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  • Lounge, The Re: Muslim Man Convicted(?) for Converting

    Gal, if the attack we personal, I would attack her character: I don't really care what she's like as a person. However, I've backed up all the arguments I've made ...

    Mar 30, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The results are in! Kadima pwns Likud in Israeli elections

    With a majority Jewish population? Ouch.

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie

    Thankfully for the interests of representativeness, there's just as much Jewish propaganda as there is Arab propaganda. To be honest, everything you've just said could be applied to Israelies as ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The results are in! Kadima pwns Likud in Israeli elections

    Firstly, it was in the Times; then it was on the BBC; then it was also in the Christian Science Monitor (God bless Google newsflash) and then again in another ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The american race?

    I believe that humans make up a great many things to try and make their lives easier: nations are one of them. It doesn't mean that they are absolute, it ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie

    Yes, but it doesn't mean she got what she deserved OR what she wanted.

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The american race?

    Of course they do: they're just not the only borders we're subject to in our lives.

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Muslim Man Convicted(?) for Converting

    The punishment for conversion is death. It is what it is, right or wrong. This man chose his fate. I will argue no longer. Then you walk away on the ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The results are in! Kadima pwns Likud in Israeli elections

    Making his party the third biggest in the country: that's like the BNP beating the Liberal Democrats in the UK elections. That that kind of policy is accepted and endorsed ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie

    So now stupidity and/or standing up for yourself are punishable by death? We wouldn't have anyone on the face of the planet if that were true.

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Narrative Poetry Re: A Question of Loyalty

    Yeah, I should skip intros. They kind of screw things up. Anyway, as for the stille nacht - it was kind of meant to be ironic: the Christmas Carol "silent ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie

    Unfortunately, no-one else seems to be doing anything about it. It's quite refreshing to see somebody actually getting off their backside, getting over to the place where there's a problem, ...

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The american race?

    The problem is that every passing year makes the development of that "culture" less and less likely - globalisation, internationalisation, the Internet, multi-culturalism - all these point toward a di

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie

    Yes, well - all that said, it's not very nice to run over *anyone* with a bulldozer, idiot or not.

    Mar 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The results are in! Kadima pwns Likud in Israeli elections

    Patriotism is fine, but Lieberman frightens me: the man is a fundementalist and a manic - any politician who wants a pledge of alligence to the state religion is walking ...

    Mar 29, 2006


Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
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