Soxy

Nope you gotta supply your own.

Not as cold as Minnesota, but well, cold enough to freeze a brass monkey's balls off!

Yahtzee, you're a good free thinking young man. But just so you know every man in Switzerland must either serve in the reserve or pay higher taxes for the rest of his life. Most men choose to serve--that might have something to do with their low involvement in wars. Well, that or their dynamite strapped bridges that come into the country. Or their Nazi gold...

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... British Naked Walker Gets Jail Sentence Wed Jan 7,11:20 AM ET LONDON - A man trying to walk the length of Britain naked to promote public nudity was convicted Wednesday of breaching the peace and sentenced to three months in jail. Stephen Gough, 44, has endured repeated arrests since setting out in June to walk the 847 miles from Land's End in southwest England to John O'Groats in Scotland's far north. He was most recently apprehended Nov. 29 after residents of Evanton, a village in the Scottish Highlands, complained about his walking through town wearing only boots, socks and a knapsack. He had been released from jail just hours earlier. Gough, wearing only a scarlet prison blanket tied with a police belt at his trial in Dingwall Sheriff Court in the Highlands, argued that he had been exercising his right to free expression as guaranteed by the Human Rights Act. "There is no law saying 'Thou shalt not go naked,'" Gough said. "All I am doing is dressing how I want to dress and believing what I want to believe. ... I am taking a stand and I hope that inspires others to do the same." He said he had undertaken his hike to "celebrate myself as a human being" and show people the nude body is beautiful, not disgusting. There is no law in Britain against public nudity. However, there are laws against indecent exposure — which requires proof of intent to insult a woman — or any behavior likely to cause "harassment, alarm or distress." Evanton resident Robert Thow, who testified at Gough's trial, said he had reported the naked walker to police because he worried about what effect his appearance might have on women and children. "I think there is a time and a place for it," he said. "I did not think Evanton was the place for it, or any other village." He suggested that Gough could have walked around the town instead of through it. Sheriff Edward Savage, who also convicted Gough for breaching the terms of his bail, chastised him while handing down the sentence. "You seemed determined, Mr. Gough, to break the law," he said. Gough, of Eastleigh in southern England, will get credit for the month he's already spent in jail.

Mmmmhmmm. To quote the monologues, why carry a shotgun when you can have a semi-automatic? But, that's just me...

I would like to add to what has been said here with just a few things here. I know that women are ineligible for the draft, and as a woman, of age for the draft I think that's pretty wrong. I have women friends in the military, and I know they are just as brave as the men. We are strong and I do think, we should be given an opportunity to serve. I agree with Winodj. Either fight or civil service. Or I would offer a third opportunity: why not offer humanitarian aid as a third option? I think let the draftees chose to be able to join the Red Cross or something along those lines. Just food for thought--imagine how differently our country would be run today if G.W had spent time in the Red Cross instead of the Air Reserves...

My motives are political in that I want people my age to realize decisions made in Washington affect them. But I also think that re-instating the draft would help us realize the value of life. Again, I don't think it will ever happen--young people don't vote, but mothers do. But if the draft were re-instated it would give us names and faces to put in with the wars. That would make it a lot harder for us to continue on with wars that have sketchy motives--I just think that the draft would make us realize the human cost of war. I'm not necessarily a pacifist, because I think that might come at too great of a price, and I think that if we as a nation were faced with the draft we might re-examine which wars we would enter into.

It's very beautiful--and joining the EU has really helped them... But their government was recently voted the 3rd most corrupt in all of Europe...

That, theoretically, is why I would be in favor of reinstating the draft. I see too much apathy and rhetoric among my age cohorts (18-25). Something like the draft would make us look at our country and see how they view us as nothing more than an expendable resource...If we are the future--then what are we doing in Iraq? What were we doing in Vietnam? That was a wholesale murder of the future. If the draft was reintstated I really feel that we as a generation would never miss an election and the hottest fashion accessory would not be a pair of Docs or Abercrombie but an "I Voted" sticker. And to Fanof14--I know that being poor does not bar all education opportunities--but it does make them more difficult...I guess that after going to Europe and seeing the way socialized countries run their education systems I am sad we can't offer the same educational opportunies to everyone. So, I don't think you should have to risk paying for your education with your life.

