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    twowls reacted to The_Dude in The Right’s Library of Fake Quotes   
    More Dannologic™. Don't actually address the OP, change the conversation to suit your partisan point of view.
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    twowls reacted to The_Dude in The Right’s Library of Fake Quotes   
    Perhaps you didn't read the title, or the actual article (I doubt you did), but that was not the focus of the topic. Please try to stay on topic Danno mkay.
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    twowls reacted to ^_^ in President John Tyler: The United States is a noble experiment in total separation of Church and State   
    President John Tyler ... in a letter dated July 10, 1843, gave eloquent and indeed prophetic expression to the principle of religious freedom:


    The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgement of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mahommedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institutions.... The Hebrew persecuted and down trodden in other regions takes up his abode among us with none to make him afraid.... and the Aegis of the Government is over him to defend and protect him. Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and such are the happy fruits which have resulted from it; our system of free government would be imperfect without it.
    The body may be oppressed and manacled and yet survive; but if the mind of man be fettered, its energies and faculties perish, and what remains is of the earth, earthly. Mind should be free as the light or as the air.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/90sep/rage2.htm
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    twowls got a reaction from one...two...tree in Powell: Illegal migrants essential   
    Something's missing, alright.


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    twowls got a reaction from elmcitymaven in As Texas encourages minorities to take the SAT, average scores drop   
    The SATs are all about knowing how to take them. Even with training though, some people are just never going to get it. I worked as an SAT tutor and my students, even though they were paying many thousands of dollars to be coached, made the most miserably small improvements. I only taught white kids though, which might explain the poor performance.
    You'd think with the highest levels of hand-holding, some of these rich caucasian suburbanites would excel more. Alas, some cultures are just lazier and more entitled than others. I expect some of them have had to settle for their second choice legacy college and might eventually be forced to keep only one yacht. Or a yacht and a smaller motorboat, for shorter jaunts and cruising.
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    twowls got a reaction from one...two...tree in Powell: Illegal migrants essential   
    You don't have to wonder how. He articulated his reasoning quite eloquently. It's almost as if he has complex thoughts that are his own, and that these thoughts are readily available on the world wide web.


