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Stories like these are what I am talking about when I say our liberties are being chipped away.CALIFORNIA SMOKING BAN SAID TO BE MOST STRINGENT IN U.S. and FOLDED-UP APRON MISTAKEN FOR HANDGUN, MALL PUT ON LOCKDOWNGarbage like this happens every day and it is often not the Feds responsible for it. Government itself seems to have become the disease without a cure.
I am not convinced that most foreign countries were ever really happy about American intervention with a few notable exceptions, South Korea and Israel. The decline of US power is a done deal unless current trends change radically in the next 2-3 years. Not only is the military downsizing, training is being cut, end-strength is being cut, acquisition is pretty much stopped, and even worse, equipment losses from the decade of wasted war is not being made good. I am sure that is what liberals want.As to Civil War, I would not count it out. In fact, if I had to lay odds, I would guess the chances of Civil War in the next 10 years to be somewhere around 3 for 5. It is not just Obamacare and welfare spending driving that perception on my part. It is the routine violation of personal liberties that happens, at the airport, traffic stops, just about whenever. It is the imperial executive and their predilection for rule-making. Heck, even schools are now telling parents what they can put in their kids lunches. The average American is not free so much as allowed to think they are. just look at what happened in Boston, they locked down an entire neighborhood and brought people out of their houses at gunpoint for warrantless searches.I always think of what I have to go through to get into the country as a proxy or everything else. Going through US customs or even an American airport is painful at best. The slow erosion of liberties is really starting to get on some people. What I think will happen is that the tyranny loving libs will overreach and provoke a reaction. I also think any civil war will start at the State level and not among groups of individuals. The federal government is it's own worst enemy right now and it is busy going out of its way to anger the portion of the population that knows how to fight and be productive. Very smart that. All America needs right now is a charismatic person willing to stand up and say enough.Yes, I think Civil War is a distinct possibility.
World War = who against who? The US has already shown itself to be at worst toothless and at best inconsistent since 9/11. The US can no longer claim sole superpower status as we are not really a superpower anymore. The US has shown itself itself to be a bully who half-a#%e$ any war we get into, does not follow through on promises made, and abandons or betrays the trust long-time allies. Who really wants to be an ally of America under the current leadership? What they really hope is that the children running American foriegn policy forget they exist.
I would disagree. The odds of a world war are actually fairly low despite all the fear mongering about Iran, Russia, and China. The odds of a civil war are qactually fairly high in my opinion.
History does indeed tell us that. The question then becomes “how many people really pay attention to history anymore?” I would hazard to guess that it is not many and the History Channel is no help here. Actually reading what the Founders wrote instead of tossing around pithy quotes is very passe. I have read the Federalist Papers, how many other people have?The coming 10-15 years is going to be very interesting. Does anybody want to lay odds on the outbreak of Civil War II?
Yes, Apollo 11 - I copied what was contained in the url. I thought it awfully late for a second Apollo mission but didn't bother investigating more.
These spammers are getting slick. He could pull at least a minimally relevant quote though, here is the original -
The heyday of SciFi was in the 30's through the 50's when greats such as Heinlein, Campbell, and Asimov took a side branch of fiction and turned it into it's own genre. All the great pulps date to the 40s and 50s.
I tend to think it is cheap gimmick as stories like these are meant to stir controversy or sell books instead of describe actual phenomenon.
...and troll other's Facebook pages. 😀
Yes, that too. I think I have spent more time on Facebook in the past week than in the past six months.I had a disc replacement done on the C5/C6 vertebrae. It actually went much like my back surgery a few years ago. I woke up from the surgery pain free except for he incision. I now look like I survived an attempted throat slitting. And I have a beard, which I have never had. I cannot tilt my head back to shave yet and so am growing a beard, I do not know whether I like it or not. I do know my wife hates it. 😀
It is a great time waster site. I am currently on sick leave after having yet another spinal surgery last week so I have nothing better to do than try to find the end of the internet. 8)
Did they know the approximate age of the older bones?
If you are talking about the ones from my Father-in-Law's grave they cannot be more than 150 years old. The cemetery in my wife's hometown was moved in the 1860's to the edge of town. It used to be right outside the church but apparently they ran out of room. Village lore says when they moved it they dug up everything and deposited the bones in a communal grave in the new cemetery. The communal grave is still there by the entrance and the stone says it is the collected remains from the old cemetery. There is also a grave for the parish priests and those without family next to the communal grave.If you are talking about the ossuary in Czech. I am not sure. I think most of the bones are no older than the Black Death or maybe 30 years war, I cannot remember which.
The bones are taken from the cemetery outside the chapel. That is typical for European cemeteries where more than one person is buried in the same grave. When they find bones digging a new grave they put them in an ossuary that every cemetery has. Most just don't get creative with the bones. My Father-in-law, who passed away in 2009 is in a grave with 5 other family members. I know they found bones when his grave was dug because the undertaker called my wife to ask if they should put them in the communal ossuary or back into the grave.Below is a phot of my father-in-law's grave from last summer.
I have been there. We stopped to see it a few years ago when I drove to Czech doing research for my MA thesis. There is another one similar to that in Czermin, Poland but I have not been to see that one.
