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401	You're equating atheism and homosexuality with terrorism and drug dealing? Really? Can you stop being a reactionary dolt long enough to convince me you're worth even trying to converse with? If not, I'll understand... and not be surprised.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
402	Says the man who wants to criminalize being a victim of a crime. :)	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
403	Actually, I think Kronos is right in this case--at least from the standpoint of most consitutional scholars. Of course the framers didn't envision the wording to be used in this way for this purpose--this is what's simply called a "loophole", in this case anyway. It's why there has been an effort in recent years to close the loophole with a constitutional amendment defining marriage.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
404	Uh. No they didn't. Have you ever actually taken a biology course?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
405	avoiding what question, penfold? emoticonxbanghead how is asking iangb to take it to the 'challenger's corner' an avoidance? i see it as a chance to amplify the discussion. at any rate, it's a lot easier to answer a question if you know what is being asked. so,... feel free to repeat the question that you are accusing me of trying to avoid.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
406	Of course I can't. Can you guarantee that the apparent mugging about to happen isn't some poor slob about to ask directions? Big guy, dark parking lot, bang bang. Better safe than sorry, eh?	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
407	So were the officers on the front lines of the Mumbai massacre. But they didn't shoot back, they hid like cowards. They let people get killed for no good reason.	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
408	And we all know that is what it will become. I'm willing to bet money that Marc is going to argue that abiogenesis is a part of evolution as well as the big bang. There's a clear reason why he won't accept the definitions before the debate starts.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
409	many americans feel that deploying our military in our own cities as a police force sets a bad precedent. i'm surprised you don't. it's one thing to use them in the case of a natural disaster where local police might be overwhelmed, but to open a shooting war with street gangs? chicago ain't rio de janeiro.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
410	...but it's consentual! Why do you and your Victorian sisters keep barging in and spoiling the fun? Everytime we get close to exchanging precious bodily fluids, YOU and your posse show up and spoil the moment.Are you afraid of how our offspring might look?Don't you realize we can always have an abortion?Please, let me finish...emoticonXHoho	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
411	the (us) government is not required to 'recognize' all forms of unions or so called marriages,... just because it has the authority and the responsiblity to define and recognize one. either the government has discretion or it doesn't; and at least according to article 1, section 8.... it does. if a county clerk operates outside the law,... that can not negate the law she has ignored or circumvented. if a licence branch clerk started passing out drivers licenses to illegals and other 'non qualified' applicants,... would the government in that case be required to validate and 'protect' those illegally gotten certificates? you should know better than that. emoticonxdonno	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
412	actually some did talk about the complexity of life as well as irreducible complexity even though it may not be mentioned in the title	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
413	You throw personal insults more than I do. So when will YOU grow up?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
414	so what? the judges' actions created greater freedom for everybody in massachusets. they defended against majority tyranny, and frankly, i do not care about the sources of the laws - only the laws themselves.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
415	Yes I do. Anytime there's a mass killing, you and your ilk are holding it up as an example of how we need more gun control, how we have to reduce the rights of the people so those that die won't have died in vain.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
416	Do you think that red herrings and strawmen will help your case? ;)	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
417	LOLfunny I never looked at you name in detail. I just assumed you were a male. Unlike women and Montalban, you present very rational arguments. OH NO! PLEASE DONT TELL MY WIFE I SAID THAT! LOL	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
418	The criminals in DC already have their guns. All striking down DC's handgun ban will do is let the law abiding be able to better defend themselves and be armed for a change.	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
419	That does not surprise me. A whole world filled with people who look, speak, think, and do things different than you must be absolutely terrifying.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
420	third degree? dono posted something that confused me, so i was asking for clarification. of what concern is it to anyone whether gay people marry? adopt? what concern is it of mine whether female infants have their vaginas sewn up, for that matter? why should anyone care whether women have abortions, as well? again, where is the line drawn between concern over an issue and obsession? yay for you? there were black people who thought slavery was just fine, too, so i see this as evidence of nothing more than your own muddy thinking.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
421	I have an entire New Testament. You've got what - a mouthful of denial? When you get to the level of the NT works let us know.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
422	True they should have passed raincoats and knee boots to protect peoples clothes from the XXXX that the president was spewing out.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
423	proving my beliefs from the bible is not being un-christian. is it? as i said i don't want to debate it with you, i just like to know who i'm typing to. simple.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
424	lol...you read my whole post only to conclude with "what's your point." Evolutionist brilliance on display. I'm not mistaking nothing for nothing. I know my stuff. You obviously know nothing and don't care to learn it.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
425	be sure and count the number of hits vs. the number of misses of some well trained leos. sap, remember your postition you took now on citizens might miss and hit some innocent person? read 3 or 4 versions of this shootout and learn something! lots of useful information in there.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
426	find me a spell check plugin for firefox liminus. i had one for ie before i switched over. frankly, i'm not surprised we're going to use that for police and military applications.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
