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Definitely. Very rich, satisfying taste, lovely smell, don't have to ash. The last you'll really only appreciate once you've tried it yourself. The convenience alone makes it worth the time and expense.

Just got my first pipe today. Beautiful briarwood, smooth finish, dark mahogany colour. Smoking it is pure joy, although I'm not ready to give up cigarettes just yet. God, I love Virginia! Best tobacco in the world.

Surely you've asked yourself the same question over 3,000 times Nope. I'm quite happy with my life, and I feel no need to run around on internet messageboards accusing random people of "witless xenophobia" when they make clearly sarcastic comments about an ethnic group to which I don't even belong. Yes, I did. Obviously. Grand. Would you like a cookie? Variety. Only when people like you are desperately seeking a cause to which you nail yourselves and shriek shrill accusations of persecution.

Yeah... check the second link in my sig. I'll reproduce the excerpt here in full for anyone who has sigs turned off. - Celebrity Forum, 09/12/03

You mean the Treasurers, right? Davidoffs are actually well worth the price, which is only a couple of bucks more than a pack of Marlboros. They're just hard to find in the States.

I loathe Rush Limbaugh as well, but that particular sentiment is shared by practically everyone who ever suffered the misfortune of working with Clark in a professional capacity.

Click here to see the 12 questions which will be asked. Supposedly there will be some room for unscripted back-and-forth, but obviously the candidates will have their initial answers prepared.

Oh, that's nice. Right after we've been getting along more often than not. You take online insults way too seriously. No, she has better hair. Not at all. I'm showing you that some people (like Cletus the Bloody, if you remember him) will always harbour doubts about the perpetrators of a terrorist act even if they confess. I'm also saying that in the future we may not get so lucky. A small ship could easily come in 50 miles off a major coastal city and launch a 7 by 3 foot rocket equipped with a chemical or biological warhead and kill tens if not hundreds of thousands. At that range we couldn't stop it and we couldn't detect it. Our radar simply isn't that accurate. After the fact we wouldn't be able to resolve one small craft out of the chaos that would inevitably ensue on sea as well as on land. If the enemy doesn't want us to know who he is, he can simply not tell us. And it could be very difficult to prove. No. Not against terrorists who look forward to death and rogue states which can conceal their involvement. No kind of deterrence is. I didn't really expect it to, but I wasn't hinting anything about an interim report either. As for the rest of it, it's nice that you want to "save lives," but you have no idea of how to do it. The President's policy of pre-emptive war is the only sane way to fight these people. Tell them that if they come after us and kill our people we'll come after them and kill theirs, and they'll LEAP at the chance. They'll be dancing in the streets, the same way they were after thousands of our citizens died under ton after ton after burning ton of broken concrete. We can't give them an option they find attractive. They welcome the opportunity to die; all the more so if they can die while killing an "infidel." We have to go after them first. It doesn't matter one whit how much it costs.

Yep. These people aren't pre-selected. An internet wrestling message board pre-selects any sample you take from it. The only thing that pre-selects this 50 million is the fact that they have telephones.

As JotW said, yesterday's debate was pretty boring. No one really moved anywhere. I won't be able to make an accurate assessment of Clark's strengths and weaknesses until he's been around for more than a couple of weeks.

Yeah, that about sums it up.

Fifty million Americans disagree. Next case.

I'm usually at Langley, but hi backatcha anyways. By the way, Tom, if you're not paying taxes like I am I'm going to have to sic the IRS on you... last I heard working for the government didn't give you a free pass in Virginia. Oh wait, you're in Maryland. <checks the laws>

Cretin. Haven't we been saying for some time now that the precise problem is that following a terrorist act you can't always identify the perpetrators? Haven't a few of your lot still not recognised that Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11? Haven't you realised by now that the lives of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of our citizens are too high a price to pay if you're wrong? Haven't you understood that you can't deter brainwashed Islamic fanatics with their eyes set on "martyrdom," that we have to pre-empt their evil? Haven't you learned anything, anything at all?

Nothing against you, NCM, but this was meant to be a tobacco thread. Cigars, cigarettes, pipes of all shapes and sizes are welcome, but I'd prefer to keep it legal.

Justice and necessity: a critic converted by the facts on the ground.

That is all I needed to see you say.

I wish you were.

Do the following excerpts from various posts ring a bell? Here's a hint: you typed them.

So I've noticed. Funny, your original point seemed to be that conservatives were dishonest, treacherous hypocrites for not eagerly shooting themselves in the foot. Yet again.

And Dr King's. Funny how the views of the man who did so much to destroy racism are called racist now. "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." I wish they did, sir. I wish they did.

For goodness sake. Validity has nothing to do with it. There are such things as visibility, recognition, and mass media exposure. Furthermore - oh, the hell with it. I'm too tired to teach Politics 101. Although come to think of it, this is more like elementary school.

You said black and urban schools were underfunded because of some vast racist conspiracy. Do you mean that only Californian schools are affected by your hypothetical conspiracy of racist legislators, bureaucrats, and educators? Spiffy. What happened, did they just glance over the state line and say "Oh no, we can't discriminate in that direction, that's Nevada?"

That's nice. Can you explain Washington, DC yet? You know, the nation's capital?

Aren't we supposed to do lunch again sometime soon? Don't worry kids, I'll slap him around for you. Well okay, that's a bit of a tall order... I'll spill some marinara sauce on his shoe, how's that?