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You have been spewing spinelss gainsaying. At least I have facts to back up my opinions.

You have been saying "No it isn't" since your first post.



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No, yours is more spineless gainsaying, as usual.

Demonstrate a single I said which is provably false.

You won't because (a) you can't, and (b) you don't have the decency to argue on facts.


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The scientology cult is violent to its opponents and lawsuit happy toward its critics. Be very afraid if they ever mention your name and the phrase "fair game" in the same sentence.

Read about "N-grams". It's a phony-baloney pseudo-science "technique" (a combination of a tape recorder and an electric shock device). You're supposed to "rid yourself of negative thoughts", or in reality, bare your dirtiest and darkest secrets to them. Many who go through this and later try to leave find themselves blackmailed into staying, e.g. actors who are closeted homosexuals.

Ask yourself this: If you knew the owner of a business was part of or giving money to, say, the Ku Klux Klan, would you give him your business or try to avoid him? If you would avoid him, then think carefully before you watch movies and TV shows with actors who are members of the scientology cult. The cult demands celebrities donate large sums of money (i.e. box office sales), or in the case of "Battlefield Earth", getting such celebrities to star in junk movies to add name value to crap. (The paperback for L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" only became a best-seller because cult members were told to buy the books in quantity. It didn't sell on merit and was laughed at in the sci-fi community.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientologists

Cut and paste these search phrases in google to read more:

+"Lisa McPherson" +murder +scientology

+"n-grams" +scientology

+"fair game" +scientology

+clearwater +scientology

+"operation clambake" +scientology

These sites make for very informative reading, too:
http://www.xenu.net/
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/

Finally, if you're looking for a drug recovery program without a religious indoctrination behind it (nor will they attack yours) look up "Rational Recovery".



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The original reason for Americans to have guns in private homes (vis-a-vis a foreign invader while the newly created US had no army) no longer exists. With a stable military and civilian police, there is no need for an "armed militia against invaders".

The biggest lie told is that "those who want firearms to be registered are Nazis" (because Hitler dictated registration). It's a false argument given that gun registration in other democracies has not led to guns being taken away. What gun registration has done, however, is make it difficult for the mentally ill to obtain firearms.

By the way, the Virginia Tech shootings, the Columbine shootings, Kip Kinkel, and many other "rampage" shootings were perpetrated with licensed firearms.



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And as it was later noted by others:

"I trust George Bush with my daughter. I trust Bill Clinton with my job."

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The NRA was founded in 1871. The KKK was founded in 1871.

Coincidence, or consequence?



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People always say one should never say bad things about the dead. Okay.

Charlton Heston is dead. Good.


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Where I grew up we had Januarys of -40 C, a metre of snow and it snowed from as early as September to as late as May. It's rather hard for me to empathize, although I'm not laughing either. Where I live now, I haven't seen snow in four winters.

Keep a British "stiff upper lip"...or is the cold doing that for you?


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Your friend is a liar.

Prayer is still allowed in US schools. What is not permitted is forcing prayer onto students or punishing those who do not want to take part in it. And, for the record, Madeline Murray O'Hair had nothing to do with it.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_pray.htm
http://atheism.about.com/library/decisions/religion/bl_l_McCollumBoard.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE0DF153BF930A25751C0A965948260
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa070100a.htm

For those who want prayer in schools, I'll make them a deal: You can have prayer as long as it's not your religion. Let's see how many will go along with that. Even one person who wrote to WingNutDaily seems to get it:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46828

The US's pledge of allegiance is similarly not banned. Quite the contrary, the US has not been saying its pledge of allegiance since 1954. Michael Newdow's lawsuit allowed the pledge to be said in its true form once again.

The pledge is, as Francis Bellamy wrote it in 1892:

'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'

The "under god" perversion was added in 1954 at the prodding of the Knights of Columbus (a catholic group) as an anti-communist chant (as if the Soviets paid any attention ). Bellamy also wanted to add words like "equality", but those against equality for women and blacks put the brakes on that.

And by the way, Bellamy was a baptist fundamentalist christian and a proselytizer who felt he had the right to tell people in public to become christians. Yet when he wrote the pledge, he left "god" out. That should tell you something.

http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm
http://www.usconstitution.net/pledge.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56320,00.html

Amazingly, even FAUX Noise managed to get the history right.

It should embarass the majority of Americans who aren't aware of these facts that a foreigner (me) knows their laws and history better than they do. Sadly, most will take pride in their ignorance rather than reading the documents in question.



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"Turn into an animal?"

