Considering that the desertification of the Sahara will eventually stop, and recede, and turn the desert back into a temperate climate when the Earth's precession realigns it to what it was like several thousand years ago.
70 years in the United States? Yeah, back at the turn of the 20th century. Toward the end of the 20th, the Sonny Bono copyright act extended copyright in the United States to more than a century.
Jesus did nothing to absolve future generations of the laws in the Old Testament.
Matthew 5:18-19, for example, shows that bacon makes Jesus cry. Picking and choosing the NEW Testament isn't uncommon, either. Read through the four big gospels of John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew, and you'll get all kinds of contradictions about Jesus' life.
Attempting suicide is illegal, in the event of a successful attempt, it's still illegal, but there's no method of punishment, until they add a suicide tax to the already crazy death taxes.
If you don't believe me, tell a friend you're going to kill yourself, the cops will beat the ambulance to your house.
2 hours of mandatory P.E. every day at school? With all these additional taxes, and revoking of the property taxes, there's no way in hell they could run schools for an additional two hours each day, so they'd have to cut into other classes to follow that. I guess they'd remove those pesky math and science classes.
Of the top ten commandments, only those three are actually illegal in the United States. Adultery can be a form of breech of contract, but it's not going to land you in prison, you'll just have to bribe your spouse out of the contract.
The first three of those commandments are ENTIRELY about religion, and should never EVER be made into law in a secular nation. It's also interesting that Christians will point at those ten, but ignore the other 500 or so other commandments in the Old Testament, like they're somehow allowed to pick and choose from it.
Also, point to a commandment in the entire Bible, Old or New Testaments, that specifically outlaws rape of a non-married woman.
In a secular country, which the United States is, the concept of "sin" is supposed to be completely meaningless when it comes to law. Murder isn't illegal because it's a sin, but because it's harmful to society. Drinking alcohol is a sin according to Islam, but it's not illegal unless it causes you to do something that's harmful to society. Ham and Bacon are sins in Judaism and Islam, but neither one is against the law.
The War on Drugs and Alcohol Prohibition before it shows the consequences of trying to legislate religious beliefs which cause no harm to society.
The KJV, as with EVERY version of the Christian Bible, has two conflicting reports in Genesis. Chapters 1 and 2 offer different accounts of the creation, and some people have retconned the first creation version's Eve to be Lilith, who Adam didn't hit it off with, and then God kicked Lilith out of Eden, turned her into a demon or something, and made Eve.
It's not like the tracking devices are going to be implanted subcutaneously, they're going to be embedded in the cop's radio. The only time the cop has his radio is when he's at work, and when he's at work, he's got no right to privacy.
Also, they're government employees, they should be held to higher liability.
Nuremberg was quite fair, there were a few people who were acquitted of all charged because of the fairness of the trial. The whole idea behind the trials was to punish specific members of the German government without punishing the entire population and keeping the door open to another Nazi party to come in and cause terror. Granted, Stalin's paranoia to keep Germany split in half, probably helped too.
After the Apartheid government fell to pieces and Mandela took the reins of South Africa, I don't recall news stories of him doing that sort of thing to the bigoted fucks he was now in control of. If he were a crazy nutjob, it seems reasonable he'd continue to be one, especially if he was placed in a position of power.
That distinction between firing squad and gallows might have been ingrained in German culture back in the 40's, but it's certainly not the attitude people have the United States in the 21st century. I think I'd prefer hanging.
I'd be interested to discover what sort of opinion modern Germans feel, hypothetically since Germany doesn't have a death penalty anymore.
In the state that has the most executions in the United States: Texas, they perform all their executions with doctors because of a rule in the state where an autopsy would have to be performed on the person who was executed if a doctor isn't doing it.
I'm not sure what kind of doctors they actually get to perform it, and if they were anaesthesiologists, I don't want them administering MY anasthesia if *I* were in Texas. I like doctors who adhere to that oath they have to take, y'know the one I mean, that says "First, do no harm".
It's the bomb thing that really fucks up perception. You say "nuclear" and you get Hiroshima/Nagasaki, followed by Chernobyl, followed by Three Mile Island.
People seem to be unable to grasp that technology can advance. How old is the youngest nuclear reactor in the United States? 30 years old? At least they've finally started talking about bringing back nuclear power with that request to build a new reactor down in Texas someplace.
While it varies in each state, at the Federal level, the United States has the same stance on official language as official religion. It's even covered in the same amendment.
If a state tried to pass laws which forbade bilingual menus or FORCED bilingual menus, it wouldn't hold up in court because it's a violation of people's right to free speech.
More people will be living in Africa by 2020 then Asia. And most every country in Africa speaks a language from the imperialist fucks who invaded back in the pre-Columbus days.
He could have been referring to the founding fathers of the current French government too. After the French helped us to kick the British out, it inspired a revolution in France, and many of the ideas we codified in the United States were also enshrined in the new democratic France. Wacky ideas like rights not being stomped on by the government, and a separation of church and state.
Hell, Benjamin Franklin was one our earliest diplomats to France, and the treaties we signed to end both of our wars against the British were signed in Paris.
I mean, I know people are becoming sexually active at younger ages (compared to the few previous generations...
I don't know why you're making this claim, when you look at history, you can see the inverse is true. Hell, just go back to the days of Shakespeare, and you'll see that it wasn't uncommon for a ten year old girl to get married and start having children. I didn't lose my virginity until 17, which would have been completely unheard of three hundred years ago.
The fact is, humans have a strong sex drive. Almost every mammal does. Deal with it. We can push back raising families to our 20s, 30s and even up to our 40s is because of our technology, allowing us to extend our childhood. And while society has made these pushes, our bodies are still hardwired to fuck, and since children are so much more innocent than adults, and less judgemental about their bodies, they find all kinds of ways to mess around.
It's perfectly healthy for children to play "doctor" with each other, and for anybody to claim that it's *new* to the current generation is either ignoring history or lying.
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Considering that the desertification of the Sahara will eventually stop, and recede, and turn the desert back into a temperate climate when the Earth's precession realigns it to what it was like several thousand years ago.
Every bird is a distant relative of the dinosaurs... not just the ostrich.
70 years in the United States? Yeah, back at the turn of the 20th century. Toward the end of the 20th, the Sonny Bono copyright act extended copyright in the United States to more than a century.
Just check wikipedia
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Jesus did nothing to absolve future generations of the laws in the Old Testament.
Matthew 5:18-19, for example, shows that bacon makes Jesus cry. Picking and choosing the NEW Testament isn't uncommon, either. Read through the four big gospels of John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew, and you'll get all kinds of contradictions about Jesus' life.
Attempting suicide is illegal, in the event of a successful attempt, it's still illegal, but there's no method of punishment, until they add a suicide tax to the already crazy death taxes.
If you don't believe me, tell a friend you're going to kill yourself, the cops will beat the ambulance to your house.
2 hours of mandatory P.E. every day at school? With all these additional taxes, and revoking of the property taxes, there's no way in hell they could run schools for an additional two hours each day, so they'd have to cut into other classes to follow that. I guess they'd remove those pesky math and science classes.
Of the top ten commandments, only those three are actually illegal in the United States. Adultery can be a form of breech of contract, but it's not going to land you in prison, you'll just have to bribe your spouse out of the contract.
The first three of those commandments are ENTIRELY about religion, and should never EVER be made into law in a secular nation. It's also interesting that Christians will point at those ten, but ignore the other 500 or so other commandments in the Old Testament, like they're somehow allowed to pick and choose from it.
Also, point to a commandment in the entire Bible, Old or New Testaments, that specifically outlaws rape of a non-married woman.
In a secular country, which the United States is, the concept of "sin" is supposed to be completely meaningless when it comes to law. Murder isn't illegal because it's a sin, but because it's harmful to society. Drinking alcohol is a sin according to Islam, but it's not illegal unless it causes you to do something that's harmful to society. Ham and Bacon are sins in Judaism and Islam, but neither one is against the law.
The War on Drugs and Alcohol Prohibition before it shows the consequences of trying to legislate religious beliefs which cause no harm to society.
