StormKnight

Hello!

As long as this vile white stuff isn't out there in an attempt to kill those that love to drive, I am pretty flexible.

Happy Birthday!

As sick as it has been, I wouldn't fuck 2009 with a stolen d***! Just put the captive bolt gun at the base of its skull, and kill it quick. More mercy than it gave us...

Happy Birthday, Jeff!

DGN @ City Club, Saturday, January 2nd. 400 Bagley Street Downtown Detroit You enter by going through an unmarked door on the First Street side of the Ramada Hotel building, located at 400 Bagley Street in downtown Detroit. The club is at the top of the stairwell. (see picture in the link above in the DGN calendar entry) Come. Join us. Meet us. Hang out. We're not that scary in person, really. Leland City Club All are welcome. Come meet some of us weirdos. Saturday nights from 10:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Alcoholic drinks until 2:00 a.m., pop and juices served all night. Admission is $4 18 and up, 21 to drink with proper ID (no exceptions). No drugs, weapons, chains or spikes. We've had reports that the CC parking lot will not break bills larger than $10, so try to bring smaller bills with you. Zoom able map to Leland City Club MDOT lane closure (The map isn't quite exact. The Leland is located within the Bagley, 1st, Cass, Plaza Dr. block.) In case you don't know the "DGN Corner" is to the right of the bar. Currently theres a table, pillar and long narrow wooden table, impossible to miss. Come say hello. If no one is there, stay there, they will show up. Note: If you're NOT going this isn't the place to post about it.

Bend over and...*hand off camera slaps Id upside the head* Superego (off screen): Will you stop that?! Geez, on a holiday, even! Have you no shame? Id: no

I think I just made a heck of a purchase. I can't wait until it arrives.

Happy holidays!

OK, so *that* is why Kirk was eating the apple as he was in the Kobiyashi Maru. Flash forward to Star Trek II when he was explaining to Saavik how he won the thing. *head thwack in revalation* ... Yes, I am a geek. Deal.

Fear not, I am here to defend. *sets phaser for "stun"*

It makes for one hell of a strip-tease.

I just hope there is fabric between the zippers and the skin (like on the legs, around the nipples, etc.) I think a malfunction of this dress would make a Lady Epilator look like a massage glove.

I'm a O84-C94-E53-A50-N18

It was one of those nights I could afford work-wise to go out on a day that isn't Saturday. Nice to meet you too, Zima.

Blasted sinuses.

It was not a taser. It was my sparkling, sarcastic personality on overload. Big difference. One is powered by batteries, and one is powered by Ego. Hence that is the reason he is kept around.

Eh, tired...but OK-ish.

En route.

Hello and welcome!

Well, now we wait. Hopefully, it will be a clean and a switch.

No offense taken. I just wanted to get the questions out there to those that can find references in either direction. Not being a Constitutional scholar myself, I want clarification, and insight on the precedents, if any. I understand it was initially designed with flexibility in mind, to adapt and change, and interpretation by the Supreme Court weigh in on how it is interpreted. Personally, considering how much I have seen to support the sequella of smoking (oxygen supplementation, surgery, radiation treatments, cancer related to the toxins passing through the body, etc.,) I wouldn't lose sleep if the whole industry morphed into something that isn't just a cash crop. HOWEVER, that is my opinion only. I recognize that there is more than my opinion. BTW: Kudos for the references. I wish there was more of it in this part of the forum.

Looking at the Constitution, specifically the Preamble; We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Questions regarding this: 1. "...common defence...": Against what? While we assume that it is defence against enemies of the people (i.e., foreign nations,) could it not also be extended to defence of the people against any threat, specifically, a health threat? While all food will harm you in excess, in moderate amounts it is healthy. Aside from some studies indicating it helping with certain mental illnesses, what is moderate amount of smoking, and what is the health benefit vs. the threat? 2. "...promote the general Welfare...": Welfare as in well-being? Taking care of our nation's people? Again, what does smoking do for well-being of the people, both who do smoke or who don't? Does it mean we take care of people, even despite the fact that the plant did fund and found the country, when we found out it was harmful in the amount that most people consume? Depending on whether you take a broad interpretation (at the time of writing of the Constitution, a Federalist (e.g. Washington,) point of view,) versus a narrow interpretation (at the time of writing, a Democratic-Republican (e.g. Jefferson,) point of view,) the Constitutionality seems to vary from well within the power of the federal government, to highly dubious. If memory serves, if the narrow interpretation of the Constitution was followed, Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, would have never been able to make the Louisiana Purchase, because buying land from a foreign power was not in the Constitution specifically, but the implied powers were *if* you take a broader interpretation of it. All this seems to happen before the Bill of Rights or the Amendments. Now, I am not up to Constitutional Law and precedents of previous rulings, granted. I am not up on rulings of the Courts in either direction. And I don't know when to say when about the upper limits of restriction on this issue, and where it can or will end. However, it seems we jumped from point A to point O or P somewhere, like starting surgery by closing the skin before getting to the ruptured aorta that is killing the patient. Seeing precedents and interpretations by the Supreme Court on the topic is something I would like to be pointed to. I started from the beginning of the Constitution, as it seems to be the place where they are getting the justification. What do cases before the Supreme Court have to say about the law in question vs. Constitution violation, especially given the start of the Constitution itself? Is the whole Preamble just a statement of why, or goals to accomplish, or justification of action, or nothing of consequence?

Happy Birthday!