The Bourbon Addict

    Myth #11: Thanksgiving is a happy time. Fact: For many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning, of remembering how a gift of generosity was rewarded by theft of land and seed corn, extermination of many from disease and gun, and near total destruction of many more from forced assimilation. As currently celebrated in this country, “Thanksgiving” is a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship.

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i guess define many? less than 5% ogf the population? for 5% the beaty pagents are bad. c’mon, this is about family for most of us!!!! i am partial chippewa and my wife mostly lanapi. we celebrate to be around kin. 

`KM

    A spokeswoman for the group said: ‘We want our breasts to be as normal and desexualised as men’s, so that we too can pull off our shirts at football matches.’

Swedes fight for topless rights 

<wiping tears from eyes> i agree. this is the way it should be!!!!!

`KM

    ”Divorce is just terrible,” Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. “It’s one of Satan’s best tools to kill America.”

Lawmakers look for ways to keep moms at home to strengthen families 

well i think Dick summed it up well, didn’t he? </sarcasm>

~KM`

http://www.longrangeweather.com/images/GTEMPS.gifwhy have temps been level since 2000? we have added not only more cars but more airplanes and coal plants. this should equal more co2 taht should according to global warming cultists equal a huge rise in global temps. it did not. why?.why did the global mean temp drop from 1940 to 1980 is we were during the whole time adding more co2?
either way, methane from cow flatulence is a bigger greenhouse contributor than cars.exhaust from airplanes (Gore’s gets 1mpg and he flies A LOT!!!!!! LOL yea he cares.) cause more greenhouse emissions than carsthe last save the planet concert caused more greenhouse damage via plane exhaust than  they could ever recover. celebrities dont care they just pretend.

`~KM

Down and dirty like: there have been periods of vulcanism that have spewed 2X to 3X the amoount of co2 and particulates in the air in a  matter  of hours than we have since the industrial revolution. all the temp did was swing. then eventually it swang back. its a wholly cybernetic system, thats extremely hard to model which is why scientists chose the assumption of an environmental stasis upon which to start their models which is wrong as we know and they also even the ipcc says they dont know how clouds fit into the model NASA’s Bruce Weilicki says “we present new evidence from a compilation of over 2 decades of accurate satellite data that the top of the atmosphere tropical radiation budget is much more variable and and dynamic  than previously thought. results indicate  that the radiation budget changes are caused by changes in tropical mean cloudiness. the results of several current climate model simulations fail to predict  this large observed variation in tropical energy budget. the missing variability in the models highlights the critical need to improve cloud modeling … this leads to a  threefold uncertainty  in the predictions of the possible global warming over the next century. we caution against interpreting decadal variability as evidence of greenhouse gas warming”: B.A. Weilicki et al., “Evidence for large decadal variability in the tropical mean radiative energy budget, ” Science 295 (2002): 841-44LOLi doalbedo at least.. that what my computer modelling teacher said (we used macs, and an app called stella). i actually spent time modeling solar output and cloud cover. fun stuff. on a  mac SE LOL. onlly one semester. only one paper. it was only about 10 pages. i actually used it in my ecology clas as extra cedit to bring me from aA- to big Ol A. the other model i did was on aids and its spread was about 20- pages. turns out my model is still holding up :) `KM 

i downloaded the beta a few months back but no plug ins worked so i went back to safari 2 that day. well when i went to 10.4.11 i got safari 3 automagically placed in my apps folder instead of safari 2. So here are my thoughts
1. acidsearch wouldnt load. i had to reinstall it. now it has contextual menu items too, bonus!!!!2. contextual menu items in safari have changed. now you can “inspect element” which brings up a box almost useless to anyone but a  web design guy, so ya know i like it!!!3. its faster. on cached pages especially! way faster then!4. surfrabbit and saft still work, whew.5. it seems you can now bookmark all tabs open in one window. first time i think i have seen that. bonus!!6. the debug menu changed a bit ,open page with is now at the  top where it should be  yahoo baby!7. saft or safari added a few cool things to the history menu, open last closed window and open all window from last session i think it was saft or surfrabbit. `~~KM 

Now the stereotype of the “dumb blonde” is so firmly ingrained in the male psyche that men subconsciously become more stupid than they really are when they see one, according to scientists.

funny if not interesting study article..
`KM

a recent study introduces another explanation: Stone Age feminism. Among Neanderthals, hunting big beasts was women’s work as well as men’s, so it’s a safe bet that female hunters got stomped, gored, and worse with appalling frequency. And a high casualty rate among fertile women - the vital “reproductive core” of a tiny population - could well have meant demographic disaster for a species already struggling to survive among monster bears, yellow-fanged hyenas, and cunning Homo sapien newcomers

way cool study. interesting findings to say the least
~KM

yum. i’ll hafta get me sum
~KM

Ardbeg has been named as World Whisky of the Year
A toast has been raised to a distillery in Islay as its tipple is honoured in a distinguished guide.
Ardbeg has been awarded the title of World Whisky of the Year in the Whisky Bible 2008.

The 10-year-old dram received another accolade after the bible also named it as the best Scotch Single Malt.

Aficionados say that Ardbeg has an overtly peaty, smokey flavour. It is also said to be surprisingly smooth on the palate with a warm finish.

Jim Murray, Whisky Bible 2008 author, who awarded the honour to the 10-year-old single malt, praised the drink as a unique product.

He said in his guide: “To me Ardbeg is - and always has been - the most complex malt on earth.”

He added: “I have been visiting the distillery for nearly 30 years - long before anybody had heard of Ardbeg.

“And because I have long regarded this as the finest distillery in the world, I actually try to handicap the sample to iron out any natural bias.”

yea, Fopp!!!!

Fopped last night and the night before
I had to fopp outside and then I went indoors
Fopped so hard I made the people warm
They stood back and gave me all the floor

I did the fopp, the fopp
they wouldn’t let me stop
Yeah I was foppin’ and rockin’
Had the house hoppin’

Foppin’, the way it makes you go, everybody was
Foppin’, everywhere you go, do all your
Shoppin’, wiggle to the floor, everybody was Foppin’

Fopp with me and I’ll fopp with you
Foppin’ is the brand new thing to do
Fopped so hard that I lost my shoe
I fopped so tough they had to make some room

Break your leg, don’t you fopp your back
Do your thing, don’t you give no slack
Shake your hips and then you turn around
Well first you fopp it up
And then you fopp it down

Fopp me right, don’t you fopp me wrong
We’ll be here foppin’ all night long
I’m too short, baby, and you’re too tall
But when we’re foppin’ that don’t mean a thing at all

Foppin’, the way it makes you go, everybody was
Foppin’, everywhere you go, do all your
Shoppin’, wiggle to the floor,, everybody was Foppin’