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I'm quite frankly waiting for a Republican to introduce a bill making organ donation mandatory. After all, if the government can declare plenipotentiary powers over a living woman's uterus, I can see no reason why they c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/29 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:12:29 Not my idea, but looks like a good one to me!

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FAEBD7][big]MAKE RIOT COPS WEAR FOOTIE STYLE NUMBERS[/big]

[i]20th April 2009
By Josh Layton[/i]

CAMPAIGNERS are demanding riot cops have numbers on their uniforms like footballers to identify them.



T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/27 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:42:37 Problem solved.



The rich and powerful can stop paying taxes any time they want to. Pick any high-salaried person: Oprah Winfrey. Mel Gilbson. Barry Bonds. Peyton Manning. Pat Robertson. Rick Waggoner. Britney Spears. Johnny Depp. Whoever; doesn't matter.


Doesn't manner. Every s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/26 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:36:59 I caught this article in [i]Machine Design[/i] magazine. I wanted to share it because previously I had only heard of wave-driven power generation as scaled up, buoyant versions of those shake-powered flashlights.

This design uses a float attached to two water pumps. A field of floats woud pump ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/28 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:23:49 Pick the catagory that best describes your experience in defensive gun uses.

Please do not include any military, police, or armed security work. The current controversy stems from private gun ownership.

(on edit: added "with a gun" to choice #5)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/24 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:05:08 I don't normally read the National Rifle Association magazine. I'm not a member, and while the technical writing is pretty good, the political stuff makes my stomach turn. And I'm a gun owner, for the record.

But a guy at work left the February 2007 issue of "American Rifleman" in the lunchroom... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/23 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:16:03 [div class="excerpt"]DEATHS IN IRAQ

Put them in perspective

The Nov. 7 Star Tribune proclaimed in big bold type proclaims that 853 soldiers were killed in Iraq this year.

How about a headline which puts the war dead in perspective? Minnesota alone is on target for a total of 500 people to b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/22 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:07:59 [h1]STOP! DON'T VOTE YET!!![/h1]

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Thank you for stopping and reading these instructions first *cough* SQUATCH *cough*. :-)

The purpose of this poll is to see how the general public perceives one aspect of American firearm ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/21 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:16:46 [h2]STOP! DON'T VOTE YET!!![/h2]





Thank you for stopping and reading these instructions first.

The purpose of this poll is to see how the general public perceives one aspect of American firearm laws. I'm not trying to find your opinion, whether or not something should or shouldn't be ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/20 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:09:42 Repeating firearms are guns that have a mechanism that, only when physically manipulated by the shooter, will allow the shooter to fire multiple shots without reloading the gun.

Nearly all repeaters fall into the following categories:

Bolt-action

Lever-action

Slide- or pump-action

Rev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/19 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:48:30 And not puddle-jumpers, either. Jets the size of a 737 or A320


[div class="excerpt"][big]Fewer trips for the fuel truck [/big]
Developments debuted at the Paris Air Show put airliners on a track toward flying more passengers while using less fuel.

Robert Rowe
Contributing Editor

"It re... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/25 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:30:17 About 90 minutes or so ago, I fell asleep for a nap on my bed. I don't normally take naps, because when I wake up it tastes like something died in my mouth. Like now, for example. But I was tired and the sun was setting, so I fell asleep for an hour or so.

I dreamed I was in some sort of buildi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/17 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:42:13 [div class="excerpt"] http://mingle2.com/img/bb/blog_rating/nc-17.jpg

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

gun (13x) bomb (8x) torture (3x) dead (2x) shit (1x) [/div]


I knew the Repub censors wanted to keep the electric car, the TurboSteamer concept, a ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/16 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:14:17 I read about this a few months ago in a car magazine, then was reminded of it last night in a discussion thread, so I though I'd bring it up. BMW is working on it, and it sounds like a really workable idea if they can mass-produce it.

Basically it's a tiny steam turbine engine linked to the engi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/15 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:41:46 It is now obvious that the RNC has inverted the Constitution. I am writing this because it hit me in a simple, intuitive way two days ago and I want to share it with the world.

As outlined in the Constitution, the purpose of a member of Congress is to represent the people of his district or stat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/14 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:06:24 I went to this site, [link:www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php|the American Presidency Project], to see exactly when the Democratic Party became the party of gun control.

The 2004 platform states:

[div class="excerpt"][i]Crime and violence. [/i]While terrorism poses an especially menacing th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/13 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:25:02 I wrote a little obituary/tribute in my Journal last Friday when I first heard about it.

I found out last Wednesday that the Patriot Guard Riders were going to be there. It is Kansas, after all. Fred Phelps' territory.

I checked out the Patriot Guard Rider's website and they have some pictur... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/12 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:40:14 Forrest John Waterbury, age 25, married not quite a year and with an adopted kid.

My boss' relatives did not find out until Wednesday. That was the day my boss left his cel phone at home.

When he got home, after a long night shift where the machinery was acting up (again), he found both his v... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/10 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:10:10 In February, I made this post (it's in my journal):

[div class="excerpt"]It is my belief that Bush will attack Iran on or about the 15th of March, shortly after twilight falls.

Looking at a moonrise/moonset table for Tehran, I noticed that on the 15th of March, moonrise was at about 4am local ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/11 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:39:41 Pay attention one and all, including lurkers and Freepers.

A common justification for allowing the US Government to torture people is the "Ticking Time Bomb Theory", which apparantly became popular from the Fox televison series "24". It goes something like this:

Terrorists have planted a nucl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/8 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:08:01 It is my belief that Bush will attack Iran on or about the 15th of March, shortly after twilight falls.

Looking at a moonrise/moonset table for Tehran, I noticed that on the 15th of March, moonrise was at about 4am local time. The moon is waning at the time, so for the next two weeks there will ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/9 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:52:33 Nothing in the past 4 years has given me any hope in the competence of the Bush Administration to deal with the situation in Iraq.

What, therefore, would a troop escalation help?

I have played chess before, and had occasionally played with a new learner by giving him a distinct piece advantage... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/7 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:53:46 And then we un-accomplished it.

Everything we needed as a nation for national security was accomplished in Iraq before we invaded. Essentially, we had already won the War on Terror in Iraq.

Consider: [ul]
[li]The government of Iraq was stable.

[li]There was no sectarian strife.

[li]Wit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/6 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:01:24 These thoughts have been rattling around in my head for a while and I feel compelled to put them in a form that is both public and coherent. :-)

[big]Reason 1: To re-establish the American military presence in the Gulf[/big]

The most public reason was to appear competent and proactive. That i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/5 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:05:10 I wonder where the path paved with oil money would lead if we could follow it. From the blue-collar joe filling up at the station to the oil company, to the MidEast for the crude, to the oil sheiks that control the system, back to the US in the form of political favors and bond purchases to keap th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/krispos42/3 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:37:49