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Will Robinson

Vander wrote:Mutual respect and a breakdown of tribalism.

That is the description of the human nature *after* the event I'm pointing you towards.

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Why not go big and say a sign of a healthy culture is no laws, and nobody ever felt the need for laws. It's about as realistic. Is it unrealistic, or just not practical given the state of human nature today. As long as government is the authority on, and solution to, 'what is offensive' the roles o...

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I'd love it if a business owner had the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. I think It would be a sign of a healthy culture if that was the way it was and no one ever felt a need for a law to mandate otherwise.

There really can't be liberty with equality until then.

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Can you please list some or all the Bills the Dems had defeated by filibuster during the time they had the super majority? Because the filibuster is the only thing that a republican could have done to stop them from doing all this good stuff you say they wanted to do. Obama ran on the catch phrase '...

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thanks for that, Foil. As I said in the OP, I know, too, that you aren't running high speed commuter runs through, say, Montana and Idaho. However, I see no reason why we haven't invested in highspeed rail between most major cities, especially on the coasts and up the Missisippi valley. I thought y...

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Too bad the democrats didn't have the House and the Senate and a President who was all for infrastructure type 'shovel ready jobs' because they certainly would have prevented that crash that the evil republicans caused.

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yeah, should have read 'another unarmed man' for accuracy. Otherwise, valid news. Really? That's the most relevant part of his status, demeanor and his actions that led to his death and exoneration of the policeman who shot him? You have a twisted perception of the meaning of the word "accurac...

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Thorne If I understood your point it seems you want government to regulate marriage in a healthy-as-defined-by-you way. That seems like a whole lot of surrender of freedom to the likes of congress. A solution you usually don't lean toward. Why not just accept that marriage, as far as government is a...

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...Plus, Christie is under investigation for misuse of Hurricane Sandy relief funds, so there's more than a few corrupt skeletons in his closet... Clinton was under investigation for obstructing justice, tampering with evidence, lying to the Grand Jury, sexual harassment, rape, etc. etc. etc. And y...

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woodchip wrote:And look where accepting gays as priests got the Catholic church....

You really shouldn't equate gays with pedophiles. Assuming that was the underlying punchline.

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Did Brady have any legal obligation to surrender his cell phone? If not I'd have to say your claim he refused to cooperate is a big so what... I think he is being punished for the league's inability to maintain a decent public image over the last few years with criminals being highlighted and mistre...

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callmeslick wrote:why? because he pasted a rather common Facebook meme?

You know it as such because you too have too much time on your hands...

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Spidey wrote:
callmeslick wrote:Just can't give the POTUS props for doing a great job, and working far more than vacationing, as opposed to the prior 3 Presidents, huh?
Funny, I didn’t think giving props for hard work was the theme in this thread.

No it is only another slick schadenfreude moment.

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Vander you are wrong the peer pressure aimed at moderate Muslims in western societies has begun to bear the fruit I'm alluding to.

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seriously? You're going to try and compare Columbia, South Carolina to a major city? Come on and get a grip, please. Of course, I was being sarcastic, but as always, trying to boil down complex socioeconomic issues of a serious nature into simplistic party politics is the idiocy that got my attenti...

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since when do I dictate cultural mores to anyone? Feel free to elaborate. Are you trying to say you never have dictated to anyone what is acceptable within our culture?!? in terms of moral behavior, mode of dress, artistic expression, or the like, no. I might suggest political and economic wrongs, ...

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... The reason you don't see GOP 'strongholds' having race riots is that they are largely segregated areas with an all-white populace, and that most of the locals are too busy marrying their next-of-kin. Lol, in slick's america you are either 'living under the protection of the democrats where the ...

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Isn't that what Twitter is for?

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... I'm suggesting, and I know this is crazy talk, that just because you can offend someone doesn't mean you have to. If you want respect you have to show respect. If you want respect but don't want to show respect, you're a dick. And the distinction that addresses your point, the distinction that ...

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callmeslick wrote:since when do I dictate cultural mores to anyone? Feel free to elaborate.

Are you trying to say you never have dictated to anyone what is acceptable within our culture?!?

I think that is your biggest whopper yet if you are....

