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Several years ago observation provided an epiphany that testosterone may be a factor of political ideological persuasion; later Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger put forth his oversimplified hyperbolic “girly-men” comment about the California Legislature apparently coming to a similar hypothesis. Anthropology is the study of humanity. It’s a subject of study that encompasses the range of human experience, its aims are to understand what people do or have done, and why. Every aspect of human beings from their DNA molecules to their beliefs about the supernatural from the beginnings of primate evolution to the present, pose anthropological questions. As I continue to...

Illegal Aliens: Our legislators perplexing paradox • by Daryl L. Hunter The illegal immigration debate has brought to the fore some interesting political dynamics that beg analysis. The imponderable elephant in the living room of this debate is the Hispanic voting block. The consternation of our legislators of how to react to such a large group has them so befuddled that they have forgotten the nature of their constituency. Many of our legislators, GWB included have lost their compass. Many US senators while pandering for the votes of illegal aliens and those that employ them are alienating their historical constituency....

There is a new Paganism taking root around the world and it manifests itself as environmentalism or more explicitly, Pantheism, a doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena, Fundamentalist Environmentalism, if you will. Pantheism is a metaphysical and religious position, it is the view that "God is everything and everything is God, the world is either identical with God or in some way a self-expression of his nature” Similarly, it is the view that everything that exists constitutes a "unity" and this all-inclusive unity is in some sense divine. Anthropologists have observed in cultures the world over...

A teachable moment can be characterized by a current event one experiences or observes that provides an anecdotal example that can be illustrative by opening a window upon the past, in turn this history can often bring perspective to a current event, discovering and developing a new understanding of a phenomena. According to science teacher educator, Michael Bentley, seizing teachable moments "means producing a lesson on the spot in response to a question, an expressed student interest, or a news story. The unfolding events in Iraq (election 3) provide just this kind of teachable moment, the trials and tribulations establishing...

The moment that many of us have been waiting for is finally at hand, while we held our nose during the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, federalization of airport security, a mind-blowing exponentially devastating expansion of Medicare and education and a complete absence of budget restraining vetoes. All of this political capitol conservation for a once in a generation moment and George W. Bush punts

Joseph Kennedy’s daughter, Rosemary, was considered shy and mentally limited, symptoms of what many thought was dyslexia. For years the family dealt with the problem by sending her away to special schools and convents. By age twenty-one she had her condition had deteriorated, giving way to tantrums, rages and violent behavior. Rosemary was beginning to understand that she would never measure up to her parent’s expectations, and the resulting frustration led to physical fights and, worse, she often disappeared at night when she would be wandering the streets. Rosemary was seen as a liability to the family's political ambitions, and...

"Scouts' Honor" tells the story that the Boy Scouts did not want you to read: How the Grand Teton Council leaders ignored multiple warnings and hired a pedophile to help lead a summer camp. The whistle-blower His first week of Boy Scout camp, 14-year-old junior counselor Adam Steed marched into the director's office and said: "Brad Stowell is molesting Scouts." Brad wouldn't do that, said the man behind the desk. Adam Steed "How can it be right that Brad goes into boys' tents alone, gives them massages and touches them where he shouldn't?" the Pocatello teenager asked. "We've talked to...

Election Day 2004 vindicated George W. Bush's Presidency, the ideologically blinded insisted election 2000 inspite of numerous post election vote recount invistagitations that Florida was stolen from Al Gore, their mantra, "Selected Not Elected." Well on November 2, George W. Bush was elected not rejected. Not only was he not rejected the 4 new Senate seats and the rejection of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle gives George W. Bush a mandate from the people of America to keep up the good work. Now our President can get more done since chief obstructionist Tom Daschle is among the rejected ones, thank...

Election Day 2004 vindicated George W. Bushes Presidency, the ideologically blinded insisted election 2000 inspite of numerous post election vote recount invistagitations that Florida was stolen from Al Gore, their mantra, "selected not elected." Well on November 2, George W. Bush was elected not rejected. Not only was he not rejected the 4 new Senate seats and the rejection of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle gives George W. Bush a mandate from the people of America to keep up the good work. Now our President can get more done since chief obstructionist Tom Daschle is among the rejected ones, thank...

Today's Neo Pinko's in the media are taking unprecedented liberties with their waning influence. Our newest example is the shameless memo by ABC's Political Director Mark Halperin, Halperin declared that "the current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done." Halperin told his colleagues: "We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that. I'm sure many of you have this week felt the...

