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"Fighter Squadron" uses P51s as Me109s, and all the dogfight scenes are obviously shot over the California desert instead of the northern European plain. Three times is enemy action

I doubt that very much. It's mostly empty rhetoric to appeal to the tea partiers. I agree with the following analysis: Three times is enemy action

The Congressional Budget Office indicates that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes. Illegal immigrants pay social security payroll taxes but are not eligible for benefits. During 2006, Standard & Poor's analysts wrote: "Each year, for example, the U.S. Social Security Administration maintains roughly $6 billion to $7 billion of Social Security contributions in an "earnings suspense file" -- an account for W-2 tax forms that cannot be matched to the correct Social Security number. The vast majority of these numbers are attributable to undocumented workers who will never claim their benefits." Three times is enemy action

Ah. Gotcha. Well, illegal immigration is a whole other topic (discussed at length in SC, I'm sure!!)... This wasn't what everyone was discussing last night... I just couldn't agree with my ex colleagues' apparent view that immigration as a whole is a BAD thing... I also couldn't reconcile the feeling that by "foreigners" they meant a certain stereotype, which in fact is quite at odds with reality... I certainly can understand that the mix of different ideas / cultures will inevitable lead to conflict / problems - it just seems like people often discount the *positives* that come from it. And to me this seems pretty irrational. If the bloody foreigners went home pretty much all US research facilities would close down (national labs, research universities, corporate labs, etc). The US got the atom bomb in WWII as a result of the work of bloody foreigners (Fermi, Szilard, Taylor, Bethe, Frisch, Teller and others). That was then - unless you have lists of currently employees? I've worked at 3 different National Labs and one military lab. I can assure you that the fraction of foreign born PhD researchers is around 50% (even more at Argonne). Huge numbers born in India or China. Did you know that in 2002, some 130,821, or nearly one-third, of all graduate students enrolled at US universities came from abroad? Over half of PhDs awarded by US universities go to students born in india, S. Korea, China or Taiwan. In some branches of engineering and in computer science it's over 60% Three times is enemy action

Ah. Gotcha. Well, illegal immigration is a whole other topic (discussed at length in SC, I'm sure!!)... This wasn't what everyone was discussing last night... I just couldn't agree with my ex colleagues' apparent view that immigration as a whole is a BAD thing... I also couldn't reconcile the feeling that by "foreigners" they meant a certain stereotype, which in fact is quite at odds with reality... I certainly can understand that the mix of different ideas / cultures will inevitable lead to conflict / problems - it just seems like people often discount the *positives* that come from it. And to me this seems pretty irrational. If the bloody foreigners went home pretty much all US research facilities would close down (national labs, research universities, corporate labs, etc). The US got the atom bomb in WWII as a result of the work of bloody foreigners (Fermi, Szilard, Taylor, Bethe, Frisch, Teller and others). Three times is enemy action

How true, I haven't thought about Bishop Sheen in years. He was a very good teacher with an ecumenical perspective. Now days, the ecumenical movement is viewed critically by some evangelicals. That would be an ecumenical matter! "This video contains content from MyVideoRights, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" Three times is enemy action

He doesn't. He just instructs as an acceptable, accurate and humble servant. We only have Paul's word for that. Three times is enemy action

So show me. If you can't show me in the New Testament then I can only take it that you are refering to the Old Testament in which it says that Adulters and homosexuals should be stoned to death. So show me or reveal your hypocracy. I apologize, I took advantage of you because I know you lack education and understanding of the Scriptures. It does not exist in the new covenant. The new covenant instructs us to follow the law of the land regarding the death penalty. Read Romans 13. So you are in favour of stoning adulterers to death, whipping unmarried women seen in public with men, life imprisonment for insulting the King of Thailand... you basically have no criticism of any law in any country. Characteristic of Nowhere Man: "He's as blind as he can be, / Just sees what he wants to see" "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest", Paul Simon. Ron finds one verse in Romans and uses it to disregard the essential message of Jesus. Three times is enemy action

So show me. If you can't show me in the New Testament then I can only take it that you are refering to the Old Testament in which it says that Adulters and homosexuals should be stoned to death. So show me or reveal your hypocracy. I apologize, I took advantage of you because I know you lack education and understanding of the Scriptures. It does not exist in the new covenant. The new covenant instructs us to follow the law of the land regarding the death penalty. Read Romans 13. Since when did Paul outrank Jesus? Three times is enemy action

Really? WTF So it doesn't matter who did it ? - seems to be what you're saying No, that is not what I said. I fundamentally disagree that the penalty should depend on whether or not the evidence is "overwhelming". Why should one murderer get prison and another the needle for identical crimes, just because the evidence was better in one case than in the other? The penalty should depend on the severity and heinousness of the crime. Three times is enemy action

The penalty should depend on the crime, not on the quality of the evidence. Three times is enemy action

Was that necessary? It's not even funny. Really? I can see why he would say that. There is some logic to it. Liberals DO want the government to take care of them and believe that nothing is their fault . . . the blame is in the hands of those that should be governing their lives. Wow, you are on a roll today with absurd comments. There are any number of skydivers, right up there taking personal responsibility for their own actions and lives, who are also liberals. I've yet to meet a skydiver who expected the government to deploy for them. Do you, in fact, skydive? Three times is enemy action

Any random twit who truly believes she didn't simply mis-speak and say "million" when she obviously meant "thousand" is an idiot. Not quite as much an idiot as the speaker of those words. It's sad when someone can't tell the difference between an outright lie and a slip of the tongue. I'd use the word "idiot" to describe such a person. Three times is enemy action

And I agree that there is some evidence that the "Big Bang Theory" created the earth. Theories create nothing except attempts to verify or disprove them. There is a lot of excellent evidence from multiple sources that the universe as we know it came into being with what might be described as a "big bang". Three times is enemy action

Do you understand that you have just tossed something else out there to incite discussion on another point? What the hell does the righteousness of the Iraq invasion have to do with the mosque? Little to nothing. I happen to think that the mosque should be there and anything that disallows it is anathema to freedom. I happen to understand the reaction of those traumatized by it. I also think that the Iraq carrot does not lead to anything useful but rather obfuscates any legitimate discussion. My comment about Iraq had nothing to do with the righteousness of the invasion. It had everything to do with blaming the right people. For a long time after the Iraq invasion people blamed Iraq for 9/11. Most knew they had nothing to do with each other. It makes no difference whether or not you supported the Iraq war. The families of the victims of 9/11 have every right to be pissed. They should just be pissed at the right people. It's not surprising that people blamed Iraq when they are repeatedly told it was so by the President of the USA making his case for invasion. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50679-2004Jun17.html Three times is enemy action