Goto think what she would do to me if she knew I would even abolish the straight marriage  :crazy2: OK Christine a little indication for the force de frappe drones:  >:D don't kill my poor innocent and unaware neighbours  :cry2: I'm the one smiling to you from the left window  ^-^

ihihihihih myr agreed. After 4 years I've still to understand how and why did they allow the Lehman crisis to explode while a soft landing was absolutely possible with not negligeable advantages for the American taxpayers. Are you expert in economics?  :cheesy2: Anyway, concerning the European crisis, the Lehman affair was nothing more and nothing less than a simple detonator imo

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eh how much patience one needs bears right? Seeing it from outside the task seems difficult though. You have made me remember for some reason that just before FDR it was still common to name the USA these United States of America

Rev. Phil Snider, Missouri Pastor, Responds To Viral Gay Rights Speech Reverend Phil Snider has been caught off-guard by the outpouring of support after a YouTube video of a speech he gave supporting gay rights went viral over the weekend. Snider, a pastor in Springfield, Mo., delivered his speech on gay rights to a Missouri City Council over the summer when the city was considering an LGBT ordinance that would have added homosexuals to a list of protected minorities, The Advocate reported. Snider began his gay rights speech by saying that "special rights for gays and lesbians" was in opposition to God's order and would lead to "destruction and trouble." What appeared to be a homophobic litany took a twist when Snider said, "I'm sorry, I've brought the wrong notes with me this evening. I've borrowed my argument from the wrong century. It turns out what I've been reading to you this whole time are direct quotes from white preachers from the 1950s and the 1960s all in support of racial segregation." The YouTube video of the reverend's speech has since received over 2 million views and counting. On Saturday, Snider took to his blog to thank those for their "kind words of affirmation and support." The last few hours have been a bit of a whirlwind for me, to say the least. I’m really heartened by all of the emails, Facebook messages, and kind words that I’ve received over the last 24 hours. As I read each one, I don’t see them simply as messages that seek to affirm a particular talk I gave on a particular night in Springfield, MO (as grateful as I am for such affirmations), but rather, I view them as a reflection of the thousands — indeed, the millions — of people who, on a daily basis, are journeying together because we believe that our world can be a better place, a fairer place, a more beautiful place — for all people and not just for some — and we won’t stop calling for a more beautiful world to be born. I’m also grateful for all of the people who have come before us — many whose names history won’t recall — who have allowed us to be where we are now, on whose shoulders we stand. These folks may not be famous — more times than not they are friends or family members who have bravely told their story, often in the face of major consequences. They are the ones who have brought us to this place, and we carry their stories with us as we try to build a a more just world. He goes on to say that there are countless pastors across the nation who support LGBT rights, "not in spite of their faith, but precisely because of it." Click here to read Snider's full blog post : hXXp://philsnider.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/city-council-speech/ The Missouri town has tabeled the LGBT ordinance, according to MSN. The bill would have secured sexual orientation and gender identity protections in the areas of employment, public housing and accommodations.

@notquiteme: I'm not sure why the whole Arab shenanigans kept on going on since the Crusades, but I think it's way too long ago to keep harping over it. @fancydude: For decades the official policy of the most of their governments, printed for all to see was the destruction of Israel! What are you talking about? Israel was under Muslim control for centuries, then colonial powers stepped in and eventually proclaimed that Israel was no longer under their sovereignty. There was no self-determination at all– wouldn't you be a bit angry if someone walked into your house with a gun and forced you to sign over the deed to your home to some third party? Of course you would! I respect the Israeli claim to the area, however, it cannot be denied that the creation of an Israeli state was based on sympathy from the world powers after the holocaust. That, however, is not justification for entitlement. Although they may have been in control millennia ago, there has to be a limit to how long a claim can continue to be valid without actively pursuing rectification of it. Both of these things have basis in US law-- "Coercion", "Theft" and the "Statute of Limitations". All of this said, anti-Islamic sentiment is far from being relegated to a few sporadic cases. In 2009, over 1000 cases of discrimination of Muslim persons were reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (source: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-615196.html). This is surely only a small subset of all such cases– I feel it is unlikely that most people report such things. I don't report small instances of discrimination against me for being gay, for instance. Simply because we don't burn Saudi flags in the street doesn't make it any less true. Especially after the 9/11/2001 attacks, and the resulting wars and threats towards various Islamic nations, many Americans have come to associate persons who look ethnically Arab as being Muslim, only making the matters worse. We are looked at as the "bully" of the world, and we sort of are. We push our personal beliefs down on other nations, by force if needed, hardly heeding international law when doing so. We foment hate in other nations because of this, and then wonder why a few zealots attempt to retaliate against our aggressions. I don't approve of the actions of many Islamic nations, but the US and Israel are far from being righteous in their discourse on the subject.

[image: 1781651064420-568829c07f91.jpg] We've passed the point of no return: the inflection point (the spot where the red and blue lines meet) starts off at (A) opposition of gay marriage softens and becomes less popular, which leads to (B) it is no longer politically advantageous for candidates to oppose same-sex marriage, which brings (C) they will disengage from the issue, which in turn brings us back to (A) softening of opposition. The trend accelerates, creating a sort of progressive feedback loop.

When blacks and women were allowed in the military, they screamed social engineering.  Now no one questions it.

Agreed. There's a whole world of difference between pirating for your own use and pirating for profit. The odd thing is he is a Tea Party member and one of their platforms is special rights for businesses, including extremist anti piracy laws.

simple. he who endorses gay marriage will lose the votes of all the blind sheep.

It must be really hard to walk with her head stuck up her ass lol  :zing: