The apparent correlation between SSRIs and suicide, once again, does not mean causation.
I'm sure the victims of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Red Lake, Omaha, etc... would disagree with you. There have been very few, if any cases of school/mall shootings in the past 20 years that haven't been directly linked to SSRI anti-depressants.
Many of the cases involve the person going off the drug abruptly, which usually can cause very dangerous psychotic break. Look at the Omaha Mall shooter as an example.
The Physicians' Desk Reference lists the following adverse reactions (side effects) to antidepressants among a host of other physical and neuropsychiatric effects:
You can say that correlation is not causation until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't make it always true. It seems to be "true" most when people don't like the facts.
On September 14, 2004 the FDA mandated that pharmacies provide to all parents or guardians for those younger than 18 an Antidepressant Patient Medication Guide. This guide reads (in part) "Call healthcare provider right away if you or your family member has any of the following symptoms: Acting aggressive, being angry, or violent & acting on dangerous impulses." This Antidepressant Patient Medication Guide also states "Never stop an antidepressant medicine without first talking to a healthcare provider. Stopping an antidepressant medicine suddenly can cause other symptoms."
It is highly unlikey that the FDA would do this if it weren't true. The FDA is notorious for being a revolving door for big pharma execs.
Also, it takes a considerable amount of scientific illiteracy to look at new experimental findings and declare that scientists are "changing their story." Truly, 9/11 truthers are the creationists of the 21st century.
NIST's webiste:
As for fuel fires, the team found that they could not have been sustained long enough, could not have generated sufficient heat to fail a critical column, and/or would have produced "large amounts of visible smoke" from Floors 5 and 6, which was not observed.
Finally, the report notes that "while debris impact from the collapse of WTC 1 initiated fires in WTC 7, the resulting structural damage had little effect in causing the collapse of WTC 7."
I'll leave finding their previous statements up to you. They can be found in Popular Mechanics, which states that anyone who doesn't believe the last two statements is crazy.
Rather than, say, setting fire to a real 40-story skyscraper? Wow, those scientists and engineers sure are underachievers.
NIST claims that the collapse of Building 7 is "The first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building".
Chapter 1: WTC 7 Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis (William Pitts) is a thorough analysis of window fires by video and picture evidence, which concludes that all major fires before floors 7 and 13 died out prior to collapse.
The report states, "At 4:38 p.m. all of the windows between 13-44A and 13-47C were open, and the fires responsible for opening the windows had died down to the point where they could no longer be observed."
"Just prior to the collapse of the building at 5:20:52 p.m. a jet of flames was pushed from windows in the same area. The event that caused this unusual behavior has not been identified."
The report describes the nature of fires from floors 7-13 and also states, "With the exception of the fires on the 19th, 22nd, 29th, and 30th floors discussed at the start of this section, there is essentially no direct visual evidence of fires on other floors of WTC 7."
Don't forget Appendix C of FEMA's World Trade Center Building Performance Study, which stated:
Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel... The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.
I'm sorry for have scientific illiteracy. I better tell my boss that I can no longer carry out my duties because some random person on the internet is too lazy to read the governments own reports and would attack me instead of the facts.
People always need a conspiracy, it makes life more interesting
You're right, 19 terrorists and a few hiding in a cave conspiring against the US makes life more interesting and fit into a neat package.
Thats how things work. You have a hypothesis, new data comes about, you change your hypothesis.
I agree with that. However, people were called crazy for questioning the first two hypothesis, which are now said to be incorrect. The problem with the new hypothesis is that the simulation they used to "prove" it is not available to the public or any researchers. I'm being called crazy for simply asking for the proof.
I don't claim to know precisely how it fell.
My problem with the "Truth" movement is I fail to see motive
PNAC, a neo-con think tank founded in 1997 wanted a larger defense budget, war with Iraq and splitting it up into multiple parts. In their paper to which I linked to stated they will not get any of this without a Pearl Harbor type attack. Look at the the people who were apart of PNAC and you'll find many Bush administration members and even a few Obama ones.
nor how a government as incompetent as ours could pull of a huge conspiracy
Is it really incompetence when they've gotten everything they wanted? It isn't really a huge conspiracy. There are such things as compartmentalization. Don't forget about the use of war games and drills on the day. It's meant to confuse people as to whether what is going on is real or simulated. You can listen to the NORAD tapes and they're yelling for people to turn the phantoms (fake radar signatures) off the radar well after Flight 93 hit the ground.
and maintain full secrecy at all levels, with no leaks or whistle blowers.
