Oh well, if it weren't for Glenn Greenwald I wouldn't be visiting the site. I don't need to be told what I should see in nature, if God were so self-evident. If something as exotic as relativity and quantum mechanics can be accepted so universally (at least until a better theory comes along), why can't God?

P.S. Oh no, don't even try equating Jesus with Allah or Zeus or Vishnu, or Methodist with Baptist or Mormon. At least get your God straight first.

Obama's rescue plan is nothing more than a handout to the banks and "investors". It lets them buy securities, chosen by the banks, with up to 90% (or more?) of taxpayer money. One of the largest hedge funds in the world already publicly said it's a "big transfer of funds from the public to the banks and private equity". The only reason it's still contemplating whether to participate? Potential government intrusion into executive compensation. Now even that threat is removed as Obama puts the brakes on congressional legislation to recoup AIG/Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bonuses.

You know what securities banks will put up for sale? The most worthless ones. Wouldn't you do the same?

If they're smart, they'll buy bad assets from each other. You know, it may well solve a lot of problems, because $1 trillion is a lot of money.

So much it could've bought more than 5 million median-priced homes. Sleep on that.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/cybersecurity-act

I'm not saying they should be tortured, but it astounds me that so many people buy into the "religious persecution" argument when it comes to cults. Go to 10th & Arch in Philly. Most days there will be some old ladies there handing out newspapers printed by F.G. with lots of anti-commmunist articles. Or go to NYC and turn on the TV. Every night for a few hours they purchased airtime on one of the channels (25, 73, or something like that), and part of it is spent on, you guessed it, anti-communist "news"/commentary. Not to mention a couple of years ago they surrounded ZhongNanHai, the Chinese equivalent of the White House and Capitol Hill rolled into one. This is in Beijing, China.

Americans need to face up to the fact that there are lots of lying religions out there. The enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.

What the torrent of anti-medicine comments only confirm is the necessity of articles like this. One poster even claimed "western medicine" is about belief as much as "alternative medicine". No, it's not. One is tested in clinical trials, some flawed, but often not, and always debated by other researchers via peer-reviewed journals.

Most of what's intuitive turns out to be wrong. If you don't adopt scientific method, you'll end up not helping and probably hurting yourself. Acupuncture works, but you know what, it works in proper clinical studies, too! What a surprise! Yet few if any other "alternative medicine" can do the same.

No, even if they turn out to be placebo, it's worse. Nothing you put in your body, save maybe water, has no side effect. Alternative medicine that works will, eventually, be accepted as medicine. The fact that almost nothing besides acupuncture has worked shows how much money people are wasting, and we never know how many are killing themselves and their loved ones.

People like to talk about the negative side effects from regular medicine. But most come from improper trials or obfuscation of results. You know what, alt-med, or junk meds, don't even get tracked. That's why they seem so harmless. But the few that were, caused many deaths.

I didn't bother to read the article, because insulting all liberals is apparently okay, from someone who feels Southern whites are under attack.

News for you, mister, you're just a Confederate in a new suit.