SkyDekker

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  1. SkyDekker
    If you read properly, you would have noticed that i said it is not that exclusive anymore, since it no longer is by invitation only. If you match those spending patterns on a current Amex you can just ask for one. Hard to respond to a "grunt", maybe if you could formulate a question I can clarify it for you.
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    If you had followed the thread you would have noticed that I was directing my post to the issue of people engaging in activities that put them at hightened risk and not regular hikers. In this particular case it was regarding biking, which does put you at a hightened risk of attack by a mountain lion.
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    replacing a motorcycle specific rear tire with a high performance car tire.
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    Money is money. Israel has no problem hosting the two Bush presidents, or taking money from the US during their presidencies. Even though their family fortune is for a large part due to lucrative business with the nazis.
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    The Black Card is really not that exclusive anymore and no longer by invitation only. You just need the cash to be able to keep the spending limits going. The Coutts purple card is much more exclusive in my opinion, but not as cool to whip out in a night club in LA, cause nobody would recognize it.
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    Naturally I would and really has no bearing on this conversation. Nor does banning have anything to do with this conversation. The issue is the two different views. One is, I'll go wherever the hell I want to and will shoot my way out of trouble. Second is: I am going to try and avoid a situation in which I am putting myself at a higher danger level of a mountain lion attack. I find option one arrogant and option two more in line with common sense, especially when it comes to a recreational activity. Also don't see this as an issue of gun control. Even if you are allowed to carry your gun in the park, I would hope that people behave more along the line of option two and less along the line of option one. You guys have a constitutional right to arm yourself and I have absolutely no issue with that. Just don't always agree with the arguments brought forward and will voice my opinion when I feel that is the case.
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    So don't go there. Or if you would like to observe the animals in their wild habitat, don't do it in the form of an activity that will make the animal more likely to attack you. Pretty arrogant really.
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    So what's the irony? You could obviously go cycle somewhere else. Cycling in mountain lion territory isn't the brightest thing to be doing. Activates their chase instinct. Its why you are generally advised not to run when confronted with one.
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    So the cop could have easily waited for the tens of other cops that were in this pursuit. In stead he did what he knows how to do best....act like a pig.
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    Exactly, its not as if that document has any important words in it. It's just a simple quote....okay a couple of simple quotes. Thoise quotes just got there by accident and could never possibly give any insight into throught processes. They just stand completely on their own.... Yeah, how you ended up in that clusterfuck is obviously not an important issue at all.
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    But McCain just misspoke?
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    McCain restated the same myth on Fox News this weekend..... are people really that stupid?
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    Do you truly consider all Muslims "outright fucking enemies"?
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    I am sure that training played a big part in this. But, I also wonder if their was something else playing. In both the earlier examples of the revolutionary war and WW II, people were fighting against people that looked exactly like them. They could have been friends, brothers, family. This would create much more of an emotional attachment, and would much more prevent the villification of the enemy. When you look at more recent wars, this is not the case. Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan provided an enemy that looked significantly different.
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    I agree. the response was that the situations were different, cause in the terrorist scenario possibly thousands could be saved. So then my question was.....at what number of lives is it justified.
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    fair enough, I agree. So at what number of lives possibly saved is torture justified? When it could possibly save 2 lives? 20 lives? 100 lives?
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    "swingtown"
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    And as Blair said, there is no way of knowing whether they would have gotten that information without torture.
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    I thought international law and conventions were pretty clear too. if those don't count for the OP, why would the constitution. Hence my question to the OP, trying to figure out at what scale his reasoning changes.
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    You mean the part where he says that any information that may have been obtained was not important to national security?
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    Ah, I thought maybe there was a moral objection.
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    What's wrong with torturing a confession out of a suspected killer if it saves lives?
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    I am convinced now. I think we should also allow police forces to torture suspects who they think might not be telling the truth. If it works on terrorists, it must also work on murderers, thiefs, adulterers etc.
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    Which is what I said in my post in more words. Hence I agree with your wife, must be my 24 consecutive years in Europe and many visits since.
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    Ok Jack.