There's a fifth party as well, the Constitution party, but I'm not sure if they're on the ballot in Illinois. I'm fairly certain the Greens and Libbies are.
If they look like movie stars, why not? And why "all" males? It's not like Taco's calling ALL women "babes" or "chicks". And with a user name like CmdrTaco why is anyone surprised?
Either Libertarian candidate Bob Barr or Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney. It doesn't matter as both will lose, but I'll be casting a vote against Corporate Party candidates McCain and Obama.
Hope the next administration isn't this incompetent.
I'd say it wasn't possible to have a worse President, but I thought I'd never see a worse President than Carter, either. Bush proved me wrong on that one, now I worry and just keep my fingers crossed. I'm not too thrilled with either McCain or Obama, and will be voting against both of them.
I saw this on Yahoo news this morning (and submitted it, apparently my submission wasn't the first). It looked to me like the purpose of the hack was to discredit the DHS, which is FEMA's parent organization.
Note that all the calls went to middle east countries, including Afghanistan and Yemen, both Taliban havens. IMO the hacker did the US a great service by exposing FEMA's incompetence. Katrina is fading in folks' memories and "Brownie", who took the fall for that cluster fuck, is long gone but the agency is still apparently still incredibly dysfunctional and run by incompetents.
Excellence and failure both start at the top. When the head guy is incompetent, he will hire incompetents.
Don't give us all so much credit. There are a lot of things hard-wired into an animal's brain that comes from millions of years of evolution, and other things that come from the organism's experiences.
Learned behavior is not evolution. Breeding animals for a certain behavior is not the same as training them
*sigh*... I'm afraid my communication skills are failing me.
Surveys show that women are unfaithful to their men far more often than men are unfaithful to their women. I think a proportion of the population, both male and female, are of a monogamous nature while another set are not.
I'm one of those who prefers monogamy, and was faithful to my ex-wife for our entire 27 year marriage. I'd give up all the whores I know if I could find one decent woman to fall in love with. And I've not been testosterone tested, but the shape of my face suggests that mine is high, and people who know me are surprised to hear that I want a stable relationship. I only have one dick, I only need one woman to put it in.
I saw a New Scientist article yesterday that claimed that men in polygamous societies live longer than men in monogamous societies.
In the movie Little Big Man, Chief Dan George's character "Old Lodgeskins" said something to the effect that "the Indian believes that everything is alive - the people, the buffalo, the trees, the rocks. But the white man thinks everything is dead, and if he suspects that a thing is alive, he'll kill it."
I tend to agree with Old Lodgeskin's belief about things being alive. I think God gave souls to all the things he created.
I agree with your post completely - that is my personal policy and belief. I don't go around calling anyone "nigger". But it annoys me when a black person uses that word but insists that white people don't. It's hypocracy. If you don't like a word, don't use it yourself.
The way to combat racism is to act like a decent human being, to everyone.
Even secular humanists believe that human beings have a certain dignity or quality not found in most or possibly any other Earth species. So unless someone is a true, hard-core atheist -- note that when pressed, most self-described 'atheists' aren't really atheists, they're really anything from agnostics to secular humanists in terms of philosophy -- then generally they will believe that humans are special.
I don't agree at all. I'm not a secular humanist, I'm Christian. According to my beliefs, we are different from the other animals in only two important respects: we were made in our maker's image, and we were given dominion over the other animals. The first belief is debatable, but the second is self-evident. Nowhere in the bible (at least that I've found) does it say that animals don't have souls (the existance of souls is as debatable as the existance of God).
Even the Catholics believe in evolution.
We are a unique species - but so are barn swallows.
As to souls, I'm in the middle of the HHGTG series (for the umpeenth time), Zaphod did some soul searching and was astonished to find he actually had one, but Douglas Adams was an athiest.
The Bhuddists in Thailand have a Genesis story similar to the Christian Genesis. In theirs, humans were happy and peaceful until cats taught them to talk, and they have been arguing and fighting ever since. I'm amused by the fact that "meow" is Thai for "I want".
Sorry, but the dictionary disagrees with you. I would like to quote the Firesign Theater (I think from the "Bozos" record, I got stoned a lot back then and it was thirty or more years ago):
There's micks and wops and niggers and kikes with noses as long as your arm, and honkeys who never left the farm. THAT'S America, buddy!
My ancestors were called "micks" and it was spewed back then like "nigger" is now. Have you seen the movie Blazing Saddles? "Ok, we'll even take the niggers, but NOT the Irish!" We got past it, so should you.
