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True, I never said it allowed much room for difference of opinion.

Actually, none of that is covered, because in Communism, there isn't supposed to be a government at all to control those industries or religions. It just winds up being, however, that people can't resist power or letting it go, and Communist governments and dictatorships appear.

The Old Testament, in my opinion, and people may choose to disagree with this but whatever, is basically a Jewish history book. Not only is it unclear who put pen to paper and wrote most of it, but it seems to be incorrect when compared to both what we know as well as the New Testament. The obvious reason to be suspicious is the seven days of creation and the 6,000 year old Earth and so on, but even what the Old Testament says about God is very different. In the Old Testament, God is the deliverer for Jews, and conquers their enemies. In the New Testament, God sends his son to Earth, and Jesus tells tales of a loving God who waits to welcome all believers into his kingdom. One still must be careful of who wrote what, but it traditionally emphasizes the more positive aspects of the religion. In short, it's never been the people that preach the New Testament that turn people like me off from religion, but the people preaching the Old Testament. Enough with the whole "repent before God smites you all" stuff, already.

YEAH!!! What's with that, anyway? Fuck them, they're ALWAYS demonizing the Nazism. Don't know why. Actually, they mostly just try to step away from the issue entirely. Heck, I know some people shy away from the label "progressive" because of it's Communist ties. Secondly, maybe you're just looking at key words and just read "Communism isn't TERRIBLE" or something, because you may have noticed that whole point where I mentioned that shooting people for trying to leave is one of the BAD THINGS that happens and will continue to happen in Communist societies. These are the results of Communism's failings. They are atrocities and nothing less. However, they're never part of the ideal, if they were nobody would have supported the uprising. They are what happen when the state doesn't dissolve like was expected, but instead takes over and exploits the public that just gave so many of their freedoms away. You act like I said Communism is a successful ideology. What I said was that if the ideals happened, without all the bad stuff and atrocities and killings and walls and so on that always happen instead, it would be a pretty pleasant time for all. I am, however, a realist. Needless to say, that pleasant time won't happen. I simply said that the original thought was nice, and never spoke of the results. Your comparison to Nazis doesn't hold up, because "let's go kill the Jews" isn't a nice idea in concept nor execution. I also named one period and place in history that managed to do better than the rest in terms of respecting people's rights.

Well, I don't see Communism as a universal symbol of evil in the world like some Americans do. I think it's a nice ideal that everyone gets a share of the public good and makes the best of it, but it obviously doesn't work in practice judging by the number of communist states (an oxymoron if there ever was one) with large walls and gun turrets and people silently crying for freedom. On the other hand, if people can come and go as they please and there's generally less oppression, I believe Tito's Yugoslavia was probably the only real occasion something like that happened, it's not TERRIBLE or anything.

You missed the point, I'm afraid, although I kind of figured that would happen. I wasn't comparing marrying priests to blowing up innocents, of course I'm not that stupid. I'm saying that it's the same lazy "it's been this way for centuries, why should it be any different now?" excuse used in both situations. It's a bad excuse and it holds no water. Just because something has been that way for a long time doesn't mean it's less shitty now than it was if it just started two days ago.

Libertarian women just don't really exist. That's why Badnarik had to use a man in a wig for that commercial of his.

I wished they didn't have the band. The stupid star-shaped lighting rig got caught on another piece of the rig because they didn't space everything out well enough and as they ran it up and down to try and get it around the rigging and back up into the ceiling, I had my view obstructed for a good deal of the match. I was kind of suprised that they didn't bother to bring the stars down and back up and see that would happen. This is far from the best entrance ever. I liked Rock's full Hollywood entrance and Hogan's WM18 entrance (for pure pop) far more. Heck, I like Undertaker's WM entrances both last and this year more. This year's was especially neat with the portable light thingies at the edges of the walkway turned white and pointing straight up like a walkway through the fog. The only downside was how long it took for the guys take apart Taker's moving ramp on wheels and carry it away afterwards.

