Greg_W

Why would one believe that NOAA is free from scientific bias?

Massage is a good one. I, personally, would scale it back a bit so as not to overburden the sore shoulder and also to avoid an over-compensation injury to the healthy shoulder. Ibuprofen before workouts and maybe ice after workouts, would also help.

DFA - Fuck you you fucking fuck.

Just do the lat pulls with one arm!!! That's what Twight would do.

Build a moisture farm like on Tattoine.

Gee, Iain, it doesn't sound like you're too committed to solving this problem.

Raise your own beef, it's healthier, cheaper, and super-tasty.

fc9 - Read part of the article and printed it out. Sounds cool if they can make it viable and market-friendly (as in, affordable). With fewer parts the unions will fight this tooth and nail. You are talking about putting union labor out of work, or displacing them, and they won't like that. Will it power my Silverado?

This is not profiling. Stop re-defining the term. Communism isn't just about the Cold War, j_b; it's an ideology that has no regard for individuality or personal freedom. Therefore, I oppose it or any of its trappings. Greg W P.S. I can't wait to meet you.

True, I think a lot of jobs were created but didn't necessarily put a lot of cash out on the streets.

Give it up, dude. You made some irresponsible posts, deal with it. Don't like it, hit the bricks; like Timmy said. Later, Gator.

AlpineK - I made this same assertion to my financial planner last week and was corrected. He informed me that the economy really didn't start taking off until the 50's. The 40's weren't an incredibly boon economically. It was news to me, but thought you might like to know; whatever it's worth.

j_b, You are scary. So, in your plan, "society" is going to decide what vehicle I need? How will "society" do that? Set up a board of auditors that I will have to go before to prove my need? Who will appoint these people? Who will pay them? Is there an appeal process? This sounds very ominous and scary - very communistic, no thank you. I was quoting your statement on the fuel-efficiency levels that manufacturers adopted. If theirs were higher than the government, what does that tell you? CO2 levels have nothing to do with the automakers' level of self-regulation, they are just an indicator of consumer use. Explain to me how profiling limits your freedom please. Profiling is simply an investigative technique used to narrow the field of suspects. There may be side-affects of profiling that inhibit personal freedoms and I oppose those. As far as this whole dictionary thing, drop it. You are using this as a attempt to make me look, or feel, stupid and it won't work. You somehow (because of your beliefs, I am sure) think you are superior to me. Whatever.

Being anti-60's-Astronaut is gay.

Leave me alone, I'm just in a mood to argue today. Massive miniaturization efforts were undertaken by NASA in an effort to reduce weight and bulk of equipment necessary for space travel. This is the main reason you and your giant, bulbous head were rejected from the astronaut program.

So, Iain, you're saying that JFK's push for NASA to reach the moon was just a boondoggle to draw public attention away from the fact that he was banging Marilyn Monroe and a string of other hotties? Diabolical!!! Even my conspiracy theory-infested mind didn't think of that one. Good sleuthing!!

Without the space program, you wouldn't have velcro, microchips, cell phones, satellite television, and a whole host of other things that I can't think of right now.

I'm sending Buzz Aldrin over to kick your ass, Iain. Bwahahaha!!!

A-S-S W-A-D. Sorry to confuse, DFA.

You think McCarthy viewed sportclimbing as un-American, too?

People said we couldn't fly to the moon, too, asswad.

Depends on what they come out with. Haven't made up my mind yet; need more study. One thing I have done, personally, for National Security is recommend that Dr. Flash Amazing be remanded to a Mexican jail for the duration of the War on Terror. Wrote Mr. Rumsfeld this morning.

...YET.

Who are you to define what my needs are? Even Iain sees government intervention in this arena as a bad thing. Don't really understand you here. If the manufacturers (i.e., the market) planned to implement higher fuel-efficiency standards than the government required, wouldn't that mean they ARE regulating themselves for the "better"? I believe in profiling, it only makes sense. However, I do not believe in throwing away personal freedoms in the name of creating a "safe society". I think you are confusing profiling and unlawful seizure or incarceration.

Yeah, Iain, but shouldn't that be their choice? What is your alternative? Should people only be allowed to purchase certain types of vehicles based on some perceived "need"? I don't "need" a pickup all the time, but it is handy when I do and I feel safer driving it than some little car. I understand what you are saying, but I wonder what the solution is.