[ExI] 27 psychedelics??

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Sat Mar 26 18:12:20 UTC 2022


 

 

…> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] 27 psychedelics??

 

>…Oh baloney, Spike.  I know that transgender issues really light your fire, but do you really think that a significant percentage of the grandmasters grouped as male are anything but?

 

 

 

No I was just having some fun at no one’s expense.  I am not participating in the current debate on transgenders in women’s sports.  It is clear enough to me that people who developed as men have an advantage in some, really most sports, such as track, swimming, weight lifting, boxing, wrestling, and so forth, probably chess (don’t understand why on that last one.)

 

I am a big fan of the shooting sports, having participated in it since childhood and knowing the men have no inherent advantage in that game.  Yet, for some odd reason, few know anything about it or who the big stars are (I do.)  

 

My family is from West Virginia.  West Virginia dominates no sports (except one) for there is insufficient level ground there.  What little bottom land is available is seldom invested in football fields (or any other fields besides growing much-needed crops) so it is unlikely that football champions, baseball, soccer or any of it will be from there, where plenty of high schools do not even have teams.  The except one refers to shooting sports.  The high schools do have teams there, and they do find their talent early.  And that is why so many Olympic shooting champions are from West Virginia.  West Virginia is the number one state in the shooting sports.

 

Historical aside: in the Civil War, both sides were very careful to not piss off West Virginia.  They let them form their own state, and came somewhat close to allowing them to form their own country up there.  Reason: West Virginia, even back in those days, had the best shooters anywhere.  Neither side wanted to fight against them.  

 

I know a lot about this because my own great great great grandfather was one of those who led the successful effort to create the state of West Virginia.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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