tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post3780543474118424184..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: Dog Torture: the key to victory for GOP candidates?Roger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-57360014969353910092007-07-04T20:08:00.000+02:002007-07-04T20:08:00.000+02:00ps - I must quote this from that transcript:"One o...ps - I must quote this from that transcript:<BR/><BR/>"One of the interesting things in Australia is that you've got an area where people didn't have dogs for all the time they were in Australia. So from 40,000 or 60,000 or how many thousands of years it was that Aboriginal people came here, they were without dogs until about 4,000 years ago, and then dogs arrived and it seems almost immediately they're incorporated, as they are everywhere in the world, into people's religion, into their view of life, into their stories, their mythology and as evidence of this you get what I think is the most wonderful story from the top end of Australia, where to see just how important the dog is to society, the dog is the individual that brings fire. He also brings the circumcision ritual, and all you dog lovers who are listening to this, if you look at your dog's ear, at the back of the ear you'll see this little flap, like a little fold in the skin. It doesn't have a name, which is a strange thing for an anatomical feature because anatomists have named every feature of the body. However, the Aboriginal people with this story about circumcision have a name for it, because that little flap is where the dog who brought the circumcision ritual to Australia stored the stone, the little stone flake, that he cut with, which I just think is a marvellous, marvellous story."Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-39972799664727049862007-07-04T20:03:00.000+02:002007-07-04T20:03:00.000+02:00PM Lawrence, you are right!Here's a good link to d...PM Lawrence, you are right!<BR/><A HREF="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1952216.htm" REL="nofollow">Here's a good link to dingo history.</A>Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-87853223726045386122007-07-04T11:15:00.000+02:002007-07-04T11:15:00.000+02:00"As human beings settled new territories, they alw..."As human beings settled new territories, they always brought two animals in tow – dogs and rats."<BR/><BR/>Wrong.<BR/><BR/>The first wave of aborigines to arrive in Australia did <I>not</I> bring dogs, although later ones did. This is conclusively established by the fossil record and by the fact that before Europeans arrived, dogs were unknown in Tasmania (cut off from the mainland by rising sea levels before the later aborigines arrived). As a result, dogs were valuable as trade items there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-18038529894492996182007-07-03T12:19:00.000+02:002007-07-03T12:19:00.000+02:00This is just a poorly-running madman saying hi.This is just a poorly-running madman saying hi.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-68212686025491378392007-07-03T04:26:00.000+02:002007-07-03T04:26:00.000+02:00Talk about survivin' and thrivin' - Slate, as usua...Talk about survivin' and thrivin' - Slate, as usual, comes in first in the asshole media elitist <A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/2169718/fr/flyout" REL="nofollow">We Luvo Scootero contest!</A> If I could afford a doctor and could go to see him, I know he'd recommend that I not read any newspapers for the next couple of days. Otherwise, my neck will stiffen into something bricklike.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-408208745928330042007-07-03T04:03:00.000+02:002007-07-03T04:03:00.000+02:00LI, forget latin man, pig latin is the lingo one m...LI, forget latin man, pig latin is the lingo one must learn to parrot in order to survive and thrive, even on the left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-70631107222384528662007-07-03T03:10:00.000+02:002007-07-03T03:10:00.000+02:00Just saw that Bush commuted Libby. If you are whit...Just saw that Bush commuted Libby. If you are white, you're right. Kimberly Jones lies to a jury, gets a year and a half, Libby gets nothing. Sometimes, this country reminds me of a madhouse, and at other times, of a badly run madhouse.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-48929144889552308812007-07-03T02:11:00.000+02:002007-07-03T02:11:00.000+02:00Amie, I think Romney doesn't understand that his c...Amie, I think Romney doesn't understand that his candidacy has entered a crisis, the little prick. The blogosphere likes to brag that it has accomplished this or that, but it really hasn't accomplished much, in terms of political action. But I think Cox might have put the stake in the Romney candidacy. Republican voters are very apt to be swayed by character issues, and this is one issue that you can't spin. <BR/><BR/>I think the phrase in latin would be, vicisti, canus - you have conquered, o dog. Or should canus be canei? In any case, Seamus shall not go unavenged!Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-47792577006231551222007-07-02T21:40:00.000+02:002007-07-02T21:40:00.000+02:00LI, the way this story starts off with chevy overs...LI, the way this story starts off with chevy overstuffed with metonymical chain of "suitcases, supplies, and sons", you sort of know it's going places alright!<BR/>Gotta admire the "cool emotion-free crisis management", so let's not stoop to ask who might be the heartless bastard that occasioned the "crisis" in the first place!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com