427	yeah! its a benefit to be able to do a thing like that. i'm amazed that we've come so far in technology and science, but i think there is a line of what we can offer people. its not like they're gonna chose whether they want to have an egg or a bagel for breakfast.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
428	"Ready to go", in the sense that living things are equipped with a means of making small errors which are used by natural selection to make new structures.Barbarian, regarding mutations:There is a lot of that. Many mutations are recessive and a population over time accumulates a lot of genetic variation that can become useful if the environment changes. The founder population of lizards, for example, could have had at most, 20 alleles for any gene locus, since each lizard can only have 2. The new ones evolved by mutation. Sometimes, we can even observe that happening, or trace the mutation back to a known ancestor. Would you like to learn about it? .	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
429	I still haven't seen an adequate rebuttal to this. Why can't people marry themselves if they are in love with themselves? I must have missed your response.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
430	The last known passenger pigeon died in 1914. Your attempt to inflame the discussion fails on the grounds of utter stupidity. Might as well be asking if he bagged a tasmanian tiger, or a chupacabra, or the mothman.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
431	i don't follow. 'since those of specific faith...' ???? if you don't believe god, then there is no sin. those that do would choose neither of the above over another. of course, there are some here that would, but that's religion for you.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
432	Oddly enough I found Thomas's opinion to be most compelling. The dissent was surprisingly weak...even for a dissent. It didn't even really make sense. The actual opinion was kinda weak but I got bored reading it so I skimmed the second half. Ha.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
433	Some claim, that Darwin's Evolution theory is an imaginary fairytale as others claim that Cathlic Genisis is a make-belive pack of lies. No one is right. Human life on earth was created by aliens manipulating already existing genetic materials. PS My post is by no means intended as a serious opinion on the subject and should be treated as such. We alreadly live in strange enough word and this debate is pointless per se.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
434	No more so than the Scalia/Uncle Clarence Thomas cabal opining that the words NO LAW mean something other than what they do when they rule in a First Amendment case.	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
435	Alright. Aproximately 0 illegal drug dealers paid income taxes on their drug money. (Unless, of course, they laundered it.)	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
436	So you believe if a kid threatens to shoot up the school it should be just ignored as children"s innocent mischief..........Tell that to the kids that died at Colombine..... emoticonXRolleyes	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
437	obama has 1 thing that palin certainly doesn't have is the fantastic ability to turn crowds in favor of him. obama has amazing speech abilities that surpasses palin without a doubt in my mind. palin also likes to go off subject almost as if she is avoiding certain questions. what is experience if you cannot even thoroughly explain your position?	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
438	not entirely sure whether you are agreeing with me or not:) i also presume the reference to 'george' relates to the us president ?? if so then i'm afraid the one thing they have done is underestimate the terrorists and, then, in a way realising that, have gone over the top. apart from their fanaticism there is absolutely nothing to indicate that terrorists are anything other than just as capable of planning etc as any other man. indeed all their actions have indicated that they are extremely capable. we have to be more so	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
439	Probably neat excuse. Do you expect jim to back that claim up? emoticonXGood Don't hold your breath.	Non-Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Agree
440	that was a similar argument used for every single scientific discovery since the beginning of time. were is the biblical proof that god doesn't want cloning? those that said the earth was round instead of flat were labled heretics. many people believed flying should be left to the birds that god created. in fact, some faith's still believe that science is wrong, medicine is a sin. it is a good thing that we don't let religion dictate our science, or we'd still be thumping eachother with clubs and eating raw meat. pride caused the fall of the son of morning, not scientific discovery.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
441	thanks for clarifying the point i was making to simone. with all of your difficulties with comprehension, i'm surprised you got it. emoticonxsmilie	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
442	There's absolutely no way in hell this could be legal in any sense. That California school got ***** slapped for expelling a student who had a gun off campus, beyond the jurisdictional reach of the school. So how can this school believe they can get away with such an insane policy?	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
443	Stalin died of natural causes while in power, I believe. Perhaps the fall of communism is due in part that the purges stopped. So, killing hundreds of thousands of people was wise for Stalin, huh? Good. Good. Anybody disagree with canadianman76?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
444	...Because everyone knows there are no married men sexually abusing children. emoticonXConfused	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
445	Yet another of your posts that wouldn't pass the Turing Test...	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
446	Worker: I Saw Rat Roasting In Peanut Plant, Tells Jeff Glor He Also Saw Rat Droppings, Roaches, Huge Holes In Roof Of Ga. Facility Being Probed In Salmonella Outbreak - CBS News Well gosh! If it was a Republican Rat I'm sure that makes everything okey dokey. Right, BushFans?	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
447	So you're claiming that you "transformed" from part of your mother to a human. So you're claiming that you were once almost your mom's arm or leg? lol! Biologically, this is simply a farce statement.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
448	emoticonXWowYou are making up your own strawman arguments as you go along.Asking "what they would need" is a poor mask to avoid the fact that YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE in the first place.A lot of "doesn't this look like ...", but that's akin to interpreting Rorschach tests. You see what you want to.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
