Patrick

(It was yesterday, actually, but I forgot. ) KarateForums.com is 3 years old! I would like to thank my excellent staff and all of our loyal users. Thank you all for making KarateForums.com one of the top Martial Arts discussion communities on the web today.

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I've gone ahead and moved this to the Introductions forum. Welcome to the site. Feel free to tell us a bit more about yourself.

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In addition to the link above that we posted, please check out http://www.karateforums.com/shop - it was launched later and we do get a small % of every sale. Thanks.

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As aefibird said, this is not politics forums. Non MA related political discussions are not allowed here and that is what this is turning into. Regardless of what you think about President Bush, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan - those issues are not relevant. You have to take this in its most general sense. Forget the US. Forget Iraq. Forget the whole world. What it boils down to, is this: one man wanted to do something (professional football, in this case). He achieved this goal and his dream. He then felt that his country needed him and he gave up his great success and wealth (if only temporarily, at the time) to fight for his country and lay his life on the line for the sake of freedom. Far better a man than most of us. With that in mind, I am going to close this thread because it has served its purpose as well as for the fact that political discussions are inevitable. Thank you.

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When buying any videos, DVDs, books, equipment, etc... we'd greatly appreciate you using the link at the top of the site - http://www.karateforums.com/shop - just wanted to mention it. Thanks.

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Hey, Let's keep all of the 24FC stuff over here for the time being: http://www.karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12982&start=20 Thanks.

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I have spoken with Mr. Redmond and he has confirmed that the site is down and will "never be back". He said that the reason was that he got tired and running it and ran out of steam.

I understand what you are saying, tommarker. No offense taken, don't worry. At the same time, different sites give different information. Some sites have the same information, some sites have other information. None of it really relates to corporations. Thank you shotochem... I wasn't looking for thanks, just making a point. Maybe the site isn't done. From what I have seen though (the index page only), it looks as though it is. Still, you never know.

It doesn't have to do with coporations. Blaming the "evil corporations" is far, far too easy and (I feel) irresponsible. We run a hosting service - bandwidth costs money... so hosting costs money and that goes for everyone. Individuals, corporations and so on. It isn't hard to make enough money to cover basic costs. I am an individual myself. So, please don't blame corporations.

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Removed in error. Thank you for understanding.

Hope everyone had fun. We decided to change some ranks around, making it a bit more "serious" of an issue this year then last (KnittingForums.com). I became a White Belt (I normally don't have a belt), Senseis became Yellow, Sempais become Orange. Depending on the post count, each regular user was given a staff member title, either KF Administrator, KF Sensei or KF Sempai. All of the staff members were in on it. I will set it back by tomorrow. Thanks.

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