The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

1 If electricity is cause by electrons what is morality caused by?

Busibodies?  People with way too much time on their hands, and a complete and utter lack of joy of living?

People who are miserable themselves, and are suspicious that somewhere, somehow, SOMEONE is having fun, and are determined to put an immediate STOP to it?

I dunno-- I'm not that moral myself...

2 Is cheating always a sin?

Define "cheating".  Define "sin".

the way I see it:

Cheating: circumventing the rules for your benefit.

Sin: causing deliberate needless harm to another living being, especially sentient/human.

So, no, I would definitely say that cheating is not ALWAYS sin.  Sometimes it is the ONLY solution to a sticky problem.

3 Same question, but by yourself this time.

Makes no difference whatsoever, if I use my definitions, as above.   

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01.   Do you always wonder how things work?  Or are you content with a "black box of mystery" answer?

10.   Did you take your toys apart as a kid, to see what was inside?  Or, do you still have some of your carefully preserved childhood toys?  Both?

11.   Math.  Is it just a useful tool, a completely mysterious "thing" for eggheads, or the coolest invention ever?

[Swatopluk]

01.   Do you always wonder how things work?  Or are you content with a "black box of mystery" answer?
I usually do but I will not always put that much effort into understanding, if it looks like more effort than it is worth.

10.   Did you take your toys apart as a kid, to see what was inside?  Or, do you still have some of your carefully preserved childhood toys?  Both?
Both and that does not include the toys whose very purpose is assembling/disassembling
The problem can be to put the things together again (like watches)

11.   Math.  Is it just a useful tool, a completely mysterious "thing" for eggheads, or the coolest invention ever?
Can be useful, entertaining, boring, frightening all dependent on circumstances
But not the coolest thing ever, I'd think.

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100.
Can prostitution be an "honorable" profession? (also give exhaustive definitions for prostitution, honor, profession, be and can )

101.
Premarital sex (i.e. sex with a person one considers to marry): immoral, common sense, doesn't matter, <fill in other option>?

110.
What kinds of condiment/spice do you like/dislike and how do you use them?

[Aggie]

(heh, was going to answer, but 110 tripped me up.  It would run to pages.  I am seriously considering buying a second small fridge just for condiments*, and I have cupboards overflowing with spices & seasonings)



*except between food storage and specialized cooking gear, there's no danged room in the kitchen.  Certain pots & pans live on the stove permanently because there's simply nowhere to cram 'em.

[Griffin NoName]

100.
Can prostitution be an "honorable" profession? (also give exhaustive definitions for prostitution, honor, profession, be and can ; )

a profession is some activity requirig training and which is paid for, Good prostitutes need to acquire skills. Hence fulfills the training requirement. Prostitute implies payment he so scores there too.

Honour is objective within a society. If the greatest sign of respect in a society is to be offered a prostitute then it is an honourable profession,

Lastly I imagine many prostitutes saying "he's a right old B.... in the Can...." is that definition enough?


101.
Premarital sex (i.e. sex with a person one considers to marry): immoral, common sense, doesn't matter, <fill in other option>?

common sense. terrifying thought to be committed unto death to a totally incompatible lover.

110.
What kinds of condiment/spice do you like/dislike and how do you use them?
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I like tarragon sprinkled on anything.

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1.  What one personal feature would you like to change, how and why?

2. What one human trait would you like to change, how and why?

3.  What would make your existing abode (rule=you cannot move) into you dream home (has to be vaguely feasible).

[Sibling Chatty]

1.  What one personal feature would you like to change, how and why?

My entire endocrine system, including thyroid, neuro-endocrine and all hormonal parts of it. That would eliminate the multiple neurofibromas and lipomas, and I wouldn't be so lumpy.

2. What one human trait would you like to change, how and why?

Greed. Eliminate it completely from the human psyche, and the world would be a much better place. I think just having the Deity of Choice strike it from everyone's ' emotional capacity' would be great. why? So that Exxon, Shell, Halliburton, KBR, GM, Ford, ADM et al, would MAYBE not send us to the poorhouse, as they're killing any lingering chance that the economy won't collapse--worldwide

3.  What would make your existing abode (rule=you cannot move) into you dream home (has to be vaguely feasible).

Executing the remodeling plans that we'd made when we moved in. Second bathroom, kitchen, new wall surfaces (ancient paneling must go) and getting the ugly shingles off and cleaning and repainting the exterior. Gas run, and deck builh, heating an AC taken care of properly. Oh, and building a storage building to put all Mom's excess crap into... 30 x 60 steel building with a concrete floor should do it. should do it. Anybody have a spare $75,000 or so?

