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No, it's not, I agree. I'm just pokin' a little fun at the use of the phrase "sovereign U.S. soil" as if the use of the word "sovereign" is supposed to mean something special, 'cause it doesn't. Sounds kewl, tho. :D But when you use it, you're restricting things to not just US soil, but only...

I'm not amazed at all. It was murder, and it was premeditated by conspiracy. "Gardner was convicted of the fatal shooting death of Utah attorney Michael J. Burdell during an escape attempt and shootout at the old Metropolitan Hall of Justice in downtown Salt Lake City on April 2, 1985. He...

There is actually an argument now that he shouldn't be put to death at this point, after 25 years on Death Row, because at this point doing so would be cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not against the death penalty, but I do know that far too many innocent people have been found guilty and...

No need to go all super uber patriotic drama queen there with the "sovereign U.S. soil" superlative thing, Leo. Just plain "in the country" would be fine. Sovereignty refers to a governing authority, and if someone runs a red light or whatever in the United States, but is on Indian Land, that...

Pretty much, yeah, but not exactly, since that statement only considers "place" and doesn't address "time". For example, you could be First Out on the board, 50 miles from the pickup, and the Second Out could be 2 miles from the pickup. The "closest truck" scenario gives the load to the Second...

I don't have a problem with racial profiling in and of itself. It's a good tool for law enforcement to use. For example, if you're looking for an Islamic terrorist, detaining, searching and questioning a blue-eyed blond Scandinavian is probably a waste of time. Equally, if you're looking for...

Try sticking 5 pallets under freight that's already 68 inches tall. I have had it happen a couple of times where I was delivering to a dock high facility, and the only way to get the freight out was to place an empty pallet on top of the freight, then secure the empty top pallet to the bottom...

"I don't know about the trumping part, but one thing that consistently helps is being equipped, qualified and willing to haul the loads that are available to haul." Being in the right place at the right time assumes the comparison of apples to apples, not comparing, say, a cube van to a refer...

I came down to I-495 and then to US 50 and on into the District from there. Last year I delivered something to the Mayflower Hotel, which was on Connecticut. I remember it because I picked up in Connecticut and delivered to Connecticut. :) I'm in a van, but I don't recall noticing that that...

"My pastor and sunday school teacher have no interest on controlling me for its own sake, or for money, or any other temporal thing. They believe that the Bible accurately recounts God's standards, that there are blessing for obedience and penalties for disobedience. They then tell me...

It wasn't like they were paddling the North Atlantic from New England to old England. They were in Provincetown Bay off Cape Cod. A lot of people do that every day. Whale watching via canoe is pretty popular up there as well as over in Vancouver Bay, and generally pretty safe. It's rare for a...

That's just it, though, they aren't carving out an exception and we absolutely have Minority Report-esque thought crime laws. I used the Patriot Act simply as being one of the most obvious and most well known example of it. Temptation isn't specifically mentioned as it is wholly understood and...

That's what I thought at first, too. But of course, to whales, we all look alike.

That's because those realities, at least the ones regarding hunting, are realized by people who mostly live in areas where hunting doesn't happen at all, on the east coast, in the cities. You don't have to go back only to 1957, you can go back to 1907, and the vast majority of school children in...

Ironic isn't it that Jack, Johnny, Mark, Jeffery, Billy and Pedro all grew up to be helicopter parents who's overreactions caused the attitudes and laws which we live with today.

I was probably nekkid, you know. I'll generally get dressed for a knock, tho. Yeah, I know, with those window coverings it's hard to know if I'm asleep or just inside playin' on the computer. Oh, this is a locations thread. Two weeks ago I was in Oregon, then Idaho then Utah then Nevada then...

Has anybody ever seen Turtle and Greg in the same place at the same time? hhhhmmmmm..... I wonder....

The Cape and Islands District Attorney's office is investigating. Man, what was that whale thinking? Who does he think he is, Charles Bronson or something? That whale is soooo in trouble.