Yes, obviously. Just like Obama has single handedly delivered the country from all its ails and hasn't added onto the burden it's under....Oh wait...

And Congress definitely has nothing to do with the poor performance of the country, every educated person knows that the president is the sole savior and decision maker for the country....Oh wait....

I'm in absolutely in no way defending or trying to support Bush's decisions, it just irks me when anyone blames everything wrong with the country on the executive branch. There is a system of checks and balances, that keeps any one branch from being able to destroy the country on its own. Democrats blame whatever republicans they can, when its a republican president of course he gets the blame. Now we're in a cycle of having a democrat for a president so the republicans are doing the same thing. The biggest problem is that politics in the US have nothing to do with anything that truly matters or what the people really want. It only has to do with whatever emotionally charged issue the politicians can piggy back on and try to get people's dander up, over. Then the sheeple follow whichever side shouts the loudest and sounds anywhere close to favoring their idea on something. Not mentioning all that pork legislation that gets thrown in to the mix. The few people left in the voting pool that can think for themselves, rather than regurgitating the left's/right's line of the day, don't have enough clout on their own to elect officials that can think for themselves. Of course on the off chance one of the politicians that doesn't just tow a party line gets into office, they either fold and begin to tow the line or they become ostracized by their respective party and get buried by the media and/or voted out during the next election cycle.

Getting back on topic, a solid education that deals with actual science would get a great bolstering from better instruction regarding civics and government. That won't every carry any weight though, because the political machine is perfectly happy with sheeple, they know their positions would be in jeopardy if there was an electorate that was educated and informed, rather than being baited into voting for this fuckhead or that.

That is hands down, one of the best ways I've ever seen to state someone has their head firmly planted in their ass.

That would probably get the fundamentalist "Chrisitans"/young Earth creationists, to stop purchasing it. I mean after all the Earth has only been here for about 6000 years and all of the plants and animals were created exactly as they are and always have been. That evolution nonsense is just a lie to persecute them for their strongly held anti-intellectual beliefs.

You mean the labeling that already takes place

All the time, I always choose 85/15, when it comes to ground beef, because the extra fat, provides extra flavor and I've never had a 'lean' burger that tasted anywhere near approaching good. If you've never chosen steaks, it's always best to choose a steak that has nice streaks of fat running through it, rather than one that is overly lean. All those beautiful white lines of marbling running through that steak are what help make it so god damned juicy and tasty. Unless of course you're one of those people that likes a well done (usually over done) steak with some ketchup.

If the day comes that there isn't enough meat to go around I'll just have to start eating people. I refuse to give up meat, already having to abstain from dairy is bad enough. On a side note, cannibalism, would help with the problem of food shortage, seeing as it would serve as a form of population control.

So the difference between Slashdot and politics is that, /. has that last part going for it.