Ron G.

Your daughter goes out with some of her friends...

Comes stumbling in at 3AM...

You go out and check the family car...

PETA demands Japan respect the spirit of the Endangered Species Act and not use military force on Godzilla.

TOKYO - As skyscrapers crumbled into ruble, and bullet trains hurled into Tokyo Bay, millions of Japanese have demanded that their government use all of the military might they can muster to put an end to the horrific destruction wrought by the radioactive mutant monster Godzilla.

Not so fast, say PETA members. They claim that Godzilla is a one of a kind reptile, and as such should be protected.

"The destruction of Tokyo is a small price to pay for biodiversity", said Ronda Rugmunch, PETA spokesperson. "It would be a tragedy of monumental proportions if this one of a kind nobel creature was allowed to die."

But the problem is, the Endangered Species Act is an American law, and does not apply to nations other than the United States.

"Well, like, the United Nations should, like, do something, like, or something", said Peter Puffer, who was one of a large group of protesters calling themsevles ARFs, which stands for Animal Rights Fanatics. The ARFs were protesting in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Some feel the Japanese have every right to protect the lives of their citizens, as well as protecting private and public property. Death tolls are running in the tens of thousands, while property damage has topped at least a quarter billion dollars.

"Leave it to the Japanese to try and put a dollar value on an endangered species", said Agnes Aire-Heade, chairperson of the Eureka chapter of Save the Whales. "We're talking about evil money grubbers who still hunt whales and eat raw squishy sea food. Of course they're not going to be concerned with endangered species."

We tried to reach the Japanese Prime Minister for a comment, but the only statement he issued to the press was, "AAIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" followed by static.

Developing.

They need tax dollars and donations to keep that baggy eyed Bolshevik, Jim Lehrer, on the air.

The "news" and their idiotic kiddy indoctrination programs could never survive in the free marketplace of ideas.

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Well morally, IMO, is the discrimination factor...

Then you must agree that the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, NPR, democrats, republicans, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers etc etc. etc etc etc are all morally wrong.

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Legally though, they should not be allowed to uses a gay man or woman's tax dollars to house their functions when they discriminate against them.

By that logic, tax dollars shouldn't be used to execute people, invade faraway places, provide abortions, stop abortions, support art, support dependent children, house politicians, support politicians, purchase ammunition to shoot politicians, defend the indigent in court, go to the moon, study diseases, assist Israel in killing Palestinians, return from the moon etc. etc. etc.

I'll bet even YOU discriminate against somebody somewhere.

So many names...So little time.

Are you over the hill, yet?

Just curious.

Happy birthday.

Standing in the spotlight gazing skyward with arms outstretched and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir softly singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic in the background, Oeno passionately intones...

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Liberals will always be in the minority but thankfully their courage informed by their ideals of compassion and equality move them to action for the better of all of us.

After drying his eye, blowing his nose and catching his breath, Ron G. sobers up and retorts...

What kind of liberals are you talking about? The founders were CLASSIC liberals which is a far cry from contemporary liberals.

CLASSIC liberalism seeks a society with minimal government and little regulation for self governing, self regulating individuals. The most precious commodity being private property and the most sacred private property being the conscience of the individual that their self interest is predicated on each individuals right and ability to live his life well without social pressure or coersion, dependent on none but himself or a supreme being.

Contemporary liberalism is maximum government coersion to force individuals into a collective state where each can only live his life in dependence on the state for sustenance and protection. In other words, feudalism.

Contemorary Conservatism (Neocon) is essentially the same as contemporary liberalism, but fulfills the Hegelian dialectic by offering opposition to contemporary liberal causes. Still, it causes dependency or feudalism.

Serfdom isn't compassionate. Liberty is compassionate.

Let's use homosexual marriage as an example.

Contemporary Liberal--Enact legislation (state coersion) forcing the state to issue licenses to homosexual couples and enact legislation forcing the recognition.

Neocon--Enact legislation denying the state the right to issue marriage licenses and outlawing recognition.

Classic liberalism--Questions why the state is issuing licenses in the first place and encourages the individuals to do what they will, as long as it doesn't infringe on the free choices of another. Let whoever wants to, recognize it and whoever doesn't want to, not recognize it.

