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Of the remaining 10,000 or so gun deaths, somewhere around 8,500 of them are murders of which 90% or so are gangbangers and drug dealers killing each other.

Oh come on, you can't just throw a fit over somebody else's statistics, then shit this flippant remark out.

Even Homer Simpson knows that when somebody says "90% of something" as a statistic, it's just bullshit.

On the other hand, over 90% of households own a car and there are roughly the same number of MVA deaths as gun deaths so your chances of dying from a car if you live in a household with a car is 1 in 8,580.

Nor throw out this one. You know that the average American is far more exposed to automobile use than firearms as well.

Besides, we spend a LOT of money and effort reducing automobile deaths, if you want to spend comparable amounts on firearms, expect a lot more licensing. DMVaF?

Tell me again why living in a household with a gun is risky. All of these numbers are readily available to the public so don't take my word for it, look them up yourself.

Because of idiots with guns.

Nothing... unless you live near a mine or a smelter.

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1195543.html

Enivornmentally freindly? I guess so if it's not in your backyard.

10pm EST & PST on New Years Eve, a night tons of children will be staying up late, for one. Second, it was aired at 9PM CST & MST, which is what I believe got them in the most trouble.

Here is a story mentioning the New Years and 9pm time info. "... the FCC requires that no indecent programs be aired between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m."

Here is another story stating the same thing and more details. "The Dec. 31 episode was actually a rerun, but the PTC's complaint the first time around wasn't addressed because it fell under CBS parent Viacom's $3.5 million deal with the FCC to clear up all indecency fines. The PTC's latest complaint is on behalf of viewers in the Central and Mountain time zones, because on the East Coast the show aired at 10 p.m., within the FCC's 10 p.m.-6 a.m. window of relaxed indecency standards."

Kyoto was doomed well before Bush took office. In 1999, the senate voted 98-0 against this treaty. Other nations have began to have second thoughts about it as well. This treaty was more about holding developed nations back than it was about reducing emissions, and it is on the scrap pile where it belongs.

I'm afraid I understand it very well.

Global opt-out that must be honored on pain of lawsuit is part of my 'platform' as it were.

You believe it's OK for them to harvest my email address from my website, but that posting "I don't want your spam" on that same website isn't sufficient notice. I'm supposed to beg them to stop, over and over. I've done that, too, but since there are still more spammers, I'm now supposed to do it 300+ times a day. Fuck your platform - it sucks.

Clearly you've never seen how much money public defenders make.

Clearly, you are ignoring the fact that most defense lawyers are not working for public defender pay. Not to mention the fact that in high profile cases, they make a ton of money. Wow, are you shocked? Once again, facts and your claims are opposites.

I'm tired of this. You'll have to troll someone else. Maybe the next guy will believe your bullshit.

So you think we should have all been nice polite british subjects a few hundred years back and happily paid for our stamps and tea and all the other "good laws" of George the III?

• a story from the Southeast Missourian website that features several quotes such as this one from Professor Nicholas Tibbs of the Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau:
  
  "You can't accurately predict earthquakes," he said. "The technology to do that doesn't exist. It sounds like a scam to me."
  
  
• this entry on the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics" website identifying a Michael J. Kozuch, Ph.D. as being a geoscientist "with active interests in Honduras"
  
  Michael J. Kozuch; Ph.D., Peace Corps Volunteer Geologist, Honduras 1987-1990; Seismologist with the Institute of Geologic & Nuclear Sciences (New Zealand). Honduras Expertise: General geology of Honduras, tectonic modeling and geophysics Current activities: Investigation of novel approaches in seismic hazard analysis and collection of geophysical information relevant to Honduras, email: m.kozuch@gns.cri.nz Mail: P.O. IGNS, P.O. Box 1320, Wellington, New Zealand, Tel: 64-4-473-8208 (wk) or 225 Country Club Dr., San Francisco, CA 94132 USA. additional information at: http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz:80/staff/kozuch.html
• this web page listing Michael J. Kozuch in an academic reference to a geological map of Honduras.
• this web page listing him Michael as part of the GNS of New Zealand. The GNS, formerly New Zealand's Geological Survey, which was transformed into a government-owned company in 1992. Interestingly, the GNS website hosts the New Zealand Hazard Watch web page which provides "up-to-date information on volcanoes, floods, landslips, tsunamis, solar activity and earthquakes." The GNS website identifies Mike Kozuch as one of two project leaders of the Quake Tracker Development Team. Perhaps Michael used his experience with this development to try to make a website that was more financially rewarding.