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    Senate Republicans block heating aid bill

    Here's to being a little confused as to how invading countries that want nothing to do with us protects our country (is it like Starship Troopers?) and how helping members of the greatest generation and innocent children live in a house not hellishly hot or frigid is destroying our nation. But...
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    Marx Is Dead, Long Live Marx!

    I don't see what the big gripe is with the French being offered choices as to who they wish to see leading their country. It's not as if they elect these loonies.
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    Do the poor (in America) just need to get a job?

    Really, I'd say with the third.
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    Reagan Statue To Replace Soviet Monument In Poland

    if a mod could reduce the size of that last post, I'd be appreciative, as I can't get the resizing to work :/
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    Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week

    har har. Living in Seattle, perhaps the most "alternatively cultured" neighborhood in the area is Capitol Hill... so upon hearing "Culture Shock on Capitol Hill", I immediately clicked, wondering what was going on now. But this was even better... this do-nothing congress might finally be at an...
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    Literalism and Original Sin

    Aye... but the second manner there explicates that God "knows" evil in an "Adam knows Eve" sense. That would imply that God practices evil. I have no problem with the premise that the word "know" is used to mean God understands evil... but if know is used in that manner, then it means Adam was...
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    Literalism and Original Sin

    Thank you for the response, but that leaves me with the second dilemna there. I'm shooting for an answer that gets around both of the dilemnas I mentioned, and hopefully doesn't create anymore. Does that mean God "knows" evil? But still, thanks for replying.
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    Literalism and Original Sin

    I don't mean to be disrespectful or argumentative in posing this question, though I expect that somewhere in the answering an argument will probably develop. Nonetheless, though not a literalist myself, I strive to maintain an understanding of others, and had a question stemming from some word...
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    Brazil re-elects President Lula

    It's a bit like Greenpeace's apathy towards Russia in the Cold War. Certainly, everybody knows that for every little thing that Greenpeace might gripe about in America, there were dozens of awful things happening in Russia... Chelyabinsk is a great example. Unfortunately, Russia could really...
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    Would you support this 10-plank party platform?

    Not in the least, as foreign aid can be a fantastic investment. A stitch in time saves nine. No. While I personally object to abortion, I do not see its illegalization as an effective way to reduce the number of occuring abortions. As for euthenasia? Not in the least...
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    Personality Test

    It states that I'm an INFP, but most of the expressions are fairly moderate, the strongest being "intuitive" at 25%.
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    Questions for the conspiracy crowd

    You blokes misunderstood my post. I was simply stating that even if the government was somehow involved, there's no reason the actual method of the attack couldn't be identical to their stories. There was no demolition. Simple. Of course, I've seen nothing to suggest government involvement.
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    Questions for the conspiracy crowd

    6. Do you not believe a government in full-fledged conspiracy has both the nerve and ability to fly a few airplanes into the Twin Towers, thus reducing the need for demolitions? 7. If so, why do you believe that they would have gone with such an unbelievable authoritative story (skyscrapers...
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    The U.S. Flag: Present on 9/11?

    Though we'd always been happy with a small flag that flew from near our front door, my grandfather was inspired to buy us a flagpole, and so we now have that just outside. I've got a pretty nice flag flying day and night, which is a lot more often than most people. It's just so that the...
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    United States Air Force chief suggests using weapons on U.S. citizens

    I have to admit, though perhaps it is blasphemy to say so, but I kind of like this chief's central premise, which reads to me, "If we're going to use a weapon as a non-lethal weapon, then we'd better be confident that it actually is non-lethal to the point that we're comfortable using it on our...
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    The New 'Christian' Democrats

    "OWW! I hit my thumb again!"
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    The New 'Christian' Democrats

    So, our friend begins his diatribe with a cheap, but typically unsubstantiated claim that Democratic leaders who claim to be both liberal and Christian are in fact "anti-Christian" and that their policies are rooted in a sliding scale of principles. If you don't like Democrats in the first...
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    Rebuilding Iraq instead of New Orleans

    As a country, we have an obligation to do our best to see that Iraq manages to maintain some stability and longevity into the future - and while that is difficult and costly, there have been some successes as well as some failures. We can't take back what we did a few years ago - but we have a...
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    Bush to dead soldier's mom: "How do you know his life would have been good?"

    It's been a little while, but I got a chance to poke my head in here and say hello. I've been down in California fighting fires these past couple months, and right now we're effectively on a couple days of R&R before we should be returning to the lines. So you all know, this screams "PHONEY!"...