jerryzflies

Lost his Sharpie?

www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_13132090 If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

It's unfortunate that the lies of Palin, Gingrich and their ilk on the right would goad the poor man into such angry, uncontrolled behavior. If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

Well, it was on Newsmax, they probably used tea leaves to read the future. If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

If I understood it correctly, the OP's contention was that in Hawaii there existed two different birth records, a "Certificate of Live Birth" and a "Birth Certificate". He argued that the former was available without proper proofs, and contained only minimal information, and that the latter was generated at the hospital and contained more detailed information. Several people had posted with the idea that their only birth record was a "Certificate of Live Birth". That's true for me, too. But when I checked mine, it looked a lot more like the thing he was calling a "Birth Certificate" than the "Certificate of Live Birth" that's been shown--it included a bunch of details. The fact that some of us possess a piece of paper with one title or the other at the top is not conclusive evidence, either way, about the underlying contention. Yet we're proposing it as if it is. All I'm proposing is that different states do things different ways, and that the OP's contention is flawed on a multitude of levels. If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

I told you that in California the "certificate of live birth" is the only thing the people who born here got. And this is perfectly enough to get a passport. What kind of birth certificate do you possess? Just to do a bit of devil's advocation: I just checked and my "Certificate of Live Birth" which is from California, contains all kinds of details not recorded in Obama's Hawaii "Certificate of Live Birth." So? If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

Please can you re-write that in English? If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

Wrong. In the U.S., the keeping of vital statistics is a state function, because it is not a power assigned by the Constitution to the federal government (under the Tenth Amendment, all powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people), and yet the federal government is extremely dependent upon this state function it lacks direct jurisdiction over, because the Fourteenth Amendment expressly grounds American citizenship upon birth in the United States (a jus soli system of citizenship). Therefore, the federal and state governments have traditionally cooperated, to some extent, to improve vital statistics. From 1900 to 1946 the U.S. Census Bureau designed standard birth certificates, collected vital statistics on a national basis, and generally sought to improve the accuracy of vital statistics. In 1946 that responsibility was passed to the U.S. Public Health Service. Unlike the British system of recording all births in "registers", the states file an individual document for each and every birth. In most states, this document was, and still is, entitled a "Certificate of Live Birth".[3][4] If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

"If we can’t bring ourselves to make this tough but straightforward decision [to terminate the F22 program at 187 aircraft] — reflecting the judgment of two very different presidents, two different secretaries of defense, two chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff, and the current Air Force Secretary and Chief of Staff, where do we draw the line? And if not now, when? If we can’t get this right — what on earth can we get right? It is time to draw the line on doing Defense business as usual." SecDef Gates, 7/16/2009 If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

Since you have so much regard for scientific opinion: pewresearch.org/pubs/1276/science-survey According to a Pew survey of over 2500 scientists released last week, 84% of scientists believe the Earth is warming due to human activities. If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

Sometimes truth is stranger than a bad joke. If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

First off, the debt hasn't quadrupled - it hit a trillion this month in a year that ends in October. But that's rather irrelevant - either we need this spending to recover, or we don't. The real concern is what about 2 years from now. I said deficit, not debt. The deficit has quadroupled. . By what factor did the deficit increase in the first year of G.W. Bush's presidency? If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

If you want a beer do you go to a bar or a temperance meeting? If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

Not even the guys at realclimate think that anymore. In, I believe, 2008, GISS updated this data showing it was the second hottest year. And - this was just the ground data. . Trying to fathom a long term trend by comparing years within one sunspot cycle and within one el nino cycle shows that those doing it either don't understand what they are doing, or they are being unethical. (General comment, not directed at you, Mr. Rocket.) If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

I'm sure there are more questions. Things like: What factors contribute to global warming? Are those factors under our control? Can they be changed? Is global warming undesirable? Will the system stabilize itself, or become unstable in the long term? The list goes on.... It seems to me that this is a massively complex topic, and that both sides are trying to make it seem simple--which is the mark of politics, as opposed to science. . The IPCC report is not simple at all. If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.