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Read a little about how Lance treated whistleblowers (successful lawsuits, firings, threats) and you'll quickly realize what a psychopathic fucking tool he is. The world would have been a happier place if he'd just died of ball cancer.

No, plain ole Russian Laurel prunus laurocerasus Gonna go out and mill some more right now.

Back in my day, when a student gave the teach too much shit, the Teacher just picked him up and slammed him against the blackboard. OK, the teacher got in a little hot water for that....it did get our attention, though.

That's easy. They're all black.

Yes - the problem with battleship sized pumps isn't so much the visuals - its the Clydesdale effect. Limit yourself to lawns, wood chip paths, and other soft surfaces - or glue rubber pads at the strike points, and you'll be able to sneak up on at least hearing impaired people. It also pays not to be extremely ugly. Galena was/is that, by any measure. Think Steve Buscemi gene spliced with Tom Petty, then put through a terrible farm accident. Also, hold the tittering. And don't scratch where your balls used to be. Ever.

The home gun owners logic is: "I'd rather have a gun and not need it than need it and not have it." This does not entirely bound the problem though, does it? No accidental shootings? No spur of the moment shootings of passion when you discover Honey Bunny honing some other tool's handle? No impulsive suicides? No stolen weapons used in crimes after a burglary? Nope. your house is perfect. because you're a Responsible Gun Owner . Except when, as stats clearly show, you're not. My logic is: the chance of a home shooting is GREATLY reduced if I don't keep any guns there. My logic is, when the ocean's filled with gasoline, you outlaw matches. This American ocean, with all its stresses, psychosis, psychopathy, and drug abuse, is clearly filled with gas, IMO. Sorry, you don't get to play with military grade weapons. Cry me a river. Sure, I've got a home defense weapon - a 50 lb steel sculpture with 3 4" claws on top. I've got $5000 stashed away for the remodel damage it will do should I eventually attempt to throw it down the stairs at what mostly likely will be a criminally minded rattus rattus with it. My first option is to yell "Take whatever you want, but the cops'll be here in a 2 minutes!" down the stairs. Think that wouldn't work? I've used it several times to get assholes abusing their women out of bars. Nobody likes to tussle wit da police - cuz dey gots all the guns and dey knows how to shoot em.

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I'm dabbling and I've got a couple of questions. Anyone ever use laurel (as in the hedge)? It's beautiful stuff - and very prone to cracking.

are you sure about that comparison? Switching genders would make Bone saner, braver, and more admirable.

Mass killing pandemic like that would not happen due to knowledge we have now about viruses, better hygiene and better nutrition. Food shortages were rampart and vast amount of population was suffering from heavy malnutrition, so after 4 years it would be hard to have a robust immune system. Your argument boils down to fear mongering. A mass pandemic is, famously, arguably the greatest threat to humanity today. A highly mobile population of 7 billion petri dishes, half of whom live in crowded cities, along with modern animal husbandry, primes the pump. In contrast, our immune system hasn't gotten any faster at adaption. This isn't fear mongering, this is just a simple reality I thought most folks by now were well familiar with. It gets hyped, sure, but that doesn't make it any less real.

I humbly report, you decide. And yes, all transgender people are, to a man, woman, and in-transit, brave and admirable - after all, they all look alike, no? It's a brain structure thing. You can't help it, and that's cool.

JayB attempting to channel liberalism reminds me of Galen/Galena, the transexual at my work who alternated from Streetwalker to Babushka when trying to figure out how he should dress as a woman during the year before his operation. Finally, after many painful experiments, some actual women took him aside out of pity and let him know that no, you don't have to carry your cute little patent leather purse at all times to properly display gender. The man's size 12 pumps didn't help much, either.

Mr. Harris would like us all to know how bad he would feel about nuking all those innocent Iranians, however necessary it would be. Big Ideas taking on Hard Problems without Fear of Consequences (on others). ITS CALLED LIBRULISM.

Yup. Gay Weed comes to mind when I think of you, for example. That must be why you only take on the REALLY BIG STUFF LIKE ENDING CAPITALISM!!!!!

Did I forget to mention that Harris is the kind of Librul who advocates a nuclear first strike on Iran should they acquire the Bomb? He's a strident atheist, though, so he must be OK - they all look alike, doncha know. LOL

Typical straw men. World without guns (few argue for that), you can kill kids with a knife (it's a lot harder and slower), etc. He also stacks the deck, typically, by ignoring the pain caused by guns (accidental shootings, home murders, suicides) - which is, by all accounts, substantially greater than the handful of "I saved my fambly" stories - many of which seem to be made up for web consumption anyway. In addition, he conveniently omits other more effective and less dangerous home invasion protections - like a dog, for example. Pretty much zero new ideas other than 'I'm a LIBRUL (whatever that means) gun owner' - which isn't a new one, either. Just another case of an author injecting his own ego into the discussion rather than providing real, useful objective information. His most salient point actually counters his pro gun stance - the substantial burden of training regularly to become a 'responsible gun owner'. We all know already that the vast majority of gun owners don't bother and therefore can neither be considered highly trained or, by the author's definition, responsible. Hunting weapons with 3 rounds max and revolvers only. Nothing in this piece or any other I've read that effectively counters such a policy proposal.

Another thing never mentioned in debt discussions is the cost of borrowing, which is about free right now. If its a choice between borrowing a bit more at practically zero interest and inflicting a lot of economic pain that will actually cost more in revenues than it reduces the deficit, it's better to borrow a bit more. BALANCE THE BUDGET!!! and SAVE ENTITLEMENTS FROM INSOLVENCY 30 YEARS FROM NOW!!!! Neither is or should be a very high priority compared to other things like unemploymen...unless you're a Righty Moron, of course. Not that the Teabaggers have the available neurons to grok complex arithmetic like this, what, with debt service involving exponential alchemy and all.

I'm responsible, though, so no need to worry.

Obesity can't extinguish the species, although it might slow down procreation a bit, unless we suddenly develop a taste for pie-wagons en masse. A pandemic could. Personally, my response to the whole thing is to stockpile weapons.

SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE BOTH OFF YOUR MEDS. GET IT?????

FROM MY COLD, DEAD, JAM-STICKY HANDS.

I KNOW...HOW ABOUT A 'WAR ON THOUGHT'? IT'LL TAKE GUTS, IT'LL TAKE RESOLVE, BUT AMERICA'S SO FUCKING STUPID RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE ALREADY HALFWAY THERE. IT'S DEFINITELY NOT TOO MANY GUNS, THOUGH. TAKE AWAY THE GUNS AND AMERICAN'S WOULD JUST KILL EACH OTHER WITH TOASTERS. NO FUCKING WAY ANYONE'S TAKING AWAY MY TOASTER.

WE CAN STILL RIP SCORSESE'S UNIBROW OFF, THOUGH.

SAM PEKINPAH, WHY ARE YOU TOO DEAD TO PUNISH FOR NEWTOWN ALREADY?

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, IDEAS DO. WE ALL KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE BANNED. THE FOUNDING FATHERS NEVER MEANT FOR "MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN" TO BE ON DEMAND. I'M PLANNING ON FILLING UP A SUBWAY CAR WITH HUMAN BLOOD AT MY EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY. AS SOON AS THEY BUILD ONE HERE, MAYBE.