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And to add to that, there's a very good book out there called French Women Don't Get Fat and I don't have the author's name and I'm too lazy to hike downstairs to find it (love the irony!), but in it she explains that there is a whole cultural attitude toward food that should be considered. Yeah, it's easy for me to tell you that your weight is like your bank account and that you should live below your means and you'll save up money, if you eat fewer calories then you burn, you'll loose weight. But there's way more to it than that. French and many of their EU cousins' lives revolve around food. They plan their whole days around meals and they sit down and make the meals social occasions with cheese and red wines. And I'm not talking the dead cheese Americans like to eat, I'm talking about actual living organisms, made from RAW milk with live enzymes. You see, Americans and Western nationals in general eat dead food. One way or another, through pasteurization and other heat processes, we kill our food to the extent that it's no longer beneficial for us to consume it. You want to know how to eat without counting calories? Eat real, whole, natural, and alive food. Seek out the cheese that's made from RAW milk. Seek out the organics and develop a taste for social, responsible, healthy red wine. Read that book and you'll see what I'm talking about. Plant a garden and eat the produce you grow. Don't use chemical herbicides or insecticides. Let the earth worms multiply and bring in beneficial insects like ladybugs.

I'd be more specific in quoting the source for that lengthy article if I were you. If you believe the bible 100%, then how is it "...definitely a question we will never know the truth to."? Instead of quoting internet articles, I think we'd all like to see what's in your mind. What is the thought process that leads you to the conclusion that we'll haunt the planet until we go before the Lord and be judged? Have you ever read about near-death experiences? I've had this experience and in my case my whole life, in detail, flashed before me in a split second, but time stood still while I watched the whole thing. There was no one but me to stand in judgment and looking back, it makes sense we'd be the judges over our lives because a person is his own harshest critic. I'm sure someone famous said something to that affect at some point. Now, please, elaborate without quoting internet sites.

First thing you want to do is find out (don't know how just yet) if she's (or who's) of royal lineage. That'll tell you if she's even got a chance. Then you'll have to determine who, from either party -doesn't make any difference- has the most blue blood of all the perspective candidates. George and Slick are actual cousins so that should tell you something right there. I'm going to try and do some digging on the subject and maybe you could too. It'd be kinda fun in a horrifying sense to predict the next election before their own parties even choose them.

Welcome to the board, Jayke! Amazingly you've hit three of my pet-peeves in a single post! Congrats!Posting your IQ seems a little like bragging, what are you trying to prove? If you're really intelligent, show it in your thoughtful and insightful posts, not on some test that you (allegedly) took. What proof do you have that you scored that high? See what I mean? It's meaningless without substance behind it.Don't wear your sexual orientation on your sleeve, this isn't a dating site. No one should care or be so insecure they have to advertise it. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but it shouldn't (in my opinion).You've already displayed your lower intelligence by declaring your allegiance for someone who doesn't give a crap about you or anyone else who doesn't help finance her campaign or keep her and her family out of jail.Good luck here, I hope your posts are meaningful and enlightening like many here.

...which mountain might that be, or are we to believe you're coming down from the Himalayas just to post on this pathetic thread? No need to hijack someone else’s writing style to get your point across either, Litemage. Kind of hard not to notice you’ve been writing more and more like vbritton/Misanthrope ever since she came on board. What's up with that? Come up with you're own creative writing style, and you'll get more of that respect you so desperately crave. I, personally, am finding it difficult to find any credibility with you these days. In my opinion, if you start out this relationship (being a personality -especially a moderator- on a forum) built on a dubious foundation, then what are we to believe? Your credibility is shot with me. KuBi is right to chastise you in his above post. Your diatribe about fanaticism comes across almost fanatical in itself and leads me to think you're trying, without much success, to approach this topic from a higher ground of moral superiority. I think perhaps, if you're really on higher ground (looks more like about sea-level to me), then perhaps the thin air is causing you to experience illusions of grandeur or, worse... To most people, religion is as intimate a topic of conversation as they could have. A lifetime of religious indoctrination and threats of fire and brimstone from preachers and ancient manuscripts enslave the parishioners into a life of service to the church. When a person sees their parents so invested in a philosophy that they'd defend it with their very lives sometimes, that person takes hold of it and embraces it for himself. An enormous investment of time, money, and emotion, the very fabric of the lives of some people is woven with fear of God and people's entire lives would crumble before them if that thread were to become unwound. And therein lies the answer to the whole debate about government disclosure of UFOs. There's no way the existence of ETs on Earth could ever be disclosed by official sources due to the shear amount of violence that would ensue. Imagine if all the sheep were to find out they could make it better without a shepherd then they were with the shepherd around? What if all the sheep found out there weren't really sheep after all? Then their care-takers (and life-takers) wouldn't have any power left and there would be a veritable age of enlightenment (don't steal that litemage!) (after the fanatics killed each other, that is!).

