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  • S Stan Shannon

    led mike wrote:

    So if it has not been specifically written that I have the right walk around on my hands then I don't have that right?

    Of course you have a right to walk around on your hands. Until, that is, you fall over and injure someone and your town decides to create a law against hand walking for public safty purposes. Than you don't have that right any more. Since hand walking is not defined in the constitution you have no legal basis for challanging the law. You can, however, begin a petition to have the constitution amended to allow for hand walking, or you can go to the state legislature to fight it. Of course, you do have the right to voice your opinion on why hand walking should be legal, you have the right to pubish your opinion, you have the right to assemble with likeminded citizens to voice your view, you even have the right to worship the God's of hand walking and do all the hand walking you like in the privacy of your own home. All those rights are in the constitution. Hand walking isn't. Get it?

    Please excuse my refusal to participate in the suicide of western civilization

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    Stan Shannon wrote:

    Get it?

    Probably not. You seem to be saying the same thing you always say. If I injure someone during hand walking, and that is very likely were I to walk on my hands, then I can be prosecuted for that under existing laws. It does not follow that the towns new law banning walking on hands FOR EVERYONE is not unconstitutional. We all have certain inalienable unalienable rights and governments are established to secure these rights, not restrict them. The states or towns have no more right to restrict freedom than the federal government does since they are a form of government.


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      BAYTOWN, Texas - A 14-year-old girl gave birth in a restroom at her junior high, and the baby boy cried once before she tried to flush him down the toilet, killing him, officials said Thursday. An autopsy confirmed the baby was alive when born Wednesday at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, near Houston. The boy was probably full term and cried before the mother, an eighth-grader, tried to flush him, said police Lt. Eric Freed. Yahoo![^]

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      Jorgen Sigvardsson
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      In a civil society, such people are tried in a court of law.

      -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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        Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

        you ain't different than those self-righteous freaks who have been suffering from holier than thou attitude.

        Not holier. Just far less hypocritical. And, just out of curiosity, why do you keep using the word "ain't"? It is not a part of formal English, and almost always makes the speaker seem ill-educated. Oh, wait...

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        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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        He ain't so holy! Ya dig?

        -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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        • 7 73Zeppelin

          Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

          Shog, Keep Shagging!

          :laugh: WTF?!!? :laugh:


          Only memories, fading memories, blending into dull tableaux. I want them back.

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          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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          That's what I thought too. :~ What the fuck???

          -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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            He ain't so holy! Ya dig?

            -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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            Vincent Reynolds
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            Maybe he's been listening to Muslim hip-hop...

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            • V Vincent Reynolds

              Maybe he's been listening to Muslim hip-hop...

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              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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              I hear Muslim hip-hop is da bomb!

              -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                That's what I thought too. :~ What the fuck???

                -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                Maybe it's better if we don't know...


                Only memories, fading memories, blending into dull tableaux. I want them back.

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                • L led mike

                  Stan Shannon wrote:

                  Get it?

                  Probably not. You seem to be saying the same thing you always say. If I injure someone during hand walking, and that is very likely were I to walk on my hands, then I can be prosecuted for that under existing laws. It does not follow that the towns new law banning walking on hands FOR EVERYONE is not unconstitutional. We all have certain inalienable unalienable rights and governments are established to secure these rights, not restrict them. The states or towns have no more right to restrict freedom than the federal government does since they are a form of government.


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                  led mike wrote:

                  The states or towns have no more right to restrict freedom than the federal government does since they are a form of government.

                  Now its my turn to be entirely confused. Obviously, everything that one might want to do cannot be an unalienable right. So, therefore, government must have some means of determining which behaviors are and are not unalienable. Is it your conviction that the courts are ths soul arbitors of such distinctions? That, for example, if the supreme court discovers that your right to walk on your hands to be unalienable, you get to do it regardless of who is injured?

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                  • S Stan Shannon

                    led mike wrote:

                    The states or towns have no more right to restrict freedom than the federal government does since they are a form of government.

                    Now its my turn to be entirely confused. Obviously, everything that one might want to do cannot be an unalienable right. So, therefore, government must have some means of determining which behaviors are and are not unalienable. Is it your conviction that the courts are ths soul arbitors of such distinctions? That, for example, if the supreme court discovers that your right to walk on your hands to be unalienable, you get to do it regardless of who is injured?