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1. Which is really more important to you in your daily life, being fair or getting your way? Why?

2. Sunglasses: You KNOW you should wear them year round, right? OK, so do you want gray, green or blue lenses?

3. You have the equivalent of $500 USD that you can't spend on yourself or your friends/family. MUST go to a charitable cause. Which one(s)? Why?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

1. Which is really more important to you in your daily life, being fair or getting your way? Why?
Being fair.  It's one of the several reasons why I don't believe in the god of my childhood any longer (the fundie's verson of god is patently unfair, but that's another long rant in and of itself.)

I don't mind not getting my way, if the way that IS being "got" is fair, or the best for the situation.

2. Sunglasses: You KNOW you should wear them year round, right? OK, so do you want gray, green or blue lenses?

None of these.  Polarized brown during the day (blue light blocking) and yellow/amber for night (pilot glasses, blocks blue, reduces oncoming headlights to tolerable.  Very sensitive night vision, here)

3. You have the equivalent of $500 USD that you can't spend on yourself or your friends/family. MUST go to a charitable cause. Which one(s)? Why?

If I had to spend it TODAY, RIGHT NOW, I'd donate it to the Methodist church, Oklahoma conference.  My brother's a preacher, and my parents are members.....

If I had time to research?  I'd find a small charity that promoted science education in public schools.  What else?    Small, so that my $$ would be significant to their cause. 


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I.  If you could change things, and replace income taxes with something else-- what would that "else" be?  Or would you just revamp the current system?  How, why?

II.  Favorite type of movie/book:  Comedy?  Mystery?  Drama?  Emo-piece?  Animated/live action? (that is blurring....)  What?  Pick your favorite category and defend it. 

III.  If you had to reduce your TV channels to just 3, which would you choose?  Why? 

IV.  bonus.  If the answer to III. was "I don't watch much TV, actually" how do you get your news?  Or do you?
V.  alternate bonus.  If the answer to III. was anything else.  How do you get your news?  Or do you? 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I.  If you could change things, and replace income taxes with something else-- what would that "else" be?  Or would you just revamp the current system?  How, why?
Revamp. The answer is complicated enough to make a new thread on the subject and I will.

II.  Favorite type of movie/book:  Comedy?  Mystery?  Drama?  Emo-piece?  Animated/live action? (that is blurring....)  What?  Pick your favorite category and defend it.
Scifi. Good scifi has comedy, drama, mystery and action. As a side note, Emo pieces bother me to no end.

III.  If you had to reduce your TV channels to just 3, which would you choose?  Why?
3?! I watch little TV and I just follow 5 channels (Discovery, History, National Geographic, Scifi & Comedy Central). I cannot dispose The Daily Show & Colbert Report from Comedy Central, nor Galactica from Scifi (at least for a year), therefore I would keep Discovery for Myth Busters & Smash lab, grudgingly because I do like History and NG a lot too.

IV.  bonus.  If the answer to III. was "I don't watch much TV, actually" how do you get your news?  Or do you?
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V.  alternate bonus.  If the answer to III. was anything else.  How do you get your news?  Or do you? 
I get my news from NPR, TDS/CR, and the Internet. News networks.. Are you crazy?!

Primera. What language you'd like to learn?

Segunda. Is there -in your opinion- a way to teach a logical approach to politics?

Tercera. Why do people admire huge constructions (like the pyramids) that had no practical use for the people building them?

No bonus this round.

[Swatopluk]

Primera. What language you'd like to learn?
Japanese (but Norwegian is more likely to actually happen)

Segunda. Is there -in your opinion- a way to teach a logical approach to politics?
No, politics (and policy to a degree) has very little to do with logic

Tercera. Why do people admire huge constructions (like the pyramids) that had no practical use for the people building them?
Well, the mere fact that someone managed to put something useless this big up, should create some impression. Humans seem to be wired to be open to overwhelming (I am so little and this is so big. How did they do it?).
To quote old Ramses II: If ye wanna know how great I am, try to beat me even once.

