Search found 3558 matches
- Wed May 30, 2007 4:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: When is PC too PC?
- Replies: 565
- Views: 185123
OK, how about this: businesses and offices across Britain, from major banks to knick-knack shops, have been forced to remove pictures and other representaions of pigs, including piggy banks, because Muslims are complaining that they are offended. You know, I really don't recall British Jews making a...
- Wed May 30, 2007 4:13 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: What faith have you chosen?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 50293
- Wed May 30, 2007 3:59 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Bible Translations
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36493
I love KJB because of the language, but the lack of Apocrypha annoys me The KJV originally included the Apocrypha; it wasn't until rather recently that it was dropped. Poke around in secondhand bookshops. Actually I got mine when Queens' College Chapel, Cambridge, dump-sold *all* their lovely Victo...
- Wed May 30, 2007 4:25 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 11 year old kills Giant Boar
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17266
- Wed May 30, 2007 4:21 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 11 year old kills Giant Boar
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17266
- Wed May 30, 2007 2:55 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Bible Translations
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36493
Most versions before modern times (including the King James) were based on [Jerome's] translations. Yes, the KJB was produced by Anglican/Episcopal priests, but the high church in England hadn't evolved away from Catholicism much in 1611. Oh, no. No no no no no. The AV was most emphatically transla...
- Wed May 30, 2007 2:39 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Bible Translations
- Replies: 69
- Views: 36493
- Wed May 30, 2007 1:55 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Pride: Vice and Virtue (Beren)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25526
and it had real effects in the medieval world--note the number of kings and heirs to thrones that died in tournaments between 1100 and 1600 or so. . Yes, but. The proper occupation of royalty and niobility was the profession of arms- tournaments were an essential part of keeping your hand in (and s...
- Wed May 30, 2007 1:44 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Locke and Marx do Lego
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7416
It wasn't a revolution because almost nothing societally changed. We severed ties with Britain but the legislatures and courts and laws steamed along uninterrupted- we just elected American governors to replace the old Royal guvs. The Established Churches broke away from the Church of England, and w...
- Wed May 30, 2007 12:47 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Locke and Marx do Lego
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7416
- Wed May 30, 2007 12:42 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: When is PC too PC?
- Replies: 565
- Views: 185123
- Tue May 29, 2007 10:17 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: When is PC too PC?
- Replies: 565
- Views: 185123
- Tue May 29, 2007 10:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Questions about the US Government's power
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18674
- Tue May 29, 2007 9:54 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Questions about the US Government's power
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18674
Back to the OP's question: Prohibition and the modern age sit on opposite sides of a seismic fault in US Constitutional history- the Roosevelt administration, and the Supreme Court Justices FDR appointed during his long, long tenure. Up into the 1930's, it was well-established that the Federal Gover...
- Tue May 29, 2007 9:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 11 year old kills Giant Boar
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17266
- Tue May 29, 2007 9:04 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Locke and Marx do Lego
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7416
Well, at least according to my history books, the invading conquistadores claimed all the land for themselves and regarded the aborigines as something approaching (and often fully) slaves. It's my understanding that the Amazon tribes were communalists and had not developed a concept of land ownershi...
- Tue May 29, 2007 8:02 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Locke and Marx do Lego
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7416
- Tue May 29, 2007 7:51 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25701
Couple of historical points: Based on what we knew or believed at the time, the decision was (as Truman later related) hard but inevitable. Marshall reported to him in August that the Joint Chiefs estimated between 750,000 and 1,000,000 US casualties in an invasion of the Home Islands, based on the ...
- Tue May 29, 2007 7:22 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The Obama Phenomenon and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
- Replies: 3736
- Views: 970913
Well, I dunno about the 'perfect.' The current system is an abomination. I'm not sure if single-payer universal is the answer. When you're dealing with negative population growth and increasing life expectancy, as most of the West is, and the US too if you exclude immigration, you have to be very, v...
- Tue May 29, 2007 7:08 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Caring about Africa
- Replies: 149
- Views: 60363
Precisely. When the UN and EU proved incapable of handling the Yugoslav civil wars, the US and UK were able to intervene effectively unilaterally (under cover of NATO, but....) For the forseeable future we just can't do that. What's truly bizarre is that back in '03 the US and UK had a rock-solid le...