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? Oh, I see it. He told people to stay off the long, pulsating subway, but it plunged into the tunnel and kept coming, and coming and coming! Yeh. People will always bitch, no matter what. How many times have we seen the consequences of city govts under-prepared for blizzards & stuff? People up north, where I grew up, know what blizzards can do. If now they want to act all pissed about this like it was Chicken Little (which it wasn't), that's on them.

Bollocks he should. It isn't 1917 in the trenches anymore. This. You beat me to it. Psychological casualties are still casualties. That said, I do think that in this case "psychological casualty" ought to be be an "affirmative defense", i.e., Bergdahl ought to have the initial burden of demonstrating it with evidence before the prosecution should be required to rebut it.

"A irate Black woman" ..... In journalism class, that'd be an F for content, over an F for mechanics. But wait! Not to be outdone by: "The McDonalds is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which was described by one commenter as 'half college town half ghetto trash town.' " Yes, of course. In other words, the author made up the quote. I guess we're discussing the intersection of sociology and behavioral psychology in this thread. For example, how low class people and antisocial behavior often intersect. And, in that scholarly vein, it never ceases to amaze me how often poor literacy skills and an author's personal racism intersect. So it goes.

The topic is caffeine, not sildenafil.

Then the barbarism of people who act that way has won.

sigh. foiled.

The French mice do This.

Interesting. Thanks Ian. I will look through all that. Anything or any sources or resources though - outside of here (Dropzone.com) that might be considered INDEPENDENT - for purposes of validating any ACTUAL CREDENTIALS that may exist, of this now clearly being claimed within here - president of this Association? I am President of the Andy Association. I'm also every other officer and Board Member. Credentials, you say? I'm the chairman of the Credentials Committee. Greg is nuts. He's the Mad Hatter AND the White Queen. If you waste another minute of your time on his side of The Looking Glass, that's on you.

I make the coffee the evening before, pour some in a travel cup and keep it at my bedside so i can drink it before i even get out of bed. So where does that put me on the scale?

I see what you did there.

I would be all for using it only if there is a suspect barricaded inside a house with or without a hostage situation and police have it surrounded with an active stand-off. It then becomes a tactical tool for a precision strike. And in which case they would already have a warrant anyway. I agree -- useful tool when you have a warrant. Other situations are violations, and should be handled with appropriate consequences. A time-urgent tactical situation like Billy's examples probably wouldn't allow for time to get a warrant. I'd also think most judges would probably rule (after-the-fact) that the immediate exigencies at the scene obviated the need for a warrant. That argument would probably resonate well with a lot of appellate-level judges, too.

Sometimes humans really suck.

Which is not supportable if it is discrimination. Yes. That tactic was defeated (mainly in federal courts) during the 1960s Civil Rights battles.

True. Of course, discriminating against a suspect classification is not the same as discriminating against discriminators.

Oh. Well, anyhow, bakeries sure are fucked up. I'd ban them all if I was boss.

This story line seems to keep popping up from time to time. I dunno, maybe bakeries and gay people are natural enemies these days.

Arguably, Fahrenheit is a single variable, that being the human body. Zero F is the freezing point of isotonic saline, which is the percentage of salt in solution in the human body. Nyeah.

Indeed, I hear the fees at hospitals can be outrageous. Better to go to a mohel - they only take tips.

You love Sharpton for the same reason he loves you: you give each other a sense of purpose.

Your pop culture-fu is weak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28TV_series%29 https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1076&bih=780&q=alice+mel%27s+dincer&oq=alice+mel%27s+dincer&gs_l=img.3...1209.3900.0.4011.18.10.0.8.8.0.86.568.10.10.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..3.15.591.kwGPfXEPaYc#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=alice+mel%27s+diner&spell=1 If you wish to be a Jedi, young apprentice, learn to master The Force - or it will master you.

Via a bit more Google(-only) searching, I found a couple of appealed GA criminal cases. Long story short, they reference the same statutes I found, and seem to reinforce my conclusion that the GA law prohibiting possession of prescription controlled substances not in their original container only applies to people other than the person to whom they're prescribed. I remain open minded if anyone wants to take the time to dig deeper.

I did. Got something about being a waitress in a diner.

You know, that's funny. When you google it, you get lots of hits saying that exact same thing about the GA law. But being the curious type then I did a very QUICK search of the GA statutes, and to my reading - unless there's another applicable GA statute (or reg) that I didn't find - the patient to whom a controlled substance has been prescribed is not required to only keep it in its original container. Here's what I found: § 16-13-75. Drugs to be kept in original container Possession and control of controlled substances or dangerous drugs by anyone other than the individuals specified in Code Section 16-13-35 or 16-13-72 shall be legal only if such drugs are in the original container in which they were dispensed by the pharmacist or the practitioner of the healing arts and are labeled according to Code Section 26-3-8. Now, 16-13-72 doesn't apply to our discussion. But 16-13-35 seems to apply; it says: § 16-13-35. General registration requirements .... (c) The following persons need not register and may lawfully possess controlled substances under this article ... (3) An ultimate user or a person in possession of any controlled substance pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner or in lawful possession of a Schedule V substance;.... ---------------------------------------- Well, to my reading, "ultimate user" means the patient to whom the drug has been prescribed, and "lawful order of a practitioner" means a prescription. So I wonder if this is a misunderstanding that's become accepted as "truth" in GA, or if there's another applicable law or reg that I didn't find. (So that's your homework for tonight.)

Don't get cocky. I take it you've never actually lit a fart yourself.

I didn't mean you personally. In general, I meant why should the police be allowed to make paraphenalia charges (including pipes, etc.) when no drugs are found? It's feel-good legislation that gets started in 1 jurisdiction, then everyone else thinks it's a bully idea, and so it goes viral from one state legislature to the next, and then the governors salute and sign it. -- One, it lets cops bust & DAs prosecute people who didn't useta be prosecutable, because maybe they were just in the house or car of the guy with the drugs, but didn't have drugs on them - ah, but they had baggies, or papers or a pill case (like you carry Aspirin around in) or whatever in their pocket, and legally you've got the context of "totality of circumstances", so now they get charged. (And if the dude happens to be on probation or parole, now he's in jail, without bail, on a detainer pending the outcome of his new case, so he's really jacked up.) --Two, it allows the cops & prosecutors to stack-on the charges. So what used to be a standard 1 or 2 charges per person 15 years ago is now a standard 4 or 5 charges on a petty possession case. The more charges, the greater the potential sentence the busted dude faces if all the charges are added up consecutively, so The Man gets a bit more leverage out in the courthouse corridors during plea-bargain negotiation time. Anyhow, that's why.