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dhuxley
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Lisa
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 Posted - 10/22/2001 : 23:35:00 [Permalink]
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This is right up there with Falwell's attack. I find I'm very offended by the whole thing. My husband is sitting at a bomb dump in Qatar, most of my friends have been shipped off either to Saudi Arabia or (*classified*) and these pinheads are trying to make political hay. They should think a little less about their pocketbooks and a little more about the people who are actually out there in the line of fire to defend their freedoms.
So they want to be anti-science? Good. Fine. Whatever.
Let the entire staff of the ICR dump their cell phones, SUVs, and computers; and let them all go back to being hunter-gatherers.
Why are people using the freedoms that this country provides to push for a theocracy? I've seen a lot of silliness in the country over the last decade or two, but the rants from Falwell and the ICR really take the cake. If these assholes ever end up in charge, I'll probably move to Canada. Or the Dominican Republic (its warmer)
Lisa
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James
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Posted - 10/23/2001 : 09:12:05 [Permalink]
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Lisa, want to come with me to the Mediterranean?  
Prayer is nothing more than "spiritual masturbation". -theatheistknight |
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Trish
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Posted - 10/23/2001 : 09:13:34 [Permalink]
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Yeesh! You warmth seeking people - Canada sounds just about right - snow and lots of it! (Yes, I'm slightly strange.)
BTW, these people really need to get a life and quit trying to make stories fit their conception of life.
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/23/2001 : 09:15:38 [Permalink]
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...now accepting applications for folks to join me in the Caymans
(lots of wonderful scuba/snorkeling there!) |
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@tomic
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Posted - 10/23/2001 : 09:19:45 [Permalink]
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I've been looking to Canada myself. Every time I go to British Columbia i want to stay.
@tomic
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Lisa
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Posted - 10/23/2001 : 10:36:53 [Permalink]
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Lisa, want to come with me to the Mediterranean?
The Med is pretty nice. I vacationed a couple of times in Mallorca and once on Rhodos.
For warm beautiful water try the Maldive Atoll in the Indian Ocean. The only drawback is that the authorities tend to insist that everyone wear a bathing suit.
Lisa
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James
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Posted - 10/23/2001 : 18:22:57 [Permalink]
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Lisa, want to come with me to the Mediterranean?
The Med is pretty nice. I vacationed a couple of times in Mallorca and once on Rhodos.
For warm beautiful water try the Maldive Atoll in the Indian Ocean. The only drawback is that the authorities tend to insist that everyone wear a bathing suit.
Maldives are nice, but, IMO, too close to the religious crap-trap in Africa & Arabia for my tastes. How about Australia for an alternative?
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Lisa
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Posted - 10/24/2001 : 19:53:23 [Permalink]
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Maldives are nice, but, IMO, too close to the religious crap-trap in Africa & Arabia for my tastes. How about Australia for an alternative?
Australia is a bit out of my price range right now. Yeah, they're Muslim in the Maldives, and very warm and friendly. As you know, Muslims cannot consume or serve alcohol. So they hire Sri Lankans. Hey anything for the tourists seems to be their motto.
Ah well, I already have a paid-for trip to St. Kitts, just have to get around to taking it. It was snowing here yesterday, so I'm really looking forward to it.
I've heard some folks are afraid that terrorists will start striking at popular tourists spots around the globe. Anyone else heard this one?
Lisa
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Piltdown
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 10/24/2001 : 23:25:49 [Permalink]
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If these assholes ever end up in charge, I'll probably move to Canada. Or the Dominican Republic (its warmer)
Lisa
This is one of the things that is literally at stake in the terrorist war. As somebody pointed out a while back, it is a truism that failure would benefit radical agendas. Those left-wing radicals who apparently hope that American defeat would benefit their agenda are deluding themselves, however.
The religious right is already positioning itself to take advantage, it has many times the electoral power and a gigantic, ready-made network much larger, more ruthless, and more widely spread than any peacenik/pop-culture anarchist fantasy of revolution. I probably don't need to mention that they are also much better armed.
The creationist/religious right message; based on salesmanship, emotionalism, status-seeking, and lowest-common denominator rhetoric; is perfectly tailored for a mass audience.
Already, I have heard rr activists blame the academic community in general for the attacks. They dismiss any possibility that the academic world is not populated entirely by Noam Chomsky wannabes and flag-burning dope smokers. "If you're part of it, you're the enemy" one of them told me. She sneered when I mentioned my Purple Heart. In the past, this has always been an ultimate (though desperate and unseemly) trump card with these people. It is intellectualism itself they hate, not the specific positions that might be reached through intellectual endevour. They are smelling blood.
They could easily blame military failure on "political correctness" and other heathen influences in the military. This, too, is already being done in advance, with a ready-made supply of anecdotes and claims being trotted out. This can reinforce traditional bellyaching about the military "going soft"; and shape it into a specific agenda.
Disaster will bring the religious right to power in this country, just as defeat in World War One brought the Bolsheviks to power in Russia and, ultimately, the Nazis in Germany.
Abducting UFOs and conspiring against conspiracy theorists since 1980.
Edited by - piltdown on 10/24/2001 23:54:59 |
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