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Reply to Jews Say Enough Already in Politics JoeUser Forums

The point here is how long will the UN put up with this impasse in lieu of forcefully rectifying the displaced and genocidal conditions in Sudan For as long as its members insist that the UN are Peace Keepers, not Peace Enforcers. It needs more than BB guns to separate waring factions, and no major power in the UN is going to sanction forceful insertion of troops without some kind of peace accord in place on the ground - no matter how fragile that accor

Reply to Classroom Madness & Busted Couches in Misc JoeUser Forums

Bring on the infamous phrase - TGIF - Thank God Its Friday

Reply to 3 Stages of a Man's Life in Humor JoeUser Forums

Nice One

Reply to We are much too easy on people in our prisons in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm saying I don't have a problem distinguishing criminals quickly and easily based on the uniform they are assigned. Despite knowing what the consequencies would be? And you know perfectly well what would happen. Thats like saying a blind man wasnt responsible for shooting the victim, the victim just got in the way of the bullett. Let me ask this - if the only people that were getting pink uniforms are prisoners that

Reply to We are much too easy on people in our prisons in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Ya think they may be reading this as well? Nah - its Bush's fault

Reply to NASA does get some things right in Misc JoeUser Forums

I think its amazing they havent got more things wrong considering they are one of the few institutions who really are working at the "cutting edge" - in all aspects of technology and life - whilst on the other hand are restrained (rightly so there's no blank cheque) by harsh funding criteria. They have definitely walked the talk, not thrown out retrospective judgement with benefits of hindsight that many of their detractors have done.

Reply to We are much too easy on people in our prisons in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don't want the people who authorized it to have any repercussions. It is not a life threatening issue, or even torture. It is simply misguided. Fair call to a degree, however what raises the strong concern in my mind is the state of mind that could even think this was acceptable, let alone do it. If that person did this, what else would they do as a means of self imposed justice? The latter is not a call I could make for sure, I do

Reply to We are much too easy on people in our prisons in Current Events JoeUser Forums

If something bad happens to the individuals that are forced to wear the colors of sexual predator, that is an unfortunate side effect of the policy, but perhaps news of those occurrences would help send the message that may be needed to scare some other potential criminals straight. Something sure should. So its the rule of Law until it does something the vigilante disagrees with, then anything goes - back to the jungle. Convienien

Reply to Hair spray re-grows hair! in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

"Boots Expert Hair Loss Treatment Spray" Thats a new twist on 'Miricle Hair Growth' lotion - if its finally come true, it turns out its for women I'm in the wrong job, I should be a health activist, its a licence to print money ......

To be a pregnant priest will ...... in Religion JoeUser Forums

Newsweek is carrying a story on a Female Priest, "ordained" at Eden Theological Seminary - probably should be named Eden Theatrical Seminary. Apparently these people are approved by the Ecumenical Catholic Communion who decline the authority of the Pope, but still see themselves as Roman Catholic. This paragon of virtue - who is also married by the way - starts thi

Reply to Beware the Deathly... Popcorn? in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

Now my son is allergic to peanuts and I never get to eat them An infamous case in UK where a manufacturer placed a health warning "This product contains nuts" - on a packet of peanuts ...... Sometimes I get the feeling many health "activists" wrote the manual on hypochondria.

Reply to Where's my anonymous feedback form? in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

Tell them you'll be delighted to pay the $50 if the doctor will do the same and pay you $50 when he fails to see you on time. Then change Doctor - I think he lost track of his priorities somewhere between his bank account and the travel agent.

Reply to Are Terrorists Coming For Our Children? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

If anything is guaranteed to "unify" all Americans - and the rest of the Western World along with them - in the "War on Terror", it would certainly be blowing up several bus loads of kids. Twisted wackos these guys are, but their "leadership" is not stupid, it would unleash abject fury in the US on scale far bigger than 9/11, and probably not seen since Pearl Harbour, and they know it. For all the rhetoric about "muslims", most in Arab Count

Reply to A Musician's Nightmare in Music JoeUser Forums

Dont let these "award" ceremonies wind you up 99% of the population are curious but thats about it - I doubt that 99% believe the "winners" are the best "musicians" on the Planet. The problem is the fact that good Music in the sense you describe it is often "timeless", and people will listen to it time after time - they rarely feel the need to buy more on a frequent basis. So its always going to

