Strega

When you give billions of dollars to a government to distribute benefits, I think you probably lose the credit for it as the government claims it.  Distribution of food regularly, accompanied by mechanisms for those populations to create their own food source, may need to be done in a different way.

I wonder how many food and medicine packages we could drop instead of bombs, for the price.

He can’t, @trexdgr he’s in the sin bin and won’t be back.

What would you offer to the young men that would be a better option for them than joining the jihad movement and getting food and water for you and your family?

@renaissanceman (aka John Phillip)  May I point out to you that joining an Atheist forum and asking/telling us/me that I will be sorry when I bump into your mighty creator vassilates between a child running up and ringing a doorbell as a prank, and an act of aggression against people not of your faith.

Neither is particularly becoming for an a…[Read more]

Hahaha @Robert the caller married an atheist, BUT he’s a good person :).

I hope you’re safe

I’m a black pudding fan, myself, Robert 🙂

@bellerose I’d be interested in reading some snippets of the stuff you’re studying, if you care to post any.

And back on the subject of Islam and Muslims, I read about the Egyptian massacre a day or two ago, where there was a bombing at a mosque that killed over 250 people including 27 children.  The mosque was a known Sufi one.    So I wonder…[Read more]

How interesting, Belle!  That sounds like a fascinating course.  I’m guessing it’s dealing with ‘western’ criminals but still, an interesting subject 🙂

@bellerose What are you studying?  What’s the content and purpose of the course you are doing?

I thought Thanksgiving addressed the ‘family’ get together here.  Because the children are all adults now, with their own partners and their own kids,  we celebrate Cranksgiving – a convenient Saturday between Thanksgiving and Christmas where we know they aren’t conflicted as to whose family to visit.  We do the full Thanksgiving feast, add all…[Read more]

You know, Belle, if more people said, “I don’t know any different” it would be a huge step forward for the species 🙂

I’ve learned that there’s a lot more to learn than I’ll ever be capable of learning, and that’s just as regards day to day wisdom.  Forget anything larger!

I do, however, feel that better brains than mine will be needed to come…[Read more]

Why ‘better’ and not ‘differently’?  The American attitude towards terrorism appears to be fear. I lived in London for forty years of IRA terrorism.  We stopped being terrified and began to heal ourselves.  Then we extended that slowly.  What we did not do, was to call anybody less than human.  Dehumanizing was what the fuhrer did to Jews befo…[Read more]