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Show posts MenuQuote from: Quick Karl on July 26, 2014, 10:51:36 AM
If you saw a cockroach in your home, would you wait till there were more of them before you start killing them?
Quote from: Paper*Boy on July 26, 2014, 02:12:31 AM
There are many people around the world who have never even been here who are Americans in spirit,
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Sorry Pud, nothing in there about gender or race.
Quote from: SciFiAuthor on July 26, 2014, 01:15:15 AM
Not that *I* have any problems with pompousness, I am after all speaking to intellectual inferiors and none of you could possibly know what it means to be a genius like me. You also don't know what it's like to be beautiful, either. You are all hideously ugly. I'm not. But with your absolute inferiority now being firmly established, my most hated pompous phrase is when people say "This is a nation of laws!"
Talk about a heaping load of stinky horseshit. I seriously hate that phrase. I cringe when I hear it. Laws can be wrong, crooked, bullshit, misused, abused, badly written, repealed, replaced, rewritten, changed, abolished and ignored. By saying that phrase, people suggest that the law is somehow infallible or even sanctified. It isn't. I think this should be a nation of reason (all nations, actually), not laws. Change them as needed, and make it easy to change them.
Quote from: eddie dean on July 25, 2014, 04:29:32 PM
I guess so. In hindsight, I should have simply hung up on him. Thus removing any liability of the gabcast being included into his perceptions of a growing conspiracy against him. It's my fault for trying to understand his story.
Quote from: albrecht on July 25, 2014, 06:14:10 PM
relatives in various States and places, etc.
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Now, legally, once you are born here or are naturalized you are an American Citizen. But not a "real one." Of course, I also think you should have to own real property,
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be literate,
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and not be an employee of the government or net gainer when filing personal income tax to vote in national elections and Senators should not be popularly elected.
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And no standing army except the National Guard in each State and keep our nuclear deterrent up-to-date to dissuade invasion. So there!
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 25, 2014, 05:54:59 PM
I'm not interested in joining the argument, but I would like to know what characteristics, other than birth or naturalization (and correct me if I'm wrong about naturalization), make a person a "real American."
Quote from: West of the Rockies on July 25, 2014, 09:20:32 AM
You've probably seen the footage, heard the story... Thoughts? Left-leaning progressive here (I like progress)... I think the crazed rabble that did this are scum. I don't believe Jonas was truly swallowed by a whale; his mortal remains may not even have been in that temple. Nonetheless, destroying a spot considered sacred by Christians, Jews, those who revere antiquity and history--a spot that was now an Islamic mosque to boot!--was hateful.
Quote from: Kelt on July 24, 2014, 05:57:37 PM
So this is good feedback... experiment on the blind, you say. It's not like they'll see it coming, those damned Blindies.
As for Geordie... no way was he a Geordie, and I think Yorkshire Pud will back
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 25, 2014, 12:17:21 AM
Absolutely not! Bellgab is strictly for consenting adults.
Quote from: WildCard on July 24, 2014, 11:27:57 AM
Finally! About time someone makes sense around here.
If abortion is murder, it's murder in self-defense.
Seconded!
Wasn't AZ using a new cocktail of drugs, since the commies in the U.K. won't send us the good stuff anymore?
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 24, 2014, 12:15:30 PM
Your adorable doe-eyed innocence is what endears you to me, Yorkie. It's a beautiful thing, and it saddens me to sully it by referring you to the Urban Dictionary for the proper definition of rusty trombone.
Quote from: Juan on July 24, 2014, 01:40:27 PM
You people are silly. Mr. Obama is obviously a liberal - defined as someone who holds two or more contradictory ideas within his head and believes the combination results in utopia for himself and his rich friends.
Quote from: Kelt on July 24, 2014, 10:51:19 AM
Well, I'm not sure dumping prisoners on a Scottish Island is any worse than rendering a Scottish Island uninhabitable for thousands of years by dropping anthrax all over it.
England would love that.
Yes?
Quote from: albrecht on July 24, 2014, 10:44:17 AM
Despite their harshness there is a beauty about those islands. I would hate to waste them with our criminals. I have a solution that is patently obvious. We have a border problem. We have a criminal problem. Why not an "Escape From New York" type of solution but instead of giving up the Big Apple we build a big fence along the Southern border, but a mile or so inwards towards the USA? There already is funding and bills passed that says we are supposed too. But we throw our violent criminals on the other side of that fence. And mine/electrify/guard tower that fence (even maybe offer rednecks, for a fee, a chance to man guard towers. Have some CCTV cameras around to allow pay-per-view, for the voyeuristic sadists, and for sociologists see how a community, albeit criminal, will organically grow, fail, etc. And for monitoring to ensure they aren't organizing a breech of our wall.
