Yes and the democratic half is the half that argued for a larger NASA budget so that this wouldn't happen. http://www.space.com/22023-nasa-aut…

And there were wars and persecution of jews before there were Nazis, but that doesn't mean the Nazis didn't cause WWII and the Holocaust.

I'm usually for stronger regulation and legislation at the federal level, but I think minimum wage is one thing that is better regulated at the local level. A lot of the comments are coming from people in major cities like NY, SF, LA, in which federal minimum wage is not a living wage - and prices and customer bases…

yes exactly. You would still say "appears to show" and use hedging words right?

The point is there's not many places on the human body that you could hit to instantly incapacitate someone, basically only the head or the heart. Hits anywhere else, and the person still has the capacity to shoot back and kill innocent victims. The only way to ensure that shots to someone's body will hit one of the…

Why is that excessive? At that point two shots is just as likely to be deadly as five, just five shots will be deadlier faster. If you are at the point where you have to shoot someone to protect innocent victims, it makes sense to shoot additional times to make sure the innocent victims are protected. Not to mention,…

Her family were afraid for their safety and called the cops. The cop didn't randomly burst into her home, she was threatening to shoot other family members in the home, and the cop had to rush in there to save them.

You know that you don't shoot a gun using your Knee right? And a hand is an incredibly small target such that if you aimed at it, you would probably end up sending 5 shots into her body anyway. If someone has a gun and is brandishing it, the choice is to either use deadly force on the gun brandisher, or allow the gun…

If she has dementia, that actually makes her all the more dangerous as it becomes harder or impossible to rationally negotiate with her.

You do know that just because an elderly person is shooting a gun at you, the bullets from that gun don't automatically become flower petals moving at the speed they drive.

I think that is just the Newspaper trying to keep the whole "innocent until proven guilty" language. Like how they would say "allegedly", to avoid any lawsuits. I'm sure they use the same language even if she was filmed in broad daylight brandishing an AK47 with a grenade clutched between her teeth.

Well in this case she was brandishing a gun, the quintessential weapon for mass killing. And what do you mean by "mass" killing? If she could only pick of the two kids, that means it's A-OK to not call the cops and just sacrifice the kids? If she was brandishing a rusty butter knife, ok maybe...but even then if she…

I think she did have a gun, the "allegedly" part is whether she was brandishing it.

I know. With the advent of our new instantaneous perfectly accurate medical tests for HIV,and our super duper tests that can detect instantly whether or not anyone has ever had sex without a condom on - this policy is ridiculous!

You didn't know that a transfusion of Hitler's blood has the magical power to turn anyone into a mini-Hitler? Hitler pissing in a river that went downstream to some Allied troops is the direct cause of all evil in the United States today.

It's could be logistically a lot more expensive, such that it would not be financially viable. You're going to have to keep a separate supply, separate equipment, separate training, management to make sure that it stays separate, on the offchance that someone will somehow decide that they would rather receive blood…

Don't know where you got 8.5 million from...And they didn't exactly waste it, they started building when it looked like it was a good investment - but then the economy dipped and it was no longer a good investment. Then there were other unintentionally building mistakes along the way that made it even less financially…

I think it's more that retirement savings + general emergency fund savings are taken care off automtically, so everything left in his account is effectively money he can assign freely.

yes it's a pet peeve of mine too! I mean we don't rename things when women use objects or are in careers that are traditionally male, like femgineers or pants = fants. It just implicitly implies that men assuming traditionally female jobs and objects as essentially inferior and require renaming.

Well you are assuming without the sorority you would have had no friends whatsoever. And I think there's more problems with frats than sororities.