Indeed. Perhaps the Christian world should be denouncing them for never returning the structure to its rightful owners, or making amends for their atrocities:
In 1453 Sultan Mehmed laid siege to Constantinople, driven in part by a desire to convert the city to Islam. The Sultan promised his troops three days of unbridled pillage if the city fell, after which he would claim its contents himself. Hagia Sophia was not exempted from the pillage, becoming its focal point as the invaders believed it to contain the greatest treasures of the city. Shortly after the cityâ€(TM)s defenses collapsed, pillagers made their way to the Hagia Sophia and battered down its doors. Throughout the siege worshipers participated in the Holy Liturgy and Prayer of the Hours at the Hagia Sophia, and the church formed a refuge for many of those who were unable to contribute to the cityâ€(TM)s defense. Trapped in the church, congregants and refugees became booty to be divided amongst the invaders. The building was desecrated and looted, and occupants enslaved or slaughtered; a few of the elderly and infirm were killed, and the remainder chained.Priests continued to perform Christian rites until stopped by the invaders. When the Sultan and his cohort entered the church he insisted it should be at once transformed into a mosque. One of the Ulama then climbed the pulpit and recited the Shahada.
Congratulations, you just rediscovered the second opinion. Of course, since the second opinion will be from another one of those "not very bright" doctors, I imagine he'll have to go to you for your opinion. Protip: vitamin D is a scientifically proven safe supplement in the dosage he's taking.
I've planned to compromise. I use laptops and tablets in the house, so I currently have two old Motorola 54G boxes in a wireless bridge. The bridge halves the speed, plus G is too slow now anyway. In addition, due to signal attenuation I can't have them as far apart as I'd like, so I'm going to run one Cat 5e cable in the crawlspace/basement to link two new N access points. That will give me full speed over most of the house. One cable and two low-voltage utility boxes aren't hard to do.
If you only have one story, run in through the basement or crawl space instead. Besides being easier to work in (if your crawl space isn't dirt, anyway), you won't have as far to fish.
Correct. Our economy is controlled party by the federal government, and partly by a huge federally-controlled corporation, yet when things are bad it's blamed on "capitalism".
Okay, let's have a thought experiment. Let's say that some unkown force starts to bomb places in the US.
OK, that's nothing like the current scenario, as it wasn't like all was great in the Middle East and the Great Satan suddenly showed up carpet bombing the place.
Ask the Fed why interest rates are low-- to encourage the taking of loans and spending of money. So the Fed wants us to spend money, to stimulate a still-stagnant economy.
Taxing the hell out of companies is counter to this cause. Of course, that's not news to how most of us know government does not function in a logical manner. The progressives are stuck between a great need to stimulate the economy-- which is driven by businesses, not by workers or people spending unemployment checks like Nancy Pelosi says-- and their constituents, who want to stick it to the "fat cats".
I know we're used to governments just printing money when they need it, but we're talking about actually collecting the revenue before we hand it out through our entitlement programs. Quaint idea, I know.
The same thing happened in New Jersey and New York after Sandy. This time, FEMA joined with the unions. Many people were turned away because they weren't union and wouldn't pay union dues just to work for a few weeks.
That doesn't sound like "legendary health care" to me, which is my point. Their system is acceptable, but I'm tired of elitist movie stars going there, being shown the best facilities reserved for foreigners and party members, and coming back to push for more health care legislation.
Are you an idiot? None of those things apply because none were turned into laws, for one, so we've effectively stopped "Christians from legislating behavior." Santorum isn't even a legislator, and hasn't been since 2006. On top of it, declaring a "Year of the Bible" encroaches on people's rights to religious freedom just about as much as "Black History Month" keeps the KKK from wearing white sheets or the Eid stamps from the USPS keep non-Muslims from sending mail. Oh, I get it: you're one of those ironic "freedom FROM religion" types. Well, I would expect as much from an AC. Grow a pair.
