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  1. penniless
    And by some calculations, somewhere between two and ten THOUSAND crimes have been averted by private gun owners in that same time. You can't compare unverified claims of unspecified crimes with reported actual homicides. The last time I looked, not having to use a firearm wasn't a crime. The differences in my numbers is due to the fact that a large number of those types of altercations are unreported. Also "if the last two days have been typical" doesn't equate to 'actual reported homicides'. On a typical day in 2005 in the USA there were 31 gun homicides. Obviously it varies from day to day. These are real deaths of real people that you devalue.
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    It's OK, President Bush has promised to investigate.
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    And by some calculations, somewhere between two and ten THOUSAND crimes have been averted by private gun owners in that same time. You can't compare unverified claims of unspecified crimes with reported actual homicides.
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    It's not as if they're using untaxed farm diesel... it's a bullshit charge, unless the state is going to start levying fuel taxes on cooking oil... The issue is whether or not evading a tax is OK. If there's something wrong with a FUEL tax on unorthodox FUEL, then the tax should be fixed, not evaded.
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    Funny how this is ALL the Repubs can say about the Clinton admin..... and they Repubs here get tired of my debt graph as if it's insignifficant. So lying about Iran-Contra is the same as lying about about private sex? Lying about disclosing FBI agents is teh same as lying about private sex? Must suck to be relegated to that. Oh, sorry...my bad. I thought this thread was about what Gingrich did during the Clinton BJ scandal. What he did, apparently, was COVER UP his own scandal while pursuing Clinton's.
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    As am I, exspecialy if they look deeply into it. This is a political issue, not a scientific one. And the side playing the game is the pro GW alarmists Sometjmes I think you are serious, but mostly I just wonder about you and what kind of reality you live in.
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    And two years later, that ruling was overturned. So Bill was correct. Loving vs Virginia was only resolved in 1967.
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    Coaches should not preempt state law, federal law, or constitutional rights. If the coach told the players it was okay to drink champagne to celebrate a victory, while underaged, do you think a defense of "The coach told me I could do it!" would hold up in court? That is so silly. Private intitutions can have more restrictive rules than the states or feds, but not less restrictive rules. Some forms of discrimination that used to be perfectly legal (and indeed promoted in your home state of Texas) are now specifically outlawed. But these students are not being discriminated against, they are being given a code of conduct as a condition of being on a sports team. If they don't like it, they can, presumably, join the cheerleading squad that doesn't have such a code of conduct. It's not like the condition is beyond their control, like being black or female.
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    Nearly as scary as President Richard Cheney.
  10. penniless
    Is it also true that Clinton got a blow-job?
  11. penniless
    Not to mention that our life expectancy and infant mortality rate put us in the 2nd tier of nations, despite the high cost.
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    Just because it's no big deal for you, doesn't mean everyone views it the same way.
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    Don't equate the ARMY with the government. The Army treats everyone poorly (as GQ-Jumper wrote a couple fo days ago in the Walter Reed thread)www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2701919#2701919
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    You want such a graph? CBO projections are readily available for you to produce such a graph... Can anyone explain why the USA needs to spend more on "defense" than the next 14 countries combined? While it's obvious that the money being spent by our military could be put to better use, the sum total of everything spent on the "War on Terror", so far (that's over 5 years), would only cover three or fours months of Universal healthcare for all Americans. That still didn't answer his question.
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    neo-phron, neo-lithic, neo-tropic, neo-n signs. All BAD anti-liberal things.
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    Chemistry.
  17. penniless
    For fear that the beautiful weather and the even warmer comradeship would be enough to make the men desert en mass. LOL
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    So the fact that Russian Generals thought that invading the US *due to the average person having weapons was a bad idea* means nothing? Got it. Nope, but many insurgents had no official training....Like in the US revolution, Vietnam, Iraq....ect. Why did the USSR generals think invading France or Italy was a bad idea, then? Afraid of civilians armed with garlic?
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    Not really he is a pilot and owns a plane, I would guess more then once he has handled baggage too a fro from an aircraft. I am also a pilot and have handled baggage to and from a plane. I have also worked at UPS loading and unloading trailers, package cars, and aircraft. I can assure you there is no similarity between carrying a few suitcases to a private plane and loading the cargo hold of a jet airliner. Just to keep the thread on topic, I am opposed to any privatization of ATC. The system isn't perfect, but placing it under control of the private sector would be a huge setback. The USA has the BEST aviation system in the world. Why we would want to emulate Europe in terms of the way the system is run is a complete mystery ("follow the money", I expect).
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    Francis Harvey is a good man, and I don't think he should have resigned. Well, not that we should necessarily adopt the Japanese philosophy of a leader resigning as an apology for the disgrace of his subordinates, but sometimes I think that in our society not enough leaders take enough responsibility when their subordinates act disgracefully. So maybe Harvey is doing the honorable thing. Or, maybe he was just forced out. Prior to his resignation, a two-star, a captain, and two first-sergeants were relieved. It's possible that another two-star might be "reassigned". The civilian head of the branch didn't need to fall on his sword. I don't like how the whole thing broke out, and I do not commend the Post, even if they were accurate. While things are getting fixed, the motives of the Post were less than honorable in this instance. We don't have anything like enough high level people taking responsibility these days. I don't see that the Post's motives matter in the slightest.
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    Not in fiscal policy. The national debt declined sharply under Trumanomics, and increased dramatically under Reaganomics.
  22. penniless
    The losers look like the poor and the elderly. No wonder you're gloating.
  23. penniless
    An elite socialist is an oxymoron. Hitler gave the proceeds of his Third Reich to industrialists and his acolytes. Not the action of a socialist.
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    Are you TRYING to give conservatives a bad name?
  25. penniless
    Your world view seems rather black and white. I work daily with Christians, Arabs, Iranians, Hindus, atheists and Jews. I don't find the Arabs and Iranians any angrier than the others. My colleague most likely to blow his top is Jewish, and the most placid is an Iranian. And your "sample" is representative? Puh-lease. I also know plenty of very peaceful muslims and people of middle eastern descent and your point is well taken. Markharju's post does seem a little beyond the pale but the point behind his post has some validity to it also. Given that the title of the thread contains "Angry muslims (is there any other kind?)", it seems to me that kallend's comment is quite appropriate as a counter-example. It only takes one counter-example to disprove a hypothesis, not a statistical analysis.