Ken Starr wasn't investigating sexual harrassment, he was investigating fraud, the fraud that took down a lot of S&Ls. He was innocent of what Starr was investigating.
I wrote an article a couple years ago called Useful Dead Technologies. One was the "gravity furnace", 1930s tech. I had one in an old house I rented. There is no blower, and the thermostat works from power the furnace generates itself. It needs no electricity and isn't hooked to the power grid.
I was wishing I had one Friday after the ice storm took out Springfield's power. Thank God for my gas stove; an old one with the old fashioned pilot lights.
Move to Illinois (or Oklahoma!) and you'll change your mind. Two F-2 tornados flattened large chunks of Springfield March 12 this year, and the EAS worked great.
There was another tornado warning 4 hours after the first 2 hit; false alarm (radar's not perfect) but the tornado sirens didn't work because the city had no power. The EAS did, however, work, and it worked well.
The new sirens they're installing have battery backup.
The weather service can usually tell when a tornado is on its way. Nobody knew planebombers were on their way.
Once the tornado flattens your house there's little use for the EAS to kick in. Same thing for 9-11; if they'd known WTC was going to go down they'd have evacuated it AND issued an EAS.
So the test was a total success. Because it proved, in undeniable public, that in the event of an emergency, the first responders around essential Air Force bases would be getting jammed by people opening their garage doors.
No, it proved that emergency responders won't be able to get to work to respond to the emergency because their cars are locked in the garages that won't open.
A. I, for one, welcome our "new" overdone chicken joke overlords.
Give it a rest and make up some new material already. God forbid anybody actually make any kind of attempt at NEW humor. That "overlord" joke is done in just about every thread. Once you hear the one about how the blond turns the light on after sex 1000 times it doesn't even deserve a grin any more.
It's not the greenhouse gasses, it's the way the assholes who "drive" them drive and park. Do they really think that because they're stupid enough to shell out 50-100k on a car they have a right to...
Oh, now I get it. Key words would be "stupid" and "assholes". My bad.
he only times I do that, however, is when people are driving slow in a left-hand lane and there is plenty of room to get over. Although in that situation they may technically be obeying the law...
Not in Illinois. You can get a ticket for not getting over and letting someone pass unless there's a cop that's pulled someone over (you have to get in th eleft lane when there's an emergency vehicle on the side of the road with its flashers on).
What pisses me off about you is I'm driving down the highway at a legal speed (or legal enough not to get pulled over) with my cruise control, and you blast past me in the left lane. Then I get over to pass your grandma who's (legally) doing 55 instead of 65, and you're slamming on your brakes because you saw a cop and now you're matching granny's speed and I have to brake.
You know, there's this thing called global warming. Your grandkids are going to have to deal. Why don't you care? Every time you touch your brake you waste gas and the CO2 it releases when you burn it.
I "drive the lights", meaning 1-2 mph below the posted limit. If there's no traffic I don't have to stop at all, and save lots of gasoline.
What really burns me up is the morons who speed past me to the red light, then when I reach it I have to stop for the green light because the dumbass is sitting there at the green light with his (or usually her) head up his ass.
And they're usually driving an SUV. Why do the people with the most expensive and dangerous (to other people) vehicles drive worse than anybody on the road? I'd much rather see the silver hair barely peeking over the seat of a 1993 VW at half the limit than the 25 year old in the Escalade yakking on his/her phone weaving in and out of traffic at twice the limit.
If you drive an SUV you're a menace. And why do you "people" think you deserve two parking spaces??? If you want two spaces, break your spine and get a handicapped sticker, asshole.
Sorry for the outburst, I don't hate SUVs, just the way the rude and dangerous sociopaths who own them drive.
An American Public school IS government-run. When the principal punishes a student, that IS government punishment. When a public school censors a student, that IS government censorship.
Sorry, but I don't believe you. Give me a link to a reputable site (.edu or.gov or a known and respected.org) or I must believe you just pulled those numbers and your brains out of your ass.
Most people only make between $20k and $100k, I only make $42k and made far, far less when I had 2 kids in school; where is the $10k per kid coming from?
Until you prove otherwise I'll believe you're so full of shit it's coming out of your nose.
Then you might as well abolish public education like the parent poster said. Your voucher won't cover the cost of a private school, and the poor, who need education more than anybody, would be left out.
Abolish PRIVATE education and give parents the choice of what school their kids go to and you'll see a hell of a lot more money pour into the public education system AND less of this gestapo crap.
Poor people are used to being stepped on. I know, I used to be poor.
Did you make that incredibly stupid mistake on purpose to make your point,or are you just illiterate? If you have no clue what I'm talking about, see Bob.
