J-William

Watching the other family walk in was great... the kids were just blown away. Dayna's family looks very stylish :-D

Obama: A solution for all the problems that ail you. Obama can fix US Latin American relations Obama is the great leader, unfortunately in his time in office he has failed to show much leadership. Obama has continued the war programs that Bush started and has passed a terrible healthcare bill written by the insurance industry. But fear not, I have devised a simple fool proof plan for obama to take leadership and make positive changes. The best thing about my plan is that it takes courage and a willingness to upset wealthy and powerful people. What could be a better way to show what a strong leader you are? Step 1: end the war on drugsThis first step is pretty easy, the war on drugs costs a lot of money and has not produced any results in the last forty years other than prisons full of young men wasting their lives away.A great side benefit is that the US would get to stop propping up nasty regimes in Columbia and elsewhere because the US would no longer need their help To kill people trying to grow plants. Step 2: open the bordersNow that there’s no need to stop drugs coming across the borders, there’s also no real reason to prevent people from crossing either, and while you’re at it why not let them bring stuff with them that they want to sell or trade? If you don’t threaten people with violence for selling and trading then certainly the world will be a more peaceful place.We all know nafta was a sophisticated way of benefitting the powerful at the expense of everyone else. I have a new free trade agreement for you: “No violence against any peaceful person”. Step 3: go visit CubaIt certainly makes no sense to threaten people with violence for visiting a lovely island so close to home. What’s more, since you’ve opened the borders there will now be plenty of Cubans who want to return home, so why not lead an Obama pleasure cruise and go visit. Step 4: take your military men and money homeNow that you have stopped threatening people with violence for moving where they like and trading what they like, the need for all this military equipment has disappeared. You can now take all that money and do something better with it, like not steal it from the unborn. Step 5: take an early retirementNow that you have taken bold steps to secure peace and prosperity in the western hemisphere you can safely pat yourself on the back and go home. While you’re at it, why don’t you send those congress people home, the world needs used car salesmen.

Well isn't that great? The Chinese government is criminalizing the practice in China, and the British are restricting it on their end... As someone living in China the milk powder is a real concern. Our daughter is 18 months old and has not had any Chinese milk powder. My wife is concerned enough with fakes and fraud that she won't even buy from people selling online who bought in bulk from the US. We've had to rely on relatives instead. I think it says a lot that the Chinese people don't trust the government declarations that the milk powder is safe, and are willing to go to great pains and expense to import the powder from overseas. My nephew has a mysterious kidney problem that the doctors won't offer any explanation for, but they are not even allowed to suggest that it was the milk powder... because the government doesn't want that 300,000 number to be even bigger.

Well I have no idea really, but they did release some Stratfor stuff that was embarrassing and um... I don't think that anyone has been exposed by wikileaks itself, Bradley Manning was exposed by trusting in the goodness of his fellow man, not some flaw in wikileaks security. I think the Assange thing has worked perfectly as the distraction from any of the real news coming out of wikileaks. Honestly at this point they could release evidence that the entire Obama administration has been strangling hobos for sport and the New York Times would spin it as some form of being tough on terrorism... And the whole country would forget it before bed-time.

This is the kind of post I would "like" if it were on facebook.

that's a good perspective on nuclear power. Nuclear power is such a great source of cheap power that I'm sure someone would try to make it work in a free market. Though you certainly have a point that the liability may make that "cheap" power impractical in a free market. Anyhow on another aspect, how far is this radiation spreading? Is it going to be a threat to people in Tokyo? I really haven't been keeping up with the news.

I suspect that is not a viable theory because the rate of change in intelligence is very high, and the rate of people violently killing each other is too low. An excellent point! /BOARD/emoticons/emotion-1.gif I was being facetious, meant to be conveyed by the bias of the last sentence. That probably wasn't clear. Or maybe it was clear, and your facetiousness was not clear to me. /BOARD/emoticons/emotion-10.gif Regardless, I stand corrected! haha, I think that perhaps you got too clever for me and yourself... anyway I was just thinking about a TED talk that I saw posted on the board recently talking about the exponential decrease in violence in human society. That's of course much faster than the speed of evolution, but I suspect you weren't unaware of that. []

I suspect that is not a viable theory because the rate of change in intelligence is very high, and the rate of people violently killing each other is too low.