SkyDekker

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    We know, most of it shows up as posts on here.
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    ah yes, the Homer Simpson syndrome.
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    just as irrelevant as discussing these opinions on an international skydiving forum.
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    Post yourself

    SkyDekker replied to Broke's topic in The Bonfire

    I have to add two pictures, not of me, but of part of me.... \ The big bandaid is because she took a header against the couch and had to get her forehead glued back together. She is one tough girl, she was laughing and smiling all the way to the hospital...
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    I have found in life that those that "speak the loudest" display the least amount of action. Like the saying goes about a barking dog.
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    Not arguing that with you. Just ironic that this comes up in a discussion about events the US is in due to cherry picking.
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    He might be a foreigner, but he seems to have a better handle on the language. Lots of "ifs" in that reply, they tend to be utterly useless.
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    So Bush didn't cherry pick? Wouldn't that mean that your intelligence agencies are filled with absolute idiots? And as NCClimber likes to say, show me some proof that congress was shown different intel from what went to the President.
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    Bad Dog

    SkyDekker replied to Soul's topic in The Bonfire

    I own one and used it it on myself first. Then I put it on my dog and used it exactly once. after that I would just hold it in my hands and my dog behaved perfectly.
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    Post yourself

    SkyDekker replied to Broke's topic in The Bonfire

    On a recent trip to Thailand, on the island of Koh Samui with my much better half....
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    I think her intention was more to make money, so mission certainly not accomplished.
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    their annual report
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    it does. And it doesn't have a CEO and it does give money to the Brady Center.
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    The Charity you link to doesn't have a CEO. It does give money to the Brady Centre
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    Ahh, in your hasty reading you must have missed the first part of that sentence. It couldn't possibly be that you are only quoting partial text on purpose?
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    Who'd a thunk it.... http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=obama+and+cheney+related&meta= According to Obama, Cheney is the "black sheep" of the family
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    But you know what the funny thing is? In the rest of the Western World, where guns are not as prevelant as in the US, there doesn't seem to be a higher incidence of busses driving through schools, or schools being blown up by bombs.
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    Why is it scary? Just like with the warrentless wiretapping issue, if you have nothing to hide, if you don't do anything wrong, it doesn't pertain to you. Or is this just a constitutional right you are more concerned about?
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    I never said it is the fault of the tool used. The more you make something available, the more it will also be misused. McDonalds is one example. I don't think McDonalds is to blame, but it is clear that a rise in the availability of fast food has coincided with the average american getting nice and fat. I think most people agree that there is a correlation between the two. The US has a higher "availability rate" of guns and also a higher incidence rate of school shootings. Doesn't mean I blame the guns, does mean that there is a likely correlation. The thread title asks if the "school massacres" are a price that just has to be paid. I'll say again, that in my opinion that is a price to be paid for the "sacred" right to bear arms.
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    He might be on to something. One of the more "respected" scientists in the world, former head of the Human Genome Project and a Noble Prize winner for his discovery of the structure of DNA, just proclaimed that Africans are not as intelligent as white people. He believes that genes proving this will be found within a decade. http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&ie=UTF-8&q=james+watson
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    At this point I think the left is saying more along the lines of stop some of the giant wastefull spending on a war we can't win.
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    Isn't that the price to pay for living in the US? It was your president who decided to invade Iraq, why shouldn't it be US residents who pay for it? Some of that personal responsibility many here like to talk about. With the giant deficit and debt blaances you should be talking about where best to increase taxes, not talk about decreasing taxes.
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    The solution is to not vote in people who spend with reckless abandon on ego driven wars. In the mean time it is a little silly to talk about eliminating taxes when the US is not even close to being able to cover its expenditures. Nor does it look like you might be able to in the future. Raising taxes would be the most honest way of showing the population what exactly is being spent every year.
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    No, more like realizing that an abundance in offering of "fast food" combined with huge portion sizes has an influence on the obesity rate.
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    I agree with you. The same problems are going on in many other western countries. However, since there is far less access to guns, there is also a lower incidence of school shootings. Does that mean that I think guns should be taken away from US citizens? Not at all. But the original quesiton was if the school shootings are a price that has to be paid. And I do think that is the case in the current western society.