Susan Thornton

• 4 years, 7 months ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Bollywood movie review: Drona

  I love Bollywood. Am I to understand that I'm not the only white girl in Dallas who does?

  
  
• 4 years, 7 months ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Denton's nearly $1 billion 410-acre Rayzor Ranch development moves ahead

  I heard there'll be a Lowe's, too. I miss the longhorns!

  
  
• 4 years, 8 months ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Dallas should rename Ross Avenue for Cesar Chavez

  My suggestion still stands to rename Chevez Ave. in Oak Cliff to Chavez. It's only a couple blocks long, but I think that's plenty.

  
  
• 4 years, 9 months ago
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  Dallas restaurant Amuse to become Tex-Mex place called Sala in South Side

  And what part of Tex-mex is creative? So boring, and a shame that Amuse evidently couldn't make any money.

  
  
• 4 years, 9 months ago
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  Dallas Morning News triples distribution of Spanish-language publication Al Dia

  Darn thing showed up on my doorstep today, and I no habla espanol, but since I live in Oak Cliff I must be a Spanish-speaker. More trash to recycle! Idiots.

  
  
• 4 years, 9 months ago
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  Fort Worth woman arrested for beating estranged husband with meat tenderizer

  I divorced my husband because he scrubbed my heirloom cast iron skillet with soap. It was a long, difficult process, but it's properly seasoned again.

  
  
• 4 years, 10 months ago
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  Starbucks releases full list of 600 store closures, including 29 in Dallas-Fort Worth area

  Hurray! Opportunities for coffee entrepreneurs! Long live the independent business!

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
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  Celebrate Oak Cliff Day on June 25 at City Hall

  Caucasian-Americans? Seriously?

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
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  Dallas' Industrial Boulevard "vote" discounts Latinos' wishes

  Bless 'em - they've bought themselves a double ton of racial nonsense... over nothing. I live, as I've said many times, in North Oak Cliff, which stands to gain so much from the Trinity project. But this just makes me shake my head in wonderment over the idiocy.

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
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  Dallas' Industrial Boulevard "vote" discounts Latinos' wishes

  Meant Three Teardrops Tavern Memorial Parkway...

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Dallas' Industrial Boulevard "vote" discounts Latinos' wishes

  They're delaying the vote to August 5 (http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/). Morons.

  Love Von Erich Drive. I'd wanted to rename it the Three Teardrops Memorial Parkway.

  
  
• 4 years, 11 months ago
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  Dallas' Industrial Boulevard "vote" discounts Latinos' wishes

  Just read that the idiots at City Hall are now suggesting renaming Jefferson for Chavez, to mollify whomever "stuffed the ballot box." Do you think they'll poll all the business owners on Jefferson to see how excited they are about it?

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Spring bundle of joy (WARNING: cute baby animal photo!)

  Used to live next to a creek here in OC and fed the feral cats out there, along with any other creatures who enjoyed the occasional cheap catfood snack. Funniest thing I ever saw, and sadly without a camera, was a baby possum and feral kitten eating out of the same dish.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  Scott - I may be able to help you with that:

  javascript Anonymous

  Wikipedia definition for Susan: Noun gullibility (uncountable) The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.

  ...still laughing!

  6 days, 14 hours ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

  If it's shut down, fine by me.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Breeders oppose Dallas' proposed animal control ordinance

  I live in North Oak Cliff and have seen many instances of roaming dogs and feral cats. Calling 311 accomplishes nothing. There still exists, in some cultures, the notion that a male dog shouldn't be neutered because it would interfere with its "sex life." How do you change that culture?

  And, since you asked, those are my cats who came from Texas Siamese Rescue and are indoor-only.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  Dear Joshua - this is quite a different world from yours. I can only dream of the inclusive spirit of celebrating Divali in our schools. Western parents want only Christian traditions followed - Halloween has even been removed because it's "satanic." For heavens sake.

  The Christian evangelical movement in this country is very, very vocal. This film should make a pretty pile of cash, as the believers will go to applaud it and everyone else will go to laugh at it. As has been suggested, go look at the Expelled website blog and you'll see what I'm talking about.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  I very much enjoyed the comment by lastangelman on "D-FW experts of all kinds recruited for upcoming Expelled panel."

  Joshua, in his erudite way, and javascript, not so much, answered my question the way I expected. It's still the old saw about man being made in God's image and being given dominion over all the other creatures. That's the "importance" of this film - society's gone to hell in a handbasket because our children are being taught that they descended from monkeys. If we bring God (or the more p.c. version "ID") back into the classroom, we will have a more godly society - at least the Judeo-Christian version. Cue "Inherit the Wind."

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  D-FW experts of all kinds recruited for upcoming Expelled panel

  lastangelman - words cannot express how awesome your link is.

  
  
• 5 years ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  Javascript - you have said repeatedly that the message of the movie affects us all. Would you care to elaborate?

  
  
• 5 years ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  The last bit about my story is that the woman telling it to me said that she can no longer eat mushrooms.

  
  
• 5 years ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  Joshua - thoughtful answer. I myself have plenty of time for philosophy and metaphysics because those things illuminate our humanity, and that's separate from hard science. I feel the flames aburnin'...

  I heard a story yesterday about a group of Dallas "ladies who lunch" who had a conversation about mushrooms being remnants of antiquarian matter from aliens, and that if you have mushrooms in your yard, you've been ... visited. Evidently there were facts and figures involved, much like ID. Entertaining story. But science? I think not.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  And, javascript - Personal attack? How classy.

  
  
• 5 years ago
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  Some children from Yearning For Zion ranch coming to Dallas area

  I blame the Baptists.

  http://tinyurl.com/5henba

  
  
• 5 years ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  Amen to Opus.

  
  
• 5 years ago
  Susan Thornton's comment on:

  Movie review: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  I am so, so sorry, but I just can't leave it alone, because it's fun. Wikipedia's definition of ID:
  

  "Intelligent design is the assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection".[1][2] It is a modern form of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, modified to avoid specifying the nature or identity of the designer.[3] Its primary proponents, all of whom are associated with the Discovery Institute,[4][5] believe the designer to be the God of Christianity.[6][7] Advocates of intelligent design claim it is a scientific theory,[8] and seek to fundamentally redefine science to accept supernatural explanations.[9]"

  Look it up to see the footnotes.

  Please, oh please beat this dead horse into oblivion so I won't be tempted to respond anymore. Seriously.

  
  

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