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What about promoting the value of culture and art? Many of the most famous paintings are of religious persons or scenarios. Is displaying such paintings a violation of "church and state"? Are you allowed to only display famous works that are not of a religious nature? To me that's a very unenlightened view. Bye-bye Leonardi Da Vinci.

This thread IS perspective. No need to worry, either can I. I'm not really sure what one has to do with the other. What I do know, is that this threat is a thousand times greater then any nut against abortion. There's no denying that fact.

Three things you can always count on. Death, taxes, and Black Dog being wrong.Bin Laden to Issue Tribute to Al-Zarqawi CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Osama bin Laden will issue a videotaped message paying tribute to slain al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a message posted on an Islamic militant Web site said Wednesday. The message did not say when the video would be posted or whether bin Laden himself would appear in the video or just speak in a voice-over. The al-Qaida leader has issued three audiotapes this year but has not appeared in a video since one issued on Oct. 29, 2004. A similar "advertisement" was issued for an al-Zarqawi tribute put out last week by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. That advertisement appeared on the Web a day before the video was posted on Friday. *** The videos appear to be part of an attempt by al-Qaida's central leadership to tout their connection to al-Zarqawi, who emerged as a hero among Islamic extremists with his dramatic attacks against Shiites and Westerners in Iraq. AP

I don't think they would. However, I think they want to send Syria a strong message about their support of groups like Hamas.

Ok, I'm kinda getting tired of your propaganda. Canada is not getting poorer. Personally, I don't care about how tough Canadian students might find education in China. I think Canadians in general would find life tough in China. When you grow up with certain rights and freedoms, and a certain standard of living, it would be difficult to adjust to such a backward way of life. I couldn't imagine not being able to have as many children as I wanted, and of whatever sex. I couldn't imagine being paid such low and pathetic wages. I couldn't imagine being persecuted for practicing relgion (Falun Gong). I couldn't imagine not being allowed to speak out against the government. I couldn't imagine living in a country that censors the information I'm "allowed" to get from the internet. And I couldn't imagine living in a country with such little regard for environmental standards. Just how educated are they really?

Well, they better be proud and kind and polite and dignified, cause we all know what the consequences can be.

Why is this even news? Wow, Rush Limbaugh uses Viagra. I think he uses that stuff for acid reflux too, who the fuck cares? Seriously. So much for you idiots and your pseudo-concern with government and privacy. Keep fighting for your Al-Qaeda bill of rights though.

Ok, time to interject some reality. Like I've stated, I don't mind watching soccer once in a while. It can be very entertaining. However, to refer to it as "90 minutes of uninterrupted action" is a little disingenuous. Sometimes it can be more boring the watching paint dry. To sum up Black Dog's view, Soccer = good, American sports = bad. Why am I not suprised? Soccer's lack of equipment make it a suprerior game? Just a man and a ball? Wow, that's dramatic. BFD. The same could be said for basketball. When it comes to entertaining sports, I'd watch the same NFL game, or the same NHL game, or the same NBA game three times in a row, before your average soccer game. Hell, even the same MLB game if it's playoffs. Just my opinion.

Why does it matter if the Vietnam Vet is disabled? Actually, why does it matter that it was a Vietnam Vet? The only thing that should matter is what he had to say, which was what exactly? This is a classic example of what Ann Coulter has been rallying against. Liberal human shields.Anyways, on to the bigger issue. When will you people stop posting the same Ann Coulter quotes? These same quotes must have been posted a hundred times in numerous other threads. I'm sick of discussing them, I'm sick of having to waste my time typing out the same defenses. Do us all a favour. Go back, do a little research, write down the replies to previous posts so that we never have to answer for the same quotes again. It's ridiculous.

I had the opposite reaction. I was just about to post this under the category of "how long before liberals make more excuses for the Butcher of Baghdad?"It seems to me that many of you are missing the point. Saddam declared he had no WMD, not that he had no current/reliable WMD. His declaration to the United Nations was false, which was another direct violation of a litany of U.N. resolutions. His violations also include prohibiting U.N. inspectors for a period of four years. Deliberately defying inspections when allowed to inspect. Pursuing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and programs throughout the 90's and defying U.N. sanctions. Also violating the U.N. oil for food program, which greased the palms of nations opposed to Saddam's removal. Not to mention the funding of suicide bombers in Israel, and the firing on of pilots that patrolled the no-fly zones. He was bound by these agreements after he submitted to a cease-fire at the conclusion of his war-for-oil invasion of Kuwait. Again people, stop making excuses for the Butcher of Baghdad. It's unbecoming.

