http://www.vytas.net/Active Topics from the forum of Welcome to Vytas.net! for http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=101Gas will cost less than $2.00 a gallon locally by July 1, 2006.<br/> Any takers?<br/> <br/> <br/> mlc jm http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=128Recently ( and not so recently) there have been a number of folks who have registered from Afghanistan. In fact, a lot of members have registered from Afghanistan. If you do not post and introduce yourself, you will be banned from this site, as will anyone else who registers with dubious credentials http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=126<strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">     Oh does the heart not just leap with joy when news arrives of the imminent arrival of friends and family. Oh how it fades when its the step mother in law, oh how it fades when its the spoiled little niece and nephew sans parents , oh how it darkens when it includes two mangy 80lb untrained dogs that must be kept in the house , oh how it borders the insane when it is going to last for three more weeks . My kingdom for a paying job so i... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=127<strong><em><font face="Tahoma" size="2">     Well well , lets just see if anyone is paying attention or is this site just another backwater world in the internet universe looking for an overhaul or well placed round  to the head. No i dont have any uranium for sale , although if someone had rocket technology to get a payload 50miles above the geographic center of North America i would be willing to swap venison and cheese. jcp </font></em></strong> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=125<strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">It started out not unlike of lot of other days around here , what with chores , and drama , and schedule changes , and transportation problems and all of the little things that come with four children from toddler to teen.<br/>  The lunch break involved a matinee showing of'' soylent green'' , one in a series of Charlton Heston futuristic doomsday movies. It was kind of neat to see Charly as a poor detective shaking down everyone in site in a 2022 new y... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=124<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Well whatever witch doctor wannabee said breaking the humerus wasnt a big deal doesnt know **** from Shinola. For those of you who dont know Shinola was the brand name of a black shoe polish. Two weeks and three casts later , with another couple weeks of hell to stave off surgery i will have several ''thoughts'' on my latest experiences with the medical 'treatment' , insurance , payment complex. One tip i will offer in the outing, when they ask what the pa... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=112<h5><font face="Tahoma" size="4">Due to advice from the highest levels i am forced to withdraw from civilization and hide in a place with no stop lights or fast food joints until i regain what little sanity i had to begin with . There is no cell phone service or internet stuff in the fishing boat or ATV or canoe so if anyone needs me just send snail mail to jcp florence Wisconsin 54121. It was nice being a part of the all go no stop buy everything no world , but the boss thinks it would be good ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=123<strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Is there anyone anywhere who can explain how six iranian''warships'' , snuck up and grabbed 16 Royal Marines out from under the bow of a fully functional HMS destroyer? What am i missing , or what is not being said about the rules of engagement? Someone help me out here because this incident reeks to me like a poopy diaper forgotten in a hot cooked July garbage can. </font></strong> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=122<strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">I sit here on a Monday night getting set for the first true storm of the season. Last year we had snow piled up around everywhere , but not being here full time it wasnt an issue. The national weather service has just issued a regional winter storm warning for northern wisconsin and the upper peninsula for friday saturday and sunday telling everyone to brace for snowfalls to be measured in feet and all travel in the region to be impossible . I am laying in su... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=121<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">      Just so the world knows it is right now fifteen degrees beneath the zero mark, the coldest temperature of the season, and i still want someone to point out to me the bad things about global warming. For those of you who havent dealt with temps so sub zero , it is wicked bad and goes beyond invigorating or refreshing , right to the heart of instant pain. Come on up sometime and experience what it is all about. jcp</font></stro... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=119<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">I never gave the falling of the leaves much notice, back in the day they were a nuisance to rake or gather or slip on and on occaision burn.Once a ahile in the fall i would admire the color changing but never went too nuts , it just marked time and let you know that the winter was coming on. After getting up to the northwoods i confess i didnt change much. I got trees now like i never had before , but still they were just things , kind of like long growi... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=118<strong><em><font face="Tahoma" size="2">As i hit the magic number only one thing pops to mind as deserving a stake in the heart. Reality TV. Anyone on reality TV needs to get a job, and anyone watching reality TV needs to get a life. FIN</font></em></strong> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=117<font face="Tahoma" size="3">98 down and one more to hit the century mark and i owe it all to you my beloved public. With the wind whistling through the autumnal color displays hanging from all the future firewood outside the great outdoors beckons, yet i promise through the long cold nights of winter soon arriving the keyboard will not be idle , the next hundred rants and run-ons should be as ignomious as the first and the nonsensical ravings of the near lunatic mind shall continue unabated eve... