Dumb as a bag of hair.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:07 pm

Thanks, boss....I'm getting old you know.

You know....looking over that list again, it's child's play compared to the crimes noted in the bible.

Maybe that should be banned from classrooms, too?

Seems a fair trade.

Leona Conner · Post by **Leona Conner** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:41 pm

Thanks for sharing that link. It was obviously written by someone from the south; made me want to get out my red editor's pen. Guess no one ever taught them about capitalization. Brought to mind that here in Tennesse where we rank somewhere around number 47 in education, our main concern is to make a constitutional amendment stating that marriage is only between a man and a women. Not a thing about improving our educational system.

Strange that they worry about same sex marriages but not same family marriages.

My apologies to the other Tennesseans on the board, I'm a damn Yankee. As my late mother-in-law often said.

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:45 pm

Not a thing about improving our educational system.

Knowledge is forbidden, Leona.

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:41 am

Minimalist wrote:Welcome aboard, War Arrow. Stupidity is not an American invention but we do see to have made an art form out of it in the last two elections.

Thanks. I feel like I've come home at last.
With regards to your elections, a similar thing seems to have happened in Mexico, a big-business candidate scraping in by a nanoscopic margin over someone with a little more sympathy for people who don't own three cars and a private army. Weirdly enough (and I hope I'm not getting my wires crossed here) it seems the very same vote-counting company who brought you hanging chads and Florida had a hand in the Mexican elections.
If anyone out there is better informed on this subject I'd definitely be happy to stand corrected on this one.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:35 pm

I don't know about Diebold, War Arrow.....but, as this quote attributed to Stalin suggests, the principle has been around for a long time.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:09 pm

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything

Laughable
Stalin was a rank amateur who controlled by fear
the people who put up the nominees also control the outcome
votes are irrelevant when you control both contenders and people still think they have a choice
the best kind of slavery is where people think they are free
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleight_of_hand

"Like a finger pointing to the heavens, watch the finger and you miss all the heavenly glory" (Bruce Lee)

Starflower · Post by **Starflower** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:47 pm

This does not have anything to do with American dumbasses but....

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 02,00.html

AN eminent 92-year-old Turkish archaeologist is to go on trial for inciting religious hatred because she angered Islamist circles with a scientific paper saying that the use of headscarves by women dated back to pre-Islamic sexual rites.

Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, who devoted her career to studying the Sumerians, the first known urban civilisation dating from the 4th millennium BC, is to appear in court on November 1 in Istanbul, her editor Ismet Ogutucu said.

In a book published last year, Cig said the headscarf - a controversial issue in Turkey - was first worn by Sumerian priestesses initiating young people into sex, but without prostituting themselves.

A lawyer from the western city of Izmir took offence and filed a complaint against Cig, resulting in a prosecutor charging both her and her publisher with “inciting hatred based on religious differences”.

it would really appear there are dumbasses all over the world.

I could be wrong and maybe this lady is a dangerous revolutionary who should be locked away from impressionable younger people,like my 80 year old neighbor. I am willing to admit to being extremely naive. Any other thoughts on the matter?

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:54 pm

it would really appear there are dumbasses all over the world.

I think you nailed it pretty solidly. Except for the obvious inference that religion makes lots of otherwise intelligent people act like dumbasses.

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:20 am

Minimalist wrote:
it would really appear there are dumbasses all over the world.

I think you nailed it pretty solidly. Except for the obvious inference that religion makes lots of otherwise intelligent people act like dumbasses.

How does this thing work? I seem to have a sort of double-quote scenario ensuing.

Oh well. I'd say it's probably not so much religion itself as the unswerving conviction of being in the right and the inability to question one's deeply held beliefs - which non-adaptive religions (you all know the names) positively encourage. This is why I think that if we really must have religion, then we'd be better off with the older adaptive versions that happily accepted any old God into the fold providing he or she was bringing something to the table. Jesus as the Mexican God of Cows, Metal and Money sounds like a fun guy, certainly more so than his current incarnation.
I mean come on... the God of Cows, Metal and Money. Doesn't that just sound so much more exciting than Jesus the God of the absurdly draconian guest list?

Post by **Minimalist** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:24 am

I mean come on... the God of Cows, Metal and Money. Doesn't that just sound so much more exciting than Jesus the God of the absurdly draconian guest list?

ROTFLMAO. Well I can agree with that.....but I take it you never met Arch...or Jean Marie?

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:19 am

[quote="Minimalist]ROTFLMAO. Well I can agree with that.....but I take it you never met Arch...or Jean Marie?[/quote]

No, but if there's anything I should be aware of I'd greatly appreciate any advice. I only discovered these forum thingies a few months back and I'm already startled by how easily some people can take the expression of an opinion as some kind of personal attack.
I wouldn't mind but I only post because a) it's a laff b) and sometimes educational and c) uses up the time it takes for my bath water to heat up when I get in from work.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:11 am

startled by how easily some people can take the expression of an opinion as some kind of personal attack.

How dare you,

No, but if there's anything I should be aware of I'd greatly appreciate any advice

Well watch out for Min and Beagle
they both work for the global archaeological conspiracy thats covering up the truth about humanities glorious past
I have been onto them both for some time
they use reverse psychology to enforce the club rules
they do this by pretending to believe in all manner of crackpot theories and publicise the work of pseudoarchaeologists who otherwise no one would have heard of so that the real truth can remain hidden
oh and Arch is smoking bananas

War Arrow · Post by **War Arrow** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:16 am

Hmmm. Well I might just have a few crackpot theories of my own if anyone wants to start something. That said, I haven't got anything that covers space aliens as yet. Maybe I should look into that?
Bananas eh? I tried wild lettuce once (which wasn't, by the way, my idea) but I can't say the experience was worth repeating.

Starflower · Post by **Starflower** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:32 pm

An update on the article I posted somewhere on this thread, about the 92 year old revolutionary. Seems she was acquitted today:

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/3070035 ... J57UI94FBG

A court Wednesday acquitted a 92-year-old retired archaeologist who was put on trial for writing in a book that Islamic-style head scarves date back more than 5,000 years _ several millennia before the birth of Islam _ and were worn by priestesses who initiated young men into sex.

Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on the ancient Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia, which arose around the third millennium B.C., was the latest person to go on trial in Turkey for expressing opinions, despite intense European Union pressure on the country to expand freedom of expression.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:36 pm

I'm sure some hero will hunt her down and kill her for allah, Star. Too many people over there think god was kidding when he said that "thou shalt not kill" stuff.