BSG, your observations above about animal behavior now are expanding to include plant behavior. Where will it stop? Gia? Sheri S. Tepper eloquently invited us to consider an entire planet as a sentient being.
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- Wed May 15, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: SETI
- Replies: 14
- Views: 116
Re: Discourse
"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." Mark Twain.
"The more I learn about contemporary politics, the wiser HL Menken seems." Snailgate.
"The more I learn about contemporary politics, the wiser HL Menken seems." Snailgate.
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: God & Country
- Replies: 20
- Views: 520
Re: God & Country
OK, BSG, I can agree on the danger, even the anti-Christianity, of American Christian Nationalism. But I find I am jumping through the hoop of 'anti-semitism' which seems to encompass any non-support of the State of Israel's foreign policy. The evil of the shoa seems to be a 'get out of jail free' c...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Honest, it goes anywhere. Just not there.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 176
Re: Honest, it goes anywhere. Just not there.
I think I like it. it is better than the Subaru Brat (which was just about as functional), and better than the Pontiac Aztec (which admittedly, is a very low bar)
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- Wed May 08, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Rebels Without a Clue
- Replies: 21
- Views: 486
Re: Rebels Without a Clue
In this century one presidential election turned on the question 'Who would you rather drink a beer in the back yard with?' I cannot imagine a more meaningless reason for choosing the president of the USA. The consensus majority of voters rarely seems to driven by anything resembling an objective st...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Music recommendations
- Replies: 859
- Views: 141981
Re: Music recommendations
But Gen;l what does your rear mirror indicate when you are traveling South, Southwest by South? Snailgate.
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Music recommendations
- Replies: 859
- Views: 141981
Re: Music recommendations
The only wing mirror I have seen in decades have been on trucks and school buses. I only see them on the outside of doors. I can rarely see the 'rear mirror' on other cars because the windows are so dark I cannot even tell if there really is someone behind the driver's wheel. Never could figure out ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Music recommendations
- Replies: 859
- Views: 141981
Re: Music recommendations
Amazing yes. The guy cannot read. The message on the mirror says just opposite -- they are CLOSER than they appear. I have no idea what the actual title from Meatloaf is.
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- Mon May 06, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Biden is a coward
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1228
Re: Biden is a coward
I suppose from a certain point of view, nearly all politicians are cowards--they are all afraid, so very afraid that it dominates all their decision making. It rules what clothes they wear, what car they drive, what friends they associate with. They are all scared they will lose their next election....
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
- Replies: 318
- Views: 24464
Re: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
Amen, BSG. Unhappily, there are breed differences, and there are individual differences. Generally, it takes a different style of training to handle English bird dogs, and Continental Bird dogs. Spaniels are not like retrievers. Hounds are from a different universe. All of the hunter breeds share so...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
- Replies: 318
- Views: 24464
Re: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
Yes indeed, the USofA is a nation of dog lovers. That is why we don't trust them in restaurants, are advised by experts to never leave a dog alone with a small child, by law NEVER let them off leash. And the president has German Shepherds that are all fear biters.
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- Sat May 04, 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: All the men getting angry at women for choosing the bear...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 506
Re: All the men getting angry at women for choosing the bear...
I recently watched, for the first time, the movie "My Cousin Vinnie", The reality now is that there is no reason to believe the answer to Mr. Guys question is that she would call a guy. She could very well know a qualified female for her problem. Certainly every time I have called Triple A in the la...
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: All the men getting angry at women for choosing the bear...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 506
Re: All the men getting angry at women for choosing the bear...
When I ride my bike in ordinary suburban traffic, I am more afraid of school buses than I am afraid of meteors. This is not reasonable. Big old T Rex was really scary, and they were all wiped out by a meteor. Very few women have ever encountered a bear. Some have. Some have seen black bears in their...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Here's Some Sound Legal Advice for Anyone Who is Pulled Over a Police Officer....
- Replies: 23
- Views: 501
Re: Here's Some Sound Legal Advice for Anyone Who is Pulled Over a Police Officer....
But what happened to taking the Fifth? Is that driving with an open container? In some traditions the proper response is not STFU, but Please Sir, may I have another? And how does STFU protect you from civil forfeiture? Me, I would prefer the cops beat me than be the victim of civil forfeiture. I do...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Rebels Without a Clue
- Replies: 21
- Views: 486
Re: Rebels Without a Clue
Tomorrow is the 50th year anniversary of the Kent State Killings. Perhaps the protesting students of today view this a a reminder of what faith in the rightness of one's cause does when confronted by scared people with guns.
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- Thu May 02, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
- Replies: 318
- Views: 24464
Re: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
"visits your sin on the dog. Makes you a sociopath" Probably. But it also removes the threat to the neighbors chickens. My incarceration in hell for my sins or a state institution for my pathology would do nothing for the chickens. My last dog was a German wire-haired pointer a sterilized bitch of a...
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: All the men getting angry at women for choosing the bear...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 506
Re: All the men getting angry at women for choosing the bear...
And I don't even begin to understand the question because I am a old guy who won't touch tik tok
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- Thu May 02, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Here's Some Sound Legal Advice for Anyone Who is Pulled Over a Police Officer....
- Replies: 23
- Views: 501
Re: Here's Some Sound Legal Advice for Anyone Who is Pulled Over a Police Officer....
This is an excellent argument for destruction of Tik-tok and You-tube.
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- Thu May 02, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
- Replies: 318
- Views: 24464
Re: And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...
This is North Dakota, where much of the best pheasant hunting in North America is found. A 14 month old German Wire-Haired Pointer is not a puppy. There is a long tradition that bird hunting dogs will be 'steady to wing and shot' By 14 months, there should have been prior training and experience tha...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Rebels Without a Clue
- Replies: 21
- Views: 486
Re: Rebels Without a Clue
As far as I can tell, the objective is to end US military support for the nation of Israel. Un happily, I know of no time machine that will get the world back to 1948 to work out the break-up of the British mandate that was Palestine in a different way. I have read of nobody that has a plan to end t...