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"Righties" like the latest Republican presidential nominee? Funny, I kept hearing how he was too moderate for the righties in the GOP. Hearing from who? Because the average Republican primary voter appears to have supported him, as did the general party leadership in most cases. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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"Righties" like the latest Republican presidential nominee? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Ah, yes, this is why we trust the government to take care of us. It's so obviously full of caring people who would never abuse their power. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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What a profound short little paragraph that says it all.
TomAiello replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
Do you think that comments like that might generate some paranoia amongst those they are directed toward? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
What a profound short little paragraph that says it all.
TomAiello replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
I've never heard of the guy, but you obviously feel pretty strongly about him. Do you have a source for that? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
As a test, perhaps you ought to try getting your news only from FOX for 2 weeks and see if it changes your views at all. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Bill, I agree with TrophyHusband, and my observations is not based on any web sites, television, radio or other media. It's based on my personal experiences with people of various persuasions. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Interestingly, I thought of myself as being on the left until I arrived on campus for my first year of college and witnessed the incredibly hateful actions and attitudes of the "left" there. Coming from a relatively normal small town upbringing it was an incredible shock to me. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Oh, sure. I absolutely agree with you. Evil is still evil, in anybody's name. But the fact that people are engaging in situational ethics, while reprehensible, does not make them racists. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Which totally fails to answer the question he asked, even though you quoted it above your response. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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A racist outcome is one wherein different people are treated differently because of their skin colors. Trying to create "inmate parity" by creating some kind of racial balance in prisons would certainly be racist. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Right. And Ex Post Facto laws are inconsistent with the Rule of Law, as commonly articulated. Rule of Law is one of those concepts that includes a whole host of other stuff--no ex post facto, habeus corpus, due process, etc.... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You can request that they stop sending the mounds of paper. They have a membership option where you only get the "critical" correspondence, which doesn't include the solicitations. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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No, I think you have it mostly correct. The Rule of Law is essentially zero tolerance. While most people think it's a "good thing," they'll usually make exceptions, at which point it's no longer the Rule of Law. It works the other way, too. The Rule of Law means that laws are clear and known, and will be enforced equally. That means, for example, that you won't face prosecution for something that wasn't illegal when you did it, and also that you have a right to know what the laws are. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Rule of law could easily be perceived as a weakness if your frame of reference is the state, rather than the individual. Allowing the citizenry protections against arbitrary state action (one of the basic tenets of rule of law) can hamper the state's ability to perform it's functions. This is even more true if your state is non-democratic, but it's still true in a democratically led state. A more interesting question, to me would be "Do we really have the rule of law in the USA (or insert another place)?" A long time ago, in a land far, far away, I used to work for a charity called the Soros Foundation, which (at that time and place) was primarily concerned with recovering the rule of law in nations recovering from soviet style authoritarianism. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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so definitely not black
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Would you say that Filipinos are Asian? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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NIH Funds $2.6 Million Study to Get Prostitutes in China to Drink Less
TomAiello replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
How stimulating! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
And have you looked at the difference in criminal activity between asians and other ethnic groups? It's scandalous, all those law abiding productive citizens! Clearly, we need affirmative action programs to recruit asians into the criminal lifestyle! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Situational ethics? That’s deciding what’s right or wrong depending on the situation, But when the only variable is race, color, or religion what do we call that? Sorry I just think your trying to find a more nice and expectable to say racists. Situational ethics is not ethics at all but hypocrisy. What am i missing? Race is definitely not the only variable. I'm suggesting that the American public views those whom they perceive as acting in their interests in a better light than those they perceive as opposing their interests--regardless of the skin color, religion or ethnic extraction of the specific actors. An American who supports the US killing it's enemies, but opposes US soldiers being killed by those same adversaries is _not_ a racist--he's simply behaving in line with his own (perceived) self interest. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You lost me. I apologize if I've misunderstood your post, but it seemed like you were saying that the Republican party had moved from the (explicitly anti-torture, and implicitly anti-waterboarding) position that you would suppose Reagan to have. I'm saying that the party's nomination of John McCain (perhaps the highest profile opponent of enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush administration) as their standard bearer in the last presidential election is some evidence that the Republican party, as a whole, does not support those techniques. It's radically incorrect to assume that because former VP Cheney (who never had to face the party rank and file in a primary) is in favor of something, that would make the entire party in favor of it. Especially when there is such strong evidence (the party's selection of a leading opponent of those techniques as their standard bearer) to the contrary. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I noticed that lump sticking out like a sore thumb right away. So, what the heck is it? I theorize that it's some kind of magazine lock, so that the shotgun doesn't have a detachable magazine (which is one of the California ban criteria, if memory serves). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Total random aside, but I theorize that this is actually because of the Christian influence on the right wing. We can all point up very notorious cases of Christian bigotry and nastiness, but in my actual, personal experience, the very christian people I've encountered are among the nicest, friendliest and most tolerant I've known (and remember that I'm an atheist, and religious fervor often creeps me out). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Of course not. It's obvious that only a racist would ask such questions. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Don't have a good answer to that one. One can only speculate. Personally, I'd submit to waterboarding for $1000 per second. I think it would suck pretty bad while it was happening, but knowing that there's no permanent impairment, I'd take the cash. Heck, at those rates, I'd probably spend a month trying to rack up a score like KSM, and take home the big money. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com