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Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion.
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What used to be the POST by Really Annoyed Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK WASHINGTON POST offers 13-part series on unsolved murder of Chandra Levy And they wonder why newspapers' circulations are plunging. This is crap I wouldn't watch on a free TV newscast, and I certainly wouldn't pay to read it in what used to be the WASHINGTON POST. Really Annoyed  Loads by Sherri B. Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Lawmakers want U.S.-made flags Oh yes this will help LOADS. Sherri B. Quick, polish the proper symbolism (but don't address any of the actual issues) ... Helen & Harry
The problem with evolution by SirJ Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and evolution by SirJ I'm no expert in science either. I am fastidious. Doing an experiment in a lab and calling it "evolution" of traits doesn't change what it really is... artificial selection. Humans have been doing this for thousands of years. You breed a dog with another dog and get... a dog. The new dog will have different traits than the ancestors, you can select what traits you want and make them more dominant. Keep breeding the dogs and you get more dogs. Nobody to my knowledge has ever broken out and created a new species from breeding. Even if they had, naysayers would chalk it up to artificial selection. Darwin's book is called "Origin of Species." It theorizes natural selection creates new species from existing ones. If you want confirmation of the theory, nothing less than creating a new species works for me. Anyway, I didn't find anything in those lab experiments which offers any new support for evolution. There is a problem with the theory of evolution which supporters never seem to talk about. Species are persistent. They have lifetimes in the millions of years despite wide changes in the environment. Natural selection and mutation should cause them to constantly change, but that's not what happens. Consider these changes caused by the last ice age which ended about 8,000 years ago as explained on Wikipedia's ice age page:
So what do we get for all that massive change? Animals migrate! Big whoop. The wooly mammoth didn't make it. What about a whole new pack of species from all this devastating change in the environment? It didn't happen. Until the theory of evolution can explain why species aren't in constant flux, you will easily get objectors who deny there is any change at all. SirJ Until this moment, each and every person I've known who disputed evolution was dumber than sticks. It's entirely different, exhilarating even, to read someone who has doubts but isn't stupid. Helen & Harry
Pissed and f**ked by Don Nash Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK This is the cover of next week's NEW YORKER magazine. The cover is done by one Barry Blitt. Blitt thinks he's being funny. Oh yeah, he's a funny bastard alright. I saw the thing and just got pissed. Yeah, one more thing to get all riled up about. Had Blitt taken some jabs at the McLunatic, maybe his cover could be taken on face value> Shit, I want to do a cover for NEW YORKER magazine. I'd be able to piss off the planet and do it with graphic style and brilliance. Hang on, I'm going to hold my breath and wait.... Please notify next of kin during the interim. Don Nash Hadn't heard that, oy and oy again, and holy crap. Really. The cover of the NEW YORKER. Jesus fuck a duck. Sigh. If that's what the NEW YORKER wants as its face we are so fucked. Helen & Harry Yeah, we're screwed and sideways without the courtesy of Vaseline. Christ, I just hate that! So, the NEW YORKER magazine is going to vilify the Obamas (his and hers), champion the pending nuclearization of Iran (would that be vaporization?), and we's just supposed to sit here on the sidelines and mums the non-word? Oh shit-on-a-fucking-moldy-crisp, I ain't sittin on no goddamned sideline while freaks like the NEW YORKER and the fucking nazionists get away with planetary murder! Oh FUCKIN' A NO WAY! Now we start some serious screaming. Christ, George the fucking genocidal lunatic is GOING TO NUKE IRAN! That stupid as brick shit is going to do it! What in the fuck is America's "military" leadership thinking? Oh wait a minute, oxymoron rears it's butt-ugly head again. Christ, Seymour Hersh works for the NEW YORKER. Wow, does this mean that the nazionists have got to Seymour? Oh shit, that can't be a good thing. Yeah, we're fucked! We are so fucked! Ummm, is it time for that serious bloody civilian uprising? I'm thinking it might be about time to take off the freaking gloves. Oh yes and for the fine treasonous dogs that're reading my emails, FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR ASS-UGLY MAMAS AND ALL YOUR EVEN UGLIER THAN THAT BROTHERS AND SISTERS! YOUR ASS-UGLY PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT AND THE FREAK-UGLY U.S. CONGRESS AND THE COLON-UGLY SUPREME COURT! Of course I'm meaning CIADIAFBIDHSNSA AND THE CLOWNS OF FEMA AND TSA! Gosh, you think you dumb-asses can figure out my meaning? I am so fucking pissed! Don Nash Greedhead's crack by Mr. Chuckles Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and evolution by SirJ After reading Mr. Chuckles' message about GLD now being optionable, I realized Fannie & Freddie as so oversold at this point they would be a much better buy.I won't say that you are wrong about FNM or FRE from a trading viewpoint, having learned the hard way to receive contrary opinions as information to think deeply about — arguing against a contrary opinion often indicates a mental blind spot and foretells losses with nasty consequences. I will mention that the idea of GLD options is something I provided as a "humanitarian gesture". The odds are much more favorable than on a lottery ticket. And if someone had enough money for just one mortgage payment, and then planned to squat and wait for foreclosure, I might say take the option and see if your life changes I don't think of gold as a "good buy". A good buy would be an ounce of stinkweed, or Starbucks gift cards all around for a posse of beautiful women who saved your life by stripping naked and diving in to rescue you from drowning, or somesuch. Gold is horrible, nasty stuff. If you've ever seen an ounce of it, you know it is a joke. It is like a Greedhead's crack. Don't get hooked, is my advice — there is no escape from the addiction. Many men have lost their souls over it. And their lives. Re: FNM/FRE. They're even worse than gold. Here are three articles from today (I favor a government intervention and shutting their asses down as soon as possible as described in the first article): Are we entering a financial meltdown? Fannie, Freddie deflected risk warnings Fannie plan a `disaster' to Rogers; Goldman says sell Mr. Chuckles Galileo and Galapagos by MonkeyMan Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and evolution by SirJ Here is a link, if you really want to pursue it. I think the misunderstanding is that a single individual organism can evolve and that isn't the case. The best example would be to take a look at Darwin's work in the Galapogos Islands with the finches. You can see how that same species evolved into different species in response to different environments and food sources. Evolution is easily verifiable, it just isn't mentioned in the Bible. Remember the church used to believe that the Earth, not the Sun, was the center of the galaxy and imprisoned Galileo for saying otherwise. So now when creationists argue against evolution, global warming etc. I personally don't see that they have any credibility. Hope this helps. MonkeyMan P.S. I personally didn't like Tony Snow, but I feel sad for his family. The revenge angle by JR Mooneyham Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Ex-lawmaker also says Bush sought revenge for assassination try This is actually old news. The revenge angle was being talked about way back in 2002: Bush calls Saddam 'the guy who tried to kill my dad' I had this reference stashed away in The immense risks and appalling costs to humanity of excessive military, intelligence, and security expenditures — and how to reduce both. JR Mooneyham (www.jrmooneyham.com/) Moving on by Herb Ruhs, MD Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Poor man's EMP by The Canadian We should probably move on on beyond the topic of high altitude nuclear explosions, but since I introduced the topic I will (hopefully) be allowed the last word. I agree with the Canadian that the most probable reaction to the use of these few weapons is a land or atmospheric use of nuclear weapons by the US and perhaps the UK and Israel as well. The actual decision makers of these countries have thoroughly proven their insanity and it is reasonable to expect that these troglodytes could strike somewhere (not necessarily at the author of the high altitude explosions) if only in a fit of pique. After all Iraq had nothing to do with A couple of thoughts on this possible retaliatory nuclear strike scenario. First, it might not happen. The disruption after such an attack might very well introduce an element of indecision and delay. Secondly, even if it did happen it would be unlikely to provoke an all out nuclear war with the use of hundreds or even thousands of weapons, unless of course the mad men with their fingers on the buttons decide to attack Russia or China. Anything less than all out nuclear war, which remains an unlikely scenario since the mad men will be unlikely to abandon the hope of retaining some power and would not have an interest in destroying the world they want to enslave, would still be better than remaining on the course we currently are on. Even in the event of limited use of nuclear weapons, as sad and tragic as that would be, the consequences would be less severe than any conceivable scenario that sees the status quo work through to its logical conclusions which will be even more catastrophic as the climate and the environment are irreversibly destroyed (something informed commentators think may have already happened) and thereby creating a realistic threat of the end of our species. Of course some might think that extinction of homo sapiens sapiens is not a bad idea. Not me. Herb Ruhs, MD Bank runs and eavesdropping by Kathy Fisher Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK A while back I asked someone if they saw a run on the banks in the very near future. That person said ''No I don't see this happening''. Wait, you'll see I'm right! I'm certain that the bank we cash our checks in, Wachovia, is on that ''WHO'S NEXT LIST''... There WILL be a run on the banks... U.S. stocks fall; financials drop to lowest in decade Analysts say more U.S. banks will fail
Gee, I wonder how TSA got into their private email! Someone should investigate them.
This could be the next False Flag event that's suppose to make us all forget about the economy and focus on hating the evil ones! Kathy Fisher (klfisher@webtv.net) It takes some serious propaganda spinning to portray the utterly expected human response "If you attack me I'll fight back" as the headline "Iran ready to hit UK" ... Helen & Harry
Another day at the hospital by Cassandra Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Been spending a lot of time at the hospital hanging out with friends whose parents are there. One stepfather [colon cancer] was dismissed on July 4 after spending 3 weeks in bed without aftercare instructions or a walker, and with a tube still connected to his heart and a feeding tube. He'd been keeping down solid food for 48 hours. He took a bad fall his first night home and gashed his head but managed not to reopen his incision. The stepdaughter overheard nurses saying that people were being sent home early since they didn't want to fully staff the holiday weekend, but I'm sure it was insurance too. These are the people who are lucky enough to have insurance. I guess if one has colon cancer and no insurance they toss you out with your guts in one hand and an IV pole in the other after a day or so. Since the bus doesn't stop right there, they might even call a cab, who knows? Cassandra That's a hell of a health horror story ... and certainly it can't be uncommon. Helen & Harry
Fortunately Friend's Stepdad did have a walker and a few things — inherited from a recently deceased relative — at home. The stores that sell medical supplies sure weren't open on the 4th. Of course, one doesn't remember the walker when it's 3 am and the dogs bark and one is drugged out of one's skull...Cassandra Letter to the bank by Siskiyousis Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Low to mid 10,000s by Marlene Now, Revenge on the Bank... Shown below is an actual letter that was sent to an East Coast bank by an 86 year old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the NEW YORK TIMES.
Remember: This was written by an 86 year old woman. And by the way, don't make old ladies mad. They don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss them off. Siskiyousis Our reliable sources at Snopes say it wasn't really written by an 86-year-old woman, but that's mostly irrelevant — it's funny as hell and appreciated. Helen & Harry I had a feeling it was too good to be true; but it is still the sort of letter my mother could and would have written. Like the one she fired off at Truman when he fired MacArthur. Siskiyousis My mom or grandma could've written a letter that might have been almost as funny, but the laughs would've been unintentional, from all the sanctimonious Bible quotes and Christian catchphrases they'd have included. Very, very religious they were, and I got very, very tired of it. On many Sunday mornings, I briefly thank heavens I'm not going to church. Helen & Harry
Easy to forget by Vanekl Tuesday, July 15, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Gut-check: The courage it took to stand up for civil rights by Randall P. It's easy to forget that over a billion people still live with severely curtailed civil rights, and the stakes are just as high (and bloody). Vanekl |
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