tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4233749455267618279..comments2024-03-28T03:47:46.544-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: “They are savages,” said Mohammed Noaman, 22, as he showed The Independent a mobile phone photo of a man with half his face torn off. “The police, the army, they are all dogs.”Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77321074764294471652013-08-17T22:52:20.968-04:002013-08-17T22:52:20.968-04:00testtestDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76060557427567078082013-08-17T13:21:57.955-04:002013-08-17T13:21:57.955-04:00Silicon Brake Fluid contains 15 percent air. (Dot ...Silicon Brake Fluid contains 15 percent air. (Dot 5)<br /><br />...not a good thing.<br /><br />Using DOT 5 in a DOT 3 or DOT 4 system without proper flushing will cause damage to the seals and cause brake failure.<br /><br />DOT 5 brake fluid is not compatible with anti-lock brake systems.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47415770942409415882013-08-15T02:53:24.096-04:002013-08-15T02:53:24.096-04:00.
If you ask me 'does an all-powerful all kno....<br /><br /><i>If you ask me 'does an all-powerful all knowing God exist?' I would say no and offer up Evil as the evidence disconfirming evidence for that statement</i><br /><br />Evil? Is a natural disaster evil? I believe most would call them tragic acts of nature, not Evil. Is there intelligence behind an exploding volcano or just dumb brute forces? Evil is usually described as having a moral component. It requires intelligent action. To your Evil argument, I’m sure someone would counter argue that you ignore the whole question of free will. You work under the assumption that if there were a god we would all be living in Eden right now. You, like many of the religions, have created in your mind the vision of a personal god, one willing to interfere in the lives of people on an individual basis.<br /><br /><i>If you ask me 'did God cause the big-bang?' I'd like to know what you mean by 'God' in that case.</i><br /><br />Every religion has its own vision of god. They vary in numerous particulars, thus the reason for the many conflicts we have seen. However, one particular they seem to agree on can generally be described by the definition shown in bold above. I am content with that description of god.<br /><br /><i> You could just as easily ask me 'did Big Blue Unicorns cause the big-bang'. In both cases my answer would be no, not without a reason to think either of them did and I can't think of one. Can you?</i><br /><br />You seem to be fixated on Blue Unicorns, Ash. You presume to try to understand the mind of god and then invite me to do the same. Let me turn the question around on you. Can you offer me a reason why 13.7 billion years ago a ‘singularity’ (a construct hypothesized by man), one of <b>infinitesimally</b> small size, <b>infinitely</b> dense, <b>infinitely</b> hot, one in which space and time as we conceive them were <b>infinitely</b> warped and distorted beyond anything we could imagine suddenly decided to go ‘bang’, or for that matter where that singularity came from in the first place?<br /><br /><i>I have never said their theory "could not be true because no evidence of god has been provided" rather I have said there is no reason to say it is true unless evidence is provided (or a logical argument for that matter) AND there is no reason to say "I don't know" unless rational is provided.</i><br /><br />The various religions have offered what they consider evidence that they indicate has been acquired through observation and logic. I’m sure the fact that you don’t accept their arguments means very little to them. Likewise, I have provided you my rationale for being agnostic on the subject of god. In response, you provide zip. Your only argument is <i>sure I have no answer to these existential questions, none at all, but I sure know it wasn’t god.</i> Well, all I can offer is compared to those who practice religion your arguments mean even less to me.<br /><br /><i>"I don't know" in effect means "I cannot know" or "I haven't made up my mind" both of which don't really tell us much.</i><br /> <br />The prior comment is just plain silly the latter could be equally applied to your arguments. They really don’t tell us much. You don’t believe in god and you demand that people either agree with you or disagree with you. Sometimes things just don’t work out the way we want.<br /> <br />As for the quote, I would say it applies more to you than it does to me.<br /> <br /><i> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.</i><br /><br />You offer us not a clue as to the existential questions of the human experience and yet are bitter when someone else has the temerity to admit he has none either.<br /><br /><i>I choose not to argue with boobie</i><br /><br />And I choose not to argue with you anymore, at least on this subject. The arguments on both sides are becoming redundant. <br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27078968431248220432013-08-15T02:45:42.737-04:002013-08-15T02:45:42.737-04:00.
