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Nobility

Two months prior to his death Rain-in-the-Face, lying in his bed recounted to Ohiyesa, the major events of his life.And what a life it was. He was a the Fettermen massacre, the Battle of the Rosebud and the Battle of the Greasey Grass( Battle of the Little Big Horn) One Delevan Bates wrote: One hundred and sixty-three dead Indians were found in front of where Tom and the General fell. Tom fell first and then his brother was pierced with a dozen bullets, the last survivor of the bloody

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Ignorance Personified

" War never settles anything", the individual in the line said to her companion.I bit my lip, the urge to correct this woman from her ignorance was so strong.First of all I am of the "old school" of gentlemanly conduct,secondly it was a private conversation and I was not a participate and lastly it would have been boorish conduct. Thus I saved it for a later rant. This is what I wanted to say," Lady we might invite the Confederate cabinet,the tribe of Ai, the city Fathers of Carthage, the

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Denied Bohemian Lifestyle

Today in a discussion with my wife I mentioned a novel ideal.I could go to New Orleans in the French Quarter at Jackson Square and label myself as the worst artist in the world,and do portraits for a nominal fee.I would have to look like an artist. or the stereotype-beret,goatee,longer hair carry a palette and speak with a French accent and the tourist just for the novelty might purchase these portraits drawn with the extent of my talent as stick figures(if there is an artist gene, it was left o

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The Aftermath of Draconian Terms

"On February 16, 1568 a sentence of the Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death as heretics. From this universal doom only a few persons, especially named, were acquitted. A proclamation of the king, dated ten days later, confirmed this decree of the Inquisition and ordered it to be carried out into instant execution without regard to age and sex. This is the most concise death warrant that had ever been framed. Three million people—men, women and children—were sent

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Tomes of Wisdom

My family forgot to give me the manuals on How Life Works.. They probably hocked them for a down payment on a new chevy or further back, perhaps the tomes went overboard on my ancestors maiden voyage to the US. Whatever the reason I failed to receive them. Not The Purpose of Life; I understand we receive that one later, but tomes with titles such as these:What To Do If You Are Up the Creek Without a Paddle, Fighting Back When You Are Tired of Being Pushed Around , Love --What It Is and How t

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Yggdrazil's uncertainly principle.

No one has ever seen a subatomic particle. They don't have a "color," or an "appearance," or a "surface." In fact subatomic particles aren't really particles at all, but more like waves of probability. They're completely outside our experience, so to speak of them at all we create metaphors. But then we find paradoxes in the metaphors and, forgetting that the map is not the territory, we proclaim that the paradox exists in nature.

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Problematic expertise

Everytime someone enters a plea of insanity for a crime you have a psychological expert for the prosecution testifying that the accused is sane. Then the defense will bring in their expert who will declare that the accused is insane. The jury will then decide the issue based on which expert's credentials were more impressive or which one they liked the most. I think it shows that the science of psychology is still in its infancy, where consensus can not be achieved for lack of stable concepts.

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Native American award for honor.

After the Fetteman Massacre along the Bozemen trail across Lodge Trail Ridge the relief column approached the massacre site to witness the Sioux and Cheyenne scalping and mutilating the bodies of the 80 men in Fetterman's force with the exception of one private. Adolph Metzer was face up to the sun,with a buffalo hide covering the body, not scalped. This was the Native American way to honor bravery.Metzer had shot off all his ammunition and was using his bugle as a club and cost the Sioux and Ch

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Absurdity

"How Many Species Exist? The question takes on increasing significance as plants and animals vanish before scientists can even identify them." Now, wait a minute...if you have never identified the species, how do you conclude they are gone? Its like saying you never knew you were married but your wife left you. It makes no sense. Nature doesn't come with a guarantee: ask the dinosaurs, Neanderthal man and the Great Auk. Nature has seen them come and go and does not care if a species finds

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The kismet of Karma

Most view Karma, the word, as "what goes around comes around". This is simplistic in the extreme; actually Karma is a restoration of balance. Those that style themselves Karma have swung the pendulum to far the other way and what exists under their war of revenge is still out of balance. Therefore, if Karma principles have any validity, a balance back the other way will take place. I say if because in-balances exist almost everywhere you look. Karma being a religious concept has correction h

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Solving one problem in Africa

"Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft." I have since forwarded all my spam mail about male enhancement to the Congolese Embassy-problem solved.

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The dream that did not die.

