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[the man in the video]

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I'm not sure your post was written in English.

So the man in the video isn't the greatest Elvis impersonator on the planet - I still think not recognising a pretender to the throne [up itself ref to Elvis as the King who died on his throne & to the impersonator as a pretender] is a bit harsh [Fixed for the literally minded ]

And I did not write it in English, wherever that is, I wrote it in bloody Pembrokeshire

So he isn't the greatest impersonator on the planet - I still think not recognising a pretender to the throne is a bit harsh

Actually I'm kind of surprised that the Mail would even touch this one -  unless, of course, they are going to start a campaign to have those of us with 'defective' amygdalas removed from the gene pool.

And ammo for anyone arguing with anyone who pooh poohs any thing that they read in the Mail heres a link to UCL's own quiet trumpet blow
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1012/10122301

[international financial transactions]

An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082

Somehow this makes me squirm uncomfortably.

I'm picturing a bunch of old dudes like that shadow conspiracy group from the X-Files.  All gathering together at some British location, sipping tea, and plotting how to take over the world with aliens. 

Well, as long as they use aliens. 

But us Brits are aliens Charley

daily mail.

Yep but that just makes it sweeter,

oh and Charley, if Memnoch gets agressive thats just the clincher . . .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342239/Brain-study-reveals-right-wing-conservatives-larger-primitive-amygdala.html


It will be interesting to see whether this survives peer review.

If they can establish exactly what is causing the effect they believe they have identified then maybe we are going to have to reconsider aspects of our current definitions of what a "real drug" actually is . . . god knows we may even have to accept that there may be something "scientific" in homeopathy; crazy as that sounds

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Three Dicks and no Dickens - I like this list already . . .  














But what is it a list of?

ETA aaah its the 100 best kill list 

Yes, srsly.

Thanks for the link Cram. I'm the only guy in the world who has never seen Donnie Darko. It surprises everyone who discovers the fact.

If you are the only guy then I guess I must be the only gal. I tried, no I really, really, tried. But it just sucked so hard that I couldn't.

eta: a sparkle motion is what your pet sparkle vampire will leave on your carpet if you don't throw it outside a few times a day.

I question your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

I guess you just had to be there, hunh??

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Adam Weishaupt Society. See O:MF. Since it's so believable to be a current day thing, and even fooled us old skeptics, in a new form it would make some pretty good fake news.

D'oh. . /bangs head on desk/ - some days I am too dumb to breathe, lol. I was actually tempted to go play devil's advocate in the AWS thread but here seems more appropriate now. I just wondered whether creating fake news and having it unwittingly picked up and brought back by a PeeDeer as real news would be a stunning success or a miserable failure; or both.

I once spent over ten years researching around an historical hoax and the one conclusive thing that stuck out for me was that you can never clear the waters once you have muddied them. Hoaxes are like bushfires, you can stamp them out in one place but they will flare up somewhere else when you are not looking. Once material exists it will continue to be cited long, long, after it has been categorically disproved. And spreading hoaxes is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, you know that you can't fool all of the people all of the time but you also know that you can fool some of the people all/some of the time, and that is all it ever takes to disseminate BS.

Relating to the OP I ploughed my way through several hundred virtually identical refs to the original story Roger quoted and the thing that struck me was that many of them were passing on a faulty version which described the older son as 31 instead of 3 when the daughter was 17 months. Very few of them even commented on this huge discrepancy in ages and they obviously hadn't taken the time to check the original. This is, of course, totally predictable.

Bottom line. I have a vested interest in not waking up with a gun in my face some morning to be dragged off to Re-education Camp because some dumb jerk spread a chinese whisper that discordians are a "dangerous cult" and some equally dumb jerks thought that we needed to be rounded up and sorted out.

[I can think of nothing more unmanageable than an inquiry into a man's religious, spiritual and ethical creed. There is no catalogue of tolerable beliefs. Nor would the nature of man permit one, for man is inherently intolerant as to matters unknowable, and the intensity of his intolerance is twin with the intensity of his views....]

As we speak

I still don't get it??

ALSO

This information is from the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy. http://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/article_view/article_id/2435?pg=9

New Jersey Court Case: The Adoption of E
IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF "E", A CHILD, BY JOHN P. BURKE AND CYNTHIA D. BURKE, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS

Supreme Court of New Jersey

59 N.J. 36; 279 A.2d 785
July 1, 1971, Decided

JUDGES:
For reversal -- Chief Justice Weintraub and Justices Jacobs, Francis, Proctor, Hall, Schettino and Mountain. For affirmance -- None. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Proctor, J. Weintraub, C.J. (concurring). Weintraub and Jacobs, JJ., concur in result.

"...it is unnecessary for us to consider plaintiffs' further contentions that the trial court's decision denied both them and the child "E" equal protection and due process of law. The judgment of the trial court is reversed. Since the sole ground for denying the adoption was the Burkes' beliefs regarding religion and it is clear from the record that they are otherwise fit, we grant the adoption in the exercise of our original jurisdiction. See R. 2:10-5; In re Adoption by B, supra, 63 N.J. Super. at 104.
Judgment is entered in accordance with this opinion. ...

I can think of nothing more unmanageable than an inquiry into a man's religious, spiritual and ethical creed. There is no catalogue of tolerable beliefs. Nor would the nature of man permit one, for man is inherently intolerant as to matters unknowable, and the intensity of his intolerance is twin with the intensity of his views....

No matter how it is phrased or explained, an inquiry into religious, spiritual and ethical views can mean no more than this, that a man or a woman is unfit, or a bit unfit, to be a parent, natural or adoptive, if his or her thoughts exceed the tolerance of the mortal who happens to be the judge in a placement bureau or in the judiciary. I find such an inquiry to be as offensive as it is meddlesome and irrelevant to the true issue."

my emphasis

The full article is considerably longer and well worth a look for the legal background it gives.

Alan Duncan gets very touchy about his second home.  Lots of questions about expenses are mandatory.

Ask Blunkett why Blair can apologize for treading on his dog's ear but not the Iraq War.  Also ask him if he still thinks shooting rioting prisoners is the right approach to prison discipline.

Telll Simon Hughes that funds await him in a Swiss bank account if he is prepared to overthrow Nick Clegg in a bloody coup, take control of the Lib Dems and cause the coalition to fall.

Ask George Young, in these exact words "have the number of homeless people you step over when you come out the opera increased or decreased since the recession?"

^ This is the best fucking laugh I've had all year - props Cain

also BDS get asking; I await the news reports with some interest

 . . . for "remixing" how about reforging - being as how it was a fake/forgery in the first place

MMIX obsessive word gamer

Fucking Brits spell license wrong. Just like color.

Old meme is old - and we can tell the difference between a verb and a noun