[quote]Sure some of the states won't want to commit their national guard troops to the battle but the US Military forces don't need to approval of the states to go in, just an order from the president.[/quote] Not exactly, if the Texans become a nation then the Congress is the only branch that can declare war on another nation. If the United States does not recognize Texas as a nation then the Military can not e
America needs to wake up and get rid of every Congressman and woman.
Yes, I said torture was approved by the Congress of the United States of America Here is
[quote]Plus the national guard is part of the US Military not the Texan militias.[/quote] Last I checked the National Guard was under the control of the Governor. Remember how some liberal Governors threatened to keep thier people home and not send them to Iraq? Texas Air National Guard has the same planes as the Air Force, the Texas National Guard has the same tanks and weapons as the Army. The Governor has the right to control them and the President has to get their permission to us
[quote]Homicide rate in the US is more than twice that of the UK. Try again.[/quote] please expalin, if banning firearms was supposed to save lives and the murder rate stayed the same then banning the weapons had no effect other than to change the method of murder. What does the murder rate in the US have to do with the murder rate in the UK. Did you think that banning them in the UK would have an effect in the US? one last point, if the murder rate is twice that than
[quote]Gee, maybe I should have stayed away longer![/quote] Hello, and welcome back [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote]Also I highly doubt there would be any exchange of fire at all. When you see a bunch of tanks, air support, plus all the ground forces at the disposal of our military I have a feeling the militias would lay down their arms and surrender, even with our military stretched as thin as it is today.[/quote] Are you saying that the national guard is that weak?
[quote]And I don't think it matters when it was added. The US government should not promote any religion or religions.[/quote] Why do you say that? There is nothing in the constitution that forbids it. Are you going to choose what is best for the rest of us?
[quote]The difference between then and now is that we have a well funded (more so than the militias in Texas anyway) US military. Do you think any of the Texas militias could actually stand up to the US military? I doubt it. [/quote] Think again, look how people were crying over the death of terrorists and imagin it happening right here in America. One kid gets caught in the crossfire and the president will be impeached for genocide.
[quote]Paladin: apparently he's ignoring anything and everything written that doesn't back his point.[/quote] He does that with all his posts, I write not to him but the people that read his foolishness so they can get some balance. [e digicons]B)[/e]
[quote]Going that fast at night is reckless.[/quote] Remember that they hit a blackberg, it was spotted less than a mile away and the ship needed three miles to stop. If it were a normal berg that reflected light and was contrasted by the dark water then they would have spotted it sooner. The reports of ice came in but not all the messages made it to the bridge or the captain. The list you gave of ice was from the radio log that survived so yes, they had the warnings but it is
[quote]So how come the UK (no guns allowed) for example doesn't have so many issues of gun crime proportionately to the US?[/quote] You ask this question because you did not read what I wrote, or you ignored it. Death by firearms is down in the UK, the murder rate stayed the same, people just used cricket bats, knives, and hammers to kill instead of a pistol or rifle. So the next logical setp is to outlaw knives, bats, pipes, and hammers because they were used to replace guns. Continu
[quote]This seems a bit absurd. 1) most ships can't sustain their "top speed" unless they are in 100% ideal conditions.[/quote] Sort of crazy in hind sight. Keep in mind that the California was twenty miles ahead of where the Titanic struck the ice and was in the middle of the ice flow and stopped for the night. The Carpathia was fifty miles behind the Titanic and traveling slowy because of ice. Between the two the area was clear of ice. Thats seventy or eighty miles o
[quote]Exactly 10 years after the horrific massacre at Columbine High in Colorado, the country must question itself over the unristricted access to guns and firearms of various kind. It is no use saying that the citizens have a constitutional right to bear arms, as the Bill of Rights lays down thwe condition in a "national militia". Therefore the founding fathers of the US Constitution did not envisage a situation in which a gun culture would emerge and flourish in the USA. Since that inciden
[quote]Yhea. That spending plan came totally out of nowhere. NOBODY would have seen it coming, with the economy that is crushing down and the whole "election" thing that happened last year, when he said he'd do something about it.[/quote] Let’s see, when Mr. Bush was running for office he said there was a coming recession and he would fix it. He was elected and p
[quote]not true basic Christianity. There is no symbol worship. No icons. No statues. Christmas can be a pagan holiday or a Christian one depending on how one celebrates it. Same with Easter. There is pagan influence in both. [/quote] This is why I celebrate Passover, Easter is just Passover for Christians.
[quote]Christian religion is much more closer to any kind of symbol worship than the Muslim religion ever have been.[/quote] You only say that because you dont' know what you are talking about and you take the mistakes and failings of once sect and paint all of Christianity with it. The word GOD is a generic term not the name of a specific god. The God that Jews, Christians, and Islamist pray to is the same God. This God has a name but we are forbidden to say it out loud excep
[quote]Even climate change advocates say that the temperature has only risen an average of about 2 degrees worldwide in the last couple decades, which is clearly not enough to cause a ship-sinking ice flow.[/quote] Yeah, and the Global Temprature dropped two degrees last year after it was doing so well. I wish they would stop fooling with the numbers because now after 25 years of global warming we are now being told that we are going into an ice age that will hit us in the next 30,000
[quote]I guess my point is that you really have no reason to say it was caused by global warming. You can't prove that it was.[/quote] Just using the same logic of the Global Climate Change nuts of today. Except that it was a warmer than usual winter, there was a huge break off of ice similar to what happened in antartica, and so many ice bergs so far south that they could not keep track of them all. Going through the records it was discovered that there were six large bergs i
[quote]The Shield of David has also never represented Judaism. The Minora represents Judaism. The Shield of David represents solely the House of David and the Jewish state, not the religion or even the people.[/quote] It has been adopted since as far back as I can remember. I do remember radio commercials in the 20's and 30's where Mogen David was used on anything Jewish in America, it was even used on steel wool soap
[quote]you seem to think that every plane crash involves the plane slamming into a building, that is EXTREMELY RARE.[/quote] Plane crashes are extremely rare! When I worked for the Airline industry the pilots called a landing a controlled crash, the mechanics called a take off, "Another miracle". [quote]Most commercial airliner
Oh please, next they will want to take the star of David off the one dollar bill. on the back of the one dollar bill are the 13 five pointed stars placed about the eagle formed into the star of David. This was done to honor the banker that helped finnance the revolution. George Washington asked what he could do to honor the man and he replyed that America in some form remember the Jewish people that helped. The Star of David was placed on the one dollar bill to let Jews know that we r
[quote]1: If you try and parachute out of a plane at/above 35000ft, you will most likely die. 2: If you try and parachute out of a plane at/faster than 550mph, you will most likely die. 3: Retrofitting commercial airlines with parachutes would cost a fortune and plane ticket prices would sky rocket. 4: There are not enough parachute manufacturers to make parachutes available to all US airliners. 5: Parachuting from the heights at which commercial pl
[quote]*resets clock for "Hours since last time Obama was paranoialy called a Nazi*[/quote] How many times did you reset the clock when Mr. Bush was called a Nazi?
[quote]You clearly don't seem even remotely interested in checking your main ally in this side of the middle-east when it comes to citizen's right, etc.. It's all an affair of convenience, and you don't have any problem in letting your past leader swim in the money that came from over there. In the meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is one of the most lobbyist in the muslim world promoting backward ways of doing things and opposition to secular governements, the very thing we are trying to avoid in the
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