Any of You Do Trikes -- in A Metro Area, Too??

[Edward Dolan]

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> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 05:41:47 -0600, "Edward Dolan" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>><snip>
>>
>>So then, we can assume that there is life on Mars and the other planets
>>since sunlight is relatively unimportant to the origins of life. All you
>>need is some sulfur? Hmmm ... this can't be right. No, I think I will
>>stick
>>to my photosynthesis and you can have your freaking sulfur and the
>>freaking
>>bacteria that thrive on it.
>
> I doubt there is currently life on Mars, but it must be common
> everywhere conditions coincide as fortuiously as we are seeing on
> Earth these days.
>
> Photosynthesis is certainly a very important link in the chain of
> life, but I wonder if it may not have been a more recent evolutionary
> step than that of some simpler organism able to take nourishment from
> inorganic coumpounds.
>
> I am fairly certain that inorganic compounds predate photosynthesis,
> at least locally.

My point was that there is a vast chain of life of which we humans are only
a very small segment. All life depends on other life. It may be that the
lowly bacteria began it all, but it surely did not take off until
photosynthesis came into being with plant life. Animals are totally
dependent upon plants (directly or indirectly) at least in their origins.
The paleontological record is crystal clear on this as well as all of
biology.

There will be no other life in our solar system because of the primordial
conditions relating to the sun and the planets themselves. I would stake my
life on it.

>>Sequoia Trees or Great Wholly Mammoths, anybody?
>
> Planning a large bar-b-que?

Just my way of sayiing that I do not think much of bacteria as a criterion
of life, unlike GaryG. I think it is because I am so Great and he is such a
dwarf.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

 

[Jeff Grippe]

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> "Jeff Grippe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> "Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> Do you think present day American society is strong? It is not due to a
>>> multitude of factors, many of which impact on the family. We have NYC
>>> here crowing on ARBR and RBM about his promiscuity and you do nothing
>>> but reinforce his pagan attitudes with your own immoral conduct.
>>> Frankly, there is no fool like an old fool. The young can be excused
>>> some of what they do because they are ignorant, never having been taught
>>> much by their elders. But what is your excuse?
>>
>> For someone who claims to have a grasp on history you do say some foolish
>> things.
>>
>> Do you expect our society to last forever? Every other human empire has
>> risen and fallen. Do you expect that ours will be different? Do you think
>> that somehow we can perpetuate our current society forever? The
>> Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and every other empire since did not want to
>> lose their grasp on power, but every empire has come to an end. Do you
>> really believe that we are different?
>>
>> There is corruption in our government. Forget about Republican vs.
>> Democratic. They are more similar than different. Maybe its mostly
>> Republicans who are in hot water today but tomorrow it will be the
>> Democrats. There is too much money and power at stake.
>>
>> You think that this corruption would be fixed by getting rid of
>> homosexuals or by banning abortion?
>>
>> It would be nice to think that we, at this point in time, truly
>> understand the lessons of history and that our way of life will last
>> forever. I'm sure that every society has felt that way but guess what?
>> Empires rise and fall. Societies change and sometimes that change is
>> catastrophic and violent. For better or worse, that is who we are. The
>> state of the family is not a cause but a symptom.
>
> Basic morality has everything to do with whether societies fail or
> succeed. Ever hear of the culture wars? You liberals are on the wrong side
> of this war.
>

If "succeed" means continue then ultimately all societies fail You are
looking at macro developments and pretending they are micro. The war you are
trying to win can't be won. Even you have pointed out that democracy is
relatively new to human historically. Now that our elite (corporate,
political, take your pick) are starting to act more like kings ($5,000
umbrella stands and shower curtains? Give me a break) you are blaming the
destruction of this society on Liberals? Please Ed, you know better. I'm not
asking you to embrace liberal ideas. I know better. But don't even try to
tell me that they are the cause of the problems that society as a whole
faces. You know better.

> I often wonder if we could fight another W.W.II give our present
> degeneration due to liberalism. Culture matters enormously. If a people
> are not willing to fight and die to defend their nation, then that nation
> is doomed. It is just a matter of time and circumstance. The Islamic
> terrorists represent a very serious threat to America and the West. The
> g.d. Europeans have not yet realized this for some reason. Nor have
> liberals like you.
>
>> You have something you like and you want to keep it. Who can blame you
>> for that. History, however, does not support that. You can say "but if we
>> would only do this, or not do that" then we could continue forever. But
>> if you really understand what you have learned, do you really believe
>> that? How could you? There is no historical basis to support that notion.
>> There is only your fervent hope.
>
> Well, nothing is forever, but America could well continue as a super power
> for many additional hundreds of years. Even the Roman Empire took many
> hundreds of years to eventually fall.
>

First of all the modern "empire" will take hundreds more years to fall. It
is not based on America. The most powerful thing driving it is probably
international corporations. They are the ones with the most to lose if
instability takes over. There is some hope in the short term because they
also have the most to gain if living standards rise and unrest is settled.
Your view of the obvious is clouded by your beliefs. You have the
intelligence and education to see what is going on but you are blinded by
you biases. If this is the result of a masters level minor in anthropology
then higher education is doomed. You studied but you clearly did not learn.

