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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:34 AM

it makes sense to kill and eat things that there are too many of and that need to be culled as a result

of changes people have made in the environment such as suburban deer and geese or introduced feral hogs, but don't let some half wit "salt of the earth" "rugged individualist" or psychotic burn out like Nugent trying to turn all of Alaska into an overstocked moose ranch by killing off all the predators so that meth heads in places like Wasilla will be able to feed themselves intimidate you.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 01:03 AM
Original article: Disney girl gone wild?

there is a serious effot under way to raise the age of consent for some sexual interactions to age 21

it doesn't seem like a big step from there to treat a 25 year old as a child too.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:06 AM

gay men are in the same position as women in that the only thing standing in the way of them doing anything/everything they want

is more attractive men, so it makes sense that they would have a similar reaction.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:19 AM

I know you hate to admit it

but you have to concede that this exchange proves I'm pretty much right about pretty much everything.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:28 PM

"It's no worse for [DurianJoe] to eat an animal than for a tiger to eat an animal."

How about "it's no worse for Durian Joe to kill off the babies that a woman he'd like to mate with has so she will have to fuck him to have more". I'm not a vegetarian by the way but this is a ludicrous argument and frankly I'm surprised to see you using it.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:32 PM

Animals were created to be a food source

From the point of view of a guinea worm humans were created to be a host too. All animals violently compete with members of their own species; humans deriving all their food from sources which don't suffer is no more unnatural than ending war and murder. (Again given the current state of things some animals DO need to be killed by people).

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 06:01 PM

I kind of would like to eerradicate you right now

If one out of a hundred or for that matter one out of a thousand women chooses to give birth to a female child rather than a male child (or are a member of a lesbian couple using the stem cells of one to create artificial sperm) and if this small imbalance persists over time you will get your wish. Not soon enough for you to benefit personally I know, but I can see how altruistic you are.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 06:13 PM

they may refine the ideas but the emotions underlying them don't change much

well they do change but mostly only as a result of hormonal changes. So the difference, at least for quite a while, really amounts mostly to a matter of successful camouflage.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 07:02 PM
Original article: Obama surfs through

i'm not sure if reading this is going to make all Camilles right wing fans feel better

or much much worse. I'm guessing maybe the latter but I've been seeing the bright side of everything since Tuesday.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 08:52 PM
Original article: Obama surfs through

When will the gushing end?

Did you do that on purpose. OMG too much!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 09:13 PM

I don't believe it is the fact that men are attracted by our appearance that so bothers us, but that they think about us as parts.

That still leaves a lot unexplained, since I think I can speak for most straight men when I say I think I could probably find a way to live with myself even if confronted on a regular basis with women obsessed with my dick. Gay men in the equivalent position seem to manage alright, or so I hear.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:02 PM
Original article: Obama surfs through

As a died in the wool Conservative

that sounds about right

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:11 PM
Original article: Obama surfs through

palin is probably no dumber than Bush and if she wanted to make the effort to learn

she probably would have been able to do what Bush did EXCEPT for the fact that his/and hers brand of incurious good old boy/girl smirking fanaticism has ALREADY BEEN RECENTLY TRIED with less than impressive results. I do think she could manage a gig on FOX or elected office in a red backwater but I doubt she could get anywhere nationally unless she finds a way to put some serious distance between herself and her crazy cult. I have to say though I don't find her any MORE disturbing than I have found Bush the last 8 years.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:36 AM

she is DISABLED because she is lazy fat pig who refused to rein herself in and I have to take care of her AKA

would you complain about an "abused" man who got drunk every night and pissed all over the house if his wife had a bad attitude towards him because of it? The situations are equivalent. This is an hilarious example of exactly the kind of female self absorbtion that lots of people complain about.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:51 AM

she isn't that disabled but her piggishness has had huge practical negative effects on our lives and health

would a woman who complains about an incontinent drunk be an abuser?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:54 AM

It's hilariously presumptuous of you to assume that someone who lives with a problem wouldn't know anything about it

rapists and child molesters, as well as drunks and drug addicts all have reasons for why they are the way they are. Doesn't mean that aren't responsible for controlling themselves if they are mentally competent and aware.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:03 PM

if a person can ONLY get off by raping someone of fucking a kid they are obligated to go without

some people can only eat very little or they will be disabled fat pigs. Like you have said, life isn't fair.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:05 PM

obviously if I had a solution the problem wouldn't

exist.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:10 PM

I wonder how people with disabilities and fatal diseases which CAN'T be completely cured by the willingness to experience a little frustration

would feel about your exquisitely advanced levels of sensitivity and awareness.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:12 PM

actually I don't call her a fat pig all the time, what would be the point

but she knows the real situation. How could she not.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:42 PM

It is her fault I choose to stay with her. So why shouldn't she pay for it

Under the circumstances (not only weight related) she can't really be abandoned, but there would be a lot more options for both of us to deal with things if she would accept the need and appropriateness of going hungry. Suppose a sleep walking child molester either wakes up horny or wakes up knowing he molested a child while sleepwalking. Any decent human being would be HAPPY to wake up frustrated under those conditions and UNHAPPY to be any other way. What we need is a way to induce anorexia in fat people that can be turned off after it has done it's job.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 01:06 PM

and you my dear are a text book self absorbed self righteous

idiot. Seriously most people are "sociopaths" towards some people (criminals, enemies, etc) the difference is that sociopaths are "sociopathic" towards socially inappropriate targets. An interesting question is how much people would, or would not, change their "targeting" based on changed circumstances or different information.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 01:24 PM

isn't that the point

to see what is really going on

Thursday, November 13, 2008 01:15 AM

Once a person doesn't know where they, what they are doing are or is incontinent

they need to be in a facility. If someone wants to become the manager of a family nursing home for one, which the LW obviously doesn't, they can but no one is obligated to do this. Everyone needs to make a clear distinction between "helping out" and taking care of someone who needs professional care. It needs to be done by a professional, that is why they call it that.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 01:28 AM

it's true that women do most of the care but it is also true that men try a lot harder than women to take care of themsleves

old men, unless they have alzheimers, tend to push themsleves to keep going until they keel over.

Friday, November 14, 2008 12:22 AM

for many years it has been obvious that some pro choice women regard male involvement in the (potential) prohibition of abortion

with as much, or nearly as much, unhappiness as the prohibition itself. If even liberal women can only manage lukewarm opposition to a theocratic police state provided women are running it we are probably going to be in trouble.

Friday, November 14, 2008 08:31 AM

Afghanistan is not Iraq, the Taliban/Al-Quaida govt. of Afghanistan attacked the US on 9-11

The refusal of some to acknowledge this has made a real contribution to enabling the right wing wilding of the past eight years.

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