Terry Tate

Hey, I came up with that! That's my line!

Sure, I can sign that for you. Uh... here, hold on to this for me.

It's just four walls and a roof. No special meaning to anyone. Matt Dery of New London, Conn., has been fighting for almost six years to hold on to his property. Four homes sit on the land that has been in Dery's family since they moved from Italy in the 1890s, surviving even through the struggles of the Great Depression. Dery lives in one of the four homes with his wife, son and niece. His father and mother live next door. His mother, Wilhelmina, 85, has lived in her house for her entire life. The Institute for Justice just release a report documenting uses and threats of eminent domain for private parties over a five year period, from January 1998 through December 2002. If you don't wish to read it in it's entirety, the portion covering your state may be of interest. Here you go. "Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ... Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own." James Madison

I guess Christopher and Paulie helped move the money and the bodies before they started digging for the pool? I keeed, I keeeeeed!

Can you and UConn James go back and read the link Alaska Darin provided? Because I get the impression you misunderstood it.

Excellent. Can he get his football to start soon? At least get it into camp? Welcome Devin.

Couldn't say. DOE lists the nationwide average in 1961 as $0.31/gallon. This chart has the national average per gallon from 1919-2004. Also includes the prices adjusted for inflation - which would indicate (again, when adjusted for inflation) the national average price per gallon over the last 87 years has been as high as $2.92/gal (1981), as low as $1.22/gal (1998), and averaged $2.08 per gallon. From 1986-2002 we've had some of the cheapest gas in our history.

I'm not clear as to what exactly you are being critical of. Ron Paul? Libertarianism? This issue? Or all of the above?

Maybe this isn't such a bad idea. I have two kids, and I'm pretty convinced they are both mental. Probably got it from hanging around me. I checked the list, my congressman is not a cosponsor, so I dropped him a line. There's only 639,295 people in my district, so I'm sure he'll get right back to me.

It's still worthwhile from what I gather. My friend also taught Astronomy, a hobby of his. I regret I didn't spend much time in the scouts as a child. I hope to make up for that when my son is old enough to join.

No, but they do have one for computers now. A Software System Engineer friend of mine taught it for his son's troop. Most of the old merit badges would sound familiar to old scouts. Here's their current list.

LOL, our resident curmudgeon, you contribute some of my favorite posts. Were you in the BSA or raised by Grizzly Adams? First thing I was taught about if I were ever really, really lost in the woods, was STAY PUT SO WE CAN FIND YOU! And half the fun of going out camping was having all the gear - no way we were leaving canteen, compass, knife, etc back in camp. I don't know about trapping and fishing so much, water being more important than food in the short term anyway, but an 11yr old scout should at least have some clue about making a shelter/bed, starting a fire, and what is safe to eat around there. I always figured I'd go the plants/insects/lizards/snakes route myself, but that's just because I never learned the trapping/fishing from scratch stuff. Everyone involved is lucky that kid didn't keep walking.

Yep. But I also think South Park is not worth watching, and never has been.

Who is Pat Williams?

That's not a deer crossing, that's a car crossing on a deer highway.

0. I ignore people at will.

Great article, thanks for the link. It's always interesting to read about the history of the design of game strategy and how it evolves.

Source?

Your input in this thread made it a worthwhile read for me. Thanks for taking the time. Nice to see direct, thoughtful answers to the usual bomb-throwing.

I can think of a good use for it. That person you know with a 4x4 that never actually takes it off-road or has ever had it in 4-wheel drive? Spray it on their vehicle while they're at work, shopping, etc. They'll come out and it'll look like someone took their ride out through the mud flats. That should keep 'em guessing.

November 1987.

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Certainly a part of it. Could be, as an aside. That's the core of it.

No, it's not just you. Many people who attend mass would disapprove. Some might even discuss it with the pastor.

I rafted the Youghiogheny about 15 years ago with a bunch of friends/co-workers, what a riot. After putting in, we stopped briefly just downstream to pick up our strategically placed cooler of beer (they don't allow alcohol). We had finished our practice manuevers, the other 3 guys in the boat teaching me the basics, as they had all been rafting before. We were just getting into the first set of rapids when I glanced back from right front and realized I was the only one sitting on the side of the boat, not IN it - too late, a little haystack lauched me about 3 feet straight up in the air (still in sitting posture, oar in hand) and into the water. Popped up oar in hand, boat was right there - I quickly jumped in and that was the last dunk until we went swimming at lunchtime. It was nice being the comic relief for the morning. We were the only raft in our group of 6 rafts that made it through the Dimple rock run without dumping - the way you have to approach it just looks and feels wrong until you drop down and it shoots you out of the cannon. They warned us about not attempting to stand up, lest you get a foot caught, and the current pushed you down - drowning you in 1-4 feet of water!