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"Come on baby, lets do the twist Come on bbaaaaaaaabyyyyyyyyy, lets do the twist" he didn't twist, it's a good point. but the analogy needs to be carried forward If banning late term abortions is good, perhaps two more laws banning late term abortions is even better that's a more applicable comparison (or one could even go the next obvious analogy - perhaps also banning mid-term abortions......then watch how the two hot topics are similar in arguments about 'chipping away' at rights, etc etc.) we really need to stick with proper training and respect of the youth (and today....parents) about safe gun ownership.....we really need to focus on identifying the crazy people and helping them before we have to put them down when they turn violent. none is easy, and the bias and unreasonable fear that's now PC is hurting any real solution even as it's used as a political tool against the people. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Nice communication indeed. Sounds like a good kid. (I'm not a fan of the religious tone, but if that's who he is and what he is about, then it's an honest note as well. It still doesn't lessen the class of his basic message for me, and likely adds to the message for those that are likeminded as he is.) ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

I don't think you know what 'flat tax' means..... there's two kinds - - flat amount or; - flat rate that's neither - you are suggesting a "progressive rate tax". we already have that. the degree of progressiveness is already optimized to ensure voting is 50/50 every two years. You are further advocating for an even more progressive tax structure by picking and choosing who gets what 'breaks' by not treating all citizens equally I'm a bigger fan of: - eliminating all breaks and subsidies for everyone and every org - eliminating all penalties for everyone and every org - then a flat rate tax established it's much simpler everyone pays proportional to their income if we still want to preference the lower income brackets, do it in a way that still treats everyone equally - I'm fond of no sales taxes for purchase certain critical items - food and clothes and housing comes to mind - but give that treatment to everyone - it'll help the poor much more than the rich proportionately. This also requires people to participate in the economy if they want to have benefits from it. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Sorry I did not see the wink. c'mon, I was practicing being all snarky.. don't you want to pointlessly bicker? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Economic Left/Right: 4.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95 economic to the right social neutral not a surprise (trust the free market, but respect individuals to make their own choices and live with it and not burden others) I'm still not sure how anyone can be socially extreme without being very economically liberal. It's pretty much in the definition (i.e., the loading of that graph should look like a cross section of an empty funnel on its side). - if one is socially prioritized, they are likely NOT very economically frugal - even if they give lip service otherwise. And vice versa; - if one is economically frugal in terms of social spending, they must be socially neutral - even if they give lip service otherwise) (claiming to want programs, but not want to spend it is just naivity in action. we succeed by by being irresponsible - I want a lot of programs, social, military, etc and I want others to pay for it) ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

silly man - If poverty is DEFINED as the bottom 15% of income earners, then all we need to do is pull up everybody in the bottom 15% up above 16%...... . . . . Just like know, we have nearly 95% of students are above average. we should just use that logic and methods and all will be fixed. I guess you did not understand what was wrote. reread and get back to me. I suggest you look up the words "wry", "sarcasm", "cynicism", "smiley faces" and "humor" and then reread and get back to me first. edit: on reading further. You should add "liberal" "libertarian" and maybe review math, statistics, quartiles, and percentages. enjoy ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

like this guy's idol curiosity? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

ABDSOLUTELY - I agree - we go get our own, and then deal with misconduct and crimes 'in house'. We don't take the morally corrupt and lazy way by looking away letting others do our 'dirty work' however - it's completely naive to think that this is a partisan right wing only issue. Left wingers would LOVE to "decide that there are US soldiers worth saving and others who aren't, you can have all kinds of lists, and can abandon a wide variety of soldiers who you dislike". the only difference is righties would try to rationalize a 'false' morality to their terrible choice. lefties would do it on a whim. Lefty policy is based on putting people into little arbitrary groups and showing favoritism and spite based on their moods of the day. this is right up their alley - just pushing their favoritism up a notch to who lives and who dies. But both parties even do that a bit now already, don't they? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

silly man - If poverty is DEFINED as the bottom 15% of income earners, then all we need to do is pull up everybody in the bottom 15% up above 16%...... . . . . Just like know, we have nearly 95% of students are above average. we should just use that logic and methods and all will be fixed. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

the option we need is to find and retrieve him - and support the units that will specialize in that type of work. So we can find and retrieve any citizen in peril without endangering everybody else to groups that feel they can gain by kidnapping. but apparently that's not anyone's binary list of options???? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE It's like when Jesse Ventura became Minnesota's governor....I was trying to figure out what this has been like..... .....Here's what the real problem is. symptom every single admin has been pushing their limits, crossing legal boundaries, essentially way out of control - BOTH PARTIES clearly, the executive branch itself is way out of control vs what it is supposed to be doing when we have MANY presidents in a row where the opposition is making good points about impeachment........and they are from both parties....draw your own conclusions ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

this - Rescue our citizens (send in tactical and rescue them, but don't negotiate with hostages - bad long term decision, citizens on vacation are even more at risk - we'll need quite an increase in tactical and special forces types) the issue of whether he was AWOL, POW, or a deserter, or a traitor is a separate issue that already has its own rules and procedures to address. now that we have him back, that part can happen regardless we don't abandon our citizens no matter what their standing is. we go in and get them back this was handled poorly, now the fallout discussions are also complete tangents and diversions too ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

