Now, Israel, on the other hand, has a history of spying on the US, including having their spies caught on US soil.
Your vagueness is telling. About how many spies? Spying for what reasons, you don't say. Maybe because the U.S. maliciously withholds information that Israel could use to protect itself--information about WMD warfare capabilities of neighboring enemy states. The U.S. State Department is fundamentally Arabist and anti-Israel. It doesn't matter who the president is. The bureaucrats are entrenched, and they wield much power in international affairs.
Israel, while nominally a US ally, could potentially be a great threat.
It may seem to be only "nominal" because the U.S. cannot publicize its collaboration without fallout in the Arab world. Really, Israel is far more valuable an ally than even Britain. Former Sen. Jesse Helms said, "Israel is at least the equivalent of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Middle East. Without Israel promoting its and America's common interests, we would be badly off indeed." And from here:
Israel has played a remarkable role in supporting America both militarily and politically. Some may have forgotten that Gen. George Keegan, Head of America's Air Force Intelligence once stated that Israel was worth 5 CIAs based upon the Intelligence Israel provided her ally and benefactor, the United States.
When Saddam invaded Kuwait, it was Israel who provided on-ground Intelligence to the U.S. which proved invaluable. Gen. Dugan, who was in charge of operations during the First Gulf War, made the mistake of publicly thanking Israel for her assistance during an interview and was promptly fired. Israel raised an Air Umbrella for incoming U.S. Aircraft ferrying supplies, weapons and all the stuff that was needed for eventually attacking Saddam.
It was Israel who put teams in the Iraqi desert to pick up any American airmen shot down. (We all know what happened to those captured by Iraqis.) Israel proved her value as an Aircraft Carrier which protected American interests.
The Patriot missile used in the first Gulf War was based on Israeli technology. U.S. forces in the latest Gulf war were trained by Israelis for urban combat in Iraq. Security officials in New York City and other major U.S. cities visit anti-terror experts in Israel to learn how to protect our homeland. I could go on and on.
The offered world-class technology, top-notch intelligence, and superior anti-terror expertise, combined with a unique geographical importance in the war on terror, as well as shared ideals of freedom, democracy, and Western values make Israel a vital, natural, staunch ally.
The theory doesn't say man evolved from the ape but that man and ape once had a _common ancestor_.
I've heard evolutionists stress this point over and over, but I don't understand why. Is this supposed to make it easier to believe? Even though many creationists (lay people) do misunderstand this point of evolutionism, both scenarios are equally opposed to the Bible-based account of human origin.
There was no need, much less intent IMHO, to "deform" the evolutionist hypothesis.
Worse, official (pandering?) reaction (sanctions) holds large unrelated groups responsible rather than the tiny right-wing newspaper that did the wrong.
Oh, and by the way, "Palenstinians" is correctly spelt: Palestinians
Correctly, they are called Arabs.
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity... In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. It has also been a conceptual war for the ownership of the term 'Palestinian' which has been transferred over to the Arabs, whereas before 1967, 'Palestine' has always been synonymous with the land of Israel."
- Zahir Muhsein, PLO Executive Committee member, to Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 31, 1977
...scientists have determined that the human appendix is not an evolutionary anomaly as previously thought, but an intelligent design feature aimed at keeping the humans guessing as to it's actual function.
More breaking news on these topics at 11.
That really would be breaking news, because the vermiform appendix does have functions in the body, as even Talk Origins admits. (But then they claim that just because an organ has functions doesn't mean it's not vestigial. The new, lowered bar to qualify as vestigial is "suboptimal design" of function -- suboptimal in the eyes of humanity, which, of course, has complete understanding of the body. And wait, what is this talk of "design" by evolutionists?)
Look, if the appendix is left over from evolutionary predecessors, how come monkeys do not have an appendix? Yet, some rodents and marsupials do. I'm having trouble tracing the evolutionary tree here.
'Creationists believe in microevolution but not macroevolution.' These terms, which focus on 'small' v. 'large' changes, distract from the key issue of information. That is, particles-to-people evolution requires changes that increase genetic information, but all we observe is sorting and loss of information. We have yet to see even a 'micro' increase in information, although such changes should be frequent if evolution were true. Conversely, we do observe quite 'macro' changes that involve no new information, e.g. when a control gene is switched on or off.
