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Yeah, but socialism is the anti-evolution. I think I already said this, but if trilobites had a union and a Democratic voting bloc, they would still be around, receiving subsidies and massive pork.
Subject: Re: Message received at Java Zen Blog
From: “Robert Spencer”
Date: Fri, February 20, 2009 4:12 pm
Please contact my attorney:
WILLIAM J. BECKER, JR., ESQ
The Becker Law Firm
11500 Olympic Blvd., Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Tel:[no phone numbers allowed]
Fax:[no phone numbers allowed]
On Feb 20, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Gregory Engel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I received the following message yesterday via the contact form on my
> blog, “Thinking Out Loud.” The message author claims to be Robert
> Spencer.
> While I have taken measures to filter out spoofed messages, I never
> assume
> the filters to be perfect. Can this message be confirmed as having
> come
> from Robert Spencer at jihadwatch.org?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gregory Engel
Here is what we need to do in the next cookbook..The lmao section was good in the first one..
Chapter 3 The funniest most stupidest meltdowns of 08-09.. ( the ones that made us fall out of the Chair.) You can't buy what I have read in the last 6 months.
Chapter 4: The most delightful post of 08.. IE..Funny, witty. etc.
Chapter 5: The best of Buzzsawmonkey.. Things you read over the year that floored you..( I've read alot )
Chapter 6: The Goddessoftheclassroom prayer list.. The prayers, the answers and the stories...
Chapter 7: You report we decide.. Wait! We'd get sued for that!
Here is what we need to do in the next cookbook..The lmao section was good in the first one..
Chapter 3 The funniest most stupidest meltdowns of 08-09.. ( the ones that made us fall out of the Chair.) You can't buy what I have read in the last 6 months.
Chapter 4: The most delightful post of 08.. IE..Funny, witty. etc.
Chapter 5: The best of Buzzsawmonkey.. Things you read over the year that floored you..( I've read alot )
Chapter 6: The Goddessoftheclassroom prayer list.. The prayers, the answers and the stories...
Chapter 7: You report we decide.. Wait! We'd get sued for that!
great ideas, HH.
Be sure to "favorite" these things for when I start collecting for vol 2!
I'm all teared up, I lost a female cat named Samantha the Brave on December 8, 2006 to kidney failure. The ginger cat in your video looks like Samantha The Brave. She's waiting for me at Rainbow Bridge. Thanks for the memory.
I'm all teared up, I lost a female cat named Samantha the Brave on December 8, 2006 to kidney failure. The ginger cat in your video looks like Samantha The Brave. She's waiting for me at Rainbow Bridge. Thanks for the memory.
I'm all teared up, I lost a female cat named Samantha the Brave on December 8, 2006 to kidney failure. The ginger cat in your video looks like Samantha The Brave. She's waiting for me at Rainbow Bridge. Thanks for the memory.
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
Michele "0" (pronounced zero) says "This nation is built on the backs of you," she told the Agriculture Department crowd, "workers who have dedicated their lifetimes to working on behalf of the issues that are so important to this nation."
Our nation was not built on the backs of federal bureaucracy!
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
Wow. Do you think it's real?
Spencer is really going to attempt to use the courts to prosecute people for stating facts and opinions on the internet and making a personal decision to remove him from the blogroll on their own blog?
Didn't he nominate you for a pro-censorship award this year?
Amazing.
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
Wow. Do you think it's real?
Spencer is really going to attempt to use the courts to prosecute people for stating facts and opinions on the internet and making a personal decision to remove him from the blogroll on their own blog?
Didn't he nominate you for a pro-censorship award this year?
Amazing.
Where are you going with this? Even if it's real, nothing was said, other than, if Java Zen wanted an answer to his question (was the email real), then he needed to ask the lawyer.
Fuck, big woop, Hell, I'll call the lawyer, ask him for a complete run down, hey, what are you up to, who's on your hit list, here's my address, let's play.
Gymnasium is a Latin and English derivative of the original Greek noun gymnasion. Gymnasion (γυμνάσιον) is derived from the common Greek adjective gymnos (γυμνός), meaning "naked"
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
He said, and I quote: "Ow."
Well, at least he now knows how to light a fire without matches, which is an important survival skill. Or was when I was 13, and a Boy Scout.
/Not so sure it's a good thing anymore- has he evinced a sudden interest in studying ants in their natural habitat on sunny days?
I'm all teared up, I lost a female cat named Samantha the Brave on December 8, 2006 to kidney failure. The ginger cat in your video looks like Samantha The Brave. She's waiting for me at Rainbow Bridge. Thanks for the memory.
Dude...
I don't know what to say..I can feel your loss and hope you have peace in your heart.
Kind regards Dusty
I'm all teared up, I lost a female cat named Samantha the Brave on December 8, 2006 to kidney failure. The ginger cat in your video looks like Samantha The Brave. She's waiting for me at Rainbow Bridge. Thanks for the memory.
Gymnasium is a Latin and English derivative of the original Greek noun gymnasion. Gymnasion (γυμνάσ& #x03B9;ον) is derived from the common Greek adjective gymnos (γυμνός) , meaning "naked"
great ideas, HH.
Be sure to "favorite" these things for when I start collecting for vol 2!
My cookbook arrived today!
Printed in Spain, so no customs-fees as it's sent within the EU to Germany. Only a slight hitch the back cover is bottoms-up.
But, great to hold something real-life from LGF in my hands.
I'm feeling so - privileged !?!
I suspect it may not be real. He's under no obligation to call a lawyer. If Robert was going to pursue this he'd have to file something with the courts before anyone is obligated to show up.
I'm suspicious.
Fuck you dude..You have always been rude..And let me tell you know..( bring it) Anybody that would have a nic on the Internet with Jesus in it is just f'n sick.
I don't care why..I've been on the internet from the beginning..I've seen alot..
Nobody calls themselves jesus anything you fuck..You have no respect for anything or are an egoist..either way..you suck bro..
Ya wanna continue in the lounge? I still have a few things to tell you..
/Sorry Charles
I suspect it may not be real. He's under no obligation to call a lawyer. If Robert was going to pursue this he'd have to file something with the courts before anyone is obligated to show up.
I'm suspicious.
Most people don't say "speak to my lawyers" if their lawyers are working on something like this. And certainly, Robert would hold back on any sort of electronic communications until hard copy could be delivered on any part of this matter.
Whatever, it's a long haul for Spencer if he's going anywhere with this.
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
He said, and I quote: "Ow."
LOL!
I grew up with 3 younger brothers.
Boys seem to be wired to find out what happens if . . .
When you can gaze at the shock and awe letter, it just is so lame.
LOOK. So far this is NOTHING. It was a reply from Robert Spencer to Java Zen. Not to Charles, not to any other blogger, not to us, and not about ANYTHING.
It said nothing, it referenced nothing, it gave no indication to any subject matter, and it didn't have any legal standing.
Assuming that Spencer is the originator of the message, that's bad etiquette. In an adversarial context, you don't have a lay person "call your lawyer". You don't want to be accused of an ambush. You have your lawyer contact his lawyer. If the potential defendant doesn't have a lawyer, the lawyer should send him a letter laying out whatever concerns the client has, and requesting (or demanding) remedial action or a change in behavior. Playing hardball, the lawyer can simply sue without warning. Hardball is risky unless you know exactly what your adversary's legal position is.
"Call my lawyer?" Only if he wants to negotiate a contract, Hollywood or otherwise.
LOOK. So far this is NOTHING. It was a reply from Robert Spencer to Java Zen. Not to Charles, not to any other blogger, not to us, and not about ANYTHING.
It said nothing, it referenced nothing, it gave no indication to any subject matter, and it didn't have any legal standing.
My cookbook arrived today!
Printed in Spain, so no customs-fees as it's sent within the EU to Germany. Only a slight hitch the back cover is bottoms-up.
But, great to hold something real-life from LGF in my hands.
I'm feeling so - privileged !?!
The others are OK. If the back cover is not correct - please go to lulu.com and tell them the product is defective!
And western civilization reaches a new height? Not that there is anything wrong with it?
Not very impressive looking. I've seen better dressed drag queens at the supermarket. Boring. My drag friend Patio O'Furniture looks better than that just by falling into a woman's clothes aisle at Goodwill.
Then you have not been warned of any continuing harm that might result to Mr. Spencer. Keep on plugging away. My only suggestion is that you couch your terms in the form of an opinion; not to make any factual statements about Mr. Spencer--ant that what you have done could be called actionable.
Speaking of survival of the fittest, how do boys survive past 13?
Science class today (they took gymnosperm & angiosperm fine but lost it when I explained that a gymnosperm was a naked seed.)
They all had magnifying glasses so they could observe the seeds we were going to be picking apart. We got one of the few sunny days the Pacific NW has in winter. That's your set-up for the story.;
We all went into the backyard so I could make a point about roots. I turn around, and one of the boys has pulled his shirt up and is using his magnifying glass to focus the light beam on his stomach.
He said, and I quote: "Ow."
That which does not kills us makes us stronger ... and go try out something else. :)
"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"
No one, no one is messin' with La Reine.
Minus 15 an' countin'
Thanks for reminding me..I forgot to down ding that ass..I had to go back to do I deed I rarely do...
/Ya ready for the lounge yet spacejesus?
