Gaf The Horse With Tears

Right about the time that bans on ownership were inacted in Washington DC and Chicago.

I don't argue everything with everyone. When someome spouts off misinformation, I correct them. If they choose to be argumentative, thats on them.

Actually, that was the crossbow, hence "the Church" banning the common man from owning a crossbow.

Excuse me? I'm pretty sure you are dead wrong about automatic weapons. As far as I know, it takes a Class 3 collectors lic. to own an automatic weapon and that my friend, is not something just anyone can get.

Switzerland?

Gun rights extended by Supreme Court WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court held Monday that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live, advancing a recent trend by the John Roberts-led bench to embrace gun rights. By a 5-4 vote, the justices cast doubt on handgun bans in the Chicago area, but signaled that some limitations on the Constitution's "right to keep and bear arms" could survive legal challenges. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court, said that the Second Amendment right "applies equally to the federal government and the states."

Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging NEW ORLEANS - The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico. The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has concerns about where the dredging is being done. Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, who was one of the most vocal advocates of the dredging plan, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama, pleading for the work to continue. Nungesser said the government has asked crews to move the dredging site two more miles farther off the coastline. "Once again, our government resource agencies, which are intended to protect us, are now leaving us vulnerable to the destruction of our coastline and marshes by the impending oil," Nungesser wrote to Obama. "Furthermore, with the threat of hurricanes or tropical storms, we are being put at an increased risk for devastation to our area from the intrusion of oil. Nungesser has asked for the dredging to continue for the next seven days, the amount of time it would take to move the dredging operations two miles and out resume work. Work is scheduled to halt at midnight Wednesday. The California dredge located off the Chandelier Islands has pumped more than 50,000 cubic yards of material daily to create a sand berm, according to Plaquemines Parish officials. Nungesser's letter includes an emotional plea to the president. "Please don't let them shut this dredge down," he wrote. "This requires your immediate attention!"

Deepwater Horizen was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries for R&B Falcon. R&B Falcon sold it to Transocean Ltd.. Transocean leased the rig to BP Exploration. Haliburton's only involvement, though large, was in supplying and overseeing the pouring the cement for the wellhead (which, to cut that off, is not what failed). No, I don't like Obama, I just wish he didn't give me more reason to dislike him every day. His detached and lackadaisy response to this disaster is just adding more fuel to my dislike of the man.

To say the least.

Make up your mind... are you for or against Net Nuetrality? Your ever changing views on it are confusing to me.

They should sue... Obama, The EPA and Homeland security. You know, the ones that keep throwing red tape at every attempt to clean up the mess. Please, for the love of all that is good, try to defend Obama's response to this mess. and while we are talking paid lackeys for the oil companys... Do you know how much money Obama gets/got from BP? Do you know who the biggest supporter/lobbiest is for his Cap and Trade bill?

Exactly, this was designed for use in South Africa to be exact... where rape is almost culturally accepted. 1.19538 rapes per 1,000 people happen there every year. By contrast... 0.301318 per 1,000 people in the USA... 0.733089 per 1,000 people in Canada.

