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  UC Berkeley orders cancellation of Ann Coulter speech

  by freemindfade in

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  uc berkeley administrators canceled a scheduled speech by right-wing pundit ann coulter, saying they can’t protect participants from rioting if it goes ahead.

  http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-orders-cancellation-of-ann-coulter-11084299.php.

  now i am no ann coulter fan (although the sjw police on here will accuse me of being a fan shortly after posting this), but i am a fan of free speech!

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  Good - freedom of speech is over-rated [sic] - Ruby

  Would you care to elaborate Ruby?

  University students should be exposed to all sorts of shocking and controversial opinions. They need to learn that the world does not need to conform to their regressive liberal, SJW worldview. If they can't face up to ideas that they dislike and refute them peacefully with words and rational argument then they are wasting their time and their parent's money on a so-called education.

  They should be welcoming Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos and every other rabble-rouser they can find. Expose your precious values to every possible intellectual assault and see if they are worth anything.

  There should be no "safe-spaces" in university. We are witnessing a generation of cosseted snowflakes who expect authority-figures to ban and condemn everything they dislike. They are quite literally useless.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Phizzy - Edward I was a very long time ago. It's time let the guilt go. When Wallace defeated the English at Stirling they murdered raped and pillaged all the way to Newcastle. The past is the past.

  I am proud to be Scots and I want the best for Scotland. That is why I am against independence.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Scotland would work towards clearing the deficit as other countries do

  No sign of any effort in that direction so far. Freebies galore north of the border.

  Holyrood has extensive powers. Sturgeon cares only about her nationalistic ideology.
  
  
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  Jesus Christ dead for three days and three nights really?

  by Crazyguy in

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  has anyone done a detail research on this subject?

  the gospels seem to contradict one another and christians apologists have a bunch of different ways to try to explain away the problems.

  has anyone have a concrete explanation for or against him truly being dead three days and three nights as the story goes?.

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  Reconciling the gospel narratives of the resurrection is impossible.

  Mark was the earliest gospel and he doesn't even mention it. The women said nothing to anybody about the empty tomb because they were afraid. - The end.

  Did Jesus appear to the disciples in Judea or did they go back to Galilee first? Depends on which gospel you read.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Of course none of that matters a jot. Indy2 is not about the economy, it's fuelled by anti-English bigotry.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  ....and free prescriptions etc. etc.

  Scotland cannot leave the Union and join the EU. Even if they did the austerity budget the EU would demand would make current austerity measures look like extravagance.

  Scotland has a £15 billion deficit that represents 9.5% of GDP. That is worse than Greece. The EU demands a maximum deficit of 3% of GDP for applications for membership.

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  Scotland's Budget Deficit The Largest In Europe - Couldn't Join The EU If It Wanted To
  

  Four years ago, Scotland’s share of oil revenues topped £11 billion. Even in 2014-15, its share of North Sea tax receipts was £1.8 billion. The latest figures revealed that, by 2015-16, oil revenues had slumped to £60 million — a drop of 97 per cent in a year. ... Forbes
  
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  If we are further away from perfection, why are we more moral?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  as we know, witnesses teach that adam and eve were perfect and then committed the first act of sin and rebellion.. they in turn were cursed,and we all declined as their offspring.

  humans supposedly lived shorter and shorter lives, and became more imperfect and sinful.. the further away in time humans go then, they should be getting worse.

  so why is it then that as a society, humans have actually improved in so many ways?.

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  If anybody wants to read the data on this question see "The Better Angels of our Nature" by Steven Pinker.

  We are living in the most peaceful and prosperous time in all of human history.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Scotland voted No on the basis of UK in the EU.

  That was never part of the referendum. It's a pathetic excuse.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Another difference is 16 and 17 year olds were allowed to vote in the Scottish referendum

  That was cynical. That lot think Braveheart was a documentary. Not old enough to buy fags.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Maybe the SNP are as confused about the word generation as the Watchtower.