If you're free to complain that your country is a 'police state', then it isn't a 'police state'. Iran is a police state. North Korea is a police state. USA? Not so much.
Go to your profile page and create a photo album, upload it onto there, and then when you use the 'Insert Image' function on a reply, paste in the web URL of the uploaded pic :)
Mm...care to provide a source for that one? No offence, but in most situations, I would take the word of a biologist over a non-biologists in a situation relating to biology.
Atheism is a disbelief in supernatural deities, theism the belief in supernatural deities. Both are massive overarching descriptions which contain hundreds of subsections. People forget that atheism is just as diverse as theism; you can have Buddhists, secularists, humanists, anti-theists, Hindu...
Pastor Terry Jones: "We's going to burn ourselves some Ko-rans! I'm not all that sure what a Ko-ran is...I think it's something to do with I-ran...but we will not let them there Moo-slims come and take our God-given land of America! Don't nobody tell me them Moo-slims don't understand no show of...
You completely ignored my point. Mentally retarded people cannot do any of the things you stated above, yet you consider them human. Ergo, the definition of human does not contain the criteria you have outlined. Thus far you are continuing with your annoying habit of unfounded, unbsustantiated...
If you believe that animals are not subject to fear, pleasure, distress, desire or thrills, you are seriously challenged.
Also, I would like to point out that the severely mentally retarded cannot do any of the above. By your definition, they are not human.