As for Musberger, I remember him broadcasting a baseball All-Star game, and ignoring what was happening on the field for most of an inning while he chatted with a few "celebrity guests" who had found their way into the booth. This was a radio broadcast,
And when 20-odd schoolchildren get murdered by someone with the same love of more and bigger weapons that you have, well, that's an isolated incident and well worth being safe against the imaginary intruder that lives in your brain.
Between the "common-sense", "hard-nosed", "refuse to believe that we live in a world of kittens and rainbows" assertion that of course torture works and a report that it didn't from someone who was in a postion to know, I'm going to go with the latter.
The largest outbreak of gun-based violence in American history was the Civil War, followed by about 100 years of gun-based enforcement of Jim Crow and segregation. Clearly, the best way to address this would be to reinstitute slavery.
I predict that within a few years they'll go to a 16-team playoff (8 division winners + 8 wildcards):
Week 1: 4 games, all wildcards
Week 2: 4 games, the remaining wildcards @ the lower-ranking division winners
Week 3: 4 games, the week 2 winners @ the higher-ranking division winners
Then the conference championships and Super Bowl.
What about transporting it with a round chambered and the safety off? This dufus did that every time "because I might be in a situation where I need to use it right away". Is that as stupid as it sounds to me? (Based on comparing the probability of an unintended discharge vs. the probability of needing to fire it within a split-second while watching a movie.)
Notre Dame grad Joseph A. Power Jr., the high-powered Chicago attorney who has been hired to represent the accused, told the Tribune that his client is mulling legal action against what he called the "false accusations" that he "raped Seeberg or otherwise attacked her sexually.'' Seeberg never alleged that he raped her, but according to her statement, she did consider the incident an assault.
It's already true that the majority of sexual assaults go unreported, largely because of the indignities visited on the victims who do report them. We don't need this is kind of crap making it worse.
Sure. As Jason points out, it's banned where it's most likely to enter human biochemistry.
Paint with red lead is strongly resists saltwater-based corrosion, which is why it was the original paint used on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Saltwater fog affects every single surface.) It wasn't good enough, though, so it was replaced first by vinyl-based and more recently bu acrylic-based paint.
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Semi-automatic fishing poles with grenade launchers.
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Not to mention what happens when H3 consoles W1 in the most direct and effective way.
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I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Glad you're OK.
Note that there was an armed guards at Columbine.
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That's a definite "awwww" story.
As for Musberger, I remember him broadcasting a baseball All-Star game, and ignoring what was happening on the field for most of an inning while he chatted with a few "celebrity guests" who had found their way into the booth. This was a radio broadcast,
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And when 20-odd schoolchildren get murdered by someone with the same love of more and bigger weapons that you have, well, that's an isolated incident and well worth being safe against the imaginary intruder that lives in your brain.
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Between the "common-sense", "hard-nosed", "refuse to believe that we live in a world of kittens and rainbows" assertion that of course torture works and a report that it didn't from someone who was in a postion to know, I'm going to go with the latter.
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And a great teacher and scholar as well. Quite a man.
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Where do you find college students without sin?
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Do you still live in Flint, Dennis? I have family there.
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Yep, keep your index finger straight.
And the other fingers curled down.
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The largest outbreak of gun-based violence in American history was the Civil War, followed by about 100 years of gun-based enforcement of Jim Crow and segregation. Clearly, the best way to address this would be to reinstitute slavery.
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Is the NFL off-topic?
I predict that within a few years they'll go to a 16-team playoff (8 division winners + 8 wildcards):
Week 1: 4 games, all wildcards
Week 2: 4 games, the remaining wildcards @ the lower-ranking division winners
Week 3: 4 games, the week 2 winners @ the higher-ranking division winners
Then the conference championships and Super Bowl.
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I'm not, in general, a fan of TV or movie SF. I've probably watched fewer than a dozen episode of Star Trek in my life.
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I thought they had to pass firearms proficiency tests.
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That's what I want in a movie theater, some untrained dufus whose system is flooded with adrenaline ready to start firing at a split-second's notice.
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The famous example of this is Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in his cell. That was shown over and over.
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What about transporting it with a round chambered and the safety off? This dufus did that every time "because I might be in a situation where I need to use it right away". Is that as stupid as it sounds to me? (Based on comparing the probability of an unintended discharge vs. the probability of needing to fire it within a split-second while watching a movie.)
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This dufus broke none of those rules. I presume there are others that apply.
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Didn't see it, but the Varley stories go back to the mid-70s.
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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/12/27/notre-dames-fr-jenkins-pins-delays-in-lizzy-seeberg-case-on-d/
Notre Dame grad Joseph A. Power Jr., the high-powered Chicago attorney who has been hired to represent the accused, told the Tribune that his client is mulling legal action against what he called the "false accusations" that he "raped Seeberg or otherwise attacked her sexually.'' Seeberg never alleged that he raped her, but according to her statement, she did consider the incident an assault.
It's already true that the majority of sexual assaults go unreported, largely because of the indignities visited on the victims who do report them. We don't need this is kind of crap making it worse.
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Here's a Robert Silverberg story about a dolphin in love with a human female.
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1. Yes
2. All posts should be on MD (because I can fix my typos here.)
3. No opinion
4. Yes
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Did you compose this in MSWord? (It has some weird characters I associate with Word, like right and left quotes, that are displaying funny for me.)
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Sure. As Jason points out, it's banned where it's most likely to enter human biochemistry.
Paint with red lead is strongly resists saltwater-based corrosion, which is why it was the original paint used on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Saltwater fog affects every single surface.) It wasn't good enough, though, so it was replaced first by vinyl-based and more recently bu acrylic-based paint.
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The same way that, If I'm going for a job interview, I make sure that my coat, tie, and shirt all match, but might forget to wear socks?