1. Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Comment #229219 by mdhutton1949 on August 13, 2008 at 8:32 am

What's going on? The body and trailer for many posts are missing, and yet several of them have replies. It's the same when using either Opera 9 or IE 6.

'twould be nice to read the *entire* comment section.

2. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189374 by mdhutton1949 on June 6, 2008 at 6:26 am

I live a few miles away from a road junction that has a signpost looking like this:
Kent 5m <--- [] ---> 8m Cornwall

Very confusing when this ex-pat brit first encountered it!

Martin

3. Lords Approve Abolition Of Blasphemy

Comment #140445 by mdhutton1949 on March 7, 2008 at 11:07 am

Response to rod-the-farmer in comment #86:

If don't think the residents of an area "allow" armed members of Hamas to launch rockets. I would imagine if any tried to stop them a "boot to the head" is the least they could expect.

What point is there in attacking a rocket launch area? It's certainly not defense. It doesn't prevent future rocket launches and doesn't hurt the launchers who have long gone when the attack is mounted. The only reason for the attack is retaliation (it's been tit-for-tat since the 20s) and the target is anyone and anything in the area of the launch. That's just large scale terrorism vs. small scale terrorism (compare Palestinian casualities caused by Israel vs. Israeli casualties caused by Palestinians).

Bulldozing is a tried and failed Israeli tactic.

If Israel launched hundreds of rockets every year into Jordan, or Egypt, the world would be outraged

Israel has launched preemptive and retaliatory attacks into Lebanon, Syria and Egypt and the outrage tends to be ignored or passed over (cf. vetoing by the US of every condemnation of Israel resolution in the UN).

4. Lords Approve Abolition Of Blasphemy

Comment #140355 by mdhutton1949 on March 7, 2008 at 7:36 am

Re #45:
Eight killed at Jerusalem school

I must say that I can't muster much sympathy for the dead's families. Their elected government has just murdered a bunch of Palestinians, one presumes with the approval of the said Zionist families...what goes around...

As an aside:
Why is a "lone gunman" infiltrating an enemy civilian enclave called a "coward" while pilots and artillerymen bombarding civilian houses (racking up the collateral damage) called "heroes"? It seems that the former action takes a lot more courage.