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- Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:51 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: clemency for 27 years, non violent first time drug offense?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 957
Re: clemency for 27 years, non violent first time drug offense?
I am happy to see the true libertarian being consistent in this thread. Legislating morality is awful business. Drug laws are absurd at best, cruel and unusual at least. This is the first thing I found and I don't know if it is totally accurate, but the idea is valid: Government statistics (for 36 s...
- Sun Feb 14, 2010 7:17 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
I've decided that the cons are right...
http://i.imgur.com/A1BuB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/A1BuB.jpg
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:27 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ROFL, octomom on the dating show Kimmel style
- Replies: 2
- Views: 285
Re: ROFL, octomom on the dating show Kimmel style
Man, that was awkward as hell. Totally fn funny though. Have you seen the pictures of her in a bikini? Oh my god, how is that even possible?
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:15 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: fatwa, no body scanners
- Replies: 12
- Views: 823
Re: fatwa, no body scanners
Like the Romans?
- Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:43 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: fatwa, no body scanners
- Replies: 12
- Views: 823
Re: fatwa, no body scanners
There is a pretty obvious correlation between the aggressiveness and overtness of a country's foreign policy and the attention of terrorists. Suggesting we examine that is not the same as suggesting that we become friends to all.
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:10 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: fatwa, no body scanners
- Replies: 12
- Views: 823
Re: fatwa, no body scanners
Yeah, have you seen the other option? Full pat down and inspection. Who cares...the system is broken...we're a reactionary country. Shoe bomber? Now you have to take off your shoes...liquid threat? Now you have to get your water bottle tested. Etc etc. The answer is real security through trained per...
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:26 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
Because I'm so smooth with the ladies
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:13 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
Yeah, sorry for going out of town at a critical moment...I missed all the action (ha, punny). English is, in fact, my second language because I grew up fluent in bullshit. Yes, there was a study -weakly- linking abstinence-only sex ed with delayed first occurrence of intercourse. My reasoning for br...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:56 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
Corth wrote:This is where Todrael posts something that is apparently wise and somewhat cryptic, while also remaining above the fray. Todrael, your turn.
I like the fray...and I'm touching myself
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:53 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
I own three businesses...I am hardly against the free market. I'm against strategic liassez-fairre nonsense that many Libertarians spout off about and, quite frankly, use when convenient. By the way, I'm pretty sure that we were founded on religious freedom as a result of moral oppression, but I cou...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:35 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
That's absurd. Privatizing education like that will lead us to proles and bourgeois faster than we already are. Our country is built on the foundation of public education and equal access. Are there studies that show private universities being more efficient than public ones? Anyway, I heard that th...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:14 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
I figured that would be the response...so I did a google search for typical kindergarten curriculum... Other skills Health and physical education: Learn essentials about nutrition and functions of the body Social studies: Identify major religious and civic holidays and historical figures; appreciate...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:59 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Seed bombs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 768
Re: Seed bombs
Well, not to split hairs here...but I would guess that there are more ornamental poppies in the world than psychoactive ones, maybe by orders of magnitude. Also, Afghans would grow wheat if they could make a living doing it. They grow opium to make money! Bombing them with wheat seeds is not going t...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:46 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3177
Re: UN, Planned parent hood, sexualizing the children
This is from the article: Under the U.N.'s voluntary sex-ed regime, kids just 5-8 years old will be told that "touching and rubbing one's genitals is called masturbation" and that private parts "can feel pleasurable when touched by oneself." Is that what constitutes "kids as...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:07 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Seed bombs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 768
Re: Seed bombs
The idea reminds me of when I was a kid and would design a perfect house...juvenile and clumsy. And this is gonna be my secret gun room and this is where I keep the tigers and this closet leads to a tunnel to the outside... The only thing ecologically interesting about the idea is the capsule with t...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:30 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Seed bombs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 768
Re: Seed bombs
The reason there aren't plants in non-arable areas isn't due to a lack of seeds.
And why are more plants a good thing?
And why are more plants a good thing?
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:36 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7028
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
I love how it's all about the cold, hard science until it's about emotion.
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:12 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7028
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
The current estimated cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is nearly $1 trillion...4400 killed American soldiers and 31k wounded.
Maybe you're barking up the wrong tree.
Maybe you're barking up the wrong tree.
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:52 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7028
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
It seems like basic scientific process stuff to me. Peer review means that one person or group puts out work and then other people and groups review it. The process itself is slow. I am still having papers published from work that was done seven or more years ago...on climate change actually. The ma...
