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    Iraq want US back : http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/iraq-seeks-help-from-us-amid-growing-violence-1.235890
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    People who never age : http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/researcher-girl-ages-key-biological-immortality-article-1.1429255#ixzz2cAh2rtU4
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    Fine, since you're such an expert, are you denying that the new law allows any boy who claims he feels like a girl to use the girl's locker room?
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    Congress already knows about that, although it's not clear if they received all the info they were supposed to. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-16/nsa-says-it-takes-privacy-violations-seriously-on-spying.html
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    Most schools have already implemented what the law legally requires. In terms of bathrooms, that means legally you are required to provide a transgender student with a place to change. My wife has had two transgender boys over the years, and she provided them with a third bathroom where they would be more comfortable getting ready. As you can imagine, a boy who feels like a girl and is taking hormones to physically change their body is not going to do very well in a crowded boys locker room. The way it's been reported they're required to be allowed to use the same facilities, not separate facilities (which I don't think anyone would object to). http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/13/california-gov-brown-signs-transgender-student-bill/ Also I didn't realize they do sex changes on children now.
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    Civil rights progress marches on. Calisodom just passed a law that boys who claim to be transsexual can use girls' locker rooms. My question is how can the girls' parents be such pussies?
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    Some more about MB : http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/truth-about-egypt
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    I know the history of Al-Qaeda perfectly well. Of course their initial formation would still have happened, but after the resolution of the war in Afghanistan they would have played out their role. Do you even know why Osama attacked the US in the first place? Because the US supports the Israeli Zionists and also because they have military bases in Saudi Arabia (yes, apparently that was a reason). AQ has EVERYTHING to do with Israel/Palestine, just look at 9/11, which was largely a byproduct of the Israel/Palestine situation. (Nowadays I sincerely think they get more recruits from the PR they must have gained from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) They say it's because of Israel to gain more popular support amongst Arabs and other Muslims, but Jihad is a lot older than modern Israel, and their goal is to carry out global Jihad to establish a global caliphate, to overthrow current Arab regimes and replace them with revolutionary Islamist ones. US used to be an obstacle to those goals, so we got attacked on 9/11. Al Qaeda isn't fighting Assad because he's not anti-Israeli enough, they're fighting him because he's not Sunni and allied with Shiites in Iran.
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    MB has never believed in democracy, except as a way to get into power. Their goal is a global caliphate under Sharia.
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    If you insist on precision, I guess I could've added a few caveats to my statement, but it should be apparent that each of the situations you described is quite different from Hamas lobbing rockets at Israel. In the case of Syria for example, what was hit was a shipment of advanced missiles destined for Hezbollah, and they do retaliate by supporting terrorists, when they can't do it openly. In any case, none of these countries are held back by self-restraint, which is what you seem to be demanding from Israel, which was my original point.
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    hitler was also elected. Elections don't mean a hell of a lot unless you have rule of law.
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    Like Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan et alia, perchance? To the extent you mean US rockets, they're used with the agreement of the states you mentioned, and target their own enemies, and US doesn't fire them indiscriminately hoping to hit something. Not sure what you mean by Lebanon, Syria, and Sudan. @Rostere, Al Qaeda started partly due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and partly due to US presence in Saudi Arabia to defend it and Kuwait from Iraq, nothing to do with Israel. In fact AQ is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is much older than Israel.
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    They don't see it as wasting lives, they see it as going to their heavenly reward.
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    I've come to admire Jeff Sessions more and more lately. In any case, national security is a legitimate function of government, so no matter how bad it gets, they still have to do the job. As far as respect for Obama, you first have to show respect to get respect. As far as killing Americans in America with drones, not always a bad idea : http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/alabama-hostage-safe-after-fbi-kills-kidnapper-with-help-of-military-drone/ But I guess Rand Paul wouldn't like that unless the drone delivered beer. Of course in that case it wasn't a question of killing, but if the drone had a laser ray gun it might have been.
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    First you neglect the terror effect of having to run to the shelter every time there's a warning siren. The rockets did plenty of property damage, but generally people are in shelters when they fall. Second Israel can't just ignore rockets falling on their territory, any other country in that situation would have to retaliate. Third if Hamas could fire continuously with impunity, the Iron Dome likely wouldn't be able to cope with salvos of rockets. Fourth you don't know what kind of weapons are being smuggled in from Egypt, Israel had intercepted an entire ship from Iran full of sophisticated weapons.
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    Can't find the original article I've read, but here's one with similar content, primarily this jumped out at me: http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/total-destruction-of-the-tamil-tigers-the-rare-victory-of-sri-lankas-long-war/
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    What would you suggest instead? I suggest we elect a less corrupt and overreaching one.
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    I think it's very dangerous to leave the military in the hands of this corrupt, overreaching government.
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    Sounds terrible, can Bioware even come up with an actual plot any more? (I don't want to prejudge though, initial impressions are often wrong)
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    I'm sorry, I don't follow your logic, if the Germans had won lots more people would've been exterminated, it's only because the Allies won there's peace and prosperity. Oh, now I see. I originally replied in response to Tsuga C. So now I don't even understand what we are arguing about in the first place. What was your original point really? My point was that your example of no one being exterminated wasn't valid because it didn't consider both possible outcomes (Allies winning vs Axis winning).
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    Insect so huge, it eats carrots : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8930070/Worlds-biggest-insect-is-so-huge-it-eats-carrots.html
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    There are some settlements Israel doesn't intend to give up; this may not be the obstacle it seems, one solution proposed would be to trade Israeli land adjacent to the West Bank for the land those settlements occupy.
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    They have the right under the Oslo accords to provide for natural growth of the settlements they've already annexed. Also it's meant to be an offset for all the terrorists they're releasing.
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    I guess this is that 50% of the time when I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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    I'm sorry, I don't follow your logic, if the Germans had won lots more people would've been exterminated, it's only because the Allies won there's peace and prosperity. Since the British mandate has been brought up, here's an interesting article I came across a few years ago : http://www.historynet.com/lashing-back-israel-1947-1948-civil-war.htm
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