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But we're all one big happy family, Ivan. Right Underworld?

What happens on lebenty lebenty leben, then?

"we are all americans...why introduce the polarization?" Unfortunately the poster hasn't the remotest prayer of understanding just how funny this statement is.

For a guy who claims to love space science, you seem to have a weird blind spot regarding the study of this planet.

Ironically, I had Labor Day off.

And don't post on my TRs unless you've got something substantial to add, dumbshit.

It's a good thing Deaf Leopard isn't on the list

They're the original dirtbaggers

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

On the same day, I got up, stretched my newly injured back, went rock climbing, went to the gym and swam a mile's worth of intervals, went food shopping for two upcoming alpine climbing trips, then went out to see a movie.

Over 90% of black people vote Democrat now. Far more than whites, they've long realized that the conservative agenda means making them dissappear; into political disenfranchisement, slums, or the criminal justice system. This is in spite of the religiousity of many black communities. And by the way, the decades long trend has been for African Americans to abandon the Republican party, not the other way around. Good luck winning black hearts and minds, conservatives. Yeah, have you got a deal for them. Only one problem: on average, they're simply not as stupid as you are.

The conservative brain resists and fears the idea of a dynamic future. It clings to the perceived safety of the status quo and pines for the moral and cultural superiority of a mythical past. It is inherently a mistrustful brain, and this mistrust extends to ideas, which must either be acceptable by the like-minded or rejected outright. This self imposed intellectual embargo drives the conservative to rely on emotion more than intellect, which is why the most banal and obviously manufactured messaging seems to resonate in the conservative mind. Such messaging need only spring forth from the holy trinity of heartfelt themes: patriotism, family, and God, smothered in the sauce of anti-liberalism, to hit home. The conservative brain is not without its contradictions. It is both a glass half full and half empty brain: on one hand, its paranoia perceives an unraveling world that is out to get the like-minded keepers of the faith, who must, in turn, repel the invaders. On the other, no matter what happens, God or a belief that things will remain the same will save us and everything will be OK. This must be an incredibly stressful existence, because in a world where everything is obviously not OK, there must exist a nagging doubt in every conservative's mind that this really is a fight for survival and that God or his equivalent has gone on an extended vacation with no forwarding number.

To be fair, I was just following JosephH's brilliant tuning fork for the stupid analogy.

Kleen Koal!

I could...if only spiders had cash.

"...an all mah crazy frienz 'r comin over to-naght!"

It was Thank Yu Loude for me.

Suffice to say that KKK need not worry about either brain tumors or hearing sounds during periods of silence.

Trip: Free soloist at L. Si pullin an overhang - Orb Weaver Date: 9/8/2009 Trip Report:

After all, if you can't talk to yourself, who... oh, nevermind.

Talking to yourself again, I see. Is that another sign of your vast intellect? Why yes, actually.

I just love my new signature.

Well, at least I'm a smart prick. To be the other kind must really suck.

Karl was certainly the master of creating issues from thin air for the moron class to feel indignant about (a basic human need amongst the perpetually stupid), tagging them with bite sized, deep fried catch phrases, and sending it down the slop trough for gleeful consumption. If the GOP had no such non-issue generation machine, it would dry up and blow away within a year. It would be impossible for today's GOP to address any real issue, because it no longer operates to any value system. It is nothing more than a pandering machine for near term asset strippers and their kin. The GOP's message varies according to their patchwork, (I'm sorry...'Big Tent') constituency, who basically are a collection of single issue rabble who have relatively nothing in common with each other save their libhate and fear of a dynamic future), but it's prime directive is simple: Concentrate wealth, public and private, amongst our asset stripping base. Give America's wealth to our elite friends. The idiot classes, of which KKK is a happy member, constitute the factotums to keep the machine running, even as it runs right over them in the process. Sewing the stupid into a voting block has to be one of the most astute political achievements of our time. Unfortunately for the GOP it couldn't last, although it certainly lasted longer than it should have, for the stupid are just that. Eventually, they become confused, lost, and betrayed amidst all those broken 40 oz bottles, battlefield embarrassments, and past due notices in a world that no longer offers the luxury of perpetually ignored problems.

One study put 100 healthy college students in an anechoic chamber. 95% of them reported hearing various sounds.