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Poor Tyrone, he must have run pretty fast to fall that hard! :P Speaking of Tyrone:

Every single one with Mr Eastwood!

Ahoy! Include me.

The guy flying the 3 kites is in his 80s, and he's from Canada. He comes to the Washington State International Kite Festival every year. He is deaf, so when he flies people hold their hands up and wave them for applause. He flies 2 with his hands and the 3rd one is attached to his waist. Watch to the end to see the amazing landing of that last kite! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=nr9KrqN_lIg

I play drums myself and I want that set badly!!!

Congrats!

Be proud of your country, and don't push for political changes to fast or in the direction of some western democracies, 'cause they are not democracies, rather plutocracies. Your communist party, no matter how rigid or non plural it may be, has the progress and welfare of people as its priority.

You are probably referring to 1953 CIA & MI6 overthrow of Mosadeggh. If someone is really interested in what these two agencies are doing today to terrorize and destabilize Iran have them check their newest handywork: Jundallah, some even sarcastically call them British Petrolium liberation front.

Poor Mr. Zubak :P

I know that stuff was transferred to USA later on, but I didn't know we actually had the missiles?!

I saw what authorities and police did with batons to the people during occupy wallstreet. Something that Basiji could learn from.

Don't patronize him, he lives in a parliamentary republic.

It is not ok to make fun or insult other nations, their morale values, and religion. But I saw nothing of that in this thread. We can discuss that NASA landing on moon was staged in a studio, it's not an insult. BTW, very large segment of military might is persuasion and propaganda. My country faked that it possesses S-300 missile system during the war, and many analyst bought it. Iran is now in prewar state, most countries it borders were recently invaded or proxy wared or drone bombed so you can understand why this muscle up of Irans capabilities occurs, even if in photoshop.

That country is more industrialized than most people think, nothing like China though. They produce cars and microchips, have full self-sufficiency in food production. The famines, cannibalism and millions of dead from starvation are media fabrications. Most of European, or L. American countries cannot produce toilet paper, not to speak of food self-sufficiency, all because of WTO and GATT grip on those countries. If N. Korea were not under severe economic and commercial sanctions for many years now, they would be even better of. They do spend about 25% od GDP on defence, which is appalling, that is about 35-40& of annual state budget. So this move to go nuclear could be in direction of drastically lowering that budget. When you have an atomic weapon you don't need an army of 1 billion men. N.Koreans are looking into Chinese economic model with interest, hell, even roads in N. Korean cities are starting to see cars, folks are buying cell phones, and are dining in fast food joints. foreign ind. corporations are opening production lines in the country etc. Yet the indoctrination of the population by the commie power structure is ugly and arhaic, but meddling into other countries affairs is something that UN charter forbids explicitly. Rather try a different approach, trade, develop stuff in various areas, and have a friendly approach. Sunshine policie that S.Korea tried for a while actually worked well, that was the most peaceful and constructive period for these two.

The issue is that they (North Koreans) are scared out of their wits. I saw one interesting interview with N. Korean official where big concern of N.Korea is that they don't want to fare like Iraq, Serbia, or Libya. They do have a big deterrent in form of China, but they also want to have one in their hands. They turned to their nuclear program in 90's and especially in early 2000's when they were put on top of the "axis of evil" list by the hawks. Why wouldn't you wanna arm yourself when you have neocon fascist madman running around. I don't condone N.K. politics at all, the country is ruled by hereditary communist dynasty, but one should put himself in their shoes, they are in constant fear of invasion, just like Cuba, no wonder there is no democracy in those places. They are treated by west in regard with economics exactly the way China was in 50's, 60's, and 70's., isolation, no trade etc., just China had larger communist bloc around themselves. And besides, who ever thinks that they would be the first to launch an atomic weapon in anger has an IQ of a turnip or watches to much of FOX news.

