State of the Union Address LIVE THREAD 9:01pm EST.

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[used2BDem]

OMG!! My mother called me this morning to ask me the same thing! I need to find time to watch this!!

[JustPiper]

Here is what I want to share:

Most of us wouldn't be here if we weren't extremists. Some of us are extremist Republicans, and tend to be Bushbots, and some of us are extremist conservatives and/or libertarians, which tend to be Bush-bashers. It's a division between those whose loyalty is to party and those whose loyalty is to principle.
38 posted on 01/21/2004 10:41:05 AM CST by Sloth

Note Hobson it doesn't make any one of us Anti anything

[JustPiper]

Good post!

[JustPiper]

Quix...what a dear,good soul you are and thank you from my heart!

[JustPiper]

I do get many good laughs unless like a thread I just went through that was a filibuster and got tedious ;)

[JustPiper]

jazzed=passionate sure then ok

[JustPiper]

You need a passion

[Quix]

THANKS for your kind comment. It's much appreciated. You must know a cast of thousands hereon probably beg to differ with you.

And, I am sure Christ is more accurate about my alleged goodness when He calls The Father alone good.

Nevertheless, you do a real trooper's job in behalf of The Republic, and our FR community. And I GREATLY appreciate it.

I also think that even conservatives ought to be free to be somewhat flexible and relatively broad minded in facing evidence, forming hypotheses and construing reality--as long as we can still have the core values relatively in common. I still see you well within those boundaries.

Besides all that, I just like you, enjoy you and greatly like having you around.

And the long terror thread is a WONDERFUL, NEEDED JOB. THANKS BIG.

Some people get nervous when their identical twin chooses to wear a different shirt on Friday. And, others may just need to get a life or some Alkaseltzers or Nexium.

FWIW.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"And who might they be?"

Try this, one of the few times that I see eye to eye with Pat.

Or try reading the materials related to Islamic extremism posted on this site.

What the Wahabbi extremists are trying to accomplish, is to create an atmosphere of world-wide repression of the Islamic faith, the parsed bits of the Holy Qur'an that are constantly passed around on the Internet, are the same parsed bits that Islamic extremist clerics teach to their illiterate pupils, their goal, as Pat says, being to instigate a world-wide war, which would unify Muslims, and create a Caliphate with Wahabbi extremists at its head.

I could parse the Old Testament, and make it appear to people who are not acquainted with Christianity, that Christians are every bit as evil and violent, but we know that we are not, so we can easily deflect the arguments. We are not versed in the Qur'an, and what we don't realize, is that those parsed bits that we read are part of a bigger story, most of them instructing Muslims to fight against anyone who wishes to suppress their practice of Islam, or to repel invaders.

[risk]

Sorry, but I don't agree with a single part of your argument, and neither do I agree with Pat Buchanan's.

[JustPiper]

Some people get nervous when their identical twin chooses to wear a different shirt on Friday. And, others may just need to get a life or some Alkaseltzers or Nexium.

Do you know how good you make me feel? Thank you sweetie! May God Bless you in all you do!

[Quix]

AWH SHUCKS, GWARSH, THANKS.

Glad to hear it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Not a very rational response from a normally rational individual.

What is it exactly that you do not agree with?

That the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or violent?

Well, eighty percent of the world's Muslims live in Indonesia...but 98% of the terrorists of the world come from the Middle east.

Do you not agree that The Qur'an directs Muslims to fight anyone who threatens their ability to practice their beliefs?

Then you know very little about Islam, and you haven't read past the parsed quotes.

Do you not believe that there is no unifying Caliphate since Turkey dissolved the very innefective remains of it some fifty years ago?

Then you do not know history.

That Wahabbi extremists are at the heart of most Islamic extremism?

Then you're not acknowledging the well-known fact that all 9/11 terrorists were Wahabbis, as is Usama bin Laden.

Do you not agree that their goal is to initiate a world wide war between religions?

Then you haven't paid attention to their repeatedly stated goals.

[risk]

Not a very rational response from a normally rational individual.

First of all, I apologize for being so brief, but I know your arguments forward and backward, and I just don't buy them. There is nothing rational about my response, so I don't see the point in trying to persuade you with logic, at least not today.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Logic"?

What logic?

[cinFLA]

Why should I be denied tax breaks, etc, because I choose to remain a single male with no children

You obviously have NOT heard of the marriage penalty!!!! YOU ARE THE ONE GETTING THE BREAK!

[cinFLA]

Why should I be denied tax breaks, etc, because I choose to remain a single male with no children (and not creating any out of wedlock children)?

What if there is a birth-control failure?

[used2BDem]

Got through more than two thousand before my eyes went on strike. Some of the posts were fantastic! We really are so much more fun than the doom and gloom crowd!

[BigSkyFreeper]

We really are so much more fun than the doom and gloom crowd!

Evening to you! Agreed! We are a fun bunch! :)

[BigSkyFreeper]

You have FReepMail :)