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Agreed. And it's not like it was an accident either. Europe had lots of very old copper statues when the Statue of Liberty was built, all of them bright green. Oxidation was an expected, planned, and welcomed phenomenon.

Yeah, after I finished I realized that I had kinda lost my point in the midst of a hypothetical example. All I was trying to say was that there are plenty of easy ways that, in an emergency situation, the Federal government could protect education as a national interest without spending nearly...

According to the internets (take it for what its worth) about 4 years for the copper to lose its shine and about 20 years to turn fully green.

FEMA was briefly a cabinet level position, during Clinton's second term only. It was originally formed as a HUD agency, then operated as an independent Federal agency for many years. Considering it's role as an "as needed," multifaceted agency, that was probably its most efficient structure...

All three of these assume that the federal government should be in the business of providing school funding from federal taxes at all, which I've argued they shouldn't be. Abolishing the DOE should go hand-in-hand with abolishing federal school funding, making this a moot point. You're...

I doubt this is the "referendum" on Obama's policies that media is making it out to be. More likely I would say that this shows how totally unmotivated and unenthusiastic the Democratic party has become under their current leadership. A district with a 3-to-1 majority of registered Democrats...

The stuff produced by Penthouse tends to be a little milder than average and they try a little harder to get decent looking guys. I know my wife enjoys most of their DVD's. You might try something in their catalog.

Rules? Boundaries? Communication? Bah. Just jump in there and start fucking. So what if your friend starts sucking your dick? You had to know it would happen eventually.

Vaginal rejuvenation isn't always just an issue of appearance. For some girls, the pinching, stretching, and chafing caused by oversized outer labia can cause significant discomfort during sex. For them, a quick snip and few stitches makes a lot of sense.

I'm kinda ashamed to know the answer to a couple of these. That's what you get with having sisters (and gay friends) I suppose.

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Of course I recognize the amendments. As adeptblue stated, the process for amending the constitution is itself constitutional and, in fact, one of the constitutions greatest strengths. Personally, I think you misinterpret what all these conservative "whack jobs" are saying. Arguing for the...

As a "constitutional conservative," I was initially going to chime in on this. But all you've done is construct a giant straw man argument, and there's no point trying to debate against a figment of your imagination. Cite an example of this supposed hypocrisy by Michelle Bachmann and I'll be...

You're comparing apples and oranges. If they were making an exact biography Dan Strzempka and casting Morgan Freeman for the part, that would be one thing. But from the looks of it, they're openly fictionalizing this story. This isn't the story of Dan Strzempka. It's the story of a completely...

Oh, absolutely. I'm not saying it should done tomorrow. Just that it should be done and we should start now with the planning. Even if we decided to move forward with dissolving the Department of Education and Federal education funding immediately, it would probably take until at least 2013 to...

Except that it's not working. Education in the U.S. continues to decline in quality compared to the rest of the world, giving corporations more and more incentive to take jobs overseas. You say we should have a Department of Education because we'll look bad if we don't. But we already look bad...

Saying that it plays DVD-R simply means it will read the DVD-R discs. Unless it says otherwise, the files burned onto those discs still need to be MPEG-2 transport streams (aka .vob files) in a VIDEO_TS folder. To create those, you'll need a piece of DVD authoring software to convert your movie...

I agree with Bachmann. The Federal government has no business involving itself in education. It is a state issue pure and simple. Eliminate the DOE and all education grants, and then lower the Federal income tax across the board accordingly. If states need more money to pay for education...

Chances are they're all using the exact same hardware inside. Which means that the quality of the device (and it's usefulness to you) is all about the drivers. Before you buy anything, check the manufacturer's webpage and make sure they have current drivers for your exact operating system. Since...

Wait... a pornstar making their hair something close to its natural color? That's crazy talk. Crazy I tell you.

Agreed. Not only do they have good prices, but they're trustworthy too. I had a friend in college who bought a flatbed scanner from them. When it arrive the box was mangled in shipping and the glass on the scanner was shattered. He called them to complain and before he knew it, not only had they...

Looks great aside from the typo in the last sentence of the "Requirements" paragraph [/grammar-****].

A generator would do the job too and probably only cost a little more. But then you have to deal with fuel and exhaust and making sure to turn it on when the power goes out (problematic if she's not home when the power goes out). It's more versatile, but probably less effective for what she needs.

