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A few days ago, a Jewish film festival in California did the dumbest thing in the world. They honored a terrorist named Rachel Corrie.

Rachel Corrie was a 23 year old American girl who was known as being a "martyr" for running in front of an Israeli bulldozer that was demolishing a house that was harboring terrorists. In 2003 she went to Israel with a terrorist-sympathizing group, the ISM, which calls for the destruction of Israel, like Hamas. She was in Israel to try to fight the IDF, the Israeli military. Ever the martyr, in spring of 2003, Rachel ran in front of the bulldozer and died, determined to protect the terrorists living inside.

Corrie, a notorious anti-American and anti-Israeli, is now being honored with a documentary, "Rachel", about her life, telling the story of her "murder," when it was suicide. She will be honored instead of getting what she deserves: a big fat gob of spit on her grave.

A bitch who gave comfort to the enemy and smuggled food to Hamas suicide bombers is being remembered as a heroine. At a Jewish film festival!

We must remember Rachel Corrie as what she truly is: a terrorist sympathizer, who gave aid to the enemy, and committed suicide, just like the animals that she helped.
What. A. Bitch.

That's tough. I probably wouldn't change my name, Adam, since it's stuck on me.
But I would name my son either...
Andy
Jack
David
Roy

And my daughter...
April
Sharon
Ellen

Dang, that's pretty bad. My bet is that either you pulled out...
-A hair that was trapped in there somehow, and pulling it out damaged the nail.
-A blood vessel, since that might explain the bleeding.
-Maybe a strip of tissue that held your nail onto the finger

You're right, there were too few crematoriums to kill 6 million people.
Which is why millions were forced to dig their own graves and then be shot.
It wasn't just gas chambers that killed Holocaust victims.

I was a scaredy-cat when I was a little boy. I was afraid of...
-Bowser's laugh from Super Mario 64 when you couldn't open a door
-Power Rangers
-This song (on a VHS for a Disney movie)
-Bees
-The dark
-The basement's utility room
-The thunderstorm from the movie The AristoCats

What about you?

Oh, don't worry. Nobody here can call you a dumbass, since it's happened to everyone.

I know it's incredibly early for me to tell, but here's my guess...

Imagine that it's 2049. 40 years from now. How do you think he'll be remembered as?
I think he'll be remembered like JFK and FDR.
He'll be remembered like JFK for bringing us hope for a new future.
He'll be remembered like FDR for trying to fix the economy. I don't think he'll succeed, though.

My bet-he'll just be remembered as the president that brought hope, helped the economy, and was the first black president. That's it.

No! No! Communism has not worked in the past, and it will not work "if..." No buts about it. Communism is a stupid system that's rooted in theory, but not practice, and that's why it will never work.

"Communism would work if the people in charge were good."
In communism, you hand all of your property to the government. The state owns the means of production. It's like you're a farmer and you have two cows. The state takes the cows and provides you with milk. By giving your property to the government, you're asking to be oppressed.

Communism is a stupid idea, because it does not have a market-based economy, and because it does not promote competition and work.

In the USSR, every so often, the government would have meetings, deciding what amounts of what would be manufactured and produced. They'd say things like, "50,000 pantyhose, 45,000 treadmills, and 63,000 wool socks." They didn't let the market decide what would be popular. And what happened? Let's say that wool socks were fashionable that year, and dieting, not exercising, was popular. Well, you'd have major shortages of socks (this same principle is why it took years to get a car in Russia) and surpluses of treadmills, except this would apply to far more products. Without letting the market decide what you should make more or less of, the communist market failed miserably.

In the USSR, you did not have to work. The government gave what you needed no matter what you worked. You could pretty much do no work at all, give almost nothing to the government, and they'd still give you what you needed. Sounds good? It wasn't. People starved because they did not grow enough food, and since they could not give anything to the government, the rations that the government provided them would go down. People also felt a loss of purpose in life since they didn't have to work, and that's why alcoholism was rampant in Russia.

And in communism, true to its anti-capitalist views, abolished religion. To atheists, this seems like a good thing, but it made any other religions punishable by law, prohibiting freedom of worship. Since religion also taught people that the government was not perfect, (religion's always taught that,) it gave the government allowance to stamp out freedoms of speech. Does that sound like a place you want to live?

