One of my Canadian cousins said that it wasn't too many years ago that they would just take the homeless out of the nicer areas and put them on a bus to Manitoba. It took them a long time to find their way back, if they chose to do so. Oh, but that just sounds so mean! It would never fly in Libtopi...

The federal government is a smooth running operation that can do most things more effectively and more efficiently than private interprise.  ;) For example, the FAA:  http://gizmodo.com/faas-fancy-new-5-billion-air-traffic-control-system-fo-1639463748 ... Mountaineer I thought these were supposed t...

The federal government is a smooth running operation that can do most things more effectively and more efficiently than private interprise. 

For example, the FAA:  http://gizmodo.com/faas-fancy-new-5-bil ... 1639463748

... Mountaineer

It also appears  http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/disease.htm  that flu infects more people than MG stated, with relatively severe effects including a lot of deaths and hospital visits.  To me, the benefit of the vaccine far outweighs the potential of adverse affects.  To each his own howeve...

...the only difference between those in the ghetto and those in affluent suburbia is money - the corruption, sin, sleaze, immoral behavior, and such, are much the same; the richer folks just have more money to cover it up and look good in their external appearance - like in the movie American Beaut...

Very, very elaborate.  Simplest system I think, is to decide how much of your net paycheck to give to charity, then how much for your savings - do that.  Then spend the rest on anything you like but when it's gone, no more spending period until the next paycheck.

... Mountaineer

Benko wrote: "Worst Attorney General In US History"

Until he is replaced by Bill Ayers or Valerie Jarrett ;-)

Yes, I thought of that after I posted,  ... along with maybe Michelle will run in 2016. 

... Mountaineer

I know a couple of people who almost died before the polio vaccine was common practice, and heard of far more who did die. I knew a LOT of people who died from smoking and car accidents.  I'm outraged (at the people who think zero risk is either desirable or a reality - my definition of risk include...

I wonder if the SF building controls will stay in place after the next 9.0 or will the "lightening never strikes in the same place twice" dummies rebuild?

... Mountaineer

Listen!  I think I hear the Hallelujah chorus playing in the background.  Three cheers for Handel. 

... Mountaineer

I understand the intent here.  I get the idea of minimum responsibility filters that come with being able to afford to pay a certain amount.  But I personally reject the basic assumption that rich people are automatically better to live around, and I'd likely pass on the large scale gated community...

Of course, and don't call me Shirley! (Mountaineer, it's a play on trying juveniles as adults, combined with the racial bias in our criminal justice system). Surely, Shirley, you cleared that up.  I thought I knew what the Onion was like but since I almost never read it, I was not sure.  It looked ...

For those of you who are agnostics, or discard the concept of faith in a God that cannot be proven, I have a question.  I'm making the assumption you do have "faith" in arithmetic and logic, hence my question.  How do you reconcile the Peano Axioms and Gödel's Undecidability or Incompleten...

I started to put this in the YouTube thread but it seems to fit better in this one.  Link wording is self-explanatory.

http://www.tuaw.com/2014/09/24/youtube- ... e-6-and-6/

... Mountaineer

dualstow wrote: Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult (Onion video)
http://www.theonion.com/video/judge-rul ... dul,18896/

Surely this is a joke.

... Mountaineer

much more elegant to use the old K&E. I'm a Post man myself  :) Post is an excellent choice - bamboo substrate with celluloid scales if I remember correctly.  I also used Picketts (one full size, one pocket size) a lot, but for some reason the mahogany substrate and ivory-like faces of the K&am...

Jesus! I always knew you would call on the Lord in a time of need.  ;D ... Mountaineer At least I did it in awe of someone else's taxes... Not mine... Damn I wish selflessness would get you into heaven. It may, if you use the appropropriate object and objectivity for your selflessness  ;) ... Mount...

moda0306 wrote:
Jesus!

I always knew you would call on the Lord in a time of need. 

... Mountaineer

This is an interesting device that replaces much manual labor.  These excavator mulchers are ideal for intensive vegetation control, land clearing, transmission lines, and forest fire prevention. My goodness!  It is like a giant inside-out paper shredder on a boom arm! I don't know why, but this ma...

This is an interesting device that replaces much manual labor.  These excavator mulchers are ideal for intensive vegetation control, land clearing, transmission lines, and forest fire prevention.

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/excamuoich2

... Mountaineer

However, all the generations after the baby boomers have grown up in a proportionally faster and more nimble world, and I think they're more psychologically prepared for it. Even though the pace itself may be grueling, if you're raised in a world where a grueling pace of change is considered normal...

In response to the near secession of Scotland from the United Kingdom, the British government is promising to decentralize, giving more power to regional and local governments.  (Not just Scotland but Wales and Northern Ireland already have their own parliaments.  England hasn’t, being content to ru...

For those of you wanting to beat up on Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, here is a good sermon for you to read or listen to.  It does a good job of holding up the miror for us to peer into ... do you like what you see?  The sermon is a good example of the Word, both the Law and the Gospel, being clearly...

Well, in my case my wife had no particularly strong political opinions when we got married. She's an anarchist now, though.  ;D not sure what my wife's opinions were before we met, if she had many, but she is definitely libertarianish headed toward anarchist...  of course the transition is easier t...

Austrian's. Hes talking about Austrian's .  And there theorys about economic's. I know, 4 posts late. The only thing I hate worse than the misuse of apostrophe's is pedantry. Kind of like asking "leaves" questions (vs. trees or forrest questions) about Genesis just for the sake of snarkin...