Breaking news! Potheads have brain damage.
Obviously you have to smoke pretty heavily and habitually to get that bad. But still.
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So, hey, Morlocks are actually a breakaway sect of Muslims.
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.C.H.U.D.s are Calvinists by the way.
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Thats a really good idea…instead kidnapping children from gay parents they should kidnap children away from those zealosly religious nutjub familys who force their children to those Jesus camps and do brainwash their children without giving them any option to choose... That hate group...Westboro Babtist church? They had children younger than 8 years carrying those hate message boards like ''God hates fags''.
Generally I dont think gay parents will influence their children with their ideologies as much as religious parents.
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Are people…born homosexual? It has something to do with hormones, right? I've always wondered that.
Also, next time you see a member of the Westboro BC ask them this question: Would you abort a gay fetus? (I know it sounds stupid). That's like...a paradox for them, because they oppose abortion but they also hate homosexuals.
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@The:
Are people…born homosexual? It has something to do with hormones, right? I've always wondered that.
Also, next time you see a member of the Westboro BC ask them this question: Would you abort a gay fetus? (I know it sounds stupid). That's like...a paradox for them, because they oppose abortion but they also hate homosexuals.
God hates fags, god made fetus gay because god is all powerful…paradoxes for nutjubs...
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Are people…born homosexual? It has something to do with hormones, right? I've always wondered that.
Also, next time you see a member of the Westboro BC ask them this question: Would you abort a gay fetus? (I know it sounds stupid). That's like...a paradox for them, because they oppose abortion but they also hate homosexuals.
WBC, like a lot of anti gay people, believe that being gay is a choice and has nothing to do with hormones or anything else.
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So…Romney picked some Wisconsin congressman named Paul Ryan as his running mate.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054.html
Anyone heard of this guy?
Someone married their stepmom and then got murdered?
Sounds like he used a monkey paw to make a porno story come true.
Then the curse of the paw eventually killed him.
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t](http://www.inquisitr.com/295511/oral-sex-bandit-sneaks-into-homes-performs-sex-act-on-sleeping-males/)ablod shit. this is kinda funny in a fucked up way.
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It reminds me of those "evil black men gonna kill your kids and take your women" posters from 1800s America.
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@Rogues':
So…Romney picked some Wisconsin congressman named Paul Ryan as his running mate.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054.html
Anyone heard of this guy?
If it's true, I DON'T want Romney (and team) to win even MORE.
Paul Ryan is horrible. He wants to destroy medicare, AND, he wants to make the rich richer (by giving them a HUGE tax cut; nearly 10%) and keep the poor poor (by giving them practically nothing); I also think he's a religious zealot, and a hardcore anti-homosexual supporter.
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@Rogues':
So…Romney picked some Wisconsin congressman named Paul Ryan as his running mate.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054.html
Anyone heard of this guy?
bahahahahahaha, Romney just lost for sure, this is the guy who had that Medicare cutting budget plan
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Apparently the Romney Campaign is not going to endorse the Ryan Budget plan but will craft a separate one. That's an… interesting approach.
Complicating things since 2009.
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Apparently the Romney Campaign is not going to endorse the Ryan Budget plan but will craft a separate one. That's an… interesting approach.
They say that, but I bet my dollar it will include much from the Ryan Budget plan. Didn't Romney support his budget plan?
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He did back when he was trying to be as conservative as possible to win the primaries. He even attacked Gringrich for opposing the Ryan Budget as a matter of fact.
Romney's backing away from that now though as his campaign released an information packet.
Questions and Answers About The Romney/Ryan Ticket:
- Does this mean Mitt Romney is adopting the Paul Ryan plan?
· Gov. Romney applauds Paul Ryan for going in the right direction with his budget, and as president he will be putting together his own plan for cutting the deficit and putting the budget on a path to balance. …
- Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have different views on some policy areas – like Medicare spending, entitlement reform, labor, etc. – do you think those differences are going to hurt or help?
Of course they aren’t going to have the same view on every issue. But they both share the view that this election is a choice about two fundamentally different paths for this country. ...
