Kind of OT, but does anyone know if flying squirrels are threatened or endangered in the U.S.? I remember seeing them all the time when I was a kid in Omaha, Nebraska, but now I don't see them anywhere: Not in Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, New York, Florida, or any of the other places I've visited or lived in over the past couple of decades. When I was but a wee lad I used to watch them soaring among the trees in my neighborhood for hours at a time. Cool as shit.

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^I don't know about that. I grew up in the eastern part of Tornado Alley - Omaha, Nebraska - and if I saw a funnel cloud like that forming that close to me I would probably need a change of underwear. And I've seen funnel clouds before too.

I still remember the Omaha tornado of 1975 when I was a kid. It was the third costliest tornado in U.S. history, with estimated damages at the time around $1.1 billion, which would be about $3.5 billion today. We had friends who stayed with us for a little while after it struck, because the tornado ripped the roof off their apartment building. But my siblings and I had fun playing with their kids, so we didn't mind.

klaqua, here's a little update for you (it includes nebraska man etc)

>> ^Arg:
I'd be amazed if this man is capable of tying his own shoelaces.


I meet him and he is an intelligent, funny and likable guy. Of course you can mock and spout something about a person that you don't know instead of dealing with what he says.
Ben Stein was considered one of the smart guys before he decided to make his movie about Evolution. Now (even though he is not a Christian) he is mocked in similar fashion.
I was under the impression that this is a country where people can speak their mind and challenge thought?! Isn't that, an open discusion and reasoning, what makes sience worthwhile and lead to something?
Funny how nobody wants to talk about the things that Darwin said would have to fall into place to prove his theory. Funny how many of the “proof” comes out forged or plain false? If it is so clear and logigal… why the need to forge things? Funny how these known forgeries are still used in school text books today?!

Just to name a few:

Piltdown man: Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41 years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of age, and the teeth had been filed down!


Nebraska Man from the Illustrated London NewsNebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.


Java man: Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his "missing link"). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)


Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)


Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: "Upgrading Neanderthal Man", Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No. 20)

The theory of embryonic recapitulation asserts that the human fetus goes through various stages of its evolutionary history as it develops. Ernst Haeckel proposed this theory in the late 1860’s, promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution in Germany. He made detailed drawings of the embryonic development of eight different embryos in three stages of development, to bolster his claim. His work was hailed as a great development in the understanding of human evolution. A few years later his drawings were shown to have been fabricated, and the data manufactured. He blamed the artist for the discrepancies, without admitting that he was the artist. (source: Russell Grigg, "Fraud Rediscovered", Creation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.49-51)

Come to Lincoln, Nebraska next time you nerds.

My uncle was an International Visiting Professor at Nebraska Univ of Lincoln. It's been 10 years but he still remember the days when they had a home game and the city would be full of excitement.

Go Cornhuskers!

I voted for Obama in Nebraska. Though overall, Obama only got 41% of the vote here. It's actually common to meet a young-earth creationist even among the university students here, and that's very very strongly correlated with political affiliation since they tend to prioritize government interference with abortion and gay people (and the economic policy is just along for the ride or absorbed as a byproduct of associating with the party that chose those wedge issues)

You think I don't know you were kidding? I started the description with "apple-cheeked girl." Give me more credit than that, old man.

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Dude, I was kidding. I know all about it. I was fluffing while you were but a gleam in your daddy's eye. And my mouth.

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When a young, apple-cheeked girl from Nebraska moves to Hollywood, she finds the scene to be quite difficult. Finding a good role in a film can be quite the chore. so for a day job she wanders onto a film studio lot and proceeds to blow male porn stars so they'll stay hard for their upcoming scenes.

I don't know how you went into this profession, but I'm amazed that they actually gave you an award for it. How does it feel to be Fluffer of the Year?

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Tell me more about this "fluffer" job...

Dude, I was kidding. I know all about it. I was fluffing while you were but a gleam in your daddy's eye. And my mouth.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
When a young, apple-cheeked girl from Nebraska moves to Hollywood, she finds the scene to be quite difficult. Finding a good role in a film can be quite the chore. so for a day job she wanders onto a film studio lot and proceeds to blow male porn stars so they'll stay hard for their upcoming scenes.

I don't know how you went into this profession, but I'm amazed that they actually gave you an award for it. How does it feel to be Fluffer of the Year?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Tell me more about this "fluffer" job...

When a young, apple-cheeked girl from Nebraska moves to Hollywood, she finds the scene to be quite difficult. Finding a good role in a film can be quite the chore. so for a day job she wanders onto a film studio lot and proceeds to blow male porn stars so they'll stay hard for their upcoming scenes.

I don't know how you went into this profession, but I'm amazed that they actually gave you an award for it. How does it feel to be Fluffer of the Year?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Tell me more about this "fluffer" job...

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Ohio State sux, only slightly less than Notre Dame and Nebraska.

Notice how Faux News silences out Obama's actual responce to Joe, and tries to put words in his mouth.

Also, paying for a $140,000 house would be completely trivial for anyone making $250,000 a year (at least $180,000 after taxes). That's $500 a day. He makes more in a day tha the combined monthly cost of rent,electricity, cable, etc combined, in Nebraska, and he calls his situation modest (LOL). A week long luxury cruise in the Caribbean costs well under a grand per person. He makes enough in one year to spend 4 years cruising in the Caribbean.

Eureka! Maybe Joe the Plumber picked up a $500 a day cocaine habit with his newfound wealth.
OR, perhaps he hasn't quite grasped the difference between revenue and profits, and how to deduct business expenses from his taxes.

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