#2 Stalin
#3 Mao
#4 Pol Pot

unless you wait until after Yalta.

I want at least two trips in the time machine.

... made Hitler less of a problem without Bush's funding of his empire...

... and then we would have had less Bushes today that might have made recent history here totally different too!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Would be interesting to see how it would have affected his involvement in the attempted coup that was weeded out by Smedley Butler at the time though...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707fascistcoup.htm

might be vanquished with one stone. That is something to think about....

It's not like it's the Hot Tub Time Machine.

whomever replaced Stalin may have done an even better job against the Germans.

Trotsky might have been the leader of the USSR and might not have signed a non-agression pact with Hitler to divide Poland.

I can't see Trotsky buddying up to AH. Not in a million years.

You lose, or at least extend, World War II.

Hitler dying would have probably led to better military decisions.

I doubt that his leadership after that was essential to Soviet victory.

rather than Stalin's. If Hitler's generals had done the same thing they might have won the war. Hitler's ineptitude as a military strategist was legendary. He handed the Russians victory after victory in the east, beginning with Stalingrad. Zhukov made the most of each of Hitler's blunders.

Killing Hitler early could have given rise to a more low-key nutcase, and caused a nuclear war. Or perhaps caused Stalin to attack us, since he wasn't weakened by Hitler.

There's an episode of Family Guy where Brian goes back in time to stop 9/11. Bush has nothing to run on, so he loses re-election in 2004, and a Civil War happens. Silly, but I'd be real careful about killing Hitler.

to Braunau am Inn, Austria, and once there I'd tinker biologically with Klara Hitler's womb, transform her developing child in the best means possible, so that early on the morning of April 20, 1889 she would give birth to a wonderful human being, a child who would grow to love and appreciate all whom he met, who would develop into a compassionate, empathetic adult, a perfect human being named Adolf Hitler.

That's what I'd do if I could time travel and tinker. There's been enough killing, wouldn't you agree?

But someone vile would have. Hitler was a product of the conditions in post WW I Germany.

The comment's focal point was the desirability of getting beyond killing as a solution to life's troubles. What has post-War Germany to do with that aspiration?

And so if Hitler had been killed before he got power, I would never have existed. And that means that if I went back in time to kill Hitler, I would fail (since I do exist) and I might even kill Hitler's unknown twin brother or someone else that I mistake for Hitler.

That's the only place I've seen the phrase (not that it's wrong) a "weird petrochemical taste". At least, that's what Cecil Adams said.

After drinking the stuff out of lack of choice a few times, I was never able to describe it. Cecil, as usual, hit the nail squarely on the head.

No, I don't ever want to try Dr. Perky or Dr. Thunder or Dr. Whateverthat was again. It was awful.

there has been more liver disease because of tylenol than any one thing out there.

Motrin a long time ago. Retired nurse here.

Seriously. I know some people can't take it because of stomach issues, but it always worked for me and in any case you used to be able to buy buffered aspirin - Bufferin - if you had a touchy stomach.

have a bottle on my desk and try to take a few each week. At least one.

To enhanced bruising after an invasive procedure. It all depends on age and various circumstances.

I try to take an 81.5 mg aspirin several times a week. But I use 200 mg ibuprofen for pain and to reduce inflammation.

I remember seeing ads for chewable kids' aspirin on the teevee when I was a kid/teen, though.

Remedies we were given as kids that are on the "do not use until older" list. Can't even give babies honey!

you could get cough syrup with codeine OTC. Made being sick not so bad.

were older, like 5 at a time or something like that, iirc. I have had troubles with stomach ulcers and a sensitive stomach when it comes to that stuff since I was a little kid. So, Tylenol, it is, for me. Although, Ibuprofen and aspirin do work at different times. I just can't take them more than once in a while.

I wish I could handle aspirin. It cools me down before it makes me bleed internally. I have really thick blood and stay hot all the time. When I take aspirin, my fingers tingle and I feel really cold. So, if I could find a way to make the bleeding internally, extreme bruising, tingling in my fingers, and feel cooler without feeling cold side effects go away, aspirin would be great. Plus, most doctors recommend it to keep heart disease at bay if it runs in your family. So, you can take it every day. Too bad my stomach can't handle it. The blood, well, I don't want to be gross about it, but I hate the taste of blood. It is awful. Plus, if I lean on my elbows, I don't want bright yellowish purple bruises just for doing that.

serious stomach problems. She just got stomachaches so we always had Bufferin in the house, too, along with the aspirin.

I always have had a cast-iron belly, so I never had those issues. I am the kind of nitwit who gladly eats the stir-fried chili peppers at the Asian restaurant.

if I eat them, I pay for it dearly. I now know how much Pepto Bismol to drink straight out of the bottle to make a full dose. I don't even need to use the cup any more. No one else will take Pepto Bismol in my family. Plus, when I was doing morning classes in college, Pepto Bismol was my version of coffee. I couldn't function that early in the morning without it. I stayed anxious and nervous all the time and my stomach was in constant pain. Pepto Bismol was a life saver. I just carried it around and practically drank the stuff all day. It was the only way I got through college, until I discovered Zoloft. That helped quite a bit and I was able to ween off taking the Pepto Bismol quite so much.

