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It is the cowardice that has doomed us.... RL January 11, 2026 1:07 pm (CurrentEvents)

An opinion from our neighbors up north, eh... podrock January 11, 2026 9:14 am (CurrentEvents)

Murdering moms in mini-vans in Minneapolis Minnesota RL January 10, 2026 2:01 pm (CurrentEvents)

Have Republicans lost control of the House already? BuckGalaxy January 8, 2026 11:35 pm (CurrentEvents)

Who deleted my Grammar post? BuckGalaxy January 8, 2026 11:06 pm (Off-Topic)

In the park Homer ER January 8, 2026 3:05 pm (Off-Topic)

66 Global Organizations the US is Leaving BuckGalaxy January 8, 2026 11:21 am (CurrentEvents)

Well, there goes the Nobel Peace Prize ER January 6, 2026 6:39 am (CurrentEvents)

Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise BuckGalaxy January 3, 2026 12:04 pm (CurrentEvents)

MAGAlomaniac BuckGalaxy December 30, 2025 2:39 pm (Flame)

Mark your calendars for February 6 BuckGalaxy December 22, 2025 11:24 pm (Space/Science)

The answer is blowin' in the wind BuckGalaxy December 22, 2025 6:05 pm (CurrentEvents)

Asimo learns by RobVG January 9, 2012 7:58 pm

I agree with you. And I wonder how your description of the process varies from what a human child ... by bowser 2012-01-09 21:58:16

Friendly Fire by ER January 9, 2012 9:40 am

"You know a philosophy is corrupt and self-serving not when it attacks its opponents’ principles, but when it is ready ... by TB 2012-01-09 09:46:32
- Tom, you're already thinking pre-emptively, preparing your excuses for the future. You know perfectly well the Republicans can't deliver on the ... by ER 2012-01-09 10:20:11
  - MSNBC decides what will be "news" and what won't. They don't have to be the source. by TB 2012-01-09 10:39:42
    - There's no Democratic knee-cutting going on here. Romney is the victim of this attack, and other Republicans are the ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:13:11

Apocalypse Now. by ER January 7, 2012 7:01 pm

Well.I just watched the debate and I am undecided on who might beat Obama but I can say who I ... by FrankC 2012-01-07 21:05:18
- I like Huntsman. I may not agree with his politics, (actually, he's quite conservative) but I sense he's an ... by visitor 2012-01-08 10:02:41
  - He doesn't turn me off by any means but he seems to have the Adlai Stevenson disease. I just doubt ... by FrankC 2012-01-08 13:45:09
    - "The Adlai Stevenson Disease" by ER 2012-01-08 18:30:22
      - Yes, but also perceived by many as weak and ineffectual. I think it is possible to portray the positive without the ... by FrankC 2012-01-08 19:57:51
        
        It may be unfair, but I've always felt many Americans to equate "intelligent and refined" with "weak and ineffectual". ... by ER 2012-01-09 07:01:26
  - PS. The post above, "I like Huntsman", was mine, not by "visitor". I just was not logged in. BTW, ... by ER 2012-01-08 10:07:04
    - After clicking the "Remember Me" box on the login screen, I haven't had to log on since. It didn't used ... by RobVG 2012-01-08 11:25:57
      - By George, you're right! by ER 2012-01-08 13:11:08
There's a large gap between the number of Christians who believe Christ will return "someday" (part of the basic faith) ... by TB 2012-01-07 20:20:42
- I never said these people are representative of Christians in general, or even that they make up a substantial fraction ... by ER 2012-01-07 21:12:00
  - They make your flesh crawl because that's part of your belief system. by TB 2012-01-07 22:18:14
    - Yeah, I'm perfectly aware that a bunch of crazy ragheads want to fly airliners into our office buildings, but they ... by ER 2012-01-08 06:08:49
      - You're blowing smoke again. by TB 2012-01-08 16:07:25
        
        Boy did you walk right into that one, in spite of all the warnings I gave you and all the ... by ER 2012-01-08 18:13:40
        
        Although you seem to forget the line of thought in a particular thread, I don't. by TB 2012-01-08 21:08:55
        
        Tom, you're the one who's selectively obsessing about the Gulag and Cultural Revolution. You're crawling into bed with religious ... by ER 2012-01-09 06:46:17
        
        Thinking about the sharks in the metaphor I mentioned is normal, not "selective obsession." by TB 2012-01-09 09:55:20
        
