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Not true. I was circumsized and couldn't walk for a year.

I think that extra chip is located somewhere other than his shoulder...

Research complete: The women love it.

Interesting take on the use of the word hero- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-j-astore/why-its-wrong-to-equate-m_b_655611.html

Wow...I'd consider that a win for you big time. The FBO won't be actively trying to kick you out like Doss would!

Pics or it didn't happen.

WTF

I'm with you on the 'border' checkpoint issue, but I'm concerned for your health. You need to get yourself checked out for Jaundice. That or not permit the Fox makeup guy near you next time you're interviewed. I'm not sure which, but one of the two.

Copy. I think it's all pretty awesome...fairly skeptical though to see how it turns out. I have a feeling the Appellate Court will strike it down and it will go to the SCOTUS, which ruled favorably on Heller in 2008. But I don't think this is just conceal carry vs open carry, I think it may include both. And in Vermont (among a few other States) you don't need a permit to CCW.

Well there's that but I was speaking more towards reciprocity with CCW permits. She tweeted out right after that: "@EmilyMiller: More -- DC police chief using guidance from AG -- grants full reciprocity for all open and concealed carry from others states."

Update: According to Emily Miller (via Twitter), DC's Chief of Police has ordered her officers to not arrest anyone carrying a firearm who can legally carry one in any State. Now there are 30 States with open-carry witout a permit--does this mean that residents of these States can now open-carry a pistol on their hip in DC? This is getting very interesting... https://mobile.twitter.com/EmilyMiller/status/493572214558851072 http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/07/dean-weingarten/breaking-dc-police-chief-recognizes-right-to-carry-reciprocity/

A bunch...and mostly in this thread, if that's any indication.

I'm doing doctoral work now with a lot of writing in management and research methods- both common subjects for which there is a shit-ton of work already published. We are required to submit everything we write through Turnitin, which crosschecks for textual matches against a huge variety of other writing. I grant you I'm writing this stuff to demonstrate my mastery of common concepts, not to generate new ideas - but I'd suggest that would give me even more opportunity to plagiarize if I chose to. It turns out that nothing I've written so far has tripped an alarm for plagiarism. In fact, the only matching text in any of my papers are things you'd expect to match, such as if I've included (and referenced) a direct quote, or my citation list (which will, of course, be identical to the original citations). In fact, I'm pretty impressed at how good the system is at finding matching text, and not flagging text that I've written completely on my own. I was concerned that with the huge amount of literature out there something I've written all on my own must match something someone else has written, but that just hasn't happened. We can (and are strongly encouraged to) run our stuff through before turning it in to be sure we haven't inadvertently forgotten to reference something. And while Turnitin is a common system for this, there are others - including some you can subscribe to without any academic affiliation and are pretty cheap on a "per page" basis. What this tells me is that it's not hard at all to avoid plagiarism, even if you're writing on common topics and arrive at the same conclusions as others. it's also really easy to get caught if the academic institution is making even a minimal effort at checking. Writing on a topic that others have written on, doing your own thinking, research and writing, and using other sources (properly referenced) - and arriving at the same conclusion that others have - is not plagiarism or academic dishonesty. It may or may not be of academic value, may or may not qualify for publishing and may or may not meet the requirements for a thesis or dissertation, but it's just not academic dishonesty. With that said, if what the NYT reports about his work is true, it's pretty clearly academic dishonesty - at least it would be considered academic dishonesty in the mainstream academic world. I see that the AWC plans to run his paper through a plagiarism checker, that's a great idea that they should have done in 2007 (yes, they were available then). Better yet, require the student to run it through and submit an originality report with the paper. It takes about 0.69 seconds. Maybe it wasn't quite so easy in 2007, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that hard. The only way I see that he gets a pass is if AWC is willing to 'fess up that they just didn't address this with their students in that time period (I've had it beaten into my head at each of the four academic institutions I've done work at since 2008). If the findings reported in the NYT are confirmed, he'd be screwed on an academic dishonesty violation at any major academic institution. Does that disqualify him from elected political office? I don't know about that one. You be the judge. (edits - spelling)

I don't like your attitude.

biggest UPT mistake? Not dumping my girlfriend (ex wife now) before going...Now all the graduation pictures are ruined for me. She wasn't even hot, god damn it.

Someone misses flying fighters and thinks he's funny. He's not.

Considered for tryouts....dont step on your dick.