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What are the trees suppose to do?

Furniture?

Let’s see here. We rid this world’s air of harmful CO2 and replace it with beneficial carbon monoxide. This can only be proposed from a California school.
Hilarious!

Seriously, they also claim it is possible to turn CO into more useful carbon molecules.

It has no description of how economic it is, but suppose they can scale it up large enough to let us "recycle" all of our CO2. Wow.

Goodbye, global warming!

How did you get access to Hillary's poop?

Two ways: Squeeze her head or listen to her speak!

Sounds like we should make it easier for a few more to temporarily escape!

Face it - a lot of people are as dumb as rocks. They have no problem using machines to make lotto picks or to play video slot machines at Indian casinos...

Which itself is dumb as rocks. Lotteries are a tax on people who didn't do well in high school math.

This hardly sounds like a hit job... who does a "hit job" on someone who will be on the job for 8 days? Sure, it means she won't be back in 2008, but is that a bad thing?

It always pisses me off to see people lie with statistics, especially when it's done so blatantly.

According to http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/offense_tabulations/index.html
NYC murder rate was 7.0/100000 people in 2004.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/mscrimn.htm
227 / 2,900,768 = 7.8/100000 people in MS

Which part of illegal do these people not understand?

When did they decide that American rights were less important than the rights of invaders? What about my Civil Liberty of not paying taxes to support people here illegally? What about my Civil Liberty to go to an emergency room my money pays for without waiting behind dozens of illegals who go there because it is free for them? What about my Civil Liberty not to pay more for car insurance because of illegal immigrants who illegally drive without their legally required insurance? What about the rest of my Civil Liberties taken from me because there are illegal immigrants getting them instead?

IICLU, go f*ck yourselves.

BTW, that sounds like an awesome law. I'd love to see more of them.

Have you ever read "A World Out of Time"? Awesome novel. It opens with a criminal having his malfunctioning personality "repaired" by being completely replaced with a dying cancer patient's personality.

I don't want to see these guys go to jail - waste of my money, waste of their time. Does nothing but hurt society.

How about we give them each 15 lashes? After their backs heal up, they'll have learned a valuable lesson and it won't have cost the taxpayers anything. Hell, we could probably sell tickets and make a few bucks off it. It would also be publicized so well nationally that no one would be dumb enough to do something similar. Everyone wins.

I'm sure that's "cruel and unusual", but we should find a way to make it legal. Perhaps, for some classes of crime, a prisoner could volunteer to trade public whipping for prison time?

She is going to run on universal health care

Can she really be that stupid? She'd have to hope the entire country forgets how badly she screwed that up when her husband was in office.

Leave it to the media to ignore important information that might not fit the premise of their story. Still, if there is bipartisan agreement in the legislature about this bill, then what is he doing trying to bypass the legislature on his way out of office? Of course, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Republicans actually approve, and the writer went quote mining to support his cause. I don't really trust the writer anymore now that I know the state's option is to own 20%, not just pay for 20%.

This duck isn't lame, he's been cut off at the ankles. Is this his way of getting back at the constituents who no longer want him?

A statement of FACT in an attempt to compare two reactions isn't "downplaying" anything.

Hardly just a statement of FACT when you make it sound like all he did was "TALKING". TALKING about 16 year old boys who work for him coming over for sex. You're right, that's not bad at all! Good grief.

Learn to read before spouting your ignorance.

Harsh words from someone who can't tell the difference between agreement and disagreement. (See post 10.)

Just because the governor of NJ was discovered to be doing this, you think it doesn't happen anymore?

Did I say that? No. I am showing how, over the years, even the Democrats' reactions have grown less and less tolerant. Learn to read before spouting YOUR ignorance.

Seriously, what is wrong with you? You turned a thread that could have been a normal debate into a flame war. Did you forget your medication this morning? Today is THURSDAY. Take the pills in the box marked THURSDAY.

What's wrong with it is I'm doing no such thing--why do you have the need to get on your moral high horse and accuse me of such?

Alright, you did not try to defend him. What you did say was
moral judgments are put on hold these days until the political positions of the players are known; THEN "being judgmental" is just fine.
You also say
Foley did ... for TALKING about it.
To me, these are attempts to downplay his crimes and deflect the negative attention. The only way to succeed is to give up the moral high ground the Republicans have established.

I'm also saying that these days, even Democrats don't stand this kind of behavior. Give a job to your gay lover? Gone. The rest of the party doesn't receive the widespread negative attention Foley has brought on because they never established they were the party that doesn't do this kind of thing. Even so, the negative attention is part of the reason a liberal senator is losing in a liberal state.

Re: Vagina Monologues: Well, yeah--that was my point. So what's your problem with it?

No problem. I was agreeing with you :P

I've seen this kind of comment on FR too often in these past few days. There are two things wrong with it.

The first is that we are more than 20 years removed from the Gerry Studds incident, and I doubt ANY politician would get away with something like that now. Look at what happened to Bubba 10 years later. He tried to cover up something far less vile than what Studds did, and the end of his presidency was a complete ruin. Now it's even ten years later, and no matter how you slice it, Foley is a hideous creep who shames the Republican party and the House of Representatives. The public won't tolerate that any more. McGreevey in NJ is a perfect example. He's a rat, and not only did he have to resign, but a senator who should be safe in his blue state is likely to lose as part of the fallout.

The other major problem is that for decades now, the Republicans have made a name for themselves as the party of family values, morals, and clean living. It's good for a few percentage points in every race, and everyone knows it. When someone is caught breaking that, though, watch out. Nobody has further to fall than someone who has reached the top.

Lastly... this guy is scum. Why try to justify or defend him? *If* you succeed in making people accept or ignore what he did, all you have really accomplished is lose those few percentage points. The only way to deal with this is to cast him out.

Look at the Democrats' tactics this election. They don't have a strategy or a platform. They just find individuals who have done something wrong, broken the Republican code somehow, and drag that individual down. It has happened over and over... everyone in Ohio, DeLay, possibly Santorum and Burns, now Foley. Put forth candidates that can't be dragged down like that and they will win.

As for the Vagina Monologues, I have no idea. I've never seen it and I never plan to. My guess is it is received much better by the loony left than it is by moderates or conservatives. Your statement that it is viewed as "empowering" is probably true; the only problem is the people who think that can't tell the difference between degrading and empowering. 13 year olds having sex at all, let alone with an adult woman? You're empowered! Give me a break.

But this is all before Rove's October surprise.

Didn't you hear? Rove's October Surprise was he tested a nuke in North Korea.

I am so confused. I thought the reason Israel stopped killing these TERRORISTS was because they agreed to give up their weapons. Now they say they refuse, and they still have the soldiers they originally kidnapped. What is there to stop Israel from finishing what they started? (Aside from their pussylanimous leader?)

A deer as smart as Einstein would come up with something better than running and possibly getting caught...

1) Kill a rabbit or other animal, then kick it around while scavenging. When a wolf attacks, kick the rabbit. Hopefully the wolf's prey instinct will get it to chase the rabbit, not the deer.

2) Bathe frequently to get rid of scents.

3) Find and carry a dead wolf.

4) When in a pack about to be chased by wolves, kick one of your fellow deer before running. Not friendly, but no one said our Einstein deer was a good guy.