and comedian once suggested that we should "embrace" our "genetic differences" and he called it "positive racism".

We only were allowed to stress the "positive sides" of our race - We all agreed but than there was this "problem" with playing basketball together and my jewish cousin took great offense when he wasn't picked for the "black and white" team

and he made us forget about "positive racism".

If acquired characteristics can be inherited after all, I can see it now: Jesus academies with real malice aforethought. Vast Jesus armies descending on the coastal Sodoms and wiping them from the map...

Or unfortunately, it doesn't quite work like that. With your "deep background" in chemical engineering, you may understand the mechanisms and processes involved better than I do. I did suggest the possibility of a kind of two way feedback loop and suffered the derisive taunts and laughter. I had no concept of the mechanisms involved.

We DFH's will be faced with a true existential crisis -- a genetic engineering gap. I wonder if either Hillary or Obama have given this looming catastrophe any serious thought.

O'Hillary are just giving serious thought to winning the nomination. Ambition isn't just a special American virtue we get from the Greeks and Romans. It's hard wired. Perhaps that's why Pessimism hasn't survived the philosophical Darwinism. It prefers to hide from the disorder.

As a white guy with friends of all races, I have often heard my black friends make the argument about the difference(s) between black people and n-word people; they seem to be quite clear about where that line of division is within their own ranks. If seems to follow a pretty similar line to what some white people say about the difference(s) between those two groups. To be completely fair, as a white guy, I have major problems with rednecks...even though we share skin color.

It seems to be a difference that runs along cultural lines, educational levels and financial achievement: the more education and income...the more culturally-conservative people become and the less likely they are to have major differences, imho.

I understand that some white people feel threatened by all black people, but, most of us simply accept people for who they are...irrespective of color. I also know some black people dislike all white people, but, most simply accept us for who we are...irrespective of color.

In the final analysis, we are all more alike than different; hopefully, we can find more common ground than not. The future of our country depends on it, in fact.

I often read you several times.

Each read I chuckle a bit harder.

You didn't 'chop' the other day at another Salon article when the mentioned topic mentioned was the baseball player/coach H. Wagner. He stole base, ran fast, and hit with a ash bat. He was in the Hall of Fame.

Wagner was called a Flying Dutchmen. He ate German Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake.

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You are a flying devil's food cake?

Or you are a angel food pieceofcake?

to be a good meatloving vegetarian.

a nutcase pieceofcake.

There is a Good Humor bakery-farm-truck I'll sell you cheap.

The side wood racks, on a open bed flat back, fits animal livestock.

You can be a butcher for the meat lovers who enjoy The Moose Cake.

For a lazy summer job, dress in black and white, and appear presidential.

You can wear flip flops, sport knee length Bermuda shorts, and having a tattoo?

It's just seems some folk need to be diagnosed? On your forehead? A compliment. nutcase?

Jkalos in responce to LWM/derbig mooser/Settembrin/q8dhimmi/Lisa Michele and probably Proximity Warning also

your questions seem to me to be passing strange. "Will they be as quick to shoot at checkpoints if Obama is elected." Well, I imagine they shoot when they think, mistakenly or otherwise, that their life is in danger. And you ask if they would be so quick to kill civilians if obama was president. Do you think s9ldiers are as it were primed to kill civilians? ...

I went to a move on org demonstrateion the other day with my kids. We stood there and held up a sign that said: support the troops, bring them home. One of the move on people came over and asked: why are you holding up that sign? Don't you know the troops are volunteers who volunteered to kill? When I told her I had been a soldier, what did you think of me, she said: that you were a volunteer murderer too. She then stalked off to the other side of the street to wave her sign.

Will they be less likely to kill civilians if obama is president? I reject the premise of the question (that they are even likely to kill as some sort of sop.)

-- Jkalos

The military men (and a woman) in my family are primed to kill only the "enemy" which by definition is someone from a foreign land that is not properly subservient to America's wishes. I am sure that most soldiers would be reluctant to fire on USA citizens, at least here at home.

How many innocent civilians have been killed by the US military since 1945? With each "war" (congress has not declared one in my lifetime) the percentage of civilian deaths has risen as compared to combatants deaths.

I am left with a very difficult question. Why are the men and women of the US military not guilty of the war crimes committed by the US military? As a soldier who volunteered, do you feel you were part of the killing machine (the greatest the world has seen), or is it enough to say you were just following orders?

I read a report a few years ago on the conditioning that the military uses to make sure that the men will actually shot to kill when in combat. Seems it is more difficult to get soldiers to kill that many had suspected. I'll see if I can locate that one again and pass it on. However, (by memory) it showed that the US military has been very successful in conditioning the men to kill; a higher percentage with each war until it now stands in the high 90s in percentage.

If you take a paycheck from the killing machine; how can you remain innocent?