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unos. Do you bowl well?

dos. Does that qualify or disqualify you for becoming POTUS?

tres. How good is your aim (throwing, shooting etc.)

Bonus: What if Lincoln were presidential candidate in  2008 (answer for both main parties and major "alternatives")

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

unos. Do you bowl well?

Nope.  My highest of all time score was 179, out of a max possible 300?  No, I do not. 

dos. Does that qualify or disqualify you for becoming POTUS?

In reality?  No.  The job is much more complex, and as I recall, they removed the presidential private lanes during the Nixon regime.

But as a perception?  Maybe.  The Great Unwashed people of the Plains.....you know.....Morons, likely think that anyone who does bowl well would automatically made a good POTUS.   Fortunately, most of these folk do not actually DO anything about it, and do not vote all that much.  The rate of turnout in the US was below 50% in 2006....

.....you think that something that important, more people would participate....

.....but you'd be wrong-- voting involves DOING something.

tres. How good is your aim (throwing, shooting etc.)

Throwing objects, like baseballs, footballs, grenades---- not so much.

Shooting, so long as it's with a firearm-- above average.   Not as good as I used to be, when I routinely put 20-30 rounds of 0.22 pistol at roughly 20 feet, inside the price-tag on the box. (THAT dates that ability.  What's a price-tag?  A 3/4 inch square paper label, usually self-adhesive, often brightly colored, affixed to a product that informs the purchaser of it's actual price.  Long before those zebra-stripe UPC codes, which are clearly Marks Of The Beast-in-training.)

Bonus: What if Lincoln were presidential candidate in  2008 (answer for both main parties and major "alternatives")

Well, Lincoln would not be able to run under either of the Big Two, these days.  When Lincoln was a youngster, he was pretty much an Atheist. In his later years, he grudgenly accepted that there was some form of Higher Power--(a) God, if you will.   He rejected the Christian bible and the Christian god till the very end.  Lincoln Quotes

This fact alone would automatically disqualify him for either the Republocrats or the Demowimps.   I don't know enough about the minority parties in the US to know if he could get into one of those, but who cares?  They never win National elections anyway....   And, frankly learning anything ABOUT them would require that I actually DO something.

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Acey:  Should voting in the US be made mandatory?  Why or why not?

Duecy:  Should High Schools be allowed to replace "regular" cafeteria drinks with Coke/Pepsi/Etc?  Why not? (notice the built-in bias? )

Loosey:  What do you think about the fact that a person is allowed to Die for the US, Vote in elections, but not allowed to Drink?  (can enlist at 18, can register to vote at 18, must be 21 to drink legally)

Goosey: (bonus)  Do you think that age 16 is really mature enough to be allowed the use of a Deadly Weapon?  (cars kill more people than nearly anything else, so far as I know)

[Sibling Chatty]

Acey:  Should voting in the US be made mandatory?  Why or why not?

Oh, WHY in the hell would we want even MORE ignorant people to vote?? People who don't know a DAMN thing but what they saw on th' TEEVEE last night, whar' that Billo Riley guy sed that you cain't trust wimmin and dark skin folks to do what's right fer Umurrica...

Now, if you could mandate even marginal education along with voting, and the ability to THINK?? Maybe. As it is, let's let the Great Unwashed remain ignorant and filthy. Only when the Religiocans send them swarming from their self-built pits of ignorance do most of them even bother to register to vote, so let them be what they are...fodder, or bovine intelligences.

Yes, in fact, I AM an intellectual snob.

Deucey:  Should High Schools be allowed to replace "regular" cafeteria drinks with Coke/Pepsi/Etc?  Why not? (notice the built-in bias? )

Regular cafeteria drinks like?? Milk? Juice? Tea? What?

Most beverages that we deem appropriate for teens aren't that much healthier...'fruit juice' is expensive and if it isn't it's because it has been adulterated with high-fructose corn syrup and colorings and artificial flavors and...CRAP, just like the CRAP in sodas. Milk? Lots of lactose intolerance around, plus most kids won't drink anything but flavored milks--more sugary crap--and the skim/2%/whole milk wars could be deadly! Tea? Hot or cold? Why not coffee? Lemonade? (Artificial? Sweetened?? What??)

