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I don't remember any squirrels... I do remember a bunch of cats -- so many that I don't have any of the names anymore. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'd settle for it taking down that shitpile Daley. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I remember that!!

Reminded you of "Love Swing," did it? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Of those, I think I like Modern Marvels best. I don't have cable t.v. and have been missing years of the offerings, but I believe there are lots more documentary shows around, ones that I prefer even over Modern Marvels. I saw a few last week while on vacation: I love the one that rates the weapons of war like fighter planes or bombers or warships...

Dems did not come into control of Congress saying they would work with the Republicans. They came into Congress saying that finally they would undo all of what the Republican Congress had done because it was bad. The plan was to do what the Democrats wanted and what they believed their voters wanted, NOT to do what was best for the country with bipartisanship in mind. Clearly. The joke is, they haven't been able to fulfill their own promises. Seems they forgot that you can't do all of those things with a slim majority and a president who's in the other party. Such smart people, those Democrats. Such distance of vision! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Have you forgotten that it's mankind's brain that enabled it to adapt for the loss of the natural "weapons" that strict carnivores possess? Elephants are herbivores, and they have those awesome tusks and they can indeed use them to harm other animals. (I doubt they'd hunt very well with them, though. Kind of hard for an elephant to sneak up on a critter.) Oh my god, to put eating meat into the same category as doing cocaine or alcohol?! You can say that it's "no more valid than" but clearly that's wrong. Cocaine does nothing to nourish us, nor does alcohol. On balance, those things are essentially poison to us. Meat is not. So yes, eating meat IS more valid than doing those things. But once again, we were not "designed" for any of what we do. We filled a niche. If our niche were to disappear, so would we. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Every time you say "herbivore" and pretend like "omnivore" does not exist, you make it appear that you believe we cannot eat other than vegetable matter, when the clear fact is that we can. No one is saying that we're "carnivores," because we're smart enough to realize that we eat other than meat. But you are saying we're "herbivores," implying that our diet is strictly vegetable. You're simply wrong. I proved it last night when I ate that sirloin. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Why can't you folks give up the use of the word "designed" here (with all of its implications) and simply switch to "suited"?? Even cats and dogs, which are clearly predators, don't achieve nourishment with ONLY their mouths--so why does the fact that we'd have trouble eating a raw dead rabbit with only our mouths prove anything? Cats grab their prey with their claws and kick the guts out of them. They don't capture, kill and eat with only their mouths. Nor do dogs. But none of these things lack what we need to enable us to be OMNIvorous! That's not the way evolution would have worked. The first time a member of a species that had no ability to eat meat killed and ate something out of meat, it's not as though his genes said, "I'd better produce progeny who are better at this." You're saying that we learned to hunt; we started to kill animals; we started to eat animals; and then we began to develop systems that could handle them? Pishposh. Also, I would bet that the further back you go into our genetic past, the LARGER were our aggressive, "canine" teeth. Not the smaller. Not the less suited for tearing meat. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Um, when you have three boats surround another boat, it's pretty easy to tell who the "bad guys" are -- or, for a better term, the "aggressors." If you were aboard the cargo ship, do you think you would have been confused that you were being victimized by an act of piracy? Do you think the pirates arrived in Coast Guard boats with lights flashing? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Come on, admit it. You all, like me, were fooled for a minute into thinking that the shitbag lying fucking pricks in our congress were actually going to work together for the good of our country for once! (Those pricks are male and female, in case you wondered.) Business as fucking usual. I hate them all. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Oh, what a devastating rebuttal! I... I just don't know what to say to that! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

If I were him, I wouldn't state ANY details in public. His insurance company may just have to duke it out with the other guy's. What's to be gained by spitting out details that have even a 1% chance of hurting his case? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Ohhhh you are like ICE! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

