StrangeSox

I don't think Bush has drank in years?

Great, since those weapons are just as effective, we can ban the rest of them and you can freely build as many PVC and newspaper guns as you'd like. Deal?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 06:19 PM) Instead of putting people in jail that try to illegally get drugs (something they are usually successful at, if they really want them) and harm primarily themselves...I would much rather we divert those resources to setting up roadblocks for people who try to acquire weapons illegally. Luckily, no one gets addicted to guns so it will be easier to deter. Likewise, nobody can grow a gun in their backyard or their closet so we could fathomably track the path of every gun made to see where along the way it made it into the wrong hands. hmmm

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/is-a-t...-or-a-vegetable

raise your own bees

I was just talking to my wife last night about how the Common Core standards are attempting to make the students much more accountable for out-of-the-classroom preparation, or at least that's how I understood what she was saying.

it was me

They do have to take lobbyist money if they want to fund a reelection campaign. The ketchup thing was just another example. The USDA under Reagan proposed counting ketchup as a vegetable Apparently that "pizza is a vegetable" story is from the federal level, and it was mostly over whether or not tomato paste should be called a vegetable and thus subsidized: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkbl...BXgmhN_blog.htm .

BMI has some uses at the population level but it's obviously not going to work for each and every individual.

You can't crack down on straw purchases and the gun dealers that enable them without a registry and some sort of tracking.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 11:51 AM) I would say he deals with the consequences of ILLEGAL gun owners more than anything. Ok, so how do we stop or lessen illegal gun ownership? National registry and tracking to crack down on straw purchases?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 11:50 AM) No, wife and kids hid in the basement, I was upstairs with my shotgun in case they decided to come up to my house. And they guys left before the cops arrived. Also, I lived in a small town where even the farthest point is less than a 5 minute drive to the other side, especially with cop lights going. Remember the post earlier about the woman who shot the home invader in the face? The criminal even managed to crawl to his car and drive away before police arrived. Maybe she should have just waited. Or yelled out that her house was a Gun Free Zone and that he should just leave now. Regardless of where you were hiding, your possession of a gun made zero difference in your scenario. I don't oppose possession of guns in the home for self-defense pursuant to certain safe-storage requirements. But I also don't accept the argument that the police are useless and that everyone without a gun is defenseless.

I'd probably pick Carter.

Random tangent but the lifetime SS protection for Presidents was reinstated last week, retroactive for Bush.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 07:53 AM)

Too much gun violence on the west side, need more guns there.

Remember when you told that story about you hiding in your basement until the cops came

The first time Clarence Thomas speaks during oral arguments in 7 years, and they don't even know what he said: FWIW I have zero problem with his stance.

Your unoccupied setting is my occupied setting

This is really all the proof you need of the terrible results of liberalism:

Chicago winters + R-8 insulation in the attic and no exterior wall insulation = cold house. If mine's decent, it's probably going towards some attic insulation.

I'll make my dad do my taxes (he works for the IRS), it'll be e-file and if it's like last year it'll be >$1000.

My concerns with GMO are more ecological than dietary.

no even online in anonymous forums. militant atheists are the worst.

I didn't think you were taking a literalist stance there. That book looked at several of the historical record-type books of the Hebrew Bible (e.g. Exodus, Kings) but it didn't cover the allegorical Genesis. It looked at the archaeological evidence for the narratives being told and also examined them in light of what other sources tell us were going on at the time. You see narratives change (or originate) based around what the Israelites or Judah-ites were experiencing when the stories were being written down, like exile narratives appearing or strengthening when they were living in exile in Babylon. That cultural aspect is what I enjoyed most. People didn't record, modify and mythologize these stories for no reason.