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Yet, no muslims in 'traditional muslim garb' have blown up, or attempted to blow up 'Western' planes. Dressing in 'traditional muslim garb' would presumably be a dead giveaway and it's the ones 'in disguise' you need to worry about, no?

With your staunch position HIT - I am surprised you wanted your husband to come to the US - as every opportunity you had you would bellow out that your husband simply does not want to come to the US (and therefore couldn't possibly be using you).

I read a few more articles by this "articlesafari" person and here are some of the Headlines:
Blue Eyes linked to Higer IQ
Descendants of Atlantis
Row Erupts over Casting Angeline Jolie as Cleopatra
Here are some of the reasons why you should realize that this is a fake science website:
1) Author's name is not mentioned in the article.
2) They never name who these "chinese scientists" are and what University they are affiliated with or anything about their research.
3) A real scientific research website would not care about the next Cleopatra movie.

right, it just kills babies and old people. but some of us care about babies and old people dying or getting sick, especially when it can be prevented through vaccination.
the risk of a 6 month old or younger baby dying from pertussis is astronomically huger than any "risk" from the DTaP or TDaP vaccines.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/967268-followup
thanks for bringing this up vanessa&tony, it's an important issue. one thing to remember, especially for new parents, is that pertussis immunity wears off. so when you get a tetanus booster, you should get a TDap, that has the pertussis component in it, to make you immune to pertussis again. because even though it probably won't kill you, it could kill yours or someone else's newborn, or yours or someone else's grandma or grandpa.

right, it just kills babies and old people. but some of us care about babies and old people dying or getting sick, especially when it can be prevented through vaccination.
the risk of a 6 month old or younger baby dying from pertussis is astronomically huger than any "risk" from the DTaP or TDaP vaccines.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/967268-followup
thanks for bringing this up vanessa&tony, it's an important issue. one thing to remember, especially for new parents, is that pertussis immunity wears off. so when you get a tetanus booster, you should get a TDap, that has the pertussis component in it, to make you immune to pertussis again. because even though it probably won't kill you, it could kill yours or someone else's newborn, or yours or someone else's grandma or grandpa.

No matter which way you look at it GETTING pertussis causes some people to get sick and die. Whether from it or complications of it the point is the same.
Thank you for distracting the point simply because you felt the need to be "right".
You ever had whooping cough? I have. Have you ever watched an 80 something family member suffer and come close to death because you gave it to them? I have. So thank you for telling me it wasn't the whooping cough that nearly killed him. That sure would have allayed my feelings of guilt if he'd not gotten the medical assistance he needed.
Link: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Whooping_cough It's not always the pneumonia that kills. Unless you have experienced the hacking coughs, the desperate gasps of air you can have NO understanding of what it's like. I was laid up for MONTHS following "getting over it" and I was in peak physical condition at the time of catching it. I couldn't even swim 5 metres without almost passing out because the coughing got so bad. I play a brass instrument so i have strong lungs, I can only imagine what someone without my lung control would go through, and I saw it nearly kill someone.
Please get over your need to be "right". I didn't post this to be "right" but to warn people and it's a warning that needs to be given.
**Edited to add: "One in every 200 babies who contract whooping cough will die" from the link I posted. That scares me, if it doesn't you.

Um, yeah duh. That's why we live in the US. We appreciate the freedoms being a citizen gives us, and we enjoy exercising them freely.

Who here has said they "signed the I hate America slambook" because they married a MENA guy? HG mentioned that American soldiers have also committed atrocities in Afghanistan, he never said "I hate America". Why is it when someone from MENA (or any other foreigner) says something regarding US foreign policy or what have you that it automatically means they hate America? I don't think anyone in this thread has mentioned they hate America.

You know what I love about america? The fact that we're allowed to disagree with the government line, and generally talk smack about policies we don't like.
Also, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Never ceases to amaze AbuS that they're allowed to say what they say about the gov'ment.

i like living in the us, my husband likes living in the us, there's a whole lot to like about the place. fortunately, there's no requirement that one be a brainless, spineless, bereft of morality jingoist in order to live here.
if that were MY family member murdered and mutilated by us soldiers, with MY family member's body parts used to make necklaces out of, i wouldn't give a damn about tribunals, to say the least.
there's been far too much brutality, misery, and complete sadism inflicted on afghans and iraqis to make me go all warm and fuzzy over anything there. it doesn't remotely begin to make up for it.
i don't buy into "at least when americans screw up they admit it" either. remember those people that lived here before white europeans showed up? the ones that survived five hundred years later aren't doing so great. whitewashing the us doesn't help the us.

I kind of wish you would stop poisoning every topic with your cynical disparagement and hatred of muslims. It's despicable, even more despicable that your brand of garbage is tolerated in a supposedly multicultural web forum.