449	Oh, I get it Flashlights and I-Pods have souls and consciousness.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
450	Of course I can't. Can you guarantee that the apparent mugging about to happen isn't some poor slob about to ask directions? Big guy, dark parking lot, bang bang. Better safe than sorry, eh?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
451	If you truly believe this then I think you need to re-read your posts and put yourself in the shoes of those on the receiving end.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
452	'positive' atheism? now there's a contradiction of terms if i ever saw one.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
453	Excuse me?! Didn't AIDS started because your homies either ate or did the nasty with monkeys, thereby crossing the species boundary? What did it have to do with "da man"? And crime and poverty in Africa is also the white devil's doing? emoticonXConfused	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
454	And like drugs, banning firearms would create another tax free black market, supplied by underground smuggling and manufacturing. Making a pistol with low chamber pressures, especially a semi or full auto firing from an open bolt, is no big deal to a competent machinist. Guns like the MC-10 are made mostly from stamped steel, simple to manufacture in a spare room. This all sounds like legislation of morality, proven to be impossible.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
455	Hate to have to spoil things, but the rest of the world has really no interest at all in Kansas and its scholastic problems	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
456	I have an avatar? And I wasn't born in 1990. Remember what the say about assumptions...	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
457	Guns in our society increased. Total NICS Firearm Background Checks -- November 30, 1998 - February 28, 2010	Non-Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Agree
458	They are also an expense against revenue.I suppose you think that business will reduce prices in some proportion to the tax relief, but they are not in business to give consumers a great deal. They are in business to make profit. You will likely see only a moderate decrease in prices by eliminating corporate tax.#2 How many people do you think will incorporate in order to avoid paying any tax? My guess is just about anybody who can. You are left with either anOver taxed non-corporate population or an immedite and significant drop in revenue as everyone incorporates becoming exempt, or both. Americans have been finding ways around the tax code since it's inception	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
459	actually it is true. as i'm sure that i have stated before, either on this thread or on another thread, vacuum fluctuations must presuppose that there was something to fluctuate - the 'quantum vacuum' is a lot of matter-antimatter potential - not 'nothing'. can you give me an internet site (s) for reference please? on my own admission i don't know much about quantum physics, so any additional information would be really appreciated! thanking you ahead, matt.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
460	paul.boys, thank you for this little historical footnote. i must add that i am quite shocked to learn of this but not surprised. i think that in now disapproving as a society of child prostitution shows that we have advanced socially--and i argue that it has to do with becoming a more secular society and granting more rights and equality to women and children--as opposed to the almost divinely conferred 'father' right often practiced in old christianity before it was forced to reform by feminism.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
461	how about a Swiss University? they have full automatic weapons in most homes, and target shooting is a national sport.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
462	When 90 percent of this forum is left wing out of work Liberals it is not a surprise that polls don't go the Conservative way.........	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
463	False. Beneficial mutations in bacteria have been observed in the lab. Far from wrecking the system, they allowed the system to continue to live while those without the mutations died: the mutations improved the system's ability to survive and perpetuate itself.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
464	The Brady Campaign whines more than they act. Making handguns legal in Chicago wouldn't make them happy. Sending the national guard in wouldn't make them happy. They don't have a solution for the problem, but they're right there to whine about it. They're just like the Federal Government; they find something simple and complicate it.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
465	Is this another attempt of yours to paint all that believe in smaller, less-intrusive government as loonies? Very transparent, sorry. :(	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
466	because gc hears things all woggly. the message from god is for shepherds to tend to ignorant, mindless sheep. but, with dope-smoker ears, and american ignorance it translates into a cowboy...who rustles cattle...and heads them to a quick slaughter. it's like, when the anti-chist makes his appearance, i'll be gods slaughterman. effectively and efficiently removing tru-believahs from the world...cause god forgot some in his rapture thingy (i forget how the logic of these events is supposed to play out...) ummm...aren't we overdue for that bloke to return already? i'm getting antsy for the 2nd coming and all the excitement that leads up to that glorious event. think holding my breath will make it happen any sooner?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
467	The point that seemingly escapes you is that not even in the most wonderful country on the planet in all of human history has free speech been considered an absolute right that nothing can limit in any way. Thank you for comprehending. Not.	Non-Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Agree
468	so since most abortions weren't rape, do you still support abortions for people who are raped? Just wondering.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
469	Leave it to an airhead like you to reduce presidential qualifications down to physical characteristics.emoticonXRolleyes I wouldn't vote for Sarah Palin for president. She lost my support when she resigned her governorship of Alaska. IMO, quitters are losers. emoticonXCensored	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
470	Little boy, you need to do a little study on Nazis. They specialized in death. Unlike pro-life people.	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
471	are you a little bit retarded or something? don't get me wrong sleazyrider i love babies, they're delicious!	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
472	Not if they give him the death penalty, then it's apeals till your ears bleed.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
473	So being easy to know makes it good? methinks that's not quite right.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
