Given what would be considered a BB gun there is a lot of variation. Yes you have the smooth bore .177 cal Daisy ones that you can pick up for like $30 these are fairly harmless but good for starting out on. On the ultra high end of things you have .22 and .25 cal ones that are just barely sub sonic and shoot a fairly heavy projectile out of a properly rifled barrel that can cost well over $1000, and then there is everything in between. Personally I am using a $250 .22 cal air rifle that is just barely subsonic and while it will shoot through raccoons and possums it usually takes 2 shots to kill them quickly (just not enough expansion from the projectile), smaller things like rabbits and squirrels just tip over dead. If I could find a .25 cal one I would probably jump up to that if it wasn't too expensive.

Hey the MOA has the Lego store so it isn't all crappy overpriced food and clothing stores. That and don't forget about the amusement park.

I would imagine that the jokes made at the time were fairly dark. Having spend a fair amount of time in Israel the people there have a fairly dark sense of humor around terrorism and war as well. When you see a tee-shirt with "Guns and Moses" written on it with a couple of crossed Kalashnikovs on it it becomes apparent pretty quick. Besides humor is one of the ways we deal with stressful situation.

You are also forgetting about the fine/fee/tax (pick your wording as it seems to be some sort of quantum superposition of them) that is assessed if you do not carry health insurance or the right kind of health insurance.

Actually I think it would be the iClinton.

That sounds like some crazy alien talk right there.

Quick I found one!

The work on that level, love or hate the tea party that is what they did. Go an run a bunch of like minded candidates in the primary election so that the only option is a candidate from your party that holds the correct views. Also by getting involved at the local precinct you can get rid of the incumbents by ensuring that they aren't on the ballot. Finally by getting involved at the local precinct level you can help shape the state party platform so you get to help define the litmus test used for future candidates.

Why go through all that effort with modern materials that probably will breakdown over the time scales in consideration? I was thinking more along the lines of using one color of clay for the primary tablet creating the impressions for the text, then filling those impressions with another color of clay. This should prevent the lettering from being damaged over time making reading easier. Then just fire the thing to create some stoneware. The goal would be to create something that has a high probability of being easily understood so fancy encoding and techniques for reading it should be avoided.

Same here and now I feel old.

I would think fired clay tablets would offer similar storage but be a bit easier to manufacture. Sadly I now want to see if I can do this and create a modern rosetta stone and go bury it in the woods in the park behind my house.

Ask the last person who he talked to on the subject. Also as others have pointed out it doesn't matter what he thinks as the process to amend the MN Constitution requires only the both the MN house and MN senate pass the bill and that the voters approve the amendment.

Don't just e-mail the two listed senators. While they are the primary ones holding the bill up also send messages to you state congress member and state senator member encouraging them them support and pass the bill. Additionally encourage them to put pressure on the individuals holding up the bill.

Sounds like I ended lucking out then. It was after my junior year in chemistry that they cleaned out the chemical locker and got rid of all the good/dangerous stuff like the phosphors and sodium as well as a bunch of other things. Sounds like things have been going down hill ever since. We even got a demo of a thermite reaction (1 quart flower pot packed full) and the resulting mess when the rock in the bottom melted and I was lucky enough to evacuate the school when I successfully made 1 mole of hydrogen sulfide because the teacher put that chemical on the list of ones to generate without thinking. It was caught just after I had combined the chemicals and was reacting so everyone was evacuated. This was in the mid 90s and I guess even then things had been going down hill.

The differences in the legislation appear to be breaking by the old establishment politicians vs the new ones instead of the usual D v R or urban v rural that most bills end up being split on.