arch stanton

Florida. Come for the bugs and Burmese pythons, stay for heat, humidity, and sinkholes.

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Villa 414, PS 1 Compound

Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia

Detroit is a poster child for the urban areas that rot while the suburbs thrive. 3 million in the suburbs and 700,000 in the city. they take all the money to Sterling Heights or Livonia and watch the city that bears the name of their teams turn turn to crap. St. Louis is much the same way now.

They were following the advice of Ben Franklin. "Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow."

It's not a bad place, but I'm sure it drastically changed. Did you have stupid curfews when you were here? We have to deal daily with idiots who decide to make idiot decisions and everybody pays the price for it. Sucks.

No curfews then. I regularly staggered down Gate 2 Street just before dawn, hoping the bats in the banyan trees would miss my head when they swooped.

I would figure all those Libertarians out there would be happy with all the cuts that will take place...

They didn't cut anything. they just chose not to fund things that still exist. so the end result is that average Joe workers get told they have to take a 1 day a week furlough that results in a 20% pay cut. The disastrous results of the sequester turn out to be no big deal to the people who created it. This is what you can expect when the people who make the decision affecting your life do so with no real impact on their lives.

Why would the principal tell her to delete the video?

Because actual proof makes it hard to find a way to keep her around. He prefers to protect the common thief instead of the theft victims.

Social Security has survived for 78 years.The article does not say it runs out of money in 2033. It says it loses its buffer. I don't see why it can't last indefinitely. If it needs tweaks then make the tweaks. 

If i recall correctly the hydrometer is used to set a baseline for alcohol content during brewing. The beer is then checked again during bottling and after a bottle fermentation. Without a baseline you are only measuring "potential AC". Too many assumptions have to made in a single reading to get a dead on AC measurement. Remember the hydrometer measures the density of the liquid being tested. Not actually the alcohol. There are more expensive devices that measure actual alcohol content but they are very expensive. My advice is to spend your money on chimay blue and leave the world of 3.2 beer behind.

The hydrometer you would buy from a beer supply house is designed for beer. The alcohol content is what varies the density.

And don't worry about me. I live in St Louis and you couldn't pay me to drink a Bud product.

She's a great teacher except when she's stealing my money and betraying my trust.

Sounds a lot like being a great coach except when he's enabling child rapists.

Hydrometers are not that expensive and available at any home brewing supply house.

Any show, even the news, that puts Donald trump on my TV is completely unnecessary and I find it offensive..

Beauty pageants are more obscene than porn. Just sayin.

The first point is legitimate IF you believe that people shouldn't have the freedom to ruin their own lives if they so desired. I do not believe that and I would allow anyone to do whatever self-destructive action they so desire as I'm not in charge of them. I don't own them and I don't feel I have the right to tell them what to do, just as I feel they don't have the right to tell me what to do.

The second point is nonsense. Businesses create jobs which provide wealth and spending power. Corporations are a portion of those businesses. There is nothing inherently wrong with corporations. Some may be bad. The concept is solid. Don't attack the concept just because of some individuals. Otherwise we could make a pretty strong argument that we should not allow procreation because people just "turn it into a big pile of crap like they do everything else."

The concept is cowardly and short sighted. Corporations are street gangs with lawyers.

And I don't want to tell anyone what they can and can't do. Not trying to protect them from themselves. This is not based on any high minded principle. Just what I would prefer to see.

On principle for one, it is bad because social welfare leads to mediocrity and laziness. On second, the government is involved in my life with just about everything here. Taxes here are the east coast version of California, and government is in just about every aspect of your life nowadays.

I've run across plenty of mediocrity and laziness in places where social welfare does not exist. What actually happens is that when a person is given real incentive he overcomes the natural human states of mediocrity and laziness. 

That either side agreed to this proves that they both have the same agenda, they just shovel the horse manure with different colored shovels. 

Why prevent industry of any kind? If someone wants to grow or make something for themselves let them. If someone wants to grow or make something to sell to others let them.

Two reasons specific to marijuana. The first being that after everything the tobacco industry has dealt with it seems like a bad idea to repeat all that.

Second is that the corporate world would turn it into a big pile of crap like they do everything else. There should be something on this planet they are not allowed to completely ruin in the name of quarterly profit reports.

So who gave thew commencement address?

i have no desire to see a marijuana industry. I prefer to let people grow a limited amount for personal use. Sell to minors you end up under the jail. Sell to my kids and you end up under the daisies.

Spending cuts are great. Every member of Congress should go to the furloughed workers and explain to them how their sacrifice will be noted in the history books as one of nobility and patriotism. No, none of us nor any of our staff are taking furloughs. We have families to feed, But we'll be with you in spirit.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Just for clarification, what requirements would you put on prostitution in order for you to consider it "legal prostitution"?

Consenting adults who both have a clear understanding of what they have agreed to do. It should be simple enough to record a binding verbal agreement that either could terminate at any time with only the forfeit of the money.  I'm sure the need would arise to limit it to certain areas to allow for some kid safe times and locations.

Not done yet. Prostitution and polygamy?

I have a whole idea about marriage that I may start a new thread about when I have time for full blown soap box mode.

I have no objection to legal prostitution. I do think that in this age of zero privacy brought on by camera phones and social media that you would see less patrons willing to walk through a front door into a brothel. If you're worried about STD then just don't ride bareback.

Might as well ask what's the best tasting brand of shoe box.

If you hit a full grown moose with a car the road kill may end up being you.