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A Strange Place

Derbyshire Lass — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:46:40 GMT

Visited here on our trip to the north of Scotland, a wierd place

The Clootie (cloth) Well

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.u...ell/index.html

Do you know of any odd places?:rolleyes:

Happy Birthday RocCityDad

THERESA — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:22:00 GMT

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Raven talks to Kaos in her sleep

Raven — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:43:54 GMT

I like you, your funny. How about working on the computer in your sleep. Hows that for multitasking. Actually I was dreaming about it. I have been working on this grant and been dreaming working on the grant. Oh and for some reason I have been having conversations with Kaos's picture in my sleep in DNY. Not sure what it is about but when I answer her, the picture laughs at me. :rofl:

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Originally Posted by gatitosmommy (Post 23434)

how about tv AND computer??? :frog:

call it "multi-tasking"... !

New Insect Species Purchased On EBay

Science News — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:30:28 GMT

SpuriousLogic writes "A scientist who bought a fossilized insect on the web auction site eBay for £20 has discovered that it belongs to a previously unknown species of aphid. The bug has been named Mindarus harringtoni after the scientist."

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New Insect Species Purchased On EBay

WHY (I think) they hate us

ATN — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:16:02 GMT

When I went up for Corporal (USMC) I was up in front of a major and several top gunnery sergeants, some I knew from duty. I got asked the usual promotion board questions.. protocols, general orders, etc, I still recall the one they asked me: the 8th one, (“Give the alarm in case of fire or disorder”).

After a while the major got political in his questioning. At that time our embassy in Tehran was over run buy extremist and our staff was being held hostage…(I assume most of you all recall). Iranian hostage crisis?

I was asked, “What do you think about the hostage situation?”. My reply then 28 years ago is the same as I'd reply today...something most people over-look I believe.

“Sir, I believe that as long as westerners or any non-invited, non-muslim persons are walking on their sacred holy grounds they will attack us, they are very religious”

The young major flipped his pencil onto the desk and sighed. No way I was getting promoted right? Well they did promote me as an NCO, the old gunnery sergeants that lived through the Korean and Vietnam wars had apprently agreed.

Today, more than ever the muslim's holy grounds have become our war grounds. We’ve built bases on them, we’ve done business with their governments only because they have oil or had a stratigic mission against another. Their people even grew more radical against their own governments because theirs was doing business with ours.

It all started when our “friends” in Saudi Arabia cozened up to us and allowed us to build bases there. Very strategically dubious for the security and to perceptions of many middle eastern countries. (A bad sign to them). After that is when it all went bad. The moderate muslim became more radical about their religion and helped usher in a more stricter religious element into their governments...more specific to certain beliefs…no diversity. How about hamas gaining seats in the Lebanese government? They are sunni muslims you know.

We (the US administrations (including Clinton), CIA, via covert ops…etc) made deals with criminals over there, pitted one against the other. We even supported Iraq to help them invade Iran!..and Iraq LOST. We also paid OBL to rebel against RUSSIA…then after the Russians lost in Afghanistan the religious extremist taliban took over, again, another stricter religious regime.

Seeing a pattern here?

The Taliban, these guys were just gun and drug runners…you may say bull, the story you read was that they had eradicated poppy growing (heroin source)…the opposite is true, they did eradicate one year but only after they stockpiled a huge mass of heroin thus their price margins increased. I kid you not but still today, even with our presence they have war lords ruling areas controlling poppy growth. You can buy a position as sheriff for a few hundred thousands but you only are sheriff for a few moths then you leave a millionaire, a lot of corruption has come out of this folly of a venture onto their holy grounds. The heroin market is flourishing now and we even had an OU student OD on it last week. Many US cities have had record numbers of overdoses the last few years. This Afghanistan heroin is our next epidemic. The market is flooded and the profits go to further terrorism. Get it?

“Afghanistan's heroin production reached a new high in 2007, with 8200 tonnes - a 34 per cent increase on 2006.” (http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/heroin-overdoses-on-the-rise/2008/03/06/1204779968978.html) and (http://news.opb.org/article/2071-heroin-overdoses-push-drug-deaths-oregon/)

(Note: No concise numbers were available but I found many local stories from the US to Australia indicating a horrible trend towards epidemic levels)

Another important element in their distrust of the “west” is the number of christian missionaries who went to supply “aide” to muslim countries…these aides brought bibles with them and tried to convert muslims to christianity which further complicated the situation.

