5,460 Forum Posts by "HighlyIllogical"
How about take a national survey? Seriously, guys. Why do we get hung up on semantics!!!! African-American, black, colored, negro, cracker, honkey, white, caucasian, Asian whatever. It doesn't matter, for crap's sake. But for the sake of convenience, how about calling black people black, or, if they prefer, African-(insert nationality here).
At 12/27/05 02:03 PM, FAB0L0US wrote: Bravo, mackid. I agree 100%.
And it would be interesting, to say the least, to see if China ever tried to invade Taiwan, if America would threaten global stability to defend China. Or if China would threaten global stability to invade Taiwan.
Its either gonna be a Nevile Chamberlain apeasment or a big ass fucking war. And Im not sure if apeasing a country that powerful is a good idea. Might set a scary trend and give them bad ideas.
Chamberlain fuck-ups are all too common these days. I would be really scared if China attacked Taiwan because Bush would say "Let's round up a posse, ya'll" and we'd have another Korean conflict-except with nukes, just like MacArthur wanted.
At 12/27/05 02:11 PM, Jinzoa wrote: there is nothing stopping another scenario like that but at best people have tightend security in schools and everything. There is nothing rally stoping other terrorist attacks, the only thing people can do to try and stop it is that they take precausions to ensure they would likley not happen again.
Very true. There's no way to prevent determined terrorists and criminals from doing what they want to do. All we CAN do is try to stop them quickly and minimize the impact of what they do. Best way to do that for this case is to ban assault weapons and other automatic weapons that were banned until 2004, when the Republicans in Congress decided NOT to renew the assault weapons ban of 1994.
At 12/27/05 12:56 PM, red_skunk wrote:At 12/27/05 12:38 PM, mackid wrote: Hear hear! And makes it taxed and sold by the government (so it's regulated and people don't lace it with really dangerous drugs).That's not an issue in the Netherlands. What makes you think people would "lace" their pot?
Why isn't that an issue in the Netherlands? BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT regulates the pot! In America, it's sold by drug dealers who DO lace it with crack and the like.
How about gun control, folks? These kids stole weapons from one of their fathers, a Tec-9 AUTOMATIC weapon. Who the hell are they (the parents) to own automatic weapons!?!!? Who needs a machine gun, assault rifle or automatic weapon of any kind except for cops and the military? Seriously! It's not needed to have a M249 SAW to kill a deer which can just as easily be killed with a .30-06
At 12/27/05 11:42 AM, x_Toadenalin_x wrote:At 12/27/05 11:39 AM, mackid wrote:Wouldn't you say it was quite an achievement though, rearming Germany and invading all those countries? The Nazis must have been good for most Germany up to the point where WWII started, you must agree
No sane reason as in they wanted land and power
and were friggin' anti-semites, homophobes and racists, I'm guessing.Irrelevant
incredible achievement, no. Not at all, actually. They took advantage of a poor economic situation brought on by global economic depression and bypassed the Versailles treaty, which, we must note, was toothless-it had no methods of enforcing the provisions of preventing Germany from re-arming.
Hear hear! And makes it taxed and sold by the government (so it's regulated and people don't lace it with really dangerous drugs).
At 12/27/05 11:30 AM, x_Toadenalin_x wrote:At 12/27/05 09:33 AM, Jinzoa wrote: my god that guy was a complete idiot, Naziism is stupid due to many reasons.2.started war with neighbouring countries for no sane reason.Labenstroun. Seems a pretty reasonable reason to me. Just as reasonable as invading Iraq for oil.
3.need i mention their arrogance due to their racism,homophobia and any other things.Because they are arrogent, they are stupid? That does not follow.
4.they are pig headed believing their"Race is better"So what? British and American people were told they were 'better than the Hun' during the war. Even now, I believe the Americans and British consider themselves superior to the Middle Eastern countries, for no real reason.
6.they killed people in wars they started for no sane reason.Technically the Allies declared war on them. Looking at Hitler's actions:
Austria: No deaths
Rhineland: No deaths
Sudentenland: Few deaths
Poland: Few deaths
WWII: Many deaths.
And how would you define 'no sane reason'?
No sane reason as in they wanted land and power and were friggin' anti-semites, homophobes and racists, I'm guessing.
Austria was willing. Rhineland was essentially willing. Sudentenland was pretty much willing. Poland couldn't do shit (they attacked tanks with guys on horses...), WWII resulted in millions upon millions of deaths. The Nazis started it by attacking other sovereign nations-namely Poland.
There's resentment towards us (Jews) everywhere! Would you guys have a problem if Israel adopted a policy of having everyone take an oath of citizenship at 16 saying that they would serve in the Israeli military (IDF) and if they don't want to take the oath, then they'd be deported? I think it'd be a legal way to move the Palestinians out of israel
At 12/18/05 07:10 PM, spikemanlock wrote: heres a question?Wheres the arc of the covonent?
