It's not "pretention" it's "pretense".

It's not "pretention", it's "pretense".

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Great! I can use it to argue with the voices that are already there.

No mere "evolution", this.

Bush did what he was told. He never made any decision beyond what he would eat for dinner and where he would take one of his many, many vacations. Anyone who sits in that chair will do the will of the corporations that employed him. That's the bottom line.

And, yet, the US is fighting a pre-emptive war right next door to Iran—while it surrounds them. Nice.

What people *say* is quite irrelevant when it is the opposite of what they *do*. I remind you which government is the only one to actually vaporize two cities full of civilians with nuclear weapons... There's that naiveté, again.

There is no such thing as a "race". DNA does not support this notion.

And we can justify calling this "first" (as opposed to "earliest known") how, exactly?

That was more interesting than I would have thought possible.

Never underestimate American stupidity. Not even the educated or wealthy are immune.

Aaaannnnnd...here comes the IRS.

No effect on your what? :-)

Two more stupid things people believe: 1) The TSA is protecting them from "terrorists" and 2) the No-Fly lists *isn't* entirely political in nature.

"It's what I'd imagine the doors to heaven would look like if I believed in such things." Yes, make sure everyone knows you're a coward that follows the crowd. Pathetic.

I would argue that it's not quite accurate to characterize the girl as "distracted". It's not like there was a hole *before* she stood there. Even if she had not been on the phone, she would probably have stepped there.

Divert a large, fast-moving, rock toward the vicinity of the earth? Shuttle crews and equipment into orbit on a regular basis? Funnel vast amounts of *formerly* rare and precious elements into the economy? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!

"Very bad news"? You're all so naive. If the cold war proved nothing it's that equality in weapons guarantees peace. No one was ever willing to trigger "MAD": Mutually Assured Destruction. The real reason the US doesn't want Iran to have nuclear (or equal) weapons is because the would be able to defend themselves…

Great! "Scientific proof" of something that has been real along. What good is it? Oh, you can "believe" it now? It's "credible" now? Well, apparently, it's been "real" and "true" for thousands of years. Wanna guess at how many other "scientifically unproved" things are "real" and "true" right now? No, of course…