Hillary loses even if she wins

Will Mankind One Day Destroy Itself?

There is people saying that the earth itself will destroy mankind, then there is other people saying mankind will destroy themselves. It is rather confusing what and how will mankind end, naturally or by humans themselves.But I have done some research, Stephen Hawkings thinks the earth would carry on, but the human exitence is not certain. Some scientists think that humans seek a more challenging part of their life, that this would lead to mankind destroying themselves. That the list of things that may destroy the earth or mankind is rapidly increasing and that mankind will be destroyed first by their own kind, then the earth will die out either directly or undirectly by mankind or an astroid.

Just Because It's A Documentary Doesn't Mean It Can't Be Slanted And Propagnadized

If you show factual information but, don't explain the facts then it's not really facts, now is it? I want to challange Moreno to find a "documentary" that portrays poor innercity blacks as arseholes instead of victims. His white documentary makes the mountain folk appear to be arseholes by choice not because they are uneducated and poor. My point is if he wasn't trying to be a d!ck he would have chosen a video more like the one below.

Time for Britain to pull out of the Middle East and prepare for engagement with Argentina and Venezuela in defence of British Territory

Britian will defend its interest and people. Given the states of both Argentina's and Venezuela's armed forces it would be ill advised for them to start anything with Britain. Plus Chavez getting involved is very stupid, especially given America's stance on that joke of a country.

Brigitte Gabriel, Indoctrination in U.S. Schools and Universities

Liberal teachers are destroying America.

The books are always better than the movie but, the tv series is always better than the books.

I love the series Dexter but, hated the books. I've started the books on which Justified is based and they are not as good as the series either. Raylan is just so much sexier on TV.

Do You Believe in the Separation of Church and State?

The concept of the separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state. ~Wiki ...pretty much the 1st Amendment

Life dealing with Whites

Anyone have relatives like this or married into a family like this?

sport is pointless and dreary

why would any same person, even a man, get so wound up over the outcome of a ballgame? or a race? Why do they even get interested, let alone excited about it? It's insane

It's Amazing That Men Can't Remember To Take The Trash Out But, They Have Memorized Every NFL Rule.

How many rules are there, guys? Yet, you can't remember to flush the phucking toilet?

I HATE MORENO

And I hate him better than anyone else does. Kisses.

Woman Are More Keen To Cooking Than Men.

Even though I think men and woman can produce the best quality in food, but it is just if you are willing to cook you will get better at preparing food. But I done a hospitality course and there was only three boys out of the whole class that chose to do the course and there was more girls than boys. But it depends on interests, woman would be more interested in cooking and men more interested in sports. But would you agree?

Change The Devil.

I heard this on a song (which because I am on ipod I can't embed codes on here, but if you want to hear the song that I am talking about the artists name is Emeli Sande -Next To Me), now it is either chase the devil or change the devil etc. But if someone says change the devil, do they mean that someone is going to change someone who has done evil things and that person is being compared to the devil? I just heard it and I was wandering how can you chase a devil or change the devil if you don't know if they even exist.

If you have sex, you should do it in the wheelbarrow position to avoid hurt feelings.

The Hedgehog's Dilemma uses the analogy of two mating hedgehogs to describe how people can't get too close emotionally without getting hurt. Hedgehogs solve this problem by having sex in the wheelbarrow position, we should do likewise. Or, if we're actually using logic in debates for a change, find an emotional equivalent. I'm still keeping the catchy title though.

You should play with your pussy as often as possible.

Do it at least once a day. Pussies need to be played with, otherwise they have trouble receiving strangers. Play with other people's pussies too, especially if they're young. Young pussies are practically bursting and need your attention.

People don't need to say they don't like to lose. It should be implied

I don't know anyone who does. Do they exist? I think what they are really saying is, they are competitive, or they are a poor sport, or they play dirty, or just simply emotional when they do lose.

If You Say The Word "Gullible" Really Slowly, It Sounds Like You're Saying "Oranges".

Try it; you'll see.

Men are better cooks than women. They just don't want to do it.

We produce the top chefs. We start the best restaurants. We control the cooking industry.

There has to be a point when a celebrity is no longer a celebrity

I think once you are no longer in the limelight you are no longer a celebrity. On some reality shows they like to bring back "has been" celebrities who look completely a mess and shouldn't be on TV.

Artemis isn't as crazy as she pretends to be

She just likes having the power to whisk up a scare now and again

I LOVE MORENO

nuff said.

I wish more debaters on here had the balls to say what they really mean.

This is where I give Occultdude, Damsel, and of course, The man-god Finsch credit.

It Is The Height Of Irony, Stupidity, And Hypocrisy For Someone Who Has A Prejudice To Rail Against Another Person (Or Group Of People) With A Prejudice, Pretending That Their Prjeudice Is Somehow Worse.

It is prudent not to rail against prejudiced people when it is glaringly obvious that you have a prejudice of your own.

I wonder how Cedjan feels about being part of this list of puppets?

Cedjan, (Cedra), is an ultra-conservative former member of this site. At about 2:25 into this video, which shows a vitriolic radio host berating a member of the Republican Party, a list of so-called "puppets" of the Tea Party is scrolled down the screen with Cedra's name at the very top. Should she be proud of this fact or angry?

When women nag they will be heard but not listen to by men.

This is just woman applying their maternal behavior on their husband that should generally be used on children.

Marriage causes hearing loss in men

I have noticed my husband's hearing is not so good He should get his ears checked because he will swear I never told him things that I've told him dozens of times.

One of the most stupid military law i've seen to date on the issue of Suicide.

" successful suicides are presumed by the military to have been committed in the line of duty, and the service member's death isn't considered to have been due to their own misconduct. (I)f you succeed in committing suicide your service is treated honorably and your family receives full benefits," Hanzel wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "(I)f you are unsuccessful in a genuine suicide attempt, you can receive a federal conviction and get a bad-conduct discharge and jail time." So basically tax payers will pay a soldier's family benefits if your son or daughter succeeds in killing themselves while in the military. Good to know. smh

Men Get Hit In The Genitals More Than Woman.

Seriously what is it with men and them getting hit in the crotch? Whenever it happens you always see someone laughing, but they wouldn't be laughing whenever it happens to them. You tend to see a man or young boy get hit in the crotch more than woman or girls.

Its official, According to scientist Conservatives are dumb with low IQ's

There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood. I.Q., or intelligence quotient, is a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience. Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added. Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy," he told The Huffington Post in an email. "Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies." Article from Huffington Post Full study from LiveScience.com http://tinyurl.com/6qedm3w

IM BACK HA DIDDELY HA HA

That's what I said - I'm back

What happened to Trump?

Looks like he ran off, but it is rather curious how he fought for staying on for as long as he was found out and runs off mysteriously.

Should we be surprised that an almost billionaire politicians would say this?

As someone stated, "What's funny is that the poor Southern white trash base of the GOP is too wrapped up in their misguided fear of immigrants, minorities, abortion rights, social welfare nets, and false socialism to be offended by this and will still blindly vote Republican."

When I think of European dancing I think of this...at 3:15 his dance move is funny

The Old Finish disco instructor with the Cougar. And maybe he should have danced to the music remix in the second video.

Personal Computers Are A Bad Idea. They should all be destroyed.

Back in the day, we had drunk dialing. That's when you would call someone while drunk and make a fool of yourself. Now we have drunk posting. You are no longer making a fool of yourself to one person, you doing it in front of everyone. Drunk posting gets easier everyday. You don't even need to be home to do it. You can do it from a bar with your phone.

Do you ever do karaoke? If so what's your song?

This is mine.

life is so unfair

things just aren't fair

Calling Fox News "Faux News" is neither clever nor does it bode well for the level of maturity of the person using the moniker.

At one point, back before it was being parroted ad nauseum by liberal lemmings it might have been clever or funny, but now it's not only a pathetic attempt to discredit Fox but it's an old, stale joke. The only people whose credibility is damaged by the moniker is the people who use it.

The next social network breakthrough would be holograms

Of course the porn world will benefit from this greatly.

YickYak is fucking stupid.

I sent Artemis a challenge, and it instead sent it to "keepmindok". WTF?

Peanut Butter is better than Honey.

Text Debate: Occultdude17 vs keepmindok - Peanut Butter is brown, just like the President. If you don't like it then you are racist.

"And as always in parting, we wish you love, peace, and soul" (Don Cornelius)

The creator and host of "Soul Train" is dead from a gunshot. It's his final parting from us. Do you feel love, peace, and soul? http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/01/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/don-cornelius-life-gallery/index.html?hpt=hp_bn4

It's Crazy that So Many Riots Happen at Soccer/Football Games

First of all it's just a game. Second, compared to so many other sports it's really not even a violent game (like American Football or Hockey). Yet history is full of so many infamous soccer riots, like this latest: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/01/world/africa/egypt-soccer-deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Humans In The Near Future Would Have Full Control And Cover Every Area.

Every flat-land would be covered by human buildings and humans. This would then have less wildlife which would increase the amount of domesticate animals. Which would then be a lot more damaging to the earth. The legislations and laws they put on lands to protect will not protect the land from ongrowing population of humans and the increasing demand for more land. My opinion is that the population needs to drop a little to stop the ongoing demand for more land.

People Who Commit A Crime Is Not Setting Any Good Example To Younger People.

Think of the amount of young people doing almost the same crimes that they saw an older person do, more or less younger people follow from older peoples behavior. If there was less older people committing crimes, there would probably be less younger people committing crimes. Do you agree?

Higher Educations Should Be Encouraged More In Schools.

Not had an education debate in ages. It is much harder in some countries to find a job, but probably if they had a higher education it would give younger people a chance to get a job. In the UK the amount of young people unemployed is rising and is getting harder every year. So to give younger people the chance, should a higher education be encouraged more than it is.

Is it gay if a man is flexible enough to orally satisfy themselves

It was a discussion at work. Got pretty heated. Just curious. Its just another body part. If its your hands its ok but if its your mouth you are or its gay?

What's Wrong With America?

Finally, someone speaks the truth.

What Happened to Hasdass?

He created a debate saying he was back and then he seems to be off again, I wonder if that was just someone creating another him and not being the real hasdass.

Ignorance should be fought with descrimination.

What say you?

Obummer Is The Food Stamps President

Real Dollar annual increase of the Food Stamps program in first three years of presidential administration: George W Bush (2000-2003): 39.7% increase George W Bush (2004-2007): 22.5% increase Barack Obama (2008-2011): 100% increase How does Obama compare with presidents in their first three years of their terms dating back to 1980? Ronald Reagan (1980-1983): 28.7% increase Ronald Reagan (1984-1987): 0.20% increase George H.W. Bush (1988-1991): 52.2% increase Bill Clinton (1992-1995): 9.6% increase Bill Clinton (1996-1999): 26.8% DECREASE (Link to source data below) + + + + + + + + + + Interestingly, Bill Clinton is the only president since 1980 to actually control the growth of the Food Stamps program (thanks to the Gingrich-led Contract With America). But again, to challenge Obama's statement with the facts: 1. Obama is technically correct that the recent "increase" in the Food Stamps program began under George W. Bush. However, Bush's second term increase saw smaller gains in its first three years than his first term, Then came Obama. 2. The Food Stamps program has DOUBLED under Obama in just three years which is more than TWICE as fast as the pace of any other president during the first three years of their term. Conclusion: Obama is the Food Stamps President. Liberty News has posted an excellent piece with more details on Obama's claim to the "Food Stamps President" title along with an analysis of the rapid increase under Obama of citizens receiving government transfer payments (you'll want to be seated when you see the percentage). Go here for that report: http://libertynews.com/2012/01/30/america-home-of-the-entitlements/

God is Absolutely Beautiful!

Although Infinity and the majority of God's creations are way beyond our limited comprehension, one only has to glimpse at the magnificent beauty of life on our planet to recognise the exquisite beauty in our planet's design.

The way a man tends his facial hair indicates how he'd handle his pubes as a woman.

A clean shaven face is an obvious translation; as a full beard correlates to the wild and woolly look. I'm thinking a goatee would be the landing strip, and just a mustache would be the exclamation point. The flavor saver is easy - it just gets relocated. And then there's those like myself, who shave my face around the edges, and keep what is left trimmed close.

Why is Lord Daniel Lurking?

I noticed he visited Artemis's profile page.

It's important to know where you came from

I have heard people say it doesn't matter where you start it matters where you end up. I disagree. I think you need to know where you came from to make you a complete person. I have recently been on a sort of pilgrimage and it has really made me see things in a different light. I've often joked about my "white trash" and "hillbilly" roots, but it's truly amazing what these people have accomplished. They have survived things I know would have killed me. I recommmend everyone do a family search if you can.

It's ok to lose your temper and stamp your feet

nobody takes any notice anyway

Everyone should wear a uniform

it worked in China

Now that the RBS boss has decided not to take his £1million bonus we might see the end of limitless rewards for top bosses

The world is going to hell in a handcart if even a top banker realises that out of control 'bonuses' on top of guaranteed £1.2 annual salaries for the top sector is unsustainable.

Scottish people seem to always be the Brunt of Jokes by Brits on TV

I seem to notice this quite often. Are Scots the punching bag for Brits or something? There was one episode where food was the topic, and the Brit poked a jab at a Scot by telling them, "Why don't you fry something, you guys are good at that....". I had to look it up and come to find out, ....the west coast of Scotland in particular is notorious for the amount of deep-fried food consumed, and for being the home of such dishes as the deep-fried pizza and deep fried Mars bar. Deep fried döner kebabs have also become notorious in Glasgow. An extreme example of this style of food is the Munchy box. While many inveterate dishes such as Scotch broth are considered healthy, many common dishes are rich in fat, and may contribute to the high rates of heart disease and obesity in the country. In recent times greater importance has been placed on the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, but many Scots, particularly those of low incomes, continue to have poor diets, which contributes to Scotland's relatively high mortality rate from coronary heart disease.[1] Maybe this is were the United States got its influence of fast food, but this is one example of Brits poking fun at Scots. Interesting.

I Just Want To Take Some Time To Say Something!

I know this is stupid and you don't need anymore stupid debates such as this, but I want to take some of your time to say thanks to the people who have not seen me as a waste of time to debate with on here and on FAA. That you have spent some time to help me understand things and taught me that I am not that good at English as I thought. But thank you and thanks for your time. It has been nice debating all of you and even the ones that are a little of meanies sometimes. Note:THIS IS NOT A LEAVING DEBATE!

Westerm Culture amazes me, there is a class for anything

I guess when you live in a rich society, you have time to think about anything, including salsa dancing while holding a baby at a gym.

Family is a pain (a rant)

Every once in a while, I'm reminded why I moved half way around the planet. Drama, guilt trips, and bullsh!t. Some people you can't say "good morning" to without them thinking you must wish them a horrible afternoon and evening. There may be a touch of insanity involved when parents pass the age of 70.

Who Knows How To Disconnect From A Facebook Conversation Thread?

I am having a little problem, were I was connected to this conversation thread by someone, the only problem is it is constantly going off and my phone is connected to fb. So my ringtone goes off constantly, I have had to put it on silent because it is that bad. But has anyone had a similar problem and has managed to disconnect yourself from these threads, if so how do you do it?

Illegal Immigrant Children Worsen The Education For The Rest.

I may not have worded this question properly, but I heard someone make a comment that kids who are American are worse off because children from illegal immigrants are making it harder for the other kids to learn. I'm not for or against this topic because I don't have enough info to properly support either way; that's why I'm posting it to you guys! My wife is a teacher at a school where white kids are the minority and she could not give me a yes or no answer because she said there were so many things to take into account for someone to answer such a question. But now I'm really friggin' curious.

I am, always have been, and always will be wrong about everything no matter what.

I know that there are at least a few who will agree, at least if they are consistant with their reactions to my debates thus far, just checking to see how many of them have the guts to acknowledge that they agree with this statement.

People deserve whatever misfortune life throws at them.

If God wants somebody to be poor, sick or lonely, they obviously deserve it. Who are we to change their situation if they won't get off their butts and fix their own lives?

Nobody over 75 should be allowed to have mobility scooters

People who are that old can't see where they're going and their reflexes are so slow that they aren't safe on the pavements. Ban them, I say, after the age of 75. Anyone that old who can't walk ought to have a nurse anyway

People still at school should not be allowed out unaccompanied by adults after dark

Older people are often intimidated by clusters of school-age kids hanging around on street corners, or lurking down alleys

Every time I see this commercial I think to myself, No way in hell would her husband be her type and prefers chocolate.

I'm just sayin'. She appears to have too much swagger for a guy who is portraying her husband.

Damselfly has been abducted by Aliens

What other reason could there be? I haven't been able to get in touch with her for almost 48 hours.

The government's purpose is to protect people's rights, not infringe them.

The reason we have government is to ensure that nobody is exploited, hurt or abandoned. If the government starts legislating things that are irrelevant or counter to this simple objective, those laws should be neither obeyed nor enforced, and the government should be replaced.

There Is Nothing Wrong With Over 16, 20's or 40's On Watching Kiddie Movies!

Have you ever heard someone saying aren't you told old for this or are you too old to be watching Scooby Doo or Rugrats etc? I have a couple of times, but no matter what they say I still watch it and I don't find anything wrong with it. So pretty much that it does not matter how old you are or how boring you are, you can still watch kiddie movies and there is nothing wrong with it.

Another Civil War in the U.S. is not only probable, it is probably imminent!

Watching the political environment of the Republican Party primaries, there is a divisiveness that indicates a retraction from the normal instruments of power exchange commonly used by the American public. The absence of cohesion may reveal an underlying dissatisfaction with the current system which will lead to a fracture in the already brittle ties that bind America together. Asia watches and waits...

If you lose your job, find another job if you want health coverage

I watched the last Republican debate in Florida. A person in the audience asked, "I lost my job and been unemployed for over 6 months, what can you do for me to help me with health care?" The answer, "We will help you find a job". That't it. If you can't find a job, you don't get health coverage. Ron Paul didn't give an answer he just said the cost of coverage is too high and not like it was when he was a young doctor. I find it hard to believe that is the best answer a potential president can give. to me it just sounds so mean spirited. You lose you job, you lose health coverage, simple solution they seem to say. Find a job and you get health coverage, but we are not going to pay for your coverage if you don't work. So in a recession where companies are leaving the country for cheap labor and at a point of 10% unemployment and in some towns 15% and with some minority groups almost 20% unemployment, the solution is do without. I'm trying to be objective here, but how does one push God and the bible and say such things at the same time and get a round of applause from the audience. Its like they are saying, "it won't happen to me, so i'm not worried about it"

Voluntary Physician Assisted Euthanasia Should be Permitted for Adult Terminally Ill Patients in Pain

Text Debate: Grenache vs Blade - Per Blade's request earlier in the week here we go one on one about euthanasia, Grenache for the right, Blade against. Thanks Blade. Good luck.

The poor get poorer by acting like they're rich, and the rich get richer by acting lke they're poor.

For the most part, the poverty problem in this country isn't because of the big bad evil rich people; it's because of the irresponsibility, short-sightedness, and greed of people who have convinced themselves that trying to "keep up with the Jones'", so to speak, is worth being in debt.

Spot the sociopath

One in 10 people are sociopaths. Don't cheat if you know this one don't answer. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazingly appealing. She believed him to be her dream guy and soul mate so much that she fell in love with him right then and there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What is her motive for killing her sister?

It's nice to end a week with no drama.

Have you ever had a job where a boss, or regular client, enjoyed sending you an email or leaving a message late on a Friday that ruined your weekend? Some people get off on that I think. "We have a major issue out at _____; we'll talk about it on Monday though. Have a good weekend". I HATE that %^*$.

We need Justsumguy to pay a visit here.

I know where he is. I think I will try to convince him to pop in for a trial run. There seems to be a lull in the stupidity lately, which might provide an incentive.

The Hard liner tough guy Congressman Bonner can't hold it in. Sometimes men just have to let it out.

At about 1:00 mark you see congressman Bonner break down as Congresswomen Gifford comes to greet him. For you Brits, Gongresswomen gifford was shot in the head by a protester so she came to congress to give her farewell.

Worst Obama Joke ever

Michelle has the look of, "I told you not to tell that stupid Joke".

The World's Gonna End By This! The Worlds Gonna End By That!

There is too many things world endings being predicted, that we would choose ones they believe would really happen, now what world ending do you believe will happen?

The odds that the human species will be wiped out any time soon is quite low

We are a highly adaptive species that have spread in large numbers across the globe. Every where it is possible for a person to live, somebody lives there. Any disaster, natural or otherwise wouldn't be very likely to kill every person. Some people would survive and they would adapt to the new environment and survive. That behavior is why in less than half a million years we have spread to every corner of the globe. By soon I mean in the next 100,000 years.

Yickyak needs a new elite yakker icon

If you make it to elite yakker you deserve something a little better than the little snowman looking dude.

The long term survival of any part of our civilization absolutely requires the institution of very strict birth control measures.

If we don't limit ourselves then the natural course of events will.

If you are a Muslim Immigrant to the West don't blame your kids for being influenced by Western Standards

I can't believe the Father, mother and brother had their daughter's, sister killed because they were influenced by western culture. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO MOVE TO THE WEST!!!! YOU BASTARDS

Nuclear power dooms humanity to extinction.

Humans are a hardy species. There have been numerous disasters in our history, that resulted in severe bottle-necking of our population, and we are sure to suffer many more. We have ensured now however, that our species won't survive the next major catastrophe. With any interruption in our complex global social stability, our 500 nuclear power plants will not be able to be maintained. With all of them melting down nearly simultaneously, there is no chance the remaining humans will be able to produce viable offspring fast enough to outpace cancer and mutations. In fact, most complex life, in land, air, and sea, will be severely decimated.

Love or hate Ron Paul, he'd make a terrible president.

Congress is bankrolled by special interests. Ron Paul is against every interest that these people support. So in a nutshell, we'd see unprecedented bipartisan unification in Congress to obstruct everything that Ron Paul supports. Like it or not, it's Big Money that runs this government; opposition to this is just ineffective hot air.

The next big step in space exploration should be a space elevator.

The technology is within reach. It would basically be a cable or ribbon made of special materials stretching thousands of miles upward, held in place by the centrifical force of the earth's spin. What is certain is that it is just too expensive to repeatedly "blast" construction materials into orbit. Any other large-scale project, such as interstellar travel, or interplanetary colonies/ manufacturing centers, will require too great a volume of materials to escape the bounds of earth otherwise.

It's hurtful when debaters accept other debaters but not you as friends on facebook

nuff said, I think

James Dyson wants thrashing

Thanks to Dyson (and other brands of) cyclonic vacuum cleaners, the jetstream has moved south on the earth, because its angular momentum has increased, and therefore is diameter must increase. This is the reason the British Isles have been plunged into coldness, and why polar bears have been seen swimming in the sea where one year ago there used to be an icecap to laze around on.

Jubilee Cooking Contest May Be Illegal!

Anti-monarchy group republic is warning schools they may break the law if they take part in a cooking contest to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Republicans says involving children in celebrations of the monarchy without teaching about republicism as well is a breach of the Education Act. But the government says the rules were not designed to stop children taking part in national events. What do you think? Should it be illegal or stay legal? As too many things are getting illegalized, also that it is a contest that should not be about politics and should be just allowing children to compete.

Facebook Is Protected By The Users.

I looked it at the news and I read this one article saying 'Facebook protected by users', at first I was like now this must be a joke or something. But when I Read further into the article it says that 800 users are neighbourhood watching on the sites. That the users are really protecting the site along with the site. What is your opinion? Is users as protectors of the site a good idea?

Child Rape is fun!

Homosexuality is cool, so paedophilia must be cool too because they're EXACTLY THE SAME THING! LOL Here's some "child porn" for you to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

The best sort of talking dirty is when you don't actually say anything dirty.

Which is exactly why team sports are always better than individual sports

It's weird seeing two guys kiss

Whether that's society's fault for making homosexuality taboo or not, it just looks weird. Not saying there's anything wrong with it, but it just seems...I don't know, weird.

You know the west controls the world based on the value of ancient art.

The most expensive art, statuses, etc from ancient times are generally from the west kept in secret vaults or owned by wealthy tycoons. Most of them were works after the death of Christ. Many are more valued than the most ancient peices from Ancient Egypt, Mesepotamia, asia and Africa that go back a thousand years further or more.

This is a clear indication of who is the dominate culture on the planet.

If there were as many political lobbyists pushing for pedophilia to be legalized as there are homosexuality, pedophilia would be legal in a heartbeat.

Whine and nitpick all you want about there being a difference between the two, but the fact that it's legal for homosexuals to marry isn't because any majoriy of people in this country support it, whether they actually do or not, but rather it is absolutely a matter of politics.

No sex before marriage

that is the way. Say, how come this debate has doubled itself and got different responses on each? I only posted it once, I'm sure

No sex before marriage

that is the way

Verum and Darqlord don't spend enough time on here.

As you all know, I have an ever so teeny tiny masochistic side. It's been so long since anyone has called me evil, insane, dumb as a bag of rocks or said that I am so stupid I don't even know what kind of music I like.

Obama's recent state of the union speech was pretty decent

I'm not really into the state of the union addresses, but I did go back and watch this one and I thought Obama did well. I think he is becoming more of the president that we were supposed to get when he was first elected.

One of the ugliest comedians in the country made a funny on Gingrich

Pretty funny, huh?

The popular white version of a Black person growing up in the "hood", is growing up on a farm or coal mine community.

This seems to be the constant theme of tough times growing up for modern white americans. When there is a discussion of growing up poor or tough living its usually them saying they grew up in a small farm town or coal mining town. Granted I live in the DC Metro a place not far from West Virginia I run into a lot of people from West Virginia which could skew my exposure. I guess the 3rd common I often hear is they grew up in a Foster home or something similar to that.

Welfare, when not abused by dole-bludgers, is simply a government-controlled form of charity that we should be engaging in anyway because we're decent people.

If your mate got fired from his job, kicked out of his home, and dumped by his girlfriend, would you let him crash at your place until he got his feet back under him? If you're a decent friend, the answer is "of course". Welfare is simply an extension of that. While the specifics are obviously up for debate, the general idea is a good one, as it's just a matter of helping those in need. All decent people should do that.

The American Forefathers would be ashamed of the way their descendants treat immigrants.

They're coming to your land to make a better life for themselves and their families, often working dangerous and disgusting jobs that no citizen would do, for bugger all money. Often they have come from countries far worse than yours, where the civil liberties you take for granted are unheard of. Turning them away because they're unwanted or didn't go through the bureaucracy seems downright un-American.

Everyone should get drunk once a year

any adult who's never ever been drunk has missed out on an essential life experience. In fact, anyone who has never got totally Aristotled shouldn't even have the vote

Moreno should pick the participants and the subject for the next 1 on 1

He won the last debate so he should get the honor. Then the winner of the next debate would do the same for the following debate.

Randall Terry should just stop.

"Abortion is murder. The innocent blood of 50 million babies cries out to God from our sewers and landfills. We must make it a crime to murder them, or heaven will judge America." --This is extremist behavior and should not tolerated from anyone who is running for any political office.

The conservative voters from South Carolina are idiots

These people that supposedly want a family values moral conservative and a Washington outsider picked Newt Gingrich. The man has more infidelities than Wilt Chamberlin and is the text book example of a Washington insider and lobbyist. He had 83 ethics violations filed against him and eventually had to pay a fine 300,000 dollars. He is the exact opposite of everything they want. Then they bought his complete hypocrisy on the questions about his wife.

Ok, I Lied I Can't Stay Of This Site!

To be honest this site gives me something to do when I haven't got anything to do, also that it is addictive for me. Ok I can study while on here, simple it also teaches me things that I need to know. So you's are helping me study. Thanks. But I just can't stay away from this site.

Someone who hasn't done a 1 on 1 should give it a go.

I think Damsel and Artemis should do a 1 on 1, Finsch and Miller, Occultdude and Antares or Miller and Artemis, Antares and damsel and Finsch and Occult. Give it a go, honestly you can't experience a challenge like that by watching someone else do it like the one I did with Moreno.

GIVE IT A GO, HAVE A LITTLE SERIOUS FUN!

1 on 1 Debate Anyone?

Moreno is not included in this one, I already have one planned for him. But waiting for him to agree on doing one without sending the invitation to a 1 on 1 yet. Have I got any takers? Antares, no star wars debates or street cleaners.

Romneys Income Is Supported By 15% On Capital Gains. 1 On 1 Debate With Anyone Who Thinks He Should Pay More.

I don't think liberals or anyone disappointed over the fact Romney pays 15% on capital gains where someone making $50,000 pays over twice as much on their taxes. WASHINGTON -- In an attempt to stop a steady stream of bad press over questions about his income, assets and tax rate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released one year of his tax returns and an estimate for his 2011 tax returns on Tuesday morning. The disclosure comes four days after Romney's big loss to Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary on Saturday and after weeks of escalating questions about when he would release his tax returns and why he would not promise to disclose them. The returns show that Mitt and Ann Romney, who are worth from $190 million to $250 million, earned $21.7 million in 2010 and paid a 13.9 percent tax rate, lower than that of a person earning $50,000. The total amount the Romneys paid in taxes in 2010 was about $3 million.

Celebrity Status Means Stupid People Will Follow You No Matter What

Let's start with the most recent fiasco, Joe Paterna. You've got PSU kids defending him with such ferocity. "JoePa" himself said he should have done more. And then you have Michael Jackson, who we all know was touching kids and doing weird sh*t, and people loved him regardless. And while the Kardashians haven't done anything illegal, stupid people STILL follow them...

People are what make a country desireable

I was looking up what wet feet dry feet policy means, and saw a map. And it made me realise that any occupied land mass ought to be safe. And that led to the question, why are so many people desperate to leave their own land to live in the USA? If so many hold it up as a model, why not try to emulate it in their own land? If someone's got the nous to risk life and limb to get there, surely they've got the moral courage to join hands and risk challenging political corruption in their own country? Or have I overlooked some key point?

The Trinity in Christianity is neither confusing nor contradictory.

Many people claim that God being 3 people and yet 1 is impossible and doesn't make sense. This is not true. There's a concept in Mythology called an Avatar. It works the same way as on a website or RPG. A player/deity creates a character and acts in the fantasy world through them, being both wholly separate and completely immersed. In the case of Christianity, Yahweh is the player, Jesus is his avatar, and the Holy Spirit is the personality that is expressed through both (as well as some in-game options relating to fire and brimstone). Together, they are all different aspects of the same entity we call God.

The Only Crimes That Should Be Punished Are Crimes That Actually Cause Harm To Other People, Their Reputation, Or Their Property. (Also includes covering up crimes and committing treason. Happy, Grenache?)

Prostitution, Drug Use and Weapon Possession do not cause harm to other people, and logic would suggest that they be protected by Human Rights. As such, it is my belief they should be decriminalised, though not necessarily unregulated.

Quite apart from that, wasting police time and energy on them doesn't solve the problem, and can actually make things worse because hookers, druggies and gun collectors can't report other crimes for fear of arrest.

I think Artemis is wrong about Trump being a woman

I was going to say something pithy about mix-ups and a rude word for female genitalia but I'm too hung over to get the words in the right order

The primaries are like going to the dog track

You always end up betting on one or another even though you know that, in the end, just another stupid dog is going to win.

I believe there is a dirty little secret about Autism that the powers that be don't want revealed

I never seen such a major pushback from governments and doctors toward average citizens when parents were having similar coorilating effects with their kids who showed signs of Autism after taking Government mandated vaccines. The risk is worth the reward I guess. Those children are just casualties to a social mandate.

It may not be true, but this is my conspiracy theory.

There is something going on with the ever increasing numbers of children with autism. It could be environmental, but who knows. Its rare for the government and medical community to collectively push back very hard toward citizens.

They are also collectively trying to redefine Autism as stated in the news today so that Insurance companies don't have to cover them. No surprise, right?

Should Voluntary Euthanasia be Legalised?

Yes voluntary euthanasia has already been legalised in the Netherlands and some other countries, but it is a highly debatable debate that keeps popping up every year. In the UK BBC News there is a new case where someone wants to lawfully die, but the minsters says it shouldn't go ahead. The man is severely disabled and was seeking permission from the doctors. Only parlaiments could decide such a choice, not a court. The disabled mans name is Tony Nicklinson, 57, wants the court to declare that a doctor can intervene and end is indignity and have a common law defence of necessity against any murder charge. Mr Nicklinson had a stroke in 2005 that left him with locked-in syndrome. Locked-in syndrome is which a patient is aware and awake but cannot speak or move due to paralysis of nearly all muscles in the body apart from the eyes, locked in syndrome is also known as cerebromedullospinal disconnection,[4] de-efferented state, pseudocoma, and ventral pontine syndrome.. He communicates through a perspex board or using his eye-blink computer and sums up his life as dull and miserable etc. He is seeking declarations that is lawful to end his life, with his consent and with him making the decision within full mental capacity. But there are compelling reasons why the court should not intervene, but Mr Nicklinson is saying "is the court should positively authorise and permit as lawful the deliberate taking of his life ,". "That is not, and cannot be, the law of England and Wales unless Parliament were to say otherwise. Appropriate safeguards and conditions could only be introduced by Parliament, rather than courts deciding on a case-by-case basis, he added. Support - if you agree with euthanasia being legalised. Oppose - if it shouldn't be legalised.

Properly managed water fluoridation programs are of great health benifit

Much of the world has enough, or even too much naturally occurring water fluoridation. In the U.S. this not the case. Studies approved by everyone from the World Health Organization to the Surgeon general have shown that fluoride levels in the water between 4 and 6 ppm (parts per million) significantly increases oral hygiene particularly in low income populations. The effects of increased oral hygiene are many but a nice simple one is increased lifespan.

Dr Stanley Monteith of Radio Liberty is trying to stir up fear - so he can sell books

Another fanatic trying to suggest that for 'morality reasons' blacks, browns and gays are the cause of spreading AIDS/HIV into nice white populations.

God is not pro-life

What about the many disasters that God apparently caused? One being that big ol' flood that killed pregnant women and children? Barring everything else from the Bible, natural abortions do actually happen, whether it's a stillborn or something else. Who else would have caused this natural abortion if not for God? Why else would natural abortions occur?

If you're pro-life, then you must be pro-child

Meaning you can't be pro-life and then not support government assistance programs aimed to help out pregnant mothers or mothers with children. Sure, have the baby, but I don't want to give you welfare even though I took away your right to choose.

Conservatives want science and Government involvement when its for their own agenda..ie Abortion

Its very convenient for them of course. Before they had no idea when conception took place until science told them and now they want to give rights to a cell and have the Government of all things to enforce it. Now you have conservatives using science to defend their abortion arguments. And want the government to strip rights away from a woman and give it to cells inside her body. I would understand their compassion, but the compassion quickly disappears when the baby is born into poverty than the same conservatives are quick to blame the kid is poor because they are lazy and lack work ethic like Newt Gingrich claims and use this logic to win the Presidential election.

Newt The Grinch Jokes

"Newt Gingrich has a new campaign slogan: 'Now hiring!' Sixteen of Gingrich's top staff quit last week, and today, two of his top fundraisers quit. He's not even president and he's already raising the unemployment rate." –Jay Leno "Newt Gingrich is so pro-marriage, he can't stop doing it. He is so morally upright, that he's only had sex after he was married. Just not always to the woman he was married to." —Stephen Colbert "It has gotten so bad in the party that Newt Gingrich is now starting to surge, which is never good news for Mrs. Gingrich." –Bill Maher "Most of Newt Gingrich's campaign staff quit on the same day, and some people are blaming Newt's third wife. When asked about it, Newt said, 'I'll win them back with my fourth wife.'" —Conan O'Brien "A gay activist dumped glitter all over Newt Gingrich. He wants Newt to stop being against gay marriage. But Newt believes marriage is a sacred bond between a man and his wife and his mistress and the other woman he's seeing on the side." —Jay Leno "In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'" —Conan O'Brien "Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century." –David Letterman

Obummer Jokes

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree ... and think 25 to life would be appropriate. --Jay Leno America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. --Jay Leno Q: Have you heard about McDonald's new Obama Value Meal? A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it. --Conan O'Brien Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon? A: A fund raiser. --Jay Leno Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary? A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners. --David Letterman Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved? A: America! --Jimmy Fallon Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo? A: Bo has papers. --Jimmy Kimmel Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program? A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road. --David Letterman Solution to the problem in Libya: They want a new Muslim leader … give them ours.

The most annoying creature on Earth is the pre to early teenage boy.

From about 11-13 girls are starting to get into makeup and clothes. What are boys into? They are into farts and anything loud and fast.

It's not too late, there is still a chance for a Gingrich Palin ticket

It would make me very happy. Think about the comedy gold that would come out of those two, the comedians would have us doubled over for the next 10 months. Of course there is the chance that two mouths that big close might cause a black hole.

I think its unhealthy for a country to not have a strong challenge against an incumbent president.

I'm sure many liberals are happy so far with what the Republicans have to offer, but to be honest, I wish that there would be much stronger competition. Not just from the Republican side but the independent side and also from the Liberal side that would challenge the sitting president. Its not like Obama is doing a stellar job. He has functioned as a very Moderate president pissing off many liberals and even though Obama has done things that would make Republicans happy they are not happy because he is a Democrat and he is Black and considered a socialist. but it would make Americans think harder in who they elect and re-elect. I think the pool of candidates are very weak and there could even be a better Democratic president.

Liberals Are More Excited Over The Republican Nomination Process Than Conservatives.

My liberal friends on facebook are very excited that Newt did so well in SC; not a peep from my conservative friends.

Did Artemis chase keepmindok away?

Did she chase the new person away?

We lost an American treasure when Etta James died

She was in a class all her own.

Britain and Argentina are going to end up fighting over the Falkland Islands once again.

And of course Britain shall put Argentina in it's place. The Falkland Islands are British, the people of those islands are British and they wish to remain British. And David Cameron has made perfectly clear that the United Kingdom is prepared to defend it's interests.

Can someone tell me what this means?

Ok, I know this is not really a debate, but most of the debaters here are really smart. Trump made a comment to me and no matter how many times I've asked what it means she still has not answered. She said, "In fact, it's a site that shows you how rich you are and enchorages you to donate to poor African families. You, of all people, must like the idea of that."

She was talking directly to me so I assume I am the "you" in the you of all people.

Let's Take A Moment To Honor Hasdass.

The all time best YakPolls voter desearves a round of applause.

It's too bad I kicked him off the site.

If you oppose Abortion on the grounds that it kills innocent children, you should support Welfare because it saves them.

Anybody who actually cares about children should be more than happy to feed them when their parents are too useless to do so.

Science debate shouldn't be decided in the political arena

If you don't believe in climate change for religious reasons or you don't think it matters in the face of current economic problems, then fine, say that. Don't pretend that somehow you have the understand the subject well enough to challenge the science. If you feel that evolution is false because of religious reasons fine, admit it is religious, don't bring up some nutjob who claims he is digging up fossils in his backyard that disprove the fossil record.

Have you noticed moments when people post almost at the same time?

Is there a period of time when people are thinking about the same thing like posting on a debate site. Sometimes the site can be dead silent, than the next thing, everyone is responding to random threads and different debates. hmmmm

Yickyak is the perfect website to surf while you're waiting for porn to download.

Yep. Mmmmhmmm.

ASAP sounds more urgent/direct than saying "As Soon As Possible".

Some would say ASAP would seem more bossy too.

Most homophobes detest the bottom guy more so than the top guy.

When I hear the rage against gay men from straight men, their focus is mostly on the guy that is the "Catcher". Rarely do they voice their disgust for the "batter". The typical comments is, "how can a man allow another man to stick it in their....that is not a real man". or "I can't respect a men who is submissive to another man".

Don't you just love him?

Come on, how can you not love him?

In the abortion argument there is a clear conflict of interest between an unwilling host and the life that has started

but the potential mother should have the casting vote

There is nothing wrong with putting your PENIS in another man's ARSEHOLE.

We all know that's what the homophobes really care about. PENISES IN ARSEHOLES. Actually, no. It's not the PENIS part they're worried about. They love putting their penises in things. It's the ARSEHOLE that scares them. More specifically, they're scared of stuff going in THEIR arseholes. No, they're scared that BEING ANOTHER MAN'S BIITCH will make them less manly and that their PENIS will shrivel and die along with their reputation. It all comes down to a fear of castration.

The U.S. Government could have orchestrated the 9/11 ordeal.

Keep in mind that this debate is stating the U.S. COULD have pulled it off; not that it did. But you can argue whether it did or didn't happen. But c'mon...let's not be ignorant to the fact that this whole event could have been pulled off by the U.S.

Reckon whatever high-roller got Newt in thar pocket also paid that Perry feller to endorse him.

Yep, mmmhmmm.

Gay marriage and relationships should help solve overpopulation

Just saying. Eventually this (overpopulation) will happen. Its happening in countries as we speak and it will happen to the planet. Its better than killing off the elderly and minimum child requirements. Just sayin'

The GOP Candidates Are One Trick Ponies

I'm patiently waiting for someone to point out the following: The GOP loves to say that Obama is a socialist because he wants to FORCE people to get healthcare; he wants everyone to pay their fair share of taxes; he wants to rediistribute the wealth; and he's trying to save the "entitlement" programs, etc etc. Their point is that he wants to be too involved in how we take care of our families. Soooo, why is it ok for the GOP to want to FORCE women to keep a baby that they weren't planning for and dictate who we can and can't love and get married to? Some of them even want to dabble in contaception. Are they for real?? God, abortion, and personal values have no place in politics. As this one republican woman said, "I don't need my prez to be my moral or religious compass"

George Lucas said no more Star Wars movies because of "Fanboys" It hurts, but I understand.

For any fans awaiting future "Star Wars" films from George Lucas, it's going to be a long wait. The creator of the famed series says he's not going to make any more of these movies and that he's essentially retiring. And for that he blames the harsh feedback from certain fans. "Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?" he tells The New York Times. Lucas drew strong attacks from "Star Wars" fans for characters like Jar Jar Binks and for digital additions to the DVDs and re-releases of the six-part series. “I think there are a lot more important things in the world” than feuds with fanboys, Lucas says with a kind of weary diffidence.

Liberal Busybodies

Rand Paul, freshman Senator from Kentucky

Sleeping in a hotel room is gross.

Sure, they wash the sheets. They don't wash the comforter very often; they don't steam the mattress. You have no idea what kind of scuz-bucket was there the night before. If it weren't for my family, I think I'd just as soon sleep in the vehicle I drove there in.

In the movie 2012, there are way too many minorities on the "ark".

I understand political correctness, but I gotta think 95% of the people chosen to survive the apocalypse would be white - maybe a few arabs and asians mixed in. If you have brown skin, you'd be s.o.l.

Ship Of Fools

What happened on the doomed Italian cruise liner is a commentary on the division between values-oriented conservatives and pure libertarians. I'm hearing more and more libertarians arguing that we should support limited government and that anything involving morality is off limits. But I agree with the Founders who argued that only a virtuous people could remain free and that the purpose of the law is to uphold the values that promote virtuous lifestyles. What does this have to do with a capsized cruise ship? The captain and some crewmen evidently lived by the motto "Every man for himself." They saved their own skins before lifting a finger to help the women and children on board. Some commentators today are contrasting their behavior to what happened on the Titanic. One hundred years ago, the men on that ship were committed to the moral idea of saving women and children before they saved themselves. So much so in fact that proportionally more women in third class survived the Titanic's sinking then did men in first class. And they survived because the men with first class tickets stood on the decks helping women and children of all social ranks into the lifeboats. Benjamin Guggenheim, one of the wealthiest men on board, didn't try to buy his way off the sinking ship. He helped load women and children into the lifeboats and then changed into a tuxedo when the last boat was gone so that he would "die like a gentleman." It was reported that he gave this message to a survivor, "Tell my wife … I played the game out straight to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward." Let me make this observation: Before long there will be demands for new regulations of the cruise industry. Perhaps there will be regulations demanding that the captain and crew must remain on the ship. In other words, when morality fails big government grows to fill the gap. The breakdown of the mother/father family, for example, has spurred the growth of the welfare state. And vice versa. Whether libertarians realize it or not, they have an inconsistent view of government. Their neutrality on issues of morality will guarantee the growth of big government, the very thing they despise most.

People who use the argument that a fetus is not a human life to defend abortion have no moral grounds to stand on in claiming that it's wrong to urinate on a corpse, let alone that of a terrorist.

If it's alright to kill an an unborn child that, at the very least is at least still in the process of developing into what is universally recognized as a human life, then there should be no problem whatsoever with urinating on the lifeless corpse of a terrorist since, for one thing he's a terrorist, and for another becuase he's dead he doesn't remotely care about what's going on.

Everyone should come over for a drink

My Yakker board made it up to Pub and for some reason this makes me very happy. So come on by have a brew and say hi!

Necrophilia is not as bad as rape

Help me out in a bar discussion here. Ultimately necrophilia is just property damage. Yes it's gross and probably a good sign someone could use a lot of therapy but nobody is getting hurt. Except perhaps the psychological damage for whomever actually walks in on it.

There is no such thing as a socialism

All countries ultimately exist in a mostly capitalist world. If a country has to interact with the rest of the world then they live and die by money just like everyone else.

DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY

Liberals love to spend other people's money.

Private Innovation Creates Jobs, not tax increases

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Stossel's CEOs Perspective Part1

All the government can do is redistribute wealth. Moreno and Occultdude, I think you may be also be intrested in parts 2 and 3 of this video as it gives the "Greedy Pigs" perspective on things.

The "Casey Effect" real?

Are more mother killing their kids and telling wild stories when they report them missing because Casey Anthony got off? It's it the same as it has always been it's just that Casey Anthony's case brought it to the attention of the public? To any debater in the Pacific Northwest, is there any update on Kyron Horman?

Government Agencies Should Be Required To Balance Their Budget.

I think we should make an Ammendment to the Constitution that requires all government agencies to balance their budget (meaning they can't go any more in debt than they are). It could be gradually implemented, but our economic system can't afford to be inflated much more. It will put politicians on more of a tentative budget and help them spend money more responsibly. Why should they get a virtually unlimited treasury at our expense?

Muhammed Ali is more deserving of the term "Legend" than any other sportsman

Legend and Great are terms well overused but Ali deserves the tag arguably more than any other sportsman in history for both what he did as a boxer and as a man. True Legend.

The US government oversteps its authority, and should be abolished and reformed.

Overthrowing other governments for oil, locking people in Gitmo, Patriot Act, wiretapping without a warrant, slowly destroying the Bill of Rights... Does it sound vague NOW, Moreno?

The perfect propaganda when US fight abroad in the middle east is to convince the public every person killed my American soldiers are terroist.

It could be a dead body of a 12 year old boy and the headlines will say, Taliban or terroist killed in a raid. So when there is a video posted of American soldiers pissing on dead bodies, we can find a justification for their behavior. Because our media reduced the people of a country we are infilterating to terroist or harboring terroist.

Serial Killers are not an American Phenomenon

Honesstly, I don't know if this is true or not. I caught a glimpse of an article that said it was. I didn't have a chance to read it. I am guessing it is not. I am just guessing that we have more people than a lot of other countries and therefore have more serial killers. We are the third post populated country and at any given time we have about 35 active serial killers. That's one per every 10 million people. I am wondering if the ratio is the same in other countries.

This Is My Most Favourite Soundtrack From A Movie.

Just love this soundtrack,the reason being is because it sounds lovely and I can just relax with this song. But if you have a movie that has a soundtrack that you love, then embed it or just name it and what do you like about it?. :-)

Affirmative Action is just short of discrimination.

Yes, 100 years ago minorities wern't treated fairly. But things like making employers hire a certain number of them today is almost, if not is, discrimination. It basically makes the people who are worst off are poor white men. They have difficulty finding work simply because the government demands that workplaces hire a certain number of minorities. If we really want to combat racism, we need to stop separating people into groups based on their ancestry, not continue it!

Whether It Is Beneficial For either Nation For Scotland To Leave The UK Depends Purely Upon Who Gets The Oil.

Scots have proposed a refurendum on becoming independant from the UK. On the face of it this sounds a great idea for the English but it all depends on who gets what share of the North Sea oil.

Public Labour Unions should be illegal.

It is just sucking up our tax dollars having them. Unlike a corporation, government agencies don't need to make money, so they make little effort to stop unions. They don't have any competition, so the unions have an extreme amount of power. Just look at the school system! Don't forget USPS! I think we should implement a policy over the next 5 years that gradually disbands public labour unions. After that point, any labor unions in the public sector's founders and possibly member's will be fined.

See? I told you he'd be back

And I was right - again! He just needed some sanity refreshment before returning to the insanity of a debating site,

A World That Distinguishes Development By Consumerist Culture Will Be Either Inherently Unsustainable Or Must Operate Under The Conditions Of Manipulating The Majority For The Privileged Minority's Benefit..

In other words, the capitalistic ideology is the very antithesis to humanistic philosophy.

Switzerland has the best gun laws.

In Switzerland, joining the army is compulsory and every adult male must keep and maintain an army-issued assault rifle. In the event of an invasion, the whole country can be armed and dangerous in several hours (which is why Hitler decided they weren't worth the trouble).

When the government upgrades its weapons, it auctions the old ones off to the general public. People can buy most guns and ammunition as of right, and only need licenses for handguns, automatic weapons (except their mandatory assault rifle) and anti-aircraft missiles. Children are taught responsible gun use from an early age.

The 2nd Amendment is based on Swiss gun laws. But unlike America, Switzerland has a very low crime rate - the lowest in Central Europe.

The Catholic Church in the near future will have to make another apology to the world for saying that Aids is bad but not as bad as condoms.

The Vatican spreads the lie that condoms increase the rate of Aids. And makes aid from the Church compulsary to countries if they oppose the use of condoms. This is disgraceful. The Church is increasing the suffering and death of millions of people throughout Africa.

Hunting With Silencers

The lamestream media told you:
The movement afoot to allow people to hunt with silencers is a bad idea. A bill has been introduced in at least Arizona to allow such dangerous activity. Risks include no warning to other people in the woods if guns make no noise, it does not give wild game a fighting chance, and more.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Once again we can see where, if government would just get out of the way, an entire industry can blossom. If the ban on your freedom to buy and use these devices is lifted, sales of the tools will expand, manufacturers will have more work, new models will be created and produced to meet demand... business will flourish if government just gets out of the way. The market is between 10 and 20 million Americans who hunt for sport and food. Even the government will get money, since they extract a $200 tax on each item sold. Who else tolerates a tax as large as a (basic model) ought to cost?
To set the record straight, Larry Grupp, author of The Worldwide Gun Owner's Guide, notes:
England, the UK, New Zealand, Finland, Falkland Islands and France all encourage hunters to use silencers. Mostly it's a health issue, they don't want shooters to go deaf. France's encouragement principally centers around using silencers on the range -- as a courtesy to other shooters.
Please keep in mind that silencer is a poor word choice. These devices do not really silence. Firing anything with a silencer past a .22 cal rimfire produces a loud, noticeable pneumatic thump. Won't damage hearing but definitely recognizable to folks around the shooter.
Also, bullets past the speed of sound (c. 1,126 ft. per second, in dry air at 68 °F, which is 768 mph, or about one mile in five seconds*, thanks Wikipedia) "crack" as they pass stationary objects. As a young man on the farm, I recall a demonstration of a military grade modifier on an '03 30-06 Springfield rifle fired down a rail siding past rows of old telegraph poles.
Strange, as the bullet passed various wooden poles creating a loud crack till about 500 yards out when the bullet fell to below the speed of sound and became silent.
*You can use this to calculate the distance of lightning -- start timing when you see the flash, stop timing when you hear the thunder, divide the number of seconds by five, and the result is the mileage from the lightning to you.

Diplomatic Carry

Discretionary carry

May issue carry

Shall issue carry

Right to Carry

Discreet Carry

Freedom to Carry

Constitutional Carry

Diplomatic Carry

The Second Second Amendment

by Alan Korwin
The Uninvited Ombudsman

Officials travel armed. When a contingent of our officials visits any other country, they bring armed personnel in classic right-to-bear-arms manner. Life is dangerous and the ability to protect yourself is a reasonable and prudent thing, a fundamental human right of existence, a moral imperative. So they go armed. It's only rational. Hillary and similar bring along enough firepower that if some of their group go one way while some head off in another, they're both covered.

The same is true in reverse. When an ambassador from Trashcanistan comes to the United States, discreetly armed bodyguards accompany the party at all times, "laws to the contrary notwithstanding." That's lawyer-speak for "their right to carry supersedes any other rules," or in plainer English, "We're above those laws." The ambassador might decide to personally carry too. I'm guessing Hillary does not.

There's this whole "second system" of gun possession and carry here domestically, another layer of rules on top of the common ones you must follow, operating quietly with people in the know cooperating.

Where are the laws for this exception to every gun law on the U.S. books? How does this special class of people exempt themselves from laws controlling the rest of us?

No one is harmed by their exemption. In fact, community safety increases, because assaults on those armed people are naturally deterred, even defensible if needed. Should we the people maybe have Diplomatic Carry too? Is a diplomat's life truly at more risk -- or worth more -- than any "commoner"? How does this comply with equal protection under the law?

Local authorities understand implicitly that these armed folks aren't going to randomly shoot people, or settle arguments with gunfire, the same as you and me when we're armed. They enjoy proper respect (even if they come from regimes that don't deserve it). We on the other hand have rights denied haphazardly, even with Constitutional Carry. As good as it is, Constitutional Carry is not enough.

Americans need and deserve the next step, Diplomatic Carry.

The body politic moves slowly. After several decades of experience, police nationwide understand and operate just fine within a framework of millions of people traveling armed. As the number of people carrying arms for crime control has increased, assaultive crimes have decreased. The media generally calls this "a surprising decrease in crime that has the experts baffled." All these people are walking around armed, expressly to forestall crime, and the media can't understand why crime has dropped. But I digress.

Oh sure, armed forces within the U.S. -- from local police to secretive agents our government is now filled with -- keep a watchful eye on the armed diplomats, as well they should. They also provide backup in the event of need. The same as for us.

But in the big picture, diplomats have less need for an ever-present armed escort than the public. A rare few diplomats face death at the hands of the mobs. Thousands of citizens are murdered each year. Who needs protection more?

The freedom of Diplomatic Carry, a concept many of us can easily grasp, is mind boggling to the great unwashed. So insulated from any truth about firearms, victims of television and the government-run school system, they have imbedded ignorance that is hard to shake. Destructively misinformed kids and teachers compound the problem. I digress again.

Now, Diplomatic Carry is not going to happen overnight. Many voices will be raised in objection to such freedom.
And unfortunately, some opposition will come from people who consider themselves firearms enthusiasts. Establishing everyone's uninfringed freedom to carry is scary, at least to some. But that's OK. Real freedom is a house high on a hill.

Diplomatic Carry is a paradigm shift. A window into a world that could be, and ought to be, a lofty goal. Your right to your life and its protection cannot morally be denied. It is denied only by force, and there is only one viable countermeasure to force unfortunately, in this best of all possible worlds, and that's countervailing force. I don't like it, but there it is.

Diplomatic Carry is a new level of autonomy, of personal sovereignty. It raises the bar. In this country, the people are the sovereigns and the government is the servant. How do you justify the servants carrying arms if the masters cannot?
The only consistent position for free people to take is this:

Anything short of Diplomatic Carry is infringement.
I am in the process of dissecting the legal framework that enables Diplomatic Carry, and modeling an approach for extending those principles to the public. Conceptually this is sound. Pragmatically it is an uphill climb, but as Americans we know that anything can be climbed. I'll have early results soon in my blog, PageNine.org. Sign up to stay informed. Copyright 2012 Alan Korwin http://www.gunlaws.com Permission to circulate granted

Tim Tebow didn't generate 92,000,000 google searches for the bible verse he painted on his face.

He put "John 3:16" on his eye paint in the 2009 championship game, and word has it (along with wikipedia), that that generated 92 million google searches for "John 3:16", in the following 24 hours. That's double the number of people who actually watched the game, and almost a third of everyone in America. Sorry, not buying it. I figure there's basically two types of people in this country. There's non-religious people, who saw that written on his face, recognized it as a bible reference, and had no interest whatsoever in learning more about it; and then there are the religious folk, who easily recognize the very popular John 3:16, and also wouldn't need to google it. So who are these 92,000,000 people?

Concealed Handgun License

This is also an IQ test.

A person should have the freedom to be a bigot on their own property.

Despite the signs hanging in the restaurants, the business owners do NOT have the "right to refuse service to anyone for any reason". They cannot refuse service to minorities because they are minorities, or handicapped people because they are handicapped, etc. But it seems that they should be able to. I hate discrimination, and would boycott any business that exercised the practice, but it seems that in a free country, people should be allowed to discriminate on their own private property.

The means of organism formation must be outside the organism, not within.

No one disputes that an egg cell has all of the genetic code necessary to engineer a complete organism. But, what interprets these instructions? The only way to convey how to read the instructions is with more instructions, which would be unreadable. If I gave you a book full of 1's and 0's, that represented some type of machine to be built, and told you to build it, you would ask for additional info on how to read binary code. My response: 100101101 01000111 10100101001. Similarly, if we digitized our own DNA and transmitted the information into space, in an attempt sustain our species, any alien that may happen to intercept it still would not be able to replicate us, since the instructions would just seem like random numbers. In my opinion, it doesn't seem possible that there is a method of instruction interpretation within a closed system of a cell, that would allow the instruction to be deciphered.

It is utterly repulsive that God had to sacrifice his only son to forgive humanity instead of just forgiving us.

I think any of us being genuinely moral would not demand such a high price for forgiveness. Seriously, Jesus could have contributed to society much more.

Being raped is not a sin.

Let's suppose that God wants us to either remain celibate or marry and have children. Any other form of sexual activity is a SIN. You are not sinful if somebody does it to you without your consent, as it was beyond your control.

The United States did nothing during both world wars but sit on their arse.

This must be true because Occultdude said so. "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars! into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those." Stand proud, America!

"Hi, I'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help"

Ronald Reagan once described that phrase as "the ten most dangerous words in the English language." This week brought us two more examples of Big Government run amok. On Monday the New York Times reported that some oil companies are facing millions of dollars in fines for failing "to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law." But this isn't a case of Big Oil getting fined for doing something nefarious. As the Times states, "the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist. …Penalizing the fuel suppliers demonstrates what happens when the federal government really, really wants something that technology is not ready to provide." The Times also notes that one company that received more than $150 million in government grants to produce biofuels closed down last year "because it ran into technological problems." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Not surprisingly, the second instance also involves the radical environmental movement and its efforts to undermine private property rights. The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a dramatic case involving Mike and Chantell Sackett, an Idaho couple who have been trying to build a home on a lot they purchased in 2005. In 2007 the Sacketts began construction, but the EPA stopped them, claiming the area was a protected wetland. The couple is facing fines of -- you better sit down for this -- $37,500 a day! While it is difficult to predict the outcome of cases based on oral arguments, several justices appeared stunned by the EPA's actions against the Sacketts. Justice Scalia accused the EPA of "high-handedness." Even Justice Breyer, one of the court's liberal members, seemed skeptical of the EPA's position. Justice Alito rhetorically asked the government's attorney, "Don't you think most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thing can't happen in the United States?" Ever since Barack Obama got elected promising to "fundamentally transform" America, many ordinary people have been frequently asking that very question!

Shut Your Mouth

West To Pundits and Armchair Quarterbacks: "Shut Your Mouth" No doubt you have heard about the latest "Abu Ghraib" incident -- a video of Marines allegedly urinating on the bodies of Afghan terrorists. Our media and political elites have offered their effusive apologies. As always, Rep. Allen West (R-FL), retired Marine Colonel, had some choice words of his own. Here is West's statement, courtesy of our friends at The Weekly Standard: "I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq? "The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter. "As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell." I suspect Rep. West speaks for many Americans.

Most small tribes and villages throughout history have operated in the socialist model

The people who were infirm were taken care of, people contributed to the greater whole as they could and were able, and everyone thrived or starved together.

Criminalizing bigotry is just a short step from criminalizing all thought crimes.

All those people displaying their contempt for anyone who has a negative feelings torwards another person or group of people (although usually only protected groups such as homosexuals, African-Americans, Jews, and so on) have the motive to have peoplesentenced to death, all they need is the guts.

Moreno is sick

He's sick because he believes socialism is the solution to everything. How messed up is that? And he's defininatly not mister serious...how could someone who thinks universal healthcare is a good thing not be joking? He's not getting old.. at least I hope not because if he hasn't come to his senses than he never will. As for finding God... I thought he was an Atheist. Getting married isn't a possibility, either. Who would want to live with a guy that thinks he doesn't have to work hard and instead he'll just steal from the people who do?

The First Four Of The Ten Commandments Are All About Fearing Absolutely The Being You're Supposed To Love and the Being that is supposed to Love you.

The idea of compulsary love is a bit suspect in all honesty.

1) You shall have no Gods before me. Or face the wrath of God.

2)You shall not create idols or images. Or face the wrath of God

3)You shall not take the name of God in vain. Or face the wrath of God

4)Keep the Sabbath Day Holy or face the wrath of God.

The wrath of god bit wasn't explicitly written but it might as well be.

Nobody Has The Right To Do/Allow The Following Things To Anybody, Regardless What Wrongs That Person Has Committed.

- Sexually assault them - Desecrate their corpse - Hurt their innocent family - Falsify evidence to get them convicted - Make or distribute nude pictures/videos of them without their consent - Threaten to do any of the above

Policemen, Soldiers, Judges and Heads of Government who commit crimes should not be given lenience on account of their office.

People posting on the right don't have to agree with this part, but I actually think they (police, soldiers, judges, HoG) deserve to be punished MORE harshly for abusing the trust society places in them. These people hold considerable power over the lives of others, and such power should be handled responsibly and professionally, not abused for the benefit/amusement of its wielder. To ignore the abuse of power is to allow corruption.

They needed a Black guy to give the 70's Peanut Butter cup commercials true gay and straight sexual overtones

But either way. Do you also think they thought so in the 70's as well when they made the commercial?

Brooks and Dunn one of my favorites.

Can you dig it?

Bigotry is just a short step from terrorism.

All those people displaying their intolerance have the motive to take lives, all they need is the balls.

Where is Mitchosch?

I want to corrupt him.

Its Easier For The Music Industry To Sell Music They Like To The Public Than Pitching Music We Like To Other Individuals especially When It Crosses Genres

Its not just here but I see it at work or from personal experience. Music seems to be a personal experience and music we tend to like many times other people don't care for it too much especially when it crosses genres. They may say its ok, but they won't go out and buy it.

The Music industry does a good job packaging music to sell to the masses and we generally buy into what DJ's play on the radio or we see in movies, etc.

Individuals tend to approach music as though they were the only ones who discovered the song or type of music that no one ever heard before and only if someone else got a whif of it, it would draw that person in to what you like. A lot of times it just doesn't work.

We either rely on the media to feed us what they think we like or we have to discover it on our own. Rarely do we care for songs introduced to us by another individual.

I see this similar to an individual trying to sell a product from their small business they started or even website.

You would think your closest friends would support your ventures, but often times they prefer a strangers product even though yours is better. Many times its because that strangers have a lot more people using it and a bigger audience.

Marines Pissing on the Dead: Not a Good Look

I don't think these actions help matters in any way.

Chrisitans fear Atheist more than Muslims or any other religion

None of the other religions really question the logic of Christianity as much as non believers. In fact, I think Christianity questions the logic of the other major ones mostly. But anyway, Atheist face the greatest threat and would face the greatest backlash for pointing out the most obvious hypocracies within the religion. The threat is that newer generations would be less likely to become Christians which threatens tradition but also threatens the money flow of churches that depend upon the recycling and indoctrination of new recruits (converts).

Dirty Secrets

http://www.dirtyspendingsecrets.com/

There aren't enough debaters of Miller's calibre on here

He can make mincemeat of any of us

There are some important misconceptions about the whole extraterrestrial life subject

1. U.F.O. stands for Unidentified Flying Object, and in not synonymous with Little Green Men (LGMs). 2. There is a huge difference in the likelihood between alien life somewhere in the universe and LGMs visiting Earth. Say like the difference between guessing their might be a nine legged spider somewhere in the world and assuming there are intelligent ones in your house, only much much more so.

There is no such thing as a drug free zone

Clearly it is impossible to keep drugs out of the hands of criminals. Even the most secure prisons aren't able to stop drug trafficking. Regular households have drugs from alcohol to Advil. If we make drugs illegal then only criminals will have drugs.

There Is No Such Thing As A "Gun Free Zone"

http://jpfo.org/articles-assd02/heller-terrible-day.htm

Atheists make better Americans/Brits/whatever

The religious must put god before country. An Atheist is free to put nationality before all else.

Dealing With Muslims

Two Negroes were elected to congress in 2010 and both are Republican. One of them, Colonel West, is from southern Florida. He won in a walk.
This new Congressman was an extremely popular commander in Iraq. He was forced to retire because during an intense combat action a few of his men were captured. At the same time his men captured one of the guys who were with the Iraqis who captured his men.
Knowing that time was crucial and his interrogators were not getting anywhere with the prisoner, Col. West took matters into his own hands. He burst into the room and demanded thru an interpreter that the prisoner tell him where his men were being taken. The prisoner refused so Col. West took out his pistol and placed it into the prisoner's crotch and fired. Then he told the prisoner that the next shot would not miss. So the prisoner said he would show where the American service members were being taken. The Americans were rescued. Someone filed a report on incorrect handling of prisoners. Col. West was forced to retire. Col. West was just elected in November 2010 to Congress from Florida. During the elections he was part of a panel on how to handle or how to relate to Muslims. You will see his answer here explaining in just over a minute the truth about Islam. Please watch and if you agree, please forward it to your friends; if you disagree, prepare to surrender your grand-children to a future without religious, racial or gender freedoms.

The Yeti exists

We don't yet have proof but evidence suggests that it is very possible if not likely he exists in some capacity

YYers ought to get personal awards and trophies

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Certain characters on here deserve crowns for their efforts to keep us entertained. Artemis deserves a tiara for being a pillar, Blade deserves a swat for not getting on with her studies, Miller deserves a crown for being king of the wind-ups and finsch deserves a

Does this site make you feel richer than you thought?

globalrichlist.com. I did it with my Dad's income and got the top 0.58%. I guess that makes my family mortal enemies of the Occupiers.

Two simple economic moral questions

Here are a couple of questions to see what folks think. 1. There are people in need of help. The charitable act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. 2. But on the other hand reaching into someone else's pocket, in the name of caring for a person in need, is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

Atheists tend to hold a low view of mankind.

Although I cannot prove the statement there is plenty of circumstantial evidence. One is that they typically stake out themselves to be more intelligent, courageous and honest than the rest of us. Second, I hear all the time in atheistic discussion groups something that goes like this: If God were such a creative genius, wouldn't He have done a better job, especially with humans? Third is the scarcity of benevolent works founded by atheists. There may be some out there someplace, but none come to mind. Forth, when atheists are asked, "How they express their love for the rest of hymanity?"; The answer is typically: "you don't need religion to express love, you complete idiot. Why are all your questions so ignorant?" Surely, there are some warm-hearted, nice atheists out there, but one must search far and wide. The more vocal ones betray themselves soon or later. Therefore, to reject god almost always leads to despising people.

Original Sin is An Unfair Sin Against Babies.

So far some can say not all sin, yet we are born with original sin from a christians point of view, but of course they can have an infant baptism. But as in the fall it says that Adam and Eve was punished by their disobedience but while they were thrown out of the garden of Eden, it is to be believed that a sin also came into existence, known as the first sin (Adam and Eves disobedience) called original sin. But why do babies have to punished for something that might of never happened in the way told? It seems lame that humans are being punished for something that happens years and years ago.

We have all sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.

I take objection to the statement "we have all sinned". While I've definitely sinned, and probably worse than any of you lot, I struggle to accept that ALL people have sinned. I'll happily prove my point. Imagine a fictitious person called Katie. You guys post (either side, I don't care) any sins that you can think of. I intend to create a scenario under which Katie has never committed ANY of them. If it becomes clear that Katie MUST have committed at least 1 of the sins listed, then I will retract my statement. We shall assume that Katie is a sane adult of 22 years old. And our "sins" must be stuff that Christians normally consider sinful, not random things such as "never mashed a banana onto a pineapple and sucked it off with a straw", because otherwise this just gets stupid.

Is this example of too much Goverment regulations or companies should be able to sell what the market demands? Charlee?

Article: Luxury showerheads Ever since 1992, the American showerhead has been legally constrained from delivering more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute, thanks to a federal law designed to conserve natural resources.... More Then, in 2010, the Department of Energy revised its requirements to say that all sprays, nozzles and openings above an individual's head are considered to be one showerhead, and all of its combined openings were not permitted to exceed the 2.5-gallon-a-minute maximum. The 2010 revision affects luxury showerheads, such as the Raindance Imperial 600 AIR, which has a 24-inch spray face and once retailed for more than $5,000. The fixture, and others like it, can emit 12 gallons of water per minute, greatly exceeding regulations. To show that it meant business, the Department of Energy fined four showerhead manufacturers almost $200,000 for noncompliance in May 2010.

Not Allowing Robbers To Walk Into A Store Or A Bank And Take Whatever They Want Without Punishment Is Oppresive.

Imprisoning thieves and robbers for taking the free money and merchandise that they're entitled to is oppressive, and it's absolutely unacceptable.

We debaters ought to collectively agree on definitions of what we mean by certain words and phrases. For instance what constitutes a perversion

the site owners ought to start a YY dictionary available to be tinkered with

Heaven isn't likely to be much fun

It would seem to be an endless round of worshipping and watching your step, and watching sinners getting tortured in Hell

Good People Sometimes Do Astoundingly Evil Things

and guess what I think is at the root of it?

Mitt Romney

I created two debates, I didn't mean to create two Ron Paul debates. Oh well, thrash out Mitt Romney.

Ron Paul

So what do we think of Ron Paul. If I was a Republican and if I was voting then I would strongly consider this man. A non interventionist who doesn't view it as America's job to police the world. A man with mixed views on Social Security and a firm believer in free trade and also the man who predicted the economic crash back in 2007. But also the man who wants the US to return to the Gold Standard. I have a problem with some of his views concerning abortion and gay rights issues. He's a mixed candidate in my view, I could go on for pages concerning the views of Ron Paul but I'm bored of this now.

Study Leave!

In three weeks time I have Prelim Exams, so I thought to my self I need a lot of study and a lot of heads down. So I have to leave Yickyak for a little while, just until both prelim and main exams are over and I will be back when the main exams finish. (you's can't get rid if me that easily, I will be popping in and maybe respond to a couple of debates every now and then). But it is only because last year I hardly ever studied anything and how did it affect my grade? It got me to fail 2 exams and pass three. But I want to pass all 4 subjects I have as this is my last year at this school and it will determine whether I get into collage or not. So, today is my last day and if I done this in voice it would be much cooler, like how Arnold (can't spell his second name) says it "I'll be back,". Seriously I am not leaving for good, I'll be back when my exams finish.

One of the nice things about logging in to YY is seeing what my latest avatar is

sometimes it stays the same for ages, sometimes it's only on for a few hours

Gina Carano - If you like Tough Women who kick Ass in movies...this is a movie for you

And if you want to know who she is....second video. She is an MMA fighter. YEA BABY!!! Better than Rambo any day.

Rule Change on the count to 1 million

As long as you don't post back to back.

Dim mak (aka the "death touch") is at best just any other strike move, at worst a complete myth

Someone on FAA posted a debate promoting this and web and youtube searches have convinced me dim mak is just a joke. 1) It's based on chi disruption, not actual physiology, 2) There are clear examples of dim mak experts demonstrating on non-believers and failing to have effect, 3) Martial arts historians say it doesn't mean "death touch" anyway and was just intended as a means to weaken an opponent, and other strikes and kicks will weaken them too you know, 4) All but one of the dim mak masters I saw in my search were beer bellied men who don't look like they could spar for one three minute round, and finally 5) You don't see dim mak taught by modern militaries, instead you see it in fantastical martial arts cinema.

Does Unborn Babies Go To Heaven?

I have been thinking alot recently on this and I would appreciate any Christian on this site to give me a little help with this, as it is making it hard to believe. Most Christians believe that anyone that does good deeds, grace and has the right belief goes to heaven, but yet unborn children will not know anything of God and would have no belief, no good deeds, grace or right belief as they are only developing in their mothers womb. But say a woman was to abort a baby today, would that baby be going to heaven based on what they would have done in the future, if they were alive of course?

Is Everyone That Is Accidentally Killed kind and wonderful Or Is It Just Taboo To Say They Were A Bad Person.

Every time the news interviews people about someone who was killed in a car accident or shot by a criminal or some other accident, they all say how wonderful the person was. How kind they were. How sweet they were. Or maybe someone said it its just the news media won't put it on the air or the vast majority of citizens are sweet and kind.

American politics

Dear Mr. President; I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks if the debt ceiling isn't raised. Why is it the scare always has to do with SS, Medicare, and (our) Soldiers Pay? Why not stop your pay, the pay for your your staff, or for Congress? Lets hold the paychecks of all house and senate members and see how fast they resolve this mess. If you agree re-post this and keep it going across the whole USA !!!

Hasdass should come back.

I miss him. Anybody know of any other sites he's on?

Rick Santorum

Vote red if you think he's an absolute pr!ck and a complete moron or vote green if you think he has a shot at the White House. I'll do this for all the candidates eventually, just wanting to gauge opinion. Just thought I'd start off with this douchbag.

At the Rate We Are Counting, We Will Reach 1 Million in about 136 years

Do the math. 136 years, more or less, with the current population...

Something is seriously not right with the latest thicker-styled burger patties launching in the big fast food chains right now

Have you had a burger from a place like Burger King lately? Yes the patties are thicker now, but the texture, taste, saltiness are all far off. Whatever they're doing to make less meat look and feel like more meat actually makes a pretty disturbingly bad burger. Not that I'm defending the healthiness or size or even taste of their preceding styles of burgers. I'm just saying whatever this thicker formula is doing kind of sucks. I remember I had a Wendy's the month before which struck me odd too. And at a summer BBQ at work there were some burgers from the caterer like those that were so bad most of the folks were tossing their burgers away and actually opting for the hotdogs as a healthier choice.

Airline travel is a form of mass transit.

The hippies just don't want us to know.

Politicians are no better than the rest of us.

I think this is quite obvious, but needs a little elaboration. One argument for a Big Daddy government goes something like this: "We need protection from greedy capitalists and blood sucking corporations who are raping each of us as well as the environment" etc etc etc. "So, we need the noble and wise and secure Grand Daddy Government to protect us all!" Well folks, I hate to break the new to ya, but the people who run and work for the government are no better and no worse than the CEOs of Corporations, the workers in private sectors and all the rest of us. They have exactly the same intentions and motivations as the rest of us---some good and some bad. So, all the boogey men and women are not confined to higher realms of corporate America. This is just a simple fact of life.

artemis is NOT sweet

she's a lot of great things - but not sweet

we are all different

we are all individuals, every one of is is unique

The best thing for the environment is to privatize all property

If one looks at the top ten or 20 environmental disasters in the past 50 years it becomes apparent that most of these occurred on public lands or waterways or were known by regulators and ignored or caused by governmental military actions. With these facts, one can make the following case for privatization:
1. The worst environmental catastrophes were on public lands and waterways or because of failure of governmental responsibilities.
2. Thus, government is the most irresponsible owners and regulators of lands and waterways as far as environmental concerns.
3. Therefore, privatization of lands and waterways and self-regulation would avoid more environmental disasters.

Medical Malpractice Claims Are A Good Thing

I have changed my view on this after learning of new evidence. Previously, I believed it to be a huge reason for driving the costs of medical care in the US. The major inflationary cost being due to the "practicing of defensive medicine." This is still true to some extent, and defensive medicine does increase costs. However, this is overshadowed by findings from more recent studies that show continuing malpractice claims improve the quality of all medical providers and therefore leads to better and safer patient care.

Most People Would Only Listen To What They Want To Hear.

It seems that if someone was talking about our culture in a way you don't like, you or anyone else would probably stand up and say there is nothing wrong with it or you would just not listen to them until they say something you want to hear. If someone told you to go green, you would probably not listen to them and their reason when they told you and not asked you. But if you didn't want to hear someone talking about something you love or enjoy, would you defend it or ignore the person and reason please?

Google, Yahoo, Ebay And Facebook Are Willing To Turn Off Their Internet Sites For A Whole Day To Stop SOPA. Good For Them.

The Stop Online Piracy Act is a vile insidious law designed to censor the internet. They're willing to lose a lot of money to stop this evil piece of legislation. Good for them.

PA systems in airliners should be required to be much louder.

I can't really hear the pilot or stewardess whenever the throttle is on 100% and a couple people are talking. Not only is it annoying, but is very unsafe in the event of an emergency.

Rapists and Paedophiles have no right to life.

Due to the nature of their crimes, they are shunned by most of society. Even the most hardened criminals in prison despise them. Rehab seldom works on them, and it seems unreasonable both to let them go and to keep them alive in prison, as they are basically a waste of space.

I argue that it is always acceptable to kill these people, both during the commission of the sexual assault (even an attempted sexual assault) and at any time afterwards. It is the duty of all good people to hunt and kill sex offenders.

Mitchosch is not corruptible

Artemis has tried

General Electric Is Moving

General Electric Moving from Wisconsin to ... guess where?

Keep your eye on Waukesha, Wisconsin … their biggest employer just moved out.

General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wis., to Beijing, China.

In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers.

This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year, but paid no taxes … the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the United States.

So let me get this straight. Obummer appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess Obummer forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.

Thanks Jeff, you're a "real" American … give Obummer our Best!

If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of Obummer, I don't know what does.

Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.

For Snopes verification of this information,

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/ge.asp

satnav is ace

If you've been talking about getting a satnav and someone tries to talk you out of it, on ground that you don't need it, tell them to mind their own business - it's brilliant.

Diane Abbott's 'racist' tweet wasn't so bad

Diane Abbott, Britain's first female black politician, now shadow public health minister, tweeted that 'white people love playing divide and rule.' Now she's being pilloried for making a simple race-based observation. Being white myself I'm too blinded by the beauty of whiteness to be able to tell if she's right or not - but she might have a point. Does it have to be taken as an insult?

Humans Need To Change Their Ways!

Look around you, would do you see? What I see is humans thinking we can do what we like, we are at the top of the food chain. We are the ones that have been asked to look after the world, yet we aren't doing that. We are destroying it, our kind I think is the most destructive species living in our world today. If we want to survive and live in this world, then we will have to change our ways as it all will depend on the earths survival. We pollute the earth, by factories and other human doing in this video shown below. Other animals may also be polluting the earth, but not as much as humans are. So what do we have to do to change our ways?

Have you notice the longer delay at signal light when it turns green probably due to texting or using their smart phone?

I mean when i'm at a stop light, look around. You will see a lot of drivers with their head down...you guessed it...texting or surfing, or using apps on their smart phone. When I'm behind a car at signal lights and when the light turns green, before smart phones, it may take a second before people start driving. But now, sometimes it may take a good 3 seconds maybe 4 before a driver in front accelerates when the light turns green. It becomes annoying.

Street cleaners have the most dangerous jobs in the world and we should give them credit.

The video says it all.

A 15 Year Old Boy Murdered Due To Being Accused Of Being A Witch.

In England a 15 year old boy was tortured and killed in 2010, yet his trial remains to be still on going. But the reason for his torture was that he was accused by a relative, to be a witch (yet he is a male, so he should be under the definition of wizard, am I not correct?), his sisters were also accused of being witches, but they were not tortured as badly as their brother. The boy was tortured with a hammer, a metal bar and more weapons, and the family got the sisters to also beat him up. The mother denies beating him up, along with the sisters. But I think it was wrong, as they tortured him so that he admitted (lied) that he was a witch. I think they should have had punishment a long time ago, at least last year, rather than keeping it going. It was murder as there was no proof to say the boy was a sorcerer, the boy then pleaded to die, so they drowned him. I really think the ones that were in the attack, should have been punished a while back, like last year.

It's disgusting how some people manage to get in the news when they are victims of a natural disaster

The gale has dislodged the shared chimney between my and my semi-detached neighbour, and his car has got a tree on it. Our communications systems disappeared in a second, leaving us no option but to complain face-to-face to each other and passers-by. Have either of us been interviewed by TV people? No. But someone whose porch roof was peeled back, which was much more minor and much less aesthetic, has been boasting his head off about the damage. What do you think of that?

Party at Damsel's

Who can make it? 09/29/12 for you British people 29/09/12 There's no party at Damsel's. I just want to go to the UK for my birthday. Do you know how much fun it is to hang with Damselfly?

strict observance of established rules is likely to prevent a good outcome

We all know each other - yes or no

The Republicans Are Surprised America Is In Debt Even Though They're Partly (Mostly) To Blame!!!?

America spends 15 billion dollars per year on the War on Drugs.

America will have spent more than 1 trillion (yes, trillion) dollars on the Iraq War.

America is spending 1 trillion (yes, trillion) dollars on the F35 fighter jet to fight a cold war which ended more than two decades ago.

America spend about 3 billion dollars a year in foreign aid to Israel alone.

And... America taxes the rich at the lowest rate since 1950.

And Republican conservatives complain that America is in debt.

Eat The Rich

Take all the money from corporations and the rich.

Kim Jung Un

I am really concerned about North Korea's appointment of the "dear leader", Kim Jung Ill's youngest son to be the new leader of North Korea-- a nuclear power!
After all, Kim Jung Un (pronounced Kim's young-un?) had NO military experience whatsoever before daddy made him a four-star general in the military. This is a snot-nose twerp who has never accomplished anything in his life that that would even come close to military leadership: he hasn't even so much as led a cub scout troop, let alone coached a sports team or commanded a military platoon.

So, setting that aside, next they make him the "beloved leader" of the country. Terrific!!!
Oh, crap! I'm sorry. I just remembered that we did the same thing here, We took a community organizer who has never worn a uniform and made him Commander-in-Chief; a guy who has never led anything more than an ACORN demonstration and made him the leader of this country.
Never mind. Sorry to bother you.

If someone tries to rape me I am well within my rights to kill them in self defence.

Rape is a heinous crime and the victim of said crime should be able to try and kill the perpetrator if they need to. For all you know the person who attempts to rape you might have Aids or something.

Left wingers have the same DNA as Totalitarian Dictators

The more I see the repetitious mantra from the left wingers---typically the products of our grand public education system, the more I realize how some minds are predisposed to brain washing, and desire to be controlled. The more the left tries to control every part of our lives, from what we say, what we think, what we do with our property, and on and on and on with more rules, laws and regulations; plus the more one sees the "take care of me mentality" growing by leaps and bounds, makes me stop and think, "can the US really handle freedom and liberty, any more? I think maybe the answer is NO! Now, one may say but the right wingers want to control our "reproductive rights." Well, the answer is, not so. We pro-lifers simply believe that it is not OK to kill and innocent person. And, we think the unborn are innocent persons. So, it's not about controlling you, per se, but about the equal rights of all of us. Other than that issue, I think most right sided folks believe more in the mantra, "live and let live."

Faith based science is a fact

An assertion one often hears goes something like this: "I believe in Science; and therefore I am an atheist." This is an absurd notion and simply is nonsense. A well known physicist proves how faith-based some scientists truly are.

Alan P. Lightman, an MIT physicist, agrees as many physicists and biochemists are realizing, that the universe must be extremely "fine tuned" or "well designed" for simple life to exist, let alone complex life. He goes on to say, it is so improbable that our universe could demonstrate this degree of fine tuning (the anthropic principle) that it is virtually impossible without a Fine Tuner, or Grand Designer or a Grand Intelligent Designer-----unless (Lightman is an atheist)---there are virtually an unlimited number of universes out there (unlimited as in approaching an infinite number)! He then argues that if there were an infinite number of "other universes" out there, then one just might be able to sustain life as we know it. Then he says, and I quote, "we must believe in the existence of many other universes. But WE HAVE NO CONCEIVABLE WAY OF OBSERVING THESE OTHER UNIVERSES AND CANNOT PROVE THEIR EXISTENCE."

However, most theologians and many good scientists would argue that there is far more and better evidence for a Grand Fine Tuner than there is for an infinite number of other universes.

Scary Stuff

Scary Stuff If you believe Obama will be re-elected in 2012 you had better get all your medical needs taken care of in 2012!!! If you wish to live in ignorance and not believe that ObamaCare will lead us down the path to Socialism, death panels, and ruination of America's health care system, then ignore what this doctor has learned from the ObamaCare Bill. THIS IS SCARY!!! Beware dear friends!!! A real eye opener A couple of weeks ago, I went to my dermatologist to have some skin lesions removed. As I sat in the examination room, his nurse keyed in my information, name, address, date of birth, medicines I was taking, etc., into a computer with a monitor with about a 16 inch screen. When the doctor came in to check me, he keyed in something and my data came up. I said to him, ”You’re really going high-tech". He pointed at the monitor and said, "That's by Obama. All doctors must have an electronic filing system in place by 2014". When he finished removing the lesions, the nurse keyed in what he did and the ointment he prescribed. Watch the video below. Take 6 minutes and see what Obama and the Congress have done this time. IF YOU NEVER WATCH ANOTHER 6 MINUTE VIDEO - WATCH THIS ONE! DR. DAVID JANDA FROM ANN ARBOR , AND A NATIONALLY KNOWN HEALTH CARE EXPERT, SPOKE TO US ON SUNDAY, OCT. 10TH, IN SALINE, MI. THIS IS WHAT IS 'GOING' TO HAPPEN IF OBAMACARE IS NOT REPEALED. DR. JANDA, AS HE STATES IN THE VIDEO, TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS AND THIS IS WHAT HE WAS TOLD. THIS WILL SEND CHILLS DOWN YOUR SPINE - GUARANTEED. CARE ENOUGH ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, CO-WORKERS AND SEND THIS TO THEM ALSO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnkxIh62dQ

If Rick Santorum wins the Iowa caucus the whole State should be nuked.

He's an insult to people everywhere regardless of political position. This isn't just over his anti gay stance but all his stances. His war stance is also idiotic, he'd send the US into probably 4 more wars if he became President. The man is a moron and a joke, he is the worst out of all of them.

Ann and Nancy are still two badass white women

I don't care how old or fat they are. They still rock.

Sometimes you have to just say I told you so

You tell your sister her boyfriend is a sociopath. She insists he has problems and is getting help. The cops take him away with guns drawn. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO.

Hitler Copped More Blame For The Holocaust Than He Deserved

Despite the ideologies behind Hitler's regime being hideously racist and cruel, he was only partly responsible for the killing of the 6-million Jews, and all the other innocent people killed during the Holocaust. Many of these deaths should be blamed on other members of the Nazi Party, OR the Nazi Party as a whole, but not solely on Adolf Hitler.

There Is Nothing Wrong With Me Wanting My Boy To Grow Up Hetrosexual

I would really rather prefer he doesn't turn out to be gay. There is nothing wrong with me thinking this way.

The Gay community hijacked the Rainbow colors

I'm actually disappointed about this. I was talking with someone at work about this and they also agreed. I pointed out a woman with a rainbow umbrella and the guy I was walking with felt the person was gay. Children love umbrellas but as an adult you have to be careful what you buy, be it a rainbow car sticker or rainbow clothing or tie without being perceived as being gay. I think it goes it par with the Nazi swastika which is an ancient asian symbol of peace but hijacked by Nazi, Arian, racist people.

The use of profanity not only denotes a lack of education and intelligence, but a lack of tact and manners.

The use of profane words in public (whether it be "in real life" or on the Internet, is not only impolite and vulgar, but it says volumes about the I.Q. and the level of education of the person using them. If you can't express yourself without the use of profanity then you need to grab a dictionary and start reading; there are plenty of words in the English language with which one may express oneself without having to stoop to using profanity.

Pigeons want culling

there are too many of them. Flying rats

Real men have no problem buying tampons, holding women's handbags, or wearing pink shirts in public.

They are confident of their manliness, and have no reason to fear looking like a poof.

Western society unreasonably restricts affection in platonic relationships.

Friends are not allowed to share a bed, kiss or say "I love you", because only sexual partners do that. Guys are not allowed to hug or groom each other, because only homosexuals do that. Adult males are not allowed to socialise with other people's children, because only paedophiles do that. Whilst there is no law against any of these behaviours, there seems to be a huge cultural taboo. I'm struggling to comprehend the logic behind it. By the way, notice I said "unreasonably" in the title. That means we are not discussing kiddy-fiddling laws in this debate.

You need to check your sources

And everyone else needs to be suspicious of other people's data that they produce for debates. There is an impressive amount of false information that makes it's way unchallenged into debates.

There aren't any good commercial jingles anymore.

Just for fun see what commercial jingles you can remember. If you can post a video in your response.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

The three men who brought down Wall Street. Here's a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who brought down Wall Street. Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. Tim Howard - was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million! Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when in fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor. TIM HOWARD? Howard is a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines. JIM JOHNSON? Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor. Is this the "Hope and Change" Obummer promised???

who gets the last word on what behaviour constitutes racism?

Do 'victims' have a duty to be a bit more robust and less sensitive about it? (Since SB pointed out what a good debating point it is)

It's Amusing That "Teen Paranormal Romance" Is Now a Large and Recognized Category of Literature

I was walking through a Barnes and Noble yesterday and saw a big section under the sign Teen Paranormal Romance (you know, like Twilight but with many variations). When I got home I pulled up Barnes and Noble on the internet and searched for that literature category and got 1652 matches. Are you kidding me? I've got nothing against it, but I'd say it's amusing this category is so massive. Note there doesn't appear to be a "Teen Christian Romance" section to balance things out. I guess teens don't want to read about that.

Secular utopiaists will cause the end of civilization

Secular utiopiaists will most-likely cause the end of civilization as we know it. (An utopiaist is an "if only" type person and a secularist is one who is indifferent to or rejects religious consideration of things.)

The utopiaists say things like "if only" we had better institutions like schools or parenting then all of mankind's problems would be solved. Or, if only we could live in harmony with nature, then all mankind's problems would be solved. Or, if only we could redistribute wealth fairly then all mankind's problems would be solved. Or, if only we didn't have religion to deal with all of mankind's problems would be solved. Or if only everyone ate the right diet, all of mankind's problems would be solved. You see all these "if only" utopiaists from Marx to Michele Obama have the big Answer to man's problems. They typically believe they are so right that they will usually be willing to sacrifice the "few" for the good of the "many." The "few" are those that don't believe as they do.

The problem is that the secular utopiaists consistently make the wrong diagnosis. They think that the evils of mankind are "outside" the individual, so to speak. So, they diagnose the economic system or the institutions or the diet, or the destruction of nature, or the lack of money, and on and on. But, the accurate diagnosis behind mankind's problems lies within the heart and mind of each of us. The cure lies "in there" and not "out there". But, the accurate diagnosis is not something the secular utopiaist is ever willing to admit and accept. Misdiagnosing the problem and forcing the wrong therapy upon others will be the end of civilization as we know it.

(do not try to find the word "utopiaist" in the dictionary since I just made it up. My cleverness continues to amaze even me. lol)

The best Doctor Who is David Tennant

This reporter stated it the best: He ranked him the #2 best doctor only second to the very first Doctor who.
David Tennant (10th Doctor)
Tennant gave us a charismatic Doctor who had regained his enthusiasm for life, but took his responsibilities as the last of his race seriously. Over his four years Tennant was also able to show us just what a good actor he is, giving his Doctor the greatest emotional range of any so far. Easily one of the great Doctors, Tennant enabled the series to regain a central place in the public consciousness over the past few years.
Who do you think was the best Doctor who?

Those who falsely pull the race card are as bad as the racists

To trivialise racism and use the sensitive issue to your advantage is as bad as actually being racist. To make an excuse, try and gain advantage, get back at someone etc by claiming your ethnicity is the factor when in reality it has no bearing is trivialising and abusing what is a very important subject.

Anyone who thinks alcohol should be banned is in opposition to Jesus

If alcohol is so bad then Jesus is your bootlegger. Afterall he turned water into wine, so clearly he thinks it is fine.

God Has Told Me That You Should All Give Me All Your Money

and then you will be sure to be saved

Humanity is a joke, and Civilization is the punchline.

Imagine that you're in the arctic wilderness, and you encounter a polar bear. Despite your fear you manage to win the polar bear's friendship, and are invited to spend the winter months hibernating in its den. Then the two of you decide to go to the nearest town. Naturally, the locals are amazed to see a human getting on so well with a bear, but when the bear decides to raid the rubbish bin they insist that you control your animal. Hold it. Stop. "Control my animal"? What do you think this is, a dog? I'm lucky I didn't get my head torn off! You honestly expect ME to control a bear that's TWICE MY SIZE?!? And why would I anyway? We're friends, we're equals. Friends don't control each other. Humans think in terms of control. Actually makes sense when you think about it. We're one of the weakest animals on the planet. The only reason we're still alive is because we've learned to control our environment. If something can't be controlled, we fear it and try to destroy or enslave it. Why do you think we have wars and oppressive governments? The reason we currently dominate the planet is because we're insecure and have overreacted big time. And if you think about it hard enough, you'll realise that it's actually kind of funny.

Illegal Drugs Should Be Made Legal For Medical Purposes.

I am against legalising it all together. But if it can be used to cure illnesses or common diseases, such as cancer then it should be made legal for that purpose only, curing people. If they don't legalise it, only for that reason stated, then that is holding back further cures and medicines for curing certain illnesses.

Maybe marijuana or cocaine has a chemical in it, that cures any type of cancer. (I know moreno and me, just done a challenge on marijuana, but it got me thinking about medical purposes, if you are following on what I am trying to say here), but to be honest, anyone can get their hands on these drugs and that is more people for the prison guards to guard. They get paid for how many people are sentenced to jail, but that is no reason why to legalise it all together.

Some states in America have already legalised it, some are still having further doubt on it. But I will only accept it for medical purposes, nothing more. Who agrees with me and who disagrees with me and for what reason do you disagree with me for?

This covers 1950's Music all in a nutshell

What was your "favorites" from this top 30?

AN OPEN LETTER TO TED NUGENT: “THE DAY I’LL JOIN THE NRA”

By Aaron Zelman, Founder and Director of
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

http://jpfo.org/articles-assd02/nugent-open-letter.htm GOA and JPFO do a better job defending your right to defend yourself than the NRA

Socialism demands atheism

For a strong centralized government, such as socialism or communism, to succeed, there is one major obstacle that must be eliminated. This obstacle is God. When God is eliminated, then there is no higher authority than the government to create and recreate any moral/legal system and any other truths it so desires. This is the clear motive when a government starts fanatically diminishing God and marginalizing God's role in the public square, and institutions such as schools. This is often disguised under the term, progressive and tolerant. This false notion of tolerance begins by teaching that all religions are essentially the same and equal, including the "religion" of atheism. Soon the minds of the younger generations have been poisoned with the Kool-Aid of secular humanism, and religious conviction is eliminated; thereby elevating Big Brother to the role of God. We clearly saw this in Obama's inaugural address when he went out of his way to describe us as a "nation of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus and Non-Believers." Under the guise of inclusiveness, the president deftly elevated atheism to the status of one of the world's great religions. Really quite sly, alarming and effective.

The strength and ability of a Man in an action movie is more exaggerated than a woman actor

For men, I think of Rambo where he single handedly takes out 20 men with muscle and a heavy gun. When you watch MMA wrestling you see that a heavely muscled large men gets tired much quicker within 3 minutes than a lean fighter, so their ability to maintain a long fighting session with 10 to 20 men coming after him in 20-30 minutes of fighting takes the reality from it.

On the other hand, most women in these type of movies have a better realistic martial art and gymnastic ability. More flexible. Small weapon ability like a Rogue of some sort. I think of movies like Resident Evil series.

Women As Main Actors In Action Flick Movies Is Better Than Men As Main Actors.

Most men's motivation in these movies are to save the damsel in destress and or distracted by a female which slows the movie down especailly with all of the romance stuff. where a woman spends her time focusing on the action and getting the job done. Hardly struggling to save some man. It makes the movie exciting, more fluid and fast pace like an action flick should be. One example I guess I can use is the Tomb Raider movies.

Jesus saves

(Nobody say 'well he wouldn't on my salary')

For a party that has screaming about the status quo in Washington Newt Gingrich is an extremely hypocritical choice

Newt has been an inside man, engaged in every level of politicking, money raising, and lobbyin, for almost 40 years. He has been trying to sidestep all election money raising limitations for decades. He is a corrupt political inside man and millionaire who preys on the political system with absolute cynicism and always has.

Blade may not have won the debate with Moreno , but she did a bang up job.

I think she deserves a shout out for most improved debating skills.

Religious fanatics are the most likely source for the end of civilization

More extremely dangerous weapons are in the hands of countries with large percentages of religious fanatics. I'm including the U.S. here. If you are fanatic then you believe a) that you should not tolerate unbelievers and heretics, and b) that no matter what you are going to heaven when you die. I think Pakistan and India are the most likely source of a nuke exchange right at the moment and religion plays a huge part of their problems.

Quite a lot of Israeli Orthodox Jews have Islamic ideas about women

They are creating a schism in Israel because they want to live totally segregated lives, to the extent that they are spitting at 8 year old schoolgirls on they way to school on ground that school uniform is immodest and 'slutty'

Quite a lot of Israeli Orthodox Jews have Islamic ideas about women

The Freecreditscore.com commercial jingles are pretty cool

These commercials are popular here on the east coast area but I think they are pretty cool. This is my favorite one they play regularly now, but there are several more. This one has 9 in one youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tloVHJtrJ_k

The Cost Of ObamaCare: Job Creation

Andrew Puzder admits he is not an expert on healthcare policy. But this CEO who employs more than 20,000 people knows a thing or two about job creation. Puzder just published an op-ed warning that job creation would be one of the biggest costs of ObamaCare. Here is an excerpt: "Our company, CKE Restaurants Inc., employs about 21,000 people (our franchisees employ 49,000 more) in Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants. For months, we have been working with Mercer Health and Benefits LLC, our health-care consultant, to identify Obamacare's potential financial impact on CKE. Mercer estimated that when the law is fully implemented our health-care costs will increase about $18 million a year … a 150 percent increase from the roughly $12 million we spent last year. … "To offset higher health-care expenses, we will have to cut spending on new restaurant construction, one of our largest discretionary spending areas. But building new restaurants is how we create jobs. An $18 million increase in our costs would more than consume the $8.8 million we spent on new restaurant construction last year, leaving nothing for growth. We will also need to reduce our general capital spending, which also creates jobs and allows us to improve our infrastructure and maintain our business. In summary, our ability to create new jobs could vanish."

Average Net Income For Americans 1984-$20,600, 2009-$20,500, Politicians 1984-$200k, 2009-700k, We Should Be Concerned

Over 1/2 of politicians are millionaires. And Americans decreased by $100 in net income in 25 years which is astonishing. What i'm saying is how do we expect rich people to truly understand the concerns of Americans unless they simply just look as us as figures on a spreedsheet or Profit and earning statement.

Adam Sandler must know his films suck

Not a debate about if they are good - they aren't. This guy earns a fortune and good luck to him but he must know in his heart that he churns out film after film that are terrible. I could live with that knowledge when I got home to my huge mansion, but I think I would have the decency to stop making such trash.

Scotland cannot split from the UK

I would like it and I can see why Scots would want to govern themselves but it is impossible to manage the split. Who would get what (including the debt)?

Baseball gloves should be banned

Banned is the wrong term but my brain is frazzled today. There is no need for them, I cannot see why baseball players can't catch a ball in their hands. If they do a great catch it means nothing because the huge mit has done all the work.

Anyone reading the debate between Blade and Me?

Just curious

Prisoners are just as much imprisoned in society after they've served their time as they wer within the confines of the prison walls.

They may be released from the walls of the prison, but even after they've served their time they're treated by the majority of society as though they're armed and dangerous fugitives who are out to get everyone. This may be true of some, but in what is supposed to be a civilized society it is unacceptable for the bulk of society to be so unwilling to give ex-cons credit where credit is due and treat them as ordinary members of society.

Marijuana Should Remain Illegal No Matter What It's Reason Is.

Text Debate: Blade vs moreno - It has dangers which people know, but remain to smoke it for the cause of getting high. They don't know the effects it has on the family until they have experienced it. Marijuana has an effect on the user alone, it will effect their brain in many ways, making them think differently than what they used to. It will increase the risk of obtaining a illness or disease, that is only caused by dangerous chemicals, marijuana has many chemicals, some are the most active. We never knew it's causes years ago, but now that it has been scientifically looked into, we know more than we did before. If we smoke it we are causing a danger to ourselves along with other people around u's. As for this, I do not see a good enough reason why it should be made legal, I think that it should remain illegal and never come to mind were someone makes it legal.

Has anyone seen or is anyone going to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?

You know, I was there the first night. Anyway, it's great and it's suprising how close it sticks to the book.

If you rent out an apartment or house for cheap, you are likely to attract undesirables

When it comes to renting, it attracts undesirables if it is a deal and or your place is a lot cheaper than the market in that area.

If I Bought Every Debater A Lexus, No One Would Think I Was An Arsehole

Let's say tomorrow I invent a widget and become a gazillionaire and I purchase a brand new Lexus for every debater. How many of you would not take it? Be honest.

The Bible needs to be re-written, to preserve the message of Christ in today's culture.

It's really time we replaced it with a different book that doesn't blackmail people with Hell, condemn gays, deny Evolution, or advocate the stoning of rape victims who didn't scream loud enough. Let's combine all the Gospels together into one consistent plot, add just enough backstory to provide context, make it more focused on the characters and their interactions, and remove the Author Filibusters in favour of them showing us through example. Not only will it make a far more satisfying read and generate enough controversy to sell billions of copies, but it will be truer to the beliefs most Christians hold.

People who give a Lexus or other luxury car as a gift are arseholes

You don't think that's a tad over the top? Lexus runs the commercials all the time so someone out there must be buying and giving them. But no, no one gives one to me :(

Santa should be charged in court for home invasion

imagine how many houses he has broken into!

How many losers are logged on Yickyak Christmas Morning

Yes, that would include me.

Chops: Diana Krall

One of my favorite artists. Can you dig it?

Merry Xtmas And A Happy New Year =-D

I know artemis and Trump put one up. But I am doing it in my own little way, so Merry Xtmas and I hope the day goes as you have planned. Enjoy your day as it only happens once a year. And have a happy new year, 2012 coming up yay, hope you'se also have a good year in 2012. :-)

Jingle Bells, Batman smells

Jingle Bells, Batman smells Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away (Hey!)

Toys are a luxury, not a neceessity.

It's great that there are things like Toys For Tots that give toys to children of low income families, but it almost seems to me as though the underlying message is that children need toys to be happy, when all they really need is love and attention.

If your kids believes in Santa, should he/she believe all the gifts you give them be from Santa?

....until they grow out of the santa kick? And if you do both, should the cooler gifts come from Santa and stuff like clothes and books come from parents?

Slowly carefully unwrapping a gift to save the wrapping paper is dumb unless either a) you're dirt poor and have to reuse it, or b) it's very special paper

I can understand needing to reuse the paper, and/or if it's something really unique you've never seen before. But when you take 5 minutes to unwrap a very ordinary giftwrap all you do is suck the excitement out of the room and make everyone else wait. Here's a clue, when the person who gave you the gift keeps saying "just rip it open" you know it's not about the wrap but about either the gift inside or the fun of the gifting. Going slow like a surgeon just hampers the fun.

Americans don't have Boxing Day

I have just discovered this. Boxing Day was a holiday for domestic servants who were given a Christmas box for working on Christmas Day.

Our preferences are more than opinion and choice

Ok guys, science is not my wheelhouse, but I was wondering if maybe we like certain things based on genetics. Some of you smarter people can respond to this and let me know. As I have mentioned about 1000 times, I was very excited about the Dragon Tattoo movie and I went to see it on opening night. In the movie the main character goes to an island in Sweden which is very cold and snowy. As soon as I saw this place, I felt like I had been there and wanted to go back. Could it be that my ancestors came from a very cold snowy place or is it just that I like cold weather?

The Most Caring And Sensitive People Pretend They Are Not. People Who Don't Care Come Off As Caring.

How weird it that? I was talking with my husband and we were discussing how many people think he is such a nice guy and I am such a biotch. The truth of the matter is he doesn't give a crap. I actually care about people. Yes Grenache, there that one that I don't care what happens to her, but other than that I worry a lot about people and usually want to help them. Does anyone else find this to be the case with yourself or the people you know?

Who Wants To Challenge Me To Something?

I feel upto one and I really do want a good argument. No one is really giving me one today and moreno keeps winning on the intelligent debates, when it comes to him commenting on my response. I randomly want to challenge someone, but have no clue on what topic. Please, any ideas and who?

Hater's Should Stop Whining On Who Sung, Who's Song.

I was on YouTube and it amazes me that so many people complain about a different singer creating another persons song and making the lyrics a little different from the original. There is no law stopping singers from making their own version. Yet they listen to the original version, after saying the new version has ruined the whole song. It seems a waste of time complaining and whining about it, nothing is going to be done about it. But I can't stop them from commenting, but it all seems to be the same complaints over and over again, it is rather annoying how they can't just not listen to it. If they don't like it of course. Etc. But basically they should stop whining, cause there is obviously going to be people that like it.

I Wish Pandora Was Real.

This is just a conversational debate, so it's basically stupid. But I really would (am not talking about pandora that is advertised on TV, I am talking about Pandora that's in the movie AVATAR). It just feels more comfy looking and much more nicer than earth. Where all if the creatures are much nicer and look after their people. Here everyone cares about their own family, apart from looking at everyone on being human and caring for one another. But if it was real I would really wish to visit it. But if there was an option for you to visit a place like pandora, would you want to visit it?

College Sports is a Racket!

“@terrycrews: Only in America can a College make a villain out of a young man 4 selling his Bowl ring he worked for while the coach has a $4mil shoe deal.” Perhaps not only in America, but student athletes should be paid.

prejudice and bigotry is terrible

don't you agree?

reality shows are cheap to make but by gum, they are boring

they really have had their day. Bring back some properly scripted, well-thought-out drama

It's horrible when someone scrapes their plate

There's nothing worse than having to put up with someone scraping their plate, screep screep screep during a meal. And the worst of it is, unless it's your husband, you can't say a thing about it - you just have to suffer, smiling

We should not interfere in the way foreign countries are run, just because their ways are repugnant to us

Amnsty International has sent out a flyer urging people to write to Ayatollah Khameinei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, recommending that stoning should be removed from the Iranian Penal Code. If they want to go on looking like savages and barbarians in the eyes of the world, it is their business

Ron Paul must be the best candidate.

The fact that Ron Paul has no support from either the right wing or left wing media, but yet he and his ideas are extremely popular demonstrates that he probably is the best candidate for President as far as the public is concerned.

Can any American Right Wing here explain why the Republican leadership want to stop the extention of the Payroll tax cut?

Isn't it the right wing the one that complains that we should cut taxes, yet they don't want to extend the pay roll tax cut that would give americans an extra $1000 a year in their pay check? I don't get it. Is this simply out of spite for Obama to the point you will even go against the most basic foundation of the republican party....CUT TAXES FOR AMERICANS. It make no sense.

Most Lesbians believe they could satisfy a straight man if given a chance.

And they could. Men are easy.

Most straight men believe they could satisfy a lesbian if given the chance

That doesn't mean they CAN, only that they THINK they can. There's an arrogance or pride at work in which they think either a) the real thing will feel so right, or b) the guy thinks his charms will win out anyway, or maybe even c) he's different from other men - less macho - and that will appeal to one not into men.

Should Mobile Phones Be Allowed In School?

Schools disallow them for a simple reason, it distracts them. But it is also very useful. Like if there is an emergency, the kid can phone their parents without having to go to the office and everyone hearing the conversation. Or at breaks and lunch times they could listen to music or txt people as it does get boring at break and lunch. But there is disadvantages and advantages to having a mobile in school, but isn't it not a tease that the teachers flash there phones off at students? I think it is a bit. But should there be phones in school or is it too much of a distraction?

Gender Neutral Restrooms Should Not Replace Gender-Specific Restrooms.

Their's someone on the school board of my district that wants the restrooms to be reconfigured so their is only one for both genders, instead of two. Their justifacation is that we have a lot of "transsexuals" in our area that have trouble choosing which bathroom to use. I personally think that this is compromising the privacy of people; especially those of the male gender. I don't care about bloody transsexuals because under no circumstance will I allow female strangers to see my private areas just for the benefit of a minority. This person obviousley should be kicked off the board.

Idiot Or Wise? A Guy Named Keith Has A Twitter Fight With Actor Ricky Garvais, Did Ricky Harrass Keith?

