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well, one idea is to rein them in and make them accountable to federal and international law.

The same could be said of any synthetic garment. Why would you be wearing cold weather gear near radiant heat or fire anyway? Worse. Case. Scenerio. You never know what may happen in a combat situation.

The thing is I am not an atheist. I go by what I know and lets just say I had my own religious epiphany. I simply refuse to worship God or Jesus. They have nothing I want and they have a certain aspects in their "demands" in which I highly disagree. I am unrepentent and will always be so. One man's sin is another man's salvation, Blank. That is one thing God fails to understand. Dark Moth, I consider you a bit more left than the right wingers that I describe.

That is nice, Blank, but to be honest I don't particularly like God. In fact I just do what I feel is right, regardless what God thinks or what his opinions are. If that goes along with God and Jesus, fine. If not, to bad for them. God gave us instincts, drives, and a will to act. If He doesn't like the consequences of His own actions that is His fault and His problem. Not mine. Lets end the religious talk there.

Probably not. Someone told me once, if you put a Sunni and a Shia in a room together and told each the other was the last of his kind in the world they would fight to the death. Personally, I think 9-11 shows the wisdom of the Monroe/Roosevelt Doctrine. I would rather see the US concern itself ONLY with the Western Hemisphere. If it were up to me I would immediately close all bases east of Puerto Rico and west of Guam, redeploy those units within that zone and IMMEDIATELY terminate all foreign aid to any country not in North or South America. MFN trade status for China would be revoked and granted to someone close to home. As for the rest of world, they can get by on their own. Wars, tsunamis, whatever, they hate us, they have never helped us, why should our money help them. As for Europe, I doubt they need or want our help these days. I fully agree with that.

Uh oh, someone broke the Goodwin Law. The US and Israel have made quite a number of threats against Iran. We are the aggressors in this. We are the one's interfering and we have kept up this interference in this region for 60 years. If you have an aggressive foreign power at your borders, would you seek to get the strongest weapons you can get in order to defend yourself? Look through the eyes of the Iranian government. They see only threats and aggression against them. To use your Hitler remark, we are Germany and they are Poland.

The problem is, GD, it will never be finished.

Nope. Nuclear power plants need good material as well. Besides, who are we to tell Iran they can't have nuclear weapons? We have nuclear weapons, Pakistan and India have nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear weapons, Israel has nuclear weapons, and so forth and so on. If Iran is being threatened by nuclear powers like the US and Israel don't they have the right to use whatever technologies they have to defend themselves from such a threat? If there was an alliance of nations or one powerful nation that is threatening my borders I would want the strongest weapons around to defend myself.

GD, that is a pretty big if and I just don't think it is worth the time or effort, or the resources and lives lost to do so. Also there is no evidence that they are making nuclear weapons. Show me conclusive and 100% accurate information that Iran is making weapons then you would have a case, but there isn't any and I don't trust Bush's administration about intelligence reports. They have the tendacy like to edit things and make things up to justify themselves.

To be honest, Guard Dog, I don't consider you to be a right wing Christian. Reverend Phelps, Pat Robinson, and Jerry Falwell and similar folk are who I would consider "right wingers." People who are adamant that creationism should be taught in public schools, who think that the Earth is only 10,000 years old, and that scripture is never ever wrong. I consider those people "right wingers." You aren't a "right winger," GD. :D

Pictures of "something?" Oh yes, it could be "something" out there so lets kill a bunch of Iraqis and destabilize the whole region because "something" is out there.

In my opinion, you are wrong.

What gets me is whenever someone brings up race and crime, that how the african americans are so down-trodden that they need to do crime to survive, I just have to think back to a cold December night when a black man rushed into my store with a 9mm and later learned that he had a full ride football scholarship and had no reason to commit such crime. I just don't have any sympathy whatsoever.

I never said my view isn't based on dogma. Its just not based on dogma that is out of date.

HOT BUTTAH!

Too bad you couldn't find our way up to central Iowa. We had a clear sky for it. Too bad I overslept.

A .22 doesn't have much stopping power, but if you can get it to go semiauto or full auto, then it might be worth it.

Sorry, you are stuck with the Poles.

Their reasoning is wrong, plain and simple. The human species is in no danger of becoming extinct. In fact we have a great overpopulation of humans in the world right now. Early term abortions should be allowed without limitations and if we can harvest stem cells for research purposes in order to cure the ills of the world then lets do so. Saying that human life starts at conception is just plain silly. I am not here to argue, Taks, it simply is. A lot of those who object use some pseudo-religious idealogy to justify their claims that human life is sacred that we all have souls, even a small cluster of cells that have no discernable features. You claim that I am irrational, but in my view it is more irrational to base one's opinions on dogma and faith that has its origins thousands and thousands of years ago when they had no clue what a neuron was or the role of DNA has our development.

Why hide when you can use? If the US was in the process of invading wouldn't it make more sense to use WMDs to repel such invasion? Saddam had no WMDs. Saddam had no connections to Al Qaeda. The whole invasion was a farce and a waste of resources and lives. Congress needs to stop this warmongering president before he puts us at a three front war. I have no doubt that Heir Bush wants to invade Iran next, looking for any "justification" for it, even if he has to make it up. In any case, if this has been going on for years, Taks, then it needs to stop and it needs to stop now. Those involved need to be criminally charged and punished.

Sure... when it was first released.

Actually I am thinking of intergrating the Mexican workforce, keep the US wages and cost of living, and the Canadian health care system. I have no problem paying higher taxes if I got free healthcare.

Yeah, the only original hardware in the eMachine now is the case, the motherboard, and the CPU.

Which side has the dinosaurs?