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WASHINGTON - The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded "tomato children." When Justice Stephen Breyer leans toward his microphone at the end of the bench, lawyers can expect to be asked almost anything. The 69-year-old Breyer is the court's most frequent practitioner of the hypothetical question, a conjurer of images that are unusual and occasionally bizarre. "The last time I was up there arguing, it...

The Moon Survival Challenge HOW TO PLAY Imagine you are returning to the base ship on the sunlit side of the moon after carrying out a 72-hour exploration trip. Your small spacecraft has crash-landed about 200 miles from the base ship. You need to reach the base ship, in addition to your spacesuit, you were able to salvage the items listed below. Using what you know about the moon, rate each item in the above list according to how important it would be in getting you back to the base ship. Drag the items below up and down to prioritize...

Would You Make A Good Human Shield? Sacrifice is essential to any victory. If you're useless in combat, you might consider using your body as a shield to protect others. This quiz will test how effective your body would be shielding both modern and ancient weaponry. Note: To take this self survey, click onto the link provided...

Would You Eat Your Buddies in a Blizzard? Suppose you were stranded in a blizzard and were forced to cannibalize your friends. This short survey will tell you how likely you would be to eat your buddies. Note: Click onto the link provided to take this self survey. Bon appetit!

How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight? This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass. Here are the ground rules: You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court There are no weapons or foreign objects Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin) The children are merciless and will show no fear If a child is knocked unconscious, he is "out." The...

("What if" in History - No. 3) June 1, 1944: NEW YORK TIMES breaks OPERATION OVERLORD DFU "what if" in history | June 1, 1944 | Jonathon Risen (fictitious name) Posted on 12/26/2005 7:15:58 PM PST by doug from upland =========================================================================== Jonathon Risen, New York Times Dateline: France June 1, 1944 The NEW YORK TIMES, always first with breaking news, has discovered that a daring invasion is planned on the coast of France on June 5 in an effort to liberate the courageous and valiant French citizens from the Nazis. If the weather conditions are not right, we have learned...

It's safe for children folks. Although I will say that if Hollywood goes with this idea, they are eternally screwed. Let's hope the next BTTF movie isn't like this. :O

Jonathon Risen, New York Times Dateline: New York Dec. 21, 1943 In an exclusive interview with a Navajo Indian, the NEW YORK TIMES has learned that Navajo Indians have been forced into service by the U.S. military establishment. It is shocking that, in the middle of the 20th Century, such abuse of our Native Americans could be taking place without approval of the courts. Neither President Roosevelt nor Secretary of War Stimson has given a public comment or returned a telephone call. The TIMES has learned that so-called Navajo Code Talkers have been used by our military for secure communications....

"What-if" No. 1 - Navajo Code Talkers Dateline: Chicago, Ill. July 30. 2003 Jonathon Risen, exclusive to the NEW YORK TIMES In a shocking discovery, exclusive to the NEW YORK TIMES, it has been learned that the United States Government has been working on a secret project to develop a new super weapon. It is called a "nuclear weapon" or an "atomic bomb." This effort is called the "Manhattan Project." Work on the project is going on in several areas, including the University of Chicago, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington. General Leslie R. Groves,...

1 - NAVAJO CODE TALKERS 2 - MANHATTAN PROJECT =========================================================================== Jonathon Risen, New York Times Dateline: France June 1, 1944 The NEW YORK TIMES, always first with breaking news, has discovered that a daring invasion is planned on the coast of France on June 5 in an effort to liberate the courageous and valiant French citizens from the Nazis. If the weather conditions are not right, we have learned that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower may delay the invasion for a day. OPERATION OVERLORD will be a massive Allied invasion of Western Europe that will include simultaneous landings on five beachheads...

PREVIOUS STORIES FROM JONATHON RISEN: 1- Navajo Code Talkers 2 – Manhattan project 3 - Operation Overlord ==================================================================== Jonathon Risen, New York Times July 17, 1944 Working on a tip from informants in Berlin, the TIMES has learned exclusively that there is going to be an attempt to assassinate German Fuhrer Adolph Hitler on July 20. Hitler will be at his headquarters in Rastenberg, East Prussia with other members of his senior staff. The planned coup is known as the “July Plot.” It is being led by senior military leaders Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and General Ludwig von Beck....

<p>The NEW YORK TIMES has learned exclusively that U.S. forces in the Pacific plan a daring bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan on April 18. Our sources have revealed that Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle will be the leader of the raid. It will be the most daring operation yet in the young Pacific war.</p>

1 - Navajo Code Talkers 2 - Manhattan Project 3 - Operation Overloard 4- Plot To Assassinate Hitler 5 - Tokyo bombing raid ========================================================================== The NEW YORK TIMES has learned exclusively of an amazing story about a Jewish family that has been hiding from the Nazis in an annex of rooms above a business in Amsterdam. Otto Frank, a German businessman, became fearful for his family when Adolph Hitler came to power in 1933. In the summer of 1933, Frank left Frankfurt for Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, to set up a business called the Dutch Opekta Company. Less than...

I need help to find out if there is a way of testing toys/clothes/ect. for hazardous residue,chemicals,meth,how do i know if its safe to buy or sell used items?Or how do you clean?Then are they safe?who knows where it came from?Goodwill,sale,or,a tweaker,garbage,store?how do i know its safe? help me?Im in recovery,Life getting better I hope!

