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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1191 Posts 
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On 2011-10-07 20:16, landmark wrote: Why are you so anti-Pagan?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts
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I believe that would be "Yule."
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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On 2011-10-07 20:50, rockwall wrote: Nah, me I was trying to get Joe Hill's birthday off.
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts
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The whole pork/halal thing does not apply when you are a prisoner. A lot of people thought we should have fed the inmates in Guantanamo Bay pork rinds and beer. In Islam they are allowed to eat what they need to survive.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness...
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acesover Special user I believe I have 819 Posts
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I did not read the whole thread. But let me get this straight. We have a bunch of people who broke the law and are imprisoned for breaking the law and I am sure the law of their "good book". So they decide they can break some of the laws in their "good book" but do not want to eat pork. Is that about right?
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts
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On 2011-10-08 10:01, acesover wrote: I took it as being about the politico who decided that nobody gets to eat pork if it might offend these certain guys who don't want pork. And again, please address all questions on Muslim tradition for prisoners to Muhammad Ali.
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Chessmann Inner circle 4014 Posts
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Woland and Pakar are correct.
My ex-cat was named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
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balducci Loyal user Canada 230 Posts
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On 2011-10-08 10:01, acesover wrote: You make good points but, as the article notes: "Ironically, the inmates' lawsuit doesn't involve pork at all; it demands that non-pork meats like beef come from animals slaughtered according to Islamic law. But the prisons system responded by simply removing pork as an option altogether." Also, cost cutting (not religion) is apparently what originally removed pork from the menu in the first place: "Ohio first took pork off the menu in 2009 after, in a money-saving attempt, it closed the pig farm and processing facility it operated to provide meat for inmates."
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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magicfish Inner circle 6742 Posts
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Of course they are winning. How on earth can we defeat someone we are afraid of offending?
Imagine if we were bound by political correctness in ww2? We would have been labelled Germaniphobes and been forced to seek counselling for not sympathizing with their quest for world domination. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1064 Posts
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On 2011-10-08 11:20, magicfish wrote: "They" are Americans.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1064 Posts
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On the topic of religious demagogues who want to forge the world in their own image, I see that Mitt Romney claims that God made America for the purpose of leading the world.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16199 Posts
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If you think its right to ban pork from USA prisons for the reasons they have given, then do you think its right to ban all pork from all of the USA for the same reason?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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gdw Inner circle 4816 Posts
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On 2011-10-08 11:32, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: And Bachman wants to ban gay marriage and porn, via an amendment to the constitution.
It's amazing, people will criticize you for "biting the hand that feeds you," while they're busy praising the hand that beats them.
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On 2011-10-08 12:11, tommy wrote: As far as I can tell no one in this thread has supported the pork ban. Depending on who you ask, either the ban was capitulation to terrorism or it was a stupid bureaucratic move that showed no appreciation of the content of the problem being addressed. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1191 Posts
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On 2011-10-08 12:13, gdw wrote: At least it's better than wanting to ban them without a constitutional amendment.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 230 Posts
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On 2011-10-08 11:32, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: A lot of "red meat" in his speech that will play well to his domestic audience, I am sure. His best and most quotable line, I think, was "The blessings of faith carry the responsibility of civil and respectful debate."
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27122 Posts
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Does "faith" have to mean that you don't expect anyone else to bother you after doing "his will" ... even if the sanitation department and the families of the departed don't know how to sort through the mess? That one can make demands upon the property and rights of others, matters that go beyond a respectful freedom on how one chooses to frame their internal representations of things in the world?
I believe folks are sufficiently intelligent to celebrate existence without needing to believe they have some monopoly on valid perspectives. So go enjoy that double bacon cheeseburger. I just don't see how it benefits a prisoner convicted of theft to seek out justice under a system of law where they would lose their hand. Or if a violent crime against the the state - their lives by beheading.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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1) It's disingenuous to equate Mitt Romney's expression of his personal religious beliefs with the quasi-religious ideology of the jihad. The LDS Church may believe a lot of things about the United States that many non-members find odd, but they do not go around blowing up churches of the Reformed LDS Church, other churches, non-Mormon religious shrines and monuments, and thousands of innocent civilians in order to impose Mormonism on the world.
2) It does seem odd that some thieves and murderers would apparently prefer Shariah law to America's lenient legal system, but then of course, we may be forgetting that everyone in prison is innocent - just ask them. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1064 Posts
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I was at a book launch yesterday. A friend of mine created some school-level materials about the Ukrainian internment in Canada during the first world war. Innocent people were placed in forced labour camps because they originated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was now an official enemy. The story is a horror. These people were stripped of their rights not for anything that they did, but for their ethnicity and place of birth. I don't know if a similar atrocity occurred in the US.
30 years later Japanese-Canadians and -Americans were stripped of their property and forced into internment camps. Again they had done nothing wrong. They lost their citizenship rights because of their race. Across the Atlantic, 6 million Jews were killed for no crimes of their own, but because of their ethnicity. Many sought refuge in other countries; many were turned away. What does this have to do with this conversation? The US is at war because of Islamic fundamentalists who have committed atrocities. As in the first two examples above, war was waged against the perpetrators; and back home the innocent are vilified. Are we no better than our xenophobic predecessors? Are Muslims living in American automatically guilty of anything? Are they less citizens than their next-door neighbours? When the Holocaust was happening, much of the silence was justified by beliefs in a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. It was a lie, started by evil people and spread by gullible fools. Have we learned nothing in the past century? John
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16199 Posts
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The US is at war because of Islamic fundamentalists who have committed atrocities......allegedly.
It was a lie, started by evil people and spread by gullible fools.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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