Re: Busty ice dancer - Anna Semenovich Hehehe... SEMENovich. But seriously... super-hot. Thanks! :thumbsup:

There were two different girls I dated that were amazing, but I broke up with because they had issues, one with *******, the other with diagnosed OCD. I'm reasonably confident I did the right thing by cutting them loose, and I absolutely love the woman I married. But I still think about them...

Sorry to hear about your ***'s basement. Does she know that they sell battery-backup sump pumps that turn on when the power goes out? They cost about $200-$300 and run for 6-8 hours off a single battery (you can buy spare batteries to add more time). If this is becoming a recurring problem, it...

The difference in price is nothing more than BestBuy's exorbitant mark-up. I haven't bought a cable at an electronics store in at least 15 years. Online is always cheaper and 99.9% of the time results in the exact same cable. Don't fall for that "gold-plated connectors," "super-high quality...

Make sure that you duct tape the baby's mouth shut but repeatedly insist that it drowned in a pool :facepalm:

Hmm... so the key to having happy residents is to: 1) Be paradise on earth. 2) Have near-zero unemployment 3) Pay your residents to live there. Got it.

For Obama (or anyone else) to consider Libya a victory would be a huge "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" blunder. All we've done is take a country with a long history of sponsoring terrorism and 1) ***** them into a civil war, 2) bomb their leadership out of existence, 3) hand them massive quantities of...

I understand and agree with a policy of doing "triage" on the case load to put the highest priority, most dangerous illegals at the top of the list. But simply giving up on the non-violent offenders and, especially, announcing it to the public is simply wrong. An utter failure of the Executive...

Does it look like this:

Real and large is always better than fake and large. But real and small may not necessarily be better than fake and large. That's a case-by-case thing.

It also only has the equivalent of about 256 neurons, which puts it around the same intelligence as a nematode. Even following Moore's Law, we've still got at least 56 years before we're living in sewers fighting off our machine overlords.

I'm having trouble tracking down the 2010 bill that she voted against, but here's the full text of the 2009 bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:4:./temp/~c111vlSs4x:: No riders. No pork. Just one sentence raising the debt limit to $12.394 trillion. Methinks Ms. Giffords is guilty...

So it was "for the good of the American people" for the U.S. to default twice before, but not now? :wtf:

My guess: spread out over the entire life of the thread in question, there were 3 pages of deleted posts. When the database calculates the total number of pages in the thread, it includes the deleted posts, but then it calculates your current page, it omits them. Thus, it appears that there was...

I knew someone who developed cellulitis on her face from just a mosquito bite. Just about any break in the skin can create an opening for it. It's becoming really common among athletes who get scraped up and then use shared locker rooms where staph is rampant. You can try using antibiotics on...

The red gem on her palm started glowing.

"This is truly amazing. A portable television studio. No wonder your President has to be an actor. He's gotta look good on television." As true today as it was in 1985... or... 1955... or... whatever.

Big, natural tits are a sensory experience. The sight of them moving on her chest. The sound of them slapping against her body. The feel of them in your hands. They add another dimension to the encounter, whether it's real or imagined. I also appreciate the way that they make a woman look...

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Why should they? Straight porn performers get tested more often than the general population, share their test results with their sexual partners more often than the general population, keep better records of their sexual partners than the general population, and probably voluntarily wear condoms...

Let's not forget that there's a 2002 Mercury Cougar under the body of that thing. That's 170 horses of pure Detroit muscle right there :banger:

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It already is legal for a handful of people to opt out of Social Security. Anybody who 1) pays self-employment tax (SECA rather than FICA), and 2) belongs to a religious group that has a moral objection to either Social Security or Medicare can submit a waver opting out of paying for and...

It's not just the climate that's a deterrent, but the type of work that's available. It's all oil rigs and coal mines. Hard, dirty labor working 12 hr shift in the types of **** holes that'll reduce your life expectancy by 20 years, assuming you survive the first year doing it. I know a guy who...

How has the recent recession in the U.S. (and many other places) effected the amount of content you're producing and how much you pay your talent? And, if you're willing to share, what are your current pay rates for male and female talent, both new and more experienced?

Pulp Fiction may be overrated, but I can't stand Ray Liotta's **** poor acting in Goodfella's. Remove him and the movie's pretty good. But with him... it's almost unwatchable.

I'm not all that familiar with British newspapers, but I'm going to take a guess that the Metro is not one of Great Britain's finer examples of journalism, considering that the writer of the article clearly does not grasp the difference between "diameter" and "circumference," which I'm pretty...