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:54 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7028
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
Well come on liberals. Defend your report. Defend the process, defend the UN and their proclamation that global warming is proven. First, an IPCC partner challenged the report. That is the process. The fact that you are linking this story shows that the process works to some degree. Second, it is a...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:00 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: dungeons and dragons ban in prison?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 860
Re: dungeons and dragons ban in prison?
FTA
I can't say I fully agree with the decision to bar AD&D, but I can say that I understand the reasoning behind the decision.
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:58 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: GDP up 5.7% in Q4
- Replies: 16
- Views: 699
Re: GDP up 5.7% in Q4
The point is that there was a logical argument: Stimulate economy, make needed changes to fundamental systems in order to prevent a repeat of the crisis. Step one, check. Step two: President Barack Obama proposed a major overhaul of the U.S. financial system Wednesday, unveiling measures he hopes wo...
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:16 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Flowchart please?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1082
Re: Flowchart please?
Front page stats:
50% of threads were started by Kiryan
24% ended by Teflor
34% ended by Kiryan
So, for the math challenged...58% of threads end with a comment by Kiryan or Teflor.
It may not be a flow chart, but it would give someone pretty decent insight into how this place works.
50% of threads were started by Kiryan
24% ended by Teflor
34% ended by Kiryan
So, for the math challenged...58% of threads end with a comment by Kiryan or Teflor.
It may not be a flow chart, but it would give someone pretty decent insight into how this place works.
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:32 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: dungeons and dragons ban in prison?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 860
Re: dungeons and dragons ban in prison?
Crazy. I don't understand how you can adamantly advocate for personal freedom and then support this nonsensical, emotional ban on an arbitrary activity. Some evidence, any really, that playing d&d could do anything harmful would be at least something to base this on. As the article points out, t...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:46 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: John Daily Goodness
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2497
Re: John Daily Goodness
Serious question.
Has anyone ever 'called out' Jon Stewart in the way that he does to pretty much everyone in the media/politics? Like a good video clip segment that shows him making stuff up, lying, being deceptive, contradictory, etc?
I ask that because I honestly think the answer is no.
Has anyone ever 'called out' Jon Stewart in the way that he does to pretty much everyone in the media/politics? Like a good video clip segment that shows him making stuff up, lying, being deceptive, contradictory, etc?
I ask that because I honestly think the answer is no.
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:55 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: wow, what a bunch of bs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3106
Re: wow, what a bunch of bs.
Maybe because he is American? Just a thought. This thread is absurd.
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:45 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Massachusetts special senate election
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3430
Re: Massachusetts special senate election
This kind of anger? "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that d...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:31 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: wow, what a bunch of bs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3106
Re: wow, what a bunch of bs.
I think it is cool how you are hanging your proverbial hat on the anecdotal evidence of a pro wrestler. Clearly, this health care comparison debate is now closed. You must have the memory of a 14 year old girl if you don't recall the many places I've discussed socialized medicine. If I have to deba...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:09 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Teffie
- Replies: 5
- Views: 657
Re: Teffie
Yeah, weird how you just stumble on stuff like that...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:59 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: wow, what a bunch of bs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3106
Re: wow, what a bunch of bs.
I think it is cool how you are hanging your proverbial hat on the anecdotal evidence of a pro wrestler.
Clearly, this health care comparison debate is now closed.
Clearly, this health care comparison debate is now closed.
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:27 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Massachusetts special senate election
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3430
Re: Massachusetts special senate election
Okay, while I am waiting for a response from Sen Brown's scheduler and agents, I thought I would ask... So, Kiryan, you post like twelve links a day about the failings of the liberal machine. I am just wondering where the outrage is over the activist (conservative) Supreme Court decision to utterly ...
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:16 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: I guess GWB wasn't so stupid after all mr professor
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4085
Re: I guess GWB wasn't so stupid after all mr professor
The fact is that there is a standing order (as of Dec 15, 09) to close the camp and move all the detainees. This recommendation was made by a "task force" and is waiting for approval from Obama. In other words, nothing has changed. Maybe we can be outraged once there is a change in the pol...
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:11 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Massachusetts special senate election
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3430
Re: Massachusetts special senate election
I'm currently busy lining up dates with Sen Brown's daughters.
