- Caucasion Jews in Egypt built the pyrimids for their black masters

The enslaved jews were semites, not caucasian, and their masters were a light-brown skinned race without a modern equivalent. The pyramids were long-since built. And slavery long pre-dates that occurrence (indeed, I think it unlikely that humanity as such ever didn't enslave), so they weren't the "original" slaves, either.

- White Christians are regularly sold today to black Muslim masters today in the Sudan

While I wouldn't be surprised if that has happened, I highly doubt it's routine. Sudan is noted for arabic muslims genociding black non-muslims.

Here is the question: In a circumstance like this why/how is the EQUALLY wasted young man supposed to have somehow had the sense that the woman did not want sex?

Absolutely. Any time you voluntarily give up your own judgment, you are still responsible for the ensuing lapses of judgment. This is no different from driving under the influence - if "being under the influence" was a defense against such a crime, how could it ever be prosecuted?

What's the draw here?

You wrote an entry about it, so shouldn't you be able to tell us?

...illegal aliens...are trying to blackmail us...

So you claim that immigrants are going to reveal our secrets if we don't give in? Do you even know what the word "blackmail" means? Why are there so many people promoting English who don't know English?

Pyrian, what I wrote it had nothing to do with languages.

It is the subject at hand, however. Perhaps you're in the wrong section.

I commented on why this is an issue now.

With a claim that is so patently absurd I've had to question your basic understanding of the English language.

Your reading comprehension skills need work.

The breakdown in communication is at your end. You could start by explaining what you meant by "blackmail".

Similarly, I have heard of people who apparently changed sexual orientation in midstream. That is, they were straight for a while- truly deeply straight- and then they became gay- truly deeply gay. How is that possible? Isn't sexual orientation something that happens very early in life and is not subject to change?

A largish river in Egypt springs to mind.

I do not think that what you suggest is at all possible. Moreover, I'm fairly certain it's a meme deliberately spread to tarnish the gay community; fundies want to make it a choice, a disease, something you do or have inflicted upon you rather than the way you're born. It makes it easier to weild homophobia as a political force.

Last I heard, the supposed declining sperm count finding disappeared entirely (as in, there is no such thing happening) when the data was controlled for location.

What shocks me the most about this incident is that he was driving alone. I really did think that all members of Congress had chauffeurs.

We've all heard the conspiracy theory. You don't have to drop it into everything. Have some kool-aid and chill.

So, Kate isn't totally crazy. Take the $19 million and run while you can!

Robert Franklin writes:

Not content with not knowing that 'media' is a plural noun, now Broadsheet has forgotten that 'data' is plural as well. Memo to SER: "The data SHOW..." not "The data shows."

While data and media originated as plural forms of datum and medium respectively, they are also acceptable as singular nouns in their own right. See the usage notes:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=data

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=media

...here is a case that they're not issuing warrants so the probable cause clause of the 4th amendment goes out the window, and you're back to the issue of reasonableness-- as is in "no unreasonable search and siezures".

I don't see why we should be arguing over the minituae of interpretation of the Constitution of the United States when the Supreme Court has long since settled this issue. Warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens is an unreasonable search and therefore unconstitutional - period. Bush has forsaken his oath of office - period.

Isn't that called beer?

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10007026/Beer_Helping_Ugly_People.htm

So, the supporting evidence is a guy who doesn't want the girl, but she convinces him to give it a go anyway, and it turns out his body doesn't want her. Why is that a surprise? Why does that mean anything other than "He's Just Not That Into You"?

And what exactly is the salary for the CEO of a business that shows no profits and sells no services or goods? I think it is probably zero.

Is that some kind of joke? Those sorts of CEO's make bank.

The best way to deal with someone who continuously maintains positions that aren't true is to ignore them.

I remember when liking markets made me right-wing. Now it increasingly makes me left wing. How'd that happen, exactly?

How much I.P. protection is too much?

Anything that goes beyond protecting the I.P. is too much, essentially by definition - and this has NOTHING to do with intellectual property at all. If Eli Lilly has priced their drug so high people aren't willing to pay that price for its benefits, that's Eli's own fault. That's the sort of price strictures markets are supposed to have: you can't profitably sell something for less than it costs to make and distribute [i]or[/i] more than it's worth to the end-user.