Posted on 03/08/2002 3:33:16 PM PST by blam
ummm...to sell magazines by superimposing what may be modern circumstances and emotion of conflict and sympathy or hatred?
And somehow through association applying the visuals of Neanderthals and humans to the present inhabitants?
Hey that's independent thought. You're not suppose to question what scientists tell you. If you don't stop, you will end up considering alternative explanations for the evidence. Only right wing extremists do that. /sarcasm
Yes, and their ancient territory was the land around Mecca.
Some of them could be VERY dense.
Oh- You were talking about population numbers, weren't you? Sorry, my bad!
Not to go into much detail, but a lot of my childhood was spent in poverty, with my family receiving some kind of gov. assistance. I was raised with the typical attitudes of the desperately poor: our situation is not our fault, it is the fault of the rich who keep stealing from us; the rich, of course, are evil, mean, conservatives who, if we stupidly elect them, will take away even the pittance we have; the liberal Democrats really care for us and understand how horrid the rich conservatives are, and they'll make sure we're taken care of, etc. I believed that if I put my faith in the government, my life would get better. Except that I didn't see the government actually providing anything except promises, and no one lives well on the dole. I desperately wanted out of poverty, and gradually, I came to realize that the liberal attitudes of the poor (which are different than the liberal attitudes of the rich) weren't going to get me there. Plus, I joined the Navy, which tends, by its nature, to be crawling with conservatives, and I gradually came to see that "those people" were not the evil brutes I had always been taught they were. Add to that my observations during the 80's, that liberals engage in a lot of fear-mongering (one example: Reagan was just waiting for the slightest excuse to set off WWIII) that ultimately proves false, every time, and I lost my faith in liberalism. Also, there is the liberal's single-minded devotion to "abortion rights," which really contradicted everything they claimed about being compassionate (by my thinking, the conservatives should have been pro-abortion, since they were, as I had been taught, evil and heartless). The last straw, for me, was when the Dems nominated Klintoon in 1992. Everything about him struck me wrong; I've had a very miserable experience with a man extremely like Klintoon, and I knew he would be very bad for the country. So I went and changed my voter registration to Republican, and here I am, today.
Since the journey to the right side was very long and involved a lot of self-reflection, no, no one came with me. I was always a skeptical, deeply thinking person; I have a feeling that without that trait, I'd still cling to the liberal "values" I was raised with.
Sorry for the long answer!
There was a thread a year or so ago,
claiming the Neandertals interbred with Cro-Magnum.
The claim was made that red hair is one of the Neandertal traits,
as in Irish, and Scotish type redheads.
(Really hard to think of Ann Margaret as a Neandertal.)
If they did in fact interbreed, than they are the same species.
Don't be coy -- we've had this discussion before. They do it for publicity, to better establish their academic "reputations" and to sell whatever books they've written. National Geographic is a joke. It peddles whatever pseudo-scientific line is trendy at any given moment. Great pictures, though!
When referring to others as poor dolts it's a good idea to check your own spelling. ;-)
BTW it is better to be an exDemMom than an exMomDem :(
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