2009-08-16, 08:20 | Link #3621 |
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Location: Imperial Manila, Philippines
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I don't agree. It's not the youth of an organization that determines its effectiveness. , which has been there 40 years are more than enough to jell-in.
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2009-08-16, 08:23 | Link #3624 |
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
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It's not so much an overrated power: it's a war which will transform the area into a crucible. Win or lose, you will have hell first.
Iraq and Afghanistan are still highly tribal in nature, and what do tribes hate the most? Foreigners. Without them, the locals fight among themselves. With outsiders, they do some kicking out before resuming the in-fighting.
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2009-08-16, 08:28 | Link #3626 |
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As Sun Zi said: War is a big affair for the nation. It is a matter of life and death, of survival or destruction. It cannot be undertaken lightly.
I think Ike says it better: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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2009-08-16, 10:08 | Link #3627 | |
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Location: R'lyeh
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they should have left him there.
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2009-08-16, 11:20 | Link #3628 | ||
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Location: China
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Chicago (IL) city government to be closed on Monday, 17 August
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2009-08-16, 21:50 | Link #3629 | |
Moving in circles
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2009-08-17, 01:17 | Link #3630 | ||
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Complex devoted to Japanese pop culture opens in San Francisco
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2009-08-17, 08:29 | Link #3631 |
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Yang first Asian to win a "major" golf tournament
In one of the greatest upsets in professional golf history, 37 year-old Y.E. Yang of South Korea won the PGA Championship, one of the four so-called "major" golf tournaments. (The others are the Masters and the US and British Opens.) This marks the first time an Asian player has won any of golf's four major championships.
Paired with American Tiger Woods in the final group on Sunday, Yang started the day two shots back of the world's number-one player. Yang caught up with Woods midway through the round, then broke the tie with an electrifying chip-in eagle from off the green on the fourteenth hole. Woods's own birdie on that hole left him one back with four holes to play. Woods had a chance to catch Yang on the par-three 17th after Yang bogied, but Woods also failed to make par and remained one shot back as they came to the closing hole. On 18, Yang hit a remarkable second shot over a tree to within eight feet of the hole that guaranteed his win. Unlike Woods, who demonstrated his early golf prowess on American television at age three, Yang did not take up the game until age nineteen. After having success on the South Korean tour, he decided to try and compete on the American PGA Tour. He won his card at last year's qualifying tournament and won the Tour's Honda Classic earlier this season. At the time of his victory Yang was ranked 110th in the world according to the World Golf rankings. Woods, of course, is ranked first. Korea's female golfers have become a major force on America's Ladies PGA Tour, but before yesterday Asian males had not had much impact on the PGA Tour. The best-known male Korean golfer, K. J. Choi, has won five times on the PGA Tour and amassed close to $20 million in his career. Yang took home $1.35 million from his victory yesterday raising his life-time earnings to slightly over $3 million.
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2009-08-17, 15:40 | Link #3633 | |
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Japan opposition head seeks economic ties with US
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2009-08-17, 21:10 | Link #3634 |
勇者
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Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
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Ah shit now every kid in Korea will play golf instead of other sports . On serious note his story is very inspiring for many, self learned golfer and from a family that was rather poor (or so I heard).
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2009-08-17, 21:18 | Link #3635 |
In a tree
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The States
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Hacker steals $130 Mil
He steals $130M... while he was already being convicted. What was he thinking?
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2009-08-18, 07:40 | Link #3636 | ||
Moving in circles
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Ex-president Kim Dae Jung dies
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2009-08-18, 08:36 | Link #3637 | |
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2009-08-18, 09:31 | Link #3638 | |
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2009-08-18, 10:39 | Link #3639 |
In a tree
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My bad. I just skimmed over it kinda
As for all Americans here, we gotta swine flu vaccine problem Swine Flu Vaccine Lacking
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2009-08-18, 19:06 | Link #3640 | |
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Well...Robert Novak is dead...
Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak dead at 78. Quote:
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