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Instead of neighborhood watch programs...
we have "good old boys".

No need to call the law when the sheriff is sitting down the road on someone's porch swing drinking a beer.

When they first started moving in, he'd be like
*tipping hat and pulling up pants to show off gun*
"You boys from around here?"
*spitting tobacco juice*
"Cuz' you don't look familiar."




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Just because we're paranoid,
doesn't mean people aren't out to get us.


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I'm so glad I homeschool my child.


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I automatically plan to tip 15% (which is the common percentage in my area). If they provide exceptional service, that percentage increases. If they provide substandard service, that percentage decreases. If they are flat out rude, I ask for a manager and tell them "I would have tipped your waitress if she had been respectful and courteous. Please let her know."

I don't go to Starbucks, but I have occasionally gone in a place where there is a tip jar on the counter. I normally just throw my change in it. So they might get anywhere from a penny to 99 cents.

I always tip the pizza delivery boy because we live out in the country and normally order pizza after dark. I figure if he risks driving out this road and hitting a deer to bring me a pizza, the least I can do is make it worth the drive for that 1 delivery. I want to keep the delivery places happy so they continue to deliver out here. lol

I was a waitress for many years and very much enjoyed my job. Our hourly pay was 1/2 minimum wage. I never expected a pity/sympathy tip at all and tried to provide prompt and courteous service regardless of whether or not I thought the people were going to tip me. The low-level income encouraged me to be more thrifty and frugal with my money and kept a constant steam of perseverance for me to continue through college.

Back then, I got to keep all my tips. Nowdays they have this confusing thing called "tip-out" where the waitresses have to give a certain percentage of their tips to the busboys and cooks and the house. I don't support this type of business and I don't agree with making waitresses tip-out. It's just a sneaky way of not having to pay all the employees minimum wage. It's not fair to the wait staff. It's not fair to the busboys. It's not fair to the cooks.
As soon as I find out a place uses the "tip-out" method, I usually write to their owner and let them know that when they stop using the tip-out method, we'll patronize their business again.


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Yes and no.

It covers in about an hour, but the entire eclipse from start to finish is over 3 hours.

"The moon will enter Earth's umbral shadow (the full shadow) at 8:43 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 20. It will appear as though an ever-larger bite is being taken out of the moon. Some 78 minutes later, the moon will slip into full eclipse. About 51 minutes later, a bright scallop will appear as the moon starts emerging. It will be completely out of the umbral shadow at 12:09 a.m. ET on Thursday morning."

(Sorry those are in Eastern Time Zones.)

The peak red is suppose to happen after it's covered.





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Yes. This is a total eclipse of the moon.



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Ours is supposed to peak red in about an hour or so.
I have an awesome view out here in the country. No clouds, no smog, no buildings in the way.

Wish I had a digital camera to share the view.


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Just because we're watching, doesn't mean we've been swayed.


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It depends on what your definition of the word "almost" is.


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I don't know, but I tend to think of this "true love" brouhaha as a bit fantasy laden.
Historically, it's really a small percentage of humans that choose to couple on the basis of having been swept off their feet by prince charming. Many long term commitments are prearranged from birth, or highly encouraged based on social status. A lot of marriages are even to this day based on financial considerations.
Most humans just go with the best-fitting mate based on what's geographically and socially available without even taking the rest of the world's population into consideration.
People have throughout time, just kind of paired up and learned to love each other, and made it work.
And sometimes it didn't.

When we start getting this fantasy ideal going on in our heads, then we start having higher and higher standards until eventually no mate could possibly measure up.

What is this "true love" anyway? Is it that one person out of the 6 billion on the planet that happens to be our "one and only"? Our soulmate?
I don't believe in such.
I believe we make love happen with the person we choose as our life-long partner. We take the downs with the same dignity as the ups, and we get through the rough times together because of cooperative effort, without defaulting to the fantasy that love conquers all.

So, for me, true love is only, and exactly, what we make it.


