diverting funds from the spreading of christianity i guess. eh, a cause is a cause i suppose.

ageing myself but it got a thumbs up for good dance beat on the dick clark show.

i see the word, "intelligent" often as a wanted atribute but what does the word actually mean to folks here? can't equate "intelligence" with "education" can you? is it "knowledge"? knowledge of what? i've my own idea of what i mean when i use the word but wondering what others who use it in their profile mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF5XU-k2Vk

theories do not explain facts. that's why they're called theories.

you bet there's a better option. at least two in fact. single and not lonely and obviously taken and happy. but then i guess we all see lonely differently. when i think of lonely, i think of vietnam. haven't felt lonely since. and taken? there's always just being happy and content together.

i can understand why the no second date. i always pay. like theas easy questions.

seems you've no way of knowing that either or you'd be able to come up with the abreviation. when you do i'll stand corrected.

precisely what i said.

no such animal as a new world order.

acutally the scientific method is all about disproving. that's precisely why it's called testing. can the theory meet the challenge of the latest test? that's the question. scientists live to one up each other. evidence is tested primarily to see if the theory will hold up. if it does, the theory stands as valid. if not, the theory must be modified or abandoned. a theory can never be proved absolutely. we never know what the next test will entail.

and yet ford's workers unionized anyway. in fact no auto company fought harder to keep the uaw out.

there's a finite amount of ad space anywhere and most certainly on the sides of a certain number of buses. any media provider must pick and choose among numerous ad clients. would descriminating against advertising by an adult toy retailer be acceptable by a city bus system? the city REJECTED an ad campaign. had they accepted, would it not be descriminating against a u.s. corporation, say a local bmw auto dealership, where such an ad might cause a loss in sales resulting in layoffs of it's local american employees?

it really is a global economy folks and as powerful as america is it cannot change that fact. we either saavy up and deal with it or wither and die.

indeed you are but your original post was concern about ridicule which such speculation invites.

nor has an alien been caught doing the mutilating. an alleged sighting is not a catch.



nor has an alien been caught in any abduction case.



the long history of human abductions and cow mutilations, obviously. there's no denying that they've happened but there's nothing but unfounded testimony that anything other than humans did the deeds. just as with the god fearing folks; testimony but no evidence whatsoever.



understandable as the military has never confirmed an alien space craft. but that's besides the point; why do ordinary people call them "ufo's" if they identify these flying objects as alien space craft?

not so in the least. a scientist begins with a postulate and after thinking about it will develope a hypothesis. then he searches for evidence that can be tested using the very strict scrutiny of the scientific method and if the testing produces predictable and repeatable results he finally has a valid theory. belief has no place whatsoever in science.

yep and walmart losing enough good pennies and watch the layoffs begin. most people get it even though we often whine about it at cocktail parties and on the forums. the american consumer is no differennt than every other consumer on the planet. we want value from wherever it comes. once again this year the top five selling cars in america come from foreign manufacturers. and the bulk of those cars are built right here in america by american workers who enjoy their jobs and don't want to lose them because their "corporation" lost billions.

it IS a global market folks. we can do one of two things. we can remain in denial with this "buy amrerican" crap and get run over by a train with china as the engine pulling along boxcars from europe and finally a caboose like vietnam; or we can face reality and deal in this global market like no other country on the planet can even begin to compete with and own all the track. of course that takes smart logic and that just cannot get elected.

corporations losing billions has never created jobs. just the opposite.

i'd just as soon that the gubment, city, county, state, federal, not get involved in suggesting that i buy or don't buy anything from anywhere. this isn't a "ban" btw, as the title of the thread presupposes. the city "rejected" advertising.

then why are the referred to as "ufo's"f? why not call them alien space ships?



no, but there's a long history of humans doing those things.