SteveSlaton

@SteveSlaton (552)

United States • Age 75

Joined myLot 16 years ago

Freedom for all Earthlings!

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SteveSlaton's Discussions

What is your take on the Revelations prophecy of Armageddon?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 21 Aug 09

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Can anyone "Win" WWIII?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 13 Aug 09

I think this is THE important question because, it IS coming... And my opinion is no.

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Are you ready for WWIII?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 18 Jun 09

With biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, WWIII would certainly make a mess of our ecosystems that we live in. Toxic waste clean up would be an absurd concept. We keep hearing news of North Korea and Iran versus nuclear...

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Do you accept cultural forbidding the discussion of Politics & Religion?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 18 Jun 09

If you are truly free, then the answer should be "no." If your answer is "yes," what are you afraid of?

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This is a call for a Second Bill of Rights Constitutional Convention.

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 17 Jun 09

The Con-Con needs to adopt a process at its beginning of ending the many abuses of power here in the 21st Century. Each proposed abuse of power correction can be voted on. Those that pass will be sent, like the first Bills of...

bill of rights

constitutional convention

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Sundiata - BLack Africa's equal to the King Author Story?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 16 Jun 09

Sundiata - An Epic of Old Mali, by D.T. Niane, Translated from French to English by G.D. Pickett. 'Griots' were appointed by African kings as counselors and were essentially walking books, passing down history and law...

african history

history

sundiata

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Guess by professions for men the highest and lowest by testosterone levels.

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 15 Jun 09

Somewhere I have a copy of a big study on this. I'll leave the googling to you, or just guess. I promise you that the results have implications...

adult

professions

testosterone

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Who is the most famous person nicknamed Stinky?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 13 Jun 09

Are you good at trivia? As a youngster that was the nickname my father used for me. I just checked Wiki and they do NOT have THE famous person who had Stinky as a nickname by his friends. So, this is a mystery, or...

stinky

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"Hollywood" movies where adapting a novel to a screenplay was Excellent?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 12 Jun 09

As an author, I have taken the time to study "how-to" adapt books to screenplay. The ultimate example in screenplay text books is the Maltese Falcon. I had seen the movie as a kid, have since bought the book, found a copy of...

screenplay adaptation

screenplay writing

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I think "The Blue Nowhere" novel by Jeffery Deaver is FINALLY being made into a

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 11 Jun 09

movie! At least when I Yahoo searched, I found: http://www.hollywood.com/movie/The_Blue_Nowhere/ could not resist, created an account and posted a comment. Truly a great thriller, that is in addition a chiller - meaning...

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Do you recall any nonsensical sayings that actually make sense and are funny?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 6 Jun 09

I'll Start. I like to use this when making a point about people having traits essential to survival... "Odds are, if your parents didn't have any children, you won't either."

funny

nonsense

sayings

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Is it ethical for a country to draft people into their military?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 3 Jun 09

Does your country have draft laws? Steve Slaton

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Shouldn't future cloned people have a right to life?!!!

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 2 Jun 09

The logical conclusion to the "logic" of pro-lifers is brought out by this test: With cloning technology, all healthy skin cells are candidates for becoming cloned beings. All being have a right to life. Henceforth the fat...

cloning

life

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The Perth Group.

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 28 May 09

Does anyone have an opinion about the Perth Group's dissenting work? Their web address: http://www.theperthgroup.com/ What do you think? Steve Slaton

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An excellant introduction to understanding the Irish is Leon Uris's "Trinity."

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 27 May 09

I was born to an Irish-descended mother, grew up in Colorado in a valley with 4 generations scratching out subsistence on marginal land, with adults being day workers, craftsmen, masons, and farm workers. It was okay to be...

irish

roots

uris

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Should we re-visit the age for becoming an adult.

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 21 May 09

During the 13 Colony revolution that lead to the USA a boy became a man at the age of 21. During the Vietnam war they reduced the age to 18. Then if either person in a marriage is under 25 when the marry odds are the...

adulthood

childhood

marriage

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Is it ever ethical to have health police?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 21 May 09

If a country is supposed to allow people to be free, is it ever ethical to have health police? If you think so, site what the health laws are that are on the books or that you would like to see on the books. What do you...

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Simple Chedder cheese sause over asparagus on a bed of brown rice.

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 17 May 09

We eat lots of brown rice that take 50 minutes simmering and covered here in Colorado at a mile high. On our property the wild asparagus season is about over. Around here new shoots are only frequent in Spring. When it gets too...

asparagus

chedder cheese

sauce

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Should a Con-con occur in the U.S.of A.?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 13 May 09

Con-con is short for Constitutional Convention. As Washington wrote in his Farewell Address (I'll paraphrase): People if you value your freedom, do not trust a two-party system. It is susceptible to corruption by clever...

constitutional convention

farewell address

supreme court

washington

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