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Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans and ban certain undesirables from using our airlines. They demand the right to criticize and blaspheeme the name of our supreme commander and cheef George W Bush while forcing multiculturalism down our throats and praising Bill Clinton. We all know however that it's totally Clintons fult for everything bad in america. Now we are at war and we must make a decision. support the safty of America and defeat terrorists, or support civil liberties and give victory to the enemy. Its all because of Bill Clinton and civil liberties that we are in this war so it is only fair that we give it up. no one said life was supposed to be fair you liberal crybabys. Dont give me that rubbish about equality and diversity. WE ARE AT WAR! If your not for Bush and against civil liberties your a terrorist! Your probably even a Communist and should be detained. Therefore fellow Americans we must throw all of our trust and resources behind George W Bush and behind this war with no ifs ands or buts. Be sure to report any and all detractors and freedom supporters to your local military and never question. Bush knows what hes doing and we will win this war once and for all. Thank you and May God bless America.

I sometimes end up with more to toss into the laundry after hiking due to having to change clothes after the hike.
Ticks are not fun to deal with..

Yeah.
Threads that were moved end up with automatic keyword wipes, some forum thing probably dealing with database files or some such, and thus have no keywords anymore.
Like the possessed appliances thread.

"...Ticks are not fun to deal with.."

How well I know! My "playground" when I was growing up was in the foothills of the Rockies. A "tick check" was mandatory after a day in the sagebrush and scrub oak.

There won't be any more "Dark Ages." I promise.

I hope you are right, I often think that Osama is to the West what Attila was to Rome.

I had never seen a tick until I turned 13 and moved to NY.
Since then, any trip through the woods -even in winter- require a check for ticks.

Because no elaborate civilisation could exist before the Agricultural Revolution, which was around that time.

That's what they teach you in Sckrool. :-)

"People" discovered agriculture, *and* built the pyramids within a few ,what? Thousand years?

We can't even figure out how they built the pyramids. Sure there are theories, but nothing here makes sense.

Civilization could not have sprung up from no where, and it takes massive organization to produce a pyramid.

So where are the old human civilizations buried?

Maybe, under water.

How cool is that?

Which negative evidence?

Take your pick: nutritional sciences, ecology, astronomy, and so on. Where there is personal investment in a theory or idea, it will die hard--even if you have to keep it on life support for a decade or two.

Technology is acquired and developed during the golden age of a civilization, but it is lost again during a dark age because technology is of little use if no social structures exist, and people fall back on subsistence.

Have you read Oswald Spengler?

Osama would like us to shrivel and shrink and cower in fear, so he could "lead" us back to the Dark Ages.

That isn't going to happen. Don't be so discouraged. You don't live in America, so I can only think you can't feel the pride and optimism that is here. It's alive and well, and not just on FR. :o]

we have to accept the theories that we are most comfortable with.

We have to accept the theories that make the most sense. As challenging, and uncomfortable as they may seem at first.

:-D

Ialso recall reading in Discover magazine in 2002, I believe, that a prostetic toe was found in a sarcopagus. It had a photo of it, and it was attached by leather thongs. I think the device was dated at around 4,000 BC.

It was 2000, and the toe was made of wood.

Fancy footwork from Ancient Egyptians

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