I know exactly where that dinosaur fountain is located.

I was there this past Saturday.

Oh brother...

OH NOES! ITS GOJIRA!

Looks refreshing.

Oops. I thought it was a dog.

How large is the dinosaur? I can't tell from the perspective.

Oh no! There goes Tokyo!

Reminds me of that movie w/ Ahnold in which he and others are fighting an invisible ET.

re: #7 The Other Les

Oh no! There goes Tokyo!

re: #3 Typicalwhitey

Oh brother...

That's not the committee I know!

re: #10 jcm

The fact that the MSM doesn't report this is infuriating!

Take me to your leader.

re: #6 meeshlr

Oops. I thought it was a dog.

How large is the dinosaur? I can't tell from the perspective.

Here's a picture of one of the others for perspective.

There are (I think) four of them along 3rd Street in Santa Monica.

Just had to ban two apologists for Radovan Karadzic, by the way.

This is not the blog on which to apologize for mass murderers of any kind or any ethnicity. People who do will lose their accounts.

I left their comments in place, to document it.

So I was listening to KPFK today (Pacifica Radio) and they described borders and "International Apartheid".

Thoughts?

'Stop construction on mass grave site'

A Jewish group is asking the Ukrainian government to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of some 26,000 victims of the Holocaust.

A developer has begun building what it believes will be a shopping mall on the site of a burial ground, the Jewish community in Odessa said in a letter Wednesday.

When construction workers began digging they found bones, skulls and children's toys, said Avrohom Wolf, the chief rabbi for Odessa and southern Ukraine.

Wolf said the builder had removed all the remains it dug out and said he has no clue where to search for them.

On Wednesday, the group sent a letter to Ukraininan Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, asking that she intervene.

re: #14 Charles

Just had to ban two apologists for Radovan Karadzic, by the way.

This is not the blog on which to apologize for mass murderers of any kind or any ethnicity. People who do will lose their accounts.

I left their comments in place, to document it.

Ugh, you have got to be kidding.

No match for Godzilla.

What is it ?

re: #14 Charles

Just had to ban two apologists for Radovan Karadzic, by the way.

This is not the blog on which to apologize for mass murderers of any kind or any ethnicity. People who do will lose their accounts.

I left their comments in place, to document it.

Who?

Europe's worst genocide since Hitler: How Dutch peacekeepers looked on as Karadzic's men butchered 8,000 at Srebrenica

8000.

That's nothing in Africa.

Was he pandering then?
Or is he pandering now?

I get a fair amount of spousal flack for spending a too much time keeping up with the political scene. "What difference will it make?" "When are you going to fill out that school paperwork?!"

She has a point.

So what could I do that would make a difference?

So here is my idea of a single video that would cause people across the political spectrum to not vote for Barack Obama.

Barack Obama has taken a lot of leftist positions to cater to the left wing back of the Democrat party.
Recently he has taken a sharp right turn, trying to make himself palatable to the average American.

Hearing his earlier stuff will turn off average Americans
Hearing his current stuff will turn off hard leftists.
Putting them together will turn off any voter who appreciates character.

Narrator: Pander: "To cater to the lower tastes and desires of others"

Narrator: [Discussion of Obama voting for every gun control measure]
[Film clip of Obama or campaign staff saying that the DC Gun Ban was constitutional with the date on the bottom]

[Film clip of Obama with "Seven months later" on the bottom]
Obama: [agreeing with the Supreme Court decision]

Narrator: Was he pandering then? Or is he pandering now?

Rev Write: G-D America

[Film clip of Obama with the date on the bottom]
Obama: I could no more disown Rev Write than my own grandmother

[Film clip of Obama with "Two Weeks Later" on the bottom]
Obama: [disowning Rev Write for "dissing" him]

Narrator: Was he pandering then? Or is he pandering now?

[Film clip of Obama with the date and "Speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee" on the bottom]
Obama: Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel - and it must remain undivided

[Film clip of Obama with "One day later" on the bottom]
Obama: [contradicting the undivided Jerusalem speech]

Narrator: Was he pandering then? Or is he pandering now?

[Another leftist clip or quote from his books]

[The corresponding contradiction of that clip]

Narrator: Was he pandering then? Or is he pandering now?

Etc.

re: #15 WrathofG-d

So I was listening to KPFK today (Pacifica Radio) and they described borders and "International Apartheid".

Thoughts?

World government apologists....complete loons

re: #17 Irish Rose

Ugh, you have got to be kidding.

I saw a little bit of that yesterday. It used to be much worse around here. A lot of people had a hard time siding with Muslims over "Christians".

re: #23 taxfreekiller

I just heard that he got just got busted visiting his mistress at a hotel in Los Angelels, while his wife was at home battling cancer.

Bad news = no news?

re: #14 Charles

Just had to ban two apologists for Radovan Karadzic, by the way.

This is not the blog on which to apologize for mass murderers of any kind or any ethnicity. People who do will lose their accounts.

I left their comments in place, to document it.

Apologizing for that monster?

Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody walk the Dinosaur
Boom boom akalakalaka boom

re: #17 Irish Rose

Ugh, you have got to be kidding.

there were a few of us yesterday pointing out that there are no good guys in that centuries-old ethnic conflict; however, there is no defending what this man is accused of...

re: #16 Ben Hur

'Stop construction on mass grave site'

Speaking of monsters....

re: #24 eschew_obfuscation

The idea that borders, and Nationality was "international apartheid", was shocking.

Just shows how a "progressive" can mess up perfectly good words.

like: peace, patriotism, environmentalism, anti-war, love, and coexistance.

re: #14 Charles

Ugh.

re: #8 MandyManners

Reminds me of that movie w/ Ahnold in which he and others are fighting an invisible ET.

Predator

re: #29 cutestguy

The Enquirer certainly thinks so.

Linked to this in the other open thread, but I found this humerous and thought I'd repost it here. Check the "alt" text for the image on the Yahoo.com site. :)

[Link: img177.imageshack.us...]

Seems odd the Enquirer doesn't have a single photo of Breck Boy.

re: #32 WrathofG-d

The idea that borders, and Nationality was "international apartheid", was shocking.

Just shows how a "progressive" can mess up perfectly good words.

like: peace, patriotism, environmentalism, anti-war, love, and coexistance.

Being a progressive means never having to use words correctly.

re: #21 Ben Hur

Europe's worst genocide since Hitler: How Dutch peacekeepers looked on as Karadzic's men butchered 8,000 at Srebrenica

8000.
That's nothing in Africa.

that's about 1/2 a days worth in Rwanda....

re: #34 grumpy old codger

Predator

GET TO DA CHOPPA!

re: #32 WrathofG-d

The idea that borders, and Nationality was "international apartheid", was shocking.