Ricky Gervais: I am not anti christian. I am anti bigot @GodsWordIsLaw I don't believe in ANY god. I treat all religions equally. And all good people Ricky Gervais: @GodsWordIsLaw: Atheism is poison may God have mercy on your soul before he dropkicks you into HELL.” That's some good mercy. Ha ha Keith: @rickygervais I'm boycotting all your movies from now on for this harassment. Will also send out notice in Church newsletter. Ricky Gervais: Harassment? Ha ha. @GodsWordIsLaw said he was glad a person (Christopher Hitchens) I really liked had just died. I said I liked his name Keith. Ricky Gervais: Keith has really cheered me up. Hitch would've fucking loved this. Ha ha. Now to write some gags for the golden globes. Cheers twonks. Ricky Gervais: @markbuckman1 so am I right in thinking Gods right hand man is called Keith?" Keith is his own "right hand man" by the sound of it. Ricky Gervais: @GodsWordIsLaw: #HitchensInHell - lets trend it! #GodIsGreat”Did a bad man touch you Keith? Show me where he touched you Keith. Don't cry. Keith: Just wasted 5 minutes of my life watching the disgusting Atheist PIG @RickyGervais on youtube. He is not even funny!!! Ricky Gervais: @MargieJPhelps @GodsWordIsLaw Isn't it amazing that your God hates exactly the same people you do? Ricky Gervais@GodsWordIsLaw @MargieJPhelps "My religion is Kindness" Dalai Lama. You should try it. Not supernatural or random but it's fucking magical. Ricky Gervais: @SofDraper: What about muslims ? jews ? jedis ?” I don't believe in any god - Just good and bad people of any faith or lack of it. Keith: Same sex "parents" are toxic to children they raise. They're more likely to molest and more likely to abuse their children -esp male couples Ricky Gervais: I think we can save Keith. He's not as hateful as he thinks. He's obviously been hurt and sold a lie. Kindness will cure him. Thoughts? Ricky Gervais: I meant Keith can't help what he is unless he sees the light so to speak. No point keep telling him he's wrong. Show him. Kindness,Tolerance Ricky Gervais: I think all you lovely sane people are right. I will stop retweeting the evil fundamentalists. Think they like the attention. Night twonks Keith: Atheists tweeting me about the "big bang theory"....seriously crying with laughter here. Ricky Gervais: @GodsWordIsLaw: ANY CHRISTIAN THAT FOLLOWS @RICKYGERVAIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN" Good Christians hate you more than I do Keith. Ricky Gervais: I am not anti christian. I am anti bigot @GodsWordIsLaw I don't believe in ANY god. I treat all religions equally. And all good people Keith: We only have 5000 years of recorded human history yet Atheists seem to think Earth has been here for billions of years #NotPossible #WakeUp

It is wrong to tell children there is a god when clearly this is a debatable and highly disputed claim

If they don't develop the idea for themselves they will lead much happier and more productive lives - and it will save them money too!

If you have an unlimited data plan for your phone yet claim to be poor you should not recieve free meal benefits.

I hate it when I see kids at school who claim to get free lunches yet their entire family has iPhones.

Their parents are just plain lazy, and it's a waste of my parent's money.

There Should Be Harsher Laws On Dog Owners That Teach Their Dogs To Be Violent.

I have done some thinking on this, and looking for some opinions on it. Should there be harsher laws on dog owners that teach them to be violent? Dogs should not be put down, for the teaching of it's owner. It's sad, is a human judge going to say you violently assaulted a man and your going to be put down for it, of course not. But in an animals case, they would be. But is that fair that the dog gets a more harsher punishment than the owner. That the owner only gets a certain amount of jail, from the view of the attack. But the dog gets put down. I think, if the dog is going to be punished harshly, then the owner should be punished harshly too. But I also think, that they can transform a violent dog, to a more relaxed, family type dog. It amazes me, that animals get a more harsh punishment than humans these days. If an animal bites, it is put down (why don't they put a human down, when they commit murder?) there is no simple answer or question. But for me to sum what I am trying to say, up, is that instead of punishing the animal, punish the owner as it would have been ill-trained or neglected, that it didn't know what was right or wrong. But if an animal was to be harshly punished, then the owner should be harshly punished too. If you disagree, could you please explain why?

Political correctness has now really gone too far

Some minor (conservative) politician in Britain has been sacked by the PM for attending a stag party at which the groom wore a fancy dress Nazi uniform. And a well-known somebody-to-do-with-football who called his black friend a name (the N word) is up before an ethics committee and liable to be sacked. In this instance there was clearly no malice intended, and the recipient wasn't offended - but other people heard and were.

Drinking alone is not fun

unless it's whiskey for a toothache

Sending our troops home when there aren't even enough jobs to go around for everyone who is here now is a bad idea.

As much as I want out troops to be able to come home, I question the wisdom of bringing such a large ammount of them in, inevitably putting them in a position where they're going to have to either live on the streets or on unemployment checks.

An "awww" Moment Or Too Staged For The Repeal Of The "don't Ask Don't Tell" Today?

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule on Wednesday when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the pier after one of them returned from 80 days at sea. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta of Placerville, Calif., descended from the USS Oak Hill amphibious landing ship and shared a quick kiss in the rain with her partner, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell of Los Angeles. Gaeta, 23, wore her Navy dress uniform while Snell, 22, wore a black leather jacket, scarf and blue jeans. The crowd screamed and waved flags around them. "It's something new, that's for sure," Gaeta told reporters after the kiss. "It's nice to be able to be myself. It's been a long time coming." For the historical significance of the kiss, there was little to differentiate it from countless others when a Navy ship pulls into its home port following a deployment. Neither the Navy nor the couple tried to draw attention to what was happening and many onlookers waiting for their loved ones to come off the ship were busy talking among themselves.

Clear indication that humans are naturally selfish of their fellow man

Former Citigroup chairman Sandy Weill listed his 6,744-sq-ft apartment at 15 Central Park West for an astonishing $88 million in November. Now comes news that Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the 22-year-old daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitriy Rybolovlev, is buying the condominium. Rybolovleva is currently studying at an undisclosed U.S. university and plans to stay in the apartment when visiting New York. According to a source familiar with the sale, she paid the full asking price of $88 million, setting a record for highest individual transaction in New York City history. Here is the official statement from her representatives: A company associated with Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of a well-known businessman Dmitriy Rybolovlev, has signed a contract to purchase an apartment at 15 Central Park West, New York. The apartment is a condominium currently owned by the Sanford Weill Family. Ms. Rybolovleva is currently studying at a US university. She plans to stay in the apartment when visiting New York. Ms. Rybolovleva was born in Russia, is a resident of Monaco and has resided in Monaco and Switzerland for the past 15 years.” The apartment, in one of the toniest post-war buildings in Manhattan, has 10 rooms including 4 bedrooms, a wraparound terrace of more than 2,000 sq. feet, 4 bedrooms and 2 wood burning fireplaces. LOL...88 million dollar hang out pad.

War Should Be Banned (From Now On)

It gives school children WAY too much history to learn (I got the idea for this debate from Trump)

Establishment Republicans are terrified of Doctor Ron Paul

Watch the video. I agree.

Many teachers are enchoraging liberal poltical beliefs in their students.

I guareentee you that if you did a poll of 100 informed 14 year olds, at least 80 would side with liberal beliefs. Another thing: At my school, teachers are always mentioning "The schools are poor" and "I'm not paid half of what I should be" (Blade don't even try to argue) and thus this also leads children to think that tax raises are the answer.

A nation's government is not a charity and should not help with wars just because foreign humans are suffering.

Nor should they hesitate to nuke because non-citizens will be harmed. Aren't I just in the giving spirit this holiday season? I'm a concerned citizen.

One's Best Way To Succeed At A Job Interview Is To Wear Clothes

Let's face it people, the key factor in deciding whether or not you get a job is whether or not you wore clothes to the interview, because if you DIDN'T, you would most certainly not get the job.

There are a lot of YY debaters we never see

some of them have got really interesting names

The idea of a vast liberal conspiracy is a joke

For one thing you need money, cohesiveness, and organization to have a proper conspiracy.

Do you think there is a war on Christmas? Do you agree with the below quote especially the last two sentences:

Once upon a time not all that long ago – in fact, anyone over 50 will easily remember it – the word “Christmas” was everywhere during the month of December. Everywhere you looked – in stores, in town squares, in cities, in offices, and, of course, in private homes — there were Christmas trees, Christmas decorations, Christmas cards, Christmas gifts, Christmas parties, and Christmas vacations. “Christmas” became a dirty word, and was replaced by “holiday.” The War on Christmas had begun ...It’s a place to treasure and actively work to preserve our traditional American culture. Because that culture is worth keeping. It’s part of what holds us together and makes us American… including those of us who are not Christian.

Those Christians who wish to legislate their religious morality would scream bloody murder if a majority of Muslims were able to do the same thing here.

At that point you would hear the screams for a secular non religious government from all.

Harry Potter is evil

The author is very clever, influencing children's minds with these seductive stories about supernatural entities and magic, undermining truth and reason.

Is Protection The Only Reason Why Someone Will Buy One?

People buy guns for a reason of protection, as they say. But in my eyes it is control, power and showing off. I can allow one for protection, but you would only need one, not about 10 guns. On here, their is probably someone who can brag about how many guns they have, but is it really necessary to have about 10 or more? Is it all required? Or are you just using them for showing off as a collection? But if it is, then you don't need the bullets. But do we necessarily need them? Here is a question my teacher asked my geography class today, What did we do before we had guns? This struck my mind into thinking mode, if we never had guns, then, then how did we protect ourselves. Some had spears, swords and bows etc. But ever since guns came into the picture, they have been the big protection, or is it more than protection (I understand they are used in war, so I will make an acception to that) but the human race, apart from military, should not require a gun, what is it's purpose? To protect or just for murder when someone makes you angry? In America it is probably easy to get a gun license, if that's the case, then what is the point in having this license? But I only see guns as a weapon to kill, not to protect.

All Polls require review and approval now.

Since we could not convince a user to stop posting child porn in the poll section we will be reviewing and approving all polls before they are displayed.

Europeans are stupid.

I am so sick of everyone picking on the American education system. Damselfly just told me Sweden was hundreds of miles from her. I looked at a map, it's only a few inches. Not only that, some idiot put Georgia in Europe and it's the wrong shape.

Homosexuals need to grow up.

Just because you want something doesn't mean you can have it. There are certain values you have to consider. The high quality, conservative kind.

There is a lot of talk on homosexuality around here. lol.

I come and go on this website, and it's like every time I log on I see a debate on homosexuality.

You can't wear fur in downtown Portland, Oregon without getting attacked by hippies.

I'm thinking of getting my cousin this beautiful fur coat for Christmas, but I'm not sure if it's safe considering all of the crazy liberal extremists around. She said she wanted to feel higher class, so I think it's a good idea as long as it doesn't make her a target.

Have a Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

Just wanted to wish everybody safe travel for holiday vacations. If you think it's not a good idea, oppose this.

Citizens in developed nations are much lazier in general than 40 years ago.

Back than, people would look up at the big mansion on the hill and think "If I work hard enough, that could be mine." Now they ask "Where's mine?"

People Like Kddan Who Claim That Homosexuality Isn't A Choice But Pedophilia Is Should Live For A Day As A Pedophile And See How That Works Out For Them.

If homosexuals have no choice but to be homosexuals then you can't paint pedophiles as evil predators who maliciously prey on children; either both are victims of their own desires or netiher are. I know it may seem like I go on and on about pedophiles, and I'm sure I'll get more of the same snarky responses as the other times I've used pedophilia in analogies, but it's only because it's among the miniscule group of things that everyone on this site agrees is inherently morally wrong.

Religious homophobes condemn homosexuals not for anything they have done, but for what they are

According to upstanding religious folk, any beneficial contribution any poof has made to humanity is automatically cancelled out in terms of points earned to get him into heaven

people don't necessarily want to take the lesser of two evils

sometimes the greatest is the best

Everyone from Forand against is a bastard

I turned my back and off you went. It's like popping to the toilet in the pub and comiong out you have all scarpered to another. You even brought Miller along. I am StBalders by the way.

All you retards - If you do homework when you are at school, you will grow up able to understand world fiscal policies

Is that what you want? (OD is absolutely and totally banned from answering this one)

You are all retards. ALL of you.

Gay-bashers: grow up. There are better things to do with your life than harass other people on the internet. People who dislike the gay-bashers: stop feeding the trolls. If they get no response, they will go somewhere else. People who tell the trolls about the new debate sites: read the message I had for the gay-bashers.

Homosexuality is the act of having sex with a member of the same sex

I had to phrase it as a statement but really I am just curious what everyone's take on it is. Is it the act or the desire?

I am a pervert!

I don't want to go into too much detail, but lets just say I have definitely done things your grandmother would disapprove of.

What is perverted is subjective

Fine, you consider something perverted, what bearing does that have on anything? Answer nothing but your own behavior. The law is what matters. As long as everything is legally consensual then you can disapprove all you want. Meanwhile the rest of us can wear fuzzy suits, tie ourselves up, have leather gang bangs, or even (gasp) same sex relationships.

People like miller and charlee who claim that homosexuality is a choice should choose to be attracted to the same sex and let us know how that works out for them.

Since it's a choice they should choose to change their sexual attraction for 5 minutes. I'm fed up of them making claims out of sheer ignorance and stupidity.

Women have way better workout clothing than men

There just seems to be a wide array of workout clothing. They enhance the appearance of the women physically, hide many of the flaws, they are form fitting and stylish. Men just have baggy basic clothing that are often don't match the workout or sports guys tend to do.

Homosexuals does not equal perverted.

Think about it and Millers definition of perversion. He claims homosexuality to be perverted, but we know perversion has nothing to do with a persons consent. But we know gays consent, so how can they be perverted? The only answer to that is if the miller's definition of perversion is wrong and the perversion has got something to do with consent and also heterosexuals will be included in that. But we know the definition has nothing to do with consent, so millers allegation on gays are perversion is false, we know that homosexuals are immorally wrong and disgusting. That God is against it and that males don't have reproductive organs as a male to female have. But how does that give a Christian a right to claim gays are perverted?

There is nothing wrong with modifying your DNA.

Your body, your choice.

Homosexuality is perverted, regardless of consent.

I have still not received an answer as to why this is so. People who hold this view just stop replying to the thread. So I would like somebody to explain to me why homosexuality is perverted, please. I genuinely want to know why you think that.

We Should Lock Miller and Finsch in a room.

Basically to see what they do, this has just to do with them both speaking of locked in a room with someone. It might get them to speak nicely to one another for a wee change. Who agrees with me?

If Finsch And A Toddler Were Locked In A Room For Long Enough, He'd Eventually Have Sex With The Toddler.

Based on his debate, he's obligated to agree with me, since he used the word "anyone".

Most Christians Will Not Miss Christopher Hitchens (3 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from, dare I say it, God. - Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

they should test cosmetics on prisoners

why make poor innocent animals suffer when there are paedophiles and drug traffickers who could be used instead?

We Spend The Majority Of Our Lives Acting like someone were not.

This is a commercial for a new show on Comedy Central, but how true is it. It's funny because it's true

Religion Can Be Compared To Fingering Your Own Ass: Nothing Wrong With It, But Don't F__king Talk About It In Public!

Same goes for your sex life. Don't know, don't care, don't want to.

It is unfair to expect Female Celibacy whilst encouraging Male Promiscuity.

Girls have to remain virgins until they're married, Guys have to screw as many girls as possible before they settle down. This system does not work, as one party must fail in order for the other to succeed. Anybody who pushes it is a moron.

Who wins the debate - John Stossel (yick - man on right) Milton Friedman (yak)

And why.....Both battled pretty good

Half of America is poor or low income yet CEO's got a 27% increase in their personal earnings....so wrong

this is according to the Census Bureau: I guess eventually it will get to the point people won't buy much and it will drive cost down on goods. And if 1/2 the country is poor, you can't blame it on minorities.

American Groups/Institutions Shouldn't Be Trying To Interfere With British Domestic Politics.

The National Organisation for marriage and it's offshoots are lobbying the Scottish government to oppose same sex marriage. It's none of their bloody business. Britain wouldn't try to interfere with American domestic policy. Can you imagine the uproar?

I'm back.

Hi guys, I just decided to see if their were any interesting debates up here right now. I noticed that SP seems to be banned from the site, so I decided to come back. But I couldn't get my password right and the "forget my password" feature wouldn't work. So I had to create a new account. I'll set things up this weekend, but for now I'll just look at some of the debates that were posted while I was gone. I got to catch back up!

If you lock any two people in a room long enough they will eventually have sex

A month, a year, ten years, more, eventually...

You've all heard the song

Hark! The herald angels sing, Glory to the new born King, Peace on earth and mercy mild,God and sinners reconciled *** How is it possible for a sinful man to be reconciled to a Holy God???

Intelligence Disaster

The United States suffered a serious intelligence loss when a super-secret drone aircraft crashed in Iran and President Obama failed to act. He requested that the Iranian government return the drone, but, predictably his request was rejected. Iranian scientists are now harvesting a treasure trove of information on how the drone works and the technology of its stealth characteristics. Iran's Islamist radicals will use the information for their own gain and perhaps sell it to Russian or China. In either case it is a disaster. Leaks here in Washington, D.C., indicate that when the Pentagon officials confirmed the drone had crashed, they presented President Obama with a number of options to retrieve or destroy it before the Iranians could get to it. Obama rejected all the options, thus insuring an intelligence bonanza for the Iranians. Former Vice President Dick Cheney told CNN that it was inexplicable why Obama didn't act to make sure technology did not fall into the enemy's hands. Senator Joe Lieberman agreed. Speaking at a media roundtable Lieberman said, "I think it would have been very difficult to rescue it, but at least try to destroy it so the Iranians and anyone that they might share it with, would not have the benefit of the technology breakthroughs it represents." The White house had no further comment, but I am sure they will soon say it is all Bush's fault!

Milton Friedman On Phil Donahue

Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman gives a flaming liberal like Phil Donahue a life lesson. Liberals won't be able to watch all five segments of the interview because it contains too much truth. Milton Friedman interview on Phil Donahue 1979 *** 1 of 5 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lWk4TCe4U *** 2 of 5 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lp2kGJASGY&feature=related *** 3 of 5 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapXLpLoZBs&feature=related *** 4 of 5 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Ocv8aMBjk&feature=related *** 5 of 5 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBvdjoNC6Y&feature=related

It is guaranteed that somebody thinks you're a twat.

Regardless who you are.

There is no shame in admitting you are wrong, but great shame in pretending you are right.

Debate now.

Is Incest Wrong? Recent HuffingtonPost article sites the question.

http://tinyurl.com/6onzpjt

Article Dec 13, 2011 Huffingtonpost.com linked to bigthink.com

Short Summary: In Britain recently, a young lady was ‘caught’ having sex with her brother. Both siblings have blamed the other, citing alcohol, desperation and so, on as motivations. This is not of concern. What is of concern is that “the pair were convicted of committing incest under section 1(1) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995”. The brother is 21, while his sister is 18. Now, according to the law, they should be convicted. However, laws are not perfect. What should matter to us, firstly, is whether they’ve done something wrong.

If extremists played Devil's Advocate before spouting their opinions, other people wouldn't think they're stupid.

For those who don't know, playing Devil's Advocate means that you try to prove your idea wrong instead of trying to prove it right. This reduces the risk of Confirmation Bias.

Your mum has an unlimited capacity for sausage.

Notice this in the category "Team Sports".

The word "Holi" should be removed from the word "Holiday."

The word "holi" should be removed from the public square in the name of separation of church and state. The word "holi" is derived from an old English Christian word for "holy." Since this is clearly a violation of the separation clause, the word "holiday" should be removed, immediately, from anyplace the public goes. So, Happy "X"day, everyone!

Democracy in action. Europe threatens to punish Britain severely for exercising it's democratic right to veto a ridiculous treaty.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073561/Threat-strip-UK-EU-rebate-use-veto-summit.html You can only push us so far EU. We will cope on our own, how would you cope without our contributions and without the horde of immigrants you force us to endure or the fishing stocks you've stolen from us? The list could go on and on. The EU is employing bully boy tactics and we will stand up for our national interest. The language being used against us is very inappropriate and provactive, it's like they're gearing up to take our sovereignity by force...

She Was A Fast Machine, She Kept Her Motor Clean, She Was The Best Damn Woman That I Ever Seen

Just because

What Scares You?

Who scares you? Is it a big corporation like Exxon or AT&T that sends a shiver up your back? Do you get goosebumps when you see a Wall Street executive or lose control of your bladder if a CEO of a Fortune 500 company crosses your path? Clearly the “Occupy” crowd thinks big business is scary. And Obama blames them for virtually everything. And twenty-six percent of the public apparently agrees, telling Gallup in a new poll that “big business” is a threat to the country. But in the same poll a near-record 64% of American said it wasn’t business that scared them – it was big government! Americans are more worried about over regulating bureaucrats who tell us what we should eat, drive and drink, and big government agencies that are burying our country in thousands of pages of new rules and restrictions on our families and economy. Eighty-two percent of Republicans said it was big government, not big business that gives them nightmares. Sixty-four percent of independents agreed. And even 48% of self-described Democrats, whose party is most closely associated with big government, also feared the army of bureaucrats more than the battalions of entrepreneurs. Ronald Reagan often told people at the White House to trust the American people to see through the fog and ultimately reach the right conclusions. This poll confirms his observation.

We Are Brain Washed In Thinking and Believing Attractive People Are Nice, And that Rich People Are Smart And Intelligent.

I caught myself saying, "its a shame to see a pretty woman smoking". I felt an affinity for pretty people harming themselves more so than non attractive people. Something I would never say about not so attractive (ugly) people. We some how associate kindess and nice with beauty. We also seem to look up to people with a lot of money as though that is the key measurement in determining if someone is smart or a person to look up to. Yet many people will question a poor persons ethics, morality, work ethic, character, etc all because they are poor or don't make a lot of money.

Who Did Obummer Threaten???

Did you notice who Obummer threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling? Obummer threatened to not pay: Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees. NOW … Let this really sink in!!! He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens. He did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates. He did not threaten to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired. He did not threaten to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around the world. He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff. He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients. He did not threaten the food stamp programs. He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid. He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters. The list could go on and on. He is in full political re-election mode! Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and his lies? His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be stopped and only our votes can stop him. Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time. Give Obummer the boot in 2012. A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves! 2012: The end of an error! Obama: Gone! Borders: Closed! Language: English only Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare! Freebies: No freebies to Non-Citizens!

It is wrong to discriminate against designer babies

It's not their fault they are perfect. It's not their fault that by having no hereditary defects and diseases they are an imposition on diversity

The American education system encourages stupidity.

Why else would they employ Biology teachers who reject Evolution?

It Is A Greater CRIME (because Moreno took objection to the word "sin") To Intentionally Injure Somebody Than To Accidentally Kill Them.

This really comes down to whether it's the act or the intent that defines the severity of the crime.

I keep getting redirected away from yickyak to youtube

Is anyone else have this problem? I can't go to any debate without getting redirected. I had a hell of a time just getting here.

If homosexuality is a choice then a heterosexual person can choose to be attracted to a member of the same sex.

(And vice versa) I was arguing with a moron on FAA. This argument stumped him. If sexuality is a choice (by the homophobes logic) then we can choose whom we're attracted to whenever we like I guess?

How the Government Stole Christmas

This year, save space under the Christmas tree for Uncle Sam. The holidays are a season for giving and spending time with loved ones. However, this year taxpayers will be adding Uncle Sam to their Christmas list. Of an identified $10.72 billion of holiday spending, 43.36 percent of the price Americans pay to celebrate Christmas is due to government taxes, fees, and other costs. This season, not even Christmas trees are safe from the government grinch. The Obama administration has applied a 15 cent tax on each Christmas tree sold, meaning government now composes 31.19 percent of the price of an average $40 Christmas tree. While implementation of the tax has been delayed, this is a particularly naughty idea to fuel increased government spending. For the $1.15 billion in sales generated by the Christmas tree industry employing over 100,000 workers, the Christmas tax is another measure threatening Americans jobs — so much for yuletide cheer. If you are one of the 93 percent of holiday revelers traveling this season, you will pay $69.65 in gas taxes for the average $152.47 round-trip excursion — 45.68 percent of the cost of the trip. Taking a rental is another convenient option, but 38.77 percent of your car’s rental cost is due to taxation, particularly from state and local governments. Choose to fly to visit friends and family and 42.47 percent of your trip is made up of government costs. If you retreat from your in-laws to a hotel, remember that 39.39 percent of the cost of your stay is funneled back to the government. For Christmas 2011, the government will stuff its stocking with $3.79 billion in traveling taxes. Holiday revelers enjoy an estimated $992 million in alcoholic beverages to celebrate the season. Savor your next mug of eggnog, because 56.31 percent of the price is taxes. Government guzzles 44.33 percent of your seasonal beer and drives up the price of your glass of wine at Christmas dinner by 32.77 percent. Sipping a soft drink won’t let you escape frosty government fees — 27.98 percent, or $61 million in taxes, is attached to the cost of soda. When Santa comes down the chimney this year, he’ll have to save room in his sack for Uncle Sam’s gifts. Government gets $21 billion of a cumulative $69.1 billion spent on presents, consuming nearly a third of Christmas gift-giving. All told, the government collects $25.9 billion in new revenues over the holiday season. Bah humbug, indeed.

Charities

Charities *** As you open your pockets for Christmas or the next natural disaster, please keep these facts in mind: ** The American Red Cross President and CEO, Gail J. McGovern. Salary is $1,000,000. Efficiency is rated at 92%. ** UNICEF CEO of the United States, Caryl M. Stern receives $500,000 per year. Efficiency is rated at 91%. ** The United Way President, Brian Gallagher, receives a salary of $500,000 to 800,000. Efficiency is rated at 85 to 89%. ** The Salvation Army's Commissioner William A. Roberts receives a salary of $238,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization. Efficiency is rated at 82%. Also, the Salvation Army is a religion just the same as Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. so you might want to consider giving to your own church's charities. ** The American Legion National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth. ** The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth. ** The Disabled American Veterans National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth. ** The Military Order of Purple Hearts National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth. ** The Vietnam Veterans Association National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth.

Darth Vader is a Jerk.

This is what happens when someone gets too much power.

Republicans claim to love Jesus but if he was a political candidate they would hate him.

Here's why, feed the poor (welfare), heal the sick (Obamacare), turn the other cheek (not bloody likely - executions all the way b!tch) and lets not forget he's anti capitalism (give away your wealth to the poor). He wouldn't stand a chance lol.

America's Budget

America's Budget *** I love it when complex things are simplified so that we can all understand. Can you imagine running a country using these numbers? United States Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 *** Now, remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget. Annual family income: $21,700 Annual family spending: $38,200 New debt on the credit card: $16,500 Outstanding balance on credit card: $142,710 Total budget cuts: $385 *** REALLY BRINGS THE ISSUE HOME, DOESN’T IT?

Campaign donations should be required to be anonymous

The reason I say this is it will prevent corruption. For example, a CEO of a construction company might "donate" to a person's campaign "assuming" that they will get a road building job from them. If they had to be anonymous, politicians would have no idea who donated and make a better decision on who gets the job. Another few suggestions I would have to prevent abuse of this policy are as follows: 1). All donations must have only ONE numeral in them that is not zero (Ex. You may donate $100 but not $101.23. This is so a person can't say to the person running "Look for a donation of this complicated amount" because than the person running could figure out who donated.) 2.) One person or organization may only donate to a perticular campaign one time. (This is also so a person can't claim "Look for a donation of $100 and $200 within a day of each other" and the politician would know.

If you state something in a debate, you have no right to prevent others from applying your logic to scenarios that would refute your argument or make you feel uncomfortable.

Example: I was debating the "Incest should be legal" thing with my sister (no, I wouldn't engage in it, you perverts). My mother walked in and rattled off the "inbreeding" and "child abuse" arguments, which ignored my premise and subsequent rebuttals. I quickly countered them and she replied, "That's why the laws were made", to which I said, "And I'm arguing they should be abolished." She replied, "Why? Nowadays they can do whatever they like." "No they can't, Mum. It's ILLEGAL." "Only if they blab about it." "Well by that logic we can commit murder and not blab about it. Both are crimes." At this point it all spiralled into a series of accusations of fallacy, childishness, hypocrisy and rudeness. Thus we arrive at the topic for this debate.

America was stupid to put Obama in the white house, and we shouldn't let it happen again.

Self-explanatory

Collage or University!

I am thinking about going to collage, but I was thinking, what is the best educational place, is collage better than university or vice versa? And why?

We should consider adding canine to our diets.

60% of dogs are euthanized a year and 70% of cats are. It make since to consume dogs and maybe cats as part of our diets. Dog is a very tender cut of meat.

Adding cheese makes most entrees better

"Cheese to the rescue." Yeah yeah, I know it depends on which cheese, added to which food. And then there's the whole unhealthy aspect of it. Come on people, help me out, don't make me vote against my own debate and against beloved cheese.

stem cell research is the better moral way

the fact it is not state funded 'for religious reasons' is a disgrace

Santa does not exist!

Come on, Santa Claus was named after Saint Nicolas and we know that it is the parents that buy the presents and put it under the tree, as well as them drinking the milk and cookies at night. If Santa existed, we would have found his hide out, even when they say he is in North Pole. But there would be evidence of Santa's existence, but as there is none, I can't believe there is a Santa. Do you believe in Santa and why?

Designer babies are wrong.

Why does it matter what the babies hair looks like? Or what gender it is? Shouldn't you just care about, it is a baby and let the DNA decide what the babies gender etc. I understand that if a baby was going to be a boy, but the couple wanted a girl or vice versa, then they could change the DNA, but then the baby would be known as a designer baby. But is it fair to just design your baby, because it doesn't have what you want your baby to be. Isn't it more important to just love the baby for just being what it is and looks what the DNA decided. Is it playing God. What is your viewpoints on designer babies?

There is no reason for Incest to be illegal.

The sexual relationships covered by "Incest" vary quite a bit in their dynamics, and cannot be tackled all together. So for the purposes of this debate, "Incest" shall refer to sex between siblings/cousins who are both consenting adults and no more than a year apart in age. My argument is that there is no reason to forbid such a relationship purely because the two people are related. There is no law against reproducing with a person who has a known genetic defect, which is the classic argument against incest, nor is there a law mandating that sexual partners must have genetic differences. Homosexuality is still allowed, despite the fact that we share more DNA with an unrelated human (or chimpanzee, for that matter) of our own gender than a related human of the opposite, due to the huge difference a Y-chromosome makes. Even though I find incest a tad gross, I can't see a reason to illegalise it.

Drink Driving should carry the same penalty as walking down the street whilst firing a gun randomly.

Really, what's the difference? By the way, Damselfly pointed out that firing a gun contains malicious intent. To make it a fair test, let's assume you're drunk whilst shooting.

Non voluntary Euthanasia is worse than Voluntary Euthanasia.

We all know that non voluntary euthanasia is when someone decides to take a patients life without the patients consent and we all know, that voluntary euthanasia is when the patient decides for themselves that they want their life to end. To be honest, I disagree with euthanasia as you may know. You's will tell me that it is their life and they can do whatever the hell they want with it. But to me it is like playing God, taking your life and the time you remain away from your family. But voluntary is less bad than non voluntary euthanasia as the patient never consented and that is murdering someone that never said they wanted to live of die. Voluntary is bad, but it is not as bad as non voluntary. What is your viewpoints of voluntary and non voluntary euthanasia?

You cannot condemn both sex-education and abortion.

Many teenagers will have sex. And they will not always want babies. Both of these are certain. The question is: do you prevent or terminate their pregnancy? Condoms or abortions? Pick one, because you cannot forbid them both. It just doesn't work like that.

It is the government's duty to ensure that people are not forced to steal or starve.

It is easy to lose sight of this simple fact while debating topics such as welfare, unemployment, wages, taxation, etc.

If you go out with your mates with the intent of getting drunk, you are a loser.

Only losers "get drunk". The number of other people doing it with you does not change this.

People who use their feelings instead of their brains have no right to complain when people say they're stupid.

Pretty self-explanatory, to be honest.

The only solution to the Middle-East's problems, aside from nuking the whole place, is to form secular societies.

In Medieval times, the Arab World was leading in terms of scientific advancement and human rights. It was basically what Western Society would be without booze, drugs, sex and paparazzi. One of the main reasons this was possible was the lack of petty religious squabbles. Jews, Christians, Muslims and Zoroastrians lived in relative harmony with each other. Now they're squabbling over land. Pathetic! If they stop obsessing with how the other person worships God and instead start discussing astronomy and evolutionary theory the way they did 800 years ago, they wouldn't have a reason to fight. Get rid of the terrorist groups. Stop scaring, start sharing.

History is literally, written by the victors.

Imagine if the Axis won World War II. The Allies would be blamed for starting the war.

Eurozone Treaty made Britain more isolated than ever.

David Cameron has unaccepted the new treaty, due to the treaty not having their demands to protect Londons banks, was it a mistake or was it a good decision. Apart from that 6 new countries maybe joining the new eurozone, but Britain will be left out and this might be an enormous gain or loss as the eurozone could succeed or fail. But it will have an effect on Britain financiaclly. Some people admire him for the decision, some say it was a mistake, as we don't want to be the outsiders. But David Cameron was only protecting Britains interests,, while the new treaty did not have their interests. One leader says "Britains demand was unacceptable". While Britain only asked for Protection of London, do you think this demand was acceptable or unacceptable? But it will not be official, until July 2012 next year. But this will leave Britain isolated as they won't be at the table talking about financials. Was this a right decision or a wrong decision?

the popular press stirs up hysteria and hostility, just to sell papers

the press makes victims of us all by plausibly distorting the truth and creating a completely false and hostile picture of certain minority groups. If we believed it all, there would be paedophiles around every corner; every black man would be a mugger/drug-dealer, every Muslim an Allah-fuelled hate-monger. We should beware of the Daily Mail and Fox, and work out for ourselves who to be prejudiced against

Merry Christmas

No debate just wanted to say Merry Christmas.

Aspergers And Autism Aren't Real Deseases or Mental Problems and are just the way a person thinks.

I recently took an online test that told me it was likely I have a mild form of Aspergers. I suspected that because in primary school I was in IEP programs, and I also don't have the best social skills and occasionally get very obsorbed into things, which are both common "symptoms". I did a little more research on the subject, and realized that the ONLY problem is my nervous system. Now I have came to the conclusion that it's not a desease, but rather it's just ME. It's different than a physical problem because it effects the person's personality. People think that way, and it's not the cause of a desease. It's just how they are. Now, nobody use this infromation against me in another debate if you oppose the idea that their is no Aspergers Desease.

If your friend commits suicide because they felt unwanted, you deserve to feel guilty.

If they mean so much to you, tell them while they're alive and not at their F*CKING FUNERAL!

Fibromyalgia Is Not A Real Physical Disease. It's A Mental Disorder.

Most people that have fibromyalgia usually have also been diagnosed with a mental disorder of some type. The cause is unknown and there is no test to diagnose it because it's all in the head.

Students should be active in events that is helping it to afford things needed.

Students being active in events, even when they have to pay to do these events, is helping schools that are struggling to buy paper or ink cartridges. It is more helpful to the school that the students pay for the events and all schools should be able to have these events, if they are finding it hard to buy these (objects mentioned above). Plus it is also a bit of fun for the students, as well for the teacher. Say they had a non uniform day, the teachers could still teach, but the students could listen in their comfortable clothes. But of course they would have to pay a pound to have the non uniform on, but if they don't then it is school uniform for them. Do you think schools that are having a problem should create active events for students to help with fundings?

Leukemia > Epilepsy

Leukemia kills far more people, and is clearly the greater of the two diseases.

Typical Obummer Voter

She gets her welfare money from Obummer's stash!!!

Freddie Mercury Isn't Black

Both of Mercury's parents are Indian, and although Zanzibar is now considered part of Tanzania, it was a British colony when Mercury was born there. I started this debate as Jukejoint called me a 'gay black' in another debate, and I don't believe I am black.

It Won't Be Like This For Long

I listened to this 5 times and I cried every time. My 6 year old got sad when she saw the video.

the internet lesbos should give us all a laugh

C'mon Arte and Damsel - let's hear it for shoes!

It is better to die by battle than from natural causes.

Who wants to become old and sick? Better to die a violent, bloody death and take the other person down with you.

Women Should Have To Register For The Military Draft, too, Should It Be Needed.

I was appalled to learn in humanities today that only young men, and not young women, would have to participate in a military draft should one be needed. This, to me, seems sexist and unfair to males. One of my classmates argued that somebody needs to take care of children, so I also offer this: If any one member of a couple with children is drafted, the couple may choose which one of them is to serve. Do I want there to be a military draft? Of course not. But if it does come to it, I want to be sure I am treated fairly.

I am Smartperson

I recently have been accused by a fellow debater of being Smartperson. I was very offended at the fact that someone would associate me with that porn-posting pervert. I thought that we had built at least some degree of trust the few months I have been on here and FAA, but it appears not! I don't know why someone would think that of me! Right now, I'm considering leaving like HD did. Could someone please tell me what I did to make this person think this? Or are they just trying to mess with me because of my lack of belief in socialisms?

Artemis IS the real life Lisbeth Salander

I bet Stieg Larsson met artemis and based The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on her. She can track down anyone, anywhere. It's actually frightening

Schools should cut extra languages.

Or at least make them be more efficient and not such a waste. I could learn what takes a month in a class in two hours on Rosetta Stone.

Get A Job

The problems we face today are there because the people who WORK for a living are outnumbered by those who VOTE for a living. This was written by a 21 year old female who gets it. It's her future she's worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she's being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion. This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, TX, Nov. 18, 2010 Put me in charge … Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job! Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke, or get tats, and piercings, then get a job! Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place! In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the common good. Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules... Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem. If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices. AND while you are on Government Assistance, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job!!!

Obama is trying to kill old people

It is interesting that Obama wants to cut a tax. Specifically, he wants to continue the social security tax cut. The social security fund is only funded by social security taxes. The fund is running out and there are more and more beneficiaries of social security. Since there is no other mechanism to fund social security, Obama is cutting the survival resources of the elderly.

Do you remember your grade and name of your teacher you had a crush on?

Mine was Mrs. Collins in 4th Grade.

I would like to debate IWillTrump in his debate challenge

Since i've been here the longest I know how the 1 on 1 debate work and seen it in action. I would rather hash out the details here with other users before starting the debate. Because once a debate is accepted on the 1 on 1 the clock starts and stops in like 36 hours I think. So I want everyone to know before voting on the debate in the debate voting section.

when you can sing like this it doesn't matter a damn what you look like

it's enough to have the music in you

Restaurants, Hotels, And Other Ammenties Should Not Expect Tips For Their Employees And Instead Raise Their Prices And Pay Them More.

Tipping really is a hassle. I don't understand why employers can't just make everyone's live simplier and pay their staff more?

Homo Sapiens are the nicest animals in the world

Name another animal that will stop and think before it attacks something living and I'll change my mind.

Abortion Should Be Illegal

How would you feel if your mom killed you?

If we met up in real life and started debating, we would have vastly different debating styles.

Would be kinda interesting if we did though.

Executions should be performed with a gun or sword, not a chair or needle.

Chairs and needles are inefficient, inhumane and expensive. If you're going to use capital punishment, just do it by firing squad. That's how China gets through 10,000 executions a year.

Am I too sexy to use my picture for an avatar?

Actually, I'm not trying to be cocky. Nancy, the lady of the house, walked up behind me this morning while I was posting on Yickyak and got all jealous that I had my photo up as my avatar and thought people must be flirting with me in here. Sounded like she might even make an account and come on in sometime to check it out. Well? Should she be concerned? I could replace it with something harmless.

Torturing Animals deserves the same penalties as torturing Children.

And both of those need to involve a lifetime behind bars, or a bullet in the head. EDIT: Because this is causing confusion, I'm going to clarify this. "Torture" means inflicting pain for the sake of inflicting pain. It does not include the pain caused by killing something to eat it.

The only difference between Genocide and Farming is the species of the victims.

Ear tags, experimentation, slaughterhouses, cages, all of that is fine if you're doing it to animals. But the instant you start doing it to humans, people compare you to Hitler.

You can be as close to step children as you are biological children

I love my son more than anything in the world, but I also love my stepdaughter just as much. Genetics don't really matter.

Most men would participate in a threesome if their partner wanted it.

I think a man is more willing to experiment sexually than a woman.

You can form deep relationships online

I've been debating most of you for years. Damselfly is one of my best friends. Finsch is the hottest guy I've ever known. Moreno is my buddy and I would kick the arse of anyone that tried to hurt him. Blade is my little sister. I feel the need to teach and guide her. Mitchosh is mysterious. I want to draw him out. Grenache is kind. I would seek his advice for any moral dilemma. I don't think physical presence seems to be all that important in a relationship.

If you are going to have sex, anal sex is an excellent way to reduce the chances of unwanted pregnancy.

Not to mention that technically a girl who hasn't had regular intercourse can still claim to be technically a virgin.

It is unfair for women to expect a large amount of pregnancy leave and still get paid the same or making similar allowances for men.

If an employer has to pay the same amount for an employee who is going to be less productive, it is a burden on the employer. Not to mention a father is allowed almost no time by law and social tradition to spend with a new child or to help a pregnant wife.

Scandinavain authors are much better than American or British

I don't know if it's the long winters that give them more time to write or the education system, but these authors write the best mystery books.

The Pledge Of Allegiance Should Be Said In Schools in the beginning of the week.

In my school district, it is being considered that it no longer be said over the PA system every morning, like it is now. Apparently, a group of immigrants finds it "discriminating" to say it! I think that if you came here for a better life, you should have no problem supporting the country you now live in! How is that discriminating? Who funds your education? No, not Mexico, not Canada, not France, Not England, not China but the US! I don't see why they have such a problem with "Pledging their Allegence" to the nation they came to for a better life!

lots of people who think they have asthma probably have allergies to ordinary things like feathers

you can find out now that it's winter by not switching back to a duck-down duvet, using foam pillows. It could make a world of difference to people with respiratory difficulties

All innovations and creativity came from liberal thinking not consecutive thinking

Even those who may be conservative politically if they created something innovative they were thinking liberally. And those conservatives who complain that the media and Hollywood is liberal, well yea...duh

Being A Vegetarian Is Not Good For Your Health.

I think to be healthy, we need a balanced diet which includes meat, vegetable, rice and fruit. Its not healthy to be vegetarian, especially vegan.

Being a "Successful Business Man", although usually laudable, could just as easily have negative connotations

What if their success is due to 1) crime, 2) exploitation, 3) vast personal wealth before they ever started the business, 4) simply hiring people do all the business for them, 5) plain old luck? Especially in the context of candidates for President shouldn't we care not just whether they were successful business men and women but how they got there? I just think we hear that term all the time and give it a free pass. Meanwhile if someone else is a successful politician or lawyer or soldier they still get challenged for what type of it they were.

Not Being Able To Afford It Is Not A Valid Excuse For Not Having Car Insurance When You Own A Car

If you can't afford it, than you should buy a cheaper car in the first place!

Alaskan Highways Are Scary

Okay, I don't mean the Dalton in the winter, but they are scary because they are VERY curvy and steep and yet they have 65 MPH speed limit! The worst part is, many Alaskans have big car's, so when I was up their a year ago visiting family we almost collided my uncle's huge Cadillac Escalade with other cars twice on the Denali stretch. I think they should lower the limit to at least 60.

Flea Party Vs Tea Party

From the moment the Occupy Wall Street crowd first showed up in Zuccotti Park, Democrats and their liberal media allies were instantly infatuated with the radical movement. OWS was trumpeted as the left's answer to the Tea Party. And while the media were engaging in all kinds of ludicrous comparisons that attempted to romanticize the OWS mobs, the far more revealing contrasts between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street were ignored. For example, the Tea Party movement, as the name implies, took its inspiration from our nation's founding and has a deep reverence for America's cultural history and heritage. It is genuinely representative of mainstream American values, especially the rule of law and respect for private property. While Democrats and the media ridiculed the Tea Party as an "extreme" movement, it was Occupy Wall Street -- not the Tea Party -- that was endorsed by both the American Nazi and Communist Parties. For the moment, big city Democrat mayors are tiring of the OWS extremists. In Los Angeles, the cops moved in just after midnight on Tuesday and arrested nearly 300 people. In their wake, the Occupiers left behind a wasteland. The Los Angeles Times reports that "crews in the hazmat suits" have collected 30 tons of trash and filth. Sure people have a right to protest, but they don't have a right to destroy property and create public health hazards. The left just makes a mess of everything it does -- whether it's Occupy Wall Street, the labor unions or Barack Obama. By the way, the Occupy movement has been associated with more than 5,000 arrests! How do you think the media would react if 5,000 Tea Partiers had been arrested?

Schools need a grading system that we can instantly tell what trimester grade we will get, not have to spend an entire class period calculating it.

At my school, we have seven different kinds of grades a teacher gives and how they work is different for each teacher, and they eventually translate into a letter grade. They are: Letter Grading System (Superior [A], Above Average [B], Average [C], Below Average [D], and Failing [F]), Academic Proficiency System Version 1 (Highly Proficient [PHP], Proficient [PRO], Nearly Proficient [PNP], Working Towards Proficiency, [WTP], and Novice [PNV]), Academic Proficiency System Version 2 (Highly Proficient [PHP], Proficient [PRO], Nearly Proficient [PNP], Working Towards Proficiency, [WTP], and Insufficent Evidence [IE]), Coursework Daily System Version 1 (Completed Well [5], Completed Passingly [4], Completed With Low Effort [3], Partially Incomplete [2], and Not Completed [1]), Corsework Daily System Version 2: Completed Well [4] Completed Passingly [3], Completed With Low Effort [2] Partially Incomplete [1], And Not Completed [0]), Effort Assessment System (Outstanding [O], Satisfactory [S], And Unsatisfactory [U]), Binary Grading System (Completed [+] And Not Completed [-]), All of my teachers use different combinations and interpretations of these systems. The worst part is when you receive a progress report and because of the Proficiency systems the computer can't generate a average percentage score and the teacher has to spend a class period walking you through what it is! I think that using only the letter system would be just fine!

Bachmann would make the best US president of all who are currently running.

She would, trust me. But the fact of the matter is she is a conservative women, and right now Republicans voting in the primaries wouldn't elect a female. But to me, she would be one of our best president's in a long time. She is a strong supporter of tea partiers and would run this nation very efficiently.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Paraphrased quote by John Stuart Mill. I think its truth is pretty damn obvious to anybody who isn't stupid, regardless of whether they're conservative (Note: The correct answer to this debate is "yes").

The next president should not think he is god.

I find it hard to vote for an Obama or a Romney, simply because they are disqualified, in my opinion, for thinking they are "gods." Romney believes this to be so because of his religion and Obama simply believes it because he thinks, he is. I would prefer to vote for a man, or woman, with a bit more humility, who can identify with us, "common folks."

Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists!

If 'ALL' Muslims were Terrorists, we wouldn't be friends with Muslims. Who here has a Muslim friend? When people use 'ALL', they mean every single individual, so that is every single Muslim is a terrorists, I don't believe all were, so does that include woman and children and Muslims that live in out communities? Are they all terrorists? Me, I don't think so, using the word ALL are terrorists is kind of ignorant. Because not all are, there is terrorists that are not muslim, there is terrorists in every land either plotting something or doing easy bombings that won't make the news. Think about it, why would all Muslims want to terrorise people? To follow in Allah, rubbish! Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists.

YOU'RE A FOOL IF YOU GIVE MONEY TO THE SALVATION ARMY

The Salvation Army is a religion just like any other religion. If you want to donate money to organizations that help needy people; Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, the Red Cross, etc.; all of them have programs that feed and clothe the needy. Rather than giving money to a religion that has views that don't coincide with your views; give to your own church. You can click on the Salvation Army link to their web site and see what they believe. If you believe what they believe then by all means, give them your money. http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-text-dynamic-arrays/74BBD587C6A63FF585257435005C7EF0?openDocument The Salvation Army believes that you have to earn your way to Heaven by doing various good works. They believe that you are saved by doing good works and you have to keep yourself saved by doing good works. This is essentially the difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism where Christians are not saved by good works but by grace through faith. Of course, one good work would be to stand in front of stores, ring a bell, and collect money for the Salvation Army. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and the Salvation Army deny the essential truth of Ephesians 2:8 which says that even the faith that leads to salvation is a gift and cannot be earned by good works. Grace is the unmerited favor and merciful kindness of God. Ephesians 2:8 8. For by grace (unmerited favor) you have been saved through faith, and that (faith) not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9. not of works, lest anyone should boast. Salvation Army officers are ordained ministers who must marry another Salvation Army officer. The Salvation Army relies on the money collected during the Christmas season to fund all of their programs and salaries throughout the entire year. Does this make any sense? You go to your Catholic church and when they pass the collection plate, you drop in a twenty dollar bill. When services are over, you walk across the street and listen to another sermon at a Salvation Army church and that message opposes the message that you heard at your Catholic church. When they pass the collection plate, you your drop in another twenty dollar bill. You do this week after week. Isn't this the classic definition of insanity? WHY WON’T THE NEWS MEDIA TELL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THAT THE SALVATION ARMY IS A RELIGION? THE SALVATION ARMY Why do businesses allow the Salvation Army to solicit money on their private property and don't allow other churches to solicit money? The answer is that most people don't know the truth. The Salvation Army is a religion just like any other religion; Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Episcopalians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, and Islam. If you want to contribute money at Christmas time, why don't you contribute to your own church or give to the Red Cross. You can click on the Salvation Army link to their web site and see what they believe. If you believe what they believe then by all means, give them your money. The Salvation Army believes that you have to earn your way to Heaven by doing various good works. You are saved by doing good works and you have to keep yourself saved by doing good works. This is essentially the difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Of course, one good work would be to stand in front of stores, ring a bell, and collect money for the Salvation Army. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and the people of the Salvation Army deny the essential truth of Ephesians 2:8 which says that even the faith that leads to salvation is a gift and cannot be earned. Grace is the unmerited favor and merciful kindness of God. Ephesians 2:8 8. For by grace (unmerited favor) you have been saved through faith, and that (faith) not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9. not of works, lest anyone should boast. Salvation Army officers are ordained ministers who must marry another Salvation Army officer. http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-text-dynamic-arrays/74BBD587C6A63FF585257435005C7EF0?openDocument

Having Children over and over just to scrounge off the benefit system should be a criminal offence punsihable by sterilisation and the removal of children.

If a person has multiple children and claims as much in welfare benefits as they can as a "family" there should be a punishment. They are stealing from the state and as they are stealing in such a way this would be a fitting punishment.

If you cannot feed or clothe your child, you lose him

It seems obvious that if a parent cannot feed or clothe their child, the child should be immediately removed to another set of parents who can. We can begin the process by removing children from parent(s) who received state assistance yet still refuse to parent the child. Parenting is not a right (although we think it is); it is a tremendous responsibility and a very serious undertaking.

Scrooge will become the spirit of Christmas

Christians should change the date of the celebration of Christ's birth. After all, it is already inappropriate and non-PC to mention His name this time of year. If that should happen, all celebration during this time of year would cease. That is, the so-called "winter festival", "winter holiday", whatever reconstruction they do to the nature of the celebration----it will fail (without Christ) and soon become a noncelebration. Because the spirit of Scrooge resides in the hearts of the secularists.

The Agenda

Grinding America Down

10 convictions and Escaped Jail for 20 Years.

In Scotland, Perth. There has been a man convicted 10 times before getting jailed, Ms Clark has asked the sheriff to not send him to jail, due to the fact that he hasn't assaulted anyone since 2010. But she was wrong, the man had assaulted three people in 1994 and 1996, he had then also assaulted two people in 1998 and 2001, then he assaulted another in 2007 and convicted again last year. He only kept getting fines and community services, despite all these convictions he has finally been jailed for only 5 months, do you think this was a fair sentence, yes or no, and reason for opinion? I think that this should have been seen to before his third assault that it was not helping him to stop. That he should have been jailed long ago. Do you think jail will sort this guy out?

Total selfishness is the new evolutionary basis for our morality

The current evidence from the Evolutionary Basis for Human Morality Science is showing that the gene for "empathy" has a much lower "penetrance" in current younger generations, than the dominant "selfish" gene. Therefore, the new morality is now controlled and based on being selfish and self-serving only. There is nothing we can do since it is all hardwired and controlled by our genes for survival and breeding through natural selection.

Trump Has Been Trumped

I'm sure he will be back as a new poster, but I think Trump has left the building.

Eeyore is the best character of the Winnie the Pooh stories

He's much cuter than tigger.

The mysterious IWillTrump can't handle a little mystery.

He won't play with me. I'm going to cry. I think I've scared him away.

Blade is also Melissa23.

She thought AR54 would like to know. I also admit, that I am NOT a multi-millionaire (I do have a fairly successful family, however). I am actually sitting at home using this site on an iPod. I still do, however, stand by all my opinions I have posted. The reason I know the connection between Blade and Melissa is she said she would tell me if their was one if I told her I was really a teenager. THIS IS ME THIS TIME. As you notice, I did remember to log in.

Iranian Diplomat's have '48 hours' to Leave the UK.

UK has expelled all Iranian diplomats due to the following attack of protesters on the embassy in Tehran. Foreign Secretary William Hague has ordered immediate closure of the Iranian embassy in London and leave within 48 hours. After Tuesdays attack by hundreds of protester's following Britains decision to impose further sanctions on Iran over nuclear programme. (seems clear the protester's weren't expecting this to happen). As this protest seems to be blamed on the Iranian diplomats. Mr Hague says "relations with the UK and Iran were now at their lowest level, but the UK was not severing relations with Tehran entirely,". Was this the right choice? I don't entirely know if it was a right thing to do, it all sorta depends on the circumstances of what happened and who started it. What is you views on this?

Clearly, I am not a successful businessman

This is IWillTrump, I forgot to log in again. I'm sure you all have figured out I am not a business man. Am I a bored housewife or a nerdy teenage kid? Oppose-bored housewife Support-nerdy kid

The current quote of the day is awesome

The Mark Twain one

More money does not create better public education

We have witnessed the demise of a good public education system into the dismal, prison-like system of today. This seems to be in direct correlation with more and more resources thrown into the dying system. There are obviously many causal factors for this sad trend. But certainly, pouring more and more resources into this sinkhole is rewarding failure. It is time to abandon public education, and start anew.

We are all slaves

Slavery was suppose to have ended in the US with the Emancipation Proclamation. However, over the past 70 years or so, our politics have regressed down a path of more and more private servitude to maintain the "public good." The "public good" (whatever that is and decided by whom?--most-likely those who serve in the public sectors) has increasingly brought the private sector to its knees in the form of laws that regulate every part of our lives. No need to go into all the details, but other than a few "sacred" private rights--like what goes on in my bedroom---we have become slaves to Big Brother.

My avatar is beautiful.

This was painted by the wonderul, lovely, sweet, and talented Damselfly.

A lot of people get their idea of what Britain is like from TV dramas such as Upstairs Downstairs

But I doubt things were anything like that even at the time they are meant to represent

And to the Republic for Witch It Stands

What do you get when you combine pagans, two witches, and the Air Force Academy? Eighty thousand taxpayer dollars. That's how much the government is spending in its pursuit of political correctness in the military. After a year's worth of work, the U.S. Air Force finished construction on an outdoor worship center for "wiccans, druids, and earth-worshippers"--despite not having a single one on its cadet roster. The USAF agreed to the project to accommodate "a civilian" and an "Air Force reservist" who demanded equal treatment for their faith.

Chuck Woolery On Budget Cuts

www.SaveUsChuckWoolery.com

Now that the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik escaped jail due to an insanity defense, I can safely do the same thing in Norway without fear.

It's ridiculous, how can you let such a mad man escape jail and only give him 3 years of psychiatric care? What if he does the same thing again when he gets out?

I think those who visit this site have had good parents

I know most of you from previous debate sites including this one. I have always enjoyed "tossing" various topics around with all of you. In general terms, your thoughtfulness, humor, willingness to keep at it, intellectual curiosity and so forth has been a real attraction to me. (That's the last nice thing I will ever say about all of you!). Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but I think it is. And, it is the debate topic--- I often try to look at the individuals I meet thru the lens of how their parents did in sending them out into the world. In other words, I kind of judge folks by their fruit. In this case the fruit is all of you (no disrespect intended). So, I would say your parents or surrogate parents did a good job in producing "good fruit".

It is quite a wonder that people who are so lazy that they think it's a huge inconvenience to press "1" for English can manage to dress themselves in the morning.

People don't like illegal immigrants being here, I get that, and it's a valid point, but there's no reason for us to force everyone who comes here to learn our language when no one in this country is expected to learn a lick of theirs. Saying that everyone has to speak the same language is tantamount to saying everyone has to belong to the same religion, everyone has to work for the same employer, everyone has to dress the same way, etc.

Never buy a second hand object, until you know it works.

I have seen a lot of second hand games, second hand cars and more. But what I have noticed is that people buy it and not check the problems it has. For example: my brother bought a game called grand theft auto San Andreas, at a game shop. It was a second hand and when he tried to play it, he noticed it was totally broken and scratched. He had to buy another one because he binned the receipt. But what I am trying to say, people should check if the second hand object is worth buying and if it works properly like a first hand object.

All Apple Products Are Ridiculously Overpriced For Their Hardware.

From FAA, ported here To give them credit their O.S. Is quite simple to use. (but nowhere as much uses as other O.S. Systems.)

Truth must be stranger than fiction for our survival

G. K. Chesterton wrote, "Truth must be stranger than fiction, because we have made fiction to suit ourselves." In other words, to me it seems that truth must be so "amazing" that it strikes each of us at our core like a bolt of lightening. If we don't perceive truth with this type of intensity, it seems we will go thru life living the "fiction" we create. Living in a fictional world spells out nonsurvival. I know the Nonbelievers will say that Believers are the best fiction writers for life, and vice versa. But, I think the words that Chesterton wrote are very true.

Most non wealthy people measure their hard work by their labor, Most defenders of the wealthy and the wealthy measure their hard work based on how much money they accumulated.

My opinion.

Quantum potential will lead many folks to God

The more I read about quantum mechanics, better described as Quantum Potentials, the more it leads me to and verifies the existence of a Creator and Sustainer. Science is demonstrating how "quantum potentials" are immaterial, omnipresent, omnipotent, ageless and the ground of all being. Yet the quantum potential is not really a "something" at all, at least in a materialistic, physical universe. Those under the spell of naturalism and materialism (no supernaturalism allowed), in their fundamentalism, will claim the "holes" in our understanding of quantum mechanics (potentials) will eventually be plugged by science and physical "mortar." Others will see that a godless universe is truly inadequate to explain this reality of quantum potentials.

I waited until after I turned 16 to have sex

I'm just curious who did or didn't and why.

IWillTrump is very silly

nuff said

I am not responsible for the sins of my father.

It is enough to try and be the best person you can be. Whatever wrongs your ancestors may or may not have committed only have meaning as a lesson or a caution.

The legal age to have sex should be raised to 18

The ants in France stay mostly on the plants. This is IWillTrump, I forgot to log in again. In almost everywhere in the US, you must be only 16 years old to have sex. This should be raised to 18, as it would help prevent teenage pregnancy. I can't wait to have sex.

This is a great start to a series of short stories.

I read it and I liked it: http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Got-In-A-Relationship-With-My-Twin/1912493

You shouldn't sleep with virgins, they're really bad at it.

I had this unfortunate experience just a few hours ago. Fortnately I was able to rectify this an hour later with a much more experienced person. Virgins are terrible in bed.

Most rich people don't brag or even tell people they are wealthy.

Celebrities and professional athletes give a false impression of how most rich people are. Most of the time you wouldn't notice them around. According to the book, a millionaire Next Door, most live in middle class communities with cars between 4 to 7 years old.

You Should Be Able To Put '50-Time FAA Star Of The Day' On Your Resume

FAA 'Star Of the Day' is a prestigious award, and people who strive to earn this award and achieve their goal should be able get some recognition, and include it on their resume.

Clothing should be required to cost the Sam for men and women

women's clothing is more expensive and it's unfair. We have to buy much more clothes than men because of our bodies (like bras)

Lost Luggage Is Unacceptable

How many people on here have flown and the airline has lost your luggage? I think it's not acceptable. Has UPS ever lost your package? If it has, it probably only happened once. How come mailing something by the postal service has so much higher of a chance of reaching it's destination than checking a bag? I think the airlines are often much more careless with luggage, and that's why they lose it so often.

A male techy (nerd) could not tolerate a female airhead (dumb blonde syndrome) IN A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP

It appears I didn't make myself clear in the other debate. So here is a new one with a subtle change. Long Term Relationship. i.e. compatibility issues. Not shagging.

Letting a child become obese constitutes medical neglect

http://gawker.com/5862838/dont-let-your-kid-get-too-fat-unless-you-want-them-taken-away

Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air is the best airline to fly on within North America

On all the flights I have been on, they have never lost any luggage or done anything that really got me mad. These are things I could not say about American Airlines, United Airlines, or Delta Airlines.

Briefs are better than boxers.

My BF wanted me to start this debate. Here is his argument: Briefs are better than boxers because they hold the testicles in place much better than boxers and it is also easier to hide an erection in briefs.

For And Against - The Best Place To State Your Case, Without Opposition

For and Against is a good place to debate if you don't want to hear anyone's opinions but your own.

YickYak Should Include A 'Not Sure' Option On The Gender Selection

They have included a 'Not Sure' selection for political and religious stances, so surely they should consider letting people nominate that they are 'Not Sure' of their gender whilst it is being clarified by a qualified doctor or nurse.

If It is Illegal To Deface Or Mutilate Currency Due To The Fact That It Harms The Economy, Then It Should Be Illegal To Displace Currency (eg. Throw It Down A Well, Bury It)

There are currently laws in place regarding the defacing of currency, but surely greater harm could be caused by people displacing currency, so that although it is in usable form, it cannot ever be recovered.

Black People Who Cannot Win Gold Medals At The Olympic Athletics or Basketball Should Instead Paint Themselves White To Secure A Skerrick Of A Future

If a black person cannot achieve greatness at the Olympics, they probably have no future in society, and should paint themselves white to give them and their families some hope of escaping the ghettos.

Giving Birth is far more painful than getting Kicked in the Nuts.

Guys, imagine trying to shove an entire turkey or watermelon out of your anus. It probably hurts far worse than being kicked in the groin, and is a fairer comparison anyway.

Moreno Should Spend Less Time Debating, And More Time Protecting Gotham City

Ever since 'The Dark Knight' was filmed, Batman (using his online alias - Moreno) has been slacking off. Instead of defending Gotham City from the evil Joker, he has been surfing the web. What a disgrace.

Damselfly should post her story about FAA

She is really a good writer. Her story had me laughing so hard I was crying.

Homeless People Should Buy Themselves A House, Rather Than Living On The Streets

Why don't they just buy themselves a house? It's really not that difficult...

We should build Orbiting Cities instead of clearing Rainforest.

Several Reasons: 1) The number of orbiting cities you can have is limited only by the minerals you can mine, and we've got a lot of asteroids in this solar system. 2) We can create more rainforest, snow, savannah, etc. within the floating cities, allowing us to save endangered species from habitat destruction and poaching. 3) It makes colonising the rest of the solar system easier, because floating cities can be moved.

The Death Penalty is not a Punishment.

I watched the film "Identity" a while ago, in which an insane serial killer's lawyers were trying to get him off the Death Penalty. Their argument was, "If he is to be punished, he must understand WHY he is being punished." Meanwhile I was thinking, "Who cares? Once he's dead he won't understand anything!" The purpose of a punishment is to correct behaviour, and the Death Penalty cannot do that. I'm not saying we should abolish the practice based on that, because I can think of many people who NEED to be executed. But let's be honest: we either want revenge or we want the threat eliminated, we don't care about "punishing".

Solely from an economic standpoint same sex marriage is a very good idea.

In the UK a recent poll showed that just over 80,000 gay couples expressed the wish to have a proper wedding. It is estimated that most couples would spend between £5,000 and £20,000 on a wedding. In general the gays have a lot of expendable income. If all 80,000 were to get married the overall total spend would be between £4 billion and £16 billion. We're talking large sums of money here, economically speaking it's a winner.

This is ridiculously cool, and will give you a dozen heart attacks

We might need to get Damselfly to translate the beginning dialogue into English but it doesn't really matter anyway

Everyone talks about meeting the right person, no one talks about being the right person.

If you can't be the right person too it doesn't matter if you meet mister or missus AAA right; it just ain't going to work.

E-book devices have their time and place but they will not fully replace printed books

I can see lots of great uses for E-book devices, from school textbooks to travel libraries to interactive grade school readers. However, 1) tech leapfrogs every few years so eventually you'll have problems reading the library you built, or with the device itself, or both. Frankly planned obsolescence will become a factor as always. How will you feel when the book you bought once you have to buy again for a new device? 2) There are places some don't want to carry an electronic device (bathroom, bad neighborhood, public event, etc). 3) If we went purely digital eventually libraries would be a thing of the past and I suspect society isn't ready to ditch libraries yet. 4) There will always be some in society so poor as to not afford electronic devices. 5) There will always be some texts considered so sacred or utilitarian they'll be printed (the Bible, dictionaries, etc.).

It Is Wrong To Spray Your Cat With Fly-Spray For No Reason

It is completely unnecessary, and it is possible, but not proven, that the cats dislike it.

The man in the video shown here deserves the Death Penalty.

Profanity should be openly accepted

And I'm not even going to use profanity to advance this point: 1) "sticks and stones...", 2) What's profane in one subculture may not be in another, 3) If all are exposed to profanities they lose their taboo, 4) If they lose their taboo people will come up with other ways to express themselves, anyway, some may even stop cussing, 5) The visual entertainments largely accepted in society are already more crass and more violent than profanity, 6) In countries with constitutionally protected freedom of expression a good case could be made that profanity is among the protected. Think about it, you can burn your country's flag for expression, and it can be shown on TV, but you can't play a cuss word on TV. Ridiculous. 7) Children will eventually be exposed to cuss words no matter how hard you try to shield them.

George Michael's illness is very suspect.

I'm not usually the person to partake in such conjecture but George Michael has been suffering from a nasty bout of pneumonia, now this is common amoungst young people who burn the candles at both ends so to speak but it can also be a common illness for those suffering from Acquired Immunodeficiency. Given that Michael has been so ill over recent months and given his very sorid past it isn't that big jump to make when looking towards a conclusion. Of course we have to hope this speculation is wrong and he gets well soon.

taking god's name in vain is way worse than homosexuality

Blasphemers within any faith outnumber gays in the population yet they go unchecked, allowed to hold opinions and judge others on God's behalf. Anyone would think God wasn't capable of visiting His own retribution on sinners if that's what He actually wanted

Since Craft Beers Typically Are Stronger Than Mainstream Lagers It's Really More Macho To Drink The Craft Beers Than The Others, Despite Lager Ad Campaigns To The Contrary

Mainstream beers are clear, light, watery, and relatively weak flavored. How is choosing that beer every time more macho than a craft brewer's imperial stout or a quad from Belgium? It's not. It's just advertising lies, for suckers, for folks unwilling to try something new or different or stronger.

A male techy (nerd) could not tolerate a female airhead (dumb blonde syndrome)

You would think they would be the perfect match but the male nerd would be too impatient and condescending toward the airhead.

I should start a red neck debate site.

Occultdude gave me an idea when he said this site must have been designed by a red neck. I am going to start my own. I will have good topics like Country music, booze, pick up trucks, the number of teeth we have, which cousin is the best lover, and good eatin. What do you think? Any other topic suggestions?

If I were god then I would use evolution to spread life.

It's a near perfect self maintaining system. Start with a little spark of life and it becomes something that adapts and changes to meet environmental changes on its own.

the Religion options on here are too limiting

where's Miller got to?

To follow an ethical code because of fear of hell is the ethics of a child.

If you do something that you feel is wrong because you fear hell then you are immoral and simply ruled by fear. Just like a child that doesn't understand why but tries to avoid breaking the rules because it knows it will get in trouble.

A god that would send a good person to hell for not for not believing the exact right mythology is an evil god.

Nobody should support a god like that.

Let's boycott "Black Friday" and shopping the whole weekend after Thanksgiving

Just imagine the panick that would result. Media and government sources both baffled folks aren't out spending fistloads of cash on holiday presents. Stocks fluttering with uncertainty. Sales throught to be megasales needing to be rethought to be even cheaper. Hey folks, I have yet to see any really really good holiday sales anyway, because they all just want to make maximum profit during "black" shopping. If you scare the crap out of them by all not showing up then they'll really put on the sales.

The Region options on here are too limiting.

I'm from New Zealand, but they don't have my region as an option on the profile. They just have "Asia", "Africa", "Europe", "South America" and several different "United F*cking States, B*tch!" options. I don't fit any of those categories! And what if I'm in Antarctica or International Waters?

Book Yakkers seems to be an interesting little feature of this site.

I'm surprised it's not used more often.

I think SmartPerson is Proby

so there! Nur nur

Dingy.com :(

This is a stupid debate, but I want to see who is in the land of the living or the land of the dead. As it says in the title dingy.com.

British Schools affected by Union Strike!

Is it fair that schools in Britian have to be closed down for a strike, what is so important, kids getting educated or striking. The government is says "this strike will cost us thousands and will increase the amount of job losses". But the union disagrees by saying "no it won't, we have been counting the figures". Is it that important to go on a strike, but have a day off which might have a down fall on kids that could be learning. The year I am in is the toughest year, I only have till January till the prelim exams come up, but then till may till the actual exams come up, there is far too much holidays which will make things a little hard to keep concentration. Is this strike right or wrong to do?

Thanksgiving is more a day of food gluttony than any thing.

I just think its an excuse to eat excessively. The gyms will be packed the following day and i'm sure during the week of thanksgiving a large amount of fiber and laxatives are purchased. Most people will eat about 6000 calories before the day ends. And than another 4 or 5,000 calories the following day in leftovers.

One article states, "Astoundingly, it's estimated that the average adult will consume nearly 3,000 calories, just during the typical Thanksgiving or Christmas meal. This figure doesn't even account for the extra calories consumed during the Thanksgiving pre-game (appetizers) and dessert time! Add those in and you could easily be pushing 4500 calories total for the day! That's double the calories an average man or woman consumes on any other day. Whitt notes that doubling the caloric intake on one given day can be seriously detrimental to your health."

Personally the NY Times article is being nice. I think Americans will eat more. Big mac, fries and soda is almost 2,000 calories. So I honestly think people will eat close to 6000 calories.

You don't always die from tobacco

Sometimes you just lose a lung.

Smartperson should be banned.

S/he has done nothing for this site but post flames and sex-related topics. Smartperson also asked for Hasdass to post inappropriate photographs of himself, not only harming his self-esteem, but also causing YickYak and FAA to lose a great debater. I suggested to Hasdass that he could just contact the site administrator and ban Smartperson, but I also think it would help if everyone on here left a message on his/her yakker board demanding that they leave immidiatly. I have already done this, and I am also prepared to help Hasdass pursue legal action against the offender.

Hasdass is a loser

We know it's the truth.

There Is A Double Standards When You Have Grown Woman Over 30 Who Can Publicly Admire Male Teens Looks Vs Men Publicly admiring Female Teens.

I say this because of the popular movie and books Twilight. When I watch the news or entertainment shows, the women (grown women, mothers) going goo goo over the teen male actors in the movie. If men did that over the teen actresses, there would be serious backlash toward that man.

I'm leaving for good

smartperson has chased me off this site by attempting to get me to post pictures of me in the nude, I am leaving for good.

Hate Speech Should Not Be Illegal in Nations with Constitutionally Protected Freedom of Speech

So you have a right to express most anything you want... except a very strong opinion of hate?! Doesn't seem right. And hey I'm not a hateful person, or bigot, or maniac. I just don't understand why a nation can stand for free speech but then say there's certain statements or labels or even symbols you can't use because they're too inflammatory. The answer to hate speech is for the non-hateful people to speak up too.

I believe Iwilltrump and Aetherium are the same person.

Just read their responses.

Restrooms should not be gender-segregated.

Just like racial segration, it should be illegal.

Everyone knows I am a complete and total moron. This is IWillTrump, I forgot to log in again

Read this cartoon: http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/6f3c5585-0baf-460b-87c0-fa92d8ce818c.html This is IWillTrump (forgot to log in)

Circumstation is wierd.

I mean, why would a man want his penis cut?

People are getting Teasing and Bullying confused.

Teasing: Teasing occurs when you playfully poke fun at each other and neither party feels hurt. Everyone may have a good laugh but it is all in fun. Most importantly, playful teasing is not directed at someone’s difference, such as religion, ethnicity, speech or appearance.

Do feelings get hurt occasionally within your social circle? For 99% of us the answer is probably, “YES.” As adults, most of us have learned how to handle these incidents without a great deal of drama, but that’s because we have had practice! Unfortunately, our kids have to go through some of these experiences in order to get practice and become experts in shrugging off minor issues and confronting big ones appropriately. However, just because teasing is normal doesn’t mean it is nice or should be tolerated.

Bullying: Bullying is intentional. This means that the bully intends to hurt the other person. Bullying also involves an imbalance of power, like an older child bullying a younger one. Bullying is also an aggressive and negative behaviour. Bullying can happen over and over. chronic misbehavior targeting a specific individual or group with the intention of causing physical or emotional harm. If the situation is not chronic, aimed toward a particular person, or causing harm, than it probably falls into the category of teasing. This is an important distinction when you discuss the situation with your child or child’s teacher. Calling everything “bullying” tends to seem exaggerated and may make your child feel like a real victim with little power and they may be reluctant to engage with other students again. How you present your information (and how often) may also affect the way in which situations are handled by your child’s teacher or school.

God Does Not Exist

Haha! Everyone kept talking about FAA and older debates that I decided to re-create one. Can't use your same answers from FAA though!! That's the only rule.

Gun Control Is Not Kosher

Do Jewish "Gun Control" Advocates Fuel Anti-Semitism? by Rabbi Dovid Bendory, Rabbinic Director, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Copyright 2011 JPFO *** Anti-Jewish rhetoric is increasingly apparent in America. It surfaced recently at some "Occupy" protest locations. Anti-Jewish vandals defaced a New York City neighborhood just a few days ago. Opinion polls regarding anti-Jewish sentiment mean very little in this regard. Short of a fanatic, who is going to candidly answer a question from a complete stranger asking if they distrust or hate Jews? No, distrust or hatred of Jews is far more likely to be discussed among friends in closed settings. Remarkably, in the face of the growing overt anti-Jewish sentiment, Jews remain overwhelmingly supportive of so-called "gun control" policies. While exact statistics are hard to come by, we can logically extrapolate from the 78% of Jews who voted for Obama in 2008 to conclude that the overwhelming majority of American Jews support the Democrat agenda, including citizen disarmament, the so-called "gun control" schemes. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership has, for more than twenty years, placed "gun control" in quotes. This innocuous phrase is actually a form of deceptive semantic trickery. "Gun control" ALWAYS means gun registration. Gun registration is a means by which governments know which citizens are armed, and with what types of firearms. In every major genocide of the last one hundred years (including the Holocaust), the victim group was first officially disarmed. Far too often, "gun control" has historically ended in gun confiscation … followed by the hell of genocide. The equation is simple: A government-gone-bad cannot disarm the citizenry if it does not know who owns the guns. This nation (along with the rest of the world) is now entering a destabilized economic situation unmatched by anything since the 1930s. Societal upheaval is a prime breeding ground for intolerance and bigotry. Anger and frustration seek easy targets. What group has historically been on the top of the scapegoat list? From strictly a Jewish point of view, the grotesquely misguided stance of self disarmament among Jews could someday become suicidal for the individual Jew, or G-d forbid, for American Jews as a whole. See: "No Guns For Jews" and "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny". Over and over again, Aaron Zelman, the late founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO), would say: "Considering our history, of all the ethic groups on Earth, Jews should be the most dedicated group advocating the right to keep and bear arms." From a broader perspective, we find many Christians in America who believe in the prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures, revere the Ten Commandments, and have an instinctive affection and respect for the Jewish People. Should the situation arise, many of these devout Christians would step forward as Righteous Gentiles in defense of their "theological brothers." But try to imagine how such Gentiles feel about overwhelming Jewish support for gun prohibition. Jews arguing for the disarmament of America’s citizenry must baffle (and even anger) our well-meaning Gentile neighbors. It is bad enough that so many Jews give up their own right to self-defense … but to also force others to do the same, by promoting the disarmament of our law-abiding, patriotic American brethren who would stand and defend us? This is both illogical and self-destructive on the part of the Jews who cry out for an unarmed populace. As a demographic group, the millions of Christian fundamentalists in America are among the staunchest supporters of Jews and Israel. (I won’t get into the politics of Israel here. It has been JPFO’s longstanding policy to not stray far from issues related closely to the Second Amendment or the Bill of Rights). Christian fundamentalists -- who are said to "cling to their Bibles and their guns" -- tend to be from more rural areas where firearms have been a way of life for generations. Their Biblical beliefs are rooted deeply in the Old Testament. There is a lot of common ground, in a moral and religious sense, that Jews share with Christian fundamentalists. And yet, here come the liberal Jews, like Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Charles Schumer, Senator Barbara Boxer and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (among others) pushing the most idiotic and dangerous "gun control" schemes one can imagine. This is NOT GOOD. The "Jewishness" of "gun control" must be countered. It must be confronted and reversed with immediate urgency. Pragmatically, Jews may someday need to not only take an armed stance ourselves, but do so supported by our armed non-Jewish brethren. Morally, the Torah teaches that self-defense, even with lethal force when warranted, is a G-d given right and obligation. This is not negotiable. Self defense, and the defense of the innocent, is a COMMAND of G-d A-mighty. See, "No Guns For Jews". And yet Jewish proponents of "gun control" have gained a disturbing prominence and momentum. Jewish billionaires Michael Bloomberg and George Soros spend unknown sums of money advancing not only domestic "gun control" schemes, but a global "gun control" blueprint as well. Jews in favor of the right of self defense and the right to keep and bear arms (and our numbers are significant and thankfully growing) must speak out loudly and frequently against the Bloombergs and the Soroses and the Feinsteins and the Schumers. We must match their millions and their political clout with the volume of our voices, with the lessons of history, and with common sense. We must make it clear that "gun control" is NOT KOSHER. Twenty one years ago, a visionary American Jew, Aaron Zelman, established JPFO to fight this righteous battle. I ask all my Jewish brothers and sisters to join JPFO and utilize the immense depth of JPFO’s pro-freedom resources to educate themselves regarding these issues. Then use JPFO’s "intellectual ammunition" to emphatically confront your gun phobic Jewish friends, family members and neighbors about the severe dangers that come packaged with "gun control". Willfully embraced defenselessness is an affront to our lives, our freedom, and to our G-d. Blessings of Shalom, Rabbi Dovid Bendory Rabbinic Director Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (http://jpfo.org) Rabbi Bendory is an NRA Certified Firearms Instructor. http://jpfo.org/rabbi/rabbi-anti-semitic-jewish-gc.htm

It is no more wrong to bully homosexuals than any other group of people.

Just because homosexuals are a special interest group doesn't mean that we should make believe that it's worse for them to be bullied than anyone else; bullying is bullying regardless of who the target is, and homosexuals are FAR from being the only targets, as the are FAR from being the only people who experience suicidal depression.

Wall Street has become the Las Vegas Strip

I'm tired of hearing about people who invest in high risk high reward stocks and don't do their research. The majority of my assets are not publicly traded (you'll notice The William Trump Corporation is not on the stock exchange), but when I do buy into other companies I do my research. Now businesses are failing for many reasons, but one of the main ones is lack of leadership. In many cases, their is either too many owners to make good decisions, or the owners don't no what they are doing or both. My suggestion is that people do their research, and maybe put some restrictions on the number of owners a corporation can have. I know, "restrictions on corporations" does sound odd coming from me, but it seems like a simple way to stop companies from failing.

anyone who is anything of great value to society is either gay or Jewish

or in the case of Alan Turing, both

Men Shouldn't Urinate While Standing

It is unfair they can urinate while standing and women can't.

We Can't Wait

We Can't Wait By Charles Krauthammer *** In 2008, the slogan was 'Yes We Can.' For 2011-12, it's 'We Can't Wait.' What happened in between? Candidate Obama, the vessel into which myriad dreams were poured, met the reality of governance. ... Never mind that you had control of the Congress for two-thirds of your current tenure. It's all the fault of Republican rejectionism. Hence: 'We Can't Wait.' We can't wait while they obstruct. We can't wait while they dither with my jobs bill. Write Congress today! Vote Democratic tomorrow! We can't wait. Except for certain exceptions, such as the 1,700-mile trans-USA Keystone XL pipeline, carrying Alberta oil to Texas refineries, that would have created thousands of American jobs and increased our energy independence. For that, we can wait, it seems. President Obama decreed that any decision must wait 12 to 18 months -- postponed, by amazing coincidence, until after next year's election. Why? Because the pipeline angered Obama's environmental constituency. But their complaints are risible. Global warming from the extraction of the Alberta tar sands? Canada will extract the oil anyway. If it doesn't go to us, it will go to China. Net effect on the climate if we don't take that oil? Zero. ... 'The administration,' reported The New York Times, 'had in recent days been exploring ways to put off the decision until after the presidential election.' Exploring ways to improve the project? Hardly. Exploring ways to get past the election. ... Sure, the pipeline would have produced thousands of truly shovel-ready jobs. Sure, delay could forfeit to China a supremely important strategic asset -- a nearby, highly reliable source of energy. But approval was calculated to be a political loss for the president. ... We can't wait.

The only cool debates at FAA are years old

I went over there today and saw a couple of comments on some interesting sounding debates. When I went to them they were both from 2008, and I had debated on them years ago.

Just because you side with a gay person it does not mean you are gay

I've been called gay here recently just because I sided with a gay person in a debate. My views on personal freedoms do not influence my sexual orientation.

You should comment in someone's latest debate before posting a new debate.

I think its proper courtesy to respond to someone's debate that is the "latest" before you create a new debate becoming the "latest" debate. What do you think?

Puerto Rico Shows Washington the Way

Puerto Rico Shows Washington the Way By: Deroy Murdock *** The gridlocked members of the congressional supercommittee should grab President Barack Obama and decamp to a tropical island. Specifically, they should visit Puerto Rico, where a courageous leader is using free-market reforms to reinvigorate this recently moribund U.S. territory. "We are clearly pro-growth," says Republican Gov. Luis G. Fortuno. "And we do not apologize for that." Fortuno last Tuesday hosted a delegation of conservatives who floated into San Juan aboard the Holland America Line's MS Eurodam, site of National Review magazine's latest Caribbean cruise. Fortuno was inaugurated on Jan. 2, 2009, just 18 days before Obama. Since then, these two officials have marched in opposite directions, with opposite results. "We were closer to the abyss than most states," Fortuno says. "When I came into office, we were facing not just the worst recession since the '30s, but the worst budget deficit in America, proportionally. We were literally broke. We did not have enough money to meet our first payroll. We had to take out a loan to do that. At that point, my wife asked me if we could ask for a recount." So, unlike the free-spending Obama, and George W. Bush before him, Fortuno declares: "We cut expenses." Fortuno gave himself a 10-percent pay cut. He trimmed his agency heads' salaries by 5 percent. That bought him the credibility to chop overall spending by 20 percent. He booted some 20,000 government workers, through attrition as well as layoffs, saving $935 million. (Compare that to Bush-Obama's 11.7 percent hike in federal civilian headcount since the Great Recession began in December 2007 — excluding temporary census jobs.) Fortuno has shifted remaining government workers from old-fashioned, statist, defined-benefit pensions to modern, market-friendly, defined-contribution plans. Ranked No. 51 in 2009, behind each of the United States, in terms of deficit-to-revenue, Puerto Rico now is 15th, with the $3.3 billion deficit Fortuno inherited (44 percent of revenues) now down to $610 million (7.1 percent). Fortuno's reforms, including merging government agencies, led Standard and Poor's to upgrade Puerto Rico's credit rating for the first time in 28 years. S and P, of course, famously downgraded U.S. sovereign debt last August, a historical first. Meanwhile, America's national debt screamed past the $15 trillion mark on Wednesday. Fortuno has sliced taxes. The corporate tax rate plunged last January 1 from 41 percent to 30 percent, en route to 25 percent in 2014. He cut average individual tax rates by one quarter this year and in half within six years. "You needed to obtain an average of 28 permits and endorsements to do anything," Fortuno says, regarding regulatory relief. "You had to go to 20-plus different agencies to do that. Today, you go to one agency, and you get your permit there, or you can go to PR.gov, and get it online. We have created a better business climate, and it shows." A five-year property-tax holiday and the scrapping of capital gains and death taxes have helped push existing home sales up 35 percent this year (while they fell 7.9 percent on the Mainland) and new home sales soaring 92.2 percent (as they sagged 9.9 percent up north) CVS, Nordstrom's, Pet Smart, P.F. Chang's, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Victoria's Secret all are opening in Puerto Rico. "They're coming in brand new, for the first time, ever," Fortuno says. Honeywell and Merck are expanding manufacturing facilities. Venezuela's Banesco is the first new bank to open in Puerto Rico in 13 years. "We are moving in the right direction," Fortuno smiles. "We are creating jobs in the private sector, not in the public sector, the way we should be. So, we can keep lowering taxes." Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher are among Fortuno's inspirations. Volumes by and about those visionaries grace Fortuno's bookshelves. A small sign on his desk replicates one in Reagan's Oval Office. It explains Luis G. Fortuno's success, begs Washington to listen, and simply says: "It CAN be done." Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Email him at deroy.Murdock@gmail.com

It should not cost money to access your money in a bank

Just speaking conceptually, if the money in a bank is yours and you want to remove it some way (teller, ATM, write a check, pay bill online) it shouldn't cost you to access what legally the bank agrees belongs to you. So fees for ATMs, too many withdrawals, too many checks, insufficient minimum balance, they're all just standing in the way of you and your money and siphoning more off for the bank. Yeah I'm sure someone will slap technical reasons against this.

employers have the right to curb your appearance

If you have purple hair or dress like a Goth, your employer has the right to ask you to tone it down

Obama doesn't exist, he's a alien puppet for a intergalatic race of space monsters

We will take over your world.

evolution is wrong

come here Lynn and OD

It's time Lynn and OD came over to YY

and LD too

Audio Editorials Are Bset To Use To Debate

I was wondering if anyone has tried doing one and their experiences with it.

Occupy A Garden

Occupy A Garden by Jason Akers I like protests as much as the next guy. There’s no better way to say, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore" than by … literally saying, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!” But protest without proper action to back up your claims and demands gives a protest very little meaning. Protesting not to protect what you have but rather to get what you didn’t work for is futile and unworthy. In other words, how many of the ninety-nine percent have done anything to lessen their dependence upon the systems that they so abhor – government or corporations? How many are willing to shrug off the thought that the government could provide them everything they need? How many are aware than in a fascist oligarchy that no difference exists? I listened to Afterburner with Bill Whipple and it really drove home a few points and some hypocrisy. Love/hate relationships are so complicated! As an advocate of sustainable gardening my point, in this roundabout way, is that one cannot claim corporate greed is robbing you of your future if you won’t learn to dig in the soil. Saving the “what’s wrong with this generation is …” talk, it’s much easier to blame corporations or the government than to actually do what’s hard – like taking a shovel to the ground. *** Corporations: There’s almost nothing that can’t be cured by gardening. If you don’t like corporations the solution is simple – you have to wean yourself off of them. But don’t be fooled, chances are you will need something a corporation makes and you’ll be happy to have it when the need exists. But food doesn’t have to come from a corporation and it doesn’t have to come from a tin can, a box in the freezer or out of a plastic bag. It comes from the soil. But it takes work and you can’t cede your responsibility any longer. If you want to eat you are going to have to work for it. You can’t spit in the faces of the people who make what you willingly give your money for. But working for it also has its benefits. Instead of ceding your responsibilities you can do the work and become fit and able and learn. You will also save money in the long run. Take that – evil corporations (sarcasm intended)! *** Government: For the other side it’s almost as tempting to claim helplessness due to excessive government intervention. I hate government and I’d be an anarchist if it weren’t so anarchistic. Think about it, in the garden there is no government. Just try to lead, exert your influence. Have you ever tried to regulate a ladybug? Passed a law against squash bugs? Declared a war on weeds? If you want to avoid government there’s an easy way. Deprive them of the money that you rightfully owe them just for existing – taxes. The government can only steal from you because you allow it. We grin and bear a lot of these taxes. If you want to work and buy all those nice toys from corporations you have to earn money. But what if you could avoid hundreds of dollars in taxes per year by digging a hole and putting a seed in? By growing your own food you avoid paying a corporation and the double taxes (those from your purchase and those the corporation passed on!). Or what do I know? Maybe holding a sign and chanting works just as well. *** Something for Nothing: My problem with the occupy movement is that they want something for nothing. Well not all of them and I’m going to hear that not everyone there is a socialist shill. That may be true but when three out of four news interviews involve someone griping that no one has stepped up and paid their student loan I get aggravated. Maybe it’s because I paid my tuition as I went. But just to humor those who want something for nothing. It isn’t happening. But the next best thing though is planting a garden. Where else can you do a little work (and work is a four letter word to some) and get so much in return? For the price of a seed (less than pennies) you can get pounds of produce (value measured in dollars). There’s your something for nothing. I did the calculations one time and a pack of broccoli seeds that sold for a few bucks could produce hundreds of dollars worth of produce. And you don’t have to sell your soul, or get on your knees and beg the government for it. *** Conclusion: Like I said, protest has its place. I’d be glad to speak out and do what is necessary to defend my inalienable rights. However, when I can get what I need with a little work and not taking the easy way out I’m going to do it. I’ll continue to take my son to the garden and I’ll continue to teach him. And one day he’ll ask, “daddy, where were you when the occupy movement was happening?”I’ll say, “Right here – with you – occupying a garden.” Reprinted from The Self-Sufficient Gardener with the author's permission. November 18, 2011 Jason Akers [send him mail] is The Self-Sufficient Gardener or at least hopes to be. Copyright © 2011 The Self-Sufficient Gardener

Women Should Be Able To Go Topless While Bathing

I think that women should be alowwed to go topless anyplace where a man can. It is unfair that they can show their chests, but we have to cover our breasts.

Phones should be allowed in the classroom

you need something 'decent' to fidget with

Making cookie monster refer to cookies as "sometimes food" is a violation of his freedom of speech

This great thing has been entertaining for years and deserves to be treated more respectivly than this.

People That Need To Point Out Their Own Good Qualities Usually Do Not Have Those Qualities

Example: A person that refers to themselves as intelligent, generous, or caring over and over probably is not what they say they are. If a person possesses such qualities, there is no need to point it out. Others will see it on their own.

ObamaCare is a violation of the free market, and the government should instead go to the root of the problem.

ObamaCare (PPACA) is a violation of the free market because it puts restrictions on health insurance providers. They don't need these restrictions; their is still a very competive health insurance market, and thus this kind of restrictions are unneeded. It just increases the amount of money the government and the compainines need. What the government should put funds towards instead are researching ways to make medical care cheaper. Then everybody would have to pay less!

Why should Christmas holidays just be for Christians?

Seriously why should it? Christians celebrate it for the birth of Christ. But many non religious people celebrate it to meet up with family, some or most people are too busy to even meet their families, but holidays allow them to do so. I have noticed that Christmas brings the whole family (not parts, the whole family) together, while other holidays just allows them to meet up with parts of their family. So why should Christmas just be for Christians? Two words I just need to say, IT DOESN'T!

The US is gradually becoming a Socialism.

In the past hundred years, many socialistic policies have been enacted in the United States (Homeless Shelters, Food Stamps, Social Security, Unemployment Benefits, ObamaCare, etc. ). These policies will start effecting the economic system in a negative way, and something should be done to stop them!

Holidays hold social value even if you might disagree with the origins of them

Thanksgiving is a great family gathering, although Native Americans say it celebrates their genocide. Halloween is great fun for kids though the religous might think it's evil. Cinco de Mayo is a fun excuse for Mexican food and cerveza or tequila even though you may not be Mexican or you might be French and that holiday remembers a victory over the French. Christmas gifts and decorations and lore are fun for kids though the strictest Christians may be offended by the whole thing. No matter what the holiday you can take what you want from it and ignore what you don't like. Kids and families don't need to overthink these things, just choose some things good for the family and go with it regardless of whether the origin or meaning or custom behind it is something you 100% agree with.

All US Interstates Speed Limits Should Be Raised To 75 MPH, And Rual Portions Should Have No Limit

People simply need to get to where they are going faster than they used to. This policy would help that. Many people may be concerned about the extra incedence of accidents this may cause. But you should know that in the German Highway System, which has much higher speed limits than other nations and in some places none, actually has a much lower accidents on their Autobahns than the US Interstate System. You also may be concerned on the effects on fuel economy this could have. Many people are still under the impression that 60 mph is the most fuel efficient speed to drive at. But now this is no longer the case. Over the past 20 years, the average cars engine power has increased quite a bit, which also increases their most efficient driving speed. A new McLaren, for example, is most efficient cruising at 142 MPH.

Homework should be banned

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Democrats Defeat Balanced Budget Amendment

The national debt now exceeds $15 trillion for the first time in our nation's history. Obummer has increased the national debt at a faster pace than any president in U.S. history. In response to Obama's out-of-control spending, Speaker John Boehner demanded a vote on a balanced budget amendment as part of the recent deal to increase the debt limit. A May Mason-Dixon poll found that 65% of Americans support a balanced budget amendment, including 81% of Republicans, 68% of independents and 45% of Democrats. The House of Representatives, under Speaker Boehner's leadership, did vote on a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. Needing a two-thirds majority to pass, the amendment failed 261-to-165. Democrats defeated it. House Republicans were virtually unanimous with 98% supporting the amendment. But it still fell 29 votes short because only 13% of House Democrats voted in favor. Remember that when you go to the polls in 354 days. Obummer is adding to the national debt faster than any president before him. As a result, America is now $15 trillion in debt. Yet he and his party oppose a balanced budget amendment that would stop the reckless spending that threatens to bankrupt us.

"Those Voices Don't Speak for the Rest of Us"

Ronald Reagan vs. the Progressive Rulers of today. *** The worst things said about the Progressives is what the Progressives say about themselves. Their own words condemn them!!!

People are less sanitary in private than in public

Some examples, people may drop a potato chip on the ground. At home most people would pick it up and eat it, but if they did it at work even at their desk they would not. People are less likely to wash their hands after using the bathroom at home.

I notice at work if nobody is paying attention guys will walk out of the bathroom without washing their hands unless they are observed. But for the most part people will watch their hands at work. Those are just a couple of things.

The political right seem to be more interested in the hygiene of the occupy wall street protesters than their political views

The public political debate has centered almost exclusively on the camp cities rather than anything they might have to say.

The legal definiton of insanity needs to be expanded

I am sort of piggybacking off of Moreno's debate. The legal definition of insane is the person did not know right from wrong. An insane person may very well know the difference but be unable to stop themselves.

Occupy Wall Street Protest is Pathetic.

Why don't all humans protest for something pathetic? It seems easier to just do it, but I am not supporting these BLITHERING idiots. They can protest all they like, but in their own back garden, not where people walk or drive through everyday. They must be thinking, if they have a new leader, they will get what they want and the whole world will be happy. But there is always people who have different points of views, that will be more than happy to sit on the edge and whine about this protest and it's cause, it might not even be a great cause to protest. Some people just prowl around trying to get what they want, it's rather pathetic and stupid really. All these protester's in the end will have to face humiliation sooner or later, if the whole thing goes down the hole. Sorry, I know this debate has been brought out numerous times by AR and Miller, but am just sharing my opinion on the whole thing, by debate.

Nobody is perfect.

People who claim their perfect has flaws, to suggest their not perfect. Every family has a flaw, but humans try and hide those flaws and act perfect when everyone knows. Bullies laugh at people with faults and what they do, but the bullies are also not perfect, their just hiding their flaws. I may not be perfect on here with my grammar and little understanding, but am thankful to the people who help me out and shares their opinions. But nobody is perfect and the person who claims they are. What is your views on people who claim their perfect?

U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms

More outrageous "stimulus" abuse from Obummer and his Democrats in Congress. Watch this Diane Sawyer investigative piece.

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The U.N is just a collective organization aimed to protect the interests of the developed countries.

It's pretty sad that they would only help a Middle Eastern country in strife which has their valuable oil but largely ignore the plight of countries in Africa in a worse situation which has not much valuable natural resources.

Inside every thin person is a family of smug tapeworms

I don't think I'll actually describe it. Let us leave something to the imagination

The only people who are hurting as a result of the Occupy Wall Street bowel movement are the very people that they claim to be speaking for.

All they are doing is blowing hot air and, in the process, mpeding the path for people who, unlike them, actually work for a living and need to get to and from work, not to mention the business owners whose buildings are being vandalized. Neither the government nor Wall Street are doing anything but laughing at them; they don't take them seriously and, quite frankly, they have absolutely no reason to. The only people they're having a negative effect on is, again, the very people they claim to represent. They say they're part of the 99%, but the real 99% are the ones who are at work, busting their butts trying to pay the bills while the slacktivist hippies stand outside and whine and complain about things that either aren't going to change no matter what or, at the very least, require more mature, effective means of problem solving than whining, especially whining to people who couldn't care less about what they have to say.

There is a difference between illegality and Criminality

Doing something illegal doesn't make it a crime.

Everyone should spend some time on FAA too.

The site has really gone to the dogs. Please assist in drowning out the mass of kiddies swarming the site D:

Inside every fat person is a thin person trying to get out

Although sometimes it looks like it could be more than one thin person trying to get out

It is mad to regard prostitutes as a criminals

They do as an honest a job as a dentist or physiotherapist. And they pay taxes where it is legal. Obviously there is a huge market for the service they offer, so as long as they are willing what's wrong with it?

Newt Gingrich was the highest paid Historian in US history

This lying bozo who said Barney Frank should go to jail for lobbying for Freddie Mac (The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) yet gets busted when the public finds out he also had Lobbied for Freddie Mac that paid him almost $2 million. First he doesn't remember how much he was paid...you must be making good money if you don't remember when you are paid over $1 million bucks. Second he says he was hired as a historian. LOL. Really? A Historian? That is not even his credential and for a mortgage bank? Not even his background. They simply wanted him to build Republican relationships with guys in Capitol Hill. Even his own party is slamming him on this lie.

Gays are immoral, right or wrong?

My view is that there is nothing wrong with gays/lesbians/bisexuals you name it, there's nothing wrong with them. Nobody that is straight wants to see a gay person doing it, but why are they watching it in the first place is the question. Basically banning gay marriage is like banning Christmas from people who don't believe in Christ. But gays in my opinion is not harming anyone, i wouldn't mind them teaching kids in schools or fighting in the army. But men that are straight (not all men) feel uncomfortable around gays as they feel they may be attracted to them, which will be weird and uncomfortable to be around the gay person. Probably AR and Miller will argue against this and say they are immoral or whatever. But in my perspective there is nothing wrong with them, it is their life, their choices and no one has the right to pick on them and say they can't marry, as that is like punishing them for being gay.

You would leave your significant other if you woke up tomorrow and they had magically changed sex over night

True love or something less?

Even if you are straight it is a compliment when a gay person hits on you

I mean assuming it's polite, like any such situation.

America will elect a gay, black, Christian woman before it will elect a white male Atheist.

That is assuming of course that Obama is not actually a white male Atheist in disguise.

Gays and Lesbian are overly zealous to get people to sexually pigeon hole themselves

A wise old lesbian once told me that sexuality is a spectrum and only the disturbed are completely on one end or the other. But the common wisdom in the homosexual community these days is to label your self like sexuality is a fence, either on the straight side, the gay side, or straddling the middle. When they talk so much about sexual freedom it is a bit hypocritical for them to expect people to define it so specifically.

We haven't had a debate about homosexuality for ages

What's the matter with you? All too busy performing abortions to get involved in another round?

man cannot live by bread alone

a balanced diet has to involve chocolate at some point

Paul Krugman’s Solar Eclipse

Paul Krugman may be a Nobel Prize–winning economist, but his most recent column in the New York Times, which condemns hydraulic fracturing and praises solar energy, displays an astounding disinterest in numbers and woeful ignorance of the facts. Without providing any sources, Krugman writes, “We know that [fracturing] produces toxic (and radioactive) wastewater that contaminates drinking water; there is reason to suspect, despite industry denials, that it also contaminates groundwater.” Huh? Over the past 60 years, the process of hydraulic fracturing has been used more than 1 million times on oil and gas wells here in the U.S. If fracturing were as dangerous as Krugman implies, then hundreds, perhaps thousands, of water wells would have been contaminated by now. And surely the public would have been made aware of those many contaminated wells. Krugman could have consulted the Times’s own reporting on this subject. Over the past year or so, NYT journalist Ian Urbina has been writing extensively about the oil-and-gas sector and fracturing in particular. Urbina has spent months, some of it working with the Environmental Working Group, to document cases of water wells that have been contaminated by fracturing. Urbina’s finding: One water well in West Virginia was likely contaminated by fracturing in 1984. After laying out the details of the contamination, Urbina writes, “Drilling technology and safeguards in well design have improved significantly since then.” Or, Krugman could have looked at the findings of a multi-year study on natural gas released last summer by the MIT Energy Initiative. The 170-page report addresses hydraulic fracturing directly, saying, “The fracturing process itself poses minimal risk to the shallow groundwater zones that may exist in the upper portion of the wellbore.” The report goes on, “The physical realities of the fracturing process, combined with the lack of reports from the many wells to date of fracture fluid contamination of groundwater, supports the assertion that fracturing itself does not create environmental concerns.” Krugman, who continually writes about the need for more jobs in America, also might have considered the jobs that are being created by the oil-and-gas sector, both directly and indirectly. Over the past 18 months or so, some 48,000 people have been hired in Pennsylvania by companies working in the Marcellus Shale. In August, Halliburton announced it would hire 11,000 new workers this year in North America, most of them to work on shale-related projects. Better still, none of those jobs require Solyndra-style subsidies. Hydraulic fracturing is driving down the cost of natural gas, which creates jobs in other sectors, including steel and petrochemicals. From 2005 to 2008, U.S. natural-gas prices averaged about $7 per thousand cubic feet, but today, the spot price is well below $4; the price drop saves consumers about $60 billion per year. In March, Nucor, America’s biggest steel producer, broke ground on a new $750 million direct-reduced-iron plant in Louisiana. The availability of low-cost natural gas enabled the project. Nucor may ultimately invest $3 billion in steel plants in Louisiana that could create as many as 1,000 permanent, high-paying jobs. Meanwhile, the abundance of low-cost natural-gas liquids has convinced several major chemical producers to announce expansions of existing plants as well as the construction of new facilities on the Gulf Coast and in Appalachia. None of this is to suggest that drilling for oil and gas is easy or free. It’s not. Modern drilling and hydraulic fracturing are water- and diesel-fuel-intensive processes that require hundreds, or even thousands, of truck trips on rural roads. But the drilling-and-fracturing process lasts only a few weeks, after which all that’s left is a relatively small well head and maybe a few tanks. And the economic benefits of the commodities being produced by the many wells drilled every year in the U.S. are readily apparent. Krugman claims that we are “on the cusp of an energy transformation driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power.” It is true that the cost of solar power has fallen steadily over the years, but that does not put us “on the cusp of an energy transformation.” The latest estimates from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which is part of the Department of Energy, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an industry trade group, show that solar will likely remain far more expensive than conventional forms of electricity generation for years to come. The EIA estimates that generating a megawatt-hour of electricity from natural gas costs $63, while the same amount of energy from solar panels costs $210. Meanwhile, EPRI offers a different set of estimates, predicting that by 2015, generating a megawatt-hour of electricity with natural gas will cost as little as $49 while that same quantity of electricity from solar energy will cost at least $242. And EPRI expects those figures to remain about the same through 2025. Krugman ignores the issue of scale. In 2010, hydrocarbons — coal, oil, and natural gas — provided 21,000 times as much raw energy to the U.S. as solar power. If we reduce that figure by two-thirds to account for the energy lost in converting hydrocarbons to electricity,we are still getting 7,000 times as much energy from hydrocarbons as we are from solar. Even if solar were as “cost-effective” as Krugman claims — and the data show that it is not — his implication that solar can supplant our need for hydrocarbons is just plain silly. Furthermore, Krugman writes that “if we priced coal-fired power right” — that is, by instituting a carbon tax — solar would actually be cheaper than natural gas. However, the evidence shows that artificially inflating the price of carbon-dioxide emissions isn’t the best way to reduce them. According to the International Energy Agency, the U.S. is now cutting emissions faster than Europe, even though the EU has instituted an elaborate carbon-reduction scheme. Why is this happening? It’s not due to increased domestic use of wind or solar. Instead, it’s simple economics. Cheap natural gas is displacing higher-carbon coal in the U.S. electricity-generation fleet. That option is not available in Europe, where natural-gas prices are more than two times those of the U.S. Back in 1978, Ralph Nader declared that “everything will be solar in 30 years.” Nader’s prediction didn’t come true. Krugman attributes solar’s failure to a conspiracy (led by the energy companies and the Republicans, of course) against solar and renewable energy. But the reality is that renewables simply cannot provide the vast quantity of energy that the world demands at prices that consumers can afford. If Krugman were truly interested in creating jobs and growing the U.S. economy, his stance on energy policy would be simple: Make energy cheap, abundant, and reliable. — Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His latest book is Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future.

The Lies That Underpin Congress Budget Talks

The Lies That Underpin Congress Budget Talks *** Monday, November 14, 2011 02:35 PM By: Richard Viguerie *** The tea party rebellion came into being in large measure due to the perception among middle class taxpayers that America’s major establishment institutions were corrupt — and there is no more compelling evidence of just how far the American political system has been corrupted by Washington’s insider culture than how common and accepted lying has become among the political elite of Capitol Hill. And this is particularly true when Congress deals with the budget. Take for example, the lie last April when Republicans (who had promised $100 billion in real cuts) compromised with the Democrats for $38.5 billion in future savings and claimed the deal would result in "the biggest annual spending cut in history," as President Barack Obama termed it. Yet, as Sen. Jim DeMint recently noted, there was no actual reduction in spending. Here’s what really happened when the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30, 2011: the Congressional Budget Office found that the April deal to avoid a government shutdown resulted in an increase of more than $170 billion in federal spending from 2010 to 2011. Hailed by leaders of both political parties (and the establishment media) as a historic compromise that produced the “largest spending cut in history,” the deal ended up being a spending increase. The federal government wrapped up its biggest spending year and its second biggest annual budget deficit ever — but, as The Wall Street Journal put it, almost nobody noticed. Perhaps the Journal should have said no one noticed the lie upon which the spending deal was founded, because everyone on the inside knew there would be no decrease in spending. And the historic (or as liberal Democrats falsely termed them) “draconian budget cuts” would actually result in the federal government spending $3.6 trillion — a 4.2 percent increase in outlays that also ballooned the annual deficit to $1.298 trillion. This same culture of lies is now poisoning the supercommittee, which is itself a product of the lies surrounding the August deal to raise the debt ceiling. In August, the leadership of both parties made a deal to increase our national debt to nearly $17 trillion and sold it to a skeptical public with the idea that the creation of a supercommittee would produce spending cuts by the end of the year. The facts of the supercommittee's deliberations appear otherwise. Witness the latest Republican “plan,” which, by adopting the Obamanomics worldview that the rich should pay more taxes, would merely slow the growth of the national debt to $21.3 trillion over the next 10 years. That's about 9 percent less than the $23.4 trillion currently projected. Rather than make real cuts in spending, what has actually happened is the Republicans on the supercommittee have spent all of their time figuring out ways to raise revenue. And the claim that Republicans plan “draconian” cuts to the budget is a lie. The tea party rebellion is many things. True, it's a fight for a return to a limited constitutional government and a middle class outcry against the crony capitalism of the Washington/Wall Street Axis — but as much as anything, it is a demand for a government, and leaders, who tell the truth. Finding and electing those leaders to Congress in 2012 is the most important step we can take toward ending Washington’s culture of lies and saving this great country.

Every single aspect of our lives can be summarized by simple cat videos.

This is the meaning of life This is the meaning of love And this summarizes our attempts to live longer.

Finsch is about as close to perfect as most of us will ever see.

Think about it. He's smart, funny, tough, goodlooking and always a gentleman. He's ever hotter than Toby.

Sheriff Threatens Feds With SWAT Team

As more people became dissatisfied with federal government controls and land grabs, it was inevitable that local law enforcement would eventually see the bigger picture. At the northern California fairgrounds of Yreka last month, seven California sheriffs and another from Oregon gathered with a large group of citizens to say that they are finally going to do something about it. “A giant has been awakened,” said Plumas County, Calif. Sheriff Greg Hagwood, “and they didn’t count on that,” speaking of the federal bureaucracy. With exposure of the Emergency Management Center in San Luis Obispo a few decades ago, California began to offer the rest of the nation some evidence of the psychological conditioning aimed from the federal level at state, county and city law enforcement. Nevada Sheriff Tony DeMeo Stops Federal Government: Feds Engaging In Illegal Confiscation Of Cattle And Water Rights Of County Property Owner. Oregon Sheriff Gil Gilbertson Gives Federal Agents The Boot: Feds Have No Jurisdiction! Dean Wilson, sheriff of Del Norte County (Sacramento), is a great example of this great awakening. He received the loudest and longest applause for his candor in confessing past faults after apologizing for not understanding the central government assault and land grab being committed against the people and what he should have been doing about it. Only in the past year has he done a turnaround and begun to behave as a county sheriff instead of an extension of federal law enforcement. Obama’s Federal Stooges Beginning To Understand The Power Of Sheriffs: Sheriff Warns Federal Agents They Will Be Arrested If They Interfere! Arizona Sheriff: ‘If Decapitating Police Officers Is Not Terrorism, What is?’: More Troops At Korean Border Than Deadly U.S. Mexican Border. “I had spent a good part of my life enforcing the penal code, but not understanding my oath of office,” he told the audience. “I was ignorant and naïve, but now I know of the assault against our people by the federal government.” Host sheriff John Lopey of Siskiyou County, speaking about the federal environmental intervention, said: “I have told federal and state officials over and over that, yes, we want to preserve the environment, but you care more about the fish, frogs, trees and birds than you do about the human race. When will you start to balance your decisions to the needs of the people?” Later he told the audience, “We are right now in a fight for our survival.” Glenn Palmer, sheriff of Grant County, Oregon, said, “If an elected official has not taken an oath of office, he does not belong in office.” AFP readers are familiar with the work of former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, who has spent the latter half of his life teaching sheriffs that they are the top law enforcement officers in their counties despite continuing federal intervention attempts. The ears that were deaf for so long may finally be starting to hear. States Of The Republic: Correcting Their Wayward Child ~ New Laws Constraining The Federal Government. Stop Homeland Security Agents Cold In Tennessee: McNairy County Sheriffs! “It’s becoming a national movement now,” Mack told AFP, citing Immigration and Naturalization Service failure at the Mexican borders, the phony drug war, plus IRS and other unconstitutional intervention within these states. His plans to take this movement national will be launched at a January meeting, where he anticipates 200 sheriffs will be in attendance. “The county sheriff is the last line of defense guarding our people’s liberty,” he said. Retired USAF Col. Richard Niemela of Reston, Va. has been exposing the federal monster for years. He told AFP: “It’s the surreptitious domination by international globalists insidiously using unauthorized and illegal tactics to render null and void those historic and unique powers of the sheriff.”