Classic Conservatism should do about the same thing.

Classic Conservatism would be more interested in economic issues, so I'm kind of omitting it as this is more about social issues.

Classic liberalism looks at the natural state of things i.e. anarchy, and recognizes that in a state of total anarchy men and women will still pair up, live monogamously and make children while homosexuls will pair up and live monogamously. In a state of total anarchy, people will continue to live according to the dictates of their conscience and will have private property.

Contemporary liberals and neocons seem to want to dictate conscience and regulate or eliminate private property.

People like that have no courage or they wouldn't be frightened of others rights, they have no compassion or they'd be willing to let others live their lives as they see fit and certainly no ideals except to get what they can legislate out of the pockets of others.

This is why homosexuals should quit politicizing Scouts and trying to force their way with them and create their own organization (call it Boy Sprouts, if you will) and we can all be happy in the knowledge that we all have the liberty to do it as we see fit.

I really haven't been following it, but if the jury sez so, then I guess that's what we need to go with.

I wonder if the fear of potential riots might have affected the outcome. I, personally, don't think that should have been a consideration as the black folks I know now and have known over the years have a very, very low tolerance for kiddy diddlers...a "boy toucher" would have no credibility at all.

MJ has demonstrated the true greatness of America...the only place in the world where a poor black boy can grow up to be a rich white woman.

Now that he's free, maybe he can go out and find the REAL molester.

Chef asks..

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if that story is true, then true justice should be to lock her in the caller with 4 hungry pit bulls. i know this may start some controversery.. but why would anyone ANYONE. want an animal like that?? guns are cheaper and you don't have to feed or pick up after them.

Cali has the most repressive gun laws in the USA. Remember the children who were murdered in their home by some crazy guy with a pichfork? The kids had to die cuz the parents followed Cali gun laws properly.

IMHO pitbulls are good only for target practice. I had to "put down" a stray that looked to be at least part pitbull a couple of years ago that was marauding my animals and made the mistake of making himself a target while looking at my son and growling.

If you have an auto or semi auto, you do have to pick up after it. 15 rounds (made damn sure it was dead) from my semi auto rifle and one pitbull carcass and I had a lot of pickin up to do.

To give the dogs prority over the kid by locking the kid in the basement...errands over the kid....then just say "it was his time to go" speaks very loudly of a Cali attitude that is terribly sickening and quite pervasive.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/12/fataldog....g.ap/index.html

Imagine anyone stupid enough to lock her kid in the basement to pritect him from her dog instead of locking up the dog or killing it.

When she comes home, the kid is dead, and she say's "it was his time to go".

I used to live and work in that SF, Davis to Sac area, and this sort of thing is probably typical of the mentality there. Those who think liberalism is a mental disorder are correct.

I hope this woman goes to prison for a very long time.

I lived in Davis CA for a number of years during the clinton times.

I remember Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Judy Pertanski, the pervert weddings, the politically correct nonsense, "Davis, the First non nuclear city" etc etc etc.

Davis is the leftist hate and hypocrisy capitol of the northern hemisphere....southern, too.

Actually, I was considerably more moderate and "democrat" until I lived in Davis and got a huge dose of leftist reality.

ESPECIALLY U.C. Davis!!!

ACK, PTUI

Oenophile...

All your links are simply bogus. They are all by and for homosexuals trying to promote their agenda. The rhetoric is plainly "consensus facilitation 101" using such words as "myth" and phrases like "we all agree" etc. to discredit the opposing viewpoint.

You can see the same rhetoric in white supremicist literature to demonize blacks and the same rhetoric in anti gun literature to disguise their lies.

I just happen to have before me a box of Colonial Iodized salt.

Mfg or at least distributed by Cargill, Inc. Minneapolis, MN 55440

http://www.cargillsalt.com

Ingredients: salt, sodium silicoaluminate, dextrose, potassium iodide 0.006%, and sodium bicarbonate.

Mortons is similar, but I can't find my box.

Dextrose, btw, is sugar.

Interesting, huh?

It's kinda hard to answer your question not knowing the soil and subsurface in your area, and the going rate for such services there.