Just shows how a "progressive" can mess up perfectly good words.

like: peace, patriotism, environmentalism, anti-war, love, and coexistance.

To state that which is obvious to most of us....

If there were no borders, we'd need a new way to organize society and protect ourselves from those who don't like our organization......I don't believe there is any person or organization that could qualify to manage a society of 6 billion plus people.

This is a picture of Obama's proposed missile defense system for Israel, right?

re: #23 taxfreekiller

Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Rielle, they were observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.

Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Rielle.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

re: #43 MandyManners

odd, no pics or videos.

re: #41 eschew_obfuscation

They ought to try reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. They won't like that imagined future, either.

re: #15 WrathofG-d

So I was listening to KPFK today (Pacifica Radio) and they described borders and "International Apartheid".

Thoughts?

Sounds like they want to abolish borders everywhere to make everything and everyone all better. Imagine there's no countries...

It's beyond the Pale. _{/ Just a touch of sarcasm there}

Silky Pony, FTW! :P

re: #15 WrathofG-d

So I was listening to KPFK today (Pacifica Radio) and they described borders and "International Apartheid".

Thoughts?

And the accuse "neo-con" of being one worlders.

Imbeciles come to mind.

It is not the borders that make us what we are, rich affluent, powerful. It not the resources within those borders. It the idea we are founded on that make us so.

Yet when we export that idea, so other can be like us and ease the divide they yell imperialism.

They focus on the material (see ch. 1 Conscience of a Conservative B. Goldwater), failing to recognize the material came out of the ideological which we freely share.

re: #45 Dianna

Not in line with your comment, but I have to mention that Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson) is hands down my favorite sci fi book ever written.

Edwards may need to add some photos here

re: #48 Vergeltung

Silky Pony, FTW! :P

Now if he had a boat, he'd call it Monkey Business.

*hint* Google Gary Hart

re: #43 MandyManners
Great VP or POTUS material there!
Never liked him.
Feel bad for the wife tho.....
Divorce his ass and take him for EVERYTHING!

re: #50 Creeping Eruption

I liked Diamond Age, too; I've found pretty much everything he's done since to be disappointing.

Where is that fountain?

re: #14 Charles

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

re: #53 reloadingisnotahobby

I don't know if she's got the energy for that. Poor woman.

re: #54 Dianna

I agree.

re: #44 faraway

odd, no pics or videos.

I guarantee you that the reporters saw what they claim 'cause to lie about this would be actionable.

re: #55 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Santa Monica, says Ringo.

NT Times 2Q Profit drops 82%

And I bet they have no idea why.

re: #60 Dianna

Thanks

re: #43 MandyManners
He apparently wanted something 'on the side' that wouldn't be prettier than him.
I googled the net this morning looking for a better picture of 'her' but the camera is not her friend.

re: #52 jcm

Now if he had a boat, he'd call it Monkey Business.

*hint* Google Gary Hart

The Bimini Bomb Shell!

I was in Denver at the time and the rags had a field day with this.

re: #15 WrathofG-d

So I was listening to KPFK today (Pacifica Radio) and they described borders and "International Apartheid".

Thoughts?

Borders anywhere are the enemies of progressives everywhere. Here's just another example I happened across this week:

Mission statement
Unbound aims to support charitable operations in fields that promote self-determination by working to equalize the distribution of opportunities available to those who wish to help themselves and their families. This foundation welcomes innovation and creativity in addressing the fundamental inequity of opportunity globally.

Transnationalists are among the scariest of moonbats to me.

re: #57 Dianna

Ya know...I hadn't heard how she is in some time!

re: #41 eschew_obfuscation

To state that which is obvious to most of us....

If there were no borders, we'd need a new way to organize society and protect ourselves from those who don't like our organization......I don't believe there is any person or organization that could qualify to manage a society of 6 billion plus people.

OBAMA Can! ///

[Link: www.sciencedaily.com...]
Viral Cloaking Device: How Viruses Evade The Immune System

...
Sometime along its treacherous evolutionary path, HCMV stole a class 1 MHC molecule from its host and modified it for supreme stealth.
...

At the risk of anthropomorphizing a virus, ...

re: #64 MandyManners

The Bimini Bomb Shell!

I was in Denver at the time and the rags had a field day with this.

Catch me if you can was Hart's line IIRC.

The Beverly Bimbo

Charles, thank you for banning the apologists for the serbian genocide. War criminals have no place for redemption. I studied Yugoslavian history in college and that conflict had a lot for to do with ancient resentment and hatred stemming from the battle of Kosovo in 1389 where the native serbs were defeated by the invading Ottomans, and less about the Islamization of Serbia and Bosnia. While it is certainly true that if a US State gained a critical mass of muslim population and tried to secede there would be war, we would hope that we at least would fight with honor and not resort to the barbarous tactics that the sebs and the muslims practised.

Well, Getting off track.
If I'm going to make twice baked potatoes and totally frack the potato skins, can I make patties out of the stuffings and bake that?

re: #41 eschew_obfuscation

To state that which is obvious to most of us....

If there were no borders, we'd need a new way to organize society and protect ourselves from those who don't like our organization......I don't believe there is any person or organization that could qualify to manage a society of 6 billion plus people.

That doesn't stop them from believing that they could.

re: #51 faraway

Edwards may need to add some photos here

Very Sad! I never liked Edwards, but it is so disappointing for Elizabeth and his children if the scandal is true. I'll abide by the seven day rule before believing anything from the Enquirer.

re: #53 reloadingisnotahobby

Great VP or POTUS material there!
Never liked him.
Feel bad for the wife tho.....
Divorce his ass and take him for EVERYTHING!

She should get the house and a whole lot more. If he were my husband, he'd be walking funny for a long time.

re: #57 Dianna

I don't know if she's got the energy for that. Poor woman.

I bet her attorneys would.

re: #75 songbird

Very Sad! I never liked Edwards, but it is so disappointing for Elizabeth and his children if the scandal is true. I'll abide by the seven day rule before believing anything from the Enquirer.

It doesnt help his children to talk about this.

re: #63 EC Marm

He apparently wanted something 'on the side' that wouldn't be prettier than him.
I googled the net this morning looking for a better picture of 'her' but the camera is not her friend.

Maybe she has a sweet personality.

re: #72 ploome hineni

just amazing

will it make the news back home?

