Your town: Los Angeles, CA
Your town: Los Angeles, CA
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
Will somebody PLEEEZE tell my why I have to keep telling everybody that I, being a woman/lady/girl/fe male do NOT have a either a wak-wammer OR any balls. Like other thingys they do get scuzzy inside and must be cleaned. If you don't know how to take your thingy apart, find someone who does, or google it. (2 hrs ago | post #5212)
Should evolution be taught in high school?
No one has quite the exquisite knack of just the right words at just the right moment as you do, sensei. You win, again, hands-down...and with understated direct simplicity. I laughed myself sick. SmoooOOOOOOoooTch! (2 hrs ago | post #18226)
Obese blamed for the world's ills
You are repeating the "gospel" of the last 25 years that ran concurrently with the obesity epidemic. Some people really can follow the chapter-and-verse low-fat, high-fiber, "healthy " whole-grain, fruit-and-fresh-ve ggie diet and be normal weight and just fine. The trouble is that there are so, so many people, particularly weight-prone women who cannot follow this eating regimen. They want to, they are aware of the consequences of diabetes and hate being overweight. But...they don't or won't or can't and it doesn't make much difference which it is. Nutritionists and diet counselors hate it, but the careful, objective studies that follow real-live weight-prone diabetic and pre-diabetic women consistently show that carbohydrate, even those revered "complex " carbohydrates, are what the body prefers to turn into triglyceride. And, triglyceride is what the body makes into fat and BAD cholesterol. Worse, the more weight-prone one is, the more easily and quickly your metabolism turns even a mouthful of "healthy " whole-grain oatmeal into good ol' glucose, which provokes the same insulin surge that a candy bar does. Not all metabolisms are made equal. Sad to say. I have become dismayed at this near-religious desire to believe that some sort of magical cure for obesity and all associated pathologies are to be found in this "whole grain, fresh fruits and veggies" gospel. They are good foods. Sugar, flour, potatoes, rice, beans, corn, cooked peas, carrots ,etc are THE DEVIL, but weight prone people, women in particular, need to minimize carbohydrate no matter what the source-far more than fat and protein. (3 hrs ago | post #32)
Obese blamed for the world's ills
The obese can thank the survival of their ancestors in times of famine for their extra pounds and their appetites that exceed their needs. The more lean times your ancestors were forced to contend with, the more likely you are to be prone to obesity. This is clearly shown in ethnic groups that adapted to severe conditions, (like the Native Hawaiians, Pima Native Americans and African Americans) over many generations, only to suffer the obesity and illness of plenty in the modern developed world. It is certain that the obese of the developed world do have an impact on energy consumption. The added weight to any method of travel that requires fossil fuel absolutely cannot violate the basic laws of physics that require more energy to move more mass. The airlines can show the numbers. They are undeniable. It is NOT true that basic consumption of food differs much between normal-weight and obese people. Except for the "super-obese " who have psychological as well as physiological and biochemical abnormalities that cause their extreme obesity, the overweight generally do not consume many more calories than normal-weight people. The difference is in inherited metabolic use of what is consumed and regulation of body-fat, appetite, and energy expenditure. Only the superabundance of high-carbohydrate food and the sedentary, even immobile lives of so many people in the developed world has caused the "obesity epidemic". It cannot be emphasized enough that it is utterly and completely against the vital, genetically hard-wired survival-oriented heritage of hundreds of generations of progenitors to expend energy for the sake of expending energy (exercise) and consistently NOT eat when hungry or when food is available. An enormous tax on junk food, the ever-rising cost of transportation may be what it takes to save people in the developed world from their survival-genes. (4 hrs ago | post #30)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
Context, Adrien, context...sigh. (4 hrs ago | post #5150)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
WOW.............wow...just, wow. (4 hrs ago | post #5149)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
You have it all wrong. We have all those redundant brain cells so we can drink. Cheers. I'm going to take this opportunity to let you know that your posts just about blow me away every time. Absolutely fabulous. Thank you for every one of them. (5 hrs ago | post #5139)
Should evolution be taught in high school?
Please, please be serious for just this post. In spite of our differences, we can agree wholeheartedly about protecting children; I know that. Girls are more often molested than boys. This is well-known, and a tragedy. What is emerging as one of the ways that pedophiles find it particularly easy to blend in and find trusting prey is in a church setting. These predators are NOT one of the faithful. I am NOT accusing religion or the religious. The danger is that people of faith feel safe within a religious setting and with others that they believe share their faith and their values. Predators know that. If a predator knows how to be a "wolf in sheep's clothing", meaning he knows how to quote scripture, and behave like the rest of the congregation, even be a pastor or leader in the church, he will be automatically given unconditional trust, respect and even obedience from others. If the church is very traditional and fundamentalist, women are expected to be more subordinate and children are expected to obey. Sexual matters may be less discussed and considered more sinful. To accuse an elder or an authority in the church is very difficult, especially if one is a child. Case histories from those abused by clergy, not just the RCC, but the JWs, and many other Pentecostal, SBs, etc. tell the same story. The child is not believed, or if believed by a parent, that parent is under tremendous pressure to recant, or call it a misunderstanding; certainly not to expose the molester and the church to the law and to public shame. Six small unaffiliated evangelical churches in my area of the Puget Sound had clergy or youth clergy or church elders that were abusing young girls, some for more than one generation. This breaks my heart even though I am not religious. The most well-meaning, gentle people are being exploited in the filthiest and most evil way imaginable where they should be the safest by the people they look up to and trust the most. (5 hrs ago | post #18215)
Should evolution be taught in high school?
I spent years working as in the trenches and for legislation against child sex abuse. I am a walking metastudy on the subject. I'm a walking metastudy on a LOT of subjects, but I'm an encyclopedic when it comes to pedophilia. The worst and most dangerous myth that was disastrously reinforced by the RCC scandal is that pedophilia is primarily perpetrated by gay men. The fact is that the vast majority of sex crimes against children are perpetrated against girls. What is so dangerous about this myth about gay men, is that parents are eying openly gay or men they suspect may be gay worrying they may be a threat to their children, and ignoring the good ol' boy pillar-of-the-chur ch-type or manly-man coach, straight boyfriend or stepfather that is the real danger to a child. (6 hrs ago | post #18213)
Should evolution be taught in high school?
HA! Where've you been mon capitain? Sometimes I almost envy these stream-of-consciou sness-if-I-said-it 's-true-it-is types. Free self-esteem. Never any shame; no such thing as being confronted by the facts. Hell, no such thing as a "fact". Anything goes...yeeeee-ha! (6 hrs ago | post #18212)
Do you want a doctor from the bottom of his class?
Yes. Easier simply to tell him what to do and more likely to obey me without any boring delay. (6 hrs ago | post #56)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
I hate to say this, but in the interest of authenticity...it isn't his, er...intellect. I mean, it's that too...of course, but...never mind. (6 hrs ago | post #5131)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
Hey...HEY! BACK OFF...he's mine, Mine, MINE...oh, yeah..and the divine Ms.C, Goddess of Justice...never mind. We can't compete with her, fuggettaboutit. (6 hrs ago | post #5127)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
I love judging the science fairs! I do about 3 to 5 every year. I don't even mind being social for once. The problem is that I think all the projects are either cool or the kids are so adorable and earnest that I fail to be very judgmental. (6 hrs ago | post #5126)
Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You
And to think I was developing a crush on you! (7 hrs ago | post #5124)
