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Blog--short for weblog. Usually refers to a website with information that is added to daily or on another frequent basis; typically has hyperlinks to other sites. Sort of a personal clearinghouse of information. Puppets on the left, puppets on the right...

Hmmm... "Peace through Strength" is actually on the seal of the USS Ronald Reagan [ USS RR "Peace is our Profession" was SACs' motto

"Peace through Strength" Strategic Air Command motto Look also at the Great Seal of the United States (on the back of the US dollar). It shows the eagle with olive branches in one talon, arrows in the other talon. Observe that the eagle faces the talon with the olive branches.

Article about Leo Strauss, philosophy prof (now deceased) at Univ. of Chicago Check this link-- [War of the Elite ] Exerpts: "You can't handle the truth!" Strauss held that, truth was the preserve of an elite few who might have to tell “noble lies” to the uncomprehending masses. According to Shadia Drury, a scholar who has written two books on Strauss, “Weapons of mass destruction’ would be a noble lie. Because you’re convinced this is the right thing to do and you are the wise few, the elite, who are leading the stupid masses, and the stupid masses aren’t going to agree to sacrifice their lives for nothing—for the glory of the nation—unless their own survival is at stake.“ "Strauss believed that democracy, however flawed, was best defended by an ignorant public pumped up on nationalism and religion. Only a militantly nationalist state could deter human aggression, and since most people were naturally self-absorbed and hedonistic, Strauss believed that the only way to transform them was to make them love their nation enough to die for it. Such nationalism requires an external threat—if one cannot be found, it must be manufactured." --reference article above Interesting...

With reference to copyright law, here's a link to the Fair Use Provision, which permits one to quote portions of others' work. Fair Use Use it sparingly and with discretion.

There are worse things in the world. Not as bad as seeing a whole family of racoons dead on the road. What really pisses me off is when it appears that someone went out of his way to run over something. Sick bastards!

Perhaps you're a passive-aggressive driver? Means that you're a normal driver until a more aggressive driver provokes you, then you respond typically by resisting (blocking or slowing down) or by being more aggressive. Sometimes aggravates the matter. BTW, I heard some honkers (geese) fly over last night. Today is the Vernal Equinox. Summer's over.

Here's a link to a great Flash game. Great music too.Clinic game You're a fly...

Dude, are you sure you weren't smelling one of the undead?

Countdown to Jupiter Impact

Here's the game that goes along with this. Check this: Chickin Holler What's happening to that sheep behind the shed?

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Uh...what I was alluding to was WASP. How many of you are offended by that?

My bad. I thought all you Canadians were reefer heads.

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I'm inclined to think that it's not so much reordering the letters in the scrambled word as it is simply filling in the blanks. You could probably lose some words in the sentence and still convey the meaning. If you possess any vocabulary, your mind will complete the sentence. If you're dealing with a larger word that taken out of its context, then it'll be more difficult. Alan Watts' had one of these words in "The Wisdom of Insecurity - A Message for an Age of Anxiety." Here's what he says: "Take for example the anagram POCATELDIMC. You can work over these letters for hours, trying system after system of rearrangement in order to discover the scrambled word. Try, instead, just looking at the anagram with a relaxed mind, and in a very short space of time you brain will deliver the answer without the slightest effort." I couldn't get relaxed enough, so I cheated with a word unscrambler.

Our minds evolved as pattern recognizers. I bet you'd have a hard time recognizing the meaning of the paragraph if you changed the ordering of the words within the sentences. I wonder if that task would be made easier if you were fluent in many languages and consequently were experienced in dealing with different syntax.

My take on it is that it's all symptomatic of rebellion against authority. Youth is the time when you begin to rebel and these guys are pushing a product geared to the youth market. Besides, power is an aphrodisiac and the illusion of power is enhanced by challenging the pecking order without experiencing retribution. In the end, it comes down to sex (the will to life). Youth is the time when you come into your sexual reproductive prime. These guys who say, never censor anything, or in other words, those who don't have the sensibility to control their vulgarity, are the ones who are stuck in an adolescent state of being, not quite child but not yet an adult. Maybe this suspension of aging is not altogether a bad thing, probably accounts for why, us old farts, climb.

"Cool it with a baboon's blood Then the charm is firm and good... By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." - Macbeth 4:1

The economist and professor, Julian Simon (now deceased), had a different vision of the future and many of his predictions materialized. He has this to say about the future: "Resources come out of people's minds more than out of the ground or air," says Simon. "Minds matter economically as much as or more than hands or mouths. Human beings create more than they use, on average. It had to be so, or we would be an extinct species." The defect of the Malthusian models, superficially plausible but invariably wrong, is that they leave the human mind out of the equation. "These models simply do not comprehend key elements of people - the imaginative and creative." As for the future, "This is my long-run forecast in brief," says Simon. "The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. "I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse."