You know, it's still funny to me that since Bush did such a shitty job according to all the "experts" now that he was re-elected. Gotta love how the victors write history the way they want it, huh.
I understand that the purpose of the report was to outline people with the potential to do harm to the US, but veterans? I mean come on. Might as well put in there that Muslims are all terrorists for good measure. Such a blanket comment when so very few veterans would even begin to fit their bill is ridiculous. Sure, there are veterans who fit their profile, but there are civilians who do, housewives who do, factory workers that do. Calling out veterans in there wasn't called for at all.
[quote] When or where exactly was the Bible chosen as a work of literature in a school without any religious imperative and deemed inappropriate? [/quote] The bible along with all other religious texts should have the opportunity to be studied as a work of literature, because that is what they are. Evolution should be taught as a theory and all it's ramifications good and bad, not presented as a fact when it is not one.
[quote] There is no such misconception. Freedom of religion IS freedom from religion as well. [/quote] Okay. so when the Constitution states that you have the freedom of religion that means that you have the right to never hear about or be influenced by any sort of religion in anyway. Wow, you know that would kind of go against our other freedoms like freedom of speech. If you feel that way on religion then how do you feel about the right to bear arms. I mean if you're
Sounds like you've learned a lot about yourself through your writing, which is awesome. And I have to agree, life includes all the factors of male-female relationships they're kind of impossible to avoid in real life so why should they avoidable when you're trying to mimic real life. Not all relationships are romantic, though. As long as you keep the connections real I don't see why every novel can't have it's share of romance in it. Look forward to getting the time and opportunity to see wha
[quote who="Island Dog" reply="5" id="2175061"] whomever may be doing it now should be fired. no new cabinet-level departments of homeland bookcooking have been created. which is why we haven't seen any new colored charts indicating threat conditions, nobody has to take off their shoes to enter a bank or a car dealership. Yeah, now they are just labeling veterans as potential terrorists. GObama! [/quote] o.0 Okay, where might I find that st
In my opinion, Gmail is one of the most reliable e-mail services today. Unlike Yahoo or MSN or the rest they don't give your address away if you don't log in often enough. You have much bigger storage capacity than on any other service out there and they don't have the problem of "Oops, we accidentally lost everything." Which has happened to MSN/Yahoo before. Google offers a service, that's what they do. They allow you full access to your account, sometimes more access to how your e-mails are
A suggestion, Trillian will check your Yahoo, MSN, Gmail and all the rest, as many accounts as you want and will pop up a notification when you have new mail. It's an awesome program for Windows users and if you have more than one IM account it's wonderful. http://www.ceruleanstudios.com Just something that you might want to check out. :)
A chair stuffed with pillows behind your back and a blanket always make for good reading comfort on cold days. Though often I still curl up in bed with a good book in the middle of the day because it makes my back feel better.
Congratz! Those first few moments with your baby are always the most awesome. I've have four myself and each one is different and they never go as planned. My second was born in a hurry. I was dialated to five when my water broke and his head was crowning! He was born all of ten minutes later. He just had decided that he wanted to be born, and NOW! InBloom from the point of a woman that's given birth four times naturally, you're always scared. The million things that could go wrong ju
[quote who="Humbordt" reply="10" id="2137785"] I saw bumper sticker that said 'Republicans and Democrats-Same shit, different pile." Or as Lewis Black said, the main difference is democrats suck, and republicans blow. [/quote] Well, it makes sense. Everyone of them has the same ultimate agenda, make as many people happy as possible so that they can keep their jobs while offending the least number of people possible. <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/brow
The media has been pulling these strings for decades. They show no indisgression and no thought for how it will effect things. If things aren't sensational enough to sell papers they make them sensational enough. We had four people die today in Iraq! Oh, no! The world's going to end! Sounds a lot better than we had four people die today in Iraq and over five times that died in auto wrecks. Same thing with the economy. The economy goes up and down, that's the nature of it, but when you have th
[quote who="stevendedalus"] No amount of rationalization will justify the use of unduly “harsh treatment,” or if you will, “torture.”... Even if it were true that torture draws reliable intelligence, this nation should be above medieval inquisitions which could also spread to all captives including our own. Those who were allegedly engaged in such unlawful tactics should be reprimanded and a public censure against the previous administration for violating the t
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DVDs..... and everyone thought that Bush was the redneck. [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="8" id="2174522"]The hysteria over this reminds me of SARS and the flu vaccine shortage (blamed on Bush, of course). I don't wish illness or death on anyone (not even GITMO prisoners ), in fact I work every day to avoid or forestall both, but the media are so pathetic. They can't deliver an honest story soberly framed to save their lives. And the false assumptions breathlessly embraced by the politicians are worse yet. Makes me wanna puk
[quote who="stevendedalus" reply="21" id="2174588"] I have to say from my point of view the original post is pure BS. You don't read carefully to deposit this judgmental crap. At the outset I said there was justifiable ambivalence on this topic. I also implied that "take no prisoners" should have been the order of the day. In '02 I thought it was a mistake to bring these thugs to Quantanomo. Those who had the remotest conection to al Qaeda or the Taliban should have been tossed in an Afg
Unfortunately my generation shows a definate lack of knowledge of their history or their own government a lot of times. My grandfather was a WWII vet. I remember him waking up swinging his entire life. It's because of him that I was interested in the military in the first place. So many were killed back then from weapons that weren't as advanced as what our soldiers or our enemies have today, yet we still managed less casualties in Iraq than in any war to date. Seems to me they're doing somet
In my opinion there is a common misconsception that freedom of religion is freedom FROM religion. The original meaning was that you can believe what you want to believe, that the state won't arrest you or execute you for not following the religion that the ruling body deems as correct. The Bible has been deemed to be a solely religious text and has often been banned from schools even when just reviewed as a work of literature because somehow the teacher is "forcing" their bel
As for the original topic, unfortunately that's what the world has come to. Levering for every chance to show up the other guy or to prove that they're somehow better. Politics has been like that for a LONG time, though they don't often stoop that low. Politicians already dig through every scrap of each other's past and dig out the dirty laundry, whether theirs or someone else's. And as for the post above. It's amazing how many people blamed Bush for things that actually were put thro
Honestly, I can tell that probably one of you was in the military... possibly two, but that's about it. I'm ex-military myself and I have to say from my point of view the original post is pure BS. Torture (you'll notice that they never say what was done to torture them, all that means is that it's not quite "up to par" with what is considered "humane") such as depriving people of light or food or water or whatever else has been used in jails as punishment for our own people. The "tortures" th
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