I had a great day on the shore of our local reservoir with my baby boys. When was the last time you went to a beach or lake?

We have introduced the fourth generation to the wonders of the water world in the past month.
Now if only we could accomplish our goal in life-to go from water babies to beach bums! It's expensive to be a beach bum in today's world. biggrin smilie

The Pittsburgh Steelers will destroy the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots in the first game of the season, this coming Thursday.

Haters gonna hate.

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If you like heavy metal, what's your favorite heavy metal band out of these? (not including other genres of metal, just heavy)
@Ms_Kris Blind Guardian is one of my favorite bands right now, but they're power metal, power and symphonic metal are my...

Nice, they're definitely one of my all time favs. Same here with the power metal, I love melodic too. Like, In Flames, for example.

This one I've been listening to a lot recently.
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If you like heavy metal, what's your favorite heavy metal band out of these? (not including other genres of metal, just heavy)
@Ms_Kris That's a really good one, reminded me a lot of Iron Maiden...but still did their own thing.

Hell yeah, Blind Guardian is awesome too, but you specified straight up heavy metal.

This is what happens when Iced Earth and Blind Guardian collide...
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If you like heavy metal, what's your favorite heavy metal band out of these? (not including other genres of metal, just heavy)

Iced Earth

Torture should not be commonplace in our society, amirite? Consider that to stop the torture, many will confess to anything.

torture never has made sense from the standpoint of intelligence gathering. it only makes sense on the context of cold-hearted, evil people seeking to get their jollies by causing pain.