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Hopefully this is a case of 'better late than never'...No one would or wanted to listen to the overall always underlying messages of 'hippies'; far too many were only too interested in only profits and war...still hasn't changed enough though. Back then no one would dare talk of the legacy to be left for future generations...at least THAT has changed and people aren't as ridiculed as they were for caring about our planet and our future generations.
In my travels around the world, it was nice to come across many places where the old hippie lifestyles survived and are flourishing, be it in California or up in British Columbia; same for the communes in South America. And it has always been a pleasure to see those communities of the Amish and Mennonites also still trying to retain their natural worlds despite some governments attempts to make them leave, like Mexico.
Hippy chic was once a trend until politics turned the media against anything 'hippie'; hopefully the media isn't as fickle nowadays...more power to the hippies! %)


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...and there is always 'the Charles Whitman solution'....with payback as there seemingly are so many variations of this in the US, moreso than in any other country in the world...


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The other excellent book from William Blum is Rogue State; A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.
Here's another good one for anyone who does like to read:
Invasion Of The Party Snatchers: How the Holy Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP by Victor Gold 2007, published by Sourcebooks Inc.
P.O box 4410 Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410 www.sourcebooks.com
I makes an excellent companion 'twin' to the book 'American Fascists: The Christian Right and The War On America' by Chris Hedges.


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'Soulmate'?? As an old saying goes, 'There ain't no such animal.'
I've abandoned my search for 'the Truth' and a 'soulmate' and decided to look for a good Fantasy; trouble with Fantasies is that they or ourselves, really, are just never as good as what we fantasize about. Tried 'window shopping' in Amsterdam and a few other places...yuk! %)
No, this Life does not come with any guarantees of ever finding someone or even anyone at all; could you imagine what kind of world this could be like if there were a someone for everyone...%D


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Many seem to have latched onto the Cathars and their beliefs, or non-beliefs as far as Christ is concerned and the Virgin Mary, if this is really the source of asking, tons of good books by all 'sides' on the Cathars and the whole question of the Divinity and all the repercussions it has had over the centuries right from the before the Crucifixion. Have fun...%)


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The papers here have been full coverage over England's refusal to bail out Lehman Brothers and how others turned them down. Many more knowledgeable people from Wall St. and experts from around Europe have been interviewed than from what I've seen in the US press. In some cases, not even 2 full paragraphs or interviews with hard questions about the falling housing crisis. The US papers are basically empty of either information or even the topic other than some side-bar 'news briefs'...how typical it's what was labeled as 'benign censorship'...


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Agnosticism is a philosophical theory that holds it is impossible to arrive at a knowledge of reality either because by its nature it is unknowable or because of limits of the human mind. In effect it denies that man by reason can come to knowledge of God and the truths of religion. Agnosticism in all its forms results in reducing man's knowledge to his own sense experience or to his subjective or emotional responses, the most general modern expression was set down by the English biologist Thomas Huxley in 1868, which can be said to hold that the human intellect is not able to come to a knowledge of anything immaterial, especially a knowledge of God and His Nature, as well as the human soul. The correct doctrinal teaching was presented by Vatican Council 1, reasserting the traditional claim of the Church as being in accord with reason.
Vatican Council 2 placed a more modern emphasis, directed toward our technological society: "No doubt today's progress in Science and technology can foster a certain exclusive emphasis on observable data, and an agnosticism about everything else. For the methods of investigation which these sciences use can be wrongly considered as the supreme rule for discovering the whole truth."
There was no shorter way to explain this, try as I may....entire books have been written on this, by the dozens.


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FLASH!! SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN!!
We interrupt the dire and drastic economic news with a message of HOPE: OF FINANCIAL SALVATION!!
The chairmen of the Bulgarian Foundation on Cosmic Research has just unveiled a new unit of currency to be used between extraterretials and Earthlings! This is no joke! The 'Galactos'---a 3 gram coin made from chrome and nickel was unveiled just last week at a conference on UFO's in Sofia, Bulgaria.
"We are offering the galactos as a means of payment between planets. It will represent the Earth in all financial relations in the cosmos," Kiril Kanev told the conference. He is now awaiting an official response to his proposal from the Bulgarian Prime Minister and the UN.
When asked what good will the new unit do for the sinking economies of the West, he is said to have responded," It has to be better than a system without anything to give it real value."

