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Why are there so many marsupials in Australia and New Zealand compared to elsewhere? I know this is a very old question, but I stumbled across the answer in my reading. Animals then to evolve in unique ways once separated form others of their kind by water or geologic onstacles they cannot cross. The rapidly evolve to adapt to the local conditions in the new environment. That is why the Galapagos Islands were such a treasure trove of evolutionary data for Darwin.

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Is it normal for your anus to be stained brown around it? It's quite common. It is not a stain. It is an accumulation of melanin in the skin in that area. Some do not have it, and others do. IMHO, it looks way sexier than the ones that are all ordinary flesh colored right up to the anus. It's odd there is no word for it. Just about every other feature of the human body has a word for it. Is there one I'm just not aware of, or does the icky factor...

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Does God exist? There is no radio button for us Agnostics. My answer is I don't know, but in the absence of any clear evidence that there is a God, I will stick with the null hypothesis. My best guess is, no. However I recognize how strange the current understanding of the beginning of the Universe is. "In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded." Huh? How did it really all get started? Or has the...

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The "Tea Party" Is Now Official in Florida. Would you join if the Party registers in your state? See LINK: Interesting. Will they field a separate candidate or just back the Republican?

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New Rasmussen Poll shows 'Tea Party' more popular than Republican Party. Are you planning to switch to Tea? Oops. Meant to post a comment, not answer.

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Global events mark magic number on climate change. Do you support the 350 PPM target? See LINK: Yes, It's a good first step. Here's more on what it means. http://www.350.org/understanding-350#2

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I dislike this interface a lot and it is so awful. How many of you support me to change it back to the old one ? I'm planning on vastly scaling back any activity her, and may just ditch this alltogether in favor of fluther.com. They even have a welcome message up for Answerbag refugees. I would guess that AB will eventually fix all the glaring errors in usability they introduced with this change, but the mindset that does such a change without thought to usability when they have 1,000,000 experienced...

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Im assuming answerbag wants to get a little more serious??, maybe they should put in a section where we can still play the old way???? If this change stays, I go!

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What do YOU think of the new AB? I very much dislike the user interface. AB had a ton of glitches to fix. What did they do. Keep the bath water and throw out the baby. My first imperssion is it may not be worth the trouble to put up with it anymore.

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Would your Christmas dinner be the same without Brussels Sprouts? No way. The more cities represented in a good Christmas dinner, the better. Brussels Sprouts, New York Steak, London Broil, Shanghai Cabbage, Salad Niçoise, Roma tomatoes and of course, Peking Duck.

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In "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand promotes self-interest as being good . In the movie "Wallstreet" Gordon Gekko's mantra is "Greed is Good". So justification for selfishness and greed is presented in artistic form. How much do people buy into that idea? The problem with any philosophy comes when it is taken to the extreme. Acting in self interest is important to survival and the spark plug that drives production of goods and services and innovation. That is good. Unbridled greed is horribly destructive, though. The same is true of leisure. It's important to take some time to smell the roses. But utter laziness and indolence are...

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Is wearing your heart on your sleeve and being openly emotional....a sign of weakness or strength? Yes, definitely! Or maybe not. I don't know, I'm soooo confused. <sob> HELP!

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Why aren't conservatives/republicans/Bible thumpers/teabaggers howling about Mark Sanford? He didn't just get oral sex he left the country on the tax payers dime to have an affair. Are those the kind of family values that crowd loves? If you are a con man, you can do no wrong. If you are not, every thong you do, no matter how pious and perfect, is wrong. It's all part of the Alice in Wonderland world they weave, where down is actually seen by them as up, and wrong is right.

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You don't love me don't you? Know. I dew. I really really Duz.

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Rush, "the black frame of mind is terrible," Limbaugh added: "I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females is not helping 'em out." Is this racism and sexism okay? Rush can't get laid is that why he is angry or is he just a media shill willing to say anything? Rush knows what his angry Bubba audience out there wants to hear, and he rakes in $200 million a year for saying it. So what if he's helping destroy the country he claims so loudly to love? He'll have plenty of cash in hand to buy into some garden spot elsewhere.

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When was the last time an MIT economist agreed with the President of the United States? Google cached this on December 1, 2009. http://hubpages.com/hub/About-President-Barack-Obama-Health-Plan

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Do you feel that Atheism legitimate grounds for barring someone from public office? (see link) And these are the same morons who constantly howl about the Obama Administration ignoring the Constitution? How can they not see the contradictions in their own beliefs?

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How often have MIT economists supported President Obama's positions compared to Bush-Cheney's positions? I see the drive-by right had DR'd you just for asking. +5 positrol points. Routinely. http://www.memeorandum.com/091129 http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/obamas-speech-obama-09-vs-bush-08//p30#a091129p30

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Lou Dobbs to Mexican immigrants: "Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I mean for us to work together" Could Lou Dobbs sell out any faster? Anything for a vote right? He knows all too well what a lot of troglodytes we have here in America. It wouldn't surprise me one bit to see it work.

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I went to a bar with my fiancee and his brothers. One of his brothers pushed up against my butt, made a sexual comment and kept commenting on the size of my breasts. Why would he do this? Most likely he shares traits with many other predators, he's an opportunistic feeder. But there is always the remote possibility his brother asked him to test your willingness to cheat. In either case, be careful.

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Does Sarah Palin make George W. Bush look smart? They are pretty much locked in a dead heat for dead-head. Maybe we need a Dan Quayle award for dead head of the political year.

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It is said "FEAR AND GREED" is what drives MOST people! Is it what drives you? If NOT. . . . . . .what DOES? I am afraid not! That's rubbish. But if you'll send a check for $100 I will say that it's true. :-)

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Do you think Glenn Beck's survivalist rants urging his listeners to stock up on "Guns, God, and Gold", may have something to do with the fact that he is an undisclosed paid spokesman for a major gold-trading firm? Mere coincidence? I don't think so. :-)

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I've seen old-timey European photos where the number 1 is written with the doohickey that comes down on the left side of the vertical stroke being very long, and with no horizontal base stroke. Is this still common in Europe or elsewhere? Yes. It is used to clearly distinguish the numeral '1' from the '7' and the lowercase letter 'l', and capital 'I'. The '7' is written with a horizontal slash across its middle to further spell out that difference. Also, they regular put a horizontal slash through the center of the numeral '0' to clearly identify it as a number and...

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When you were a kid, did you ever shoot anybody, or were you ever shot, with a BB gun? I was shot in the back. The neighborhood bully had terrorized me for years. The day he shot me in the back was the turning point. I rushed him and beat the living tar out of him, I was so angry. From that day forward, we became great friends.

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How do you find Answerbag's new design? (I post some pictures in my own answer) The logo is a big improvement in my eyes. The screen shots look clean and well organized. I won't be able to comment on the user interface till I get some time in the driver's seat, and that's what I care most about. While they are nice eye candy, I can't think of a single site I regularly visit because it has a great logo and clean, organized layout.

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Can you define justice? What is it, and do we need it in modern society? It's always best to rely on dictionaries for definitions, and not on my own personal interpretation. We can't communicate effectively if we each have our own idea of what words mean. jus⋅tice  [juhs-tis] –noun 1. the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. 2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of...

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During the American Civil War, did the Northern States have a right to impose their morals regarding slavery upon the Southern States? I don't see how morality in that regard is any different from morality in regards to murder, rape, robbery or fraud. Yes, there is nothing unconstitutional or even morally wrong about government enforcing behavior. That is a fundamental purpose of government. It is part of the reason we collectively decide to give up certain individual rights in order, through government, to further the...

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Have the animal rights people considered taking action on behalf of that poor Little Donkey, on the dusty road, which had to keep on plodding onwards with its precious load? Just how heavy was this load? Was the donkey given adequate breaks? Food? Water? Once an old man and his son were walking with their donkey to the fair to sell it. They passed a group of people on the road. A countryman noticed that the donkey was walking alongside them and laughed, “You fools, why don't you let the ass carry you? You're silly!" The man heard what they said, and put his boy on the donkey while he walked. They had not gone far before...

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Would a true Tiger Woods fan ignore all of the garbage about him that's disseminated over the airwaves? I admire how he plays the game of golf. I've never had any interest in how he plays the game of life. And the only interest I have in his current troubles is learning what I can about human nature and the wages of sin from it.

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You know that sticky white stuff that folks use to prevent water from seeping into the walls behind their tubs and shower units? Well, if somone were to slurp some of that from the container tube into their mouth, would they be known as a "CAULK SUCKER?" Depends on which kind they choose. They might also be a Great Stuff buff. :-)

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Do you think Hitler and his cronies could have pulled off the Holocaust without Joseph Goebbels, his propaganda minister, or someone equal in skill to Goebbels? No, and that should tell us that spin masters who are adept at lies that appeal to the basest hatred in their countrymen are exceedingly dangerous people.

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Is there one drink that you have only over the Christmas season and no other time during the year? I can't recall drinking eggnog at any other time of the year.

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Make our day! What did you do for your fellowman today? I emailed the Whitehouse with detailed instructions on how to capture the top leadership of the Taliban and al Qaeda. No, seriously, I really did. How's that for saving innocent lives?

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How will the universe die? Here's my hunch. The reason we haven't found the black matter is it isn't there. The expansion of the universe is accelerating because the universe is rushing outward toward the central origin point where the big bang occurred. The closer the outer limits of it get to wrapping back into itself, the more gravitational pull they actually exert on themselves till they finally all...

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I'm going to pursue a MFA in film studies. Any suggested readings? No, but congratulations on reaching a decision. I will ask my son about the reading list, though. He completed a Film Scoring degree at Berkley College of Music and has a pretty decent knowledge of the industry. I'll let you know if he offers any suggestions.

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How many people on here work on a freelance basis? Do you enjoy it, or would you prefer something more steady? I'm self employed as a Web developer, so I am a freelancer. I love it. If I want a steader income, all I need to do is work harder and smarter to drive more work in and finish what I the jobs I land quickly.

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I cryogenically froze my dead goldfish some time ago, how do i bring him back to life now? Take him to a nice warm lake. Throw him as far out into it as you can. Then walk on the water to where he went in. When you get there, you will know just what to do.

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What is common sense? (2009-12-07) Wow. Good question. It's quite uncommon, you know. It's been so long since I've seen any I'm afraid I've forgotten what it is. :-)

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What are you plans for December 8th, 11 PM (PST) to Dec 9th, 5 AM (PST)? ;) ARGH!!! I am going to quietly IMPLODE!!! Looking forward to seeing what they do.

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Can chimps be evil? I don't mean, are they scary and mutant-looking and the stuff of nightmares - of course they are - but rather, are they intelligent enough to want to be mean to other chimps and get a sick thrill from it? I do not think so, but they can be extremely vicious and aggressive to other chimps and to animals and humans in general.

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Are beans, beans really good for the heart? I know they are good for a fart or two. So they're probably good for other things that rhyme, as well. Beans are high in fiber and getting plenty of dietary fiber tends to lower bad cholesterol, thus making them quite heart healthy. Black beans and kidney beans are particularly good. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=2

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"We are Catholic. We are supposed to be against abortion, but the church teaches mercy as well. The church examines quality of life. It isn't a black and white issue as so many like to make it," What do you think of abortion after reading the article? It is good to see an article that puts a more human face on this issue. It is so easy to stand behind ideology and demonize the other side. I think that the great religions developed a growth strategy back in the distant past. Have more babies was the plan. In those days, when childhood diseases ravaged the land and so few children grew to be adults that strategy made perfect sense. Today,...

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I had a great girlfriend, but I just don't know why, seemingly overnight, I wasn't attracted to her at all anymore, I feel like trash. Why did this happen? I broke up with her to 'do the right thing'. It's the same-sex marriage movement. You're catching GAY. :-)

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Do you have any rules for accepting friends on AB? I look first at the plus rating and then at questions/answers/comments. What things do you look at and what is the most important thing to you? I'm not at all picky. I enjoy a spirited debate, particularly with someone who has a keen intellect. So I welcome friends with opposing views as welcome as those who hold views similar to my own. I learn from both. At the top of my profile, I mention that I prefer to only accept friend requests from those who have interacted with my on AB. I very rarely make an exception to that.

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I know that some US states are considering secession, but is the US financially wiped out, and we haven't been told yet? Are we on the brink of civil war because of it, as this article suggests? Is the EU Times the European version of the Onion News here? This article is utterly absurd. Our politics are acrimonious right now, but nothing like before the onset of the Civil War. And the Republicans and Tea Baggers bellowing so loudly about secession probably remember what happened the last time they tried that. The US is nowhere near financial collapse. We just need to soldier up...

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When you were young but not a child did you still pretend to your parents that you expected Santa, and the Tooth Fairy to visit? Just to ensure goodies, and money for teeth? Sure. My momma didn't raise no fool. :-)

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Where do you go after you die if God doesn't want you and the Devil is afraid of you? You get recycled into being the next Antichrist. About every four years, the religious right discovers a new one, so there is a constant demand.

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I've got a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham U in Communications & Media Studies. I'm a military vet and I have the montgomery GI bill. What field should I study & pursue? What do you like doing? Yeah, besides making love. For most of us, that doesn't tend to pay well. :) If you dedicate yourself to a profession you love, you are likely to get really good at it and make a decent living while having a good time working. If your past studies and military experience form a good foundation for that, more's the better. But even if they don't, I...

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Is the wind blowing? What direction? Here it is really really blowing from the West! Bringing the Windchill temp. to -15!!! Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! I need a big (((HUG))) to warm me up!! Got one for me? I don't know if it will help much. It's not much warmer here and the snow we got has turned mostly to black ice. (((HUGS))) La Niña's out there in the Pacific BIG TIME this year, so expect it to be colder and snowier than usual across much of the US. But El Niño is expected to return strong in 2010 and we will then probably see the warmest year since records have...

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What predictions did Nostradamus make? He wrote a ton of confusing, allegorical quatrains with all sorts of threatening, dark symbology. As far as I know, nobody has ever figured out what any of them mean and warned in advance of an impending disaster then actually been proven right. After a major disaster, Nostradamus 'experts' pour over his writings till they match up some set of symbols to what actually happened, then...

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Why do dogs eat their own vomit? Dogs have pretty close to a cast iron digestive tract and they have evolved to do this as a survival tactic. In the wild, hunting for prey, it may be days between decent meals and starvation is always a survival threat. The behavior tells us that when the time till the next available meal is unpredictable, at least if you have a canine digestive system, eating your own vomit is more likely to...

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How do I tune in a mitsubishi ct21m3bm television or where can I find an instruction manual? I have no idea how to tune it, but for the user manual, try Mitsubishi's website and the site search tool. If Mitsubishi made it for some other label (I used to have a Panasonic that was actually made by Mitsubishi) try both sites. Good luck.

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For the men out there who are turned on by "she-males" (men who undergo extensive plastic surgery to poorly imitate women): Are you gay? If not, why do she-males turn you on? Interesting question. I find really pretty she-males a real turn on. I guess it may be the fact they go through so much to be sexy that I associate them with sex. I am not all that worried about gay-straight labels, but I primarily like women and have been married for 35 years.

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Do shemale feel pleasure throw intercourse for both sex when guy fuck her ass or she fuck his ass? I have known ones that just want to be fucked, others that love to do the fucking, and still others that like both. It just depends on the person.

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Who will you choose a poor good looking or an ugly rich? After having been married for 35 years, first consideration would be somebody I really get along with and whose company brightens my day. Money would be nice too, as would good looks. Why not want it all. Reach for the stars even of you may never make it to the moon.

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Can modern government survive without a large bureaucratic component? No, I don't see how modern government could function effictively if dun on qan 18th century model. We no longer live in the 18th century.

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Do you have a favorite holiday dish you prepare - a specialty? I'm always the Turkey chef for Thanksgiving and do a Spiral Ham for Christmas dinner.

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Mechanics will know the answer to this one, as I already do. What is a "JOHNSON ROD?" (There is a serious answer to this, but use humor if it makes you feel better.) It really did have a meaning in steam locomotive days. It was a rod used to control the amount of steam going to each drive piston and the direction the steam entered the piston from. Seinfeld perhaps knew that or perhaps just pulled the word out of thin air to describe a bogus item mechanics seek to install or adjust to fleece a gullible customer. But now, some enterprising soul has...

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'Conservatives' are rewriting the Bible. Do Christians support this abomination? Such a sorely needed effort. King James had a well established liberal bias. :)

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Which vertebrate species, if it gained humanlike intelligence, would be most likely to attempt to take over the world, and which would be the most likely to succeed if they did try? I would guess Chimpanzees, Orangutans, or perhaps one of the many species of monkey. They have hands capable of grasping and manipulating things.

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If a sex tape of you was leaked out on the internet and it looked like this, would you be embarrassed? LMAO!!! And here I though the Balloon Boy family was sadly publicity hungry.

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Do you do what this kitty does when you get surprised? I read that it's been posted, but I hadn't seen it. How precious. +5

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I know what an inside joke is, but what is an outside joke? A joke that goes right over the heads of the inside group it's about. :)

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My phone went through the washing machine about 3 months ago. It has been sitting in its box ever since. Everything on it works except the main screen on the inside just stays white. Is there any way it can be fixed? A good guess is that the display unit got water inside it. They are designed to be reasonably watertight from the outside, but not to be completely submerged and put through a wash cycle. :) Take it into a repair facility specializing in that brand of phone and ask them if it's worth repairing or cheaper to just replace.

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Does anyone think that something like the this (see referring URL) will work on AB? There's also a question at the end of it. LOL Political Correctness run afok -- er, I mean amok

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Will Google always be the dominant search engine? The rule is that the only constant in the physical universe is change. Oh, sorry... This just in! That rule changed. :)

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Can a dog or cat get their ears pierced? They can, yes. It's just that they all have sense enough not to do so. :)

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Growing up in rural Virginia, we had tons of fruit trees that I foraged on when playing. What fruits were yoo able to eat from the land when you were a kid? Let me see if I can remember them all. We had apples, pears, blueberries, strawberries, figs, crabapples, blackberries, boysenberries, white and red grapes, and a persimmon and quince tree for good measure. All were growing on the property. In the surrounding woods, there were mulberries, blackberries, native persimmons and wild cherries. What a feast. :)

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In the Dorner endospore stain, if a smear is covered with carbolfuchsin, steamed, decolorized with acid alcohol, and counterstained with nigrosin, how will it appear microscopically? Ha! I'm not a microbiologist, but I play one on Google. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080219125408AAg4yaB

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How long have Republicans been using "just say no" as propaganda? Since the 1980s. Nancy Reagan championed the phrase in the "War on Drugs." Since then, it morphed into the campaign to end sex, and finally subsumed the entire GOP, which has become the Party of NO!

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What's the dumbest claim Republicans have made about President Obama? The birther nonsense is tough to beat. As is "he hates whites." and "He's a communist, Nazi, Fascist... take your pick." But Dana Perino just returned from retirement to compete yesterday. In an interview on Faux Noise with Sean Hannity, she claimed that there was no politics involved, just observing the facts. But, she went on, Obama's weakness led to the Fort...

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Has "butter" something to do with a bigger "butt"? Ha! Enough butter will certainly lead to a bigger butt. :) Thanks for the laugh. +5

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What's the most interesting thing you've found in a house or apartment that you moved into? There was an abandoned glass pipe with a half-smoked load of pot in it in the top drawer of the cabinet over our fridge here.

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Here's the scenario....new person in the company at the bottom of the Learning Curve. Doesn't know the product, the people, the goals or how to implement anything. Starts off criticizing how things are done there. What is your opinion of such a person? Average human being. Look how many people offer up their simplistic solutions to politics, war, international relations and the economy without even a minimal understanding of how any of those things actually work.

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How do you feel about Afghanistan? Corrupt government, drug invested country, mountainous terrain, Russia lost there, etc. Will we accomplish anything by staying as most have said, it is a no win situation. Are we setting ourselves up for another Vietnam? I have grave misgivings about the new strategy, but I have no better idea to offer. I fear the situation was so badly mismanaged by Bush/Cheney that it is now a lost cause. I just wrote up all my reasons for thinking that in this answer: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/8429149

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If it is true that the world is "going to he** in a handbasket", who or what is carrying the basket? Same culprit as ever. Raw human greed.

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Does being a member of Answerbag and meeting people from all over the world cause you to feel part of the "world-wide" community as it does me? Are you more interested in different countries now than you were before because now you have AB friends there? I very much like that aspect of AB. I've learned a good deal about other cultures and current events in other places from my interactions here.

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Have you ever given someone an enema? Who was it? Aside from myself? Yes. My wife, when she needed one.

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This is perhaps the most well reasoned and well supported arguments I have read for the trial of the 9/11 terror suspects in federal courts. Please read this piece, by Andrew P. Napolitano a FAUX news political/legal analyst, and tell me what you think? It's so refreshing to read such truth and sanity. Thanks for sharing the link to it. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is absolutely correct.

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Whether or not you're fond of pot, does this club of '92 appeal in any way to you? I certainly agree with what they are trying to do. I don't use illegal drugs of any kind, and don't believe smoking ANYTHING is smart. I wouldn't smoke pot if they did legalize it. But Prohibition was a disaster and the drug laws of today are backfiring in exactly the same way.

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Are you enjoying watching the Saints school Bill Belicheat and the Patriots on MNF tonight (11/30/09)? I didn't even watch because I knew what was going to happen. :(

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What are your thoughts on there being "no endless U.S. commitment" to the war that is about to crank up in Afghanistan, as outlined in this article? I have a bad feeling about this move, but I don't see any good options. The new strategy calls for pulling back from the remote regions to defend just the population centers. For that, General McCrystal says we need more troops? Doesn't make sense. Why does it require more trops to defend less area? Further, since it's an insurgency, that strategy concedes a good deal of...

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What is a healthy age to become sexually active? I don't know. I was at 3, but look what happened. :)

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Fill in the blank please: Stop calling me ________. No need to fill it in. Leave it at, "Stop calling me!" :)

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Does Tiger Woods owe an explanation? He has every right to remain quiet. There are no criminal complaints against him, and even if there were, the 2nd ammendment ensures his right to remain silent. That said, he isn't serving himself well in the court of public opinion by refusing to even meet with police officers who are just trying to do their job. By clamming up, he leaves the tabloid press free to engage in wild...

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What is the difference between broth, stock and boullion? Broth and bouillon aren't sold on any of the major World Exchanges. Stock is. Hope that helps:)

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All non-Christians are fools, for they deny the existence of the Biblical God (Pslam 14:1). What do you think? I think that the same Bible this question aludes to as truth also says. "But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell." -- Matthew 5:22

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Are you unhappy with the "two party system"? Perhaps one of these parties is for you? You do have more than two choices you know? See the link for descriptions of 21 alternate American political parties. I'm not sure politics works all that much better in countries that have dozens or hundreds of political parties and must always forge fragile coalition governments to get anything done. I realize that it's somewhat a self fulfilling prophecy, but I don't want to join an alternative party when it is so patently clear that party has no hope of winning a governing majority.

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If you wanted out of the US armed forces, would politely refusing to follow any orders work? That would land you in serious hot water. Better strategy would be to make a pass at any same-sex officer in your chain of command.

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What is the difference stockings and pantyhose? Vital clear space in the middle.

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I quit smoking over the holiday weekend. Do you have any good advice on getting through the urge to smoke? Good for you, Payton. I salute you and wish you all success in beating the habit. Being the fiscal conservative you are, just think of the lifetime cost in packs/day plus health issues. Even ignoring inflation, that's a real incentive never to buy another pack. :)

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Can you give an example of something that was "improved" and became worse, not better in your opinion? The Republican Financial Modernization (massive deregulation) of the Gramm, Leach, Bliley Act gutted the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, ending protections against the very things that precipitated the Great Depression. THat "improvement" set the stage for the financial meltdown of 2008. But it was an incredible blessing to the big Financial institutions and their executives, who...

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What is your best concert story? David Bowie was appearing at the Forum in LA. A group of friends and I chipped in and rented a beautiful pearl-white limousine from Dav-L livery services in LA. The car had 50 coats of hand-rubbed laquer with crushed pearl in it! The license just happened to be DAV1. When the driver started to circle the Forum, the security crew saw that license, assumed it was Bowie's car, and opened...

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Do you think this kid knows what McCarthyism is? Have you attended a Tea Party? If you have do you support a new era of McCarthyism? Lastly can you explain how McCarthyism benefited the country and why it we need it now? In my wildest dreams I cannot imagine anyone advocating a new era of McCarthyism. Either the kid doesn't know what demagoguery he's begging for, or his cowardice and fear of otherness has made him fodder for the next great demagogue who comes along. If McCarthyism benefited the country in any way, it was to sensitize us to the political tricks of hate-filled, opportunistic...

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Did you know that there are U.S. politicians supporting a law that would execute gays in Uganda? I'd love to see a list of them published. Take the stand, bigots. But expect to be called out for the bigotry.

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Republican Ex-Gov. & Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee commuted a long prison sentence for Maurice Clemmons who is now suspected in the deaths of 3 police officers and other crimes including child molestation. How will this affect his presidential bid? I'd guess in the same way the Willie Horton disaster affected Governor Michael Dukakis' presidential bid.

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Who would you say are some of the biggest contributors (questions and/or answers) to the Adult section of AB? Thanks for the monination, Violet. I was going to say you must be #1, since you are the CL for the entire Adult section. I'm just a CL in the arcane topic of she-males. :)

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How does a recipe change when you substitute whole wheat flour for white flour? The texture of the end product is more robust, and it has a stronger flour taste. With some whole-wheat mixes, that taste can be a touch bitter, and may require a bit of sugar to tone it down. It's easy to adjust by tasting the batter. That's all I can add. I hope one of our real chefs chimes in on this and gives us more insight, because I would like to know more too. I'm...

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Were you born with a caul? Do you have any special abilities? Ha! Are you asking what's my cauling? I honestly don't remember if I had a caul at birth or not. But then, I was so shocked at being suddenly whisked out of that cozy womb that I didn't say a word for a whole year.

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Is our country getting so dangerous, that 4 wonderful police officers can't have a simple breakfast before going on watch, without being murdered? This isn't the USA I remember from 30-40 years ago. What do you think about this tragedy in WA state? Every time this topic comes up, there are those who say that the news media just makes more of these issues these days. That's rubbish. Such an event would have been far more shocking and newsworthy back in the 50s than it is today.

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Have you ever used Melatonin as an aid in falling to sleep? If so, how much did it take? That's a great question. I have seen bottles of it ranging from .3 micrograms to 10 milligrams. That is an incredible range of dosages, leading me to believe that either individual responses to it vary wildly or there isn't enough research yet to establish the correct level. I figured just use trial and error. It is a naturally couriering compound our bodies make to regulate our...

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Why do my testicles itch when I don't get any sex,but as soon as I've been sexually active they stop irritating me? I don't know. With me, it's my cock that gets more and more sensitive till I can't quit thinking about how good it would feel to give it what it wants. But I guess each of us is wired up by nature to have some sort of alarm bell that goes off after awhile saying, "Hey, reproduce!"

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Dose anyone enjoy to watch a black woman to shake her oily booty on a big black dick, i do What's not to love about that. :)

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Do you ever pretend to be on your period? I started wearing a Maxi-pad every 13th through the 20th of the month. Very interesting. I had not heard of that. Would you classify yourself as a transsexual, a she-male or ???

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I kind of want to have sex with a shemale and out there? Are you asking are there any out there. If so, of course there are. You are far more likely to find one in a large metropolitan area with tolerant views. Try searching Graigslist in a metro area near you.

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My boyfriend (20) lasts less than a minute in bed. Is this normal for his age? Are there ways to help him last longer? How can i possibly get pleasure as fast as he is? My mom used to tell me, "Son, when all else fails, use your head." Since growing up, I have figured out the breadth of that sage advice. Teach him to use his head. After he's gotten you off, it's his turn. :)

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Who is the patron saint of farmers? That would be St. Isidore.

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I am renting a house with my boyfriend. We have been asked to billet a friends son for the hockey season. Do I need to notify our landlord? (ontario) I do not know what real estate law may say about this in your jurisdiction. You would need to check that. Most leases have clauses requiring you notify the landlord of changes in occupancy or subletting, and often it requires the landlord's approval before you can legally do it. Even without such a clause, it is probably wise to let the landlord know. If the landlord finds out you just...

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"Ebenezer Scrooge" is alive, standing in front of you and says, "Xmas? Bah! Humbug!" So, how do ya respond to that? What would be YOUR "comeback" line to the old fart? Come're Ebe'. I got a movie we can watch, for free!

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Norma White of Amarillo is a retired network engineer for Southwestern Bell and she authored a column for a newspaper, claiming that she speaks for "most Americans." Are her stated views yours also? Does she "speak" for you? [See the LINK below.] She has some good points, but populism is often at odds with practicality. I want a functional government more than I want a really, really cheap one. I don't want to make public service si onerous nobody but crooks who plan to use the office to gain bribes and extort money are willing to serve.

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Have you ever wanted or thought of sex with a stranger you've admired? Not really wanted it, since sex is such a deeply personal thing it's just not right with a stranger. But thought about it? Sure. Who hasn't?

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Could there be a more shameless, self-serving, back-stabbing sonofab*tch than Lou Dobbs after all the crap he's done to push them out of the US?! Now he wants a senate seat and NEEDS the Hispanice vote! Amen. I can respect someone changing their position on something after thoughtful consideration and realizing that they were wrong or that conditions have changed. But when people do that, they generally explain why they flip-flopped. Dobbs seems to be as transparently opportunistic in this shift as he was all those years he enriched himself by demonizing Hispanics.

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Prohibiting a market does not mean destroying it; but instead places it under the control of criminal corporations. Your thoughts on Lev Timofeev's conclusions on the economics of the drug trade? You would think we would have learned from prohibition, but sadly society is a slow learner.

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At long last, is this finally the end of the global warming hoax? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ There is no real scandal save the fact that some hacker perpetrated a massive data theft and posted the stolen emails online. The few bits of text that appear controversial are not so when viewed in context. They only appear to be scandalous when stripped of context and run through a partisan spin machine. Here's a thoughtful discussion of the issue from Eugene Robinson....

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If climate change is a hoax, why does the real data at the end of 2009 show it getting worse? Apparently, the polar ice caps and world's glaciers have been deluded into melting by the main stream media.

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Do you plan on killing yourself before December 21st, 2012 so as not to witness the end? I have never understood the mindset that considers suicide as a great way to avoid death. :) I'll take my chances that the doomsday prophets are just as wrong this time as they have been all the thousands of other times they predicted the date of the end. Besides, if they are right this time, I certainly don't wont to miss it.

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Do you think most people are unfairly persecuting Obama? No, I don't think most people are persecuting him at all. His approval rating is still around 50%, which says that most Americans either approve of his performance as President or are neutral about it. The vocal critics are a small minority of the population, but what they lack in numbers they make up for in loudness and crudeness.

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If Republicans are conservative, why did it take a "liberal" like President Obama to remove lobbyists from federal advisory boards? The Republican Party of today is going through an identity crisis. They are trying to decide if it will be run by the Corporatist Elitists who dearly love corporate lobbyists, the God, Guns and Gay crowd who dearly love lobbyists for their social causes, or the Southern racists who hate people of color and government." None of these movements are really conservative by the true meaning...

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Did everyone pitch in on Thanksgiving Day to clean after dinner was over? My wife cooks most of the time, but I always cook Thanksgiving dinner. I clean while I go, but my wife chips in for the dishes after the feast. :)

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Are you paying too much for groceries? I don't know how we will manage if we leave Boston. I live right across the green belt (the strip park over the big dig) from the Haymarket. Every weekend they have a open-air fruit, vegetable and fish market there. Vendors have special deals with the food wholesale suppliers and bring in truckloads of stuff at unheard of prices. for sale on Friday and Saturday only. If you play your cards...

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How do you make your arms thighs tummy and butt smaller Best strategy is to combine exercise and diet modification. You don't have to starve yourself. That usually falls apart anyway when you get worn out from the effort. Instead, substitute fruits and vegatables for starches and fats. You can still feel full after a meal while cutting a substantial number of calories and getting a healthier diet to boot. If you have a gym available, get a...

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Rush suggested West Point soldiers arrest/detain the POTUS? Has he committed a crime? 18 U.S.C. § 2385 : US Code - Section 2385: Advocating overthrow of Government While it is despicable and should result in any patriotic Americans in his audience abandoning him, I don't think it rises to the level of criminal advocacy for the violent overthrow of the government. After all, he did say arrest, and not assassinate. And the 1st amendment gives us all, Rush included, wide protection in criticizing our elected officials.

