Well they almost got this right back in 1931…

There are gullible stupid people crooks take advantage of.  Then of course on the flip side you have some crooks that are so stupid you wonder who they survived into their teen years and beyond.  Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.  The headline: “Stolen iPad leads to 780lb crystal meth seizure”.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/05/stolen_ipad_crystal_meth/

www.theregister.co.uk  Is a website devoted to high tech news and other interesting news items all with an interesting twist of British humour.  I rather enjoy it.

Oh, those blasted wily coyotes. :wink:

“… I mean SUB-STANTIAL caliber…”
:mrgreen:

@ncscswitch:

@Jennifer:

Why were you stuck in the Army’s camp for misguided little boys so long, NCSC?

Well, originally I was there for Infantry Training for the PA National Guard (11C, my local guard unit was Combat Support, to had to learn to fire 4-deuces).  But, my knees that had been patched  back together after I tore them up at USAFA failed again…

But, rather than let a perfectly good former Academy puke go to waste, and since they were shorthanded in my Bat, they turned me into a Unit Supply NCO and Unit Armorer.  Went from Trainee to Trainer overnight.  Went from Barracks to BEQ.  And spent a year wearing a “Follow Me” patch instead of my “Bloddy Bucket” until my med board finally was processed.

Yep… it SUCKED!  But I loved it :-D

Ugh, yea the med-board process SUCKS for trainees!  They tried to make me go that route, I told em unless they could guarentee me a 30% or more disability they could shove it up their rosey red buttocks!  Then they tried to Chapter 5-1-2 me (medboard without a voluntary subject) and I called my congresswoman (who, since I’m in IL is a democrat) and she stopped that cold.

Now I’m assigned to the IL Nat’l Guard as in their IT dept.  But hey, at least I don’t have to move!

As for my AC being “broken” in Georgia, it was not Rune.  There just wasn’t an AC there!  Silly army…like we all want to camp or something…sheesh!

@marine36:

It sounds messy, and most people wouldnt dream of such drastic measures. But if an event like what Zooey said occured, we wouldnt be playing around anymore, if some innocents get in the way, well thats to bad.

An “incident” like Zooey is discussing is the action of a few individuals, not even members of a government.  Just individual nut balls.

And you say that a few individuals hitting us would merit nuking the entire Muslim world???

What if Tim McVey had parked his Ryder Truck in front of some Russian government building in Vladivostok?  Would the Russians have been justified in nuking the US for it?  At the very least, we have to seperate the actions of a government from the actions of individuals.  At least in the case of government action, the people of that nation can be held partially responsible because they ALLOWED the government to act that way, either by electing the idiot leaders, or by failing to overthrow tyranical nut cases.

Last month a guy blew away a man and woman in their home in order to get their daughter.  The guy was a resident of Pennsylvania.  Are we going to nuke Pittsburgh and Philly because that guy was from there?  THAT is what you are advocating.

So I guess Japan is free to attack us because of all the things our solidiers have done in Okinawa in the past several years (getting tired of reading about soldiers who can;t keep their dick in their pants and keep raping local girls, is becoming an annual event apparently).  And Libya is allowed to attack us for what we did to Tripoli in '86?  And Iraq is totally justified in hitting us since we have killed, according to the Bush Adminsitration’s estimates 35,000 of them???

Hell, I guess you are justified in bombing MY house since I live in North Carolina and Eric Robert Rudolph is from here.  He was a terrorist, bombed clinics and the Olympics.  But he was North Carolinian, so I guess you have to nuke this state off the map and damn the innocents who live here.

For gods sake Marine… you had a brain once before your buried it with a sand flea on Parris Island.  THINK about what you are advocating!

@Janus1:

is he a political expert? or just a right-wing commentator who just thinks he is an expert?

He’s just a radio political commentator who got hired by ESPN to be controversial and boost ratings. Unfortunately, he was too controversial and got fired.

I would think that just means extra shots of morphine…

IL, this is 2002.

Well apparently bringing old threads back is in vogue.