Well, take some time to learn some anthropology and you'll learn these superstitions aren't religious views from Christianity, Islam or Judaism, but hold overs from tribal beliefs.
All superstitions? So wishing someone good luck, rituals before sporting events, mandate the use of floor 13 in buildings, banning Maypoles, no holidays like Christmas, mandating people walk under ladders?
Yes, thats what Mosab Hassan Yousef and Mohammed M. Hafez both claim as reasons Islam gets people willing to kill so easily.
Sexual repression and frustration.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a program for radicals who stay off the path of violence where they give them the money for dowry so poor males can't afford a wife can get married.
I was at the Vatican Museum in 1994 and down in a basement they had a exhibit of modern art depicting Christ or the Virgin Mary, my friend and I (both Jews) came across stuff that would be at least as controversial as Piss Christ. One had Christ and the Virgin naked in bed, yet there it was in the Vatican.
That would not fly in Islam in any way shape or form, hell, you won't find a depiction of Mohammad in Mecca, Medina or the Temple Mount.
Thats a tribal thing. Like female genital mutilation, it's not a religious thing even if the people doing it are majority Muslim, it's a tribal belief.
Both Christianity on the periphery (West Africa/Caribbean) and Islam on the periphery carry over those tribal beliefs.
American Indians no long shape infant's skulls or feet, but it still goes on in Africa, but it's not because those tribal people are Christian or Muslim, it's because they still have some old beliefs.
Child brides, pederasty, repression of women, homosexuality as a crime with the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.
I'd bet that more young males are molested in countries like Morocco a year due to the repressed sexuality Islam imposes than have been molested by all the Catholic priests in the last thirty years.
The son of one of Hamas's founders admits that the social restrictions on dating and sex in Islam and the Middle Eastern tribal society is one of the leading causes of militarism in Islam.
Christianity did not spread via wars of conquest. Christianity does not have a history of killing people who produce works of art depicting God or Jesus Christ, nor does Christianity have a history of killing people who renounce Christianity.
Yes, there were the witch hunts and the inquisitions and Catholic vs Protestant wars and pogroms, but those were societal and governmental issues carried out under the name of Christianity while Islam as a religion calls for wars of conquest and killing nonbelievers.
If you look at the primary sources of Christian conquests like the Conquest of Mexico, the Catholic priests sat down with Maya and other Mesoamerican priests and leaders to discuss how the Christian God and beliefs were the same as their own, which is why Creole and Central American Catholicism embraced local feast days and minor deities.
An example - Our Lady of Guadalupe contains Aztec symbolism - Her blue-green mantle was described as the color once reserved for the divine couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.
Orthodox Islam doesn't allow for differences like that, nor do Islamic run schools bolster science like Catholic and Jesuit schools do.
Not a banana republic either, nor will the US become a banana republic.
A banana republic is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique.
The US is politically stable (Thailand isn't right now), but neither country have limited economies nor are ag economies based on one or two crops.
The rise of people like Palin and Obama in the United States shows that an/any outsider can come into rule.
McCain, Gore and the Bush family were ruling elites, Obama, Palin, and Biden are very much not ruling elites. Thailand has it's political troubles but they don't match the "banana republic" model.
The President of the United States can not declare war.
The United States Congress declares war.
So...George Bush didn't declare war on Iraq or Afghanistan, the United States Congress voted for the use of force (the new PC way to declare war here).
For Iraq the law is...
The Iraq Resolution or the Iraq War Resolution (formally the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, Pub.L. 107-243, 116 Stat. 1498, enacted October 16, 2002, H.J.Res. 114) is a joint resolution (i.e., a law) passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No: 107-243, authorizing the Iraq War.
For the Afghan War and the Global War on Terror the law is...
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (Pub.L. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224, enacted September 18, 2001
They make between 900,000 and a million automobiles a year, have a diversified economy and are a net food exporter.
"Thailand has a GDP worth 8.5 trillion Baht (on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis), or US$627 billion (PPP). This classifies Thailand as the 2nd largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. Despite this, Thailand ranks midway in the wealth spread in Southeast Asia as it is the 4th richest nation according to GDP per capita, after Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia."
They have a million person military with advanced fighters like the F-16 block 50 and Saab/BAE Gripen
The UN classifies them as Developing, where the classic "third world country" is an under developed country.