The dream that did not die Robert H. Goddard who many acclaim the Father of modern rocketry launched his first liquid fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. From 1930 to 1935 he launched rockets that attained speeds of up to 885 km/hour (550 miles/hour).Once on conjecture he mentioned that a moon landing was highly possible.The ridicule descended: ... "after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey it will neither be accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the ch

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Pee Pee Dance

I'm always hunting ways to supplement my income and ways to become rich without much work. This quest has just barely kept me from the hangman's noose. However I think I have stumbled on a risk- free method to achieve riches beyond belief. In my vast excursions on the web, I noticed that the "pee pee dance" was not owned by anyone. So, after brief skill training in choreographic notation and notating it and taking out the copyright, I am sole proprietor of the dance. Thus, I am using this

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What's worth fighting for

"A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" Frodo and his companions were fighting for the Shire or home, a continuation of all that was dear to them.Throughout History there were victors fighting this

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Lessons from the dustbin of History.

The life of a nation is measured by the willingness of the citizens to defend it against all enemies foreign or domestic. The trash heap of History is filled with nations that forgot this important fact, including that we in the west consider the pinnacle of ancient nations-Rome. When those who received the benefits of that nation state refused to defend it and relied on its defense from hired mercenaries, Rome fell.And a darkness fell across the formal Empire known to us now as the " Dark Age

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The "soul" of the media

I will not mention the reporter's name, he is dead now and still has family alive. After the fall of Saigon, war correspondents left to cover the War which was still taking place in Cambodia. I watched the nightly news as this reporter covered a wounded Cambodian soldier from where he was wounded (leg blown off above the knee) back to an aid station. The Cambodian Army had no helicopters to whisk the wounded away to medical attention; his journey would begin with two other soldiers aiding him b

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Yggdrazil

Science spoiler

According to the second law of thermodynamics the universe will consistently lose free energy through increasing entropy until eventually the universe expires from heat-death! Now, I've ruined the ending for everyone.

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You dwell with a Hero (Father's Day)

Look at the man asleep on the couch or across from you as the family gathers to celebrate a day set aside for him.On this day, you possibly think of his contribution to your nurturing,his small sacrifices and your love for him.Yet, there is one neglected thought-his heroism. Wired into all men at his core is the call of the "wild geese", the "Song of the Lorelei" which resonates with the essence of the man.Some men have children and never ignore the geese or Lorelei and wreck their lives alon

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Transcendental Hooey

Enlightenment dwells not in some calm happy place, while one is in some transcendental fog, attempting to expunged the very essence of being-the ego. And if successful, allowing the "snake oil salesman" to replace it with some philosophical voodoo. What enlightenment actually does, is hauls off and sucker-punches you, eviscerates you and pulls the marrow from you soul. Then constructs a cold hard truth from the carnage and if looked upon and accepted, you get enlightenment.

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Proper Karma

All over these threads anti-NPOers have stated that NPO deserves what that got for what they have done in the past when they were in the 'drivers seat". Given that; I am willing to bet NpO, Fan, Gato, etc. get none of the reparations if an agreement is ever reached. Therefore to actually be Karma they need to restore those wronged the most by the NPO. To continue to bring it up as justifications for these stiff terms with no reciprocal restoration to those wronged- is wrong. Restore Gato,Fan an

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Nuclear Winter

Revenge has 150 nukes taken and counting,yet people wonder why the NPO did the things it did.I can think of no one who can approach this number.The new top alliance will probably learn this the hard way; that being number one makes you the target of all the asshatery this game can muster.Their forums will be attacked and spyed on and with the philosophy of no PZI it will bite them on the South end.I will be a Prophet and perdict its return or e-lawyering that ZI someone more than once isn't PZI

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Intangibles

A statistical comparison is not the alliance. "The morale to the physical is three to one." The Goons were the first to cross the two thousand nuke marker, where is that statistical powerhouse now? The intangibles that aren't measurable are an alliance major strengths. How many "bean counters" make up the membership. How many will still stand and fight when all they worked so hard for turns to nuclear ash. An alliance true strength lies in the commitment of the membership. Just look at Fan,

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That sucking sound

That sound rumbling that is almost audible, is the vacuum created with the demise of the continuum. Some alliance will take over the mantle recently occupied by the NPO. The number one spot comes with some hard lessons; by just being number one your enemies with be self-appointed, you will become the target of spies by those who consider it better tactics to spy and wars will be waged against you with unconventional means. Will the new power be able to fight this with the means the anti-hegemony

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Into the maw of the beast

Planet Bob and the war ongoing will change the paradigm that has existed to date. Will whatever fills the vacuum left really be any different from what has gone before. I'm sure they will begin with a new less oppressive regime. Yet, being the new power, forces not seen will begin to coalesce and marshal in opposition. It will begin with individual nations opposed and if you only response is ZI, then escalation by these nations will lead to what essentially is the re-birth of EZI or PZI.

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