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- 2015-05-23 10:24pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Ireland votes to legalize gay marriage
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4931
Re: Ireland votes to legalize gay marriage
I only heard about this vote happening a few days ago. Have there been any interesting responses to the result from people opposed to gay marriage ? Well, for those who believe in God, there was a striking double rainbow in the skies of Dublin that seemed particularly appropriate. I doubt that's re...
- 2014-08-12 09:34pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Robin Williams dead at 63
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8512
Re: Robin Williams dead at 63
The more profound the artist, the more painfully felt the loss is in my observation, especially in such an abrupt and unexpected fashion. It reminds me why mental illnesses need much more attention and study than it currently receives. No doubt, but I also think it was the shear suddenness of it. N...
- 2014-08-12 12:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Robin Williams dead at 63
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8512
Re: Robin Williams dead at 63
Add me to the list of people who never have much emotional reaction to celebrity deaths, but for which this one hits pretty hard. Wasn't prepared for a world without Robin Williams. Dead Poet's Society will be harder to watch now, but even more meaningful.
- 2014-07-17 03:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread
- Replies: 190
- Views: 249946
Re: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-gay-marriage-ban-overturned-florida-20140717,0,5016096.story S. Florida judge declares state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional print By Rene Stutzman, Staff Writer 2:48 p.m. EDT, July 17, 2014 A judge in the Florida Keys today overturned...
- 2014-07-02 11:33am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread
- Replies: 190
- Views: 249946
Re: General Gay Marriage Issues Thread
Today, Florida's case gets heard in Miami on whether our state constitutional amendment banning SSM is unconstitutional. Here's hoping Florida will get something right for a change.
- 2013-11-16 10:44pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Boehner supportive of Russian Anti-gay laws
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1323
Re: Boehner supportive of Russian Anti-gay laws
What, exactly, are radical sexual minorities? Last I checked homosexual and transgender people are perfectly happy with other people being straight, they just want to be not ostracized leave alone mugged or outright murderized for being gay/transgender. It's kinda in his quote. The implication is t...
- 2013-10-25 04:26pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: NC Republican Representative resigns over racist comments
- Replies: 79
- Views: 22084
Re: NC Republican Representative resigns over racist comment
It never ceases to amaze me though how many times the story has come out that voter fraud is a non-issue, that voter IDs unfairly discriminate against a certain class of people, and yet it goes ahead anyway (with very little public outrage or push back). Far more than a racist GOP member, the shocki...
- 2013-10-17 09:58am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US government Shutdown
- Replies: 611
- Views: 87995
Re: US government Shutdown
When conservatives fail, get more conservative. That's the irony about all of this. In large part, it seems like we were led down this path by ultra conservative members who, after losing time and again, felt they would take an even more conservative, and insane, path. And the rhetoric is already s...
- 2013-07-13 10:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin
- Replies: 362
- Views: 40949
Re: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin
Not guilty.
- 2013-07-13 08:50pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin
- Replies: 362
- Views: 40949
Re: Zimmerman Trial for Trayvon Martin
I live a suburb over from Sanford, and have been to jury duty in the courthouse they're trying this case in. I also go through Sanford on a semi-regular basis. The long deliberations and the jury asking for clarification on "manslaughter" earlier today pretty much suggests that there is di...
- 2013-07-11 01:07pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Nostalgia Critic- Avatar The Last Airbender
- Replies: 144
- Views: 58346
Re: Nostalgia Critic- Avatar The Last Airbender
I guess the "it get's real" bit was only in reference to how depressing the episode ultimately is, that Appa is pretty much kicked around nearly the entire episode. For a kid's show, and even for a family or adult show, that episode had a lot of depressing moments. While I'm enjoying reliv...
- 2013-06-23 10:20pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: World's largest "gay-curing" ministry closes, apologizes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1978
Re: World's largest "gay-curing" ministry closes, apologizes
The apology seems very genuine and heartfelt. It seems consistent with a Christian actually trying to follow the proper teachings of the book he ascribes to believe in. He doesn't make apologies for the beliefs he holds; it's obvious that he still has a problem with gay marriage, of homosexual sex, ...
