...is charged with making sentencing recommendations which automatically take effect unless Congress proactively votes to reject them. While Congress has repeatedly enacted tough new sentences in bouts of anti-crime or anti-drug hysteria, the Sentencing Commission is less prone to political passions and more likely to act as a restraining influence on congressional incarceration mania. The commission, for example, has for more than a decade...

... magic spell from the vicinity of God's own head! The result was that all the planets fell out of the sky and the Borg Angels looked on helplessly as the Borg Angels who were trying to control mass Universal hysteria lost control completely because of this stupid human woman. Lucky God who really is magic - was able to put the planets back quite easily and being so powerful instantly erased the memories. So the state of terror of the...

... racism' which called for 'affirmative action'. Or, there were ever new variations on 'racism'. In the 90s, 'environmental racism' was fashionable... until a University of Chicago study debunked it totally. Or, we had the hysteria that 1/4 of college coeds are raped!!! (Such figure was arrived at by including sexual activity that wasn't rape.) If Cold War mentality was rooted in fear, Counter Culture mentality was rooted in guilt. Cold ...

...is charged with making sentencing recommendations which automatically take effect unless Congress proactively votes to reject them. While Congress has repeatedly enacted tough new sentences in bouts of anti-crime or anti-drug hysteria, the Sentencing Commission is less prone to political passions and more likely to act as a restraining influence on congressional incarceration mania. The commission, for example, has for more than a decade...

... other side of the road killing seven people. Local councillors ranted about the speeding and the inevitable loss of life and demanded speed cameras and "traffic calming" by which they meant chicanes, on a major 'A' road. During all the hysteria the hysterical forgot to take account of the fact that drink and drugs seemed to be the real cause of the accident. <mode=Ed Chilada> But he was speeding. 85mph is more than 50mph.

...forms they inhabit are basically robotic 'thought forms' constructed in our imagination, but it also determines their behaviour as well as their appearance. If we expect hostiles we get hostiles, or if a media hysteria spreads 'alien invasion' we get 'invaders'. I've taken part in visualisation encounters in which such Greys are very vivid, strong and independent. Circumstancial evidence and tradition suggests that such ...

gregg wrote... Let's get over this American induced hysteria. All of this was done with one objective in mind - to get Bush re-elected. Nothing like a good terrorist bogeyman scare to get the voters off their arses to vote in the unvotable. Of course, if Obama and the Democrats gain control of the US government come November I can't see anything changing. Not unless Osama and Obama make up and become the US's newest Best Friends......

... they inhabit are basically robotic 'thought forms' constructed in our imagination, but it also determines their behaviour as well as their appearance. If we expect hostiles we get hostiles, or if a media hysteria spreads 'alien invasion' we get 'invaders'. I've taken part in visualisation encounters in which such Greys are very vivid, strong and independent. Circumstancial evidence and tradition suggests that such robot forms can ...

... a copy of the article. GB Well done to SkyWest. With appropriate precautions why should an aviation-interested student NOT ride the jump seat? Let's get over this American induced hysteria. Life has risks. The risk associated with air travel is trivial relative to life's many other risks. Why do we let irrational emotion take over and destroy our culture of trust? Gregg Well said ...

... to see a copy of the article. GB Well done to SkyWest. With appropriate precautions why should an aviation-interested student NOT ride the jump seat? Let's get over this American induced hysteria. Life has risks. The risk associated with air travel is trivial relative to life's many other risks. Why do we let irrational emotion take over and destroy our culture of trust? Gregg Agree 101%% well done ...