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I hope that didn't freak you out too much.
No-I'm alright with it. He doesn't seem the type to be into the masochism like you are though. Now that is some freaky stuff.
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Wonderful analogy, cupcake.
Awwww-isn't that cute? Looks like 2Dim has a crush on Strife. Look at all his nicknames for him.
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Unlike the wingnuts-source:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/10/war...t.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute is the president's war adviser. Several retired generals turned down the post.
"I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
"And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation's security by one means or another," said Lute, who is sometimes referred to as the "Iraq war czar." It was his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.
President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a "major policy shift" and Bush has made it clear that he doesn't think it's necessary.
"The president's position is that the all-volunteer military meets the needs of the country and there is no discussion of a draft. Gen. Lute made that point as well," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
In the interview, Lute also said that "Today, the current means of the all-volunteer force is serving us exceptionally well."
Still, he said the repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military.
"There's both a personal dimension of this, where this kind of stress plays out across dinner tables and in living room conversations within these families," he said. "And ultimately, the health of the all-volunteer force is going to rest on those sorts of personal family decisions."
The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re-established in 1980, maintains a registry of 18-year-old men.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war.
Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job.
Personally I think it is an interesting idea. I don't think the public would approve though.
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Your boy could have chosen to ignore these teachers that "offended" him.
"Service to the community" ? Only in your bizarre radical left world.
Being opposed to religion is not radical left. There are plenty of atheists on the right as well.
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Why is it when an atheist writes a nonsensical book, other atheists applaud it as the absolute truth ??
I would suggest you put down the comic books and read Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box and Philip Johnson's Darwin On Trial.
Speaking of nonsensical books...
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Oh for crying out loud-that was me. Again.
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Make up your mind, pure chance or Intelligent Design.
False dichotomy, doofus.
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What is it with you and typing errors ? First you're counting them in one post and then "freaking out" over them in another. Could be a sign of a bigger problem.Typos freak you out ?? You must have been a hell of a soldier.
2Dim fans have horrible reading comprehension-well, they'd have to, wouldn't they?
Here's what I said:
You must be a masochist. It is freaking me out a little. There are more mistakes than the ones you listed. However, I only pointed out the ones in your other post because you were making the post to mock someone else's typo. Yet here you are cheerfully using incorrect English. Respect the language.Clearly, anyone with an actual functioning brain should be able to tell that it is 2Dim's masochism that I am speaking of.
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You bought a new rock? I'm curious, did you buy it in the rock dept. in WalMart ?
Personally, I prefer the selection in K-Mart better. I also think the K-Mart rocks make better pets. I'd really like to hear more about your new rock.
Man what? It is a large Ozark Rose Quartz I bought for my wife's garden.
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Paranoia can be treated, see your doctor.
Well that didn't take long.
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And God would want us all to have unique fingerprints because . . .
...he wants each of us to feel like a special little butterfly.
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Bush continues to protect us. Yesterday he signed a bill which expands the NSA's ability to track phone calls and E-mails that originate outside of the U.S. without first getting a warrant. Nancy Pelosi, our patriotic Speaker of the House doesn't like the bill and has vowed to change it. I suppose she prefers that we don't bother terrorists that are trying to communicate with their cells in the U.S.
I think they need to investigate Pelosi, she may be part of a sleeper cell.
I'll remember this post when you call the Democrats paranoid.
I'm going to be very amused to hear the howlings of the right when a Democrat uses the powers they've so cheerfully given Bush. You should remember that they are setting precedent for every president after him.
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The evolutionary process was driven by NEED.
All the proof we need that you are not what you say you are.
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If (as evolutionists believe) we all evolved from a fish that crawled from the sea, at some point fingerprints had to be "invented". So "blind evolution" just happened to create unique fingerprints by accident ? The evolutionary process was driven by NEED. Certainly there would be no need for unique fingerprints in the evolutionary process. Sounds to me like Intelligent Design.
Why do you suppose the technical term for fingerprints is friction ridges? As for uniqueness, we've already been over that. Everyone has unique DNA.
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Thank You !! I had to laugh out loud reading this silly post this morning.