So, in essence, communism kept everybody equal by keeping them all poor, while the rich government was happy. That sounds a lot like what the Soviet people fought against.

So no, communism will not work. I see a lot of these threads saying that it would work, but it will not. People say, "oh look at China, they're doing great," but THEY'VE done a ton of reforming. Their economy is becoming more and more market-based like America's, and that's what's making it prosperous. That and cheap labor, but that's a different story.

So no, communism will not work. I've seen plenty of threads saying it would work, but it won't.
Better dead than Red!

Although the latter makes you the former.

I was eating lunch today and I came across an apple, and decided to eat it.
I washed it, and was about to take a bite into it when I heard a soft but deep voice, say,
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
I looked around, thinking it was someone, but no one was nearby.
I went to take another bite, when I heard,
"What hand's that which doth enrich the hand of yonder...apple?"
I stared at the apple, wondering if that was the apple, but I heard nothing from it.
Tired of the distractions, I quickly bit into the apple. I heard a small scream, and a grave voice, saying,
"Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve."
Then I heard my apple's death rattle.
I reached for a pear instead.

What decade would you like to live in, starting the decade at age 15 and ending it at age 25? Give as many answers as you want. If you'd like to be 15-25 in one decade because you want to be 5-15 in the previous one, say so and say why.
Give multiple answers if you want!
For me...
1940s (I'd serve in WWII)
1950s (I'd like to see the culture and be mature to experience America's golden age.
1970s (I'd like to be 5-15 in the 60s, since it's so idyllic and seems like a nice time.)
1980s (Breakup of the Soviet Union, and Reagan!)
1990s (I was born in 1992, and I'd like to know what life was like with Bill Clinton in the White House. Plus,
the 1990s just plain rocked!)

So what about you guys?

But would it actually work?

In case you did not know, Super Smash Bros. 64 has been released in the PAL areas for the Virtual Console. It has not been released in North America.

I live in the United States, and would like that game, and I have an idea how to do it, but I don't know if it would work.
Tell me if you think this would work:
1: Connect to the Internet
2: Change the country that I'm in on the Wii Settings to a country in the PAL region.

Hopefully if I do that, then I could download games for the PAL region.

I'm not expecting it to work, but it would be nice.

Is it possible for me to get PAL games in America if I change my country to a PAL country?
Again, I'm not expecting it to work.

Today in class, we were discussing Kim Jong-Il and his regime in North Korea.
North Korea is known to have nuclear weapons, and has issued a warning that it will fire a missile on July 4, 2009 towards Hawaii, over Japan. American scientists know that the missile will definitely not be able to reach Hawaii, but we don't want to wait until the Koreans have a weapon that does.
We were all talking about pre-emptive strikes, when I got what I believed to be a decent idea.
A defense treaty with the United States, South Korea, and Japan.
Right now, North Korea has tons of missiles and explosives aimed at Seoul, South Korea. If they wanted, they could set Seoul ablaze in a short period of time, and South Korea could do the same to Pyongyang, North Korea.
I'd be fine with a pre-emptive strike at North Korea, since they are threatening the US with a missile strike, but the problem is that the missiles are aimed at Seoul, and Japan. If we did a pre-emptive strike on our own, Japan and South Korea, who are in much more danger than we are, would get hit by Kim's missiles.
I think we need to sit down with South Korea and Japan and organize a defense treaty. We need to work as a team, so that we can defeat North Korea with a minimal of casualties, so that America can attack North Korea with South Korea and Japan's help and approval, so that Tokyo and Seoul do not get bombed in retaliation to an American missile.
In addition, in case of war, we need to send more troops to the DMZ and Japan, since we have military bases all over the Pacific, and Japan.
Of course, war should be the last resort, but what do you think about a US, South Korea, and Japan defense treaty?

I'm not necessarily proud of it, but I am an incredibly boring person.

