That's too bad. When telecoms went down in Gaza, the people began looting. It is generally assumed that were all of the telecom services to go down at...
Hey, John27, howyadoing? Thank you for stopping by and leaving this ambiguous message in the shout box. What did you want anybody to do with it? It is...
Sad. Tragic. But "time makes ancient good uncouth" a poet once said. The train of militant leftist working class activism and mass demonstrations seem...
It was crazy, as in DSM IV diagnosis: lunatic leftism. His behavior is also a testament to the ineffectiveness of long-term psychoanalysis. Perhaps a ...
Quite a few stories about people being the victims of "woke leftists" places the woke mob in the same category as 1950s McCarthy witch hunters. "Are y...
I'm thinking in terms of generations--20 to 25 years. A stable government should stand across generations. So, when people think about their governmen...
"The Economy" on which we all depend isn't managed from Capital Hill, 1600 Pennsylvania, or elsewhere in the District. And you are right: a lot of Ame...
Gee, Vera, that's kind of a negative way of looking at it. But yes, a functioning government should control immigration and political unrest. So, a mi...
Your Op was well drawn and has brought in solid interesting discussion. I rarely see Maher doing his shtick but I liked the clip you posted. I am gett...
I recently read an article about the frequency of thoughts about Rome. Apparently many males think about the Roman Empire quite a bit -- at least once...
I have not tried yellow birch sap. It's worth noting, now that you mention it, that the sap of trees other than maple can be used to make a sweet syru...
In my opinion, the line of reasoning you are taking here is problematic. I recently had this discussion; in a nutshell... There are facts about the wo...
[reply="Hanover;850331") People are so finicky about stuff like this. Natural maple syrup is made out of concentrated dirt water sucked up by maple tr...
I thought one was entitled to ones own opinions, but not entitled to one's own facts. The magnetic pole has nothing to do with the direction in which ...
Per The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993, we could call Hanover the Pumpkin King, Fun movie, by the way, is fun. It's a meticulously handmade puppet /...
When it comes to claims of national property, it seems like occupation counts for a great deal, whether the previous occupants agreed to it or not. Lo...
The Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) may or may not have relevance to the situation, but it looms much larger in the narra...
Of course. Jesus challenged the Jewish power elite, which outside of the Temple was subordinate to the Romans. But the narrative of the Jewish elite's...
Antisemitism starts out as a Christian thing. Prior to the Christian era, the Jews were one of several religious ethnicities that were periodically pl...
White people in Europe and North America generally tend towards low rates of reproduction -- a trend associated with more education and higher incomes...
No, you cannot. "Nothing" means nothing; zero; zilch; empty set; absence of anything. There is nothing about nothing to latch onto. It sounds cool to ...
Man, the 20th Century was a mess! Britain and France were eager to carve up the rotting Ottoman Empire for the oil treasure under the territory. Fine,...
If the actions of Group A and Group B are morally indistinguishable and equivalent, how should everyone else (call it Group C) act with respect to the...
The immediate judgement about the "morality of war" vs the "morality of murder" is largely guided by whose ox is getting gored. "Group B" in your exam...
It's entertaining. The religious rites of the Eleusinian Mystery cult at Eleusis (Ancient Greece) involved drugs, alcohol, and vision seeing. People d...
The idea that beer and wine were safer than the Nile, the Rhine, or the Thames is floated again and again. We know that that drinking water from the D...
It would be pretty nervy of me to review any of the psalms (#55 here). Apparently an old King David was lamenting political adversity. Much closer to ...
UPDATE: "A state police bulletin reviewed by the AP said he was a firearms instructor trained by the military and was recently committed to a mental h...
Here we are (late Wednesday / early Thursday 10/26) and we have another shoot up, this time in a Lewiston, Maine bowling alley, Not sure, but this may...
Yes, really. This is the asymmetry: Hamas does not have capacity to defend the Palestinian people in Gaza, or anywhere else. It is embedded in Gaza bu...
This is the problem of asymmetric warfare: a surprise attack by a small force can wreak great damage. The more powerful side will counterattack with e...
Thankfully we have all been spared the fury of the Norsemen and the scourge of the Mongols. Their various successors have proved worthy successors in ...
Terror and horror can be distinguished as unrelated experiences, but I don't have a problem with people using them interchangeably when they report th...
A friend's cat which I had teased and annoyed a lot wreaked vengeance on my person whenever I visited. Quite justifiably. Crows apparently sort out hu...
Last night's pizza or popcorn, maybe, but no fish for breakfast here, either. BTW, I read that some better restaurants are no longer serving farm-rais...
A less common phrase is "believing is seeing" which has implications outside of religious faith. Our perceptions are often enough shaped by what we be...
That IS your opinion, of course, and I suppose you don't see anything wrong with it. However, faith is belief which does not depend on (and may not se...
Sure, but then they would have had to put up with bitter and resentful Canadians. Besides, God had already given Newfoundland and Labrador to four Ind...
Just don't get Gotterdamerung, Armageddon, and ragnarökkr mixed up. Armageddon is the final battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment. T...
Amazon has several-pound cans of tunafish. Handy when running a feeding program for destitute philosophers. Corrugated cardboard waffles come in many ...
Look here, Jamal. Putting canned tuna fish on a waffle (especially if it was a frozen waffle) strikes me as the sort of thing that people who hate foo...
Frank, I'm just not sure how much can be accomplished by a discussion of the morality of war in general, particular battles, specific weapons, and var...
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