SlapShot's Waterfall
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I think you meant to ask us if God is a megalomaniac.
What is a melanomaniac? Somebody who is obsessed with tanning? LOL.
The God of the old testament certainly was a megalomaniac. Worse, even.
He was a petty, cruel, murderous, jealous, baby killing, loathsome, capricious, jealous douche nozzle.
On a good day.
LOL
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Those stages don't follow mine at all, Betty.
I was pissed from the gitgo when Trump was elected. And then depressed, and then simply pissed and resigned to the fact that this country got what it deserved. And thus it will suffer the consequences and hopefully learn a lesson.
But I will never accept Trump SS my President. Call that denial if you wish. He can suck my big fat cock. I have dual citizenship so for the next four years I am a Canadian!
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Since you cannot spell the word I cannot help but doubt you really know the meaning.
Was JFK emasculated?
Was Gahndi?
Was FDR?
Was Jefferson?
Funny you, a guy who has a female avatar, using the word. If you are a dude, that is. I often wonder. I think you might be lady minkfart's lesbo lover.
I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."
--Walter Cronkite
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
Here's something every Trumpian or Conservative should keep in mind........
"Just cuz you only care about the wealthy and don't care if your new POTUS is a sexual predator and will probably get in into a foreign war as well as a Civil War does not mean there are not other, more intelligent and thoughtful and caring people who loathe Trump, and think that the old saying, 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a Scoundrel' very true."
--SlapShot
Ya don't even need a smiley here. The control and moderation of this site is so absent that anybody can say anything. No matter how outlandish or wrong or groundless or outrageous or vulgar. This site is bereft of even a modicum of enforcement of civil and courteous debate protocol.
Every day here I see a post that would get its author banned or at least temporarily suspended on the debate site I used to moderate the science section for. I won't mention its name, since I think I have in the past.
The most frustrating practice here--the one I would like to see punished--is for hijacking a thread. The numbskull religious wackos do it all the time. We can present good hard facts and science and they can insert a laughably inane bible tract in the thread. This practice is verboten in any moderated debate site.
The first part of your header quote is from Ghostbusters. It was what that black dude said to the Mayor.
As far as us heading to a change of biblical proportions, I don't see how this is possible. Since the bible is all fables and bullshit. So I guess if you are asking is Trump getting elected is bullshit, then I agree. And he will cause the country to experience some sort of cataclysmic event. Be it a Civil War or a war against another country, when his temper gets young men killed. Sort of like Bush did just because he wanted to get the dude who once put a hit out on his Daddy.
But I cannot allow the word "biblical" into my opinion of what might happen under Trumpy. I refuse to ever use the word "biblical" since it is like using the word "Dr. Zuessian" or "Greek Mythological" proportions. (the bible is simply Hebrew Mythos.)
Once exception to this rule: I could say, "That is so absurd and fantastical and groundless that it smacks of biblical nonsense."
Thanks!
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Hillary lost because she ran a very poor campaign. She didn't go after Trump nearly hard enough of viciously enough. She was so aloof and non-aggressive in her campaigning and debates that it made me wonder if she really even wanted the job after all. She did not go after the Hispanic vote like she should have. She took it for granted they would vote for her. But the polls show that Hispanics went for Trumpy far more than the so-called experts thought they would. This demographic is what made the difference. Had she garnered only 5% more of the Hispanic vote she would have won.
She DID win the popular vote, however.
Still...I don't think she wanted it bad enough. The email shit made her realize that the POTUS job and its attendant headaches and witch hunts are just not worth it. Hell, her and Willie are already millionaires. She has already spent 8 years in the White House. Has been a Senator and a Secretary of State. She can now write books and lecture and take another government job if she wants, but without the headaches. And she can sit back and smile and watch Trump fuck-up big time.
And then go for it again in four years if she wants. And if this country is still around. Which is by no means a certainty with Trumpy on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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It would take a helluva lot more than a couple glasses of vino for me to forget that the most unqualified man in history will be our next president. And that in all likelihood he will do grievous and perhaps even irreparable harm to this great nation of ours.
Besides, I'm a bourbon drinker. I drank almost a pint of Maker's Mark on election night, and that didn't even do the job. I just woke-up with a hangover AND an overwhelming sense of dread the next morning. I think Trumpy is gonna be bad for my drinking habits, which up to now have been moderate.
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Wrong, Betty.
The American people fired Obama. Rather, the Constitution did, since it limits any POTUS to only two terms.