//Gosh I remember getting trash talk so bad in a game in High School that when I got home I cried..Then I used his lines the next game..He was pretty good.. The whole thing about going out to tip-off and him feeling my arm and going..Damn boy..you sure are weak..I knew then It wasn't going to be pretty..
/your tax dollars at work, $4 billion more in th pipeline
Stealing money for property via the Federal Government isn't fast enough. Their cutting out the middle man and going straight to stealing the property.
The legend of Atlantis likely originate when Santorini erupted and a tsunami struck the North Coast of Cyprus and devastated the Minoan civilization.
Agreed. The problem seems to have been with ancient scholars getting the dates crossed up, due to confusing the Egyptian dating system (using lunar months) with the Grecian one (using solar years, as we do). But apparently the Egyptians were at least a century off in their estimates, as well;
Stealing money for property via the Federal Government isn't fast enough. Their cutting out the middle man and going straight to stealing the property.
This stuff's going to get much worse the next couple months, it's time for the annual communist Rites of Spring now through May.
Clinton: Nobody Knows Whether North Korea Had Uranium Program
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells FOX News it's unclear whether North Korea ever had a highly enriched uranium program, despite more confident statements from intelligence officials.
You can go to your account - probably at the bottom left of the screen look for "report a problem with your order" - click it and you will get your order history and contact them.
Clinton: Nobody Knows Whether North Korea Had Uranium Program
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells FOX News it's unclear whether North Korea ever had a highly enriched uranium program, despite more confident statements from intelligence officials.
re: #151 reine.de.tout Reine...if one reads the Lulu site completely, they will read that each book is put together on an as ordered basis. And since it is the wire binding, a mistake like an upside down page can happen. Mine turned out fine. Just a minor fluke I guess.
Thanks for reminding me..I forgot to down ding that ass..I had to go back to do I deed I rarely do...
/Ya ready for the lounge yet spacejesus?
//Gosh I remember getting trash talk so bad in a game in High School that when I got home I cried..
I was always on the receiving end of the schoolyard bullies (punching ball - mind you). Up until the fifth grade.
I do relate with your rant.
Clinton: Nobody Knows Whether North Korea Had Uranium Program
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells FOX News it's unclear whether North Korea ever had a highly enriched uranium program, despite more confident statements from intelligence officials.
I see, we are dealing with an insane regime. Therefore the course of action is to assume the best case scenario, that they never have been working on a bomb.
Costume designer can build them. Really, now a days, a lot of drag queens do not take the time to properly build the character. It sort of the same thing as creating a movie "horror" character versus dressing up for Halloween.
We have some world class drags queens in Denver (and trash drags) and they spend a good time on character, costume, looks and reputation.
Take it or leave it, it is a art form, a theatrical style, and when done right, there is nothing strange about it.
Reine...if one reads the Lulu site completely, they will read that each book is put together on an as ordered basis. And since it is the wire binding, a mistake like an upside down page can happen. Mine turned out fine. Just a minor fluke I guess.
I see, we are dealing with an insane regime. Therefore the course of action is to assume the best case scenario, that they never have been working on a bomb.
Reine...if one reads the Lulu site completely, they will read that each book is put together on an as ordered basis. And since it is the wire binding, a mistake like an upside down page can happen. Mine turned out fine. Just a minor fluke I guess.
It covers anywhere ACORN wants it to. Although, if I were the man who bought the house, I'd get myself a shotgun and then wait for Acorn to try that again. When they did I'd greet them with my weapon, and then march them out onto the lawn to wait for the police. Let the neighbors see that I'm not to be messed with, but do so without hurting the loons. Cowards that they are, they'd give up as soon as they saw the 12-gauge. A good show of force is needed in a case like this, and it's entirely possible to have such a show without violence.
Hey, I don't think you can use an attorney's name for personal use and to make an attempt at intimidation. He would have to actually be under contract by said person, otherwise it would be considered fraud.
OK, so natural selection got us to where we are today... Lots of kind and good people living under the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological annihilation. Evil so potent that a tiny amount of it can erase centuries of good.
Change we can believe in? Maybe we can believe slow change is what is driving the evolution of the human species, but it doesn't look too hopeful right now, especially if past performance is any indication of future performance. Maybe we will evolve radiation/Nerve Gas/Ebola proof genes.
OK, so natural selection got us to where we are today... Lots of kind and good people living under the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological annihilation. Evil so potent that a tiny amount of it can erase centuries of good.
Change we can believe in? Maybe we can believe slow change is what is driving the evolution of the human species, but it doesn't look too hopeful right now, especially if past performance is any indication of future performance. Maybe we will evolve radiation/Nerve Gas/Ebola proof genes.
That didn't seem to work out to well for them mutants in "Beneath the Planet Of the Apes"?
Costume designer can build them. Really, now a days, a lot of drag queens do not take the time to properly build the character. It sort of the same thing as creating a movie "horror" character versus dressing up for Halloween.
We have some world class drags queens in Denver (and trash drags) and they spend a good time on character, costume, looks and reputation.
Take it or leave it, it is a art form, a theatrical style, and when done right, there is nothing strange about it.
Europe. Go to Europe if you appreciate the art of queenyness. They've taken it beyond anything I've seen here in the US.
Moyers is a twerp, here he indicates that Afghanistan is now Obama's quaqmire without using the "Q" word. He makes a lame comparison between the Charge of the Light brigade, not realizing that it's the Taliban who charge into the jaws of certain death whenever they mass in numbers larger than ten. Wot ... an ... id ee ot.
Men see bikini-clad women as objects, psychologists sayIt may seem obvious that men perceive women in sexy bathing suits as objects, but now there's science to back it up.
New research shows that, in men, the brain areas associated with handling tools and the intention to perform actions light up when viewing images of women in bikinis.
The research was presented this week by Susan Fiske, professor of psychology at Princeton University, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
I was always on the receiving end of the schoolyard bullies (punching ball - mind you). Up until the fifth grade.
I do relate with your rant.
I was doing a rant wasn't I? I never do that...You can insult me..Don't insult my friends..Then playschool is over..
/Thanks for not deleted me Charles..
//Hope I didn't gve Charles any ideas.. :)
Evolution is a theory and based on evolving science. It is far from conclusive. Belief in evolution is simply that -- belief. Evolution is simply another religion -- not that there is anything wrong with that. This is America and people are entitled to believe what they wish, however to impose your belief system on others is cultural elitism and un-American.
I ordered my cookbook at Lulu on the 14th; they say it's shipped, but when I go to check it for tracking, the tracking number doesn't exist, according to the shipper!
Talking of Change, did anyone catch Glenn Beck's show on the end of the world today?
I only got a part of it, and while I don't disagree with playing "war games" of different scenarios, he manages to convey, along with liberal interspersion of religion, that he DOES believe one of these worst case scenarios is going to happen.
Given what I believe to imagine is the state of mind of many of his fans, I think that kind of program format is irresponsible in this climate of uncertainty.
So, does the "tool-using response" explain the preponderance of bikini-clad women on complimentary calendars from tool companies, as seen in garages across America?
/Yes, I already know the answer, the question is purely rhetorical.
I ordered my cookbook at Lulu on the 14th; they say it's shipped, but when I go to check it for tracking, the tracking number doesn't exist, according to the shipper!
I got mine FED-EX the next day or so..Sorry..It's really because you are a high tech Lady..They are messing with you..
*wink*
Europe. Go to Europe if you appreciate the art of queenyness. They've taken it beyond anything I've seen here in the US.
Been there, seen it. You're correct. Our Denver entertainers are better than a lot of the trash I've seen. Not to many places to catch a show consistently, but at least when there is one, it's good.
Talking of Change, did anyone catch Glenn Beck's show on the end of the world today?
I only got a part of it, and while I don't disagree with playing "war games" of different scenarios, he manages to convey, along with liberal interspersion of religion, that he DOES believe one of these worst case scenarios is going to happen.
Given what I believe to imagine is the state of mind of many of his fans, I think that kind of program format is irresponsible in this climate of uncertainty.
I got mine FED-EX the next day or so..Sorry..It's really because you are a high tech Lady..They are messing with you..
*wink*
Wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Horror story of the day:
I had to move a computer today and start cleaning it off and preparing it for another worker. I took one look at the keyboard and decided that I just spend the day cleaning it off. It was absolutely disgusting, caked on with dirt, crumbs all in the board, etc. If it had been a stock keyboard, I would have thrown it away, but it's got some custom stuff on it that's useful.
Gah. I had to pop each and every key off and clean each key *and* underneath *and* blow it out with compressed air constantly.
Wow. Do you think it's real?
Spencer is really going to attempt to use the courts to prosecute people for stating facts and opinions on the internet and making a personal decision to remove him from the blogroll on their own blog?
Didn't he nominate you for a pro-censorship award this year?
Amazing.
I think it's a mistake for Spencer to pursue legal remedies in any of this. If he were to sue blogs for gray content, that effort would outshine his Jihad effort. THE guy that sues other bloggers. I wouldn't blogroll him them at all.
I had to move a computer today and start cleaning it off and preparing it for another worker. I took one look at the keyboard and decided that I just spend the day cleaning it off. It was absolutely disgusting, caked on with dirt, crumbs all in the board, etc. If it had been a stock keyboard, I would have thrown it away, but it's got some custom stuff on it that's useful.
