Everything posted by mrpez
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Islam Ads on Buses
i doubt bin laden is still alive. a guy with diabetes, hooked up to a dialysis machine, and living in a cave isnt likely to live long. anyway, you specifically are not his target.
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Bailout, American economy, and failing businesses
an article entitled "Where did the government get the $85 billion to bail out AIG?" should provide some interesting discussion on this matter. luckily, i happen to have one right here: http://www.slate.com/id/2200299/?from=rss
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Islam Ads on Buses
no one wants to kill you and your family. trust me, your not that important. being an "extremist" does not automatically make one a terrorist. i dont see anyone labeling christian fundamentalists as terrorists, when clearly they are on the extreme end of christiandom. also, dont make up statistics unless you can site a source. regarding all posters claiming that Islam is a religion founded on violence: it may be true. i am an atheist middle eastern, have never read the qu'ran, and do not pretend to understand islam. but i do know that while islam may have been founded upon violent principles, many of its followers are peaceful and much more spiritual than christians. my family members that are religious pray for hours a day-hours. you cannot label an entire religion as violent when your only source of exposure is clips from a biased right-wing media bent on misguiding you to support a failing political war. many religions have been founded upon a degree of violence, and it is important to take that into account before derailing one religion and upholding another.
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Working out topic
what the hell, i think ill ask a third time (and probably go unanswered again). can someone sticky this topic?
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Working Out - Your Routine + Tips
wow, amazing. why did you bump this up?
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Working Out - Your Routine + Tips
there is another thread for this dude, just post it there and i will help you. along with the other posters.
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Islam Ads on Buses
jesus is a representation of christianity and the reason the crusades happened.
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Working out topic
i had some experience with knee problems also. playing lacrosse a few years ago, i fractured my tibia just below the knee. when i went to the doctor though, he missed the fracture on the x-ray and told me i was fine. a year or two later, my knee starts to swell up like a grapefruit and i can barely sleep from the pain. after going to many doctors, most of whom thought it was bone cancer, one single doctor realized there was a fracture that had been infected for a few months now. after a biopsy and months on antibiotics, my small fracture was fixed. after 2-3 years. anyway, i dont know the extent of your injury, but you can probably still do some light-weight low-impact conditioning to strengthen the muscle around you bone. try some quad. and hamstring lifts on a machine.
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Bailout, American economy, and failing businesses
At first you're defending the bailouts and then you're preacing about the capitalist economy. Sounds pretty ironic in my eyes, after all the american capitalist matra was a bit like "weak ones deserve to go to bankrupt". I also find it pretty damn hypocritical how the same people who have been privatising pretty much everything and preaching about neoliberalism are now doing bailouts. Seems to me that the trend is to support certain kind of policy as long as we don't need to follow it by ourselves. america is a mixed economy; a free market with limited government intervention. if the government intervenes to stop an enormous insurance company from going bankrupt, it doesnt immediately make it hypocritical.
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Islam Ads on Buses
Disrupting a marketplace... killing people who won't believe you... disrupting... killing... disrupting yep, I see what you're getting at christians never killed people who didnt believe in their god? maybe the crusaders and spanish inquisition were just minor disruptions
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Bailout, American economy, and failing businesses
im just going to throw a discussion starter out there, maybe you guys will be interested: as the federal government starts to bail out large companies such as AIG and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a two-sided debate arises. while some feel that it is important for the government to help enormous companies such as these out of bankruptcy, others feel the government is gaining too much power in the economy (for example, their 80% stake in AIG now). how do you feel?
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Best TV ads
i think it was a good commercial, but i dont see the genius in it. anyone care to explain? edit: wow...just watched it again and was thinking "wind". damn clever.
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Working out topic
you could probably still do some machine workouts to strengthen the muscle. what kind of injury was it specifically?
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If you were given $1500 to make a console/handheld
Name: Hand-painted wooden ball-in-cup Description: Mexico's favorite toy for over 340 years. Production cost: $2 Cost to buy: $5 why spend your time not catching a ball in a cup when you could be catching a ball in a cup?
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Working out topic
just got back from my workout. hanging leg lifts are killer. i was going light today so i only did 30 leg lifts, then 20 lifts for each for obliques.
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Islam Ads on Buses
as a persian, albeit an atheist, i can tell you that many middle easterns, muslim or not, do not wear the "headscarf" and find it ridiculous. scully sc i dont know who you are, but you come off as an arrogant bigot. people are quick to point out the violence of the koran but seem to forget all the stonings and crucifictions in the bible. not to mention the sects of christianity that practice self-flagellation.
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GF Xbox
just get the disc buffed at a gaming store for $2. why even make a thread? there is nothing wrong with your 360.
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Xbox 360 Halo 3 Game Night - Discontinued
why was halo 3 taken out of the poll when this topic was started specifically for halo 3?
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Bailout, American economy, and failing businesses
edited first post to include other businesses such as Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Merrill Lynch.
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Sarah Palin's Email Hacked. McCain camp to investigate.
this belongs here viewtopic.php?f=10&t=759720 17 pages long man. how could you have missed it?
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Working out topic
i have a good free-weight tricep workout i can show you. it will be hard to explain but ill try. its similar to skullcrushers in motion, but it used a dumbell. raise your arm and point it directly above you, with the elbow slightly bent and pointing in front of you. bend your arm back from the elbow to bring your fist close to your shoulder blade. that is the motion involved, now just add weight. you can also use both arms in the same motion with a single dumbell. i used to do 45 lbs, but have stopped doing this particular exercise.
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Halo Discussion thread
i doubt i did, but im not sure.
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It's Officially Impossible To Talk
The 'r' is rolled, not pronounced as a 'd.' If you are not pronouncing them with a roll of the tongue it's a mispronunciation. 'rr' is rolled. 'rr' is not the same letter as 'r'. if you're going to try to rebuke what im saying, then at least be grammatically correct. 'r' is pronounced as a soft 'd'. just as 'v' is pronounced as a 'b' and 'd' is pronounced 'th', there are many nuances to the language newcomers butcher. i speak regularly with spanish speakers that have been speaking the language for more than half their lives, and they have corrected me on this issue many times. i wont argue past this point, as i know i am correct and it makes no difference to me whether or not you mispronounce words. any argument past this one is simply devoid from the topic, so i will not respond.
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Halo Discussion thread
i hadnt played team slayer for months. basically i left it at 33 and went off to get other skills to 40, then came back randomly because my friends wanted to play it.
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Halo Discussion thread
How many did you LOSE before on that rank? none. i rarely lose when i try, only when im betraying or just trying to lose on purpose.