As far as Trump winning the election (geez, I still cannot believe it!) we can blame the antiquated and useless Electoral College. Since Hillary won the popular vote.
It's 2000 all over, when Gore won the vote but the Supreme Court and Bush's brother Jeb--Governor of the State where the clusterfuck occurred (gee, what a coincidence!)--robbed him of the presidency.
And just like then,this latest fiasco that put an unqualified ego maniac and sexual predator in office, young Americans will die from a needless war that Trump is sure to get us into.
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Hey...no problema, mate. I happen to do know a little about the LGS. My brother had it a few years ago. He thought it was IBS aty first but went to a Doc and got told it was a Leaky Gut, which sort of cracked me up when he told me. LOL
But the name is sort of a catch-all slang. "Leaky Gut Syndrome" is the condition that the docs call “Hyperpermeable Intestines"----- a fancy medical term that means the intestinal lining has became more porous, with more holes developing that are larger in size and the "screening out" or filtering process is no longer working properly. So what happens is, just like if you have a hole or tear in any sort of filter or a fishing net...ya get larger, undigested food molecules and other “bad stuff” like toxins, and waste, that your body normally doesn’t allow, to flow freely (unfiltered) into your bloodstream.
Your intestinal lining is technically a part of your immune system. And The outer layers of intestine are called epithelia, and are connected by these "seams" that they call "junctions."
So.... During your normal digestion those junctions stay closed, which forces all molecules to be screened before they get in your circulation system.
But in Leaky Gut these tight junctions can become “open” or "leaky" ...and that is why the un-filtered molecules get to pass into the bloodstream.
If I recall, I think (don't hold me to this) that the usual causes are a shitty diet, or too much stress, which makes a hormone called cortisol get released in your body. I think that somebody that is constantly exposed to toxins, like if they work in a factory or manufacturing type of a setting can also get the leaky gut syndrome. Because, remember: it IS an auto-immune problem at its core.
I think diet and some supplements can usually cure it, as well as (duh!) getting away from the toxin exposure, it thats the original problem.
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Nice try.
But yeah, bacteria has been given an unduly harsh rap by lay persons. We ourselves are chock-full of those little buggers, and in fact, all the bacteria on Earth weighs more than any other living species of either fauna or flora. By a lot!
How much bacteria is on your body right now, you ask? Including the majority of it, which is in your gut?
Enough to fill a big soup can. That's three to five pounds of bacteria!
The bacteria cells in our body outnumber human cells 10 to 1---but because they are much smaller than human cells, they account for only about 1 to 2 percent of our body mass—though they do make up about half of our body's waste.
And don't worry, over 99% of all that bacteria in us and ON us is GOOD! As is over 90% of all of it the world. It is only odd bug that can do us harm. It's Viruses that we really need to worry about. Those guys are almost always nasty. they even have their own DNA, which of course Bacteria does not posses. Viruses are so good at infiltrating us and spreading, that is, hijacking our body's cells, that they almost seem to be intelligent! They are truly amazing at how effective they do their jobs.
I don't know if this explanation is indeed irrefutable enough so as to warrant placing a verbal or written "period" at the end of it. But I DO personally agree with it, and have for several years now, ever since I began my college studies into Evolutionary Biology.
It is also probably the most-favored scenario by current Evolutionists, chemists, and Biologists. We have long felt that those deep sea thermal vents on the ocean floor made for excellent fermenting and breeding environments for the initial formation of our microbial ancestors.
Ahh....The Primordial Ooze.
Darwin's Cozy, Warm Little Pond!
Home!
Thanks for sharing the link; I enjoyed it and agree with it. We have come close to replicating it in lab experiments, as we have created amino acids and proteins from inorganic matter. We will soon be able to replicate rNA formation. I am guessing within a decade. Easy.
Another favored hypothesis is that, due to the primal Earth's atmospheric conditions and weather, there was a lot of thunderstorms going on. And what, pray tell...do we often see with these storms?
Yeah, baby! Lightening!
We think that some electrical disharges into the Primordial Ooze could have acted as catalysts, of sorts, and thus been a contributing factor to the formation of those original organic microbes.
After this beginning stage, that is, from our amoeba stages onwards, we have documented the Evolutionary process step by step. With damn near irrefutable records. Including fossils; radiometric dating, and DNA evidence. We have built and built upon Darwin's original Theory, to the point to where no credible professional Biologist or academician doubts evolution.
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