Key words here are "wherever such a thing mattered." Pretty loaded classist speech there, especially considetring that in your own quote, only one in 579 people could read!
That's a literacy rate of... damn, what's the Linux equivalent of calc.exe? This damned computer is making me both illiterate and innumerate! I'm "loosing" it!
But the point is, 1 in 579 is hardly "97 to 100%". Without public schools you would have the same illiteracy rate. Of course, to the eyes of some (Ken Starr? You?), the poor DON'T matter.
That what you voted them into office for. Voted the wrong bozos in? That's your own fault.
I bitched and moaned about how damned incompetent Rod Blagocantspellhisdamnednameish is, but I voted for him (at least, the first time; I voted against him this last November).
It's your job to unbrainwash your kids. If the school board is a bunch of goose-stepping Nazis, vote them out. If they keep getting voted back in, then the majority of voters must WANT a Nazi school board. That's how a democratically elected Republic works; you deserve the government you've got.
Yes, we deserve Bush. He's a complete disaster, but look on the bright side - oh wait, there is no bright side. Pray our country survives despite him and ask your congresscritter to start impeachment proceedings for treason.
Tha fallacy of your argument is that it wasn't Clinton's lie that cost forty million tax dollars, a cleaning bill, and all the rest but the fact that it was investigated at all.
If the government asked me if I had sex with an ugly fat woman I'd lie, too. My (or Clinton's) sex life is none of anybody's damned business; not one state has laws against adultery.
Bith cases you cite were the Republicans screwups. Clinton shouldn't have let that fat bitch suck his cock, but it should have been between him, her, Hillary, and God. It's nobody else's business.
What roasted my balls about this asshole was that he wasted forty million dollars of taxpayers' money investigating a blow job! Starr should have to pay us back with his own money.
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Damn, I should have run it through the W3C HTML validator. Sorry. Now the entire internet is ruined!
Ken Starr wasn't investigating sexual harrassment, he was investigating fraud, the fraud that took down a lot of S&Ls. He was innocent of what Starr was investigating.
Nice troll though. I bit.
LOL! No, it was "only" an F-2.
I wrote an article a couple years ago called Useful Dead Technologies. One was the "gravity furnace", 1930s tech. I had one in an old house I rented. There is no blower, and the thermostat works from power the furnace generates itself. It needs no electricity and isn't hooked to the power grid.
I was wishing I had one Friday after the ice storm took out Springfield's power. Thank God for my gas stove; an old one with the old fashioned pilot lights.
Move to Illinois (or Oklahoma!) and you'll change your mind. Two F-2 tornados flattened large chunks of Springfield March 12 this year, and the EAS worked great.
There was another tornado warning 4 hours after the first 2 hit; false alarm (radar's not perfect) but the tornado sirens didn't work because the city had no power. The EAS did, however, work, and it worked well.
The new sirens they're installing have battery backup.
The weather service can usually tell when a tornado is on its way. Nobody knew planebombers were on their way.
Once the tornado flattens your house there's little use for the EAS to kick in. Same thing for 9-11; if they'd known WTC was going to go down they'd have evacuated it AND issued an EAS.
You have Google, don't you? It's been in the news for quite some time. What cave are you living in?
So the test was a total success. Because it proved, in undeniable public, that in the event of an emergency, the first responders around essential Air Force bases would be getting jammed by people opening their garage doors.
No, it proved that emergency responders won't be able to get to work to respond to the emergency because their cars are locked in the garages that won't open.
Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. I, for one, welcome our "new" overdone chicken joke overlords.
Give it a rest and make up some new material already. God forbid anybody actually make any kind of attempt at NEW humor. That "overlord" joke is done in just about every thread. Once you hear the one about how the blond turns the light on after sex 1000 times it doesn't even deserve a grin any more.
It's not the greenhouse gasses, it's the way the assholes who "drive" them drive and park. Do they really think that because they're stupid enough to shell out 50-100k on a car they have a right to...
Oh, now I get it. Key words would be "stupid" and "assholes". My bad.
he only times I do that, however, is when people are driving slow in a left-hand lane and there is plenty of room to get over. Although in that situation they may technically be obeying the law...
Not in Illinois. You can get a ticket for not getting over and letting someone pass unless there's a cop that's pulled someone over (you have to get in th eleft lane when there's an emergency vehicle on the side of the road with its flashers on).
What pisses me off about you is I'm driving down the highway at a legal speed (or legal enough not to get pulled over) with my cruise control, and you blast past me in the left lane. Then I get over to pass your grandma who's (legally) doing 55 instead of 65, and you're slamming on your brakes because you saw a cop and now you're matching granny's speed and I have to brake.
