How about we put a windmill attached to your chin. That way the hot air you spout could be used to serve all the world's energy needs for decades to come.
Well, this is a stretch. The debt from French support of the U.S. rebels was added to an already huge debt from the Seven Years' War. The Revolutionary War debt that France acquired was one of many catalysts leading to the Revolution; one could just as easily argue that had the French not been involved in the Seven Years War, they would not have been so inclined to ignite a revolution after supporting the U.S. revolutionaries.
As pointed out in the article, and in numerous studies, American Southerners experience a high rise in testosterone when they feel their honor has been violated. In other words, Southerners, especially men, place a higher emphasis on honor and have stronger reactions when insulted. Numerous studies have confirmed this.
I'm sick and tired of people who believe that US governmental tyranny exists talking about it as though it is a Us vs Them argument.
In the real world, not some fantastical universe you have created, but in the REAL world, there exists an extremely large portion of the population who does, (or who will, in this universe you have created) agree with the government. They may agree that your guns should be taken away from you, or that you should no longer be able to ban gays from marrying, or that you should not be able to have tax-free churches any more...all of which are things, by the way, that many tea-tards have used as example of "tyranny" by the government.
In the REAL world, if you were to rise up against this government, you'd also be rising up against the (approximately) half of the US population that put that government in place.
This is not called "rising up against an oppressive government."
This is known as a CIVIL WAR, and we've already had one.
So think about that the next time you want to "rise up against the government." You'd actually be rising up against a whole lot of average americans who VOTED to put that government in place, and if you think they will take kindly to your attempts to "take your country back", you will have another thing coming.
How is a mildewed mailbox going to reduce property values? What bank will value a home less because of a mailbox with mildew? In what plausable scenaario will a person attempting to purchase a house say, "I would like to buy your house for 1,500,000$, but because your mailbox is mildewed, it is only worth 1,490,000? Seriously, in what world does this occur?
This is ludicrous. If the mailbox is that bad, the mailman can choose to deliver your mail via other means, or even refuse to drop off your mail, and leave a notice for you that you must pick of your mail at the Post Office from that point forward.
This is a call for the mailman to make and not some ridiculous power-hungry HOA. The HOAs have no business regulating the health of the mailman. Stupid stupid stupid.
This. What people who are opposed to gun control routinely forget in their fantasy world where they are facing off against an oppressive government with their firearms is that their government, in most of the western world, was elected by the people. And there are a large amount of people who disagree with them and who will fight them if they try to strike back against the government. This is not called fighting against tyranny...this is called a civil war.
My suspicion is that once drones start to become more ubiquitous in US Airspace, pecople here will come up with ways to interfere with them. In other countries directly targeted by the drones, they haven't been very successful, but in the US all it will take will be a few backyard hobbyists who really really really have issues with drones, and they will come up with an easy way to interfere/take over/destroy/ shoot down said drones...and this technology, whatever it is, will be then used by people in other countries to take out OUR drones.
So putting drones in US airspace is actually a stupid counterproductive thing, on many fronts.
Tom Cruise is fine actor. Yes, he's nuttier than a fruitcake, but he has a good screen presence and is a real leading man, when we have so few in Hollywood. The last Mission Impossible was quite good, actually. You are missing out.
I'm neither trolling or intoxicated. As crazy as it may seem to some of you people, some of us have no problem with Shia's acting. He gets a bad rap because he's stared in some crappy Transformers movies, but serious, what the hell was wrong with him in Disturbia?
What movie HAS he screwed up? He's actually a fine actor. He brings a certain level of intensity to his roles, sure, but all things considered he's actually quite good. Watch him again in Transformers, which fanboys seem to hate, but which made a sesquipedillion dollars. I found him entirely believable, even if all the rest of the movie was not. I don't get the Shia hate around here.
Now, now. There was nothing wrong with the pod racing, at least compared to anything in the original trilogy. It was all the other crap. In facyt, in the Red letter Media review of the movies, I don't think Mr. Plinkett really rails on the Pod Racing at all. The stupid wager Qui-Gonn makes BEFORE the racing, now that was dumb. I actually remember the pod racing as being the best part of the movie.
The counterpoint to this argument is the following: Assume that you are a lawyer for a criminal who is at a trial for murder. Your client admitted it, people saw him do it, there's video of him doing it, audio, 300 witnesses, etc. In short, there's no doubt he did it. But you stand up and tell the jury that, despite all this evidence, they should not convict because there is some possibility that some unspecified evidence at some point in the future may come to light that will exonerate your client.
