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by Big RR
Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:06 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

Econoline--easy, the current pope recently (I saw an abridged quote in the paper in the paper mentioned "disciples of ideology" straying from the faith) unless he was quoting someone else. there's a lot I don't particularly like about the RC church and its hierarchy, but I'm beginning to like this p...
by Big RR
Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:11 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: RB is going to be a Nana!
Replies: 12
Views: 748

Re: RB is going to be a Nana!

All the best RB.
by Big RR
Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:08 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: It's about time.
Replies: 7
Views: 807

Re: It's about time.

You're right, it is about time. My best to the happy couple.
by Big RR
Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:57 pm
Forum: Lifestyle
Topic: This machine is like money
Replies: 14
Views: 1095

Re: This machine is like money

Oldr--I think there's kind of a pass some people give themselves if they somehow beat the security. I recall years ago one of the department stores near me used to have a machine that dispensed shopping bags when you put in a coin (5 or 10 cents, it was a long time ago); however, everyone knew that ...
by Big RR
Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:49 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: God save the USA, please
Replies: 20
Views: 1008

Re: God save the USA, please

If you say so; feel free to pat yourself on the back and call yourself a winner.
by Big RR
Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:56 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: God save the USA, please
Replies: 20
Views: 1008

Re: God save the USA, please

1995 is before 1997? Well, I'm glad you cleared that up. Of course, the huge capital gains tax cuts were not started in the Bush/Cheney years as you suggest, they were started by Clinton. And in 1997, which is before 2000 (when Bush was elected) if I understand you point re which years preceded whic...
by Big RR
Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:13 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: More ACA mischief
Replies: 69
Views: 4659

Re: More ACA mischief

Come on oldr, the federal government has many legitimate reasons to incur debt for funding budget items. imagine what would have happened if we had to fight WW2 without undertaking the massive debt the government did--we'd all be speaking Japanese (or German) today. I agree funding recurring expense...
by Big RR
Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:08 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

Scooter--while I don't know traditional Judaic law, that certainly describes the western view of adultery; and I think the real concern was to have one's wife bear another man's child that might be raised as his own (or not be sure whose the child is). And in a world where there was no real test for...
by Big RR
Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:24 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

Actually one of my favorites comes from the commandment (of the 10) against adultery. From about the time we first began to notice the opposite sex, it was drilled into our heads that this commandment also forbid us to have any sex before marriage. Trouble is, that's not adultery, it's fornication. ...
by Big RR
Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:06 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

Meade--interpretation or application; does it really matter? The Onan story can be interpreted as an warning about the consequences of spilling ones seed on the ground, or it can be interpreted as a warning about what happens when the instructions of god (delivered through his prophet) are deliberat...
by Big RR
Fri Oct 18, 2013 1:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: God save the USA, please
Replies: 20
Views: 1008

Re: God save the USA, please

If I recall, Clinton cut the capital gains tax from 28 to 20% in 1997. It seems like the cutting is on both sides of the aisle.
by Big RR
Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:19 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

Crackpot, re masturbation, I point out the story of Onan, slain by the Lord for spilling his seed on the ground: Genesis 38: 8-10: 8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. 9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came ...
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:30 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

OK, which "facts"? If I'm wrong or mistaken I'd be happy to be corrected.
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:35 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: More "Zero Tolerance" Idiocy...
Replies: 14
Views: 1032

Re: More "Zero Tolerance" Idiocy...

Zero tolerance and stupidity are more or less synonymous
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:08 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: This May Finally End This Sorry Show...
Replies: 51
Views: 3238

Re: This May Finally End This Sorry Show...

Well I think that it is part of the power of the legislature, and one of the checks and balances vis a vis the executive. But I would welcome a constitutional ruling. Would the courts rule here? I'm unsure, they might just punt it as a political question.
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:04 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Toss him into the meat grinder at a dog food factory
Replies: 19
Views: 725

Re: Toss him into the meat grinder at a dog food factory

I really don't care one way or the other what happens to his remains (I really don't even care about my own), but I do have a concern that a burial place might well become a shrine for neo Nazis (much as many did before about the remains of other nazis or birchesgarten, etc.), so cremation or burial...
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:21 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: The trouble with religion
Replies: 58
Views: 5764

Re: The trouble with religion

OK Meade, I'll play. Exodus 22:18--Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. A 2 pointer there--it says that persons who are witches exist, and that it is proper to kill them as we should not let them live and go one doing their witchy things. Featured many time throughout history, including in Salem. ...
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:11 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: More "Zero Tolerance" Idiocy...
Replies: 14
Views: 1032

Re: More "Zero Tolerance" Idiocy...

Idiocy indeed.
by Big RR
Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:10 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: This May Finally End This Sorry Show...
Replies: 51
Views: 3238

Re: This May Finally End This Sorry Show...

The point is that their failure to act does not suddenly give the president new powers. I agree the house repubs 9particularly) are acting like idiots, but I still don't think the president has the power to do what some are suggesting, and maintain it would be a very bad thing to give him that power...
by Big RR
Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: This May Finally End This Sorry Show...
Replies: 51
Views: 3238

Re: This May Finally End This Sorry Show...

No, I don't think most of the republicans in congress endorse such a clause at all. I think the so-called conscience clause is just another way to try and throw a wrench in the workings of the ACA.