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=115<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">I was rolling through the hinterlands listening to the XMSR broadcast of the Laura Ingram show and was stunned to hear Christopher Hitchins , a monster wordsmith and former liberal , flip off the audience of Bill Mahrs HBO sponsored rant. It was in response to Mahrs asking Hitch if he too , like all noted intellectuals today , thought the President was a dullard or stupid. Christopher replied that calling the President stupid was the easiest atta... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=114<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">On the truck right now , enroute to San Antonio are the belongings of a family forever altered by the war in Iraq. Sgt. Ray was blown up and crippled in Iraq three months ago leading a patrol in some ****ing scumbag section of a god forsaken country for one reason above any other bull**** noise that politicians or pundits blather on about . He was doing his duty , for his country , his God , his family and his men. Nothing other than the purist&n... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=70<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">My personal experiences in Louisiana and New Orleans in particular bias my view of the entire Katrina event. I have been attacked and nearly robbed by gangs of natives attacking me in my truck while just simply trying to do my job. I have visited businesses where the employees have had to take the trucks home with them every night so they wouldnt be stolen or vandalized . Even on its best days of Mardi Gras and Superbowls it is a poorly engineered city in ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=106<p><font face="Verdana" size="3">Now i believe i have seen and heard everything. Tom is so offended over matt and trey picking on his psuedo religion he threatens legal action if the episode lampooning him is ever re-broadcast , but Isaac hayes another fellow lunatic worshipper , quits over the criticism , after nine years of picking up checks in a show that has ridiculed everything religious ever worshiped. Screw each and every one of these obnoxiou nut bag need an alternative to God / higher b... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=113Here is a must see vid from, of all places, Al-jazeera<br/> <br/> <br/> <strong>http://tinyurl.com/ze772<br/> <br/> </strong>I know that now the Possum is in the Northwoods and can only connect to the internet with tin can and string, that the discussion will be quite muted. Edited by - easy-v on 2006 August 14 08:14:09 http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=39So Newsweek's Michael Isikoff writes a news story about U.S. troops flushing a Koran down a toilet and suddenly the entire muslim world is in an uproar.  They are rioting and burning effigies of George W., which is pretty much what they do all the time anyway, but lately they killed 16 people during these riots. Presumably the victims of this violence were not sufficiently outraged?  Not rioting hard enough?<br/> <br/> If these hotheads would take a moment to think, they mi... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=110Zarqawi whacked.  More <a href="http://otolathe.blogspot.com">here</a>. http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=111<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Last week it was broadcast on CNN and Fox that somewhere between 66% and 77% of the people surveyed are scared about the economy and their financial futures. After doing a two week tour de force in the nations heartland i can assure everyone here that those surveys prove one thing , two thirds of the nations are dumb,dumber,or dumberer. The money i witnessed being spent on construction of infrastructure ,homes and everything else anyone could buy build dri... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=78<p><font face="Tahoma" size="3">I dont have the time to be smart or ''on '' or poetic so i just wanted to lash out with this after the  right wing shot itself in the foot and forced Harriet Meiers to withdraw her nomination for the Supreme Court. To doubt the judgement of your leader the year before midterm elections proves both that he isnt a smart savy  leader and that starting a fight with the left when one wasnt needed or politically expedient is stupidity run rampant. Let the left... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=108We should have  these more often - traffic on 294 was super light.<br/> <br/> Edited by - easy-v on 2006 May 01 12:36:27 http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=95Sorry for the hiatus.<br/> Happy New Year to everyone currently using the 12 month calendar.<br/> To the rest of ya's, Happy New Year whenever that comes. <br/> What year will that be anyway, 1442?<br/> Who knows?<br/> Who Cares?<br/> <br/> My first resolution is to Thank Vytas for restoring my eyesight.<br/> The blue is much more cone, or maybe its rod, friendly than the mustang zinc yellow chromate.<br/> <br/> Hope everyone and their families and friends are doing well.<br/> St... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=107<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Trey Parker and Matt Stone have finally arrived as genius/historic satirists. In the last two weeks and the upcoming weeks episodes attacking Scientology and now Islam , and our cultural response to both they are setting the stage for a discourse that no one else wants to admit even exists. They are pointing the finger at the 500lb gorilla in the corner and saying ' What the **** is that?" They are also doing what no other media outside of talk radio ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=94<p><font face="Verdana" size="2">An open question to any and all. Please list the greatest sacrafice you have made in and with your life, and list the greatest sacrafice you could and could not imagine yourself making, in the truest hypothetical sense. This is Christmas-Religious-War on Terror related for a future stream of consciousness and private messages will be accepted if it gets too personal for public viewing . </font></p> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=103Why isn't the press discussing the "Saddam tapes"? There are umpteen hours of delicious conversations among the Saddamites in Hussein's digs, some of which clearly corroborates all claims that he was evading UN inspections and hiding biological weapons and any proof that he had nuclear ambitions. <br/> <br/> For the most part, Cheney's blunder overshadowed the press coverage of this unbelievable finding/development. What I want to know is "How comes?" Is the ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=105<p><em><font face="Tahoma" size="3">After weeks on the road with nothing but the satelite radio to keep me informed and not the ever present TV to rot my already decaying mind , i just have to let everyone , thats all ten or so of you know what a train wreck the press and politicos have turned this country into in just a few short months. I am alright with the NSA listening into terror suspects and their telephones. What i am beside myself about is CNN CBS ABC UPI AP just to name a few getting a... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=104Could you imagine the firestorm if GW said this?<br/> <br/> from <br/> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060315/ap_on_re_as/hu_s_list_1;_ylt=AlLJMfeBExI117AHgiFnrAX9xg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmY">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060315/ap_on_re_as/hu_s_list_1;_ylt=AlLJMfeBExI117AHgiFnrAX9xg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmY</a>--<br/> <br/> Do's and Don't's From China's President <!-- END HEADLINE --> <div id="ynmain"><!-- BEGIN STORY BODY --> <div id="storybody"> <div class="s... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=102I posted my pics from the auto show in the member galleries. Check out the Dodge Challenger concept vehicle. Very Hot. http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=100<p>Take your happy trudging down the daily road of destiny and wipe your bottom with it. In the end none of it comes close to making a difference to anyone or anything so why bother? I hereby abdicate any connection or relationship with any and all norms of this so-called civilization. </p> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=97Per a little tidbit in my Forum column, I was asked to welcome Tooz to our little corner of the internet.<br/> Therefore,  I shall do as I am asked.<br/> <br/> WELCOME TOOZ.<br/> <br/> mlc jm http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=98<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="2">    I was having a typical road day. Everything was just a little bit more screwed up and difficult than it had to be. The shippers house was out in the boondocks, help was going to be tough to come by , logistically the load was a nightmare , Maryland is a tough truck state , the New Year holiday weekend had everyones head firmly planted in their behinds and i wasnt feeling 100% to begin with. Tough **** get over it and deal with it. E... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=96Holy Crap, I made it.<br/> I am a Junior Member JM<br/> It's official and no one can take it away (except Vytas)<br/> <br/> Please send all congratulatory emails to:<br/> <br/>                                                     &nbsp... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=81<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <p><font face="Times New Roman"> A</font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">utumn calls the clouds <br/>  </font></span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">To </span> <place></place> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Biwa</span> <span style="FONT... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=90<p>I was wondering, what blogs do you read or visit on a regular basis?<br/> <br/> I just came across this blog, and though I do not know the author, I can completely see where he is coming from:<br/> <br/> <a href="http://diaryofanitmadman.blogspot.com/">http://diaryofanitmadman.blogspot.com/</a></p> Edited by - easy-v on 2005 December 16 09:04:26 http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=68<p><strong><em><font face="Tahoma" size="1">I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS FINE FINE SITE FOR ELEVATING ME TO JUNIOR MEMBER. I FEEL AS LIGHT AND FUZZY AS DARTH VADER DID BEFORE SLAUGHTERING ALL THE YOUNGLING JEDI IN REVENGE OF THE SITH . THANKS ALSO TO THE VISITORS AND READERS WHO WITH THEIR DELIGHTFUL LIGHT HEARTED WAYS MAKE CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITE AND ITS FELLOWSHIP A LABOUR OF LOVE. JCP</font></em></strong></p> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=91<pre><em><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="1">As i sit here in the comfort of the office where only my feet are cold and the gaze of my youngest daughter warm and friendly i listen to the news radio and hear all the traffic <br/> disasters going on in the tri state area and just want to remind people when the snow is flying it is time to slow down a little the life and car you save may be your own. Just <br/> because it looks clear does not make it so when the temperature is below that at whic... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=93<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="3">As a follow up to my previous discussion i was just wondering what everyone here does for their investment planning and advice? Do you trade online? Do you have mutual funds , stocks , brokers , ETFs , plans to recommend or pan ? What are you doing for your retirement if anything? These are but a few questions i ponder in these wee morning hours before the day begins because given the state of social security it is probably the most important least pressi... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=92<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">    <strong>In the late afternoon on CNBC a phenomenom is happening in the form of a single man with the ego of a child and the knowledge of a hardened expert trader. Mad Money with Jim Cramer is all about making money , along with the showmanship and craziness that P.T. Barnum would love. A cross between a side show front man and center stage ringmaster Cramer offers stock advice like no one has ever down. It may take some a great deal to get ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=89<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">     I just wanted to take this momment and wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season, a Merry Christmas , and a Happy New Year. Those other holidays of quanzzae and chanuaahkaa are welcome to celebrate and enjoy has well  and even the infidels and atheists are welcome to enjoy the season as long as they dont screw it up too much. The reason Jesus is the reason for the  season is that God loved the world so he was willing ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=85<p><em><font face="Tahoma" size="1">I sit here typing away wondering why i cant get paid for  a job i did four weeks ago and i wonder not so much at the peasants who run interference for my boss , but for the ''man '' himself and why he feels he has a better right to my money than i do? I worked for it and it is contractually mine , i need it more than he does , i have better uses for it and for some reason i just cant get it out of him without a fight. With a wife and four young children t... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=88<p><em><font face="Courier New" size="2">I sit here , which isnt far from anywhere and look out the window at the little cars and trucks and busy people scurry past on their everday routine and wonder at the background. Out my office window the snow  flakes flutter down in their willy nily haphazard pattern going where ever they will and settle down at their own convenience. I know it is cold out in their world becasue my sockless sleeperless toes are cold but the coffee in my white mug is ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=86<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2">I was reading through US news and World Report and was shocked to see a letter from a man in Virginia of all places saying the French response or lack there of, to the rioting of the last few weeks wasnt a failure but an appropriate way to deal with the arson of thousands of cars and buildings, and wounding of hundreds of innocent citizens and police. I was struck because the response in general was to let them run amok and accept blame for... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=83Okay, my mom surprised me by asking me to say grace at Thanksgiving so I improvised the following prayer:<br/> <br/> Dear God In Heaven,<br/> <br/> Thank you for getting us through another year and allowing us to meet at this table today to eat and to give thanks. We are grateful for all of the victories and bountiful treasure that you have bestowed upon us to date. We worship you for visiting despair and death upon our enemies. May you continue to favor us with the sunny side of your infini... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=80John,<br/> Congratulations on your most recent addition to this spinning rock.<br/> <br/> We welcome Abigail with open arms.<br/> <br/> peace.<br/> mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=84I can't count how many times over this past weekend that while in public I heard "have a nice holiday" or "did you have a nice holiday".<br/> <br/> What ever happened to wishing people a happy Thanksgiving? Or just referring to turkey day as Thanksgiving.  Is it now a non-culturally specific, non-religious affiliated,  generic "holiday"?<br/> <br/> Have the Political Correctness Police started to wage war against the ideology behind Thanksgiv... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=79Vyt,<br/> <font size="3">thanks for the effort on the border.<br/> Maybe it would have been easier to ask Lithuania to change the retina-damaging hues on their flag.<br/> I spent all that money getting my eyes fixed by a laser and in less than 10 milliseconds, your border reversed everything.<br/> You owe me money.<br/> </font><br/> John, I had to cut and past the following from your latest rant:  <font size="3"><strong>throw all kinds of linguistic ideaological molotov cocktails... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=82Check out this site: <br/> <br/> <url>http://www.mikecaracciolo.com/index.asp?page=videos </url><br/> <br/> This guy is a regular riot.  You might have trouble downloading the vids, but if you visit off hours you shouldn't have any problems.<br/> <br/> Think about it<br/> <br/> lol<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Edited by - easy-v on 2005 November 10 12:29:10 http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=77Jeez, this place is dead lately.  John's new baby has obviously mellowed the Enormous Trucker and we have seen a marked decrease in his cultural musings.  The yellow border has obviously blinded Costello and we anxiously await his mastery of the new Braille keyboard.  The angry Lithuanian broods about Eastern Front troop levels in November of 1943 and keeps his thoughts to himself.  And I, the Kestutis?  <br/> <br/> I am [A HREF="http://www.tailspinrecovery.c... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=69<h2><font size="7">This could not have happened to a better more deserving place.</font></h2> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=72<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">     As the nomination of Judge Roberts clears its way out of committee and heads for the Senate the one case it will be in line to hear this fall that interests me the most and causes almost as much debate as Roe v Wade is the case coming out of California by Mr. Newbau on behalf of a daughter he no longer has custody of regarding the Pledge of Allegiance. He contends that the phrase 'under God' clashes with the anti-establishment of r... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=73Vyt,<br/> For the love of God, please change that task-bar fill-in color from yellow to anything but yellow.<br/> I feel it may have reversed my laser eye surgery.<br/> If so, you owe me $4600.<br/> <br/> mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=75Vyt,<br/> I have been unsuccessful uploading a few pictures.<br/> I get the following error.<br/> <br/> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="3" width="400"> <tbody> <tr> <td id="tableProps" valign="top" align="left"><img id="pagerrorImg" height="33" src="res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\shdoclc.dll/pagerror.gif" width="25" alt=""/></td> <td id="tableProps2" valign="middle" align="left" width="360"> <h1 id="errortype" style="FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=76Vyt,<br/> How do I enter a photo into my ID on your website?<br/> thanks<br/> mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=74JCP, <br/> this one is for you.<br/> I read about him in a United Airlines article on the way to Ft. Collins, CO.<br/> Thought you may be interested.