I like this pope.

TruthTeller101 is just a troll. Nobody can be that stupid without it being intentional. Don't waste your time on him.

So this has been going on for seven years? (Likely longer.) And Harry Reid suggests that because of that, we shouldn't be concerned. That's like finding out that your spouse has been cheating on you for seven years and thinking, "Well, if it's been going on that long I guess I have to accept it."

And all of this despite Obama. Can you imagine how much better this could be with a true leader in the White House?

"In all seriousness, I set my pants on fire when I was a kid by laying out a string of caps and setting them off in a row with a rock. My jeans had holes in the knees, and a strand of fiber was close enough to catch a spark."

Thanks for the memory, Ness. I had forgotten about that little technique. I'll have to show my kids that one.

"Hmmmm....so you mean that Obama reminds you a lot of Ronald Reagan?"

Yes he does and neither should have been president so what's your point, Donna Boy?

What have you destroyed lately, Anti, or do you not consider yourself part of "Mankind?"

Well, hopefully in one of those infinite number of universes I'm getting lucky tonight.

The way the left keeps bringing up the 2000 election reminds me of some poor loser whose girlfriend left him FOURTEEN F*****N' YEARS AGO! She's gone, dude. She ain't coming back. Get over it. Stop living in the past. Move on! (Hey, that's a catchy name for an organization. MoveOn. And we could have a web site called moveon.org.)

Sorry, guys. Gotta go. I have a great idea to put into motion!

The door was blocked by the flames as the fire started in the back. My guess, combination of alcohol, hair spray and someone lighting a cigarette.

Not to be crude, but does anybody remember how the Pontiac Fiero had a habit of bursting into flames?

"We build excitement! Pontiac!"

"Damn. I thought it said Capitalism."

Funny you should say that. Capitalism probably would have saved the Jamestown settlers.

It's a perfect experiment. Why did the Jamestown settlers fail while the Massachusetts settlers succeed? How is it the Jamestown settlers starved when there was opportunity for food all around them? They were a communal society. Share the wealth. Only what happened when people realized it didn't matter how hard they worked as long as the community would feed them? Nobody worked and 90% of them died within a year.

The Pilgrims started out the same way but they realized what was happening. William Bradford instituted the concept of private land ownership. Work your own land. Produce your own food. Have more than you need? Sell it. Trade with your fellow settlers. Trade with the Indians. Free enterprise. What a concept!

Alright America! Slowly you're coming around! I'm proud of ya!

"The crowd repeatedly booing the commissioner is annoying & unnecessary."

Funny, even John Adams, on his way to Philadelphia in 1774, describe New Yorkers as crass. "With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man since I came to town." And he was talking about the elite of New York.

Not much has changed, has it? You can take the so-called upper crust of New York and place them in any mid-sized city in fly-over country and they would be considered rude and generally uneducated.

Go Steelers!

"Our founding fathers understood that public support for any cause must first be built anonymously."

That must be why they all used aliases when signing the Declaration of Independence.

I agree that USA Today isn't exactly deep reading but as a business traveler I always appreciate the national coverage, especially when it comes to sports. Pick up the New York Times and you would think that the Yankees and Mets were the only major league teams in existence. Same with most any other major city newspaper.

"Why does your god kill an 8 year old kid in Boston? Why does your god blow up a fertilizer plant killing 15 people? Why does your god starve millions upon millions of people? Why?"

I always find it amusing when atheists try to define other people's faith in God by their own simple terms. You proclaim your faith in science but then you try to apply the non-scientific approach of cause and effect to God.

Admitting to what you don't know is the first step in acquiring knowledge. While none of us knows the answer, and at the risk of scaring you into thinking that I'm trying to ram something down your throat, I wills share a theory of belief I have come to terms with. You can stop reading here if you are not open to possibilities.

It is my belief that God gave mankind a beautiful world in which to live, but he also gave us absolute freedom to accept His gift or reject it. Our rejection of God has left us with a world of evil, danger and hardship. I also believe that our time here on earth serves some type of purpose but we may not realize what that is until it's over. In that sense, we will look back on the things we judge as terrible in our present lives as we may look back on some trivial event that happened to us when we were in elementary school. In other words, in the big scheme of things, our time here is but a moment and the bad things that happen to us are memories that are swept away by God's love as we would brush away the tears from the cheek of a child who has just skinned her knee.

"So what about prayer, then?" you may ask. If God does not intervene in the events of this world, why pray? I believe that we have more power over nature and life than we have yet realized. I think prayer is a power that comes from us and allows us to change the course of events. It is a gift from God.

You may feel free to ridicule me for what I believe but please understand that I'm not trying to force anyone to see things my way. I'm just sharing my ideas. I'm just trying to provide a possible explanation for the "why?" question posed by Pragmatous.

"What was so disgraceful about the vote yesterday?"

"Dead babies couldn't take care of themselves."

There was a vote on abortion yesterday?

My wife is a physician with a keen eye for judging people's conditions. She predicts that health issue will likely prevent Hillary from running by then or if she does run it will drain her to the point that she might not survive a first term. I hope she doesn't pick Biden as a running mate!

#7 "If I could, I'd take as much money as I could with me. I would invest in Microsoft, Apple too, I might even buy a bit of gold. My kids would be rich."

Just be careful, Danni. Any currency you take with you better be older than the date to which you return otherwise you'll likely be facing counterfeiting charges. :-)

Quick, where's the duct tape?

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I saw 2001 for the first time at the drive-in with my parents. During the scene where Bowman blows the pod door to enter the emergency air lock we see the explosion but there is no sound. By dad started banging on the drive-in speaker and complaining about it being broken. As an eleven year old I had to explain to him the reason there was no sound in space. My parents considered the evening a waste of time and money.

The Clarke series included 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001. I'm also certain "My God, it's full of stars" was the last line of 2001. In fact, I have the DVD so unless they doctored it, there you have it.

By the way, one of the few flaws made in filming was that the liquid in the drinking straw returns to the carton, which would not happen in zero gravity.

Perry Mason, the Honeymooners. Sea Hunt. One of the worst, anybody remember Highway Patrol's theme song? But the absolute worst, Flipper.

I've taught software engineers how to write applications and device drivers for Unix-based systems for over 30 years. My clients included all of the big names, but not so much anymore. The majority of coding jobs have been sent to China and India. Any time I'm asked to teach over there I know I'll have one gig only because they'll steal my courseware and teach the next batch of students themselves. The problem is international copyright laws are virtually non-existent.

The point is just about the only coding going on in the States these days is done by small, independent shops. Can you find a job there? Yes, but it's not going to be as easy as this guy is making it sound.

BTW, some of the best students I had were those who had graduated from Devry University.

#125 -- Now there's the typical response from a liberal when bested in an argument by someone using facts.

Hey, has anyone considered the possibility that the husband put the kid up to it?