That reminds me, you have to come here to the Creation Museum. Dinosaurs and humans (neanderthals, all hominids, etc) and all extinct species walking the earth together.

Gotta love the way it screws with the minds of the little fourth graders, when the person giving the tour to the school group asks questions, students eagerly answer, then the tour guide tells the students they are WRONG about what they've learned about when dinosaurs lived, how they died, etc.

I did it...if he wants to gay bash he's in the wrong place.

Big Round of Applause
 

For GBbob for starting the thread......

Tomorrow's a Cease Fire Day



Just a pat on the back

not the same

The private sector I associate with wants it.

the government has not banned embryonic stem cell research they just haven't paid for it.

I thought hte private sector didn't belive in that particular kind of stem cell research.

either way I don't think the government should pay for it

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if someone strafes my house in the middle of the night and i don't have an anti-aircraft emplacement, should i do the same?

i'm not really sure how i feel about gun control but i love the paranoid fantasy as justification for your opinion. armed gangs roaming your neighborhood?

i usually try and keep my mouth shut in here.:o

Actually, I have pressure on me to get a gun. The dogs chased a guy out of the backyard 3 weeks ago. Have they done studies on how many people have killed a family member versus killed an actual intruder? Guns are pretty unforgiving.

statistically, you're far more likely to kill someone you know or yourself with a gun over someone breaking into your house.

but you need to weigh that against whatever level of irrational paranoia you have about armed stranger's bursting through your door.

My wife won't let me get a gun. The best I can hope for is one of those old style credit card swipers. I figure any burglar coming up my steps that hears that noise will sh*t their pants and run.

There was a guy awhile ago here in Illinois named Anthony Porter. He was on death row for something like 15 years. Then, two days before he was scheduled to be executed, his lawyers won some sort of stay of execution after finally uncovering some kind of new evidence. Death penalty advocates moaned about the never ending appeals process and the fact that a new investigation was being launched.
Later on, it turned out that Porter was found to be innocent. Some other guy confessed to the crime and everything.

Are you saying it would be better if Porter had simply been executed right away....before nasty things like the actual facts of the case got involved?
And by the way, Porter is just one of many: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/inno...reed-death-row

Some of the interesting stuff is at the bottom:
Average number of years between being sentenced to death and exoneration: 9.5 years
Number of cases in which DNA played a substantial factor in establishing innocence: 17


It makes me wonder how many people were executed for crimes they didn't do in the era BEFORE DNA testing, and how many might be executed now, before some future technology is developed that we don't yet know about.

Remember this well.....:tro:

No, I am not the one who wants to get it. I actually trust my dogs enough. They adore me( I feed them.) I would maybe prefer to get one more larger dog, or a tazer. Black Rage is for real. I'm not crazy about the lethal option being around here.

dogs are a great option but just remember they'll do nothing about the threat of mole people tunneling into your bedroom.

when that happens all you can do is beg for your life in a soft and tearful voice unless you have a gun.

Dude when are you running? I'd vote for you in a heartbeat.