Acetominophen depletes the body's glutathione.

Lincoln would have been POTUS until at least 1868, there would have been no President Andrew Johnson, et al.

Booth was just the trigger man. Plenty of people wanted Lincoln dead.

If you ever do find a time machine, and if I have any spare cash to chip in for you at the time, I would want to donate to the cause.

murders is that when the family of the first victim came home from the funeral, one of the family members took some Tylenol because of a stress related headache and then died from cyanide poisoning as well.

The state of America and the state of polarization and discourse,
lies at his feet and those that got him elected.

The reichwing wanted to return to a pre-Roosevelt (both Teddy AND Franklin) world for fifty years before the project got rolling and organized.

Rick Perlstein's brilliant "Before The Storm" chronicles the postwar rise of the Crazy Right in massive detail. They're all there, Joseph Welch, Fred Koch, William F. Buckley, crackpot ministers, homegrown paranoids like Joe McCarthy and old-fashioned fly-eating lunatics. Perlstein's book is huge, but extremely well written and compulsively readable. Read and learn. It opened my eyes, and I am a history junkie.

He was just someone's stooge. Thanks for the book rec and insight.

Bobby Kennedy as president would have changed our world in so many positive ways....

n/t

The joke being, that you need the scissors inside of the blister pack to open the blister pack

I use scissors all the time for blister packs. Fiskars work great!

I have to wonder if there's some pharmaceutical rule/law that governs such asinine decisions.

One helpful way I saw was to use a can opener to get those packs open. Don't know if an electric opener would work, though. Plus, I figure my side-cutting opener wouldn't work, either.

It takes so long to coax those pills out to fill my pill box for the month. Half the time, the little metal part of the blister pack falls out before the pill does and then I have to fish it out of the pill box or look for it on the floor. Only one side of it is shiny. The other side blends right in with the floor. So, then it takes a while to find it. I'm glad this medicine helps with anxiety and other conditions, because I am usually ready to pull my hair out by the time I am done filling the pill box.

For a while I had to take medication to control trembling (a side effect of *another* medication). Problem was, my hands shook so much I couldn't get the damned meds out. There is a point of overkill.

clear plastic out from around the entire top of the bottle. The perforated lines are never quite enough to help you get it started. You struggle with that and end up having to use a knife, then you open the cap. Of course, you have to press down on the cap to open it too. When you get in there, you find that foil cover over the bottle. Even with a knife, you cannot get all of that stuff off. So, some of it falls down into the bottle of pills and you have to check each time you take a pill or get foil in your mouth. What's worse, very few offer the little clear thing to pull it off. So, you end up having to scrape it off after cutting into it. No tabs to make it easier to grab, nope. Then, after all of that, you have to pull the cotton out and figure out what to do with it, because you really don't want to throw perfectly good cotton away. I actually kind of like the cotton, though, because it can be useful, at least, and it does keep the pills from being so freaking noisy when you are moving stuff around to get them home. And at the bottom, like the cherry on bottom, there is that weird ass silica gel thingy. Pills do not need to "taste" fresh. You are going to swallow them whole most of the time. They don't need to have any kind of "fresh taste." Anyone who decides to chew up a Tylenol is probably in for a hideous taste they won't soon forget. I doubt the little silica pack is really needed in that case.

That can be a problem, because if they sit stuck like that for too long, when you do manage to get them apart, you end up with one pill with a sizable hole in it, and the other one with a scratchy chunk of gelatin on its side.

And, of course, before you spend half an hour getting into your bottle, you have discovered that its box could have easily held five more similar-sized bottles (drug companies have major problems, it seems, with over-packaging, i.e., Black Hole Award.)

Hitler
Marx
Engels
Lenin
Stalin
Mao
Pol Pot

but I have huge list of people .

were free on kindle a couple years ago so I picked them up. I think the final outcome was it was someone at a distributing point messing with them but they still don't know.

If I could go back in time and kill someone, I wouldn't.

I don't think that killing is a solution.

And thus no blaming the Jews for Christ's death.

...i would not use it. there would be a never-ending list of substitutes.

however, on a purely hypothetical level, i would do in the purported biblical author paul.

failing that, cheney.

on a purely hypothetical level.

(over to the right):
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1982/10/18/page/45/article/the-tylenol-tragedy-goes-beyond-death

those last two sentences

after all, he also is the one that saved Stalin's ass by giving him access to an oil refining process

An electric can opener works on them too, with less chance of maiming yourself.

It's frustrating as hell, now have a pair of scissors at the ready wherever I am - since it was particularly difficult dealing with the pills I was prescribed to deal with my injured hand - when I couldn't get them out - because I had an injured hand.