> Liberals are on the wrong side of this battle. They do not support a
> strong America and they will not defend this nation against its enemies. I
> think we may have to kill all the liberals before we can get on with our
> mission of bringing law and order to the world. The entire world yearns
> for a Pax Americana. Only liberals like you stand in our way.
>

The entire world yeans? Ok so no we know that in addition to not absorbing
what you learned from books, you don't pay much attention to the news
either. This is almost too stupid an idea to bother responding. Please
present your evidence. This should be interesting.

Jeff

 

[Jeff Grippe]

"Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Grippe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> All top posters are idiots!
>

All people who make generalizations about all <fill in the blank> are
idiots. Don't bother pointing out that I just did it myself. I realize that.
Jeff

 

[Edward Dolan]

"Jeff Grippe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> "Jeff Grippe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> All top posters are idiots!
>>
>
> All people who make generalizations about all <fill in the blank> are
> idiots. Don't bother pointing out that I just did it myself. I realize
> that.
> Jeff

How about ... all top posters are idiots except Jeff Grippe. Jeff can top
post all he wants and he will not be an idiot.

But what sense does that make? Nay, I will continue with my generalizations
as they make perfect sense to me. Thus ... all top posters are idiots and
that most emphatically includes Jeff Grippe.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

 

[Edward Dolan]

"Jeff Grippe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Edward Dolan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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[...]
>> Basic morality has everything to do with whether societies fail or
>> succeed. Ever hear of the culture wars? You liberals are on the wrong
>> side of this war.
>>
>
> If "succeed" means continue then ultimately all societies fail You are
> looking at macro developments and pretending they are micro. The war you
> are trying to win can't be won. Even you have pointed out that democracy
> is relatively new to human historically. Now that our elite (corporate,
> political, take your pick) are starting to act more like kings ($5,000
> umbrella stands and shower curtains? Give me a break) you are blaming the
> destruction of this society on Liberals? Please Ed, you know better. I'm
> not asking you to embrace liberal ideas. I know better. But don't even try
> to tell me that they are the cause of the problems that society as a whole
> faces. You know better.

Sigh, in the long run we are all us dead and all societies fail. So what
else is new?

Liberals were on the wrong side of the Cold War just as they are now on the
wrong side of the present wars. They attack the US on two fronts, the
political front and the cultural front. Of the two, I fear the cultural
attack is the more devastating because it saps the will. We lost in Vietnam
because of the cultural attack at home. We never lost a single battle in
Vietnam. We were defeated by Walter Cronkite and CBS News.

Liberals are a very main cause of what ails us a society. We will be
defeated from the inside, not from the outside. What comes at us from the
outside will merely be a coup de grace to put us out of our misery. Liberals
will have done all the real work from the inside.
[...]

>> Well, nothing is forever, but America could well continue as a super
>> power for many additional hundreds of years. Even the Roman Empire took
>> many hundreds of years to eventually fall.
>>
>
> First of all the modern "empire" will take hundreds more years to fall. It
> is not based on America. The most powerful thing driving it is probably
> international corporations. They are the ones with the most to lose if
> instability takes over. There is some hope in the short term because they
> also have the most to gain if living standards rise and unrest is settled.
> Your view of the obvious is clouded by your beliefs. You have the
> intelligence and education to see what is going on but you are blinded by
> you biases. If this is the result of a masters level minor in anthropology
> then higher education is doomed. You studied but you clearly did not
> learn.

Globalization will not take over the world. Native nationalisms will again
become dominant as they have been in the past. That is why we need to look
to a strong America and not put our trust in any kind of internationalism.
That way lies madness and ultimate failure.

Your Jewish cosmopolitanism will betray you in the end just as surely as it
betrayed the Jews of Europe during the reign of the Third Reich. You are a
fool who does not learn from history.

>> Liberals are on the wrong side of this battle. They do not support a
>> strong America and they will not defend this nation against its enemies.
>> I think we may have to kill all the liberals before we can get on with
>> our mission of bringing law and order to the world. The entire world
>> yearns for a Pax Americana. Only liberals like you stand in our way.
>>
>
> The entire world yeans? Ok so no we know that in addition to not absorbing
> what you learned from books, you don't pay much attention to the news
> either. This is almost too stupid an idea to bother responding. Please
> present your evidence. This should be interesting.

That is another topic for another day.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

 

[Edward Dolan]

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> Lucky for you there's usenet. Otherwise the incest of your own
> thoughts confirming one another is the only mental stimulation you'd
> ever get.

"The only raunchy ******* here is NYC." - Ed Dolan

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

 

[Edward Dolan]

ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!

"Jeff Grippe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> What about me Ed? I'm not a raunchy *******? I love sex, drug, and rock
> and roll. And don't forget about abortion. I'm pro choice. Can't I be a
> raunchy ******* too? I top post. That's got to count for something. NYC
> can be the only one. I've worked so hard to be raunchy. Please Ed, me too
> huh?
>
> Jeff (I've got two f's in my name. That's raunchy isn't it?)

You are only a pretend raunchy *******. NYC is the real thing. Hells Bells,
you are too freaking old and crippled to be raunchy. Have your wife bring
you a toddy and get yourself off to bed. You are making a fool of yourself
and only I am allowed to do that.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota