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Osama is here

Is your name Jack Bauer? 24's character said something to the effect that extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures...justifying torture, etc. Is this the Zeitgeist?

This is the shit. Fulbright Chair Speaker Series: John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore Good listen...especially from 4:20 to 4:58: "...too much liberty has been seized against the notion that there were certain things that are dangerous to know. We don't believe that anything is dangerous to know, ...there are dangerous things to do... but we believe that nothing is inherently dangerous to know...nothing." Changes in technology will present new challenges. For instance, check this: Tapping Brains for Future Crimes. Science fiction today, reality tomorrow? What if someone's thoughts are a passing fancy rather than the thought-out plans of a potential criminal?

Ya, I think the house analogy is absurd. Maybe you should get some Pat Buchanan talking points regarding demographics and say something like by 2020 the demographic structure will look like an hourglass shape with older, more affluent white folks at the upper part and younger, less affluent Hispanics at the lower part. The white (European-American) population is aging while the Hispanic population who in their fertile years may quite possibly will change the face of America, most notably on the West Coast and Southwest. Regarding other countries problems, here's a blurb concerning Muslim immigration. For instance, "...Muslim immigrants had a reputation for manipulating the values of Western countries, taking advantage of their hospitality and tolerance." Isn't this what's it's all about? Reaction against the perceived threat of changing values and the core issues such as the dominant language and other cultural indicators? Maybe our politicians should put pressure on the Mexican government to reform their society and economics so that the 'safety valve' of immigration to the US isn't required.

See who's knockin' on the firewall. Log2GoogleEarth

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You got nuthin' on Muir on Saturday. Keep tryin'

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Keep up the faith.

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Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski

Kevbone was channelling Alex Jones: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/060207nolaw.htm

I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

"The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down." "The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call "feelings of inferiority" and "oversocialization."

Does this sound like a fart? And remember Boston, it's more than afeeling.

Would it be wrong if it were a more looming threat such as Bird Flu? Or are you going to forego your vaccination and take your chances? Also. If you can't beat'em, then join'em. Invest.

Question. So if high cholesterol was deemed to be a public health threat in that development and continuation without treatment of this condition could lead to high health costs to society in much the same way as mentioned above then is it justified to begin cholesterol screening early in a person's life and to treat that condition as soon as possible? In other words, should screening begin in high school? I understand this is not the same issue as vaccination but the motivation and justification are similar. Also, I read some time ago about a push by the Bush Administration to require mental health evaluations of all people. Sounds too draconian so maybe it's disinformation...

does the cure in addition to herbs involve a sharp knife? and another thing. here's something also weird and inexplicable: Uau0aIbrzkQ

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Love the Beatles. Great muzak.

Boston vs. Seattle http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003550583_ploy01.html

Is this what they mean by intelligent design? BTW, if you propose ID as an alternative then it's just as well that we were genetically created by an vastly superior alien race from another star system (Google the Raelian cult). Primates were genetically altered to form humans. I suppose while we were speculating about origins that it's just as possible. You could even interject alien encounters into the biblical accounts. Fucks with your head to even consider these ideas. Astronomer Fred Hoyle proposed biotic contributions from extraterrestrial sources that would explain the 'sudden' radiation of mammalian life forms in many niches, this rapid shift from Mesozoic life to Cenozoic life. Speciation (species) can occur as simply as geographic separation of populations. However, the formation of major body plans (phyla) in the PreCambrian to Cambrian is somewhat problematic. Personally, I don't buy into supernatural origins and natural origins such as Hoyle's are also suspect. Hoyle's idea reminds me of Gold's idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum, that petroleum is formed by a process such as Fischer-Tropsch deep in the earth, it's possible but how probable is it as a mechanism? I prefer to see it as an biotic feedback loop where the Earth system is modified by life, things such as the Carbon Cycle. You see an increased efficiency in carbon burial as life evolves to keep the earth within a habitable climate. Witness the evolution of land plants from C3 (gymnosperms) to C4 plants (angiosperms), also the evolution of oceanic plankton, the most efficient carbon burial as the plankton shells rain down on the ocean bottom over time to form lime muds and eventually limestone. You see the evolution of plankton that incorporates silica in their shells and the evolution of land plants such as grasses as the weathering cycle frees silica from continental rocks most notably during the Cenozoic Era. The smaller scale cyclicity of warm/cool periods superimposed on the larger scale trend of cooling (through carbon burial and leading to oxygen enrichment)from the early earth with its volcanic venting until now (with the rapid but minor exception of the present hydrocarbon-based society) has also been proposed to explain the rise of intelligent humanoids, the idea being that genetically advantaged primates could survive glacial periods. These are broad sketches, of course, but more detail is forthcoming.