[quote name='Oracle' date='31 May 2010 - 07:14 PM' timestamp='1275351290' It's so inevitable that in the future we'll look back and see how primitive oil was and how stubborn man was to transform into a cleaner, quieter, lighter stepping being. Either that or we'll ruin our water, air and land by overproducing, overpopulating and overconsuming. Then we'll really be up shitcreek, literally.

I haven't been keeping up with the NBA much since the old celtics lakers rivalry, until recently when we aquired the hornets from carolina. As then I will now pull for the celtics to win.

R.I.P. Hopp I don't know the history of his cancer diagnosis but I'm curious as to weather or not his heavy alcohol and drug use may have masked his symptoms where they didn't catch it until it had progressed far along. They annouced the diagnosis in October of 09 so the cancer must have been in the later stages. I would guess age would have also played a roll, either way the treatments are no pic-nic either.

Thank you all for your well wishes, I will be recieving my care from what is considered to be one of the top treatment centers in the country and I already know most of the staff there. A great group of doctors, nurses and support staff.

I'm about to start another round of chemo, I'll send you a pm

That's funny DOC, being in a military family and traveling through and living in many different states I've come to realize that once you get away from the coast or the big cities the majority of America is as rural in the boondocks as you can get. I'm really starting to like the idea of moving to a more wide open area myself but as you know it's best I live close in for the time being. I've even had conversations with my parents about selling our houses and buying a piece of rural property with a couple smaller homes already on the land and having a little family compound, a home where the buffalo roam! Lol Might even be a frugal idea with the way the economy has been going

Does this bare any resemblance? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html?a=B000C4BMCE

Most excellent

I had always believed it to be Icarus

I picked Lee to win several weeks back but started to worry he might lose it in the end as he didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about it. I thought the duet with Casey and Brett Michaels was great, gotta give a standind O to Brett after all he has and will be going through to keep on keepn' on

This just in- Local news outlets are reporting that several fisherman working on the oil clean up project became ill and had to be flown to a New Orleans area hospital, it's unclear if the illness was related to exposure to the oil dispersants being uesd on the spill. I'll post any updates I hear about. I really feel for these folks, bad enough BP has screwed up there livelyhoods now they are endangering their lives. BP should be supplying proper safety equipment like filtered respirators and not those cheap dust masks ofcourse In BPs defense you can't make them use the equiment and it is paid work that they signed on for, use that safety equipment guys!

Sad I didn't check but does it come with a certificate of authenticity?