And if it was those guys fighting they MIGHT have had a battalion of riflemen.  Longstreet wasn't deporting captured Pennsylvania blacks to plantation slavery because he wanted to demonstrate the impotence of federalism. 

In fact, the Dredd Scott case and the Fugitive Slave Act were all about federal power over states -- at the demand of slaveowners who wanted a common definition of the black slave as property, whatever the hell Bostonians thought of him.

mocking truckers? Ilu if you ever run out of gas in America...just walk to Canada and beg asylum

Only until some green wackjob sues to let EPA ban superstrain antibiotics as slaughtering key viruses that cause mammals to evolve, and we all die of staph

don't laugh WTF is the DDT ban about

1. We have 300 million people in our national system
2. Life expectancy is up there with Japan
3. Major killers are drinking, smoking, sitting on our ass, driving crazy, and staph.
4. Given guaranteed access to affordable healthcare, 99% of America will spend the savings drinking more, smoking more, sitting on our ass in front of bigger and better TVs longer, and driving better vehicles more crazily.
Staph is just something out of Quarantine

the plural of "anecdote" is "data'

> therealdeal wrote:

> Spain cant play football all it is is pass pass pass pass pass pass 40 mins later 4000 passes later shoot

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And that differs from real football, how?

oh the tripping and kicking and shoving bit

wouldn't say sadistic, the mutilations were postmortem, more in the nature of dissection
insane but not really cruel

noooo

i thought he was asking because he wanted to party on his own

if he is trying to put one over on a female then by the Man Code all men should help him with free advice! as long as it doesn't get too tiresome

i mean we can all see your truck barrelling down the highway, and bambi drinking from a puddle, then you round the corner and the deer is screaming and you're screaming and sheriff buford t justice is screaming then WHOP you see a flock of ravens screaming as they flee the trees into the sky

happy birthday!

Shera Bechard, the Canadian-born former girlfriend of Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner, would not be an obvious candidate for the special visas that the U.S. government reserves for "individuals with extraordinary ability."

Playboy magazine named Bechard Miss November in 2010, and she also started an online photo-sharing craze called "Frisky Friday." Neither seems quite on the level of an "internationally recognized award, such as a Nobel Prize," which the government cites as a possible qualification.

But Los Angeles immigration lawyer Chris Wright argued that Bechard's accomplishments earned her a slot. The government ultimately agreed.

That kind of success has put Wright on the map as the go-to visa fixer for both Hollywood and Silicon Valley. It also highlights the use of so-called genius visas known as O-1s and EB-1s, which have largely escaped political controversy and are now the immigration solution of choice for many entrepreneurs.

As many immigration lawyers see it, the paucity of immigration options for the most entrepreneurial foreigners mean they must use any avenue they can. This approach, along with seeming flexibility in Washington on what constitutes "extraordinary ability," means the O-1 is gaining traction in technology circles. Wider use could ultimately land it in political trouble.

For example, the H-1B visa, which allows employers to hire foreigners temporarily in certain specialized fields like technology, has drawn accusations from union groups and others that companies use it to bring in lower-skilled labor.

The O-1 visa allows individuals of "extraordinary ability" to come to the United States for up to three years, and can be extended. British journalist Piers Morgan used one when he replaced Larry King on his late-night TV show, Wright said.

The EB-1 is similar, but leads to a green card and permanent residency rather than a temporary stay, with "extraordinary ability" being one of the ways to qualify - along with being an outstanding professor or researcher, or a multinational executive.

Foreign entrepreneurs have another option - the Immigrant Investor Program, or EB-5 visa - but it requires a capital investment of at least $500,000 and the creation of at least 10 full-time jobs for U.S. workers.

By contrast, no proof of personal wealth or investment in the United States is required for the O-1 or the EB-1.

There is also no cap on the number of O-1s that the government can award each year; about 12,280 were approved in 2011, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said, up from 9,478 in 2006. It issued about 25,000 EB-1s last year, below their cap of 40,000.

The H-1B is much more popular. Applications hit their annual cap of 85,000 earlier this month.

FALLBACK POSITION

While high-profile artists and entertainers have long used the O-1s, they are now becoming a fallback for businessmen and technologists who cannot get H1-Bs.

Josh Buckley, a 20-year-old British-born entrepreneur and a client of Wright's, is among the new crop of Internet entrepreneurs to win an O-1 visa. He applied after starting a few small companies, including one he sold at age 15 for a sum reaching the low six figures, he says.

He got his O-1 last year after lining up letters of recommendation from luminaries including Netscape co-founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Buckley, whose MinoMonsters gaming company is backed by Andreessen, saw little choice other than the O-1. The H-1B was off limits because it usually does not go to people who work for themselves. The O-1, unlike most H-1Bs, also does not require a college education--a key feature for the ever-younger entrepreneurs flocking to Silicon Valley.

Except when it comes to the O-1, visa officials "just don't understand the concept of someone being skilled without 12 years of experience or a bachelor's degree," says John Collison, a 22-year-old Irishman. He dropped out of Harvard University to work on Stripe, the payments company he co-founded with his brother, Patrick.

Like Buckley, he met Wright through the prestigious Silicon Valley start-up incubator known as Y Combinator. He won his O-1 in December 2010 and now has permanent residency status-- as does Buckley.

Wright, himself a South African immigrant, dismisses the notion that some of his clients might not rise to the level of "extraordinary ability."

"There's nothing in those regulations that requires you to be a genius," he says. "It's quite condescending to say,

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