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Nice Planet 3: I Can't Believe I Share A Planet With THESE People!

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bigblue_dl said:
I'm a huge proponent of guns, and owning guns, BUT! no one should own or handle a gun without a complete understanding of how to do so safely. Forget background checks, it should be a requirement that everyone who purchases a gun go through a firearm safety course.
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Makes sense to me.
 
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UncleRay said:
I know I'll be called an uncaring bassturd, but why do handicapped individuals need to skip the line? Why shouldn't they have to wait just as long as everybody else? Certainly being in a chair doesn't preclude them from being able to wait, does it?
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Handicapping involves getting advantages. Disabled people should not.

One legged Bill Veeck wrote in his autobiography "Veeck as in wreck,". I'm not handicapped, I'm a cripple.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
My wife wanted pizza tonight. After reading this... not so much.

http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/Potsdam-Man-Accused-Of-Rubbing-Pepperoni-On-His-207749061.html
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MountieBoyOz said:
As the son of youth softball/baseball coach, all I can say is wow

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...d-abusive-insensitive-behavior-150558231.html
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That's college athletics though. The coach is paid to win. The way it looks to me you have some sour grapes from some players that were recruited by the previous coaching staff. The way college athletics work right now it's the coaches way or the highway.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
That's college athletics though. The coach is paid to win. The way it looks to me you have some sour grapes from some players that were recruited by the previous coaching staff. The way college athletics work right now it's the coaches way or the highway.
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From what I gather, coaching women is a 180 from coaching men.
 
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My God. Moore, OK devastated by monster tornado. Casualties, including lots of kids, could be very high. On May 3, '99 I was on my first day of a new job in OKC when the last monster hit. This storm may turn out to be more destructive than that one. Substantial parts of Moore were flattened in that storm, too. I wound up in neighborhoods where as far as the eye could see, there wasn't a house left standing. If today's storm is comparable or worse, we should all pray for those folks. They are certainly going to need it. For a long time.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ing-america-heartland-video-article-1.1349229
 
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Media reports indicate today's storm was an F4 (winds up to 200mph) and a mile wide. The '99 storm was an F5, with the highest winds ever recorded--327 mph. It was half a mile wide. Today's storm has evidently flattened at least two schools, which raises the prospect of mass casualties.
 
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Old Pio said:
Media reports indicate today's storm was an F4 (winds up to 200mph) and a mile wide. The '99 storm was an F5, with the highest winds ever recorded--327 mph. It was half a mile wide. Today's storm has evidently flattened at least two schools, which raises the prospect of mass casualties.
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All kids from one of the schools (Briarwood Elementary...took a direct hit) have been accounted for, thankfully...
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
All kids from one of the schools (Briarwood Elementary...took a direct hit) have been accounted for, thankfully...
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That's great. Let's hope there are more miraculous endings. In '99, the last victim was a young Vietnamese/American woman who took shelter underneath a freeway overpass. Her body was found half a mile away! I've lived through hurricanes and tornados. And in terms of fear, the twisters scare me. Faster moving. Less warning. More powerful. Imagine whole neighborhoods where every house is flattened. I mean, reduced to a pile of kindling about 3 feet high. I interviewed many survivors sitting on their front stoops, with their front door left standing, and nothing else left of the house.
 
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My wife lived in Oklahoma when the family was stationed at Fort Sill. They had to do tornado drills in school. Hoping everyone down there is OK.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
My wife lived in Oklahoma when the family was stationed at Fort Sill. They had to do tornado drills in school. Hoping everyone down there is OK.
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We had to do them in school too, in Minnesota. I'd imagine that's pretty standard in the middle part of the country here. One thing that I found interesting when I was in OKC was that seemingly nobody has basements down there (has to do with the soil content or something). Made me think I should have brought my hockey helmet.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
We had to do them in school too, in Minnesota. I'd imagine that's pretty standard in the middle part of the country here. One thing that I found interesting when I was in OKC was that seemingly nobody has basements down there (has to do with the soil content or something). Made me think I should have brought my hockey helmet.
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New homes come equipped with "safe rooms." Think of a bank vault. They're used as laundry or utility rooms, but are designed to withstand a big storm.

Sadly, the reporting now is that up to two dozen kids at the one elementary school are dead. You see the aerial coverage of he damage and it's shocking. Believe me, seeing it on ground level, is even worse. I recall seeing homes on one side of a street flattened, gone, nothing left. Across the street, minor damage, shutters blown off, bird baths upended and the like. But the homes intact. With guys out mowing their lawns!
 
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Old Pio said:
New homes come equipped with "safe rooms." Think of a bank vault. They're used as laundry or utility rooms, but are designed to withstand a big storm.

Sadly, the reporting now is that up to two dozen kids at the one elementary school are dead. You see the aerial coverage of he damage and it's shocking. Believe me, seeing it on ground level, is even worse. I recall seeing homes on one side of a street flattened, gone, nothing left. Across the street, minor damage, shutters blown off, bird baths upended and the like. But the homes intact. With guys out mowing their lawns!
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Not unlike wildfires that raze one home while the house next door is untouched.

In1985 a F4 tore through Barrie, Ontario killing 12 and causing about $200M in damage. The path went about five miles from where we were living. I spent a few days patrolling the devastated area. The damage was worse than what I saw during Katrina.

God bless all those in OK.
 
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Not unlike wildfires that raze one home while the house next door is untouched.

In1985 a F4 tore through Barrie, Ontario killing 12 and causing about $200M in damage. The path went about five miles from where we were living. I spent a few days patrolling the devastated area. The damage was worse than what I saw during Katrina.

God bless all those in OK.
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This F5 tornado hit near my home in 1990. Probably less than 3 miles away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Plainfield_tornado


Our church was hit including the school where a nun (the principal) was pulled through the roof to her death.

An apartment complex where in 1987-88 I used to frequently hang out with buddies who lived there was hit and 8 people were killed.

A friend of mine literally saved a little girl in Oswego (iirc) by running out into the street where she was frozen, grabbing her and running into his basement right before it hit.

Another friend just up the street from the first was sleeping in his bedroom in the basement when it hit and took his house off its foundation - gone. He was untouched.


I happened to be camping in the BWCAW at the time and we didn't even have a radio with us. I found out about the tornado 3 days after it happened.

My parents went in the basement and obviously were fine due to not being in the path.
 
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Tornados frighten me to my core. Very primal.
 
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