Britain needs to buck up it's ideas to reproduce more jobs.

More people, especially youngsters are claiming off of benefits because there is no jobs out there, it seems to be getting harder and harder to get jobs these days, for two years they say that Britain will have no real growth coming into it, but They can't stop people from claiming from benefits or going to the brew for money, if there is no jobs coming in, even if you go to collage, the whole thing is a waste of time, as when you finish it there is no jobs to go to. So what am trying to say is Britain needs to buck up it's ideas to improve it's growth and get more jobs into Britian, to help the youngsters and to help it's people.

It is hard to walk away from a debate, even when nobody is saying anything new, just rehashing the existing arguments

I'm trying to be better but for many of us, the last word is hard to leave to the other guy.

Chivalry is sexisim

It's a different set of cultural expectations based on sex.

The constant barrage of minute bits of economic data is not helping our situation

They give us these weekly updates involving such incremental and conflicting data that it accomplishes nothing but making more afraid and confused.

Alleged crimes should not condemn a person.

I find this interesting: when someone is allegedly accused of some heinous crime, it spreads through communities like a wildfire; it doesn't matter if the person did it or not as the damage is already done. People tend to hear the crime, forget the "alleged" part, and run with it.

The differenced between confidence and arrogance is insecurity

I may be dumber than a box of rocks, but even I know arrogance is a manifestation of insecurity.

artemis is missing

already it's a drag

It isn't what you drive that matters, its how you drive.

Pitting a BMW M3 muscle car with a Toyota Prius electric/gas car is a good example.

Insisting on Political Correctness is a form of harrassment

PC devalues ordinary courtesy, good manners and judgement and stifles feedback and creativity. It brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator and encourages pointless resentment. Actually it is a legal way of bullying

American banknotes are boring

they ought to have interesting colours for different denominations instead of everything the same green. You have to look at the numbers to now what amount you're handing over! Shocking! Before Euros, Dutch money (Gulden) used to come in some truly amazing bright colours like magenta, viridian and ultramarine. Absolutely fantastic. Enough to give older Americans coronaries if they saw it

Flea Party Has Worn Out Its Welcome

After assaults, thefts, rapes, riots, outbreaks of disease, drug overdoses and deaths -- none of which occurred at Tea Party rallies -- it appears as though the Occupy Wall Street movement has finally worn out its welcome. In major cities across the country, police forces are sweeping out OWS camps, cracking down on illegal activity and dismantling tents and other makeshift structures. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter called a press conference yesterday out of concern for the "rapidly deteriorating conditions" at Occupy Philly. Mayor Nutter said that the group was fractured with internal divisions and that the people in the group had changed. He also said "public urination and defecation remain a significant health threat." Police in Oakland, California, raided the Occupy Oakland camp this morning. According to Mayor Jean Quan, "The encampment became a place where we had repeated violence and, this week, a murder. We had to bring the camp to an end before more people were hurt." Obummer and many Democrat are emotionally invested in the Flea Party. They had hoped it would be their ticket to power in 2012. The Flea Party may hibernate over the winter months, but I suspect it will come back next year and under new management, taking its orders from Obummer's reelection headquarters in Chicago.

All women should have a husband and a boyfriend.

I call dibs on Finsch. Seriously, you have your friend that you are comfortable with. The person with whom you build your life and the guy on the side that lets you be the bad girl and gives you excitement.

Anyone who doesn't feel sorry for Darqlord has no pity in them

Artemis has gone into huntress mode again

It makes sense that professional athletes make so much money

They have short careers, and they are the ones that people want to see. So why shouldn't they get their share of the pie? If anything is absurd it's that there is that much money involved in the first place.

Lingerie Football needs to be on primetime TV!!!

Only in America. I can get with this. This needs to be on primetime TV!!!!

American Students improving in Maths, not Reading.

Americans are getting better at maths, but not reading. NAEP chairman David Driscol told the New York Times, "we've made major gains in maths over 2 decades, but in reading, frankly, we haven't - they've been only modest impovements,". Should Americans be now trying to focus more on reading? They both (Maths and reading) are important, I admit am not good at reading, but I am trying my hardest to improve it. But should American students not try harder to improve their reading?

These women had balls and showed no fear against these punk "Black Israelites" Damien could your wife have done the same? Power to women!!!

Start video at 3:20 seconds when the women come by and challenge them. These women showed no fear toward these misogynistic so called me.

There is a fine line between Anger and Violence

So we're in D.C. this weekend, and my wife and I happen to see a protest held by black Islamic radials wearing studded leather and talking about how the white man is the devil. They were yelling and literally pounding their chest and just making questionable gestures. My wife can't decide which way she wants to go so she ends up walking back and forth in front of them, while I tell her that we should just cross the street to avoid these nuts. She tells me that they just sound angry and aren't going to actually do anything, and I tell her that their actions say otherwise. She sarcastically calls me the equivalent of a coward and we have a small debate about anger and violence that I'm allowing to spill onto here.

The Constitution Should Be Subject To Change

I know the Constitution changes, but this is for all those who want to use the Constitution as a static piece of parchment...really wish Bugman was here - "But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Jefferson

There should be a consistent recognised age of adulthood.

I'm talking about the age you're deemed legal to partake in certain activities. Currently in the United Kingdom and America the ages are very muddled. It would make sense if you could get married, have sex, join the army, drive, drink, vote etc etc at say the age of 17 years of age. The fact that someone in America can vote at the age of 18 but not drink till the age of 21 is ridiculous.

"Immortals" is not even half the quality of movie "300" was despite having the same makers

I went to see "Immortals" specifically because I loved "300". Whereas every moment of "300" is artful and energized "Immortals" has long stretches where next to nothing is really happening. With the exception of the choreographed fight scenes you might as well be watching an old Greek Odyssey movie from decades ago.

The new invisibility cloak discovered is a dangerous technology.

Just imagine how terrorists or soldiers can use that to kill innocent people.

I'm not the bad guy, okay I knew he had a boyfriend but he should have been the one saying no.

Just saying :-P I'm free and unrestricted, if people choose to be bad don't blame me.

Is the US losing its pornographic edge to Asia!?

I tried to look up some stats for basis to debate and from this source the US is 4th in total sales (behind China, S Korea, and Japan), and 6th in per capita purchases ($44.67 per person, behind S Korea, Japan, Finland, Australia, Brazil, and Czech Republic). Come on people, where's your US pride? Uncle Sam needs YOU! Ironically I notice Russia per capita spending just $1.76. You wouldn't guess that based on the Russian women in the industry. http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html

Italian Prostitution Industry loses valuable government contract.

Lol, I think it's funny. The moron has left the building after 2 decades.

artemis puts a lot of effort into making this site entertaining

She ought to be singled out for a special award that nobody else can achieve. OR a new trophy ought to be designed, honouring her. (In the shape of a tiara or a high heeled shoe)

Honoring Our Heroes

Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) has proposed a bill to add President Franklin D. Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer to the World War II Memorial. Unbelievably, Rep. Johnson's bill has sparked a controversy. (You better sit down for this.) Bureaucrats at the Department of the Interior objected to the bill at a recent House subcommittee hearing. According to the director of the Bureau of Land Management, altering the memorial to include FDR's D-Day Prayer would "necessarily dilute this elegant memorial's central message and its ability to clearly convey that message to move, educate and inspire its many visitors." You can't make this stuff up. I'd like to know exactly what the director thinks IS the central message of the memorial. I would argue, as does Rep. Johnson, that President Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer is in fact central to that message and that the memorial, without it, is lacking in its ability to move, educate and inspire. It is not surprising that administration officials are once again showing such hostility to faith in the public square. They are no doubt taking their cue from the man at the top, who routinely omits references to our Creator when quoting the Declaration of Independence. It is one more example of our elites trying to erase our Judeo-Christian heritage. This must not succeed. The men who fought at D-Day prayed before the landing. No doubt many prayed during the fighting, and later that night they likely thanked God they had survived. I thank God that America produced such men, and I thank God we still do. Pray we will continue to do so. In honor of Veterans' Day, I am happy to share with you the prayer that the administration will not. Share it with your friends, children and grandchildren so that they will better understand the central message of America and what motivates and inspires our heroes. Below is the prayer that President Roosevelt delivered to the nation, on June 6, 1944. My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph. They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war. For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home. Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom. And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice. Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts. Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces. And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be. And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose. With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace, a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.

Real life is shades of gray

Very few things are as simple as right or wrong. Most of life is much more complex and involves a lot of tough calls with no perfect answer.

The middle class are the ones that really get shafted by taxes

We don't have the tax breaks of the poor or the loopholes of the rich. We pay the highest tax rates and get the least government representation. All the politicians talk about helping us out but none of them actually worry a tinkers damn about representing us as a constituency.

Social Security Should Not Be Counted With Tax Expenses

It is comes out of your pay separately. It is it's own self sustaining system. When politicians talk about it as tax dollars they are pulling a rope a dope. They are trying to make it look like something it isn't.

Joe Paterno and Mike McQueary should go to jail for harboring a child molester

Why would anyone do that? Why wouldn't you go to the police? If I would have been in Mcqueary's postition, I honestly believe, I would've beat the crap out Jerry Sandusky and then called the police.

"No chemicals" is a ridiculous phrase since clearly everything with mass has a chemical makeup.

Everything is made of chemicals, including you and I, including water, including a brick.

The government and tax payers should not pay anyone, who can't help themselves.

Why should the government and taxpayers pay for people that sit on their bum everyday? It seems to me that people use the excuse that they have no time to look for jobs, that is totally not true. They will have all week, all month to look for a job. But instead the government and taxpayers give them money just to down it with the things they don't need like alcohol, tobacco and entertainment. They should be out there looking for a job. But the government and taxpayers are paying the more for sitting on their bum, so do you think they should give them less to encourage them to get a job or not give them anything. Or should they just keep continuing on paying them until they have died of old age?

I think women dress like sluts for holloween because of repressed feelings and stigmas placed on them by men.

Men seem to define what slut really means. And women seem to accept man's definition of it. But what is odd and it was on the news, but holloween seems to be the opportunity for many women to dress slutty. It could be an innocent superhero costume, but usually the outfit is very revealling or something you would see on porn like a little red riding hood costume.

People who claim that spanking is abuse should have the book thrown at them the next time they hug their child.

If tough love makes a person an unfit parent because it's "abuse" then all love is abuse. The most eminant danger to society isn't parents who spank their children, or even those who beat them; it's the limp wristed weaklings who happilly allow themselves to be deluded into believing the lie that they're doing their children a favor by letting them run around and do whatever they want, or worse, by being passive agggressive and punishing them for doing something one day and letting it slide the next.

Who wants to play a little game?

I have an idea for a game: we don't need to create another username. But we have to think of a celebrity, act like them and we have to guess one another, but here's the thing, some of us may not know who this celebrity is, so you will have to give clues, of either a movie, song or video. But you have a week to play this celebrity and I will make a debate saying begin and Finnish, the last person to get caught, is the winner and the first person to get caught is the loser.

A country cannot advance any further, if it's left in debt.

Well, imagine your the president, you would want to help your country advance. But you have a problem of doing that, due to the demand to pay back what you borrowed. So that is one problem, I think is the main. But then there is another, dealing with your peoples view point, trying to settle them and make them happy. Of course the government cares for a little or most of your happiness, so they don't get a nagging from old grannies or grandpas, or anyone. But they will stop them from advancing any further. So what should be dealt with first, nagging people or debt?

The PC is about the only technology you can upgrade yourself any more.

I honestly don't know much about the gaming systems these days, so that might be a whole in my debate subject, but by and large we have reached a stage where if you want a better device you just have to buy a new one.

If it wasn't for some instinctual response nobody would think human babies are cute.

They all look like Winston Churchill until at least a few months in and no one ever called him cute.

Government systems should change.

Well no matter what we do, to try and get us out of this debt problem and government problems, it just gets us in a worse position. The whole system is collapsing on itself, so something or the whole systems needs to change, before it give way to a totally major breakdown which may make matters worse in today's society. America maybe one of the best countries, long with the UK, China and all the other countries, the eurozone won't last, other countries problems won't last to make it even worse. So the whole system should change, to make a more reliable and successful system that does not collapse on one another. What do you think? Should we keep the systems or renew them?

You should be yourself, no one else.

There is always someone who does not act themselves, I admit am rather shy, but on here I can become a b!tch at times. But what is the point on being friends with someone who acts like someone else? I know a couple of people, am not talking on here, am talking about real life, people you meet everyday in your travels. But also on the Internet. Why act like someone else? When you could just be yourself? It's not like no one has something that they are ashamed of.

iPods screens are too easy to crack!

It is not like they made them suitable for not cracking, if you dropped it. I have dropped mine 3 times, you can just say am clumsy. But the first time it had a big long crack from the bottom of the screen too half way up the iPod. Then the other drop made another crack on the screen, but the third just made the cracks worse. Lucky the touch screen bit still works. But do you think they should have made it drop save, like a thick screen or whatever they use to stop it cracking?

Will the Open MIC of Obama and Sarkozy about BIBI hurt his relationships with Jews?

Will this justify what the right were claiming about Obama and Israel and Jews? An open mike caught French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “liar” during a catty conversation with President Obama last week, according to an Israeli Web site.

Citing an online French report, Ynet News said that the leaders had retired to a private room after speaking to reporters at a G20 meeting last Thursday when the conversation turned to Netanyahu.

“I cannot stand him,” Sarkozy hissed to Obama. “He’s a liar.”

Obama quickly chimed in with his own Bibi blast: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day.”

The oblivious pair had no idea that their microphones were on during the exchange and that the conversation streamed straight into the headsets of stunned reporters outside.

Ynet said that the French Web site Arret Aur Images reported that assembled media members were asked to sign an agreement to squelch details of the conversation, and opted to keep it quiet. “There were discussions between journalists, and they agreed not to publish the comments due to the sensitivity of the issue,” the site quoted a media member as saying.

“By the time the media services at the Elysées realized it, it was still on for at least three minutes,” another reporter told the site.

Source: New York Post

Give some of your favorite quotes.

Let's see if any get chosen for quote of the day.

Medical doctors are just glorified technicians

Some of them are actually scientists, but by and large they are just extremely well trained technicians who try and repair and extremely complex mechanism.

Secretly in their heart of hearts, many English still believe they should get Empire back.

Come on you have to admit it. Not all of you have really accepted that the sun has set on the Empire.

New System Besides the BCS

Let's face it, college football belongs to the SEC and the Big 10. We have to start all over and clean house. All sorts of illegal activities happen around college football and nothing is ever done about it. College football must be changed for a better future and for everyone to have a fair chance.

If women didn't exist, the word "awwww" would not exist or rarely be used.

Show a picture of a baby, "awwww" is the common response from women. You will never hear a man say it or it would be very rare.

Everyone gets bullied at school

sooner or later if you are at school you will get bullied or teased about something. If you have curly hair, straight hair, are a bit thin, a bit fat, if you stammer, speak very clearly - just about anything in fact - someone will turn it into a reason to pick on you.

Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel of Germany are setting themselves up to be dictators of the new European Super State.

They are determined to make other countries fall into line with their way of thinking. They forced Greek Prime Minister Papandreou to drop the referendum he had promised his people and then forced him out of office to be replaced by pro Europe puppets and now they're making their move to get rid of Italian Premier, Berlusconi to have him replaced with a more "capable" leader. Sarkozy told Prime Minister Cameron of Britain to keep his opinions on Europe to himself and put members of his party in their place. These are the blueprints of a brutal dictatorship where any form of dissent is crushed.

I Don't Believe These Herman Cain Accussers

Why is it that every time election time rolls around, women come out of the woodwork about a politician? I don't get the motivation, why wait 14 years to accuse someone? Then, it's never just one, all of a sudden more women decide to come forward. These women suck. After 14 years, who gives a damn.

Dr. Murray's Verdice

The doctor in the Michael Jackson case was found guilty of manslaughter as you all probably know. I am quite sure he was guilty of unethical behavior. I do not believe he was guilty of manslaughter. The fact remains that Michael Jackson was a extremely highly multi-talented individual who also led a troubled life. The other fact is Michael Jackson was a junkie. Yick if you disagree and Yak if you do not

Dr Conrad Murray found guilty of something (anything)

Oh America, how wonderful you are. How good to know that somewhere in the English speaking world, a doctor can be held to account for irresponsible or incompetent behaviour. Doesn't matter who the doctor is or what s/he has done. But it is good to know that it can be done

one taste of bacon and you're a goner as far as keeping kosher is concerned

It's dangerous stuff

falling in love online is not the same as being unfaithful

If you don't ever get to meet the person you're in love with it just doesn't count

You should never go cheap on Trash Bags

Every time I buy cheap trash bags due to rushing to buy some because I ran out outside of my household shopping schedule, cheap ones are simply cheap. The tear apart just by simply tying them up, puncture, or the dumb draw strings that actual tear apart when you attempt to close up the trash bags. its pretty sad that they actually make cheap bags for a certain market. And the price difference is not that great relatively speaking but clearly there is a market.

Republican Party Lost It's Way

Republican Party Lost It's Way *** By Peggy Noonan *** "Somewhere around 2004 the Republican Party broke in a new way. The GOP had been riven before -- Taft-Eisenhower, Goldwater-Establishment, Reagan-Ford -- and always healed back. But the split that grew after 2004 was different. Trust broke, and in a time not of peace and prosperity but of crisis. Which made the impact deeper. What is called the tea party is the rightward part of the conservative base. They became angry that they had trusted the Republican establishment during a Republican presidency, only to see that establishment run up huge debt, launch foreign wars, contribute to the surveillance state, and refuse to control America's borders. What made the anger deeper is that they were angry at themselves. They felt complicit: They had not rebelled, they had trusted the party: 'They're the GOP establishment, they must know what they're doing.' What the conservative base had learned by 2008 is: Don't trust the Republican Party. Don't trust its establishments. ... The Republicans' challenge now: holding together, and breaking 20th-century stereotypes. They should distance themselves from government even as they prove they can govern, and not only oppose but propose. They should put themselves apart from the rigged, piggish insider life of Washington. And try not to look nuts while they're doing it."

Defunding and removing regulatory authority from the EPA is irresponsible, shortsighted, and usually hypocritical..

In my experience most people who are against the EPA on principle change their tune completely when the plant is in their back yard. In fact the EPA has been forced to depend on the NIMBY yard phenomenon to some extent for a while now. Despite what some people may think the EPA is not in the business of shutting down industry. Their mandate is to work with industry to design pollution criteria that can be met with current pollution control technology. I don't think it is too much to ask that corporations do what they reasonably can to limit environmental effects.

If the power of prayer worked millions of 14 year old girls would have turned Adam Lambert straight by now

Just saying

In the long term the collaspe of the Eurozone would be benefical to Britain's interest.

While we would initially we would suffer from a recession in the long term it is predicted it would spark a much larger economic recovery than if we stay involved with the crippled system. The sooner the Euro collaspes the better.

Chinese Restaurants collectively compared to other cuisines have the worst customer service and cleanliness

I would have to say they are the worst compared to other restaurants like italian, Japanese, even Indi restaurants. Their customer service blows most of the time. Could be language barrier but at least smile. As far as cleanliness, empty plates often times have to be sent back because there are specks of hard food on it. Flies in some places. Dining tables are not properly cleaned. As much as We generally like Chinese food its amazing how we tolerate it.

In a country with conscription, both males and females should go instead of males only.

I don't mean full military training. Just teach them survival skills, some basics on weapon handling and shooting, first aid, fitness and self defense at the very least. If there's a war, women can use these to survive.

People of the United Kingdom and other countries need to stop leaching off of England.

You countries want your autonomy yet you continue to leach off of the British crown. You wan't your cake and eat it too. People of the IRA are the only ones willing to put up a fight.

Perhaps There Should Be A Point System Based In Some way On The Action of The Debates

It would motivate people to create good debates. Maybe like Yakker of the day we could have Debate of the day or something. Or is that already in there? The point system is a little confusing, but I think I have a handle on it.

There has never been a single weapons or military innovation or invention in the history of mankind that wasn't used eventually. Usually sooner than later.

From the pointed stick all the way to biological weapons we always use it eventually.

America, America, America.

That is the most popular debate on here, don't take this the wrong way. I really like America. But everyone on here talks mostly about America these days, than other countries (sigh) which is really boring in a way. Some of us, Europeans would be unable to debate, because we may not hear of their problems often. But whats your view, is their too much American debates put up here?

Is Deforestation a problem?

Deforestation can be a problem as sometimes the stump of the tree is burnt, causing gases from the fire to go into the air we breath in. It can also lead to forest fires, that can spread a long mile or so. Also if you think about it, if the forests are removed, it will leave a bare patch which will allow mud flows and floods. If the trees are there, they would absorb the water, but when there removed, the ground is therefore unprotected. That will allow water to flow, maybe carrying mud and stones. But it does not only changes the landscape, it also changes the weather. For example rainforests, they rain almost everyday, but then there trees are getting chopped down and stumps being burnt, it changes the weather to warmer than it was when there was no cutting down trees. But because the weather might change to more sun and less rain, it will start going in a cycle on heating the ground in daylight and cooling it at night, with no rain and cause it to go dry and desertish. Which cause desertification. So do you think that they should replant more trees to stop it? Or is it not a problem as people make it?

Perhaps we need a world wide economic collapse

It sounds horrible and many would suffer but we have developed a ponzi scheme economic structure that can't survive stability, but requires massive growth at all times or it collapses in upon itself. Considering the world has the resources for everyone on it to have a basic quality of life perhaps we have wired the whole thing wrong and we need a reboot so to speak.

All the social networking choices are actually causing people, as a group, to lose their face to face interpersonal skills.

You can barely have a conversation with anyone under the age of 30 because they are texting with one hand at all times. My 4 year old nephew can navigate the internet like a fish in water but he will barely talk. People have 500 friends on Facebook and will I.M with you all day, but you can't get them on the phone. For many of my colleagues and clients leaving a voice message is about as effective as a fart in the wind. But a text message will get a reply in under 5 minutes every time.

A U.S. president has little actual power

I have heard it said that the President it just a figure head for powerful behind the scene figures. On the other hand history suggests that at least certain times that the U.S. President has wielded the full might of the Executive branch all most unchecked. What do you think the current state of affairs is and is likely to be?

Kids VS Video Games.

Should you worry if your kids are glued to their video games for 8 hours solid. Should they have a restricted time and day they have to be on their video games. Video games have their bad press, but are they good for children? People have researched it and say it is the cause of obesity, bullying and, ADHD - even America - style campus killing. But are they really that bad. Some games are a no-no for youngsters such as grand theft auto, as research has shown that it does have an effect on people who play them. As it increases aggressive thought, feelings and behavior. But adults have to monitor the games they play. Should they restrict how much they play? This is about common sense and knowing what is best for your child. There is no harm in a small amount of mindless gaming after a long day at school. But is it healthy, shouldn't they not be going outside and getting a little exercise, rather than copped up inside playing games?

What's that entertaining about X Factor?

If you think about it, it's really sad. Don't get me wrong, I like watching seeing the successful winners, who start to make there own albums. But it is sad for the rest and how the put through the ones, that has no chance of winning it. It is sad how they just give up there dream to be an artist. How it destroys there dreams in a way. I like seeing the faces when the winner is revealed, but it is sad seeing the faces of the people who are sent home. What's your views?

Violence is wrong. End of.

Yes I agreed that it should be a last resort and that is should not be required in the future, by meaning it should not be done at all. People who see domestic abuse as good, shows how much a coward they are. I don't mind with a smack on the bum or on the hand. But there should not be a requirement for full force or any objects such as a ruler, whip and belt. There is many ways to discipline a kid without violence and people who use that excuse, than not using the other method, shows how pathetic they really are.

Harry Hill TV Burp is Mental!

Don't get me wrong, I like watching it. But it used to be funny, but ever since it came back on air with new series, I haven't found it as funny, as Lee Nelsons show or Russel Howards Good News Show. Some of you may have not heard of them. But just put this as one of my stupid debates.

It is wrong to discipline children in any way, shape or form for any reason whatsoever.

Children should have full run of the house, be able to do whatever they want whenever they want no matter what without the parents doing anything other than wagging their fingers.

Dr. Drew's Position of corporal punishment or the law?

As he states near the end of the video, doctors are the ones having to put the pieces together for adults who were beaten as children.

Judge daughter and ex wife interview on CNN...Was Dad a monster and is the Mom covering her tracks?

Ot was she also a victim? 2 VIDEOS PART 1 AND PART 2

Refuse To Be A Victim

See how fast things went from bad to worse. He had no plan!!! He was just lucky!!! Through no fault of his own, he is still alive. What would you do??? Are you ready??? *** Trucker rescues woman from gun-wielding suspect By Clarissa Kell-Holland, Land Line staff writer *** OOIDA Member Mike Schiotis had no plan when he stopped his rig and put himself in harm’s way to help a woman who he thought had been injured in a car wreck or a “road rage incident.” Schiotis, of Spring Hill, TN, told Land Line that he was traveling northbound on Interstate 380 in Pennsylvania near mile marker 8 around 9 p.m. on Monday when he noticed two cars on the side of the road. “I thought this was a typical accident. I slowed down and got over to the left lane and was creeping by. Then I see people walking – so I slowed down. Then I see a lady waving her arms back and forth. And I thought somebody’s hurt; I have to stop,” Schiotis said. “Then I see a man walking after her with a gun, pointing it at her, and I just kind of froze for a moment.” But when he heard the woman’s cries for help, Schiotis said he knew that he couldn’t leave her. “I knew I couldn’t ignore her and just go on down the road and then read later that something bad had happened to her,” he said. “I don’t know how many years I have left on this Earth, but I would have had to think about that every day for the rest of my life.” He said that what happened next may sound like something out of a movie, but Pennsylvania State Police issued a public information release Nov. 2 confirming the incident. The state police did not release the victim’s name or Schiotis’ name. A state police official told Land Line that a detailed report would follow on Nov. 3. Schiotis said the 41-year-old victim ran up to the right side of his truck first. She then went around to the driver’s side and started pounding on his door. “Once I heard her scream, I knew she was fearing for her life. So I jumped out after I heard the gun hit her on the head and separated her from the guy with the gun. And I kept turning her away from him because he kept trying to point the gun at her and swing at her with the gun,” Schiotis said. At that point, Schiotis said he still thought the incident was about road rage and said he kept telling the suspect, identified in the police report as Elvino Alberto Cagnardi, 64, of East Orange, NJ, that it “wasn’t worth it and to leave and get on down the road.” Schiotis said he never took his eyes off of the man or the gun, but that somehow he and the victim wound up next to the truck door, which was still open. He said she climbed in. He jumped in after her and they took off. “Somehow I get on the road and I was calling 911. I looked over and she’s bleeding and I still had no plan on what to do next,” he said. “The 911 dispatcher told me to jump off at exit 13 because there’s a truck stop there, and I said I would, but that this lady needed an ambulance.” After pulling into the truck stop, Schiotis said he noticed a black-colored vehicle. It was similar to the one at the scene of the wreck. The victim then told him it belonged to her ex-boyfriend “who had been chasing and shooting at her for nearly 20 miles.” The police report confirms that a single gunshot was fired into the victim’s vehicle “in (an) attempt to force her to stop the vehicle,” which she eventually did. “At that time the (suspect) exited his vehicle and approached the victim. The (suspect) pointed the weapon at the head of the victim and attempted to pull the trigger,” which was jammed, but he kept aiming at her and attempting to fire. “I see this black car follow me into the truck area and that doesn’t happen a lot, so I decided to drive over to the fuel area for trucks where there’s more light, and it was this guy’s car,” Schiotis said. “So I told the 911 dispatcher that I had to get back on 380 headed north because this guy has a gun and all I have is a truck to protect us.” He said that’s when he decided to get on the CB and let the other truckers know why he was driving “erratically,” swerving back and forth because he said he couldn’t let the black car pull up next to his truck. “I got on the CB and told these drivers my name is Mike. and I am in the Panther truck. The car behind me is chasing us because he wants the lady that I rescued in my truck, and he has a gun,” Schiotis said. This went on for about eight or nine miles until he came up on another trucker, who was aware of the situation because of the CB. The other trucker told him to “stay on my left and we’ll stay together and make a barrier.” “I never got the guy’s name, just that it had the word Dupree on the side of the door. But he stayed with me until this was over,” Schiotis said. “Other drivers were jumping on the CB with updates, telling me the cops were passing them heading my way, to hang on.” By this time, he said the 911 dispatcher had patched him through to a trooper, who was instructing him to “gradually slow down.” “I jumped back on the CB and told the driver next to me that I was taking instructions from the police so to follow my lead and stay by my side, but not to let the black car get around him on the right side, which he promised me he wouldn’t,” Schiotis said. They eventually slowed down enough so that Pennsylvania State Troopers from Swiftwater and Dunmore barracks “were able to stop the (suspect) on Interstate 380 north at mile marker 20.1.” The report states that the suspect was taken into custody without incident. Schiotis said he was instructed to drive a few more miles away from the scene and the victim was transported to an area hospital by ambulance for treatment. According to the report, the victim and Cagnardi were apparently “involved in a relationship for several months.” The report also stated that Cagnardi has been arraigned in Magisterial District Court in front of Judge Richard Claypool and is currently incarcerated in Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of $2 million bail for attempted homicide. “One of the police asked me how I felt about saving that woman’s life. All I could say was that I was glad she was OK and that I was tired,” Schiotis said. “The cop told me that a couple of hours later it would hit me what I did – and, boy, was he right. “All I kept thinking was that earlier that day I was upset that I got this light load – only about 6,000 pounds, and I had wanted this other heavier load,” he said. “If I had gotten that heavier load , I would not have been able to maneuver like I did and he might have gotten around me.”

Drunks are funny! :)

Admit it, they are! When they walk you can so tell there drunk, but go up to you and say in a staggering way "am not drunk,". And when ever they talk, they try and make a joke or the do a jack sparrow, they way he can't stand up straight, without moving forward and backward. Plus the way he walks and moves his hand. But you have to admit it, if not then your dull.

Many African Nations claim homosexuality is Western export but the real Western export was homophobia.

Consider that many of the countries that criminalise homosexuality do so because of Britains imperial past. We implemented these laws, they were nothing to do with the actual nations before British involvement. Gay people existed before these laws were put in place and they did so afterwards, the only thing that changed was a culturally and legally imbedded bigotry.

Steaming room!

Basically if you cook dinner and let the room fill with steam, there is your easy steam room. But it does not mix with people who wear glasses, as there is a point in just taking them off and walking blindly into the room and cook the remains of the dinner. Is there any easy way to walk into a steamy room, without having steam on the glasses?

Good Christian Texas Beating, right?

This has been shown all over the United States and news outlets including the major networks. The Judge whipping his 16 year old 7 years ago. She decided to publish it on youtube 7 years later because daddy didn't want to buy her a Mercedes. Ex wife said he use to beat her to. His peers don't want him back on the bench because they say he has anger management issues. The Judge said he doesn't regret beating her for downloading music and video games on the internet. Againa judge that sends people to jail for being bad. He won't be charged because statute of limitation in texas is 5 years but i'm sure his career will be impacted.

All you techy geeks, is this an advancement or gimick

http://jawbone.com/up

product link above. Article: The company has debuted a high-tech wristband called "Up" that, paired with a free smartphone application, tracks users' sleep and activity patterns and promises to "nudge" them to adopt healthier habits. "Our focus here is how do we make health cool," Travis Bogard, Jawbone's vice-president of product management and strategy, told The Huffington Post. "I'd argue people know more about their iPhones than their own health. We're really not consumers of our health and we're not familiar with what goes into impacting our health at a broad level." The device tasked with making health "cool" is a $99.99 water-resistant plastic wristband, about the size and fit of a Livestrong bracelet, that is meant to be worn all day, every day. The Up band is equipped with a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 10 days, an accelerometer that monitors a user's sleep patterns and physical activity, and a small vibration motor that sends signals to the wearer. Jawbone promises that the wristband will help users "move more, sleep better and eat smarter" by providing data about their rest, diet and exercise. For example, Up claims it can track users' sleep cycles through small vibrations in the wrist that are picked up by the accelerometer in the band, which can be programmed to serve as a silent, vibrating alarm that wakes users during the optimum point in their sleep cycle. Jawbone touts the wristband as able to log how long and how well the wearer has slept, as well as her steps taken, calories burned, and distance traveled during the day. Taking advantage of these functionalities requires a separate device altogether, however: An iPhone.

The last decade has been pretty disappointing in terms of technological innovation.

The Jetsons was set in 2001, let's not forget the movies 2001 and 2010. I mean we were supposed to have flying cars and moon bases and computer A.I.s that were useful for something besides video games and storing all your Lady Gaga music.

The republicans have really put themselves at a disadvantage for the 2012 election

I think this election is going to be a huge mud slinging contest. The problem for the Republican's is they have been flinging mud at Obama since he got elected (long before really). They have no new mud, they can only rehash old insults that don't really interest anyone anymore. Whereas Obama has just started mudslinging for the first time. Plus if the right whines about it after doing so much of it for the last 4 years they will look even worse.

They really got to come up with a better insult than "tea baggers" now.

First off the name wasn't very clever or funny in the first place anyhow, and the fact that it's been used so much is just annoying. Come up with something better please.

How do you know you exist?

This question was asked in class, I now have to do it as homework, but Antares just reminded me about this. We all know that if you pinch yourself you feel pain. We all know that in a dream you can't feel pain, while in reality we can. My point we do exist. But is there anymore points to suggest we do exist, apart from pain!

Is everything we know about the Universe wrong?

I started watching this documentary on the Universe, it's heading is the question above (is everything we know about the universe wrong?). It had a couple of questions such as 'has the moment if creation been fully explained or is their a greater reality?' it intrigued me, as it started talking about the Big Bang theory and the cosmos. Then I looked up the question is their a greater reality and it says that the physical reality is just a dream and that greater reality is the real reality. What do you think? Are we wrong? Is there still things to be explained? Is their such a thing of greater reality?

Another Republican Sex Scandal. What a disaster!!!

Cain is a bad boy. What is this? The third time he's made unwanted sexual advances. And it's so common in the Republican party, just goes to show they're all evil. Evil I tell you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Liberal Disaster

A woman was found to have stolen the tip off of an adjacent table at a restaurant. AND... wait for it...She may have voted for a Democrat in college. Just more proof that the liberals of the world are just bad stupid people that probably hate their mothers and poop on people's lawns in the middle of the night when no one is looking. Damn sneaky liberals.

Lotteries should have a mechanism to guarantee a winner(s) after the jackpot reaches a certain high level

Wouldn't you rather 5 people win $50,000,000 over 6 months than just one person win $250,000,000 in 6 months? What does one person need 250 mil for? More lives could benefit if it paid out at the lower (but still massive) jackpots.

Another Democrat Wall Street Scandal

MF Global, one of the largest hedge funds in America, filed for bankruptcy protection this week, after making a 40-to-1 leveraged bet on European debt. Now the FBI and the SEC are launching investigations in the wake of reports of possible fraud and violation of securities laws. This scandal is ready-made for the class warfare that the left and their media allies have been waging in recent months against conservatives, Wall Street and investors. As the story unfolds, one would think Occupy Wall Street would be on the march, but it isn't. Why hasn't Obama used this latest example of greed gone bad to launch another attack on the 1%? Where is the media frenzy? Here's why the silence is deafening: the chairman of MF Global, Jon Corzine, is a partisan liberal Democrat. Most Americans don't know that because in story after story big media have failed to report his political loyalties. Corzine previously worked for Goldman Sachs. Then he won a Senate seat in New Jersey by spending a record-breaking $60 million on his campaign. After one term he "bought" the governorship of the state, again breaking all records on spending. Throughout his career he has been a major contributor to the Democrat National Committee, the Clintons, Obama and various left-wing causes. Finally in 2010, Republican Chris Christie defeated Corzine, sending him back to Wall Street. Can you imagine how this story would be reported if Corzine were a conservative Republican? But Corzine is not an exception. Many of the worst "players" in the Wall Street/banking meltdown were loyal partisan Democrats. Most of them donated to Obama's 2008 campaign. Even today, as Obama and the Democrats rush to embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement, they continue to rake in most of Wall Street's political cash. Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff was also a liberal Democrat, and a major contributor to the left-wing causes. And, of course, who can forget hedge-fund billionaire George Soros!

It amazes me how quick technology is advancing!

Technology has been apart of our daily human lifes, since people who created technology. They help us cook dinner, without having to go outside to start a fire. We have toilets that allows us just to flush, we have phones, computers, tv, and other things. But now they have a new type of car, which can drive without a driver. It amazes me how quick technology is now advancing.

Makeup is just a 'mask'.

If you think about it, it covers up your whole face, covering your natural look. I am all for natural, rather than a mask of makeup. Makeup does make you feel good, but sometimes it just makes you look like a slut, that is only if you put too much makeup on. A little makeup is ok, as it is near natural looks, than smothering the face with makeup. Do you like makeup or natural?

The Kim Kardashian marriage was just a publicity stunt

Is anyone fooled by her insistance she really did marry for love and she actually lost money on it? And yeah, I really don't give a sh!t, but they're talking about it on Access Hollywood while I mess around on yickyak.

Rape Is No Excuse For Abortion

Rape victim endorses personhood initiative *** In moving testimony, a rape victim has spoken out in favor of Mississippi's proposed personhood amendment. If approved by voters next Tuesday (Nov. 8), the constitutional amendment (Initiative 26) would ban abortion except to save the life of the mother, and it would ban cloning. The issue has spawned heated debate in the Magnolia State over recent weeks -- a debate that has brought to light significant out-of-state financial backing from Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. During a Yes on 26 press conference Monday in Jackson, Ashley Sigrest of Brandon, Mississippi, provided dramatic and spontaneous testimony as she introduced herself as a "survivor of rape" who chose to end the resulting pregnancy 13 years ago. "My rape was nothing compared to what I did to my child," she stated to the gallery. "What my rapist did to me does not compare to what I chose to do to my baby ... out of shame, out of guilt, out of fear because of what a man did to me. Rape is no excuse for abortion." (Watch her complete testimony in the video to the right, beginning at 0:38) In an interview Tuesday with OneNewsNow, Sigrest shared that upon discovering she was pregnant from the rape -- which occurred just before her 18th birthday -- she went to an abortion clinic for counseling. "And [the clinic worker] just kind of looked at me and was looking at the papers she had and said 'Okay, I just need you to sign this right here,'" she recalls. "And it was just a piece of paper saying I understood the procedure, and she told us we were going to watch a video about what was going to happen -- and that was it." According to Sigrest, the clinic worker offered no counseling. "She never asked if I wanted to report what happened to me. She never asked if I needed to talk to someone else," she says. "That was it." Following the abortion, Sigrest went through despair and depression, a period including abuse of alcohol, knowing she had destroyed a human life. As she shared during the press conference, she tells OneNewsNow that relief only came after accepting Jesus as her Savior through a crisis pregnancy center. "And from that moment on I told God that he could use me in any way he wanted to to share my story -- because women need to know the abortion is not the end," she emphasizes. "After you have the abortion you're going to spend so much more time in depression once you've realized what you've done." As for the rapist, Sigrest says she prays for him every day. And when asked how she will vote on the amendment next Tuesday? "I am going to vote yes -- very proudly and very loudly -- on 26."

The "occupy" Movements Should Disband For Awhile

We get it, you're angry about big business capitalist pigs. I don't mind that you are trying to get a message across, I'd just prefer you'd do it online and stop clogging up downtown. Once a week I can deal with, but this "camping out" thing is getting annoying.

The Greeks are being very selfish.

It is there fault, they're economy has always been pathetic and now they're paying the price. But even worst they're trying to drag us all down with them. They need to be forced to accept the very generous rescue deal that has been put in place for them.

Don't Pay Your Bills

Do just like Obummer does ... spend like there's no tomorrow.

Flea Party Is Anti-Semitic

Flea Party blames the Jews for 9-11. Flea Party chants "Free Palestine" even though the Palestinians want to wipe the Jews off the map. These extremists have turned reality on its head. To them the Jews are the enemy, the Islamists are the victims, socialism is good and capitalism and America are evil. And this is the movement that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and so many Democrats rushed to embrace. This is a protest aimed at bankers with a certain element who perversely want to blame the Jews for all of this country’s problems. This video—and others—make that much clear. But what’s odd is not that anti-Semitism and conspiracy theorists exists; it’s that Democratic politicians, who were once quick to embrace the movement, haven’t yet condemned the terrible elements of the protesters.

We (people) should design a new language

Not to replace any other language, but purely as a second language. Design it to be simple, effective, and efficient. Make it simple to speak, write, and simple to learn. Make it effective and concise for communicating information. And finally to do all these things efficiently. A language anyone anywhere could learn and expect to be able to get by just about anywhere in the world.

This is a tacky commerical.

You guys know I am far from a prude, but there is just something tacky about making a commerical for a vibrator.

Date sites are untrustworthy.

Date sites are untrustworthy as who knows who your talking to, you maybe be talking with a pedophile or a rapist or a murderer or whatever. Yes they can end up finding someone perfect for you, but you have to extra careful on date sites as there is complete strangers on it. By my point it is better finding someone you actually know in real life.

If all the cancer charities in the world combined, a cure might be found soon.

When you look at the figures, it's amazing how much could be done if they joined forces. Cancer charities recieve 12.6 Billion dollars annually to aide in research for a cure, if they all help each other out, who knows how fast a cure might be found.

Having a child is an exceptionally selfish act.

Hope you read this before you automatically respond. People have children out of self interest whether that be for a legacy or to make a family unit seem complete. Evidently selfish reasons but not the most selfish. If you think about by having a child you doing one of the most selfish things you can do. You are creating a life, one that obviously has to live. A life that will one day end. You are burdening a child with the potential for the worst possible of lives. You can't guarentee a child will have a nice life. Even if they do they will one day die of old age, disease etc. By creating a life you having something that will endure pain constantly throughout its life. It has no choice in the matter, it had no choice in the fact it was born, you chose for it. (I'm not talking about people who opt to adopt by the way).

Are people having to reset their password these past couple of weeks?

Please let us know. Thanks.

Most legal immigrants that have gained citizenship in the U.S. knows more about U.S. history and legal system than the average native citizen.

I suppose it is easy to take for granted the world you are born into.

Rational thinker on religious institution and the clergy or angry atheist?

What do you think. I thank he nailed it on the head.

Are you alienated from God?

This guy is an evangelical, in my point it is a bit to extreme about us being alienated from God. I seen this when I was in school, I just did not agree totally with what this guy was saying. But do you think he is totally right or wrong, and what is your views?

John Cage's 4'33 is the best song ever.

Why can't more people do covers of this in their concerts?

Go Barbara From Harlem - Go Tea Party

The Tea Party is America's Melting Pot

Does every human have freewill or is it just a joke?

Humans have supposed to have freewill, but it seems a joke now. We make mistakes, we sin, we all do wrong, even the ones who say there Christians and don't sin anymore. We all do it. But some people don't have freewill, cause other peoples religion is stopping them, for instance gays, they can't get married cause Christians and other religions are stopping them. They can't do whatever they want without people taunting them wherever they go. So what if they are gay, there not hurting anyone, they are born that way. What is wrong with gays? Why can't they not have freewill and make there own choices? We were given freewill to make our own choices, but it seems gays, lesbians can't make there own choices these days, as far as am aware.

The U.S. Constitution is based in the idea that you can't trust anybody with unchecked power.

If we allow any individual or group of individuals virtual unchecked power we violate the spirit, if not the letter of the Constitution.

Jon Voight Calls Out Obummer

Obummer is destroying America

Don't mix the ecclesiastical with the economical

The Vatican is backing the Wall Street Protesters (and presumably those camping outside St Paul's Cathedral, London). But should the guy who is considered by many as next to God interfere in these matters?

Man Is A Collection Of Base Animal Urges. To Act On Them And Experience Sinful Pleasure Would Be Morally No Different Than Taking A Breath--Hobbes

No truer words have ever been spoken.

Judge Judy Exposes Two Freeloaders

Is there any doubt that these two bozos voted for Obummer???

A functionally two party system has led Americans to think of politics in absolutes.

The middle is disappearing. Compromise has become a bad word. Look at Obama, half the country hates him because he is too far left, the other half hates him because he is too far right.

The fastest way to become fluent in a language is to fall in love with someone who speaks the language.

I fell hard for a German exchange student in high school. We would sit there and whisper sweet nothings to each other and the next thing you know the German teacher advanced me to the next year because I was speaking it much better than my classmates.

Learning extra languages is a good way to make yourself more marketable in the business world

Plus you can do it without formal training. They plenty of products to help you learn a language. Plus these days it's easy enough to find someone that speaks the language on the internet and hone your skills.

It is harder to learn other languages as an American

There is nowhere in the world with as many people and land six where people are less exposed to other languages.

Marketing A Beer As "Ice Cold" Or "Super Cold" Is Just A Gimmick To Convince People To Not Drink It When Warmer, When It Would Taste Terrible

The BMC brewers (Bud/Miller/Coors) have been training Americans for years to ice their beer to the point they're mouth numbing and then drink it down fast. It's just a trick so you don't drink them warmer and notice how subpar most of their beers really are. The rest of the world's historic brewers are not on a quest to make the coldest beers this side of the North Pole. Don't fall for the gimmick. Unless you're burning up and truly need an ice cold drink of something.

joseph defrancesco had all other copies of his video removed from Youtube so you could only see the one below, do you agree someone should do this?

The reason why I ask because he is publicly humiliating his boss and the hotel he worked for for 3 years. So should he have copyright protection to only exclusively show this video on youtube?

Πρέπει να το κάθαρμα τύπου και στη συνέχεια κάντε κλικ στο ακούσετε σε διαφορετική γλώσσα!

Νομίζω ότι είναι εντάξει, αλλά είναι αστείο όταν λέει.

太多笨小孩儿都一直诉苦有太多功课。他们都应该闭嘴！

你们要我做这个辩论的。。。

Deutschland sollte helfen, die Griechenland Wirtschaft

Deutschland ist nicht uber alle anderen

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You know Americans (maybe the English), and the French are really the only ones that get real snotty about speaking their language just right.

Most other places I have been people respect the fact you are trying and are more than willing to work with you and help.

OK you need to do this voice thing?

Come on now, it's not so bad. So far only Arte and myself have done it so stop being sissies and just do it.

We Should Create A Debate In A Foreign Language And All Respond With Different Languages.

Just for the sake of it and it might be amusing. We can use google translator. Who wants to create the debate?

There are too many Russian villains in movies, video games and television shows.

Seriously, the Cold War ended like two decades ago!

It's cooler to cheer for the underdog than the team that almost always wins

The underdog usually has personnel less proven, less famous, less paid, yet somehow they're still in contention. The underdog's success brings prestige to regions underserved by victories and they may in fact be one of the only major team sports that region has to offer. And with every epic victory by an underdog there was a corresponding epic collapse by the favored team, which makes for good stories. To this day I just don't understand why some people choose to cheer for a team because it's always a winner. Where's the sport in that? Take a risk on backing some underdogs for a change.

Having the best sales pitch does not necessarily mean you're going to have takers

There's a myth that if you package your ideas up right and put them out there with a bow on top then other people can hardly refuse. You hear versions of that myth related to resumes, interviews, fundraising, and showroom floor sales. And hey, I don't deny you should make your best effort. BUT, hooking a taker also depends on their resources, needs, timing, mood, even luck. Sometimes the salesman who hardly tries can get a hit and the one doing cartwheels does not. Ultimately, when someone making a sincere effort isn't succeeding and some wiseguy says "well you're not trying hard enough" or "you just don't have the right pitch yet" it usually isn't very helpful. In fact sometimes the people pushing the magic pitch are simply demonstrating their own version of the magic pitch, and it aint working.

If the whiny Occupy Wall Street hippies put all the energy that they spend whining into going out and finding gainful employment they'd have nothing to whine about

They need to learn that nobody owes them billions of dollars, and that if they're so angry that other people make more money than they do then they need to get off theit lazy, pathetic butts and go do something about it, even if it's just job hunting, something, anything but blocking public areas and whining about how it's unfair that they don't have everything handed to them in life.

Moreno Should Post An Audio Clip Of His Voice

It was his idea and he didn't do it. Plus, he really does have a great voice.

Hondureno, I Apologize For Calling You A Pedophile.

I should not have said that about you. I was upset by your ideas. I don't want a lecture explaining them to me or telling me that I am wrong. I am entitled to my views and feelings, but I do apologize for saying something that I shouldn't have said.

Loving the Unlovable is the hardest thing to do!

This is one Christian teaching which gets people a bit worked up. Sure some people don't deserve to be loved. Maybe they have done something unbelievably awful or are unlikable characters. What did Jesus say: "truly I tell you, you must love your enemies and pray for those who prosecute you,". Probably you would be thinking 'aye right!' was this just one of Jesus' big idea. According to Christians, Jesus did show love to the unlovable. His life is full of examples of healing people who were though of as unclean. Forgiving people who had done unforgivable thingsand helping those who would have been though of as the enemy - like roman soldiers. Jesus showed by his actions that love is the right thing to do whether you like it or not and no matter what other people think of it. But it is easier to love those you like, but much harder to love those who you're not supposed to love. Jesus told Christians to 'love one another as I have loved you,' that means without prejudice. But it is hard to love the unlovable, what is your view?

Halloween should be re-named Liberal Appreciation Day.

Children are taught to go out every Halloween and beg for handouts from complete strangers, which prepares them for later in life when they'll demand that the government give them handouts so that they can sit at home all day and do nothing, so Halloween should really be called Liberal Appreciation Day because parents are encouraging their children to act like liberals.

Sons of Anarchy is a glorified soap opera for men.

It's rather amusing watching a group of grown men standing around gossiping and speculating about the actions of the characters as though they were real people.

Do you know what annoys me?

It doesn't piss me off, but it does really annoy me, when people just go on and argue with you, but with them hardly knowing you, they jump to conclusions about you! Some people need to have facts first, before jumping to an conclusion, plus it is not just on here, it happens also in realistic world.

I Think We (yickyak users here) Should Start An Online Newspaper To Compete With The Big Boys.

Have it look something like huffington post but the articles are user generated and reported by users as well.

There is far more direct tangible evidence for evolution then there is for a historical Jesus

I know there is a apples to oranges aspect here, but even by the standards of two different types and areas of study, in fact by any measure for comparison it isn't even close.

It is impossible to debate somebody who can't understand English.

Just remembering a weird debate on FAA with some dude about abortion claiming that it has a high chance of infertility when I've clearly shown him that the source he used to prove his point actually says that its rare.

It is against YickYak's invisible rules to personally attack someone with the truth, using their own words they communicated to you.

NEVERTHELESS, YY allows me to be slandered as a pedophile. AND YY allowed moreno to put miller's face up just to call him a rapist and a pervert and a stalker and a child molester. moreno got it deleted, it seems. But he left this debate long after his poll was made: [Should The Poll About "what Does DLMiller Look Like..." Be Deleted?]

I want a Yickyak hoodie

A grey one with Iam Yickyak on the front. I would buy it. Yickyak should sell Yickyak shirts.

for the sake of your health you can't beat meat

Vegetarianism is not the way to go

Did Everyone Except Me Know You Can See All Of A Debaters Comments And Responses?

If you click debate central at the top right of any debater's profile page you can see everything they posted.

Slobs Who Leave Their Sh!t Laying Around The Floors Have No Class:

if someone had any class they would pick up their sh!t and either put it away, clean it up, or throw it away.

Britta vs Annie

Blade, if you're gonna do it, then do it right.

Having to wear glasses or having bad eyes because of sitting close to a TV is another Urban Legend.

So, if watching too much television won't actually impair your vision, where did this warning come from? Interestingly enough, at one time, the warning was based in truth. Back in the 1960s, more and more families could afford televisions, and it was a pretty new and exciting technology. Of course, these weren't the flat-screen LCD televisions we enjoy today. Back then, televisions were big, boxy affairs -- full of tubes and wires and bulbs.

Around 1967 or so, General Electric Company (GE) disclosed the fact that many of their color televisions were, due to a factory error, emitting excessive X-rays. Overexposure to X-rays can be dangerous, and Public Health Service officials estimated the radiation from the tube was 10 to 100,000 times the rate considered safe and normal. GE corrected the problem by shielding the tubes inside the television with leaded glass.

At the time, health officials stated the excessive levels of radiation wouldn't harm most viewers. However, they did warn against children sitting close to the television for more than an hour, due to the X-rays shooting through the vents on the bottom of the set. Even though GE recalled and repaired the faulty television sets, the threat of physically damaging X-rays remained in people's thoughts. So, that's one reason why Mom and Dad warn us not to spend too much time watching TV.

Another reason? Children typically sit on the floor to watch television, with their heads tilted up. This causes more eyestrain than sitting eye-level with the television set. Again, eyestrain isn't a permanent problem.

Lastly, parents can mistake the symptom for the cause. Sitting close to the television may not make a child nearsighted, but a child may sit close to the television because he or she is nearsighted and undiagnosed. If your child habitually sits too close to the television for comfort, get his or her eyes tested.

Next, we'll talk about the relationship between technology and eye problems. And later, you'll learn more about eyestrain and how to prevent it. Keep reading (but don't forget to rest your eyes)!

I think everyone should upload an audio voice of themselves to yickyak.

Who has the sexiest voice?

America is in the process of abandoning NASA

For the first time in forty years America doesn't have it's own access to space, and nobody seems to care much.

Annie vs Britta!!

I love what the woman says at the end. LOL

We don't appreciate people or things until they are gone.

I'm gonna miss my High School when I'm going off this year...

Looking back at comments that I made on FAA, feels weird!

I admit that I was so immature, even though I denied that I was selfish, I admit that am a wee bit selfish not all though. But am just not going to bother getting pissed about it. But it sure does feel weird looking back, like I though ok, this is not me and I just laughed at myself, it is funny, to think about it, I do act dumb sometimes, but it does not mean am dumb all together. Who feels that they were immature in FAA? Sorry for saying you were a he Artemis!

Amy Whinehouse dies of alcohol poisoning!

It's sad when someone dies, I may not have liked some or most of her songs, but it is too young. As she was over 4.5 times over the legal drunk driving limit.

The Hubble Telescope Site Is The Best Pictures Of Space:

check out The Sombrero Galaxy and Saturn.

It's All About Respect:

it gets people together from two different sides...

It would be nice if Lord Daniel came over to Yick Yak

I kinda miss the ol' bean.

We had a Chang all along. It was Hondureno

How could I have missed it? Chang was among us the whole time. Remind you of anyone?

Some men hate going shopping with woman!

What does men hate about going shopping with woman? Well am not a shopping freak. I don't like going through every shop to look for good clothes, but then again some have the better fashion.

Some people on here gets pissed off too easily!

Basically some just go of the nut too easily, I think everyone has been pissed of apart from one person, which am not going to mention who!

HERE IS THE PROOF I AM A PEDOPHILE. I'M COMIN' OUTTA THE CLOSET. I CAN´T TAKE IT ANYMORE! ACCEPT ME!

Artemis was right all along. I admit it. I am coming out of the closet.

Artemis and Damsel are like stalking twins!

Well you do have to admit Artemis is the Goddess of Stalking, Damsel is just her twin sis, as they almost act the same.

If You Don't Let old man Finsch And His Harem Walk All Over You, They Will Whine.

So they have always done. Let me see who is in his harem. And let me see them whine again.

If you are going to make up a nickname for someone else on the site, change it up once and a while.

It just shows your lack of imagination when you use the same one over and over.

People who spend all their time talking about everyone else's failures yet do nothing themselves to make anything better deserve contempt.

They are hypocrites and cowards who take no responsibility for their actions and inaction.

One of the funniest British sitcoms, The IT Crowd

Richmond (mixed race guy) plays the perfect nerd. He is great actor.

Monty Python is not funny

I'm sorry, but its not funny. It never made/makes me laugh at all. Its like Brits first exposure to comedy or something. I would like one example of a skit that would have me rolling on the ground laughing.

Anyone other than me on this website who couldn't sit all the way through Paranormal Activity???

I couldn't watch it all the way through to the end. And I had to sleep for nights after with the light on. I am not alone in my experiences correct?

It must be lonely being right

I wouldn't know because I am never right, but Hondureno always is and he drives everyone away. I think I would rather be wrong and happy. You win, Hondureno, I'm leaving for a while. You ran Balls off now me. I hope your righteousness is good company.

Women say the good looking ones are gay or married, but what's worse is when they're crazy.

Yeah, it sucks that I can't have Kddan because he's gay. It sucks that I can't Finsch because he's married, but the saddest part is I won't have Hondureno because he's nuts. Such a cute face and such a messed up mind. Moreno, please tell me you are still straight, unmarried, and fairly sane.

I really do miss Verum

Not just because I like the way he insults me, but I really did learn a lot of things from him. His debates and response are so intelligent and witty. Where are you Verum?

Kids nowadays don't know how lucky they are!

they've no idea how hard life used to be in the old days

Homorearendo Is Obsessed With Artemis

But you could never handle her, little man.

Have You Ever Actually MET A Fat Vegetarian?

I haven't.

Why does a country (India) that can afford a space and nuclear programme require Foreign Aid?

This has baffled me for a while, I would like some clarification.

It was a bad idea for Hondureno to piss off Ballsalsa, but it was a really bad idea to piss off Artemis

sho nuff

Should the poll about "what does DLMiller look like..." be deleted?

What say all of you?

Saudi Arabia would never be on the table for military intervention because such a thing would be counterproductive to the West.

Saudi Arabia probably has the worst human rights in the world but the West wouldn't dare interfere in such a country. They're our friends despite the fact that their leaders are just as evil as Gadaffi and the West seemed to fail to cover how brutually put down the uprising in Saudi.

Should we have GM food?

This is gonna be my last debate for a while as I have a national exam coming up. I need some opinions on this topic for my Geography because my textbook is kinda insufficient. So for the uninitiated, GM crops and reared animals are injected with genes from other organisms or injected with certain nutrients. They can be made to be resistant to pests (Bt corn) or have a shorter growth time (transgenic Nile tilapias)or with additional nutrients (Super Rice enriched with beta-kerotene) . They greatly increase food production. However, there's some bad points about GM food. There's the uncertainty of eating something unnatural. Like the GM pea project was abandoned due to a growth deficiency in many test mice. So yeah, what do you think about GM food?

It is rather pathetic and cowardly for someone who has a Batman avatar to critique the real life picture of another user.

Making unsubstantiated accusations based entirely, or even primarily, upon another person's physical appearance not only makes the accuser look bad but it opens up the floodgates for speculations about wat that person's avatar says about the kind of person he or she is. For instance, one might easily infer that a person who choses to use a depiction of Batman as their avatar is under the narcissistic delusion that they are some sort of superhero.

On Yickyak, It Is Perfectly Acceptable To Post Someone's Face To Then Call The Person A Pedophile, Rapist, Pervert, What Have You. BUT Getting Back At A Slanderer By Exposing Them As A Hypocrite With Information You Got FROM THEM Via Email, then THAT'S JUST MEAN And UNACCEPTABLE!!! This Double Standard Is Disgusting.

Which is why I will leave as soon as people go back to normal. But unlike in forandagainst, I do not vow that I will not return in a year, or in any period of time. That way my enemies will not have so much advantage against me while I'm gone.

It would be easier if Hondureno named the men I haven't flashed

self explanatory

Yickyak Deleted My Poll And Debate In Which I prove That Artemis Is A Hypocrite. If She Can Lie About Me Being A Pedophile, But I Can't Say The Truth About Her Being A Hypocrite, Then To Hell With This Place.

I will wait, though.

We Ought To Have A 'Pathetic Liars' Club

It really is about time we started one

hondureno is cleverer than three Jewish lawyers

never once has he lost a debate or failed to defeat anyone who dares to take him on

You are never going to belive this.

This is not really a debate I just want to let everyone to know about this. I called AR at 3:36pm EDT on 10/24. He told me that he didn't care what two grown consenting men do behind closed doors. That privacy is this their constitutional right it's just wrong biblically. I swear, that's what he said. He went on to say if he was walking by a house and 2 guys were having sex he would just tell them to close the shades, but if he saw a grown man having sex with a 12 year old girl he would call the police and fight that man to the end.

Almost 1 in 4 homes in the US are under water suggest Americans are idiots, right?

What could create an environment where 1 in 4 American homes the home owner owes way more than what the house is worth?

God only wants us to eat meat.

He put us here for a reason and that is to eat meat. It gives us protein to keep our bodies lean and healthy.

Everyone should choose an avatar of a character and respond like that person for a week or two.

Instead of making up new login names, you just get another avatar and act like that person. Everyone who has a Community avatar can do that right now :D

I Just Tasted the King Of All Beers:

Black Butte is the best beer ever created.

Who Parented These People

By Marybeth Hicks*** Call it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, 'Who parented these people?' As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political ramifications of the 'movement' -- now known as 'OWS' -- whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: 'Everything for everybody.' Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it's clear there are people with serious designs on 'transformational' change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel. Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters' moms clearly have not passed along. Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn't, so I will: Life isn't fair. ... Nothing is 'free.' ... Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. ... A protest is not a party. ... There are reasons you haven't found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn't a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It's not them. It's you.

Working hard for something doesn't mean you will get it.

It's scary how some of my fellow students can study until they tear and yet they don't score well for their examinations.

Who Are The Real Demons

By Walter E. Williams - Economist*** According to Forbes' Celebrity 100 list for 2010, Oprah Winfrey earned $290 million. Even if her makeup person or cameraman earned $100,000, she earned thousands of times more than that. Is that fair? Among other celebrities earning hundreds or thousands of times more than the people who work with them are Tyler Perry ($130 million), Jerry Bruckheimer ($113 million), Lady Gaga ($90 million) and Howard Stern ($76 million). According to Forbes, the top 10 celebrities, excluding athletes, earned an average salary of a little more than $100 million in 2010. According to The Wall Street Journal Survey of CEO Compensation (November 2010), Gregory Maffei, CEO of Liberty Media, earned $87 million, Oracle's Lawrence Ellison ($68 million) and rounding out the top 10 CEOs was McKesson's John Hammergren, earning $24 million. It turns out that the top 10 CEOs have an average salary of $43 million, which pales in comparison with America's top 10 celebrities, who earn an average salary of $100 million. When you recognize that celebrities earn salaries that are some multiples of CEO salaries, you have to ask: Why is it that rich CEOs are demonized and not celebrities? ... It's not about the amount of money people earn. If it were, politicians and leftists would be promoting jealousy, fear and hate toward multimillionaire Hollywood and celebrities and sports stars, such as LeBron James ($48 million), Tiger Woods ($75 million) and Peyton Manning ($38 million). But there is no way that politicians could take over the roles of Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and LeBron James. That means celebrities can make any amount of money they want and it matters not one iota politically. The Occupy Wall Street crowd shouldn't focus its anger at wealthy CEOs. A far more appropriate target would be the U.S. Congress.

I don't believe anyone on this site wants to see Ballsalsa leave over Humpakiddo

I believe most people if not everyone likes Balls.

How Obama Will Try to Win

By Bernard Goldberg*** In difficult times, a wise man once said, it’s important to state the obvious. So here goes. Barack Obama cannot run for re-election touting his success in economic matters. That’s mainly because he’s had no success in economic matters. He can’t brag about a low unemployment rate – not when it’s over 9 percent. He can’t boast about the growing economy, which is barely growing and may even slide back into recession. He can’t tell the voters about all the new, clean, green jobs he’s creating, because he isn’t. (Can you say Solyndra?) And perhaps you’ve noticed that he’s already stopped talking about how many millions of any-kind-of jobs his administration has “created or saved” and is now talking about all the jobs his policies have “supported,” whatever that means. So what can he do? Only one thing: Wage class warfare. Turn Americans against each other based on envy. Divide Americans into two camps: the “greedy” rich who don’t contribute their “fair share” on one side … and all the downtrodden, decent people struggling for a better life on the other. Pitting Americans against each other simply for personal political gain would be bad enough. But for a president who rode into office on a magic carpet of lofty promises about hopes and dreams to make America a better, post-partisan place, this is truly despicable. Nothing – absolutely nothing – is the same as race in America, but something like this politics of division has been tried before. Racist politicians in the Old South divided Americans based on the color of their skin – and they did it for just one reason: to win elections. They didn’t care about the harm they were doing. They cared only about themselves. Turning Americans against each other by (over and over and over again) telling the middle-class (where the majority of the votes just happen to reside) – that Republicans are the Marie Antoinette Party that cares only about “millionaires and billionaires” and doesn’t give a damn about everybody else, isn’t as bad as promising to “keep those n—–s in their place” … but it’s still pretty bad. And just as it worked (until it didn’t) in the Old South, the politics of envy may work again. According to a Time magazine poll, 79 percent of Americans familiar with the Occupy Wall Street protest believe “the gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. is too large” and 68 percent believe “the rich should pay more in taxes.” Never mind that the poor aren’t poor because the rich are rich. In fact, if we had fewer rich people we’d probably have more poor people, since rich people are the ones who invest their money in companies that produce jobs. And even if the rich paid 100 percent of their income in taxes it would barely put a dent in the national debt and wouldn’t create a single job. Barack Obama surely knows this. But he also thinks he knows – or at least hopes – that the American people are envious enough, and dumb enough, to buy into his class warfare strategy. President Obama is smooth and can be convincing. He was once. And he may be again. After all, there are a lot of envious, dumb Americans out there who don’t have a clue as to how the economy works but they’re sure of one thing: they hate rich people. And not all of them are Occupying Wall Street.

Clothes are unnecessary.

I mean seriously, why wear clothes at all? Going commando is a cheaper alternative.

it really annoys hondo if you don't capitalise proper nouns and the beginning of sentences, and don't put full stops at the end of sentences

i've noticed this i wonder what other grammar and punctuation crimes get on his wick

Ballsalsa blew it.

I used to get pisssed off on the other debate site and my wife made me take a break. I made a deal that if I got all pisssed off again, I'd give it up. I gotta go. This was my last hurrah. A deal's a deal. You guys take care.

You can tell whenever Habenero loses a debate.

He takes something out of context from the debate and starts a new debate, hoping to distract from his defeat.

BS thinks he's God.

After I told him I was not going to waste my time responding to his lies in a particular place, he said: "If I were insulting God, I'd shut up too." Hmmmmm....

Habenero thinks he's God.

He said this in my debate about God not caring if we believe or not: "...you want to give the appearance of having something worthwhile to say against God." See, I was arguing with Habenero, but he's telling me I'm arguing against God. Hmmm.

BS (ballsalsa) says that the beautiful planets are piles of sh¡t.

"Well, evidently your God is only capable of making one oasis of life. All the rest of his creation is innumerable piles of sh!t." See the ninth comment under my vote in his debate "If God Exists, He Doesn't Care If We Believe In Him Or Not."

If God exists, He doesn't care if we believe in him or not.

When evaluating if there is a god or not, the evidence is ambiguous. There are trillions upon trillions of empty, dead worlds in the universe, giving the impression that life took hold on Earth, just from a statistical inevitability. Considering the appearance that this gives (that we're an accident), and assuming that belief in him had any importance at all, He should present irrefutable evidence of Himself to counter the evidence that suggests we're an accident.

Steve Jobs was a total Dick.

The guy was simply a prick. On the TV program, "60 minutes", his biographer pretty much said he was simply an ass hole. If it wasn't for his capitalistic success, we would call him a thug, counter culture, lacked respect for authority, dick to his closest friends to the point he wouldn't give stock options to one of his closest friends who helped him start the business. His other famous partner had to give his stocks to people Jobs refused to do. His disregard and recognition of his first daughter. His refusal to have a license tag on his car. His treatment to his employees and close friends and colleagues which led to his company kicking him out of the company.

Only in the United states where because you are a successful capitalist, you are made into sainthood as though that washes all away the sins of you as a person and and treatment for your fellow man that would probably put other people in jail, fired from jobs, divorces and all other things for simply being a dick. His travels to india as a youth to better himself either didn't help or made him worse. Doesn't made I don't like my Iphone. LOL. But its still a gadget that will be worthless in a couple of years like most consumer products.

Usually people who are against homosexuality define it by the act, whereas people who accept homosexuality define it by the desire.

I think it must have its roots in the idea that homosexuality is a choice.

Uptight conservatives should try some magic mushrooms

A new study says they permanently change personalities to be more open. http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/magic-mushrooms-may-have-long-lasting-effects-on-personality

Gays are morally superior to Christians.

The ruling of gay-rights folks angry, as it sent them right back into the closet and continued the criminalisation of homosexuality in military. Stanley Hauerwas, a Duke Divinity School theologian. He wrote a short essay titled "why gays (as a group) are morally superior to Christians (as a group)? He uses an incendiary essay title to join an angry debate as a way to lecture Christians about pacifism. His reasons as follows 1. Military views gays as bad for morale, as "doubtful warriors," and as "suspect for military service,". 2. The military does not view Christians this way. 3. Ergo, gays as a group are more moral than Christians as a group. However he is hopeful that Christians might someday become unfit for military service, if they work faithfully enough at it.

Cell Phone Companies Should Take All The Time They Put Into Coming Out With New Applications And Gizmos And Put That Time And Effort Into Increasing Network Coverage.

The primary function of a phone is to be able to call people; if you can't do that because there's no service where you are then it becomes nothing more than an expensive paperweight.

Beastiality really isn't that bad

I mean yeah it's gross, more than gross, but as long as the animal isn't getting hurt it isn't as bad as say chopping them up and eating them, at least as far as they are concerned, I am thinking.

It's not often you see a dead donkey, is it?

In fact I don't believe I've ever seen a dead donkey at all. I've seen dead people, foxes, cats, dogs, badgers, horses, cows, sheep, pigs, birds newts, fish, lizards, mice, voles - etc. But never a dead donkey

Lamb makes a nice change from beef

when you get meat lust you usually think of steak - but nothing is nicer than a good lean cut of lamb cooked with rosemary and garlic and pink wine This accompanying video is a complete non sequiteur. I have it on FAA and I just think it's funny

Homosexuality is NOT a choice and I can prove it

I work with a lesbian and I showed her a picture of both Finsch and Moreno. She is still gay. No way after seeing either one of them any woman would choose to be with women. PS. Let's keep this between us because I wouldn't want either of them to know I think they are hot.

Most of what we consider racial issues could actually be, if not solved, greatly mitigated by dealing with poverty in America.

There will always be those who look for reasons to separate and try to ensure ingrained hierarchical structures in a society. However, if everyone had equal opportunity starting from health care, through school, and finally in the job market there would be little someone could do to someone else that was on an equal social footing.

As long as we keep thinking of societies problems in terms of White or Black or Hispanic we will never solve them.

Unless we think of them as our problems as part of the group rather than as their problem, anything the majority might do becomes either charity or meddling. Both of which lead to a further separation among members of the same society.

The concept of sports teams being able to forcibly trade an athlete to another team is wrong

They sign to play X number of years for X amount of money. Why does the employer then get to decide they must go to a different employer to finish out their contract? Isn't it the same as if your company employer sends you to a rival company employer to work and you have to go? It uproots your family, changes your boss, maybe even your position in the workforce. But you have to. Either that or leave the profession completely. Isn't that wrong? I'm not saying trades aren't an interesting part of sports. And yeah, many players are happy to be traded. But didn't it always strike you odd that someone can be literally forced to go work for someone else? It's almost like the contract made you a property, not a person.

The illegal execution of Gaddafi was unfortunate and does not bode well for a democratic Libya

The man may have deserved execution but it should have been done through the proper channels. A court of law should have decided the fate of Gaddafi, not mob justice. If he had been legally prosecuted then it would have served for a good model for the rest of the Arab World.

Countries should not fight in wars when their citizens are all screaming for peace.

This song is quite idealistic, but I love the concept. Won't the world be beautiful without guns and weapons to shoot at a fellow man?

I Should not Bother With People Who Hate The Truth.

I gotta stop trying to get them to see. It's clear that they don't want the truth. Two times or three times, I will try with each of you, but no more. Once I see that you hate the truth, to hell with you. I want you saved. You want your lies. To hell with you. There are others who need to be woken up. To hell with you.

You can still like a person with whom you disagree

For example, I agree with AR on very few things, but I like the guy. I like the fact that he is in your face and obnoxious and doesn't apologize for it. You go, boy. You and your crazy ideas.

Is the Flea Party Just Like The Tea Party?

The Tea Party members cleaned up after themselves, went home, and then got up and went to work the next day. One video is worth a thousand words.

It is amazing how Gays are always put as bad guys on here, when bisexuals get to go scot free!

Have you ever seen many arguments on here about bisexuals going to hell or they are sinners etc. It looks like miller, AR are busy getting the gays rather than the bisexuals.

If there were a "Creator" of some kind there is no reason to assume that they were GOD

When I say God I mean the uber being that the monotheistic religions profess, rather a god (small g)which is a rather nebulous definition at best.

Homosexuality is far from a threat

It cracks me up how the biggest concern of most Christians is homosexuality. For the sake of argument lets say they are right. So what? That means gays are going to hell. How does that affect the life of everyone else?

China has advanced so much technologically and yet they have left their morals behind.

The above video is a clip from a security camera in China where a toddler was run down TWICE by two different slow-moving vehicles. There were 18 other pedestrians who saw this sight and simply ignored it. This child was taken to hospital afterwards by a passerby but she had already went into a coma. Now she died today of multiple organ failure. How can they be so indifferent about a dying human being?

Agnostics are not atheists.

If that's a dictionary definition, then Webster be dammed. That's one he got wrong. That's like saying if you're not an Alabama fan then you're an Auburn fan, ignoring the multitudes who could care less for either team.

You all do know to be in the 1% you have to make $350k a year...its not just millionairs

Everyone thinks the top 1% are millionaires. Not true. To make that elite status you need to make about $350. That could be a small business owner.

The US will never allow democracy to flourish in the Middle East.

Instead of American companies given contracts for oil exploration, drilling, and transport, they'll want their own people to do it. Instead of paying off a few elite leaders in a dictatorship, a fairly compensated workforce would have to be paid in a democracy. We're not about to pay significantly more for oil so average Arab families can make a decent living. Don't be surprised when carefully orchestrated "unrest" befalls these fledgling democracies.

The Hershey's Kiss is a successful idea that never should have been tried.

It's a stupid idea, but somehow thrived for stupid consumers. This is how the pitch conversation went: "Ok, my idea on a new product - a small bite of chocolate". "How is it different than the chocolate bar?" "It's small". "But no one wants just one bite of chocolate". "Yes, that's why we'll sell these individual bites in bags". "So the only difference between your idea, and the chocolate bar, is that you'll have to physically unwrap every bite you take?" "Yeah, basically". "The cost would be too high; we'd have to retool our machines to make the new size bites". "I thought of that already - just leave them in the shape that it comes out of the nozzle, likely a drop of poo". "Ok, let's do it."

Key Difference between Protestant and Catholics - Faith and Works

Once more people were able to read which sparked people like Martin Luther who spearheaded the protestant movement, they took the interpretations of the bible and focused more on Faith while catholism focused on Works i.e. doing good deeds to find favor in their god. Hince one reason for the seperation from the Catholic church. Protestants focused on, "Just have faith"...don't worry too much on being good or doing good deeds, because to them an athiest can do that. But having Faith as the number one priority they believe sets them apart from everyone else including Catholics. And from their view, narrows the pool of who they believe would go to heaven.

Why we should take care of the world?

This video got me thinking, if we don't protect the world there will be no world, so there will be no us, no animals, no plants, basically nothing. Then it got me wondering why do people have to destroy everything that it is there in front of us? I actually agree with the systems that has been put out for us to follow, but it is a shame that nobody really cares much of helping the planet.

Are we happier than our Ancestors were in the past?

In our 20th century world human's have achieved a level of material progress, we would never have even dreamed of barely a century ago. These modern technology has given us enormous power over the forces of nature. We have conquered many disasters, but the ultimate question is: 'Are we happier than our ancestors were in the past?' The answer is 'no', as there is abuse to woman, children and underprivileged and racial discrimination, colour bar and caste distinction continue on unabated. But those who enjoy material comfort suffer more acutely than 'poor' fellow beings. Some or most humans suffer from mental illness, stress and loneliness, these are some of the serious problems we face in todays modern society. But the vital question is : 'who is responsible for all the evil that haunt the world today?' But who must share the blame, in my point of view we are all equally responsible. All of us are responsible for the horrors taking place in our midst today because we are afriad of telling the truth for example exploitation desire for sensual gratification, greed for money and power has led some unscrupulous people to develop a multi-billion dolar industry, tyo provide sensual pleasures in every possible way. But young children are being trapped and victimized in the process.

Only AR Sees The Big Picture.

If you mention homosexuality AR will pull verses from all over the bible. If you make a point about anything he doesn't agree with then you are not seeing the big picture. Evidently, the bible has order of context for everyone but AR.

Hondureno is a very materailistic person.

Remember he had the Israeli flag crossed out and he said that meant he loved Jews. Now, he has a dollar crossed out. He must love money.

Nations should be abolished.

It's gonna happen, for a peace to be realized, as far as man is able to attain it. Nations will become like the states in the U.S.. The only problem I have with that is that the one world government will be wicked. The false messiah will take control, as prophesied.

The official story for 911 is stupid.

9-11 is when the most powerful nation in history let itself get hit in its most important city by planes it could have shot down quick but didn't in order to use them as a pretext for invasions to steal oil. Even if you don't believe that the U.S. had a part in the planning of this satanic ritual by the so-called illuminati, you can be smart enough to see that the U.S. welcomed the attacks. Not most U.S. citizens. Certain leaders. It's another burning of the Reichstag.

The U.S. is murdering in Afghanistan. It's not worth it for revenge against a perceived foe.

I used to not know if waging war there was justified or not. I am less ignorant now. I never had an excuse to remain ignorant, though.

A true skeptic who claims to question all would truly question all, INCLUDING LOGIC ITSELF.

After all, how do you know that logic isn't part of the illusion? Bwahahaha! I like how a solipsist would be using logic to try to come to grips with that fact they would overlook.

Superstring Theory:

ten dimensions instead of just the three we always imagined there to be.

Zynga games show a poor reflection of humanity.

In about half of the Zynga games, you work to gain wealth and achievements. OR, you can steal the wealth of others to make your achievements. Invariably, the game starts out enjoyable enough, until there are so many people stealing from each other, that the people who are patient and earn the wealth grow weary of constant theft and gradually drop out (or become thieves themselves). We're screwed as a species.

Sacrifice Is A Method Of Reinforcing Faith.

It makes no logical sense whatsoever, but I think a person's faith is strengthened by sacrifice. The thinking is, "my faith must be true, because otherwise I did all this for nothing". Of the people who thought the rapture was in May of this year, many of them gave away their wealth and possessions. I don't think they gave away their wealth because of their faith, so much as they had faith BECAUSE they gave away their wealth. Sacrifice is a tool for control, whether self-imposed or encouraged by others.

It is perfectly acceptible for humans to eat their young.

Animals do it, so according to the pro-gay crowd, that makes the behavior acceptible for humans.

Personality is a random draw on how our brain makes sense of things.

Take for instance a kid who has been constantly abused by his/her parents. He/she could either turn out a very strong and hardy person (survival instinct) or a very scared and timid person (submissive). I think it depends on just how your brain makes sense of the world.

Saying "I believe you believe it" is another way of calling a person crazy or a liar

I recently made a complaint at work and the HR rep did not seem to believe me. I asked "don't you believe me?" and I got the reply above. How else could I take that?

Under Hermain Cain's ridiculous 999 plan the richest 1% could pay less than 1% in taxes.

9% sales tax, 9% income tax, 9% corporate taxes. And then 0% in Capital Gains tax and 0% paid on Dividends. This job can only help the rich and hurt the poor. 9% sales tax would hurt anyone who isn't a huge sum of money greatly. This plan is ridiculous, if Occupy Wall Street think they have something to protest over now well just wait and see what happens should Cain get elected.

Reason why drinking alcohol will never prevent youth from wanting it, when it questions your manhood

Miller has a serious of beer commercials called, Man Up!. Questioning someone's manhood for not drinking a "man" beer. And you wonder why youth drink.

some people think atheism is a faith

or at least, they consistently pretend to

The new Iphone 4S can't understand Scotish or Welsh people....learn proper english.

Siri is still in beta, and while it is adding several languages in the future, for now it can only respond to English, French and German. For non-native English speakers and for iPhone 4S owners in Wales and Scotland, Siri has proven to be frustrating, as the voice recognition feature struggles to recognize heavily-accented speech. Above, check out one Scotsman's struggles with Siri.

Bad world or Good world??

All I have seen on the news is bad things happening in the world, or things that isn't really important. For example (volcano eruptions, murders, kidnaps, earthquakes etc) There is hardly anything about good people and what good the world has done, it has made me start thinking is the world just bad or is there anything that is good in this world. If there is, then it should be shown to the world than all the bad.

shower gel is better than soap

it doesn't dry you skin out like soap does, so even though it's more expensive you save money on moisturiser. Alternatively, of course, you could skip taking a daily shower altogether and just wash the sweaty bits. Or not even do that, spray deodorant on

For those that don't believe in objective morality, there are other reasons (besides causing harm) that certain actions should be considered immoral.

Most people agree that actions that cause harm should be considered immoral. There are other reasons why an action would be immoral however.

This is a perfect example of scapegoating

Using a platform to attack immigration when the issue was about drunk driving. Same with guys here who scapegoat homesxuals as child molesters or child predetors.

The Iran plot to assassinate the Saudi dignitary is bogus.

The best they could do is hire a used car salesman? Seriously? And of course no one outside the inner circle of the Executive Branch is allowed to see the evidence. Here we go again! Get ready for another war on random brown people.

If both parents of a divorced child fought for the custody of the child and the mother won, the father should not be forced to pay more than half of the cost of raising the child to the mother.

That means no monthly maintenance for the wife only for the child.

The BBC Cop Show, Luther, Is One Of The Best Shows I've Seen In A Long Time...must See

The hot red head is like Hannibal Lectar. Luther is a genius cop who won't arrest her because he needs her mind....she is a child prodigy who killed her parents in cold blood. Video below is 1 episode second season. They are in their 3rd season. You can watch the first season on Streaming Netflix. Only 6 episodes a season - quality vs quantity. I've seen the first season 5 times already. Thats how much I like it. Superb acting from both members and great supporting cast. The mind game that they both play with each other is phenominal.

It is an absolute disgrace that HOUSE isn't shown on terrestrial TV in Britain any more

I think it stopped at season 4 - and now they've made season 8

everyone should have at least one abortion in their lifetime

whether they are pregnant or not

debates about banning homework should be banned

homework is wonderful stuff - it ought to be collected and saved, and put on a shelf and taken down only occasionally to be dusted

The headline "Star Trek's Spock admits he's gay" is misleading .

90% of people are going to think Leonard Nimoy came out of the closet.

Time travel is a domain that we should never attempt to go to.

Imagine what governments could do with that. They can assassinate people to change the future, they can win wars that they've lost in the past. They can even kill off certain nations even before they came about.

95% Of The People Are Involved In A "Works-Righteousness" Religion System.

There are only two ways to get to Heaven. Salvation and righteousness is either by God's grace or man's works. Only 5% believe that Christianity is salvation by the grace of God and 95% of all other people are involved with various other religious systems that are man-made ways of rejecting God's gift and people working to make themselves more righteous and desirable to God. As an illustration, Roman Catholicism is a "Works-Righteousness" religious system.

Reviewers do it more for their own expression and ego gratification than as a service to others

I've done my own share of reviews (wine, beer, art). Others do everything else (movies, books, fashion, etc). Sometimes reviewers fight among each other over who got it right and the value contributed by their rivals. It's not really that they think the public is less served by their rival's opinion, style, length of review, it's more that they want their own to be more right, more clever, better. They're in it for their own satisfaction, not your satisfaction.

Some Christians are so obnoxious that even the least fussy lion wouldn't eat them

why can't they just accept that their way is wrong?

ANIMALS BEHIND BARS?

These days humans take wild animals out of their natural habitats. These animals are put in cages, which is a breach of the natural rights, as the belong in the natural habitat. Many of these animals are taken out of their habitat, for our own benefit. Studies have shown that severe cases of these animals are suffering from depression, abnormal behaviour and Physiological distress. Many people want to see these animals acting naturally, as they would in the wild. But many of these animals die young due to harsh conditions. Some or most of these animals are put in cages that does not allow them to move. Zoo's are cruel jails for these animals and should be outlawed. But if they provide them with friendly and roomy habitat, with good food and medical care, then it is ok. People use the excuse of it is protecting them, but captivating them from the wild is endangering them. One way or another humans seem to have a knack for destroying beauty that is nature.

Nobody can really give a good enough reason to ban homework!!

On FAA and on Yickyak it seems all the reasons to ban homework is 'it's boring, it is a waste of time, it svck' etc. But they aren't really good reasons for banning homework. In my point of view it helps in studying, if you never done your homework or study, can you remember every lesson from the beginning to the exams, it is not really that possible, unless you study.

State ran healthcare does not equal death panels.

The British Nhs since 1948, I think that's all that needs to be said. The American right wing just don't like the idea of helping people as demonstrated in the recent GOP debates. State ran healthcare works.

POKÉMON IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST CARTOONS EVER!

The storyline. The characters. The battles. The epic sagas. The romance. The humour with Brock and Team Rocket. The Elite Four. The Legendaries. It just doesn't get any better than this.

Obama suffers from father hunger

I truly believe that much of western culture' s woes are the result of fatherlessness. Here is a shrink's psychoview of our President. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/10/14/shrink-obama-suffers-father-hunger

Artemis Wrote One Very Good Debate At Forandagainst.com :

(Genesis1:29)..."God_Wants_Us_To_Smoke_Marijuana_And_I_Can_Prove_It".

It is silly to be worried about socialism, when we are clearly on a path to fascism.

In a healthy society, the government keeps private industry in check, providing protections for the people. In fascism, the government and industry work together, against the people. "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR

How to keep one's wealth from a left winger

The only two property rights that the left wing seems to acknowledge are: 1. the bedroom ("what goes on in my bedroom is totally private") and 2: my body (abortion on demand, euthanasia and so forth). With that in mind, is it possible to actually keep my wealth from the left wingers who want to "tax and take from the rich" ; by actually storing my wealth in my bedroom or in various parts of my body, since those two property locales are strictly private according to the left-wing takers.

Atheism Is Not Primarily An Intellectual Revolt, It Is A Moral Revolt.

Atheists don't find God so much invisible as objectionable. They aren't adjusting their desires to fit the truth, but the truth to fit their desires. God gets in their moral way and liberation from this moral law giver is really the motivation of many atheists.

Herman Cain 999 Plan matches the game, SIMCity...I don't think he gave it much thought

In Herman Cain's America, the tax code would be very, very simple: The corporate income tax rate would be 9 percent, the personal income tax rate would be 9 percent and the national sales tax rate would be 9 percent. But there's already a 999 plan out there, in a land called SimCity. Long before Cain was running for president and getting attention for his 999 plan, the residents of SimCity 4 -- which was released in 2003 -- were living under a system where the default tax rate was 9 percent for commercial taxes, 9 percent for industrial taxes and 9 percent for residential taxes. LOL...what a bum.

F1 racing is a pointless waste of money.

I don't see what's so interesting about looking at cars going round and round the same track for so many laps with barely any change in positions. At the risk of sounding sadistic, the only interesting parts about F1 is the crashes.

The Occupy Wall Street message is perfectly clear, the right wing are simply trying to cloud the message.

The message is obvious. Wall Street is the reason for the economic crash 3 years ago, no one was held to account or brought to justice. The fat cats continue to hoard the wealth while everyone else is left to suffer and both the main parties cater for this vile elite. The young people who have taken to the streets are 100% right, the right wing hate the fact that the people aren't clouded to the truth and are fighting back. They will do whatever is necessary to fight the truth.

Pierce was truly based on AR

I know Artemis bangs on about Community - but she's got AR pegged as Pierce and there's definitely something in it.

the American prison system is a form of slavery

About one in every hundred Americans is in prison. And they are working for a lot less than the lowest hourly rate. This is how America can compete with third world countries in manufacturing while maintaining a first world standard of living

video games should not spawn enemies out of thin air.

If you are careful and prudent enough to check behind you and every nook and cranny, before proceeding into a new area, you should not have to worry about %$#@ and sneaking up behind you.

Sting From The Musical Group The Police, Is Still Doing Concerts:

some older guys still "got it".

Starbucks Is A Good Company To Invest In:

Market Gains In An Economic Downturn.

Occupy Wall Street Given Eviction Notice

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been given an eviction notice. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told the group to clear out of Zuccotti Park so that it can be cleaned. But just days ago, Bloomberg said the protestors could stay "indefinitely." What explains the mayor's sudden turnaround? To begin with, the park is private property. The management company that oversees the park sent a frank letter to the commissioner of the New York City Police Department Tuesday demanding that the protestors be evicted. In the letter, the company complains about "unsanitary and unsafe" conditions in the park and "offensive odors." The management company has received hundreds of phone calls and e-mails from area residents complaining about thefts, harassment and illegal activity, including drug use. It is worth noting that this was not the company's first request to the city to clear the park. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has told protestors they must leave Zuccotti Park by Friday morning, and they won't be allowed to bring their sleeping bags back to the park once it is reopened. So far there is no indication that the radicals will go quietly. In contrast, the TEA Party always left the area cleaner than they found it.

Having opponents shows how righteous you are

Think of the Phelps family, standing up for what they know to be right in their single topic crusade to highlight the anti-homosexual word of God. They have the courage of their convictions, the courage to be unpopular - just like somebody here!

Euthanasia is the answer to health care costs

Euthanasia seems to be the growing answer to rising health care costs in Holland and Belgium. Like other European nations, Belgium and Holland have a centralized, single-payor system of health care i.e. socialized medicine. Euthanasia is becoming more and more the answer to rising costs in these two countries where it is legal. Evidently, with just so much money dedicated to health care delivery, when the aged reach the point of escalating consumption of resources, "compassionate" doctors and nurses are coming to the rescue with their syringes of "hemlock." I guess these compassionate care givers are so caring they administer the life arresting potions without even patient consent in a growing number of cases. It is only logical, isn't it, if the doctors and nurses paychecks come out of the pile of money dedicated to health care, it would be in their self-interest not to "waste" it on some old person who has no "quality" of life.

I Strongly Believe That Rioters Work in Shifts

I just did some random research on major riots and found a few things that they have in common. They typically stem from injustice, thousands get arrested, and they last about 5 days. Do all of the rioters stay awake for the whole thing? (1) Watts Riots, 1965: 34 dead, 3,400 arrested, lasted 5 days (2) Detroit Riot, 1967: 43 dead, 7,200 arrested, lasted 5 days. (3) Rodney King Riot, 53 dead, thousands arrested, lasted 6 days

We are no longer learners and more gatherers of information.

Iphones, computers, robots, etc. All we do is gather information store it in some device to retreive based on the context or situation we are in. We study far less and spend more time finding information.

We should be replacing our textbooks with this.

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Atheism is the opiate of the masses

Marx had it all wrong. If God exists as defined by mainline monotheistic faiths, then there also exists a hereafter, and ultimately there is judgment for all of our wrong-doings-----lying, stealing, cheating, murder, torturing, abusing, etc. Etc. Etc... Atheism, therefore, would be the perfect hallucinogen and opiate for hiding from such accountability. I'm not defending the existence of God or eternity here, but if they exist along with ultimate accountability, then atheism is the perfect "escape" drug.

You Can't Appreciate A Country By Going To The Tourist Haunts, But By Going To Where The Locals Usually Go To.

In tourist spots, they jack up the price much more and they don't really give a good indication of their culture. It's more like what they want you to see.

The Conrad Murray trial is a waste of money.

The prosecution has totally lowballed the charges, being involuntary manslaughter. All this time the defense has argued that he's guilty of exactly that. He was engaging in reckless behavior, knew better, and it resulted in a death. If the jury agrees 100% with the defense argument, they should still find him guilty. Unless I'm missing something, I don't understand the point in not pleading guilty in the first place, which would have gotten him a lesser sentence.

Women smile more than men.

And I think the more macho the culture or subculture is the less likely the men will smile, especially for a picture.

It's cool to knit

so many women are ashamed to be seen knitting. They think of the old ladies who sat close to the guillotine watching aristocrats lose their heads. But it's a creative hobby, making scarves for teddy bears

First class airline passengers should be seated last.

I can understand why they want to be the first ones off. That makes sense, saves them time. What is the advantage to being the first seated (besides competing for overhead space, which they don't have to do)? They're the first ones on, and have to be jostled and elbowed by a parade of the unwashed masses. I personally try to pass gas every time I march through the first class area.

You take the blue pill or the red pill

choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red).

It is morally wrong not to eat meat.

The animals are going to be killed whether people eat them or not, so refusing to eat their meat means that they have died in vain.

Top Gun had a lot of GAY overtones (A lot of cursing)

It seems over the top without people realizing it, right?

My profile picture is the best here. You cannot deny it.

'Nuff said.

I Don't Have Any "Worthy Opponents"

How do you delete the low-life slugs who think they are your "Worthy Opponent?"

If AIDs could spread as easily as the common cold, humanity would be screwed.

Just imagine your doctors being as sick as you are.

Anti Gay nutcases now claim they're being bullied, what a joke.

If you're anti gay you're just a bigot and you don't deserve to be treated with respect. You deserve to be mocked and ridiculed and you know you're losing the fight when you resort to claiming you're being bullied when you're the bully yourself.

There Is No Such Thing As "Free" Health Care.

"Free" health care just means that the government forces you to pay your hard earned money so that some lazy bum with an entitlement complex can sit around with his thumb up his backside and do nothing all day and still get health care that the government forces you to pay for.

If aliens landed openly on Earth and made are attempting to contact us, humans would respond with hostile force.

I would say that they would probably be murdered by the military or any gun wielding nutters.

Mormonism Is A Cult

All false teachers and false religions including Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, and Islam try to deny the Deity of Jesus Christ. The founding prophet of the Mormon cult, Joseph Smith (1805-1844) built his first temple in Kirtland, Ohio. For several years, Joseph Smith had an adulterous affair with Fanny Alger, an adolescent household servant. After a warrant was issued for Smith's arrest on a charge of banking fraud, Smith fled Ohio for Missouri in 1938. In Missouri, Joseph Smith spent four months in prison on a charge of treason and after several failed attempts, Smith finally escaped and traveled to Illinois. In Illinois, Smith married about thirty women, ten of whom were already married to other men, and about a third of them were teenagers, including two fourteen-year-old girls. A grand jury indicted Smith on a charge of polygamy and because Smith induced his followers to fight against the state of Illinois, a charge of inciting a riot was increased to a charge of treason and he was put in jail with his brother Hyrum where they were killed when an armed mob stormed the jail. Joseph Smith taught that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers. The Mormon teaching that Jesus and Satan are brothers is based on their concept of God being the Father of all pre-existent spirits. Since Jesus is the son of the Father and all other spirits, including Satan, are sons and daughters of the Father, then all are brothers and sisters. This idea has been part of Mormon teaching from the time of Joseph Smith and continues today. In the Discourses of Brigham Young, on pages 53-54, he lets it be known that Lucifer is the second son, the one known as "Son of the Morning." "Who will redeem the earth, who will go forth and make the sacrifice for the earth and all things it contains?" The Eldest Son said: "Here am I"; and then he added, "Send me." But the second one, which was "Lucifer, Son of the Morning," said, "Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth." Jesus is God and before He died on the cross, He had a body made of flesh and bones. Even after His resurrection, His new glorified body is made of flesh and bones. Jesus said that God the Father is a spirit being and a spirit being does not have flesh and bones. Luke 24:39 (Jesus speaking) 39. "Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.'' John 4:24 (Jesus speaking) 24. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.'' The Mormons believe that God the Father has a body of flesh and bones. "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's," (Doctrine and Covenants 130:22; Compare with Alma 18:26-27; 22:9-10). Mormons also believe in speaking in tongues. The seventh Article of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says, "We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth." The Mormons put two other books, written by Joseph Smith, on a par with Scripture: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. From these "further revelations" come error after error concerning God, Christ, the nature of man, theological chaos, and other damnable heresies.

Sex Is Used To Get People Together:

mating is a bonding tool.

Do You Ever Wonder If One Of Your Usual Opponents Creates A Stupid Debate to Draw Attention Away From Your Good One?

Take that, finsch.

It is very annoying when votes disappear from polls you have made

Several polls I have put together have had votes, including my own disappear. Like the pirate said about the steering wheel attached to his groin, "Ar, it's drivin me nuts."

According To Science, The Geosphere Is In A Constant State Of Flux From A Geological Point Of View. This Means That Nothing Is Truly Quarantined In The Earth. This Means That the use of Dating Methods Involving The Assumption Of Quarantined Samples is Unscientific Because They Assume The Opposite Of What Science Says.

Take that, finsch, macro-evolutionists and old-earthers.

old fashioned African slavery is alive and well and shows no sign of abating

even today there are frequent slaving raids into Africa. Some of those slaves end up being rescued in London, having escaped from rich foreign residents who bring them in illegally or under false pretences

It's cool to smoke

It's cool to smoke and YOU KNOW IT

Ties are ridiculous.

We're used to it, but think about it: you're wearing this unnecessary and potentially dangerous sign of conformity. I hate seeing Asians and the like using that European attire, including the suit.

"Aliens must exist because there's so much SPACE" is an argument that applies to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, yet that connection is not often made by the sci-fi aficionados because it means that their alien could turn out to be unlike their romantic fantasies.

Come on out, ballsalsa, finsch and the rest of you sci-fi aficionados.

British people has to fight through global economic storm, Urges David Cameron

David Cameron says that the UK has not to be "paralysed by gloom and fear" and that we have to "show some fight" to get through the global economic storm. That we have to have an "can do" attitude and spirit of Britain to see the country through to better times. But the threat to the world economy and to Britain is as serious today as it was in 2008 when the world recession loomed. David Cameron also adds that "we don't have to accept that success in this century belongs to others" and urged the UK to "show the world some fight". It is down to the British people and industries to make growth happen as he says "let's summon the energy and appetite to fight for a better future for our country, Great Britain,". But he ended with a message to the nation "we have the people, we have the ideas and now we have a government that's freeing those people, backing those ideas,". And also adds "so let's see and optimistic future. Lets show the world some fight. Let's pull together and work together. And together lead Britian to better days". That he has made a five-point plan to create more jobs, for Britain. So here is a website that I got this from (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15171917) so do you think it will work?

Hondureno and AR420 do not consider each other Christians.

They are willing to decide other people who think of themselves as Christians are in fact not Christians. They do not care for each others definition of Christianity. Therefore I think it likely they do not consider one another Christians.

You don't automatically live a charmed life just because your white

I posted this on FAA, but I guess I need to remind Moreno. Moreno, it's not really like the Eddie Murphy skit "White like me"

Hondureño thinks men are rapid beasts who completely lose control if a woman shows even the slightest flesh.

He likes to blame the woman for unfaithful husbands. As soon as a man sees a bit of another womans flesh they completely lose control and cannot be contained. Check out the Fanatical muslims debate for the proof.

The characters on Community were based on the regulars of FAA and Yick Yak

Jeff-the cool one everyone loves aka Finsch. Annie-the young sweet naive one aka Blade. Shirley-the sweet lady with thinly veiled rage issues aka Damsel. Abed- the smart guy that is hard for everyone to understand aka Moreno. Troy-the funny cool guy with a sensitive side aka Ballsalsa. Britta-the hard core biotch on the outside but soft on the inside aka Artemis. Pierce-the older obnoxious know it all that hates Jeff aka AR454. Then there are reoccuring characters such as Starburns- the pot smoking cool guy that really doesn't hang out with the regulars aka Verum. We should sue.

We shouldn't have a morality from scripture but a morality that is thought out, reasoned and built upon by consensus.

I would say that our morality is evolving over time. For example, we don't follow the Old testament of the bible and treat women as second class humans. We don't murder people just because a voice tells us so (most of us don't). And we're taking steps in gay rights!

What A Mob Looks Like

There are vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, they take showers, and they have a point. No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want … as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate "Wall Street." You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in history to Obama, who, in turn, bailed out the banks and made Goldman Sachs the fourth branch of government. The directionless losers protesting "Wall Street" ... Obama's largest donor group ... pose for the cameras while uttering random liberal cliches lacking any reason or coherence. First of all, the Tea Party is nothing like tattooed, body–pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun. Tea partiers didn't block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments, and petitioned the government against Obama's unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare. Then the Tea partiers picked up their own trash and quietly went home because they had to be at work in the morning.

Darwin bless easy women

If not for women with low standards the human race would have died out long ago.

We might need to genetically augment ourselves to survive in the future

Due to climate change, we may not be able to adapt without genetically altering ourselves. We may even need to alter ourselves to live in other planets.

The French are funny.

Usually the French are made fun of, but they are good at making fun of others, including their Csar who's cozy.

It is the owners of vicious dogs, not the dogs themselves, who should be "put to sleep".

We hold parents accountible for the actions of minors, so why hold an animal who has the mental capaicty of a child accountible for it's own actions? It seems to me that if anyone should be "put to sleep" as a result of a dog attacking it should be the one who trained, or failed to train, it; without being trained they will automatically attack people they feel are threats, whether they actually are or not.

Bullfighting is cruel and thus evil.

There's no need to torture the animal for vulgar entertainment. Whereas, on the other hand, there IS a need for food, and bulls are one of our good food sources which we gotta make the most of.

Fanatical Muslims are evil because they keep their women from dressing like sluts for the world to see.

I love Muslims. I love sluts. Don't take that the wrong way.

Islamification is a horrendous thought and it must be averted at all costs.

It is slowly chipping away at our European values. We must destroy the strength of that vile religion. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046202/Frances-Islamic-suburbs-separate-communites-divided-nation.html

One of the greatest examples to debunk medical conspiracies is when the richest people in the world can't cure their ailments either.

I think Jobs is an example of a person who was one of the richest in the world and money could not buy him a cure. And i'm sure he exhausted all avenues in his quest. He made it clear in his speech in 2005 at a university is desire to live but in his heart I think he knew there was nothing he could do or his money could do for him.

People are being asked to take a pay cut

In Britain workers in the public sector are being asked to voluntarily take paycuts to help save jobs. How many of the bosses, I wonder, are setting the example

People Need to Stop Whining About China

Some people just can't be respectful with their comments, even after someone has died. I heard and read so many comments about Steve Jobs sending all of his jobs to China. Well, guess what? If China is such a problem for them, then don't use or buy products that are made there. I decided to take an inventory of my desk and surroundings. MADE IN CHINA: shoes, umbrella, keyboard, mouse, hole puncher, calculator, stapler, scissors, and tape dispenser. MADE IN USA: lotion and paperclips. I bet if we looked around our houses, the house might be the only thing made here. LOL

"Medics don't actually heal people. They just make them more comfortable...while they die."

A quote from Doc in the show Red Vs Blue. He's referring to the military medics. Whaddya think?

Japanese Food Is the Healthiest:

lowest in sugar and fat and cholesterol.

Steve Jobs of Apple Computer died very young.

I guess even a billionaire cannot fight one of the worst ailments known to man.

Women need to start wearing panty hose again

No one wears them anymore. This really sucks for some like me who is so white people have to put on sunglasses to look at my legs.

An AI that can pass the Turing test should not be released for mass production.

It's gonna give rise to a lot of problems like spam advertisements, blah blah.

Bigamy Is Unlawful But Not Sinful:

Many of the Biblical heroes had more than one wife and were highly favored by God. Too many references to quote here or we would be here all day.

Human Genome Sequencing

we will have designer babies in the future kindergartens as America's population ages and enters into late marriages. the face of the culture is changing with Gen X.

The Koch Brothers should be arrested for their criminal misdeeds.

As well as the things listed in the video they're also trying to buy out every politican to avoid paying any tax at all.

vegetarians need a good shaking

who do they think they are, coming off holier than thou with their cranky ideas, turning down good food when there are starving people in the world?

Amanda Knox should take advantage of her 15 minutes.

As much as I'm sure she'd like to put this whole thing behind her, and keep her privacy, NOW is the time to strike while the iron is hot. Get a book deal or TV movie (or my preference would be a porn flick). Go ahead and get that out of the way so she can skate the rest of her life.

A large number of people have more house than they need

I don't know how many times I hear people tell me the rooms they never use or spend very little time in. That includes bedrooms, finished basements or dining rooms. A friend told me he installed a central air unit in a house with 2 people who lived in 9,000 SQft of house. Even the guy that told me the story lives in a 2800 sqft house and hardly uses the finished basement. More is simply not better. Its wasteful. Especially if you have to heat or cool the place down.

Coffee is much nicer than tea.

Whaddya think?

Doctors want stringing up

answerable to no one, they expect adulation when they can barely be bothered to do the job they are handsomely paid to do. They misdiagnose (on the few occasions when they can be arsed to make a diagnosis) and misprescribe on a colossal scale. Someone ought to take a stand against them

cyclists want stringing up

they think they own the roads when they don't pay a penny in road tax. They get in everyone's way. They come home panting and sweaty, boasting about how far they've ridden but they couldn't remember to fetch some milk and expect you to praise them for being so athletic, and then they bang on about how energy saving they are when you have to take the car to the supermarket because there's not enough room on a bike to carry two bags of shopping

Husbands Who Want To Put Their Feet Up When You're Itching for them To Get On With Something Deserve To Be Nagged

(self explanatory)

Calling Coffee Cakes "Coffee Cakes" When They are Actually Cinnamon Cakes Is Outrageous

In an American supermarket I bought a box of cakes, attracted by the word coffee, which is my favourite flavour. Imagine how narked I was when I opened the box and realised that there was nothing coffee about them at all. Passing cinnamon cakes off as coffee cakes as a ploy for selling them is a gross misrepresentation and ought to be tackled in Parliament (or whatever passes for Parliament)

Herman Cain just committed political suicide playing the race card.

When your support base is 99% white, far-right, conservatives and libertarians, the last thing you want to do is get all bent out of shape over a racial slur. Next!

Early retirement is an unrealistic aspiration unless you're simply rich

If you live 80 years most likely the first 20ish years (1-20) are growing up and schooling, and the last 20ish years (60-80) are the decline in your health and abilities and normal retirement age. So normally the 40 years imbetween (20-60) is work, and really that's only half your life working, the rest is getting ready to work or declining in your later years. Now, take someone who says they want to retire by 40. Yeah, I know few achieve it. But in a sense they're saying they only want to work 1/4 of their whole life, right? How pathetic is that? Even if you could do it (because you're rich or somehow entitled) doesn't it basically say to your society screw you suckers you're only getting 20 years of production out of me and then I'm kicking back?

Americans are no longer the hardy stock they think they are

Our stereoptye is the cowboy/farmer/steelworker/self made man/school marm. Our reality is pudge, paying someone else to do the lifting/cleaning/assembling etc. We drive beastly cars and trucks thinking we're tough but it's just another way to kick back. We go to Home Depot thinking hey we're doing it ourselves. The few times we don't buy microwavable food but instead a package of ready-butchered meat we actually have to turn the oven on to cook we think hey I still know how to feed myself. We'll point to our pro athletes proud how tough football players are but face it, we're not them. Too many of us are utterly pampered and lazy.

Punishment for crimes should be the same for both genders.

Its gender equality!

working out at a gym is immoral

If you think about it, burning excess calories, just because you don't need them, is rather morbid. Just think of the good that energy could be doing instead of cycling in place, or lifting weight without getting any actual work done. You could be helping your elderly neighbor with yard work or snow shoveling, or chopping wood to sell for charity. I would equate a gym workout to burning extra money rather than donating it to someone who needs it.

Mayo on chips (fries) is unspeakable

grease on grease - yeuch! Anything other than salt and vinegar is disgraceful

Implementing Spoon Free Zones would put a permenant end to the epidemic of obesity.

After all, Gun Free Zones work so well to prevent people from being murdered by conventional weapons, so surely Spoon-Free Zones would keep our nation's obesity problem under control; after all it's not like people would be eating with their hands, or making makeshift eating utencils.

If bicyclists Want Respect On The Road, They Need To Respect The Rules And Courtesies Of The Road.

The other day a bicyclist insisted on taking a whole lane and going for slower than traffic and the speed limit. Slowly cars were able to pass him in the other lane until we all got to a red light. then after taking a whole lane suddenly he's weaving between the stopped cars back up to the front of the line, ignores the red light because no cars are coming then slows down the same row of cars that had just respected him. This sort arrogant behavior is not only all too common and extremely hypocritical, but also extremely dangerous. If there is a mistake the car gets a little smudge on the bumper the bicyclist gets 10 months in traction. It's an old rule of thumb that I call 'big boat little boat' and in however many decades of bike riding I have under my belt I have always respected that. It is simple defensive driving.

A god who sends a good person to hell is not a good god

A god who sends a good person to hell for making the bad decision to be born to the wrong parents, in the wrong religion is not a just god. A god that demands that you pray in just the right way on just the right day, is a god more worried about getting their butt kissed than on the efforts of the heart to find our way. A god that wants us to stick to an ancient static code of ethics and rules was a fool to give us the freedom to think. A foolish, unjust, codependent, god petty cruelty with infinite power, is not a good god.