474	Cornell's writings consistently place him within the collective right camp. Even the arguments that are attributed to him which start this thread show his collective right desire. His claim to neutrality in the individual/collective right debate is as disingenuous as his interpretations of the SCOTUS opinions in both Miller and Cruikshank: Greatest Threat to Second Amendment? Greatest Threat to Second Amendment? Whether ?neutral? or not, Cornell has proven himself capable of distorting SCOTUS opinions when he does not find that they suit his collective right tastes.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
475	But I think that Gods originally came about to explain why a large yellow thing goes up and down everyday. To a caveman the most logical explanation is there is a God. Now we know better. Just because there are still things we can't explain does not mean they must be from God.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
476	so steeeeve, how long have you supported the confiscation of all privately held firearm in the us? c'mon, you know you want to.emoticonxkillemoticonxclown some gun-grabbing anti-constitutionalists wear a rather convincing disguise.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
477	oh dear lord...the onion is why i wake up in the mornings. they're talking about making it a pay site though. my world would just crumble.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
478	my implication was that the christians felt they could not compete financialy so they vilified the jews in order to justify destroying them and taking there success. my question is how is that attitude any diffrent from todays ultra liberials that wish to uphold the inheritance tax, or property taxes? todays 'haves' are not nessacerialy all jewish, they are however being attacked by the 'havenots' for their success, much as the jews were back then.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
479	Not even Answers in Genesis thinks that these ideas have any credence. But Mr. Kent Hovind still does.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
480	I'm not going anywhere with this thread. I just wanted to point out the obvious hypocrisy of everything your side represents, and nothing more. You all go right ahead and massage your shallow World views.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
481	Interesting that you would make such a judgement when you are guilty of the same. Or do you need to reread Matthew 7 ?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
482	emoticonXFrazzledTalk about a fast and loose accusation.WHAT DID HE ACTUALLY SAY???Cause Harry Hay is well known for his gay rights work.If Jennings did find something about the guy inspiring, it was probably his gay rights work.If I said that I thought Martin Luther King Jr was inspiring, would you automatically associate my praise with extramarital affairs?This is just stupid!	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
483	You crack me up. That was a nice rant that had absolutely nothing to do with anything. The essential question is not what various religous leaders have said about the issue, but what the Bible says about the issue.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
484	Okay, you are right... we need a definition for a 'hole,' as it is a bit of a subjective concept. Allow me to define 'hole' like this: The void created by the intentional destruction of something already in existence. Using 'hole' with this definition makes Alcorn's statement (minus the word 'terrible') a true fact in the physical realm. And it precludes any of your other ideas from creating 'holes,' since they all deal with potentiality, not reality.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
485	Let me know when we're leaving, cause your right and I could use a shot of the real human condition.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
486	Here, the atheist satirists assign perfection to astronomers. They have no comprehension of God being above and beyond time, and this causes them to feel that theyre on the same level as God, able to question him and challenge him to the same extent he can question us and challenge us. Yet they know that there are characteristics of reality that they themselves cannot explain, though they probably seriously believe that astronomy is an exact, non-controversial science.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
487	Obviously, in the event of a disaster, George W. Bush sure thinks he has a right to choose. Hmmm, let's see, should I interrupt my vacation just because people are drowning in New Orleans? Naw, I don't think I should. They're just poor people and they probably didn't vote for me.	Sarcastic	Non-Sarcastic	Disagree
488	the aruba case fuelled a lot of bad blood around here. to be honest i'm still astonished about the whole thing. what idiot starts verbally assaulting wartime allies over a missing person's case?	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
489	Argueing with penfold is like wrestling a pig in the mud, the pig enjoys it.	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
490	Looking for an opportunity to shoot a gun control advocate while being protected from prosecution by the castle laws in your state? Not happening....	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
491	so as to comics/cartoons that have already been mentioned: calvin and hobbes, simpsons, south park, recess, and sponge bob rock my socks off. also pretty much all of adult swim. but i'm surprised no one mentioned this... the fairly odd parents... hella funny ****... oh my god. that's it for me	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
492	Wouldn't professing atheism cover that?Or were you looking for something else? I'll call mine "Bertrand".	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
493	I'd argue that the woman wants to control who lives or dies. That's scarier to me. emoticonXRolleyes	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
494	The article said very little about his observations and almost nothing about his methods.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
495	Sure, cause everyone ALWAYS agrees with everything their church minister says. emoticonXRolleyes	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
496	Good, associate yourself with him. After all, having a best pal who weaves a web of contridictions and lies can't hurt you right?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
497	Funny how you haven't had a literature or history class recently. Would you like me to contact the several history and literature/English teachers in my school and ask them if they credit Homer as the actual author of those epics?	Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Agree
498	And the loss to society because people used guns instead of an alternate weapon is?	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
499	So the scumbag judge or judge and jury did a tremendous miscarriage of justice then. But this is off the topic. Its Black on Black gun crime, not judicial activism.	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree
500	I don't have to say anything here, your post made it sound sick enough. Yes, freedaom at all cost. Isn't that the theory this country was founded by?	Non-Sarcastic	Sarcastic	Disagree

