I don't know what will be enough to win lawsuits, but it seems to me that 10/16 under the circumstances was pretty good, and the decision to fire when drawn upon was 100% correct. The liability question seems to me rather whether they initiated the confrontation and were able to choose their lines o...

Bill Glasheen wrote:My only quibble is with the chicken-and-egg thinking.

Good point.

I think the analysis in the first clip of Obama's way of thinking is spot on--the attack on individualist thinking wasn't developed, nor was it needed to support the thesis that some functions are better performed by government and that these functions support business and help to create opportuniti...

Seems to be working now.

Article 1, Section 7 All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to t...

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Bill Glasheen wrote:But they're on it.

Not to worry. In the meantime I've just been debating with myself instead. It's been spirited, but we are approaching agreement.

Kind of hard to carry on a conversation with the current limitations.

I share Bill's amusement over the equivocation of testing positive for marijuana and cheating/doping.

On the subject of IOC drug testing and enforcement, Andreea Raducan's case is an interesting one.

Sorry. I was only commenting on a side-matter that resonated with me. I knew it wasn't where you were headed.

Fascinating. I've been researching my family tree on Ancestry.com recently, and it turns out that I come from an incredibly consistent line of farmers tracing back in virtually every path to colonists, mostly British colonists but also some from New Amsterdam who arrived in the early 17th century. I...

It's interesting that the Republicans are selecting a candidate who is lacking experience in the same areas for which Obama was so heavily criticized in 2008, namely foreign affairs and military. Yes, but which candidate should the party have chosen based on these considerations? And if there reall...

So in some respects I agree with you I wasn't really trying to encapsulate a point of view by my choice of words there, just acknowledging that it looks somewhat different from what the "mainstream" is doing. I think you may be on to something. Like all men, Kanei lived in a certain time,...

Master Toyama was a video inspiration to me. When I first saw a video of him, with only my Shorin Ryu background some months before beginning my training in Uechi-Ryu, I thought his performance weird-looking. After studying Uechi Ryu for awhile, however, I guess my thinking changed in some profound ...

Van Therein lies a thought which puts the Uechi version of Iron Shirt training in perspective. It helps, but it isn't the be-all, end-all of surviving an encounter. . IMO it's less about taking a shot and more about tempering the weapons which will be in the thick of the chaos of kinetic energy. . ...