JamesSavik

It's a math thing Cole. Consider 1950 was x 2015 is 3.5x If the ratio of predators stays exactly the same, then we have 3.5 times more predators and victims now than we did in 1950. The problem I have with our non-existent mental health system is that if you've got money (or insurance), you go to treatment. Otherwise, you go to jail. That's the sort of thing that can't go on in a free society for too long.

I've reached the point to where I really don't care what religious nuts think about anything. They've got their imaginary friend. They can talk to him all they want. Just leave me out of it.

The answer to that question is yes and no. When you roll the clock back to when most of us were kids, it was the 50s and 60s. Consider the population growth rate. All over the US, every state has grown- some a lot more than others. My own state is 4 times its 1950 population and Mississippi is always slower than most other states. Consider this: If we have a seriously dangerous lunatic at a rate of 1 in 1,000,000, that means in 1950 there were just a few more than 100 of them. Now, in 2015, there are 300+ of them. It's a function of population growth, a mental health-care system that simply doesn't exist and a judicially punitive approach to people with mental problems.

Can I request asylum?

The Paranoid State has been under construction for decades and we have created a monster. They told us to fear crime. So we did. New laws were written to make prosecution easier. They told us to fear drugs. So we did. New laws were written to make prosecution easier. They told us to fear perverts molesting children. So we did. New laws were written to make prosecution easier. They told us to fear terrorist. So we did. New laws were written to make prosecution easier. Now- we are not any safer, have surrendered many of our traditional Constitutional protections and live in a high-tech police state. This is so much better?

It would never work in the US with our free range lawyers.

I have a new reading list. Thanks Graeme.

Which means it won't be closer than 1000 miles to Mississippi in any direction. Anything more culturally uplifting than a tractor pull just doesn't happen here. ____________________________________ Update: I'm really confused by the info about this movie. I think it debuted in 2014. Here's it's wiki page :>> Boychoir This movie has been out for a while and I can't find any info of it being out on DVD.

Hole in the Soul One last cigarette in the pack, A twenty and some change, Just a few pills, some weed in my sack, Empty again, my soul exchanged. Lovers and friends, they fade away, Into the past, into the gray, Nothing is left except the need to feed, The emptiness, obsession and greed. Someone asks, “Are you OK?” When every day is lifeless gray, My life is being sucked down the hole, Another fix, another bowl. One is too many, ten thousand not enough, Sometimes it hurts, sometimes its rough, Until the joy goes up my nose, My feelings are ice, forever froze. There’s a hole in my soul, That I can’t fix with a bag or a bowl, I can feel my life pouring out, With a scream of fear and pain and doubt. The fiction that is addiction, Tells you all is well with great conviction, That hole in your soul is a gaping wound, You barely notice as you fall apart, Until you’re so broken, you have no heart.

It's the suicide part. A great many of us have seen too many for it to ever be funny.

We'll miss you

I remember this one. Cole had me hanging out at the computer for weeks.

If Jesus were to appear today, his followers wouldn't know him. He would look like a filthy hippie and he would hang out with people they didn't like- their outcasts. He wouldn't hang out with today's Pharisees arguing the fine points of law in their shining temples.

There is another definition for the word abomination as used in Leviticus. As it is used in the King James version, the word abomination has a lot of power and names something vile. In the original Greek it isn't nearly as powerful and meant- is not our custom. When the bible was translated to English by the Court of King James, a legendary fop, the King was not that popular. It is suggested that some of the so called whopper verses in the bible were put there by the translation team as a way of giving old James the finger. The fist sex scandal in the early Christian church is wrtten up by the apostate Paul. He had a thing for a hawt Greek youth named Timothy and couldn't wait the have him circumcised and ritually clean so a nice Jewish boy could "know him".

There was a guy from Bel Air Who was doing his man on the stairs But the banister broke So he doubled his stroke And finished him off in mid-air

I saw a cartoon a while back and can't find it anymore. It combined elements from several memes: the black spy from Mad magazine is looking through a telescope jammed up Uncle Sam's colon. Uncle Sam is looking around at him with an expression that indicates that he is not amused.

Ever noticed how perfectly normal people go brain dead when you put a mike and a camera in their face? If you asked me who won the Civil War, my answer would probably be which one? There have been so many. I actually paid attention in world history.

the InterWebs: with all the efficiency of the Post Office and the customer service of the Dept of Motor Vehicles!

I recently re-read Tim. If I may be so bold, I would nominate Tim and Duck, Duck, Goose as two of the best online stories that I know of.

It's stuff like this that they like to keep us distracted from. Because if you asked too many questions, you would discover that the esteemed politicians on the goverenment side have no idea what they are doing and the corporations that run the networks would rather screw each other than cooperate. It is what we technical types call a cluster f*ck.

*Sighs*

HP has always had bad ass engineers- their corporate culture encourages it. Too many corporate cultures treat engineers like... peasants. Wrong. MBAs don't create anything. Engineers do. If you want to see creativity, let some engineers play and see what they come up with.