Making Your Martial Art Street Effective with Sensei “Big” John Petrone on April 29-30, 2006

Did you see the April 2006 issue of Black Belt Magazine where they listed the 20 best street fighters in the world? Guess who was pictured next to Professor David James, the Grandmaster of the Vee Arnis ...

"Thursday the Irish Republican Army, after decades of terror, announced it would permanently abandon military operations."

See http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0729/p01s04-woeu.html

As someone with ancestors from both Northern and Southern Ireland, I welcome this headline! However, I am also saddened ...

Thanks for sharing your story Panther. Your dad and uncle were great men. Although they were extremely humble about their accomplishments, it's good for relatives like you to keep their legacies alive.

My great-grandfather gave me one thing. The rank he wore when he was wounded in during WWII. It ...

Labels like liberal or conservative are relative. In the 80's I considered myself a moderate. Now that the spectrum has shifted and I live in Kansas, my neighbors probably think I'm way out in leftfield...When I lived in Maryland, my neighbors probably thought the opposite. I have voted for ...

"Fake Purple Heart off 'Crashers' site"

See whole story at http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/26/weddingcrashers.medal.ap/index.html (excepts below)

Rep. John Salazar (D) warned, "If any movie-goers take the advice of the 'Wedding Crashers' and try to use fake Purple Hearts to get girls ...

Thanks. It does sound like a reverse sit-up. Here I was thinking that it was a commonly used term.

Anyway, I finally got a hold of the person and in his terminology it's what is commonly referred to as a back hyper-extention, which is often performed on a roman chair machine.

Exercising the lower ...

What are backups? Someone said that they do 3 sets of 20 as part of their routine.

Thanks,
Andrew

Sorry I didn't post this sooner....

Mr. Bob Orlando will be teaching a two-day workshop in Topeka, Kansas on Saturday, December 18 from 9am-5pm and Sunday, December 19 from 9-11:30am.

The focus will be a variety of combat principles from Chinese kuntao and Dutch-Indonesian pukulan pentjak silat ...

Bill is correct about states being an avenue to protect individual rights. Below is a liberal perspective on the subject.

The late Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, an adamant defender of civil liberties, gave a lecture on constitutional law regarding what he believed to be the erosion of ...

According to the United Church of Christ, CBS and NBC have banned their ad promoting acceptance, including the acceptance of people regardless of sexual orientation because the networks believe the ad is too controversial.

See http://stillspeaking.com/default.htm to view ad.

No matter how one ...

Here's a couple of parodies.

http://davechase.net/presidential_horror_show.swf

http://monsterslash.org

I hope the next time we see Osama that he is wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and placed in general population so that... (let's just say that a quick death would be too good for him.)

Someone once said, "The day the Red Sox win the World Series is the day there's a full eclipse during the games."

Anyone look outside? I think the lunar eclipse looks great. What's that? It's looks a little red as in Red Sox. Woo! Hoo!

The curse is lifted. The Bambino finally forgives...

Just noticed that "Good to be in DC" is also available at the JibJab site.

I was going to point out that one of the links doesn't work until I played around with it. Anyway, try http://www.gjusa.com/news/pressReleaseDetails.jsp?id=4141 (without the period at the end)

As for the draft, I have regularly heard that our troops are overextended. So it doesn't take a genius to ...