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Don't forget GUNS! We made a stop in Kennesaw, Georgia! [ Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Kennesaw, GA. You'd have a point, if the Kennesaw ordinance was anything more than ornamental. The fact is, they do not enforce it, they have never enforced it, and they probably never will enforce it -- because the law includes exceptions for those whose beliefs or preferences do not allow for them to arm themselves. By the way, I knew that you would bring up Kennesaw even before I hit "post." It's a red herring. Gun owners are not about forcing non-gun owners to get guns; and if Kennesaw is the best "proof" you have that they are, then sorry, you lose. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Ask a Creationist. Good point, but digressive. This is not a conversation about Creationism -- unless you count Lucky, who seems to be arguing that we were "designed" to eat vegetation. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiform_appendix That again supports my contention that humans were originally designed to be strict herbivores. Since we have elected to be omnivores, the need for the appendix is not neccesary. You demonstrate a profound lack of understanding of the processes of evolution. I am not an expert, myself, but even I understand this far better than you evidently do. An appendix does not just "go away" if not used. Our body parts do not become vestigial because we "elect" to be certain things. We were not "designed" for anything. We evolved to fit a niche. And if we were not already evolved to eat meat, we would not have been able to simply "elect" to do so, any more than we could "elect" now to start eating tree bark and expect our appendices to start functioning again. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Really what I was doing was pointing out the fallacy that some vegetarian-people use, i.e. "Humans are not 'supposed' to eat meat." If that was the case, we wouldn't be able to without harming ourselves, or at least, without getting nothing of any nutritional value from it. You were feeding into that fallacy, the way you were implying that (a) incisors are for grinding and (b) we didn't also have canine teeth. This is not about what works best; it's simply about what works. Structure does not necessarily dictate or limit function in the way you are clearly trying to imply. "Foul" Only if you forget that you were defrosting it on the counter and leave it out for too long. It really doesn't matter what we were "naturally dsigned for" according to you. First of all, you don't have a direct line to the "designer," so you are hardly authoritative on what we were "designed for." The fact is, we CAN digest meat, and we DO digest meat, so the claim that we're not "supposed to" is just absurd. So it's "difficult/unnatural" for human beings to swallow meat? What do you think CHEWING is for?? Are you fucking for real? What do you mean, "I think I wrote"?! I QUOTED YOU, didn't I? DIRECTLY. Do you want me to quote the exact same material again? OK, here it is. YOU SAID: So much for what you claimed you really said, or that I took it out of context. "Molars and incisors - good for grinding vegetation." Hmm... Straight from the herbivore's mouth. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Yes ma'am. After all, the video was made just yesterday, and I haven't gone and had my head shaved since then. I did not watch the video before - did just now. (Great shot. Excellent shot. - Still talking to yourself?) Holy Moses, where did your wonderful blonde curls go to? You are making less and less sense, the more of your posts I read -- and I don't think the variable is me. Is it possible for a person to make negative sense? I guess we'll soon see. When the hell was I ever blond? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'm sure we've all heard and read about Obama being Muslim, or his refusal to wear a US flag lapel pin, or any number of other claims. That doesn't mean they have any basis in fact. So now you're establishing the things you think I have come to believe about Obama, on my behalf? And then knocking them down as strawmen, and concluding that I must not have anything apart from that to use as a basis for not liking Obama? And you were a moment ago challenging me for not having a valid basis for what I post. Heh. That's good. Actually, no, I don't believe it's "telling" about me at all. And who said I was "consistent with [my] support of the Republican candidate? I've stated (but perhaps it was not here, I can't recall which board I stated it on) that I may very well vote for Bob Barr, especially since my county typically goes to the Democratic candidate for president regardless of what I do. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

That's nice. I'm not here to convince anyone. And I'm not interested enough to go digging up links and lines for you to read. You have your mind made up, and I have my mind made up, based on our respective experiences and the things we've seen, heard, and read. I'm OK with that. In other words, you are basing your opinion on prejudices, without first considering whether they have any basis in reality. Actually, no. It's just that I have heard and read of the statements that establish what I believe I know of him, even though I don't have them on hand to cite for you. You crack me up! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I just think he's phenotypically fuckin' weird-lookin'! You still have your feminine curls, hanging down to your shoulders? Yes ma'am. After all, the video was made just yesterday, and I haven't gone and had my head shaved since then. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I just think he's phenotypically fuckin' weird-lookin'! Compared to whom? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DjNjkhRgVk Holy shit, it's going viral!! In answer to your question, fuck yeah he's weird-lookin' compared to me!! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire