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ShadowTemplar

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Posted in: Debate strategies and tactics
  ShadowTemplar
10-09-2005, 8:06 AM
#26
Ad hominem: Attacking the messenger instead of the message Actually, biting someone's head off doesn't need to constitute an ad hominim argument. It only does so if one does so in order to provoke a rejection of the other side's points based on an e...  [Read More]
Posted in: Use nukes to prove you will use them?
  ShadowTemplar
10-28-2005, 7:11 PM
#9
I consider him more of a figure-head. This smells like Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld, especially the latter one. Wanna start a pool on it? My Ђ1 says Wolfowitz. He seems to me to be the most divorced from reality....  [Read More]
Posted in: Use nukes to prove you will use them?
  ShadowTemplar
10-28-2005, 12:18 PM
#7
And they worry so much about Iran developing a few nukes of their own... Sheesh, I'm more concerned by the fact that the US already has 25000...  [Read More]
Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  ShadowTemplar
10-28-2005, 11:52 AM
#39
A good point about Islamic theocratic states. In Islam you have foundationally (with the Prophet and the scriptures) the idea that there is a mandate to setup an "islamic state." Now more liberal muslims aren't nearly as gungho about this,...  [Read More]
Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  ShadowTemplar
10-27-2005, 10:39 AM
#32
It's kind of like a Ball game you have the spectators saying "why the hell didn't so & so do this or that", but they haven't the skill, ability, or the dedication it takes in the first place to be on the field. False analogy. In a ball...  [Read More]
Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  ShadowTemplar
10-27-2005, 9:46 AM
#29
But who exactly are we at war with? Terrorists? Insurgents? A legitimate insurgency doesn't blow up school children, they attack the military targets who they're rebelling against. But the daily attacks you hear about are against innocent Iraqi civil...  [Read More]
Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  ShadowTemplar
10-25-2005, 8:58 PM
#18
How QUICKLY people forget. Remember how "outraged" Americans were after the mutilation of the bodies of civilian contractors in Iraq, what, last year? Never said that. I just said that if you can whip up a country-wide (never mind continen...  [Read More]
Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  ShadowTemplar
10-25-2005, 11:05 AM
#7
Welcome back CJ. And in fine form I see. The reason that this place is "about a(s) far left as you get," is that - for some odd reason - all the neocons ran away. As far as your comment goes, I specifically said that I found the whole 'upr...  [Read More]
Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  ShadowTemplar
10-25-2005, 10:02 AM
#5
1) Stupid, stupid, stupid... America never was good at making propaganda... 2) Bust the slimes out for dishonourable treatment of corpses. 3) Tell the so-called 'Muslim World' that we can't take all their silly religious taboos seriously. I mean,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Stem Cell Research
  ShadowTemplar
10-28-2005, 10:12 AM
#19
So you're saying the ethical issue with clones isn't that they're created in order to be fodder, but that they're slaves. Or rather is the fact that they're slaves justification for using them as fodder? No, the point I was trying to make was that...  [Read More]
Posted in: Stem Cell Research
  ShadowTemplar
10-27-2005, 12:27 PM
#15
Well not to disregard the rest of your post, but as to your first point, there's a lot of people who say "well it's okay to go this far, but not to this next step." Kurgan makes an excellent point, as he so often does. To use Star Wars as...  [Read More]
Posted in: Stem Cell Research
  ShadowTemplar
10-25-2005, 8:46 PM
#11
ShadowTemplar: Good point about the human cloning issue (which is another hot button issue the majority fo the public seems to be against). What's truely silly is those people who are all for IVF but horribly aghast at the thought of reproductive cl...  [Read More]
Posted in: Stem Cell Research
  ShadowTemplar
10-25-2005, 10:24 AM
#8
Apparently the so-called "pro-life" movement lost the abortion battle and are taking out their anger on stem cell research, which has the potential of saving so many lives. Truely a shame that such promising science has been obstructed by -...  [Read More]
Posted in: Halloween
  ShadowTemplar
10-25-2005, 10:12 AM
#8
Heh, I can live with their attacking Halloween. At least it keeps the creeps' attention off the real issues for a time... Can't really see why festivals have any business in schools in the first place, but that may have something to do with the fact...  [Read More]
Posted in: Corruption and the Fall of the Republican Party
  ShadowTemplar
10-22-2005, 7:28 PM
#6
One more link for Miers (http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/10/harriet_miers_a.html), from www.pandasthumb.org...  [Read More]
Posted in: Haag Accuses the Papacy
  ShadowTemplar
09-29-2005, 11:52 AM
#1
... of concealing ex-Jugoslavian war criminals (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4263426.stm)....  [Read More]
Posted in: DeLay Indicted
  ShadowTemplar
10-05-2005, 2:34 PM
#17
Ah, but I'm not American. Oh, well, it was a bad joke to begin with, and it looks like it was dead before it hit the floor....  [Read More]
Posted in: DeLay Indicted
  ShadowTemplar
10-05-2005, 1:51 PM
#15
With the US political funding model can't we just save time and assume that they are ALL breaking the law in some fashion. Just give them all a default 1 year jail term after their term ends... ;) LOL. True, true. Would probably go a long way toward...  [Read More]
Posted in: DeLay Indicted
  ShadowTemplar
09-29-2005, 11:39 AM
#8
I'm getting a feeling that I'm not the only one around here who's read 'The Great Unraveling'......  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  ShadowTemplar
10-11-2005, 7:13 PM
#14
I don't think the European Courts would have any juristiction over the matter. Not legally, no. But politically? Of course, this would only apply if they were accused of war crimes by some remotely credible source....  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  ShadowTemplar
10-09-2005, 7:40 AM
#11
If the situation was otherwise the same, I think that you are wrong. OTOH, we may have a tad more confidence in the British (or the EU's) willingness and ability to get to the bottom of any mistakes made by coalition forces, compaired to the Iraqi ju...  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  ShadowTemplar
10-05-2005, 1:45 PM
#9
The US may have, but the UK is a member of the EU, and I've got a bottle of beer that says that there'd be hell to pay in Bruxelles and Strasburg if the UK refused to try suspected war criminals....  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  ShadowTemplar
09-29-2005, 1:09 AM
#7
Just heard a broadcast from the Danish State Radio. Appearently the British soldiers were in civilian, driving a civilian car with lots of weapons in it. This would certainly make the arrest understandable. What happened then, however is more dodgy....  [Read More]
Posted in: The Pledge "Unconstitutional"
  ShadowTemplar
10-01-2005, 6:27 PM
#83
[On the importance of common knowledge and broad education:] I was mainly talking of scientific stuff, and I never said not to teach it, merley make it elective. Math, Reading, and Social Studies are important... This happens to be a pet peewee of m...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Pledge "Unconstitutional"
  ShadowTemplar
09-29-2005, 1:17 AM
#74
It's bad for non-religious children to come home and ask their parents about religious matters they heard about in school because schools aren't supposed to teach religion (except in comparative religion). But it's no problem to teach creationist chi...  [Read More]
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