Reply to MTV Music Awards, what a train wreck! in Music JoeUser Forums

Music - at the end of the day - is about entertainment, if it does not provide that, no one is going to listen. Some like the "serious" end of music - some dont, some like some performers - some like others. However if we end up trying to (almost) turn music into some philosphical creed, we are loosing the point, its about Entertainment. If I like the music, and am entertained by it, I'll buy it. If I think the performer is a jerk - whichever part of the spectrum they come from - I'l

Reply to The Professor & The Student in Religion JoeUser Forums

ThinkAloud makes a valid point in terms of Catholicism. On the one hand: the soul is immortal But, the moment it commits a grievous sin, it loses its supernatural life (its either immortal or it isn’t) The loss of grace is the soul's spiritual death, and leads to its eternal death Why? Its immortal This is why Catholics call grievous sins

Reply to The Professor & The Student in Religion JoeUser Forums

I like the way you think and speak. I think Atheism is wasted on you. I do believe you would make a wonderful addition to Christianity.....lol Bookmark that one for St Peter when I arrive at the pearly gates muttering .... "ooppps".... I have heard it said many times that it takes more faith to be an atheist than a Christian. D

Reply to This is an outrage! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The McCanns are free to go--no charges-no limits--yet they " apparently "were asked to confess to homicide. They were not asked "to confess" - they were given an option of lesser charges, a perfectly normal mechanism in nearly all democratic countries. Thousands of people a in UK alone every year are arrested and later released with no charges, so far I see no difference here, apart from Media fishing for circulation impact. <div class="Article_Quot

Reply to McD's Employee Arrested for Oversalting Meat! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Its insane, even if the employee did it as a "poke in the eye of a cop" - I guess some are dumb enough to do that - to go to trial over it beggars belief. Lets hope the Judge has more common sense, throws it out as a waste of court time, and reminds the DA that the Law is there to deter and rehabilitate not to be used as a personal return poke in the eye for a mythical sense of pride.

Reply to Parsing Words in the Middle East in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Why does anti-Israel rhetoric resonate well throughout the Muslim world? Very simple: There's a sliver of land called Palestine that two sets of people claim to be their own That hits the nail on the head - the "ordinary Arab" is not a happy bunny over this issue. I spent a lot of time - 2 years - in Tel Aviv and Dubai during the Intifada. In Dubai at night in the hotel I saw nightly Telethons on TV to aid "our brothers in Palestine" (note the

Reply to Dumb woman races train in Current Events JoeUser Forums

but her attorney will likely argue that the presence of rails would have alerted her to the oncoming train. Your right they probably will, and at the same time conveniently ignore she is on camera racing and overtaking the first one. Well after all it was all of 30 yards from the car, it is a long way to recognise a 100 ton lump of metal twenty times the size of her car. Probably exercising her Constitutional right to be dumb ... <img src="ht

Reply to The Professor & The Student in Religion JoeUser Forums

Which in reality means that those who believe are just empty-headed morons who have faith in God that is based on nothing. That is when you start worrying if you are a believer. If you don’t then what they say sounds like a truth. doesn’t it? You could also take the view that the accuser in your scenario is

Reply to The Professor & The Student in Religion JoeUser Forums

This is the classic rebuttal to the infamous 1925 Monkey Trial cross examination of the local preacher. Both versions of the verbal gymnastics are usually used to disprove a negative, both versions do fail in a factual sense, and end up having to cross the age old gap in verifiable "evidence". Neither version would be pushed forward if such "evidence" stood on its own two feet, verbal gymnastics would not be needed by definition. Its the old story, whichever faction one is from, you cant prov

Reply to This is an outrage! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

One good thing about the Portuguese system is that the Police are not allowed by Law to release any details of the case - whatsoever - without Judicial clearance, the latter is given in exceptional circumstances only. Therefore any press speculation is just that, speculation, they are not working from facts, only "informal" leaks. By definition the latter are automatically suspect, in other systems credance would be given to such leaks. Any "Trial