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[lecoqsportif]

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Flying Spaghetti Monster!!! :thumbsup(22):

 

[JaysCyYoung]

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YouTube is the most hilarious place for pissing off Muslim extremists. My favourite example from my inbox after pointing out that Muhammad was a child rapist:

"JaysCyYoung1 **** you u ****in illiterate son of a bitch. U dont get to say that about the Last Prophet....run after ur life...u will burn in hell u ass! As if ur religion is perfect....all u canadians and americans do is get shit faced and humiliate urselves u dirty whores !"

 

[northernlou]

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I think you made a new friend with the controversial approach, very ballsy....good work.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

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I can't tell you how many hell threats I've got. People sure are adament about the existence of an imaginary place aren't they?

 

[northernlou]

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No kidding, for starters it's called Hades.

 

[theREALkoreaboy]

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.all u canadians and americans do is get shit faced and humiliate urselves u dirty whores !"

THIS is more evidence to back up the point that has been ridiculed by lefties here and everywhere- they hate us because of our freedoms.

it is 100% true. this statement shows it again. i think there is a genuine belief among many outside of the west that we are all weak, debauched, immoral, and lazy because of the freedoms that we enjoy, and FIGHTING that "freedom" and keeping their own religion and culture "pure" is what motivates them.

 

[lecoqsportif]

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The Kristian Taliban are no different. Except they're trying to tear down our liberal democratic societies down from the inside.

 

[theREALkoreaboy]

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what a stupid statement. equating christian churches to human garbage who throw acid on girls' faces, gas girls' schools, snip off their cl!ts, and beat people who aren't wearing beards is beyond stupid. its a stupid only self-loathing radical leftists are capable of.

 

[lecoqsportif]

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what a stupid statement. equating christian churches to human garbage who throw acid on girls' faces, gas girls' schools, snip off their cl!ts, and beat people who aren't wearing beards is beyond stupid. its a stupid only self-loathing radical leftists are capable of.

They can blow up federal building with nursery schools in them. Shoot doctors. Nice.

Anyway, I can assure you I'm not even remotely self-loathing. How can I be self-loathing if I don't at all identify (and never have) with the cultural norm you purport I've turned against? Illogical. Oh, and I like low income taxes (well, as low as possible), free trade and I think those people who protested in Seattle, etc. are meatheads. Yeah, I'm a radical leftist. Fool.

However, I have little regard for foam-at-the mouth, xenophobic nutters living in cartoonish, paranoid fantasies, regardless of their flag. They are all fellow travelers, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[MindzEye]

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Wow, a lot to catch up on tonight...I'll start with a blog posting that I've yet to verify, but could be really, really bad news.

http://www.correntewire.com/major_bad_changes_deep_below

Major changes happening at BP Disaster site:

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/2010/05...

There have been several major eruptions of the seabed under riser pipe. I've been watching and live-blogging all day. Some screengrabs. Whatever happened is very serious, and I am sure not good news for BP or even Republicans. Seabed dropped several feet, Spillcam covered in oil, Spew increased. New leaking hole in seabed. Possible casing failure.

 

[MindzEye]

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All of this short selling has to get dangerous at some point, no?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/.../Hedge-funds-bet-big-on-the-falling-euro.html

Hedge funds, including Hayman Advisers and Matrix Group, have told investors that they expect the sovereign debt crisis to worsen despite the €110bn (£79bn) bail-out by the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank.

There is evidence that bets against the euro are being placed by important investors around the world, which last week took the euro to four-year lows on fears Greece, Spain and Portugal may be forced to leave the single currency.

In Tokyo, the powerful Kokusai Asset Management has reportedly sold down euro assets in its $60bn (£41bn) Global Sovereign Open fund in favour of safer investments. The fund, which had been the biggest investor in Greek bonds in 2009, sold its entire holding in the troubled asset class in December.

According to the latest data from America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission, there were over 100,000 more contracts from traders betting that the euro would fall rather than it would rise.

Two weeks ago, the number of contracts placed by speculators expecting the euro to fall in value hit a record high of 113,890.

 

[MindzEye]

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Both sides of the aisle in the U.S bowing down to their corporate masters....

http://www.naturalnews.com/028845_monopoly_Big_Pharma.html

The United States Senate recently rejected two separate proposals that would have allowed the importation of cheaper medication from other countries, apparently in order to preserve a deal between the pharmaceutical industry and the White House.

