Isreal should stop the violence, sit back, suck it up and take it. Sure, if they stop fighting, the shelling of Isreal will continue until the end of eternity (or the end of Isreal, whichever comes first), but the important thing here is not survival--it's public opinion. Right?
[quote]It is not about hate of an individual but hate of a group and attempting to intimidate that group through actions.[/quote] That's conspiracy. It's already covered without hate crime laws. [quote]Look I don't deny that the term "hatecrime" is overused and probably over-applied when trying cases[/quote] And that's what makes hate crime laws stupid. Any crime can be called a hate crime. If I kill a guy, then I pretty much hate him. If I intend to kill everyb
[quote]I would still argue that a crime driven out of a hate for a given group of people is deserving of a harsher punishment. [/quote] Why? If I beat a guy to death with a bat, how does my reason for doing it make it any more or less brutal? Any more or less a crime?
[quote]I like how our society is geared towards a mother being the only one who could possibly stay at home with the kids That college education isn't wasted if the husband doesn't mind doing the kid-watching and the wife really wants a career. Now, to find a wife who wants a career so I can watch munchkins all day [/quote] The worst mistake men ever made was to allow women to join them in the workplace. We should have handed it over to them completely!
[quote] Are you telling me that if you don't have offspring, your life isn't worth living? Geez, I hope it isn't as drastic as that.[/quote] It's not, but once you have kids, you see your own life before that as kind of pointless. But you don't really see other people's lives like that. [quote]I think that people need to do what works best for their life and their situation -- sometimes it's being a stay at home parent, sometimes it's working outside the home -- there is a value
[quote]Obama says something about redistributing the wealth and conservative defender's of McCain slip into attack mode avoiding the Joe issue altogether. Talk about hiding. Actually, its the old bait and switch. So it goes.[/quote] Also, this is rich. The "conservative defenders of McCain" are using a statement by Barack Obama , a presidential candidate who pretty much came right out and said he's a socialist, to avoid discussing a plumbe
[quote] avoiding the Joe issue altogether.[/quote] That's because there is no Joe issue . I really don't see why you can't understand that. His bona fides have been questioned and distorted beyond all reason to try and hide what Obama said. [quote]The Joe issue, folks, is whether or not McCain should have set up Joe as an exemplar in the first place! Goodness. [/quote] McCain used him because he asked Obama a direct question, and because of the answer Oba
[quote]You think the news article pointing out the truth behind Joe was dishonorable? Or was placing it for comment here on JU the dishonorable thing? Or perhaps trying to answer questions about it, that was the dishonorable thing?[/quote] Depends on what the motivation was. If it was to distract from what Obama said, than yes, it was dishonorable. If it wasn't that... than what was it? There are a lot of unlicensed tax deadbeats out there. Who cares? Why do we have to have t
[quote]Listen everyone, this is a down and dirty campaign, coming to the last days...lets hope everyone tries to stay more honorable. And for God's sake, if your going to pick someone out of an audience to make into a hero do your homework first![/quote] How honorable is it to keep trying to confuse the issue with all this crap about Joe? He asked a question, one that a whole lot of people, not just him, wanted to hear answered. And Obama answered it. That</em
[quote]In defense of Sodaiho (not that he needs it as he can hold his own) this article isn't "smearing" Joe the plumber. Nor is it an attempt to do so. It is merely pointing out the undeniable facts, not conjecture, that he is not licenced and currently unable to subcontract work for his business in his state. How is pointing out the facts a "smear"?[/quote] [quote]It is not a smear to report the facts. It is a smear to distort them, overblow them, or misrepresent them. This article
What's with trying to discredit Joe? Does it matter? Obama said what he said.
Should health care be a right? First we need to ask if we really want the government trying to handle it. Look how they handle everything else. They're the Anti-Midas--everything they touch turns into a substance that doesn't even remotely resemble gold (actually, that's not true--when my son was first born, his diaper was often filled with vaguely gold-colored amounts of the substance in question).
How exactly is Obama multi-tasking? All he's doing is campaigning.
Being pushed off the sofa by Kong is one of my clearest memories from back then.
I just saw a movie called Dumpster Baby. Just seeing the title, I had to watch it. I believe it was made with a budget under a grand. I don't know if it's the worst movie ever made... but it probably is. Don't waste your time. [quote]I am not going to show this thread to my son [/quote] Years ago I said something about the movie Night of the Living Dead to my aunt while my eight-year-old cousin was in the room. Poor kid had nightmares
There was another thread that answered this already--QUESTIONING OBAMA IS WRONG. It's "stupid and imflammatory." When are you going to understand that?
Also there is Reanimator and Return of the Living Dead and a horrible, horrible movie called Bloodsucking Freaks.
You may be someone after my own heart. I've sat through some of the crappiest and unheard of horror movies just in case there's that one scene that will raise my hackles. Check out an old movie from 1981 called Dead and Buried and a pretty cool vampire flick called Near Dark. Pretty much anything by John Carpenter is cool. Even Phantasm , which overall is a bad, bad movie, has some great moments. Sign up for Netflix, because if you get the pack
[quote]No one answered because it is either a stupid question or an inflammtory one.[/quote] So the answer is--don't ask.
[quote]the "Tuck Rule". [/quote] You may have moved on, but that one still keeps me up at night...
I hear a lot about John McCain having one foot in the grave, but then I've heard a few people here and there who are concerned that Obama might get shot. How does that figure into the life expectancy question? (My mother in law believes that's why he didn't pick Hillary as his running mate--because he was worried Hillary would have him killed and make it look like white supremecists did it.) [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]
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