As a jury person, I'd laugh at you. We have to judge based on the evidence we have, and the best evidence is that if Hitler had died or was killed, WWII would not have gone on as long, and there would have been many less casualties of the war. WHile it's possible something worse could have occurred, most historians agree that WWII would have ended much quicker if Hitler was not in charge, and it likely would not have occurred at all. He drove that war. So yes, maybe God knows that something worse would have happened, but I have to make my choice about the evil or goodness of the Christian God directly in front of me, and I choose to believe that a good God would not have allowed WWII to go on...and would have given Hitler the flu or something similar.
Oftentimes histories of popes are written by other popes, and later popes apparently did not like this guy for some reason, accusing him of murders, rapes and being gay. So there's no way to know if he was or was not, except that apparently he did not act like a proper pope while in his 20s. He spent most of his time at nightclubs and hanging out with the ladies (or the men, depending on the papal history you read).
I'm this guy. I'm angry at the idea of God put forward by many religious people. There's a whole lot of evil in the world today, and generally religious people have no response to why it exists other than "It's part of God's plan."
Why did God not give Hitler the flu? I've met so many religious folks who believe in Intercessory prayer, that is, the idea that by praying to God, you can effect change, for God will answer you, not always in the affirmative, but will occasionally intercede in human affairs. The number of people who prayed for Hitler to be taken out during or before WWII was surely imense, yet God apparently could not intervene and off Hitler with a nasty illness, thus probably preserving the lives of millions of people.
So yes, I'm pretty angry with your version of God.
No, as as has been pointed out, there have been other Popes who have resigned short of death, but just not for health reasons, in at least a 1000 years. Before AD 1000 I am not sure how often Popes resigned, but after AD 1000 4 have, including the current one.
The first one after AD 1000, Benedict IX, resigned either because he A) Sold the office or )B wanted to get married, depending on the sources you believe.
Interestingly, he was also supposed have been the first gay Pope, and he held orgies in the Lateran palace.
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How about we put a windmill attached to your chin. That way the hot air you spout could be used to serve all the world's energy needs for decades to come.
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Well, this is a stretch. The debt from French support of the U.S. rebels was added to an already huge debt from the Seven Years' War. The Revolutionary War debt that France acquired was one of many catalysts leading to the Revolution; one could just as easily argue that had the French not been involved in the Seven Years War, they would not have been so inclined to ignite a revolution after supporting the U.S. revolutionaries.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
As pointed out in the article, and in numerous studies, American Southerners experience a high rise in testosterone when they feel their honor has been violated. In other words, Southerners, especially men, place a higher emphasis on honor and have stronger reactions when insulted. Numerous studies have confirmed this.
I'm sick and tired of people who believe that US governmental tyranny exists talking about it as though it is a Us vs Them argument.
In the real world, not some fantastical universe you have created, but in the REAL world, there exists an extremely large portion of the population who does, (or who will, in this universe you have created) agree with the government. They may agree that your guns should be taken away from you, or that you should no longer be able to ban gays from marrying, or that you should not be able to have tax-free churches any more...all of which are things, by the way, that many tea-tards have used as example of "tyranny" by the government.
In the REAL world, if you were to rise up against this government, you'd also be rising up against the (approximately) half of the US population that put that government in place.
This is not called "rising up against an oppressive government."
This is known as a CIVIL WAR, and we've already had one.
So think about that the next time you want to "rise up against the government." You'd actually be rising up against a whole lot of average americans who VOTED to put that government in place, and if you think they will take kindly to your attempts to "take your country back", you will have another thing coming.
How is a mildewed mailbox going to reduce property values? What bank will value a home less because of a mailbox with mildew? In what plausable scenaario will a person attempting to purchase a house say, "I would like to buy your house for 1,500,000$, but because your mailbox is mildewed, it is only worth 1,490,000? Seriously, in what world does this occur?
None. It's a HOA pulling stuff out of their bottom to justify an autocratic rule. That's why they get sued for stuff like this:
http://www.nationalledger.com/politics-crime/obama-lawn-sign-battle-photo-203122.shtml
This is ludicrous. If the mailbox is that bad, the mailman can choose to deliver your mail via other means, or even refuse to drop off your mail, and leave a notice for you that you must pick of your mail at the Post Office from that point forward.
This is a call for the mailman to make and not some ridiculous power-hungry HOA. The HOAs have no business regulating the health of the mailman. Stupid stupid stupid.
Your grandfather is named "funwithBSD"? So you are, I presume, Mr. funwithBSD III? What is your first name, Ubuntu?
Not in the US there isn't.
