No, the modern Republican party and the Democratic party aren't that far right.
"The US Department of Homeland Security defines right-wing extremism as hate groups who target racial, ethnic or religious minorities and may be dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."
Neither the GOP, Teabaggers or Democrats are involved in this.
The Republicans are more centre right - "liberal democracy, capitalism, the market economy (albeit with some limited government regulation), private property rights, the existence of the welfare state in some limited form, and opposition to socialism and communism. "
The Democrats are centre left - "Environmentalism and environmental protection laws, value-added/progressive taxation system to fund government expenditures, Immigration and multiculturalism, Fair trade over free trade, Advocacy of social justice, human rights, social rights, civil rights and civil liberties."
It's not about "the purity of your piss", its about observing respecting the law.
Like it or not, Marijuana isn't legal in most places to possess or use, and in the time frame Clinton, W and Obama used it it wasn't legal anywhere. The outrage or lack of outrage has to do with someone running for the highest offices in the US government and if they respected the law. If they were working for Intel or GM, no one would care unless they failed a piss test.
Clinton did what Clinton did best, skirted the answer with a non-answer. Bush and Obama admitted to using illegal drugs, if I was asked the question I'd answer truthfully "Hell yea I did when I was younger, oh and later I had a medical marijuana script but it didn't work for me so I stopped."
OK, I read about it. If its to save your life or if someone else did it, you are fine.
"If it [the tattoo] was done in the flesh of another, the one to whom it was done is blameless" (Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 180:2-3).
And I overstated the severity, the Rabbi's fault who told me, or this Rabbi is a little too reformy.
"Tattooing is an explicit prohibition from the Torah. However, those who violate this prohibition may be buried in a Jewish cemetery and participate fully in all synagogue ritual."
"Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to live the rest of your life in pain or on medication."
Here is a heads up, when you've had 14 major surgeries under general, tons of radiation and are missing three organs, you'l have pain.
I do have to live the rest of my life on medication if I want to live normally, D, sunlight and eating well won't replace testosterone.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia can't be cured with a healthy diet and exercise, nor will that keep it from occurring and to think those things will have an effect is ignorance.
Just for reference, ALL is caused by mutation, radiation and/or exposure to chemicals. Me, I have the Cryptic T(12;21) Cytogenetic translocation and possibly exposure to radiation in the form of Radon gas.
Example - I was in Israel 16 years ago, made some friends and when I came back to the States I lost track of them.
Facebook - I just happen on doing a search for one of the places I lived there, found a community of other ex pats who'd been there over the decades and found a couple drinking bodies from 16 years ago, caught up with them.
1. We've never publicly delivered a KV from one device in orbit to another 2. Our guidance isn't designed to deal with targets that far out and our guidance doesn't cover the equator or range out to 23,000+ miles
I had ALL for two years. Was declared to be cured (I have the record of that in my medical records on dead tree), then when I went in for a blood count check, I'd relapsed with cancer in another organ. So two more years of chemo.
Then...six years after that, I was diagnosed with yet another cancer.
Oh heck, I could go on and list every major weapon system the US military fields and show in each one where they don't publicly disclose the specifications or performance.
No, they really don't for new weapon systems or even important established systems.
Ask the US Army about the armor on an M-1 tank, the furthest they'll go is to confirm that the Abrams does indeed have armor. There are precise numbers on how many the US has built and has in service, but no precise numbers on the range of the main gun or the effectiveness of the rounds.
Same goes for the F-22, there are published numbers but no real numbers have come out about it's combat range, cruising speed, sprint speeds or operational altitude.
Same goes for speed and capabilities of the surface and submarine fleets, new submarines, F-35, capabilities of the EW suite on the Growler, etc.
The important stuff they keep secret, they don't tip their hand for deterrence except for the nuclear arsenal, thats the only place where the US military is truly interested in deterrence.
Which is more selfish, to commit suicide or to kill someone else?
