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Well I'm not sure who or what Native Americans worshipped Doc.

And was the holy crusade that conquered America any different to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Brutality and subjugation?

And are  you sure that your reservations are not simply based on appearance?

I'll need your stats Doc.

My priorities are pretty basic.

Family and healthy lifestyle are my two chief priorities.

Internet Interaction with Mr E. et al. is an entertaining distraction.

Though my comments are always sincere.

If sometimes a tad cynical or satirical.

Is that's what is known as cynicism?

Ah.

But was she formerly blessed amongst women...Or was that more like a Catholic type re-write of the plot?

We were led to believe that she was just a pregnant woman traipsing about the Arabian Peninsular on a Donkey looking for an Inn....Did they have Inns back in the day?....Or was that yet another European postscript?

Old Abe will be turning in his grave.

And what percentage of conservatives hate liberals for being liberal.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other, as my dear Mum used to say Doc.

You old humanitarian Doc.

We make a mess, we take some refugees.

Though most have gone to neighbouring Iran and Tajikistan.

Even kind hearted Uganda has taken some in.

So it won't hurt the U.S. to have a few.

It's not so long ago that the Irish sought refuge in the New World Doc.

Was that his Mother or his surrogate Mother?......Virgin birth and all that tosh.

The God character probably didn't give a toss about her, readers were probably left to assume that gullible Joe looked after his missus.

Though you're really best asking the men who concocted such stories....They probably just didn't consider it necessary to the plot.

No one here on Dart is actually going to know.

Not always so liberal Mr E.

I just say things as I see them.

Relative to age, conditioning and experience.

I guess that Theweakeredge was similarly motivated.

Russia, with the U.S. and other allied assistance eventually wore the Germans into the ground.

And the nuclear bomb won in Japan.

And in Vietnam the U.S. got it's arse kicked by a raggle taggle bunch of commies

And in Korea the U.S. did half a job.

And in Iraq, Syria et al, the U.S. and it's lackies (sadly the British amongst them) left another enduring mess.

And in Afghanistan the U.S. again typically ran out of the will to achieve anything meaningful.

Just enforces the fact that military might is worthless, especially if you don't have the stomach to back it up.

In my opinion.

I based my opinion of Trump on Trump.

And I base my opinion of Biden on Biden.

And I always thought that Dubya's  knee jerk reaction to the Twin Towers was somewhat foolhardy.

Hey...Someone blew up our towers....Let's go bomb the fuck out of some pomegranate farmers in Afghanistan.

And it all ended in tears.

Operation Frequent Wind ring any bells?

Approval ratings mean zilch and depend upon which propaganda machine is producing the approval rating.

"Think" is the key word.

We think that we know something.

And within a human context that's undeniable.

That is the only basis of knowledge and truth that we have available

Certainly isn't looking good at the moment.

You're up late as ever Mr E.

And Afghanistan is always somewhat chaotic.

And inflation, crime and borders are never hunky-dory....Only manageable.

We know what we think we know.

And  people believe that it is possible to know more than it is currently possible to know.

Which is a truism.

But believing in something that might be possible doesn't make it true.

Biased Republican perspective.

Republicans created 20 years of chaos and Biden dealt with it swiftly.

Hats off to the old guy.

Apolitical as ever Mr Ethan.

I did briefly make a visit back to DDO and saw the "pressing things" that you were doing.

I didn't agree with Dubya.

But blaming a President who has only been in office since January 20th for the past 20 years of US inspired chaos in Afghanistan is a bit rich to say the least.

I'm guessing that you're a Republican.

Education is social evolution.

And not working hard is a consequential social expectation.

And enslaving the Third World is a temporary solution.

And debt is just a part of monetary make believe.

And what of the future Doc?

I'm not sure if it was the same syndrome.

But I suffered from spontaneous fits of laughter every time I heard the Orange Guy speak.

Someone should have told  that to the Orange Guy. LOL

And someone should have told that to the Dubya guy 20 years ago.

Enduring freedom. LOL

Afghanistan is a lawless wilderness....Ask the Ruskies....They learned the hard way too.

Of course, that was back in the days when The USA and Osama were best buddies. LOL

What goes around comes around, as they say.

All of the above is generated by a developed physiological function and it's processes.