Really the only thing that links all the under developed countries to the classical Cold War "third world country" is that all third world country demand and receive Western aid.
Texas leads the US in wind power right now. Minnesota is better for it than North Dakota or South Dakota, mainly because Minnesota is flatter than South Dakota, but South Dakota has more under construction than many states, and it's not because of subsidization or democrat vs republican, its more about NIMBY cultures.
Look at how long they've been fighting the off shore wind farms in Mass.
So by driving my 19 year old Chevy truck (with only 81,000 original miles), I'm being more altruistic than someone who went out and bought a new Prius.
My fuel comes from sweet sweet ANS West Coast crude, not coal.
Why would someone ask idiotic questions of their own citizens for having contact with someone from outside or it, or from going outside of it?
Why the good people at the DPRK, they surely do. Which is what the conversation is about, "does the US treat citizens like the DPRK does?"
Of course they don't, I've been to Gaza/Ramallah/Cuba and had friends in Fatah and used to be friended on facebook with a guy from Hezbollah. That might come up at a security clearance check, but it doesn't keep me from a government job and surely isn't going to get me put in prison.
In the DPRK that'd be prison, or worse, for knowing people who are open threats to the DPRK.
So, like I said - Really try and keep up if you have the comprehension, if not, quiet down.
Exploration for the sake of exploration should be done by robots and probes. Manned spaceflight should be for industry, like mining the asteroids, building factories in orbit.
When China lands a man on the moon all it will do is show the US that China had the budget to throw money down that well, like we did from 1961-'72.
Then when the Space Race kicked into high gear with Army, Navy and Air Force all bungling the orbiting of a satellite, the Eisenhower Administration gave space flight to NACA and renamed it NASA.
It's a remnant of the Cold War and it should go back to what it has done best since 1915, testing aerodynamics, materials and theories and passing the knowledge on to the industries.
When the Federal Income Tax was established only 3% paid any.
Here in Alaska, I don't pay any local or state taxes, but I do pay Federal Taxes
I pay the following Federal Taxes Federal Insurance and Contributions Act (FICA) - 6.2% of my wages by me and 6.2% by my employer. Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax - 1.45% of my wages Payroll tax to support unemployment insurance. This is 1.2% of the first $7,000
I also pay an excise tax on alcohol, gasoline and who knows what else because I'm not a tax lawyer.
I've traveled between the US, Middle East, Europe, Mexico and Canada numerous times and never have been asked if I was a Nazi/Communist/where I'm going/who I'm meeting when I come back to the US.
Even on direct flights between Tel Aviv to New York, Amsterdam to New York, Frankfort to Portland, never ever get those kinds of questions returning to the US or going into places like Tel Aviv. Worst grilling I got was Haifa to Greece by Israel on a ferry and Atlanta to Paris when I got to Paris CDG.
Look, I realize that if the government really wanted to, they could track you, but the reality of it is the US Federal Government doesn't, hell they didn't know where I was in the US for 8 years to give me a tax bill I didn't know about. If the IRS can't figure out where you are when you aren't even hiding from them, that doesn't really make me wonder about the all-seeing-eye of the Feds.
Sure, some countries will hold your passports, but when you travel in the United States no one is keeping track of your papers, you don't need internal passports in the US (unlike the DPRK), you don't need internal passports in Canada.
Last fall I traveled between the continental United States and Alaska, even past one of the most strategic places in the US, the Alaska Pipeline, no ID checks there, only ID checks were at the borders, as far as the US government was concerned I could have disappeared pretty much anywhere in that trip.
Now I live a km away from a major US military base, again no ID checks to be here.
That is impossible in the DPRK by any and all accounts of life there.
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Well, take some time to learn some anthropology and you'll learn these superstitions aren't religious views from Christianity, Islam or Judaism, but hold overs from tribal beliefs.
All superstitions? So wishing someone good luck, rituals before sporting events, mandate the use of floor 13 in buildings, banning Maypoles, no holidays like Christmas, mandating people walk under ladders?
Those sorts of things?
Yes, thats what Mosab Hassan Yousef and Mohammed M. Hafez both claim as reasons Islam gets people willing to kill so easily.
Sexual repression and frustration.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a program for radicals who stay off the path of violence where they give them the money for dowry so poor males can't afford a wife can get married.