The KJV, as with EVERY version of the Christian Bible, has two conflicting reports in Genesis. Chapters 1 and 2 offer different accounts of the creation, and some people have retconned the first creation version's Eve to be Lilith, who Adam didn't hit it off with, and then God kicked Lilith out of Eden, turned her into a demon or something, and made Eve.
It's not like the tracking devices are going to be implanted subcutaneously, they're going to be embedded in the cop's radio. The only time the cop has his radio is when he's at work, and when he's at work, he's got no right to privacy.
Also, they're government employees, they should be held to higher liability.
Except the 5-10 dollar discount for the used copy.
Nuremberg was quite fair, there were a few people who were acquitted of all charged because of the fairness of the trial. The whole idea behind the trials was to punish specific members of the German government without punishing the entire population and keeping the door open to another Nazi party to come in and cause terror. Granted, Stalin's paranoia to keep Germany split in half, probably helped too.
I think the GP was referring to the movie itself, which was very amusing. Saddam might not have enjoyed watching it, but the guards probably laughed.
After the Apartheid government fell to pieces and Mandela took the reins of South Africa, I don't recall news stories of him doing that sort of thing to the bigoted fucks he was now in control of. If he were a crazy nutjob, it seems reasonable he'd continue to be one, especially if he was placed in a position of power.
That distinction between firing squad and gallows might have been ingrained in German culture back in the 40's, but it's certainly not the attitude people have the United States in the 21st century. I think I'd prefer hanging.
I'd be interested to discover what sort of opinion modern Germans feel, hypothetically since Germany doesn't have a death penalty anymore.
In the state that has the most executions in the United States: Texas, they perform all their executions with doctors because of a rule in the state where an autopsy would have to be performed on the person who was executed if a doctor isn't doing it.
I'm not sure what kind of doctors they actually get to perform it, and if they were anaesthesiologists, I don't want them administering MY anasthesia if *I* were in Texas. I like doctors who adhere to that oath they have to take, y'know the one I mean, that says "First, do no harm".
What message are you trying to give by killing somebody?
Don't murder because we'll get you back?
We can't afford to keep this prick in jail, so we'll just kill him?
It's the bomb thing that really fucks up perception. You say "nuclear" and you get Hiroshima/Nagasaki, followed by Chernobyl, followed by Three Mile Island.
People seem to be unable to grasp that technology can advance. How old is the youngest nuclear reactor in the United States? 30 years old? At least they've finally started talking about bringing back nuclear power with that request to build a new reactor down in Texas someplace.
While it varies in each state, at the Federal level, the United States has the same stance on official language as official religion. It's even covered in the same amendment.
If a state tried to pass laws which forbade bilingual menus or FORCED bilingual menus, it wouldn't hold up in court because it's a violation of people's right to free speech.
More people will be living in Africa by 2020 then Asia. And most every country in Africa speaks a language from the imperialist fucks who invaded back in the pre-Columbus days.
He could have been referring to the founding fathers of the current French government too. After the French helped us to kick the British out, it inspired a revolution in France, and many of the ideas we codified in the United States were also enshrined in the new democratic France. Wacky ideas like rights not being stomped on by the government, and a separation of church and state.
Hell, Benjamin Franklin was one our earliest diplomats to France, and the treaties we signed to end both of our wars against the British were signed in Paris.
Be SO funny that someone spits coffee onto their monitor.
Thanks a lot, you just got your achievement, and I need a new laptop.
I mean, I know people are becoming sexually active at younger ages (compared to the few previous generations...
I don't know why you're making this claim, when you look at history, you can see the inverse is true. Hell, just go back to the days of Shakespeare, and you'll see that it wasn't uncommon for a ten year old girl to get married and start having children. I didn't lose my virginity until 17, which would have been completely unheard of three hundred years ago.
The fact is, humans have a strong sex drive. Almost every mammal does. Deal with it. We can push back raising families to our 20s, 30s and even up to our 40s is because of our technology, allowing us to extend our childhood. And while society has made these pushes, our bodies are still hardwired to fuck, and since children are so much more innocent than adults, and less judgemental about their bodies, they find all kinds of ways to mess around.
It's perfectly healthy for children to play "doctor" with each other, and for anybody to claim that it's *new* to the current generation is either ignoring history or lying.