That will be cold comfort to the Afghani people who have worked with US forces
Maybe from now on, Afghani people will think twice about who they get into bed with. A lying, murderous bunch of ethically challenged racists... or the Taliban.
Meh, I started out questioning your statement that religion furthers civil rights, and you've dragged me into a different topic, that of science v religion. I freely admit that some of history's greatest scientists have been religious, and we owe a huge debt to Arabic scholars from centuries past.
As for female pastors, you're obviously not Catholic. Or Mormon. Or Jehovas Witness. Which leaves some flavour of Anglican Protestant. Hmm, how about defending the first female Bishop being only four years ago. As a beacon of civil rights where equality of the sexes is concerned, Christianity's light is quite, quite dim.
Do I need to introduce the equality of sexual orientation into the debate? Religion seems to be the first thing people turn to when arguing that homosexuals should not be treated as equals. Let's here you argue that civil right from a religious standpoint.
Would those "urban myths" be the ones the Pope pardoned Galileo for in 1992? As a force of ignorance goes, that pretty much tops the pile don't you think?
And as for rights, you still have not addressed the disparity between the sexes in the three abrahamic religions. In all places one would call enlightened there's this civil right calling for the equality of the sexes - yet major religion (especially Christianity) is still hung up on not allowing women to take certain positions within the church. Tell me that's enlightened or an evolved civil right.
I am born free, as are all people, because of having been created in His image.
I don't get this "image" thing. Does his image have a penis, or a vagina? Either way, half of humanity is going to hell over that discrepency.
Maybe you'll say he has both - in which case only hermaphrodites get a free pass to the afterlife. Or maybe he has no reproductive organs at all, in which case your weiner makes you a sinner.
Any other weasel answer along the lines of "I don't know" or "he moves in mysterious ways" is an admission that you are not really born in his image at all. (Is his image caucasian, negro, Indian?) What about people born with extreme physical disfigurements? Are they in his image?
Maybe you mean his image is all about the "soul", in which case how do you know that cats or dolphins do not have that as well?
Seriously, I really do not get the "in his image" thing at all. It's as though you don't believe in evolution...
I've not heard of any beneficent ethical-humanist heads of state.
If you consider that a humanist worthy of the name is intrinsically secular, then look at the number of secular states in the world, it's not insignificant.
>>Civil rights, along with most human progress, has been in spite of religion, not because of it.
Incorrect. This statement is more or less an urban legend generated by the modern atheist movement.
How many female Catholic priests are there? Why were we directed by the organisers of a local Muslim Youth Assocition debate to sit in male/female segregated seating? (We told them to fuck off).
Ho yus, civil rights is TOP of major religion's agenda...
You just proved you did not read the explanitory page offered to you.
And why would black people have a problem with the word niggardly? It's derived from the same place we get the word nigger.
From that linked page: "Niggardly" (noun: "niggard") is an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", perhaps related to the Old Norse verb nigla = "to fuss about small matters". It is cognate with "niggling", meaning "petty" or "unimportant", as in "the niggling details".
"Nigger" derives from the Spanish/Portuguese word negro, meaning "black", and probably also the French nègre, which likewise has become a racist insult in American culture. Both negro and noir (and therefore also nègre and nigger) ultimately come from nigrum, the accusative case of the Latin word niger, meaning "black".
So the words have different origins, different meanings, they just sound similar.
Network the damn things up, use them to run Power Over Ethernet switches then get everyone to plug in USB batteries to their cable modems whenever there's slack time.
Apart from the gun thing, I'd challenge every part of that comparison to Europe.
"relatively rare" implies that the US has a few of those rules - as does Europe - a few. You seriously cannot call Europe more backward on porn than the US. Remember the Jackson Superbowl nipplegate? Have you been to Amsterdam recenlty? You can drive thousands of miles in Europe without showing your passport - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
I think maybe the GP is comparing the current lack of freedoms in the US to those outlined in the constitution (including the bits tacked on). All those things the government is not supposed to do... well by hook or by crook they are damn well doing as many of them as they can.
How many American citizens have been interred in GITMO? 1? 0?
Is this a competition to see which government hates its own citizens the most? Why treat non-US citizens as unworthy of the same rights as US citizens?
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That will be cold comfort to the Afghani people who have worked with US forces
Maybe from now on, Afghani people will think twice about who they get into bed with. A lying, murderous bunch of ethically challenged racists ... or the Taliban.
Yeah, yeah, and many countries outside the US have a Liberal party that is right-leaning.
Can you name some of those many countries please?
Ah yes, the age old conundrum about how to get the missus to agree to explore her sexuality with Anne, the hot new intern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder
Except when a Traffic trailer needs to take one. I don't think anyone could navigate a round-a-bout in a tractor trailer.
Why not? It happens all the time in the UK.
When the plea bargain means going to jail anyway, I'd go to trial. If I lost, I'd appeal. Very loudly.
Meh, I started out questioning your statement that religion furthers civil rights, and you've dragged me into a different topic, that of science v religion. I freely admit that some of history's greatest scientists have been religious, and we owe a huge debt to Arabic scholars from centuries past.