The work and requirements sound about right...just guessing, but the cost is a lot higher than I would expect. However you live in the north where everything is much higher and everything is union dominated.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&ar...63033640C157944

New device gives women teeth where it matters

Jillian Green

June 07 2005 at 06:50AM

A rape victim once wished for teeth "where it mattered". Now a device has been designed to "bite" a rapist's penis. The patented device looks and is worn like a tampon, but it is hollow and attaches itself with tiny hooks to a man's penis during penetration.

"We have to do something to protect ourselves. While this will not prevent rape it will assist in identifying attackers and securing convictions," claims Sonette Ehlers, inventor of the device.

Not everyone, however, is convinced of its usefulness.

Lisa Vetten, of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) says: "It is like we are going back to the days where women were forced to wear chastity belts. It is a terrifying thought that women are being made to adapt to rape by wearing these devices.

'It is a terrifying thought that women are being made to adapt to rape'

"We should rather focus our energy on changing men's mindsets and behaviour towards women."

Ehlers, of Kleinmond, who has worked for the South African Institute for Medical Research, said she had been seeking a way to help women since meeting a rape survivor 20 years ago who commented that she wished she had teeth in her vagina.

"Over the past three years I have been working on this device. It is now completely safe and ready to be manufactured and distributed," she said.

It had been designed with engineers, gynaecologists, psychologists and urologists. It was "hygienic - no human hands will be involved in the manufacture".

In the event of rape, the device folds itself around the rapist's penis, attaching to the skin with microscopic hooks. It is only when the rapist withdraws that he will realise the device is clamped around his penis.

'He will have to be put under anaesthetic to have it removed'

"Its design will also go a long way towards lowering HIV infection as semen is contained in the device ... as well as preventing sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies," Ehlers says.

As it is impossible to remove the device from a penis without medical help, hospitals and clinics will be able to alert police when assistance is sought.

"This will rule out any possibility of the rapist's escaping arrest and speed up conviction."

If the rapist tries to remove the device, it will only embed itself further.

"He will have to be put under anaesthetic to have it removed. He will not be able to leave it as he will be unable to urinate."

A woman would have to wear the device every day.

"We never know when we might be raped. This device should become a part of every woman's daily routine, just like brushing her teeth."

Last year, there were 52 733 reported rapes. In a study, the Gender-Based Violence Programme at the CSVR analysed 162 rapes in Johannesburg's inner city and found that one in four had been a gang rape. The study found that 56 percent of the victims had been raped by two men and 23 percent by three.

Although Ehlers is optimistic that the device will go a long way towards reducing the high incidence of rape in this country, rape organisations are not so sure.

"Women would have to wear this every minute of their lives on the off-chance that they would be raped," Vetten says.

"I am concerned at how normal rape has become that we would even consider a device like this."

Chanaz Mitchell, spokesperson for the National Network on Violence against Women, says although it is a good idea for women to protect themselves, men should take responsibility for their actions.

"We still need to focus on men as perpetrators of this heinous crime."

Mitchell is also concerned that the device might lead to further violence against victims.

"Once the rapist realises this device is attached to him, he is more than likely to take his anger out on his victim."

Mbuyiselo Botha, spokesperson for the Men's Forum, said anything that could empower women should be welcomed.

"I would encourage my wife and two daughters to wear this device. It would send a signal to would-be rapists that they won't have it easy."

Ehlers intends launching the prototype next month.

"It will be available at supermarkets, chemists, anywhere where one would be able to buy tampons," she says.

The device is to cost R1 and also be available in bulk packs.

The Scouts are dedicated to building character, honor, integrity and self motivation in young men.

I can't see where adding the sexual pressures and social pressures of ANY sexual activity should enter into this.

Parents should be able to be secure in knowing the boys won't be exposed to perverts.

I'll be thinkin about y'uns. I just popped a Bandit for the occasion.

Ann Bancroft, dead at 73

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/ap_on_...o/obit_bancroft

Okay...here we go...

