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We're talking about the actions of a government. If you want to conflate that with a indigenous tribe feel free, however I won't be joining you. Who have been fighting thousands of years in that region? Arabs and Israelis. Who are running the govern... [Read More]
Yes, but the current iteration of Israel has only been around for 60 years. The people-groups have been there thousands of years, regardless of whatever arbitrary lines get marked on the ground from time to time. Can we just point out the elephant i... [Read More]
There's been fighting in and around Israel for the last 5000 years. Anyone who thinks either side is going to back down soon does not understand the deep-seated, utter hatred these people-groups have for each other. The world can exert all the pressu... [Read More]
OK, the community obviously has mastered the fine art of diatribe. Who knew that discussing UN resolutions encouraging food shipments to Africa could engender this kind of excitement? If you all could turn the heat down, the staff would appreciate it... [Read More]
The current resolution contained numerous objectionable provisions, including inaccurate textual descriptions of underlying rights. The United States was the largest food donor in the world of international humanitarian food aid and it would continue... [Read More]
I told this to Jonathan in PM, but he suggested posting it here too. Mira's the kind of girl who likes to show some skin. I think even as a Jedi she wouldn't like being all covered up. Now, mind you, I'm not suggesting she be made into the street-wal... [Read More]
I find these "academic" papers that attempt to show media bias laughable when they don't even bother to tell the reader how they defined it, what key terms or issues they flagged, etc. Definitely a hallmark of a poorly written paper.The pre... [Read More]
What is the methodology for determining bias? How does an objective observer arrive at the conclusion that CMPA is, in fact, without bias? Well, let's work first with this dictionary definition of bias (Online dictionaryhttp://www.thefreedictionary.c... [Read More]
All right, before this gets all out of hand with back and forth stingers (which I would appreciate you all toning down), I looked around for an actual university/non-partisan based source on liberal/conservative bias in the media. This is not so easy... [Read More]
All right, to avoid the non-stop "OMG Faux News is teh badz" "No they aren't and here's a blog to prove it!" arguments sprouting up in so many threads like a bad case of foot fungus, discuss media bias (or lack thereof) and its ra... [Read More]
... So? What does Jae's opinion have anything to do with real evidence to support this? Absolutely nothing, to be honest. My opinion on this is worth about as much as anyone's here. The only thing I can claim expertise on and could be quoted as a sou... [Read More]
Garfield, Ender, and anyone who has or is contemplating harsh rhetoric in this thread: while the flames would greatly warm up where I live and perhaps melt some of the near 20 inches of snow that we've gotten here in the last 5 days, it's reaching 'b... [Read More]
And that's just one case. I'll go look up some more if you'd like. Half your links are broken or are to non-journal sources--salon.com is an extremely liberal, Fox-news bashing site that is hardly unbiased. Please try with some unbiased sources to di... [Read More]
You realize, of course, that it can be both pink and invisible at the same time in a very specific situation. For someone who is without vision, the unicorn would indeed be invisible, but it could still be pink just the same.... [Read More]
Posts on Ayers were moved to the Ayers thread. (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=194576). Please keep the Ayers love contained in that thread. Thanks.... [Read More]
As I stated earlier, I will take that as your answer. All I wanted to know is which one of the eggs would break in your basket.There's no basket of eggs in the first place, because it's a false conclusion made on the false assumption that our concept... [Read More]
This ignores the fact that theists not only seek to prevent scientific/technological advances but even go so far as to undo them. I don't think we need to look any further than the ID movement in public schools or the islamic push for the re-establis... [Read More]
The OP asks if God is all-knowing. This presumes God exists. Please take any arguments for atheism to the atheism/theism thread. Thanks. Where is it said God is omni-benevolent?... [Read More]
The thing about omniscience, is, if you already possess omniscience, you are all powerful. After all, "knowledge is power'. "Knowledge is power" is a trite phrase, although the sentiment behind it is generally meant to be an encourage... [Read More]
FoxNews' reporting in the regular news segments is considered factual. The opinion reporting and commentators such as O'Reilly and Hannity are indeed biased to the conservative, but the reporting of the news itself is accurate. Otherwise, using the l... [Read More]
All right, grab the drool buckets, people, and attach them to your head. You'll need them if you read Eli Saslow's gushing article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/24/AR2008122402590.html) about Obama in the Washington Po... [Read More]
Since this thread is getting a lot of bumps and Darth Cyrax hasn't been on in awhile, I'm closing it until he comes back. Darth Cyrax, please contact any of us on staff to re-open the thread whenever you'd like. Thanks.... [Read More]