Readers of a certain age will no doubt fondly remember Mad Magazine of the fifties and early sixties -- with its "Scenes We'd Like to See." There, the writers and illustrators would spoof the taboos of society, fantasizing about what would happen if people "really said and did" what they meant. Today, we no longer have to worry about repressed opinions -- in magazines, on television or anywhere else in the information society. However, at the Supreme Court and particularly amongst its media courtiers, there still exists a taboo that dare not speak its name. It's called "Activist Conservatism." The...

Let's pretend Jeb were governor of Louisiana instead of a Democrat woman school teacher. I'll submit the first headline...this one from the N.Y. Slimes: BUSH IGNORES HURRICANE WARNING; THOUSANDS FEARED DEADEvacuation Plan Ignored

2005-08-24) -- An internal White House memo, leaked today, indicates how President George Bush initially planned to address Cindy Sheehan's question: What "noble cause" did my son die for? The draft memo includes suggestions from White House communications staff, followed by several paragraphs apparently handwritten by the president. While handwriting experts from CBS News continue to pore over the document to verify its authenticity, here is the text of the president's alleged response to the grieving Mom whose protest has captured the hearts of America's journalists. Dear Mrs. Sheehan, You have asked me to identify the noble cause for which...

The late Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party in 1964, and joined the Republican Party, bringing a part of the Dixiecrat worldview with him. The Republicans were always been the party of Capitalism and equal rights before 1964. During the Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt years, the GOP opposed the Democratic party's socialist policies, and in addition, they were supportive of black Civil Rights. Before 1964, Republicans had proven that there was no contradiction between supporting capitalism, and supporting civil rights. And during the era of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, the Republican Party came to be identified as the party...

What if? Three Steps to Take Now to Prepare A Suze Orman exclusive Here’s what you need to do to make sure you, and your family, are never put into that position. 1. Tell Your Doctors What You Want Make it clear to your doctors exactly what you want them to do, and not to do, if you are too ill to express your wishes. In a written document called an Advance Directive, lay out the specific types of medical care you want if you are in a coma or have a terminal illness. (Advance Directives are sometimes called Living...

I wonder if there was a conservative influence in the TV media {such as FNC} during watergate, would have Nixon survived? Most US journalists claim they are objectively independent, and @ times they can be, but everyone has their biases which eventually leak though. {Dan Rather's journalistic "Depends" are rather saturated.} A) Just as the UK has a 2-party press, US newspapers have always had a partisan bent of some degree, with the left-justified side prevailing. B) Hollywood is overwhelmed by leftists. C) Talk Radio is overwhelmed by rightists. D) Pure-internet based media has the right-justified side prevailing. E) Which...

In the July 19 issue of "Newsweek" Michael Isikoff writes: "American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call 'alarming' intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of such an attack."(1) That report was surprising enough that even Senator John Kerry interrupted his foolishness on the campaign trail to go get himself updated with a national security briefing he hadn't taken time for in previous weeks. As Isikoff reported: "The prospect that Al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the...

The terror strike in Madrid has evoked a nightmare scenario in which catastrophic terror could be used to undermine the legitimacy of democratic elections by attacking them at their weakest spot, namely, the popular elections. What no government could afford to do as deliberate policy an entire nation may do by visceral impulse, namely, hand the terrorists victory after victory — and all in the name of democracy.      In a response to this European nightmare scenario, Andre Gluckman in an Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal has argued that elections in Europe could be postponed in the case...

WHAT IF: kerry picked someone for vice president solely based on popularity, and won in November. THEN, after a decent amount of time had passed, this person, for one reason or another, decided to resign the office (or got 'Fostered' or 'Browned'). WOULD kerry then get to choose his own vice president without any accountability to the general electorate? The question comes up because we were playing 'remember when' at work today and when I asked someone about Spiro Agnew's problems that led to his resignation and all of a sudden it hit me that the same thing could happen...

In a parallel universe called "What if . . . " New York — President-elect John F. Kerry's rise to the nation's highest office came as little surprise following almost four years of remonstrations against President George W. Bush for his bizarre attack on the defenseless people of Afghanistan. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, was the right man for a nation outraged by the Bush administration's pre-emptive war, which, it now seems clear, was based on highly speculative intelligence that Saudi Arabian-born terrorist Osama bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S. Absent absolute proof of such an imminent...

Ultra-partisan Republicans hate President Clinton. They hate the memory of President Kennedy almost as much. The men have a lot in common — smart, articulate, cool, educated at Harvard, both pointy-headed policy wonks, both charming, witty liberals. So the recent "revelations" about Kennedy's health (which reveal little that was not already known) have caused them great delight. Bushite speechwriter Peggy Noonan (the "thousand points of light" woman) chortled gleefully in the Wall Street Journal that if the media in 1960 had focused on the qualifications of a president they way they do now, Kennedy would never have been elected. And...

While scrambling around this morning trying to find info on the events in Richmond this morning, I was stopped in my tracks by this pop-up ad from X-10 Cameras...

President Bush on Friday greeted Olympic figure skater Sarah Hughes at the White House. The president met privately with the 16-year-old gold medalist in the Oval Office, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. Hughes arrived and left outside the view of reporters. The high school junior from Great Neck, N.Y., shocked the sports world Feb. 21 when she turned in a gold medal-winning performance in the figure skating finals, after finishing fourth in the Olympic short program.