Gah. I had to pop each and every key off and clean each key *and* underneath *and* blow it out with compressed air constantly.
yech!
when I retired, I made sure to clean my computer, my office and my desk drawers really good before I left.
There's nothing worse than cleaning up somebody else's yuckiness.
Evolution is a theory and based on evolving science. It is far from as conclusive as the theory of electromagnetism. Belief in evolution is simply that -- belief belief in knowledge. Evolution is simply not another religion -- not that there is anything wrong with religion. This is America and people are entitled to believe what they wish, however to impose your one's belief system on others is cultural elitism and un-American.
Talking of Change, did anyone catch Glenn Beck's show on the end of the world today?
I only got a part of it, and while I don't disagree with playing "war games" of different scenarios, he manages to convey, along with liberal interspersion of religion, that he DOES believe one of these worst case scenarios is going to happen.
Given what I believe to imagine is the state of mind of many of his fans, I think that kind of program format is irresponsible in this climate of uncertainty.
Anyone thinking I'm now in favor of censorship?
I came of age in the height of the Cold War. I was born weeks after the Cuban Missile Crisis. I grew up in an area we knew was a Class A target for the USSR--the port of New Orleans and the heavy industry up and down the river. There was no way to escape the city--look at Katrina.
We knew at an early age that if something bad happened, we were pretty much dead in NOLA. If not the initial blasts, then the fallout or lack of food or fresh water. My friends in the neighborhood resolved that if we ever heard the EBS come on followed by the sirens, we'd get up on the roof with a bottle of whatever, our smokes and some lawn chairs and wait for the fireworks show to start.
I do not fear the end of civilization. It's gonna happen. I don't want to see it happen--I want my kids to have a shot at life. But, if it happens--c'est la vie. There is no sense in hushing up people who have an apocalyptic mindset.
I had to move a computer today and start cleaning it off and preparing it for another worker. I took one look at the keyboard and decided that I just spend the day cleaning it off. It was absolutely disgusting, caked on with dirt, crumbs all in the board, etc. If it had been a stock keyboard, I would have thrown it away, but it's got some custom stuff on it that's useful.
Gah. I had to pop each and every key off and clean each key *and* underneath *and* blow it out with compressed air constantly.
I've got a really nasty keyboard too. Do you think you could...
/maybe
Evolution is a theory and based on evolving science. It is far from conclusive. Belief in evolution is simply that -- belief. Evolution is simply another religion -- not that there is anything wrong with that. This is America and people are entitled to believe what they wish, however to impose your belief system on others is cultural elitism and un-American.
What should a science class TOC in high school look like?
when I retired, I made sure to clean my computer, my office and my desk drawers really good before I left.
There's nothing worse than cleaning up somebody else's yuckiness.
And I often end up being the person to clean up the office before someone comes in. We don't have someone who does it, and often the previous person doesn't take any interest in cleaning it out. That bothers me, so I often do something myself to make it better.
To be honest, when I first saw it (didn't read the text, just the pic) I thought it was Theodore Herzl (the father of zionism). Then I realized I was at LGF ;)
What a sick, sadistic joke that was. Might as well have told them to put a bag over their heads.
Right. But as kids we were clueless. As most adults are/were. It would provide minimal protection at best. Then depending on your target location. Anything near a military base would/could have been leveled.
Mixing science and religion is almost as bad as mixing beer and wine. And I don't mix my Scotch with anything.
Honestly. Obama is not kicking up a prayer before he makes a decision and neither are most other politicians and world leaders. If someone is going to push this button or that button, they are not leafing through Revelations to find out if they fit into some larger myth.
to impose your belief system on others is cultural elitism and un-American.
I believe that electrons flow from the negative terminal of a battery to the positive terminal. Am I un-American because I believe something which is taught in every science class on the face of the planet?
I had to move a computer today and start cleaning it off and preparing it for another worker. I took one look at the keyboard and decided that I just spend the day cleaning it off. It was absolutely disgusting, caked on with dirt, crumbs all in the board, etc. If it had been a stock keyboard, I would have thrown it away, but it's got some custom stuff on it that's useful.
Gah. I had to pop each and every key off and clean each key *and* underneath *and* blow it out with compressed air constantly.
Horror story time..
We had some traveling Salesman drop into our office in Indy a few years ago..He was passing through and his laptop needed repair..So it was an emergency for him..The closest IT guy is in Chicago..He walks in the office..Now mind you..I'm a system Admin..All I care about is Cisco Switches, Routers and Various Firewalls infrastructure..
He opens his laptop and it is full of Cat hair and just totally disgusting..
His cat liked to sleep on it at night..It was warm..
I laughed out loud...Guess what I told him?
/Never clean keyboards..throw them away
You will not get your country back from the commie Democrat thugs until the msm is down and out on their commie ass's. The commie Democrats do not have the real ability to subvert our constitution without the enabling of the no good f'n commie msm.
I agree. The MFMSM and our public education system are at the forefront of this attempted fascist takeover.
I had to move a computer today and start cleaning it off and preparing it for another worker. I took one look at the keyboard and decided that I just spend the day cleaning it off. It was absolutely disgusting, caked on with dirt, crumbs all in the board, etc. If it had been a stock keyboard, I would have thrown it away, but it's got some custom stuff on it that's useful.
Gah. I had to pop each and every key off and clean each key *and* underneath *and* blow it out with compressed air constantly.
Keyboards and mice are dirtier than are toilet bowls.
I think it's a mistake for Spencer to pursue legal remedies in any of this. If he were to sue blogs for gray content, that effort would outshine his Jihad effort. THE guy that sues other bloggers. I wouldn't blogroll him them at all.
It's a very serious mistake for him to make on so many different levels. He's touting himself as a free speech advocate. He's on the board of something called "The International Free Press Society" along with Diana West who's another Vlaams Belang supporter. One of their main causes these days is Geert who is advocating outlawing the Quran and Islam. He nominated Charles for a censorship award and now Spencer is trying to legally silence and intimidate bloggers for posting facts and opinions on the internet? The irony is just too much to handle.
I believe that electrons flow from the negative terminal of a battery to the positive terminal. Am I un-American because I believe something which is taught in every science class on the face of the planet?
I need a favor... hold these wires while I crank this handle on this box...
Horror story time..
We had some traveling Salesman drop into our office in Indy a few years ago..He was passing through and his laptop needed repair..So it was an emergency for him..The closest IT guy is in Chicago..He walks in the office..Now mind you..I'm a system Admin..All I care about is Cisco Switches, Routers and Various Firewalls infrastructure..
He opens his laptop and it is full of Cat hair and just totally disgusting..
His cat liked to sleep on it at night..It was warm..
I laughed out loud...Guess what I told him?
/Never clean keyboards..throw them away
Yeah, that's a problem I have with my cats. I blow the thing out frequently. But this keyboard was a custom job, and I just couldn't waste the money.
... and now Spencer is trying to legally silence and intimidate bloggers for posting facts and opinions on the internet? The irony is just too much to handle.
Killgore, we have not seen ONE IOTA of any legal action by Spencer. Come on, you got the ball but you're running in the opposite direction with it.
I have as much problem with the direction Spencer has taken as the next person, but really, so far I don't see anything happening to Charles, Java Zen or who ever.
Don't worry. All the chocolate you want is right there in the keyboard.
:p
Blech. Pass, bigtime. Perhaps you should buy a ten gallon bottle of bleach instead. And pour it over the keyboard when it isn't connected. Then throw it again and buy a new one.
Addendum...
Spencer has always been touchy when it comes to criticism. He used to show up here and yell at me. He made a classless appearance over at Hot Air a few weeks ago when Allah Pundit didn't support Geert to Robert's liking. I think Robert has finally lost his mind and I suspect his lawyers are going to be very busy in the coming months. I hope those they bill him an insane rate.
Addendum...
Spencer has always been touchy when it comes to criticism. He used to show up here and yell at me. He made a classless appearance over at Hot Air a few weeks ago when Allah Pundit didn't support Geert to Robert's liking. I think Robert has finally lost his mind and I suspect his lawyers are going to be very busy in the coming months. I hope those they bill him an insane rate.
Addendum...
Spencer has always been touchy when it comes to criticism. He used to show up here and yell at me. He made a classless appearance over at Hot Air a few weeks ago when Allah Pundit didn't support Geert to Robert's liking. I think Robert has finally lost his mind and I suspect his lawyers are going to be very busy in the coming months. I hope those they bill him an insane rate.
He's got to you, hasn't he. That one little email, that says NOTHING about anything, and you have built a WHOLE cloth out of a little piece of thread.
You know, we were talking about a similar thing last night, "Foucault's Pendulum." You are weaving a whole tale here like Belbo, out of nothing.
It's a very serious mistake for him to make on so many different levels. He's touting himself as a free speech advocate. He's on the board of something called "The International Free Press Society" along with Diana West who's another Vlaams Belang supporter. One of their main causes these days is Geert who is advocating outlawing the Quran and Islam. He nominated Charles for a censorship award and now Spencer is trying to legally silence and intimidate bloggers for posting facts and opinions on the internet? The irony is just too much to handle.
Talking of Change, did anyone catch Glenn Beck's show on the end of the world today?
