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Yes, yes he is. Have you seen how "fast" pot-heads move? It'd be like getting beaten up by Urkel.

Be comforted that in the face of all aridity & disillusionment and despite the changing fortunes of time, there will always be a big future in computer maintenance.

Some thoughts on your thoughts

As another responder pointed out, most of the security rules are regarding the airport, not the airline. you *can* run an airline where people are allowed to carry guns, you just can't use the normal federally regulated airport, because guns are illegal there.

Of course the thought of voluntarily getting into a pressurized metal tube at high altitudes with a bunch of knowingly armed and self-righteous people tends to make people think of other airlines. and therefore a commercially bad move. same with stripped naked. ugly would go looking for pretty, who would know better than to show up there.

federal mandates on planes allow the airlines to discriminate (against people carrying guns, people on the do-not-fly list. for example) federal mandates allow the locking of the cockpit door, it was the pilots union that demanded it. If you congregate in the front of a plane, you are not breaking a federal law, you are breaking an airline rule.

BUT, that said, let's have a little word about federal regulations/mandates/laws and how they differ.

federal laws, mandates and regulations are slightly different things. worth checking on. remember the "real-id" act is a *mandate*, there is no requirement for the states to follow this *mandate* simply that the federal government will not recognize that state's ID as legit. they're not "forcing" the states to comply, (those of you who have had credit trouble might recognize this argument.)

federal safety *regulations*, (OSHA for example) are not there to protect you from something. they are there to make sure there is a well defined line between "my fault" and "your fault" that's all. If I did not wear a hard hat on a constructions site, I would be in violation of OSHA regulations, would I be arrested for it? no. the company I worked for would insist I wore one, because if I wore one they would not be liable in the case of my injury. Federal regulations about airports and airlines are the same. do this and you won't be liable for this kind of problem. If you don't follow these rules, so be it. on your own head be it. It is not against the law just to carry a gun on a plane. But, if the airline allows it, and something goes wrong, (anything, it not even be directly tied to the fact that you have a gun) the airline would be liable for everything. they did not conform to the rules. If the airline follows every rule, and something still goes wrong, they can say "not our fault!" and walk away.

----I have conferred with someone here, and I may be mistaken about the status of guns on planes being actual law, but I suspect there are conditions. also, the illegality of guns on planes has to do with interstate commerce laws, oddly enough... so if someone could substantiate this, I will happily retract the bits of the above diatribe that apply to guns.)----

rules about guns, knive, nailclippers, mean that already the popular misreading of the 2nd amendment doesn't apply, (and a bit of the 4th) and rules about making silly jokes mean that the 1st doesn't apply either. "no gathering at the front of the cabin" rule, that's the 1st again, so, does the constitution apply?

here are a few links that come up if you google (FAA regulations guns)
http://www.fletc.gov/artesia/travel.htm
http://www.akdart.com/gun1.html
http://www.packing.org/airlines
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel092601.sh tml
http://forums.officer.com/forums/archive/index.php /t-12995.html
and of course,
http://www.nationallampoon.com/nlbs/santa/xmas/faa .asp

It's funny 'cos it's true. http://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/03_voices/starwa rs/starwars.asp

Thus proving National Lampoons comments about the Swedes as fact, not satire.

Can't forget this set of instructions.

Soldier are paid/engaged to kill each other in their nation's name.

You make it seem like most soldier's in most wars aren't forced (drafted) into fighting. Iraq killing Americans is having an effect on the people who joined the Army & the Reserves. The government is offering people $10,000 to stay in. And that's not helping much.

And to be off-topic, if WW2 Was Fought Like Vietnam.

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Hey, ----- called, it wants its ----- back.

Many people seem to be out of touch with what is really going on out there - not you, of course - so it's sometimes helpful to wake them up. For example, if you were to pay witness to another human being, fully sentient, no concern over his possibly being descended from a race of man-ape hybrids, not just wearing but in fact showing off a new set of bell-bottom corduroy trousers, a loud pastel shirt unbuttoned down to the navel, and anything resembling platform shoes, it is your god-given right, nay, duty, to inform that person "Hey, the Smithsonian Museum of American History called, they want their Studio 54 exhibit back."

STRUCTURE #2
Hey, ----- called, it wants its ----- back.

Many people seem to be out of touch with what is really going on out there - not you, of course - so it's sometimes helpful to wake them up. For example, if you were to pay witness to another human being, fully sentient, no concern over his possibly being descended from a race of man-ape hybrids, not just wearing but in fact showing off a new set of bell-bottom corduroy trousers, a loud pastel shirt unbuttoned down to the navel, and anything resembling platform shoes, it is your god-given right, nay, duty, to inform that person "Hey, the Smithsonian Museum of American History called, they want their Studio 54 exhibit back."

For those whose pumpkin tastes runs less towards throwing and more towards... well... intimacy, there's Punkin Lovin.

"Though I may never see you again, I wish you the warmest clam chowder, the finest of embalmings, and the best in stainless steel cadaver pans that money can buy."

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