If Mexico wishes they can build a fence on their side. If not, they can deal with our criminals who might swim/walk across the border (as we have done for decades with theirs.) It solves our criminal problems and solves the illegal immigration problem. And wouldn't violate law because we aren't shipping our criminals to Mexico- they would walk over on their own volition. Or stay in that no-man's land and create criminal communities that would help keep illegals out.
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 24, 2014, 10:39:53 AM
I'm glad you find my disability so amusing. It's gratifying to know that your gleeful mockery gives you something to do besides playing the rusty trombone.
Quote from: Kelt on July 24, 2014, 10:30:47 AM
The death penalty is barbaric, but I'm not against the notion of taking those whose actions show they have no interest in actiing in a social manner and dumping them on an island inside the Arctic Circle.
There they can forge a new society, or non-society, where the murderers, career criminals, Rangers fans, rapists, and assorted shitbags of various ilks can rape, murder, bugger, and shitbag to their heart's content, away from those of us who do act in a social manner.
Total fiscal burden on the taxpayer?
The cost of a boat-ride to Kelt Island.
I call it Kelt Island.
Quote from: albrecht on July 24, 2014, 09:27:08 AM
As I pointed out there were plenty of leftist Muslims in history and political parties based on that. But they weren't "fundamentalist" enough leftists or "fundamentalist" Muslims for many of the people in the region (why Sadat was assassinated by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.) So Obama could be a Muslim and a socialist. But the far-far left and the "fundamentalist" Muslims would support him initially (because he is better than the other candidates) but eventually turn on him, as we see already.
Quote from: albrecht on July 23, 2014, 02:39:44 PM
It was posited that there couldnt be a communist and a Muslim. And I said true but in reality there aren't many pure "isms" in the real world. Even the Muhammedan ISIS leader was wearing a fancy wristwatch. So I use example of ASU and the Baathist parties of socialist, yet Islamic, movements. And think Obama is similar, socialism with an Muslim face. But, as with Sadat etc, not radical enough on either side for the pure, fundamentalists of either ilk.
Quote from: onan on July 24, 2014, 09:49:14 AM
Luckily, the free market gives us several other options that are just as inclusive with all varieties of software.
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"During the quarter, we reassessed our product roadmap and decided not to ship a new form factor that was under development," said Amy Hood, the company's chief financial officer.
Quote from: phrodo on July 24, 2014, 03:06:33 AM
Exactly right Paper Boy. An unborn child has committed no crime and deserves the chance at life.
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The guilty criminal murderer has taken life for granted and terminated another human's life -- so why should they get upset about theirs ending??
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And I don't see why executions should be painless and/or comfortable. It's highly unlikely that the murderers were thinking of their victim's comfort or level of pain when they were killing them. Eye for an eye....
Quote from: Scully on July 24, 2014, 02:06:20 AM
For some reason this thread calls to mind a long-ago poster who left this forum with an unflattering letter of farewell in which he accused the group of being "a bunch of quasi-intellectuals, all trying to impress each other."
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on July 24, 2014, 01:47:22 AM
That's an old wive's tale. The plethora can't be replaced, and the worst part of living without one is that it makes it unbearably painful to play the violin.
Quote from: HAL 9000 on July 24, 2014, 12:50:26 AM
As an aside, it is medicine's "dirty little secret" that, when taking someone off of life-support when death is imminent and family is present, we always assure the families that their loved one will not suffer; that we will keep them "comfortable." This is code for "we will keep the family comfortable" so they don't have to witness a patient gasping for air, or twitching, etc. for a lengthy period of time. It is not unusual that, drugs are administered, not at a "minimum" dose, but at a dose that actually hastens death, for the comfort of all involved.
Quote from: HAL 9000 on July 24, 2014, 12:59:00 AM
Not only do I completely agree, but I'll take it a step further (farther?) - Facebook, Twitter, and texting (to include the general way in which much of our society uses smartphones) will be responsible for the demise of America. I would be remiss if I also didn't include Obama as a primary cause.