I'm still pretty new to the Xisto, but it seems to me it's a magnet for people to fly on in, leave a link to their multi-level marketing program hoping to catch a few suckers to add to their pyramid scheme and move on. I bet this person never posts again under that username. I bet this strategy is even promoted by the marketers. It's spam just like the junk you get in your email as far as I can tell. Right?

Current issue of Popular Science. The article is called The Prophet of Garbage. The vastly expensive and complex machine basically heats trash (including chemical weapons) to many times the temp of the surface of the sun and breaks down the material to their most basic components, ripping the very atomic structures apart until it yields some kind of obsidian glass-like substance that's inert and harmless. In the process it actually generates enough Hydrogen to sustain itself plus some. So while it needs the grid to get going, it'll actually continue to operated and add back to the grid once things get heated up. Very cool technology actually and a good issue of the mag too.

There's some pretty good interest in this thread and it actually is and has been for quite some time one of my favorite topics, so I'm going to give it a 5 star for ya. I want to strongly recommend a book for everyone to check out of the library or online called The Gods of Eden by William Bramley. In it he discusses the continual enslavement of the humans on Earth for eons and how it's so easily accomplished. It's really a lesson in history as well as war tactics and generally should be the bible for anyone who wants to take over the world. It's still in print and it looks like it's about $8 new, paperback. Thanks for this topic Glenstein!

Uh... Just a word of advice here: Don't go around quoting your middle-school IQ, you're just inviting flames and irritating the rest of us. Further, you might consider getting your intelligence re-tested as the test for someone in middle school is quite different from what you'll see today. If you're truly that genius, then pick up where Einstein left off and come up with the unified theory already! Admin: There should be a rule: No quoting IQs!

The whole story is just a stupid made-up lie that has nothing to do with reality and it's just there to make suckers feel good about themselves and spread the disease of spam on the internet. Like Jim pointed out, all you have to do is downshift in either a manual or automatic transmission and you'll be going like five MPH in no time. I can't believe this rubbish is a topic on this forum. I'm embarrassed for Xisto and all of humanity and I beg forgiveness from the Creator for the person who started this thread, lowering the collective IQ of our entire civilization. Amen.

Apparently there was a study, and there's an older thread here, that pretty much concluded that Opera is one of the fastest browsers out there. So, what JL said.

It was faked! But it really happened! Wrap your minds around that for a minute while I explain. This is just a theory, mind you:When the Americans landed on the moon They encountered something there they didn't expect and when Niel and Co. radioed back to Houston something about Santa or Santa's sleigh or whatever, some of it got through before NASA pulled the live feed plug. There were "hostiles" up there and they were taking an aggressive posture toward the astronauts which wrecked the whole thing and contaminated the film they started to take. So with the film wrecked and the gov's insistence on non-disclosure regarding ETs, they were forced to supplement the original film with footage shot on a sound stage in NV. Not perfect, but it was easier to lie then to tell the truth, for them anyway. Plausible?Oh, one more thing: We know they were there because they left a mirror for us to hit with lasers as an instrument to use to measure the orbit to within mm accuracy.

Well, of course guys are happier! If you bled a week every month and didn't die, you wouldn't be happy either!

That's Arnold Schwarzenegger actually. I'd prefer the kind of scanner they showed in that movie. It acted much like an x-ray machine showing his skeleton and the pistols he was carrying. This thing actually shows your naked body as though you aren't wearing any clothes, from what I gather. I really look forward to posts from thinking people from Europe like you. It's informative to understand the differences and similarities in perspective we have. I find the young people in the States, instead of being rebels like they used to be, are more likely today to be complacent sheep going with the state and unwilling or unable to questions their edicts. I especially love seeing that some people seem to think that agents of the government sit around using similar scanners checking out people everywhere and that we sheep have been shaved bearing it all to our masters! No, not yet. Give it time and enough people with that attitude and it'll be reality in short order.

I'm biting my tongue here, mostly because I know at one time at least, Art Bell, the founder and weekend host (currently) of the most popular late night radio talk show in the states, Coast to Coast AM, believed this myth and nearly hung up on me when I tried to explain to him it's simply urban legend perpetuated by Hollywood. So, I'm just going to say that you need to become more informed and stop relying on the TV for your education. Go here for a small explanation and do some searches on the internet for more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization Pulled from that web site: "Contrary to Hollywood myth, a bullet hole in a window, or even the loss of an entire passenger window, will not cause explosive decompression. This was demonstrated on MythBusters. However, such damage may cascade into catastrophic aircraft failure, when metal fatigue is factored in." For others, saying it's voluntary now is just a way to get it in the door. Get the sheeple used to it. One day in the near future will include only these machines without the word "voluntary". Then maybe they'll even be used in schools and train stations. Want the government pervs looking at your kids every day when they enter the schools? I don't and I don't even have kids. In the future, if you want to fly commercial, you'll be exposed to the people in the booth who'll not only see all your most personal details but will record it for the database too.

