Can't be bothered or just can't? The latter I'm sure! No, I seriously can't be bothered discussing anything with you anymore. Your impose labels like "liberal" upon anyone who isn't a card carrying member of the GOP and "Anti-American" upon anyone raises the suggestion that ther...

For anyone wanting to hear a heavy metal album riddled with Thomas Covenant references, there's always "The Principle of Doubt" by Mekong Delta from way back in '89. Here's the relevant songs: THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBT (B. Eklund, Mekong Delta) The old bum over there holds a sign saying The o...

I don't waste my time trying to humanize animals. Does this quote apply to every Iraqi detainee ? You know as well as anybody else that a large percentage of detainees in Iraq are civilians, not terrorists. Makes me wonder what other propaganda you fell for too. :roll: The Guardian is a socialist a...

At the risk of being an oversentimental left wing hippie who only scores a tree-hugging 9 on the fascism scale... HLT and Cail... are you both really implying that the only part of this story that is of any importance whatsoever is that this girl's parents are illegal immigrants ? Or have basic stan...

ChoChiyo wrote:Somehow, "I will lay down my life for God and EXXON," doesn't have quite the thrilling ring that is needed in times like this.

heh heh heh

ROFL !

Only kidding, I got a 9

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Of course, Clinton's face would be obscured by the rear view of Miss Lewinsky.

How odd to hear that the military is having trouble recruiting. After all, with nearly 2,000 soldiers killed and about 12,000 wounded in an undeclared war with a country that wasn't a threat to America in the first place... you'd have thought people would be desperate to join up. Is it a lack of pat...

Thanks and continued success on your amazing streak of meaningless posts. :wave: LOLOL ! 10/10 - I like it, and I most certainly walked right into that one. HLT, I've been convinced for some time now that a lot of your posts are akin to a satirical version of devil's advocate. Is this the case or d...

For those of you who have the good taste to dig XTC, then check out the "25 o'clock" EP and "Psonic Psunspot" album by a band called The Dukes of Stratosphear . This is XTC under a different name making music of a somewhat 60's cum psychedelic bent and it's just midbendingly good...

Sherrif, I hate to agree with Cail... Well, even I do it from time to time when we're not talking politics. Take two of these and the headaches will go away... Oddly enough, I don't discount nuclear power outright. We have exactly the same debate going on in the UK right now, and the simple fact is...

Wow. Busy thread. Anyway, a brief trip back in time to earlier today... Nice. :| I'm not shur waht you done just said, Sheriff but it done sound like gross generalization ta me. Keep talking like that though! I can't wait to see the Democratic Party self destruct embracing thinking like that. ...You...

...Remember, the average voter is Joe Sixpack, and the Dems, who did so well talking to Joe in 1992 and 1996, didn't get it done this time. An excellent point Cail. You're right - Kerry and his team allowed Bush to define the debate from the word go. I was stunned watching what a poor campaign Kerr...

Edited by Sheriff Lytton due to a feeling that dennis is just having a very bad time and didn't really mean that (I hope).

Dennis - whatever's up I hope you're ok man, really I do.

Cail, what actually happened was that thanks to serious failures on the part of the NRC, the core of a nuclear reactor became exposed. So far, the only reason anyone's come up with for the fuel not burning through the reactor walls and triggering a major nuclear disaster is that voids formed in the ...

Avatar wrote:Thought the principles of a democracy were that every single person had an equal say in how things were done.

Three Mile Island was about as close to nothing as you can get. :screwy: Cail, you're absolutely priceless. For anyone wishing to find out a little more about this "as close to nothing as you can get" incident in which the core of a nuclear reactor became exposed due to a combination of i...

Avatar wrote:...(Oh Sheriff, before I forget, anything in the realm of human experience, imagination, and thought is considered topical in here. )

In that case I think I'll start up that thread on the opposable thumb and flint tools I've been toying with.