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no yu begin wher i end

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  1. The government is larger than just one man.
  2. Harper can basically be summed up in one phrase: "Bend me over the table, Georgie!" Paul Martin's an arse who claims to have not known anything concerning the illegalities of the sponsorship program. In effect, he's either incompetent for not knowing anything, or he's lieing. Neither of those are very attractive for a national leader. Jack Layton blamed Paul Martin for being personally responsible for the deaths of homeless people in Vancouver. It's times like these I wish the Bloc ran candidates in Manitoba (if I was old enough to vote). ;)
  3. Those are just some extra stuff that got thrown into the lyrics booklet for Beautiful Midnight. There's a bunch of them like that. Maverick, are you joking?
  4. Well duh, he's one sided. Taking what he says at face value is almost like listening straight to Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh (although not with the extreme hate etc.)
  5. Har, then ban her ass à la Gomo.
  6. yeah he's their guitarist at the moment. the artistic lifeblood of that band as far as i'm concerned. I'll take Big Dumb Face (Wes' side project) over Limp Bizkit any day.
  7. If there was going to be one, there probably wouldn't even be talk of it from Matt at least until he starts touring for his next full length album.
  8. Right, the action and the language cue are seperate things. But that's not to say that you can have the action without any language at all. There still has to be something to trigger the action, and that something is language. Your dog doesn't understand English anymore than I understand Spanish because I know what "no moleste por favor" and "Felize Navidad" mean (honsetly, that's about it). It still triggers a response, and Spanish is still obviously a language. Language can be used to understand the concept that in turn facilitates the action. In this way, they go hand in hand. Getting back to the basketball example, you hear the whistle blow, so you know to stop the play (younger players have a tendency to keep going and someone has to tell them - usually their coach - that they have to stop). You look at the ref, and you see his hand is made into a fist, so that sign tells you a foul has occurred. Then the ref will say something like "shooting two" and you go to shoot your free throws. All this language helps in understanding the concept of fouls and the actions/consequences of them. To say that an action is only understood more in concept and not at all in terms of language would be wrong (at least in my opinion, anyway) because I believe that the two do go together.
  9. How did the basketball player learn to shoot those free throws? Someone probably coached them, helped them fix their mistakes, and gave them advice. That is, if they were a really good player who practised free throws a lot until it becomes second nature. A poorer player would probably have to think about what they're doing, make sure they don't go over the line, aim, and calculate how much force they'll have to use (at least that's what I used to go through whenever I played. I was never very good at it, so I'd spend a few seconds analyzing the situation before I made my shot). Even the best players, however, will take a second or two to aim before they shoot. I think that what you're talking about is instinct, something which I consider to be quite different from thought. I disagree when you say that there is no language involved in shooting a free throw. The required information is stored in the brain, and then some sort of signal, usually an order from the ref, will bring that information to the surface so the player can use. Language=trigger, if you will.
  10. Jerry Falwell's also the guy who "outed" Tinky Winky (read: he's a nutjob).
  11. By member's website, do you mean House Of Smoke And Mirrors? Does that even still work? ;)
  12. Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
  13. Here's something interesting that I read in a Time magazine last week. According to court documents, the Schindlers encouraged Michael Schiavo to see other women after therapy for Terri failed. I got a kick out of that.
  14. If an abstract concept isn't a form of language, then how can it still affect our thoughts? When they convey information to only one person, is that not communication - of which you need some form of language in order to use? When you use arithmetic, that's still a language. True, there are some things you can't say with it, but there's plenty of other languages that don't have words that are contained in other languages. (For example, 'schenenfreude,' which means "taking pleasure in the misfortune of others" in German and yet there isn't an English word that means the same thing.) Even to spell out actual words, that's where you can use cryptography to rewrite messages using (in some cases) advanced mathematics. This may sound corny, but I do believe that music is a language, albeit a language that focuses on emotions more than anything else. But it can still convey ideas that you could convey by speaking. For example, 'Fables of Faubus' by Charles Mingus. It was written as a direct protest against Arkansas governor Orval E. Faubus, who in 1957 sent out the National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School by nine African American teenagers. Listen to it and try and figure out Mingus' opinion of Faubus. Military marches are often played with an energetic gusto so that the people will be enthusiastic for the army and associate it with glory and victory and thus support it. Propagandistic? Sure, but it's still language. What about when you play sports? Your coach will often tell you what to do, either verbally or with diagrams. These diagrams "speak" to you and tell you what you need to know. It's like sign language, actually, with the use of symbols to convey ideas.
  15. I'm not sure who this is directed at but I never said otherwise. And insober, you've never met a gay person with a lisp? Come on. Just expanding on the fact that a lisp i sonly a stereotypical characteristic used when gay people are portrayed. Not really directed at anyone, really.
  16. I don't think it had the lyrics in it. It was probably roughly the same as the cardboard case.
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