Way to go, Hannah!

I'm going to get my jump cred up to date and sign up for this...Fun...

We Americans, left and right, shall hang together, or we shall hang separately.

No man is an island. Let's hope we do not have to teach each other this...

@sweept: Women troops meet different and less strenuous PT standards, in all services. If they are going to serve in combat, they need to meet the same standard.

As I remember, for men, it was a minimum of 40 pushups within two minutes, 40 situps within two minutes, and a 14:00 two mile run. I think pullups are in that now.

To get out of basic training, one also had to run a half mile nonstop in full 80-lb field gear up and down hills of sand.

Well, at least they will not be using ACC economic development bonds, as they used $475 million of such to renovate Sanford Stadium...

This is being done to further drive Republicans crazy.

I'm all for it. Gay marriage's impact on society will be negligable. There are too few gays to matter.

But driving the GOP crazy and rendering them more politically malleable? Tripping them up by their Achilles' heel? Like we watched the GOP do with the A word?

I'm all for it. Roll on, Mr. President. Roll on.

[quote][b]grove600[/b] - They actually let you have your own blog? [/quote]

Duuuude...aka "The Hair"...they let me on here...Uncle Ho...obtusely abusing ambivalently androgynous bears...preaching utopian socialism...promoting homebrewing...

[quote][b]Green[/b] - Economically speaking, Oconee continues to kick the butt of Athens-Clarke.
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ACC provides FOUR government recreational pools for kids in the summer. Oconee provides NONE, but there is a private pool or two, for those who can pay...

Oconee continues to suck...both off ACC by locating the mall where it is, and generally, for every kid that cannot afford $100 per month to swim...

And, @JP Crisan: don't forget the pernicious scourge of Anonymity!

You ask: "What is the difference between these (bloggers) people and agents from Iran, Al Qaida (sp.), or the Red Chinese..."

You needing two Midol and a nap to blow off the histrionic vapors...that's the difference.

HEY!

There's an idea.

Even after they have paid their debt to society, let's ensure they can't get a job and can't get any other benefits.

Way to promote recidivism...America already jails more people than any other nation, with some of the world's lowest crime rates...

Wow. Native Americans are subject to State and Federal laws when they are off their nations' reservations.

Non-Native Americans should be subject to all tribal jurisdiction on reservations.

This is just to keep reservations less sovereign than the rest of the US.

Or, dirt cheap...

That's right, kids.

The cost of bringing clean water to your home, and removing your liquid and solid waste, is....

CHEAPER THAN DIRT!!!!!

@What:

An humble suggestion, if I may:

Take the entire amount, trash, fees, and all, and divide that by how many gallons of water your home used that month.

That is your price per gallon for water.

Take that price and divide by 8.33, the weight in pounds of a gallon of water.

That is your price for one pound of water.

One cubic foot, or 40 pounds, of potting soil costs $1.79 at Lowe's.

4.4 cents per pound. That is the cost of DIRT.

One thousand gallons of water in ACC, with all the fees, sewer, trash, and all, is, on average, $9.00.

8,333 pounds of water, delivered to your home, with sewer and trash pickup, which means carrying 8,333 pounds of water AWAY from your home, and picking up your garbage in a 4MPG truck, costs $9.00.

$.00108, or one tenth of one cent, for one pound of potable water, and all the above.

In other words, you are paying THIRTY-SEVEN TIMES MORE MONEY FOR DIRT, THAT YOU HAVE TO GO PICK UP!!! and, your sewage and garbage are being removed.

@theold33: You seem sociable enough where I would try some recreational gambling...

@Digdug: Not saying it is not. Just using an old savings bond slogan.

