1) Deport all illegals from USA.

2) Giant wall along entire border defended by barbed wire, night-vision cameras, sniper squads, drones, land mines, helicopter gunships, satellites.

3) Seize Mexican oil reserves to pay for #'s 1 and 2.

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OK, I've started burying cans of soup in the backyard - this will be the standard currency in the city state of Dagopia. Deploy the barb wire! Ready the MadMax Mobile!


... or am I over-reacting?

ARRRRRRRR that's nothing mate I like to floss my crack with barb wire

"Yes, Worthy of a Darwin Award for stupidity. I've seen this before, I believe it's called "backyard wrestling" and it's a growing trend on the internet. People filming wrestling moves that are IRL extremely dangerous"

In fact, it turns out that "backyard wrestling", at least in this version where kids jump off roofs, or in more extreme cases, use barbed wire and glass for their "rings", is almost entirely a product of the media. When the media stopped paying attention, the vast majority of kids (who had started doing their jackassery due to what they saw on news shows about the NEXT BIG THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN) stopped doing stupid things pretending to wrestle and instead went on to doing other stupid things not involving wrestling.

Such is the way of the world.

Well said, peretz.

I may have raised the abortion angle in post #62 or #65, but the artificial insemination angle of posts 72-77 was just too juicy to pass up, so I dropped it.

DavidM

I would point you to
http://stemcells.nih.gov/ for information that is more critical and thorough. Christian bioethics advocacy groups have their pluses and are easier to Google, but the stemcellresearch.org site is a bit undernourished on critical analysis.

Has your tax money been earmarked for the drug companies? I am pretty bitter that my taxes have gone to pay for (now unused) barbed wire fences in Sadr City, Iraq and single-source contracting with Halliburton. But such is a big Fed. It is the fairly minimal individual cost of being a citizen of a great (new AP ranking #7) and affluent nation.

I do hate the libertarian or NIMBY argument that you advance against government sponsored scientific research. To wholly privatize something like stem cell research, you would invite two substantial problems into the field:

1) Intellectual property issues - A lawyer's feast for bottomfeeders like me to be sure, but these issues won't help patients.

2) Profit - Research would be driven by profit alone which would cut off many avenues and possibly limit the pool of persons who ultimately benefit.

Public-Private competition (as was found with the human genome project) is probably the most beneficial state of affairs.

From Stars and Stripes (the Army paper):
http://tinyurl.com/e6pun

A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.

It was all a hoax. No one actually sprayed the slogan "Still Free" on the cowling of Air Force One.

The pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video - employed by a New York fashion company - revealed Friday how they pulled it off: a rented 747 in California painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One.

"I wanted to do something culturally significant, wanted to create a real pop-culture moment," said Marc Ecko of Marc Ecko Enterprises. "It's this completely irreverent, over-the-top thing that could really never happen: this five-dollar can of paint putting a pimple on this Goliath."



The video shows hooded graffiti artists climbing barbed-wire fences and sneaking past guards with dogs to approach the jumbo jet. They spray-paint a slogan associated with free expression.

After the video began circulating on the Web on Tuesday, the Air Force checked to see whether the plane had been vandalized.

"We're looking at it, too," Lt. Col. Bruce Alexander, a spokesman for the Air Mobility Command's 89th Airlift Wing, which operates Air Force One. "It looks very real."