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Assault????? :noway:

You won't because there isn't any.

The Economist agrees with you: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/02/parliamentary-procedure

I am quite certain, based on your posting history, if the Senate were currently GOP-controlled, your opinion on that subject would be significantly different.

The Senate isn't even bothering to pass a budget anymore... I'm really not sure how things could get much worse.

Yes well if Bill Clinton were running I'd vote for him.

I respectfully disagree with that version of events. While I agree that the GOP has been outright ridiculous in terms of raising taxes, Obama has never come close to offering the kinds of cuts necessary to get us back on track. Democrats and Republicans were fighting over billions of dollars when we should be talking about…

This is probably a waste of breath, but... Ezra Klein is a complete political hack. It's hard to take anyone seriously when they are so blindly ideological. You went on and on and on about how Obama is post-partisan (which is also crap, but I digress), and then reference Ezra Klein?! It would be like me talking about how…

For one, he made it so they can serve openly in the military.

Romney, because at least there's a chance the federal gov't will shrink under him. With Obama, the debt is guaranteed to continue spiraling out of control.

And I think this is what separates atheists from agnostics. I think you give the former category too much credit if you are saying they do not make positive assertions about the existence of a deity.

I disagree. We are not sharing the experience of the color red. We're just agreeing on a label for the wavelength. There's a difference between seeing the color red and experiencing the color red. I could substitute "heat" for "red" and make the same case.

No, that's sounds about right.

I'm talking about qualia, which is certainly knowledge but absolutely not shared. You have knowledge of the color red and I have knowledge of the color red, but it's impossible for me to experience what you think of as the color red and vice versa.

I guess now we have to quibble about the definition of "God." How about... a supernatural consciousness that created the Universe. Now... either that notion of God exists or doesn't exist. If you state positively that you do not believe such a God exists, that leaves you with but one option.... you believe that such a God…

I have every right to discriminate based on personal choices that someone makes. If I don't want to hire someone with piercings all over their face, that's completely my right. Also, if they can't manage to put on clean clothes and make themselves presentable, why *wouldn't* I use that as criteria when deciding on whether…

What does the color "red" look like?

What are you possibly basing this on? What is your definition of atheism?

So if I listen to a description of sky diving, I can then claim to know what it's like to jump out of an airplane?

I feel the exact same way about atheists.

I guess you've never heard of Anwar Al Awlaki, Nidal Malik Hasan, or Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad...

But you cannot enter your parents' experience into evidence because it's not YOUR experience. You cannot possibly account for every parenting decision they made and you have no idea what it was like for them to raise you. You cannot claim another person's experience as your own.

It was an (apparently failed) attempt at humor. You know who you sound like? My teenager :wink: I'm sorry if it sounds condescending (and perhaps it is), but..... someday, if you ever have kids, I think you'll understand. Some things just can't be boiled down into an intellectual exercise, and parenting is one of those…

I don't know what Christians you've been talking to, but there is a codified set of Christian beliefs.... it's the Bible. Whether all Christians faithfully adhere to these principles is obviously up for debate. But no Christian can just claim their own set of beliefs separate from the Bible and call it "faith." From this…

I don't even know what this means. I assume you are using the definition of discriminate to mean, "to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit." So she's teaching her children to make…

Acknowledging racism is not, itself, racist. I think you are completely missing the point. She's educating her children about the realities of our society, not teaching them to discriminate against anyone.

Amen. I think some people here are comparing apples to oranges.

Agree... textbook straw man.

A very slippery slope. A radio host (with a much larger audience than this pastor) once said: “You know, these women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just…

I think there is a HUGE difference between, "gays should be destroyed" and "go to the store, get a gun, and then wait outside a planned parenthood center until you see a woman and then shoot her in the head." I think free speech should be protected as much as possible. Its restriction should be limited to only the most…