11-14-2012, 12:32
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I read this a few times as a young kid and dug it out after cleaning the garage this afternoon. I find something new in it every time i read it. Anybody else ever read this oldie?
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11-14-2012, 12:40
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I read this a few times as a young kid and dug it out after cleaning the garage this afternoon. I find something new in it every time i read it. Anybody else ever read this oldie?
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And one of your interests is Rugby? You might want to seek some professional help......dr. phil maybe? 
Go "NOW" and get Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Hurry before it's too late.....
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11-14-2012, 13:53
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I read this a few times as a young kid and dug it out after cleaning the garage this afternoon. I find something new in it every time i read it.
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11-14-2012, 17:43
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This page.
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11-15-2012, 15:55
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Being a scrum-half with health care professionals for parents, i cant tell you how much professional help i have ignored over the years . Hell I think the few head injuries I succumbed to kept the right marbles from being knocked out of me, seeing as I’m one of the far and few conservatives in the liberal bastion that is the UMN-Duluth, especially in the poli-sci program up here. Hence why i felt the need to declare my non-liberal tendencies Dozer.
Dozer Sir, you can blame this post for why I joined this BB. Redneck/SF engineering indeed.
As far as this particular post is concerned, I didn’t expect that a story of a transcendent bird would draw fire from you or TS. lol
Back to lurking ...
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11-16-2012, 05:42
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Being a scrum-half with health care professionals for parents, i cant tell you how much professional help i have ignored over the years . Hell I think the few head injuries I succumbed to kept the right marbles from being knocked out of me, seeing as I’m one of the far and few conservatives in the liberal bastion that is the UMN-Duluth, especially in the poli-sci program up here. Hence why i felt the need to declare my non-liberal tendencies Dozer.
Dozer Sir, you can blame this post for why I joined this BB. Redneck/SF engineering indeed.
As far as this particular post is concerned, I didn’t expect that a story of a transcendent bird would draw fire from you or TS. lol
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Nothing wrong with being a scrum-half. Just because a bunch of forwards are trying to squash you to prevent the ball getting to your back line doesn't mean you're nuts!
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11-16-2012, 14:29
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Pakistan: Terrorism Ground Zero by Rohan Gunaratna and Khuram Iqbal
Pakistan: Terrorism Ground Zero covers events after 911 after the US/NATO campaign against the TB. What leads to capture Osama bin Laden and to defeat Al Qaeda within Pakistan. How US/ISAF campaigns drove TB into Pakistan's FATA region and how they grow from 2002 to current and the effects it has on Centeral Asia and Pakistan and US Policy. This book has some great background from teh British time and empire to the US intelligence and policy-making towards to Pakistan and Afghanistan. How the INTEL FUSION are created or policy made and action towards Pakistan and the effects of the popele. Poeple review this book as being or showing the complexity with the creation of the "Pakistan Taliban" and its subsequent factionalization into other groups with different leadership, precedents and practices which IMO is all BS by the Pakistani authors. It gives you a lot of GREAT Details, but they are one side. This book is good and if you are a militray guy or an INTEL Dude looking, working or studying on AF/PK and the effect everything here has, a MOST BOOK. Great background on how the TB grow in the FATA and how it has effected Pakistan but never, as of yet, covered how the ISI and the PAKMIL drove a lot of what is happening in Pkaistan is leading to events there and in Afghanistan and even in India.
http://www.amazon.com/Pakistan-Terro.../dp/1861897685
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11-18-2012, 08:25
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I just finished....
I finished reading, Taliban by Ahmed Rashid. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the history of the Taliban, who they are what they want and just how bat shit crazy they really are. It’s a very detailed book that’s hard to convert to memory and easy to get lost in the weeds with all the detail. I’ll be reading it again at some point just to make everything stick.
Now I'm starting Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. What a whooper of a read!
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11-18-2012, 18:28
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A little each night, like a mini-series, happened to get Lewis & Clark's journals 1804-1806 as a free Kindle download now that I've this app on the laptop. Literally, to boldly go where no (white) man has gone before.
One of the reasons I like old-school books is that if I fall asleep and the book falls on the floor, ok. One of these spendy toys, not so much.
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11-18-2012, 20:48
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I finished reading, Taliban by Ahmed Rashid. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the history of the Taliban, who they are what they want and just how bat shit crazy they really are. It’s a very detailed book that’s hard to convert to memory and easy to get lost in the weeds with all the detail. I’ll be reading it again at some point just to make everything stick.
Now I'm starting Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. What a whooper of a read!
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Read his second book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia; but don't buy Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. His third book he didn;t want to write it but was under some contract. So for me it had little new information between Taliban, Chaos and No Country.
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"Berg Heil"
History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over."
COLONEL BULL SIMONS
Intelligence failures are failures of command [just] as operations failures are command failures.”
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11-19-2012, 03:20
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Read his second book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia; but don't buy Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. His third book he didn;t want to write it but was under some contract. So for me it had little new information between Taliban, Chaos and No Country.
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I'll keep that in mind after this read thanks.
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11-22-2012, 17:35
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American Insurgents American Patriots
by T.H. Breen. Covers War of Independence times from more of a "people" perspective rather than a few key historic figures, and that there must be one (insurgent) before there is the other (patriot). Also goes into what folks did in terms of local measures/actions against Crown supporters leading up to & through Lexington-Concord, as well as what their tipping point was, i.e., when do things become "intolerable" as relates to activities of the Crown.
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11-22-2012, 20:35
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Blood of Brothers
Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer Originally published in 1991, the author was a NYT reporter based there before, during, and after the Sandinista revolution which took apart the Somoza dictatorship. From William Walker to Ollie North, Nicaragua has a facsinating history that is drawing me in like a tractor beam. Having visited Corinto this year, I wanted know more about the history of this country and this book delivers.
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11-30-2012, 06:33
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Thread closed at 72 pages.
This thread is continued at "What are you reading now II".
Gutes lesen!
Richard
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