Why I fired my secretary . . Last week was my birthday and I didn't feel very well waking up that morning. I went downstairs for breakfast hoping my wife would be pleasant and say, "Happy Birthday!", and possibly have a present for me. As it turned out, she barely said good morning, let alone "Happy Birthday." I thought... Well, that's marriage for you, but the kids will remember. My kids came in to breakfast and didn't say a word. So when I left for the office, I felt pretty low and somewhat despondent. As I walked into my office, my secretary Jane said, "Good Morning Boss, Happy Birthday!" It felt a little better that at least someone had remembered. I worked until one o'clock and then Jane knocked on my door and said, "You know, it's such a beautiful day outside, and it's your birthday, let's go out to lunch, just you and me." I said, "Thanks Jane, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go!" We went to lunch. But we didn't go where we normally would go. We dined instead at a little place with a private table. We had two martinis each and I enjoyed the meal tremendously. On the way back to the office, Jane said, "You know, it's such a beautiful day...We don't need to go back to the office, do we?" I responded, "I guess not. What do you have in mind?" She said, "Let's go to my apartment." After arriving at her apartment, Jane turned to me and said,"Boss, if you don't mind, I'm going to step into the bedroom for a moment. I'll be right back." "Ok." I nervously replied. She went into the bedroom and after a couple of minutes, she came out carrying a huge birthday cake ... Followed by my wife, kids, and dozens of my friends and co-workers, all singing "Happy Birthday". And I just sat there...On the couch...Naked.

Hot Shots. Both parts.

Translation: Who ate all the Nutella?

There are new top secret aim-7 on the edges of the wings as well. Looks like military budget cuts are really starting to take the toll on the new development.

My humble list: WW2: Where Eagles dare Objective, Burma! Saving private Ryan Das Boot Uprising Other: The Beast Brave Heart (if considered a war movie)

To be hones I once drove with parking brake on. I had this really old car, and i thought; man this can is slower every day!

MALE VS. FEMALE AT THE ATM MACHINE A new sign in the Bank Lobby reads: "Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through ATM machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts. After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE Procedures have been developed. Please follow the Appropriate steps for your gender." ******************************* MALE PROCEDURE: 1. Drive up to the cash machine. 2. Put down your car window. 3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN. 4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw. 5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt. 6. Put window up. 7. Drive off. ******************************* FEMALE PROCEDURE: Unfortunately, most of this part is the Truth.!!!! 1. Drive up to cash machine. 2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine. 3. Set parking brake, put the window down. 4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card. 5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up. 6. Attempt to insert card into machine. 7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car. 8. Insert card. 9. Re-insert card the right way. 10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page. 11. Enter PIN. 12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN. 13. Enter amount of cash required. 14. Check makeup in rear view mirror. 15. Retrieve cash and receipt. 16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside. 17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook. 18. Re-check makeup. 19. Drive forward 2 feet. 20. Reverse back to cash machine. 21. Retrieve card. 22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided! 23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you. 24. Restart stalled engine and pull off. 25. Redial person on cell phone. 26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles. 27. Release Parking Brake.

WILL THE US DOLLAR FALL? TO MY FINANCIALLY FOCUSED FRIENDS: The Question of the Day is... Will the Dollar fall or not? Decide for yourself after viewing the data. I SAY NO WAY!

"Hot money" and "treasury" gets a totally new meaning. I also guess Bernanke and Timmy could learn more from charming lady about floating currency and "junk" paper than from their Wall street buddies. And yea, nice A$$!

Neoliberal capitalism or neofeudalism are synonyms. The only difference between feudalism then and neofeudalism now is in their source of exploitation. Then it was mainly land and peasant, today it's pretty much everything that can get monopolised, apart from maybe intellectual work and similar stuff. I believe all humans are born equal, so the fact that kings cast are born more equal than others in 21century is beyond me. I'm not fond of violent revolutions, , 'cause whenever the sea gets wavy, filth tends to come up. But if they cannot be avoided... ...Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. J.F Kennedy P.S., Marx and Engels were definitely on to something, on the cause of the problem at least, but their solutions were perhaps too radical.