If society is sterilized of god, how is he talking about him. He clearly doesn't understand the words that are coming out of his own mouth.
What an ignorant, deluded fucking idiot, it's people like this moron forcing their religion into public places that force municipalities to allow other religions...like Satanism....to be displayed on public grounds as well.
The founding fathers were 100% clear, The Treaty of Tripoli signed in 1796, ... in Article 11 stating that "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion", ratified unanimously by congress.
This guy needs to move to Daiesh territory, where you may only worship one way, and education is considered a bad thing. He belongs there.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^blankfist:
In the US, there's been a two party system since the beginning, right? Started as Federalist v. Nonfederalist.

Good point. Why do you think there were only two factions all the way back then, instead of 5 or 6?
Me, I think it's just that the US had a pretty tight-knit group of people who created the Federal government, and they split along a 1-dimensional ideological divide at an early date. So we started with two large factions, and the dynamic in the video kept 3rd parties from rising to dominance, save when we had a collapse in one of the major factions.


The great thing about history is it doesn't care what you think. It only cares about the facts. Even the first president warned against the politcal parties.

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."

— George Washington, farewell address, September 19, 1796

"Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
- Treaty of Tripoli, November 4, 1796

Who is re-writing history exactly?

"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part."
- Federalist No. 51

They were well aware of the pitfalls this country would likely fall in when they founded it.

If you have questions about the scientific merit of a given medical practice, then contact an expert (i.e. an M.D. Ph.D.) and discuss your concerns with them. Go to a library, and read the actual scientific literature pertaining to a given topic.

It is true there is a business side to medicine, but no one controls science. And in the rare instances that science has been influenced by business, it has always corrected itself. (e.g. Some poor graduate student spent 2 years trying to confirm single molecule transistors and never got it to work. The original data was eventually proven fraudulent. See Jan Schon) Since their conception in 1796, vaccines have proven to a be a valuable way to control the spread of viruses.

In conclusion, it is good to question science and medicine. Questions, however, need to be reinforced with controlled scientific experiments, otherwise they are out of ignorance.


>> ^dag:
^Yes, how dare anyone question the all-knowing oracles of medical knowledge.
I think the reason that many geeky type people always toe the main-stream medical line is because they conflate medicine with science (which we all love). Yes, it's almost the same, but if I had to draw it as a venn diagram, there would be a crescent of over-hang. Medicine to me is 80% science and then the rest is filled in with dogma, patriarchy and business ($$).
That crescent of non-science is the part that makes me squirm. I don't think it's that wrong to question medical programs like vaccinations- with the idea that it may be being pushed non-scientifically by the medical industrial complex. (big pharma).
Bill Maher is not a kook.

1. Music - 5085 votes cast (music talk)
2. Comedy - 3747 votes cast (comedy talk)
3. Politics - 2759 votes cast (politics talk)
4. Everything geek - 2370 votes cast (geek talk)
5. VideoSift's Archive of Vintage Classics - 1796 votes cast (vintage talk)
6. Animation - 1329 votes cast (animation talk)
7. Obscure - 727 votes cast (obscure talk)
8. Rock & Roll - 613 votes cast (rocknroll talk)
9. Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs - 600 votes cast (worldaffairs talk)
10. Cute - 558 votes cast (cute talk)

melting point of steel, grade 430 - 2650 degrees, Fahrenheit
max burning point of jet fuel - 980 °C (1796 °F)
diesel fuel and jet fuel are very similar.



hmmm, granted fuel could weaken the steel a little bit, but considering how many TONS of concrete surround the beams, that would soften it a little bit, its going to take more than that. Keep in mind i listed MAX temperature for the fuel. open air (or less air than would be in a building) is allot lower.

Besides, what started these fires in building 7? Anyone ever try to light diesel on fire? its a pain in the ass. a random fire coincidently making its way to a fuel tank isn't going to be easy work to ignite that shit.

