What was he supposed to do? Stop reading to the kids, stand up, and say "Children, I must save the United States! Begone!" - demon

Right, you get a call that your house on fire while you are at work, but you just sit there for 20 minutes to finish reading your email. Laughable. His location was also known, it was scheduled visit, public. Sitting there put himself and the kids at risk. OTOH Cheney was practically dragged out of office by SS men just as soon as they got the news. That's just SOP.

But not flamethowers, hard to believe, I know.

In his book Jawbreaker (2005), Berntsen said that his team had pinpointed bin Laden's location.[page needed] He wrote that a number of al-Qaeda detainees later confirmed that bin Laden had escaped into Pakistan via an easterly route through snow-covered mountains to the area of Parachinar, Pakistan. He believed that bin Laden could have been captured at the time if the United States Central Command had committed the troops which Berntsen had requested.[4][page needed] In a 2005 interview, the former CIA officer Gary Schroen concurred with Berntsen's opinion.[5] Pentagon documents suggest bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora.

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Unwilling to "scorch the earth"? How kind of you. 20,000+ people did get "scorched" so there is that. You are losing because no one likes invaders. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

So open another account, drop say $200 into it and use that card.

I just wish Jerry would fact check more! Sorry, Jerry, I could not resist.

More like one million.

America is almost as bad on teaching evolution.

Did they even try? Well, yeah. "In the years following 1926, Mustafa Kemal introduced a radical departure from previous reformations established by the Ottoman Empire.[73] For the first time in history, Islamic law was separated from secular law, and restricted to matters of religion.[73] Mustafa Kemal said “ We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and our legal institutions from the bonds which, even though they are incompatible with the needs of our century, still hold a tight grip on us.[74] ” On 1 March 1926, the Turkish penal code was passed. It was modelled after the Italian Penal Code. On 4 October 1926, Islamic courts were closed. Establishing the civic law needed time, so Mustafa Kemal delayed the inclusion of the principle of laïcité until 5 February 1937. Ottoman practice discouraged social interaction between men and women in keeping with Islamic practice of sex segregation. Mustafa Kemal began developing social reforms very early, as was evident in his personal journal. He and his staff discussed issues like abolishing the veiling of women and the integration of women into the outside world. The clue on how he was planning to tackle the issue was stated in his journal on November 1915; “ The social change can come by (1) educating capable mothers who are knowledgeable about life; (2) giving freedom to women; (3) a man can change his morals, thoughts, and feelings by leading a common life with a woman; as there is an inborn tendency towards the attraction of mutual affection.[75] ” Mustafa Kemal needed a new civil code to establish his second major step of giving freedom to women. The first part was the education of girls and was established with the unification of education. On 4 October 1926, the new Turkish civil code passed. It was modelled after the Swiss Civil Code." Wiki

Quark was coined by James Joyce in Finnegan's Wake, which was serialized in 1924 and finally published in 1939. But I take your point.

Yes, it is, it's used in English magazines, newspapers, and orally. You just used it. Usage is what makes a word a word. I suppose instead of saying glacier, you say "a big piece of ice thingy". Even your abigail would know that.

If the players agree, any arbitrary point value can be applied to the letters. There are already several unofficial variant rule sets out there, so, you know, just do it if you want, and don't if you don't like it. Now I am off the cwm to play a tune on my crwth.

I hope that the images they are hoping to print are going to last longer than the hundreds of pics I took with the then Super-High-Tech SX-70. The images are barely visible now, and they were stored under proper conditions. Polaroid had a good run at it, but they have run out of ideas.

These companies are apparently just old, like Kodak, still hanging on to film way past the point it was obvious film was dying. As many have said here today, screens are good and ubiquitous, tabs are going to be $50. No need to print images anymore Polaroid. It sucks anyway, we use too much paper already. Can I print out my emails there too?