lol, apparently not if you're implying I'm JIDF.

You really have no idea how badly you're being played. Please go to youtube and search for Pallywood. Also check out this article. The people of Gaza and the West Bank are being used as tools in an ongoing propaganda campaign aimed at turning public opinion worldwide against Israel. They fire rockets at Israel from locations that put their own innocent civilians in harms' way. The goal is to entice Israel into returning fire, and in doing so killing the innocent women and children nearby. Why is it that the palestinian refugees living in squalor across the border in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are completely ignored? Israel actually provides humanitarian aid to the West Bank and Gaza, providing food and basic necessities. In fact, Israel regularly brings refugees from these two regions into Israel for medical treatment. This does not happen in the other refugee camps controlled by Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Where is the outcry when Syria drops bombs from a jet indiscriminately on the palestinian refugee camp inside it's border? Israel has agreed to numerous peace deals brokered by various world leaders. It is always the Palestinian leadership that fails to agree. And so they continue to launch rockets at Israel, and they continue to wage a war of propaganda.

citation please. Your statement is contrary to everything I learned in Geology 101, 105, and 201....

??? You do know that below 220ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, plants die, correct?

There's a link right there with facts about having to pay money to get rid of surplus, and you're claiming doctrinaire BS? I think maybe you're the one preaching doctrine. Where's your link summarizing the subsidizing of oil and gas production? From what I've seen, consumption isn't subsidized, it's heavily taxed....I'm calling bullshit on your claims until you can provide some substantial proof. By the way, tax deductions for money spent on development and research isn't a subsidy. Make sure the proof you show is truly a subsidy, ie government actually sending money to a company, not allowing a reduction in taxes owed.

I wasn't trying to prove or disprove the existence of god. I was merely commenting on how arrogant you are. All you have is an OPINION. Same as someone who believes in a god. You have absolutely zero proof whether or not life on earth was created, yet you talk smugly about how "stupid" someone else is because they have an OPINION.

Actually, I would have to disagree with you. I think people, such as yourself, who are so bloody sure there's no "god" or "superior being" are the stupid ones. We have lived for a mere speck of time, in a tiny little corner of our galaxy in a tiny little corner of our vast universe. The amount we know about our universe versus what we don't know is so small, it approaches zero. If you've ever read about dimensions, you should know it's quite possible that we're only seeing a speck of everything that exists around us. And to be as sure as you are that there isn't some intelligence behind our existence is absolute ignorance in the extreme. How can you be so sure that life on planet earth just "happened"? Is it not possible that some intelligent being "started" life? Maybe an interstellar pod landed on earth and introduced the basis for life, complete with instructions for "evolution" coded in. Or maybe a far off antenna, beaming "instructions" via cosmic rays initiated the start of life here. The fact is, we have absolutely no idea how life started and how evolution occurs. Acting so smug and mocking someone else for their belief about how it all started, when you yourself don't have the faintest clue is just pathetic.

This wasn't an issue of checking sources. The host asked the reporter "why", and rather than say, "uh, I don't know", the reporter decided to make it up on the spot.

YOU refer to the link. It states quite clearly, orthodox Jews adhere to the Torah (aka Old Testament) as definitive Jewish Law. So if an orthodox Jew decided to work on the Sabbath, he would expect that his punishment be death. Can you find an example of an orthodox Jew who actually worked on the Sabbath, and wasn't put to death?

25 percent of Israel.

Wow. You're thick. Just because the "land" is still there, doesn't mean the "civilization" is. Do you think the current residents of Egypt still worship Amun, Ra, and the other Egyptian gods? Do you think the people of Mexico still sacrifice the hearts of virgins to Quetzalcoatl?
And just FYI, they had their own state long before 1947. It was invaded over 2000 years ago, and the most of the population were dispersed. Yet they remained true to their civilization, and kept up with their traditions, beliefs, and teachings. So they are the longest lasting civilization.

Egypt? Invaded by Alexander the Great and colonized. Later invaded by Rome and colonized. Invaded by Islam. Invaded by the Ottomans. The ancient civilization of Egypt did not survive. The descendants became part of the new culture that invaded. Central America? No Aztecs, no Mayans, no Mixtecs, no Totonecs. Which civilization survived in Central America?
What society has lasted longer?
When did I say Judaism is christianity? The bible is divided in to two parts: Old Testament, New Testament. The New Testament is christianity. The Old Testament is Judaism. I really don't understand your point, unless you're assuming I meant christianity is the modern version of Judaism? Well, I didn't. Judaism is still around today. That it gave birth to Christianity is a side note.

so you think the bible is supposed to be a non-fiction work, dictated by God to a bunch of writers? Maybe you need to put your thinking cap on. Mankind was on this planet for tens (hundreds even?) of thousands of years prior to the invention of writing. Think of the bible more as a collection of stories that were handed down from one generation to the next, in order to preserve bits of history, teachings, knowledge gleaned, morals, ethics, and laws. Now think about this: Of all the civilizations that have emerged on this planet, with all kinds of different teachings, knowledge, morals, ethics, and laws, the oldest surviving civilization is that which based their life upon the bible; namely, Judaism.

Waste heat? No such thing, it all gets put to use adding to the warmth of our planet. This additional warmth is then attributed to CO2, which in turn results in billions of research dollars, salaries, legislation, and TV and newsprint content! Without that waste heat, we'd have millions of people unemployed worldwide.

It's been the Commie Times for a while now...