Nuanced

I'm getting fed up with liberals and media using the word "nuanced". Nuance means subtlety, shades of meaning, but when used by liberals, it means they're going to lie to you. Liberals say we conservatives see things as black and white, when the truth supposedly lies somewhere in between, in the gray area. Liberals are very patronizing toward conservatives, accusing us of not being sophisticated enough to hold contradictory ideas in our minds, of being uncomfortable with cognitive dissonance and forced to simplify things, like children. It's a sign of immaturity to believe in absolutes, right and wrong, good and evil.

So when a liberal says he is going to tell a more "nuanced" version of history, what he really means is that he's telling a revisionist version of history which paints the good guys as the bad guys, and the bad guys as "complicated."

When the president says an issue is more "nuanced" than the conservatives say, he means it's so complicated that we can't understand it, but he knows what's best for us and we must trust him with the details.

Mountains under the ice

Experts have mapped the mountains under the Antarctic ice cap and determined that they are as large as the Alps.

"The surprising thing was that not only is this mountain range the size of the Alps, but it looks quite similar to the (European) Alps, with high peaks and valleys," said Fausto Ferraccioli, a geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey who took part in the research.
He told Reuters that the mountains would probably have been ground down almost flat if the ice sheet had formed slowly. But the presence of jagged peaks might mean the ice formed quickly, burying a landscape under up to 4 km (2.5 miles) of ice."[emphasis mine]

How much ice is that?

"Antarctica, bigger than the United States...contains enough of it to raise world sea levels by about 57 metres (187 feet) if it ever all melted."

Does this mean that there could have been a world-wide flood at some point? That the earth could have been much warmer, and rapidly cooled? That there was some kind of event which caused all this to happen suddenly?

What if "the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights."? Genesis 7:11-12

Fourth emptiest city

I was shocked to see Greensboro come in fourth on the list of America's Top 15 Emptiest Cities, according to rental and homeowner vacancies. I think, in our case, it's because of a new construction boom which speculators engaged in, right before the housing bubble burst. Or it could be because of the corruption and incompetence of our local government and police force.

It's funny to see us on the same list as Las Vegas, Detroit, Dayton and Atlanta.

Regarding dog food

I have observed a shortage in the cheapest brands of dog food. I buy the only dry dog food sold at Aldi, but last week and this week, both the Aldi in Greensboro (High Point Rd) and the one in Kernersville were out of it. I asked the cashier and she said they expected to get more, but couldn't say when. I went to Wal*Mart (Wendover Ave) to buy a bag of their basic Ol' Roy brand of "premium dog food", which is the cheapest they sell, and the 22 lb bags were sold out. I bought the 44 lb bag. The 44 lb bag of Ol' Roy is $15.98, compared to an 8 lb bag of Beneful, at $11.98. I use about .5 lbs per day to feed two dogs.

There is much controversy among dog owners and "experts" regarding what constitutes healthy dog food. Some say to feed your dog only fresh vegetables, certain grains and meat. My veterinarian says no "people food", but doesn't express a preference in dog food. The purists feed their dogs such "healthy" foods that they brag a human could eat it too! My dogs have been eating Ol' Roy or Aldi brand for as long as I've owned them (six years for one, and two for the other), and my vet says they are in excellent health.

Apparently, the folks who tout the expensive dog foods turn into hypocrites and switch to the cheapest dog foods when the budget demands.

It's ridiculous that folks in America are fighting over what to feed their dogs, when they are fed better even on Ol' Roy than the poor, starving humans in Haiti, who eat mud. The millions of domesticated household pets in America are a sign of our great wealth and privilege. We should be aware that our nation, our economy, could collapse, and leave us all so poor, that instead of worrying about what our dogs are eating, we may be eating our dogs.