When ever you can not refute what is said, you attack the person with some asinine statements. Yeah, but this comment thread is packed with refutation, and the only asinine statements are coming from the guy being refuted.
Simple truth has never been enough. The world is not a simple place. Simple truth is for children, who are not yet prepared to deal with the complexities and confusions that are the natural state of the world. Nostalgia for one's childhood is tempting, but it's better to seek out a complex, mature truth as we mature into complex beings in a complex world.
Slippery When Wet. The Bon Jovi Album.
- Was Jesus intolerant? Yes. He tolerated a lot of stuff, but not everything. Are acceptance and approval the same thing? Yes. But accepting one thing while disapproving of another aren't the same thing. For example, I accept the space program, but disapprove of the space shuttle. I accept my sister, but disapprove of her taste in asshat boyfriends. I accept the requirements of my job, but disapprove of many of my employ
To be fair, the entire quote in context makes it clear that she was actually saying that you don't need voting papers in order to participate in the campaign effort. I.e., you may not be able to vote, but you can still get involved in "get out the vote" activities, you can still staff a voter registration booth, etc. The phrasing she used was unfortunate, but I strongly recommend vilifying politicians based on the really stupid things they sa
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Cacto, I frequent the group blog The Corner, a sub-area of the conservative pundit magazine National Review Online (itself an online companion to the "on dead tree" conservative pundit magazine National Review). http://corner.nationalreview.com This blog is updated several times a day, with up to twenty different conservative pundits debating everything from mind-numbing conservative theory arcana to the myriad problems with
Absolutely. In fact, this is the easiest form of the question. What would I have to live for, if the world was destroyed? So I'd lose my life now, one way or the other. Much more difficult (and interesting), would be the following form of the question: Would you sacrifice your life to prevent the destruction of a single person, a stranger to you?
At the beginning of "Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior", several men participate in a tree-climbing race where anything goes. There is lots of footage of real stuntmen really falling from branch to branch and finally to the ground.... thud... thud... thud... thump. Pretty impressive stuff. You don't see stunts like that very much anymore.
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What bothers me about this whole line of reasoning is that it really just boils down to: "I want to spend more money than I have, so I'm totally justified in finding people with more money and making them give it to me". That's all Gene is really saying. He wants the government to spend more money. He knows that rich people have more money. He thinks that it's proper for the government to fund its spending habits by taking more money from r
Not only that, but the X-Men bench is deep enough that they could kill off an entire lineup and still have enough characters left for another one or two complete teams at least. I mean, we haven't even begun to tap the potential of a "new kids" lineup featuring Iceman, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, etc.
"and if for some reason the judge decides there was not enough reason to issue a wiretap, What then?" According to some legal scholars, because this is a case of the U.S. government spying on enemy forces within and without U.S. borders, the President has a Constitutional duty to carry on with the wiretaps anyway, and both the Judicial and the Legislative branches are Constitutionally prohibited from interfering, and any laws passed by the Leg
Trudy, I cannot recommend Netflix enough.
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Oh, Americans have always had the skill and brains for peace. Most of what America does is peace, not war. The most obvious example, though, is the Space Race of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. As Kennedy put it: "We choose to go to the moon... because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills..." That's what we got, instead of a major world war against the Soviet Union: the
How do you ignore that Ken Lay was the largest contributor to Bush and was just convicted as a person that caused financial harm to tens of thousands? I don't ignore it. I just think you're ascribing meaning to this fact where no such meaning exists. We already know that corrupt people donate money to politicians. What makes this particular story stand out isn't the corruption, which is commonplace, nor the donations, which
I think this is a coherent and well-structured essay against smoking. Some of the arguments are strong, and others are weak, but they are all presented clearly. Thank you for speaking up about what you believe in. Figuring out what you believe, and how to explain it, is very important. You should keep up the good work. If you're interested in improving your ability to explain and convince, I recommend taking the following steps: 1. Improve your spelling by i
Totally. The one thing I miss, with this system, is the really funny and interesting commercials, and any good programming (like the Food Channel) that doesn't tend to come out on DVD. News I get from the Internet and from NPR during my commute.
So let me get this straight: 1. Enron donates huge amounts of money to whatever administration is in power, probably in exchange for political favors from that administration. 2. As the government investigation into Enron's corporate shenanigands heats up, its top executives donate even more money to the incoming administration, possibly in the hope of buying some leniency. 3. Instead of leniency, though, all Enron gets from
I think that Google is trying to position itself as a global company, not an American company. Maintaining a homepage with a universal appeal is especially important on the Internet, if you want to avoid alienating any of your hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
I used to watch TV. Of course, I couldn't watch regular broadcast TV, because the reception is bad. So I had to get Cable. Now, Cable TV is interesting. With broadcast TV, the shampoo manufacturers pay for your TV programs, you pay for the shampoo, and you get shampoo commercials on TV. For premium cable, you pay for the shampoo, and you p
Haha! That's great. Ken Lay perpetrates heinous shenanigans under the Clinton adminsitration. Then he donates huge amounts of money to Bush. And what does he get in return? An investigation, a trial, and a conviction. From the Bush Justice Department. If Gene were in any way an honest person, he would be holding this up as an example of Bush's principles and honesty.
And in all of these wars, there was a sizeable portion of the American citizenry that was against them. Also, you're totally failing to distinguish between a government decision to send troops in harm's way, and the public's tolerance for sending them there or keeping them there for very long. Look how quickly we abandoned the Somalia mission, after "Black Hawk Down". That's not the behavior a nation that has lots of stomach for war.
Bonus Factoid: Enron was in favor of the Kyoto Protocol, and the carbon-trading schemes it mandated. http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,02898.cfm
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