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Torture doesn't yield truthful answers. What torture will give you is the answers that the captive *thinks* you want to hear. And, the moral high ground is far more valuable than untruthful answers from the tortured. I'm not necessarily against trying it anyway, if there's a nuclear warhead...

Normal air is only 21% oxygen in some areas now. Some major urban centers are down to 13% or 14%. Pretty incredible if you think about that, how quickly we've brought down the oxygen levels near some major urban areas, and in such a short period of time. I wonder how low it can go before people...

The movement is about making Alex Jones some moolah by pandering to the paranoid. Seems to be working well too!

So, your solution for those who can't afford healthcare is to let them die? I'm trying to understand your position here. Emergency room visits are a very expensive form of universal health care. ANYBODY can go to an emergency room and by law must receive treatment. (That they are sometimes...

Sorry, the sneer and the quotes were offensive to women. I only have a sample size of one woman, to be sure, so maybe other women won't care about that. We'll see on November 4th I reckon. I'm sure they'll have a breakdown of the votes based on sex, so we'll see how badly mcCain loses among...

I'll remember McCain throwing quote marks around the words "health of the woman", and then sneering, as if the health of women isn't worth his time. I was talking to my significant other during the debate, toking a bowl, and she said, "Waitaminute, did he really just say what I think he did?" We...

What's your plan if you go into the doc, TBT, and he tells you, "It appears you have a malignant lump in your brain. Surgery and treatment will cost $350,000, and will give you a 70% chance of regaining a normal life." You have $350k cash? Okay, then add a million to it. Got that much cash? And...

Look at who Fannie and Freddie's *executives* gave their donations to, and you'll see that it's primarily Republicans. That the employees gave money to other people, I don't care about. Who were the guys making the decisions at Fannie and Freddie giving THEIR money to? The rabbit hole goes...

PBS was set to do a documentary on our government's endorsement of torture...but pressure from above (federal funding) is causing them to delay it until January 21, 2009, or later. Interesting coincidence, that date.

Well, it depends on the house. My foster parents built their own (passive solar) house (5 BR, 2 bath). But to do it, my foster father first spent a summer learning what he needed to know doing volunteer work for a construction company. My foster mother did the architectural design (not simple)...

I'd like some Senate hearings about Fannie. In particular, I'd like to hear more about the guy running McCain's campaign that's been getting Fannie bux ($15k/month) for some years now, in return for doing no work. The last $15k he got from Fannie was just last month. If he gets a check from...

The nice thing about medical care in Canada is, if you're a poor paraplegic and go to a hospital, they don't ignore you for six hours, then drive you somewhere and leave you on the curb at night, paralyzed and unable to move...and without your wheelchair. Yes, that's happened in America. Makes...

That'd be fine with me. As long as the rights are the same, no differences, then people can call it whatever they want. I care about equality of treatment, not equality in the name assigned to the process. If civil unions will allow hospital visits, automatic inheritance to the spouse, filing...

She got a free house, looks like to me. And it looks planned, so as to avoid any paper trail. When you start hiding paperwork, well, that's pretty damn suspicious. If there was no illegality going on, then let's see that paperwork. Who got paid what, and when, for that house? Let's see some of...

Palin totally destroyed McCain's chances of winning. She did electrify the base (until they heard her talking and read about her abuse of power), but she alienated a lot of women. McCain was doing okay with women until he picked Palin. Now he's waaaay behind with women. That alone shows how bad...

Hillary has stumped more for Obama than any other defeated primary opponent in history. And if there is some Clinton plan to derail Obama (which there isn't), well, it sure isn't working, because it's looking more like an Obama landslide win with every day that passes. I'll go out on a limb and...

The troops need some freakin' rest and relaxation. Bringing them home from Iraq will give them a little break, although it looks like more troops are needed in Afghanistan. And it'd be nice if we had some standing ready in case some other shit breaks out in the world. We're virtually helpless...

Hey, if the animal can say the marriage vows and sign its name on the paperwork, and has a legal ID proving it's of legal age, more power to 'em. Seems unlikely though. There just aren't that many talking and signing animals out there with proper ID and of the required age. Polygamy is expressly...

Man, people are pretty dumb. ACORN's people (the people they hired off the streets for $8/hour) scammed ACORN. They call this voter registration fraud. It isn't voter fraud. Darth Vader and Tony Romo are not going to show up in Ohio, produce legal ID that proves that is their name, provide the...

Marriages in secular offices are obviously not religious. No priest, no nuns, none of that, just an orderly taking down information. Marriages performed in churches by a priest or whatever, obviously those marriages are religious. But there are already two types of marriages now, the secular...