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Thursday, August 24, 2006 07:42 AM

A Fart Joke

Bush likes fart jokes?

OK, heres one.

What is the difference between what comes out of Bushs' mouth when he speaks and what comes out of his ass when he farts?

What comes out of his ass is more pleasant, makes more sense and isn't likely to kill you.

Monday, August 28, 2006 08:56 PM
Original article: Ghost world

My nutty theory

Consider that life is a form of self-organized matter.

I think that consciousness is a form of self-organized information.

Is there an "information field", that might help information persist, even temporarily, after a person dies? If so it should be detectable.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 03:09 PM
Original article: Rumsfeld rules

One word

Nuremburg

Thursday, August 31, 2006 01:52 PM

Something I don't understand

This issue illustrates something I have never understood. Why is it that the so-called religious community has some of the most dishonest people in the country? And their dishonesty is generally supported by this community. Go figure.

Saturday, September 9, 2006 01:39 AM

They cloned the 2004 election technique

This is nothing less than the swift-boating of President Clinton and the white-washing of an AWOL Bush. Sound familiar?

Saturday, September 9, 2006 02:17 AM
Original article: What we lost

'The Big Lie' is right, even as we speak

With "The Path to 9/11", ABC is even now swift-boating President Clinton and white-washing an AWOL Bush. Sound familiar?

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 02:37 PM
Original article: How bad is he?

To Blinkey the Moose

who says "Yeah, they have so much control over the media they couldn't stop the NY Times from publishing classified information."

Clearly you have blinked one too many times. In fact they did stop the NY Times from publishing before the election, the time it matterd, thereby directly manipulating the election. Keep your eyes open more often.

Friday, September 22, 2006 08:10 AM

If the democrats don't/can't stop these

then the best thing the democratic party can do for the country is die.

They have become like a person that has died in the seat of an important piece of equipment. Now they are just in the way. The best thing that can happen is that they are dragged out of the way so that other parties have a chance to grow and form a real opposition.

The democratic party is dead. Long live the parties that replace them, may it be soon.

Friday, September 22, 2006 08:57 AM

To cosmo

Does the devil love his neighbor? Does the devil help the poor? Does the devil worship God? Heck no! The devil doesn't do it, so obviously Jesus was an idiot to expect people to do these things since the devil doesn't!

Do you actually believe your behavior should be no better than the worst of society?

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:05 AM

What's the point

If this goes through, could someone please tell me what the point of the Democratic party is?

Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:34 AM

Can it be any more clear

that the democratic party is either completely incompetent, or are actuall in cahoots with the Republican party? They are most certainly not an oposition party.

Down with the democratic party, up with anything else.

Thursday, October 5, 2006 11:46 AM
Original article: I want my foie gras!

Magpie

You say "Ducks naturally eat excessive amounts to fatten up"

That may well be true, but if that were enough then force feeding wouldn't be necessary, would it? All your statement means is that the farms find it necessary to shove more in than they would necessarily consume, which makes your observation irrelevant. The point is that they are being forced to eat more than they would normally, and however much they would eat normally is beside the point.

Friday, October 13, 2006 10:24 PM

I am surprised at Richard Dawkins

he says that faith is evil, but he forgets one of the fundamental tenents of evolution: that the behavior of living organisms is mediated by evolution to produce a system geared to survival. The question I don't hear being asked is, why did evolution produce an organism which believes this stuff? Well duh, it must have survival value! And what might that be? In the small groups which were the evolutionary survival units of the human species, it probably acted as a binding agent to keep the members of the group on the same page working together etc to better manage the complexities of human survival as a group. Unfortunately once this binding agent has 'set up' it seems to loose most of it's flexibility and is unable to adapt to the rapidly changing environment which is the modern world. What was adaptive in small primitive groups may prove disasterously maladaptive in modern times.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 08:09 PM

Don't count your chickens...

but as an atheist, I want to say:

Let us pray.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 04:45 AM
Original article: Are we not rats?

Smarter than rats?

We're not even smarter than bacteria. We have no more control of our population than a colony of bacteria in a nutrient solution.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 05:13 AM

How creapy

that this place is in America.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:08 PM

This is to MarkB

who says, among other things:

"The line between a politically concerned military, that provides private advice to civilian leadership and votes its conscience in private, and a politically active military, that feels that it knows better than its civilian leadership and has the right to attempt to influence its decision-making through the bully pulpit of public speech, is a vast one. It is the line that, once crossed, allows a Thai General to decide that he has the right to overthrow an elected government."

Your statement is a non- sequiter. Deciding one has the right to speak out does not in any sense mean the same as deciding one has the right to overthrow the government.

And as for your statement that you "swear our oath to protect the Constitution of the United States", just when the hell does that begin? If you truly felt that you were to protect the U.S. Constitution you would be marching on the White House and dragging out that fool to be tried as a war criminal.

Just the other day on TV there was a program about the Nuremburg trials, and the trials concluded with the statement that the Germans were guilty of "waging aggressive war" and that is why the leaders were hung.

From dictionary.com: "aggressive: 1.characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like;...". What part of this don't you understand?

Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:50 AM

Nuremburg

At the end of the Nuremburg trials the Germans were declared guilty of "waging aggressive war". When do we start hanging our war criminals?

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 12:13 PM

Cowardice

thy name is Rumsfeld

Thursday, November 9, 2006 07:37 AM

Understand?

"it is complex for people to comprehend," Rumsfeld said.

Here Rumfuck, let me simplify it for you. You, sir, are a war criminal that should be hung by the neck until dead dead dead.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 09:43 PM
Original article: Iraq deadline quagmire

Something I learned in kindergarden

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty was pushed to a fall

And all Georges lies

And all Georges conmen

Could't put Iraqnam

Together again.

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