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In Indiana 18 to 20 year olds can purchase a handgun from an unlicensed dealer and also obtain a permit to carry it. There is no more problem from these young Hoosier adults than any other age group of permit holders. So the article is simply ignorant.

‘”I’ll see 20 guys ride by on motorcycles, or hear gunshots outside my window.

And one day,” he said, “in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, I saw a guy on a motorcycle with a handgun. It was not a reassuring sight.”’

In normal, law abiding places of America this would be rightfully be seen as perfectly harmless.

“We have the royally rich irony that public critics of Christianity feel free to liken it to Islamic jihad, yet they will not directly speak ill of Islamic jihad itself!”

That’s an awesome meme.

“So, why this sudden jump in youthful disaffection from organized religion? The surprising answer, according to a mounting body of evidence, is politics. Very few of these new “nones” actually call themselves atheists, and many have rather conventional beliefs about God and theology. But they have been alienated from organized religion by its increasingly conservative politics.”

paudio replied:
“If they were right, we would have seen an increase in liberal churches’ memberships, not a decrease.”

Correct! This is a general falling away from Christainity in general.

Remember Haditha? The massacre that never happened?

The military claimed it had enough credence to investigate there as well, and even indict.

“2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”

DO YOU HEAR THIS DUGGER FAMILY?!??!?!!?!/sarcasm

The poem is an unintentional indictment of government schooling.

garjog said: “OK, so I am not going to open that link. I can imagine. But, here is an idea: Lets buy the lot across the street form the 9 11 Mosque and build a giant three story screen and broadcast these videos 24 hours a day.

Sure, it would be offensive. But, legal, so lets do it. Help tourists put things in perspective.”

**That** is an excellent idea!! The problem with the current controversy over the 911 Mosque is people are complaining it is “insensitive”. No, that’s not the danger from the 911 Mosque is at all. The building is going to used to spread pro-Muslim progaganda and convert people to Islam. What you are suggesting will, at the very least, negate the progaganda spread to naive tourists, NY natives, and potential Muslim converts who visit(except the truly psychotic ones who want to murder for s***s and giggles).

In all seriousness, how can we accomplish this? How do we get the ball rolling?

“Why the hell would you pack heat in Costco?

One could almost nominate this guy for a Darwin award. BUT, since he is one of us, a patriot, we’re not saying the obvious: What a STUPID thing to do.

Sorry the man is dead, truly sorry, but I won’t be packing heat in WalMart or other discount stores. ITS NUTS!”

True story: a friend of my sister’s, an off duty female police officer, was at Walmart when another female friend the cop’s pulled up in her minivan. The minivan driver just needed a single item and wasn’t going to be in Walmart long so she ran into the store and left the motor running and the minivan unlocked. The driver stopped to talk with her friend the police officer then said “Well, I’m in a hurry and I’ve got to go. I left the minivan running.”
The cop insisted on going with her and checked the minivan out. Guess what was inside? A man hiding inside who had just been released from prison after being there for rape.

Understand?

“Uh, the passengers had no guns to shoot, so I wouldn’t call them “armed”.”

The heck they weren’t armed. The “passengers”(terrorists) didn’t do this with their bare hands.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/turkish-paper-releases-images-of-beaten-stabbed-israeli-israeli-soldiers-on-the-mavi-marmara/

“Why didn’t the IDF simply disable the ships’ propellers with steel cable, rather than hostilely boarding the boat in international waters? The boats can’t get to Palestine anyway, because there’s no Palestinian port to dock at because it is landlocked.”

Gaza, the ship’s destination, borders the ocean.

“I’ve always hoped that one of these old commissars would confess about what their plans really were in the 1940s, 1960s and so on. If you know anecdotes or names, please discuss them.”

There you go.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

“[1] A busload of T&G kids who attend a local residential school come to our church. I ask them how things are going at Janissary school — with a smile, of course. Sharp kids, who may or may not realize that they are being trained up as specialized, high-functioning tools.”

RFEngineer replied: “High functioning tools? Homeschooling is a fine option for anyone who chooses it, but it is wishful thinking to say that somehow they will out-compete out-perform, and rule the world of uneducated “government school”.

