One more thing, Star Man (and many of you)--

We call ourselves Progressives, and many call this a "conscious community", but this business of launching ad hominem attacks and refusing to dialogue...

As much as I disagree with most of what S2T says, I don't see him as a troll. To me, a troll is someone who ignores or distorts the salient arguments people bring up and says things designed to...

Instead of a social order based on mutual support and caring - on sharing
of power, resources and responsibility, we have this: the abuse of power
made possible by its concentration in the hands...

One main point that ought to still really be emphasized regarding this CVS/Chase thing is
the traffic. Bad enough they're putting in suburban sprawl, but drive-through means an untenable increase...

As a former conservative Christian, I remember that the church itself seemed confused about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments. When sufficiently embarrassed by Old Testament...

Let's Hear it for Socialized Medicine


What we need is simple. It used to be called "Socialized Medicine." Meaning, a government- provided, free, health-care system that is available for...

Are you sure you aren't ignoring the entertainment factor here, Barry?

Though I suppose it's sometimes almost too ludicrous (or nauseating) to be funny. One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry....

perhaps your belief is correct s2t, suppose being cut does reduce the ease of hiv transmission, difficult to design experiments to really test this theory, unless our primate relatives have similar...

health care is in crisis because the system is needlessly expensive and does not serve people or health workers. single payer would be far better than the employer insurance broke down system we have...

China Puts US on eBay
‘Government Sold Separately,’ Sales Listing Says


BEIJING (The Borowitz Report) – Showing its impatience with the debt ceiling stalemate in Washington, China today took the...

Barry, although I strongly disagree with most of what Speak2Truth says, I would like to register my objection to your singling him out for ignoring and asking him to "throttle back at a minimum". As...

"In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. "


Published on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by CommonDreams.org ...

astroturfing on Wacco? I would say, Yes.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...m-astroturfing
The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent

The tobacco...

>>>Bachmann, Palin, and Coulter explained!
>>>Notice that the piece of Neanderthal DNA was on the X chromosome. Bachmann, Palin, and Coulter have two copies of the X chromosome. These three women...

This is a rat's nest of a discussion, but I'm dumb enough to jump in. The simplest answer is because people are willing to pay it; if they weren't, fees would go down, just like any other good or...

I have visited John Jenkle many times... He's a Good man. he's from a good California Family. that sent him to Stanford University. He's smart. He's a farmer type guy who works his ass off and...

Ecstasy As Treatment for PTSD from Sexual Trauma and War? New Research Shows Very Promising Results

By Scott Thill, AlterNet

Posted on June 10, 2011, Printed on June 13, 2011
...

I like the Department of Peace idea.

As I see it, we are fighting an abstraction,. Terrorism, what is that? A rapist terrorizes a neighborhood, a child terrorizes his parents, suicide bombers...

I have expressed, both publicly here and privately to Dixon, that if I had a criticism of his contributions here it would be that he had a tendency towards over-strong and impatient language, that...

JUNE 3, 2011

Paul Ryan Vows to Continue Kevorkian’s Work

Medicare to be Replaced with ‘Kevouchers’


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a somber Congressional ceremony, Rep. Paul Ryan...

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Sonoma County Bag Ban News, May 2011

Sonoma County Waste Management Agency meeting May 18 - Forward Movement!!!
Single Use Carryout Bags Decision Tree – Staff member Patrick Carter shared a...

https://finkorswim.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/the-rapture-300x225.jpgAnyone reading this post is, presumably, still here after the Rapture and we either didn't make the cut or we are actually now...

Identification with the aggressor is a psychological phenomenon that was recognized many years ago by Anna Freud. See -...

I am posting this because it is a source of constant inner questioning for me. Truthfully, I just don't understand why people don't simply recognize a bully's tactics and walk away. But they don't....

Gee Jeff, there's no need to be so condescending. It reflects very poorly on you.

It is a well-established medical fact that caffeine increases levels of epinephrine or adrenaline, which is a...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/florida-legislature-refuses-to-limit-mercury-in-vaccines-121503409.html

On Friday, May 6, 2011, in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =...

When pointing out what you believe to be "mathematical sleight-of-hand", it would be prudent to make sure that you aren't making errors in your own calculations. You have implied that all 300 of the...

Since I frequently criticize the anti-vaxer posts, I thought it only fair to compliment one that actually sounds credible. It's got a colorful intro, true enough. But the main argument, highlighting...

Yes, indeed, quite literally. Colleen Fernald (Peace Voyager) was posting imploring appeals right here for people to pay attention to what was happening to John Jenkel back when it was actually...

Early this year, after two bouts with pancreatitis in two years, the doc said "NO MORE ALCOHOL of any kind, not even non-alcoholic beer." O.K., says I, and abandoned my half-century wine jones. And...

Psychology today is evidence-based, meaning it is an empirical science that measures its outcomes with well-researched, established assessment tools.

To assert that psychology is not a...

https://www.capitalpress.com/images/CPWeblogo_redesign.jpg


China: Handle with care


Updated: Thursday, May 12, 2011 10:39 AM

Sure seems to me that large parts of the "right" are driven by fear, an animal instinct (and greed, which is related to fear). I'm sure the "liberal media" is both willingly and unwillingly...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/ImagesforMembers/2011-05-12_1710.png
Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear on Google...

My mother and I have our differences, but here's one thing I'll always love her for: even though she was just a 16-year-old farm girl when she had me, she resisted pressure to have me circumcised and...

Seems to me that Obama and Holder must be behind this. It just isn't right. I'd like to see a national movement of withholding financial and volunteer support for Obama's reelection until he comes...

https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-08-10/news/8602270598_1_nikola-tesla-clouds-guglielmo-marconi

Weren`t we taught that radio was invented by an Italian named Guglielmo Marconi? And that...

Beyond Valium,
peace is knowing one's child
is an internist.

On Passover we
opened the door for Elijah.
Now our dog is gone.

After the warm rain
the sweet smell of camellias.

Phloem, your response is brilliant. Incisive. Many citizens today live in a dream-state, unconscious, in a trance facilitated by the media and transmitted by "talking heads" and pundits and mavens....

I'm not one to jump on conspiracy bandwagons, but your casual dismissal also doesn't sit well with me. From what you wrote, people are better off just accepting the government, military, corporate,...

Don’t wait for people to smile. Show them how.

Let your guard down. Talk to someone you don’t know straight from your heart. Compliment them. Don’t anticipate awkwardness. Just be you in that...

It is unfortunate when snarkiness is substituted for rationality, because it discourages an open-minded examination of issues, especially issues where the truth appears to be hidden. We on the...

We live in what Rene Debord, the founder of Situationism, called the Society of the Spectacle. The government used psyops during the illegal invasion of Vietnam. Historians would probably be able...

"Parading assassination before a fawning public" on TV and the Internet reminded me of the spectacles that kings of the past used to engage in. The head of the murdered enemy was cut off, stuck on a...

Hi Jeff,

Yes, I did look at the study. You've implied here that only the abstract is available, which is not true....the full text is available for free.

Are you saying that because a...

I rarely disagree with you Conrad but I have to here. First though, to a point Dixon made: piercing the ears of an infant is body modification. Removing a functional organ from a human being is not...

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Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plant

This applies to men and prostate cancer, too.


WHY WOMEN IN CHINA DO NOT GET BREAST CANCER
By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD, CBE ...

My family is culturally Jewish though I don't associate myself in this way. I'm against ritualized abuse in any form. I never circumsized my sons, and my grandson is uncircumsized. My daughters are...