Barihawk

Are you trying to speak for everybody? The statement is broad enough that I can make the claim. The odds of me being wrong are far outshadowed by the odds that I am right with any given person. Unless you are in the most minute minority, you have done at least something that you would not normally do while intoxicated. Unless you want me to add in a "Just about" to the beginning of the offending sentence. Is drinking wrong? Nope. I'd be a hypocrite if I made that claim. I enjoy indulging in alcohol, but I do so responsibly. I've been drunk, did crap I wouldn't normally do. I've seen many others do the same. I've worked in a job that required me to deal with drunk people on a more than daily basis. Enjoying alcohol is not something to worry about. Getting inebriated for as petty reasons as "loosening up" are a sign of a greater problem. Getting snookered just for the hell of it defies reason itself.

You're basing this on people you have seen, not everyone who gets intoxicated is the same. Are you basing this perhaps on a wedding that you've went to? Acting foolish while intoxicated warrants that the age limit be raised? While I do know people who have drunk responsibly (including myself), I have seen MANY people who have not. Not just weddings (I've not really seen much of that, actually) but through college. These are the educated people among the population who completely destroy themselves via drinking until brain damage sets in and wrecking their social and emotional relationships. Then they throw up, sober up, and get ready for another night of debauchery. Age does NOT equal responsibility, per say. However, the older you get, the wiser you get. Unfortunately for many in the early 20's, responsibility often has not set in yet. Are you seriously trying to use college students as way to show immaturity of some alcoholic drinkers? It's college, where's it's common knowledge that there's going to be parties that will involve drinking. These "educated people" don't simply go to college for drinking, if they do they end up dropping out as they can't cut it or the college doesn't allow them to sign up for classes next term due to their poor grades. They don't wreck their social and emotional relationships either. Some might (I can name a scenario, but won't), but I know quite a number of college students as I am one, who can drink and not ruin any relationships. In some cases, they built relationships oddly enough. I agree that age doesn't equal responsibility, but using college students as an example that the age limit should be raised isn't good at all. It's become accepted that college students will drink and at times silly while being intoxicated. In that case, you are in the minority. College students drink like fish. And if they don't, they have constant pressure to do it. It has nothing to do with their grades, either. Some of the "smartest" (in regards to books, hardly smart to themselves) people I know wrecked themselves, ended up pregnant or a father, destroyed friendships as their judgement was impaired...the list goes on. Anyone who has ever been drunk has done something they regret, unless they lock themselves in their houses alone. And that's a completely different kind of sick.

You're basing this on people you have seen, not everyone who gets intoxicated is the same. Are you basing this perhaps on a wedding that you've went to? Acting foolish while intoxicated warrants that the age limit be raised? While I do know people who have drunk responsibly (including myself), I have seen MANY people who have not. Not just weddings (I've not really seen much of that, actually) but through college. These are the educated people among the population who completely destroy themselves via drinking until brain damage sets in and wrecking their social and emotional relationships. Then they throw up, sober up, and get ready for another night of debauchery. Age does NOT equal responsibility, per say. However, the older you get, the wiser you get. Unfortunately for many in the early 20's, responsibility often has not set in yet.

Seeing how people who ARE above 21 act and behave while intoxicated is proof enough that the drinking age is too low.

Yeah, your skin is fairly pale :P. I know you get this a lot, but you should smile more. There was one picture with you smiling a few months back and everybody was like "whoa!" :D

One of my favorite actresses, actually. In her later works she was very funny and used her fame for good. Sad day :(.

Man, I need to go dig up my VCD's of all his videos. I disliked the man, but you could not hate the legacy that he left in the music world. It's also worth noting that Farrah Fawcett died today after a long battle with cancer.

Err...Laissez-Faire in a closed-market economy never, ever, works.

Today was my dad's first official sermon as the pastor of two churches, so I got him a very nice card and a copy of that movie about Martin Luther. Then we went out for Chinese after church since that's our forbidden pleasure.

That Finnish Sniper still beats him. Honestly, I don't see how he is that badass, he let his emotions take over at one point it seems, and he used a tank's machine gun to slow the advance of the Germans. Seems like a film to be honest. It inspired several films, actually. Did you not actually read the entire dossier? He was a one man army. Not to mention getting shot in the leg and somehow managing to grow two inches.

Audie Murphy. Thread over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy Read his World War 2 accomplishments. And then he became a country music star. And he's Texan.