I say give them plenty of ice and some decently filtered water (also use filtered water to make the ice) and quit catering to ANY of the commercial beverage folks. During the winter?? Hot water dispensers, bring your own teabags and whatever you use to sweeten it. School can supply lemons/limes for the vitamin C. Don't need the little monsters to get scurvy.

Honestly, by HS age, they've already formed their habits. Let them buy their beverage of choice, just keep the worst of the "performance drinks" out. (Red Bull gives you hyperactivity!!)

Loosey:  What do you think about the fact that a person is allowed to Die for the US, Vote in elections, but not allowed to Drink?  (can enlist at 18, can register to vote at 18, must be 21 to drink legally)

It's bullshit. If you can die for your country, you should be allowed to vote, too...and drink. Make it ALL 21, or go to ALL at 18, then enforce the hell out of every PI, DUI, etc. law on the books--across the damn board. (Drunk at ANY age is not good.)

Oh, yeah. Because I'm as mean as they come... Without a high school diploma or a GED, NONE of the above, except voting, is valid. No Army, no drink, no NOTHIN' unless you've gotten some damn education. Don't like it? Get your ass back to school. If you're incapable of getting a GED, you're certainly not really the exact kind of person the military needs. (Read up on the VietNam era 'laxity' that killed off untold guys that joined up to try to get out from under a losing hand--one they'd probably been issued by virtue of being poor. Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld, you incredible jerk!))

This DOES of course, presuppose that NO person EVER has to deal with malnutrition, homelessness or lack of proper medical care. When this country quits treating its citizenry like chattel (or cattle, to the slaughter...) THEN we'll straighten out these problems.

Goosey: (bonus)  Do you think that age 16 is really mature enough to be allowed the use of a Deadly Weapon?  (cars kill more people than nearly anything else, so far as I know)

Oh, HELL no...BUT there's not the mass transit system here that many other 'civilized' countries have.

I'm in favor of a driving age of 14. And until age 24, that driver MUST have a 'black box' that goes with them to every auto they drive, hooks up to a computer in the vehicle, and it does EXACTLY what a plane's black box and cockpit recorder does. Combined with a GPS system, EVERYTHING done in that vehicle is 'monitored'...at the time, or later. Speeding? Drinking? Driving badly? Blathering on a cell phone? ALL recorded. Until age 24...unless there were problems. Mo' problems, mo' time monitored!! (You take you black box in to be downloaded every week, if used. Driving without it is punishable by being denied a driving license until age 21. Found driving again? Add on another 3 years AFTER the "no driving until age 21", and so on.

The insurance rates for teen drivers would be able to be dropped...the very behavior that causes higher rates would be monitored and thus pretty much wiped out. Like I said, I'm mean.

(I also know that at age 14, I was a MUCH better driver than most older teens I knew, but I learned to drive as a child, on a farm, starting on a tractor, going to a 3 on the tree farm truck, then to a 16 foot bobtail by the time I was 12.)

Of course, SOME folks would push the envelope, some folks wouldn't like the 'intrusion'. Fine You can drive when you get your HS diploma or GED, are 18 and can pay for some serious driver's ed.

Oh, parents enabling their children no 'work around' the teen driving regulations? Loose their licenses. And for every year of incident-free driving with your black box? Knock off a year from the other end on having to have it. You could be free by 19--if you have had the sense to be vigilant about your previous behavior.

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Fake question 1) Does the above get across WHY it's a good thing I never had kids??

Real question 1) How well do you tolerate excessive heat?

2) What do you consider excessive heat, by the way? Interior and exterior temps both, please...

3) Would you rather be faced with "too hot" or "too cold", barring life-threatening extremes?

4) Do you sleep with the covers over your head?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Acey:  Should voting in the US be made mandatory?  Why or why not?

Oh, WHY in the hell would we want even MORE ignorant people to vote?? People who don't know a DAMN thing but what they saw on th' TEEVEE last night, whar' that Billo Riley guy sed that you cain't trust wimmin and dark skin folks to do what's right fer Umurrica...

