Would it get your attention if you smelled heating gas near your stove?

Smelling that, like smelling gas near a car, means something is wrong...and possibly about to get wronger.

This. Some people microwave and some people cook.

If it didn't contain explosives, they couldn't detonate it. They blew it up by detonating something else next to it.

Don't let the door...

And the award for Worst Spellchecker of 2015 goes to...

What does that have to do with empowerment?

No...because they feel that empowerment slipping away, and they fear payback.

Why do I have a hunch you aren't a lawyer?

One exercise I assign in some of my classes is to estimate the probability that a given bottle of Dasani contains water peed by Oliver Cromwell...

In the same vein, if you made a perfect scale model of the Earth the size of a billiard ball, it would almost meet manufacturing standards for a billiard ball.

The only challenge is the size of the checks. These aircraft have been restored and maintained just as they were in the 1940's -- the only difference is that it's been done by well-paid commercial mechanics making a lot more than the enlisted mechanics who did it in the 1940's, or by retirees doing it for the love of it. The money comes from either wealthy enthusiasts or preservation groups that sell tickets to airshows.

Basically, a few thousand gallons of gasoline. The airplanes are privately owned.

As I see it, the victim has no special right to see the criminal punished -- except to the extent all of us do. Maybe the cops should pull a few people off the doobie squad and assign them to do some crime fighting.

...has copies of the rituals of a bunch of fraternities/sororities. Dunno if they have this one.

What tweak13 said: gubmints can't shut down hams, but contracts can. And if you don't like the provisions of the contract, you have the option of building your house in a subdivision where they don't have an HOA. I believe there are some in Mississippi.