Firestarter

Heh.

...and now they're selling schoolgirls' used panties from sidewalk vending machines. Either we dropped too many atom bombs on them or not enough.

DAYWALKER! <points at Eric>

Uh no. Her children may be adopted but that in no way proves that she can't have children. There can be moral reasons to choose adoption over natural childbirth - maybe she just feels that there are so many orphans in the world that she might as well take care of some of them? This silly, baseless rumor has as much basis to it (as the Snopes article says) as the contention that the fact that the Atlantic Ocean exists somehow proves that a particular ship sank in it.

Despite our disagreements, I know you're a good person and I believe that, Eric.

It was a throwaway snark. So not only are you opposed to reality (having your dick chopped off does not magically turn you into a woman) but you're also opposed to your own opinions? Huh. Oh believe me I am. For someone who wants to leave it behind him, you sure talk about it a lot. Pity that Leelee and I just happen to be two people who have what you can never have, h'm?

Emmylou Harris.

I can. 25%. To clarify: that would be after taxes. And no, I don't take any exemptions.

Can't find a single comma to criticize.

I accept this in part and reject it in part. Here's contra: 1. In the vast majority of states, free blacks had all the rights of free whites even before the American Revolution, including the right to vote and hold office, long before the Emancipation Proclamation. 2. Women had better professional prospects in 1900 than in 2000, and earned higher wages than equally-qualified men. 3. Judeo-Christian values were a large part of the reason why women's suffrage and the civil rights movement eventually succeeded. Here's pro (with some qualifiers): 1. Ignorance and bigotry do indeed allow and perpetuate evil. Burke, good men to do nothing, &c. 2. An educated society should, in theory, lead to a just society - but only so long as the education is objective and not ideologically tilted. I think even you can agree with me that there is a definite leftward tilt today, even though we might have differences concerning to what degree it exists 3. Self-corrections in the light of established mores are documented psychological and sociological phenomena. However, such corrections have always been less transient and more heartfelt, resulting in greater quantifiable benefits, when they are a product of faith and goodwill rather than a process imposed by bureaucratic fiat.

I will grant you this as long as you in turn grant that desalinization technology has been making leaps and bounds in recent years; enough, in fact, to be almost comparable to the 25% increase in oil extraction since the '60s.

Yeah. Also they made their women and children run at American troops in order to provide cover. Really brave. btw, somewhat related: how many people still know that we killed more people with the firebombings of Tokyo than the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Sorry, bad choice of words. I meant "treacherous" and I typed the wrong thing. Pearl Harbor was my intended reference. Definitely. For sheer inhumanity I doubt that even the Nazi extermination of the Jews held a candle to the viciousness of the Japs, although obviously, the death camps surpassed horrors like the Bataan death march in scale. I don't know how to compare a total lack of humanity with a delight in cruelty, but from all accounts the Japs were definitely one of the most fucking evil enemies we've ever had to fight.

You're right on both counts. But I'm just saying it's silly to call Hillary's campaign dead in the water because she can't win the pledged delegates she needs to get the nomination - well, B.O. Hussein can't either. And the popular vote is at the very least a toss-up.

Fine, then we grab the bordering countries and make a go of it. Really, we've been seeing this "too many people" crap for centuries now. Wasn't Ehrlich's '60s embarrassment enough for these "overpopulation" idiots?

I'm willing to bet that I'm the only one here who's ever actually undergone the procedure. If you haven't, it's fairly simple. The details have all been spelled out in innumerable articles. It's not torture. It's coercion. There is a difference. And anyway, I don't care. Mohammedan terrorists? Go right ahead and torture them. Really, do I give a fuck if Mohammed Abdul Ahmed al-Jihad gets electrocuted a few dozen times to stop his pals from killing another 3000 Americans? Nope. Break out the fucking branding irons and the rack. Second point: the Japs lost. They were traitors and sadists and murderers. So fuck 'em.

You're kind of ignoring the fact that Obama has an insurmountable pledged delegate lead, and also leads in the popular vote. Clinton is clinging on to the fringes of a failing campaign. Um no. Count FL and MI and my brave little Hillary leads in the popular. As for the pledged lead, B.O. Hussein can't win without the supers either.

No. No, I'm a rational American whose worst nightmare is a brainless twit with a chance to gain the most powerful office in the world. Okay, check that. Maybe not the worst. But close to it. No, I call him that to mock him. I don't think he's a Mohammedan in Christian clothing. I think that he is, essentially, a secularist. Wright is no Christian. I have. Anything but B.O. Hussein. You want to talk contradictions? Explain this: - link Anyway, no. I think he's a snooty, fork-tongued, smarmy, slimy, pompous, unintellectual, and incredibly overrated jackass who only got as far as he did in life because guilty white people kowtowed to him because of the color of his skin. And he's going to get blown out of the water because of that.

Your point would be? I can. 25%. Please explain to me how Mohammedans can in any way be considered a "race." Cry me a river. I obviously went to unrepresentative black churches, as B.O. Hussein's campaign has gone to great lengths to argue that Wright's church is representative, and his anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-white remarks are completely unremarkable. I think Wright screaming "GOD DAMN AMERICA" is pretty unequivocal. You don't have to "distort" that. McCain did not have a 20 year-long friendship with Hagee. Neither Hagee nor Falwell baptized President Bush's or John McCain's children. Neither one married either of them to their wives. Neither one dedicated their houses. If you're going to equate Hagee's (unsolicited) endorsement of McCain to B.O. Hussein's involvement with Wright, then for your next trick, I'd like to see you attack B.O. Hussein for the (unsolicited) endorsement he just received from Hamas. Jump, Fido! (ctd)

Whoa there. Don't lump me in with the so-called "transsexual." I disagree with practically every word in every post he types. By the way, "Annie," 100% of the world's people could live in a land area the size of the former Yugoslavia if they were willing to accept a population density equivalent to NYC. I suggest you rethink your priorities. This. Irony right backatcha, boy.

This is a fair assessment. However, I believe it has to be informed by two additional factors: 1. Conservatives fundamentally believe that human nature cannot be perfected. 2. Liberals believe the opposite.

Yes, absolutely.

GEORGE W SHRUBMCBURTON LOL ...yeah. Um no. He ALWAYS gave less to charity than the American average until he needed Trinity to make him an "authentic black." Wrong. And, thus, you lost your last bit of credibility in this thread. Or I would have if you had ever seen the execution of an Iraqi female minister in the middle of a marketplace. Or if you had lived in Pakistan during the first Gulf War. Or if you had had to run to your safehouse when your library imploded due to long-range missile detonations, or if you had had to take your AP calculus classes at the Canadian Embassy instead of the American school you attended, because of bomb threats. Fuck you. See above. You really want to go there? I haven't seen it in person? Again: Fuck you. They meant what they said they meant. That what Wright said was not unrepresentative of black churches all across the United States. And Wright's congregation backed them up in multiple interviews. Yes you would. Because I used to be in favor of abortion, I used to be against the death penalty, I used to be against gun ownership, I used to be for gay marriage, and I used to be for drug legalization. But then I grew up. So now you don't. Check some of your posts. Check your driving license, boy.

Indeed,

Your terms are ambiguous. Clarify. I am not working for the government in any official capacity at this time.