[Wayne]

Calm down Floppydisk. Can you name one thing that future generations have done for us?

I'm not too worried about the draft, but here's the way the war is going:
we fight the insurgency. While fighting the insurgency, we kill innocent Iraqis (Around a 100,000 so far. Maybe more) This causes more terrorists to sign up for the insurgency, which means we have to fight the insurgency longer, which means more civilian death, which means more terrorists. Add that to the fact that the insurgents are guerilla fighters, and you got yourself an unwinniable war.
People say that the new constitution is a sign of stability. But the constitution says quite clearly that no law can be passed that goes against the rules of Islam. So 2,000+ soldiers died... for a theocratic democracy?
Add that to the fact that enlistment hasn't been this low since Vietnam, and that even in the militaryapproval of the president is down form above ninety percent all the way to seventy percent. Most of the National guard and the reservists are over there, and Bush can't keep all the soldiers over there past there 18 month tour of duty. In a year or two, Bush will have to replace around a 100,000 troops, or pull out of Iraq.
On October 18, 2008, if the war is still going on and Bush says "Stay the course," then I'm moving to any developed country that will have me.

[Mirithorn]

I'm just young enough to squeak through, but that's not much of a comfort. Now, always think: Things could be worse. Fred Phelps could have been elected president.

As to whose fault the immense damage the hurricane caused is, it's hard to lay the blame on any one person or group, although America is up there. Global warming has caused the polar ice caps to melt, flowing into the Gulf Stream, altering its path and causing larger and more frequent hurricanes.

I don't really have to worry about storms though- other than the odd tornado, (well, tornado SIGHTING anyway)New England is pretty safe from natural disasters.

[Zatoichi]

Ah the good ol Northeastern USA. The worst we really get is a harsh winter and more expensive living conditions.

Actually floppy, the newer drums they use are made from a special steel alloy. As long as water/heavy moisture doesn't cause them to rust, they will outlast the radioactiveness of the chemicals.

[Slade]

highest sales tax in the nation and fiercely proud of it. At least the assholes in government who use tax money for pet projects are proud.

Radioactive waste does indead last thousands of years, so they find a secluded region and bury it there.

[Coco]

I know this probably will break the debating atmosphere in this thread, but I had to post this somewhere.

[Zatoichi]

Are they serious?

[Coco]

Apparently.

Someone told me that dolphins are being trained all the way back to the times of the Vietnam war.

[floppydisk]

I know they're trained to find underwater mines.

Coco: PM it to Barend or Chyld or someone on the Crappy News Team. This deserves it's own thread.

[Zatoichi]

It's there, see my true feelings about the situation on that thread.

[Wayne]

Jesus H. Christ. On a slightly related note, this dude in sweden killed a pair of dogs, drained their fluids, filled them with a substitute fluid, and revived them for several hours with an electric shock. I'm almost positive this is true, I heard it in news of the weird in my local paper and nobody has sent in any letters to the editor proving it wrong, so I'm thinking that somebody managed to create some freaky semizombie dogs.

[Slade]

That man disgusts me with his lack of ethics in his pursuit of Science!.