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Box A Rox
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Cracker Graham definitely has some "anger issues"...


                     Some advice for Cracker Graham:

                  


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Science Denier wants to teach "THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN"
Um.... there is none!  
"Intelligent design" comes entirely from the bible... not from science.



The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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we could scientifically have been made by an 'alien' force in the universe....those aliens could be our makers, hence our 'gods'...

not much different than the government granting freedoms as the government is a 'god'....in theory


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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Quoted from senders
we could scientifically have been made by an 'alien' force in the universe....those aliens could be our makers, hence our 'gods'...

not much different than the government granting freedoms as the government is a 'god'....in theory


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your eyes will be opened and you'll become like God
............and so we are.


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
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If Science Is Right, Religion May Be Wrong.
If That’s Scary To You, Try Watching This




The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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Quoted from Box A Rox
If Science Is Right, Religion May Be Wrong.
If That’s Scary To You, Try Watching This




I rmrmber seeing billy graham on the phil donahue program in the early 1970 s . He had no problem with this concept all the way back then.

his comment was that earth just ended up retarded  because of eve bitting the apple. That started thing off on the wrong foot so to speak. The solution  required attonment for that trangression. So jesus only had to come here to help straightn thing back out.


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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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fair share IS fair share


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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maybe the woolly mammoth came from a space ship from mars.....

just a theory considering how infinite the universe is.....

basically.....we have little brains with little pictures


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


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Meet a ‘new’ raptor dinosaur 'Zhenyuanlong suni' —
a ‘fluffy feathered poodle from hell'


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Scintists have unearthed a spectacularly preserved, nearly complete
fossil in northeastern China of a feathered dinosaur with wings like those of
a bird, although they doubt the strange creature could fly.

The researchers on Thursday said the fast-running meat-eater was about
6 feet (1.8 meters) long and covered with simple hair-like feathers over
much of its body, with large, quill-like feathers on its wings and long tail.

The largest-known dinosaur with wings, it lived about 125 million years ago
during the Cretaceous Period. Considering its mouth full of sharp teeth and
its overall oddness, University of Edinburgh paleontologist Steve Brusatte
dubbed the dinosaur, named Zhenyuanlong suni, a “fluffy feathered
poodle from hell.”

A member of a group of dinosaurs called raptors closely related to birds,
it was a cousin of Velociraptor, although that dinosaur, featured inaccurately
in the “Jurassic Park” films as much bigger than it was, lived about
40-50 million years later.


NOTE: If you're a Creationist...
Your word is only 6000 years old.


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How many of you ever heard of the Cohoes Mastodon?



The first mastodons (Mammut americanum) appeared about 1.6 million years ago, during the early Miocene period, and continued in various forms through the Pleistocene epoch (1,600,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago). These huge mammals roamed this earth for over a million years but suddenly disappeared, perhaps because of the combined effect of the climate changes, or a series of prolonged winters which made it almost unbearable for the animals to reproduce and feed, or possibly a heat wave. One factor in their extinction was the Ice Age which spread a huge glacier, about two miles thick, over the New York State area. As a result, many of the dead animals were frozen under ice and preserved for thousands of years. Embedded in a clay-like sediment, their bones remained preserved and undecayed.

In late September of 1866, when excavation for Mill No. 3 of the Harmony Mills [often known as the "Mastodon Mill"] was begun on the eastern side of Mohawk Street, the bones of a mastodon were found embedded in peat at the north end of the site in two potholes, circular bowl-shaped depressions in bedrock formed by the scouring and grinding action of falling water moving rounded rocks at the base of a waterfall. An accumulation of peat, muck, twigs, beaver-gnawed wood, limbs of trees embedded in rich loam, together with artificial fill, covered the bones to a depth of sixty feet.

About a week later workman found molars and lower jaw near the bottom of the peat bed, on the rock plateau above the Mohawk River, near the Cohoes Falls. As they continued working, they unearthed the main part of the pothole in a bed of clay and sand.

From then on different parts of the mastodon were discovered. By February of the following year, the big bone hunt was on, and amateur palenentologists found more remains, some sixty feet distant and all well above the level of the modern Mohawk.

This event became the talk of the town and was quite vividly described in one issue of the Cohoes Cataract Newspaper: "Those who during the present generation, have trod the earth of Cohoes have never taken onto their wildest imaginings the strange things that were concealed beneath the surface. But the late excavations made by the Harmony Company have brought to light the fact that a huge mastodon once dwelt where our village now stands. Fifty feet below the surface the jaw of this monster has been found, and has created in our village such sensations, few events ever excited...Yet excavation has revealed other wonders, little less remarkable."

Notorious cynics, some newspapers published several discrediting accounts, such as the one which appeared in The Rutland Herald in April 1870, claiming the mastodon was nothing more than an old circus elephant. They recounted a story told by William Bradley of Ballston:

"In the fall of 1866, he was going from Schenectady to Troy, following the elephant, which in those days was taken from place to place in the night to escape observation and when near what is now Cohoes, but which then had only a house or two, he found that the elephant had fallen dead in the road. The Keeper had sawed off the tusks and was cutting the body into pieces that it might be drawn off the road. This was no small job, for the elephant was one of the largest ever exhibited in the country.
Mr. Bradley had a nice span of Canadian Ponies on his peddler's cart. He took them off and assisted by Aron Ackley drew the body off the road and dropped it into a bog hole some six or eight roads distant, the identical one, as Mister Bradley thinks in which this so called mastodon was found."

The bones of the mastodon were kept at the Harmony Mills office for a time where they were visited by many eminent scientists including Professor Marsh of Yale and Hall of Albany. The relics were then placed on exhibition in Troy, then at the county fair, and finally at Harmony Hall in Cohoes. There were many offers to buy the remains but the Harmony Company decided to present them to the state, and in 1867 the state legislature transfered the skeleton to state ownership. The skeleton was exhibited in the State Cabinet of Natural History in Albany, under the direction of State Geologist James Hall, and then lated moved to the State Education building on Washindton Avenue, where it remained on display, along with a furry replica, until 1976 when the State Museum was relocated to the Empire State Plaza. The Cohoes Mastodont skeleton was disarticulated and put into storage; after a furious bidding war, the furry replica found a new home in the Cohoes Library, where it remains. The mastodon exhibited in the State Museum consisted of two mounted skeletons and a life-size restoration of an American mastodon in front of huge mural of the southeastern Catskills, during the last stages of the glacial retreat. Following two decades in storage, the skeleton was painstakingly cleaned and rearticulated using modern techniques and has been on display near the Madison Avenue entrance to the New York State Museum in Albany since 1997.

The mastodon exhibited in the State Museum consisted of two mounted skeletons and a life-size restoration of an American mastodon in front of huge mural of the southeastern Catskills, during the last stages of the glacial retreat. Currently the exibition is under going reconstruction. Some of the vital statistics of the Cohoes Mastodon, a young male, are:





    Spinal column, length...................     15 feet
    Height at shoulder, skeleton........     8 ft. 4-3/4 in.
    Height at shoulder, restoration ...     8 ft. 5-1/2 in.
    Pelvis, width.................................     5 ft. 5 in.
    Thighbone, length........................     4 ft.
    Tusks, length................................     4ft.6 in.
    Elevation of head.........................     8 ft. 11 in.
    Sex ..............................................     Male
    Genus...........................................     Proboscidea
    Weight.........................................     5 to 6 tons



One of these could be buried in your yard.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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Evolution VS Creationism



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