I have no doubt that most members of the McCain staff were praying their butts off every time Palin opened her mouth.

so, the only thing stopping terrorists from ramming planes which they are in into buildings, is the fear of the death penalty?

And you know without a doubt that if they legislated helmets for skiers, which would absolutely eliminate all these low speed crash deaths (as distinct from ramming a tree at 60 mph), the rightwingnuts would be whining about the nanny state.

“Helmets, although they do not prevent concussion, have a virtually 100 percent record of preventing skull fractures,” Dr. Cantu said. “Had she been wearing a helmet,” he said of Ms. Richardson, “she would have been alive.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/fashion/26helmet.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=skiing%20helmets&st=cse

the grid is already stretched too thin at peak on a hot summer day. if that peak can be shaved a bit thinner, then the utilities can put off the expensive upgrade of the grid for a while.

i don't know about you guys, but my electric company came around a year or two ago and offered people some bucks to install a gadget on their central AC at home which allows them to remotely shut it down for like half an hour on weekday afternoons on a rolling basis, thus cutting the peak load with minimal impact on anybody.

around med schools or law schools around graduation day. they're putting their days of scrimping behind them and you can find things like printers which have never been out of their box.

for one thing, there are alternatives to buying detroit product, which include superior products which are also made in america.

however, with wall st., we're pretty much stuck with their crappy products because there's no other game in town.

chicken butt.

then you're too small to succeed. it's one or the other. zero sum.

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z699/Oldsmobile-Aerotech.aspx

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/reader_rides/4293188.html?page=7

and folks who feel they don't have the strength to be individuals become fascists who parrot talking points from blogs and talk radio hosts.

even i know what to do when the shaker kicks in, and i've never been in the cockpit of a plane in my life.

but i've come to the conclusions that other folks can't make a breakup work.

wish it into the cornfield, wish the whole thing into the cornfield, tyra banks too....

are doomed to spout idiocies about some nonexistent guy named Kellerman in public forever.

Seriously, if you google Kellerman and guns, you'll find out what a horrible guy he is. But if you google Kellermann and guns, he seems to have done a much better job on his research.

A lovely demonstration of evolution via mutation and sympatric speciation in action.

Me too. except i'm a guy. and i'm referring to my face.

when i followed the link to the nation, the article there was accompanied by an ad link, extolling the virtues of clean coal. i think that's about as close to what the author of that article had in mind as getting the paper industry to burn more diesel is close to what the authors of the legislation in question had in mind. bureaucracy and its related illnesses are endemic in all organizations, not just government.

researchers discover that carnivorism among teens may be a way of disguising a diet staggeringly high in saturated fats and sodium, leading to serious disabling circulatory disorders way too early in life.

other people coming to you for "advice", i.e. doing their work for them; if they're from your immediate group, then you may get a fleeting pat on the head from your manager (probably not). if they're from another group, though, you have the happy choice of agreeing and finding yourself becoming a permanent resource for another department at the cost of your own time and with them accruing all the career and paycheck benefit, or refusing at which point all of a sudden management will take notice and you will be penalized for not being a team player.

another equally reliable source said the banks are failing as he stumbled by me on the street, right between saying that the CIA was beaming instructions into his head and that ice creams doesn't have any bones.

if the element of surprise is so important in torture so that the enemy can't prepare for it, you have to wonder why they'd waterboard the same guy a couple of hundred times.

ok, what if a terrorist had written the location of the nuclear time bomb on a piece of paper and had a baby swallow it, and you didn't have any way to get to it except tear the baby apart with your fingernails and teeth? I suppose you damn liberals with your stupid moral absolutes against tearing a baby apart with your teeth would let the bomb go off?

And what if a terrorist had a hidden WMD he would set off unless you wrote to the white house and called Obama an Uncle Tom? I suppose you wouldn't hurt his feelings just because it was morally wrong, even if it cost the life of everyone in Wasilla Alaska?

Umm, lemme see... Oh I got one. What if a terrorist threatened to set off a bomb only if you made a left turn without signalling? Or maybe if you saw a terrorist shoplifting in Walmart and you knew he'd set off the nuke if you told the manager?

see, you have to be really adaptable to deal with terrorism.