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    twowls reacted to one...two...tree in As Texas encourages minorities to take the SAT, average scores drop   
    You are so good, its uncanny.
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    twowls reacted to Peikko in Montana GOP: Homosexuality is a crime   
    You first post in this thread was to give a thumbs up to Montana. When I specifically asked you if you supported making homosexual acts illegal you started on this campaign of obfuscation, essentially you are saying that it's up to the folks in Montana to make whatever laws they see fit. Fine, but do YOU support the idea of making homosexual acts illegal? If not, why the thumbs up for Montana?
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    twowls reacted to HAL 9000 in Violent Crime Declined As Gun Sales Climbed in 2009   
    I thought it was that paranoid people where out buying guns in record numbers due to yet another irrational [mis]-belief that Obama was 'gonna take there guuns away.'
    Since they want to talk about a more parallel argument... perhaps they should look at the Chicago dis-prohibition of gun ownership and how violent crime has not seen a more rapid acceleration in decrease occurrence since then? In fact, violent crime in Chicago has gone down over the last 10 years, independent of allowing more civil gun ownership, and also independent of the media picking up more ghastly and tragic stories of people getting horribly gunned down, stabbed to death, or bludgeoned to death in this area.
    That's one relevant example- if you really are interested in a congruent argument.
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    twowls got a reaction from one...two...tree in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    A), Moderate Muslim leaders do speak out, plenty. Yet all we hear is how they never do. Asked, answered, and ignored. B) How bizarre is it to expect people who are sitting around mending socks and eating dinner and living their lives to be responsible for denouncing the crazies that share a tenuous thread with their own religion or culture or whatever?
    That's almost like demanding that white people get the phone tree cracking every time some angry pale nitwit goes all Columbine. The conflation of terrorists with average Muslims is a problem in the mind of the intellectually lazy propaganda-consumer; it is not the responsibility of every person of Muslim faith.
    But if it is, we smug Americans should all get moving on some pretty late homework. Also the Christians and the straights and every other group with Bad Example Members. See how easy it is to say, "Oh please; those freaks are freaks. Nothing to do with me." Why are Muslims held to a different standard? Why are they, every one, responsible for educating the rest of us? They aren't. Everybody is responsible for his or her own ignorance or illumination.
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    twowls got a reaction from sara535 in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    Well start with the images you got your evidence of extremist response from, and walk backwards into making sense.
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    twowls got a reaction from sara535 in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    A), Moderate Muslim leaders do speak out, plenty. Yet all we hear is how they never do. Asked, answered, and ignored. B) How bizarre is it to expect people who are sitting around mending socks and eating dinner and living their lives to be responsible for denouncing the crazies that share a tenuous thread with their own religion or culture or whatever?
    That's almost like demanding that white people get the phone tree cracking every time some angry pale nitwit goes all Columbine. The conflation of terrorists with average Muslims is a problem in the mind of the intellectually lazy propaganda-consumer; it is not the responsibility of every person of Muslim faith.
    But if it is, we smug Americans should all get moving on some pretty late homework. Also the Christians and the straights and every other group with Bad Example Members. See how easy it is to say, "Oh please; those freaks are freaks. Nothing to do with me." Why are Muslims held to a different standard? Why are they, every one, responsible for educating the rest of us? They aren't. Everybody is responsible for his or her own ignorance or illumination.
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    twowls got a reaction from in Can someone help me think of a topic for school?   
    How complex does it have to be? I would be interested to know what impact our sanctions have on them. Do they even care? Leads me to...how effective are sanctions? What criteria would have to be in place for sanctions to be an effective measure? Do the ends justify the means? What do we lose by refusal to deal with a particular country? Keep asking questions til you find a core inquiry.
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    twowls reacted to Karonya and Adel in Wellesley superintendent apologizes for letting students on field trip pray at Islamic mosque   
    “In various parts of the country, public schools are allowing Muslim extremists to promote Islam to our children,” the Americans for Peace and Tolerance wrote on its site. “Something’s broken here. Our leadership is failing. It’s now up to ordinary citizens to fix it.”
    irony: "Americans for Peace and Tolerance"
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    twowls reacted to The_Dude in Christine O'Donnell: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!   
    Fail. They would be the morons who make a household combined income of $30K per year, and insist upon voting counter their own interests, and vote for a republican.
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    twowls reacted to ^_^ in Christine O'Donnell: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!   
    Why do you hate God?
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    twowls reacted to Peikko in Is tea party the end of our two-party system?   
    Fiscally responsible is a simplistic and airy fairy notion, particularly if you have no intention of downsizing the military.
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    twowls reacted to ^_^ in Is tea party the end of our two-party system?   
    You are interviewed by small groups of people who have ascended to their positions through a combination of hard work and schmoozing.
    Senators and Congressmen and Presidents are "interviewed" mostly by people who's only qualification is the place of their birth.
    Tea Party senators and congressman can't truly dismantle government, nor do they want to. They want to simply do away with parts of the government that do things they don't approve of - like provide a social safety net, promote social justice, etc.
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    twowls reacted to ^_^ in Is tea party the end of our two-party system?   
    Sure, but when you only remember what it means when a Democrat is President and not when your own cowboy from Texas is in the White House, it's no longer quite so simple as simply being a simple concept.
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    twowls reacted to Dan J in Is tea party the end of our two-party system?   
    The Tea Party is not a party, its a conservative populist political movement that primary operates within the Republican Party. When it gets down to it, the values championed by most of the tea party is platform of the Republican party. However most of the platform will never really be achievable as its contradictory. For example, you can'y really have a small government while at the same time pushing for strong national defense or you cant keep the government out people personal lives while at the same time pushing traditional values.
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    twowls got a reaction from Nik+Heather in satan appears in bathroom tile   
    I came with a picture of the preacher from Poltergeist, but you have won this round. And all subsequent rounds, forever.
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    twowls reacted to Trumplestiltskin in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    The article doesn't reference a "segment of Muslims". It deliberately generalises because the intent of the article is to appeal to people who think that Muslims, in general, are to blame for violent acts.
    The facts supporting her story are irrelevant because they are being used to promote an agenda. It simply isn't possible to have a reasoned discussion using divisive, insulting propaganda as legitimate source material.
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    twowls got a reaction from sara535 in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    I was thinking about the issue of these messengers earlier--although their "arguments" are deeply dishonest and intellectually lazy, the messengers themselves are often highly educated. Although Malkin doesn't quite fit my premise, she certainly knows how to formulate a logical argument. She just chooses to pander instead.
    My better example is Gretchen "I'm the Special Friend" Carlson, who graduated with honors from Stanford, studied at Oxford, and shows up to Fox studios each day wearing her best "What's a Mooselimb?" costume. The lengths sharp people, and specifically women in the point I'm making, will go to in order to further The Narrative is truly embarrassing. All these people know how to construct a logical argument. They all know that things aren't black and white and they are capable of nuanced thought. But they hurl themselves headlong into full idiot-girl, innocent-backwoods, simpering bobblehead blackface so that they can appeal to a largely ignorant base. Really sad.
    I'm madder at them than I am at poor, sweaty Glenn Beck, who I think is in the beginning-middle stages of a long, slow motion psychotic break.
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    twowls got a reaction from sara535 in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    That's a worthwhile point. What a few posters do is little more than spam the forum with bigoted propaganda about an overwhelmingly peaceful people. Allowing it to go unchecked--even protecting it in a way by creating a private "crazy person zone"--is arguably as good as condoning it. Wither the TOS?
    It's embarrassing, especially in a community that is, by design, populated by people of every religion and culture. Muslims aren't an abstract concept; they are real people on this site.
    There's a difference between reasoned debate and hatemongering, freedom of expression and snarling trollery. Should you be allowed to say that the Muslim religion is a hateful one, even if that statement is false? Maybe. Should you be allowed to say it fifty times in a row in different stupid ways, all day long and into the night, insulting the people of an entire religion in an interminable drumbeat of prejudice? I'm not so sure.
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    twowls reacted to IncorrectPolitics in The eternal flame of Muslim outrage   
    Isn't Michelle Malkin the stupid skank calling for Muslims to be put in concentration camps? How can an article from such a person even be credible or worth reading?
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