Thats a totally awesome story! I think I am gonna go buy me a "Coyote special".

I'd go with the M1 Garand, especially if your a history buff (WWII in particular). The AR-15 Bushmaster is nice, and can have a LOT of mods, but the M1 is adequate for home defense. Here's the proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_q_yda6yFg

All comes down to bad management. And what I mean by bad management, is management that does not understand how intricate IT is to their bottom line, and does not plan accordingly. IT is just as important as accounting, or HR. If you neglect it, the problems will cost you down the road.

It doesn't matter what line of business you are in. If you do not understand the role has to play in your company, then you need to hire someone who can help you figure that out, or simply be replaced by someone who can.

Unfortunately, the hyper inflated concept of the unflinching, tireless, resolute worker is best left as a relic of the industrial revolution. Never in the course of human history, outside of the industrial revolution, has a human being been expected to produce "something" for 8 straight hours a day, 5 days a week (and for some more than that). Such simple minded focus strips the mind of creativity; creativity which has dramatically advanced and improved the human condition.

I am a hard core capitalist and stalwart industrialist, but I am also a pragmatist. Non stop, widget production, should be left to the factory worker who needs to follow a standard script. Expecting an IT professional, a researcher, or an engineer to simply keep producing something measurable with each minute of the day shows a complete lack of understanding of your resources. I forget what the name of the study was, but it took three sports teams and show the level of performance improvements over a team that 1) vacationed for a week, thinking about the upcoming game, 2) team that unceasingly trained for the upcoming game, 3) team that sporadically trained for the upcoming game. turns out the vacationing team that spent some time visualizing the upcoming game, produced the greatest results, with the team that trained too hard had the smallest improvements.

Long story short, expecting factory worker performance from skilled workers, is as foolish as expecting a successful heart transplant surgery from a line backer.

No. Imploding. There is a word to describe your method of thought: juvenile.

What you lefties dont quiet understand yet, is that Europe is surviving due to one reason, and one reason only; The United States of America. Without our powerful economy and equally powerful military, the socialist European nations would simply collapse under the weight of their innovation destroying policies; from cap and trade, to cradle to grave social services. I am not a EU hater, but I have to say that I "pity the fools" in Europe who hate the US military, because they do not realize that it is the US military that is protecting their US hating behinds. This will all become obvious within the next 8-10 years when the US is forced to downsize its military and scale back to protect what is only vital to US national interests only, not the extended version therein (such as ensuring the stability of global markets).

Who is buying all those "high end" german cars? Do you really think the PRC gives to squats of crap about the economic stability of Europe? Europe is to the world today what the Ottoman Empire was back in 1918.

Not for long brain! While all those great socialists utopia's (see: Greece and the rest of the EU) implode, the United States will remain with the same best health care system for those who decide to budget for it.

Besides, whats a mere 200 billion over a health care bill that we couldnt afford in the first place?

... In the same political movement. The one type believes in the "impossible" because they saw it in a movie, and it makes them feel good, and the other type manipulates the first type because they will believe absolutely anything you tell them as long as it makes them feel good. Solar, Wind, and rainbows all have their place in the energy arena, but right now, they are not primary sources of power. Maybe in 100 years, but not today.

The second type, we can call them statists, are simply expending money as fast as possible in order to prove to the first type, we'll call them morons, that something is being done to address a problem that doesnt really exist. And to make them feel good at the same time (cant forget that).

Despite the image the Left has been trying to paint of the "average American" over the past decade, most Americans are not stupid, and do not give "completely" into whatever alarmist crap is being held up today. Most people know that Toyota's are pretty good quality, and most Americans are aware that nothing is perfect. If 100 cars out of 1 million malfunction, thats not a bad statistic.

Besides, more and more Americans are starting to become very suspicious of everything this government is doing (very unfortunately) because of the non stop bail outs of industries connected directly to Unions or big money political contributors (such as Goldman Sachs).

I call bull shit on this. Please point out exactly where the damage is, and prove that it is caused by my use of air conditioning/heating my home, as opposed to natural cycles which have occurred throughout the history of the earth. Remember, its not "Global Warming" anymore, its "Climate Change". An ubiquitous catch all phrase which assigns any negative changes in nature to the life style of industrialized nations. Receding glaciers? Global Warming. Rising water levels? Global Warming. Hurricanes? Global warming! Blizzards and cold summers... uh... er... Climate Change!!!

