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Wacka

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  1. Connor, you still haven't answered my question. What is your science education?
  2. Please tell us what was the latest science course you took and what level it was . Jr. High perhaps?
  3. The highest proof of drinkable alcohol you can make is 190 proof (95%). To get higher you have to add benzene to get rid of the 5% water. It is not potable then.
  4. When i hear the "Summer of Recovery" all I can think about is George Costanza being wheeled through the hospital saying "This was supposed to be the Summer of George, the Summer of George."
  5. Her's some of his biography: "Charles Krauthammer was born in 1950 in New York City. He grew up in Montreal and was educated at McGill University (B A. with First Class Honors in Political Science and Economics, 1970), Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics at Balliol College, 1970-71), and Harvard University (MD, Harvard Medical School, 1975). From 1975-78 he practiced medicine as a Resident and then Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital His scientific papers, including his co-discovery of a form of manic-depressive illness, are still frequently cited in the psychiatric literature. In 1978, he quit psychiatry and came to Washington to serve as a science adviser in the Carter Administration and, later, speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale. In 1981, he joined the staff of The New Republic where he was an essayist and editor from 1981 -88. In the mid-eighties he began writing a weekly syndicated column for The Washington Post, which now appears in more than 100 newspapers, and a monthly essay for Time magazine. In his first full year as a syndicated columnist, he won the Pulitzer Prize (Distinguished Commentary, 1987). His New Republic essays won the highest award in magazine writing, the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism (1984). In 1997, the Washingtonian magazine named him among the top 50 most influential journalists in the national press corps. He has won awards for his writing on everything from the economics of oil (the Champion/Tuck Media Award for Economic Understanding) to religion in civil society (People for the American Way, First Amendment Award). Mr. Krauthammer received the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University in May 2002. His essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies on subjects ranging from nuclear deterrence to gay marriage. He has been writing about medical ethics for The New Republic since 1979 and recently wrote an article for the magazine entitled "What We Will Become: A Secular Inquiry into the Ethics of Research Cloning." He is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. A collection of his essays and columns, Cutting Edges, was published in 1985 (Random House). He is a regular weekly panelist on Inside Washington, Washington’s highest rated political TV talk show, and a contributing editor to The New Republic and The Weekly Standard. In addition, also serves on the Editorial Board of several journals, including the National Interest and the Public Interest." He beame a paapalegic in a diving accident in college.
  6. Don't worry, it's the Ninth Circus (West Coast) and they are the most overturned of any of the Circuit Courts.
  7. Another example of someone with no science background writing a newpaper article on science. I wish the papers would get someone who had taken at least one science class since high school.
  8. Yep. Class of '75. I think years ago you said you were Class of '77 (my sister was too). In the late 80s, every single elected official in Cheektowaga was Polish (Tom Johnson's mom was Polish) and we had two County Executives (Rutkowski and Gorski)
  9. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Fi...-100943524.html
  10. That's what he always does.
  11. Does ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNBC or MSNBC have news? CNBC- probably no, since there is always an infomercial on when I scan past it.
  12. Cage was fine as one of the guys working with Judge Reinhold at the fish & chips place in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
  13. 100% and proud of it! My mother's father came over about 100 years ago. Grew up in Cheektowaga. What else could I be?
  14. It called the 9th Circus, not Circuit.
  15. If you want to hear all about the Truther's viewpoint, just ask Connor about WTC7.
  16. My grandfather would have it on hand for us kids. Drank tons whenever we went over there.
  17. Risk is the reason I won't drink Jack Daniels straight. In college, we played that if you took a continent, you took a shot. I had six shots of JD lined up, the last I remember. I woke up the next day in bed fully clothed (including shoes) with a wastebasket next to me. They said the game ended when I fell over on the board. They then said they walked me around the dorm, I threw up in the bathroom and then they put me to bed. No one will play Trivial Pursuit with me. Once I went first and no one else had a turn.
  18. I've got a friend that went to school with a Playboy centerfold. He grew up in Gettysburg. He showed us the issue and it had a picture from her 5th high school reunion. He then showed us his yearbook and all of the people in the picture were in the yearbook. The centerfold changed her last name. It was originally Dick.
  19. Here's the Buffalo News link: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article97630.ece The original link is from Rochester.
  20. Nope, He's from Cheektowaga. The Buffalo cops stopped him on the 1100 block of Broadway (near Sweet Ave).
  21. My recents posts have not been about anything partisan, unless mocking Connor is partisan. Besides who cares what a bunch of blowhards that I will never meet in person think?
  22. Why the hell is my name being brought up in the last few days?
  23. And others have suggested a pork BBQ place for the other side of the street.
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