[quote]what is the real difference between the crazy Sharia law types and the crazy family values types? Really? [/quote] The difference is m urder. Crazy Family Values types make a lot of noise. Crazy Sharia types kill people.
So now I watch my little boy climbing on everything he can, and my heart sits there in my throat the whole time, but I let him do it. I don't know if I'm trying not to baby him or if I just know I have no room to talk.
[quote] Some people will say that conservatives say limit government then with the oil situation they want the government to help and with the border situation they want the government. [/quote] What conservatives want here is for the government to stop doing things that are not its job and to start doing the things that are.
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[quote]I mock you for my own amusement.[/quote] That is a good way to show off your maturity and intellectual superiority, and it also convinces people that you must be right and they must be wrong. And it most certainly does not make you seem sad and pathetic.
So after looking at a lot of articles about this, it appears that the whole story is fuzzy at best. It looks like the Christians were trying to get a reaction--not from the Muslims but the police (who got some heat last year for overreacting)... and they succeeded. Did they do anything illegal? They say no, the cops say yes. Surprise, surprise. My take is, even if they didn't have a permit, arresting them is over the top, roughly akin to arresting someone for jaywalking. If the
[quote]Right. Except one has the very real potential to start a riot. [/quote] First, that's an opinion based on stereotypes, and all this time I thought stereotyping was wrong. Second, and you keep ignoring this, arresting people for doing something that is completely legal is beyond the pale, whether you agree with them or not. You keep saying that in this instance it's okay, but the thing about that is, you are dead wrong. Your personal beef with religion doesn't change that. There
[quote]Share with us how the two are even remotely the same. [/quote] Both are 100% legal. Neither is an arrestable offense.
The point here is, this is America. In America, we have certain rights. Arresting people for exercising those rights is wrong. Period. And why were the police assuming there would be violence? I thought profiling was wrong, too.
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[quote]Both are religious extremists. Both are from Abraham religions. Both hate gay folks. [/quote] Saying for the sake of argument that they both actually do hate gays, d o they both kill people over it? I'm sorry, but saying "I don't like something," and committing murder over it are two vastly different things. Your comparison only works if you believe that motives matter more than actions, which is a philosophy that I patently reject. What you think has no bearing on
[quote]If it is a disability case that is completely different case. [/quote] I used to work for a quadreplegic man who could only move his head and his left arm. This enabled him to pilot his wheelchair... and type, using the pinky knuckle of his left hand, which was hooked into a claw. He was recieving government aid--a grant from NASA. When I began working for him, he was working on his dissertation to earn a PhD in electrical engineering. He wasn't some super genius
Those old pictures of you are funny, back when you were neither big, fat, nor a daddy. [e classic]:)[/e]
[quote] "wouldn't wear a Mexican flag on US Independence Day". [/quote] Even if she were in Mexico, where the 4th of July is just the day after the 3rd of July? This whole thing is kind of staggering. When I first read the article, I couldn't imagine a Mexican student saying "Hey, today is a holiday in the country I come from [which, yeah, it's not, but say for the sake of argument that it is], so even though this is the United States, where it is 
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[quote]What about Carter? It has been a joke for a very long time now.[/quote] Arrafat got one too.
Come on, Dad, all you did was risk your life for your country. Congress has had to sacrifice so much more. Do you know what it's like to work 3 days a week, 7 months a year for way more money than the average American makes? You've never had it that rough in your life.
[quote who="Big Fat Daddy" comment="2"]Salt! SALT!! WTF!!??[/quote] Well sure. This is all to make us live longer. That way when we get to the pearly gates and they ask us, "So how was life?" we can say, "All the food was bland... but at least it lasted a long time."
[quote]I am not sure how someone can have fun one moment then go back to being depressed,[/quote] That's actually exactly how depression works. Pictures of someone having fun aren't necessarily pictures of someone being happy, just someone trying. All of which doesn't mean she wasn't milking the system. The only one who knows for sure is her.
What's so scary about Bill Cosby?
I was working at the Robinson Barraks gas station at the time and I worked with a guy whose parents, who lived in the states, asked him to get them a piece of the Berlin Wall. He didn't know where to get one, so he took a piece of broken sidewalk curb from in front of the gas station, splashed some whiteot on it, and mailed it to them.
Earlier today, I was getting ready to run a load of jewelry through the sterilizer at work and I noticed the date stamped on all the little bags and realized that Matt turns forty today. That seems utterly impossible. I mean, come on, we were all just kids, what, a couple of days ago, weren't we? How did this happen? Sure, I have a family and a mortgage, I have a beard with more than a little gray in it--these things haven't escaped my attention--but (to quote pretty much everybody
[quote]with a Jew as a partner which back then wasn't very kosher.[/quote] Interesting way of putting it... [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
So I heard the cause of death was food poisoning. Seems he ate some 12 year old nuts.
Biden was a very smart pick. There has been a lot of speculation before the election that the first black president would be assassinated. Joe quite effectively insures against that.
[quote]If you pay over a million dollars in personal taxes, even with a standard deduction rather than itemized, I don't think you have a thing to worry about. In that tax bracket you are taxed at about 35% of your income if no deductions are taken. So you're claiming to have made over 35 million dollars personally for the year.[/quote] Your math is backwards. 1 million is not 35% of 35 million, it's 1% of 35 million. Paying a million in taxes at 35% rate would make a gross income of u
[quote] He was really excited about the prospect of a new Bird.[/quote] I would have had to sell Jacob to afford one, so maybe its for the best. I love that kid. It would have broke my heart to see him go.
They've never done any waterboarding on Jackass . It would be way too tame.
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