I'd eyeball it.

"Goldfinger"  Shirley Bassey

These people understand only the Code of Hammurabi: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."  That, they understand.  Anything less is viewed as total weakness.  What they will understand is a flag for a flag, and since they are the perpetrators of this kind of protest, it must stop.  Gin up a few Arab nation flags...more

Jay, they're buying them from China, from companies developed there by Bain Capital.  Poetic justice, yes.

Most state cemetery burial rules specify that the body be enclosed in "a container".  There may or may not be a requirement of a vault.  There will be a requirement, usually that at least two feet of soil cover the top of the container with the remains.  This requirement of a container includes the pauper box, a thicke...more

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Colorado's Lieutenant Governor, Mister Joe Garcia....."  It was all so simple and completely appropriate to school students of any age.

I appreciate the SCIENTIFIC and LEARNED entries in this discussion. Those I can learn from.  I have little or no interest in fallacy, mystery, sensationalism, myth, made up legend....etc.  Thank you for an interesting exchange here.  Facts, pure FACTS...win out.

I began spinning Etta James best rhythm and blues at college dances in 1963.  She was, and is a perennial favorite.  I saw Etta James perfom at Common Ground in Lansing, just a few years ago.  Nothing was missing.  She rocked the house, once again.  It's like "Sugar on the Floor", Etta, that you're gone from us.  You l...more

The one percenters really haven't a clue, do they.