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You're equating atheism and homosexuality with terrorism and drug dealing? Really? Can you stop being a reactionary dolt long enough to convince me you're worth even trying to converse with? If not, I'll understand... and not be surprised.

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Says the man who wants to criminalize being a victim of a crime. :)

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Actually, I think Kronos is right in this case--at least from the standpoint of most consitutional scholars. Of course the framers didn't envision the wording to be used in this way for this purpose--this is what's simply called a "loophole", in this case anyway. It's why there has been an effort in recent years to close the loophole with a constitutional amendment defining marriage.

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Uh. No they didn't. Have you ever actually taken a biology course?

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avoiding what question, penfold? emoticonxbanghead how is asking iangb to take it to the 'challenger's corner' an avoidance? i see it as a chance to amplify the discussion. at any rate, it's a lot easier to answer a question if you know what is being asked. so,... feel free to repeat the question that you are accusing me of trying to avoid.

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Of course I can't. Can you guarantee that the apparent mugging about to happen isn't some poor slob about to ask directions? Big guy, dark parking lot, bang bang. Better safe than sorry, eh?

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So were the officers on the front lines of the Mumbai massacre. But they didn't shoot back, they hid like cowards. They let people get killed for no good reason.

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And we all know that is what it will become. I'm willing to bet money that Marc is going to argue that abiogenesis is a part of evolution as well as the big bang. There's a clear reason why he won't accept the definitions before the debate starts.

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many americans feel that deploying our military in our own cities as a police force sets a bad precedent. i'm surprised you don't. it's one thing to use them in the case of a natural disaster where local police might be overwhelmed, but to open a shooting war with street gangs? chicago ain't rio de janeiro.

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...but it's consentual! Why do you and your Victorian sisters keep barging in and spoiling the fun? Everytime we get close to exchanging precious bodily fluids, YOU and your posse show up and spoil the moment.Are you afraid of how our offspring might look?Don't you realize we can always have an abortion?Please, let me finish...emoticonXHoho

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the (us) government is not required to 'recognize' all forms of unions or so called marriages,... just because it has the authority and the responsiblity to define and recognize one. either the government has discretion or it doesn't; and at least according to article 1, section 8.... it does. if a county clerk operates outside the law,... that can not negate the law she has ignored or circumvented. if a licence branch clerk started passing out drivers licenses to illegals and other 'non qualified' applicants,... would the government in that case be required to validate and 'protect' those illegally gotten certificates? you should know better than that. emoticonxdonno

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actually some did talk about the complexity of life as well as irreducible complexity even though it may not be mentioned in the title

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You throw personal insults more than I do. So when will YOU grow up?

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so what? the judges' actions created greater freedom for everybody in massachusets. they defended against majority tyranny, and frankly, i do not care about the sources of the laws - only the laws themselves.

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Yes I do. Anytime there's a mass killing, you and your ilk are holding it up as an example of how we need more gun control, how we have to reduce the rights of the people so those that die won't have died in vain.

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Do you think that red herrings and strawmen will help your case? ;)

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LOLfunny I never looked at you name in detail. I just assumed you were a male. Unlike women and Montalban, you present very rational arguments. OH NO! PLEASE DONT TELL MY WIFE I SAID THAT! LOL

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The criminals in DC already have their guns. All striking down DC's handgun ban will do is let the law abiding be able to better defend themselves and be armed for a change.

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That does not surprise me. A whole world filled with people who look, speak, think, and do things different than you must be absolutely terrifying.

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third degree? dono posted something that confused me, so i was asking for clarification. of what concern is it to anyone whether gay people marry? adopt? what concern is it of mine whether female infants have their vaginas sewn up, for that matter? why should anyone care whether women have abortions, as well? again, where is the line drawn between concern over an issue and obsession? yay for you? there were black people who thought slavery was just fine, too, so i see this as evidence of nothing more than your own muddy thinking.

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I have an entire New Testament. You've got what - a mouthful of denial? When you get to the level of the NT works let us know.

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True they should have passed raincoats and knee boots to protect peoples clothes from the XXXX that the president was spewing out.

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proving my beliefs from the bible is not being un-christian. is it? as i said i don't want to debate it with you, i just like to know who i'm typing to. simple.

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lol...you read my whole post only to conclude with "what's your point." Evolutionist brilliance on display. I'm not mistaking nothing for nothing. I know my stuff. You obviously know nothing and don't care to learn it.

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be sure and count the number of hits vs. the number of misses of some well trained leos. sap, remember your postition you took now on citizens might miss and hit some innocent person? read 3 or 4 versions of this shootout and learn something! lots of useful information in there.

