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Goths, emos, juggalos, scene kids… Living in New York City, you never see these people around. Never saw these in San Francisco, either. Everyone is “normal.”
Is it only kids who live in rural and suburban areas who fall into these stereotypes/groups/niches? Nothing better to do? Not as many people around to point and laugh and criticize?

There are several different species of anole lizards in the Caribbean. All of them like to eat insects. How do these species reduce competition?
Nothing — it is impossible to reduce competition between species that need the same resources.
One species has developed a bigger brain and faster speed, and it is outcompeting all the other species, which are going extinct.
Some search for bugs at the top of the trees, some hunt on tree trunks, and some forage on the ground.
Question 24 1 points Save
The sum total of all of the ways that an organism uses the resources of its environment is called the species _____.
fecundity
niche
habitat
cohort
Question 25 1 points Save
When two species have made long-term adjustments to adapt to characteristics that affect each other, this is called _____.
r-selection
co-evolution
a density-independent effect
competitive exclusion
An animal with cryptic (camouflage) coloration is trying to _____.
hide from predators
warn predators that the organism is poisonous
attract a mate
develop a commensalistic relationship with another species

Since Nancy Pelosi became Speaker $5 Trillion has been added to the national Debt. The interest alone on this money will mean that taxpayers in USA for the next 20 generations will be heavily burdened if the debt is not Repudiated. If the debt is repudiated, the US government would cease to exist as a solvent going concern. With no ability to borrow from anybody (even China) and with a FICO score of 200, Uncle Sam would be sleeping at a shelter, and eating at the church kitchen.
But that’s not the problem!
If the US government had gotten $5 Trillion worth of goods, services, or benefits to show for the money it has spent, the country would be a pretty decent shape.
Instead the government appears to have gotten Zero dollars worth of ANYTHING for the $5 Trillion it has spent. Nada, Zilch, Nothing to show for that money.
Karzai at least has got his bags of cash from Iran. He may be playing both sides, like a total crook, but like Bonnie and Clyde at least he’s got bags of money to show for it.
Pelosi has nothing to show for the $5 Trillion.
Here’s why.
When agencies go to the Congress for funding, there is about 30 seconds worth of discussion about what they plan to do with the money, how they will spend it, what benefits will be obtained and by whom. The Official from the Agency then says “We are going to work on that”.
Congress says “Oh, OK fine.”
Then the Congress people start making speeches for the record about how great they are.
This goes on for 3 or 4 days.
Then the stupid agency gets their money.
That’s not how venture capital firms work. If they did work that way, they would be out of business real fast.
Venture capitalists have actually had jobs. They have met payrolls. They have sold products. They have made deals.
They want to know everything about how the money will be used and most particularly they want to know what outcomes will be attained.
If a prospective borrower said “I plan to work on that, let me get back to you on that” he would be shown the door in a New York minute.
No actual plans to obtain any actual benefit it required for Congress to appropriet money.
Why?
Because nobody in USA is authorized to tell Congress how to do its work.
Congress can be as crazy as it wants to be.
It can spend $5 Trillion, get nothing and say “Crazy as I wanna be hahahahaha”
The public is always misled.
The problem is not the spending level. It’s the total and complete lack of getting anything in exchange for that spending. It’s the gettting level, which is zero, that’s a big problem. The country isn’t getting anything except a Chinese Fire drill in Iraq, and another one in Afghanistan, and a VA medical care system that does not work, and the Obamacare Chinese Fire Drill that will cost everybody a bundle and deliver not one single thing to anybody ever.
Making America Succeed is a matter of good venture capitalist skills. If there can be a GAO, why can’t there be a GMO (General Management Office) to make sure Congress gets somehting for the money it spends. We need to go beyond “Accounting” and all the way to Fair Market Value Purchases, what used to be called Contracting Oversight.
Congress has no Contracting Oversight so it spends the People’s money very foolishly, and spends its time taking bribes, arranging future bribes, making tedious speeches about how great the members are, praising each other, reading phony material into the record, and passing earmarks for its buddies and campaign contributors (and we can’t tell because they are secret thanks to Citizen United (Scalia the thug at work)).
Teapot Dome was a squared away and morally straight organization compared to today’s Congress, which is like a house of easy women on old Bourbon street.
And it’s all on your credit card. Is that right? Do you approve of that?

