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Reply to Muslims Crowding London's Mosques Say They Fear Backlash in Aftermath of Bombings in Politics JoeUser Forums

As for your assesment of what the British public perceive...you are but one Brit, as I am but one Brit. I'm just relating what I see and hear, as are you. True. We're also both ex-pats now, so I suppose we could both be out of touch. I'm just hoping that the backlash doesn't come. The terrorists

Reply to Muslims Crowding London's Mosques Say They Fear Backlash in Aftermath of Bombings in Politics JoeUser Forums

I don't think there should be any backlash... "Hear, hear!" BUT I do think that Muslims could do a heck of a lot more to separate terrorism from their religion. </TA

Reply to Want Gay Marriage? Leave the Left! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

And saying it's just wrong to him is NOT an emotion! It's an "opinion"! Why can't it both? Your own opinions come wrapped in some pretty fierce emotions, and we've learnt to love you for it! <TABLE cellpadding=8 wi

Reply to Want Gay Marriage? Leave the Left! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

In reality, the meat of the opposition to gay marriage is in Joe Q. Public's mind, Mr. & Ms. Ordinary, not the cultists and fundamentalists. This is true - and a very good point. But see below: <TD cl

Reply to Want Gay Marriage? Leave the Left! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You missed my point entirely. And I think you missed mine. Just where do I '"sell" the left'? Do you automatically assume I must be a leftist because I disagree with you? LOL Are you "selling" the right? Or haven't we already agreed it "isn't a left/right issue"? Churches have every rig

Reply to Want Gay Marriage? Leave the Left! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

If the gay marriage advocates wish the conservative community to see their point of view, they need to remove themselves from the political left that has determined to wage war against Christianity at any cost. Otherwise, they will always be the enemy. I can't make any sense of this at all. There are, o

Reply to Is it time to rethink "miranda rights"? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

In England and Wales the caution that the police are obliged to give a suspect was changed by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (1994) to: "You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in Court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence". A little less long-winded than the whole Miranda deal, but making two important points: 1

Reply to Some Korean barbecue. in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Last night I also enjoyed Korean barbecue: 'samkyeobsal' - pork fried at the table, dipped in dwenjang sauce and wrapped in lettuce and sesame leaf ('kaennip'). A friend is leaving Korea after 15 months here and we needed to eat right before heading out to drink a few beers (and sojus). This whole deal of eating well and drinking beer and liquor at the same time should be put on the UNESCO list of universal human cultural assets <img src="../i

Reply to Some people will do anything for money... in Current Events JoeUser Forums

She said that $10 grand is "like a million" to her because she has no money. Assuming that she could live for another 55 years (or 20,000 days) that works out at about 50 cents a day. I think MacDonalds pays much better than that. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/JU/smiles/Sad.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absm

Reply to Split Decision on the 10 Commandments in Politics JoeUser Forums

YOu mentioned this once before and I asked you if the third choice made any difference in actual results As I understand it, in terms of walking free, there is no difference between 'not proven' and 'not guilty'. However, there is a common assumption that this is a jury's way of saying "we think you did

Reply to Split Decision on the 10 Commandments in Politics JoeUser Forums

us law--like british law--is based on roman law Interestingly enough, there is no system of British law, although there are laws governing the whole of the United Kingdom. Great Britain came into existence when the Kingdoms of England and Scotland united in 1707. The Scots lost their parliament (which t

Reply to AFA, Falwell Revisited in Current Events JoeUser Forums

When someone can show me how the US has been pressed toward a religious state, I might have more respect for the concern I do see what you mean. I come from a country where the head of state is annointed in a religious rite, where non-protestants are ineligible to be head of state and where there is an

Reply to AFA, Falwell Revisited in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I know you are a foreigner, but I will challenge you to point out one thing on the RR agenda that is solely RR, that has been implemented? You are right, I am a foreigner and cannot speak with any degree of expertise on American politics. That is why I said, "From what I understand...", "... filtered t

