>The best thing about Bush was he gave obama someone to blame his mistakes on >whether it was Bushs fault or not. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat themselves. Bush did the exact same thing for years, blaming Clinton for any number of problems. Thing is, about some of them, he was right to do so. Just as Obama is right to blame Bush. The economic free-fall of 2008 rea
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11) Passed a tax cut program that's put us about 1.7 trillion in the hole, in line with an economic plan to stimulate the economy through welfare for the rich, a plan that even his own father called 'voodoo economics' under Reagan. 12) Had torture defined so narrowly that basically nothing is torture, so that we could start torturing folks as policy. 13) Oversaw an unprecedented politicalizatio
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And Herman Cain was once the polling presumptive candidate for 2012. Even Donald Trump looked good for a moment there. Humans are strange creatures.
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>Way to jack it off, feds! I dunno, Wingnut - sounds a bit like a joke they used on Police Squad!: 'We'd have gotten here sooner but your husband wasn't dead yet.'
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>Even a level 40 Blue Mage? Apparently. I showed up in Africa once having been away for over a year, and went to look for an old friend out in the veldt. In the past it'd taken a month to find him but this time it took no time at all - he'd come out of the mountains and was waiting for me not a mile from where I'd camped that night. I asked him how he knew I'd be there when I didn't know ti
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>Hopefully, Alias understands that her witchcraft has no power here. I am resistant to witchcraft.
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>A new study says that most Wives lie to their hubbies ten times more than most women. Of course you only hurt the ones you love - who else will let you?
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>Let's hear more about the blossoming romance between Alias and the gorilla man. Ah, the risks of rhetoric ambiguity. I'm not in possession of a baby gorilla but I do have a newborn and some knowledge of gorilla signing. And while I'm sure Alias is lovely, I'm afraid my dance card is filled. Besides, I'm sure she'd just break my heart.
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My favorites are the word 'linger', a fairly simple subjunctive mood (which makes it possible to say how I might feel if confronted by bigfoot), and at least 100 euphemisms for boobs.
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No, but I've been approached by several sects of 'ninjas'. They show up at embus from time to time, sometimes in complete burqa. Love those guys.
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Weights? Not as much as I should, but I belong to an ancient and obscure school of marital arts which keeps me trim. Trim-ish currently - 4 am feedings are really cutting into my practice time. Sorry Alias, if you're really looking for a fella - I'm currently involved with a younger lady who craps on me and yells a lot. Also drinks too much and pees in public. Yes, sounds like she'll fit in
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Actually I am physically attractive and smell vaguely of the Swiss alps. I think it's because I eat a lot of cheese and chocolate, while hiking in the swiss alps. Also, in the last year, I built a 500 pound table for my deck, narrowly escaped Angolan prison, and I just started teaching my newborn baby gorilla sign language. So I'm fun to talk to at parties. Edited because it sounds like I've g
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>No. I did something worse. Waiting to hear something worse ... And where are you going in Africa?
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>So what does English sound like to a non-speaker? Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXcRqFmFa8
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> Perhaps the best thing about english is that it never seemed to suffer from linguistic purism like some other languages It's been tried, but the French and Icelanders should be a lesson to us all - don't shovel sand against the tide. For my money, the best thing that ever happened to English was moving to America. 400 years ago, it was a language spoken on one island, and not all of it.
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This won't help you in your quest, Cheapskate, but it brought up a good memory. Back in the 90s you could go see Jazz games for like a can of soup. Everyone sat there quiet as church and applauded when someone scored like it was Wimbledon. Except for one guy who spent the entire night dogging Patrick Ewing, about how he didn't even get downcourt to defend except in the playoffs, or work on his
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I was on a small island in the south pacific once drinking with PC guys and I asked them the real truth was about what they were doing there. The guy pointed out their motor pool, 'half a dozen brand new Land Rovers, clean, gassed up, and doing absolutely nothing'. On an island with like 40 miles of road of any kind. "That's the Peace Corp" he told me.
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> I use a garden hose, and in emergencies on the road, the nearest fire hydrant. That, BEH, sounds less like personal hygiene and more like a social life.
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You guys need to invest in a washlet: http://www.amazon.com/SW554-01-Washlet-Elongated-Toilet-Cotton/dp/B0011YSEUC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365697396&sr=8-1&keywords=washlet Expensive, yes, but you can say goodbye to abrading your nethers. My ass and I have never been on such good terms.
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I sell bolo machetes?
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>Evolution is as factual as is the sun. There is no question about that at all. I usually stay 100 miles from these types of discussion but for what it's worth, I stay away from absolutes if only because they bring out the worst in folks. Say rather that if evolution is wrong, much of what we think we understand about biology, paleontology, and a bunch of other -ologies - is also wrong. Ther
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> Seriously, who the fuck gets a two month vacation every year????????????? The French.
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> Care to place a wager on whether or not Bigfoot is real? I'm totally serious. In which direction?
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There was one called 'Probe' that I actually kinda liked. I think it ran for like 10 episodes, and I fear to look for it on youtube. I had occasion to watch an episode of 'Forever Knight' last year - I had no idea it sucked that bad. Damn.
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Believe it or not, public defecators have a patron saint, sort of. Behold Caganer - it's like Where's Waldo went to Barcelona for christmas and decided to honk out a stump. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer
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Just Say No Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't speak on the sincerity of the early > Church, but trust me, its ALL about the money. I don't take this as a slam - churches that are bad at business don't last. I stopped at Sabbathday Lake this summer to see the sole remaining Shakers on earth. The Shakers had a 50 year head start on the mormons, yet t
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>Exactly! Why else do you think they hooked up with the Roman Empire (globalization via exploration, colonization, indoctrination, and domination)? Yep, which is why it's the Roman Catholic church, even though nothing of any biblical consequence happened there. It was a good move - tons of other schisms died away because they either didn't get the backing Rome did or set up shop in an otherw
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>This is why Gnosticism was eschewed by the Church and shunned, for it flew into the face of later "creations" about Jesus being immortal and God in human form, something that wasn't initially emphasized by early Christianity. Not to quibble, but I'll bet their problem was less doctrinal than business - they had a product and a brand to market and protect. The church has let all kinds of non
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>Gnosticism (knowledge in Greek) was "crushed," because they followed the gospel of Thomas and his "book" was considered heresy, due to the fact that it humanized Jesus and told about his journeys/experiences as an adult ( you won't find much about Jesus' life between the age of 13 and 30 in today's bible). There were a number of Gnostic gospels that didn't make the cut but I don't think it w
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The Catholic Church isn't as well organized as you might imagine, never has been. They take money from the churches and groups that identify themselves as Catholic but they've never been as well organized as, say, Walmart. Most of your questions stem from the history of the church, especially very early on. Within a decade of jesus' death, the church was already going through growing pains a
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