                    Please excuse my refusal to participate in the suicide of western civilization

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                    Stan Shannon wrote:

                    Now its my turn to be entirely confused.

                    see, that is what you get for discussing facts with a knee-jerk liberal. They find unalienable rights where none exist and things like murder are not murder if done to make their lives a bit easier. of course if done in defense of one's home, well, that would be mmurder - unless it were their home. understand now?

                    Mike - typical white guy. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

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                      Stan Shannon wrote:

                      Now its my turn to be entirely confused.

                      see, that is what you get for discussing facts with a knee-jerk liberal. They find unalienable rights where none exist and things like murder are not murder if done to make their lives a bit easier. of course if done in defense of one's home, well, that would be mmurder - unless it were their home. understand now?

                      Mike - typical white guy. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

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                      The only thing I would like to get to the bottom of is the history of how these bizarre notions became so widely dissiminated. I think Led Mike is an honest guy. I think he really believes this stuff, and he has been taught that it is only some kind of evil right wing junta of some kind that could possibly disagree with them. And he isn't alone. Most members of the younger generation and even many baby boomer's believe the same thing. It is as though at some point in my 54 years of life I stepped through a looking glass without being aware of it. The clear history that the bill of rights was created at the insistence of the anti-federalists who were trying to take power away from the federal government and give it to the states and the people is apparently no longer taught. They seem to have been taught that the declaration of independence was actually a legally binding contract of some kind which justifies any action the federal government might take (unless, of course, it involves defending the nation in some way)

                      Please excuse my refusal to participate in the suicide of western civilization

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                      • V Vincent Reynolds

                        Ilíon wrote:

                        Of course, being a superior being, as you are, it's not necessary for you yourself to do other than stereotype. Or pay too much attention to the failures of the stereotypes you insist upon projecting onto others.

                        What stereotype have I projected onto you?

                        Ilíon wrote:

                        But, the fact is, and as we *all* know, abortion is one of those issues clearly recognized and understood by all to be a "liberal" .... hmmm, sacrament. Certainly, one *can* find "conservatives" who pro-abortion. And one *can* find "liberals" who are anti-abortion. One can even find atheists who are strongly anti-abortion. But these are pretty much aberrations.

                        Abortion has been a "liberal" issue only since the Republican party began pandering to the religious right. Funny how abortions are more common in the red states. And I would think that anyone who is actually pro-abortion would be considered an aberration in any camp. I know many people on both sides of the issue, and can honestly say that even the ones who consider it the woman's right to choose are decidedly anti-abortion. Perhaps we travel in different circles.

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                        If you had cared to actually read what I wrote ... but why would you, being superior, as you are? ... I expressed the expectation that you are pro-abortion, while very much leaving open the possibility that on this issue you deviate from your regular leftism.

                        I read what you wrote. Are you going to split semantic hairs and tell me that an expectation is not at all the same thing as an assumption? Are you trying to weasel out because you phrased it as a question? Do you not sacrifice infants to a giant stone idol of Reagan in your basement? Keep in mind that I'm simply asking, based on an expectation developed from carefully reading everything you've written in this forum. I'm leaving you plenty of room to relocate the idol. :rolleyes:

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                        Vincent Reynolds wrote:

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                        What willful self-ignorance (along with other willful ignorance, of course).

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                        • S Stan Shannon

                          The only thing I would like to get to the bottom of is the history of how these bizarre notions became so widely dissiminated. I think Led Mike is an honest guy. I think he really believes this stuff, and he has been taught that it is only some kind of evil right wing junta of some kind that could possibly disagree with them. And he isn't alone. Most members of the younger generation and even many baby boomer's believe the same thing. It is as though at some point in my 54 years of life I stepped through a looking glass without being aware of it. The clear history that the bill of rights was created at the insistence of the anti-federalists who were trying to take power away from the federal government and give it to the states and the people is apparently no longer taught. They seem to have been taught that the declaration of independence was actually a legally binding contract of some kind which justifies any action the federal government might take (unless, of course, it involves defending the nation in some way)

                          Please excuse my refusal to participate in the suicide of western civilization

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                          Stan Shannon wrote:

                          I think Led Mike is an honest guy. I think he really believes this stuff, ...

                          The refusal to reason properly is the epitome of dishonesty.

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                            In a civil society, such people are tried in a court of law.

                            -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                            Adnan Siddiqi
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                            Jargon,if that civil society consist of ignorants and pottmouths like you and your friends here then that society is never called CIVILIZED in real world

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                              Jargon,if that civil society consist of ignorants and pottmouths like you and your friends here then that society is never called CIVILIZED in real world

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                              Tim Craig
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                              Hey, Adnan. You're not making much progess with learning the official language of your country so we can understand you. :laugh: I'm surprised you can even read the laws of your hell hole.

                              Doing my part to piss off the religious right.

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                                Jargon,if that civil society consist of ignorants and pottmouths like you and your friends here then that society is never called CIVILIZED in real world

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                                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                Assnan, you don't know what the word civilized really means. For you it probably means not swearing and not beating your wife (so much). What it means for me is incomprehensible to you, so I won't even try explaining it to you. ps. No matter what you say, Muhammed was a pedophile. ds.

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                                  Hey, Adnan. You're not making much progess with learning the official language of your country so we can understand you. :laugh: I'm surprised you can even read the laws of your hell hole.

                                  Doing my part to piss off the religious right.

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                                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                  I'm surprise dick heads could read at all! Maybe they've mutated down in camel land, due to too much exposure to nitroglycerine...

                                  -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                                  • I Ilion

                                    Stan Shannon wrote:

                                    I think Led Mike is an honest guy. I think he really believes this stuff, ...

                                    The refusal to reason properly is the epitome of dishonesty.

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                                    I don't think you can ignore the brainwashing the current generation has recieved on these issues. When you have an educational insititution as well as a powerful mass media pounding away at the same inherently leftist message you have to accept that a lot of peopel are going to buy into it.

                                    Please excuse my refusal to participate in the suicide of western civilization

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                                    • L led mike

                                      Shog9 wrote:

                                      are you saying that abortion is more complex an issue than murder

                                      That's one way to put it but it could be twisted, you have to be careful around here don't you? More accurately, it's different, therefore not equal to murder in the sense that you can't just dismiss the issue by calling it murder due to the life/health of the mother being inseparable in the issue.

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                                      trying to start a fight

                                      hmm, not sure. I was thinking more along the lines of it's not worth discussing the issue with someone that refuses to consider the aspect of the mother when discussing the issue. From experience, I guess it seems anyone that starts the discussion with "murder" is not going to consider the mother, in discussion, so that's sort of how I got there. Did that help, or just make it worse? :)

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                                      led mike wrote:

                                      From experience, I guess it seems anyone that starts the discussion with "murder" is not going to consider the mother, in discussion, so that's sort of how I got there.

                                      Ah, well, i understand where you're coming from now. IMHO, one of the big problems with these discussions is that a whole lot of logically disparate situations get lumped together. It's like discussing assisted suicide and bringing in random triage scenarios.

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                                      • S Stan Shannon

                                        The only thing I would like to get to the bottom of is the history of how these bizarre notions became so widely dissiminated. I think Led Mike is an honest guy. I think he really believes this stuff, and he has been taught that it is only some kind of evil right wing junta of some kind that could possibly disagree with them. And he isn't alone. Most members of the younger generation and even many baby boomer's believe the same thing. It is as though at some point in my 54 years of life I stepped through a looking glass without being aware of it. The clear history that the bill of rights was created at the insistence of the anti-federalists who were trying to take power away from the federal government and give it to the states and the people is apparently no longer taught. They seem to have been taught that the declaration of independence was actually a legally binding contract of some kind which justifies any action the federal government might take (unless, of course, it involves defending the nation in some way)

                                        Please excuse my refusal to participate in the suicide of western civilization

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                                        Stan Shannon wrote:

                                        The only thing I would like to get to the bottom of is the history of how these bizarre notions became so widely dissiminated.

                                        I think being weaned from the teat to MTV might be a contributing factor. All joking aside, I stopped back by to see if ol' Led jumped to to deal with my "liberal knee-jerk" comment. I see he screwed up his courage and replied with a 1 vote to most everything. I commend you for cutting him some slack but I honestly think he's indicative of the evil my generation wished on the country through indulgence, slothful parenting, committed hedonism and our own rebellion against authority.

                                        Mike - typical white guy. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

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                                        • 7 73Zeppelin

                                          Hey, you don't have a spreadsheet with that temperature data you directed me to, do you? Because at the moment I'm doing some Kalman filtering and I could easily do a few temperature data runs while I'm at it to check for a drift in the data. If not, then oh well, it would have been interesting since it's urban environment data, but I don't have the time to extract it from all his plots.


                                          Only memories, fading memories, blending into dull tableaux. I want them back.

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                                          This is hadley and nasa data so it should be relatively easy to get hold of the raw data from their websites.

                                          Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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