Terry Tate

I don't recall hiring you as my spokesman, but just in case - you're fired.

Obvious expenditures = those actually outlined in the Constitution. Better ways to spend tax dollars = How I learned to love to grow the federal government, or dismantle the Constitution trying.

I guess that explains all the square wheels, stone tablets and everyone eating raw food before the US government was created.

I think my sarcasm was pretty clear, but this is a fun game - let me try it too: I don't get what you're implying. There are no advancements in science unless the federal government funds it?

If the applicant then waits for three days without food, shelter, or encouragement he may then enter TBD and begin his training. People are always asking me if I know ICE. His name is Spiked Lemonade.

"Some people have a way with words, and some people no have way". -Robin Williams

It's always refreshing to see a politician come to his senses and realize nothing important ever gets done unless there's a government program for it.

Glad you have good news. I heard about some guy who beat non hodgkins lymphoma, then went on to win the tour de france 7 times in a row. If you know how to ride a bicycle, you should begin training for next year.

If his dad isn't the one to do it, maybe there's another adult male relative who is willing to help teach him to be a man. The alternative is he will continue to learn lessons from other juveniles, which leads to the kind of genius that lead to kiwi on the walls. Teenage boys need an example to follow and learn from, and often aren't mature enough to pick out a good one on their own.

I drove out to New Smyrna Beach (Bethune Beach) to watch the launch with my son. It's about 40 miles away from the Cape as the crow flies; had a pretty good view from there. What I didn't think about until it occurred was the delay between watching it launch, then hearing and feeling the blast of the engines wash over you after it's out of view. That was pretty cool.

Hope it goes well. I'm thinking of driving out to the Ormond Beach area to watch.

I'm spoiling for a fight? You made a call for a civil discussion - then turn to insults when there's an opposing view. Actually, you began with insults, then made a call for civil discussion, then turned to insults again. "Legislating from the bench=BS?" I think you eloquently defined what legislating from the bench is, which disagreed with your premise and subject title that it has no meaning. You seem to have abandoned your (stated) premise for the thread, since you've ignored my replies to it in favor of attempting to demonstrate I am for a total ban on abortion, which I do not believe in. Of course, you don't believe me. EII calls pro-lifers (me) liars, and you agree. Oh, but EII doesn't think I should be offended by being called a liar, because I'm actually in denial - I really am a liar and I just haven't figured it out yet. And you declare you guys are just yukking it up, and then insult me again for being offended. But I'm the one spoiling for a fight. OK, if you say so. I would disagree, but I don't want to start unintentionally lying or something. Best solution I can think of is not to respond to any more of your posts. That'll do.

What I've been doing over the years is not paying for NHL Center Ice, but subscribing to the package that includes the sports channels. The Empire broadcast would be blacked out for the live broadcast, but Empire would replay all the games, sometimes two or three times, so I could watch (or Tivo/watch) every game. I don't know that MSG will replay Sabres games that they carry, so I may end up buying the Center Ice thing. Gonna wait and see.

Don't care for his politics, and I honestly don't know what he's made in the last twenty years, but his old stuff contains some of my favorite songs of all time. He doesn't suck - I just don't care (about him or any other musician). I promise not to go to one of his concerts and get beered-up and ruin anyone's experience.

I don't know how much they use them, but my mom has been a volunteer for an Erie County library for years, so they do have them.

I lived too far out of town in CA to frequent the library very often, maybe once every couple weeks or so. The one in my town there was pretty substandard. I live in the capital of the county here in FL, and library downtown is pretty sweet. I've been going there to study - kids are out of school, so home is not a quiet place. Speaking of a quiet place - please, if no one has every mentioned it to you, taking cell phone calls in a library is just rude. Put your phone on vibrate (there's a reason it's called "manner" mode) - if it's an important call, answer it in your "library" voice and step outside. And just turn that nextel BEEPing thing right the hell off. Curmudgeon note: it's not just the younger generation, I've seen a couple middle-aged people do this too. Just un-freaking believable.

Oh, I'm sorry - I mistook you for someone who wanted to have an intelligent discussion without the BS. Well, I guess both of you guys can KMA then. So much for this thread.

I think I've been clear in my opinion. It's pretty ill-mannered to call me a liar when I've been as honest as I can. It's been my experience that people who think abortion should be illegal will tell you so. If you think everyone has a hidden agenda, you can just avoid all conversation.

Again, not that I want the states to decide - it's a very difficult issue, and I don't mind getting more opinions/ideas on how best to solve it. Any new state law of any kind on abortion will be challenged immediately and appealed up the chain; 50 different opinions will last only as long as it takes for the SC to hear the arguments on the first few that make their way there.

It's not that I prefer the states do anything; I believe the Roe V Wade decision was flawed, and should be overturned. I'm just being realistic in that this would have the immediate effect of launching who knows how many different bills in Congress and in the State legislatures trying to find a way to craft a law that protects the individual rights of the mother (from one direction), and determine what, if any, rights an unborn child may have (from the other). I personally believe an total ban on abortion, as well as abortion on demand at any time will both prove to be unconstitutional. I think the only possible answer is somewhere in the middle, and I don't know exactly where that would be.

The vote in Roe V Wade was 7-2.

First of all, if you want respectful discussion, starting out a rant by describing your opponents' position with insulting, derogatory comments strewn throughout is perhaps not the best way to get the desired result. I guess I've grown accustomed to your style, so I can see past it. But it's deceiptful. As for your point, I think you've perfectly illustrated the definition and context of 'legislating from the bench', which rather contradicted your paragraph about it being a meaningless catch phrase, or mere propaganda. That in and of itself does not appear to be the burr under your saddle - it's the hypocracy of those who would wish to turn around and do the exact same thing from the right. On that point, I would agree. If that's the position some people hold, it is hypocritical of them to rail against 'legislating from the bench' - but that doesn't mean 'legislating from the bench' is a meaningless phrase, it's just hypocritical of them to use it. And yes, there are people like that out there, but it doesn't describe everyone opposed to abortion. I'm pro-life. I personally believe the founders had no thought of the issue of abortion while they were crafting the Constitution. I don't believe Roe V Wade was good law. I think it should be overturned, and the issue left to the states, since the Constitution has absolutely nothing to say about it. If states want to ban it, they need to prove a baby has constitutional rights before it is born (such as the reasonable chance to survive outside the womb, I would suppose). Otherwise, they would be restricting the mother's right to privacy, which they're not allowed to do. Somewhere in between there, there is a period where the mother's right to privacy is in conflict with the baby's right to live (for this argument, I would say a baby that can live outside the womb), and that line is shifting as medical science progresses. Not a simple task, crafting a law that incorporates all of that. Add in congenital birth defects, and it gets more complicated. Quite frankly, a position at either extreme has no place in the Constitution.

I know cryptologic linguists for every major language spoken in the world. I can put the word out that if they are interested, I can forward their information to someone who is interested in candidates for the sandbox. Can't promise anything, as most of the ones I have personal relationships with are Korean and Chinese linguists, but it's still a small community. Are intelligence analyst/reporters welcome also, if they are not linguists, but have worked the target?

Your choice of background music, with narrative from family members. How they decided on a name. What the day he was born was like - the trip to the hospital, their experiences that day. I tell mine about what the day was like, the weather that day, the trip to the hospital, what time they were born, 'making' their belly buttons (because I cut the cords), about my son peeing all over the doctor, then on the nurse; giving them their first baths, having their pictures and footprints taken, first diaper changes, etc. Everyone has stories to tell that the kids appreciate when they grow up.

Kinda dark, huh? Good storyteller, though.