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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 10:19 PM) http://www.nbc11.com/news/10123870/detail.html So some kid gets another kid to drink some hot sauce on a dare. Kid who drinks the hot sauce gets his ass whooped by it and now the school characterizes it as "a deadly weapon". LOL! Someone please tell me why schools are getting so sissified? You bring cold medicine to school and you're a criminal, you bring hot sauce to school you're a criminal and on and on and on. This "zero tolerance" madness in the schools is really getting out of hand. Because we have to get tough in the schools and liberal teachers and administrators can't be trusted to make judgements. So we teach to standard tests and make certain that no one gets hurt.

I just love how the GOP faithful believe Reagan did that all by himself.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 11:30 PM) This is, of course, before Reagan's ultimate victories with the collapse of the Iron Curtain and of the Soviet Empire itself. Amazing what one guy could do. If only he had a few more minutes to solve cancer, hunger, and Dole's ED.

Leon Durham's miscue was so much more satisfying.

Mission Insertable? I love the names they come up with

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Oct 20, 2006 -> 12:12 AM) ALL TERRORIST THREATS ARE HOAX'S! IT'S A PROVEN FACT! CASE IN POINT 9-11! WAS THERE A THREAT FIRST? HELL NO! THEY JUST WENT AHEAD AND DID IT! IF YOUR GUILLIBLE ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO GIVE US WARNING FIRST THEN YOUR IN TROUBLE! FROM YOUR OWN GUILLIABLITY... While it may be possible to state that all terrorist threats until today have been hoaxes,. it is impossible to predict the future. Plus, the statement is false to begin with. There have been many, many, threats and warnings that have come true. Kidnappings in Mexico city, bombs in the middle east and Ireland, come to mind.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 09:03 PM) I disagree, as far as which C card you end up with. PADI is more universally recognized than NAUI or NASDS, and a YMCA cert is essentially useless despite the fact that they were the forst organization to offer standardized scuba training as far back as the late 1950s. My first scuba certification training was a Y program through the Chicago park District. Great program, but if you didn't pay the extra $50 at check out time to get simultaneous PADI certification you couldn't find too many places (especially internationally) that would recognize the card. Maybe that's changed in the (insert big crooked number) years since I got certified, but i think PADI is the best route for Americans. Since they standardized the requirements for certification a number of years ago, it is rare that a dive shop will not recognize PADI orNAUI. SSI and NAUI are still battling, but that is more at the instructor level and making it difficult for SSI instructors to gain approval from NAUI. I will stand by my statement that the quality of the instructor will be far more important in continuing to dive then the agency that issues the card.

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QUOTE(Steff @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 10:21 PM) There is actually a place here in Plainfield that gives lessons in one of those pools. I think he would be more comfortable in that first. After that they have hook up that take you on weekend things to go diving. I think he's more interested in getting it done because we are going to Atlantis in Feb and The Vigrgin Islands in May. Aside from that he's back to traveling for work so he's going to be in California, Texas, and Florida for long weekends more often after Christmas. I'm going to check on the price. I like to get him one off the wall gift a year and this might be it. LOL. All of the agencies that certify divers (NAUI, PADI, SSI, YMCA) have a universal referal program. Jim could complete the classroom and confined water dives, receive the referal, and do his final check out, open water dive anywhere. Getting certfied requires 5 dives. The first few are confined (pool) dives and/or snorkeling. Don't get too hung up on which agency is doing the cert, they all have basically the same standards. More important is the instructor and dive shop.

Like two baseball teams, they may have different goals, but the game rules and strategies are the same. They are both in the same industry and have more similarities than differences at most neighborhood parties.

Interesting how each author picks different occupations to highlight. What do you think that these people cut a wide path through society and could be found in a wide variety of social and economic conditions.

Once convicted, they all deserve a very long stay at tax payer expense. for the children and families. I personally know the Boy Scout leader. He lived and worked in the next town over. He was also a Middle School teacher and coach. Lots of details there really turned my stomache.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 09:16 AM) I am having a hard time believing this particular Wikipedia entry. Chernobyl killed a lot of people, and further, it maimed many more. How is it that the article can say many people weren't effected 5 years later? And furthermore, wouldn't the effective damage of a dirty bomb depend on how much and what type of radioactive material was used to blanket the explosive device? I recall reading years back that the Soviets had toyed with putting cobalt "jackets" on nukes. The first test they performed resulted in an area of Novaya Zemlya that is now devoid of virtually all life, and will be for some time. That was a nuke of course, but still, I am skeptical. I am no expert at all, mind you. I just have serious doubts about this particular entry. Maybe someone who knows a little more can clarify for me. Remember its a wiki, if we all jump on and edit it to say that dirty bombs in NFL stadiums are 100 times more powerful than regular dirty bombs, it's true!

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 10:01 PM) The biggest, and most important difference here is that the solders are IN JAIL, and will be TRIED FOR THEIR CRIMES. While are you hell-bent on equating terrorists with anything resembling normal society? Our solders do this despicable act, the rest of us are horrified and embarrassed. Muslims do this same crap, they either cheer or just turn the other cheek and ignore that it even happened. Well said, and it's what we have to hang our hats on.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 11:08 PM) No, I'm guessing it was his real father. I needed that

In oking ads, the FDA restricted what companies could spend on Doctors. It may have balanced itself out.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 05:50 PM) I actually knew a man (father of a friend) who was buried in a tux... Rented?

Dirty bombs may be much to do about nothing but, anyone want to bet there will be less than sell out crowds?

Just wondering.

Here With a new venture that will put Major League Baseball team logos on urns and caskets, the league and a company that makes funeral products will find out just how many fans want to be decked out in their team colors and logos for eternity. Starting next season, fans of the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers will be able to have their ashes put in an urn or be lowered six feet under in a casket emblazoned with their team colors and insignia.

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Everytime I see the thread title I think about the sad reality of war, that Troop levels get reduced every time some soldier has his or her life ended prematurely.

A couple thoughts, #1. This is a very small minority of elected officials #2. In the context of #1, are these guys sick before taking office, or does the office and power somehow trigger this?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 18, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) He mentioned it in the music thread. Of course that still doesn't answer the question