Ask the Misogynist anything

[El]

That's true. But there is a paradox: I'm an aspie. I hate changes. Even changes to the better are very hard for me before they're accomplished. But I will at least try to win the Green Card lottery. And if that turns out to be impossible, I can always move within Europe. 

Good plan.  I'd bet money that you'll find problems with wherever you move to because everywhere has problems.  At least you seem to have formed a good idea of what you don't want in a country.  if you do move and you find you hate it there, go back to all your threads here to remind yourself that it sucks less. 

[Scrapheap]

What kind of job skils do you have Lit ?? You might get someone to sponsor you on a work visa.

[Litigious]

What kind of job skils do you have Lit ?? You might get someone to sponsor you on a work visa.

I've studied language (mostly German) and philosophy at the university, but I don't have an exam. I have no particular job skills besides that, so I doubt that I'd get a work visa. I might get a visa for studying, though. My brother got one.

[Calandale]

The second amendment exists in two parts.

First, "A well regulated Militia" establishes the existence of the National guard. (Technically, the only legal army in the US. Read the Constitution, the US Army exists illegaly. The constitution forbids a peacetime standing army.)

Second, Establishes the right of the people to keep and bear arms. (The people being the same people in the first amendment, that is, the general population)

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Separating this ONE sentence seems a mistake. The rationale is that the Militia is necessary.
The question is whether or not the armed citizenry MUST be part of a militia. Nothing here
about the national guard at all. Since the state militias/guard are protected by the exclusion
clause, there seems to be no need whatsoever for this to be a part of the amendment. Thus,
one must assume that this refers to other militias.

[Litigious]

The original text was:

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

One comma, between "State" and "people". The text with two commas is a copy of the original text.

[Calandale]

Doesn't change the ambiguity of meaning.
BUT, given that the states had EVERY right
to form private armies without this, I don't
see where that has any bearing on just what
kind of militia we're talking about. I suspect
it meant a much more local variant.

Probably the whiskey rebellion is more
at fault for undermining the meaning
than anything else in US history.

[Litigious]

They destroyed the original intentions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as soon as they started taking power from the states and giving it to the federal government. The Constitution itself was a compromise. It was very near that it had been rejected by the representatives of the states, because it was considered giving too much power to the federal government from the very beginning.

[Calandale]

Sure. But what I'm saying is that the
second amendment was NOT a matter
of state's rights at all. But the fear
caused by the whiskey rebellion
led to a reinterpretation which
pretty much destroyed the
original intentions entirely.
Neither the states, nor
the federal govt. wanted
the people to feel that
they could rebel.

[Litigious]

True. The right interpretation of the Second Amendment, regardlessly of wheter it means that every private citizen should have the right to keep and bear arms for his private protection, is that the people, as a whole, has an unconditional right to rebel. The clown in charge in the White House today would be the last to admit that right, though. 

[Calandale]

I don't think we've had a president
other than Jefferson who would
agree. Sure as hell not since Lincoln.
Even though Buchanan didn't lift
a finger, he was anti-secession.

[Calandale]

What's the biggest thing you done blowed up?

[Litigious]

What's the biggest thing you done blowed up?

A big, old iron cauldron that I found in the woods and filled with about 10 kilos of different perchlorates, moisted with aceton (increases the detonation speed), initiated with hexametylentriperoxiddiamine (the same as Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber") tried to use. I could feel the ground quake more than half a kilometer away. It became a crater about two meters wide and one meter deep. The cauldron were blown into small pieces. A 30 meter or so high spruce tipped from the detonation. 

[Calandale]

I've made my own ice cream, with eggs in it and real vanilla. It tasted really good. 

What proportion of cream to milk did you use?

[Litigious]

Don't remember, it was many years ago.

[Calandale]

If you ever get another chance,
play with upping the cream
content. You have to be
a bit careful (or you end up
with something more like
frozen butter - kinda pasty),
but damn, you can make it so rich!