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial

Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues

You can tell by the way she smiles

See the primitive wallflower freeze

When the jelly-faced women all sneeze

Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze

I can't find my knees"

Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule

But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him

Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"

But like Louise always says

"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"

As she, herself, prepares for him

And Madonna, she still has not showed

We see this empty cage now corrode

Where her cape of the stage once had flowed

The fiddler, he now steps to the road

He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed

On the back of the fish truck that loads

While my conscience explodes

The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain

And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

Wait a minute...that was Dylan.

Sorry

I get all that stuff confused...the 60's are still a big blur to me.

The 60's were hard on all of us.

Suzy Creamcheese, Oh, mama, now

What's got into ya?

Suzy you were such a sweetie

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Once you were my one and only

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Blow your mind on too much Kool-aid

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Took my stash and left me lonely

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Suzy Creamcheese, Oh, baby, now

What's got into ya?

Suzy Creamcheese, Oh, mama, now

What's got into ya?

Got to find my Suzy Creamcheese

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Think I'll go and start my car

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Really dig her, she's so freaky

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Heard *The Heat* knows where you are

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Suzy Creamcheese, Oh, baby, now

What's got into ya?

Suzy Creamcheese, Oh, mama, now

What's got into ya?

Wait a minute...that was Zappa.

Sorry

I get all that stuff confused...the 60's are still a big blur to me.

The 60's were hard on all of us.

What’s Wrong with the Boy Scouts?

Hans Zeiger

Are the Boy Scouts of America really so awful that they are no longer welcome in our schools? On June 1, the Portland (Maine) School Committee voted six to three to ban the Boy Scouts from distributing promotional literature to students. The committee argues that it wishes to uphold its commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination. Far from doing so, the committee has discriminated against one of the most diverse and valuable organizations in America.

This summer will commence the national Boy Scout Jamboree. It will be a diverse gathering of people from every geographical region of the country, every ethnicity and race, every economic class, every political belief, and every major religious practice. The Boy Scouts celebrated diversity long before it was the popular thing to do. Anyone wishing to stand by the idea that the Scouts are behind the times on diversity ought to visit the Jamboree and see for themselves.

The Boy Scouts is not a hate group comparable to Hitler Youth (“brown shirt” has become common epithet against the Scouts) or the Ku Klux Klan, or a militant terrorist corps like the Taliban (as the Philadelphia Daily News editorialized). Neither is it a church (as federal Judge Napoleon Jones defined it) or a public accommodation (as several courts have defined it).

The Boy Scouts is a private organization that begins meetings with this simple oath: “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” And what is wrong with that?

That oath is a Statement of Self-Government, if ever there was such a thing. In America, - though they teach it not in Portland, Maine – self-government is the foundation of all other kinds of government. If we are to have laws, we must have order. If we are to have a political charter, we must first have personal character. And what is wrong with that?

A Scout is “Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, Reverent.” What is wrong with that?

A Scout does a good turn daily. What is wrong with that?

A Scout is prepared. What is wrong with that?

The answer, enemies of Scouting might suggest, is honor. The problem with the code of character that Scouts must adhere to is the idea of honor, the idea that an individual is accountable before God and his fellow man to uphold his duty with integrity, service, and selflessness. For if one is subject to moral laws higher than himself, and his honor is bound up in duty to those laws, the supremacy of the individual must meet its defeat.

Boy Scouting is a bold resistance to the rising individualism of the age. Scouting teaches self-government, not selfishness. It should come as no surprise that the Boy Scouts are hated by the most vocal of the individualists whose moral agendas have no compatibility with Scouting: atheists and homosexual activists.

So the school committee in Portland, Maine is making a mistake. They’ve declared war on the best things America has to offer. They’ve set themselves firmly against self-government. And they’ve violated their own commitment to nondiscrimination by discriminating against the nation’s finest youth organization.

Perhaps the Portland School Committee should hear from supporters of the Boy Scouts. Contact Superintendent Mary Jo O’Connor at superintendent@portlandschools.org. Tell her to continue allowing the Boy Scouts to have promotional literature in the Portland Schools.

~~~~ Hans Zeiger's book Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America can be preordered at online booksellers.

Just one word for dmiller and Robert Earl Keen.

BANDITS!

I gave up them nasty and expensive smokes last January.

After 43 years of smoking it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was gonna be.

I occasionally indulge in dip, now, but it's going soon.