We didn't use them just to end the war sooner - that's the plebian-level explanation. The Emperor was on the edge of surrendering - he knew the war was lost and the people were going to go along with what he said. He was especially ready to surrender after the first one went off but we were going to drop 2 bombs no…

It doesn't prove anything by itself, however as we look up and down the comments, there seems to be substantial research that indicates that withdrawal is in the same neighborhood of effectiveness as condoms. So I guess I don't understand your strong negative reaction.

"To be honest I've never had one single friend get pregnant because of withdrawal... "

Yet the same people who came up with the "inalienable" rights also came up with the other ideas that I mentioned before - just above the Bill of Rights, actually. Which means that the founding fathers were certainly not infallible - they had some good ideas and had some bad ideas.

Ah - ok. So you know what the guy heard and what the wife said to wake him up based on the video. Or, better still, where was it reported that the wife woke him up saying it was the police?

The way it was reported on Gawker: "Guerena's wife heard noise and woke up her husband."

I do not understand the argument you are trying to set up. Are you somehow trying to draw a large ideological distinction between the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights with the former being somehow irrelevant to showing the mindset of the authors who also penned (or approved of) the latter for their new nation?

Check the link. Being awakened in time to get his gun in his hand is what got the guy killed.

The "founding fathers" had a lot of ideas - some were good and some were bad. Remember that these guys also advocated the enslavement and persecution of humans as well as barring women from voting or otherwise participating in a meaningful way in their society. Not really an idea go-to reference for human rights. …

"Said it before, say it again, guns don't kill people, people kill people. "

You know even with a gun in your hand you can still lose. [gawker.com]

"But you are not allowed to compromise the environment and hence possibly the health of other children whose parents have obeyed the rules. "

> Adjusting the thermostat one or two degrees Fahrenheit makes a noticeable difference.

From your description, it sounds like much more of a psychological relationship with numbers ("It's in the 70's!" vs "It's in the 80's!") rather than an actual ability to discern the difference ("Ugh, they said the high was going to be 79 but it totally feels like it's 81 out here!")

Given that humans don't have the neurology to reliably tell the difference between a few degrees Fahrenheit, exactly how much level of detail is really needed?

Saying he is against (or ignorant of) germ theory seems to be a pretty overgeneralization of his position, be it right or wrong. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

"I don't know how much Robert E Lee you've read, but I've read all of his writings that have been made public. Lee fully supported lincoln in his election, and the union for that matter leading up to the civil war. the only reason he led the south in the war was because of his "love for virginia", which he talks about…

Please please please do not think that I am under some believe that supremacist thought was somehow concentrated against Blacks or geo-specific to the South. That too would be a gross misunderstanding of history.

May as well ask why do so many members of today's GOP, often middle class themselves, support tax cuts for the wealthy?

Here's some history - this is an excerpt from what is known as "The Cornerstone Speech" delivered by the Vice President of the Confederate Republic, Alexander H. Stephens, delivered on March 21, 1861 Savannah, Georgia. This speech was intended to make clear the causes for war with the North in a time before…