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Or there would have been a lot more people killed. It's really easy to look back and say, "Well, if this had happened or if I was able to do this, I would have done that." For all that guy knows, he might have gotten in a shoot-out with the gunman and gotten a lot of other people killed. Heck, he could have gotten killed himself and really pissed the gunman off to the point where he shot a whole lot more people. And personally? I would rather risk having one nutcase come to my campus and kill a lot of people than have a thousand people on campus carrying weapons. Especially in a place like Virginia, where just about anyone who wanted a gun could buy one.

I am honestly not sure if real romantic love exists. I think there are feelings out there that we classify as "love" when we feel them, but an actual emotion called "love"? I don't know. I think that lust exists, and infatuation, and friendship and comfort, and I think that if we experience all those at once toward a certain person, we call it "love", but I really don't think that any of us have a "true love" out there.

Still haven't heard anything from the surgeon's office. I am probably going to email the office manager today, since it's been a while since I've heard from them.

Since there is an exclusion in the plan, I don't think you'll have any luck wrangling with insurance. There's always Mexico, though, or some of the cheaper US surgeons, like Dr. Kirschenbaum (or however you spell it) in Denver.

Yeah, that's a great endorsement of him, "He's never intentionally killed anyone." The problem with that statement is that the Iraqi people never signed up to die for us. And yeat again, Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. Afganistan DID, and everyone here supported the war in Afganistan. We should have kept it there.

Leatha, if you read the Snopes article, it states where it all started and where it started wasn't a reputable source. The fact remains that this is an internet rumor.

No, Leatha. Your complaining about being contradicted and proved wrong and basically saying that "others can do it, so why can't I" is passive-aggressive. To get the "right" information, I generally go to reputable sources. I try not to rely on hackish conspiracy theories to try and place suspicion on someone. I try to research the authors and see who the sources are. And when it's something that even the researchers at Snopes.com can find fault with, I know it's probably not the best stuff to use in a debate.

I don't want to be the queen of the thread, damn it. I just expect people to stop acting passive-aggressively when the crap they post is rightfully shot down. Hell, I learned a long time ago that if I didn't want to get smacked, to stop doing things that got me smacked. I'm pretty sure we all learned that lesson. So if you don't want to be told that you're wrong, make sure you're not wrong. It makes things a hell of a lot easier on all of us. Come on, we're all adults here. We should all be acting like it.

That's not true. Just when the stuff you post IS wrong. Don't blame us for discrediting that crap. Blame yourself for posting it in the first place.

I definitely don't believe everything I hear about Bush. But the fact that some people do doesn't mean that it's right that you pass along crazy conspiracy theories, either. Whatever happened to "be the better person" and all that crap? And I'm sure if you looked back at any of our lives, we all came in contact with a lot of people that died under circumstances that could be interpreted as "suspicious" if they were twisted enough. For example, a 1st cousin of mine was murdered, a second cousin of mine died in an unwitnessed ATV accident, an aquaintance of my brother's that I had been around drowned, several of my schoolmates died of overdoses, one schoolmate died of a brain aneurism, the wife of one of my university's deans and a couple of my schoolmates were killed in the recent plane crash in Lexington, Kentucky, etc., etc., etc. Does the fact that I am connected to all of them in some way or another mean that I killed them all?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp I tried to post the entire article, but it wouldn't let me highlight it, for some reason.

I am waiting to see if I get a surgery date. I still have a couple weeks before I have to apply, if I decide to go for the internship. I don't want to apply and then find out that I've been scheduled for surgery when I would have to be in Virginia. Plus, I need to talk to my advisor, to see if he wants me to do some more fieldwork for my thesis this summer.

Thanks Carlene, I was wondering who those people were. I think I am going to chalk those up there with the JFK assassination and the US entry into WWII conspiracy theories.

Thanks! That helps!

I efiled my taxes today. Do I send in the money I owe with only the payment voucher or do I also send a signed copy of my 1040?

We're a lot alike, but I believe the exact opposite of you. I believe that Jesus existed, but I don't believe in God. I think that Jesus was a regular man with great charisma, much like modern cult leaders are today.

We're so calm, relaxed, and accepting over here! Has anyone peeked into the thread that was recently started for the Christians? There is a major difference in the feelings of the two threads!

How about an Atheist getting an MS in biology (and probably a PhD, after I get the MS)?

TO be fair to everyone involved, without seeing the PM in question with my own eyes, I'm not sure I believe that it exists. After all, you can claim anything on the internet, but it doesn't mean it's actually true. And to be honest, what was supposedly in the "nasty PM", wasn't all that "nasty". It's the responsibility of the person claiming that they've received a "nasty PM" to prove that they actually received it. It's not the responsibility of the person that supposedly sent it to prove that they didn't.

You have beautiful grandkids, Carlene.

Um. Making sense? Not so much.

That's definitely the way a lot of people think. Personally, I think I worked damn hard to get where I am, and it would be a shame to play dumb just because some people still think they are in 5th grade and can't handle other people having an opinion. So everyone out there, if you are intelligent, for Pete's sake, show it! If you know something, talk about it! Don't sit back and let people bully you into shutting up, just because they think you are "blathering"! I always hated seeing the "cheerleader types" in school, because I knew damn well that most of them were intelligent people. Unfortunately, they preferred to stand around twirling their hair, and saying to the guys, "Um, like, wow, could you help me with this? It's haaaard!"

Well, I made it through it okay! It ran a little bit shorter than I wanted, but it wasn't bad. There was a clock in the back of the room that I kept staring at and think, "I need to slow down! I need to slow down!" Of course, that made me more stressed out, and I wound up forgetting a lot of what I was going to say. My professor didn't want the presentation slides to be "wordy", so I was basically doing it by memorization, having just a short sentence or sentence fragment on the actual slide. Not a bad method, but not the best when you are completely stressed out and nervous. On the up side, I slept wonderfully on Friday night! I had gotten very little sleep the week before the seminar, so I was dead to the world on Friday night. I had been up until 2 AM on Friday morning, working on the presentation, and then got up and went to the campus at 7 AM to work on it some more. I learned a very good lesson about procrastinating, though. Of course, I should have already learned it by now, as many presentations and class projects that I've had to do in the last several years.

Did I manage to miss something? I left for about 45 minutes. Oh, well. I'll reply to the post that you quoted anyway, since I am assuming it was directed towards me, from your post. I'm sorry, am I supposed to refrain from posting about my worries and the things I need support for because you think I am "blathering"? Or is it that you expect me to not speak up when I have a certain opinion or (gasp!) may actually have a little bit more knowledge about some things than other people? Should I just pat people on the head and say, "Well done, there", even if they obviously have no clue what they are posting about? Since when is it "blathering" to participate in a debate and actually know what you are talking about?

Carlene, you just gave me the giggles! :clap2: I was going to say something, but you beat me to it.