And besides, if your so damn concerned about "climate change", power down your computer now. I'm quiet certain you have no idea exactly how much CO2 polution your causing just getting to your favorite internet sites (all those servers and switches using electricity from evil coal powered plants). I mean, you should have to pay for all this damage your doing.

I know all of you eco-leftists are full of shit because I can still see your bullshit on the internet, which causes tons of "CO2 pollution". You all are still driving cars, living in buildings, using petrol products (yes, plastics and all), and electricity which comes from coal fired plants. If you "really" believe the end is neigh, start practicing what you preach.

Because the only way for most companies to reduce carbon emissions is to reduce the amount of business they do, and for most small and medium sized business, this is a death sentence. All proposed solutions lead to economic collapse for all those involved, especially as the solution is implemented globally (pray China doesnt buy into cap and trade).

"Carbon Credits" may be presented to fulfill a fantasy of tree hugging hippies (I mean that in the nicest sense possible), but in all reality it is the greatest and most destructive grab for power in human history. Despite all of the negative press associated with modern living (pollution, crime, inequality, etc.), people are living longer, better lives, everywhere (except for the few places that are still practicing early 20th century communism such as North Korea and Cuba, and even Cubans are living longer). Advancements in science and technology are moving a long at break neck speeds (relative to any other time frames outside the 20th century), and all of these advancements are built on proceeding advances.

Carbon Credits attacks the basic blocks that made the progress of the 20th century possible; access to cheap electricity and cheap petroleum. While its true both of these sources of fuel have negative qualities (pollution, danger of extraction, storage, etc.), they have gone a LONG towards connecting the world, and improving the quality of life; everywhere. Once "carbon credits" begin to dramatically increase the scarcity for these two life blood components of modern life, things are going to change, and not for the better.

Betting on "breakthroughs" in "green xyz" is a bad strategy. How are people going to come up with great new inventions when they can no longer afford electricty? Or when Universities have to increase the cost of admissions because the price of utilities has "necessarily skyrocketed", who is going to be able to attain a degree? There will be those who can afford to, but history has shown repeatedly that those who have money and power really have no reason to try to change the world... because the world is already working in there favor. From Edison to Bell, many of the great innovators and inventors have come from humble origins to change the world. While their inventions may have change the way the world lives, the businesses that they created have grown large, and stagnant, but provided mediums which helped lift other inventors to prominence years down the line.

This carbon credit scheme is not going to favor the Bells and the Edisons before they were rich. Carbon Credits are going to favor the AT&T's, the Goldman Sachs, and the Enrons of the world, while creating a barrier to entry so high that no new businesses will come into being, and the ones that exist will be "too big to fail".

What a total scam. My carbon footprint is less that 10% of Al Gore's but he justifies his 10x + carbon footprint because he buys "offsets". What a bunch of crap. What justifies anyone having carbon offsets to sell? Why am I not able to sell my "offsets" to Al ?

But they're not decisions, it's just luck. Whoever happens to hear that a meltdown is happening screws over someone who's taking a nap.

I make money. Someone else has to lose it.

The point of the stock market is to invest in the success of a company, not to compete with other investors. If the company flops, all of its investors should lose. It shouldn't be about which investor gets to their laptop first to dump the stock on some poor unwitting buyer.

All carbon credits are designed to do is to lower emissions through impoverishment of the "masses". This will dramatically increase the divide between the rich who can afford to invest in carbon credits, government workers (who will largely live exempt due to special "needs"), the special interests (unions who back political organizations, academics who live in government funded universities, and contractors who perform special services for government workers), and the rest of us. I have not seen an explosion in "green jobs" outside of the jobs that the stimulus package has created, and we all know that none of the "green energy sources" that are a reality today can even come close to providing a fraction of the power needed to sustain the way we live today.

There for, carbon credits are a method of reducing emissions through impoverishment... well... impoverishment of the "masses" (I hate that term). Corporations like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan will benefit greatly as the ones who provide access to the new carbon trading markets.

Folks, if you truly believe in "equality" and all that jive, carbon credits arent the way to go. They will create the greatest divide in wealth since the creation of the Feudal Society.

Nukes wont deter armed invasions but it WILL deter the use of weapons of mass destruction, which was proven during the 1st gulf war against Sadam Hussein. Hussein used chemical weapons against the Iranians during their 8 year war, but did not do so against the United States and its allies, who were using lots of air craft carriers and conventional weapons. Why? Because they were informed that the second they used Chemical or Biological weapons, the United States would use Nuclear weapons in retaliation.