Well at least you admitted to the convoluted se....<br /><br />Well at least you admitted to the convoluted sentences. I guess what you are saying is that my saying I’m an agnostic on the question of god’s existence is an unsatisfactory answer for you. If, after I have explained to you in two long posts my reasons for being an agnostic, you are still ‘unsatisfied’ and don’t think (believe?) it <i>make for a very good answer</i>, all I can say is boo-hoo. The worth of your opinion has been noted and has been given the consideration it deserves.<br /><br /><i> I've said nothing about the pre-big bang.</i><br /><br />Why not? How can you speak of god and leave out the most existential questions about human existence? A quick look at various online dictionary entries for ‘god’ show the first in each are very similar, something along the lines of <i>the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe</i><br /><br />Using the following website which looks at various religions, both monotheistic and polytheistic<br /> <br />http://reluctant-messenger.com/citsym/God.htm<br /><br />we are offered a general definition of what may be termed the creator god.<br /><br /><i> God is the indescribable, uncreated, self existent, eternal all knowing source of all reality and being.</i><br /><br />Since you denigrate my agnosticism, let’s at least get it straight what we are talking about.<br /> <br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69328527255132240622013-08-15T02:03:35.846-04:002013-08-15T02:03:35.846-04:00Anyone in the know, and not under garnishment, of ...Anyone in the know, and not under garnishment, of course, will be investing in multiple pigeons in schemes which are gauranteed to work and make megabucks right up until the victimized human pigeons get a clue.<br /><br />Maybe Quirk could get some kind of loan, so he could partake of this abundance despite his status as a Garnishee?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8182565875988494582013-08-15T01:55:19.175-04:002013-08-15T01:55:19.175-04:00By Whom?
For What?By Whom?<br /><br />For What?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5587286505986396332013-08-15T01:21:27.459-04:002013-08-15T01:21:27.459-04:00Politically, the "marriage penalty" is a...<br /><br />Politically, the "marriage penalty" is also a Democratic vote-getting initiative -- 70 percent of unmarried women voted for President Obama in the 2008 election. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a liberal firm that consults for clients such as Bill Clinton and John Kerry, said: "Unmarried women represent one of the most reliable Democratic cohorts in the electorate ... leading the charge for fundamental change in health care."<br /><br />As the nation's largest public policy women's group, Concerned Women for America has been sounding the alarm about how the fiscal health of the nation and economic crises are affecting America's families. We advocate a fiscal reform plan that focuses on entitlement reform -- offering options that will enable today's families to keep more of the money they earn and rescue our children and grandchildren from the debt and national decline that will otherwise land on their shoulders. We remind legislators that the nation's women are very concerned about the way government dependency is impacting American families. We want to see principled, courageous action to reverse the crisis and bring back the kind of financial and economic stability that propelled America into the world's superpower and enabled families to thrive - having a steady, good paying job, owning a home, and enjoying a bright, prosperous future. We reject any and all tax increases that will cripple families, devastate the economy, and consolidate more power in government. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."<br /><br />Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D. is Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America's think tank, the Beverly LaHaye Institute and author of Children at Risk (2010) and Marriage Matters (2012)<br /><br /><br />We are committing social suicide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28395796937596987432013-08-15T01:20:21.168-04:002013-08-15T01:20:21.168-04:00August 14, 2013
The Close Connections between the ...August 14, 2013<br />The Close Connections between the Economy and the Family<br />By Janice Shaw Crouse<br /><br />Some public figures like to dismiss the so-called "social issues" as irrelevant to the economy; many of those same people think that they can address fiscal concerns without any understanding of the pressures and drains put on the economy from the breakdown of the family. With the government now owning 51 percent of the private sector, we would do well to remember that our society has suffered grievously from programs and policies that meant well but failed miserably - and on a colossal scale - as is documented by an abundance of data and the negative social trends in America that have done so much damage to the nation's families and children.<br /><br />Now, with the implementation of ObamaCare looming and tax increases seeming inevitable, we face yet another ill-advised call for a return to the old, failed social welfare policies of entitlement, income redistribution, and tax increases. Best estimates indicate that the U.S. tax Code now contains approximately 3.7 million words -- almost nine times the total number of words in the King James Bible. Carrie L. Lukas, in her article, "The Tax Man Cometh," reports that the nation's families face a double-whammy in terms of taxes: in addition to losing about 30 percent of our income for federal, state, and local taxes (more than the typical family spends on food, clothing, and housing combined), Americans also spend nearly 4 billion hours in complying with income tax laws.