> jeannek...@aol.com wrote:

>> I used HillaryClinton.com ago and found several chat and blog sites
>> then. Did you find Obama's?

>
> I didnt even look. I post a lot on usenet, and figured that if any of my
> questions resonated, someone would pass them along. I've also written to
> my senators and congressman, even in snailmail, and only gotten standard
> form replies with no indication whatever that any staffer read any.
>
> I guess I know enuf about Janis' studies on Group Think to see I'm too
> far out of the box for any of the politicians to deal with. Gibbon:
> "Romans all believed relgion was true, Philosophers all thot religion
> was false, Politicians all knew religion was useful." My religion has
> not been useful.
>
> One of my beliefs is that we dont really have a functional democracy
> because we dont really have a rationally functional electorate. But I
> thot, as a Stoic Brahman, it was my duty to give it a shot.
>

>> Have you seen Bugliosi's book on charging Bush with Murder re: iraq

>
>  > deaths? He has a solid case, neat premise, too. Better than
>  > Elizabeth Holzman's impeach book.
> No, and dont really think they matter any more. The next president
> will be lucky if he has the time to formulate policy to let us all move
> on, and back away from the brink of economic collapse.
>

>> B&N are on line.

>
> Just bookmarked that. But have some kind of credit with Amazon, so I'll
> take a look at that acct. first.  please email me your home address.
> Kharma being what it is, my house number is the very same as that of a
> book by Orwell I am sure you know of. My street is Kirkendoll rd. The
> town is Clinton in the same state as Hillary's husband, and the zip is
> seventwozerothreeone.
>
> I must say your analysis of Somali and other Islamic cultures has a
> certain poetic justice in explaining why they need to mutilate, but I
> think the field studies of primates is better documented regarding the
> behavior of alpha males and the associated hormone levels.
>
> Simply put, their balls are bigger than their brains. Alpha males have
> produced great works for the benefit of all mankind, but that happens
> only when the alpha is endowed with superior intelligence. However, we
> see how they just cant keep in their pants when with a sexy airhead.
>
> All thru the 5000 years of history we can see how they regarded the womb
> as no more than the room for their seed to grow, and in southern regions
> more often shipped out the more challenging young women to nunneries.
>
> I dont claim that the ragheads would satisfy the CIA sexual service
> providers. And now that you mention it, can see how they'd havta be
> trained with kugels and horseback riding in order to provide the most
> memorable experience to those men to get their cooperation. Altho, with
> the rich guys having 4 wives and however concubines, there's lotsa poor
> ones who've never had any pussy at all, so a larger cunt wont matter.
>

>> My atheist/humanist self is descended from Irish women warriors...

>
> I just finished another book on the Celts. Everyone knows about the
> hill forts, but its only been recently that C-14 and dendochronology has
> dated them. There's a curious cycle where an area has hill forts for a
> couple hundred years, then they are all abandoned. Barford, 'The Early
> Slavs' inadvertently provides a clue with reports of the discovery of
> tiny cabins that were built when they could be hidden in the bush.
>
> We also have the DNA markers for Cholera and Dysentery. So, since the
> warrior class disdained good hygiene, which was the purview of the
> witches, epidemics would break out, and everyone would flee, picking a
> place in the forest away from contagion. Their kids would survive, so as
> Barford reports, the next generation builds a couple more cabins. Three
> generations later, its a village, then a town, then a rich target, and
> it is back to hill forts.
>
> So there were cycles between when warrior prowess mattered, and then
> when the health services of witches and midwives did. I've gone onto the
> "survivalists" lists making the point that if they are going to rebuild
> the pioneer lifestyle and have a dozen sons, they better find some
> midwives. The silence has just been deafening.
>
> When the men went "a viking", they had been living polyamorously in
> communal longhouses, and armed the women to defend themselves. You cant
> do that very effectively for just a single wife alone at home. The blade
> under the mattress is not nearly as effective as having others to take
> turns minding the fire and do the nitewatch. The later, when the manor
> hall came in, yes the Lord and his lady had their own bedroom, but all
> the others fucked around all night with whoever.
>
> Even in "Life in a medieval village" whose landlord was an abbot, they
> were still mostly promiscuous; some couples jumped the broom for a year
> and a day as pagans had always done, but few paid for a priest to get
> officially married. The widow of the miller used sexual services to pay
> the boys to move the grain around.
>
> One time the Abbot tried to raise taxes; way back in the 13th century,
> they knew how to organize a strike, and everyone picked up and moved
> into the forest. He caved. They could not have done that in the Levant
> or Africa; the warmer winters meant people could move around all year.
> It also meant that food was available all year, and if you didnt have
> enuf, the next tribe wasnt to far for a raid. They needed aggressive
> warriors in the gene pool, and now they are all still stuck with them.