That must be why Australians are cleaning your clock in the current recession. That must be why Australian cities rate highly in every international study ever, while American cities are still stuck in the wild west era with entire counties that are no go territory and gang controlled. Yes, simple minds indeed.

in threads that are actually about rioters, i criticize rioters. i don't drag them in irrelevantly to threads about jewish kids being victimized by bullies in a florida middle school.
it's as retarded as if i were to bring up the fact that israeli settlers torched yet another mosque this week, and vandalized it with anti-muslim graffiti in beit fajjar. it has nothing to do with florida middle schoolers. just like pakistani and lebanese rioters have nothing to do with these same florida middle schoolers. get it?

in threads that are actually about rioters, i criticize rioters. i don't drag them in irrelevantly to threads about jewish kids being victimized by bullies in a florida middle school.
it's as retarded as if i were to bring up the fact that israeli settlers torched yet another mosque this week, and vandalized it with anti-muslim graffiti in beit fajjar. it has nothing to do with florida middle schoolers. just like pakistani and lebanese rioters have nothing to do with these same florida middle schoolers. get it?

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in threads that are actually about rioters, i criticize rioters. i don't drag them in irrelevantly to threads about jewish kids being victimized by bullies in a florida middle school.
it's as retarded as if i were to bring up the fact that israeli settlers torched yet another mosque this week, and vandalized it with anti-muslim graffiti in beit fajjar. it has nothing to do with florida middle schoolers. just like pakistani and lebanese rioters have nothing to do with these same florida middle schoolers. get it?

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in threads that are actually about rioters, i criticize rioters. i don't drag them in irrelevantly to threads about jewish kids being victimized by bullies in a florida middle school.
it's as retarded as if i were to bring up the fact that israeli settlers torched yet another mosque this week, and vandalized it with anti-muslim graffiti in beit fajjar. it has nothing to do with florida middle schoolers. just like pakistani and lebanese rioters have nothing to do with these same florida middle schoolers. get it?

you still didn't answer the question about why your ####### fit is limited to only one group of people whose beliefs prohibit stunning, when there are in fact two.
even assuming the stunning is done correctly, while the animal's motor neurons may be incapacitated by stunning, their sensory neurons can remain fully functional. there is absolutely, positively no way of ensuring that their's will be a pain free experience. but it certainly does hurt to be hit in the head with a bolt gun, or electrically shocked in the head, or gassed prior to having their throat slit. you have no idea what you are talking about here, do you? you're flailing all over the place, with not a shred of understanding the anatomical and physiological processes at work, and have your panties all in a wad over halal slaughter, but not a word of criticism for kosher method? hmm...

Well, I see your point, but it's not ok to torture an animal just because you plan on killing it for food anyway.
Anyway, I think BY just likes to imagine blood-thirsty muslims with scimitars screaming "Allahu Akbar" and running around slicing lambs throats and relishing the screams and spurting blood.

in threads that are actually about rioters, i criticize rioters. i don't drag them in irrelevantly to threads about jewish kids being victimized by bullies in a florida middle school.
it's as retarded as if i were to bring up the fact that israeli settlers torched yet another mosque this week, and vandalized it with anti-muslim graffiti in beit fajjar. it has nothing to do with florida middle schoolers. just like pakistani and lebanese rioters have nothing to do with these same florida middle schoolers. get it?

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This is the number one reason you need to secure the border. To save a nine year olds life or prevent her from being raped for weeks on end during the land crossing. If you had a puppy die in this manner the animial rights people would be up in arms. Every summer we get warnings about leaving your dog in a hot car. Where are these same people warning people in mexico and centeral america about dying in an american desert and it is best to stay home.The lack of compassion in this world is hard to understand.
No más cruces en la frontera
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/mexico/border.html
To curb deaths, the American government has been running an advertising campaign in Mexico, warning people of the horrors.
''The message is, 'No más cruces en la frontera,' no more crosses on the border,' '' Commissioner Bonner said in unveiling the new plan earlier this month in Texas. He said 80 percent of the deaths in a given year happen between May and August.
The government has also increased staffing of Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue Units, called Borstar, which deploys emergency medical technicians like Mr. Stroud, to assist people found in desperate condition in the desert.
The publicity campaign seems to have had little effect, say border agents and illegal immigrants.
Ramínez Bermúdez, 26, walked for four days in 100-degree heat, and said he knew full well what he was getting into. He had been caught four times before his apprehension this week, he said.
Though he has a 25-acre farm in southern Mexico, Mr. Bermúdez said he could earn up to $200 a day picking cherries in California. He was distressed, though, at getting caught and at the failure to meet a coyote, or smuggler, who had agreed to pick him up and members of his group for $1,200 each.
Mr. Stroud has developed a ritual to cope with the increased number of bodies he has seen among the mesquite bushes and barrel cactus of the Sonoran. He has seen children as young as 10, their bodies bloated after decomposing in the heat, and mothers wailing next to them.
''I say a little prayer for every body,'' he said. ''You try not to let it get to you. But every one of these bodies is somebody's son or daughter, somebody's mother or father.''

yeah, the samaritan should have been checking that guy's papers, making sure he was legal to be crossing from jerusalem to jericho first. illegal immigration sucks, but last i checked it's not a death penalty offense. the fact that there are sadists from our side of the border out there slashing freaking water bottles makes me want to vomit, and is as sickening as the coyoyes. that water bottle could save a child's life. a child who had no choice in crossing that desert in the first place/