Now, if you could mandate even marginal education along with voting, and the ability to THINK?? Maybe. As it is, let's let the Great Unwashed remain ignorant and filthy. Only when the Religiocans send them swarming from their self-built pits of ignorance do most of them even bother to register to vote, so let them be what they are...fodder, or bovine intelligences.

Yes, in fact, I AM an intellectual snob.

Deucey:  Should High Schools be allowed to replace "regular" cafeteria drinks with Coke/Pepsi/Etc?  Why not? (notice the built-in bias? )

Regular cafeteria drinks like?? Milk? Juice? Tea? What?

Most beverages that we deem appropriate for teens aren't that much healthier...'fruit juice' is expensive and if it isn't it's because it has been adulterated with high-fructose corn syrup and colorings and artificial flavors and...CRAP, just like the CRAP in sodas. Milk? Lots of lactose intolerance around, plus most kids won't drink anything but flavored milks--more sugary crap--and the skim/2%/whole milk wars could be deadly! Tea? Hot or cold? Why not coffee? Lemonade? (Artificial? Sweetened?? What??)

I say give them plenty of ice and some decently filtered water (also use filtered water to make the ice) and quit catering to ANY of the commercial beverage folks. During the winter?? Hot water dispensers, bring your own teabags and whatever you use to sweeten it. School can supply lemons/limes for the vitamin C. Don't need the little monsters to get scurvy.

Honestly, by HS age, they've already formed their habits. Let them buy their beverage of choice, just keep the worst of the "performance drinks" out. (Red Bull gives you hyperactivity!!)

Loosey:  What do you think about the fact that a person is allowed to Die for the US, Vote in elections, but not allowed to Drink?  (can enlist at 18, can register to vote at 18, must be 21 to drink legally)

It's bullshit. If you can die for your country, you should be allowed to vote, too...and drink. Make it ALL 21, or go to ALL at 18, then enforce the hell out of every PI, DUI, etc. law on the books--across the damn board. (Drunk at ANY age is not good.)

Oh, yeah. Because I'm as mean as they come... Without a high school diploma or a GED, NONE of the above, except voting, is valid. No Army, no drink, no NOTHIN' unless you've gotten some damn education. Don't like it? Get your ass back to school. If you're incapable of getting a GED, you're certainly not really the exact kind of person the military needs. (Read up on the VietNam era 'laxity' that killed off untold guys that joined up to try to get out from under a losing hand--one they'd probably been issued by virtue of being poor. Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld, you incredible jerk!))

This DOES of course, presuppose that NO person EVER has to deal with malnutrition, homelessness or lack of proper medical care. When this country quits treating its citizenry like chattel (or cattle, to the slaughter...) THEN we'll straighten out these problems.

Goosey: (bonus)  Do you think that age 16 is really mature enough to be allowed the use of a Deadly Weapon?  (cars kill more people than nearly anything else, so far as I know)

Oh, HELL no...BUT there's not the mass transit system here that many other 'civilized' countries have.

I'm in favor of a driving age of 14. And until age 24, that driver MUST have a 'black box' that goes with them to every auto they drive, hooks up to a computer in the vehicle, and it does EXACTLY what a plane's black box and cockpit recorder does. Combined with a GPS system, EVERYTHING done in that vehicle is 'monitored'...at the time, or later. Speeding? Drinking? Driving badly? Blathering on a cell phone? ALL recorded. Until age 24...unless there were problems. Mo' problems, mo' time monitored!! (You take you black box in to be downloaded every week, if used. Driving without it is punishable by being denied a driving license until age 21. Found driving again? Add on another 3 years AFTER the "no driving until age 21", and so on.

The insurance rates for teen drivers would be able to be dropped...the very behavior that causes higher rates would be monitored and thus pretty much wiped out. Like I said, I'm mean.

(I also know that at age 14, I was a MUCH better driver than most older teens I knew, but I learned to drive as a child, on a farm, starting on a tractor, going to a 3 on the tree farm truck, then to a 16 foot bobtail by the time I was 12.)

Of course, SOME folks would push the envelope, some folks wouldn't like the 'intrusion'. Fine You can drive when you get your HS diploma or GED, are 18 and can pay for some serious driver's ed.