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Should Tiger Woods stick to driving golf balls instead of motor vehicles? (I think he can afford a chauffeur) Breaking news is his wife produced the facial lacerations. She suspected him of having an affair, and lit out after him with a golf club. Broke the rear window out to rescue him. I don't think so. Maybe he would be better off to hire a bodyguard instead of a chauffeur.

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Do you think the linked question should have been rejected? It was placed in the HUMOR category, and was, in fact, humorously intended. I agree it's not nonsense and it is funny. I submitted feedback asking staff to review it. Being busy, they often just act on a flag without much of a review. If enough people start submitting feedback about such snap judgments, and failing to even look starts costing them more time than it saves, perhaps they will see fit to actually check before hitting the reject button.

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Why do ABers ask yes/no questions when they really want to know who/what/when/where/why/how? Do people just not realize they are asking yes/no questions or do they assume that people will automatically expound on their answers? I would say yes and no. :)

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How can I get the closure I need with somebody who doesn't even want to have anything to do with me anymore? Gingerminx's suggestion is a good one. Beyond that, soldier up, realize there are 6 billion people on earth, stop worrying about the one that got away and cast your line in for another. There are plenty of fish out there to catch. Wishing you the best. I've been there and I know it's a lot easier to say "soldier up" from the sidelines than to do it when your heart...

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How is the $$$ deficit problem going to be solved? (see video link) Great question. I am so glad you asked, because I have a stored-up rant about the debt and you've given me a chance to pour it out. :) The best way to eliminate inflation and look at how much debt a nation is in is to look at debt as a percent of Gross Domestic Product. The US National Debt right after solving the Great Depression and fighting WWII was 120% of GDP. Today it is 41%....

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Have you ever been accused of whining when you weren't even whining? Awwwww. Yeah and I just hate when that happens. I mean like it's so unfair how they all treat me, cause I never, ever complain or whine... <sniffle>

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Remember, when TV was good? Gracie and Allen, The Amos and Andy Show, Lawrence Welk... Nope, can't say as I do/ :)

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Have you ever wished you were deaf? No, not really. But I sure have wished someone else would either shut up or be struck dumb. :)

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What is your favorite quote from a former British Prime Minister? I cherish two of Sir Winston Churchill's many great Bon Mots. "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

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I wish you life filled with peace, joy and abundance on the Thanksgiving Day. What do you wish me? I wish you the fulfillment of that wish.

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I think it is easier to change what we think about something than how we feel. So telling someone "you shouldn't feel that way" doesn't make any sense to me. What do you think? Our feelings are often our best friends, saving us from needless heartaches and disasters. But they can also become our worst enemies, and at such times, we are often the last to know. So there are times when friends tell us our feelings are betraying us, and we should listen. Unfortunately, actually doing this, as your question suggests, is one of the most difficult things to do in the...

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What do you conform to? ASTM D1076-06. No rubber freak should fail to comply with it. ;-P

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True OR False? By the time you go to bed tonight, you will have eaten turkey!!! I can give you a firm Yes, since we had a curried turkey omelet with mango chutney for breakfast this morning. :)

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Why isn't there more outrage about "climategate" and the way the whole world was decieved? There is no real scandal save the fact that some hacker perpetrated a massive data theft and posted the stolen emails online. THe few bits of text that appear controversial are not so when viewed in context. They only appear to be scandalous when stripped of context and run through a partisan spin machine. Here's a thoughtful discussion of the issue from Eugene Robinson....

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Are all you ABers having a good Thanksgiving? Let me know! Thanks for the thoughts. We had a great Thanksgiving. Our son heads to Fort Benning for Infantry Officer training Saturday. We were able to spend time with him for a big feast. I hope you and all our AB friends had a great one as well.

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So, what do you think? I LOVE this character!!! lol!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYBODY!! Thanks for the good wishes for the Holiday. The same to you and all that read this. I think Sesame Street's "Pox News" and the "Spill O'Reilly Show" is Da Bomb!!!

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Considering that Jesus lived and taught in the Middle East/Mediterranean regions all his life, what is the religious significance of a 'white Christmas'? Christmas was adopted by the early church from Pagan religions in order to appeal to people in lands the church was subjugating. The Christmas tree, the winter date of the holiday and most of the trappings are holdovers from man's Pagan religious past.

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I think it was smart and classy of Mrs. Obama to have chosen a dress designer from India to create her gown for the first State Dinner honoring the leader from India.The gown was gorgeous. What do you think? Smart or conniving? Thoughtful or political? Good diplomacy and a gorgeous dress. Excellent choice.

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What epidemics has Japan suffered in the past? Japan had a cholera outbreaks in 1882 and again in 1895. In the 60s, they had an epidemic of encephalitis. They've had their bouts of flu. A particularly bad one came in 1957, when A/B then two waves of A2 flu swept the nation. That triggered a wave of schizophrenia due to fear of the effects of in-utero exposure. In 2007, they had a widespread outbreak of measles among college students....

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Have you ever held back a friend's hair as they vomitted? It is a dignified service that a man can offer his long-haired lady when she is ill. :)

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Is Science a belief? That's a very interesting question. How can you know something to be an absolute truth? I pose that as a question rather than a definitive statement that you can't because, while I doubt that humans will ever know absolute truth, I would be claiming to know at least one truth myself should I say it is impossible to know absolute truth. So it follows that everything we think...

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I don't want to waste my life serving a god that may not exist, nor do I want to displease an almighty god who may exist. Why does god give no lingering, physical evidence for his existing? If god exists, is he not playing mind games with us? Sorry I am so late seeing this. Great question. Christian Theologians explain that God wants us to love him not because we are intimidated by his glory but because we yearn for him in our hearts and have faith in his existence. Salvation is by faith. Ephesians 2:8–9 says, "For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. It is not from yourself or anything you've done,...

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What would be some scientific experiments that would include the idea of an Intelligent Design? I have not seen any experiment that can prove Intelligent Design, nor can I imagine how to construct such an experiment. By proposing an unseen, unseeable force directing things, you step outside what can be proved (or for that matter, disproved) by science.

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Are you going to have turkey for Thanksgiving? If not, what are you going to have? I cooked the bird myself. My wife did up the trimmings.

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What do you think of George F. Will's op-ed, "The gift of not giving"? See LINK to the article in my answer LINK BELOW: Link to article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112502653.html Here's the comment I posted to the Washington Post: "Great message, George. Scrooge would be so proud of you. Think how prosperous we will all be when we all stop buying anything, gut the Federal Government by killing all revenue measures so it doesn't cost us anything, and...

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What do you do when your SO gets angry with life, and frustrated etc? If you get a good answer to that, let me know, because I'm in the thick of it.

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Do prostitutes who work for pimps make more money than those who do not? Pimps generally use threats and real violence to force their prostitutes to turn lots of tricks, so it is possible that the (you should pardon the pun) gross income of a working girl might be more if she has a pimp. However, most of the money they earn goes straight to the pimp, so in terms of net income, absolutely not. High class prostitutes earn the most money, and they generally do not...

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Do Native Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? Ha! Thanks that we few somehow managed to survive the massive onslaught of undocumented workers from Europe?

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Is Mary Landreu America's most expensive prostitute? Why would you say something so ugly? All she did was vote to allow debate on the healthcare bill. She got a great deal for the people of storm-raveged New Orleans in return.

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If the vagina isn't very rich with sensory nerve endings past two inches into the vagina, why would a large penis matter to anybody? The brain is rich in ability to picture feelings. Also, there are nerve sensors of fullness deeper inside and that could contribute to feeling FULLfilled.

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What sense does it make to discuss what happened before spacetime came into being? There is certainly no frame of reference within which to discuss it. And the discussion would have to be complete conjecture, as well.

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Why does my computer, all of a sudden, get real slow for a few minutes, and then it is back to it normal speed? Mine will be doing great and bingo, it gets real slow just for a few minutes. Anyone here know why this happens? Sounds like you have some process that is self launching and running intermittently in the background. That could be just fine or a sign of spyware, depending on what that process is. You could start by examining what is in the Task Manager when these symptoms display. If you can't track it down yourself, you might want to take the box into a competent service center and have them gove it...

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Is science cool? Coolness is in the eye of the beholder, but to this beholder, science is VERY cool. :)

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Would it gross you out if your SO had a brown birthmark circling his/her anus? What could somebody with this problem do about it? No, it wouldn't gross me out. Birthmarks are birthmarks. Lots of people with moderately dark skin color have darker skin around their anus. It's not a birthmark in them, it's part of the natural variation in their skin tone.

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Are dwarf clawed frogs nocturnal or diurnal? They are mostly nocturnal, but actually cathemeral. They spend most of the daytime hours hiding. However, if they smell food in the water they will emerge to get it.

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Did you know today would have been William F. Buckley's 84th birthday? Here's a primer for Republicans to get reacquainted with what the GOP was like before it was all about the family-values weasels who cruise for trade after dark. I miss Buckley darn it You're taking me back to the days when I was registered as a Republican.

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Are there any bats that pollinate flowers in the US? Yes, there are at least two that I know of indigenous to the US. The Mexican long-tongued bat and the lesser long-nosed bat both feed on nectar and pollen and are major pollinators of desert flowers in the US desert

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Noticed there are members that qualify for the Expert Q&A area of the site. What do you have to do to qualify for this area? It's not all that hard to achieve. I answered some questions and posed some more in She-males because the topic fascinates me. Lo and behold, I ended up the Category Expert in that category. :)

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Would a "hotter" wall colour (like pink) in the bedroom result in more sex? Or would the effect be just the reverse? I am pretty sure that if I painted our bedroom pink, the effect would not be good for my sex life. :)

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Not too long ago I went back to a home I grew up in after being gone for 42yrs.! It was true what they say,"Things always look smaller than you remember them as a child!" ! I had immediate feelings of melancholy because of that? Have YOU experienced it? Yep. I've felt it. Read "You Can't Go Home Again", a novel by Thomas Wolfe.

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Here is some fun"news" from FOX regarding voter numbers Palin 70%, Huckabee 63% and Romney 60% support among republican voters. Now I know FOX considers those with educations elitists but shouldn't even they know that adds up to 193%? Ha! Those numbers are all from separate polls. In each poll, Republicans were asked to pick between one of those names and Kim Jong Il as the party's 2012 standard bearer. :)

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Hey, you guys! AB's favorite bratty girl, SHATZEE, has made it to Guru status!!! WooooHooooo!!!! Won't you please join me in congratulating her?? Way to go, my friend!!! You're awesome! SHATZEE, I am proud to say I knew you before you grew to a guru. Gurify in great health.

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The Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family suggesting the couple fabricated the death of their pregnant daughter and grand child. What kind of idiots are these people? What happened to decent adult discussion? Are they insane? Merge selfishness and anger at changes in society and you have the populist "grab the pitchforks" kind of rage and illogical thinking we see boiling over in the Teabaggers and the Town Hall shouters.

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What is the funniest question ever asked on Answerbag? I recall that one about belly buttons. I got a good chuckle from it too. You should forgive the prejudice. I remember lots that were really funny but can't access them for links as easily as I can my own. Here's my personal favorite. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1584145

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Do you think the Eu president will be the anti-Christ he going to be elected tomorrow the 19th Let's see. Caligula was suspected. Oh and don't forget Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, JFK, Pope John Paul II, George W. Bush and Obama to name just a few. Sure, might as well throw Van Rompuy in there for good measure. Who knows, pooh-poohing the idea as I am, maybe it's ME!

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Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century, what animals had the Amerindians (Native Americans) domesticated? Native Americans in North America didn't keep much in the way of food livestock. They kept only turkeys, ducks, and dogs, and most tribes did not eat dog meat (although some did.) In South America, llamas and guinea pigs were also raised by some tribes for their meat.

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What do you wish would last just a little longer? Orgasms. :)

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What is a good wine to serve with Turkey? It depends on your taste in wine, of course. But I like Gewürztraminer, Johannisberg Riesling, or Chenin Blanc.

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If George Bush was still in office, what are the chances that we would have a new "Bin Laden" video coming out about now? (I liked the one when he used the Grecian formula on his beard) I don't think Bin Laden paid all that much attention to who was in charge in the US. He seems to be an equal opportunity hate monger.

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Is being logical good only if it doesn't interfere with ideology? Or is it always bad since it is usually being used when challenging something or someone? Being logical is good precisely BECAUSE it interferes with ideology. That which is true is true. That which is not true remains false no matter how reverently an ideologue believes it. The poeple of Easter Island believed that by erecting huge stone faces looking out to sea, their Gods would be appeased and protect them. So they cut down the trees to make rollers with which to transport the...

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Have you ever met anyone in real life, who was named JACK HOFF? I haven't, but according to the linked website, there ARE over 100 guys in the USA, with that name. Nope. Les Moore and Clay Hough had about the oddest name pairings of any of my friends.

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MEN: Your wife or significant other has 3 choices for an EVENING GOWN. Which would YOU prefer: Long- sleeved BLACK VELVET gown with a DEEP plunging back to the derriere; RED LACE baring her shoulders & a bit of cleavage; WHITE SATIN halter and NO BRA? I'll take the one on the black side with the pointer to her backside. It's worth showing off. :)

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Your tax dollars in the USA have been used by companies like Goldman Sacks and they used those monies to invest in the stock market and make LOTS more $, but those monies have not filtered down to create jobs. Does that make you really mad? It is disgusting. I supported salvaging the financial system. I am convinced that had it not been done, we would now be in asecond Great Depression. But the TARP should money should have been doled out with strings attached to make sure the system didn't go right back to the risky, valueless trading that created the problem. Micro trading and bundling risky investments, re-leveraging...

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Do we spend money on unnecessary things so none is left for important things? You know...billions on a war of choice for example so there is none left for healthcare or education? We spend on death, not on life. Why? You don't get to be a great and heroic leader and beat your chest with pride as you speak to the admiring crowds by educating children and healing the sick.

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There are some people who see evil everywhere they look. I think sometimes they are looking in a mirror but don't realize it. What do you think? How right you are. Violent people are typically inner cowards certain they are surrounded by threats on every side. They are so aggressive because they are convinced everyone else is as full of fear and hate as they themselves are. Racists see any otherness as a looming threat and do likewise. And so it goes. Pure projection.

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Do you consider Kwanzaa a real holiday? I don't see how it is any less real than any other holiday. They are all inventions of man. No great Sky Daddy descended to the top of Mount Olympus and dictated who should celebrate what and when.

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Is it true that there's a lesbian gang on AnswerBag that is seducing older men and then extorting hush money from them? Ha! Can't prove it by this DOM! :)

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Today the FBI released it's latest data on Hate Crimes in the US. The sharpest increase of nearly 11% were crimes based on sexual orientation. With more awareness and recent legislation being passed, why do you think this is happening? I think tough times and social upheaval bring with them fear and a feeling that the underpinnings of decent society are being eroded away. The tough economic times leave those disgruntled with any change feeling they are losing their status, and that all the guideposts they are familiar with are under threat. Those who are poorly educated, of low intelligence or filled with hate are likely to...

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Could Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe be made to accurately predict planetary positions in the sky if elliptical orbits were used instead of circular orbits? That is a very interesting question. It's kind of moot, at this point, as we now know that the solar system is heliocentric and that the stars don't revolve around the earth at all, but instead seem to because the earth itself revolves. Ptolemy and the ancients operated from the very reasonable assumption that the earth, being a massive object, was stationary and thus the motion of...

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What the recipe for making whoopee? More fun than a whoopee cushion! Ingredients: 1 pound dried navy or great northern beans 2 onions, chopped 1 cup water 1/4 pound bacon, diced 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup ketchup 1/4 cup molasses 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tablespoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard 1/4 teaspoon black pepper Preparation: Soak beans in enough water to cover plus three inches over night. Drain...

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This chameleon is amazing! Have you ever seen anything like this? See video! WOW! I wonder what he'd do if you gave him a whole box of Crayolas. Go into chromatic shock?

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After all this time by now we should have progressed more than we have..we human beings. Are we regressing? Were we "better" centuries ago than we are today? Whatever the problems then, was there less evil and more goodness than today? Let's see. Alexander the Great's massive murder. All the killing needed to build the Roman Empire. Attila the Hun's slaughter. The Dark Ages. The Crusades. The Holocaust. Nope, can't say as we're a whole lot worse today than in the wonderful times gone by. :)

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What is the most surprising definition of a word or pronunciation of a word you've ever looked up? Mine was Pago Pago. My boss' wife said the preferred pronunciation was "Pango Pango" and I didn't believe her. She was right. What is your word? Fascinating. They have a shortage of N's in Pago Pago. Pago Pago (pronounced /ˈpɑːŋɡoʊˈpɑːŋɡoʊ/ in English, but [ˈpaŋo ˈpaŋo] by native Samoan speakers, or Pango Pango

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What is the ratio of the number of answers you give to the number of questions you ask? You can get a rough idea from the number of your Question and Answer pages. Mine is 27 answer pages to 4 question pages. What's yours I can't imagine why you are getting downrated for this question. Mine is A/Q = 97/37 = 2.6 to 1.

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What do you consider to be "deep"? The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. That's DEEP.

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Does anyone else agree that Linus Torvalds should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, like this link suggests? Just based on what he has contributed to the world, yes.

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Don`t mammograms cause raditaion,which causes cancer? To be fair, the level of radiation used in a mammogram is quite low. It's roughly the same as the background radiation we all receive in a period of three months. Nonetheless, it is radiation and at much higher levels than we are normally exposed to in a short burst. There is some evidence suggesting that while detecting many tumors while they are still quite operable, it also triggers a...

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Should Republicans support Ralph Nader's new book "Only the Super-rich can Save Us" as an endorsement of trickle-down economics? Two chances. Fat and Slim. And Slim already left town. The wealthiest 1% of Americans held 25% of the nation's wealth back when Reagan took office. Republicans fought long and hard for the rich. They slashed top tax rates and eliminated the inheritance tax. Today that same 1% holds 50% of all wealth in America, and that's not nearly enough for Republicans. They now want a flat...

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Do you have an account on isitnormal.com? No, I don't. Is it normal to not have one?

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Would you want to visit the International Space Station, knowing that any drinking water you consume was once someone's URINE? (I think I'd either decline the trip, or insist on drinking fruit juices, only.) And you think that fruit trees reject any water that's ever been inside an animal and sent out as urine? So stick to lake and stream water where fish pee. :)

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If the Obama Health Care bill is passed, will our taxes go up? There is no final bill yet, so it is impossible to say what the final bill's wording will be. All those who definitively state what it will or won't do need to specify what version they are talking about. If they don't do that, they are simply talking through their hat, or parroting their pet hunch without regard to any factual evidence. As the bill stands right now, your...

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When the democrat say that the public option health care system will not cost one extra dime, do you really believe them? I believe the democrat [sic] more than the Repugnicons. The public option will be funded by premiums just as private insurance is.

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Have you ever been told that you were being racist when you didn't feel that you were being racist at all? The white supremacists among the AB set label me that routinely when I debate them about the merits of keeping Affirmative Action in place till the playing field is level in the USA. It's calssic projection. I recognize it for what it is, so it doesn't have any affect on my feelings about myself. If anyone ever shows me that I am being racially unfair, it would prompt me to...

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If the government and its employees are all required to use the public health insurance option, will it finally become realistic? All Federal Employees are already members of an exchange. Because it has so many members, they are privy to rates and terms that the general population can not even dream of. Your representatives and senators that are trying to 'protect' you form such benefits are massive hypocrites. If they think it's so horrible, how come they want it for themselves?

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Do you consult a dictionary to look up words to make sure you are spelling them correctly, using them appropriately?Not the automatic computer spellcheck thingy... a 3-dimensional, real-world dictionary? Or are dictionaries only for nerds? I no I rely two much on the built-in spell checker that underlines misspelled words four me. I should probably look up mower of the words I use inn answers hear.

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Are humans much like our cats? You have to watch this video! Wow, that's intense. Yeah, it's easy to see human foibles in the behavior of cats. I like the way a cat will pick themselves up and strut away as if to say, "I meant to do that." When they make a jump for a particularly high ledge and don't quite make it.

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A short time ago I heard it announced on the news that real estate was picking up and that was proof we were coming out of this recession. This morning they announced they expect many more foreclosures in the near future. What is your opinion? That's a great question. Most economists now agree we actually are out of the recession based on economic indicators that are used to track recessions. But they warn that because of the depth of this recession and the fundamental weaknesses in deregulated banking that produced it and still makes credit hard to obtain for small businesses and consumers, recovery will be slow in ramping up,...

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When a person feels guilty or knows he/she could be caught in a lie, will that person get defensive and walk away, or try to convince you that the lie is truth? Watch the linked video of the wife who inadvertently tried to hire a police undercover officer as a hit-man to kill here husband. Listen to her crocodile tears about the fate of her husband (who was actually unharmed) then her constant denials even when shown video of herself paying for the hit. It tells you a lot about the behavior of liars. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32311944

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Are you going to get the H1N1 flu shot? I'm in a low risk group. I'll get one if they get around to my risk group before the infectin rate drops off for natural reasons.

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High temperatures cause ignition of inflammables. The fire causes higher temperatures. Which comes first? The high temperatures or the fire? Will lowering of temperatures alone put out a fire? What is the best way to put out a raging fire? The Movie, Fahrenheit 451 referred to the temperature at which wood or wood-based combustibles like paper (books) spontaneously burst into flames. Put a sheet of paper in a 500 degree oven and it will burst into flames even though no flame is present to ignite it. The same heat = flame principle is used in rubbing sticks together to generate a fire. There are three things necessary for a...

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Why is a 108-year-old vampire still in college? To live where the food is. :)

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My dad hit Normandy on D-Day and he spent his whole life in and out of mental institutions. Do you have a relative in the armed forces today that you worry about on a daily basis? Yes, and thanks for asking. I worry about my youngest son, who is an infantry officer. I know him to be a brilliant but introspective person. He's full of bravado, but I worry what toll the horrors of extended combat and the pervasive fear of roadside bombs may take on him.

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What Wars has the USA fought that were NOT justified? I'd say the Spanish American War was trumped up. It was driven by expansionist sentiment and launched due to Yellow Journalism on the part of William Randolph Hurst. Sending people to die so you can sell more newspapers is pretty cold. The Iraq war was unjustified and illegal by treaties the US has signed and ratified. Had we committed 400,000 instead of 4,000 troops to the important...

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If we are going to send more troops to Afghanistan, do we not need to bring back the draft? Is it fair to keep sending the same men to fight our Wars? Many are in their fourth tour of duty. There is a breaking point for any man or woman. If we send another 40,000 to Afghanistan, we will have all but 1 brigade of the Active Army either deployed or back from deployment and unavailable per current rules of recovery time. We will have to deploy brigades that have already served 4 and even 5 tours in Iraq or Afghanistan. If we put ourselves in that position, tyrants around the world are sure to know it. How long till the North...

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If "the less Government the better" is true, wouldn't no Government at all be best? It's common to hear rants about how terribly government does everything it does. But even the rants don't make good sense. A typical one is "Look at the Post Office!" OK, let's do just that. What does it cost to send a letter by first class mail today? Try sending the same message by UPS or FedEx and see what THAT costs. Look at Medicare, Medicaid and the VA the...

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What's the most "1st floors" you've seen in a building? You know, buildings where there's a 1st floor, a lobby, a ground floor, etc...? What other names have you come across for the so-called 1st floor/main entrance? In most buildings in the UK, you either go up the elevator or take the stairs to the 1st floor. THe door opens on the Ground floor. I just went over to Boston's strange looking City Hall yesterday to update my voter registration after moving. I needed to go to room 241 on the 2nd floor. I entered the building and waited for an up elevator. After boarding the elevator, I was dismayed to...

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Do you consider yourself a person concerned about the environment? Yes. I checked my carbon footprint and I am near the bottom of the range for average Americans. While there is certainly more I could do, I'm certainly doing more than my fair share and I vote for and advocate for reasonable restraints on environmental damage.

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I see moongrim is the new category expert in Religions.How can an atheist be an expert about religions?Wow that says alot about this site. Category Experts are selected based on level of participation (questions and answers) in a category and hoghest points earned in that category. Some of the readers of the category must think Moongrim's answers are worthwhile or he wouldn't have racked up more points than the other participants in the Religions category. And it is Religions with an "s", not Religion...

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There are 365 1/4 days per year. 7 won't go evenly into 365. So why are there 7 days in a week? Sorry. meant as a comment. Moved.

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For how long have Republicans supported the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's support for rapists? I saw that. Money is the new morality, I guess. If something is good for business, who cares who gets hurt?

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Is it really possible to -literally- "fight fire with fire"? Not only is it possible, it is about the only effective way to fight large forest fires and brush fires.

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If you want the rich to pay for your health care, how does that make you different for someone on welfare? Actually, everyone who has insurance now pays for care for the poor when they show up in emergency rooms and get unreimbursed care. Our nation pays for employer paid healthcare in lost jobs, because our companies have a 15% higher cost of doing business than competitors offshore. I want us to rationalize healthcare and make it available to all citizens. Doing that would serve the interests of...

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Sometimes things that you really enjoy change or disappear entirely....your favorite restaurant closes...a favorite food item is no longer sold....a close relationship ends. If you knew in advance this were going to happen, what would you do? One case in point comes to mind. Some yers back, I picked up a simple gripper tool in a Dollar Store for a buck. It was about 3 feet long with a plunger trigger on one end and four hardened steel grippers on the other. it had a spiral wound wire body enclosing the actuator wires that ran from the trigger mechanism down to its gripper tips. You could reach right into a pipe in the sink and pull...

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What snapped you back to reality? I always snap back after I get so high I can't stand, fall off the floor and bounce from the bed to get stuck to the Velcro on the ceiling. Works every time.

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Do you REALLY want a guy with a big dick? No. I am pretty sure my wife wouldn't understand. :)

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Founding Father John Adams bowed to the King of England. So why do Republicans hate President Obama for showing the same skilled American diplomacy? You don't have to go back to John Adams. Ike bowed to Charles De Gaulle, the wife of Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Gronchi and Pope John XXIII. http://donklephant.com/2009/11/15/dwight-eisenhower-another-bower-in-chief/ Nixon bowed in 1971 to Akihito's father, Emperor Hirohito, the man who authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor!...

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Why are Republicans using bureaucratic political loopholes to slow President Obama's progress? GOPer leader Boss Limbaugh told them to "Just say No!" Their plan for America is to make sure the Obama Presidency is one long series of failures by stopping anything from happening, then blaming him for getting nothing done.

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When is the last time you fell off a bed? When I got so high I fell off the floor and bounced from the bed into the Velcro on the ceiling. That would be a few minuted ago. :)

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For holiday shopping in 2009, is it best to lute a foreclosed mall or rob the banks and venture capitalists? Ha! If I were criminally inclined, Goldman Sachs would be right at the top of my looting list. :)

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Most DOCTORS . . . . .DON'T. . . . . . . understand radiation biology; but radiation ONCOLOGISTS DO! So. . . . .if your "regular" doctor told you you need to have a yearly MAMMOGRAM. . . . . . .would you just BLINDLY trust him/her and have it? Well with the low risk of breast cancer within my population group (low-body-fat males) No! :) But on a larger scale I never implicitly trust 'expert' advice when I can clearly see the expert has a financial incentive in recommending a particular course of action.

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I answered a question about the "most interesting answerbag category" you have ever come across, with my answer being this category and it was labeled as nonsense/offensive. If it is offensive, why have it as a category? All it takes to get a question dumped is for a few bluenoses to flag it. In my experience, it doesn't seem AB stadd actually reviews flagged questions. Perhaps they are just too busy. If you are confident you worded it in such a way that it was not offensive in a non-adult category, submit feedback and appeal it. I've had a number of questions reinstated. None were of an adult...

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Why do i have stomach pains and feel like im going to poop or fart wen having intercourse? As uncomfortable as I know it must be to talk about it, I would bounce that off your physician. It would be even more uncomfortable to go through life finding what should be such a source of pleasure to be painful. You may suffer from vaginismus, an involuntary spasm of the muscles surrounding the vagina. It could be something else. But by all means, find out.

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What is the side effect of masturbation Best one is orgasm. The worst is an interesting smelling hand. :)

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If you work to save the polar bears are you a seal hater? No, you are a wildlife lover. You're someone who knows it is better to leave wildlife to sort out who eats whom in the wilderness, that every time man steps in and tries to "improve" nature we make a terrible mess of the natural balance between predator and prey.

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When you hear the word "mace" do you first think? Funny you should ask. As a kid, I read stories of ancient days, and mace called to mind a medieval war club or staff a king might carry. Then I learned to cook, and the word became more associated with a spice you put in cakes and pastries. Then I learned to party, and the word became associated with stuff the police spray in your face when you get too rowdy.

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Our incredibly helpful and wise friend Galeanda is now an "Illuminati" on AB. Would you like to join me in congratulating her? Definitely deserved, well done! I knew you were secretly part of the Illuminati, Galenda. <Puts tin foil hat on.> :) Congratulations on a job well done.

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I just read a stat: If a woman started out at 40 with NO CANCER, by the time she was 50 her chances of developing it FROM THE AMOUNT OF RADIATION SHE RECEIVES from a MAMMOGRAM is 30%! Some RADIOLOGISTS believe that stat is HIGHER! Do YOU like that %? Good point. That's part of why the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force just changed the recommendations and said that women under 50 and not in a high risk group should not get annual mammograms.

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How Presidential is it for a "wannabe" to engage in namecalling? How about "settling scores" or "fingerpointing"? Very much, not so much, or not at all? It's about as presidential as everything else about Sarah Palin.

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How far away from your home (in distance or time) is your local public library? Just a few minutes walk. Three blocks. It's a small branck but you can request any book in the Boston Public Library System or from any library participating in the Inter Library Loan System.

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If a girl promised you a blow job and didn't live up to her promise, how would you feel about her? I think sex is way too personal and emotionally swayed to ever be treated as if it's a coupon offer.

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How often do you encounter nonsense that masquerades as profundity? It's endemic. But you have to look. Because hidden down in the nonsense is profundity that appears on the surface to be nonsensical.

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Some things are not quantifiable....sometimes there are no answers...many times all you have is uncertainty and that is as good as it gets. How easy is it for you to live with uncertainty? Humm! Gosh -- I'm really not sure. :)

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What do you think the word "Meta" means? Meta- (from Greek: μετά = "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self"), is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta

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Whats show size do you wish you wore? The size Ed Sullivan used to put on, "A really BIG show!"

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New government task force says women should have fewer mammograms. There is great concern about the cost of health care reform. Could these two be connected? I seriously doubt it. The panel making the recommendation is the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. http://www.ahrq.gov/CLINIC/uspstfix.htm They are an independent group of prominent doctors and healthcare researchers chosen for their expertise in their fields. They are not government bureaucrats. It makes good sense to review medical procedures from a cost/benefit and risk/benefit...

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Will unions ever learn? http://www.thedeal.com/corporatedealmaker/2009/10/boeing_spreads_its_wings_with.php I get a 404 page on that URL.

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Three well known conservatives Barr, Keene and Norquist say in an open letter Gitmo detainees would be fine in IL prison and warn GOP of 'Scaremongering'. What are your thoughts about the letter and the issue? When I find myself in complete agreement with Bob Barr, David Keene and Grover Norquist all at once, I know the Mayans were right, the earth's poles must be nearing a shift. I often disagree with the three of them, but they are principled conservatives. They speak their mond, and not mindless party propaganda.

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Would it help clean up AB a little if we could flag rhetorical or inflammatory questions? I am definitely against it. It smacks of censorship, and it would provoke bitter disputes over what is and isn't an "inflammatory" question.

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What are some diseases that have a color as parts of their names? The black plague, yellow jaundice, blue balls. :)

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When a question refers to a link, but doesn't mention doing so, do you generally read the link before answering? Are you more likely to read it if the question says to see the link? See mobius LINK: Some questions are so tightly tied to the link they reference that they don't make much sense and get silly, off-base answers if you don't read the link before answering. However, if you do post a link, AB takes 5 minutes (while the Edit your Question timer is ticking down, presumably) to display it. So it is very common if you do say "See LINK:" to get one or more answers...