I'll see you that Obama gaffe and raise you an obama

flip-flop

re: #53 reloadingisnotahobby
Unfortunately, she's terminal. However, I suspect that if she did initiate a divorce, a good looking shyster like the silk pony could drag the case out for years.

re: #69 jcm

Catch me if you can was Hart's line IIRC.

Hubris brought him down fer sure.

Edwards 2 Americas includes 2 women, 2 families, etc.

Asking again, who were the idiots who got banned?

re: #76 MandyManners

She should get the house and a whole lot more. If he were my husband, he'd be walking funny for a long time.

Child Channeling Chump is worth $30 mill. She should get it all, plus alimony and child support. And Bobbit rights.

re: #75 songbird

Very Sad! I never liked Edwards, but it is so disappointing for Elizabeth and his children if the scandal is true. I'll abide by the seven day rule before believing anything from the Enquirer.

It's gotta' be true. Edwards would own the paper if it were false.

re: #61 kevinmumaw

NT Times 2Q Profit drops 82%

And I bet they have no idea why.

That low-cost betrayus ad must have hit them in the pocketbook!

re: #66 reloadingisnotahobby

Me, neither. I'm almost afraid to look, right now. It's just such a slap in the face for her; I'd almost wish the NE had left the matter alone.

Edwards was just trying to be like Bill Clinton, but he didn't have an intern around.

re: #81 grumpy old codger

Unfortunately, she's terminal. However, I suspect that if she did initiate a divorce, a good looking shyster like the silk pony could drag the case out for years.

She's dying and he could hold off on making a baby with another woman until his wife was in the grave?

re: #84 The Other Les

Asking again, who were the idiots who got banned?

One was:
Vinegar Joe

This user is blocked.
Registered since: Aug 23, 2007 at 6:47 pm
No. of comments posted: 158
No. of links posted: 7

Missed the other.

re: #91 MandyManners

She's dying and he could hold off on making a baby with another woman until his wife was in the grave?

When your DNA is important as he thinks his is, no.

re: #43 MandyManners

* * *
Somehow, it seems right that the Breck Girl would run & hide in the loo. I'm shocked no Purple Hearts were awarded!

re: #84 The Other Les

Asking again, who were the idiots who got banned?

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Alibaba and kuffarharbi.

re: #86 MandyManners

It's gotta' be true. Edwards would own the paper if it were false.

Yeah. Ain't that the truth. If you want to make false accusations against someone a multi-millionaire ambulance chasing trial lawyer may not be such a good place to start. There sure is a lot more lower hanging fruit then that.

re: #52 jcm

Now if he had a boat, he'd call it Monkey Business.

*hint* Google Gary Hart

I am old enough to remember Gary Hart! no google required. heh heh....

re: #77 MandyManners

Elizabeth Edwards has cancer; even if she sends in the lawyers, it will be very stressful. I don't think this would be a good thing for her.

Damn the man for being so selfish!

Love child
Never meant to be
Love Child
Born in poverty
Love Child
Never meant to be
Love Child
Take a look at me

re: #93 Lucius Septimius

When your DNA is important as he thinks his is, no.

It's all about the hair.

re: #13 Ringo the Gringo

Here's a picture of one of the others for perspective.

There are (I think) four of them along 3rd Street in Santa Monica.

Really cool. Next time I am there, I am looking for those.

re: #93 Lucius Septimius

When your DNA is important as he thinks his is, no.

I doubt he was thinking with his DNA.

re: #80 Francisco D'Anconia

I'll see you that Obama gaffe and raise you an obama

flip-flop

Will Obama give Dinnerjacket a wink and a fist bump?

re: #81 grumpy old codger

Elizabeth Edwards is terminal? I don't remember reading that; I remember reading that she had a recurrence of her cancer, but not that it was terminal?

re: #94 alegrias

* * *
Somehow, it seems right that the Breck Girl would run & hide in the loo. I'm shocked no Purple Hearts were awarded!

That whole scene sounds like somethng straight out of a movie.

ABC News thought GOP Love Child was news worthy

re: #96 EC Marm

Yeah. Ain't that the truth. If you want to make false accusations against someone a multi-millionaire ambulance chasing trial lawyer may not be such a good place to start. There sure is a lot more lower hanging fruit then that.

It's not like this was breaking news without plenty of time to check the facts.

re: #3 Typicalwhitey

TW, a while back I read a story in which several unamed fellow senators made the claim that the Obama is what they refer to as a show horse. His gig is to do as little as possible, then jump in to claim credit on "popular" legislation.

bbl

re: #89 ploome hineni

yikes! had not heard of that one before. thanks for the link.

WHY YOU NEVER QUESTION A DRUNK...
> > > I was shopping at the local supermarket where I
> > selected:
> > > A half-gallon of 2% milk
> > > A carton of eggs
> > > A quart of orange juice
> > > A head of lettuce
> > > A 2 lb. can of coffee
> > > A 1 lb. package of bacon
> > > As I was unloading my items on the conveyor belt to
> > check out, a drunk
> > standing behind me watched as I placed the items in front
> > of the
> > cashier. While the cashier was ringing up the purchases,
> > the drunk
> > calmly stated, 'You must be single.'
> > > I was a bit startled by this proclamation, but I was
> > intrigued by the
> > derelict's intuition, since I was indeed single. I
> > looked at the six
> > items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual
> > about my
> > selections that could have tipped off the drunk to my
> > marital status.
> > > Curiosity getting the better of me, I said: 'Well,
> > you know what,
> > you're absolutely right. But how on earth did you know
> > that?' The drunk
> > replied, ''Cause you're ugly.'

re: #102 MandyManners

I doubt he was thinking with his DNA.

Yeah....thinking with his little brain.

/snarl

BTW Charles. I want to thank you. I went to pandora.com and created a radio station using Don Ross as an example of the music I wanted to hear and have been listening to great music all afternoon by him and many others.

re: #102 MandyManners

I doubt he was thinking with his DNA.

From an evolutionary biological pov, actually he was. That's the master program; the hardware (thanks to Cialis) is merely a delivery system.

re: #77 MandyManners

I bet her attorneys would.

And I'll bet she knows some good ones!

re: #112 ploome hineni

oh Mandy..

men are weak

Hey! There is a woman involved too....

"Coexisting"... LOL.

re: #112 ploome hineni

oh Mandy..

men are weak

Hmmm...well, it would be a personal story to counter that sweeping generalization, so nevermind.

re: #89 ploome hineni

Hence the term "Hama rules".

re: #112 ploome hineni

oh Mandy..

men are weak

Plenty of men wouldn't cheat on their dying wives.

