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Dick Morris Claims the US Didn't Invade Iraq
Fighting to maintain control of an area where two thirds of the people want to secede is as imperialistic as invading a territory where two thirds of the people don't want you there.

(Slavery was what justified the war against the CSA)

Georgia is flouting South Ossetians' right to national self-determination, and they turn to Russia for help, which gladly pounces on any chance to expand their empire. Though it's sad that the statistics seem to point to a split based on ethnic groupthink rather than having broad appeal to non-hereditary (rational) thought.


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Prince Adam Skeet Skeet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mpp9Ke1WZw


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Prince Adam Skeet Skeet!
youtube says "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."


written by jwray  | 19 hours 9 minutes 16 seconds ago | CH
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Prince Adam Skeet Skeet!
*dead


written by jwray  | 19 hours 10 minutes 36 seconds ago | CH
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Code Pink protester Hit with Baton: BOOM HEADSHOT!
A little woman standing there unarmed. There is nothing that could have happened before or after the video that would have made this not an excessive use of force. Plus, the cop called her a bitch. I'm pretty sure that's another breach of the regulations he's supposed to follow.


written by jwray  | 19 hours 15 minutes 41 seconds ago | CH
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Crowd Chants "F*ck FOX News!" live on FOX News!
meh


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Million Dollar Marijuana Crop found Growing at Miami Mall!!
nice billoroll at the end.


written by jwray  | 3 days 18 hours 36 minutes ago | CH
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Copyright regime vs. civil liberties
*promote


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Obama downplays the CFR and North American Union
The idea of the CFR as an evil cabal trying to railroad through a North American Union without the consent of the American people is a ludicrous conspiracy theory with no credible evidence to back it up.
=Disagreeing with someone's false premises is not an ad hominem attack.

Though if North America were to copy the European Union (and abolish USA's unfair agriculture subsidies) that would be fabulous.


written by jwray  | 4 days 10 hours 21 minutes ago | CH
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McCain still claiming USA founded on Judeo-Christian values
Without God, there is no good or evil. Everything is permitted.

Do you mean that without the threat of hell and the reward of heaven, you would have no qualms about murdering people?
Do you mean that without receiving the "word of god" you would not have realized that murder was wrong?
Either way, that's terrible.

The moral quality of attempts to act derives from the forseeable effects and intended effects of those attempts, not from the fiat of a celestial dictator (who would have to base his judgement on the former characteristics, anyway)


written by jwray  | 5 days 1 hour 19 minutes ago | CH
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Yo-Yo Ma Plays Gigue from Bach's cello suite No.2
the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Dkpg9KYx0 , but embedding is disabled. You could download it, upload it to your youtube account, and then fix the embed.


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Apocalyptica - Path (Metal Played with Cellos)
*promote


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Bill Maher Discusses Religulous on Larry King. (2008)
>> ^MINK:
god had bad PR for so long that people now have no idea what they are trying to deny.


Even if you could demonstrate the existence of a designer, you would have no good reason to suppose the designer were a god rather than an alien in charge of some kind of computer simulation of this universe. The leap from "I don't know how this happened" to "there's some kind of omnipotent spirit out there" is a large and illogical one.

btw,
"Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?" - David Hume, summarizing Epicurus' refutation of the notion of an omnipotent benevolent God.

You can't blame it all on free will. There are natural parasites, diseases, etc., that cause a lot of suffering. If there is an omnipotent god, then he is to blame for them.

Early Christian theologians tried to blame it on original sin. Punishing one person for the deeds of another person is wrong, therefore the concept of original sin is ridiculous.




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Deepest Hole in the World
13 seconds of absolute freefall, starting at rest = 828.9 meters. That's an upper bound on the depth of the hole in this video. Surely the rock loses some speed from air resistance and audible collisions with the wall, so the hole is shallower than 828 meters.


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Tom Mabe funny phone call
He would only get in trouble if the telemarketer complained to the cops. I'm sure the jury would make an exception in this situation, though.


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