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My cat will not leave my fish alone! How do I keep him from "attacking" the fish in my 55 gallon tank? It's in a cat's nature to chase something that moves. Better approach the problem by preventing the activity with a modification to the aquarium, not the cat's behavior. Some sort of lid the cat can't figure out how to open should do the trick. As Robert A. Heinlein noted in _Time_Enough_for_Love_, "Never try to outstubborn a cat."

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Is gray a pretty color for a cat? I like silver-grey on cars. But I have heard that gray cars are less visible than some other colors and thus more apt to get into accidents. I have no idea whether there is any throuth to that, but you might check with an insurance company before buying if that notion wories you.

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What is the real cause of Terrorism? I'm certainly no Bible thumper, but the Bible says the root of all evil is the lust for Mammon. I have never found that wisdom to fail. Mammon means riches, avarice, and worldly gain.

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How accurate are genetic dating techniques? A news article a few days back said that 44,000 year old frozen penguin samples from Antarctica have raised serious questions about former methods of genetic dating. It appears they may have underestimates the age of specimens by 200 to 600%. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110135411.htm

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How much jail time will you get for less than 5 marijuana plants in massachusetts It's based on weight. No jail for under an ounce. I would guess that 5 plants would be over an ounce. You'd need to check on the actual weight to see how much trouble it might get someone into.

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SO WHO LIKES POOP? wow i like the category It's great, but if you don't let go of it, you will soon be full of shit. :)

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This feels very uncomfortable to say but... im 14 and my clit hangs out... it bugs me alot and i wanna know if this is normal.. please give me some answers Each of us is unique. Big boobs we celebrate as a gift. Big noses -- not so much. Fortunately, a clit is not nearly as noticeable as a nose, and there are plenty of people who will accept you for who you are and not worry about the size of your clit. Having had experience with women whose clits were so small and skin covered that they found it very difficult to achieve any pleasure, I think...

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I am m2f trans i am currantly using 8.5 mg estradiol, 150mg spironolactone,and 200 mg of microgest daily will this be sufficient for trans i weigh 13 stone and am 5.11 height Well, I am not a doctor, even though I play one on Answerbag. :) You really should be under a physician's care and bounce that question off your doctor. Without knowing your medical history, examining you, and monitoring how your body responds to the hormones. Does National Health Care cover the cost? PS: I don't know why someone downrated your question, but here's +5 and...

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Why is zarkin frood a douche? I suppose because towels are such a necessary part of douching. And besides, being a real douche takes a guy to some VERY interesting places, you know. :)

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Ok i would like to find a shemale near preston county west virginia can u helpp me Try searching on Craigslist. You'll probably have to look in major metropolitan centers near you, but may find someone. You can also advertise there yourself. No charge.

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I am 18 going on 19 soon.my parents treat me like a child and its drivin me crazy.things at home is really tough and sometimes i feel like moving out......what can i do.im still in school and my dad doesn't support me like he's suppose to. Trust me precious, you aren't as old as you may think you are if you are complaining about your dad not supporting you. Part of being adult is truly being able to stand on your own. I'm an ald man now, but I clearly remember feeling the same way when I was young. I think it's a test we all go through as we begin to approach adulthood and want to begin charting our own course. ...

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"Prohibition is a byword for futile attempts to legislate morality and remake human nature" What are your views regarding possible changes on bans of gay marriage, pot and travel to Cuba, the quote itself and these issue after reading the article? Every person we lock behind bars costs society dearly. There is the direct cost of incarceration, the loss of their productivity, the impact to their family and friends, and the lasting cost in contribution to society when they are released as an ex-con and often cannot find work. Then there's the people who go to jail for doing things that should not even be criminalized, and come out...

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Is this video the reason why men watch the Food Network? Ha! I never before realized what a short step it is from corny to horny!

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Do you think Sarah Palin is a victim of the media or does she exploit the media to enhance her exposure, or is it a combination of both? Palin claiming that the Katie Couric interview was a hatchet job says it all. It's patently absurd to say that "What do you read?" was a gotcha question! Palin is a remarkably incurious, dimwitted ideologue whose chief talent appears to be knowing how to smile and wink for a camera.

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Our Dear Caring Loving Compassionate, Sunshine in a COAT of Sunshine, has become a Level 60 Maestro! Would you please join the party to congratulate her on her achievement and to wish her a life full of health and happiness? Congratulations, Sunshine, on attaining Maestro! Very well deserved. Enjoy this Sunshine coat rack for your Coat of Sunshine. :) Thanks, Suby, for letting us know of the momentous event.

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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a loyal Democrat, blamed the Fort Hood massacre --perpetrated by a radical Muslim on guns. Since the perpetrator is a member of the US Army and the incident occurred on an army base isn't the comment a bit off-the-wall? I'm no gun nut, but that's loony tunes. We might ask if cop-killer weapons and ammunition really needs to be so widely available, though. The automatic he used is known for its ability to penetrate body armor, and he did not get it from the military. He bought it legally at a gun shop.

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Andrew Sullivan a conservative calls it as he sees it "Fox News: Enemy Of Conservatism" Please read his article and comment. See reference link for full story. Wow! How elegantly, concisely stated. I can't say it any better than Sullivan did. "Whatever else this [Hannity's] toxic, shallow and brutal perspective is, it is not now and never will be conservative - unless that word has now been so corrupted it has no meaning at all." "At the core of real conservatism is a distinction between theory and practice, a deep...

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In Canada same sex marriage is legal nationwide ,so all provinces have to follow the law.Will the US senate ever decide nationally the legality of same sex marriage,or will it remain the decision of each state? I think the US Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law already speaks to the legality of same-sex marriage nationwide. We just have to wait for public opinion to catch up. But of course, the moment Canada legalized same-sex marriage, men started marrying Canadian geese, women turned into squids, and volcanoes errupted in every major city there. So maybe the US needs...

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How do you define terrorism? Do you agree with the US Code's definition of terrorism? See link to see U.S. Code Title 22, Ch.38, Para. 2656f(d) There is no question that's what the term means under Federal law. But it looks pretty accurate to me as a dictionary style definition. There seems a rush to call every mass shooting terrorism now. One disgruntled nut-case going postal is not terrorism.

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Do you think Larry King was "inappropriate" or is Carrie Prejean just a little uptight? See video. I think Larry King pushed a bit hard, but that's what TV Interviews are like. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Carrie needs to figure out whether she can handle the fame she so craves. Careful what you wish for, young lady.

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The Obama Administration will transfer Khalid Sheik Mohammed to New York for trial. How does this qualify as coddling terrorists? Turning the 9-11 mastermind over to a jury of New Yorkers to decide his fate doesn't strike me as coddling. I certainly don't see it as coddling a terrorist. I think it is a wise move. THe whole world will be watching. If we put him on trial in Guantanamo under a Military Tribunal we'd be handing Bin Laden a massive recruiting tool. We've had too much kangaroo court 'justice' already. It's time to get reassert the rule of law.

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Are there men who are victims of domestic violence? I am under the impression that the majority of victims are females. One word: Bobbitt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

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Which biblical characters are also polygamists? Well, just a few are clearly identified. That would be Abdon, Abijah, Abraham, Ahab, Ahasuerus, Ashur, Belshazzar, Benhadad, Caleb, David, Eliphaz, Elkanah, Esau, Ezra, Gideon, Heman, Hosea, Ibzan, Issachar, Jacob, Jair, Jehoiachin, Jehoram, Jerahmeel, Joash, Lamech, Machir, Manasseh, Mered, Moses, Nahor, Rehoboam, Saul, Shaharaim, Shimei, Simeon, Solomon, Terah, Zedekiah and of course Ziba....

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If Carrie Prejean's sex tapes get out, will she achieve the kind of fame that Paris Hilton and Kim Kardassian "careers" are based on? I don't know. Send them over, I'll review them, and get back to you on that. ;-)

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Here in the UK a driving licence is valid until a driver becomes 70,they then have to declare any medical conditions to renew their licence every 3 years.Do you think there should be an age limit for drivers? I'm a senior, but I definitely think there should be. We've had a huge run of fatal accidents here in the Boston area involving elderly drivers. Unfortunately, legislation to do something about it is now bogged down in the state legislature due to pressure from seniors groups.

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I think sometimes people confuse being given a lot of attention with being admired. Carrie Prejean for instance...she would do much better staying out of the limelight because she does not do well in interview situations. What do you think? It was painful watching her go through her phony outrage charade with Larry King. She seems to dig the hole deeper every time she answers a question.

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Remember when the idea of drinking blood as a vampire was once considered sexy? Isn't it kind of like drinking mucus now? Ha! Good point! Vampires are dropping out of the air like flies in bug-spray now. They're all getting AIDS or Hepatitis C.

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Is the GOP leaning further to the Right than Benito Mussolini? Do you have to be a total Fascist to be considered "Conservative enough" to be called a Republican, or is the party truly splintering? (see link) One of our cons here said yesterday that the GOP will nominate someone for 2012 who is more socially conservative than Sarah Palin and more fiscally conservative than Ron Paul. That puts the focus squarely on the fascists out there. http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/8266183

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Conservatives: Why must everything be Nazism, or Socialism, or Communism? Can't you understand that not all or even most of America agrees with your political positions? We've tried working with you, but you won't play ball. Now we'll do it w/o you. Amen to that. I'd love to see bipartisanship on Healthcare Reform. It needs it. Cons could contribute on tort reform and cost control. But no, it's all got to be about death panels and socializing medicine and a pack of lies like those.

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Kimberly Munley a white female, did not bring down the Fort Hood killer, Sgt. Mark Todd, a black male did. What else about the shooting is the military lying about? I seriously doubt the Military is deliberately lying about any aspect of it. THey are simply not saying much of anything, and that is as it should be. The UCMJ protects the rights of the accused by allowing defense attorneys to object is officers say anything prejudicial to their client, as their command authority might influence a jury. So they keep a lid on speculation and commenting. In the...

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What kind of exercises are good for memory and attention span? Well... Let's see... Oh yeah, I remember! It's... Drat, it slipped my mind again. :)

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Do you consider yourself wealthy, average or in financial straits? Right now I'm broke. Owed money, but collecting seems to be a serious problem.

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Buffet and Gates say the worst is behind us as far as the economy goes. Should the whiners and doomsayers who were ready to dig a hole somewhere and cower be arrested for defeatism? I think so. We need positive people in this country. Not cry babies. I wouldn't be that extreme. Besides, just put another economic genius like George W. Bush in charge in Washington and their whines will immediately switch to smiles, even if the economy drops off another cliff like it did under his management.

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Does science make the average person smarter, if all they do is simply believe what they are told by scientists? I suppose it imparts a modicum of knowledge, but the true power of science lies not in learning established facts but in learning the scientific method and it's power in getting at the facts. Then would come learning the established laws and theories of science as they are the building blocks to support new scientific advances.

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Why is it that so many of the industrialized countries are in conflict with Islam? E.g. Russia with Chechnyas, China with the Uighurs, the West with Al Qaeda, etc, I suppose because there is a strong current of medievalist sentiment in Islam. Many would like to live in a world that existed when Islam was a new and expanding religion. Perhaps it is a reaction to the rapid change that technology has wrought. Rapid change tends to make people fearful and that tends to make them wish for the certainty of the past. Also, the faith does teach that...

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Is there any proof of God(s) existence apart from the 'evidence' of the bible and the arbitrary statements such as 'look at the complexity of nature, there must be a creator'? The Bible says that salvation is by faith. It there were empirical evidence sitting around and someone stumbled onto it, that would wipe out any chance they had for salvation, as their belief would then be based on proof and not faith.

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Do you think it would be wrong to have Thanksgiving at my cafe for my regular customers whom alot of are single and/or senior citizens, instead of going "home"? I'm a senior who is blessed to still have family around me but I can assure you if I were a regular customer and you did decide to do that, I would love the chance to be with good friends at Thanksgiving.

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What do you think about Obama today pretending to be a great president, like George W. Bush, who cares about fallen American soldiers? bolwerk, you have made me mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. Here's what I think about your question. I am no Bush fan, but I think both he and President Obama were deeply touched by the sacrifice of our volunteer military and their families. How can you be so politically calculating as to claim that either man would look at a two-year old child left without a...

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Will there ever be a total cure for cancer? If so, how long do you think it will be? Yes, the cures will be found, and no, the world isn't nearly as sinister as conspiracy theorists make it out to be. Seems the tin-foil hats aren't shielding them from the evil bogus rays emanating from the black hole at the center of the galaxy. My fear is that the rapid mutation of viruses these days may outpace medical science's efforts to defeat them.

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Diff between LCD and LED TV? And what's with HD? Thanks. LCD stands for liquid crystal display. It's the technology most computer monitors use. It's energy efficinet and produces a nice, sharp picture. The cheif disadvantage is that the brightness is strongly influenced by wiewing angle. The picture is best when you are looking straight into the screen. When viewed fron an obliqu, brightness and contrast drops off as the viewing angle...

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How many of your points do you get from questions? What percentage? Time-wise, do you get more points from asking, or answering? Do you ask random stuff you already know, or don't care about just to get points? Today I got less than half my points from questions. THe rest from answers. But it's hard to count once you've been here for a good long while, because old questions may get points but be way down on your list of question. Same goes for old answers.

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You've asked me to be your friend on AB. Why? What do you consider AB friendship to be? I like your avatar. Peaceful. I liked that you answered a aging, lonely question that I asked back in April. I ask people to be a friend if I feel that I can enjoy their questions and answers, or learn from their thought process.

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Whis is the best site to provide following services :- Web Design Web Development Domain registration Web hosting You want best of breed? Don't expect to find the best of 4 different needs in a single kennel.

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Could pressure at the surface be 601 hPa? I though the standard is around 1,013, so wouldn't 601 be really off? Or could it be 1,601? The lowest atmospheric pressure ever measured was 25.69 inches of Hg, set on Oct. 12, 1979, during Typhoon Tip in the western Pacific Ocean. 25.69 inches of mercury = 0.858488428 Pa (atm). Perhaps the observation in question was above sea level.

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How is it possible to be fiscally Conservative and socially Liberal? The Conservatives kill all social programs, or would like to so what would be left to be socially Liberal with? I just heard Florida described that way and I don't get it...do you? I think many adopt that slef description because it sounds neat. Who likes taxes, after all. True Libertarians, however, generally fit the actual description.

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Do you try to answer Qs on your "Friends List" FIRST. . . . . . .because they have chosen to be your friend and you feel that's a prerequisite for being "friends"? Or do you do it when the "general" Qs are no longer being "updated" at the moment? I go through all the 5 pages of Friend's Questions once a day. Even so, I would need time enough to sign on at least 2 and sometimes 3 times a day to catch every question my friends ask. So if I miss one and a friend thinks I should look at it, they should send me a link. I also catch interesting questions in the general list when I log in.

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I have read of groups of "militiamen" scattered around the country, well-armed and ready to "take back their country". Militia...malicious. They sound alike....are they? The sorts of people who would consider the violent overthrow of a duly elected US government to be a good, noble idea are certainly malicious. They do exist. Fortunately, while they may have a sizeable membership and may be well armed in comparison to average citizens, they will find they are no match for the National Guard and the US Military. They are vastly outnumbered and outgunned.

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Ranting,raving,pounding,shouting,attacking may initially attract your attention. But isn't it logic, reason and common sense that holds it? Apparently that's not true for a significant segment of the population. How else would Fox 'News' have remained the number 1 cable news channel for so long?

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Who are some real people whose name or stage name or nickname includes the name of a US state? E.g. Dakota Fanning, Joe Montana, etc. Virginia Madsen. Carolina Ardohain. Not only named for states, neighboring states.

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IN HONOR OF THE MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY, today, NOV. 10th, 2009, would you provide a brief description of a U.S. MARINE? True "Never say die" people who are willing to put their life on the line for their country. I honor the service of every single one.

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Is the stress involved in mastering a difficult skill really worthwhile in the long run? Aren't we better off living with our current skills and current income levels? I suppose that depends on how stressful the learning experience is for you. For instance, I took piano lessons. The instructor had a very heavy Russian accent and she was a Jazz buff. She was constantly pushing me aside and telling me to just "Grab some chords" then extemporizing on the keyboard. While she was quite a skilled pianist, she was an absolutely terrible teacher and I found...

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Is truth an offense to you? Objective truth should be the most welcome commodity in the universe. It keeps us safe from error.

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Why does a guy, with a well-defined chest, back and arms look so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o--o-o-o "SEXY" in a clean, white t-shirt? Sorry, I can't answer that. I've got to go change into a clean white tee shirt. :)

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Why does a man's voice occasionally crack despite having gone through puberty? I have a rather deep voice, but it cracks when I get choked up.

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Do you believe something really bad is gonna happen in the year 2012 like some people believe? Of course some people do. But I don't happen to be one of them. Here's a list of failed doomsday predictions from Y2K forward. http://www.2think.org/hundredsheep/skeptic/predictions.shtml Of course, one look at that list and you will realize that the list from the start of the Common Era forward would be too big for your browser to load.

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I understand that physical pulchritude is NOT everything. . . . . .but I think SOPHIA LOREN and MICHELE PHEIFFER have, in MY opinion, what could be, quite possibly, the MOST perfect symmetry in beauty that is ubiquitously known! Agree or disagree? Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor are among my archetypes of beauty.

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Do you think the "Adult Section" on AB, or otherwise wanting to know what goes on in OTHER people's bedrooms, is "polite" VOYEURISM? I;m sure that's part of the attraction. But people have very legitimate questions about adult topics as well.

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News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch's plan to start putting the company's sites behind a paywall. Will the FOX sheeple pay for content? Will you pay for FOX,Sky Network, The WSJ, Barron's, Marketwatch, and The Sun? How will this affect FOX ratings & viewership? Here's an idea I am more likely to contribute to. Let me pay by the minute for Fox to be off the air. :)

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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.)suggested that treating female-related health conditions was comparable to insurance-company imposed restrictions on smokers. So, is being born without a penis the same as choosing to smoke health wise? Sounds more to me like Pete Sessions was born with a penis doing the thinking for him . Where's his brain?

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So, Carrie Prejean the former beauty contestant who claimed she was being persecuted for being a good Christian girl and opposing gay marriage wasn't so pure it seems. Have you seen her sex tape? Is it funny when another hypocrite bites the dust? When you set yourself up as the arbiter of morality, you had better be moral yourself. How seldom the judgmental types are. No surprise here.

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Glen Beck tried to circumvent the guarantees of the U.S. Constitution & squash free speech by shutting down a parody site and lost! Isn't it interesting that a person who got rich promoting rumors/making accusations would sue to quash free speech? Great to see the legal system doing its job. Glenn Beck seems to share Sarah Palin's misconception of freedom of speech. Both seem to think it only covers their own actions and that anyone who points up their logical and factual gaps can be stifled.

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How can you radically change "the system" without violence? Money is debilitating to the improvement of society and needs to be abolished in my opinion. How do I do this? Money is not the problem, the lust for wealth, goods and power is. Eliminating money as a method of exchange would only transfer the symptoms to gold, or barter, or whatever means of exchange were used. Also, other means of exchange are nowhere near as fungible as money. So switching to a barter system when the earth's population is approaching 7 billion would result in massive shortages...

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In what countries is cat ownership more popular than dog ownership? I know it is in the USA. I would guess that's true of much of the developed world. More people in the US own dogs, but cat owners often own 2 or more cats. Cats outnumber dogs here by about 10 million.

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I have heard that showing kindness means one is weak. If true, does that mean being cruel is a sign of strength? Strength of/ in what? Character? Intellect? Spiritual growth? Leadership? Random acts of kindness are a sign of true strength. Cruelty is the mask cowards cover their fear with.

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If a question is posted about an event which never happened, would you flag that question as being nonsense or would you try to get it placed into the Outside of the Bag category? If the question is meant as fun, then maybe it should be left standing or perhaps moved to an appropriate category like Humor or Outside the Bag. If it is meant as an attack accusing someone or some group of having done something that they are totally innocent of having done, then it's Nonsense or Offensive and I would flag it as such.

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If it were possible to remove all posturing/preening from politicians, would anything be left? What? Politicians are just people. They are dealing with a specific set of realities most of us don't confront, and so may seem very different than us. But I strongly suspect that the old adage, "There but for the Grace of God go I." applies in spades.

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If you could be a VERITABLE witch in life who could cast spells and turn "bad guys" into toads. . . . . . . . .would you be? Or would you leave them to their own karma? Leave them to their own Karma. I have no illusions of being qualified to play God. It sure would be tempting sometimes, though.

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Are you more educational or conversational? I guess I'm the stuffed-shirt type. With the exception of my attempts at humor, nearly all my questions are the Educational variety.

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Anyone have a birthday this month on AB? Mine is tomorrow! hint hint...do you need my address? Hey, Happy Brithday, my friend. Planning a golf outing to celebrate?

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How would you feel if new measurements found out that the universe is not expanding, but contracting? I'd just have to fall back to what I believed to be the ultimate fate of the Universe before red-shift observations led us to believe it is expanding and that the expansion is accelerating. It's name your poison, isn't it. Would you rather the Universe die in a Big Freeze or Big Crunch? In any case, it's not my most immediate concern. The decay time of a roughly...

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Lieberman in 1994: "I think the filibuster is a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today." Lieberman in 2009: "Sure, I'd filibuster a health care reform bill with a public option." Hypocrite or just a paid lackey of big business? Lieberman has taken over $2 million in healthcare contributions. I say big hypocrite AND very well paid shill!

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How can I convince my wife that I like her hair long and to stop cutting it? If you have told her that and she still wishes to cut it, it probably has more to do with her feelings about it and its upkeep than it does your feelings. Long hair can be high maintenance and doesn't always behave the way we might wish. Hopefully you love her for something deeper than the tips of her long hair, and will support whatever she wants to do with it. It is, after all, her hair.

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Cook County prosecutors have issued subpoenas to Professor Protess seeking his students’ grades/emails after students innocence project proved that 11 people were wrongly prosecuted by Cook County. Is this action overreaching? What are your thoughts? That sure sounds like, "Don't fix the bad news, shoot the messenger." to me!

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Is calling someone an "inconsiderate douchebag" fitting or redundant? Seems to me that hurling such an insult is exactly what a douchebag might be expected to do, and is extremely inconsiderate. So like so many ad hominem attacks, it probably applies well to the person launching the attack. Whether is aptly describes the person it is aimed it is a separate matter. :)

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What happened to intelligent debate in congress (or whatever group of politicians are called in your country)? You can answer this from whichever country you are from. Ha! They call it sausage making for good reason. The process looks awfully messy. But if you were a member of Congress, you'd find that there are reasons why things are done as they are. Much of what passes for debate is simply public posturing to get votes next election back home, or to cover up the real reasons for supporting or opposing legislation when the truth is special...

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Is there a website that can find a game you like by entering in another game you have? I Googled for one and didn't find any, but that's a terrific idea.

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If you are one of the majority of Americans who want a public health insurance option, have you signed up with CountdownForHealthcare.com to register your support? See LINK: Yes, the question does imply that the majority do want a Public Option, but that implication is grounded in multiple public opinion polls. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902451.html http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/10/new-poll-public-option-up-gop-down.html ...

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Did Humans domesticate dogs, or did dogs domesticate us? I don't think it would be fair to say wolves adopted us and taught us to get along with them. But cats certainly domesticated humans and not the other way around. They basically approached us about 10,000 years ago with a simple proposition. "Let me live in your house and I'll keep it free of rats and mice."

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This article says "every major mass shooting over the past two decades, since anti-depressant drugs became popular, the killer has been on SSRI’s serotonin reuptake inhibitors" Do you think prescription drugs are a significant factor in these actions? It's hard to say. You'd need to do a controlled study with a population of depressed people not on SSRIs versus an equal population on them. The study cited may be showing nothing more than that clinically depressed people are more likely than the general population to act out in murder-suicides. I think the sharp increase in the past 20 years might coincide with the sharp rise in the...

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How do you know for sure that the hot-to-trot young babe who seems like a plum isn't really a dried up old prune? Or the "young stud" who says he is a macho macho man isn't really old enough to be called "Gramps"? Online you don't. You don't even know if the hot-to-trot young babe is even a female. I'm glad I don't care. :)

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Does the "Party of No" stand FOR anything, or do they oppose nearly everything? Is "conservative" just another word for "No"? Of course Republicans have core values. THey favor no taxes for the wealthiest among us, no regulations on business, no limits on corporate profits, no equality for anyone outside their select group... Hey, wait a minute. Maybe they really are the "Party of No!"

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Why do some people with average eduation and IQ claim to know more than scientists in certain fields? Examples: Biological evolution? Age of the earth? Fossil study? Climate change? Fluoride for dental health? Do you know more than the scientists? Excellent question. The awareness scale ranges from unconscious incompetence up to conscious competence. The Luddites among us, the ill-informed who claim to be wiser than ten wise men. That is unconscious incompetents.

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Among the traits that attract us to one another is the degree of curiosity or lack thereof. People who ask lots of questions are attracted to those who do the same. Those who don't question like others who don't question. What do you think? I think you're right. Those who question everything may label those who do not as incurious. The obvious implication of being incurious is being ill informed.

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Where do the 'Free Porn' websites get their revenues to keep their operations running? Anyone sponsoring them? If so what could be their motive? Excellent question, as lots of new users may not know this and may get suckered in. Most of the "free porn" sites have some subterfuge to get you to click on something. It may be to state you are not a minor, or to launch a movie or whatever. What you are really doing is telling your operating system you agree to install spy-ware or ad-ware that then infects your system,...

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AB user, Major Tom, lost his wife Megan to an accident involving a bus, just 8 hours ago. Would you join me in expressing our condolences to him on the loss of his life partner just when he was planning his retirement with her in 2 years time? Major Tom, It is times like this that my gift for words escapes me. I am deeply sorry to hear of your loss and send my sincere condolences. Please know that you have friends to lean on here.

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IF your S/O gets drunk and beat your children, ages 4 & 6, in front of you ... then assults/beat on YOU .. would you stay with them because you "love Them " or What would YOU do? Out of love, I'd be willing to occasionally visit them while they served out their years in prison.

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MY "uplifting" quote for today: "Any good I can do in this world, let me do it NOW! For I shall never pass this way again!" ! Will you please help start the "ripple" that will eventually create a wave of WORLDWIDE goodness by sharing an UPLIFTING quote? Thanks for sharing the great quote. I know there will be a ton inspirational ones, so how about this one to keep us grounded in reality? "It is bad luck to be superstitious." - Andrew W. Mathis.

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Why do so many leading questions (from both sides) about GOD or ATHEISM have so many CAPITALS and MISPELINGS and being not quite gramatically WRITTEN? I think if you ask that question, you probably already know the answer. :)

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What is your favorite Sci Fi movie? I know it's a pretty pedestrain answer, but the Star Wars trilogy worked for me. :)

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A girl under 15 is "married" to a man who then reassigns her to his brother for "marriage" She is pregnant at 16. Is this child abuse/pedophilia the state should prosecute or should these marriages be protected because they are practicing their religion? The state has a legitimate interest in protecting the rights of its citizens. This interest overrides the legitimate right to freedom of religious expression. There have been numerous religions that practiced human sacrifice. Church or not, that's murder. Church or not, forcibly impregnating underage girls is rape and child abuse.

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How many people would it take to change the world? One. Christ. Gautama Buddha. Mahatma Gandhi. Adolph Hitler.

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Major military & veterans groups have joined to try to force one senator,Rep. Tom Coburn of OK to release a hold he placed on a major veterans benefits bill. Nice job of supporting vets right? They serve us and this is how we repay our debt? Coburn has been the senator who has placed holds on several veterans benefits bills because he wanted to divert money from unspent ARRA funds on them. He totally HATES the idea we had a stimulus and is willing to do anything he can to undermine it. After all, letting the free market handle the downturn worked so well for Republicans back in 1929. ...

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Can Hatemongers ever change their spots or once "out of the closet" can they ever go back inside? Governor George Wallace seems to have honestly reformed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace#Change_of_views Of course, then we have guys like Payton <wink>

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It seems to me that all hatemongers, racists, bigots and bullies cannot believe in "the meek shall inherit the earth"! So, when they try to pass themselves off as super duper religious, aren't they just your ordinary average liars/ scammers/ con artists? Absolutely. And if you look at the inexorable march of equality and demise of one after another entrenched bigotry throughout history, you see that the meek really are inheriting the earth. :)

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Okay, here's the ATTIRE: Wide-striped red & white "cigarette" pants (tight fitting); waist-length navy blue lapel jacket; frilly white blouse at neck & down the front and wrists, opened for cleavage to just "peek out"; strappy red sandals? Your thoughts? My dear Uncle Sam's got one HOT mama.

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The Democrats are debating the push to spark job creation instead of pushing a socialized agenda. What's taken them so long? They did include Investment Tax Credits in the stimulus and are pushing hard to spur Green Energy development and the Smart Grid. I agree, though. I'd like to see more. How about forgiving corporate taxes for the first 5 years of all entrepreneurial startups?

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What is the difference between an island and an atoll? An atoll is an island or islands that build up from coral surrounding an eroding volcano.

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Ladies: Would you wear a shoe that promises to improve your posterior? Frankly Scarlet, the only show that's likely to improve someone's posterior is one that somebody else applies to it with a swift kick in the rear. :)

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You don't give up easily do you? Now let's see... Great question, NUNYA, but I give up. I just don't know how to answer it. :)

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Could you please name 2 persons who were really outstanding personalities of your country, in your opinion, during the 20th Century? (See my answer in the link below) I would say Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King were outstanding citizens of the USA.

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Is it normal for a cat to throw up several times a week? Spoony certainly doesn't and she has very long hair. If your cat has long hair and is throwing up hairballs, try Science Diet's Hairball Control food. If that doesn't seem to help, I'd get the cat to the vet.

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Low Cholesterol May Help Prevent Cancer -- US News & World Reports. Low Cholesterol May Be Sign of Undiagnosed Cancer -- ABC. So dammed if you do and dammed if you don't? See Mobius to 2 LINKS: The links are: Low Cholesterol May Help Prevent Cancer http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/11/03/low-cholesterol-may-help-prevent-cancer.html Low Cholesterol May Be Sign of Undiagnosed Cancer http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=8987082

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SERIOUS QUERY: If, starting today, EVERY CHILD IN THE WORLD was raised watching ONLY good, healthy, wholesome tv shows and movies that were ONLY rated "family", in 20yrs. do you think our WORLD, in its entirety, would be MARKEDLY improved and evil GONE? I suspect it would be a better world, but only by a bit. TV programming isn't likely to eliminate human greed no matter how uplifting the programming might be.

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I've noticed many micro brewed beers labeled as 'Imperial'. What makes a beer Imperial? Imperial Beer is a brand name from Costa Rica. Perhaps some micro breweries are trying to capitalize on its name.

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I can understand anal sex between homosexuals. But what "pleasure" does either partner get in heterosexual anal intercourse? Is it more intense than in vaginal intercourse? If you accept that the receptive partner in a male/male encounter receives pleasure from the act, why is it a mystery that a female might also receive such pleasure. In that area our anatomy is fairly similar. Men do have a sensitive prostate, but the pressure and friction can also translate through the narrow wall to a woman's vagina and G-spot.

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There are five reasons why we should drink,what are they? Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust; Don't drink water, It'll make you rust.

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Even God cannot.......? If God can do anything, can he build a mountain so high that he can't climb it?

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The Bible says that a man should not lay with another man but does it say a woman shouldn't lay with another woman? Or, does even God Himself like lesbian sex? Ha! Thanks for a good laugh. Maybe that's what the men of that day thought when assigning thoughts to God.

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Would you be totally embarrassed if you were on this website? See link. I'm NOT going to tell you which page I'm on!!!

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Is there an exception to the statement that "Everything has an exception"? If there is, then it reinforces the statement, doesn't it. Cute brain teaser.

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What could be the greatest discovery that would never win a Nobel? None of the greatest discoveries will win a Nobel. We don't even know who gave them to us. The wheel, the wedge, the lever, the pulley, harnessing fire... Every modern invention stands on the back of these advances.

