So, wait, which day is the anniversary? (It's already the 24th on the East Coast, but Mr. Robinson is posting from the West Coast, where it's still the 23rd.) My birthday is/was today/yesterday (the 23rd!)...

Hahahaha!

I jumped in with a few comments in that thread at the Trek BBS.

Thanks, Nick. It's easy to forget sometimes that there's nothing new in the world.

I hate intolerance, but all conservative are knuckle dragging troglodytes...

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Ack.

From my website, Liberal Tolerance: "Margaret Hutchinson: I find our moral ground a bit slushy when we consider Americans important , other country police less important, bystanders barely mentionable. And forget that the attackers were human also. I thought the we decided a whole person was a real person when we fixed the Constitution."

Oh, man. I totally forgot that an acquaintance told me the exact same thing in 2006 about Bush declaring martial law and ignoring the elections. At the time, I was a registered Democrat, but I still thought he was nuts.

And the turtle's not standing on anything, it's swimming through space.

National Geographic has a show about how aliens built the pyramids.

Other aliens, duh.

Does that mean the government has to make sure Muslims kill infidels?

Let's face it, the reason I want the voting age to be higher is that a) young people are morons and b) they tend to vote for Democrats. Wait, is that redundant? Hey, I include myself in that! I was 26 when I voted for my first Republican. The reason Democrats want to lower the voting age is that a) young people are morons and b) they tend to vote for Democrats.

Even Alan Colmes pointed out that the White House was going to announce the foiled terrorist attack anyway but got scooped by the AP.

My mother was also 56 when she died from breast cancer, in 2008. It's very hard not to second guess and think, well, if only she had done this, or gotten this test, or tried that procedure. But things happened the way they did and I have to accept that, which I do, though I miss her terribly.

I think it's commendable that Jolie is speaking out. However, the last bit about so-called "hollistic" measures annoyed me. That whole industry is a sham. There are no "natural" remedies that will cure cancer, and new-age mountebanks who peddle them are contemptible.