They paid their money...they knew what they were getting into...I say, let'em crash!

actually word now is that he did die

2.2 lbs per kg

I'm about 300 lbs, 5ft 11 inches

Oh I dunno, goes to show what determined free people can do with a gun

whether you fight the standardization of weights in fruit markets with a STEN is up to yuo I guess

I'm interested about the details, it sounds the first reports are exaggerated a bit

>>Having a gun = freedom?

Get a life, go shoot someone.<<

Your great-grandfather and grandfather thought so, that's why we airdropped them into Reich territory.

"KAUHAJOKI, Finland (AP) - A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to question him a day ago opened fire Tuesday at his trade school in western Finland, killing ten people before shooting himself in the head.

...The gunman had been questioned only Monday by police about YouTube postings in which he is seen firing a handgun, but he was released because there was no legal reason to hold him, Interior Minister Anne Holmlund said.

Police spokesman Jari Neulaniemi said the attacker walked into the school armed with a .22-caliber pistol and some kind of explosive devices that were used to start a fire. He killed 10 people, some of whom were burned beyond recognition, Neulaniemi said. The big bag apparently contained the explosives.

It was Finland's second school massacre in less than a year and the two attacks had eerie similarities. Both gunmen posted violent clips on YouTube prior to the massacres, both were fascinated by the 1999 Columbine school shootings in Colorado, both attacked their own schools and both died after shooting themselves in the head.

The gunman was taken to a hospital in Tampere, about two hours away, along with a female victim he had shot in the head, hospital officials said. The gunman later died, according to hospital's medical director.

The female victim's condition was not immediately clear. Police said two people were wounded, in addition to the 10 victims and dead shooter.

Finnish broadcaster YLE said police identified the gunman as Matti Juhani Saari, a 22-year-old student at the school, which offers courses in catering, tourism, nursing and home economics.

...Finnish authorities did not confirm exactly what YouTube clips were linked to the shooter.

But in one YouTube clip, a young man wearing a leather jacket fires several shots in rapid succession with a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.

The posting was made five days before the shooting and the location was given as Kauhajoki (pronounced COW-ha-yer-key)

Our federal debt is just about equal to the GDP.

Justinian

lots of those folks are skilled and in much of Europe a native-born European is not a European if his parents were not formal citizens.  Legal immigrants give birth to legal immigrants.  So they have third-generation "immigrants" in their cities.

Um when I went thru I borrowed 100% tuition. And incidentals made me pick colleges close to home. And its a 30 yr pyment plan so whats your bitch, the world owe you a living? And what do you care if its state or federal aid?

Right Nolio, so he was NOT calling for a 100 year war.

"The charge results from comments McCain made at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in January. After a questioner told McCain that President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, McCain said, "make it a hundred."

He continued: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."

Here's the video:

McCain appears to be talking about maintaining a presence in Iraq, not continuing the type of war America is now fighting. He suggests it would be acceptable to "maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world" similar to that in Japan and Korea.

The nonpartisan Annenberg Political Fact Check calls the DNC's suggestion, based on these comments, that McCain has called for an "endless war" in Iraq a "rank falsehood."
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/01/politics/horserace/entry3985914.shtml

The current measure of "deficit""surplus" is wildly off anyhow.  Since 1974 Congress has been looting all Social Security payments and writing itself an IOU plus interest for the next year.  This is like Pop taking $20 out of the cash drawer and writing an IOU for $21---and counting it as an asset.   If that is reckoned as a debt--and Congress will have to pay every penny of it out to recipients--there has not been a budget surplus since 1973.

Learning a lesson from the Articles of Confederation that preceded our Constitution, it is written into our Constitution that Congress may never default on a debt.  But when it hits the fan that will be rewritten.  One method that comes to mind is assessing a tax on foriegn-held T-bills equal to the amount of interest paid out--so our Chinese friends only get what they paid up front.

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