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Survey/opinion question = On AB (or elsewhere on the net), when you wanna accentuate a word or short phrase, which is correct? = 1) *accentuate*, or 2) ACCENTUATE? Thx in advance. ;-) It's a matter of style. I think of the single quotes as marking a word as dubious, as in "KKK rallies for 'family values'." The double quotes add some emphasis. All caps (so long as it's just a word or two) add more. Whole sentences in caps used to indicate screaming, but now generally point to a doofus who doesn't know how to release the caps lock. :)

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A rape victim in Baton Rouge asks David Vitter why he supported big corporations over sexual assault victims (see link) What do you think about his conduct in the video and his vote? His actions speak loudly about his real attitude toward women.

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Do you believe that white people are the only people capable of racism? Why or why not? Clearly not. In the atlanta mayoral race, a White woman was leading for the first time in decades. They were interviewing Atlantans about their reaction, and most of the Black voters said that race wasn't of any import to them, they cared who could do the best job for the city. But several said that they felt that since the majority of the voters in the city are black, they should elect a...

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In the UNITED STATES, why would someone spend MILLIONS to run for an office that only pays about $75,000.00 a YEAR (or thereabouts)? The high price put on ego gratification?

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Do you agree that a "coiffed" beard on a man makes him look. . . . . . . .erm. . . . . . . .DISTINGUISHED? I keep a full beard except for where it would grow down my neck if I let it. I keep it all close trimmed. Not sure if that qualifies as 'coiffed' or not. But now that it's gone mostly white, I like the look. YMMV. :)

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Many people are saying that Barack Obama is single-handedly leading the USA into socialism. If he can do this what is the point in electing senators and representatives to look after the interests of the people? People who say that are either using polemic political propaganda to damage their opposition or are grossly misinformed about what the word 'socialism' actually means. Socialism is defined in the dictionary as a system where the government owns the means of production of goods and distribution of wealth; i.e., all industry and banking belongs to the government. No single US...

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Are you voting for, against or undecided concerning Obama's policies in today's elections. The only thing on yesterday's ballot here in Boston was the mayoral race and city council seats. I could see no relation between President Obama's policies and any of those candidates. I voted based solely on who I thought would do the best job governing Boston and resolving its local issues.

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First ________. What word (s) can you use to fill in the blank? "Do no harm." That seems like a fill-in-the-blank that's harmless. :)

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Last night I had a dream! There was a DANDIE DINMONT terrier. Whenever it was on the ground it was the terrier. But when I picked it up, it turned into a human baby that could TALK! Now. . . . .what's up with THAT? That's a strange one, alright. Do you have a pet? Do you want your pet to be able to talk to you in human terms? What did it say? If you don't mind, take a look at this weird dream I had. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1783506

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How impressed are you by those people who start off a response to your question/answer by correcting you? Depends on whether they are right or not. I am very impressed and grateful when someone catches me in error and points out what I have missed.

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Have the Republicans ever presented a Health Care bill yet? John Boehner (R-Ohio) said they would have one by the end of this week. Find that hard to understand that they can oppose the Democrat's bill, but not have one themselves! The Party of NO! certainly earned that name. File Boehner's statement under "What took you so long?"

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Would a really big "crisis" cause us to realize how good our lives are and how silly we are to let the "small stuff" bother us? When one faces a life-or-death situation, all pettiness disappears. Why does it take a crisis? Great question. I have been listening to our con-men friends here claiming that we are currently in a Great Depression -- and of course it's all Obama's fault, even though the collapse happened on George Bush's watch. I am staggered by anyone ideologically blinded enough to claim that 9.8% unemployment plus Unemployment Insurance is exactly the same as 25% unemployment and no...

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Are you voting today? Who are you voting for? Why? (Nov. 3, 2009) Yes. I will cast a vote against Boston's Mayor Menino even though I am sure he will win. I want him to know some of the citizens are watching the corruption in contract awards and land deals, and not happy with the level of tolerance for union featherbedding.

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Rep. Joe "you lie" Wilson (R-SC) says President Obama has endangered American lives by not doing more to alleviate the nation's short supply of H1N1 vaccine. Did you know Wilson voted against funding vaccine funding? The perfect member for the Party of NO!

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Congress just passed $680B for the military, and that doesn't include the wars. You might not have heard that on the news, since they are too busy asking if universal health care is too expensive at $90B per year. Thoughts? That does help put things in perspective. Thanks.

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What is human nature? Aircraft carriers demonstrate the best in human nature. Seeing an airport with mile-long runways, someone thought, "I can condense all that onto the deck of a ship."

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Rev. Tetherow is a pro-life protester and also a pedophile (possessing child porn) who says his past is being brought up in an attempt to silence his anti-abortion ministry. Should this guy win the hypocrite of the year award? How can he judge others? According to the article, this priest is yelling insults at people entering the clinis. He was found guilty of 10 counts of possessing child porn just 4 1/2 years ago. Yes, that sounds like a high level of hypocrisy to me.

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Assuming levels are infinite on AB, at what LEVEL do you anticipate giving up on AB? Or is your energy-level for it indefatigable? I'm in it for the fun of participating, not the levels. It didn't take long for me to realize that even if I pressed on to level gazillion, I'd still need to kick in a buck to buy a cup of coffee with it.

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I never knew there would be consequences to mankind's insatiable thirst for _______ Truthiness.

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What would be a useful design improvement for the human body? The only one I've ever dreamed of can't be discussed outside the Adult area. :p

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Are you old enough to have worked with a one-piece computer workstation which had the keyboard part jutting out of the front of the CRT screen that showed 24 lines of 80 columns of green characters on a black background? Then, rock on! My first computer ran CPM (before the days of DOS) and had a 12 inch single-sided floppy. That was state of the art. My first programming was on IBM punch cards, so I though the floppy was a stunning leap forward. :)

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What do you think is at the center of the Earth? The inner core is superheated solid iron/nickle with a density almost twice that of surface materials. It's surrounded by an outer core of molten iron and nickle plus traces of other heavy elements. Makes the effort of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" seem like a rather silly enterprise.

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As of November 2, 2009, is anyone ELSE experiencing long delays in POSTING ANSWERS? Oh bother. I haven't hit that yet, but every SINGLE time I read about some other ABer running into a new glitch, it immediately seems to attach itself to me too. Lord knows when this answer might actually show up. :)

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Does anyone else still laugh at the Van De Kamp's ad for fish sticks? I laugh so hard I cry no matter how many times I see it. I'm glad it works for you. I manage a smile. But the point is well taken. The fish does smell and taste fresh, just heavily factory processed.

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If you're old enough to remember the '50s and '60s music, how do you like TODAY'S music in COMPARISON? Do you find TODAY'S music sorely lacking or appreciative, but on a different level? I can enjoy the poetic genius behind rap and hip-hop, but find it mostly uninspiring in melody and often too full of violence and aggression.

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Are we really what we eat? Ha! I've been called a pu**y and an a** so maybe so. But then, I also eat jelly doughnuts, and so far nobody has taken me to be one.

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What is the world's biggest airline (in terms of revenue, # of flights, # of planes owned, etc.)? There is no single right answer. You might decide to measure by number of passengers carried, revenue, number of planes owned or number of miles flown per year. In each case, you would get a different answer. Southwest Airlines tops the charts in number of passengers carried.

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A sorta' interesting concept = 'anhedonia'. Ever had a passing acquaintence? ;-) I'll have to wait till a pleasurable experience comes along and let you know then. :)

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Does this look like a smart dog to you? Ha! Too cute. Thanks for the chuckle.

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OMG!!! Would you consider this guy the world's luckiest man? Luckiest no. Back when they were handing out brains, he thought they said trains and he wasn't ready to go anywhere.

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Looking at Stephen Jay Gould's quote below (see my ANSWER), is that what the creationist fail to understand about science? "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. - Stephen Jay Gould It seems that hose who argue for magical solutions from the sky or against firm science fail to comprehend...

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Qian Xuesen dies at 98; rocket scientist helped establish Jet Propulsion ... He was the star in my dream this morning before I awoke to see the headline. What do you think that might mean? See my ANSWER for DETAILS. The really odd thing about this dream is that as far as I know, I didn't even know who Qian Xuesen was till reading his obituary this morning. I would have ignored it, except that the picture posted with it was the man I had seen in the just-before-waking dream. My wife was already up, and had the TV on in the living room. Could it be I overheard the news program she was watching, and...

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Clemente of FOX says about his network"It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming," Is it nice to see FOX admit that they air opinion and not news? Thoughts? Maybe it's time for them to rethink the "Fair and balanced" slogan.

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What is your opinion of male feminists? (See link to see what inspired this question). What a hate-filled piece of drivel. I am a male feminist because I am a male who happens to believe deeply in equality, not because I hate my own gender. I despise racial bigotry as well, but certainly not because I hate my own race. Ditto for homophobia. I'm a long-married heterosexual, but believe people don't have to be exactly like me in order to be accorded the benefits and...

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If you had unlimited resources, how would you live? I would have a modest bungalow overlooking the ocean. I have many other priorities where I would rather focus resources.

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How long do you think it will take me to reach Sage? I don't know. I'm just a lowly guru, who comments on things that have already happened. You'll need to lay off the points till I reach Prophet then I will get back to you on this.

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"To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture." - Anatole France. How many spendthrifts does that leave us with? Oops! Meant as a comment.

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What are some of the reasons for users deciding to unsubscribe from a comment thread? I don't drop out of many, but here are a few things that will cause me to drop from the thread. If a debate turns ugly and it becomes obvious that it is impossible to come to any meaningful agreement, that it is just going to continue on and on with escalating personal insults, I'll agree to disagree and leave. If a discussion veers off from the original topic into a rambling...

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What is the Global Warming Denial Industry? (I give my own answer) Excellent writeup, iwnit. Thanks so much for taking the time to share it. Science disinformation is a big, lucrative and Orwellian industry today. One single Republican operative is behind a whole series of phony grassroots organizations promoting the ideas such as: A -- Cholesterol is good for you B -- Bisphenol A in plastic food containers is harmless C -- Mercury in fish is no threat to...

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It seems to me that many of the "causes" involve destroying something rather than creating something. What happens to a person who is constantly involved in tearing down rather than building up? Like Sampson, they eventually pull the house down on their own head.

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Do you think that Tony Blair would be a good first president of The European Federation? I never thought he would, and it looks as if a growing number of EU citizens are coming to the same conclusion. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26282851-2703,00.html

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When you have a low moderation %, what causes that? Brian I has it right. But one thing that can wrongly drag your percentage down is flagging spam. The admins often nuke the spammer's account, and although that is actually sustaining your flag, it never gets recorded as such.

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The world is now topsy-turvy. Everything is the exact opposite. Blacks are whites, religious folks are atheists, the rich are poor and your former friends no longer speak to you while those whom you avoided in the past love you. Could you adapt to that? Let me take on the poor being rich part first. I'll get back to you on the rest of it. :)

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What do you prefer out of this 2 options and why? (1) God help them who help themself. (i,e. complete self dependence) (2) God help them who does not help themself. (i,e. complete self surrender ) Humm. Puzzling question. Don't the same people preach that "God helps those who help themselves. " and "Let go and let God."?

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Gorillas and polar bears gorge on gourds at Illinois zoo. Isn't it fun to watch them enjoy Halloween? See VIDEO in LINK: Oops, here's the link: http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/vid/16363442

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Now New York has declared a State of Emergency due to Swine Flu. Hmmm...boy those left-leaning liberals who concocted this whole thing are really effective, aren't they? Soon they will rule the world with this power, won't they? What a loony-tunes world we live in today, Rosie. Seems everything that happens inspires some ridiculous new conspiracy theory as an explanation. Isn't it strange how the rabid right claims liberals can't do anything right and yet they are about to take over the whole world?

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If you've ever know anyone who has a buttload of money, do they have their feet on the ground fairly well, or are they overly money-oriented and keep buying a lot of stuff they don't need? My best friend started a business and eventually sold it for $35 million. He doesn't live a miserly life, but he definitely has his feet on the ground and invests carefully to preserve his fortune.

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Are you case-sensitive? OnLY IN ceRtaIN casES!

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How often do you have sex with a younger person? (2009-10-29) Well, I'm not going to give you a count, but since my wife is younger than me the answer darned well better be, "Every time." And it is!

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Everyone seems to be talkin about gay marriages... How do you feel about marriage between siblings? The two issues are completely unrelated. Marriage between close relatives is prohibited because of the known problem with concentration of genetic defects in closely related DNA. Marriage between two gays is prohibited due to the bigotry of those who don't share the same sexual object of desire. Conflating the two is a favorite strategy of bigots trying to make a false case against...

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How do you deal with the pain of life when it becomes too much to handle? Heroin looked like a great method of self medication till I heard about the pain of withdrawal. Seems every known form of self medication outside "The maintenance of a positive attitude through the assumption of a negative result" suffers from the same defect. :)

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If we all made or ordered our sushi without tuna, then we might be able to save the over-fished bluefin from going extinct. Your thoughts? I've managed to convince my cat that Albacore is a better choice. My little contribution to the return of the bluefin.

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Why do democrat hate their country so much? I'm referring to posted link. Those who wish to correct a wrong their contry is engaged in are actually the ones who do love their country, not the ones who hate it. Those who insist their country is right no matter what are the people who facilitate every evil governments around the world have ever committed.

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Why is it that brave men & women in the military are willing to risk their life for their country and members of congress wont risk losing an election (or election funding) for their country by doing the right thing? In all fairness to Congress, some there have actually voted their conscience at great personal risk and some of those have suffered the consequences. But they are, as your question suggests, the exception that proves the rule. Sad commentary on human nature, I guess. Power corrupts.

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When you answer their questions in your usual way, some users never give you points, and you suspect that they make those DRs that you get. Would you: 1. avoid their questions? 2. answer their questions differently? 3. ignore DRs? 4. do something else? Great question. I turned off the display of ratings. I ignore them. I'm here for the information exchange, not the points.

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What time is right for you? Old Japanese saying: "There's no time like the pleasant."

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Boeing has decided to pick Charleston SC for its new assembly line, which is a big blow to the Seattle area. Many people are blaming the union in Seattle for this. What do you think? I think we can be absolutely certain that the relative cost of labor in the two locations was a major factor in the decision. It's just a reality of the playing field that unions have to deal with now that there are right-to-work states. Unions served a very valuable purpose at one time in the development of the USA. I wonder how they can adapt to continue a role in contributing to...

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Can an athiest be held up for Blasphemy ?what legal stand has religious authority? That depends on the laws within the jurisdiction where the atheist allegedly blasphemes. In my country (USA) there are no legal penalties for blasphemy. But in many nations that do have such laws on their books, there is no distinction made between a believer or an atheist doing the blaspheming.

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How do Historians make money? Write books. Teach history. It's not likely to be a path to great wealth. At least my study of historians throughout history suggests it's not. :)

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Is your home decor more modern or traditional? Kind of a mix of Modernal and Traditern. We call it American Thrift Store.

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Why are questions about a political party's position on gang rape and medical care being censored by AB? If a group of users decide to routinely flag you, you'll have nearly every question rejected. Staff doesn't seem to take the time to read questions and see if they deserve removal. They get a certain number of flags and just yank the question. You have to use feedback to get it restored. If you are certain it's a cabal of political motivation, turnabout is said to be fair...

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Will the h1n1 (swine) flu lead to a fitter, more evolved America? It just might eliminate more of our flat earthers than those who believe in the scientific method. Could be social Darwinism at work cleaning the gene pool.

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If you were a dictator would you be benign or angry/manipulative/controlling? Ha! I'd do whatever I felt like any given day. What's the point of being absolute ruler if you can't decide what to do? :)

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Aside from US currency, in what other currencies is the paper money all the same color or color scheme? I've never seen it anywhere else. Most paper currencies seem to vary color, design and even size to make differentiating denominations of bills easier.

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I've noticed when I swallow on an empty stomach it sometimes badly upsets my digestion (diarrhea) Does this happen to anyone else? It's fairly embarrassing to have to dash to the bathroom afterward. That sounds like a real bummer. Nope. Never experienced such.

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"End of Days" has been predicted as either 2012 or 2060...take your pick. Do you think it will happen in your lifetime or long after you are dead or never? Is that an extreme right-wing conspiracy promoted for the purpose of scaring us? It's been predicted every few years now since the dawn of time. It will come, but I believe what the Bible says about the timing. "But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven." Matthew 24:36.

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If Obama is not a capitalist, which he's proven that he's not, then what is he? Your premise is false. Obama is clearly a capitalist. He is reasonably well off and his fortune was made through the capitalist system.

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Is there a line, or thought pattern in others that sends up waning signals in your mind as soon as it's spoken? Can you give me an example? One is sweeping generalizations about everyone in a race, religion, or ethnic group. The bigotry alarms go off when I hear any mention of that.

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What could a jingle with a jiggle be? "Serena Kozakura, more bounce to the ounce." http://www.hollywoodgrind.com/serena-kozakura-wins-big-breast-law-suit/

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Sometimes I feel like a Misfit. If there were a "Haven for Misfits" and you sometimes feel like one, would you investigate it just to see if you might meet others just like you or would you avoid it? Strange, that if there were a "Haven for Misfits" I am certain I would fit right in. :)

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Does anyone know if there are many more dogs as pets than there are cats? The coupons for dog food are always plentiful and those for cat food are few and far between. Also...are the needs of dogs and cats nutritionwise totally different or similar? I thought dogs would be tops, but according to the American Veterinary Medicine Association's website, "There are more than 72 million pet dogs in the U.S. and nearly 82 million pet cats." http://www.avma.org/reference/marketstats/sourcebook.asp Dogs and cats both need lots of protein in their diet, but unlike cats, dogs can survive on a carefully crafted diet of vegetable...

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Are we in for a global economic crash? Not likely. We came oh-so-close in the banking crisis to the same set of stupid mistakes that touched off the world-wide banking collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression. But our banks have been stabilized for now, and the rest of the world is beginning to recover from our most recent episode. We sneeze and the world gets a cold. However, the endemic risks added to the economy by years of...

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At what point is it illegal for a channel to call itself news? So long as they aren't under oath, Fox has no obligation to concenn themselves with truth or falsehood, and is quite within their 1st Amendment rights to deliberately distort or even lie for propaganda purposes. They have gone to court to defend their right to lie, and won. http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

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THE TEABAGGERS: Paul Krugman at The New York Times called the drooling morons who attend the so-called tea parties "teabaggers." I wonder if some editor in the ivory tower had no idea what teabagging is? The Times usually has no balls (no pun intended). I am pretty sure the editors of the New York Times are sophisticated enough to know full well what the name implies. But after all, the group themselves first used the term Tea Bagging for what they were doing. Calling them a name they assigned to themselves seems fair play to me.

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How do you cure being a douche-bag? (I give also my own answer) Well, I have never met a real douche or enema bag nearly as irritating ass the humans who are given that name. Maybe flushing with lots of fluids would help wash away the rotten personality.

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Why do people say things like PIN number, ATM machine and GPS system? Isn't that a redundancy? Sure is. Could it be the first step in machines replacing people. We're demonstrating our redundancy. :)

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Is it possible to train a cat to use the toilet? I don't think ocelots can legally be kept as pets anymore, but they do easily adapt to using a toilet. In the wild, they climb a tree overhanging a stream or river to do #2. So toilets are pretty much second nature to them. http://www.cathouse-fcc.org/peaches.html

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What do we need more? Biofuels or Food Grains? Is it wise to shift land usage from food crops and pastures to grow crops devoted to make biofuels? I remain unconvinced that growing biofuels is a net reducer of CO2 emissions. The biofuels produced still become CO2 when burned, and it takes considerable energy to produce them. I am guessing that breakthroughs in developing hydrocarbon-production algae may make the equation a better option in the near future. As of today, I think truth told, we have no real silver bullet other than...

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Exodus 34:11/14 - God tells Moses to drive out everyone living in Canaan, to destroy their altars and groves, and not to make friends with anyone he meets there, or on the way there. Not exactly a mandate the United Nations would approve. Your thoughts? I think that's the way war should always be fought. If it isn't important enough for that level of effort, sit down and forge a peace treaty with them instead. If we went by that rule, we would have a lot less war.

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How do we distribute poverty equitably? You have to be careful whenever approaching redistribution of wealth that you avoid two huge pitfalls. You do not want to give the lazy a free pass to do nothing at the expense of others. Give them any indication that they can, and they will. Likewise, you do not want to give the industrious the impression that there is no point in hard work, because the fruits of their labor will be taken from...

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If there were NO urgency, would you use a public Ladies or Gents cloakroom if the cubicles had no doors? When I was in the Navy, if you couldn't do that, you would have soon been fill of **it! :)

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Do gay men find "she-males" sexually attractive, or do they find them too "womanly"? What about straight men? I do not intend any offence or insult by the term "she-male". A few among both groups do, and many do not. Note that she-males are a different classification from the transgendered.

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Is the gander good for the goose? Believe me, if you ever get goosed by a big gander, you will know. Those guys can HURT!

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Do you think Obama and his policies are unpopular because of his race? Excellent question. I think the policies Obama is pursuing would spark howls of protests from the far right no matter what his race. That said, the far right harbors a great deal of opposition to racial equality. They are the champions of "Ending reverse racism." even though statistics show that in every major measure of equality, whites are still FAR ahead of other races in the...

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I would like to propose a corollary to Godwin's Law: "As an AnswerBag discussion grows longer, the probability of a reference to killing babies approaches 1." Thoughts? That does come up. But the original Godwin's Law seems to be a a stronger probability, so I think we'd need a probability approaching something just under one for this corollary. :)

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The more chauvinistic and insular we are the less useful we are to the world. What do you think? That would certainly make sense. It is difficult to be useful in venues one is totally unable to understand.

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Do most women keep getting tighter as they orgasm? I do and the sex just gets better and better. I don't begin to have enough experience to say, but it seems to me that a constriction of the muscles in the pelvic floor is common to orgasm in both men and women, so I would guess the answer is yes. What little experience I have (far from testing the entire population) suggests this is true.

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Do you enjoy metaphors or do you prefer "straighttalk"? I think metaphors are more fun than a barrel of monikers.

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Which is harder for you to be around...someone who has periodic hissy fits but gets over it right away or someone who seems to have a deep and abiding dislike and continues to harp about it, frolic in it and indulge him/herself in it constantly? Give me the occasional storm followed by bright sunny days. Much more tolerable than everyday gloom.

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Is it just me or are the hundreds of 'moderation police' getting even more obsessive and picayune? [Will this question itself also be "rejected - nonsense"?] You've got to understand that to some minds, just about everything appears to be nonsense. If you think they are wrong, submit feedback and protest the removal. In my experience, legitimate arguments against nonsense flagging are almost always sustained by staff.

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Have you ever heard the expression, "A bath at birth and a bath at death will get you through the pearly gates."? When I lived in England in the 60s, I worked for a guy who did not believe in bathing EVER. His body oder was so overwhelming it was all I could do to keep from vomiting when he even came into the same room with me. So I don't have much faith in St. Peter being fooled by a last-minute bath.

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Fortune cookies or horoscopes? Fortune cookies. Horoscopes taste terrible.

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If people are so concerned about the importance of marriage (anti gay marriage/Prop8) why is there not an equally committed (and well-funded) push to overturn the divorce laws? Straight people do the marriage thing well right? haha Good question. Clearly what's at work here is more "We're the majority, so deal with it." than concern about the sanctity of marriage.

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Global events mark magic number on climate change. Do you support the 350 PPM target? See LINK: Oops. The Link is http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jH3lrToq0EzchJIbXXLNKGJngWWwD9BHSA884

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Do you agree that the religious are morally superior and the atheists are intellectually superior? I have no opinion on that, btw Well, let's see now. Since I've been around, there was Aimee Semple McPherson, Lonnie Frisbee, Billy James Hargis, Jim & Tammy Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Peter Popoff, Mike Warnke, Robert Tilton, John Paulk, Paul Crouch, Douglas Goodman, Kent Hovind, Ted Haggard, Paul Barnes, Lonnie Latham, Richard Roberts, Bishop Earl Paulk, Coy Privette, Joe Barron, Todd Bentley and Tony Alamo all...

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What is an example of an "empire"? Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. :)

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Where do files go once they have been deleted from a USB? They go to USB purgatory to await Judgment Day, that terrific and terrible day when the Great Gates discriminates between the quick and the dead.

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Is there a secret to happiness? I am happy to say YES, there is a secret to happiness!!! :)

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Should big city mayors be restricted to the amount they fund their own campaign when running for re-election?( Rivals that could be more qualified would would not be able to properly compete because they do not have enough funding) I would like to see all political campaigns publicly funded and all money out of the equation. But the Supreme Court has held that bribery (oops, political contributions from special interests) is free speech, even though it staggers the average person the amount of money you need to buy FREE speech today. Until that changes, we will continue to suffer with the best leadership money can buy.

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What would your reaction be to a national or worldwide Hug-a-Bitch day? Too hard to track down Ann Coulter. :)

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When I find an AB member who uses the same words as I do...who asks the questions I would ask or gives answers that I would give, it forms an instant bond for me. Do you feel the same way? Have you experienced the same thing? Definitely. I would guess it's just human nature to feel like that. But then, not being anyone else, I can only speculate that's so.

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LOL or LMAO Ha! Neither.

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Whats your beef? My big beef is stroganoff!

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Cn yuo raed tihs? Ha! I actually had to read it twice before I realized what was wrong with this picture. Well done.

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Are you easy to piss off? Of course not, you infuriating maniac!!! WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT!!! Some people... :)

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It's harder to do the work and very easy to take potshots at those who do the work. Which are you? The worker or the one who attacks the worker? I agree with Dale Carnegie, "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."

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We're afraid of everything aren't we? Other countries, our own government, one another. Anything/anyone we don't fear? Apparently the New Republicans are afraid of just about everything EXCEPT fear itself. They sure peddle fear at every opportunity.

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Was Phyllis Shafly the original Stepford Wife? Ha! Good way of putting it.

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How will you remember the late comedian, SOUPY SALES? (He passed away yesterday, at 83.) And who will be the NEXT one to "go?") I had rice soup for breakfast this morning in honor of the great Soupy Sales. May he ascend to a heaven where throwing cream pies is required. :)

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Where is the logic in paying bonuses for "top talent" when the so called top talent has run the business in the red? Well, let's see. Get too big to fail. Then deliberately fail and get $350 billion from taxpayers. What's not to love?

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Are you Brawny, Brainy, Both or None of the Above? Both. My brainy side doesn't want to live in a beat-down body. :)

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When you kneel, do you ever hear "crunching" in your knees? What causes it? You should hear all the pops and crackles from my neck when I roll my head around on it. :)

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After seeing the attached/embedded video, do you STILL wish to try Parasailing? (I know this might be in the wrong category, but there isn't one for Parasailing. I checked.) Ha! Get the boat fueled up. I want to go para-sailing with Sarah Palin!

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Would you agree that some women's minor-league extended abdomens (a "pooch") can be incredibly sexy? ;-) Yes, a little softness in a woman is, in my eyes, a very good thing. I'm not into the little boy liik that fashion designers seem so smitten by. :)

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WHat is your favorite acronym? As a certified nerd (web developer) mine are computer terms. DOS: Defunct Operating System IBM: I Blame Microsoft WWW: World Wide Wait BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control and of course, my all-time favorite, PnP: Plug 'n' Pray

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Utah government has implemented a 4 day work week saving that state $4 million the first year,will the other states follow suit and also save money? Let's do a reduction ad-absurdum analysis of that strategy to economic recovery. Think how much we could save if we implemented a nationwide zero-day work week for the public and private sectors. Boy, we'd be riding so high. Anybody ready to join my campaign for the zero-day work week?

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New x-ray machines being trialled at some airports can see your naked body through your clothes. Will that bother you? No. It will make me consider a career change, though. How much do airport screeners earn? :)

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What kind of dinosaur did Jesus ride into battle against the Romans? That would be the Thesaurus. Jesus' weapon against the Romans was the words from his mouth.

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How do I tell my girlfriend I want to have sex with her and a nubile young Thai hooker? Looking to be single again, are you? :)

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What wouldn't you touch with a 10 foot pole? A polar bear!

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Utah (R) senator Orrin Hatch sent a 10 page letter to Obama urging anti-trust investigation of? The friggin'BCS! Hatch said the BCS arrangement likely violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. Doesn't the senator have more important issues at hand? Thoughts? Perhaps we should do what Orin Hatch really wants, and rule that only universities in states beginning with the letter U be allowed to win the BCS. :)

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Why are scientists hiding planet x aka Nibiru from us , something like that should be top news . Or will they tell us after the rapture? Lets just assume for a moment that the psuedo-science crowd's dream planet is a reality and that it will indeed collide with our solar system and end mankind as we know it in 2012. What possible good would it do to tell everyone that? We have far too many loose canons among the populace. There would be silly mass pandemonium leading to millions of deaths even if no real planet ever did...

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Every 'Ann' I have ever met has been a plonker. Do you know a group of people with the same name who has similar characteristics? Not sure which meaning of plonker you are using. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonker

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Does anyone else think that "Don't Ask; Don't Tell" is a peculiar policy to place on a military governed by a code of honor? I think it was a sad mistake and should be overturned. Gays serve openly in the military of all of our major allies. It is a sad commentary on our own bigotry if we are so fearful of any otherness that allowing them to serve openly here would harm military discipline or readiness.

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Do you enjoy whimsy or do you think it is the same thing as nonsense? A question that often arises on AB when dullards flag a perfectly hilarious piece of whimsy as being 'Nonsense'. I for one love whimsy. It's the oil that keeps life sliding over the rough spots. I submit feedback when I see such whimsical questions removed as Nonsense.

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In Kalamazoo, Michigan, is the place where all the animals are exhibited, known as the "KALAMAZOO ZOO?" I just checked with a friend that lives there. He said, "That's what I calla my zoo." :)

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Athiests: Who, what or where do you choose to place your faith? Interesting question. I am not an atheist. I'm agnostic. But I'll take a stab since that leaves me not placing my faith in a Creator, Gods or Intelligent Designer. I believe in the scientific method. I believe in the laws and forces that govern the Universe, although I recognize that both will likely pass away.

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Who is a true Racist or bigot in your opinion? One who is offensive to a race of people or to a country full of people belonging to different races? Racism is definitely directed at a race, not a country. Bigotry can apply to xenophobia and jingoism though.

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Would you want the Answerbag to be reserved for people of High IQ alone, leaving out people of ordinary intelligence like you and me? Definitely not! I would feel so lonely here all by myself. :)

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How does a book make it to the NY or Washington Times best seller list? By selling in large numbers. But the list is routinely gamed. There are several very well funded Conservative political organizations that buy tens or hundreds of thousands of copies of every major Conservative book and give them away to members. That skyrockets certain books straight to the top of the best sellers list.

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What percent of people on the planet are the rich and wealthy, or highest income class? If the planet is too hard a number to find then how about in North America and Europe? (no offense to other countries lol) What constitutes being rich is a matter of personal opinion. I can give you this statistic, though. In 2007 before the financial crisis, the disparity of wealth distribution in the USA once again reached the peak it hit back in 1929, with the top 1% of Americans owning 50% of everything and the other 99% of us divvying up the rest. Interesting that both times we have let wealth distribution...

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Since pet ownership is a privilege and not a "right", why not legally require all pet owners to be bonded (or purchase insurance) in order to encourage them to take financial and moral responsibility for their pets? As much as I love animals and hate to see them mistreated, I think you have the workings of the Constitution backwards. The Constitution enumerates certain things that the government has a legitimate interest in controlling. All things not so enumerated are reserved to the States or the people thereof. So our Rights include everything we aren't legally prohibited from doing.

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If the arctic ice cap melted, how would that make the oceans rise? It is going to be gone in the summers within the next 20 years, and that won't make the sea levels rise. It will probably spell the end of wild polar bears and other arctic life, though. ANd that in turn may doom the lifestyle of the native population. Melting of land-based glaciers is what's making ocean levels rise.

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So many questions about Obama and Bush. Do Americans really believe that the President is anything but a front man? Politics is all about reaching consensus and compromise to do so. Ignorant people, or those who just don't bother to think things through may yammer for a strongman to take control and make wverything just hunky dory, but in reality, the Hitlers of the world seldom do just what we might want them to do. The President of the USA has a good deal of power, but is not a Caesar, and I...

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How is it possible to contact Answerbag? The people at answerbag do not answer Feedback. How is it possible to get in touch with them? I am sick of intolerance in this room!!!! -29 in 15 hours! This is ridiculous!!!! Well, here's +5, but I love cats and Spoony the Cat loves me -- a LOT. :)

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Why do I need to edit the question and submit the reference URL again before Answerbag displays the refers to link? Just a guess. There is a 5 minute timer that allows editing of a question for a brief time after it's submitted. I assume this is meant to prevent hoaxes where someone asks a benign question, gets a bunch of people to agree, then edits the question to make it seem they were agreeing with something utterly outrageous. The link display seems to be tied to that 5-minute timer. I think it...

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If health insurance is working, why is the infant mortality rate in the U.S.A. higher than 28 other countries, including Cuba? When rated strictly on healthcare outcomes, life expectancy, deaths due to preventable causes, infant mortality, deaths in childbirth, etc. the USA is #37 in the world, sandwiched between Costa Rica and Slovenia. http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html We are only number one in COST! We spend half again as much as the top nation on the list. And there you have the reason our nation...

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Is Truth always smack dab in the middle of two extremes? Does each extreme distort, exaggerate and skew? No. Truth just is. It exists independent of what people think. When all mankind believed firmly that the earth was flat, it wasn't any less a globe than it is today. I think one of the big problems with politics is that spin masters often come to believe that enough spin will actually control reality. Spin can influence what people believe, but not what really is.

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My fiance wanted me to bring this up to you ABers. He said that looking at a woman nude, even if he is not all that attracted will cause a man to get hard. True or not and why? We're pretty much 'hard' wired to respond to any display of attractive female flesh. Not so for decidedly unattractive, or repulsive though.

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Do you think changes are needed to international laws of war? If so, what changes would you recommend and why? I'm not sure it would do much good. When a nation is willing to break the laws of 'civilized' war, how do you go about arresting them?

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Reagan meets with the Taliban 1985 and says, "These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers." What are your thoughts on this? How long till we learn that the old saw, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." is getting awfully rusty.

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Young men who voted for John McCain or Robert Barr in the '08 election suffered an immediate drop in testosterone when the election results were announced while those who voted for Obama maintained stable levels. Any thoughts? I heard that, and my immediate reaction was, "The Bob Barr guys didn't know?!!"

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Why we have secrets? I'm sorry, but the information you are seeking is classified. )

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Open Office is almost ready to release its newest version ... will you be getting and using it for FREE? ... see link ... I have Micro$oft Office 2003, but downloaded a copy of OpenOffice to handle conversion to more recent formats rather than pay to keep 'upgrading' Office.

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How vivid is your imagination, examples are welcome? Gosh. I just can't imagine how to answer this question. :)

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What are your thoughts on the term "reverse racism"? Reverse Racism is the pejorative term attached to Affirmative Action, the attempt to right the racial wrongs of slavery and decades of subsequent Jim Crow laws and inequity. Affirmative Action was needed to right those wrongs. If you create an impoverished, poorly-educated underclass they will not pull themselves up by the bootstraps, because you made sure they were barefoot. However,...

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Visible Technologies announces strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel that would provide technology to monitor social networking, blogging and other sites like AB to support the mission of the CIA and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community. Thoughts please? If the intelligence community doesn't monitor social networking sites and watch for telltale activity they aren't doing their job. People have the right to free speech, but we have an equal right to freedom to listen when someone is speaking on an open public network.

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Duplicate q No question about it. At least none that I can see. :)

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Why do people say things like "the yankees buy their players...", doesn't every team 'buy' their players lol? Sure, but with the Yankee's budget and no salary cap, they can win every bidding war they want to win. Given that, the fact they don't win the World Series every year may show how much heart and team spirit contribute to winning.

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Click the link right below this question, to watch an absolutely AWESOME display of Jump Roping! Have you ever seen anything like this in your entire life? Is there anything that cheerleading girls CANNOT do? [The embedded video is just "extra."] Wow!!! Outstanding video. I cringed when they did the bounce-on-your knees routine. Ouch!

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What happened to all the stimulus jobs that were promised? There are millions working today that would not be working if nothing had been done. Perhaps the US has to go through another Great Depression and some people have to get the taste of starvation back in the mouths before they realize why we didn't want to just sit back like we did in 1929 and let the same worldwide banking collapse and spiraling unemployment happen all over again.

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Has anyone noticed that when you click on a comment you have received, AB no longer takes you directly to the answer being commented on but to the whole question? Yep, new 'undocumented feature' as of last night. It's time consuming, but it does prevent answers and comments from slipping by me.

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What is or what would be your least favorite means of transportation? Riding a porcupine bareback.

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Who was the worst US President ever? Hoover usually gets the blame for the Great Depression, and thus is on the bottom of most presidential lists. I think when the long lens of history has a chance to reflect, though, the dishonor will shift to George W. Bush. He came within a nats eyebrow of giving us depression #2. His sycophants claim he kept us safe, but the truth is he lost more Americans on his watch to terrorism than...

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Is your dog more afraid of the vacuum cleaner or a bath? I don't have a dog, but Spooney the Cat abhors both. Just pull the vacuum out and she is GONE. And giving her a bath is VERY risky business. We leave her to keep her fur clean in her own way. :)

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Why is the senate and house going forward with health care reform when now the majority of Americans oppose it? I'm guessing you are among those who believe that Fox is a "news" channel. The only polls that conclude that the majority of Americans oppose reform are hatchet jobs funded for political causes or by the industry seeking to preserve its runaway profits. Independent polls show the public is about evenly divided on current proposals and strongly supports a public option.

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Guys... does a girl being fat even if she has the best personality in the world, affect how you think about her? I agree with N I C K. There are obviously lots of guys who feel that way, because there are pinup sites and worse as well as dating services catering to those who like the BBW look. Personality matters a whol lot more than looks when it comes to living together over the long haul. I'd be concerned if my mate started getting seriously obese, because that caries with it serious health...

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Are politicians able to just answer yes or no? It's rare, and the reason is no matter whether you say yes or no, there are going to be those who wanted to hear the other answer. If reelection is part of your plan, you are better served discussing why you gave the answer you did rather than giving a one-word answer.

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Rush Limbaugh Claims that "his sacking is an example of the political clout held by the Obama administration" Any thoughts? Mystery of mysteries. THe advocates of personal responsibility are never responsible for the consequences of their own actions. That only applies to other people. No, for themselves, personal responsibility only means figuring out who to blame for every calamity they bring upon themselves. What a hypocrite.

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Do you think the man in Texas that was accused and put to death, was innocent, guilty, or don't know? His own lawyer said he was gulity. Also, several forensic experts have said, not arson! I think that while there were very legitimate and troubling questions about his guilt or innocence, he should not have been put to death. I further think that Governor Perry's action to fire the chairman and four members of the board of inquiry was a deliberate move to delay the result of the inquiry till after the elections and avoid embarrassing him and hurting his reelection bid. As...

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My husband told me, "Your coffee is so rich and full-bodied. . . . . . . . .you don't NEED a second cup!" ! I rather think that would make a good coffee commercial! What say YOU? When I find coffee like that is exactly when I WANT a second cup.

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Do you believe these MALE ENHANCEMENT "drugs" are REALLY placebos? If you're referring to the prescription drugs like Viagra and Calais, they do work. Clinical trials against placebos clearly establish this. If you mean the OTC male enhancement stuff advertised on TV, like Enzyte, they are definitely placebos. The good news is you can tell the people who fall for them that with no diminution of the on the placebo effect -- because they also don't...

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House Minority Leader John Boehner R-OH spokesman says "You were born a Christian, not born gay. Religion is not a choice." So, is he correct? Is religion a trait you are born with but being gay is not? Is religion a choice? Any thoughts? Boehner is showing what a bone head he is. That not only flies in the face of science, it completely undermines Christian theology and the new birth, as well.

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I have finally reached level 40, who wants to have a dance party? Congratulations. Let's dance!!!

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What is the root of all evil? The Bible says Mammon is the root of all evil. Mammon is often mistranslated as money, but it actually means the lust for things -- money, gold, big cars, jobs, sexual partners, whatever. I've found this to be a pretty accurate analysis of what underlies evil.

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Politicians love to talk about making the "tough choices" But every time they get the chance, they put off the "tough choices". Why do they still get away with that? What you get in a democratic political process is a near-perfect reflection of what really drives the voters electing the politicians.

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Secession talk from Texas has resulted in something interesting, the rest of the country has told the governors office that they'd be happy to see them go. Any thoughts? Please see the reference link below from Dallas. They a perennially poor state that refuses to invest in itself and looks to Washington for handouts. They're the second largest drain on Federal tax dollars, getting far more from Washington than they put in. Good riddance. Let's save the tax dollars for those states that believe in progress and invest in it. ...

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Last night my husband had to work late. So I decided to watch Peanuts "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". . . . . . . . .4 TIMES!!!!!!!!! Is that . . . . .'ahem. . . . . . . . .ABNORMAL? No, watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" four straight times isn't at all abnormal. Admitting you did it is really weird, though. :) Happy Halloween!

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What would you do if you saw a giant asteroid coming toward Earth? Immediately recall the "Duck and Cover" drill they taught us in the 6th grade, and how utterly useless I thought it was even back then. :)

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Is the US Dollar ($) going to become obsolete someday? Everything we cherish as material goods will become obsolete someday.

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Is Liz Cheney group "Keep America safe" a good Idea, or a way to get paid for doing nothing? (as a non-profit, she pays herself for running the group) Your thoughts? She has the perfect right to form the group. However, the efforts to rewrite recent history deserve nothing but derision. The truth is that Bush/Cheney lost more American lives to terrorism than all the previous US presidents combined. The revised record of "They kept us safe!" needs to be called the filthy lie that it is every time it's trotted out. Cheney should have no more...

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Do you believe President Obama should repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'? I support its repeal. I believe in equality as a general, underlying principle of the USA. But Obama should not and can not legally repeal it. That job Constitutionally belongs only to Congress. I want no more of the Bush imperial presidency, making law through signing statements. If Congress will get him the legislation repealing it, I fully support his signing it.

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What are 3 words you don't want to hear during sex? Was that it?

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Why were Americans in the 1950s and 60s gullible enough to actually believe that a nuclear blast was somehow "survivable?" Were "we" REALLY that stupid? (Take a look at the attached video, please, to understand the mentality, back then.) I was in school when the duck-and-cover drills were underway. I lived in the Norfolk area, the largest Naval port in the world at that time. We had a pretty good idea how silly the exercise was for us. We would be ground zero. Our chances against a H bomb were abysmal. Even in grade school, the running joke about the duck-and-cover drills was, "In event of nuclear attack. bend down....

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What do you think the cloud/halo thing over moscow was? Quite obviously a weather balloon. All UFOs are weather balloons. Even the ones that accelerate to near infinite speed in a heartbeat. They're just a balloon caught in a breeze. Now get back to work and drop this silliness about there being something unusual up in the sky. :)

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Is this what the GOP has come to? Where is it going to go from here... or will it not even survive? That's a pretty insightful look. I've got to read that book. Thanks for the link.

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Is this a male or a female? My guess is Photoshopped female.

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Unsafe abortions killed 70 thousand women last year. Anti-choice people in the U.S. want to drive abortion underground here. These same groups oppose birth control as well. How is that pro-life? Pro-life seems only to apply till you're born. The same crew is so pro war their laundry list of countries the US needs desperately to invade ran out of paper and ink. They are pro death penalty and not too concerned that the jury system reaches wrong verdicts. Once you're here, it's a dog eat dog world and they plan to be the biggest, best armed dog.

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My wife and I have decided to move. But we don't know where we want to move to yet. We are looking for somewhere with a mild climate, low living costs, and jobs in the U.S.A, ...any recommendations? Great question. Good luck with the move. Hawaii is both mild, beautiful, and employed. But you better have a good job to afford their cost of living. For a reasonably mild climate and low unemployment rate (6.5% currently) take a look at Virginia. The Hampton Roads area (Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Suffolk) are in the South East corner of the state, quite mild and still have...

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Did NASA really bomb the moon? Hey, the Moonians were developing WMDs. We had soild evidence. :)

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Would you please join me in congratulating my good friend Bull wears a COAT of many colours on his first anneversary with AB Happy 1st AB Anniversary, Bull. :)

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Do you agree or disagree with the assertion that Fox News is "a wing of the GOP?" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/10/12/2009-10-12_white_house_fox_news_is_gop_ally.html Fox is most certainly acting as the propaganda arm of the GOP.

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Would trickle down economy work better if the wealthy payed their fair share of taxes ,and all tax loopholes that they now use to pay virtually nothing,are closed? The mantra of the right is that those pillars of industry that we so badly need to offshore our jobs would just pull up stakes and move elsewhere if we did that. It's not quite clear to me where they would go. The USA currently has the lowest individual income tax rate of any developed nation on earth. Maybe they plan on Somalia or Yemen or some such. Maybe if so, that would be good riddance.

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If you don't trust your Government enough to follow its recommendations for your own best interests, why are you here? Why not go elsewhere? Isn't Elsewhere the place you would really rather be? Good point, Rosie. Unfortunately, bless their little hearts, the anti-science andt-gubment wing of the rabid right hates everywhere else way more than they hate our government, so they don't have that option.

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Why do you think some people believe opera singers should be fat? Because they say, "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." and most people want it to be over. :)

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Is it ever going to stop raining in Southern USA? The El Nino effect has brought us rain everyday for a month. Go away El...loll I really sympathize. The news coverage shows some heartbreaking scenes. But save up that extra water. When El Nino is in full swing, La Nina is never far behind.

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He was denied insurance coverage because he was obese. Are you okay with that? He was a 4 month old breast fed baby in the 99th percentile of growth in in good health. Is that reasonable? As much as I hate it, it is so long as we refuse to look at universal health care and insist that health insurance MUST be a private enterprise. The insurers fear that people who don't carry health risks will simply not buy insurance unless they see an illness coming. Then they will buy in, collect $2,000,000 in payouts, and cancel the policy as soon as they are healthy again. And they are...

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I just discovered an incredible white French wine named "Fat Bastard". I kid you not. That is the name. I tried it out of curiosity and it is one of the best wines I have ever had and now my favorite. Which wine do you like? Sterling Vineyards Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 is wonderful. If you can still find a bottle of 1976 Estate Bottled, it's beyond wonderful. For fish, I like a reasonably dry Riesling is good.

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The warmest year we've had to date was back in 1998. So here up north with winter forming, people ask: “Where's Global Warming”? Your comments? Your question is based on a false premise. According to NASA GISS, 2005 was the warmest year globally in modern times. 2007 came in at #3. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ You cannot measure global temperature by stepping onto your back porch for a look at the thermometer there, or by listening to the local weatherman.

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I'd like to build up my library. I like reading books on philosophy and various social sciences. What do you recommend? Here's an unusual and worthwhile one on social sciences. And it's free in PDF form. The Authoritarians from http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ Now for the old standbys: Philosophy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books Social science -- http://www.amazon.com/Best-popular-science-social-books/lm/R3Q47W26NHZJBV Start with the interesting ones at the top and dig as deep...

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Can you imagine if society replace a handshake with a passionate kiss? Every time you meet someone,instead of shaking their hand,you kiss them passionately. I don't think it would do much to curb population growth. But it might put an end to such paranoia about some people being gay.

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How does posing for Playgirl fit into the conservative promotion of abstinence only sex education? Perhaps Levi Johnson is assuming that his nude shots will serve as a wet blanket on the fires of sexual desire in American women. I can see how it might work that way. :)

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I've heard that we should walk 10,000 steps per day for fitness and weight loss. How did they come up with this 10,000 steps per day number? That's a pretty high goal for walking. If an average step is 1 yard, that comes out to 5.68 miles. At an average of 17 minutes per mile, that's about 1 hour and 37 minutes of walking. Most experts seem to feel that if walking is your exercise of choice, a half hour of vigorous walking a day is enough. And of course, there are plenty of other choices for aerobic exercise.

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You have an opportunity to move to a land where everyone agrees with you....sees everything exactly the same way you do. No reason to hate because, well, there is no enemy. Do you move to this Paradise or stay where you are? Great question. It would be so tempting in today's acrimonious climate. But I think I'd stay put. I love my contry and want to stay engaged pushing for what I feel is positive change for it. And if a moved to a place where everyone I rubbed elbows with agreed with me, I would risk the very inbreeding and hypothesis myopia that affects our right-wing fringe today. The only time...

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What is the difference between transexuals and transvestites? Both words are directed at the same group of people. If I had to draw a distinction, I'd use transsexual to refer to postoperative transgendered individuals and transgendered for those who have not yet undergone sex reassignment surgery.

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So now that the Nobel Peace Prize is officially just a punchline, which undeserving a**clown do you think they'll award it to next? Don't worry. None of the people howling about the award, from Osama Bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and all their sycomphans are in any risk whatsoever of ever winning a Nobel Peace Prize. They all think too much alike.

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Does the popularity of Dan Brown reflect on the standard of literacy in modern times? The books are awful and terribly written, yet so many people love them. Why? It's a vast conspiracy. The Popes and the Catholic church have secretly worked through the Freemasons for centuries to set up a pop culture obsessed with belief in any wild conspiracy theory and down on any form of logical thought. :)

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I think the world needs fewer "naysayers" not more....what do you think? YES!!! There. Happy now. :)

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Why are video links appearing as blank boxes with a coloured box in the top left corner in my answers? Can you post a link to one such answer? Could be a wrong video format or could be the <embed> code got inadvertently truncated as you were cutting and pasting it.

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Do you or have you ever had a fear of a certain type of vehicle? I've always found enemy tanks coming at me to be a bit unnerving.

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What are your thoughts on the band Kajagoogoo? If every member of the band Kajagoogoo had a penny for each of my thoughts of them, they wouldn't be able to pool those resources and make a down payment on a 2-penny lunch.

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Since 2007, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell received more than half a million dollars from 14 health-care organizations and 127 outside lobbyists more than any other member of Congress except John McCain. Is that what a republican vote costs now? And why is this only corruption when people with little or no power do it? Healthcare industry contributions to Senators over the past 15 years total $40.1 Billion. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-905035.html Of course we have the "best" healthcare system money can buy. Best for those buying the system, that is. Certainly not for those being served by the system. We are at...

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If you could know the answer to any historical or scientific question, anything from what Jesus really did to whether or not UFOs are aliens to the existence of Bigfoot, what would it be? Well even though the New Testament says salvation is by faith alone, I'd want to know whether or not God the creator exists.

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Was there really a candy called "Chocolate Babies" in the 50s and 60s? Someone told me they still sell them. Is that true? I not only remember them, but remember that I had no idea at the time that they might ever be considered politically incorrect. PC or not, they are still around. http://www.oldtimecandy.com/chocolate-babies.htm

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How would I know if I have H1N1 and how could I protect myself from it? First, a disclaimer. I'm not a doctor, but I do play one on AB. :) If you come down with flu-like symptoms and are in a high-risk group for complications (the young, pregnant women and anyone with underlying respiratory impairment or compromised immune system) then you should definitely see a doctor and be tested. Only a test will show for sure which form of flu it is. Protect...

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As a woman myself, when I shake a woman's hand, it feels very frail and "limp" to me. I always feel like I'm going to break it if I squeeze too hard. I can only imagine what a guy thinks when he shakes a woman's hand. What say YOU? I get that impression very often. I've learned to wait and see how she grasps my hand, then match the pressure.

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Lots of folks are "do it yourselfers". What things do you feel are best left to the professionals? Anything past minor surgery such as removing a hang-nail, I will leave to a competent doctor. :)

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What is worse for freedom: uncaring neutrality or Republican/conservative political ideology? I think the worst enemy of freedom is uncaring neutrality. Agree with their ideology or not, most people on the far right value their freedom and will fight for it. They just want freedom to include their right to dictate that everybody else think like they do. But freedom is never free, and those who just don't care enough to get involved in defending it are its worst enemies.

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If I'm here and you're there, can we both be here? Their they're, now. Let's not here any more about such worries hear.

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Why would Pelosi and Reid wait to fight against posting their new health care bill online? Is it possible that they up to no good? The bills that are already written and approved for final vote ARE online. Obviously, you can't post a bill untill it is written. Take a peek at HR-3200 and see how helpful you find the online posting anyway. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text It would take a team of lawyers to fully read and understand it. It's 1000 pages long and full of references to other laws...

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What would happen if The One Person who could help solve the problems of the world showed up but didn't look like us, act like us or think like us? So we rejected him/her? Then what? Look around you Rosie. WHat you see is what you get when that happens.

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Did you know WellPoint sued an entire state of Maine to increase profits? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXWP2HuxGE Here in Michigan BCBS tried it too increase rates by nearly 75% and the AG reined them in. So health care for profit works? And this is the industry that's supposed to police itself? If healthy competition is good for business, why did the health insurance industry pay off enough congressmen to get itself exempted from fair-trade laws? It's the only industry in the USA outside of Major League Baseball to enjoy such a position. They can rig markets, price-fix, collude and there isn't a thing we can...

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"The only absolute knowledge that is attainable by man is that life is meaningless." Tolstoy. Yea or nay? Elaborate? I don't even know what Tolstoy means by that. :)

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Is the end of the US Dollar's reign near? And is it Obama's fault as many claim, or was it years in the making? You can no more turn the US economy around on a dime than you can a super-carrier at flank speed. Obama inherited $11 trillion in national debt and an economy on the brink of Great Depression II. He can't fix it overnight, and he certainly didn't singlehandedly wreck it. It remains to be seen if the desperate measures to stave off another depression will work long term, but so far...

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How much could we learn from tetrahymena? I think we know pretty will how to survive in the pathogenic mode but could take some lessons on commensalistic living. Or were you referring to virgins with four of them? :)

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How many of you belong to a church or fellowship where you are compelled to pray out loud individually? And, to any one, please give your thoughts on the matter. Jesus already gave his thoughts on that. I agree completely with him. Matthew 6: 5-6 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen....

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If (when) a terrorist group uses nukes to hit 2 or 3 or 4 major US cities, then presents us with the ultimatum to withdraw from the Middle East and cut off aid to Israel, what alternative is there to complying? It is inconceivable that a terrorist group could develop a working nuclear bomb on their own. But say they did get a few, we've got thousands. We would launch an all-out attack against the nation state that provided them the weapons and against any state giving them sanctuary. There is no compromising with religious fundamentalist when they reach the intensity of killing innocent people...

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What fun things are there to do in Minneapolis? You can always win a few bucks on a bet that you can throw a ping-pong ball all the way to the other side of the Mississippi River. You just have to wait till the dead of winter to perform the feat, and chose a day when the wind is blowing hard toward the other bank. Just a light toss will do it under those conditions. :)

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What do you think of VAT taxes? And what are these new services going to cost us in the long run? There's a fox in the henhouse and I can't do a damn thing about it. There is no proposal to impose a VAT tax under discussion in the USA today. While none of us like shelling out our money in taxes, and we all would love to see them lower or nonexistent, we need to be adult about it and realize we like many of the things that taxes pay for. If we refuse to pay for them, they won't be available. The USA currently has the lowest individual tax rate of...

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What is the most childish thing you've heard an adult say? Not fair!

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You're at a party. The food is inedible and you don't like the other guests. As you leave you tell your host/hostess.."The food was awful and the others were boring " or "Thank you for inviting me"? Politeness transcends truth sometimes. Should it? Why? After the party is over there;s little to be gained by complaining about the food or the guest list. Telling your host "Thank you for inviting me." just means you appreciate being included in their social world. I see nothing disingenuous about that.

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Property of a material by which it gives resestance to scratching or indentation is? In materials science, Hardness. But there are multiple kinds of hardness, and your question covers two. Scratch Hardness and Indentation Hardness are two separate properties. The third is Rebound Hardness.

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Why do some people become She-males? That's a very complex question. The word she-male is generally taken to mean someone who likes men, likes their own male equipment, and dresses like a woman to attract male sexual attention. In other words, she-males are a special brand of homosexual male. Why do they direct their sexual energy in this way instead of like most homosexual men do? Who knows. Some may admire the beauty of...

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Einstein said: "The quest of international security involves the unconditional surrender by every nation, in a certain measure, of its liberty of action (i.e. its sovereignty) and it is clear that no other road can lead to such security.” Your opinion? It would only work if the entire international community were ready to force rouge states to play by the rules. That was the idea behind the UN, but their track record at establishing world peace isn't all that good to date.

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If I set up a 'Let's keep America secular club' how many of you would join? I'm all for each having the right to worship as they please, but completely against any American Taliban taking over the government and forcing us all to worship they way THEY please.

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Is sucking the helium out of a balloon bad for you? What does it do that is bad? Unless we are talking about a VERY big balloon like a helium weather balloon, then grabbing a single lungfull won't hurt anything but your pride if you think you have a powerful voice. Being far less dense than air, it makes your voice high-pitched and cartoonish sounding. If you kept breathing in lungful after lungful, you would soon pass out from lack of oxygen though. One shot is...

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Do you remove people from your "friends" list if they ask a lot of questions on AB that you find offensive? No. The only people I have ever removed were ones who asked way too many silly, give-me-points questions like fill in the blank questions and stuff like, "Can you name a vegetable?" If they start pushing other friend's questions off my Friend's activity list, then they have to go.

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Can any AB staffer - or anyone else - tell me why this question was allowed to be labeled as nonsense? And where is the link to dispute it? Glad to see it's been restored. It has 65 answers. Seems like at least a few people were able to figure out what it meant. You appeal by scrolling to the bottom of the removed question and clicking the feedback link. Give the moderator the reasons you think they should reconsider the removal. In this case, 65 answers should be strong evidence it's not nonsense.

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What kind of person rejoices when his/her country has been smacked down? That could indicate one of two possible things. The person doesn't love their country very much, and wants to see it come to no good; or they are convinced it's on the wrong track and want to see it correct course.

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How can you be certain you're right? Is it something you "feel" or something you "know for sure"? I don't think we can be certain that we are right. We can think we are, but our beliefs of rightness and wrongness are colored by our world view, what our culture has drummed into us, and so many other things that a massive paradigm shift could throw anyone's entire belief system out of kilter. Or at least, that's what I think is right about being right. I could be wrong, though.

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2009 AL Divisional Playoffs - Red Sox vs Angels - who will advance to the next round of the playoffs? The Angels, as good as they are, haven't been able to figure out the Red Sox in 3 previous ALDS match-ups. Unless our Sox suddenly decide to self destruct (something they have been known to do) I say it's them and the Yankees again in the ALCS.

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Do you think lingerie for men should be a "no no"? see link I used to say, "What does a real man wear? Anything he chooses." Well, maybe not this. :) To each his own, but these are not 'my own'.

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If someone has morals, made by their life's experience, but thinks that there isn't a real meaning to life, what school(s) of philosophical thought would they be categorized in? Sounds like Nihilism, but let's be clear that there are plenty of people who are moral because they think it's the right way to live, and not because they fear being sent to hell; but who are definitely not Nihilists. It's quite possible to find meaning in life without a supreme being to spell it out for you.

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Which question on answerbag has the least pionts? Love Talimaze's answer. Here's +5 so it won't be your question. :)

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What is your motto in life? I have a bunch of them that fit various situations, but during our recent hectic move, when we had to vacate because the new occupant had already scheduled their move in but our new place wasn't ready, I acquired a new, useful and very simple one from the the Manager of an extended stay motel where we camped out. I need the Internet for my work and had picked this particular place...

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I know my avatar is small, but what does it bring to mind (assuming that you can see it well enough?) I just put URL up for bigger picture. Click link. A doorman at a Ritzy country inn waiting for the kid who lost their teddy bear to come back and claim it?

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This morning on my way to work, I saw a MAN with a big ol' dark thick moustache at a stoplight frantically putting foundation on his face. Have you ever seen a man do this in public? Seeing that would be a good way to define "cognitive dissonance" to someone who didn't get the meaning directly from the two words. :)

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Why do people say "at this point in time"? Why don't they just say "now"? What other examples of unnecessary words being used can you show us? Isn't simplicity the best form of communication? Why use three words when one word works? No.

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Do you add salt and pepper to your food before tasting it or after? Never. Taste first, then spice s needed.

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What do you think about schoolchildren singing the praises of the president? After reviewing the story, I don't think the teacher was trying to indoctrinate the kids in any political agenda. But talk about being tone death to the political climate today. Wow.

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Did you know more Americans die from lack of health care than from terrorism, drunk driving, homicide and HIV combined? Thanks for pointing that out. Makes you wonder what's up with those who only want to preserve the status quo.

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Modesty aside, do you think you're smarter than most people? In the IQ department I know that I am. But when it comes to wisdom and ability to actually get things done, the question. "If you're so smart, why ain't upi rich?" stings.

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Do you know anywhere where I can have a special tattoo made, using invisible ink? The tailor who made the Emperor's new clothes does invisible tattoos to boot, or to booty if that's where you want the work done.

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Since one of their own people managed to be killed, then rise from the dead, then ascend to heaven, why are Jews still Jews? Are some of them being a little stubborn or protective of their turf? That's a third-rail question if I ever heard one, but it is actually a very thought-provoking question. So I'll endure the DRs that inevitably come with answering anything about religion, regardless of what you say. I am sure that those who declare themselves followers of Judaism today do not believe that Christ was the Messiah. Interestingly, fundamentalists Christians insist...

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Darlings, may I fondle your man-boobs? I'm spoken for. But if you are asking if some guys find it -- interesting -- this one does. Mine make up for in sensitivity what they lack in size. :)

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Which style of ethnic cooking is both the tastiest and the most nutritional? First we have to realize that 'tastiest' is an extremely subjunctive attribute. Nutritious is much more objective. And even if we settle in on one person's definition of 'tastiest' we may find that it's rather low on the nutritional totem pole. For me, I love Thai cooking and it does tend to be quite nutritious. I might be prejudiced, since my wife is Thai and...

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I have never given a DR. I have gotten a few, and maybe some of those are understandable since I am not a wallflower. But, am I qualified to be a COAT? Is that a good thing to be? Please advise. I got a friends request from you today, reviewed your activity on Ab, and based on what I saw in your interactions I accepted you as a friend. You have my vote, and I'm glad to count you as a friend.

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Which relative of yours do you most resemble -- in looks or personality? Mom. And no girlie-man comments, please. She was a star athlete in college. :)

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A litigant in a civil court case told the judge that the defendant owed her for a new computer because he did something that caused "the blue screen of death". Isn't that an exaggeration? Couldn't she just reformat the hard drive and reinstall the o/s? Depends. The "Blue Screen of Death" is a euphemism with an imprecise meaning. It basically indicates a serious system error. But often a reboot and allowing the system to check the hard drive/s for errors with resolve it without any data loss or permanent harm to the system. Other times, you aren't so lucky. To know whether there's a case here, we'd need to know that...

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Is violence ever the answer? Let's put it this way. Say you know some lunatic has a workable plot to detonate all the nuclear weapons on earth at once and destroy all life on the planet. You have just moments till he pushes the switch. You are 100 feet away from him but you have a rifle with a scope. Would you take the shot -- or be non-violent and let him incinerate 6 billion innocent people so you could go out...

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Have there been any conspiracy theories that have been proven to be true? Sure. The fact that Nixon really was directly involved in inspiring the Watergate burglary and bugging just finally came to light this year.

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They have discovered water on the moon. How cool is that? It's definitely cool enough to be ice. :) But seriously, the discovery has huge implications for a long-term scientific mission to the moon and for deep space exploration beyond it. It costs about $10,000 a pound to carry something into low Earth orbit. Much more to carry it all the way to the moon. Water weighs almost 8 pounds a gallon. So even to survive on the moon for any length of...

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Water beds have been known to make me VOMIT! What say YOU? Sounds like an emetophile could have a lot of fun with you on a water bed. :) Here's what the word means, but don't follow the link unless you have a strong stomach. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emetophile

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Two ways we can disagree. "You're totally wrong...you're full of beans (crap,sh**, you name it) and you're an ignoramus too!" ...or "I disagree with what you said and here's why". What kind of people prefer the first choice when the second is available? I actually enjoy debating with those who stick to facts to drive toward their point and who are open to competing facts. I despise the steamroller insult approach, but I can give as good as I get. I refuse to just lay down and be the pavement for the steamroller set to build a road to world domination.

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How can people who BELIEVE in God. . . . . . . . . . .have physical WARS over the issue? God doesn't condone fighting or killing over Him! So WHY do people of "faith" do it? Hinduism and Buddhism are generally not militaristic. http://www.experiencefestival.com/what_hinduism_and_buddhism_have_in_common In contrast, read through the Old Testament and see how often God told the his chosen people to rise up and smite this people or that, and even had other religions come in a smite the Israelites because they weren't worshiping him enough, or in the right way,...