Morality came before religion.

Empathy brings humans together. Morality comes from empathy, from actually caring about what happens to those around you. Religion is the reasoning people come up with to justify their morality, to try and describe their universe, but all after people learn to care in the first place.

Bullying costs lives, it needs to be treated like any other hate crime.

Too many children and young people are being left completely defenceless in the face of merciless unjustified bullying. It needs to be tackled like any other crime.

Some couples just don't look right together and it is your solemn duty to try and split them up.

For their own good of course. Nothing at all to do with that fact that you want one of them yourself.

It is nearly impossible to tell the gender of the person you are talking to by text communication alone.

If the two correspondents don't reveal anything about themselves but strike a casual conversation by way of text communication, its near impossible to guess their gender.

Censorship is telling a man cannot have steak because a baby can't chew it.

Mark Twain - Just beautiful

Our side is incompetent and the other is evil

As far as I can tell no matter what end of the political spectrum or which party you are talking about, this is the general feeling of most Americans.

Please List any New Topics you would like added to a category.

Thank you.

Something is wrong with a person that is happy about another's misery

A friend of mine recently got fired. I'm not sure she didn't deserve to be fired, but I was watching another woman clean out her desk and I think she was getting off on it. Most of the regulars know who I absolutely hate, but I felt bad for her when she was faced with a tragedy.

Muslims sure like to boast about how frickin modest they are

anyone would think that being obsessed with it was somehow desirable!

Herman Cain For President

Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is not such a long shot anymore. His short declarative sentences, resonant voice, and plain-spokenness is a style that's striking a chord among the GOP faithful and independent voters. The latest polls show Cain has tripled his support to 17 percent -- up 6 percent from before this month’s debate. He is now in the top 3 of all GOP candidates.

There is nothing wrong with being a lurker

People like to read the debates and new comments to see if there is anything that tempts them to make some smart-assed comment of their own. What's wrong with that?

shopping strips are nicer than shopping malls

you can get lost in malls because they are so anonymous. It is far better having rows of characterful shops in streets, with areas of specialisation; cheese shops and grocers etc clustered together, and shoe shops and clothing shops - you get the picture

We should start an International Jellyfish cull effective immediately.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4357829/Immortal-jellyfish-swarming-across-the-world.html Yes I know I plagurised this debate but Balance is so right. Jellyfish are a menace especially the ones that have eternal youth and are taking over our oceans.

We can all be thankful to our Homeland Security that we were saved from having a black mark on the side of the Pentagon.

It would have cost taxpayers upwards of $100 to clean up the mess that the model airplane rigged with explosives would have done.

Neither the DEA or the drug cartels could exist without one another.

Without a devoted drug enforcement agency you wouldn't see the increase in American street drug prices. Cocaine costs 50 bucks a Kilo to make and goes for 5000 American dollars up here. Without that kind of profit margin you wouldn't see the huge criminal enterprises that make so much money that they can literally rival the government for power. Without those criminal organizations scaring the crap out of everyone Americans wouldn't see the need to maintain a whole branch of the government devoted just to drugs. The DEA and the cartels are reaping buckets of money and power from one another.

Help YickYak create a new layout of the Website.

We are looking to change the layout and make the site more efficient, attractive and easy to use. On the Yak side, offer your suggestions for the main page layout including website examples and links, and on the Yick side, the same suggestions you would like for the profile page of each user with examples.

Do not view this debate without replying or commenting.

A little experiment. I'm trying to see who all is running around viewing things. Maybe there are lurkers about who are too shy, and never say anything.

Stuff that we buy used to last much longer.

I've two spare phones in my family. One of them is a Nokia that i think dates back to the 1990s and it has something like a calculator-ish screen and it still works. My other phone is a Sony Ericsson j200i and it works well too. Now, my phones takes one or two years to spoil. What happened to the quality of our stuff?

It's amazing how many people view debates but don't comment

What is up with that. You see some debates that have 50 views, and 4 comments. Who are these 50 people? Or is it the same people viewing the same debates over and over even though they know it hasn't changed?

Beethoven's 9th Symphony can cure Atheism.

I'm agnostic, but I can't listen to the 9th without feeling close to God. A chorus of angels from the mind of a man who could never hear them.

Words With Friends is an awesome smartphone app.

Just curious if anyone else plays. My name on there is FlightlessBirdofPrey if anyone wants to start a game.

Jesus was a socialist

Just curious how everyone would respond to this. I started thinking that Jesus was probably a hippie or a Democrat, but I thought calling Jesus a socialist would provoke more of a debate. Feel free to debate against why Jesus would be or wouldn't be a hippe or Dem either.

I miss Justsomeguy's arrogance

I wish he was around.

Our existence will slow the the possible existence of a new human like species.

I think because of how we are, our polution, how we extract from the earth and us simply being here, we probably have stopped any possibility of a new human like species existing. And only until we are obliterated would there possibly be another species.

Songs today are no more sexual than they were in the past they are just more clear about it.

I always hear people saying the songs are so sexual today, but in the past they were just as sexual. The oldies just hid it better. The Who 1974-She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out She's playing all night And the music's all tight Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night She goes, squeeze me, come on and squeeze me Come on and tease me like you do I'm so in love with you Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night Smokey Robinson 1979-Let's flow, let's glide Ooooh let's open up, and go inside And if you want it you got it forever I can just stay there inside you And love you, babe, oh Let the music take your mind Just release and you would find Billy Squire 1981-When you come 'round I never get down---i fly across the floor I can see you comin' on me...and I can't ask for more Rock me, sock me, baby you got me ridin' to the end Rake me, shake me, baby you make me turn me on again

Religion in general has been pretty much a bane to society.

I don't see any apparent benefits of it other than for gatherings or making new friends. Too many wars are fought over religion and it doesn't exactly advance any morals by today's standards.

Illegal immigration, in and of itself, is no more serious of a crime than jaywalking.

Drug trafficking, which SOME illegal immigrants do, is a serious crime. Ditto for murder, ditto for rape, and all the other crimes people automatically associate with illegal immigrants, but that doesn't mean that all illegal immigrants are inherently guilty of any other crime other than crossing an imaginary line into our country.

Dinosaurs didn't disappear, they evolved into birds

cross sections of dinosaur bones indicate that unlike reptiles they were warm-blooded. And it has subsequently come to light that the dishonest fossil dealers who faked up evidence of dinosaurs with feathers had actually got it right. A rich seam of fossils unearthed in Asia are key

The word "terrorist" is used way too broadly.

If a group attacks military targets, they're not terrorists; they're militants. It takes more than violent opposition to the US military to make one a terrorist.

Damien will post the Quote of the Day

Thank you Damien. Have fun.

We might very well be the first earth species to design it's own replacement.

It need not be a violent or aggressive process. With genetic engineering we might well make a new species that is simply more well adapted to changing environmental factors that are less suited to our current genetic make up. Or artificial intelligence and life might simply outlast the entire human race and its decedents, leaving them no way to full fill their original design function.

It was a mistake for the gay community to get drawn into the choice or non choice debate on sexuality

Whether it is a choice or not the question is whether an American has the freedom to live the life they want to live as long as it doesn't infringe upon the same rights of someone else.

Personal 3D Printing is in our future...another sex device too

This is facinating. I already know someone is going to print out sexual parts. I already see this in people's homes in the far future or something close.

People tend to only respond to the last question or last point made.

If someone ask several questions or make several points, it seems the majority of people only respond to the last. Not that they don't have the mental capacity to address the others. Maybe its mental lazieness who knows.

Sentient and intelligent AI should not be trusted with direct control over our weapons and dangerous materials.

I wouldn't mind them as advisers or company,but I would never trust an AI to drive a fully armed tank or be in charge of our nukes.

People who have had trouble logging in - for days on end - ought to be given a wodge of free YakPoints

I'm never going to catch up with finsch at this rate. How unfair.

America will never elect an obese president.

Before television, most presidents were obese. Afterwards, when people could view what the candidate looked like, not a one. Sure, a few have been a little pudgy in their old age, but not obese. I hear all this buzz over Governor Chris Christie possibly running - never gonna happen. That guy is almost as wide as he is tall.

Telemarketers should be forced by law to list their home phone numbers.

If they see nothing wrong with harassing others at all hours of the day then that's exactly what they themselves deserve.

The Vast Majority Of The Religious Do Not Follow Everything In Their Religion Literally, They Basically Created Another Denimination.

There are about 1 million Christian denominations or more, because most do not follow the religion literally. This is the case with other religions as well. They pick what is managable and doable. They basically created another religion and or denomination to suite their needs.

Our mind can overpower bodily limitations as well as limit its abilities.

It has been shown that positive-thinking patients with life threatening illnesses do have a higher chance of survival than those who think extremely negatively and have given up all hope and those who have no idea they have the illness.

Europe has become an economic dictatorship!

In order to save the Euro, British tax payers will be forced to contribute towards a £2.4 trillion plan to save the crippled system. None of us signed up to Europe or voted on it. What exactly is democratic about this system?

People Dehumanize To Facilitate Murder.

I was thinking more of ABORTION than anything else, but it also includes the Holocaust and how the Germans were depicted as Huns, and the Japs as monsters. At least dehumanizing a Nazi is dehumanizing someone who has already "dehumanized" themselves, to use the term "humanity" in that inaccurate sense. I find this bigfoot video to be funny and annoying. That voice is just so annoying, but whatever. Also, I'm not saying that Hispanics are murdered if they are illegal aliens (though I suppose some are murdered for being so), but that they are treated as sub-human by some gringos to facilitate denying them rights. And as for abortion, only if it is for the greater good would it be justified. So I'm not saying all abortion is sin.

The faster than light anomaly at CERN is a measurement error.

I'm pretty skeptical of neutrinos traveling faster than light (although excited by the prospects). IF they could, there is NO reason why we couldn't beam present day information in the form of coded neutrinos, back to ourselves in the past, to change the present; and NO reason why our future selves wouldn't be doing the same right now, beaming information from the future to us in the present, to change the future. The implications of that boggle the mind.

The prizes (hats, shirts, bumper stickers, and such) don't need to be free.

I don't think this site generates enough cash to pay for a bunch of merchandise, but they could generate a little extra cash to support the site by selling accomplishment oriented merchandise. (Yakker of the Day, elite yakker, or whatever)

This song is some of the Dirty South's finest!

This is why I like American Dirty South music! The black boys and the white boys doing it together in my Jukejoints. Hard rock and hip-hops merged!

People who see no inherent value in the life of an innocent unborn child are the true parasites, not the unborn children themseles.

It sickens me how someone can refer to a completely innocent human being, regardless of their stage of life, as a parasite.

Men have a monthly hormonal cycle just like women they just don't bleed.

The idea is for male and female cycles to sync so that both male and females are at their peak fertility levels at the same time.

You cannot have a useful conversation on a scientific subject when one party is willing to casually dismiss whole areas of scientific study

You can't have an argument with any real back and forth exchange, only simple mutual denial serving no function but frustration and drama.

Religious belief does not increase a person's chance of moral integrity

In fact it only intersects by chance just like everybody else.

You can't really get morality from most religions

That's unless you want to kill someone that doesn't share your faith or reject gender equality.

Vibration workout machines are just a gimmick and make little difference

We have exactly one in my gym, it sits unused 90% of the time, and when someone does get on it it's usually someone far out of shape who just wanted to stand still instead of exert themselves. I've noticed none of the repeat users improve. Frankly the thing reminds me of those old black and white movie age belt shakers which would just shake the blubber of the movie star around. A waste of time, money, and gym space.

You might risk your life defending America but if you're gay the Republican right wing morons hate you regardless.

This is absolutely vile. He's fighting for his country and the right wing freaks start cheering when Santorum talks about taking his rights away. Disgusting and atrocious. If you're anti gay you shouldn't be allowed to be a politician. How does that sound?

A Lot Of Minorities Confuse A Presumptuous Or Insensitive Attitude With Racism (As Do Some Well-meaning Non Minority People who continue to stoke the fire)

It doesn't do minorities any good when individuals pull the race card every time they encounter somebody who disagrees with them, or is rude to them, or who assumes something about them based on race. That isn't racism, that is ordinary, natural behaviour. If minorities insist that everyone has to walk on eggshells around them, watching everything they say, it will lead to genuine race-based discrimination

If an American were born with superpowers like optical invisibility or superman-ish powers, the government would most likely try and get him to join the military.

Just a thought.

"Yakker of the Day" doesn't sound too flattering

It sounds like you either puked the most today or maybe you took a dirty magazine into the bathroom and almost went blind.

It's unfair that gay men can see the objects of their affection whenever they want by walking into a locker room.

I don't blame them or anything, if I could walk into a women's locker room whevever I wanted I would never leave.

If it weren't already taken, the name "Tommy Chong" would make an excellent ganster name

more random musings.

People don't usually fact check when a talking head says something they feel is correct.

EDIT: Yeah, the title and subject are a little different...oh well. I see junk emails go out all the time and the information in them is either correct but out of context, or incorrect entirely. Regardless of how false the information is, people of the same eat it up without fact checking the information. This goes for both Dems and Repubs--if you see something you agree with, do you really check to see if it is factual or not?

The fork is far more adequate than the chop stick.

Chopstick just don't make any sense.

Most intense emotions are culturally developed.

Verification of this would result in some profound implications concerning the nature of human beings.

They have different censor standards for the comments and the responses

It is confusing. I can only assume it has something to do with keeping someone from abusing a debater for their comment?

Never trust a man to do a womans job!!

Self Explanatory - but it can also be vice versa, Never trust a woman to do a mans job.

At this rate I will have a Silver Plaque soon.

What do I win?

Never trust a man who doesn't drink

W.C. Fields had it right. If a man doesn't drink he is probably a self righteous man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Please don't give me that cop out crap where you look for the odd exceptions. Debate the subject based in the spirit it was meant. This is not a legal loopholes scenario it is a debate for entertainment purposes.

Spam email is one of the most silly scams ever.

I've heard that the take up rate for spam email is ridiculously low. What use does it have other than annoyance?

There's a good chance there will be a riot if Troy Davis is executed.

I think it may have been a bad decision to have the execution after dark.

A teenager is physically an adult if they are past puberty.

I don't call Mohammed a pedophile because he had sex with someone who was already in puberty at age 9, and so was on the border between childhood and adulthood. He had married her when she was 6. Bar Mitzvah's are for kids or men? Men. If it's okay to marry an 18-year-old, why not a 17-year old whose birthday is tomorrow? If it's okay to marry a 17-year old, why not 16? If 16, why not 15? If 15, why not 14? If 14, why not 13? We should use an objective marker for determining an acceptable age of consent for marriage, instead of an arbitrary age. We should use puberty as the marker.

STOP BUYING GOLD

Unlike the equity market where a rising tide raises all boats, gold is a commodity and the commodities market is a "zero sum" game. In order for you to make one dollar in the gold market, someone else has to lose one dollar. Gold is way over priced and when the price of gold starts to fall, the little investor will be the last to know. Right now, the people who are buying gold are buying it from the people who know that it's time to get out of the gold market. You can never sell at the absolute high of the market, so take your profits and run. The reason that you are seeing so many gold commercials on TV is that the people who already own gold are looking for suckers to buy what they want to sell.

Should Scottish Schools, teach Scottish language!!

Scottish has a different accent from English people, but it seems that there accent is almost lost due to schools not teaching Scottish people there own language. I personally think that we should be learning our own language than having another countries language. I haven't heard that much Scottish accents around and it would be good to keep all language and accents around.

If Palestinians are Arabs, then I'm a German. If Ashkenazim are Jews, then so am I.

The issue is not religion, nor culture, nor language. The issue is race, of course. Racially, Jews and Arabs are dark Semites. If the light-skinned Palestinians are Arabs, then I'm a German, because I have Germanic blood in me. If the light-skinned Ashkenazim are Jews, then so am I, because I can claim to be, just as they do. They have no proof. In the Holy Land, we have fake Arabs fighting with fake Jews who are supported unquestioningly by fake Christians.

If you look at the core principles of the Conservative movement (America) gay marriage makes total sense. (Read the explanation first)

Firstly you have to take religion out of the argument altogether. Why conservatives adopted religion as a principle in the first place makes no sense to me anyway. The Conservatives believe in lower taxes correct? Well marriage provides a tax loophole, if you're married you pay lower taxes than those that aren't married. And if you're going to be fair to everyone and keep more money in the people's pockets than in the governments then not allowing gays to get married goes against that principle. Also another core principle is smaller government. Well how does prying to the personal lives of consenting adults and saying they can't marry keeping the government out of the lives of the people exactly???

Separate from your own personal religious beliefs there is nothing that points to one single mythology as more or less plausible

Any real difference in your reaction probably comes from your cultural exposure.

The two American hikers detained in Iran really are spies.

Does anyone really believe they were just "hiking" in that area? As far as hiking opportunities, America is infinitely more interesting, without the expense of flying halfway around the world.

Saying, "I Love You" Has A Lot More Meaning And Power Than Responding, "I Love You Too".

I think the response should be followed with something additional because its a response that almost has to be said back to the person who initiated the "I love you" comment. It puts the responder in an uncomfortable position.

This was discussed on the radio yesterday...what are you thoughts.

Bringing up a child to hate a person, religion or country will perpetuate the cycle of hate indefinitely.

I'm thinking of the Arabs and Israelis that continue sowing hatred in their children. It doesn't help resolve their conflict but serves to lengthen it further even if it loses the original meaning.

It's Ok For Women In Their 30s To Live With Their Parents, But Not Men In Their 30s

I think that in a dating situation, it's ok for a woman in her 30s to still be living at home with her parents. I don't think this is acceptable for a man in his 30s though. It's even worse if he never moved out, not even for college.

I don't care if there are nude pictures Skylar Diggens

I probably would still not care even if I knew who that was.

Its amazing we can frown on people who can eat the whole animal of lets say a cow, but justify cheese with specks of mold all over it.

Isn't culture grand. I can't convince people to eat parts of a cows head, but they can sit up and tell me how wonderful moldy cheese is that would make a Chinese person throw up. All and all its not about it tasting bad, its all mental.

A Gay Male Bottom Would Be Considered A Virgin

I mean if you think about it. Not think about "it" literally but the logic of it all.

Our notion of "Gender equality" has turned into a "Women first" one

Think of the laws, for example: In my country, after divorce, Men are supposed to pay a maintenance to the ex-wife if the ex-wife is not working. However, unemployed ex-husbands don't get the same treatment even if they are uneducated.

No one escapes Karma.

Thomas Capano found dead in his cell. For those of you not familiar with the case, Tom Capano was a Delaware millionaire that killed his mistress for wanting to break it off. Thomas Capano has spent the last 15 years in solitary confinement and then died alone in his cell. That must have been hell for him. From all accounts he was a total control freak that thought he could do whatever he wanted. Imagine, 15 years of no control and no freedom and then dying all alone.

"Homophobes" are no more so secretly gay than arachnophobes are secretly spiders.

As much as homosexuals love to believe that everyone is secretly gay, it's just not true.

There is no real competition after a certain dollar amount

I gotta get out of sales. This sucks. I lost a contract to someone who bid $1.7 million when I bid $1.5 million. I think someone got himself a new boat out of it anyway. Fvcking shady politics is what it is.

A night of excess does a person good.

Get drunk, seduce a beautiful stranger, eat like a pig, and the sleep all the next day. We all need it. We all deserve it.

it's ok to be rude

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate meaningless interactions into a battle of will and add drama to an otherwise dull day

More and more people seem to be using the pharmacy as free medical.

"Yo, what would you recommen' for dis rash"? I hear this type of question more and more often after waiting in the longer and longer lines at the pharmacy.

the CEO of Netflix is full of S...t plus I think he is Gay

Hey Kddan, do you think he is flaming? Splitting a company into two seperate companies with two seperate accounts? How is this efficient plus 75% of their business is streaming. They might as well make the DVD subscription free.

Class warfare has been going on for some time already.

Obama's not starting "class warfare". That war started sometime before the middle class was eradicated. The "war" is nearly over.

If eating Dog meat is immoral, then eating any meat at all should be considered immoral as well.

What's the difference? They are all animals.

Petrol Is So Cheap In The USA It's Nearly Free

(That's 'gas' to Americans)

Guys Wear Condoms To Cut Down On The Involvement.

it is not ALL about shunning stds and pregnancy...

Child Support seems more like a punishment tax for males

I know a couple of guys that have to pay child support. One guy I know pays $200, another pays $500 and another I know pays $700 a month. And we know of those that pay more. The point is, that this is suppose to reflect the cost if the father was living with the mother.

The problem I have with this is that I that know any middle income person that spends $500 to $700 a month on their child, yet this is what a man, I know there are a few women have to but rare, has to pay every month until the child is 18 years old.

adding to this, he has no say in where the money can go. For example, one guy I know pays almost $800. He buys clothes, medical plan, but he wants some of that money to go toward college. In 18 years he will have payed over $172,000 in child support. He assured me not one dime is the mother putting any money away for college.

To me this is pretty sad. its more a punishment tax than a fair agreement in financial obligation.

At the minimum, I would say that a judge should require an equal or half financial contribution into a fund or trust or something in child support from the mother as well.

If the Republicans win in 2012 they will destroy the American economy beyond repair.

If the Republicans had it their way the rich would pay no tax whatsoever. I'm not saying the Democrats are much better currently, if the Democrats had a more ballsy leader they'd be forcing through the Buffet Tax Bill and seriously stimulate the economy.

Cutting school budgets shows that you care more for yourself than for the children, for the future of your nation.

A more educated work force means more productivity, and ideally a better economy. However that doesn't happen by magic it take community over site and money.

Cool movie stars don't look at explosions.

They just walk away in slow motion.

I apologize for that everyone

I really could care less about AR but I have a problem with bullies. Unfortunately I let it become your problem and for that I apologize.

We need to raise taxes.

Simple enough. Western economies are in decline. Tax cuts do not help matters. The rich need to pay their fair share, big companies must not be allowed to avoid paying tax and bankers bonuses must be taxed as well.

Is pointless forum activity better than no activity?

I understand that YickYak had become a ghost town, but the level of debate currently in progress leaves much to be desired. In some categories,the atmosphere of YickYak is beginning to feel like a brawl that started in an arena of some sort and has spread out into the adjoining neighborhood (ours). Can anything positive come of all this fruitless, negative energy?

The leader of the Conservative Party and our Prime Minister has come out in support of gay marriage, pigs would sprout wings and fly before that happened in the USA.

A Conservative government is keeping up with the times. It just goes to show that America is behind the times and there politicans care about what should be non issues, god, guns and gays. The Republicans certainly won't support gay marriage anytime in the next 20 years and the Democrats currently won't, Obama hasn't made his mind up yet, surprise, surprise.

www.plentyoffish.com is a good place to meet men.

as far as online dating goes.

The Lutheran Church Has Three Sacraments.

it's a good church with structure and ceremonies.

If you morally disagree with God's tenets then you are ethically required to stand up against God.

Please assume for this argument the existence of an all powerful creator. For me the existence of a creator in no way proves moral superiority and if the disagreement was sufficient enough I would be obligated to defend my beliefs no matter the consequences for my everlasting soul.

It Makes No Sense For This Site To Allow You To Be A Fan Of Yourself, A Supporter Of Yourself or A Worthy Opponent Of Yourself.

Go to your profile and support yourself!

Not telling everyone about everything is not at all the same as lying

AR's recent excitability made this come to mind, however I don't mean this debate to have anything directly to do with any of that foolishness. It simply seems that in this world of Facebook, blogs, and targeted marketing that we are losing sight of the value of privacy and keeping some things private.

It's irrational to think consciousness is the most complex attribute of all life that has ever come to exist throughout the universe.

Life on earth has had a little more than a few billion years to evolve. A life source that has had more time may have evolved into some unfathomably more complex or unique. Maybe it could even trump artificial intelligence.

There is no point in having a democracy when the majority of peolpe in it are easily swayed, politically ignorant and/or apathetic sheep.

It is better to have a wise man put in charge by force than an incompetant ignoramus voted in by the majority.

The world needs to be more globalized to maintain peace.

Lets say country X has set up factories and tertiary industries in country Y and Country Y does the same for country X, they wouldn't want to attack each other as they might disrupt their own economies.

People who believe in observable "microerosion" should also believe in extrapolated "macroerosion".

Don't bother looking up those words - they're made up just like many other "micro" and "macro" words.

The So-called "Theory" Of "Evolution" Is Not Even A Scientific Theory Because It Cannot Be Falsified. What Needs To Be Falsifiable Is The Main Idea: Common Descent.

It is unobserved. It is unobservable. It is merely imaginary. It is unprovable. It is unfalsifiable. It is unproven. What is it? The Flying Spaghetti Monster or macro-evolution? Both are in the same boat of pathetic science fiction! Moreover, you should consider that every definition of species is subjective, making EVERY SINGLE CLAIM OF SPECIATION A MERE OPINION. The devout macro-evolutionists will continue to refuse to accept the truth and will act as if their interpretations of the evidence are the only possibly right ones, because they have ruled out what they do not want to be true, for unscientific reasons.

Life Is A Moving Obstacle Course. Its not all what it seems or what you expect.

People think if you do good good things will happen. Or if you work hard, you will become wealthy or you will make more money than most people, or if you do bad, bad things will come to you. That sounds fine in hollywood or in a fantasy novel or drama where the bad guy seems to always lose, the good guy seems to always win or gets the hot female, but life is a lot more complicated than that.

Basically people doing the same exact things or similar things cannot expect to get the same results in life.

The alzheimer's comments made by Pat Robertson show that religious leaders have no more moral authority than the rest of us.

For moral guidance, we should look inward, not outward.

An independent Palestinian state won't work

because there will always be a small percentage of Palestinians who aren't satisfied with whatever deal they get, will continue shooting rockets into Israel, and will ruin it for everyone else.

The Tight Black Exercise Shorts Shows Off Too Much.

the legs and how shapely they are and the butt and the package...bike shorts are risque.

Most People In The U.S. Want To Get Ahead, Regardless Of The Cost To Others Around Them.

I see this all the time in the U.S. and it comes in many shapes and sizes. Someone who rides the ending lane on the right to the very end to squeeze in front of a few cars--this person doesn't think about the people behind them and probably doesn't care, so long as they can get into work a little faster. The same with people who try to get ahead in their jobs or careers by taking advantage of others--when the payout is big, the one will screw over the many to get it.

In countries where private ownership of guns are not allowed, they should stay banned.

Introducing guns to a country which bans guns would increase the crime rate.

America is no different from any other country!

GB fell into the pit of job losses, lack of money etc, but what makes it different from the world, that is in the same mess, America will keep on falling, Obama cannot fully be blamed for the mess, who started it in the first place? He came into the mess, but he is being blamed for it, he does not get credit for the things he does do. So, what does make America different from the World!

Stem Cell Research Is Verboten For Christians.

the cells come from unborns.

The american public does not give near enough respect to our armed forces

Just think of all the sacrifices men had to make to create and protect this country, how many fought and died for us, and to see how we forget this is deplorable. When I see swine like Michael Moore spouting anti american propaganda it pisses me off. Because the military protects his right to spew his idiocy. Could he do that in Iran? NO he'd be executed. We forget that these men risk their lives to protect us, and we don't give them near enough respect. My cousin's a marine, he was doing a toy drive outside Toys R Us and recieved several "baby killer" and "murderer" remarks. Welcome to america. And he's risking his life to be insulted. wow. Please, watch this video. It made me cry. I'm so proud of my military and I thank every vet and active servaice member I see. As should all americans, and even europeans, because without the US military the world would be a dark place indeed. God Bless Our Troops! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY and feature=related

No matter your thoughts on a war, you should give it your all to aide the men and women of our armed forces achieve their mission and to come home safely.

Without them we wouldn't be here, and though we may hate a certain war we should make sure our men have all the tools they need.

It's deplorable to see the direction the country is heading seeing the insermountable odds that this country would ever come into being

Think of all that had to happen to even create this county, how many men sacrificed their lives for this country, then to see people like the Jersey Shore cast and rap artists are the end result? Not to mention swine like michael moore. Makes me sad.

dart boards should consist of concentric circles, like archery targets..

The closer you get to the middle, the higher your score should be. Is this not obvious?

It takes a genius to try and intimidate a stranger over the internet.

I know of no media in which it is easier to ignore an idiot.

There needs to be an 'other' in the choices for debate topics

I suppose it doesn't matter much, but the guilt of miscategorizing my debates is eating at me.

Palin had a fetish for black guys for a while...I am not surprised

I just saw something in her that suggest it. Plus she had sex with an NBA star, Glenn Rice.

"She was a gorgeous woman. Super nice. I was blown away by her," Rice tells McGinniss in the book, NBC reports. "Afterward, she was a big crush that I had."

Palin had a one-night stand in 1987 with future NBA basketball player Glen Rice nine months before she married her husband Todd.

Awww, plus she snorted coke. LOL.

Me personally, me being Moreno, I still think she is very hot.

I think one thing is true about the homosexual community, they put too much emphasis on sex

Do you agree?

Who'd have thought a pathetic country like Greece would be the final trigger for the collaspe of the Eurozone.

It's Greece, they're tiny. All of this political wrangling and economic stimulus packages for a country like them. It might be time for all countries that have a stake in Greece to annex a bit of that ridiculous country.

Nobody can prove that the God you worship is the real one (assuming god(s) exists)

Prove it!

The Tea Party aren’t a shining example of Christianity, if you don’t have health insurance you should be left to die.

That’s right, don’t expect any help from the government if you’re not insured and if you’ve got something wrong in your insurance well fuck you. You deserve to die. You deserve to die in the street like an animal. Same applies for 9/11 first responders, the Republicans and Tea Baggers say thank you for going out and saving lives but don’t expect for the government to help you after the illness you acquired on that day for demonstrating your bravery. I tried to enter the embed code for the video but it wouldn't work so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Am2bWQRNw and feature=player_embedded#!

All Parents Are, or At Least Should Be, Pedophiles.

A pedophile, in the true sense of the word, is someone who loves children.

'Jew Or Not Jew' iPhone App racist for some but I don't think so

Well it seems that way in France. Do you agree with me?

A French anti-racism group has threatened to sue Apple over an iPhone application called "A Jew or Not a Jew?" that allows users to consult a database of celebrities and public figures to determine whether they are Jewish or not. SOS Racisme said the application, sold for 0.79 euro cents ($1.07) on the Apple Store France, violates France's strict laws banning the compiling of people's personal details without their consent.

Johann Levy, a 35-year-old Franco-British engineer of Jewish origin, developed the application, according to Le Parisien newspaper. In an interview published Wednesday, Levy said he developed the app to be "recreational.

"I'm not a spokesman for all Jews, but as a Jew myself I know that in our community we often ask whether a such-and-such celebrity is Jewish or not," he is quoted as saying.

"For me, there's nothing pejorative about saying that someone is Jewish or not," he said. "On the contrary, it's about being proud."

Support for the conservation of endangered animals can only be won if its cute, furry or useful to the country's tourism.

Its the reality of life!

Not eating meat just because it is "murder" is irrational as eating plants is murder as well.

C'mon, fight for the rights of the very plants you murder people!

Drug abusers should be sent to rehab not jail, and all drugs should be taxed, regulated, and legalized.

This could solve many of America's problems.

Senior high school students should have mandatory classes that teach them how to budget their expenditure, invest and take full advantage of IRA’s, and shop for cheap healthy food.

I think knowledge of these topics could dramatically help a lot of young adults and individuals who will be struggling with poverty.

The Unabridged Second Amendment

The Unabridged Second Amendment By J. Neil Schulman If you wanted to know all about the Big Bang, you'd ring up Carl Sagan, right? And if you wanted to know about desert warfare, the man to call would be Norman Schwarzkopf, no question about it. But who would you call if you wanted the top expert on American usage, to tell you the meaning of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution? That was the question I asked A.C. Brocki, Editorial Coordinator of the Los Angeles Unified School District and formerly senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishers - who himself had been recommended to me as the foremost expert on English usage in the Los Angeles school system. Mr. Brocki told me to get in touch with Roy Copperud, a retired professor of journalism at the University of Southern California and the author of American Usage and Style: The Consensus. A little research lent support to Brocki's opinion of Professor Copperud's expertise. Roy Copperud was a newspaper writer on major dailies for over three decades before embarking on a distinguished seventeen-year career teaching journalism at USC. Since 1952,Copperud has been writing a column dealing with the professional aspects of journalism for Editor and Publisher, a weekly magazine focusing on the journalism field. He's on the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and Merriam Webster's Usage Dictionary frequently cites him as an expert. Copperud's fifth book on usage, American Usage and Style: The Consensus, has been in continuous print from Van Nostrand Reinhold since 1981, and is the winner of the Association of American Publishers' Humanities Award. That sounds like an expert to me. After a brief telephone call to Professor Copperud in which I introduced myself but did not give him any indication of why I was interested, I sent the following letter on July 26, 1991: I am writing you to ask you for your professional opinion as an expert in English usage, to analyze the text of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, and extract the intent from the text. The text of the Second Amendment is, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The debate over this amendment has been whether the first part of the sentence, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," is a restrictive clause or a subordinate clause, with respect to the independent clause containing the subject of the sentence, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." I would request that your analysis of this sentence not take into consideration issues of political impact or public policy, but be restricted entirely to a linguistic analysis of its meaning and intent. Further, since your professional analysis will likely become part of litigation regarding the consequences of the Second Amendment, I ask that whatever analysis you make be a professional opinion that you would be willing to stand behind with your reputation, and even be willing to testify under oath to support, if necessary. My letter framed several questions about the text of the Second Amendment, then concluded: I realize that I am asking you to take on a major responsibility and task with this letter. I am doing so because, as a citizen, I believe it is vitally important to extract the actual meaning of the Second Amendment. While I ask that your analysis not be affected by the political importance of its results, I ask that you do this because of that importance. After several more letters and phone calls, in which we discussed terms for his doing such an analysis, but in which we never discussed either of our opinions regarding the Second Amendment, gun control, or any other political subject, Professor Copperud sent me the following analysis (into which I've inserted my questions for the sake of clarity): [ Copperud:] The words "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," contrary to the interpretation cited in your letter of July 26, 1991, constitute a present participle, rather than a clause. It is used as an adjective, modifying " militia," which is followed by the main clause of the sentence (subject "the right," verb "shall"). The right to keep and bear arms is asserted as essential for maintaining a militia. In reply to your numbered questions: [Schulman: (1) Can the sentence be interpreted to grant the right to keep and bear arms solely to "a well-regulated militia"?;] [ Copperud:] (1) The sentence does not restrict the right to keep and bear arms, nor does it state or imply possession of the right elsewhere or by others than the people; it simply makes a positive statement with respect to a right of the people. [Schulman: (2) Is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" granted by the words of the Second Amendment, or does the Second Amendment assume a preexisting right of the people to keep and bear arms, and merely state that such right "shall not be infringed"?;] [ Copperud:] (2) The right is not granted by the amendment; its existence is assumed. The thrust of the sentence is that the right shall be preserved inviolate for the sake of ensuring a militia. [Schulman: (3) Is the right of the people to keep and bear arms conditioned upon whether or not a well-regulated militia is, in fact, necessary to the security of a free State, and if that condition is not existing, is the statement "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" null and void?;] [ Copperud:] (3) No such condition is expressed or implied. The right to keep and bear arms is not said by the amendment to depend on the existence of a militia. No condition is stated or implied as to the relation of the right to keep and bear arms and to the necessity of a well-regulated militia as requisite to the security of a free state. The right to keep and bear arms is deemed unconditional by the entire sentence. [Schulman: (4) Does the clause "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," grant a right to the government to place conditions on the "right of the people to keep and bear arms," or is such right deemed unconditional by the meaning of the entire sentence?;] [ Copperud:] (4) The right is assumed to exist and to be unconditional, as previously stated. It is invoked here specifically for the sake of the militia. [Schulman: (5) Which of the following does the phrase " well-regulated militia" mean: "well-equipped," "well-organized," "well-drilled," "well-educated," or "subject to regulations of a superior authority"?] [ Copperud:] (5) The phrase means "subject to regulations of a superior authority"; this accords with the desire of the writers for civilian control over the military. [Schulman: If at all possible, I would ask you to take into account the changed meanings of words, or usage, since that sentence was written two-hundred years ago, but not to take into account historical interpretations of the intents of the authors, unless those issues can be clearly separated.] [ Copperud:] To the best of my knowledge, there has been no change in the meaning of words or in usage that would affect the meaning of the amendment. If it were written today, it might be put: "Since a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." [Schulman:] As a "scientific control" on this analysis, I would also appreciate it if you could compare your analysis of the text of the Second Amendment to the following sentence, "A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed." My questions for the usage analysis of this sentence would be, (1) Is the grammatical structure and usage of this sentence, and the way the words modify each other, identical to the Second Amendment's sentence?; and (2) Could this sentence be interpreted to restrict "the right of the people to keep and read Books" only to "a well-educated electorate" - for example, registered voters with a high-school diploma?] [ Copperud:] (1) Your "scientific control" sentence precisely parallels the amendment in grammatical structure. (2) There is nothing in your sentence that either indicates or implies the possibility of a restricted interpretation. Professor Copperud had only one additional comment, which he placed in his cover letter: "With well-known human curiosity, I made some speculative efforts to decide how the material might be used, but was unable to reach any conclusion." So now we have been told by one of the top experts on American usage what many knew all along: the Constitution of the United States unconditionally protects the people's right to keep and bear arms, forbidding all government formed under the Constitution from abridging that right. It seems it is up to those who believe in the right to keep and bear arms to preserve that right. No one else will. No one else can. Will we beg our elected representatives not to take away our rights, and continue regarding them as representing us if they do? Will we continue obeying judges who decide that the Second Amendment doesn't mean what it says but means whatever they say it means in their Orwellian doublespeak? Or will we simply keep and bear the arms of our choice, as the Constitution of the United States promises us we can, and pledge that we will defend that promise with our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor? Roy Copperud told me afterwards that he, personally, favored gun control, but his analysis of the Second Amendment made clear that its protections of the right of the people to keep and bear arms were unaffected by its reference to militia. This sort of intellectual and professional honesty is sorely lacking in public discourse today.

Men write better erotica than women

I just wasted money on an erotic book by a woman. I should have just bought a stupid romance novel. Ladies, romanace and erotica are not the same thing.

Tea party Christian values says let uninsured people die - who knew

Talk about love of your fellow man.

Sites should know when someone is dead, so that there is no trolls commenting on them.

A man has been arrested for trolling on four dead young girls and using abusive words on there profile, so I think there should be a way to stop trolling from happening.

What is in a CV?

I am 16 and looking for a job, but not one has called. So I though of doing a CV, but not including the job experience. But I have asked my mum, but she was not that helpful. So please can you help me by telling me what has supposed to be in a CV.

Kddan Is Much More Important Than We Realize.

There are all kinds of things going on in this world. We have war, crime, poverty, abuse, and natural disasters. It's amazing that "God's" biggest concern is with whom Kddan has sex.

poor parenting is the cause of most failure

what holds back most failing kids at school is poor parenting. Peer pressure is often blamed, but this would have little effect on a child's behaviour if the parents had realistic but high expectations for their child, and fully, consistently supported those expectations. And the reason this is included in the ethnic racial and cultural section is because poor parenting seems to be highly prevalent in minority groups (even if the minority is a large one) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/12/good-intentions-bring-terrible-results/

If Hitler died before going into German politics, World War II will still happen anyway.

Maybe a Democracy vs Communism war would happen.

The big bang creation myth contradicts science.

The big bang proposition contradicts science because the second law of thermodynamics means that the expanding energy will disperse to where there is less, and there is no more "less" than the void where the explosion takes place, meaning that if there were such an explosion, that the gases would always accelerate into the void, for entropy would be doing its job -unless you want to get rid of that pesky law to accomodate a non-law and non-theory. The big bang is a non-theory because it's not falsifiable, and scientific theories have to be falsifiable. How can the big explosion notion be proved wrong? Exactly. I dedicate this debate to God. lol

Our need for safety has killed innovation.

What if I told you someone invented a cheap, easily distributed source of power, which could also increase farming efficiency by 50%, solve most waste problems, provide (nearly free) warmth for billions during the winters, and can also be used to kill bacteria in almost any medium. The only problem is that it is volatile, can be used as a weapon, and will wind up killing 1 out of every 10,000 people and injuring 1 in 1,000. Should such a thing still be legal?

September 11

Our Nation just got done observing the ten year anniversary attack on our Nation. I think there are two things we should all agree upon. 1. We pulled together as a Nation despite all of our cultural, political, and ethnic differences. 2. Islam showed its true nature. Yick if you agree yak if you do not.

Being A True Vegetarian Is Rather Difficult And Expensive And Its Not A Poor Persons Journey.

Its pretty difficult to live this style for a long time and you would need a descent income to maintain the lifestyle. Not just the food, but avoiding wearing animals skins as well. With the cost of alternative meats and vegetables that can be rather expensive especially if you are in to "Organic". You better keep your day job. Not saying its not possible, its just that is really not a poor persons lifestyle.

People Are Not Buying As They Used To.

not as many bon vivants in this strapped economy.

I Think A Lot Of People Pray Daily Who Don't Attend Church.

before a test, or when pulled over by the police for speeding so they won't get a ticket, things like that they pray about. but also, I think people have prayers in quiet time too. they just don't talk about it.

White people are genetically predisposed to be more evil

Before everyone gets angry with me, I don't know if this is true and I am not suggesting there are not any good white people. I just want others opinions. I know evil comes in all colors, but if you look at some of the most evil acts in history it seems they were perpetrated by whites. Even present day crimes it seems more whites commit crime for selfish reasons as opposed to crimes of poverty or religious crimes. Just look at hate groups. There are more white supremacy groups than any other racial hate group. Does anyone have any other explanation? Notice, not all the men in this video are white but the majority are.

Using mental torture and extreme physical torture is the best deterrent against serious crimes like murder or armed robbery.

Disregarding the fact that it's bloody cruel, do you think it will stop crime if properly enforced?

If Using Native American Names, Images, And Customs For Sports Teams Is Offensive, Than The University of Notre Dame Is The Most Racist And Intolerant College Of All.

The only reason that people aren't upset about this is that Irish people are white. People are upset that there is even a picture of a indian head used for sports and yet don't mind that there is a logo that is representing Irish people as short, green wearing brawlers. I mean they are the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for crying out loud!

In order to appreciate Country music it has to be all about the lyrics

I was driving home alone on a back road with the windows down blasting the late great Keith Whitley and I was wondering why so many people do not like Country music. It dawned on me most people aren't listening to the lyrics.

sex in movies is very unrealistic.

In most of the sex scenes in movies, the pair are so overwhelmed with passion that they break things and don't have any foreplay, and the whole encounter is over in about 11 seconds. I think women are turned on by this when they see it in a movie; they think "that guy was SO turned on he couldn't even control himself", but if something similar were to happen in real life, she'd just think, "loser".

Youngsters should not be badly judged for the good things they do!!

It seems everyone judges youngsters for the things that they do good, but they don't get praised for the things they try, everyones judgement is on the bad things they do rather than there good.

Would this fly today?

This is one of the most raw and passionate scenes in any movie. Everyone would be so upset if they did this in a movie today.

The internet is the first major step toward collective consciousness.

All that needs to be done is miniaturization, so the traditional "computer" is actually a part of your body, and make it thought accessed rather than finger accessed. Soon we'll be able to think about a person and instantly be able to communicate with them, and access all of the databanks of the internets as an extension of our memories.

Today Is September 11, Americans Are Remembering What Happened

Can you remember where you were all those years ago when the Twin Towers were hit? I can remember exactly, and I was watching the news when it happened.

Lots of comments you'll overhear at a gourmet event are bogus

I've done multiple huge Boston wine tasting events and just got back tonight from a beer event, the Belgian Beer Festival. Every time I go to one of these I hear countless people who think they're experts say incorrect BS to others. Frankly a large share of members of the public who think they're food or wine buffs really know very little.

The Goodwill is not an ideal place to donate anymore

I was under the belief that the proceeds go to the poor or sell to the poor. But as I drive by some goodwill stores, the shoppers appear to be your typical middle class American looking for a good deal. At least that is the impression i get when I see a bunch of nice looking cars in the parking lots.

All known nations current or historical have been born in blood.

You could argue that there have been relatively non violent government changes. But that is not the same as nation building. Besides which some blood is still involved in any revolution even the comparatively peaceful ones.

There's no honey in honey mustard

It makes it sound a little healthier. I think most honey mustard is more like a mixture of mustard, mayo, and sugar.

Claiming to KNOW God exists is blasphemous.

It is undeniable that God does not want his existence to be scientifically proven. For whatever reason, if there is a God, He has refrained from descending from the sky in a golden chariot, and presenting irrefutable proof of Himself. He doesn't speak to us, nor does He show Himself; He wants evidence of his existence to remain ambiguous. To claim that you KNOW for a fact He exists, is to claim that you have beaten His efforts, and have somehow outsmarted Him. Without admitting to SOME doubt, you are being extremely proud.

the height of a high heel shoe should be in proportion to the length of your foot

a person with really small feet, such as a UK size 3, would look silly in 4" heels. But someone who takes a size 7 (UK) would probably look ok

Spending large sums on security just provides a false sense of security.

Thankfully, these were just comedians. Imagine what would have happened if real terrorists were inside with a couple of bombs.

Beer should not be bottled in clear or green glass

Light interacts with beer to spoil and skunk it. Clear and green glass are notorious for allowing it. Brown glass, or cans, don't have the same problem. It's pretty ridiculous really that a simple switch in packaging makes such a difference, yet many foreign imports still use the former and occasionally then we're stuck drinking beer that smells like a skunk.

Leather outer soles on shoes is a waste of leather

Leather uppers are nice, even if the top layer of the sole is leather that's fine too, but making the sole itself leather is just ruin. They wear out extra fast walking on stone, fail to keep out water, get all discolored and warped. The only times you can see the leather anyway is when you put your feet up or take the shoes off. And re-soling shoes hardly ever happens anymore. Good luck even finding a cobbler who can do it. So I just don't see why leather is even used for outer soles anymore.

hondureno's dead child avatar is too creepy

it could be interpreted as disrespectful to have this picture as an avatar

In western society it takes a contextual sort of presentation for individuals to recongnize beauty.

With our busy schedules it seems we have forgotten to appreciate the simple things in life. No matter how beautiful they are.

If raising a child to be a Christian is brainwashing them then the same is also true of raising them to be an atheist or agnostic.

It is an often repeated accusation that raising a child to be a Chrisitan is "brainwashing". If that is indeed the case then that makes raising them to be agnostics or an atheists every bit as much brainwashing them as raising them to be Christians.

The Boy Scouts teaches the wrong values.

My son has shown interest in becoming a Boy Scout. There are other problems I have with them, but mainly, I don't like the way they practice organizational discrimination against atheists, agnostics, and homosexuals. I'm an agnostic - should I allow my son to join a group that says I'm not a good role model? I've raised him agnostic, so he'd have to lie to even get in - seems to defeat the purpose. Yeah, they teach some good values, but the best thing they can teach is tolerance of others, which they don't do. Am I judging them too harshly?

The 9/11 attacks is a good example of what happens when you let the fox guard the henhouse.

Here's the way I look at it. The police chief's wife has been murdered. He is found standing over her body, holding the murder weapon, and covered with blood. Assuming complete authority over the investigation, he says his neighbor did it. The chief says the evidence against his neighbor is solid and irrefutable, but it must be kept secret. The chief refuses to address ANY of the inconsistencies in his own story, simply falling back on feigned shock and offense at the suggestion. He somehow ensures that his neighbor is put in prison without trial and without access to a lawyer or the press. Case closed.

The comment section in Yakpolls should have a comment ticker on the right like the comment and response tickers.

Do you agree? I'm surprise the amount of chatter going on in the comments on the yakpolls. I'm missing out on a lot of back and forth.

CNN has an article, "how to tell you kids about 9/11"....you don't.

I think you either tell the whole story or not at all. And what I mean by the whole story is what motivated a handful of people to do it. Not a shallow way of teaching kids to hate muslims in general.

More Americans Were Killed By Abortionists On 9-11-2001 (about 3,700) Than Were Killed By Islamic Terrorists (about 3,000).

On September 11, 2001, it would have been safer to be a worker in the Twin Towers than it was to be a baby in her mother's womb. One out of three preborn babies dies by abortion every day. 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient). An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion. All abortion numbers are derived from pro-abortion sources courtesy of The Alan Guttmacher Institute and Planned Parenthood's Family Planning Perspectives. http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.htm

Kiteboarding Is The Best Spectator Sport Of All.

next time you are in Stevenson, Washington or Hood River, Oregon go watch kiteboarding out on the mighty Columbia River. god it's rockin'!

"The Gnostic Bible" ISBN#1570622426

I am currently reading one passage of "The Gospel Of Philip", and one song in "Songs Of Solomon". Interesting...

The Religous are targets for Atheist and Agnostic as Homosexuals are the main targets for the Religious

Religion is easy pickings for non believers but the religious love to go after homosexuals which is by far their easiest target and a soap box they can stand proudly on ignoring the more complicated disciplines required of the religous, like love, compassion and forgiveness.

There are far too many debates created here

Debates are popping up like babies out of Octomom. These ideas need to be explored and comments allowed to run their full course.

Some of Aetherium's debates should qualify as Polls instead.

These are more poll questions than debates.

Standardized Living Is a Good Idea:

the Global Community should pattern themselves after the Europeans and Americans. we know best ;)

Salmon And Salad And Sesame Seeds:

it's all your body needs to be healthy.

I Have Given Up Acoholic Beverages And Smoking.

I think smoking and drinking is unappealing. I tried them, and it "didn't take" ;) I don't need that stuff. I am going back to Health Foods. But my coffee? Never give that up!!!! (one vice per person, he he he).

Let's See What Those Popular Gnostic Gospels Are All About.

I am buying the book today, and reading it. I will let you know what they are all about, or if these books from the bible which were not deemed worthy to become included into any orgainized religion bible are worthwhile at all, I will explain what if any of these books are good stuff. These are from the Nag Hammadi manuscript collection. Look it up in your library, and let us find out.

There's nothing gay, happy, or joyful about being a pervert.

Even the word homosexual is too clinical. I prefer to use the biblical term of sodomite, which is more descriptive. When someone is given over to acts of perversion, it's usually only the tip of the iceberg and, just like an iceberg, other unspeakable acts are unseen but are just below the surface. Some homosexuals, sodomites, and pedophiles are so proud of their depravity that they form organizations so they can get together and share ways to improve their perversion. The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is just one illustration of the depth of depravity to which a pervert can sink. Normal men and women should not be forced to work with, eat with, live with, sleep with, or have their privacy violated by showering with a pervert, especially in the military where their lives depend on the moral character and performance of others.

Buy Bamboo Rayon Clothing For Ethical Sustainability Consciousness Living.

places like www.yala.com and www.dribamboo.com bamboo is very kind to the environment, and green living leaves a kind imprint on the earth. There is only one earth; let's be kind to it, for in so doing we leave a btter place for our dear offspring as well as ourselves. Bamboo floor-coverings are another good option for our homes. I recommend them for the same reasons as the above ones.

When students perform poorly, parents should shoulder more of the blame.

I'm not saying every teacher is perfect--I'm sure there are some really bad ones out there--but we've come into this age where the teacher is getting the blame and not the student or the parent. My favorite comment on CNN was something about when a teacher tells a parent that his or her child acted out, the parent asks the child, disbelieving the teacher if the child says no. A lot of teachers put 10+ hours a day in school helping kids out...why should they be blamed?

Gay men can now donate blood after a 12 month deferral period from sex, good enough or still insulting?

A step in the right direction maybe. But if we wish to donate blood we have to abstain from sex for a whole year. We're being put in the same category as prostitutes and drug users. Most healthy gay men who have sex haven't got HIV nor shall they ever have HIV.

Just because it's not in the bible doesn't mean it didn't happen

It's plausible for many things to happen that were not written. If you can easily believe in a talking snake or that every animal species fit in a boat you should be able to believe that it's quite possible Christ got married and or had sex. I.e an actual human behavior or acts.

Jesus Christ Definitely Had A Wife.

"Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by Michael Baigent/Richard Leigh/Henry Lincoln... see page 304; the wedding of Cana in the Book of St.John KJV, was Jesus' wedding. He was the bridegroom spoken of. His wife was the lady called Mary who was from Magdala before she knew Jesus. Later in life she lived in Bethany.

The Catholic Bible Is very Persecuted Unjustly:

why on earth did the Protestant bible selectors choose lame and meaningless books such as Esther and Job and Malachi, and not include wonderful historically-factual books such as the Judith book, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and the Book of Wisdom, Sirach called Ecclesiasticus? These Catholic bible books are among the MOST inspired words of God.

Blocked phone numbers are annoying

If you want to talk to me don't block your number. If I can't see who is calling I'm not answering.

I Have A Lot Of Respect For Marriage.

Past divorce should not prejudice the witness so to speak. If someone respects the institution of marriage, society should not give you a lot of cr@p about a past failed attempt at long-term commitment. We should not judge failures.

The Global Community Should Make Recycling Mandatory!

we've only got one planet.

I Am Not For Organized Religion.

"That they should seek after the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us. For in Him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring". Acts 17: 27-28.

Capitalism Is The Best System:

human nature is to self-preservation and ownership and property rights.

Support Manufacturers Made In The USA!

those manufacturers who out-source to foreign countries undermine our economy. support made in the USA.

The Book, "Holy Blood Holy Grail"...

what did you think of it?

I Am Scared Of Lasiks Surgery:

No one wants glasses or contact lenses anymore, but what if you are afraid the Optometrist slips when doing your eye surgery?! Are glasses THAT ugly???

The Holman Christian Standard Bible Is Very Readable:

This version is one of the top four versions! New Century Version is good too. As well as the King James and a Catholic Bible I forget the title, but it has the Deuteronocanonical Books in it as well as the classics.

Americans are the coolest in the world...Brits are not even cooler than French.

(Reuters) - They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the world stage, but Americans have been voted the world's "coolest nationality" in an international poll. Social networking site Badoo.com (www.badoo.com) asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name the coolest nationality and also found that the Spanish were considered the coolest Europeans, Brazilians the coolest Latin Americans and Belgians the globe's least cool nationality.

"We hear a lot in the media about anti-Americanism," says Lloyd Price, Badoo's Director of Marketing. "But we sometimes forget how many people across the world consider Americans seriously cool."

Of course, not all Americans are cool far from it. Some like Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino are way cooler than others.

Americans, however, are the dudes who invented cool and who still embody it in many fields from music to movies and TV to technology.

"America," says Price, "boasts the world's coolest leader, Obama; the coolest rappers, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg; and the coolest man in technology, Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who even made geeks cool."

Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll and the coolest Latin Americans, ahead of Mexicans and Argentinians. The Spanish, in third place, are the coolest Europeans.

The French are voted cooler than the British, and Canadians cooler than the Belgians. This may come as a relief for Canadians, who are sometimes viewed as chronically uncool.

Steve Perry is CAN NOT be replaced

Please, here they are side by side on my favorite song. Please, we can hear who is the better singer.

Not everyone is who they seem.

It would be very funny, easy, and amusing, if someone were to start an account here, using someone else's old user name from the old debate site. I wonder how long it would take for artemis to catch on . . .

If the Obamacare mandatory health coverage is unconstitutional, so is mandatory auto insurance.

I really don't see the difference. I think mandated auto insurance is unconstitutional as well. Where is the basis for this authority to levy a poor tax paid directly to an industry? Score one for the lobbyists.

Republicans to blame?

It was a Republican President who ended segregation in the Federal work force. It was the Republicans in Congress who passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965. It was the Republicans who even helped Susan B. Anthony passed Women's Suffrage. It was the Democrats who were for segregation and silly programs such as medicare, welfare, social security, and government housing for the poor. I believe the Republicans have been given and unjustly bad rep. Yak if you agree, Yik if not.

Anybody can be replaced, including Journey's lead singer.

Filipino, Arnel Pineda who replaced Steve Perry.

Psych Movies

the value of movie-psychotherapy such as Hitchcock's movies such as "Marnie" with Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren to understand human behavior within Society...as a learning tool. Can you list one? Also, I think the movie "You've Got Mail" with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks is one such movie as a learning tool as well. Tom Hank's character Joe Fox didn't realize he was an anal-retentive-@sshole...and Meg Ryan's character Kathleen Kelley was hiding from success why she didn't write her book all those years though plenty capable.

What happened to FAA???

Everyone knew it was going down, but what exactly happened?? anyone know

It's great that empty-headed debates are still called "Socratic"

It so makes it sound intelligent and serious

It's good that unusual colours of nailvarnish are acceptable nowadays

Hundreds of years ago you could only buy nail varnish in pinks, oranges and reds- but nowadays you can get a whole range - green blue, metallics - to match your clothes which is a great boon when you're wearing sandals.

No one is an Atheist when the plane is going down.

I believe if you were on a plane that was about to crash even the most hardened non believer would pray. Ok Ballsalsa, I am running out ideas for debates.

They should have left the Star Wars movies alone until CGI technology was better

For some reason, someone had the bright idea to "improve" on the original Star Wars movies by remastering some sequences with CGI. They did that WAY too soon. The new, cartoonish effects are NOT an improvement from the original effects: extras in foam costumes covered in slime.

I refuse to let Moreno ruin my view

If you are going to post on top of me use your real picture. I need someone goodlooking to look at.

There is as many debating and back and forth responses in the Yak polling section as the debating section

Didnt see that coming. I have to admit Hondu keeps them goIng.

Where there is a will there's a way

Ha ha, Ballsalsa.

silly topics

Yickyak is already showing the sings of an FAA invasion by its silly topics. Phew, thought it wasn't going to happen

It's a shame creating a debate after Finsch.

Because you know how much artemis must enjoy gazing at his avatar picture while his debate was the most recent one.

Two People, Not To Include Me, Should Do A Challenge Debate.

I said not it first but I think it's time to see what some of the old FAA regulars can do in a one on one.

Compromise is a necessary part of effective legislative politics.

Sticking to your guns sounds great but most arguments are probably closest to the correct compromise when both (or more) sides are equally unhappy. More importantly nothing important gets done without compromise.

The neatest and cleanist part of the house is generally the part of the house least used.

I remember some people would never remove the plastic from their sofa. And rooms where the kids where never allowed to go in.

Although you're free to order whatever you want it's advisable to get the drink a bar or restaurant specializes in

If it's a wine bar try a wine, a beer joint try a beer, a tikki hut get whatever cocktail they say is their specialty. For one thing you know they'll have it stocked and know how to make it. For another, there's never any shame in getting what the house specializes in. Even a dude can try a Fuzzy Navel with honor if that's the house specialty.

A sign a bold beer or wine was overdone is when one flavor overwhelms all the others

People, especially Americans, love big and bold. It's why so many of our wines are fruit bombs and so many of our beers are superhopped IPAs. They can be great, but they go too far when the other flavors which should also be there are totally eclipsed by one dominant flavor.

Churches Should Lose Their Tax-Exempt Status:

"for a 'suggested donation' of x amount of dollars we will 'give' you this x 'gift"....hello! can you say SALE! the book stores are not tax-exempt! anyone who makes a SALE should pay x amount of tax on that SALE.

A Justice Of The Peace Is Government Employee Doing A Pastor's Job!

no separation between Church and State!

The Disturbing Element About The Separation Betweeen Church And State:

there isn't one!

We should all donate toward a YickYak get together

Ok, I posted this on FAA and everyone complained about the money. Notice there is an option to donate to Yickyak perhaps the owner could set up a separate donation thing for a get together. Just a suggestion.

Dark beer is better than light beer

You get a much better range of taste, and a fuller body with a dark beer. Sure, light beer tends to go down more smoothly, and you can get drunk faster on light beer, but the taste is lacking. You're better off nursing dark beers and doing a few shots to get drunk, rather than get drunk chugging light beer.

The Reason Why Most First Time Smokers Do Not Get high From Marijuana Is A Result Of Not Inhaling.

This phenomenon is common knowledge, yet I have never heard of a convincing explanation for why it happens. Could it be that most people just do not inhale during their initial experiences with marijuana, or is the reason more neurological? You think someone who has not developed a tolerance to the substance at all would be greatly affected by it..

If most people were scrutinized by the paparazzi like famous people are very few of us would avoid scandal.

I especially feel for these kids trying to transition to young adult. If the entire world knew what I did in that period I would be mortified and probably have spent time in jail, and I didn't have endless amounts of money and people who would do anything I asked.

Applied strength is better than capacity for strength

You can build muscle on machines and get dramatic lifting numbers but still not have the muscle balance or skill to apply that in a sport or daily activity. Meanwhile someone great at applying their strength in real life may not be able to lift nearly as much on a machine.

Some people are just sick!!

On facebook under X Factor, someone said R.I.P Snoop Dogg is dead, but if he was dead it would be all over the news, but nobody has heard about it, so the person who put this rumor around is total sick and need to get there facts right. Someone also said David Guetta was dead, when he was still alive. So some people are just twisted and messing about that is not funny.

It's better to be extreme on an continuous scale poll

In other words, you're asked to rate something on a scale of 1 to 10. Based on a standard bell curve, you can assume the average rating is 5, but you think the subject is a 6. Instead of voting 6, you should vote 10. That way, you're getting the average closer to 6 than if you'd actually voted 6; it's like you got five votes instead of one. This is a serious downfall to these types of polls.

Kids growing up now are better at using operating systems, but have less and less technical ability.

When I was a young nerd we took apart computers and modified and built our own computers. We took apart everything with a circuit just to see what we could do with it. A friend of mine's kid busted his MP3 player the other day. I took it apart and resoldered the spot where to the midi outlet tied into the board. Easy peasy, but by then the kid had a new one and wasn't interested any more. It was disposable to him and trying to fix it never even occurred to him. But he navigates the operates the interface systems of every piece of technology with a facility, grace and speed at the age of ten than I can hardly fathom.

Things change everyday, but nobody notices!!!

There is always something that changes everyday, but it is amazing on how many people don't notice any difference in everyday life, most of us would get a hair cut and nobody will notice or you've gone from fat to skinny and no one will really notice. Even I don't notice a difference in day to day changes. It's sort of surprising.

Although "Cougar" can be a derogatory label for a woman it is not automatically

A "cougar" is an older woman seeking to get sexy with a younger man. Some women find that label offensive. Indeed some men intend it as offensive. But I think for most it's a comparison to an alpha predator and actually showing some respect.

Having a hairy chest is sexier than having a shaved chest.

I don't get why a guy would shave their chest hair. Back hair? Okay, I understand, but chest hair? Gotta let that hamburger meat out man!

The Spirit of the law is more important than the Letter of the law

Pretty simple--the letter of the law means the exact wording of the law whereas the spirit of the law means what the law was intended to be.

One reason why people should not have automatic weapons.

They will miss the target at point-blank range.

protection of most endangered plants and animals is a waste of resources.

Ok - elephants, tigers, pandas, sure. The animals that are easy to identify and easy to hunt to extinction, should get special protection. However, 98% of protected species are simply scarce; they are not easily identified or hunted. How can a fish be hunted to extinction? There will simply come a time when there are too few to make it economically feasible to hunt for them. If a kind of insect or plant is endangered, it will cost just as much trying to find them to protect them then it will to find them to kill them.

People should practice what they preach.

Yes, Moreno, this means you. I remember asking a question about high heels and Moreno was all over me about making assumptions. It's funny that he would post an entire debate on FAA making assumtions about those same groups of people.

The human Conscience hands out the worse punishment known to man.

The fact is, if you kill a person, your conscience will beat you up from the inside till you die. It makes life almost unbearable.

Civilians should not own automatic assault weapons

I'm all for the Second Amendment--hell, I'd have a gun if it wasn't for our dog being huge and protective and my wife not liking guns--but I can't see any reason why a civilian would have any need for a fully automatic assault weapon. If you want a handgun, shotgun, or a rifle, that's awesome--you just don't need anything that fires (blank) rounds a second.

Rushing doesn't get you there any faster most of the time.

It just doesn't. Something always happens to delay things, vs just relaxing and taking your time.

determination is not always a good thing.

The best thing to do if a horse throws you off is to get right back on again. If you're a horse, the best thing to do if someone keeps climbing on you is to throw him back off again.

Hamburgers are better than Cheesburgers

For one, more people can eat them and not worry about allergies. Another reason hamburgers are better is that they are better for you. The third and final reason hamburgers are better is that they just plum taste better.

Everyone needs to put a conversation on this site!

It ssssooooo serious all the time, there is no jokes as you's used to when you were on FAA. It is know getting boring, there is nothing to type up anymore as everything is sooo boring. Someone needs to brighten up this lot here, it feels like playing chess with the devil.

Inflation is an illegal tax

When the government prints money, they give it illegitimate value by taking value away from the money that has already been earned. The money you earned and stuffed in a mattress in 1984 is worth half as much as it was then, because half of the value has been stolen. Inflation is not natural; they do this just slowly enough so people don't complain.

Young guys are a waste of time. They can't finish the job.

I don't know if they can't handle it or if they just get bored, either way stick with guys over 30.

This will be the year a non-sec team will win the BCS

There is to much good competition this year, Oregon, Oklahoma, Florida State and Stanford to name a few.

impoverished people in poor countries must think Westerners are real @ssholes for getting enjoyment out of camping.

Just think about it. How insulting. I'm bored with my technological conveniences, climate control, and electricity. I will get enjoyment subjecting myself to the restrictions that most of the world have no control over. It would be comparable to how a paraplegic would feel, if he saw people riding around in wheelchairs because they got "bored" with walking.

According to some it was better to go down with the trade center than jump from being burned alive or crushed from the falling building

It appears according to these people God will lose favor in those who jumped to avoid burning and being crush during 9/11 than going down with the twin towers.

All States should have the Death with Dignity Act passed. Its not immoral.

Only 3 states have it Oregon, Montana and Washington. The idea of allowing someone to end his or her own life is undoubtedly controversial. Gallup's 2011 Values and Beliefs poll found in March that 45% of Americans consider doctor-assisted suicide morally acceptable, and 48% believe it's morally wrong. its a shame that people prefer people to suffer than die with dignity because of their "doctrine".

In order to use the law in Oregon, a patient must be over the age of 18 and have a diagnosis of a terminal illness with six months or less to live. The patient must be a resident of the state and capable of making and communicating his or her own health care decisions.

The patient must give an oral request to an attending physician twice, with at least 15 days in between. A consulting physician must also confirm the diagnosis and prognosis.

It's usually not possible for a person with dementia to use the law, because the patient must be able to make his or her own decisions. If either the physician or consulting physician feels the patient has depression or other mental illness that might affect judgment, he or she must be sent for a further mental evaluation. Further guidelines are available from the state of Oregon.

In the year 2010, 65 patients died by ingesting prescribed lethal medications in Oregon, according to the state's public health division, corresponding to about 21 deaths out of 10,000. In the state of Washington, 51 people died after ingesting the medications last year. But more people than that go through the process. A total of 96 prescriptions were written in 2010 in Oregon, and 87 were dispensed in Washington.

James Powell could barely speak on the day he died; cancer had confined him to bed and heavy painkillers left him only semi-lucid. Yet the mood was almost celebratory as 25 people -- family, friends and volunteers -- gathered in a large living room to tell stories and say goodbye on the day Powell chose to end his suffering.

"After he took the medication, he fell asleep really quickly. His body just relaxed. He went into deep snoring. There were tears, but also it felt like a real family gathering of support," his daughter Katy, 61, remembers. "After he died you could pretty much feel the spirit kind of lift in the room. Thank goodness he's free of that horrible suffering and pain."

I think one of the greatest experiences would be getting sucked into a Black Hole

But it via a spaceship, or while on a planet or floating in space. Assuming you can withstand all the forces involved.

Why should humans take dominion over ther world, when they don't even look after it properly!

We were suppost to have dominion over it, but we can't even look after it properly, we pollute it, we destroy the land, we use the sun for energy and we use alot of things on the earth that half of are destroying the life and the world on it. So give me a really good reason why we should have dominion over the earth! Cause we are all doing bad than good.

Jesus was a communist

What did Jesus have to say about economic sin? Of course there is morality and immorality in a free market system. Where is the line drawn between legitimate profit and exploitation? Why did Jesus not discuss this? Seems that all He had to say about economics is that hungry people should be fed and naked people should be clothed, no matter what they can "afford".

Classic rewind on Sirus is the best

They play songs that you never hear anymore. Not to mention just 2 or 3 days ago they played a song sung by the greatest singer ever that I don't think I ever heard played on the radio. Of course, I know the song because it's Steve, but it's not something most people would know. Not to mention they play Feeling that Way and Anytime back to back as it was meant to be played. One Steve song is never enough.

Eternal life of any kind would come to be hell.

The value of life is it's brevity. Sure I wouldn't mind living much longer than our traditional four score and ten that they mention. But live forever in any way? You would either lose yourself completely or come to hate existence.

We found Miller and Prommy will be along soon, but where is K-9, KDdan, Damien, and Occultdude?

I sent an email to Damien and OD, but KDdan's email address doesn't work and I have no idea about K-9. I think he is another regular anyway.

None of us are as ethical as we like to think we are.

We all like to think that if we hit someone's car in the parking lot, we would either write them a note with our information or wait for them to return. But in all actuality, if there are no camera's and no witnesses, you're going to be hitting the pedal to the metal as your friends yell GO GO GO.

Trying to impose new diets onto Americans is not going to work, the obese issues will only be solved if we show the younger generation it is fun to exercise.

By 2030 over half of American adults will be obese. Clearly, this is an issue. In corporate dominated America, people largely buy processed easy to make foods or take out from fast food restaurants. A lot of people no longer cook their own meals. Considering how ingrained commercial foods are into American society, the only hope is to make more exercise/sports campaigns in schools and the work place.

There Should NOT Be Thousand-foot Gun Free Zones Around Schools.

Half of us live within a thousand feet of a school. What we're telling most law abiding Americans is that it's ok to have a gun in your home, as long as you don't transport it there. That's rubbish. If you want to make a law against carrying a gun INTO a school, that's fine, but let's just call this what it is - a political ploy that has nothing to do with child safety.

Where the heck is Prometheus and DLMiller, did they hang up the debating towel?

I completely forgot about them.

YickYak is superior to FAA

Once you get through the learning curve Yick offers a lot more possibilities. Not to mention it has active support and maintenance.

I mistook Verum for Kddan...honest mistake.

Honest mistakes. Thats why I thought Verum was gay. My mistake, Verum.

Some People Don't Go On This As Much As FAA!

There used to be responses or comments going on every 5 or 10 minutes, now everyone seems to be taking there time to respond to random debates.

We should eat more pieces of food than dishes of food

Its easier to track what we eat I think. I can track calories eating 3 chicken wings than a chicken salad. Or two hardboiled eggs than an egg salad, or a bowl of rice vs a rice caserol.

AR just joined now he needs to post something

Come on AR, get out there and post something highly offensive so we can get this site moving.

Eating Our Poop Will Be Our Protein Source for the future Not Insects

Science will push to recycle our own waste and that is how I see the future. We can make anything taste good.

God really doesn't make sense

The idea of one god being "the father" doesn't make sense. Any parent wants their children to learn right from wrong, but no parent would actually let their child suffer if they could prevent or stop their suffering.

People shouldn't be required to scoop their dogs' poop.

Despite our delicate dispositions, animals sh!t on the ground. That's where they're supposed to go. If it's left in individual piles, exposed to sun and rain, it's not a problem. It only becomes a problem when you try to collect it into a much larger, isolated, confined pile. Maybe there should be a law that requires people to watch where they are walking.

The Mercury, Gemini, and finally Apollo space missions were one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind.

On par with the ancient wonders such as the Great Wall and the Pyramids, our trip to the moon is a modern wonder of the world.

List top 5 to 10 changes, modifications or additions to this site

Offer realistic suggestions you think would help, enhance, taken off, or make the site better or user friendly or easy to the eye.

If Verum was only 5 years older we could do this.

Self explanatory

It takes a true intellectual to tolerate being called a stud.

For an example just look at Moreno.

As a means to combat the unsustainability that will surelly accompany the West's rise in population, in the not too distant future Insects will become our primary source of meat.

Livestock is expensive, wasteful, and detrimental to the environment. In the future, when we face the consequences of our growing population, livestock won't be a sustainable source of food, it will become a luxury.

Artemis and Damselfly seem awful close

The supposedly met in London and New York. What on earth could they have in common?

Over-reactions to Impending Inclement Weather

There's a bell curve of human response to impending weather. The bulk is appropriate, precautionary, and well advised. A smaller fraction don't take it seriously enough. And another fraction hyper-react. Ironically it's the hysteria of the hypers that contributes to the unders wanting to say relax, we'll get through this.

Collectors are just Organized Hoarders

I really don't see much difference except that they are more organized with what they are hoarding and its usually just one thing.

We are living in a simulation.

Just look at it mathematically. There can only be one "real" reality. One reality, real or simulated, can spawn a million simulated realities (each with the capability of creating a million more). Therefore, the probability that this "reality" is the true one, is infinitesimal.

Animals that are endangered should be saved, rather than still killing them!

Endangered animals are killed every year, but because farmers, hunters and ranchers keep on killing them, they are decreasing in number every Month and every year until they are extinct. I think when there has became a certain amount of animals that have a very low number of species left should be saved, not killed

If other industries operated the way banks do, we would consider them unethical

A bank could be compared to a car storage garage, where the valets rent the cars out to other people while the actual owner isn't using it. Not only that, they don't have enough cars to meet their promises; they tell the owner of the car he can come and get it whenever he wants, and take rental money from another 8 people and tell them they can come and use the car whenever they want. All they can do is hope that no more than 10% of the people who have paid to use the cars, will want to use them at any given time.

Older women go for younger guys to feel young and attractive.

It has been suggested it's about dominating the less experienced. I think is more about feeling attractive. The older women want to prove they still have what it takes.

I Miss George Bush

It has been reported that unemployment amongst middle class Black Americans mirrors that of the Great Depression under this Obama Administration. Gas prices have about double under the Obama Administration. The Nation is facing its very first default under the Obama Administration.Illegal Aliens may be rewarded with amnesty under the Obama Administration. I really do miss George Bush. Yak if you agree and Yick if not.

They tried to make her go to rehab and she said no no no....

Well they did.

Republicans Repeal of the 20th Century.

I have heard on politician state that the Republicans want to repeal the 2nd half of the 20th Century. Now when I look at problems such as welfare, social security, medicare, and public housing for the poor am I wrong in saying that THAT IS A GOOD THING? I support it. Am I wrong?

Are We Not Fortunate That Newt Gingrich Will Not Be The Next POTUS?

You tell me...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! Sarah Palin run for POTUS 2012!!!

Gosh, I hope she runs!! How about you?

Is Allyson Felix So Attractive Because Of A Lack Of Testosterone?

I don't know, but I love this athlete!

Black women are least attractive due to high testostrone?

Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women? Why black women, but not black men? Published on May 15, 2011 by Satoshi Kanazawa in The Scientific Fundamentalist

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201105/why-are-black-women-less-physically-attractive-other-women and ie=utf-8 and oe=utf-8 and aq=t and rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official and client=firefox-a

What accounts for the markedly lower average level of physical attractiveness among black women? Black women are on average much heavier than nonblack women. The mean body-mass index (BMI) at Wave III is 28.5 among black women and 26.1 among nonblack women. (Black and nonblack men do not differ in BMI: 27.0 vs. 26.9.) However, this is not the reason black women are less physically attractive than nonblack women. Black women have lower average level of physical attractiveness net of BMI. Nor can the race difference in intelligence (and the positive association between intelligence and physical attractiveness) account for the race difference in physical attractiveness among women. Black women are still less physically attractive than nonblack women net of BMI and intelligence. Net of intelligence, black men are significantly more physically attractive than nonblack men.

There are many biological and genetic differences between the races. However, such race differences usually exist in equal measure for both men and women. For example, because they have existed much longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have more mutations in their genomes than other races. And the mutation loads significantly decrease physical attractiveness (because physical attractiveness is a measure of genetic and developmental health). But since both black women and black men have higher mutation loads, it cannot explain why only black women are less physically attractive, while black men are, if anything, more attractive.

The only thing I can think of that might potentially explain the lower average level of physical attractiveness among black women is testosterone. Africans on average have higher levels of testosterone than other races, and testosterone, being an androgen (male hormone), affects the physical attractiveness of men and women differently. Men with higher levels of testosterone have more masculine features and are therefore more physically attractive. In contrast, women with higher levels of testosterone also have more masculine features and are therefore less physically attractive. The race differences in the level of testosterone can therefore potentially explain why black women are less physically attractive than women of other races, while (net of intelligence) black men are more physically attractive than men of other races.

Donald Trump Gets His Toupee Tossled

There can't be a bigger butthead currently in the political spotlight than Mr. Trump and he gets his huevos handed to him by these "two" comedians...

Not Redeemable

“As crazy as this may sound, going to prison really changed my life," Vick told the Wall Street Journal. “I was able to go in and come out with a plan. I’m happy that I turned out to be the person that I am, and I wouldn’t change anything about my life if I could."

He's saying he still doesn't care.

Spruce up your resume

McDonalds will hire 50,000 people next week. Aside from the junk, at least they are doing their part to help unemployed people. http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/04/news/companies/mcdonalds_jobs/index.htm

Give Up Your Illusions

So in the last few months we have learned:

1. The city of Atlantis has been found (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-13/news/29142966_1_libya-and-asia-atlantis-ancient-city). No evidence yet of magnetic airships, faster-than-light travel, or aliens. Just a Greek city. Guess Edgar Cayce was wrong. (Follow up on this, guys. Fascinating stuff...)Guess what... it was destroyed by a tsunami.

2. The Judaeo-Christian God had a wife who was edited out of the bible (http://theweek.com/article/index/213517/did-god-have-a-wife).

3. Older news that finally made it across the pond: an ancient clay tablet has been translated as an eyewitness account of an asteroid taking out Sodom and Gomorrah (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343674,00.html). No mention of Lot or salt pillars. Just a big frickin rock falling out of the sky (..."like half a stone bowl").

4. I learned a new word: "pseudepigrapha" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bart-d-ehrman/the-bible-telling-lies-to_b_840301.html).This is an "actual" word theologians use instead of the word "forgery" when they describe certain books of the Bible. Just the use of that word proves they know parts of the bible are false.

The universe is a mechanical place and doesn't much care about your magical thinking. There were no airships in Atlantis and the bible, far from being written by a perfect being, was written by short people who bathed perhaps once a year.

Only reality counts.

Sucker Punch: The Greatest Mover Ever?

"Hot girls wielding swords and guns, a samurai with a machine gun, german WWI soldiers, aerial combat, huge explosions and a dragon. Gentlemen, if this is not the greatest movie ever, then I don’t know what is." ~ Baferjx. check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSIetIg7O3M and feature=related YY2 won't let me embed the vid.

Nuclear Power is a bad energy choice for the world

No carbon emissions, but there are things far worse than global warming...

The Oxytocin Hormone (love/bonding Hormone) Could Be The Cause To Ethnic Loyality Based On A Dutch Study.

We got men of Dutch origin to judge people with typical Dutch, Arab and German names; in the Netherlands, immigrants and Germans are perceived as out-groups. People tend to judge people from their in-group more positively than people from out-groups.When we gave people oxytocin compared to a placebo, we found that people became much more positive about their in-group. When you give preferential treatment to your in-group as ethnocentrism, you implicitly indirectly discriminate against people who do not belong to your in-group. It could be that oxytocin contributes.

THere Is No Archeological Or Historical Evidence That The Israelites Were Ever Really In Egypt, As Slaves Or Otherwise.

There is no archeological or historical evidence that the Israelites were ever really in Egypt, as slaves or otherwise. The only thing we have is the biblical account, and Israel Finkelstein says that over 90 per cent of scholars say that the Exodus never really happened as described in the Bible. In fact, some of the biblical details conflict with what we now know of the period the Israelites are supposed to have fled Egypt.

The Egyptians kept detailed records of everyday life and commercial transactions, yet they never wrote of anything that even indirectly suggests the presence of a large group of foreign slaves, their sudden departure or the loss of an entire pursuing army. Egypt remained economically and militarily powerful long after the supposed Exodus, continuing to be the colonial overlords of the Canaanites.

If the Hebrew language contained Egyptian roots, or even just a few usefulwords of Egyptian origin, this could be deduced as possible evidence that the Israelites spent centuries in Egypt, but even this evidence is lacking. Hebrew is a language very closely related to Canaanite and evolved around the end of the ninth century BCE. This and all the available archaeological evidence points to the real origins of the Hebrew people as coming from the Canaanite people. For whatever reason, the early Hebrews chose to forget their real origins.

There are no inscriptions from the relevant period that ever mentioned the Israelites. Although the ancient Egyptians kept extraordinarily detailed records of their daily lives, including all kinds of contracts and transactions, they never mentioned a race of slaves in their midst, even over a supposed period of 430 years. This omission is all the more surprising if we literally accept the number of Hebrew slaves claimed by the Book of Exodus - 600,000 fighting men, equivalent to 2.5 million men, women and children, or two thirds of the Egyptian population at the time. At a time when average life expectancy was around 50 years, the Israelites were said to live for 120 to 137 years. The Egyptians could be expected to want to know the secret of almost eternal youth, yet nothing was ever written about slaves who lived to such great ages. No Egyptian wrote of the great plagues of Moses and the loss of the slaves was never mentioned even though, if true, this would have had a devastating impact on the Egyptian economy, no doubt making many contracts unenforceable. Conversely, there is no reference in the Bible to the Egyptian dominion over Canaan, an omission that by itself strongly suggests that the biblical record is not historic.

There is no archaeological evidence of large-scale Hebrew presence in Egypt, nor of the 40 year sojourn in the desert, nor of the conquest of Canaan. Even if the band of fleeing Hebrews had been much smaller than claimed, they would still have left some evidence behind. Archaeologists say they have found occasional camp-site evidence from previous centuries as well as from later periods, but nothing from the Exodus.

Some believe that Egyptian power declined inexplicably in the late fifteenth century BCE, saying that this must be evidence of a loss such as the loss of so many slaves, but Egypt remained at the height of its power. The remarkable Amarna letters attest that this was still true in the mid-1300s BCE and that even then Egypt was the undisputed power throughout Palestine and Syria, supported by a network of petty Canaanite rulers.

Others see obscure evidence in the succession of Amenhotep II after the long reign of Thutmose III, but Amenhotephad already been co-regent, so naturally succeeded his father.

Did Chris Matthews own this guy?

Big time own.

Was Ricky Gervais too heavy handed on the Hollywood elites?

It appears Hollywood were not too happy at him poking fun at movie flops who still had award nominations and possible corruption within the voting body of the awards and a slam at the popular scientologist religion that many actors are members of.

Best Movie of 2010!

Let Me In was a sneaky masterpiece. I know...a vampire movie? But, the storyline was completely different than any vampire story I'd ever read or watched. The acting, directing, editing, special FX, and storyline are off the charts. It was violent, gorey, and startling, yet tender and touching...and sad. My wife hates horror films but actually loved this film. Check it out. If you've seen it, do you agree?

Now put that on your Facebook wall....was it appropriate?

This is very funny. I didn't know whippings like this still existed. LOL.

Ella was simply the best!

Further Evidence of why Ella had the finest Voice of the 20th Century.

College football Need or Greed?

Six student-athletes on The Ohio State University football team have been suspended for NCAA violations, the school said Thursday in a press release. Mike Adams, Dan Herron, DeVier Posey, Terrelle Pryor (pictured above) and Solomon Thomas will miss the first five games of the 2011 season and must repay money and benefits, the school said. A sixth player, Jordan Whiting, must sit out the first game, the NCAA determined. As part of the players' reinstatement: – Pryor must repay $2,500 for selling his 2008 gold pants, which were a gift from OSU, his 2008 conference championship ring and his 2009 Sportsmanship award from the Fiesta Bowl. – Adams must repay $1,000 for selling his 2008 Big Ten title ring. – Herron must repay $1,150 for selling his football jersey, pants and shoes and accepting discounted services. – Posey must repay $1,250 for selling his 2008 conference championship ring and accepting discounted services. – Solomon must repay $1,505 for selling his 2008 gold pants, his conference title ring and accepting discounted services. – Whiting must pay $150 to a charity "for the value of services that were discounted," the press release said. “These are significant penalties based on findings and information provided by the university,” said Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president of academic and membership affairs.

Giant humans - fact or fiction

fact or photoshop?

Is this evil like this comedian says in his story?

Or is it just funny or both. "Its cold out here". LOL

Mike Vick MVP?

Dat boy good!! He's having a hella year y'all. They already talking MVP... What you think?

Anyone remember curb ball when they were a kid?

Play to 21. 1 point if the hit the side of the curb and 2 points if you hit the top corner of the curb.

Take A Wikileak On 'Em

The Wikileaks cable furor is becoming the internet's first full-fledged war. After Wikileaks posted diplomatic cables embarrassing several governments, the U.S. put pressure on companies that do business with the site, and PayPal, Amazon, Mastercard, and several others severed ties with Wikileaks. Sweden resurrected bogus sex charges against site founder Julian Assange. The U.S. is also considering filing charges. Today the internet fought back, disabling Mastercard.com and several other sites related to the Wikileaks War. Wikileaks is doing the necessary job the mass media formerly did: keeping an eye on the governments of the world. This current issue is comparable to the Washington Post's Watergate investigation in terms of making sure that ultimate power resides with the people and not the government. Vote Yak to support Wikileaks and its efforts to keep governments and big business honest. Vote Yick for repressive totalitarianism.

Do you like this dance, will it make it to America

This is the new South American dance craze. Looks creative but clearly sexual overtones...but that is what dancing is anyway.

Anyone ever seen actual waterboarding?

It doesn't take much.

Any idea why the crows are envolved?

It seems one cat is ganged upon by 2 crows and the Black cat.

At Least One other Person Has To Believe You Are Sexy Before You Can Be Sexy

Saying you are sexy is not valid.

probably one of the greatest slams of a city by a comedian (cursing)

He slams Philly over their racist behavior. Slams them for building a city around Rocky a fake character more praise than Joe Frasier because he is Black who is from Philly. He always goes after racist.

Do You Think She's Sexy?

Bristol Palin claims, "I don't have a sexy bone in my body". Huh? If this is not sexy, what the hell is this? Is my body lying to me or what? Am I following parallel construction or not? I'm so confused here...

If there's too many white people at a rally, than your cause is racist. -Jon Stewart

Yea or Nay

Parallel Construction

Some of the debates here feature titles which make you want to vote one way and bodies which make you want to vote the other way. When posting Socratics, debaters should try to use parallel construction in title and body so that you don't get Ayes and Nays both showing up in the same voting column, as has happened before.

Can this 1920 footage be explained?

Is it a cell phone?

Intruder Song

I hope no one else has seen this. I was cracking up at work.

Is there enough info to make a judgement on this altercation?

???

"I Love My Hair!"

This muppet is too long overdue!!

Soulful Blast From the Past

I could listen to this all day

The perfect review of why not to buy an IPAD

I want to laugh at all of the five star reviews. They acknowledge the lack of flash, lack of camera, lack of usb, lack of a disk drive, lack of memory compared to laptops, lack of apps you can run on it, the difficulty of replacing the battery, no HDMI output, no way to upgrade the memory, etc..., and they still give it FIVE stars. I did my homework, and I even tested it out, and NO, i did not get one. For those who say it is not a laptop replacement, well duh! But it does cost just as much as one, although without all of the other features above. So YES, it DOES have its limitations. Quite a bit of them. So having all of these limitations, it DOES NOT deserve a five star rating. At all. Period. Now if the price was less due to lack of features, then sure, it might deserve a better score. But paying this much for something that lacks so much...uh-uh. You can't just slap an Apple logo on a product and say 5 star product. So compared to other products in this price range...no five star review. Now with that being said, it is nice and portable and has a good interface, but that doesn't justify the price.

You are the judge, what decision would you make?

Would you say the kids had it coming. They are throwing rocks at every car that passes by. What about the hit and run, the driver has no fault? What about the media crew who i'm sure could be enablers to these kids to be even more aggressive in front of the camera. I think this take place in Palestine.

Does A Movie Filming Supercede An Emergency

Ok, guys at work believe that the cop was in the wrong because they were filming transformers III in washington DC. Regardless of if its blocked off, does an emergency superceded filming of a movie. People at work says Cops should have detoured and found another route. I'm wondering, if you had a family member hurt and the police was in route, would you want to cop to detour? Everyone at work says Hollywood wins and city emergency wrong.

We don't have free will

do we have free will? because every action we perform, every choice we make.. was influenced by something else. something that we had no control over. so is making a choice really free will or simply our "programming"

Did You Know There Is An "Indian Bobble Head" In The Culture?

Also search all over youtube. Its real!!

O'Reilly gets OWNED!!! Damn!!!

Checkout count 3:15...LOL!!! She hammers him!!! damn...LOL...

Rick Sanchez Gets Fired From CNN For Being Racist?

is what sanchez says racist? i don't think so. you?

Is Porn/Prostitution Harmless?

is porn/prostitution harmless? ...or should i ask, is it a victimless act? p.s. metallica rocks! that's an awesome remake of Turn the Page.

Does the Bishop Long accuser sound believable?

Dude sounds pissed.

We should not be surprised the religious don't know much about their religion

Based on the study, Atheist and Agnostic know more about relgion than religous people. although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public life. Bible-belt and southerners scored the least.

Jews and Mormons were close behind atheists and agnostics as the group who did best overall on the religion questions, and white evangelical Protestants also tended to get more than half right. White Catholics averaged exactly half right, followed by mainline Protestants and people who said they were "nothing in particular," both of whom got just under half right. Black Protestants got just over a third of the questions right, and Hispanic Catholics just under a third, the Pew Forum found.

Pretty sad, yet they want to dicate the lives and morality of others, yet they don't really know what their religion really tells them.

There Is Something Quite Frightening About This Image

I would not want to meet any of these women in a dark alley, let alone the battlefield. Will these women and their descendants be the future insurgents that the West will have to deal with, perfectly trained to fight by us?.

Christians Behaving Badly Again?

"Los Angeles – A prominent Atlanta pastor has been accused of forcing two male members of his church to have sex with him. Lawsuits were filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Ga., against the Reverend Eddie Long, who heads up the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, according to the Associated Press. The plaintiffs, Anthony Flagg, 21, and Maurice Murray Robinson, 20, were members of the church. Both men said Long forced them to have sexual relationships while they traveled around the world. The men were 17 and 18 at the time of the alleged encounters." http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20100922/ts_advocate/pastor_accused_of_sex_with_minor ...hmmm... what do you think? Also, he preached against homosexuality...lol!!!

Praying To God The Father, Son, And Holy Ghost Is Polytheism

Its a carefully shrouded attempt by Christians to give the perception that they are only worshipping to one entity. We have several instances when Christ talks to God and prays to God and ask God why he do things, yet Christians and especially Prodestants want to have everyone to believe that they are only worshipping one diety, one God. Christ should have said, "Why have I forsaking myself" instead of saying, "My God why have you forsaken me" Nice try Christians but you are sucking up to 3 dieties. Don't try to pull a fast one.

Mitch, what cultural conclusion can you make on them since they are not from India?

Little black boys and I guess older Latin women. Any cultural conclusion? All Cultures have issues.

You know when the media doesn't like Vick when you have to find the highlights on youtube.

I searched all over google, NFL.com CNN. Yahoo sports. All they showed was the highlights of the Greenbay Quarterback. Eagles could not score. They brought Vick in during the 3rd Quarter after the starter got hurt and sucked big time in the first half. Fans were booing the QB during the first half. Eagles were pretty much written off. Even the media wouldn't show the highlights of Vick's performance. Had to find it on youtube. and Vick almost gave the Eagles a win. Would have if he had started. He had 101 yards rusning. 170 yards Passing and 1 touchdown pass in 1 half.

Cedjan taking on the Democratic Chicago Machine! Can she pull it off?

Everyone knows the Democrats are corrupt in Chicago. Do you think she can pull it off? The second video she starts at Minute 3:00.

Does YickYack have a home button?

well does it?

Pentagon Employees and Child Pornography

This is one source, however there a re a couple of others. Essentially 5000 plus Americans were uncovered in a child pornography sting. 264 of them were Pentagon employees. 52 of the 264 were investigated. While 10 of them were charged. The Pentagon "declined" to investigate the remainder of the 264 employees. I thought it was quite interesting. I do not know what to think. Maybe there is no real cover up. Maybe they were working for the Pentagon, however, maybe these people have "connections". Oppose if you think nothing should be done to these people legally--i.e possible leaking secrets (and security), use and/or possession of child pornography, (treason?). Support if you do and why you think they should be legally held accountable and also how if you have ideas.

Tossing Puppies In The Drink Is No Different Than Millions Of Debeaked Chickens A Day....save Your Tears People.

A girl in bosnia is being targetted by PETA and other dog lovers yet, we debeak millions of chicken a day and many not used for consumption just because they don't meet the consumption specifications but we destroy them anyway.

Example of Steve Jobs being too greedy

Apple TV will get a dramatic price cut -- from $299 to $99 -- an offer new features like television show rentals for 99 cents. "We've sold a lot of them, but it's never been a huge hit," Jobs said, noting that no one else has dominated the TV-computer integration space either. "Nothing's really hit in the living room yet." Only ABC and Fox have signed on for the 99-cent TV rentals, which will be commercial-free. Apple TV currently lets users buy TV shows for $2.99.

Let us all ask ourselves...Why rent tv shows? Why not pay $8 a month and watch Netflix tv shows and movies at an unlimited rate? Who would pay 99 cent to rent a tv show just to avoid commercials? Why is Job surprised that he has to cut apple tv from a whopping $300 to $99 to get people to additionally pay 99 cent for a tv show? I guess Jobs has the money to fish just to see if customers will bite. Just like the Ipad. The price points on the Ipad at this moment is way to high but people bit. Apple TV is not getting the same reception.

Rush Limbaugh's wish

Billions of dollars have been spent to revive this economy. The national unemployment rate is close to 10% and as high as 17% in some areas. The economy is still sluggish despite this was our so called "summer of recovery." The Obama's policy has failed. Rush Limbaugh said he wished that the Obama policy fails. It has. This will always happen when leaders and people place their trust in government rather than the Private Sector and God. Yak if you agree and Yick if you disagree.

Glenn Beck's Rally

Glenn Beck's rally on Washington D.C. was a huge success. It attracted over 100,000 individuals. His message was simply bring this Nation back to God. Back to our Judea-Christian roots. Note it was not our Islamic or Atheist roots but our Judeau-Christian roots. Loosers like ambulance chasers Al Sharpton had another rally in D.C. criticized the rally and looked very foolish in doing it. I for one celebrated. Yak if you too were happy and Yick if you were not

Do You Consider This a Minimalist Home?

an L-shaped house designed around a flat courtyard and swimming pool

Innomen has failed in his attempt to integrate YY and DDO in debate!

Innomen may have had worthy aspirations, but, nevertheless, his attempt has failed as he did not expect YY to be such a worthy opponent! Innomen actually expected to run all over YY because DDO had numbers, but, in the end, he did not realize YY has far superior intellect and debating skills. After the dust settles, the DDO crowd will slowly disperse and life will go back to normal.

I Issue a Formal Challenge to Joshandr30

Based on his comments on the "Do You Believe Atheism to be a Belief System" debate, I am issuing a formal challenge to him. Debate me on the subject of Atheism, and the fact that we all use the same arguments. If you (Joshandr30) can really stand behind your words, then debate me! If all atheists only use certain arguments and run away then this debate should be easy, and you will walk away with a WIN, wont you? Put your argument where your mouth is. (YICK for No, YAK for Yes!) simple as that, and everyone will know.

Netflix release Iphone App, this is the dawn of a new era!

This is awesome!

The Root of Islam

I started this debate on another Site. I would like to know how the intellectuals view this. Yak if you believe I am on the right track and Yik if not. Islam is by far the fastest growing religion in the world. Like most faiths it has different sects which interpret its holy book differently. It’s popularity and growth is unquestionable. No other faith has been scrutinized more September 11th 2001 since this great Nation of ours was attacked. Many world leaders went on the record as saying that Islam is a peaceful religion. I truly believe this was done under the guise of political correctness. I would now like to take the time to look at Islam’s very beginning. The source I will use will be the Word of God in the Book of Genesis in its 16th chapter. Many Christians know of Abraham’s impatience with God concerning his promise of a son. During this time Abraham’s wife Sarah had given Abraham her handmaid known as Hagar to conceive a child. This was accomplished and the child born to Hagar was named Ishmael who most of know as the Father of the Arabs. Many Christians know this to be the beginning of the problems between the Jews and the Arabs. Ishmael was not the promised child of God where He would establish his covenant. We also know what the Angel of the Lord said concerning Ishmael in Genesis 16:12. It reads; “he shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man; and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” We see that prophecy being fulfilled in this very day. The descendants of Ishmael seem to be born with a troublesome spirit that the world witnessed long before September 11th. We all knew of suicide bombers, terrorist attacks in various parts of the world, and its constant relentless attacks against the God’s chosen people Israel. God clearly verified that his covenant was with Jacob in Genesis 17th chapter and not Ishmael. I will go on the record by stating that most individuals who profess to be Muslims in this country are peaceful and believe in the equality of man. I firmly believe they have been duped into this religion by political and racial bigotry that had and still does exist in this Nation. They have no idea what Islam is all about. False leaders of the past such as Fard Muhammad and Elijah Poole (Muhammad), and false leaders today such as Louis Farrakhan do NOT represent Islam. In my opinion those who carry out these attacks do.

Black Panthers acting badly

Please, please, please, please send the Black Panthers to Lexington AL. Please, if someone knows how to get a hold of them please send them. We vote at the corner of Lee and Jackson at the volunteer fire station. If you think they should be doing this support. If not, you know.

Taxing soda and other sugary drinks is economically backward

Why is taxing soda stupid? Simple: Agricultural subsidies. We as a society use tax dollars to cheapen corn. What is the main sugary component of soda? High fructose CORN syrup. By taxing soda we hope to provide a financial disincentive not to drink it. Not only is this legislating social behavior through taxation, but it is backward. We are subsidizing corn which makes soda cheap, then we tax soda because it is cheap? DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO ANYONE? How the heck is corn a positive externality? It's not. It's a good that has no free riders thus no subsidies should be provided.

The Ends Justify the Means

what are your opinions on this? i'm undecided

In a civil society 2 fails cancel each other out.

Really, you guys have to love this video. This is funny! I love his comment, "Not using a crosswalk cancels out."

Do you

I saw this video and flipped out laughing. It is very straight-forward. It is also so true.

Intersite 2 on 2 Debate

Text Debate: OzzieMan vs pcp - The influence of specifically religious beliefs on American public policy is largely counterproductive, potentially dangerous, and must be minimized or completely eliminated.

Is posting this on youtube the only thing inappropriate about this?

hmmmmmmmm

A clever way to buy beer while underaged.

Shave your head with a combover. AWESOME!

Sales Tax

Text Debate: askbob vs Darqlord - Resolved: A national sales tax would have more loopholes than a national income tax, would have an extremely negative impact on the overall economy, would unfairly burden the elderly and the retired, and would have higher administrative costs.

90 people have swine flew and everyone wants to wear a mask, a million people have AIDS but no one wants to wear a condom

Sex is powerful.

Do you like the new IPad commercial

eh?

most of the "debates" on this site, are really discussions about videos are articles

i would say only 20% of the debates on this site are actual debates. theres an abundance of discussions but a lack of proper debates.

The YY - DDO Judging Set-Up

As it stands, the set-up is basically 3 DDO judges and 3 YY judges. However, I think a more decisive judging set-up would be 2 DDO users, 2 YY users, and Innomen seeing as he is both YY and DDO. Thoughts?

Smokers should have the decency to not smoke in public places

Smokers should realise that many people do not want to inhale the second hand smoke that comes from smoking. Rather than the government having to impose laws on this, the smokers should try to avoid smoking in public places.

Ozzieman and Darqlord vs ? On atheism vs theism

Please bring your two debaters forward to challenge them. They(darq and Ozzie) will defend the Athiest position. The details of the topic will be hashed out among Ozzieman and Darqlord.

Organization for YY-DDO Intersite Debate Series

This is our proposal: YY selects five users. Each user comes up with a topic they are comfortable with to debate 1 vs. 1. DDO will then select someone to debate that topic. This is a best of five series, so whichever site wins more debates is the victor. --- If the YY user selects a broad topic (e.g. Religion generally), then the two debaters can negotiate a narrow topic. If the YY user selects a narrow topic, then nothing needs to be done but select an opponent. --- YY Representatives Only: Please create a comment below in order to announce and/or negotiate your topic. --- There is no rush, this thread is being created purely for organization purposes. (P.S. Sorry for the wall of text. Apparently line breaks aren't allowed here).

Debaters picked before topic is selected

It would seem fair this way. If it's 2 on 2, one on each team has to agree to the topic. 3 on 3, than 2 of 3 has to agree. 1 on 1 debates the users themselves can negotiate.

Who Will Represent Yickyak.com

I would like to see a vote by YY members on who should represent YY. Darqy opposed or OZ support.

State your challenge in the "Pulse"

Announcement: Please post the debate topics you want to debate in the "yickyak pulse" located in the middle of the page. Just click "Join the Pulse"

Ok anyone wants to challenge me who are against affirmative action?

Who wants to challenge me?

Hot topics for debate

I think some of the topics to put on the table are: Affirmative action. Illegal immigrants. Gay marriage. Thiest and atheist - do atheist have any moral authority. Gays In the military. Is there a God? Monagomy : is it really natural or a cultural/religious mandate. English: should their be an official language. Spanish should be the second American language. Fighting dogs and it's brutality...is it worse than slaughtering chickens and the way it's done for consumption? Marriage is culturally define but marriage under human rights are not defined and inalienable which should allow for gay marriage. Christ is not the son of a God becuase the Jews said so. Please offer any other topics. These are just ideas

There is a difference between debating to win a debate and debating to find the truth.

What type of debater are you? Yick to find the truth, yak to win the debate especially over some technicality. Everyone has a different approach.

Blacks, Whites, Racism, and the sensitivity to the N* Word.

The sensitivity to the N* word must die if we are to ever get past racism. Every race has their own racist names, but the N* word is the one that is absolutely wrong to say. Look, its always referred to as the "N" word, and it would even be wrong for me to spell it out. C'mon with this! Drop the sensitivity so we can all move past the idea of racism.

Intersite Debate

Some, or most of you remember me. I haven't been active on Yickyak but have been on DDO (debate.org). We'd like to know if the members of YickYak would be interested in an inter-site debate. I have worked out most of the details, but would probably want to further refine them with Sanco. Essentially the debate would happen here on YickYak (if it works out, the second could be done on DDO). YY can decide the topic and your position, but we would need to agree on the actual resolution wording and perhaps definitions. Your moderator would have the input of someone from our side as sort of a co-moderator. Each side would be allowed to corroborate as much as you choose in the debate. You would probably want to put forth your best debater in this challenge. We fully understand that we have a certain edge in debate due to the nature of the DDO site, and the rigors that the members endure, so if you d o not choose to meet the challenge there is no shame. However if you do meet the challenge, it would prove to be a positive experience for YY, and the attention you may receive, and it would be fun for the members of DDO. Questions and comments may be made on my message board, i do get emails when they are posted. I will be posting this webpage on DDO as well. Thanks.

Patty Griffin: A lovely Tribute to MLK

You like? Her live versions are just a powerful.

Another Case of Queens Behaving Badly

I know that this wont get much support on the site, but it needs to be noted...

Christopher Hitchen's dying from Cancer a punishment from God for being an Atheist?

He calmly states, "How am I? I'm dying," Hitchens said at the top of the video. "Everybody is, but...the process has accelerated on me. So I'm looking for ways to try to die more like you."

His type of cancer is commonly caused by heavy smoking and heavy drinking. The two things he is know for but given the fact he is an Atheist I would bet most Christians would say its not due to that and more due to the fact he is an atheist.

Gays right are Just as valid as procreation Rights

Text Debate: Darqlord vs mitchosch - Mitch says, "You dare to compare procreation with stool-packing as a basic human right?" My response: "anytime you want to argue procreations rights over gay rights, I'm there. we can set the debate now, son. ...anytime..." In other words, mitch thinks procreation rights supersede gays rights. I disagree. I believe gay rights are just as valid as procreations rights. He will attempt prove his point as I will attempt to prove mine. Let the ass-kicking commence.

Another Example of Christians Behaving Badly

"The Las Vegas Church Working to Kill Gay People in Uganda." They don't call it "Sin City" for nothing. Though forget gambling, drinking, overeating at behemoth buffet lines or any of the other images you might associate with Las Vegas. Because when it comes to the Vegas-based Canyon Ridge Christian Church, there's another sin in mind: proudly supporting the people in Uganda who want to enact a law that will kill or imprison LGBT people. Canyon Ridge has a tight relationship with Pastor Martin Ssempa, the Rev. Fred Phelps of Uganda. Except while Phelps has largely been marginalized and ostracized, Ssempa enjoys quite the bit of influence in Uganda. You can see him live and in person in various documentaries, including Missionaries of Hate and Exporting Hate, where Ssempa travels around various parts of Uganda rallying people to call for the killing of and imprisonment of LGBT people. http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/the_las_vegas_church_working_to_kill_gay_people_in_uganda

A Jailbroken Iphone is a liberated Iphone

How do you like my Locked screen interface? I jailbroke it since the courts said its no longer legal for Apple to lock the iphone to developers.

VS the Default locked screen

More rains add to Pakistan's flooding misery

14 million people have been affected by flooding that have left more than a thousand dead in Pakistan .................... IF THE OPPORTUNITY CAME, WOULD YOU DONATE?

Another Case of "Stupid Indians"...

No further comment about the so called, "enlightened ones"...

Man, I wonder Which Pill Lawrence Fishburne's Daughter took?

The red or the blue?

For some people, Its all about them.

idiot

A Most Amazing Catch

I don't believe you will ever see such acrobatics in American baseball games. It is as though he reshapped the playing field at his command.

Judge overturns California's ban on same-sex marriage

(CNN) -- A federal judge in California has knocked down the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, ruling Wednesday that the state's controversial Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found in his ruling that the ban violated the Constitution's equal protection clause under the 14th Amendment. The closely watched case came some two years after Californians voted to pass Proposition 8, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Neither opponents nor supporters of same-sex marriage said before the ruling that it would likely be the last. Both sides said the decision will be appealed and eventually wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_hyT7_Bx9o

Yes, or no. That's all I'm saying....

I don't think I need to say anymore...

Health Care Is Not A Right, period.

Many people believe that humans have a right to health care, but they miss the point when they make this assertion. Health care is a service just like any other (e.g. lawyer, plumber, gardener, constrution worker, etc.) and cannot be considered a right.

The ultimate Alpha Woman!

funny

89 sq ft. home is the way of the future

I am totally inspired by this. Could this be the single humans way of living in the future. Mortgage free. That sounds awesome!

What is wrong with Uncle Rukus Manning?

My guess is that he was violently raped while in prison by some very large black men. You can hear the pain in his voice...

Ella: Arguably the Finest Voice Ever, In American Music

In fact, I don't even think anyone else comes close to Ella's voice.

OzzieMan Disaster

This is news, not a debate. OzzieMan's house has burned down. Ozzie and all the family are safe, as are the pets due to quick action by OzzieMan's 16-year-old son. The house is a total loss, however; the insurance co. estimates 8 months before we can return. And until insurance finds us an equivalent house (tough in our neighborhood where people generally do not leave unless thay have to) it will be difficult for me to work on my projects. The local fire department was magnificent, and thus far the insurance company has been good too. The community in general was very helpful, and the staff of the local Starbucks as well. We do not yet know the cause of the fire so I don't want to say anything about that just now. We have a suspicion but are awaiting inspection by an electrical engineer.

Will We Ever See The Real Power Behind The "Mama Grizzlies"?

Somebody is playing Sarah Palin for all she is worth. Will we ever get a glimpse at who that power broker actually is?

Arguably the worst toupee ever.

I guess when you are this age, you don't care anymore. He probably was a playa back in the old days.

Greatest Blocked goal ever seen in a televised soccer game.

This is awesome! The move is called, The Scorpion.

Another cool video shot via IPhone 4G even better quality.

No?

Do you trust this product and would you pay to have it done?

Incredible.

It really pays to be White.

Complete article here..... http://tinyurl.com/295k2u8

Music Video shot on the new Iphone 4G

Impressed?

Hot in so many ways. The music and the women playing it.

Awesome.

Roads to Moscow

Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart is best known for his hit "Year of the Cat", but it is his lesser-known compositions that mark him as a great performer. Listen to this epic about the Battle of Stalingrad and the aftermath of Stalin's USSR. Listen to that flamenco guitar and the classical composition of the music. Listen to the poetry of the lyrics... so beautiful and so awful. How do you like the song?

Removal of Gen. McChrystal is the Right Choice

If Obama had not fired this guy, he would have cemented a place in history as a wimpy president. No General is indispensable.

Mosque Being Built in Times Square

http://www.cordobainitiative.org/

Beef cooked rare or medium rare is the best tasting and best way to eat beef.

Any other way just sucks all the true flavor away from the cut of meat and drowned in over used flavors to mask the dryness of the beef. Or saturated with condiments like Mcdonalds or burger king.

A Fine Piece of Jazz, Yes?

This song gives me such spiritual energy. I don't understand completely how it does it, but it makes my want to soar from mountain tops like an eagle. The artist is Yutaka Yokokura. The selection is "Breath of Night". How does it affect you?

Avatar the Last Airbender - looks pretty good except...

The cartoon series are great. I hate when there are Asian themes but most of the actors look like they are from Kansas.