It's summer, I'm leaving for a camp in a few days, and I'm dreading it. I always like my sleep, and I'm dreading the possibility of a snoring roommate. I'm stocked with earplugs and am abstaining from caffeine for the time spent at camp.
Did you go to summer camp when you were 10 years old? Remember the kid who kept whining for you all to be quiet at night? That was me.
I'm not antisocial, but I'm the guy who leaves early at parties when it gets late.
I've heard people gripe about being "stuck in the rut" at school, mainly having every day seem the same, with few changes.
I. Love. The. Rut.
I love it. I'm in my prime. No surprises, nothing I'm not used to. I know what will happen, and I get into my own pattern. It's when I'm in the rut that the school year passes by and I do well. In that schedule, I am happy.
I'm dreading camp so much, I'm looking forward to fall. I'm looking forward to next summer, where I will get a summer job, make money, and if need be, go to summer school if I can't test out of Consumer Ed.
I live by the clock. Always want to know what time it is. I can't live on the "eat when you're hungry and sleep when you're tired" wilderness rule. Nope. 11:00? Nighty-night. I hate staying up incredibly late. I've never stayed up all night (although I have for 24 hours, but that was on a plane going into the sun.) and I'm 16, soon to be 17 in a few months.
Vacations? Hate 'em. Well, they're mostly ok, but I don't like being forced to walk through cities, gawking at stores and houses. I'd rather relax somewhere and do nothing.
I'm so boring, I actually cut a bike ride short to see something at my local library.

You not doing anything this summer? I envy you. I've been forced to do schoolwork at other camps and be away and travel six years in a row, and I'm sick and tired of it. Next year, 2010, it'll be different.

I'm the biggest wuss in the world. I don't understand why going out of a comfort zone excites people. If it's not comfortable, it's not fun. And the thing is, even when I go back to the same camp I've gone to for awhile, I still dread it. If I've been there before, going there should still be in my comfort zone, right?
Well for me, apparently not. My comfort zone is like iron. It doesn't flex or expand.

I've realized it's so easy to make decisions that won't affect you for a long time. I made the stupid choice to go to camp this year 7 months ago. Why did I say yes? My mom was nagging me about it and I said I'd go to shut her up. I didn't think about then. June seemed so far away from November.

During the year I even thought of going into the military. But seeing my weaknesses staring me in the face as I dread 38 days at camp, I wonder how I'd ever survive the Air Force.

I admit it, NG. I'm the world's most boring person.

Here is why I don't believe a two-state solution will work. Here's an analogy why.

You decide to move from the city to build a log cabin in the woods. You build your home, but as soon as you do, a wolf from another woods spots you and your house.
The wolf, and the rest of its pack that have traveled from far away like yourself, gang up on you and savagly attack you. You manage to cage the wolves.
Question: Would you release the wolves?
Remember, if you release the wolves, they will attack you, no matter what. Even though it is ideal for you and the wolves to peacefully coexist, it's not practical, since the wolves will attack you no matter what if you release them.

When talks between friends and me turn to the military, many of those who say they want to join the military say that they want to join the militaries of another country.
One of my friends, although not an Israeli but a Jew, says he wants to join the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), which is essentially the Israeli army.
Another friend, although not British, wants to join the SAS, which is the British version of the Green Berets.

Personally, as an American, if I do join the military, I would not serve any other country than the United States.

So NG, if you were to join the military, would you defend and fight for your country, or another country? Which branch would you join, and why?

Today was my first day at a summer program I'm at. It's at a college, where you take a class there for 3 weeks. My class is Race Relations and Ethics, and I'm the only white guy in my class.
I shouldn't even bother, I'm getting an F as the outcast of the class.

Wait..what survey? Links please.

to post on FaceBook. I'm making a quiz on FaceBook, and I can't find a good place to get pictures. I need at least five pictures:
A shot of Curly Howard
A shot of Moe Howard
A shot of Shemp Howard
A shot of Larry Fine
A shot of three of the stooges (most likely excluding Shemp)
However, I don't want to get my butt sued for copyright infringment or anything like that. My quiz is non-profit or anything, and I just want the pictures for my quiz. That's all!
Anyone know a place where I could find pictures that I either don't have to give credit for or give little credit to (as in just mentioning the name?
Thanks for the help!

