Bruce Tuncks

Well said Jerry.

Wow!!!! How do you figure he was really a woman all the time?

I reckon Trump was elected as a reaction against the "woke" lot. While I personally would have voted for Kamala, I do admit to feeling she was dead wrong to "support" the gender-diversity nonsense that has enabled a male boxer to KO women with one punch, Yes, he ticked the correct box and was competing as a woman. On the subject of gender-diversity, I support males in all areas of competition except for sport, where the advantage of male structure is just too much to overcome. Supporting this is the observation that there is NO example of a woman claiming to be a man to compete in sports. There is a story ( cant verify if it's true ) of an Australian world-champion winning team being easily beaten by a team of schoolboys.

I've been caught by a scam and still don't know what I did so wrong, what happened is that I bought a translator-device over the net, and it was re-supplied till my card ran dry ( 9 times). How can I "prove" i didnt re-order? The original order was recycled. From now on, I will only buy stuff through paypal... .

There was an old lady ( 80's) in the UK who was refused her regular bottle of sherry cos she didn't have "proof" that she was old enough to buy it. She had no passport or driver's license. What do you suggest Marty?

I like examples.... but I don't know of an example where news was twisted by the abc, so in the meantime I reckon its factual.

Thanks OME, I was referring to al Khwarizmi. Sorry about my poor spelling of arabic names

Thx guys. I still reckon that democracy is the only system worth fighting for, so I am certainly at odds with the islamists . There is a story about the first Chinese ship to visit east Africa, where they heard about Europe and decided it was too primitive to even visit. Funny huh how the Europeans returned to China ( after hundreds of years ) and found the place so primitive that they ruled for many years. It was the same with the arabs. I reckon what happened can be explained by the loss of religion in Europe with the reformation.

Here's one for OME, I think... Why were the arabs so clever in the days of al-kaswami but so silly these days? Apparently there are "schools" where the only book allowed is the koran.

Thanks, Nomad. I fear you are correct, but I would still like to just take a pill or 2 to lose weight. What about liposuction? Getting back to the "near death experiences", did you ever consider the evidence of the pattern-generator they put on top of the operating-theater lights. Operating theaters are a popular place to die, and near-death people often told how they could look down and watch the event of their death. This was taken by religious people as "proof " in the details of their religion. But NOT ONE of these told of the pattern correctly. I take this as proof that the "near death" religious experience is a bunch of nonsense. Obviously, the brain in its death -throes can come up with lots of stuff.

AND, there is a song from out of the 'fifties which blames " my two amigos, Nick Otine and Al Kahol"

Nomad, your posting is hard to disagree with, but why did you say "avoid weight-loss drugs"

How about this for an idea? We look up the best system in the world ( longest lifespan etc etc) and contract that lot to run our system? We would probably see the super-rich come out fighting, but they should lose the fight. I hope.

I reckon that democracy is a far stronger system than autocracy, and we are seeing a fair battle between the two right now. Nev is clearly correct about Hitler and the book-burning, gosh you wouldn't last long under Hitler if you disagreed with him on something fundamental.

Why do you use those things, jerry? I reckon I get by fine with just this site and emails. I must be missing something.