It's the same scientific process that wears away a stick of candy when you suck it. It would be amazing if there was no Grand Canyon.
It's trivial makeover work compared to what the beauty shops can do. And I have read about people who can make eating, a process David Attenborough is fond of showing us, look quite delicate and refined.
If you're sucking on candy and conducting an experiment on Ardi's remains? Is that scientific? It's getting a sugar high, rotting your teeth (Brits don't worry about that) and gaining weight. However, the scientists in the Ardi documentary, especially the last hour of the panel, looked rather trim and they had nice smiles. I think they were on an Ardi high rather than a sugar high.
Oh, I know, his God created the Grand Canyon by licking it open. Of course, he originally had installed it near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which was a known area on the flat Earth and had to then lick a stamp and mail it to the Northern Hemisphere which apparently he had forgotten he designed for Earth. I think he might have made some moons for other planets from the remains of the Grand Canyon by spitting it out. He's a very old man so you would expect Alzheimer's had set it by the time he thought of creating the Universe. No wonder it's in chaos.
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Thu 22 Oct, 2009 01:23 pm
@cicerone imposter,
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There is no science in sucking on candy.
Of course there is. You just showed how unscientific you actually are ci. It's an art form as well.
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Thu 22 Oct, 2009 01:35 pm
@Lightwizard,
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rotting your teeth (Brits don't worry about that)
It's funny you should say that Wiz. I have been watching the Masters of American Music programmes on Sky Arts and it is striking how perfectly white and regular are the teeth of Americans. I couldn't stop tittering when they displayed them as they often did. They looked like piano keys most of them. Or a pampered horse whinnying.
I had to look away when Louis Armstrong smiled.
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spendius
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Thu 22 Oct, 2009 01:39 pm
Have you guys noticed yet that I'm in joint 3rd place in the A2K NFL "Pick Um" game. I was joint 2nd last week.
The game takes no knowledge aforehand and is purely a guessing game . Play the football pools spendi, Here you have to play the "point spread" , not only guess whose gonna win.
Being in thord place for a Brit who knows nothing about the sports teams, proves my point.
It's still the beginning of the season; it's how you end up that counts.
You'll be lucky if you come in third from the bottom at season's end.
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spendius
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Fri 23 Oct, 2009 03:24 pm
@farmerman,
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Being in thord place for a Brit who knows nothing about the sports teams, proves my point.
What makes you think I know nothing about your football teams. Me being in 3rd place at week 6 rather proves that I do know a few things about it. I know all there is to know about point spreads too.
You have proved that you know little about anything with that ridiculous assertion.
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Sat 24 Oct, 2009 06:22 am
UPDATE ON TEACHER SUED FOR ANTI-CREATIONISM REMARKS
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Student who sued over anti-Christian remarks must pay district
(By SCOTT MARTINDALE, The Orange County Register, October 23, 2009)
SANTA ANA " In a legal twist that challenges the notion of what a prevailing party is, a federal court clerk on Friday awarded $19,688 in court-related fees to the attorneys who represented high school teacher James Corbett, sued two years ago for making anti-Christian comments in class.
Milli Borgarding, the deputy in charge of the Santa Ana division of the U.S. District Court clerk's office, determined that although Corbett violated the First Amendment rights of a former student, the money should be awarded to his team because the same attorneys represented Capistrano Unified School District, which was found not liable for Corbett's actions.
The fees are to be paid by Murrietta-based Advocates for Faith & Freedom, the Christian legal group that represented student Chad Farnan on a pro-bono basis.
"Usually, you have one party who's clearly entitled to costs as the prevailing party, but this case is complicated," said Farnan's attorney, Robert Tyler.
"But I'm not too worried. We're going to file an appeal with the judge. (Friday's hearing) was just kind of a procedural step to get back to the judge. I believe the judge will look at this and say, 'Chad won this case. It's the losing party that's obligated to pay the court costs."
Corbett's attorneys did not return phone calls Friday seeking comment.
Corbett, an Advanced Placement European history teacher at Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo, was found to have violated the First Amendment's establishment clause when he referred to Creationism as "religious, superstitious nonsense" during a fall 2007 classroom lecture.
While U.S. District Court Judge James Selna sided with Farnan in a May 2009 ruling, he found Capistrano not liable at the same time and, four months later, found Corbett not financially liable for his actions under a qualified immunity defense.
It was the latter ruling that appears to have tipped the scale in Corbett's favor at Friday's hearing, Tyler said.
"Frankly, she looked at it and said, 'The way I read this " because Dr. Corbett was entitled to qualified immunity, we're going to say he's entitled to costs,' " Tyler said.
The hearing was done by teleconference from the U.S. District Court clerk's office in Santa Ana and was not open to the public. Borgarding did not return a phone call Friday seeking comment.
Corbett's defense team consisted of attorneys retained by the Capistrano Unified School District and the California Teachers Association union. The school district asked for $15,316.40 and the union asked for $4,371.20. The money is intended to cover their court-related fees, including transcript fees and witness compensation costs.
"Plaintiffs sought an injunction so overbroad that it would have ensnared and impacted all 2,300 of the teachers employed by the district," California Teachers Association attorney Michael Hersh said in court papers. "Plaintiffs' attempt to use the federal court and the U.S. Constitution to impinge on the rights of the innocent teachers who played no role [in]the plaintiffs' grievances against Dr. Corbett is frivolous."
Although Friday's award does not include attorneys' fees, Capistrano Unified and the California Teachers Association have filed separate motions seeking a combined $378,519 in attorneys' fees. A hearing to determine whether Advocates for Faith & Freedom must also pay these fees is scheduled for Nov. 9.
Tyler said that Advocates for Faith & Freedom is planning to appeal the entire case next week to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Obviously. The legal profession would have fallen short of pursuing its ambitions had it not arranged things in that way.
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Sat 24 Oct, 2009 08:02 am
Meanwhile Chad Farnan's faith is destroyed forever by that one statement and he is Hell bound to attend church every Sunday in order to save himself. This is all taking place in the sue crazy county of Orange which has a high percentage of attorneys to population and frivolous lawsuits are as frequent as stops to fill up the car with gasoline. What's next, make such statements to young students a form of statutory rape?
This should have remained a school board responsibility but Chad's family obviously relied on the fact that most of the judges on our courts are right-wing religious zealots. They're likely now pissed off that the court costs are going to them -- they now think that judge is a left-wing judge from Hell.