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find me a spell check plugin for firefox liminus. i had one for ie before i switched over. frankly, i'm not surprised we're going to use that for police and military applications.

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yeah! its a benefit to be able to do a thing like that. i'm amazed that we've come so far in technology and science, but i think there is a line of what we can offer people. its not like they're gonna chose whether they want to have an egg or a bagel for breakfast.

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"Ready to go", in the sense that living things are equipped with a means of making small errors which are used by natural selection to make new structures.Barbarian, regarding mutations:There is a lot of that. Many mutations are recessive and a population over time accumulates a lot of genetic variation that can become useful if the environment changes. The founder population of lizards, for example, could have had at most, 20 alleles for any gene locus, since each lizard can only have 2. The new ones evolved by mutation. Sometimes, we can even observe that happening, or trace the mutation back to a known ancestor. Would you like to learn about it? .

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I still haven't seen an adequate rebuttal to this. Why can't people marry themselves if they are in love with themselves? I must have missed your response.

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The last known passenger pigeon died in 1914. Your attempt to inflame the discussion fails on the grounds of utter stupidity. Might as well be asking if he bagged a tasmanian tiger, or a chupacabra, or the mothman.

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i don't follow. 'since those of specific faith...' ???? if you don't believe god, then there is no sin. those that do would choose neither of the above over another. of course, there are some here that would, but that's religion for you.

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Oddly enough I found Thomas's opinion to be most compelling. The dissent was surprisingly weak...even for a dissent. It didn't even really make sense. The actual opinion was kinda weak but I got bored reading it so I skimmed the second half. Ha.

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Some claim, that Darwin's Evolution theory is an imaginary fairytale as others claim that Cathlic Genisis is a make-belive pack of lies. No one is right. Human life on earth was created by aliens manipulating already existing genetic materials. PS My post is by no means intended as a serious opinion on the subject and should be treated as such. We alreadly live in strange enough word and this debate is pointless per se.

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No more so than the Scalia/Uncle Clarence Thomas cabal opining that the words NO LAW mean something other than what they do when they rule in a First Amendment case.

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Alright. Aproximately 0 illegal drug dealers paid income taxes on their drug money. (Unless, of course, they laundered it.)

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So you believe if a kid threatens to shoot up the school it should be just ignored as children"s innocent mischief..........Tell that to the kids that died at Colombine..... emoticonXRolleyes

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obama has 1 thing that palin certainly doesn't have is the fantastic ability to turn crowds in favor of him. obama has amazing speech abilities that surpasses palin without a doubt in my mind. palin also likes to go off subject almost as if she is avoiding certain questions. what is experience if you cannot even thoroughly explain your position?

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not entirely sure whether you are agreeing with me or not:) i also presume the reference to 'george' relates to the us president ?? if so then i'm afraid the one thing they have done is underestimate the terrorists and, then, in a way realising that, have gone over the top. apart from their fanaticism there is absolutely nothing to indicate that terrorists are anything other than just as capable of planning etc as any other man. indeed all their actions have indicated that they are extremely capable. we have to be more so

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Probably neat excuse. Do you expect jim to back that claim up? emoticonXGood Don't hold your breath.

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that was a similar argument used for every single scientific discovery since the beginning of time. were is the biblical proof that god doesn't want cloning? those that said the earth was round instead of flat were labled heretics. many people believed flying should be left to the birds that god created. in fact, some faith's still believe that science is wrong, medicine is a sin. it is a good thing that we don't let religion dictate our science, or we'd still be thumping eachother with clubs and eating raw meat. pride caused the fall of the son of morning, not scientific discovery.

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thanks for clarifying the point i was making to simone. with all of your difficulties with comprehension, i'm surprised you got it. emoticonxsmilie

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There's absolutely no way in hell this could be legal in any sense. That California school got ***** slapped for expelling a student who had a gun off campus, beyond the jurisdictional reach of the school. So how can this school believe they can get away with such an insane policy?

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Stalin died of natural causes while in power, I believe. Perhaps the fall of communism is due in part that the purges stopped. So, killing hundreds of thousands of people was wise for Stalin, huh? Good. Good. Anybody disagree with canadianman76?

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...Because everyone knows there are no married men sexually abusing children. emoticonXConfused

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Yet another of your posts that wouldn't pass the Turing Test...

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Worker: I Saw Rat Roasting In Peanut Plant, Tells Jeff Glor He Also Saw Rat Droppings, Roaches, Huge Holes In Roof Of Ga. Facility Being Probed In Salmonella Outbreak - CBS News Well gosh! If it was a Republican Rat I'm sure that makes everything okey dokey. Right, BushFans?

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So you're claiming that you "transformed" from part of your mother to a human. So you're claiming that you were once almost your mom's arm or leg? lol! Biologically, this is simply a farce statement.

