http://www.denverpost.com/harsanyi/ci_3899807
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rming.html

and anyone that lets the facts get in the way of the party line must be silenced
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/displa ... /index.php

I'd say he's stupid in his context. We expect political leaders to be smarter than most, Bush seems to be of average intelligence. So he's not stupid in a bar, but he's stupid in the White House. Just as MVP is ugly in a bar, but average looking in a burn victim treatment centre.

And I don't think humans are affecting the nature or climate either. That smog hovering above LA would probably be there anyway, I'm sure the grey dust and oil I was wiping off my face in London was natural as well. The irradiated and dried out lakes in Russia is probably just a random natural occurance and of course dramatic increase in CO2 levels and other greenhouse gases won't change anything, like make the deserts grow or average temperatures shift... except that it's happening of course.

And yes, if you have problems with feminism you ARE a sexist. Feminism is only two things: Realising women are systematically being discriminated and wanting to do something about it. If you don't agree with that, sorry, but then you actually are sexist. The fact that some people say and do stupid things under the guise of feminism is not a relevant reason to be against feminism, just as some stupid christian fanatic shooting an abortion doctor doesn't mean you should hate christianity.

You don't have to be homophobic to not want gay marriages, after all, marriage in the west is based on the bible and it simply doesn't allow for it. However, if you don't want gay couples to be able to form a civil union with the same rights as married couples, then you're at least a bigot.

Now I'll explain why it is ok to make fun of white christian males. When you ridicule someone in power, it's socially acceptable, when you ridicule someone who's worse off, you're being an @sshole. It's Ok to say Bush is stupid, it's not Ok to call an actually retarded person stupid as an insult. You don't kick people while they're down (unless you're an @sshole) but you do ridicule people who are better off than you are.

Stoneburg, I laughed out loud @ that first paragraph. Good stuff.

Stoneburg wrote:
And I don't think humans are affecting the nature or climate either. </sarcasm>

Tarheel wrote:
Caused by ignorant engineering projects diverting water for poorly planned irrigation projects. see the 3 gorges dam in the future

That's kinda THE definition of humans affecting nature... right?[/quote]