Does he look like Obama?

almost to me.

Why Buy A Kindle, When There Is An iPad App For That?

My family and friends bought me a nice little iPad for my birthday. Amazon gives a free Kindle app for it (smart buggers). Now I can buy books ibooks from Apple (very small selection, so far), or buy for the Kindle app through Amazon. Who wins here? Amazon (yick) or Apple (yack). The big looser is obviously the maker of Kindle.

She enjoys Penis a little bit more - Should he be fired?

Very funny indeed. How could anyone say this on local tv. Should he be fired?

2 year old smoking cigarettes

What should the realistic penalty be?

Venus Williams Needs To Stick to Tennis

Venus takes credit for the design of that goofy tennis outfit. She is a great tennis player, but a horrible fashion designer, at least of tennis wear. She looks ridiculous!

Puerto Rican detained for 3 days considered an illegal immigrant.....clear example

Eduardo Caraballo, a U.S. citizen born in the United States, was detained for over three days on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. Despite presenting identifying documents and even his birth certificate, Caraballo was held by federal immigration authorities over the weekend and threatened with deportation, according to an NBC Chicago report. He was only released when his congressman, Luis Gutierrez -- a vocal supporter of immigration reform -- intervened on his behalf. (Scroll down for video of Caraballo and Rep. Gutierrez.) Caraballo was born in Puerto Rico, making him a natural-born citizen of the United States. He moved to the mainland as an infant, and now lives in Chicago. Last week, NBC reports that he was arrested in connection with a stolen car in Berwyn. Caraballo maintains his innocence. In any case, when his mother posted bail on Friday, he was not freed. "Instead of being released, he was told by authorities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was detaining him because he was an illegal immigrant," NBC reports. Caraballo spent the weekend in the custody of federal immigration agents. When he presented them with ID and his birth certificate, he says officials were skeptical: "Because of the way I look, I have Mexican features, they pretty much assumed that my papers were fake." Only after his congressman interceded was Caraballo set free. Rep. Gutierrez, a Chicagoan who is himself of Puerto Rican descent, is a long-time advocate of immigration reform. He was one of the first and loudest voices on the Hill to speak out against the Arizona immigration law, and he was recently arrested at a protest demanding fairer treatment for immigrants and their families. "It gets worse," Gutierrez said in an interview. "We know of instances in which young people in his same situation are actually taken to the border and deported from the United States. Not surprisingly, the nine-term Democratic congressman saw a disturbing connection to the situation in the Grand Canyon State. "In Arizona, they want everybody to be able to prove they're legally in the country. They want everybody to prove that they're an American citizen. Here we had an American citizen, that the federal government... could not determine, for more than three days, his status as an American citizen. It's very, very, very dangerous ground to tread." According to NBC Chicago, Caraballo "is considering legal action." Meanwhile, he and his congressman hope the incident will open people's eyes to the dangers of profiling. Only after his congressman interceded was Caraballo set free. Rep. Gutierrez, a Chicagoan who is himself of Puerto Rican descent, is a long-time advocate of immigration reform. He was one of the first and loudest voices on the Hill to speak out against the Arizona immigration law, and he was recently arrested at a protest demanding fairer treatment for immigrants and their families.

WTF????

"This is the first self-replicating cell we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer," says team chief Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., who called the bacteria "the world's first synthetic cell." This can't be good!!!

Do you think the two time Mr. Olympia is too big to be a cop?

He's been a Texas cop for 12 years and a professional bodybuilder for 10. Ronnie Coleman makes a lot money bodybuilding but chooses to keep his day job.

Is Miss USA in Danger?

There is a division taking place in the Muslim community over the exploits of Miss USA. This very beautiful Lebanese woman has some people praising her while others are outright condemning her participation in the pageant event. One Muslim when asked if he would let his daughter wear a bikini and display herself before the public said, resoundingly, "Yes". The female body is a very powerful marketing tool. The tension created by images of nearly naked women boosts sells as men attempt to self medicate. Men react by making big purchases that enhance their appearance of male virility. Is this beauty in danger for giving in to Western commercialism?

Cool presentation on how to lock your bicycle in an Urban setting.

As crude as it is, he pretty much gives a good presentation of good and bad ways of locking your bike.

Do you agree with him about eating watermelon?

This dude, was a popular guy in DC in the 80's. Howard Stern was on this show.

Is the Gulf Oil Disaster The Greatest Environmental Disaster Of Our Lifetime?

I don't know about you, but I have never seen anything this bad happen to the earth. I don't think the scope of this disaster has even been revealed. The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1st, less than one month away. I have a feeling that in some places it is going to rain oil.

"Attention Wal-Mart Customers: All Black People Leave the Store Now" utters the 16 year old racist or was he?

March 2010 - First the initial outrage....than oh, guess what....later news find out the young prankster was "Black". racist? The Police did not want to state the kids race once they got him, because the kid was Black.

Do You Think The Miss Universe Pageant Has Become Too Riscae, Or Is It Just Reflecting Changing Moral Norms?

I watched the Miss Universe pageant as a little boy. I don't think my mom would have let me watch it if this was part of the program.

Do You Buy MSNBC's Story That This Was A Simple Typo?

If you do, I have some pristine property for sale in Juarez, Mexico...

Does This Image Make You Feel Empowered?

One of the most Beautiful Sounding Prayers ever Uttered.

"Vaishnav Jana To" The sound alone shows there is a deeply rooted history of suffering in India.

This Abortion Law will be a Deterent

http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2010/04/28/new-oklahoma-abortion-law-draws-emotional-response-from-patients/ Oklahoma just instated a law that requires that women have an ultrasound before the abortion is performed. So, this means that the woman will see the little baby growing inside of them and decide whether to let it live or not. I think this will lower the abortion numbers. However, the women can choose to look away from the screen...which would make the decision easier I suppose. They also have to listen to the technician describe the fetus.

"Breakeven": A well written song, no?

The music is ehh..., but the lyrics are pretty tight. i mean, it's not stevie wonder or smokey robinson lyrics, but i'm impressed. you?

Erykah Badu: One Of The Most Recent Perpetrators In A Series Of Uprisings Of The Retarded...

She twittered that when she saw the children during her video shoot in Dallas, she "prayed" that they wouldn't be traumatized...

Should spanking be brought back to the public schools?

Do you agree corporal punishment is necessary in the schools?

Should California, New Mexico and Texas Follow Arizona's Lead on Immigration?

The Arizona state Senate passed a bill, SB1070, which, "makes it a misdemeanor to lack proper immigration paperwork in Arizona. It also requires police officers, if they form a 'reasonable suspicion' that someone is an illegal immigrant, to determine the person's immigration status" I personally think it is a good idea if immigrants have no desire to assimilate our language nor our culture. If they want to become Americans, let them come. If they want to continue flying their nations flag, "Get back on your side of that imaginary line!"

Is this a typical Jewish parent or a typical New Jersey parent who happens to be Jewish?

They are more Jersey than Jewish to me.

Do you like the Mr. Bixby shorts on Cartoon Network?

I also created a poll with the 5 Mr. Bixby shorts. Please take my poll.

KFC Double Down sandwhich where the chicken is the bun.

Is this a winner?

One of The Funniest People Ever

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkins) doesn't even have to talk to crack me up. My sister and I would watch his show during Summer vacations. I've been re-watching some of the clips on youtube this week.

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ~ Oppenheimer

Nothing need be said here.

What context was the booing towards obama? and, was it mostly cheering or booing?

On another site, an extreme right poster did not put the full context of the debate. He simply said, "It Is Interesting That The Press Described Obama's 'First Pitch' On Opening Day As Being Done To 'Thunderous Applause', When Everyone One Else Heard Thunderous Boos." What do you think?

New song I downloaded on my Iphone, what do you think?

Anyone ever had someone they liked when you were younger but you were too afraid to talk to them only to find out your friend already dates the person you like? As far as the actual song, I just like the flow of it.

Should Flash Mobs be illegal or at least require a permit?

It seems from the videos of flash mobs, it all depends upon who does it, where its done and how its done. It can be chaotic or well organized or even dangerous. 2 videos shows less than organized and a third from CNN in Philadelphia were the city feels its a form of disorder, bad parenting and lack of after school activities.

Einstein's World View

Here is a synopsis of Einstein's take on human existence. Yak if you generally agree; Yick if not. Also: Should Einstein's view merit more weight than the average person's?

Why in some sports when they fight, its excepted but in other sports, the character of the player is questioned?

Sports like Lacrosse and hockey its perfectly fine. The refs will stand and watch. The leagues let it happen. Fans are perfectly fine with it. But in sports like football and basketball, the same type of people i.e. fans, sports analyst, or the league themselves question the characters of the players as though they are scums of the earth for even considering fighting in highly physical and emotional sports. Its such a double standard from not just what the league allows but by people in society in general.

Do you consider this a Mockery to the sport or?

These guys have some mental illness or they are growing up in a society where they are taught everyone is equal so they are delusional and not living in reality in what it takes to qualify themselves for competition or is it something else?

Was Erykah Badu's video an Expression of Art or A Cry for Help?

That is too much booty to be displaying around in a public place. She is talented, but, is she also insane? Good press, I guess...

People should stop thinking a serial killer looks a certain way.

This is why so many people get falsely accused. They think bad people should look a certain way.

Joking or Brain Damage?

Here Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), speaking from the dais of the House Armed Services Committee, tells a somewhat taken aback military man that he is concerned additional U.S. military presence in Guam will cause the island to capsize. Was this a joking metaphor or has Rep. Johnson recently suffered brain damage after being ill? I have included the video so you can body-read and listen to his tone of voice. The magical moment comes at 1:17.

Is This The Face Of American Terror?

The militias are on the move with demagogues like Sara Palin in the lead. Are we seeing the emergence of a national terrorist threat, or just another potential Ruby Ridge at the Palin's doorstep?

What Would Ronald Reagan Have Thought Of Sarah Palin?

Yak if in your opinion Reagan would have thought Palin was a strong, principled woman who would lead the country towards strength and morality. Yick if you think it more probable he would have considered her a vapid, hollow symbol who shouldn't be let anywhere near the White House.

I Dig this Commercial!

Yet, I can't tell if it's because of Mos or the scenery...lol.. prolly both. p.s. they do so many commericals in Downtown LA it's crazy...I was just up the street at the Water Grill yesterday.

Should Spouses Be Able to Sue Their Mates' Lovers?

Some might say that the vertex of what was an otherwise solid foundation is a mere innocent bystander unwittingly grasping for the unattainable. Others might argue that the amorous infidel undermines a sacred institution and deserves nothing less than public chastisement. Considering the recent slew of million dollar endorsement yanking; I say YES, if they break it (the relationship), they pay (compensation)! Reference link: http://www.newsweek.com/ID/235504?GT1=43002

False Advertisement in the name of science?

This is a game called Mindflex that is suppose to allow you to control levitation with your mind. 1. First video is one of the commercials advertised on cartoon channels. 2. A supposedly objective review of the product by CBS. 3. Third video is a slam of the product.

This is Classic

My daughter and I had a ball with this. I played Obama and she played Boehner, then we would switch. It turned into a conversation about what is "hell"

This Guy Should Coach Linebackers

This is a truly perfect tackle.

Was This Inappropriate?

Gator football coach Urban Meyer gets nasty with a reporter who quoted a wide receiver as saying their new quarterback was more of a "real quarterback" than Tim Tebow. Meyer threatened to ban the reporter's newspaper and indicated that if the "kid" in question had been his own, he would have assaulted the reporter. Tebow himself, asked about the quote, said "I don't think he meant anything by it. He was just stating facts." Was the coach's reaction inappropriate? Does he owe the reporter an apology?

Sarah Palin Needs to be charged and arrested

Were it not for her cross hair stunt on the map that targetted members of Congress, this situation would not have escalated like it has. All of a sudden she has nothing to say, not even to tell the Teabaggers to chill. I wish the Congress people on both sides would call her out like some in the MSM have.

Favorite Music Band of All times to you.

I'll start. EWF hands down for me. What about you. My Brother bought me their Album for Christmas in the 70's and Serpentine Fire was one of my favorite on this Album. I was hooked. Last of the great talented bands.

Are you glad the NFL changed the Overtime Rules

Teams now have to score a touchdown to win in overtime because 59% of the time the team that won the coin toss won the game. It will only be in post season games for now.

Is CNN Trying To Paint Health Care Reform As Another Welfare Handout To Blacks?

You tell me?

What was Your First Favorite Song (not kids' songs)?

"Black is Black" by Los Bravos was mine... what was yours? (Please post a video or link.)

Is this the Sign of the Apocalypse?

You have to love it.

Would you take this Men vs Food Challenge?

I'm thinking of going to this place in Washington DC this weekend and try the 6 fish sandwich challenge. Would you? Or stick with the 4 piece or not at all?

Would you like your 60 year old significant other to be this active if that time comes?

I would. She said she is 60 years old. She is an artist/dancer. A serious cougar.

Is The Current Healthcare Proposal Constitutional?

On condition of citizenship we will be required to purchase a healthcare product. For the first time in our history we will have this sort of compulsory requirement for our citizenship. For conditions of citizenship should there not be a constitutional amendment? For voting, respond to the initial question, is it constitutional?

If The Yellowstone Caldera Blew In 2012, Would You Be Surprised?

Probably not. If you lived in the region that I live in, you'd be dead. No surprise in that. What is up with Old Faithful anyway? Is it the water table that has caused it to stop spewing?

Did you like the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
The singer in the video died last month, but this is one of my favorite movies. I really enjoyed it as a kid and will pop in the DVD every once in a while.

A Day in the Ancient World
This nicely made and humorous video looks at the state of the world on a specific day in the ancient world. The science is solid and the movie clips are cleverly chosen. The motive of authorship will become clear at the end of the video; do you feel the point was successfully made?

A work of art: The Na'vi language. Turn it up.
The language Cameron invented was very well done. For those who enjoy the sound of a beautiful language, enjoy. ...listen to the translator.

The Hurt Locker: Avatar From The Other Side's Point Of View
And you wonder why it won best picture with all the wars going on? I have read that Avatar lost because it was "Anti-American" Avatar was anti-Imperialism, anti-resource hoarders. Hurt Locker wont get a dime of my money. "Hoo-Rah" that!

How Sweet is this Video??

The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo.

This is more funnier than sad.
So many people do it now, you have to laugh now.

American Men Should Always Sit On the Toilet (even if they have to only pee)
Because men do not sit down when they have to pee, they miss opportunities to evacuate their systems. You will find that most busy American men suppress the urge to have a bowel movement until the need becomes urgent. Does this lead to a greater incidence of colon cancer in American men? This I don't know. Be on the safe side. Sit down like Asia.

Catholic and Christian Private schools are a breeding ground for religous indoctrination
When you look at their curriculum their primary agenda is religious indoctrination first and education second.

The Movie Slumdog Millionaire just tells you how trashy the Indian culture can be.
Yeah I said it. Where you are born, its assumed you should be dumb as a rock. It made the Indian version "who wants to be a millionaire" seem corrupt to the point of the player getting kidnapped because they thought he was cheating because someone from the slums should not know the answers. I'm sure there is a sense of reality. And when Indians come to America they bring the same attitude toward the people they learn are minorities. Stupid caste mindset.

Would You Click These Links?
http://5z8.info/cats-being-dropped-into-the-sea_x7l4b_trojan
http://5z8.info/how-to-skin-a-gerbil_w4f5g_looksjustlikeyourbank
These links are generated by ShadyUrl.com, which makes harmless links look malicious and frightening. Do you dare click on them?

Aretha Franklin a diabetic and overweight should not be pushing snickers candybars
I think this is a poor message sent out to people. Especially for diabetics and overweight people.

What Conservatives Really Mean When They Say "Liberal Elite"
"Smart People".

Augmented Reality will solve the lonely's lonliness
Once the coding for this is more advanced people will spill their guts to their virtual friends who can give them logical and rational responses. Even companionship.

Curling is a stupid and worthless sport
I just don't get it. People make up anything.

This Is Why There Must Be Interracial Kindling...
With the makeup, she is stunning. Without it, she is still a very pretty biracial mix!!!

Whose wrong, and is the doctor right that Gary Coleman needs medicine?
I don't know man, they clearly push his buttons. Medicine? Is that the solution to everything?

We need to understand ourselves more from a world perspective
Culture seems to always misguide us from the truth. In todays world it misguides us for profits even if it cost us our lives. Saturated fats were always made out to be the bad guy even though culture was actually pounding flours and corn down our throats but blaming other things for the problem.

AC Transit Bus Fight - Who is wrong?
From passengers to the two fighters, to the driver who are wrong in the whole situtation?

Does We Are The World 2010 Measure Up?
Everyone knows the original. So, what do you think of this version for Haiti? My favorite parts were when they were singing in Creole. Wyclef yelling out and Jennifer Hudson's voice gave me chills. The original is better overall, but I think this version packed a bigger emotional punch. Artists include: Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson, Tony Bennet, Barbara Streisand, Toni Braxton, Jamie Foxx, Wyclef, Miley Cyrus (she impressed me), Enrique Iglesias, Pink, Lil' Wayne, T-Pain, Akon, LL Cool J (with some other rappers), Josh Groben, Bebbe Winan, MJ/Janet, Celine Dion, Usher,Fergie, Kanye West, Will I Am, Maroon 5 lead singer....I don't know the other people. It's had over 7M views.

Pharmeceutical Companies making Americans hooked on drugs.
They are American's leading drug push now. Listen to the side effects of a drug to only Aid in sleep. SUICIDE tendencies? You have to be kidding me. The side effects mentioned in the video is laughable. If this was a street drug it would be banned without hesitation.

It doesn't take a lot of snow to cause terrible damage
It doesn't take much. People brag about how well they can drive in the snow and SUV's drive extremely fast during snowy seasons but it can cost you.

I think the Olympic Games Should Have been Delayed
In light of the luger dying, it just seems to me that the right thing to do would've been to postpone the opening games of the Olympics by a day or two. Because unless he or she is totally void of human compassion, all of the athletes are going to be thinking about this guy dying. Every interview that they do is going to be about how they felt about what happened to him. The Olympics are a "live" event, it's not like NBC doesn't have any other programming to replace it. I'm not a huge fan of the Winter Olympics anyway. I only like the ice skating. At the very least, I think they should eliminate the luge this time around.

If You're Pro-Choice, Do You Support Pam Tebow's Choice?
Pam Tebow became ill when she was pregnant with Tim Tebow and was advised to get an abortion. However, she chose life.
This Superbowl 44 ad featuring Pam Tebow and Tim Tebow, a 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, sparked controversy from Pro-choice advocates.
The Pro-choice crowd which included NOW, and Planned Parenthood tried to get CBS not to run the ad, claiming that the ad sought to restrict women's "reproductive rights".
Apparently, NOW and Planned Parenthood are threatened by Pam Tebow's choice of life for her son, because the only choice they really want women to think they have is the choice to abort their unborn child.
NOW and Planned Parenthood looked like fools after the ad aired because the ad didn't mention abortion at all. Planned Parenthood then came out and claimed that the ad celebrated violence against women.
After seeing the ad, with the tagline, "Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life." do you support Pam Tebow's choice? Supporting her choice doesn't restrict anyone else's choice. Isn't that what choice is supposed to be about...a choice?

Another Example of Gorillas in the Mist...
I mean, come on, 15 year old primates?

Italy's version of dancing with stars high votes for Mike Tyson are to keep him on the show.
It could be patronizing votes, but I think its a publicity stunt in Italy and they just want to keep him on the show. No way he should get high scores for this performance.

Who can dig this?
You like? Often overlooked, but checkout Beard on the drums.

Water should be nationalized not privatized
Air and water are arguably the basis for our survival. Privatizing such a thing would lead to world wars. Only 3% of the worlds water is fresh drinkable water.

Is Audi's Portrayal of the "Green Police" Correct?
I say yes. Thumbs up if you agree with me.
Over 100 million people viewed this ad during the Super Bowl and I bet the majority of them, even many of the so-called greenies, laughed their butts off.
All but the most extreme environmental alarmists and 'warmers' understand how the absurdity depicted in this commercial is a threat to individual liberty. Good job, Audi.

Media Push Against Toyota Is Unprecidented
With so many American cars that have had recalls in the past, I do not remember the media and public showing of displeasure with a car company. Sure, Toyota tried to deny there was a problem and direct the attention towards something trivial, but this attack on the Toyota brand has the smell of media being manipulated by other commercial forces...American auto in particular...

Excellent Animation
This impressed me a lot. I thought there was more humanity to the characters than in most computer animation.

Is there ever a moment when a man can justify hitting a woman like he would hit a man?
This was from that MTV show Jersey Shore.

Americans from Idaho, Kansas and Texas are Not Interested In The Well Being Of African Haitians, Are They?
I wish I could say that these Americans some from ,of all places, the Segregationist State of Idaho, re interested in the well being of these Haitian children, but I am skeptical . Can you convince us otherwise, or are you also a skeptic?

Is It True? Are All Bruddas'(Brothers, Blacks) Criminals?
This Haitian thinks so (listen to what he says starting from 2:00 minutes into the video) Are whites the only salvation for these poor Haitians, or is this just a criminal looking for excuses? What say ye?

Hands Free Devices while Driving
Many states have made talking on a Cell Phone without a Hands Free Device (headset) illegal. Do you still drive and talk without one? What about texting while driving?

Do you agree with Ozzie Ozborne's statement about todays music?
Osbourne discussed the current state of the music industry and the "manufacturing" of artists today. "It's completely different -- they're manufactured people now... Like ice cream."

Is the new Apple IPad worth the price?
$500 to 800. 16 gigs to 64 gigs. 3G data plans for the device: $14.99 a month for 250-MB or $29.99 for unlimited data. "Data plans usually cost about $60 a month," Jobs told the crowd.

Evolution (1971)
I first saw this in 7th grade science class many years ago (in a more rational age). I think it is excellent, and I think it nails some basic ideas about evolution. What say you?

Is the All American Basketball Alliance Racism?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/whites-only-basketball-le_n_429281.html When I first heard the story I laughed. But the article changed my opinion.

Did This Umpire Take A Hit Or Just Take A Fall?
Yick for a fall. Game between two MLB sponsored Dominican teams umpired by an American Ump. The manager that hit him was an Allstar MLB player for 15 years.

Stupid or ingenious.
Yick for stupid.

This is not looting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake These people have been without food and water for more than 3 days. How is getting food from a fallen supermarket and wherever else they can find it "looting"? All the food that is at the airport from rescuers isn't serving them any purpose so what else are they suppose to do? Eat dirt? Human behavior is simple, if you know that help is right at your doorstep and they can't get to you, the next step is to panic and try to help yourself.

I Would Have had A Loss For Words Too, Wouldn't You?
Its good the Press Secretary made a statement on Pat Robertson. I think he really wanted to curse Pat Robinson out but had to restrain himself.

The Terrorists Won
The terrorists won.

Their plan, after all, was not to take over control of the U.S. government or soil. It was to scare the populace. It was to effect political change in a population by means of fear.

And now I look around and I see my fellow Americans quivering in fear. I see them lining up, like sheep at shearing-time, to be electronically denuded at the airport. I see them throwing away their most precious gift -- American civil liberties -- for the false promise that they'll be safer when they fly (they won't be... "One man may pass where an army cannot." I see them worrying about their individual lives on a constant basis, when statistically terrorism is less likely to affect them than obesity, diabetes, or alcoholism.

If I was Osama Bin Laden, reading about Americans now having to spend hours in security lines, removing their shoes, enduring pat-downs, and having their children digitally stripped, I would fucking laugh.

Terrorism is a Natural Disaster
Acts of terrorism such as 9/11 ought to be considered natural disasters. I say this because any time you pack 9 billion humans on a small planet and deprive many of them of basic needs, and fill their heads with ridiculous fantasies, bad things are going to happen. It's inevitable. It's predictable. It's a logical consequence of the scenario. Consider if we had treated 9/11 as a natural disaster: no wars, no negative war impact to the economy, no thousands of American kids dying overseas, no emnity from the world for our militarism, no exacerbating of the problem by keeping American troops on "Muslim soil". We'd have more money, more allies, more moral high ground, and more citizens. We'd have less debt, less Blackwaters, less international committment, and Dick Cheney would have less money.

Pat Robertson...what an idiot!!
This idiot said they brought this on themselves...*smh* It's par for the course for this idiot. He said the same about 9/11, Kintra, and Isreal. ...Incredible... This is one reason why religion sucks!!

Old people should not be allowed to use the self checkout in grocery stores.
They take too damn long. Younger aged people are already slow in the self checkout lines.

Mother Nature Stinks
It's bad enough that we have to deal with terrorist and all the criminals. But we also have to wonder about when the Earth is just going to turn on us in the form of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, ice/snow storms. If your only options were to live in a war torn/highly violent place or a place known for major natural disasters, which would you choose? Yack for naural disaster, Yick for war.

Which do you consider more of an achievement?
Breaking a pear inside your elbow(yick) or cracking a watermelon between your legs(Yak)?

Is this poem written by Abe Lincoln enough to think he might be bi or gay?
For Reuben and Charles have married two girls,
But Billy has married a boy.
The girls he had tried on every side,
But none could he get to agree;
All was in vain, he went home again,
And since that he's married to Natty.
Jay Leno brought it up on tv. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Abraham_Lincoln

Did this dog detect the earthquake before it happened?
What do you think?

Obama Lies................AGAIN!
President Obama, the most transparent president in history...NOT, is caught on tape promising atleast 8 times to hold health care negotiations on C-SPAN so the American people can see who their representatives are really representing. But just like his 'evil' predecessor, George Bush, he's conducting negotiations on a healthcare takeover of 1/6 of our economy BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. For all you KoolAid drinkers, don't think you won't get screwed in this process, a process so flawed that Senators and Representatives are being bought off to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.........because that's the only way they'll vote for this hideous piece of legislation which WON'T cover all Americans, WON'T bring down costs (will actually increase costs), and WILL bankrupt the nation. Oh, and don't forget, if this passes we'll ALL be taxed for 4 years BEFORE any of the so-called benefits begin. That's right, if this passes, you'll have to hurry up and wait another 4 years for your 'free' healthcare! How's that hope and change working out for you?

Liberal Media Said This Was An Insensitive And Racist Australian KFC Commercial. Do You Agree? What About The Korean Chicken Commercial?
According to the Huffington post. Did it take fried chicken to calm them down?

Will Googles Bid To Take Over The Communications World Succeed
Virtual nations are just like physical ones. Over extend and collapse...

Does this appear unusual for a woman to do?
Do women do this?

You have to make this one of your Playlist songs
Imagine thumping this with some loud speakers with the base.

If America went to war with Mexico, Whose Side would the 30 Million Mexicans in America Be On?
Yick for Mexico, Yak for America

Avatar was pretty much a ripoff of several movies, but two that stand out and a game.
The two movies that Avatar resembles or copied from are 1. Delgo and 2. Battle for Terra. The Plot are almost exact with a few twist. The storyline although not science fiction that it pulled from was Dances with Wolves but in this instance in space. Typical story line of "The White Man" running out of resources and bent on expansion at all cost and their targets are the innocent natives of the land who are suppose to be in tune with mother nature. For Avatar it seems the natives are just a lot more in tune with mother nature than the other movies. Mother nature actually helps
I posted the movies they resembled the most. Oh, and the game it pulled a lot from, I would have to say Camaron must like The World of WarCraft. He pulled a lot of the scenery from it. Especially the Floating Mountains. I'm actually playing in one of the worlds in the game with tons of floating mountains that I take my "flying mount" to rest. Oh, yeah, the flying mounts too. in Avatar the flying mounts pick the riders well that was in the movie, Dinotopia where the rider is also selected by the flying mount. Although it was a good movie, it was hardly original. Just better special effects.

Is it morally wrong to feed a pig bacon?
It was done in a movie.

You never know, right?
Some people will surprise you.

A New Weapon Against Terrorism?
The parents of the man who tried to blow up the airliner on the 25th reported him to authorities. I don't remember this happening before -- the parents of an accused terrorist turning him in and making statements to the media as though -- get this -- he were an ordinary criminal. Taking away the aura of political import from these criminals' minds is a huge psychological tactic. And really, what could shrivel a terrorist's ego faster than his Mommy telling him, "OK, sonny. You've goner too far this time. I'm calling the cops." We need to work with this idea.

For you Californians do you believe they created the big burrito we know now similar to places like Chipotle?
First I didn't know this type of burrito was only 40 years old and second I didn't know this company supposedly created it. Do you think so?

Scrooged: One of the greatest adaptation of A Christmas Carol of all times.
This is a scene after Frank Cross (younger hipper Ebenezer) was first visited by his dead friend, Lew Hayward (a younger hipper Marley) and told by the stroke of noon the next day, which this day, he would be visited by the first of the three ghosts. Whenever I see this scene, I'm on the ground LMAO!!! Thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

Do You Agree or Disagree with Penn and Teller?
From Penn and Teller's "Bullshit!" series: "Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' is more historically accurate than Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ".

Historic Health Bill Passes the Senate, are you upset about this?
Are you happy or is this an expense this country cannot afford? ""This will be the most important piece of social legislation since Social Security passed in the 1930s," said Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden in the State Room of the White House.
"The 60-39 vote on a cold winter morning capped months of arduous negotiations and 24 days of floor debate. It also followed a succession of failures by past congresses to get to this point. Biden presided as 58 Democrats and two independents voted "yes." Republicans unanimously voted "no."
The Congressional Budget Office predicts the bill will reduce deficits by $130 billion over the next 10 years, an estimate that assumes lawmakers carry through on hundreds of billions of dollars in planned cuts to insurance companies and doctors, hospitals and others who treat Medicare patients.
For the first time, the government would require nearly every American to carry insurance, and subsidies would be provided to help low-income people to do so. Employers would be induced to cover their employees through a combination of tax credits and penalties. The legislation costs nearly $1 trillion over 10 years and is paid for by a combination of taxes, fees and cuts to Medicare."
"Not even Ebenezer Scrooge himself could devise a scheme as cruel and greedy as Democrats' government takeover of health care," the Ohio Republican said in a statement.

Obama Cranks call some local radio station, cool or Loser?
True a governor was on the radio show, is this unusually cool or unusually lame. Some right wingers slammed it of course.

Virtual Spies
"Law enforcement officials in Texas have installed a network of CCTV cameras to monitor key areas along that state's 1900-kilometre-long border with Mexico. To help screen the footage, a website lets anyone log in to watch a live feed from a border camera and report suspicious activity. A similar system called Internet Eyes, which pays online viewers to spot shoplifters from in-store camera feeds, is set to launch in the UK in 2010. An Iranian website is offering rewards for identifying people in photos taken during protests over June's elections." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18315-innovation-the-sinister-powers-of-crowdsourcing.html Yak if you think this is appropriate and yick if you don't.

Example of unfair coverage of death of stars
Ok, media spent a few days on the girl, Brittany Murphy for dying, but little or no coverage was made of Alaina Reed Hall from Sesame Street who died in the same week. I didn't know who Brittany was and I watch movies. Brittany hardly had a long career in Hollywood and Alaina has been around on sitcoms like 227 and Sesame Street for decades and could sing. She died at 62 from Breast Cancer. She was also married to the tall guy who played the Predator in the awesome movie, The Predator. The media sucks wet ass.

If a peace is dependent upon a lie, should the lie be maintained?
Be it a peace among nations, in a family, or within one's own mind; if the lie is exposed and the loss would be great, should the lie be maintained?

Should the Death Penalty be Considered Terrorism?
I'm not asking for a political response but rather a semantic and philosophical one. If used as a "deterrent", the goal is public behavior through trepidation based on fear of death. That sounds a lot like terrorism.

Tiger, women and the Media
The media, women and society in general paint one man, Tiger Woods, worse than attacking the behavior of over 15 different available women. Tiger is married but 15 separate women went after a married man but they are treated as victims with many of them getting public exposure on popular tv shows. This shows how twisted society is. If you look at the pool of available people, Tiger is one man but 15 available women i.e. 15:1 ratio have a greater tarnish on society than Tiger if you want to play with numbers.

Sketchers Shape Up shoe; ugly gimmick or very practical?
These shoes from Sketchers cost $120. They are kind of weird looking. So do you think this is another example of a gimmick from a well known shoe company?

The Baddest, Rock Hardest Song Ever Created By Man!!!!
More, more,more,more, more!!!!!

Sarah Palin is still Hot as she resites parts of William Shatner's book
This was aired December 11, 2009

One reason to go for a Solid-State Harddrive vs a Regular Harddrive....impressive!
The original usage of the term solid-state (from solid-state physics) refers to the use of semiconductor devices rather than electron tubes, but in this context, has been adopted to distinguish solid-state electronics from electromechanical devices as well. With no moving parts, solid-state drives are less fragile than hard disks and are also silent (unless a cooling fan is used); as there are no mechanical delays, they usually enjoy low access time and latency.
Negative side is cost and degrade over time.

The New Black Barbie Doll: The 400 Pound Gorilla In The Room Is The Issue Of Black Women's Hair.
Going natural or not is one of the most sensitive topics with Black women. The article I posted of the New and improved Black Barbie dolls introduced this past October, are a case in point. It is easier to tackle skin tone, but its hard to tackle the issue of hair.
‘She has always had African-American dolls, but rarely dolls with skin like her own,’ she said. ‘Often the lighter dolls were Hispanic or Indian. 'It was very heartwarming to look at a series of African-American Barbies and hear my daughter, now ll, exclaim: "she looks like me!"'
Quote: "But some say the dolls with long straight hair are not ‘black enough’ and do not address the beauty issues that many black girls struggle with.
Black U.S. comedian Chris Rock highlights the issue in his upcoming Good Hair documentary film, which shows African American women straightening their tight curls with harsh chemicals and purchasing thousand-dollar hair weaves.
‘Why are we always pushing this standard of long hair on our girls?’ asked Gail Parrish, 60, a playwright in Alexandria, Virginia, and a mother of four grown children.
‘Why couldn’t one of the dolls have a little short afro, or shorter braids or something?’
Mrs McBride-Irby said she originally designed all the dolls with long hair."
I'm not surprised all of these dolls have straight hair because I know that's what most Black women who don't have naturally straight hair want and so will their little girls when they get these dolls. Even when you look at the picture of the designer of the dolls in the article I posted, she is wearing a t-shirt of a Black women with somewhat of an Afro but she is cheezing with a processed hair style with Black dolls who all have straight hair. She doesn't seem to identify with the t-shirt she is wearing. Oh well. :)

Climategate: Scientists purposesly manipulating data
Perhaps they need Jesus in their lives. LOL http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091206/pl_politico/30172

Classmates.com and Reunion.com are FAILED business models
For years these companies have teased those searching for old friends by charging you to peek at their email and then requiring the people you want to contact to also be members. Why are they still around? Models like Facebook work and make these old models laughable.

Finnish Jazz/Soul Singer
The artist's name is Janita. She has a lot of great songs off her album Season of Life. She has a sweet, smooth, soulful sound. (FYI the girl in the picture is not Janita. She looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhIoFXeJe4)

Homosexual Extremism - GLSEN Pornographic Recommended Reading List for Kids- This is Morally Wrong
"Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for many years, Executive Director of an organization called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN started essentially as Jennings’ personal project and grew to become the culmination of his life’s work. And he was chosen by President Obama to be the nation’s Safe Schools Czar primarily because he had founded and led GLSEN".
"GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.”"
"The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers."
"We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview."
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/breaking-obamas-safe-schools-czar-is-promoting-porn-in-the-classroom-kevin-jennings-and-the-glsen-reading-list/

Christian Extremism at its best - Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 - This is morally wrong
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill Linked to US Christian Group. The Family, also known as The Fellowship, was founded in the United States in 1935. According to its founder, Abraham Verene, God came to him one night in April 1935. In the interview. Mr. Sharlet, who has spent years researching the Family describes the core agenda of secretive but powerful group as one that is intent onfighting homosexuality and abortion, promoting free-market economics and dictatorship, an idea they once termed "totalitarianism for Christ". The Family recruits people in positions of power and influence to promote its agenda and, according to Sharlett, the group has had its sights on Uganda for over 20 years and its recruits include MP Bahati, President Museveni and Ethics Minister Nsaba Buturo. According to Sharlet, The Family identified President Museveni as their "key man in Africa" in 1986.
Activists and political observers expect the private members' bill, which proscribes the death penalty for "serial offenders" and is still in the committee stage, to pass with little opposition and some minor changes.
This new draft bill includes a provision that could lead to the imprisonment for up to three years of anyone, including heterosexual people, who fails to report within 24 hours the identities of everyone they know who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or who supports human rights for people who are.

Al Gore Should Be Arrested and Prosecuted for Perpetrating Fraud
Al Gore has been laying low since the explosion of ClimateGate and has abruptly cancelled his Dec. 16 $1,209/ticket personal appearance in Copenhagen http://tiny.cc/TUFQg. Al Gore stood poised to make billions in his carbon credit trading scheme, which I hope is going up in smoke as ClimateGate brings the pain on his a$$. "Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd, both members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Oscar nominees, called on the Academy to rescind Al Gore’s Oscar in light of the Climategate revelations." Lawsuits have been filed against NASA and GISS for the refusal to provide documents under the FOIA http://tiny.cc/i1Ha9. Michael Mann and Phil Jones, two of the biggest climate alarmists implicated in the leaked emails, are both under investigation http://tiny.cc/RKeYf. Millions of school children and braindead adults run around fearing that the earth will cook us like an oven because Al Gore used his film and his influence to push scientific fraud. Al Gore must be held accountable. The fun starts in the video around 2:11. Al Gore doesn't have any statements about the biggest climate fraud in history as he is finally whisked off in his SUV at 5:25.

Players should be charged a fine in all sports for throwing sports items to fans.
In the NFL they charge football players $5000 for throwing a football in the stands after a touchdown. I think the video is a good reason why there should be fines.

Tiger Woods Rejoins The Course Of Humanity
"As the golden boy sheds his wings and slowly flutters to the ground, those who worshiped him turn their heads in rapturous denial. Another human sports god proves to be human after all. And the band plays, 'da da da da' "...

Global Warming is a Hoax
Within the past week, thousands of emails reveal global warming "scientists" lying, faking data, suppressing alternative data, and attacking skeptics. In case you've been living under a rock (or hiding from talk radio and Fox News), here is a link where you can read the emails for yourself: http://www.businessinsider.com/download-the-entire-leaked-climate-emails-2009-11. Here is a link where you can read a summary of the emails: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion. Let's be clear; in the absence of scientific facts to support global warming, global warming "scientists" and their followers believe it anyway, which means belief in anthropogenic(man-made) global warming is a RELIGION.

Easily one of the Top 3 Theme Songs of all time
From beginning to end.

Enforcing weight requirements is a good thing at Universities.
The public school systems doesn't care anymore. Lincoln University students will now have to endure a physical exam determining each student's BMI (body mass index) before they are permitted to graduate. An individual's BMI measures the amount of body fat. Amid fierce criticisms, Lincoln University has recently installed a new requirement for its undergraduate students. If your BMI is over 30, you are required to take a physical education class. This new requirement has caused an uproar from some students and professors who argue that the university is actively discriminating against those who are obese. Some students argue that their time at Lincoln may be prolonged because of an additional class. University officials say that they are actively working to increase the health of their students, but many have their doubts.

Do you have a demon?
If you haven't checked, you'd better do it now before it's too late. http://www.demontest.com/

Do you like Thrash Metal Music?
This group is not widely known out of Canada. The band is called, Annihilator.

The Most Significant American Rock Band?
Known primarily for two atypical songs which became major hits and for the SNL "Cowbell" sketch, Blue Oyster Cult has been together since 1967 (41 years!) and has issued 26 albums in that time. Like all great bands (and unlike Metallica, Nirvana, Aerosmith, RHCP, and Guns n Roses), their sound progressed and changed over the years, from thundering biker rock in the '60's to orchestral metal in the '70s and on to jazz-metal progressive fusion in the '80's. Many of their song lyrics were based on great poetry or fiction. They have a wider range of styles than any American rock band I am aware of and have been covered by acts from Lisa Marie Presley to Metallica. It was the awful cover of one of their songs in a current car commercial which prompted this rumination. Presented for your consideration: a ghostly molester, a wish for more significance than terrestrial life, a space opera, and the curriculum vitae of a kidnapping murderer.

This is an awesome Invention.
I would buy one of these.

The DC sniper chose not to speak to a spiritual adviser at execution lastnight, was he an atheist?
Virginia authorities escorted Muhammad, in denim and flip-flops, into a small room at the Greensville Correctional Center and strapped him to a cross-shaped table. He was then injected with a series of lethal drugs beginning at 9:06 p.m. and he was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. Although he maintained his innocence to the very end, Muhammad, 48, ignored a request to make a final statement. Larry Traylor, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said Tuesday night that Muhammad requested a last meal but asked that details not be made public. Muhammad also declined to meet with a spiritual adviser, but he did spend time with immediate family members in his last few hours.

Did you think the song Sister Christian was a cool or awesome song when you heard it in 1983?
I did.

Too Funny: Jon Stewart Catches Sean Hannity Faking News
Hannity used clips from other events to make Minnesota Idiot, er, Rep Michele Bachmann's Tea Party look well attended. Is this not just a desperation tactic? ...here...

Girl's Soccer or MMA?
This girl's freaking outta her mind...lol? Ya think?

Michael Buffer Had The Right Idea
He's the guy who annonces with "let's get ready to rumble". He trade marked it, and he said that he has made hundreds of millions from the trademark alone. This isn't really a yick yak question, but what common phrase do you use alot that you wish you could trademark?

The Sad Legacy of the Tea Party Movement
I predict that in historical context, the "Tea Party" conservative movement will be no more than an historical footnote, one whose name is remembered more than their actual political philosophy, like the "Know-Nothings".

I think this Moody blues evokes more than Ozzieman's pick
Do you agree

Haunting Song of Loss
Some years back Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues did a solo double album based on H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". This is one of the tracks off that album, a song of loss. Though it was designed as just a song connecting two plot points, I find this song to be evocative and moving. Do you?

Video: Is it amazing (yick) or typical (yak) for siblings to have a broad perspective about their parents
Often times siblings will have a large and different perspective about their parents. Sometimes good but many times terribly bad. I know so many people with similar experiences.

This is why I like Kelly.
The girl's got talent...check it: http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?id=1621664&vid=438081 You agree?

Lowering taxes is not beneficial to the economy
There are so many things are tax dollars go toward that we take for granted and if we always lower taxes it could hurt more than help the economy.

Where Are The Nose Bones?
These are the twins, Hlelo and Ntando Masina, celebrities from South Africa. The way our media is filtered, you would expect to see them in grass skirts entertaining foreign visitors with their tribal dances. The media continues to skew our perspective of the real world and neglects the progress evident in other countries. Man, these ladies are beautiful!

Love and Undivided Attention is all Kids want from Parents
When they don't get it, they either act up or become reserved.

Art or Kitsch?
Jeff Koons is widely considered to be America's greatest living artist. This is his most famous piece. Is this fine art or populist kitsch?

Worth a Night Out?
Since the 1960s, Prof. Peter Schickele of the "University of Southern North Dakota" has been "discovering" works by "P.D.Q. Bach", the "youngest of Bach's twenty-odd children". These works, such as "Concerto for Left-Handed Bassoon and Sewer Flute", "Oedipus Tex", and "A Little Nightmare Music" are found in such places as diners in Kentucky, where the original sheet music may have been serving as a coffee filter for forty years. Presented here in audio only (there is no video for this classic album which came out in the early '70s)is P.D.Q. Bach's most famous opera, "Iphigenia in Brooklyn", which includes as its finale the immortal "Running Nose" cantata. This isn't for everyone. Would you go see the works of P.D.Q. Bach performed by your local Philharmonic? Or is this self-referential elitism and not part of your universe?

Is it fair to call her a mermaid or The Little Mermaid?
She passed away this passed week I guess due to complications but managed to live to about 12 years old. She had no rectum or bladder.

Brat Pitt wrecks his motorcycle. I think he is just embarrassed and a fish out of water.
This just recently happened. Do you agree with me? He is just wandering around trying to think of what to do. He seems like a fish out of water with no one he knows to help him and he doesn't really want strangers helping him.

Legalizing Drugs
Should drugs be legalized? Yak if you agree. Yick if you don't

Go Away Balloon Family
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_re_us/us_balloon_boy_search I don't understand why these people are getting so much attention. When I first heard the story last week, I was like ok, who cares, the kid is ok....next. I saw them on the Today show and the kid was vomiting on LIVE TV and they were still filming and the father was yapping about the incident. When the show came back from commercial, I guess NBC must have gotten complaints or something because only the father was on. Who cares about their dumb balloon and whether it was a hoax or not. Just charge them with filing a false report and move on. There is some store that is even making balloon costumes for Halloween.

"Hooking up" is bad for the economy and causes job losses
A recent study has shown that casual sex, "hooking up," has been detrimental to the economy. We are certainly aware of many of the adverse consequences of causual sex, such as objectification of one's self and the opposite sex (or the same sex depending on preference); it also causes economic loss to the prostitution industry. Not only that, more and more prostitutes have lost their jobs ( I don't think they are eligible for unemployment insurance, either).

The basic unit of social unification is probably smaller than the nation state
What is the logical size of the best social unit? Humans have many needs that are best served by human cooperation, such as provision of food, shelter, exchange of goods, services, cultural norms, shared values, protection, and defense, etc. It seems that the nation-state is too large to best meet all of these needs in the most efficient ways. The best unit seems to be larger than a neighborhood, village, town or city. We don't have "tribes" in the western world any more. So, what is the best grouping, so to speak, to best meet all of human needs. Certainly, a one world community seems like someone's fantasyland, and would be a much bigger "Big Brother" than we already have. Agreement with this assertion would mean that the nation-state model is no longer the best.

Is Stay At Home Mom Really a Job?
It never fails that during lunch time at the mall, 90% of the people there are women with their young kids shopping and hanging out in the food court. Does this sound like a job to anyone? I get the desire to be a stay at home mom, heck, I wish I could do it, but don't list it as some sort of job. What about the mothers who go to work outside of the home and still have to do "homemaking" stuff when they get home? Homemaker is not a job, it's just another way of saying...."I feel like staying home every day"

Westernized culture questions loyality and scapegoating when its convenieint as the British question Pakastini Brits loyalty
Westernize culture is still European based culture and minority groups no matter how long or how many generations they have in the country will have their loyalty questioned. Japanese Americans were immediately put in American concentration camps during WWII. Blacks have always been questioned no matter how many wars they fought in starting in the Revolutionary war. Asian Americans are often times asked if they were born in the States. Latinos are called illegal most of the time regardless of how long they have been here. And the British question Pakistanis even though the Brits are part of the instigation of conflict in the middle east.

Do you feel sorry for Nicolas Cage facing financial ruin?
He hired a bad business manager who blew most of his money. He had to sell a castle also but he has 6 movies in the works. Do you feel sorry for actors like him?

Some people believe the truth is told if you win in the media popularity contest. Is this how we guage the truth?
So basically if you have 22 million listeners like a Rush Limbaugh on a radio station this must mean you are telling the truth. Dude, is this what the media has programmed how people to think? I guess so. CJ thinks so.

The danger of a single story
Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian woman, talks about how telling a single story creates stereotypes that do not expose the complete truth. It robs people of dignity; "it makes the recognition of equal humanity difficult." It emphasizes how we are different versus similar. Watch the video and yak if you agree with her sentiments. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

This is funny
Shooting Stars with Vic and Bob,also staring George Daws (the fat bald, and funny one from Little Britain, which I think is shown on US TV). Off the wall comedy that is loved in the uk. Just interested to know if you guys find it funny that side of the pond.

America should be happy to have Fox
OK Fox is pathetic and I hate everything about it. BUT, you guys should be grateful that you have a free enough media that you have a network that is not under the control of the government and can question the President. In the UK all the major Tv stations were so biased towards the Labour government because Blair stuck all his cronies at the helm. The propaganda machine killed free debate. Once again, Fox is laughable but at least you have an alternative voice.

Should Homeless Person Be Given THe Opportunity To Build Homes Like These?
Should the government provide the materials and let homeless people build their own?

I think Charles Manson speaks for every living person, minus the facial expressions.
In the grand scheme of things from a world perspective. Not just for him but for everyone else too. You are born than you die and you become nobody. The public make people like him bigger than they really are. Individuals make themselves bigger than what they really are. All of us are nobodies in the eyes of mother nature. We are just leasing our existence.

Is this a new low for Pepsi's new Iphone App?
A new iPhone application from Pepsi that claims to help men "score" with women and then brag about it is drawing ire from all corners of the Web.
Called AMP Up Before You Score, the application recently launched to help promote the company's new AMP Energy drink. It's a "roadmap to success with your favorite kinds of women" that will "change your game and raise your expectations," Pepsi promises in the app's description.
The app breaks women into 24 categories, from artists and aspiring actresses to bookworms and businesswomen. Once the user has identified the kind of woman he's trying to score, he can use the app to "study up quick with a cheatsheet on the stuff she's into, with lists, links and some surefire opening lines."
If the guy gets lucky, the app lets him keep a Brag List, with names, dates and other details. It also encourages users to "flaunt it," by sharing their lists with friends via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter.
But the new app has generated scores of online attacks from blogs, Twitter users and Facebook members.

Is this Change We Can Believe In?

This is the first Newlywed Game Show with one of my favorite Star Trek characters with his significant other.

There should be a public rating of all practicing doctors and car mechanics available to the public.
I would say this should apply to mechanics as well but there should be a mandatory public registry that list their performance and public opinions by patience and customers. Simply passing the medical exam and practicing says little about their ability and track record. This would weed out the bad and raise the standards of good doctors and mechanics.

Men Who Allow Themselves to Be Pushed Around By Their Women Are Weak
This video is totally hilarious and speaks to the larger reality of how weak some men are. Any man who allows himself to be subjugated by his woman in this manner is a weak man. Much in our culture has contributed to this downfall of masculinity. If you agree with me, thumbs up, and explain what you think has contributed to the downfall of masculinity. If you disagree with me, thumbs down, and explain why.

Are Playboy's Standards Dropping?

Marge Simpson is fairly hot for a frumpy housewife with a bad 'do. And I'm sure many will check out the "spread". But with so many hotter toons out there (Lois Griffin, Tinkerbell, Jessica Rabbit), does this indicate that Playboy's standards are slipping? Please, Hugh, Marge is ok, but unless your publication has completely lost its eminence as the purveyor of scantily-clad imaginary sexpots, give us the good stuff:

Your Fantasies Don't Count
These parents are on trial for failing to seek medical treatment for their children, choosing to "pray" instead. These parents are, too.

This woman thought it was okay to go to youth sports wearing a gun, that she had the right and it made her safer, ignoring statistical evidence that proximity to guns ups the death rate. Now she's dead of gunshot wounds.

These therapists believed being symbolically "reborn" could help people. Their patient died.

This guy believed something laughably stupid. 39 people died because of it.

In the real world, your fantasies don't count. The shark cares not that you think God is protecting you. The flying bullet gives not a lump of defecation about your firm conviction that you're safer being around all those guns. Flesh-eating bacteria pause not for a moment when encountering your belief that deity created life.

It is time for society to recognize that there is the real world, and there is everything else. A nation which makes its decisions based on fantasies, misconceptions, and wishful thinking will always be worse off than one which makes its decisions in a calculated, logical way. The same applies to societies, families, and even individuals. Which kid is more likely to get a Nintendo DS -- the kid who asks Santa really, really hard, or the one with the paper route?

Would You Give Up 50% Of Your Company along with $500k To Expand Your Business?
This show is Shark Tank. The video is one of my favorite episodes. This guy is pretty humble but giving up a lot and really tried to hold his ground. He got a bit emotional but you won't see it in this youtube. Its in the full version. He had to sleep in his car to get this going. He initially asked for about $450k and 10% ownerships to this venture capitalist who are each worth over 500 million dollars. The guy can't keep up with growth and its clear the sharks see the potential and up the demand of 50% ownership vs 10% ownership. I've watched most of the episodes and when they see a good business model or idea, they up the ownership demand. To see the full beginning to end of the "Pie Man" follow the link below. http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/episode-guide/episode-101/272199

The Nobel Peace Prize is Meaningless
Less than one week after being ridiculed by liberals on SNL for having accomplished nothing, President Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,". President Obama himself said of the prize, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership,", affirming that he hasn't done anything to deserve the prize. President Obama has been awarded a prize for accomplishing nothing, which is further evidence that he is an affirmative action president. If you agree with me, thumbs up, if you disagree, thumbs down.

25% of the world is conditioning 75% of the world to adapt to cow milk consumption. Lactose Intolerant is an evolutionary normality
Examples of people and cultures who are lactose intolerant: First 75% of the world is Lactose Intolerant (yet its a negative stigma when it should be the other way around)
Also you eat what the dominate culture eats and milk is part of the dominate cultures diet for many centuries, regardless if it is bad for you or not..."Got Milk?"
If Asia or Eastern European, Middle east or Eastern African countries had established north America we would probably see a bunch of Goat Milk commericials.
Those who are intolerant? 100% Native Americans 90% of Asains 75% of African Americans, 65 to 75% of Mexicans and South Americans, 80% of Eskimos, 68% of North American Jews, 65% of Greeks, 65% of French. Just to name a few but the bulk of the world population.
The only group less than 10% are Basques 0.3% ,Dutch1%, Swedes 2%, Europeans in Australia 4%, Northern Europeans and Scandinavians 5% British 5%,Swiss 10%, 10% European Americans.
And as you get older you become more lactose intolerant once again. Source: wiki
the guy in the previous video is not way off. Just as it took several centuries for Western European and some Western Africans to get use to cow milk it will take several more centuries for the rest of the world. 200,000 years and still most of the world is lactose intolerant. HINT HINT

Anything that is big enough to grant you everything is big enough to take it away.
I don't just mean government, but anything: corporations, individuals, religions, parties, etc.

Milk is bad for you
Milk is bad for you.

Elliot Madison Arrested for steering G20 protests Using Twitter
Elliot Madison used twitter to warn protestors that police had issued an order to disperse at the G-20 summit so that they could avoid being arrested. Madison was arrested and his home was raided for 16 hours. His computer, books, pictures of Marx and Lenin and much more were taken. Do you think that Madison committed a crime by using twitter to warn people to avoid the police? Is his arrest an attack on his first amendment rights?

Chris Rock sued for 5 million for stealing an idea, would you sue if your idea was used?
Regardless of your feeling about this case, should you be able to sue someone for sharing or showing your idea to someone and they take parts of it to create something from it? Sometimes you have to be careful who you share your idea with especially if the person you are sharing it with has more resources, access, and money to push it.

Is this considered cruelty to animals?
There is a popular website called, http://www.japanesebugfights.com Where they have now 30 episodes of different bugs fighting. Is this cruelty to animals and should there be a law against this?

FDA banning electric cigarettes to protect the Tobacco lobby?
This is what I think. The FDA stinks. We already know what cigarettes do, but no ban, yet they want to ban an e-cig? Ridiculous.

Should The U.S. Take the U.N. Ranking Seriously
The United States is ranked 13th, by the, *snicker* ,U.N., amongst the best places to live in the world, behind Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Sweden, France, Switzerland, and even Japan, to name the top 10. Should the U.S. change its policies so that it can better its position in this ranking? (see story here )

Self Respect
In one of my classes, one guy stated that "men will only treat women the way they allow themslves to be treated." I always find it interesting when guys say that, but my question is, men where are your standards? what does it say about the character of the man who does not mind taking advantage of a woman just b/c she "allowed" it to happen? It's like men give up part of their power and expect the woman to steer the potential direction of the relationship. . .I'll respect you, if you respect you. Or I'll disrespect you if you allow me to. What is up with this lame ass way of thinking? Men should walk away from females with low standards. Or at least kindly state to the female that they think she is beautiful, but they find her behavior unattractive. Where are the men's boundaries?

The Invention of Lying, Atheist movie?
the movie takes a really good jab at religion, especially Christianity. Does this mean that it is an Atheist movie?

Is SNL Racist or Just Doing Their Job?
Did you laugh as hard as I did when you saw this SNL skit about how President Obama has accomplished Jack Squat since he's been in office? If not, why not? Remember how SNL skewered Sarah Palin? Did you think that was funny? I did, and Tina Fey even won an Emmy for her portrayal of Palin. Do you think SNL is racist? Does SNL want Obama to fail? Is SNL not giving Obama a chance? I don't think SNL is racist, but just equally making fun of Obama just like they do to conservatives. If they keep this up, I might just start watching again. If you agree with me that they aren't racist, thumbs up, if you disagree, thumbs down.

Is it Unpatriotic to Want the Corruption Brought on by the Olympics to be Somewhere Else, or Fail to Make a Decision in the Middle of a War?
Many Obama lovers are calling conservatives and others who did not want the Olympics in Chicago unpatriotic and unAmerican. However, I would argue that it's unpatriotic to leave American soldiers on the battlefield in the middle of an active warzone without proper reinforcements when your handpicked general has pleaded for reinforcements in a 60+ page memo that's been in your possession for a month! I am FOR America, but I am against corruption which would have been on full display if Chicago had won the bid. I am much more interested in our troops being adequately reinforced than the "goodwill" of the Olympic games. To all you Obama lovers, President Obama said Afghanistan was a war of necessity, yet he is too much of a chickensh*t to follow through. He either needs to give our troops the reinforcements they need, or bring them home. Why can't wonder boy, the messiah, the ONE, make this decision? Mind you, he took 25 hours out of his busy schedule of "changing" evil America to fly to Denmark and beg for the Olympics, but he couldn't take anymore than 25 minutes to meet with the war general to make a decision on his war of necessity. Like the coward he is, President Obama wishes he could vote PRESENT on this one. If you agree with me, thumbs up, if you disagree, thumbs down.

The Religious Should Focus On Their Relationship With Their God And Drop Their Relationship With Public and Institutionalized Religion
They are not in your best interest. They never have.

The Olympics is a Huge Waste of Time and Money
Listen to the CNN anchor whine like a little kid when he finds out Chicago is eliminated in the first round. Folks, we have 9.8% unemployment (highest in 26 years), our budget deficit is estimated at $2 Trillion dollars this year alone, the Chinese own approximately $900 Billion of our debt and even they are diversifying because we're printing so much money, many of our manufacturers have taken their operations overseas to escape the second highest corporate income taxes in the world, state budgets are busting under the weight of government programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security are Bankrupt, the Post Office is Bankrupt, Amtrak is Bankrupt, our housing market is flat on its back, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Bankrupt, banks aren't lending to businesses so they can expand, and on and on and on. Not getting the Olympics is the lease of our worries, and would have only been a distraction from these pressing economic issues. I say let's take all of that energy that would have been focused on the Olympics and channel it into fixing this economy. When are Americans going to wake the hell up and realize that this financial house of cards is going to come crashing down on us like Oprah jumping into a bathtub full of mashed potatoes and gravy? Are you with me?

Congratulations Rio!
Are you as happy as I am that in a delicious twist of irony, Rio won the bid for the 2016 Olympics? In the liberal, leftist tradition of "social justice", poor little Brazil has captured the trappings of hosting the summer Olympics from the big, bad evil capitalist Americans! President Obama has been running around the world apologizing for America's shortcomings, and then risks what's left of his political capital to convince the IOC to give us the games! Obama rammed through a $787 Billion stimulus bill which hasn't produced 1 job (we've the highest unemployment in 26 years), he proposes a $1 Trillion government healthcare takeover, and he's quadrupled the deficit to $2 Trillion in one year; but the look on his, Michelle and Oprah's faces when they found out Chicago came in dead last ---------------------------PRICELESS!

Ardipithecus Ramidus
Six million years old (a million years older than Lucy), "Ardi" had a chimp-like brain but walked upright and had differentiated teeth. Will this discovery damp down the evolution-deniers(Yick) or force a new wave of anti-evolutionism (Yak)?

The Letterman Extorter
Were you as surprised as I was that the person arrested for attempting to blackmail David Letterman was the producer of "48 Hours"?

It's Not The Coaches' Fault
I never understand this urge to blame the coach when a team sucks. Bad players make a bad team. It's not like it's a teacher who has a class of F students or a parent with unruly kids.

Kimbo loses to a fat slob. Technique beats street fighting most of the time
Kimbo lost because he still doesn't have technique when he fights. The fight was wed night on spike tv. If Kimbo won on the show he will be included in the UFC....he lost to a fat slob. Over 6 million people watched the fight that showed the same time as Jay Leno and it beat out Jay Leno.

Does This Music Make You Feel Good
Scientifically, it should.

Michael Moore is an example of a capitalist capitalizing on bashing capitalism.
It must be nice to make millions as a capitalist by bashing capitalism.

Should Universities be allowed to ban students from using Twitter?
This should not be right.

Sometimes You Just Need a Shot of Feel-good
Sometimes more than others. Does this help?

A Roly Poly should not be a fitness instructor
I've recently started going to the gym and all of the class instuctors are overweight. It would be like taking medical advice from a doctor who smokes or a dentist with jacked up teeth.

The perfect cliche for relatively young people acting old - "Get off my Lawn"
Some people get old before their time and its fun to poke fun as their conservative nature sets in. Throwing out the cliche "Get off my Lawn" is one friendly jab to use.

Amazon.com puts out a bigger Kindle E-Reader.
Look at the size of this thing. My friend bought one and it is pretty big. I wouldn't mind having it. I have the 1st generation but in the video you see the second generation in the 9 inch and the standard 6 inch. They are much thinner than my 1st generation kindle. What do you think of them. You can put tons of books on it for a lot less than hard copies. I have about 20 novels on mine right now. You can store about 1500 books without a memory card but you can add a memory card to it. Stores music so you can play background music while you read and its an internet browser as well.

H1N1 Pandemic Bill
Yak if you are against this, yick if you are for it.

Mike Vick To Play Today!
I hope he does OK.

Is This Emblematic of the Human Condition?
As the media hangs silent while the Pope speaks to them the purported word of the divine, the natural world just keeps happening. Is there in this a humorous echo of the fate which awaits our race?

Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar, would it be a top song today?
This song is about a slave master raping his slave. I bet most of you didn't know these were the exact lyrics
Most people did not pay much attention to the lyrics of this popular song. Rolling Stones got a free pass. I don't think it would have got much play time without protest from guys like Al Sharpton. Maybe because at the time they did not listen to or pay much attention to this type of music.
Below is the lyrics.
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, Sold in a market down in new orleans. Scarred old slaver know hes doin alright. Hear him whip the women just around midnight. Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should A-huh.
Drums beating, cold english blood runs hot, Lady of the house wondrin where its gonna stop. House boy knows that hes doin alright. You should a heard him just around midnight. Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should A-huh.
I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy Friends were sweet sixteen. Im no schoolboy but I know what I like, You should have heard me just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.
I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.
I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said Oh just like, just like a black girl should.

Is the media making something out of nothing with the KKK Joke by the coach?
If he was a comedian it would never have made it on any news or no apology would be expected but I guess coaches cant have a sense of humor. It sucks that he had to apology for stuff like this.

Do you believe in Karma?
the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect. view all human dramas as the will of God as opposed to present - and past - life actions.

Health Care Crisis.....A Simple Solution
Health Care Crisis…..A Simple Solution As Cedjan has pointed out the Health Care crisis was a result of another failed government policy. For those of you don’t know at the end of WWII there was a freeze on employee’s salaries. So businesses started offering health care policies to attract potential employees. It has been downhill since. Here are my solutions. Please YAK if you like them or YIK if you don’t. 1. The end of health care benefits to all Federal Employees. This includes the oval office and both houses of Congress. They need to seek private carriers. This should save the tax payers a bundle. Members of the military are excluded. 2. The end of health care benefits for all State Employees. This includes Governors and all representatives. They too shall have to rely on the private sector. 3. The end of health care benefits to welfare recipients and their dependents. They should receive an increase in cash benefits of 20% to compensate to seek coverage from the private sector. I firmly believe that these solutions should save the tax payers loads of money. No longer should we have to pay for already greatly compensated Federal and State employees. It also should save us on those who do not work. Why should we who are struggling to pay for our own pay for others? Please let your opinions be known. May God bless each and every one of you all:

Cops in a WII bit of trouble. Will they get fired?
Does it sound like the chief of police is going to fire these officers? To me, it doesn't sound like it.

The gym replaced the Prima J song with their other one.
I guess you know, this is definitely crap, do you agree with me? Too much rap. I doubt I will get used to this but they are playing this over and over now. I guess it is suppose to keep the guys pumped in the gym.

The new Fame movie looks like "Fame 90210"
Where is the Urban NY grittiness that the original movie and even the tv series version had and it is still suppose to take place in NY. These actors look soft. Too polished. Too American Idol. I predict a movie bust.

Should the Jedi religion be taken seriously with 500,000 members?
I mean come on.

There is a business for everything, even making money off of failed athletes
Who would have thought a site like this could do so well. Business went up 33% this year including A 2008 Giants Super Bowl ring and its mostly younger players
http://www.championship-rings.net/

Compressed Air Car - Would you buy such a contraption?
Does it have to make so much noise? You noticed when they listed investors from different countries, US was not mentioned. Second Video is a more technical description.

So much for USC. Crash and BURN!
Lets see what California can do. Party is over for USC. QB problems.

If you see and listen to a certain song long enough, you begin to learn to like it.
They play this video in the gym where I workout every single day i'm in the gym. Now it captivates me or it could just be the 20 year old chicas especially at the 1:02 minute mark. But nonetheless it also stops a few guys from their workout to watch.

So Proud to be a New Yorker
Alicia Keys' part is "New York! Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do. Now you're in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new, these lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York....!" I think she makes the song.

Acorn - This is how you get funding cut from your shady program
Congress at 450 votes and the Senate voted to cut funding from Acorn.

Cursing in video: Is this a good business gimick and would you eat here?
This is pretty wild!

Would You Consider a Person With Excessive Ego To Have A Form Of Mental Illness?
Not just Kanye West, but many other celebrities that mistake their fame for power and privilege. Is there much separation between today's behavior by many celebrities and egomaniacal behavior (two questions here. Feel free to answer them separately)

Obama calls Kanye a Jackass for his Taylor Swift move.
What y'all think of that?

Sexual dimorphism is decreasing among the human species
More and more we see a decrease in sexual dimorphism among men and women. We the ability to take testostrone or estrogen injections. Make sex changes. The style of clothing that we wear, and the foods that we eat that effect our weight and height, dimorphism is decreasing. Do you agree or yick if you think there is no change or actually increasing.
Sexual dimorphism is the systematic difference in form between individuals of different sex in the same species. Examples include colour (specifically referred to as sexual dichromatism), size, and the presence or absence of parts of the body used in courtship displays or fights, such as ornamental feathers, horns, antlers or tusks.

Patrick Swayze Died
Cancer sucks. He didn't have a blockbuster career, but he made two classics that will be remembered forever. Which one did you like more? Yick for Ghost, Yak for Dirty Dancing

I found Ozzieman's calling
Ozzieman might be one of these guys. They love animals but they also look like steak and potato type of guys.

Serena Implodes and Acts like a Damn Fool!
As much as I'ma fan, Serena is such a bully out there sometimes. She should have lost that point after what she said to the line judge. I was embarrassed for her and Venus...look how Venus looks at her. *SMH*

So if you are born both male and female or with high testostrone, you have to compete in sports as a male?
Her/his testosterone levels are 3 times higher than women. Yes you Christians out there, your God creates humans as male and female too. Another chink against your, "people make a choice to be gay and shouldn't marry". If life could be that easy.

Same Sex Marrige should be legal
gays and lesbians should be able to get married. they were born with the same rights as we all are so why should we take them away just because their different? all men were created equally. all men should be treated equally.

Sizzling Hot Revolutionary Eurorock
Manu Chao is a French artist who sings about leftist struggle in five languages, usually in the same song. This song is "Machine Gun". Lyrics: Machine Gun Si la tierra tiembla/ Si la tierra tiembla/ Se hunde en el mar/ Si la tierra tiembleNadie se va salvar.../ Si la tierra tiembla / Bombala, bombal, bombala, bombala// Si la tierra tiembla/ Sera culpa ti !/ Si la tierra tiembla/ Nadie se va salvar// Si la tierra tiembla/ Se hunde en el mar/ Nadie se va salvar/ Si la tierra tiembla... Machine Gun/ ... Machine Gun// Bomba ATOMIKA/ Bomba POLITIKA/ Bomba ECONOMIA... sera culpa ti/ nadie se va salvar!/ I love this... what think you all?

One of the funniest movie endings ever!
I remember cracking up the first time I saw this ending...lol...what you think? check it or reck it! And...whew...Eve Mendez...someone get me some gravy...lol...

Twitter still doesn't have a revenue stream, should investors be impatient?
Since it is so popular maybe they should just charge for use.
Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico City this week that the company expects to add revenue-generating features to the microblogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a report today on Bloomberg.com. After a year or more of speculation by bloggers and financial pundits on ways that Twitter could generate revenue, Stone on Tuesday said the company is building an "analytics dashboard" designed to help businesses keep track of what is being tweeted about them. The dashboard is expected to be ready by the end of the year.
Just last spring, Stone told Computerworld that since the company has plenty of venture capital funds available, there's no rush to create a business plan focused on generating profits. "It's not tough for us because we have a lot of money in the bank and patient investors [and a] patient board," Stone said during the April interview. He said at the time that Twitter wants to focus first on expanding its network, increasing its user base and adding new features to the site. "We want to focus on this before profit. If we focus on profit, then we take people away from focusing on features."
Online pundits and bloggers have been closely eyeballing the company and criticizing the lack of a Twitter business plan. Some have doled out dire warnings about the future of the microblogging site unless it comes up with a viable revenue-generating strategy soon. The company has been adding other features recently as well. A few weeks ago, Stone announced that the company is working on enabling Twitterers to follow tweets based on location. Twitterers, for instance, could keep track of what's being tweeted in their own town or the location-based tweets could help them track what's happening in an area hit by a tornado or military attack.

Would anyone try this once, Big Juan burrito at Sonora Cantina in Big Bear, CA
mmmmmmmmmm

USC vs Ohio State matchup is a Super Bowl game at the college level
Go Pac-10!

Dubai! No Graffiti in the Subuways.
Man, talk about beautiful and clean. Islam at it's best, or oil money at work? Internet Explorers see link here

Should America Be Afraid Of Collective Societies?
Those societies like North Korea and China which have no real private property...

Its very easy for a women to get a man arrested
I guy can say, "All I wanted to do was calm her down" but the cops will throw you in jail until the dust settles.
SAN DIEGO (AP)—San Diego Chargers star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman(notes) said he did not harm reality TV star Tila Tequila at his home early Sunday and added he was concerned for her safety because she appeared to be intoxicated.
Merriman was arrested and accused of choking and throwing Tequila to the ground as she tried to leave his home in suburban Poway. Tequila signed a citizen’s arrest warrant charging Merriman with battery and false imprisonment. Both are felonies.
Merriman spent about 2 1/2 hours in the downtown jail before posting bail.
Merriman practiced Monday, then said he’s convinced he’ll be cleared. It will ultimately be up to the District Attorney’s office to decide if he’ll be charged.

Should Anyone Feel Sorry For This Manson Soldier Now That She Is Dying Of Cancer?
Should age and medical condition affect the outcome of a parole hearing especially in cases of such merciless and horrific acts perpetrated by the subject? Hell no, I say! She should have been executed in the first place. Wasting prison bed space.

Eric Darius, the Saxophonist
Oh how I love the Sax! The second video is a live version of him playing and he worked it. Yak if you like him . . .

Baby-faced Skinhead "Lost" Look-Alike Grows Hair And Starts A Church...
I thought I was watching a preview of the new season of Lost until I heard him speak. Is this the only thing we can expect from the great state of Arizona? If you Internet Explorer users can't see the video, go here. Haven't seen a baby face so smooth since David Duke of San Diego...

Where Are the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons Here?
The kid got brutalized by some vicious African Americans in New York because he just happened to like black women. Who can blame him? The question is, where is the outrage? Is it because he is white? Story here.

David Bowie is the man!
62 years old. The song is pretty sweet.

New Giant Cheetos Balls?
They are as big as a golf ball and I just seen a cheeto ball eating competition on TV. The flamin' hot spicy version. Will it last? It came out this past April.

Does having an infomercial for a product mean you made a lot of money already?
I'm watching one now of a "Worx GT" grass trimmer that uses Lithium batteries instead of gas or electric. Never seen it before and one of the products that promise "Lifetime" parts. Do these type of infomercials mean the product has gone to the next level of exposure that can't sell itself on a 30 second commercial ad?

It's a Mad World...
Does this video depict a pointlessness in life which you identify with? One of my favorite songs...

Tweet This!!
The saddest development yet in social networking. This vid expresses my feelings exactly.

Puerto Rican Style Merengue vs Dominican Style Merengue
The two are often very distinct and I'm talking the more club and dance style merengue. Merengue comes from The Dominican Republic originated from African Slaves in the Dominican republic and Dominican style has a more raw form. Of course it has evolved but the beat and rhythm is the same. For Dominincans, heavier base and heavier horns especially with the sax. The voices tend to be deeper but not always. Puerto Rican style the horns are higher pitch. Even the singers will sing at a higher pitch and often whiny in their style and you will most likely see this style in Spanish TV shows in the US. So given the four examples which do you like. The first two are Puerto Rican style sung by Puerto Ricans, Tony Tun tun and Elvis Crespo. Very popular guys. and the last two are Dominican style. First sung by La Banda Chula, probably my favorite Merengue singer and the other guy is Mala Fe. Both are very popular as well. In Latin music awards rarely will you see Dominican style merengue win music awards even though it originated there unless it has a more mainstream sound.

Music Is Universal
I don't understand half of what he's saying, but I love this song. Please note that I said the SONG, the video is typical and I didn't watch most of it.

This Happen After The Oregon Game, Should He Be Suspended For The Whole Season?
I think so. And should the player that taunted him be punished? The taunter as of now will not be punished.

World of Warcraft Cataclysm
Flying mounts and new races. Now you can be a werewolf. Map changes again. Warcraft keeps people tuned in to online gameplay.

Is it Just Me, Or does anyone else have to reset their password every other day?
I try to get help from tech support. Man, this site must be experiencing growing pains, or something!

The Effects of Perception
I recently watched this video series about kids in South Africa who were interviewed at age seven in 1992. Their views on life and themselves were recorded. There were followup interviews at fourteen and 21. What was striking was the difference in their self perception and their relative positions in life later on. In particular, there was a poor black girl who when asked what the difference was between blacks and whites, said that whites were beautiful and blacks were ugly and she would not want to marry one. She remains in the township, unmarried with a child, and desperately seeking employment. Then there was this rich (go figure) black kid in Part II of the video series, who went to an "all white" school, who, at seven, when asked the difference between blacks and whites, hesitated, and then said, "they have different skins, that's all I can say". He is now a real estate developer taking advantage of the black enterprise activity currently endorsed by South Africa. Negating the complexity of the issue and discounting all other factors that may have been involved in their social outcomes, was the difference more a factor of their self-perception (Yak) or their relative initial economic status?

Mandatory Circumcision under the Obama Administration?
Do you see this as going too far by government mandates of circumcision. A new proposal being floated by the CDC would make circumcision mandatory in all newborn males in the U.S. By doing this, the CDC asserts that the rate of new HIV infections would dramatically decrease.

Wisdom of Crowds
Do you believe that a collection of independent deciding individuals will make better decisions and prediction much better than individuals or experts?
Interesting book. The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts).
The book relates to diverse collections of independently-deciding individuals, rather than crowd psychology as traditionally understood. Its central thesis, that a diverse collection of independently-deciding individuals is likely to make certain types of decisions and predictions better than individuals or even experts, draws many parallels with statistical sampling, but there is little overt discussion of statistics in the book. Its title is an allusion to Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1841.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, ISBN 978-0385503860, is a book written by James Surowiecki source: wiki

John Legend....
Taking wifey to see John Legend tomorrow...I hope I can stay awake...lol... ...well, at least India Irie is openning for him...*smiling* You like...dislike?

RIP, The Marvel Universe
It was just announced that Disney has acquired Marvel. Over time, will the Disney "ethos" leak into the Marvel Universe and soften it? Disney's not big on entire worlds being destroyed, heroes who kill, or taking an anti-government stance. And now we'll see Hulk and Wolverine doing commercials.

The true religion of a true loving God
The true religion of God should require no help from man. It should stand on its own merits. War should not start, slavery should not existed, colonialism should not have started, and conversion should not have been required all in the name of that religion. It should just be. And when that happens, I will know it to be the true religion coming from a true god and then I will have found my true religion.

Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is the human tendency to remember events that confirm our beliefs and ignore contradictory evidence. This is one concept that might explain why believers of a specific deity continue to believe in that deity.

I never put a face to the popular voice of school house rock. I'm surprised are you?
Are you?

Americans should push the game of Rugby over Soccer
Given the tough image America always try to portray I think Schools should put more energy in Rugby than soccer which would then fuel media covered professional leagues.

Your Daddy's Music
If the hook on this song doesn't take him back to the streets of Watts, Detroit, or Chi-town and make your mama cry, I don't know man...

Could a band get away with a name like this today, "Kool and The Kong"?
Could they without getting sued? They also had a Kroft Supershow program for kids. I don't remember it.

Is This Behavior Funny or Saddening?
She handled that hoe like a professional. Watch how she twirls it into position. She's done this before...

Is her body too manly?
Is her body too manly?

I can't believe bands like this still exist - The Aquabats
They were on tv wearing their blue/green uniform. Is this what the youth are in to these days? Is this music for the kids of suburbia?

People who have relationships w/transexuals are gay
I'm watching this show and it's about women having sex changes. Their partners (women) are yacking about how the transexuals are complete men. So far all of them still have their vajajas intact. Hello.... You're gay.

Most Existential Road Sign Ever?
I'm on vacation and drove to Albuquerque over the last 2 days. Beautiful city. Just inside the New Mexico border I saw a road sign; is this the most existential sign you've ever seen? Gusty Winds May Exist

Food cost should be by the calorie and not by the pound
More food information is better and more awareness of how much people eat if we put a value on calories.

The Fox Network Is A Cesspool
Sen. Edward Kennedy's body is not even cold yet and the networks sleazy daytime hosts are already talking about Chappaquiddick...

Being Nice and Cordial to Others Requires Effort
which is probably why some people would rather be mean and rude most of the time. There are times when I'm tempted to just go off on people, but I know that I'll feel bad afterwards. Many people don't think like that. They would rather act badly first and give a half @ssed apology later. Now imagine working for someone like this.....it makes my job very stressful at times.

Do you agree that removing "The Wedge" from the NFL was a good thing?
They said it caused too many injuries but now it will be open season on the ball carrier during kickoff returns.

Globe Bikes, what do you think of them?
Specialized put out a series of bikes called Globe Bikes. I think they look pretty sweet. They have 1 gear with no hand brakes. Back to basics. My favorite series is called, "Roll" which are urban bikes. Pics below. Plus they look like a work of art. Specialized also wants you to blog your riding experience on facebook. Web page: http://www.globebikes.com/us/en/globe/GlobeBike.jsp?pid=10ROLL2

AVATAR - A Must-See Movie for World Of Warcraft Fans

Looks like a Night Elf from WOW. This is going to be good.

Do You Find This Artist's Video Disturbing?
Some find this disturbing because of her words. Do you?

Capitalization and Ethnicity
According to style handbooks, "black" and "white" should not be capitalized because they are not proper nouns, nor descended from place names. According to DiversityInc.com, "black" should be capitalized because it represents an ethnic heritage and "white" should not because "white people don't think of themselves that way". Some people prefer not to use "black" and "white" at all, because they are grossly inaccurate or because they feel pigeonholed or trivialized. Should either or both of these terms be capitalized? What about "brown" and "yellow"? Should "African-American" be used instead of "black", and where would that leave white South Africans, Jewish Ethiopians, Egyptians, and North African Arabs? And what if we just switched to using the value scale for skin color, if we're so hung up about skin (I'm a 4)? Vote anywhere, this is opinion.

Is There Any Amount Of Money You Would Take To Be A Poison Food Taster For A Ruler?
If such a position existed like it was in the past, tasting food, is there any amount of money you would take for the job?

Is McDonald's 365Black Taking Diversity Too Far?
I understand the need to market products and services to different audiences, but this website has me torn. Why is it necessary to create a website specifically to target Blacks as if all Black people act and think alike? Also, the McDonald's brand is well established among ALL races and ethnicities worldwide such that all one needs to see are the golden arches. Babies who can't even talk recognize the golden arches, point their finger, and start to drool in anticipation. Unfortunately, I think this site is an outcropping of the whole corporate diversity initiative which in many instances has gone way beyond its goal of opening up management and senior level opportunities for minorities and is now all about social engineering. Is McDonald's planning to have a 365Hispanic, 365Asian/PacificIslander, 365NativeAmerican, 365MixedRace, 365Woman, 365Gay, 365Atheist(this one's for you, moreno); alright I'm exaggerating, but you see where this could lead. Check out the site here: http://www.365black.com/365black/index.jsp

Disturbing art is some of the best
Disturbing art puts us out of our comfort zone, and lets us gaze or listen with fear and awe. Listen to the song below, it is very disturbing and yet some of the best music I have ever heard... I love it.

Use Somebody by Kings of Leon
I love the lead singer's voice on this song. Yak if you like it!

You should get the death penalty if you are an animal serial killer.
What do you think? :)

Is America Being Run By A Bunch Of Sissies and Pussies?
I read an article Wild Fires In California Linked To Mexican Drug Traffickers and it made me think about the level of corruption that must exist in a nation that allows a foreign power to conduct such an operation so deep within its borders. Are the Germans correct in some of their not so recent publications? Has this country disintegrated into a nation of weak, apathetic, dope-smoking ne'er-do-wells? How pathetic! Where is Dexter when you need him...

New Favorite TV Theme
Sometime back someone posted a Socratic asking what people's favorite TV themes were. I said, "Hawaii 5-0". Years late, I finally watched "Firefly" and "Serenity". After getting over my initial surprise at seeing RON HARRIS on the show, I realized the theme song had moved into a nice little place in the corner of my brain. How do you guys like it?

German Cuban Fitness Athlete Lyen Wong
Most people have someone who inspires them to work out and this 29 yr old woman's body inspires me to be in the best shape that I can be! People desire a body they aren't willing to work hard to get and keep. They make excuses for why they can't get it. I had invited someone who wanted to slim down to run around the park with me and she was like "girl I can't do all that running. It's too hot for that, I'd be done passed out." So I sd we can walk. Her response: I wish I could, but I'm too tired to go today plus I have things to do, maybe another time." I firmly believe that if you want something bad enough, you will make time to make it happen. Yak if you agree

What not to do at a corporate social.
I would never drink alcohol at a corporate social.

Do gross things have to be posted to make a point?
I had to post this debate because I didn't like that dogs image jumping at my face. That is so gross, ozzieman.

Does This get the Point Across?
Or not? (Give it a minute to load.)

Was There More To Michael Jackson Than We Were Aware?
Image released by The Field Museum in Chicago, shows an Egyptian limestone statue, depicting an unidentified woman, carved during the New Kingdom Period, 1550 BC to 1050 BC. The bust has been the focus of interest since the death of singer Michael Jackson as visitors double-take at the eerie similarities between the 3,000-year-old statue and the singer. (AFP/HO/File)
Check out the similarities with the nose...

Is There A Fine Line Between Morality And Civility?
...or are the lines between the two very pronounce. -->(Yick)

I'm Glad That Michael Vick Got A 2nd Chance
I'm not a football fan, but I'm happy for him that the Eagles picked him up. His conviction and sentence were bogus in the first place.

WWF Doing Anything To Stay Popular And UFC Is Taking Its Thunder?
The song writer and singer writes most of the theme songs for the WWF and this is one of them. Ultimate Fighting is taking away their thunder with real ring fighting. Also what are your thoughts on the song?

Lets be honest with ourselves, is there really a true religion and one God out there that represents one of these religions?
If it is the Christian one its clear God had little to no interest with Asians who consisted of 75% of the world population at the time of Christ with 50 million alone in China. If it is from Asia, it cared less about Europeans and Africans. If its Muslims there God wasn't smart enough to know north and south America existed.

You Can't Trust A Uniform
Mitch posted a Socratic about a US soldier who was doing hit jobs for the mob. Back in the 80's, we had a California Highway Patrol officer rape and kill a young woman after a "traffic stop". During the early days of the Second Iraq war, a Muslim US soldier tried to kill some of his platoon mates with a hand grenade. Catholic priests are infamous for abusing their flock. Some members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox cheated for pay (although apparently not Shoeless Joe Jackson). Some years back a nurse was convicted of killing many of her elderly patients, I think they called her "The Angel of Death". You cannot trust a uniform. You can only trust a human being you actually know.

Women cannot walk past a mirror or some reflection without looking at themselves.
Doesn't matter what it is. It could be a reflection from a glassed door or building or a mirror or a reflection on a car. They have to look at themselves.

Is America Safe?
This "American" solider was also a hitman for the Mexican drug cartel. America has been sold by greedy capitalist pigs to the lowest bidder of cheap labor. The country can't secure it's borders because your employers want to maximize profit "by any means necessary". How many others with no allegiance to America are in the armed forces?

Kids can pick up bad habits if you send them to summer camps
I know people who send their children off to summer camp but I think this is where children can pick up bad habits from other children such as bad sexual behavior. Do you agree or do you think these places are good for children to be away from their parents?

Lock Her Up
Women should be fined or serve a prison sentence for lying about being raped or forcing a man, who she knew was not the father, to pay years of child support.

So do you feel sorry for Billy May's now?
It appears he was a cocaine user that contributed to his heart disease that killed him and he had cocain in his body a couple of days before his death. Not much of a respectable tv personality now.

Atheists
yak if you agree with the vid, yick if you don't

Sotomayer confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
I don't think there has ever been any other person in American history who was grilled and interrogated the way Sotomayer was before being confirmed as supreme court justice. Have you ever seen a more qualified candidate than Sotomayer? Yick if you say yes and explain. Yak if you say no and explain.

Teaching Financial Literacy To the Youth
Mellody Hobson (CEO of Ariel Investments) on Financial Literacy. Yak if you agree

Diana Krall
DK is my roaddawg!! she gets more rotations in my ipod prolly than anyone. i love that fact that she is a jazz head. no pop. no r and b. no rock. jazz...imo, the most beautiful of all genres. wifey has no clue...i told her we were going to a hole in the wall jazz club, which she likes. i got 4th row center for a song and a dance, plus we are staying the night...in Palm Springs. enjoy one of my favorite favorites, DK.

Can Anyone Really Be Trusted?
If you can't see the video, loose your IE6 browser! Can you really trust anyone these days?

In a high carb eating culture; carbs can be your worst enemy
This pic is of a popular user on a fitness board I'm active on. The bloat pics are only 1 day after carbs. "I went out drinking for a birthday party and ate some cake and who knows what else, this is what I looked like the next day,... the bloating went away after a few days and I was back to normal but I did not feel good after eating crap."
For every 1 gram of carb you eat, it holds 4 to 5 grams of water. The effects of a high carb diet is immediate and this culture needs to cut down on their carb intake, especially the bad carbs. i.e. processed flours.

VERY POPULAR

A little bit of Shell Shock?
Could someone ever get use to the smallest explosion or gunshot?

Will there ever be a Pope from below the equator in modern times any time soon like in our lifetime?
Most Catholics and disciplined Catholics are from Africa and South America.

I've concluded that the Pope looks like the Star Wars Emperor, be careful!

Cartoons overemphasize emotions
One good example is when you see someone running from something scary they are grabbing their head with both hands in fright. Have you ever tried doing that? It really slows you down. Unrealistic.

Clarifications about Evolution
Yak if you agree; yick if you disagree

Instruction Manual for Life
A thought provoking video. Yick if you disagree. Yak if you agree

Humans are as subject to the laws of thermodynamics as anything else in the universe.
Physics is not just a good idea, kids, it’s the law.

Did anyone like the Speed Racer Movie when it came out?
Did you like it?

Diet sodas with 0 calories can make you gain weight
here is a great video proof.

Was this created by a man or a woman and is this just a gimmick? LOL
I've seen everything when it comes to exercise equipment but now i've seen it all.

Should you have the right to sell your body parts?
Example, one of your kidneys.

He just needed to ask a Jew about the story of Adam and Eve after all its their story.
This is what happens when the ignorance of Christian leadership takes stories literally than pass this ignorance to its followers. Jews will tell you "THEIR" story of Adam and eve is about the beginning of the Hebrew people not of mankind. This priest looks foolish.

Should you be put on the sex offender's list for having sex with animals?
Also should it be considering molestation case?

Again, Enemies of the World - Arms Dealers
Could this party from a nation with underdeveloped resources have produced the guns they use to oppress their own people? Taliban and Hamas are brothers in crime, supported by enemies of the world, the arms traders...

Sitcoms have been replaced by Reality TV
I'm looking at a Cosby Show special and I can't even think of a single sitcom that is on the air now. The 70s, 80s, and early 90s had such good family sitcoms. I would be up all night trying to name them. Now, all that is on TV is "reality tv."

Free Will God's Style
Yick if you disagree. . .yak if you agree

Does a person's body size (wt.) play a role in your decision to have a relationship with him or her?
If a person is overweight would you be turned off and move on or would you overlook that and still be willing to develop a relationship with that person? Yick if you would be turned off. Yak if you would still pursue that individual.

Is America, as whole, so Different from Mike Vick?
Do you think there is a double standard between what Vick did and people who eat at Popeye's, KFC, Sizzlers...basically, meat eaters, as it's been covered by many reports that many/most butcheries may not necessarily treat animals kindly. ...not to mention how those animals are raised. What about zoos, sea shows, people who wear leather or animal skins...? What y'all think? Is there a difference?

Is this a legitimate dance for the lord or the dance club brought to church?
yick for the dance club brought to church.

Tribute To An American Idol?
Alexis was killed in a hit and run car accident. I liked the character she created. Does she represent the true All-American-Girl?

The True Enemies Of The World Are Those That Arm The Underdeveloped Nations Of The World
Most of the nations presently at war do not have the skills or resources to create the weapons of warfare that they possess.

Joe Jackson wants sons to duet with dead Michael, Natalie Cole style, do you think this is creepy thinking?
Do you think its creepy?

A view on feminism you rarely hear from women
Yak if you agree. Yick if you disagree. She has some other interesting vids (mainly on religion; she's atheist); check her out!

Your body has one goal and everything else is secondary.
For the most part, your body has one overwhelming goal which is to keep you alive long enough to have children and ensure the survival of your genes. Everything else is pretty secondary to that goal.

Amel Larrieux...Good Gracious
So, wifey gets us tix EARLY THIS TIME for Amel at the new Conga Room in LA Live. The club is simply hitting. It's owned by Jimmy Smits, Jenifer Lopez, Barron Davis, and a bunch of other celeb. We walkin, excuse me, FRONT ROW CENTER ISLE!!! i look at wifey and say, "very nice!" She pulled her wrap shyly over her mouth and batted her eyes and said, "whatever do you mean...?" Plus, they was serving us…they were bring us drinks. We didn’t have to move from our seats. Before Amel came out, let me just say the DJ was blowing my mind. She was mixing some crazy shit, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Kebmo, with A Tribe, Brand Nubians, MJ, Pointer Sisters, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Ella Fitz, etc....crazy shit, but it was crazy working...baby was hot!! the crowd was all WTF!?! ...bobbing our collective heads. Baby was so bad, at the end of Amel's set, Amel ended by saying something like, "I just want to point out DJ "?"—I had too many grey hounds...lol—was spinning fire up there! The crowd erupted in applause. Amel went on to say something "i do a lot clubs all across the world, but neva have i heard someone spinning fire like that! damn you thang girl!" shit was hot!! Amel's backup singers first enter the stag and the crowd started the applause cuz they thought one of them was Amel. It wasn't it was her daughter, Sky. ...who was on fire...little missy had pipes like moms...and drop dead gorgeous with a kinda shy but confident attitude…if that makes sense. Amel started the set with "Get Up", "INI" and some Grove Theory hits. She was unbelievable. Her voice was hot!! And fellas, she looked tasty. baby was smoking fine. Wifey kept saying, "those shoes are hot"..."that dress is bad!"..."that necklace is cute..." etc. And her attitude was sooooooo gracious. all she did was kept thanking us for allowing her to make a living at what she loves. It was pretty refreshing to see someone appreciate her fans like she does. she even ask if any of her facebook crew was there. ...and one was...amel asked her her screen name, and screamed and said “girl, get up here” as she went to the stage and hugged her. I said, what, you aint on yickyak!?!? And she said, “whenever i sing, we sing.” Baby had us (the women of course, none of the dudes) some kind of four part harmony shit that sound damn good...we had so much fun. Amel just kept talking to the audience and asking us to participate like she knew us...like we were her friends...and it seemed so genuine. The thing that impressed me most was rhythm logic--beat knowledge. I mean, i thought billie holiday had the best understanding of rhythm i'd eva heard. then came amy winehouse. well, none of 'em can even come close to Amel. I mean baby got on the beat, in front of the beat, behind the beat, inside the beat all with her voice all with a sorta jazzy cool free style dance she would do. it was just...impressive. the only other person i've seen live who had that sorta smooth free style sorta natural rhythm to them with they own flavor was Lupe Fiasco. Anyway, talk about the trifecta!! beauty, brains (she writes her own shyt) beat and dance logic, and voice it was incredible. That’s four! Anyway, if you eva get a chance to see Amel, don’t fuq up and miss it!! those who know....lol.

Is it better to go straight to grad school after undergrad or should one work first and then return to school?
Yick if one should go straight to grad school after undergrad. Yak if the student should get some real work experience under their belt before entering going to grad school.

Will the Continent of Africa ever Experience a Shared Cultural Renaissance?
Of all the continents of the earth, Africa seems to be the one which has not had a Great Cultural Renaissance in recent history. If the effects of colonialism are removed, including all of the present military conflicts, is there a possibility for the emergence of enlightenment there?

"Its the only way"
Those words are often always used to justify destruction.

Overtime Pay or Time Off?
What is your preference if your job gave you the option. Yick for Overtime Pay and Yak for those hours off from work.

What conspiracy are you more likely to believe, The Lunar landing was fake or Kennedy death was a mob hit?
These are 2 of the top 10 most popular conspiracy theories. http://www.popfi.com/2008/02/21/the-10-most-popular-conspiracy-theories/

The Car is the most important consumer product in a houshold.
You use it to go to work. You use it to shop for food. You use it to take your children to daycare. You are willing to sit in traffic to get from A to B. Its your second most expense next to a house. Some people actually live in their car when they lose their home or have other living problems.

Is Art Mostly Objective (yak) Or Subjective (yick)?
The definition and evaluation of art has become especially problematic since the early 20th century. Richard Wollheim distinguishes three approaches: the Realist, whereby aesthetic quality is an absolute value independent of any human view; the Objectivist, whereby it is also an absolute value, but is dependent on general human experience; and the Relativist position, whereby it is not an absolute value, but depends on, and varies with, the human experience of different humans.[1] An object may be characterized by the intentions, or lack thereof, of its creator, regardless of its apparent purpose. A cup, which ostensibly can be used as a container, may be considered art if intended solely as an ornament, while a painting may be deemed craft if mass-produced. wiki.

It Is More Acceptable For Children To Speak Frankly Than It Is For Adults
Children have a way of speaking their minds and saying how they feel without worring about any repercussions. Often times when one person tries to reprimand a child for speaking the truth, that adult is told to stop and the child is defended for being honest. However, the older you get, the less people want to hear the truth. They cut you off, disregard what you have to say, or they dubb you as negative, or insensitive. Why is it that the older we get, the less space there is for people to continue to have straightforward, non sugar coated, non euphemistic, frank conversations?

If It Was Your Decision That Everyone Must Follow, Would An Egg Be A Dairy Product Or a Meat product?
Eggs are often confused as both a form of dairy and of meat and to be quite honest they are neither. eggs are an animal byproduct, just like milk, and many people categorize eggs as dairy. However, dairy is very specifically designated as the byproduct of the mammary glands of mammals like cows or goats. Essentially dairy is any milk or milk-made product, such as butter or ice-cream. eggs are not meat either. Eggs are the fetal form of a mature animal, and are considered their own entity in and of themselves, than meat. Eggs are eggs and meat is meat. So if you had to decide one or the other and you were in charge of making the designation which of the two would you choose? Yick for dairy and yak for meat.

The Ozzie Update
Hello all! I haven't disappeared, just in preproduction on a project I anticipate will keep me very busy the next few weeks. Thank you very much, Williata, for checking on me. And screw the rest of you who didn't!! :} Once I have enough people on board and the work is going smoothly, I'll have more time for Yakking. I may be quiet for now, but I haven't abandoned my Yickyak friends and I don't intend to.

Swedes Couldn't Give A Rat's Ass About Senator Pete King
Senator Pete King needs to retire his political ambitions along with Governor Mark Sanford. The world apparently does not care about your views, Pete...

David Beckham, Go Home!
America needs David Beckham about as much as we need to establish a real soccer presence here. Even though more immigrants that play the sport continue to arrive here in packs, the majority of us can care less for the game. I personally love playing soccer, but soccer players will never gain superstar status here in America as they do in the REST OF THE WORLD...

The Justice League and the Interracial love triangle - Super Heroes Cartoons have gone soap Opera..
Cartoons are doing more with interracial relationship stories than regular shows. Check this 3 part serious I posted back to back. Pretty good show called, Ancient History.

Does this look like a must see movie, District 9?
Looks pretty good.

If Someone You Loved Was Trapped In A Burning Building, Would You Go in and Save Them?
What would you do?

If you could be a talking animal, which animal would you be?
Doesn't matter what side you vote.

Cuban Rumba
I love watching Cuban Rumba! Do you like it? I love the way the men and women move their bodies!

Ella Menea
I love this song!

When obviously ugly people look in the mirror and say they look good are they in denial?
Or do they honestly believe it?

You are Racist, Self-Hating, or Jealous
Do you think that minorities tend to make ungrounded statements about persons being racist, self-hating, or jealous?

Microsoft opening up ratail stores cannot compete with Apple Stores
They want to compete but all they sell is mostly their software. Apple has software, computers, handheld gadgets. There is no competition. And Microsoft wants to open up the stores next to or near apple stores. LOL

40th Anniversary of the landing on the moon, have we progressed a whole lot after the moon landing?
Did we progress a lot more or did you expect us to more advanced in science, technology and other things?

What would be the most useful social service in helping those in Poverty?
Text Debate: texasdebater vs Whatpartofthegameisthis - This is similar to the 09-10 CX Debate resolved.

Fathers who neglect their gay sons
I hear most men say that they don't want a sissy for a son. It would hurt them to have a boy who displayed many of the behavioral qualities attributed to women. They don't view their gay sons as men. Should fathers learn to love and be accepting of their gay sons?

Refurbished Computers
Is it more worth it to buy a refurbished laptop vs. a non-refurbished one? Yick for refurbished, Yak for nonrefurbished

Is the new release of the Michael Jackson Pepsi accident fair game now?
Well is it?

Music that makes you dance; Long Live Tito Puente
Tito Puente put his heart into his music!

In Regards to Persons Only Fluent in English, Should Spanish Be a Mandatory Secondary Language Class for them?
In many American high schools, a student typically has the option of learning spanish or french. Considering that spanish is the 2nd most commonly spoken language in America, should it be mandatory for students who are only fluent in English, to take spanish?

If you could only choose one supplement aside from vitamins which would you take?
If you could only choose one supplement aside from vitamins, which would you take? I've heard one fitness expert argue that she would take flaxseed. "Flaxseed has 27 identifiable cancer-preventative compounds." It helps people who have problems with constipation. "It also has been shown to aid in the regulation of blood sugar, and to lower bad cholesterol and blood pressure." So there are a lot of benefits to taking flaxseeds. What would be your choice?

Some Kids Should Be Seen And Not Heard
Kids (under 12) eat free after 4pm at Denny's every day. A family with 3 "kids" came in and one of them told the waitress "I'm not a kid, I'm 13". He looks like he's about 10. The adults at the table looked at him like he was crazy. I would've made him pay for himself. He can obviously read, so he knew what the huge banner read about kids eating free. I cracked up.

I Repeat. Is It Not Time To Summarily Execute Criminals?
Little girl buried alive in cement? It should be mandated that everyone that enters school be given a psych exam. If you are found with predilections toward aberrant behavior, you should be executed on the spot! Sorry, the video does not show up using IE. Get you backwards a$$ a Firefox browser!

The debate on religion
Text Debate: TheVulcan vs soosoo - a debate where people speak their minds about how they think life was created. Creationism, or Evolution?

If you could change your gender for a year would you have a lot of sex and get pregnant if you are a woman?
Or would you be more constructive?

90 Million views because it was funny?
7th most viewed video on youtube.

Bubble Yum or Bubblelicious
Favorite gum yick for Bubble Yum and Yack for bubblelicious- I created two polls on gum too.

Audra Shay Wins Young Republican Race Despite Facebook Racism Controversy
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner First Posted: 07-12-09 14 AM | Updated: 07-12-09 11 PM Audra Shay, 38, has won the post of chairman of the Young Republicans -- despite accusations that she endorsed racism on Facebook. Shay's candidacy, supported by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, hit a snag in recent weeks when she responded to a comment made by a friend on Facebook saying "need to take this country back from all of these mad coons" with "You tell em Eric! lol." Other Young Republicans chimed in, saying the comment was racist and questioning Shay's response. Shay issued a statement saying she "was not aware of the racial comments until sometime later" and was only responding to her friend's other remarks. I immediately deleted the derogatory and outright disgusting comments and subsequently posted a statement on my Facebook Status stating that in no way, shape or form are the comments posted by other individuals a reflection of me or my beliefs as an American, a Veteran, a Mother or a Candidate. I do not, nor would I ever, condone that type of language or behavior. But more controversial comments from Shay were found by the Daily Beast. After an effigy of Sarah Palin was hung, she said "What no 'Obama in a noose? ... I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose." She's also written that President Obama "attacks white people" and posted a video claiming Obama believes he has to help African-Americans over whites to "ensure his own salvation." Voters at the Young Republicans convention said the whole scandal was just politics. "Elections bring a lot of emotion out of people," said delegate Katherine Miller, 24, Lexington, Ky. "But this controversy really is not the decisive factor for the majority of people voting here. There are so many important issues we are considering. It really has been played up a little bigger than it really is." ------------------------ what do you think...racist or not?

Questioning Judge Sotomayer
Is Judge Sotomayer the right person for the job? The republicans don't seem to think so, which is why they questioned her today. If Sotomayer is confirmed, she will be the first hispanic justice and the third woman to serve on the high court. . .

Melanie Fiona. You like?
I think she/they are crazy talented. What you think? Too bad she's so ugly...lol.

What do you like better, zombie movies or vampire movies?
Yick for Zombie.

Battle of the Pies
Yick if you like sweet potato pie. Yak if you like bean pies better

Bing Ads Crack Me Up!!
Have you seen these? Yick or yak if you like or not.

Men Who Refuse To Shake Women's Hands Because Of Their Religion
My friends and I were offended at a corporate event when one of the men refused to shake our extended hands because he said it was against his religion to shake a woman's hand. Then he proceeded to shake the man's hand who walked up to him. How rude! When in a corporate setting, should he shake women's hands out of respect for the corporate cultural environment?

If you could have either Google or Wikipedia as the only research source for school before 1990.
Wikipedia - Yick or Google - yak.

Do good things come to those who wait?
...or should be more proactive?

Should the U.S. pursue sea wave energy as an alternative power source?

This formula states that "wave power is proportional to the period of the wave and the square of the wave height" - wiki. One of the effects of using wave capturing devices is that the waves will be of lower height in the region behind the wave power device. Is there some natural earth function being provided by waves, or will we be damaging the environment by harnessing this wave energy?

Why are we harboring Al-Queda Cells?
America is doomed if we continue to allow immigrants that have no allegiance to this country to be here.

Is it ok to pump gas with the car engine running and should I have been scared?
I was at the gas station and a woman in an SUV was pumping her gas while her car engine was running. Should I have been scared?

ColorBlind by Counting Crows
I loved this song when it first came out and still do!

Is The American Food Pyramid A Good Guide for Healthy Eating?
Is the American Food Pyramid a good guide for healthy eating?

Capital Punishment....A Proper Way to Administer
There has been a lot of debate over the years of Capital Punishment. There has been many pros and cons as to its administration. One of the cons is that capital punishment is not a deterrent. I wish to introduce ways that will make it both effective and a deterrent. 1. The immediate end of Lethal Injection. This is to calm for individuals with whom we deem that are not fit to reside in our society. 2. All executions should be made public. I honestly believe if individuals saw someone choking to death in a gas chamber, strangling at the end of a rope, burning in an electric chair, and bleeding from gunshot wounds it would be a wake up call. Downtowns and gymnasiums should hold these events as exhibitions. 3. High School and Grade School students should be taken field trips to see these executions. Now I believe if they saw someone being put to death a majority of them would not want to end up in their predicament. Also one of the arguments is that Capital Punishment is not evenly distributed. The poor and the minorities seem to get it more. Well here are ways to end that. 1. Premeditated murder should carry a MANDATORY death sentence. 2. Crimes such as rape, child molestation, and three strike offenders should also receive the death penalty. 3. Incarcerated individuals whom commit murder should also carry a mandatory death penalty. That way these individuals should never see the light of day. 4. The end of all Federal Appeals. If an individual state deems an individual should die, then that should be it. No more tying up our court systems for these individuals. 5. Individuals whom receive the death penalty should be put to death within 60 days of sentence. No need to feed and house individuals we deem unfit to be amongst us. So am I on the right track? Yak if I am and Yik if you disagree

Flying Cars
How open are you to the idea of us eventually moving toward an era of flying cars? I wonder what type of laws would have to go into place before it becomes legal for people to drive flying cars? Will flying cars become an environmental health hazard? How will this affect the birds? There are companies out there working on creating a certified flying car. . . http://www.terrafugia.com/

Is It Cheating If You're Not Married?
This term is thrown around so loosely. But is having sex or dating other people when you're not married really cheating? I think un-married couples should verbally specify the terms of the relationship to avoid hurt feelings.

Is a beating or spanking an effective form of discipline?
Some consider spankings to be a form of child abuse or a poor "disciplining" tactic that teaches children to hit others. However, others believe that a spanking is a type of discipline that will teach the child to listen and respect authority. What are your thoughts on spankings?

Is It Time To Kill The Lawless?
Drug gangs kill federal officers and soldiers in Mexico in a coordinated attack and home invasion robbers kill the parents of 16 kids, 12 of whom were adopted, some with special needs...

Teaching your children how to drink responsibly
Would you take your child drinking and show them how to drink responsibly? My friend's father taught his daughter about alcohol, and took her out drinking (when she was around 16) to test her alcohol tolerance level. He wanted to make sure that she would not be taken advantage of and he wanted to ensure that she knew what liquors not to mix etc.

Gay marriage or single parent homes. What is worse?
What is having the worst effect on society morally?

Writing a Will is the best way to tell how you feel about someone without saying it?
When you distribute your wealth and leave people out it can really say how much you felt about someone throughout life.

Beautiful Modern Day RandB Contralto Female Vocalist
This is her version of Round midnight. It doesn't showcase all of her ranges, but it's beautiful nonetheless This lady has been singing all her life. She's now 22. I really loved her before she blew up the airwaves. Some songs that I enjoyed before she went main stream: Round midnight, Hooked on You, take over you, break my little heart, love (came out at 15 yrs old), silent tears, feel nice, smile . In my opinion, her album doesn't really display the quality of her vocals. You should hear her live! I did like In love with another man on that album

What is the most natural sexual position?
Yick for misionary or yak for doggy. Everyone kind of know the cultural and primal influences except the ignorant ones. Basically how did mother nature intend for us to have sex?

Amusing Ourselves To Death
Here is a execerpt from the social commentary "Amusing Ourselves To Death" by Neil Postman! Yak If You agree with Huxley's point and Yick if you agree with Orwell's point. "Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there was no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisted, the civil libertarians and rationlists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possiblity that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

Bill O'Reilly Talking Points on Michael Jackson
Bill O'Reilly is debating Dr. Lamont Hill on Michael Jackson. O'Reilly claims that Michael Jackson was not a great pillar of Black American. He goes on to claim that others who criticize M.J. are not racist. Yak if you agree with O'Reilly and Yik if not.

Nonbelievers teaching their children about religion
How does a nonbeliever go about teaching their young children about religion?

The Blood of Jesus
Jesus himself is recorded in The Word of God in St. John 3:16; "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." Simply stating the only thing neccessary for salvation is to believe in Jesus. I once heard a deacon in Cleveland say that he believes that God made it to simple. There is no need for any religious ceromonies, baptisims, dietary plans, or any other rituals. Jesus paid it all on Calvary's Cross by shedding his blood. Now tell me yick if you think I am on the wrong track or Yak if you believe that God did make things to simple for man. I really can not wait to here from my EDUCATED intellectual superior individuals on this Site.

Rev. Sharpton Spoke Well At Michaels Funeral
I have never had high regard for Al Shaprton as a public personality, but he represented himself well and displayed great character today.

The US is 37th in the world in Health Care, is this ok or should we change and how?
The countries in the top 20 mostly have publically funded health care, so why are they ranked high if socialized health care is so bad? Don't attack me because I only want a logical explanation not an extreme reason. http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

What is the worst punishment, Death or Life in Prison without Parole?
Death, yick and Yak for Life in Prison.

Will there be a new flamboyant celebrity that will replace MJ?
We had guys such as Liberace. Boy George fell off the map. England's Gary Glitter has been brought back to earth after his sexual exploits with children in Asia. Maybe Elton John but he doesn't get much media coverage. So who?

