Science Abuse

Dude, it's the most versatile vehicle you can own (if it's actually for sale). You have a trade off, yes. If you use land and watercraft for more than simply fuckin around like a teenager, this would be very appealing. Compare it to the rest of the worlds amphibious craft, name one that was an awesome anything....?....?....? Nothing. Amphibious is it's own class, and this thing dominates it in terms of real world usability.

She better ride some rich guys short bus, 'else she wont amount to anything.

I did get jabbed by me' oar handle when I wrecked the boat. Oh did I mention that? I decided to take a trip out one day, and got caught out in a mild gale. 6 foot swells on the lake, 4 feet rolling over the sandbar that separated me from shore. I've done allot of fun things, but nothing like surfing a 16 foot boat. You row hard to match speed with the surf, a wave picks you up and carries you off with real speed and acceleration. It was a hell of a rush, up until (and including) getting broached. What is broaching?

Never swamp it, though. It holds a ton of water...literally.

Isn't the GS 455 convertible one of the rarest Buicks ever?

Forest Canyon is as posted. It should also be noted that it is one of the most remote places in the lower US. Don't take a woman there unless she's your wife. It is for experienced hikers/climbers only, because it has no trails. Not "I led a scout troop" experienced, more like "Hey Bill, remember that time we had to kill that bear and eat it, then wrap up in its skin to stay warm?" experienced. But srsly, you need to be able to navigate without the sun, know wilderness first aid throughly, and have absolutely no comfort zone. The going is steep, the forest is thick and old, and you're always closer to death than help. You will never be comfortable, so you must be of the type that does it for more than just fun. Having done the warning, suggestions, in order of the "tour": -Yellowstone, on the way out. -Glacier National Park. North of Yellowstone and on the way'ish to Olympic. See it while its still there! - Cascades. Between Glacier and Olympic. Volcano and glacier country. -Olympic National Park. If you're sweeping the west coast, start here, seriously. - Mt St Helens. Down the coast a bit, turn left. -Crater lake. Down the coast a bit more, turn left. -Yosemite. Down the coast alot more, turn left. -Death valley. Heading back east. Fill up with gas, make sure your car is in good order, and drive through. Bring 2gal water each...yes, just for the drive. WINDOWS DOWN PUSSY! -Grand Canyon, no intro needed. -Zion Natl park. A must see. -Arches Natl park. See above. -Dinosaur National Monument. Great hiking and mountains...and Dinosaurs. -Rocky Mountain Natl Park. My home away from home. Let me know what you're looking for in a hike and I can refer you to a specific trail. I'm not joking about the "home away from home." Here's me with most of it behind me...and all of it below me. http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/90449.jpg

I agree,t hough the 100m dash is not the test of the fastest accelerating man. That would be the Standing Long jump......no longer an olympic sport, though.

Took it out in a mild gale las week to se how she did in waves. http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4256/boatlc8.jpg I got wet, but the smooth side stayed down.

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I'm not just fast, I'm Gay-fast! He should run relays, then we'd get to see Gay reach around to grab another guys rod.

So, next time you yell "That's hella Gay" at an invitational, it'll be a compliment?

True, they've never had the oportunity to fight eachother, they've always had an outside enemy to focus on. Re; Fighting Terrorism. As with any radical movement, it is one of resistence. They exist to fight something, and they will continure to exsist, fight, kill and die in the name of resisting whatever. Hatred is their strenght and their weakness. Want to see a terrorist organization dry up and die? Take away whatever it is that they hate. You have understand what it is that attracts youth to these causes. The words of the Bin Ladens of the world are given strength by our military actions. OBL: "Hey muslim youth, the Americans want to kill you and your families!" Bush: "Shock and awe is comin'! I call our troops 'crusaders', we're invading a muslim country that didn't attack us!" It's not hard to spin that to whip up the impulsive masses. I've said it before and I'll say it again; Bush has done more to promote terrorism and increase recruitment than Osama Bin Laden ever could have hoped to. Get him out of office and pull our troops out of the middle east, and there goes half of the shit that they put on their recruitment fliers. "They'll find somethign else", but nothing as persuasive.

That is a fresh new perspective that I hadn't considered....I like it! The only problem with it is that the lines that divide the Iraqi people are religious, and whatever comes of it will be another Theocracy.

trap them, make a market for their pelts. "Like petting your cat? You'll love this cat-skin jacket!" Have they gone ferrel?

We don't have to, homes. We can negotiate with the people of the problem countries. The touble is, working with non-terrorist organizations is "whut them ter'ists wunt", and is therefore unamerican. Killing terrorists, I don;t have a problem with. Avoiding the only possible positive outcome of this conflict because it happens to be what the assholes want is just fucking stupid. But what do the politicians care, it's not their lives that are being wasted.

