Skyweir wrote:Your talking about your system of government/rule ... the US has long claimed to be the model of democracy

So many people make that mistake. The US is not a democracy. It is a Republic.

I read the Illearth War first, then had to go back and read LFB. My favorite would still be the Illearth War followed by "the Power that Preserves". "Lord, they-we could not-, the Giants-" Suddenly the habitual flatness of Tull's voice was gone. "Lord!" The word vibrate...

Eh, I wouldn't be opposed to it really. If it must crumble as a result, let it, although I don't think it would. What they really need to do though is scrap the vetoes. Who will enforce the rulings? The rulings don't really get enforced anyway, do they? It's all pretty much effectively voluntary. -...

Avatar wrote:Eh, I wouldn't be opposed to it really. If it must crumble as a result, let it, although I don't think it would.

What they really need to do though is scrap the vetoes.

--A

Who will enforce the rulings?

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:I'll snip it and move it tomorrow. It's too late for that tonight.

Notice, though, that the people who push for "have less children" want only developed nations to have fewer children.

last I checked developed nations are aready having less kids.

This is incorrect. Vindman is military. He was not fired, he was reassigned. and how much you want to bet that he will not be selected for Colonel and be forced to retire. For all intents and purposes, he's fired. Sorry, that's not nearly the same. Someone who's fired doesn't get to keep their seni...

Nobody was, but those groups are not trying to portray themsleves as being moral pagaons whom everyone else should follow. well, yes, during that period they were saying that, and telling everyone that "Papist" were going straight to hell, meanwhile shipping slaves and indentured servants...

Obi-Wan Nihilo wrote:

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:Vindman got fired from his NSC position--

This is incorrect. Vindman is military. He was not fired, he was reassigned.

and how much you want to bet that he will not be selected for Colonel and be forced to retire.

For all intents and purposes, he's fired.

I certainly wish the catholic church had adopted this "we must protect life" point of view back when they were butchering Protestants in Europe and natives in the New World. Unfortunately, they loved their secular power far too much for that. and what, Calvinists, Anabaptists, Lutherans, ...

Plan on checking E1 soon, caveats in mind. :) SB: Must disagree on one thing...I thought Encounter At Farpoint was brilliant. (Although, to be fair, haven't re-watched it for many a year... :D ) --A if "Encounter at Farpoint" had been the high point of STTNG I would have quit watching aft...

There is no solution that the Palestinians will accept that also doesn't include: Return of all lands they consider theirs. Recognition that the Capital of Jerulsalem is the Palestinian Capital. Palestine needs to figure out that the above is NOT going to happen and be willing to accept that they n...

Now that I've officially seen all the "Star Wars" films (except for Solo), I'll say that only episodes "4-6" wowed me, the rest have been pale imitations of what could have been. OTOH I agree with SB that the last movie was enjoyable taken by itself. Only one outside of the above...

We could probably survive a "dinosaur killer" from space (though might be a return to the stone age for a while) :biggrin: It wouldn't even have to be an astronomical event. Some evidence seems to suggest that human beings encontered a "genetic bottleneck" about 70,000 years ago...

I disagree with his assessment. Rational people will still continue to realize that "climate change" is not the global catastrophe alarmists keep screeching that it will be. not to mention that I believe at least a few people on this planet or at least slightly smarter and more intelligen...

just saw this on MSN. Damn. Neil will be missed

there's no arguing that the eugenics movement in the US was championed by progressives Sure, around the same time that the Party of Lincoln was involved in freeing slaves / reconstruction. You know, before they adopted the Southern Strategy of openly embracing racism. Parties change. Arguing about ...

The only fact here is that the Dems will reap what they sow. Get they still won't learn a thing though. The parallels between the US and the UK are absolutely striking here - with the core difference being that we've just relied on the ballot box and the electorate to settle things, rather than a f...

I challenge her to go to Beijing and shame-talk the Communist Party. She won't, of course, because she is not committed enough to her cause to risk being put in prison. No, she goes only where it is easy and where people won't hold her accountable for her words and actions because of her age. I sus...

None of those things have anything to do with the law. Disapproving of abortion is not the same thing as actively protecting and encouraging illegal aliens to remain within the country. Not performing same-sex marriages is not the same as harboring fugitives. If you want the government handout, you...

Ah, well there's part of the problem. You don't understand my position towards religion. I have no issue with religion in the public purview whatsoever. I take issue with an organization that relies on government handouts aiding and abetting law breakers. I agree with you 100%. However the governme...