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I wouldn't have thought about it like that. I know I heard about it yesterday when I was listening to the news at work. I also loved how they mentioned there was a rice shortage, but afterward mentioned that it was a shortage in Asian nations, not here in the U.S. However, people aren't going to...

Amp, I think I heard it in passing but nothing in detail. I agree with your assessment of the after affects of the war. However, I think it extends beyond the ecological affects. There are many others that will not be measurable for some time. Such as the psychological affects of the deployment...

W3pcq: "It is a very mysterious time we are living in. It is a time when information is available. It is also a time where information is a tool used to motivate, mislead, recruit, indoctrinate, justify, etc. Sometimes the more you take in the less you know. This is a time when you must listen...

What I wonder is why people feel suicide is necessary. I'd be curious to find out when suicide really began to happen. Obviously its safe to say it has been around for a very long time. I'd like to know why and when it started. Although I think it's possible to speculate the why portion of my...

This is kinda similar to what I said earlier about women being more likely to hesitate before they commit suicide. In the time they hesitate they're thinking changes and many times women don't actually commit suicide because of what they start to think about before they go to kill themselves...

Male suicides are much more prevailent than female suicides. I don't think its genetic althought there may be disorders that will put people at risk for suicide. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/suicideprevention/suifact.cfm [Broken] This website has specific findings on suicide rates and causes. I...

Thank you SD. Yes Moonbear I love you too! LOL. They're AAAALLLLL YOURS GIRL! Actually interesting fact...he's a fellow PF member except he hasn't been her since he's been deployed (Army). ~Kitty

Thank you all! Its great to be back! ~Kitty

Hello everyone. I haven't been here in quite some time. However I would say that my reason is a pretty good one. I got engaged!:biggrin: I thought I might share my good news with my friends from PF. ~Kitty

I have a friend of mine who has never read or been exposed to any Mother Goose or Fairytales that many of us have been exposed to and grew up with as children. He was asking me what the meanings of some of the stories were. What the real meanings of these stories were. What are some of the...

My fiance was flying from Boston to Nashville. We were looking to book the flight 3 weeks in adavance. ~Kitty

I find it does depend on when and where you are flying from, but over $400 for a coach seat on an early flight seems ludrious in my mind. What is the point of outsourcing jobs that we have here in the states anyway? There are plenty of aeronautical mechanics in the US who need jobs. ~Kitty

That was after I priced it out on their website. When he tried to price it out he put in the same info I did and got an even higher price. It seems like they can't be consistant. ~Kitty

It was for southwest when we were looking. I haven't heard of Jet Blue so I don't know. The fare from Southwest was over $400 and that was in coach! ~Kitty

Airfare is still expensive though. It took us 2 1/2 hours to find an airfare that would fit in our alotted budget. I don't see how outsourcing the maintanence jobs is going to help the consumers the way economists are saying it does if they don't lower the price of their tickets. ~Kitty

I find it irritating enough when I call up the airline to ask if they have a military discount for my fiance (because they never list them on the website) and don't speak to someone who is articulate with English. I understand they need jobs too but this is getting a bit annoying. ~Kitty

That's true. However I can't see what justification they have for that specfic plot of land. I believe it has something to do with a Biblical promise of land, but that was on the Jewish side in the Torah. The Palestinians are Muslim and when I studied that religion I don't remember reading...

Sid, on your personal note, I happen to agree with you.

Why are the Palestinians so passionate about that one small section of land? Are they even considered to be their own Nation? If they are not soverign and independent then they have no claim to that land. ~Kitty

Monique, the link is good. Where are these settlers supposed to go? What is going to happen to the settlements? ~Kitty

Good to hear from you Monique! :smile: It clarrifies it a little bit Mental, but this seems to be an all of a sudden things with the relocation of the settlers. It seems very fast. I know the conflict has been going on for many years but this is the first I have heard of any type of evcuation...

I'm not sure, but I would really like to know why. All of this began happening a few days ago. The news channels have been trying to cover it, but they are doing a poor job of it. This morning as I was watching the news the brief segment on the goings on should the military forces...

That wasn't quite what I had in mind for an explanation.

Hey there everyone, I keep hearing about the Gaza Strip and how the Israelies are trying to evacuate it. I've tried to watch the news to figure out what's going on, but I have gotten no where. I was wondering if we could discuss what exactly is going on, whose idea it is and what...