I think this is a pathology of many homeschooling parents - usually mothers. They will always think that their little Johnny or Susie is a genius - and refuse to admit that they do not have the ability to objectively assess then against the general population (remember....don’t take government tests) - therefore the only conclusion they can come to is that little Susie/Johnny is at the top of the heap.

This may or may not be true - but is far more likely to NOT be true.”

Uh, they do assess homeschooled students against the general population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling#Test_results

“Numerous studies have found that homeschooled students on average outperform their peers on standardized tests.[87] Homeschooling Achievement, a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), supported the academic integrity of homeschooling. Among the homeschooled students who took the tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects.”

Yes, indeed. It’s a pity someone didn’t make a video and post it to youtube.

*bump*

‘He[Reverend Black of the UCC] called upon his “brothers and sisters in the United Christ of Christ and our faith partners to resist entering into dialog or debate with such demonstrations of hate that go against our Christian understanding to love our neighbors.”’

Really? But they will seek common ground with the Religion of Beheading:

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UCC’s Thomas among diverse endorsers of Muslim leaders’ call for common ground

Written by Ecumenical News International
November 22, 2007
U.S. Christian leaders, including traditional Protestants and evangelical Christians, have endorsed a document that responds positively to a call by Muslim leaders seeking common ground between Christian and Islamic religious traditions.
Nearly 300 Christian leaders have now endorsed the document, “Loving God and Neighbour Together.” It calls for both Christian and Muslim leaders to commit themselves to “the earnest work of determining how God would have us fulfil the requirement that we love God and one another.”
The statement was published as a full-page advertisement in the November 18 edition of The New York Times.
It was endorsed by, among others, the Rev. John Thomas, the UCC’s general minister and president, and Harvey Cox, a Harvard Divinity School theologian, as well as by prominent evangelical leaders such as the Rev. Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life.” Also signing was the Rev. Robert Schuller, the founder of the California-based ministry, Crystal Cathedral/Hour of Power.
Four Yale Divinity School scholars including the school’s dean, Harold Attridge, originally endorsed the Christian document following the release of a widely-publicised October 2007 letter, “A Common Word Between Us and You,” by 138 Muslim clerics, intellectuals and scholars.
That Islamic document, the Christian leaders said, identified “some core common ground between Christianity and Islam which lies at the heart of our respective faiths as well as at the heart of the most ancient Abrahamic faith, Judaism.”
The leaders added, “We receive the open letter as a Muslim hand of conviviality and cooperation extended to Christians worldwide. In this response we extend our own Christian hand in return, so that together with all other human beings we may live in peace and justice as we seek to love God and our neighbours.”
In a statement, Attridge, the Yale dean, said, “In a climate where the voices of extremism and intolerance are heard loud and clear, it is important that men and women of good will on both sides of that religious fault line reach out and affirm the values that they share.”
He noted that the Muslim document “presented an extraordinary opportunity to effect that outreach and further constructive communication between the religious leadership of the Christian and Muslim worlds.”

See post #11.

Good article, thanks for posting, but it was a depressing read. Young ladies, from the article: "A week after Courtney A. posted her story about her one-night stand with Tucker Max, he posted a surprisingly kind and courteous response that also happened to make it clear what young women need to do: 'Courtney, I know you’re only 21, so that explains a lot, but baby, please understand: We all reap what we sow. .  .  . I’m sure there are a lot of guys who will be sweet and gentle with you in bed and really pay attention to your needs, but the guys you come out to sport f— probably won’t be among them. .  .  . I told her I wanted to eventually settle down and have kids. I do. Maybe not now, but soon enough that I think about it now. Of course, traveling around the country f—ing all kinds of college girls who throw themselves at me probably doesn’t help.'" Understand?

“It would take another three years after the boats’ arrival in Israel before the missile boat flotilla was ready, with not a day to spare. It concluded its first full-scale maneuvers the day before Yom Kippur 1973. War broke out the next day.”

No one can convince me that there are is no Higher Power at work here. Israel would not have survived without those boats to protect vital supply lines.

“Did we actually lose a soldier? I have not seen the news?”

Yes, a young man from Idaho named Bergdahl. If I remember correctly pparently he was a stoner and and left a note saying he was going for a walk off base.

Quite a man. Thanks for posting this interview.