Islam does NOT promote science. The Qur'an is full of unscientific statements regarding human anatomy, geography, and history. The Arab culture may have once spawned great scientific minds, but that was irrelevant to the Qur'an and in the past.
Of course, if the current administration was actually interested in freedom, it would have removed the FCC's power to censor the airwaves. The FCC is in the executive branch, so this could be done with a simple executive order.
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Congratulations, you just rediscovered the second opinion. Of course, since the second opinion will be from another one of those "not very bright" doctors, I imagine he'll have to go to you for your opinion. Protip: vitamin D is a scientifically proven safe supplement in the dosage he's taking.
I've planned to compromise. I use laptops and tablets in the house, so I currently have two old Motorola 54G boxes in a wireless bridge. The bridge halves the speed, plus G is too slow now anyway. In addition, due to signal attenuation I can't have them as far apart as I'd like, so I'm going to run one Cat 5e cable in the crawlspace/basement to link two new N access points. That will give me full speed over most of the house. One cable and two low-voltage utility boxes aren't hard to do.
And his NE2000 card.
If you only have one story, run in through the basement or crawl space instead. Besides being easier to work in (if your crawl space isn't dirt, anyway), you won't have as far to fish.
And regardless of whether you cheap out or not, always pull a piece of twine along with the cables so that you can pull new ones later.
So you follow the, "some people are jerks, so we're going to punish everyone for it" philosophy? Did I get that right?
Correct. Our economy is controlled party by the federal government, and partly by a huge federally-controlled corporation, yet when things are bad it's blamed on "capitalism".
OK, that's nothing like the current scenario, as it wasn't like all was great in the Middle East and the Great Satan suddenly showed up carpet bombing the place.
Damn Imperialist Canadians!
Not concerned about the other murders? I guess it hurts less when you're stabbed or bludgeoned.
Uh, they can.
He didn't say we should have no taxes at all, Captain Straw Man.
Ask the Fed why interest rates are low-- to encourage the taking of loans and spending of money. So the Fed wants us to spend money, to stimulate a still-stagnant economy.
Taxing the hell out of companies is counter to this cause. Of course, that's not news to how most of us know government does not function in a logical manner. The progressives are stuck between a great need to stimulate the economy-- which is driven by businesses, not by workers or people spending unemployment checks like Nancy Pelosi says-- and their constituents, who want to stick it to the "fat cats".
I know we're used to governments just printing money when they need it, but we're talking about actually collecting the revenue before we hand it out through our entitlement programs. Quaint idea, I know.
The same thing happened in New Jersey and New York after Sandy. This time, FEMA joined with the unions. Many people were turned away because they weren't union and wouldn't pay union dues just to work for a few weeks.
That doesn't sound like "legendary health care" to me, which is my point. Their system is acceptable, but I'm tired of elitist movie stars going there, being shown the best facilities reserved for foreigners and party members, and coming back to push for more health care legislation.
Are you an idiot? None of those things apply because none were turned into laws, for one, so we've effectively stopped "Christians from legislating behavior." Santorum isn't even a legislator, and hasn't been since 2006. On top of it, declaring a "Year of the Bible" encroaches on people's rights to religious freedom just about as much as "Black History Month" keeps the KKK from wearing white sheets or the Eid stamps from the USPS keep non-Muslims from sending mail. Oh, I get it: you're one of those ironic "freedom FROM religion" types. Well, I would expect as much from an AC. Grow a pair.
You forgot to call them Nazis who want to tell women what to do with their bodies and shoot gay people with assault weapons.
Islam does NOT promote science. The Qur'an is full of unscientific statements regarding human anatomy, geography, and history. The Arab culture may have once spawned great scientific minds, but that was irrelevant to the Qur'an and in the past.
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Oh, another genius who thinks it's 1989. Have you noticed how short that list is? Compare it to this one.
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Of course, if the current administration was actually interested in freedom, it would have removed the FCC's power to censor the airwaves. The FCC is in the executive branch, so this could be done with a simple executive order.
Absolutely wrong. Look at this list and note how many of these incidents were "for the lulz".