Commissar

Eh. I'm starting not to buy it. Too radically fascist.

Are you Dubya's id or something?

Come to think of it, if it's so crucial that we teach the debate, why aren't Sunday schools pitching in with sessions on evolution? Not supporting it, of course, but letting children know that alternate views are out there. Giving their students a well-rounded view. That's what this argument's all about, isn't it?

Woman.

"God, save me from your followers."

I answer telephone surveys all the time. I hang up on telemarketers (whenever they rarely call now that I'm on the list), but if it's a political survey, hell, I've got five minutes. I especially love confounding expectations in push polls.

I still want to know what this is for. I mean, the questions indicated an obvious area of study, and I answered them in as macho a fashion as possible, but I'm curious what sort of conclusions are trying to be drawn.

You've told me what once? The not arguing with fools 'cause folks might not be able to tell the difference bit? Pff. I'm here for the rumble, man.

He got involved in his fair share of foreign expeditions.

Clinton was a great president, actually. I didn't like him much at the time, but in hindsight, I'd have to say he was pretty damned good.

I need to know if you're an ESL before I rip into you. It's only polite.

Of course not. We are all products of our environments and time in which we are born in. If I was a German Jew in the 1940's I would most definitely have a different view as well as not have an Internet forum addiction. It is irrelevant. I am an Iowan living in the 21st century, that is my reality and the reality I deal with. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So if a second Holocaust were to come about, you would counsel non-intervention?

As I've said before, you wouldn't hold this position had you been a German Jew circa the 40s. Furthermore, I'm starting to chalk this up as so much tough talk. Anytime someone makes an appeal to the, "Only the strong survive!" argument, they're compensating.

Moral high ground? You're joking right? WHo the frak cares about moral high ground? I most certainly do not. I am only concerned with what goes on here in the US and making sure US citizens are taken care of. The rest of the world can go in the sh**ter because they are not my problem nor should they be any one's problem but their own. A country that cannot support and create stability within its own border by itself does not need to exist because it is weak. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think you'd be singing a different tune had you been a Jew in Germany in 1939.

There I'm going to have to disagree with you. This line of reasoning has been used a lot recently, but I'm afraid that the war really was sold to the American public as necessary due to the threat to national security posed by Iraqi nuclear/chemical/biological weapons. There has been a great deal of backpeddling since the whole WMD thing went down the tubes, but that's the reason we went in.

i wasn't specifically referring to your statements when i quoted mothman. that's why i did not include your original post. the ad-homs regarding christian conservatives themselves, bush in particular, are flying in here. for the record, your original post was not that clear, either. and, as mothman noted, the term "christian conservative" is more often than not used as a derogatory statement. the term "communist" however, is not. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I know. I cleared it up a little later on, though. And I don't know whether or not to say I use it in a derogatory fashion; it's certainly a philosophy I'm very much opposed to, so perhaps it's possible.

Oh, come on. It wasn't just us who had intelligence pointing towards weapons programs. Just about every other intelligence service in the world thought he had them, too. Edit: Fixed a typo.

apparently liberal bigotry is OK, but not the other way around. as i've said before, i love double standards. they're easy to spot because there are two of them. taks PS: FWIW i'm an atheist and i'll defend your position till the day i die. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Aw, Taks, you're so cute when you're making statements like that. By your logic, I'm quite free to address you as a bigot yourself, since I'm going to assume you're opposed to communism. After all, I clearly stated that I'm opposted to "Christian conservatism" as a political and social philosophy, not to Christians themselves.

Rammstein - Amerika

We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, it's wunderbar.

That actually sums up my general philosophy pretty well. Edit: Though why'd you pick me? I'm the most innocuous, go-along-to-get-along member here. Not a boat-rocker.

I'll contribute as well.

The Parisians are rioting because the bread's stale. Don't let that other excuse fool you.

That's not what Clinton was impeached for. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He was impeached for lying about it wasnt he? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, yeah. Sort of similar to the Plame case; those weren't the charges that the special prosecutor was initially investigating, they're what came out at the end.