>> ^BillOreilly:
those are the kind of women who are backbiters, they're always enameled with themselves and noone else


Your comment is one pun tooth much.

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I used to think Ben Stein was a pretty smart guy. It makes me very sad to see him leading this charge against reason.

Ben, they're not trying to shut you up because you disagree with them, they're trying to shut you up because your "theory" is completely unscientific, and has no place in the scientific community. It's not persecution, it's like a fat ugly girl demanding to be crowned Miss America because it's her constitutional right. It's not. You are not having your free speech repressed, you are being rejected for stupidity. Big difference.

You are free to preach your nonsense in church or print, or on the street corner. But if a scientific committee decides to pull funding from somebody who is doing something that's not scientific, that's not censorship.

OK, ok. He saw a UFO. One that he thought was piloted by aliens. UFO = spaceship and "you damn well know it." And no, it's really not a military term.

I didn't listen to it with any prejudice.
"So you'd meet person to person, back door of the state department?" "Are you kidding? This is about world peace." - Yes his answer was in context of the interviewer's question. That's what answers are supposed to be. But I think it would have sounded a lot less Miss America to say "Are you kidding? This is about bringing peace to warring regions." Much more attainable than a world where there is no murder, famine or crime.

And if he said "Screw world leaders!" I would have been incredibly disgusted.

[Edit] twiddles, we posted at the same time. I don't want him as president for several reasons: 1)He wants to prevent privatization of social security. I don't know about you, but I like to keep as much money as I can, so for me to pay out into that system knowing I'll never get it back ticks me off. 2)He wants to abolish the death penalty. (This will start another debate, I know) But this will save our prison systems hundreds of thousands of dollars and prevent homicidal maniacs from ever getting on the streets again. 3)He wants to legalize gay marriage (another debate) 4)he wants to legalize abortion.

That said, what I do like about him is that 1)He wants out of the NAFTA and WTO, 2)He wants to restore rural communities 3)His pursuit of clean energy, 4)He wants to repeal the Patriot act.

So it's not that only focus on the bad things. But Paul still has my vote.

Gunrock,

When Miss America claims the desire for world peace, it is hollow, as Miss America has little power to achieve such things. As part of the US Congress, Kucinich can (and does) actually make a difference. As president (which, like Ron Paul, won't happen) he could make much more.

He is dead on when he talks about the need for effective communication. The clumsy and often willfully offensive attempts at communication by our current government has set us back decades. The immature games we have played in regards to Venezuela and Iran are particularly troubling as it seems we are actively trying to sabotage their efforts to democratize.

Beyond that, have we become so cynical in this country that we can no longer tolerate the mere mention of the word peace without feeling shame?

A lofty goal? Fuck yeah, but if it's not on the to do list, then we'd might as well pack in and go home.

One more reason not to like Kucinich: "world peace" Quite the lofty goal, no? How about something more realistic and less Miss America - like regional stability?

Oh damn - one of the contestants even says "this is not a reality show" to the camera, and yet...

from the Exile:
"In a slimy Hollywood twist, the American producers, who included Jeff Androsky, a producer from a show on the new Fox Reality network Reality Remix, announced that that contest was going to be a reality show just three days before the pageant started. All the preceding contests were just a fodder for the reality show, not competitions they'd be judged on. It was even rumored that he was thrilled after the screw-up, because it'd make for better TV. As it was, the reality TV angle was mimicking Miss America's attempt to stay relevant, which it announced it was going reality TV this year. But, like everything else in this contest, it was done in a Mickey Mouse way."