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I've found abstinence to be 100% effective in preventing STD's as well as pregnancy.



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John McCain?


errr... Huckabee was a baptist minister.

pffft.
I was going to talk about how the country isn't run by the President alone, but that congress has a great deal to do with decisions made..
and the supreme court is the one that fine-tunes the "controversial" laws..

Then I was going to talk about how Obama has never really been proven a muslim.
Or that Islam devotion is no more nor less than Christian devotion.

Then I was going to mention that America is doing quite well in case people hadn't noticed the population running about with expensive cars and iphones and Prada hand-bags.

In the end....
I decided to not waste my breath.

Fear for what you will and pray for what you will.
I'm going to spend some time contemplating goose's milk jug theory.



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JB,
I understand how you are feeling and posted a similar scenario in my “Am I an emotional sleaze?” thread.
I think we’re best off if we view the internet as a mechanism to find other people, and stick to face-to-face contact as our mechanism to get to know them.
It seems when we start using the internet as a tool to get to know people, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to act upon gut feelings, instincts, and logical conclusions that naturally come with face-to-face interactions. Depriving ourselves of our ability to use our faculties leads us to conundrums like the one you are having.

Ask yourself this – What if the internet had never come into play in your dilemma? If you had met one of these men in real life, at a sporting event, and had met the other in real life, at a club, and were dating both of them and getting to know both of them in real life – would you be questioning yourself the way you are now?
I doubt you would… because if you had been interacting with them face-to-face, your decision could be based on more than written words. You would have a plethora of other devices to determine which man was more suitable for you. Or even to let you know that neither are suitable and to continue your search.

Don’t doubt yourself for the sake of technology etiquette. You seem like a real “Go get ‘em.” type of gal. Get out there and meet both of them face-to-face and I’m sure your heart will have no problem leading you in the right direction.



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(and thank you)


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jb, I'm not sure who you meant here.
If you meant I am trying to state rumors and innuendo as fact, I'll be more than happy to back up anything I've claimed.



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This is untrue.
Snope it.
This was a story released by a British satirical paper based on nothing.
Ronald Edwards has publicly proclaimed his Republican stance for many years. Anyone who's been to his rallies or heard him speak knows beyond doubt that there's no way this man would endorse Obama,
or even give the daily squib the time of day, much less an interview.

I don't support Ronald Edwards or his ridiculous agenda,
but no sense propogating misinformation.


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I wouldn't that soon.
But I'm totally different from you.
I also wouldn't be spending nights over at someone's house after only knowing them 3 weeks.
That's a bit reckless imo.
But you do what you think is right.
You're the one who has to live with the decision.
Good luck with it.


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Hawking was making substantial contributions to sigularity of relativity before he even started showing signs of ALS.

I agree that often the handicap are shown positive bias, but after the numerous times Stephen Hawking has actually been shunned by the scientific community for his "outside the box" theories, and the numerous times he has been denied grants and funding for his refusal to ammend his theories for the comfort of his elders, I'd be hard pressed to believe that he's been shown positive bias.

I wouldn't put him on the top 10 lists of physicists world-over, but to discredit his contributions by referring to him as having done nothing more than quoted the works of others, seems a bit harsh.

With or without physical handicap, the man is a genius who has contributed greatly to quantum physics.


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For me, it’s respect first. Chemistry might or might not even happen.

But I’m not the type to “spot” someone and feel a draw to them and want to get to know them better. I don’t think I’ve ever found myself romantically interested in someone I barely know.

I’m more the type to have been around someone in a non-romantic setting and find that over time, I have developed an interest in them. Like after 2 semesters of sitting in a professor’s class and seeing him express his thoughts, opinions, and values, I take a liking to him. Or a colleague I’ve known for a few years continually shows his valor and maturity in the face of challenge.

As I get to know someone and how they view the world, I develop respect for them. The higher level of that respect, the more I want to get to know them and be around them.
Chemistry may or may not ever fall into that equation.
jmo



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One prime example being Stephen Hawking.



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