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Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It's more a matter of simple awareness. You've no doubt seen people that are impaired in that vein, we all have. People who go into crowded restaurants and talk about Mexicans or other groups negatively at the top of their lungs, etc. You can say that you wouldn't do that, and I don't believe you would in a restaurant, but for some reason bloggers don't bother to consider that a lot of different people read their blogs. I don't believe you'd be so crass as to bellyache about, say, il

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

BakerStreet waits for the Emperor to wander in and call us prudes for not wanting to screw baboons... LOL ...

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Normally I'd go scoop up a bunch of facts about the history of this. I love it when I run into something I don't know much about, because it is fun to blow a half hour reading various stuff on the net. You'll forgive me on this one, though. I've been online since 1993 and I know, full well, that bestiality and zoophilia are two things that I really don't want to randomly surf about, lol. Once you see something, you can't unsee it. There is a wikipedia article on zoophilia, a

Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"First, I dont think you are jumping - until you made the statement "but you guys..." So... you've never wondered why more and more around the world people hate us? Why they booed Miss USA in Mexico and the like? "You guys" is only unfair if it isn't accurate, and I would have sworn you have in the past responded negatively to our place in world opinion. The reason I differentiate between the "you guys" and me is that I see why they do, often

Reply to OJ II in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"WHY lead with this? Maybe they are becoming the "National Enquirer" of broadcast news." This is what has replaced the "positive news" stuff. People are sick of the war, already bored with the presidential race. No cute blond girls have disappeared on vacation recently. Normally in the past they'd have a story about something positive, but now we as a society would rather watch Paris Hilton sob. Which, I guess, is positive in a way...

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"I can't even think of any historical societies where bestiality has been the norm. That's not the case for homosexuality or even pedophilia for that matter. It doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that gets widespread approval." Egypt, Greece, and Rome. To the point that it was fairly common. I remember reading that Egyptian women had sex with goa

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I just think it is coming ass-backwards at the situation, though. If we're going to start worrying about the sensibilities of our pets, we ought to stop dying them pink and making them wear sweaters. The real issue, at least to me, is what the PEOPLE are doing, not how the animal feels about it. Maybe that's a little fascist of me, but I don't think animals need to even be considered. If the government can tell me I have to wear a seatbelt, it can tell people they can't screw sheep.

Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm not trying to jump on you, Doc, but you guys often also ask why the world hates us so much. Stuff like this is an example. It's the "Let them eat cake" syndrome. I know you don't care what Chinese people who might visit the site think. They give people a box down here at the bottom to comment on absurdity, too, though.

Reply to OJ II in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"I just dont understand the media playing on this. We have some really major news stories, and they lead with this!" OJ didn't have tits. Also, it wasn't fun to hate OJ. Most of the people who watch her "Simple Life" show hate her, and watch it just to bitch about it. One thing to consider: she's rich. Why does she bother with TV shows, albums, etc., when she has enough money to live the rest of her life without lifting a finger? Homemade

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Libertarianism spans different parts of our society; social, economic, etc. Libertarians are very conservative economically. They are also very, very liberal socially. They may not hold to those social values in their personal life, like Gid, but they don't believe the government has the right to mandate such. That, frankly, is why they'll never win an election. Their platform is simply too divisive. You'll have to drive a ways to find a person who is pro-choice, pro-drug legalizat

Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"And it is not really about a comparison with the American education system either, since we are not preparing our students to enter a university in China" On the contrary, you compared the Chinese parents to Paris Hilton. You compared you taking tests in American schools with planes overhead to them doing so. You compared it to the NCLB and said they were sinking to our level. Hollywood, Manhattan, yadda yadda. If Paris Hilton demands a lunch

Reply to Has God Abandoned America? in Religion JoeUser Forums

How can you claim to take the Old Testament literally and then pretend that always supporting the Israeli leadership is a sound practice? Did you know, KFC, that there is a a group made up of Israeli government officials that celebrate the King David Hotel bombing every year? That there is a plaque lauding the attack there? A terrorist attack against British citizens that killed dozens, BY future leaders of Israel? ALWAYS siding with Israel is definitely not biblical, and in

Reply to Has God Abandoned America? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Grrrrrr......Baker......how many times can I say that God does not abandon his child or children?" Unless, like Phelps, you believed everyone who will be damned is already damned, whether or not we are God's children wouldn't be decided until we die. Every human walking the earth would potentially be a child of God, and you know as well as anyone that the very worst of the worst can end up being one. You are taking the Old Testament view of pe

Reply to Like Fire, Fear Spreads When Given Plenty Of Air in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"They are coming, and they will kill you if you let them. You don't believe that, for whatever reasons, but that's on you." I've gone off the deep end? LMAO... What you asked me on that other blog was, when I stood with the mothers of Islamic kids, picking up our kids from elementary school, if I wondered whether or not their husbands were in their basements at home making bombs. You wanna talk about me going off the deep end? That is

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Rightwinger posted this on another blog recently: "They are coming, and they will kill you if you let them. You don't believe that, for whatever reasons, but that's on you." Find me somewhere that people say that about fat people, Whip.

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"With all due respect, Baker, while I don't condone the way he was treated, lots of teenagers try to kill themselves for similar reasons not related to Islamophobia. He was tormented because of his name. So are kids named Melvin or Ethel. Others are humiliated by their peers because they're fat, or have acne, or don't wear the latest fashions, or prefer chess club to football." True. Now multiply that by the kind of Islamophobia we see here. I see some

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Adding it to my list.

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"as for the Muslims in this country at this moment this country tolerates them. unfortunately that will not remain for much longer." If that doesn't give ya chills, you ain't completely human. I sincerely hope that the 5 million or so Muslims in the US are more tolerant if this hatefulness as they have been so far. The boy in the story I linked above tried to kill himself because of hateful stuff like this. How big of a leap does

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Reply to Has God Abandoned America? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"I don't believe this at all. God NEVER turns his back on his children. NEVER. He lets go of the nation...yes. He never turns his back....we turn our back on him. Something to keep in mind. He always has a remnant. Always. Evidently MacArthur differs: "But there is one other kind of wrath and that is the wrath that is presented in this passage and it is the wrath of abandonment. It is the wrath of abandonment. It

Reply to What Theologian are you? in Religion JoeUser Forums

For those who sincerely don't know who these people are, Google Toolbar will set you free . Try the wikipedia plugin for it.

Reply to What Theologian are you? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Worms is a city. A Diet is a big meeting. Link . I figure you're making a funny though.

Reply to Has God Abandoned America? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"again, it's because we choose to live this way." Nope, not according to the Bible and your philosophy. I'm not Eve, and I didn't design myself as being evil without the presence of God. You propose that we naturally turn away from God without the help of God. You can't for a moment say we "choose" to be this way, and then say that we are born this way. "No, it is our sins we need to deal with. One individual at a t

Reply to What Theologian are you? in Religion JoeUser Forums

You scored as Friedrich Schleiermacher , You seek to make inner feeling and awareness of God the centre of your theology, which is the foundation of liberalism. Unfortunately, atheists are quick to accuse you of simply projecting humanity onto 'God' and liberalism never really recovers. <table border='0' width='300' cellspacing='0' cell

Reply to Ummm - Yeh in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It's pretty sad when basically good people become so obscenely obsessed with their bias that someone like Deference can so easily show them to be off base. When the village idiot starts being more rational than your wise men, it's time to reassess job descriptions.