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Saturday, January 19, 2008 05:39 PM

tina schrier

You answer my qestions first and then I'll answer yours.

This is the *third* time I've asked these questions and I predict that you will still not give me a straightforward answer.

I note that you never answered my questions. Do you think construction workers are "screwed up" because they risk their life every day at work?

How about soldiers and Marines, are they "screwed up"?

I predict that you will not give a straightforward answer to these questions.

Saturday, January 19, 2008 05:45 PM

Construction workers, give me a break Aycharayach!

Ever done construction work?

Some of it is incredibly nasty, you breathe poisonous fumes and are subject to extreme heat and cold all day.

I've had zinc poisoning from welding on galvanized steel in an enclosed area.. Feels like a really bad case of the flu with some added symptoms.

I've also had my corneas blistered from being exposed to UV from welding. Feels like someone threw sand in your eyes and you can't get it out. Also that helps lead to cataracts later.

My brother in law died from heavy metals poisoning, he worked in a machine shop that made sputtering targets for the semiconductor industry.

I've worked in a chrome shop where we had literally tens of thousands of gallons of heated cyanide solutions bubbling all around.

Saturday, January 19, 2008 06:10 PM

Cynical men and mercenary women

Have you ever noticed though that men who pay money for sex--or even frequent strip clubs can be very cynical about the mercenary ways of women. They pay for sex--but they often are also bitter toward all women....notice the post down below.

I guess I'd better go ahead and tell you that I'm a happily married grandfather of two girls and a boy. First marriage for both of us and we will celebrate our thirty first anniversary in a couple of months.

Yes, I agree that a lot of men are cynical about women. I don't think either party is free from blame though.

Relationships are hard and require constant effort. But that is not the picture that is painted in the media for the most part. Both men and women have unrealistic expectations about relationships and I blame a lot of it on the fantasy world portrayed in the media which many people mistake for reality.

I used to work in a job which happened to bring me to meet quite a few strippers. What really amazed me was how many of these women were good looking and surprisingly intelligent and yet had boyfriends who were major jerks. Usually good looking guys but jerks..

Women say they want sensitive caring guys who will treat them as partners but a lot of them belie that with the men they choose to associate with.

Part of the problem is that most sensitive caring guys assume that a woman is already partnered and they don't approach them, the jerks don't care and will hit on any woman.

Men also have their problems, the media hold forth an absolutely unrealistic standard of feminine beauty that virtually no real woman can match. Men are evolutionarily programmed to respond visually somewhat more than women are although a lot of women have unrealistic physical standards also.

It's generally thought that men want sex while women want intimacy. I'm not really sure things are as cut and dried as that. In our culture men are taught to be tough and macho and to express a desire for intimacy is definitely not tough or macho.

A lot of our problems are cultural and those problems are almost universally made worse by the opressive media domination of our cultural milieu.

Saturday, January 19, 2008 06:26 PM

Martin Gifford

Because they are Glenn’s claims, so he has to prove it. They are not King’s or CNN’s claims. That’s obvious, isn’t it?

Can you think of any way that Glenn could conclusively prove that those four questions were the only ones King asked?

On the other hand can you think of any way that King and/or CNN could conclusively prove that there were other questions asked during the interview.

King could very easily have sent a link in his email to the rest of the questions that he asked, if they exist. That King did not do so, despite the fact that it would have made his defense of his interview far stronger, is fairly solid proof that there were in fact no other questions of a more rigorous nature.

By the way, I think you missed the fact that the title of the piece was sarcasm.

Saturday, January 19, 2008 06:31 PM

Kitt

Do you deny that hundreds of thousands of people every year are locked in cages for the simple posession of a common weed?

Saturday, January 19, 2008 06:37 PM

Chris

One side will advance one idiotic petty illogical arugment one day to defend their sides' wrong doing and the next day they will bemoan the use of the same idiotic petty illogical argument by the other side to defend their guy. No one is consistent.

Everyone is the hero in their own story.

If you have raised kids then you know that being consistent is quite possibly the most difficult part of the process, and possibly the most important.

This is hardly a new character flaw in human beings.

Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Saturday, January 19, 2008 07:11 PM

Kitt

Do you deny that hundreds of thousands of people every year are locked in cages for the simple posession of a common weed?

Saturday, January 19, 2008 07:27 PM

Chris

Our politicians can say anything- and not matter how absurd, false, illogical, and implausible- our press will report it straight faced without judgement or question.

I guess you haven't watched Democrats getting interviewed on Fox, eh?

Saturday, January 19, 2008 07:32 PM

tina schrier

This is the *fourth* time I've asked these questions and I predict that you will still not give me a straightforward answer.

I note that you never answered my questions. Do you think construction workers are "screwed up" because they risk their life every day at work?

How about soldiers and Marines, are they "screwed up"?

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