I was at the Vatican Museum in 1994 and down in a basement they had a exhibit of modern art depicting Christ or the Virgin Mary, my friend and I (both Jews) came across stuff that would be at least as controversial as Piss Christ. One had Christ and the Virgin naked in bed, yet there it was in the Vatican.
That would not fly in Islam in any way shape or form, hell, you won't find a depiction of Mohammad in Mecca, Medina or the Temple Mount.
Zuckerberg will win.
Fundie lawyers aren't all that brave or in shape.
Besides, since 1948, Jews generally outfight muslims.
Thats a tribal thing. Like female genital mutilation, it's not a religious thing even if the people doing it are majority Muslim, it's a tribal belief.
Both Christianity on the periphery (West Africa/Caribbean) and Islam on the periphery carry over those tribal beliefs.
American Indians no long shape infant's skulls or feet, but it still goes on in Africa, but it's not because those tribal people are Christian or Muslim, it's because they still have some old beliefs.
Backwards enough to develop atomic weapons.
Oh like Islam is any better.
Child brides, pederasty, repression of women, homosexuality as a crime with the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.
I'd bet that more young males are molested in countries like Morocco a year due to the repressed sexuality Islam imposes than have been molested by all the Catholic priests in the last thirty years.
The son of one of Hamas's founders admits that the social restrictions on dating and sex in Islam and the Middle Eastern tribal society is one of the leading causes of militarism in Islam.
Christianity did not spread via wars of conquest. Christianity does not have a history of killing people who produce works of art depicting God or Jesus Christ, nor does Christianity have a history of killing people who renounce Christianity.
Yes, there were the witch hunts and the inquisitions and Catholic vs Protestant wars and pogroms, but those were societal and governmental issues carried out under the name of Christianity while Islam as a religion calls for wars of conquest and killing nonbelievers.
If you look at the primary sources of Christian conquests like the Conquest of Mexico, the Catholic priests sat down with Maya and other Mesoamerican priests and leaders to discuss how the Christian God and beliefs were the same as their own, which is why Creole and Central American Catholicism embraced local feast days and minor deities.
An example - Our Lady of Guadalupe contains Aztec symbolism - Her blue-green mantle was described as the color once reserved for the divine couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.
Orthodox Islam doesn't allow for differences like that, nor do Islamic run schools bolster science like Catholic and Jesuit schools do.
Not a banana republic either, nor will the US become a banana republic.
A banana republic is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique.
The US is politically stable (Thailand isn't right now), but neither country have limited economies nor are ag economies based on one or two crops.
The rise of people like Palin and Obama in the United States shows that an/any outsider can come into rule.
McCain, Gore and the Bush family were ruling elites, Obama, Palin, and Biden are very much not ruling elites. Thailand has it's political troubles but they don't match the "banana republic" model.
The President of the United States can not declare war.
The United States Congress declares war.
So...George Bush didn't declare war on Iraq or Afghanistan, the United States Congress voted for the use of force (the new PC way to declare war here).
For Iraq the law is...
The Iraq Resolution or the Iraq War Resolution (formally the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, Pub.L. 107-243, 116 Stat. 1498, enacted October 16, 2002, H.J.Res. 114) is a joint resolution (i.e., a law) passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No: 107-243, authorizing the Iraq War.
For the Afghan War and the Global War on Terror the law is...
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (Pub.L. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224, enacted September 18, 2001
They make between 900,000 and a million automobiles a year, have a diversified economy and are a net food exporter.
"Thailand has a GDP worth 8.5 trillion Baht (on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis), or US$627 billion (PPP). This classifies Thailand as the 2nd largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. Despite this, Thailand ranks midway in the wealth spread in Southeast Asia as it is the 4th richest nation according to GDP per capita, after Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia."
They have a million person military with advanced fighters like the F-16 block 50 and Saab/BAE Gripen
The UN classifies them as Developing, where the classic "third world country" is an under developed country.
Really the only thing that links all the under developed countries to the classical Cold War "third world country" is that all third world country demand and receive Western aid.
Because you site a transmission line in low wind corridors.
Texas leads the US in wind power right now. Minnesota is better for it than North Dakota or South Dakota, mainly because Minnesota is flatter than South Dakota, but South Dakota has more under construction than many states, and it's not because of subsidization or democrat vs republican, its more about NIMBY cultures.
Look at how long they've been fighting the off shore wind farms in Mass.
Oil doesn't produce much electricity in North America. Gas, coal and nuclear does.
The United States would be better off pushing out 20% more electricity production with fission
There are new power plants under construction right now and plants have been coming online and being built for the last ten years.
http://www.netl.doe.gov/coal/refshelf/ncp.pdf
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/new-licensing-files/expected-new-rx-applications.pdf
Hybrids use more energy to build and more materials than a Suburban.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/study-a-hybrid-consumes-more-energy-in-lifetime-than-a-hummer.html
So by driving my 19 year old Chevy truck (with only 81,000 original miles), I'm being more altruistic than someone who went out and bought a new Prius.
My fuel comes from sweet sweet ANS West Coast crude, not coal.
Can't dry outside everywhere.
Anchorage right here, and even though it's June, 50 and raining outside.
I reckon we might have 3-3.5 months a year where you can dry on a line up here.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphone_user_guide.pdf
Theres nothing in there that says an inch.
iPhone_Product_Info_Guide.pdf
Says for measurement purposes, it was tested at 5/8 inches away from the body.
No, its not that annoying, at least on the TV.
In person, I bet it's really farking annoying.
Why would someone ask idiotic questions of their own citizens for having contact with someone from outside or it, or from going outside of it?
Why the good people at the DPRK, they surely do. Which is what the conversation is about, "does the US treat citizens like the DPRK does?"
Of course they don't, I've been to Gaza/Ramallah/Cuba and had friends in Fatah and used to be friended on facebook with a guy from Hezbollah. That might come up at a security clearance check, but it doesn't keep me from a government job and surely isn't going to get me put in prison.
In the DPRK that'd be prison, or worse, for knowing people who are open threats to the DPRK.
So, like I said - Really try and keep up if you have the comprehension, if not, quiet down.
Exploration for the sake of exploration should be done by robots and probes. Manned spaceflight should be for industry, like mining the asteroids, building factories in orbit.
When China lands a man on the moon all it will do is show the US that China had the budget to throw money down that well, like we did from 1961-'72.
NASA was established to test systems and then pass them on to the military and civilian industries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA
Then when the Space Race kicked into high gear with Army, Navy and Air Force all bungling the orbiting of a satellite, the Eisenhower Administration gave space flight to NACA and renamed it NASA.
It's a remnant of the Cold War and it should go back to what it has done best since 1915, testing aerodynamics, materials and theories and passing the knowledge on to the industries.
When the Federal Income Tax was established only 3% paid any.
Here in Alaska, I don't pay any local or state taxes, but I do pay Federal Taxes
I pay the following Federal Taxes
Federal Insurance and Contributions Act (FICA) - 6.2% of my wages by me and 6.2% by my employer.
Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax - 1.45% of my wages
Payroll tax to support unemployment insurance. This is 1.2% of the first $7,000
I also pay an excise tax on alcohol, gasoline and who knows what else because I'm not a tax lawyer.
No one said anything about being kept out, it was about questions on entrance and keeping tabs.
Really try and keep up if you have the comprehension, if not, quiet down.
I've traveled between the US, Middle East, Europe, Mexico and Canada numerous times and never have been asked if I was a Nazi/Communist/where I'm going/who I'm meeting when I come back to the US.
Even on direct flights between Tel Aviv to New York, Amsterdam to New York, Frankfort to Portland, never ever get those kinds of questions returning to the US or going into places like Tel Aviv. Worst grilling I got was Haifa to Greece by Israel on a ferry and Atlanta to Paris when I got to Paris CDG.
Look, I realize that if the government really wanted to, they could track you, but the reality of it is the US Federal Government doesn't, hell they didn't know where I was in the US for 8 years to give me a tax bill I didn't know about. If the IRS can't figure out where you are when you aren't even hiding from them, that doesn't really make me wonder about the all-seeing-eye of the Feds.
Sure, some countries will hold your passports, but when you travel in the United States no one is keeping track of your papers, you don't need internal passports in the US (unlike the DPRK), you don't need internal passports in Canada.
Last fall I traveled between the continental United States and Alaska, even past one of the most strategic places in the US, the Alaska Pipeline, no ID checks there, only ID checks were at the borders, as far as the US government was concerned I could have disappeared pretty much anywhere in that trip.
Now I live a km away from a major US military base, again no ID checks to be here.
That is impossible in the DPRK by any and all accounts of life there.