Well to me subs have never been a giant threat. Then again, I have not gone against too many people who utilized them well enough for me to worry. But since one of the purposes of the destroyer was to hunt subs the rule of having a destroyer present for air attacks makes sense to me. Plus it makes the subs and destroyers each a tad more valuable to use.

To make a board game as authentic to real life as possible is kind of like taking a single frame from a movie. You won’t cover everything but you can at least get the gist of it. :wink:

@cystic:

was this more than you wanted to know?

No, it’s actually quite interesting…I plan to go into medicine…so I’m getting a head start :D

George Washington was born on British soil, not United States soil. Common, if it was US Soil he couldnt have a revolution, duh. See, this is the type of inane arguement that doesnt make any sense from you all.

As for a warrent, you are legally required to knock on the door, wait, knock again and THEN if there is no answer you may take methods to enter the house without permanently damaging the property.

The only time it is legal to break into a home is if you know the criminal is in there and he does not voluntarily surrender himself at the door, OR if there is immediate physical harm to a living human being.

Guess you never took any criminal justice classes, just decided to pull crap out your arse, as usual.

@Janus1:

there is more leniency with cuban refugees, because if they claim they are fleeing for their lives, they can get refugee status in the US. since cuba is considered a terrorist nation, they can use this. mexican citizens, dont have this benefit. they are fleeing from poverty, not danger to their lives. this is not a reason that will grant refugee status

i think it’s more complicated than this. The US immigration policy w.r.t. Cuba seems to be more geared towards destabilizing the country. The people who “flee” Cuba do so to take advantage of the US policy of automatically granting a green card to any Cuban who lands on US soil - something that is VERY difficult to come by for any other country. This selective immigration policy has been responsible for every hostage-taking/immigration crisis of the island since '59.

by the way, this is reasoning from INS and other Govt agencies, not my personal beliefs.

understood. I have noticed how the Cuban gov’t is not the only entity that uses propaganda as a method of “adjusting” popular opinion.

Most hockey fans are aligned with the owners and less pissed about the season being canceled than they are about the players holding up the negociating process.

But the season’s not over. Read my blog for updates: njdevs.blogspot.com

Looks like I should set my handle to fogey

I’ll call you ol’ fogey from now on :)

The first time you travel outside the US, esp. to any of the Asian coutries or the UK, you will really hate cellphones then if the thought of someone talking on one during a flight upsets you. Anywhere you go in Ireland, be it train, bus or sitting at a cafe, someone is on their cell, with a two way in their hand texting to someone else. Coming from DC where it seems we all have a celly strapped to our face, this was overwhelming to me. Sitting on a bus for 15 minutes and every single person just talking away…at the coffee house…at the pub that night…at teh pub that morning…

My point is you just need to accept the fact that as technology grows it becomes more used, and the more it is used the more it becomes part of everyday life…when that happens you have to adjust. Sure it is the last thing you want to have happen on a 4 hour flight - Salesguy McGee wearing too much Polo whipping out his cell and talking way too loud about doing lunch, moving 400 units at a hot price and telling his buddy about his neighbors wife, but it is coming. I think if they allowed cell phones to be on but only for text and data messages, alot could be gained for the cell user that needed it, while saving teh sanity for those that didn’t want the conversations.

No one knows, we are stupid here, ask avalon hill.

Politically correct sarcasm(an oxymoron[no comments , please!]) carried to the extreme.

Yet I find it odd that no one had a joke or serious comment such as is going around…

SOURCE :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_Map

A map of the United States of Canada(Canada, East and Left coast US,and the Upper Midwest US) has been circulated. Jesusland (the remainder of the US) is located directly south of the USC.

They will probably make a commercial-free, 5-DVD set of all the Jennings games with commentary.

High school quiz bowl teams all over the the US and Canada will get it for a competitive edge.

I’m glad everyone else here hates him too! :D

Don’t know enough about the case to make any decision. The mere accusal of assault, unless there’s actual evidence to back it up, is not enough in my mind to convict the fellow. And on top of that, nine-million dollars is a Hell of a lot of money, and there’s no way, even if he did assault her, that she needs that much money to “compensate.”

@stuka:

@Jennifer:

Okay, well the basic thought was that as long as the person’s under the care of a lisenced physician then I don’t see the harm in legallizing the substance. After all, we’ve discovered that some poisons, used properly, can actually heal. (Botox for instance or chemo.)

