You responded to my perfectly valid point by sarcastically replying exactly what I said? :? Violence is only down in Basra because the mehdi army has nothing to shoot at and any terrorists there have gone to other provinces. Withdrawing only gives you situations like we had a few months ago.
Did I say we shouldn't let them parade? Even I realize that the gay culture is as much a part of my city as anything else. I just don't think that it's too smart to be pissing away money on extravagant parades when the cities almost bankrupt.
Barack F. Kennedy jr. as he is in liberals eyes. Or is is Barack Jesus Christ Obama? I'm just waiting for someone to nail him with a "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
John McCain is way different from President Bush. He is different on energy policy, immigration, campaign finance, and global warming. Those are all major things. And if your talking about voting history how about we talk about Obama's record of being the most liberal in the senate for 2007?
That all has no bearing on the surge. Even BFK jr. who said it would fail before it eve started admits it has worked. edit: We don't care about Africa? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4751751.stm Thats in addition to the 65 billion in aid we've already approved.
What was the mission? To reduce violence. And we are closer to withdrawing. How can you say that we aren't? You just don't want Barack F. Kennedy jr. to be wrong about anything.
You are really in the minority of saying the surge hasn't worked. I think it's probably just you Nancy Pelosi, code pink, and Jack "first to call for retreat, the troops are murderer's, now gimmie a bribe" Murtha. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Nation ... hl1068.cfm
Well how exactly would you or the ipcc know exactly by how much the tempurature will increase? If there is loads of volcanic eruptions in that time will it change the tempurature and by how much? What if man made carbon dioxide increases? And you don't think scientists factor that kind of thing in? Global warming won't eradicate the human race, but it will make living conditions untenable in some places. Droughts are looking like the norm for Australia from now on, unfortunately. They do factor it in. But really we have no idea what kind of positive feedbacks will impact temperature. It is just as likely that negative feedbacks will detract from whatever warming we have left.
Jesus Christ do you stereotype every type of person other than yourself? I bet your one of those people who thinks everyone around you is ignorant and stupid yet you're amazingly intelligent and always in the right. Americas economic problems don't come from illegal immigrants, but instead the spiraling oil prices, pumping billions into Iraq for your overpowered army and stupid lending by banks. Illegal immigrants have very little to do with your economic problems. I was talking about the city not the country. Our city spends a lot of money in order to protect illegal immigrant drug dealers from INS. They have been keeping them in some lowly guarded facility where 8 or 9 escaped last month. One of them went on to kill a family.
^^ Well since the city's going bankrupt from shielding illegal immigrant drug dealers from the federal government so that they can murder families I don't think it's smart to waste any money on parades. If we were in a stable financial situation I honestly wouldn't mind a gay pride parade as long as it was not over the top. It's not necessarily pink clothes that bother me as the gross stuff.
Its the worse subsitute for democracy there would ever be. Its crap man! *plugs nose* Canidate A can have 5000 less votes than Canidate B and still win. Wheres the democracy in that? If you really wanted to make it fair, do one man one vote. I meant in regards to George Washington. And about the electoral college I wouldn't call it crap. There are some things wrong with it like how in some states are just gimmies and peoples votes don't even matter. It does give states a say in voting. I think that because America is a union of states that the state of South Dakota should have more of a say than the city of Oakland. I'm not in love with it but it's not too bad.
Because even the ipcc only predicts that there will be 3 degrees of warming in the next 100 years. Even if that was true 3 degrees isn't really going to be the end of humanity. And that number is way to high. Climate sensitivity to co2 is only 1.6-1.9 degrees. That would mean we would only have .8-1.1 more degrees Celsius total.
^^ You are going to tell me what I would believe? wow you are really smart. Came up with that all by yourself did ya? Do even know what fundamentalist means? You must really think a lot of yourself to say that over 1 billion people on this planet are ridiculous. Where did you get your PhD in theology? Stanford or Harvard?
The church doesn't hold anymore prejudice against gays than it does against people who have sex before marriage. How can you say this comes down to individuality? Have you ever heard the term castro clone? It's about decency. Most gays-even in the castro-wouldn't do something like that and don't parade around the streets half naked.