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No f'in way. The FAR's alone are probably more voluminos than all gun laws put together. - Dan G

Trying people under military tribunals is not a war crime. It is a broken promise, but not against the law of war. Torturing them, however, is. If you have evidence that Obama is sanctioning torture, please provide it. - Dan G

Except when liberals do it, then they lack principle. Right? - Dan G

Your poll is missing an option. It should be: Yes No FUCK NO!!! I vote FUCK NO!!! - Dan G

I don't believe anything in that article. It mentions the 41 rounds of .22 ammo found near the statehouse, and rushmc has already said that no media outlet would report that. It must be from the Onion. - Dan G

"pie-hole"??? It's properly called a gob, yank! - Dan G

My that's a sticky wicket! - Dan G

On this issue, he's just like Bush. Not too many others, though. - Dan G

I tend to lean a little left, and generally like Obama, but I won't defend his handling of Guantanamo. It should have been closed immediately, and I'm very disappointed that he couldn't find the stones to do it. He has certainly broken this promise. In all fairness, you have to admit "ZerObama" is really lame. - Dan G

From the article: Why is the University of Wisconsin handling security at the state capital? Is it not a little suspicious that the state was trying to use a "security sweep" as an excuse to end the protests, and lo and behold, they claim to have found some ammo in the vicinity? rushmc, since you know how the media will report everything, how would Fox News report this striking coincidence if the Governor were a Democrat, and the Tea Party was protesting? - Dan G

Please use your mind reading abilities for the good of mankind. Where is Osama bin Laden, man, this should be easy for a mentalist and seer with such great powers! - Dan G

Aren't you one of the ones always berating posters about their supposed ability to read minds? I have no idea how the media would have dealt with this story if the ideologies were changed. You don't either. - Dan G

What about the news story linked in your first post? Or doesn't that count? - Dan G

It's Wyoming, there are only seven citizens. - Dan G

Have you read the Koran? or Mein Kampf? Regarding the OP: this is a terrible attack, and my heart goes out to the victims and their families. I don't however, see in the linked article that the shooter had ties to extremists. The only tie alleged was that he was born in an area known to produce extremists. This may have been a planned attack, but it also may not. It is too early to tell. - Dan G

You think that's what legalizing gay marriage is about? Approval? How about equal treatment under the law? I'm cool with that. - Dan G

All this time I thought your screen name refered to beer. Huh. Sorry about your horses. - Dan G

I agree. - Dan G

On that we agree. - Dan G

No. It's not possible for many bills. The best you get is an estimate. $1 trillion was passed around by people who were against the bill. The actual CBO estimate before the bill was passed said the bill would save money. Which are you going to believe? As I said in another thread on this, people will believe the estimate that agrees with their preconceived bias. Either way, they are just estimates, and as we've seen time and time again, estimates are seldom correct. Well, if I went with the official CBO estimate, I'd be making money, so sure! Actually, most of the bank bailout has been paid back. The last I heard the $700 billion bank bailout will actually only cost $30 billion or so, and has the outside chance of making money. Most of the stimulus was in the form of tax breaks so you can't really count that as a cost. Most, if not all, of the rest of it was spent on domestic programs, which means it went into corporate and taxpayer pockets in the form of wages and purchases. What was a cost for some was a paycheck for others. Again, my point is that the accounting is not as simple as it seems. - Dan G

Thanks. I thought the number seemed extremely high. It always sounded like one of those numbers that is so high it must be true, else why would someone quote such an obviously ridiculous number? On the other hand, 300 seems low. That's only six per state, leaving none for localities or the feds. I'm not anti-gun by any stretch. In fact, I'm quite pro-2nd amendment. I don't own guns because my wife doesn't like guns, and I respect her position. I'm glad I have the right to own a gun if I wanted to, and think everyone except violent felons and the insane should have that right. On the other hand, I don't think the laws we have now are necessarily perfect. I don't think we need to add more laws, but there's no question that improving some existing laws might be a good idea. - Dan G

All I'm saying is that "reproduction" in your definition refers to a species' ability to reproduce itself. Your definition is only useful for determining if some alien entity (or intelligent robot, etc.) is alive. It can't be used to tell if an individual member of a species is alive or not. It is not useful in this context. To directly answer your question, single cell orgainsms reproducing through division do not necessarily produce identical "offspring". If they did, evolution could not occur. The results, on the whole, can be considered unique individuals. All of this is off the OPs point. There is no question that the cells that make up a zygote, embryo, fetus, or teenager are living cells. The question is at what point do we consider the group of living cells to be a human being. You can't say that every group of living homo sapien cells is a human being. If you did, then my pancreas is a human being, as is my liver, spleen, half my spleen, my right eye, and one thirtieth of my left ball. - Dan G

I hear this a lot. Where does this number come from? - Dan G

I agree that it might be good to put huge spending bills into terms that people can relate to everyday life. Instead of a $30 billion dollar bill, you'd be looking at $100 for every person in the country. However, most of the bills that people complain about do not have fixed costs. No one knew ahead of time how much the war in Iraq would cost, just as no one knows how much the HC bill will cost. It would all come down to estimates, and those don't seem to be that reliable. - Dan G

As has been pointed out time and again, what some people might thank Texas for, others would consider a waste. "$400 million for lemur research, that's outrageous!" as opposed to, "$400 million for cancer drug trial in lemurs, that's great!" The free market is not a solution to everything. Free market journalism has given us Fox and MSNBC. I believe there is a place for publicly funded but intellectually independent news outlets. Others don't, which is the rub. And to whoever is going to post that NPR and PBS are liberal, go listen/watch them first. They are so fair and balanced that they don't have to tell us it every ten minutes. - Dan G