This. What people who are opposed to gun control routinely forget in their fantasy world where they are facing off against an oppressive government with their firearms is that their government, in most of the western world, was elected by the people. And there are a large amount of people who disagree with them and who will fight them if they try to strike back against the government. This is not called fighting against tyranny...this is called a civil war.
My suspicion is that once drones start to become more ubiquitous in US Airspace, pecople here will come up with ways to interfere with them. In other countries directly targeted by the drones, they haven't been very successful, but in the US all it will take will be a few backyard hobbyists who really really really have issues with drones, and they will come up with an easy way to interfere/take over/destroy/ shoot down said drones...and this technology, whatever it is, will be then used by people in other countries to take out OUR drones.
So putting drones in US airspace is actually a stupid counterproductive thing, on many fronts.
You win the internet things.
Tom Cruise is fine actor. Yes, he's nuttier than a fruitcake, but he has a good screen presence and is a real leading man, when we have so few in Hollywood. The last Mission Impossible was quite good, actually. You are missing out.
I'm neither trolling or intoxicated. As crazy as it may seem to some of you people, some of us have no problem with Shia's acting. He gets a bad rap because he's stared in some crappy Transformers movies, but serious, what the hell was wrong with him in Disturbia?
The U.S. has the best beer in the world. Period.
http://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/brussels-beer-challenge-2012/
Stop with the LaBeef hate. He's a fine actor. Seriously. There's nothing wrong with his acting, and he has a hell of a range.
What movie HAS he screwed up? He's actually a fine actor. He brings a certain level of intensity to his roles, sure, but all things considered he's actually quite good. Watch him again in Transformers, which fanboys seem to hate, but which made a sesquipedillion dollars. I found him entirely believable, even if all the rest of the movie was not. I don't get the Shia hate around here.
Now, now. There was nothing wrong with the pod racing, at least compared to anything in the original trilogy. It was all the other crap. In facyt, in the Red letter Media review of the movies, I don't think Mr. Plinkett really rails on the Pod Racing at all. The stupid wager Qui-Gonn makes BEFORE the racing, now that was dumb. I actually remember the pod racing as being the best part of the movie.
Vociferously? Just stop with the sesqupedalian jobbernowlery!
coriander interruption? Corsican abruption?
The counterpoint to this argument is the following:
Assume that you are a lawyer for a criminal who is at a trial for murder. Your client admitted it, people saw him do it, there's video of him doing it, audio, 300 witnesses, etc. In short, there's no doubt he did it. But you stand up and tell the jury that, despite all this evidence, they should not convict because there is some possibility that some unspecified evidence at some point in the future may come to light that will exonerate your client.
As a jury person, I'd laugh at you. We have to judge based on the evidence we have, and the best evidence is that if Hitler had died or was killed, WWII would not have gone on as long, and there would have been many less casualties of the war. WHile it's possible something worse could have occurred, most historians agree that WWII would have ended much quicker if Hitler was not in charge, and it likely would not have occurred at all. He drove that war. So yes, maybe God knows that something worse would have happened, but I have to make my choice about the evil or goodness of the Christian God directly in front of me, and I choose to believe that a good God would not have allowed WWII to go on...and would have given Hitler the flu or something similar.
Oftentimes histories of popes are written by other popes, and later popes apparently did not like this guy for some reason, accusing him of murders, rapes and being gay. So there's no way to know if he was or was not, except that apparently he did not act like a proper pope while in his 20s. He spent most of his time at nightclubs and hanging out with the ladies (or the men, depending on the papal history you read).
I'm this guy. I'm angry at the idea of God put forward by many religious people. There's a whole lot of evil in the world today, and generally religious people have no response to why it exists other than "It's part of God's plan."
Why did God not give Hitler the flu? I've met so many religious folks who believe in Intercessory prayer, that is, the idea that by praying to God, you can effect change, for God will answer you, not always in the affirmative, but will occasionally intercede in human affairs. The number of people who prayed for Hitler to be taken out during or before WWII was surely imense, yet God apparently could not intervene and off Hitler with a nasty illness, thus probably preserving the lives of millions of people.
So yes, I'm pretty angry with your version of God.
No, as as has been pointed out, there have been other Popes who have resigned short of death, but just not for health reasons, in at least a 1000 years. Before AD 1000 I am not sure how often Popes resigned, but after AD 1000 4 have, including the current one.
The first one after AD 1000, Benedict IX, resigned either because he A) Sold the office or )B wanted to get married, depending on the sources you believe.
Interestingly, he was also supposed have been the first gay Pope, and he held orgies in the Lateran palace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_IX
I really wish the next pope would be more like this one.