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Not one person is going call Natej11 on his "global warming nuts" comment? I think that is very interesting.

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As I prepare for the forthcoming one-year anniversary of my breaking my ribs by coughing too much (stop laughing), I have acquired yet another persistent and bizarrely sourceless cough.

Burn Global Warming, I want to talk about cake or something light and fluffy possibly chocolate flavored on it that I can eat and will make me happy. Actually I like my cake rather heavy, and I like to eat the frosting last, I dig from the bottom.

Tien doje klemine opa defrentied colop breil estoc.

I mean, sure by some convoluted comparison, pie might win. If you take stawberry-rhubarb pie (delicious) and compare it with funfetti cake (not that great), then of course the pie wins. But there is no pie that can even come close to beating chocolate cake (except maybe banana cream pie, but that just comes close, then fails miserably).

I have decided that since cheesecake is both a cake and a pie, it is therefore better than any cake or pie.

A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch!
We have found a witch, might we burn her?
Burn her! Burn!

In my opinion the frosting is the best part, even though it gives me a bad sugar high and headache. That’s is just the fun of cakes.

As to what is better cake or pie, I don’t think it maters. I am 50.50 on it even though I think the GODS eat pie for every meal, and cake for desert, then chase it down with a large glass of human blood.

Anyway I thought of the funniest thing, I should show up to battalion formation wearing Roman armor. Here is the link.

http://www.armorvenue.com/roman-armor/roman-trooper-costume/

Therefore pizza pie + cheesepie + pie pie = cake loses.

I should warn you, I've seen movies and read books before, and these sort of things usually end up with one of my offspring tracking you down to seek vengeance. I currently only have one daughter, and she is not yet 1, so you have a while, but be warned.

So far the pathetic attempts by culinary artists to counter this monopoly with the advent of a "meat cake" have been full of fail. For the average red blooded Aussie (both blokes & sheilas) this makes the whole argument a bit of a moot point.

I think meat pies is one of the best inventions humans ever came up with. One question though.

Have you ever tried human pie? It is rather delicious, man in 3 months and 4 days it will be 5 years since I last ate human.

And I take it no one liked the roman armor to a battalion formation idea.

Also I've found that second generation revenge usually ends up with the young person finding that the old person is so old and tired and haunted by guilt that they pity them rather than killing them. Then the old person shows an unexpected cruel streak and does something underhanded that almost wins him the victory, but his own evil backfires and hits him by mistake.

Are you familiar with Occam's Razor? The principle is simple, if there are competing explanations for something the simpler one (the one that requires the shortest/easiest chain of events to have happen) is the more likely to be correct.

If the Bush Administration can kill 3,000 Americans and keep it hush hush why couldn't Nixon keep the lid on Watergate? The chain of events required to pull that off, the people who'd need to be extorted, the people who'd need to be manipulated and killed, the massive teams of people involved in pulling off something of this scale ... I'm thinking the odds of it falling apart are pretty incredibly high.

2) Now I live in fear that my husband will learn of meat cakes and make one for a party. *shudders*

Edited to add that rice pudding can hold its own, and tapioca should not be left out of the running. But then I remembered that pie can come in the most mouth-watering (ew!) shades of Pecan carmelization, and the jury is still out.

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1) Mathematicians once said the flight of a bee is impossible.

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All I did was present information that the official report was flawed. I pointed no fingers and made no conclusions.

But as to Watergate, how about Iran/Contra? Right before a presidential election Reagan, then a candidate trying to dislodge a democratic incumbent, made a deal with Iran to hold onto their hostages until after the election, making his opponent look bad, with the promise that he'd sell them guns afterwards and they'd release the hostages. Then he gave that gun money to a bunch of extremists in South America to stage their little revolution.

People in power knew what he was doing. Nobody cared. Republicans still call him the greatest president of all time.

According to the republican book of prophecies we should be close to the second coming of Reagan.

I think meat loaf is more a kind of bread made out of meat.

Desserts I love: dark chocolate cake, dark chocolate cheesecake, dark chocolate bread pudding, dark chocolate mousse, dark chocolate cream pie, dark chocolate.

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What's the difference between cake and sugared bread?

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Sorry, Zero. I did confuse physicists, who use math, for mathematicians.

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The distinction between physics and statistics here is important because I'm not talking about models of physics, I'm talking about models of statistics. And the math is different.

Nate,

I guess I misunderstood you, most people who doubt the official 9/11 report blame the government for causing it. Since somebody caused it, and you seem to think it wasn't the terrorists and huge airplanes, then whom do you blame? If not the government.

As for Iran-Contra, I think that strengthens my argument that covering up something as big as 9/11 is not possible since the Iran-Contra affair, which was smaller, was still ultimately exposed in the Reagan presidency.

edited to add: If you would like a piece (or the whole thing) of any dessert, please feel free to go to the "magic fridge" in the Hatrack treehouse kitchen, and you will find it there. Of course, it's virtual dessert, but it's less fattening that way.

I can feel myself getting healthier as I eat it...

But to go on a tangent, why has nobody mentioned cookies? I humbly submit that there is nothing in this world better than chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven, and I'll accept whatever persecution comes from this stand.

@Zero. Whodunit? There are plenty of ideas, but the main point is that a lot of people are calling for another investigation, this time one that responsibly examines the evidence and searches for suspects instead of sweeping everything under the rug with flimsy excuses. On 9/11 they were pointing fingers at Al Qaeda almost immediately afterwards. How did they pull that name out of their hats, and why were they so certain of it when they presented no evidence? One of the first things police do in investigating a crime is to search for who benefited from it. Plenty of people benefited from 9/11, making millions and even billions of dollars from it.

But that's another tangent, and I agree with KDW. Writer's forum, no more posts on politics.

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I humbly submit that there is nothing in this world better than chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven

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I second that.

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But that's another tangent, and I agree with KDW. Writer's forum, no more posts on politics

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"I get shotgun, no battle!"