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  1. "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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. The penalty should depend on the crime, not on the quality of the evidence. Three times is enemy action
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Amazing how you can not see that the man is actually a Republican that actually believes in fiscal responsibility Not just "a Republican", he's one of the architects of Reaganomics. Three times is enemy action
  17. Well, another lie from the right wing blogosphere bites the dust. They must have a really poor opinion of their readers intelligence. Three times is enemy action
  18. I guess you claim that physics only apply to individuals as well huh? many individuals (myself included) go into debt and call it "investing in the future". Consider yourself lucky if you didn't need a mortgage or college loan. I see no reason that nations shouldn't do it. Trouble is, the US has been borrowing to pay for luxuries, like a way oversize military, and not for investment. Three times is enemy action
  19. "Just as the U.S. Senate was abandoning plans for a U.S. cap-and-trade system, this article ran in The China Daily: “BEIJING — The country is set to begin domestic carbon trading programs during its 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015) to help it meet its 2020 carbon intensity target. The decision was made at a closed-door meeting chaired by Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission ... Putting a price on carbon is a crucial step for the country to employ the market to reduce its carbon emissions and genuinely shift to a low-carbon economy, industry analysts said.”; NYT Three times is enemy action
  20. ________________________________________ they must give out those Harvard degrees the same way they hand out Nobel Peace prizes...I would not try and brag about his diploma after the way he is making idiotic statements like the one i pointed out. - They? Who are "they"? Where did you get your doctoral degree? Three times is enemy action
  21. Well that is a nice spin And I know you believe it I do believe it. I am an independent (libertarian leaning). Any pretense the republicans have to fiscal sanity, discipline, or cutting spending have gone out the window long ago. At this point the republicans are the party of corporate kleptocracy. Tell me what is incorrect on this? Bush wanted the tax cuts but had to make them temporary to get them passed, otherwise legislatures would have balked at the effect on the deficit. Tax cuts are not the issue (gov revenues have went up after all tax cuts after a period of time) Spending is Both parties share the blame IMO Government revenues go up naturally. The population increases. Inflation. The issue is whether real (adjusted) revenues went up. Revenues are down, despite a growing population and growing available workforce. So rushmc was wrong, then. The tax cuts didn't increase govt. revenues. There goes that argument. Three times is enemy action
  22. Well that is a nice spin And I know you believe it I do believe it. I am an independent (libertarian leaning). Any pretense the republicans have to fiscal sanity, discipline, or cutting spending have gone out the window long ago. At this point the republicans are the party of corporate kleptocracy. Tell me what is incorrect on this? Bush wanted the tax cuts but had to make them temporary to get them passed, otherwise legislatures would have balked at the effect on the deficit. Tax cuts are not the issue (gov revenues have went up after all tax cuts after a period of time) Spending is Both parties share the blame IMO Government revenues go up naturally. The population increases. Inflation. The issue is whether real (adjusted) revenues went up. Three times is enemy action
  23. Didn't work for this guy. Three times is enemy action
  24. Decades? ILLINOIS James R. Thompson January 10, 1977 January 14, 1991 Republican Jim Edgar January 14, 1991 January 11, 1999 Republican George H. Ryan January 11, 1999 January 13, 2003 Republican (Now in prison) Three times is enemy action