Boomerdog

I'll ask around but I promise to report a gator sighting in VA as soon as I see one.

Nope...lived in Florida for a couple of years and talked to some gator hunters and the isssue of temperature came up. Gators don't like the cold according to them. But still, you have no peer review, just an educated (I'm being gratutious here) WILD ASS GUESS!

You sure about 57deg F? I'll ask the same question...You got peer review on that conclusion? If not, that's subjective opinion, which is perfectly OK around here as long as we understand it's opinion without epistomological basis. By stating that figure is "what's best for us and the species currently here, you've made an anthropocentric judgement placing humans before other species (alligators don't like 57 deg F as a lone example). OBTW...for that anthropocentric judgment. the tree huggers are gonna be pissed at you.

Just curious. What should be the proper temperature of the Earth? Please note: Two lines used above.

But ya got sharkskin...I thought that was a tough hide! At least that's what they told me! C'mon, bring it!

Say what? Great Society inspired from the New Deal...I almost tossed my supper when I read that. One of LBJ's famous quotes; "I don't trust a man unless I have his pecker in my pocket!" LBJ was a machine politician of the worst order who bought votes pandered like a pimp and micromanaged i.e. picked the targets for the air strikes over North Viet-Nam. A lot of good pilots died or made a POW from droppin' nape and snake on a rice paddy. There is a ring of truth in the movie "Flight of the Intruder " in this regard. Fortunately, this is a Government program. Any CEO who ran a company like the USG has run the War on Poverty would be looking down the double barrel of an SEC/DOJ indictment....for fraud and abrogation of fiduciary responsibility. You can do better than that.....LBJ....BWAWAWAHAWWAHA!

Pin a medal on her!

So you assume that since I write too harshly about social programs I automatically default for the "millions for defense, not one dime for tribute," perspective. Crass assumption on your part don't ya think? Let's talk about the longest war in the history of this country...The War on Poverty. We've put trillions into this; more money than all of the wars we've fought expending both human blood and the treasure of taxpayers...we're still losing this war. what do they say about insanity, that which you do over and over again expecting a different outcome? There just could be a better way to fight poverty, 'cause the current program sure as hell ain't working and to say otherwise is disingenuous. Accordingly...Sun-Tzu warns about long protracted war and the wasted blood and treasure that results. Gee...perhaps if we we're honest, we'd at least agree that we're failing at both endeavors; which I think we are. What say you?

By all means and be my guest, spend your $$$ on whoever and whatever you like. I won't tell you how to spend your $$$. P.S. Likewise

Good, then I'm sure you're OK for picking up the bill.

Desperate concern is at the core of every Progressive idea. There is an emergency, only Progressives understand the emergency, only Progressives can solve the emergency, it's only the "ignorance" of those who disagree that refuses Progressives emergency powers. Global Warming is a very large Reichstag Fire, combined with Earth Mother mystic nonsense that has been in vogue since the Manson Family.

One cannot dismiss the thought that the Progressives are at the core a terminally insecure tribe whose personal lives are so insignificant that they must spend their time on Earth minding other people’s business and cannot withstand any complaint that they do so.

***That's gunna help you with ebola*** Surprisingly yes but that goes into an area I'm not willing to discuss here!

It's why I maintain a low profile, a humble heart, a few firearms of various caliber for the given situation and lots of ammo properly stored in a cool dry and classified space.

To quote one of my favorite American Flag Officer's Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, whose following expression was his most extreme in tint and temperament. "Now see here!" (please note a VERY legitimate and appropriate one liner) Unless those one liners violate the rules of the forum, you have issued an edict outside the scope of the very rules you've set. Hmmm...having read your rules and some of the one liners here, I fail to see a violation.

Is this normal? Yup! You're hooked! No going back now! I was 56 when I started jumping so don't give me that "I discovered skydiving too late," crap HA HA! Welcome!

Agree but a few do and that is the problem. One rotten apple in a big barrel of good apples will eventually rot the whole barrel. Which in stark terms simply means that if you are enabling/protecting a bad cop, you are a bad cop. Eventually, one event or a series of events in one small increment of time is going to turn the political winds against you LEO's and as I said previously, you'll have rules you won't like imposed upon you simply because you did not listen.

Uhhhhhhh...I would politely challenge you to find the right to vote in Bill of Rights and the original Constitution. However, the 15th, 19th , and 24th Amendments do address voting rights. Inalinable rights..."among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happines." Some of the first 10 Amendments were derived by those inalienable rights and I'm expecting "verbal incoming" over that one but that is my position. Inalienable rights are human rights and hold the highest precedent. These are rights that are non-negotiable under any circumstances.