LOL. Of course I do. Seriously though. If a law is deemed constitutional, and one breaks that law, then one must be held accountable. And being a "journalist" doesn't mean you're above the law.

Great question. Here's hoping something's done.Rep. King (R-NY) And I'm calling on the attorney general to begin a criminal investigation and prosecution of The New York Times, its reporters, the editors that worked on this, and the publisher. We're in time of war, Chris, and what they've done here is absolutely disgraceful. I believe they violated the Espionage Act, the Comint Act. Damn right. It's time to investigate and prosecute. Those who leaked, and those who printed. Being a "journalist" doesn't mean you're above the law. :angry:

No. It's a pedophilic organization, and a gay organization. It's men loving boys, not men loving girls.

Welcome to the Home Page of the North American Man/Boy Love Association Our goal is to end the oppression of men and boys who have freely chosen, mutually consensual relationships NAMBLA Sickening.

Personally, I would think that homosexuals are the biggest contributers to homosexual pedophilia.

Thanks for the link. I never get tired of Ann Coulter video, especially when she's on with the mainstream liberal media. As usual though, it's the same old questions. You'd think by now, they'd have figured out that she believes what she says and writes, but I guess not.

With friends like these, who needs enemies??? Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror WASHINGTON, June 22 — Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials. The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving money overseas and into and out of the United States. Most routine financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database. Viewed by the Bush administration as a vital tool, the program has played a hidden role in domestic and foreign terrorism investigations since 2001 and helped in the capture of the most wanted Qaeda figure in Southeast Asia, the officials said. The program, run out of the Central Intelligence Agency and overseen by the Treasury Department, "has provided us with a unique and powerful window into the operations of terrorist networks and is, without doubt, a legal and proper use of our authorities," Stuart Levey, an under secretary at the Treasury Department, said in an interview on Thursday. The Treason Times Apparently damaging National Security, and outing multiple covert anti-terror programs is legitimate news reporting. However, if a government official outs a non-covert desk jockey in an attempt to correct the record of lies by that desk jockey's husband, we need a special prosecutor and multiple grand juries.

I really wish England had Owen healthy. I think they could win it all. But, without him, it's going to be tough to compete with teams like Brazil. I can relate to people who think soccer (football) is boring. Sometimes it can be very tedious to watch. However, the more you know about the game, and especially the players, the more you get out of it.

No silly, not that kind of terrorism. Ed Bradley Reports On Extremists Now Deemed Biggest Domestic Terror Threat When they first emerged in the mid-1990s, the environmental extremists calling themselves the “Earth Liberation Front” announced they were “the burning rage of a dying planet.” Ever since, the ELF, along with its sister group, the Animal Liberation Front, has been burning everything from SUV dealerships to research labs to housing developments. In the last decade, these so-called "eco-terrorists" have been responsible for more than $100 million in damages. And their tactics are beginning to escalate. Some splinter groups have set off homemade bombs and threatened to kill people. As correspondent Ed Bradley first reported last November, things have gotten so bad, the FBI now considers them the country's biggest domestic terrorist threat. Let's see: home-made bombs, plot involving guns, radical religious type beliefs...all there. Throw in people like Eric Rudolph and Ted Kaczynski and you've got a very serious problem.

If Burn's was banned, this forum is bullshit. That's my opinion.

That does seem like an odd way of arguing someone's position on an issue. Actually, replace the word odd with retarded. That's better.

If America lied, then so did Britian, France, Germany, Russia, China, and the United Nations. All of which had intelligence involving Iraq with WMD. The debate was what to do about it, sanctions vs invasion. Don't re-write history. You're the only one that's lying.I really wish the deaths of these soldiers was used in a different way from you people. Actually, not used at all. It's shameful.

Why even waste time with this thread. It's just another attack on President Bush/U.S. Military/C.I.A/F.B.I. It's the MO of the kook-left. Black Dog's intelligence agency must have already determined that this particular person had no useful information to provide, while at the same time, instantly accessing his mental capabilities.

Perfectly stated.That being said. What will happen when science/medicine is capable of correcting such variations and defects? I'd like to hear everyone's opinion.

Well, I want to make sure that nobody thinks I'm condemning anyone. There's nothing to condemn in my opinion. A person is born homosexual, that's quite obvious. However, a certain type of defect seems to have to exist in order for that to take place. What will be interesting, is when, if it happens, but when medicine and technology evolve far enough to be able to correct such defects. Such procedures are done on other types of conditions and abnormalities at the present time to babies yet to be born. I wonder what will happen, and what the ethical implications of those actions will be in regards to homosexuality.