I voted yes too...Of course the wealthy will always be able to buy their way out of harms way. But now the poor are still serving in much larger proportion--several kids I went to high school I with "had" to go into the service otherwise they would never be able to go to college. I don't think the draft ever WILL be re-instated. But I voted that way because I think if there was a draft we would be much less likely to pre-emptively start wars and enter them. Mostly because young people couldn't afford to have such a laissez-faire attitude about it. It would literally be their lives on the line. I do not believe all wars are wrong--but I believe we should go to greater lengths to avoid them. And I think that if we had the draft we would go to much greater lengths to find a diplomatic solution.

No, lol, I've seen one porn, and I thought it was pretty funny. But, my point was that people are inherently sexual and to deny that is to deny an important part of who we are. So, that was my point.

Wow, again, I can understand the drinking (I guess), and the waiting until you're married, and the porn, but no masturbating. Dear lord. Just dear lord. That would make for one grumpy Soxy!!!!

Wow, just wow, that's like a task of Hercules. Good luck with that.

I actually have 3 boxes of them sitting in my room right now. It's gourmet chocolate made from a little Chocolatiere in Idaho--both milk and dark... We have both tiny "nibble" (we decided bite was too violant ouch!) sized vaginas--and larger life sized vaginas--both (Aboz) sans hair. Oh, and, uh, the life size ones are lollipops and on a stick . We decided our motto for selling them is going to be: Chocolate Vaginas: They Melt in your Mouth--and in your Hand. Heehee. Mother's day, hmmmm, hadn't thought of that--no, they're for Valentine's day mostly.... And if I can find a digital camera I'll post pics.

Dang! I'm fighting them off with a stick. Lol...I was thinking this thread was about to become my paradise: politics AND neuroscience.

Woohoo! Sounds like a plan--now I won't shame my family by graduating from college un-engaged.

No worries--I won't get into neurochem with you then.

That depends, what denomination are you ordained in? And 2.) Do you like Buddhists?

And is alcohol included in your war? And if not--why isn't it?

I mean, how can you stop people from creating it and dealing it? Same for LSD? They are relatively easy to make? At a school near me, kids were going in and making it after Chem class? That is hard to find and catch...I don't understand how we can eliminate that so cleanly and effectively. I am all for getting rid of drugs--I know socially, economically, and biologically how horrible they are--but I do not understand how enforceable drug policies are. These drugs are too easy to make and too easy to sell. Anyone with a kitchen can make a lot of this stuff.

So, what's your answer to synthetic drugs like X, and Meth?

Even people that DO receive rehabilitation relapse, Nuke, that's the problem. A literature review done by Hunt, Barnett, and Branch showed that 70% (yes over 2 out of 3 people!!!!) return to their primary drug of choice in three months time. The problem is that after rehab people return to the settings where they had originally done the drugs. They see the cues and settings and people that they used to do drugs with/in/near. We know now that even these clues can release small portions of the Neurotransmitters involved in the drug usage and can simulate a feeling of the high. So, the person starts to feel the cravings--even a person's home, room, friends can cue them to make them feel like they need the drugs. That's the difficulty in rehabing people. So, destroying the drugs isn't the answer. There is NO simple answer to this problem except to just not start....

Well, I think you'll need more options for your poll then.

I disagree Nuke, you have to destroy the DEMAND for the drugs first. Sure the people would detox. But really, I don't know that would stop anything. Certainly destroying and stopping the drug from coming in would stop the physical dependence but it wouldn't stop the ADDICTION (defined as the combination of the psychological AND physical dependence on the drug). That explains why people relapse 10, 20 years after quitting. Drug usage changes how the brain actually functions--and simply destroying the crop of drugs won't change the brain back.

Apu, I don't know much about this, can you tell me: How many of them got trained at the SOA?