Some men are scum.

re: #114 Ford_Prefect

BTW Charles. I want to thank you. I went to pandora.com and created a radio station using Don Ross as an example of the music I wanted to hear and have been listening to great music all afternoon by him and many others.

I just checked that out now too. very cool! playing a little Tennessee Jed as I type.... :)

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Times Co. says its second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from the year-ago quarter boosted by a one-time gain. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink.
The New York-based newspaper publisher says its quarterly net income dropped to $21.1 million, or 15 cents per share, which included 11 cents per share in buyout costs.

Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected income of 22 cents per share in the latest quarter. Analyst estimates typically exclude special items.

Revenue dropped 6 percent to $741.9 million, missing the average Wall Street estimate for $754 million. Ad revenue slipped down 11 percent, hurt mostly by fewer classified ads.

Chief Executive Janet Robinson says business was hurt by the "U.S. economic slowdown and secular forces playing out across the media industry."

What are "secular forces"?

re: #122 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Plenty of men wouldn't cheat on their dying wives.

Some men are scum.

And plenty of women wouldn't screw men with dying wives.

Some women are scum.

re: #122 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Plenty of men wouldn't cheat on their dying wives.

Some men are scum.

Exactly. And this "story" is still the National Enquirer, for Pete's sake...it needs a 7-day rule and a 7-gallon bleach rinse first.

Ben, you mean to say that the Warsaw Pact didn't commit genocide during the period 1945 through the end of the Cold War (or even to the death of Stalin in about 1954) in numbers exceeding 8,000. Not including inside the Soviet Union itself, cause some nit picker will claim the USSR or Russia is not 'European'. So, just limiting it to the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe, the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia), and Yugoslavia under Tito. I am sure more than 8,000 died in each of the aforementioned countries during from the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War, but that would mean having to connote genocide to the lib reporters' favorite country and philosophy, Commies. Better just to let it rest with Serbia, whom the left continues to portray as a fascist (i.e. rightwinger) rather than as the commie/socialist country that it was.

re: #21 Ben Hur

Ehm..

From your link...

Crime: Journalists inspect the site where four Muslims were slaughtered

I think, the article is over hype, as well as usually things goes unregistered, like how bosnian started salughtering serbs from 1992 onwards..

though i m not a fan of killing, massmurdering.. but when Murder of millions around the globe in Indian subcontinent, in Africa, or even in Thailand goes unregistered... because ____________________ , due to this i somewhere will tag the article and its point over hyped....

No idea, am i turning cold.... or is the cruel world had forced me to behave cold ...

re: #101 OldLineTexan

its a different DINO

As Byron York pointed out, “the Rush Limbaugh oxycontin story was broken by the Enquirer, and the press ran with that one.”

re: #124 ploome hineni

Gah. Gah!

I am just so angry, and I don't know a single one of the people involved.

re: #82 MandyManners

yeah,that or a case of pee-wee syndrome.....

re: #125 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What are "secular forces"?

/raises hand

HARHARHARHARHARHARHARHARHAR!

re: #117 eschew_obfuscation

Hey! There is a woman involved too....

Yeah, that is what I thought.

re: #15 WrathofG-d

So I was listening to KPFK today (Pacifica Radio) and they described borders and "International Apartheid".

Thoughts?

Ask these same assplows how they felt about the Berlin Wall coming down.

/crickets
//gnashing of teeth

re: #125 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What are "secular forces"?

It has nothing to do with religiousity but rather is a term that describes underlying market forces or trends.

re: #123 Vergeltung

I just checked that out now too. very cool! playing a little Tennessee Jed as I type.... :)

I happen to be listening to Don Ross "Dracula And Friends Part One".
Very nice.

re: #39 Vergeltung

Please don't blame the Dutch peace keepers, the boots on the ground soldiers or their commanding officers. As in Rwanda, the villains in this case (aside actual killers) were the EU & UN for handcuffing the troops with absurd ROE. The peacekeepers wanted to stop it but could do nothing. The Serbs knew this and manipulated & abused them. And we are all set up to see this happen again with UNIFIL in Lebanon.

re: #125 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What are "secular forces"?

seems like the word was used incorrectly, no?

re: #14 Charles

Just had to ban two apologists for Radovan Karadzic, by the way.

This is not the blog on which to apologize for mass murderers of any kind or any ethnicity. People who do will lose their accounts.

I left their comments in place, to document it.

Good riddance. Only moonbats and fifth columnists objected when Saddam was strung up for killing thousands of Muslims. Why should this pig Karadzic be any different (though, regrettably, he will not hang)?

secular forces= science majors

re: #118 Josephine

till when .... anyways Mermaids are facing hard time in Europe, they were even beheaded

re: #124 ploome hineni

she is not married, she is out for herself

and the so is the silk pony..out for himself -period

I'm not standing up for him....but what does the fact that she's not married have to do with anything? Clearly, she knew who that she was hurting someone......that certainly doesn't take 'strength'.

re: #141 Vergeltung

seems like the word was used incorrectly, no?

"Secular vs. Cyclical Forces
Secular forces determine market direction over the long term, but there are clearly times when cyclical forces dominate, either reinforcing or contradicting the secular trend."

re: #112 ploome hineni

Excuse me? Don't you dare tar the whole of mankind with Edward's stinking brush.

Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

Thus says Michelle Obama.

Crack the whip on our backs Barry,

but I'll live my life as I see fit.

Link

re: #138 ploome hineni

Would the separated wife have had insurance without him? This isn't a situation I haven't heard about before; a lot of people won't divorce an ailing spouse, even if they've reached the parting of the ways.

I've also heard of a man who divorced his wife the second she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Grrrrr.

re: #135 opnion

Yeah, that is what I thought.

But if it was just two guys, we could attack all guys with abandon.

FLASH Update

the man who drove Edwards was Bob McGovern, the same man who drove Rielle to the hotel from Santa Barbara and rented her room in his name.

re: #112 ploome hineni

Not all men.

I have never cheated

Excuse my cynicism, perhaps The Edwards have an agreement. Lib lawyers can be sophisticated that way.

secular trends include:

1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

1997: The Spread of Capitalism

re: #140 Kenneth

Please don't blame the Dutch peace keepers, the boots on the ground soldiers or their commanding officers. As in Rwanda, the villains in this case (aside actual killers) were the EU & UN for handcuffing the troops with absurd ROE. The peacekeepers wanted to stop it but could do nothing. The Serbs knew this and manipulated & abused them. And we are all set up to see this happen again with UNIFIL in Lebanon.

hear ya. I think once you slalp the tag "peacekeepers" on anyone, you condemn them to a useless presence..... I always think of the baby-blue (Robin's Egg blue) berets they wear. those are real menacing looking for sure.

scares the heck oughta me....

re: #86 MandyManners

It's gotta' be true. Edwards would own the paper if it were false.

