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On the other hand, failing the board doing that, my argument is verysimple: their decision was wrong. Quote:
Do I believe the Federal courts should order this to change? I wish they could, but I see no legal grounds for doing so. In any case, I stand by that this is not a Constitutional issue - by your definition, ultimately every municiple issue would ultimately be considered that, and for practical purposes while the extension is certainly valid, it is pointless. Quote:
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mean while in Arizona grand ma is
beatin off the illegals and dealling with a drug war that is spilling into the US and the government doesn't want to do a thing about it. Sure haven't heard nothing about improving our economy or new jobs , let them build the damn thing might put some people too work then we can blow it up.
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Actually I don't like this thing very much myself, but it seems to me that a lot of the opposition is of the "we won't stand for it, no matter what" variety, and that scares me as much as anything. So we all need to phrase ourselves very carefully to avoid that connection - "Tarring with the same brush" and all that. |
Sorry to bump back , but someone told me today that your daily show over there showed that the evil terrorist financiers of the ground zero mosque that isn't at ground zero as exposed by Faux new are really the Republican linked financiers who are partners of Fox news?
Please tell me that the GOPs and Foxs friend isn't really the source of the money when Fox and politicians are shouting "where is the money coming from" Though it would validate Skys conspiracy theory, the Wahibi who are the true representatives of all Islam and have always been and always will be really run the US govt (until they lost the election) and control the mainstream media as part of a conspiracy to make white people only have poor babies |
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The FOX clip was mostly a guest on the show holding a card with RAUF at the top, followed by a list of unfriendly organisations with question marks drawn beside them. The guy with the card basically went throught the list, saying "we know there are questions regarding his association with X, remember X are the people who did Y" etc. My favourite line "he's not a good guy...he has questionable ties....whether he has ties with Perdana or not". Bloody hell, guy, how about a fact or two. Also, "Iran...where are they in all of this?". Between Iraq and Afghanistan, dude. JS then applies the same treatment to Rupert Murdoch, more specifically the Saudi prince who owns 7% of News Corp. Good segment, I thought. Stuck together a screencap of what happened. http://imgur.com/kXH5m.jpg |
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Can you see a very subtle difference? |
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Nope. |
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Ever talk to a wall? |
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If it was condemned then how in hell have they been using it for prayer meetings since they bought the lease? What the hell is that bar doing remaining open in a condemned building just so the financiers can ogle a bit of tit after work? |
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But there you are again in that dead end of your thinking on "total freedom, else it is no freedom", and time and again you seem to not care for your head crashing into that wall at that road's end. I have a very hard time to even imagine reasons why somebody could think like this. That tolerating what does not tolerate you means your tolerance being destroyed, and freedom for those abusing it to destroy freedom, necessarily lead to you seeing your freedom getting destroyed - that is so simple to see and understand, that even the 8-year old daughter of a good girlfriend of mine has already understood that (I learned in a recent report of her on a dispute she had at school with some girls). Some things - speaking generally - must be confronted and never are acceptable and thus can never be considered negotiable. That might be a small limitation of that desired unlimited, borderless, total, absolute freedom - but if that helps to secure freedom in general, to still very large ammounts, for the community and the overwhelming majority of it's people - than I'm for it. Because 95% of existing freedom is more than 100% of a freedom non-existing. Must yor really experience the loss of freedom first, before you understand this...? That would be too bad, because then it would be too late. Some people seem to take pride in referring to that popular quote saying something like "I may not agree with you but I will always fight for your right to not agree with me". I would subscribe to that only if there is an amendement made, saying something like "I defend your right to disagree with me only if that disagreement does not lead you to the claim that I must be destroyed for not agreeing with you". When the other does not tolerate me, I must not tolerate him. When the other claims the freedom to take freedom away from me, I support all effort that freedom is taken away from him first (else would voluntary to hand myself over in slavery). When the other concludes that because I do not agree with him, I must be overthrown, then I do not owe to him (or to me or to any ideal) that I even must defend him when he does so. No, certain peoples' freedom I will not defend, and certain peoples' right to disagree with me I therefore do not stand up for and would not defend. Maybe you think, to come back to your quote, that that makes me scary. I say you better should be scared by those people that I refuse to defend for the reasons explained above. I do not deny my support to them for no reason. ;) |
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Then again as earlier you had thought you could speak for the families its really no surprise that you can't view anything due to myopia |
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I will however say that protesting such a building in this particular area does raise concerns and some how affirms the feeling of anti-islamic sentiment from the USA. This speaks volumes in the Islamic community. Then again...I can understand were this sentiment stems from. It is certainly not unfounded. |
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It was struck by a piece of the plane.. to me that means it was invollved and damn close to if not a piece of 'ground zero'. It was condemmed immediatly after the strike pending assesment and removal of the debrie. After it was inspected repaired and deemed structuraly sound it re-opened. :doh: But I also know trying to point out things like this is pointless so carry on with your discussion.. have fun. |
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It's simple really: You say that extending freedom to someone who wants to take it away is dangerous. I say that you want to protect freedom by denying it to some that you are afraid of. The problem I have is that YOU BOTH want to take away my freedom. You just couch it in the language of doing it to protect me from someone else. Quote:
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We have an old saying here: "Your freedom ends where my nose begins." Since that is somewhat self-centered, I like to reverse it: "My freedom ends where your nose begins." What it means is that I have a natrural right to do anything I want, short of the point where it interferes with your right to do the same. In my country we guarantee the right to say what you want, do what you want and yes, build what you want, as long as it doesn't actually affect my equal rights. If that building is used for some illegal or dangerous purpose, then we'll deal with it. Until then, if we deny equal protection to them, I might be next. Yes, it's a fine line, but one that must be protected, or we all lose. One of the most important figures of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, wrote: "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his own enemy against oppression." That you don't understand that is what makes your way of thinking dangerous in my eyes. [addendum] You keep saying I preach absolute freedom. Actually that comes with a qualification: I don't have the right to do anything that takes away your rights. I don't have the right to take your life, your liberty, your property or your pursuit of happiness. I don't say that freedom itself is absolute, but only because of those limitations. But I do stand by what I actually have said all along, because as I see it it is absolute: Either you have freedom or you don't. There is no in-between. |
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