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    Nevermind why he brung it up, but I'm talking about the myth itself. I went up to him after the sermon and told him that since the 1920s people believed we only use ten percent of our brains but it is a myth and it had been proven false. He said "no, if we use our brain to the full extent, then we can't do better at anything we do. have you used all of your abilities to their full capacity?" And I didnt know what to say after that so I told him I understood what he was saying and that I'd look into it.

     

    I looked on snopes but I didnt find the answer to that exact question. "How can you use a 100% of your brain if you don't excel at everything you do?"

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    No matter how he cheated his way into the Whitehouse, no matter how stupid he sounds when he talks, no matter how much he messed up on 9/11, no matter how many privacy rights he has violated, no matter how much coke he snorted back in the day, no matter that he hasnt caught, Osama, the person responsible for 9/11...

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    he will still be considered a good president because...

     

    a. hes a "cowboy" :P

    B. Saddam Hussein was captured under his reign

     

    pretty sad, but true

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    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12114512/

     

    U.S. attack on Iran may prompt terror

     

    Experts say strikes on nuclear facilities could spark worldwide retaliation

     

     

    Technicians inspect a reactor at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant near Tehran. U.S. intelligence experts say the sheer number of nuclear facilities in Iran and their distance from one another make them difficult targets for a military strike.

     

     

     

    By Dana Priest

    Updated: 12:16 a.m. ET April 2, 2006

     

    As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide.

    Iran would mount attacks against U.S. targets inside Iraq, where Iranian intelligence agents are already plentiful, predicted these experts. There is also a growing consensus that Iran's agents would target civilians in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, they said.

    U.S. officials would not discuss what evidence they have indicating Iran would undertake terrorist action, but the matter "is consuming a lot of time" throughout the U.S. intelligence apparatus, one senior official said. "It's a huge issue," another said.

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    In high school, my physics teacher told me that during wwII, scientist did research on this and found out that if the tailgate was up, it created this pocket of air in the bed that would not cause increased drag. Also, a year after i graduated, this said teacher came out and said he was gay. Not that theres anything wrong with that....

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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_on_...DMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

     

    WASHINGTON -

    President Bush expressed frustration Wednesday that Iraqis have so far failed to form a unity government, but he said withdrawing U.S. troops from

    Iraq too early would damage U.S. security.

     

    "I want the Iraqi people to hear I've got great confidence in their capacity to self-govern," Bush said. "I also want the Iraqi people to hear — it's about time you get a unity government going.

     

    "In other words, Americans understand you're newcomers to the political arena. But pretty soon it's time to shut her down and get governing." :lol:

     

    The successful creation of a unified central authority remains key to the hoped-for start of an American troop withdrawal this summer. Withdrawing U.S. troops before Iraqi security forces can protect the fragile democracy, however, would yield adverse results, Bush said.

     

    "While it might sound attractive to some, it would have disastrous consequences for American security," Bush said in his third speech this month trying to bolster public support for the war.

     

    If democracy fails, Bush predicted that terrorists would use Iraq as a base to overthrow moderate governments in the Middle East and launch further attacks against the United States.

     

    Bush spoke to Freedom House, an independent organization that supports democracy worldwide, before flying to Cancun, Mexico, to meet with Mexican President

    Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

     

    Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, proposed a strategy on Wednesday for protecting Americans at home and abroad — an election-year effort aimed at changing public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security.

     

    In the strategy, Democrats vowed to provide U.S. agents with the resources to eliminate

    Osama bin Laden and ensure a redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2006. They promised to rebuild the military, eliminate the United States' dependence on foreign oil and implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.

     

    "The president can give all the speeches he wants, but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

     

    "Two weeks ago, he told Americans that Iraqis would control their country by the end of the year. Last week, he told us our troops would be there until at least 2009. These mixed messages from President Bush are taking America in the wrong direction and jeopardizing Iraq's chances for success."

     

    Vice President

    ###### Cheney said the Democrats' behavior has been inconsistent with what they're now promising to do. Cheney said he did not believe the Democrats had a credible plan for tracking down bin Laden and their plan to move U.S. forces out of Iraq this year would amount to a strategic retreat.

