Good point. After all, we raise the price of cigarettes artificially to ween society off of them. Is the problem that the price is prohibitive, or that the excess money isn't going into the pockets of socialist cronies?
When have you ever heard the KKK called "Christian militants" in the press, daniel? Should we call the Virginia Tech shooter an "atheist militant"? Dr Guy : Yes, I read every single word: (Link) . "It seems that the MSM has redefined its job. Not just to report the news, but to assign itself the role of Nation conscious, and watchdog. Along with Judge, Jury and Executioner. They lon
An example of the hypocrisy. Supposedly we should be ashamed of the "media" for questioning if the Virginia Tech shootings could have been hampered by locking down the campus. Picking over blame is supposedly just not the done thing to do after something scary happens. Then, when someone says that "pacifists" are to blame for terrorist plots... the same people offer hell yeahs. So, the rule seems to be that the only time you are allowed to shift the blame away from the criminal is wh
P.S. Thanks whip. Shadowar called me a whiner on a blog that sits there to this day. Admins said they were going to remove his plagiarized article, then didn't. Dunno why they value him so highly, but they'll need to blacklist me from the site to prevent me from answering this crap when I see it.
Jordan, not Yemen, sorry. Shadowar : Please, if you can, tell us how to "get ready". Tell us what kind of "sacrifices" we have to make. How can you connect the pacifists' attitude to this particular instance? You wrote this before you even knew the details of the situation, yet you KNEW what caused it. Like the last time when you just KNEW it was terrorism when that teenager went nuts and killed people in that mall. Why? Because he was Muslim. Why did you think yo
And when the usual suspects write about/respond to something other than Islamic terrorism, I might believe their concern is really terrorism. Until then, I'll respond to the "OMG!! HERE THEY COME AGAIN!!!" blogs with the gags they deserve. "The Terrorists" really doesn't describe what we're talking about here, does it? Aren't we talking about particular flavors? The "War on Terror" for some people is just a big email chain to validate their racial and religious biases. Note, again,
I don't have a jihad against the site, just pig-headed, plagiarist hatemongers. You're not doomed because you said jihad, you're doomed because you and your little cadre don't have a brain between you. If the site wants trash like you guys on it, great, but until I'm blacklisted I can say whatever I want pointing out what kind of trash you are. P.S. Shadowar's stolen article is still there as well, I see. He was able to
"They're all terrorists so what's the difference? terrorism is terrorism." That's my question. Find me a terrorist attack in the last couple of years reported on JU that wasn't Islamic, or at least falsely reported as Islamic. "Where in this thread did anyone do this? Seems you have some sort of chip on your shoulder and are arguing something that isn't here." The fact that these threads only appear whe
Again, my point was that depends heavily on the fact you guys only hang the "terrorism" tag on things related to Islam 99% of the time. Violence aimed at causing political change and terror isn't so rare in America as you claim, as evidenced by the link above.
I would have to point out a couple of things. Unless you believe in the infallibility of the Bible, you've basically got no argument. If Fox New said that John Kerry said that puppies are delicious, would you immediately start pondering the eating habits of John Kerry? Nah. So, you have to weigh what you read as second hand accounts. Remember Life of Brian? "Blessed are the Cheesemakers." If there is a handpuppet with real potential in
"It has not "come home". It never left." No Americans involved. Not only were they from Europe, but they had their usual Middle East contingent, too, Yemen, if I recall. Too stupid to even know how to get their hands on the weapons to do it. Too stupid to find instruction for making what they needed themselves. Walked around in woods of New England asking strangers where they could buy automatic weapons. Far from an attack. The kids at col
The root evil in the American political system is the parties. They decide who we are going to vote for. Others will differ, but the day I see a double digit percentage of candidates win a national election who isn't a member of the two parties, AND WHO WASN'T FOSTERED TO THEIR POSITION BY THEM, I'll be more apt to agree. I've always said that the further from your front door the decisions about your life are made, the less real freedom you have. Sadly, many decisions aren't even mad
I'd like to know who the philosopher demigod is gonna be who is going to decide how much money you make is too much. Odd... you know I don't recall seeing the Col commenting on the profit margin of, oh, say Microsoft. What about the great diamond cartel that controls the profit on rocks that otherwise would be mediocre in price? Why oil, Col? Could it be an extension of your hatred for Bush? Don't try to say it is because it is a resource people "need", because people could cut thei
Well, at least we can hope this will be the end of Hamas. It's difficult to martial the kind of power it takes to stop people from blowing up each other... people are just too blase' about it. ...but... infringe on the intellectual property of a company like Disney, and you're doomed. All we can hope is they also get caught sharing music online. A combined shock attack by the RIAA and Disney's lawyers could destroy them forever!!!
It is figurative when it suits us, literal when it suits us. Congrats, you've kept to the usual standard of biblical discussion...
"there is no burning " Mormons still believe what Jesus said in the New Testament is true, right? Matthew 13: So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
dog bites man. Now, if you could write UN Enjoys Rousing Success!!... Now THAT would be a eye-catcher... P.S. People tolerate 800lb gorillas because about twice a century a 200lb gorilla tries and takes everyone else's beer money...
Being featured, in my experience, has a lot more to do with Brad and the other's daily schedule and what time you post your article. If they don't see it, they don't post it. If it is older and they discover it, they generally don't post it. If there is any favoritism, it would just be from knowing particular names that usually crank out stuff worthy of the front page. Getting their attention is no different than getting anyone else's. The more apt they are to find stuff that intere
Dangerous barbarians are the engine of history.
Which, compared to the Old Testament god, imho, is an improvement. Money is about self. The tyranny of the OT and the "kindness" of the New Testament are about manhandling other people's lives. I don't have a problem with rich people until they start trying to "fix" the world, usually converting it from something I want to something more "kind". "Do unto others" can be just as awful as OT rule by vengeance. Me, personally, I hate what other people would have me do unto them, about h
resurrected to burn in hell, you mean...
Also... doesn't Revelation end with a genocide on a level beyond anything ever even imagined? "Strait is the gate" after all. We begrudgingly tolerate people who believe differently from us for now, but we praise God that we won't be living with anyone but our own kind for eternity. No... outside of what is historically a tiny bodycount from terrorism, I see little in the way of superiority in Christianity, besides dolling up our intolerace and putting nice doilies over it.
"Still, if Jesus never came and I was Jewish, I doubt I'd strap a bomb on my back. How many Jews do that today?" Do you recall why the Jews at the time had such a hard time accepting Jesus as Messiah? Wasn't it because of their perception of what a Messiah was supposed to do? He wasn't militant enough? Is it the suicide part of bombing that defines it? To me, I find that odd. It seems like the "bombing" part should cause the most outrage.
I love it when someone tries to argue irrational bias against reality. Like I said, Iran has the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East. All Islamic nations in the Middle East have Jewish populations, many have Christian populations. The idea that Islam, even radical, fundamentalist Islam demands you kill non-believers runs counter to reality. ...like many of danielost's arguments... If you are talking about paranoia of Jews in the Middle East, not letting them
A little Sunday School Lesson , for those who like to color... and those who don't believe we still teach kids to glory in the destruction of peoples of other religions. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down
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