As for female pastors, you're obviously not Catholic. Or Mormon. Or Jehovas Witness. Which leaves some flavour of Anglican Protestant. Hmm, how about defending the first female Bishop being only four years ago. As a beacon of civil rights where equality of the sexes is concerned, Christianity's light is quite, quite dim.
Do I need to introduce the equality of sexual orientation into the debate? Religion seems to be the first thing people turn to when arguing that homosexuals should not be treated as equals. Let's here you argue that civil right from a religious standpoint.
Would those "urban myths" be the ones the Pope pardoned Galileo for in 1992? As a force of ignorance goes, that pretty much tops the pile don't you think?
And as for rights, you still have not addressed the disparity between the sexes in the three abrahamic religions. In all places one would call enlightened there's this civil right calling for the equality of the sexes - yet major religion (especially Christianity) is still hung up on not allowing women to take certain positions within the church. Tell me that's enlightened or an evolved civil right.
Face it, the facts are against your claims.
That, I fear, is only half true. I suspect that the replacement board will be much the same as the current one.
when in Canada the highest you get is around 80gb
Rogers offers 175GB. I'm on a Rogers 125GB plan myself.
Shaw offers a 250GB plan.
I am born free, as are all people, because of having been created in His image.
I don't get this "image" thing. Does his image have a penis, or a vagina? Either way, half of humanity is going to hell over that discrepency.
Maybe you'll say he has both - in which case only hermaphrodites get a free pass to the afterlife. Or maybe he has no reproductive organs at all, in which case your weiner makes you a sinner.
Any other weasel answer along the lines of "I don't know" or "he moves in mysterious ways" is an admission that you are not really born in his image at all. (Is his image caucasian, negro, Indian?) What about people born with extreme physical disfigurements? Are they in his image?
Maybe you mean his image is all about the "soul", in which case how do you know that cats or dolphins do not have that as well?
Seriously, I really do not get the "in his image" thing at all. It's as though you don't believe in evolution ...
I've not heard of any beneficent ethical-humanist heads of state.
If you consider that a humanist worthy of the name is intrinsically secular, then look at the number of secular states in the world, it's not insignificant.
>>Civil rights, along with most human progress, has been in spite of religion, not because of it.
Incorrect. This statement is more or less an urban legend generated by the modern atheist movement.
How many female Catholic priests are there?
Why were we directed by the organisers of a local Muslim Youth Assocition debate to sit in male/female segregated seating? (We told them to fuck off).
Ho yus, civil rights is TOP of major religion's agenda ...
What is so difficult to understand about that?
The fact that's it's just plain wrong?
You just proved you did not read the explanitory page offered to you.
And why would black people have a problem with the word niggardly? It's derived from the same place we get the word nigger.
From that linked page:
"Niggardly" (noun: "niggard") is an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", perhaps related to the Old Norse verb nigla = "to fuss about small matters". It is cognate with "niggling", meaning "petty" or "unimportant", as in "the niggling details".
"Nigger" derives from the Spanish/Portuguese word negro, meaning "black", and probably also the French nègre, which likewise has become a racist insult in American culture. Both negro and noir (and therefore also nègre and nigger) ultimately come from nigrum, the accusative case of the Latin word niger, meaning "black".
So the words have different origins, different meanings, they just sound similar.
Network the damn things up, use them to run Power Over Ethernet switches then get everyone to plug in USB batteries to their cable modems whenever there's slack time.
Win-win.
Whenever there's a surge in demand from California, ship a crapload of Californians to Oregon.
I'm amazed no-one's thought of this before.
Nah. My voice is my passport. It verifies me.
Advanced also means more evolved. So maybe green has evolved into a different colour, like purple or brown.
Or maybe advanced means further on, so the green you are seeing is ACTUALLY for the NEXT set of lights, not this one.
Yes, it WAS fun playing this word game! Thank you!
There is no such thing as illegal information in the US.
That may be true, but it wasn't always so
There's a difference between illegal and unconstitutional.
Apart from the gun thing, I'd challenge every part of that comparison to Europe.
"relatively rare" implies that the US has a few of those rules - as does Europe - a few.
You seriously cannot call Europe more backward on porn than the US. Remember the Jackson Superbowl nipplegate? Have you been to Amsterdam recenlty?
You can drive thousands of miles in Europe without showing your passport - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
I think maybe the GP is comparing the current lack of freedoms in the US to those outlined in the constitution (including the bits tacked on). All those things the government is not supposed to do ... well by hook or by crook they are damn well doing as many of them as they can.
I tried it with a bat, but it flew away.
Shatner managed it with Denny Crane.
Surely I am not the only one to have not immediately thought of the Gulf of Mexico?
My first thought was of the Persian Gulf, and a Google search for "The Gulf" brings that up first too.
How many American citizens have been interred in GITMO? 1? 0?
Is this a competition to see which government hates its own citizens the most? Why treat non-US citizens as unworthy of the same rights as US citizens?
In that time the US has had exactly zero Chernobyl type disasters.
Depends how loosely you define "type".