BTW ..... I used two exclamation points after "Thank You" and I put a space between "You" and the exclamation points when none was required.
You must be a masochist. It is freaking me out a little. There are more mistakes than the ones you listed. However, I only pointed out the ones in your other post because you were making the post to mock someone else's typo. Yet here you are cheerfully using incorrect English. Respect the language.
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ARRGH! That last post was me.
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Ironic, considering you don't understand how to use punctuation, and made five mistakes in your post ridiculing one mistake.
I saw seven mistakes. Are you counting the two incorrect uses of question marks (only need one) and punctuation (no spaces are needed between the last word and the question mark) as one mistake each?
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So far this election looks similar to 2000-I don't like anyone running. There are degrees of dislike, but no one has really given me a reason to vote for them.
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I'm crushed. One bloviating left-wing nut case thinks another bloviating left-wing nut case is smarter than me. Oh well.
Given your propensity for willful ignorance, I’d say the new rock I just bought is smarter than you are.
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An interesting look at fingerprints which shows them not quite as mysterious as our grad student would like us to believe:
http://www.ridgesandfurrows.homestead.com/friction_skin.html
Guess he skipped class that day.
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I need to add my 2 cents here. As a Biology grad working on my Doctorate in Evolutionary Biology ( I presently hold a teaching position at NYU ), I have to correct a statement that's been made here.
Someone stated here that "sexual reproduction" is responsible for the uniqueness of the human body (fingerprints, irises, DNA, etc.). That is patently false. In reality, it is a scientific mystery. Atheists have their own theories on the subject (that don't involve God), but the truth is they're no more than guesses. My own "guess" is Intelligent Design.
I have to point out that this is the second time a mysterious grad student has come in on a white horse to make an appeal to authority in 2Dim's behalf after he found himself hopelessly outclassed:
http://forums.kearnyontheweb.com/index.php...indpost&p=42824
Interesting, eh?
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I need to add my 2 cents here. As a Biology grad working on my Doctorate in Evolutionary Biology ( I presently hold a teaching position at NYU ), I have to correct a statement that's been made here.
Someone stated here that "sexual reproduction" is responsible for the uniqueness of the human body (fingerprints, irises, DNA, etc.). That is patently false. In reality, it is a scientific mystery. Atheists have their own theories on the subject (that don't involve God), but the truth is they're no more than guesses. My own "guess" is Intelligent Design.
RIIIIGHT. So precisely what is wrong with my analysis? It has nothing to do with evolutionary biology, as someone of your 'credentials' would certainly know. No two people on Earth have identical DNA because of basic genetics. Why, therefore, would thay have identical fingerprints?
I'm guessing that was the only response to my post 2Dim will make.
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The Kalam Cosmological argument simply argues that the universe must have a cause. Implying said cause to be God is departing from the argument.
Barrow's teleological application of the Strong anthropic principle is rejected by Brandon Carter, who is one of the first to formulate the principle. Nick Bostrom states quite eloquently that the anthropic principle simply warns against anthropic bias.
Even if we accept that these arguments prove God's existence, neither of these prove that God exists in the particular permutation that you believe in. If the Muslims, Hindus, or pagans are right, the inalienable rights God gives to man change somewhat.
I do not believe in dualism. Now while there are complex arguments put forth in support of a soul separate from the body, the most common one I hear is that it would be horrible if that were the case. Which in no way proves the soul to exist.
Taoism and Buddhism both accept the existence of gods, but the deities are not really central to the core tentets of either religion. If their conceptions of morality are not based on god-given rights, are their moralities now insufficient?
The idea that morality must be based on god-given rights has a fairly extensive set of problems. What if there is no god? How do you know that you have the correct set of rights?
Should I be insulted that Bryan never responded to me?
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Yeah, you're right. All these attacks on the poor priests who abused children are disgusting.
Because every Catholic priest abuses kids.
I'm glad you're providing so much support for the seperation of church and state. If Christians can't even agree on their own religion after so many centuries, why should we let them control the most powerful nation in the world?
If you want paranoia, see the first post.
Bush's war czar-consider a draft!
in Kearny
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No they won't.