Its only a secret to those who refuse to look into it. With compartmentalization there is no need to have many people "in" on the whole plot. There have been plenty of people who have spoken out, just go looking for them.
Many FBI agents have come out saying they were stopped from investigation suspected terrorists inside the US. Most of the time, the people who stopped their investigation were promoted.
One you should look at is Barry jennings. However, he died just before the final report of NIST came out. The Loose Change guys and BBC can not find out why, even though they've called his work and home many times. He was a high level employee of the city of New York working in Emergency Management.
Also with an event so heinous, I really doubt that everyone involved would have absolutely no moral qualms with it, it doesn't gibe with human nature.
Not every human has the same set of values. There are more psychopaths out there than you'd think, which contradict the majority's view on human nature. Please do some research on Bohemian Grove and then you may find out what I'm talking about.
It took me a long time to come to terms with the facts. Everytime I'd pick up a history book I'd see countless examples of false-flag terror done by the US and other countries. One good example would be Operation Northwoods and the USS Liberty (see James Bamford's book Body of Secrets). Operation Ajax, the Reichstag fire and the Germans attacking their own radio station at Gleiwicz, Operation Gladio, etc... come to mind.
Ask yourself a question, why does the government always give itself more power and more money every time they "fail?"
From your own link KHQA said that they were reporting on a planned meeting, yet the story refers to the meeting in the past tense.
Essentially you are relying on trusting that KHQA changed their story on facts and not because it has become inconvenient for the President-elect. The timing is more than suspect.
Just as the timing on Blag's arrest was more than suspect. It came a day after he spoke out against Bank of America and said they would not do business with them until they restored a credit line to a company that needed it to pay for their employees. They had been watching Blag for well over a month. Judicial Watch has been looking into him since 2006. I highly doubt that this was the first time they had evidence of corruption.
Don't worry, you didn't burst my bubble. It just proves that it is more than likely that KHQA has no guts. Either way, Obama and Blag have plenty of connections to each other. Obama served as an advisor to him. Both are well connected to scumbag Tony Rezko. It is hard to believe that a sitting Senator and Governor of the same state and party wouldn't know each other fairly well.
How dare people question the governments version of 9/11. Real skeptics only question random people on the internet!
NIST has changed its story on how WTC 7 fell 3 times now. First it was, a quarter of the building was scooped out, then it was diesel generators and now it is "thermal expansion." In their latest report they admit that the first two explanations were BS, but now they expect us to trust them on thermal expansion. Of course their proof was done only as a computer simulation, which you can't see to verify it yourself and they did no physical tests or experiments on any of the metal used in WTC7 to prove the computer simulation.
So, sorry for being skeptical of an organization that has asked me to trust them every time they change their story.
Not just "nut jobs" are skeptibal of the governments version of events. Former high level CIA people such as Robert Baer and Ray McGovern, many former MI6 members, former Gov. Jesse Ventura, German Defense Minister Andres Von Bulow, members of the Japanese parliament have monthly speeches on this topic. Countless of credible people have asked for a new independent investigation of 9/11.
If you could please explain Norman Mineta's testimony to the 9/11 commission to me I'd appreciate it.
Isn't that redundant considering the bailouts was extortion?
Many members of Congress were told that the stock market would drop 1000's of points the first day if the bailout wasn't passed and were also told that there would be physical martial law in the streets.
The person in your story is either a moron or was severely misinformed.
Writing software and giving it away for free isn't anti-capitalistic. There is a lot of value in doing so, whether it is self-satisfaction, educational benefits or maybe it gets you a job/contract in the future. Money is just a medium of exchange for valuable things. Money isn't the end-all, be-all success in a capitalist society although many people believe that.
In this country's infancy it was its most capitalistic, yet de Tocqueville remarked that there were voluntary associations for everything. Now our country is more socialist than ever and most people can't be bothered to volunteer for anything.
Many people are lost on the idea of how good it feels to help others. Its a feeling that I can't put a price on. It feels much better than purchasing a new TV or shiny electronic toy.
The courts do not have a monopoly on saying what is or isn't Constitutional. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say so. Congress and the Executive have means to decide what is Constitutional, although they never exercise them.
Right away the Supreme Court gave themselve the power to decide what is Constitutional or not and many of the founders weren't happy with that decision. One of the most notable opponents to the Judicial branches power was Thomas Jefferson who wrote considerably on the topic.
