I'm not a connoisseur of bear meat, but in talking with those who are (or say they are) bear meat is better if their diet was berries than if their diet was salmon. Technically, I suppose, bears are omnivores and not carnivores.

Carnivore flesh is not that tasty. Notice we really don't eat carnivores.

I'm an atheist so I'm not shilling for creationists of any stripe. There are levels of ignorance and faith and equating a young earther with a deist or someone who believes that God stepped in creating life and man doesn't help things as well as makes for an inaccurate evaluation of the situation.

Well, I understand your point but there are levels of ignoring evidence. Science does not disprove the existence of God but I think < /sarc> that science has proved that the earth is just a wee bit older than 10,000 years.

You do realize that, until very recently, all these creationists were split rather equally between both dems and reps. (The gay marriage and abortion issue pushed white evangelists into the Reps side.) The black population is over 50% creationist (and 90+ are dems) and almost 50% of those who classify themselves as liberal are creationists.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/who-are-the-creationists-by-the-numbers/#.UdBCoDu1H4s

Another thing to think about is that all creationists are not the same. There are they young earthers as well as those who accept that the earth is billions of years old but who think that God created life (and accept minor evolutionary change).

Tea Party are not anti-tax per se. They are anti the government doing what they were not granted permission to do. There is a thing called the constitution and it gives the parameters of what the federal government may or may not do.

amen

You know what's amazing? DUMBO real estate prices match or exceed SOHO and midtown? Who would have ever thought that?

Didn't say that. I said that WE, as a society should pay for this if WE as a society consider it valuable. I don't think it makes sense, or just, to force the landowners to pay out-of-pocket for this.

As stated in the earlier post - the concept of an individual right comes as virtue of being a human. The concept rejects the idea that everything comes from and is allocated by the government. As a human being we have thoughts and ideas. The government does not create these thoughts but the government may attempt to prevent us from communicating them. A just government is created via a social contract and exists with consent of the governed hence we have "rights", we have attributes, that predate the government. Therefore these rights did not come from the government. In fact the govt exists to protect these rights.

Anyway, that in a nutshell is the concept of individual rights - as I see it.

yah. Didn't read the post closely enough. "Black light" was the key phrase.

penismanship?

Yes but the artifact doesn't belong to them. It belongs to society and society said that construction must stop and bills the homeowner for this. That's not just. And it's counter productive as others will see this as a lesson to keep their mouth shut and destroy the finds.

True. :-)