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Posted in: TV News Film Ignites New Muslim Outrage
  toms
10-24-2005, 12:18 PM
#1
Australian television news footage showing U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of two suspected Taliban militants has ignited another uproar in the Muslim world. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Thursday that the footage, shown o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Stem Cell Research
  toms
10-24-2005, 12:37 PM
#2
I think some of them can be considered logically valid, as it is true that most stem cells do come from what "could have potentially" become a life. However I also think that, logically, on balance, the fact that those stem cells were nev...  [Read More]
Posted in: Halloween
  toms
10-24-2005, 12:32 PM
#6
I never cease to be amazed at how much sway the christian religion holds in the US... though it does seem to be becoming more and more active and fundamentalist over the last few years. Its as if with Bush and the Neo-coms in power they have the guts...  [Read More]
Posted in: Corruption and the Fall of the Republican Party
  toms
10-21-2005, 9:41 AM
#3
BBC had another story last night on how all but bush's most loyal (texan religious) supporters are starting to turn on him And how even they think he's been sidetracked when he should have been cracking down harder on stem cells, gay marriages and ab...  [Read More]
Posted in: DeLay Indicted
  toms
10-03-2005, 12:03 PM
#9
When you have prosecutors that are clearly partisan (for whatever side) it undermines any findings they might have, and always gives the person under investigation the chance to claim unfairness... whether it exists or not. After the fishing expedi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  toms
10-11-2005, 7:50 AM
#13
I don't think the European Courts would have any juristiction over the matter. Except in that their framework affects UK law. The Haag might decide to look into it, but I think that when a move was introduced to make all soldiers serving abroad subj...  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  toms
10-03-2005, 12:23 PM
#8
Indeed. Under normal circumstances I'd have no problem with our troops being tried by local forces if they committed crimes there. But if there is (a) an agreement in place with the iraqi government that they won't be. And (b) the police are ignori...  [Read More]
Posted in: Should Britain apologise and hand over it's soldiers to Iraqi jurisdiction?
  toms
09-22-2005, 1:30 PM
#2
I'm not going to vote as, having seen a number of reports on this, I still have no idea whatsoever what realy happened. All the reports seem to change evey hour or two. As I understand it they were undercover SAS men who refused to stop at a checkp...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Pledge "Unconstitutional"
  toms
09-23-2005, 9:29 AM
#23
As a non US person I'm at a bit of a disadvantage as I don't really understand how this "pledge" works in real life. Is it some sort of official wording? Is it required? Is it required that it is said, even if it isn't required that you joi...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Pledge "Unconstitutional"
  toms
09-20-2005, 10:42 AM
#13
Let's just say, just for one second, that the pledge did say "one nation under Odin". Or "Ganesh" or "Mara" or "the teachings of Siddharta Goutama" or whatever. Would Catholic parents feel happy about their kid...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Pledge "Unconstitutional"
  toms
09-19-2005, 9:00 AM
#5
Frankly, the thought of all those kids undergoing some form of cult like recital all the time has always struck me as weird and oldfashioned... but i guess if you want to then whatever. Don't really see the point in it myself. Having the "unde...  [Read More]
Posted in: What is reality? (Philosophy)
  toms
09-19-2005, 9:08 AM
#15
Its certainly possible to convince yourself (or be convinced by others) to believe things that are untrue, or even impossible. Which brings up an interesting question: If what we believe and percieve is "our reality" then if someone chang...  [Read More]
Posted in: Liberal bigotry at the highest levels...
  toms
09-16-2005, 9:35 AM
#8
At that time, he pledged to address the issues of conscience out of a focus on the national interests, not out of adherence to the dictates of one's religion Seems entirely sensible of him to me. A politician should represent his people, and what is...  [Read More]
Posted in: Another Vietnam?
  toms
09-05-2005, 12:48 PM
#15
Indeed. Vietnam was an end of innocence for the US on a whole number of levels... which is probably what triggered such animosity at all involved. These days people (on the whole) have an idea what is going on, though they may take different views...  [Read More]
Posted in: Banning gay marrages should it be allowed
  toms
09-08-2005, 8:52 AM
#142
"I think why the politicians and the older folks are disgusted and against gay marriage is because they hate the idea of gay people <explicitive deleted>. if they want to make gay people stop <explicitive deleted>, then they should g...  [Read More]
Posted in: Banning gay marrages should it be allowed
  toms
09-07-2005, 7:37 AM
#139
Its weird that the same people who are dead keen on replacing all these religious governments in the middle east with democracies are the same people who are dead keen on basing all their laws on religious reasoning. So suddenly its wrong for the t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Banning gay marrages should it be allowed
  toms
09-05-2005, 1:17 PM
#131
I think what Kain was implying was that they pick/choose those parts that suit them whilst ignoring those that are inconvenient. Which leaves us with statements like, "god hates homosexuality," but doesn't remind us to stone to death that s...  [Read More]
Posted in: Tolerance means people you don't agree with, too.
  toms
09-09-2005, 7:48 AM
#72
I think christianity is the largest religion (2-3billion, can't be bothered to look it up) the Islam is the second biggest, then there is a fairly large gap until the next few religions. Though of course both christianity and Islam have splintered...  [Read More]
Posted in: Tolerance means people you don't agree with, too.
  toms
09-05-2005, 11:35 AM
#69
Luke's doing a pretty good impersonationo of that jedi kid whith all the clones closing in on him... :) It does get taxing, and sometimes it can be very hard when something seems so blatantly obvious to you, yet you just don't seem to be able to get...  [Read More]
Posted in: When Should U.S. Troops Be Pulled Out Of Iraq?
  toms
09-05-2005, 11:01 AM
#40
1) I fully agree with you, EU troops should be removed from Iraq. One problem, the EU doesnt have an army. No, but its member states do. The EU isn't a country, in the same way that NATO isn't, and as such it doesn't have an army. Thats why some EU...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  toms
09-07-2005, 11:45 AM
#69
But he's hardly the pinacle of evolutionary development either.......  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  toms
09-07-2005, 7:47 AM
#66
I like that first article (though it is a bit long). It makes some good points that just because there are two sides of an argument doesn' mean one is without merit, and that there are real debates within evolutionary theory to be debated (natural s...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  toms
09-05-2005, 12:27 PM
#63
Belief in creation science seems to be largely a U.S. phenomenon. A British survey of 103 Roman Catholic priests, Anglican bishops and Protestant ministers/pastors showed that: * 97% do not believe the world was created in six days. * 80% do not bel...  [Read More]
Posted in: Tom Tancredo
  toms
09-06-2005, 9:57 AM
#52
If you look at half these terrorist organisations you realise that there is often no clear line between them, but also no guarantee that groups with the same agenda would work together. You just have to look at northern ireland where the various pro...  [Read More]
Posted in: Magical thinkers opposed to Magical thinkers
  toms
09-05-2005, 12:10 PM
#50
Luke, you aren't being clear on whether you actually think that books like harry potter can corrupt people simply by mentioning witches and magic, or whether you are simply defending the institutions of religion that sometimes make that claim. You a...  [Read More]
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