The World's Oldest Bible
The world's oldest bible will soon be on the internet to look at. And guess what -- it's different than today's bibles. Apparently a lot or all -- the article doesn't specify -- of the resurrection parts aren't there. Different books, different book orders. Being from the 400's, is it reasonable to assume that this, rather than the King James version, is closer to what the original framers of Christianity had in mind? And does the disparity between "official" bibles prove that the bible can't be inerrant?Link

They Always Keep One Thing
In your experience is this true: When a couple have broken up and the woman returns the man's things, she always keeps one item.

We kill people for killing people to show others that killing is wrong.
Capital Punishment

Hunting Accident Deaths
A Vermont man is facing manslaughter charges after killing his 17-year-old son during a turkey-hunting expedition. State law requires hunters to identify their target before pulling the trigger (too bad Cheney wasn't hunting in VT). Should criminal charges be pursued in hunting accident cases?

Would There Be More Press On The Women's Wimbledon Results If Someone Other Than One Of The Williams Sisters Had Won?
As it stands, press of the women's championship is nearly non-existent. How pathetic...

Will the true virigin birth step forward?
All predate the Christian Virgin birth:
Buddha was born of the virgin Maya after the Holy Ghost descended upon her.
The Egyptian God Horus was born of the virgin Isis; as an infant, he was visited by three kings.
In Phrygia, Attis was born of A Roman savior Quirrnus was born of a virgin.
In Tibet, Indra was born of a virgin. He ascended into heaven after his death.
The Greek deity Adonis was born of the virgin Myrrha, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. He was born "at Bethlehem, in the same sacred cave that Christians later claimed as the birthplace of Jesus."
In Persia, the god Mithra was born of a virgin on DEC-25. An alternative myth is that he emerged from a rock.
Also in Persia, Zoroaster was born of a virgin.
In India, there are two main stories of the birth of Krishna, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, and the second person within the Hindu Trinity. In one story, Krishna was said to have been born to his mother Devaki while she was still a virgin. In the other, he had a normal conception and birth.
The writer(s) of the Gospel of Q, circa 50 CE, were unaware of the virgin birth because Christians had not invented the concept at the time. The Jewish Christians, centered in Jerusalem under the leadership of James were the first followers of Christ. They were led by James the Good -- called the brother of Jesus. They rejected the virgin birth. Paul (who was executed about 64 CE) was similarly unaware. The writer of the Gospel of Mark, circa 70 CE hadn't heard of it either. If any of the above writers knew of a virgin birth, they would almost certainly have realized that it was a miraculous event and would have incorporated it into their writings. Sometime after 70 and CE, a myth of the virgin birth was invented, probably to strengthen the authority of Jesus' teachings by claiming that his birth was miraculous. This was a time of great change, as the Roman Army had demolished Jerusalem and its temples and scattered many of the Jews throughout the Roman empire. There, they would come into contact with many stories of virgin births of various politicians and deities from Pagan religions. In fact, it would have been unusual if the developing story of Jesus' birth did not include many of the features found in mythical figures of other religions. By the 90's, the belief was widespread. The author of the Gospel of Matthew incorporated it into their Gospels. At some unknown time, an unknown forger added the virgin birth story to the Gospel of Luke. Circa 100 CE, the writer(s) of the Gospel of John likely knew of the story, but rejected it as being a false teaching that was not accepted by their Christian faith group.

Faith...So Simple yet So Hard
The Word of God says in Hebrews 11:1; "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Yet we all who cling to Jesus cling to Him by faith. Now those of us who trust Him know Jesus has NEVER let us down. So many educated (yet miseducated) on this Site try and approach and attack the Bible by other intellecutal methods and crazy videos just miss the point altogether. The Bible is a spiritual work and can be understood by those who are spiritual. I believe others on this Site have missed that point. Yak if you believe I am correct and Yik if you think I am still just as off as ever.

How Art Explains Our Political System
One of the Christian right-wingers just posted in comments that " Such as laws against murder, theft, perjury have biblical roots. Our government IS based on Jueau-Christian roots. No way to avoid it." What bull. Such laws existed long before so-called "Judaeo-Christian principles". The truth is, our system was created by picking and choosing the best political principles from throughout history. Democracy from the Greeks, civil justice from British common law and Babylonian civil codes, etc. This is best illustrated by the North and South Wall Friezes at the Supreme Court. Sure, Moses is there... but so are Charlemagne, Solomon, Confucius, Mohammed, and many others. And furthermore, Moses's beard is partially covering those "divine" tablets... obscuring the religious Commandments and leaving only the secular ones exposed. EDIT: It was brought to my attention that the link was not working. Try this:

Is this superhero overkill and should they be superheroes after destroying a city?
At the end of the fight they tell the mayor, "we will pay for it." Come on! The fighting between good guys vs bad guys or good guys vs good guys have lately been taken way on the extreme side. This type of fighting while laying waste to the city is starting to be the norm. Are they trying too hard or what? The writers suck.

Why the Bible is bull....!
Best 10 minutes i've seen on the Bible.

Are These Women Historical Sports Icons?
Two dominant sisters occupying the same stage. Has this ever happened before? They are amazing!

Should adult incest be legalized?
It is unfair and narrow minded to discriminate against, and prohibit, consenting adults from practising incest, just as it is unfair and narrow minded to discriminate against or prohibit those who practise homosexual relationships.

I promise...the last MJ video, yet it's a must see.
The moves are sick! *SMH*

Confirmation bias is often mistaken for critical thinking.
"Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs. For example, if you believe that during a full moon there is an increase in admissions to the emergency room where you work, you will take notice of admissions during a full moon, but be inattentive to the moon when admissions occur during other nights of the month. A tendency to do this over time unjustifiably strengthens your belief in the relationship between the full moon and accidents and other lunar effects.
This tendency to give more attention and weight to data that support our beliefs than we do to contrary data is especially pernicious when our beliefs are little more than prejudices. If our beliefs are firmly established on solid evidence and valid confirmatory experiments, the tendency to give more attention and weight to data that fit with our beliefs should not lead us astray as a rule. Of course, if we become blinded to evidence truly refuting a favored hypothesis, we have crossed the line from reasonableness to closed-mindedness."

Pelham 1 2 3
This is a good movie. All the characters were believable. Go watch it! Has anyone seen it yet? What are your thoughts about the movie? Why did or didn't you like it?

The Power of Writing
Americans praise a person's oral ability but writing, in my opinion, is still the most powerful way of expressing one's self. When you want your voice heard, you write a letter of complaint. It speaks more volumes than yelling at customer service reps. When you want law officials to add or change a law, you make your requests known in writing. Writing serves so many purposes. For me, it is therapeutic, it aids me in my personal growth, it makes me feel powerful, it allows my voice to heard, it brings me peace. When I feel as though people aren't listening to what I'm saying, I write (not type, email, txt, facebook etc) a letter to them. I wrote letters to my roommate, to family members, to my friends etc. Why? Because writing allows me to get my point across without being interrupted. I'm more meticulous about my word choice, unlike when i'm texting and so on. . . I want to make sure that what is written captures the essence of what I want to convey. I think that writing your feelings to a loved one vs. stating your feelings take on a deeper meaning. For example, when you are accustomed to hearing the phrase "i love you," the depth of what that means is often taken for granted, even disregarded. But when you receive a heartfelt letter from a loved one, it really opens up your eyes to how they view you. I don't want to make this too long, but this is just some of the reasons why I enjoy writing. It's a love hate relationship b/c sometimes writing can be draining (and a struggle), but the end result is worth it. Why do you enjoy writing?

Do you like when celebrities endorse a product or have you bought a product because of a celebrity endorsement?
Do you like when celebrities endorse a product or have you bought a product because of a celebrity endorsement? If you bought a product because of a celebrity, why?

Would you prefer someone to get credit for The Moonwalk?
Or is it just easier to say it was another dance probably created possibly in the black community somewhere in America? It seems to be very much associated with tap dancing. So a lot of claims could go around.

Number of millionaires dropped 27% in 2008
Is this a good thing?

Ozzieman - Quotes of the day
Ozzieman is now the quoter of the day.

Is There A Point Where A Person Who Has Experienced A Childhood Trauma Should Get Over It And Go On With Their Lives?
My daughter and I were in a discussion over a woman who was molested as a child, forced into oral sex and now refuses to eat through her mouth for fear of choking. She feeds herself through a feeding tube. If no justice was served in this case against the perpetrator, should this woman just get over it and go on with her life and begin eating normally again?

Should Mentally Challenged People Be Supervised While Accessing Public Ultility Services?
When bumblers can cause someone in desperate need of public services to be put on hold, shouldn't their use of these facilities be monitored and supervised?

Does Anyone Take The New Yorker Magazine Seriously?
Do they?

Joe Jackson takes heat for plugging his record label. Is this considered low?
The media is slaming Michael Jackson's father for plugging his record label during an interview about his son. Is this low class? The media doesn't like it and they were shocked when he did it.

Evolution of the Human Mushroom head Penis shows evidence that we were naturally not monogamous
Why the Mushroom head? “The erect human penis is especially large compared to that of other primates, measuring on average between five and six inches in length and averaging about five inches in circumference.” Our closest living relative, the chimp, is nowhere near as large, even at its most riled up.
Only the human phallus has such a distinctive mushroom cap-type head/glans. it plays a significant role in Gallup’s research.
During sex, the penis swells inside the vagina and “occupies the vaginal tract, and with full penetration can even reach the woman’s cervix and lift her uterus.” Further evidence that guys with smaller dicks were given the short end of the biological stick.
Why the mushroom head? --> we weren’t always so loyal, which is why the human penis adapted to deal with competing sperm from other mates. Gallup’s “semen displacement theory” suggests that the human penis is meant to deposit sperm as deep in the vagina as possible, outshooting sperm from other sexual partners, biology’s way of “ensuring” paternity.
Another way the human penis outsmarts the competition? By getting rid of the competition’s sperm. According to Gallup’s theory, human male “penises were sculpted in such a way that the organ would effectively displace the semen of competitors from their partner’s vagina, a well-synchronized effect facilitated by the ‘upsuck’ of thrusting during intercourse.” Basically, the frenetic thrusting not only encourages the penis to ejaculate, but it also flushes out the sperm left behind by prior partners.
In a series of studies published in a 2003 issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, Gallup and a team of his students put the “semen displacement hypothesis” to the test using artificial genitalia of different shapes and sizes. They even concocted several batches of realistic seminal fluid. Findings from the study may not have “proved” the semen displacement hypothesis, but it certainly confirmed its principal points and made a believer out of most readers.
As predicted, the two phalluses with the coronal ridges displaced significantly more semen from the vagina (each removed 91 percent) than the “headless” control (35.3 percent). Additionally, the further that the phalluses were inserted—that is to say, the deeper the thrust—the more semen was displaced. When the phallus with the more impressive coronal ridge was inserted three fourths of the way into the vagina, it removed only a third of the semen, whereas it removed nearly all of the semen when inserted completely. Shallow thrusting, simulated by the researchers inserting the artificial phallus halfway or less into the artificial vagina, failed to displace any semen at all. So if you want advice that’ll give you a leg up in the evolutionary arms race, don’t go West, young man—go deep.

Did anybody know about the military coup takeover in Honduras?
I did not have any idea this happen. I guess I was clouded by so many superficial things in our media in America I never took notice. Don't military coups stay on the news for at least a week?

Billy Mays Died...Are you sad?
4th Celebrity in a month.

Innomen: Quotes of the Day
Quote of the day will be posted by different users and each time a new user posts quotes of the day a new debate in their name will be started, starting with Innomen. Feel free to comment on the quotes that he posts until the next user.

How blind should justice be?
How much weight should the motivation or the actual person who is accused of a crime have on the penalty? Thumbs up if it should be blind, thumbs down if it should take into account factors outside of the actual crime.

Do you believe its the "lightbulb"?
Do you agree with him?

baptist church peforms gay exorcism
First off, its funny how Protestants bash Catholics yet they participate in catholic rituals like exorcisms. Second, this is a modern day witch hunt. Finally the homophobic Black community puts too much energy on homosexuals because it is easy to do. They can't deal with the hard stuff that plauges the Black community and what the Bible repeats over and over of what is bad like premarital sex, mulitple sex partners before marriage. You know, the typical Sodom and Gomorrah type of stuff of people trying to get their groove on or hookin' up.

Do you think Michael Jackson was a child molester?
Yes or no?

The King Is Dead. Long Live The King!
...R.I.P. Michael. We love you man...

Is There A Double Standard Within Sports? No College Required For Soccer, But At Least One Year Required For Basketball?
Jozy Altidore signed a pro contract at 16. Jozy scored one of two US goals in the US' winning effort over Spain. And Michael Bradely turned pro at 16. Also a member of the US Soccer team. And Freddy Adu sign a contract at 14. None of these guys were ever required to attend college. Does America have a double standard for sports…requiring basketball and football players to attend college...yet, somehow it's OK for soccer players to sign pro contracts at the age of 14, 15, or 16 and never set foot on a college campus. Should the academic requirement of one sport be the same for other sports?

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett Dead
Will Farah Faucet be almost ignored in the media because Michael Jackson died on the same day?

I feel like I can't breath
Michael Jackson dead at 50. I've been a fan since I was 6 years old. ;(

What does this person mean with this statement?
This person said the following but I don't understand his meaning. -- "Wow, he seriously bumped about 10 problem threads. To keep things in perspective...what else would you do in Austria besides bumping old threads and planting trees so invading armies can march in the shade?"

Do you think cars with night vision cameras are practical and a good safety addition?
I drive through a very wooded community at night and I could find some value with this technology. Of course it is on a BMW :)

Prenuptial Agreements
Would you sign a prenup?

People who cheat on their partners
Why is being faithful so difficult? Is being committed to one person even normal?. . .

Do You Find Enjoyment When Republicans Get Busted For Behavior They Preach Against?
Arkansas gov who is a republican gets busted banging some chick in Argentina. These guys base much of their platform on personal responsibility and family values but boy they love to have fun.

Sports Report
The US men's soccer team just defeated Spain, the world's top-ranked team and unbeaten since 2006, 2-0 at the Confederations Cup semifinals in South Africa. In all my years watching this team I have never seen them look this organized and professional. Do we have a chance in next year's World Cup?

The funniest cute commercial ever!
Say it aint so, lol!

What's Your Conversation About?
Mitch posted a Socratic which made me wonder: What are the three things you talk about most, in order? Answer anywhere. Work-talk doesn't count.

Does Having A Particular Subject Represent 27% Of Your Conversation Describe An Obsession?
Is that a high enough frequency to declare that a person is obsessed with a particular subject?

Would you prefer that we only pay a sales tax?
I was listening to the radio and some people on the liberal side said it would be unfair for average and poor people because they would pay more sales tax on goods and services. One person said rich people would get things for free because of who they are and it would help bring more business to the stores.

This is So Unethical
Indulging is fine, but this is just ridiculous. The only complaint that I found was from some nurses association that said the idea of the waitresses being "nurses" was sexist.

Christian Abortion
For the sake of this debate only, we will stipulate that the mainstream American Christian description of deity is correct. It is a matter of historical record that human beings have been practicing abortion for over 3000 years. Given that God knows all, sees all, and given that in recorded history God does not have a record of stepping in to prevent these abortions, does that not make God complicit in the abortions? He knew in advance about every one of them and did nothing to prevent them, merely passing on the responsibility to beings He knows to be flawed. This strikes me as abrogation of duty. If abortion is murder, God is a co-conspirator.

Moral virtues are all connected
It seems to me as though virtues are like a chain of islands in the sea. We see the surface (the island), above the water level part of land mass, and what is going on underneath the water surface is not so apparent, but they are not separate things at all, they are all connected and related. Such it is with moral virtues. We think they are all separate and unrelated, but that is just "surface" view. When virtues "slip" in a certain part of life, and we essentially "kill our consciences" in this area, it literally "kills" or at least wounds our consciences and moral thinking in other areas. In other words, loss of virtue metastasizes, even though we may not realize it. An example, is the sexual revolution of the sixties. The loss of sexual moral principles has led to cruelty, even though it is not obvious because of our tremendous ability to justify and rationalize our behaviors. It has metastasized into cruelty by manifesting itself into the murder of over 40 million unborn children.

Obama signs Tobacco Bill, are you happy about it.
To bill makes The FDA the regulatory agency over the tobacco industry instead of the ATF. The Bill will restrict tobacco advertising, ban candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes, and require large, graphic health warnings to cover the top half of all cigarette packages. The bill also prohibits cigarette companies from marketing their products as “light,” “low-tar” and “mild.” However, the bill does not ban menthol-flavored cigarettes

Witchcraft, Personal Thing
Religion as a whole is something that I see as a means of escape for people from this life. I can not bring myself to get close to any part of it. I have always prided myself on being very open (and accepting) to others concerning their beliefs. Recently a person told me about dabbling in witchcraft and well, maybe its a combination of my not liking this person very much prior to the ommission and my dislike of religion, but I am kind of afraid of them. What do you think about witchcraft as religion--yay for classification as a religion and nay for no. Then do you think its okay, why or why not? Also have you ever really considered this before now?

Hypocrisy vs. Cultural degeneration
Much criticism of conservatism is in the form of hypocrisy. For example, when a profamily conservative, succumbs to infidelity, the hypocrisy button is immediately pushed. On the other hand, (admittedly, this is a generalization), when standards, principles and mores are "lowered" to fit behaviors, (in the sexual arena this seems to be more on the liberal side), then one cannot be accused of hypocrisy. However, the question is, what is more harmful to the culture in the long run, to lower moral standards to fit our behaviors (and not just in sexual arena) to avoid the label of hypocrite, or to live with some hypocrisy, but maintain levels of morality that we cannot always necessarily reach, but to shoot for, so to speak? I think it is more harmful to lower standards, for the sake of the debate, but what do you think?

Iran fighting for a Change (Warning: Graphic Video!)
Check out this young lady. They say her name was Neda. She was 16 years old...fighting for what she believed in. Democracy is expensive, aint it?

The pope is quicker to condemn priest who do not "live to the full gift of their celibacy" than priest who rape?
...to the full gift of their celibacy? Is this what the Pope finds important? Is there something wrong with this picture.

France Banning the Burqua
A couple of years after banning it in schools, France is now considering banning the Burqua altogether. "In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity," Sarkozy said to extended applause at the Chateau of Versailles, southwest of Paris. Furthermore, this religious garment allows people to disguise their identities in public, like the Klan. Do you support Sarkozy's action as a celebration of secularism and common sense, or repudiate it as a meaningless attack on Islam?

Should the father be arrested?
Is he breaking a law?

Father's Day
This isn't a debate, just a statement: Happy Father's Day to all the dads on yick yak! Here's the debate...why have a father's day or a mother's day? Do you think people would forget to shower their parents with gifts, OD affection, and the whole works if there wasn't an "official" day of parental appreciation (sarcasm)?

The negative side of desperation
My Chinese neighbors are the victims of constant attack. Their restaurant was robbed numerous times over the years. My neighbors recently renovated the building and put up large glass windows, and yet they were still robbed a few days ago. Two nights ago three teenaged boys attacked one of the Chinese men as he was leaving the store to deliver food. I think they took his money. About a year ago, the Chinese’s apartment was broken into and trashed (thank goodness their kids weren't home). The store was held up numerous times. I just wonder why everyone keeps attacking these nice people? Perhaps they are desperate for money. Does poverty turn certain individuals into evil people? Do attackers see their actions as just a way of surviving?

Mr. Deity is back/ Do you take the Deist view that God doesn't directly involve himself in earthly matters?
Well do you?

The new IPhone came out friday, do you think its stupid when people applaud everytime someone walks out the store with a new iphone?
With the large crowds at the Apple store, every purchase of the new phone is an event. Buyers receive a large applause every time someone walks out with the new purchase. Should one simple product have rock star status? So it seems?

Here Is Bush's Legacy
“Here is Bush's legacy, in part: He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses -- and left troops in harm's way on two fields of battle. He embraced torture as an interrogation tactic and turned the world's champion of human dignity into an outlaw nation and international pariah. He watched with detachment as a major American city went under water. He was ostensibly at the helm as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression took hold. He went from being the most popular to the most disappointing president, having squandered a unique opportunity to unite the country and even the world behind a shared agenda after Sept. 11. He set a new precedent for avoiding the general public in favor of screened audiences and seemed to occupy an alternate reality. He took his own political party from seeming permanent majority status to where it is today. And he deliberately politicized the federal government, circumvented the traditional policymaking process, ignored expert advice and suppressed dissent, leaving behind a broken government. Bush's great hope is that Iraq in the years to come will emerge as a thriving pro-Western democracy -- and offer some vindication for the misbegotten war that will always be associated with his name. (He has already done a masterful job of spinning his troop "surge" as a profound success -- instead of a maneuver that has simply postponed the nearly inevitable paroxysms to come.) But even if he does ultimately have something to show for our incredible -- and profoundly mismanaged -- investment of blood and capital, it will never be enough. “ ~ Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post. And I’d add the Terry Schiavo debauchery. And what about what happened to Al Gore in the election? What about illegally spying on Americans? And imagine if we listened to the buffoon and privatized social security and placed it in the stock market? …lol. It’s gonna take years to clean up the mess he left.

My Nine Step Economic Stimulus Plan
Well as we see our economy sliding downward and the current administration seems to not have a clue on how to fix it I have decided to introduce my own. 1 A three dollar an hour cut in the Federal Minimum Wage. This should help in more hiring process. 2. A twenty percent across the board tax cut! This should encourage investment and spending. 3. A thirty percent cut in all Federal Senators and House Members Pay. They should take the lead or as V.P. Biden says during the campaign “man up!” and take the lead in cuts. 4. An end to ALL Federal Housing programs. Individuals will now have to pay their own way. No more subsidies or free rides. Those living in Federal Housing should be given the opportunity to purchase or start paying rent like everyone else. 5. An end to all Federal Education Grants. Student Loans should still be made available, but the Private Sector should be encouraged and given incentives to give grants. 6. An end to Welfare. Enough said. 7 An end to any federally funded rehab centers 8 A gradual elimination of Social Security over the next twenty years. Only those who are currently and doing that time frame who become eligible shall receive it. 9. A gradual end to Medicare and Medicaid Benefits. Let the Private Sector deal with it. They are better equipped to manage it. So Yick if you disagree, or Yak if I am on the right track.

In Celebration of Juneteenth, I give you Dr. Ben
Check him out and tell me what you think? ...lots of people don't like him.

Is college worth the debt?
The price of college is insane! Is the benefits of attending college worth the debt?

Compare
Stay with it until the aria begins. Do you really think that the top pop singers today are capable of this?

Major League Baseball's Oakland A's have the most players with college degrees at, 3, good or bad?
Shockingly, while many current major leaguers had college experience, we found only 26 (including managers), who have earned degrees. The brainiest team was the A's, with three graduates and seven key members of the lineup having university experience. Source: Wall Street Journal June 16, 2009

U.S. Senate Approves Resolution Apologizing for Slavery
JUNE 18, 2009 Today, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the transgressions of slavery, according to CNN.com. The nonbinding resolution, that is sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was approved on a voice vote. It will not have to be signed by President Obama. The resolution is similar to a 2008 House resolution that acknowledged the wrongdoings of slavery but offered no reparations. It was the first time a branch of the federal government did this. However, the House will have to revisit this resolution because the composition of the chamber changed after last November's election. Harkin's resolution "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery, and Jim Crow laws."—Shavon S. Greene http://www.essence.com/news_entertainment/news/articles/us_s... What are you thoughts? Is this a good thing? Bad thing?

I want my employer to provide "food insurance."
For US companies to compete in the global market place, they should attract the best employees by offering "food insurance." This insurance program would run something like our employer health insurance program. For approx. $300 per month premium, I can walk into any supermarket I want and fill my shopping basket with as much and the best that the market has to offer to feed my entire family. I can even request a referral to the five star restaurant down the street on special occasions--and no charge. What a deal!! Now this insurance should be mandated by the government, because it is the only way the market for food will work. (Can you imagine if this insurance program was actually instituted? It would create an endless, unreal demand for food goods and services with the accompanying sky rocketing prices. Well, welcome to the land of employer health insurance.) And, this is only one of the reasons why government intrusion into the medical marketplace has resulted in our medical mess.

Pension Plans have outlived their usefulness
A brief history according to wiki: Pension plans became popular in the United States during World War II, when wage freezes prohibited outright increases in workers' pay. The defined benefit plan had been the most popular and common type of retirement plan in the United States through the 1980s; since that time, defined contribution plans have become the more common type of retirement plan in the United States and many other western countries.
Its pretty clear pensions were short lived in the private sector. To me it is nothing but a Socialized savings plan in the private sector. Today it is driving companies into bankruptcy, especially in the auto industry. Unions trying to force these companies to meet unrealistic financial demands which aided in the demise of many companies. People cannot expect companies to last forever and its unfair to obligate corporations to support your livelihood when you are no longer working for the company. These companies rely on profit and they cannot support retired workers like the government sector that has a revolving door of tax payers to pay retired soldiers or government employees. The only realistic option is for workers to pay into a revised pension plans. Basically you get what you put into it with a realistic yield when companies make profit.

Is happiness a moral obligation?
I like this guy a lot, but disagree with him frequently. There is a portion of this that i think is worthy of consideration, but i also think it is is worthy of discussion.

People shouldn't crticize what they don't understand
As the title says, people shouldn't criticize things they don't understand and know nothing about. This applies in pretty much realms of thought. Science, philosophy, theology, history, anything you can think of. The video below is a video I found on YouTube defending death metal, one of my favorite styles of music, refuting the criticisms made by people who don't understand what they are talking about. This seemed like a good example to use, it's not too controversial. EDIT: I apologize, I do not know why the video screen is so huge.

This is the Bishop Al Sharpton is pushing on his show - Religion is corrupt in America
He has this quack come on his show on a regular basis for this bonehead CRAP!!! The dudes name is Master Prophetic Bishop Jordon and he sells Prophecies. As you can see in the video he got the rapper from Run DMC on there.
His site
Hussles Prohecies for money
You can be in his Prophetic inner circle for $3000
He charges $365 for a product called "Deeper Word". And product description is, With your $365 seed, you will get the Deeper Meaning CD and several other gifts. Click the "Add to Cart" button above to get your copy now!....IS THAT IT!!! What the hell is, "and other gifts"?
check this $365.00 product out called, The Trailblazer - Bishop Jordan will go before God on your behalf, and discern the script that has been written for your life!....so now he has special access to God that you don't and he will CHARGE YOU FOR IT!!! LOL.
And this is who Sharpton is pushing on his show on a regular basis. This one guy called and asked him for a prophecy, but instead of telling him on the radio he had to call a 1800 number. I guess this one required a fee.

Should it be mandatory for employers to provide health care?
A bill is being passed in the American Congress to make this into law. Currently health care is negotiable. I'm sure liberals can argue the good side because many liberals want a lot of things for free from other people or organizations as long as it doesn't come out of their pocket but the down side is that businesses will mostly pass the cost to the consumer. Higher plane ticket prices, higher food prices, higher car prices, etc.

Prophetic ministries is nothing but fortune telling.
I decided to listen to Al Sharpton on the radio. He has taken an all time low with the prophetic ministry bull crap. He had this Bishop on his show who did this mess. People would call in tell him their problem and he pretty much did the fortune telling thing. For example. A guy called and introduced himself and the Bishop said, "Are you carry something like groceries" and the guy laughed and said, yeah, I just came from the store. Than the bishop said, "Are you calculating a large amount of money" and the guy goes, yes, I'm in the process of a loan modification on my mortgage. So the bishop begins to give predictions, all positive about some general things he will do. Other people called telling him just enough for him to make up stuff. He would do this, "You are not happy with your job and you will find a job that pays more money" or "you are someone that is good with your hands and you need to do something with your hands" and the guy would say, "yes, i'm trying to invent something, should I continue with my dream". But with each caller he could address, problems with money, people wanting to move, family problems, kids and 90% of the time any quack could nail it on the head by saying, "you are looking for a better job" or "you want more money because you know you are worth more." Only one lady gave him a hard time. He tried to do the old, you are morning the loss of someone you love, and the lady said, well my brother died but that was years ago and I'm over that. I started laughing. She said no or not really to everything he was predicting. I mean it was total bull. I can't believe Sharpton would have this mess. Well yes I can.

Who is your favorite comedian?
I love comedies. Who are some of your favorite comedians? I think Kevin Hart: I'm a grown little Man was funny. Chris Rock, George Carlin and Jamie Foxx (back in the day) were also funny comedians...

A Very Costly Kiss: Senior Denied Diploma
This is one the stupidest things I've ever read. A senior blew his family a kiss while walking up the stage to receive his diploma, and the school administrator sent him back to his seat. This was blown out of proportion. Does the school have the right to withhold someone's diploma over an innocent kiss to a parent? http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92681?fp=1

Are We Entering A Text Message Low?
A girl has won $50,000 for being the fastest texter on a cell phone. A 15-year-old was crowned the new US texting champion after a two-day marathon competition. Article: “Let your kid text during dinner! Let your kid text during school! It pays off,” Kate Moore said after winning the LG US National Texting Championship. “Your kid could win money and publicity and a phone.” For the Iowa teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the competition prize of US$50,000 (€58,960) just eight months after she got her first mobile phone. Moore, with a speedy and accurate performance, beat 20 other finalists from around the US over two days of challenges such as texting blindfolded and texting while manoeuvring through a moving obstacle course.

Burial, Cremation, or Other?
What is your choice when it comes to disposition of your remains? Burial? Cremation? Cryostorage? Partial space burial? And why? Vote anywhere.

Does the crime fit the punishment? NFL players two different outcomes.
Similarities with the players, both are Black. One got a stiff sentence while the other pretty much walked away clean. Both are NFL players. On the one corner you have Michael Vick. His sentencing was 2 years in jail for facilitating dog fighting and possible loss of career if a team doesn't pick him up due to bad publicity. What played against him, Federal Crime with defined sentencing statutes, his denial until the evidence was so overwhelming he could not deny it any longer. The public for some reason did not like him. Animal Lobbies were out for blood. Viewed as arrogant and cocky that could have hurt him in sentencing. Showed little remorse according to some reporters. Another typical big media target. In the right corner, Dante Stallworth. NFL star but not the media attention of a Vick. Charged with drunk driving that resulted in killing a man J-walking which is manslaughter. Stallworth actually flashed his lights before hitting the person. Sentence of 1 month in jail. minimal fines to sharity and money to the family of the victim and a crap load of probation of I think 10 years which includes a leg brace for monitoring. What played against him, nothing. What benefits awarded him only 1 month in jail for a crime that has a maximum of 15 years if he had a bad lawyer or the player was just unlikeable, I suppose. Lawyers who sat in the court to observe said he showed remorse in court and to the media and the victims family. No negative background history or problems with the law. Willing to pay $2500 to sharity such as MADD. He cooperated from day 1. I am sure I missed a few things but you get the picture and you can google search for more details. Please post on any side. Many things can be interpreted on this such as drunk driving laws, animal laws, laws from state to state, federal vs state. Crimes against animals vs crimes against humans. Alcohol. You name it a lot can be pulled from this. What stands out the most for you?

Do you think TMZ is implying that he is gay?
"Peter Scolari, now 53, was spotted at a movie premiere looking alone." http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/17/bosom-beauty/

firedavidletterman.com - is this blown out of proportion?
Dude!!!

Can Blacks be Racists?
Can Blacks be Racists?

Hip Hop Culture
Can Hip Hop be used to spark social change and cultural diversity? Hip Hop has been getting a bad rep, but progressive Hip Hop educators believe that Hip Hop is the best way to cultivate young people into activists.

Do You Like Your Private Health Insurance?
According to a May 14, 2009 poll by Rasmussen, 70% of Americans with health insurance rate their coverage as good or excellent. However, the Obama administration says we have a health care crisis and that a "public option" would increase competition. Mind you, there are over 1,300 private entities offering health insurance TODAY. Let's be real, the government won't "compete". With an endless supply of tax dollars and access to the printing presses, the government public option will undercut and drive private insurers out of business. And this is exactly what Obama and all those pushing for a "public option" want. They want a single-payer, government controlled, health rationing body, that noone will be able to escape. Obama and all of his surrogates who claim they don't want a single-payer system are LIARS. ***Watch the video and see for yourself. ***Of course, that doesn't mean some people can't afford health insurance; but 47 million doesn't even come close and is another lie. Of the 47, sometimes 50 million number thrown around, 14 million are eligible for EXISTING plans but haven't enrolled. 10 million are households making over $75,000 who can afford it but choose not to buy it. 8-10 million are ILLEGAL ALIENS. The remaining 13-17 million are people between jobs, and/or young and healthy, and some who genuinely can't afford insurance. These people's needs can be addressed without destroying the entire private system for the other 283 million people.

Dating and Faith
Why do people allow their faith to keep them from marrying or dating those from another faith/nonreligious background? My Christian friend fell in love with an atheist man. She wanted to get married to this man, but she felt torn because he wasn't "saved." Some of her Christian friends and family advised her "not to be unequally yoked with a nonbeliever." I felt sad for her, but I encouraged her to listen to her heart. Eventually, she decided that he was the one for her. He proposed, she accepted and now they are married. They truly complement each other. She is the happiest I've seen her and she did not regret her decision to be with him. Most ppl in this situation don't always have this wonderful ending. I may have my disagreements with religion, but that aside, people should not feel torn about being with the one they love because of their faith.

Negative publicity is just as good as positive publicity
People make money off of it no matter what.

I Want My Gold Trophy!
In running for the Yick Yak Gold, are all things fair? I know some in the past (not mentioning anyone's name...like Luc---ne, lol) who would post frivolous debates and stories just to rack up daily points. Is gold more important than contributing thought provoking, well researched material to this forum? (By the way, I'm getting close...)

Daft Punk-Something About Us
Have you ever been in a situation similar to this song? Here are the lyrics: It might not be the right time/I might not be the right one/But there's something about us I want to say/Cause there's something between us anyway/ I might not be the right one/ It might not be the right time/But there's something about us I've got to do/ Some kind of secret I will share with you/ I need you more than anything in my life/ I want you more than anything in my life/I'll miss you more than anyone in my life/I love you more than anyone in my life

Video: Should Dave Letterman be fired, the right wing thinks so.
The Palin camp charged Letterman with instigating sex with a minor, her daughter, by bringing up sexual innuendos about her daughter. YOu know the one that was knocked up. Was his jokes worthy of removing Letterman from TV or not. It appears Letterman wouldn't care either way.

Is The Pressure That Men Must Endure Underestimated?
Men must deal with the stress of being good sexually (as moreno pointed out in his post), provide for his family, like women, show little emotion, deal with constant rejection and so on. Is the pressure that men must endure underestimated and taken lightly?

Private, Public, or Home Schooling
Which is better? Private schools are appealing b/c it's a safe learning environment, and students get personal attention. Public school education is great, but most students in the public school system lack the motivation to succeed (at least this is true in the urban communities), and Home Schooled kids can work at a steady pace and recieve one on one attention (contrary to popular belief home schooled students are social, and do interact with other students). The negative side to home schooling is if you have parents who don't know how to teach their children, unless they hire a personal teacher. Which provides the best form of education for students?

Was the Penis Size part of the evolutionary plan in terms of survival of the fittest?
Was this intentional by mother nature for men to have different penis sizes? It doesn't matter the size to produce so what gives? Why is there so much importance put on size? Was this considered a key element for selecting a mate or did culture poison the idea that guys with bigger penis are more ideal? Its not as though they can produce better or have better relationships. Some cultures put great emphasis on this when selecting their ideal mate although there is nothing else or very minimal this man can contribute in a successful relationship. Some cultures have mutilated males of other cultures in fear of these men taking their available women. You can go back in history and see art work of exaggerated sizes so clearly there is some importance that goes way back. Are those with bigger penis more confident, have greater survival instincts, stronger, better DNA and other things women desire in a man? Today many of the primitive abilities are not required any longer and are replaced with level of education, wealth, charisma, etc as a key qualifier. But even with those qualities that a man can offer a large penis can still compete with even the better qualified men for that woman and women will select their mate who has that one quality. So is there something we may have overlooked? In today's media along peer pressures, men with smaller penis are known to be self conscious, not as willing to speak to a woman with confidence, ashamed to show their body. Pretty much he is weeded out of the selection pool because he may get mocked by others if people find out especially in groups showers such as the military, sports, etc. Word can easily get to women about this person. Or is the Penis no more important than a man who is tall, has broad shoulders, or muscles. Its just another physical characteristic that mankind has blown out of proportion?

Tithes and Offering
Moreno posted an article:Father-and-son pastors jailed stealing $3 million from their church. I'll bet that the majority of the persons whose money was squandered was predominantely female. Why pay tithes? That money can be used to invest, send kids off to college, charity and other useful reasons. Perhaps even the majority of the poor and working-class churchgoers can improve their situation or up their class status if they invest their tithes into a high-yielding interest saving account.

Is This Plausible?
Intel and Carnegie Mellon think so...

Is This Clever or What?
I think this is a great piece of amateur video work, yes?

Does plausability require evidence?
Plausability seems more of just an idea, a hunch, an imagination.

Finding the Motivation to Work Out
Many men of color say that black women barely go to the gym. I find that the women often lack the motivation to start or keep up their exercises even if they want to get in shape or stay in shape. How do we help the ladies kick the excuses to the curb and get going? ladies like to feel sexy. One suggestion is to put on some nice form fitting clothes and go salsa dancing (switch up the exercise; don't just be a gym rat) what is your take/ suggestion on the matter?

Is sexuality fluid?
Recently talk shows have been discussing the fluidity of sexuality. For example, on oprah (a show i rarely watch), oprah tried to understand why women who identify as straight, love their husbands, want to have sex with their husbands, can also have strong sexual desires for women. B/c society is notorious for categorizing people, it becomes difficult to understand how sexuality can be fluid. What are your thoughts on this matter?

Video: What is better, 24 grams of fructose syrup or 67 grams of sugar? - artificial vs natural
In a 20 ounce of regular pepsi it has about 24 grams of fructose syrup. For the new Pepsi Throwback with real sugar it has 67 grams of sugar I guess to get the same sweetness(a little more than 1/4 cup of sugar). I tried it and it wasn't super sweet like fructose syrup pepsi even though you need less sweetener but fructose syrup does have that syrupy taste especially from the soda fountain. Yick for fructose, yak for mother nature's sugar.

Does Prayer Change Things?
Many people believe that praying or offering up libations can change a situation. Do you agree? Are there any benefits to praying?

Chavez Bans Coke Zero, is he "on to something" or "on something"?
Is he taking a stand against artificial sweeteners in sodas or is he once again smoking the nationalizing crack pipe? I posted the article.

Do you think, Time Before Time, is plausible?
Science fiction movies and cartoons love to use this cliche. I'm watching one now. Do you think it is plausible?

Has the word "Christian" been hijacked?
It would seem that Catholics are no longer deemed Christians, of the hundreds of denominations of those who proclaim Christ as their savior, they too are not truly Christian. Has the definition changed in the last few years? There was a time when if you accepted Christ as your savior you were a Christian, but now there seems to be a complicated list of preconditions before you are permitted to be Christian (oh and of course go to heaven).

know when to fold 'em and when to hold 'em
Is a woman learning to submit to her man an old concept or is there something meaningful to this? Can submission be a good thing? If so, in what ways?

Is there a such thing as rape in marriage?
Rape is forced or unwanted sex. If a woman does not want to have sex with her husband, but he forces her to, is that rape? Is the woman obligated to give into the sexual demands of her husband? I have never heard that a husband can rape his wife until recently. . . what do you guys think about this?

The Christian god's love
if you were given the ultimatum to love god and go to heaven or reject his love and burn in hell, would you serve that god? how loving do you think a controlling, possessive god like that could be?

Insane Guitar Work
This guitar work has been putting a chill down my spine for over 20 years. The guitarist's name is Robbie Blunt. I find it haunting, evocative, and subtly evil. Who likes?

French Song: Comme un fils
i don't speak french; but i love listening to songs in other languages. I love the instruments and his voice. What do you think?

The best neo-soul female artist?
Who is the best female neo-soul artist and why? Goapele, Jill Scott, Donya Coss, N'ambi, India Arie, Avani, floetry, liv warfield [fill in the blank]

Do You Know River?
These are some of my favorite fights scenes. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it's amazing how dancers can simulate fighters. Anyhoo, you like?

Dan Fogelberg: What else Needs to be Said?
One of my favorite lyricists passed away about two years ago: Dan Fogelberg. Talk about painting pictures thru song. Do/Did you like?

Do you feel you get your money's worth if a movie is under 2 hours?
The movie, Land of the Lost is only 1:40 minutes. It seems unfair. Should prices be based on how long the movie is?

Why Do People Like American Football?
Football is so dangerous. I cringed the few times I saw a game.Watching players get knocked in the air makes me nervous. Why do men (and some women) get excited over football?

Should All Life Have Different Value?
Do dogs have less value than humans? Do flies have less value than humans?

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God is Bull Crap, its harder for a Poor, uneducated, low class person.
The story suggest its hard for the rich man to give up his possessions to the poor and follow Christ. But it is the same Christians who say that God provided the riches for those faithful followers and you got preachers today who preach it in the mega churches. In my opinion its harder for shady ass folk to inter into heaven because even though they don't have the wealth their desire for it is greater than rich folks desire to keep it. Christians will tell you maybe you are being punished by God for not getting a good job or money in the bank or a new car. Shady, poor ass, low class people will cut your nuts off for your money. Prisons are full of shady so called Christians looking for the American dream the old fashion way, Steal it!!!

Soft Language
Please watch this video before responding: George's Carlin's "Soft Language" http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=7313467 Youtube use to have this video but it was taken down. Does the usage of euphemisitic language make it difficult for people to deal with reality? "I don't like the way that euphemisitic language conceals reality" ~George Carlin

Gentrification
Do you believe that gentrification, the movement of well to do individuals into a lower-class area, is the newest form of overt racism? The majority of the people who would suffer as a result of gentrification is predominately poor and working-class minorities

Atheism and Spirituality
Can atheists be spiritual? Many buddhists do not believe in god, but they are spiritual! What do you think about atheism and spirituality?

Man, Does He Have a Big..
Love this!!!!

I'll Ask This Question Again. Is This A Good Thing Or A Bad Thing?
The exponential rate of technological expansion...

Has anyone ever read the short story, Harrison Bergeron. Can the argument for the demand for equality be taken to the extreme if we allow it?
In the story, societal equality has been achieved by handicapping the more intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the lowest common endowment. This is due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the United States Constitution. This process is central to the society, designed so that no one will feel inferior to anyone else. Handicapping is overseen by the United States Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. I will post the short story in the discussion forum.

Are There Other States Close To Bankruptcy Like California ?
You never really hear about someone else' state politics unless for some reason it becomes a national point of interest. California is facing insolvency. Are there other states in the union similarly positioned? Yours maybe?

Is the pursuit of happiness really the goal of people?
I see less and less examples of people who are truly happy, and yet all seem to be manically chasing those things that make us happy. It was once said that the two things that will ensure unhappiness is chasing that which makes you happy and the other is actually attaining what you think will make you happy. Is happiness truly what we are seeking in life?

Is a known dishonest person more honest for being dishonest than an honest person being dishonest?
Simply a play with words. Your thoughts. Will you more readily lose more respect for the honest person who is now or becoming more dishonest?

The 2nd child is the playmate
Most couples don't decide to have another child because babies are so cuddly. They have another one so that kid #1 has someone to play with. It doesn't matter how young and active a parent is, adults can't physically keep up with a child. My mother even told me that's why they had my little sister.

Is Jon Voight Serious
I am no Obama fanatic, but this is quite humorous. The way Voight describes him, he thinks Obama is the false prophet of the bible. I know 2012 is just around the corner, but is he being a bit too prophesy oriented? Is Obama really the biblical false prophet, buddy of the antichrist? (if you can't see the video, go here - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/09/voight-on-obama-the-president-is-a-false-prophet/?eref=politicalflipper)

There is no credible alternative to Gordon Brown. That's why he is still there.
I think Gordon Brown has done nothing wrong apart from not being as comfortable and as appealing in front of camera as Tony Blair. I think the hysteria and smear campaigns surrounding him is purely media driven and based on very little. I would rather stick with him as PM than risk having a sleazy Old Etonian taking us back to the dark days of Conservative rule. There is also the issue of the Tories not having any actual policies of their own to challenge with.

Guys which one would you enjoy her kicking your Ass and women who would you prefer to be if you had to choose?
Guys if you could live to talk about it. LOL. Yeah, I liked the cheezy movie, Last Legion. This is the last debate on this topic. Angelina(Yick), Ms. World - Rai(Yak). Two fight scenes for Rai in below video.

One of the best cartoon theme songs to date
Tom Jones is the man

The Movie, The Last Legion Was A Winner For Me. A Must See rental For You Historical/fantasy Fans
And the Indian, Aishwarya Rai as a warrior was as hot as she can be. I think she will have to replace Angelina for the female warrior actress. The only problem I found with the movie is that it should have been called, "The Last Caesar" since the whole point was to protect the boy who was the last blood line to Caesar at the fall of the Roman Empire. The 9th Legion did not show up until the last 20 minutes of the movie. They were the legion that supposedly protected the borders in Britania.

The legalization of abortion has reduced the crime rate in the US.
Research shows that most crime is committed by males between the ages of 18 and 24. Since abortion was legalized in 1973 a significant drop in crime was recorded in the early to mid nineties, about the time these children would have been reaching the peak crime-committing age. Therefore legal abortions are a positive thing for American society.

The smartphone and Cellphone industry are immune to the economic fallout.
Unless there is another way for people to communicate the mobile phone industry is here to stay for a very long time. Over 32 million Smart phones were shipped worldwide during the Q2, 2008. Phone companies powered by apple, Linux (Palm) and Microsoft reaching a 230.6% growth rate in 2008.

Academically unqualifiable athletic superstars should manipulate the system to go pro until the system changes
Why might you ask. Would a billion dollar industry change themselves if they know they can get free labor from athletic superstars who are not book smart? Like all institutions who function like this they never change unless the people abused by the system show some form of protest or manipulate the system . History shows us this over and over. The NCAA will tell you these athletes are getting a free education but 90% of them never graduate because they would never qualify. They only want these kids to bring in money for their athletic ability. If this is the case if you want to be an artist you must major in chemistry to qualify. Extreme example but relatively the same because the level of dificulty for some who cannot graduate from highschool will have difficulty finishing 4 years in college. Why is it that 90% of college basketball players cannot graduate from college?

Do you really believe in a separation of church and state?
If so, you would have to agree that state and federal workers must work on religious holidays such as Christmas. It is only logical if it is an observance that is based on the birth of Christ, then those who work for the state should not be given any sort of burden of having to participate in that day by not working.

Obama blunders the credit card holder's bill of rights
Obama should have veto this garbage. He signs off on soft regulations that tells lenders notify the consumer before you skyrocket their interest rate. Give them 25 days to send in their bill instead of 14 days. Give them until 5 pm of the last day to mail your bill. But it doesn't stop them from jacking up your interest rate to 30%. Talk about usery. I thought Bill Cli... I mean Obama was a liberal. LOL. Welcome to our side Obama. Guess what? Payday lenders can still charge 500% interest.

What I Learned
Well, the Derrick Rose debate was certainly eye-opening. I learned some stuff. I did not know about David Stern's "one and done" rule; the college rule I appeared to be supporting was the original rule, which was framed with good intentions. I learned the NCAA process is even sleazier than I thought; it certainly does need reform. I also found out there were also grade-changing incidents surrounding Rose in high school and that the accomplice named in the SAT cheat is serving time for armed robbery, so the final thing I learned is that I'm even less impressed with Rose than when I posted the initial Socratic. What a sleazeball. What did all of you learn? Answer anywhere.

The new strain swine virus is a realtime example of evolution?
So humans are now fighting to adapt to this new virus by creating a vaccine.

Do you consider speeding cheating the system if you don't get caught by police?
We all do. We use "morality" like we use "sin". Theist says sin is a sin yet will show more anger towards certain sins. In the secular community we express anger towards people who cheat in something yet in our everyday lives we conciously cheat the system. Speeding or running a red light is a perfect example because we will never drive to the police station to pay the fine to show our honest humility of not being a cheater or socially immoral. We put the burden on law inforcement to catch us from cheating. We put the burden on coworkers to catch us taking pencils home. We put the burden on inforcement to catch us throwing cigarette butts on the ground that in some places can carry a $500 or more fine. Especially in dry states where it can cause a fire.

Do you think Push Polls are unethical and should be outlawed Nationally?
First what is it: a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll. Push polls may rely on innuendo. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants, and is illegal in New Hampshire. Source: wiki
Anectdote: Washington DC has currently been conducting Push Polling by phone on the issue of gay marriage. The questions asked: "How bothered would you be if the legalization of gay marriage meant that public school children would learn about gay marriage?" In this question the use of children as a fear tactic as though the mentioning of the topic in schools would some how rub off on the children or possible make them gay. Another question asked: ""How bothered would you be if the legalization of gay marriage meant that churches would be forced to perform marriages against their beliefs"?" implying that legalizing gay marriage would mean churches are forced to conduct these marriages. I don't know of any law that forces churches to do anything.

Congressman Cohen said the requirement “does far more to serve the financial interests of the universities at which the students play than the educational interests of the students themselves.”
Do you agree. The congressman wants to abolish the mandatory age limit for the NBA that other pro sports do not do. Dudes, you two, Moreno and Ozzie dug deep into the other debate i just had to observe. But only an hour ago a new article just came out. Do you agree with the congressman. I will post the article.

The 6th State Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage!!
New Hampshire is the 6th state to pass same-sex marriage! Yeah!!! ...or Nay!!!!

Suggestion for the Airlines
Air France 447's black boxes may never be found as the plane crash occurred over a sea bottom 22,000 feet deep. Ozzieman humbly suggests outfitting the black boxes with small flotation devices. In the event of a crash, a CO2 cylinder would automatically inflate a bladder, possibly pulling the flight recorder unit to the surface. If brightly colored, the bladder could help locate boxes quicker after a land crash, as well.

Should Paper Currency Have Something To Identify The Amount Of The Bill For The Blind?
The reason I created this debate is because a friend told me that this blind man owned a small convenience store on a military base through a special program for the blind but some people would lie about how much money they would put in his hand when they made a purchase. Some people would say that they gave him $20 when they only handed him $1 to get money back. I was upset when I heard this but this is my justification for the debate.

89% of Republicans are white!
Today I heard an interesting stat on CNN: 89% of all republicans are white. It seems obvious, but damn...Yack if this number surprises you.

Kansas' Abortion Doctor Chickens Came Home to Roost.
I knew this was coming when I first read of the abortion doctor in Kansas so called murder. Well here is my oponion. I feel sorry for the woman who lost her husband and if they had any children. As for this doctor I feel JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED! He is responsible for assisting in the murder of countless of unborn children. While many and I mean many pro-lifers disagree with me on this stance, well sobeit. It is my stance. Yik if you too disagree. Yak if see where I am coming from.

Susan Boyle lost to a dance group called, Diversity and has an emotional breakdown. Is it the public and Simon's fault?
The media believes it is the fault of the public and Simon for her emotional breakdown. She was sent to a mental hospital.

Lakers or Magic?
Will Phil Jackson's double-teams slow down Dwight Howard? Will the Magic's 3-point shooting weaken the Lakers in the paint? Can the magic handle the Lakers' depth? Yick for the Lakers, Yak Magic. (I just wanted to say, "Yak Magic".)

Dealing with Cheaters
So it has emerged that Bulls point guard Derrick Rose had an impostor take the SAT exam for him, in order to get a high enough score to play for just one year at Memphis before moving on to an NBA paycheck. Should charges be filed in this case, and should they include fraud charges? Should the NBA take any action? (Falsified academic records are generally cause for dismissal.) Should parents rip his poster off their kids' walls?

See "UP!"
Wifey and me took my niece and one of her friends to see UP. What a delightful surprise! The movie was exceedingly touching...wifey teared up twice. And very funny!! Disney and Pixar are an incredible team. ...it's a great kids movie, and surprisingly, an awesome date movie...go see this...and don't show up late cuz the first part of the movie is very important to the story. What was funny was the theatre was so pack...a lot of adults...wifey and me couldn't even sit my niece and her friend...but it worked out perfectly cuz it allowed wifey and me to have a mini-date. anyhoo, yick if you think i'm nutz, yack is you know i'm right.

Are You A Proud GM Owner?
Laugh with me, as we descend into Marxist hell. As of this morning, we all became majority shareholders in Government Motors, previously known as GM. This money sucking pit will join the long list of money sucking pits controlled by the government: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, USPS, Amtrak (in case you don't know ALL of these government programs/enterprises are BANKRUPT). With a track record like this, GM will be profitable in no time! If you believe that, you probably voted for Obama and you probably think the government with CEO Obama at the helm can run GM, government healthcare, the banks, the 'green' economy, and anything else Obama and the Democrats decide to take over. I hope you know how to develop, design, manufacture, market, distribute, service and sell cars that people want to buy, because I don't and neither does Obama or any of his "auto task force"!

If you had to leave one item after you die would it be a photo?
I think a photo of me would be the most important item if I had to leave something behind for my family, children, and friends to remember me by. Do you think so?

29 Year old Man with 21 Kids: Who is more at fault?
Yack for the man, Yick for the 11 women. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/27/desmond-hatchett-29-year_n_208393.html

Eminem is butt of joke at MTV Awards...LOL!!
I'm sorry, but this ish is funny!! This fool is/was always talkin' ish about errbody...no one was off limits. That fool told Eric Clapton, who dissed Eminem's music, that Eric's kid jumped out a window to kill himself on purpose. I'm sure some people know the story of Eric's toldler, who was left with the nanny, fell out of a hotel window to his death...years ago. Eminem was ruthless in his attacks. Now the fool got some money and all of a sudden he's too high-society to get clowned back!?! ...lol. Personally, I think it's fuqing funny when clowners get clowned...lol. here, check it yourself (i aint sure about this borat mofo, tho.) Funny or not funny?

Will Pres. Obama rescind DOMA?
During the Clinton administration, the president authored the Defense of Marriage Act. Essentially it is a ban on federally recognized same sex marriages, and any obligation of a different state to recognize a same sex marriage that was performed in a state that allows this. In one of Obama's electoral promises he said that he would rescind this act. He has 29 days to do so, and has remained completely silent on the subject when asked. Gays and Lesbians are incredibly niave when it comes to things like this. They have no idea that the democratic party views them as a giant ATM machine and will pay lip service when convenient, but when push comes to shove, when there is actual votes involved, and public opinion means something; take the money and run. The question is...will he rescind it?

What is the best Santana song or what is your favorite.
This can include songs where star performers sung the song. Pretty much any song where he gets much of the credit for.

Do you see a taxation balance when you have to report all capital gains but can only deduct partial losses?
You can only deduct a certain percentage of losses but you have to report all of your capital gains.

Was The Obama Judicial Nomination a Stroke of Political Savvy , or a sincere gesture towards Judicial Empathy?
A move like this would undoubtedly secure the Hispanic voting populace, a plus for the democrats, so I think it was purely political. It is a change, but, is it change you can believe in?

Is being born into conciousness really an opportunity, well its not.
For theist this is not a mandatory first step to go into your idea of heaven and for non-theist, it is what it is. According to RonHarris being born is an Opportunity and a Blessing.

I Hate Men II....The Madness Continues
She is back! But after you get through all the profanity she actually makes sense. I find myself still NOT agreeing with her, but at least this time she shows the evidence of intelligence. I think she even shows the root of her anger. Yick if I am wrong and she is just bitter without hope. Yack if you follow what I am saying and that she does have potential for change.

The laugher often times becomes the target while observing a verbal joust between two people
Ive seen it time and time again when A jousts with B in a discussion and observer C laughs in favor of A, B gets destracted and attacks C for laughing. In many cases the attacks are personal. The reason in many cases is that B is not winning their case with A. It happens on this site, the workplace, or on the street. I've seen an instance when B will physically or want to physically assualt C for laughing completely ignoring A who was the main person doing the verbal damage. Human behavior is an amazing thing.

Too Quick to Believe
Some time ago someone posted a Socratic about UFOs, specifically the Morristown, NJ, red lights. When I opined that they looked a lot like flares, mitch and sockmess jumped all over me. Despite the fact that they looked just like flares. Well, they were flares. Here's a link to a Newsweek article about the perpetrators of the hoax. The reason, mitch, that the flares hung in mid-air? They were attatched by fishing line to helium balloons. People are too quick to believe. Read it and weep.

"I Hate Men."
This is something I took off another Site. This bitter lesbian is talking about how she "hates men." The sad part about this I see in a lot of women, both straight and gay. Yick if you think this sick ass broad has issues, or yack if you possibly think she has a point.

Do you think that store membership cards are worthless?
Every store seems to offer some membership card. If you get one with Panera Bread you can get a free soda or free bread. Yeahh! Some of them want you to spend $100 just get get a $5 coupon or discount. Is this really worth the effort? Do some of you have a lot of them little cards on your key chain?

Can theist descibe in great detail life after death as they can describe life on earth?
60 plus years is as much as most humans will get on earth. A short amount of time relative to living for eternity after you die. WHat are the details of life after death. With all there to look forward to it should be well described. Streets paved in gold would be bit vague and not practical in any world. What would be your typical day?I would think praying to someone everyday would get boring after A while and would that really be something wonderful to look forward to?

Digital cameras are overated
I put off getting a digital camera for a long time because of their cost and the fact that the developing process is a hassle. It's nice to be able to delete pics that you don't want, but the whole point of taking pictures is to be able to look back at them years later. Digital photo printers take too much time and uploading pics to the computer then still having to take them to Walmart to print still adds an extra step to the old process. I have about 3 years worth of pictures saved on my computer that I haven't found the time to print. I'm so tempted to sell my camera and go back to the good old days of film that can be developed within an hour of taking them to a store.

What if you are wrong?
A simple question, but one that cannot be answered by the devout Christians or atheists. Not even in just matters of religion; in politics or basic understandings of the world and universe, what if you are wrong. What difference does it make to you? For me, my beliefs are entirely practical and seem to provide fulfillment and happiness, but i am not so arrogant to think that all that i believe could be in error, you?

Can/should gays be against gay marriage
Without being considered a traitor.

What should annoy me the most?
sharing an office space with someone who flexes his machoism, talks about all the women he is going to bang while his girl is on hold, cursing half of the day, loud talking, hardly does any work and when he does it is half-ass, than wants to turn up the volumn with some gospel music as though I want to hear it forcing me to put on my earphones. Should I be sicken from his religious hipocracy (yick) or his irritating machoism(yak). Note: I'm not talking about RonHarris, but I think of Ron when I see this guy.

Phyllis Schlafly...We should have listened!
This is the great Phyllis Schafly. This lady alone defeated the E.R.A. movement of the late 70s and early 80s. She exposed the E.R.A. movement for what it was. It was nothing but a launch pad for legalized abortion and homosexual rights. Yak if you agree we should have listened. Yick if not.

I Challenge All Here That None Of You Could Offer Any Valuable Skill Set If You Went In Time During One Of The Early Empires And Could Not Return.
As we live, work, and depend upon technology and the service industry none of us could offer anything valuable to the people of the past that predates the Roman Empire that these cultures already have knowledge of or with what you do know could be a threat to your life and to the power structure. What could you offer that could possible not be a threat to your life for the good of the society if you plopped into in the ancient past. How could you eak out a safe existence and with what you know of the future knowing you cannot return to the present. Note: I'm sure you all may have good ideas, so I will only challenge for the fun of it.

This is how Nintendo sees you using WII Fit and this is how we see you using WII Fit, go to the gym!
The first video is Nintendo's vision of your getting into shape with there "WII Fit" and the second video gives you an idea of how often people will use it.

Understanding The Collapse Of The Waveform
I've grown concerned about a common misunderstanding. A lot of people these days seem to think that humans are creating reality by looking at it. This is because they have read in the media that the light waveform collapses into particles when looked at. But it actually collapses when anything acts on it... just like a wave in the ocean, which dissolves into spray upon reaching a shoreline, whether there are living beings standing there or not. We are not creating reality by living it. (Obviously this is not about animal experimentation; don't know how that happened. No comments necessary about that.)

The Religion Warning Label
This is something I posted somewhere else a long time ago, so one or two of you may have seen it before. It's the religion warning label, my own creation. Use under guidance. Take a large dose once a week and smaller doses as necessary. Results may vary; not all users of this religion will experience identical results and use of religion is no guarantee of spirituality or goodness. Side effects may include: Detachment from reality, firm belief in the implausible, speaking in tongues, loss of foreskin, missing football games, odd looks in public, and the desire to smite those different than you. If you experience an epiphany lasting longer than four hours, discontinue use and seek psychiatric attention as this may be an indicator of complete and utter madness".

Pentagon: No more Bible quotes in briefings. is this a good thing?
It offended those folks who were not Christian.

Are Space Programs Cleverly Inserted in our Society for a Reason?
The Word of God clearly defines a time when millions of individuals will suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth. This period is called the Rapture. Now after this the World will look for an answer to this event. In 2nd Thessalonians 2:11 it reads; "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie." Now with all this space explorations, space movies, do you believe that will be the lie that is sold to the world that will be left behind? Yak if you believe, Yick if not.

Are Blacks Really This Shallow?
Margaret Sanger co-founded Planned Parenthood with the purpose of sterilizing the black population. Today over 50% of the black children are murdered all in the name of choice. Yet today many Blacks including our President defend abortion as a way of choice. Are we really that shallow? Yak if you think we are and Yik if not.

Societies may be faced with a Logan's Run scenario in the future.
With the rising health care costs, greater longevity and the impending failure of the American Social Security the future societies may face a similar dilemma of early termination of life for the greater good. The remake of Logan's Run in 2010 may spark the discussion. In Logan's Run, mandatory death at 30 years old. In the new movie it is said to be 21 years old. In the second video you will see the whole original movie in only 7 minutes.

Churches, Organized Religions, And Those Members Shun Certain People Even Though Christ Would Not.
How strange that so many of the religious and religions claim to be like their prophet or savior yet shun the very people that their savior or prophet would never do. It is easier for the followers to seperate themselves from those very people, remove them from the congration or from the religious institution or verbally attack them them than to welcome them and share the battles they all share against acting sinful. Churches and religions have turned into a "Members Only" club where one must meet a certain criteria to be included. Are these people completely removed from what they define as sinful to behave in this manner or is it that they believe that certain sins are worse than others and because of that you must be shunned if you are under that "A" list of bad "Sins" according to what the religious hyerarchy defined as really bad. So if God says, Premarital sex is an abomination which is what is in the bible, you should be shunned as was that prostitute that Christ talked to...wait Christ did not shun her, did he?

Are the "whys" more interesting than the "hows"?
We are often confronted with explanations of how something came into existence and how something works by laws of physics, but rarely are we presented with the answers to the whys of these things happening. In high school physics i remember learning that the angle of incidence equals the angle of refraction (i hope i got that right, it's been a long time). Now in class the teacher explained the basic principle of force and the without deviation how this principle happens mathematically. However, there is no explanation as to why. Why does it happen? Why do the laws of physics happen, why not chaos? Why are there constants that we can rely on, even if they can be explained mathematically as to the pin point of how it works, why does it work? Why cannot the angle of refraction be off by 12 degrees? The forces of physics won't allow it, but why not? Are not these questions far more intriguing than the simple answers of how they happen?

All Religious Mysteries Explained
The only way all of religion the world over makes complete sense is when it is considered as largely erroneous in its assertions.

You can't keep doing the same thing(s) and expect a different result
At 31 years old, I hope and believe that I have finally figured this out.

Alabama Has A 20% Jobless Rate; States And Cities Like This Need To Be Abandon.
It's time for the 21st century ghost towns. People need to throw in their chips and take on a survival imstinct that we once had.

Is it illogical for atheist to be pro-life?
Is it?

Do you agree with - Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act (HR 669)
It is a bill sponsored by Rep. Madeleine Bordallo (D) and started by a group called the, Animal Rights Foundation. Basically this is to block the import of non native animals as pets. This would include most dogs. Just about 100 percent of fish that you put in an aquarium especially tropical saltwater fish and many exotic birds. I can understand animals that are extremely exotic such as monkeys, wild cats, exotic birds but if this bill goes unchecked it would include dogs and fish which could shut down two of the largest pet industries in the country.

Are the Laws/Rules of Mathmatics changable?
As long as the symbols and functions of math do not have their meanings changed, right?

No longer can wannabe priest say they recieved a calling from God, they must have a Background check!
The Diocese of Gallup said it wants to know whether any of its clergy, might have a history of sexual abuse. Bishop James Wall called for the evaluation of those serving the Diocese of Gallup. Priests who are serving or have served will go through a complete background check. If any wrong doing is exposed, the diocese said that priest will be removed and there will a full explanation as to why.

The Catholic church is readdressing celibacy among the priest, is this a good move?
Is this the proper move to allow catholic priest to wed or at least have relations so that issues of rape are less. Nothing in the bible says they can't marry and where it says, they should be married to the church or god is an improper interpretation of not having a spouse.

Ummmm, Wear Panties?
This video
Most of the time when you are scheduled to take pictures at school, you know when it is going to happen. What could she have done differently ? Maybe she is just getting a head start on the pageant competition...

Is there anything wrong with saying...
"i am god, because i'm just as conceited"

Do you condone violence against convicted criminals?
Vote in the respective places. After they have raped, murdered, wounded, steal or are prisoners of war like Gautama Prison, should prisoners be treated like someone's "Bobo doll"?

Is it really man that is untamed?
Yes: if you agree No: if you don't or other In the religious books much limitations are placed upon women, and higher expectations may leave no room for error or freedom to dilly dally and explore. So i ask, Is man that has to be tamed?

The Movie, "300", Was A Racist Propaganda Tool...
Since its world premiere release received a standing ovation at the Berlin International Film festival, this historical fantasy has been met with criticism by those who view the portrayal of the Persian empire as being composed of mystic Asian and African barbarians as outrageous. It, like "Birth of a Nation", will for a long time to come be a beloved movie amongst nationalist patriots everywhere...

Are Dreams With Water An Indication That You Need To Get Up And Take A Piss?
This seems to be the case for me. When I'm dreaming about something where a lot of water is involved I wake up after the dream to go piss in the middle of the night. The recent one I was flying in a helicopter over a stormy ocean toward a mountainous region of Hawaii that was covered in snow. It was a very vivid dream.

How many Hope Sara Palin runs for POTUS!!
LOL!!! I think she might!!! Yick if no, yak is yes...and say why or why not.

Should Obama Speak at Notre Dame?
and given an honor, given his position on abortion?

The Best Band We Forgot
Sweet released exactly 1 album in the USA (Desolation Boulevard, 1974) and are generally known here only for the inclusion of "Barroom Blitz" in the "Rock Band" game. In Europe they released 26 (!) albums and are still going strong. This is seriously good stuff and we were cut out of the loop.

Edgar Allan Poe as Music
Someone posted a Poe/Shakespeare debate here a while back and I saw we had a fair number of Poe fans here. This song is "The Raven" from Alan Parson's album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination". Each song is based on a Poe story; it includes "The Tell-tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado". How do you like?

September 11th ....Have we forgot?
Now with the New Administration there has been a look into the techniques used on some of the enemy combatants captured on the battlefields after 9-11. Do you believe that since it has been nearly seven years that we have forgotten the terror that we all felt after those attacks on that day? http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/22284875/techniques-on-trial.htm

Do you like this statute of limitation theory...any holes in it?
Here it goes. If a relative of the victim was born and alive when the victim was alive they can continue or push the case of whatever crime. So if you were alive to know your great grandma but she was tortured when she was young or killed at an older age you can represent your grandma as though you were the victim.

Hypothetical Situation: Peace
Researchers develop a common cold virus which can deliver a genetic change to the entire world population. The effect of the change would be to restrict the impulse to violence. Predicted effects: less violent crime and domestic abuse; wars less frequent and shorter. Impulse for self-preservation is not affected. Impulse to defend kin or the helpless is not affected. Impulse to start bar fights is most definitely affected. DNA change will affect no other human genetic characteristics. Virus mutation will not change the nature of the human DNA package. Every human will have the DNA insertion within 20 years. Do we release the virus?

Do you believe in "sin taxes"?
This is nothing new, we have been capitalizing on habits that are deemed unhealthy or simply bad. Sugar is now the main focus here in Massachusetts, with a proposed 13% tax on sugary drinks. Do you believe it is the function of government to engineer our behavior via taxation?

This was Elton Johns best song
This was his best. I think I see IsThatMe doin' the Funky Chicken.

Should every former NAZI prison guard be tried as a brutal murderer
To me it is like saying the American Guards in Cuba should be tried in the long future for possible inhumane interrogation practices ordered by the US government. Why is it that all the so called "BAD" former Nazi guards are alive and the ones that followed orders are dead or no where to be found. Case in point, US has ordered Demjanjuk to surrender n 89-year-old Ohio man sought in Germany to answer in court for an alleged past as a guard at a Nazi death camp — the latest episode in a complex 32-year case linking him to World War II atrocities. Every former Nazi that is always tracked down seems to be the worst one that worked in those camps.

"Star Trek" is Excellent
It's crisp, flashy, sexy, and big. The characters work except for Chekov. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty characters are excellent. Most importantly, it feels like Trek -- presenting very human characters in a future which seems poignant to us because we know in our heart of hearts that this future, unlike most science fiction, is one that we ought to be working toward.

Are Gays to sensative?
While I was a member of the Associate Student Body at San Diego City College the Gay Organization (LGBSU)wanted to be recognized at a certain event I spoke up. I said, "we should not recognize any group due to behavior." I went on to say, "Homosexuality is like child molestors, rapist, and murderers." Well it caused a big uproar and they hit the roof. I made a similar comparison like that on Yickyak and some intelligent members of this Site did the same thing. They, like the members of the A.S.B. in San Diego claimed that I implied that all all homosexuals are child molestors, rapist, and murderers. That is not what I said. I think gays and their sympathizers are just too sensative. Yick if you think they are too sensative, Yak if you believe they have a point.

Is this a wise cliche/rule to follow: Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.
Is this a good universal rule to follow or not because maybe it may only be good in the workplace or in business dealings.

Do we talk to ourself as much as Peter Parker (Spider Man) does?
Peter Parker (Spider Man) talks to himself throughout the comic books, cartoons, and movies. Are we that chatty with ourselves without realizing it?

Do you disolve friendships easily?
To be honest i am saddened by my friends continued direction of confrontation. I like Chris a lot, and have the occasion to speak with him often. However, he has continually embarked on a strategy of creating anger and hate rather than persuasion and reason. We have many mutual friends and know this may not be the best place to question such a relationship, but what the heck... At what level of difference between two people become intollerable?

Can You Wrap Your Mind Around This Concept Of Space-Time?
This is not the accepted explanation of string theory, but it is a way of describing space where most people can grasp it. Are you able to think beyond the fourth dimension?

Does Bias Make Some People Appear Out Of Touch?
I posted a debate a little while ago about someone having to take responsibility for the flyover incident in New York. I was made by some here to feel as though I was "wrong" for taking this position. It seems that there are many that throw their support behind people and ideas which make them appear completely out of touch. And, yes, I have looked in the mirror, so don't sweat the small shiznit! Well, this story vindicates my position. Failing to accept the truth because you feel it threatens the image of someone you support, many times makes you appear out of touch with reality, yes? Yes...

Best baked chicken ever.

The one image is with 20 chicken wings and the other are skinless chicken breast with a side of guacamole and cottage cheese. Pictures I took after cooking it.
1. Season the chicken to your liking and bake until cooked.
2. in a large mixing bowl melt 1/2 cup (1 stick of butter) than add
3. teaspoon of garlic powder
4. teaspoon of onion salt
5. teaspoon of pepper(black or white)
and mix it well
After the chicken is cooked toss half the wings in the mix and set aside in another bowl than toss the second half. If you have a big enough bowl you can do them all at once.

put the cheese in the bowl and toss it until chicken is well coated. The mix doesn't look lie a lot but the coverage is perfect.

Yeah some of ya'll will complain about butter - don't give me the drama and save it for your mama. At least you know what is in your chicken. Total calories for 8 ounces of chicken which is a lot is rougly 450 calories. this chicken is SLAMMIN' Talk about left over to take to work. You can add fresh garlic in the mix but your breath WILL BE KICKIN'. Less than 30 minutes to make. Most of the time is baking the chicken. The rest takes 10 minutes or less.

People act worse when they are given things for free
KFC with Oprah Winfrey gave away free chicken a couple of days ago. Lines were wrapped around the buildings. A guy at work said he waited for 1 hour to get a $4 2 peace meal. At his KFC there was a fight. He said 2 big ghetto chicks cut in line demanding better service for FREE chicken because she didn't want to wait in the line. No way would I be that ghetto to wait in long lines to get 2 pieces of chicken. People don't know how to act when it comes to free things. From welfare to fried chicken. People take it for granted.

Could this have been prevented?
The story describes a 21 year old male who throws a baby from a moving vehicle, killing the child. The baby was the son of an ex-girlfriend. He was "NOT THE FATHER". Could this hideous act have been prevented? If Yak, how so, if Yick, why not?

Should news stations stop making things like this news worthy?

Its time the news take the higher road instead of publishing these holy food scams. A South Florida woman said she was cooking fried salami when she noticed the word "GOD" on the meat, Miami television station WFOR reported. Nancy Simoes said she had three pieces in a skillet and flipped one of them and saw the letter G. "Then got the O and I thought to myself how cool will it be if the third letter was a D." Simoes realizes people may think she's crazy. "I can't make this up. ... it's there in the burn marks." For 20 years, her family has enjoyed fried salami for breakfast. Now Simoes is wondering how she will preserve the "holy" salami. source: wstv News 2

Should Dwarves be Offended by This?
This is one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen. The jingle is classic! How about those lyrics, cattle the size of schnauzers, but they're cattle"! ROFLMAO!!! Some people find commercials that emphasize distinct physical characteristics particular in a group to be offensive. I don't think little people should be offended by this commercial. Do you?

Ha, I told you fools, The Military don't play? American military is a dictatorships.
It is the only dictatorship I will support. Ya'll are debating with a Marine. I know the rules and the game of the military. LOL. I will post the article. hahahahahahaha. Burn baby burn!!!!!! The U.S. military is confirming that it has destroyed some Bibles belonging to an American soldier serving in Afghanistan. The U.S. military forbids its members on active duty -- including those based in places like Afghanistan -- from trying to convert people to another religion."

Mikey Weinstein, President and Founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation response to the video of soldiers trying to convert Muslims. Is he wrong?
First who is this organization: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation,www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org, is dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by virtue of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment and the “no religious test” of Article VI. And this is Mikey Weinstein's response: “This video clearly shows that fundamentalist, evangelical Christians within the U.S. military are putting their fellow soldiers at extreme risk by attempting to convert Afghans to Christianity. These inciteful actions are grossly offensive to not only Muslims in Afghanistan and across the world, but to all those who hold faith in the U.S. Constitution. The United States’ armed forces are not on a mission to impose a Christian God on those who believe in Muhammad. We are fighting a fundamentalist terrorist threat in Afghanistan that is hell bent on destroying America’s rights and freedoms. Al Qaeda, the Taliban and others continue to run rampant in Afghanistan and are looking for every opportunity to recruit more terrorists and justify their anti-American rhetoric. It is a travesty and an utter outrage that the Pentagon does nothing to end these practices and refuses to punish those in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution and military ethics. We once again demand the Pentagon put an immediate stop to these outrageous practices that threaten our national security and hope, in the interim, these actions do not inspire current and future terrorists.”

Looks of personality
Do you think most people look their personalty or no because maybe in some cultures they are easier to hide much like one of my close Asian friends who is very hard to read on how she is feeling.

Video: Is it the Republican party or Religion that loses objectivity when it comes to Science?
Video is a case in point from an interview yesterday. It looks like the Republican would commit political suicide if he acknowledges science. Or is it his religion making him sweat bullets? Yick for religion yak for Republican party. If neither, vote anywhere and explain.

Which movie will come out the best? My vote for, 9.
They both come out this year. "Planet 51" and "9".

Ballot or the Bullet
This speech took place over 40 years ago. I see the same thing today with Black people. Yak if you agree, Yick if not

Do you think bisexuality has become an in thing or fad for youth today?
Pink said, "She claims she’s not bisexual just because all the kids are doing it these days, but because she thinks “love is pure” and she believes in “love in all its shapes, forms and colours.”

What does this short video mean?
Doesn't matter which side you vote on.

Two parts: Can "primative" be used to describe underdeveloped regions and Is this what Mitchosch was getting at in his debate?
This is 9 minutes of video but watch it all. The view of Mexicans are only getting worse.

Our Tax Dollars Should Not Support American Soldiers Proselytising in Foreign countries. Especially Muslim countries.
Why? 1. It is illegal under military code of law. 2. It is illegal in Muslim countries to try to convert people to Christianity. So our tax dollars are being used to break an American law and a law in Muslim countries.

Pregnant Teens Should Have Their Own Schools
It would be nice and honky dory to think that teen pregnancy does not exist, but it’s just one of those things that started from the beginning of time and will continue for eternity. That being said, I think that teen girls who are obviously pregnant should go to a school strictly for pregnant teens so that they can get the special attention that a pregnant person needs while still continuing their education. The fathers of these children should also be required to attend the school with the mother, so that they don’t think they are getting a free ride.

People Should Not Have To Be Reminded To Keep Quiet Or Turn Off Cell Phones in movie houses.
This must be Reagan's me generation legacy living strong.

A hot dog is a sandwich
...and so is a taco.

Are Illegal Immigrants The New ~~Niggas~~?
The verdict sends the wrong message. A kick to the head that results in death is ruled as a simple assault? Please! There is no justice here! Are they (illegal immigrants) the country's new punching bag?

Do you believe the media, particularly the televised media?
I consider their priorities to be always ratings and not truth. I thought the Susan Boyle thing was staged and the swine flu "emergency" being blown way out of proportion. I admit, i only watch it second hand when at the gym in the morning, but what i see is horribly shallow and fragmented.

Judges should not deny anyone access to justice because of his or her religion/culture such as wearing a niqab?
"The American Civil Liberties Union and a group of domestic violence and religious organizations Thursday asked the Michigan Supreme Court to change a proposed rule that would bar Muslim women wearing veils from testifying in court. Muhammad wore a niqab, -- a scarf and veil to cover her face and head except for her eyes -- to 31st District Judge Paul Paruk's courtroom Oct. 11. She was contesting a $2,750 repair bill from a car rental company after thieves broke into a vehicle she was using. Paruk said he needed to see Muhammad's face to gauge her truthfulness. Muhammad did not remove the veil and lost the case." Source: Detroit Free Press

Is killing/raping multiple times worse than killing/raping one time?
This is if they are both pre-meditated. I guess what I want to say is do you measure how bad a murderer is on the number of times they kill or rape? It seems that those who get the death penalty may have killed once or twice but a person that kills multiple times seems to get life in prison.

Should Hitlers paintings be worth more?
His 15 paintings sold for $143k with one of them topping only 14k. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30382712/#storyContinued

Malcom X....Is the Problem Still Here?
I am now bringing this to YickYack. I want to know your oponions. Tell me since the election of Barrack Obama do you believe the problem is still here?

Are MLM's legal ponzi schemes?
Are they ponzi schemes that just rely on average people to sell their product instead of traditional marketing?

Stunning Mobile Sculpture
The wearable art Socratic reminded me of my favorite living Dutch artist... I think this is as good as it gets.

What do you think of the artistic quality by these Dutch artist?
http://tinyurl.com/cmvxg4 yak if you like it and yick if you don't. It looks gross to me.

Is Nostradamus An Example Of a Fortune Teller Who Understood The Consistencies Of Man's Behaviors And Actions?
He had made some very believable predictions but most of them are about disasters, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles. I believe he was just another fortune teller who predicted the obvious. If you said a great leader would be assassinated, there is no doubt that would happen. If cities are near water or oceans, flooding is likely to happen or if you live near a volcano disaster might happen. Do you agree with me?

Is your greatest epiphany religious/athiestic (yick) or Philisophical/scientific/artistic/musical (yak)
I would say not too many people have a great epiphany in their life but if you have what was/is it usually?

What are things that are because they are and is because they is?
People brought up "Truth" and "Objectivity" as just being what they are with no human subjectivity. What are the others? Doesn't matter where you vote.

Our Body Is A Living Ecosystem And We Are Not On Top Of The Food Chain.
The number of bacteria living within the body of the average healthy adult human are estimated to outnumber human cells 10 to 1. Changes in these microbial communities may be responsible for digestive disorders, skin diseases, gum disease and even obesity. Despite their vital importance in human health and disease, these communities residing within us remain largely unstudied. We are just a host to these micro communities like virus strains who seek host to stay alive. Ultimately they would prefer for us to survive so that they can survive.

If the Obama administration does not move on this one, talk about looking weak...
Whoever authorized this flyby needs to be disciplined if not terminated.

Is it ok to Gossip about people from work on Debate websites?
Man, everyday there is a story.

Did the egg come first or the Chicken?
ummm, yak for egg.

Understanding Moral Relativism
Recent comments on another Socratic made me realize that some people are not understanding the concept of "moral relativism", thinking that it can somehow be used to justify any bad behavior. It can't. What moral relativism actually means is that you cannot judge the actions of one group using the morals of a different group. It is unfair to apply the same codes of ethics to a Hun serving in Attila's army, an orphan living on the streets in 19th century Britain, a 17th-Century Cherokee brave, and a modern Westerner cruising the Internet.

Is Mourning A Celebrity Appropriate?
I was very sad to hear that Bea Arthur died because I am still a Golden Girls fanatic. When I heard that Lisa Lefteye Lopez from TLC died, I cried all the way to work. Anytime that a celeb that I like dies I feel sad. Is this appropriate?

There Should Not Be A Mandatory Gratuity For Large Party Dinners En Restaurants...
No matter the service the gratuity is added in the bill. I find this "unethical".

We have no moral legs to stand on when our culture condemns greedy wall street CEOs
With the current status of moral decision making in our culture, we really have no business condemning the behaviors of greedy, fraudulent wall street and financial bankers. The only semi moral absolutes at the present are total personal autonomy when making moral decisions. We have certainly thrown out objective morality when it comes to family and personal behaviors. Freedom to pursue whatever I want if it feels right and good are the wisdoms of the day. Therefore, how can our culture condemn the financial folks who have led us into this depression when all they have done is pursue their own personal choices. Who is to say that greed and fraud are wrong; after all they were simply pursuing their right to happiness. If someone says, "well, they certainly are wrong," why does that person get to choose which moral rules are acceptable and which aren't.

Let Them Rot!
Sometimes I find myself feeling sorry for the prisoners at GITMO. Then I watch a 911 video and I say, F--- 'em. Is that wrong?

Is this a must see movie this Friday - Battle for Terra?
Or wait for it on DVD or pay per view?

If I have to eat a burger it will for now on be a gourmet burger. Basically fast food burger joints suck.
Other than making them from home, fast food burgers have reached its maturity with me. Gourmet burgers will be the way to go when I decide to go out and eat a burger about once a month. I do notice that the fast food burger joints are introducing large Angus style burgers in select cities and states but I won't pay 6 bucks for a burger at a McDonalds. If you just eat a fast food burger alone; no flavor. A medium rare to rare nicely prepared gourmet burger seasoned to perfection with or without toppings is the best.

Wow! Y'all Need to Check this out!
It's called Peace Through Music, where the documentor went around the world and found musicians to sing together. Unbelievable!!! And how hot is Tula!! You guys will know exactly whom I speak of...lol. p.s. Anyway, youtube their stuff...it's really incredible...but, it's not for sale yet, but you can pre-order it on amazon.

Is a confrontation between Israel and Iran inevitable?
That's it.

Should people with AIDS or Obese people get a handicapped signed on their tag or hang in their car?
In order to get better parking?

Who copied who or influenced the other in Hollywood?
Yak - Dobby from Harry Potter's Chamber of Secrets and Yick - Gollum from Lord of the Rings. They look very similar.

Illegal Immigration....A Simple Solution
Over the last decade there has been a increase in the hostility towards Illegal Immigrants in the United States of America. Well I have differed from my political party’s line of illegal immigration. I have no problem with individuals coming here from different parts of the world to make a living or escape oppression from their countries of origin. After all I believe the Statue of Liberty clearly states that. My problem is the increasing crime along our borders especially in the states like Texas and New Mexico. These are places where Mexican gangs and even drug lords have increased their hostile activities. This has to stop. This is not a job for local or state law enforcement agencies. This is the job of the Federal Government. 1. I am all for deploying the U.S. Military along the borders to stop the spread of immigration. Places like Brownsville, Texas where both American and Mexican American citizens have been kidnapped I am all for sending the military there to track these thugs down. Even if that means crossing the border to seek them out and to kill them. There is no use burdening our courts with these thugs so groups like the ACLU can stir up public opinion concerning these animals. 2. I believe the Mexican Government should be billed for every illegal individual in this country. That money should be divided amongst the States who bare most of the burdens such as California, Texas, New Mexico, and alas Arizona. If Mexico does not pay up, the U.S. should cut off ALL aid to that country. Yack if I am on the right track and Yick if you disagree.

The War on Poverty.....A Proper Way to Fight
For the past several decades, (or for as long as I can remember) the Federal Government has tried to combat poverty. They have done this by instituting numeral programs such as welfare, social security, and medicare and other government programs initiative. Well as we all know these programs do NOT work. Now here are my steps to combat the war on poverty. They are simple. Let’s take the government out of it. It is NOT the job of the Federal Government to sustain the masses. Here are some simple steps. 1. The phasing out of Social Security over the next fifteen years. Only those now who are receiving shall continue to receive. Others will have to seek other methods to supplement their retirement. 2. The phasing out of Medicare over the same time period. Others will have to seek medical insurance from the private sector. Medicare has been the home of to much fraud and abuse. 3. The reduction in the Minimum Wage. Individuals who work for minimum wage are usually students, bartenders, waiters, and waitresses. They usually rely on tips anyway for their income. 4. Masses tax cuts to businesses. The Private Sector is the best hope in an economic recovery hope. I mean the companies that employ the most individuals and who even pay the highest wages should receive massive tax cuts from the Feds. That would give them the iniative to hire and become more productive. 5. The abolishment of the Department of Education. It has failed. Those of us who work for a living no if we become of no use to our employers, we will be terminated. This department has failed. Let us let the States deal with educating their masses. 6. The immediate end to all the bailouts. Wall Street and the Housing Industry got themselves into it, let them get themselves out. Yack if you agree and Yick if you do not.

Aliens Are Not Visiting Us
Text Debate: sockmess vs OzzieMan -

When does a lot become too much?
Is there a point where humans just become overwhelmed with stuff? Choice is good, but too much choice is not healthy for an insatiable populace...

Do you believe exorcisms are real and work?
I'm just curious if its just one of those things you only see in the movies.

Fighting: A Movie for Lowlifes...
I've seen the highlights. Enough said...

Should law enforcement be privatized?
Should it be privatized or do you prefer that tax dollars continue to pay low wages for state and city jobs such as law enforcement?

April 23 had the best enjoyable reading from debaters to date.
Even Ron kept it sane for a little bit and Darqlord didn't bite any heads off and sockmess, ozzieman, and mitch battling with a little bit of moreno, whatpart and innomen in the mix and I guess Sanco is observing somewhere. Even karen threw in an interesting article of school lunches. Where are you CJ!!!! and the other non posting lurkers!!!

Is credit capitalism's B$%^and%?
Well is it?

The CFO of Fannie Mae committed suicide; something personal or something bigger.
Yak if you think it was just something personal or "demons" in his life he could not deal with to want to hang himself and leave a daughter and wife behind or something much bigger that we don't know about. Almost like a "24" episode?

Something to Cheer About
"One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him and his troops everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands and thank them for being willing to serve and fight for not only our own freedoms, but so that others may have them also. But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, 'Yes, I always wear it and probably always will.' The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward. Putting his arm around my son's shoulders and nodding towards my son, he said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: 'Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid. Everyone within hearing distance cheered! Yak if you would have cheered also and Yick if not

Should Miss California have lost for expressing her opinion about homosexuality?
The judge, Perez Hilton gave her 0 points for her comment about gay marriage and bashed her on his blog and youtube about it. Should she have lost over an opinion? I posted both videos I hope i'm posted them correctly. I guess I will see after I submit them...oops, Perez is cursing in his video. Soooorrry.

A Person's Parentage Does Not Necessarily Determine Their Level Of Achievment
Leonardo da Vinci was born to a notary and a peasant woman.

UFOs Are Impossibly Expensive
I was reading the UFO stories with interest, because the answers are so obvious. Is there other life in the universe? 99.999999% chance "yes". Is it visiting us in flying saucers? 99.999999% chance "no". The media's incessant reporting of UFOs and greens and grays and cattle mutilation and anal probing and all this other crap has confused people about the realities of the universe. They think, "either UFOs are real, or there's no other life in the universe". Well, bushwah. Visiting other solar systems is really, really, really, really, really expensive. Too many other reasons to go into here, but... nobody's visiting. I saw a poll that said over 50% of Americans believe aliens are visiting us!! Statistically, the nearest technological civilization will be too far away from us to ever make contact except by radio, with centuries of lag.

Is there a such thing as progress?
Is it really real. Does getting someplace in 1 day vs 5 days really progress or just convenient. Is the world population growth compared to the past really progress or will it become a major burden for countries? Does trying to live as long as possible really progress? Is it progress to be entertained with 200 cable channels? Isn't progressing suppose to lead to something? What are we progressing too? Or is everything just more convenient but we just call it progress?

Was 9/11 A Neo-Conservative Reichstag Fire?
Some have said so. The seizure of power by the executive branch sure is reminiscent of actions by the Reich...

Is a Recorder a Real Instrument?
I just spent about 10 minutes trying to convince someone that a recorder is it's own instrument and that it's different from a flute? I played one in music class in HS. Am I right or wrong? Yick or yack should be self explanatory.

If women controlled the world would there have been less wars?
Or do you think there would be more or about the same if you don't agree with my question.

Is Capitalism The Greatest Ponzi Scheme Ever Devised?
You tell me...

Do You THink This Man Is Really An Atheist?
I listened to him and I think he may be a closet Christian. Do you think he is truly an atheist? I as a Christian have trouble with the eternal torment belief.

Should the U.S. boycott the racism conference?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/18/U.S.racism.conference/

The Bible vs. All Other Holy Books
This is a subject that I know will cause many to attempt to poke holes in. I welcome all comments. I would briefly like to discuss the Bible. The translation that I will be referring to is the King James Version (Authorized Version) of the Bible. These books still remain the world’s number one bestseller. A lot of other holy books claim to be an addition or a completion of it. Here are some of the unique characteristics of the Bible. 1. It contains 66 different books which are compiled over 1500 years apart. 2. All the books combine to tell one story and are without contradiction! 3. There are over 40 different authors who vary from slaves to kings from various backgrounds which were inspired by God himself. No other holy book can boast these facts. Most were written by men and under the influence of emotion rather than inspiration. A lot of the others have contradiction. And most were written by only a single individual. I am closing by stating with just these three facts alone should place the Bible standings above all other so called holy books. Yak if you agree and Yick if you disagree.

Muslim American Lures Pirate to Ambush Using His Faith Against Him...
From Times Online Website "A. T. M. “Zahid” Reza, a Bangladeshi-American seaman, persuaded the gang leader – identified by US officials as Abduhl Wal-i-Musi – to accompany him to the darkened engine room. “I convinced him. I told him, ‘Trust me. I am Muslim. You are Muslim. Trust me, Abdul. I am from Bangladesh. You are from Somalia. So we are brothers’.” Below deck the pirate was overpowered by Mr Reza and Mike Perry, the chief engineer. They stabbed him with an ice pick and took him prisoner. “I saw the pirate lying on the floor and the chief engineer on his back with the knife. He was having [a] hard time to control him. I jumped over the pirate and stabbed him, and the chief engineer also stabbed him in the back,” Mr Reza said. “I was attempting to kill him. [The] chief engineer said, ‘No, no, no, don’t. We need him alive’.” " Talk about denying your faith, Geez!. I wonder if he really is Muslim, or just a rabid lying infidel. Is it immoral to mislead people with deceptive declarations of brotherhood, or is everything fair when it comes to self preservation?

Will this be another potential "Slumdog Millionaire" movie to win an Oscar?
Or will Hollywood only stomach foreign type movies to win an Oscar every decade or so. This is the first ever Dominican themed movie in the US which filled a packed audience in Los Angeles. Its called, Sugar. No surprise it had to be baseball since that is the main sport in the Island and central to a lot of wealth in the country where just about every MLB team has a baseball farm there. And there has been a lot of controversy with Dominican recruits and steroids such as the famous Dominican Yankee ballplayer, ARod going there to get his "juice" (steroids).

Would you be comfortable if your party was the only party in control of government?
???

"No dialogue with hate" - do you agree?
An event with Tom Tancredo at UNC was shut down recently with the chant: "No dialogue with hate".

Jesus vs. the Religous Leaders of the World
We all know that there are numerous amounts of Religious leaders of the past and today who have amassed numerous amounts of followers. All have used various methods. Some of these vary from smooth articulation through military conquests. Others have even used racial ethnicity to justify their religious stance. I will like to focus on the most popular one of them all. That is Jesus of Nazareth. Here are some of the unique traits and accomplishments of Jesus. 1. Jesus performed many miracles in His earthly mission from healing the sick, raising the dead, and even walking on water. 2. Jesus Himself claimed to be God Almighty. 3. Jesus NEVER taught any religion and even rebuked the religious leaders of His day during His earthly ministry 4. Jesus prophesized of the end and even promised to come back for His followers in the end time. (Jesus has never broken a promise) 5. Jesus died for the sins of the world to all that believed and rose from the dead while all other religious leaders who have passed still remain in their graves. (There is no grave site for the body of Jesus to this day) Now these are just five accomplishments of Jesus, NO OTHER religious leader can claim or have been documented to perform all these accomplishments. Jesus can be found written in every holy book of all other religions, while no other leader can boast this, nor or they found written in the Books of the Bible. While many individuals have problems with Christianity, they attack things such as the doctrine, the validity of the Word of God, and even the Saints of God, yet they fail when they try to attack Jesus Christ himself. Does it not make sense to give Jesus a try and put religion aside? Yick if you agree and Yack if you do not.

Jesus' Grace vs. the Religious System
While we all know that many organizations and leaders teach there are certain steps to the Kingdom of God such as sacraments, certain baptisms, or even living under certain bondage such as the Mosaic Law. I will attempt by using the Word of God to dispel such false teachings. In the Book of Ephesians in the second chapter verses 8-9 it reads; “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” These two verses clearly take out a lot of religious teachings. The main word in this passage is “grace.” The word grace in the Biblical text means “unmerited favor.” Simply putting it means that we are ALL not deserving nor can we EVER earn God’s love. It was given to us freely by the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary’s Cross. All we have to do is believe! We do not have to follow certain leaders or church doctrines that teach additions to God’s perfect love for us in the form of Jesus Christ. I realize that some of the main culprits who teach these additions to salvations are not just members of the cults such as Islam, Buddhism, and even Catholicism. Some of the worse culprits are those in the Christian church! Some even come from the offshoots such as the Apostolic Faith and the Seventh Day Adventist. Saints any time any one teaches you must be baptized a certain way, speak in unknown tongues, or to abstain to eat certain meats as a way to salvation, steer clear from it! This is not of God. Remember Jesus paid it all on Calvary’s Cross. We are NOT worthy of His love but He loved us so that He died for our sins. Now to those who are not yet in the fold, please seek Jesus and Him alone for salvation. He has never failed. Now tell me is Jesus’ grace sufficient for you? Yak if you agree or Yick if not.

Nicholas Cage's Finest Work?
Nothing could be more pure Cage (except maybe, "Why wouldn't you put down the bunny?").

Whats more intimate, affectionate, spirtual, passionate and has more meaning, A Kiss or Sex?
Each has their own strengths in their own way. You can judge and define the acts themselves but lets dig deeper than that. Kiss, Yick and Sex, Yak.

Texas Governor, Rick Perry, Makes Irresponsible and Volatile Comments
The ignorant Texas governor, Rick Perry, made some infantile comments regarding the possibility of Texas seceding from the nation if the feds don't change fiscal policy. The moron said, "There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot." - CNN. Question. Is it prudent for a sitting governor, regardless of his level of intellect, to speak of secession during harsh economic times? Does he think he is a potential Hitler?

"The Man" is Retiring
No, not "the man" who holds us all down, but John Madden. His knowledge and irrepressible personality was hugely helpful to the NFL. He will be missed.

Looks can make a man go in a woman raw
The girl from one of the most popular girl bands in Germany has been arrested for possibly infecting 3 men. One of the men has tested positive of AIDS. She said she didn't know she had it at the time. Article posted. I already know most men would have went in her raw....excuse my language, no doubt. You can't go by looks.

Hot news caster!
Holy Snikies, Richelle Carey is fine! Dazamn...! Other woman aint bad either.

RIP, Futurama
With the downturn in the economy, Comedy Central has canceled their order for a new season of Futurama. Goodbye to one of the most intelligent and well-written shows on TV.

The Future of Jazz...!?!
I just love that the future of jazz is in such good hands. P.S. this girl is 14.

Does it sadden you that Looks is everything to be noticed even if looks really isn't required?
This airs 2009 in England called the Greatest Talent. Yes we in America stole it. Must be nice for Simon to double dip. Look how the people react to this woman. She is 47 and she had said she had never been kissed before. Simon with his typical reaction is floored because even he is part of the culture of vanity being priority no matter your talents. His question is stupid, "Why hasn't it worked out so far..." Simon knows why and the singer knows why to. She is lying to herself because she has no choice. But she blows the crowd away. Almost brought a tear to my eye over the fact of how cruel society has become.

Do You Think Something Is Wrong With This Behavior?

Warning
Video begins with language which may be objectionable for some readers. Viewer discretion is advised.
I was quite disturbed by this phenomenon. People have a right to do what they want in front of the camera, but this? All the time?...disturbing...

Homesteading Anyone?
From an article in USA Today, "By Judy Keen, USA TODAY When the economy started to squeeze the Wojtowicz family, they gave up vacation cruises, restaurant meals, new clothes and high-tech toys to become 21st-century homesteaders. Now Patrick Wojtowicz, 36, his wife Melissa, 37, and daughter Gabrielle, 15, raise pigs and chickens for food on 40 acres near Alma, Mich. They're planning a garden and installing a wood furnace. They disconnected the satellite TV and radio, ditched their dishwasher and a big truck and started buying clothes at resale shops." This has been the off-topic subject of conversation here before (see this debate ). It seems that some people are finally getting it. Is homesteading a good idea in this day and age? I STILL think so. GET OFF THE GRID!!!

One of the Best Sketches Ever
A Muppets classic.

Is cremation anti-religion or an improper practice for the religious?
I posted my news article and it said that people are now choosing cremation because it is less expensive. Even during a bad economy would this be considered an improper burial practice for the religious? I don't like religious debates, but i'm very curious to hear everyone's opinion. I hope I don't cause any arguments.

Andrew Zimmern or Anthony Bourdain - Best food Critic?
These two world food critics host two of my most favorite shows as they travel the world eating what culture has to offer. Andrew Zimmern, in the first video eats more exotic foods than Anthony but both are very good with their opinions of world foods. I would love to have their job. Yick for Andrew and Yak for Anthony. If I had to pick my favorite i'm with Andrew Zimmern.

Are You Attending a Tax Day Tea Party?
I am. The short answer of why I'm attending is because we can't spend our way out of debt. The Tax Day Tea Party movement, www.taxdayteaparty.com, was inspired by Rick Santelli's rant over the bailouts of irresponsible people and corporations on the backs of responsible people, a.k.a. taxpayers. The great thing about these rallies, is they are nonpartisan, they're happening all over the country in every state, and many if not most of them are during lunchtime, 12-2pm, so even if you have to work, you can still attend. FOX News is the only network covering these events in any major way, hmmmmmmmmm, I wonder why? Anyway, Yack if you're going, Yick if you're not.

I'm tired of listening to 30 somethings telling me they are old.
Almost everyday someone in their 30's tell me how old they are and they can't do the things they used to. The best shape i've ever been was in my 30's. Stop your whining. Wait until you hit the 40's and above.

Saying you don't have time to do something is a terrible excuse.
I hear this all the time and the proper response should be "I have different priorities.". If someone ask you, can you do this, or will you do this and you are playing a video game and say, "I don't have time", that is an improper response. You just have different priorities. This is most common when addressing fitness and people not taking the priority to stay in shape.

One of my classic gems, also, Do you believe we discover the best singers and song writers or are they not discoverable?
The singer is an Indian Homeless dude named grey wolf who has an alcohol and drug problem. I think he was drunk in this version while singing it. He never finished the song because they could never find him to finish it. They only got this little produced piece. He is singing about another homeless dude named, Tippy Tom. The song was showcased on the Opie and Anthony show about 2 years ago and that was the last of it. I was able to download it on my IPOD because tons of listeners uploaded the uncompleted song. So along with my debate question do you find the song good and very moving?

Is the Polar Bear the right poster child for Global Warming?
If not, who would be the better choice or there should not be one at all?

Will you see a movie about the rescue of the Captain from "Pirates" in Somalia?
I'm sure a movie will come. They said it was a "hollywood ending" on the news. Will you buy a ticket to see it?

The Deptartment of Education Needs to be Abolished.
Text Debate: sanco vs Whatpartofthegameisthis - Quite simply, it is unconstitutional to charge tax payers to maintain this government agency and a cabinet seat.

Trust Obama on Foreign Policy?
Now President Obama has still remained silent as the Somalian Pirate hostage situation grows more intense. Those crimminals are headed to their ports with one of our citizens. Now with threats of North Korea and Iran seeking to obtain nuclear weapons can we really trust our President to have the wisdom to handle this? I say NO! He is just another liberal sissy who was pushed into office over fear of the economy. Yak if you agree and Yick if you do not.

Best Theme Music/Songs
What's some of your favorite theme songs/music for a show/movie, etc?

People Get Ready!
That's my boy Jeff Beck on the lead G, sexy Joss Stone on the vocals, and my sweets on the bass, tal wilkenfeld. you like?

Blood Sweat and Tears was awesome, which song did you like?
Which of the songs from Blood Sweat and Tears do you like. Ipod Favorite.

Could we create a new age of math wizards in American with the Abacus?
This is fantastic! American pride can't get in the way.

Great Humans: Arthur C. Clarke
These quotes are marvelous... Arthur C. Clarke was one of the great men of the 20th Century. I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now. One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Average people are more likely to be a dictator than a wise and honorable leader
I see dictator in just about every person I talk to, work with or opinions heard from strangers. Everyone has some degree of brutality in them toward their fellow man. When they communicate types of punishment, they are generally extreme in nature. Obvious I'm speaking mostly of Americans. Much of the desire to punish is spawned by religious upbringing where punishment must be given toward the bad which can include death. Its very rare that I hear comments of wisdom from your average American when speaking of other people and how they should be dealt with. One good example is when discussing sports. Your average person doesn't want a star athlete to get millions if he is not likable for some reason. Not the fact that he has a skill at a sport. Extreme measure is preferred to strip the player from a lucrative salary. That is not uncommon from what a Dictator would do when they take over a country and take possessions from the wealthy and nationalize industry run by rich owners only to be mismanaged by non qualified puppets of the dictator. It takes effort to be a wise and honorable leader. Its very easy to be a Dictator and most Americans given the opportunity would lean toward the easiest option.

Is this new criminal site unethical?
A new website that showcases mug shots of people arrested in several Florida counties is like a modern "Scarlet Letter." Some privacy activists are condemning the site, but what's an alleged bad boy (or bad girl) to do? http://mugshots.tampabay.com

American Capital Punishment is Too Soft

The death sentence for capital crimes should be public hacking to death with a Katana sword. Brutal public execution is a good deterrent and criminals need to see the suffering of their unrepentant brethren.

What Does this Say About Church and State?
Right-wingers like to claim that there isn't supposed to be a separation of church and state. I just came across an analysis in architecture... the friezes at the Supreme Court. Moses is depicted, holding tablets marked I through X. The commandments? According to the artist himself, the Roman Numerals represent the Bill of Rights. Well, what about the rear frieze, where you can actually see the commandments. Well, yes, through his beard... and only the moral commandments. The religious ones are not there. You know what else IS there? Confucius. Solon. Muhammad. Octavian. Hammurabi. Many, many others, even Napoleon(!). This seems to indicate quite clearly to me that the many traditions of the world are what comprise the American State, not just Judaeo-Christian ones.

Obama Bows to Saudi King
The White House claims President Obama didn't bow, but bent down to grasp the Saudi King's hand with both his hands. However, the video clearly shows that Obama doesn't use both hands until he stands up from the bow. Why would President Obama give obeisance to a leader of another country and then lie about it when it's on video for the whole world to see? This is more amateur hour in the Obama administration. As a side note, I've shaken hands with plenty of people who are much taller than me, and not one of them has ever had to bow to reach my hand. Yak if you think it's a bow, Yick if you don't.

Would you have been part of the Gold Rush and/or moved to the west to stake a claim?
Put aside the aspects the negative aspects of that period like slavery and address your exploratory nature. If you were living during the period of the west being explored and the Gold Rush, would you have hitched a wagon and moved west battling the elements, gun slingers, and native Americans or stayed and staked your future in the cities of the East Coast in the US?

Ipod Surprises
What's in your Ipod that would surprise people? ...if anything. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEySrDerj0 here is a comment from youtube regarding the song Zombie: "dont try and do kareoke to this song.. i got lit up like a gd christmas tree." LOL!!!!

If you had to live off of one food, what would it be?
For me cereal. I guess it doesn't matter if you yick or yak.

Any White Stripes Fans?
Yes...no?

If you are a male and like to watch two women have gay sex, you are gay too.
I said it. Or gay tendencies.

Is Billy Bob A Butt hole or what?
Here's a comment from youtube: "celebrities sense of Elitism has more in common w/ Politicians than to any that would appreciate them. It's really illogical to "look up" to these people so much anymore.The LITTLE PEOPLE have caught up. Were surrounded by talented people everywhere,and if these Douches had to live without their importance,...they could'nt hang ,...but there is Cocaine for that. Or antics for publicity." do you agree?

Do we save face, hold back our criticism from excessive spending wealthy people as long as they are charitable?
I think this is why the very wealthy makes there contributions very public. It hides there extravagant lifestyle and good for public relations. I think its a gullible trait in average citizens to hold back judgment as long as they see the rich offers minimal contributions to society relative to their wealth.

Its more exceptable to be a gay female than a gay male and its a double standard.
I'm not gay but I notice countries have more tolerance for gay females than males.

Somalian Pirates....A Simple Solution
For the first time in over 200 years a U.S. Ship has been hijacked by Pirates. The last time I heard a U.S. Naval warship was on the scene trying to secure the release of the Captain of that ship. The crew of that ship to my understanding did overpower the hijackers and take the ship back. Now it is time for action. I propose we find these bases where these maritime terrorist operate and eliminate them with military action. This is the United States of America and we should not be intimidated by terrorist either on our soil or in the water. We must seek these individuals out and kill them and destroy their bases whereever they may be. Am I wrong? Yak if you agree or yick if disagree.

Redux

Should smoking be concidered a crime or just ban their Asses from anything public?
Supporters of the FDA bill cited figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that smokers cost the country $96 billion a year in direct health care costs, and an additional $97 billion a year in lost productivity. A White House statement supporting the bill, which awaits action in the Senate, echoed the argument by contending that tobacco use "accounts for over a $100 billion annually in financial costs to the economy." However, smokers die some 10 years earlier than nonsmokers, according to the CDC, and those premature deaths provide a savings to Medicare, Social Security, private pensions and other programs.

Is naming a place Obama Fried Chicken offensive to Blacks?
Here is the link. http://tinyurl.com/c6z7r3

Is This Website Morally Wrong?
You ain't gonna believe this. . .

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THIS?
Don't read the comments until afterwards..Follow this link, do the short exercise and yick if you can explain it, yack if you can't...

Would you go in a bathroom of the opposite sex in case of an emergency?
This would have to be a bathroom where there are a lot of people like an amusement park or is it against the law and you would just have to do the #1 or #2 on yourself because the bathroom of your gender is full?

The majority always like to play the victim card.
We can understand a minorities excuse, but the Majority? What the... YOu have the majority religious crying about being picked on by closeted atheist. You have straights believing gays will turn them gay just by looking at them. You got culturally whites feeling threaten by Blacks and hispanics getting cleaning jobs and fruit picking jobs. You get grown A$# men complaining that women are getting to much access. We get it!!!!! Stop your complaining. With one snap of the finger Christians can crush any threat to their religion from a bunch of hobnob atheist and agnostics. You are not Hebrews from the old testament fighting for your liberties. You are not a victim.

Should heavy people pay for two seats on a plane?
I mean those that can make it very cramped for the person sitting next to them.

syncretic religion could unify the many schools of thought to create a more peaceful approach in humanity
Knowing that religion will not go away anytime soon, I think multiple religions creates disunity with humanity. Each religion searching for the unanswerable...where do I go after I die? I posted the video because one, it is one of my favorite musical groups called, Van Van and they are in my top 10 when it comes to best live performance groups for me but what they are singing here it is an example of a syncretic religion called Santeria which has its origins in the Caribbean and especially in Cuba. Basically religions that were brought over from slavery and held more tightly than in America. It came from The Yoruba people who are from Western Africa where most slaves came from. Its a mult-deity relgion with the supreme God called, Oloddumare and secondary gods you will hear in the video, Mama Yocodá (god of motherhood and the ocean often compared to the Virgin Mary), Olifi (the peacemaker) which you will hear the praises to in the video. If you pray to one or many Gods I really see no difference and if there is any plausibility of such I would lean to believing there is more than one god. But anyway I like the video presentation of course but the message in the song I used as a source to the title of my topic because its a example of a syncretic religion adopting Christianity and possible islamic influences. Chapeando basically means "clearing" like you are clearing brush so the message in the song is clearing your way through your difficult life to get to the next giving praises to these deities. To me it seems the more people merge multiple beliefs the more peaceful they become.

