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Posted in: Rallies against immigration reform
  toms
04-03-2006, 12:02 PM
#18
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!! Unlike most other countries the USA is bui...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rallies against immigration reform
  toms
03-31-2006, 7:14 AM
#15
I think it's more of a vicious circle then a simplified "illegal immigration makes it difficult". It's already difficult, so people resort to illegal immigrations. As the law is reinforced to make it harder, people also try harder to get in...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rallies against immigration reform
  toms
03-25-2006, 3:59 PM
#2
I don't know much about the details of the issue in the US, but the reason this sort of measure usually gets called racist isn't that it will increase racism... its that it usually gets trotted out by politicians in a blatant attempt to win quick vot...  [Read More]
Posted in: I guess that whole "liberating Afghanistan" thing didn't turn out too well.
  toms
03-29-2006, 8:10 AM
#23
So it IS all about oil?? ;) I didn't think afganistan had much oil, just heroin, and the iraqi oil was probably more accessible under the oil for food programme (where we could control the price) than it will be now when the new iraqi regime joins o...  [Read More]
Posted in: I guess that whole "liberating Afghanistan" thing didn't turn out too well.
  toms
03-28-2006, 10:03 AM
#21
Key word: seems. Change doesn't happen overnight...and while it's true that we may never 'change the face of the Middle East,' we've only begun to try. Indeed. It definately didn't happen in the west overnight. Infact it still hasn't happened that m...  [Read More]
Posted in: I guess that whole "liberating Afghanistan" thing didn't turn out too well.
  toms
03-27-2006, 8:59 AM
#17
They also believe it's right to kill a woman who is the victim of rape. So just because it's their point of view it's okay?? :confused: Well, i don't think its right. But who is to say that I am right and they are wrong? Unfortunately there is no...  [Read More]
Posted in: I guess that whole "liberating Afghanistan" thing didn't turn out too well.
  toms
03-26-2006, 10:15 AM
#14
From your point of view. From theirs it isn't. How come your point of view is right and theirs is wrong? If you go to another country you are expected to abide by its laws and customs....  [Read More]
Posted in: I guess that whole "liberating Afghanistan" thing didn't turn out too well.
  toms
03-25-2006, 4:17 PM
#12
...and I don't think that thousands of Americans lost their lives and limbs so that Iraq could become an Islamic theocracy, and we didn't kick out the Taliban only to put in another one. Well i don't want to say i told you so, but almost anyone who...  [Read More]
Posted in: Real? Or early April Fools?
  toms
03-29-2006, 5:41 AM
#35
It does look rather generic... but on the other hand it is a bit of a risk to move a series that has been grounded in "reality" into a more fantastical setting - as its sure to upset a few fans. Then again, all the modern/ww2 settings have...  [Read More]
Posted in: Real? Or early April Fools?
  toms
03-25-2006, 3:13 PM
#18
or 40k42 ;) The voiceover guy sounds like some teenager in his bedroom with a bad echo effect.. so i'm kinda surprised it turned out real....  [Read More]
Posted in: More Crap from the Culturally Corrupt
  toms
03-13-2006, 11:38 AM
#15
The initial link is down, but assuming that the following quote comes from it 'You see the liberal Democrats don't agree with President Bush. They still want BIGGER GOVERNMENT and HIGHER TAXES. They want MORE OF YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY to spend on th...  [Read More]
Posted in: US envoy to Iraq: 'We have opened the Pandora's box'
  toms
03-13-2006, 11:53 AM
#9
But this isn't "press hype", its the comments of the US envoy to the region.. who you would assume knows what he is talking about and wouldn't make such statements unless he felt strongly about it. (cos you know he has been chewed out by ru...  [Read More]
Posted in: Teacher suspended over Bush-bashing
  toms
03-15-2006, 8:12 AM
#25
The world is full of people wearing shoes that are too small for their own good. thats because every rises up until they reach the level where they can no longer cope... then they stop there. :( - It IS probably true that the teaching profession a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Teacher suspended over Bush-bashing
  toms
03-13-2006, 11:07 AM
#19
*tries hard to resist the bait of mentioning the "presenting both sides" issue relating to ID in biology classes* *faints from strain* *thud* Last December Peter Panse was suspended from his teaching job for apparently recommending that so...  [Read More]
Posted in: Teacher suspended over Bush-bashing
  toms
03-10-2006, 8:48 AM
#17
Well, our "geography" lessons always included elements of politics, economics, social science and other factors that you can use to break up the map. Effects of economies on crops grown in a region etc... In a way it was more like coveri...  [Read More]
Posted in: Listening in on Al-Qaida
  toms
04-03-2006, 12:24 PM
#21
I think it's important for me to point out that the threat of terrorism is hyped. Recent investigations have shown that you can smuggle materials for a dirty bomb into the country no problem, and can get them through several airports no problem. If t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  toms
03-16-2006, 11:37 AM
#47
For those against hillary's stand on video games may i quote ctrl-alt-del:Video Game Voter's Network 08:13 PM - Monday, March 13, 2006 - by Tim As I regard this to be a very important issue for gamers, I urge everyone to take a look at this website....  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  toms
03-15-2006, 8:44 AM
#46
One idea parties are a lot easier to promote and gain support for, but a lot harder to sustain over the long term. I'm not clear on whether bush WANTS to be spending all that money, or if its just easier to call for cutting costs than it is to actu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  toms
03-13-2006, 11:29 AM
#40
Are people saying that because neo-cons want smaller government they are liberal and not conservative? Or am i misreading that? I thought one of the defining points of right wing conservatives was their insistance on business and slashing government...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  toms
04-03-2006, 11:00 AM
#747
http://media.movieweb.com/dvd_art/full/07/67007.jpg (though i got the special edition one with the moving cover (swaps betweent he two brides), the 100 page book and some surprise free magnets: http://www.cathay.com.sg/images/mini-magnets.jpg http...  [Read More]
Posted in: The U.S. Military is Impotent
  toms
04-03-2006, 12:21 PM
#52
There is a (not entirely unsubstantiated) belief that the concept of the United Nations infringes on sovereignity with its only real excuse for doing so being some form of international consensous... Which is arguably a fairly weak excuse, if straigh...  [Read More]
Posted in: The U.S. Military is Impotent
  toms
03-28-2006, 6:29 AM
#46
I'm constantly confused by the way the US/US citizens keep gloating about any UN failures.... does it somehow make people feel better about the US?...  [Read More]
Posted in: The U.S. Military is Impotent
  toms
03-27-2006, 9:05 AM
#43
Whether I like it or not the US is pretty much the sole superpower in the world right now... and with that power it can do pretty much anything it likes. It would be nice if it used that power to push for reform and improvement of the UN into somet...  [Read More]
Posted in: The U.S. Military is Impotent
  toms
03-25-2006, 3:46 PM
#38
But the UN isn't really a government or nation, and doesn't have an army of its own or the power to intervene directly. The US, among other nations, has made sure that the UN has never been able to develop any real teeth. By all means argue that ev...  [Read More]
Posted in: The U.S. Military is Impotent
  toms
03-17-2006, 1:23 PM
#10
But in the post cold-war era is the main role of an army to kill? Or is it more like a police force, needing to know how to keep the peace, defuse tension, create law and order etc...? Thats what a lot of the European armies have decided, and they a...  [Read More]
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