- Do you worry that Paul Ryan’s controversial Medicare plan will hurt the campaign with independents?
· No. President Obama is the one who should be worried, because he has cut $700 BILLION from Medicare to pay for Obamacare, and put in place a panel of Washington bureaucrats to make decisions about what kind of care seniors will receive under Medicare. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a bipartisan plan to strengthen Medicare by giving future seniors the choice between traditional Medicare and a variety of private plans. They are committed to ensuring that Medicare remains strong, not just for today’s seniors, but for tomorrow’s seniors as well.
So even in the document designed to assuage fears about the Ryan Budget, they still admit that "a variety of private plans" AKA vouchers will have a big role.
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It's cute how Romney is still dancing about like he thinks he can possibly win, at this point he must have chosen Ryan just to entertain us
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People around here are taking for granted an Obama victory way too much, it's not that certain.
Or I should say wasn't.
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@Monkey:
Or I should say wasn't.
Ryan to me is a death blow to Romney.Boy are you more cool-headed than all of the Obama beg for money emails. They're trying to make it seem as though Ryan for VP was some crushing tactic
This is seriously in the latest one:
Listen to what one Republican supporter said about Paul Ryan: "I love him…He’s going to excite the Tea Party and get them on board…"
HOLY SHIT This must be serious, guys, a random dude said he loved Ryan
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Reportedly Romney chose Ryan against the wishes of his own campaign team; Romney went with Ryan to satisfy people to the right of him that said he wasn't conservative enough.
At a guess, it'll work as well this time as it did the last.
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He saved Ryan! l
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I respect and like Sen. McCain
I don't! Even apart from Palin, his campaign was disgracefully dishonest as a whole. He turned into yet another GOP stooge who managed to ride dicksucking news coverage of him for all it was worth. Whatever dignified and respectable qualities he had, he threw away for a campaign season.
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I dunno, I'm just not confident that people are smart enough to see through the haze of lies like the 700 BILLION fiction to keep either of these men out of office.
And Paul Ryan terrifies me, because I have no faith in people to know what's good for them anymore.
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Any shmuck who admires Ayn Rand and then gets elected to office disgusts and terrifies me.
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Any shmuck who admires Ayn Rand and then gets elected to office disgusts and terrifies me.
Indeed. Paul Ryan has just ensured Romney's demise.
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In other news
Nurse 'humiliated' by Qantas policy
A nurse was made to feel as if he had a sign that read "kiddie fiddler" over his head after he was moved away from a young girl on a Qantas flight, he said.
Daniel McCluskie said he had a similar experience to a firefighter on a Virgin Australia flight when he was made to switch seats with a woman because he was sitting next to an unaccompanied child.
Pretty lame that stuff like this happens.
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Hungarian Anti-Semitic Party Leader Discovers He's Jewish
Now there's a news item for you
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Hungarian Anti-Semitic Party Leader Discovers He's Jewish
Now there's a news item for you
It's like that Chappelle's Show skit come to life.
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Not the first time that sort of thing has happened; there was a Jewish Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Wow, didn´t expect that
C](http://inagist.com/all/235909583258935296/)ouldn´t find an english news source. All i can find is spanish ones.
Working thru some stuff. Dunno how long i will be here.
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Wow, didn´t expect that
C](http://inagist.com/all/235909583258935296/)ouldn´t find an english news source. All i can find is spanish ones.
I wonder if Rafael and Chavez would be so keen on Assange if he started leaking their dirty laundry.
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@Monkey:
I wonder if Rafael and Chavez would be so keen on Assange if he started leaking their dirty laundry.
No, they wouldn´t.
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Hungarian Anti-Semitic Party Leader Discovers He's Jewish
Now there's a news item for you
Oh why am I not surprised this is connected to Jobbik. Sigh…
I remember there was a guy a few months ago who asked doctors to genetically find out if he had any Jewish ancestors. He also asked for a certificate for that.
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You mean dotors these days can figure out the religious standing of a deceased human being from their genes? Whoa!
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You mean dotors these days can figure out the religious standing of a deceased human being from their genes? Whoa!