<br/> <br/> mlc<br/> <br/> ps, Vyt, my apologies about the border color, my eyes are fine, but I do believe I am developing skin cancer. http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=35Col David Hackworth, author of "About Face" and dedicated enemy of the beauracrats in the pentagon, has passed away. Rest in peace Colonel, and lets hope someone as outspoken and dedicated as you steps up to the plate to become the advocate of the grunts in the mud that you were. There is a pair of big jump boots that need to be filled. <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Vietnam Vet, Journalist Hackworth Dies By MA... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=71<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">One week ago Katrina was a category 5 storm churning up the Gulf headed to the Coast . Monday evening it had made its landfall and headed inland. Tuesday afternoon the levees broke around New Orleans and Wednesday the finger pointing and blame game began. The television has carried saturation coverage of every point in every state but has focused on New Orleans where the situation went from desperate to chaos in a matter of hours all in front of the camera... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=63<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">I just got back from closing on and enjoying my first weekend up north. I have heard for years people talk about going up north in  a lot of different states across the country even states south of me. I now know the meaning of the phrase . To get away from phones, TV, traffic , noise , smog , people, and just about all the problems they bring was a true treat, a real vacation. The whole of the weekend was highlighted Friday night as i watched the sun... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=65<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">The Boy Scouts i remember growing up where always knid of geeky or nerdy kids , but usually pretty sharp kids who by the time they got to high school knew some stuff about the outdoor world and camping and fishing and survival that i know wish i knew. In the last week however four scout leaders were killed putting up a tent at the nationwide Jamboree in VA and then hundreds had to be hospitalized due to heat prostration at the same Jamboree where they are ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=67<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">The mayor of London Ken Livingstone, gets the award for and article which he posted in the Guardian on the fourth of this month and some of his live comments over the last few days. Blaming the war in Iraq and the situation in Israel for the bombings of the Tube is the biggest crock i have smelled in a long time. While saying he disagrees with a cllerics stand on gay rights[a clerics view of gay rights is being allowed to rape young boys and then kill... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=66<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Everyone knows that the first bomb dropped on hiroshima was dropped by the Enola Gay . A little known fact is that the second bomb was dropped by another B-29 called Boxcar and that Nagasaki wasnt the intended target at all . The first target was Kobe and due to fog the secondary was selected. If that isnt one of the best examples of right place at the wrong time i dont know what is. </font></strong></p> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=64<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Sixty years ago this week the USof A had the will power of its people and respect for its enemy and fought total war flattening a couple of overblown villages and crushed the will of the enemies leadership and citizens . Thirty years later the enemy who had been broken as well as beaten was the second largest economy in the world and in the following three decades cemented its place as a world economic powerhouse.I believe this is the perfect example ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=62<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">I was reading the Sunday papers and the two stories that caught my eye were the Brazillian electrician gunned down by London anti-terror police and the two Iranian boys hanged for raping younger male children . The first is a real tragedy in that it shows the world we now , or at least the English now liv ein where a lack of communication and having to respond constantly to the worst possible outcome scenario , has raised the stakes for everyone, especiall... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=59<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="4">For the love of God take down  the poll and results from the home page , only three responses is ****ing embarassing to those of us who feel marginalized by having to come hear in the first palce. Either that or due the cook county shuffle and add about 1,000 votes so it looks like someone visits here othe r than just us dolts.</font></strong></p> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=61<p><font face="Tahoma" size="3">     <strong>I am amazed and not so amazed that no one else has mentioned the massacre in London on this site, maybe we are just at the point of over load and a little jaded by terror. Maybe we are just surrendering to the inevitable. Maybe we are just thankful that it happened to someone other than ourselves. Maybe we are even to the point where ther is a little bit of I told you so  involved . The response from the media and the lef... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=60<p><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><strong>  Has anyone tried to read these ten pound books with half way decent stories but atrocious dialogue. I tried to read one of the marketing devices called a book a couple years ago and found myself longing for the more creative and stimulating owners manual for my CAT enginge but maybe its just me. I understand the series appeals to lonely, picked on islated children who feel different and left out but for Christ's sake thats all kids age eig... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=58<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">I was stuck watching CNN and MSNBC because the Days Inn had limited cable , waiting for Thursday to turn to Friday and i noticed when they were refering to one of the suspects in the London atrocities they were showing the headlines for the British papers and even though the papers contained pictures of men sought in the bombings, the cameras would not show the faces of the suspects sought. Fox even went so far as to focus at length on a mail box of o... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=57<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">      Where the route heading north and west turns south, dont. Keep going straight through the trees untill the second stop sign on a street named for a story telling singer and head back north. Past the schools and churches and little quaint cottages and doll houses and places where people need to see their neighbors homes for both security and vanity sake , keep going up and down the hills , past the road to mud lake , out where... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=56<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">     I have been listening to Hugh for about four months now and have nothing but the best things to say about his radio show . I found him on WIND in Chicago where he follows the sell out Savage ''buy my book and sons energy drink please'' Nation. He is a brilliant constitutional law professor and major blogger with a book on the subject. His site is huge and well written and if you are looking for a place to get the facts and brillian... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=54<p>    <strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">It isnt that i have much against either Cruise  or Spielberg, i really dont , but i knew two years ago when i heard the news that this was their next joint project i knew they would **** it up. I went into the film ready to suspend my sense of disbeliefe and go along for the ride of the worlds first true science fiction story. I even overlooked the major change of it not being Martian invaders and the fact that they didnt land here ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=55<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">     Having family and friends in FLA i kept an eye , or rather an ear to the news this last week as the storm approached. I had the opportunity to be in ALA right after Ivan last year so i know what a big storm can do and had some concerns. After listening to Fox News CNN and Msnbc on my XMSR while rolling home from Seattle i was stunned to hear the atrocious grammar and language from the anchor reporters. Fox and CNN both titled the p... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=43Dutch voters turned out in droves today to overwhelmingly reject the EU constitution.  The vote is not binding and is merely "advisory" to the government of PM Jan Peter Balkenende, but he had earlier said he would only accept the verdict if the turnout were higher than 30 percent and if 55 percent of those rejected it.  In the event, turnout was 62 percent, of which a similar percentage voted to reject.  <br/> <br/> Coming on the heels of the French rejection, it... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=53I was finally able to figure out how to upload pictures (thanks vyt).<br/> Please check out my recent visit to Holland.<br/> mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=52 http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=45Comrade Vytatous, <br/> I assume that by not responding to my question of promotion to "Not-So Newbie" I can expect that to be the highest rank on VYTAS.NET that I can hope to achieve.<br/> Considering your brother Paul, who is about a gazillion times smarter than me, also holds the rank of Newbie, I am blessed to be in such a Socialist Website.<br/> Nostrovia,<br/> <br/> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=48<br/> I'm getting Microsoft runtime errors when I try to upload images to a gallery.  Does anyone know what's going on?<br/> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=47<br/> Hello all, this is my introduction.  I found this list today and am just now looking around.<br/> <br/> I am first-generation Lithuanian/American, my mother is from Kaunas and my father is from Kretinga.  I am marginally conversant and barely literate in Lithuanian; I'm trying to expose myself to more of the language.<br/> <br/> I made my first visit to LT in August 2003 and loved it.  We plan to go back this August for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.  I shot... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=46Vyt,<br/> I have a bunch (about 20) photos I took while walking from my hotel in Hoofddorp to Haarlem while in The Netherlands.  They came out pretty good.  How can I post these?  I tried one at a time, but your website kept kicking me off.<br/> Thanks,<br/> mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=44Couple quick stories of my trip to Amsterdam last week.  They are much better in person but I needed to write the Cliff-notes anyway.<br/> One visited downtown Amsterdam with a German, Italian, and a Portugesian whom I had met at our sales meeting earlier in the day.  Quite a quartet.  Talked about life, counrty, religion, politics.  The German, a Micheal Stemmerman, surprisingly, blond hair blue-eyed, has yet to be told that his vaderland had lost the both the 1st and 2nd W... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=41<pre><font face="Tahoma" size="4">In memorium</font><br/> </pre> <p align="center"><img height="135" alt="" src="/UserFiles/Image/Image1.jpg" width="587"/></p> <br/> <font face="Tahoma">This weekend, let's try to remember the reason for the holiday. With a lot of servicemen in harm's way, remember to support the families and survivors of those who have given their lives in defense of this great country of ours.<br/> </font><br/> <br/> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=34I overheard an Australian proudly proclaiming that Australia makes wines that the French would die for. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the French wouldn't die for anything. mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=32Tonight, as my family entered the United Center to watch our first Bulls game this year, I thought to myself "who am I going to run into tonight that I know?" I always play this little game and more often than not, wherever I am in the country or for that matter in the world, I somehow manage to meet up with a friend or aquaintance. The fact that I don't ask this question out loud anymore is only because it drives my wife crazy. Far too many instances when I know the person in the car next to... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=30<u><b>Gate To Osaka</b></u> Barge Car Truck Train Plane The Transportation Nation Walk Ride Stand Sit Wait <img src="http://vytas.net/images/osaka.jpg" border=0> <b><u>Matsuyama Sun</b></u> A new day’s sun wakes the swallow, the coy, the people. Yesterday is gone <img src="http://vytas.net/images/matsuyama.jpg" border=0> <b><u>Rails of Osaka</b></u> Here There Everywhere the bloodline of the city and of the people <img src="http://vytas.net/images/rails_of_osaka.j... