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Kindi

i'd like to step away from the origin discussion, since that's thoroughly covered already, and ask, what's your proposed solution to muslim extremism?

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"Hypersensitivity is a grave social ill. It leads to needless conflict, lingering fear, suppression of important truths, and even, as the Astor Place Riot shows, violence and death. Learning from the success of sensitivity training, I suggest we combat hypersensitivity with Hypersensitivity Tra...

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i'd like to step away from the blame assignments, since they're thoroughly covered already, and ask, what's your proposed solution to muslim extremism?

Kindi

"The Patrician took a sip of his beer. "I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure ...

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i think the main difference, sarvis, is that we're the Good Guys and they're the Bad Guys. in a time of war, you shouldn't try to humanize the Bad Guys

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just so we're clear, it's the fact that the women are stoned for committing such crimes as "being raped", right? NOT because "stoning is an indefensible form of execution" or "executing women is indefensible", but because "being raped should not be a crime"

Kindi

i'd like to step away from the blame assignments, since they're thoroughly covered already, and ask, what's your proposed solution to muslim extremism?

Kindi

snopes has a good article on this (third link in google for 'iraq yellowcake'): http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/yellowcake.asp "The yellowcake removed from Iraq in 2008 was material that had long since been identified, documented, and stored in sealed containers under the supervision of U.N....

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how about this then?

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you want to see christians being barbaric, look to the democratic republic of the congo. 90% christian, rape and pillage across the entire country and their neighbors. it's an education and economics issue, not a religion issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic ... o#Religion

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he would prefer that the president do it. i'm sure there are plenty of groups looking for a way to start the proper anti-jihad. one might say Rumsfeld and the neo-conservative movement was the first success in that direction.

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Corth wrote:There is only one group that is actively seeking to kill millions of people - extreme muslims.

my uncle thinks we should kill all the muslims (that's over a billion ppl) and he's a fairly regular conservative. so i guess it's mutual?

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In essence, they represent the single most viable existential threat to humanity at this moment. ppl who have nukes are far more of a threat than ppl who want nukes. they can't blow you up with evil intentions. state actors, with plenty of resources, will always be a bigger threat. tho even they te...

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the primary issue facing the world right now - Muslim Extremism. strongly disagree you want to see the real threat, that everybody realizes but decides is "just part of life" so doesn't even bother to talk about, but is vastly more important than 'muslim extremism'? http://www.theonion.co...

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Corth wrote:I can't agree nor can I disagree with that statement. Economic globalisation is inevitable, and it serves the interests of humanity by allowing corporations to do business efficiently. The question itself is nonsensical.

corth transcends politics

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wtf man? now you're just baiting. not a single person even bothered to respond to my post about stuff being complex. and that comment obviously has an implicit 'in the US', since there are no FBI guys in Sweden. and i'm not sure i'd consider 'killed self, injured 2 ppl' a "successful" atta...

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several page test to determine where you fall on the political spectrum:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

here are my results, left libertarian, about where nelson mandela or gandhi fall on the chart:
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

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as opposed to the US, who would've used the fear to help invade a completely unrelated country? that's some balls for sure

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if "govt is bad", then you're an anarchist.

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i figure most likely, the guy did a keyword search thru the wiki archives, didn't understand what he was reading and just made up a story around it, especially since govt uses lots of weirdly defined terms

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if it did, i'd expect it to come from Fox News, George Bush, and the BBC rather than "townhall.com"

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oh. they're talking about those years expired, useless chemical containers they found every here and there, which everyone already knew about, and is already part of the standard 'they did find WMD!' crowd chain-emails the official definition of 'weapons of mass destruction' can include a single can...

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fat middle age blogger goes commando w/ a kilt and gets enhanced pat down (very long): http://subliminalpanda.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-fondling-fat-mens-balls-since-2010.html straight to the point: "The enhanced patdown is very much like a consensual rape. The screener asks before touching each...

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nah, dems are pretty sucky in general. fox news is the real winner imo

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i guess one of the benefits of slow internet is that i can see the title (RickRoll'd) and close the tab before anything even loads

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funny. ppl react differently to homosexuals than they do to gays and lesbians, too. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6198284-503544.html words matter. death tax, death panel, ram it down our throats, government option, at the point of a gun, stealing by force, slavery, redistribution of wealth...