A recent trip to the library revealed that at–*least*…!–13 books on vampires and werewolves from “The Little Women” to Leo Tolstoy; classic books that have been treated to a “supernatural” twist on the various themes which you and I grew up reading on as kids and teens.
I just stood there and went, “WTF?!?..!!!”
I thought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was bad enough…but from what I saw…?
I started to weep a little inside because of what’s being done to my childhood memories.
This is getting to be too much!
The genre’s getting killed over so many vampire books flooding the market–with some of them not making a lick of sense; sounding like a dark crossing between Angel and True Blood on some of the themes and a poor man’s excuse for another Twilight clone.
My wife recently read “Shadow Kiss” and even though she likes the book, I was just appalled by what the author was able to get away with and I was completely turned off–seeing how it’s just another “boy-toy”-vampire cliched novel: Girl loves guy, wants to become a vampire herself and yadda, yadda, yadda.
Insert love triangle, mortal danger, and cheesy HEA endings that make people like me want to ralph.
Where’s the imagination and the creativity in these books? Whatever happened to sticking to the lore and genre and try to maintain some semblance of originality? (Not to mention DIGNITY?)
Why the weak characters? The impossible romances? The milk-curdling plots that make absolutely no sense whatsoever?
Where’s the solid story-telling and the great character lines? Whatever happened to just “writing” a book and not worry about what the other guy has out on the shelves?
You know, it makes me almost hesitant to finish a vampire book I started 10 years ago.
I say *almost* hesitant here. I plan on finishing it and the others on my list, but I don’t want a book that is just like everybody else’s.
I’m horrified and mortified by what’s on the shelves. Very few books I’m running into makes any lick of sense and it’s becoming harder to try to find something close to home.
Y’know?
When I started it out with my first vampire book (as I write mostly science-fiction/fantasy), all I wanted was a simple half-human/vampire romance between a hunter and her human companion.
A journey of discovery and redemption. Nothing special. Nothing crazy. No “turning” the guy in the end, no trying to force a romance out of the ether, but just let things happen as naturally as possible.
And while the first draft didn’t end in an HEA (I hate those!), but tragedy for the main character–as she had to lose everyone she knew; including the guy she was with.
The second draft was altered a bit, a little more in depth with the characters, but it hasn’t contained anything abnormal or deviant–with the minor exception that the main character craves chocolate and sex. (I thought that would be a nice–normal–twist; focusing on the human aspect of the character rather than what she is: Half-vampire.
I already know what she is. Why make her out to be more than the sum of all her parts?)
But outside of that…? There’s no secret–or earthly–power to be had, no secret coven of vampires or werewolves dueling it out for power or control over the Earth, or some other whacka-doo story plot element that is totally–freakishly–*alien* to the lore/genre itself.
Nothing that trashes the supernatural genre that makes it look both silly and utterly tasteless–y’know?
I’m not doing this to be different or in “defiance” of what’s already out there, but I just don’t see how all these variant books out already is going to make people like the genre any better–than what I grew up on reading as a kid.
It’s my belief that is trend is backfire and *badly* at some point–where someone is going to cross a line that shouldn’t be crossed and people are going to go, “Okay…whoa! That’s enough! Stop!”
…
…
…
Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is a timeless classic because it embodied so much of what we didn’t *know* about vampires, but kept true to the idea of the dark and forbidden elements which made the author’s characters likable, memorable, and loved.
But I think the mainstream is pushing things too far in order to get out the next “best-seller” in the supernatural lore–by putting out soap-opera styled, media-circus, trash-tabloids that isn’t supposed to even…*exist* in the first place.
Certainly not in a publishing industry that was built on…well, *TRADITION*.
Now I see agents scrambling for the “next Twilight”–gushing about how “great” the book series was and how new writers should emulate SM’s literary genius. (And on that note–can someone stick a fork into my brain? I think