My fellow historians and I have confirmed that 1421 is a crock of BS. It has less supporting evidence than most History Channel TV shows, and that says a lot.

Lots of smart people come from areas other than the West. It's worth noting that when Rome was fighting with slingshots and bronze swords, China was fighting with steel weapons and armor, crossbows (some repeating crossbows), bombs and grenades, and flares for night battles. When the West was using leeches for medicine, the Chinese were using complex medicines and doing open-body surgery with much success. Almost all of Western knowledge is based on Arabic studies that were passed down from the Orient on the Silkroad. It can be argued that the Mayans were plotting complex mathematics when we were still in the Dark Ages. Penguin, don't forget Sun Tzu. All very wise men. I've recently had a chance to read the Chun Qi Annals and I was just in awe that they had been written almost 2500 years ago.

Really? That man was pushing the button and stood his ground when supervisors and generals from all over the Soviet Union were screaming at him to launch the missiles or be executed. Instead, he kept a cool head and trusted in his feelings and it ended up not blowing up the world. To stand for what you believe in at the risk of death with people screaming at you is badass in my opinion.

http://stanislavpetrovtribute.ytmnd.com/ Stanislav Petrov. Thank him for your existence.

Zhuge Liang. Because I'm not a West-Centric white supremacist like the rest of you. :P Also, whoever said Einstein was the father of physics needs to stop playing games and start paying attention in class.

Maybe I'm just skinny.. but I'm 6' 2" and 144lbs... :P My Lady Shahdie impression... :P Just saying.

So my question is: Whatever happened to pro-choice? If she wants to keep the child and care for it until it dies of natural causes, that's totally her choice. The baby can breathe on it's own, it can feed itself, it can do anything instinctual. Eventually that baby is going to die. But for Pete's sake, let her have that time. Should we start euthanizing [developmentally delayed]ed kids while we are at it? What is the basis for euthanasia here? The child is not in pain nor is it having to rely on a machine to keep it going. The only basis for the claims in this thread is that it will not grow up to live a productive life. Will someone with severe Downes ever grow up to have a job and work, or be anything else than a total burden on their caretaker? Heavily [developmentally delayed]ed kids are not going to go to work or raise a family, but we would not think of "mercy killing" them, would we?

Democracy does fail. That's why no government on Earth currently is one. FYI: America and similar nations are Republics, not democracies. For exactly the very reasons you stated in your original post.

While I understand your position as being completely anti-Christian right, you are going down a road of being blinded by these prejudices. The abhoration of incest goes back way before Christ, and even before Judaism. In ancient Greek and Chinese culture, it was considered the most heinous crime against nature. People would kill over incestuous relationships. You condone pedophilia as a sickness, but you do not say the same of bestiality. If being attracted to young children is a sickness, what stops being attracted to animals as a sickness as well? One could go on a limb and say the same about homosexuality according to that very logic, after all. After all, "sick" is a social construct and there is no scientific way to measure it except against our own societal norms. It's not logical to say that one sexual attraction is sick, but another is A-OK. Necrophilia falls under this category as well. Polygamy is a bit more easy-going. This is an obvious social construct regarding marriage and is practiced around the world. It may offend my sensibilities but there is nothing inherently wrong with it in the social context. However, as some have stated it is up to the women involved. Polygamy has been practiced for thousands of years around the world and many men have been killed over the affections of one of their brides. But sure, I'd be willing to let men experience this for themselves. The emperors and kings who practiced polygamy had power and riches as their companions. It might be harder for schmoe-joe to pull it off.

Here's the next best thing. Get some white paint from your local hardware store along with a brush. Lightly paint a wall with the paint. Pull up a chair and watch the paint for several hours. Make sure to check if it's dry, occasionally. Congrats, you have explored the male mind.

Like the gauntlet at the perfume section of a department store, Eias, you are coming on too strong.

Well, glasses + hat + odd angle -50 lbs = different :P.

[hide=][/hide] Living the American dream at NASCAR. Not the best photo in the world but it is less than 5 years old! The other guy and I were discussing how the scoreboard thing worked in sign language, fyi. With earplugs (we were in the second row, pit) you can't hear a thing. Without earplugs, you won't be able to hear a thing forever. This was my first NASCAR race and probably my last :P. EDIT: To mods: Please replace the picture of me in the marching band with this one. Thanks!

And he sent the Princes toy helicopters from the White House gift shop, right?