After a week you could say you're going out for ages

I love this

"All of Holland has been conquored by the Dutch, except for one small provence which holds out against their opressors. They practise weird sports like fierljeppen and kaatsen (http://www.kaatsnieuws.nl/mod.php?mod=u

"No I don't.  I have personal memory of the period 1974-1989, when we had a wanker who looked sideways when Leoni stomped the Afghans, and then Reagan started helping Afghans kill Commies, ordered a 600-ship navy, prompted the largest protest marches in European history by sowing intermediate range nukes on NATO soil, called them the Evil Empire, and demanded tehy give up their European empire."

And helped a regime to the power of wich the americans came to know that it wasn't the best to have and then invaded the country themselves

Yes, they like freaks.

Bye warsie, I wondered where you were recently.. We'll miss you lad, and you are right about the whole big fams thing..

"OMG.....ALan, you WANT to be a teacher ??
Figures.  One year of additional Education.....then 5 years to Tenure.
Then you are safe in your socialist haven of higher indoctrination.
Wow.  Another member of academia to look .............."

WTF? Have you even read what I said? I said history students end up teaching, but I think I made it clear I want to study restoration of art objects.. If you see even that as a socialist conspiracy you should defenatly seek some help, Mr. Joseph McCarthy.

BTW: I wanted to say that I think it's sad you can't take a joke on the marines and have to turn it around to make a finn joke out of it (wich won't work, europeans aren't that nationalistic )

Oh it is important to resemble the original one as good as possible, it's in that light we use acrylics. It's the perfect tool to show the artist's idea and at the same time, it's easy to remove and for experts to see where it's been patched up. It covers both needs of contemporary restorations: resembling the original, and easy distinctive and removable restorations.

acrylics are used in some cases

"The reason the EU can't act is because of energy blackmail. The reason the US can't act is the same as during the cold war. The russians have thermo-nuclear missiles. I can't blame them. But I do blame the EU for falling asleep and not caring about energy dependance to a despotism."

It should be noted that both the French and German foreign minister are setting up a framework for negociations.

"Is there not  (or are there plans for) an oil/gas pipeline running through Georgia that delivers gas to Europe without Russian interferance?"

I seriously doubt that.

No, they're using military tactics

The Chechnians don't have an organised army, and are guerilla troops who strike where they can. This is indeed a rather good strategy, but it doesn't work in the short run, it just ties the situation and makes it into a struggle that lasts for years without any evolution. Besides, the russians could easily cripple the georgian guerillas as they're not "underground"..