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It is either ironic or an incredible example of media manipulation that the right wing has used the accusation of "Nazi-ism" so much that it has lost its power to shock -- pictures of Obama with a Hitler moustache, claims that government run health care is equivalent to Auschwitz.

But to anybody my age (mid-60's) the activities of "tea-baggers" bear a striking resemblance to newsreels we used to see (post WWII) of Nazi Brownshirts in Weimar Germany: the implicit threat of violence, disrupting the rallies and speeches of opposition figures, the refusal to discuss policy in favor of accusations of treason, betrayal of "blood" and being a secret Communist.

These tactics were admittedly much more extreme with the Brownshirts and they actually beat up Socialist politicians and burned down oppositon facilities -- but teabaggers seem to be refraining from such activities NOT because they have an ethical imperitive not to do them but only because they know...

JS,
"you somehow feel nested heirarchy cannot be, and is not a valid design criteria. But you have failed to describe by example exactly what you mean for the benefit of the readers. In a way, I think you are trying to represent relations on subsets, but cannot be sure of your interpretation of nested heirarchy being exclusive of TOE."

Not again.... Drooling more ignorance. Nested hierarchies is compelling evidence of common descent, which you deny. That's the point.

Rather than producing evidence that nested hierarchies don't exist, you ramble on about other explanations for common descent other than TOE. Even if God appeared out of the sky and told you how he made the hierarchies, it still means you're wrong about common descent, regardless of the mechanism by which it occurred.

Please, try to make one, just one informed and coherent post.