I'm sure that lot's of people may be looking into this, but this made me think of a story in a local weekly about a guy who went down to the river and scooped up a bunch of algae foam, and realized it burned similar to oil. Here is the story:
http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=14760

Viva DADA!

wow thats backwards.

I am slightly, and only slightly, more appalled by the Alleged Celebrity Atheist slide show linked at the bottom of the page.

@ #1: what's so gross, they touched someone's boobies. its just skin. i could understand your disgust if you saw a diaphragm at the thrift store however.

Also my friend from japan brought one of my other friends one of the "goose head things". its basically an inflatable bird head with sticky tape on the end to attach to your groinal area.

Wouldn't it be much simpler just to keep unaccompanied children under special protection during an emergency? Kids that are with their parents should be protected, by their parents.

The reasoning for this policy just doesn't make any sense, accept to grant even more power to authorities during an emergency. In practicality this would do nothing but cause delays.

That's because the reasoning for this is just a lie.

And I'm sorry but do the AT&T wristbands sound like the IBM concentration camp tattoo numbers from Nazi Germany?

@ #57: i never said i was smoking it, just rolling it!

This has nothing to do with religion. It is the culture. Remember they are very different things, but religion is often misused to enforce cultural practices. Head scarfs aren't exactly discussed in the Qu'ran, that is why you see so much variation among Islamic sects and societies. In fact, the prophet Muhammed increased the rights of women and preached equality, it is the male dominated societies of the Middle East that have misused his words to continue the subjugation of women.

what if i was driving, perfectly, while all the same rolling a doobie (let's pretend I am the Dude for a moment), and the police stopped me to give me a gift certificate, would I get busted?

You know what he's right, we shouldn't question our leaders, we should all follow like little sheep and believe whatever they told us because governments never lie to the goverened.

I don't believe that missiles or bombs took down the WTC. But I think it is equally plausible as the official explanation, that a rogue elements of one or more of our intelligence agencies with or without the direction of someone higher up (ie: Cheney), let it happen if not prodded it along. Nothing has been suggested that disproves that scenario.

However assuming the official theory is correct, there is clearly a case for negligence and misjudgement, really there is no reason that it should have happened. The fact that we gave everyone in charge a free card is beyond me.