oldguystudent

Something in the back of my head tells me that I read that once. By playing the lottery and claiming a prize, you agree to have your image used for marketing purposes or something like that. I think that's the reason some people wait up to a year to claim their prize. They want to get their accountants, lawyers and whatnot all lined up before they go public and start getting harassed by long lost family members and business "opportunity" solicitors.

CMJ's pretty spot on on how California works though. Everything, and I mean everything is done though public ballot. It's nigh impossible for even the most conservative state legislature ever created in the history of the universe to override the system of spending in California.

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Man, I must've been about 11 or 12 when that happened and I saw it live. Then they re-played it over and over and over. I'm not gonna' say it traumatized me, but it's certainly nothing I could watch all day long. Yikes! Now had it been Joe Montana...

15%!?!? The top tax bracket for earners of over a million dollars currently in California is 10.3%! So it's massive increases across the board! 50% for the wealthy, 650% for the poorest of the poor. I can't see anybody winning in this one.

Without citing the stories posted on here from British sources about how even the UK sees how we're going to Hell in a hand basket, it's just another example of polarization. I just really don't believe that deep down Americans are so divided against each other. I think far, far too many of us are guilty of picking a side and going with the extremities fed to us by the media and the party talking heads. It's unfortunate. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The United States hasn't had a president that everybody loved, with the possible exception of Reagan (who definitely had detractors), in any time during the past hundred years, yet the country always manages to get through it. This isn't the end of days, the rapture isn't here, and they're not going to be handing out the mandatory hammer and sickle at Home Depot any time soon.

I sincerely hope he puts the money to good use and doesn't get taken advantage of. It's a tough row to hoe going from nearly nothing to money like that.

The flying worm. I suppose I can understand the nostalgia, but if it were to be brought back, I think it should be written into all scholarship agreements and coaching contracts that Burt Reynolds moustaches are to be worn at all times, and the coaching car allowances are to be spent entirely on Trans Ams. Extra generators should also be brought into Fouts so we can shine lights on the disco balls. Don't get me wrong. I kinda' like it, but it's sooooo 70s. There's something about that style that suggests to me some new technology came along during that time that allowed for lines with rounded edges.

What if you put the unicorns on a steady diet of bacon dogs?

Sounds like a familiar sentiment. Perhaps you'll run into Alec Baldwin or Sean Penn. As for the sentiment that half of America is voting for its own demise, I give you: Whoever it was on here, I think it was UNT90, that said politics has become little more than cheerleading for your own side was wise. And finally, Costa Rica is one hell of a righteous place where I would love to live no matter who's in the White House. The downside is that I don't recall seeing any pie, Boston, pecan or otherwise, at all down there.

Well that'll certainly change the dynamics of Soi Cowboy!

Of course not. He was working on his artistic tying skills when he simply got hung up.

There is no way I'm looking that up! I think I can, without knowledge of the definition, say, "Ewwwwww!!!!"

It suddenly occurs to me that those who loathe government involvement in just about every other aspect of life cheer on its adamant endorsement and participation in the sphere of religion. If anything, I only want my government involved in the distribution of Boston Creme pies. That'll keep their attention diverted from the pecans.

Good God! What's our SOS ranked? 120? If we go 0 'fer with a schedule like that, we deserve to be sent packing down to FCS or D2.

Big piece of bait you lay out there. Fine, I'll take a nibble. Commandments 1-3 assume that your God is my God and/or that I am subject to your God regardless of what my personal beliefs are. Placing these commandments in a public place (defined, I assume, as US government property) implies that the US government endorses your God as the one. Even if you want to argue that this nation was founded as a Christian nation with the ten commandments as a basis of its law (in which case I think you'd be confusing the time and place of John Winthrop with that of Tom Jefferson), and you say that a majority of Americans believe this, you are bringing manifestation to De Tocqueville's prediction of tyranny of the majority. Commandment 4 -- p'shaw! Like anybody except the Jews give any credence whatsoever to this one. Commandment 5 -- I'll be sure to mail that one in to the father who beat the crap out of me and most likely fondled my sister. Commandment 6 -- God unfortunately forgot to define the meaning of this one. Commandments 7-9 -- Meh. I'm good with those, with the possible exception of the fully consenting adult participants of the now defunct Cherry Pit. Commandment 10 -- Dude, have you seen my neighbor's wife!?!?

If you're gonna go, and it's gonna' be in a place as exotic as Bangkok, there really is no substitute for the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.

What's SOW?

Pfft...You and your policy criticisms. The real media cover up is that he probably ordered falafel in Egypt and put ketchup on it!

I've not studied Darwin much because I simply don't care about the whole creation/evolution debate. However, I looked up a summary of his theory on wiki, and it basically says that inherited traits over time can lead to new species. It goes Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, right? New species to me says a change from a wolf to a husky, not a squid to a howler monkey. Honest question since I've never read The Origin of the Species. Does Darwin explicitly theorize that single celled organisms evolved into humans?

Serious question. Is it a budget constraint with only having one color helmet?

It was a brilliant real estate marketing scheme. They came in droves on housing speculation.

Here's one from Matthew that has always confounded me So if I'm reading this correctly, not one letter of the old law is to be changed until all is fulfilled. Even though the word commandment is used in verse 19, I have to assume that the laws of Leviticus also apply. If not, then the abomination of homosexuality is out the window because it is not in the commandments. So either all the laws of Leviticus apply or none of them do. Further, when you cite Corinthians and Romans as proof of continuation of God's condemnation of one act over all others, you're citing the words of Paul, not God. Even so, going back a verse to 25, you get: Which I see to imply that the people Paul speaks of changed the truth of God -- in other words, they changed the rules, or the laws. This says to me again that all the old laws still apply, so you can't go cherry picking. They all apply. This is God we're talking about here, and it IS a zero sum game. I can find no evidence in either the old nor the new testament that God is one to compromise. So if he said it in the old, it must be also be true in the new.

Michigan State isn't similar to our colors?

Some of it does, some of it doesn't. I've never been able to understand the discrepancies. To this day I refrain from shell fish and enslave the daughters of my vanquished foes just to be on the safe side.* *As a last vestige of my very odd religious upbringing, I really do still abstain from shell fish. I just can't bring myself to eat shrimp, lobster, clams, oysters, et al.