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Reply to President Hillary on Oil Profits in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Tax credits are used as a retroactive tax cut, i.e. to return to the economy money the previous president bled from it.

Reply to Depeche Mode Meets The Revelator in Current Events JoeUser Forums

“The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” So that was an actor in the video admitting it?

Reply to Depeche Mode Meets The Revelator in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"I didn't understand the use of the Masonic symbol... as it doesn't apply to G.W. Bush - so I don't see how it could represent a door unlocking the path to the Presidency - nearly all of our Presidents were masons." Ah, but you aren't a conspiracy theorist, either. Obviously this whole thing is a big Tri-lateral Commission, Bilderberg conspiracy of some kind or another, and that's the only way they can explain someone they find so distasteful and perceive as so

Reply to Are Americans Chumps or Warriors in Politics JoeUser Forums

That's the dichotomy of Rightwinger's, and many American's positions on Iraq. On the one hand they have a total distrust of Islam, especially Muslims here. But when they talk about Iraq, they complain that the MSM is contorting the situation and that most Iraqis are just decent people who want to live their lives and are being attacked by terrorists. I guess a good Muslim is one that lives several thousand miles away...

Reply to Are Americans Chumps or Warriors in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Hey Baker....where's all the accusations of hate and anti-Muslim propaganda? Or do you just reserve that for my posts?" Again, Rightwinger, you confuse "terrorist" with "Muslim" or "Arab". You don't have to wonder if a terrorist is building bombs while they are waiting for their kids at the elementary school. There's a difference between vilif

Reply to Are You Good Enough? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Yes Baker, you're absolutely right. But this belief is based on something. It's based on something outside of ...."well I just feel it to be true." or "I'm just hoping I'm right." There is a diff. I was there I know. It's not like that now. My belief is based on a man that said he was the truth. He said and demonstrated he was God in front of many witnesses. Would

Reply to Are Americans Chumps or Warriors in Politics JoeUser Forums

The problem is that in order to win in Iraq we have to ruin our friendship with its people. Like it or not, we are fighting Iraqis now. One side wants to rule the other, and the only way to prevent them from killing one another is to kill the people who create the infighting. To do that, we will be perceived to be turning our backs on their followers. Self determination to these people does no come at the polling booth. They believe that if they don't kill their enemies, their enemi

Reply to Are You Good Enough? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"well you have said you not only read the bible but it's close by you. If it's not truth then why bother having it so close by? Why bother with it at all? I'm not much of a fiction reader so if I thought the bible was fiction I wouldn't bother either." Nice diversion, but what you said to Lucas was that there needed to be more 'substantial' than

Reply to Time to End Big Oil's Greed in Politics JoeUser Forums

"No redirecting them back to the people that they were taken from - you and me. My suggestion would have the government use those unjustified profits to benefit all of us by creating alternate energy sources." So I guess I was... wrong? "You can put as many exclaimation points as you like, but it doesn't cover the fact that y

Reply to Time to End Big Oil's Greed in Politics JoeUser Forums

" What I am suggesting is offsetting the power of Big Oil to redirect the outrageous profits they have extracted from all of us with the monopoly like power they possess. " Redirect them to the government.

Reply to Are You Good Enough? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"My choice is I can accept what he said as truth or I can disregard it for my own truth. My truth is not my own. It's his truth I base mine on because he's proved himself to me in more ways than one." No, you BELIEVE that what is written in the Bible is what he said. It's still belief, no different than Lucas,

Reply to Are You Good Enough? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Is this based on anything substantial or is it "just your belief?" What else is there? Peer pressure? If you accept the Bible as the literal truth you do so simply because you believe it to be so. Because most people accept the beliefs as valid? That doesn't really fit with the whole 'strait is the gate' thing. So, I'd be interested

Reply to President Hillary on Oil Profits in Democrat JoeUser Forums

"Ever notice that the democratic party is made up overwhelmingly of lawyers. How many business people become Democrats?" I wrote an article about a week back on Edward's new house. It's the biggest house in his county, the most expensive, acreage, tennis courts, basketball court, his own "lounge" for parties. It looks like a compound, not a hou