Perceptions are that this IS a christian crusade to convert or kill them. Bush has called this war against terrorism a "crusade"...perceptions! The extremist use this well in recruiting people to be more radical...

Torture factor. The Abu-Ghrabe pics that were leaked as well as the news of “secret torture facilities” conducted by covert operations made things even worse. They hear that America endorses and does torture so how does that play with the moderates? Not well, it increased the number of extremists, helping in recruiting. You might want to say that torturing has helped curb attacks but if you ask John McCain…and he knows something about this…then you’ll know that torture does not work and has only worsened perceptions.

When you repeatedly poke a hornets’ nest you will eventually get stung.

Think!

PS: We pay the country of Pakistan (where the CIA is sure he’s at) a billion dollars a year to find OBL, do ya’ think they’re going to give that up and turn him in? I don’t think so…the billions would stop.

Please review the definition of insanity and then advise...

Thank you,
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6th grade!!!!

Cittykat07 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:28:17 GMT

as you know, school will be starting in like 2 weeks.

i will be going back to school........MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

any tips? i can't wait and i really want to hear what i need to know! thanx,

jazzy

Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer

Science News — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:30:01 GMT

Calopteryx writes "Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. A study reported in New Scientist suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations."

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Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer

Kid Rock!

THERESA — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:48:02 GMT

Going to Kid Rock tonight as you all know. I just wanted to let you all know that if I get backstage, I'm not coming back and Ray will have to take over again. :rofl:

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Word of the day

THERESA — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:59:50 GMT

Behave

Ever wake up to smoke alarms going off??? Not Fun!

Kaos — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:56:00 GMT

OMG! I hate days that start like this. Luckily, I didn't literally wake up, but considering I was on my first cup of coffee, its nearly the same thing for me! Next thing I know the smoke alarms in my house are all going off. Ours are all hardwired so it put me alittle on edge. Ran around checking (although I was pretty confident) that there indeed wasn't a fire. Nope, all clear. So I go to the upstairs hallway one which continues to go off intermittently finally twist it off, thinking it MUST have a battery backup but I can't get the stupid thing unplugged from the hard wiring!

Next plan, throw the breaker, which I was worried about because my office I use is up there, I was praying it wouldn't throw the whole plugs out for the day. After throwing nearly EVERY breaker, I finally find it is in the cellar breaker, DUH!

Times like these I hate my husband working on the road when I have to be a single mom basically! Anyone else have the hardwired type of smoke detectors? My father-in-law will luckily, save me yet again later and come fix whatever the problem is.

Worse part is my daughter slept threw it, and it was majorily loud and right outside her bedroom door! She's just like her Dad I guess, heavy sleeper.

Elementary Definitions

ATN — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:13:14 GMT

Hi kids!, the word for today is:

IGNORANT

ADJECTIVE:

Lacking education or knowledge.
Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge: an ignorant mistake.
Unaware or uninformed

Magpies Are Self-Aware

Science News — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:22:13 GMT

FireStormZ writes "Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had been thought that the neocortex brain area found in mammals was crucial to self-recognition. Yet birds, which last shared a common ancestor with mammals 300 million years ago, don't have a neocortex, suggesting that higher cognitive skills can develop in other ways."

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Magpies Are Self-Aware

Ellen Degeneres and Gladys Hardy FUNNY A MUST SEE

Raven — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:44:22 GMT

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Ilija (Louie) Karaivanov originally From Yugoslavia

THERESA — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:41:47 GMT

Now I am looking for another friend of mine. We went to high school together. He was from Yugoslavia. He graduated I think in 1987 from Gates Chili High school. Not much more info than that. I am hoping one day he might google his name and land here. :)

Check Book Auditing

popowich — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:22:52 GMT

How do you monitor and keep track of your checking account balance?

Web banking? Balanced checking account transactions on paper? Too rich to care?

-Raymond