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What part is not true? You SHOULD have PM'd Pubby if you had an off-topic comment to make, You're a bit hypocritical, since Pubby wasn't speaking to you, right? And you apparently DON'T have anything of value to add to this topic conversation - or else you would have said it, right? Or you DID have something valuable, but you just didn't share it, opting for the Pubby call-out, instead? Sounds like someone who needs drama. Get the drama out of your system while it's still 2010. You'll need to concentrate in a big way to put together a thought-filled post in 2011!

How will changing our eating habits and making exercise a priority help keep kids from 9 months to 2 years from being overweight? Don't you find that an incredibly simplistic response to a complex problem? It's not OUR eating habits - It's what we're feeding babies! More than WHAT, it's "HOW MUCH". A baby cries - you feed it (not you, personally) A baby is not sleeping through the night - you feed it! So that it eats everything that you (not you personally) feed it, you add a little honey or sweetness to the cereal. The child develops that taste for sugar and then it's on! The pounds, that is

'kay! I do analyze things. At the other end of the spectrum are the people who analyze nothing. They don't even read what they write! What you call "picking apart", I call just holding a mirror up to the inane, sometimes insane, drama queens. They find it embarrassing, I'm sure, to have to explain that they put zero thought into their posts.

It's not that you weren't clear, it's that you said two completely different things. Let me put them side-by-side Eym - I did not read your whole post, / I read your post, I'm unfamiliar with what "mostly a skim through" means. Is this like speed reading, where you run your finger down the page? Except that in your case your "mostly skim through" process, there's no comprehension to keep pace with your finger movement? I find the "eyes start to glaze over" phenomenon interesting. Have you considered that this is a defense mechanism? It could be your mind saying, "Just Say NO!" to new i

I think that Pubby's comments about anti-intellectual, disingenuous, rabble-rousing, ignorant, misinformed, cretinistic Neanderthals are extremely measured. I'd like for all posters to say what THEY think, not what someone else thinks, regarding various subjects. While Pubby may like for people to just get the conversation started, I get really bored by people starting a bunch of conversations and not giving their individual insights into whatever the topic is about. Equally boring are people who go from topic-to-topic with no capability for indepth analysis and try to create drama. Your r

Ironically, the best subjects for a hybidization project may be those questioning the likelihood of evolution!

If you didn't read my whole post, then how could you possibly develop an understanding of my point of view? You seem to be saying --" I didn't read what you wrote. But here's my response to what you wrote." If it were a discussion, face to face, it would have sounded like this: "What did you say? I wasn't listening. But I want you to listen to my response to the little bit that I did hear as I largely ignored you." I realize the tremendous effort that must go into reading a post of mine. You might have to think, consider and ponder the implications in order to generate reciprocal in

Oddly, I'm kind of with you on this. It's not the topics that she brings up, but the form in which she does it. I think that people should bring discussion to the table that is interesting and that the topic has been considered by the OP and here's what the OP thinks. Instead, ZC's topics take this form: A study in the (name of BS publication) says that (some BS percentage) of people believe that (whatever the belief is) And that (another BS percentage) believe in (whatever the contrary belief is) link In this format, ZC doesn't really take a position, except by

Evolution has nothing to do with religion. Belief in evolution is the belief in science - what we all know to be true. Topics, like animals, evolve over time. Sometimes they evolve into religion, sometimes they take a turn toward facts and science and -- we'll call it "reality". Let's just see where the conversation leads without a fear of it going down the dreaded path of "religion" and hope that the religious nuts don't sabotage it. The answer in all of this is education, seeking the truth, irrespective of where that truth takes us. If it requires that we make a paradigm shift from

Because humans have protected them. Most of the great apes, closely related to humans, are on the endangered species list. Why single out the apes? Why not ask the broader question about evolutionary diversity? If there are gorillas, then why are there gibbons? If land animals evolved from sea creatures, then why do we still have sea creatures? It's that we evolved from apes and along with apes. There are many evolutionary branches, humans are just the highest order of one of the branches. Fast-Forward a thousand years, when there are no other large apes - they're all extinct. Are you

I thought that this quote from the story was curious: [As a precaution against parapoxviruses, hunters could wear protective gloves when dressing deer. And doctors, the authors write, should ask patients with strange lesions about their hobbies.] If a guy has "strange lesions about his hobby" -- they probably didn't come from hunting!! I know -- the wording was just poor. It should have said that the doctor should inquire about a patient's outdoor activities when that patient exhibits strange lesions.

I'm saying "Let's Move Forward"!

I think that there's no recovering from your definition of "artwork"!!! And the like.....

I kinda think that the OP wasn't interested in what we generally refer to as -- "conversation". He just sort of threw the rock at the hornet's nest and ran.

I don't know what I was thinking - A relief sculpture in stone depicting Civil War leaders on their horses. How could I have mistaken that for art??? Of COURSE art is print! - "Like portraits and the like" Not sculpture ----- "and the like"! Sure you have the "freedom" (meaning that you won't be thrown in jail) to criticize. But people are likely to question your barely coherent reasoninng, especially when you --- type. Not that you shouldn't type! By written communication, you'll likely increase your vocabulary to include advanced concepts like "artwork".

Who are you to say what other people should do with their private property? You know that when the carving was begun, it belonged to a local family, right? Do you know that the State of Georgia, since purchasing the property and improving/finishing the carving, has provided thousands of jobs for Georgians that would not have existed had it not been for the change in the side of the mountain and the subsequent conversion to a state park? So let's place the good done by job creation, , the right of the original landowner to do with his property as he sees fit, the enjoyment of the carving a

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So that you can sing along tomorrow night! From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne "Auld Lang Syne" by Robert Burns Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne ? CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne. And surely you’ll buy your pint cup ! and surely I’ll buy mine ! And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne. CHORUS We two have run about the slopes, and picked the daisies fine ; But we’ve

You're right about bullying. It usually graduates to violence, which is why it should be nipped in the bud. Teasing and discourtesies, if uncorrected, embolden the bully. When I was in high school, I wouldn't put up with any bullying out of anybody. When I saw somebody being picked on, I'd tell the guy to stop and leave the other guy alone. Nobody ever continued to pick on somebody after I talked to 'em. Bud-nipping!

It's about 30 bucks to put a sticker on a car for a year. It may be fifty by now. I haven't been in a couple of years. There's no per person charge, though.

Okay - I'll say it, since nobody else will! Porn.

I say let's ride the logic train! I don't know about the OP, but I can't see the carving from where I live. I have to get into my vehicle, built of steel-and-plastic-and-rubber, which leaves residue in the ambient air, as well as on the streets which pave over god's green earth so that people can get from one place to another. You see, one day this guy just decided to put crushed stone, covered with asphalt on the lush, verdant, rolling hills of Georgia, defacing the hallowed ground for all time! Then, a graffiti artist came through and painted lines on the highway, marring the surface fo

I hope that you don't mind my pointing out the glaring deception in your premise, that "some guy" just up and decided to deface a natural wonder. The project was begun by the LANDOWNER and the work was commissioned by him. You believe in property rights, don't you, that a person should be able to hire people to work on his property? Later, the land that is now "Stone Mtn. Park" was sold to the state for the purpose of building the tourism business in Georgia (let me know when I get to the phase of this that you consider improper). The project was completed under the auspices and at the ins

I'd have to have my fishing equipment! Insect repellent! Sunscreen! Personal hygiene stuff! and..... A gun! The gun would be for shooting anyone who tried to rescue me from the island!