Tim May wrote:
Sorry, wrong again. Hatch is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, LDS, aka Mormon. Not an actual Christian church.
Details available with Google. Basically, Jesus is no more a divine
figure in LDS than in Islam. In fact, LDS and Islam share a number of
th
Damian Gerow wrote:
I can only see two reasons for bombing with
nuclear weapons: hate and stupidity.
That being said, you'd have to *really* hate someone (or an entire country) to actually /use/ a nuclear weapon.
That's nonsense. I can think of several entirely ethical uses of
nuclear weapons,
Harmon Seaver wrote:
But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to
when the christer Romans came and killed off the Druids and Wiccans
who wouldn't bend the knee to conversion, as they did in the rest of
Europe.
You are completely and utterly wrong here. The Romans never
Harmon Seaver wrote:
And what makes you think things would have been any better in the
absence of Christianity?
You've heard of the Inquistion perhaps?
The Catholic Church (which carried out the Inquisition, in cooperation
with various governments) is not the whole of Christianity. There are
John Kelsey wrote:
I think there was some complicated argument about the Taliban not
being a legitimate government,
What's a legitimate government? One with enough firepower to make its
rule stick?
John Kelsey wrote:
but it sure seems like it would be unhealthy to be one of the people
shooting at the helicopters in that situation--like a bunch of people
shooting at a lion with .22 pistols or something. Even if you
eventually drive the helicopter off, it's going to leave a big pile of
b
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Encouraging the imperial persecution of a religious minority?
Well, it looks at this point that it would have been a reasonable trade-off, given the millions who have been tortured and murdered in Europe and the Americas since the Council of Nicea in 425 by the offspring of t
david wrote:
But you wouldn't mind if insurance companies required the device
in order for you to get a policy (whether or not it called the
police or just the insurance company) ?
Right ?
If I did mind, I'd just find a different insurance company. It's a
little bit harder for me to say, "I don
Harmon Seaver wrote:
The better way to frame the question: May a private property owner
legally exclude people from it? Seems to me the answer should be, as a
general rule, yes
Absolutely yes, except for the fact that malls have invited the public in,
Are you saying that if I invite people to a p
Tyler Durden wrote:
Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of
the New Jersey Turnpike gets turned over to a private company, which
now owns and operates this section.
So...now let's say I'm black. NO! Let's say I'm blond-haired and blue
eyed, and the asshole in the s
Anonymous wrote:
Ethnomathematics
Good lord, this sounds like it was practically designed to sabotage the
prospects for minorities to excel in mathematics, by encouraging them to
waste their efforts on nonsense and useless trivia.
I've been reading DiLorenzo's book, _The Real Lincoln_, and this
description is a pretty close fit to Abraham Lincoln, too.
Eric Cordian wrote:
--- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes, b
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Girl driving in car is attacked by men in car
and tries to escape the attack. The men are pigs (DEA, of course)
out of uniform in unmarked car. She is shot in head.
Pigs will get away with this, of course. She was
Mexican, lower class, in Texas, so expendable.
Donal
Tim May wrote:
It goes beyond just the "black leaders" thing--it's also about "black
pride."
My eye-opening experience was my arrival in college (as Brits would
say, "at university") in 1970.
Well, this post explains a lot about Tim's attitude. Myself, I never
ran into this kind of crap in
Tim May wrote:
Swahili was the language they took to meet the minimal foreign
language requirements.
This sounds like the one worthwhile course in the bunch. One may learn
a foreign language in order to be able to read important literary,
historical, philosophical, or scientific works in oth
Tim May wrote:
The negro is transforming himself into a gutter race.
Which ones? I see a very different pattern of behavior in some other
parts of the world.
Tyler Durden wrote:
"For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem
to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right
kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source."
Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and
Care to register a .mil Web site of your own for free? The DoD has gone out of its way to make it a snap. [...]
That's great. How about "kill-iraqis-regardless.mil" or "want-to-buy-some-oil-in-iraq.mil" or "we-lust-for-another-war.mil"
I think your aim is off here. It's the politicians and pol
Morlock Elloi wrote:
Funny, but I can't seem to find the passage in the Bible where it talks about cloning. In fact, I can't find any passage that even remotely impinges on the subject
[...] wasn't there something about exclusivity of conceiving without fucking ?
As a former believer and stu
John Kelsey wrote:
No policy toward anyone isn't possible once there's any kind of
contact. There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for
simply allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive
regimes like Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to
countri
I've known about Mixmaster for years, but only just now finally
downloaded and installed it (Mixmaster 2.9.0). Does anyone know where I
can find documentation on how to actually use it? The distribution
(from Sourceforge) contains no documentation whatsoever beyond a *very*
terse man page tha
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