Or an imaginary lawn care bidness for that matter...
Any one can visit my home and see evidence of my 20+ year old lawn care biz
No one can see evidence of your being a contributor to The Onion ten years before it was created
But it's all good. Imagination Costs Us Nothing
that's when the murders occur. usually, you know your wife's been screwing around before you come home. ft bragg had an issue with spouse murders a few years back. guess all the cheating wives got taken care of during the first couple rotations cause you don't hear as much about it these days.
We accept visitors with pre-arranged appointments.
We'll even buy drinks and in return make you buy us some drinks
And yeah, we can do some taste tests of the local green-ery - something which was not called for when PoliticoPubster WILLIE99 rolled through this past November
To be more Open since it poses no current problem:
Have invested a grand Total of $800 to a couple of offshore Outs since last Apr 1 and have been paid back a total of $1060 with just over another $200 currently at one Out.
So a bit over 50% ROI in about ten months.
I'd play bigger, but until I can figure out how to get a few more winners than I've had over past year, it would be more risk than I want to take on.
Losing the $16K I was getting for past four years from paid work at DrugSense slowed my 2009 investing plans a bit, but I expect to get that balanced back with a slight increase in the lawn/garden and the expected revenue from building a local team via the AmwayGlobal group with which I just plugged in (per our other thread chat last week)
Have invested a grand Total of $800 to a couple of offshore Outs since last Apr 1 and have been paid back a total of $1060 with just over another $200 currently at one Out.
So a bit over 50% ROI in about ten months.
I'd play bigger, but until I can figure out how to get a few more winners than I've had over past year, it would be more risk than I want to take on.
Losing the $16K I was getting for past four years from paid work at DrugSense slowed my 2009 investing plans a bit, but I expect to get that balanced back with a slight increase in the lawn/garden and the expected revenue from building a local team via the AmwayGlobal group with which I just plugged in (per our other thread chat last week)
I have yet to actually see a law that states terminating a pregnancy is homicide, but if this is so then yes, I was wrong, although I stand by my opinion that calling a pregnancy termination a homicide is, from a scientific standpoint, nonsense.
However, I'm really impressed by your ability to continually claim that you are always able to prove me wrong when it is obvious for every sensible person in here that in the overwhelming majority of our disputes you are, to put it mildly, not doing too well. ;-)
This thread is actually a good example for that.
As Barman already pointed out, the headline only says that there is an increase in suicides among military personnel. Can you dispute this fact? If not, in what respect is the headline of the statistic misleading?
Or if you mean the headline of the article you linked to - can you deny that army suicides are at a record high and surpassing the rate of corresponding civilians?
MJ, unlike you I always read the quoted articles before venturing to comment.
And no, I don't think that it's remarkable that soldiers usually have a lower suicide rate than civilians (except in times of big wars). Soldiers usually have a regulated, orderly life and will, on average, be more hardened against personal feelings and be generally of a tougher nature while among civilians there are many broken existences or fragile personalities more prone to depression.
I agree with you that if you'd militarise life more than overall suicides might decline, as the more control you exercise over people the less likely it is that you will not recognise problems before it is too late, but I guess most civilians would resent such a development.
But the fact is that in the army suicides are significantly increasing recently. They are the highest since current record keeping began in 1980, and you have to keep in mind that the American military was much smaller in the last years than it was some decades ago. No matter if the numbers are still relatively low, if you think the increase should be ignored and the military rather be taken as an example how to improve the situation for civilians then this only shows once more that you simply choose to ignore problems that don't fit in your agenda.
Nice catch on the RunnerUpKOY's reversion to his usual word games.
Terminating a pregnancy is NOT homicide if authorized by the pregnant female.
It can be charged as homicide in some US jurisdictions if a third party is responsible for the embryo or fetus being terminated without the authorization of the pregnant female herself.
There's been so very few cases charged thusly within the USA that we really don't have much valid precedent to make statements more definitive than above.
Terminating a pregnancy is NOT homicide if authorized by the pregnant female.
It can be charged as homicide in some US jurisdictions if a third party is responsible for the embryo or fetus being terminated without the authorization of the pregnant female herself.
There's been so very few cases charged thusly within the USA that we really don't have much valid precedent to make statements more definitive than above.
