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Just to continue to be a pain in the ass the bible doesn't say anything about ziggurats (you know writing this biblical posts I am learning to spell a lot of words, the problem is I'll probably never get to use them in my everyday life) it just says towers, and everybody that could put a brick atop another brick could build a tower.  It is a historical fact however that the Israelis were in Babylon, we know because among other things Cyrus freed them, but they were already Israelis before they got to Babylon, and surely most of them stayed behind.

I accept your distinction between mythological and legendary.

If you google 'Cheboygan cougar sighting' you come up with these two articles from the Cheboygan News about three years ago.

http://www.cheboygannews.com/article/20120801/NEWS/308019997
http://www.cheboygannews.com/article/20121129/News/121129535

Earlier you had mentioned DNR and I thought you meant DNA, but I see now that you meant the Department of Natural Resources.  Apparently they make a distinction between transient and breeding cougars, but surely the one leads to another as night follows the day.

I remember that poop joke from grade school at which time it had a distinctly racial connotation.

As I recall although Catch 22 was mostly about bureaucracy, since it was about military bureaucracy we hippies took it to heart as an antiwar book.  But I like your scientific analysis of the book as 'stupid.'  It reminds me of that Ring Lardner line, "Shut up," he explained.


What about ISIS?  What did they expect to gain by the attack on Paris?  How do they expect it to improve their position? 

So what do we do, the Prez says to stay the course, half the republican candidates say the same only louder, and a few of them are calling out for boots on the ground.  It's hard to say what the big girl is thinking, and who would believe her anyway, but she does have hawkish tendencies.  There is some nonsense about a no fly zone, which is an indication that those guys have no idea what they are talking about.

I know you are more a big idea man than you are a details man, but what does Beagles think?