Interesting factoid, I too love Mongolian BBQ, but it turns out that there is no such thing in Mongolia itself. I was there last summer and their diet is predominantly, mutton, not even BBQ'ed mutton. Cheers
There's also this really cool thing that happens when Supernovas occur. During the normal lifespan of a star, elements up to Iron are "burnt" into being. Once Iron is reached it takes more energy to "burn" it into something else than can be gotten out of it. Most stars explode, turn into White Dwarves and die. The really big stars collapse. This forces the nuclei closer and closer until it "explodes" into a supernova, spewing out all the wonderful elements "heavi
The Latin says "Novus Ordos Seclorum" Which means a New Order for the Ages. It's not relgious at all. Cheers
That's the problem Baker, certain areas are not specifically addressed in the Constitution, but they clearly fall under the same guidelines. For one, Copyright laws shouldn't apply to Electronic software by your arguement, but I know that Brad would definitely back me up that copyrights should apply to software. Cheers
If a law is passed, and declared unconstitutional, or even irrelevant by a judge, it doesn't matter if someone else who reads the law thinks it applies. Cheers
The ACLU stands up for the rights of every group which is having their liberties stepped on. There's a great case where the ACLU filed suit on behalf of the KKK in order that they may have a peaceful parade. Cheesr
Karma, you don't know how far I live from the interstate ::Grin:: No but seriously, if the standard residential flag pole is 15' and his was 25', I think we can see he was doing this to be obstinate. Cheers
Draginol's right. I live in a neighborhood with an association, and like him, I'm glad I do, because I've seen some pretty trashy neighborhoods. 25 feet for a flag pole is really big. REALLY BIG. The standard flagpole, for houses, is 12-14 ft tall. Something 25 ft tall can be seen from the interstate near my house. Cheers
I've got an ACLU bumper sticker and I invite you to drive around Eugene Oregon and see if you can kick my ass, little man. Cheers
Umm, they didn't want him to take down the flag, they wanted him to take down the flagpole. There are some important questions unasked here. How tall was the flagpole, is the most important one. Was it the standard height? 8-12ft? Was it larger? Was it big enough to pick up radio transmissions from the Martian orbiter? There are some cities which have statutes on the size of flagpoles, if this was one of them, the neighborhood has a point, if not, the
The thing I was always told about faith was that if you needed proof, you didn't have it. I believe in a God, I don't seek to prove his existence, because it makes sense to me. For me to Prove to you how I got to that point it would require sharing a faith journey which isn't anybody elses business. Having said that, anyone who uses some bizarre lines about Dinosaur bones, etc. to prove God has gone off the deep end. God is unlikely to have left the bones a
A friend of mine at the university is a professor of Astrophysics. He says, while not specifically denying the existence of God, that before the universe there was nothing. Since this the absolute nothingness there was no time, but for a nearly infinite "time" there was the nothing, and then, because there was the possibility of something, the universe came into being. Or, to use his incredibly scientific terms "The universe is the collapsing wavefront of a quantum pulsation
Hmm...I'm a teen, and i'm a democrat, and I don't think that the Dem Party has taught me these things. Clearly you missed that meeting
Those pictures are even worse edits than Sir Peter Maxwell's.
Makes you wonder how much of the Bible Marvin has actually read, or whether he gets this straight out of pamphlet.
Not to mention the fact that there was this guy, out in the desert, building this boat. I recommend Bill Cosby's sketch on Noah to everyone interested in what "really happened".
Let's see, God is a kind god, and yet everyone who disagrees with you is doomed to the fiery inferno? Thank God for my Calvinism which states that no man knows whether he shall be saved from the fire until the day of judgement.
Just as a note, the Roman empire fell in the fifteenth century A.D. That means, and we're just talking THE EMPIRE here, it lasted for 1500 years. 1500!! That's a LONG TIME. Why did it fall? Well, it was beset by the Muslims in the south, to be sure, but the thing that really killed it was when OTHER CHRISTIANS came and sacked Constantinople. That gave the Ottomans enough of an edge to come in and finish the work. The Roman Empire as a whole, from Star
Um... why would you expect a weather facility have prisoners? Baker, you're right! They don't have prisoners there! Instead, they're using the facility to control the world's weather and unleash a super storm on the enemies of America!!!!!!!!! Or Not. Cheers
Brad, I agree with most of what you said in the above post, however, I, and others, feel that the loss of our trivial freedoms is a big deal, we also realize that the Taliban is not coming to rule the US, but destroy it. We also believe that the easiest way to destroy the US is to have us take away our own freedoms, the things that make the US the US. Cheers
ALL THE DATA LONG TERM. YOU CANNOT JUST LOOK BACK A COUPLE OF YRS. AS YOU LOOK BACK AT THIS COUNTRY OVER THE LAST 10 YRS--THE LAST 20 YRS--THE LAST 40 YRS Marvin, I was alive forty years ago. That's not history, that's not even really the serious past. I'm a history professor, I know history. The tim
Hey, today there was a speech on all the networks where Bush said something about the new governmental officials in Iraq. After two minutes I was so bored I changed the channel. Perhaps it's not the networks but the people who are the problem. Or maybe it's the way Bush answers questions. Who knows, who cares, but if you think Bush is slighted I've got stats floating around somewhere about a state of the Union where the majo
WELL, MAYBE I'M EXAGERATING A LITTLE, BUT BASICALLY WHAT I'M SAYING IS ACCURATE. Anyone who speaks in all caps and then says, in the same sentence that he is both exaggerating and accurate, is not someone to be listened to. Cheers
Hey, you're right, I could be president, I'm not a Bush though.... Cheers
Probably the wrong place to ask, but when does your interview air Draginol, or have we already missed it? Cheers
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