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when a teacher in a german class decides to bring homosexuality into the conversation and then uses his power to silence dissenting opinion, i'd say that zero tolerance policy is being used to instill a certain belief system. this wasn't a matter of "hate speech", that wonderful term used to...

all he's asking for is an honest, personal evaluation of what it is about the tea party's philosophy that places them at this extreme right end of the spectrum. do they propose we abolish all state run social programs? no. do they propose a dismantling of the welfare state? no. do they...

personally, i have a thing about taoists. i just can't stand em. i used to vent all my anger at the krishnas, but then they quit hanging out at the airports and i had to find someone else to hate. i tried hating mormons, but they just look so cute in their threadbare suits and skinny ties...

are we enforcing it or defending it? did we force israel to become a democracy surrounded by medieval theocracies? with all its faults, democracy is still humanity's best chance for the liberty of the individual that has been the major reason we have advanced so far. it gives the people at...

it must be nice to be so sure of yourself, even if it is a false confidence. the state of knowing something is not the black and white matter you seem to think it is. to know something is merely to perceive or understand it as true and this relies on a series of assumptions. our first and...

i have been accused in various threads of using complex and flowery language to express very simplistic and obvious points and that accusation is not without its merits. i do, after all, enjoy a well turned phrase and revel in creating artfully constructed posts. everything i post here is...

did you bother to read the post i was responding to or is this just another one of your knee-jerk reactions? this wasn't about merely earning the same, but of receiving the same benefits as well. you're partially right, i might well be accused of expanding a bit too far on bagseed's theme...

how dare you insult third graders like that.:bigjoint:

while i'm not particularly a fan of ms. coulter, i do appreciate the comparison to the works of any professional. unlike many here, i do put a great deal of thought into many of my posts and it's always nice to have that effort recognized. as to my choice of apparel, that is quite frankly none...

i think i said this somewhere before, but...... fuchsia is never in good taste.:bigjoint:

feed our avarice and our fear and it seems we are capable of the greatest atrocities and follies. we have proved ourselves capable of trading in our freedom for the illusions of security and of enslaving our future for the sake of creature comforts.

the sheer number of the religious of various faiths points undeniably to some need that is filled by whatever it is that religion gives these people. you can fiddle and fret over my use of the word "need", but it gives them something that nothing else seems to provide. would they be better off...

thanks for backing me up, but poor old duke is like a dog with a bone. maybe he should be put down. you just had to know that this was going to be one of those threads.:bigjoint:

silence that with which you disagree and bury anything that may offend your delicate sensibilities? is that really the way you would have your "world without religion" started? i've never had any use for religion. in fact, i have only the vaguest understanding of how anyone could get caught...

i'm afraid you've been ripped off, we do not sell audiobooks. this information is provided in print form only, as we prefer our clientele be able to read. i'd stop payment on that check if i were you.

i got a call from a friend of mine yesterday, telling me her power had been out for a while and asking if mine was as well. a little later i heard this was a major outage that spread across the southwest and the thought of "terrorism" crept unbidden into my mind. each september since 2001...

froggy, get a clue. all of you grammar nazis and politically correct buffoons are out to lunch on this one. the out was yours. you struck out or, in some cases, you struck, tagged or otherwise forced an out. maybe you never played the game or it could be that the terminology you used...

it depends on the usage. to say "your out was the last of the inning" would be quite proper. if you really want to try and show me up in such a childish manner, i suggest you do so on a subject you actually know something about. to be honest, i think such subjects are few and far between. as...

that would require a certain amount of individualism, a concept shunned by modern liberalism. it should be obvious that it isn't the methods used, but the fact that a message contrary to the statist agenda is getting out at all. i can almost hear them sputtering, "but...but...but...it's the...

leo has a notoriously underdeveloped sense of imagination. it's best if you just place your hands behind your back and go quietly.