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naive definitely ridiculous That is all. (/spelling Nazi)

(Holding it in... Holding it in... Holdingitinholdingitinholdingitinholding) GMan, you are a dick of the highest order. Seriously, I haven't seen anyone - anyone - on this forum whose screen name is a more consistent predictor of tactlessness, tastelessness, and uninformed all-around...

Well, if the alternative is "Dumb B@stard," he may well not object to being dear.

That reminds me of an e-mail I got from a friend in London the day of the subway bombings. "'Today Britain is burning in fear' says an Islamist website. 'Today Britain is cheesed off and slightly late for work' would be closer to the mark."

Pourts makes a good point - we're not talking about Islam here, but about violent radical Islam, which has as much relation to the real thing as Fred Phelps does to Franklin Graham. There are millions of Muslims all over the world causing no trouble at all and living their religion quite...

Iiiiin fact, I'm deliberately encouraging you to not say stuff that you can't defend. I'm dead serious, and you can read into my motives whatever you like, but if you want me to follow your argument, you have to back it up. You can't just say, "Hey, Muslims are, like, way more violent than...

You didn't specify which of those acts were performed by Islamic fundamentalists in the name of Allah (may his breath always be minty-fresh) and which of them were performed by people who happened to be Islamic fundamentalists but committed acts of violence independent of that religious...

It's fearsome! :icon_rage

Gee, I dunno. Why don't you provide some, and we'll test your theory? Actually, by definition, Jews and Christians aren't pagans; you're thinking "infidels." But I guess that's what you get looking for literal meaning in a questionable translation (which all of them, by definition, are) of a...

Well, I think the problem was that an ABC miniseries showed a lot of things that didn't happen, and left out a lot of things that did. And when they had an oppportunity to show how things really were, to illustrate some of the real failings and successes of Clinton and Bush II with regards to...

^^ Sigh. Allow me to repeat, one last time, for those with reading comprehension issues: You referred to a specific "dramatized" scene in the movie. You indicated that no one actually believed that said scene was real. I asked you for evidence supporting your contention that no one actually...

No, I was asking him for references indicating that people actually knew that that particular scene was dramatized. He said that no one believed it; I was just asking for a link.

Source?

And that's exactly my point: the little things like that, the little throwaway bits, are the bits most likely to smear someone - someone like, for instance, American Airlines, if people are ticked off that "AA let terrorists on the plane!!! OMG!!!eleven!!" And the little throwaway details are...

AA wasn't complaining because they got the city wrong. They were complaining because they got the airline wrong; he checked in in Portland, at US Airways, not in Boston at American. And that's the problem with all of the "tiny, insignificant changes to improve the story"; we're told that some...

I realize that by linking to a "liberal" site, I'm probably strangling my argument in the cradle, however: Roger Cressey, a counterterrorism advisor to both Bush and Clinton, said that "it’s amazing…how much they’ve gotten wrong" in the movie and that the whole Clinton-took-a-pass-on-bin-Laden...

Apparently, he did the chain-of-command thing as best he could and got no love, and that's why he took it to YouTube. I'm sure there'll be more details about this in coming days, though.

Very diplomatic, Sha. Good one. Reminds me of a friend of mine who's an alcoholic. "You just need to shut up! I'm not hurting anyone, and life is better when I drink, and I'm not hurting anyone, so you just need to shut up!" (He can also quit whenever he wants.)

As opposed to, say, Christianity, where people talk about eternal life that comes because of one guy's death. And where people look forward to dying because of an eternal reward in the afterlife. Oh, and where a hurricane will wipe out the better part of a state because God hates gay pride...

Yeah, I was thinkin'. Can I have that with salmon instead of tuna?

Well, that's because the movie wasn't about the hijackings. It was a heroism-in-the-darkest-hour kind of movie. The scope was narrow for a reason: because it was about the guys who went in to rescue people from the towers, particularly these two guys who had this experience. I won't go nuts...

I think that TurnandBurn has one of the most salient points - that the goal isn't for Islamic states/Islamic majority states to embrace Israel so much as at least tolerate it. And I think that while we spend a lot of time debating whether or not Israel has the right to the level of response...

