Dark Side has brought gratuitous rude remarks to a new low.
Unfortunate on all counts. Kudos to the apology.
Justitia Themis
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An Apology to Snowbird
by Dark Side ini apologized to snowbird in private for a insensitive and disrespectful comment i made on her "swan song" thread.
i told her i would post a public apology on the board if she wanted me to.
so here is my apology to snowbird exactly as i wrote it.. it's been brought to my attention a number of times that my comment to you on your "swan song" thread was offensive and uncalled for.
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why work your ass off in America till you Die? Retire out of this country and send our politician a message
by DaCheech inhttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-to-retire-comfortably-for-usnews-2643852806.html?x=0.
take your measly social security check and run.. my city/property taxes in nj alone went up to $8,500 a year (in 20 years it's gonna be $15,000?)..............
how can i retire here?.
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Justitia Themis
What happened to personal responsibility? What type of personal retirement planning have you all performed? Why are you relying on Socialistic support from the government?
I am a liberal, and I don't expect the US government will take care of me.
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Say NO to a mosque at Ground Zero!!
by Scully in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.
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while just 29 percent favor the construction.
I saw this poll last night, and I was quite pleased, but shocked. I commented to my husband that I didn't think anywhere near 29% of Americans would be able to put their emotions aside and logically process this issue.
Again, we must thank our founding fathers who had the forsight to establish a Constitution to protect us from the masses. How lucky we are that they feared them. Goooo Hamiltonian democracy!!!!!
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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Brits for instigating it.
CIA funded it. CIA produced the flyers that were distributed. CIA started the rumors re: Mossaddeg. CIA and Brits BOTH "instigated" it. No, the Ayatollah's have NOT been an improvement. However, it is highly unlikely we would be dealing with them absent the US government's and the Brit's involvement.
'You reap what you sow' applies to governments AND people.
agree with a lot what of you say Justita, and I see no one answered my observations. Successive US governments allowed The Irish to raise money for decades for terrorism, and part of the peace process their was there engagement in the process.
David
Hello David. I am not understanding. Sorry :( Are you saying the US should be more engaged with Iran?
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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Justitia Themis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Too bad that in their greed for Iran's oil, the US CIA and the British took out the democractically elected reformer Mossadegh. In his place they supported the Shah, the Pinochet of the Middle East.
Too bad the US puppet Shah's torturous regime was so bad that it politically united the moderate, reformer intellectuals and the fundamentalists, because they would do anything to get rid of him. Afterwards, the fundies (always the loudest and most violent of groups whether Christian or Muslim) took power and backed-out of every deal they made with the moderates.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s175q57&continuous=1 a video well worth watching
Too bad the Bush administration rejected the "Grand Bargain," a peace treaty offer from the Iranians that included peace with Israel and the U.S. Too bad that rejection led to the overthrow of the Iranian reformist government which led to the execution of many of the moderates and the rise of the Iranian fundamentalists...again.
Yes, too bad the West meddled and f*cked-up everything.
You're a little light on your history BTS.
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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very different ethnically too.
Yes...quite different. Iranians are white people. Arabs are Arabs.
just for laughs... :)
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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much of what goes in Afghanistan is neither instigated nor supported by Iran; The USA relied very much on Iranian help for the invasion of Afghanistan because the Iranian form Islam is very very different from that of the Taliban, (see my post to Freydo) and they loathe Taliban as much as the US does.
llbh, the vast majority of poster here see Islam as one vast monolith. That alone it sad; however, even more disturbing is that they are quite to content to remain obtuse to its nuances. Simply put, they like their prejudices and don't want to be disturbed with facts.
Some have knowledge of Islam, but lack any political perspective whatsovever. There is one poster (can't remember who it is) that claims to have studied Islam for 20 years or so...but never comments on the political backstory. So this poster has a very complete knowledge base of precisely one-half of the pie.
Our "success" in Iraq is also due to Iranian accomodation. One word from Iran and al Sadr could begin his Shia campaign of disrupting US supply lines...again. The IEDs that were used in the south were from Iran. They sent a clear message to George Bush that you will "win" only if we allow you.
If they wanted to be spoilers in the world, they would have already done so.
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How About A Muslim Music Video This Lovely Tuesday Morning?
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.youtube.com/user/awakeningrecords#p/a/u/0/qbicjwi7vrw.
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He didn't exactly mean to praise song, but if music is a threat to the sort of murderous theocracy over which Mr. Khamenei presides, well then here's to music.
Ah...a familiar theme. How many times as JWs did we hear about the danger of music with a 'throbbing African beat.'
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How About A Muslim Music Video This Lovely Tuesday Morning?
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.youtube.com/user/awakeningrecords#p/a/u/0/qbicjwi7vrw.
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My Law Professors Article On Conversion (His Own and His Wife's) To Catholicism
by Justitia Themis inhis reason for converting?
" the catholic church fearlessly preached the truth.
his website: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/~dewolf/writ.htm.
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His reason for converting? " the Catholic Church fearlessly preached the truth."
His website: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/~dewolf/writ.htm
His article: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/~dewolf/convert-d.htm
What I understood of Catholic doctrine I tended to like. I felt more at home with the consistency and high intellectual content of Catholic teaching. Compared to the mainline Protestant denominations, which had given in to the culture on many of the social issues, the Catholic Church fearlessly preached the truth. The Fundamentalists, on the other hand, who were good on the social issues, couldn't connect their heads with their hearts. Occasionally the two would be combined in an admirable individual--a pastor or a teacher but this disjunction prevented us from getting firmly attached to any church body.