Reply to Catholic Church Stands Up For Saddam Hussein in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"I said that the Church is not the buildings, but is all the people who practice the one Faith as given and taught by Jesus and handed on down through the ages by his Apostles and their successors." In order for you to back up your idea of infallibility, though, you have to be free from error in the circumstances you describe. The Catholic Churc

Reply to Time to End Big Oil's Greed in Politics JoeUser Forums

"You do not know what you are talking about. This is NOTHING to do with socialism." You can put as many exclaimation points as you like, but it doesn't cover the fact that you are trying to shift money from private industry to the government on the pretense that it is "good" for us. Not caring that it will raise the price of en

Reply to Time to End Big Oil's Greed in Politics JoeUser Forums

Bullshit, frankly. You aren't posing the idea that the prices be fixed so that the money stays with us. You're suggesting a TAX on those extra profits, so that our money goes to your socialist GOVERNMENT to waste on the pretense of the greater good.

Reply to Time to End Big Oil's Greed in Politics JoeUser Forums

Why? It's their money. You buy their product. If you want to stop buying it, find an alternative yourself. Why should they be asked to pay for people to find an alternative to their product? What law or founding principle are you basing that on? Should Microsoft be charged extra to perfect Linux? You're a blatant socialist, Col, and further left than the vast majority of Dems in Congress. Can you still claim to be a moderate Republican and post communist bullshit like this? <b

Reply to Catholic Church Stands Up For Saddam Hussein in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Sugar coat it any way you want, but they sold indulgences, massive amounts of them. Some of the earliest documents we have that were printed on presses are indulgences printed up by the church with the name blank to be filled in by the priest. You give me money, I give you an indulgence. If you don't call that selling, then you're living in a false reality. You challenged me on the other blog with 'name and date, name and date', and not only did I provide some, I pointed out that the

Reply to Catholic Church Stands Up For Saddam Hussein in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"Is it that...[/quote] ... ...or is it for multiple... ... [quote]...quotes in the same post? Yeah, I think it is any time you use more than one quote per post.

Reply to Humble JoeUser technical request: RSS feeds in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Oh, and the quote functions seems now to be broken when using multiple quotes in a reply. Sorry to add to the pile, lol.

Reply to Cows are most definitely evil in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Orwell was working for the squirrels. Don't believe their propaganda.

Reply to Catholic Church Stands Up For Saddam Hussein in Current Events JoeUser Forums

*****"That's just it. My faith is not based on Protestantism nor on any man-made religious organization."***** LOL... I can't help but laugh at that every time you say it. Your faith is the cumulative expression of 2000 years of human thought. Your particular strain sprang up in the 1800's, and has changed over the years to become what it is now. The idea that your doctrine is the same as those in Palestine 1900+ years ago is silly, given we can plot the d

Reply to U.S. Governement make pressure to deny Global Warming in Politics JoeUser Forums

I think it is fine to pressure government agencies to not go nuts on unprovable theories. If these agencies were peopled with those who went to the other extreme, and released articles slanted heavy-handedly AGAINST global warming, Cikomyr would be right here saying that their overseers should have stepped in and "pressured" them. There's no doubting climate change. Climate change was a reality before the first human. The question is the amount to which man is responsible for climate

Reply to Tired Of Being Lead Around By The Nose By The Pundits Yet? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Off the cuff is where your real personality is found. It's hypocritical to say that the Ford ad was "obviously" racist and then write off a long, unmistakable statement like Biden's as simply a misstatement. Come on, it wasn't just the word "clean", that would be a flurry of misstatements. It's convenient to call a hiatus on gotcha games now . Will the games begin again in 2008, I wonder? I figure it will be called on account of rain quite often, but it's only gonna rain on De

Reply to Cows are most definitely evil in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Cows are just the footsoldiers. The leaders of the movement are the squirrels .