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Well, you tend to misread my intent; but whatever.

I'm trying to figure the difference between this and my time living in the dorms as an undergraduate in the 70's. I'll get back to you.

ROFL!!! I love dead baby jokes! Love 'em! Hey! What's the difference between a dead baby and a tire iron? I don't have a tire iron in the trunk of my car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiology#Audiologist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_aid

Well, I've studied, worked in, taught and written on and personally handled countless cases in trial and appellate courtrooms on American criminal justice and constitutional law for about 35 years, which is where I gather my information. In that time - in large part due to the Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II appointments to the judiciary generally and the SCOTUS in particular, I most definitely have seen privacy and search & seizure protections steadily net-erode in practice, as well as in jurisprudence, and the scope and breadth of what is deemed "reasonable suspicion" steadily net-expand. Since Nixon became President (I was there to see it), and pretty much steadily since then, the weight of the pro-police judicial decisions has outweighed pro-civilian decisions by a vast factor; and that reflects in the field. But hey, that's just me.

You don't say. Well, then you might as well add Rectal Feeding to that list. By the way, Senator John McCain, who, you'll forgive me, I find more persuasive in such matters than you, noted that in World War II, the United States military hanged Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American prisoners of war. Learn more about how waterboarding is not torture Here.

Yes. In its lasting popular-culture form, it's iconic of the fact that, sadly, July 7, 1937 and December 13, 1937 mean little to most people in the Western Hemisphere. An alternative but equally factual answer is that that was the date of Germany's attack on Poland, only, through which England, its Commonwealth toadies and France started the European Theater of World War II by declaring war on Germany when they were utterly ill-prepared to do so, and thereafter spent years guilt-shaming the United States for not immediately bailing them out of having brought knives to a gunfight, after having spent the preceding 20 years sitting on their hands while Germany steadily acquired said guns.

You shouldn't verb nouns either. Did you wordsmith that by yourself? I ain't never done nothing like that! You can weather the storm.

Good list. My only comment to the author is that he mentions only the slider as the reefing system to tame the opening shock of ram-air canopies, failing to mention that ropes-n-rings were standard on canopies like the Strato Star before sliders superseded them.

Damn. You know, I've been around enough spinning propellers to have a lot of respect for them. I like to keep my distance from those drones too. Blade guards have existed virtually since the advent of mechanical rotating fans. Blade guard technology is pretty old, as is the common understanding of the need for its use where warranted and practicable. In plain English, the restaurant's failure to appreciate and guard against the danger of using un-guarded propeller blades indoors near customers is unforgivable. And if the manufacturer and/or vendor of the drone intended the drone for indoor use, the blame's on them, too. See the blade guards on this indoor-use quadricopter? It can be done. Everyone should keep shit like this in mind the next time some uninformed douchebag barfs out simplistic slogans like "tort reform".

You shouldn't verb nouns either. Did you wordsmith that by yourself?

To my analysis #1 on the list would be shared equally by the War of Southern Treasonous Insurrection, World War II and the Vietnam War, each for its long-lasting effects upon American society.

For example: QED. Thank you.

Apply here. Edit: Or here.

His heroic invitation (..*a dream come true*..) sounds like he knows how to defend himself and his home. Means, he surely is armed. Means, an alcoholic, mentally ill ex-soldier is holding arms in hands. Good to know .... What I said in another thread (.... every idiot is armed ....) seems to fit. BTW: Someone of the camera guys of the media should have told him how ridiculous he looks with this grandpa-pipe and that book in his hands. What a heroic behaviour ETA: Not to talk about the sabre in his hand! Tough combination! It was his attempt at sarcasm and humor. Don't you krauts have any sense of humor? We have. Is this funny clown armed? Are you kidding me? He's a United States Marine. I'm sure he is. He's just not going to announce what he has. Regardless of his record of heroism, given the fact that, as noted above, "he has a history of psychological wounds which has resulted in PTSD, alcoholism, suicide attempts, etc.", I'd think that's cause for some concern.

Don't suppose he was swooping the beer line, do you?

I've not the slightest doubt that Keith gets the joke.

Example of coercive negative reinforcement.

Possibility or impossibility aside, I respectfully urge you to reject the popular, erroneous shifting of burden of proof. The burden is not to disprove the existence of spiritual existence; the burden is to prove it. As such, the absence of disproof of spiritual existence is not, even remotely or minutely, evidence or even suggestive of its existence. So why do some well-educated people, including those in STEM fields, believe in spiritual existence? I tend to think that that's because indoctrination, especially indoctrination during the psychologically formative years of childhood, is an extremely powerful force to reckon with or, frankly even to reason with. Even a child raised by atheist parents is exposed every day to an environment (i.e., society at large) in which spiritual existence is presumed and constantly reinforced (and lack thereof is subject to intense and often coercive negative reinforcement). Add that to the fact that a side effect of human brains' ability to think abstractly is that mythology (or even simple supposition) can be perceived as reality. Put simply: I find fact that some doctors and scientists believe in God to be utterly unpersuasive as to anything other than the power and lasting effect of indoctrination.

Fly on, men's underwear!

Don't you still need one hand to, like, you know, AIM? Aiming is for sissies.