After 2 years, 9 months (including about 3 months out total with injuries).
About 360 hours of class and probably 100 hours of open mat.

Churches are usually the first ones on the scene of disaster. Four hours after my house was hit by a tornado the church down the road, that I never once stepped foot in, was at my property with the youth group cutting trees off my house.

I absolutely believed Anita Hill lied. Always have.

And more importantly, Clarence Thomas has been an absolutely stellar justice. So even if Anita Hill did tell the truth, it had absolute no bearing whatsoever on his performance on the Supreme Court.

One doesn’t have to look very far to see the absolute crazy that has taken the left hostage George. No matter how good things get, all they want to do is obstruct. If that means by protest, by lying, by fake journalism, by violence, mass shootings, mock beheadings of the POTUS, whatever,, it’s all good because it’s the “resistance”. Some of the attacks on conservatives look right out of the playbook from the dems of the early 60’s. I’ve seen this coming for years. I’ve posted about it here often. The fringe has become the mainstream. It’s out in the open on full display now and people are finally waking up.

@George K said:
A fringe benefit of my job.

Being tear gassed in Pakistan by riot police, shot at by a dimwitted sentry on a Paraguayan road who had no fuel for his lantern because his Capitan used the unit funds to build his house and being named by a Maoist German radical group as the director of covert U.S. military activities in northern Europe and Scandinavia because my unclassified bio showed that I served in the Army were some of the less glamorous bennies.

All those who think George wasn't a spy raise your hand.

No hands up I see

@Shawn C. said:

@Steven said:
You can't make a distinction based on the definition you created.

Fair enough. Let's forget about the past 1/2 dozen posts. If a state, say UT or IA were to deny a woman the ability to terminate a pregnancy, is that ok with you?

I wouldn't like it, I wouldn't vote for it but I'd be OK with it.

Powers not granted to the Federal Government are left to the States.

Iowa just recently passed the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

I don't know that I have much of an issue with Martha Stewart. Blago. . . yeah. I'll let Steven weigh in on that one.

@bmmike said:
I’ve learned you guys really like debating politics. Wow.

I guess it’s always been thus?

You can start a thread here on what the best way to remove chewing gum from your shoe is and someone will turn it into a political thread.
Enjoy ;-)

So, you're saying Ralph Nader messed something else up? (Former Corvair driver, here.)