http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_re_af/zimbabwe_10

We are hoping against hope to be the first to see a liberal actually express an intelligent, raional or unemotional thought.

That would be a change I would have a hard time believing.

Peddler said:
It seems to me that Michelle puts the “Fairness Doctrine” in play in a practical manner so I imagine that is why she allows liberals to post here as well.

Nah, Peddler. We are hoping against hope to be the first to see a liberal actually express an intelligent, raional or unemotional thought. It would be something like being present when Morse sent his first telegraph message. “What hath God wrought?”

We’re still waiting and “hoping”

On September 14th, 2008 at 11:11 pm, backwoods conservative said:

I thought it was the Mayan calendar. I’ve seen other people pointing that out, but I think it ends there because that’s when the solar system has completed one galactic orbit from when they started the calendar.

Not likely. It takes the sun 225-250 million years to complete one orbit around the galaxy. I’m pretty sure the Mayan calendar hasn’t been around that long.

None of the other doomsday prophecies have ever come true, why should this one be any different?

Whoops! Thanks for the correction. I’ll have to try to figure out why I thought that later.

On September 14th, 2008 at 11:14 pm, backwoods conservative said:

And I would be impressed to the point of nervous if I ever ran into anyone who could genuinely go through one of those as fast as a good novel.

The only person I could think of who could do that would be the fictional Mr. Scott.

That made me laugh.

I know I’ll be bookmarking the last link you provided.

Would anyone believe — John McCain?

As I read between the lines of how that ad was put together, it became obvious the puppet masters managing Sen. Obama’s campaign fully expect to be running the White House should their man end up with more votes. Apparently, ‘they’ don’t believe a President runs the country, his staff does.

Thank you once again to the Obama campaign for providing the entertainment I so enjoy during election season.

And I would be impressed to the point of nervous if I ever ran into anyone who could genuinely go through one of those as fast as a good novel.

The only person I could think of who could do that would be the fictional Mr. Scott.

I thought it was the Mayan calendar. I’ve seen other people pointing that out, but I think it ends there because that’s when the solar system has completed one galactic orbit from when they started the calendar.

Not likely. It takes the sun 225-250 million years to complete one orbit around the galaxy. I’m pretty sure the Mayan calendar hasn’t been around that long.

None of the other doomsday prophecies have ever come true, why should this one be any different?

On September 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm, backwoods conservative said:
NestingHawk, my understanding of relativity and quantum physics began when read Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe. An excellent book to further your unerstanding of quantum physics is The New Quantum Universe by Tony Hey and Patrick Walters.

You may be able to find these in a library, but I prefer to purchase books, if possible. That way I can take all the time I need to figure out what they’re talking about. I love reading books like that, but I can’t go through one of those as fast as I can a good novel.

Thank you! I’ll definitely consider reading those. It’s hard to get a good recommendation. I’ve gotten through much of Taking the Quantum Leap and liked the first part, but I drifted after I felt it was getting more into personal opinion on what everything meant than established concepts.
You have a point about purchasing instead of borrowing, too.And I would be impressed to the point of nervous if I ever ran into anyone who could genuinely go through one of those as fast as a good novel.

On September 14th, 2008 at 9:34 pm, pclevenger said:
As far as CERN is concerned, if the doom sayers are right we have 4 years. Coincidentally this is when the Aztec (or is it Inca) calendar runs out of days. Good time to make long term investments.

I thought it was the Mayan calendar. I’ve seen other people pointing that out, but I think it ends there because that’s when the solar system has completed one galactic orbit from when they started the calendar.

From Wikipedia:
“The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 21 December 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a misinterpretation.[12]”
“^ Susan Milbrath, Curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology , Florida Museum of Natural History, quoted in USA Today, Wednesday, March 28, 2007, p. 11D.
“For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle,” says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is “a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.” (Quoted in USA Today, Wednesday, March 28, 2007, p. 11D.)”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_calendar

And I found the medical stuff interesting.

We need to score again and sew this thing up… stating the obvious, I know.