We don't know, otherwise we'd have found it.
Simple answer: Nazis are anti-semitic, racist, homophobic, supernationalistic (in a BAD way), murderous, hypocrytical (as many, many Nazis were found to be gay) dumb fucks. And that's all there is.
China is not a military threat to the United States and allies (except Taiwan, of course.). All of these nations are too interdependent to go to war. Think about it! Where do your clothes, electronics come from? China! Most consumer goods come from somewhere in Asia, often China. We need their goods, they need our $$$ and intellectual capital. Problem is, if China attacks Taiwan, do we go in? I say no. The Chinese will not use nuclear weapons. No one will. Mutually assured destruction, folks. But if China attacks Taiwan, does the US honor its treaty committments? It's not smart to. We'd have to go to the UN, unfortunately and get something done from there. Damn, that would suck.
China doesn't present a threat. Though it has a big military with Russian technology, you have to look at the mitigating economic and social factors that prevent it from going to attack any American ally (or the United States) excluding Taiwan, as the PRC wants Taiwan back ASAP.
So, if the Palestinians are simply Arabs, then why do they claim the land of Israel as their own? No logical sense in that! There's a Palestinian majority in Jordan, but the Palestinians claim that they don't have their own state! They do! Jordan is their nation.
At 12/27/05 12:55 AM, XmasTime wrote: Here's an idea, Boot out the damn, illegal parents! Or, better yet, boot out the fucking kid too.
By the way, my friend's Mexican parents said that. You know, the type of Mexicans who got here legally.
Hey, fuck that. I don't care who said that racist bullshit. People have the right to choose where they'll live as long as they are constructive, do work, aren't an unneccesary burden on the state etc. Hello!!! The people who immigrate illegally often have no other choice! What in hell are you thinking!?
At 12/27/05 12:44 AM, Dr_Arbitrary wrote: OH NO! Fli is going to become an illegal! It's only a matter of time after that before he steals my job!
Seriously though, I don't think revoking the citizenship of people just because they had illegal parents is a very good idea. It reminds me of the grandfather clauses they used to have in the southern states before the Civil rights became the big thing.
Again, and WHOSE idea were those racist things (grandfather clauses, poll taxes)? CONSERVATIVES. Who else would it be?
Yeah, it probably originates from the Greek's concept of Tartarus/Hades. Take a look at Homer's Odyssey. That's a good example of the Greek belief.
Well, granted, I made a mistake. Whooo. You caught me. But the point stands: 6 days is not literally 6 periods of 24 hours. 6 periods of many, many millions of years, perhaps.
Hell does not exist. There is merely purgatory. This is a comprehensive reeducation program at worst. Judaism doesn't acknowledge the existance of Hell, to my knowledge. Hell, the concept of Hell doesn't even make sense!!
At 12/26/05 07:23 PM, Dulnar wrote: Don't worry. We'll be able to do this with Iraqis as well. Mostly because the ones that we're fighting will be brought up on war crimes and the only ones that will be left will be the ones that publicly like America or privately hate us. The fact is that, when you destroy a country's infrastructure/economy, you get rid of the bad people in power by charging them with war crimes and sending them to prison or death. Whichever. And then, all you have left are the people who don't give a damn.
This probably won't happen with many Iraqis. Remember, in Japan and Germany, there was an educated class, infastructure and a willingness to improve. In Iraq, the educated class has mostly fled, the infastructure's been destroyed by the Iraqis themselves and there's a substantial amount of people who don't want to improve. This won't happen for at least 50 plus years. The reunion of the Americans and Japanese involved in Pearl Harbor could, conceivably, taken place 20 years after. We were all patched up because everyone came to a consensus that the attack was bad. When the Iraqis realize that the insurgency is bad and WORK ACTIVELY to improve their condition and we wait a couple of yeears, then, and only then, will we work together.
At 12/26/05 09:01 PM, arz756 wrote: America has never treated war like a blood feud. Think about it, Britain is our ally, Japan is our ally, and Russia is view generally positively now(not really allies though)
Russia? Positively? It's ruled by an ex-KGB autocrat who rules like a dictator. Then again, they do have the Baku region. Oil...*drool*. But seriously-America, Israel and other US allies don't view war as a blood feud. It's politics by other means. I forgot who said that, may have been Von Clausewitz, but I'm not sure. Anyway, think about Thomas Friedman's golden arches theory. Nations that have recieved McDonalds are sufficiently globalized. No nation, since it has recieved a McDonalds, has gone to war with another nation that has McDonalds. That means that there'll be no Sino-American conflict and stuff of that nature since we're so interdependent. Weird, but makes logical sense.
So, all in all, war is politics by guns (and missiles, and artillery and grenades etc.)