My apologies Healthy, but this just seemed to have been tailored made to fit in with a monetary system that no longer has any serious value and is now solely one based upon debt. Who knows, the galactos can't be any worse can it...%)


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Purely as an educational service to the Forum, and not at all because this involves shoving, poking, slipping, ramed or jamed unwanted and un-needed items up you overdosed friend's anus, I shall now on this very serious and potentially deadly but nevertheless amusing, very serious warning:
Medical experts are now urging and even pleading that strung out partiers not to use "ice cube enemas" to try and revive their friends from any drug overdoses.
Somehow the rumour has been spreading that installing ice cubes up the rectum of someone...anyone suffering from a GHB overdose could help revive them but according to most experts from various National Health Agencies, the various Drug and Alcohol Research centres etc. not only would a ice cube enema do absolutely no good, the practice could be extremely dangerous as putting any object up the ass of anyone who isn't expecting it can cause a condition called "vagal reaction" which can potentially immediately stop blood flow to the brain.
( How do They test this kind of thing??) Never mind, carry on...
This entire matter should not be treated as a joke, each expert added, who also warned that charges of sexual assault could result from anyone tormenting or perceived to be tormenting their friends or even strangers in this way.
"The sight of the incapacitated person(s) with their pants around their ankles having people using various modes of insertion techniques of ice cubes is really beyond humiliating and potentially deadly," they concluded.
Ok.....you can now stop laughing and get up from the floor, okay?
(news.com.au)
Careful when you say 'On the rocks, please...'




An Anal Thread To End All Enemas: Annals of Anals!: click here to read the entire thread »

Purely as an educational service to the Forum, and not at all because this involves shoving, poking, slipping, ramed or jamed unwanted and un-needed items up you overdosed friend's anus, I shall now on this very serious and potentially deadly but nevertheless amusing, very serious warning:
Medical experts are now urging and even pleading that strung out partiers not to use "ice cube enemas" to try and revive their friends from any drug overdoses.
Somehow the rumour has been spreading that installing ice cubes up the rectum of someone...anyone suffering from a GHB overdose could help revive them but according to most experts from various National Health Agencies, the various Drug and Alcohol Research centres etc. not only would a ice cube enema do absolutely no good, the practice could be extremely dangerous as putting any object up the ass of anyone who isn't expecting it can cause a condition called "vagal reaction" which can potentially immediately stop blood flow to the brain.
( How do They test this kind of thing??) Never mind, carry on...
This entire matter should not be treated as a joke, each expert added, who also warned that charges of sexual assault could result from anyone tormenting or perceived to be tormenting their friends or even strangers in this way.
"The sight of the incapacitated person(s) with their pants around their ankles having people using various modes of insertion techniques of ice cubes is really beyond humiliating and potentially deadly," they concluded.
Ok.....you can now stop laughing and get up from the floor, okay?
(news.com.au)
Careful when you say 'On the rocks, please...'


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Been through this too many times; still have one that just won't quit on viewing; must be something pathological with her. Very disturbed.
My sympathies Morgan, there is an insinuated and implied threat there...report him to your work place security people, they will understand. These things in RL are bad enough...%)


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For a wax museum to have the figure of Hitler as posed in his bunker be it in Berlin or anywhere for that matter is a mere representation of that particular time and place in world history as he played a significant part in it, regardless how one views him simply as a human being. If such a thing as a 'Hall of Genocide' existed, it would be filled beyond capacity and would have to be expanded continually as there would never be a shortage of military and political leaders from all around our planet that were more than willing and able to commit genocide but relishded it and gleefully did it. That is simply one of the (unfortunate) realities of history. Be it Cortez or Genghis Khan or Bush for that matter, the passage of Time makes whatever today's generations label as 'genocide' all the more irrelevant to the impact those people have had on later generations.
We are still subjected to the usual inflammatory bizarre stories from various press outlets that Hitler is still alive. It has occured every 3 to 5 years since the end of the shooting phase of WW2. It will gradually lessen as these present generations die off. In another 20 or so years, the press supermarket tabloids will again start up on the imminent return of Hitler as they did during the Falkland's war, with Hitler leading the Argentinian armed forces...(if THAT were true, then that explains why they did so badly!!),just as he did during WW2 when he directly took over command of all German armed forces and executed some of Germany's best generals...and their families at times. But the new angle will be that Aliens have had him in cryogenic deep freeze for when they needed him to return, perhaps along with Cortez, Ghengis Khan, maybe General Custer also!
Many here have their own very personal reasons for not being enthused at the wax museum having him but personal reasons are off no excuse to deny his validity to the history of the times our families lived or had to endure under him.
Many hated him; many loved him. It's always the same with any leader, even Idi Amin Dada...or Bush. Being here has always given myself a rather unique set of circumstances to know both those that personally loved him and especially those who were his bitter enemies and whose family members tried to assassinate him. In my travels, I have met dozens in other countries that have his portrait on their walls, especially in the Middle East and even in Africa...as has been said by a mock-up ad for Coke from Japan showing Hitler raving: 'A bigot and egoist, but not entirely unsympathetic.' 'We Believe'....and on it goes round and round...no big deal.


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LOL!!!!!!!! Oh I love this! %D

BALLET= TUTU'S AS IN GORILLAS IN TUTUS (Swan Lake or Gorilla Lake Ballet)
(THANKS ERNIE KOVACS! %D )


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The first part of the question fits dozens of countries all over the world. Most are 'small' while a few larger ones are relatively very low in population, ie. Tchad, Niger just to name 2 on the African continent. Africa IS NOT a country.
Here in Europe, again the smaller are better in many ways; more homogeneous, virtually no immigrants or the problems they create or they simply do not allow any immigrants into the country, such as Lichtenstein which is a Royal Duchy; The Republic of Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Nordic and Baltic countries.
The larger the country, the more social, economic and Defensive problems they have.
The worst, in Europe, that is a virtual bomb ready to blow is Abkhazia now being occupied by Russian troops, getting ready to clean out all the 'Terrorist' groups based there since the early 90's, especially various 'Muslim' groups. Think of Gotham City from your Batman movies and imagine an entire country/ region like that, run basically by warlords, drug dealers, black marketeers and terrorist groups. It is wide open and have been operating as such with the full knowledge of the Govt. of Georgia for years. It is both the central hub for most drugs , weapons and stolen uranium and other materials for producing atom bombs all for sale to the highest bidders. Now . finally, the Russian Spetsnaz troops will shortly begin cleaning out these groups and people, then 'all hell' may break out, meaning Georgia that has been profiting from all the illegal trades, but other countries including Turkey which has for years been quietly waging a clandestine war against the various drug, weapons and terror groups coming and going from the Abkahzia area near the Turkish border.


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Hard to believe that the ultimate US fascist horror The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood wasn't on that list either...probably her second best favourite (Bet she watches it over and over like Nixon watched Patton...%D
People with warped minds like that need to be removed from any society.


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Very true our reactions often come back and hit us when least expected. Sadly, I don't think most people ever develop a true or deeper understanding of the concept Love but only think of it as the immediate satisfaction of some desparate urge regardless of the emotions of the other person or that love means the purchase of some trinket for someone else to wear almost as a sign of bonded servitude...empathy is the least understood or accepted it seems...


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It's not the word or concept of Love nor the bond to it in all its wonderful meanings that is weak; it is , sadly, the people and many have lost their faith in it or have let it die out of neglect...it takes too much time and effort...


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BRAVO! BRAVO FOR YOU!! 'Adulthood' was never cracked up to be what any of us ever saw in the Previews; those were deceptive if adulthood were a movie, it would be a bomb as in a flop, not as in 'a blast'. I'd give it a minus 5 stars.%D (not even a good soundtrack either!)


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Perhaps John Fogerty will let the use Long Dark Night or maybe Somebody Help Me....then of course he could ask, as in ASK FIRST for a song from Tom Waits...%D If all else fails, hey, there is Alvin and the Chipmunks; they even did a Heavy Metal Album a while back! And it can be played both forwards and backwards !


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NEVER in anyway shape or form did I say he was, they were and are being ridiculed for lack of experience...and what people may think about who or what he may have been or not been is only AFTER the fact which has nothing to do with my comparison. Kennedy was certainly no Nixon and Nixon was nothing but a clown with shaky jowls and a bad reputation of changing sides...like all other politicians Kennedy was only the opening act to Clinton and Lewinsky as that seems to have been their main preoccupation while in the white house...%D real politicians.


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