Who Wins This Lawsuit?
The Associated Press and artist Shepard Fairey are suing each other over the rights to the iconic Obama "HOPE" campaign poster. See a nicely balanced (and screamingly funny) video about it here. (Much better than the one-sided one which actually embedded.) Yick for the AP, Yak for Fairey. ironically, if the AP wins, CJ will be guilty of copyright infringement..

Is This an Early Rap?
I recently encountered this piece from 1973. While it doesn't have a lot in common with modern rap, it feels like all the elements are there: the spoken rhyme, the music sampling, the artist's name (DJ Rosko). Is this a forgotten ancestor of today's rap? Edit: It may be corny, but it sure has funk!

The Changing Face of Conservatism
Ancient Egypt was an extremely conservative society, resisting change for thousands of years. Ancient Rome was also conservative... yet both these ancient societies were quite open about sex and recreational pharmaceuticals. Modern analysis shows that ancient Egyptians may have been high more often than not. And we all know of the Roman gods Bacchus and Priapus. My point? Conservatism does not automatically rule out partying. Think Buckley.

We need a replacement technology for DVDs, they damage too easy.
DVDs and anything on CD scratch easily and some get "CD Rot" if they sit for a long time. Some of my old DVD movies I haven't seen in a while sometimes have read problems, or scratches I never thought would be there. I just think there has to be a better way. The media has to be durable, portable, and compact to watch movies or play games. I guess the streaming movies that Netflix has and future streaming games will be the next best thing, but the companies will control them unless you can save them on your heard drive.

A Simple Proof That You Can Trust Science More Than Religion
Unlike religion, the rules of science never change just because you crossed a border.

Why is Twitter Being Pimped
It seems that so many media outlets are trying to pimp Twitter, name dropping it at every chance, both print and broadcast. What gives? Who is trying to push Twitter to become a major contender? Marketing is a pimp!

We Are All Dying
I have lost a few friends this year. The fact is, we are all dying. We have been in this state since birth. Does it really matter that we may happen to know how and approximately when we are going to die, be it by cancer, diabetes, heart disease or some other malady?

Do the French see a reflection of themselves through Obama?
France by far has the greatest investment with Africa more than any European country. Don't get me wrong I'm aware of the marginalization in that country but they always go googol over this guy. As you know he was in France recently. The guy is a rockstar there. Even when Obama and his wife are met by the French leaders and their wife there embraces and kisses seem more intimate than with other countries. Or are they ashamed they didn't have an African frenchmen become a leader first.

The Media are Diseducating People
The History Channel shows UFO Files ("What Do The Grays Want?"), cryptozoology shows, and shows about the Bermuda Triangle. CNN.com reports headlines like "Woman Reports Being Strangled in Tub by Ghost". The word "miracle" gets bandied about a lot if a pilot makes an emergency landing. Though I'm sure CNN would claim they report such stories as a human interest feature only, I'm convinced allowing statements like these furthers American ignorance. There are a lot of people who assume that if you see it in the media, it has to be true. These publishers are all guilty of dumbing down the public in order to chase down viewership.

Can't you be Muslim, Jewish, and JudeoChristian if you just follow the old Testament?
Whose to stop you. You can claim all three.

A Large aging population can shut down a countries tax base.
Japan is having problems with the elderly urging people to have more babies to support the aging population. This is the normal process in most countries. Countries like Cuba on the other hand can bring the country to its knees. China has taken the leap to a more capitalist society to strengthen its tax base. Basically a country cannot take care of the elderly if there are no youth to earn money.

Worst debate between Atheist and Christians i've ever seen.
Both sides suck. Kirk quit his acting career to be an Evangelist.

Nefertiti is 2 Faced
I never believe these new findings. In another 5 years they will tell us she was really a man. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29974848/?GT1=43001

Is someone hirable who has a long history of EEOC complaints on issues about their sexuality?
That was the case at my job. Like more than 8 cases with EEOC. Would you hire that person? Basically If you had filed several charges because of your sexual nature because you were treated a certain way would you be hirable?

This Artist Is Super Hot! Where is IsThatMe?
I heard this woman's voice last night and was immediately hooked. Her style is full of intoxicating, spastic, syncopated energy. She makes you want to hold her tight in your arms and blow on her to cool her off, lol!

What do you mean, "I love you ?"
People use the declarative phrase, "I love you", as though it has some hidden magical powers, or can effectively transform the mind and heart of its target. They say it, and then wait for some metamorphic transformation to occur. Why is this? What does it really mean. Is there anything special about the phrase or is it overrated?

Is This Hilarious or what?
I couldn't stop laughing.

Do you think Michael Jackson's Billie Jean is the greatest song about women in American music?
Note: I meant to say, "About a particular woman". If not any others?

A Religious Mass Murderer
John Wayne Gacy brutally murdered 33 boys and young men. He read them bible verses while he sodomized and strangled them. This must mean that all religious people are mass murderers.

How America Treats its Atheists
This American hero is a perfect example of how America treats atheists. This NFL All-Pro turned his back on a multimillion dollar contract to enlist and join the Army Rangers after 9/11. During his second tour of duty he was killed by friendly fire, and the incident was subsequently covered up by the (presumably religious) Army bigwigs. His family raised a protest and there was an investigation during which the (presumably religious) Army representative implied before a Congressional hearing that what happened to Tillman was his own fault for being atheist.

Do you believe that having sex before marriage is important?
do you?

Is Belief In Something Better Than Belief In Nothing?
Following is a link to the Myspace page of killer, Kerby Revelus, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile& friendID=411972812, Haitian immigrant, that killed two of his sisters, decapitating his five year old sister in front of cops before he was killed by them. He describes himself in his page as being agnostic. He was said to have been behaving strangely lately. "A neighbor revealed that Kerby had been acting strange lately–‘waxing philosophical about the meaning of life, telling weird stories, even stealing a pair of his underwear.’ Kerby was often seen walking down the street, talking to himself, and drinking from a bottle in a brown bag." It is better to accept some truth than to walk around the world searching and confused, yes?

Always How It Seems to Go....
is that you don’t know what you got til it’s gone. There is no disputing this; it’s just one of those facts of life.

Should Charles Tex Watson, a now ordained minister be let out of prison?
Charles "Tex" Watson became an ordained minister and is a model prisoner. He was part of the Charles Manson clan who committed the murders. He goes up for parole in November.

Is this the animation technology you like?
This style of animation seems to be the norm now. Do you like this style? Is this what we were hoping for? What would be the next best thing?

It's Not Easy to Talk to Kids About Sex
Yack if the sex talk was difficult for you (as a parent or as a kid). Yick, if your parents didn't give the sex talk or if it was comfortable to talk to either your parents or kids about it.

Could one genre of music satisfy all of your musical needs?
If so which genre could meet that. If not, yick.

Its official, Console gaming will meet its demise.
I'm pretty happy about this. No need to buy consoles every 2 or 3 years forking out $600 plus dollars. It will now be the battle for streamed games.

2 questions: Do you think the car caused the accident and would you keep driving?
You can see the yellow car pulled in front of the bus and continued to drive.

A Star Trek type Holodeck would be the ultimate addiction
This could destroy societies because people would never leave them. In one episode you could raise a complete family. You could be the star athlete. This would be the ultimate drug and a habit I could never kick.

Intelligence...Something Needed Around Here.
"We need to transcend the divisive rhetoric set forth by radical theists and atheists, those who would condemn the entirety of religion or secularism on the basis of the actions of a few in the past, present, or future. We need to acknowledge the common moral ground that most theists and atheists in fact share today, and band together against our common enemies, the small, extremist, insidious elements that exist on both sides of the fence. We may disagree with one another about what is true, and to some extent about what is good, but most of us can, and need to, stand together against bigotry, intolerance, and violence." http://www.infidels.org/secular_web/feature/1999/violence.html

Merengue: Negative
So Crespo gets caught masterbating on a plane. It's the music. Merengue always has these overly sexual lyrics. They should ban this kind of music. No wonder most of Latin America can't get it together. Disgusting..on a plane dude?

Private schools are losing enrollment, is this a good thing?
An article says that the middle class and even the upper class cannot justify the pricey private school tuition with the bad economy so private schools are doing fund raising to do things like help parents pay for the tuition. How about lowering the tuition cost?

Should we feel sorry for the rich if they lose it all or most of it?
Should we?

Oklahoma is So Not OK
The State of Oklahoma's reaction to Prof. Richard Dawkins's speech at a university there was so horrible that I chose the debate topic intentionally. First the State sought to intimidate him into not speaking by conducting a strong-armed "investigation". Then they introduced legislation condemning the university for allowing him to speak. Then legislation was introduced threatening secession over the speech. How (very typically) Christian of them. They harass a respected man of science and an institution of higher learning exercising its right and responsibility. This is medieval thinking.

The 2008 Stimulus check was just a loan to yourself
If anyone noticed, especially if you do your taxes electronically, your stimulus check that Bush promised us and gave to us was really a loan to ourselves. You have to pay it back in this tax return. Some people might end up owing the IRS because of this. This was a nice punch in the gut.

Is this Athiest Joke funny?
"What do you call a bunch of muslims huddled in a circle? A great target for an air strike. What do you call a bunch of southern baptists in a circle? A KKK cross burning. What do you call a bunch of Catholics in a tight circle? Priests about to gang bang an altar boy."

Women laugh when they hear a woman cheated on her man, but get angry when it is the other way around.
I notice when I mention to females about someone on another internet forum who lost his marriage because his wife could not stop cheating, I got laughs from the women. But when it is the other way around, the guy is now the worst thing ever. Why do women laugh when I bring this up... this is the backup question?

Is it me or have you noticed a lot of Gold buying commercials?
With the bad economy I've noticed a lot of commercials wanting to buy your gold. I know that the value of gold goes up during bad times.

750k to Pizza delivery...is this a last ditch effort for someone to bail him out?
I don't know if you feel sorry for the guy or not. He made 750k a year but it is clear he was also a high spender. Read, "millionaire Next Door." I'm wondering how did the media take notice of him? Is this his final hand he is playing to the media so some big roller will take notice of him and help him out? After all he had to be a savvy investor to command this type of money. He gets a job at a pizza job and puts his level of education and his previous salary on the job application. Is this a crying out?

Prince got paid twice for the same song when he wrote Manic Monday, you agree?
My boy has a good ear. He learned that Prince had wrote this song so when he was listening to it, he said...wait a minute, this sounds like 1999? So listen to the song and when they start singing just replace the words with 1999. Good Job Prince. Lyrics: I was dreamin' when I wrote this Forgive me if it goes astray But when I woke up this mornin' Coulda sworn it was judgment day The sky was all purple There were people runnin' everywhere Tryin' 2 run from the destruction U know I didn't even care 'Cuz they say two thousand zero zero party over Oops out of time So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 I was dreamin' when I wrote this So sue me if I go 2 fast But life is just a party And parties weren't meant 2 last War is all around us My mind says prepare 2 fight So if I gotta die I'm gonna listen 2 my body tonight Yeah, they say two thousand zero zero party over Oops out of time So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999

Is showing a picture of a caught and imprisoned criminal really necessary?
I notice Fox news is pretty good at this, but they did this 15 second blurb on a criminal who shot and killed 3 police and showed his mug shot. He is in prison but is showing the picture necessary or does it help create stereotypes? I understand when you are looking for someone but what do I really gain seeing the caught criminal's face? If I see the face, all I do is store it in my head of who is generally perceived as a criminal. In the past pictures were all it was need to drag the guy out of jail and lynch them.

Obama on Leno
Yick if you hate it, yak if you like it.

Guardians of the Space Cushion...
People impulsively guard the cushion of space between themselves and the car in front of them, especially while driving on the freeways. Do people feel that there is a personal space in front of them which they own? Is personal space in front of a moving vehicle to be defended similarly as with the invasion of personal space in front of your face? Is this possessiveness justified?

We get less mad when corporations get bailed out and furious when regular citizens do
A guy at work was angry because some homeowners other than him could benefit from the bailout. But showed little anger when corporations get it even when they publicly used our money for executive bonuses and trips. Why do we think like that. Why do we defend bad executive behavior so much. Is it because its easier to jump on people similar than us?

Is access to clean water a basic universal human right?
"With fresh water resources becoming scarcer worldwide due to population growth and climate change, a growing movement is working to make access to clean water a basic universal human right. The United States – along with Canada, China, and several other nations – has so far refused to recognize the human right to water. There are concerns among some countries – based on a misconception, experts say – that enshrining a universal right to water would force them to share their water resources with other nations."

Would you buy a gum that could make your flatus smell good or fresh?
This is an awesome commercial.

Some guys just know how to tell good race jokes who are not Black and where Blacks don't feel offended
Rich Vos, a Jewish comedian is one of my favorite comedians. On the radio today they asked him to come up with a quick safe race joke. So he thought and came up with one that had me cracking up this morning. "There was this Interracial gay (black and white) couple and the white gay guy took his father to the side and said, "Dad, I'm gay...now sit down...""

Concepts of Money
What is the true value of paper money? Will the value decrease if a different type of currency is introduced?

Creationism...there is nothing to teach?
"God created animals and it was good...." Ok. How could you possibly build a school curriculum of value off of about 20 versus of scripture in a public school on Creationism? And someone wants to bring it back into the schools? How about just opening your Bible and read 1 or 2 chapters in 20 minutes and you just got your lesson on Creationism.

The Right To Own A Home
There are some here within this forum that continue to make this disturbing and damnable statement, "Everyone does not have the right to own a home". What does this mean? How are you defining the term, "home"? Let me go on record and state that the credit market sucks! Home mortgages should be removed from the market sector and become solely administered by the government under a completely new Housing Department. Let's talk...

As a man would you utilize this talent if you had it?
Also would American Idol even consider this sort of talent? Personally I don't think so. Also, if you were a parent and if your son had this ability would you push to get him recognized. i.e. looking for a singing contract, signing with Disney or other animation companies to sing. I think this guy is so awesome and I will definitely try to keep track with how far he can go with this. People thought it was fake but that was debunked.

I know this song is old but it is pretty awesome.
Often one hit wonders are.

Printed Newspapers can no longer compete with Electronic News
With access to news locally and from all over the world with so many different perspectives local printed newspapers will die like the rotary telephone. Another newspaper out of business in Seattle as was one in San Francisco. The industry is dying a slow death.

Patriotism is a Menace to liberty and another form of religion or worse.
What, then, is patriotism? "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the average workingman. Gustave Hervé, another great anti-patriot, justly calls patriotism a superstition--one far more injurious, brutal, and inhumane than religion. The superstition of religion originated in man's inability to explain natural phenomena. That is, when primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature. Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others. The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that, from early infancy, the mind of the child is poisoned with bloodcurdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc. When the child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition. It is for that purpose that America has within a short time spent four hundred million dollars: Emma Goldman 1911

Was the Internet and discussion forums a dream come true for Atheist and Agnostics?
It seems that way.

What Sort of God...?
In ancient times, east of Palestine, there lived a righteous man by the name of Job. He was a just and good man, who always strove to please God throughout his life. The Lord rewarded him for his piety with great wealth. He had many hundreds of large and thousands of small cattle. His large and close family of seven sons and three daughters comforted him. But the Devil was jealous of Job. He began to vilify him before God, "Doth Job fear God for nothing?... But put forth Thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse Thee to Thy face." Then God, in order to reveal to all how faithful Job was to Him and in order to teach people patience in their sufferings, permitted the Devil to take away all of Job’s possessions. One day robbers came and drove away all his cattle, slew his servants, and a terrible tornado from the desert destroyed the house in which Job’s children had gathered together, killing them all. Job not only did not complain against God, but he said, "God gave, and God hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." ---What sort of god is that? a merciful god (yick) or a deranged lunatic (yak)?

Turning Bad Posts into Art
I took one of Ron Harris's rants and ran it thru a service called wordle.net -- click on the image to see what happened. I think I have made art out of his rambling.

Let Them Fail!!!
Are we Capitalists or not? We should let the markets determine the success or failure of businesses like AIG, GM, Citigroup and the like instead of injecting them with public funds so that they can continue with business as usual. If we bail them out, then bail me out for my mismanagement too...

When you think about St. Patrick's day is it mostly about drinking alcohol?
Is that generally all that comes to mind?

The Finest Communist
Below is the link to the Wiki entry for Marshal Tito, the late Yugoslav leader. This man founded his own form of socialism, bucked both the Soviet Union and the West, and took a series of ethnic hotspots and molded them into a functional nation which by the 1980s was exporting cars worldwide. He was elected President 7 times, the last time for life. He received medals from several dozen countries, and not just communist ones. Within a decade of his death, a Yugoslavia which had been at peace for 2 generations tore itself permanently apart in ethnic infighting which ended with the Kosovo War. This was the finest of the Communist leaders, and curiously the Bill O'Reillys of the world do not mention him when they mention atheist leaders. . .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito

Gospel Singer Charged with Assault
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Gospel singer BeBe Winans has been charged with misdemeanor domestic assault after a dispute with his ex-wife in Nashville. An arrest warrant filed Wednesday says 46-year-old Benjamin "BeBe" Winans got into an argument with his ex-wife about their children at her home on Feb 13. The warrant says Debra Winans told authorities Benjamin Winans pushed her to the ground. He was released from the Davidson County jail Thursday after posting $1,000 bond. Winans says in a statement that "the allegations are inconsistent with my character." Winans is a judge on BET's television show "Sunday Best." The four-time Grammy award-winner has recorded gospel albums with his sister CeCe Winans. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. Another Christian doing bad things...lol. Question: Are Christians more moral than others or are they just as bad as other groups?

Dawkins Lecture online March 17 online, will you watch?
Dawkins a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist. The link is and don't be afraid to watch: http://www.open2.net/darwin/dawkins/index.html

Will the trend continue?
By every measure the 20th century was the most cruel and bloody since our recorded history. Should we expect more of the same? By the way, i meant to hit morality and ethics, not religion and philosophy. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm

Is it offensive when you start off, "no offense" than say something negative about the person?
I read this and hear this all the time and I chuckle every time.

Social networking is bad for the brain they now say?
So I wonder who is pushing this study. Maybe the comercial markets who want us to focus on watching tv and comercialism so we can go out spend money and feed the economy. They don't want us to interact except with what is on store shelves. So they say no more than 2 hours and the rest take your kids shopping and interact that way or It is unhealthy for the brain.

H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 will shut down Farmers Markets.
What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers who sell just fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory “safety” records would have to be kept. Anyone who fails to register and comply with all of this nonsense could be facing a fine of up to $1,000,000 per violation. The problem will be that the people who run the farmers markets will be forced to make sure that vendors are “registered” with the government.

Our system Begins to Show its Ugly Side
We always tend to compare other systems to ours. We say that ours is more superior given the results and these other systems can't get it together because of their corruption and instability. I don't necessarily support these "other" systems but I have always argued that they were never given the chance to even see if they could be possible alternatives. Supporters of this system create the corruption because that corruption is necessary to ensure the success of this system. They have used every means possible to sabatoge any efforts at a solution that might possibly be more fair, equitable, efficient and effective for others. When times are good, no one can see that our system relies upon lies, corruption and financial manipulation in order to work. When times are bad, the snitching begins as everyone attempts to cover their own arses and whine of their losses: http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20090313/wl_oneworld/world3609631236963717 Gangs and mafias have always managed to be successful, that does not make their way of doing things the more superior system. If the system itself is not one big corruption, then it needs to do a better job at regulating its corporate mafias. At least keep it real....its disgusting for them to continue to think that we are all blind fools.

White People and Music....GREAT ONE!!!!!!
I love this band.

Billionaire Drug Lords
So a cartel boss has become a member of Forbes's Richest People list. Which country do you suppose lost that billion dollars to him, and wouldn't it be better to keep that money at home? . . http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/13/mexico.forbes.list/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Clean Green
In this video, Peter Tosh introduces us to the winner of the year's Cannabis Cup. This award is presented annually to the grower who has come up with the best new strain of cannabis as defined by yield, aroma, or hardiness. I do feel the need to point out that the winner is hardly a member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Some weeks ago I posted a proposition about the possible legalization of cannabis in California and asked whether we wanted businessmen or thugs being the suppliers. Mitchosch's new post and mine show the thug and the businessman. Support the War on Drugs and you are supporting the loser in mitchosch's post... whereas legalization would cause the providers to be decent citizens like the gentleman in the above video, or like the 4 of our last 5 Presidents who all smoked weed at some point.

A Child Raised By The Drug Users Of America...
Your drug monies go to supporting individuals like this teen assassin that takes pleasure in killing for the drug lords of the Mexican Drug Cartel. Unless you are growing or manufacturing your own, you are supporting him...Hug your baby, dope fiends!!!

Man Obama..You are Effed Up!
I said it before and I will say again....negro should have waited to run (although he never would have stood a chance winning had people not been desperate for a change). Economy is just effed up beyond every angle. His stimulus program has a chance at working but even he has admitted that future generations will pay heavily for this financially and economically for a long time to come. How the heck do you borrow to pay off your "credit cards" and then expect to get rid of your "debt" problems? It makes no sense to me on any level. Excessive leveraging and taking on too much risks are the reasons we are here right now and we're going to continue that? I hope its get better only because its going to hurt like crazy to a lot more of us here and across the globe if it does not but I wouldn't be surprised if it did not. And Obama better fix this stuff too. I will dog him if he doesn't.

The more oppressed the more they believe in a God.
According to Harris Poll, 91 percent of African Americans believe in God, compared with 81 percent of Hispanics and 78. Ten percent of Protestants, 21 percent of Roman Catholics, and 52 percent of Jews do NOT believe in God. 84 percent of women believe in God, compared with 73 percent of men. 82 percent of those with no college education believe in God, compared with 73 percent who went to college. which tells me, Prisoners were believing before they went to jail.

Lost Non -Believer Kills Again...
"I'm fed up with this bloody life," a German official quoted Tim Kretschmer as writing early Wednesday. Heribert Rech, interior minister of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, told journalists Thursday that media reports indicate a teenager from Bavaria reported the Internet conversation to his father. According to Rech, Kretschmer continued: "Everyone laughs at me. No one recognizes my potential. I mean this seriously. I have got a weapon here and tomorrow I am going to go to my former school and give them hell. "Maybe I would escape, keep your ear to the ground. You'll hear from me tomorrow morning. Just notice the name of the place, Winnenden. Don't say anything to the police." Pain associated with not knowing what life is all about. Not loving others as he loves himself. Only focused on his own potential. Unforgiving. It is more likely that a non-believer (and that does not mean one that does not practice a RELIGION) would proceed along this path...

Has anyone heard of Miracle Noodles?
They have no calories. http://www.miraclenoodle.com/?gclid=CKT4uMeDv5gCFQ6jagodtU1cZg

Christian Terrorist Group, IRA, Kills Again
After soldiers, IRA faction kills cop in Northern Ireland 11 Mar 2009, 0114 hrs IST, REUTERS BELFAST: Suspected dissident republican gunmen killed a policeman in Northern Ireland late on Monday, the third killing in recent days, raising fears of a return of sectarian violence in the British province. A republican splinter group opposed to the peace process in Northern Ireland has claimed responsibility. The Continuity IRA, which wants an end to British rule and a united Ireland, said its gunmen killed police constable Stephen Carroll, 48, late on Monday, the media reported. The officer was shot dead when he was out on patrol in Craigavon, 40km southwest of the province’s capital Belfast. “Sadly one of those officers paid the ultimate price when cowards and criminals gunned him down,” said Northern Ireland’s police chief Hugh Orde. Question: Shouldn't they be called Christian Terrorist? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/After-soldiers-IRA-faction-kills-cop-in-Northern-Ireland/articleshow/4251641.cms

The Flaw in the Mindset of the Religious
I speak only for myself and not for any other atheist or agnostic when I say that, at the core of my lack of belief in any deity described by humans, lies the simple fact that I am not a person who chooses to believe in things or not. Presented a new possibility, such as M-theory or a new description of deity, I evaluate the likelihood that these descriptions might be real. Acceptance pretty much requires proof of some sort; the best a proposition with no evidence will get from this atheist is, "Interesting... I'm going to remember that one". I find it incomprehensible that people choose to firmly believe in things that just don't add up. It seems like a most irresponsible choice as it affects society very, very deeply. What madness. Choosing to believe in something with no evidence is irresponsible.

Atheists and Some Pot Smokers, Too
I don't really like referencing other debaters in a proposition, but he has brought it upon himself. According to mitchosch's logic, the many famous people in this award-winning video, all atheists, probably were all raped by religious leaders. Those that smoked pot as well, like Sagan, Gould, Hemingway, Jolie, and many others, at some point probably wanted to - or even did, unbeknownst to us - shoot up a church. What a crock. The massive success of these atheists shows us that mitchosch's post about the St. Louis church shooting was massively illogical, poorly - if at all - thought out, based on horribly ignorant misconceptions caused by rigid religious thinking - or lack thereof -, and was based truly on nothing more than his personal beliefs, which, in the scheme of things, mean less than the tiny speck of dung which emanates from the cloaca of a lizard. That, at least, will nourish plants, unlike the vile, discriminatory, hate-filled toxic rhetoric of mitchosch's post, which nourishes only intolerance, ignorance, and violence.

If God disappeared...
(tongue in cheek) for you clueless ones out there. Isn't this great, Ozzieman!

The Internet has helped deflate Religion.
Religion feeds off of the less educated. It feeds off of the impoverished. It feeds off of the weak. That is where their greatest number of believers lay. The internet will help bring religion and the powers that be who control the institution to its knees. We would have never known about a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports. Fahd told the policeman he had the right to be there, because Sawadi (The old woman) had breast-fed him as a baby and was therefore considered to be a son to her in Islam, according to Al-Watan. Fahd, 24, added that his friend Hadian was escorting him as he delivered bread for the elderly woman. The policeman then arrested both men. Efforts to reach Saudi officials at the Justice Ministry, religious police and other agencies were unsuccessful. A spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington said he had no details on the case. It is a shame that some religions need Religious Police to police believers. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/09/saudi.arabia.lashes/index.html?eref=rss_world

Do you think this father is saying a bunch of crap and lying in the interview?
n 2004, David Goldman dropped off his wife, Bruna, and then-4-year-old son, Sean, at the airport for a two-week vacation in Brazil. Shortly after she arrived in her native country, Bruna told David she wanted a divorce and planned to stay in Brazil with their son. Bruna later remarried and got pregnant, but she died while giving birth last summer. Goldman thought he was getting his son back, but a Brazilian family court judge granted custody of Sean to Bruna's new husband. What caused the breakup of the marriage? David Goldman: I don't know. Apparently, she decided she wanted to live in Brazil, where she said she had more friends and more family and where she was known. King: Did you feel happily married? Goldman: Yes, I thought we were happily married. King: So this was a call out of the blue? Goldman: I was completely blindsided and crushed.------> Now my response, Junior: He knows damn well what happen in the relationship. The dude is lying his a4# off and getting Hillary Clinton to try and hook him up. link: http://tinyurl.com/arqvkx

Would Abraham Lincoln have been a Democrat or a Republican today?
Yick for Democrat and Yak for Republican and explain why if you can.

The Republicans Cannot Be Trusted With the Country
So it's happened again. Every time we let the Republicans have full control of the country, they bring the nation's economy crashing down. It happened in 1929, after Republican leaders let the markets loose (Warren Harding (1920-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) and Herbert Hoover (1929-1933). It happened again in 2008 after Republican leaders (Reagan, Bush I, Bush II) let the markets loose (Clinton's presidency occurred during those years but with a GOP-dominant Congress). For all their talk of fiscal conservatism and pragmatism, Republicans spell doom for the economy.

Rapist should be sterilized.
That should be the new law. PERIOD.

Electronic devices should be donated or disposed of at hazardous materials cleanups
Every year there’s a smaller, cooler, smarter iWidget. Say the majority of us jump on the bandwagon of early adopters, what happens with the glut abandoned devices? How much of an impact do you believe these relics of technology have on the environment?

America becoming less Christian, survey finds
(CNN) -- America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found. Three out of four Americans call themselves Christian, according to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990, the figure was closer to nine out of 10 -- 86 percent. At the same time there has been an increase in the number of people expressing no religious affiliation. Is this the future of America? Will religion become obsolete? http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/09/us.religion.less.christian/index.html

Is this really worth complaining about in the Star Trek Movie coming out?
SMH

Excellent News
"A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey." . . . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/09/more-americans-say-they-h_n_173044.html

"Bible Deflects Bullet" is a much catchier title than "Preacher Shot Through Bible"
I posted this article earlier. Someone had raised this point elsewhere and I think he is correct. Somehow the media had to try and paint a picture of a possible miracle happening. The program, Mythbusters busted a similar test shooting through a book with a .45 caliber gun. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090308/ap_on_re_us/church_shooting

Is This The Face Of Atheism Today or Just another American Pot Smoker?
This is an image of the murderer of the peace-loving pastor of an American church. You can tell from the bags under his eyes that he is a pot smoker. Was dope smoking the reason for his desire to kill or his hatred of Christianity and Christians? Go ahead and claim it is unrequited love or something. I think it is the drugs...

Are you ok with Social Networking sites for Children?
I posted an article about this. They have them for as young as Kindergarten. Are you comfortable with this?

Is this why females prefer polyandry to monogamy or garbage science?
An international study by British and Japanese researchers has shed new light on why females of many species have multiple partners. Washington, November 21 : An international study by British and Japanese researchers has shed new light on why females of many species have multiple partners. The research team - comprising of experts from the Universities of Exeter (UK), Okayama (Japan) and Liverpool (UK) - say that "polyandry", the practice of mating with multiple male partners, could be the result of females adapting to avoid producing offspring carrying selfish genetic elements that reduce male fertility. The researchers have revealed that their study was based on the fruitfly Drosophila pseudoobscura, which they bred over 10 generations. Some males of this species carry a 'selfish gene' on their X chromosome that causes sperm carrying the Y-chromosome to fail, meaning that males carrying this gene can only produce daughters, all of which carry the sperm damaging gene. In the present study, females evolved to mate with more partners when they were exposed to males carrying this selfish gene. Though there was no way for the females to tell whether or not a potential mate carried the gene, they evolved to re-mate more quickly. After ten generations, they re-mated after an average of 2.75 days, compared with 3.25 days among the original population. The researchers said that more frequent mating helped females ensure that sperm from different males compete, and that competition favoured males without the sperm-damaging selfish genes, allowing females to bias paternity against such males. "Multiple mating by females has puzzled biologists for decades. It's more risky and costs precious time and energy for females. Our study suggests that these significant costs are worthwhile because the female increases her chances of producing healthy offspring of both sexes that do not carry the selfish gene," said corresponding author Dr Nina Wedell of the University of Exeter. Selfish genes occur at random as a result of mutations, and spread quickly through populations because they subvert normal patterns of inheritance, increasing their presence in the next generation. The researchers are of the opinion that their findings have relevance for a range of species with polyandrous females, including some primates. Dr Nina Wedell says: "Selfish genetic elements exist in all living organisms and many compromise male fertility. Our study could provide a new explanation for why polyandry is so remarkably widespread." The researchers say that they are presently unsure as to what implications their findings might have for understanding human reproduction, but believe that it is possible that some types of male fertility disorder are caused by the manipulation of selfish genes. A research article on this study has been published in the journal Science.

Is Vigilantism justified if law enforcement fails to do their job?
Should citizens take the law in their hands if the law enforcement or military is not doing their job or would we face some form of anarchy?

The Biggest Threat To Our National Security: Dumb-Ass Americans and Their Insatiable Drug Appetite
Instead of sitting around signing hype stem research bills, the president needs to mobilize troops on our southern borders! F--- all of youz dopeheads! Time for me to set up the perimeter!!!

Salary Caps on Sports Players
I think that it is ludicrous that sports players earn so much money. I'm all for earning lots of money, but who truly needs $20 million dollars to live a decent life? C'mon. I think all sports figures, celebrities and "real" people should have a salary cap of $5 million or even lower. That still allows plenty of good living, fun and generosity to take place - and all that other money could be used to help people here and around the world.

Tax Credit for Those With Healthcare Directives
I think that there should be a tax credit or some sort of incentive for everyone to have a healthcare directive in place so that everyone knows everyone else's healthcare preferences should they become incapacitated. I would have said it should be a state law, but everyone always gets wonky if you mention anything relating to health as a law.

Processed Food vs. Real Food
I think that if we were somehow able to control the cost of "real" food (vegetables, fruits, meats) and raise the cost of processed food so that more people could afford to eat healthier, we would be able to cut the rate of obesity, diabetes and heart disease by at least 50% within two generations.

Flu Vaccine: Helpful or Harmful?
I think that if the flu vaccine was as effective as manufacturers claim, a lot less people would have the flu each year.

High Fructose Corn Syrup: The Silent Killer
I think that the new modern "plague" of our society is diabetes and obesity and the culprit to blame behind this modern epidemic is high fructose corn syrup.

Do You Sometimes Get The Feeling That You're Chasing A Carrot?
I look at the NEW Mac Pro, with all of it's advanced features, and I only want IT. But, only a few months ago, I felt I would be completely satisfied and technologically well positioned with the current machine. Now it seems inadequate. You ever get that feeling that marketing has you by the chonies?

I just realize how much no competition sucks
I wanted a particular electronic device and come to find out best buy closes at only 7 pm today. What makes it worse the backup stores I usually go to are out of business like circuit city and about two other stores and Walmart doesn't have it. This sucks!!!

Is 50000 deaths in automobiles a more fair sacrifice than riding animals?
I know there are obvious comments but entertain the thought if you can. Let's make it socratic.

Pepsi 0 and Diet Sodas
Pepsi 0 has.... 0 sugar, 0 calories, 0 carbs and most importantly ZERO TASTE. I can't stand the "taste" of diet sodas. If I'm going to drink a soda it is going to be a full blown Coke or Pepsi. Anything else is a waste of time and I would rather just drink water.

The Harry Potter Movies Have Horrible Child Actors
The writer really should have allowed the producers to shoot with American child actors. If there are any good British child actors, they sure weren't cast in the Harry Potter series...

Don't you just love gravity...most of the times?
One of my favorite commercials. Yick if you hate, yak if you like.

Does feeding our ego make us more happy?
Often we strive toward things that we think will make us happy, but have the reverse effect. Then again it may make some people truly happy to have their ego's stroked.

Suppression creates obsession.
Reading the post on sexuality and we look at the cultures that are more repressive verses others that are less due to it because of religious influence, cultural or even racial; when you suppress things it makes things worse and creates obsession. When you shove things or even people into the closet you get things like Preachers raping church member's children or Homosexual behavior in dirty bathroom stalls by Conservative senators or congressmen. Enough is enough. We see the result. We as humans are civil enough to find a middle ground. Extremism doesn't work.

Is There a Difference Between Porn and Erotica?
Americans call anything with naked people or sex in it porn. Other countries differentiate between porn and erotica. "Porn" is sleazy stuff produced by lowlifes and mass-produced. "Erotica" is original film or fine art from artists, although it can be reproduced. I'm including a link to the Wiki entry on Aubrey Beardsley below as an example. Hollywood made some erotica in the 70s but not since... can America produce erotica, or is there here, only porn? . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley

The Explanation for red-State Porn
Junior posted a news article that Utah leads the nation in online porn consumption. It also mentioned that the so-called 'Red States" consume more online porn than the "Blue States". No surprise to me: this is because liberals are more likely to go out and actually engage in these sexual acts, while conservatives are more likely to watch someone else doing it on video and then try to ban the behavior as disgusting (even though they downloaded it).

Is Taboo Slowing the Black Community?
Well polls have shown that the black community is most superstitious and concern with "taboo". Is this slowing down advancement as a people?

Burning building? Call 9-1-1. Burning Question? Call 3-1-1
Part 2 on the McNugget lady. The non-emergency telephone number 3-1-1. The McNugget lady should have used 311 instead of 911. 3-1-1 service is generally implemented at the local level, and in some cities it is also used for various municipal calls. Examples of calls intended for 3-1-1: * illegal burning * suspicious persons * debris in roadway * minor injuries * non-working streetlamps & parking meters, etc. * noise complaints * local government inquiries And let me (Junior) add to the source, * If you don't get your money back if McDonald's runs out of Chicken McNuggets.

Does this makes sense?
If they say that God helps those who helps themselves then what would be the use of God if one is already doing good? Does and will God take credit for something you have ultimately worked out on your own? (super regilious ones are welcomed, Ron now extremely lone post please :)

Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe?
Who was better? Support for Shakespeare. Oppose for Poe.

Jillian Michaels from the show Biggest Loser is hot. Do you agree?
5'2" 120 pounds. 33 years old.

Is Louis Black a Jewish Athiest or like many Jews that understands their bible better than Christians?
Most Jews I talk to rarely take the words in the bible literally. Christians on the other hand...

Are Most Pastors Phony?
Reading Sanco's post about the "witch" children in Nigeria, I encountered the phrase "phony Pastors". Well, aren't they all? Almost every parishioner thinks their religious leader is right and good and true... no matter what he's saying. Yet every pastor, preacher, vicar, and priest knows no more about the fundamental truth than you or I.

Luck or Devine intervention?
This was big time luck. <--- MY WORDS | NEWS ARTICLE -----> "MERSIN, Turkey - A true miracle was caught on camera in Turkey after a train rammed into a semi-truck as it crossed the tracks in the Mediterranean port city of Mersin. The truck was sent crashing into a 32-year-old man standing alongside the tracks. The footage shows Cem Tokac flying backwards after he is hit, and then he is seen lying motionless on the ground. Amazingly, Tokac suffered only minor injures. Now, he says he plans to get married in April, and considers February 25— the day of the accident— his new birthday." QUOTE FROM NEWS ARTICLE.

Rush Limbaugh is the true leader of the Republican party and Michael Steel is a token.
The guys that run the two parties try to galvanize the base, and Steel is not the man. Fat drug addict Rush runs the show.

Every Christian generation mistakenly believes Christ will come in their lifetime or in their generation.
Now let me start by saying, "not every" but a large number believes this. The media pumps it out in all forms such as magazines and news papers. Preachers talk about it all the time on TV and in many churches. Believers believe changes in the weather is a sign that it will happen. You can run the whole gamut. Generations of Christians go through this.

Youtube rated: Do you think this independent film will get picked up by a distributor?
an independent feature length drama filmed in HDV. It was shot in and around Buffalo, New York in seventeen glorious days and then went on to ten months of tedious hard work in post production. Currently the film is being submitted to film festivals and the producers are working on finding the right distributor and attaining theatrical distribution prior to DVD sales.

Who does this remind you of?
For some reason, this reminds me of RonHarris...LOL!!!

Has anyone listen to the Cantina Band 1 and 2 in its entirety?
Both songs are played in this youtube. OUTSTANDING. Your thoughts?

Was it worth calling 911 for her McNuggets refund?
This was the only audio i could find. I guess you all should know the story of the lady calling 911 because they ran out of McNuggets and McDonalds would not refund her the 99 cents for the nuggets. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29491384/

Asking for Pizza with cheese is redundant.
LOL.

1 Snow Day is Enough
It snowed here on Monday and the snow started to melt away by the end of the day. But there are still entire counties that haven’t re-opened school. Snow is not some new phenomenon. Why is it that these counties can’t figure out a way to deal with the snow clean up so that the buses can get to rural areas or whatever to take the kids to school? If the buses can’t make it, why can’t the parents be responsible for taking their kids to school or carpooling if they don’t have a car? Snow days are such an inconvenience to parents and all they do is extend the school year. What if a parent has new job and they can’t take the day off, what are they supposed to do with their kid? I went to school in NYC for 10 years and not once did we have a snow day. Most kids took the train or the city bus to go to school or imagine this…..they walked. I walked to school when I was in elementary. The South is so backwards. I remember slipping and sliding in the snow when I was in high school. NYC schools had a snow day for the first time in 5 years on Monday and the kids were right back to school yesterday.

You are in a repression when your neighbor loses their job, You are in a depression when you lose yours.
I hears it on TV.

Woman must lose something of her femininity if she seeks to compete with men?
There you go everyone. simple question. No confusion. Answer if you like. Its not worth arguing over.

AIG, an example of what Insurance companies fear the most and can't afford to let it fail.
The last thing an insurance company wants are a large number of the insured making claims. AIG is facing this problem with 74 million customers and enough of them are making claims that has brought AIG down to its knees. It cant make the payouts. The only thing that can come close to this are claims made after a natural disaster like New Orleans, or a forest fire that wipes out acres of land and hundreds of homes destroyed. From what I'm reading the government (tax payers) will be the primary owner of this company at 80%.

Are you tired of Product rebranding or does it make the product more attractive to you?
It seems when products controlled by the top two soda companies rebranding is the name of the game. I guess to give a fresh appearance. The Original flavor Gatorade, owned by Pepsi, is now Gatorade G. I personally don't like the taste of Gatorade and I thought this was an attempt at a new flavor I guess not.

Cop beats up 15-year old girl in Jail
Is there anything that could have warranted this type of behavior from the cops. Yick is no, Yak is yes.

Is this a sad testament to the American Family?
Only 14 percent of Americans said they admire either their mother or father enough to call them their hero. In contrast, nearly half (49 percent) said a public figure is someone they admire and consider a personal hero. The Harris Poll, released on Thursday, was conducted on 2,634 U.S. adults between Jan. 12 to 19, 2009

Is there greater frequency of "recreational" or non-prescribed drug use in a free society?
Not sure about this. As a matter of economy it seems to be a part of some of the poorer societies regardless of the system of politics, but that doesn't necessarily mean use of drugs as it does production, distribution and sale. When i was in the Soviet Union in the late 80's and early 90's i was approached frequently for hasheesh,and that was probably the most repressive society i had ever lived. Amsterdam has had an increasing difficulty in dealing with drug use with it's liberal laws. I am unsure if there is any correlation between a free society and drug use, or the freedom to use drugs and drug use, but would enjoy hearing perspectives.

Never try to take a dump around a donkey
LOL

Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest???
The dude played it off pretty good.

Not speaking clearly can cost someone their life?
Funny video

Hip Hop musicians should do more children songs like this, do you like the performance?
This group is called, The Roots. Outstanding children's song they play on Nick Jr. the other video below is an example of what they normally do. But I tell you I love the childrens song they did. I would like to see more o this from other groups.

My New Webcomic... Am I Crazy?
I have launched a webcomic. It's brand new, only 8 posts so far, as I try to ramp up to a decent production scale and learn the limitations of the 11 different web applications I am using. It takes a lot of time and effort and it'll be years, if ever, before it shows any income, yet it is something I must do. Am I crazy?

"Life on Mars" is Excellent
Most TV doesn't do a lot for me... but this show is entertaining and thought-provoking. The premise is a detective who is knocked unconscious and wakes up in 1973. The characters, especially the guest stars, are wonderful, and the feel of the era is spot-on. Freshly liberated women, Angela-Davis like radicals, old corrupt cops meeting modern professional ones... great show. Here's a clip: http://www.tvfanatic.com/videos/life-on-mars-clip/

Sarah Welch Falls, Gets Up, Files Lawsuit does she have a strong case?
Sarah Welch -- a model and former contestant on "The Bachelor" -- is suing several companies involved with the fashion show she worked at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood on October 18, 2007. We found the lawsuit -- filed in Santa Monica earlier this month. Welch claims she suffered "great injuries to her body, shock and injuries to her nervous system" after she fell through a hole in the runway which was created by the performer who went on before her. Welch is suing for negligence and is seeking unspecified damages. TMZ.com

Last week a monkey, this week i a watermelon
The rediculousness of it all had me cracking up for a while. Yick if you think this guy didn't mean any harm. Yack if you think he knew it would offend someone. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/white-house-watermelon-em_n_169933.html

Was the housing market a giant ponzi scheme?
Did the mortgage lenders and banks create a giant ponzi scheme or are you more outraged about the homebuyers?

Disappointed that being a Jedi went from meritocracy to a birthright
In the newer movies they changed the explanation of the Jedi and the force to one having the symbiont called midichlorians at high concentrations in order to communicate with the Force or the Dark Side. Before the movie prequels it was described as, "an energy field created by all living things, that surrounds and penetrates living beings and binds the galaxy together." Sad to say it disappointed me with the change. I would have preferred it to be more of a monastic philosophy that anyone could have learned.

Cursing in the Work Place is Inappropriate
I don’t curse, and to hear people curse at work or any closed setting is always shocking. Right now I’m sitting at my desk and there are a group of men in a conference room cursing like they are at a bar somewhere. It’s not like they are arguing with a customer, they are just having regular conversation. In a setting that is supposed to be professional, this is inappropriate and should be against company policy. I’m so tempted to call HR. I don’t care about freedom of speech in this case, I’m totally offended.

Will their ever be a another Black Blague or Black Death?
I can't believe I messed up the title....it is suppose to say, "...Black Plague..." Other than someone mentioning AIDS do you foresee a major epidemic? The first major one was the Plague of Justinian in 541–542 AD at the start of the Dark Ages that killed 100 million people. Imagine 1/3 of the US wiped out. 60% of Europe was wiped out. After that there were 100 Plagues that swept through Europe including the famous one we all know about called the Black Death that wiped out about 70 million Europeans and 1/3 of China's population and parts of Northern Africa. Is it likely this can happen again?

Do you believe that Vaccines May Cause Autism?
If this is so a public health disaster could occur and millions of parents would refuse to vaccinate their children against diseases.

Yick if you have something negative to say, yak if you don't.
Yick if you have something negative to say, yak if you don't.

Is "Fair Trade" really fair?
(Warning anecdotal evidence) When i was in Nicaragua i had the opportunity to observe (not participate in) a "fair trade" deal for coffee. The buyer worked for a small company that sold to a very large and extremely high end store here in the states (that everyone knows). There was an inbetween guy who facilitated the meeting, and the seller, a coffee farm owner. The thinking is that the coffee will be purchased from local farmers and thus providing the poor of the community profit directly. In Nicaragua the poorest of the poor do not own any land or farms, but might work as day laborers for local land owners. They have some of the hardest jobs i have seen, and get paid between $60-$75 a month. They work at the whim of the farmer, and have no rights whatsoever. The American buyer had no say at all about how the money would be spent that was given to the land-owner, and the land owners in this country are far above average in status and standard of living than the average Nicaraguan. Fair trade feels good to us up here, but does it really help the poor? A corporate farm would be subject to far more regulations, or at least could be; however a land owner is able to do what he likes. Is it really fair trade?

California Moves to Legalize Pot
California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced a bill to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana as a legal recreational drug for adults over 21. Net savings to California would be $1 billion dollars a year. Tax revenue to California would be about $1.3 billion dollars a year. In addition, it would weaken the Mexican drug cartels operating in California as well as removing funding from our "homegrown" gangs. A former Bush administration official responded that one ought to worry about the cost to society... except that, with 40 million users, the cost to society has already been observed, and is nowhere near as high as the cost of alcohol, tobacco, or saturated fats. As long as there is marijuana (or "Marihuana" as stated in the Phelps incident sheriff's paperwork) around, people will want it... and as long as people want it, and it is illegal, only the bad guys will profit. The gangs get stronger, richer, and better armed. This makes no sense whatsoever. It is the reason behind our having the highest percentage of our citizens behind bars than ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. End the madness. Free the sticky green herb.

School Choice Works
And that's exactly why Democrats slipped a provision in the phony stimulus bill to end school choice in DC public schools. Yet the Democrats and President Obama always claim to be looking out for the children. The Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program now serves more than 1,900 students from families with an average annual income of $23,000. Students now attend 54 of the 60 participating schools in the District. In all, more than 7,200 students have applied for scholarships. The Washington Scholarship Fund reports that 83 percent of these students would be attending public schools that did not meet “adequate yearly progress” under No Child Left Behind in 2006-07. ************* Notice that the children in this video aren't singing a corny song praising Obama. They aren't dancing around praising Obama. They aren't crying as they praise Obama. They are serious and focused as they plead, speaking in proper English, for an opportunity to get a decent education in a safe environment. Yak if you think President Obama and Democrats will listen. Or is the campaign cash jingling in the pocket of the teacher's unions too loud?

What is important, finding everlasting love or complete your life long dream?
Completing your life long dream cannot include finding love. LOL. Yick for the first one and yak for the second.

Send Winnie-the-Pooh Home.
Christopher Robin Milne has requested that the toys which inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh books, now in a case at the New York Public Library, be returned to him in order that they might be displayed in the Hundred-Acre-Wood (which he saved from redevelopment in the 1990s). The New York Public Library refused. In a day and age when museums the world over are recognizing that their collections were often padded unethically and are returning national treasures to their rightful places, it's time for the NYPL to send Winnie and his friends home.

Sacrilege
In an attempt to win back young readers, publishers have announced they will be changing the covers and artwork of many classic children's stories. This includes Charlotte's Web and the Little House books, where Garth Williams' wonderful drawings will be replaced by film screen shots, as will the iconic cover art be replaced with movie posters. Also, Christopher Robin will be written out of Winnie the Pooh books in the future, in favor of "the little girl who moves in next door". Also, Pooh and Tigger "will be superheroes sometimes". Sacrilege! Blasphemy!

Should the word, Dial or Dailing be replaced when referring to phones
Since we no longer do this or rarely do should we replace it with something else or will it become another word where we one day in the far future wonder why we ever used the word "dial"?

Positives are internalized/Negatives are externalized
I remember covering this in Psychology in college a lifetime a go. Basically, this theory states that when something bad happens to us, we blame it on some external source. However, when something bad happens to someone else, we immediately place the blame on that person for being careless and irresponsible. The opposite also holds true. If something good happens to us, we pat ourselves on the back. When another person has good fortune, we attribute it to luck or some other factor that had nothing to do with the person’s ability. In a nutshell, people really are self centered. A classic example is hearing about someone seriously getting hurt on the news. The typical person’s response is usually “well, why was he/she there in the first place?.”

should children pick their own religion?
Instead of baptizing them, dragging them along to Church, and enforcing "holy rules" that you don't even follow, should children be free to chose their religion? No pre-decision made by the parents of any kind, sure they can suggests, everyone else does.

Does Generation X Care About The Oscars?
Hollywood had better start outsourcing for hidden talent in Bollywood like British filmmakers. I imagine the Oscars had a huge audience in San Jose California, but does the rest of America, especially Generation X, really give a rat's patutta?

Is Sullenberger a Nonbeliever?
The following link is to the Newsweek editorial written by the pilot who put that plane down safely in the Hudson river. He uses the opportunity to reassure people who are having mortgage problems or have gotten laid off!! Pretty sweet. But I notice in all the interviews and features, there is no mention of religion. In fact, asked if he had prayed, he smiled and said, "I'm sure someone in back was taking care of that for me." I'm getting a strong feeling he's a nonbeliever. . .http://www.newsweek.com/id/184605

Get By: One of the best Rap Collaborations Ever!
Get By artists: Mos Def, Jay-Z, Kanye, Talib, and Busta. Lyrics: [Mos Def] History It's happening every day y'all (right now) Everyday (right now) Right now (good mornin', Vietnam!) Listen Brooklyn wins again It's the Stuy, it's the Bush, dem niggaz again Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S Dot on the guest slot Kanye, you're the dope man in hip hop, now let's rock Now roll out niggaz, my hometown niggaz I get it good in your hood so slow down niggaz Watch the speed though, mind the pedal and ease off A street talk into a collision course with these walls - bam! They don't move, don't brake, don't lose, don't sleep Light passin', light fashion, life happens that fast, party done Black hands up and prayer Black guns up in fear Dyin' wish is to touch the air Seekin' heaven that wasn't here Eyes will not see another year It's another day It's the same fight Different round, sound the bell Mix it up as if you're where you live it up the beat And get risen up you're knocked down get back and get it up Get off of queer street and get with us And get clear where we did it From the heart, from the people From the top, from the jeep From the gutter, from the street From my soul to the mic to the essence So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly I make contact for sure the emcee Me and mine we don't just get by We get free and that's ready [Mos -- nigga] [Jay-Z] Just to get by Nigga I sold coke, nigga I pushed lah Carried a fo'five Claimed I was ready to die Promised never to cry Held it all inside Reality was too much to take so I Kept my mind fried Slept for most of mine Soon as I closed my eyes Then I woke up behind Thinking either I load up these nines Or blow up with rhymes cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein your moms Doin five dollars worth to work just to get a dime So pardon my disposition Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me? Picture me working McDonald's I'd rather pull a mac on you Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin [Kanye West] It's on I'm packin weight like Nina Simone piano flow It's like a Michelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou And gave it to a sick poet for the antidote If music gets you choked up this is the tree and the rope This is Chi [Chicago) nigga, I'm mister all of that. Fuck a map, let's put this bitch on the almanac. Dice what they hittin' for, 'lax what you sittin' on Tracks who you spittin on, rap till we get it on And don't let nobody with the power to sign Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme They used to tell me toughen up Put some bass in your voice They used to tell me lighten up Put some Mase in your voice Lord willin' I ain't killt nobody But I have a feelin' this album That I'm gonna make a killin' Or not a shillin' This is love it or hate it music But, at least we made it music And we didn't make it industry This is gon' be interesting This'll be the end of me or I'm finna be an entity Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli We are not makin' songs no more We're makin' history [background singers] This morning I woke up Feelin brand new, I jumped up Feelin my highs and my lows In my soul, and my goals Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin But I been thinkin I got my reasons Just to get (by), just to get (by) Just to get (by), just to get (by) [background singers repeat in the background] bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah [Talib Kweli] Just to get by, just to get by Just to get by, just to get by [background singers] bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah [Talib Kweli] Just to get by, just to get by Just to get by We keep it gangsta, saying 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy' Desensitized to the violence on TV during the war Killin each other is easy as whore and liquor for fallen niggaz Believe me, it's ghetto libations seen it all befo' Just to get by, my people we get fly My people we get high, fillin cigars with the lah Nigga come on, even Jesus was stoned before receivin' the throne I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone [Busta Rhymes] Back in the days we was used to doin the shit I can't call it all in the streets We would hustle and fiends would ask for it I guess I was used to just standin on corners Waitin for paper bags with bundles of crack Hopin the week was good so I could get money back To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength That made me angry and bleed With the frustration havin me smokin Newports and weed To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by Those be the times when I try to rely On my niggaz and street motherfuckers And reach out to wifey and then I place a call on my mother To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by (Hey yo mom pick up the phone, I g- I gotta to talk to you ma) If you was five percent instead of actin stupid and guessin You had to go and study your lessons And know your math in the building recession to get by [Hook: Talib Kweli + background singers] This morning I woke up Feelin brand new, I jumped up Feelin my highs and my lows In my soul, and my goals Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin But I been thinkin I got my reasons Just to get (by), just to get (by) Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye) [background singers repeat in the background] bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah [Talib Kweli] Some people cry Some people try just to get by For a piece of the pie You love to eat and be high We deceive and we lie And we keepin' it fly - yo yo yo yo yo When people decide Keep a disguise Can't see your eyes See the evil inside The best people you find Strong or feeble in mind I stay readin' the signs yo-yo-yo-yo yo [repeat]

Phenomenal Internet Game
This is the fastest, most action-packed game I've ever played on the net. 8 million racers. REALLY fast. This trailer (made exclusively from live races) does NOT do the game justice. Car and track editors, puzzle mode, hundreds of user-generated tracks, dedicated servers. A wealth of content beyond the excellent internet racing... and there's even a free version...http://www.trackmania.com/en/

Are you ready for the furture in ads?
Question: What is the gold balloon? ...lol.

Yickyak Enters the Classroom
My partner teaches Critical Thinking for the University of California. As of this semester, the top students in each of her classes will be required to start a thread on Yickyak.com

Would You Trust this Dog?
I ran across this a couple of years ago. There's been a laugh track added which detracts from the creepiness, but... would you leave a kid alone with this dog?

Can't Stop Playing This!
This is the best. The hook is song by this chick named Mayra Andrade. She's from Cape Verde...her music is great.

do you appaud UK for banning Rev. Phelphs from entering the country?
They called the British government "filthy" for thinking they had the power "to keep the word of God from coming into her borders". The UK Border Agency said it opposed "extremism in all its forms". A spokesman added: "Both these individuals have engaged in unacceptable behaviour by inciting hatred against a number of communities. "We will continue to stop those who want to spread extremism, hatred and violent messages in our communities from coming to our country. "The exclusions policy is targeted at all those who seek to stir up tension and provoke others to violence regardless of their origins and beliefs."

Why Does The Military Always Give Lame Excuses For UFO Sightings ?
The Phoenix Lights...YAk if you think it was flares as the military says. Yick if you think for yourself...

Monkeys and trolls
Just a slightly different of view on the racist cartoon. I agree with his stance on take responsibility for what you did and I still find the cartoon to be racist, mainly due to the history associated with the connection of the word. But I guess haters are what really makes the world go round. Oh, and those who don't know or can't tell. Dude is actually mixed, one parent is Black and the other is white.

Lions, tigers and bears
Jazmine Sullivan is from Philadelphia and in her mid 20's. I think this is a very lovely song and melody. She reminds of Lauryn Hill back in the day. What do you think. Here is a slightly longer version :......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7dmok7bI4

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
This has to be THE song of the century.

Let's Travel to Another Country
Nelson Freitas Bo e Kel Amjer

Is it ok for Big Boys to cry and she they be encouraged to shed more tears?
I've talked to many women who say they question their mates toughness, manliness, etc if they see him cry and really open up emotionally. There are some I talked to who find it ok. Should we encourage men to open up with more tears?

How do You Like Your Art Cooked?
If this doesn't embed properly, I'll add a link below. I think this piece made entirely of meat is great although not hugely original (artists worked with meat, fat, and cheese as far back as the 30s). What say you?

Is this cartoon meant to be racist?
What do you think? Yick for yes, and Yak for no.

Is This the Worst Website in the World?
This monstrosity has won "Worst Website" several times. Is it about as bad as you've seen? (Perfectly safe, just bad):. . . http://www.havenworks.com/

Are humans naturally selfish?
Are humans naturally selfish? can our concern over our own well-being in whichever form that maybe ever be put on the "back burner"?

Is Jamaica Hell for Gays?
Doing more research on reggae after escaping the Yickyak mob, I stumbled across this. Apparently there was a large homophobic streak in some reggae and they actually had to have a conference in which artists agreed to remove the gay-bashing from the lyrics (though not all agreed). Apparently the music was inciting arracks on gays like Mexican gangsta or Mexican country invites attacks on law enforcement. Apparently crowds in Jamaica would celebrate over the bodies of dead gays... had any of you heard of this before? Here is a Time magazine link to the debate-title source: . . http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1182991,00.html

Ban Dangerous Pets
Pet (or companion animal) ownership should be restricted to the domesticated animals (dog, horse, pig, etc), domestic cats (which are technically not domesticated), and non-domesticated animals which are incapable of harming humans. Tigers, chimps, sharks, alligators, etc. should not be taken as "pets". It's bad for the animals and bad for the people.

Affirmative Action is not the way out
I think Lucky Dube clearly understood. The lyrics could not be more clear. As he sings, "Another way of putting puppets where they don't belong."

Equal rights is misused and Fairness should be the proper term.
We should have had a Fairness Amendment instead of an Equal rights Amendment. It is much more realistic to treat someone fair than to treat someone equally or having equal access. If you are not qualified equal access is not in question. Fairness is what is feasible for citizens. You cannot mandate equality. Its humanly impossible.

Is unconditional love irresponsible?
Abusive partners, or what about children, at some point can it be irresponsible to love a bad seed? Or, no, love not so optional in all cases?

Should the Roman Polanski Sex Case be closed?
The famous producer He had raped a 13 year in Jack nicolaus' house in 1978 and fled to France before he was sentenced. The 13 year old girl is 45 years old and also wants the case closed but the US still wants Polanski to return so he can be charged. He continues to produce movies and win awards. "...performed oral sex on her, and vaginal and anal intercourse, after giving her a combination of champagne and quaaludes." wikipedia. She recently said, "I don't think he's a danger to society. I don't think he needs to be locked up forever and no one has ever come out ever — besides me — and accused him of anything. It was 30 years ago now. It's an unpleasant memory ... (but) I can live with it."

Sade: Need I say more?
This women is smoking hot!!! One of my favorite artist. Yick if you got taste, Yak if you's fool...lol.

Are fear and pride the greatest obstacles to intellectual growth.
Of course other than sheer ability, what makes us say "i dare not look, i dare not question, the alternative simply cannot be true"? Is it fear and pride that closes our minds?

African American Immigrants in South Africa
I watched a documentary on Showtime called
Blacks Without Borders
and I am in awe. 30k square-foot homes on acres of land for less that $1 million. Should success oriented blacks in America consider moving to South Africa? If you get a chance, catch the documentary on Showtime and decide for yourselves...

Anyone ever read the book, The Kings Chessboard?
In my twist of words would you take 1 billion dollars cash or $1 on the first square of the chessboard. For each successive square you will get double the amount of the previous square.

Should we always assume that someone did instead of a natural cause
I mean come on. In dry a$$ Australia, no doubt a fire may start but everyone always wants to find a scapegoat. This happens everywhere. People always judge before they get the whole story and no way in heck can you say it was an arson that caused a dry shrub fire in dry A$% Australia. You can trip and fall and start a fire over there.

Isn't it Ironic? Don't you think?
This Muslim gentleman who started a TV station in NY to counter the negative stereotyping of the Muslim community, beheads his wife. Ironic, don't you think?

Capitol Punishment: Yes (Yick) or No (Yak)
Warning: Dead animal shown. Over 200 people killed in the Aussie fires. Not to mention the other damage that has been caused. Question: Should a suspect be found guilty, should he be put to death? And if you believe he should, how should he die?

Jesus Bigot or Savior?
I have been accused of of being very close minded and at times a bigot.Well this is taken from a post I placed on another Site. I will like to talk about an individual by today's standard would be considered a close minded bigot. This individual says it’s my way and no way else. He claims to know it all and farther says He is always right and no one else. Well I for one believe Him. This individual is none other than God himself manifested in the flesh. His name is Jesus, the righteous Son of God. My source of information will be God’s Word the Bible. As we all know there are plenty of religious systems out there that basically tell their followers that by following their system they shall achieve salvation. One world organization claims that that through a process of Sacraments salvation can be obtained. Others follow individual leaders and their teachings in hopes of salvation. Some of these teachings include out of date dietary laws, false prayer rituals, and even racial superiority. I will have you know that Jesus himself rebukes these teachings. Here are some examples. When speaking to the Apostle Thomas in the Book of St. John 14:6 Jesus is recorded as saying: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” In St. John the 10th chapter in the first seven verses Jesus describes himself as the door. Notice there is NO religious ceremonies, other individual, or even sets of dietary restrictions as a requirement to enter into Heaven. Jesus according to the Scriptures is the only way. So please Yick if you think he is a Bigot or Yak if He is the Savior!

Ozzieman, Raggae with Musically complexity and lyrically meaningful
He is a true song writer who happens to sing reggae, sadly he was killed about a year ago by a carjacker. He was still young, born in 1967. This is a response to your last debate. Playlist: 1. Its Not easy - very complex and meaningful at its fullest. and transitioning at its best for this genre. Very deep in story. Just beautiful. 2. Ding Ding Licky Licky - Don't let the title fool you. Wonderful lyrics and meaningful once again. 3. Victims - by far one of his best written songs. Example in this song he says, "...she said these word when the wrinkles on her face became perfect trails for the tears." WOW!!! 4. Different Colours - Very fun and well written song and deep. Strong strong message for the world. 5. I'm a Prisoner - This song has a very strong message. 6. I got you babe - I just love this song. Perfect song for that special person. 7. Feel Irie - This is as Raggae as you can get. Wonderful lyrics. "People had worries when the Dead see was only critical" WOW. I don't like the video though. 8. Love me the way I am - I know many people who have similar stories in their lives. Again lyrically meaningful. 9. House of exile - speechless 10. Soldier - One of his best written song.

Should it be your responsibility to spread the word?
Should is be the responsibility of a follower to aide in converting another into their religion? I have to ask because i came across a "regulation" of the atheists of America organization or whatever that one must actively spread the ideas of atheism.

Would you be calm in the given situation?
Would you be calm if you found out that your significant other gave you an incurable STD? What would you do. (in response the the Chris/Rhianna rumor)

Do you agree with the Mother of 14?
Do you support that this jobless, no place of her own, living with her mother after all these years, mother who just gave birth to 8 more rugrats in what she did?

What order of watching the 6 Star Wars movies do you prefer?
I'm deciding this time around if I should watch the 6 movies based on (Yick) From Episode I to Episode VI or (Yak) the way the movies were released, Episode IV to Episode VI than the prequels Episode I to Episode III?

Reggae Redeemed
No reggae song had ever touched my soul... I found it boring, repetitive, and simplistic. I had given up on the art form completely... then I encountered this. Musically complex, lyrically meaningful, not repetitive, aimed at both the brain and the heart, not the dance floor... this is a great song.

"Imagine" Black Ice
No comments needed. Just listen.

Charlemagne the father of Europe - Embrace God or meet that god immediately. Why most are Christian today.
He pretty much united all of Europe since the Roman empire and define what it was to be European. He played a strong role of insuring you were a Christian. If you did not accept, instant death. If you refuse to get baptized, death. If you practice another religion, death. Thousands of people died because of him while spreading the faith. He had two focuses, expand his conquest to what is now all of Europe and force Christianity on non believers. Basically his method is how much of the Christian faith was established after him and during colonization. He had 5 wives, 5 mistresses and 20 children. What a way to spread a faith. Just Brutal.

Which of the two John Mayer songs do you like best
These two are my favorite. Yick for Waiting on the World to change and Yak for Daughters.

Disabled People Should be Able to Adopt
I was watching the discovery channel earlier and there was a couple that wanted to adopt a child. The man was fertile but was in a wheel chair, and the wife was in-fertile. They failed at adopting a baby in the US because no one thought that a paralyzed father would be suitable for a child. They were also completely rejected in China and Russia just because he was paralyzed. They were finally able to adopt a little girl from Columbia. Should a potential parent's disability really be a factor? Kids get placed in abusive homes all of the time, but the loving parents get rejected.

Something has to replace money as the motivating factor in business

It is
unquestionable
that a company needs to earn money. To state that money is not important in the successful operation of a business would be
unthinkable
. But, however, to view the pursuit of capital as the primary motivating factor in doing business, instead of the fulfillment gained by being able to provide a necessary or desired good or service, while being adequately and fairly compensated for your time and material effort, reflects a misalignment of basic human values. The way some tend to defend the practice of institutionalized greed and graf, is rather, well,
unsettling
, to say the least.

The Doer or The Did
So it's Valentine's Day tomorrow. I'm not going to ask if anyone is going to do anything, but I was wondering would you like to cater or be catered to on such occasions. Personally I'd like to always be catered to, but I feel it is my duty to do the catering on such days. Which ever you choose, do you know what you would like to happen? Me--I'm big on cooking and presentation. While I do like to show off the girl, at moments like these I am all about 1-on-1 time.

"Don't Divorce Us!" video
How does this video make you feel? Yick if yucky. Yak if yippee.

Who do we blame THE MOST, government or the private sector for the bad economy?
Public sector includes banks, industry i.e. auto and other manufacturing, or Government such as deregulation, taxes, prime rates, etc. Yick for the government, yak for the private sector. I know you can say both, so please don't say that. Pick the one you feel is the most to blame.

These Folks Really Don't Get It...
And here I am thinking that recipients of welfare thought they were entitled. This beats all. The Chutzpah!

In 1983 would you have picked Bill Gates to be the richest man in the world?
1983 Steve Jobs who is the founder of Apple Computer and the man on the far left was king of the hill and if you had to pick one of these 4 men as the most likely be one of the richest men in the world, would you have picked the young Bill Gates on the far right? He seemed very modest in making Steve Jobs happy in this video. Bill Gates did not get a single applause in the introduction.

This Ad was too Powerful for HBO!
This ad was turned down by HBO to be aired during the Super Bowl because it was too "political". In actuality, it was too powerful. Yak if you agree. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Could I file a claim that women get better treatment than men in my case?
I needed a certain part so I went to the source and these guys gave me the runaround at work for this part and of course I never got the part. So knowing how men are around women I sent my female work buddy to go and get the part for me. I playfully asked her to use her woman skills. These guys each had a handful of this same part I needed but they made them available for her and she kindly brought the part to me so I can finish my work. Of course we laugh at the obvious. Do I as a man have a claim. Not that I would file one because this is just how men are, but just for discussion.

Is Time Slowing Down
I encountered an intriguing hypothesis in Discover magazine: Time is slowing down. The results of this are practically negligible on the human scale; we would not notice and would need hundreds of years of astronomical observation to confirm or deny this. But one side effect would be: It would appear to us that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, which matches what we observe. Still tracking down sources on this but here's one: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/scientist-says.html

This Was Too "Political" For NBC, How About You?
This ad was turned down by NBC to be aired during the Super Bowl because it was too "political". In actuality, it was too powerful. Yak if you agree.

So her reason is to makeup for being an only child. Is that a good reason?
Is this a good enough reason?

Is this an advancement in personal hygiene or a gimmick?
I think this is an advancement in cultural personal hygiene. This is a real product called Subtle Butt. They sell them in Nordstroms and other clothing stores around the country. http://www.garmentguard.com

Salary is Not The Most important factor
If I were offered a job that pays $20,000 more, is 50 miles from home, and the only route was a busy highway vs. one that paid $10,000 more and is 5 miles away from home; I would choose the one that was closer to home. I don’t think that a price can be placed on family time. However, if I were in my 20s, had no kids, and still lived with my parents, I would go for the money.

Should the drinking age be a Federal mandate or a State mandate?
Yak for Federal and Yick for State.

Maximizing Profits over comsumer safety is often times still the American mantra
Some of you probably have seen this video but I learn something everyday. You will see in the last 3 minutes how to know when your tires were made no matter how good the tread looks. American businesses don't get it sometimes. Tires break down even if it sits for a long time called tire rot. After all its made from oil.

Hypothetical Question: The Life Scenario
We send a very cool robot to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. It drills a hole through the surface ice and descends into the global ocean below. It is unable to descend into the depths but from about halfway down, using powerful optics and see-in-the-dark technology, discovers vast webs of multicellular life around thermal vents at the ocean bottom. Should an expedition be mounted to the bottom of the Europan ocean? The downside: 35 years, 7 trillion dollars, and the possibility of accidentally harming or destroying the alien biosystem. The upside: The most phenomenal adventure of all time and the possibility of answering fundamental questions about the nature of life.

Changing the Scope of Mars Exploration
The future for Mars exploration is to be more of the same as the last few missions: probes dropped at the poles or in vast wastelands where landings are safer. Meanwhile, Mars has equatorial highlands which show marked seasonal color changes, are known to possess water ice below the surface, and which in areas seasonally belch huge amounts of methane into the air. What is the source of that methane? NASA and ESA say it's not geology (or rather, areology). That leaves biology or chemistry -- and the rate of methane release is not solvable chemically. Blanket that area with probes while you ready the manned mission, please -- we need to explore the caves.

Dias Sin Coches would never happen in the US.
Americans are too stuck on themselves about their cars and people would make a bigger fuss about their rights than having a pleasant day without driving. Look at the slideshow from the article. Such a wonderful site. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/no-car-day-colombia-held_n_164638.html

Could you deal with a daughter being gay or a son being gay?
Yick for a daughter or Yak for a son if you had either one. Which could you tolerate the most especially if they wanted to get married to someone of the same sex?

Should the legal drinking age be 18 or 21.
Yick for 18 and yak for 21. Explain why if you can.

We have more compassion for people who have a bunch of kids at one time.
I've noticed this. if you have 8 kids over an 8 year period you are scum in societies eyes but if you have 8 at one time, you get a 2 million dollar contract and a bunch of tv show appearances.

Octuplet Doctor Should Have License Revoked
I’m sure that most people were amazed and interested when this lady gave birth to the octuplets. But I’m probably not the one that was disgusted to hear that the mother already had 6 children under 8 and apparently she is separated or divorced. What kind of quack would give this lady fertility drugs? Fertility drugs are supposed to be for relatively healthy people who spent years trying to conceive without success. Not for a lady who is a baby making machine. To make it worse, she lives at home with her mother and she’s 33 years old. Who is going to take care of all of these children? INSANE http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29009410/

Is Music Universal?
I think yes!! What about you?

Who are worse, the porn stars (yak) or the people who watch them (Yick)?
Who are worse, people who do porn(yak) or the people who watch them (Yick)

Led Zeppelin Should Tour Without Robert Plant
The rest of Led Zep would like to reunite and tour but Robert Plant is committed to his bluegrass work with Allison Krauss. Zeppelin should tour anyway, with the only people who could replace Plant -- Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart and The Lovemongers.

Proposing a Wisdom Council
There is a group of people which predicted both atomic power and weapons 40 years ahead of the fact. They predicted cell phones and the internet right down to the idea of avatars, as well as particle colliders, the death of worldwide communism, the advent of the camera-ridden, security-conscious nation, and gay marriage. They also predicted both World Wars, communications satellites, the energy crunch, and the needs for green technology and and electric vehicles. They anticipated flight and spaceflight, genetic engineering, and scuba diving. Also bioterrorism, virtual reality, and advanced prosthetic limbs. As a group, they are better at predicting the future than even "futurists" like Alvin Toffler. The individuals? Science fiction writers. I propose a Council of Wisdom formed of science fiction writers and other proven long-term thinkers, which would give the President advice on multigenerational issues.

You Can't Be Good
No matter what you do, you will never be able to live an environmentally balanced life. You will not achieve 100% recycling, 100% efficient electricity usage, 100% efficient gasoline usage, or somehow avoid in your lifetime placing several hundred square feet of crap in the landfill. Your mere existence is producing pollution. The best you can do is be reasonably environment-minded.

Is the reason poverty exist is because certain elements believe the poor bring it upon themselves?
It seems poverty shouldn't exist yet it does.

Arguably the greatest active fiddler
First the great fiddle performance by Boyd Tinsley kicks into overdrive at 5:40 into the video. This guy breaks his strings and still goes strong. Actually this debate is a three parter. 1. Homage to the saxophone player you see with the shades who is one of the founders of the Dave Matthews Band and music arranger for the songs that Dave Matthews sings in the band. He wore shades because he had serious stage fright. He died a few months ago due to a heart attack. 2nd, this is my favorite song called, "Dancing Nancies" mainly for the fiddle performance and the lyrics. I like when guys write songs about things I actually internalize about myself. 3rd and the reason for this debate is the incredible performance of Boyd Tinsley. Arguable the best active fiddler out there that could give the country singer and great fiddler, Charley Daniels a run for his money who i also think is one of the greatest.

In the next few months there will be rioting in the streets of the USA
As we're starting to see in other parts of the world (including the western world), there are the beginnings of widespread rioting over the breakdown of economies. If you think we (the US) is in for widespread turmoil with riots in the streets, vote thumbs up. If you don't accept that will happen, thumbs down. And why or why not?

Amel Larriuex: One of the baddest vocalists out there!
Since Grove Theory, I've followed this voice. When polling brothers on various online forums as to who are the best singers out there, Amel is always top 5. Those who want to hear how she rocks it to the beat, check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zievCK2qDhc ...too bad she's so ugly...lol. So, thumbs up if you like her voice, thumbs down if you don't.

Black History Month: Do we need it?
Thumbs down means we don't need it. Thumbs up means it has a place in our society. Why or why not.

Gitmo....A Simple Solution
As we are all aware that President Obama is keeping up with one of his campaign promises (surprise surprise) by closing the Gitmo Facility in Cuba which houses terrorist of other lands. There is now a scrambling process going on as to where to put these individuals. I will now offer two solutions, so please tell if I am on the right track. 1. Those who are not found to be of any more possible threat to the security of the United States or its allies should be immediately released and sent back to their country of origin. 2. Those who are deemed to be of possible threat to the United States and its allies should be tortured some more for any more possible relevant information and then executed. The reason for this why should we foot the bill for these individuals? If they are a threat kill them! This is war. If not send them back home. So tell me am I right or wrong? Yak if you like it or Yick if you do not.

What Conveniences are YOU Willing to Give Up to 'Save the Planet'?
Remember when then candidate Obama said to a group of environmentally conscious Oregonians, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added. ******** Well, well, well, on President Obama's first full day in the White House, he was photographed without his suit jacket. Why?, you ask. Was he setting a new fashion statement? Was he trying to fit in with the gen x and y'ers? Was he giving the finger to the more formal jacket and tie rule under the Bush administration? None of the above. It's simpler than that. In his senior adviser, David Axelrod's words, “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.” ********* That's right, President Obama cranked the heat to some insane temperature way toastier than a chilly old 72 degrees. Now, is that any way to set an example for the rest of us, whom he would forbid from setting our OWN thermostats above 72 degrees if we chose? Mind you, WE pay for the house he occupies at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. ******** It's apparent that President Obama and environmental alarmists in general, want to have their cake and eat it too, however, I'm supposed to turn down my thermostat, starve myself, and get rid of my SUV. What gives? ********* I say to heck with these folks. But if you agree with President Obama and the environmental alarmists, vote yak and state what conveniences you are willing to give up to save the planet.

The economic crisis is as daunting a moral issue as slavery and racism was
Apprehension over the global economic crisis overshadows every other issue for Americans. Yet, amid this Americans remain optimistic. Why? Because they have confidence that the government still possesses the power to fix the economy. The unending succession of government bailouts, buyouts and handouts has given "confidence" to everyone to just bring his "tin cup" to Congress and Obama. This is unrealistic in that our government lacks revenue, now and in the future, to fill those tin cups let alone to keep social security and medicare afloat. The reason the government cannot "fix the economy" is because it cannot address what really got us here in the first place: greed, self-indulgence, consumerism, and instant gratification from Main Street to Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. Vaunted Ivy League institutions have gutted ethics courses from their curricula, only to have their "brightest and best" students graduate to become the architects of Bears and Stearne, Lehman bros., Citigroup, Enrons, Worldcoms, etc. etc. Our children attend schools where dislplays of "Ten Important Principles to Live By" are forbidden, and we wonder why lying, cheating, and stealing are widespread amongst all ages and all socioeconomic groups. The economic crunch is the result of a "moral credit crunch."

Would These Obama Prank Calls Fool You?
Obama soundclips from his speeches and audiobooks are used to make prank calls. They are all here at obamasoundoff.com/?page_id=10.

Would you let the 3rd largest employer (USPS) in America go out of business?
or (yak)bail them out?

Public Education should be a Privilage and not a right
Those that don't want to be in school disrupt those that do on a constant basis and the school systems are getting worse.

In the reality of their (relgious people) God is life required?
Must you face life to meet Gods requirement of heavenly bliss?

Hypothetical Question
You have been given the task of deciding this question on behalf of humankind: A method has been found which if implemented will assure equality for all people of the planet. However, in order to achieve this, technological progress will slow back down to Stone Age rates and the effects of individual brilliance will be minimized, denying us the da Vincis and Einsteins. What choice would you make, and why?

Plastic bags should not be an option in grocery stores
Paper bags should be the only option in supermarkets and plastic bags should not be an option and should be banned from use when packing our groceries.

Would you jump out of your car?
Would you?

Geitner Should Not Have been Confirmed
People applying for a normal job would have a hard time getting one if the background check showed that they didn't pay taxes. These must be really desperate times and I suppose that Geitner's knowledge trumps all.

If Blacks dominated country music and Rock and Whites dominated Jazz and Hip Hop the defense of the music would be the same.
Would we see the similar responses from Blacks telling people how wonderful country music is and would we hear from Whites telling people Hip Hop is the best music since "sliced bread"? Basically loyalty to many genres of music is defined by our racial and cultural identity.

Diametrically Opposing Statements (Logical Contradictions) Cannot Be Logically Resolved As True. Does this better explain how diametrically opposing texts can be reconciled by context?
Discussion pulled from another site. The proposition on offer is that diametrically opposing statements such as (A and ~A) cannot be logically resolved as true, no matter the context. ************************************ (((E ->D)^(E->C))->(A . B)) A = God punishes the children for the sins of the father. B = God does not punish the children for the sins of the father. C = God does not allow a child to be substituted in the rape charge of the father. D = the children of the nation are punished for the national decisions. E = God's Justice. To simplify. (((C->B)^(D->A))->(A . B)) Because C and D are both true = A and B are both true. A is true because C is true. B is true because D is true.

Is Catholicm the only scientifically literate organized religion?
Ozzieman says so.

Religous or not Is the Vatican going to far trying to stamp out false claims of miracles?
Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists, theologians, priests and exorcists have fully investigated their claims under new Vatican guidelines aimed at stamping out false claims of miracles. I posted the news article in Latest News.

Very Unsportsmanlike Conduct
What this player did was uncalled for. The person on the ground did not push the foul further than what it was suppose to be, so getting a kick in the face was not necessary.

White Male and High Skilled Construction Workers Need Not Apply
I don't know about you, but when I drive over a bridge, or walk into a building, I want assurance that those with the skills and experience IRRESPECTIVE of skin color or gender, performed the job. However, according to Robert Reich (listen up starting at 27 seconds into the video), Rep. Charles Rangel, and economically retarded liberals in general, economic stimulus funding for infrastructure projects should go to unskilled, inexperienced, minorities and others, not just highly skilled and/or white male construction workers. You know you've entered looneytune land when I, a black woman with no experience in the construction trade, am more qualified than a highly skilled white male in the construction trade, simply because I'm BLACK and/or a WOMAN. If you're a white male in the construction trade and you're hurting do to the economic downturn, go join the other white men in the soup line, 'cause ain't no economic stimulus coming your way! This is just the beginning of the corruption and mismanagement to come. I think I'll go start me a construction business...

Jazzheads, do you like Diana Krall? She's One of my Favorites.
She doesn't tour nearly enuf, which is a shame. Wifey and I were even planning to fly to Hawaii to see her perform this March, but my damn fool mentor is getting married the same weekend. Her jazz interpretations of standards and even folk are remarkable, as is this Joni Mitchell cover. I thoroughly enjoy her voice even though she has very limited range...but look what she does with that range. Her voice has been described as wild honey with a spoon full of Scotch. And check her chops on the piano here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3IqTzCaIJE She could have made big money doing the pop thing, but she chose jazz...I love that shyt! Do you like...dislike...?

Like 95% of all Child Molesters are Religious, study says.
Researchers asked the 4,000 admitted child molesters in the Abel and Harlow Child Molestation Prevention Study to answer questions about their lives. These abusers were men aged 18 to 80. How does George (a case study) compare? George is typical. First of all, he's married, just like 77 percent of the more than 4000 child sexual abusers in the Child Molestation Prevention Study. George is religious, like 93 percent of the abusers. He's educated. More than 46 percent had some college education and another 30 percent were high school graduates. Like 65 percent of the admitted abusers, George was working. Numerous studies of adult victims have sought to link child molestation victims to lower social class and lower family income. All have failed. Child victims and their abusers exist equally in families of all income levels and classes. And, now from the study, we know that child molesters are as equally married, educated, employed, and religious as any other Americans. http://www.childmolestationprevention.org/pages/tell_others_the_facts.html Do you believe this study?

Ignore Latin America at our Peril
Other than trading barbs with Hugo Chavez, the Bush Administration essentially ignored Latin America. President Obama must reverse this. Due to their twin legacies of military government and monocultivation of export crops, many of the Latin American nations teeter on the brink of insolvency and social unrest. We must end the legacy of neocolonialism and reach out to these nations as equals, in the interest of moving forward toward establishing a huge economic bloc like the European Union. This would promote peace, trade, and education. Nor would it hurt any that the monetary unit used in this bloc would undoubtedly be the U.S. Dollar (already in use in several of these nations). Forget Russia for now... we have important business closer at hand.

Larry King Says "Black is in"
The constant media attention to President Obama's race has obviously spilled over into Larry King's home. He shamelessly states his son now wants to be black, as if being black is a fad like getting a tattoo. He mentions that being black has its advantages. I guess it does if you play the victim and get preferential treatment simply because you're black, like President Obama. Does being black have its advantages? Should it? Should any group have any advantage over any other group?

Is Diane Sawyer Drunk on TV during the inauguration?
Is Diane Sawyer drunk (yick) or tired (yak)?

Does this look right
This picture is taken 11:19 am during the Inauguration from a satellite. It doesn't look as packed as I would have thought. http://specials.washingtonpost.com/inauguration/satellite/?hpid=topnews

This is what IsThatMe's man does when she sends him to the store
bwaaahhahahahah!!!!!! Its funny when he throws that arm out after he is done saying to himself, "You don't want none."

Hugo Chavez is a megalomaniac.
Wiktionary: megalomania (plural megalomanias) A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. What further confirms this is if you check the time in Venezuela or Caracus. He did that just because he could.

Okay! I get it.
Are you over the "first African American President" thing? Were you ever into it to begin with?

How much would you pay for a virgin?
A 22 yr old from Cali is accepting bids on losing her virginity. So far the highest bidder has offered her 3.9 million. Would you pay for a virgin? Is 3.9 million and appropriate amount?.........http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/22/virginity.value/index.html

Portland mayor, President Obama and getting past certain issues.
This in response to another debate earlier about Obama. I think Asa sums it up nicely. Or do we need to keep looking for reasons?

Satan is more moral than God, if we use a Biblical body count.
How many people have the devil destroyed vs God? No comparisson. Satan is no more tempting than a $20 a night street hooker.

The President Remembered Us
In his inauguration speech today, President Obama pointed out that nonbelievers are a part of this country. Never before has this minority been mentioned in an inauguration day speech. He also mentioned nonbelievers in his famous speech on race, as well as saying "The religious do not have a monopoly on morality." Thank you, Mr. President, for being clear-headed enough to understand. I look forward to the next eight years during which this country will become safer for nonbelievers.

CNN's "Photosynth" is the Next Thing in Documentation
By combining thousands of photos of the moment Obama took the oath of office, CNN has created the most amazing recording of an historical moment ever. The "synth" photo is zoomable and rotatable. Every aspect of the moment, from the expressions on the faces to the shadows cast by the portico, can be viewed from any angle and distance (to the periphery of the crowd). It's like a 2-d diorama. This is amazing technology and will be invaluable in the future for everything from recording great moments in sports to recording crime scenes down to the smallest detail. The link:http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/

President by skin or ideas?
First off:Skin(Support), Ideas(Oppose)............the main theme going around is America's first African American president leaving me to question the HOW and WHY: QUESTION:Did people choose him because of his skin or ideas? CONVERSATIONAL EXTENSION:Which do you feel more interested/content with?

Does Obama embodie MLK's dream?
Okay one of the first things i heard on the radio this morning was that "to many black Americans, Obama's presidential inaugural is seen as MLK's dream coming to reality"...Do you believe this?

A true leader is a visioary
A good political leader is a visionary. A visionary is one who "sees" the future and views what the future could be like and then proceeds to make it happen (like MLK Jr.). Not to rain on his parade, but I'm not sure if Obama is a leader in this sense. Most of what I hear from him are old ideas for the solutions of current problems. In other words, he seems to look back rather than forward. He is certainly gifted at speaking and uniting people; but will this be adequate leadership in these times?

It is more reasonable to believe in miracles
Many think that the biggest and most important miracle in the Bible is the Resurrection, but actually the most profound account of the miraculous is found in Genesis 1 : 1----In the beginning God created the heavens ad the earth. Science has led to the conclusion that the Universe had a beginning, in other words, was created and therefore had a cause. The most reasonable explanation as the causative factor in the creation of the universe is not another event (like multiuniverses, etc) but an intelligence creating the universe from nothing. Some refer to this prime intelligence as God. Therefore, if the grandest of all miracles occurred, it seems most reasonable to believe that the miraculous is part of reality.

All Hail Dictator, Oops...President Obama. Bring On the Lollipops and Sunshine!
To say President Obama's inauguration speech was a downer would be an understatement, it was downright depressing. It was a complete and final deflation of all the sweet talk of hope and change. After everyone is done getting their party on this week, and comes down from the hangovers, the reality that this guy is one big empty platitude will slowly start to set in. It might take months or years, but the honeymoon will end. If you think I'm just being pessimistic, vote with a yick for lollipops and sunshine. Otherwise, give me a yak for REALITY.

Should the government stop you from naming your child...?
If you are unaware then i'll fill you in...a couple aimed to named their child Hitler and since then the child has been taking from them (bottom line)...in other countries names are monitor to some degree.QUESTION: Is this a good idea, NOT the monitoring part of just the prevention of naming a child after, Hitler or Satan or etc. (true story about Satan, by the way)?

The British Rock!
I have always liked British humor and Sci-Fi. The series, Doctor Who, is an example of very entertaining British television!

Are free music download sites ethical?
Are we stealing from the artists?

Why Didn't God Make Birds With Jet Engines?
Maybe because they would suck in other birds?

A cool perspective living in the life of Star Wars
Dude, this is sooooo coool.

Thou shall not lie...But we do too much
UMass study finds that 60 percent of people lied at least once in a 10 minute conversation and average at least 2 to 3 lies. From a theist perspective I don't see to many people making it to heaven. From a non believer point of view, duh. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/uoma-urf061002.php

7500 Bird Strikes a year by airplanes. No love for "Gods" creatures. Adam is rolling in his grave.
Could you imagine if there were 7500 bear attacks a year on people who crossed their path while people chose to hike in the wilderness of Yosemite Park, I bet you bears in this country would almost be extinct because of the increase numbers in hunting them down.

Why Did God Make Your Plane Crash?
"God was certainly looking out for all of us." -- These are the words of one of the survivors of yesterday's double bird-strike air crash. Given that it was the actions of a human being -- the pilot -- which saved everybody's lives, I find this statement very disturbing. At what moment was God looking out for you, Mr. Jamison -- when he sent those geese flying into your turboprops? Or perhaps the plane was incidental, and He just wished to kill a goose or two? It was Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III who brought that plane down safely... if God had any role, it was only in shooting the airliner down.

If death was required to find the ultimate truth would you die trying?
You know like put a bullet to your head or space walk in space without a mask. You name it.

Befo Me Plane
Koby Maxwell. Don't pay attention the video quality. The final and very nice cut is on his facebook page. I'm working on his website and will be at his 1st African Innaugaration party performance on the 19th. I LOVE this song. Cannot stop playing it.

Taxing Veterinary Services
Apparently borrowing from John McCain's Presidential campaign, Gov. Schwarzenegger wants to begin taxing veterinary services. While this would probably generate quite a revenue stream, it is a flawed proposition. Health care has not traditionally been taxable. Service has not been taxable, either, so there are two strikes already. A third strike is called on the fact that this unfairly taxes one segment of the population for doing what comes naturally to humans... hanging out with animals. It's a sin tax on love. A fourth strike is the undue burden it would place on elderly, fixed-income people who depend on their animals for companionship. In my book four strikes doesn't just mean you're out -- it means you never should have stepped up to the plate.

Disposition of Federal Marijuana Revenue
In California and about ten other states, marijuana is considered legal for some uses. This means there are people making an income filling orders. These people pay both State and Federal income taxes. The Federal government considers marijuana an illegal drug and does not recognize the State uses, yet accepts income tax from workers in the industry. This is a ridiculous double standard. Washington needs to either accept state marijuana laws or return the income taxes it has claimed from marijuana industry workers in these States.

M-Theory
Two astrophysicists at a conference took a train ride into town to catch a play. During the trip they came up with M-Theory, the most substantive explanation yet as to how the universe may have come into being. The idea is that there is an 11-dimension multiverse containing "branes", rippling shapes of extradimensionality which occasionally touch each other. These contacts would provide the energy required to create a Big Bang. (Personal observation: If the branes overlap, the negative space in between would appear to anyone inside to be an expanding universe. And the rate of expansion would vary as the branes rippled.) The video is from an excellent (if hyperbolic) Discovery Channel show on the subject. As an hypothesis on the whole, M-Theory has several very intriguing facets: 1. It postulates the first-ever mathematical theory as to the cause of our universe. . . 2. It allows mathematical calculation back in time to before the Big Bang, unlike any other theory. . . 3. It explains the weakness of gravity, as no more than "echoes" or leakage of a force from another dimension or universe, where it is strong.

Men and especially teenage males should be required to takeTestosterone Injections for Contraception
Weekly injections of testosterone reduce the sperm counts of almost all men to below the threshold needed for conception, according to a study by the World Health Organization. The two-and-a-half-year study of 399 couples in nine countries found that the injections of the male sex hormone were an effective contraceptive for 98.6 percent of the participants, according to the report in the current issue of Fertility and Sterility, the journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Condoms gives percentage as high as 98%. Testosterone was already known to inhibit the production of pituitary signals that normally instruct the testes to produce sperm. The men, 21 to 45 years old, were all normal, healthy, fertile and in stable relationships. They received weekly testosterone shots in the buttocks. There were only four pregnancies among couples in the study during the test period.

Would this be the perfect navigational unit for your car?
Looks pretty cool.

Wars on Abstract Concepts Cannot Be Won
The war on drugs. The war on poverty. The war on terrorism. None of these can actually be won, because the opponent is imaginary. Might as well declare war on peace! There will always be drugs, poverty, and terrorism. Is this money actually doing anything besides making companies profits? It's time to end the constant "warfare" and seek real solutions.

What do you replace the community structure of Organized Religion with?
Pardon the clumsy attempt to ask an important question: Will secular social systems continue to grow and replace religious ones?

Should a pedophile ever be let out of prison?
Hi. Should it be life in prison or can they be reformed?

War on Drugs...A Proper Way to Fight.
This is another attempt of mines to make the streets safer. I posted this on another website and now I will seek the oponion of the Yick Yak. Please let me know if I am on the right track. Back in the 1980s when Crack Cocaine first hits the street of the United States in gang buster type waves a new epidemic was formed. In my oponion when it was confined to the Inner Cities not much attention was played but when it's effect branched out to the upper class and their suburbs a "War on Drugs" campaign was formed. This War has been fought for over the last twenty years and is continued being fought by various Federal Agencies. Well here is my solution. If you call it a War let us fight it as one. I propose the following four solutions: 1. All individuals caught selling drugs be taken to a MILITARY TRIBUNAL. If convicted they should serve a minimum of twenty-five years in a Military Prison. 2. Now to the children who are involved the smuggling, I say mandatory canning, military school, and stiff fines for the parents. If their parents can not pay for the military school or their fines, their bank accounts and their property if they have any should be siezed. 3. All drug users instead of placing them in State funded rehabilitation programs should be immediately pressed into military service. Those too old should should suffer the fate of the drug dealers in solution one. 4. All drug smugglers coming from other countries if caught should also be taken to a military tribunal. If convicted they should be executed and their bodies shipped back to their country of origin. That should send a message to all those who insists on bringing their poison to our country. We need to close the rehab centers and redirect those funds to the victims of the war on drugs. Such as the compenstating those who have been robbed, beaten, and killed by these scums that plague our streets. No more sympathy should be given to the perpetrators, only to the victims. Now tell me what do you all think about this? Am I on the right track?

Learning to Step Chicago Style and Lovin' It!
What is Chicago style steppin', you ask? The short answer is dancing. But to call Chicago style steppin' dancing would be like calling jazz music. Technically, jazz is music, but it can take many years to master that type of musical improvisation. Likewise, Chicago style steppin' is called the Jazz of Ballroom dancing for this same reason. It has basic steps that are easy for anyone to learn, but it takes practice, practice, practice to master. For a longer historical explanation of its origins and evolution in Chicago, go to this link (note: there's music on this site, so be careful at work if you have your speakers on you will get busted.) http://www.steppersexpress.com/about.htm. ****************** This is the style of dance R Kelly talks about in his stepper cuts. ********** There is lots of video on the internet, but much of it is grainy. These are some of the best videos I could find to demonstrate the basic male and female footwork which is different from eachother. The guy leads the dance. *********** I like it because I love to dance, I love the music (you can step to almost anything, old school, new school, hip hop, rap, and all kinds of other stuff in between, as long as it has a beat b/c this is done to an 8 count), it's exercise that I don't have to force myself to do, and it's just fun! ********** Kicking myself for putting this off for ten years, but better late than never. What is something fun you are putting off that you should have been doing yesterday?

Male Behavior from a Woman's POV
I could listen to this song all day long. It's so true

Is it greed when people do double or nothing in anything?
This is one of my favorite shows and they did a double or nothing at the end and lost. There have been some shows on cash cab where they earned $1000 and lost it all in a double or nothing round to win $2000.

Biracials behaving badly?
I was quite confused by this news report while watching the video clip. Excuse me, but isn't one of those guys accused of going into African American neighborhoods to terrorize jubilant Obama supporters a biracial (formerly known as Black) ? And isn't the mother of one of the victims a white woman? Either this is an incorrectly framed report, a case of a biracial teen siding with his lighter half, or, young Republican Turks, like Ron Harris, gone poco-loco.

What do you prefer, 4, 8 or 16 team College football playoff?
Yick for 4 or 8 and Yak for 16 or other format.

Oops he did again.
So once again Prince Harry is recorded making racial slurs. This time it was the remark was directed towards a member of the British army. Harry can be heard calling/referring to the man as a Paki. He also tells one of the men wearing a cloth on his that he looks like a raghead. And back in 2005 Harry wore a he was photographed wearing a Nazi uniform to a party. Is the young Prince really a racist? Misguided? or Just a plain 21 yr old knucklehead? http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/10/prince.harry.videos/index.html

Is taking this photo worth losing your job over?
http://www.tmz.com/2009/01/10/photog-could-get-sacked-over-skiers-shrinkage/

Why doesn't Gaza just stop firing rockets ?
I once saw a hugely out-muscled guy getting his but kicked and repeatedly being knocked down, get up and swing some more at his opponent. Is the action of Hamas a cry for help out of desperation? Perhaps they are hoping that their Arab brothers will join in the fight since they see a brother receiving a beat-down. I think it is stupid and futile to throw rocks at a giant, yes?

It's Time for College Football playoffs
From CNN: "We need a playoff," Obama told reporters after being asked about Florida's 24-14 victory over Oklahoma in Thursday night's BCS championship game. "If I'm Utah, or if I'm USC or if I'm Texas, I might still have some quibbles." . . . The BCS system is unfair, favoring certain conferences over others and shutting out teams with a legitimate claim at being the best... undefeated Utah this year, Hawaii and Boise State in the last few years. It's time to let these kids prove it on the field, with an eight team, three week tournament.

1929 all over again?
Is history repeating itself?

Could you forgive your child's murderer?
If you had a child, could you if your child was murdered by someone? http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4903788 and page=1

Do you consider the "Purity Ball" desturbing?
Little girls as young as 4 years old read pledges like this with their father. "But this is what that little girl is reading to her father from that card: I pledge to remain sexually pure...until the day I give myself as a wedding gift to my husband. ... I know that God requires this of me.. that he loves me. and that he will reward me for my faithfulness. And this is what Daddy says in turn: I, (daughter’s name)’s father, choose before God to cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity. I will be pure in my own life as a man, husband and father. I will be a man of integrity and accountability as I lead, guide and pray over my daughter and as the high priest in my home. This covering will be used by God to influence generations to come." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/05/12/notes051206.DTL

Did this commercial ever make it to your state?
I never seen it.

Can science fiction movies be oscar worthy?
Oscar worth for best movie, best actor, etc. All the top awards not the supporting stuff or best costumes. Not including fantasy because it appears fantasy have won awards.

Is the only thing to fear is fear?
I don't know. Is it?

What came first, morality or Religion?
hmmmmmmmmmmm LOL

Would it be cool to have an alternative perspective about the Bible?
Everything is from the Hebrews perspective, but wouldn't it be interesting if the other perspective was from the people Hebrews and God laid waste to even if its made as a fiction novel or movie?

Spielberg/Jackson May Ruin the Tintin Movies
Other than Superman, Tintin is the most recognizable character in the world (not well known here in the US). Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson begin filming next month on the first of 3 CGI films based on the character. Given Spielberg's seemingly deep-seated need to turn the simplest adventure into a morality play, and Jackson's propensity for visual overkill, along with the tendency of CGI to make people look creepy, I am extremely concerned they will overproduce these iconic characters to disaster.

True Feminism Agree (Yick) State Your Reasons
President Samora Machel taught us that "we should not protect the women because they are weak. We protect them because they are strong; strong enough to bare the pains of creation." And President Ahmed Sekou Ture also offered us a valuable epiphany when he said, “The women, as we have said, constitute the base of society. If today, all the men in Guinea, all the men in Africa, and all the men in the world, were to disappear, the Guinean and African society and mankind would however continue to live, because there would still be women carrying in them germs that would come to replace all the men who had disappeared. But let all the women of Guinea, all the women in Africa and all the women in the world disappear, and at most, in a century, the whole of mankind would disappear! This is a first reality." Furthermore, as long as women are relegated to a second-class role regarding the practical and theoretical solutions to the world's problems only one half or less of our most fortified intellectual potential will be at work. There are certain things humanity as a whole can only learn from women, because they have sacrificed and suffered the most and have balanced these things the best. Women of all cultures have a tradition of demonstrating selfless individual and collective/group relationships that are characterized by unconditional love and sacrifice.

An affair with a 60 year old
I ended up with an older woman at a club last night. She looked pretty good for a 60 year old. in fact she wasn't too bad at all, and I found myself thinking that she probably had a really hot daughter. We drank a bit(well more than a bit), we had a snuggle, and then she asked me if I ever had a "sportsman's double". I asked her, "what's that". "it's a mother and daughter threesome" she said. I was like ooooooooh. i began to think about the idea. I said "no, i haven't" and i wondered what the daughter of hers might look like. We drank a bit more, then she says with a wink that tonight was 'my lucky night'. We went back to her place, we walked in. She put on the hall light and shouted upstairs, "MOM you still awake?"

Burris’ Rejection is Not Right
He seems like such a nice guy and he’s been in politics for a long time. They are seriously considering Caroline Kennedy but not Burris? Something is not right here. He should not have to pay for the Blago’s corruption. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28507873?GT1=43001

The GSP is a Stunning Dog
I had always owned shepherds before now, but I have discovered that the German Shorthaired Pointer is a thoroughly impressive dog. Amazing athlete, scary smart, boundless energy. 12 - 15 year lifespan with 18 not uncommon and I knew one woman who had a GSP live to be 24. Loving family dog; we just collapse in a heap together sometimes. My pup is liver and white, less than six months old. He understands syntactic commands already ("Come sit, Go [person]"). He invents games and teaches them to an adult Aussie shepherd who comes to visit. This breed can even climb trees (Youtube it) and I can't wait until the cats find that out!! The GSP is the most impressive breed I've ever seen.

Police Kill Unarmed Man in Oakland!
Warning: this is graphic. The cop says he was trying to taze the man. But, if so, wouldn't he have tazed the other officers as they were handling the victim. This just seems wrong.

Turkish Star Trek
This is the Turkish version of Star Trek. The actor playing Kirk is actually playing Shatner as far as I can tell. They nailed the women's uniforms and sound effects, though. Is Gene Roddenberry spinning in his grave? (Yes, I know, his ashes were shot into space.) At 2:59 they apparently run out of money.

One of the greatest an worst swimming trials ever?
This is so funny.

Pandhandlers Am I wrong?
This is a topic I posted in another Site. This Site seems to hold a more intellectual crowd with certain exceptions. I would like to know you all's oponion. Here it goes: I have been told by many on this Site that I am judgemental. I have fought that to the point that I refuse to get all worked up about it. Now I would like to about a being that is also a low life. This being to me is lower than the homosexual, the typical welfare recipient, and even the typical drug addict. This being is called the panhandler. Everyday when I drive to work I see these creatures on the road with signs saying, "hungry please help," or they claim to be a misplaced veteran or what ever. This really urks me! These creatures tend to try for us to have pity on them. They are pathetic and there rights are protected by most state laws. I wish to tell you all not to give these low lifes a dime. They are not deserving of it. The more humane thing to do is for them to seek help and if they don't they should die. They do nothing but take up air that is of better use for those of us who are out there working to pay our bills and provide for our families. I am not against compassion. I am quite sure you all know of single parents who are struggling yet not asking for a handout. I know you all may know of a Brother or a Sister who is going to school and working two or more jobs to pay his rent and keep food in his refrigerator. These people are worthy of our compassion. Do not be fooled by ads you will see this Thanksgiving of individuals who do not have a home to go to or a turkey on their table. The MAJORITY of them brought that on themselves. You all continue to enjoy this Holdiday Season with the ones you love and reflect on just how God has bless you and your family. May God bless each and every reader of this post. May God also richly bless you all this holiday season.

Britney Spears - Shaving her head - Not as crazy as we thought
Thought about this after watching one of those year end wrapups. Ms. Spears shaved her head to avoid a drug test and for publicity. - Pretty crafty.

HIgh school student elected to play football for University because coach has Christian values?
Watching the US Army East West bowl between high school star players on Network TV and they had one of the star players select the college he will go to which is Clemson. The mother said the school was important because the coach had Christian values...really? What, the other big time schools had coaches who are other than Christian or atheist? What did the coach tell them during the interview, the players have to pray to the Lord everyday at practice or something? Man, I tell you.

How would you rate Stuart Zender's performance with the Bass Guitar?
He was 19 years old during this performance. Sounds pretty sweet to me.

Cave Art Animals May Represent Individual Humans
Conventional wisdom is that cave art was shamanic in nature, designed to invoke the spirits of the animals. But to what end? It occurred to me after watching a piece about San rock art in South Africa, which links animal death to human death, that perhaps some cave art is funerary or linked to rite-of-passage, with each painting representing a member of the tribe. Either upon death or upon achieving adulthood, the shaman would represent that individual in the cave by painting that individual's spirit animal (except for hunting scenes, food animals are almost never displayed in cave art). Imagine being a fourteen-year-old and hauled into the cave to see these paintings, and being told that that one there is YOU. That would be powerfully bonding. This could help explain the animal groupings, which might represent families. Or if it is funerary, imagine standing in the cave and feeling that your ancestors are looking down at you... to the best of my knowledge, nobody has yet advanced this hypothesis.

Has the weekends on YickYak become Music Weekend or somethin'
Boy I tell you guys. Hahahah. Let me do my youtube searches.

Would you be afraid to perform again?
This guy is Robbie Williams. I never heard of him but from what I read "Robbie Williams as a solo artist has sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo artist in history" and "he is currently the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America at the moment with over 3 million sold" But at the end of the video he just about cries over the trauma. Would you feel the same?

Forgotten Classic #3
This song is so awful it's excellent. This hit #1 in 1969 but these days is not even included in novelty song sets or one-hit wonder lists.

Forgotten Classic #2
I thought this band had the best sound to come out of New Wave other than The Police and The Cars.

Forgotten Classic #1
Funk-rock proto-metal from the 1970's. This was a huge hit and is nearly forgotten.

The 80's was the best British Music Invasion - One of my favorite groups
I believe the 80's was the best decade for bands from England. I was introduced to this band called "Scritti Politti" when I was living abroad and it quickly became one of my favorite Albums they put out called, "Cupid and Psyche 85. You really need a nice sound system to get to full impact of their rhythm and beats. Sadly like most of those bands, they faded out of memory. When I say the name of this group, nobody knows who they are.

Remember these Kids? Looks like they doing OK.
ATLANTA -- The Ron Clark Academy got an unbelievable Christmas gift from Oprah Winfrey Wednesday morning: a check for $365,000. The students are on vacation this week. They got a call at home requesting them to come to school Wednesday morning for a special announcement. When the students were assembled, the co-founders of the school, Kim Bearden and Ron Clark told them the story of a card he opened the day after Christmas, and how a piece of paper fell to the floor. That piece of paper was a check from Winfrey. The news was a shocker for the students and faculty. The private school is only in it's second year of operation. "She (Winfrey) said that she has been on our website," Ron told the kids. "She goes there to check out what we're doing. She loves the school. She loves the kids. She just loves our passion." Should have been more money, tho!

Earth is self correcting from Carlin's perspective
Note: Carlin has a foul mouth. Quite interesting. Animal extinction, plastics, earth creating viruses like AIDS to refresh the species. Who knows. Maybe we should pray to the earth instead of invisible things...oh we did that already, Christians burned them at the stake or gave them virus laced blankets for warmth and trade.

Would You Take this Ride?
The spaceport in New Mexico is under way and there is a waiting list to purchase tickets. Would you take a suborbital ride on Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two?

Do You Like this Farewell to Bush?
How do you like this song and video?

Time Warner Cuts Might Not Be a Bad Thing
At 12:01 AM on January 1st, just after the ball drops in Time Square, Time Warner Cable's 13.3 million subscribers will lose 19 Viacom channels -- Comedy Central; CMT: Pure Country; Logo; Palladia; MTV; MTV 2; MTV Hits; MTV Jams; MTV Tr3s; Nickelodeon; Noggin; Nick 2; Nicktoons; Spike; The N; TV Land; Vh1; Vh1 Classic; Vh1 Soul. Mabye this will get some kids away from the TV and into their books. I'm guilty of using the TV as a babysitter and I feel guilty about it at times. http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090101/tbs-viacom-time-warner-cable-f8250da.html

TV Show Marathons Are Addictive
Since I've been on vacation I have watched "House" and "CSI" marathons and tomorrow I am watching the "Monk" marathon. I first got into this a few New Year's Eve's ago with the Twilight Zone marathon. That is on too, but I've seen all of the episodes. It's just so cool to see how the show has progressed all at once.

Are state lotteries really helping the Public Schools systems?
Have you ever wondered about this? Do you think its helping a great deal?

