"oh yeah, that doesn't sound cowardly at all! "there you go, lads. you have rifles now. go and shoot something. i'll be standing over here."

Funny, when Hitler did that for you Finns, the letter calling him a big fat coward got lost in the mail.

No, saddam hacked his own way to power, we just helped his Arabs to spank the Persians

No I don't.  I have personal memory of the period 1974-1989, when we had a wanker who looked sideways when Leoni stomped the Afghans, and then Reagan started helping Afghans kill Commies, ordered a 600-ship navy, prompted the largest protest marches in European history by sowing intermediate range nukes on NATO soil, called them the Evil Empire, and demanded tehy give up their European empire.

If I'd been Truman I'd have nuked the bastards when the Chicoms crossed the Yalu.

And those funky ovalheaded monkeys.

The Japanese would.

I think its because they live longer than we wanted them to actually because they're gonna earn $2 million salary plus room and board for 4 years, and they can make that much for 30 mins speech on "I like me, and you should like yourself", they can pay for their own rentacops for 40 years

"I am planning to go in to political science with the strict intention of transforming it in to an empirical discipline, and introduce the light of reason to liberal arts academics by illustrating how the realist political approach is the right approach. I will devote my life to discrediting America's current consensus of things like natural rights, post-modernism, and anything normative (A state ought to do x). "

YAWN they been at it for nearly 20 years, ever since CORELDRAW let them do insane 3D graphs to show correlations and justapositions of factors they've been arguing a positivist approach.  Boring as hell, dude!

"an empirical approach is not valid for human-sciences, as you will see. The truth is always tainted by your vision on the subject. "

You ARE a postmodernist!
/sobs
/shoots Alan in the back of the head

Then he has a lifetime of paintbynumber until he is fired for claiming to have found a Roman bath in Spa with a mural of dogs playing backgammon

Poor nondenominationals then

Lay it on me. Much of that list has scriptural foundation.

Infant Baptism was long controversial, but was resolved on the side of compassion. "Amen Amen I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of Heaven without being born of water and the Spirit" John 3:5. How do you literalist Protestants interpret the repeated scriptural references to whole families being baptized?

My brother who is a pagan I think or New Age or something liked to ask me why the Bible had two different measurements for the columns of Solomon's temple. But Catholic exegesis says "big deal, that tells you there was a temple and there was a Solomon and it impressed the Jews, you can believ that much and get God's message". Noah's Flood rained forty days and nights, the Israelites wandered forty years in the desert, and Christ entered Jerusalem forty days before His cruxifixion, but to Catholics our faith is not shaken if the Jews wandered 39 years and 10 months-- the Bible telling shows their quasimystical appreciation of "forty" as a symbol of divinity, and in each case the period was one of trial and preparation for a fulfilled promise of God's salvation. God tests schmucks and then makes good in miraculous ways according to His plan.

I was wondering where you got the idea of babylonian influence, the usual church layout is pagan but its pagan Roman, it was familiar architecture and its a great way to distribute things to everybody in a big building. That's why billy graham uses the same basic layout, he wants all the people looking at him and free to walk up.

Unless it's real and the sequence was 3, 2, 1 instead of 1, 2, 3

#3 "Hey you slimy Reuters reporter, quit looting my dead brother!"

#2  "Aw man, where's a phone book when you need one?"

#1  "Ok nurse, drop her here, somebody's started a pile"

"It would be the same if Serbia tried to bomb NATO out of Kosovo.
Same result."

Gee, Russia is there too.

"Never the less, you seem to hold your military in high reguard Yell, far higher then it actually is. The response time for your airforce to fly into Georgia, and then prepare to engage Russian forces, means that Russia would have plenty of time to scramble enough air power to cover their tanks."

In two days they could fly there, and then they would be operating out of Georgian airbases.  Response time of minutes.

"Georgians were completely stupid to attack and like i said at the start of the thread, they have given Russia a free pass. Russia gets to:
1) Secure the European power market
2) Secure its influence in the region
3) Humiliate America
4) Take control of two provinces
5) Remove the Georgian government (Which has been a thorn in Russia's side).

The Americans told the Georgians not to try anything. It would be stupid. And as far as i can tell, Israel has been slowly dropping support for Georgia for some time now. They did a stupid thing, and their leader is about to pay for it. I just hope he flees before the Russians get their hands on him..."

If we refuse to kill people to serve our national interests.  Which I've never been shy about.  And I don't see why we should start pretending we dare not.

I guess we should start resolving those WTO suits the Ruski way!

"Microsoft is a monopoly! You must share code---AIIEEEEE!!!"
"Die rapist criminals! Huzzah!"