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Now the French and the Dutch can share grief and investigating.

Yes, and where are the poison gas showers, heaps of gold teeth and clothing, slave using factories, Mengele experiments, crematoria and mass graves???

Ukarain’s fault, that’s the story Putin’s controlled Russian media is pushing.

Once again sexism rears its head. Four males and 1 female gecko? Poor harassed female, Female sexuality is less important than male sexuality, not fair to females?

So much new and exciting dino information. And here is a story about trackways suggesting new T-rex behavior information.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/24/tyrannosaur-pack-hunting-theory-aided-by-new-footprints/20936661/?ncid=webmail20

“Adam was created as a man, of mature age.” OK, if you believe that, then which version of human creation do you believe, both found in Genesis. #1, God created man and woman from earth (ie, man and woman are equal). #2, God created woman from a rib from Adam (ie, man is superior or supersedes woman). Each version has significant philosophical and social implications. In addition, it blows the minds of those who believe every word of the Bible. [BJK—I read your bio.]

Yes, science is repeatable, observable, and explainable. However, if non fossilized tissue (blood, DNA) is found in bones buried between datable layers of stone—sediments, volcanic ash, etc. Then it makes more sense to trust the dating of the strata, and rethink the nature of the tissue.

More than half of Lucy’s bones were recovered, and you can see them in the new hominid exhibit at the Smithsonian financed by conservative, David Koch.

Here is an exciting story on new trackway findings suggestive of new information regarding T Rex behavior. Hope SC will repost as new article.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/24/tyrannosaur-pack-hunting-theory-aided-by-new-footprints/20936661/?ncid=webmail20

Dan Rather and Bill Maher come to mind, but I don’t think it was liberals who got rid of them.

I spoke with a Russian woman tonight. She has been here 15 years and is very thankful. “More opportunity, but you have to be willing to work hard.”

Time will tell.

what an ugly mess.

Here is a list of the most and least happy large cities and metropolitan regions. I have not yet analyzed if being near the water is a general factor. However, NY City is the most unhappy and is surrounded by water on 3 sides, perhaps much of it polluted?

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/23/study-finds-unhappiest-cities-in-america/20935681/?ncid=webmail3

Ah yes, the joys of farming.

A UN commissioner for UNESCO was describing conditions there see during her visit. She said 70% of peopl have no access to safe water. Several major sewage treatment plants have been destroyed, and raw sewage is now going into the Med. Also food and medicine supplies low. Doesn’t sound like conditions for a sustained battle.

This will also have implications for Virginia, where the former R governor did one thing and the current D governor is trying to change it.

I don’t disagree with your evaluation of American news seeking behavior. What I was saying is that here there are more opportunities to seek out different viewpoints even if most do not. On the other hand, Putin has made it almost impossible to get alternative viewpoints in Russia.

If you have been following RT, you will note its strongly pro separatist slant.

I guess this is right up there with government legal and taxed alcohol and tobacco, both of which are more addictive than pot. Also known to cause alcoholism, cirrosis (sp?) of the liver, drunk driving, domestic abuse, and lung cancer, which the state pays for in many cases. Keeping doctors, courts, etc. in business since the old millenium.

In Washington, DC, in Nov. 1999 a Referendum on approval of Medical Marijuana was voted. For more than a decade Congress would not even allow DC to count the ballots. When finally counted a significant majority approved MM. Now the DC Council has approved a law for decriminalization. It has gone to Congress for the usual 60 day evaluation period. Some “conservatives” are trying to block approval. This measure would reduce possession of small amounts of MJ from a crime to a ticketable offense for $25. More than twice the number of young people have been arrested for MJ as are graduating from high school in DC.

When will Congress stop dictating to DC how DC can spend its own local tax funds and make its own laws? When Congress closed down the government for 2 weeks recently, DC was told it could not even spend its local tax money to collect garbage. DC’s mayor defied Congress and called all DC government jobs essential, not just police and fire.
DC’s 640,000 residents pay full federal taxes, unlike Puerto Rico which pays none. Both have equal representation in Congress, a non-voting Delegate. Is TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION fair, right, or even American?

This Nov. DC will probably have a referendum on the ballot regarding legalization of MJ for people 21 and older and possessing 2 oz. or less of MJ. No smoking in public. Will Congress forbid counting of these ballots? If you believe in freedom for Americans, tell your Congress people to leave DC’s rights alone.

