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In that respect I AM A LEMMING! Same with the conservative/liberatarian side. I don't see collaboration coming out of unlimited factions.
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Honestly, I think that it is even worse than that. I think that they will write is off as "all in fun," and accuse conservatives of having "no sense of humor." This if they have the courage/inclination to respond at all.
Btw, I agree with you. I would be very wary of a man this stupid coaching my children.
No it is not all in fun! I think Mario Cuomo said something about how comments like this are even worse when spoke at the dinner table, in the privacy of your home... More inscidious?
The problem is that at the voting booth... The drop-off in candidates far out weighs her awful statement.
Again, with either party, why "throw the baby out with the bathwater?"
We are talking about a football coach and players he directly has POWER OVER... A politicain REPRESENTS YOU (by winning the majority vote--- which might no be you but, you respect that).
Whose to say the shopowners won't vote against her?
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I never heard the story. What she said was wrong. Let the voters decide. I am not saying that I wouldn't vote for her though... What I am saying is that it is bad that she has these personal flaws... But, given the final choice between her and others of different idealogies, I still stay with her. Her good outwieghs my displeasure in what she said. Yet, I am just one voter. If others are swayed away by her callous remarks, I respect that and she deserves to be dumped.
A football coach has a lot fewer people deciding their fate... It is still in their hands. Their job is also a lot narrower in scope. Their are also other viable replacements that wouldn't miss a step where that football coach left off with the exception on the remark.
Politics, there is more at stake and a bigger disparity between the players and wannabees.
I have no problem watching ANY politician fall because of their OWN misstep.
I am not gonna be swayed by emotion, and do a 180 idealogically. To me that is throwing the "baby out with the bathwater."
But, that is what you want?
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I hear you.
I added the wink, wink... I know where you stand. We have our disagreements but, through the years I have come to know you as always a person who knows what the "right", "honorable" thing is. You are probably the most consistent person here when it comes to those ideals.
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You ain't telling me!!
My 6 (going on 7) year old son loves all things reptilian. The books that flow out of my wife's library daily is overwhelming... He is even into the field guides!
He LOVES anacondas... I picked up a DVD about them for him... Let me just say that anacondas bear their young live... The "snake love" is pretty intense!
The video is on "administrative" leave till we (wife and I) can come to some consensus on when to reintroduce the biology scenes... It will be soon though!
The cool thing is that he has become quite an mini-herpetologist! Recently a co-worker bought a chair off E-Bay that came from South Florida and out jumped a brown anole! My son took her (Lenni) in as pet! He identified the species and sex! Of course I doubled checked!
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Yes.
I graduated from UB in 1990. As an undergrad, I had classes at both the Amherst Campus and Main St. Campus. School of Achitecture was (still is?) located on Main. Most other classes took place in the "Academic Spine" of the Amherst campus, where O'Brian Hall is located.
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I understand you RK?
There is no doubt that we are Satan incarnate to the world and it bothers me too.
But, we've made our bed... I am not saying we have to lay in it... What I am saying is that we have to reinvent ourselves, change our ways.
Just as a "brand" in business "goes bad"... We need to find a way to change the bad connotation and turn the brand name around!
Our core values is where we start. That means, the way Americans pray on Sunday, the way we resolve disputed elections peacefully... Etc...
??????????To turn it around, we are going to have to take some kind of hit economically... Prove our "honor" to the world??????????
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Seriously, I doubt this was the only time this particular gentleman has used that phrase - it's more likely that it's the first time he got caught.
I'm about as un-PC as anyone but there are certain positions in society that are subject to much closer scrutiny and this guy was holding one of them.
Wow! Very well said Darin!
You are coming around?
But, seriously... You are absolutely right.
He is an position of power, influence... He should live an honorable life?
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Reminds me of a lady that used to come in the library where my wife worked. She would never let her kids watch Madeline... Didn't want them to watch a video that promoted "nunnery's and Catholism!"... Then she would check out Pee-Wee Herman videos for them... Ya, right Pee-Wee's Playhouse?!
Gee? I don't know what I would do if my teenage daughter grew up to have religious values?
People are nuts!
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Oh... Cartoon Network CAN get pretty rough for the little ones later at night. But, past 7 and 9, I would presume it is okay???
Stuff like South Park and other adult cartoons I can see waiting.
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My son is 6 and he has some Star Wars Lego. I guess I am a bad parent? We also have the first (last) trilogy oon DVD.
