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CC, I want to thank you. You were the first moderator to assist me in running these forums. It doesn’t seem it, but we’ve been working together for nearly three years. You did a great deed to these forums. You are always welcome back as moderator here if you decide you miss it :)

I haven’t removed your moderator tag yet. I will when we find a new one. I want you to be able to participate in the mod forums while we discuss candidates.

All of you are wrong.

It’s an obvious terrorist plot.  That’s why we have a War on Christmas.

I think it is fantastic.  A private citizen doing what they feel is right.

Makes much more sense than charity at gun point via taxes.

very cute, i think i saw that in a movie with Helen Hunt once.

@Soon_U_Die:

CC,

Back to the original post/point.  I only got to see half the game….the first half.  LMAO.  How’s that for bad luck?  Everyone is raving about it so I am hoping to get a tape to watch of the second half.

SUD

lol
that’s funny in a bad way.  The first half did drag a little bit.  But you absolutely gotta’ see the second half and the overtimes.  Some wonderful drives.

@cystic:

Show 'em if you got 'em!

i’m guessing that the USans here will have a few good ones.  F_alk - i’m going to be a right racist bastard and just assume that Germans know nothing about BBQ ribs.

i be to differ, my grandpa is 100% german, and old solider form WWII ( dont worry, regular army, not SS) and he can BBQ like thier is no tomarrow. he even BBQ’s really weird things like lettuce . hes nuts for sure, but he can sure make a damn good BBQ breakfast/lunch/dinner.

Sorry all - stupid jargon . . .

Basically the same things that result in asthma exacerbations (i.e. that cause worse asthma symptoms) are the things found to increase so dramatically in the bird flu virus.
When people with asthma are exposed to certain “triggers” - molds, dust, pollen, cats, cigarette smoke, etc. they may experience a sudden worsening of symptoms.  This is because “inflammatory mediators” - i.e. chemicals which are supposed to protect us from disease - increase pathologically.  This causes the airways to become smaller and for mucus secretion which causes the airflow to slow considerably.  This is asthma in a nutshell.
With the bird-flu virus, many of these inflammatory mediators are increased dramatically as well.  This may result in severe respiratory symptoms as the airways narrow causing difficulty in breathing. 
This is why i considered that steroids might be useful here as - yes Mary - they are immune suppressants. 
I hope that this clears up the fog, and again my apologies.
cc

NO i didnt state that… i removed it myself … but i was laughing pretty hard while doing that.

For those of you who care . . .

WWI had a massive impact on the building of Canada’s Nationhood.  How does it go?  Good things take a long time, but great things happen in moments?  For us one of those moments was WWI. 
Three men who one the V.C. had lived on the SAME SMALL STREET in Winnipeg Manitoba (my hometown).  The following is their story:

WORLD WAR I was known as The Great War, a name that referred to its international scale, its massive mobilization of men, munitions and supplies, and its terrible toll on human life. Some say that the young country of Canada came of age in this war. Canadians won glory in the Royal Flying Corps, where Billy Bishop and Raymond Collishaw survived long enough to become aces of the air, and Roy Brown downed the Red Baron. However, it was also in the gruesome war of the trenches that Canadians demonstrated their endurance and courage.

Canadians fought and died in battles at Ypres, Mount Sorrel, Beaumont Hamel, Courcelette, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, and Amiens. Sixty-nine Canadian soldiers earned the Victoria Cross in World War I, and by some strange coincidence, three of them lived on the same street – Pine Street in Winnipeg, which was later renamed Valour Road in their honour.

CORPORAL LEO CLARKE won his V.C. in the trenches during the battle of the Somme. Clarke had found himself alone, under attack by 20 enemy soldiers. Instead of surrendering, Clarke attacked, emptying his revolver twice and then firing a German rifle he picked up from the ground. In the struggle that followed, a German officer bayonetted him in the knee before Clarke could shoot him. Wounded and bleeding, Clarke kept up the attack, and as enemy soldiers fled Clarke followed, killing four more and taking a prisoner. Though he was ordered to hospital, Clarke returned to battle the next day. Leo Clarke died in action a month later.

SERGEANT-MAJOR FREDERICK WILLIAM HALL was awarded the V.C. for giving his life to save a comrade at the battle of Ypres. With his company pinned down in the trenches by fierce enemy fire, Hall had gone out twice under cover of night to rescue injured men. On the morning of February 21, 1915, men in the trench heard the groans of an injured soldier on the battlefield. Hall and two others volunteered to go after him, but as they went over the top they drew heavy fire. The two other men were injured, and all were forced back to their trench. After a few minutes, Hall went out alone in broad daylight, with enemy guns waiting for him. He crawled out and across the field under a hail of bullets. Reaching for the fallen soldier, Hall managed to squirm himself under the wounded man and begin moving him on his back toward his lines. However, when Hall raised his head to find his way back to the trench, he caught a bullet in the head and died instantly.

