Hey I sell booze for a living and I completely agree that so much of this stuff is bull feathers.  When customers come to my shop and wants a bottle of wine I will as some basic questions;

Red or white?

With or without food?

Country of origin?

Light or heavy?

How much do you want to spend?

With those basic questions and a knowledge of my stock I can almost always find something that pleases.

The other comment I get very often from customers is that they don't know that much about wine, I tell them not to worry, that's my job, as long as they know if they like it or not when they drink it, they are fine.

So much of the bull feathers about wine comes from everyone wanting to out do the other guy, and it is such BS.

Oh the stories I could tell....

Serious laugh out loud stuff right there, thanks!

I really enjoy this impressive young lady's voice, and her interpretation of various songs that she covers. Her original songs are also very nice, what a voice! I hope that she has a long and successful run!

LIKE!

I'll tell you what I think..... that's 7 minutes of my life I'd like back!

13/13 wow, that was easy.

Question #12:

What gas do most scientists believe causes temperatures in the atmosphere to rise?

... and here I thought scientists proved theories, I did not think they "Believed".

Really.....

Kind of like the FP-45 Liberator from 1942?

The only question to ask is "Mollie, why do you hate women so much?"

Yes I think the CPT showed restraint, I think that was commendable..... after Wu attacked him physically. 

I also think the CPT messed up, he dropped the ball. Unfortunately he mouthed off and pointed his finger in at Wu, which set Wu off. He should have just walked away. There is no way to win in this situation for the CPT.

The way things are these days if the CPT had dropped his shopping bag, after avoiding the first punch, and laid Wu out on the floor, or even if he had subdue  him without hitting him (easier said than done) then the Video would not be titled "Assaulted for being a soldier" it would have been titled "Minority Abused by Military" and the CPT's career would have been over.

You know what, that sucks, and it sucks hard, but that is what it is. 

The other thing is the CPT was there, and I'm going to respect his judgment call on his actions, maybe it was very obvious this Wu fellow was off his meds, maybe he has seen this Wu fellow around before and this is typical behaviour, but I'll trust the CPT's reaction.

I don't think that we ever get the full story, but once you realize that, you can sift through the info that is offers and learn more.

An MIT officer was shot and killed on campus......?

but.....but.... how could that happen, isn't it a "Gun Free Zone...?"

RIP the MIT cop.

Nice turn of phrase in the last line, made me laugh..... :)

Oh my, I just had a thought, what if a cheap burner cell phone was used to trigger the pressure cookers..... wow that would be a really big ban.....

I figured we'd tackle the scary looking pressure cookers first, then move on to the nail and ball bearing front. I do worry that the nail lobby is very strong in DC. Let's not even try to tackle the black bag ban, the black bag lobby plays really dirty.

Oh boy I see I'm following right after a Fred Cole pot stir post..... sigh... :)

On both occasions we were prepared, and knew what to do, and what not to do. 

Here in Tokyo I have a large Rubbermaid container which has all of our camping/earthquake survival equipment in it. Camp stoves, lanterns, all dual fuel so they will run on gasoline too, and other stuff. I have a 4 foot long wrecking bar, 5lb sledge hammer and two gas engine chainsaws. I also never let our van bet below half a tank and I have three 18L gas tanks full of gas with gas stabilizer and one 18L gas can full of kerosene. I have two portable kerosene heaters as well. Our building is new, it was built in 2001 the shop in 1994, so I hope they will survive, but if we get hit by a M9.0, all bets are off, you can plan for that, you can build for that, but if we are hit by such a quake, well, I just hope we never are hit by such a quake, but they say about once every 100 years, the last big one was in 1923, that was a 7.9M and over 140,000 people died.