Comments on: Snowpocalypse 2 news briefs http://www.yourish.com/2010/02/05/10058 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Sabba Hillel http://www.yourish.com/2010/02/05/10058/comment-page-1#comment-39170 Sabba Hillel Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:28:42 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=10058#comment-39170 Noun 1. yardarm - either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship yard - a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen It is the horizontal spar of a mast. That is why it was used to execute people by hanging them as if from a gallows. Noun 1. yardarm – either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship
yard – a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen

It is the horizontal spar of a mast. That is why it was used to execute people by hanging them as if from a gallows.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2010/02/05/10058/comment-page-1#comment-39168 Alex Bensky Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:12:05 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=10058#comment-39168 I wonder if all those people who criticized Bush and for that matter Israel for supposed violations of international law would be OK with the part of international law that allows summary execution of pirates. Meanwhile, the EU should be expecting a protest from the US because they didn't Mirandize the pirates when they caught them. There are degrees of truth and falsity, many statements contain elements of each. But unquestionably a statement that is common but is the absolute opposite of truth is, "Violence never settles anything." There's a line in "Starship Troopers" (the book, not that travesty of a movie) where someone says to the character who is Heinleihn's voice, "My mother says violence never settles anything," and the reply asks the mother to consider why she cannot spend her summer vacation in Carthage. I wonder if all those people who criticized Bush and for that matter Israel for supposed violations of international law would be OK with the part of international law that allows summary execution of pirates. Meanwhile, the EU should be expecting a protest from the US because they didn’t Mirandize the pirates when they caught them.

There are degrees of truth and falsity, many statements contain elements of each. But unquestionably a statement that is common but is the absolute opposite of truth is, “Violence never settles anything.” There’s a line in “Starship Troopers” (the book, not that travesty of a movie) where someone says to the character who is Heinleihn’s voice, “My mother says violence never settles anything,” and the reply asks the mother to consider why she cannot spend her summer vacation in Carthage.

]]> By: Eric J http://www.yourish.com/2010/02/05/10058/comment-page-1#comment-39167 Eric J Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:26:36 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=10058#comment-39167 He didn't fire. I'd say that was perfectly managed anger. (This happened less than a mile from my house.) He didn’t fire. I’d say that was perfectly managed anger. (This happened less than a mile from my house.)

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