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Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS
Abortion Ban Back at 4th Circuit

October 29, 2007 - 08:53 AM on October 29th, 2007
You forgot this one:
Thousands of Anti-War Activists March in San Francisco [and New York and Los Angeles and Philadelphia and Chicago and Seattle]
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305707,00.html
No comment on “all those traitors”?
October 29, 2007 - 09:04 AM on October 29th, 2007
I hadn’t even heard of it until you posted it. Ho hum…
October 29, 2007 - 09:05 AM on October 29th, 2007
Thats one of the beauties of living in America Matthias. You even have the freedom to be a coward and not to support the defense of freedom and liberty in the world.
October 29, 2007 - 09:36 AM on October 29th, 2007
1, Mattias, they are a small number. Did you see the human debris that turned out? Who in their right mind would pay any attention to them? We already know you are not in your right mind.
October 29, 2007 - 10:40 AM on October 29th, 2007
Pam,
have you posted anyting about the Law of the Seas Treaty?
October 29, 2007 - 12:59 PM on October 29th, 2007
Pam we say a few of them in the San Mateo area of Kalifornia (just south of San Fransicko) this weekend. They were standing there looking rather forlorn and bored and genrally ignored, holding their “Stop the War Now!” and “U.S. Out of Iraq!” signs. I wanted to walk and say to one of the end the war now koowns ‘Why don’t you tell that to the terrorists, seeing as how they started it?”
But that is far too sensible, far too logical, for them to be able to process.
They looked like the pathetic bunch of misfits and losers they are.
October 29, 2007 - 01:16 PM on October 29th, 2007
I still love the protests during the 04′ election cycle. When interviewed, many of the protestors didn’t even know what the protest was about, let alone what the sign said that they were carrying.
October 30, 2007 - 08:26 AM on October 30th, 2007
2- “I hadn’t even heard of it until you posted it.”
3- “You even have the freedom to be a coward and not to support the defense of freedom and liberty in the world.”
I even had THAT kind of freedom to be informed properly!
I owe it to your country and its liberation of mine in WWII. Unfortunately you abuse this good deed as a justification for any other military action…
By this you are disrespecting both your victims and veterans of the past AND the present.
October 30, 2007 - 08:48 AM on October 30th, 2007
8, No, Mattias, it is you that abuse the world, the military that freed you from Hitler and kept you from being a vassal state of the Soviet Union. It is you who wouldn’t lift a finger to keep Saddam or Milosevitch (SP?) from killing thousands.
Mattias, you are a stone waste of humanity.
October 30, 2007 - 08:58 AM on October 30th, 2007
9- Oh come on…
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“Abusing the world” without “lifting a finger”… I wonder how many people are capable to do that!!
October 30, 2007 - 09:20 AM on October 30th, 2007
10, stupidity like you demonstrate daily is abuse of the world.
October 30, 2007 - 09:45 PM on October 30th, 2007
Just felt an earthquake!
5.6 down in San Jose.
Robert, did you feel it?
October 30, 2007 - 11:28 PM on October 30th, 2007
Yes, I was in South San Jose and it was very strong. Frankly, I don’t mind saying scary. I have been through many; I am a Native. But I don’t believe you ever really get used to them, because there always is the uncertainty, the voice in your head that says “oh shit-is this the big one?”
This one started moderately, then gained intensity with some pretty good movement. Lasted about 15 seconds by my count.
I was working with Chemistry, and had to clean up ~1 gallon of spilled chemical. No damage though.
How about you?
October 31, 2007 - 07:59 PM on October 31st, 2007
Yeah, it was a bit scary for me and the wife too…this being only the second one we’ve felt in the years since we moved out to SF.
Never felt anything like this back in Michigan!
I was walking up to the checkout counter at the neighborhood library when the windows started to rattle loudly, etc.
Lasted longer than that 4.6 I felt a few months ago. Like you said, went on for about 15 seconds or so.
It’s a really bizzare feeling. Hard to describe – without sounding corny – it’s almost supernatural.
November 1, 2007 - 06:14 AM on November 1st, 2007
14, SFL, better find another place to live. What you felt was noting. I was in Ahaheim for the Landers and Big Bear quakes. Nothing like being awakened at 5 am with the pet screaming and the walls bobbing and weaving like they were loose leaf paper. Follow that up by another round at 8 am and a phone call from my Uncle in Phoenix asking if we felt that one because the water was splashing out of HIS pool in Phoenix.
November 1, 2007 - 09:54 PM on November 1st, 2007
Jesus, that’s fucked up PCD.
My brother lives in LA and was there in `94 for the big Northridge quake.
As freaky as these small ones are, I know they’re nothing compared to upper 6’s and 7’s and can only imagine what those must be like.
As far as moving from SF…nah…I’m stayin’ (!)
November 2, 2007 - 06:04 AM on November 2nd, 2007
SFL,
I was still in Anaheim for that one too.
What I’m saying is that you haven’t experienced a real big quake. Maybe think of that if you drive the 880 where it collapsed during the “World Series Quake” and imagine being bent over in your crushed car for days as one survivor was.