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  1. Ladywriter

    Ichiro

    From the album: Sigs by Lady

  2. I'm hooked. This series is like a drug! and who is my fav? Ippo agrees! now I'm not sure if I wanna catch up with the manga or just wait for episodes >.<
  3. Ladywriter

    cheer

    From the album: Hajime no Ippo

  4. I will never subject myself to Eva ever again in any medium I think they're making them watch that crap as part of the torture regimen at Gitmo
  5. Damn Dx we're evil and dangerous X'D Wanna take over the world?
  6. I'd try to instigate a nuk winter and re freeze the ice caps so I'd bomb.............. never mind I'm already on the blue list lets just say the muslims jews and mormons got it comin X'D
  7. if you had 50 high yield nuk weapons what would u do with em? threaten? nuk? what?
  8. just had to send Dan -o. Feel free to edit to send to your rep. Dear Sir, Congratulations on your appointment; I myself voted for you. I am writing you today because HR 645 has come to my attention. I am more than hopeful I am insistent that you vote against this bill. Like many of my constituents in upstate NY we read the bills presented to congress and it is an overwhelming No to HR 645. As we read the bills we also monitor who votes on the bills and what their vote was. We carefully monitor legislation and legislator to determine how we will vote in the next election. I insist again on behalf of myself, my family, my community, and the people of the state of NY that you vote no on 645. The laws we live by are not determined by the select few; this is a democracy ruled by its people through representation. The voters who elected you will have your ear or have your job. Congratulations again, I'm glad a sensible man has been elected. You have our support as long as we have yours. Yours in Liberty, *and I signed it w name and town* its okay to be a bitch as long as yer polite
  9. legalizing fema camps http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645 write yer reps tell them no
  10. Firestorms and Deep Freeze: Climate Change May Bring Both Last week, the heaviest snowfall since the '90s blanketed the U.K., disrupting bus, rail and air transportation and costing areas like London a cool billion in lost revenue. Meanwhile, in Australia, a punishing, record drought was worsened by the nation's worst heat wave and worst wildfires, wherein over 400 conflagrations killed over 200 people (and counting), torched a thousand homes and renewed calls for a country with its environmental head up its ass to finally launch its still-hibernating national warning system. Those who would argue that these are isolated events do so at their own peril. The more time passes, the more both examples of extreme weather resemble two sides of the same fearsome coin known as catastrophic climate change. And depending on how the science plays out, it could get much worse indeed, and fast. Deniers of catastrophic climate change have been clinging to extreme rainstorms and snowstorms, such as those recently witnessed in the U.K. or , like life rafts off the Titanic.They still argue that such record-breaking deep freezes disprove global warming. But they're desperately seeking semantics, while the rest of the world is waking up to reality. Which is this: Catastrophic climate change will feature as much ice as fire. It probably already has. "Scientifically, it would not be correct to make the statement that the current weather in Australia, the U.K. and U.S. are examples of climate change," explains Jian Liu, chief of the Division of Environment Policy Implementation's climate change adaptation unit at the United Nations Environmental Program. "Rather, these are extreme climate events; whereas climate change is something that can only be observed by looking at the average conditions over long periods of time. But while the general average trend is one of a warming climate, this does not mean that extreme cold events or snowstorms will not take place. "In fact, as you rightly point out, climate change may even contribute to an increasing intensity of snowstorms, as moisture levels in the atmosphere rise." Liu's point is a good one: It's only climate change, scientifically speaking, once you've had hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, of years to chart the differences and gradations in weather, extreme and otherwise. But we don't have hundreds of thousands of years to wait for that data to come through, which is probably why few scientists ever run for public office, where life-and-death decisions are made in advance of the data, often to influence it. But disciplinary differences aside, this much is certain: Extreme weather has taken hold of our planet, the only one in our known universe capable of sustaining lives and habitats like ours, and we don't have hundreds of thousands of years to get our act together to forestall even worse events, ones that are exponentially taking many lethal forms. "Numerous long-term changes in the climate have been observed, including extreme weather such as droughts, heavy precipitation, floods, heat waves and increasing intensity of tropical cyclones," Liu says. "Trends towards more powerful storms and hotter, longer dry periods have been observed. As a result of reduced precipitation and increased evaporation, water-security problems are projected to intensify by 2030 in some regions, and significant loss of biodiversity is projected to occur by 2020 in some ecologically rich sites. "As to your question on winter storms and cold events, those pointing at intense winter storms or extreme cold events as evidence that global warning is not happening are confusing weather and climate." That arguably deliberate confusion has slowed our response to a danger that is snowballing by the day, but may disappear if some of climate change's more unlikely, but terrifying, possibilities come to pass. In one scenario that has taken by storm, pardon the pun, scientists and disaster-cinema stalwarts like director Roland Emmerich -- director of the enviro-horror blockbusters The Day After Tomorrow and 2009's 2012 -- excessive concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere shut down our oceans' thermohaline circulation and plunges regions of Earth into a miniature ice age. Which regions? Wait for it: The U.K. and the American East Coast. This thesis has been treated like an environmental, and geopolitical, football by scientists and policymakers alike, who have yet to agree on the scientific data or even what the data is looking for. But everyone seems to agree that the possibility of such an extreme global event warrants vigorous study. 1 2 Next page »
  11. OMG I will zuto zuto zuto zuto be an Ippo fan!!!!

  12. I can't imagine Revi dubbed *shudder* Loved the series. Ranks up there with my faves
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