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Hehe, exactly.
They even said there was a compromise between doctors not to do such things because they have nothing to do with science and is offensive.
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You mean dotors these days can figure out the religious standing of a deceased human being from their genes? Whoa!
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They even said there was a compromise between doctors not to do such things because they have nothing to do with science and is offensive.
Being Jewish is ethnic as well as religious in a sense, it's not unscientific to be able to detect genetic lineage from a fairly closed ethnic group.
The abuse though of that sort of information is rife as fuck which is no doubt why the scientists refused, they know the type of people who sniff around those sorts of things.I see a lot of this sort of genetic information in my studies, and yes unfortunately while pure and scientific on it's own, it attracts a huge mass of flies and grubs, the racists of the world, to buzz around it and declare all sorts of garbage and add their own wildly unscientific conclusions and observations around it.
I take it as part of my responsibility as a guy into ethnic anthropology/history to be prepared to combat them at any point where they may appear. -
@Monkey:
Being Jewish is ethnic as well as religious in a sense, it's not unscientific to be able to detect genetic lineage from a fairly closed ethnic group.
The abuse though of that sort of information is rife as fuck which is no doubt why the scientists refused, they know the type of people who sniff around those sorts of things.I see a lot of this sort of genetic information in my studies, and yes unfortunately while pure and scientific on it's own, it attracts a huge mass of flies and grubs, the racists of the world, to buzz around it and declare all sorts of garbage and add their own wildly unscientific conclusions and observations around it.
I take it as part of my responsibility as a guy into ethnic anthropology/history to be prepared to combat them at any point where they may appear.I didn't know this. Thanks for clearing things up! I could've sworn the news reports said it was "unscietific", but maybe I remembered wrong.
Does this have to do something with distinctive features (with which people are born with)? Do Jews even have features like that? I honestly don't know… My history teacher once showed us a photo of a family, and I really couldn't tell they were Jewish until he pointed it out. They looked pretty normal to me.
I hope I'm not being offensive, because that's not my intention.
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The Ugandan prime minister's website got hacked by pro gay activists due to a bill being reintroduced in parliament that allows life imprisonment for commiting gay acts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19281664 Also Assange recieves political asylum from the Ecuador government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-political-asylum-ecuador Now I have no opinion on this case atm, but I do hope Britain allows safe passage for Assange into Ecuador based on international law and won't actualy do the thing where they threaten to remove the embassies' diplomatic status because that pretty much defeats the purpose of diplomatic status if local laws can just revoke them.
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Sinkhole: H-Bomb explosion equivalent in Bayou Corne possible
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| _Louisiana State of Emergency: Oil and gas sinkhole disaster area risks and rights violations escalating
A possible breach of a butane-filled well 1500 feet from Bayou Corne's sinkhole, the size of three football fields, is so "very serious," it has Assumption Parish sheriff and local residents ordered to evacuate worried about a catastrophic explosion, one according to scientists in an Examiner investigation, would be in the range of one and a half B83 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs, the most powerful United States weapons in active service.
“The disaster is made all the more worrisome because the hole is believed to be close to a well containing 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane, a highly volatile liquid that turns into a highly flammable vapor upon release,” CNN reported Friday about the declared State of Emergency.
Earlier it was reported the butane-filled well is only 1500 feet from the sinkhole and it will not be emptied.
A breach of that well, Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack said, could be "catastrophic,” CNN reports.
If ignited, the butane well would release as much explosive energy as 100 Hiroshima bombs, Deborah Dupré's scientist sources told her Sunday.
Friday, officials went door-to-door in the Bayou Corn area to complete questionnaires, including next of kin contact details of locals at home after the mandatory evacuation orders, as Fox News reported, while ABC reported, “If any of the dangers seem to become more imminent,” the present mandatory order will be “escalated to a forced evacuation.”
Some residents of Louisiana's cultural gumbo of Assumption Parish think dangers are more imminent now, despite state Department of Health & Hospitals Office of Public Health officials' letter to parish officials about air and water testing data.“Based on their testing, it doesn’t appear that chemical exposure of site-related contaminants pose a public health risk in the immediate area of Bayou Corne,” parish officials said.
