But then you'd have a broken bat....

Makes that nice 'ping' sound...almost like an "Everything is fine" alarm.

This is pretty cool but I don't see what purpose this would serve. This trick is about as useful as a solar powered flashlight.

While I think it's delusional to insist that we were attacked because they "hate freedom", or because of who we are, but I think the video is pining the tail on the wrong donkey.

The fact is, 15 of the 19 Hijackers, were from Saudi Arabia. Why is that? Saudis were upset with the a foreign military presence (infidels) in a holy land (Arabia). Bin Laden interpreted the Prophet Muhammad as having banned the "permanent presence of infidels in Arabia". Following the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, there has been a strong U.S. Military presence in Saudi Arabia. This is one of the three reasons Osama cited as his motivation for the September 11 attacks.

The other two reasons being American Support for Israel and U.S. sanctions against Iraq. 2 of the 3 reasons are explicitly religious in nature, but all 3 reasons are the result of U.S. foreign policy. Interestingly enough, the Iran Coup was not cited by Al Qaeda as a reason for the attacks. None of the Hijackers were Iranian.

Also a point for correction, the mujaheddin and the Taliban are not the same group. The Taliban was a radical splinter group, with the majority of the former Mujaheddin becoming part of the Northern Alliance, which has been the principal opposition to the Taliban and to Al Qaeda. The Northern Alliance has been largely incorporated into the New Afghan National Army.

So yes, there are a lot of things the U.S. could have done differently, but a large part of the problem is that Al Qaeda is just fucking crazy. I agree with Ron Paul's foreign Policy. To assert that Isolationism caused WW2 is absolutely asinine. The notion that not getting involved in other nation's wars, somehow causes more war is completely ludicrous.

That's strange because I don't remember you giving any proof when you made the statement to begin with. What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without it. But i'll bite:

You are making a categorical claim, essentially claiming that all English belongs to the category of "Queen's English" which is false. American English doesn't nor does Old English, in fact some forms of British English wouldn't either.

To be English it would have to be called the Queen's English

This is false by definition.

https://www.google.com/search?q=There's+no+egg+in+eggplant+nor+ham+in+hamburger,+neither+apple+nor+pine+in+pineapple.+English+muffins+weren't+invented+in+England,+quicksand+can+work+&ie;=utf-8&oe;=utf-8&aq;=t&rls;=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client;=firefox-a

If I had to guess, I would have to say something of Mediterranean European origin, perhaps Italian. Am I close Joe?

A stone cold fox!

The biggest difference I see is that the Civil Rights Movement had a leader, and the OWS movement does not.

I mean, did the colonists hold peaceful demonstrations against the British? This is America. The Ghandi thing doesn't work well here

Civil Rights movement?

Perhaps he was a bi-curious rooster?

Most of the animals I see are not gay

What relevance is that? We are talking about all animals on earth, some of which have displayed homosexual tendencies. This is not even a matter of opinion. Some animals show homosexual behavior, this is a fact. It has been observed. There are documented cases of it. I could provide a dozen or more credible scientific sources which will all confirm precisely what I have already stated. Our conversation cannot progress any further until you recognize this fact.

Wikipedia is full of false information about it has high vocabulary

Actually studies have shown that Wikipedia is incredibly accurate. See links below:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/ 11/8296.ars

In cases where Wikipedia isn't accurate generally it is from vandalism, which is both apparent and easily correctable. The high vocabulary of it's article authors only lends more credibility as it demonstrates a higher level of general understanding and subject matter expertise.

Animals have got it into there brain that they need the opsite gender.

For the most part, however gay animals are the exception to that.

How are the same gender of penguins going to reproduce?

In many cases they don't. Do you have any other questions?

i guess there must be an explanation for that

There is, and it's the one explanation that you have just dismissed. They're gay.

Actually homosexuality has been observed in animals with a fair amount of frequency. There are many recorded cases of this occurring. Humans are not the only ones to display homosexual behavior. In the article above it has been observed in Penguins. To say that there are no gay animals is blatantly false. There seems to be some underlying biological or environmental cause.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/ 2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

That's probably the song that was playing in the old lady's car.

Perhaps by British law it was illegal, but what nation would make secession legal? By international law it was legal because it was recognized by other sovereign States.

If it is recognized by other sovereign states, and it was, then it is legal.

I'm running Windows 7, on my HP laptop.

LIKE: Does everything I need it to, pretty fast.

DISLIKE: Too many Annoying updates, some that don't work.

Well, the protestors feel that wall street (the 1%) is particularly responsible for our current situation.

These are the sort of people Natural Selection would have weeded out of existence several thousand years ago.

I think "the 99%" is referring to how much money people make, not to who agrees with the movement.

Well, yes. Bouncing Bettty's picture is that of a semi-famous porn star, I'm guessing it was just taken off the internet.

What do you want to bet that Joe and Bouncing Betty have the same IP address....{Laughs}...