Where have all the flowers gone?

Sometimes the notepad editor doesn´t work well for cut and paste

I retyped it all and hope it is fixed now.

The visual is at the link

But Barba....in your own words....it was....Dutch troops... who were responsible for taking care of things there....

"As a Dutch person I know enough about what happened. It was Dutch UN troops that were outnumbered that day, and came into the strange and utterly disgraceful position that will hunt our nation forever"

You may think only your friends can see your page, but you would be amazed how easy it is to see people´s pages even if you are not their friend.

It isn´t easy to configure FB for privacy. I´ve seen family and friends children´s pages, and it would make your hair stand up with they make available. It´s not easy to configure the privacy. It takes time and research to know how to configure it well.

I think it can be a great way to keep in touch, but people need to be careful. I can´t believe the things people post on services like Facebook. Do I need, or want, to know every tiny detail of other´s lives?

Now one can be young and stupid and have it recorded and displayed to millions for posterity....It will be interesting to see how things develop.It would be nice if it were possible to NOT display so much, but the way it´s configured, it shows too much. There are things I may like to share with family and initmate friends, but not business associates. Perhaps with out increasingly disjointed society, people are not able to differentiate between real friends and friendly acquaintances?

With a cell phone that gets text and voice, I have not found a need, or valid use, for twitter, but some seem have found it useful.

15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre

"Thousands of people have been attending a ceremony in Bosnia to mark the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre – Europe’s worst atrocity since the second World War.

Bosnia’s president was joined by other leaders from across the continent to remember the mass murder.

Serb forces killed more than 7000 Muslim men and boys during a few bloody days, despite the town being declared a United Nations protectorate."

We need to be constantly vigilant against provocation of hate be it by our words or actions.

Hmmm...can´t understand why....."if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck....it must be a.....duck" keeps going through my mind.

Lemon,

Like or not, humans have mated, or tried to mate with a dizzying array of options from time immemorial. Cro-Magnon Neanderthal is really not that implausable. 

In fact, the mating instinct gives birth to a whole array of interesting hybred species....If there were no beastiality, why would it be mentioned in Leviticus 18:23?

You are probably quite correct.....this is a question for a geneticist....however, when I wrote Turk...it was in the context of Türkic, not Turkish. As I understand, Turks (citizens of Turkey) are not necessarily Türkic. You have Traki peoples, Laz, Çerkiz and whatever remained from the Lycians, Hittites, Hattites and all...plus..many more all blended into what are today citizens of Turkey.

On the other hand, Türkic people are, from what I´ve learned a blend of European, Mongolian people. They are currently the Human migration and interbreeding. I´ve heard the saying, "scratch a Russian and you get a Tartar".

There was program here on PBS regarding mans migration out of Africa. The new theory is there were two separate migrations. The last one was the one went to Mongolia then back into Europe. I wish I could find a link, but I´m too lazy now....

Scientists said Neanderthal and Cro-Magnons did not interbreed, but recent evidence indicates they did. I´m not at all surprised, given what I´ve seen of humans.

Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans

"Any human whose ancestral group developed outside Africa has a little Neanderthal in them – between 1 and 4 per cent of their genome, Pääbo´s team estimates. In other words, humans and Neanderthals had sex and had hybrid offspring. A small amount of that genetic mingling survives in "non-Africans" today: Neanderthals didn´t live in Africa, which is why sub-Saharan African populations have no trace of Neanderthal DNA."