Lemur King

Of course. Depending on who is delivering the review, it can be a badge of shame or honor.

I said that for effect, and you are quite right. It was inaccurate. I should have said "cutting off someone's nuts." In any event, testoserone (and sex drive... and ability of have sex) can be replaced even if you have no testicles. Which makes the law even DUMBER. EDIT: Interesting article- shows another side of this. It treats the chemical castration not as punishment, but as treatment.

If Alabama has a serious problem with repeat pedophiles, then maybe their judges should issue harsher sentences. Perhaps their judges are pussies who don't sentence pedophiles for long enough sentences? None of this has anything to do with what this really is about: political gamesmanship, and not even sensible gamemanship.

Do think that unionizing Wal-Mart and Toyota (whose workers have rejected UAW overtures before) might have an adverse effect on them? State of Ford, GM = BAD

Did I say "take them out for ice cream"? I'll save you the trouble of reviewing my post. Answer: No. What I said was this is stupid, since it will eff up already effed up pedohiles even worse. Do you think that "removing the sex drive" of pedophiles minimizes the chance that they will once again eff with a child. OR do you think that cutting off someone's dick just might eff their mind up so bad that they will be more likely to eff someone else (probably another child) up in the future. This a political grandstanding at its finest: "Let's bash pedohiles: who's with me?"

Maybe I misunderstood your post. I thought you were, maybe, making sense in suggesting that Unions should focus less on recruitment, and more on fixing what shreds of credibility they still have, if any. Do you think that Unions should be focused on organizing more workers? Like those at Wal-Mart (one of the biggest companies in the world) and Toyota (soon to be the largest auto-maker in the world)? And they should do this, instead of trying to change their relationship with companies like Ford, GM, and Chevy (the Bloated 3), each of which is in crisis?

In the first paragraph, you complain that the Teamsters biggest problem is they don't focus on current members. In the second paragraph, you complain that they should focus on a boycott of Wal-Mart. Umm.

This law misses the point. You want to create someone even more f'ed up than a child molester? Torture them more. While no punishment is too cruel for people who do this, if you're ever going to let them out again, twisting their brains up even more by cutting off their privates won't stop them from hurting kids. It will just create worse monsters. Idiot lawmakers.

Sorry. Her anecdotal evidence not citing a source for an unnamed article is the kind of thing you rely on? Please skip Drudge. Go directly to Blogs for news.

Leakers will be fired/leakers that break the law will be fired. Got maple syrup?

Yes! A post with anecdotal evidence citing unnamed sources working for unnamed companies. Excellent. Email Matt Drudge immediately. Deb is his kind of source.

Yay class warfare. "era of layoffs and outsourcing" Unemployment in this country is extremely low. Regarding outsourcing, do you have a problem with Japan outsourcing to the US? Toyota alone employs 250,000 Americans.

I would pick a federal judge with as little experience on the bench as possible, wouldn't you? I would never consider picking someone with a long judicial record- that would be crazy.

Given your 12000 posts, I'm sure your "life" can afford to be on hold for another day.

Although you thought you were being clever, you just proved his point.

They must all be gay up there.

Here's a nugget from a paper I wrote on outsourcing. American ingenuity, long thought second to none, as measured by science education, is no longer under assault; it is being routed. American universities rank sixth world-wide in the number of people graduating with bachelor degrees in engineering. Meanwhile, China is graduating four times as many engineers as the U.S., and Japan - with less than half of the population, graduates twice as many engineers. In India, which has many native English speakers, the trends are similar: according to Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, “In the decade from 1990 to 2000, India increased its number of students enrolled in college by 92 percent.” This is a trend that isn’t getting better, because American children are not interested- or at least incompetent in- science. U.S. high school students rank last among twenty-one industrial countries in science. And in what Newsweek refers to as a “dazzling” statistic, in an Intel sponsored world science contest drew 65,000 American students compared to 6 million Chinese students. It’s no wonder that Bill Gates bemoans the government imposed cap on visas for scientists: Americans need help with their science homework. I'm with AD. I'll happily pay to avoid letting the government educate my kids.

I don't know who is to blame for the failings of the US cars. I really don't. I just buy the best product out there. And despite the fact that I have 2,500$ in GM dollars, I cannot buy a GM. Or a Ford. Or a Chevy. The last five times I've shopped for a car, new or used, I've bought a foreign car. In one case, I bought a POS in a 1981 VW Rabbit. Besides that one POS, all the Japanese cars I've owned have been superb. And when I bought my last two cars, both new, they anhillated the US competition we looked at. The Taurus and Saturn can't even impress in the test drive, while the Nissan, Toyota, and Honda excelled. One plus for US cars- my wife drove a 1993 Escort for a while- it was the same car as the Mazda 626. That car rode like crap, and was loud, but it was cheap and never had a single problem.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Toyota employs 250,000 workers. In the US. GM just ordered 50,000 engines. From a Honda plant. In the US. I can say outsourcing. Can you?

I got the joke right off. You're still a nitwit.

I am Jesuit educated, and agree.

Been to some of these- the named pew thing is unreal. In Catholic Church, there is both a sense of community and anonymity. If you are new to the Church, no one will hunt you down to see if you are trying to join. You can just go, enjoy a Mass, and leave. In many protestant faiths, if you go to the service, they will swarm to you afterwards. "Outsider!"

FYI. At Quaker Meeting, there's no box or basket. You have to seek someone out and ask them how to support the Meeting, if you even want to. Of course, Quakers don't burn books or engage in cannibalism (C'mon Monkey!), but they do have that wacky belief in peace.