I only got a part of it, and while I don't disagree with playing "war games" of different scenarios, he manages to convey, along with liberal interspersion of religion, that he DOES believe one of these worst case scenarios is going to happen.
Given what I believe to imagine is the state of mind of many of his fans, I think that kind of program format is irresponsible in this climate of uncertainty.
Anyone thinking I'm now in favor of censorship?
No opinion on that, but I personally get a bit tired of everyone on both sides becoming entranced by TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) scenarios.
They are mainly used to frighten people into supporting whatever "actions" those predicting them are demanding be Done Right Now To Save The World From (insert name of threat here) For The Sake of The Children (or whatever). One environmentalist, quoted by P. J. O'Rourke in his book All The Trouble In The World, stated that "We (the enviros) have to offer up scary scenarios to get people to pay attention."
I prefer to leave the "scare tactics" to the people whose contact with reality I find questionable. Conservatives and rational moderates should be above this sort of thing.
Also, there re two specific points about this sort of thing which really get my goat;
1. Too often, conservatives who engage in this sort of game-playing get sucked in to buying the "doomsday" scenarios of some of the more bizarre types in the religious arena, and it damages their credibility and, by association, that of other moderates or conservatives. It's very difficult to be taken seriously when you begin to sound like you're quoting the plot outline of a novel by Tim LaHaye.
2. I have no problem with "doomsday scenarios" being "gamed" by the people who should be concerned with such, in or out of government. Economists do it all the time, for example, to predict what might happen if, say, China suddenly decided not to buy U.S. Treasuries, or Japan ceased making loan payments on their borrowing after the bubble collapsed. To say nothing of purely military "wargame" scenarios. But I far prefer that those who do this sort of speculation keep their mouths shut about it. Openly saying that these types of scenarios are the ones being planned for is, to me, a bit too much like flashing your hole card in a game of poker.
I prefer that the people who wish us ill not know exactly what sort of major Charlie Fox we already have plans for. It might encourage them to try to set off one we haven't already worked out a response to.
And unlike some people in Washington these days, I am pretty sure there are people in this world who do not like us, and never will, no matter what we do or do not do, here or abroad. It is our existence they have a problem with. I prefer to make it as difficult as possible for them to be a problem for us, and our allies. Keeping them in the dark as to how we will cope with what is a cheap, easy, and simple way to accomplish this, at least in part.
Or as the old saying goes, "Loose Lips Sink Ships".
He makes legal threats all the time but I've never seen him ask people to contact his lawyers before. I think he's starting to escalate.
Well, if you are right, then maybe we all have something to look forward to. I know, let's play a game. Who will he try to sue? Charles, some of the other blog owners, you, me for publishing his retort to my question, come on, this could be fun. Let's play Perry Mason.
He makes legal threats all the time but I've never seen him ask people to contact his lawyers before. I think he's starting to escalate.
Who would be stupid enough to go out of their way to contact someone else's lawyer over something like this? It seems like a very pretentious response.
He's got to you, hasn't he. That one little email, that says NOTHING about anything, and you have built a WHOLE cloth out of a little piece of thread.
You know, we were talking about a similar thing last night, "Foucault's Pendulum." You are weaving a whole tale here like Belbo, out of nothing.
True story - I met Umberto Eco in Beantown. Interesting fellow - he was arguing semiotics and the artifact with my professor. Over lunch, he told me two things I hadn't asked about:
1) He won't discuss Foucault's Pendulum, ever;
2) My professor was the inspiration for Giorgi in The Name of the Rose.
Evolution is a theory and based on evolving science. It is far from conclusive. Belief in evolution is simply that -- belief. Evolution is simply another religion -- not that there is anything wrong with that. This is America and people are entitled to believe what they wish, however to impose your belief system on others is cultural elitism and un-American.
Every time, like clockwork, the same silly talking points.
Oh, it was and is, but you need a certain sort of manic intensity, indiscriminate informational appetite, and an excessive education to really get into it. It's a perfect artifact for a deluded academic.
I think he's going to start with the little bloggers who are easily intimidated. Medura and Guftafs are likely targets. He's tried to intimidate commenters before like threatening to get Cato thrown off of facebook but that hasn't gone anywhere.
True story - I met Umberto Eco in Beantown. Interesting fellow - he was arguing semiotics and the artifact with my professor. Over lunch, he told me two things I hadn't asked about:
1) He won't discuss Foucault's Pendulum, ever;
2) My professor was the inspiration for Giorgi in The Name of the Rose.
Eon, Do you think that Obama should back off on all this "crisis" talk? I think we should face problems head on, but listening to the the Prez he doesn't leave much room for the hope part of his campaign platform.
I think he's going to start with the little bloggers who are easily intimidated. Medura and Guftafs are likely targets. He's tried to intimidate commenters before like threatening to get Cato thrown off of facebook but that hasn't gone anywhere.
"Cato the Elder", who is a different person here than 'Cato"
It was a hoot; a dark, insane, hoot. It's really good at pulling you in, isn't it?
You go along, as they do, thinking it's just an intellectual lark, until...
Another book that really pulled me in was House of Leaves.
Ditto "Elementary Particles." That one showed the disgusting, degraded nature of the post-modern Last Man for what it is, and offered an intriguing way forward.
Who would be stupid enough to go out of their way to contact someone else's lawyer over something like this? It seems like a very pretentious response.
I think part of the problem is that there really aren't any charges he can file against them. He can try libel/slander but I doubt his lawyers would bother filling in court. It would almost certainly get tossed out. He just wants it known that he's thinking about legal action in order to scare off his more timid critics. Even his more bold critics are going to think twice now that Spencer is getting litigious. If somethings not right or worded properly you could wind up in court.
What's "liberal interspersion of religion" according to Dr. Beck?
Half of the section I saw was a discussion about how people deal with crisis and how important religion was in that regard. I don't dispute that, but there are times when these things sound more like preaching than discussing.
I did not however see the whole show, so I'm prepared to be wrong on the statistics of the balance; but I have seen plenty of his other shows before I became bored with hearing about alcoholism and faith.
As was suggested here, he would be more fun if he started to drink again.
I saw a person plug a 110VAC powered PC into a 220 circuit. They didn't even have time to say sh*t before the smoke rolled out.
I've smoked a few things. Mostly forgetting to limited the current when testing something or other. Computer chips really do have magic some in them. The smoke comes out, they don't work no more.
Eon, Do you think that Obama should back off on all this "crisis" talk? I think we should face problems head on, but listening to the the Prez he doesn't leave much room for the hope part of his campaign platform.
Even Bill Clinton told O to shut his pie hole today about all the crisis crap.
Never thought I would be so in agreement with Bill.
It was a hoot; a dark, insane, hoot. It's really good at pulling you in, isn't it? You go along, as they do, thinking it's just an intellectual lark, until... Another book that really pulled me in was House of Leaves.
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I love Diotallevi going on for about six pages on all the gematria on g-d's name, and then when Belbo reminds him that he can't be Jewish because his mother wasn't, his reply was something like "Well, I haven't figured that out yet." I was reading that in the control booth at the theatre at work and I almost bursted out laughing out loud during the show.
The thing about the Diabolicals is that their madness is intellectually entertaining. It can be fun to try to hum the tune they're singing, but before you know it, you find yourself in the chorus with them, and you're not quite sure how you got there. re: #390 Walter L. Newton
I've smoked a few things. Mostly forgetting to limited the current when testing something or other. Computer chips really do have magic some in them. The smoke comes out, they don't work no more.
Once saw a LowPower Schottky logic chip which had had 110VAC accidentally connected to an input.
I love Diotallevi going on for about six pages on all the gematria on g-d's name, and then when Belbo reminds him that he can't be Jewish because his mother wasn't, his reply was something like "Well, I haven't figured that out yet." I was reading that in the control booth at the theatre at work and I almost bursted out laughing out loud during the show.
He was certainly one of the most interesting characters in the whole novel. Belbo too, whose shadow puppets turned on him; still managed to be heroic, in his way, at the end.
The whole discourse on the childhood trumpet was simply heart-breaking.
I think part of the problem is that there really aren't any charges he can file against them. He can try libel/slander but I doubt his lawyers would bother filling in court. It would almost certainly get tossed out. He just wants it known that he's thinking about legal action in order to scare off his more timid critics. Even his more bold critics are going to think twice now that Spencer is getting litigious. If somethings not right or worded properly you could wind up in court.
What a horrible bully. It reminds me of someone who belongs to a certain religion who threatens and bullies people into shutting up. Gee. I wonder what that religion is. Hmmm...
Eon, Do you think that Obama should back off on all this "crisis" talk? I think we should face problems head on, but listening to the the Prez he doesn't leave much room for the hope part of his campaign platform.
Just my two cents before I go. He should just shut up, go back to Hawaii and stay there for the rest of his term.
Have a good weekend, all.
The thing about the Diabolicals is that their madness is intellectually entertaining. It can be fun to try to hum the tune they're singing, but before you know it, you find yourself in the chorus with them, and you're not quite sure how you got there.
You know, the internet has become like the Diabolicals (so much like The Plan), in the sense that almost anything you read on the internet has some sort of foundation to another tale that has a foundation to another tale that...