Suicide. If one kills themselves the leave a hole behind which often leads to more self-harm or deaths in their family or peer group.
A murderer has taken a life, may or may not be justifiable, the families of the victim have legal recourse, civil recourse, family of the murderer has the choice to support the murderer or forget them. Society has a chance to punish the murderer. Suicide leaves a hole.
Speed of an aircraft carrier is classified. Operational depth of submarines are classified. Crush depth of submarines are classified. Speed of the F-22 is classified. Range, speed and max depth of torpedos is classified. What the X-37 is doing up in space, classified.
The US intelligence satellite constellation, all classified.
My information came from Wiki out of ease, but all the talk about USA-193 was in the public at the time of the shot and there was a good documentary about it on SCIENCE here in the US.
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No, the modern Republican party and the Democratic party aren't that far right.
"The US Department of Homeland Security defines right-wing extremism as hate groups who target racial, ethnic or religious minorities and may be dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."
Neither the GOP, Teabaggers or Democrats are involved in this.
The Republicans are more centre right - "liberal democracy, capitalism, the market economy (albeit with some limited government regulation), private property rights, the existence of the welfare state in some limited form, and opposition to socialism and communism. "
The Democrats are centre left - "Environmentalism and environmental protection laws, value-added/progressive taxation system to fund government expenditures, Immigration and multiculturalism, Fair trade over free trade, Advocacy of social justice, human rights, social rights, civil rights and civil liberties."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_left
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_right
It's not about "the purity of your piss", its about observing respecting the law.
Like it or not, Marijuana isn't legal in most places to possess or use, and in the time frame Clinton, W and Obama used it it wasn't legal anywhere. The outrage or lack of outrage has to do with someone running for the highest offices in the US government and if they respected the law. If they were working for Intel or GM, no one would care unless they failed a piss test.
Clinton did what Clinton did best, skirted the answer with a non-answer. Bush and Obama admitted to using illegal drugs, if I was asked the question I'd answer truthfully "Hell yea I did when I was younger, oh and later I had a medical marijuana script but it didn't work for me so I stopped."
OK, I read about it. If its to save your life or if someone else did it, you are fine.
"If it [the tattoo] was done in the flesh of another, the one to whom it was done is blameless" (Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah 180:2-3).
And I overstated the severity, the Rabbi's fault who told me, or this Rabbi is a little too reformy.
"Tattooing is an explicit prohibition from the Torah. However, those who violate this prohibition may be buried in a Jewish cemetery and participate fully in all synagogue ritual."
Mark of the beast only applies to tattoos or imbedded devices.
I know Jews can't get tattoos if they want to be buried in a Jewish funeral or cemetery, what's the stance on imbedded devices?
I'm in Alaska now, the bears are the danger up here.
Which is one of the places my namesake ended up for a spell.
No, actually the 14 surgeries and radiation is what's saved my life and fixed what's gone on.
Without the chemo and radiation, with ALL in 1980, I would have lived 2-9 months. When I relapsed my prognosis was 4-12 months.
Instead I've lived 10802 days.
ALL free since 1982, of the NIH/Mayo cohort I was tracked with, n=8351, there is one alive. Me.
The drugs stopped the cancer enough that my body could keep living ad other drugs nuked the cancer's production sites.
Four years of poisoning, recovery and poisoning kinda sucked.
Don't throw a holistic infomercial into this.
"Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to live the rest of your life in pain or on medication."
Here is a heads up, when you've had 14 major surgeries under general, tons of radiation and are missing three organs, you'l have pain.
I do have to live the rest of my life on medication if I want to live normally, D, sunlight and eating well won't replace testosterone.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia can't be cured with a healthy diet and exercise, nor will that keep it from occurring and to think those things will have an effect is ignorance.
Just for reference, ALL is caused by mutation, radiation and/or exposure to chemicals. Me, I have the Cryptic T(12;21) Cytogenetic translocation and possibly exposure to radiation in the form of Radon gas.