The SCOTUS has made some ridiculous rulings over the years. They claim the State has unlimited power to seize private property, during the depression they claimed that growing wheat for personal use was "interstate commerce," and they have also ruled that corporations have the same rights as a natural person.
It reminds me of the 2nd Planet of the Apes movie, where the humans who lived underground worshipped a nuclear bomb and called it a peace weapon. They had developed psychic type powers.
It's kind of like the UN calling their soldiers "peacekeeping" troops (who get accused of raping innocent people in Africa all the time).
Most of the crafting professions are not finished yet. The max skill level is 450. Most crafting professions don't have recipes/plans/etc. that require 450 yet. They will be added to in the upcoming content patches, along with new raid encounters. I am an alchemist and they have yet to add any quality epic trinkets.
Its called Wrath of the Lich King and you can't yet fight him!
That quest is one of the only humane in the game. Many of the quests are horrifying if it weren't cartoonish.
You get to torture a prisoner with electricity, throw molotov cocktails at starving trolls, poke young apes with a sharp stick to piss off its mother and many other disturbing things.
It's like they read a report from Amnesty International on Iraq and made quests with them!
My class had a class close to that, which was aimed at A+ certification. Most of the people in that class with me knew their way around a computer already and spent most of the time playing games on the internet. I was kicked off the school computers for the last month and a half at school (don't ask) and had to sit in a room by myself during that period. They had one book for the class, which I read out of boredom. When I took the A+ test I got 100%, whereas most of my class barely passed with only two others getting 90+%.
It depends on what you consider dirty. CO2 isn't dirty. It is a life giving gas.
However, coal and gas powered things do emit more than CO2 which is bad for the environment.
That's why I don't understand why the Western nations want to cut carbon emissions while givng countries like China, India and Russia a near free pass. China and India have almost no environmental regulations compared to the US and Western Europe. Shipping our industry overseas is actually going to increase pollution.
It was odd to me that Clinton blocked the use of clean burning coal and Bush continued the policy, while allowing other deposits which weren't as clean to be allowed to be used.
I'm from MN and you hit the nail on the head. People with garages would have no problem with electric cars, but not everyone has that luxury.
MN and colder environments would benefit from a hybrid car. Use a gas engine to warm up the battery. Once at a certain temperature rely on the battery system for power. Or have Jesse Ventura or (insert MN politicna here) come over and warm up the car for you.
That's exactly what they are doing. They are using solar energy to power the car charging network.
FTA:
The infrastructure for this network will be powered by Hawaiian Electric Companies, with much of the electricity coming from renewable energy sources, such as "solar, wind, wave and geothermal."
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264 (b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
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(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267 (a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
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The apparent correlation between SSRIs and suicide, once again, does not mean causation.
I'm sure the victims of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Red Lake, Omaha, etc... would disagree with you. There have been very few, if any cases of school/mall shootings in the past 20 years that haven't been directly linked to SSRI anti-depressants.
Many of the cases involve the person going off the drug abruptly, which usually can cause very dangerous psychotic break. Look at the Omaha Mall shooter as an example.
The Physicians' Desk Reference lists the following adverse reactions (side effects) to antidepressants among a host of other physical and neuropsychiatric effects:
Manic Reaction (Mania, e.g., Kleptomania, Pyromania, Dipsomania)
Abnormal Thinking
Hallucinations
Personality Disorder
Amnesia
Agitation
Psychosis
Abnormal Dreams
Emotional Lability (Or Instability)
Alcohol Abuse and/or Craving
Hostility
Paranoid Reactions
Confusion
Delusions
Sleep Disorders
Akathisia (Severe Inner Restlessness)
Discontinuation (Withdrawal) Syndrome
You can say that correlation is not causation until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't make it always true. It seems to be "true" most when people don't like the facts.
On September 14, 2004 the FDA mandated that pharmacies provide to all parents or guardians for those younger than 18 an Antidepressant Patient Medication Guide. This guide reads (in part) "Call healthcare provider right away if you or your family member has any of the following symptoms: Acting aggressive, being angry, or violent & acting on dangerous impulses." This Antidepressant Patient Medication Guide also states "Never stop an antidepressant medicine without first talking to a healthcare provider. Stopping an antidepressant medicine suddenly can cause other symptoms."
It is highly unlikey that the FDA would do this if it weren't true. The FDA is notorious for being a revolving door for big pharma execs.
