toms

Posted in: Hitler is coming.... I mean Bush.

toms

01-20-2006, 12:28 PM
#2

Fair enough. The US does insist on making itself a big target though.. and it's political directions are important to a lot of people here because (a) a lot of people here are from the USA or (b) its policies impact on a lot of other countries. the... [Read More]

Posted in: Judge Alito

toms

01-21-2006, 8:43 AM
#13

Agreed too. Though it might suck for any poor teenage girl caught in the middle in the meantime. What's that saying? "its always easier to rally people against something than for something"? Something like that.... [Read More]

Posted in: Judge Alito

toms

01-20-2006, 7:33 AM
#2

I think the whole system seems crazy to me. What is the point of having the judiciary seperated from the government if the judiciary is basically a political entity, politically appointed? In exactly the same way that governments waste billions by r... [Read More]

Posted in: How many do you count?

toms

01-21-2006, 8:37 AM
#13

This concept of US bashing liberals is a bit odd. Its merely that whichever political faction isn't in power is bound to question and complain more than the one that is. Conservatives are constantly bashing america's moral decline, its abortion laws... [Read More]

Posted in: How many do you count?

toms

01-20-2006, 12:38 PM
#10

but watch out for toms he is close. I do have to disagree with you on this. hey! I was being skeptical on this one! Exuberant Nationalism = Has Americans never been? Enemies Identified = When has the US not point out people we didn’t like? Native... [Read More]

Posted in: How many do you count?

toms

01-20-2006, 7:19 AM
#4

Those signs do seem a bit hand-picked to fit the situation. I'd be more impressed if they were from some older article written before recent events. "it's our destiny to hunt terrorists". No, but god did tell him to bring democracy to ira... [Read More]

Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage

toms

01-19-2006, 7:46 AM
#41

Coming from someone who couldn't tell the difference between SPD and KPML-r to save his life... :confused: Coming from someone who calls me a bigot but can't tolerate Christian opinions to save his life... It isn't so much about not tolerating peopl... [Read More]

Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage

toms

01-18-2006, 5:09 PM
#34

When did the rules get set in stone? 100bc or something like that... though those rules didn't have anything about the illegality of same-sex (pengiun) marriages. (well, maybe the first lot did, but not the lot we got to hear about..)... [Read More]

Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage

toms

01-17-2006, 12:33 PM
#28

What you say is ludicrice. If a group of black people is defined by a long series of illegal acts (i.e. a black-only gang) I hate the illegal actions they are defined by. Does that make me a racist? No. It means I hate the actions of a bunch of peopl... [Read More]

Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage

toms

01-17-2006, 8:55 AM
#25

I said I despise their actions. Not the people. As has been said, that is garbage. Its trying to twist words to make you feel better about hating a group of people. If a group of people is DEFINED by something, and you hate that something, by defini... [Read More]

Posted in: Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage

toms

01-16-2006, 1:10 PM
#15

I don't think the gays should get any special treatment because of their sexuality like? I do not hate gays. I despise their actions. I don't hate christians, i just despise jesus, god, all that incessant praying etc... I also don't hate blacks,... [Read More]

Posted in: The Adventures of Jack Abramoff

toms

01-07-2006, 9:12 AM
#6

The problem is that the constitution permits people access to lobby their representatives. As it should. The problem with a written constitution is that its always going to be pretty vague, and therefore always open to exploitation by people. A lo... [Read More]

Posted in: NSA uses ECHELON against US citizens... and other patriot act fun

toms

12-20-2005, 11:47 AM
#7

Yes it did. It wasn't formally ratified until shortly after 9/11, but the extremely short time interval between 9/11 and the presentation of the PATRIOT act compared with the amount of legislature it entailed makes it clear that the footwork had been... [Read More]

Posted in: NSA uses ECHELON against US citizens... and other patriot act fun

toms

12-20-2005, 7:47 AM
#5

really?... [Read More]

Posted in: NSA uses ECHELON against US citizens... and other patriot act fun

toms

12-19-2005, 9:58 AM
#1

Previously, the Agency had shown itself to be scrupulous about avoiding this sort of activity. But according to numerous un-named sources paraphrased in the Times, the President signed a secret order authorizing him to intercept phone calls and email... [Read More]

Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right

toms

01-16-2006, 1:28 PM
#54

But is it? (just wondering, not saying) It today's society you don't get heard with subtle. You don't get listened to with balanced arguments. You don't get elected if you admit some form of doubt or uncertainty. Today's society likes to be told (... [Read More]

Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right

toms

01-11-2006, 10:56 AM
#49

There was an interersting programme on Channel 4 (UK) a night or so back where an Oxford Professor (biology?) challenged the way religion is attacking evolution. The programme was called "Root of all evil?" and was actually mainly his opini... [Read More]

Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right

toms

01-05-2006, 11:08 AM
#40

I'm sure scientists recently observed the creation of a new species of butterfly.. i'll have a look for the link if i get time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4708459.stm) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3790531.stm) Also, the church of en... [Read More]

Posted in: Evolution - and how we know it's right

toms

12-19-2005, 8:36 AM
#5

Well i'm always amazed that in today's day and age so much of america still doesn't believe in evolution. But lets not go into that. One of the major things that continues to convince me that it is true is that with every new discovery and new scie... [Read More]

Posted in: 403-3

toms

01-20-2006, 12:34 PM
#162

Which seems to me to be the main reason why the intelligence community suddenly lost all common-sense. Instead of the intelligence reports being the basis of the political decisions : the political decisions were the basis of the intelligence reports... [Read More]

Posted in: 403-3

toms

01-20-2006, 9:52 AM
#160

In that case, I misread the article. Which leaves me no better or worse than when I started, thank goodness. :D I think its pretty safe to say they haven't found any WMDs... because you can be pretty sure that if they DID find any WMDs then Bush and... [Read More]

Posted in: 403-3

toms

01-19-2006, 8:24 AM
#153

Ok, i skipped a lot of that because these posts are just getting insanely long, but here are a few random uninformed points anyway: dictators As laudable as the goal of removing dictators and evil regimes is, there is a reason that international law... [Read More]

Posted in: 403-3

toms

01-12-2006, 8:19 AM
#110

The UN believed that there were WMDs in Iraq. They even told Saddam if he didn't cooperate, a regime change was in order. The only problem was the UN didn't have the *ahem* to back up their words. We did. This seems to be a very common misconceptio... [Read More]

Posted in: 403-3

toms

12-19-2005, 8:04 AM
#71

To boil it down to a single snappy punchline, I suppose you could say that terrorism is a text book example of the cure being worse than the disease. I might put that in my sig once Child's Play is over...... [Read More]

Posted in: The Pledge "Unconstitutional"

toms

01-16-2006, 12:02 PM
#108

Does the 1st ammendment trump the 5th amendment? Or are all ammendments created equal? As an outsider looking in it does sometimes appear like the US's defence of the constitution can be very patchy. Try and do anythig that could be even remotely c... [Read More]

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