You know, there's this thing called global warming. Your grandkids are going to have to deal. Why don't you care? Every time you touch your brake you waste gas and the CO2 it releases when you burn it.
I "drive the lights", meaning 1-2 mph below the posted limit. If there's no traffic I don't have to stop at all, and save lots of gasoline.
What really burns me up is the morons who speed past me to the red light, then when I reach it I have to stop for the green light because the dumbass is sitting there at the green light with his (or usually her) head up his ass.
And they're usually driving an SUV. Why do the people with the most expensive and dangerous (to other people) vehicles drive worse than anybody on the road? I'd much rather see the silver hair barely peeking over the seat of a 1993 VW at half the limit than the 25 year old in the Escalade yakking on his/her phone weaving in and out of traffic at twice the limit.
If you drive an SUV you're a menace. And why do you "people" think you deserve two parking spaces??? If you want two spaces, break your spine and get a handicapped sticker, asshole.
Sorry for the outburst, I don't hate SUVs, just the way the rude and dangerous sociopaths who own them drive.
You don't lock your garage to keep people from stealing your car, you lock it to keep them from stealing the lawn mower and other tools.
With the door I had, the cord allowed you to open the door manually. Wouldn't have done me a lot of good, as there was only one door to the garage.
However, there was a switch in the basement that shut the power off and you could open it then.
So when the power was off my garage door was unlocked.
Don't you love technology?
They're comparing a 1972 Pinto with a 1993 Escort.
What else could he want
Oh, I don't know... the right to uncensored self-expression? I'll bet you're one of those people who go to Temple Bank aand Pray to your green gods.
Money is important, but there are things far more important.
An American Public school IS government-run. When the principal punishes a student, that IS government punishment. When a public school censors a student, that IS government censorship.
Indeed! Hell, look at slashdot, "news for so-called nerds" where people can't spell "lose" or use an apostrophe correctly.
Sorry, but I don't believe you. Give me a link to a reputable site (.edu or .gov or a known and respected .org) or I must believe you just pulled those numbers and your brains out of your ass.
Most people only make between $20k and $100k, I only make $42k and made far, far less when I had 2 kids in school; where is the $10k per kid coming from?
Until you prove otherwise I'll believe you're so full of shit it's coming out of your nose.
Then you might as well abolish public education like the parent poster said. Your voucher won't cover the cost of a private school, and the poor, who need education more than anybody, would be left out.
Abolish PRIVATE education and give parents the choice of what school their kids go to and you'll see a hell of a lot more money pour into the public education system AND less of this gestapo crap.
Poor people are used to being stepped on. I know, I used to be poor.
There are no Columbine's in Pakistan.
Did you make that incredibly stupid mistake on purpose to make your point,or are you just illiterate? If you have no clue what I'm talking about, see Bob.
Key words here are "wherever such a thing mattered." Pretty loaded classist speech there, especially considetring that in your own quote, only one in 579 people could read!
That's a literacy rate of... damn, what's the Linux equivalent of calc.exe? This damned computer is making me both illiterate and innumerate! I'm "loosing" it!
But the point is, 1 in 579 is hardly "97 to 100%". Without public schools you would have the same illiteracy rate. Of course, to the eyes of some (Ken Starr? You?), the poor DON'T matter.
That what you voted them into office for. Voted the wrong bozos in? That's your own fault.
I bitched and moaned about how damned incompetent Rod Blagocantspellhisdamnednameish is, but I voted for him (at least, the first time; I voted against him this last November).
It's your job to unbrainwash your kids. If the school board is a bunch of goose-stepping Nazis, vote them out. If they keep getting voted back in, then the majority of voters must WANT a Nazi school board. That's how a democratically elected Republic works; you deserve the government you've got.
Yes, we deserve Bush. He's a complete disaster, but look on the bright side - oh wait, there is no bright side. Pray our country survives despite him and ask your congresscritter to start impeachment proceedings for treason.
Tha fallacy of your argument is that it wasn't Clinton's lie that cost forty million tax dollars, a cleaning bill, and all the rest but the fact that it was investigated at all.
If the government asked me if I had sex with an ugly fat woman I'd lie, too. My (or Clinton's) sex life is none of anybody's damned business; not one state has laws against adultery.
Bith cases you cite were the Republicans screwups. Clinton shouldn't have let that fat bitch suck his cock, but it should have been between him, her, Hillary, and God. It's nobody else's business.
What roasted my balls about this asshole was that he wasted forty million dollars of taxpayers' money investigating a blow job! Starr should have to pay us back with his own money.