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Q9 Would you describe yourself as very liberal, somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat conservative, or very conservative? Very liberal ...................................................... 12% Somewhat liberal ............................................ 15% Moderate...................................

Fourth grade; all day, people had been being pulled out of school by their parents to come home and everyone was wondering what was going on. When I got home, my mom was waiting at the bus stop to tell me I wasn't going to Hebrew School that day. Then, she told me why.

I plan to vote for him, though I disapprove of his actions, because I don't know what else he could have done. At this point, I am seriously doubting the idea that the American public will wise up to the media, political, and procedural tricks of the right-wing lunatics who are dragging our country ...

If you feel like raging a bit more, here's an excerpt from Michael Savage's rant on the bombings, made before the perpetrator's identity was made public. Link No text since this is an audio link. The irony of the fact that he's espousing such strikingly similar views as the terrorist's is frankly, ...

Option 1 will lead to Exterminatus, no questions asked. There's no way the Imperium will waste resources to capture a planet that had almost become a demon world. Option 2 is the same, humanity will not survive god-like beings using the planet as a battlefield. I pick neither. You forget; we're on ...

Wireless routers don't use all that much more power than a cell phone transmitter, and you don't hold the damn thing next to your head while using it. If cell phones are a low-order cancer risk (one that's hard to distinguish from background effects), wireless routers would be utterly negligible, u...

My friend sent me a message over Gmailchat. Then I came here to confirm.

It's not that bad; the meat is being donated to a good cause, at least. I'd say the fact that they're having armed fights in the parliament building is worse than the ritual sacrifice, as much as it is a useless bit of superstition.

I just looked up the tuition fee table for the University of Ottawa where I got my degree, holy crap, you guys are getting ass raped. Well, I have a 50% (of full cost, which is about $25000/semester) scholarship+student loans (about $5000/year is loans), and I am fortunate enough that my grandparen...

Ok, I know that in the UK and other European nations, some tax money traditionally went to the cost of higher education. However, £9000 is about $14500, about the in-state annual tuition (not total cost) of a state school in the US. My annual tuition is more than double that. Just how much of a rais...

Wow. The American system is more like the Chinese system than I knew. In China, everyone has a hukou, which limits their rights outside of the area where their hukou is, in order to control the movement of the population. Sure, the rights that are limited are different (in China, it's related to ed...

Indeed. Here's how I look at that. Of the top 10, numbers 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are roundly progressive; I know few people who would argue that point. Washington was pretty damn progressive, as was Teddy Roosevelt. That means that 54-67% of Americans rank a progressive President as the best, counting...

Of course Elan is too Good to realize that the right answer in an Evil society to "Why are you sneaking around the grounds at night" is "Because I felt like it. If you have a problem with that you can take it up with my father." Wouldn't have done any good; that's another cliche...

Instead of cheering that they are moving in the right direction at all, you complain "what took them so long". There is no gratitude for small favours anymore. Considering, that it took them 400+ years to rehabilate Galileo, they're improving. :wink: If a rapist decides to leave his victi...

Well, I imagine people born in 1988 (such as myself) would also use '88' outside of a neo-Nazi context. At least, until we learn what the other meaning is. :( If I recall, "8" is a number of significance in Chinese culture, sort of like "Lucky 7" in European cultures, and thus s...

Hmmm... maybe. It's subtly different, though. In those parodies, Hitler is saying nonsense; the 'new' version makes no sense. In the parodies of this ad, however, the entire thing looks like the real thing (assuming that you don't know mandarin Chinese), and the position being expressed by the profe...

I also feel that it's terrible due to the fact that simply changing the subtitles and the ending organization name drop can make the ad mean almost anything, as evidenced by the 'the rich distracting the poor while stealing their money' and 'outsourcing' destroy empires parodies, also makes the ad p...

Crossroads Inc. wrote:I have no idea what the gym comment is, other then saying Liberals are lazy.

It's saying that liberals take what the Tea party says out of context; 'bad fiscal shape' is modified to 'bad...shape'.

Actually, I'm not sure that the first one is that terrible, anyway. The way I read it, it's saying that Catholic priests are crazy for saying that a person goes to hell for voting for Obama. Also, the last one would be a pretty good descriptor of a common way US elections go. The dems point out all ...

Now you're just nitpicking. I agree that it is more proper for an 'ethnic Jew' to say that they are ethnically Ashkenazi, Sephardi, or Mizrahi (or Ethiopian Jewish, or that delectably Jewish group from India, etc etc.), but all that means is that 'ethnically Jewish' refers to a gestalt of those grou...

Conservative Jews, like the ones who made the policy, expressly DON'T think that someone who isn't born into it can ever BECOME Jewish. Source this, please. I'm going to guess that you mean 'conservative' not 'Conservative' (Conservative with a capitol C is a specific subgroup of Judaism which, dep...

Fine, point conceded. I admit, what I posted was just idle speculation, and I have no real data to back it up. I was unaware that it was so completely incorrect, and I apologize.

Well, because the intellect of all people has not been raised in this scenario, I suspect that the society would collapse. If, however, the intellect of individuals was raised, then I suspect that much of the morality which is necessary for society to prosper would continue to be present out of pure...

Slight necro, but it's still on the first page, and I only just spotted the thread. My paternal-paternal great grandfather had a very interesting life's story. He was orphaned and raised by his uncle, a magistrate in pre-revolution Russia. He was also the first of his direct line to complete high sc...