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When is Festivus, anyway? At any rate, put the " FSM" back in Crifsmas!

Joyeux Noel.

The woman who just ran down people in Las Vegas brought to mind a case some years back where someone on a Mission from God (tm) ran down pedestrians in a heavily gay area in New York. A quick search of the interwebs showed rather a few cases where pedestrians were mown down by people in Oldsmobiles. It seems perfectly reasonable that these vehicles of mass destruction should be kept out of the hands of those who would use them for nefarious purposes. Think of the children.

I should have said "peculiar permutations" of the relevant chromosomes. I referred to 'odd' in the sense of 'nonstandard.' Brain chemistry is related to what one finds attractive. If you have someone in a permanent vegetative state, referring to the body as 'male' or 'female' has nothing to do with how they may or may not have seen themselves when cognizant. I have known rather a few people who assumed a role common to the other gender, some of whom made physiological modifications to accommodate this role, and am fine with their decision. As long as they don't give me grief for who and what I am, I can't see why I might give them grief for who and what they are. If I was on the market, I would have no interest whatsoever in someone who was biologically male. Nothing personal. BSBD, Winsor

I guess you're right. Actually, though I don't give a rat's ass who sleeps with whom among consenting adults, I base gender on biology. If a tissue sample shows a pair of Xs, it's female, with one X and one Y it's male (odd numbers of either are not counted in this discussion). If someone wants to self identify and live as a gender that was not apparent at birth, fine. If they want to claim that they ARE said gender, not so good. Men and women have equal rights and responsibilities (in general), which is all well and good. They are not, however, THE SAME, and are not entirely interchangeable. For example, the whole "pregnant man" thing is beyond absurd. Marveling that someone who is biologically female could POSSIBLY give birth is an exercise in stupidity. That Bruce Jenner wants to be 'Caitlin' his option. Even with surgery, he will be a faux female at best. Some male-specific issues will still be manifest, and some female-specific issues will not. Biologically, gender is not a matter of FEEELINGS, WHOA WHOA WHOA FEEELINGS... BSBD, Winsor

All else being equal, the two qualities that I find attractive in women are brains and adventurousness. Timid women are given to inhibitions, and brilliant women are MUCH better in bad. The thought of a 'Skydiving Women' MENSA SIG (Special Interests Group) makes my tongue hard. BSBD, Winsor

Sounds like the bully kid should be thrown in Juvie for a false report. You may rest assured that people filing false reports are welcomed by prosecutors with open arms. Ad Hominem Perjury is one of the many tools they routinely use, and it is rare indeed when someone who uses the Justice System as an instrument of malice is taken to task for doing so. The fact that American Football players are treated as heroes is but an example of how we just love bullies. BSBD, Winsor

Found it: 19% of Democrats supported the idea of bombing Agrabah. 36% were against it http://www.mtv.com/news/2690960/aladdin-bombing-fictional-country-agrabah-public-policy-polling/?xrs=_s.fb_main I wonder if you ask Dems how many want to give aid to Agrabah..... Nuke Bulganistan and be done with it. What's a few Wogs one way or another?

If you want to teach German, lay off the Horst Wessel song.

Argumentum ad Populum. Most of the world is demonstrably wrong about just about everything. Maybe you have forgotten that consensus is better than science Quorum = Scientific Proof.

I would have guessed Andy Kaufman.

Argumentum ad Populum. Most of the world is demonstrably wrong about just about everything. You are quite right, however in this case the OP is demonstrably wrong about just about everything. When you have two people making exclusive points, a maximum of one of them may be right. However, just because one is wrong does not make the other right. All too often, both parties are completely wrong. Disproving the Caloric theory does not substantiate the Phlogiston theory.

In Bill's case he invoked the UCMJ to shield himself from the Paula Jones lawsuit. Under those terms, he was subject to severe sanctions for either adultery or perjury. Oddly enough, the severity of the crime increases as does the rank of the criminal, POTUS pinning the meter. I would have much preferred it if his response had been "that girl told me she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, and I told her to prove it. She was right. Next question." Again, it is not so much the lie as the facts of the case. The laws regarding security of classified information are entirely inflexible, and, by her own admission, she violated a laundry list of them. Lying about it is simply icing on the cake. People have landed long prison sentences for much less. Saying Bush lied gives the man too much credit. I suspect he was simply a voracious consumer of bullshit - particularly when told what he wanted to hear. I rate him as being beyond clueless, and his dedicated ignorance resulted in staggering losses of life and resources. He is a huckster, and will sell whatever the masses will buy. Unfortunately, there is a big market for nonsensical vitriol. A valid point is rendered moot by being put forth in association with nonsense. If the source is unreliable, so is any point made by said source. Bill Cosby's penchant for necrophilia renders questionable any otherwise legitimate observation he might make. The 'hands up, don't shoot' and 'black lives matter' movements use the worst kind of Agrumentum ad Baculum. "Agree with us or we riot" achieves compliance at the most superficial level, and engenders antipathy in the process. People whose stance is validated only by threat of violence should be avoided to whatever extent possible (that includes Bush). BSBD, Winsor

Argumentum ad Populum. Most of the world is demonstrably wrong about just about everything.

Are you saying that Trump's lies are unknown? What does that mean? 'I do not personally approve of lying, I thought it was a qualification for the job.'

Along with 'Black is Beautiful,' 'the Check is in the Mail,' ...

Not stereotyping, just profiling. Stereotypes are a real time saver.

How do you know those are true? God said it, I believe it, and that settles it. At least that's what the bumper sticker said.

Very professional. Shows the real integrity of the English. Classy in the upmost way. Hey, I thought it was funnier than hell.

I consider the Donald to be proof of my principle that our only inexhaustible natural resource is stupidity, and anyone who figures out how to tap into it is set for life. Intelligence is overrated: people who got straight As work for people who got C+ (in General - or Lieutenant Colonel at least).

You should send a thank you card to Al Gore. He invented Global Warming right after he finished developing the Internet.

Think of the children.

Again, I can make it for about ten seconds. Political speechmaking is enough to get me to drop what I'm doing and go into the other room to turn off the news. I skip to the Cliff Notes version. It's usually more than I want to hear at that.

That's like the apocryphal story of the arctic explorer in days of yore who paid the ugliest Eskimo woman to come along when he set out on the ice. When she started looking good, it was time to go back to base.

Sounds like me in 2000 referring to GW Bush after he "push-polled" McCain in South Carolina. We've been thoroughly fucked since. Agreed. I was overseas when Bill Clinton won, and it was embarrassing. George W. was equally embarrassing, for very different reasons. Hillary and The Donald are the pits. This is karmic payback for a multitude of egregious transgressions.