Humans are animals, so I'll stay as I am.


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In a good mood...a good book and a glass o' Baileys, neat.

In a bad mood...Industrial music and a shoot-em-up computer game.



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Why don't you ask the corporations that bought them out, turning them from "public trusts" into mouthpieces for their agendas?

The lie of a "liberal media" is just that, a lie. They are as liberal as the right wing corporations that own them, e.g Time/Warner, GE, Disney, etc.


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Don't you mean your own top 10?

Since so much of "best" is subjective, there's no point in me mentioning names. However, there a valid argument for defining "best". Do you mean:

- flash, or notes per second
- biggest hit singles
- technical proficiency
- influence on others
- sound
- overall effect on rock music

If I were to pick only one to match all those criteria, then there's only one name worth mentioning, and he's not on your list. Take away the least important of them (popularity) and it's a different story.


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That should read:



The HTML got wrapped in a bad place.


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By itself, people have two perceptions of moustaches: biker or bisexual. (A joking generalization.)

I only wear facial hair (goatee or a full face) when I live in places with winters of -10C or colder. I haven't seen snow in three years, so no thanks.

And the word is you.


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Terrorism is an equal opportunity destroyer. Israeli terrorism (e.g. cutting off water, shooting children in the street) is as bad as Palestinian terrorism, it just comes with a false veneer of respectability.


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Wow, US$50million. At 4000 miles long (not counting Alaska), that's US$1250 per mile. That's enough to build a nice barbed-wire fence from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

It's as far from Saudi Arabia to Canada as it is to the US, so location isn't the issue. Foreign policy is why one gets attacked and the other doesn't.



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Whether it's "king", "chief", "boss", "priest" or bully, historically leadership has been brute force by the brute who had the force. Ending strongman dictatorships required enlightenment and individual freedom and responsibility. Small wonder we're returning to strongmen when ignorance is on the rise and seen as respectable instead of embarassing.


Pogroms. Blood libel. Crusades. The Inquisition. Cultural and linguistic genocide. Those are for starters.

Religion was an invention by scared people who had no answers. Later, some of them mistakenly thought they were the right answers instead of a security blanket in times of fear. That's how religion changed into belief; it became organized when someone realized organizing it was a quick way to unquestioned power, status and wealth. Except for serial killers, one-person religions haven't been a problem.


The Code of Hammurabi (~1760BCE) predates the "old testament" (~500BCE) by more than a thousand years and still makes for a better legal code than most modern religions' "codes", and the "Golden Rule" has been in cultures as far back as there has been written history (i.e. Babylon). No one has ever had a monopoly on ethics and morality.

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM


Santayana: The who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Me: The who ignore history are trying to repeat it.

When one knows better but doesn't do better, one is trying to make mistakes instead of learning from others' mistakes.


The worst thing that happened in the last fifty years was Ronald Reagan: not his political or economic policies, but his "me decade". It turned into the "me generation" and "me society"where nobody thinks of the collective good anymore, just an "I got mine" view of life.

When I say collective, I don't mean communistic, I mean thinking about consequences and the effects of one's actions on others. Nowadays, few think that way anymore, and use the cop out of "I'm a good christian/jew/muslim/hindu/whatever" to rationalize selfish behaviour.


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Again you prove my point about not knowing the difference between impicit and explicit meaning.

Small wonder you jump to conclusions.


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If people in the US had any clue about what goes on outside their borders, they would realize how far right wing their politics are. Hillary Clinton is further to the right politically than Angela Merkel of Germany, and Merkel leads the right wing Christian Democrats.

Unfortunately, most think the foreign media can't be trusted while theirs can.




Bush is a petulant child born with a silver spoon. Worse still, his spoon is up his nose.

Despite having the wealthiest nation and most access to foreign media, the US is arguably the least traveled country in the world. Worse still, most of them actually believe their media is giving them the whole story of what goes on outside their borders.

Cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall had a very good idea once: instead of spending billions on military adventures overseas, the US should give every 20-something a passport, a phrasebook, a plane ticket and a few thousand dollars and make them live outside their own country for a year.

It would cost less and do more to further US foreign relations than wars because (a) foreigners would see Americans individually, not the collective national arrogance, and (b) Americans would see how others live and perhaps even learn their languages. It would be a win-win on all fronts.

i am not a yank btw...


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Gee, I'm sorry. I keep forgetting that people aren't well read enough anymore to recognize irony and satire.

I must be getting old for there to no longer be people who read words implicitly rather than explicitly, and must have every meaning an nuance stated for them lest they not understand.


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