Since Saturday, disaster workers are required to wear respirators, although the public within the disaster area is not.
Government cover up continues angering residents and elected leaders
"You can give us a straight answer because that's all we want," a woman said at the community meeting Tuesday. "We want to know when we can come home and be safe. Because you all go home after a days work. You're safe, but we're not," she said, expressing sentiments of other locals with whom Dupré has spoken.
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) put air-monitoring stations around the area to measure LELs (lower explosive limits) and say no radiation danger exists, although all test sample results will not be available until later this week. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had quietly permitted Texas Brine Company LLC to pump radioactive waste into its now failing cavern near the sinkhole DNR also hid documents showing that cavern may have had problems since 2010.
Last week, Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, said he wants more transparency and answers from the Office of Conservation. Like many leaders angered that DNR officials hid documents about the failing brine cavern near both sinkhole and butane well, Harrison had no idea about structural issues within the brine cavern until reading this in the paper, according to Fox News.
Environmental attorney Stuart Smith said last week he believes nothing officials are saying about this mounting disaster.
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) reports that, in addition to over twelve areas in and around Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou having “waters rolling from escaping methane, ethane, and propane,” locals have also reported tremors and houses shifting.
Local fear and frustration are exacerbated because no local is allowed in "operation/status" meetings, as in the ongoing BP oil “spill” catastrophe, and because officials have not publicly released estimated effects from the possible butane explosion, including secondary explosions of nearby fossil fuels, information urgently needed by locals, emergency responders and nearby oil and gas facilities's workers.
Assumption Parish, an oil refinery haven in the heart of the nation's Cancer Alley, is crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines.
Potential butane explosive capacity calculated
The 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane 1500 feet from the sinkhole has an explosive capacity of 100 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, 1.5 times the explosive force of the largest thermonuclear weapon in current service in the U.S., according to Wikipedia scientific data and popular citizen reporter, Dutchsince, and confirmed by Dupré's sources this weekend.
Excluding secondary oil and gas pipeline and refinery explosions, direct effects of such a single bomb blast in Bayou Corne, fifty miles from Baton Rouge, would include Donaldsonville, Louisiana, according to NUKEMAP simulations showing an H-bomb this size would produce:"Fire-ball radius: (central orange circle): 0.62 km / 0.39 mi. Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation.
"Air blast radius: 3.8 km / 2.1 mi (red shaded circle) 20 psi overpressure; heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%
"Air blast radius: 8.93 km / 5.55 mi (gray shaded circle) 4.6 psi overpressure; most buildings collapse; injuries universal, fatalities widespread.
"Thermal radiation radius: 15.18 km / 9.43 mi (outer orange shaded circle) Third-degree burns to all exposed skin; starts fires in flammable materials, contributes to firestorm if large enough."
Note: Butane explosion effects would differ from H-bomb effects two ways: 1) It would take much longer and have insignificant radiation damage; 2) Temperatures reached would be lower, so the fireball, thermal radiation, and air blast radii would be smaller, but all three longer-lasting.
Breathing butane is hazardous. In the unlikely case that the butane was released but not ignited, Wikipedia explains butane properties as: “Inhalation of butane can cause euphoria, drowsiness, narcosis, asphyxia, cardiac arrhythmia, temporary memory loss and frostbite, which can result in death from asphyxiation and ventricular fibrillation.Government and non-government organizations have different speculations about disaster source
Friday, Louisiana State Police, Assumption Parish Police Jury, and Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office leaders spoke in Pierre Part about the Bayou Corne area disaster, saying they don't know its cause that has resulted in evacuees unable to return home for at least another month.
Officials uncertain what caused the sinkhole suspect Texas Brine Company LLC's salt cavern_._ Dr. Madhurendu Kumar, DNR director of the state's oil and gas division, said the sinkhole could have been caused by structural problems in Texas Brine's salt dome beneath it.“The wall of salt between the brine cavern and the salt dome might be thinner than experts were led to believe," Kumar said, according to _Associated Pres_s.