I can prove to you that UFO's are real, well, I can prove it to you in so many layers that you will give up before you will find out the truth.
OK, I see. Religious responses to crisis are observable. I remember right after 9-11 a couple of evangelists I worked around were talking about revelations and holy war at a work lunch. I have to admit I had my own personal irrational response on the drive to work on that day.
I stopped watching TV about 2 years ago. Before that I tried to avoid watching TV. I just found it too hyperactive and unfocused. Shows like NOVA went down the tubes and similar PBS programming turned into "reality" type programming or a game show. Part of the overall dumbing down of America you can say.
Another thing I dislike is the music they dub into TV programming which takes control of the aural experience. Sometimes the bass is too high and it's more of a music video than anything. Shaky cams', still images flashing all over the place, it's almost like watching TV is a self induced seizure.
You know, the internet has become like the Diabolicals (so much like The Plan), in the sense that almost anything you read on the internet has some sort of foundation to another tale that has a foundation to another tale that...
I can prove to you that UFO's are real, well, I can prove it to you in so many layers that you will give up before you will find out the truth.
Sound familiar?
And yet, and here's the brilliance of Eco, thus is the nature of reality as we perceive it. Only layers, layer after layer, after layer.
The world as perceived is like an onion; you can do nothing but peel away layers and cry.
I think he also has a case of short guy syndrome. I've had to deal with professors and bosses who suffer from it. They can be pretty unbearable in positions of authority.
I think he also has a case of short guy syndrome. I've had to deal with professors and bosses who suffer from it. They can be pretty unbearable in positions of authority.
Once saw a LowPower Schottky logic chip which had had 110VAC accidentally connected to an input.
We make a programmer for out chips, I got one from a customer who said it just quit working one day. I opened it up...
You could see a scorched traces from a signal out put pin which burned out a couple layers on the board leading up to a chip with a crater in the middle.
Yep, it quit working all right.. when they put at least 110V on a signal line meant for 5V 500mA max.
And yet, and here's the brilliance of Eco, thus is the nature of reality as we perceive it. Only layers, layer after layer, after layer.
The world as perceived is like an onion; you can do nothing but peel away layers and cry.
I think you know that this conversation about Eco and FP has been knocking around here on LGF for a few weeks because the book was suggested as supplemental reading to this season of ABC's LOST, which has borrowed (intertexually) from FP and a lot of other works.
Eon, Do you think that Obama should back off on all this "crisis" talk? I think we should face problems head on, but listening to the the Prez he doesn't leave much room for the hope part of his campaign platform.
I find it interesting that Mr. HopenChange has morphed into Chicken Little within a month of being sworn in. Now, there are several possible reasons why this could be;
1. He didn't understand how serious the problems were before being briefed in (not impossible, considering his Senate voting record- he may simply not have bothered to be on the floor during debates).
2. He is trying to lower expectations from the ionospheric levels he and the MSM claimed he would reach while campaigning. (Or, put simply, he's trying to avoid admitting he was stricken with delusions of grandeur on the campaign trail.)
3. He is taking Rahm Emanuel's advice to "never let a crisis go to waste" as an opportunity to push forward the Democratic Party's (fundamentally socialist) social and economic agenda. (Going back to Bismarck's axiom about how to get, and keep, "emergency" powers.)
My own opinion (FWIW) is that it's a combination of (2) and (3). And that he will most likely next make a big splash about "doing something" about some peripheral issue that is nonetheless near and dear to the hearts of the Party's "core constituencies" on the left (Like Bill Clinton using the Assault Weapon Ban, "10,000 new cops", "midnight basketball". etc., to claim he was "doing something" about drugs, crime, and so on)- and then just wait for things to improve on their own. And then claim credit for same.
Call it "All of the credit, none of the effort". Which, apparently, is what The One has done best throughout his career.
And if it's always worked for him, from his POV, why change now?
I think you know that this conversation about Eco and FP has been knocking around here on LGF for a few weeks because the book was suggested as supplemental reading to this season of ABC's LOST, which has borrowed (intertexually) from FP and a lot of other works.
Really? I tell you the truth, any TV series not on the History Channel I just sort of ignore, even in conversation. Now that's interesting.
I think he also has a case of short guy syndrome. I've had to deal with professors and bosses who suffer from it. They can be pretty unbearable in positions of authority.
I'm still wondering what she's gonna' do with all those donations she took for the Aqsa Parvez fiasco.
I'm sure she'll think of something suitably distasteful. Honestly, trying to put up a headstone over a grave that is not for her family or for anyone affiliated therewith. Tacky!
Maybe she should, instead of memorializing the dead with a monument to her own sensitivity, perhaps donate to one of the women's orgs that are trying to fight this kind of barbarism? Just saying...
Really? I tell you the truth, any TV series not on the History Channel I just sort of ignore, even in conversation. Now that's interesting.
It's the ONLY hour of TV that I watch. LOST is not your average prime time show, it's very much like reading an Eco novel and quantum physics and a good primer on religion and a big dash of time travel to mix it all up with. Into season 5 now, one more season to go next year. Show had basic plot arcs all laid out before season one started, and the producers asked ABC for six years to tell the story.
What? You don't like TV? What about the History Channel? Huh? Huh? Don't you believe that The Outlaw Josie Wales is an accurate retelling of the The Late Unpleasantness Between the States and months thereafter?
How about the Discovery Channel? How are you going to keep up the latest expeditions to find the Loch Ness Monster? What about Bigfoot?
Now if you want to condemn yourself to a life of abject ignorance, you just go right ahead.
But someday someone is going to ask you what Hitler's second cousin once removed's butcher's grand daughter's name is and you won't have a clue. You'll feel pretty foolish then, mark my words.
And now we have people in the Aqsa Parvez thread who think it's really cool to put a headstone on a girl's grave without permission from the family.
So much for respecting a families wishes. Perhaps they would like to put this event behind them. Not that it would be an endorsement of what led to her death since we are not here to probe into this families life.
It's the ONLY hour of TV that I watch. LOST is not your average prime time show, it's very much like reading an Eco novel and quantum physics and a good primer on religion and a big dash of time travel to mix it all up with. Into season 5 now, one more season to go next year. Show had basic plot arcs all laid out before season one started, and the producers asked ABC for six years to tell the story.
This is a revelation to me. Six years to tell the story; so, this thing is thought out, it's a coherent narrative, and not just some crappy flash-in-the-pan chewing gum for the eyes.
I may have to quite job #2 and start to study this.
It's the ONLY hour of TV that I watch. LOST is not your average prime time show, it's very much like reading an Eco novel and quantum physics and a good primer on religion and a big dash of time travel to mix it all up with. Into season 5 now, one more season to go next year. Show had basic plot arcs all laid out before season one started, and the producers asked ABC for six years to tell the story.
there is more to be learned about the human experience watching an NFL football game...talk about plot arcs...and it's real, not Hollywood make believe...imo of course
Ha! That made me laugh. ;) I was laying around the game room in my apartment and watching the history channel. It's odd how they've gone of into the troofer realm.
I'm sure she'll think of something suitably distasteful. Honestly, trying to put up a headstone over a grave that is not for her family or for anyone affiliated therewith. Tacky!
Maybe she should, instead of memorializing the dead with a monument to her own sensitivity, perhaps donate to one of the women's orgs that are trying to fight this kind of barbarism? Just saying...
It's not her money. Wouldn't every dono have to agree?
This is a revelation to me. Six years to tell the story; so, this thing is thought out, it's a coherent narrative, and not just some crappy flash-in-the-pan chewing gum for the eyes.
I may have to quite job #2 and start to study this.
Please note, like any TV show, it's a business and they have "wiggle room." But yes, the main plot arcs were story boarded from the git go. ABC promised them 6 years. When season two began, they didn't have the "papers" all in a row from ABC, so, season two was a little treading water until ABC worked out all the details. About mid season 3, they started to move forward with the story.
And, things that are happening NOW in the story line is proving that they had this worked out, because there is so much dovetailing with stuff from even the first one minute of the show.
It's still TV, but it's clever, and if you like Eco, you love this.
there is more to be learned about the human experience watching an NFL football game...talk about plot arcs...and it's real, not Hollywood make believe...imo of course
Well, I don't agree Steve. Granted, a sports event has a lot of dynamics, and the skills are amazing, and I enjoy a football game once in a while.
But, I also enjoy a trip to a book store, which is the level of enjoyment I get from a show like LOST.
As I said, it's the ONLY hour of TV I ever watch on a weekly basis.
Regarding Parvez. Imagine if your daughter was killed while being raped. Would you want to have a memorial put up at her grave site to remind you of the violent act that took her life? Or then adding any political motivation that would be attached to said memorial. Let alone the people behind the erection of the memorial who might not have your own best interests in mind.
Ha! That made me laugh. ;) I was laying around the game room in my apartment and watching the history channel. It's odd how they've gone of into the troofer realm.
I've learned to take many of their shows with a large grain of salt. Even if the story is accurate, other things aren't. They were discussing submarines, and the sinking of the British cruisers Cressey, Aboukir, and Hogue during WWI. I have seen still pictures of those ships going down, but they chose to illustrate it with what was clearly a merchant ship, not a cruiser.
The same show had an animation of the Revolutionary War submarine the Turtle attacking the British ship, and had a propeller(!) on the British sailing vessel. Propellers didn't get used until years later.