I heard a man once say that when black people would stop using the word "nigger", he would too. Although I personally dislike the word, I think he has a valid point.
The reason the word is so distasteful is that "nigger" means "slave"; back when slavery was legal, a slave was considered just another farm animal, a subhuman. You had "field niggers" and "house niggers", like a house cat or an alley cat.
A "nigger rig" was a mechanical device meant for the slaves to use, usually junk, that was hastily repaired by a white slave owner or his white employees with the least amount of effort and expense. It was not "Afro-American Engineering".
If a word terrorizes you, you are indeed a cowardly wimp. Grow up and grow a spine.
A little history: Before ENIAC was engineered, a "computer" was a human being whose job was to do math, e.g. making ballistics tables for artillery, etc.
During WWII the military employed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of human computers.
Frank herbert called them "Mentats".
BTW and OT, the black on dark green on this screen is unreadable to geezers (and possibly to young people as well). I really wish you guys would fix that, thx.
Oh, yes, the wikipedia should give the same preference to Iraq news over the Olympics that is demonstrated by such responsible, independent organizations like Uncyclopedia or The Onion.
About twenty years ago we were watching a nature show on PBS, and as usual the cat was sitting between us. Although it always looked like she was watching TV we never believed she was in fact watching it.
Until that particular show. They were showing a prairie dog stick its head out of its hole, and the cat sat up and took notice. The animal on TV turned and ran away from the camera, and the cat leaped off the couch and ran behind the TV set! It then slunk back to the couch with a look on its fact like it was thinking "boy, am I stupid!"
Once I've seen an elephant there is no argument nor logic you can put forth to make me not believe in elephants. By the same token, once one experiences God there is no wat to talk him out of his faith.
I have faith that elephants exist. There is no way you can shake that faith.
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There's a fifth party as well, the Constitution party, but I'm not sure if they're on the ballot in Illinois. I'm fairly certain the Greens and Libbies are.
If they look like movie stars, why not? And why "all" males? It's not like Taco's calling ALL women "babes" or "chicks". And with a user name like CmdrTaco why is anyone surprised?
Either Libertarian candidate Bob Barr or Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney. It doesn't matter as both will lose, but I'll be casting a vote against Corporate Party candidates McCain and Obama.
Hope the next administration isn't this incompetent.
I'd say it wasn't possible to have a worse President, but I thought I'd never see a worse President than Carter, either. Bush proved me wrong on that one, now I worry and just keep my fingers crossed. I'm not too thrilled with either McCain or Obama, and will be voting against both of them.
I saw this on Yahoo news this morning (and submitted it, apparently my submission wasn't the first). It looked to me like the purpose of the hack was to discredit the DHS, which is FEMA's parent organization.
Note that all the calls went to middle east countries, including Afghanistan and Yemen, both Taliban havens. IMO the hacker did the US a great service by exposing FEMA's incompetence. Katrina is fading in folks' memories and "Brownie", who took the fall for that cluster fuck, is long gone but the agency is still apparently still incredibly dysfunctional and run by incompetents.
Excellence and failure both start at the top. When the head guy is incompetent, he will hire incompetents.
Or graduated slashdotters' basements.
Hey, dude, I know a lot of really smart chicks. Some chicks I know are even nerds. So don't get your panties in a twist, babe.
Learned behavior is not evolution. Breeding animals for a certain behavior is not the same as training them
*sigh*... I'm afraid my communication skills are failing me.
If I saw proof that all the elephants I've ever seen were hoaxes or hallucinations, I could be convinced. But it isn't likely to happen.
Surveys show that women are unfaithful to their men far more often than men are unfaithful to their women. I think a proportion of the population, both male and female, are of a monogamous nature while another set are not.
I'm one of those who prefers monogamy, and was faithful to my ex-wife for our entire 27 year marriage. I'd give up all the whores I know if I could find one decent woman to fall in love with. And I've not been testosterone tested, but the shape of my face suggests that mine is high, and people who know me are surprised to hear that I want a stable relationship. I only have one dick, I only need one woman to put it in.
I saw a New Scientist article yesterday that claimed that men in polygamous societies live longer than men in monogamous societies.
In the movie Little Big Man, Chief Dan George's character "Old Lodgeskins" said something to the effect that "the Indian believes that everything is alive - the people, the buffalo, the trees, the rocks. But the white man thinks everything is dead, and if he suspects that a thing is alive, he'll kill it."