As government officials continue focusing on the brine cavern and sinkhole, non-government environmentalists and human rights defenders say the disaster root is neither cavern or sinkhole.
LEAN explained late last week why they believe Texas Brine's salt cavern near the sinkhole is not the source of the problem that has caused gas bubbles percolate in the swampland and bayous for over two months.
USGS maps show extra movement and stress from oil and gas operations are susceptible to present pressure of a series of earthquakes west of Louisiana, each being where fracking and frack waste injection storage are ongoing.(Watch "8/11/2012 – Louisiana Sink Hole Explained -- POSSIBLE HUGE CATASTROPHE -- 100 Hiroshimas" YouTube video by Dutchsinse embedded on the left of this page.)
"This is extremely serious," Kim Torres, spokeswoman for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, told ABCNews.com Friday. "The people are very aware of how serious this is."
Among the majority of residents worrying but choosing to not abide by the mandatory evacuation orders, local resident Mr. Landry told CNN Friday, “We kind of feel that if something drastic were to happen, we could jump in a car and get out of here."
The White House has remained silent about Louisiana's most recent oil and gas disaster.
Paul Brown, Ph.D., contributed to this article.
Other sources: ABC News, CNN, Fox News, Dutchsince, Nukemap, Examiner.com_
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http://www.examiner.com/article/sinkhole-h-bomb-explosion-equivalent-bayou-corne-possible
Goddamn. I wonder why I hadn't heard about this when it was first reported a few days ago. So apparently while the sinkhole itself is not the biggest threat, there is a massive well containing 1.5 million barrells worth of butane located just 1500ft from the growing sinkhole. Even if the sinkhole itself doesn't grow that large to reach it, the unseen holes and leaks may be the bigger danger. The cause of the sinkhole collapse is currently unknown and early reports speculate a result of miscalculations from the mining of the salt dome underneath the bayou. Reports from locals were that bayou was 'bubbling' in many areas. Then a visible sink hole began swallowing trees and it has grown to an area with the diameter of about 3 football fields. One area of the hole is over 400ft. deep.
The situation has scared the living hell out of the local authorities, issuing a mandatory evacuation notice and Gov. Bobby Jindal has declared a state of emergency.
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I didn't know this. Thanks for clearing things up! I could've sworn the news reports said it was "unscietific", but maybe I remembered wrong.
Does this have to do something with distinctive features (with which people are born with)? Do Jews even have features like that? I honestly don't know… My history teacher once showed us a photo of a family, and I really couldn't tell they were Jewish until he pointed it out. They looked pretty normal to me.
I hope I'm not being offensive, because that's not my intention.
Outward appearance can be related but not necessarily.
There are things people see as Jewish looking, but those things you could say for any folks from that area of the world. Turks, Arabs, even Cypriots!
Of course Jews went into Europe (mostly) for thousands of years after the Romans crushed them so nowadays plenty of Jews can be said to look identical to any generic European.Which brings me to my next point, that appearance doesn't mean much at all either. It can give you a general idea where someone is from but not much else.
The genes in a guy from Ireland and a guy from Russia would be hella different, but it's likely they could look like brothers or sisters.Outward appearances of people probably has more to do with geography in regards to climate and diet than anything. A population that lived in a similar environment could look identical (French, Ukrainians) but the populations might not have mixed much at all for other reasons so they could have very different genes.
For instance Black Africans are more closely genetically related to Europeans than they are to the very black skinned island people over around Southeast Asia.Ethnic groups aren't really a sure guide either. You Hungarians are an excellent example of this actually! Genetically you're like all your neighbors, Serbs, Czechs, Romanians, etc. But your culture was carted into the basin by Uralic horse invaders!
Likewise with Chrissie's country, Greek and Turkish Cypriots are opposing ethnic groups with lots of animosity, but genetically they've been discovered to be pretty much the same. Which suggests that Turkish Cypriots are probably largely descended from converts and/or intermarriage, and not a bunch of mainland Turks who hopped over to make up around 20% of the population. (it was a good career move to learn Turkish and convert to Islam under the Ottoman Empire you see).And at the end of the day, everyone is just people of course lol. Even if some of us are taller or shorter or whatever the hell.
