sophiasgrace exerpted this part of 13th Amendment in her above letter (snipped beginning of quote): 'except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.'

Now I am against any involuntary servitude/slavery of any type for any non-criminal, but in your quote of Section 1 of the 13th Amendment, you might note this part 'except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted'.

The Prison Industries you objected to employs criminals who are there because they were duly convicted of a crime. Therefore, you can't use Section 1 (IMO) as an argument against this practice.

for confirming my example/understanding. Still remember my PS 211 from 1980 (woohoo)! Can't remember the instructor's name.

He was a good one though, made up some simple databases with statistics for several candidates & had us parse the data in various ways to see how you could manipulate results based on the questions being parsed or the demographics exerpted for your report & how sample size related to accuracy.

In the article, the researcher is quoted as saying she can reliably guess the sex of the child-to-be from a pregnant woman (as opposed to a non-pregnant woman :-)), once she has an understanding of her personality & has done a testosterone level test.

You know, we only have 2 sexes to choose between. It's a 50/50 chance if you just straight-out guess. I would be more impressed if we had 5 sexes.

I was being too 'anal' about it. Understand where you are coming from.

that when (if) we are called to account by God when we die, our biggest sins will be what we have done to other animals.

God bless Nim & Chickie & all the other poor abused animals.

IMO, best all-girl band ever was the Go-Gos (first album 'Beauty & the Beat' is great). Haven't ever heard 'The Breeders', will need to check them out.

Allie mentioned that there didn't seem to be any kick-ass female guitarists. Not many, I agreee, but I have heard/seen this woman named 'Kelly Richie' (who fronts the Kelly Richie Band) & she can stroke the axe. Check her out.

Note: May have name spelled wrong.

Mrs. Woermer from 'Animal House'? Vegtables can be very sensual.

Some very funny drink recipes up above. Kudos to the posters.

Give us more than 5 minutes to notice!

odog11 was perturbed that he? couldn't watch any beheadings by 'western persons' (dude, they mostly shoot people in those films).

If those pansy frenchifers hadn't been so busy eating cake & drinking wine out of the gutter they could have invented TV back in the 18th centusry & you would have been able to see lots of great beheadings in the French Revolution.

You know, just like us westerners, they made an efficient machine to do the beheadings (wonder if any Germans were involved). Oh well, back to watching the moslemers behead people (now where's my lube).

Don't know, but if Davidson had a timeout to use when they inbounded the ball with 16 secs, they should have used it about 10 sec point when it was becoming obvious that Kansas was klugging up whatever play they had called.

If they didn't have a timeout, then Curry should have driven to the basket to try & get a tying 2 or a foul (I had seen him make some crazy layups already, so that might have worked).

As WES said, it's all hindsight anyway.

As QT said, sign up for a drama or improv class. I'm sure it will help you relate to others better (or at least fake it more convincingly).

Good luck!

Tempus had this quote above: 'The conspiracy I believe is not unlikely is akin to the conspiracy FDR used to get us into WWII at the time we entered. First, I consider WWII to have been just and necessary to fight. I believe that the Nazis really really needed to be defeated. FDR, however, got us into that fight in a rather horrific manner: by pushing and pushing and pushing the Japanese in every way possible to get them to attack us (an "overt act") so that the people would switch from their then current 80% against getting involved in "Europe's war" to the opposite. He and a small cadre of staffers and military men knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor well before it actually occurred. They knew essentially when the attack would take place. They setup a situation that guaranteed that Pearl would be attacked. It was the "overt act" that FDR needed/wanted to get us into a war with the Axis. The correct ends, the wrong (and criminal) means.'

I totally disagree with your statements above. FDR did not know that Pearl Harbor was a target. He knew something was up, but thought they would attack the Phillipines or Dutch East India. Read Ted Monday's biography of FDR. There were some screwups in intelligence where FDR was not getting our transcripts of the Japanese diplomatic cables (that we had broken code on) for awhile & the analysis on the contents wasn't the best either (Japanese speaking in court dialect & using vague alliterations, etc.).

You can bet your life that if FDR knew they were going to sneak-attack Pearl Harbor, we'd have been there to meet them (still being able to declare war on Japan). Plus, there was no guarantee that Germany would be stupid enough to declare war on us anyway (they didn't have to, in the treaty Germany & Japan signed, a unilateral attack by Japan did not mean Germany was bound to come to her aid).

I like your posts Tempus, but you're wrong here.

Gazing into my crystal ball...

Memphis over UCLA & UNC over Kansas.

In Final: Memphis over UNC

Go Tigers!!