Although I agree that it would be incredibly stupid to make up this story about Edwards, I find it impossible that this tabloid magazine, after actually tracking him to the hotel and catching him like this, wouldn't have ONE single photograph or video of him running through the basement trying to avoid the reporters questions, especially with the swarms of paparazzi that the Enquirer employs.

re: #115 Lucius Septimius

From an evolutionary biological pov, actually he was. That's the master program; the hardware (thanks to Cialis) is merely a delivery system.

I would make the argument that from the evolutionary biological standpoint he should stay home and guard his women against impregnation by other men and protect his own offspring. The "Johnny Appleseed" approach seems kind of barbaric to me. But I'm just a knuckledragging conservative kind of guy who's been married to the same woman for like, ever.

Edwards' advisers are "spitting mad and furious" that his late-night escapades have made international headlines because it could derail his chances of becoming Barack Obama's running mate.

re: #154 Ojoe

put me on that list as well.never have never will.

re: #84 The Other Les

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re: #154 Ojoe

Good for you.

re: #14 Charles

Thanks Charles

This place is great

Not the least because you boot out the stinkers

re: #104 Dianna

Elizabeth Edwards is terminal? I don't remember reading that; I remember reading that she had a recurrence of her cancer, but not that it was terminal?

When breast cancer recurs, it is treatable, not curable -

re: #146 hermeneutics

"Secular vs. Cyclical Forces
Secular forces determine market direction over the long term, but there are clearly times when cyclical forces dominate, either reinforcing or contradicting the secular trend."

ah, ok, thanks for the clarification and clarity. appreciate it.

re: #158 ploome hineni

Well, at least he didn't abandon his almost-ex. It does seem a strange sort of arrangement, though, I must agree.

re: #98 Dianna

Damn the man for being so selfish!

What? You expect something else from a liberal?

re: #149 Ojoe

Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.Thus says Michelle Obama.

Crack the whip on our backs Barry,

but I'll live my life as I see fit.

Link

I am involved. I am informed.
I will bitterly cling to my guns, my religion, MY LIBERTY! As usual.

re: #168 ploome hineni

Love ya Ploome...but, IMHO, that's crap.

re: #164 Dianna

God willing either I will die in my wife's arms or she in mine.

re: #168 ploome hineni

that is true,of my friends who have strayed,it is habitual.(i guess a way to soothe/stroke their egos.)

re: #159 JamesWI

Although I agree that it would be incredibly stupid to make up this story about Edwards, I find it impossible that this tabloid magazine, after actually tracking him to the hotel and catching him like this, wouldn't have ONE single photograph or video of him running through the basement trying to avoid the reporters questions, especially with the swarms of paparazzi that the Enquirer employs.

the ambush may have required more stealth. a small footprint, as it were....

re: #166 reine.de.tout

It wasn't breast cancer, as I recall, that appeared.

I'm not all that good at google - maybe someone else could find a link?

re: #144 loveguru

till when .... anyways Mermaids are facing hard time in Europe, they were even beheaded

I was thinking of this.

re: #145 eschew_obfuscation

I'm not standing up for him....but what does the fact that she's not married have to do with anything? Clearly, she knew who that she was hurting someone......that certainly doesn't take 'strength'.

Exactly, she knew that this was another womans husband.
At least if she was married , they would have something in common

re: #148 ploome hineni

Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian commander in Rwanda, had a breakdown. I recommend you see Shake Hands With the Devil.

Interestingly, many Canadian troops who served in Bosnia suffered from PTSD; as many as 50% in a some units. When planning began for the Afghanistan mission, the MOD expected similar rates of PTSD. But it never happened. In Af'stan, our troops have aggressive ROE. They are actually allowed to kill the bad guys & protect the civilians. PTSD rates are below 5%. Go figure.

re: #149 Ojoe

Thus says Michelle Obama.

Crack the whip on our backs Barry,

but I'll live my life as I see fit.

Link

The problem for Barry is we are informed and involved, which explains why we're against him.

re: #170 Gang of One

I don't know. It makes me feel sad and sick.

re: #171 jcm

American primitive man

re: #160 EC Marm

I would make the argument that from the evolutionary biological standpoint he should stay home and guard his women against impregnation by other men and protect his own offspring. The "Johnny Appleseed" approach seems kind of barbaric to me. But I'm just a knuckledragging conservative kind of guy who's been married to the same woman for like, ever.

anthropologically, at different times and geographic areas, mankind has successfully used 3 types of breeding strategies...but, I dare not go any further unless prodded.

re: #184 Ojoe

American primitive man

LOL!

re: #160 EC Marm

I would make the argument that from the evolutionary biological standpoint he should stay home and guard his women against impregnation by other men and protect his own offspring. The "Johnny Appleseed" approach seems kind of barbaric to me. But I'm just a knuckledragging conservative kind of guy who's been married to the same woman for like, ever.

Well, there too there is an evolutionary biological argument (several, actually). My favorite has to do with cooking -- it appears in an article by an old professor of mine, Richard Wrangham, entitled "The Raw and the Stolen" (Abstract here)

The adoption of cooking required delay of the consumption of food while it was accumulated and/or brought to a processing area, and accumulations of food were valuable and stealable. Dominant (e.g., larger) individuals (typically male) were therefore able to scrounge from subordinate (e.g., smaller) individuals (typically female) instead of relying on their own foraging efforts. Because female fitness is limited by access to resources (particularly energetic resources), this dynamic would have favored females able to minimize losses to theft. To do so, we suggest, females formed protective relationships with male co-defenders. Males would have varied in their ability or willingness to engage effectively in this relationship, so females would have competed for the best food guards, partly by extending their period of sexual attractiveness. This would have increased the numbers of matings per pregnancy, reducing the intensity of male intrasexual competition. ... [W]we suggest that cooking was responsible for the evolution of the unusual human social system in which pair bonds are embedded within multifemale, multimale communities and supported by strong mutual and frequently conflicting sexual interest.

Feminists were not amused, btw.

