OT: Stop Climate Change... NBC: Believers should stop having children...

We know. You regularly mistake this international public newsgroup for your facebook page.

All those kids and grandkids, and not one of them able to think for themselves?

I believe that is a quotation from a film by that well-known historian, Mel Gibson.

The reality was that the English King /bought/ out the Scots. That had an effect in a matter of years, rather than generations.

Spot on!

Ah, good old British understatement :)

Yes.

I probably should have added a smiley or an explanation - our friends over the pond are notoriously slow at understanding sarcasm and understatement.

Jim claims his plan for rightist scum domination is to breed out the leftist scum. But I think he has a more subtle idea - he aims to irritate people to such an extent that they break down and buy a gun, either to shot him or to shot themselves. That way he converts sane people into rapid gun-loving right-wingers.

There is no contract, no purpose and no reward at the end. The journey is all you'll get. Make the most of it. If your strain reproduces, it might endure. If it doesn't, it will die out.

Jeroen --il y a trop de monde-- Belleman

Clearly your mind is more entertainingly devious than mine :)

But perhaps there's a simpler explanation: he's the kind of nutcase that the civilised world can ignore, so long as he is safely Over There. Traditionally a good dose of satire is prescribed for such cases.

I does seem as if he has swallowed the red pill described in today's News Thump (which is a non-MSM news source so he ought to believe it)

So when my son or daughter eventually asks "Say, what made you decide to have children?" I'm supposed to tell them "I wanted to be entertained"?

Really? Hmm, maybe I have the right "attitude" after all.

Back in the day that "red pill" terminology was just slang used on pick-up artist/"men's interest" Internet forums to indicate you were a "cool guy" who "understood women" i.e. you were a player, not a square.

Seems like over time it turned into some kind of catch-all term to mean far right/nationalist/neo-Nazi/whatever.

Essentially what used to be "Hey, I found out my girlfriend was cheating on me, what should I do?!" "Dude, you need to relax, all women do that, be more 'red pill'" turned into "I'm really red pill now that I know what monsters the Jews are"

I thought it was from The Matrix movie!

Next somebody will be telling me that LOL doesn't mean laugh out loud :) N.B. only the British and Murdoch-haters stand a chance of remembering what that alludes to!

- when it gets bad enough to become obvious even to them -

what would be a reasonable factual observation that would make it obvious to everyone?

m

a

ectronics.

onservative", which seems to be uncritically accepting any kind of nonsense as long as it is published on a right-wing web-site, "gullible" might be c loser to what is actually going on.

around.

do, but a more rational ambition might have been to breed kids who could th ink for themselves. Jim probably wouldn't see any advantage in that, even i f he had the genetic endowment to make it possible - he does seem to have b een endowed with a bit too much of the tendency pull the forelock and agree with whoever looks as though they are in power.

nybody who felt free to do joined up thinking about politicians.

Thompson is an idiot.

I suspect you fathom that snide remark as a slur. The "hill people", from which I "descend", were hard working farmers... Scots, Irish, Germans, French, Czech, Poles, and Scandinavian. (You'll remember, I'm the first of my family NOT born on a farm... though I spent much time there until my late teens.)

Your exquisitely crude, rude, demeanor would indicate you couldn't possibly come from such high-quality stock. ...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

         To save time, Let's just assume I know everything.

[snip]

There are 7 billion reasons (for those of us who have the wherewithal to properly raise and educate children) to have as many children as we can afford.

Leaving the child bearing to the rabbit people will certainly result in total destruction.

Just imagine an earth populated by the offspring of bitrex, or Gardner or Brown :-( ...Jim Thompson

--
| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
     It's what you learn, after you know it all, that counts.

That's as good an answer as any. I wanted two kids so I could have three people to play bridge. (Unfortunately, my wife does not like card games. But the kids and I had a fun time.) Family is important. Family, when you need a place to go, they have to take you in. (paraphrasing Robert Frost.)

George H.

Kids were very territorial about their neighborhoods where I grew up - they didn't like strangers riding their bikes around near their houses. I made the mistake of riding into the wrong suburban neighborhood one afternoon and this one kid rode up behind me and hurled a piece of asphalt at me from behind, knocking me off my bike.

A few moments his father rolled up in his Jeep, noticed that the two of us were scuffling, drove over my bike and crushed it. Later when I was

12 or 13 I was involved in another neighborhood scuffle with some other kid and his father pulled a gun on me.

Yup, kids are always getting into amusing hijinks. Always up to some fun mischief to get in on

I'm primarily Scots-Irish on my mother's side; e.g. the most well-known of my great-great-great grandfathers settled in the Allegheny Valley/Weirton area and had the very "Irish" name of James Stewart

It was, the scary thing is that I heard a 20-something refer to the film as an "old sci-fi movie" the other day.

That is to say, I have the impression that many American parents view their children as extensions of themselves; they don't view a neighborhood brawl as a conflict among children that needs to be de-escalated, but as an opportunity to unleash a lot of rage that wouldn't be acceptable to unleash on other adults they live or work with.

The yearning to surround oneself with loads of pets and family and children is the yearning of a child who decided to stay in Never Never Land and needed playmates, a child who never grew up.