Fairweather

You seem to be speaking from experience. But in your case, I believe an hourly dose Prozac and some Dexatrim should manage the ailments you have demonstrated in words and pictures here.

It seems TTK can't even manage one! Better not let him see that issue.

Sorry Prole--it still doesn't work. You really want to try this here? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8464960.stm "Price checking is done by the military in Venezuelan supermarkets nowadays"

I don't see it. The frost line for type M stars (much of your list) is very close in, so it shouldn't be surprising that the tight orbits of large exo-planets (presumably gas giants) around red dwarfs is physically allowed. Unless the models have changed or been discredited by direct observation (which is certainly possible) since I took a course on stellar evolution about 3 years ago, I think we're talking past each other here. Just when I start to believe it might be possible to have a civil conversation you go and say something dumb. Too bad.

I have been awarded medals for my bravery.

On the other hand, Inglorious Basterds was a magnificent recreation of actual historic events exactly as they happened and I thought it was an incredible cinematic experience. Quentin truly outdid himself.

Yeah, that totally blew the plausibility for me too. The opening scene spaceship's control console clearly indicated that the gas giant was well within the frost line DUH. JAMES CAMERON DOES NOT FUCK AROUND!!!!!!! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND GAS GIANTS DON'T ORBIT MAIN SEQUENCE STARS INSIDE THE FROST LINE THEIR HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS ARE BLOWN OUT INTO SPACE JAMES CAMERON IS THE SAME MUTHERFUCKER WHO FORCED ME TO SIT THROUGH 3 HOURS OF KATE WINSLETT AND LEONARDS DECAPRICO!!! FUCK AVATAR AND LIKE THOSE ISLANDS COULD REALLY DEFY GRAVITY I MEAN WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT WAS IT EM, STRONG FORCE, WEAK FORCE OR WHAT HE NEVER FUCKING EXPLAINS IT EXCEPT IT IS SOME MYTHICAL VORTEX GIMME A FUCKING BREAK AND THIS IS THE 23RD CENTURY AREN'T THEY SUPPOSED TO BE USING LAZER BEAMS AND SHIT THEY'RE STILL USING BULLETS FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

O'Connor was--with the libs voting for the majority! Nope, you were right. It was Kennedy--siding with the libs against the common man.

A moon with exposed liquid water would not be found orbiting a gas giant beyond the frost line. I mean, geeeez, come on. This was almost as bad as Apocalypto's solar eclipse followed later in the evening by a full moon!

Inglorious Basterds was the best movie of the decade.

I thought that after 500 years of human heartache we had achieved a pretty good balance--before the Kelo ruling came along.

Hehe. Now that's funny.

Eminent domain has been at the heart of the problem since the Enclosure Movement.

Not by a long shot. That distinction falls to Kelo v. City of New London (2005).

You can go back even farther. Then-ambassador Ho Chi Min (Quoc) asked to meet with Woodrow Wilson when they both attended Versailles in 1919. Wilson--racist that he was--refused.

55,000 dead Americans hardly rates as a single flaw. At least he had the decency to step aside in '68. Now that was honorable.

And how about labor unions? i'm also not sure that corporations and labor unions should enjoy the same legal protections and rights, since the aims of both (generally) differ so greatly. So who should decide which "aims" are more deserving of First Amendment protection? The government? You've just taken the first step down the slope...

Reading comprehension. Take your time.

Maybe we should just dissolve the Supreme Court and let justice Kennedy decide all constitutional issues? But you still haven't answered my question.

Like TTK, I'm on the fence with this one. But since you seem to believe you possess clarity, please feel free to explain your lack of consistency.

That's BS. Between FDR, Truman, and JFK--and LBJ's own hawkish FP and brutish behavior--I don't think too many folks were worried at the time that he or the Dems were pussies.

Yes, of course . God forbid an otherwise loyal adherent admit to the entertainment of rational analysis. Back in line, TTK! Commissar Prole will not tolerate the doubt you are harboring.

I agree. But should they be likewise treated vis a vis political contributions?

We spent a full day studying LBJ's "treatment" tactic in an American Foreign Policy course I took last spring. In fact, that very series of photos is in the textbook. Man, that guy was a piece of work.