Yes, actually they are researching the use of botox for women with breast cancer. I forget what is the actual benefit. Perhaps someone can fill me in.

FYI - botox costs $500 for one treatment here.

i wonder if the benefit here is for cosmetic reasons as well (post-mastectomy).
otherwise i do not know.

I’ve used a buttfly ballot before, but we don’t use them in AZ any more.

Our Ballots look like this:

George W. Bush >–-------->

John F Kerry >-_____ ->

Well that what mine looked like anyway. ;)

Well Smith?

I’m still waiting for the quoting of my stance on tech, as you so arbitrarily claimed existed.

oh no
so very nasty.

Bush did not personally order the destruction of ballot boxes. IF anyone did that, it would probably be Cheney. I don’t think Bush has a wicked bone in his body, he may or may not be foolish and brash, but I don’t think he has the intention of harming the US Gov’t or it’s citizens.

Yes so b/c daley is someone you don’t like he must personally have a hand in this, but when its Bush he doesn’t. I would argue a better case could be made against Bush in Florida b/c his bro is gov there. Daley could always blame a ‘bad egg’ aid. However, in neither instances is this a valid excuse, and really just to absolve the guilty among those who would support them.

Smith, if you get caught in a scandal, the proper thing to do is resign, or you could be like our beloved Bill, and stay in office.

Then why don’t the republicans do this? Note that they only resign when its a sexual scandal b/c they have to. If you are the moral authority and get caught doing something immoral then you have no choice, and in fact to stay in would only damage yourself and your advocates more.

Mr. Ryan’s only impropriety was wanting to have Sex with his Wife. He just didn’t want to reveal that they attended social gatherings of an adult nature. But he didnt want to have sex with other people or let her do the same. When she said no, he dropped it.

No that’s a very simplistic interpretation. What I hear was he wanted to ‘swing’ and she didn’t. Of course he being the moral authority and her the corrupt hollywood neophite this could only be spun so much thereby causing the resignation.

Daley on the other hand, would burn the flesh off his own screaming mother if it meant he could get 4 more years in office.

And bush would probably be willing to kill or have killed another 1000 Americans. What happened to compassionate conservativism, or his ‘love’ of Americans. Oh wait he never said he loved Americans only America. So I guess he was being compassionate by giving those 1000 a quick death.

I think the point would be to just NOT engage in a scandle…or is that too simplistic for the Dems and Reps to do???

Go Nader! (hey, I view it like this, if you are voting for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil, right? Why not throw your vote on a 3rd party and vote against ALL evil!)

Well there are two problems here. One is that the judgement of what is scandal is usually made by the opposition party and therefore incredibly biased, and two the most virtuous presidents have been the worst ie Hoover, Carter, and perphaps even LBJ. In recent years there have emerged journals from Lincolns earlier years involving some of his sexual escapades in Springfield as a young attorney/congressman, and were authored not by himself, but by his friends and townspeople.

Lions are lazy - when it comes to hunting. But they’ve naturally been built to fight other male lions in competition, and therefore tend to be better suited for purely fighting with other predators, although whether one would take initiative against a tiger is doubtful in my mind.

Here is another interesting site: http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/conflict.html
I think this one gives pretty good analysis, as do others. But they’ve often conflicted in comparing the sizes of the two cats. Some say lions stand taller and are more muscular, but less lengthy, while others say tigers are bigger in every way. This confuses me so I don’t know what to think. I do know grizzlies are bigger than both and not as fierce as either.

Janus was correct. Oh well.

Marine,
We protect Kerry as if he might become President. If it was Bushy running around trying to become President would you want him driving himself without any protection? Remember the terrorists we are suppose to be afraid of. One of them could determine the outcome of our next election if we did not protect them. Not to mention we have our very own home grown nut jobs that would take a shot given half a chance. Pop quiz: How many US Presidents have been shot? How many of those where shot by US citizens? Take your time… :) Poli Sci 101 is now out for the day.

That is not fully true marine… :roll:

Everything has a predator in the ocean, there is something on that list that could eat the Jellyfish without dying. :wink:

But not all of the Jellyfish stings. Only there spaghetti like legs(I’m not sure if you call them flagella on a Jelly…)can sting you! :)

So therefore, something could eat the top of it and weaken it enough that it can’t do anything! :)