The lesson here? When in Rome, don’t spit or piss on the Romans. In other words, exercising your rights to free speech is great, when in the US, that is. Anywhere else – all bets are off.
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While I’m not a fan of McCain in his politics, you cannot help but admire the man himself. He had to put up with a lot of shite for you and me. This was linked over at DPUD’s pad, but it’s worth posting the link again, I think.
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Move over, Mark Steyn – You’re about to get a fellow criminal cohort. Agree with his statements or not, but he does have a right to preach the tenets of his religion. Don’t like it? GO TO ANOTHER CHURCH WITH A DIFFERENT DOCTRINE. See how easy that was?
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Zimbabwe ought not be treating diplomats badly. It has a way of backfiring. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363462,00.html
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Wow, Dems are only just now losing patience with Hillary? I did 16 years ago.
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How do we KNOW that sheep farts aren’t vital to our ecosystem? Maybe NASA should put up another satellite and cherry pick some more data to prove that it is bad?
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Wow, if global warming doesn’t kill us (even though the SLC swears we deserve it), then it looks like water will kill us by dint of it’s absence. Let’s put this in a cynical kind of perspective: We are all going to die. Now, doesn’t that help keep you from hyperventilating until you barf on your Gucci loafers?
Lemur King's Folly 
Unrelated to the above… but I editted my post just for you.
Because you are afterall… one of a kind.
Hush with that stuff, KC. I have a reputation to uphold… or at least close the comment with something like “… one of a kind. You bastard.”
That has a nice ring to it.
OH noes! You mean that we are all, as in EVERY LAST ONE OF US, going to DIE?!?!?
-I kinda thought that was just natural progression, but apparently the media thinks that we are going to live forever if we avoid acohol / drink it in moderation / avoid carbs / avoid fat / avoid saccrin / DDT? -Nope / BLAH BLAH BLAH.
I would like to see someone actually living the lifestyle that the “medical specialists” actually dictate over the media.
Money says that the person would die of starvation and/or dehydration before they died of the ailments mentioned in any of the articles.
Yep OI, we are.
Every time I get blue my boss comes up, looks me in the eye and says “We’re all going to die.” He does that to cheer me up because it puts perspective on the insignificant obstacles that we’ve made into mountains.
One of the issues I have with medical studies is that they are driven by publish/perish mentality and are often funded by the industry that wants the experiment to go a certain way. Bias is built-in with little or no checks along the way.
You see all manner of really stupid things being investigated for the sake of just putting something out there. And the quality of the analysis is not high – it’s not considered seemly to publish a “Gosh, we found that butter is better than margarine, so keep using what you’re using now” kind of paper. It has to be scary and shake things up.