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How to stay away from negative people? I hope you don't take this as being too negative an answer, but they did just discover there is water frozen under the surface of the moon.

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Have you ever been completely out of money? Yes. I was once so broke I couldn't even scrape up a down payment on a free lunch.

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I have a cb that I want to hook pa speakers to, how do I increase the output power to the pa's? You just need a suitable amplifier. Make sure you match impedance with the PA speakers you are going to drive and the amplifier will handle the output of the CB and has sufficient power to give you the sound levels you're looking for. If you take the CB in to a good sound shop, they should be able to guide you in what to get.

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I want to hook up 2 pa speakers from one source with a switch inbetween that allows me to choose one or the other or both at the same time, does anyone know of the proper switch off hand? What you are looking for is a special form of A-B speaker selector switch. Some just provide off, a or b. You want a 4-position switch that provides off, a, b and ab. But a stupidly simple way to do the same thing in just us a couple of single-pole single throw toggle switches. Wire both speakers to one side of the driver wiring and use one toggle to make or break the other side to each...

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According to some, we are all "going to he** in a handbasket"! Anything you want to do or say before we get there? That they have only been wrong for 10,000 years, so don't give up the prophesy. It's sure to come to pass some day.

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Isnt it he who shouts loudest gets heard? Well, yes, that's true. But he should think before yapping, because it's also true, as Abrahm Lincoln pointed out, that "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. If one shouts foolishness at the top of their lungs, a whole bunch of people are going to instantly recognize who's the fool.

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Widows are free of all encumbrances. Then why look down upon widows? Will you take a widow as a life partner? Or would you think they are unlucky? I'd only worry if it looked like she might have helped her last hubby toward life's exit door. :)

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Would you prefer to die in a hospital or at home? Definitely at home. I don't want heroic efforts to keep me alive and in pain for a few more days, weeks or -- shudder -- years when it's obvious that without such medical intervention I've reached the end of my days and there is no chance of a useful life left ahead of me.

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Does never giving credit to anyone for anything build up credit in your own bank account or does it take something away from you? Great question, Rosie. Depends on where you do your banking. If in your own head, then self praise builds an ego that's almost unimaginably large. But the problem is when you keep all your eggs in one basket, if anything happens to that basket, you lose all your collected eggs. If you invest in little accounts here and there in other people's egos, you will never be short of...

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Do carrots have fiber? All vegetables have fiber, but carrots are quite a good source. the Dietary Fiber chart from www.WeHealNewYork.org provides info that breaks down like this: Carrots raw, slivered (4-5 sticks) 1/4 cup has 10 calories and 1.7 grams of fiber whether cooked or fresh. Cooking, depending on method, may rob more or less of the other nutrients of the carrot though.

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Would you like Charles in charge of your anal pore? That's a hoot. Thanks. But I think my wife would be pretty jealous of me letting Charles have such access. :)

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Do you find it interesting that you can have a strong almost hateful disagreement with an AB user in one question and then come to their aid in the very next question? That's how we all should be. Disagreeing about ine thing doesn't mean we disagree about everything or that we must lose sigh of the humanity of our adversary. I find it puzzling and disappointing that some people are incapable of doing that. That's how trolls are born, I think.

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Could China's attempts to flood world markets with cheap manufactured goods described as dumping amounting to economic aggression? Dumpinig can be used to corner a targeted market in an isolated area, but no country has the economic depth to sustain the losses required to target and destroy the markets of the entire world using this strategy. Besides, if they succeeded, what would it get them. The idea of dumping is to wipe out competition then jack prices sky high and rake in the profits. If you worked the plan...

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What should you not say to a naked man? Well, you don't have to ask him, "What's up, dude?" cause you can see that.

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Assuming you believe in GOD, do you wear a crucifix around your neck? What kind; gold, silver, platinum? Is it "plain" or ostentacious? Recall the story of Numbers 21:6 about Moses healing the Israelites of snake bites by holding up, as God had instructed, a wooden rod with a brazen image of a snake on it? All who looked up upon the rod would be healed of their snakebites, but those who refused would die. It is very instructive for us that in later history, a righteous king destroyed the bronze snake because already the...

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Christians: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is often considered the one unforgivable sin. Does that mean that if someone does this, they have free reign to do whatever they want, since there's nothing to lose? I believe it means that deciding there's nothing to loose IS blasphemy against the holy spirit. One gives up their view of the universe and creation as a wonder of all wonders, and sinks rather into a rapacious push for power and goods. One loses their soul when they make the decision, there is no morality. I've got nothing to loose by serving myself above all else.

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What is the oldest stadium currently used in Major League Baseball? There's no way any others beat Boston's beloved Fenway.

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A girl asked me to write a story about what I think love is for her book and i dont know how to answer this. how would i answer this! If someone asked me to write about what I think love is, and I felt I didn't know, but wanted to do the writing for them, then I'd write about how I don't really know what it is and why I feel that way.

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Anyone here used Glucosamine and Chondroitin for joint repair? Did it help? I use it. I can't swear it helps, but researched enough to assure myself it wouldn't hurt. Even placebos work about 18% of the time, so what's to lose -- but money?

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Would you consider yourself a . . . . . . . . . .DECISIVE.. . . .. . . . . . individual? Or do you take a L-O-N-G time vacillating something? Humm... Can I get back to you on that in a year or two?

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Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley has been suspended for the rest of the season, and there is speculation he may leave. What is your view? He should have stuck to making toys. :)

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Would it not be fair to give President Obama time to straighten this mess out? After all, it has been only 9 months. It took George 8 years to screw it up, give Obama the same amount of time to change it and would this be fair? Or at least, 4 years! We should just think where we would be today if the crew that said let the free market fix the banking failures and collapse of auto manufacturing had won the day. We would now be in the midst of a second great depression. Things aren't all that great yet, but we can see we are turning the corner and the worst is over.

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Is there such a thing as "Intrinsic Value" or is value something each person imputes to something/someone and as such fluid and changeable? Hold a man under water for a few seconds and air takes on an intrinsic value far higher than gold.

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Isn't far better to seek answers from those who see things "your way" than to waste your time on those who don't? Think of all the aggravation you will avoid. What do you think? Inbreeding is a real bad idea whether it's applied to the gene pool or the brain trust.

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Does either party care at all about our country and "we the people" or does each care more about its own survival? Great question. George Washington warned against political parties exactly because they tend to care more about their own survival and grasp on power than they do about anything else. All large collective activities take on that evil. So corporatism that the Republicans and some Libertarians embrace isn't one bit better. In fact it is far worse. You can vote for members of our...

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Some people resent being asked to participate in health care reform. They think they don't need insurance because they're young and healthy. So we pay for their emergencies. Aren't they really socialists? I take it you are using the ridiculous right's miss-definition of socialism. Socialism really means government ownership of the means of production and control of wealth. Republicans have been using it to mean any involvement or even regulation of anything, so in their down-is-up world, you're right. In a subtle way, going uninsured bring out the worst of what socialism can bring....

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Why do Hindus worship cows in India? One more obvious reason. For most Hindus, it wouldn't be convenient to worship cows in America.

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Have you ever gone to answer a question on AB, only to find it was a duplicate and the link they sent you 2 was realy not the same question although it had similarities? Would your answer be completely different in the link then from the first one? Often. The people who act on flags of duplicate questions obviously give little or no thought to whether it really is a duplicate or not. I think it's more likely they just act arbitrarily without even looking if enough people flag it. Given the number of people unable to read well enough to discern subtle differences, there are sure to be multiple duplicate flaggings of any question...

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What scares you the MOST about Obama care? The reactionary revulsion that the ridiculous right is expressing to something that every other developed nation on earth takes for granted, that it's citizens deserve decent, affordable healthcare. The fact is that the US spends a far greater percentage of its Gross Domestic Produce on healthcare than any other nation on earth, but we are right at the bottom of the developed nations in...

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Isn't it better to Learn and Educate than to Spurn and Eradicate? It is if you want wisdom and truth to rule. If you would rather have fear and falsehood rule, then lies and misinformation are desirable instead.

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Which fast food establishment did you last eat at? Subway. There was one in the mall across the street from our motel where we stayed while the new condo we just moved into was being prepped for move in.

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Peanut butter-crunchy or smooth? Yes.

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Do you have any carpentry skills? I was a first-class carpenter as a kid. I had a contract crew and built mainly garages. My partner and I could finish an average garage in a day. We took on an extra helper for large, double-car garages. We also did home additions, new homes and a few industrial buildings.

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Should this guy not concentrate so much on his biceps? Do you think he should balance his workout routine a bit? Looks like the plastic surgeons have moved to capture the male implant market. :)

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I'm the type of person who is always cold, lately I've been feeling overheated and perspiring lightly 99% of the time, could it be the iron supplements I've started taking? Perhaps. Rusting is an exothermic reaction. :) No, but seriously, I would check with a doctor. That's a pretty substantial change and there must be something behind it.

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Besides the evil that lurks in the hearts of men, what else does The Shadow know? He knows he's in BIG trouble if he can't get things resolved before sunset. :)

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Most of my dried herbs and spices have no expiration date on the shaker, but I realize I've had some of them for years! How long is it safe to keep them and use them in food preparation? Not only do spices loose potency rather rapidly (over a period of months, not years) but they also begin to smell and taste "old" after too long a time in storage. Not a safety issue, but definitely an issue of good culinary taste. BTW, check various brands. The better ones do show either packed-on or best-if-used-by dates. One strategy to ensure freshness is to just buy a full...

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Do you believe each time someone hurts you it makes you more sensitive? Or does it toughen you up and make you stronger? Makes me stronger. There's the old saying, "That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Of course, that's mostly bunk. Being a couch potato doesn't kill you -- at least not in the short run -- but it sure as heck doesn't make you stronger. Withstanding insults doesn't necessarily make you stronger either. It depends on how you process them. I try...

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Why is BRA Singular, when it covers 2 items and PANTIES Plural when it Covers one item? Skivvy is a word for men's underpants but most men who use it talk about their skivvies too. No idea why.

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This is for those of you familiar with jicama....do you only eat it raw? I love it raw. Slice it like french fries and dip into a nice healthy dip. ¡Exquisito!

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Attached is a story about a girl that lied about being raped. My question is; should the people that lie about rape be punished just as harshly as if an actual rape had occurred? Great question. In most jurisdictions in the US, the penalties for making a deliberate false accusation of criminal wrongdoing are slim to none. People use false accusations of child abuse or rape to get back at ex marital partners akk the time. The poor guys in this case had to hire lawyers, prepare for a legal defense, sweat bullets that a jury might just believe the girl even though they...

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Do you think there should be a death penalty in the uk,like the states? No. As much as it might pain me if someone murdered one of my family, juries have got it wrong too often. Prosecuting attorneys hungry for reelection have tampered with the process and withheld exculpatory evidence. Biased police have deliberately framed people, sometimes in an effort to cover a crime they themselves actually committed. If it's wrong to kill except in self defense, then...

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Are all female penguins "Prostitutes?" Before the male Emperor Penguin mates with the female, he has to drop a fish at her feet, as part of the mating ritual. In others words, he has to PAY for sex with her. (I saw that in a "nature" film.) Your point being that human males don't pay? Not married yet, hey?

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I have found that people's thought process vary so greatly that they could come from a different world. Does anyone else find this? Absolutely NOT!!! That's utterly ridiculous! You must be from some different world to think such a thing.

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If the best candidate for the presidency in 2012 was transgender could you vote for a transgender presidential candidate? Be honest with yourself no one opinon will be viewed as wrong atleast by me. My only criteria in selecting a president is their ability to govern this country well. I could definitely vote for someone who was transgendered so long as the USA had matured enough to put aside their prejudices. But in today's America, a TG President would be brutally disassembled by the right. They would never be able to effectively govern, not through any fault of their own, but...

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Are there ANY Atheist ABers who are willing to publicly say, "There's a possibility that I really MIGHT be wrong."? (Usually what I hear is, "I can't ever be wrong, about Gawd.") I'm an agnostic. I've been wrong plenty enough times to know better than claiming absolute enlightenment on anything.

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Is it wrong that I had relations with a female miner from West Virgina? You were VERY wrong to do such a thing. Next time you run across such a miner and have the inclination, send her to me for some in-depth counseling instead. I'm sure once I get her on the couch, I can convince her she shouldn't be doing such things -- with you. :)

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Too and to. Bear and bare. Are and our. Can you think of any others? There they're now, their is know kneed two fret about how words are spelt.

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If a friend from your church told you that he found your father's LinkedIn profile, would you consider that stalking? No. But since my father died before Linkedin existed, I would consider this friend to either be a complete kook or someone capable of receiving Web messages from the dead. :)

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How many people are aware of *this* bit of spyware? Keep the gubment out of our business. The gubment shouldn't have interfered with these nice corporate saints just trying to help us.

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Many complain about taxing the rich since they believe that people should benefit from their own labors and not have to spread the wealth. How many of the rich actually became rich with NO help from those of us earning under $50K/yr though? Viritually none. Actually, the US tax system taxes us all at exactly the same rate for the same dollar earned. Higher tax rates only kick in as you make dollars in excess of an average income. The first few hundred dollars Bill Gates earns aren't taxed at all. The next few thousand are taxed at the bottom rate. Only when he gets up into the hundreds of thousands in a given year do...

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What do you economy-savvy people make of this? (see link) Rampant consumption for the sake of consumption needed to come to an end.

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Are you a grower or a shower? Definitely a grower here. When I'm in cold water at the beach, that baby almost retreats inside. :)

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Regardless of your political stance, do you think this sign is appropriate? And what are we teaching our children by having one of them hold it? I am an ardent supporter of freedom of speech. But speech like this just disgusts me and convinces me the protesters have no legitimate argument to make, and are thus resorting to character assassination. With the vitriol being whipped up by Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and others on the right, I fear we will soon move to real assassinations. These people don't seem to care about democracy...

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Why would Americans not want universal health care? Most do. But a sizable bunch have let the $2.6 trillion dollar a year healthcare industry bamboozle them using code words designed to rile up any self respecting conservative. To hear them tell it, health insurance reform will cause America to become a socialist, Nazi and Communist nation all at once, The Democrats somehow hope to win a stunning majority of votes by killing grandmas across the...

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Water: Do you flush for number one? If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down. You have to be reasonable about that. A few hours worth of pee in the bowl hurts nothing and conserves precious fresh water. But if it sits too long, the organic compounds in the urine start to spoil. They smell bad and leave a deposit that can be difficult to clean from the bowl.

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I really like the band "Enigma". What "genre" of music are they considered to be, and are there any other bands you would recommend? They're hard to pigeonhole. They're been described as World-beat, New Age, Electronic and even Downtempo. Google those genres and listen to some clips to see which of thise you react most positively to.

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No "bad deed" goes unpunished. The guy who heckled the president last night as he gave his speech is causing his opponent's political contributions to come pouring in from those who were upset by this guy. Is this poetic in action or what? The great thing about free speech is that is someone is an idiot, they are perfectly free to open their big mouth and let everyone see that's what they are. :)

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Who Will Replace Ted Kennedy? If Joe Kennedy decides to run, the seat is as good as his.

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What exactly is so wrong with competition? Having pharmaceutical companies compete...insurance companies compete..businesses compete..benefits the consumer, does it not? If you are referring to the current US Healthcare Debate, the corporate giants of health insurance have spent millions lobbying to actually eliminate competition, because it interferes with profits. There are only 5 major players now in the industry, and they are essentially exempt from fair trade laws and restrictions on monopoly and on price fixing. In the name of preserving competition,...

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Flintshire County Council's cafeteria have renamed "spotted dick"(a traditional sultana rolly polly pudding) because of the sniggering when it was ordered,they are to re-name it spotted richard. What other ludicrous political correctness do you know of? Anybody remember Freedom Fries?

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What is the last thing you "updated"? My Internet service. I just discovered that by switching from Comcast business service to their Residential Ultra package, I can actually save a few dollars a month and simultaneously jump from 6 MBPS to 25-30 Up, 6-8 down!

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Could these engineers be right that a forest of artificial trees could be planted to soak up the world's carbon emissions? (see link) Interesting article. Thanks for posting it. It sure seems like a method worth exploring.

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How do you put up with your spouse's stupid friends? No problemo. If I'm not smart enough to out-stupid the stupidest friend my spouse can find, I'm going back to stupid school.

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Why is it fine for Reagan and Daddy Bush to give speeches to school children, but when Obama wants to do it; it's "taking the federal government too far into public school business"? If their children actually learn a few things in school, they may not grow up to be good little GOPers.

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It seems that most men in my life devalue my input & opinion because I don't have gonads, do I have to grow a pair to get taken seriously? Rubbish. Men never do any such thing, silly woman. :)

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Do you think President Obama has done a good job in the last 8 month? If so, what changes have you noticed? It's way to early to judge a presidency, but given the lousy hand he was dealt, he's done a miraculous job. I don't think many Americans realize how colse decades of deregulation, mismanagement and stacking the deck for transfer of wealth to the richest 1% brought us to another great depression. It's still a threat, but it looks as if it may have been averted.

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Overeducated says he is eating birthday cake for Sunday dinner tonight. Will you join me in wishing Overeducated a Happy Birthday? Happy, happy birthday, Overeducated. Save us some of that cake!

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What is an organic source for potassium to be used for fertilizer? Bone meal, oyster shells and dog-poo in that order.

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Is public transport overpriced in your city/country? I'm VERY happy with the Seniors rate on the MBTA. It's $0.60 for the subway and unlimited transfers within the system. Bus is $0.40. So for a buck, I can go just about anywhere in the greater metro area of Boston.

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Can a reason be unreasonable? Who decides? Reality decides. Everyone on Earth once believed the planet was flat and if you sailed a ship to the horizon, you would tumble over the edge. That was an unreasonable belief. Even though everyone held it, and both the believer and all their friends would have held it to be most reasonable, it was utter bunk. Why didn't anyone wonder what keeps the water in the oceans if everything at their...

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Schooling - public, private, independant or home school? I went to public schools and so did my children. My youngest son was fortunate enough to be put in special, advanced education settings from 2nd grade on. He went to two magnet high schools, one for the Arts and another focused on Math and Science. He spent a half day at each. I am a strong proponent of good public education. If our schools aren't providing good public education, we...

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Do you know anyone who has actually joined the "Mile High Club?" I AM someone who has joined. :) Red-eye flight with a previous girlfriend. Everyone in the back of the plane was asleep, so I slipped into a restroom and a minute later she gave the secret knock. :)

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When you are on a plane, where do you prefer to sit? Window seat, aisle seat, or the dreaded middle seat? If I have to go coach, I always ask way in advance for an isle seat on a wing-exit row, so I have room to stretch out my long legs and relax and it's easy to get up when I want to.

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Transport - public or personal? I'm waiting my schedule for cataract surgery and my vision has gotten bad enough I gave my Jeep to charity. So public transportation access is vital to me. I live in Boston, which has a great transit system, so this works out just fine. I went all over the city and way beyond today apartment hunting.

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Are you old enough to remember PAUL EVANS' song "SEVEN LITTLE GIRLS SITTING IN THE BACKSEAT" (before you say, "No", go to Youtube.com and put it in the search window and listen to it. It MAY refresh your memory)? I remember the chorus that goes "Dee doodee doom doom..." Must have never paid attention to the rest of the lyrics.

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If Democrats behaved more like Republicans, wouldn't Homeland Security already be in charge of health care with a color-coded sickness alert level? Heard about Tom Ridge's new book revealing the politicization of DHS, did you?

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Government employees won't get social security...right? Health care reform doesn't personally affect them either. They take the money from the lobbyists to protect the drug companies and insurance companies. So how much do they care about us? The ones that are fighting for the status quo, claiming government run health care is so terrible when they themselves have it and wouldn't give it up on a bet, they are showing with their actions who they care about. Hint, it ain't you and me!

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Do you look better topless or not? I'm pretty happy with my build for a guy my age. I'm not the least ashamed to wear sleeveless tees or less. I even get a few appreciative looks from young ladies. :)

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Better topless: Tim Tebow or Joanna krupa? I guess that has to do with your taste in genders. They're both beautiful people. Joanna's top top's Tim's for me. But I am sure some of our AB ladies would see it very differently.

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What does climate change theory predict about ocean temperatures rising to record levels? This is one area where the more scientifically oriented of the deniers have a point. We really don't fully understand the feedback loops that help the planet regulate its ocean temperatures. If the current level of warming has triggered them, will they be enough to counter our pouring 7 billion metric tons of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere each year? We don't know. But my take is...

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If love was a flavor, what would it taste like? Lick-herish

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Do you ever find that the people who call other people annoying are the real annoying ones? YEAH, THEY SURE ANNOY ME!!! :)

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Who among you is saddened by the state of Senator Kennedy's health? Who among you will weep when he is gone? I certainly am. Every time I see him again now, he looks a bit more frail.

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Kangaroos don't emit the greenhouse gas methane (unlike cows) - should we all start getting used to the taste of rooburgers? Easy on the roos, mate. Bear in mind you emit methane too. :)

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Who is the winner here? The one who tries to do good and fails or the one whose goal is to harm and succeeds? I would rather have tried to do good and failed than tried to do evil and succeeded. But if you want to know which pays best, it's generally the reverse of that.

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Some say that health care is a privilege, not a right. Agree or disagree? Is taking hard-earned money from people to help others right? Do we allow the poor to suffer because they could have been rich if they wanted to? Thoughts? It seems countries who treat health care as a right generally have better health care outcomes than the US and pay about half what we currently pay for an inferior result. So I would say it makes good fiscal sense to think of it as a right. It's much the same with education. It benefits the whole of society to have an educated population. It benefits the whole to have a healthy population...

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Who, besides Republicans, is still advertising on Glenn Beck? I suppose companies that want to sell to Republicans and figure this offended by Beck's outrageous statements won't notice.

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They are making a big deal about the First Lady wearing shorts??? See pics:http://allday.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/18/2034169.aspx I think Hillary had it right when she said about Mr. Obama (and same goes for Mrs. O), "If he walked on water they would say, 'He can't swim!'."

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What are your plans for "National Procrastination Day" on May 16, 2009? (My apologies for my not getting around to posting this question sooner.) I'm so glad you waited to ask, because I haven't had a chance to complete those plans quite yet.

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Do you think TYPING helps to keep the mind alert and helps to stave-off ALZHEIMER'S? I sure hope sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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I love to hunt for morel mushrooms whenever I can! To me they're the "tastiest"! Do YOU have a "favorite" mushroom you like to hunt or eat? I adore morels but have never found one in the wild. Same goes for truffles. When hunting wild mushrooms, chanterelles are my favorite findable prize. I love their color in food, they taste delightful, and they are quite easy to visually identify. I've heard of people mistaking a rusula (russula emetica) for a chanterelle, but the gill-like ridges on the lower side of the cap extending...

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US polls show that among people who already have health insurance, a large % do not favor extending such benefits [to those who do not] through health care reform. Why do you think this is - is it simply the "I have mine, too bad" syndrome? This who do have health care insurance often don't realize it, but they do currently pay for those without insurance who go to a hospital emergency room and then can't pay for life-saving care. That is part of what's driving insurance costs up so rapidly -- that and the greed and monopolistic practices of the post-deregulation insurance giants.

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Let's see, Conservatives don't want Single Payer (Universal Health Care), a Public Option, or even a Co-Op included in health care reform. What reforms or solutions are the Conservatives bringing to the table? They would like to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid as long as the Democrats would take the fall for it. They would be for tort reform. And although they have deregulated healthcare down to the point where just 6 companies hold a virtual monopoly in the insurance marketplace and are virtually exempt from antitrust regulations, they'd love to deregulate some more and lower the medical care...

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Liars and hypocrites are not among my favorite people. However, it has come to my attention lately that some people love 'em, stand by them, defend them and help to spread the lies/hypocrisy. How did this happen? How did we get here? What went wrong? Lies are very powerful tools when someone sets out to convince a large number of people to vote against their own best interests.

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Physician shortage limits even insured patients' access to care. Can we finally admit the current system is broken? It's seriously flawed now and headed for complete collapse. We're closing in on 50 million uninsured and the number is growing rapidly. Those with insurance pay for the care of indigent uninsured when they go to the emergency room. That as well as collusion between the remaining handful of big insurers drives rates up at 3 times inflation and wages. That means that soon, an increasing...

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Do you believe that some people simply don't know how to think? Or that some people know how but don't want to be bothered? How else can you explain those who believe outrageous lies constantly,continuously,avidly,totally? The more dedicated someone gets to a particular ideology, the less facts even interest them. They collect those facts that support their belief system and find some way to attack any reality that conflicts with their world view. Invis. +5

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Are you a Contrarian? Do you go out of your way to take the opposing view? Why? To be noticed? To make a point? To stand out? Absolutely not. Take this question for example. See how I am avoiding going out of my way to be contrary? You do see that, don't you. I can be very convincing if I have to.

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What do you think about Favre joining the Vikings? Too many in sports are doing the unretirement thing these days. The glory and money have got to be terrifically seductive. If I were in his shoes I might have done the same thing. But sitting here in my own shoes and watching, I think after leading the league in interceptions last year, both Farve and the Vikings management are nuts. I'd much rather he had not even tried last year's...

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Complete: Kiss my ______? Big white ass.

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America got talent or Britain's got talent? Don't care. American Idol, America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent; they all trace back to Major Bowes Amateur Hour, broadcast in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Do you consider that longer and thicker eye lashes are an essential for a beautiful face? No. They're nice, but I'd prefer real and plain looking eye lashes to long ones built up with mascara and false lashes. The fakes are more trouble than they are worth.

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Is adulteration of food stuffs a serious problem in your country? We had a good program in place here in the USA till the Reagan deregulation and privatization mania took hold. Since then, we have slashed the Food and Drug Administration's inspection staff by over 90% and allowed food factories to contract out inspections to private firms who lose their contract if they find a problem. So now our people just die, and that finds the problem. We've...

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What is the moderation part of the points section for? You can flag questions and answers if you feel they are offensive, spam, nonsense or a duplicate of a question that has already been asked. If staff agrees you gain 5 points as a reward for helping keep the site orderly and free from spam or baltantly offensive material.

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If I told you that I will give you points for questions that you ask and answers that you give, would you add me to your friends list or not? I add people to my friends list only if I have interacted with them and know something about who they are and how they behave. I just added got your request and added you this evening. But careful. Don't push your luck with questions like this. :)

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Does it annoy you when people moan about the other sex being sexist but then make sexist remarks themselves? Great question. Isn't moaning about the opposite sex sexist behavior in itself?

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I can answer questions,but when I go to my feed back,it says AB is currantly unavailable.Have you had this problem? What`s causing it? Sorry you're hitting that, Kat. I've run into it in the past, but not in the last few days. It could be their servers going down or problems accessing their database. Hard to guess without back end access for diagnostics.

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Texas Board of Ed. appointed academic expert Rev. Peter Marshall wants Bible-based foundations teaching/writing on America’s Christian views taught in public schools including saying Katrina, Vietnam &Watergate were caused by God's wrath. Any thoughts? Well, it's clearly unconstitutional, so I am sure Rick Perry and the far right of Texas will be all for it. They won't rest till we have an American Taliban-like theocracy.

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ONLY 4 MORE MONTHS LEFT TO THIS YEAR. . . . . . . . . . . . .how many of you achieved THIS year's resolution????? Or is it going to get carried-over. . . . . .ONE MORE TIME. . . . . . . .to NEXT year? Yea! Washboard abs are FINALLY starting to show.

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"reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries." Does this define Palinism? Sadly in increasingly defines Republicanism. Michelle Bachmann is now talking about running. I'd think she has a better chance than Palin. She's even more ill informed, hate inspired and outrageous. Seems that's what it takes to win a Republican primary now.

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So, 2003 "liberals" peaceful protest war in Iraq are called un-American. In 2009 "right wingers" bring guns to town hall meetings where they make so much noise the issue of health care cannot be intelligently debated. Which is more un-American? I can only guess how outraged the far right would have been in 2003 if those opposed to the Iraq war had come to rallies with AR-15s strapped on their backs and signs calling to spill the blood of tyrants.

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Why are people constantly comparing the current health care reform measures to the Canadian/British systems when it's really more like the Swiss? Because very few understand the complexities involved and they are getting most of their information from the 2.4 trillion dollar industry and from AstroTurfed outfits and politicians its money supports.

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Ideology can be very good at times...it can also be the reason for ugliness/harm/ lies. Which ideology needs to be "outed" now? Which ideology goes against the best interestsof the people and is only for the best interests of the morally corrupt? My vote goes to the people of the US far right who know the truth but, to help build an oligarchy and further enrich the rich, spread lies and even foment hate. Here's just a few examples: *   http://www.wnd.com/ (See debunking at http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11871 and...

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If we killed every person who was inferior (the handicapped, etc) wouldn't it both strengthen the human gene pool and reduce human population (two things that we need desparately)? I would suggest that if overpopulation is bad enough, we first eliminate those people who single out groups other than themselves for extermination. But if I did that, I'd then be in that group. So I won't even go that far. Let's just not make so many babies.

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50,000 seniors have cancelled their AARP membership because of the organization's support for saving Medicare and lowering healthcare costs. Will you join me in joining the AARP to commend them for their honesty? See LINK: Here's an interesting tidbit the so called 'librul' MSM hasn't bothered to tell us. When I called in to renew my membership and told the operator it was in support of their stand, and that I had heard 50,000 canceled; she told me that the response has been running 30 to 1 in favor of their position. It is important to remember that big media today is also controlled by a...

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I betcha the NRA loves it when people show up at gatherings with guns strapped to them in plain sight. Is that a good thing do you think? What could it hurt? I mean, a battle breaks out and ya already got the militia/posse/lynchmob there. Right? Somehow I think that if this trend grows and a major shootout occurs with massive casualties, it will not be a great win for the all-powerful NRA.

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It is impossible for people to actually experience everything about which they form opinions. But wouldn't it be nice if it were possible sometimes to walk in someone else's shoes for one day before we come down hard on them and try to shoot them down? Maybe someday we can jack into some sort of holodeck and do just that.

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What is a major US city that is not located next a large body of water? "Well I love that dirty water Oh, Boston, you're my home (oh, yeah)"

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What is your carbon footprint? See link http://www.carbonfootprint.com/ Only in rough terms. I went through a online test that asks a series of questions and gives you a grade. We're at the low end for Americans but still leaving a far greater impact than those who live in places like Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Why is it that some people whose goal it is to cripple government and reduce it to a cipher earn their living in government enjoying the benefits like insurance, a paycheck, and whatever else they can "acquire"? Are they prostitutes? It's sure a modern day Judas story, isn't it?

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Can you predict the American economic future? We are in our downhill spiral. We have adopted too many blatant lies as cultural memes so sacrosanct they cannot even be questioned, yet so wrong they will eventually sink us.

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Are "compare products" better than brand names? Better in the price, comparable in the specifications is usually the case. Quite often they are made bu the same manufacturer as the brand name and are exactly the same thing in different packaging. Since the brand-name manufacturer doesn't have to bear the expense of marketing them, they can be offered at a discount. It's a way for the brand-name manufacturer to make sure some clone...

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Have you survived a real bad car crash at anytime during your life? How does it feel to be a survivor? I've been through two where cars were totaled. I got rear ended by an LA City bus when I stopped for a light on Wilshire Blvd. The impact knocked me all the way through the intersection and totaled my Mercury Cougar. I got a pretty nasty whiplash, but felt very fortunate to walk away from it. The second involved a VW beetle which ran a light in front of a friend. We hit it broadside...

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Why do you think some male doctors decide to specialize in gynecology? Ha! $500,000 a year to feel women up. What's not to like about that? :)

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Dancing with the Stars has cast political ex-con Tom Delay for its show. Is that scraping at the bottom of the barrel or what? I predict he wins. He'll rig the vote and redistrict the phone company to make darn sure of it. :)

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Poop-power - finally a renewable power source Republicans and oil shills can embrace? Seems like a good, green move to me. Green from brown. I'm all for it. Now how much power can I generate from my own?

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The Mazda rotary (Wankel) engine had only THREE moving parts, which means that much less could go wrong with it, and it had fewer reasons for repairs, yet it was never popular at all. What caused its lack of acceptance by the motoring public? The Wankel engine is less thermally efficient than piston gasoline engines. While the apex seals would seem to offer superior sealing along the surface of the combustion chamber, they must also seal at the ends, and this is not easy to do. Also, to preserve seal life, oil must be deliberately metered into the combustion chamber. Even with this concession, seal life is short compared to piston...

