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Forgive me, but isn't what Isabelle did in response to the (admittedly insulting) flirting A CRIME? She acted like one of those cheap, "Oh, no you dih-unt" whores like we see in the U.S. They have them in England too?! Seriously, lady, get a fuckin' grip! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I don't remember how I came across this, but it might have been from boredom and the fact that I really enjoyed The Little Mermaid when I was going out with my ex-girlfriend in college. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baFaRLCH79s There Are Worse Things I Could Do While you're there, check out a couple of other amusing videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdlGY9YrSFY REALLY awesome professional claymation production, but baffling meaning and origin Seriously, check 'em out. I think you'll be glad.

...of those who plan to vote for him. There, I finished that up for ya. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

That's exactly what I was thinking when Geraldine Ferraro ran as Mondale's VP candidate. And I was just a kid then. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Pie's got nothin' on this rice pudding I'm chowin' on right now!

Why? A Mexican lawyer can't represent in a US court. I don't believe consular support means having a mexican lawyer in a US court. The consulate is capable of hiring necessary assets. Retry him, give him another death verdict, and there's no longer any question that procedure was followed. Do you think that, had Medellin obtained his consular support, that the Mexican government would have tripped all over itself to make sure he got the very best legal advice and everything, and tried their darnedest to keep a convicted murderer from getting his punishment? I mean, it's not as though he was a U2 pilot shot down over an enemy land and his government valued him highly and wanted him back. He was a piece of shit rapist and murderer. In fact, now I'm kind of curious just what the Mexican government would have done if the phone had rung and there was Medellin, "Uh, hello? I need some help here. I raped and murdered two young girls, and they caught me. Send everything you got, homes! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

You can't pretend that the FAIR TRIAL he got--albeit not with the "consular support" he was "supposed" to be due--was anything like a "kangaroo court." Attempting to pull a fast one like that just shows how disingenuous you are willing to be in this discussion. It's not a choice of, "If we do this to him here, we deserve our citizens to be tried by kangaroo courts abroad," since we did NOT subject him to an unfair trial. He was convicted by a jury. Just think of him as though he had been any other native of the U.S., and you'll realize he got all that anyone need be entitled to as far as defense, and a fair trial. So what if he didn't get this stupid technical provision given to him. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Uh, wait a minute. Do you really think that the people who want to bitch about this "denial of due process" would be OK with deliberately making the condemned's life in prison torture? In the immortal words of Gob Bluth: "COME on!!" Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Right. A Mexican enters Texas illegally, and murders two teenage American girls. He then demands that he be treated according to Mexican law? I don't fucking think so. He did the crimes in Texas. He can pay the Texas price for those crimes. If he wants Mexican justice, he should have stayed in Mexico. I think he wanted the justice the USA agreed to when it signed the 1963 Consular Convention. I think the girls wanted the justice of NOT BEING RAPED, AND BEING ALLOWED TO GO ON LIVING. Why is it that you cry for this piece fucking rotting shit, but not for the girls? Again, who fuckin' really cares that he didn't get "consular counsel"?! HE GOT AN OTHERWISE FAIR TRIAL, JUST LIKE ANYONE NATIVE TO THIS COUNTRY WOULD GET. TOUGH SHIT if he didn't get some stupid-ass IRRELEVANT technicality! I would LOVE it if you were obligated to make this bullshit case you are making to the parents of the girls. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

He admitted to raping, beating, and strangling two young women ... I wonder if he would have stopped the attack on the women if either of them had made such a poignant appeal to his good and gentle nature? Who the fuck was he saying that to, anyway? Probably to family members. Certainly not to the TWO DEAD GIRLS. Why should this branch of the U.N. be any different from the rest of it? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Read the article. He did not get consular counsel, contrary to a 1963 treaty to which the USA is signatory (the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, which according to the Constitution, becomes the "supreme law of the land"). Cry me a fuckin' river. It's not like he was denied counsel and forced to stand trial with no defense. He was denied a technicality. Answer one simple question: Do you think that, had he been given this "consular counsel," the facts of the case would have been altered and a jury would have said, "Nope, don't think he did it"? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Why does anyone "need" an assault weapon a modern hospital? Why can't they just use single-shot firearms home remedies? They worked perfectly well for the Framers back when all anyone had were flintlocks herbs and splints and crude surgical tools... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Even though it has been translated numerous times BY MANKIND? I marvel at your inability to realize how preposterous that firm belief sounds. Somehow you gloss right over the necessary realization that the Bible--if it ever was written by God--was taken out of God's hands LONG ago. And it stands to reason that the most recent revision would be the most perverted from the original truth! This is too amusing. I feel dirty, watching you run on like this. It's like watching a handicapped person labor at something ordinary folk can do with ease. It makes you feel horrible about wanting to watch it. ...or is a loonie. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

