Ha ha! Suck it up, hicks. You might just have to get used to people respecting America again.

DB connect error. It looks like God has smitten the server of the unbelievers and punished their vile iniquities.

Oh, dear God no!

Surely ingesting capsules of heavy metals is never a good idea? I wonder how many of these you'd need to pop to come down with gold poisoning.

Wow... Judging by the comments from some of the New Zealanders here, you'd think their attitude would be enough to deter people from wanting to enter their country.

There's something kind of charming about this, and it reminds me of a comedy sketch I saw years back about Ming the Merciless, kicking back and relaxing in his modest suburban home after a hard day of brutal tyranny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xqukXdkmY&NR=1

This could go one of two disastrous ways: we could end up with Skynet (we all know 'going with your gut' is a good way to end up in senseless wars)... Or we could go the Sirius Cybernetics Corp. route and end up with Marvin the Paranoid Android, and robots that take more personal days than their human counterparts.

Illustrated proof that capitalism moves towards monopoly.