- 2013-06-17 10:58am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: - the power of stupid people in large groups
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2374
Re: - the power of stupid people in large groups
So you quote an article where one Republican actually advocates immigration reform and another was actively opposed to the Iraq war. To which then Rubio, Mr. immigration, wants to sink his own bill if there's anything about letting those dirty homosexuals have the same rights as straight immigrants...
- 2013-04-04 01:42am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer (Died 6/9/13)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5038
Re: Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer
Saw this this morning. Extremely sad news. I always felt the universe he created in the Culture novels was one of the best universes I've ever seen. The creativity of being able to see what was possible with a utopia that freeing was always something I was amazed at, and the Culture became a place I...
- 2013-02-28 09:25am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Babylon 5 - 20 Years Later
- Replies: 88
- Views: 12531
Re: Babylon 5 - 20 Years Later
One of the downsides of a series that actually has continuity I guess-once something happened, it stays having happened :D And was the phrase 'B5 was the last of the Babylon stations' ever uttered by anybody outside the series main timeframe? Do we truly know there were no more Babylon stations? Gi...
- 2012-12-16 01:05am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The Decline of Evangelical America
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3129
Re: The Decline of Evangelical America
Seems like kind of a restatement of the old adage of "hate the sin, not the sinner" to me. I find it not at all surprising that he finds nothing wrong with the message itself, just it's delivery. You saw the exact same response after the 2012 election with the GOP.
- 2012-12-11 03:01pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2551
Re: Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark
Bob Ballard is a professor in the department where I'm a graduate student. He does a LOT of serious ocean archaeology for deep water exploration of ancient shipwrecks with significant finds including, for the first time, human remains from 2,000+ years ago preserved in the Black Sea oxygen free lay...
- 2012-12-11 09:04am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2551
Bob Ballard Set to Find Noah's Ark
A flood of evidence? Robert Ballard, one of the world's most famous underwater explorers, has set his sights on proving the existence of one of the Bible's most well known stories. In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings fro...
- 2012-12-03 07:16pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Galactica was very intentionally under crewed, they knew what they were going to do and prepared in advance. It was also not badly maintained at all, the Cylons had just finished fixing her ups ave for the structural issues that resulted from shoddy construction . you can have a shitty ford taurus ...
- 2012-12-03 04:55pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Plot invulnerability is the key here. If I went by WWII films, Americans are stronger than Germans and can take more damage. Note how the bad guy is killed with one shot but the hero takes a slug in the shoulder and muscles through. Of course, if we model a story on something that actually happened...
- 2012-12-03 03:54pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
It seems like you are countering with a glorified view of the hardiness of colonial technology, And I don't see how my declarations are out of line. Compared to their adversaries, colonial ships do seem particularly well built. Both ramming and nuclear effects bare this out in the series. Now, does...
- 2012-12-03 01:32pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Really? It wasn't relevant to describe the damage nukes did when you were trying to illustrate that nukes did the damage? o...k... It wasn't relevant to say she didn't just walk on the bridge (or CIC, if I'm to be accurate about it). She did just walk into CIC, after the events you describe. But th...
- 2012-12-03 10:49am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
She didn't exactly walk on the bridge, she dragged Shaw to her feet after her escort was incapacitated by shrapnel, and they took a ton of casualties, I think colonial tech has been shown to be very hardy as long as it is maintained or operated, but they've been pretty consistent in showing how eas...
- 2012-12-02 11:53am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
I thought the most recent two were a dive, and that isn't saying much since we entered the realm of the characters being more visibly stupid and tactics took a turn for the really contrived. The ski lodge didn't seem all that secure, as all we saw were the Cylons hit one set of trip-wires and then ...
- 2012-12-01 11:29pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 145
- Views: 23392
Re: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Razor shows them trashing a bunch of Battlestars in drydock with what appear to be non-nuclear ordinance, at least there's no "flash" like you usually see when a Nuke goes off in nbsg. Not exactly a fair comparison. Hatches open, fuel supplies nearby, ordinance transfers, no defenses rais...