This is a very literal interpretation of Catholicism. And a bit simplistic - the killer would have to actually repent when he confesses his sin, not just do a death bed 'Hail Jesus'. As for the murdered man getting stuck in purgatory, I would think that the strict must confess was driven much more by the Church wanting people to show for confession regularly (in part to collect money in the older days), rather than a belief that God was that inflexible. Well, how is anyone to separate what the Church twisted around from what comes straight from God's mouth? The Church represents it all as the word of God. There are no footnotes that say, "*Don't take this part literally." It seems very clear, lately, that whenever critics of Church doctrine appear with valid criticism, the religious folks blush and say, "Oh, THAT part was never meant to be taken literally." It's a preposterous cop-out. Now, as for this "purgatory" thing, I thought the murdered guy would go to HELL if he died in a state of unconfessed sin. Now you say he goes to some quasi-hell? What exactly is purgatory? And wasn't the idea of it introduced a while after the whole story was told? I thought purgatory was a sort of "recent creation" of the Church. IF that is correct, then I would ask, how the hell can anyone put faith in the idea that purgatory is a legitimate part of God's structure for the afterlife if it remained an undisclosed one all that time before finally being spoken of? Once again, seems like a total cop-out. But some people's "understanding" specifically tells them they're not allowed to leave everyone else alone. See the Catch-22? But if it were up to the atheists, that IS how it would be. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'm with you! I mean, if it saves even just ONE life! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Is this really a problem with "the U.S.A.?" Do French citizens often get personal replies to questions posed to their president? Do you understand that there are 300,000,000 people in the U.S.A. and it is physically impossible for each citizen to be able to get direct access to a leader of so many. I know we're not talking about the president of the U.S., but even senators have millions of constituents. How can they answer specific questions posed by any given one of them. Do you really mean to say that you have been done wrong because no one got back to you? Was there a fair expectation on your part that they would? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'm still haunted by the notion that IF I WERE in TRUE LOVE right now, I'd probably pick the true love over skydiving. There would be pangs, but if it were really... true love? Come on, that's like, set it all on fire kinda feeling, hard to beat, you know? Give up anything for it kinda feeling. But right now, not being in love, it's easy to say, "I'd hold off on even getting involved if I felt it was likely to mean I'd have to quit skydiving." Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Would I love myself if I gave up something I know is part of me? This is a difficult question to answer, especially given that I'm not currently in love, and haven't been in a while. I'd like to think that love conquers all, and having the love would be more than a replacement for the skydiving. But it'd be like denying yourself ever seeing the color blue again forever: could you do that, knowing how much you'd miss it? It would leave a gaping hole in what you remembered loving about life. I'd say no, I would not want to accept love if it meant having to accept missing out on a very favored part of my life. I'd look for love that did not deny me what I am. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

OK, we'll go with Klingon History for $1000, Alex. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

You're stooping to using Sophistry on me, there, and I caught you at it. I NEVER SAID that "There isn't a God because there isn't any evidence." That's ridiculous. My belief is far closer to, "There isn't any evidence, because there isn't any GOD." Of course, I don't go so far as to assert, "There IS NO GOD." I don't believe there is, but I freely admit the impossibility of either knowing or proving this is so. That's more than most on both sides of the debate will admit in either direction, and I am kind of proud of myself for having that willingness. But certainly, the organized religions of the world have failed to produce any evidence of God that would convince a nonbeliever like me. In fact, what proves their failure better than their express DEFIANCE? They insist that you HAVE to just BELIEVE -- FAITH -- WITHOUT the benefit of proof! If you need proof, you're not a believer! It's their whole excuse for why they need not be put to the test of providing proof of their God. It's their escape clause! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

It's not so much that I am closed to the possibility that there is a God... It's that the way the humans on earth have laid out the system of belief, it's so RIDICULOUSLY FUCKIN' ABSURD AS TO COMPLETELY DEFY BELIEVABILITY, to me. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Yes. Disingenuous responses made only for the sake of instigation do not count. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Hey, I was just thunderstruck with a great idea. I'm going to read "The Wind in the Willows" a few hundred times, and devote all my focus to becoming a "The Wind in the Willows" scholar. I hope to be able to bring enlightenment, joy, and eternal paradise to all mankind through the wisdom I believe I will acquire from my devoted study. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Heh. "Bible scholar." "GOOD Bible scholar"! Contemplating such a person makes me think of people who devote their lives to making a true study of the nuances and intricacies of something like basketball... as though it fuckin' matters! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I can admit that, sure. But WHO HAS seen "proof"? And if they've seen it, why is it not widely understood to exist, the way the Mona Lisa is widely understood to exist? If someone has proof, but won't show me that proof, he can't condemn my continued belief that no one yet has any! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire