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edlib

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Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  edlib
02-28-2006, 2:42 PM
#8
I'm not pro-abortion, I'm actually anti-abortion, personally... BUT I'm pro-comprehensive-sex-education, pro-making-contraceptives-available-for-anyone-who-wishes-to-use-them-without-moral-jugements, but anti-forcing-my-personal-beliefs-down-everybod...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  edlib
02-25-2006, 9:22 PM
#4
This is merely an attempt to get the issue before the Supreme Court A.S.A.P. and see which way the court leans these days. Personally, I feel it's still too early in the game for the right-wing to make an all-out stab at Roe V. Wade, but I guess cert...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lack of respect from show producers
  edlib
02-22-2006, 8:35 AM
#15
Bad analogy. Drill sargeants need to be a bit nasty, as the recruits might end up under fire, you know. Most Idol contestants don't risk ending up in an M-1 Tank coloumn under attack from Iraqi insurgents. No... but if they continue to go out for aud...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lack of respect from show producers
  edlib
02-18-2006, 10:14 AM
#13
Anything is debatable. But that doesn't mean they will be good or interesting debates, though......  [Read More]
Posted in: Lack of respect from show producers
  edlib
02-17-2006, 5:33 PM
#11
That's like a schoolteacher educating first-graders on bullying by being an ******* towards them. Oh, and the big difference here is that a first-graders don't volunteer themselves to be placed in that situation. These contestants do. A more apt com...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lack of respect from show producers
  edlib
02-17-2006, 7:55 AM
#7
Then they shouldn't go on. I know I wouldn't. Like I said: The show has been on long enough that anyone trying out for it should really be aware of what they are possibly setting themselves up for. Of course, I'm not that big a fan of the "Sta...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lack of respect from show producers
  edlib
02-16-2006, 12:21 PM
#4
It's not like the people getting involved with Idol don't know what they're in for. The show has been on for what seems like forever. So there really should be no surprises. As someone working in the creative fields (music and art) let me tell you i...  [Read More]
Posted in: A funeral or a political rally?
  edlib
02-07-2006, 11:08 PM
#2
Agreed. But there's a great many people who, when they know they have a national audience, they just can't keep themselves from grandstanding. From what I saw of it, I personally felt that Bill Clinton's comments seemed to be the most on the mark....  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  edlib
02-09-2006, 1:18 PM
#49
It would be nice if some (any!) good could come out of this situation. For example: It would be great if we could apply the lessons learned in this truly dumb conflict to the culture wars currently being fought in the Western world. I really hope w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  edlib
02-06-2006, 7:11 AM
#24
So sayeth the man with the possibly blasphemous avatar! ;) In theory, the 2nd commandment (the one about graven images) still applies to Jews and Christians today as well,.. so any image purporting to be of Jesus or God could (and probably should) b...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  edlib
02-05-2006, 3:26 PM
#19
This is a case where I find both sides to be equally right, and both sides equally wrong. The papers had every right to publish those cartoons, but really should have stopped and considered the reactions they might receive before publishing them. It...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  edlib
03-05-2006, 12:36 PM
#46
The "stopping the sun in it's tracks" story is a particular favorite of mine. Either way you slice it, the physics involved would mean the end of life on Earth if it ever really happened. The braking friction involved to do something like...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  edlib
02-01-2006, 10:09 AM
#14
Secular Humanism defined. (http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=main&page=what) I remember getting into this argument with someone who insisted that atheism was a religious belief. If non-belief in religion classifies as a religious...  [Read More]
Posted in: HAMAS dominates Palestinian parliament
  edlib
02-03-2006, 3:24 PM
#60
One possible solution that seems to make sense to me: http://www.theamericancause.org/ (If the home page column changes the article in question is called "Put Hamas on probation.") While Pat Buchanan is not exactly a name I normally asso...  [Read More]
Posted in: HAMAS dominates Palestinian parliament
  edlib
02-03-2006, 11:52 AM
#57
So... what's your plan for getting them out of power? And exactly how are the Palestinian people who voted them in see any action towards the government they elected being forcibly removed from power by outside parties as a reflection on the mechani...  [Read More]
Posted in: HAMAS dominates Palestinian parliament
  edlib
02-02-2006, 2:38 PM
#48
But the last I checked, no minutemen strapped dynamite to themselves and blew themselves up inside a pub full of Torries. No... but the forces were a lot closer to being balanced. The both had roughly the same armnaments. The Torries didn't have at...  [Read More]
Posted in: Palps slaying of the JEDI was poor
  edlib
02-02-2006, 9:13 PM
#37
Well, first, let's just get some perspective: This is just my personal interpretation of fictional events happening to fictional characters in a fictional universe. If you don't care for my way of seeing it, you can always come up with your own. I'...  [Read More]
Posted in: Palps slaying of the JEDI was poor
  edlib
02-02-2006, 12:51 PM
#35
My point exactly. In the novelizations it is implied that Dooku was one of the few who really kept up his saber dueling abilities and practice. It's a trait he may have gotten from Yoda, who was the only Jedi to seem to still take the threat of the...  [Read More]
Posted in: Palps slaying of the JEDI was poor
  edlib
01-31-2006, 9:03 PM
#31
Qui-gon was Dooku's padawan, and Dooku was Yoda's padawan. So the thread was Yoda>Dooku>Qui-Gon>Obi-Wan>Anakin. And I'm guessing that spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of man hours on CGI for a 30 second throwaway transitional s...  [Read More]
Posted in: Judge Alito
  edlib
02-01-2006, 10:48 AM
#32
As for Alito being a devout Roman Catholic as an issue. LOL So is Ted Kennedy, and the last time I heard, he has not become an anit-abortionaist. Never said he was. I just pointed it out as an interesting trend. The cynic in me feels the conservativ...  [Read More]
Posted in: Judge Alito
  edlib
02-01-2006, 9:35 AM
#29
... but if they take a strategy of just "not being the other guy" again then I'll be pretty disgusted. So the court is filled with republican appointees? That hardly sounds fair or sensible... it seems to me that the more i hear about how...  [Read More]
Posted in: Judge Alito
  edlib
01-31-2006, 8:28 PM
#26
It's a risky strategy... but if the trend toward uncovering various scandals in the current administration continues over the next couple of months, ESPECIALLY if there is a Rove indictment (or some other revelation at that scale,) there WILL be a na...  [Read More]
Posted in: How many do you count?
  edlib
01-31-2006, 8:56 PM
#52
From the latest column at I, Cringely (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/) This is far from the first instance of such unartful phone tapping, as my friend Mike Class reports from Chicago. Though I didn't know it until we'd been e-mailing back and forth...  [Read More]
Posted in: How many do you count?
  edlib
01-31-2006, 10:23 AM
#47
I'm hardly an intelligence expert, but... The idea that the terrorists that this type of monitoring might be aimed to catch are: Dumb enough to use unencrypted public lines to numbers that U.S. forces might have already picked up in various raids o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
  edlib
02-04-2006, 10:32 AM
#63
Don't argue with me... Telling someone not to argue with you is also defeating the whole purpose of having this particular forum in the first place. :dozey: Every one of the debates that happen here could be seriously shortened if we could all invo...  [Read More]
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