I use AVG 8.5 Free. I switched to avast! earlier, but there were some bugs with it because it took several tries to successfully download updates, and because sometimes the avast! database wouldn't open. Plus, it's so confusing to use!
I use AVG, because it was recommended to me by a computer expert, works pretty well as long as you don't go on virus-y websites or download anything (perfect for me) and best of all, it's very user-friendly. On Google, it puts icons by each link, telling me if it's safe to use, and the AVG toolbar keeps me up-to-date on AVG stuff, even if it is a little useless. Plus, unlike avast!, if I want to update, I just press one button instead of updating different components, and when I scan my computer, I don't have to select which files and drives I want to scan, and set up where I want it to scan. I just press "Scan Whole Computer" and it does the rest.
Plus, it tells me when my last scan and update was, what version of this I have, and everything else is taken care of. AVG does not take up a lot of RAM, and it's very easy to use.
I've had this computer for almost a year, and there've been 0 viruses or anything on it with AVG, so I'm going to stick with it.

There are infinite fetishes. There are imaginative people and there are crazy people.
Of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

that you admittedly or secretly enjoy? They can be old shows/movies (Pre-1985) or childish shows/movies. What do you like?

They recently got their panties (not made from animal fur) in a knot since Obama smashed a common housefly.

I think PETA members should get a surgury that removes their stomach acid, white blood cells, and macrophages, since those kill innocent bacteria. Then, they should bomb pharmacies that are handing out Motrin, the animal-killing tool of the devil!

How low can PETA go?

I hope there's a heaven. Then she'd be watching it for all eternity.
Saddest thing in the world.

What's something you've always wanted to do before you die? It doesn't have to be something crazy or absurd, but something you've always wanted to do.

I've always wanted to appear on a childrens' TV show, like Seasame Street or something like that. Tons of celebrities have done that, and I think it'd be a ton of fun!

She has seriously been scaring me with these comments. These events have happened before, not once, not twice, but at least THREE times each. I answered every one of these comments with rejection and/or refusal to her demands.

Several times, after I come home from working out, she comments on how muscular I am. Yeah, I'd be flattered if she was a cheerleader at my school, but she's my fucking middle aged MOTHER. It's creepy, like reverse-Oedipus or something.
I always respond with, "that's gross," or something like that.

She also inquires about my face. Yeah, I have a slight acne problem, but whenever she starts a conversation with me it always goes to, "so, are you taking the mediciene" or "your acne looks better." But that's not the worst part. She used to beg for me to let her to POP MY ACNE. I tell her she sounded like a diseased pedophile.

She's asked me several times if I have chest hair, saying, "I want to know if you're hairy like your father." Every time, I try my best not to puke.

Seriously, she scares me. If she keeps this up I'm calling 911.

Even though Avast! Home Edition is Free, does it only work for 60 days or is there another free version of avast! that you can keep forever, like AVG Free?

Eew...that's disgusting. You must stink.
I shower AT LEAST every day, usually at night.

Recently, since Iran's new missiles are capable of hitting Israel, Israel is planning a strategic air strike to bomb and destroy the nuclear reactors.
I say to this, go Israel! Keeping the world safe from nutjobs with nuclear weapons.

We are so lucky to have Israel as an ally.

I know there have been several threads about this, but this won't be a whole "America's awesome" or "Europe sucks" one.

I just want Europeans to know that America has not become a shithole with idiots. There are plenty of intelligent people in America. We are smart and well-educated.

We are just going through a bad time here. I know that in the past we've helped Europe during their times of need without judgment. All I ask is that Europeans not judge us harshly in OUR time of need.

It was not the American people that caused this crisis; it was European and American leaders, as well as the sheiks in the Middle East. It was Bush. It was Blair/Gordon. It was Sarkozy. Everyone had a part in this global financial crisis.

American ingenuity is not dead. We are all not fat slobs who carry shotguns with us on the way to weekly KKK rallies.
In case you didn't know, we also HATED Bush. I know during his presidency he was ridiculed in Europe, and he was definitely ridiculed in America.

I just want you Europeans to know that America is going through a tough time right now. You have been in this condition too, so don't judge us as idiots. It's not the American peoples' fault that this happened.
America will rise again. I know that. And the world will return to as it was a decade ago: peaceful and prosperous.