This might have been on the Military channel, but those are all interchangeable; they show the same shows.
It's not her money. Wouldn't every dono have to agree?
You'd think so, but then again, they handed over money to a lady person so she could erect a monument over a grave over which she had no control or right. I don't think they'd mind whatever she decided to do with it "to memorialize the poor girl".
Regarding Parvez. Imagine if your daughter was killed while being raped. Would you want to have a memorial put up at her grave site to remind you of the violent act that took her life? Or then adding any political motivation that would be attached to said memorial. Let alone the people behind the erection of the memorial who might not have your own best interests in mind.
It's not much different (IMHO) than the Terry S(sp?) case a number of years ago. The politics should not have entered the story.
Yeah. I admit today I actually watched some in the game room. It's been years but it was only for as long as I could take it. Sure enough I stopped at the History Channel and it was on dog fights. Being a plane nut that I am. I cringed when I saw Randall "Duke" Cunningham and wondered how he was.
Yeah. I admit today I actually watched some in the game room. It's been years but it was only for as long as I could take it. Sure enough I stopped at the History Channel and it was on dog fights. Being a plane nut that I am. I cringed when I saw Randall "Duke" Cunningham and wondered how he was.
You'd think so, but then again, they handed over money to a lady person so she could erect a monument over a grave over which she had no control or right. I don't think they'd mind whatever she decided to do with it "to memorialize the poor girl".
I'm just thinking she could get jammed up if not all agree with how she spends it.
Yeah. I admit today I actually watched some in the game room. It's been years but it was only for as long as I could take it. Sure enough I stopped at the History Channel and it was on dog fights. Being a plane nut that I am. I cringed when I saw Randall "Duke" Cunningham and wondered how he was.
Actually, I do watch Discovery, History, National Geographic, Science, History International, and Military most nights, while I grade work for an online university (2nd job) and pet dogs.
How Its Made is fun - watch various things (from springs to cars) get made.
And Future Weapons is great, with the host excited about shooting things and blowing them up. You can see his eyes light up when he gets to shoot or watch something get blown up. Also, he's done at least one show in Israel.
Tonight, though, is science fiction night; Battlestar Galactica, and Stargate (reruns).
... she and any other foreigner should shut up and mind their own business.
You were just getting a little emotional, right? Because you really aren't suggesting that no one else but a Canadian has the freedom of speech to address this case, right, wrong or otherwise?
Evolution is a theory and based on evolving science. It is far from conclusive. Belief in evolution is simply that -- belief. Evolution is simply another religion -- not that there is anything wrong with that. This is America and people are entitled to believe what they wish, however to impose your belief system on others is cultural elitism and un-American.
The scientific definition of theory is far from the hunch or guess it connotes in common parlance. According to the United States National Academy of Sciences:
"Some scientific explanations are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them. The explanation becomes a scientific theory. In everyday language a theory means a hunch or speculation. Not so in science. In science, the word theory refers to a comprehensive explanation of an important feature of nature supported by facts gathered over time. Theories also allow scientists to make predictions about as yet unobserved phenomena."
"A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world. The theory of biological evolution is more than "just a theory." It is as factual an explanation of the universe as the atomic theory of matter or the germ theory of disease. Our understanding of gravity is still a work in progress. But the phenomenon of gravity, like evolution, is an accepted fact."
Evolutionary theory is science, not religion. The difference between the two is that the dogmas of religion are believed in in the absence of supporting empirical evidence, while the contentions of science can be known to be valid by objectively and dispassionately perusing the empirical evidence for them; scientific contentions are unfailingly supported by empirical evidence (religious dogmas lack any supporting empirical evidence whatsoever).
And evolution is one of the most valid, sound and solid theories in all of empirical science, supported by 150 years worth of empirical evidence, and contradicted by none of it. Creationism/ID, on the other hand, is sectarian religious dogma, lacking a single shred of supporting empirical evidence.
To impose sectarian religious dogmas on other people's kids in public high school science class is what is unAmerican; it's also been justly ruled constitutional in US courts.
I would have been outraged as an American Citizen if Canadians came to America and campaigned for ANY Presidential candidate.
If foreigners were coming here and campaigning for any party, Canadians would be up in arms and howling...
Of course it's OK if foreigners are coming to America to campaign against the Republicans or if they were coming to Canada to campaign against the Conservatives.
Once upon a time, Collins Radio had smart electron people, they got this thing so's in 1967 it could listen to like 100,000 radio signals per min. and if there were comm. going on pick it up and we could like listen in to Gen. Gaip talking to the commander of the 100,000 commies who maintained the Whore Who Shit Men down the trails, trails,
so we go to Da Nang, get on a plane, go to Subic, get the thing from some C.I.A. looking guy, sign off on it, we got some Canadian techs to go with it who drank to much, they and the thing go on a boat, we go to Hue city, up the roads to a road, then up to the top of "leghorn" mountain on the Laos border, we, get the power up, we get the thing humming, the Canadian techs tell me, your Koreans know how to run it , we are not here over night to much shooting and shit,, helo away,
Mr Chen so proud, he powers up about dark, without my ok, comes in the back of our hooch,,,
I would have been outraged as an American Citizen if Canadians came to America and campaigned for ANY Presidential candidate.
If foreigners were coming here and campaigning for any party, Canadians would be up in arms and howling...
Of course it's OK if foreigners are coming to America to campaign against the Republicans or if they were coming to Canada to campaign against the Conservatives.
That would be OK.
the Canadians are my brothers...I only split hairs for arguments sake
No, Buddy (Bill's dog) ran out into the street and got hit by a car.
That's what the Clintons would like everyone to believe. What really happened was that Buddy overheard Hillary talking about Vince Foster's murder and was about to spill the beans on Hillary's involvement. She drove Buddy to suicide.
That's what the Clintons would like everyone to believe. What really happened was that Buddy overheard Hillary talking about Vince Foster's murder and was about to spill the beans on Hillary's involvement. She drove Buddy to suicide.
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I heard Buddy buried the Rose Law Firm billing records and since he was the only one who knew was a liability.
And now we have people in the Aqsa Parvez thread who think it's really cool to put a headstone on a girl's grave without permission from the family.
That idea was nuts from the beginning.
How did anyone think they were going to be able to take over the property of somebody else and put up a headstone that family obviously does not want?
I think the family is treating Agsa terribly - but no one can force them to place a headstone on the grave if they do not want to.
Things are well. Weekend is here, and along with it, laziness, drunkenness and all sorts of debauchery... As to meningitis, it was the non-contagious bacterial kind. We were warned to mind the hygiene, and were informed of the symptoms to look out for. Cool thing is, since we are not in barracks, but have our own separate little suites, it is easier for us to avoid it.
Pamela is an American and she has no business involving herself in the business of a foreign State.
I'm not being Anti-American, here.
This case is being dealt with in a Canadian Court and she and any other foreigner should shut up and mind their own business.
I find it extremely distasteful for her, or anyone to be making cheap political points over this tragedy.
For the record, after careful consideration ... I disagree with at least the tone of the bold-highlighted text ... however, I'm letting my up-ding stand.
The Pervez family has to be held accountable for their treatment of the girl, and Canada's system/s have to be held accountable for their actions in the case. We can, and should, participate in the "holding accountable", if and when that is required. At this point, we should let it run.
If the Pervez family wants an unmarked grave, that is between them and the Deity. IMHO, the Deity will take note.
If the Canadian gov't doesn't have the spine to protect one of its own citizens, then the Canadian gov't should be quietly given enough rope to HANG its f***g self!
/father of a first-born female child who'd better shut his f***g mouth
Thanks, The first song that I remember hearing on the radio was Hound Dog, by Elvis. I was year old when that was released but it was played regularly for years afterward.
Host of Dirty Jobs.
He does things like "help" people replace pumps at a sewage plant, with "poo" as he calls it so high they had trouble opening the door to the pump room; castrating sheep; shearing sheep; helping a vet with horses; removing an old oil tank; and other dirty jobs.
BTW, try putting those comments/sentiments (from the Missouri thread) on a generally "science" thread -- one which has absolutely nothing to do with evolution. Charles has, for instance, posted threads on astronomy.
Today, two instances of the arrogance which you were talking about occurred to me. It does exist, because individual scientists are also individual human beings.
In a generalized "science" setting, you would generate debate without the ... well ... yeah, you know ... heh.
The Canadian (Ontario) Government is dealing with this case through the courts.
I suggest it is quite OK for this case to be discussed, what I object to is people coming here and sticking their noses in places where their noses do not belong.
Host of Dirty Jobs.
He does things like "help" people replace pumps at a sewage plant, with "poo" as he calls it so high they had trouble opening the door to the pump room; castrating sheep; shearing sheep; helping a vet with horses; removing an old oil tank; and other dirty jobs.
I reckon I'll quit bitching about the little flecks of toothpaste The Kid gets on his bathroom mirror.
The Canadian (Ontario) Government is dealing with this case through the courts.
I suggest it is quite OK for this case to be discussed, what I object to is people coming here and sticking their noses in places where their noses do not belong.
As someone who is nominally a 'conservative', part of that ideology is an intense belief in individualism; race, ethnicity, religion and even nationality notwithstanding.