He's just trying to keep the people scared, so they'll behave themselves and be ever-so-grateful that the government is willing and able to keep them safe from the boogeyman. But yeah, thull, why not invade? I mean, we've got endless resources, and it's not like our troops have anything else...

Where's my violin? I know I left it around here somewhere...

Fmr1833 - Trust me, I know that not all relationships are destined for marriage. The reason I'm blissfully single now is that I had a really good couple's counselor, pre-marriage, three years ago.

Seriously, I take offense at that. I'm not a pothead.

That's the one part I disagree with. I think that most couples could benefit from counseling before they get married. I think it would knock the divorce rate way down, because I think that it would cut down on the rate of people getting married who have no excuse for doing so. The time to...

I'm going to have to throw in from a purely civilian perspective ('cause, well, that's what I am). The age difference doesn't really concern me; I see no reason that a 21-year-old and a 37-year-old can't be perfectly happy together, if they're the right 21-year-old and 37-year-old. Now, what...

Oh, they can kill you. But they can't eat you. Best of luck, Dan.

It's not the showering. It's the sheer price of doing laundry. Laundromats charging the equivalent of $3.75 a load just to wash? Some of us get poor making our clothes clean, and others just go stinky. You think France is bad, try eastern Europe. I nearly got knocked over in Bratislava by a...

Quick argument - Don't really know what you meant by logic through exclusion vs. inclusion, but the point of the Constitution was to outline the rights of the government as given to them by the people. Government by the consent of the governed, and all that. That's actually something that sets...

He flinched.

Being hardwired to feel certain ways/desire certain kinds of people and actually acting on those feelings/desires are two different things. I may desire to strangle my boss with a lamp cord, and I may even be biochemically predisposed to wanting to strangle her with a lamp cord, but I know that...

Since we've already established that we're working from two crappily constructed articles, maybe we shouldn't base our assumptions on any of the facts in said articles, from the order in which the officers arrived to the number of times he was or was not told to drop his weapon. Heck, maybe we...

What's worse is that we elect them year after year after year after year.

"In case of Rapture, can I have your car?"

A4s, we still have my dad's framed shirt from his first solo. It, too, was a charming Madras plaid button-down. Unfortunately, his first solo was in 1995, so he didn't really have an excuse.

Dude, just learn when to shut up.

Hey, every actress has the right to move on when she feels the need. My career was stagnating, and I kept getting typecast. Besides, DJE kept pinching my butt every time the camera was off me.

Basically, an amicus brief is what happens when someone who isn't actually a party to the case knows what they're talking about (or thinks they do), feels that the outcome of the case will have a significant effect on them, and wants to share the knowledge. In this case, the UCLaw Veterans...

D'you really not know, or are you just being snarky? 'Cause I can explain, but I'm not gonna put myself out there to get snarked at.

That's it. Cone of Silence.

The trick is to be pretty enough to scrog sober. :)

Just so y'all don't get caught by this in the future: in most states, a sexual partner cannot legally give consent if he or she is drunk. Some states even have a specific blood alcohol level for this, like drunk-driving laws. So even if you absolutely know that she's saying, "Yes, yes, oh God...

I was Googling for fashion tips.

Also remember that a lot of compensation is more punitive than anything else. For instance, quality assurance at ACME Canned Food and Lumber Yard starts slacking off, somehow a whole bunch of their wood chips get mixed in with their green beans, and a six-year-old mistakes it all for his mom's...

Yucky... and pointy! It's a potential terrorist threat! What on earth were they thinking?

Just remember Schnugg's comment above - as long as you're a fiancee and not a wife, you're not active duty military and you would proceed as any other civilian would do. Once you're married, of course, you'll follow all of the military instructions/advice as given above (assuming, of course...

Sigh... You could go so completely Mad Libs on that one. Fukkin (noun)... buncha morons with (adjective) pay and benefits. IRS ... federal DHS ... federal DMV ... state DHL (you know, the shipping guys, who are supposed to have such great customer service?) ... overly generous...

I certainly hope that's the case. Musharaf has been all kinds of passive-aggressive ever since we left Pakistan, and that sort of behavior just cheeses me off.