Afternoon, all.

re: #157 Vergeltung

Peacekeeping has gotten a bad rap lately, because the UN has handcuffed the troops with ridiculous ROE. This dooms the operation from the get-go. Peacekeeping can work if all sides genuinely want peace, and if the troops are given realistic ROE. Otherwise... Rwanda happens.

Is that my Mother-in-Law?

re: #177 Dianna

It wasn't breast cancer, as I recall, that appeared.

I'm not all that good at google - maybe someone else could find a link?

Dianna - I had a friend who went through this. The cancer may have reappeared in another part of her body; but I believe it tracks back to the breast cancer. This is what happened to my friend. It was treatable but not curable, treatment bought her another 2 years (long enough to see her son graduate from HS), - but eventually she did pass away.

Link - Elizabeth Edwards breast cancer

re: #189 Irish Rose

Hi Rose. How are things?

re: #186 Vergeltung
Sure, go ahead. I'm curious. Which is the highest on the evolutionary scale and not only guarantees the production of intelligent offspring but provides some chance that the offspring will have affirmative feelings to aging parents?

FYI, oil is down another $3.98 a barrel

re: #187 jcm

Check out the album "The Man from God Knows Where " by Tom Russell, for songs with that phrase.

You cannot improve that album.

BBL

Work

re: #181 Kenneth

Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian commander in Rwanda, had a breakdown. I recommend you see Shake Hands With the Devil.

Interestingly, many Canadian troops who served in Bosnia suffered from PTSD; as many as 50% in a some units. When planning began for the Afghanistan mission, the MOD expected similar rates of PTSD. But it never happened. In Af'stan, our troops have aggressive ROE. They are actually allowed to kill the bad guys & protect the civilians. PTSD rates are below 5%. Go figure.

From: anonymous

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things
I cannot change, the courage to change the things
I can, and the firepower to make a difference."

re: #190 Kenneth

Peacekeeping has gotten a bad rap lately, because the UN has handcuffed the troops with ridiculous ROE. This dooms the operation from the get-go. Peacekeeping can work if all sides genuinely want peace, and if the troops are given realistic ROE. Otherwise... Rwanda happens.

well, yeah, that's what I mean. the ROE is like the baby-blue beanie; ubiquitous.

re: #194 EC Marm

Sure, go ahead. I'm curious. Which is the highest on the evolutionary scale and not only guarantees the production of intelligent offspring but provides some chance that the offspring will have affirmative feelings to aging parents?

Someone told me that, in China, children are required by law to financially support their elderly parents.

re: #178 ploome hineni

Sorry, the "nothing to do with mate" part.

I had a devoted friend who worshipped his wife...after five years of being "cut off" in every emotional way possible, he had an affair. He would have never done this had he not been abandoned.

Why he didn't leave her beforehand, I don't know. They're still married, and I pity them both.

Now, that being said, I know people who are serial adulterers. Them? I can't stand them.

BTW, today is my 25th wedding anniversary.

re: #176 Vergeltung

the ambush may have required more stealth. a small footprint, as it were....

Well, according to their story, they had him trapped in a bathroom for 15 minutes where he wouldn't answer questions, then a large group of hotel security men came and escorted him past the Enquirer people. No photos or video of any of this?

Watching the coverage of Barrack Hussein in Israel and the Middle East I came to a moment of clear vision :

Obama is the American Olmert!

Israelis had great hope for Olmert as someone who would lead a new way to peace. Like Obama he is a smooth talker and a lawyer. Olmert however is arguably the worst Prime Minister in Israeli history. His inexperience led Israel into the 2006 Southern Lebanon War where his Defence Minister was a labor organizer. He has been reluctant to use military force to protect Israel's interest in Gaza and Lebanon. Israel now faces 40,000 missiles pointed at it from Lebanon, as well as missiles from Gaza, and also from Iraq, with its population centers at risk as a result. Olmert believes in words, not acts, and likes the sound of his own voice. Sound familiar?

The election of an in-experienced Obama will put American national security at risk. John F. Kennedy's lack of experience and Kruschev's sense that he could be taken advantage in Cuba came close to causing a nuclear war. No doubt Ahmadinejad and Putin are salivating for Obama's election, as are others who believe he is a lightweight and afraid to use the military force of this country. Israel will no doubt launch on the Iranian nuclear sites if he is elected, they will believe they have no choice.

The type of "change" Obama offers should not come at the expense of our future.

re: #195 3 wood

FYI, oil is down another $3.98 a barrel

Democrats better hurry up and do something to stop the slide or we'll never ween ourselves off oil and embrace appropriate technologies and a simpler life in tune with nature and chiggers and rat-borne typhus.

re: #201 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Congrats on the anniversary.

re: #196 ploome hineni

so tell me, anyone

how many muslim killers have been charged for crimes agains humanity?

in Darfur?

how about the cannibals eathing pygmies in the congo? Have the assholes in the Hague noticed?

how about the Fatah and Hamas killings in the streets of Ramallah and Gaza, and then stringing up the bodies for days?

Mugabe anyone?

or is it only Christians and JEws who are the targets for the pricks at the Hague?

They only go after those who live in a society that generally adheres to a standard of civil behavior because only those societies pay any attention to things like laws.

#203 change Iraq to Iran.

Boy, that Edwards House is an awful monstrosity isn't it?

re: #195 3 wood

FYI, oil is down another $3.98 a barrel

I pinged you up for that. Shame I only have one ping, so I could make it drop another $3.98?
Obama slipping in the polls, imho.
Speculators seeing the early enthusiasm for BHO, hoping for a weak America, bidding up the price. Chickens, meet roost.

re: #208 offendi

#203 change Iraq to Iran.

Q: What do libs think GW Bush has been doing since 2003?

/

Ooookkkaaaayyy......

Climate protester tries to glue himself to British PM

A climate change protester unsuccessfully tried to superglue himself to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event in the leader's residence, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

re: #196 ploome hineni

The President of Sudan has just been charged, along with several of his cabinet and top generals. Good luck arresting them.

re: #196 ploome hineni

so tell me, anyone

how many muslim killers have been charged for crimes agains humanity?

in Darfur?

how about the cannibals eathing pygmies in the congo? Have the assholes in the Hague noticed?

how about the Fatah and Hamas killings in the streets of Ramallah and Gaza, and then stringing up the bodies for days?

Mugabe anyone?

or is it only Christians and JEws who are the targets for the pricks at the Hague?

I'd say you got that right!

