Kimmo

i am happy that you have mastered the mono-syllabic non-sequiter. and for your next trick?

btw, as a side-note, your statement is incorrect, both from a real-world perspective, AND a straight-up logic perspective. if you care.

sounds like you have had all your booster shots, including pertussis?

and, the cali pertussis outbreak was mentioned earlier.... seems that non-vaccinated adults might have more to do with it than kids, maybe?

firstly, studies inre tv and impact on kids are inconclusive. i've read studies showing a full 20% lower "developmental rate" (don't ask for specifics! can't remember where and what) amongst =<2 yr olds who watched >2 hours of tv per day, vs same aged kids who watched none. certainly one possibility is that parents who are ok plopping their kids in front of a tv just might be a wee bit less inclined to read/interact with their kids as much as the no-tv parents.... inre vaccines: "free ride on the vaccines of others"? i thought vaccines were perfectly safe and innocuous? if so, why would the vaccinated get worked up about this?

is "chi running" making it complex? i read somewhere that the ethiopeans and kenyans etc run barefoot for a long time initially, thereby developing perfect running form. meaning, no heavy heel strike, therefore no injuries (or less at least). some tarahumara indians were convinced to enter the leadville ultramarathon back in the '90's, and won two years in a row, the first year by a 56 year old. in huaraches. fascinating culture. Really fun read for those interested: Born To Run, by Christopher McDougall.

she made a statement, in public! saying violence is BAD!

clearly they were crosshairs. Even still, do you really think that sarah palin intentionally intended them to mean that these people should be shot? is that really the point here, robbi? i mean, really ? i heard she did come out and say that wasn't her point, though.... I mean, she said it publicly, stating that violence is bad.

ask him to meow.

proof positive.... of what, exactly?

I'm sure you'll have a comeback for that. i think the point rob is the degree to which one political party has implicitly embodied violence as a means to an end. i'm sure you can find a mennonite who espouses violence, but does that really say a thing about mennonites as a whole? meow.

waddaya mean "2nd amendment solutions"? not sure what yer talking about here.

if you would have said so in the first place, you might have avoided outing your naivety to like, 3 or 6 people. sorry, that wasn't nice, getting all ad hominem and stuff. i love you robbi. even if you are a republican.

if you would have said so in the first place, you might have avoided outing your naivety to like, 3 or 6 people.

you are missing the point. i don't try to step on ants when i'm hiking, but a consequence of me hiking is stepping on ants. and yet i continue hiking. even though i might apologize to an ant. ok? meow.

duuuude. did you read your link? you're as off as the rabid anti-vaccine crowd. meow.

ummmm i don't recall anyone asking that.... and if they did, perhaps examples other than tree spiking might better bolster your position? perhaps the tone of the responses to your equivocation and conflation seemed to you to be "left-wing" violence apologetics or dismissal?

would you really argue that "the right" has equally non-violent tendencies as "the left"? you know, in general , from foreign policy, to capital punishment, to corporal punishment for children. please reconsider your apologetics for "the right". although give us more humorous anecdotes about the dangers of tree-spiking being equal to shots from a gun, and how many lives have been lost.

he understands better if you speak like a cat.

meow

agreed on flu shots. evidence is showing the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine to lose efficacy after 5 to 10 years. pharmas are trying to develop a booster for that now. some tropical illness vaccines are supposedly only good for a few years.

meow.

would you understand me better if i just meowed?

one thing i've discovered about you rob is that you have a heck of a knack for non-sequiter babbling. it's cute, really! in a kitten way.

heh, it was you who claimed to have found the "answers", remember? through your extensive research. kook.