God, of course, is the ultimate hacker in the "master programmer" sense - one only needs to briefly peruse of some of the things he has made to see that. The elegance of design in some biological systems is breathtaking. When you compare human DNA to chimpanzee DNA, you see they are around 96% the same. Some people see this as evidence that both evolved from the same original species; I see it simply as sensible code reuse.
You can never believe any picture you see in the news media.
And sometimes it's more blatant than Photoshopping. An Agence France-Presse journalist used a fisheye lens to exaggerate damage done to a terrorist's house by the IDF. Here's my JE about it.
First, the Nephilim (translated here, "giants") were human. See Numbers 13:33.
There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.
The parenthetical remark is part of the Scripture.
Second, we creationists do not deny that species change or become extinct. We simply observe that a species cannot change beyond what the reshuffling of its genetic material allows. So, a species may in fact evolve into another species, by modern criteria of differentiating organisms to the umpteenth degree. (I'm not disagreeing with the practice; I'm just comparing "species" to the Bible's use of the word "kind," which is a general layman's term that is not necessarily equivalent to "species," depending on the context.) But an organism is pretty much limited to its own kind. A canine cannot evolve into a horse. A bass will never become a crocodile. Such transformations would require the addition of genetic material, but the mutation of life forms results from its subtraction, thus undermining the whole of evolutionism.
socialism, in it's most basic form means "sharing."
You misspelled stealing. Socialism is when the government reaches their greedy claws into your back pocket to steal your hard-earned money and does God-knows-what with it. Yes, some of it trickles into the hands of society's non-achievers. This is a self-serving act on the part of the government, because it nourishes and breeds dependency. Furthermore, it destroys ambition and self-esteem, and, most importantly, limits political and financial influence of the masses, who might otherwise become uppity and eventually overtake the ruling class elites. Socialism, from the government's point of view, is not the grace of a safety net, but the prey-trap of a spider web.
It means looking after your fellow man, particularly those who have nothing. Attach a bearded guy, and a couple of nails and it turns into Christianity.
Then Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are for the poor." - ACV (Anonymous Coward/Communist Version)
Note about miniT (drag+indicator): "This extension has been discontinued as functionality is fully available on Firefox 1.5." So, you should uninstall it after upgrading Firefox.
Science has historically operated as a discipline of philosophy. The Kansas education board's decision simply begins the process of formally re-combining fields of philosophy that had been separated.
(I had to go back and add the word "formally," because the philosophy of Humanism does govern science today. It filled the religious vacuum that came about in academia after God was essentially banned.)
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Your vagueness is telling. About how many spies? Spying for what reasons, you don't say. Maybe because the U.S. maliciously withholds information that Israel could use to protect itself--information about WMD warfare capabilities of neighboring enemy states. The U.S. State Department is fundamentally Arabist and anti-Israel. It doesn't matter who the president is. The bureaucrats are entrenched, and they wield much power in international affairs.
Israel, while nominally a US ally, could potentially be a great threat.
It may seem to be only "nominal" because the U.S. cannot publicize its collaboration without fallout in the Arab world. Really, Israel is far more valuable an ally than even Britain. Former Sen. Jesse Helms said, "Israel is at least the equivalent of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Middle East. Without Israel promoting its and America's common interests, we would be badly off indeed." And from here:
The Patriot missile used in the first Gulf War was based on Israeli technology. U.S. forces in the latest Gulf war were trained by Israelis for urban combat in Iraq. Security officials in New York City and other major U.S. cities visit anti-terror experts in Israel to learn how to protect our homeland. I could go on and on.The offered world-class technology, top-notch intelligence, and superior anti-terror expertise, combined with a unique geographical importance in the war on terror, as well as shared ideals of freedom, democracy, and Western values make Israel a vital, natural, staunch ally.
My knocking code is the drum solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
I've heard evolutionists stress this point over and over, but I don't understand why. Is this supposed to make it easier to believe? Even though many creationists (lay people) do misunderstand this point of evolutionism, both scenarios are equally opposed to the Bible-based account of human origin.
There was no need, much less intent IMHO, to "deform" the evolutionist hypothesis.
I think we should hold that right-wing Egyptian paper accountable for brazenly publishing those anti-Muhammad cartoons during Ramadan. (specifically, 17 October 2005)
Correctly, they are called Arabs.
Please. This doesn't even constitute speciation, which creationists readily acknowledge.
More breaking news on these topics at 11.
That really would be breaking news, because the vermiform appendix does have functions in the body, as even Talk Origins admits. (But then they claim that just because an organ has functions doesn't mean it's not vestigial. The new, lowered bar to qualify as vestigial is "suboptimal design" of function -- suboptimal in the eyes of humanity, which, of course, has complete understanding of the body. And wait, what is this talk of "design" by evolutionists?)
Look, if the appendix is left over from evolutionary predecessors, how come monkeys do not have an appendix? Yet, some rodents and marsupials do. I'm having trouble tracing the evolutionary tree here.
to do the right thing, both spiritually and through good works.
Yeah, that's a happy thought.
Muslims are freaking savages.
Consider that a topic heading. Read more. Seriously, there is a lot of information here.
And as for Mohammad...
But as usual, a few extremists can make a lot of people look bad.
A lot of extremists can make a few [decent] people look bad.
No, this is the perfect picture.
They should wait two days later so it would be on Thor's Day (Thursday).
For those who didn't read the article, the mission is called THOR (Tracing Habitability, Organics, and Resources).
Mozilla hacker Gerv recently posted an explanation for why his blog is called Hacking for Christ.
You can never believe any picture you see in the news media.
And sometimes it's more blatant than Photoshopping. An Agence France-Presse journalist used a fisheye lens to exaggerate damage done to a terrorist's house by the IDF. Here's my JE about it.
They should do what developers for Mozilla did and create an extension called YahooSomething. I'm looking forward to using Yahoo! Thunderfoxfabulator.
A lot of people like Gitmo orange, you insensitive clod.
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Second, we creationists do not deny that species change or become extinct. We simply observe that a species cannot change beyond what the reshuffling of its genetic material allows. So, a species may in fact evolve into another species, by modern criteria of differentiating organisms to the umpteenth degree. (I'm not disagreeing with the practice; I'm just comparing "species" to the Bible's use of the word "kind," which is a general layman's term that is not necessarily equivalent to "species," depending on the context.) But an organism is pretty much limited to its own kind. A canine cannot evolve into a horse. A bass will never become a crocodile. Such transformations would require the addition of genetic material, but the mutation of life forms results from its subtraction, thus undermining the whole of evolutionism.
socialism, in it's most basic form means "sharing."
You misspelled stealing. Socialism is when the government reaches their greedy claws into your back pocket to steal your hard-earned money and does God-knows-what with it. Yes, some of it trickles into the hands of society's non-achievers. This is a self-serving act on the part of the government, because it nourishes and breeds dependency. Furthermore, it destroys ambition and self-esteem, and, most importantly, limits political and financial influence of the masses, who might otherwise become uppity and eventually overtake the ruling class elites. Socialism, from the government's point of view, is not the grace of a safety net, but the prey-trap of a spider web.
It means looking after your fellow man, particularly those who have nothing. Attach a bearded guy, and a couple of nails and it turns into Christianity.
Then Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are for the poor." - ACV (Anonymous Coward/Communist Version)
Note about miniT (drag+indicator): "This extension has been discontinued as functionality is fully available on Firefox 1.5." So, you should uninstall it after upgrading Firefox.
Also, Slashfix will not be needed in 1.5.
Science has historically operated as a discipline of philosophy. The Kansas education board's decision simply begins the process of formally re-combining fields of philosophy that had been separated.
(I had to go back and add the word "formally," because the philosophy of Humanism does govern science today. It filled the religious vacuum that came about in academia after God was essentially banned.)
This is not an encroachment on your right to free speech. This just applies existing election campaign laws to Internet communication.
Existing campaign finance laws encroach on free speech.
I can't wait till they get to Tropical Storm Chet. *wipes spittle off monitor*