The unfortunate part is that it seems to be historically rare in Africa for countries to have good leadership. When they have (pre-Mugabe Zimbabwe), the countries have done reasonably well. IIRC, Zimbabwe was once the 'breadbasket of Africa' in terms of exports to other African countries and the economy that that generated. (I'm definitely not an expert on African history.....but this is my recollection).

re: #212 jcm

Something of a sticky wicket, eh?

Reposting my clever alteration--further revised--of a creationist post from yesterday (which referred to "darwinist evolution," "Darwinism," and "Darwinists").

A theist who accepts franklinist electricityism is ignorant, a liar, or a fool. There is not room for an intelligent designer of lightning in RANDOM friction and NATURAL electrostatic charges. The only logical basis and conclusion of Franklinism is philosophical materialism. But arguments based on circular reasoning are the hallmark of Franklinists.

re: #204 Lucius Septimius

Democrats better hurry up and do something to stop the slide or we'll never ween ourselves off oil and embrace appropriate technologies and a simpler life in tune with nature and chiggers and rat-borne typhus.

You say this as if that were a bad thing ... :>)

/do I?

re: #192 reine.de.tout

Thanks.

No updates about her condition?

re: #212 jcm

Ooookkkaaaayyy......

Climate protester tries to glue himself to British PM

If doofus had put it on his hand and gone for a friendly shake, they'd still be "together".

Did anyone else see where the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, came to the defense of Sudan's genocidal president yesterday?

re: #210 EC Marm

Chickens, meet roost.

I will never hear that line ever again without hearing the creepy and crazy voice of Rev. Wright.

re: #194 EC Marm

Sure, go ahead. I'm curious. Which is the highest on the evolutionary scale and not only guarantees the production of intelligent offspring but provides some chance that the offspring will have affirmative feelings to aging parents?

ok, here goes...the nutshell version is that the larger racial gropuing of/in humanity developed differing breeding strategies based upon their genetic abilities as well as their geographical location, respources, and climate. it's a sliding scale, from small monogamous families, devoting much energy to relatively few offsping until they could fend for themselves, to a more promiscuous breeding strategy, with little nuclear family cohesion, producing maximum offspring, but devoting fewer resources to raise them.

there are two polar ends, with 2 mid-groupings, in that sliding scale. very interesting theory IMO.

#196 ploome hineni

Also, the Argentine gov't has issued arrest warrants for several senior Iranian mullahs for the bombing of th Jewish center. Interpol has taken up the case. Good luck arresting them too.

re: #210 EC Marm

Shame I only have one ping, so I could make it drop another $3.98?

If I register a sockpuppet named "oil", will everyone DOWN-ping it?

PLEASE?!?

Well I am off. I look forward to our next meeting. Till then I wish you all great joy and happiness.

re: #207 ploome hineni

I knew a 44 yr old woman who was living with breast cancer and bone cancer for more than 10 years, and she was on constant chemotherapy

Yes, the science that has led to modern medical treatments amazing. The chemo, I'm sure, was unpleasant, but if that had been me, I would have been thanking God every day for every extra day I had. Disease and conditions that used to be death sentences are now often curable, and even when they are not curable, people get some time to put things straight (if that's what they want to do).

re: #216 Tigger2005

Reposting my clever alteration--further revised--of a creationist post from yesterday (which referred to "darwinist evolution," "Darwinism," and "Darwinists").

A theist who accepts franklinist electricityism is ignorant, a liar, or a fool. There is not room for an intelligent designer of lightning in RANDOM friction and NATURAL electrostatic charges. The only logical basis and conclusion of Franklinism is philosophical materialism. But arguments based on circular reasoning are the hallmark of Franklinists.

*ZAAAPPPP!*

re: #202 JamesWI

Well, according to their story, they had him trapped in a bathroom for 15 minutes where he wouldn't answer questions, then a large group of hotel security men came and escorted him past the Enquirer people. No photos or video of any of this?

dunno man. you do make a good point there.....

re: #217 Gang of One

It would be a lot easier to accept the rhetoric about alternative fuels were it not iced with ludditism and maudlin sighs about "the Earth our Mother."

re: #218 Dianna

Thanks.

No updates about her condition?

That's the most recent article I saw when I googled elizabeth edwards breast cancer.
There may be a more recent one that was further down on the list - I didn't look too far.

re: #201 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

BTW, today is my 25th wedding anniversary.

Congrats, we made 25 a month ago.

re: #19 The Other Les

Who?

Alibaba & kuffarharbi ...

}:)     [Thank you Charles!]

re: #168 ploome hineni

lotsa men are weak, I never said all men cheat

anyway

if they want to cheat they will, it is a character issue

nothing to do with the wife/mate whatever

But what is "character" today? It is interesting to me that younger people tend to have clear black and white views of things while people who have a bit more life experience see a lot of grays.

I think society has redefined sexual character as religious observance and belief has declined. "You only live once" and relativism is applied to our life choices as much as they are to our politics. Does liberal thought happily co-exist with adultery?

re: #228 buzzsawmonkey

I thought everyone underwent a complete change every seven years--in which case she would not be quite "the same woman."

I've heard that but can't believe it. If we were to shed brain cells that carry memory, wouldn't we completely forget things that happened eight years prior?
"Sorry your honor, I have no recollection of that. It happened eight years ago."

Coexisting? As in dinosaurs and man?

Charles, I've been very concerned lately about anti-Mexican, white nationalist hate groups that are infiltrating the anti-immigration movement here in the states.

These are some vile, hateful people... I saw one guy on another blog, who claims that he hates all Mexicans (even those who are US citizens), advocating for mass deportation. Then there are the vile people who suggest that we position our military personnel on the border with orders to shoot to kill.

It's terribly disturbing to read this kind of crap, and even more disturbing to see conservatives giving it a pass.

You did a wonderful job uncovering the infiltration of white supremacists in Europe, and you sent a lot of cockroaches scurrying for cover. I wonder if you might consider doing a similiar expose on anti-immigration hate groups here in the US?

{deja vu moment}

re: #231 Lucius Septimius

It would be a lot easier to accept the rhetoric about alternative fuels were it not iced with ludditism and maudlin sighs about "the Earth our Mother."

Agreed.

re: #223 Vergeltung

One major issue is brain size: human infants are totally helpless for at least a year, a function of effectively being born (by animal standards) prematurely. This is because the head is so big it can barely make it through the hip girdle as it is. Chimp brains are only about a 1/4 of ours, and the braincase correspondingly smaller, so they are much more developed when born. The weakness of infants intensifies the need for parental investment, increasing the need for older adults to aid in the care of the offspring.

re: #193 Lucius Septimius

Hi Rose. How are things?

