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Pete

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  1. Not bad. I would choose Freak Out by Zappa over WOIIFTM. No Dylan? Good call with Velvet Underground and Captain Beefheart. My list off the top of my head- Captain Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica Astral Weeks-Van Morrison Velvet Underground-Nico Dylan-Blonde on Blonde Are You Experienced-Jimi Kick Out the Jams- MC5 Nick Drake- 5 Leaves Zeppelin II Dylan-Highway 61 and a tie between obvious choices-The Doors, Sgt Peppers, Pet Sounds
  2. Why does anyone hate Chavez? There is a lot of propaganda against Chavez, but can anyone say why they would be happy if Chavez was dead? The oil belongs to Venezuela, not Exxon IMO. He is a champion of the poor and not a hypocrite. Why cheer his death?
  3. me too. And I laugh at the term Ryan Dunn star. Anyone that killed their buddy speeding while drunk after bragging about drinking on their twitter page hours earlier is truly a jackass to say the least
  4. She is gorgeous. I would contemplate breaking up with my girlfriends and flying out to meet her. Good job Go Bills in Dallas. She wont be single for long I am sure
  5. America is so sexually repressed. A large percentage flipped out over nipplegate and now some are getting their panties in a bunch because a beautiful women is showing too much skin while biking. In Europe couples are making out practically everywhere- while here some say "get a room". I think it is beautiful seeing a couple being affectionate with one another. Lighten up America. Sex is beautiful
  6. I bike all the time and no I don't stay in the bike lane all the time. Great video- I hope he put a dent into that cop car blocking the bike lane
  7. agreed. Who the !@#$ is the government to tell me what I can do in my personal life?
  8. count me in
  9. http://fwix.com/conn/share/b330510aee/conn_passes_bill_decriminalizing_marijuana
  10. Very ethnocentric of you. I am a citizen of the world
  11. If your internet gets shut off- go to the library. And nowhere did I put internet above food and water and love. More then 50% of the world lives on less then $2 a day. And over a billion in the world lack clean drinking water. This is one of the causes I am most interested in. Clean water will be the next oil the next 20 years. The world is in a state of desertification. Evil Bechtel attempted to privatize water in Bolivia. Clean water I would most definitely put at the top of human rights.
  12. What a thread that was! Hoggy/Combo are my favorite posters here. The best was when John from Hemet was about to fly to Buffalo for a spearing contest with Combo
  13. um that was Eric Wood calling out Aaron Maybin and this is a Bills board. What does that have to do with my belief that everyone in the world should have access to the internet?
  14. I do believe it is a human right. It is what connects us to the rest of the world, and the internet will be what eventually brings democracy to China and helps bring down totalitarian regimes world wide. Behold the power of twitter to organize. Egypt is just the beginning
  15. have you traveled through France? If not, then where do you make the assumption that the French are bigoted? If you haven't experienced French bigotry first hand isn't that bigoted of you Mr Kettle? And I laughed out loud at the trust fund baby comment. Actually I work my ass off, save my money instead of blowing it on stupid **** like new cars, and stay at hostels and travel cheap. One doesn't have to be a trust fund baby to travel. And most of us aren't. Traveling is one of the greatest things one can do IMO. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain
  16. Henry Kissenger. Where did I say French culture was superior to American? Who said I preferred France? You love to leap to conclusions and should brush up on your reading comprehension
  17. I am pro nothing, not anti matter!
  18. I don't watch TV, I chose to bike instead of drive for the past 10 years(I just put car on road because job is 30 miles away), I don't shop at Walmart- so you must have me confused with someone else I think you are confusing foreign policy with culture. By your nonsequitor logic- American culture would be East Timor, Cambodia, Panama, Iraq (just a few examples in my lifetime- notice I didn't bring up slavery, the indians, the suffrage movement, etc). French culture has style, a beautiful language, art, literature, intellectuals, philosophy, cuisine,and they savor life. I typed this in 2 minutes and I am out the door- I would be happy to go into more detail later. But I get it- you are a flag waving America !@#$ yeah guy, and you like to bash France. To each their own
  19. And it seems like Americans love to bash the French gratuitously. Well take a good hard look in the mirror before you cast that stone
  20. Mostly, but there is lots of tourists and immigrants too. There is a big influx of immigrants, but many are relegated to slums and treated as second class citizens from what I have seen. But French kids do love McDs for some reason. There is some great literature documenting French cuisine pre corporate homogenization. The Food Of France by Waverly comes to mind immediately. And it great to read A Moveable Feast by Hemmingway and not have any McD's references. Paris must of been amazing back in the 20's. I wish I could remember where I read about all the Bouchons that have closed so I could share. It seemed like there were great restaurants every block and Paris was a moveable feast. Too bad Olivier doesn't come round much too much these days. I would love to hear his informed take. I like to think there is more to American culture then fast food, greed, Lady Gaga, pro wrestling and NASCAR. That seems so foreign to me
  21. They also have resisted the term "email". I can understand why some feel it is censorship (I am vehimately opposed to any censorship) but I feel this is preservation of their beautiful French culture. Globalization sucks IMO and France (and just about everywhere else) is littered with McDonalds, KFC, Nike, etc. I have read accounts of how many Parisian bouchons (over 10,000 IIRC) have closed since 1900. The first McDonalds opened in France in 1979 and it spread like aggresive cancer. It sickens me when I see glorious Wenceslas Square in Prague desecrated with Burger Kings and Pizza Hut. It is the homogenization of cultures. It blows my mind when I see someone foregoing the exquisite cuisine of France for a McDonalds, just as it blows my mind when I see someone pass up a Vienna coffeshop for a Starbucks. Corporate America is desecrating the world, destroying cultures, and exporting obesity and diabetes. I support France in their attempt to preserve their culture
  22. I remember that Cowart Tampa game. It was his last series before the injury- Cowart first down sack, Cowart second down sack, Cowart third down sack. Cowart was starting to dominate.
  23. Keep it real. I can't believe how many beautiful girls are ripped as unattractive on this board. Gissele is !@#$ing gorgeous! Since you all are such studs- how bout you post a pic and show what a stud who can pick and choose supermodels looks like
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