At the battle of Passchendaele, LIEUTENANT ROBERT SHANKLAND led his men to a forward position which they held during a fierce counter-attack. Knowing that an accurate description of his company’s position was critical to the Allied battle plan, Shankland made his way alone through the battlefield to Battalion Headquarters, delivered the necessary information, and returned the way he had come. Rejoining his men, Shankland carried on until the end of the battle. The citation of his Victoria Cross commends his personal courage, gallantry and skill, and emphasizes the example he set for the men under his command. Of the three Victoria Cross recipients from Valour Road, only Shankland survived the war.

The individual heroism of men like Clarke, Hall and Shankland is set against the background of the misery and horror of war. Canadians have rarely glorified their involvement in conflict; it is more characteristic of us to see the action of our soldiers in the Great War as the unavoidable and accepted duty of courageous men in the face of global tragedy. More than 50,000 young Canadians died in World War I. When it was over, the survivors returned home as older, sadder men, whose common hope was that there would never be another war like it again.

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=13493 - cool site (for me) - specifically
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10192

Imperial Leader is calling other people “arrogant” . . . that’s pretty funny.
Are you saying this as an AMERICAN?  Or as another citizen of the world?  (please say American, please say American)

I am saying this as a  US’an a term i learned from a good friend. From now on thats what im calling all European- Americans. You are blinded by the light… such arrogance is a trait of those nations and people still thinking they run things but have lost their clout a long time ago. No im not talking about you!

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I know firsthand about the helmet issue. WEAR THEM! I’ve got one that is flat on one side from a bad bike accident… and I only had to get three stitches :)

Okay - again. This vacation is in JANUARY!!! Not a time that i want to spend freezing my butt off in Europe (especially when i could spend it in . . . anywhere!!).

Anyway, the ticket is purchased - i’m going to Aus.

@El:

Loved FF! Could see the potential for great storylines.

agreed. And they seemed to have a lot of fun with what they had too.

FOXDumbA$$e$ couldn’t see the best side of anything but MORE SPORTS!

and Paris :roll:

Did you memorize the lines as you watched(N), tape it or buy the DVD set.

(a)

I’m gonna get the DVD set when it has the series(three unaired eps.) and the “Serenity” movie.

me too.Mind you - i’ve seen all of the episodes a couple of times already . . . . I may see the movie again - i’ll make it a father-son night.

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following the Second World War, has died. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna at the age of 96.

Simon Wiesenthal. File photo from 1999. (CP Photo)
Wiesenthal brought 1,100 Nazi fugitives to trial. Among them was Adolf Eichmann, the man entrusted by Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

“I think he’ll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles.

“In a way, he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice.”

Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in what is now Ukraine. He had been an architect before the Second World War. A survivor of five Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal dedicated himself to being a voice for the six million Jews who died during the genocide.

He lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust.

Wiesenthal was best known for helping to track down Adolf Eichmann, leader of the SS, the Nazi party’s elite paramilitary force. He was found in Argentina and abducted by Israeli agents in 1960. Eichmann was tried for his crimes in Jerusalem and hanged in 1962.

He also located Karl Silberbauer, the Austrian policeman Wiesenthal said arrested Anne Frank. Frank was the Dutch teenager who had hid with her family in an Amsterdam house until they were found in August 1944. Frank was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she died. Officials never reacted to Wiesenthal’s tip about locating Silberbauer.
“When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it,” Wiesenthal once said.

Wiesenthal will be buried in Israel

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Did I post that?

Damn!
:)

LOL that just sounds funny

Yes I know it sounds like a Porno term.

In Classic, it almost works even better, since the “retreated” Japan fleet, plus additional units moved in to defend it in the retreat sea zone, are then within striking distance of almost anything they want to hit: Austrlia, New Zeland, Alaska, Western US, Mexico, SFE, Alaska, Midway, Hawaii.

And any new navy/consolidation by the US in the Pacific is within striking distance of that same Japan fleet.