The proposals were part of a wider effort to reform the U.S. healthcare system, in large part by cutting unnecessary costs.

Drug importation was first proposed by Sen. Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota, in an amendment to the healthcare bill. The amendment would have allowed U.S. wholesale and retail drug distributors, including pharmacies, to import products from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan or New Zealand, where price controls keep drug costs much lower than in the United States.

"Senator Dorgan's amendment could potentially allow unsafe, counterfeited drugs into the United States, contaminating our drug supply," (C'mon...really, that's honestly your reason...drugs from Canada might contaminate your drug supply)? Carper said. "This is a complicated issue that affects people's lives. We should make sure that the FDA says it's safe before we reimport drugs from other countries."

"My amendment includes strong safeguards to prohibit drug counterfeiting and other practices that would put the consumer at risk," Dorgan replied. "It applies only to FDA-approved prescription drugs produced in FDA-approved plants from countries with comparable safety standards."

and the Republicans giving BP a blumpkin

Republicans for the second time blocked legislation that would increase oil companies' liability for oil spill damages, setting off criticism from Democrats seeking to make BP pay for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) on Tuesday blocked a bill Democrats have put forward to raise the liability cap from $75 million to $10 billion. He said on the Senate floor he agrees the cap should be raised, but the Senate should "wait and see where the cap should be."

 

[MindzEye]

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Israel apparently agreed to sell nukes to South Africa in 1975


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.

The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret.

The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

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what a stupid statement. equating christian churches to human garbage who throw acid on girls' faces, gas girls' schools, snip off their cl!ts, and beat people who aren't wearing beards is beyond stupid. its a stupid only self-loathing radical leftists are capable of.

What they do in the name of religion is appalling, but you seem to want to wipe out christianity's history of subjugating women, burning people alive if they didn't follow your teachings...and how about wiping out entire cultures? How did things go when Columbus brought the, "word of god," to the Americas?
How did men of science fare with the church you seem to love?
"The world is round, it orbits the sun"
"No", says the church, "that contradicts the word of god, you must be punished."

Convenient there, the way you ignore what your religion has done.

 

[corksens]

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Wow, a lot to catch up on tonight...I'll start with a blog posting that I've yet to verify, but could be really, really bad news.

http://www.correntewire.com/major_bad_changes_deep_below

Why this is bad for BO is obvious. Why this is bad for Republicans is not.

Hasn't Obama been in power for well over a year?

How long down the road do we continue to blame past administrations?

Hell, I'm sure you're for the blasting of Harper and the Conservatives in Ottawa over the Afghan Detainee nonsense - yet it was the previous Liberal government who set up the whole thing.

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

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Who gave BP the option to NOT have a release valve? If that rig was put there by republicans than yes, they have to answer some questions.

And corksens, did you miss the blurb where the Reps are trying to keep BP's liability down instead of holding them as responsible as we can? Do you not see that the American publis may not see that as the best thing right now...sticking up for the idiots who have filled the Gulf with oil?

 

[corksens]

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No, I didn't miss that.

The Republicans aren't against raising the liability value - they just don't necessarily agree to an arbitrary number of 10 BILLION dollars.

What Obama should have done is start a government cleanup immediately. Instead it's been a month now with BP dropping the ball under Democratic watch and the situation has only gotten worse.

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

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This is not the time to be doing ANYTHING that looks like a defense of BP...even if it ends up that an enemy sub blew up the rig...that would still leave the issue of why no release valve. Republicans just can't stop putting their feets in their mouths.


Obama has a lot to answer for as well, but this thing where the Reps have to disagree in principle with ANYTHING Obama wants has now reached a new height...and yes it will cost them votes.

 

[corksens]

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Now is not the time to be talking about "what ifs" and questioning why BP wasn't required to have a release valve. All of that can be done once the problem is under control. I'm sure countless studies and committees will review the situation.

But as of TODAY there are still millions of litres of oil polluting the water. It is now the Obama administrations responsibility and no others.

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

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I want to know what happened in the first place...I haven't heard much...are they giving us theories or do they have anything concrete as to what caused the explosion?