Southern_Man

BUT on the other hand I guess you are good with supporting the hundreds of thousands that cost us billions of dollars to house them in prisons for low level drug users who were never violent offenders before they were sent to prison to learn how to be violent thugs. That was a completely illogical leap of inference. If I am OK with legalizing drugs, why would I want to pay to house drug offenders? And, having defended them in court, I can tell you that most jurisdictions have extensive programs and work very hard to keep from locking up users. I have had the DA offer probation to a six time felon with no negotiation at all. On possession charges, I have never seen anyone get locked up. Now, if the drugs are combined with firearms, burglary, etc.; sure. I'm seen people sentenced to time for casual use as a first time offender in my jurisdiction. Granted, I believe it is more the exception than the rule but it definitely happens. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Chances of your spot being bad out of the Otter on hop & pops is pretty rare, especially since you would likely be pulling with plenty of alti to get back... I've never seen anyone ask for a go-around in the Otter for a hop & pop. Unless you have a real good reason, I don't think many people are going to be happy about the request. Other aircraft below you is a real good reason to ask for a go-around regardless of airplane. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

No, we don't want it in Speaker's Corner, either Wendy P. That's good stuff right there. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Does it really? I think I am moving back to Iowa in that case. I need free skydives in order to obtain happiness. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Right, but churches are private parties and can say anything they want. I am no more obligated to accept a churches validation of a marriage than I am to accept their statements about a man living inside of a fish or about having 72 virgins waiting fo rme. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Right. Q: What's the penalty for Bigamy? A: Two Wives Government should stop recognizing personal relationships and prioritizing some over others. Of course I'm another one of those Libertarian types. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Negative campaigning has been going on forever. Grover Cleveland was acused of having an illegitimate daughter adn opponents used the ditty "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha." "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I also recommend ditching windows altogether and going with Linux. Much more streamlined. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Depends entirely on the circumstances. There are provisions in the doping code for an athlete to get a Therpuetic Use Exemption, which allows them to take an otherwise prohibited substance for legitimate medical reasons. This is incredibly common as all asthma medications (just one common example) are banned without a TUE. Generally a substance which decreased performance would be granted. Medications that would lower T values and raise E values, for example. There are published reports (unconfirmed) that Caster Semenya was required to submit to hormone therapy for her intersex condition before reutrning to competition. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I would like the Libertarian party to become viable. I am not holding my breath but that is part of the reason I vote for them. I also can't stand either of the mainstream choices. Tax and spend liberals and borrow and spend conservatives who want to impose moral code upon others. Blah, you can keep them. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

oops my bad, attached Nope, still not there. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

When that happens, I basically go into damage-control mode: - if it's an executive - for whom individual performance is very important - I vote for who I think will do the least damage to my and my family's interests. - if it's a legislator - for whom individual performance is less important, and team performance is more important - I vote for whomever belongs to the team (party, obviously) that I think will be better for (or least damaging to) my and my family's interests. I used to think that until the 2000 presidential election, which was virtually a statistical dead heat. If you voted in one of the 2 or 3 key states (which I did), absolutely every single vote made a crucial difference. For good or ill, there's little doubt that a Gore Administration would have had a far different effect on the country that GW Bush's administration did. I can't imagine why. I generally vote Libertarian, as that is who best represents my personal political philosophy. I don't know if the fact that my vote is virtually always wasted furthers or diminishes my cynicism. I do enjoy voting on ballot measures but we don't have that many of them in VA. I do not have that strong of a political idenitity (I have a good sense of what I believe but I do not feel definted by it much). Whoever wins I generally have a pretty great life that seems largely unaffected by who wins these offices. I just choose to focus on personal fulfillment. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Just from reading the article it appears that this is a public health study. So the reference in terms to personal and societal level of harm is per every X members of society, not for every X number of users of that drug. So one reason alcohol scores so high and creates so many problems is that it is widely available and widely used and abused. Ketamine would score low because it is not widely abused. This is a useful approach for a public health study because you would want to put enforcement/education/treatment dollars where they do the most good for the largest number of people. It is not a good approach for stating the conclusion that ketamine is not as bad as cannabis. Ketamine may be more harmful to its actual users but less important as a public health priority because of its lower user base. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I voted. For quite a few years I didn't vote at all out of principle--I couldn't find anybody worth voting for. I resumed a few elections ago. I still can't find anybody worth voting for. I don't see any difference between when I vote and when I don't. I'm a bit cynical. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Seems unlikely to me. They will be taken over by people with better business sense now that these people will not have to resort to illegality and violence to set up shop. It will be like the ABC store or the grocery store selling cigarettes. Sure, there are a few criminals involved in that but it is nothing like the current illegal drug trade. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

From what I can tell it is already practically legalized in California and some other states with medical Marijuana (Michigan). The sky doesn't seem to be falling there. I personally am in favor of full legalization of everything but recognize that is so far from where we are that an incrementalist approach is most likely to work. I would also be willing to be convinced otherwise if societal effects were shown to be getting worse. I just can't see a downside to changing this law and seeing what happens. Of course I live in a conservative state on the other side of the country so this practically effects me not at all at this point. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

There has been a lot of controversy about Caster Semenya, an 800m runner from South Africa. She was apparently born transgender with undescended testicles. For better or worse the actual facts have not been made public due to privacy issues so there are a lot of rumors and speculation. Caster is still competing, possibly after surgery or hormone treatment. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Lots and lots of tax payer money already goes to pay for clinics and treatment. You would just be subtracting the money that goes to prisons and police. Perhaps you would need to add a bit for more treatment but not nearly as much as you would subtract for prisons and police. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Not where I live. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

about 70, I think. I was out trick or treating part of the time but that was the number I bought for and it is just about all gone. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Sliced bread is highly overrated as a consumer invention. Slicing yourself is not a big inconvenience and the bread is better. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

I don't get sick very much. I take my sick leave when I do. I can also take it for doctor's appointments or for children's sickness, so that is a nice benefit to have. I have a huge amount of sick time saved, I guess my plan is to use it if I ever have a skydiving accident. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Not if it is Shroedinger's Cat. Then it lands on its feet and does not land on its feet. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

That's a lot of jump tickets. Just saying.... "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Wendy, quite a few places will let you do the same thing with feral pigs. "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"