Is anyone watching 60 Minutes? Amish story and interbreeding.

[Maddy McCall]

REally interesting. A huge percentage of Amish children are being born with serious medical maladies, due to interbreeding in the small Amish community in Ohio.

It's tremendously interesting.

Edit: Rare genetic diseases are prevalent because of interbreeding....In other words, if two people have recessive genes for a disorder, and marry and have children, some of their children will inherit the disease.

[blm]

1. No surprise Bush won the Amish vote in Ohio.

They are becoming casualties of their own dogma.

[stepnw1f]

2. Interbreeding=Freepers

I'm convinced these folks are a result of "BAD BLOOD".

I'll have to tune into 60 minutes... thanks!

[GOPisEvil]

3. Hmmmm...I'm watching a show on the ancient spheres of Costa Rica.

Discovery Channel.

:D

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. We've known about this for years, but what can we do? religious freedom

and all

[sniffa]

5. your sigLine has a resuLt of interbreeding

and it's not the Lumberjack. :P

[Maddy McCall]

8. LOL!

Isn't he pretty? He hasn't even noticed that he's featured in my sigline. I'm sad about that! :D

[clydefrand]

6. Even Cain went into the land of Nod to find a bride so he

wouldn't have sex with his mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nobody ever tells us where Nod was/is and how those people got there since the first 4 people...Adam, Eve, Abel and Cain were all alone on this wide, wide earth.

[realisticphish]

7. it was somewhere in the region

of des moines, iowa

[Deja Q]

9. Exactly! More B-level writing.

[trof]

10. Here ya go: The Land of Nod

Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod, one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe;
Sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.
'Where are you going and what do you wish?' the old moon asked the three.
'We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we' said Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod.

The old moon laughed and he sang a song as they rocked in the wooden shoe.
And the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew.
Now the little stars are the herring fish that live in that beautiful sea;
'Cast your nets wherever you wish never afeared are we!'
So cried the stars to the fishermen three - Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod.

So all night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam.
Then downward came the wooden shoe bringing the fishermen home.
Twas all so pretty a sail it seemed as if it could not be.
And some folks say twas a dream they dreamed of sailing that misty sea.
But I shall name you the fishermen three - Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod.

Now Winkin' and Blinkin' are two little eyes and Nod is a little head.
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle bed.
So close your eyes while mother sings of the wonderful sights that be.
And you shall see those beautiful things as you sail on the misty sea.
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three - Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod.

My high school glee club sang this and I have to say it was touching
trof

[Bunny]

11. You're a pretty sentimental guy, aren't you trof?

;)

[trof]

12. You peeked.

;-)

[luvLLB]

13. The bible says Adam and Eve were the first people created, but

it does not say they were the only ones created. Maybe He went crazy and created people all over the place. Ya never know.