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In the places the attacks occurred muhammed, nor any other prophet, enjoys the deference his followers killed people for not providing. If other Muslims want to be offended by the culture of their environment then they should learn to deal with it like the rest of their peers. Why did you qualify th...

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There is so much in our culture that is both offensive to Christians and completely accepted and supported by the masses that, if we are to be consistent, muslims should be expected to accept the cartoon drawings of Muhammed no matter what they depict him doing. We don't even notice the offensive-t...

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callmeslick wrote:Will, I try not to decide what is acceptable in other cultures. Hell, I have problems with folks dictating what is acceptable within my own diverse culture.

You are working on a comedy routine now? Or did you mean to say you "have a problem with other folks dictating...."

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callmeslick wrote:no, next up, more excuse making by the privileged.

Where did anyone make the initial "excuse"? And what was being excused?

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Vander wrote:I prefer Shia Islam over Sunni Islam.

I'd prefer they were both so marginalized that they couldn't even prop up a minor villain in a James Bond movie plot.

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Google women on street in tehran Then Google women on street in riyadh Hopefully the religious police don't catch any of those Iranian women for improper hijab. I think the photo shows that such do not have the sway in Iranian society that they do in the Saudi Arabian kingdom. Of course, you are an...

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.... The pro-tooners: Making these cartoons insults every Muslim, not only the whack jobs…clueless insensitivity. There is so much in our culture that is both offensive to Christians and completely accepted and supported by the masses that, if we are to be consistent, muslims should be expected to ...

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Next up....White Privilege = growing up with a Father

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Yep, and the million dollar question is who does the U.S. support as an ally and who does the U.S. want gone forever with a nuclear bomb? :roll: Truthfully neither and neither. But don't let reality interfere with your erection of straw men to swing at. It's like a liberal whiffle ball team getting...

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Who wouldn't want to create some peer pressure as incentive for the muslim community to clean up its culture? By the look of it, this AFDI group. Looks to me like a bunch of people being dicks. It looks like the event in question is them quite narrowly focused on being dicks only to psychopathic ma...

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Do you really think we need to stop offending these people?
Or keep challenging them and encourage others to stop making excuses and ridiculous rationale to protect, and thus enable, them?

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... First off, I agree that shooting someone over their views is just plain stupid, wrong and uncivilized. These Jihadists need to grow up from their adolescence and get a life. They're nothing but over-testosteroned juvenile delinquents using their religion as an excuse to perform murder and mayhe...

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Who would've known there were terrorists if not for these brave heroes. Who wouldn't want to create some peer pressure as incentive for the muslim community to clean up its culture? It isn't exactly the kind of dysfunctionality that can just be ignored out of deference to their feelings. These peop...

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Heh, true. If drawing the prophet didn't offend Muslims, I'm sure these people wouldn't give two sh!ts about it. I think the thing that makes them give a ★■◆● is the number of offended muslims reacting as psychotic mass murderers instead of the typical offended 21st century followers of the religio...

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I would think if a democrat was genuinely concerned about a president being able to implement a web site he wouldn't touch Fiorina's trivial bit of tech failure with a ten foot pole considering Obama's web site bungling and how many millions it cost us, not him. But then the implied integrity to the...

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It is curious that some are quick to ostracize the organizers when there would of been no event if Muslims weren't quick to kill people for being offensive to their religion. That is a distinction that they will always try to dismiss when in fact it is the cornerstone of the whole problem. But you ...

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Keep in mind the difference between teaching a kid with words to change behavior versus teaching them with blunt force to achieve the same end is the same lesson Dr King preached about when he taught his followers to use peaceful protest versus the kind of tactics the thugs in Baltimore used throwin...

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... I could go into the details of Geller et al, but can't be bothered with them further. They are as much the problem as the jihadists themselves. I think you just went WAY OVER THE TOP right there. You have equated people with mass murder as a goal with people who have publishing their offensive-...

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This looks to me like a bunch of people being dicks. So I guess you can murder someone for being offensive. It depends on which God you pray to and praying to the wrong one is also offensive and deadly. It's confusing too because the people who protested the museum celebrating art like a painting o...

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If the way she hit her son to get him out of the street so he wouldn't take rocks to a gunfight is the same way she gets him to brush his teeth and do his homework then she is abusive. And a bad parent. Chances are she is because in the street example of her methods her attempt to use words to get t...

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