Deepwater Drilling Ban Lifted by New Orleans Federal Judge A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Drilling services shares jumped on the news. Obama temporarily halted all drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet on May 27 to give a presidential commission time to study improvements in the safety of offshore operations. More than a dozen Louisiana offshore service and supply companies sued U.S. regulators to lift the ban. The U.S. said it will appeal the decision. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman today granted a preliminary injunction, halting the moratorium. He also “immediately prohibited” the U.S. from enforcing the ban. Government lawyers told Feldman that ban was based on findings in a U.S. report following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig off the Louisiana coast in April. “The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium,” Feldman said in his 22-page decision. “The blanket moratorium, with no parameters, seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger.” Separate Order “The court cannot substitute its judgment for that of the agency, but the agency must ‘cogently explain why it has exercised its discretion in a given manner,’” Feldman said, citing a previous ruling. “It has not done so.” Feldman in a separate order today “immediately prohibited” the U.S. from enforcing the drilling moratorium, finding the offshore companies would otherwise incur “irreparable harm.” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that “continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened does not make any sense.” Transocean Ltd., which leased the Deepwater Horizon to BP Plc, jumped as much as 3.5 percent in New York trading after the decision was announced. Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc., which brought the suit, surged as much as 11 percent. The U.S. argued that the moratorium was necessary to assure public safety. “We need to make sure deepwater drilling is as safe as we thought it was the day before this incident,” Brian Collins, a lawyer for the government, told Feldman in a court hearing June 21. “It is crucial to take the time because to fail to do so would be to gamble with the long-term future of this region.” Biggest Quantity BP has two pipes collecting oil and gas from the ocean floor. They collected 25,830 barrels of oil yesterday, the biggest quantity diverted from the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 spill began, London-based BP said in a statement. BP spokesman David Nicholas declined to comment on the ruling, saying the company was not a party to the case. Lawyers for the drilling companies told Feldman the moratorium illegally sidesteps a required industry comment period. They also said regulators failed to tell Obama that all active deepwater rigs passed an immediate re-inspection after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, with only two rigs reporting minor violations and the rest getting approval to continue operations. Henry Dart, special counsel for the Louisiana attorney general, told Feldman that federal regulators failed to consult with state officials about the impact of the drilling ban, allegedly violating U.S. law. Jobs in Danger “Even after the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, the government only shut down the airlines for three days,” Louisiana said in court papers seeking to lift the ban. Lawyers for the state and oilfield companies told Feldman that the ban could cost as many as 20,000 jobs if the moratorium lasted 18 months. “The defendants trivialize such losses by characterizing them as merely a small percentage of the drilling rigs affected, but it does not follow that this will somehow reduce the convincing harm suffered,” Feldman said. He said the economic impacts of the ban would “clearly ripple throughout the economy of this region.” Feldman granted the injunction after finding it likely the oilfield companies will succeed in proving “the agency’s decision was arbitrary and capricious,” which violates federal law governing policy decisions. ‘Immeasurable’ Effect “An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in depths over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in the country,” Feldman said. “Today’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman is an important step in returning thousands of oil service workers to their jobs,” Royal Dutch Shell Plc spokesman Bill Tanner said in an e-mailed statement. “Shell remains confident in its expertise and procedures to safely drill and complete deepwater wells.” Shell’s safety standards often exceed regulatory requirements and include including a rigorous training program for well engineers, Tanner said. Kjersti Torgersen, a spokeswoman for Statoil ASA in Houston, did not immediately respond to a telephone call seeking comment. Todd M. Hornbeck, CEO of Hornbeck Offshore, didn’t immediately return a call for comment. Little Change Realistically, not a lot has changed, said Jud Bailey, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. in Houston. “It’s a small victory for the industry, but clearly the administration has dug in its heels and is going to try to keep this moratorium, come hell or high water,” Bailey said today in a telephone interview. “Investors, as it relates to the drillers, are for the most part staying away. There’s too much uncertainty, too much headline risk.” Bailey said he doesn’t think many operators would run out and immediately try to resume operations. “You run the risk of this getting overturned by the appellate court,” he said. The case is Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar, 2:10-cv-01663, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans).

Abortion, drug laws, marrige laws and the list goes on. Most of my views are actually left of center it just doesn;t appear that way on DGN because a message board limits true conversation/expression of ideals and most of the people on here are so far left that they think the Center is the far right. I am only to the Right of Center on issues that deal with money and Government intervention in our lives.

You know, I'm pretty conservative on many issues... kinda liberal on a few too... but I don't think my dislike of soccer is connected. I don't much care for any sport if I am a spectator. Now, if I get to play, I'm down for just about any sport. Except rugby, I'm too old to play that.

Let me less vague... Your hate speech gets old. I get sick of the hate speech aimed at Christanity and the acceptance that hate speech gets. If it were any other religion getting so much hate speech aimed at it you would all be up in arms... but against Christian everything is on the table. Perhaps I should start a thread about the faithlessness of the Unitarian Universalism church. I could go on for days about how stupid modern Wicca is. Oh thats right, there was the "burning time" that accounts for the lack of histirical evidence that Wicca existed before 1952. We can just ignore that there is no evidence of the Burning time either... I'm just going to be content in the knowledge that I won't have to deal with you or your type in the after life. Oh, so your not confused... I'm talking to Marc.

Whats it like to live in a world where facts and reality have no bearing?

and sad that so many find humor in it.

The landscape may be changing and Apple will hit the new walls they have created eventually. Those walls being the fact that poor prople want technology too. I've read the market analysis for why Apple made record profits when everyone else had marginal growth... it's attributed to the fact that Apple never once lowered thier price to match the recesion. Greed and elitism has a price. Maybe someday Apple will get a clue and make a product for everyone and give up thier iron fist control (all the while saying they are open source). Until then, they will keep raping the pockets of people who care more about how an device looks than how it functions and what you can do with it.

Thats not what you just said... and by your own previous posts, they don't make money from the PC market... they get the lion's share of thier profits from Iphones and Ipods. You are contridicting yourself. Even still... he may have done with a smile on his face... but Steve has admitted to loosing the war. BTW.. Apple stocks are worth more than Microsoft stocks.. thats not market share. Apple still amounts to less than 8% of the market.

June 2, 2010 during his speech at D8.

Dude, Steve Jobs admits Apples lost...

I didn't imply that at all. I implyed that as the Mac user base goes up, so goes the threat level to the Mac OS. It's a fact of reality. Mac OS lost the OS war the day it became Unix. Mac lost the hardware battle the day it started using Intel CPUs and chipsets. End of discusion.

Your link does not work. NVM.. working now... "chief among them the fact that there are far fewer Macs in the world than there are Windows PCs. As a result, most malicious code writers choose to target Windows so that they can have a much wider impact." Did you miss that part? "There will probably never be the same breadth of effort to target Mac OS X as there is with Windows. As such, there will probably always be some security by obscurity." Or that one? I noticed you didn't actually quote the article you linked.

You might was well switch now... the ONLY reason there are not as many viruses for and exploits against the Mac OS is because so few people use it.