You're a sick son of a bitch JP, nice work.

Oh it's here somewhere. I've got enough that it's tough to keep track of. I'm about to ebay all my old stuff, I haven't used "I got the answer right, who cares about showing my work!?" in a while, you want it?

"We seized the oil feilds, and prices didn't go down! This must mean that it's not a war for oil." Fools The they are getting oil at a reduced cost now, they're just not passing it on to the consumer. See "Highest profit margins inthe history of the world". Ceasar didn't make this much money through all of his conquests.

Either you violated a fairly significant law, or some one fed you a line of shit. It thought about this for a good half hour, thinking of why they would choose to cover up the only thing that stood to vindicate them and their war. Nothing made sense, except: Imagine the phone call; "Mr president! We have good news and bad news. The good news is, we've found chemical weapons! The bad news is, allot of it still says 'Made in the USA' on it."

Not entirely correct. Stability came in two flavors: -Strong arm Monarchies -Iron fisted dictatorships. Life is too hard in the desert, people are too pissed off to get along without being forced to. As tribal nomads, if a sect pissed you off you could just leave. Giving them our society destabilized the region, it just doesn't work. The same can be said about jungle regions.

Worked out great for China. No, I don't remember Iraqi's coming over here and killing us. For gods sake, the ones that did come here moved to Detroit, because it was "nice". Everything you posted is everything that you were fed to get your support for the war, you're one of a dwindling few that still holds onto it. Afghanistan is where we needed to bring the fight, and we did...poorly. The president announced for a week or two that we were coming for OBL, knowing full well that it would give him plenty of time to run, prolonging the conflict and making it worth more. BTW, what was the first thing that was done int he liberated country? A pipeline was built, one that the Taliban was resisting (asking more money for). Who's the man with the funny hat that ran the counrty after the invasion? Read up, he's got an interesting (and I'm sure purely coincedental) resume. After we cleared the country, we forgot about it, now the Taliban is a problem again, an insurgent problem. They took their eye off the ball. They are not fighting terrorism, they are merely killing terrorists. Guess what, there's 1 or two born for every one you kill. Military action will not stop terrorism, period, there is no debate. Re money and debt, it 360 billion and counting. You laugh at the debt because you plan on passing it on. It wont effect you, to hell with your kids and grandkids 2nd Depession. How do we know Iraq wanted chemical weapons? Easy, we kept the receipts! True fuking story, all the Iranians that got gasses would have gotten it if we hadn't helped Sadam get it. Why does Iran hate freedom? They don't, pick up a book and find out why they're pissed.

Wrong forum: [move to]http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=36[/move to] "Bail out?" We should have never been there in the first place, many people have been saying it since the beginning. Think of it this way; Some one convinces you to grab onto a red hot oven burner, then they tell you "only cowards let go!". It's something that will only get worse. A democracy will not work int hat country now. We had a shot at keeping things right, but no one had a plan for post-invasion Iraq. Truth of the matter is, there's way too much money being made off of the war for it to end or be properly faught. Of all the billions of dollars spent on it, only around half has gone to military efforts, if that. The rest is going to the privat companies that make war happen. Compare 2000 haliburton stock to 2007. They're not the only ones. It's no coincedence that everyone who made the descision to go to war had, at one time or another, been involved with a PMC or energy contractor. There has been close to $380,000,000,000 spent on iraq. Very little goes to troop pay, the rest goes to war consumables, which are produced by private companies. By sending us to war, President bush created a (averaged) 76 BILLION dollar a year industry. "OMG that's awsome for our economy!" No, its awsome for their economy. It's also costing the lives of our troops. That's measured not only in lives lost, but years lost. A good freind of mine has missed out on most of his wifes pregnancy, and the first year of his boys life. What's that worth to you? We are certainly no safer, this fact cannot be argued. There are, in fact, more terrorists in the world now then ever before in history. Teh fact that they're in one place for now does not make anything safer.

I've seen Can Am cars at M-O over the years. Not the Porsche big-dogs, but Can Am'ers none the less.

Nevermind the farts! Moose must be banned because DAcia Logans failed the Moose Test! The world is a dangerous place for small cars because of moose! http://www.vroom.be/images/news/11/jpg/2005726475846335_01.jpg In all honesty, there are many things in the world more dangerous than a big bear, a bull moose is one of them. Religion discussion; Go start another thread. I will say that nothing in this world is 100% right or 100% wrong, especially not a book penned by men.

Dude, you can't claim to know gods will and follow it with "IMHO". There's no less humble of an opinion. lol