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Read the wikipedia entry on neocons . Then watch this video. (It's 6 minutes long) Start at 4:45. Then puke. Making war will never protect us. If we let fear rule us, and war against every threat, then we will destroy what we were trying to protect. We will lose our innocence, and the favor of the Almighty who ever has and ever will protect us if we seek peace. Fighting a war is sometimes necessary. But making war is a sign of cowardice and tyranny.

This article copied directly from mentalfloss. "Can romantic comedies ruin your lovelife? Absolutely, at least according to so-called “relationship experts” an obscure Scottish university. It seems they have this crazy idea that the relationships portrayed in most romantic comedies aren’t entirely realistic, and might serve to set up false expectations in people regarding their non-cinematic relationships, setting an unattainable standard for coupleship that inevitably leads to disappointment. Some of those themes include: • Sex should always be perfect • Love at first sight is the ideal • Love is predestined • Awesome relationships don’t require work Folks who subscribe to such views, the study implies, are actually less likely to sustain meaningful love relationships throughout their life. I guess that means that the stereotype of the lonely girl watching Roman Holiday alone on New Year’s Eve in her PJs is self-perpetuating; it’s not mean ol’ reality forcing her to take refu...

My friend Mike posted a salute to President Bush on his blog. He made a good point, that our opinions are in a large part shaped by the media. I'm not sure I've ragged on Bush much on this blog. I don't like Cheney, Rove, Scalia, Rumsfield, Mukasey, Wolfowitz. Those guys seem like scheming creeps. Some bad things have gone down under Bush's watch. He gave the order to go into Iraq. But I don't know if he's a scheming devil. I think he's sincere. Here's a compliment for him. An Iraqi reporter threw a shoe at Bush. Bush pointed out that it showed that democracy was sprouting in Iraq. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Bush about the shoe: "I didn't have much time to reflect on anything, I was ducking and dodging," Bush said. The journalist was "looking for notoriety," Bush said, adding that authorities shouldn't "overact" in their treatment of him . "First of all, it's got to be one of t...

Not all old people are crazy. Is this one?

Hannity describes America's "unqualified response" after 9/11, and the international backlash against our "unilateral military action": Do not buy this book. You will only encourage him. "It was astonishing. Imagine someone punching you in the face, and as you prepare to punch back a supposedly objective onlooker warns you not to strike back because you might "inflame" the attacker and his friends." - Deliver Us From Evil p.20 Objective onlooker? = Jesus. "But I say unto you, That ye resist not a evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right b cheek , c turn to him the other also." - Jesus . The phrase "resists not evil" casts a new light on Sean's later statement: "It reflected [Jesus'] political antipathy toward America, and [his] general cowardice when it comes to confronting evil actors on the world stage." Confront evil all you want, Hannity. I'm going with Jesus on this one. Another p...

Giuliani and Palin made fun of Obama for being a community organizer. I thought this was an apt rebuttal: I know this is old news, but Palin and Giuliani will surely rear their heads again (2012). It's good to remember that they think Jesus is a loser. In other news: Kathy's friend, a BYU fan, described BYU's loss to the U. of. U. in football to "how we felt on November 4th." Perhaps she forgot that Kathy didn't feel a terrible sense of loss and dread on the 4th. And I have a friend who is just rubbing her hands together in anticipation of Obama screwing up. If I could say a prayer at the inauguration it would include: "We ask that Thou wilt remove ignorance and blind partisanship from our hearts, that we may preserve the Democracy which Thou gave us through our inspired fore-fathers."

I think my brother Nick will enjoy this the most. Star Wars was banned in Turkey, so some Turks remade it using some clips from the movie, the music from Indiana Jones, and a trampoline. It is pure awesome. It's so bad it's good. Trampolines must have just been introduced to Turkey in 1982. On a side note, turkeys, the bird, are named after Turkey, the country, because Europeans thought the birds came from Turkey. They actually came from America.

