Being old and senile I'm going to need someone young and intelligent to explain something to me(I'm so old that I remember when Presidents took their oath of office seriously). Badbob keeps posting this picture, and others like it, like it was something good or desirable. According to Snopes it was actually taken inside Man's Country, the Chicago bathhouse, by a hidden camera at the moment of anal insertion by a "close" friend. The background was changed to protect the insert-er. So, is this a proud moment or not?

First off, I'm a "birther" also, so don't let this throw you. You brought up the Kenyan name thing. Well, that one is a non-starter. Although it wasn't officially named Kenya until '63 I have seen the photocopies (not photoshopped copies) of newspapers referring to the country as Kenya way before '63. It seems it was an un-official name that was, however, in semi-common use.

Just a thank you and not a political statement; I love learning new words and I had to look this one up. "Actually, the Democratic Party bigwigs and their amanuenses in the mainstream media", I think it helps in my futile attempt to thwart old age.

Math was never my strongpoint, but you said "At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party." Since Jefferson was born in 1743 and the Republican party wasn't founded until 1854 something doesn't seem to "add"up.

Loki: I very much like to read your posts, I find them well thought out and stated. I also like it when jelun and her/his ilk try their best to blame all things wrong with society on Caucasians by simply applying current PC definitions to eighteenth and seventeenth mindsets. I have noticed in all the bombast that it's implied that s***ery is a pure negroid curse and that it can only be invoked by non-w****s (wh**ever that definition is). Apparently the last four or five thousand years of recorded history on up to Irish s***ery by James II are not subjects for discussion.
It's very easy to seize the moral high ground when you can pick and choose what "moral" is.

Not sure why this is in the political section, but it is thought provoking. The word "t***h", a common noun, keeps getting bounced around this post like a wayward ping-pong ball. Granted, this whole concept is kind of like a philosophical Ouroborus, but,if limited, it can be discussed.
To my way o' thinkin'(and of course, I may be dead wrong)you're confusing t***h with reality. Reality is ALWAYS true (at least for a moment) but t***h is not always reality. T***h is more of a human construct and probably founded on a survival trait. That berry may be "good" to eat and so it's remembered and considered a t***h. It's reality may be different and in the long run not so advantageous to survival. So, what is t***h and what is reality? If it's consumption has the immediate effect of a better life but the final effect is a shorter life span, is it "true" it's good for you?
LPN said" I have found, that when challenging someone's belief - and they get angry - it's because they are not 100% confident of their "t***h" and don't want to do the necessary work to BE confident - because they might find out that that they were wrong." This may, or may not, be correct. Oft times it's more the presentation of a viewpoint than the actual content, or they may have done the research and find the presenter has so many false facts in their rationale that it is maddening. Wh**ever the reason, t***h is sometimes pliable.

Is that a reference to talcum powder because of abraded butt cheeks from kissing with chapped, dry lips?

So, you obviously h**e the message and the messenger, but what I don't hear in YOUR message is any rebuttal. If it (or any part) is a lie, state facts showing that. "Spewing" is a favorite tactic of those with no facts, just fear of the t***h.
Oh, and just as a pure opinion, he was a democrat elected president, not democratically elected.

Damn, how could I have been so blind? Not sure about the barium and the etc. but now I know why everywhere these college teenagers go there is a trail of aluminum (cans). I should have realized that they are mainly undercover Federal agents PRETENDING to be drunk and litterbugs. Utter genius.

So, you have the gift of "intelligance"? Possibly that is that a subset of knuckelheadedness!

I'm sure that "HAL 9000" gave that a lot of thought.

Actually it was snag-it, my screen capture program. Tried to make some sense of it but it seems to have a mind of it's own. It doesn't seem to care about the size, format or anything else, it just spews out gibberish in no particular order (kinda like khh1), other times it works fine. But thanks for the help.

Not sure why the original link didn't work. I went to Aviation web site and did a search using USS cook and found this:

I have no idea why a perfectly good JPG does this on the posting, it works fine everywhere else. But, you get the drift and can follow my steps and see the article itself.

Read your linked article then did some goggling. Found it repeated on several sites but, to me, the most creditable was from the following site: http://aviationweek.com/blog/navweek-jammed. The one point of your article that I found the most unbelievable was the crew "resigning". At least when I was in you couldn't "resign" no matter the "demoralization". Sounds like an article written by an i***t at best.

Sorry I disturbed your trip, or binge or wh**ever your designation of it. I accept all blame for not realizing that the numerical designation on your screen name also designated your IQ.