Don't blame the parents or doctors for putting the girl on dangerous SSRI and anti-psychotic drugs.
From the third grade Megan had been under the care of a psychiatrist. She had been prescribed Celexa, Concerta and Geodon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Meier
The FDA and other bodies have found that SSRI medications cause increased suicide and agression in people under the age of 24.
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4272b1-01-FDA.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssri#Adverse_effects
http://ssristories.com/
Blame someone else, its the [new] American way!
Here is a recently published article by these "9/11 truthers."
http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCIEJ/2008/00000002/00000001/35TOCIEJ.SGM
Also, it takes a considerable amount of scientific illiteracy to look at new experimental findings and declare that scientists are "changing their story." Truly, 9/11 truthers are the creationists of the 21st century.
NIST's webiste:
As for fuel fires, the team found that they could not have been sustained long enough, could not have generated sufficient heat to fail a critical column, and/or would have produced "large amounts of visible smoke" from Floors 5 and 6, which was not observed.
Finally, the report notes that "while debris impact from the collapse of WTC 1 initiated fires in WTC 7, the resulting structural damage had little effect in causing the collapse of WTC 7."
I'll leave finding their previous statements up to you. They can be found in Popular Mechanics, which states that anyone who doesn't believe the last two statements is crazy.
Rather than, say, setting fire to a real 40-story skyscraper? Wow, those scientists and engineers sure are underachievers.
NIST claims that the collapse of Building 7 is "The first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building".
You could also compare it to other skyscrapers that have had worst fires than WTC7.
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/compare/fires.html
You could also read a leaked NIST report which was never meant to be shown to the public.
http://www.infowars.net/WTC7Report/WTC%207%20chapter%20Pitts.doc
Chapter 1: WTC 7 Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis (William Pitts) is a thorough analysis of window fires by video and picture evidence, which concludes that all major fires before floors 7 and 13 died out prior to collapse.
The report states, "At 4:38 p.m. all of the windows between 13-44A and 13-47C were open, and the fires responsible for opening the windows had died down to the point where they could no longer be observed."
"Just prior to the collapse of the building at 5:20:52 p.m. a jet of flames was pushed from windows in the same area. The event that caused this unusual behavior has not been identified."
The report describes the nature of fires from floors 7-13 and also states, "With the exception of the fires on the 19th, 22nd, 29th, and 30th floors discussed at the start of this section, there is essentially no direct visual evidence of fires on other floors of WTC 7."
Don't forget Appendix C of FEMA's World Trade Center Building Performance Study, which stated:
Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel... The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.
I'm sorry for have scientific illiteracy. I better tell my boss that I can no longer carry out my duties because some random person on the internet is too lazy to read the governments own reports and would attack me instead of the facts.
People always need a conspiracy, it makes life more interesting
You're right, 19 terrorists and a few hiding in a cave conspiring against the US makes life more interesting and fit into a neat package.
Thats how things work. You have a hypothesis, new data comes about, you change your hypothesis.
I agree with that. However, people were called crazy for questioning the first two hypothesis, which are now said to be incorrect. The problem with the new hypothesis is that the simulation they used to "prove" it is not available to the public or any researchers. I'm being called crazy for simply asking for the proof.
I don't claim to know precisely how it fell.
My problem with the "Truth" movement is I fail to see motive
Here is your motive
PNAC, a neo-con think tank founded in 1997 wanted a larger defense budget, war with Iraq and splitting it up into multiple parts. In their paper to which I linked to stated they will not get any of this without a Pearl Harbor type attack. Look at the the people who were apart of PNAC and you'll find many Bush administration members and even a few Obama ones.
nor how a government as incompetent as ours could pull of a huge conspiracy
Is it really incompetence when they've gotten everything they wanted? It isn't really a huge conspiracy. There are such things as compartmentalization. Don't forget about the use of war games and drills on the day. It's meant to confuse people as to whether what is going on is real or simulated. You can listen to the NORAD tapes and they're yelling for people to turn the phantoms (fake radar signatures) off the radar well after Flight 93 hit the ground.
and maintain full secrecy at all levels, with no leaks or whistle blowers.
Its only a secret to those who refuse to look into it. With compartmentalization there is no need to have many people "in" on the whole plot. There have been plenty of people who have spoken out, just go looking for them.
Many FBI agents have come out saying they were stopped from investigation suspected terrorists inside the US. Most of the time, the people who stopped their investigation were promoted.
