Erm...the ship is a 'Firefly' class ship. Still a little off, to be asking if a specific ship would beat a whole class of ship, I suppose.
Also, in trying and failing to come up with an example to plug into Millenium Falcon vs. "type-of-ship" I discovered that I am definitely not geek enough for this thread.
Now...I'm not trying to start a political fight, here, though its obvious where my loyalties lie because this happens to be from the Planned Parenthood Action Illinois newsletter. However...its a good example of people using terrorist and terrorism to describe anything that they don't like regardless of the obvious innapropriateness of the term.
In April on CNN, Bush adviser Karen Hughes compared the 1.15 million people who marched for women's lives in Washington, DC (and the pro-choice community in general) to a "terror network." As if that wasn't bad enough, yet another anti-choice hardliner just pulled out the T-word again.
Last week, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes called women who have had abortions and the physicians who perform them "terrorists" because, he said, "the evil is the same." We live in a time when the use of a word such as "terrorist" has a very powerful, very poignant implication. To equate pro-choice Americans with terrorism is offensive to me, as I am sure it is to you.
There's more in the newsletter, but its mostly "vote barak obama" and "give us money"
How does 'terrorist' even apply to these situations. I mean...regardless of whether you're pro-choice...this is just...I can't even think of words describing how inappropriate that term and its misuse in this way is. ARG.
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Erm...the ship is a 'Firefly' class ship. Still a little off, to be asking if a specific ship would beat a whole class of ship, I suppose.
Also, in trying and failing to come up with an example to plug into Millenium Falcon vs. "type-of-ship" I discovered that I am definitely not geek enough for this thread.
Doesn't Diebold also make ATMs? One would think their voting machines would, in fact, be modelled after their ATMs.
Now...I'm not trying to start a political fight, here, though its obvious where my loyalties lie because this happens to be from the Planned Parenthood Action Illinois newsletter. However...its a good example of people using terrorist and terrorism to describe anything that they don't like regardless of the obvious innapropriateness of the term.
In April on CNN, Bush adviser Karen Hughes compared the 1.15 million people who marched for women's lives in Washington, DC (and the pro-choice community in general) to a "terror network." As if that wasn't bad enough, yet another anti-choice hardliner just pulled out the T-word again.
Last week, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes called women who have had abortions and the physicians who perform them "terrorists" because, he said, "the evil is the same." We live in a time when the use of a word such as "terrorist" has a very powerful, very poignant implication. To equate pro-choice Americans with terrorism is offensive to me, as I am sure it is to you.
There's more in the newsletter, but its mostly "vote barak obama" and "give us money"
How does 'terrorist' even apply to these situations. I mean...regardless of whether you're pro-choice...this is just...I can't even think of words describing how inappropriate that term and its misuse in this way is. ARG.