It wasn't a factor in my decision to get it, but it was a nice perk that the Bersa Thunder .380 I got looked sorta like James Bond's PPK.
Walther PPK on left, Bersa Thunder on right.
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It wasn't a factor in my decision to get it, but it was a nice perk that the Bersa Thunder .380 I got looked sorta like James Bond's PPK.
Walther PPK on left, Bersa Thunder on right.
gangleri2001
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He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives -- and Obamacare is front and center in that."
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Rick Santorum on Nelson Mandela
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Rick Santorum on Nelson Mandela
hobbsyoyo
Deity
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are you effing serious? You made that up right?
Well, I guess an apartheid reference is better than another holocaust reference.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Clear case of fanatical partisanshipness in desperate need of hobbies.
I get a lot of these quotes from the Daily Doonesbury sight, which is run by Slate. So I'm assuming they're legit.
http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip
But any given quote can be googled to see if it shows up elsewhere.
http://www.catholicbandita.com/rick-santorum-honors-the-human-struggle-against-injustice/
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/rick_santorum_africanist048085.php
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I severely hope this was the year 2004 publication date talking, and not an intense ignorance of the significance of basic research. Also, I somehow found this gem under a sub-section titled "The Military-Industrial Complex" for whatever reason.
"So great was the prestige of science, and of physics in particular, that some very large and expensive projects were undertaken even though they seemed far removed from immediate payoffs. In 1990 the space shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble telescope, a $1.5 billion project designed to provide the clearest pictures yet of the universe. Its 94.5-inch (2.4 m) polished mirror turned out to be faulty, but three years later astronauts added corrective optics while the telescope was still in orbit. It was a scientific instrument directly in line with the private-funded telescopes of the late nineteenth century. By no means all defense-related research and development ended in wasteful extravagance"
-Carroll Pursell, Science and Technology, A Companion to 20th-Century America
"So great was the prestige of science, and of physics in particular, that some very large and expensive projects were undertaken even though they seemed far removed from immediate payoffs. In 1990 the space shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble telescope, a $1.5 billion project designed to provide the clearest pictures yet of the universe. Its 94.5-inch (2.4 m) polished mirror turned out to be faulty, but three years later astronauts added corrective optics while the telescope was still in orbit. It was a scientific instrument directly in line with the private-funded telescopes of the late nineteenth century. By no means all defense-related research and development ended in wasteful extravagance"
-Carroll Pursell, Science and Technology, A Companion to 20th-Century America
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Yes, what did the HST ever do for us other than pretty desktop wallpapers? Screw that waste of money, that "wasteful extravagance" as Professor Purnell indicates.
Well that really depends on whether you think understanding the environment you live in is stupid. Advances in astronomy can confirm or deny understandings of physics. Understandings of physics underpins technologies of all sorts. Maybe try to get uppi or tokala or one of our other resident physicists here to try and explain how that works.
Borachio
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Hmm. Yeah.
I do kind of see what he means, though. If you allow them (in the sense of not helping them to find work) to remain claiming benefit for that long, they are highly likely to never find employment.
Any potential employer is likely to think there's something wrong with someone who's been out of work for that long a time.
And the person's self-esteem is going to plummet to the extent they think they're not deserving of employment.
It's all a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Of course, simply stopping paying them unemployment benefit, by itself, isn't going to do anything but make life even more difficult.
I do kind of see what he means, though. If you allow them (in the sense of not helping them to find work) to remain claiming benefit for that long, they are highly likely to never find employment.
Any potential employer is likely to think there's something wrong with someone who's been out of work for that long a time.
And the person's self-esteem is going to plummet to the extent they think they're not deserving of employment.
It's all a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Of course, simply stopping paying them unemployment benefit, by itself, isn't going to do anything but make life even more difficult.
The problem is that he's parroting the supply side lunacy. It's not the unemployment benefits that cause there to be not enough jobs for everyone looking. It's the lack of jobs that cause people to be unemployed.
I don't give a crap about supply-side lunacy or whatever. I don't think I should have to be helping support someone look for a job for two friggin' years.
Feel free to take that and post it in the great quotes thread. Be sure to credit me with it.
Feel free to take that and post it in the great quotes thread. Be sure to credit me with it.
ReindeerThistle
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bh, those workers have already paid that money. It's a racket. After all, you and I pay for billions in tax breaks to GE, and countless bigger parasites....
"Justice Roberts' pen and Obamacare have done more damage to the USA than the swords of the Nazis, Soviets and terrorists combined."
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NC state Sen. Rob Rucho, sponsor of a bill to prevent his state from setting up a health insurance exchange or participating in Medicaid expansio
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NC state Sen. Rob Rucho, sponsor of a bill to prevent his state from setting up a health insurance exchange or participating in Medicaid expansio
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It makes sense if "swords" is literal.