I personally won't fly and haven't since before 9/11/01. I'll drive or take the train thank you very much. But for all the people who still insist on flying or have to for work, you might consider the lengths the TSA (and other country's similar agencies) are willing to go to violate you, humiliate you, and generally treat you like livestock. According to the article http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ , The scanner will be voluntary (Exhibitionists only please!) at first and the person looking at the scan will be unable to view the actual person as they exit the machine. So it'll be anonymous like getting your picture taken and publishing it in a filth mag. The people on the other side won't ever meet you face to face so it's all good. There's only one good answer to airline security, but I'll never happen. Anyone guess what it is?

I was there too. I gave up much more quickly than Glenstein. He's much more patient than I. I agree though. People should be clear when talking, don't "text message" the forum or shoutbox, and stop with the insults which "new kid" were hurling at Glenstein left and right calling him "slow" and such.

Well you may as well just get used to disappointment right now because I guarantee this won't be the last time you experience it! Many people who join bands eventually go solo or duet because there are just too many personalities in a band and some of them won't be as dedicated as you will be and they'll just drag you down. It's just one of life's lessons: People suck!

I think that you're gifted. Does that make you feel better? I've never really understood the need for recognition, but if that's your thing, apply to MENSA or whatever they're called. Yvette talked about it. You could join their silly club and go to silly events and stand around and talk about theoretical quantum physics or something, pretending to be interested in the driest subject matter while tossing back as many vodkas as possible in the time you endure your "peers". Would be a great place to go to network, or would everyone there expect you to already be in a secure profession, not needing to network. You could brag about your two-year-old who gets all the Jeopardy questions right every night and is going to be the next pre-teen champion. Or you could focus on what matters to you most instead of worrying about what the rest of the world thinks of you...

Some Arab went shooting up a mall in Washington State a week or two ago. A man, carrying concealed, legally, who happened to be an off-duty policeman, put the guy down before he could kill as many as he was intending to. Armed, trained, responsible citizens are the biggest deterrent to these kind of episodes because they're everywhere, you never know who might be armed and who might not be. Police, on the other hand, can't be everywhere all the time. It's a shame the Canadian Gov't won't allow the citizens of that country to exercise their natural right to self-defense. It's a statistical fact that states here that allow concealed-carry have a reduced violent crime rate compared with those that do not. Criminals are lazy and cowardly and choose places where they know there is a much less chance of opposition to carry out their deeds.

I love to compare Kerry and Bush. From memory:Bush had a very slightly better GPA in Yale, though they both were just one skipped class for their S&B meeting from being thrown out. They were both in the Navy I believe as was Ford, Daddy Bush, and Carter. Strange Navy theme going in recent history... GW is just slightly more related to the British throne than Kerry, though they're both cousins of each other and the crown. Both Skull & Bones members I don't think there was any difference which is one way they fix elections here. Either way things would be as bad or worse because they'd both be working for global corporations, not "We the people." And I'm not liberal. Quite the opposite actually. True conservatives absolutely despise the Bush monarchy. They stand for everything we oppose.

You hate just for the sake of hating. None of what you said above is substantive. Looks, ability to read a tele-prompter, religious freak, girlie. All immature, pointless, witless, shallow, ignorant things to say when criticizing someone. I challenge you to go read a speech from a tele-prompter. It's not as easy as it looks. The Bush family has been in control constantly since Jimmy "Commie" Carter when he was the director of CIA. While he was V.P. under Reagan he was the man in charge behind the scenes just like Cheney is now. He "annointed" Clinton and he handles his brat, GW, like a poodle on a leash. There hasn't been a free election in this country since before Kennedy (That election was stolen in Illinois, if memory serves). Look past the president, he's not the guy in charge anyway. Just another in a long line of puppets.

I think there are way bigger things to worry about than some rogue asteroid heading our way. It's not even really that big. I'd say the planet will already be depopulated by at least 2/3 of what it is today by then anyway, so it won't kill so many people if it hits anyway. Always look on the bright side...

Thanks guys. I'll dive in sometime this week probably and let you know what questions I have. I've got a starting point, and now I just need to visualize it and make it happen. I'll PM when I have questions.

...and it can cruise at Mach 3.0+ at over 16 miles altitude. It still apparently holds the cross Atlantic record of just under 2 hours from NYC to London and trans America in 64 minutes. Now some 50 years later, how much has technology advanced? Enough so that some of the new toys the boys in blue are flying around are commonly mistaken for ET craft? What do you think Skunkworks is working on now and do you believe there's a triangular craft out there piloted by U.S.A.F. (or allied) personnel called the TR-3B or TR-3x? Have they finally worked out anti-gravity? Nuclear propulsion? Fifty years is a long time in the context of technology in modern civilization. Just look at how far consumer computers have come in that time and where they're clearly going. That's not to speak to where computer technology operated (engineered and manufactured in-house too) by the shadowy government alphabet soup agencies is; I've read somewhere between ten and twenty years further ahead of the best you can buy on the street now. If by chance there's anyone here who works for LM or the USAF please enlighten the rest of us... And send me one of those cool I.D. holder clips with the retracting string and the skunk on the face...