Some day I will write an extension that turns all mentions of "terrorist" into "witch". It should give people a better sense of risk assessment.

Out of oil, that is. Fossil fuels != oil. Besides, all the more reason to cut back on the consumption.

YOu don't care about America's witch enemies? I hope you drown in melted ice caps! /me lights a $1 bill

We are already fitting our Sekrit Island Nuclear Engines so we can move to avoid climate problems.

You DO know what happens when you burn something right? CO2 comes out as a byproduct, do you know what CO2 is? It's a greenhouse gas...

I couldn't tell if you were joking or not.

Well... that's only if you burn something containing carbon. But I'm just nitpicking. Acetylene, yes. Hydrogen, no. Then again, there are other greenhouses gases then CO2.

Has any of you seen the movie Idiocracy? That's what is going to happen when people like those have seven kids and people like us have only a couple, if any.

Yeah, but how do they get to keep them? I don't mean to offend anyone, but

Come on! Seriously? I mean, sure you can have your beliefs, but that's just stupid. This guy actually expects Al Gore to end his lecture by saying "Well, on the other hand the Bible does say that it gets really hot in the end, so maybe that's what's going on."

I don't get how religious fanatics have absolutely no tolerance for anything but their own beliefs, yet they expect everyone else to agree to them. I just love how Joe Nobody knows The Truth, unlike the people who study this stuff for a living. If that's what you believe, go ahead, but at least give your children a chance.

That's a pretty shallow understanding of large families. I'm the sixth child of nine and my parents had me because they wanted me, not because they were opposed to birth control.

Fortunately in America, we have free speech and beliefs. For example, we can say that the Holocaust never happened without being put in jail. We can say that condoms and Al Gore don't belong in school and keep our children!

Yes, there are a lot of extremists out there who make for great quotes, but it really doesn't matter. I believe that diversity is more healthy than blinded belief in a central premise, and if that means we have to put up with a few weirdos, then that's fine with me.

I was poking fun at the first part of the quote:

Of course, the problem lies not in people having those ideas or expressing them in their spare time (which is fine and part of free speech), but in presenting in a public school system the idea that evolution is not a fact or that the greenhouse effect doesn't exist as science, or holocaust denial as history, etc -- when they are not. Yes, some ideas are better than others. All theories are not born equal.

It's fine to look at an issue from several viewpoints but when there simply is no credible opposition within the fields of science or history or whatever, you're just misleading those who are too young to defend themselves. There simply is no debate as to whether or not certain effects are real or not, and pretending like there are such debates is doing everyone a huge disfavor.

So the teacher (living in a country with free speech) should carefully explain that while he's required to teach cretinism, the scientific_method requires repeatable experiments, methods used to arrive at facts etc. When an astrologer says "You're going to meet someone romantically today", ask them how they arrived at that hypothesis.

History is a little tougher due to being written by the winners.