Valid arguments. However bottles can be found on the cheep or free if your willing to do some cleaning. Stop by your local bar and ask them to save you a few empties for example or save up a few six packs worth of store bought beer bottles and skip the expensive bottle orders. Crown Bottle caps are like 6 bucks…

great book!

I dunno, I got the Brooklyn brew shops IPA kit on a whim and while its fun and a good intro to brewing you don't get a lot of beer for the work you put in. Cost wise if you dont have a big enough pot (or two) and a big sieve (for the grain) it works out to more like 70 bucks (not far from this kit which has BBS's…

I brew a lot too and use lots of different equipment from plastic carboys to glass to buckets. Buckets are great! They are a good entry into brewing at the 20 some bucks it costs to get a drilled lid and bucket. Carboys are 50 bucks and upwards in a lot of places. Also plastic is less likely to shatter when dropped,…

the cast and crew nickname for James Purfoy (Antony) was Puresex.

That dump Notre Dame too!

Well on that subject the catholic church is pretty vocal too... the death penalty is murder and therefore wrong. While I strongly disagree with them over reproductive rights I agree with them over the death penalty.

he has this youtube page where he rates frozen food. Really quite awesome. [www.youtube.com]

We Alaskans are pretty glad she's not here and there are lots of folks up here who would also appreciate some sympathy for having to put up with the Palins for so long. I mean no ones trying to get Minnesota to join Canada just to get rid of Bauchmann.

could have sworn past tense of smite was smote.

Thats not strictly true. They love not paying for wars. Its why Bush II was able to jack up the debt so fast.

Thanks, thats sweet and its nice knowing someone shares my experience. I'm at the point where Im just accepting that she had a lot of pain in her life and that her Manic Depression, insecurity and self hatred as well as her identity issues aren't my fault. She quit talking to me in 2001 when after a long double shift…

Its like the frog scorpion parabel only in Republican terms, the party's gonna sting you if your gay, cause thats the nature of the party. Being a conservative outsider still pretty much only makes you an outsider especially if you aren't useful to the party anymore. I never got my mom's need to cling to a political…

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Your right. But I hope now that they have admitted that the elephant is in the room they actually do something. I have to hope it because otherwise it makes me feel shitty about the sacrifices my friends and I have made to the service.

awesome... I feel like the burden should be on the military to prove that it was pre-existing if they had zero record of having it before they went in. Obviously this is not the case. Makes me sad.

Im not sure why the accuser would need to pay back anything with a legit PTSD diagnosis. if you suffer an accident or health condition in the military that precludes you from fulfilling your enlistment you are not required to pay back the money you owe.

All of which by the way I've seen. One of the most distasteful investigations I ever saw was a husband/ wife rape at gunpoint. She reported it and it was given to a boot Ensign on the cutter for prep for captains mast/ court marshal ... but he screwed it up (because a guy with less than a year of military service and…

Or the military bungles the initial stages of the rape investigation. counsels the raped individual to not get a rape kit or prevents them from doing so or lose it, or contaminate it. Then they say "Gosh I'm sorry its a he said she said case and we don't have enough to prosecute if you keep going with this you might…

If its true this is a big step for the military. After almost 15 years in I want to believe the brass care. its hard to believe though because it happens way too often and for so long their only response has been tough talk and long sad looks the other way as women and men are abused by others while serving their…