Temper to some might be venting to others. In this post-modern "It's all relative" world we live in I'm surprised you've not picked up on that Temper or should I say venting is a legitimate form of human behavior. Consider, nature. If you got to Lassen Volcanic National Parks or Volcanoes Nation Park on the big island of Hawaii, there are many vents...vents to relieve the subterranean pressure. Without pressure relief, an explosion is likely much like Mount Saint Helens back in 1981 and we all know what happened there. And please, don't confuse venting with acting out. Nothing illegal in venting, how it's acted upon is another matter.

Well don't ya think it's about high time we showed those 8 year olds with career criminal tendnecies just who the hell is boss! Looks like the PD's and the School Districts are using the Barney Fife Playbook! "Ya gotta nip it in the bud Andy! Nip it in the bud! P.S. My wife is a hell of a lot hotter than your wife!

I have to admit to be being a bit dense here but I honestly do fail to see the point of your message. My fault not yours but I'll play along for the hell of it!

Uh...it's Dan QUAYLE. Of course you might be trying to be funny using the avian metaphor. With you I never know. But for proper spelling..."y" instead of "i' with an "e" at the end which means ya gotta go see Vanna and buy a vowel!

Do you see anyone on the record here supporting the action of the suspects? People get shot at every day. You trying to say the cops are special? The PA certainly did not merit someone shooting at them but these days ALL of us have to be on guard. It's a dangerous world out there. The victims of the DC sniper weren't cops; they were just ordinary citizens. Let's have some BALANCE Puhhhleaze!

I don't think anyone doubts the verity of the facts you present along with the dedication and committment to doing what is right and in a proper professional manner. And I will agree that there are more cops out there committed to and performing in the same manner you espouse. But numbers when applied to context can be misleading. Let me give you a number; one. It took ONE shot at Lexington and Concord to change the dynamic of 13 colonies against the "Mother Country." We live with that action and the ensuing results today even as I write this post. It took ONE shot on Fort Sumpter in April of 1861 to plunge this country into killing 650,000 of its own. We live with that action and the ensuing results today. It took ONE nuclear strike on Japan to change the world and bring us to the brink and realization that we can by our own devices and misguided desires, destroy the very world of which we live. 999 matches in a box of 1000 may be too wet to achieve successful ignition but if the reamaining ONE is dry enough, it'll start a large forest fire. To use the baseball metaphor, "It only takes ONE." You admit to being away from these boards for some time. Stay around here long enough and you see who aggrees and disagrees with who. There are many here of which I have profound disagreements on many issues and likewise. Yet, on this issue, we are in general agreement that there is a problem with how law enforcement enforces as well exerts oversight on itself in such enforcement procedures and actions. And it has been noted by one I usually disagree with here that you are still taking an "us vs them" mentality. I agree with that individual's assessment. The number of "isolated incidents" you cite means NOTHING to a surviving relative when an innocent family member is shot dead by a botched SWAT raid as a result of bad intelligence that was not followed up to further validate and a wrong address is raided. Even ONE is too many. It is tough enough to accept the murder committed by an armed criminal. But when a cop acts in an excessive manner it is fundamentally different simply because the protector's role has changed and neither you nor I are going to change that public mindset. I distinctly get the sense that no one here wants to see a cop killed or badly injured on duty. We too want cops to go home to their families safely. But the mentality of doing what it takes to go home safely does not mean violating the laws as specified by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the US Constitution which last time I checked is the supreme law of the land. Ferguson is a mixture of a lot of bad from both sides. So was what went out in Las Vegas a few months ago. Agree or disagree as many do here about Cliven Bundy's ideas and motives but one thing rang true, people rightly or wrongly got fed up with law enforcement (in this case federal LEO's) coming in with what they believed was too heavy a hand. For the first time in my 59 years, I saw the chilling sight of several citizens training sniper rifles on the federales. For the first time, I saw a bunch of people come in and outnumber the LEO's and those people were well armed. Agree or disagree with their motives is for another board of discussion. The fact is, IT HAPPENED. It would have taken one shot to cause a bloodbath and potentially, lead a country down a path no reasonable person wants but once the maelstrom starts it's hard to stop. History is a hobby for me. There's a lot I know and of course a lot I don't know. But I know this, the American people as a whole are longsuffering and that's the good news. The bad news is that the threshold of their longsuffering varies from issue to issue and is not precisely known. When that threshold is exceeded, the people respond and repsond in manners that the object of their collective ire will not like. Like a criminal prosecution, the burden of proof rests with the state. Accordingly, the burden of correcting some of this crap we are seeing from your small numbers of rogue LEO's rests with the state. The people are giving you time to correct these issues. All the mounds of data you cite is not going to take away the basic fact that there's a problem out there in LEO land that adversely impacts the citizenry. Solve the problem or someone else is going to solve the problem for you in a manner and with terms you're not going to like; but as Alexander Hamilton once told a foreign emissary, "Here sir, the people rule!"

A good apple that allows a rotten apple to stay in the barrel quickly becomes rotten as well. A good cop that allows and enables a bad cop IS a bad cop. That's my opinion. It's not subject to change.