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Waterboarding and the Nuremberg Principles

Posted by idav, 20 April 2009 - - - - - - · 67 views

If I haven't said it before on this forum I'll say it now: I don't really care if we waterboard people if they have actionable intelligence that can save lives and prevent atrocity. The only moral damage that can be done by torturing men like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the collateral damage done to ourselves through the allowance of such...


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An Open Letter to Jean.

Posted by idav, 16 January 2009 - - - - - - · 59 views

I've got to wonder if it wasn't you who asked that your thread in general chat be closed since your claims of victimization became so demonstrably baseless with my contributions and others...

QUOTE (Israel's Current President @ Shimon Peres)Israel's aim was to provide a strong blow to the people of Gaza so that they would lose their...


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I don't like you right now.

Posted by idav, 22 December 2008 - - - - - - · 67 views

When I was a child I was quite a hellion. I remember, as if it were yesterday, a time when my mother said something to me that will never leave me. "Ian, I love you. But I REALLY don't like you right now."

Here come the politics:

The UN General Assembly adopted the "right to food" resolution 180 to 1. Guess who that one nation...


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"Hockey Moms around this nation"...

Posted by idav, 03 October 2008 - - - - - - · 36 views

...you are hockey moms, not experts in the affairs of this country. Why do you think that just because you're scared by the news you know what's best for this country? I'm sorry but changing diapers, pouring bowls of cereal, reading books at bedtime, mending cuts and scraps, none of these things increase your aptitude to understand how to fix a...


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Security vs. Freedom: In the words of Sarah Palin

Posted by idav, 09 September 2008 - - - - - - · 32 views

QUOTE (Sarah Palin @ RNC)Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights.
You know how in math class we are taught to take every day language describing a situation and turn it into an equation that can be workable? Well you can do the same thing with this statement....


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RIP Establishment Clause

Posted by idav, 03 September 2008 - - - - - - · 31 views

http://www.worldnetd...mp;pageId=73821

QUOTE The Bible's history and literature will be required to be taught in public schools in Texas under a new law that has been clarified by the state attorney general to mean exactly what it says.

"This is a huge victory for the people of Texas and, I think, for people across the...


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Am I god?

Posted by idav, 21 August 2008 - - - - - - · 7 views

My profession as a Technology Support Specialist affords me an invaluable insight into the phenomenon of divinity. I am god.

What is a miracle? I think the consensus definition of a miracle would be, "a result that cannot be explained naturally.": the sole survivor of a plane crash, a recovery from an illness prognosticated as terminal, or...


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Big Problems in Ohio

Posted by idav, 12 August 2008 - - - - - - · 22 views

"Philosophies of Law in Conflict"

http://www.worldnetd...m/?pageId=72132

This is quite a story, it seems that no one really understands why this is wrong. Maybe I should go work for the ACLU because they certainly aren't doing a good job. Maybe it's just how this story has been reported on the cited page.

For some reason the Ten...


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Great idea

Posted by idav, 11 August 2008 - - - - - - · 27 views

http://www.kuro5hin....6/8/52432/25359

QUOTE My challenge to you: Under the following rules, construct a positive argument in defense of creationism.

This is quite a good idea. As he explains, through out the countless (and what some would call pointless) debates of this nature. Not once, not never, not no how has any creationist put forth a...


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Casey Luskin

Posted by idav, 30 July 2008 - - - - - - · 47 views

I found my way over to the Discovery Institutes website this morning by way of PZ Myers blog. Normally I try not to wander down these dark halls of ignorance but from time to time one has to refamiliarize one's self with the enemy to form a proper strategy.

I was reading a piece by a man named Casey Luskin. The article was a rebuttal to Christopher...