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So... next year's budget will be smaller than this year? Or has the TEA Party not done *enough*, yet? When Congressmen need to go on food stamps, I'll say we have the budget nearly under control.

All statistical noise in comparison to the dozens of millions killed in Russia and China. Remember, starvation is *also* murder when the government causes it- and a particularly nasty form of it, at that. And pogroms and working people to death can be added to the count, too. If nothing means...

Where did I say anything about punishment or reward? *Mattering* is what I said. Mattering carries a dignity with it. If nothing matters, why get worked up about crime, poverty, war, this thread? Just "go for it", and get your cut, right? But if we, and the world, matter... then there is a call...

I don't see that the atheist's complete lack of hard proof as to God's nonexistence is any stronger than the theist's complete lack of hard proof etc. etc. It's the old "Barbell Equation": 0=0 The difference is that if there *is* a God, behaving morally matters. If there isn't, *nothing* does...

Well, at least you are getting warmer... And that quote by Jacques Vallee- wasn't he the one who used to rip off UFO buffs by selling them books about UFOs, despite the fact that not one UFO ever seen has turned out to be extraterrestrial? Fine one to point his finger at others... a con man...

Looks like a garden-variety lens flare to me... I've seed a similar pic from the Fifties in which the Capitol was shown brightly lit at night, surrounded by these lens flares. The UFONuts thought it was a bunch of flying saucers no one noticed, I guess... and each one just happened to correspond...

Or less, because some don't. And there are more reverent terms available than "sky daddy", btw.

All this talk of caverns puts me in mind of all the Eighties-on Star Trek series... sooner or later someone on a planet would mention "subterranean caves", which led me to wonder that the above-ground ones looked like... fields, most likely... I can tell you why there would be a significant...

Thinking brilliantly about rock-stupid ideas gets him no respect in my book; neither does his notion he had something better than religion to pass along. And the fact that some people actually put the good of the country, and human civilization, ahead of their own financial benefit- is exactly...

Just when you think the human race can't get any stupider, someone scrapes up another layer of it... I think we passed the bottom of the barrel when Karl Marx got published, and have been drilling ever faster, ever since...

If only Harry Turtledove's story "Half the Battle" were available on the Net... it could give a subtle clue, to some, to make this much more likely...

But the BBC back then did not have an archivist so much as an anarchivist- what can we pitch, what tapes can we re-use? So the episodes that were sent out on film to other countries, as they turn up, are the source of these... So much has been lost forever- including the early seasons of The...

My favorite movie: Forbidden Planet. My favorite non-Trek series? "Lexx"- it's sort of the AntiSF feel to it- the space explorers don't want to be exploring, the people they come across are nearly always jerks, even the little kids turn on you... But for fun, it is hard to beat "Red Dwarf". Such...

I'm pretty sure you know that is is the train wreck of the act itself, to which I was referring. Hackers being equal-opportunity idiots, I can't see blaming one party over the other.

The Obamacare train wreck having finally started, soon it should become apparent what the problem is. Adding costs of government will lower (real) prices about as much as (remember this old scam?) HMOs did. Remember, HMO's weren't supposed to cost anything or slow up the process either- everyone...

But the GOP are trying to negotiate in order to get some of the services up and running. To the Democrats, "negotiate" seems to mean, "we get all we demand, or we don't come to the table- now let's see how much *more* we can get on top of that!" No agreement, no "negotiations"- and everyone but...

The topic having wandered far from the TEA Party's courageous refusal to give in to anti-freedom and anti-morality forces, I find little to say that has not already been said. Except that it was the Republicans who pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while the Democrats were busy...

When did being middle and upper class get declared illegal, or even morally wrong? Must have missed it. Yes, the 47% can elect themselves bread and circuses, for a while, until the system breaks down. But it is really a better idea to keep civilization from collapse. That is what you are...

Hilarious spoof on what people think the T.E.A. Party is all about... We are not only Taxed Enough Already, but far too much. You want more "democratic welfare"? Donate, don't force others to do so by making *your* pet charity, *their* taxes. Their view on race- (and I don't mean the Stealth...

Well said! Not to mention that the "cruise missile" had a wingspan wide enough to take out light poles by the roots, just as wide as if it were a large passenger jet... We can always find amusement in the Magic Death Rays From Space, and the Magic Thermite, and the Magic Vanishing Demolition...