I am entirely against the Iraq war, but claiming that we should get rid of our nuclear weapons is just daft. These things are 1940's technology. Everyone who wants them is going to get them. People who don't have them will be helpless against those who do.

Also, keep in mind that things like tanks, aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc., are all obsolete relics of World War 2. The only way the Pentagon gets to play war with these things is by attacking non-nuclear armed nations. Bush was happy to send people to Iraq, but he kept clear of North Korea. The massive trillion-dollar war machine of the US can be stopped dead by a few kilograms of plutonium.

Why are you people buying Apple computers? It is now just a flavor of Linux with poor construction. Buy a proven Linux setup like Red hat or SuSE instead.

Rumsfeld and Bush have committed war crimes that would land a Yugoslavian general or leader in jail. Nobody can arrest them, so the point is moot.

Their day in front of judges may come someday, but not for many years, if at all.

I have no moral compunction against killing an animal that is a threat to my child. Killing is not the most practical problem with that, however. Cats are cheap, often free. If it belongs to a person then killing it will only solve the problem temporarily and change the color/spots of the cat that is let loose. My father handled an animal problem by using the local pound. He cost the neighbors enough money that they eventually stopped letting their dangerous animals from running free. He had contemplated shooting the animals, but bullets are more expensive than mutts and cats and the neighbors would have gotten really upset.

It could be a stray animal with rabies or worms, of course. Trapping it is likely the best thing to do.

Riddle me this. What is the best way to make bread, have local people bake the bread fresh and sell it within ten miles of where it was baked or have one factory in Mexico make all of America's bread and ship it all over creation? Surprise surprise, local baking is cheaper and much more efficient and provides higher quality.

As Safeway and Wal Mart would have a hard time maintaining thousands of individual contracts as opposed to one contract with one mega bread baker, we get the crappy bread made in a central factory and shipped all over the country.

The system we have in the US is optimized for the large company's convenience, not the customer's best interests. Large scale capitalism is not as efficient as the Wall Street journal would have you believe.

I think many people on the right and left think that the US has limitless power and can do anything in the universe if only it really wants to. the right thinks that the US military is a god-like force that can clense the world of evil. (That didn't quite work out.) Some on the left think that the US can, via donations and education, solve problems that have plagued humanity for as long as we have walked upright.

The fact is that the US can't even conquer Iraq properly or give good medical care to everyone in our own borders, let alone end a worldwide issue as large as hunger. We can do many things, but not anything.

Understanding this, how would the US end world hunger exactly? Giving food or cash helps prop up the dictators and warlords responsible for the hunger. Removing the dictators and warlords in Africa is more difficult than dealling with angry groups in Iraq.

The real solution to hunger and overpopulation is to educate women and give them rights and access to birth cntrol. This worked wonders for Europe, the US, and Japan. The US and the west doesn't have the power to force the real answer on Africa, so not much can be done aside from emerency aid, which we are already doing.

You are likely going to die soon. I don't care what you think you are doing or how right you think you are, aiming a gun at a cop and pulling the trigger is not a recipe for a long life.

There are many innocent people who have been killed by the war on drugs under more sympathetic circumstances. We need to focus on people who didn't bring their fates down on themselves.

Both the democrats and the republicans are showing cowardice at it's most deadly. The republicans have painted themselves into a corner. Iraq is a disaster, but admitting that the war was wrong and getting the US out is politically difficult. The republicans do the easy and cowardly thing, they punt the problem into the future and grandstand on "bravery" and "resolve" while none of them or their children are in the line of fire.

The democrats are showing a different form of cowardice. While Americans are killing and dieing in a war based on lies, the democrats sit on their hands. Occasionally one or two of them makes meek anti-war statements that the rest of the democrats distance them selves from.

The price of this cowardice is the massive loss of human life. It is politically difficult to prevent these deaths, so neither side does the right thing and the killing continues. remember soldiers, your life is worth less to a congressman than a few points in the polls.

Restaurants as meritocracies? Is that a joke? If restaurants were places where the good food sold more than the bad there would be more good Italian restaurants and fewer olive gardens. The biggest and best-selling fast food chains sell horrible food flavored primarily by chemical additives, and people love it.

As for "evil" vegetarians and vegans as being somehow mean to poor people, one has to wonder if they share this view in India.