They were feuding well before the U.S. and other world countries came into the picture. As Pattylou said earlier, they were fighting back into Mesopotamian times. That is well before our history. I was wondering why they have been arguing and fighting for so long. I doubt their feud from that...

Its not really so much as reently happened. I was thinking about the Iraq/Iran war in the 80's and I remember something a history teacher of mine had said that it traces back much further than the 1980's. In attempting to think of a title for my thread I just put Iraq vs Iran. I don't know much...

Do you think they have cooled off enough to be civilized with one another? Also, has there been anything in the news about how Iraq feels about the Iranians having nuclear materials? ~Kitty

Agreed. Don't forget the Spanish Inquistition or the feud between the Catholics and the Protestants in Ireland. Those have taken the lives of many westerners.

Prometheus, my knowledge of the events in Asia are rather limited. I am familiar with the cruel disgusting events in Tibet, but I know very very little about the events that transpired in Taiwan, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Could you provide a small synopsis please? I do know there were...

The Japanese considered beheading an honourable way to die. Which sources did you consult that stated otherwise? I'm just curious. ~Kitty

Iraq ad Iran are neighbors. Yet they seem to truly dispise one another. What is this hatred based on? Why are they so passionate about it? What started it? ~Kitty

What is all this hubub about eminate domain and the Supreme Court? :uhh:

CQ, congrats on your diploma in Christian Theology :smile: I do believe it is possible for scientists to be religious, even deeply religous, as they try to unravel the world to explain it. Einstein, a very religious Jew, developed soem of the most influential theories of physics of our time...

Kazza, I agree with what your saying. The reaction seems over the top since there are cultures in the world where people walk around completely naked and no one thinks twice about it. One the other hand I can see why people reacted the way they did because there are many kids that watch the...

That is an interesting question. Speculation would have one believe the riggid social standards for the Asian culture would push Asian men to want to marry Asian women and treat them the way they do. As far as the general attitude towards the female caucasian population, I don't know. ~Kitty

I've read this over a few times and I still don't understand what this author is exactly getting at.

I hope your birthday is a wonderful day for you. Happy Birthday! :biggrin:

Hey there everyone, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me locate one of our PF members who contacted me looking for a lab I was going to talk to him about. The problem is that I never got a chance to contact this person to apologize for not being able to get him he lab! :frown...

I see what I you are saying Infidel. I don't worry about it about it. :smile: It was merely an obeservation of the general public.

I too enjoyed the tree canon episode. :biggrin: After I finished laughing I wondered how my force it would take to do that. :rolleyes: I thought the needle in a hay stack portion was comical as well.

"Those who do not read the newspaper are ignorant. Those that do are misinformed." -Mark Twain

I can see this has exploded into quite the 'hot-button issue' so to speak since I last posted. Kerrie, I see and understand your point completely. I also entirely agree with you. Just because the rest of the scientific community doesn't believe it and knows it is not true, does not mean the...

I 100% agree with Barbie and Njblaha. Corporal punishment is not the way to disipline children at all. Like Barbie, I had maybe two or three time-outs as a child. My parents never hit me or anything like that. If you treat your children as though they are intelligent and capable people, they...

I forgot to add that I wasn't addressing the religion in any part of my post. Just the 'yell at the operator not the machine' portion of yours. I tend to agree with Bob also in this case. The people are responsible because they are the ones who elect the officials who make the foreign policy.

This is part of the problem. There are people who hate the military because of what they do. You're right in stating they don't have a say; they do what they are told to do. Unfortunately Cronxeh, people fail to realize what you just said. So they hate the military. It would be similar to people...

Fibonacci, I am in 98% agreement with you. My methods of punishment would be different from yours, but there are some we share. I have to be careful with how involved I become in this thread because it hit very close to home for me.

Agreed. That would be aweful. Especially considering how much physics rests on his work. Can you imagine the reaction of the scientific community? There is probably a great number of people who would jump at the chance to discredit Einstein. Although it wouldn't surprise me either if he had...

This is very true. Sometimes it surprises me how much we agree on. :smile:

There are people in this world who are afraid of certain things: like germs. Now not everybody likes germs, especially the kind that make you sick, but how does someone become afraid of germs? I was hoping we could talk about this because I don't know very much about it. How do they act about...

I have to agree with Mathyaouw. Not everyone smokes pot. I really don't think of those sites are really credible. Gza, that picture is pretty funny, but I don't think that is evidence that he smoked pot. He was much to busy unraveling the mysteries of how the universe works to smoke pot. He...