[quote][b]davidxto[/b] - The retail public is so fooled by the IPO process...same as it always is. We hear about 10 day lock ups and 6 month holding periods and we come to believe that you can't sell your IPO shares, so who was selling 18 million shares in the first 1/2 hour?
The answer- all those insiders who got allocations before the open. They flipped their shares as fast as idiots could buy them. It's a rotten deal because the only way to get allocations at a premium (even less than $38) is to have an arrangement with a broker who then gets about a 40 to 50% kickback in huge commissions. They become your partners and you need several... one to buy from and another account to short in and brokers to manipulate all that in a coordinated way.
We can't do it for a guaranteed profit. But don't blame the Wall Street 1% automatically..... try another 1% like U-2's Bono who is reported to have made more money today on FB than the total of his whole musical career.Liberals don't have to fret though because Bono will probably give away millions to some anti- western militants so everything is rosy.
I expect to see FB retrace to about 36 once it breaks 38. Let's see.
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Given this post, Dave, and your obvious financial wisdom here, can you at all empathize with my casino and Tbond post?

Your post certainly reinforces my investment priorities. My only choice is between 5-year and 10-year T-bonds. Thank you for reassuring me, whether intended or not...

@King Minos: Wise post, King.

To hell with stock as a retirement vehicle. The stock market is a freaking casino. Gamble, or don't...(I don't gamble)...but don't gamble your retirement.

There is ONE, only ONE, investment vehicle that has never lost principal.

US Treasury bonds.

All three of my pensions are in them, 100%, as is my 401k and Roth.

The key is to put enough principal in them.

Invest in America.

[quote][b]webbty80[/b] - Take a look at SouthAfrica. The whites are no longer in power. Aparthide was wrong. There is no doubt about it but now the blacks own the farms and food is scarce. So it went from one extreme to another. Some blacks in america wish to be called african american. But what if you are white and from africa? If you gome to america and stay here are you the african american?
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So, why have so many white South Africans emigrated to Georgia?

Is it the food scarcity, or the lack of apartheid?

[quote][b]Used2baFreeCountry[/b] - The democrat party's open border policy and welfare programs that encourage single-mothers having multiple babies help to bring closer the day when whites are a minority.
That will be good for the democrat party, which counts african-americans and hispanics as core constituencies.
But since their socialistic policies only redistribute wealth and do not help create it, there will be very little "pie" left by then to divvy up.
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It is the Republican open border strategy...beginning with Reagan's '87 amnesty...designed to devalue labor, and thereby increasing dependence on assistance, which Republicans work to quash.

It is Republican strategies designed to deprive women and girls of reproductive choice, through law and funding, that has sent single motherhood through the damn roof these past thirty years.

But since Republican policies only redistribute wealth to the rich, while destroying the social fabric of the family and the breadwinner, there is sure to be ongoing social impact from the above.

You cannot teach a Republican, you can only politically marginalize them.

@Holly Sweat: May I observe this conversation? Tape it for ESPN?
Or NASA...send this up on another Voyager to teach aliens whuuuut not to say..

@uniprof: Having experienced many myself, I do not question miracles.

And of all the miracles I have experienced, one of the ways they identify themselves is by how they resist being worn on the sleeve...

@BoogittyBoogitty: Obama made a policy change.

McKillip is selling this bill as a "born again Christian".

[quote][b]Joel Kight[/b] - @E.J.: I'm a firm believer in no boundaries. I have reinvented myself more often than you can imagine. I think a few more degrees and a few more careers under my belt in my lifetime is not out of the question.
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And, if people ever make fun of you for reinventing yourself, know you are being effective in that you are living a life other Muggles are jealous of...

@uniprof: The expose of Doug revolves around his politically motivated sea change about abortion. Values like this are fundamental enough to be concrete...sudden changes in them are situational ethics.

Situational ethics in a person is a deal breaker of a relationship; personal, romantic, or political. Bill Clinton's legacy is his situational ethics. 'Nuff said.

What is really, really politically cool about Doug McKillip is that he has been a catalyst for Progressives (Dems and Greens) and Conservatives (Reps and Libs) to unite together to politically eradicate him.

This energy will likely move into other issues.