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=31<font face='Tahoma'></font id='Tahoma'> On the morning of April 18th , Cardinal Ratzinger soon to be Pope Benedict XVI, gave the following homily to the men who would elect him Pope. This is part of it that i think goes a long way to explaining the Faith. "Having a clear faith ,based on the creed of the church, is often labeled as a fundamentalism...Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,'looks like the only attitude acceptable to today'... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=28<font size=5><b><font face='Tahoma'>Doctor,radio host , author , <font face='Tahoma'></font id='Tahoma'>and wanna be populist common man hero; or just another hack and schill, snake venom dealer whose pockets never get full enough. I have been a listener to the ''Savage Nation' for a couple years now , and bought into the self proclaimed 'registered independant' , nationalist, true conservative , mantra that Dr. Savage broadcast over his air waves every evening. One thing i will not take away fr... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=29<font size=4><font face='Tahoma'>It has ceased to amaze me what goes on in the world at times that never gets a second look or even the first half-assed glance from the rest of the clones going about their only daily grind. I have given up on the majority of humanity. When it happens closer to home it makes me more concerned and formerly saddened at the death of common courtesy or emotional honesty or spiritual integrity; and it confirms the end of times and the waste of time. So for those who s... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=25Vyt, I registered with the soon to be active offam.com website. I was torn between cool and what the hell is this regarding the opening page, but I believe I chose wisely. Anyway, the logo is awesome. Kudos to the person/people that came up with that. Have a great President's Day. What other time would Millard Fillmore get the respect that was due to him but never realized? Fillmore was a president wasn't he? mlc http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=27“That poor old man. He used to walk out there on the road in the evenings. He was so frail and thin and old-looking that it was embarrassing to see him. I was always afraid a car would hit him, and that would be an awful way for him to go.” Hunter S. Thompson “What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum” National Observer, May 25, 1964 By now it has taken a couple of laps around the 'net so it should not be news to you that Hunter Stockton Thompson has killed himself. Obituaries delicately not... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=24<font face='Tahoma'><font size=4>[b]I was sitting at my desk last week ,doing the monthly tradition of paying my families bills so i can remain a citizen in good standing and it dawned on me a good chunk of my total income goes to insurance; not really insurance ,but insurance companies. In the interest of total honesty and disclosure i will share these numbers , and ask yourself if i am out of touch , or have a legitimate gripe. The insurance for the home is $228 twice a year, that doesnt cover... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=23<font face='Tahoma'><font size=4><b>As the concept of open road 'tolling took effect the first of this year i just wanted to compliment the citizenery of Illinois for falling lock step in line with the powers that be. I also wanted to make an observation or two. The toll increases which took effect this year will continue for the next five years while the tollroad is rebuilt. So instead of issuing bonds and raising the rates after the headaches and delays of construction are over, everyone will ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=22<font face='Tahoma'>Text</font id='Tahoma'><font size=4>Text</font id=size4><b>Text</b>Just fucking amazing how every fucking where i fucking look some cocksucking motherfucking baby raping son of a bitch wants to come around and fucking censor or fucking delete some goddamned shitty piece of asshole appeasing bastardized pretend English . Lets not do our own jobs and mind our own goddamned mother fucking business, lets ignore our own little minded fucking undirected lives and get right down to ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=21<font size=4><font face='Tahoma'>I stopped wondering about coincidences some while ago and in my latest incarnation have been told on more than one occaison , by more than one person that all things happen for a reason , there are no coincidences. I for one believe it and given the last few months find it comforting in a very strange way. That being said i thought it was interesting that a day after Christmas a large wave of cleansing water came up and wiped out large section of Thailand and Ind... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=18vytas, you play so many damn wargames that you should get on here and review some of them, before i go and buy the dumb ones. i've gone on a wargaming spree the last few weeks and bought [url="http://www.matrixgames.com"]War in the Pacific[/url], [url="http://totalwar.wargamer.com/"]Rome: Total War[/url], and [url="http://panzers.wargamer.com/"]Codename: Panzers[/url]. also, Halo2 is now out, so you won't be hearing from me for a while. http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=19<font face='Tahoma'><font size=4>The biggest news stroy of the day after thanksgiving was the now age old tradition of Americans piling into their heavily financed oversized SUV's and motoring out to the local shopping bazaar to participate in an orgy of debt enhancement that is at the heart of the long slide of the decline of what used to be America. One can't comment with great certainty about the where and when this mad dash began because as all great social movements they have the subtlety o... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=11Maybe you can [url="http://illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=19834"]make Illinois flip[/url] the way your neighbor blue states did. I gave JCP his Bush Cheney 04 hat & went out & bought me another one. http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=9The great tortured, mythical vision that is offam.com is slowly starting to take shape. The name has been registered, and the rudimentary foundations are being set. Joe Nagler, Bob Rizzuto and I are discussing the layouts and the content. Once we can get Joe back on line, we can get him cranking out some quality content. I am really excited, as OFFAM.COM looks like it will have a lot of cool features and will be a very intriguing site. Stay tuned for more news on OffAm.com, as things start... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=120<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">In Britian this week an ex-KGB agent died of exposure to radioactive pallodium after trying to Russian official ties to the murder of a prominent journalist in Moscow six months ago. The journalist was uncovering huge Russian corruption scandals[ or is that being redundant] with regard to nuclear waste and security. Now while its obvious the Russians really know how to get things done the old fashioned way it should make every whistle blower and informant in this ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=116<p><strong><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Pope Benedict is under extreme fire for remarks made during a religious theological conference , in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who said 500 years ago that Islam was a religion of extremists who spread the faith with the sword. As violence against churches and nuns exploded in Islamic countries , the Minister of Justice in Turkey called for the Pope and all Catholics to convert to Islam immediately , pay a head tax , or be executed .... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=99<p><font size="1">With the Iranian 'President ' vowing yesterday to kick out  UN Inspectors if they were sent in front of the security council for sanctions , we as a world should ready ourselves for one of two things, First would be another war in another rogue Middle Eastern Islamic nation , or second a major Israeli city being flattened by a nuke and the subsequent Israeli response. Not a pleasant sun shiney future but alas , we are but humans in a world designed for a God. May the good ... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=15<font face='Tahoma'>Submit your Links! I have been updating the links section with some of my links. Feel free to add your own. They all go through an approval process through me first, so don't fret if they don't show up immediately.</font id='Tahoma'> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=17Yes, the movie that can't be shown on tv. Download it <font color=red>[url="http://tanaya.net/vmw/stolen_honor_final1.wmv"]HERE[/url]</font id=red> IF that link doesnt work, try <font color=red>[url="http://www.annointed.net/"]here (registration may be required)[/url]</font id=red> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=14Added some news feeds to the front page. If you have any XML or RSS enabled web sites that you would like to have added to this site, post them here and I will add them. I am still not sure wether I want to have the feeds on the front page, as it seems to clutter it up a bit to me, and I am not sure that the 2 column layout of the feed is really useful. http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=12Chat functionality has been added. See the "Others" box on the main page in the lower left corner and click on the "CHAT NOW" link http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=10<font face='Verdana'>Sign up for a free V-net account and you will be able to participate in the community forums; add and share events on the community calendar; share links with everyone; as well as be able to publish your own articles (a good place for JCP to rant and rave). In the future, I am looking to add a photo gallery that everyone can upload and share their own photos, possibly some sort of blogging functionality, as well as a chat. Sign up today!!!</font id='Verdana'> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=8total time installing and connecting to wireless network for G4: 6 minutes. total time installing Linksys network card to Pentium 4 2.2 GHz Compaq Presario, configuring XP network, re-configuring XP network, re-re-configuring XP network, uninstalling Linksys card, re-installing Linksys card with updated firmware and drivers, updating XP with Service Pack 2, re-uninstalling Linksys card, re-re-re-installing Linksys card, and tweaking XP network configuration: several days. Note: the ab... http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=7<font face='Verdana'><b><h2>CR VI Beckons</b></h2> Yes, its time again for the party of the summer: CR VI. Things will kick off at noon and go until the beer runs dry. Drop me an email <b>[url="mailto:vboyev@aol.com"]here[/url]</b> if you need details, directions, times or places.... </font id='Verdana'> <img src="http://vytas.net/news/images/bigpossum.jpg" border=0> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=6New look OK, so I am trying something a little bit different then before. Instead of hand coding web pages, I have now changed to a "portal" format. This will be a work in progress, as all web pages are. The web galleries will also be changing, as I try out different software. Opensource is a wonderful thing! For now, you can access my photo galleries by clicking <font color=red><b>[url="http://www.vytas.net/pix"]HERE[/url]</b></font id=red> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=16<font face='Tahoma'>Check out the links section for my Lit Links. I will continually add to these, as I am making it my own personal crusade to flush out Lithuanian resources on the internet. My experience has been that most pages are not updated, and of relatively poor informational value. I hope to make it my personal goal to change that...and I guess you can say that that is one of V Net's goals.</font id='Tahoma'> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=20<font face="Tahoma"> I am going to use this thread to post Lithuanian stores and resources that are not on the web, or do not have dedicated web presences. I guess you could call this a V NET EXCLUSIVE!! I will post them individually as their own posts </font> http://www.vytas.net/link.asp?Topic_ID=50Yes, it's my baby brudder's birthday today.  Awwww, idn't he cute?  I'm flying to Cali today so I won't get a chance to call your drunken ass, so happy message board birthday you ****!  I'll have one for ya on the plane!