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Reply to Israel strikes HAMAS in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Cikomyr" comment="150"] I live in a muslim country. I think I could qualify you as an "armchair sociologue". You don't know anything about living in their countries, or how they really treat peoples.[/quote] Which country? Just cause you lived in one doesnt make you an expert on them all. I said most muslims. If ya think its so safe for pagans in muslim countries lets try something. Make a t-shirt full of pagan symbols, with a p

Reply to Thoughts on Gaza in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="ThinkAloud" comment="8"] Wars has never ever resolved land disputes between nations and/or people ... [/quote] Wishful thinking at its best.

Reply to Don't Say We Haven't Been Warned in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" comment="4"] Dont confuse liberals with facts. They like making the same mistakes over and over and over again, always hoping for a different outcome. [/quote] I would say, "can't I dream a little". But then he posted again. *sigh* [quote who="ThinkAloud" comment="6"] They [liberals] like making the same mistakes over and over and over again, always hoping for a different outcome. In 28

Reply to Don't Say We Haven't Been Warned in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote who="ThinkAloud" comment="1"] is that what he and you suggesting should have been maintained? Slavery? [/quote] in those 16 miserable yrs ... regualtions weakened, manufacturing disappeared, banks got into risky areas never intended for commercial banks , incompetence got hold of the gov in all areas ... .... check all that KFC ... it is history ... and if you are sincere in learning from history you should be able

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="maudlin27" comment="139"] As I already mentioned, I was talking about corporation tax (the tax on a company's profits). [/quote] Most businesses are not corporations.

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="maudlin27" comment="134"] Any tax code which allows money spent on employees to count as an expense for tax purposes (which would likely be pretty well every capitalist country). Are you really saying that the US (or any other similar country) taxes a company's revenue, rather than it's profit?! (i.e. that costs like staff wages aren't allowable). [/quote] What I and others are saying busniess can only lessen its tax burden, not get rid of it enti

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" comment="132"] but real business men will merely smile and nod at the naivete' and out right wrong understanding you have of business. [/quote] Thats putting it nicely. I have brought up some of the ideas that have been floated in this thread during tax conversations with business owners I know. Several of their responses were quite crude.

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="maudlin27" comment="130"] I'm starting to wonder if you're being deliberately obtuse here - [/quote] How about you showing us the tax code you are using? Its certainly not the American one. Maybe its possible for you to do it, were as we can not.

Reply to Some Women are Complacent because of the Men in their lives in Blogging Stardock Forums

If a woman is complacent because of the man in her life it means she is governed by which ever male she picked.

Reply to Fun with the US constitution in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" comment="26"] Until he was struck by lightening! [/quote] Dr. Guy you write beautiful things.

Reply to Fun with the US constitution in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="EL-DUDERINO" comment="24"] And Ben Franklin was an Athiest. [/quote] Ben Franklin most likely (imo) was a Humanist but it is close to athiest so I can understand your statement. However Ben Franklin was also a Hellfire. While many people think this group did it for "comical" reasons, there are many others who believe they could have been serious. Heck pagans during those

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="maudlin27" comment="125"] There is no way to "expense" before taxes. [/quote] There are many taxes you pay in business that are there no matter what. For instance the tax you pay on the workers' pay check. How bout the taxes you spend on items that are used? I buy paper for paperwork and low and behold... sales TAX. How would you get out of paying either one of these?

Reply to Fun with the US constitution in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" comment="13"] That's nonsense, Lula. The constitution was specifically written to create a secular state, which is why it specifically prohibits the establishment of a religion, Judeao-Christian or otherwise.[/quote] How is it nonsense when the only other religion represented was either humanism or satanism depending apon what Ben Franklin really believed in? How would the laws not be based apon Christian values then?</

Reply to Israel strikes HAMAS in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Cikomyr" comment="89"] what do you know about muslims and islam?[/quote] Plenty I love history. [quote]Have you lived in their country? [/quote] I m a "pagan" I am not allowed to be alive in most muslim countries. [quote]How many of them are your friends?[/quote] Used to play DnD with one as a teenager. Asked him why he didn t mind the pagan theme, he told me cause he didn't practice his rel

Reply to Israel strikes HAMAS in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote who="Cikomyr" comment="80"] HOW DO YOU THINK THE PEOPLE IN GAZA ARE FEELING? [/quote] Personally I dont care how they are feeling, most muslims only respect the butchers knife. The only muslims such as the Almoravids that showed mercy to those not of the faith were considered ignorant or even heretics in their time. Even the Almoravids later changed their ways when they lost their *ingnorance*.

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Leauki" comment="86"] Yes, we see in Iraq how much that helps the Iraqi people. I assume hand guns work against any invasion force that tries to rebuild the country as opposed to destroy it? [/quote] American and allied forces would beable to use lighter defenses if Iraq had an unarmed populace.

Reply to I need a bigger brain in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" comment="15"] Here is another, Toyota doesn't have the UAW telling them what they have to give to the workers. I had hoped that sentiment came thru in the post...guess not [/quote] Oh it did. I was trying to just add to it. [quote]At one time UAW fought an oppressive management...guess they gazed into the abyss too long...and became the thing they fought against. [/quote] Personally I feel this happened a

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" comment="73"] Yeah. It was the fear of hand guns that kept people away. [/quote] With an unarmed population an invasion force would be able to use lighter defenses at supply depots. An armed population means you will need heavier defenses in your zones of "control".

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Cikomyr" comment="68"] 1776: American Revolution. You have the British Empire vs the Colonists. You have 1-shot muskets, 1-shot cannons on both sides. Maybe some rifles too, since they were starting to arrive in the market, but again, they took longer to reload.[/quote] American's could not manufacture at the start of the war. It was illegal and one of the main reasons of the revolution. Gun powder and cannons were mostly stolen

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Leauki" comment="66"] Second, I don't accept that "doesn't count" is a way to dismiss a point. [/quote] I said sorta doesn't count. No American has said we'd only need private arms to win, and I have already said part of the Armed forces would be involved in any American Revolution. However it helps by a LARGE margin to have arms in the populace in the first place. The only ones who

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Leauki" comment="64"] Who said we'd fight with rifles alone? Private rifles would be a suplement to any war effort, not the only weapons used. Yes, that was sort of his point. [/quote] LoL, sorta doesn't count, the argument that we'd only use private rifles comes gun control mouths.

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[quote who="DrJBHL" comment="13"] Here's something else to think about: Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of the US, claiming they can't make money paying American wages. [/quote] Here is another, Toyota doesn't have the UAW telling them what they have to give to the workers.

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Cikomyr" comment="62"] It's just un-realistic, and it's an empty argument that is nicely rooted into your mindset - since it's so freaking patriotic to refer to the American Revolution and the Constitution -. You cannot fight the state with rifles alone, and you shouldn't fear for your gun rights if your state wants to separate from the Federal Governement. and in both case, you'd end up with a wreaked country. [/quote] People said that about

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Cikomyr" comment="54"]I seriously want to know more about the bullshit argument that is represented in the 2nd amendment. "To let the people take up arm against an oppressive government". Yhea, sure, it worked in the American Revolution. But the American Revolution wasn't against an oppressive governement, it was against an oppressive Foreign Power that thought it still had total and absolute rule over the Colonies.[/quote] How was England a foreign power to Englishmen?&nbs

Reply to The Story Behind The Celebration of Hanukkah in Religion Stardock Forums

Where do you get that Zeus is a solar god or was born on a solstice? Do ya know his favorite weapon was the thunderbolt? The symbol of a weather god. The solar god of the ancient Greeks was Helios.