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In Arizona's Maricopa County, the county that brings us Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the mailers that the county sent out the voter IDs with list the wrong election date in Spanish. On the English version the date is listed as November 6, on the Spanish version it is listed as November 8...

According to recent polling in North Carolina and Ohio, 15% of the Republicans polled said that Mitt Romney should get credit for killing Osama Bin Laden. 47% of the Ohio Republicans and 56% of the NC Republicans weren't sure which candidate should get the credit. Do 15% of Ohio Republicans...

...trying to figure out why in the world Mitt Romney is refusing to show his tax returns. It really doesn't make sense. I mean even if he paid a small amount, as long as it was legal. I tend to agree with Warren Buffett, it's really irresponsible to pay more tax than you have to. Then when...

Originally Posted by TScott Sure, LISP syntax has become a standard in AI, but you must understand then that LISP is using what it calls "atoms" which are representative tokens, in it's simulation of semantics. Not real AI. Or more to the point Strong AI. Artificial Intellegence has...

Must have been Martin's voice on the 911 tape pleading for his life just before Zimmerman shot him...

What is it in our mind that makes us make sense of what our senses are telling us. Philosophers and neural scientists tell us of qualia in our minds. When you see a red spot on the wall, how would you explain what you are seeing. If you were talking to a blind person who was born without...

St. John said it in his Epistle, and I think it is the very foundation on which the Christian religion rests. It's interesting that 500 years before Christianity Plato wrote about the relationship between gods and love. The Greek philosophers assigned gods to the many aspects of human behavior...

That's right, we need to end Socialism once and for all. We need to stop giving handouts to the poor and the aged, we need to stop all forms of public medical assistance. Put an end to the public school system, and all government aid to colleges and Universities. We need to quit building and...

Henry Tandey was one of the most decorated British soldiers in the Great War. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the Military Medal, and the Victoria Cross for three seperate actions in 1918. In one of these actions he rescued several wounded men, carrying them under fire to safety...

A kid who had worked in my office during the summer came for a visit the other day. He's in the army and was on leave from his second tour in Iraq. He said that most of the soldiers he knows over there are questioning our presence. The Iraqis look at them with hate in their eyes-they blame them...

I'd like to have a discussion on the similarities between Christianity and Stoicism as was found in the first century, and similarities with cynicism, (a forerunner of stoicism,) as well. For centuries there have been scholars who believed that Christianity was heavily influenced by Helenistic...

Heard a very interesting article this morning on NPR. I guess that in the course of cell research they've disovered that cells from an infant stay in the mother for years, even decades. These cells contain all the DNA characteristics of the baby and have been called "baby cells" by the...

When one compares the President George Bush with his father the first President George Bush, one realizes that this is a case where the apple definitly fell far from the tree. The two were never very close when George W. was growing up and he and his father were at odds a lot when W. was in...

What I find interesting is who is against the Patriot Act. It appears that this is an issue that the Classic Conservatives® and the liberals agree on. It appears that only the present administration and their followers support the Act. Newt Gingrich, Charlton Heston, Pat Buchannan, Bob Barr and...

What's with the so-called conservative Americans who are supporting the Patriot Act? What is with the so-called Conservatives in congress and in the White House that are promoting this legislation? When we were attacked on 911 the President declared that it was "an attack on freedom", then he...

On December 7, 1941 the US fleet was attacked at an island outpost in the Pacific. The attack sank several of our ships and killed over 2,000 of our people. The US responded by declaring total war on the attackers. The government and the people, regardless of politics became galvanized with the...

Many people think that JFK was killed because he was seen by the extreme right wing as a threat to the nation. He was seen as an appeaser to the communists just as his father had been an appeaser to the Nazis prior to WWII. Many have suggested that Kennedy's speech to the graduating class at...

How about a thread to talk about the sixties? We can discuss what we remember about the era, or for those who weren't around yet we can discuss the impressions they get from their parents and others. In the US, the sixties started with the New Frontier; a new generation made up of those who...

I doubt there has ever been a more controversial figure anywhere than Douglas MacArthur, considering how many people truly admired him and how many people truly despised him. Born into a military family, his father being a civil war hero, MacArthur claimed his earliest memory was that of a...

We don't always consider the actions of our enemies as being heroic, however in battle men on both sides can and do appreciate bravery displayed by their foes.. I'd like to dedicate this thread to a discussion recognizing heroic and daring deeds of our enemies. One of the most significant and...