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  1. Andy9o8
    Well, the Bible is basically like a big Sears Catalog of slaves. And concubines. Let's not forget them.
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    That's why we have Intelligent Design.
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    Your use of the mocking term "evil American corporations", and framing the issue in hyper-narrow factual terms, are chickenshit discussion tactics on several levels, but whatever. A subset of the concept "Corporate social responsibility" is for corporations which economize by outsourcing labor offshore to assure that physical working conditions in offshore facilities are safe and humane. Personally, I happen to feel it is wrong for corporations to profit from their products being produced under unsafe or inhumane conditions offshore that would not be legally permitted had the facilities been located in their own countries. The Nike offshore working conditions controversy, for example, is but one example of this.
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    Yeah? Do you know who has and has not flipped and has targets on people's backs? The unstable have nobody's back.
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    When I arrive at the mountain. Comrade.
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    To add to (not subtract from) your last post, most of the wealth a member of Congress accumulates as a direct result of his time in office is not his salary; it's in the form of insider trading in investments (which the SEC would prosecute if it was anyone else) which, in turn are taxed at the low capital gains rate. (Oh, by the way, who do you think wrote and passed the tax code assigning the low tax rate on capital gains?)
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    You make it sound like William Calley destroying My Lai in order to save it.
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    If we knew the sweatshop/labor camp conditions the (mostly third-world) foreign workers who produce our consumable products must endure, we'd hardly buy anything; for said conditions are, very frequently, deplorable. You'd never buy diamonds again for all those wives you've got lined up , you'd never eat chocolate, never drink coffee, never buy a product containing rubber, never buy garments made in Bengladesh. Re: the Bengladesh example, I think the default (even if rebuttable) presumption is that they worked under deplorable conditions in a building that was so poorly constructed it was a disaster waiting to happen. Yes, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire atrocity is probably a fitting historical comparison.
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    But Bill, you have to admit the facts are the facts: 100% of Islamic extremists who were involved in acts of terrorism in the US have been Muslim. I understand that some Muslims also may own or run large corporations. And some may possibly work at Walmart. And yet your crowd will jump all over the christian religion whenever you get the chance. Your hypocricy is admirable. Yeah, Rehm's a pinko. That's the ticket.
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    Typical comment from the arrogant who assume everyone has the same, or better, level of education. Way to miss the point.
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    I'm totally cool standing by the point I made.
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    I really hope you mean pops, and not ChrisD... Sigh, nope.
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    Probably about the same ratio as the number of folks using conservative or republican as an insult that are stupid assholes. (hint, it's probably pretty close to one in both studies) edit to add quote for new page Not a chance in hell. I wouldn't have wasted my time typing it out had I thought that reflexive rebuttal (which is easily anticipated) would hold any water.
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    I sorely hate to have to say this: I think he has a point on this one.
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    I think we should Commission a scientific survey: how many (hypothetical) people who regularly use the term "liberal" as a pejorative are stupid assholes? (The follow-up, of course, would be how many of the droolers don't understand the word "pejorative" w/o looking it up.)
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    I think you mean the Waltons (no, not John-boy & co.). Walden was a Utopian community, and I doubt WalMart qualifies as that.
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    You're right; she's not a mom grieving irrationally, she's like Hitler. Hey, thanks for the clarity.
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    Idiotically putting words in my mouth like that? Is that really the level of discussion you want to have? Fuck it; it's your thread; have fun wanking off in it.
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    FFS, she's a mom, and she's in unspeakable grief for her children and family. Best to just ignore her.
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    probably too much. A little more muscle tone, less eye liner would do her a world of good. She'd have to agree to fewer rants also. I just want to throw a steak at her and yell "Eat this!"* . *I hereby disavow any insensitivity to eating disorders.
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    Should he better have said "purported findings"? Whatever. In any event, you need to understand the meaning of the term "findings". It simply means a given person's or group's conclusions as to what they believe the facts are, when viewing evidence through their own particular lens. It does not remotely suggest a lack of bias, either in the process of choosing what evidence to cherry-pick and what to ignore, or in the process of what factual conclusion should be drawn.
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    This, right here, is the reason for so much disconnect between many law-abiding urban citizens' attitudes about guns and many law-abiding non-urban citizens' attitudes about guns. The difference becomes a cultural one. I find that whenever I try to explain this in terms of cultural differences to strongly-feeling members of either group, they tend to respond aggressively as though I'm their ideological opponent. I guess that means I've probably hit the mark.
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    Some peoples heads aren't screwed on straight. That would never happen here.
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    I'm not convinced it was the best-designed exercise, but it wasn't training them to be little orgiasts, either. Surprising thing, this spin stuff, huh? Wendy P. Neither was that teacher who just got disciplined for giving her students an assignment to craft an essay from an anti-semitic viewpoint. Tough task teachers have: how to be creative and innovative to grab the students' attention and get them to actually learn something lasting and meaningful, instead of being boring, without taking undue risk.
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    Pffffttt!!!!!! Seriously??? BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!