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@Monkey:
Outward appearance can be related but not necessarily.
There are things people see as Jewish looking, but those things you could say for any folks from that area of the world. Turks, Arabs, even Cypriots!
Of course Jews went into Europe (mostly) for thousands of years after the Romans crushed them so nowadays plenty of Jews can be said to look identical to any generic European.Which brings me to my next point, that appearance doesn't mean much at all either. It can give you a general idea where someone is from but not much else.
The genes in a guy from Ireland and a guy from Russia would be hella different, but it's likely they could look like brothers or sisters.Outward appearances of people probably has more to do with geography in regards to climate and diet than anything. A population that lived in a similar environment could look identical (French, Ukrainians) but the populations might not have mixed much at all for other reasons so they could have very different genes.
For instance Black Africans are more closely genetically related to Europeans than they are to the very black skinned island people over around Southeast Asia.Ethnic groups aren't really a sure guide either. You Hungarians are an excellent example of this actually! Genetically you're like all your neighbors, Serbs, Czechs, Romanians, etc. But your culture was carted into the basin by Uralic horse invaders!
Likewise with Chrissie's country, Greek and Turkish Cypriots are opposing ethnic groups with lots of animosity, but genetically they've been discovered to be pretty much the same. Which suggests that Turkish Cypriots are probably largely descended from converts and/or intermarriage, and not a bunch of mainland Turks who hopped over to make up around 20% of the population. (it was a good career move to learn Turkish and convert to Islam under the Ottoman Empire you see).And at the end of the day, everyone is just people of course lol. Even if some of us are taller or shorter or whatever the hell.
Thanks, this all makes sense!
I still have one question though. What about gypsies? They have some features with which it's not that hard to tell them apart from others, yet, they've been living all over for hundreds of years. They've always lived with another nation, but they didn't seem to "adapt" the appearances of those around them. Or at least to that extent where people can't tell the two groups apart. Can it be because they were always sort of discriminated against and were left to their own? Because they only married to one another (not in family)? Or because they were pretty much always travelling?
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Gypsies are from India originally. And from what I know they're extremely self isolating. Yes, probably because it helped them stay protected from the people around them.
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@Monkey:
Gypsies are from India originally. And from what I know they're extremely self isolating. Yes, probably because it helped them stay protected from the people around them.
I see. Thanks!
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R](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/08/the-politics-of-a-chinese-orgy.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true)ock out, with your communism out.
God, that was awful.
Working thru some stuff. Dunno how long i will be here.
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R](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/08/the-politics-of-a-chinese-orgy.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true)ock out, with your communism out.
God, that was awful.
Talk about a party organ! Eh? Nudge nudge
Ahh, no but really, American politicians ought to get busted for orgies, maybe we'd like them better
Also love this quote from the article: It's tough to spin an orgy.
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Walter White is wanted for making meth.
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Russia's female punk band protesters sentenced to two years
(Reuters) - Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for their protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin, an outcome supporters described as the Kremlin leader's "personal revenge The group's backers burst into chants of "Shame" outside the Moscow courthouse and said the case showed Putin's refusal to tolerate dissent in his new six-year term as president. Dozens were detained as tensions rose and scuffles broke out.
The United States and the European Union condemned the sentence as disproportionate and asked for it to be reviewed, although state prosecutors had demanded a three-year jail term and the maximum sentence possible was seven years.
But while the women have support abroad, where their case has been taken up by a long list of celebrities including Madonna, Paul McCartney and Sting, opinion polls show few Russians sympathize with them.
"The girls' actions were sacrilegious, blasphemous and broke the church's rules," Judge Marina Syrova told the court as she spent three hours reading the verdict while the women stood watching in handcuffs inside a glass courtroom cage.Whole article in the link.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/17/entertainment-us-russia-pussyriot-idUSBRE87F1E520120817Putin's dictatorship's evil fangs bite once more.
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From the few i've met i've gathered that those ortodox christians are pretty humorless about their faith
