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Posted in: Human-Animal Hybrids
  toms
05-22-2006, 7:31 AM
#10
It makes sense to have regulation in early.. otherwise someone will do a controversial experiment and trigger some sort of press outcry. Though I think that calling them chimera at this point is a bit sensationalist for a bunch of cells... but scie...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-22-2006, 9:11 AM
#75
I tell you what, if i had been stuck in there for four years I'd certainly be trying to hit the guards as hard as i could. Good for them. I'm sure prisoners in chisese gulags occasionally revolt over their treatment.. that doesn't justify their tre...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-19-2006, 8:13 AM
#70
The US constitution explicitly states that it isn't a comprehensive list of all rights, and that there are other rights that exist in addition to those mentioned in the constitution. Usually foreign citizens are subject to the laws of a country the...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-18-2006, 11:17 AM
#66
Look at what you're making a big deal of. Sleep depravation, maybe bathroom denial. That's not very pretty, but it's far from inhumane. I want to get one point through the skulls of you lot: We are *NOT* putting these people on the rack! We are *NOT*...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-16-2006, 12:28 PM
#59
The Road to Guantanamo is about a goup of people who were brought to the prison camp and tortured simply for being caught in a mosque known to be used for terrorist-recruitment. And that's just one example. But we all know that all muslims are terro...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-15-2006, 9:56 AM
#55
Personally, for me the 2nd amendment is just as important as the 1st. This is going totally OT but why? I disagree with Jakob. If you're not a POW you don't have any rights and that sounds pretty cold but for me, with my family background and the p...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-12-2006, 7:51 AM
#47
Well, first of all, I believe their official classification is "enemy combatant." They are enemies who were fighting our soldiers, but because they weren't fighting in the uniform of a particular enemy nation, they don't classify as POWs. T...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-11-2006, 11:24 AM
#40
Whyy do you care so much about them? Why is it America that you center on? I think your energy can be best spent elsewhere...with real despotic regimes. Because you are supposed to be the good guys. You are supposed to be our allies. You can't tell...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-10-2006, 7:30 AM
#22
Released by the ACLU? The same ACLU that attempted to make part of the pledge unconstitutional, for whatever reason? I am amused, but I somehow doubt that the ACLU is above falsifying a document or twisting its meaning. Your article uses the ACLU as...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Road to Guantanamo
  toms
05-08-2006, 7:43 AM
#4
Anyone see that a few days ago the US went before the internation Torture Commisson and reiterated its belief that torture was wrong and should be stamped out wherever possible? What a joke that is... Not heard anything at all about this film.. thou...  [Read More]
Posted in: Nation wide Hispanic rallies today
  toms
05-02-2006, 11:55 AM
#11
Are the protestors all illegal, as people here appear to be implying? I thought the protestors were legal immigrants? I can;t imagine that if you were an illegal immigrant in a sucky low paid job your employer would be very understanding if you too...  [Read More]
Posted in: Bush criticises Spanish US anthem
  toms
04-28-2006, 2:44 PM
#1
Is a version sung in spanish the end of the world? Is it any worse than a Jimi Hendrix electric guitar version? (which i always thought was great btw) Can't be long now until spanish is the majority language in the USA anyway... George Bush has ent...  [Read More]
Posted in: FEMA Fails Again
  toms
04-25-2006, 12:01 PM
#24
I think we have taken the off topic trail... That and the fact that private companies actually get the job done. The government doesn't care if they actually do anything right, because they're getting your money either way. I wouldn't really agree...  [Read More]
Posted in: FEMA Fails Again
  toms
04-23-2006, 11:41 AM
#21
Heh... happens to us all.. Would be nice if they could get rid of the nasty steps though and put the whole thing on a nice sliding scale. (google "progressive taxation" to find out why. then think yourself lucky that you live in the USA and...  [Read More]
Posted in: Listening in on Al-Qaida
  toms
05-16-2006, 8:58 PM
#37
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html...  [Read More]
Posted in: Listening in on Al-Qaida
  toms
05-16-2006, 12:53 PM
#35
We can't be vigilant all the time, so we shouldn't be vigilant at all? I think i explained it badly. I was going for "no matter how vigilant we are we can't be completely secure... so we shouldn't risk other freedoms simply to increase largely...  [Read More]
Posted in: Listening in on Al-Qaida
  toms
05-15-2006, 10:10 AM
#27
This is exactly why Republicans keep winning elections. What is your solution to the problem of potential Al Qaeda cells in America? Should the NSA really have it's hands tide like it did before 9/11? Irrational fear??? You are probably right. But...  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  toms
05-18-2006, 10:22 AM
#97
So then... following this line of reasoning too far... if marriage is a civil/governmental institution, and the US constitution bans religion from interfering with government... ..does that meant that hetero-only marriages are unconstitutional? ;)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  toms
05-16-2006, 11:45 AM
#91
My cousin was married to her husband in a courthouse by a justice of the peace, if that helps. If someone is being married in a courthouse, by a judge, then what place do any christian (or other religion) traditions/values have? I would argue none....  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  toms
05-11-2006, 11:03 AM
#86
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that the government should be less involved in the personal lives of citizens, perticularly in areas where the government goes outside of its Constitutional restraints, whether that has to do with...  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  toms
05-10-2006, 8:08 AM
#82
I think the government should be hands-off when it comes to marriage. We should just go to a system of civil unions for everyone. That way, religious people can get a civil union under the law, and then be married in the church, while churches are no...  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  toms
05-09-2006, 9:26 AM
#78
I completely agree that religion has had a huge influence on marriage. I also agree that marriage is no more valid than co-habiting or any other form of long term relationship. However I do think that secure long term relationships are a good thing...  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  toms
05-08-2006, 8:59 AM
#72
In the UK i think they have pretty much done away with any tax breaks or other advantages you get for being married. However I don't think homosexuals were ever camourng to get married because of tax breaks.. it was probably more about love... and...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right
  toms
05-08-2006, 8:19 AM
#122
And every new scientific discovery, genetic discovery, archeological discovery, geographic discovery etc.. re-enforces the theory of evolution. If anything was likely to disprove evolution it was the recent opening up of genetics and our ability to...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right
  toms
05-03-2006, 1:10 PM
#109
I for one have never thought that evolution and christianity (or any religion) are incompatible... and i don't think darwin or the catholic church or the churchof england thinks so either. Its only the fundamentalist branches of various religions t...  [Read More]
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