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Off-Topic / Ok, so maybe I was wrong about the water.
« on: August 26, 2009, 06:58:07 am »Message ID: 83636
Camp Lejeune residents blame rare cancer cluster on the water
For three decades, dry-cleaning chemicals and industrial solvents laced the water used by local Marines and their families. Mike Partain and at least 19 others developed male breast cancer.

Complete Story from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-military-cancer26-2009aug26,0,6943451.story

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Off-Topic / Re: DO YOU HAVE AN AC UNIT IN YOUR HOUSE???
« on: August 24, 2009, 09:58:21 am »Message ID: 82967
I got three window units that run constantly. Can barely afford it.

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Off-Topic / Re: How do you feel about alternative fashion?
« on: August 24, 2009, 09:52:29 am »Message ID: 82962
Dress how u want to dress. What's it matter, right?

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Off-Topic / Re: Quick opinion question
« on: August 23, 2009, 03:37:24 pm »Message ID: 82696
With regards to professional sports, there isn't any real way to "fix" that, short of promoting a new sport that makes use of the natural physical endowments of women, compared to men.

What I mean to say is that nobody "decides" what sports are popular. Even when women play the same sport as men, such as the WNBA, it's not as popular because men are, on average, and at the pinnacle, simply faster, stronger, and tougher than women, on average. That makes the games more exciting and more fun to watch. Since women identify with women, they are more likely to want to watch the women's games, but there aren't enough women who are that interested in the sport to counterbalance the men who aren't interested in watching.

In the sports that are currently popular involve lots of hard hitting action, and men are simply better, on average, at providing that sort of entertainment.

There exist leagues for women for pretty much every sport out there, at the weekender and amateur levels, in most places. It's just that the economy of sports doesn't support professional level coverage without professional level crowd draw.

There's professional figure skating, dance, gymnastics, etc, that could be expanded beyond the current format, perhaps, but that isn't confrontational enough for most people.

Danika Patrick is doing good things for women in racing, maybe more women will get into that. And I think the Tampa Bay Lightning had a female Goalie when they first started up. There are female fighters in the MMA world, not UFC yet, but Elite XC and I think Pride feature female competitors. The wrestling Divas are doing pretty good, but that's more entertainment than competition.

I guess what I'm getting at is that there is and has been plenty of opportunity, but nobody has done well enough yet for it to really "catch", and it's hard for women to compete in sports that are designed around men's natural physical advantages. Some rare women are capable of playing at that level, but not enough.

Unless someone invests a pile of money into creating and promoting some new sporting venue that becomes popular beyond anyone's wildest imaginings, I don't see women's sports coming anywhere near as successful as NFL, MLB, etc.

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Off-Topic / Re: What's your Instant Messenger IDs
« on: August 23, 2009, 03:06:02 pm »Message ID: 82692
YIM
taojoannes@rocketmail.com
Skype
jason-eaton321

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Off-Topic / Re: what food do you eat that others find nasty?
« on: August 23, 2009, 02:52:28 pm »Message ID: 82687
Sushi, bicsuits and gravy, cream of wheat, that's really about all I've heard people freak out about.

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Off-Topic / Re: Coffee lovers
« on: August 23, 2009, 11:32:12 am »Message ID: 82621
Publix always has free coffee, so do most good auto service places.

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Off-Topic / Re: How many people do this as extra money, away from there man :)
« on: August 21, 2009, 05:54:08 pm »Message ID: 82184
good luck to you. I hope it works out well for you.

But are you gonna have to hide the money?

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Off-Topic / Re: who likes obama?
« on: August 21, 2009, 05:27:39 pm »Message ID: 82177
BUT I VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WAS 100% BLACK!!! OMG IS THIS TRUE!? FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK!!! I should have voted for that near-death old guy and his hockey-mom-christian-extremist replacement. WOW I FEEL SO USED!

Always bank on the maverick!

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Offers / Nicoles Savings Advantag
« on: August 21, 2009, 12:19:09 pm »Message ID: 82118
I tried sgning up for this one and it won't process my credit card. Anybody have any success with it?

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Off-Topic / Re: Please explain Noah's Ark to me ...
« on: August 21, 2009, 12:10:15 pm »Message ID: 82117
As far as dog breed go, at least, most of them are very modern, you take a single type of dog and breed for particualr qualities, eventually you get enough divergence for a "new" breed. But really it's just an accumulation of particular traits selected by humans.

Natural selection works pretty much the same way, except that things like death and the ability to find a willing mate do the choosing, not humans.

Personally, I don't feel that evolution and Christianity are mutually exclusive. Evolution is just a part of God's plan, and the mysteriousness of his ways.

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Off-Topic / Re: Surgery
« on: August 21, 2009, 12:07:19 pm »Message ID: 82116
Recovery SUCKS!

Good luck and good health to you.

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Support / Re: referral question
« on: August 21, 2009, 11:52:59 am »Message ID: 82112
On this whole referral thing with regard to facebook, is it okay to post the link on your wall? It says "no bulletins or global messages" but that should just show up for your friends, right?

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Off-Topic / Re: Do you drink your tap water?
« on: August 21, 2009, 11:39:13 am »Message ID: 82108
pssst....


Tap water isn't free.

It's pretty cheap, but it sure ain't free.

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Off-Topic / Re: who likes obama?
« on: August 21, 2009, 11:38:32 am »Message ID: 82107
I think he's great. Of course the country looks bad now, it's going to take a while to undo all the damage of BushCo.

It didn't get this bad overnight, it's not going to be fixed any quicker.

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