“Soldiers of the Western Front! Your great hour has arrived. Large attacking armies have started against the Anglo-Americans. I do not have to tell you more than that. You feel it yourself. WE GAMBLE EVERYTHING! You carry …the holy obligation to give everything to achieve things beyond human possibilities for our fatherland and our Fuhrer!” –-Von Rundstedt

stated so well by him at the onset of the great gamble in the west dec. 16th 1944. Very inspiring.

Also:

“Now is the winter of our discontent
    made glorious summer by this son of York…” spoken from Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard III the entire opening soliloquy of act one scene one. Its the greatest thing i ever heard coming from any actor.Its so intense and perfectly done for such a hard bunch of lines setting the tone of where Richard III’s ambitions are. I love that entire movie.

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”

“I made him an offer that he couldn’t refuse”

“I don’t think wer’e in Kansas anymore Toto”

See if you got one!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12598671/

Someone over at google has a sense of humor :)

Nevermind, read the article. Nice trick.

Ahh.  That’s pretty cool.  8-)

The ending was not the way I would have ended it, but it was still pulled off well.

By the way, Henderson is NOT dead. Jack staged his death.

Next season will be interesting. I somehow feel that Sec. Defense Heller will pay a big role.

Well, since the Cuyahoga River the source of Cleveland, OH’s water supply CAUGHT FIRE in the 1970’s, things have improved in terms of tap water :-)

Not my #s…
just my emphasis!
:-P

:-)

No.  Basically, the city USED to pay for the service.  Now the citizens pay for the service.  However, the taxes we paid that were dedicated for that service were never returned to us - and we still pay them to this date.  Thus, our tax on garbage collection basically doubled so that both the waste management service AND the village make the profit leaving the citizens in the lurch.

That’s what I was trying to describe.

Oh yea, but hey, Mayor Daley got a new house and his daughter has this cute little barbie doll car, life size too!  Guess our tax dollars are still good for something, right??  (Best part is, I don’t even get to vote for Daley since he’s city proper, but I’m a burb….gotta love taxation without representation!)

Yep… actually no trial… just make them “disappear” if you know what i mean.

u said it jefe.  This damn culture of liberalism.  united we stand, divided by liberals.

Hhhmmmm…. Hurricanes beat the Devils 4 games to 1…

Adding insult to injury was the final “empty net” goal in Game 5…

Who is the next ship to be tossed about and sunk by the 'Canes?  LOL

I just finished watching the final episode of The West Wing on my Tivo.

I have to say, that the show enjoyed one hell of a run. Although it waned off after Aaron Sorkin left a few years ago, The West Wing was the best show on TV for a long time.

The West Wing showed politics and politicians in a different light than other television shows. Politicians, although they had their bad apples, were patriots in the highest manner. They and their staff served the United States of America not for power or money, but simply to serve the United States of America.

Instead of lowering the show to the intellectual level of the lowest common denominator, Aaron Sorkin and company did their best to raise it. Instead of maintaining their audience through action, shock, and impropriety, Sorkin used dialogue, intrigue, and class. He showed that being learned, articulate, and astute are not qualities of arrogance but qualities that we all should strive for.

I would like to take this moment to applaud the creators of this wonderful show, and beg for a spin off.

Hi Everybody

I have 100 invites to google mail (@gmail.com) and was wondering if any of you needs more space or just wants to shift email account. Its the greatest webmail Ive tried, here are some of its features.
It has 2,7 gb space (and still increasing in size).
It allows up to 10 mb attachments
It has incorporated googles search engine, which is a great help when looking for mails that goes a year back
and one of the greatest things is that it has mail forwarding and POP, so you can have all your mails sent directly to thunderbird or whatever you use.

This is not to be taken as a commercial, I write this because you can’t sign up for a gmail without being invited and because I know how much space you end up using sending all those battlemap files and all those diceymails.
Generally because I just want to be a nice guy  :-P

So its quite simple, write your email in this post and I’ll send you an invite to sign up for gmail.
If you don’t want to post your mail addy here, you can send me PM or throw me an email.
Ive got 100 invites waiting so I don’t think I’ll run dry.

Regards,
Daniel

@ncscswitch:

@Jennifer:

Why were you stuck in the Army’s camp for misguided little boys so long, NCSC?

Well, originally I was there for Infantry Training for the PA National Guard (11C, my local guard unit was Combat Support, to had to learn to fire 4-deuces).  But, my knees that had been patched  back together after I tore them up at USAFA failed again…

But, rather than let a perfectly good former Academy puke go to waste, and since they were shorthanded in my Bat, they turned me into a Unit Supply NCO and Unit Armorer.  Went from Trainee to Trainer overnight.  Went from Barracks to BEQ.  And spent a year wearing a “Follow Me” patch instead of my “Bloddy Bucket” until my med board finally was processed.

Yep… it SUCKED!  But I loved it :-D

Ugh, yea the med-board process SUCKS for trainees!  They tried to make me go that route, I told em unless they could guarentee me a 30% or more disability they could shove it up their rosey red buttocks!  Then they tried to Chapter 5-1-2 me (medboard without a voluntary subject) and I called my congresswoman (who, since I’m in IL is a democrat) and she stopped that cold.

Now I’m assigned to the IL Nat’l Guard as in their IT dept.  But hey, at least I don’t have to move!

As for my AC being “broken” in Georgia, it was not Rune.  There just wasn’t an AC there!  Silly army…like we all want to camp or something…sheesh!

Little nation in East Africa, adjacent to Somalia and Ethiopia.

A “late bloomer” in terms of independent African nations, most of which became nations in the 60’s, Djibouti was in the late 70’s I think.

Wow. Thanks for the link, looks awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I want to try this myself.  :-)

I said TRY.  :wink:

and if we manage HALF that? 2 billion barrels! big initial investment for sure but i see it as a no brainer

Wrath of Khan is not bad, but i prefer First Contact.The borg are scary and Borg Queen is the ultimate enemy!