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To everyone out there, I sincerely hope that you have a very joyous Holiday Season, your kids appreciate the time of year, and that you don't get too wrapped up in the commercial side and remember what this time of year SHOULD mean... ETA: Many disclaimers where thought of, written (typed in)...

I am. Wish they could have told me before today.

The Unthinkable Has Happened Britney Spears has filed for divorce. Story Amazing. They provide a link to the actual divorce petition. I'm just plain shocked. I don't know about the rest of you.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-duckett1806sep18,0,7743764.story?coll=orl-home-headlines according to an e-mail from someone down in Florida: More on missing boy with additional links to earlier stories. He has been missing three weeks...

Is American Golf courses worth the lives lost through lightning strikes? Face it!! Too many loose their lives on the golf course by being hit by lightning. I say "Begone!!" to golf and rid America of this unsafe activity. Not to mention all the golfers that loose their lives driving to and...

In post 133 of this thread, Claus says that some people should be suspended from politics, I say that politicians should indeed be suspended, from a rope over a vat of boiling oil. Which side of the issue do you stand on.;)

I mean, just look at him!! He looks like a puppet, for Pete's sake!! And if Willie ever got his hand where this guy's is, he'd be pulling back a bloody stump! HAH!!

Let me know, one way or the other. Oh, and there's a 4 page thread in Banter on the subject of you checking your PMs too, if you want a bit of entertainment.

I just re-read this. I found it at a yard salel for a quarter. I first read it as a teen. I enjoyed it then but not as much as I enjoyed it as an adult. The irony of the book completely escaped my young senses, but not not my adult ones. Just wondering if anyone else has, as an adult v...

....more folks from the political end going this time. Here is the thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1491111#post1491111 It'll be January 2007 and in Las Vegas (the Riveria) Now that is more than enough time to make your arrangements. This year Randfan...

The childhood game of tag has been banned by a school in Washington state, as well as some other schools around the country. Link to video, can't find a text version... http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player05.html?022006/022006_springer_tag&FNL&Tag%20Ban&acc&Only%20on%20FOX&-1 A 3rd grade...

"Earthship" has said a final farewell to one of the really Good Guys -- Dennis Weaver, dying today at 81. The TV actor with a Midwestern twang played stiff-legged Chester the deputy on "Gunsmoke" and the cowboy cop hero in "McCloud"...

Yet another example of the inherent flaw in the Wikipedia model. The "self-regulating" model simply doesn't work, and this case is another prime illustration of that fact. Along with the fact that the powers that be either aren't capable or aren't interested in admitting to and dealing with...

So you're in a bar and you meet an incredibly attractive man/woman (that is a man or a woman not a manwoman..although there was that time in Beijing..ah sweet memories..anyway), the kind of person you can imagine marrying then and there, fall nto their eyes and swim around yada yada yada...

I just finished reading an article on Marilyn's death (this month's Playboy mag...which also has a great interview with Pacino and another good read on Super Bowl tix bookies.) I'm not an expert (although I admit to being a Forensic Files junkie), there were a few points that the article brought...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4313118.stm I'm... well, I'm somewhat skeptical of his claims. I wonder if this gentleman will be able to provide any solid evidence to back up his story.

(Or, what's the point of Kumar?) Let's have a poll on our shiny new forum. I think we should restrict our consideration to Kumar's recent posts.

Hi all, I recently had a conversation with a friend who is getting married. We were discussing potential wedding dates. I got married on September 12th 2003, and the bride-to-be stated that that date might be OK but September 11th would be a definite no-no, because it would 'make her feel...

Interestingly, in France outsourcing is not banned, but you cannot lay off workers because you've outsourced their jobs. By contrast, in the US that's precisely the reason for doing it. Currently France's unemployment is 10 percent, the US is 5 percent, but people not registering with the...

Tricky question, isn't it? Sure, freedom of speech is important - nay, vital. But just where do we draw the line? Can an open society accept a long string of lies and falsehoods, if that means that people are deceived? Can we not demand of those who claim to tell us the truth that they...

This is just a hypothetical but I was involved in a rather long debate about it last night, and was curious as to what others thought. Here is the problem: If all humans were to suddenly vanish, except for those 5 years and younger, would they survive to eventually bring civilization back and...

Hello all, Can reading post by Kumar effect under scientifically? Many people respond reflection of Kumar from light photons from screens entity wavelengths with response. What is light on body not homeopathy. Which way atom flung with under magentics. How response resolve somewhat question...

"Passengers stopped a charter bus from plunging nearly 200 feet off a bridge after the driver collapsed, apparently from a heart attack. The bus was near the top of the Sunshine Skyway bridge Wednesday afternoon when Thomas Grove, 61, fell out of his seat, passengers and authorities said. It...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/11/no.cartwheels.reut/index.html Arguably she should be suspended for not following the rule but that just begs the question of why the rule was there. CBL

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If you have a second chance to choose.

Patrick has such a clearly defined racist xenophobic white-Americentric viewpoint that it is completely impossible to take anything he says seriously. He claims to have two science degrees, yet can't back up this claim - not even with the returned check made out to 'Degrees R Us". He thinks...