A reduced rate of metabolism has a lot to do with it as well, that's why it's a constant fight against the tide to stay slender, especially if you weren't naturally slender to begin with, that' why most middle aged people just settle down with someone and say, fuck it!!!!!!

"According to Gary77777, the U.S. tried forcing Iraq into democracy. Evil!"

Yep, that quote expresses my view perfectly, down with the great satan, by the will of Allah we shall have sharia in the US yet, Insha'Allah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As much as it goes against my beliefs the juxtaposition of the top two pictures made me laugh quite hard so im this on side;-)

"The thing is though, religion often fuels desparity"

I don't beleive this is correct, at least not in the context in which i think you meant it, religion is an opiate used as a remedy for desparation.

"Non-issues are being depicted as something we should despair over, causing fear in the minds of many people"

People are only susceptible to this kind of fear if they are unwilling to critically analyse their own existence, the reality is far too many people are contented with their servitude, i do beleive Aldous Huxley's vision is coming true.

I am just glad that teh OWS movement has emerged to counteract mainstream discourse to degree.

"I was brought up a Christian and know that parts of the bible are as bad or worse than parts of the Qur'an."

Fair enough, i can agree with that completely, i just thought you might be one of those people who lovs to criticise Islam but fails to recognise the religious fundamentalism in his own soceity.

I think people too easily forget about the danger posed by religous fundamentalism in the west, instead choosing to focus on the east, take for instance Iran who may or may not be developing a nuc, you have people calling for war, and even a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and we don't even know if their building one.

I mean Goerge W Bush openly stated he heard vioces from God, and that was part of what led him to Iraq, and 1.2 million died as a result.

Religious fanatacism in our culture is just as much as a danger as in the ME, amybe even more the technology and expertise to wipe out the planet many times over, look the republican GOP candidates, thee are some crazy people up there who could potentially inhabit one of the worlds foremost positions of power, that thought scares me more than a country like Iran (which ive been to BTW) gaining a nuc.

"And I have no obligation to respect your religion."

Nor does anyone have any obligation to respect anything.

"I think Islam and the Qur'an disgusting and I find its teachings immoral"

And whats your opinion of Chrsitianity?

"What other than a calling from god would cause sane people to kill themselves and others in acts of terrorism?"

Actually many terrorist groups have used suicide to inflict casualties without the belief that God asked them to do it, or the promise of 72 virgins, although instances of this are less numerous.

While i will concide that religious fanaticism greatly increases the willingness (and thus frequency) to kill oneself in angry, i think desperation is also a primary cause.

You see desparation is the fuel of religion, and the more extreme the religious views the better.

"Wikipedia is full of false information "

Thats probably why he included a link to national geographics website supporting his opinion.

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

Of course they have if they didn't the species would die out, any species whose genes told them to sleep only with members fo same sex are nto around to tell their story for that exact reason i.e. natural selection deselected them from the gene pool

Homosexuality is frequently displayed in nature, to blindly refuse to acknowledge the truth when its staring you in the face, and couldn't be any clearer is incredibly ignorant.

Well it should be obvious, its because they lack alternative military options, when all else fails your body is an effective weapon.

This sums it up nicely:

When Ahmed Ben Bella, the leader of the Algerian revolution, was asked why he was placing bombs in baby carriages and leaving them in the soot to explode amongst the French forces and their collaborators, he answered:

"If the French will give us some of their helicopters, some of their aeroplanes, we will give them our baby carriages."

"no, an oxymoron is when you say, "I'm a smart liberal"

Thans for the correction;-)

" good conservative "

Im sorry bit isn't that an oxymoron?

How about the top 1%, im sure they've got plenty of room in their houses, i imagine they're quite large, plus most of them probably have multiple houses all over the country and they can't be in two places at the same time (law of conservation of mass) so why don't the homesless shack up in those houses, if you think about it its a much more practical solution;-)

"If a small part of the "99%" change everything they want to change without considering the voices of the rest of the 99% they are just as bad as the street they hate."

Actually one of their main goals is to achieve real democracy(so the rest of the 99%'s vioices can be heard), not the fake kind you have at the moment where every year the two parties come out and give the illusion of choice in some pointless election. Then later the interests of the 1% are served, there your point is moot.

Ya it was developed largely by fundamentalist wackjobs from Britain, Germany, Holland etc., if it wasn't for the hispanic, irish, mexican (and others) influence on american the coutnry would have no fucking soul, look at your country before the sixties, really is that a place you'd want to live in, fuck id barely live there now, you know your country and China have the largest per capita execution rates than any other country in the world. Not a stat id be very proud of, especailly since you pontificate about all these backward countries, and then go kill them to show them how they should be living.

Without those hippies you hate sp much the civil right movement would have never occured, i dread to think what kind of country the US would be if that 60s never happened, you should be commending these people.