First off, here they are as they are currently ranked, with their average number of votes per video:

1 Rock & Roll: 16.6737
2 Did that Just Happen?: 29.3763
3 Sports Sift: 21.7181
4 Matt Groening: 34.6338
5 Arts: 19.4969
6 A Bit of Parody: 23.5148
7 Obscure: 15.2030
8 Cinema: 18.8780
9 All About Science: 29.3227
10 HorrorShow: 16.2270
11 Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs: 20.7457
12 Ball Flexin': 19.1796
13 Spanning Time: 17.4850
14 It's Raining Cats & Dogs: 28.9157
15 Sci-Fi Fandom: 22.1428
16 British Humor: 21.1465
17 Video (game) Sift: 21.6372
18 From Asia With Love: 22.4375
19 Religion... It's the Opium of the People: 22.7340
20 Nick's Nacks: 22.2526
21 Evolution in Action: 32.8437
22 Late Night: 29.1475
23 FemmeSift: 18.1975
24 Commercial Sift: 20.5070
25 Mind Blowing Documentaries: 15.9213
26 Kid Sift: 18.2676
27 80's High School Reunion: 16.1282
28 Islamica: 14.3103
29 The Clouds & Beyond: 19.0952
30 Hip Hop Culture: 16.0422
31 That's Terrible!: 19.3454
32 Good Eats: 20.8695
33 Stand Up Comedy: 24.0789
34 Bravo!: 15.7647
35 Humanitarian Sift: 17.4418
36 Army, Navy, Air Force: 20.75
37 Canadian World Domination: 19.5161
38 1st Tube: 15.7222
39 Grindhouse Cinema: 17.6538
40 How To...: 15.6428
41 221b Baker St: 14.4166


And here's how they line up when they are ranked by those averages:

1 Matt Groening: 34.6338
2 Evolution in Action: 32.8437
3 Did that Just Happen?: 29.3763
4 All About Science: 29.3227
5 Late Night: 29.1475
6 It's Raining Cats & Dogs: 28.9157
7 Stand Up Comedy: 24.0789
8 A Bit of Parody: 23.5148
9 Religion... It's the Opium of the People: 22.734
10 From Asia With Love: 22.4375
11 Nick's Nacks: 22.2526
12 Sci-Fi Fandom: 22.1428
13 Sports Sift: 21.7181
14 Video (game) Sift: 21.6372
15 British Humor: 21.1465
16 Good Eats: 20.8695
17 Army, Navy, Air Force: 20.75
18 Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs: 20.7457
19 Commercial Sift: 20.507
20 Canadian World Domination: 19.5161
21 Arts: 19.4969
22 That's Terrible!: 19.3454
23 Ball Flexin': 19.1796
24 The Clouds & Beyond: 19.0952
25 Cinema: 18.878
26 Kid Sift: 18.2676
27 FemmeSift: 18.1975
28 Grindhouse Cinema: 17.6538
29 Spanning Time: 17.485
30 Humanitarian Sift: 17.4418
31 Rock & Roll: 16.6737
32 HorrorShow: 16.227
33 80's High School Reunion: 16.1282
34 Hip Hop Culture: 16.0422
35 Mind Blowing Documentaries: 15.9213
36 Bravo!: 15.7647
37 1st Tube: 15.7222
38 How To...: 15.6428
39 Obscure: 15.203
40 221b Baker St: 14.4166
41 Islamica: 14.3103

Interesting, non?

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
- Thomas Jefferson

"A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter"
- Thomas Jefferson

"Lighthouses are more useful than churches"
- Benjamin Franklin

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason"
- Benjamin Franklin

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it"
- John Adams

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."
- Treaty of Tripoli, 1796

"During the presidential campaign of 1880, the Christian Union made the startling admission that, of the nineteen men who, up to that time, had held the office of President of the United States, not one, with the Possible exception of Washington, had ever been a member of a Christian church.
- Remsburg (1906)