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Because God obviously loves us best. We can whip up a batch of cookies AND change the oil in the truck. ;)

No it isn't. You questioned the warrant requirement because you appear to have believed retroactive warrants give carte blanche for any kind of snooping. Which, in fact, they don't. Why do continue to insist that the 4th Amendment doesn't apply if "one end" of a call isn't in the US? Is a US...

FISA allows the retroactive warrants to accomodate emergency situations. Those warrants still must meet the requirement of any other warrant--if there was no probable cause before the surveillance took place, no matter what it kicked up, the warrant is not to be granted, and any evidence...

I'm not sure why more people here aren't concerned about Gonzales' statement that the President didn't go to Congress for formal authorization of the surveillance program because he didn't think Congress would give it to him. Shouldn't that tell you something? Is it not problematic to have a...

That they can go ahead and bang the incoherent drunk girl in the bathroom at the party because if she put herself in that position, she's at least partially at fault? I understand where you're coming from, I really do. Preparation and caution and necessary in all aspects of life, not just how...

I thought the previews looked twisted... and I mean that in a good way. I'll give it a look. You'd think the AFA would learn one of these days that their breathless boycotts of every affront to their sensibilities only create positive publicity for the very things they're hoping to destroy.

Okay, a couple of people said they'd hoped I had come up with a new holiday. So while lying awake waiting for Santa, I brainstormed the basics of a good way to end the year, no matter what variation of traditional holidays you might celebrate then already. This does not supplant, but rather...

Nah, no debate here--simply taking this completely inappropriate (for this forum) way to wish all my pals and sparring partners a very happy winter holiday of choice. This is where I hang out the most on CF, after all, so there you go. I'm hoping for a merry Christmas myself, with a healthy...

Oh. Well, that would explain all of my interactions with CC, then...

Have a merry Christmas there, twistedsketch. Godspeed, Arnold. I'm outta here.

I suspect the underlying reason why "we" cannot accept images of gay couples as stable, monogamous, normal people is because it undermines all the good-faith efforts to portray them as drug-addicted, jaw-droppingly promiscuous, STD-riddled drag queens whose sole purpose in life is to convert...

Ah yes, Kong... the hyper-sexualized big jungle ape is overpowered by primal lust and loses his mind over getting his freak on with the paragon of human innocence, the helpless blonde female, and is destroyed when his obsession threatens to destroy the paragon of Western society, New York City...

In a place like... the real world? He best keep her locked in a room in his own house, then...

BZZZZZT, nope, sorry, wrong. No one here that I have seen advocates "anything goes." If you had paid even the slightest attention you would have see the words "adult" and "consent" put out there. If it happens between two consenting adults--here, "consenting" fully implies competence--it's okay...

I suspect that someone who wants to leave his wife and children will be looking for encouragement (or "signs" supporting what he really wants to do) just about anywhere he can find it. That is, simply viewing that movie (or any gay-positive movie or other entertainment medium) isn't going to...

I don't recall seeing life-long partnership being presented as "standard fare" for homosexuals any more than they are the norm for heterosexuals. The point of publicizing those examples was to demonstrate that the stereotype of ALL homosexuals being pathologically promiscuous sex fiends who are...

Oh, get over yourself already. We accomodate heterosexual unions in every state in the union so that straight people might "find their happiness." Or, you know, whatever. It is statistically likely that within any population of people getting married, at least some of those marriages will end in...

Sure, I'll bite. If both parties are competent, consenting adults, then no, I can't come up with a compelling argument against it. Its rather large ick factor for me is not, as has been pointed out in other contexts, a valid argument. I have read conflicting arguments about the risks of genetic...

No matter what label you slap on it, you're talking about deviations from the norm. And before anyone jumps on those two words, "deviation" does not have negative connotations any more than "norm" has positive connotations. It simply means that some people exhibit traits not shared by the...

So why do so many Christians constantly rely on OT quotes as examples of The Rules we're all supposed to live by?