The issue with this headstone isn't one dealing with some individuals stepping outside of the arbitrary categories they were likely born into and onto someone else's, some other nation's turf but instead has everything to do with not respecting the individual rights of the girls family to honor her memory in whatever fashion they choose; no matter how repugnant they may be in deciding not to memorialize her at all.
I also have no problem with Canadians, or anyone else in the world piping in about American politics including actively campaigning, so long as they do not donate or vote without having gone through the trouble of gaining citizenship. It may spark some crudely patriotic resentment from me when it does happen, but free speech isn't about protecting me or anyone else from hurt feelings.
The Canadian (Ontario) Government is dealing with this case through the courts.
I suggest it is quite OK for this case to be discussed, what I object to is people coming here and sticking their noses in places where their noses do not belong.
Heh ... my rant was highly specialized ... and if I'd kept going, the pipe wrench would've swung. We had that case down here in DFW of the taxi driver butchering his two daughters. [slaps hand over mouth]
Okay folks, this is depressing, but this helps explain how and why Obama is and will continue to be a teflon president. He's now telling mayors not to waste stimulus money. He's going to frame himself as the responsible one in this porkfest, rather than its progenitor by passing this pork on regardless of what was actually in it.
No one read it.
There were no controls on the money or the purse.
It's a trend that he started with the claims that annoy me to no end - that his porkfest will create or save millions of jobs. It's a nonsensical term. How do you count? You can't - because if you're still in your job despite the stimulus you count as a saved job.
Pretty good. I had bagel and lox for breakfast and Soba and salmon for lunch. I just finished slicing and packaging the rest.
In the future I think i'm going to sue the top 2/3rds of the fillet and save the tail section for regular cooking. The tail section comes out a little too salty and smokey because it's so thin. Overall it came out really good for a first attempt.
As someone who is nominally a 'conservative', part of that ideology is an intense belief in individualism; race, ethnicity, religion and even nationality notwithstanding.
The issue with this headstone isn't one dealing with some individuals stepping outside of the arbitrary categories they were likely born into and onto someone else's, some other nation's turf but instead has everything to do with not respecting the individual rights of the girls family to honor her memory in whatever fashion they choose; no matter how repugnant they may be in deciding not to memorialize her at all.
I also have no problem with Canadians, or anyone else in the world piping in about American politics including actively campaigning, so long as they do not donate or vote without having gone through the trouble of gaining citizenship. It may spark some crudely patriotic resentment from me when it does happen, but free speech isn't about protecting me or anyone else from hurt feelings.
I have mixed feelings...it seems to be a new world order of some sort...Mexico is deep into American politics and always has been...I reserve judgement at this point...I need to learn more
Actually, many (most?) of the people he works with are American.
Some other jobs - salt mine; cleaning a diesel spill on snow; working on a fishing ship off Alaska (don't let the cod blood get all over you).
California teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. So, what happened to Ahnold:
Six years ago, Mr. Schwarzenegger arrived in Sacramento to "cut up the credit card" and give the girlie men at the State Capitol a testosterone shot. California languished then in a fiscal crisis whose causes were pretty much the same as today. The hapless Gray Davis had been recalled, and the Austrian-born actor made a promising start to break the pattern.
In 2005, banking on his popularity, the governor pushed an ambitious ballot initiative to impose a hard state spending cap, limit the unions' political buying power, tighten requirements for teacher tenure, and overhaul a gerrymandered state political map. Arnold lost.
After that setback, Mr. Schwarzenegger shifted his attention to green jobs and energy, winning fans in Europe and among Democrats. "He's recognized that California's a pretty moderate place," says Darrell Steinberg, the Democratic president pro tem of the Senate. "You've got to govern from the middle."
People closer to the governor offer a different take. "Once he got beat, he reverted back to, 'I want to be liked,'" says a former Schwarzenegger aide. "It's classic narcissism."
Okay folks, this is depressing, but this helps explain how and why Obama is and will continue to be a teflon president. He's now telling mayors not to waste stimulus money. He's going to frame himself as the responsible one in this porkfest, rather than its progenitor by passing this pork on regardless of what was actually in it.
No one read it.
There were no controls on the money or the purse.
It's a trend that he started with the claims that annoy me to no end - that his porkfest will create or save millions of jobs. It's a nonsensical term. How do you count? You can't - because if you're still in your job despite the stimulus you count as a saved job.
Okay folks, this is depressing, but this helps explain how and why Obama is and will continue to be a teflon president. He's now telling mayors not to waste stimulus money. He's going to frame himself as the responsible one in this porkfest, rather than its progenitor by passing this pork on regardless of what was actually in it.
No one read it.
There were no controls on the money or the purse.
It's a trend that he started with the claims that annoy me to no end - that his porkfest will create or save millions of jobs. It's a nonsensical term. How do you count? You can't - because if you're still in your job despite the stimulus you count as a saved job.
It was all about spending your tax dollars.
[frak]
Yes, I heard the Boston mayor, (Mumbles) Menino, saying how the 0 was going to require transparency in the way cities spend the money. Must be the only people that he'll require that from.
Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton administration who waged war on Buddy the pup, has died. He was around 18.
Socks had lived with Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, in Hollywood, Md., since the Clintons left the White House in early 2001.
Currie confirmed Socks' death Friday evening and said she was "heartbroken." She did not give details, referring calls to the Clinton Foundation office.
Yes it works very well. I didn't use the soup can method. I just put the tip of the soldering iron on a block of pear wood at the bottom of my bbq. I toyed around with different soldering irons. Originally I thought my light weaker iron wasn't making enough smoke but it doesn't take a whole lot of constant smoke because the fish is smoked for 12 hours. A light haze of smoke works fine.
Yes, I heard the Boston mayor, (Mumbles) Menino, saying how the 0 was going to require transparency in the way cities spend the money. Must be the only people that he'll require that from.
Requiring transparency, eh? What a transparent hint at "more central control". Wow. Indeed, fascism is here. Or socialism. Not that there is any difference, when it comes down to essentials.
There's so much to wretch at, I hate to limit it to just this: Obama has begun the foray into relieving some people of not only having to pay income tax, but social security and medicare tax as well. The monstrosity that he signed contains a credit called Making Work Pay. (WTF? Work already pays!) It's refundable, and it's in addition to another refundable credit called the earned income credit.
hi all- how are things? day 2 here of no smokes--AARRRGGHHH!
Steer clear of mikeymom folks.
A few years ago I had quit for three days. I thought I was just a little bit tense. My wife walked up to me and shoved a cigarette in my mouth with the words: "smoke. this. you. sonofabitch".
Just got home from 24 hours in the emergency room and hospital for observation for a suspected heart attack. Had a full work up and they've ruled out heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterhol and say its is mostly likely stress, anxiety and fatigue produced. They said they've been getting 4-5 a day in like over the last few weeks.
I know that people get tired of reading the same old refutations to the same tired bullshit, but I don't wanna have that crap go unanswered on a thread, lest visitors take our silence for assent, and conclude that that's actually the default position here.
Taking out the trash ain't fun, but it really stinks up the place if you let the garbage pile up and fester and rot.
I'm a snivelling girly-man when it comes to high places...Or snakes!
He's done shows with snakes, too. One where they were collecting water snakes; one cleaning the containers at a snake farm.
Not to mention the one where they collected alligator eggs from nests in the swamp.
Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton administration who waged war on Buddy the pup, has died. He was around 18.
Socks had lived with Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, in Hollywood, Md., since the Clintons left the White House in early 2001.
Currie confirmed Socks' death Friday evening and said she was "heartbroken." She did not give details, referring callsdonatios to the Clinton Foundation office.
Sounds delicious and is bookmarked... Cool thing about our "Class VI" (booze store on Army post, in case you don't know) is that they can pretty much order anything, then call you when it arrives.
Killgore, since we are all off topic now, I don't mind tickling your mind with this, it's in regards to LOST and your questions about the set up of the "return" to the Island. An interesting list...
815: Jack has to explain about his father's body to the clerk. 316: Jack has to explain about John Locke's body
815: Jack has a drink at a bar next to a girl before the flight. 316: Same, and the hint of a conversation starting if his phone hadn't rang.
815: Charlie brought a guitar on board. 316: Hugo brought a guitar on board.
815: Hugo reads a Spanish comic book. 316: Ibid.
815: A recent murderer (Sawyer) is on the plane. 316: Ben is on the plane, presumably freshly a murderer.
815: Kate is brought onto the plane in handcuffs, with a law enforcement officer. 316: Sayid is brought on board with a law enforcement officer, and handcuffs under his coat.
815: Claire was on board pregnant with Christian's grandson. 316: Theory holds that Kate is on board pregnant with Christian's grandchild.
815: Jack has an argument with a flight member about breaking the rules (for his father). 316: Hurley argues about the rules (number of available seats he's eaten up).
815: Hugo nearly misses the flight. 316: Ben nearly misses the flight.
815: Jin overhears Jack's conversation at the ticket counter (about Christian). 316: Our mysterious new redshirt overhears Jack's conversation at the ticket counter (about Locke)
815: Charlie is a junkie. 316: Jack is a junkie.
815: Jack gets special treatment from a stewardess (bottles of booze). 316: Jack gets special treatment from a stewardess (fetching the captain of a flying plane).