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emoticonXWowYou are making up your own strawman arguments as you go along.Asking "what they would need" is a poor mask to avoid the fact that YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE in the first place.A lot of "doesn't this look like ...", but that's akin to interpreting Rorschach tests. You see what you want to.

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Oh, I get it Flashlights and I-Pods have souls and consciousness.

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Of course I can't. Can you guarantee that the apparent mugging about to happen isn't some poor slob about to ask directions? Big guy, dark parking lot, bang bang. Better safe than sorry, eh?

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If you truly believe this then I think you need to re-read your posts and put yourself in the shoes of those on the receiving end.

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'positive' atheism? now there's a contradiction of terms if i ever saw one.

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Excuse me?! Didn't AIDS started because your homies either ate or did the nasty with monkeys, thereby crossing the species boundary? What did it have to do with "da man"? And crime and poverty in Africa is also the white devil's doing? emoticonXConfused

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And like drugs, banning firearms would create another tax free black market, supplied by underground smuggling and manufacturing. Making a pistol with low chamber pressures, especially a semi or full auto firing from an open bolt, is no big deal to a competent machinist. Guns like the MC-10 are made mostly from stamped steel, simple to manufacture in a spare room. This all sounds like legislation of morality, proven to be impossible.

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Hate to have to spoil things, but the rest of the world has really no interest at all in Kansas and its scholastic problems

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I have an avatar? And I wasn't born in 1990. Remember what the say about assumptions...

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Guns in our society increased. Total NICS Firearm Background Checks -- November 30, 1998 - February 28, 2010

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They are also an expense against revenue.I suppose you think that business will reduce prices in some proportion to the tax relief, but they are not in business to give consumers a great deal. They are in business to make profit. You will likely see only a moderate decrease in prices by eliminating corporate tax.#2 How many people do you think will incorporate in order to avoid paying any tax? My guess is just about anybody who can. You are left with either anOver taxed non-corporate population or an immedite and significant drop in revenue as everyone incorporates becoming exempt, or both. Americans have been finding ways around the tax code since it's inception

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actually it is true. as i'm sure that i have stated before, either on this thread or on another thread, vacuum fluctuations must presuppose that there was something to fluctuate - the 'quantum vacuum' is a lot of matter-antimatter potential - not 'nothing'. can you give me an internet site (s) for reference please? on my own admission i don't know much about quantum physics, so any additional information would be really appreciated! thanking you ahead, matt.

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paul.boys, thank you for this little historical footnote. i must add that i am quite shocked to learn of this but not surprised. i think that in now disapproving as a society of child prostitution shows that we have advanced socially--and i argue that it has to do with becoming a more secular society and granting more rights and equality to women and children--as opposed to the almost divinely conferred 'father' right often practiced in old christianity before it was forced to reform by feminism.

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how about a Swiss University? they have full automatic weapons in most homes, and target shooting is a national sport.

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When 90 percent of this forum is left wing out of work Liberals it is not a surprise that polls don't go the Conservative way.........

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False. Beneficial mutations in bacteria have been observed in the lab. Far from wrecking the system, they allowed the system to continue to live while those without the mutations died: the mutations improved the system's ability to survive and perpetuate itself.

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The Brady Campaign whines more than they act. Making handguns legal in Chicago wouldn't make them happy. Sending the national guard in wouldn't make them happy. They don't have a solution for the problem, but they're right there to whine about it. They're just like the Federal Government; they find something simple and complicate it.

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Is this another attempt of yours to paint all that believe in smaller, less-intrusive government as loonies? Very transparent, sorry. :(

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because gc hears things all woggly. the message from god is for shepherds to tend to ignorant, mindless sheep. but, with dope-smoker ears, and american ignorance it translates into a cowboy...who rustles cattle...and heads them to a quick slaughter. it's like, when the anti-chist makes his appearance, i'll be gods slaughterman. effectively and efficiently removing tru-believahs from the world...cause god forgot some in his rapture thingy (i forget how the logic of these events is supposed to play out...) ummm...aren't we overdue for that bloke to return already? i'm getting antsy for the 2nd coming and all the excitement that leads up to that glorious event. think holding my breath will make it happen any sooner?

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The point that seemingly escapes you is that not even in the most wonderful country on the planet in all of human history has free speech been considered an absolute right that nothing can limit in any way. Thank you for comprehending. Not.

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so since most abortions weren't rape, do you still support abortions for people who are raped? Just wondering.

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Leave it to an airhead like you to reduce presidential qualifications down to physical characteristics.emoticonXRolleyes I wouldn't vote for Sarah Palin for president. She lost my support when she resigned her governorship of Alaska. IMO, quitters are losers. emoticonXCensored

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Little boy, you need to do a little study on Nazis. They specialized in death. Unlike pro-life people.

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are you a little bit retarded or something? don't get me wrong sleazyrider i love babies, they're delicious!

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Not if they give him the death penalty, then it's apeals till your ears bleed.