I tend to agree with Old Lodgeskin's belief about things being alive. I think God gave souls to all the things he created.
I agree with your post completely - that is my personal policy and belief. I don't go around calling anyone "nigger". But it annoys me when a black person uses that word but insists that white people don't. It's hypocracy. If you don't like a word, don't use it yourself.
The way to combat racism is to act like a decent human being, to everyone.
Even secular humanists believe that human beings have a certain dignity or quality not found in most or possibly any other Earth species. So unless someone is a true, hard-core atheist -- note that when pressed, most self-described 'atheists' aren't really atheists, they're really anything from agnostics to secular humanists in terms of philosophy -- then generally they will believe that humans are special.
I don't agree at all. I'm not a secular humanist, I'm Christian. According to my beliefs, we are different from the other animals in only two important respects: we were made in our maker's image, and we were given dominion over the other animals. The first belief is debatable, but the second is self-evident. Nowhere in the bible (at least that I've found) does it say that animals don't have souls (the existance of souls is as debatable as the existance of God).
Even the Catholics believe in evolution.
We are a unique species - but so are barn swallows.
As to souls, I'm in the middle of the HHGTG series (for the umpeenth time), Zaphod did some soul searching and was astonished to find he actually had one, but Douglas Adams was an athiest.
The Bhuddists in Thailand have a Genesis story similar to the Christian Genesis. In theirs, humans were happy and peaceful until cats taught them to talk, and they have been arguing and fighting ever since. I'm amused by the fact that "meow" is Thai for "I want".
Sorry, but the dictionary disagrees with you. I would like to quote the Firesign Theater (I think from the "Bozos" record, I got stoned a lot back then and it was thirty or more years ago):
My ancestors were called "micks" and it was spewed back then like "nigger" is now. Have you seen the movie Blazing Saddles? "Ok, we'll even take the niggers, but NOT the Irish!" We got past it, so should you.
I heard a man once say that when black people would stop using the word "nigger", he would too. Although I personally dislike the word, I think he has a valid point.
The reason the word is so distasteful is that "nigger" means "slave"; back when slavery was legal, a slave was considered just another farm animal, a subhuman. You had "field niggers" and "house niggers", like a house cat or an alley cat.
A "nigger rig" was a mechanical device meant for the slaves to use, usually junk, that was hastily repaired by a white slave owner or his white employees with the least amount of effort and expense. It was not "Afro-American Engineering".
If a word terrorizes you, you are indeed a cowardly wimp. Grow up and grow a spine.
A little history: Before ENIAC was engineered, a "computer" was a human being whose job was to do math, e.g. making ballistics tables for artillery, etc.
During WWII the military employed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of human computers.
Frank herbert called them "Mentats".
BTW and OT, the black on dark green on this screen is unreadable to geezers (and possibly to young people as well). I really wish you guys would fix that, thx.
...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!
They've come down in price that much? I mught buy one once they get out of beta.
Yeah, that was kind of funny, but this cartoon is funnier and more on-topic.
Don't give *wives* too little credit.
Ah, that explains it; I must have given Evil-X too little credit! She got all my cash, though. Now that I'm single I can afford beer
Ewe muss bee knew hear!
If you don't care then don't click on the link. If you don't want it on the front page visit the firehose and vote against it.
I don't have an iPhone (I might get one if they come down to $50) but I thought the summary, at least, and the ensuing discussion was worth my time.
Why are bug reports on the iPhone always blown way the hell out of proportion?
My twenty dollar Nokia doesn't drop calls, nor have service interruptions, or any of the other problems the iPhone has.
A six hundred dollar telephone ought to work. Period. There is no such thing as "blowing it out of proportion."
Oh, yes, the wikipedia should give the same preference to Iraq news over the Olympics that is demonstrated by such responsible, independent organizations like Uncyclopedia or The Onion.
What? Me worry?
About twenty years ago we were watching a nature show on PBS, and as usual the cat was sitting between us. Although it always looked like she was watching TV we never believed she was in fact watching it.
Until that particular show. They were showing a prairie dog stick its head out of its hole, and the cat sat up and took notice. The animal on TV turned and ran away from the camera, and the cat leaped off the couch and ran behind the TV set! It then slunk back to the couch with a look on its fact like it was thinking "boy, am I stupid!"
Once I've seen an elephant there is no argument nor logic you can put forth to make me not believe in elephants. By the same token, once one experiences God there is no wat to talk him out of his faith.
I have faith that elephants exist. There is no way you can shake that faith.