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MJ, I don't know. I am playing along with the allegations being made here and back in Iran. The popular "jokes" back there when we were sitting around at night watching the missile-works light up the new year sky (persian new year) courtesy of uncle sadam was that no matter what was happening on the ground, in the air, russian-made missiles were crossing US made missiles

Guilty since US kept the receipts About giving a package and holding a gun ... that is somewhat accurate but not entirely. Think of Sadam as the dealer for US being the drug lord. He went and had a party with the cocaine the US provided him and decided to make his own drug empire ... well that's when the big boss gets mad and decides to teach the puppet a lesson in who is really boss. The problem is Sadam got carried away and forgot who really put him in place and why. So let's not beat around the "bush" ... There is no doubt Sadam was guilty. How guilty was the US ... that's a completely different animal and I will not argue on that. But I find this "oh poor innocent Sadam" and "big bad US" lines of arguments very childish. Domino ... to answer your last question about how he will be judged, I think he is beyond death penalty ... so I hope a soldier "accidentally" trips with his finger on the trigger and puts and end to this pathetic rediculous excuse of a human being. I think we have MUCH better things to do than to sit around and figure out how Sadam should be judged.

I did some cleanup here. Please let's try to stick to the topic and leave out the personal insults and name calling (or do it in PM). Crystal hye since you are new here, consider this a friendly reminder. Domino already knows the rules. Thank you.

I have a feeling that opens up the door to transforming a lot of things to a lot of things (maybe even Chinese).

He is trying to make some sort of anti-US rhetoric. I read that paragraph and realise oh Gee ... Sadam DID in fact have WMD! Hellooooooooo? How come so many seem to be ignoring this FACT and taking the side of this "under dog" against the bad-boy US just like they would in a freaking sports game? This is real life ... How rediculous is this "Booo hooo hooo ... we didn't find WMD in Iraq ... how horrible for Sadam". It's rather disturbing how anyone can throw out terms like "bady", "costly", and the like to make a point that isn't really there to be made. http://armenians.com/forum/style_images/1/icon8.gif

Dan you seem to be forgetting that Sadam had more than a decade to provide acceptable proof to the UN that he did not have WMD ... this is according to the accords he signed. It was only after UN failed to get anywhere with him that the bush admin made the decision to go in and whip this mother father's arse. I couldn't care less about the president right now. I am overjoyed since I KNOW catching Sadam is a good thing. Whether his capture is true or not, yah ... almost anything that happens we have some people claiming potential setups and amazingly complex scenarios as they are more fun and show "intelligence" to be able to not be fooled like the masses But such "grand conspiracies" simply cannot work. They require faaaar too many to be faaaar too loyal to each other, and that is simply against human nature.

I hope it's true!!!!

Yah and this is automatic ... the torque converter takes a while to lock up although there are ways to reprogram the computer for tighter more sporty shifts. Since my factory warranty is done, I may start screwing around with those but I probably won't spend the $300 to get the programmer (I'll spend money on the Jeep ). If I try hard enough, I may be able to get the tires to bark starting 1st gear but that's it... it won't give you the snap-the-neck back feel of a sports car About the blazer 4x4, it has 4 modes: Normal "2HI" which means basically rear wheel drive. 4HI which means front differential is engaged with the transfer case (and rear). 4LO which adds an extra 2:1 gear in the transfer case ... for low speed crawling Mine has this thing called "auto 4x4" .. it uses ABS speed sensors to detect when the rear wheels are slipping and slowly applies torque to the front wheels until traction is regained. Normally, you are not supposed to drive this vehicle in 4HI mode on pavement since that would cause bind-up in the drive train (especially when turning) since the fronts are forced to turn at the same speed as rear. However, with auto-4x4, there is differentiation done in the transfer case so you are fine driving around like that. It takes some time for it to engage but it works great on sand, ice, and snow and normal driving. My Jeep is manual. I can't wait to get it out here! I got to drive it around a bit on snow last time I was in LA (in the mountains) and WOW is all I can say!!! Plus that jeep has driver selectable front and rear differential lockers! That means ALL 4 wheels can be totally locked together and spinning with the engine. My blazer has an automatic locker in the rear which locks by itself but the front is open. This means, in really bad conditions only 3 wheels will get engine torque.