Oh, parents enabling their children no 'work around' the teen driving regulations? Loose their licenses. And for every year of incident-free driving with your black box? Knock off a year from the other end on having to have it. You could be free by 19--if you have had the sense to be vigilant about your previous behavior.

I always like reading your stuff, Chatty. 

Makes me 

[Sibling Chatty]

Yeah, but would you vote for me for Empress of the Universe??

That's what I want to be if I choose to grow up.

[Swatopluk]

Fake question 1) Does the above get across WHY it's a good thing I never had kids??
For the same reason as Thales of Milet

Real question 1) How well do you tolerate excessive heat?
Not at all over extended periods of time (i.e. beyond the time one would stay voluntarily in a sauna)

2) What do you consider excessive heat, by the way? Interior and exterior temps both, please...
Anything beyond 25°C. Less, if direct sunshine is involved, slightly more, if there is a fresh wind.
If it's very cold outside (or just cold but also wet), the temperature may be allowed to rise inside.
In general 20°C is OK. In the summer I like it cooler on the inside than in the winter.

3) Would you rather be faced with "too hot" or "too cold", barring life-threatening extremes?
too cold. Against that there is protection by warmer clothing but there is no such remedy against too hot.

4) Do you sleep with the covers over your head?
Not to my knowledge. It's too hot

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Huey) Who is your favorite head of state/executive in your country and in any other country (and the US, if not included yet)?

Dewey) Under what circumstances (if any) would you consider it wise/justified/etc. to make an attempt on the life of a leading politician? Do NOT name anyone specific!

Louie) What do you think life would be in a 2 or 4 dimensional world (spacial dimensions only)?

[anthrobabe]

Huey) Who is your favorite head of state/executive in your country and in any other country (and the US, if not included yet)?

Favorite head of state---
well he is only the elected Sheriff of Maricopa county, Arizona USA-- and I don't agree with alot of his personal views (he is very religiously conservative, his mandatory teaching of God Bless America to inmates who do no speak english, other things) but the man is tough on crime, forces deadbeat parents to support their kids, utilizes a fantastic group of volunteers to fill budget shortcuts so his deputys and staff can do their job in relative safety, you go to jail if convicted and not home to play(tent cities-good enough for soldiers in the desert, this began during the 1st gulf war, good enough for convicted criminals), saves money in inventive ways and protects guards ( a big problem is coffee attacks where the inmates throw scalding coffee on guards-so no coffee- saving about 20,000 a year alone to put into the summer camp for kids, Hard Knocks High, and ALPHA to name a few. the point is-- he is very tough, but I think fair and a good person and most importantly-- you will hear people over and over say-- they do not want to go back to jail in Maricopa county-- so the recidivism rate is low and that is what counts-- rehabilitate where you can and keep the rest locked up and keep new ones from comming in! Jail is not summer camp    ---no porn, no weight lifting yards, no cigs-- but education, educational tv (did you know it is against federal law for prisoners to not have access to cable TV- so he went all Disney channel only, help for those who want to remake their lives.  I don't love him-- we differ on philosphy too much but as far as being a cop, and maybe running for office one day-- yeah I do like the man. I also own a pair of pink "go Joe" boxers! (began with the white prisoner boxers printed Maricopa Jail being smuggled out and sold so saggers could 'look cute' sporting their very own I'm a big bad prison person garb- so he went to all pink underwear for male and female and they were really popular(but not among the prisoners and the so called black market has dried up) so he started even more fundraising for projects to help guard/deputy families)


Dewey) Under what circumstances (if any) would you consider it wise/justified/etc. to make an attempt on the life of a leading politician? Do NOT name anyone specific!

do not name anyone specific because THEY are watching! Yes if they are a despot, killing,raping, maiming, stealing and running a community/country into the ground while getting billionare rich on the dead bodies--- yes kill the barstards/biotches---- the resulting turmoil would be rough but eventually settle down-- but ONLY IF something worse did not take power.

Louie) What do you think life would be in a 2 or 4 dimensional world (spacial dimensions only)?

wow can anyone imagine sex in a 4 dimensional world-- that would be unbelievable. (sorry 1st thing that came to mind). I don't think I can imagine the way life would be on a 4th demension spatial level. I can't process 2 dimensions. What a mind blowing idea--- gotta process that for a while.




Pepperoni pizza:   Could you, would you, have you ever support(ed) a political figure very different in philosophy than yourself based on their actions, things they have done, things they have contributed to the greater good.

Hamburger pizza:  What would be your definition of true human altruism, or is true altruism in a human a myth.

Cheese pizza: Do you have grass stickers (a sort of seed that sticks and is small and painful making barefoot in your yard impossible)in your area, your yard, park. Do you accept it and wear shoes or constantly seek a solution. If you write letters to the editor of you paper about the damn things-bonus points!

[Sibling Chatty]

Pepperoni pizza:   Could you, would you, have you ever support(ed) a political figure very different in philosophy than yourself based on their actions, things they have done, things they have contributed to the greater good.

When we lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala-git-down-dammit-bama in the early 80's, I voted for George Wallace for Governor.

Why?? Because of the possible candidates, he was the saner (this is after he had renounced his 'racist' past, which was actually a pretty LIBERAL stance compared to most of Alabama at the time...seriously) and the one that had a focus on fixing the educational system at all levels, while maintaining salaries at the major universities.

His opponent's main stump speech consisted of "They's gittin' to be too dang miny kollejez heer. Ever time you turn aroun' you gotta nuther dang joonyur kollej. Why you need so miny?? AN' we payz them egghaids too much our Tax Money (spoken with reverence and awe) and needta tighten up da belt!!"

Then he'd get it his limo, earned from legal fees from suing the State of Alabama for any and everything...and wave and ride off to tell some OTHER folks why they didn't need education either.

I'd have voted for Atillia the Hun...

Hamburger pizza:  What would be your definition of true human altruism, or is true altruism in a human a myth.

Contrary to popular though, humans can be altruistic. Sometimes it's nurture, sometimes it's nature, sometimes it's a combination. SOME people are, by no means all.

What else would compel an otherwise sane (?) individual to allow someone to cut open their hip, take a bone chisel, knock out a hunk of bone and draw out the marrow to give somebody else? I understand it's much easier now...but THOUSANDS of people have done that for people they don't even know, and never will.

Organ donors--not cadavers, but live people that donate a kidney, or part of a liver. Why? Because they ARE NOT CONVINCED that they alone, individually, are the Most Important Being on the Planet.

Cheese pizza: Do you have grass stickers (a sort of seed that sticks and is small and painful making barefoot in your yard impossible)in your area, your yard, park. Do you accept it and wear shoes or constantly seek a solution. If you write letters to the editor of you paper about the damn things-bonus points!

I grew up with stickerburs, down in sandy Aransas Pass. My feet were tough enough from not wearing shoes that I didn't bother with them until I got to the blacktop or other pavement/shell/caliche roads, then I brushed 'em off.  On 'my' property, my problem. On public property, I complain. It's NOT brain science or rocket surgery to get rid of them if you get to it immediately.

We've had a few in the yard, and I got Dan to go after them with a vengence. No more stickerburs!! Not for me, because they weren't in parts of the yard I can access well, but because they hurt da dogfoots...and NUFFIN' hurts da dogfoots... It makes da Mama mad if somefin' hurts da dogfoots.

<sup>My dog is NOT spoiled. OK, a little. OK, he's sleeping on my bed, head on the pillows, because he had a tough morning chasing squirrelies that got into the Spencer and Daddy Clubhouse (No Gurlz Allowd) where they go to work with tools and Do Guy Stuff. (No handrail, so no Mom...) It's a little 'mini-house, about 10 x 14 feet, with an enclosed porch area that adds another 3 feet in length. Dan left the door open early this morning, and the Great Squirrely Invasion took place...</sup>



Part the First: Are there specific phrases/'common word useages'/figures of speech that get on your nerves or make your blood boil?? What are they?

Part the Second: Wanna come help Bill move tomorrow?? I'm cookin', but I ain' gonna lift a thing... (Aaaauuuughhhh, arrrrggghhhh...oh, well, same crew that helped us move, and helped us move Denise and Michael...we're all just gettin' older. )

Part the Third: Ummm....I dunno. Denise just called. they've told her it's time to put Michael on hospice and stop dialysis--just bring him home to die.

So, would you choose to let a loved one die a peaceful but inevitable death, or would you want to go 'full-tilt' with every invasive and painful life extending procedure?