The movie is PG right? I find it sad.
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Is it any different if you run inside or outside? The siding is a major factor. Running it down the corner piece behind the vinyl siding is a great way.
If brick, there is a 1" airspace/vapor barrier?
I would prefer fro the cable to enter the structure LOW... Less chance of a high leak, weep hole and it can be protected better at entry!
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Different injury.
Being comatose, even for such a huge length of time, is an entirely different order of injury, and comparatively minor (ie: you can recover from it - Terri Schiavo was not in a coma).
PVS is a difficult condition to diagnose, 'cases' which have had recoveries were not in fact PVS. Schiavo certainly seemed to have PVS - when the autopsy comes out we will know for sure.
BTW not condoning what went on, just don't wish to see a mistaken view that these two cases were the same, when they are hugely different, which dilutes the argument, IMHO.
Shhhhh. It wrecks a good story! Makes good JSP soundbytes!
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Thnks, EII. I have a battery back-up pump. I have a "down dip" driveway that runs into the only sump well ( the battery back-up pump sits just on top of the lime current pump in the same sump well).
No water pressure driven pump could hope to keep up in extreme conditions - the existing sump pumps are for storm events, not for gradual seepage.
Part of my strategy included an aqueduct system running towards the floor drain - I'm rather proud of my engineering. I have three hidden drilling/hose arrangements that run to drain and relieve wall and basement hyraulic pressure.
I considered a standpipe, but that can cause problems.
The dehumidifier and my mods make the basement habital year-round.
Keeping my fingers crossed....
Cool!
How high is your water table? What about storm sewers and retention areas?
Do you live in an older home/area? What about drain tile around the house? Is your basement block or poured?
What about being senaky and piping out stormwater to your sanitary sewer? Not that advocate breaking any laws?
Now all you gotta do is go with your own GenSet for your home. Of course it has got to power every circuit in your house... That way when you are on stand-by power, you can laugh at your nieghbors during that HOT, summer outage, while you are nice and cool in your house!
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Wasn't hemp a very viable cash crop until about the 1940's? Quite revisonist thinking of you... You have been hanging out at too many "Pro Hemp Rallies/Parades?"
There are still remnants of the industry growing wild out here... On some levees in Western Illinois, I have seen the stuff 6' feet tall (I avoided the word "high"
)With the advent of nylon... Which took the rope business by storm? You're backward logic seems palatable on the surface... But, it is far from the truth that people grew this purely to "enjoy." Sure makes for great fun!
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I jumped through hoops finishing off my basement - moisture and insurmountable grade problems. My treatment mostly works, but despite my pains, I saw need to purchase one of those 150 buck free-standing dehumidifiers - in the summer months, it pulls out at least a gallon and a half per day. It makes a big difference - I recommend them.
Always keep an inexpensive thermometer/humidity gage in your basement - to give you a "heads up" for problems, so to speak.
A half-filled, 5 gallon bucket of CaCl (calcium chloride) placed in the corners of you basement will pull an amazing amount of water! Stick a spent two litre bottle in it to act like a "Pool Pillow" helps?
Have you thought about back-up sump pump? There is a neat one that will run off your water line and needs no battery or electrical power... Sure your water bill will be hefty after the power outage... But, your basment will be dry!
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Looking at the link of your print... You have seemed to miss one critical dimension?... The width across living/office/storage?
I probably could figure it out from the square footage you gave?
My architectual drawing teacher in highschool was a stickler for these things!... Also, ALWAYS put you dimensions on the outside of the drawing!
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You ain't saying!
It is really the double message that the US sends.
Instead of emphasizing the great things about our society... What the world sees is Tide and Pepsi being hawked accross the globe while a Disney cruise ship pulls into the port of Venice blarring "It's a Small World."
It is nice to love a guy like Al Czervik (CaddyShack, Rodney Dangerfield) since he breaks down the stuffy elite... Yet, it is hard not to hate him when he acts like a horse's ass!
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PFC Lynndie England pleads guilty
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I can respect that. Then we live with a "water-down" brand name.
I always wanted a Jaguar car... Ever notice how much Hyundai's look like them now?
If I was Jaguar (I think some Ford owned?) I WOULD BE PISSED! It still doesn't mean we press on!
BLAME FORD??! (I didn't research onwership, correct me if I am wrong!)