Allow me to tweak some words here: They can. As a Muslim, I don't really like to hear a non-muslim...especially non-believers, say we need to reject jihad, refuse to respect martyrs. The word of Mohammad has been in place for nearly two thousand years. It's not something that is supposed to undergo dramatic changes. Certainly not allowing women out of the burqas...you risk men going to temple for a reason other than a divine calling.

So I guess Space Mountain really isn't the biggest mountain in Disney.

Does that mean they can not point out the absurdity? This is not Islam, this isn't 12th century living in some regions clashing with 21st century thinking in other regions (i.e. Muslims in America and other countries who DON'T support the jihad.) This is a religion that is not only so steeped in old thinking that much of their American following clashes with the beliefs, but a religion in which one old guy wearing the robes of authority can deem something and make it so. Eventually, hopefully, the robes will go around the old man that says, "Hey, you know what? Let's let priests marry, it won't do that much harm."

Oh god, that's a hoot. Thanks, I needed it. Fox monitoring the subtle political implications of the media is like the fox (go figure) watching the chickencoop.

This isn't a documentary about the politician as much as it is about heckling. They didn't bring actors into the room to heckle for the camera or anything. In the end, this will all be forgotten about in 3 months, and when the documentary airs nobody will watch because it's on BBC4 and Brits don't like to look farther than BBC2 for entertainment. Those with the willpower to flip to BBC3 usually take their own life due to the boredom.

Obligatory "get something better than Windows Movie Maker" comment, which is necessary again. Please! Ulead Video Studio, Pinnacle Studio, either is lightyears ahead and still affordable. Oh well. While I can't answer your question, I will mention that for some reason, your video is really stretched out. It looks like your source was a letterboxed movie, and you stretched it out to a 4:3 TV screen sized box, so everything is really skinny and tall. Perhaps this is another sucky side effect of WMM, though.

I can't believe this one did so badly. It was a pretty good show, with a very good undercard, a heavily hyped match in Brock VS Big Show, and a mystery gimmick match (debut of the Elimination Chamber) as the main event. In a way, it felt like the WWF trying to put on a mid-90s WCW PPV, with blowout midcard matches followed by main events that weren't really that great but were kind of likable for some quirky reason.

I always feel bad about this stuff, but then I do a Google Image Seach for "UN council" and look at all the nice suits and lavish surroundings that could fund so many poor childrens' educations. And then I don't feel so bad.

Beat me to it. By almost two years, yes

Regardless of whether this happened or not, it does show the hypocracy by those who ramble about how there's no hate crime. If someone shouted "Allah Ackbar!" before blowing up a restaurant, there would be a whole additional set of laws, punishments, investigational tools, etc that open up thanks to anti-terrorism law. However, if what was shouted was (race here) Power!, then it's just treated like a regular crime.

Goddamnit, this thread is so fucking gay that Elton John would think it's a little too colorful. And I can't believe I'm not responsible for ruining it, either.

Yawn. At first, this story is sensationalized to the point that it sounds like the BBC brought people in and instructed them to heckle. Instead, they simply asked to put wires on people who were already there. Regardless, Britain would go so far backwards if the Tories won that it probably serves the common good.

Agreeing... With MikeSC... In a political thread.... About gays... Help..

I haven't seen it as WWF much, myself. However, it's almost, 99% of the time always listed as "WWE (formerly known as the WWF)", just to make sure that the reader or listener gets that associated mental image of cartoon character gimmicks, chairshots, and worked fights.

This was posted yesterday on Slashdot, which typically means that it shouldn't be of interest or concern to anyone, but I thought in this event it was an exception. (More...) I've said it before, I'll say it again... What a dumbass! Weather forecast is a service which is highly valuable to the general public at large and so it only makes sense that the public funds a service for their own use until they deem it unnecessary. I don't think, until AccuWeather and their BUTT-buddy Santorum came along, that anyone deemed public domain weather data to be wasteful or unnecessary.

Amen.

Goddamnit, at least Celes and Garnet actually fucking DID something risky to help save the world. Rinoa and Yuna were more or less interested in getting their man, and saving the world was a secondary objective. I can't stand FF8/10 because they read like a girl's diary.