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Reply to Would George Washington Approve Of Gay Marriage? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

P.S. You might also want to take into consideration that Washington was a military leader, as well. It might put a different spin on what attitudes he might have. I don't think you can for any reason assume he would have opposed a ban on gay marriage. Nothing you have there seems to lead to that conclusion. Let's not forget they were all heady on Greek ideals of republicanism and democracy. That suggests they would be bang up for the 'philosophical' man

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

What does not being able to hit the shift key properly have to do with your made-up 'fact' about Einstein? The shift key haunts his dreams, it haunts his waking hours. It's constantly at the edges of his peripheral vision, taunting him with its distance. Sometimes he feels the need to lash out, to try and fight back. But he can never reach it. The shift key is beyond him. It's above him. It dominates him and controls his life. Don't ques

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

when did i advocate the extermination of 1/5 of the worlds population. what i said is that the Muslim people are dangerous because they want to kill us or convert us Ah, so you support the allegedly murderous agenda of 'the Muslim people'? Anyway, what's so bad about conversion? It's not like you have to join them, you know.

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Nah, mad is interesting. daniel is tediously "garden variety". You know on the streets of Milan they're saying tedious is the new black. Why else Paris Hilton? You gotta get with the fashion, Baker.

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

From my perspective, I'm wondering why people ever address daniel directly at all after the first response. A jab here and there is fun, but a debate is like talking to the old conversational bot A.L.I.C.E. I have a certain fascination with madness in all its forms. And he is very mad.

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It's interesting the point of view and tone the article seems to be written in. Very "I'm okay, you're okay":, imho. Yeah, but every article on wikipedia is written by a fetishist about that topic. It's a living document of humanity's obsessions more than an encyclopaedia. If you're looking for a sympathetic article on anything it's the place to go. I have to admit I didn't google this one because I didn't want to see what came up. <d

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Egypt, Greece, and Rome. To the point that it was fairly common. I remember reading that Egyptian women had sex with goats, used snakes for, well, obvious purposes, etc. I wanna say that bestiality was part of the shows in the Roman games, too. Really? I never heard of that! I knew they had the donkey trick back then because they had it in the old Italian mimes, but I didn't know it was as commonplace as, say, homosexuality in Athens or pedophilia in C

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The mental anguish of sexual abuse to an animal that otherwise we might normally roast with a nice barbecue sauce is immaterial. That's an interesting point. I hadn't thought of it that way. My opposition is because I'm a humanist - I think it cheapens our species to go screwing base animals. It's one of the reasons I find sci-fi shows so disgusting. What kind of person would choose to have sex with some horrible alien over a human being? Oh

Reply to The Road To Degradation in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There are a few reasons I doubt bestiality will become 'the new gay' as you seem to be suggesting. First of all adult humans can consent. Animals can't. Animals can't stand up in a court of law and say, "I want to do this". (Most of them can't even stand up, the lazy buggers). Secondly bestiality doesn't have any popular advocates. Sure, bestiality's big amongst farmers, rural folk and some rather disturbing religious cults (Christian and pagan mostly), but they just doesn't

Reply to Immigration Isn't Sending Me Home - Again in Politics JoeUser Forums

At least you're not going for Australia. We not only don't accept people without skills, but we're extremely picky about the skills too.

Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There are almost 200 countries on this planet. 4000 languages, and even more cultures. I am not about to walk 10 steps, much less a mile in all of those shoes. So I have to approach events from my perspective,and comment on them in such a way. If that means that sometimes I am flippant, so be it. I cannot be all knowing. However, removing the flippancy, the article would still stand as a testament to absurdity. Actually the smart thing to do would b

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

such as someone who disagrees with me keeps calling me a bigot when the real bigot is usually the one calling others bigots. such as Jessie Jackson Don't worry, Danny, you're not a bigot. You're not literate enough to be a bigot; with your fourth grade literacy I'm sure no one would think to call you anything other than ignorant, or possibly retarded if they were feeling mildly cruel.

Reply to Has it come home to our soil again?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Maybe danielost has been confused by someone from the rest of the world. Libertarianism is the radical wing of liberalism after all, so factually speaking you are a liberal, and a particularly radical one at that. It's only in the US that socialism is called liberalism.

Reply to Vote now! for LIBERAL IDIOT OF THE YEAR! in Politics JoeUser Forums

I want a cookie. A super plus awesome elite cookie. Hmm, I know how to help you with that. You need to find a house with a pair of shoes hanging over the powerlines out front. Just go in and ask and they'll set you up.

