Oh Shoot

Guy jumps off the Empire State Building. As he dropped by each floor, folks heard him saying, "So far, so good!"

Damn, is your sarcasm/irony sensor broken, too?!! - OS

Whoosh? You were as "optimistic" as Erik's statement? - OS

So you also don't think that things like benefits from social security, military, inheritance, life insurance, etc should be there in the first place? Problem is, you can't make a contract that the government will honor regarding such matters as I mentioned in your point 1. A guy can't make a contract with another guy to receive the survivor's social security benefits, for one quick example. And the two guys can't do the contract of "marriage" to make it happen either. Again, the concepts of "marriage" and "legal union" are going to have to be separated. Let religion honor the first and the state honor the second. - OS

Last election, all other candidates combined got 1.41%. Dunno if that counts write-ins. I suspect about the same this time, since the GOP/Dem polarization seems same if not greater. - OS

I love the optimism of the young. - OS

Because RP ran as Republican. Only one GOP candidate on ballot in general election. Only one Libertarian, one Constitutional, etc. Each party has to qualify in each state each election cycle, and much too late for a new party to qualify in any state. The Libertarian Party hasn't been on every state ballot every year either, btw. It's a state by state thing each election cycle if you don't get a certain % of vote in previous one, which I guess only the GOP and Dems do each time. - OS

Which one is the "short barreled rifle"? Kali law must be 26" or something? Little deja vu there though -- in '68 I lived in my car in Golden Gate Park and the Haight for a couple of weeks. Just had one .22 pistola stashed, though. - OS

Explain how less than 1% of the vote going to GJ is going to change anything? At all? - OS

Well, Reagan lost to the Guy who Lost to Carter. Turned out a good bit better next time around. - OS

Maybe until they go for something even higher -- the history books. - OS

The other bennnies are not because they are "married". It's because the government considers it a legal union. A man and a woman can have those legal advantages, many of which are federal. No other couple, regardless of how devoted, can have any of them. That will eventually been seen as discriminatory, if not unconstitutional via "pursuit of happiness" or some other principle. - OS

Because it'll make you hard? Maybe she'll suggest you buy two! - OS

So nobody should get survival benefits from military, social security, pension plans, life insurance policies, estate inheritance, a few right off that bat? Many more, too. Tax benefits are a tiny part of it, and I think for the most part have been equalized anyway. - OS

Why? Think it would have cost Bob the primary? Nah. And Lamar doesn't run for two more years. And chip shots at 2A won't unseat them, strict 2A unity among the Republican electorate ain't all that any more. - OS

Gotta separate this "marriage" thang from "legal union" thang if it's ever gonna get settled. As long as a man and a woman can have a legal union in the eyes of the state that gains them benefits over other mere "couples", then something will have to eventually give, and it will have to be federally mandated, since many of those benefits are federally bestowed. Hell, a gay man can marry a gay woman with no sex or procreation involved and gain those legal benefits, so I don't see ultimately that the "man/woman" distinction is going to hold up in jurisprudence. Once you settle the legality, whether a couple is "married" or not will be up to how the couple feels about it and/or how their professed religious institution feels about it. - OS

Well, there have been a collection of seed banks around the world for a good long while, started back in the 50's. Nuclear war fears was a big impetus. There are over a thousand of them around the world. One of the most consolidated and extensive ones, The Global Seed Bank started in 1984, new facility completed in 2008. http://en.wikipedia....lobal_Seed_Bank The very largest one, Millennium Seed Bank Project, actually concentrates on wild plants, didn't actually start until 2000, and only claims 10% of the world's species so far. Anyway, don't really see this a really new phenomenon or anything. Here's a most interesting early one I just saw: "Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) was a Russian geneticist and botanist who, through botanic-agronomic expeditions, collected seeds from all over the world. He set up one of the first seedbanks, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), which survived the 28-month Siege of Leningrad in World War II. It is now known as the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry. Several botanists starved to death rather than eat the collected seeds." - OS

Dunno, have to research. Hard to get around that alhough I'm pissed at the GOP, I'm terrified of the Dems. - OS

double tap

Here are Knox Sentinel unofficial returns for Knox County only, guessing about same state wide? http://www.knoxnews....ection-returns/ Overall got 41%, way higher than anyone else. - OS

Nope, hasn't proven to be so far and AFAIK you can buy access to the database yourself from the state. Some states have statute to prevent this, and one was tried in TN, but failed. - OS

Went up maybe 3 years ago. Old news, long standing controversy. It originally had street address, too! - OS

You obviously haven't followed Gutfeld, that's one of his trademarks. He'll often give a intentionally completely wrong attribution, like "Oslo, which is in Hawaii", and the like. He's quite hip to pop/rock music history. - OS

Unofficial returns in for Knox County, though highest among the challengers, Zach got less than 8%. Probably similar state wide? - OS

We're assuming OP's trying to send to a licensee?, If so sure, it's definitely an option, if you can get one to hassle with it. I think they have to go to trouble of logging the gun in and out and etc. I'll bet that Bill's Outpost in Maryville would be a likely choice for best deal. - OS