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Aha interesting. Does this mean that you would vote for a slightly worse (on other issues) candidate if he was pro life and the slightly better one was pro choice (in the abstract sense, not talking obama and mccain here)?

why do you prefer a conservative approach over a liberal one?

I think most people here pick their positions issue by issue, and why you throw Brain in there?

reality has a liberal bias

eh... sometimes the yearly budget shortage is referred to as the national debt... gimme another one

are you guys serious? there's nothing wrong with having kids in your 40s... !@#$%^&* I read an experiment a while ago where they made fruitflies live to like 2-3x their normal lifetimes by killing off the ones that were born early in the fruitfly's life over several generations... although that's completely unrelated.

I think Biden won but Palin did well too. Everything she said was very scripted, down the the point of ignoring the question and even having a prepared, "i'm might not answer these questions the way you want me to" blurb. But she didn't mess up and may even have been slightly inspiring at times. any favorite moments? Mine was when Palin said she agreed with "that one al queda leader". My roommate and I just looked at each other and laughed.

astro: link or it didn't happen

Yeah the wiki was old. To use bouncing bullets set RedBullet::Bounces to a positive number in Settings.conf (in zones/Single Player/)

wat? by that argument worker bees are detrimental to evolution

it is real; here's cnn's take on it, with synced audio. i like how wolf tries to defend her. L8__aXxXPVchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc

y isn't palin running mccain's campaign while he discusses most important bill in over a decade? edit: nvm, figured it out: npUMUASwaechttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUMUASwaec

Palin starts taking questions from audience

Bush != McCain, as much as the democrats would like that to be the case

yeah that downs thing is pretty re!@#$%^&*ed, along the lines of obama being a muslim but her 17 year old daughter is 5 months pregnant

7. He didn't pick Hillary for VP.

harold and kumar got me thinking... M7bK3w9Mw6whttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bK3w9Mw6w

mmm that's a good idea... we'll sell mexico a piece of land on the canadian border such that they can fly into it and sneak into canada

Seems like a non-issue.

feeling good is a positive, !@#$%^&* I'd say most of the time our actions are driven by feeling good or avoiding feeling bad; there's a reason drugs are popular. but yeah, if I start attacking you or your family then I'm a criminal and you can treat me as such (sort of like if I get drunk and attack your family). But again, this doesn't happen to most people and I would have been fully informed of the potential hallucinations before I took anything. You're absolutely right. And people do grow pot for purely personal use. However, if you get caught trying to avoid the black market and/or funding terrorism by doing this, you are over the amount where it's just possession and you get slapped with intention to sell. Honestly like three plants a year yield more than enough but apparently "intention to sell" isn't defined by what your intention is, only how much you have.

I'm pretty sure you could make more than enough by selling the drugs, although you're right about the unregistered stuff making an underground system. But it wouldn't be as bad as it is now, as the money would stay in the US.

hey how about it's my freaking body not the governments? As long as I'm not being tricked into addition, have all the facts, and am a willing adult, wtf is the government doing getting involved? If I commit crimes, then punish me for the crimes, but most drug users don't commit the crimes (save drug possession) and can still get put in jail for responsible use. Also, if the government was selling drugs and not dealers, the price would go way down and dealers couldn't compete and thus would go away. A lot of the cost of drugs is the risk involved. Pot is literally a weed that grows just about everywhere plants can grow; opium-based drugs have to be imported illegally and distributed underground, and everyone along the way gets a cut. Illegal prescription drugs are just a more expensive version of legal prescription drugs.

Are you honestly saying the best explanation for bones at the bottom of the Red Sea is the Moses story? There's at least a thousand more likely explanations. It's absolutely ridiculous to think all this happened by chance, which is why you'll have trouble finding people who claim that. Natural selection is huge driving force (definitely not chance), and life is very good at survival and reproduction because of it. --------------------------------------- But let's get back to the story of Lot. You say that not everyone in the Bible is perfect, which is fine. But somehow you need to get your moral values, correct? How can you rely on the Bible for this when sometimes people are being immoral within it? How do you decide when someone is being moral in the Bible and you should follow his example, and when someone is being "not perfect". It would appear your sense of morality doesn't come from the Bible at all...

so in the story of sodom and gomorrah, Lot, the one good person in the cities, attempts to give his two virgin daughters to a crowd that wanted to sodomize the angels that came to talk to Lot. nice morals christianity/judaism/muslims.