The Hall of Fire

I agree with what nerdanel said earlier. I vote for people who represent my values not a particular tribe (used in a loose sense).

War is famously defined as the furtherance of foreign policy by other means. The purpose of war is not to kill as many of the enemy as possible. That frankly falls into the realm of genocide. The purpose is to gain your objectives using force; if necessary. The less force used the better providing o...

All I will say is that those who think the idea of rules of war is ridiculous and the object of war and/or the route to success is to kill as many of the enemy as possible (without defining the nature of the enemy) are IMVHO very wrong on both ethical and utilitarian grounds.I suspect any discussion...

The Netherlands were neutral and wished to stay neutral when they were invaded. Check the civilian death toll in those few years. He may not have been the biggest bastard but he did his bit. It seems to me he led a comfortable life all those years after the war. He's hardly in a moral position to gr...

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Plus the involvement of the Dpt of Homeland Security:

http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/ ... y_attacks/

I'd given up hope of hearing news of public servants with that level of intellectual integrity Prim. Thank you for restoring my faith.

Do I really need to share video clips of campus police striking a young woman in the lower abdomen with a full bodied, two handed thrust with a night stick? Or the 84 year old woman sprayed in the face with pepper spray? Or the veteran standing alone against a line of police, falling back but still ...

I don't get the shock and horror from Cain calling Pelosi 'Princess'. I presume it's a term of disdain but come on, she's a political opponent. Far worse epithets are thrown around cheerfully in the UK and LM could outdo us with Australian practice. I say this as someone who is appalled at Cain's le...

And he owns most of the media.

There you have it.

I think voting against is far more important than voting for. I have followed that rule all my life.

The joke I saw in my paper today:
The barman said "We don't serve neutrinos here"
A neutrino went into a bar

That news report made me sit up too, Anthy. But what struck me was how anxiously the scientists in question wanted their observations to be explained away as a mistake. I think they would be relieved if some error could be discovered. It is this which speaks to the essential honesty of Science.

I hear this excuse that certain Governors are not involved with clemency and then learn that the parole or pardon boards are appointed by Governors. This is known as having your cake and eating it in my view

The rest of the world seems to manage universal health care.

It also implies that the price of treatment for your life is to subscribe to the doctrines of the wealthiest religion. Perhaps the Saudis might get involved........

Gothmog: 'I warn you boss, if you animate that flying alligator and it screws up all you'll be left with is your eyeball.'

It seems pretty obvious to me why evolution and geology are picked on to be questioned more than quantum physics. It's the book of Genesis.

Science as a religion? Science says little about ethics or the sense of divinity. That seems to be the realm of natural philosophy. What Science deals with is truth, truth to the best of human ability. I think truth is a worthy quality to be respected and honoured if not worshipped. In fact I am not...