Reply to AFA, Falwell Revisited in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You realize that you can be an Atheist and a Conservative, right? Yes, indeed. Just as you can be a christian socialist. Unlike many European countries, where the socialist tradition has sprung largely from marxist and anti-clerical soil, the socialist movement in Britain has strong christian roots. The

Reply to AFA, Falwell Revisited in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You realize that you can be an Atheist and a Conservative, right? Yes, indeed. Just as you can be a christian socialist. Unlike many European countries, where the socialist tradition has sprung largely from marxist and anti-clerical soil, the socialist movement in Britain has strong christian roots. The

Reply to Should Constitutional Rights Extend to Non-Citizens? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I do love the rough and tumble of debate around matters of opinion, but it doesn't make too much sense around matters of verifiable fact. Yes, indeed your quotation is from protocol 13, not protocol 6. I have already acknowledged that. In the preamble to protocol 13 it does indeed note that protocol 6 allows "A State may make provision in its law for the death penalty in respect of acts committed in time of war or of imminent threat of

Reply to Should Constitutional Rights Extend to Non-Citizens? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Noting that Protocol No. 6 to the Convention, concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty, signed at Strasbourg on 28 April 1983, does not exclude the death penalty in respect of acts committed in time of war or of imminent threat of war; You are absolutely correct about Protocol 6. The purpose of Protocol 13 concerning the Abolition of the Dea

Reply to Should Constitutional Rights Extend to Non-Citizens? in Politics JoeUser Forums

So, on the one hand, you could rightfully be executed by England, on the other hand, no nation would have to acknowlege that you even exist. Just a technical point, but no one could be "rightfully executed by England". The UK is a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights, including Protocol

Reply to AFA, Falwell Revisited in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Why can't conservatives just live and let live? Because they believe that 'giving in' to the 'gay agenda' will undermine the family and the 'free society' of which the family is the most important civil unit. I think that they are wrong, because they are ludicrously pessimistic about the streng

Reply to A question for the christian scholars in Misc JoeUser Forums

What other religion has members who are judgemental and condeming of non-believers... To be fair, pretty much all of the world's religions. I think it IS unfair to pick on the Christians, even though it must be obvious that I'm not a Christian myself. The reason why some of us in the West get so het up

Reply to Find out your inner Greek God/Goddess in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Also came out as Morpheus. I thought this part was especially spot on: "not always a leader, but usually tthe one who came up with the plan".

Reply to AFA, Falwell Revisited in Current Events JoeUser Forums

... To put their sexual habits in the face of those who are uncomfortable with it, thats all. Its not civil. But, if a gay person does it, we get this bigoted outcry that they are shoving their bedrooms in our faces. </

Reply to A question for the christian scholars in Misc JoeUser Forums

It seems that religion abounds in paradox, which is probably why the author of the Tao Te Ching wrote: "The Way that can be described (in words)is not the eternal Way. The name that can be spoken is not the eternal Name." On the one hand, the problems of taking every word of the Bible as perfect, literally true and utterly unchangeable are clear enough and have been well expressed above. On the other hand, Marcie's answers ask a really

Reply to Straddling the Irish Sea in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Good points. I used to buy into the explanation of all this that I would read from Guardian commentators: "the Scots, Irish, Welsh have a 'national identity' (tradition, culture, St Paddy's day, skirts for men etc), but the English haven't - and serves them right for being such imperialistic bastards!..." ... that was until a couple of anglophiles from Northern Ireland [<img src="http://images.stardock.com/JU/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 A

Reply to Korean Reflections: A Cross Culture in Misc JoeUser Forums

In a strange way, I'll always be more "Christian" than young Brendan. And I bet he's as happy about that as I am. Excellent. A quotation for the "Collected Wit and Wisdom..." I hope. You shouldn't feel too 'alarmed' though: if a