Republicans and Democrats are the same. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Mike Huckabee Pt. 1 Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video Start at 5:45 Huckabee:" The idea of not having government is not a conservative idea , that's really something beyond that, really more of a Libertarian, and it really borders on anarchy." "I think true conservativism says there's a need for government, we ought to have it, but it ought to be competent." Stewart: "Both sides want the government to intervene, they just want them to intervene under different auspices." Conservatives would say, "I want a big military," well, that's government. The fact that you would trust the government with tanks and nuclear weapons, but not to pass out cheese to poor people, you gotta say to yourself, "I don't get it."" Read Ron Paul's The Revolution

1. You taste like chicken 2. For immortals, dating anyone under 100 is considered pedophilia. 3. He's been around a long time, so unless you’ve read every book in the world, your opinion and worldview will sound like the squawkings of a brain-damaged chicken. Which will remind him that you taste like chicken. Please add your own reasons in the comments.

Buy this guy's book : The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Matthew Alexander Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video He sounds like a Mormon. "Relationships of trust." I'm glad guys like this are serving in the military.

When you simplify it this way, it's easier to see how we're getting screwed. This one swears. Sorry. Too true to omit.

1. I just realized why Amazon.com's Kindle sucks (Kindle displays electronic text). It's not just that reading off a screen grates the eyes, and doesn't compete with a paper book. The problem is that they're not really giving you anything. They are respectable pirates who take a cut from the people who actually do the work. Yar * Let me explain it like this. Before electronic media, if you wrote a book, you took the pages to a printer, who performed an actual service. He printed several copies of your book. You would either pay the printer to do this, or promise the printer a cut of each of the books sold. The money received for each book was compensation for the time the author took to write it, the time the printer took to print it, and for the paper it was printed on. "Edward is so dreamy" * With electronic books, what is the compensation for? Copying and pasting the texts literally takes no time and no resources. Amazon.com should therefore recei...

Check out these worshipers praying for the car industry: From the nytimes . Mormonism is known as an "American religion" because it was founded here, and not just a break off of another church founded in Europe. But I have yet to see an SUV used as a centerpiece of a Relief Society meeting.

Call the heating department, at (801) 422-5532, and ask them to turn the thermostat down so we don't pollute our air with all of that coal. And next time you get cold, wear a sweater, you sissy destroyer of worlds.

Kathy wrote this, in response to this : When I read Adam Colvin's letter, "Bizarre Ideas of Democrats" on Dec. 1, I didn't worry about Democrats' (or Republicans') ideas, like he may have wanted; I worried about Mormons. I worry that too many members of the Church of Jesus Christ missed the point of the Book of Mormon when they stopped reading somewhere in the war chapters. Moroni hated fighting; Colvin's letter makes Moroni sound like he just took anybody out who threatened him. But all Book of Mormon prophets who also served as military leaders abhorred violence and understood certain principles about war's justification. Mormon 4:4, for instance: "And it was because the armies of the Nephites went up unto the Lamanites that they began to be smitten; for were it not for that, the Lamanites could have had no power over them." We cannot kill or terrorize anyone in any country just because they frighten us or do not do what we say. I ...

My friend Alex sent me this a couple days ago. Girls obviously freak out at the accusation of pornography, because they assume they are righteous, and addicts are prone to denial. This Michael fellow defends the girl's opinion, because he is trying to pick up on her. Girls love Twilight because it is addicting like porn. The small percentage of male readers directly correlates with the amount of homosexual men in the population.

A copycat has stolen my idea that Twilight is Pornography. Good for him. I'll give 10 bucks to anyone who prints the t-shirt "Twilight is Porn." If enough people let me know that they want this t-shirt, maybe I will print it.

In a twist, instead of having my ideas stolen by a rich guy, I stole a rich guy's idea : It makes sense to undesertify the desert, since man created the Sahara, we should put it back the way it was, and make " the desert blossom like a rose ." I came up with an idea for a class to build a canal from the sea to Death Valley, to help the desert and the surrounding states (Utah, Nevada, California) get more water. The water would flow unassisted because Death Valley is below sea level. The water would evaporate, and the left over salt could be sold by the nearby Indian tribe. Because that guy was rich people took him seriously. Just wait. A few decades from now you'll all be swimming at the Death Valley resort. Now that's rich.

Read this article on non-torture interrogation techniques that do not dehumanize the prisoner. Which is a good contrast to another BYU editorial that makes me nauseous: I think this is in response to the editorial I wrote a couple weeks ago. I don't have a lot of time to comment on this now. I'll update this later.

A video of an artist's attempt to familiarize Americans with Iranians. Here's a link to the artist's exhibit .