One you should look at is Barry jennings. However, he died just before the final report of NIST came out. The Loose Change guys and BBC can not find out why, even though they've called his work and home many times. He was a high level employee of the city of New York working in Emergency Management.
Also with an event so heinous, I really doubt that everyone involved would have absolutely no moral qualms with it, it doesn't gibe with human nature.
Not every human has the same set of values. There are more psychopaths out there than you'd think, which contradict the majority's view on human nature. Please do some research on Bohemian Grove and then you may find out what I'm talking about.
It took me a long time to come to terms with the facts. Everytime I'd pick up a history book I'd see countless examples of false-flag terror done by the US and other countries. One good example would be Operation Northwoods and the USS Liberty (see James Bamford's book Body of Secrets). Operation Ajax, the Reichstag fire and the Germans attacking their own radio station at Gleiwicz, Operation Gladio, etc... come to mind.
Ask yourself a question, why does the government always give itself more power and more money every time they "fail?"
From your own link KHQA said that they were reporting on a planned meeting, yet the story refers to the meeting in the past tense.
Essentially you are relying on trusting that KHQA changed their story on facts and not because it has become inconvenient for the President-elect. The timing is more than suspect.
Just as the timing on Blag's arrest was more than suspect. It came a day after he spoke out against Bank of America and said they would not do business with them until they restored a credit line to a company that needed it to pay for their employees. They had been watching Blag for well over a month. Judicial Watch has been looking into him since 2006. I highly doubt that this was the first time they had evidence of corruption.
Don't worry, you didn't burst my bubble. It just proves that it is more than likely that KHQA has no guts. Either way, Obama and Blag have plenty of connections to each other. Obama served as an advisor to him. Both are well connected to scumbag Tony Rezko. It is hard to believe that a sitting Senator and Governor of the same state and party wouldn't know each other fairly well.
How dare people question the governments version of 9/11. Real skeptics only question random people on the internet!
NIST has changed its story on how WTC 7 fell 3 times now. First it was, a quarter of the building was scooped out, then it was diesel generators and now it is "thermal expansion." In their latest report they admit that the first two explanations were BS, but now they expect us to trust them on thermal expansion. Of course their proof was done only as a computer simulation, which you can't see to verify it yourself and they did no physical tests or experiments on any of the metal used in WTC7 to prove the computer simulation.
So, sorry for being skeptical of an organization that has asked me to trust them every time they change their story.
Not just "nut jobs" are skeptibal of the governments version of events. Former high level CIA people such as Robert Baer and Ray McGovern, many former MI6 members, former Gov. Jesse Ventura, German Defense Minister Andres Von Bulow, members of the Japanese parliament have monthly speeches on this topic. Countless of credible people have asked for a new independent investigation of 9/11.
If you could please explain Norman Mineta's testimony to the 9/11 commission to me I'd appreciate it.
Don't forget that they censored questions about Gov. Blagojevich.
Obama was of course caught lying about him ever meeting with Blagojevich.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbJzaVo_Vcuv1HtB1U1eZDQOrQuQD94VL6S03
In that story Obama states that "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening."
This story, which is only a month old and yet could only be found in the cache of yahoo says otherwise.
http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=Director+of+Illinois+Dept.+of+Veterans'+Affairs+visits+Quincy&fr=yscpb&u=www.khqa.com/news/story.aspx%3Fid%3D219212&w=director+direct+illinois+il+dept+department+veterans+veteran's+affairs+affair+visits+visit+visiting+quincy&d=Ph3CN0fiR5wF&icp=1&.intl=us
From November 8.
"Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it." (refering to the open Senate seat).
Isn't that redundant considering the bailouts was extortion?
Many members of Congress were told that the stock market would drop 1000's of points the first day if the bailout wasn't passed and were also told that there would be physical martial law in the streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8
It later came out that it was Paulson who made those threats. Wouldn't that be considered terrorism?
And those who do learn from history go mad while watching the same shit happen over and over again.
Yes, I can see it now:
Call me Ishmael
*Turn Page*
That has nothing to do with capitalist ideology.
The person in your story is either a moron or was severely misinformed.
Writing software and giving it away for free isn't anti-capitalistic. There is a lot of value in doing so, whether it is self-satisfaction, educational benefits or maybe it gets you a job/contract in the future. Money is just a medium of exchange for valuable things. Money isn't the end-all, be-all success in a capitalist society although many people believe that.