The Progenitor or the Followers?
As Neil Peart's name came up in a couple of drumming debates, I thought I'd go ahead with this debate I'd been thinking about. Neil Peart is the drummer and lone songwriter for Rush. His lyrics are heavily influenced by Ayn Rand. More people have listened to Rush than have read Ayn Rand, but the message is diluted. My debate question: Who influences more people, the progenitor of an idea (Ayn Rand, Jesus, George Braque) or the followers (Rush, the Disciples, Picasso)? . . "You can choose from phantom fears/ And kindness that can kill/ I will choose a path thats clear/ I will choose free will"

Happy New Years!!!
Happy New Years to you all. May the new year bring each of you closer to your resolutions and goals.

Drummer have crazy Talent
This is Fergal Lawler of the Cranberries. In my opinion, he's one of the best drummers alive. Listen not only to beats he's plays, but also listen to the beats he doesn't play. My nephew is learning to play the drummers and when I played Fergal for him to hear, he just listen will his mouth on the ground the whole time. He was stunned to find that it's not always about filling up the music with beats and fancy combinations, it's also but using silence as well. Oh, BTW way, I was there at Woodstock '94! Any other drummers you guys like? What about the guys from Simple Minds or the Bar Kays or Alex Van Halen?

Did Jimi Hendrix Remote-View Asteroids?
The below link is to a web site in which the author, who apparently produced some of Henrix's work, claims that Hendrix remote-viewed the asteroid which will destroy us, The reason that none of us has heard of this is because there is a huge conspiracy to prevent it, spearheaded by Microsoft founder Paul Allen. Did Jimi pre-view our rapidly approaching extinction? Or is Mr. Fairchild neglecting his medications? . . http://www.rockprophecy.com/mn4.html

Best Technique since Segovia
In my opinion Stanley Jordan has the most impressive guitar technique since Segovia or Hendrix. What say you all?

What do you think of my boy, Freshforlife's performance - Sticky Wicket?
He said it was ok to post. He is user, freshforlife". He posted his jazz recital at the International School of Music in Bethesda, Maryland. The song is, sticky wicket by Dexter Gordon

Companies are Slashing More Jobs...Doesn't Make Sense
Understandably some companies need to close. Some industries will suffer casualties. HOWEVER, am I the only one that is noticing that majority of these companies are not closing down or cutting costs because they are directly being hurt by reduced revenues? What is happening is that the majority are "predicting" a decrease in sales and as such are scaling back in order to protect themselves from it. They don't truly know if there would have been a decrease. In THIS state of widespread economic concern, that does not make sense. If your base depends upon consumers having money to purchase your products, then collectively these companies are accelerating the decline of the US economy by decreasing consumers. Even with the credit and housing crisis, if many of the homeowners had jobs they could have easily rebounded and contributed dollars back into the economy. What the mortgage industry may have lost, the rental industry could have gained shifting but yet retaining jobs. That could have also meant more construction projects for the rental industry. Many possibilities here but the chicken little tactic I just don't see making sense. Do you are agree (yak) or not (yick). Please state why.

Who has more talent, a Rock Guitar player or Rock Drummer
Guitar for Yak and drummer for Yick. It can be all types of rock but mainly the more complicated ones you hear that requires the best of their ability. Oh, the band is "Alter Bridge" the same band members from Creed minus the singer from Creed.

George Carlin on Religion
His take on the subject is brilliant. His bit on creating a sun religion subtly points out everything organized religion claims to be but isn't.

Religious Madness #3
Watch the good Christian react when her faith is questioned. is this what Jesus wanted?

Religious Madness #2
This good Christian just wants to warn us... her religion has disengaged her sense of empathy.

Religious Madness #1
This book is a classic warning about the dangers of censorship. Totally missing the point because she was too scared to read the book, this idiot wants to ban the book. This is a classic which sits alongside 1984 as a warning to us. And the religious nuts in this video have become the villains in the book.

I like songs that use transitioning and the use of an Orchestra in the background, do you agree?
This 1995 song, The World I Know is a very nice song. One of of my many IPod playlist favorites.

The Magic Negro? Satire? Don't Think So
Saltsman, who's running for the RNC Chairman spot, created a song called "Barack the Magic Negro". His defense was to make satire. However, if you have to really explain to people what is or is not satire, then I don't think you accomplished your goal. I don't really find this satire, just more insulting.

Do you think Hollywood ruins backstories royally?
First has anyone ever seen the movie, "Girl With A Pearl Earring". But the main question is I think Hollywood destroys the backstory of events in the past and people tend to believe it. Good thing? Do you like when Hollywood tries to write stories based off of some paintings or limited information of the past?

Religulous - The Movie
A site allows you to watch the whole movie. It stops at about 72 minutes of 100 and you have to wait 35 minutes to refresh and watch the rest. Oh well. Enjoy. A popup ad will open when you click play, just close it.

Did this UPS delivery guy have a prior problem with this person...
...or was he trying to get home from work as fast as he can? What a way to receive your package.

Is Religion Linked to an Underperforming Brian?
The following link is to a Yahoo news article about recent discovery of where the "spirituality"center of the brain is. Apparently, those who lead very spiritual lives have "an underperforming right parietal lobe". So... could the madness of people insisting the impossible is true actually be a lack of brain function? . . . Edit: That is supposed to be "brain" in the title... apparently my spelling center was underperforming as I was typing...http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081224/sc_livescience/spiritualityspotfoundinbrain

Evangelicals only want Christians to go to Heaven
Heaven for the Godless? By CHARLES M. BLOW Published: December 26, 2008 In June, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a controversial survey in which 70 percent of Americans said that they believed religions other than theirs could lead to eternal life.This threw evangelicals into a tizzy. After all, the Bible makes it clear that heaven is a velvet-roped V.I.P. area reserved for Christians. Jesus said so: “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” But the survey suggested that Americans just weren’t buying that. The evangelicals complained that people must not have understood the question. The respondents couldn’t actually believe what they were saying, could they? So in August, Pew asked the question again. (They released the results last week.) Sixty-five percent of respondents said — again — that other religions could lead to eternal life. But this time, to clear up any confusion, Pew asked them to specify which religions. The respondents essentially said all of them. And they didn’t stop there. Nearly half also thought that atheists could go to heaven — dragged there kicking and screaming, no doubt — and most thought that people with no religious faith also could go.

Should this beauty queen be stripped of her crown?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7798537.stm

Cave Art with Battleships
The following link is to one of several articles on the web about this. Art history experts have established that Australian cave art is still being produced, making that form of art the single longest known record of a people, lasting over 15,000 years and still being produced. Recent discoveries among these paintings include masted sailing ships, WW II battleships, and modern cruise liners. It is marvelous that the oldest form of pictorial art known to humans is still being produced and documenting our stories. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2 and objectid=10535901

Burger King puts out a burger spelling cologne
I meant Burger "smelling" cologne. $4 bucks for the cologne but its selling for $100 on Ebay and Burger King gave this one store exclusive rights to sell it. How did they get that deal? Great idea?

The Cat Woman, Eartha Kitt dies today at 81
That woman was awesome. I actually dated a woman that looked like her back in my day. In fact her name was Kitty. She was from Jamaica but Eartha Kitt was from South Carolina.

Falling bullets at terminal velocity is generally not life threatening.
A bullet falling from the sky at terminal velocity at about 150 feet per second is not necessarily life threatening but the shooter can be prosecuted if the bullet is traced. Be careful during the 4th of July.

Drupal a Winner?
I just fluckin hate Drupal. It has taken me over 3 fluckin hours of trying to figure out why this crap was NOT working and it turns out that I just needed to move one of the default profiles as it was conflicting. This is like so common of Drupal. If you've ever used it, do u like or not? If you don't like...what's a better CMS?

Joplin and her style inspires many
Her raspy and soulful approach has been central to a lot of what some of these young girls are doing. There are others key singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James where these young girls are getting that soulful approach. IN FACT those two sistahs I would put before Joplin, but Joplin has to be thrown in there with her unique style at the time. Enjoy. The videos are like 1968-1970. Like Ozzieman said, much of todays influences are based on the 60's and 70's.

I like her better then Winehouse
This young British girl named, Adele, is 19 years old. I love big women singers. They seem to put so much into their music to me. But anyway, I think she can jam. Winehouse move your drug head over and make room for a future big mamma that can blow.

One thing they teach you in the military, never lock your knees!
When you stand at attention for a long time, be it military or at a wedding, some people will lock their knees and they don't realize that will make you pass out and sometimes fall on your face.

One of the most replayed songs in America
IsThatMe, this is the song. Ozzieman this one is for you to, sorry to hear about your wife, man. I'm sure you like good music. Sam Cooke was the man. Guess who is in the background??? Lou Rawls!!!

A woman on another board said her vagina is the epitome of Feminine, is there a masculine vigina?
Is there a such thing as a masculine vagina or is this stank ignorant.

What is Your Goal?
What is your goal for being on this site? Is your goal just to debate or are you on here just because you actually like to have intelligent convos and exchange and would like to learn more from others as well as share your own perspective? The former is yak..the latter is yick. Explain yourself.

Should Atheists celebrate the holiday seasons?
Should atheists celebrate the religious holiday seasons? Yick means yes and Yak means you drank too much.

Sweet Blues
Music again. This is my favorite blues band, Gov't Mule. This song was written for a bandmate who died, Allen Woody. This entire album is excellent... who likes it or not, and why?

They have returned to bring food to their ancestors...
Only a few have returned. None remember their original purpose for which they were sent out.

Is it Ok to Be Selfish?
This is somewhat of a follow up to the Socratic debate regarding being happy and if one’s happiness comes first. Before I had my child, my father would always tell me to put myself first. It’s great to love yourself but shouldn’t we progress as we grow and think about others before we think of ourselves? I expect selfish behavior from a child because they think it’s all about them. But when you’re an adult and you see that you have it better than a lot of other people, shouldn’t basic decency come in the play where you forgo something that you want to help someone else? This is not to say that we don’t make ourselves a priority, but there are some people who feel that only they matter 99.9% of the time and this is just selfish.

Can the question presented at the end of this video be answered?
If so, then, what is the answer. If not, why not?

Is 70,000 miles considered low miles for a car these days?
Are cars built to last much longer than the feared 100,000 miles but people still sell them much sooner than they should?

Lenny Williams - Try This One Junior
its not rare like yours but I loved it. Now THIS should put somebody to sleep.

Remember Cameo? This was a rare gem
Here is a keeper for you, IsThatMe for your bumpin' and grindin' with your husband or boyfriend. This was my favorite song from their Single Life album in 1985. The song is, "I got your image". It was a very underplayed cut. They don't sell the single on Itunes so you have to buy the whole CD. Here is a live performance. Sweet! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3KU7tHGfA

Is there a reason why drivers gravitate to cars on the side of the road?
Other than being drunk and many times that is still not the case.

The Song or the Sign?
This song was banned in the UK for lyrics but was wildly popular here. Is this an effective way of raising consciousness about the rights of nonbelievers, or is the controversial sign in Olympia, Washington more effective? Why?

First names shouldn't be official until you turn 18 to certify it or choose another first name.
This song is by Johnny Cash titled, "A Boy named Sue".

The possible appointment of Caroline Kennedy is quite annoying.
Democrats cannot complain about unqualified appointments with behavior like this that I'm quite sure Obama approves and is probably pushing the governor to appoint her. This is Democratic cronyism. This is no different than what the Bush administration and Republican state governors have done. Even from the NY Daily News - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo praised Caroline Kennedy yesterday - but wouldn't say if he thinks she's qualified to be a U.S. senator. Cuomo also wants the position but is the least outspoken about it like Kennedy. If she is qualified, why would Cuomo hesitate? Because she isn't.

Do you cook? How often?
Many of my friends and colleagues either will not or don't know how to cook (sorry anecdotal); they eat out, get take out, or buy ready made stuff. I cook almost every night, and more on weekends. Basic survival skills for life: Cook, clean, manage money.

Would you trade your payroll tax for a consumer tax
Even if it cost $1 or more on a gallon of milk or 50 cents more for a loaf of bread?

Do Yoiu Live in a Safe Place?
The below link will take you to a color-coded "Death Map" where you can check how likely you are to be killed by natural disasters. Do you live in a safe place?. . . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/death-map-where-americans_n_151919.html

..But Some Animals are More Equal Than Others..
I understand what George Orwell was specifying in this satire (Animal Farm)...however, when I saw this part, I couldn't help but notice how these pigs are representing Wall Street, the oil company owners, and those who feed on greed. And it's just sickening.

Is bald a hair color?
This is relative to how theist view atheist. Especially in terms of the use of "Belief" and defining a religion.

When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
I think it puts it all in a nutshell.

Making a Point About Apple
I thought the satire was dead on with people purchasing Apple products, just to look cool and say they have one. It's also interesting how a lot of people wait to hear what Steve Jobs has in store for the consumer base.

Should there be an obesity tax?
NY gov. is proposing an obesity tax on sugary drinks. Do you think this is a good idea to have in this country?

What do you think of Barney Frank's comment...you like?
"At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he [Barack Obama] says we only have one president at a time. I'm afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have." — Barney Frank, remark to consumer advocates, Dec. 4, 2008 Frank, who has been dealing with both the bailout of the financial industry and a proposed rescue of Detroit automakers, said Obama needs play a more significant role on economic issues.

Atheists: The Last Legal Whipping Boys
Statistically, atheists are the most hated group in the nation (http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/646931ED-5AE8-4F4D-91C2-75A1002086E9/). 47.6% -- almost half -- of the nation would disapprove of their child marrying an atheist. As I look at the less-hated groups on the list (Muslims, Blacks, Jews, etc) I am deeply aware that the law prohibits discrimination, violence, and hate speech against these groups, but that the atheist enjoys no such protections. It is therefore legal to atheist-bash. "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered patriots, they shouldn't even be considered citizens. This is one country under God." -- Then-President G.H.W. Bush. When was the last time a sitting U.S. President made a comment like that about any other group? When atheists ask for their say during the holidays, their sign is vandalized and protests form. People compare us to violent communists instead of to Mark Twain, John Lennon, and Carl Sagan our freedom-loving capitalist atheists. They accuse us of having no morality. They insinuate that we are less than human. They post debate propositions about atheists without ever considering whether they are being vaguely insulting. Introducing atheists ... the group EVERYONE can hate.

Are books losing more relevance and will we see a day when book stores no longer exist?
Will all books be electronic and will brick and mortar book stores become a thing of the past? I also noticed a lot of comic book stores going out of business too.

Do you find peace knowing how powerless you are?
Sorry Innomen, your comment seemed like a good socratic question.

Did Bush Had It Coming?
After eight years of being President of the U.S., and all the actions he made into motion...do you think he deserved this kind of retaliation? In some ways, maybe, I think he deserved it...but it was definitely an eye opener to see how the rest of the world thinks of the United States.

Having the last say
Do you control your life and what happens to it?...I know this may seem like a silly question but if you really think about...one must question is the last word mine or just an illusion to be mine.

Is this a good Burger King ad campaign?
This person is suppose to be a first time burger eater.

Is your happiness more important than the people around you?
When I say people around you I mean family and friends.

Which Pill Would You Take: Blue or Red
Simply, yick if you'd take the blue pill. yak if you'd take the red pill.

Do you find this pretty neat and or funny?
Filmed in 1996

Warning: Might Be Too Black and Too Strong! Sunni Patterson Speaks
I love Sunni--she's always so hot and spicy. Yick if you understand her message. Yack if you don't.

Increasing sensitivity and being more tolerant are in conflict.
How can we be more sensitive of others and our own self while at the same time be more tolerant of others. It seems that if we want to be more tolerant we should be less sensitive and be accepting. Is not one of the keys to peace in a pluralistic society to not be so damn sensitive? In fact, one of the keys to finding peace within yourself is often to not be so damn sensitive.

The belief of an Athiest requires a greater leap of faith than that of a believer in God
Maybe it's the engineer/coumputer scientist in me, but when I look at the human body and the intricately connected systems within it; the lymphatic system, the nervous system, the skeletal system, the endocrine system, the vascular system, the auditory system, the visual system, the skin and its layers and the way they all communicate with each other... Then I see a young child who has a collection of all of these intricate systems, but lacks the ability to engineer the simplest system on his own... And yet, the atheist believes that things over time just assembled themselves...The sun just happens to provide the energy plants need to grow, the air just happens to provide the element we need to live, crap just happens to be excreted from my a.... I evolved height, like the giraffe, because, in the past my ancestors needed to reach fruit high in the trees. What is this mysterious force atheists believe in that governs natural selection. Man, you folks have a powerful faith...

If you could be the opposite sex for a day would you and what would you do?
If so, what would you do during those 24 hours?

Is death a worse fate than life in jail without parol for criminals?
What do you think?

Is this Michael Moore overkill?
Or is Michael applying Newtons law with the hateful Rev. Phelps who believes he is representing Gods interest on how he feels about gay people?

Next up, another classic.
I loved the movie Cooley High and this has to be the most popular song from the movie. Couldn't find the original but Boys to Men does it justice.

The answer in the Video Poll of what the Plane was offloading
It wasn't human waste or fuel but Fire Retardant. Evergreen International Supertanker is (Modified) for fire-fighting applications at low altitudes on the Boeing 747.

Prince at his best especially in song writing
This was one of my favorite songs circa 1985. I like story telling like this in music. Oh and there goes that dance style when performing like I mentioned in my previous debate post. And I loved this video when it was done. A bit of Beatles and the Yellow Submarine here, don't you think?

Ok, my turn, do you remember this group, a Prince spin off circa - 1985
Note: Poor video quality. The group is called, "The Family". I remember buying the tape for this one song. Yes, a tape. I still have the tape. There are some good songs on it. Some of the musicians in the background are members of prince's band and the band, The Time. I can't believe this was 23 years ago. I always thought the way Prince, The Time and all the spin offs danced as they performed as you see in this video. It just look so cool to me.

Will Music Rebound?
As I look at what passes for music these days, I reflect on the fact that musicians seemed a lot more talented back then. This old Greg Lake vid, for instance... stoned out of his mind, chewing gum, and turning in a stunning performance. Will music rebound in the future, giving us the diversity and energy of the '60s and '70's? Or was that era just a lucky fluke?

Mexican's hijacked this song too.
I don't know anybody but Mexicans playing this song.

This is cruisin' Music!!!
Thats is what i'm talkin' about.

Of the seven deadly sins is Greed the worst?
The 7 deadly sins are Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride.

Does anal sex among heterosexuals preserves a woman's virginity?
My recent posted article says young people are now more open to anal sex and some girls are justifying it to prevent from getting pregnant and to preserve their virginity.

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
If this don't get you moving, I don't know what else does. You are just a hater. GET IT!

Example of a church going too far.
Pictures of this has been all over the internet and now its made it to youtube. Granted they are pushing for Congress to bail out these car companies but the symbolism here trumps it. Isn't the church suppose to be sacred? Why on earth must they put these SUVs on a church stage in order for the message to sink in. There is a lot that could be pulled from this. False Idols, Greed and capitalism at its worst. Did I mention using oil on the forehead. They said consecrated oil, but again the symbolism is terrible. ONLY IN AMERICA.

Would the corrupt Governor of Illinois have hurt Obama during the Presidential campaign?
I know Obama needed to get elected before this Governors comments and actions but what if something similar had occurred that would have also resulted in him being arrested could during the presidential campaign. Would this have lifted McCain ahead of Obama?

NEGROES ALWAYS STEALING SHYT!! WE EVEN STOLE BREAK DANCING FROM THE RUSSIANS!!
I'm tired of blacks thinking they starting this thing called break dancing!! Clearly, they didn't. Yick, if you agree, Yak if you drank too much. Wait at least to count 1:20...it starts to get really good!

The Real Victims of War
I thought this video was going to be just a cheerful Santa Claus Christmas story, but the sincerity the little girl expressed when seeing her dad revealed something really painful. Separation anxiety experienced by the families of soldiers has lasting damaging effects. One year in the life of a two year old is a very long time...

Is love more important that truth?
I was reading an old article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=28588 The topic was on homosexuality but I assumed it could be used in other areas. The writer said, "When it comes to the moral issues of homosexuality, the struggle almost seems to turn into that of love vs. truth, and I think that's where we've gone wrong.", "Knowing truth is not salvation. We know this by simply looking at redemptive history – God's quest to know humanity in a personal way. Simultaneously, one cannot know God without accepting basic truths. Thus, where one side gets it right in caring for the broken down and the marginalized members of society, another side gets it right that knowing truth is the gateway to a relational God." By Kyle Williams. If possible we can take it out of the context of religion and homosexuality if you like. Thanks.

Is passing gas that much funnier than burping?
Why is it so much funnier? Actually its rare to hear someone laugh after someone else burps.

Would the Borg have a more difficult time in the world of Star Wars?
Would their goal of Assimilation be just as easy dealing with the dark side or the Jedi. And also the other good and evil in the world of Star Wars?

The short, The Deity is very funny
The person sitting down is suppose to be God and the other person is Jesus in the first short. If its just funny still vote Yak. Don't let the "Very" sway your vote.

Cigarette companies are the biggest liar about a product in American History
Its amazing the power of television. And to this day people tend to believe a lot in what is marketed on television.

Is there an evolutionary explanation for pure evil?
I don't just mean those who are aggressive, but those who find pleasure in the torture of others.

Are Pakistanis really our allies
Its seems new things seem to pop up whenever our country is involved in this region. They set on fire 180 US and Nato vehicles.

Can it be possible that cars can be given away?
I see a future where this is quite possible. Money can just be made on the back end.

What is the most prestigious profession; Medical Doctors, Engineers or Scientist?
Yak for Medical Doctors and Yick for Engineers or Scientist.

Confession is good for the soul.
One thing that i like about Catholicism is confession. I know that i am in a minority on this, even among Catholics (particularly among Catholics), but one thing that i have learned is that we are only as sick as our secrets. It takes a certain mindset, and an appropriate audience(very very important), but the process can be amazingly helpful to get a less subjective perspective on your behavior and thoughts. Going through life with the doors nailed shut to your mind is not healthy.

Do Friends Being Late Make You Contemplate Mortality?
When my friends are late, I get impatient. When George Harrison's friends were late, he wrote down his thoughts and then turned them into a creepy song and video that are really about mortality and taking advantage of life while you still have it. John, Paul, and Ringo have brief appearances but this one's about George. And YOU. Yick if you like it, yak if you think it's phenomenal art.

If man started over again would it take another 98 thousands years to recieve a bible?
Scientist say man left Africa to other lands 60,000 years ago and argue that men existed between 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. Let me be nice and assume 100,000 years ago. (There are Christians that say 6000 years ago, but lets save that for a comedy debate) This means this Beloved God decided after 98,000 years of men roaming the earth in sin and immorality that he had enough and decided to introduce Christ to people. If the world recycled for some reason reintroducing a new set of humans, should we assume God will have fun again watching men wallow in sin for 90,000 plus thousand years before he says, hey these guys need to start worshiping me or will he start early and give them something on day one?

Weed Will Get You Through Times of No Money Better Than Money Will Get You Through Times of No Weed
It has been announced that the most famous characters of the underground comix movement will soon grace the film screen for the first time. "Harold and Kumar", "Half-Baked", and even "Saving Grace" owe everything to these three filthy hippies. Is this film relevant in 2008?

Did You Know?
The Trail of Tears is often considered one of the low point of U.S. / Native American relations. In history, film, and even fine art there are depictions of these Indians struggling and dropping like flies on the long forced march to Oklahoma. It's considered a great tragedy. But did you know: The Indians being forced to move were slaveowners. Over 200 Cherokee-owned black slaves were forced to make the March (by the Indians)as well. I had never heard this before conducting research yesterday for an e-mail debate. How many of you Yickyakers already knew this?

Free at Last: Al Green
Found another one. Hot!

OJ's sentence was not just
I felt so bad for him when he was pleading to the jury. I don't like or dislike him but I think that the punishment should fit the crime and a a minimum of 9 years for basically "stealing" your own stuff back, is not justified.

Are Atheists Moving Toward Radicalism
Recently some Atheists posted placed placards near a nativity scene in Olympia Washington See article http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/05/atheists.christmas/index.html ). Are Atheists beginning to move down the road of becoming more radical and extreme in their effort to rescue religious infidels, or will they remain the mild mannered lovers of peace and rationalism? Yes/No?

Is there a price for food not worth paying no matter how wealthy you are?
Is $50 too much. Is $75 too much or is over $100 too much per person? Even if you have the money to do so? Can't one put a value on the experience as well instead of focusing on what the dollar cost of each item is or should be on your plate? I guess I don't like when the topic of food and restaurants come up and the discussion gets over shadowed by, "its too expensive" which says little about the food, its quality or the experience." Especially if someone never been there. It seems your average American in the age of the 99 cent burger or a $9 pasta plate at Red Lobster cannot conceive of paying any more for food.

People always find it easy to justfy one thing over another and it can be just as bad or not bad at all?
I'm speaking on the subject of food here. On another board we got into a big debate over people not eating at buffet restaurants because its nasty yet in the same breath they find no problem eating at a place like Popeye's Chicken where they cook the food in old grease and have higher cases of sanitation problems and food poisoning and this is from many sources that i've read but personally witnessed as well. Even when I pointed out there are higher scale buffet restaurants that are not like your $10 a plate cheap restaurant that take cleanliness to the next level, it did not matter. Buffet means nasty. One guy told me, well I'm getting my money's worth at the fast food. Really? Granted, I understand why someone would not like buffet restaurants but then to say because of the cost of Fast Food shops its worth the risk of possible illness. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Thomas Jefferson on Banking
Do you agree with this quote or not? Please state why. “If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing power of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs.” Thomas Jefferson on Banking, the Writings of Jefferson, vol. 7, p.685, Committee of Congress Washington DC 1861

If You Knew Hilter was the SOB he was, would Kill him?
This is a question from the movie "Dead Zone": John: "If you could go back in time to Germany, before Hitler came to power, knowing what you know now, would you kill him?" Sam: "I don't like this. What are you getting at?" John: "What would you do? Would you kill him?" Sam: "All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering. I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch." John: "You'd never get away alive." Sam: "It doesn't matter. I would kill him." ------------ I'd kill him all kinds of dead!

Would you rather live in the world of Star Trek or Star Wars
They both have their positives and negatives. Naturally I will say choose Yak for Star Trek and Yick for Star Wars. Star Trek worlds and life would include all the TV series and Movies.

Wouldn't an atheist prefer to live forever while a theist would not?
An atheist tend to believe life is a one shot deal so they would prefer to live life to its fullest while a theist believe their reward is after death and should be eager and willing to have an early and timely death.

Warning serious foul language - This is the worst preacher in American History
There is nothing worse than this scum bag. But it does show how low religion can be taken in the modern age. You already know i'm laughing on the floor, but man. What was this dude thinking?

Are scientist finally reaching the truth and crossing into the spiritual realm in their perceptions?
Among the most fearful, which some of you may be (fearful that is) are the racists. I grow weary of this experience and the blinded minds of humanity. Even the scientists are finally reaching a conclusion on the nature of things, here on the eve of the fifth beginning...If you are one of the fearful (which many of you are), read no further and don't watch the video...Oh, the wonderful oneness of us all...of all things... John 17 1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

If we could prolong life to 150 or allow you to look 30 at 80 which would you prefer?
Assuming if you can live up to 150 life is healthy, you could even play basketball with no problem at 130 or 140 but you look like you are 80 years old. And assuming your body is aging but we can make you look young at about 30 years old but rare to live beyond 80 years old, which would you pick? Thumbs up for long life, thumbs down for looking young.

Free Web Plan Being Pushed by FCC Head is this ok for you...there is a catch
They will block all porn initially. Some how I think this will lead into blocking other things to and monitoring activity. Would you still go for the free internet?

What will science figure out first, prolonging life or slowing down the looks of aging?
Will we learn to prolong life beyond 120 to 150 years old and live comfortably or will we learn to slow down the signs of aging like wrinkles or the break down of body organs of body functions? I guess if we solve one the other would follow.

Are we sensationalizing Mumbai, India?
Maybe i'm wrong. CNN has on their headline "A city held hostage by 10 gunman." Now if this was in the US, we would never make such a charge. Mumbai has a population of 13 million yet 10 gunman can hold the city hostage? Is a bombing at a Holiday INN, a night club in Hollywood and a police station in West Los Angeles considered holding Los Angeles Hostage? Would that really be holding Los Angeles Hostage? I think in the US, criminal events in a town or city is localized. When similar events happen in other countries we make the charge that the country is in turmoil. This will be my rant debate for the week, I hope.

Pretty Good Impressions...If You Ask Me
I think he did a pretty good job impersonating these celebrities...what do you think?

Do you like the fact that cities and towns are not that much different any longer?
Where ever you go in a town you will see the same thing. McDonalds, Starbucks, some strip mall with the usual department stores, Best Buy, etc. In the past many towns and cities used to be very unique. There were different reasons why someone would go to one city vs another if you wanted that special pizza or that one store. Today its more of a cookie cutter approach. I won't deny there are a few things that are still unique but its slowly dying.

Hello everyone, did you eat the traditional foods for thanksgiving?
I have some friends who do not so I was wondering if anyone did anything differently.

Warning Bad language - Using Religion to be Misogynistic at its worst and they are not Muslim
All religions use their beliefs to do evil things and men from all religions use it to control women. This is a video of Men in NY using the bible to hate woman and two videos of a woman responding to the video. Note: doesn't Ecclesiastes have only 12 chapters?

The Holiday Shopping experience, Good or Bad?
As we know people have died.

Do woman put tattoos on the small of their back for men to see during sex?
I mean, that's generally the only time men will see it when in the "doggy" position.

Should burger fast food focus more on the quality of Burgers?
I hate the fact that fast food burger places sell chicken or some type of wrap or anything un-burger. There should be different grades and quality of burgers which could include Bison or ground grade A steak. I hate the fact I have to go to a sit in restaurant to get a signature or quality hamburger.

The People Involved are Murderers
Link: <<<< http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081129/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death >>>>> I came to NY for Thanksgiving and I went to this mall about 3:30pm yesterday and it was still crowded. We didn't dare go to the Walmart though. Cars were parked practically on the highway. How do people become so obsessed with shopping that they don't care whether someone died? All of those involved should be charged with something....all 2,000 of them. I wish they had just closed the store all day.

Do you believe in an Eye for an Eye...Iran does
Acid will be dripped into the eyes of an Iranian man after he blinded the woman who spurned his marriage proposals, reports claim. I will post the article so you can see the picture of the woman.

Cold Stone Icecream is good, but cost too much.
I decided to make my own and it taste great. Without the actual "cold stone" which really doesn't do anything. Its just a gimmick. They charge a dollar for any extra topping you want. So if you one a peanut butter cup, 1 dollar for 1 peanut butter cup. Add some Heath Bar, 1 dollar for a tablespoon. It taste good but its highway robbery. I made my favorite flavor with the toppings I like....PERFECT!!!! I have enough of the toppings to make several cold stone dishes. With toppings at Cold Stone, $8. Make it at home with same amount. $2 or less.

Do you shop online?
I hate shopping, in any form. Will you shop online, if so what site?

Does, The Spirit, look like a winner at the movies?
I don't know. Looks like a watered down batman. I think the comic strip came out win batman did. Does it look like a winner?

Is this considered innovative for women worth buying when it comes to purses?
I mean, I don't know a single man who takes notice of woman's purses or judge a woman based on a purse they have, so this purse must mean something to women. Is this a cheap gimmicky type of purse or something that is refreshing for women to have and show off to other women? For me personally, this is a great idea from an entrepreneur perspective. I wish I could have came up with this idea.

So these are the enlightened Indians
Indians are always claiming how enlightened they are with their caste system and worship of the bull(****). This behavior in the face of an attack has revealed a more base nature and an obvious character flaw...

Mumbai Attack Is Just the Latest Example Of the Fruits of Radical Islam
I know, I know, Islam is a peaceful religion and not prone to violence, but lately, Islam appears to be at the forefront of violent activism for the purpose of breeding instability worldwide. If not for that purpose, then for what? Is the current activity by radical Islam severely hurting the chance for their belief system to be taken seriously? Or, is this just standard procedure for Islamists while attempting to subdue the masses and force converts into their way of thinking ? Perhaps Salman Rushdie was correct in his portrayal of the Koran as the "Satanic Verses", yes?

Aren't most dances nothing but sexual gestures?
And if so, should we really teach kids how to dance? I don't know too many types of pop culture dancing that doesn't have sexual gestures. Especially in the US. And even dancing from different cultures seem to be very sexual.

Does young Israeli have a right to this tiradical behavior? (Caution: Offensive language)
I am normally a supporter of Israel and policies toward them. But, I feel this young drunk Jew went too far with his behavior. Should he have had his a$$ kicked or is he justified due to years of oppression and victimization at the hands of the world?

Social Culture influences trumps Religious cultural influences most of the time.
This is in reference to the discussion about Muslims not eating pork due to health reason, yet in America I mostly see some plump Muslims. I think they are just victims of the American cultural eating habits like everyone else. So if its not pork its something else. This is just one example but I think religious cultural discipline is second to societal cultural influences. What ya'll think?

Does an increase tax/cost on addictive products increase illegal more so than decrease in use?
If the government chooses to increase the tax or the cost of the product rises on things like Alcohol or cigarettes does the illegal market increase more so than decrease use by consumers? Can you compare the two causations for that matter?

Is homosexuality the underlying motivation of the Taliban
The Taliban pretend to be moral thermometers but their actions and views tend to be very misogynistic. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/25/afghan.acid.attack/index.html?iref=werecommend Do their acts of hatred towards women really only mask their homosexual tendencies?

Was Robert Kennedy's forsight unique to him or a broad belief that a Black will be president in 40 years?
He made this claim that it would happen in 40 years and he was right?

Should men be dancing to this song?
Ok I can admit the first guy does it very well, but???

Do presidential pardons mean they are still guilty but....
...they got a, "get out of jail free" card?

Can man live without the existence of land animals?
If the world became a global metropolis like something from Star Wars where the whole planet is a giant city and animals became extinct could we live without animals?

Is this a strong enough example not to eat pork?
...Or should you just know to cook it well? I love Bacon. I don't think a worm can survive the beating of a well cooked piece of bacon.

Did Christians force the cultural change upon European Jews that gave them the leverage they have today?
In medieval Europe, many governments restricted money handling and money lending to Jews and Arabs, believing them to be practices morally inappropriate for Christians. Entry into many fields was barred to Jews. Those who were competent financiers were most likely to succeed in a society where they were essentially personae non gratae. Jews learned by experience to develop skills in professions dependent on intellectual talents - they became teachers, doctors, lawyers, accountants. WHY? In a Europe where Jews were always considered resident-aliens, subject to expulsion or expropriation at the whim of the political class, it made sense to have a livelihood not tied to the ground. A Jew in exile could resume his profession and offer a scarce and valuable service wherever expulsion landed him. These money-handling and intellectual skills often gained favor with political power holders, bringing individual or group protection. Many Jews actually became tax collectors or other government officials and advisors.

Do you agree with President Elect Obama, that marriage is between a man and a woman?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3375059/Barack-Obama-marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman.html

Clever Economic Plan
How would you feel about a monkey replacing the waitstaff and serving your food? Do you think that this is feasible? You can't exploit the monkeys just because its cheaper than humans. Besides, although my kids might enjoy this....I'd shat on myself if I saw one of these things coming at me with a tray of food. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/24/monkey-waiters-hired-in-j_n_146075.html

This was a waste of gov. resources looking for, "Friends of Dorothy"
In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy." Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that a woman named Dorothy was at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel. The NIS launched an enormous hunt for Dorothy, hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay servicemembers.

Change.Gov: Latest President Address
Think he can do it?

Should the US government allow the big three makers to go bankrupt?
I saw on the news of the three CEO's flying their private jets to Washington DC to ask for money from the government.

24 is Back and Better than Ever
It's been almost 2 years since the last season of 24 and I'm so glad that it's finally back. This season looks like it will be much better than the last one. There is a woman president, Jack is helping refugees from an African country and of course, there is a corruption in the White house to uncover. Yak if you are looking forward to this season of 24.

Does it come to a point when we should just let people kill themselves?
In this Documentary, Two Swedish Sisters elect to try an kill themselves more than once. Trying to get hit by cars 3 times and the cops show minimal ability to stop them. i say let them. I don't like when society tries to stop people from terminating their life. Society gains nothing or loses anything. Like this one guy on the radio who said, not every baby sea turtle will make it to the ocean.

Is Uncle Ruckus right about Black People?
I saw this episode a long time ago. It was banned and disappeared from the scene. Well it is back. Here is a real Uncle Tom that is not afraid to say what he feels. Is he right about his views or way off the mark?

Boat crash, is this crazy or what?
This big ocean and they couldn't avoid hitting each other? I can't imagine this being a prank.

putting someone's hand in a bowl of water while they sleep will they piss?
I happen to see this a Cartoon Network so I was just wondering would it work? Could you make someone piss on themselves?

Will people ever get out this fantasy world that Most Jews are swimming in money?
Scraping by in New York City So who are the Jewish poor and how many are there? Let’s focus on New York City, the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. According to the January 2004 Report on Jewish Poverty commissioned by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and the UJA-Federation of New York, approximately 311,700 Jewish households in the city are poor, which is defined as living on one-and-a-half times the income of someone at the poverty line. That means that in 2004, the most recent year for which information is available, 20 percent of New York Jews were living at one-and-a-half times the $18,850 poverty line for a family of four. One-in-five Jews from the land of the Bergdorf-Goodman department store, the grand Park Avenue Synagogue, and H and H Bagels come from families making less than $21,678 per year. Another 85,000 are “near-poor,” who do not qualify but still cannot feed their families. There are 226,000 Jewish people in New York City poor enough to qualify for government assistance programs. That means one in every five Jews in New York City is poor, which is a proportion that nearly equal to the percentage of all New Yorkers who are poor (20.4 percent). Where are the Jewish poor of NYC located? 69 percent are located in Brooklyn (156,200 households), 19 percent are in Queens (42,700 households), six percent are in Manhattan (12,800), five percent are in the Bronx (10,400 households), and two percent are located in Staten Island (3,900 households). The concentration of Jewish poverty in Brooklyn and Queens mirrors the areas where concentrations of Hasidic Jewish families and recent Russian and Soviet immigrants live. According to the report, poverty is more prevalent among seniors, people who are unemployed, people who are unable to work due to physical limitations, people without college degrees, Orthodox households with large families, and recent Russian-speaking immigrants.

Is Diabetes Reversible
I heard somewhere that diabetes can be cured.

Which format will dominate in the future, Live streams or youtube type videos?
I discovered a site you folks were probably already aware of, called Justin.tv, where recently a teen suicide was broadcast live. http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/21/webcam.suicide/index.html . Presently, youtube and the like hold young audiences captive. In the future, will more youngsters opt for "live" streaming feeds where they can watch life as it happens, or will they settle for amazingly crafted, yet dated, reruns?

Mitch Michell is dead. The sixties are officially over.
Mitch Michell, last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has rejoined his former bandmates - in the purple haze.

Capitalism works best when the people are well educated. Socialism works best when the people's traits are relatively uniform and homogenous.
I think that the two philosophies, Capitalism and Socialism, work best given certain biological and educational factors.

A dictatorship is the best government in 'bad' times
A so-call 'strong man' can rally the people, slash through any entrenched bureaucracy and execute the will of the people.

Is Bush bowing his head in shame and or are the leaders ignoring him?
This looks pretty sad. I almost feel sorry for the guy.

Correlation does not imply causation i.e. Unhappy people and watching TV
According to how wiki defines it: Correlation between two variables does not imply that one causes the other. Its negation, correlation proves causation, is a logical fallacy by which two events that occur together are claimed to have a cause-and-effect relationship.

Malcom Gladwell - Human Diversity and variability is a wonderful thing.
Came across this chap on MSNBC. He is an author on The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), and Outliers: The Story of Success (2008). He is bi-racial, Mother is Jamaican and Father is a Brit. I know nothing about him but I was impressed with his interview on MSNBC. I think this video is pretty good. Might buy one of his books. Maybe some of you guys here can join me in the book yakker section to discuss one of the books. Interesting how he used Howard Moskowitz and human variability on Spaghetti Sauce for his example on this topic of innovation and the diversity of consumer happiness.

Should we be sensitive with people on Discussion boards?
Recent news, a 19 year old committed suicide after people were taunting him. Here is the link of the video where the police find his body. http://www.livevideo.com/video/F29B145FA9F149DA8DEB6469B297D9D2/candyjunkie-vid.aspx Here is the article....A member of the popular site forum.bodybuilding.com committing suicide - and he did it ON CAMERA!! It all started when the 19 year old told posters that he was considering suicide. Immediately, other board members began taunting him - challenging him to go through with his suicide threat. Finally, after hours of harassment, the man reportedly set up a web camera and did it. The webcam stream reportedly showed the 19 year old swallowing pills and eventually lying down on his bad. A few hours later, the young man stopped breathing. The next morning, after moderators on the board tracked down the man's info, the web stream showed an officer kicking in the door and finding the youngsters body. Here are some excerpts from that board: Originally Posted by AusPower (forum.bodybuilding.com) A (former) member of the Misc who OD'd on web cam (JTV) and made a thread inviting members to come watch. The thread was basically 40+ pages of people saying "Do it ***got" and people sat in the JTV for 7 hours watching him lying there not breathing before they thought about doing something. Oh and it is all somehow Roxie's fault because various trolls say so. Thats it in a nutshell. Originally Posted by affy (forum.bodybuilding.com) he basically killed himself on jtv there's a video where he's just lying there for hours..and the police come break his door down and check his pulse and confirm he's dead.

The Chinese...More than Meets the Eye
Despite these reports talking about the Chinese Economy is falling apart, I'm just not convinced. They are definitely a threat as far as the global competition goes. They excel in innovation and education and are now beginning to excel in areas that could permanently knock us a couple spots down the list of super powers. It has to be serious enough that they are teaching my Kindergartner and Pre-ker Chinese for 30 minutes a day. Do you think that we are running a losing race right now?

Is this Why John McCain Lost?
Are these the typical "McCain-Palin" voters? You be the judge. I think not. But, for those who try to castigate Obama votes as such should know their is plenty of video out there that show the lunacy that party lathered up.

The Left's Rhetoric is the Same As Al-Qaida's
Those on the left have called accomplished blacks like Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, and Condoleezza Rice, house negroes. In fact, any black who doesn't bow down to the Democratic Party is categorized as a house negro, or worse. How delicious the irony that our ENEMIES use this same language to refer to our first black President-Elect, Obama, a Democrat! Democrats have cried racism throughout this election directed at the McCain campaign. Let's see if we'll see cries of racism directed at our ENEMIES from the Obama camp and its surrogates. Perhaps Marxist President-Elect Obama can start some of that "aggressive diplomacy" he talked about on the campaign trail. Apparently, Al-Qaida didn't drink Obama's CoolAid and wasn't hypnotized by Hope, Change, and Yes We Can. The only change that will satisfy Al-Qaida is if we give them everything they demand. Thumbs up if you agree that the left's own rhetoric has encouraged our enemies.

Beyonce's "Single Ladies" dance routine copies the 60's dance routine is ok to do.
Do you like when this happens or is it ok? I think its ok but I know people will think its original. Beyonce video is here to compare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Xt-JrQJwc

Is music the best time capsule ever created?
I had forgotten just how much I loved this woman and her music. I was browsing around one of the old Yak Polls that featured her music when I stumbled upon a couple more forgotten gems. Once I played them, images, sounds smells and emotions just begin to pour out as though I had opened up floodgates or something. I believe that music has got to be one of if not the best vehicles of biological memory preservation ever created.

Sarah Palin Great For Laughs
Now, Sarah Palin is not the 100% reason why John McCain lost. But you gotta admit, her unpreparedness and ignorance gave plenty of material for the news media and late night television. I may not stand for the policies of George Bush for another four years....but could I stand another four years laughin? You betcha!

Purity Pledge
There is a trend "rising" were children at about age 5 pledge to remain virgins until marriage. The catch is that many of them are never taught about sex and protection, their parents are overly involve in their relationships even having the right to say "ya" or "na" to potential mate and the developing children/teens are somehow suppose to find the right soul mate on the first try. ****"i wish i could find the Documentary of purity pledging"***

How Obama Got Elected
Aaaahhhhh, the bliss of ignorance. The useful idiots featured in this video helped to march us all further down the death plank to socialist tyranny. This video will be used to produce a documentary highlighting the media malpractice during the presidential campaign. This video proves that the only way to preserve a democratic republic such as ours is to have an informed citizenry. Thumbs up if you agree that these people represent the typical Obama voter.

Would you describe him as an "Uncle Tom" or a "Socialist"
This video is commonly used on some Black boards I know of when calling someone out as an "Uncle Tom" by other Black folks. But when you really listen to what he is saying and what he wants, to me he sounds more like a Socialist than what a Black person would call a "Uncle Tom" or a "Sell out". What do ya'll think? Especially you, Sanco.

Is there a difference between civil disobedience and Protesting?
Is there?

I Don't Care About Iraq
Every time that I hear Bush and others talk about how they are helping the Iraqi people gain their independence blah blah I want to gag. Why is it America's job to do this? I remember about 4 years ago they were talking about them getting to vote for the first time. Whooptido. That would've been a perfect time to leave. Did Iraq ask for help? 4,000 soldiers have died trying to help that place and for what? When will this helping end? Billions of dollars spent on that backwards country where people have fun setting off car bombs and for what? The only thing that came out of the Iraqi war was an effed up United States economy all across the board. Thanks alot Bush. I don't care about Iraq and their problems. After Sadaam was killed, the war should've been over. I think people might have been more supportive if they knew that the troops were out helping hungry children and poor families rather than getting killed by these Neanderthals. What ever happened to the mission to feed hungry children that was celebrated in the 80s with We Are the World?

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is definitely one of the best books ever written.
It's true! I haven't read it for awhile but I picked it back up recently and wow.

Are there clear valid reasons to get rid of the Department of Education?
What are they if you have them? I always here people complain but never offer what are there reasons. Big Government is not one of them in my book.

New Star Trek Trailer. Movie worth seeing or wait until DVD?
http://www.startrekmovie.com/ to see a better quality Yak if its worth watching in the movie theater. Looks awesome!!!

NEA Justifies the choking of a Mentally Challenged Child is wrong
Recent news 11/13/08 on this choking of a mentally challenged child. The NEA (National Education Association) which certifies teachers to teach justifies the bus drivers behavior. SICK!!!

Messiah Image Will Eventually Hurt Obama
No one can live up to the expectations that people with Messianic visions thrust upon them, not even Obama. When the public realizes that he is just another politician who has to fight against the opposition to execute policies, his fall in public opinion will be astronomical. No one can carry the burden that the Messiah image places upon them. My bet is, God forbid, that the Kennedy saga will repeat itself and he will be immortalized in Camelot...

Is a Ban on Gay Marriage an Expansion of Gov't Into the Bedroom?
I'm not sure a ban on gay marriage is a conservative idea. Especially if those who argue against it, who claim to be conservative, and preach the limits of gov't power. What do you think? I saw a sign a woman was holding on CNN that read: "Against Gay Marriage? Don't Marry a Gay Person!!" ...hmmm.

Wouldn't it be illogical for a Molecular Biologist and Geneticist to be racist?
These people understand the DNA and how it works when it comes to the study of codependent, dominant and recessive genes that applies to things such as skin color, hair color, eye color, blood, etc. It just wouldn't make sense to have such a racist mindset. In fact its illogical. Or those who were racist who went into that field of study might clearly change their racist views.

Justine Timberlake and Beyonce skit will be one of SNL's best skits ever.
Ok, maybe not ever, but it will be one of their best skits in a long time. Oh, and Justine Timberlake is hot. ABC might drop the youtube post, so i'm crossing my fingers.

Will Russia be the first confrontational challenge for President Obama?
Russians look for weakness and exploit it. That has been their way in the 20th century, and i see no reason to think it would be different now. Currently Putin is looking at putting missiles on the European border in response to the proposed missile deployment on the Polish border (the official reason for missiles in Poland is as a European defense against Iran). They are also looking at some major advanced military arms going to Syria in an attempt to elevate their stake in Mideast politics. Meanwhile certain changes are being sought within the Russian constitution of 1993. At the same time, China is asking Obama to stay friendly and not oppose what they do in Taiwan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7712294.stm

Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State?
I'm sure we've all heard this is a possibility. I like the thought of it, tho I'd rather see a black woman in the job. ...lol...I'm just kidding, CJ! Seriously, I think it would be a good appointment. What about you?

Ozzy Osbourne poking fun at his ailment, do you like when people do this?
Personally I don't like when people do this, but I guess money talks.

George Bush II is not the worst president the U.S. has had.
Text Debate: innomen vs junior - It is commonly said that George W. Bush is the worst president that this country has ever had. I resolve that he is not.

Should Churches Pay Taxes?
Do you think churches should pay some type of tax?

Why the auto industry, politics?
I know the reason put forth for bailing out the auto industry is the sheer numbers that will be effected. However, i don't think everyone realizes how bad things are now with all sectors of the economy. About 85% of my client base is experiencing layoffs. The semi-conductor industry is being decimated, why not bail them out? Most high tech is experiencing a massive reduction in workforce. I was just on my way to a meeting and got a message that it was cancelled because my contact was laid off. Is the auto industry unique? Are the ramifications of a turndown in that industry so much more terrible than that of the semiconductor industry? I don't think so. I believe it is more about the politics involved. Michigan has a lot of electoral votes, and a strong union state.

Obama Wouldn't Pass Vetting To Serve In His Own Administration!
The New York Times reports that "A seven-page questionnaire being sent by the office of President-elect Barack Obama to those seeking cabinet and other high-ranking posts may be the most extensive — some say invasive — application ever." ****************The questionnaire is here http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13apply_questionnaire.pdf.*****************Pay very close attention to questions #61 and #63...******************#61 says, "Have you had any association with any person-group or business venture that could be used-even unfairly to impugn or attack your character and qualifications for government service?"**************************This is coming from a campaign that said that anyone who brought up Obama's ASSOCIATIONS was just being a racist! Remember that, Obama's campaign and followers said ASSOCIATIONS didn't matter! Apparently, ASSOCIATIONS MATTER for everyone EXCEPT the President Elect! Thumbs up if you agree Obama wouldn't pass his OWN vetting process.

Homosexual behavior observed in 1500 species and well documented in 500 species...unatural?
I think there cannot be an unnatural argument made. Source: Homosexual Behaviour in Animals An Evolutionary Perspective Edited by Volker Sommer University College London Paul L. Vasey University of Lethbridge, Alberta Cambridge Press

Is Dennis's Miller comment considered Homophobic or a Comedic Free Pass?
?? Homophobic - yak, Comedic Free Pass - Yick

This is a pretty hot IPhone App thats free
Its called Midomi, you can hum the song, sing it, say the name of the song and it will find the song for you. Great technology.

Rush Limbaugh said, Obama is causing the recession because of what Obama believes
Just use this video as background noise since its off topic. How do people take Rush's mess as an analysis of the current economy? I wish I can think about something that would increase the balance in my checking account.

Lemme Get That
I feel like I'm dating for the first time. I finally got out of a long tangled relationship...and I naturally fall in love everyday or lust, but I never usually care to follow up on it...because my interest just does not go that far, but I got hit hard and got such a huge surprise that I finally do have enough interest to care. I have NEVER pursued anyone with the exception of when I was 18 and I already knew that I had that. But now I have about zero idea of what to do. I have terrible communication skills, so I have decided on a letter. Basically I asked for permission--ha-ha to show my interest as in, right now, no dating, but maybe some flowers and some more notes and some gifts, then maybe more. What would you like if you were/are a girl/woman? Also, was that too old fashion--keep in mind that I am not intent on another relationship right now? Would "lemme get that" work for you? Ha. JK

Where You At Mitch? Chaka Baby!!
This is my shiznet! I'm still at work blasting this on my speakers. This weekend, I'm finding a babysitter and I swear I'm hitting an "old head" club so I can dance to this type of music all night long. Like or not?

We don't hold Congress accountable enough.
There are 535 total members, of the house and the senate. By their numbers they have any accountability diffused. A president doesn't have the luxury, but Congress does, and they take advantage of it. It's always the other guy's fault, but he or she will eke out any credit they can lay their hands on.

Is there any justfication against gay marriage besides religion or being a homophobe?
Don't attack me, its just a question I posed. I'm thinking about it too.

When the Coffee Doesn't Work
what are you supposed to do? I need something. Yick, to say you just don't know. Yak your suggested method.

Do Republicans really think that Palin is the Savior to their party?
Lets keep it real, the woman is Dumb. First impressions are usually the long lasting ones and most peoples first impression of her is that she is dumb. She doesnt understand the Bush Doctrin, she doesnt understand the First Amendment, she doesnt understand Foreign Policy (who cares if she can see Russia from her house. She is a woman that believes that any other woman should have their right to choose what they do with their bodies taken away. I can go on and on about whats wrong with this woman and what she doesnt know. She is a pretty White Woman that most White men would like to BONE simple as that. She's not the only woman that gave birth to a child with special needs. Many woman have done that, however it doesnt qualify them to run the country or just because of that they dont have the pulse of women all around the world. She was a ploy, nothing more. She was something to dangle infront of White women and White male voters that wouldve voted for Hillary. Thank God people saw thru that lie.

When you have to piss real bad an no bathroom near, time moves so slow
Man, it just seems like everything just slows down a notch. The elevator moves slower, people walk much slower in front of you as though they know you are dying. All the signal lights take another 30 seconds longer. Just painful.

One Stupid Lawsuit That Will NOT Succeed
http://www.superherohype.com/news/batmannews.php?id=7807 Recently, a mayor of Turkish city "Batman" is planning to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. royalties for the Dark Knight. He claims that "there is only one Batman in this world," and that "the American producers used the name of our city without informing us." Honestly, they wait almost 80 years since the creation of Batman to do this. And waited on a decade, after other Batman movies were made prior to The Dark Knight. To me, this is definitely one stupid lawsuit that will NOT succeed. Thoughts?

In 2004, Kerry won 88 percent of the blacks vote and Gore won 90 percent in 2000.
"In this historic election of the nation's first African American president, black voters made up 13 percent of the electorate -- up from 11 percent in 2004 and 10 percent in 2000. Fully 95 percent of blacks voted for Obama. In 2004, Kerry won 88 percent of the black vote and Gore won 90 percent in 2000." Blacks, in recent history, have voted democratically. So, please stop the rhetoric of racism... please... because it's unfounded. it's funny how some of you are so quick to say blacks pull the race card, but many whites are doing the same thing. ...and, check the site! you'll love the source!! http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/fox-news-exit-poll-summary-599974112/

Gays legal to wed in Connecticut...is Darqlord right...A matter of time?
Gay marriages set for Wednesday in Connecticut. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Oct. 10 that same-sex couples have the right to wed rather than accept a civil union law. Only Connecticut and Massachusetts have legalized gay marriage.

Career-Specific Holidays
It has always struck me that perhaps only veterans should get Veteran's Day off. What say you all to a series of semi-holidays celebrating the key jobs in our society, during which only the holders of those jobs get the day off? Veteran's Day, Emergency Services Worker's Day (spread over 2 days), Professor's Day... maybe even Homekeeper's Day?

How many have Veterans day off?
Anyone?

Girl, 16, gets life for poisoning grandmother
Is this justice? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27476534/

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Save the child or the right to have guns.
Last week I posted an article about an 8 yr old boy. Who killed his father and the guy who was renting a room from them. The boy confessed to the murder and the fact that he planned it out. Reasons still unknown or at least not released. The child will tried as an adult. Also, the boy's father taught him to use the rifle by shooting prairie dogs. Because he did not want the child to have a fear of guns. Obviously the boy is a child, but was cunning enough to come up with a plan. So is it fair to try him as adult? Is this a score for those who oppose NRA? http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/10/child.charged.arizona.killing.ap/index.html

Bush approved secret attacks in foreign countries, is this ok?
Without the countries permission and with countries we are at peace with, Bush and Rumsfeld approved secret entry into countries without the countries permission to search for al-Qaida"Donald H. Rumsfeld signed and President Bush approved in spring 2004. "The order gave the military authority to attack al-Qaida anywhere in the world and to conduct operations in countries that were not at war with the United States."

One thing you never hear the "bail out" politicians talk about.
One thing you never hear the "bail out" politicians talk about is how all their "gifts" to bankers, automakers, homeowners who can't pay for their homes, etc. etc. is how such "gifts" make those who can pay their own way feel. For example, my children own and pay for their own homes and they work their butts off to do it. What do Obama, Bush, McCain et al say to them to encourage them to keep working and being responsible, or should they just become part of the "gift receiving" members of society. I have a hard time advising them when they ask me.

Sanco might be wrong according to MSNBC: Youth vote may have been key in Obama's win
Well, according to MSNBC, the youth increase their votes in larger number than previous stated. Here's a quote: "In 2004, 20.1 million 18- to 29-year-olds voted — a 4.3 million increase from 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The turnout increase among younger voters was more than double that of the overall electorate. And in this year’s primary elections, at least 50 percent more young people voted than they did in the 2004 primary in every state except New York, which stayed flat. In some states, voter turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds doubled or tripled." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27525497/ Looks like Oz may have been correct. hmmm...

Steve Guttenberg jogs through the park nude...is this real?
Steve is one of the Actors on Police Academy. For those who have issues with nudity on youtube, plus do not click the play button.

Lucky 13
Most people are not aware of it, but there was a tiny little generation tucked between the Boomers and Gen X. I am one, Obama is another; there weren't many of us. We were the 13th American generation. We grew up in an era that bridged old-fashioned education and "New Math". We were too young to remember JFK but we remember Vietnam. Most of us hit high school around the time Reagan took office, then watched aghast as the progressive, admired nation we grew up in was turned into a warmongering global pariah. Now the next eight years will be run by this little generation... I strongly suspect for the betterment of all. http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/generations.htm)

Is Cheating in a Casino really cheating?
There is no surprise that gambling in casinos is stacked against you. It has been proven. Even the random numbers generators on the chips in the slot machines are not really random.

The REAL Reason John McCain Lost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59S8CMXXvWI&feature=related (Another video of Letterman, when he said this several weeks ago) But yes, he did project that McCain would lose for skipping out on him. ;) Never piss off David Letterman.

Obama's Major Economic Policies
It's focused entirely on the middle class. Can't wait to hear the details of these plans. Agree that there should definitely be a priority on the middle class? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081107/ap_on_el_pr/obama_economy_box

Methephor on race - Obama said he is getting a mut dog like himself?
Dude, this shows his coolness with words. Its not offensive from my point of view. He was talking to reporters and they asked him what kind of dog he would get. He said,(not exactly) "Well my daughters are allergic to some full breeds so I think I will get a mutt like myself." The reporters all laughed. I took it this way. The races tend to avoid each other for whatever reason but someone mixed can bring to two together. Or something to that effect. What do you guys think. Now don't jump all over me, dang. I know how some of ya'll trip.

Were the two parties created by the political elites for the people or the people influenced the elite?
I was thinking about this. We are stuck on the 2 party system for most of this countries history. We had others but eventually ended with a two party system. Did the male elites at the time determine that 2 parties were what was best for the people or did the people dictate our structure which influenced the politicians? Yick for the male elites and Yak for the people. * Democratic Party (1828 modern, 1792 historic) * Republican Party (1854) * Libertarian Party (1971) * Constitution Party (1992) * Green Party (1996) And others we may remember: # Federalist Party (c.1789–c.1820) # Democratic-Republican Party (1792–c.1824) # Anti-Masonic Party (1826–1838) # National Republican Party (1829–1833) # Nullifier Party (1830–1839) # Whig Party (1833–1856) # Liberty Party (1840–1848)

What's important is what one believes, not how one lives.
I have heard the opposite numerous times: "What's important is how one lives, not what one believes." This sincere sentiment collapses under cursory examination in different ways. One such point is what social researchers have been telling us for decaades: beliefs lead to behaviors, behaviors create habits, and habits shape character. So it seems if we want healthy, upright behavior we need to start with the "right thinking."

Young voters not essential to Obama triumph
They failed the election once again for the Democratic party. It appears that the Black vote had to carry most of the load that the youth vote could not carry but were the most vocal. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27582147/

Did Stephen Colbert tear up at the end of the video after hearing Obama won?
I think so

Bush will leave one of the greatest hidden legacies in American history...Africa
Bush has brought aid to sub-Saharan Africa to the highest levels in American history. He also raised global HIV-AIDS funding by 36% his first year in office. By 2006, annual American aid to Africa had topped $4 billion. If Mr. Bush has his way, it will be nearly $9 billion by 2010. When Bush took office, aid to Africa was a steady 1.5 billion a year. Clinton in his 8 years did very little with Africa.

Craigslist to crack down on prostitution ads
"HARTFORD, Conn. - Under the watchful eye of law enforcement in 40 states, Craigslist pledged Thursday to crack down on ads for prostitution on its Web sites. As part of Craigslist's agreement with attorneys general around the country, anyone who posts an "erotic services" ad will be required to provide a working phone number and pay a fee with a valid credit card. The Web site will provide that information to law enforcement if subpoenaed. "We don't view it as a penalty, we view it as raising the accountability," he said. "A legitimate business should have no problem with that. They should have no problem providing a phone number or credit card credentials.==============> "Is this a matter of the government and IRS wanting a piece of the pie?

Should gays and lesbians feel betrayed.
I have been speaking with some of my gay and lesbian friends about the election. Although they are happy with President elect Obama, they are not happy about what happened in Florida, Arizona, and California in particular. The major bone of contention is that 70% of blacks voted for it. They figured that everyone was in this together, and considering the amount of money that the gay community spent on the presidential race, they are a little off put. I am not. Gays have been thrown under bus by the democrats before, (particularly under president Clinton i.e. DOMA and DADT) and they should be prepared to get thrown under again, if politically prudent. They are like battered women returning to their husbands. They will give money and get a tepid nod from their abuser, but that's about it.

It Was the Children
After changing our society in the 1960's, the coalition of civil rights activists, students, and hippies disbanded. The hippies went mainstream, the students graduated and their replacements were apathetic, and the civil rights movement turned to the less visible world of litigation and legislation. With the conservative backlash 1980 - 2008, it appeared many of the gains of the coalition had been lost. But the members of the coalition were still out there, teaching their children, their many children. It is these children, now hitting adulthood, who will fundamentally change our society.

Obama's Victory is A Reflection of The Healing Of White America,
Many colored people are celebrating the victory of Barak Obama as though it is a vindication of their efforts to show America that they are capable. For those of you that need others to validate your existence, congratulations. I see this victory as not so much a victory for coloreds, who should have known all along that no boundaries truly existed, but, rather, as an indication of the continued healing of a very sick white generation, whose children have finally began to creep out from underneath the blanket of racism and bigotry. Of course, there are pockets of resistance, like those of CJ's ilk, that still exist. But they will eventually die off, hopefully sooner rather than later...

Joe got owned. He was on welfare
What the heck. He is complaining about spreading the wealth and he was on welfare?

Palin didn't know Africa was a continent
If you see the O'reilly interview its even worse. Sanco, I know you will like this, she came out in front of her staff in her bath robe. Screaming, making her staff cry. This link below is a more detailed interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtxDs3Rk_vE

World's smallest political quiz
Can this quiz indicate your political position? Do you agree with the results? "http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html"

Obama: Reseting Expectations
Now that the campaign is over with, I'm back to being interested. This highlights Obama's first steps as President. It's very simple but I'm sure it'll be missed by many. I like where he is going with this- resetting expectations. Bringing back the fundamentals of economics. http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/106822/President-Obama's-First-Step-Reset-Expectations?tickers=%5Edji,%5Egspc,%5Eixic

Is Nader Correct or just angry?
Correct - Yak, angry - Yick. Fox is making him feel small. The interviewer is funny.

What I think McCain really learned
He is not the extreme right that hijacked his campaign. I can admit to this. So many times those extreme right wingers frustrated him just as much as his competition. This was not the McCain of 2000. He was a moderate but the Republican Base did not respect him and he virtually sold his soul as a moderate Republican. That was his comfort zone but he could not play that card.

One Good Thing About Obama's Win: Blacks Have No More Excuses!
Obama could not have been elected without tens of millions of whites voting for him. This is not a racist country. Yes, there are some racists, but by and large, no one can say this is a racist country anymore. After the honeymoon, will blacks still attribute their own failures to racism? Will blacks still be hoodwinked by race hustlers into believing there's racism around every corner? Will blacks clean up their communities and take care of their families and stop looking to the government for solutions to their problems? Will blacks more fully take advantage of educational and business opportunities? Thumbs up if you think blacks have no more excuses.

McCain got BarackRoll'd
This is for all the haters, nay sayers, maimed lipstick wearing BULLDOGS, and 3rd party voters. A new day is on the horizon, thank you so much for not being part of this historical moment. Despite what you say, he is an example of both the American and MLK dream coming true. To all the supporters what is the one thing that you would like to see PRESIDENT OBAMA achieve during his first term? Is there any way we can evict Bush and his minions before Jan. 20, 2009? Cause I know about the sign up sheet.

Credit Him with his Dreams?
I feel that too many people put too much emphasis on MLK's dream speech. It was only a dream, that cannot be actualized today or tomorrow. In some cases it was almost a mere ranting similar to a paster or religious official used to only to empower for one day and then retreat to normal behavior the next day. MAIN QUESTION:Do you feel that too much symbolism is placed on this "I have a Dream" speech? OTHER QUESTIONS:Do you feel that I'm going overboard? Can this 'dream' be a reality (for every single person)?

In response to Innomen's quote of the day
Interesting quote. First charity is not only a monitary act so to suggest that it is socialism depending on if its a private person or a government institution is flat out wrong. Finally charity is not applied to a conservative or liberal value, its a human value. You should not apply a political label on charity. Also where in your bible does it state that sharity is only a private act and not a public one if a government decides that part of their budget is to help the needy. Is there something that your Christ said that I missed?

1 More B4 11 04
Machosauceproduction is good; real good. Passion, style, delivery, timing, and most important the RIGHT IDEAS.

Obama's last stop is Manassas, VA, symbolic baby
This is symbolic. The former capitol state of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Manassas, VA is where The famous Battle at Bull Run(also known as the Battle of Manassas)took place. 36 miles from Washington, DC. Was the first major battle of the Civil War.

Virginia has the best Obama supporters, this speech says it all
Ok, if you are going to hate on VA were I live, at least you can say this is an awesome speech and presentation put together for VA. Am I wrong? Virginia is the Iowa of the south and the once home and capital of the Confederacy where some of the greatest and historic battles were fought during the Civil War. i.e. Battles in Fredericksburg, battles in Manassas and court house in Spotylvania, Battles in Chester, Harrisburg, Winchester. More battles fought than any state during the civil war at 123 battles, 4 times more than the next state. The last state to allow Blacks to marry Whites that lasted until the late 60's. To me this is amazing when you see the change in this state.

Mice do no like cheese
The makers of Tom and Jerry got it wrong - mice don't like cheese. According to researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University, the rodents prefer foods with a lot of sugar, chocolate for example. A mouse's natural diet is primarily made up of grains and fruit, both high in sugar. Dr David Holmes, a senior psychologist at the university, said: "Mice respond to the smell, texture and taste of food. Cheese is something that would not be available to them in their natural environment and so not something they would respond to."

Is there a good or positive reason why God didn't destroy the Devil?
I've always wondered about this. Is there is good reason why the Devil should be around?

Barck Obama For President
Text Debate: OzzieMan vs CJ - Senator Obama is the better suited of the two presidential to lead our country at this time.

Can war against a neighboring country be justified to stop illegal immigration?
Just a thought. I would not be surprised if this will happen among bordering countries. Some countries are very complacent in stopping their own people from crossing into another country raping the economy of the neighboring country.

There should be congressional term limits
One of the main reasons for the persistent failure of our government to provide populace-based leadership is the lack of term limits in the Congress. Ancient ones like Kennedy from Massachusetts and Stevens from Alaska hold onto power as though they possess oligarchical privilege.

Is Obama out of control or what...I love it!
This is an ad on Obama's Myspace site. I guess depending on who his audience is, they tailor the ads for that demographic. Go Obama!!!

why you don't vote 3rd party
Is it because they don't get on the news? Or because you rather vote for a party that have a 1 out of 2 chances of winning? Can you even name other candidates that are running. I'll be honest I only know of Bob Barr and it looks like he might get my vote.

Is connotation more powerful than denotation.
Connotation being everything that is associated with a word, denotation being the actual meaning. For example, if i say "he is a jew", does the connotation of all that is thought about the word jew carry greater power than the actual meaning of the word jew?

Blacks sitting on one side and white on the other in my training facility?
I'm on travel at an IT training facility. There are 12 enginners in the class. 6 engineers sitting on one side and 6 on the other side in the classroom. Blacks are sitting on one side and whites sitting on the other. I just noticed this while sitting in class for a week. Do similar cultures tend to congregate with each other without thinking about it?

I find spelling Nazis and Grammer Nazis on Discussion forums annoying?
There is no room for these types on discussion forums. They are only deflecting from the focus of the discussion or debate.

Are You Secure Enough To Admit When You've Done Something Incredibly Stupid?
I did something incredibly stupid that has inspired me to write a book. The title will be Hanging Party Decorations for Dummies. Rule #1: If hanging dangling decorations from the ceiling, DO NOT hang them in front of the home security system motion detector. Rule #2: DO NOT activate the home security system and leave home without turning on your cell phone if you have violated Rule #1.*****************Needless to say, when I violated Rules #1 and #2, I returned home to 2 police officers and my mother-in-law entering my home. I went through a checklist in my head; I turned off the stove, I shut the doors, I didn't leave any candles burning, etc. When the officers exited my home they said that motion had been detected, and I still didn't make the connection. An officer mentioned the huge balloon, but I'm thinking, the balloon wasn't floating around, it had one of those anchors on it. What could have been in front of the motion detector? Oh yeah, the dangly things I hung from the ceiling that I thought were so pretty that I just left them up in front of the MOTION DETECTOR!***************If you could write a For Dummies book, what would be the title? Come on now, I know you got some good ones.

7th Grade Obama v. McCain Debate
These kids are great. I wish that learning was this much fun when I was in school. The backstory is that their teacher wanted to teach them about the political climate. He told them about each candidate (without revealing which policies belonged to who) and then they chose sides. I wish the lyrics were clearer but the refrain is cute.

Low Blow without Being Negative?
The moment I saw this ad, I said ouch. And Obama's campaign is using McCain's words against him, again. There have been negative ads this campaign, but it didn't not seem as negative as compared to the 3 am ad by the Clintons. Would you think this ad was a low blow without being negative? Or not?

Did you know this women? If not, too bad.
Anita Roddick was a business genius! She founded the Body Shop. Last year, she died of cancer. But, before that, she turned the business community on its ear. They hated her because she cared about all of the channels of her business. For example, she'd pay women in Africa the same wages she'd pay the women in England. And when she bought items from tribes or people, she'd set them up as independent contractors so they could sell to other companies--her competition...not just her company. This was a remarkable woman.

ATTENTION ALL!!! Oz and CJ will Debate...
for the candidates for the POTUS in an open debate starting on Friday!! This is gonna be big!!! This is a free for all everyone and they grandmas should come with relevant information. Don't miss it, as these two are no doubt some of the best on YickYak. So, my question (so that nerd, mr. yickyak, don't delete this threat) is who will win? the debate or the race? you decide how you will answer!

Although fairly new, should we maintain Safe Haven Laws?
under "safe haven" laws in nearly all states it is perfectly acceptable under certain circumstances to anonymously leave your child with a stranger at a police station or hospital if you decide you don't want to take care of him or her anymore. Safe haven laws, or "Baby Moses" laws, started in Texas in 1999 and extend to 47 States and Puerto Rico. The laws were enacted in response to a series of news reports about newborns killed or thrown away by their mothers. The idea for safe haven laws came not from a social worker, sociologist, or psychologist, but instead from a newspaper reporter covering a story about abandoned children. The idea was that perhaps young mothers would stop drowning their newborns in toilets or leaving them to die in dumpsters if they could just leave them somewhere safe and walk away without fear of arrest or prosecution. A 2008 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found abuse and neglect in about 1 in 50 American infants, or about 90,000 babies. So there is a problem, but are safe haven laws the solution?

Should an airport have been delayed for 17 hours for a dog?
Please read the posted article.

Do you think you are better than most everyone else.
I believe most people do feel this way, but would never admit it to anyone, or even themselves. You either feel more enlightened, hip, connected, intelligent, informed, saved, morally superior etc. If you didn't you wouldn't adhere to these things that you strive for and find important in your life. I know that most will say, yeah, but that doesn't mean i'm better than everyone else...then what would?

If Obama loses, the whole world will riot
It must be nice to have a city called Obama in Japan. I guess it wouldn't make sense for them to not want Obama to win and live in a city called Obama.

Is this a societal disgrace, this is an outrage?
I can't believe how complacent the public was in this situation. Would this have happened in downtown NYC? This is pathetic. The public are also to blame. The camera men should have been arrested to.

Once something always something?
When they say, "Once an alcoholic, always an alcholic," is that more of a slogan or does this apply to all aspects of our life? For example: Once a rapist always a rapist, or once a thief always a thief or even something positive?

Have you voted yet?
Yes, I voted today...absentee. I love voting absentee because of the maximum flexibility it gives me. Did you vote yet?

Is one man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter
former Attorney General Ramsey Clark once noted, one person's terrorist is another person's freedom-fighter. When the notions of objective "good and evil" fall into disuse, moral judgments can be no more than personal and cultural opinions.

Carter is the Best Dunker So Far
There have been plenty of explosive dunkers in the NBA, Jordan being one of my favorite. However, I do have to give credit to Vince Carter for his versatility and talent. Anyone that can dunk over a 7 foot person has respect in my book.

Bush's stimulus package is an example of Redistribution of wealth
When Bush cut almost everyone a check for $300 to $1200 that was an example of a Redistribution of wealth. I ask all those right wingers out there to send that check back to the government. I bet you wont.

Palin Speaking on Their Level
Like the first guy said when D.L. Hughley asked him, Palin can get down to their level...and as Hughley responded, "We are in trouble." And while watching this video clip, seems like her supporters answered questions like she does on Katie Couric. Just watch.

Perhaps Obama is a marxist?
Check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

Hair under men's arms is gross, they should shave them too.
Other than being macho, I see no reason why men should have hair under their arms. Its gross.

What is on your ALWAYS THE RIGHT THING list?
Again, here is a list of moral laws that one may consider to be absolutely good. If you don't think there are any absolute positive moral laws, vote for yick. On the yak side, which of these would you consider as absolute good laws? 1.each human person has inherent dignity and value, 2.forgiveness, 3.mercy, 4.justice (each person is treated equally and fairly before the law), 5.Social justice (charity, sharing resources, helping those who are in need), 6.Sacrifice for others, 7.kindness, 8.honesty,9.patience. 10.self-discipline 11.humility, 12.diligence and hard work, 13.love. Add your own, if you like, because the list is certainly incomplete.

What is your NOT TO BE TOLERATED LIST?
To put this question in a debate format, I suppose a vote on the yick side would be that there are no absolute moral laws; and a vote on the yak side would be for you to choose from the following menu (or add your own). 1. lying, 2. stealing, 3. murder, 4. rape, 5.Torturing adults, 5.Torturing babies, 6.gay bashing, 7. Destroying the environment for fun, 8.adultery, 9.sex outside of marriage, 9.plagiarism, 10.physical child abuse of any kind, 11.judgentalism, 12.intolerance of any kind. 13.racism. The list is incomplete, so add your own, if you like. Certainly, in many cases, the situation may determine, to a large degree, the strength of the moral law, but in general, which ones would you put on the absolute side, that is what comprises your "absolutely should not tolerate list?"

Why do some women need thugs in their life?
Where is natural selection when you need it? I have always wondered what this attraction is that so many women seem to have for "bad boys". Can't you women get excited without being beaten over the head? It always seems to happen that innocent members of the family suffer when these low-lifes are allowed to enter the sacred realm of "family".

Bill O'Reilly Killed on The View. Good job Bill.
He handed their asses back to them on a plate. Love him or hate him, these women could not get over on him. For those who don't know, "Killed" means doing awesome. Common term used on talk radio and by Comedians.

Were TMZ's questions fair to John Mayer?
Sorry, forgot to post the youtube. Please delete the first one. The questions seem harsh and he handled it very well. So i'm Yicking my question. They were unfair toward him.

Should SNL be sued for slander of Palin?
Of all people, Newt Gingrich - Intellectual dishonesty? The man is an embodiment of intellectual dishonesty. Saturday night live picks on everyone. Now all of a sudden they should get sued because Newt doesn't like it? Could you imagine what would happen if Newt was the "Secretary of Information" if that existed.

Bush Endorses McCain
Will Farrow is hands down in the top 5 SNL performers ever. I would look forward to his GWB impressions during the 2000 election season.

A view on "Invisible Man"
in respects to the book "Invisible Man" the behavior that black people should have is "wild" and "untamed" rather than the capability to be "tamed" or match the white race on the same level. Do you agree that the unconscious white person's mind prefers to see a black person behaving "wild"?

Why won't Obama share?
If Obama believes in wealth redistribution to those less fortunate, why won't he share some of his tens of millions of dollars that he has earned in his campaign with the less fortunate, John McCain, who has not been able to earn as much? Shouldn't he practice what he preaches?

Trade with China should be outlawed
Melamine poisoning... lead poisoning... etc. etc. etc.

Undecides voters don't exist
I believe undecided voters are nothing more than people not willing to tell the pollsters who they are voting for. To be 7 working days from the election and still undecided is ridiculous.

Exporting Democracy
The United States has set itself the goal of spreading democracy and liberty around the world. An admirable goal, to be sure. So why do we not do it right? There's a little Peace Corps type stuff happening, but the major way we seem to export democracy is by invading countries (Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Viet Nam), or by running covert operations to destabilize and overturn other, often legitimately elected, governments (Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador, Angola, Iran). These are despicable, immoral, and illegal acts. The right way to export democracy would be to merely mind our own business and grow our country; to lead by example. Spaceships, genetic engineering, vital performing and visual arts, and great literature will impress the world about us far more than poisoning Castro's cigar or funding the Taliban for a decade. We need to behave ourselves and take care of business... and the world will follow.

Is this free MMORPG worth your time?
They claim to have 4 million players. I mean, really. This looks like a total waste. If I was the CEO for Nexon, I don't think I would be as proud as this guy seems to be. Is this a poor man's online game or what?

How do you interpret this animated short?
The title of the short is called, "Solar". First off, do you like it. Second, how do you internalize and interpret the message of the animated short.

Is bombing an abortion clinic considered domestic terrorism
It appears Palin doesn't think so.

Take my poll on this awsome Car Garage, is this hot or what?
If I had the money, this is exactly what I need. Click the YakPoll.com tab or this link, http://www.yickyak.com/poll.php?id=267

Palin in 2012? I Hope Not
Palin has energized the Republican Party for this election, and probably the only group at best. While the election has not concluded, what would happen if she considered running for President in 2012, after the Republican Party loses? Would anyone like to see Palin at the top ticket in 2012? I know I don't.

Blaming current evil on "Satan" isn't going to work.
Satan was defeated and rendered ineffective 2000 years ago. All evil comes from humans. The video below comes closest to my thoughts on Satan.

Obama vs McCain dance off
Is this funny or what. And a special appearance by Palin.

We should stop worshiping celebrities.
I honestly don't think this one needs explaining.

Sarah Palin is something the liberal elite cannot tolerate.
To a large degree the attacks on Sarah Palin are due to her philosophy rather than her capabilities, experience and readiness to lead a country. What the attacks are largely about is that the "elite" in the US cannot tolerate a woman who is a liberated, successful leader and who is also prolife. This is not an acceptable philosophy, according to the liberal elite in the US. Therefore, she must be diminished, ridiculed and attacked on all fronts.

With Obama, Pelsoi and Reid the libs will get what they ask for.
Time will tell and be the reality check regarding the worldview that best meets the needs of our society. It's not always easy to determine cause and effect relationships in societal and cultural affairs because the effects can be quite removed from the cause. There is no question that Bush has been the cause of much pain, mainly the war, international status, and deficit spending. The overall economy is a different matter. With the election of Obama, and with Pelosi and Reid in control of congress, this will represent a virtual hold on power for the liberal elite. We will see after 4 to 8 years the effects and outcomes of extreme leftist rule. It will make Jimmy Carter and the 70's look like conservative, pleasantville in comparison. I predict the results will far be more catastrophic for us plain folks than Jimmy Carter's reign ever was.

Whats worse, porn industry or the prostitution industry?
Porn for Yick and Prostitution for Yak.

I had to cover my eyes with this McCain Blunder
I think he did this yesterday, but this is what you don't want to do. The crowd almost went silent, like....wha wha whahappen.

The Republican Party has lost already
Why? Two words: Sarah Palin.

McCain's Worst Suggestion
There have been so many unpredictable things flying out of the McCain camp that this one got lost in the shuffle: In the 3rd debate, McCain suggested letting combat vets become teachers without the need for the credentialing process. This would ruin an already shaky educational system. Thanks, but I don't need my kids being taught by a person who hasn't been vetted on the subject matter and who might have a flashback in class.

high-fructose syrup does not appear to contribute more to obesity than other caloric sweeteners
Do you buy this? So many mixed messages about High Fructose Syrup. Now they say its no worse than sugar or honey. http://www.livescience.com/health/081021-bad-corn-syrup.html

The New President needs to kill this Agricultural welfare
Owners could do almost anything they wanted with their land, as long as they did not develop it. They could leave it fallow or rent it for pasture. They could set up a hunting retreat. Or, as happened in some Louisiana parishes, landowners could collect payments while planting stands of commercial timber. "At one time, the area was all farmed in rice," Petty said. Now, the dusty tract is perfect for what he calls "cowboy starter kits," residential tracts owned by nonfarmers but still large enough to keep a horse in the back yard. Mary Anna Hudson, owns an interest in two tracts of land in nearby Matagorda County. USDA records show that Mary Anna Hudson has received $191,000 since 1997 on land she doesn't farm. "We just pay someone to mow it, and it just sits there.

Joe The Plumber is asking for handouts
http://www.1190kex.com/pages/pages/save_joe_the_plumber.php Its funny when card carrying Republicans will only ask for handouts when it benefits them. This is socialism at its best from the Right Wing. This hypocrisy never ends. Check the above link. I'll make it a latest news too.

Sex on the first date or week ok if....
If we were not in the age of AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases we have come across, would people be more open to more sex on the first date or week? Are these the diseases the deterrent? Was the 70's the end of the sexual revolution?

American literature is aweful and can't compare with European Literature or its influences.
I favor European literature or European influenced literature that excels in descriptive writing. As you may have noticed its very rare for American writers to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Toni Morrison was the last 10 years ago and only about 5 or 6 in the past 100 years. American writers today write for the movie script and bogged down by the demands of pop culture and instance overnight success. As Egndahl stated this month, "Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told the Associated Press that US writers were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture", which he said dragged down the quality of their work. "The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said. "That ignorance is restraining. Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world ... not the United States." Such a beautiful critique that i've always thought about American novels.

Palin does it again! She's constitutionally Ignorant
Today she provided wrong information to students about the role of the Vice President. Now she is talking about VP involved in legislative policy on the Senate. She is clueless.

Typical Behavior of THAT group
From the title of this debate and the content of this video. What GROUP do you think is being referred to? Is this actually typical behavior for THEM, or has this act taken THEM outside of their normal boundaries ?

Spreading the Wealth
Government performs certain essential functions, from education to national defense. It must raise money to do that. Charging everybody the same tax rate might sound simple. But it would actually impose a much harsher burden on the poor, since they end up spending much--if not all--of their incomes on the basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, and shelter. As one famous 18th century philosopher argued, “It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expen[s]e, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.” Another rationale for progressive taxation is the fact that random chance has profound effects on everybody’s financial well-being. (A guy named John Rawls once wrote a thing or two about this.) Mandating economic equality--i.e., carrying out a truly socialist agenda--would obviously be wrong. But there are compelling moral and economic arguments for asking the fortunate to pay a little more in taxes, in order to blunt the influence of chance on people’s lives. Among other things, it’s not clear how long a capitalist society would even survive without at least some redistribution, given the likelihood that--without it--the poor would get poorer and the rich would get richer. As that same 18th Century philosopher put it, “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged." No, capitalism is not on the brink of collapse in America. But median wages have been stagnant for a while; inequality is on the rise. And while Obama's policies would help stop and perhaps even reverse these trends, McCain's would reinforce them--which, perhaps, is why he's trying so hard to scare people. By the way, if you don’t recognize the quotes--or haven’t guessed by now--the 18th Century philosopher is none other than Adam Smith. Or is he a socialist, too? I think the reason "spread the wealth" sounds bad to so many is that there's a sense that honest people are being asked to pay for dishonest, be they rich or poor. Note: All of this is from an article...these are not my words.

I am Joe the Plumber
The media attacks on Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber are disturbing. I say that I'm Joe the Plumber because like many if not most Americans, Joe works hard, takes care of his family, and has ambitions in life. Joe was minding his own business playing football with his son at his home, when Obama's caravan descended on his neighborhood. All Joe did was ask Obama a serious question, which many in the MSM have failed to do, and all heck breaks loose. In addition to the MSM, both Obama and Biden have mocked Joe the Plumber at campaign events. Consider, we know more about Joe the Plumber after a few days, than most people who are VOTING for Obama know about Obama after almost 2 years of campaigning! Thumbs up if you believe the media attacks on Joe are out of control.

Pixar is the Best Computer Animation Studio Right
Since being the first company to release a full-length computer animated film, Pixar still provides a solid streak of wonderful movies for audiences. It has been a decade so far, and it still blows competition away against DreamWorks, Sony, Warner Bros., and yes, even Disney. And remember folks, Disney just advertises the work, Disney does not create the Pixar characters or the stories.

If you had the money, would you relocate?
Some people I know are not happy with where they live. They are only there because that is where the work is. Is this the same for you?

People need to stop saying to the effect, " I don't know what lever i'll pull when I vote"
They are not slot machines. I don't know of any voting booth where you pull a casino type lever to vote.

Congressment Bachmann entering into the realm of Mccarthyism
She is stepping into dangerous waters with this type of talk. This is going too far in my opinion. At 1:55 she wants another witch hunt as did Senator McCarthy in the late 1950's. I highly doubt that other Right wing politicians would follow suite with what she said. Such a remark is unAmerican.

There is no such thing as good or bad art
Only differing opinions. It's subjective, you cannot objectively measure how good or how bad art is. For a good example, listen to the song below. The average person would probably consider it mindless noise. However, I consider it to be one of the best songs ever written.

Snuffleupagus analyzed the Powell endorsement the best
The far right would have you believe Powell took little thought in his decision and based on Snuffleupagus Powell set the criteria and McCain did not meet it. Plus Obama kept calling Powell where McCain did not try to win Powell's support. It seems Obama is very good at follow through for support.

Powell Endorsement May Hurt Obama
It does not matter what the actual reason was for the endorsement of Obama by Colin Powell, the perception may end up being that he endorsed him because of his race. I don't believe that was the case, but I am sure there are some that will perceive this as a "homie" vote...

Does a blast like this have no ill-effects on the fish?
So, what you're saying is, this type of blast does not harm any living organisms in the water? That is why it is OK to conduct these types of tests? Isn't this animal cruelty?

I might just vote McCain for Palin's hotness
Just look how she moves. I can't get enough of her.

A Pessimist is more of a realist than an optimist is.
A pessimist analyzes the situation more thoroughly than an optimist. Not to say a pessimist is always right.

Music is a wonderful thing no matter the country
Someone posted this in the poll side as one of the dance routines used in the game WOW, so I had to look it up. This music is pretty nice.

Forced transition to digital TV, is this Corporatocracy?
I thought the video would put things in perspective using comedy.

Colin Powell Supports Barack Obama
WASHINGTON - After months of playing political Hamlet, Colin Powell is finally ready to tell America who he likes for President - and the smart money says Barack Obama is Powell's choice. Sources close to the retired four-star general and American icon cautioned that Powell's support for Obama over John McCain might stop short of a formal endorsement when he's interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. Given Powell's cautious nature, he might decide to make his endorsement of Obama implied, rather than explicit. Even so, a well-informed source told the Daily News: "After Sunday people aren't going to have any doubt who he's voting for." Do you think this will make a difference? What does this mean to John McCain as a Republican?

Is the internet a Pandora's Box
This technology has open access to things we never could imagine. From sex to the personal life of anybody around the world. We can make phone calls that are difficult for people to trace and we can watch a complete movie without buying a DVD. We can pay our taxes and pay our consumer bills and access our financial information. We can even find family members we had never seen. It has empowered your average citizen to a little child.

Obama and the crowd he draws is almost insane
What does this mean? 100,000 show up in St. Louis today. The only type of people that draws these types of crowds are civil rights leaders, religious figures and dictators...a legitimate political leader is unimaginable. Article posted with picture.

Do you consider Rap Music?
Should it fall into the category of just poetry or is it really music or is it considered singing or a form of singing?

People should be more proud of their accomplishments
People seem to be more proud of things or compliment things they don't control or create. For example, their race. Or compliment someone for their Green eyes, or straight hair as though it was an option to choose from at birth. People need to be proud of things they accomplished as individuals in life. "As Individuals" not what other people have done.

Is a misdemeanor enough to deport a foreign legal resident?
For any misdemeanor is it enough to deport someone for you. i.e. traffic violation, petty theft, vandalism. etc. They are not citizens, they just have a green card.

Who do you side with in this debate ?
Vote on the left if you side with Geraldo and on the right if you side with Bill (naturally, yes ?). Tell us why you have sided with your choice and what issue is really being discussed here...

The ACTUAL Most Beautiful Newscaster Ever
There are no words.

Men are more Sensitive than Women
I have come to realize over my short life that men take things much harder than women do. If I man hurts a woman’s feelings she will probably cry, ignore him for a day or two and then get over it and start talking to him again On the other hand, if a woman hurts a man’s feelings, he will sulk, seethe and get upset, and not want to talk to her for like a whole week. Even then, he won’t even initiate the conversation. She will have to do it. Women just naturally coddle a man’s feelings because they know that the slightest judgment or criticism will shrink his ego down to nothing.

Criminal Behavior that Capitalists Accept
I posted an article earlier, http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/17/siu.wall.street/index.html, about a thief named Jordan Belfort, a former Wall Street fat cat who made over $ 1 million dollars a week before going to prison. He was quoted as saying " I was a crook". Yet, when these... when these right-winged, ditto-headed conservative fascists try to put a face on crime, it is always the poor, low-achieving, underprivileged ghetto-slum dweller being body-slammed in the streets on Cops. What a bunch of capitalist hypocrites! I can always smell a war coming on, and this nation is ripe with the putrid funk of an imminent uprising...

Do you think the MMR Vaccine or other vaccines have a lot to do with Autism
No one seems to let this argument go.

The Most Beautiful Newscaster Ever
Bar none, Leslie Miller is the most beautiful newscaster ever to grace the tiny screen.

Tragic, Yet Inspirational
This is a very well made video about a subject everyone should be familiar with: the story of Ishi, last of his kind. This story has been inspirational to me for many years. I posit that Professor Kroeber was an exceptional, forward-thinking anthropologist for his time.

Marjoe Gortner and Truth
This clip is of Marjoe Gortner, who was a Pentecostalist child preacher in the late '50s and early '60s. He was performing weddings by age 8 and leading revivals from age 5 and was nationally famous... He then disappeared and returned in the early '70's on a national revival tour, which he was ostensibly documenting on film. In reality, he was doing an expositional film on the scam of Pentecostalist faith healing and revivals. The resulting film, entitled Marjoe, went on to win an Oscar for Best Documentary. He later became an actor, you may remember him as the self-hating gay National Guardsman in "Earthquake". Marjoe put the truth out there, but not until he made this film. As we continue to watch evangelists self-destruct over the years, one has to shrug. You can put the truth out there, but the majority won't listen.

We Couldn't Stop Him Before He Reproduced
It's where little republicans come from.

Obama(batman) vs McCain(The Pinguin) Debate
Is this classic or what!!!

Support him because he is Black?
Of course the nay sayers are going to try their best to dispute this person OPINION. Just like McCain tried to erase Joe six pack and make him Joe the Plumber. *by the way Joe stated that he is not even in the tax bracket that McCain was talking about.* Please bring your delusions to this rant.

Would it be immoral to repopulate the earth if?
If mankind was destroyed except a father and his daughter or Mother and her son, would you repopulate the earth and or is it immoral to repopulate the earth or would you just end the human species?

There is nothing worse than when I hear a college student speaks incorrectly in public.
Chris Matthews on Hardball was asking college students at Hofstra if they were registered to vote and were they going to vote. Chris Matthews asked this one student if she was going to vote and she says, "Yes, I'm vo'in!" What the!!! On national TV!!!!

What is worse, voter forgery or voter intimidation?
Michigan's attorney general is charging Antonio Johnson for forgery and being held in Jackson County on a parole violation in Michigan. He worked for ACORN. He falsely submitted six voter registration forms.

Does the entertainment industry boom during recession?
Will people buy less on things an more on things to entertain them like watching sports, going to movies and dvds. Isn't this what happen during the depression? It seems like people in Hollywood are not effected.

Pro-life means you are for life, right.
It seems as if certain, if not all, actions say the opposite. Especially in the case of this person.

2 part. No way in hell you could tell and did he do it for the money?
I think he did it for the money and no way from this video you could tell.

Should there be a limit on pet ownership?
Why are people allowed to have so many pets? I know the person took good care of the cats she turned in, but? (I posted the article) but there has to be a limit.

Is the guy in this article actually Ron Harris?
This article, http://www.essence.com/news_entertainment/news/articles/mccainsupporterclearsair , is about a man whose name is James Harris which is a supporter of McCain. This person sounds so much like Ronny. Could this be our boy?

Country Singer redneck supports Obama. I guess they exist.
Toby Keith says, "So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat."

Take my Poll and tell me would you have sued for emotional distress?
My Video poll is called, "Could you tell." If you don't know, I made a comment about it to help you out. Following the completion of the show, it was scheduled to air in November 2003, but the lawsuit by the contestants delayed the airing. After the men settled for an undisclosed amount, the show premiered February 22, and the sixth and final episode aired March 24, 2004. The Yakpolls.com tab is on the top right corner of the feed box if you don't know.

Why did ICE decide to raid this little place in IOWA and ignores California?
Is it because it was an orthodox Jewish establishment? What would be the reason for such a massive raid on a town of 2400 and in California you have the northern border of Mexico creeping continually northward?

"If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward."
This is a phrase from the Zhuan Falun, the main book of the Falun Gong movement, a Chinese spiritual practice that seeks to develop practitioners' hearts and character according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. It claims also that scientific thought places limits on the development of the mind. Is it impossible for people that practice scientific principles to evolve spiritually and therefore reach a higher spiritual plane?

Are you more likely to believe in God or UFO's ?
I believe both exist. But what about you? This link, http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=pzmnyusmfk , points to a video account of believers in the Arctic region that had an encounter with the Holy Spirit. Do you believe this, or would you only believe a UFO visitation? I myself have experienced something quite similar to what you see in the video.

Is this a UFO Hoax? If Yes, Please Explain...
I don't know what the date of this video is, but, you tell me. Did the newscaster stage this with this citizen or what?

Should unnecessary things be created just to create employment for a country?
Say for example the attack on Iraq. The end result is that today we have a Government Contracting industry operating in Iraq that has created tons of jobs and new businesses popping up that support our countries interest. The issue of an IRS that creates employment for tax preparers, Tax Attorneys, Accountants and many other businesses just to support the collection and processing of tax revenue. These are only 2 of many examples that help stimulate the economy. I'm not for or against this, I'm just posing the debate so don't attack me. This is an example of where someone on this site can sway my opinion about this either way because I haven't formed a strong opinion on this yet.

Mayor Salary in Wasilla, Alaska $68,000, Greensboro, NC $15,000
Wasilla, Alaska has a population of 9,000 people but a mayor gets paid $68,000 a year. Greensboro, NC the 3rd largest city in the state of North Carolina, the mayor has a salary of $15,000. San Antonio, TX mayor gets paid $3,000 and the Dallas, Texas Mayor gets paid $60,000 with 1.2 million in population. What the heck. Something is wrong with this picture.

Palin booed at a Hockey match...I love it!!!
Note, when Fox played it, they edited out the booing. No surprise. I guess the Hockey fans do not think she is a true hockey mom. This is great!! That dude, Gomez got a little kiss from Palin. Look out!!!

Could this Mcdonald's commercial work in the US?
Do you think it could work in the US?

Should we simplify our tax process?
The U.S. tax code is forty four thousand pages long! That is a staggering number of pages of just our federal tax code. Doesn't it make sense that the average person should be able to pay his taxes without paying for an expert to get all of the advantages that are due him or her?

Instincts or Free Will
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers believed that humans unlike other animals had the ability to choose on their own accord meaning that humans had free will and not instincts. But i challenge this in the thought that our surroundings prevent us to have absolute free will. Ex: if it is hot outside would you wear a coat? Why wouldn't you were a coat? Did the environment prevent you from wearing the coat? Did the thought of what everyone else would think prevent you from wearing the coat? Did the surrounding environment inhibit your ablity to decide to wear the cote or not, did your brain react as a way of instincts of keeping the body cool or was just simply that you did not feel like wearing the cote and would wear another time? YES for Instincts........NO for Free Will.

WarHammer online is hot and so is this video
When you start the game this is the intro that you will see. This is one of the best intro's i've ever seen. Lookout Warcraft, so far so good with the game play which is not what you see in the intro video of course. Graphics are very nice, but better CPU system is required. My first character is the guy with the fire. Warcraft is a lot more forgiving on computer performance. This game is about war. Me like.

In a world of excess should their be food shortages?
When I read the news of countries that are faced with food shortages, I often say to myself, food shortage should not exist. The world should respond to countries that are faced with this. The word Food Shortage should not exist.

Is Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) a broadly defined term?
I get annoyed over the fact that vehicles such as the 2009 Cadillac Escalade HUV are marketed as a Hybrid because instead of getting 12 miles to the gallon with its all gas version it can get 18, once its made a hybrid. This is laughable. The industry definition is that the vehicle has to get about 15% better fuel mileage. 12 to 18 is a huge jump if you use percentages and the relative argument, but in terms of reality, this is not an efficient vehicle. This only slows a stronger push for more efficient heavy vehicles. This is an example of setting a low bar for the auto industry.

Barack and Curtis: Manhood, Power and Respect
This short documentary is an interesting comparison btw Barack and Curtis A.K.A. 50 Cent. p.s. there are three other parts if you're interested. Is this totally crap or are there some good point brought out? p.s. this was inspired at another site.

Palin found GUILTY
The McCain campiagn contiues to say that Palin did not abuse her power as governor when she pushed for the firing of the commissioner. However ""I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act," investigator Steve Branchflower concluded in the panel's 263-page report." Does not agree, so in other words she is GULITY! The right wingers spread so many dirty lies, that they are unable to recognize and accept the truth. This BULLDOG needs to be put to sleep. Give her the red pill and call it a night. To even fathom the idea of her possible leading this country is like a bad nightmare that just won't stop. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7662820.stm

Is Capoeira and inferior fighting style ?
I have watched Capoeira practitioners and I find it more of an art than a self defense style of any significance. Either this guy in the video was an amateur or he performed the wrong move at the wrong time. I think this style requires more room than he had available. In any event, he paid severely for his mistake...

Have you ever had your view or position change as a result of...
this site or sites like it? Most people are looking to further entrench and validate their opinions. That's normal that's what most people do; it's most comfortable. I have had my perspective broadened in the area of race relations, and my mind a bit more open in the area of religion or lack of, but an actual position change...to be honest...I don't think so (and i don't say that with pride).

Liberals are Playing dirty just like Conservatives at the voting booth
This is unacceptable. A subsidiary of the group ACORN was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's. ACORN -- already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states. Liberals can't make the argument that Conservatives are part of voter fraud and that both parties play dirty at the voting booth. Article posted in latest news.

Is it fair to rate presidents after they've been out of office for some time?
I think some history has to pass before we judge presidents in order to be more objective. I would say 10 to 20 years. Preferably 20 years. Even though I don't care for Bush most opinions about him and Clinton are often times very emotional. If you think it is fair, Yak this debate. If you think there should not be a time limit to rate a president who is a sitting president or a living ex president, yick this debate.

Should This Be a Huge Red Flag?
While anybody can occasionally misspeak, some slips of the tongue are more telling than others. McCain makes a mistake here, and does not appear to notice. The crowd noticed though, as you can tell by the subdued response at the end of the clip. This sort of slip indicates that the way McCain's mind has been molded by the events of his life have left at least a part of him prisoner to Vietnam, and that is not something we need in the Oval Office.

Death Cab for Sarah
Here is a fun political video. Is this to-the-point political satire (Yick) or empty partisan rhetoric (Yak).

What do you mean owning a home is not a human right?
How can people just sit around and swallow the bullspit which tells them that home ownership is a privilege and not a right ? If I kick your ass and take a share of this land that I was born onto and build it myself I bet you it will be mine! Come on people, think about it. Home ownership should not be a market driven industry. How long are people going to be weak and bend over to take this crap! Stand up and take what is your human right! Separate yourself from this system if necessary. Yeah go ahead and tell me to leave the nation if I don't like it. I would like to see you put me off this land....sincerely, Anonymous Homesteader

The GOP voters want blood and Obama's head
With the elections about 3 weeks away, and the gap between the two Presidential candidates growing. Many conservatives have become angry and more outspoken (this is even evident here in certain threads). They are yelling for McCain to become to become more aggressive. When Obama names is mentioned at rallies some GOP supporters yell "He is a terrorist", "He lies and is not good for the country." The vile that is spewing from their mouths has such a racial overtone it is undeniable. Is their fear that deeply rooted in them, that they would withstand other 4 yrs of oppression, silliness, and turmoil just to keep someone who is the better choice out of office--because of his skin color? http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081010/pl_politico/14445

Are your children going to be singing songs like this?
Please see video below. I'm not a rap music fan, but I love the music of these country folks. They are poor, from Kentucky, but their message hits home for a lot of folk. Do you think your kids will be singing more of this rap blues in the future? I'm including the Lyrics so those who don't speak "Dirty South" can sing along. Awwww.... Mmmmm, awww.. [Chorus] All my life been po' But it really don't matter no mo' And they wonder why we act dis way Nappy Boys gon' be okay All my life been po' But it really don't matter no mo' And they wonder why we act this way Nappy Roots gon' be okay, okay [Big V] We came in the game, plain ya see Average man when the rest was ashamed to be Nappy head and all, ain't no changin me Ooooh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh... So rough it was, downright wrong I tell ya Nobody never gave us nothin but tough time and made us somethin Different stretch of road, new somethin to see Every state on the map, a different somethin to eat Daps and handshakes, it meant nuttin for real Everybody makin a killin man, showin no feelins Walkin off collectin pay, it's the way of the world Can't change it, so I guess I'm gon' pray for the world Sometimes I ask myself, was I made for the world? I scream this to you, and I say it to the world Nappy then, Nappy now - Nappy for a bit Knee-deep, head over heels in this country shit! [Chorus] [Skinny DeVille] Even though I pictured better days, I'm thankful for the chance I got to say amen The Lord done blessed me with his grace, I wish this day would never end We represent the slums, where we from, we filthy bum Fallin short off on these presidents, and the hard times they go and come Some take up off, without the chance, to make it at all Who woulda thought Skinny'd be the one that's, makin this call Lord, help me out, tell me where I went wrong I'm tryna find a righteous path, although it's, narrow and long I gotta do it for my son's sake, they tellin me, "Daddy be strong" We gon' make it through these hard times even though they go and they come Ya absolutely right, but somethin happened to me on last Tuesday night It's plain as day, man they... with this World Trade Naw brave ain't the word I'm lookin for ya Better make it hope when nothin seems to matter That's when, see, everything can go - any which way They got me hoped, see the Henny with the J Front po'ch, chillin broke, country folk, I'm Nappy in my ways yo [Chorus] [R. Prophit] It's a blessin we woke up this mornin All my colored folk stressin, come let's join hands Got to cope with the pressures of being po' man Papa taught me in order survive fear no man Nappy blossom from the root, henceforth we gon' stand Prophet grew from a juvenile to a grown man Ya gotta take responsibility for ya own man Zonin, two blunts a mo'nin, by sunrise sometimes I love to hear my woman moanin, it's on again Damn I hope you play this song again it's soul cleansin, the melody just rev my engines Tried a lot of things but usually just end up bending my ligaments, Searchin fa benjamins and all my folks locked in the tenaments And it don't make any sense (boi) children is innocent Broadcastin from the slums, that's why I'm writin these sentences Still low on my income, (why?) go 'head finish it [Chorus]

Should there be anonymous voting when considering unionization?
I know pro labor people are against this, that there should be accountability in the voting in such an issue. I honestly cannot think of a good argument against it, but i will await to hear the response. The fact that George McGovern is in favor of anonymous voting shows some split in the left on this issue.

A married woman wants to be with me...
There is this woman at my job who is married and she talks to me about her husband, about unhappy she is. She tells me that they are getting a divorce. She tells me because of all of the conversations that we've had, she has developed feelings for me and she wants to explore them. Now I am with someone but if i wasn't, i would not try to get into something with her. My mother and father have been together for 35 years and still going strong. I believe in marriage. I believe that if you covet another man's wife even if they are having problems its still wrong. Until they are completely divorced you dont mess with her. Am i to really believe that they are going to get a divorce...MAYBE/MAYBE NOT. I could get into a situation with her, than down the line she desides that she wants to try 1 more time with her husband. What happens to me after that? Im hurt. Thats what happens. People play games, married women and married men as well. Married men are the worst. This happened to a cousin of mine, she thought that this married man that she was in love with was going to leave his wife and be with her. WRONG! Ooh she believed him as he was very convincing. After he hit it a few times, months down the road he told her that he is sorry but him and his wife are getting back together. But thats not the worst part, she caught an STD from him. But thats still not the worst part, she was so hurt by him leaving her she killed herself. So my question is, is it right to get involved with someone who says that they are getting a divorce? Or is it better to wait until the divorce papers are signed?

Take on me...the literal Version
This is great!! I like this version better.

Stereotyping simple minded folks and intelligent folks
Our culture is mistaken when it stereotypes people who have strong religious faith as simplistic and gullible and poorly educated. And goes on to imply that the more educated you become the more you will become a skeptic.

The Luxury Retreat By AIG Reveals Much About The Culture Of The Rich
Ashooh, spokesperson for the company AIG, where executives that participated in the $400K weekend retreat after receiving salvation by the taxpayers was quoted as saying something to the effect, "We may have to take a look at some of the things that we do which we consider routine". What? And then you have the conservative wackos constantly complaining about poor people and their misbehavior. Go pound sand!!

We need to bring back the o'l Rent Parties
After the debate, Obama shuffled over to Gore's party, Organizers said between 300 and 350 donors attended the event that raised about $900,000. Now, we need to bring back those rent parties and in this case Mortgage bailout parties. For some that don't know what that is, in the Urban communities they would have rent parties to help people who could not pay their rent. It originated in Harlem during the 1920s. There would me music and dancing and the money would go to pay that person's rent who hosted the party.

McCain runs out of the Room after the debate!!!
McCain knew he blew yet another chance to take the down Obama. The republicans are in deep shit!!

The second debate was a horrible debate.
Neither one of them answered the questions properly. They avoided and dodged questions they both should have been able to answer directly. To me it was nothing but rambling nonsense. This was very disappointing.

1st the Keating 5 now Iran-Contra!
All this talk about Obama being linked to a home grown terrorist. Outside the fact that Obama was like 8, when Ayers was doing his dirt. And people are incapable of changing, right? Well McCain is not without his SHAME, first he is linked to the 80's S and L scandal. And now the Iran Contra scandal. When will the madness stop and the nay sayers learn that the RIGHT is so WRONG. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_iran_contra;_ylt=AoBM7U5i.ec1yRZKKP.8GwHCw5R4

Who are you voting for?
Obama or McCain?

The Forgotten Thread: Be honest, who voted for Bush?
Who did you vote four years ago? I may as well start placing the cobwebs in the corners of this thread now...cuz y'all are afraid to say...lol. i'm very interested in who CJ and innomen voted for...*smiling*

Love's a Game...?...wth
Main QUESTION: Is it possible to love someone without feeling that you are part of a complicated internal "game"?...i in my random orders of my day that love is associated with games and playing games and winning games. what is really shocking is that i hear this from 30-40 year olds who are still "gaming". The game as it is described as not showing your true feelings too fast or too slow, pick the right time, use physical and mental forces to obtain what you want from you lover and the other mess that goes along with it. I was just wondering...why can't you just love, without feeling that you must run tricks and outwit as if it were all a game? Is love a game?

SNL Bailout Skit Pulled By NBC Lays Financial Crisis Blame With Democrats
You can watch the SNL skit pulled by the gutless liberals at NBC. It actually lays blame at the feet of the Democrats and tells the truth. The video is here http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv.

This is one Unique Way of Breaking Away
Oh no! It's from Aljazeera...Anyway...Call it what you want, but it is just another revolt against the wastefulness of the production oriented capitalist society. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate capitalism, just the form that we practice. It could use a major redesign. Go get your vittles, you Freegans...Whaddaya say, Charlee?

The Keating Five!
Hmmm...not a good look.

Sucides happen more often in rich developed countries
Data shows due to economic stresses that suicides are greater. Also, Persons 65 years of age and older have the highest risk of suicide worldwide.

1 plus 1 may not equal 2
When you are changing units, 1 + 1 may not equal two. For example: 1 man + 1 woman = 1 couple It also depends upon the base you are in. For example, in binary: 1 + 1 = 10 (the 10 is equivalent to the decimal base number 2)