While I don't agree with the breaking of our laws when people enter this country illegally, I'm very uncomfortable with a government agency being able to ask you for papers just because you don't look right. It's bad stuff.

I don't think you realize how large the numbers are. Billions of, not planets, but galaxies with billions of stars, and many with planets. Practically zero is not zero, even 0000.1 is enough for there to be hundreds of thousands of times life could have arisen. The odds only point toward life. It's hard to comprehend numbers that large, but if you sit down and think about it, maybe you'll get it. Drake equation.

Yes, there is a very high chance that there is life out there somewhere. Intelligent life that has visited us? No, probably not. But life almost has to be out there. Look at the elements we're made of. Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and others. The same elements that are the most common in the universe. Look at how many stars there are. We now know that planets are pretty common too. Look at how many galaxies there are. Look at the kinds of environments life can exist in here on earth. Even if life is pretty rare, there must be millions of planets with life on it. Look at the Drake Equation.

Yes, it keeps people in line just like it did during the crusades, especially the later ones. It keeps people in line just like it did during the inquisitions. It keeps people in like just like when those little boys were being touched. Nothing keeps a man in line but himself.

I would say that it does. It shows that you put thought and effort into what you were writing. It also shows that you aren't too lazy to fully spell a three letter word.

Dave. No contest at all. Mencia is funny... oh wait, no he isn't. I don't even see how you could compare the two, it just doesn't make sense. One is funny and the other just makes noises and talks about his mom beating him.

I've traveled and lived in various areas of the country and I've found that the racism, stupidity and lack of education is about the same everywhere. It may be worth pointing out that urban areas seem to have those flaws more than other areas.

I would say that yes, smokers should be denied, but for one thing. Nicotine addiction is still an addiction. If you're going to deny them, you should have to offer them some help first. Also, if they're going to be denied, they shouldn't have to pay in.

From having worked with elderly people and delivered meals to them for several years I've seen people who were of sound mind but in too much pain to talk other than a few words with moans and gasps of pain in between them. I've seen people who were depressed because they had no family that cared about them and who had very limited mobility. I've seen people dying of cancer. Would you want your mother or grandmother to live the last few years of her life in pain and depression? Probably not. Physician assisted suicide could end the suffering of these people, and on another note, it would also reduce the amount of money and resources being used to keep these people alive when they don't really want to be.

I believe that you don't understand exactly what a dinosaur was. A dinosaur was a specific type of reptile with specific traits. Crocodiles are reptiles and so are turtles, but you wouldn't say that a turtle is a crocodile, would you? Birds were not around during the time of the dinosaurs either. I'm aware of the theory that some dinosaurs evolved into birds, but that means that they WERE dinosaurs, not that they are. They aren't dinosaurs anymore than us humans are small rodent-like animals that hung out in trees. No, we are not dinosaurs at all. Our evolutionary lines split long before the first true dinosaur or mammal lived. I would recommend you educate yourself on these things before you comment. I suggest that because you seemed to put a modicum of thought into your "argument" and maybe you'll learn something.

How would you reconcile the arguments of two people with mental disorders that have conflicting views? If one person wants to save Abraham Lincoln by eating their own skin and another clams that Lincoln never existed, how can both of those be realistic? I used to have to spend time (working) in a place that had several people with mental disorders. I see your point, but too much of it conflicts with the views of other people with mental disorders, while people who don't have these kinds of mental disorders generally agree on what reality is. Collusion? Maybe, but since we all agree, that's what reality is until we find out otherwise. And in response to someone who mentioned nihilism, nihilism can't prove or disprove anything.

As an American, your spelling embarrasses me. I hope you're either a non-American, a young child or have some disorder which interferes with your spelling and also makes you too stupid to click the "check spelling" button.

Actually, the farther to a side you are, the more likely you are to be an idiot and mentally unstable. Just listen to talk radio for either side. What ever happened to centrists?

No. While well intentioned, this is a thing that should be decided on a state or even local level. The federal government probably shouldn't have as much say in these sorts of things as they do.

What's the point in trying to win if the losers get the same as you do? What good is confidence without ability to back it? To tell them they did a good job should be good enough. Think of it this way, if two people are being chased by a lion and both are confident but only one has the ability, does the slower one still get a "trophy"? No, he dies. We didn't evolve in such a way for that to be a good strategy.

They broke our laws, regardless of the reasons and effects it may have had here and in their countries of origin.