Personal opinion: God exists, 7 days creation is not literally 7 days. My basis for the God exists is that life is so complicated, there is SUCH an infinitesimal chance of those nucleotide pairs coming together just the right way, DNA coming to be, a perfect climate etc, that God MUST exist. God jump started it all-said "let there be a 'Big Bang'" or such. Seriously, though, science is coming closer and closer to the inevitable affirmation of the existence of a creator. Even Einstein was religious, he said something to the effect of the reason that he studied physics was so that he could come to understand God's world more fully.
At 12/27/05 12:10 AM, Chickenfry wrote:At 11/26/05 07:42 PM, Dulnar wrote:What about Alexander Hamilton on the 10$. He was the secretary of the Treasury, Jackson was a President.At 11/26/05 07:38 PM, Redbob86 wrote:Ben Franklin is the only non president on any currency. Get your facts straight.At 11/26/05 07:33 PM, Dulnar wrote: Andrew Jackson. I still don't know why he's on the twenty dollar bill. He's a despicable president.Jackson wasn't president, he was Secretary of the Treasury.
Jackson was President. He pretty much shit on the Constitution by allowing the Trail of Tears to go on. He is, literally, the person responsible for the extermination of the American Indians in the East. Here. I'll even give you a source .
Have a nice look.
My Vote for worst President is either LBJ or GWB. Both manipulated the Fear of the people for personal gain. Both of which have killed more than 2000 innocent people because of the consequences of their Greed.
Too many presidents have done that! Second Bush, Reagan (Iran-Contra, stupid-ass StarWars missile defense program, HUGE increases in military spending pushed thru due to fear of USSR which was inevitably going to collapse, etc.), LBJ at least he had the "Great Society" program.
I'm a relatively new BBS user and I'd like to join this club. I'm a conservative Jew in the United States and am a social liberal, economic conservative and a STAUNCH Israel supporter. Is it possible to join and how would I go about doing this?
We must recognize, as with all drugs, there is an inherent danger. Marijuana is just as dangerous, if not slightly more so, than alcohol or tobacco products. Clearly, if those are legal, then pot should be legal as well, but merely sold by the government and taxed accordingly so as to avoid all of the problems of drug dealers and such lacing substances. I, personally, have no problem with pot, but I won't do it myself, as it's not only expensive, but can, and this is purely factual, cause brain damage, though only in higher doses. Look up the Shafer Commission (The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse-Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding) report commissioned by Nixon in 1974.
At 10/22/05 05:05 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: Yes the romans killed Jesus. Just like they did thousands of other jews. Simply because they believed him to be causing trouble. Why would the jews kill him and nail king of the jews over his head. Aren't we bright?
Jesus was killed by the Romands because the Jews could not condem a man to death. The high priests were threatened by Jesus because he went against there way of doing shit (which was very much money-oriented), and in turn they handed him over to the Romans to be killed.
I'm not tacking a jab at Jews, I'm just saying the high preists caused his death.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!?!! THIS IS DENYING ALL HISTORICAL FACT! It is a KNOWN fact that Pontus Pilate, A ROMAN, not a Jew (as various Medival ballads state), was the instigator of the crucifiction of Joshua of Nazareth. So, we know that your Christ (I say 'your' Christ because the word Christ refers to a messiah as far as I know, and my messiah hasn't come yet, so there we go.) was crucified. Yes. We can all agree on that. By whom? Romans. Who else would do that?
HOT BUTTON ISSUE, FOLKS:
Just a little background on myself: I'm a social liberal, yet an economic conservative. I'm a staunch supporter of Israel and I want to see what others think about it in general.
Big question here: Are the Palestinians distinct from other Arabs?
I would say no-as cultural distinction would be defined by distinction among customs, clothing, religion, language etc. The Palestinians are Muslims (in general!) with ethnicities stemming from Arab nations. Their clothing styles are no different from other arabs, as are their customs, foods etc.
That's bullshit. I am of the opinion that if someone is born, educated and has lived here their entire sentient life, then they are an American. Born to illegals or not, you, and others like you-our facistic friend Alberto included, are Americans, like it or not. Also, we all must realize that those who come here illegally often have no other choice and, of high import is the fact that they form a significant part of the base of the American economy-providing services that cannot be exported but otherwise would-gardening, manual labor, food service etc. Damn conservatives screwing up everything again for their nationalistic, KKK-esque "moral" values.
I dunno. I believe in a combination of intelligent design and evolution. Big bang (whatever the fashionable term these days is) began by intelligent designer and evolution takes place. Remember, Genesis begins with formation of earth and logical course of events just worded simply for those who are blindly obedient.
Last response sounds as good as any :) but I still gotta say, the Mandate of the League of Nations gave authority to the Brits and the Brits gave it up (which was under the League's authority).
Feel free to express your opinions regarding the issue in the subject. Myself, I think Israel has both a historical and legal claim to the Land (yes, this is supposed to be capitalized). What about you?