     

    "It makes no sense at all to turn Iraq over to the terrorists," Cheney said on Fox News Radio's "The Tony Snow Show."

     

    Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman, responded: "The vice president's tough-talking rhetoric is no longer credible. The Republican game plan to distort and divide will fail because they can't run on their record. All they have are catchy sound bites."

     

    The United States has been pushing Iraq to speed up the formation of a unity government, seen as the best option to subdue the violence gripping several Iraqi cities.

     

    Hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence since the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra.

     

    Political talks remain fragile in a country with deep sectarian differences between Shiites and Sunnis. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has asked one of Iraq's most prominent Shiite politicians to seek the withdrawal of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's contentious nomination for a second term.

     

    Bush countered critics who wonder whether toppling

    Saddam Hussein caused the current divisions and instability.

     

    "In fact, much of the animosity and violence we now see is the legacy of Saddam Hussein," Bush said. "He is a tyrant who exacerbated sectarian divisions to keep himself in power."

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    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/29/...in1449886.shtml

     

    Duke Lacrosse Team Sidelined

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    DURHAM, N.C., March 29, 2006

     

    (CBS/AP) Duke University's president has suspended the school's highly ranked lacrosse team from play until school administrators learn more about allegations that several team members raped an exotic dancer at an off-campus party.

     

    "In this painful period of uncertainty, it is clear to me, as it was to the players, that it would be inappropriate to resume the normal schedule of play," President Richard Brodhead said Tuesday.

     

    A woman told police she and another dancer were hired to perform March 13 at a private party in an off-campus home. The dancer, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she was pulled into a bathroom, beaten, choked and raped by three unidentified men.

     

    No one has been charged, but police took DNA samples with a cheek swab from 46 of the lacrosse team's 47 players last week, CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reported on The Early Show Wednesday. The 47th player, the only black member of the team, did not have to provide DNA because the dancer said her attackers were white. The dancer is black.

     

    Brodhead said team captains notified Athletic Director Joe Alleva on Tuesday that players wanted to stay off the field until the DNA results came back from a crime lab. In a statement, the captains predicted the DNA testing would clear the players of wrongdoing.

     

    The case has roiled the campus and raised racial tensions. The alleged victim is black, the players white. And neighbors reported hearing at least one player yelling racial slurs, Strassman reports.

     

    "I've seen no evidence of any racial problems with the lacrosse team or frankly, any of our teams," Joe Alleva, Director of Athetics at Duke University.

     

    The allegations also have heightened antagonism between the affluent students at Duke, which costs about $43,000 a year, and the city of Durham, which has a large population of poor people and is about evenly divided between white and black.

     

    Players have denied the allegations, but investigators are convinced the rape happened, and are frustrated by the team's wall of silence, Strassmann reports.

     

    "The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done," District Attorney Mike Nifong said. "It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so."

     

    Nifong said the team members are standing together and refusing to talk with investigators, and he warned he may bring aiding-and-abetting charges against some of the players.

     

    "The silence is what I can't stand. It's the fact that people know information but they're not saying the information. So therefore, they're jeopardizing the safety of everyone else," Morgan McGhee, a Duke University student tells CBS News.

     

    A lawyer representing several lacrosse team members did not immediately return calls Tuesday.

     

    Angry over the team members' silence and the university's handling of the case, Durham residents have demonstrated on and off campus in the past few days. They rallied outside the house where the alleged attack occurred, and gathered outside of Duke Provost Peter Lange's home, where they banged on pots and pans until he emerged to answer questions.

     

    Lange said Monday that he believes "the students would be well-advised to come forward. They have chosen not to."

     

    Durham police echoed his sentiments. "We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward," David Addison, with the Durham Police Department, said.

     

    The university's athletic director had already forced the team to miss two games because of underage drinking and the hiring of dancers at the party. Duke, considered a national title contender before the season began, has a 6-2 record with five regular-season games to go.

    That's teamwork only Coach K can teach.
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