what is black swan rated?

It's rated R.

Hmm....lolol

I went to Collectors in Houston and fooled with the guns. I saw 4 prototype Stainless Colat All Americans, 4 Volcanic pistols (one in mint condition), A Japanese Type 5 (only a few in America) and a few Liberators. I also got to handle one of the 200 Sig 550's in the US and fondled a Briley custom M1911

I'm getting an Enfield from a family member as soon as I have $100

My mom and I were driving to the grocery store when we were hit by a drunk driver. The car hit the rear of the drivers side and spun us out of control. The car flipped and landed on my side and I was freaked out. I tried to escape the wreckage so I open the door, get on the floor, everybody do the dinosaur.

Lucy Van Pelt: The biggest troll of them all:

http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/0...jpg?1275786026

what is up with your fetish with trolls?

I am a IKEA whore. ;)

Have you ever notice that Jessie Eisenberg has a weird speech pattern.

yeah, like he's shy and insecure.

I have SHOCKING NEWS!! Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr are married. And they have a kid!!!!

Cause i care about celebrity news.......

Oh my god, some douchebag celebrities being married and having a kid is much more important than things like the riots in Egypt and the fact that irreplacable artifacts are being destroyed, maybe leading to the end of many Egyptologists' careers!!!!!

/sarcasm

We have a dictator with awful human rights record, or the opposition party that supports islamic law and gives money to hamas. yeah, the choices, i can't support anyone in this conflict.

i say we let them fight it out, and whoever gets fucked up...well, rules are rules, that's how you play the game

I always love to see when people rise against an opressive dictator.......but these people may be even worse.

When, in the Middle East, has a situation like this NOT ended up worse?

From what I've read, there really isn't a consensus amongst Middle East scholars on whether or not the Egyptian Revolution (if that's what it is) will become another Iranian Revolution, with the Islamists ending up in power. The Muslim Brotherhood has many followers, but it isn't as popular as the media has been making it sound.

If they fell threatened, they will attempt to remove the competition. It'll probably end up like Rhodesia: One free election and then a dictator who is in power for the rest of his life

Possibly. I hope not.

It is likely

One of the things to remember is that Mubarak and the Egyptian regime itself are not synonymous. If Mubarak goes, the political order that was set up by the Free Officers (way back in the day) doesn't necessarily disappear. And if the elites are able to bring in someone else, someone whom the military supports, then order is restored, and Egypt remains a secular dictatorship, rather than an Islamic theocracy under MB leadership. This is the big difference between Egypt in 2011 vs. Iran in 1979 - the Shah's regime was a lot more "personalist" compared to Egypt's (since it was a monarchy). When the Shah fell, a political vacuum was instantly created, and Ayatollah Khomeini came out on top. When Mubarak falls, the Egyptian elites still have plenty of control, and that's where the Muslim Brotherhood is going to have difficulty gaining power.

That cracked up my daughter. Hell cracked me up as well. She's seventeen and a reformed Twilighter (thank god).

Either way, we are already being blamed for their problems

So what else is new? Many of our "allies" have been doing the same thing. Even under Sadat and Mubarak, when Egypt was transitioning from a Soviet client state to a de facto American/Israeli ally, the regime constantly put out anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda. When I was taking Arabic (a few years ago now), I got to see some Egyptian and Jordanian movies which were produced by the government and had not-so-subtle anti-Western messages.

That's the way things work in the Middle East: Most Arabs hate us, so even "friendly" regimes have to make pathetic attempts to convince their people that they aren't our allies. American diplomats and civil servants have learned to shrug it off by now because they know it's not personal.

It dropped to the '20's last night. Everybody is freaking out and there are rolling blackouts

I wish the temp would get up to the 20s:o

At least ya'll northerners are used to these kind of temps. It's causing all kinds of trouble here (powerlines are frozen b/c they're all above-ground, very few people own a sufficiently heavy coat, etc)

It's 66 over here right now. In early February. At night, though, it drops to the 30s. But still, I can't believe how it's been. At least it's good running weather for me.

It's like Siberia up here in Indy.

Less than 10 degrees in the city, away from the Gulf

That's the downside of being a vampire: you're impotent. ;)

Here it was negative 17 degrees outside and negative 34 degrees with the wind chill and they didnt even cancel school.

about a foot of snow, now its icing up.

Lol. 23º. It´s a nice night, considering the fact that we had 40º some days ago.