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legion —
What I find troubling is the ongoing campaign to toss out all kinds of shards to portray Obama as somehow alien, based on nothing. A freudian slip? Come on. We’ve got talking points out there about Obama the muslim, Obama the antichrist, Obama the liberation theologian (Catholic), Obama who spent too much time in a church with an allegedly anti-american minister, and Obama the non-religionist. What you won’t find is an easy way to separate the people saying each of these things, which are highly inconsistent with each other. It’s just a matter of throwing enough sh*t against the wall to see what sticks. I don’t think anyone advancing these points is seeking to do so out of honest inquiry and I don’t really think your freudian slip question is an intellectually honest one, either. I think it is yet another talking point that we will be seeing more of in the media. It may well do a little bit of damage, but not because there is any truth or integrity behind it. P.T. Barnum would be proud of what our politics looks like these days.
that is the SNOBBIEST township in new jersey btw! also we do not retreat, as a country, from embracing the metric system. it’s still used for the most part in the sciences and manufacturing, engineering, medicine, etc, where it’s useful and matters.
sorry but im not walking into a supermarket deli counter and asking for 3 hectograms of baloney.
I’m with DCB. I don’t see any connection b/w the recurrence in nature of the fibonacci sequence and the existence or non-existence of god. There are plenty of pattern in nature. This particular one just happens to be very pretty. Legion can you connect these for us?
Agree, Pete. I remember in grammar school the big push to convert to The Metric System. And just as quickly the push died, without explanation.
*rob*, I love chocolate milk. Occasionally, I’ll treat myself to a Starbucks cafe mocha (or something like that) because it tastes like chocolate milk.
I did not go to the auction but did visit the house on Douglass. Auction was held on premises today. The seller provided virtually no info, such as was the property to be sold free and clear?
Anyway, house had crappy renovation and little if any charm. Still curious what happened though.
“while i kinda agree, at the same time that is not always the case. if you are a satanist and don’t attend black masses or whatever they are called you are shunned and not considered of their faith or whatever they call it.”
That would be a church problem, not a question of religious belief. A church can ask all sorts of things of it’s members. And a member may or may not comply/participate. But that may still have nothing to do with the internal spiritual/religious BELIEFS of that person.
their was article in paper last week about some road signs in arizona still with the km distances. Which had me thinking lately, how that was a pretty stupid thing for this country to do –retreat from going metric—.
Am not lending the $.. The guy has just some sort of semi-autobio book published where not nice to his family , upbringing. So I think his father -who is really rich – live on waterfront in Rumson,NJ – has cut off money. (this coworker is about 50)
legion —
What I find troubling is the ongoing campaign to toss out all kinds of shards to portray Obama as somehow alien, based on nothing. A freudian slip? Come on. We’ve got talking points out there about Obama the muslim, Obama the antichrist, Obama the liberation theologian (Catholic), Obama who spent too much time in a church with an allegedly anti-american minister, and Obama the non-religionist. What you won’t find is an easy way to separate the people saying each of these things, which are highly inconsistent with each other. It’s just a matter of throwing enough sh*t against the wall to see what sticks. I don’t think anyone advancing these points is seeking to do so out of honest inquiry and I don’t really think your freudian slip question is an intellectually honest one, either. I think it is yet another talking point that we will be seeing more of in the media. It may well do a little bit of damage, but not because there is any truth or integrity behind it. P.T. Barnum would be proud of what our politics looks like these days.
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Rumson,NJ
that is the SNOBBIEST township in new jersey btw! also we do not retreat, as a country, from embracing the metric system. it’s still used for the most part in the sciences and manufacturing, engineering, medicine, etc, where it’s useful and matters.
sorry but im not walking into a supermarket deli counter and asking for 3 hectograms of baloney.
*rob*
I’m with DCB. I don’t see any connection b/w the recurrence in nature of the fibonacci sequence and the existence or non-existence of god. There are plenty of pattern in nature. This particular one just happens to be very pretty. Legion can you connect these for us?
Agree, Pete. I remember in grammar school the big push to convert to The Metric System. And just as quickly the push died, without explanation.
*rob*, I love chocolate milk. Occasionally, I’ll treat myself to a Starbucks cafe mocha (or something like that) because it tastes like chocolate milk.
I did not go to the auction but did visit the house on Douglass. Auction was held on premises today. The seller provided virtually no info, such as was the property to be sold free and clear?
Anyway, house had crappy renovation and little if any charm. Still curious what happened though.
By Biff Champion on September 20, 2010 3:32 PM
Without the Beatles, there would have been no Fibonacci.
We can tell you are working in the Dungeon with the Fibonacci reference. Have you noticed yet anyone on the desk doing any of the following?:
1) Clipping their fingernails
2) Shaving
3) Flossing
4) Spitting mouthwash into their wastepaper baskets
“while i kinda agree, at the same time that is not always the case. if you are a satanist and don’t attend black masses or whatever they are called you are shunned and not considered of their faith or whatever they call it.”
That would be a church problem, not a question of religious belief. A church can ask all sorts of things of it’s members. And a member may or may not comply/participate. But that may still have nothing to do with the internal spiritual/religious BELIEFS of that person.
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Kool-Aid was probably the only beverage available to people in the projects in New Jersey.
:-/ um we also had Tang and soda. never been a fan of soda tho, i mostly stuck to chocolate milk.
*rob*
their was article in paper last week about some road signs in arizona still with the km distances. Which had me thinking lately, how that was a pretty stupid thing for this country to do –retreat from going metric—.
Am not lending the $.. The guy has just some sort of semi-autobio book published where not nice to his family , upbringing. So I think his father -who is really rich – live on waterfront in Rumson,NJ – has cut off money. (this coworker is about 50)