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Whatever. It's just a convenient ploy for GOP candidates to avoid answering questions. - Dan G

It was linked to the Christian Science Monitor. The whole PAC thing is fucking stupid. - Dan G

Um, yeah. It showed up on my Google News feed. - Dan G

So that's good news for the planet (and your "team"). Will you stop making the claim that science that doesn't agree with AGW is never published? - Dan G

I read it was a couple dozen students. The news reports from certain sites make it sound like the whole school got behind him. - Dan G

Crew Dogs are mostly to blame for diseases (usually sexually transmitted). Otherwise they are harmless. - Dan G

...or atheists. - Dan G

I think 'uncomfortable' is a bit of a understatement. So, you're been shown to be wrong about the temperature in Houston, but you're going to stick to your guns that 165F wet bulb temperature is no big deal? - Dan G

You have two separate accounts. Do you think large organizations like PP only have a single checking account? Do you understand that corporate accounting is a highly regulated and (especially in the case of PP) highly audited practice? - Dan G

Since the dawn of recorded history, each generation has bitched about how the kids these days got no respect. Google that. - Dan G

And things like that never happened when we were young. All the kids were just like Wally and the Beav back then. - Dan G

Are they? My best friend is a teacher. I've asked him if any kids have ever threatened him, fought him, or damaged his property. The answer is no. He teaches in a small to mid sized city. The real world is not all 'Dangerous Minds'. - Dan G

Spot me seven million and come back in thirty years. I'll give you the seven milllion back, I promise. Oh wait, you want interest on that? Hmm, you mean you can make money with money and have no business skill whatsoever? No way! - Dan G

If you make that couple million into a billion and everyone you are competing with makes 10 billion, then yes, you are not a brilliant businessman. - Dan G

If he had invested his money in other people's businesses, he would have two to three times more money than he made on his own. So, the average large business is two to three times better at making money than he is. I wouldn't consider that a great business success. But he does have a lot of stuff. Of course, he would have even more stuff if he'd let talented business people use his money, but I guess that's not relevant. - Dan G

Why would anyone be jealous of his absolute failure as a businessman? - Dan G

So does everyone else. People just disagree on what that is. - Dan G

Very astute and succinct summary of the Benghazi Committee. - Dan G

Since he's a grown man, and he doesn't go to high school, he'd probably be detained. If a student brought it to his own school, I'd hope that nothing would happen beside a very cursory inquiry to the kid about what the device was. If the kid doesn't immediately respond, or does something terrifying like setting of a clock alarm, I would hope the teacher would unplug the thing, take it, and at worst write the kid up for detention for disobeying the teacher. No where in there do the police need to be called. What I don't understand about this whole thing is that the very people constantly complaining about the pussification of America and the same people who think what the school and police did was correct. As a nation we need to cowboy the fuck up. - Dan G

You just did that to get attention. You didn't "make" that NES. All you did was attach some components together that someone else made. - Dan G

You're right that lack of cooperation may have contributed to the US not seeing the signs in time to prevent the 9/11 attacks. But the CIA and the FBI both fall under the executive branch. The separation of powers doctrine wasn't an issue. Even if the CIA and FBI were in different branches of government, spearation of powers wouldn't prevent them from cooperating. The branches cooperate regularly (though perhaps not efficiently). Separation of powers means that each branch has authority over a certain governmental power. The legislative branch writes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets the laws. One branch is not allowed to perform the others' functions. The concept allows us to have 'checks and balaces' which is intended to keep one branch from gaining too much power. (Cue the conservatives complaining that Obama has become a dictator, and the judicial branch legislates from the bench). Anyway, the only thing that prevented the CIA and FBI from cooperating on 9/11 was institutional inertia, traditions, and lack of a formal coordination system. - Dan G

I really don't understand the hatred of that kid. - Dan G

Hmm, so we should stop complaining about human rights abuses by ISIS, since those people don't have any rights. Guess that makes killing non-Muslims okay, because they don't have a right to live anyway. - Dan G

I'm guessing you don't understand what 'separation of power' means in the context of the US government. Actually, I'm not guessing, it is obvious. - Dan G

So I understand your position, are you saying that the only rights a person has are those granted that person by their government? - Dan G