<br /><br />Worse, we are discovering that ObamaCare really will "destroy marriage for the middle class the same way that the Great Society welfare state destroyed the black family -- with financial incentives for staying single." ObamaCare's marriage penalty could possibly cost couples over $10,000 a year. This intentional disparity means that U.S. government policy will encourage singleness and create increased disincentives for marriage. Single individuals will have an advantage with the earned income tax credit as well as welfare benefits, including food stamps. This comes as no surprise, of course, because "making the subsidies neutral towards marriage would lead to a married couple with only one bread-winner getting a more generous subsidy than a single parent at the same income-level."<br />With ObamaCare ramping up subsidies promoting single motherhood and discouraging marriage, an increase in poverty is inevitable -- along with dramatic increases in entitlements and dramatic tax hikes to pay for the increased entitlements. These increases are just one more of the numerous financial incentives in current government policy that increasingly encourage individuals to reject marriage -- the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), housing subsidies, food stamps, child support payments, and the welfare dependency programs that created and sustained the inner city matriarchal culture. These perks are costing American taxpayers trillions of dollars a year. Current welfare programs total close to $1 trillion a year (twice as much as national defense and nearly the size of the federal deficit); ObamaCare is projected to add another $2.5 trillion after all its provisions take effect. There's no end in sight to the increasing costs of these entitlements.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72857583474934278872013-08-15T00:38:36.839-04:002013-08-15T00:38:36.839-04:00:)
This sounds like a possible $$$$ making scheme...:)<br /><br />This sounds like a possible $$$$ making scheme for Quirk, if he had the $$$$ to invest in a homing pigeon. Unfortunately, he's under garnishment until his natural death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82096280725176934102013-08-15T00:26:27.003-04:002013-08-15T00:26:27.003-04:00Craigs list rules:
I sold my homing pigeon 12 ti...Craigs list rules: <br /><br />I sold my homing pigeon 12 times in the last two months.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27867431983143517012013-08-15T00:20:14.475-04:002013-08-15T00:20:14.475-04:00:) good'un:) good'un Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63205467613200895342013-08-15T00:19:38.372-04:002013-08-15T00:19:38.372-04:00(Allen's comment)(Allen's comment)Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3617319419541364412013-08-15T00:17:54.171-04:002013-08-15T00:17:54.171-04:00Sounds like a good plan.
...if they want to stay ...Sounds like a good plan.<br /><br />...if they want to stay alive.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3532721484009534392013-08-15T00:17:29.279-04:002013-08-15T00:17:29.279-04:00Hopefully the rest of the secular Arabs in the ME ...Hopefully the rest of the secular Arabs in the ME will want to Walk like an Egyptian all the way to Damascus. <br /> Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63519605752230483652013-08-15T00:15:44.215-04:002013-08-15T00:15:44.215-04:00For Sam:
Two old men were sitting at a bar, one s...For Sam:<br /><br />Two old men were sitting at a bar, one says to the other; <br /><br />I think my wife died. <br /><br />The other man chokes and says: <br /><br />What? <br /><br />Yeah, he replies: <br /><br />The sex is the same but the dirty dishes are piling up.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35152440022602311452013-08-15T00:13:44.385-04:002013-08-15T00:13:44.385-04:00The difference between men and primates:
About a ...The difference between men and primates:<br /><br />About a 12 pack.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56414521559177816092013-08-14T23:47:56.952-04:002013-08-14T23:47:56.952-04:00Little reported, an Israeli drone killed and fried...Little reported, an Israeli drone killed and fried five jihadists on the Egyptian side of the Sinai border several days ago, with the apparent complicity of the Egyptian military.<br /><br />The Egyptian military has zero interest in war with Israel. That feeling is mutual. allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55243328338548307232013-08-14T23:32:12.718-04:002013-08-14T23:32:12.718-04:00Consider the body language and inflections of an i...Consider the body language and inflections of an interpreter. Is the non-English speaking juror getting the testimony of the witness or, rather, the opinion of the interpreter. allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9239012452657648222013-08-14T23:27:17.551-04:002013-08-14T23:27:17.551-04:00" I saw Sky News vile propaganda. I am replyi..." I saw Sky News vile propaganda. I am replying in a post including horrific videos of mass slaughter, beheading, shooting people in the heart, running them over with cars, throwing them off bridges, and burning them alive while screaming Allahu Akbar. Sky News is vile and complying with mass murderers."-Cyn FarahDougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7139721701358057572013-08-14T23:08:38.787-04:002013-08-14T23:08:38.787-04:00Legendary political reporter Jack Germond dies at ...Legendary political reporter Jack Germond dies at age 85...drudge<br /><br />My favorite aunt used to love this guy, watched him every week. She always laughed cause he generally said stuff like 'all this doesn't matter' or 'this doesn't mean anything in the scheme of things' on nearly ever topic. I listened intently, for years, and never did understand what did matter to Jack but in the end it didn't matter as I came to love him too, he was such a good humored and jovial guy.<br /><br />And I'm sure he's with the good humored and jovial folk in the afterlife.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9224995467526241582013-08-14T23:07:20.601-04:002013-08-14T23:07:20.601-04:00"Oh my God! I never thought I would live to s..."Oh my God! I never thought I would live to see that day... The Prime Minister just gave a GLORIOUS speech about freedom and rights! I never thought this was possible that I would agree with an Egyptian prime minister!"-Cyn Farah<br />Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54352523754913140172013-08-14T22:53:28.123-04:002013-08-14T22:53:28.123-04:00:):)
EGYPT BREAKING...
BLOODBATH CAIRO: TROOPS C...:):)<br /><br />EGYPT BREAKING...<br /><br />BLOODBATH CAIRO: TROOPS CRACK DOWN...<br /><br />Protestors push police off bridge ...<br /><br />Bros demands Morsi return...<br /><br />Failure of US diplomacy? <br /><br />'Government Thugs Beat Me Up'...<br /><br />Blood and tyranny................................................................................................................................Obama hits links... drudge<br /><br /><br />Praise the Lord.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62066281242830483612013-08-14T22:52:14.981-04:002013-08-14T22:52:14.981-04:00But this time, the initiative is coming from the C...<i>But this time, the initiative is coming from the Christians themselves.</i><br /><br />A common enemy will do wonders for the Christian-Israeli relationship.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16495204293663551132013-08-14T22:39:14.960-04:002013-08-14T22:39:14.960-04:00From the 'Why we need a common language file&#...From the 'Why we need a common language file' --<br /><br />Reason 217 -<br /><br />New Mexico Supreme Court: People who don’t speak English must be included on juries<br /><br />POSTED AT 9:21 PM ON AUGUST 14, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT<br /><br /> <br />This is, as Charles Cooke notes, actually the correct decision. The court didn’t manufacture this rule; it’s right there in Article VII of the state constitution. If you think judges are too prone to substituting their own judgments’ for the people’s, then this is the ruling for you.<br /><br />Cooke wonders why a state wouldn’t want/expect its citizens to learn English by the time they’re 18 and jury-eligible. Good question, but I’m more intrigued by the practical implications here.<br /><br />Michael Anthony Samora’s appeal argued that his convictions should be reversed because a Bernalillo County judge excused a Spanish-speaking prospective juror who had trouble understanding English.<br /><br />The Supreme Court said it agrees with that argument but also said Samora’s defense needed to object during the trial but didn’t…<br /><br />In Samora’s case, the prospective juror said on his jury questionnaire he didn’t understand English well enough to write in English, and the judge told him an interpreter would be provided if the man was selected to serve on the jury.<br /><br />However, the judge dismissed the man after he acknowledged he was not able to understand a large portion of the court proceedings.<br />The defendant was convicted of murder one. If his attorney had objected during voir dire, presumably this would be grounds for mistrial.<br /><br />Here’s what I mean by “practical implications.” If you’ve got 11 jurors who are listening to the witnesses’ testimony in English and a 12th juror who’s listening to an interpreter translating that testimony into another language, aren’t the jurors technically hearing different testimony? Is that a due process violation? You run into a variation of this problem when a witness can’t speak English and his testimony needs to be filtered through a translator, but at least in that case the entire courtroom’s hearing the same (translated) evidence. Besides, the witness can’t be disqualified on language grounds; he’s indispensable to the court if he has material evidence about the defendant’s guilt or innocent. Not so with a juror. Plus, consider the disruption of having to translate every single word of the trial, from bench rulings to witness testimony to opening and closing arguments, for the benefit of one person. The court has no choice but to do that if the defendant can’t speak English, but it does have a choice when selecting jurors. And of course the juror’s interpreter would have to sit in on deliberations too, even though that’s supposed to be off-limits to everyone not on the jury.<br /><br />And yet, jury duty is an obligation of citizenship. If a (native-born) citizen’s not required to learn English in order to vote or fulfill other civic obligations, why bounce him from jury service because of it? What you could do as a work-around is put Spanish-speakers in a separate jury pool and conduct some trials entirely in Spanish (assuming the defendant also speaks it, of course). That would solve the problem of people hearing different testimony while ensuring that non-English speakers get to serve, but of course that puts you even further away from Cooke’s aspiration of everyone learning English by the time they’re 18. There’s less of an incentive to do that if the justice system begins splitting off into English- and Spanish-language tracks, which in turn will only encourage the cultural balkanization of America. Not sure what the answer is. “Learn English” isn’t an option, per constitutional law, in New Mexico.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6745610962844744142013-08-14T22:29:43.754-04:002013-08-14T22:29:43.754-04:00Does this apply to The Seven Year Itch as well?Does this apply to The Seven Year Itch as well?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com