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i just figure if they won't talk about defense, medicare, medicaid, or social security, they don't actually plan on cutting anything. unfortunately, that includes the president, every senator, the vast majority of the house, and both major political parties

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the US is hosting this year's 'World Press Freedom Day'. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm "The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circu...

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"if you've played here ten years, then you can handle it" i guess we don't want new players and yes, they'll pick evils, thinking 'cool', and then totally suck at it since toril's definition of 'hard' and the standard definition of 'hard' are slightly different. see previous comment on ten...

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Kindi, Point to one political position you have taken on this forum that isn't a liberal position. Until you can do that, I don't see how you can complain when people call you a liberal. Why WOULD you complain? because i don't like labels. and i don't think any of my positions fall under 'liberal' ...

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i just don't see the big deal.

and stop calling me a liberal :P

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they only have the power their employers give them. they don't have to sign all those union contract agreements you know

sounds like a bunch of class warfare to me (anyone earning over X has no right to complain? srsly?)

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shrug i was trying to say they think they're worth the price, and strikes are an accepted measure, or the govt would make them illegal and go kill ppl over it, like they did in the "good old days". you're allowed to complain about their strikes too, which they should take into account befo...

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kiryan wrote:So... liberals cae to defend your government?

it's your govt too

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Do you concede that the founders were deeply religious i don't think they were, not in the way we'd think today. "Lambert (2003) has examined the religious affiliations and beliefs of the Founders. Some of the 1787 delegates had no affiliation. The others were Protestants except for three Roma...

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science doesn't prove things. science disproves things. hypothesis, test, result. you're talking about "being skeptical" when what you really mean is, you're not sure what the cause is, tho you agree things do change, and things probably are changing. in which case, i figured you might wan...

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so you're saying without air traffic controllers planes wouldn't fly and so we owe them hundreds of thousands of dollars to look at a list of planes, change the radio to the right frequency and say your cleared to land on runway 12 with approach vector xyz or you're cleared to take off on runway 6?...

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very little in software is a single-country affair any more. and to be fair, they are based in seattle (american friendliness to new ideas, regardless of origin?) and it looks like their user interface lady is american...

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Cliff Kushler, the co-founder and CTO of Swype, got his degree from the University of Tokyo http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4072913&authType=name&authToken=PlpR&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&pohelp=&trk=ppro_viewmore Randy Marsden, the other co-founder of Swype, is Canadian, ed...

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Regular working people doing the dirty work like maintaining traffic lights that makes our society possible rarely get any of the attention or reward as people in higher profile positions that don't have to get their hands dirty serving the flying rich do. the material effect on those lives is qual...

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Sarvis wrote:(because I'm reading a lot of sarcasm in what he is saying)

i'm not. seems pretty straightforward to me

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Teflor Lyorian wrote:None of that can be disputed. What can be disputed is what, why, where, when, and how... Get the picture?

you don't want to put forward any solutions? got it

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actually that's trawling

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kiryan wrote:Buying off nations is a valid strategy? Sorry, I'm 100% against buying votes.

do you think climate change is happening?

do you think it will have broad negative effects on economics and foreign policy?

if so, what do you think should be done to mitigate those effects?

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the burst procs happen like twice per round for rangers. all the 1-hand burst weapons are replacing epic quest items in offhands, leveling weapons for all classes, etc. they do a crazy amount of damage from all the extras

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i predict the next successful domestic attack will be by a non-muslim, since all the muslims are talking to FBI guys, and all the white guys are ignored

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nobody cares about science when money (conservatives) or status (liberals) is on the line. nobody gives a crap about this planet so listen to glen beck and buy gold! goooold will save you after the apocalypse comes and all the good ppl are raptured to heaven! srsly tho, those stories don't sound ver...

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Kindi what I think you are missing is that the stuff Obama is doing is what conservatives characterize as destorying the country and the stuff he isn't doing is what we think is neded. So therefore he can be not doing anything and at the same time doing things that destroy the country. Its really i...

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35231 "His resistance is described by one senior American official as “superhuman.” Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative—for reasons that will be described later in this book." "On Jan. 22, 2009, President Oba...

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"But the FBI's approach has come under fire from some Muslims, criticism that surfaced again late last month after agents arrested an Oregon man they said tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. FBI technicians had supplied the device. In the Irvine case, Monteilh's miss...

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