Testosterone and Political Affiliation - A Theory to Float! By Daryl L. HunterIt is a widely accepted belief that the liberal mindset pivots on feelings of the heart (emotions) more so than critical analysis. A trait not unlike that which has become apparent to me through the interaction I have experienced with a large percentage of the women I have crossed paths with. We have come to expect spokes-folks for the women's movement to trumpet their victim-hood status and their natural hormonal pre-disposition isn't expected to act out otherwise. We have also come to expect it from their ideological brethren...

At a stop light the other day I saw a bumper sticker that read "Anybody But Bush" and it got me to thinking. Although I support George Bush and Dick Cheney there is always room for improvement. After all The Bush education plan was written by Edward Kennedy, his prescription drug plan is a socialistic Lyndon Johnson like boondoggle, his effort to drill in ANWR for the oil we need seems a little limp wristed, and his failure to replace foreign oil with domestic ethanol by 2015 is irresponsible, and federalizing airport security borders on insanity.Reflecting upon these transgressions/comprimizes makes...

The Upper Valley Free Press urges all users of our national forests (and empethetic Freepers) to support new Freeper Jon Shick at High Mountain Heli-Skiing. Although many of us can't afford to go heli-skiing we all need to support one another as forest users as the Eco-tally-ban is coming after you next. If you leave a mountain bike tire track on a mountain or your horse poops on a trail, or you use an old logging road to get your camp trailer into the woods, or a rare fish resides in your irriagtion supply or fishing hole, or you own...

Activist U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has sided with the Eco-tally-ban in the Eco-tally-ban's effort to kick tax-paying Americans out of the Yellowstone. A quarter of a million visitors visit Yellowstone each winter 90% by snowmobile because snowcoaches suck as a way to see the park (fogged over windows). Eco-radicals in their never ending effort to revert Yellowstone Parks' usage to only snow coaches and cross country skiers has found a gullible pawn in Emmet G. Sullivan. Coincidentally it is Judge Emmet G. Sullivan that has been trying to nail Dick Cheney to the cross for the past three...

As a well informed political wonk and news junkie the only argument George Bush had to present to me for war with Iraq was the well documented fact that Saddam Hussein was giving the parents of Palaniastian suicide bombers (terrorists) $25,000. This inducement for Palestinian parents to sell their children on the idea of an early death was a good investment for terrorist supporter Saddam Hussein to stir the pot further fomenting the Palestinian/ Israeli conflict that is the burr under the saddle of every Muslim alive. This animus by design practiced by Osuma, Saddam and others bonds Muslims together...

6 out of 10 Americans are against President Bush's request for the 86 billion dollar investment that we to need make in Iraq and Afghanistan so these hotbeds of terror won't remain terrorist incubators that blame their home grown failure on the shining city on the hill. These 6 out of 10 Americans have been sold a bill of goods by 9 of 10 democrat presidential candidates. These candidates needing a platform of opposition against President Bush have targeted his successful but controversial (to some) foreign policy in their effort to differentiate themselves from the President. These Presidential wannabes wish...

I got to the Rally late but there were still a bunch op people there. They said that earlier in the day that there were many more people lining both sides of the busiest street in Idaho Falls. They had 2 flags hanging from an 80 foot crane. If there were any freepers there earlier I had no way of knowing. I asked around about how many people showed up and it must have been over a couple of hundred over the course of the day as it started at 9 and went till dark. There was one anti Bush...

Rally For America in Idaho Falls ID Saturday, 3-29 corner of Woodruff and 17th St. 10 am till dark.

Pacifists, Diplomacy, the United Nations and War By Daryl L. Hunter The unreasonable among us believe we should reach consensus with an unreasonable, contentious and self-serving world via the United Nations. They want us to subordinate our autonomous right of decisive self-protection to those that sell weaponry to our enemy, these well meaning but ignorant folk think that this is a prudent path to self-protection. Vitriolic Republican hater Tom Daschle during his latest faux saddening for the cameras cited George W. Bush with quote "This president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war". I say to...

It's a dog eat dog world and under the thin veneer of civility western society has cultivated during the last few centuries our human/animal nature under the surface remains as historically brutal as it has been since the beginning of time. The bold dominate, the meek subordinate, i.e. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Poll Pot. Those that bend over accept a submissive position. Those that accept a submissive position reap the rewards of their fear, apathy and inaction. The Twentieth Century created a new kind of world power, the United States of America. America fought wars and after winning these wars America...