...with which I agree are the picture of the beagle puppy -- if one can agree with a picture, that is -- and the Will Rogers quote. Remember, the very first amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and on the one occasion when Shrub has been out of his bubble for the last several years, people can, and should, use the occasion to exercise that freedom.
And any of these clearly pro-hunting delusionals who consider it "idiotic" can kiss my ass, too. Some dipshit manages to shoot himself rather than the animal -- who is, of course, beneath us exalted humans -- and they lavish sympathy on the poor departed? Me, I think he should get a Darwin Award.
...with the plaudits for poor Sandy. "(W)e lost a Supreme Court justice who might have stood her ground in defense of the Constitution?" She had her chance to defend the Constitution in Bush v. Gore, and passed. Fuck her and the AD-afflicted horse's ass (Reagan) she rode in on. While her replacement is almost certainly worse than she, it does not augur well for us Americans that we are praising the lesser of these authoritarian right-wing evils.
...perhaps your powers of logical deduction are deficient, but if one follows the path from Bush Administration crimes against the COTUS (you don't like it, kiss my a**) to the Congressional oath of office to affirmatively "protect and defend the Constitution" to the mechanism by which they are empowered to do that, impeachment, one winds up with an affirmative obligation to impeach. Or are you claiming that because no form of the word "obligation" appears along with the description of the power of impeachment, no actual obligation exists?
Don't walk the plank like I did You will be dispensed with When you've become inconvenient In the harrowdown hill Where you went to school That's where I am That's where I'm lying down
Did I fall or was I pushed? Did I fall or was I pushed? And where's the blood? And where's the blood?
I'm coming home I'm coming home To make it all right So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time We just cant do anything about it
So don't ask me Ask the ministry Don't ask me Ask the ministry
We think the same things at the same time There are so many of us So you can't count
We think the same things at the same time There are too many of us So you can't count
Can you see me when I'm running? Can you see me when I'm running? Away from them
I can't take their pressure No one cares if you live or die They just want me gone They want me gone
I'm coming home I'm coming home To make it all right So dry your eyes
We think the same things at the same time We just cant do anything about it
We think the same things at the same time There are too many of us So you can't count
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope It was a slippery slippery slippery slope I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
...but I'm going to take a look at it. There's probably some stuff in there that I've used as I've always run numbers/problems/etc. in my head for fun, but I wasn't really exposed to any formalized system of math simplification. I was taught the hard way; I used my own shortcuts to make it faster/easier. Believe me, I was forever being scolded for not showing calculations that I'd done in my head, or for doing math problems/tests in pen. Thanks for the link!
...you should have wound up, using pi extended to 3.14159, with 28.73 x 10^-24 cm³, or as lynyrd_skynyrd has it, ~2.873 x 10^-23 cm³.
And to Emit's daughter, the entire basis of lynyrd's conversions is the grade school-taught Identity Property of Multiplication. The ratios by which he multiplies to convert from cubic angstroms to cubic centimeters are all equal to 1, and multiplying any number by 1 equals that number.
His calculations can also be expressed as
28.73ų x 1 x 1... with the actual value of the original spherical volume calculation never changing (though the coefficient will change as it is multiplied by numbers in the numerators, or divided by numbers in the denominators, which fractions, remember, taken as a whole, equal 1), but with its units of measure -- because of the cancellations of the numerator/denominator units of measure -- changing to the form in which the problem demands, in this case cm³.
...and the Green Day song unjustly, methinks. In broad terms, if this wasn't "Idiot America," in which the lifelong failings of a semi-literate substance abuser were ignored so he could be "selected" president, we wouldn't have the chimperor-in-charge. The sentiment is for the idiots -- and Green Day's an American band -- not those of us who "get" the fact that TV and the MSM are largely meant to anesthetize and coddle us into blind consumerism and obedience.
...just a condescending halfwit who thinks you're smarter than everyone else. And your unshakeable belief that you are right without actually articulating any argument on why you're right really reminds me of someone...who could that be now...?
In case there's any doubt as to my beliefs, backed by evidence, on this debate, look no further than my nom de DU.
The perfect combination of misanthropic greed and ignorance/incompetence. Hell, don't we have Homer Simpson and Montgomery Burns in office now as President and VP?
...to the Chicago Sun-Times when Ryan was still figuring out what to do about the death row inmates:
In Illinois, it takes some serious gall to publish tripe like John O'Sullivan's advocating capital punishment <"Death penalty foes thwart majority will," column, Aug. 27>. Given all of those who've been freed after being exonerated by DNA evidence, witness recantations, proof of coerced confessions and/or the suppression of exculpatory evidence by prosecutors, even one so clearly bloodthirsty as O'Sullivan should recognize that while execution is theoretically a just punishment, it should not be the law when the primacy of prosecutors' political aspirations is so manifest. One need look no further than Jim Ryan, the GOP gubernatorial candidate. This is a man who should be charged with conspiracy to commit the murder of Rolando Cruz--not running for the highest state office.
Should Gov. Ryan grant clemency to those on Death Row and repeal Illinois' death penalty, it would be the only positive legacy of his otherwise thoroughly disgraced stewardship of two of the state's highest offices. While O'Sullivan obviously feels that these would be undemocratic measures--and they are--the position of a leader sometimes mandates that he resist the temptation to follow the mob and instead lead the people down a path to which they are otherwise blinded by their sense of outrage.
Me
For anyone loking to know more about the FBI/Boston Irish Mob connections, check out Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. I assume the guy named Flemmi, one of the real killers in this Boston case, is related to Whitey Bulger's top henchman in the Boston Irish Mob. Interestingly, while the whole Bulger/FBI scenario didn't exactly inspire Martin Scorsese's The Departed, it certainly informed it, and the parallels are discussed at length in the DVD's Extras.
If the lowlife rat-bastard were offered a deal whereby he would not be charged criminally, nor would he be surrendered to international war crimes detention, trial, and presumably execution, he'd quit. He's walked away from everything his whole life, the pathetic loser, why would he stop now?