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:20 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Massachusetts special senate election
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3430
Re: Massachusetts special senate election
Man, this is an extremely disturbing change of course. I just can't help but wonder what it would be like today if she had run a real campaign. Would it still be a referendum on Obama and his agenda or would it just be 'business as usual' in Boston? On the other hand, jesus, where was the Dem leader...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:52 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Conservative logic fail
- Replies: 9
- Views: 859
Re: Conservative logic fail
Huh. The conservative rhetoric is that we are becoming a nanny state. The implication is that we will lose our 'drive' and many people will stop working. Clear, direct correlations have been drawn to the EU and even the failures of communism. Or another way of putting it...does any conservative-lean...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:05 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Conservative logic fail
- Replies: 9
- Views: 859
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:13 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Wind farms vs endangered bats
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1258
Re: Wind farms vs endangered bats
House Democrats Seek Changes in Senate Bill
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/house-democrats-target-changes-in-senate-bill/
Americans versus Americans!
Ha ha, we're all effed.
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/house-democrats-target-changes-in-senate-bill/
Americans versus Americans!
Ha ha, we're all effed.
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:24 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: National Guard
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1847
Re: National Guard
Kiryan has it right. The deployment rate for the Guard can be pretty high depending on where she is. On the other hand, it is entirely likely that she would have a 'normal' life essentially in the same place she is now...after that first training phase...which is less than two months I think. Why do...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:02 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare as an incentive to work
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2823
Re: healthcare as an incentive to work
Was my post that convoluted?
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:52 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare as an incentive to work
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2823
Re: healthcare as an incentive to work
So, last night I had my car towed 50 miles, despite the fact that it is in perfect working order, because I didn't want to have to deal with the logistics of getting two cars to my farm. I had to manufacture some half-assed story about a stuck thermostat. Anyway, I was driving home in my truck think...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:52 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare as an incentive to work
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2823
Re: healthcare as an incentive to work
I don't follow. You are making a claim that subsidized health care is a disincentive to work. I think that is reasonable, but not significant. I am just pointing out that the US and EU, despite fundamentally different approaches to health care, have essentially identical unemployment rates. Followin...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:01 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare as an incentive to work
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2823
Re: healthcare as an incentive to work
So, the "best" case scenario is that the EU, with its fundamentally different approach to welfare, has 2% higher unemployment than the US...and maybe the difference is negligible? I guess that still shows that your premise is wrong. Most people want to work.
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare as an incentive to work
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2823
Re: healthcare as an incentive to work
I suppose this is a valid point. However, there are roughly one billion other incentives to work. For example: money, prestige, respect, skills, a sense of purpose, travel, pride...etc etc. So yeah, those are things that you will not get by collecting government health care and not holding a job whe...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:53 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7028
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
Yeah, I was being ridiculous...but also, I wish I could choose not to be part of the religion. This country does not have the religious freedom it pretends to. But anyway, you're absolutely right about the perceived damage...it has been a massive blow to the credibility of climate change science reg...
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:52 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7028
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
Group think? If we want to talk about brainwashed robots, we should all attend the vast majority of mainstream churches. Check your sources! An imaginary man told me this was true.
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:51 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Acorn, please explain this to me because I don't get it
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1760
Re: Acorn, please explain this to me because I don't get it
Jeez, you respond to a request to be specific with more ambiguity and the classic 'it is self-evident' line. Color me shocked.
- Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:25 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Android phones
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1728
Re: Android phones
I just got the HTC eris for free (wirefly) and I fn love it. My productivity is through the roof now, but my time in front of a computer has fallen off significantly. I upgraded from the motorola Q9c, but all my online apps are google, so the android is perfect. I am able to stay connected to my bus...
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:12 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Wind farms vs endangered bats
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1258
Re: Wind farms vs endangered bats
See, this illustrates a fundamental, frustrating point...the concept of using compartmentalization in argument. Not all "environmentalists" are on the same team! Not all wind developers are "environmentalists"! Not all issues can be judged by an "environmentalist" as &q...
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:00 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Debunked
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3204
Re: ClimateGate Debunked
Okay, so the only concrete thing we have here is that someone, we don't even know who, felt pressured. Like I said, article=garbage. Do you think it was the, "We would like you to consider signing on to this letter..." intro that made him feel threatened?
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:22 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Debunked
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3204
Re: ClimateGate Debunked
What data were deleted? I have a hard science background. I deleted data all the time. I even deleted data on climate change.
Is there any evidence that he/she was pressured? Any? At all? Besides their word for it?
Is there any evidence that he/she was pressured? Any? At all? Besides their word for it?