        Tom, I've never met either you or the President personally, or know anything about either of you, but if I ... by ER 2012-01-09 10:29:41
        
        You missed the point. by TB 2012-01-09 10:49:57
        
        Well, I've never made a secret of my religious affiliations, but I don't post under my own name either. You ... by ER 2012-01-09 11:49:34
      - "Yeah, I’m perfectly aware that a bunch of crazy ragheads want to fly airliners into our office buildings, but they don’t live here, and they are not the spiritual heart of the Tea Party." by RobVG 2012-01-08 12:24:52
        
        Maybe not all conservatives are bible-bangers, but not too many bible-bangers are liberals. Fundamentalist Christianity and political conservativism are ... by ER 2012-01-08 13:08:28
    - They make one's flesh crawl because of their belief system. It's absolutely terrifying to think there are people out ... by bowser 2012-01-07 23:34:07

Now this is a BIG surprise! by BuckGalaxy December 22, 2011 8:13 pm

skeptical update (and bounce test) by podrock 2012-01-08 17:02:57
- damn local news redirect to their home page....arrgggg...you'll have to cut and paste the url... by podrock 2012-01-08 17:04:38
  - Testing this link. by TB 2012-01-08 17:39:24
DeSoto's map of his journey in the southeast United States contains place name that sound as if they could be ... by podrock 2011-12-23 11:49:34
- The Spanish transliterated Indian languages so they sounded Spanish. Indian names for geographical entities are very common in Latin ... by ER 2011-12-23 12:39:18
- PS: There are some nice little gold deposits in that region of Georgia. by podrock 2011-12-23 12:11:21
When you think about it, with a huge Mayan civilization in Mexico, it is more surprising to me that there ... by TB 2011-12-22 22:13:58
- When I toured the Southwest, we visited some "Pueblo" ruins that contained features peculiar to Maya cities, specifically, a court ... by ER 2011-12-23 06:18:11
  - Have you read "1491"? by podrock 2011-12-23 12:12:05
    - I had heard of it, but knew little about it. I suspected it was either a do-gooder lament about how ... by ER 2011-12-23 12:54:41
- No respect for the border even then. At least the neo-moderne variety comes by it honestly. by bowser 2011-12-22 22:17:39

Obama's military plan by TB January 7, 2012 7:53 pm

That's a very shallow comparison, TB. You may as well say that Rumsfeld breathed in and out at least ... by bowser 2012-01-07 23:26:26

DARPA discovers improved radiation exposure treatment by TB January 7, 2012 12:55 pm

Hmmmm. I wonder if the type of radiation matters. I imagine that the type of ionizing radiation, alpha, beta or ... by ER 2012-01-07 15:58:05
- The DARPA website had basically the same news release. by TB 2012-01-07 22:42:42

Observation. by bowser January 6, 2012 8:49 pm

Be sure to give us their response. Then I'll give mine. by VelociraptorBlade 2012-01-07 00:40:46
If you want to know the party of Oregon candidates, start here. It took me twenty seconds to find this information. by TB 2012-01-06 22:31:19
- Republican attempts to hide their affiliation from the casual observer are just one more example of deceit and deception. One candidate ... by bowser 2012-01-07 12:59:29
  - I see. by TB 2012-01-07 13:09:34
    - Do you know the difference between not at all and not blatantly? The difference between hiding something and not ... by bowser 2012-01-07 14:05:32
      - If we're going to be slicing terminology to molecular thinness, there is no real difference in the "blatancy" of the ... by TB 2012-01-07 14:42:06
- By the way... by TB 2012-01-06 22:38:24
Portland is liberal. Staunchly. Do you think that a Republican candidate could get his views even considered by liberals if ... by RobVG 2012-01-06 21:06:07
- If a politician does not represent the views of his constituents, then maybe he shouldn't be running at all. ... by ER 2012-01-06 21:33:53
  - I think it would be fairly easy to discern the candidates party by the context of his website or "Poster" ... by RobVG 2012-01-07 00:04:54
    - And there is always Wikipedia. by ER 2012-01-07 07:09:21
      - Wikipedia can be unreliable, but it's pretty good about numbers and dates. by TB 2012-01-07 10:31:22

Rock stars and brown M&Ms. by TB January 7, 2012 10:55 am

Rock promoters are notorious scumbags. Ted Nugent once related that he had an aerial photographer overfly one of his ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:19:31

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