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I'd actually be curious to see the links, particularly of universities, where students have been asked to leave for reading a religious text to themselves. There's a lot of (IMO) stupidity around religion in the US - kicking someone out solely for having a Bible/Quran/Tankah/Tipitaka/The Guru Granth Sahib/etc. on school grounds is just as stupid as trying the umpteenth time to get the 10 commandments displayed at the local courthouse. RE: In God We Trust - its the official motto of the US, is on the currency and in the national anthem (4th verse). Supreme Court in 1952 decided that the the government's recognition of God didn't violate the separation of Church and state. My thinking is that the decision was based on the idea that the recognition of the existence of a deity doesn't create a state sponsored or funded religion. Hopefully Gromnir will correct if I got the details wrong.

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Yes, I did, I was trying to explain why I attributed the act to the Republicans after you correctly pointed out the bipartisan support. The parenthetical wasn't intended to imply the Libertarians were involved in 2006 or that the libertarians and republicans had joined forces against the post office in this instance. It was there to state that there was a long movement within parts of the US that were/are against the post office, and that one individual from one of those political organizations had proposed the legislation. Clearly I failed in making what I was saying clear.

Can't you still have your cremains buried so you can have a tombstone? ObTopic: Some games I have a harder time playing over - like the IE games. Some of the Open World games are fun because you can just ignore the actual story and do whatever (provided whatever=hiking). There have always been games that I could play no matter how well I remembered the story. I remember back in the SNES era always going back to ChronoTrigger because the gameplay itself was fun and just skipping the plot. It probably helped that with all the various endings, I could bail if I really got bored (but rarely did).

I'm not sure what you are debating? I already conceded that you were correct in that the 2006 act was a bipartisan one. I've then explained why I phrased it as a republican plan, incorrectly, and also provided context - when asked - about why libertarians are for dismantling the post office. I am not claiming a mysterious libertarian conspiracy in 2006 against the post office.

Libertarian position is always that the government should be as small as possible. My understanding is that they want to privatize the post office. https://lpar.org/the-libertarian-alternative-united-states-postal-service/ https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/us-postal-service-dying-let/ https://www.cato.org/blog/usps-privatization-vs-bailouts

Its a fair point it was passed with bipartisan support for it (why, I don't know I thought it was bad at the time and was surprised there wasn't more pushback on it ). My understanding - which may be wrong - was it was authored by Republican Tom Davis and that a portion of the Republican party (and Libertarians) have wanted to get rid of the post office, hence my phrasing.

IIRC the Republican Party has been trying to kill the post office for years (hence the onerous 'must pay for 75 years of retirement funding" put on them in Bush's Presidency that made them unprofitable, as they're supposed to be self-sustaining, and then rejecting requests that would right their budget). Even the complaints of the Amazon deal ignore the fact that, IIRC again, the Post Office can't charge less than cost. Trump's reasons may or may not align; I think he throws stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Also, vaguely nauseated by the diseased chicken piece. 🤢

Don't give 2020 any more ideas. 😋

Amy Klobuchar?

yeah, i was thinking of the USMLE STEP exams. I may have the timing off, it's one we give but I spend less time with the examinees so not an expert. I was under the impression it was taken during the end of residency. I know there are some other exams within doctors pathways, one prior to STEP and some specialty exams for specializations at least. We're not connected with the state's bar, but we have a few once a year exams we do, and a couple that are offered for a few weeks every so often.

There are multiple tests for doctors - the one that they take, i think during residency is in 3 parts. One is 7 hours, the other two are 18 hours each (spread out over two days each) if i recall correctly. There are some pretty intense tests out there. At some point, you stop testing the student on whatever the test is about, and testing their memory of the test. Thats why most tests have retest windows that space out testing. The problem with standardized tests is less that they're stupid and more that they're used for purpose other than they are intended, and used as solitary measures and gatekeepers.

These rules depends on the state, iirc.

prehistoric hell ant preserved eating prehistoric roach relative reveals the ant had vertical mandibles.

Most early comic book zombies existed as instruments of vengence and typically just killed (or were like the will-less living dead). I seem to recall reading at least one comic story from the 1950s where there was implied cannibalism from the undead, but without going and reading a bunch of horror comics again, I can't confirm. That said, if memory serves me Ishtar threatens to raise the dead and send them to eat the populace in Gilgamesh. If that is correct, the idea has been percolating around for awhile but Romero really brought it home.

As I recall, the ghūl in the Arabic tradition was a shapchanging Jinn who, usually in the guise of a pretty woman, would meet travelers and when they'd dropped their guards, kill and eat them.

Guys, move the political discussion to off-topic. Thanks.

I'm kind of surprised they seemed to doubt(?) that the water heater could go through the roof - back in the day when buildings were heated by boilers, a boiler explosion could take down a multi-story building.

"We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away"

Yeah, Mickey Mouse is popular too.

I believe you mean "The Return of the Living Dead", "Night of the Living Dead" is the '68 original.