Tom Clancy penned a novel in 1994 that ended with a 767 being flown into the United States Capitol. Seven years before 9/11. Nobody put him in jail, before or after.

The United States was already effectively at war with Germany before the oil embargo against Japan. The US Navy had orders to sink German U-Boats on sight, we were giving weapons away to the British and Soviets (itself a violation of the obligations of a neutral country under international law), and were making plans for the manner in which we would wage open war against Germany once it broke out. Fire was traded between the US Navy and Kriegsmarine months before Pearl Harbor, in fact two American destroyers were torpedoed (one sunk) by U-Boats in October 1941.

The policy of the American Government at the time was to focus on Europe. Nobody in Washington wanted war with Japan, but they also weren't willing to accept a Japanese defeat and conquest of China. The oil embargo was a last ditch effort to bring them to the negotiation table. They opted for war, with a country that had seventeen times their GDP and twice the population . Had the United States not followed the Europe First policy it's quite probable that Japan would have been crushed by late 1943/early 1944. Japan going to war with the United States has to rank as one of the most boneheaded military decisions ever made in the history of the human race. Probably only equaled by Hitler's move to follow them into war against the sleeping giant.

They usually are. That's kind of the problem. This was the best moment ever of The Wire.

The War on Drugs made law enforcement into the enemy for a lot more people than the War on Copyright Infringement. That's really where the Government started to overreach, in modern times, and if you think what they're doing with cyber criminals (real and imagined) is horrible you should Google "civil asset forfeiture" and start reading.

Elderly drivers. 45 mph. Works equally well for busy school zones and the passing lane on the interstate.

Your girlfriend must love you.... ;)

NEWSPEAK ALERT!

No, Dan Cathy donated money to organizations that worked against redefining marriage to fit a certain political agenda.

LK

Explain to me the fairness of a female being able to surrender a kid she doesn't want to the State (safe haven law) or give it up for adoption while a male is invariably on the hook for 18 years of child support regardless of the circumstances? Hell, she can literally take the used condom out of the trash, impregnate herself, and you're STILL on the hook.

I can name a few possible scenarios, and I'll let you decide:

• Ballmer had a notoriously short fuse and the company would rather pay for what he wanted to hear, not what they needed to hear.
• Gartner, Forrester, et al were a bit intimidated by the piles of bodies in the C-level offices with gunshot wounds in them, and they liked the money.
• Microsoft-commissioned reports aren't intended for market research, but rather publicity and their own marketing purposes. They don't publicize the ones they commission for actual research, because it's not pretty (especially since Windows 8/Server 2012).

Uhh, that's exactly what happens. It's called a default judgment. What exactly do you think the court should do if a party fails to appear in a civil case?

Wow, stereotype much? I've been all over the deep south, lived in the not-so-deep south (Ashville, NC) for five years, I've yet to encounter any place besides hunting cabins that lack running water.

Personal responsibility. Some don't believe in it, they think it's the Government's job to use your money and mine to help people who aren't capable of engaging in it.

The GP isn't worth replying too, but here's food for thought for anybody who might be suckered in by his nonsense: The combination of pill and condom has a typical use failure rates of less than 1%, with a perfect use failure rate that's less than 0.1%. You are using condoms if you're sexually active, right? Last time I checked you can't cure AIDS with a visit to the abortion clinic....

You're just so full of wrong here.

First, you mean precedence, not precedent.
Second, the SCOTUS just saw it my way.

So, you can go suck a bag full of dicks.

LK

I can't say for certain how he or she became a moron but the idiocy he or she is displaying is how I know that he or she is a moron.

I argued that exact position before McCain-Feingold became law. If each of the people who own a corporation has the right to free speech, it's unthinkable that when they work together they somehow lose that right.

1. No one is prevented from getting anything. Every Hobby Lobby employee who can get a doctor to prescribe birth control pills can still get them. Hobby Lobby just won't be forced to pay for it.
2. Yes, I not only thought but I hoped that would be the case when the issue was decided by the SCOTUS.

Yeah, I see why you posted anonymously. If you had used your name, in a year, I would have waited to see you post and then replied to remind you what a fucking moron you are.

It's not going to happen. Ever.

The fact that to be able to have the right to vote, one must be a citizen and in order to be a citizen one must be a human being.

LK

And the resultant expense is always the man's responsibility.

LK