What is a good way to refute a straw man argument?

...and is Tom Coburn from Southpark?

I for one welcome our new corporate overlords. I offer them my undying devotion, loyalty, and worship.

Oh, and I just reported all of you.

If someone breaks into my trailer...

I will rape them while screaming that they are liberals.

After the police come to clean up my mess, I am going to take more of those pills from the internet that make my wiener bigger

There are also a huge honey pot with a lot of piggies firmly planted in those pies. Recent history has taught us that a couple of well lucrative contracts = a couple of helpful politicians.

If textbooks were online, I would think OLPC or netbooks (even if they only lasted a couple of years) could probably be used for the same, or less cost. They would also add a lot of utility. Hopefully it is not just a would-be-cool thought.

Training would be a bitch though.

lol, I thought mine was a groaner.

Fine, just don't get it in our hair.

I guess you're right. Candy bars are the real political currency in this country. All that campaign crap is just a smoke screen. 1 Snickers is worth 1 electoral vote.

It's really a sad state of corruption fueled by the American Dental Association.

This is all part of an elaborate scheme to get the cute new lab assistant to sleep with the head researcher. A little open and honest communication would have saved a lot of funding.

Escorting Haliburton trips to nowhere?

It could also be due to large fire breathing lizards.

How is this flamebait?

Breaking the law would mean he was a citizen.

Once you fall into the wrong hands you are no longer a citizen or an enemy. You are completely outside of any law available to mankind.

Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained.

Some of the most horrific words the war on terror has produced.

...asked for his opinions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

*shudders*

Where you just racial profiled and tortured... oh wait this wouldn't replace that just be added on top of it.

He died at a ripe old age, but after years of Alzheimer's which was most clearly evidenced as wild-assed paranoia. I somehow think strangers knowing where he was in his own house would have been a little much for him.

He was always convinced of secret conspiracies. I guess he was from that generation. I don't think I would have had the heart to make his nightmares come true. Hell, I'm reasonably rational and this would wig me out.