About "Zbosank" ... as in going for a walk, stroll, etc ... How would one say "I went for a walk" ... Yes gnatci zbosanki? Yes gnatci zbosnelu? I managed to confuse myself. Any help, appreciated

Thanks Sasun! I just rememberd I have this old one ... Vid 4 (~1MB) "desert snow"

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/sm/wisc/ice3_tn.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/sm/wisc/ice1_tn.jpg (click for bigger pics) Madison at night ... We finally started to get a bit of the white stuff ... so I decided to give my new hobbie (ice driving) and camera a try ... I LOVE driving on snow and ice! The vids below should be ok for modem users but they will take time. Probably not worth it unless you have broadband! They are encoded using MS Mpeg4 and should play in windows media player ... other players, I don't know. Vid 1 (600K) ... I stopped an inch short of hitting the camera! Vid 2 (500K) ... This is me playing with the auto-4x4 mode ... after doing the 360, the noise you hear is the transfer case automatically engaging the front after it detects the slip in the back (I turn it on after the slide) Vid 3 (1.3MB) ... just goofing around.

I also think we are done with this thread for now.

Of course the other extreme is those who believe the "profoundly deep" meaning of the now famous quote "behind every great man is a great woman". Not too many realize that this type of thinking didn't take roots until after the feminist movement and such statements had little real meaning a couple of hundred or more years ago. Not to say that women have been just bystanders .. they have certainly played their roles I am sure. Just claiming that "great men" don't deserve credit for their greatness is just as stupid as believing great women haven't existed! ABC recently had an interesting program about the truth behind Marry Magdalen and her relationship with Jesus. Although their findings about her were inconclusive, they did conclude that her preceived role and character has significantly been distroted by the male dominated church and that in fact, she might have been one of Jesus's most loyal disciples and probably a much more influencial person in the christian faith than many "officials" have considered her to be.

Excellent point Dan. The topic asks a simple question ... please keep wooing and shaving to PM's.

Something is borrowed only if we plan to give it back. Otherwise it's "adopted" (I think)

Nair i, I see what you are saying. I don't think it will pay off financially. So question is, who is going to do it. I think best bet for it to happen is "Open-source" like. In other words, make it completely open and free but encourage contribution by anyone, anywhere ... problem will be that no 2 Armenians ever agree on anything!!!

i think Bruin was making the point that marrying any man is the same... Armenian or not, they are all Neadethals. A-hye, i don't haves problem with assess.

By the way, one of the arm-eng eng-arm e-dicks that I found I was able to decipher the format of their d-base so I can read all the words etc. and like put it in Exel format. Their user interface was not that good.

There are a couple of e-dicks out there ... I'll post links ... i was trying to convert one to my PDA . Very easy to make them to be online versions. The problem is their data bases ...right now, like 9k words. By the way, I wrote this post by hand in cursive as this thing l am using has no keyboard!!!

WOW! Too bad I am more of a BFGoodrich and Goodyear person myself.

Since this thread is heading no where fast, I just wanted to jump in and point out that the word "assess" sounds funny. Can an Armenian woman marry a non-armenian man? The answer is yes, unless she wants to marry in the Armenian church in which case there could be problems.

Let's see how it will develop, and then we can move it to the appropriate area. It is a variation on MJ's "pledge of loyalty" theme which is also in the humor section.

So suppose there was such a thing as a "Professional Armenian"... I thought it may be fun for us to list some of the perks and maybe disadvantages of such a career. I'll try to start with a few: 1) On the marketing borchures, busniess cards, and web pages, there would be the claim in bold that the company was the first to adopt Christianity 2) You could show up to work 2 hours late and it would be considered normal. 3) Lunch time would consist of someone starting the xhorovats 4) Could circulate a top secret memo to the HR department to only hire janitors of Turkish decent. 5) Project meetings would start and end in big hugs and kisses on the cheeks by everyone. . . . feel free to add.

I'll answer this later.

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