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Is the best way to get truly clean coal plants to make them irrelevant with better power technology? Currently, the only technology we could use to do that would be nuclear fission. Unfortunately, while it's a great step toward limiting CO2 emissions, it has its own waste issues, and nuclear wastes remain highly toxic for 30,000 years. I'd support further research into how to clean up coal and into alternative energy such as fusion. Also, subduction burial of spent nuclear material...

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On one end of the scale there are those who are aggressive non-believers. On the other end there are those who are aggressively religious. If the former are 100 on the left end of the scale and the latter are 100 on the right, where are you on this scale? I'd be at zero on such a bell curve. I've studied each of the great religions and have concluded that I know that I don't know. Agnostic.

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Do any of the 24 hour news channels have any shows hosted by a minority? Specials like "Black in America" don't count. Juan Williams hosts a weekend show on Fox News.

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Do you suffer from Rhinotillexomania? Nope, Snort... wipe. :^)

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Christians: What are your feelings about George Tiller's murder? I was appalled but not the least bit shocked. I expect we will see a real wave of right-wing violence coming in the near future.

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What is the difference hedonism and Epicureanism? Ha! There is none if you develop a taste for great oral sex! :Q

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What were Carl Jung's religious beliefs? I think you would have to call him an agnostic. He was the son of fervent missionary parents and endured a strict religious upbringing. His adult years were spent trying to understand religion scientifically, looking at how it affects the decisions people make and how they behave. He felt that it was not possible to either affirm or deny the actual existence of a supreme being.

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Is being inscrutable good thing? You can cover up a lot of warts with mystery and intigue. Which is "better"? Being Inscrutable or Scrutable? Being inscrutable is not a good thing. Better to have been scrut and lost than never to be scrut at all.

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Have you ever taught yourself how to do something from a book, video, DVD or any form of media? If so, what? Sure. I learned my current profession, being a Web developer, by reading books and doing online tutorials. I also learned the Heavyhands exercise routing from a book of the same name and used online videos and websites to put together my current free weight lifting and abdominal exercise routines.

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What is the difference between pneumonic plague and bubonic plague? As Jadey said, both are caused by the same bacteria. The most salient difference is that since pneumonic plague is an infection of the lungs, coughing and sneezing transmits it from human. It's much more contagious than bubonic plague is.

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Anyone care to predict what the next "terror tactic" by the "terror tactioners" will be? We've been through the birthers/deathers/death panelers in the last few weeks...what's next on the terror tactioners terror tactics list? Alien Invasion? This one hit yesterday. A viral email from the Right Wing website, Human Events, claiming that the World Health Organization, UN and Obama are using the H1N1 flu as an excuse to inoculate everyone on Earth forcibly with a swine flu vaccination that will give us all the mark of the beast, thus ushering in the Tribulation period of Revelations. Obama's no longer just an Illegal Alien....

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Do all horses live in a stable home? Ha! Nope. Wild mustangs live with their Prairie Home Companions.

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My poor husband has a bad tummy ache from eating raw onions. How badly does eating "raw onions" bother YOU? I've never had any stomach problems, but the odor from both ends can be disturbing to me and to others.

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What would you do if your child is gay? The same thing Dick Cheney did.

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Have you noticed that AB has been posting very nicely the past few months and you don't have to save your answer in case it drops you? I hope I didn't jinx us. Posting has been pretty good. I finally gave up the practice of copying each post to the clipboard just in case before submitting. There have been problems with the New flag not showing and yesterday it took 15 tries to get an image to finally actually show up. But things are getting better.

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Are you brainwashed by the media? No, and my experience is that most people who insist others are brainwashed by the media are themselves information poor and exclusively draw their world view from highly partisan sources espousing a specific spin, rejecting all other media as 'biased'.

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Can I post a petition for members to sign on AB? Are there any rules about it? I would like to make a motion we ask staff to require all users to have a unique user name. It's plenty anonymous. No need to disclose any details about yourself. For those that don't want to chose a name, let the computer do it for them. We have lord knows how many Anonymouses now. When you get into a discussion with one, you never know whether comments are from this one, that one...

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Do people who rant drive you crazy? Absolutely. Would you like to hear me rant about how much they do?

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Have you ever looked at you past answers, if so what is your favorite answer? This one was judged best by the AB voters, and I like it too. I figure it must have drawn DRs like a magnet in an iron filings factory, so it's amazing it still has points. http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/6463450

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Is being anti zionist considered the same as being anti semitic? I shouldn't think so. One could be against the takeover of Palestine without hating Jews.

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Do you believe in Bible? Yes. I am totally convinced in its existence. In fact, I have several of them as proof.

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Answer Bags favorite mother just made level 80 and now is our newest Swami. Please everyone stop by and congratulate her. She is a sweet lady and deserves our comments. Thank you all for supporting Mrs Cleaver. Way to go, Mrs. C! You will make an excellent new spiritual leader here.

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Please forgive my ignorance, but are ROMULANS and KLINGONS atheists? I really don't know if it has ever been mentioned, one way or another, if they believe in any kind of deity. Oh am I glad you asked. I've been waiting ages to answer this question. Klingons were definitely theists. Their legend held that they killed the Gods who created them because those Gods were "more trouble than they were worth." However, they believed in a hell called Fek'lhr (veqlargh) guarded by Gre'thor (ghe'tor). They also held that all brave warrior Klingons...

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Why are (Some) atheists and (Some) christians competing with each other? Dosen't it seem childish? NO!!! PEOPLE WHO CALL OTHERS CHILDISH ARE CHILDISH!!! Oops. :)

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No public option? Why did we vote for this guy? Where are the cojones? See link: As much as I hate it, I have to agree with Legend. The best bill on Earth is useless if you can't get it onto your desk to sign. Better we get a co-operative so at least small businesses like mine don't have to pay the rates charged for groups of 2-10 people. Let's get what we can done first. Then let's vote out the scoundrels in the Senate and House who have taken...

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How do I get rid of belly fat? I want a flatter stomach, but am not sure what types of exercises are best. The first rule is you must keep your calorie intake in a range where you aren't putting on a lot of fat. Once that's done, exercise your abdominal muscles to burn of the fat that tends to accumulate around the mid section. If you mix up a routine of the following and go for at least 10 minutes for the bunch and work up to 30, you'll see results and can even develop those...

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Is the far right going to rest before they get some nutcase convinced he must assassinate Obama to save the Earth from the Antichrist? See my answer for the email I got from them today. Crusador - Health News You Can Use The World Health Organization, The United Nations, The CDC and Obama through Executive Order Decree want to "MANDATE" this fall that every man, woman, and child alive on planet earth must receive the swine flu vaccine. I don't know how many Christians there are in America, but how many of them have boldly proclaimed that they would never take...

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Have you received gift subscriptions to magazines or journals from family or friends? No, but if any friends here want a gift list, I can email you one. :)

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Is it ever reasonable, rational, logical or sensible to align yourself with those whose truth-telling abilities are suspect? Do you believe that those you hang out with/follow/embrace taints you as one of them? I'd far prefer to relate with people who have a basic regard for the truth than with blatant propagandists. I firmly believe there is such a thing as truth, and such a thing as falsehood. Those who embrace spin mastering contend there really isn't any such thing as truth -- everything is relative -- just a matter of opinion. That is why they often begin to think that spin can actually...

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Since "winning is everything" to some, is "winning" by subterfuge/lies/distortion/sabotage really winning or is it simply showing your true colors, who/what you are? My attitude is if winning involved sinking the ship you are on in the middle of the ocean, I'll look for compromise instead.

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Have you ever tried to propitiate a. . . . . . . . . . BANSHEE? Last time I tried I ended up sliced, diced, and reassembled as a banshiated propishee!

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Whom would you believe in this video? Glenn Beck discusses health care with AARP! Glenn Beck is so obviously full of BS it is no contest!

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What magazines did you love when you were a kid? My own favorites were pretty arcane. National Geographic, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics were on the intellectual diet. Life Magazine, Mad and Cracked were the fun stuff. EDIT: Almost forgot Reader's Digest.

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Do you worry about anyone who's good in QUANTUM PHYSICS? I really really want to. Believe me I do. But every time I set out to worry about them, quantum mechanics kick in and I don't worry.

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When you were a kid, did you sneak a "peek" at NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC under the 'guise' of trying to LEARN something on the "adult" level? My folks subscribed to National Geographic and had years of back issues saved in our store room. I loved that magazine. I went through it cover to cover each issue.

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Do you know what is supposed to have the LARGEST EYEBALL that exists on this planet? (HINT: The initials are "c" "s") My cephalopod cousin, the colossal squid. We nautiluses stay out of the ocean deep where they reside, because if they fix you with that giant eye, you are soon going to be their dinner. Our family ties won't protect us.

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How do we know for sure when we say "I tried my best" that we really did? It's impossible to live life well and try your best at anything, because that implies letting everything else slide by the wayside.

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Why is freedom so very expensive? Freedom is expensive because it is rare, desirable and generally bought with blood and tears.

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How can you post a link on the internet Depends on where you are trying to post it. Let's take a non-working example like http://www.EXAMPLE.com/ In answers on AB, all you have to do is paste http://www.EXAMPLE.com/ into the answer text with a space separating it and other text. The AB back end parses the text of answers looking for the telltale text that starts a link, and it adds the needed HTML markup to convert it to a...

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If you had to stop and go to the bathroom on the side of the road and this happened to you . . . . wouldn't you be a little upset your friend didn't help you when you were being attacked and video-taped it instead? That looks like a contest to see who's the bigger ass, and the human won! I think the guy had in mind more than a pee the way he had his drawers pulled down. I think the donkey had every right to defend the sanctity of his pasture.

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What are developments in the field of Cyber Bionics? I haven't heard of any for humans yet, but I'm up to test the first surgically inserted terabyte drive to boost my feeble memory.

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How does Google News manages to load faster than any other website? It's actually pretty light as HTML goes, and they have a killer bank of servers.

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Why do democratic party leaders hate rich people? They don't. What makes you ask?

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Who do you trust most about the weather? (i know, they're not always right anyway) The weatherman on our local ABC affiliate is pretty good. He's often more accurate than the info straight from the National Weather Service. I think he's a meteorologist who takes their information and applies his own understanding of local factors the National Weather Service isn't aware of.

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Will a "Natural" always outperform someone less talented who works very hard? If the "Natural" gives it his/her best, what chance does does someone less gifted have to match them? Ever heard the story of the great race between the tortoise and the hare?

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Do you dislike having to throw things away? No. Particularly since we're getting ready to move. Everything I donate to Goodwill Industries is one more thing I don't have to carry to the new place and find new storage room for.

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You can't say a book is the best book ever if you haven't read all the books in the world, agree or disagree and why? I can easily say this book or that is the best book ever. Now, does it need to be true?

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Statistical study: "Islam will overwhelm Christendom unless Christians recognize the demographic realities and begin reproducing again." How accurate you think this prediction is? I certainly hope the great religions realize that Earth has finite resources and is already in threat because of overpopulation and pollution. The most idiotic thing possible would be a population war between the two largest religions. They both worship the God of Abraham, for God's sake. But Islam seems full of such intolerance it may well implode as Shiia and Sunnis kill one another.

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My husband and I are thinking about going to DISNEYLAND for CHRISTMAS by ourserlves! Good idea or bad idea? Anaheim or Orlando? Sounds like great fun. I'd go to Orlando unless you have a desire to see California. I think there are more nearby attractions in addition to Disney World in Orlando than in Anaheim.

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Do you know anyone who would make a great "Snake-Oil" salesman/woman? Someone who could sell ice cubes to Alaskans, sand to Waikiki and convince those who are without hope that hopelessness is a good thing? Republicans. They routinely convince poor and middle class whites to vote to transfer wealth to the wealthiest 1½ percent of Americans.

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What is the "average" amount of files on a home computer? I can't answer that, but I can tell you I just got a set of terabyte drives so I can replace my 100 Gig. RAID array because it's running low on space. Being a Web developer though, I am sure I'm not the average user.

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Win, lose, draw...winning is better, certainly. But are you ok with "lose,draw" or does it upset you? Better to have tried and lost than never to have played the game. Besides, the artist in me really likes to draw.

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Do Internet trolls make you laugh? Why or why not? Very much so. I cannot think a more moronic, juvenile behavior in Internet etiquette.

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Why are some people so sexually charged around everyone they encounter? Is it a brain tumor,or what?* That depends on how you define being too sexually charged. Everyone who is more charged than me suffers from a brain disorder that could be called satyriasis or nymphomania depending on their gender. Everyone less interested in sex than me is extremely frigid. Of course, YMMV. :)

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Who is the worlds worst leader known in history? Hitler. His master plan was to defeat all other countries. He was then going to put everyone in them into slavery to work for the Germans while his eugenicists breed the MASTER Race of blond, blue-eyed paragons for Aryan beauty. Once there were enough Aryans to run things, he was going to exterminate everyone who wasn't Aryan. As far as I know, Hitler is the only human ever to plan to...

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At what point does fear become obsessive? If you dwell on something exclusively don't you attract it into your life? Isn't living with fear 24/7 the same thing as giving up on life? Absolutely. Fear makes people turn over control of their lives to the bogeymen in their minds.

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We hear "the truth will set you free". Why do so many politicians lie? To keep people in bondage so that they can scare them to into "right-think", "right-speak", "right act" like a bunch of brainwashed or hypnotized robots? Why do they fear truth? You answered your own question, didn't you Rosie. Often politics is about selling an agenda to serve some special interest who is supporting the leaders financially, and it requires getting 'We the People' to vote against our own best interests in order to further fatten some already very fat cat. The truth would indeed set us free from doing such a silly thing.

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What is the relation between the numbers 1,2,6,42 and 1806? the simplest expression for the progression would be n + nxn

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What cats have dark blue fur? Meet ZsaZsa, the Russian Blue.

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Is it considered a management best practice for an executive to quit on 10 days notice? I didn't write the Management Best Practices book, but I'm going to guess No. Cute cartoon, by the way.

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Which countries do you think have a glorious past but no future? Iraq may come around some day, but it won't be a great nation again any time soon. The same probably goes for Iran and for Egypt. Now come the DRs from people who live in those countries. :)

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Do you know how to 'Kill me with kindness'? :)* I've tried it. It doesn't work even on those expecting hate instead. Save yourself the trouble.

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Have you ever seen the Blue Angels perform? (see link) Many times. They are truly amazing.

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Do you think that people on welfare who are not working and not going to school, but able to work should be required to do community service to earn their check? I fully support that. I want to see a safety net to protect hise who temporarily can't find work or are unable to work, but it should be structured to there are no long-term free rides for those who are able to do something worthwhile.

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Have you ever heard the saying "Damn if you do,damn if you don't"?* First, tell me what's going to happen if I say yes, and what if I sday no. :)

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I cry a racist conspiracy! Who wants to join me?? No one.Hmm.* I'm listening. Tell me about the conspiracy.

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How can anyone in any culture think this is ok? see video. I heard an Afghan man interviewed today on TV. He was saying that we Americans just don't understand their culture. Horse puckey. What's so mysterious about misogyny and abusive male dominance. I understand those things perfectly. They are odious. Any culture that embraces such ideas is cutting its own throat. They are throwing away 50% of the creativity and productivity available...

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When people say that race doesn't matter,that is a lie,right?* Some people say it and mean it. Some say it, then live like they are a rampant racist but can't be brought to see the contradiction between their talk and their walk.

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How does it feel to hate? What if I hated you?* I've been hated plenty. It's no big deal. I think lots of haters get a charge from it, but it eats their soul. I reckon the haters are the real losers.

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Is it REALLY ethnic stereotyping when you see bad behavior from an ethnic group who INSISTS on bad behavior that is specific to thier race? Isn't that actually them, proving your point? Where is the responsibility? Racism is recognizing things that may be true of some in a race or ethnic group, and then painting with a broad brush as if it's true of all. Condemn bad behavior. The color of the bad actor's skin has nothing to do with what makes the activity bad. Do lots of blacks buy into the hip-hop ethic? Yes, and they do so to their own peril. But ethnic stereotyping is what it is too, and...

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Why do broadcast TV networks, put a show they are cancelling on the friday night daeth slot before cancelling it? Why don't they just cancel it the moment it stops receiving good ratings? There's a lot I don't understand about the big three. Why when there are 3 networks competing for audience do they all 3 insist on scheduling the same type of programming in each time slot. Wouldn't it make sense to put sports on one channel, a comedy on the next and something else on the third?

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I keep unsubscribing to AB emails but they keep coming, dozens every day. "Unsubscribing" doesn't work. I finally created a filter so everything from answerbag.com goes directly into the "Trash" bin. Is there any effective way to unsubscribe? Yes. Be sure to do it before the end of 2008. :)

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Creation Museum says black people are the descendants of Ham, father of Canaan, whom Noah cursed to be “servant of servants”. Does it bother you that this kind of racism is embraced and promoted by creationists? Yes.

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Have you unsubscribed from Answerbag E-mail notifications? Yes, and fortunately I did it while that feature still worked. Knock on wood.

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What would you do if your spouse develops a mental illness but refuses treatment? That would depend on the nature of the illness. If she posed a serious danger to herself or others, I would take the necessary steps to legally compel treatment. If not, I'd just roll with the punches.

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Does our health care system work in the USA? Please watch this video! So good! Not only does it not work well, it's heading for a disastrous failure. We now have over 46 million uninsured. 14,000 lose their insurance every day. Costs have been going up at 2½ to 3 times the rate of inflation for 3 decades with no sign of leveling off. 25,000 people die each year needlessly because they have no coverage or their insurer finds it cheaper to cancel their...

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Is it only the people who have health insurance that attend the Town Hall Meetings? Do the uninsured ever attend? There does seem to be an aspect of "I've got mine, screw you." among the loudest of the protesters. I'm glad to see so many people passionately engaged in the process. But going to public forums with the express intention of shouting everyone else down and stifling debate isn't my idea of how democracy should work.

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I have just seen the Tall Ships in Belfast - wonderful experience - did anyone out there see them on their various stop overs this year? We went to see them here in Boston. It's a lovely sight.

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How long do nurse sharks nurse their young? Cute. LOL. Zero years, 0months, 0 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds. :)

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In the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill 204 GOP House members and 42 GOP Senators voted for counseling for end-of-life issues and care. You know the very thing they are calling "death panels"? Are you tired of GOP lies and fear mongering yet folks? I am so fed up with it, and with their constant name calling and aggression toward anyone who doesn't follow the inane line their authoritarian leaders lay out. BTW, Sarah "Death Panel" Palin led the charge last year as Governor of Alaska to cover the costs of End of Life Counseling and medical advice to help prepare a living will. So like that bridge to nowhere, she was for...

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Is Charles Manson still alive?!?** He was spared the death penalty when California stayed all executions. He's as alive and as evil as he was back when he manipulated his bunch of followers into those ghastly murders. Prison guard say that he delights in getting fan mail from adoring followers outside. He uses his wiles to convince other prisoners to answer them in his name, and doesn't even concern himself with...

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When training your puppy, did you use any books? If so, which ones? I gave up on that method. I tried a number of them, and the darned dog refused to read them all.

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Does anybody hear think their poo smells fresh? I don't.I know mine stinks-Here-You wanna smell it? LOL!:)* Would you have what it takes to follow through on that offer if someone said yes? :)

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Have you ever seen the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds perform? (see link) Only in televised performances, but I have seen the Blue Angels a number of times.

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If a narcissist is attacked by another person who dislikes narcissists,does that make him one too,or just as crippled for hating those who hate themselves so much,they have to beg for attention? Gosh, CharlieGirl I really don't know. I'm not sure what to lable the attacker, but I can see it makes them a pretty sick individual themselves. Where is old Siggie Freud when we need him?

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Are there any other reasons why marriage is sacred and should be monogamous besides religious ones? A stable, loving home is far better for our children. Stable marriages build strong families and family helps us weather life's toughest times. And finally, growing old alone and lonely sucks!

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What would be a bad name to have if need to be intimidating at your work, such as a pirate or a prison guard? As Johnny Cash pointed out, "Life is tough for a boy named Sue."

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Can someone explain to me what the Augmentation Office was/is, and whether it still exists? The King business just isn't what it used to be anymore. It's sadly a thing of history, having closed up under Elizabeth I. The Court of Augmentations and Revenues, incorporated into the Exchequer in 1554 as the Augmentation Office, administered the estates of the crown - the 'Augmentations' being the lands seized by Henry VIII when he dissolved the monasteries.

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In retrospect, outside the corrupt BS war on terror ... During his long term, I don't ever recall reading or hearing any good points of news that G.W.Bush actually did for the American people re domestic issues etc ... Do you? I think the best move Bush made was to push for the TARP and prevent the collapse of the US financial system. It was a move quite unpopular with his own base, so doing it was costly. But had he not acted, the collapse of all the major US banks, investment houses and investment insurers would surely have triggered a global collapse and second Great Depression.

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I used to be a ggod person trying to be bad,now I am a bad person trying to be good.What do you think about this?** Ha! Trying to meet that happy medium, hey?

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How can we survive without each other?.....What happened to this great big family that we are supposed cherish? We really do need to embrace the family of mankind. Somehow we've gotten far to concerned with what divides us, and lost sight of the deeply important things that unite us.

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What is an acceptable % of net income to pay out for various insurance policies? (auto, homeowners, umbrella/liability, disability/life, health). Calculate yours, mine is 15% of net income. Did you think it would EVER be like this when budgeting? Lucky you. As a small business owner with no company funded health insurance, if I bought Blue Cross it would run me $2,600 a month. That's before we even start on insuring anything else.

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Is the Dictionary your friend? How often to you use it to make sure you are using words properly and understand the meanings and how to properly spell them? Several times a day usually. I google words now rather than going to a dead-tree dictionary.

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If your 5 year old daughter was diagnosed to die within a year, would you tell her or not? Wow. I am so relieved to hear that it's not your daughter you're talking about. Nonetheless, it is someones daughter. That would be an agonizing thing to have to face. I think I would not tell here, and here is why. When my dad was in the Shore Patrol in WWII he was guarding the Portsmouth Naval Hospital and a sailor came in to find out why he was feeling bad. It was at the end of...

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Are you ever outraged by the lies told by "your side" or do you save outrage for the lies told by "the enemy"? I will expose an obvious lie underlying a political argument no matter which side tells it. I don't think basing political decisions on lies serves the long term interests of anyone.

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"Death panels" should stay in the hands of the insurance companies like they are now, right? Is anyone else sick of the "deathers"? I think the Birthers and the Deathers should marry up. We'd get what they really are -- the brain dead.

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So. . . . .can YOU impress me by telling me what a . . . . . . .HOMOLOSINE PROJECTION. . . . . . .is? It's a way of projecting map surfaces from a true sphere to a cylindrical projection which can then be flattened into a planar map. WHy do you ask>

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Do you think Cheney will stab his ex-boss in the back to make $$$$ to sell his book? Yes, and I think it will work.

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Do some or most people who get seasick get over it after a while and rarely or never get seasick again? Or do most people who get seasick always get seasick? Most Navy personnel soon develop their sea legs and aren't bothered any longer by seasickness.

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What food do you not like?(Give a reason please.) Amazingly, caviar. Cheap caviar tastes like eating the contents of a salt shaker. And really good caviar is too darned expensive to make any sense as a food.

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Fox News ratings go up and at the same time there is a rise in uninformed Teabagger/Birther/Protesters and white supremacy hate groups... Coincidence? I suspect both are symptoms of the backlash among whites who fear they are losing their long grip on power and wealth in America. It's just something we have to go through with our first black president. Hopefully, most of us will get beyond it with time.

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First thing that comes to mind: I'm sorry but I'm alphabetizing my ______ that day. Alphabet soup.

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Why does Obama keep beating his head against a brick wall, beating a dead horse, wasting his time on "bipartisanship"? It is wasting time and we don't have time to waste. Why does he keep at this lost cause. Does he really think he'll win? I hope that after Senator Grassley's shameful lies supporting the Death Squad conspiracy yesterday, all the Democrats will realize that say what they may, Republicans have NO intention of voting for healthcare reform. It appears their only interest in 'bipartisanship' is in being allowed to add amendments watering down whatever gets passed. When push comes to shove, they will all...

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Do you think that if the libido decreases with age, it is advisable to prop it up (pun not intended) with medication? Or should one accept reduced sexual activity with Grace? No. I think men in particular should follow the ancient wisdom, "When all else fails, use your head." :p  *  *  *

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I have been advised that Nature brings about a dimunition of libido after a certain age precisely so that the individual may concentrate on spiritual advancement and living at a "higher level". Do you agree? I doubt it. It probably has more to do with the necessity to spend many years nurturing our children. Species that spend little time nurturing their young tend to reproduce continually after reaching sexual maturity. Ones that spend long periods of time preparing their young for life on their own do no.

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Do you think celibacy or abstinence from sex helps in one's spiritual advancement? If yes, why and in what way? Ha! Thanks be there are many paths to enlightenment, including the Tantric one. :)

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Is the root of your anger toward the whole health care issue really masking your anger toward the fact that Obama is black (okay, "multicultural")? No. I'm angry with those who are running a conscious disinformation campaign to protect obscene profits at the expense of people's lives. And I am not to happy with so many of my fellow Americans falling for such a transparent pack of lies.

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Doug Manchester a catholic spent 120K to defeat gay marriage says that marriage remain between man and woman is getting divorced after 43 years of marriage. If he can't stay married who is he to tell others who they can marry? Great question. Maybe he thinks divorce is between a man and a woman too. :p

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Does anyone actually think there are "death panels" in Obama's health care plan? Looks like Senator Grassley convinced himself today that Sarah's right, even after she distanced herself from the statement. It's utter bunk and Grassley, as the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee working on the bill and how to pay for it. He's read it. He knows very well what he said today was a lie and fear mongering. But it works with his base, and reelection is...

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If Obama really had the best interests of the American People at heart, shouldn't he support the Bill HR1207 to Audit the Federal Reserve, the private bank who is largely responsible for the failing economy? There's too much circular logic in that question for me to arrive at a good answer. Can you point me to some references on why HR 1207 should be supported, and opposing arguments on why it should not?

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What do you come out as on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test? I was wondering if anything predominates on AnswerBag. Many people on IRC seem to be INTPs. ENTJ here. I can't say what predominates on AB though.

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Plenty of new scientific knowledge is being created by privately funded research. Don't you think the knowledge should be shared for the benefit of public welfare? Basic research is shared. It isn't real science unless it's peer reviewed. Certainly private enterprise carries on development and even basic research toward patentable products, and keeps their work secret while they are doing it. But in such cases, the patent is a public disclosure.

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Do you think more people all over the world are moving away from scientific explanations to natural phenomena? Just the opposite. And I don;t understand the difference between scientific explanations and natural phenomena. Science is the study of natural phenomena. There is a backlash movement to ignore science and instead believe in only what can't be proved. But if you look at the trend over time, the march toward science has been steady and inexorable.

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Is it fair for the Right to compare a democratically elected president to a fascist dictator that killed 6 million people? It is odious and over the top. As are the claims of socialism, communism, death squads, etc.

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Am I the ONLY person who actually . . . . . .LIKES. . . . . . FRUITCAKE? I totally love fruitcake. Why isn't there an exchange where fruitcake lovers can register and fruitcake haters can send their fruitcake gifts to those of us who can appreciate them?

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Rep. say National Health Care would kill Stephen Hawking. He says,"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived" Do you buy the scare tactics? That was hilarious. I got a similar newsletter yesterday from Newt Gingrich. No lie is too outrageous in their rush to protect the profits of big insurance.

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Do you like the nipples on a woman's breast? I've heard if you can't have/see the nipple then it is just a breast/tit/boob. ???? Any truth to that guys? I'm not really all that much of a tits man, but absolutely. The perfect ones are big and erect with dark, large aureole that stand up almost like a mini-breast.

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A guy who attended the President's Town Hall Meeting arrived with a loaded gun. When interviewed later he said he thought if all who attended had carried a loaded gun (1000 people were there) everyone would have been safer. Do you agree? I vehemently disagree. If even one nutcase from the left or right pulled a piece and began firing in such a setting, bullets would have soon been flying like a cloudburst.

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Variety is a good thing..in food, friends, literature, whatever...much better than sameoldsameoldsameold. We have a Latina Supreme Court Justice, a person of color as our President and another female as Secretary of State. Isn't that better than before? I am proud of my country's progress. But I still encounter people here who spew racist, misogynistic hatered of 'otherness'. We've got a long way to go to become a post-racial, tolerant society.

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Is it possible that Tokyo, Osaka or any of Japan's coastal cities could be wiped out by a tsunami? It is more than possible. It is predictable. The country sits on the Pacific Rim of Fire. It's incredibly active seismically and volcanically.

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If you spend yourself on hoping for/praying for/counting on the failure of others...those with whom you disagree... how much of a success can you ever be? Great question. There are times when it's important to stop evil. Fighting Hitler was a good example. But always, it is most important to be fighting for something good, not just saying No! reflexively.

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How to make your job interview a successful one so that you land the job? See this question and the link it points to. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1634499

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Does the taste of love linger on your lips? The kind of love I like to give my lady sure does. The smell, too. Makes for lots of encores.

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More nightmare scenarious regarding passengers being held hostage on airlines. Apparently there is no legislation that can protect passengers against the whims of the Airlines. Is Congress in bed with the airlines too? Congress has been debating a passengers' rights law and the Airline industry has been pouring big bucks into defeating it. I think the Continental Airlines incident stranding a planeload of people overnight with no food and overflowing toilets will make the lobbying effort far harder. It remains to be seen who wins.

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If everything is always about who can yell the loudest then the Loudmouths will always win. How do we even it out so that those who aren't so loud can also be heard? The bad news about loudmouths is they drown out civil discourse. The good news is they broadcast their stupidity for all to hear. Thanks be they aren't allowed into the quiet of the voting booth. :)

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Would you please join me in congratulating engineer is Terminator on becoming a Guru? Congratulations engineer is Terminator on your guruification. Remember, just 20,000 points to level up. :)

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What is the best pain killer to take when you are drinking beer? Aspirin or Ibuprofen can be safely taken per directions with alcohol consumption so long as your stomach tolerates them. People who suffer from ulcers or stomach bleeding should not take either analgesic. Of course, those who suffer from these stomach disorders shouldn't be drinking beer either.

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Besides religious ones, can you name another circular argument and state your side of it? Oh, they come in all flavors. You should exercise because it's good for you. That's really saying "You should exercise because you should exercise." You find circular argument used in politics all the time.

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I personally believe that these 'out of control' health care protest help the democratic movement, to a moderate like myself it shows the inability for the republican party to engage in civil discourse and compromise. What do you think? It may very well do just that. The Republican Party saw huge losses in the 2006 and 2008 elections because they were seen by moderates and Reagan Democrats as too extreme. But for some reason, they decided they lost because they were not extreme enough. I think they have truly gone off the deep end.

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What does the saying Carrot-and-stick mean? It comes from a supposed method of motivating a stubborn mule to move forward. You attach a stick to his head and hang a carrot on the end of it. The mule wants the carrot, and keeps walking forward to try to get it. Truth told, most mules are far to smart to fall for that, but it nonetheless has become a euphemism for motivating someone with what is in truth an unobtainable reward.

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Which band would you like to see them release songs for Guitar Hero or Rock Band? I don't know, but I will be watching the answers. My son works for Harmonix, the developers of both games.

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Why are so many Christians also Republicans? Those who now self identify as Republicans are down to something like 20% of American voters. Given that there are over 2 billion Christians in the world, that tells me that only a tiny percentage of them are Republicans.

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Will you watch the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight August 11, and tomorrow August 12, 2009? (see link) Sadly, no. There's an awful lot of light polution here in Boston anyway, so it is never a good place for celestial observation. But tonight a heavy fog rolled in off the bay.

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How to protect our liver from damage? Everyone's mentioned alcohol and rightly so. Let me just ad avoid any overdose of Tylenol. Watch out for products like cold medication and prescription pain killers that have Tylenol in them. You can easily overdoes on Tylenol when using the over-the-counter analgesic in combination with other medications that have it in them. And never use Tylenol when drinking more than one or two...

