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Blatant self promotion?
In 1943 Dr. Louis Fieser , invented napalm.
Unlike some of the physicists who helped produce the atomic bomb, Fieser has no moral qualms about his role in producing one of modern warfare's most fearful weapons: "I have no right to judge the morality of napalm just because I invented it." Nor does he blame the Dow Chemical Co. For manufacturing napalm: "If the Government asked them to take a contract, and they're the best ones in a position to do so, then they're obliged to do it."
Napalm is a mixture of gasoline and a thickening agent for use in flame throwers or incendiary bombs. The thickener, to which the term "napalm" originally was applied, turns the mixture into a thick jelly that flows under pressure and sticks to a target as it burns.
Just like me.
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Every letter has a symbol that represents a system of thought:
The crescent and star for Islam;
the pentagram for Wicca;
the relativity formula for science;
the star of David for Judaism;
the Karma Wheel dotting the I for Buddhism;
the Tao symbol for Taoism;
the cross for Chrisitianity.
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^cool
John Kerry's boat, 44?
Kerry's direct commander at An Thoi, George Elliott, has denied ever being asked to run such a mission out of his base and three of Kerry's PCF 44 crewmen have denied ever being in Cambodia with Kerry.
Fire Rooster
Hardworking, resourceful, courageous and talented, Roosters are self-assured people. They possess powerful personalities and are notoriously dominant. In groups they are vivacious, amusing and popular. But Roosters can be conceited creatures, vain and boastful, with a strong egotistical need to constantly be the center of attention. Excellent at small talk, they can be the life of any party. Roosters are talkative types, outspoken, frank, open, honest -- but a little too blunt at times. A polished debater and able to cogently refute any opinion, the Rooster is a talented polemicist, and could be an excellent journalist or writer. With the Rooster's dedication to work well done, he or she would also make a good economist or a gifted administrator.
These people are born organizers, refined and elegant. They are tidy-minded and like to keep everything neat and shipshape. Their affairs will be all in order, accounts up to the minute and documents systematically filed away. They function best in an environment where everything is organized and their schedules programmed. When it comes to making decisions of any kind, Roosters prefer to carefully consider all sides of a situation before coming to a conclusion. In conflicts, Roosters will push to the extreme but flee before open hostilities break out. Their reflective and analytical abilities sometimes get the better of them. They must constantly question their point of view to ascertain its validity.
The management of finances is perhaps their strength, both on a private and professional level. When it comes to money, Roosters are prudent and careful. They are brilliant managers of other people's money; financial advisers, bank managers, and accountants would all do well to be born in the Year of the Rooster. The Rooster has the reputation of finding money in the most unlikely places, like drawing blood from a stone. In Vietnam they say that, thanks to the strength of his beak and claws, the Rooster can find a worm in a desert. This metaphor goes a long way to explain the continual and restless activity that characterizes him.
The Rooster man likes to be in the company of women, among whom he can show off, shine, swagger and generally demonstrate what a clever fellow he is. However, he rarely goes out for a night with the boys; men bore him to extinction. His Hen counterpart also likes the company of other women -- that's not to say that men bore her! -- and she chooses those professions which keep her constantly in touch with them.
The Rooster will touch the heights and depths during the three phases of his life, business-wise as well as romantically. He will go from poverty to riches, from ideal love to the most sordid of emotional entanglements. The Rooster's old age will be happy, however.
Legend has it in the East that two Roosters under the same roof make life intolerable for everyone else.
Under the influence of the Fire element, he may be a shooting star. He is vigorous, highly motivated and authoritative, able to operate independently, with great precision and skill, although he can also be temperamental, overdramatic and nervous at times.He is strongly principled and single-minded in his pursuit of success, displaying above average managerial skills. Diligent and intense, he abides fanatically by his own views, conducting his own research, unmoved and unswayed by the opinions or feelings of others.
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In a nutshell,
Vash,
is a sci-fi manga series with a steampunk Wild West theme created by
Yasuhiro Nightow in 1995, and adapted into a 26 episode anime series
in 1998 by Madhouse. It is the story of Vash the Stampede, a.k.a.
The Humanoid Typhoon, a person with a $$60,000,000,000 (the $$ is pronounced "double dollar")
bounty on his head, and the two Bernardelli Insurance Society employees,
Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who were ordered to follow him and
minimize the damage that seems to follow Vash everywhere he goes.
Like Himura Kenshin from the manga/anime series Rurouni Kenshin,
Vash can almost appear to have two personalities — that of a harmless idiot
and that of an unstoppable warrior -- but is always staunchly pacifist.
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