What’s up with that?
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Can’t speak for anyone else, but global warming, nuclear war, and large arachnids off the top of my head.
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Very sweet. And a great dancer, as well, although she doesn’t know how to do that particular dance.
The Wars of Independence in her country weren’t fought with rolling pins.
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It’s just a part of her culture.
She uses them mostly for yard work, and for working in her flower garden.
She loves flowers.
They also came in handy back when we had a derecho here a few years ago, with lots of trees uprooted. An elderly couple was trapped in their bedroom just around the corner when an uprooted tree fell on their house, so she came home and got one of her machetes to hack away at the tree to help free them.
Please move this sort of discussion to the Lounge, Hub, or Random Fun room. This is the debate room.
Thank you.
I’ve spent a hell of a lot of these.
All I see is a picture of a Nobel Prize Winner, and the “father of Magical Realism”, Gabriel García Márquez.
His nickname is “Gabo”, and there’s a mural of him in Cartagena that you can see at 1:49 in this music video. We got to visit Cartagena for a week, recently.
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OOPS! Post removed non-gifted reader.
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Huh? I don’t understand.
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Sure, slavecatchers.
Please elaborate. I don’t understand w hat you mean.
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Because two machetes are not enough, and it would be totally ridiculous to have 4 or more. Duh! You obviously don’t know much about machetes, do you Shelly? So sad… 
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Not to worry mate. You’ve not been around long enough. Everyone else on the site knows exactly why the post was removed and Cyber appreciates the directions being followed.
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Initially, many of the southern states used their militias to back up the police (slave catchers). Not in the day-to-day activities but in putting down riots and such. At the same time, if it were white people rioting, the same militias probably would have been used on them. How the states used their militias was a product of the time and the culture. We use police and army reserves to put down riots in the world today and this is a direct violation of the constitution. The US military is significantly involved in civilian law today. (see below)
Anti 2nd Amendment advocates often argue that the amendment was crafted so that slave owners could control any outburst, riot, on their plantations. It’s a wild assertion with no actual evidence supporting the assertion. (While that may have been one benefit in the minds of the Southerners seeing to ratify the Amendment, it was not an argument put forward. People do have their own agendas.)
Congress in 1981 to enact legislation providing for military cooperation with civilian law enforcement officials. Although recognizing the Posse Comitatus restrictions, the law opens the door for extensive use of the military in civilian law enforcement.
The Department of Defense has developed directives to provide types of direct and indirect assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies. Currently, the military collects information and uses military equipment to track violators of drug laws. This gets us back to civil forfeiture and the reason behind government involvement. (That’s what they officially say they are doing.) LOL
TMI - It’s a mess. Like most of politics.
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Death by fire feels like a biggie to me although it’s probably a fear ingrained by my Catholic upbringing.
UK Atheist
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I forget who said it, but it went something like, I don’t fear hell at all, but I am afraid of the Asian giant hornet, and with good reason.
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Yes, it’s a PhotoShop job, but an amusing one nonetheless …
Mind you, in the town of Bovington in the UK, you have a tank museum and a monkey zoo in disturbingly close proximity.
Oh, and I did find a place in the USA where you can find an invertebrate zoo housing tarantulas a short drive away from an abandoned nuclear facility …
EDIT … it’s Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado. It’s a short drive away from the Rocky Flats nuclear waste site.
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Oh, and the article covering that PhotoShop job, also points out that Bovington has its tank museum not far from a monkey zoo …
Hang on, I’ll get the map …
This one is so old that I assume most have seen it. Still it is one of my favorites.
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Haven’t seen this before, had a real good laugh. Thank you.
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