While I don't play chess I have played a lot of strategy style games over the years.

I've always been a defensive player. I tend to concentrate on building an impenetrable fortress first, then I can beat up on the other guy at my liesure.

The problem I run into in most games is that resources are always limited. So while my castle may be invincible I'm left with nothing but a few peasants to beat on the oponents gates. At that point it depends on the game and how difficult it is to scale my resources to maintain a stronger defense and rely on 'precision' attacks. If it's to difficult I'll shift into 'blitz from the word go' mode and do all I can to ensure the enemy can't gain a solid footing early on. While that reflects a agressive stance, it's actual goal is to keep the enemy's walls from being built until I have established a lead defensively.

I used to have a nice camaro ... '80 with the landing strip long hood and the round headlights.
I miss it. Never cared for the holly carbs guys were using back then. Nothing beat the sound of those rochester secondaries opening up. I allways wanted to fit a set of chrome side pipes on it.*sigh*

But my favorite to this day has to be my first car.
It was a '78 four door Impala that I bought in high school for $300
We used to call it the Psychedelic Loafer.

Don't listen to a word they say for starters.

What women realy want is a drug addicted looser with no job who spends his days acting like a brain-dead jerk, and his nights treating them like a two dollar whore.

That is what women realy want 99% of the time.
They'll never admit it, they'll deny it all day. But when that guy walks by, they're all over him like cheap on imported goods.

Once they have several bastard children, get old, or get fat, or finally realise thier 'love' isn't going to turn a 'bad guy' into a 'good guy' then they settle for a 'good guy' who spends his life working his ass off taking care of the 'bad guy's left-overs.


Don't think so?
Prove it.

Obama's racking them up already....

"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008

"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008

"Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers

"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference

"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people


And then there's this gem from Obama that earns him the title of 'Dumbest statement of the decade'


‘My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.’

- Barack Obama

*hint* They're all 'universal' *hint*

//disclaimer:On a rare case you may find a rare set that has a unique key//


If only he had a paper clip.....

One of the biggest problems IMO we face is that so many people have no clue as to what the constitution says, much less what it means.

The right to keep and bear arms is not intended to 'protect hunters' or 'shooting sports' or even for 'home defense'.

The purpose of the second is to ensure that the 'power' ultimately resides with the people. To garauntee that the people always have the ability to overthrow our own government through force if need be.

Not for home protection, not for hunting, not for sport, not even for national defense against an invader, but to protect us from our own government.

Just as the first is not meant so that some teenager can wear an offensive t-shirt in school, but so that the government cannot stop political speech.


Another thing the constitution says that many people don't seem to comprehend is that the federal government can only do what this constitution says it can do, all other rights belong to the states and the people.

They re-write or at least re-interpret the constitution all the time.

This is what is really important about elections. Our next president will likely nominate 2 or more new judges to the court. You can bet that with the dems controlling both the house and senate we will get some very liberal judges confirmed to the court. Change two seats on the court and *bam* there's nothing stopping them from banning firearms. The democrats don't give a rat's ass what the constitution says, only how they can 'interpret' it to mean whatever they want.

These are lifetime appointments without accountability that remain long after a president leaves office. I'm not afraid of a socialist president. I'm afraid of what this socialist president will do long term to this country with his fellow democrats running everything.

I'm not sure if this last quote is the reporter's thoughts or a continuation of the 'Brady' personel, but it is clearly a socialist in any event.

1) This quote justifies the actions of gun purchasers.

2) This quote is a threat to our freedom.

Who is this person to determine how many is "more than enough"?
Who is this person to decide what a firearm is to be used for?

I personally own four firearms. One is a .338 hunting rifle suitable for anything from deer to elk and bear. One is a long range target rifle .30-06 set up for 500 to 1000yds. One is a .44mag handgun for short range hunting and home defense. One is a 12gauge shotgun for bird/skeet shooting.
My guns all have custom triggers and stocks tailored to thier purpose. For example I could not use my hunting rifle at 1000yds without substantial load work/range time/new scope/new barrel. Likewise I would not carry my target rifle into the field on a hunt and risk damage/exposure.

Do I have to many guns?
I don't think so. In fact I look forward to purchasing a few more in the next year or so.

An armed man is a citizen.
An unarmed man is a subject.


This whole gun ban argument is as ignorant as banning cell phones in cars. We don't need to ban them. We already have a law against wreckless driving.

Obama has shown time and time again that he is pro-gun ban.

When your brother punches you in the arm every time you look away, do you believe him the tenth time when he says "ok I promise I won't puch you again"?

Mine was just a made up name of a character I played years ago, back when 'everquest' first came out. I kept trying to get my little dwarven warrior named "Hardon" as kids do, and eventually surrendered to the naming filter and settled for "Hardolin Battlemore"

I used it a few times here and there and soon I realised it was a name that always made it through naming filters and was never "taken". So no weird numbers and letters had to be tacked on etc.

"shrug" that's not his job.

If you'll recall he warned of this sort of thing during his first term.

Not to mention it was the dems in congress who blocked the changes that would have averted the issue.

It should be clear to anyone with an honest mindset.

Just look at the grilling congress is giving the auto execs. Hell we have investigations every time the price of gas goes up 50cents. But there will be no investigation into the credit markets. At least no public investigation with any meaningful conclussions. Why?
Because such investigation would only incriminate the democrats, the party that has been in power for the last four years. The party who decides what investigations will take place, and the party who has succeeded in convincing you that everything is the presidents fault.

Congress is responsible for these things, not the president.

Perhaps a little video screen playing that clip where the chic falls on the treadmill.
An engraving underneath it "Don't think, just laugh with me".

You're implying he had anything to do with the credit market?

I can't seem to find the presidential order he signed that says "make the credit market crash".

On the other hand it's easy to find the edict from the democrats that says "make banks lend to people who can't pay them back".

Society in general.

Society has become such that people strive to be 'part of the group' whether that group is right or wrong, good or bad matters less than it's popularity.

For example I know a lot of people who voted in the last election for one candidate over the other for no other reason than "they're going to win". They had no desire whatsoever to educate themselves about the candidates. They voted simply because they were exposed to an overwhelming message that 'person X' is who everyone else is going to vote for.

These days this drive to belong and be like the rest of the group is so ingrained that it is extremely difficult to penetrate the blank stare and refusal to think for oneself.

As another example, I like to bring up 'gravity' from time to time. Newton's theory of gravity when examined honestly is simply impossible. It breaks all the so called 'laws' of physics. Yet when you try to have a conversation with most people you continually get the "this guy's crazy" look, and the wall of "You're wrong because the 'group' taught me that Newton's theory is right".

This takes us into a persons most formative learning years, which are spent in most cases within a public education system. A system run by people who's foremost concern is the approval of the group, to remain in thier seat of power.

Where a student to raise thier hand in a science class and say "This doesn't make sense, how can gravity have an instant effect acrost light-years, and an unlimited power source?" They are told that the class only covers an introduction into the theory and that maybe some day they might learn enough to understand why that is, but for now your test answers had better reflect what is written 'by the group' in your text book, or you'll get a failing grade.

So such independent thought is stiffled and replaced with 'group think'.