Forum: The Soap Box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWJTUAezxAI well is Randi right?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8544150.stm Part of me says good--we don't need to be wasting the license fee on some of the broad range of stuff they get involved in (for example, I question whether TOPGEAR Magazine is really part of the BBC's remit), but part of me sees them just...

Thoughts? :shrug: The Dog Ate Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels on National Review Online

The world record at the jump being used in this year's Olympics is held by a woman yet she will not be allowed to compete, even though the courts found the decision to exclude the women discriminatory. WTF? Let them compete against the men if the field is too small i say, since they actually...

Brilliant news! This really cheered me up and gave me hope for the world! I wish we saw more of this from Islam! An influential Muslim scholar is to issue in London a global ruling against terrorism and suicide bombing. Dr Tahir ul-Qadri, from Pakistan, says his 600-page judgement, known as a...

So-- lady out at the cinema with her family to see Harry Potter. There's a bunch of kids in the row in from making a racket so she politely asks them to keep the noise down. After, she goes to a restaurant for something to eat. The kid who was causing the racket goes to a petrol station, buys...

Oil and oil products are the most important part of modern civilization. It is the back bone of industrial civilization and the developments that we enjoy today. But more than being dependent on oil energy resource, most of us have become addicted to it. The recent world energy news reports say...

The Down's Syndrome actor from "The Family Guy" tv show... "like a loaf of French bread..." :D

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/doctor_gets_court_order_to_confine_pregnant_woman_against_her_will "Samantha Burton was in week 25 of her pregnancy when she paid a visit to her doctor. Burton was showing signs of potential miscarriage, so her physician ordered bed rest. Burton explained...

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/14/imaginary_fiends/ "In 2009, crime went down. In fact it's been going down for a decade. But more and more Americans believe it's getting worse" Thread started because I've never believed all that "in an increasingly violent world"...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/south-carolina-to-root-ou_n_455225.html :rolleyes: only in America :beerchug:

A difficult choice, here. Celebrate homosexuality or prepare for 20 million axe-murderers who don't know any girls and still live at home with their mums beyond the age of 30? Or extend capital punishment for speeding and jaywalking? Or prepare for war? ...

http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/files/morethanthegames/nodarkumaritashvililugecrash.jpg The guy was flying down the pipe at 140kph and crashed into a metal post.. Poor bugger :( ...

http://www.secularism.org.uk/government-gives-in-to-popes-pre.html That's a lot of communion wafers! Why the hell are we subsidising the visit? I'm not a freaking Catholic, why should I pay for his ticket - and why does it cost so much! Like we need this kind of outlay at the moment.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/258 Pretty impressive stuff!

Any thoughts on this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZT4tGKfJQ Forget for a moment the fake Lennon(but just a moment :)) but i'm kind of on the fence as i have a deep respect for the computer/internet as a tool, but cannot shake the feeling that the effort seems misguided. Is it perhaps just...

A friend of mine posted this on facebook, it certainly made me chuckle this morning when I watched it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVy8Dr_SxWg

Yes folks, I guess it is true. The world is falling apart and we are near the end of days. Nostradumass predicted that when we see a mugshot of Gary Coleman from Different Strokes looking like a detroit serial killer, that would be the begining of the prophecy. Wow...too surreal! ...

so our blessed savour of mankind is going to bust up those evil sociopathic gamblers http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/25/davos-bankers-lobby-obama is this a good idea?

I saw this trailer a few weeks ago and couldn't believe they are resurrecting this story. I'm kinda wondering how they justify calling it the Karate Kid when it's about Kung Fu this time around. I will say the trailer does look kinda neat, but I'm expecting the movie to be REALLY BAD. I...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TE99sAbwM :crazyeyes good ole Pat :wacko:

hey, before you all make another post, Text "haiti" to 90999 and give to the red cross relief effort. You'll be billed 10 dollars to your phone. Cash, more than anything, is needed to help the victims. Do what you can. here is a list from msnbc, if its within your means do them all. your help...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/08/2787921.htm Honestly these guys annoy the crap out of me and i think they got what they deserved, a $1.5 million dollar bat-boat on the bottom of the ocean.. :crazy: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2010/01/06/640_ady_gil_sliced_open_sscs.jpg They...