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Does Sarah Palin have any credibility left? How was this loser and clown ever added to the Republican ticket for vice-president? Yet people did not see through her immediately. I did, why were so many other people fooled? Hey, Berine Madoff fooled some of the best and brightest on Wall Street for 20 years. Like David Hannum said, "There's a sucker born every minute." The fact that nearly the whole world believes P. T. Barnum said that just serves to prove Hannum's point. :) The back story of that confusion in authorship is hilarious if you have time to read a short page. ...

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I'm having a little trouble finding it - top ten Tech stocks (where ya at, Jim!)? I can only drop by once a day or so. :) Try this link. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/07/03/the-top-10-technology-stocks.aspx But who gets on the list really depends on how you want to rate them The top ten yielding tech stocks wouldn't necessarily be those on a simple top ten tech stock list. The more generic list would take into account market strength, growth,...

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Does anyone else gain a sense of satisfaction when the Q-Tip comes out yellow-orange? Ha! Given my lack of manual dexterity, I am ecstatic when it comes out any other color than red.

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Why do people waste their DRs on me? It's not going to change a thing,though a little intellectual persuading might.??* Let the poor hate-filled little trolls have their fun, CharlieGirl. Here's the AB secret that seems to elude their feeble minds. AB doesn't take points away from you when they DR. It affects the points total displayed on the Question or Answer page, but not your points total. The only important total it affects is their % + Ratings Given total. Most decent people on AB have a % +...

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Why do Republicans support Sarah Palin when she quit instead of staying the course? Right wing authoritarian followers ( a growing percentage of what remains in the Republican Party) have highly compartmentalized minds. They are nearly incapable of seeing contraction in thoughts they hold. As long as any thought fits their core ideology and is endorsed by their authoritarian leaders, it is TRUE!!! When challenged to see contradictions in their beliefs, they open...

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Why do Republicans gravitate around the dumbest conspiracy "theories"? The Birther and the Deather (Healthcare reform is an Obama plot to kill grandma) conspiracy theorists share a point in common. They take hold because they appeal to people who feel that the America they knew and loved, the white America where darkies knew their place, is disappearing before their eyes. We have a black man in the Presidency, two women in the line of succession, and a Latina on...

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Why are health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations creating astroturf organizations to scare people about public health care? I understand perfectly why the Insurers are. Their profits went up 400% from 2000 to 2007. The senior executives all need a far bigger mansion, new yachts and better Lear Jets. I'm much more puzzled by the fact that some big pharmaceutical companies are funding the Astroturfing efforts. If we insure a significant portion of the 46 million Americans currently uninsured, it should mean...

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What if you don't have time for a time management seminar? THat's a profound question. I reckon most of those that do have time for one must not really need it.

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Does wild rice have to be hunted? Thanks for a hearty chuckle. Perhaps it does, but it makes a lousy trophy over your fireplace.

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Who would like to join me in congratulating my friend Karen Anne for not only being "Queen of AB", but a brand new Maestro as well! Bravo!! Well done Karen Anne. Keep up the great work. To our Queen I give you the Hall of the Mountain King.

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'Report: Pakistan Nuclear Facilities Attacked at Least Three Times by Terrorists'. How do you react to this news item? Are Pakistan's nuclear arsenal really secure? See Link. And here we thought the fall of the Soviet Union made everything so much better. :) When ever I hear somebody say something is "totally secure" it reminds me of the maiden voyage of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic.

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Do you think the education system (in the states) would be much better if the market took control of it? Would it replace the stagnent ideas with fresh competitive ones? Or do you think it just needs more money on the current idea? What are your reasons? I am a strong supporter of public education. I would no more just turn it over to for-profit business than I would sell off the Interstate Highway System and let private business maintain it and charge tolls on it however they please. Our nation needs an educated workforce more than ever. Turning educational over to for-profit enterprise would soon ensure an underclass of people permanently...

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Who's the biggest hypocrite in politics that you know? Why are they one in your eyes? There are so many to choose from. If I have to pick just one, then Mitch McConnell. He's smart enough to know that trying to derail any meaningful health reform is only going to benefit a handful in the healthcare industry and even those people will only benefit for a short time. Our current system is heading for complete collapse. Costs escalating at three times the rate of inflation and...

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"Ethical". Nice word. Many consider it to be an oxymoron when coupled with certain other words like "government", "politician", "attorney". Do you think the time for ethics is gone and we have no need for it since it gets in the way of "winning"? Right. Only private enterprise is honest these days. Bernie Madoff, Enron, Countrywide, AIG, Health Insurers, Worldcom... Invis. +5

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Do you believe fashion EVENTUALLY comes around FULL CIRCLE? It borrows from but never fully copies styles of the past. "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau.

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I think the two things that render a government impotent are greed and hypocrisy. What do you think? Agreed. That and the failure to think things through. Reliance on simplistic, bumper sticker solutions instead of dealing with the realities.

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Let's see....burning books...burning "witches" at the stake...watching/instigating lynchings...worshipping murderers because they didn't agree with someone so they eliminated him/her. Our history...our warts...our skeletons. Shameful or glorious? Those are certainly not the best chapters of our history. But we've written some great chapters too, and where there is life there is hope.

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Whats difference between Tensile and Torsional strenght? Tensile strength is the resistance to being pulled apart end to end. If you were considering a tow-bar to tow a car, you would be concerned mainly about its tensile strength. Torsional strength is the resistance to twisting stress. If you were designing a drive shaft for a car, you'd be mainly concerned about its torsional strength.

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Do people still shine/polish their shoes/boots? My son, the army guy, sure does!

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Are we hurting asses when we say, "a kick in the ass"? Any decent donkey can give a better kick than we can. :)

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Do you have any "junk" vehicles around your neighborhood? That's one kind of junk we don't have to put up with here in Boston. All the streets have street sweeping schedules, and the city is religious about towing vehicles left parked during posted street-sweeping times. If it won't run, it will be gone in 2 weeks or so.

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About how much should I expect to pay for an acre of raw, residential waterfront property in your area? A half acre? No such thing as raw waterfront left in Boston. Pier 4 in South Boston just sold for $4 million. Hope that helps.

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Why do sex scandals involving politicians get more coverage than scandals involving corruption? Great question. I am fed up with politicians who boast of their superior moral strength and illustrious family values, and who put others down for their weak flesh, then claim they should be forgiven when they themselves are caught in flagrante delicto! But I'm really far more concerned with politicians screwing the public than who they screw on their own time.

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If I was anti-Socialism, should I be against police and fire departments? Yes, if you are against any socialism, you are essentially against all things the government does for all. We'd need to scrap the police and fire departments. You'd instead have to hire private security and fire protection. No more road construction. Private, for-profit toll roads if some construction company decides to build them. No FAA. No public schools. No military. No Medicare,...

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Are you in favor of socialized roadways? Very much so. I can't even imagine the grief of a cross country trip if there were no Interstate Highway system and instead, all the roads were for-profit toll roads some contractor here or there had decided to build.

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How many more people are killed by lightning as the result of climate change? I tried to find some numbers on deaths from lightning strikes by year, but found nothing in a quick sweep. I would think the national weather service would try to keep numbers, but sloppy reporting from states might make it difficult to get reliable data.

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Why is Sarah Palin a shill for fear against public healthcare? The right wing has decided to go all out to defeat health care reform. Part of the reason is that the Republican Party might as well be considered a wholly owned subsidiary of the Healthcare business. The US Health industry takes in $2.1 trillion a year. Estimates are that profits run 25 to 30% of that. You are talking some serious money here. So what if a few peons have to die of cancer...

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Oh great, now these angry white Conservative/Teabagger/birthers are bringing guns to town halls. Is the Southern Strategy in full effect again? In all the films I have seen, the protesters shouting people down were all white. And yes, one managed to get in with a gun. What's particularly scary is this genius who was so ready to resort to violence to shape our nation's heath care seems not to have been bright enough to get back out of the meeting with his weapon. He accidentally left it behind.

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Tell me,how much does it take to drive a person 'Insane' in your opinion? What do you think it would take for you to go there? To Complete madness?* What it takes to make you insane is up to you. Consider Viktor Frankl M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist who was thrown into a concentration camp by the Nazis. In conditions that nearly killed him and did kill most of those around him, he was able to find meaning and a higher sanity. He wrote a bestselling book, Man's Search for Meaning, about his experiences. Man's Search for Meaning

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Some people start to feel "shaky" when they start getting hungry and have to eat right away! How well do YOU handle hunger before you HAVE to eat? It's no biggie to me. I have fasted for a full week, and after the first day, I didn't even think about eating.

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Janet Allison was found guilty of being “party to the crime of child molestation” because she let her 15-year-old daughter have sex with a boyfriend who the daughter married. Janet Allison must register as a sex offender for life. Is this right? It doesn't sound to me like what the sex offender list was meant to control. I think of it as a list of people likely to re-offend as sexual predators, and she doesn't fit that definition.

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Did you ever have a high school English or Literature class that wasn't extremely boring? Absolutely. Both an English class and English Literature were a real delight in my senior year.

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When you were a teenager, were you ever in a car accident? How disasterous was it? No, and given how I drove on the raw edge many times, it's a miracle.

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Are you old enough to remember watching Julia Child on TV? Yes. I liked her personality and her flair for cooking. But I seldom watched her show. Just saw it when someone else had it on.

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When I was in high school, we had a term we used for something that was REALLY incredulous. It was "MANOSHEVITZ" ! Was that word popular when YOU were in school? I'd never known it to mean anything other than a wine manufacturer that makes lots of cloyingly-sweet, Kosher wines.

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Do you consider it unforgivable if someone lies to you?* No, the only sin I can never, ever forgive is murder, because I wouldn't any longer be here to do the forgiving. All the rest, I have either already done or realize "There but for the grace of God go I."

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Is the Answerbag becoming the hangout of the old and the retired? Could you please tell us if you are above or below 40 years of age? Considerably above 40.

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How many of us use water for cleaning after going to toilet instead of wiping with toilet tissue? Do you think use of water would be more hygienic? Perfect time for a shower if possible. I far prefer that to just using paper.

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Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer call the people that are voicing their anger toward the Health Care bill un-American. Do you agree? That's a distortion of what they said. They called those trying to disrupt meetings and shout down discussion of healthcare reform. Hoyer actually said,"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades." Since they are using tactics out of the Nazi Brownshirt movement's playbook, I totally agree. That...

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What something is good when it is smoking hot? Sex!

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Is it possible to see and talk to God, as we see and talk to a man? That depends on what God you plan to talk to. I am an agnostic. It's pretty hard to imagine me talking to someone I don't believe in. If I were a Christian, a Muslim of a Jew, then the God of Abraham would be the God I'd have to talk to. If I believed in him, I would also believe that it's not possible for a human to see his glory and survive, so the answer is still no. Of...

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What food is best for spiritual seeker? Easy peasy. Soul food, you ninny! :)

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What part of an orchid is commonly used in baking? The seed pod of the Vanilla Orchid is what we get vanilla extract from.

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I am under the impression that the GOP, as a whole, does not want any type of health care reform. What do you think? Sure they want health care reform. They would like to make it so patients injured by incompetent healthcare providers can't sue or can only get a small compensation. They'd like to kill medicare since it's government run healthcare that they so hate. They basically want to keep the cash cow flowing for the health insurance giants, as those corporations invest heavily in...

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To my Republican friends: I give you Ann Coulter, (LINK) She sure knows how to appeal to the basest instincts of the far-right base.

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Can you believe the Boston Red Sox finally scored a run? (nb: after thirty or so innings of not doing so...omg!!!) What happens to teams. For 8 straight games, they had the Yankee's number. Since the All-Star break, they act like their shoe-laces are tied together.

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Are you in the path of the intense heat wave moving across the country right now? (Aug 9, 2009) It's due here Aug 10, 2009.

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What should Bill Clinton's next diplomatic mission be? I don't think he should be just sent here and there on diplomatic missions. In the North Korean case, the reporter's jailers made it clear to them that if Bill Clinton came to secure their release, it would be done. They passed that message on to their relatives here, who passed it on to the Obama Administration. After thoroughly checking to see the deal was done, Clinton went and...

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If someone has a "ratings given" percentage lower than -- let's say 60% for the sake of argument -- what do you think about a little troll picture popping up next to their avatar? Wonderful idea. Submit it as a suggestion. It might go a good ways toward solving the problems that erupt over giving out DRs willy nilly.

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Does the US Congress deserve its August recess? It is so tempting to follow the crowd and bash away. But yes, the members need time to be in their home districts or in the case of Senators, states. There is a great deal of business that requires that constituents talk to them and not all are able to just hop off to Washington DC at a moment's notice.

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Would those on AB who know her (or even if you don't) please wish Moonchild a happy birthday? It's August 10th already where she is Happy birthday, Moonchild.

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What do you think about Blagojevich's new career? (see link) He has finally found his perfect job. :)

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Would you rather thank God for creating you or would you be happier belonging to the most evolved of species? I am thankful to exist, and to be aware of being aware. I do not know whom to thank for that. If I knew that I should thank God, I would certainly be happy to do so. But however I got here and became self aware, I know that the truth is that I don't know whom or what to thank.

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Which Australian university is considered the mos prestigious? The Australian National University would be the one. It's one of the top 20 in the world.

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I took LOTS of piano lessons when I was growing up but NEVER disciplined enough to keep it up or "perfect" it! Now I wish I had! I LOVE the sound of the piano! Do you have any regrets about musical instruments YOU tried to play but didn't keep at it? I was a drummer and in the school marching band. I rebelled when the band instructor wanted me to learn to read scalar music instead of just percussion markings so I could play the tympani, the bells, etc. I have no idea why I was so pig headed about it. In adulthood I truly regret I didn't learn to fully read music.

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Do you believe that there ever was an age in the remote past which was scientifically as advanced as ours, if not more so; but all that ancient science was lost in some natural or man-made catastrophe, and that we had to "discover" it all over again? I think the evidence is powerful that no such civilization existed on Earth since the planet's formation. If it had, it would have done the same as this technological civilization leaving evidence worldwide. No localized cataclysm could have wiped out all traces of it. Now, if we want to theorize a universe formed by a Big Bounce instead of a Big Bang, maybe there were many before the...

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How is racquetball different from squash? Well, for one thing it takes a lot more cooking before a racquetball gets tender enough to eat. :) But seriously, the racquetball is bigger, it bounces around more during play, and the court if larger than in squash.

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At what age, if ever, did you become annoyed when people carded you for alcohol or cigarettes? ( I card people daily at work and have had 19 year olds glare at me for asking, so I'm just curious!) In Massachusetts, the law is EVERYBODY gets carded. I show my Medicare card and seniors pass for the MBTA. :)

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Is Glenn Beck a racist? He is definitely a racist. He built his TV career demonizing Hispanics under the rubric of illegal aliens. Recently he has gone quite loony over Obama being elected president. He's a TV supporter of the birther conspiracy. Yes, he admits he knows it's bunk, but he spends great time pouring gasoline on the fire. And if there was still any doubt, Beck removed it when the Professor Gates...

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What is your favorite kind of squash? Pumpkin Squash. It tastes like a very sweet sweet-potato. Scrumptious baked or steamed, even without adding some margarine or butter. I think even squash haters would love it.

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Is the Republican version of care for children to prostitute them? I am a Democrat and I find this question offensive. I dislike it when Republicans paint with too broad a brush. Please don't begin to emulate them.

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Do you deliberately given insane answers to insane questions, or do you simply give them the go by? If I can think of something both insane and funny, I'll have a whirl. Otherwise, just pass on by. Maybe what seems crazy to me will make prefect sense to someone else. After all, there may be others out there suffering from the same menatl disorder. :)

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What is a neo-conservative as opposed to a "regular" conservative? Britannica Concise Encyclopedia says: "U.S. political movement. It originated in the 1960s among conservatives and some liberals who were repelled by or disillusioned with what they viewed as the political and cultural trends of the time, including leftist political radicalism, lack of respect for authority and tradition, and hedonistic and immoral lifestyles. Neoconservatives generally...

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How often do you use expletives while talking to others? Do you use them in the normal conversations or only when you are exasperated? Very rarely. They quickly lose their power if you stuff every sentence full of them.

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Do you also dislike it when someone asks several questions at one time? Not at all. I generally save questions and ask 5 at a time. AB won't let us ask more than that in 15 minutes. I do get annoyed when someone on my friends list asks 20 per hour every hour, because my list of friends questions soon overflows and also because the only way you can come up with so many questions is to ask inane questions. The redeeming grace is that I control who's...

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Is homelessness a problem in your city or town? It's a big problem in Boston.

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Ever since I stopped taking my sleeping pill, I have to get off every night or I can't fall asleep? Does any one else need to do this most of the time? Not me. A couple of times a week is enough now. I was much more driven to get regular release when I was young. Seems a shame we can't match you up with a charming partner who has the same needs. :)

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This is a true story. A mother of a severely challenged adult son RELUCTANTLY submits herself to his sexual advances, as she says that prostitutes were unwilling even for high compensation. PERSONALLY, would you condone her act as in her son's interest? I do not believe I would chose to do that, but having not lived through such a Hell, I don't feel I'm in a position to judge her action.

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Are you a "Pacifist" ... or a "Pass-a-fist" ...? I prefer to be a pacifist. But I can be provoked into battle and will put up a fierce fight.

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Why do radio controlled toys only work on 29MHZ and 49MHZ frequencies? It is not that they couldn't be made at other frequencies. Certain ranges of bandwidth are set aside for a specific use, and thus do not interfere with other radio communications and control applications.

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Did you ever have a dirty old man just follow you everywhere,like a stalker?* Sure do. Every time I walk into a room with a mirror, there he is. :)

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My little daughter is starting school in a couple of weeks, she has much to learn and a lot to find out, are you guys going to congratulate her and give her a nice message for her way into a new life? Child of Moonchild, have a great time learning in school. It's an adventure that can lead you to a lifetime of fascination.

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Minnesota Family Council says that Obama’s plan for health care reform is against God’s design. Why and how can they say that? What gives these people the right to speak for God? Well, you see Jesus has stock in all the major Health Insurance Providers, so the only Christian thing to do is to protect those profits, praise the Lord!

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Jokes have been defined (by Nietzsche) as epitaphs on the deaths of feelings. In other words, the best jokes are always a new low? Do you agree with him? There is a famous piece of graffiti in which someone scrawled on a freeway overpass, "'God is Dead!' - Nietzsche." and another enlightened soul came by and added, "Neitzsche is Dead. - God!" I agree with God. :)

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AHOY, MATEYS! The Chief, who has been a guru to many here, has now officially reached the Guru level. Who would like to join me at the congratulations party for Chief Guru (or is that Guru Chief? LOL)? Plenty of rum, pirates and wenches to go around! Top notch sailing, Chief. I knew you had the stuff of a good Guru in you.

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If a person can't believe in the bible or the people that wrote it, what does a person have to believe in? You seem to be suggesting that because a book exists and we know someone wrote it, one must believe what it says. If that were so, we would also have to believe that Gulliver really traveled to Lilliput and was taken prisoner by 6-inch-tall humans, Paul Bunyan really lived and had a blue ox so huge its footprints made the Great Lakes, and a Alice really followed a White Rabbit down a rabbit...

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Those who follow a strict political "talking points" script are Stepford Wives, aren't they? If they don't do exactly as they are told, they will be dismantled and thrown on the "reject" pile along with others who disobeyed. What do you think? Like Will Rogers said, "I am not a member of any 'organized' party — I am a Democrat."

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Beyond simply thanking someone for answering your question, do you engage in dialog with those whose answers are somewhat insulting/rude? I move on without comment..what do you do? I enjoy debate and am not the least intimidated by name calling. Substituting insults for logic in a debate is, in my eyes, a sign or either a weak argument, a weak character, or both.

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Do you hate because I'm black(Partially),Beautiful(So I've been told),or a bad liar(I have to admit)?*:)* Absolutely not. All those are reasons to like you as far as I'm concerned.

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I just heard part of what the President was saying on a clip from the news.He said something like "we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when I took office."; is that a good thing?When will people begin getting jobs instead? Great question, Nancy. It's certainly not good news when a quarter of a million people loose their jobs in one month. But it is definitely better news than we saw as the new president took office, when well over a half million lost jobs in one month. Also, it was considerably better than analysts had predicted, and that is why the Stock Market reacted so positively, finishing Friday at...

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I'm not a bad-looking guy. My grandfather was a pimp into his old age. I'm looking to be wealthy in another 30 years. If you're hot, would you let me be your sugar daddy? Thanks, but I think I'll just turn on the air conditioning. :)

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Many economists are crediting Obama's administration for doing a good job making the recession less damaging and shorter than it otherwise would have been. If this turns out to be true, will any right wingers give him deserved credit too? It is going to take time, but as John Adams pointed out, "Facts are stubborn things." Those who aren't completely blinded by ideology will change their viewpoints as they see that one way of governing works better than another. But true ideologues are amazingly able to ignore the consequences of their wrong-headed actions. They appear to be people who have come to believe that...

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Are you calling me a liar? I did not say that and you KNOW it!!!

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There is so much anti black and hispanic racism. I grew up in a big city in NJ. I never got beaten up or mugged by anybody but white people. Rural America is being misled. Don't people know the drug industry is run by wealthy white men? I've been feeling the need to research how ridiculous the "I want my america back!" cry babies are being. Sure there is such a thing as reverse discrimination. As a white male, I've run into it. But the fact is white males still pretty much run things in America today. It's true that as racial demographics shift, that will change. All the more reason for us white...

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How does the USA retain the title of the world’s wealthiest country, despite having so much debt? Maybe it's in the same sense of Donald Trump being considered wealthy. When his empire began to collapse, he was into the banks so deeply they couldn't afford to foreclose on him.

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Are crazy people from Tasmania known as "Tasmaniacs? Aye, and real Devils they be.

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What should the media focus more on? ME of course! Silly media.

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Is there really any need for life insurance if one is single and has no children,or anyone that is need of the insurance money? If you're young, it's a good idea to check into a whole life annuity. It will be prohibitively expensive when you are older and have a family to protect, but you can pick one up inexpensively when you are just starting out. It builds cash value that you may need in the future. And while you are alone now, there is a good chance you won't remain that way forever.

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Why are so many Americans opposed to a health care plan for all U.S. citizens? Simple. "I've got mine. Screw you." Also, our employer based payment system makes greedy people think they get health care for free. There are no free lunches. Businesses pass on their costs to us consumers. They also lose out in international completion to companies off shore who don't have to pay an added 15% on top of wages to buy their employees health care. This is...

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Unemployment dropped in July, from 9.5% in june to 9.4 % in July, is this a major sign that the economy has bottomed out, and may even be improving? (Link) It's not time to book the post-recession ballroom yet, but coming on the heels of good news from the housing industry, bank profits and the stock market rally, it's very encouraging.

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Why do white people hate Pangaea? See link. Ha! This one certainly doesn't, but then, this one left the Republican Party when it first started leaning toward the wing-nut flat earther bunch. The bulk of the far right base of that group of whites is convinced science is the work of the Devil, the Earth is only 6.000 years old and Noah took dinosaurs on the ark with him.

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Has any ABer ever used foul and abusive language against you without apparent justification? Did that person later apologize for offending you? Numerous times and no apologies yet. It comes with the turf when you discuss politics or religion or even science now with all the flat earthers we have. I just remember what Bill Clinton said, "Politics is a contact sport, if you can't take a hit, don't suit up."

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Is being a "water carrier" for a political party an honorable thing? I think it is so long as you are honest about what you are doing. It's certainly dishonorable to pose as a concerned private citizen though while taking orders and money from a political party, a lobbying firm, or an industry whose profits will be affected by the legislation you are supporting or fighting.

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Is this guy from your area? (see my answer) No, not my representatives. I've communicated with Michael E. Capuano and he's a level-headed, intelligent guy. The joke is cute, but the rage it expresses toward Government and the American way of life is as ugly and destructive as the humor is cute. While there are certainly instances where government does make a mess, we risk destroying all we hold dear when we begin to...

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Are you For or Against health care reform? Is your dog in this fight or are you doing just fine and want to leave things just as they are? We really have no choice. The Republicans fixed health care for the insurance industry back in the 80s by deregulating it. Since then, costs have been going up 3 times faster than wages and they still stay right on that track. 46 million people are now uninsured, and caring for them loads cost onto those who are covered. 14,000 more Americans lose their coverage every day. We are riding a...

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Is "The Rule of Law" being replaced by "The Rule of Mob"? It always will if enough good people do nothing.

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What is the purpose of the anger and violence we see among some segments of society these days? Has anything positive ever come from violence, excluding self-defense or defending the lives of others? Excellent question, Rosie. I suppose most Americans would call the Revolutionary War something that produced a positive result. But anger nearly tore the new country apart less than 100 years later. The anger I see today appears focused on destruction, not building something of value.

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Within the realm of the possible, if you really want to do something, and you are able to do it without hurting others or yourself, should you? Do you have any obligation to yourself or does obligation only extend to what you should do for others? Sure, if you really want to and it harms nobody (including you) then go for it. Isn't that the mental computation we go through before deciding to commit to a new course of action?

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Most of us take vitamins or medications or BOTH everyday. How do you REMIND yourself to take yours so you're not asking yourself, "Did I take it yet today? I can't remember!"? I have one of those 7-day pill boxes where each day has its own little compartment with the day of the week marked on the little flip-top lid.

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Do the "town hall" meetings and all the shouting down/drowning out of speakers that seems to be the goal of attendees bother you? How much of it is coming from we the people and how much of it is engineered/manufactured by big business? It concerns me deeply. Having strong opinions and expressing them is fine, but the goal of Republicans here isn't to express opinions but to drown out those who wish to. And when they start talking of lynchings, it's gone WAY too far. Some of them need to be carted off to jail for threatening violence.

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I'm looking for an open source, banking grade website login product , package, or service for a new site. Anyone suggestions? Are you open to any back end. Generally, the starting point is to decide whether you are going to develop in PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Ruby on Rails, Perl or one of the tons of other chunks floating in the alphabet soup of Web programming languages.

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A person's heart is roughly the size of their fist. What will be the size of a person's full bladder? Wait till you really have to go then pee in a glass jar. I think you'll find the jar's contents would about equal an average human fist.

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Do you think people with a higher I.Q. dream more than those with a lower I.Q. when they sleep? I doubt it. I know my cat dreams regularly. She's also a very intellectually gifted feline, but at the end of the day, she is still a cat.

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What is the one thing that you haven't got for which you will willing to exchange all that you value most in your life? There is no such thing. Things can't have that much value.

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Have you ever gotten a call from the police or a hospital saying that a loved one was hurt and needed the next of kin ASAP? My daughter died after giving birth to her first child.

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How often do you work out? Every day. On odd number days I do an aerobic routine called Heavy-hands with 15 pound dumbbells. On even days, I lift free weights and do crunches and ab routines.

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Do you have a cigarette lighter? No. Non smoker and non firebug. :)

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Is it best to warm up your engine before taking off in the car or does it really matter? Most modern engines will do just fine without warmup so long as you don't push them for the first few minutes of driving. But if you have a safe place to run the car and it's really cold, it's nice to warm it to the point the heater starts taking the chill out of the car's interior.

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How offten do you use a dictionary? Regularly. Generally many times a day. I just google a word and click a convenient dictionary link.

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How can you be bisexual? I understand being gay or straight but I don't understand how you don't know which sex you want. (not being mean, just would like to understand) I don't think bisexuality is often about not knowing which you want. My understanding is it's being attracted to both. To each his/her/its own. I would argue that more people are bisexual than admit it. Prison populations bear this out.

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When do you DR? Does your DR mean you don't agree with the response and that's how you express it? Why are people so upset getting DR'd & calling members trolls and cowards for it? It boggles my mind. If its that bad why have it? What does it accomplish I very rarely DR. I will do so if an obviously wrong answer has climbed to the number one position, making it appear right, or when someone posts a question or answer that expresses hate speech or obvious bigotry. I know we differ in opinions on this, but I think it is cowardly to DR and not comment on why. The term troll gets bandied about when it doesn't apply, but there is such a...

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This is Republican Radio coming at you. Todatys topics The Democrats wanna kill the old people, the President is not an American,where's his birth certificate?Sponsered by Twin Labs the makers of fine drugs like Oxycontin. Line 1: ques or comment?________ That's a pretty good analysis. There's an old saying that goes, "Nobody ever lost out underestimating the intelligence of the American people. The Republican party seems determined to prove it is possible if only you go low enough.

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Aside from cacti, what are some other ornamental plants that don't need to watered often? Snake plants are quite beautiful and low maintenance.

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When is the human brain more active? During the day or at night? Around the clock, the grey matter works. It's busy even when you are sound asleep and not dreaming. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081008101740.htm

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How long does an average human dream last? I think REM sleep typically occurs 30 to 90 minutes after falling asleep and lasts about an equal time. Most, though not all, dreaming occurs during REM sleep.

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Of the plans currently floating around congress, which is your favorite healthcare reform bill and why? There are not a plethora of plans "floating around". The normal legislative process is for each concerned committee in the House and in the Senate to draft a proposal and then for the entire body to work out a reconciliation before the body votes on the bill. Once the House and Senate approve bills, the two versions go to a joint session for final reconciliation. Only then is...

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Are you threatened by other people's beliefs? Why? I REALLY want the haters to answer this,Please!* Only those who believe they must do something to make me confess the perfection of their beliefs.

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Ok,besides religeous beliefs differring,Why do you go out of your way to drag me out? How is that 'Christ Like?' I'll get Drs,and I don't CARE!* I don't slam your religion, and you will get DRs for asking. :) Wouldn't it be nice of there were more Christians actually following their leader's teachings. Far too many are just in it to look holy to everyone else and fit in. If this gets duplicated, please forgive. AB is asking me to sign in every time I try to submit the answer.

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What is the difference between a chairman and a CEO? Chairman is the head of the board of directors, a committee that meets periodically to help guide a corporation. CEO is an acronym for Chief Executive Officer. The CEO is above the President and all other chief officers of the corporation.

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Congressman Aiken jokes about lynching. Rush calls our Prez a Nazi. Howard was fined 500K for saying Lesbian Joke. Why not fine Big fat drug addict Limbaugh? Why not write to the FCC? I heard his rant. Each one is getting more ridiculous. This one was particularly absurd. One of his 'reasons' liberal Americans are, in his hate-blinded eyes, like Nazis is that Hitler was anti pollution. So to follow this insane 'logic' you have to be pro pollution or you are a Nazi. I really think he's back on the pain killers big time.

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After watching videos of the health care protest, i have yet to see one single person of a minority attend the protest, what is this saying? I noticed that too. In a film of one of the staged protests tonight, I heard one white woman actually tearfully complaining that she was afraid, and she wanted her country back. The fear is clear. A man of a different color is president. A woman of a different color just got confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Poor, downtrodden whites must be loosing control.

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If you could gain the powers of an animal which animal would you choose? (spiders not an option? My answer should be as obvious as yours. :)

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When you have a cold would you rather have a runny nose or a stuffy nose? Neither one's a picnic, but at least with a runny nose you can blow it and then breathe. I had a stuffy head cold once, and used those nasal sprays that open it up for you. What I didn't know is there is a rebound and you need more and more spray to keep things open. After a few days, all bets were off. For about 2 weeks, my head was like a sealed up echo chamber. It was by far the...

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Does beige go with every other color? Funny you should ask. Visit a desert area just after a spring rain when all the wild flowers are in bloom. Human taste dictators rail and rant against color combinations, but nature shows what rubbish they spout.

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How you ever played someone for a fool, then found out, you were the one being played? I'm not a grifter, but I loved watching The Sting.

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If claw-footed bathtubs were alive, would they be nice, or would they try to rip you apart with their claws? What would they eat? Cialis?

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Guess who the people see which president as the bigger failure? I'll give you a hint, it's not Bush. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS291US334&q=miserable+failure&aq=1&oq=miser&aqi=g10

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From those I have met, why is it many gays seem to become more feminine and many lesbians become more masculine. Yet both tendencies are complete reverse of the sex they choose not to love? Why don't gays become more masculine and Lesbians more feminine? Most of them do. You just don't notice them because there is nothing unusual about that.

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"Don't ask me what I think of you...I might not give the answer that you want me to." Great lyrics but do you consistently and honestly tell others what you think of them? If yes why? If no why not? If someone asks, I try to be honest but not needlessly hurtful.