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So being easy to know makes it good? methinks that's not quite right.

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Cornell's writings consistently place him within the collective right camp. Even the arguments that are attributed to him which start this thread show his collective right desire. His claim to neutrality in the individual/collective right debate is as disingenuous as his interpretations of the SCOTUS opinions in both Miller and Cruikshank: Greatest Threat to Second Amendment? Greatest Threat to Second Amendment? Whether ?neutral? or not, Cornell has proven himself capable of distorting SCOTUS opinions when he does not find that they suit his collective right tastes.

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But I think that Gods originally came about to explain why a large yellow thing goes up and down everyday. To a caveman the most logical explanation is there is a God. Now we know better. Just because there are still things we can't explain does not mean they must be from God.

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so steeeeve, how long have you supported the confiscation of all privately held firearm in the us? c'mon, you know you want to.emoticonxkillemoticonxclown some gun-grabbing anti-constitutionalists wear a rather convincing disguise.

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oh dear lord...the onion is why i wake up in the mornings. they're talking about making it a pay site though. my world would just crumble.

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my implication was that the christians felt they could not compete financialy so they vilified the jews in order to justify destroying them and taking there success. my question is how is that attitude any diffrent from todays ultra liberials that wish to uphold the inheritance tax, or property taxes? todays 'haves' are not nessacerialy all jewish, they are however being attacked by the 'havenots' for their success, much as the jews were back then.

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Not even Answers in Genesis thinks that these ideas have any credence. But Mr. Kent Hovind still does.

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I'm not going anywhere with this thread. I just wanted to point out the obvious hypocrisy of everything your side represents, and nothing more. You all go right ahead and massage your shallow World views.

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Interesting that you would make such a judgement when you are guilty of the same. Or do you need to reread Matthew 7 ?

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emoticonXFrazzledTalk about a fast and loose accusation.WHAT DID HE ACTUALLY SAY???Cause Harry Hay is well known for his gay rights work.If Jennings did find something about the guy inspiring, it was probably his gay rights work.If I said that I thought Martin Luther King Jr was inspiring, would you automatically associate my praise with extramarital affairs?This is just stupid!

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You crack me up. That was a nice rant that had absolutely nothing to do with anything. The essential question is not what various religous leaders have said about the issue, but what the Bible says about the issue.

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Okay, you are right... we need a definition for a 'hole,' as it is a bit of a subjective concept. Allow me to define 'hole' like this: The void created by the intentional destruction of something already in existence. Using 'hole' with this definition makes Alcorn's statement (minus the word 'terrible') a true fact in the physical realm. And it precludes any of your other ideas from creating 'holes,' since they all deal with potentiality, not reality.

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Let me know when we're leaving, cause your right and I could use a shot of the real human condition.

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Here, the atheist satirists assign perfection to astronomers. They have no comprehension of God being above and beyond time, and this causes them to feel that theyre on the same level as God, able to question him and challenge him to the same extent he can question us and challenge us. Yet they know that there are characteristics of reality that they themselves cannot explain, though they probably seriously believe that astronomy is an exact, non-controversial science.

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Obviously, in the event of a disaster, George W. Bush sure thinks he has a right to choose. Hmmm, let's see, should I interrupt my vacation just because people are drowning in New Orleans? Naw, I don't think I should. They're just poor people and they probably didn't vote for me.

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the aruba case fuelled a lot of bad blood around here. to be honest i'm still astonished about the whole thing. what idiot starts verbally assaulting wartime allies over a missing person's case?

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Argueing with penfold is like wrestling a pig in the mud, the pig enjoys it.

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Looking for an opportunity to shoot a gun control advocate while being protected from prosecution by the castle laws in your state? Not happening....

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so as to comics/cartoons that have already been mentioned: calvin and hobbes, simpsons, south park, recess, and sponge bob rock my socks off. also pretty much all of adult swim. but i'm surprised no one mentioned this... the fairly odd parents... hella funny ****... oh my god. that's it for me

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Wouldn't professing atheism cover that?Or were you looking for something else? I'll call mine "Bertrand".

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I'd argue that the woman wants to control who lives or dies. That's scarier to me. emoticonXRolleyes

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The article said very little about his observations and almost nothing about his methods.

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Sure, cause everyone ALWAYS agrees with everything their church minister says. emoticonXRolleyes

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Good, associate yourself with him. After all, having a best pal who weaves a web of contridictions and lies can't hurt you right?

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Funny how you haven't had a literature or history class recently. Would you like me to contact the several history and literature/English teachers in my school and ask them if they credit Homer as the actual author of those epics?

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And the loss to society because people used guns instead of an alternate weapon is?

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So the scumbag judge or judge and jury did a tremendous miscarriage of justice then. But this is off the topic. Its Black on Black gun crime, not judicial activism.

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I don't have to say anything here, your post made it sound sick enough. Yes, freedaom at all cost. Isn't that the theory this country was founded by?

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