Am I mistaken or is the process of making the original Damascus steel still a mystery? If I remember right, I once heard on a documentary that only three cranes in the
Posts by Adam
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I'm facinated by history and this "battery" is right up there with the pyramids and a bunch of other things that the ancients figured out, and which still puzzle modern humanity. I am convinced that there are technologies, peoples and powers of the human mind that humans once knew but are now lost to history. I often wonder how much knowledge and what ancient technologies were lost in the great fire of Alexandria.
The progress of ancient peoples that happened to live in what we now call Iraq has about as much to do with the current "national heritige" of that beleagured country as the mysterious clovis people have to do with the national heritige of modern America, zip. SaintSatan, you are right, it will be Saddam's fault. Do you know that Little Hitler is currently moving missle batteries close to mosques and sites of historical importance? So when that tyrant is finally thrown from power and his opressed people are liberated from terror, and in the process pilots destroy surface to air missles to keep from being shot out of the sky, will it be their fault that the cowardly Saddam, with typical lack of concern for the innocent people of his country or for anything of historical or cultural value to the human race as a whole, deliberatly placed them next to churches and historical artifacts in the full knowledge that these things would be targeted and destroyed?
Of course for every mosque destroyed and every historicly important building or item that is damaged there will be a cry against America while everyone completely ignores the fact that it was Saddam's decision to put known targets in those areas. Personaly I am beyond caring what people who close their eyes to the realities of the world think or say anymore.
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WTC building redevelopment
by Shakita ini saw numerous plans for a new trade center site, this is the one i loved best.
the tallest spire will be 1776 feet tall, symbolic for the year of american independence.
it features a memorial park 30 feet below street level, and a wedge of light to be shown every september 11 starting at 8:46am when the attacks started in 2001. .
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Personaly I would have liked to see the towers rebuilt exactly the same as they were, just one floor higher. But I know that's unrealistic. I like the new design very much with only one reservatiion: The diamond-shaped cut-away design at the top is remenicent of that building in Chichago, I would have liked to see something a little more original.
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Political Corectness must stop
by Adam inplease pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.
(the events are actual cuts from past history.
they actually happened!
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Gollum, I actually invited you to comment on my previous thread entitled "Political." Couple good questions about N.Korea there.
The balance between idoglogical and realistic is an ongoing struggle for every human community. Too coldly realistic and you end up with a statement like "most people in N.Korea are living in oppression and poverty and if we just went in with tanks and made N.Korea another state, the current problem would be fixed and the people more happy in the long run." Too idoglogical and you've got people screaming that "War is wrong!" even as their country is being invaded. Sometimes a people need to lean one way, and sometimes the other. The problem arises when different groups of peoples are leaning different ways or leaning the same way but to greatly differing degrees. The majority of Americans, acording to the most recent polls, is in favor of military action. Unless I am mistaken, the majority of mainland Europeans are against it. Here's looking forward to when the ballance is once again restored.
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Political Corectness must stop
by Adam inplease pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.
(the events are actual cuts from past history.
they actually happened!
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Gollum, political bickering is fun dude! Check my post just prior to this one titled "Political." It originaly started as an accidental enter button while preparing this one, but I've since added an interesting political topic to it. Thoughts?
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Political Corectness must stop
by Adam inplease pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.
(the events are actual cuts from past history.
they actually happened!
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Yes, bad people come in all shapes and colors. But if you are targeting the KKK because they have become especially violent lately you will waste time, effort, and resources if you start asking all the blacks and all the Jews a bunch of questions. Time, effort, and resources that may have been spent saving lives by focusing on white hicks from Alabama. Targeting Muslim extremists terrorists at airports is no different, yet because of the demand for political correctness, we are unable to use logic and reality in our efforts. Instead we are supposed to think that even a hint of knowledge- and reality-based bias is a million times worse than letting the bad guys in so they can kill mom. I dissagree.
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Political Corectness must stop
by Adam inplease pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.
(the events are actual cuts from past history.
they actually happened!
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I must give credit to an online friend. The last two paragraphs are the only ones penned by myself. The first part was posted on another site, on a board I moderate/host called the PC Patroll. I will post the link to give credit but strongly caution everyone that the board and the site can be decidedly harsh and offensive. You have been warned. http://pub47.ezboard.com/fthefukkyouforums3frm32.showMessage?topicID=115.topic
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(Screwed up and posted nothing. Figured I'd use the space for a couple questions)
Long story short:
N. Korea violated a fuel-for-no-nukes agreement with the U.S. They fired up the nuke plant so we cut off the fuel. We cut off the fuel, so they kicked out International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, pulled out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and threatened to abandon the 1953 Korean War armistice, a war they fought against the U.N. Now the US says that the issue of North Korea must be discussed multilateraly. The North Koreans want the talks to be bilateral. Even though the IAEA, the NPT, and the UN are all multilateral issues/organizations, seveal local countries, China foremost among them, favor bilateral talks.Question 1:
Do we appease the local countries and deal with them alone (and I could have sworn I just heard a bunch of people bitching about the U.S. doing things alone, but whatever) or do we stick to our insistance that everyone deal with them together?Question 2:
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Political Corectness must stop
by Adam inplease pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.
(the events are actual cuts from past history.
they actually happened!
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Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following Multiple Choice test. (The events are actual cuts from past history. They actually happened! Do you remember?)
1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a. Olga Corbitt
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwartzeneger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1979, the U. S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. In 1983, the U. S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and
thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kid
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1998, the U. S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted to a crash by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonny and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
Nope, ......... I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning former Governors.When the IRA was pursuing a compaign of terrorism, how would it have helped the British government to spend man-hours survailing and/or searching recent immagrents from Laos? When idealizm directly and with undeniable clarity contradicts logic, it is no longer idealism, it is insanity. Political Correctness in the United states has gone overboard in the worst way and is now directly affecting national security.
I am not intending to incite hate, I could post a number of examples where PC has gotten out of hand. Peoples lives have been ruined thru PC-motivated lawsuits, public officials have been forced to leave office for innocent use of the word "niggardly," and there are countless other illustrations of PC out of controll. I have chosen to use the example of security screeners at airports because of the dire reprecussions it poses to my country.
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