Our foreign policy is too screwed up. This CBS News story talks about how a huge number of Christian Americans (70 million?) feel they are compelled by God and the Bible to support Israel against all of its enemies. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/03/60minutes/main524268.shtml

I wish all support for Israel was dropped by the US. If private citizens want to fund Israel's defense, then go ahead. But they should be required to publically declare any support they have for Israel so that any terrorists can specifically target them, and not blast us in their collateral damage causing attacks. Right now Americans are being threatened by people such as Al Qaeda forces because the whole of the American country is defending this minority faction of Americans who are die-hard Israel supporters.

Why do we all need to protect these pro-Israel people??? Let them fend for themselves. That's their belief system when it comes to everything in the world. Everyone must be self-reliant, free market, and so forth. But when it comes to defending Israel, they want all 300 million Americans to support it, and will take our tax money to do it. They are hypocrites!

double post, sorry. weird browser issues..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3966817.stm

When Ron Paul talks about Al Qaeda being explicit with their reasons for attacking the US, this is probably what he is talking about.

"Oh American people, my talk to you is about the best way to avoid another Manhattan, about the war, its causes, and results.

Security is an important pillar of human life. Free people do not relinquish their security. This is contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom.

Let him tell us why we did not strike Sweden, for example. It is known that those who hate freedom do not have proud souls, like the souls of the 19 people [killed while perpetrating the 11 September 2001 attacks], may God have mercy on them.

We fought you because we are free and do not accept injustice. We want to restore freedom to our nation. Just as you waste our security, we will waste your security.

I am amazed at you. Although almost four years have passed since the [11 September] incidents, Bush is still practising distortion and confusion.

He also continues to conceal from you the real reason [for the 11 September attacks]. Thus, the motives still exist for repeating what happened.

I will speak to you about the reasons behind these incidents. I will honestly tell you about the minutes in which the decision was made so that you will consider. I say to you that God knows that the idea of striking the towers never occurred to us.

But, after things had gone too far and we saw the injustice of the US-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I started thinking of that.

The events that influenced me directly trace back to 1982 and subsequent events when the United States gave permission to the Israelis to invade Lebanon, with the aid of the sixth US fleet.

At those difficult moments, many meanings that are hard to describe went on in my mind. However, these meanings produced an overwhelming feeling to reject injustice and generated a strong determination to punish the unjust ones.

While I was looking at those destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me to punish the unjust one in a similar manner by destroying towers in the United States so that it would feel some of what we felt and to be deterred from killing our children and women... "

This whole thing just screams "Race war" to me

triple post!

This whole thing just screams "Race war" to me

Stewart does come across as an activist to me. A kind of left-of-center activist

The LA Times ran a story on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It seemed to describe the Foundation as more of an investment body than a charity in the traditional sense. Just sayin'

all athiests in america are white dudes apparently o_O

If I heard an argument from the neighbor's home, I'd just assume it was an argument and not police attention worthy. I didn't think the audio from the speaker made it clear that violence was taking place, and that's from within the room of the same speaker. From outside of the house, it would've even been less clear.

Plus there's the possibility that the neighbors didn't believe it was an actual event going on, as the voice of the male speaker was different than the known resident's.

Is this statement really true? o_O

Bleep Bloop is never very good. It passes the time though. lol

The "avenge Dusty" and anti-Scientology examples are cool, but I don't see how the anonymous nature of 4chan was necessary to bring either about. But, the fact that the Avenge Dusty cat abuser was so quickly tracked down by random Internet people is actually quite disturbing, since that abuser himself was trying to be anonymous in his Youtube video.

That guy looks like G-man from Half-Life

I saw the first ten mins, then skipped to the part about Internet trolling.

I thought the part about work being more fun than fun was interesting. It also sounded like he was trying to say that people should find a job that isn't just a means of survival, but a real source of happiness in itself. I like that idea but I wonder if it's very feasible for most of the human race though. It just sounded like something a professional entertainer would say, to me. I mean, there are 6.7 billion people in the world. They have a lot of needs that need to be met and I don't think the jobs that are needed to meet those needs are all going to be very fun to do :-P How much fun can we really have in production line factory jobs, accounting jobs, waste disposal and so forth?