Scott & Lai

Met online 9 years ago in August. October will be 7 years married. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing

Lai and I had a private tour of the U.S.S. Missouri three years ago; we were the last tour group of the day. Also saw the U.S.S. Bowfin submarine that day. Earlier that year we toured the U.S.S. Midway aircraft carrier in San Diego. I'd love to see all the remaining battleships

We didn't need Prop. 19 - clearly much of the state was smoking something yesterday as it was.

Next time I might vote for all far-left socialists in CA... I think the only way California voters will wake up and boot the people who are ruining the state is if California is completely crushed into a third-world powder, ready to be dumped on to the ash-heap of history... most people in this state just don't get it, and won't unless the people they keep voting for have full freedom to push their policies to their logical conclusion.

cali is lax in gun laws?

Deficits, after all, are merely deferred taxes.

Or deferred spending cuts...

The topic title reminds me of this quote:

"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results."

--Calvin Coolidge

Better poll question: "Knowing what you know now, would you do it all over again?"

Absolutely!!

The term is still in use, but it is inaccurate. The term Anglo-Saxon refers specifically to the people who ruled Britain during the middle ages up until the Battle of Hastings.

If they don't exist, where did they go? When did they become extinct?? Are you saying everyone of English decent today is decended from the Normans?

Good grief. If we were to get rid of all Muslim cabbies in NYC, we'd all be walking to work.

All of us?? Wow, I didn't know NYC cabbies worked in California

Why was Enright taken to the hospital?

A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.

Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with cars moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.

But he said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.

The traffic jam started Aug. 14 on a stretch of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway. That section has frequently been congested, especially after large coalfields were discovered in Inner Mongolia, Zhang said. Traffic volume has increased 40 percent every year.

Drivers stranded in the gridlock in the Inner Mongolia region and Hebei province, headed toward Beijing, passed the time sleeping, walking around, or playing cards and chess. Local villagers were doing brisk business selling instant noodles, boxed lunches and snacks, weaving between the parked trucks on bicycles.

The highway construction in Beijing that is restricting inbound traffic flow and causing the jam "will not be finished until Sept. 17," he said.

Authorities were trying to speed up traffic by allowing more trucks to enter Beijing, especially at night, Zhang said. They also asked trucking companies to suspend operations and advised drivers to take alternate routes.

China's roadways are increasingly overburdened as the number of private vehicles booms along with commercial truck traffic hauling materials like coal and food to cities. Traffic slowdowns because of construction and accidents are common, though a 10-day traffic jam is unusual even in China.

Associated Press

http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/breakingnews/china-s-massive-traffic-jam-could-l.htm

Police say it's 'very possible' attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones

Gee, ya think??

I don't feel sorry for kids who get bullied. If you can't take middle school... how's life going to treat you?

So, were you the bullier or the bullied in school?

You Scored as Cultural Creative

Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

Cultural Creative

63%

Fundamentalist

44%

Romanticist

31%

Postmodernist

25%

Existentialist

19%

Modernist

0%

Idealist

0%

Materialist

0%

Hmmm...I don't know about this one. Actually, I'm religious, but not particularly spiritual

Poor people don't need body guards, why should I be concerned that they can't afford something they don't need?

Poor people aren't victims of violent crime??

Only those that can afford one need one.

Lovely concern for the non-wealthy you've got there

The role of the police is to maintain law and order not protect me personally. If I felt my life was in danger I would hire a body guard.

We can't all afford bodyguards...

We bought ground lamb today for lamb dumplings

LOL!!

So, for those who are quick to call cops "pigs", what is your opinion of the violent protesters/anarchists? Are innocent citizens' rights maintaned when when their businesses, cars, etc. are attacked by thugs?

I didn't think Obama said anything that was offensive or negative to Scouting and I am not going to pretend to know if he was sincere or not.

I got a card from President Ford and Carter when I received my Eagle. I never liked Carter even a little but still cherish the card because it came from the President of the United States. There is a fine line between protesting and being offensive to the Office. My personal opinion is while wearing the uniform of Scouting you should respect both the uniform and the Office of the President.

Your personal opinion is correct I do not agree with the Obama agenda but I would not nor allow my my children to show disrespect to the president. We can speak out against his agenda and views but it does not have to be disrespectful to the presidency or the man himself.

Does the phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in any way modify "All persons born or naturalized in the United States," or is it simply redundant?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/14/ship-buried-th-century-unearthed-wtc-site/

Ship Buried in 18th Century Unearthed at WTC Site

NEW YORK -- Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.

It's hoped the artifact can be retrieved by the end of the day on Thursday, said archaeologist Molly McDonald. A boat specialist was going to the site to take a look at it.

McDonald said she wanted to at least salvage some timbers; it was unclear if any large portions could be lifted intact.

"We're mostly clearing it by hand because it's kind of fragile," she said, but construction equipment could be used later in the process.

McDonald and archaeologist A. Michael Pappalardo were at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when the discovery was made Tuesday morning.

"We noticed curved timbers that a back hoe brought up," McDonald said Wednesday. "We quickly found the rib of a vessel and continued to clear it away and expose the hull over the last two days."

The two archeologists work for AKRF, a firm hired to document artifacts discovered at the site. They called the find significant but said more study was needed to determine the age of the ship.

"We're going to send timber samples to a laboratory to do dendrochronology that will help us to get a sense of when the boat was constructed," said McDonald. Dendrochronology is the science that uses tree rings to determine dates and chronological order.

A 100-pound anchor was found a few yards from the ship hull on Wednesday, but they're not sure if it belongs to the ship. It's 3 to 4 feet across, McDonald said.

The archaeologists are racing to record and analyze the vessel before the delicate wood, now exposed to air, begins to deteriorate.

"I kept thinking of how closely it came to being destroyed," Pappalardo said.

A 1797 map shows that the excavation site is close to where Lindsey’s Wharf and Lake’s Wharf once projected into the Hudson, the New York Times reported.