Yes but I think you overestimate the importance of Austrailia/NZ/Hawaii and the Eastern Pacific Rim to Japan, and to that extent I think you would be under able to respond given slightly abherrant dice rolls. Further you seem set upon the idea that the US should build a fleet and even with good dice by Japan the US can take the fighter and get it in Europe and have a huge advantage.  If over the span of say 8 turns the US builds even 1 additional ftr and bmb then they can attack Germany in WEuro and Berlin with 10-12inf 4ftrs 2bmb bb.  This gives them ~6hits round 1 whereas normally they’re looking only at 3-4.  IMO this is a huge difference and borders very close to inviting a mid round attack on a Fortress Europe stronghold by the Allies unless you over garrison these terriorites which in turn will mean less Russian committment in the West which will allow it to hold off or even push back the Japanese in Asia.  Ultimately you end up with a very strong Russian Asian presence which prevents you from ever going to Africa which in turn deprives you of the IPCs needed to win.

The second possibility is even worse and this is that Japan gets bad or good dice.  Should Japan roll bad then obviously a counterattack is possible or the loss negates the effectiveness of this move.  Should Japan get “good” dice say take minimal loss while getting two hits, the US can and it should be assumed kill off its carrier ftr in order to retreat the sub so that they can trap the Jap Navy in Pearl to attack it.  The best defense against a Pearl counter is to be doing well enough in Africa so as to not give the US the ability to risk its units and thus the game in such a risky counter attack.  In other words anytime I’ve seen Pearl get counter attacked by the Americans it was always b/c of either two things.  First the Japs rolled bad or two b/c the Germans got mauled in Egypt.  Either way however the solution is to not fear the US at Pearl but to make them fear Germany in Europe.

The manchuria attack has to my knowledge been debated approximately 43,242 times (not that the indian i.c. hasn’t either). The point I was making was that if you wanted a strong I.C., you would want to attack manchuria. Stacking those troops makes them negligible if japan is going for the I.C., as japan will just skirt around them that way and they will have to retreat at some point. Using the troops directly against japan creates a very tangible result and significantly strengthens the southeast against japan.

Certainly, I do not think the fact that the manchuria attack aids an Indian I.C. can be questioned, though it does provide the very normal agressive argument to the manchuria attack in general. Lets try not to talk about that frequently followed argument and instead focus on what the manchuria attack does for the indian I.C.

If that 2nd fighter in china would aid in it being held, IF an Indian I.C. has been placed and Japan is following your idea of attacking the Indian I.C. China can certainly be taken, but can india as well? Assuming you DID attack manchuria (and won) and DID place an Indian I.C., Japan’s attack against India becomes at most 4 inf + 1ftr + 1bmb. If you decided to do that, then you’d have 2inf + 1ftr (jp) vs. 2inf + 2ftr (ru). That’s a 2% win with japan, 20% if there is 1 fighter. Of course, japan will probably realize that they cannot do both, which is the whole point. Instead they may attempt to take china. They can bring to bear 4inf + 2ftr + bmb. Most likely they will take china with 1 inf, maybe 2. With only one fighter there, it will be 2 inf, maybe 3 and they will take with 99.8% probability instead of 95%. Is that worth losing a russian fighter for? Probably not, so that aspect of the move may be questioned. I usually use it if I am going to kwangtung with britain too, which I wouldn’t do during an I.C. Of course, the truly ballsy move would be to hit manchuria with infantry and fighter only, which is only a 63% take vs 90% with the armor. But if you did win that battle, you could move the armor in noncom to china. That brings the most likely results of the china battle to japan only taking with 1 or 2 planes.That would put a large stall on japanese advancement.

All of my mumbling aside, going for manchuria and eliminating that fighter means that the india i.c. will face at most 4inf + 1ftr + 1 bmb, which reduces the chances of a take from 90% to 60% and more importantly makes the chances of it being taken with ground forces less. On top of this, even though you state that china will be taken by a good japanese player, they will not have the best chance to take it even IF they used the bomber from japan.

@F_alk:

Still, that does not explain why you chose that era to use the names from. It was not the correct time (as during the NATO and Pact times the Germanies were “independent” nations), and not the current time (as there is noWarsaw Pact anymore).
Actually, “it turned out after the war that all of it was NATO” …
What was the reason to use the intermediate era and thus historically misleading names?

I thought it was occupied until the wall fell in the 80’s/90’s?

I love college : ) I actually have more free time now than ever. Of course, I really should be studying right now. Half of the old testament is due tomorrow…

A couple hours ago, I saw an Ash for President poster as http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2079&p=3.

Disclaimer: somethingawful has a lot of things that will likely offend somebody, and this is my warning. If you find something you don’t like, I told you so.