In this case, they could have always dropped a big bucket of water on it.

All my bags are opened and searched everytime I come back to the US. I guess the TSA is suspicious of anyone with queso menonita and carne seca.

Did you read the 2nd link? Reagan wasn't president in September of 1980. Also, the Shah of Iran was installed in 1941 by the British who thought he would be easier to control than his father. It was the British who wanted Mosaddegh gone after he nationalized their oil industry (not very pro-Western). Saddam was also the de-facto leader of Iraq since 1976, so if it was a part of some grand US conspiracy, you have your dates all wrong.

The significantly higher prices for housing, cars, fuel, food, etc. pretty much obliterate the higher median wage.

the only automatic weapons that US citizens can own legally with a class-3 license are the ones manufactured prior to 1986, so you are right in that there is a limited supply of them.

But at least you can buy roo meat in supermarkets for decent prices.

That's in part due to all the California refugees that live in the Austin area.

lol Far from it. http://mercatus.org/sites/defa... BTW, the "trust fund" is just special bonds currently held by the US Treasury. Those bonds are then sold along with the regular Treasury bonds that are issued to make up the regular "national debt".

and once all the images that's on a disc are not linked to anything anymore, it can be shredded. Facebook may also have a plan to perodically copy data from older bluray discs to newer ones. When that is done, they can just copy the images that have links to the new disc.

That may be true unless you are looking for speed & agility to replace what the Navy and Air Force need it for or survivability while attacking ground targets like the A-10. It is supposed to match the F-16 manueverability and acceleration, but according to the test pilot report, it can't. In IMHO, instead of a fighter that "a jack of all trades, master of none", it would have been better to design different airframes for different roles, but have common subsystems where possible so you can have a common supply chain. Let the Marines have their STOVL aircraft that they think they need so badly, but don't cripple the other services. If the Chinese can make a F-35 clone, but without the problems brought on by having an airframe that can handle STOVL capability, Lockheed should be able to do it too.

Yes. He wants to be remembered as a "good guy" who funded things "to make the world better", not the BSOD, computer viruses, and all things Microsoft that people had to put up with during his tenure at the company.

I'm sure the "love and commitment" crap got some people warm and fuzzy, but as far as I know, Federal laws don't care if one is in love or committed to the person that they married. The only reason the Feds care whether a person is married or not is give them access to a variety of benefits/protections that lawmakers have created over the years. This opens the door for more people to have reduced income taxes, eliminated inheritance taxes, Social Security death benefits, etc, etc.

What upsets many people about this is that they view marriage as a religious institution and feel the government shouldn't be involved with it at all. What other instances are govt benefits tied to a religious ritual? IMHO, a better way to settle this issue would be to purge Federal law of anything related to marriage and have the government institutions only recognize civil unions. That allows the govt to define who is eligible for civil unions, lets the religions decide terms of what they call marriage, and eliminates any potential church/state contention which is the root of most of the opposition. It's what Mexico does: people can get a civil union, religious marriage, or both (potential for two anniversaries and two parties).

No push to train low income girls to become mechanics, welders, machinists, or sort of manufacturing skills?

That can be addressed by recycling the fuel, but IIRC, there are weapons treaties that complicate that. Coal use emits more radioactive material into the environment than what is used by the nuclear power industry, so I wouldn't say that it doesn't have a radioactive waste problem. It's a different problem. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/M...

That's why it's located where it is. If you have nothing better to do, you better just study and/or do the other two activities.