Thank you. It is refreshing to connect to people sharing ideas. Please consider my participation to be subject to a few conditions. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=764204 That is me. That is the Joe Kelley invited to this connection medium. I have yet to get the book. I was not ...

My attempt at an analogy with the abolitionist through town was a portrait of me going through discussion forums. For the most part I am ignored, but when my viewpoint directly challenges the social fabric of the town, the sticks and stones start flying, and someone finds the tar and feathers, or th...

<t>I do not yet have the book. The title sounds interesting. I can check in, but I do not know when I will be getting the book. Actually I wrote a book, self published, and I have copies unsold in part due to my lack of marketing skills: demonstrated here and now.<br/> <br/> My checking-in is a resp...

Hi, Below is one of many quick starts of a book I have in mind, but time does not permit continuing the effort at this moment, other things are needed. I have this idea of writing a book on a forum where the effort is directed by readers as readers comment on the book progress, and that is the proce...

So are you saying that politics and economy always involve some sort of violence or deceit? seespotrun2008, I have not seen, nor do I now see, that politics and economy always involve some sort of violence or deceit. I can’t see the connection as a necessary one, not like the connection between vio...

But they are not really the same. seespotrun2008, Of course they are not the same exact thing; but they are one and the same thing as a category of human behavior – deceit and violence like this: Human Behavior Or this: Crime I’m going to quote from Solzhenitsyn; to help convey the point being offe...

I'm sorry for my manner of addressing you; it was intended to be less personally-directed, but it didn't work. And not having a full grasp of what you are getting at in your posts, I probably should have been silent. I need more explicit connections in the things I read; that's just me. I'm happy t...

Some of us are having a hard time following along with this ongoing conversation. If only Joe would help us connect the dots between Gaza conflict and global warming, the two links just posted above. geo, I’m right here. If there is no connection then I want my false understanding proven false, so ...

dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/gaza-in-plai ... -language/ grist.org/article/2010-02-13-bill-gates ... s-nuclear/ Power is the connecting medium, like air, air is power, air connects all human beings. Barriers to air, barriers to power, extinguish human life. My next offering here will be specfic to th...

Joe knows a lot about this topic, but possibly he is misusing the term "fear-mongering." DWill, I’m right here. The book on the table is, to me, an example of a source of data that is not typical “fear-mongering”. If I am guilty of misusing the term “fear-mongering” I am open, willing, ev...