[Quote]I'm sure you'll find some very meaningful differences between these two statements[/Quote] Yea, I'm odd like that. I don't know what comes over me when I look for consistency, reason and credibility in someone's statements. I'm strange I guess. VES
[Quote]if the US hadn't lost in Vietnam[/Quote] Contrary to popular belief, the US never "lost" Vietnam, at least not militarily. We never tried to take it. We weren't conquering the country (or more specifically the north), we were helping the South Vietnamese protect their country, which THEY ended up losing. The South Vietnamese LOST the vietnam war. I will agree that our mediocre assistance didn't help. Our failure wasn't the war, it
Three things I noticed: Intro video playback was corrupted. Looked similar to when a movie reel slides off frame and you see part of the bottom at the top. Selecting Hardware Mouse Cursor and restarting causes NO cursor to be visible. Random Play "Ready" button is not selectable under any conditions. WinXP, GF 4 5950 Ultra, P4 3.06 ghz, Audigy 2, 1024 mb ram. VES
Oleteach, I appreciate your response. Jesus would agree with you. However, I must point out a few things that I find self-evident that Jesus would not agree with. I am my own end. I am not an end to others, including mystical, fictional super beings which I reject (along wit
There is no telling if America WILL remain a superpower in the long term, however history isn't kind to the idea. This is different from..... Now before you say it; yeah
If all of society was atheist, we'd be having atrocities justified in the name of Utilitarianism or the Categorical Imperative or whatever your favorite atheistic moral principle is. You conjecture MAY be right, but I can't think of an instance in history where a newer reason / reality based philosophy
Where's Art Bell and David Icke when you need them? VES
This is my opinion on the matter of religion. When one reads the texts of most religions, it's hard to blame the religion itself from the actions of it's followers. A lot of atrocities have been committed in the name of religions (with Christianity and Islam being the most prevalent examples) which could not legitimately be justified by what the texts teach. However, my belief is that religions were created by men to control the actions of
Yes, Germany has done a bang up job remaining a superpower too. VES
Mr. Dela Crappe, "ballistic" The normal use of the idiom "ballistic" implies anger and irrationality. Since you have a unique usage of the word, it's probably best you define it when you use so as to avoid this confusion again. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FF
of course it happens all the time. Look at the pics. The grins. The total love of it all. It's accepted all right. I pray for those at Guantanamo. Man there must me major US torture there. You can set the hook and the line, but that doesn't mean the fish will bite. VES
I'm not saying that every soldier loses their sense of right and wrong at the fist whiff of cordite, but some do. I have no way of knowing how widespread this kind of torture is in Iraqi prisons. I don't believe that every Iraqi taken into custody is tortured as a matter of course. <TABLE cellpadding=8
Mr. Dela Crappe, The musical group War, that one cracked me up. I I stand corrected on mistaking the origin of the song. I still however disagree that even "The Boss" is a great philosopher.
Mr. Dela Crappe, Now guess what. I agree that it is very irritating when people use "we" in an argument in which there are distinctly different sides and where claiming everybody agreeing
THE CLUE I HOPE YOU HAVE A GLIMMERING OF RECOGNIZING AT THIS JUNCTURE IS THIS. YOU HAVEN'T YET HAD ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THE ARGUMENTS I MADE. Instead, you've set up a series of straw men---the first was asserting I had said I had special knowledge of the incidents I noticed as a bypasser and was dishonestly trying to sneak them
Mr. Dela Crappe, How strange, you exclude yourself after admitting you don't know who "we" are. Is that your common way of thinking or did you save this gem for just this special occasion? Not strange at all. You see, when one person claims to be speaking of or for many people, they often have
We aren't as civilized as we'd like to make ourselves think, which is of course proven best by the fact we go to war in the first place. How civilized do we make ourselves think "we" are? Who is "we"? When you speak for "we" do you include yourse
The individual(s) who would be "best" to lead this country lie neither in the realm of left or right. There is no idealogical direction for which to place them in terms of left or right. Nor are the centrists as that connotes compromise between the two. Social freedom and economic freedom are both important, but the left and right only support one or the other, and wish to restrain one or the other. In short, we need a government that would not tel
I wish I could claim these as my words.... The Price by Berton Braley Whatever of freedom we own Somebody has striven and tried for it; By war through the years it has grown By strength of the men who have died for it; Each stone in the structure of truth-- Some one has made ready and right for it. Some one has spent heart's blood and youth, Some
Interesting and well written. VES
Jimbo, It baffles me a bit that you would make a point to say this. It doesn't baffle me that you would point out that there are racists in this country, even in Law Enforcement, not to mention ANY other occupation. To me, I think that is a no-brainer. (I'm sure with all your research, that y
Jimbo, You didn't answer any of my questions, but I could have "deduced" the answers to begin with. You don't have any more specific knowledge than having just driven by, and that in your mind is enough to assume the police officers were racists. Each individual situation DESERVES to be reviewed on it's own merit. You are engaging in the very behavior that you allege to be trying to expose.
To deny the existence of this difference looks suspiciously like denial or insanity to me. To presume that complaints equal actual difference instead of perceptual difference without knowing specific facts sounds like prejudice or insanity to me. I don't always take the word of my friends as gospel be
I saw no less than four people pulled over by police today in what I can’t help but notice as ‘color-code’ violations, “driving while Black” in other words. I was going to question this, but that would give it validity that it on it's face doesn't have. VES
Aside from the above, how can you elect to believe or not believe my first post when I asked questions, I didn't make statments. You can't choose to believe whether or not I asked those questions. I will leave your blog with an idea, you might say I'm self-imposing a blacklist of my name from you blog. Liberty is not an imposition. VES (no meaningless BAMS!!! attached)
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