815: Sawyer is reading a letter (evoking strong emotions) just before the plane crashes. 316: Jack is reading a letter (evoking strong emotions) just before the plane crashes.
815: There is a jolt in the plane, causing everyone to worry for a moment; a few later, things start getting chaotic. 316: Comparably the same thing.
815: Christian Sheppard's body is in a casket. 316: Locke is in a nearly identical casket.
815: Jack decided to put crappy shoes on his dad. 316: Jack put the shoes that should have been on his dad on Locke.
Lapidus was supposed to pilot 815. Instead he pilots 316.
815: There are many passengers on board that the Island doesn't need or want. 316: Same thing.
815: Rose is in possession of her husband's wedding ring, and is worried about his absence. 316: Sun has Jin's ring, and is worried about his absence, too.
815: Charlie goes to the bathroom behind the cockpit immediately before the turbulence starts. 316: Ben goes to the bathroom behind the cockpit immediately before the turbulence starts.
815: Boone and Shannon sleep together the night before the plane flight. 316: Jack and Kate sleep together the night before the plane trip.
Just got home from 24 hours in the emergency room and hospital for observation for a suspected heart attack. Had a full work up and they've ruled out heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterhol and say its is mostly likely stress, anxiety and fatigue produced. They said they've been getting 4-5 a day in like over the last few weeks.
(kragar)--hope you relax-have some wine! (i'll share)
I realize I do not know you personally... But, may I join the rest in wishing you to be well. Please take care of yourself, and I hope your health gets better.
I'm sorry to hear that- please take care of yourself.
On the plus side, I had a clean bill of health in most regards. Low BP, cholesterol, good EKG, just need to loose a few pounds and exercise more. Dr's were leaning to a massive anxiety attack due to my job conditions. They gave me a prescription to deal with the symptoms over the week end and I see my regular doc next week to see about dealing with the anxiety.
Just got home from 24 hours in the emergency room and hospital for observation for a suspected heart attack. Had a full work up and they've ruled out heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterhol and say its is mostly likely stress, anxiety and fatigue produced. They said they've been getting 4-5 a day in like over the last few weeks.
Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver have emerged, the Irish Times reports.
He had been wanted from counties Cork to Cavan after racking up scores of speeding tickets and parking fines.
However, each time the serial offender was stopped he managed to evade justice by giving a different address.
But then his cover was blown.
It was discovered that the man every member of the Irish police's rank and file had been looking for - a Mr Prawo Jazdy - wasn't exactly the sort of prized villain whose apprehension leads to an officer winning an award.
In fact he wasn't even human.
"Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence," read a letter from June 2007 from an officer working within the Garda's traffic division.
I'm thinking back to season 1 and the 2 skeletons they found in the cave. Jack and Kate? Sawyer and Kate? Jin and Sun? I'm betting it turns out to be some of the survivors.
Just got home from 24 hours in the emergency room and hospital for observation for a suspected heart attack. Had a full work up and they've ruled out heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterhol and say its is mostly likely stress, anxiety and fatigue produced. They said they've been getting 4-5 a day in like over the last few weeks.
You take CARE of yourself!
/experience talking ... *prayers*
I am OK. Not a contagious kind. We got briefed on the situation, and on the symptoms, and on what to do (basically, hygiene). Luckily for me, I am staying in the hotel-type setting, we have our own rooms, our own bathrooms and kitchens, and everyday cleaning service.
Just read this, don't know if it's been posted by anyone else but:
Norah O'Donnell is a bloody abysmal idiot of the highest order and should voluntarily relinquish any income she may earn, don a burqa and get her brainless carcass on the first flight to an Islamic country of her choice...
Gosh, but anti-capitalist bimbos annoy me! (Trying desperately not to curse)
I am OK. Not a contagious kind. We got briefed on the situation, and on the symptoms, and on what to do (basically, hygiene). Luckily for me, I am staying in the hotel-type setting, we have our own rooms, our own bathrooms and kitchens, and everyday cleaning service.
Good to hear that.
On a side note, today's Army sounds like ... (uh ... better not, she may be combat-qualified.)
Norah O'Donnell is a bloody abysmal idiot of the highest order and should voluntarily relinquish any income she may earn, don a burqa and get her brainless carcass on the first flight to an Islamic country of her choice...
Gosh, but anti-capitalist bimbos annoy me! (Trying desperately not to curse)
During the 3:00PM EST hour of MSNBC news coverage, anchor Norah O’Donnell discovered the source of sexism in the Middle East was not Islamic fundamentalism, but rather, capitalism.
Did Norah explain the source of her own sexism, which I sincerely doubt is capitalism any more than it's the source in the ME?
Thank you, I will consider it. But I think I'm still going to be skittish on that topic for a while. At least until I can really refine my opening statement properly.
On a side note, today's Army sounds like ... (uh ... better not, she may be combat-qualified.)
/... (-: ... dad was career Marine, I was Navy
Yeah, the Army seems to be getting softer. However, it is what you put into it, and I am working my tail off, and I refuse the sissy crap. Have not seen combat yet, but will most likely be getting deployed soon. Right now, mastering the art and science of being an Army Engineer and training to get into Sapper school. At 5'1" and 105 lbs it is quite a challenge.
Just got home from 24 hours in the emergency room and hospital for observation for a suspected heart attack. Had a full work up and they've ruled out heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterhol and say its is mostly likely stress, anxiety and fatigue produced. They said they've been getting 4-5 a day in like over the last few weeks.
Kragar - glad you're OK.
You probably don't need any gratuitous comments, but just in case it's useful: I went through an incredibly stressful time in 2002. Personal stuff. Overcompensated by overworking. Fatigue. Anxiety.
Then bam! I'm on the floor at work, after hours, with no one else on my floor, unable to move, short of breath, sweat, dizzyness, the whole thing. Luckily I had my mobile phone in my pocket, so I was able to call 911 and someone on the first floor to let the EMTs in without their having to break the door down. (My boss would have loved that.)
Many hours later, at the hospital, in comes the doctor and tells me I had experienced a panic attack.
Until then I never knew that they could perfectly mimic a heart attack. When the EMTs checked my BP on site, it was something like 200+ over 140. Lethal.
Fortunately things got better, but for a while I took an anti-anxiety drug - very effective. You don't want it happening while you're driving, that's for sure.
Did they give you anything? If it recurs (fingers crossed it won't) you might want to look into it.
Here's some more last words, for those who choose their friends unwisely:
"You can't say shit like that to me in my own damn house!"
Said it myself, a couple of times, way back when, in Key West, when I threw fantastic parties at my house. And it would always be someone I do not know, who just tagged along with a friend of a friend of a friend... Who would also be a collectivist/socialist of some stripe or another.
I have actually seen this point forwarded before, having gone back and read the article in full.
Woman's rights were definitely forwarded in the western world by labor movements to a large extent, and the lack of a need to expand the workforce to women in Islam majority countries could hypothetically account for a lack of reform; but it can't be said to be the 'source' of sexism.
There were Arab subcultures among the sedentary tribes that were much more egalitarian than what we see in Arabia now, in the pre-Islamic era. Along comes the nomadic Bedouin raider-subsumed Islamic creed, and the region is awash in a regressive slaver ideology. This was obviously a long time before anyone was drilling for oil.
It also of course goes nowhere in addressing the lasting sexism in a specific Islamic fashion in all of those Muslim nations that have no oil, and horrible economies.
Thank you, I will consider it. But I think I'm still going to be skittish on that topic for a while. At least until I can really refine my opening statement properly.
I recall you telling Naso Tang that you'd not paid much attention to the comments themselves in your prior reading. Even someone who spends far too much time in here (*waves hand*) has trouble keeping up with the details of the latest topical landmines.
Yeah, the Army seems to be getting softer. However, it is what you put into it, and I am working my tail off, and I refuse the sissy crap. Have not seen combat yet, but will most likely be getting deployed soon. Right now, mastering the art and science of being an Army Engineer and training to get into Sapper school. At 5'1" and 105 lbs it is quite a challenge.
Sapper school?!?! ... *eyes widening, ducking under desk*
I better be nice to you!
It also of course goes nowhere in addressing the lasting sexism in a specific Islamic fashion in all of those Muslim nations that have no oil, and horrible economies.
And that's the salient point. Speaking as an employer, I really don't give a shit what color a person's skin is, how they pray, or what's in between their legs. How they perform is all I care about.
Fuck you dude..You have always been rude..And let me tell you know..( bring it) Anybody that would have a nic on the Internet with Jesus in it is just f'n sick.
I don't care why..I've been on the internet from the beginning..I've seen alot..
Nobody calls themselves jesus anything you fuck..You have no respect for anything or are an egoist..either way..you suck bro..
Ya wanna continue in the lounge? I still have a few things to tell you..
/Sorry Charles
As far as Change goes, Hillary made it very clear to China that their violation of human rights won't stop this administration from having friendly relations with them.
I find spacejesus to be quite funny sometimes; to others, I realise his banter is a bit annoying. But it is banter, at the end of the day. He isn't going around lying his head off about people and making vicious unprovoked attacks. There are far nastier and loopier things going around than spacejesus. And if you are going to start beating on someone just because they mentioned their desktop picture, well...I wonder what kind of response that is bound to get...?
Frank says: