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by Maria
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:46 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: John McCain question
Replies: 55
Views: 59233

Military people get reassigned every 3 years or sooner. People are always coming and going. You rarely finish out your 3 years in one place with the same people you started with. Just getting a command in a downsizing, peace time environment was an accomplishment- there is a lot of competition for s...
by Maria
Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:30 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: John McCain question
Replies: 55
Views: 59233

They were led by someone else after he left. The whole tone of a command will change with the commander.
by Maria
Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:06 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: John McCain question
Replies: 55
Views: 59233

I was an officer in the Army. My husband was too. We went to school together, and I got top grades and he got mediocre grades. However, when it came to leading people and winning their hearts and minds, he was head and shoulders above me in talent. The unit he lead loved him and when he left the ser...
by Maria
Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:44 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
Replies: 3054
Views: 706292

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Oh gag. :( Obama loses points with me for this. Lets blur religion and state some more. :roll:
by Maria
Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:37 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: Sidebar Regarding Wes Clark's Comments About McCain
Replies: 78
Views: 87889

Gee, vison, anything a god wants, a god gets. So whoever wins, God must have either wanted it, or was indifferent.
by Maria
Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:42 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Education Discussion (was "Has Respect Been Eroded?)
Replies: 244
Views: 68190

Societies cycle. There are predictable shifts in the way each generation reacts to situations. There are four main steps in the US repeating social history. We are just finishing up with an "Unraveling" defined as: "a downcast era of strengthening individualism and weakening instituti...
by Maria
Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:13 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

Stars are intelligent life forms! Didn't you know that Prim?






;)
by Maria
Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:04 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

Backtracking a bit- for the record, horses aren't the only form of animal transport. They are more like the sports cars of the genre (or the semi truck, with draft breeds). Oxen can pull heavier loads longer, they're just slower. And yes, if civilization falls, I'll be teaching our cows to pull a ca...
by Maria
Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:39 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

...end up living in the same neighbourhood as somebody who wouldn't mind driving a pair of fine Clydesdales to work each day or rolling many shopping trips into one in exchange for cleaner air. ( Do realize that I am applying some hyperbole here. ) Yeah, no one would drive 2 Clydesdales to work! Th...
by Maria
Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:33 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

I think it's interesting that has been only one hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006 and 2007, and that was just the little pop-up storm of Humberto. It was over with almost before it made the news. Of course, this lack of hurricanes has probably caused the severe drought of the SE states, so it'...
by Maria
Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:48 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

solicitr wrote:There's no shortage of farmland or potential farmland around here.
There will be some day, unless the population stops growing.
by Maria
Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:01 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

Suburbs are terrible because they take so much decent farmland out of production. The sanest thing I ever saw was when I lived in Germany and there were no real suburbs. The crop lands ran right up to the city edges and multistory people dwellings started right there . Strict zoning enforced conserv...
by Maria
Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:05 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

hal wrote:The physicists talking about black holes are not telling me how to live my life.
I object to physicists experimenting with creating black holes on an inhabited planetary surface! :rage:

A pet peeve of mine. If it worked, it could go so terribly wrong.
by Maria
Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

DDT naturally causes eggshell problems. :suspicious:

In my opinion, unless something is supernatural, it's natural.
by Maria
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:14 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 959
Views: 284659

"Warmers"
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
by Maria
Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:40 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
Replies: 3054
Views: 706292

I like McCain because he strikes me as a genuinely honorable man. He does what he thinks is right, despite what the party tells him to. He's sincerely brave, and was awfully handsome pre-Vietnam. (I know looks shouldn't count for anything, but WOW! And he's still cute, eons later!) He's a good perso...
by Maria
Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:22 pm
Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
Replies: 3054
Views: 706292

*yawns, wakes up, peeks back into political world*

Hey! Obama is the Democratic candidate? Cool! If he takes Clinton as VP, though, I'm voting for McCain. Otherwise, I still can't make up my mind between the two. This is great. :) Either one is fine with me for prez.
by Maria
Tue May 27, 2008 4:33 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Free Gun with every car...
Replies: 36
Views: 13436

If I were worried about home defense, I would choose a shotgun loaded with rock salt. Less messy, I'd think... and less permanent. I miss my dog, though. She used to let us know when anyone even paused at our driveway, much less started to drive up it. Now she's dead, and my other two dogs just wag ...
by Maria
Fri May 23, 2008 8:39 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: How young?
Replies: 23
Views: 14843

My son was reading Tarzan novels at 7, so my judgement in such things is skewed... but why discourage her if it's her idea? Let her read them before she gets infected with preadolescent peer pressure ideas of right and wrong things to like.
by Maria
Fri May 23, 2008 8:26 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Free Gun with every car...
Replies: 36
Views: 13436

I think it's amusing. If they sold a car I was interested in, I might drive over and check out the place.

However, no VWs - just boring vehicles. Not worth the trip.