• No more reincarnation for Buddhist lamas

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:57 pm**

That seems to have been a common feeling.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:06 pm**

Things could have gone very bad for all involved - and many not.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:25 pm**

Depending who ask, they did.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:29 pm**

True, lots of people didn't get what they wanted that month.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:36 pm**

For still others they got it for years and years.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:42 pm**

We cannot underestimate the positive change that has taken place thus far.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:07 am**

You folks seem to be backsliding lately.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:16 am**

what are you, ron, an impartial observer?

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:21 am**

Hardly impartial.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:37 am**

so what are you backsliding into?

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:40 am**

Every country backslides time from time.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:44 am**

She's correct. The differences and improvements are amazing.

So is all the shit that hasn't changed.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:07 am**

Well, it's not going to happen over night, or even over decade.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:08 am**

Calm down koshka.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:36 am**

duamerthrax wrote:so what are you backsliding into?

Looks like authoritarianism, isolationism and conflict with the west.

Their bombers have apparently begun patrolling their old haunts off American territory again.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:07 pm**

Another matter of perception.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:26 pm**

I don't know, Russia is being very aggressive in general right now. The entire mess with them claiming the North Pole is a fine example. I am sure if Canada worked long and hard at it, they could find a chunk of rock or ice that connected their country to it too.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:45 pm**

"It would be far fetched to claim at this point that the evidence we have gathered is conclusive,” said Georgy Cherkashev, the institute’s deputy director.

“There is progress in that direction but I would be cautious until the data has been properly processed and analysed.”

Not aggressive.

Not a backslide either.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:17 pm**

More millitant than they've been in a decade anyway.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:44 pm**

I don't know what that means.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:53 pm**

Russia has been trying to flex her millitary muscles recently - especially the ones that have strategic nuclear weapons attached.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:07 pm**

Good.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:22 pm**

No, the talk is not the problem. Like Ron said, it is the nuclear subs that are sitting at the North Pole, the bomber exercises over it, and the fact one of you planted a flag on the North Pole.

There is an old saying that goes, "It's not what you say so much as what you do that counts."

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:06 am**

Really blowing this way out of proportion.

You planted a flag on the Moon. Doesn't mean anything, let's be honest. It's just a publicity stunt, and it's working. Everyone's just miffed we beat them to it.

The world is quite familiar with that saying, by the way.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:22 am**

So who owns the summet of Mount Everest?

I believe that there are flags from several different countries there.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:25 am**

The summit itself I believe is in Tibet/China, but the mountain is also in Nepal.

SE from there you can find the frog-eating yeti. Unless they have gone extinct.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:33 am**

The flag is one thing

The bombers poking around the edges of US territory is another . . . I thought we were allies in the War on Terror

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:33 am**

I don't see what's wrong with resisting American's trying to take over the world.

Moscow and Washington have cooperated for decades. Still do.

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:52 am**

We aren't trying to take over the world.

Our political, social and economic systems just happen to have caught on.

Probably because they are so superior

Posted: **Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:18 am**

Ron Caliburn wrote:We aren't trying to take over the world.

Our political, social and economic systems just happen to have caught on.

Probably because they are so superior

Our political system was based on the Greeks and Romans.

I am not sure I would brag about the social system we have. Where criminals have more rights than law biding people.

That is why we get everything from Japan, China, Taiwan, and the middle east. :wink: