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f'in hilAIRE, mon!

well then stop driving ur fucking car ya terrorist... That post is like the ping of a well driven pin! Change laws, problem solved. Yes, it really is that simple... ...but still too complicated for some.

I'm Irish. We've been claiming that for over a thousand years.

Does this mean we're finally going to be cool?

"I have no doubt that, once the American people understand what's in this bill..." I turned the radio off after that. Thanks for fucking nothing.

He's with God now.

I share James Joyce's signature trait: raging inconsistency.

You forgot to Pshop out the tree. Plus, now she looks as though there's a brown cloud emanating from her backside.

Now, if only you would apply this self-professed open mindedness to, say, those who profess religious faith, or political opinions that differ from your own... I actually posted a comment about religion myself, then deleted it to see what kind of fish would bite...as if there were any mystery. Just one minor difference...you can see and feel acupuncture and its effects. That and the comparative plausibility of physically manipulating neural nodes for pain relief and other benefits versus believing in a Great Big Fuzzy Kitty Way Up In The Sky Who Loves Us.

Um...how would you know its a known no-improvement outcome beforehand? Don't outcomes, you know, come afterwards n shit? Just sayin...

Guess he won't be needing that 8 million

Nice one!

Oh, and kick up the contrast on the washed out sky a bit, too.

Note to photographer: Photoshop out the leg bruises, and while you're at it, lose the telephone pole sprouting from her thigh. Just sayin...

No, I was not on Granite Mountain last Saturday. I was sitting in an unmarked van with the engine idling just down the street from your house, like every Saturday. I know nothing about acupuncture. Like the AMA, I have no experience with it. It's a several thousand year old practice that has apparently helped several people I know and trust, so I keep an open mind about it by default. If someone like MattP recounts being helped by acupuncture, who am I (or you, or anyone) to second guess him? What kind of weird, control-freak ego needs to re-write someone else's experience? Western-Big-Bidness-medicine's long, sordid history of pushing dangerous drugs with catastrophic effect certainly calls into the question the sanctity of it's opinions and findings, however 'scientifically based' they are advertised to be. As in everything, buyer beware.

I repeat my question. Do you know anything about it? The American Medical Association's statement: American Medical Association statement In 1997, the following statement was adopted as policy of the American Medical Association (AMA), an association of medical doctors and medical students, after a report on a number of alternative therapies including acupuncture: "There is little evidence to confirm the safety or efficacy of most alternative therapies. Much of the information currently known about these therapies makes it clear that many have not been shown to be efficacious. Well-designed, stringently controlled research should be done to evaluate the efficacy of alternative therapies." Specifically regarding acupuncture, the AMA cited reviews conducted in 1992 and 1993 that stated there was not enough evidence to support acupuncture's effectiveness in treating disease, and called for further research. Soooooooo neither FW nor the AMA know a damn thing about acupuncture. It's kind of amusing, but not terribly so, how most of FW's posts are his own worst enemy. Just sayin....

The maxipad effect: Not a turn-on.

Mass extinction is a rare theme. It's only occurred a handful of times on our planet. This one's avoidable, or, given human nature, maybe not.

Personally, I'm a big fan of capitalism in a reasonable form. What we have here is a corporate cock sucking machine that shits on small business. But than again, I'm also a fan of anarchy in a reasonable form.

Any time you're arguing that an 'ism' is the problem, you've taken yourself out of the solution process. You can have an ecological shithole or a sustainable culture under 'ism'. The values of the culture itself, backed up by daily individual action and habit, are what drives the ship either into the iceberg or into the clear. America's values? Yeah, we are so fucked.

Yep, you have to remember these are all 'lifestyle' choices - the planet will be fine. Well, the ecosystem, right on down to plankton, won't be; we're taking a lot of species down with us, but the rock'll still be here. I just kind of prefer the place more like the way we found it.

'establishment tools'. I totally plagiarized that.

...and you're not gonna replace it with wind farms and dreams: Your like a piece of used concrete. Not very dynamic in thinking, analysis, or imagination. Wonder what that pie would have looked like around, say, 1880? Probably a great big 'wood' wedge, huh? Where is that wood wedge today? It's not only possible, but cost effective to invest in an infrastructure that will produce a MAJORITY of our energy needs from wind and solar within 3 decades, using today's technology. There are many side benefits in addition to the obvious national security and ecological ones: a substantial reduction in per capita energy usage due to the vastly greater efficiency of electric systems, particularly cars, over fossil fuel systems. Land allocation would be about the same for a wind/solar versus fossil fuel future; you can use 90% of a windfarm for other purposes, most notably interleaving solar generation where appropriate. Wind energy, at about 7 cents/kwHr is already on par with fossil fuels, but when the comprehensive costs are considered: environmental damage and the trillions blown on resource driven wars, wind and solar are vastly cheaper alternatives. Having said all this, I have absolutely zero confidence that we will do anything but continue to suck limp corporate cock, cheered on by FW and a sunstantial population of like minded establishment tools, and burn shitloads of cheap, dirty coal and fuck this planet up beyond any hope of repair (at least, from a human standpoint).

If that was directed at KKK, that's an insult to simians everywhere.

Nail on the head. Klean Koal, here we come.