Amazing but seemingly true.

To speculate otherwise is simply to speculate otherwise and not to exceed internal function and processes.

We are currently switched on and working.

And one day in the not to distant future we will cease to be switched on and working.

As far as we can actually know that will be the end of our particular story.

Though some people benefit from avoiding the known truth and speculating otherwise.

Though that is not to say that there might be an unknown truth.

But we don't actually know that.

Well stated.

Are you back from the wilderness Mr Ethan?

And how are things in Philly?

Hope that you and the lovely Mrs Ethan are both well.

They are all like each other in a way....It's more a case of how they intend to implement government.

@RatMan.

I don't agree entirely with the title of this thread....Perhaps competency would have been preferable to "literacy"......College Students that don't already know how to read and write, perhaps shouldn't be College Students.

As I stated. Masked are not intended to stop the virus per se. Only to prevent the spreading of particulates, should one sneeze or cough. Logical common sense as Mr Ebuc would say.

Stay safe.

Native or Foreign?

Depends upon how you cherry-pick history.

Sure.

Though we all have lives and do other stuff.

It was just that his absence was noticeable.

I'm off now to do other stuff.

Regards.

A mask will prevent the rapid spread of airborne particles, in instances such as coughing sneezing and exhaling, it is merely a precautionary measure when in close proximity to potential carriers.....Common sense logic.

Stay safe.

Leprechauns are the coolest folk ever.

Did I miss something?

You seem to have conveniently forgotten.

It's known as "Enduring Freedom"...Go ask George Dubya.

Was always going to end in tears.

So let's hear from a Republican apologist.

Yep...Sex.....More human overthink.

Of course, "consent" is the key word.

And how do you police consent.

You can't is the simple answer.

So you create a loose set of guidelines and laws, and trust that most adults will adhere to them, and hope that minors will pay attention to adult advice.

Works reasonably well....Which is probably the best that can be expected.

Everyone needs sexual gratification, it's a primary drive.

Not that I'm advocating bestiality though.....Other options are available.

Organic material is rendered to food, it's just that some organic material is cuter and fluffier that other's.

Worrying about what we eat is human overthink....Typical but nonetheless overthink.....It's the evolved nature of the beast.

So let's go have a lentil burger  and then go  blow those Isis-K to fuck.

Tony Blair...Dubyas little puppy.

I doubt that many U.S. citizens are actually true communists or socialists.....That's more of a labelling system used by the other team.

But it never works like that Karly Baby.

Karl Marx: Points out of ten.

1. Facial hair....10.

2. Bullshit........10.

Dementia probably.

That's what you would think if you were a Republican.

Such is divisive America.

Shouldn't have gone there in the first place.

G Dubya 2001....Enduring freedom.

Enduring freedom my arse.

Ensuing chaos more like.

Not quite the same thing, under the circumstances.

Probably as much to do with capitalism.

Obligatory debt and the tyranny of lenders.

Stay safe.

What is a supernatural looking thing?

I must admit that I've never seen one.

Does it have three heads?

Nonetheless, people either heal or not, and some people are frauds.

And frauds are easily healed if they want to be.

That's only if The RatMan can ignore you.

Depends upon how much you goad him.

Or how much he feels goaded.

Human/Social evolution is based upon survival of the fittest.

Intellectual fitness is as important as physical fitness, if not more so....Though the two do perhaps go hand in glove.

Gentrification is the manifestation of human social evolution....So therefore an inevitable thing.

"Good" or not is how on cares to construct it.....I personally think that it is probably for the better.

As if you have ever experienced or remotely understand "tyranny like conditions".

Wearing a mask and social distancing and being advised to have a non-obligatory jab, is not quite the same as having you fingernails pulled out because you referred to Joe Biden as senile.

Stay safe.

Homelessness usually means a lack of a lot of things.....Material and intellectual.

You clearly possess the where with all.

The bible is largely myth.

The supernatural bits are the supernatural bits.

And the actual bits are the actual bits.

And one can believe some of it, or none of it, or all of it.

Things sometimes happen that are not readily explained, so we sometimes like to refer to them as miracles. 

And sometimes we would rather that they weren't explained.

Careful.

The RatMan will block you.

Totalitarian is so left, that it becomes absolutely right.