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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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I think you are the first person to address tomkow as "Sir".
I'll get it right after a second cup of cofee
"If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?"
No. But you'll pay the devil to get that vacation time.
Hi Sarge we miss you. Stay safe please...
You mean ON TOP of the grass I'm sure. That's where nature boys are found so those of us so inclined can frolic with them! At least he isn't all greased up and frying in the sun!!
Now that's an eruption!! :)
LOL. Well apparently you have not learned anything in 30 years of marriage!
p.s. it was a test to see how the guyz at the Canteen responded! you failed! (wink)
Did you say "Nature Boy"??????
Good Morning, DW. Have a great 58!
Nope. But it wouldn't be hard to figure out after your interpretation of that photo!
Oh Tomkow your are toooo much... I'm ROTFLMheadO!! But that's just about how it goes!
You sometime have to draw that guy a picture. He can be a little slow sometimes. He doesn't realize that women generally like no grease or oil on our man/men. Don't want them slipping out of the embrace! We want something we can hold onto! You know what I mean?
Would you beleive we are have a thunderstorm right now?? This is the wierdest weather I have ever seen.
1523 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'It is unchristian, even unnatural, to derive benefit and protection from the community and not also to share in the common burden and expense; to let other people work but to harvest the fruit of their labors.'
I had know idea Luther knew my friend, Travis!
Practice for the days to come. Glad you were able to check in, SSarge. ((HUGS)) Learn good things today.
Oh, if you haven't already guessed, or no one told you yet...........next to selling burkas, tomkow likes to run around nakid every chance he can get...........so be careful of what you mention when he's around........like thong..........or sparkly things..........
"...We want something we can hold onto! You know what I mean?"
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this.