Blatant lie. 35% is a very generous fifth.

35% of 61.4% who voted, or only 1/5 or so of the electorate, gave their explicit support.
Oh wait, that's exactly what he said!

The cynic in me says it went more like this:
"What high-profile action can we take to keep attention on our product?"
"Lets say that it is so controversial, we won't sell it to soldiers out of 'respect'."

Grant funding based on citations (in addition to the current method). If all you do is gather data and publish it, you will be cited by everyone in that field because you have the best data. Then funding is granted to you based on those citations.

What breed of cattle does he have?

I think it is viewed more as:
"Well, this guy was in an accident. We could attach him to a life-support system whereupon he will probably heal up and fully recover, or we could just wait, let him die and harvest his organs."
"We have more use for the organs, let's wait."

Why would you believe that the accuser had somehow seen inside the other child's underwear?

Short answer: no.

The catch is that if anyone else wants to do this they will have to just do it, get sued, get the people suing them to get it up to a class action lawsuit, then reach the same (or at least very similar) settlement as Google has done here.

Or just change the law to be less silly.

You see, some people have a really weird obsession with male chickens, and they like to imagine that there are cockerels so big they can jump on their back and outrun a car. This is another example of why I am always saying people are insane and you should never trust any of them.

At what point do you decide that someone has been sufficiently indoctrinated to permit questioning?

Actually, no. It is now theorised that they had a common ancestor, but dogs are not descendants of wolves.

Nah, that was just Haughey pretending to be cultured. "We may be poverty stricken with mass emigration, but look! We have A Singer! All is well in Ireland!"
The most depressing thing is that it actually worked.

Ah! I've been shot! Where's the QuickLoad key for real life?

Apparently XPLite can still strip out IE, Outlook Express and Windows media player.