If that is true, these people are the most cowardly and despicable people on the planet, because they have watched hundreds of millions of innocent children be murdered every year and done nothing effective to stop the murder. For example, they shop and work at grocery and drug stores that sell the tools that will be used to murder these children every night. If I walked into a store and saw a row of shelves with "Baby Killer 9000, 99.9% guaranteed kill probability, 12-pack, on sale for $9.99" then I'd go to the police and BBB to get that item removed from the shelves. I haven't seen any of these "believers" protesting at any store I go to.

I get the joke, but to be anal I think that it will be 2020 when four astronauts leave for Mars to bury the previous four. The ones who leave in 2018 will arrive with no bodies on the planet to bury. (There may be up to 4 bodies in the spacecraft.)

Agreed. For more examples, look at the salaries of executives at "non-profit" hospitals.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/ceo-compensation-of-the-25-top-grossing-non-profit-hospitals.html

The government does not compel you to drive.
The government does compel caregivers to provide health care to you.

The Crimson Bolt might say: "Unless we increase human population to the point where we exceed the capacity of the planet, we can never know for certain what the maximum capacity is."

Suppose there was a minimum income tax amount of $N per year (where N is some number set by law and greater than 0). Thus the 47% number would be reduced to 0%, as every adult would pay some income tax, at least $1. Would that make Mitt happy? Or would he then find something else to complain about? Perhaps Mitt would then complain "Why do I have to pay more income tax than my housekeeper?

There are many States that successfully implemented working websites for the ACA. I don't understand why the Feds can't just license the best of these and clone it 36 times for each of the States that refused to implement their own site.

Which begs the pre-Oct 1 question: Why didn't the Feds just test each of the websites developed by the dozen or so states that implemented their own, then license the best one for cloning purpose for each of the other 36 states?

A manager not knowing who you are or what you are doing is a problem, I agree. But even if a software engineering manager read every line of code written by every one of his employees, I don't think it would be generally possible to rank them.

e.g. Joe was assigned to design and implement Foo last quarter, and did it on time and with good quality. Dave was assigned to design and implement Bar last quarter, and did it on time with good quality. What information would you use to determine whether to rank Joe higher or lower than Dave?

If you want to apply for a job at the NSA, just pick up the phone. Any phone.

I'm not a bankruptcy lawyer, so I don't know whether creditors would consider a country to be in default if it paid interest on its loans, but reneged on promises to its citizens for things like Medicare and Social Security.

What I do know, is that if the American government kept paying Chairman Mao his usury, while cutting off Grandma's health care, then that government would be finished. Putting rich commies ahead of poor seniors is about the surest form of political suicide I can imagine.

"No, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU

I do not have "actual proof" that a man walked on the moon. I read stuff, watch the news, and decide on what seems to have happened. Could the moon landing have been faked, and thousands of NASA employees and contractors kept quiet about it all these years? Sure, it's possible, but it just seems like it would have been much easier to actually land a man on the moon that to fake it.

Syria used chemical weapons on its own people. Obama asserts that this is a violation of international law. (Syria didn't sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, I'm not a legal scholar so I can't say whether they still have to comply.) Obama asserts that this violation must not go unanswered or else the whole system of international laws has no meaning.

Obama decides that the appropriate punishment for this violation is a military attack by the USA on Syria. Per the United Nations the only legal basis for such a military attack is to defend against imminent attack on your own country or else to get a security council resolution authorizing the use of force. Neither applies here, so the use of military force would be a violation of Article 2 of the UN Charter.

So, Obama believes that the only way the rule of law can be preserved is to break the law?

Side question: Absent a declaration of war, would any USA military forces captured while engaging in combat in Syria be treated as unlawful enemy combatants?

The first stage of grief is shock and denial. Sometimes that can take a while (years) to get through. Eventually you reach acceptance and recovery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Every religion is a tool invented by people. Tools can be used for good or for evil. Look at the historical record and you wll find examples of that with every belief system invented by man.

No religion should be taught in school. In my opinion, no religion should be taught to any child. When they turn 18 and have an understanding of reason and logic, then they can choose to learn about religion and choose to just "believe" something if they want. Indoctrination of children into a belief system when they are unable to make an informed choice is wrong.