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[Bill_in_Bethlehem]

my name is Bill, and you can probably guess from my user name that I live in Bethlehem, PA

I posted (rarely) on political panic under the same name, and I post (rarely) on the Politico comments section with the same name as well.

I follow politics and sports pretty regularly

cheers

[Precocity]

Welcome Bill_in_Bethlehem.

Hopefully you will post (frequently) here.

[Kane]

[JDHURF]

[Paladin]

25, nuke electrician till I'm 30, married, 1 white GSD kid
Don't do any drugs, including drinking and smoking. Not religious (raised very religious). social life = computer and wife.
Used to be healthy, until I joined the military; now I have some chubb going on.

Love understanding. Life motto is 'Truth and Honor'. Stoic. Anti-hedonist. Objectivist.
Love political X-fire debates/discussions and I believe I started reading them in 2004 or '05.

A few characters I enjoyed reading particularly (and whose names I can't quite remember):
LJB? (he had a picture of Winston Churchill at one point and he had a lot of great references from what I remember!)
Girl Next door? (a female who hated foreign aid and had a picture of a sinking foreign aid boat)
John Galt (I see him here~! Used to have good ole' Obi Wan as a pic)
There were others like uebermann and some guy who had a ridiculous percentage of the overall political crossfire posts ;-D

Hopefully I'll have time to peruse the forums and get involved~

[Fishstyx]

Name is Fishstyx. Comes from an old nickname given to me while assigned to 180' buoy tender. Real first name in after a fish and I was 145lb out of boot and pretty skinny. Has nothing to do with the band! lol

Old PCF veteran. Played at PP for a bit, took a break just shy of year. Bounce around the country every 4 years, just the east coast thus far. One end to the other.

Fishing, food, books and politics take up most of my free time.

[spacemonkey]

Hello all, Im spacemonkey. and need no introductions,lol

[Mo~]

[uebermann]

[Spider]

I guess I can do one of these.

Starting to get old (FML), married, no kids (but its in the near future planning), engineer, soon to start work on grad degree. Socially, liberal as possible, fiscally, really quite conservative. Strong interest in science/tech topics, motorcycling, current events, and reading. I am extremely enthusiastic about beer, the PacNW, the coming ascension of the Republic of Cascadia, and all the weirdness that comes with my chosen corner of the world.

Was born on a 727 in Canadian airspace 9 weeks premature, birth certificate issued in Anchorage AK. Spent early years in Alaska (lotta fun...GREAT place to be a kid) before returning to Oregon, where I mostly bounced around throughout my childhood, spending most of my time in Portland area schools, but did the last 3 years of high school waaaay out in a remote ranching community, where I developed a deep-seated loathing for social conservatism and a strong appreciation for guns and outdoorsmanship. Attended Oregon State University for a couple years, where I was an AFROTC cadet and a more or less full time graveyard worker in a medical device plant. Didn't sleep much. Lucked out and scored a free ride scholarship to go to school in the UK, wound up hanging around over there for the better part of two years. Came back, stitched together a bizarre degree from a lot of international credits and impassioned arguing, and graduated in CE. Didn't like the job market, so went through USAF OTS, and served just over two years on active duty, mostly at Aviano AFB in Italy. Then came an extreme car accident and back injury, got drummed out of the Air Force on medical, and life kinda sucked for about a year. It was during this period that the doctors believe I developed this severe and apparently untreatable insomnia problem, which is annoying me at this very moment.

Then I met her and things have been a helluva lot better ever since. I daresay I'm actually happy and content, despite finding gray hairs in my beard and spending way too much time arguing with you people when I should be doing something constructive.

That's my journey thus far.