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Posted in: US envoy to Iraq: 'We have opened the Pandora's box'
  toms
03-09-2006, 8:16 AM
#1
- 80% of Americans think civil war likely - Rumsfeld accuses Tehran of fomenting conflict The US ambassador to Baghdad conceded yesterday that the Iraq invasion had opened a Pandora's box of sectarian conflicts which could lead to a regional war an...  [Read More]
Posted in: Teacher suspended over Bush-bashing
  toms
03-09-2006, 7:54 AM
#15
I believe in freedom of speech, but in the classroom, he's supposed to be teaching the students the subject the taxpayers are paying him to teach. From everything I've heard, he was teaching a geography class. Unless the definition of geography has c...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  toms
03-05-2006, 1:34 PM
#25
Abortion = great. Abortion debates = never ending, because people have such entrenched positions that they will never change. The basic principle is that the state doesn't have the right to interfere with what is going on inside your body... relax...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  toms
02-28-2006, 3:28 PM
#9
I don't know much about US law... but isn't it based on precedent? Which would surely mean that they would have to present some NEW evidence to get a previous decision overturned? Wouldn't it? Even the supreme court couldn't just go "we've ch...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lack of respect from show producers
  toms
02-17-2006, 1:10 PM
#9
There has been a recent move to "cruelty tv".. where the majority of the enjoyment is derived from laughing at the misfortune of others.. rather than in the past when there was more of a focus on wanting you to like and support the attempts...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rev. Gene Robinson admitted to rehab
  toms
02-17-2006, 12:54 PM
#11
But saying that gay marriage is forbidden therefore gays can have sex freely is likewise hypocritical, since you ought to say that straights can have sex outside of marriage too. But if the laws of marriage don't apply to gay people then why should...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rev. Gene Robinson admitted to rehab
  toms
02-16-2006, 8:06 AM
#9
I award you, toms, 5 points for an attempt at a nice jab. I will now be deducting 50 points because married or not, to commit faggotry is to sin. The president, as fun as it is to bash him for every little thing that happens that we don't like, has n...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rev. Gene Robinson admitted to rehab
  toms
02-15-2006, 8:49 AM
#3
Except: - He was the old bishop's assistant for years. - He was elected to take over from the old bishop by the local lay people and clergy. - No one else had any idea he had an alchohol problem, or knows how long its been going on. All this imp...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lucky for us all Cheney was a draft dodger
  toms
02-14-2006, 9:46 AM
#12
*Rolls eyes* American friendly fire is only reported more often due to how riled up it gets people. That's number one. I think in the first gulf war the americans killed more british soldiers than the iraqis. ;) Not sure this really is a senate to...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  toms
02-25-2006, 7:40 AM
#99
Well, the British National Party is apparently planning to reproduce the cartoons in its flyers.. and thats never a good sign. Because their intention is never satire or freedom of speech... but to forment divides in the most racially charged bits of...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  toms
02-17-2006, 8:18 AM
#82
I think that this will be the last thing I post here, coz you don’t seem to get me and you keep going on circles around the same thing… That tends to happen here. Can't think of a single thread that has ever ended in total agreement. thats debate...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  toms
02-16-2006, 8:20 AM
#77
More stupidity (http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0215/mideast.html) "Two died in the northwestern city of Peshawar after police tried to quell around 50,000 demonstrators who torched a KFC outlet and trashed a Norwegian mobile phone company's office...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  toms
02-15-2006, 9:10 AM
#74
you've said that the cartoons were published in a westren society, but you are ignoring an important attribute of our age, globalization, right now societies doesn't exist phsichally, there are no pure society, people are mixing and societies are get...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  toms
03-08-2006, 8:57 AM
#71
Darn those viruses, we'd be able to create a cure if they didn't keep evolving so quickly!!! *kidding* OT: What is pink eye anyway, it seems to be a US only thing......  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  toms
03-06-2006, 8:42 PM
#60
Of course...letting people decide what they want to believe is rubbish. Makes total sense. It is when the "sides" aren't equal sides at all... otherwise every time we teach nything we will have to trot out every alternate theory held by an...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  toms
03-06-2006, 12:18 PM
#53
*Why do humans and other species have vestigial limbs that serve no function? *Why is the human body so badly designed to walk upright? (back problems) *Why, after god had created a pretty much perfect eye in squid did he then use such an inferior...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  toms
03-05-2006, 1:24 PM
#48
No specifics. Just the idea of evolution and the idea of creation, or "intelligent design" as the PC call it. Of course, I've never been accused of being PC. I say that the students, if left to their own devices, can make an intelligent dec...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  toms
02-28-2006, 3:02 PM
#33
Nothing is EVER prove in science... thats why its always called a theory. Scientists alwasy continue to question and refine theores so that they become more and more accurate over time. Evolution is just as provable as gravity... both have numerous d...  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  toms
03-05-2006, 1:32 PM
#35
Most of the philosophies are reasonable... its when people implement them in a fanatical way... and allow their beliefs to override their logic and humanity that things go wrong....  [Read More]
Posted in: HAMAS dominates Palestinian parliament
  toms
03-09-2006, 8:12 AM
#66
I may be wrong, but i don't remember hearing on ANY hamas violence since they were elected? Have i missed some? As far as i know Islamic Jihad have fired a few rockets into islamic territory, not hurting anyone. Israel has bombed a car with two isla...  [Read More]
Posted in: Hitler is coming.... I mean Bush.
  toms
02-16-2006, 8:31 AM
#25
No, I don't think clones. :roll1: I see what you are saying in trying to keep people thinking about all of these threats, such as keeping the world afraid of Bin Laden. However as we all know that threat is very real even without going into the terro...  [Read More]
Posted in: Hitler is coming.... I mean Bush.
  toms
02-15-2006, 8:07 AM
#20
I don't claim it to be a totally valid comparison. Infact the bits of the PT films where the characters got all preachy "The day we stop believing democracy can work, is the day we lose it." "If you're not with me... then you're my...  [Read More]
Posted in: Hitler is coming.... I mean Bush.
  toms
02-14-2006, 9:52 AM
#16
Weird, if you consider that GL obviously considers Palpatine's rise to power to be an alegory of Bush's rise to power. ;)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  toms
02-14-2006, 2:51 PM
#616
I'm still baffled as to why lucasarts haven't re-released all the scumm games on the DS. I know you can play them on the DS with scummVM... but its a huge ammount of hassle. Having played Day of the Tentacle on a handheld (gp32 scummVM) I thought...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  toms
02-14-2006, 10:26 AM
#614
Its a perfectly reasonable store policy... its just no longer due to legal consideration but simply common sense. I suspect when the guidance was issued it was based on legal considerations though. I never finished Loom... what i played was good tho...  [Read More]
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