In this country's infancy it was its most capitalistic, yet de Tocqueville remarked that there were voluntary associations for everything. Now our country is more socialist than ever and most people can't be bothered to volunteer for anything.
Many people are lost on the idea of how good it feels to help others. Its a feeling that I can't put a price on. It feels much better than purchasing a new TV or shiny electronic toy.
The courts do not have a monopoly on saying what is or isn't Constitutional. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say so. Congress and the Executive have means to decide what is Constitutional, although they never exercise them.
Right away the Supreme Court gave themselve the power to decide what is Constitutional or not and many of the founders weren't happy with that decision. One of the most notable opponents to the Judicial branches power was Thomas Jefferson who wrote considerably on the topic.
The SCOTUS has made some ridiculous rulings over the years. They claim the State has unlimited power to seize private property, during the depression they claimed that growing wheat for personal use was "interstate commerce," and they have also ruled that corporations have the same rights as a natural person.
It reminds me of the 2nd Planet of the Apes movie, where the humans who lived underground worshipped a nuclear bomb and called it a peace weapon. They had developed psychic type powers.
It's kind of like the UN calling their soldiers "peacekeeping" troops (who get accused of raping innocent people in Africa all the time).
You mean like MTV?
Public education would be more applicable. If the government starts mandating everyone to watch MTV for 8 hours a day then I'd agree with you.
Every time I pass through, I start thinking I'm flying around in a Ken Burns Civil War documentary
For good reason. The Furbolgs are going through a Civil War!
Most of the crafting professions are not finished yet. The max skill level is 450. Most crafting professions don't have recipes/plans/etc. that require 450 yet. They will be added to in the upcoming content patches, along with new raid encounters. I am an alchemist and they have yet to add any quality epic trinkets.
Its called Wrath of the Lich King and you can't yet fight him!
That quest is one of the only humane in the game. Many of the quests are horrifying if it weren't cartoonish.
You get to torture a prisoner with electricity, throw molotov cocktails at starving trolls, poke young apes with a sharp stick to piss off its mother and many other disturbing things.
It's like they read a report from Amnesty International on Iraq and made quests with them!
My class had a class close to that, which was aimed at A+ certification. Most of the people in that class with me knew their way around a computer already and spent most of the time playing games on the internet. I was kicked off the school computers for the last month and a half at school (don't ask) and had to sit in a room by myself during that period. They had one book for the class, which I read out of boredom. When I took the A+ test I got 100%, whereas most of my class barely passed with only two others getting 90+%.
The logo looks more like a Swastika and thus will be banned in most of Europe under anti-speech hate laws.
It depends on what you consider dirty. CO2 isn't dirty. It is a life giving gas.
However, coal and gas powered things do emit more than CO2 which is bad for the environment.
That's why I don't understand why the Western nations want to cut carbon emissions while givng countries like China, India and Russia a near free pass. China and India have almost no environmental regulations compared to the US and Western Europe. Shipping our industry overseas is actually going to increase pollution.
It was odd to me that Clinton blocked the use of clean burning coal and Bush continued the policy, while allowing other deposits which weren't as clean to be allowed to be used.
I'm from MN and you hit the nail on the head. People with garages would have no problem with electric cars, but not everyone has that luxury.
MN and colder environments would benefit from a hybrid car. Use a gas engine to warm up the battery. Once at a certain temperature rely on the battery system for power. Or have Jesse Ventura or (insert MN politicna here) come over and warm up the car for you.
That's exactly what they are doing. They are using solar energy to power the car charging network.
FTA:
The infrastructure for this network will be powered by Hawaiian Electric Companies, with much of the electricity coming from renewable energy sources, such as "solar, wind, wave and geothermal."
Even the editor didn't RTFA!
Barack Obama called, he wants you as Attorney General.
The Gates foundation is too busy building Doomsday seed vaults with the Rockefeller foundation and Monsanto and genetically engineering mosquitoes.
Should we also be vaccinating our bodies against theoretical illnesses that haven't even been discovered yet?
According to Executive order 13295, yes, we should! But only if the government says so!
Ex. Ord. No. 13295. Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
Ex. Ord. No. 13295, Apr. 4, 2003, 68 F.R. 17255, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 13375, 1, Apr. 1, 2005, 70 F.R. 17299, provided:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264 (b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).
(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267 (a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
George W. Bush.