A point I was trying to make is that while Putin has managed to consolidate almost all Russian media in his hands, including likely responsibility for assassination of journalists, here in US there are still widely different views expressed in a number of places.
I guess my question would be, winning what?

What worries scientists is that when the permafrost melts, vast amounts of CO2 are released, and if CO2 causes global warming then you have a self perpetuating temperature rise phenomenon. I hope they are wrong.

They are pudgy because they have a high carbohydrate low meat and vegetables diet. I ran out of money when I was in college in Mexico City. Friend who borrowed money didn’t pay it back, and mom’s check was 3 weeks late. I lived for 3 weeks on $5 american (1958). Ate lots of tortillas and rolls, with a beer after classes bought by a student I flirted with. Put on 10 pounds in that 3 weeks, lost them in 3 months after back in US.

health care ping

I read the entire link and a number of comments. My main comment is that Putin for more than a decade has systematically destroyed an independent press in Russia. Here we complain about the MSM, but we have well-financed Fox, Savage, Rush, and others, so obviously Russian thinking that we are brainwashed in the US is not quite true. The statement that Russians are believing some of this because they want to probably has some truth.

Meanwhile here is a report on the latest fate of the bodies.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/21/rebels-release-train-with-bodies-from-downed-jet/20934647/?ncid=webmail31

domestic violence ping

Is it OK to crochet??

It ain’t over til the fat lady sings.

Don’t forget white wigs was the fashion. Lends distinction to “people of quality”

Isn’t there some law in Germany against disparaging the religion of others? I seem to recall a legal case where the language was a lot less toxic than this Imam’s.

Vacationing in August? I think it was Bush 1 after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, Aug. 2, 1990, “what is it about the month of August.” ANy good answers?

Rats fleeing sinking ship ping.

Lots of interesting comments in the article.

I suspect by this time OBL sleeps IN the fishes.

How do you know the Russians have not put SAM’s in the hands of the separatists? From various reports it sounds as if the separatists were controlling firing perhaps with supervision and assistance of Russians. The rocket needed radar guidance.

True about Crimean Muslim opposition to annexation, so why would majority Muslim Malaysia and/or pilot want to do something stupid there?

Here is an article about the “bodies” issue and many comments. In Washington, DC there are people marching to protest the Israeli entry into Palestine. Is anyone picketing the Russian embassy demanding that they pressure the rebels to allow entry by the forensic teams to recover the remains?
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/20/rebels-take-full-control-of-mh17-plane-crash-bodies/20934008/?ncid=webmail7
A friend told me the Dutch have been a country least strong in pressuring Putin to stop the nonsense. I suspect that will change now that they have lost the population equivalent of our 9/11 3,000 dead.
Apparently the pilot had been talking about making the Haj to Mecca this year. Why would a good Muslim commit suicide before making his Haj?

I Don’t know about the other stuff, but I sure don’t want the big boys taking over the Intenet. Imagine what it might cost us to keep FR if that happens.

Although Jews lived safely in England, I got the distinct impression that significant elements of the Military in Palestine/Israel after WWII were not very Jewish friendly.

Unlikely.

Pelosi perp ping.

I believe he washed out of the Coast Guard, felt compelled to work to get into an elite unit. Who knows what familial breakdown led to his bizarre behavior. I saw people for 10 years who were absolutely nuts. A mother who tried to drown her son in the toilet because he would no longer fondle her in the bathtub, for example. A son whose mother was too drunk to notice that the older brother was using the family dog to rape his little brother. I know other cases even worse but will not mention them as the victims are still alive, amazingly.

And probably got stampeded off cliffs or into swamps.

The literature I have seen talkes about every 600 or 700 thousand years, which is very, very approximate. We are far more likely to have one of the smaller ones if the average is 1 every 10,000. I am not aware of one within that time frame, so it’s a possibility.

The article said 96% reunited or sponsored. So that is about 57,000 families or individuals out of 11,000,000 illegals.

Good point. They become some of our home grown gangs, and we send the Hispanic illegal gang members back to central america. We need to figure out a better way to deal with both problems.

I recall reading somewhere that while they have a megavolcanoe at around 6 or 7 hundred thousand year intervals, there have been something like 70 more local events since the last one about 640,000 years ago. So that would be about one every 10,000 years.

I haven’t read the link, but volcanic events can also seed very heavy rain which could drown a lake community rather quickly.

Good news? I hope.

Interstate transportation ping