Not just the UP, but the whole state of Michigan. We're finally leaving those sconnies behind!

Heh. Despite my reading comprehesion apparently not being the greatest, there is nevertheless a typo.

Unless Bennie Pierce got epidemic typhus at the age of 102, there is a typo in the first part of the article. Just FYI. :-)

I cut my hand on a Civil War bayonet as a kid, does that make me a Civil War vet?

Johnny Cat, I would guess that Blackwater (or Xe, as they like being called these days) does 95% of their work with small arms. "Small arms" can mean anything smaller than .50 caliber. The SEAL snipers who took out the pirates back in April were using "small arms".

I'm sure the guns were the main deterrent in this most recent attempted boarding, but an LRAD is not something I'd like to face down.

The root of all money is work. Work is the endeavor of the highest honor. Thus, money cannot be the root of all evil. The root of evil can be found in the desire to obtain things without the input of effort.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegetable
Webster defines a vegetable as "1 a: of, relating to, constituting, or growing like plants b: consisting of plants".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fruit
Fruits are defined as "1 a: a product of plant growth (as grain, vegetables, or cotton) b (1): the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant; especially : one having a sweet pulp associated with the seed "

So all fruits are also vegetables, but not all vegetables are fruits. So the Oklahomans aren't crazy, they just read the dictionary and decide to fuck with all the people who consider them nothing more than flyover country.

Ursula, have you ever thought that it's funny cause it's true, and it's a "gross-out punchline" cause trannies are genuinely gross?

Stop trying to get people to accept your messed up worldview.