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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sacred Ground Zero |
| Calbeck |
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:11 pm
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| It's become evident to me that the proponents of there should be no problem to have a mosque built a block away from ground zero are probably hard core in your face atheists, 911 foilers, anti-capitalists, anti-Americans or from the “the Americans had in coming 911” crowd. Up yours, Charlie. EDIT: ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The first nuclear commandment |
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:09 pm
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Comments: 43
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| What if the 10,000 planet theory is correct and we're just another unremarkable planet full of backwards bipeds who have yet to sort out our tribal conflicts and that advanced species has better things to do than drop in with us for coffee? More likely, all ten thousand worlds are still at the stag... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Lackluster Leaks |
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:53 pm
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Comments: 28
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| A pledge can walk any time he feels like it. So it's suddenly not inhumane because a person can leave after it occurs? You seem to be locked in on the idea that if it's "like hazing, it's okay". It is NOT. And by insisting on a separate standard of judgment, you minimize the cruelty of co... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Lackluster Leaks |
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:37 am
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| You are kind of contradicting yourself here. At first you say more heads should have rolled, but then you say that it was just a bunch of "NG troops" (which I'm guessing means grunts), and compare it to frat hazing, of all things. 1) Because faked electroshock, sexual harassment, and nudi... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Milk the rich! |
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:16 pm
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Comments: 116
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| And of course, the US also has universal emergency care. You will be billed afterwards, but you can't be refused for life-saving care, even if you don't have insurance. And yes, bankruptcy is a hazard for people who rack up hundreds of thousands in medical bills which they cannot otherwise pay. Yet,... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The first nuclear commandment |
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:01 pm
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Comments: 43
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| Not many trust Iran enrich uranium for peaceful purposes only, but apparently Vietnam is deemed more trustworthy. I think it's more a matter of Iran being openly supportive and exportive of Islamic terrorism, with a Holocaust-denier President who insists gays do not exist in his country, and which ... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Sacred Ground Zero |
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:47 pm
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| My only concern here regards some of the mosque's backers, which apparently include Holocaust deniers and Hamas supporters. To me, this is akin to putting a Christian church on the same site whose backers have ties to the Ku Klux Klan. It's not reasonable to say it shouldn't go up simply because it'... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: It's the lawyers' world |
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:36 pm
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Comments: 26
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| I grew up under the threat of constant nuclear annihilation, so the whole Al Qaeda thing--I can't see why people get so worked up. I mean, they're a threat, but not an existential one. They got in a sucker punch that will never be repeated, and even that, horrific as it was, was completely irreleva... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Milk the rich! |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:05 pm
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| 1) The top 5% of US taxpayers (the Rich), already taxed at the highest rates, would not be able to balance the budget were they taxed at 100% of income. 2) Bush's tax cuts were disproportionately against the Rich --- because the Rich, with 50% of the tax burden, got 30% of the cuts. The fact that th... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: It's the lawyers' world |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:46 pm
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Comments: 26
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| The judge in the Prop 8 case was, in fact, stating that it was againt the US constitution. Amendment XIV, to be precise, although I am not sure I follow his logic on that one. It would be ridiculous if he were trying to say that an amendment to the California constitution was disallowed by the Cali... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Lackluster Leaks |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:27 pm
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Comments: 28
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| As a centrist, I consider both and avoid neither. But, again, the fact that you focus on the criminal element here reinforces my theory: the right (in this instance) focusses on the criminal element, the left on the content. To repeat: "As a centrist, I consider both and avoid neither." A... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Wyclef for Prez |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:39 pm
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| Y'know, I have a hard time arguing against the cut of that election-poster's jib. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: It's the lawyers' world |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:37 pm
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| Atchooly, the main part of the AZLaw was supposedly infringing on the rights of legal aliens because it would purportedly cause some to be detained while their identification was checked. Problem: legal aliens are required by federal law, on risk of deportation, to have their immigration papers on t... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Lackluster Leaks |
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:50 am
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| And while there certainly were accusations of criminal wrongdoing regarding the "Climategate" emails, there was little actual legal basis to back that up. I just want to comment that gaining illegitimate entry to a server by hacking is generally a crime, though not as serious as one leadi... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: How not to draw Obama |
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:38 am
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Comments: 124
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| That's because equality in this case is based on proportionality. Equality is never based on proportion, but on the individual. And, if your arguments here are any indication, you are pleased to court that possible ambiguity for the sake of principle... yet without any expectation of a positive ret... |
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