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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.
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.
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.
This is nothing less than the swift-boating of President Clinton and the white-washing of an AWOL Bush. Sound familiar?
With "The Path to 9/11", ABC is even now swift-boating President Clinton and white-washing an AWOL Bush. Sound familiar?
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.
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.
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?
If this goes through, could someone please tell me what the point of the Democratic party is?
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.
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.
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.
but as an atheist, I want to say:
Let us pray.
We're not even smarter than bacteria. We have no more control of our population than a colony of bacteria in a nutrient solution.
that this place is in America.
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?
At the end of the Nuremburg trials the Germans were declared guilty of "waging aggressive war". When do we start hanging our war criminals?
thy name is Rumsfeld
"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.
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.