I don't agree.
Example - I was in Israel 16 years ago, made some friends and when I came back to the States I lost track of them.
Facebook - I just happen on doing a search for one of the places I lived there, found a community of other ex pats who'd been there over the decades and found a couple drinking bodies from 16 years ago, caught up with them.
I couldn't have done that with email or IM.
I'd drop $5 on Fark before I'd drop $5 on Facebook.
1. We've never publicly delivered a KV from one device in orbit to another
2. Our guidance isn't designed to deal with targets that far out and our guidance doesn't cover the equator or range out to 23,000+ miles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Dane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PAVE_PAWS%26BMEWS.png
Of course there was an underlying issue(s), but the two cancers I've had and the non malignant tumor all have different underlying issues.
I hope I can make it to 80, I was given six months to live in 1980, so I reckon I might be ornery enough to make it.
Actually...
I had ALL for two years. Was declared to be cured (I have the record of that in my medical records on dead tree), then when I went in for a blood count check, I'd relapsed with cancer in another organ. So two more years of chemo.
Then...six years after that, I was diagnosed with yet another cancer.
Then 17 years after that, a non-cancerous tumor.
Oh heck, I could go on and list every major weapon system the US military fields and show in each one where they don't publicly disclose the specifications or performance.
Especially on new systems.
Which would be "most of" dingleberry.
Well, I've been cured of cancer twice. Three times if you count the relapse.
Here are the drugs I took
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparaginase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercaptopurine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methotrexate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincristine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prednisolone
So yea, the drug companies actually cured me.
No, they really don't for new weapon systems or even important established systems.
Ask the US Army about the armor on an M-1 tank, the furthest they'll go is to confirm that the Abrams does indeed have armor. There are precise numbers on how many the US has built and has in service, but no precise numbers on the range of the main gun or the effectiveness of the rounds.
Same goes for the F-22, there are published numbers but no real numbers have come out about it's combat range, cruising speed, sprint speeds or operational altitude.
Same goes for speed and capabilities of the surface and submarine fleets, new submarines, F-35, capabilities of the EW suite on the Growler, etc.
The important stuff they keep secret, they don't tip their hand for deterrence except for the nuclear arsenal, thats the only place where the US military is truly interested in deterrence.
Which is more selfish, to commit suicide or to kill someone else?
Suicide. If one kills themselves the leave a hole behind which often leads to more self-harm or deaths in their family or peer group.
A murderer has taken a life, may or may not be justifiable, the families of the victim have legal recourse, civil recourse, family of the murderer has the choice to support the murderer or forget them. Society has a chance to punish the murderer. Suicide leaves a hole.
No, they don't.
Speed of an aircraft carrier is classified. Operational depth of submarines are classified. Crush depth of submarines are classified. Speed of the F-22 is classified. Range, speed and max depth of torpedos is classified. What the X-37 is doing up in space, classified.
The US intelligence satellite constellation, all classified.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/health/01iht-01patc.11576407.html
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1033/1
That happens in all space systems that get things to low earth orbit.
Homicide can be justifiable.
Someone comes into my home intent on causing harm and I kill them, that is a justifiable homicide.
Suicide is more selfish than that.
Well, what US ASAT system has been shown to be deployable on a satellite?
ASM-135 was F-15 deployed, and there are none left, that we know of
SM-3 is a silo launched missile that requires an insanely complex radar and guidance system called the AN/SPY-1
The GBI from Boeing weighs 28000 pounds and is also silo based and takes a giant radar and guidance system
I didn't cite, got too busy at work.
My information came from Wiki out of ease, but all the talk about USA-193 was in the public at the time of the shot and there was a good documentary about it on SCIENCE here in the US.
Exactly, this isn't a national security emergency, the DoD won't show true capabilities for this.
Shuttle makes it to LEO just fine, there's no "barely" about it.