Andy9o8

What is your gay sib's answer to this inquiry?

Good. You needn't be apprehensive - it will be nothing like THIS.

I don't see it as necessarily game over for the program. New vehicle designs have to be test-piloted, and test piloting is dangerous. If Virgin scares off, others will take their place. Times like this I realize I was born 100 years too soon. Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will know space. This is how it gets done.

Fortunately, there are always the hard sciences.

offers what I consider an excellent explanation of the rationalization process you went through when you chose your path. I congratulate you for being up front and honest. Another way of saying that is you "manned up" and declared your choice. You did not wimp out and say "God made me this way." I think you're misunderstanding what his "choice" was. He didn't choose his nature. Rather, he recognized his nature, and chose not to force himself to fight it and acquiesce to social pressure by acting in conflict with his nature. To the point: homosexuality is not a form of behavior; it is a state of being. A heterosexual who engages in an instance of gay sex is still a heterosexual. A homosexual who engages in an instance of straight sex is still a homosexual. An engineer can help build 1,000 bridges, and people don't say "Oh, there goes that little bridge builder." But suck just one single cock, and.... well, you see where this goes. Anyhow. Yes, I know that a gay person who is turned off by heterosexual sex can opt for celibacy, the same way that a heterosexual can opt for celibacy. But even though that kind of seems (to me) to be your point, it really isn't THE point. See my point?

I don't see why. Unbefuckinglievable. I sometimes neglect to use the icon when it seems obvious. Sorry if I was presumptuous.

May I respectfully urge that you need to have several lengthy conversations with several male and female gay people (one at a time, with nobody else present, and plenty of time for each discussion) in order to have them not only answer your questions, but do so in detail, with the ability to answer your follow-up questions, too. Short answer, though, is that sexual preference does not always necessarily match procreative anatomy, and is as hard-wired into the brain in utero as being right- or left-handed is.

Given a choice between trusting the words of a right wing politician, a lawyer, or a climate scientist on a matter of science, I'd choose to trust the scientist every time. I don't see why.

You forget that Michael Jordan is an inspiration to anyone who wants to major in cultural geography.

This. Not that it will end the thread (I can already "see" the next dozen posts); but it does substantively complete the thread.

I don't fault Vinson all that much, on balance, given her call to the CDC. I do fault the CDC for not warning her off that plane. Spencer should have been more responsible about actually self-quarantining; and his misleading statements to authorities compounded it.

He's an astronomer/cosmologist. So I could get my palm read and a makeover. Cool!

Also, although not to belabor it (ok, what the hell), but by 1940 there were a hell of a lot of Americans who were not of English extraction and, national languages or not, did not particularly view themselves as cousins of the UK.

See?? We're all fucked. ----- 'Course, it doesn't have to be a great big loogie, or into your mouth. It can be a garden-variety wet sneeze, and somebody's contaminated hand rubbing an itch on their eyelid, the inside of which is a mucous membrane.

Are you going to try to squeeze an Obama-bash out of this?

The UK entered into the Anglo-Polish common defence pacts of 1939 when it was not well prepared to invoke them, and then proceeded to invoke them and declare war on Germany. The Anzacs and Canadians let themselves get sucked down that rabbit hole not of their making; the Americans were considerably less inclined to do so.

At the risk of repeating myself, that's all well and good, but in the context of "contact with bodily fluids", the "aerosol" discussion still doesn't address whether it can be transmitted when someone puts their hand on a freshly-sneezed loogie honked out onto, say, a handrail on a train or bus by someone who's contagious. I'm really not trying to be alarmist here; I just want the question addressed directly and not sidestepped.

That's general risk. But then there's circumstance-specific risk. Dr. Spencer was directly caring for Ebola patients. The risk to those in close contact with him after he returned to the US might have been greater than negligible, depending on fluctuating variables. He might or might not have been contagious yet when he rode the NYC subway and went to the bowling alley; we really don't know. If he was contagious, and, say, sneezed on a surface (like a hand-hold on the train) that someone then touched, that's not necessarily insignificant. I hope he's ok. As of today he's in "serious but stable condition". BTW, when he first was questioned by local authorities, he deliberately lied to them, falsely claiming that hed self-quarantined, and not telling them about his local travels out in public. The cops only discovered the truth through their own investigation. So that's why I'm not so quick to demonize the public, or state governors, when they react, or even over-react, to that kind of poor judgment from clinicians who should know better. (I give Nurse Hickox poor marks, too, for over-reacting to authorities' clumsy handling of her with her own immature, and ongoing, tantrum behavior.) Sure, government needs to behave maturely and reasonably. But so do health professionals who treat Ebola patients, either in hospitals or by serving tours of duty in Africa. And when they fail to do so, they're just compounding the public policy problem.

Yeah, well, tough shit for him. He should have moved to Canada. Or the UK. Or anywhere in Europe. Or Australia, or New Zealand.

By way of context, it appears Honda was prompted by this incident in his home state, which occurred about a month prior to the bill being introduced: Man On Loose With Body Armor, AR-15 May Be Tied To Multiple CA Shootings Investigators Piecing Together Slayings, Shootout in Moreno Valley

In my time I've watched the world sit by and let mega-mass murders happen Uganda, Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq (Kurds) and Syria. You'll understand if I'm not optimistic.

83.4% of all "Where's the outrage from these people??" threads have no value.

Hey! Hotel Ebola, starring Don Cheadle. What, too soon?

There's really no need to demagogue it like that. Now you've hurt my feelings.

I find it ridiculous that Terrans presume that the entire Klingon home world has only one active language.