Reply to Future Economies in Misc JoeUser Forums

I have no doubt many will always prefer humans over machines for some services but many others will prefer machines. Haven’t you ever been sure your auto mechanic was ripping you off? Wouldn’t you chose to take your car to a machine mechanic that’s 5 times as fast and cost a fifth as much? Lets face it humans can be dishonest scoundrels and many will prefer the simple selfless strait forward logic of machines for services. I'd probably still go to

Reply to Changing Careers in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'd just like to say I got the job, so come the beginning of next month I'll be working for a combination of the two least trusted industries in the country - advertising and journalism. Awesome.

Reply to What Theologian are you? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Martin Luthor nailed his 95 theses to a church door a started the protestant movement for real. Augustine was a famous early Church saint who was a pretty awesome guy personally if you can believe his confessions. He really knew how to live it up. I got some German guy who was apparently obsessed with evil (or at least that's what the blurb said). I think it was because I answered strongly disagree to nearly all the questions.

Reply to Vote now! for LIBERAL IDIOT OF THE YEAR! in Politics JoeUser Forums

And a troll to neutralize and deduct from your cookie, My troll is much stronger than your cookie. {power-user two} And just to make this interesting, an escalation - elite three cookie coming your way, loca. --- I'd like to nominate Liberal Health Minister Tony Abbot, whose constant pandering to religious fundamentalists has led to some of the most retarded debates and slurs in recent political history. (He reckons he knows mo

Reply to Future Economies in Misc JoeUser Forums

Accountants, they make to many mistakes and even less of us are going to need accountants. Hairdressers, really, imagine a franchise like super cuts that you just walk in sit down drop in a storage thingy and it gives you the exact same perfect haircut every time. Message therapist; how about one that uses thermal analysis to detect problems, and never under or over works a muscle and doesn’t charge extra to talk dirty to you. I'd much rather have

Reply to Parents Want Plane Diverted During Exam in Current Events JoeUser Forums

In Beijing they also enforce traffic redirection during exam times to limit road noises. The future of their children is a lot more important to Chinese parents than western ones, and for better reasons than just "little mandarin"-ism. Acceptance into university is the difference between a likelihood of starving and having a chance at fabulous wealth. Who wouldn't want their child to have the best possible chances at that point? If anything I think this isn't pandering, this is just

Reply to The war as I see it in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

That got published in a newspaper? Wow, the world really is in decline. I don't even where to start with it. I'm not sure that's even possible. I do want to say though that I like the way you approach estimates. Estimates have placed their number at 10%-20% of the Islamic faithful. Other estimates are much higher. With over a billion Islamists in the world, this could mean 100 million or more adherents; more than the military forces of a

Reply to Indonesia You Are A Disgrace! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I have seen very, VERY few groups of liberal persuasions focus on their own obsolescence. They're usually focused on getting more funding. IF the groups are working on the education front and on actually solve the problem, then yes, they're headed in the right direction. But years of seeing glorified welfare bums pander for a check have left me more than a little cynical. On the main environmental groups in Indonesia aren't liberals - they're often polit

Reply to Indonesia You Are A Disgrace! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

But a responsible approach would include educating the poor who live on those banks about what their pollution is doing and providing clean and viable means of disposal. Cleaning up the river has no point to it if you need to go back next week and lather, rinse, repeat. What do you think the environmental movements do? I had a yank friend who spent some time with one in Jakarta. They were organising canal boats to transport garbage through urban a

Reply to America Needs a DICTATOR in Humor JoeUser Forums

The socialist left secretly loves a dictator just as much as the supposedly democratic right. Hey, dictatorships are appealing to everyone who isn't a died in the wool anti-authoritarian hippy type. It's probably because they appear to work. Surface problems don't tend to turn up in dictatorships because they get swatted, so they always seem to work well despite horrendous structural issues. I mean just look at Singapore - there's an e

Reply to Indonesia You Are A Disgrace! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The big question is where should that rubbish go? Jakarta is a city of over 8 million souls and practically no organised garbage collection service (you couldn't fit a truck down most of the residential streets and alleys). Add to that a distinct lack of dumps and you get the problem they have today. Multiply that by the general poverty of the country (brought on mostly by rampant corruption) and I'm not sure there's much the average Jakartan can really do about it. Those who could -