A recent trip to the library revealed that at–*least*…!–13 books on vampires and werewolves from “The Little Women” to Leo Tolstoy; classic books that have been treated to a “supernatural” twist on the various themes which you and I grew up reading on as kids and teens.
I just stood there and went, “WTF?!?..!!!”
I thought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was bad enough…but from what I saw…?
I started to weep a little inside because of what’s being done to my childhood memories.
This is getting to be too much!
The genre’s getting killed over so many vampire books flooding the market–with some of them not making a lick of sense; sounding like a dark crossing between Angel and True Blood on some of the themes and a poor man’s excuse for another Twilight clone.
My wife recently read “Shadow Kiss” and even though she likes the book, I was just appalled by what the author was able to get away with and I was completely turned off–seeing how it’s just another “boy-toy”-vampire cliched novel: Girl loves guy, wants to become a vampire herself and yadda, yadda, yadda.
Insert love triangle, mortal danger, and cheesy HEA endings that make people like me want to ralph.
Where’s the imagination and the creativity in these books? Whatever happened to sticking to the lore and genre and try to maintain some semblance of originality? (Not to mention DIGNITY?)
Why the weak characters? The impossible romances? The milk-curdling plots that make absolutely no sense whatsoever?
Where’s the solid story-telling and the great character lines? Whatever happened to just “writing” a book and not worry about what the other guy has out on the shelves?
You know, it makes me almost hesitant to finish a vampire book I started 10 years ago.
I say *almost* hesitant here. I plan on finishing it and the others on my list, but I don’t want a book that is just like everybody else’s.
I’m horrified and mortified by what’s on the shelves. Very few books I’m running into makes any lick of sense and it’s becoming harder to try to find something close to home.
Y’know?
When I started it out with my first vampire book (as I write mostly science-fiction/fantasy), all I wanted was a simple half-human/vampire romance between a hunter and her human companion.
A journey of discovery and redemption. Nothing special. Nothing crazy. No “turning” the guy in the end, no trying to force a romance out of the ether, but just let things happen as naturally as possible.
And while the first draft didn’t end in an HEA (I hate those!), but tragedy for the main character–as she had to lose everyone she knew; including the guy she was with.
The second draft was altered a bit, a little more in depth with the characters, but it hasn’t contained anything abnormal or deviant–with the minor exception that the main character craves chocolate and sex. (I thought that would be a nice–normal–twist; focusing on the human aspect of the character rather than what she is: Half-vampire.
I already know what she is. Why make her out to be more than the sum of all her parts?)
But outside of that…? There’s no secret–or earthly–power to be had, no secret coven of vampires or werewolves dueling it out for power or control over the Earth, or some other whacka-doo story plot element that is totally–freakishly–*alien* to the lore/genre itself.
Nothing that trashes the supernatural genre that makes it look both silly and utterly tasteless–y’know?
I’m not doing this to be different or in “defiance” of what’s already out there, but I just don’t see how all these variant books out already is going to make people like the genre any better–than what I grew up on reading as a kid.
It’s my belief that is trend is backfire and *badly* at some point–where someone is going to cross a line that shouldn’t be crossed and people are going to go, “Okay…whoa! That’s enough! Stop!”
…
…
…
Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is a timeless classic because it embodied so much of what we didn’t *know* about vampires, but kept true to the idea of the dark and forbidden elements which made the author’s characters likable, memorable, and loved.
But I think the mainstream is pushing things too far in order to get out the next “best-seller” in the supernatural lore–by putting out soap-opera styled, media-circus, trash-tabloids that isn’t supposed to even…*exist* in the first place.
Certainly not in a publishing industry that was built on…well, *TRADITION*.
Now I see agents scrambling for the “next Twilight”–gushing about how “great” the book series was and how new writers should emulate SM’s literary genius. (And on that note–can someone stick a fork into my brain? I think

I am trying to start some kind of a website what would go well?
information and affiliates.
so far I have tried all kinds of things and nothing!
very frustrating!