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Not my cup of tea, but as my Daddy used to tell me when I got all whiney about something, 'Quit that crying, boy, or I'll give you something to cry about.' Sounds like the folks in Maine need a few real problems to concern themselves with.
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Secret Master, my 73 yr old aunt from Fernley went to last years' Burning Man for a day just to see what was going on...needless to say, she got an eyeful, LOL!
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If they're talking about the movie, then for sure it should be banned. It didn't have anything to do with the book.
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my 73 yr old aunt from Fernley went to last years' Burning Man for a day just to see what was going on
Believe it or not, even the Army attends Burning Man to scope out new and innovative technologies that are unveiled there. Our 2003 camp had an octagonal surround-sound music PA powered by a 100,000 Watt diesel generator. Serving as camp chef I made sure we enjoyed fresh blueberry pancakes, spaghetti dinners and all sorts of goodies. Best of all, our location was across the "street" from the "Green Gorilla Lounge". Essentially, it was an open bar that operated some 20 of 24 hours per day. Free drinks for all, liquor contributions and salty snacks were welcomed. You will never understand what Burning Man is like unless you go there yourself. There is nothing else akin to it on this entire earth.
The "Temple of Honor", viewed from "The Avenue of Lights", whose 4'x8' plywood faces were entirely covered by Escheresque geometric printouts to make an incredibly ornate and inspiring structure. Burned to the ground on the last day, of course.
"The Hand of God" with five different propane jets that were triggered by ignitors whose delay allowed huge 100 foot tall geysers of flame to erupt in different shaped plumes. You could feel the heat flash standing some 100 yards away from it.
Like I said, "If you never go, you'll never know."
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ION, RIAN > LOOKING UP AT THE STARS - World in a few days about to enter/experience DRACONID Meteor Shower. GUAM last nite + this AM > FIREBALLS, STREAKS, EXPLOSIONS and FLASHES, etc. > I'd say we're in the Dragon's mouth already. NO NEED TO WAIT "A FEW DAYS".
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SPACE.com > Fireball seen over skies in Minnesota, Iowa. ALso from SPACE.com > Potentially Earth-threatening space rock rediscovered. Burned out comet now asteroid from 1960 - lain forgotten until now. FIREBALLS > also seen over Norway, Finland, and Lower Americas.
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I'm no economist, but somehow I think that paying a minimum of $125,000 to watch Star Trek and drink coffee is a waste of about $124,950 and four potentially productive years.
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I'm also really irked about Big Academia, which cheerfully accepts ginormous tuition checks and tractor trailers full of federal grant money, then pats the matriculee on the head and sez "go watch TV and drink some coffee. Remember to vote Democrat!"
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Maybe I could be a university professor, too. My students will all sit around and watch the latest Britney video while I run off to the bank to deposit my latest ginormous research grant and get back before they're done watching it for the fourth time.
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In the late 60's early 70's, the University of Oregon had a mushroom identifying class, and I remember in high school, my English teacher using Simon and Garfunkle, that we listened to and studied the lyrics.
This crap has been going on for much too long. I remember something written about how Americans number high in being Art majors, while immigrants number high in most of the engineering programs. A very sad trend.
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A suicide bomber in military fatigues killed five young people at a church meeting last week in Sudans Upper Nile State, according to eyewitnesses. The man detonated a grenade on his belt after approaching a group of 34 young people holding an outdoor church meeting in Khorfulus ... last Thursday evening (September 27). ....
The Rev. Joseph Maker Gordon, acting secretary general of the Presbyterian Church in Sudan, told Compass [Direct] he was on a week-long visit to Khorfulus at the time of the bombing. We were praying in another church [nearby] when we heard the explosion at 10 p.m., Rev. Gordon said. The pastor immediately went to the scene of the attack to find that four young people and the bomber had been killed.
Eyewitnesses told Rev. Gordon that the man had approached a group of Christian youth who were singing worship songs outside of a Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) church building. The property, in use by other church groups, had no fence around it, allowing the man to walk directly up to the group of children and teenagers, Rev. Gordon said.
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A Muslim rampage last week in this town [Tudun Wada Dankadai] in the northern state of Kano resulted in the killing of 10 Christians and the destruction of nine churches, according to eyewitnesses. Another 61 people were injured and more than 500 displaced in the September 28 disturbance, touched off when Muslim students of Government College-Tudun Wada Dankadai, a public high school, claimed that a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islams prophet, Muhammad, on the wall of the schools mosque. Christian students said no one saw the alleged cartoon and that no one in the tiny minority group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Of the student population of 1,500 at the high school, only 14 are Christians. Seven of them live on campus.
Iliya Adamu, an 18-year-old student at the school, told Compass [Direct] that he had been preparing to go to class when a group of Muslim students stormed into his dorm and began to beat him. I was surprised that they were beating me without telling what I did, Adamu said. I asked to know what was happening, and they claimed that one Christian student had gone to their mosque to draw a cartoon of Muhammad. In spite of my denying the act, they kept beating me.
