetic storm the next year - the satellite was operating ATM machines and aviation tracking systems. The solar storm ruined the Japanese satellite Asko, which fell down and sank in the Pacific Ocean. Magnetic storms affect the work of cellular communication too; they cause damage to the work of the Internet, automatic systems, disturb high-frequency radio communication and so on and so forth.
About 500 magnetic storms occur during the eleven-year solar cycle. The phenomenon is very important for science, although it is quite unpleasant for the majority of people. Magnetic storms are very helpful in the study of plasma qualities, for instance. Plasma, as a state of substance, has rather large perspectives in the future - it might become the basis of the energy industry. Four spacecrafts explore the phenomenon of solar activity nowadays. Russia launched its satellite, Koronas-F, in 2001. For the time being, it is the only Russian scientific satellite in space. The technical level of the Russian satellite is comparable to the one of the Japanese spacecraft. Two other solar crafts were launched by the USA and Europe. Scientific forecasts about the solar activity, forthcoming magnetic storms and the state of the Earth's atmosphere are highly important for the control of the Russian orbital station. Those data were also used for sinking the Mir space station - it was necessary to make the spacecraft fall down in a specific area of the Pacific Ocean.
Members of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences gathered for a special session last week. The meeting was devoted to recent global natural phenomena. Vladimir Kuznetsov, the director of the Earth Magnetism Institute, presented a report about the work of Koronas-F satellite during the session. According to Kuznetsov, a space observatory received about a million of solar X-ray solar spectrums, over 300 thousand high-resolution X-ray images of the Sun, numerous time profiles, new data about the currents of solar space rays and the ultraviolet solar radiation. "Magnetic storms provide our institute with a lot of valuable information. However, I personally suffer from these storms like anyone else," the scientist said.
Another specialist of the above-mentioned institute, Vladimir Obridko, said that the solar activity would be decreasing in the beginning of the century. The activity of the Sun will drop by 20 percent. Global warming theories may face an unexpected obstacle in the form of the lazy star. The solar activity will be minimal in 2007, when the Kyoto Protocol is in effect. The humanity will witness the collision of two global processes: the greenhouse effect and the colder Sun.
Several cycles of the solar activity - 11-, 22-, 100-, 400- and 900-year cycles - will coincide in the beginning of the century. It is hard to make a precise forecast because of the lack of information about the solar radiation. Humans still do not know much about the Sun, although it is possible to say now that the Sun will cause a mess on Earth in the near future.
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