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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 6, 2012 -> 11:52 PM) http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-christie-dea...0,3094381.story Here is Coppola the guy who wrote the threat. I guess there is no diversity in New Jersey. http://www.bcea-njea.org/bcea_officers.html

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 6, 2012 -> 03:50 PM) So the head of the Jersey Teachers union sending an email to all the members asking them to pray for a Christie heart attack are not the same? It isn't just some offhand remark, its how they feel. And when they get called on it, they get all mealy mouthed about it saying 'that's not what I meant' or that it was somehow taken out of context, or the always awesome "i'm sorry if you were offended". /faints Alpha attacks conservatives? I assume that if it is school and prayer it must be a conservative group since liberals are the godless ones who took prayer out of school.

I have more faith in Dunn returning to near his opast glory than Soriano. But, yeah, I'd condsider it. But it's like buying a quick pick lotto ticket.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jan 6, 2012 -> 12:32 AM) I just find it funny that groups committed to "protecting life" would pray for death. We need a new word to describe groups that small. Currently a group could be the entire membership of the NRA or five wackjobs with a web site. It just seems to give them more credibility than they deserve. Micro-group perhaps?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jan 5, 2012 -> 02:12 PM) Christians for a Moral America endorsed Rick Santorum because he's committed to "protecting life." Last month, they were taking a break from endorsing Christianist candidates to urge their supporters to pray for the death of singer George Michael who had pneumonia at the time. http://global.christianpost.com/news/radic...l-to-die-63489/ How many people do you think that group represents?

To save yourself some headaches later, post all your passwords here so we can help you I am glad you got everything working.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 04:13 PM) Wow, I didn't even notice. I thought it was just spelling errors. You can be such a moron oops I meant mormon

I believe I am understanding you. Thank you.

QUOTE (SouthSideTeacher @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 03:08 PM) bravo. very nicely done here. Thank you, It would be A Dream Come True if they would Listen but I doubt they will be the Light at the end of the World.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 03:17 PM) I don't think they are that desperate yet. Their navy, what there is of it, would be crushed in short order. Then what? Not a good end for them or anyone else. I think it is much more likely we will see internal changes in Iran. Which is the whole point of the sanctions. Agreed. I have never understood why, but these countries always seem to try to accomplish the insane. So while we sit here and think, they would be crazy to do . . . they try smh

We'll sea how gull-able the world is with Iran and who may flock to buy their oil.

There we go. Perfect. Here is what I'm intrigued by. I am assuming that liquid rock flows and has about the same characteristics as any other liquid, chiefly it seeks it's own level. If that is true the molten rock would have been later uplifted to that shape. How would a liquid follow that contour?

Thank you, that makes sense. Once I learned that it is erosion, not some eruption or uplifting that creates features like below, a lot of the geology started making sense.

You would always be heading north-south but always up and down. You would always be climbing or descending. They seem to match the terrain. Also, as I have been thinking about it, could it be that they would be located along laccoliths which would account for the rise and fall in elevation? The laccoliths are all dome shaped.

With no one to check the IDs, I'm not certain how that really helps.

Thank you, I meant vertical. Have you seen any that were along a flat section of ground?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 10:19 AM) Don't know my Mexican geology all that well, but that at least sounds like a plausible comparison. I am trying to learn, the problem is the books I am finding are either too simple or too advanced. It seems as if there has been so much activity there, and so jumbled up, that explanations are not very straight forward and can change dramatically in a few miles.

I wish I could find a decent photo, I think my explanation is still inaccurate. All of the dikes were in the rolling hills, none on a flat feature. Looking across the desert to them we would see a wavy line. They are still standing horizontal like the back of a stegosaurus. And yes, the NPS rangers all referred to them as dikes, I believe volcanic dikes to be more precise.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 09:46 AM) Generally, this one is going to happen based on what is driving the uplift. If the rocks are being uplifted by compression from the East, they probably fit into the Appalachians; compression from the West would fit into the Rockies. There are age constraints here also; the uplifts happened at different times as well, so you can probably distinguish which mountain range things fit into based on age, but really, the dividing line is "one is driven by Europe and Africa smashing into North America", "One is driven by subduction along the west coast and various smaller things smashing in". Is that kind of like Occidental versus Oriental mountain ranges?

If we were to take a walk on top of the dikes we would be constantly walking up and down hill, I did not see a spot where they were flat across.

Adding another one, and thank you . . . I've identified a couple of the ranges as being part of the Appalachians and some as part of the Rockies, how are ranges classified? If they both come so close together, why isn't this one large "U" shaped range? Age? Type of rock?

Hopefully this will not make it more confusing If we looked at a topo map of the dikes they would be running across the lines, not parallel to them. All of the dikes were in the areas of rolling hills so the tops were at constantly changing elevations. I would have thought at some point there would be a "flat top" section. Erosion has taken away the other material from them at an almost constant level. So from the ground to the top of the dike that distance is fairly consistent, but the terrain is always through rolling hills never straight across a mesa.

LOL, the nearest road was over three miles away. Funny you should mention a road, on that trail there is a portion of a concrete road that was abandoned when Big Bend was created. It is really weird, in the middle of a desert, to see a 30 or 40 yard section of an old one lane road. At first I assumed it was an old driveway, but through later research I learned the old road was routed closer to the Dead Horse Mountains. During the 1850s the US Army conducted two expeditions through that area to test the usefulness of camels in the southwest. It was partially to map the region and also to help with the Mexican-American war efforts. The project was dropped as the Civil War broke out and later never followed up on, in part because the expeditions were conducted under the commands of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee. A little know camel fact I learned, camel urine is paste-like and their feces is almost bone dry to conserve water.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 08:10 AM) My main worry on-line was security, but seeing as we have no security in the voting process, I supposed that on-line balloting really wouldn't be any less secure than what we have now. That should be everyone's worry. I don't see much difference between the potential fraud in absentee mail in ballots and some on-line plan. The biggest issue I see now is that because mail ins are such a small number, they are only a factor in very close races. I believe on-line voting would attract so many people that potential fraud would be magnified and an election could be stolen.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jan 4, 2012 -> 05:09 AM) See ya Mr. Perry. He is reassessing his campaign. I believe he is checking his major donors and seeing how far the money will last. he needs to stick around for a couple more primaries to set himself up as a serious VP candidate.