Adamu said he saw them beating a Christian classmate, Sule Laazaru. Sensing that he would be killed, he ran to the principals office to take refuge. Soon the remaining Christian students escaped and joined him in the principals office. Sensing danger, Muslim teachers locked the Christian students in the principals office. They were kept there for about 30 minutes before the school principal, Alhaji Garba Wajume, arrived at the chaotic scene.
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for x in $UN_MemberNations; do print "$x Moslems Debate with $x Christians About Religion"; done
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The Muslim north of Nigeria is a sea of social idiocy. All of the oil fields are in areas where Christians are the majority. And there are many "South-South" secessionists who would like nothing better than to cut off the northern blood sucker entities.
A new judge has prolonged the case of two Turkish converts to Christianity after his predecessor resigned under pressure from the plaintiffs ultranationalist lawyer. .... Defendants Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal had hoped for a quick dismissal of charges of insulting Turkishness at their last hearing on September 12 .... Judge Neset Eren prolonged the case when he told the Silivri court, 45 miles west of Istanbul, that he was stepping down. .... In addition to insulting Turkish identity, Tastan and Topal are charged with reviling Islam and secretly compiling files on private citizens for a local Bible correspondence course.
At a hearing in July, State Prosecutor Ahmet Demirhuyuk called for the Christians release, saying there was no credible evidence against them. He said that the plaintiffs had give contradictory testimonies and failed to offer evidence that the Christians had cursed Turkey and Islam. .... the case could be prolonged if the judge decides to call on further witnesses from Silvris gendarmerie. The military police had ordered the initial investigation of Tastan and Topal. ....
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Turkish Protestants have reported increasing attacks and threats in recent months despite claims by President Abdullah Gul this week that Christians in Turkey are not targeted. Believers told Compass [Direct] that threats have increased since two Turkish Christian converts and a German Christian were tortured and killed at Zirve Publishing House in Malatya on April 18. Neighbors have threatened Christian radio station workers in Ankara in recent weeks, and a visitor to Antalyas Bible Church this summer attacked an elderly member with a chair.
Antalya Bible Church pastor Ramazan Arkan said that he is pursuing four court cases against Rasim Eryildiz, a construction worker who began threatening church members in May. He came approximately 15 times to harass us, Arkan said. Every time hed come, we would complain to the police. They would arrest him and then let him go.
After one such incident on June 22, Eryildiz returned drunk the next morning and began shouting vulgarities at a Christian who was trying to enter the church. I will kill you and turn this into a Malatya incident, Eryildiz said. I will f--- this churchs priest and kill him.
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The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner could be up to six months late, a well-regarded industry analyst warned Friday in a report that sent the company's shares down sharply on Wall Street.
Boeing also may be unable to meet its projected 787 production rates, Lehman Brothers analyst Joseph Campbell said in the research note to clients.
"In our view, acknowledged challenges make it more appropriate for Boeing to say while they hope to stay close to schedule, it is more likely that the program could slip by four to six months," Campbell said in the report. "Boeing might also say that the production ramp-up currently planned may not be achievable." It's hard being the aircraft supplier to the world.
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You see, there are problems that you want to have, and problems that you don't want to have. This is the good kind of problem. Why don't we ask Airbus if they'd like to trade places?
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I had a class many years ago about the enormity of US agribusiness. Holy smokes. It is a volume that boggles the mind. Our agricultural exports are close to a trillion dollars a year, which of course doesn't include the food we don't export.
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But people are starving because all our corn is going into ethanol!!!one!
I'm not a fan of ethanol, but it seems to me people are more intent on inciting despair than on examining the facts.
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Bookmark it for the whiny limp wristed liberals neo-socialist who bitch about 'world hunger'. The problem is not the availability of food. The problem is all the crooks between the farmer and the people. You can start with the UN "Food for Bribes"(tm) program.
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Yeah N.S , a failed spring or autumn every year since 2000 for our area in South East Aus. Family farm since 1888 and all that....very hard. Lots of suicides going on and it'll get worse over the next 12 months
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I hope Russia is paying attention. Even when they had a hugely successful wheat crop the vast majority of it rotted in rail cars sitting on spurs because appropriate graft was not paid at the right time.
Classer, please keep us up to date. Oz has a major fond spot in America's heart.
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Thanks all for your prayers and thoughts.
There will be a major changes for many farming families along the Murray river . Local cheese factories are looking to import butter from the USA and its getting hard to source cream. I'm dryland farming at the edge of a major irrigation area. Only have 10% water allocation for the year.
I need a sea change and think I'll head to Townsville, Qld.
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Classer, please don't be shy about mentioning any artisan Oz cheeses coming out of your area. I'll do my best to recommend them to local culinary talent. Cornwall has lately issued some incredible blues and if Oz's wine output is any indication, their cheese exports will be no less of a treat. Best wishes!
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