I didn't say it was unfair of c-dub or you to make a judgment of my values. I certainly don't try to stop judgmental people from doing what comes naturally to them.

My example of the 100-cats-in-the-house lady was an oversimplification of a situation, just like the incredibly simple comparisons being drawn previously to attack Na's point of view.

c-dub, surely he knew that he would be leaving the country at some point. Why couldn't he have found a home for that dog in its own country? Ostensibly, that is what the US forces are there to do: to make life better in Iraq. How is it irresponsible? I suppose in the same way when people do things without thinking of the consequences.

Read my previous post, zoomzoom, I didn't say they didn't have the right to dispense with their money as they pleased. Thanks anyways, but I'm not going to engage in a discussion where people simply attack me while ignoring my previous comments.

Sorry if I was harsh on you, John. It's just really bad timing.

I agree that we can't simply put on the blinkers when it comes to tragedies, but poor timing is just rubbing salt in the wound.

Otherwise, the film itself was okay - not exactly an oscar-winner and a little predictable, but the production values were excellent.

My parents are hardly luddites - they have a good tv that's lasted them for several years, and provided for their limited television needs.

This is pretty wasteful - a lot of tvs will end up in garbage dumps way before they should. It would be a good idea to get a massive electronics recycling program going.

c-dub, you're making a judgment on someone's values based on their opinion of this one situation.

Let's say an elderly woman loves cats. She loves them so much, she rescues strays and takes them home. She lives with 100 cats. Surely she is valuing love, generosity, and loyalty over practicality, money, and rules. The animal control officers who take her cats away to be euthanized must be very heartless.

I don't know if asking for help can be criticized, but if he couldn't afford to spend the money to ship the dog, he should have tried to find it a home in its own country. People can dispense with their money as they please - they can send it to that deposed Prince in Nigeria, if they want - but dude lacks responsibility.

Callous, insensitive, and ignorant to post this 3 days after a school shooting.

You should be ashamed.

Why wouldn't the second egg have cracked at the same time?

Something is rotten...

Those examples were pretty lousy.
The verbiage that accompanied them was excessive. Someone tell Ken Jennings to go off somewhere and quietly enjoy his game show winnings.

Do you really think people who massacre do the math about the likelihood of their victims having guns? He stopped when he felt he'd taken enough lives, and then killed himself. Not one person in that room could have stopped him from killing those people in the time that it would take to react, get your own gun out, take aim, and fire. Oops, and fire, drat - winged him...

Maybe we'd have a lot less accidents from drunk driving if everybody drove drunk, too.

Oh, brother.
I feel sorry for you, Na, after seeing you get blasted here by all the specious arguments.

Now, jen suggests that dogs and children are the same thing.

1: the soldier was asking other people to pay to send the dog to the USA.

2: he was also asking for all manner of rules to be waived in order to get the dog across the border.

3: the "leave your kid in California" argument is absurd. A dog is not a child. A dog's life is not equal to the life of a child. Bottom line.

No need to call people heartless just because they're being practical. This soldier isn't adopting a dying Iraqi child. Rather, he's taking food from the mouths of Iraqi chldren who would otherwise be eating dog tonight.

6 years old?

Sad that people find cruelty to animals so funny.

Perfect for when you fall asleep during sex, driving, church, conversations with relatives.

Looks like ancient Egyptian eyes...

Question #1:

163 students are in a classroom. Each student is armed.

1 ex-student comes in, starts shooting.

How many students fire back? Out of those students, how many actually hit their intended target? How many actually end up wounding other students?
What is the total number of deaths once all 164 people in the room stop firing?

Show your work.

Looks more like a Scotsman in this picture.

Glad Desdemonus cleared *that* one up. Silly Nitpicker, how dare you read the sentence literally.

I remember seeing two big stray dogs fighting in Italy a few years ago. They were drawing blood. Nothing wrong with euthanizing an animal when it's necessary and possibly the best thing for the animal, considering the circumstances. Plenty of strays being killed in the USA, as we speak.

Whew!
I'm just glad it was a tentacle modification. I thought it said "testicle" at first. Although, I'm sure there are some of those modifications there, too.

Again, a really stupid idea flourishes.