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The World's Smallest Political Quiz

ACCORDING TO YOUR ANSWERS, The political description that fits you best is... LIBERAL LIBERALS usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help...
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- Post #33
- Nov 14, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Americans do not want a leftist nation

Yes, as it rightly should have been. This election was a referendum on the Bush administration and the Republican-led House and Senate. Voters around the country decided that this administration and this one party rule should be punished for their poor performance. All elections should always...
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- Post #70
- Nov 9, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

This is a good anectdote that reminds us: there is not one piece of objective evidence that supports a claim or assertion of a creative being (God). Not one bit. That is an unchalleged, uncontrverted fact. This is all Dawkins really had to say to make his thesis. Any claim asserting...
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- Post #69
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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What can we Learn from the Amish School Shooting?

1-How to be a good Christian and follow the teachings of God. 2-That preemptive attacks are immoral and against God's law.
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- Post #23
- Oct 6, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Well, Bush is pre-pardoning himself and his administration for war crimes...

What are we becoming? What have we become...a long time ago.
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- Post #15
- Sep 30, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Alcohol? Not in My Cab!

How can picking-up a fare that has a bottle of booze interfere with the religious beliefs or practices of a cab driver? I am not asking a proceedural/Muslim rule book question. I am asking a real-world/rational/physical universe/epistemological question. It floors me how irrational we have...
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- Post #39
- Sep 30, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Alcohol? Not in My Cab!

In this context, the next logical step is that Muslim cab drivers (and by extension other services and professions) won't pick-up any non-muslims, only Muslims can be serviced by Muslims. And equally Catholic cab drivers would only pick-up Catholic passengers, etc, etc., etc.. Beyond the...
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- Post #17
- Sep 30, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Gore

This must be a tongue-in-cheek post. Without any doubt, Al Gore would not have included in his staff people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rice, Powell, Gonzales, etc., etc., etc.. That alone, no matter what else Gore might have done would have been an astonishing relief to this great...
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- Post #66
- Aug 31, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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No evidence for global warming

Well its common practice nowadays to politisize scientific research. Antactic climate reasearch is a very complex subject. Ozone history etc. is making it quite a dynamic field. This kind of co-opting of research for ad hoc second-hand interpretations (non original investigator) and armchair...
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- Post #21
- Aug 11, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Second mass dog slaughter in China

Add China to the list, next to Iraq and Lebanon. Lots of Government sponsored death being dealt out.
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- Post #7
- Aug 6, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Reuters pulls obviously doctored photo of Beirut

I'm afraid that the state of Journalism as a profession has declined to an all time low. Basic journalistic ethics is only the tip of an unimaginable decadence. A worldwide phenomena, no doubt--but we need only look at what journalism has produced here in the US these last 5 years to begin to...
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- Post #11
- Aug 6, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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What happened to doing the right thing?

You forgot the 2 biggest scandals: A foreign policy of preemptive aggression, and the death of thousands of innocents. Both crimes against humanity, in my mind. Ultimately we are at fault. it is us--The citizens of the U.S. that are allowing these scum to do their bidding--in our name...
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- Post #12
- Aug 1, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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The Anti-Semitism Card

Well, Gibson and anti-semitism aside-- If your question is a general non-rhetorical question on freedom of speech..."Who hear thinks people should be arrested for speaking their opinion? Speak up?" ...then the answer is at least the Bush administration. People get arrested and...
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- Post #81
- Aug 1, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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The Legitimacy of War

A metered response? There are many ways to respond to agression--Just consider this discussion in the context of the way the US has responded post 9/11 War, should always be the absolute last resource. Even beyond all measure of reasonable doubt. Nothing makes me more ashamed to be a human...
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- Post #11
- Jul 30, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Anyone concerned that only millionaires can hold Office in the U.S.?

Pointing to our present elected oficials is not in my mind a winning argument for what our system has become, in terms of up-front ante money to play the election game. Quite the opposite. The electoral system has been corrupted--and this country is suffering for it (has for some time). The...
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- Post #29
- Jul 30, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News

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