no reason, but http://www.diffen.com/difference/Eminent_vs_Imminent an eminent threat would be Obama with a pencil an imminent threat would be a guy with a knife charging at you and already inside 10 feet you're mileage may very ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

amazing what excessive legislation does to common sense. Especially when pols try to pander, or 'zero tolerance' mentalities take hold ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

square root of absolute temperature - constant coefficients in there depending on the units you start with and want to end with, and (I think) the gas you are in. It's a neat derivation, and the simplifications allow us to reduce it to the single variable of temperature that does a nice job ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

there, that's a cogent argue that also stays on topic your making me laugh. your previous post was valid but sort of condescending as is this one. i believe its called a "complesult." you are complementing my point but also insulting my ability to make one. good posts and definitely made me smile. even though its at my expense. not my intent - I just see you giving them ammo by letting them divert you. sorry about that ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

"the cost puts it out of reach without subsidies" - I contend that with subsidies then the cost puts it on the shoulders of everyone else. It's not really a contention, it's just how it works. love it - discussing who should get the subsidies here's a neat idea - the tech isn't ready for the free market until it's actually ready for the free market. How about let the NG companies fight it out for the first (truly, not artificially) affordable offering before we throw a bunch of money at them for failing to figure out the cost part of the design? I'm sure I'll be told how I'm not a deep thinker when it comes to the topic of "accsessible Hybred vehicals" maybe instead of subsidies, we just penalize everyone with a conventional vehicle - wait a second, ........... ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

I can just see the advertisements next week. "SAFETY - we use the latest and best techniques and equipment. special note: BUYER BEWARE At OUR Facility, we do background checks on all our instructors. We can affirm there that there are no known sex offenders on staff. disclaimer - we cannot affirm that at our competitors' operations, especially (insert main competitor name here) - you never know what sick freak you might find over there" ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

The problem Twardo is that we as a people are being viewed by most of the civilized world as being just as barbaric as some of the worst regimes on this planet. All of the western democracies got rid of the DP long ago. Neither is "oh no, our IMAGE is more important than doing the right thing for society" a good argument either. I have a difficult time with the concept and hero worship of many other extremely self righteous and snotty, and pot/kettle type other cultures have in the eyes of some of our populace only - especially when viewing the spectatular failure of many of the those nations... However, as a nation, we are designed to have areas of experiment and we are supposed to learn from the best examples.....so I see this as the intent of the lead in. I appreciate the next three paragraphs as well thought out debate. I acknowledge your pointless last two paragraphs to be a necessity for you to vent out issues from your youth and accept them as a means to read those three good paragraphs. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

amazing how pages of thread posts get all misrouted when the argument can be summed up in just a single sentence people don't think in straight lines - this thread is torture the inference that this example rises to the level of "not competent" is in question. (not perfect, does not equal, incompetent, so best to avoid those pointless arguments) ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

there, that's a cogent argue that also stays on topic ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

weak, John. really weak. Not worthy of a response. oh no, someone closed a CURTAIN....oh my god.....next thing you know, college professors will grade papers in private instead of in the hallway with their students watching and arguing ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

You've made that clear - my point is that how we decide to execute a predator is on line here. and that is unrelated to the victim's experiences talking about the crime and victim and generating sympathy for the victim is what's needed during the court case - it's what determined the verdict and the penalty. That part is over. he's guilty, DP was the penalty. Now, completing the task of the execution - that has nothing to do with the case facts - at this point, the facts of the victim's treatment really is a tangent to this specific argument. Continually bringing up those facts (letting sophomoric tangents by other posters bait you into that) lessons the argument and gives weight to their counter position that we are less concerned about administering justice and more concerned about 'getting even'. You don't counter a stupid, emotional, off topic, mischaracterization, with a more poignant off topic emotional argument. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

I don't think the issue is whether 'his pain' is equal or not to his victims. The comparison of the two is completely moot to the discussion and I think this weakens your argument. I also think that any 'sympathy' in the matter between what is felt for the victims (as victims) can be completely separated for any concerns about a process that failed to execute correctly (I'm concerned about the process being humane, not the predator one way or the other). Regardless of what the victims went through, that is not justification to have a sloppy process with mistakes that can be avoided. I think your point that there is evidence that he experienced simple discomfort stands alone as a good argument that the mistakes in the execution were still clinical and humane, and can be corrected in the future in an effective way. ----Then it just comes down to which account do readers choose to believe---- (which is true, and which is hyperbole to press one agenda or the other) Clearly, if DP is required, then doing it quickly, painlessly and without angst is the only way to administer it as a humane society. This is true regardless of the nature of the crime, the type of predator, or the experience of the victims or families. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

This is my favorite thing about Speaker's Corner: "It's more complicated than you silly people think, so in the interest of better and fuller understanding, stop asking questions and having discussion." That level of debate - cherry-picking a sentence and spinning someone else's words - is below your intellect and ability to articulate, Bill. That's not at all what I was saying, or implying. I'm disappointed. I was disappointed with your note, too, Andy. You essentially said the poster was being dumb and unsophisticated in a thread where she trying to develop a position through discussion. If we are reading past each other, we'll figure it out and swap a beer later for the misunderstanding. I'm just in the mood lately to call out those tactics for a while. bear with me. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants