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It's another week and another chance for TEPCO to embarrass itself at the Fukushima power plant. Sometime on Monday morning, the cooling pump for the reactors shut down suddenly. Suddenly. Without warning. Mechanical failure or some freak accident, right? Nope. Some worker just pushed the off...

The redundancy of of John and Water Closet is exactly what I think of whenever I see your name. :D You can't be discriminated against at a motel for being white, male, straight, for having long hair, or a beard, but they can discriminate against you if you are a smoker.

In lieu of cash, I'd pay real popcorn to see that.

I don't think anyone has questioned that a fetus is alive. The question is whether a fetus is a baby or a child or a person. That answer seems obvious.

One factor that should be considered is some carriers have contracts with customers which make it so the carrier cannot say no to a load from that customer. Sometimes this is written expressly into the contract, and sometimes the carrier's acceptance rating affects which and how many loads that...

No, it doesn't. But a historical track record of turning them down might. That's because the Fed is the personification of pure evil and it isn't surprising that that evil began to manifest itself with former Roberts contractors. Well, the market and competition sets the price. The...

Without realizing it, you helped make my point. Without pressure or forces from who? The company? What company? If you are independent, as you view it, then there is no company from which pressure or forces can be exerted. You are confusing "independent contractor" status with that of "total...

Exactly. Just because there are consequences to turning down a load doesn't mean that it's forced dispatch or has somehow crossed a line. Rate acceptance simply makes you responsible for your actions. Carriers will tend to use contractors who are reliable and they can count on. Those contractors...

Everyone, someone, person... everything you just said is in the context of personhood, of which a fetus is not. Against their will... A fetus does not have the faculty of conscious deliberate action, the power of control the mind has over its actions. Only the pregnant mother has the power of...

Horse hockey. Being contracted to perform specific duties does not limit you solely to those duties. And it certainly doesn't prevent you from exercising your First Amendment rights. Their only redress is to fire me and not allow me to photograph the wedding. Yeah, that would hurt. Deliberately...

I'm also a little unsure of what "the desires of the general electorate" is supposed to mean. RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Public Approval of Health Care Law

The Affordable Care Act was voted on and passed (A.K.A., rammed down America's throat) as a single bill that stood on it's own. It should be repealed the same way, in a single bill, standing on its own, and not as part of an amendment to some other unrelated bill.

The signs you see in restaurants do not apply to anyone protected under the Civil Rights Act. They cannot refuse service to someone based on race, color, creed or national origin. They can, however, refuse service to people for un-arbitrary reasons, where the customer’s presence in the...

No, not at all. They wouldn't see me as either, since they're already familiar with my work and they would know, unquestionably, that what I said was to make a point. If they wanted to push things to make their point and try to force me to photograph their wedding, then they could be assured of...

I would think it stands for Psalm 127

If LRE is ever shot, you're now at the very top of a very long list of suspects. :D

It's not about doing business with someone, it's about winning. If it was about doing business, they would simply take their business elsewhere. It's about making a point, about forcing people to accept gays as being normal, correct and proper, same as everyone else. It's about winning with the...

Nope, it's got nothing to do with Treasury money or anything like that, it's pure politics. From another article: South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R) offered to use state employees to keep Mount Rushmore open, but was rebuffed by park officials. Other governors have offered state funds to...

I've never met a woman who has had an abortion who thought her unborn child was meaningless.