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  1. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    But, at least our innards are now grease-free! Food Wrapper Coating Found in Human Blood
  2. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    Because it's not the same thing. The legal rights would be, yes, absolutely, but there is a difference between a Marriage and a Civil Union, and it's a difference that comes from a long history of all societies that have had marriages. That's the primary reason that marriages are transferable...
  3. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    So the question becomes, why should the government have to do that, to change how they define marriage, simply to accommodate someone who wants to redefine the term, when they can just as easily add a second term that means the same thing in all respects, other than the traditional meaning as...
  4. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    Yeah, that must be it.
  5. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    At the risk of sounding redundant, well duh! The Bible condemns homosexuality as an abomination and Christians (and others) will not accept homosexuality as anything other than an abomination. And that's precisely why gays are going after the "M" word and a Civil Union is not acceptable to...
  6. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    Like I said, the right to marry as defined by the Supreme Court makes no fundamental provision for the context of gay marriage. It's not my interpretation, it's the Court's. And you are clearly not aware of your own ignorance as Associative Conditioning and guilt by association are indeed the...
  7. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    You can't without redefining the term. If you want to remove the religious aspect from it, you must first redefine what it means, since the origin of the term is based in religion. It may be ironic, but it's not an argument for taking their rituals, redefining them, and then forcing them back...
  8. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    Not in the context of gay marriage it's not, and the justices have spoken specifically to that issue in their ruling. The only people who try to use the Loving v Virginia ruling and apply it to gay marriage are gays. And every time it's been employed, the court has rejected it. We got a fallacy...
  9. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    That's pretty much it, right there. They can't have it, but they want it, therefore they want it. But, there significant problems in denying them gay marriage which are in fact, totally unfair - things like the legal responsibilities and protections that go along with a marriage. They should...
  10. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    Sometimes if you scorch the earth a little too much, The Firmament becomes your only sanctuary.
  11. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    The names may change, but the malady lingers on. No one can come up with a reason why the "M" word is a requisite.
  12. Turtle

    Desk top computer in a truck?

    It's really the wattage of the computer's power supply that matters, as the graphics card can't draw any more than the power supply will give it. So, if the computer has a 250-Watt power supply, you have to assume that it could draw that much all the time, and size the inverter accordingly, in...
  13. Turtle

    *&^%^ Speed Limiters!!

    There are certainly times when a tractor-trailer would need to accelerate in order to prevent a jackknife.
  14. Turtle

    Virtual Truck Stops

    Clearly, the Truck Stop list is one of a courtesy and not necessarily where you are supposed to go. Flying J's have really crappy food (well, the buffet is dangerous, but ordering off the menu isn't as bad), and they don't scan paperwork, two things that were obviously not taken into...
  15. Turtle

    I'm Bored: part 2.

    La Guadalapuna on Summer Ave where I-40 becomes Sam Cooper at the I-240 split is really good. Maybe the best Mexican restaurant in town. There's an On The Border out at Wolfchase, but that's in Bartlet on the other side of town. They have killer buffalo fajitas. El Porton on Germantown...
  16. Turtle

    Goodbye "Don't ask. Don't tell."

    You give me far too much credit on alias detection. Most others pick up on it far quicker than I do. As I've said before, I pay more attention to what was posted than to who posted it. But when someone else points it out, it doesn't take all that much research to figure out what's going on...
  17. Turtle

    Flu Schmu

    What's different is, this isn't flu season. It's hitting out-of-season. Flu season won't be here until the fall, late fall usually, so this one is likely to hang around and then come roaring back, possibly stronger and more virulent. That's exactly what happened in 1918.
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