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>The two-party system exists because it is implicit to our Constitution. Period. If you don't get past this fact we are lost.

That's not a fact, that's not even mistaken, it is diametrically opposite to the truth.

The people who wrote our Constitution had watched party politics in England and hated it. They thought political parties were dangerous. They wanted people to vote for candidates, not parties. George Washington warned against "party spirit" in his farewell address.

For those who are curious: "The dimensions of an Olympic pool are required to be 25 metres by 50 metres." http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_are_the_dimensions_o f_an_Olympic-sized_swimming_pool I am still looking for the definition of 'military-grade encryption'.

If a random mutation resulting in an iPod pouch or "extra appendage" to work a mouse would make you more sexually attractive, then you might be on to somthing.

Personally, I'd prefer a third set of teeth.

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~40,000,000 - 70,000,000 people died in WWII now there where many causes but on this scale wiping out to minor city's is not that huge.(http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/How_many_soldiers_w ere_killed_in_World_War_2)

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in _World_War_II to see how many people a single non nuke air raid killed.

Out of 28,410 houses in the inner city of Dresden, 24,866 were destroyed. An area of 15 square kilometers was totally destroyed, among that: 14,000 homes, 72 schools, 22 hospitals, 19 churches, 5 theaters, 50 bank and insurance companies, 31 department stores, 31 large hotels, and 62 administration buildings. In total there were 222,000 apartments in the city. 75,000 of them were totally destroyed, 11,000 severely damaged, 7,000 damaged, 81,000 slightly damaged. The city was around 300 square kilometres in area in those days. Although the main railway station was destroyed completely, the railway was working again within a few days. The precise number of dead is difficult to ascertain and is not known. Estimates are made difficult by the fact that the city was crowded at that time with wounded soldiers and refugees. The fate of some of the refugees is not known as they may have been killed and incinerated beyond recognition in the fire-storm, or they may have left Dresden for other places without informing the authorities. Earlier reputable estimates varied from 25,000 to more than 60,000, but historians now view around 25,000-35,000 as the likely range[14](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_ Dresden_in_World_War_II#endnote_Bergander2)%5B15%5 D(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_ in_World_War_II#endnote_Evans2) with the latest (1994) research by the Dresden historian Friedrich Reichert pointing toward the lower part of this range.[16]

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http://www.uic.com.au/nip29.htm

In Hiroshima, of a resident civilian population of 250 000 it was estimated that 45 000 died on the first day and a further 19 000 during the subsequent four months. In Nagasaki, out of a population of 174 000, 22 000 died on the first day and another 17 000 within four months. Unrecorded deaths of military personnel and foreign workers may have added considerably to these figures.

So Hiroshima was a big deal but less so when compared with the death totals from WWII.

Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi
35 of the US Founding Fathers
Cherie Booth QC (who still takes human rights cases against her husband's government, and wins, and incidentally earns 4x more than the PM)
Some of the above, and some more obscure ones, are listed here

However there's still a long way to go when google asks, in response to the search for "great lawyers",
"Did you mean: great leaders?"!

Google is your friend.

http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,58-1 7910,00.html
http://learninfreedom.org/socialization.html
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/social .html
http://www.faqfarm.com/Parenting/Homeschooling/525

I know of no studies that show homeschooled kids are "socially inept" or otherwise have any social problems whatsoever. On the contrary, an awful lot of information exists that says otherwise.