Fine and dandy, how are things with you?

WA State's "smart" Senator had an energy statement last night.

Asked point-blank if Democrats in the Senate would consider how increasing the supply of oil would lower the prices that are pinching U.S. consumers, Cantwell replied: "Oh, we definitely want to move beyond petroleum. And so there will be a supply side offered by the Democrats and it will include everything from battery technology to making sure that we have good home domestic supply, and looking, as I said about moving faster on those kind of things like wind and solar that can help us with our high cost of natural gas."

move beyond petroleum -- we are petroleum based ecomony, get used to it.

supply side offered by the Democrats and it will include everything from battery technology -- Oh? Where is the DNC RnD facility for battery development.

like wind and solar that can help us with our high cost of natural gas. -- Wind and Solar are flatulent?

re: #229 jcm

(I wanted to reply ... "go fly a kite" ... to Tigger, but I don't have time at the moment to start one of those things ... SO, I did NOT.)

*private chuckle*

re: #231 Lucius Septimius

It would be a lot easier to accept the rhetoric about alternative fuels were it not iced with ludditism and maudlin sighs about "the Earth our Mother."

Yes...conservation is good; reduction of pollution is good; leaving the Saudis to eat their oil is good...but making a religion of it and starting the Inquisition centuries early is BAD.

I'm not saying this poll is accurate, but... it is interesting:

WOMEN are far more unfaithful than men, a survey reveals.

Forty per cent of females cheat on lovers, compared with 34 per cent of males.

re: #240 Irish Rose

I'll second that.

re: #235 buzzsawmonkey

Upding, with one cavil: Obama is not "afraid" to use American force. He is opposed to it on ideological grounds.

He will have to "un-oppose" himself quickly when the poor decisions he makes if he is elected President puts the country in the s#%& pile. Even Bill threw a couple of missiles out Saddam Hussein's way after he tried to assassinate Bush I in a plot.

re: #245 Irish Rose

Swell, but now I must run off to a planning meeting where, so far as I can tell, we will plan for more meetings to plan some more meetings and so on and so forth until our little Outlook calendars explode.

Ciao

I've never cheated, either....of course, that could have something to do with the fact that I've never been married, and thus do not have a wife. Not even so much as a steady girlfriend.

/need to get moving on that

bbl

re: #210 EC Marm

Obama slipping in the polls, imho.
Speculators seeing the early enthusiasm for BHO, hoping for a weak America, bidding up the price. Chickens, meet roost.

I think the drop is mainly due to reduction in demand as the price forced some people to cut consumption.

For example, I'm seeing a lot more bicycles now in the morning when I ride mine to work.

I know a lot of people who have curtailed travel plans due to cost.

Although I must say, my 16 year old daughter is trying to keep the consumption up there all by herself. She thinks that the tank in Dad's car is bottomless and gas is free.

re: #163 reine.de.tout

And this individual as well.

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re: #236 offendi

But what is "character" today? It is interesting to me that younger people tend to have clear black and white views of things while people who have a bit more life experience see a lot of grays.

I think society has redefined sexual character as religious observance and belief has declined. "You only live once" and relativism is applied to our life choices as much as they are to our politics. Does liberal thought happily co-exist with adultery?

Duty -- the forgotten word.
I have accepted a duty, both in my religious perspective and societally.
That duty is provide for my family emotionally, financially, in every way. Feelings don't over ride duty.

re: #240 Irish Rose

Charles, I've been very concerned lately about anti-Mexican, white nationalist hate groups that are infiltrating the anti-immigration movement here in the states.

These are some vile, hateful people... I saw one guy on another blog, who claims that he hates all Mexicans (even those who are US citizens), advocating for mass deportation. Then there are the vile people who suggest that we position our military personnel on the border with orders to shoot to kill.

I've banned people from LGF for spouting that kind of hatred, and probably will again.

re: #251 Kenneth

I'm not saying this poll is accurate, but... it is interesting:

WOMEN are far more unfaithful than men, a survey reveals.

Maybe women are just more honest or naive?

re: #14 Charles

Thank you, Charles.

You may want to keep an eye on the member called Fanter, too. It appeared to be silently down-dinging the poster who was arguing vs. the two that you banned.

re: #244 Lucius Septimius

One major issue is brain size: human infants are totally helpless for at least a year, a function of effectively being born (by animal standards) prematurely. This is because the head is so big it can barely make it through the hip girdle as it is. Chimp brains are only about a 1/4 of ours, and the braincase correspondingly smaller, so they are much more developed when born. The weakness of infants intensifies the need for parental investment, increasing the need for older adults to aid in the care of the offspring.

Ironically, the author of the theory discussed brain size and other physical and genetic factors in the groups he was classifying, and theorized they related to the differing breeding strategies (as well as the environments, etc).

I have to dig it up again, and do a re-read. IIRC, I had an abridged version of the original work. I remember it as being thought of as controversial...

As for the comments you made, I think that applies to all human offspring, so it's not a factor in the differentiation in breeding strategies I was talking about.

re: #91 MandyManners

She's dying and he could hold off on making a baby with another woman until his wife was in the grave?

That is what any decent spouse would do.
Even screwing around on a terminal spouse without impregnating the other woman is despicable.
And by the way, what kind of a person would knowingly get involved with a disreputable guy like that?

re: #189 Irish Rose

Afternoon, all.

{Irish Rose}

/Everytime i see your nic i think of the coolest bar in Hawaii..the Irish Rose..boy the memories..

re: #248 ploome hineni

racist
/lol

I think the scientist/anthropologist who wrote the work was splapped with that label. his work was not PC, for sure...

oh well.

re: #257 3 wood

I think the drop is mainly due to reduction in demand as the price forced some people to cut consumption.

For example, I'm seeing a lot more bicycles now in the morning when I ride mine to work.

I know a lot of people who have curtailed travel plans due to cost.

Although I must say, my 16 year old daughter is trying to keep the consumption up there all by herself. She thinks that the tank in Dad's car is bottomless and gas is free.

My 18 year old daughter received a $20/wk gas stipend while she was ferrying her younger sister to school.

Now that she will be attending junior college, gas is her responsibility once again.

She does a lot of "optional" (read: poorly planned) driving, and she is slowly developing the idea that I won't support it. ;)

re: #257 3 wood

I think the drop is mainly due to reduction in demand as the price forced some people to cut consumption.

Could be. We'll know soon enough, since the federal highway tax on gasoline and fuel oil is fixed. There will be screams for a tax hike if demand drops.

re: #240 Irish Rose